January 22, 2001 Take Note Banana Joe's to reopen January 24 With a whole new look and feeling, Banana Joe's Coffee Shop is set for its January 24 grand reopening--and everyone is invited. From noon until 1 p.m., the café will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony, free coffee giveaway, and kudos from Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood. Since shutting down last summer, Banana Joe's has been revamped with a glass partition separating the coffee shop and the newly expanded Crown College dining hall. The coffee shop will have delectable pastries, bagels, pizza, French fries, and espresso. Summer jobs for students at the Conference Office The Conference and Summer Housing Office will begin recruiting for over 30 summer student jobs. A variety of positions are available, including leadership opportunities. Students employed by the Conference Office gain real life experiences by working with worldwide conference guests during the summer quarter. Interested applicants are required to attend an informational employment workshop either on Tuesday, February 6, at the Silverman Lounge, Stevenson College, or on Wednesday, February 7, at the Red Building, College Eight. Both sessions are from 6 to 7 p.m. Look for the logo "GOT WORK?" on posters around campus. For more information, call (831) 459-2611. An evening with adventure racer Terri Schneider Terri Schneider, one of the top female multi-sport endurance athletes in the world, will share her experiences this year at the Raid Gauloises in Tibet and Nepal and the Eco-Challenge Expedition Competition in Borneo, Malaysia, at a presentation on Saturday, January 27, at 7 p.m. in Classroom Unit 1. Schneider's race resume is extensive. She has completed 22 International Ironman Triathlons, including three top-five finishes in the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon World Championships. For the past seven years, her focus has been on adventure racing. She has been featured on the Discovery Channel in five Eco-Challenge Expedition Competitions, the Raid Gauloises, ESPN X-Games, and twice the Mild Seven Outdoor Quest in China. The cost of the presentation is $5/students and $7/general admission; tickets are available at the door. For more information, contact the UCSC Recreation Department. at (831) 459-2806 'Hamlet and Cultural Criticism' topic of talk Harvard University professor Marjorie Garber will be on campus January 29 at 7 p.m. in the Music Center Recital Hall to give the 2000-01 Undergraduate Distinguished Lecture in Literary Studies. Her talk is titled "Hamlet and Cultural Criticism." Garber, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard, has authored numerous books, including Coming of Age in Shakespeare (1981); Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality (1987); Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety (1993); Vice-Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life (1995); Dog Love (1996); Symptoms of Culture (1998); and Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses (2000). She has edited or coedited books on Shakespeare, American McCarthyism, religion in American culture, the mass media, and the lives of animals. For more information about the event, contact the Literature Department at (831) 459-4778. Wednesday Evening Recital series under way Attention all music lovers: The Music Department is now offering a buy three, get one free deal for the Wednesday Evening Recital winter season. Buy advance tickets to any three recitals in January and February and a get a ticket to a fourth concert free. Offering performances of world-class artists at great prices, the Music Department will present the following concerts: "En Blanc et Noir," January 24: Pianist Mary Jane Cope performs late 19th- and early 20th-century French music for piano featuring Debussy's "En blanc et noir," suite for two pianos (with guest Erika Caston Arul), and solo works by Fauré, Messiaen, Poulenc, and Ravel. "Hesterian Musicism," January 31: Composer and performer Karlton Hester describes "Hesterian Musicism" as the collective creation involved in performances that emerge from the Afrocentric jazz tradition. Hester, making his UC Santa Cruz debut, will play flutes and saxophones and will be joined by guest artists including UCSC artists David Evan Jones (piano) and George Marsh (percussion). "Gwendolyn Mok and Jean-Michel Fonteneau," February 7: Gwendolyn Mok's all-Ravel program in the Recital Hall last season received a very enthusiastic response from the audience. This season, this internationally known artist returns with cellist Jean-Michel Fonteneau of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in an evening of works by Poulenc, Debussy, Strauss, and Frank Bridge. "Love is in the Air," February 14: Patrice Maginnis, soprano, and Anatole Leikin, piano, perform Schumann's song cycle "Frauen Liebe und Leben" (A Woman's Life and Love), music for solo piano by Franz Liszt, plus popular love songs by George Gershwin and more. Performances are Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in the Music Center Recital Hall. General ticket prices are $10, seniors/$8, and $5/students with identification. For more information, contact the Ticket Office at (831) 459-2159. Openings in recreation classes The Recreation Department has openings in the following classes: Herbology: Optimal Nutrition and Wild Food Cooking Wednesday, January 24, from 7 to 10 p.m. and Sunday, January 28, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The workshop will focus on three major areas of nutrition:1) the physiological role of nature, vitamins, and minerals; 2) how to choose, prepare, and incorporate healthy choices into your food plan; and 3) specific pros and cons of popular dietary regimes such as raw foods, macrobiotics, etc. You will take home recipes which use herbs and wild foods to increase health and vitality. Sunday will be at the Farm and Garden identifying and gathering wild flowers and herbs and then preparing a meal together. Instructor: Jeanine Pollak. Cost: $33 101 Reasons to Embrace Your Dreams Saturday, January 27 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This workshop delineates fourteen types of dreams and presents the value of each. You will see the brilliance of dream language by learning how to identify puns and metaphors. Dreams are not as confusing as they seem when you learn how to listen to them. Instructor: Kathleen Sullivan. Cost: $32 To register, call (831) 459-2806. For more information, call (831) 459-2668. UCSC Forum on Community Television Below is the broadcast schedule for UCSC Forum for January. Shows air on Community Television, Channel 72, at 8 p.m. Sundays, with a rebroadcast at 4:30 p.m. Wednesdays. January 21: Ravi Rajan: "Modernizing Nature: Tropical Forests, Scientific Experts, and the Contested Legacy of British Colonial Ecodevelopment: 1800-2000" (repeat) (rebroadcast January 24) January 28: Angela Davis: "The Prisoner Exchange: The Underside of Civil Rights" (repeat) (rebroadcast January 31) Construction update Currents is now providing monthly updates on construction projects that have an impact on campus transportation and parking. Construction update story For more information, visit the Transportation and Parking Services web site and the Physical Planning and Construction web site.