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OPERS Fall Festival showcases campus activities
Celebrate the Fifth Annual Fall Bike To Work/School Day
UCSC professors participate in Color Lines Conference Harvard
Women's Center to host annual fall open house and artist's reception
Measures of academic excellence rising under comprehensive review of UC applications
Long Marine Lab celebrates 25th anniversary with special lecture series
Register to vote in the Oct. 7 election
September 22, 2003
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OPERS Fall Festival showcases
campus activities
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| Find out about campus clubs, sports, and recreation classes at the OPERS Fall Festival Sept. 23. |
Live music, dancing, and a tasty barbeque dinner are a few of the attractions planned for the OPERS Fall Festival on Tuesday, September 23, from 3 to 6 p.m.
The festival provides an opportunity to meet other students and learn about programs offered by the Office of Physical Education, Recreation, Sports, and Wellness, including intermurals, sports clubs, and classes offered by the Recreation Department.
Campus organizations and student service units will also be on hand to share information.
The barbeque dinner is free with a UCSC meal card; $8 to the general public. For more information, call (831) 459-2806.
Celebrate the Fifth Annual
Fall Bike To Work/School Day
Join
the Bike to Work/School celebration on Thursday, October 2, and you'll
receive a free breakfast, plus a commuter massage and free mechanic work.
Jamba Juice smoothies, Beckmann's pasteries, Odwalla fresh juice, and
plenty of other locally produced treats will fuel your engine.
UCSC will have three breakfast locations on Thursday, October 2, from 6:30. to 9:30 a.m.:
- UCSC Women's Center, Cardiff House (base of campus)
- UCSC top of bike path, sponsored by UCSC Cycling Team
- UCSC Bike Co-op (new location, across from Bay Tree Bookstore)
For more information and help in making your commute more enjoyable, call Bike to Work at (831) 423-3773 or visit our web site at www.bike2work.com. Sign-up online for the Bike Buddy program to find someone to assist you with your bike commute or for you to assist someone. Sponsored by UCSC TAPS and OPERS.
UCSC professors participate in Color Lines Conference at Harvard
Politics professor Michael Brown and community studies professor David
Wellman, coauthors of the new book Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a
Color Blind Society, were panelists during the Color Lines Conference
at Harvard University held over Labor Day weekend.
The conference brought together researchers, civic and business leaders,
journalists, activists, and policy makers to explore how institutions,
including corporations, schools, media conglomerates, religious institutions,
and federal, state, and local governments, are coping with the racial
challenges and changes facing the United States.
Brown and Wellman presented one of approximately 120 research papers
commissioned for the conference, which aimed to make a "historically
significant" contribution to the realms of research and national
discourse on the future of racial integration.
The event was cosponsored by the Civil Rights Project, W. E. B. DuBois
Institute, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Joblessness
and Urban Poverty Research Program, Harvard Immigration Project, and the
UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Women's Center to host annual fall open house and artist's reception
The UCSC Women's
Center is celebrating its Annual Fall Open House and Artist's Reception
on October 8 from 4 to 7 p.m. The event features Santa Cruz artist Janet
Lever-Wood, whose clay sculptures are now on display at the Women's Center.
The title of the exhibit is "Vessels and Sculpture: Clay Work from
a Spiritual Terrain."
Lever-Wood's work includes large figurative pieces as well as smaller
ceremonial vessels. Her sculptures are formed with a variety of hand-building
processes and are high-fired to 2,350 degrees to become stone.
This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided. The UCSC Women's Center sponsors a variety of workshops, hands-on activities, student art exhibits, and speakers throughout the year. For more information or directions, including parking and wheelchair accessibility, contact the Women's Center at (831) 459-2291 or women@ucsc.edu.
Measures of academic excellence rising under comprehensive review of UC applications
Virtually every measure of academic excellence has grown stronger under
the comprehensive review policy that has guided freshman admissions at
the University of California for the past two years, according to a faculty
report presented to the UC Board of Regents on September 18.
In addition, the proportions of students admitted to selective campuses
from low-income families, families with no previous experience with college,
low-performing schools, and rural areas are also higher than they were
before comprehensive review was implemented in 2001 for the freshman class
applying to enter UC in the fall of 2002.
Under comprehensive review, applications from students demonstrating high academic accomplishment are given priority, and merit is assessed in terms of academic and personal achievements, taking into consideration the opportunities available to students at their schools. No applicants are denied without a comprehensive review of their files.
Long Marine Lab celebrates 25th anniversary with special lecture series
Long Marine Laboratory turns 25 this fall, and the oceanside research
facility will be celebrating its silver anniversary with a variety of
public programs, tours, and lectures during the first 25 days in October.
Highlighting the October celebration is a stellar lineup of speakers for
the lab's annual fall lecture series. See
list of Fall Lectures
Talks begin at 7 p.m. at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center. Admission is $5 for members, $8 for the general public. Seating is limited, so advance purchase is recommended. Tickets can be purchased at the center or by phone at (831) 459-3800.
Register to vote in the Oct. 7 election
A statewide
special election will be held in California on Tuesday, October 7. The
issues on the ballot are the gubernatorial recall, a constitutional amendment
regarding state infrastructure funding (Proposition 53), and an initiative
titled “Classification by Race, Ethnicity, Color or National Origin”
(Proposition 54).
The last day to register to vote in the October 7th special election is
Monday, September 22. Registered voters may request a vote-by-mail ballot
from the county elections office up until Wednesday, September 30. On
Election Day, voters may cast their ballot in person at their polling
place, which will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m.
More information is available from the UC election web site, the official California Voter Information Guide, the California League of Women Voters Smart Voter web site, and the Santa Cruz County Elections statewide special election web site.
Currents provides regular 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.
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