Public Affairs

Would your child get a kick out of a pregame clinic with a UCSC coach? A chance to meet college athletes? Attend UCSC sports events with other kids? Sounds like fun? Then sign up your son or daughter for the Junior Slug Club. Kids will receive a Junior Slug t-shirt, a membership card, and free…

An artist’s conception portrays the Marine Discovery Center, now in the early phases of construction next to Long Marine Lab. The $5.3 million center will triple Long Marine Lab’s capacity to educate schoolchildren and the general public about the marine environment. To date, private donors have contributed about two-thirds of the project’s cost. SANTA CRUZ,…

The UCSC Millennium Committee has established a new Web site to keep the campus community up to date on its activities. A link to the Web page has also been added to the UCSC home page: http://www.ucsc.edu. The Millennium Committee was established by Chancellor Greenwood in July 1997 to reassess and articulate the basic values…

Matthew Henken: Assistant Professor of Philosophy Matthew Henken comes to UCSC from Dartmouth College, where he taught philosophy last year. His work focuses on epistemology and metaphysics as well as the philosophy of language, the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of mind. Henken’s recent research concerns philosophical skepticism about necessity and morality. He received…

Oil spill: 11-3-97 A spill of a mysterious oily substance in Monterey Bay during the weekend of October 25 injured hundreds of grebes, loons, and other seabirds. The spill triggered a rescue effort based at the Department of Fish and Game’s new Oiled Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center, next to UCSC’s Long Marine Lab.…

The Regional History Project of the University Library announces the publication of Page Smith: Founding Cowell College and UCSC, 1964-1973. The volume chronicles the extensive contributions of the nationally renowned historian, who died last year. Smith joined the faculty in 1964 as founding provost of the campus’s first college and embarked on the adventure of…

President Clinton’s new proposal to reduce U.S. carbon dioxide emissions "will anger industry," according to recent news reports. True. And Clinton recently told the world that raising energy prices "won’t pass muster with the American people." He’s right about that, too. The American public insists on its "right to pollute" on a global scale. Even…

Crown, Stevenson, and College Eight each have openings for a provost beginning with the 1998-99 academic year. Candidates must be tenured members of the UCSC faculty, have a record of sustained excellence in scholarship and teaching, and proven leadership qualities. Administrative knowledge or experience is preferred. The provost is the academic leader of the college…

Greg Rau, senior researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences, was one of 270 scientists elevated to the rank of fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Rau was nominated by the Section on Biological Sciences for his expertise on the cycling of carbon in the environment, most notably in marine…

Costume rendering for the Shakespeare Santa Cruz production of The Wind in the Willows. Shakespeare Santa Cruz will present its first annual holiday production and the U.S. premiere of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, December 5-14 in the Performing Arts Theater. The play is adapted and directed by Shakespeare Santa Cruz (SSC) artistic…

The time to make changes in benefits is at hand. Many changes can be made only once a year, during Open Enrollment. This year Open Enrollment takes place from Saturday, November 1 through Friday, November 21. Any changes that employees would like to make to medical, dental, vision, DepCare, and TIP plans must be made…

Noah Buchanan spent his first days on campus last January doing the usual things–settling into his dorm, registering for classes, buying books. But Buchanan, now in his third quarter at UCSC, was also busy with a quite unusual event–the publication of his first book. The book, Places of Power, was illustrated by Buchanan and written…