August 16, 1999

Take Note

Do you have a room, apartment, condo, or house available to rent?

UCSC students are looking now for places to rent for the upcoming year. If you have a room, apartment, condo, or house available, list it now with UCSC's Community Rentals Office. The service is free, and Community Rentals also offers a variety of forms, contracts, and rental information. To place your listing, call (831) 459-4435 or fax the information to 459-5791. The office's summer hours are weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The office is located in Room 56, Social Sciences 2.

UC Mexus offers one-year residency in fine arts

UC Mexus is taking applications for a one-year artist-in-residence or researcher position in art, creative writing, dance, film, music, or theater, to start during the 2000 calendar year. Applicants must have earned a Ph.D. or M.F.A. degree at an institution of higher education in Mexico or at a UC campus within five years of the start of the residency to be eligible. UC Mexus is a multicampus research unit focusing on Mexican and Chicano/Latino themes and is headquartered at UC Riverside. For more information and an application, call Carlos Morton, UC Mexus associate director, at (909) 787-3519 or send e-mail to ucmexus@ucrac1.ucr.edu. Applications are due October 31.

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.

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 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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