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Swing bands, theater performances, and collaborative art projects are only a few of the entertainment options available at First Night Santa Cruz, a family-oriented New Year’s Eve celebration in downtown Santa Cruz. To make it all happen, First Night organizers need more than 600 volunteers. As one of the event sponsors, UCSC is offering an…

Police Chief Jan Tepper was invited to Washington, D.C., in November to participate in the White House Conference on Hate Crimes. President Clinton, Vice President Gore, Attorney General Reno, and several Cabinet secretaries presided over the meeting, which was attended by representatives from law enforcement, prosecutors, education, clergy, social service agencies, and a number of…

Brent Haddad: Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies As an environmental policy expert, Brent Haddad investigates the use of market-based methods to manage natural resources. Such strategies, used, for example, to manage air and water pollution, involve the issuance of property rights that allow companies and individuals to trade their shares. Haddad’s work focuses on the…

For Sale: ’93 Nissan Sentra, 5 sp., AC, Cruise, AM/FM Cassette, power steering. 108K miles. Original owner. $5,000 or best offer. Bridget or Christine, 425-3549 For sale: Volvo sedan, 1982. Excellent condition, one owner, $4,000. June Gordon. 425-2060.

Join the Friends of the UCSC Library for the annual Dickens Holiday Evening at 4 p.m. on Friday, December 12, in the McHenry Library foyer. The gathering features music, food, and holiday items for sale. It is free, open to the public, and children are welcome. Highlights of the event include a performance by the…

UCSC’s vision of a leading center for coastal marine research in Santa Cruz surged forward last week, just as oil spills and a threatening El Niño served to remind residents of the fragility and mystery of our oceans. The U.S. Congress, in one of its last acts before adjourning for the year, voted to allocate…

The joy, the triumph, the delight, the madness! The boundless, overflowing, bursting gladness, The vaporous exultation not to be confined! Ha! Ha! The animation of delight Which wraps me, like an atmosphere of light, And bears me as a cloud is borne by its own wind. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound The music of the…

Myrlie Evers-Williams will deliver keynote address at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on January 29 Civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams will deliver the keynote speech at the 14th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation. The event, which has been held on the UC Santa Cruz campus in past years, will take place at the…

Members of the Clerical and Allied Services Unit voted for a new exclusive representative in a recertification election held earlier this month. The Coalition of University Employees (CUE) received a majority of the votes in the November 5 vote count, winning the right to exclusively represent the unit systemwide. The unit had been represented by…

Neal F. Lane, director of the National Science Foundation, has urged scientists and engineers to renew their efforts to communicate about research with the public. Lane’s open letter, "Let’s Get the Word Out Together About Why Science Matters," echoes the themes of addresses he gave earlier this year to two university public-affairs organizations. While surveys…

The University of California Board of Regents today (Friday, Nov. 21) voted 13 to 12, with one abstention, to authorize UC President Richard C. Atkinson to extend health care benefits to the same-sex domestic partners of UC employees and certain other family members who are financially interdependent. "This was the right decision by our Board…

Susan is a 35 year old manager who leads a new product development team in a large manufacturing company. She is very confident of her leadership abilities, in part because of her life experiences (she was college class president and captain of the women’s volleyball team) and because she seems to be valued and respected…