August 2, 1999

Take Note

UCSC Extension is looking for host families for two-week homestays

An international opportunity awaits your family, right here in Santa Cruz. UCSC Extension is looking for a few host families for two-week homestays for a group of Japanese college women visiting our city--August 28-September 11.

A host family can be a couple with or without children, or even a single person living alone or with other adults. Host families are paid a stipend to defray expenses.

This is an opportunity to create memories that will last a lifetime. If you would consider offering a home to an exchange student, call Susan Retten, English Language International, (831) 427-6629, for more information.

Do you have a talent, hobby, or interest you'd like to share with children?

The Family Student Housing School Age Program is looking for people to volunteer to do a short (20-minute) presentation one day during the summer. How about music? Candle making? Astronomy? Bird watching? Life cycles? The sky is the limit here. The children are smart and fairly good listeners. Hands-on activities to accompany the presentations are especially appreciated. If you have an acquaintance who might be interested, let us know, and we'll follow up with them. For more information or to schedule a talk, call (831) 459-4085 or e-mail gbloebaum@housing.ucsc.edu.

Gear up for summer

The Outdoor Equipment Rental Center at the Office of Physical Education, Recreation, and Sports (OPERS) can help you gear up for any trip or outdoor adventure this summer. The center is open to all students, staff, and faculty and rents camping and mountaineering gear, water sports equipment, and bicycle gear at extremely reasonable prices (for example, a surfboard rents for $6 per day and $12 for the weekend; a 2-3 person tent can be rented for $8 per weekend and $16 per week). Located upstairs in the East Field House, the rental shop is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 5:30 p.m. through August 12. For more information, call (831) 459-2800.

Exhibit in downtown Santa Cruz features student photo murals

Students from the Alternative Processes in Photography course are exhibiting their work--a collection of large photo murals--in a plaza in downtown Santa Cruz from July 21 through August 31. The exhibition takes place in the plaza at 1545 Pacific Avenue, adjacent to Espresso Royale Caffe and behind Oswald's. The exhibition is free and open to the public. The summer photography class, which teaches students how to use old and new alternative photographic processes such as Cyanotype and digital photography, is taught by Jyl Kelley. For more information, call (831) 459-2282.

UC Education Abroad Program seeking study-center directors

UC faculty are invited to apply for study center directorship positions in UC's Education Abroad Program. At each site, the director acts as the administrator of the center, assuring harmonious relations with UC's partner universities, facilitating exchange provisions of agreements, providing academic and general counseling for enrolled UC students, implementing UC academic policy, and serving as instructor of record for all academic work undertaken by EAP students (more information).

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