UCSC in the News
April 17, 2006
Dan Wirls of politics participated in a live discussion
on the Fox News program Hannity & Colmes about student
opposition to the presence of military recruiters at campus
job fairs.
The New York Times quoted economist Rob Fairlie
in an article about entrepreneurship among the elderly.
Associate professor of literature Louis Chude-Sokei
was interviewed on KPFA, KPOO, KBLX, and XM Satellite Radio
about his work as organizer and planner/moderator of a daylong
international symposium titled Paris Is Burning Again
at the San Francisco Museum of the African Diaspora.
History professor Dana Frank was quoted in a Minneapolis
Star Tribune article about a recent decline in the country's
buy American sentiment, noting that those who still
try to buy American are naive to think that purchasing American
products keeps corporations from taking their operations and
jobs overseas.
Postdoctoral researcher Phil Howard of the Center for
Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems was interviewed live
on CNBC recently for the show Closing Bell. He discussed
the growth in sales of organic food.
Paul Ortiz of community studies was interviewed recently
on Hard Knock Radio on KPFA.
Psychology professor Aida Hurtado discussed the Chicano/Latino
Research Center's programs during an interview with Community
Television of Santa Cruz County for the program Latinos al
Dia.
The Santa Cruz Good Times noted that music professor
David Cope will present a concert of works he created
with the aid of Emmy, a computer program he invented
that generates compositions in the styles of renowned classical
composers.
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