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Alumna Holly Edde spent part of spring quarter ’97, her final quarter at UCSC, as a first-grade teacher’s aide at Live Oak School through the Oakes Serves program. During his student career at UCSC, senior Javier Jimenez has balanced his academic course work with volunteer experiences. He’s educated people about the AIDS virus for the…

Except for the Whole Earth Restaurant, campus eateries are closed over the spring break. The Whole Earth is closed on Monday, March 30, and open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday-Friday, March 31-April 3. They take phone-ahead orders at (408) 426-8255. Discover how easy and rewarding it is to get and stay in shape. The…

Historian Gail Hershatter has received the American Historical Association’s 1998 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for her book, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (University of California Press, 1997). In announcing the award, the association noted, "This study of prostitution in Shanghai illuminates not only the various ways the institution is constructed but also…

UCSC Extension assistant dean Dale Stansbury was invited to testify before the State Select Committee on Economic Development in Sacramento last week. At the request of the committee chair, Senator John Vasconcellos, Stansbury addressed the economic impact of the worker shortage in the high-tech industry, focusing on proposals to address the problem and what UCSC…

Lise Bixler, director of UCSC’s Child Care Services, celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Children’s Center last year with Ivy Clarke, a preschooler in the center’s Child Development Program. The birthday celebration coincided with a visit by Chancellor Greenwood and director of housing services Jerry Walters, who participated in the annual "Chancellor Comes to Lunch…

A student dance troupe performing folkloric dances representative of various regions in Mexico is the subject of an upcoming exhibit of photographs at UCSC. The exhibit, "Los Mejicas: On Stage and Behind the Scenes," will be displayed at La Galeria de Casa Latina at Merrill College from April 6 through 29. The exhibit will feature…

SANTA CRUZ, CA­Two research teams at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received grants totaling $142,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct studies on the effects of El Nino on the Monterey Bay environment. One of the UCSC teams is studying how El Nino weather patterns change the reproductive and…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–After a soggy winter, there’s nothing like the sights and sounds of spring to inspire the gardener in all of us. Come feed your inspiration during a free docent-led tour of the 25-acre UC Santa Cruz Farm, where spring is literally bursting out all over. The one-hour tours start Sunday, April 19, at…

Get ready for the spring gardening season by attending a free two-hour workshop on Saturday, March 28, from 10 a.m. to noon at San Lorenzo Lumber’s Garden Center, 235 River Street, in Santa Cruz. Albie Miles, a gardening instructor and graduate of the UCSC Farm & Garden’s apprenticeship program, will discuss basic organic gardening techniques,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Long Marine Lab’s Whale of an Auction, the largest annual fund-raising event for public education programs at UC Santa Cruz’s marine laboratory, will take place on Friday, April 3. This year’s auction, the 13th annual, begins at 6 P.M. in the Porter College Dining Hall at UCSC. Hundreds of people attend the auction…

Historian Alice Yang Murray spoke with Eric Schoeck for KUSP-Radio’s Talk of the Bay show on a range of subjects from Women’s History Month to the World War II Japanese internment. . . . Also covering Women’s History Month this week was the Santa Cruz County Sentinel, which featured a story on a new book…

It is with a sense of profound personal sadness and loss that I share this news: this afternoon, at approximately 1:30 p.m., UCSC founding Chancellor Dean McHenry passed away. He died in Dominican Hospital of natural causes. Jane McHenry, his wife of 63 years, and two of his four children were at his bedside. Although…