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‘Fateful Attractions’ exhibit in San Francisco to showcase work of alumni book artists
Campus vanpools are looking for more riders
Sound and performance artist Matt Heckert to give lecture on March 4
Campus community members invited to take trip to China
College Nine hosting Model United Nations conference on March 6
Eligibility expanded for reduced-fee enrollment in UCSC programs
UCTV to air conversation between Chancellor Greenwood
and Kathy Sullivan
Life Lab Garden Classroom offers spring break day camp
for kids
March 1, 2004
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‘Fateful Attractions’
exhibit in San Francisco to showcase work of alumni book artists
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| "Santa Cruz from the Pogonip" by Tom Killion, 1979 |
Santa Cruz has nurtured a lively community of fine-press printers and
bookmakers for more than three decades. A new exhibition, "Fateful
Attractions," opening March 5 at the San
Francisco Center for the Book (300 DeHaro Street), takes visitors
back to the beginning of letterpress printing at UCSC, and then moves
forward to showcase a wide variety of contemporary bookworks in the local
community.
Curated by Gregory Graalfs, the show includes work from UCSC’s
Cowell Press and the Lime Kiln Press, plus works by accomplished alumni
book artists such as Tom Killion, Gary Young, Ruth McGurk, Felicia Rice,
and Peter Thomas. The exhibit runs through June 4. An opening reception
will be held on Friday March 5, at 7 p.m. Exhibit hours are Monday through
Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m. For more
information, call (415) 565-0545.
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Campus vanpools are
looking for more riders
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| Some members of the San Lorenzo Valley vanpool pose by their van: (l-r) Jacky Leighton, Jenny Anderson, Alice Burke, Kathleen Dettman, Jennifer Walker, Vicki Davis (driver), and Elizabeth Dilkes. |
Several campus vanpools now have openings, including:
- San Lorenzo Valley, serving Boulder Creek, Ben Lomond, Felton, and
Scotts Valley, for those on an 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. work schedule
- Live Oak, beginning at Brommer and 38th Street and making stops at
38th and Portola and in front of the Seabright Brewery, also on an
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. shift.
- Soquel, starting at the Park and Ride lot near Dominican Hospital
and serving an 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. schedule.
- Mid County Vanpool, starting in Capitola near Bay Avenue and the freeway,
serving a 7:30-4:30 work schedule.
Monthly fares for riding in a vanpool range from $19.50 to $25.75. The
fare provides participants with approximately four parking passes a month
and enrollment in the Emergency Ride Home Program in case they have to
leave work early due to an unforeseen circumstance. Transportation and
Parking Services administers 16 vanpools, nine of them from Watsonville.
For additional information, call (831) 469-1942, or e-mail cacrowe@ucsc.edu.
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Sound and performance artist
Matt Heckert to give lecture on March 4
San Francisco sound and performance artist Matt
Heckert will give a lecture titled "Activating the Medium"
on Thursday, March 4, at 7 p.m. in the Media Theater. The lecture will
be preceded by a performance by the student group Anti-Tact in the Baskin
Sculpture Studios from 6 to 7 p.m. The events are free and open to the
public.
During the 1980s, Heckert was one of a trio of artists who developed Survival
Research Laboratories, creating remote and radio-controlled robots and
designing soundtracks. In 1989 he began working on the "Mechanical
Sound Orchestra," a group of computer-controlled mechanical sound
instruments. His captivating sound performances are as much happenings
as music—the sound you hear is "performed" by the instruments
themselves.
Over the past several years Heckert’s "Mechanical Sound Orchestra" has traveled throughout the U.S. and Europe including the Sonambiente Festival (Berlin) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York). He is a recipient of numerous awards including the WESTAF/NEA Sculpture Fellowship (1991) and the Prix Arts Electronica (1997).
For more information, call (831) 459-5667 or visit the Mary
Porter Sesnon Gallery on the web.
