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A public ceremony honoring Dean McHenry, UCSC’s founding chancellor, will take place Saturday, April 25, at 3 p.m. on the Arboretum knoll. McHenry, who helped create California’s multitiered system of public education, died March 17. He was 87. Ceremony participants include Chancellor Greenwood, who will act as host, and former UC President Clark Kerr. Parking…

The Santa Cruz County Elections Department has designated eight polling places–one at each of UCSC’s colleges–for students, faculty, and staff who live on campus. Each registered voter has been assigned one of the polling places for a special Santa Cruz City School District election scheduled for Tuesday, April 14. More than 2,760 people living on…

"Histories of the Future" is the title of a conference on Friday, April 10, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Oakes Mural Room. The panelists are members of a larger group of scholars who are assembling a tool kit for interpreting prophetic, millennial, and futurological discourse. Their work was developed in a two-quarter…

Human Resources Posts New Web Pages HR staff have been busy spinning new Web pages and improving old ones. The result is that a wide range of useful information on UCSC and UC Human Resources is now available to Web users. Along with expanding and reorganizing the existing Staff Human Resources Web page, new pages…

Although President Clinton proudly proclaimed the recent federal welfare reform effort "an end to welfare as we know it," political scientist Gwendolyn Mink writes in her new book Welfare’s End (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998) that the demise of welfare can be traced back almost to its origins. The latest assault is part of…

Roger J. Edberg has been appointed to the position of assistant superintendent/campus arborist. Edberg has most recently been the landscape manager at the UC Davis Arboretum. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in environmental horticulture from UC Davis, where his thesis work was on structural patterns in tree failures. He is a certified arborist and…

The following statement by University of California President Richard C. Atkinson refers to the admission of freshmen to the University of California for fall 1998, the first undergraduate class admitted without the consideration of race, ethnicity, or gender. We knew this would be a year of especially difficult and complex choices in the admission of…

Kelly Hemphill, a UCSC sociology student and assistant editor of the The Human Body, poses with one of the video’s stars–a graphic model used by psychologists to study touch patterns. This model shows the pattern most common among Americans (forearms are touched most frequently, the torso and neck least frequently). Models from other countries such…

A Farm and Garden apprentice uses a wheelbarrow to harvest weeds at the UCSC Farm. 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 UCSC Farm, where spring is literally bursting…

A Kathakali dancer Each year, the Alumni Association brings an outstanding scholar or teacher to UCSC for one quarter as part of its Distinguished Visiting Professor program. This year, the program is dancing to a new tune. Instead of a single person, UCSC will host six: all actors and musicians of the Kathakali Kalakeli performance…

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…