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Campus community members invited
to take trip to China
Faculty, students, staff, and alumni--as well as their partners and children
over age 11--are invited to take a partially subsidized trip to China
in July as "ambassadors of peace." The trip is sponsored by
Legends of China, a nongovernmental,
nonprofit organization, which focuses on positive relationships between
the United States and China. The trip will include sightseeing as well
as participation in the Silk Road to the Future ceremony at the Great
Wall, where 500 Chinese students will join 500 U.S. students, staff, and
faculty to celebrate world peace and the growing goodwill between the
two nations. The application deadline is April 9, but a limited number
from each UC campus are invited, and it is first-come, first-served.
Application information
Information sessions on the trip will be held on Monday, March 8, at
noon and 5:30 p.m., and on Wednesday, March 31, at 5 p.m., in Namaste
Lounge at College Nine. For more information, call (831) 459-3149 or e-mail
dslater@ucsc.edu.
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College Nine hosting Model United Nations conference
College Nine will host the first annual conference of the Santa Cruz International Model United Nations on Saturday, March 6. Students from across the university will represent 16 different countries in a mock session of the United Nations General Assembly and discuss sustainable development and protection of the world’s water resources for future generations. California State Assembly member John Laird will present the closing speech.
The conference, which is open to the campus community, will be held from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Colleges Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room. For
more information contact Erin Ramsden, (831) 459-4069 prior to March 3.
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Eligibility expanded for reduced-fee enrollment in UCSC programs
Discounts for UCSC employees on UCSC, Summer Session, and Extension classes
have been made consistent. Now all career staff and many academic employees
are eligible for the Reduced-Fee Enrollment Program.
- Regular Admission: To participate, the employee must be a regularly
admitted UCSC student. The employee pays one third of the educational
and registration fees; campus fees are waived. For undergraduate enrollment,
the employee pays $554.40 per quarter; for graduate enrollment, the
employee pays $580 per quarter. Maximum of three classes, or 15 units
(whichever is greater), per quarter.
- Concurrent Enrollment: Offers employees an opportunity to take
a sampling of courses if they have not been admitted to the university
as a regularly enrolled student. Fee reduction varies based on number
of credits; for a five-credit course, which normally costs $495, employee
pays $165. Maximum of 10 units per quarter.
- Summer Session: For unlimited enrollment classes, employee
pays $100 registration fee for one session or $175 for two sessions,
plus affiliated course fees. For limited enrollment classes, employee
pays $200 for one session or $275 for two sessions plus affiliated course
fees.
- University Extension: Fee reduction is 30 percent discount per course, not to exceed $150 per course.
Details of the fee-reduction programs and applications are available
at www2.ucsc.edu/train-dev/td/general_info/Reduced_Fee.html
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UCTV to air conversation between Chancellor Greenwood and Kathy Sullivan
UCTV is rebroadcasting Chancellor Greenwood's interview with alumna and astronaut Kathy Sullivan on Santa Cruz Community Television, Channel 25 (Comcast), on March 6 at 9 a.m. This program is also available for viewing on demand at the UCTV web site; go to www.uctv.tv/ondemand.
For a complete listing of UCTV programs, go to www.uctv.tv.
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Life Lab Garden Classroom offers spring break day camp for kids
Children 7 to 11 are invited to join the staff at the UCSC Farm April 5-9 for spring gardening, cooking, and crafts.
Campers will prepare and eat wood-fired garden pizzas, pop fall-harvest popcorn, and roast sunflower seeds. Gardening activities will include seed sowing for home gardens, taking cuttings, composting, and planting. Garden-based crafts will round out an exciting week of activities.
The camp is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day, and the cost is $230 for the public or $200 for Life Lab Science Program members.
For more information, contact John Fisher at (831) 459-4035 or gardencoordinator@lifelab.org.
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Winter groundbreaking likely for Humanities and Social Sciences Building
Groundbreaking is expected this winter for the $29 million Humanities
and Social Sciences Building. The project will consist of three buildings
located at the corner of McLaughlin and Hagar Drives on what is now a
parking lot northwest of Cowell College. Construction
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