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UC SANTA CRUZSpring 2013 UC SANTA CRUZREVIEW THESTUDENTISSUE including VIBRANT CAMPUS COMMUNITY | WORKING HAND IN HAND ENGINEERING OPPORTUNITIES | TYPE AND LITERATURE AND POETRY | STUDENT VOLUNTEER FIRST-PERSON UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ Chancellor George Blumenthal Vice Chancellor, University Relations Donna Murphy UC SANTA CRUZ REVIEW Spring 2013 photo: jim mackenzie Editor Gwen Jourdonnais Creative Director Lisa Nielsen Art Director/Designer Linda Knudson (Cowell ’76) From the Chancellor Associate Editor Dan White Cover Photo Carolyn Lagattuta They are smart and hardworking. The admitted Tenacious, imaginative, freshman class for fall 2012 had an average high Photography school GPA of nearly 3.8. Carolyn Lagattuta conscientious—and bright! Jim MacKenzie Our students are also whimsical, fun, creative, Elena Zhukova When I walk around campus, I’m gratified and and innovative—think hipster glasses and flowered inspired by UCSC students. I see students en- velvet Doc Martens—in addition to being tutors, Contributors gaged in the full range of academic and creative mentors, and volunteers. Amy Ettinger Guy Lasnier (Merrill ’78) pursuits, as well as extracurricular activities. This They are active—and we’re ready for them, with Scott Rappaport issue of Review celebrates our students. more than 100 student organizations, 14 men’s Tim Stephens Peggy Townsend Who are today’s students? and women’s NCAA intercollegiate teams, and a Dan White To give you an idea, consider our most recent wide variety of athletic clubs, intramural leagues, and rec programs. Produced by applicant pool. More than 46,000 prospective UC Santa Cruz undergraduates—the most ever—applied for admis- Banana Slugs revel in our broad academic offer- Communications sion to UCSC for the fall 2013 quarter. ings and thrive in our interdisciplinary environment. & Marketing UCSC had the highest increase of freshman ap- Undergraduates choose from 60 majors, 37 1156 High Street minors, and 54 concentrations. Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 plications in the UC system and the second high- Voice: 831.459.2495 est increase in transfer applications. It’s our job to provide them with opportunities. Our Fax: 831.459.5795 Many UCSC students are first-generation. Almost growing popularity tells me we’re succeeding, of- E-mail: [email protected] fering an education that appeals to bright students Web: review.ucsc.edu half of the applications for fall came from students 4/13 (1213-410/60M) whose parents haven’t earned a degree from a with idealistic goals. UCSC students are tena- four-year university. cious, imaginative, conscientious, unlimited. They are actively making the world they want to live in. They are multicultural. The number of African They are preparing their wings to fly, and I never American, Chicano/Latino, and Asian American tire of watching them soar. freshman applicants also increased. Sincerely, George Blumenthal Where’s Sammy? Congrats go out to Mark Clark, who was the first to write in with Sammy’s hid- ing spot in the fall ’12 issue! Clark graduated in the first class at Merrill, 1970, major- ing in politics under Terry UCREVIEW SANTA | review.ucsc.edu CRUZ | Spring 2013 Burke. He’s now retired after 32 years of federal civil ser- vice and lives in the Pacific Northwest. For the record, Sammy was peeking out from the bookshelf behind Professor Gail Hershatter on page 21. We received 32 Students have created clubs and responses to the Where’s activities from mock trial to tango— Every year, student interns and Sammy challenge. We’re offering social outlets while teaching volunteers do important work in the throwing down the valuable life lessons community that surrounds them gauntlet again! Can you find Sammy? He looks like the Sammy hanging out in the UC Santa Cruz logo, above right, and he’s hiding out in a new location in this issue. First person to tell us where he is gets a shout-out in the next issue. Go Banana Slugs! It’s a Slug’s Life Working Hand in Hand 8 12 14 18 22 Engineering Type and Literature Opportunities and Poetry Dream Job Senior engineering students create UCSC’s Cowell Press uses hands- A student writes about working with, design projects to address real-world on creativity to teach students the and learning from, animals in the Marine problems—some with sponsorships traditional arts of typography and Mammal Physiology Project from high-profile companies printing HappeninGS/News 4 | uncommon people 25 | alumni Profiles and notes 26 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 1 Editor’s note: This second installment in our series of stories leading up to a celebration of UCSC’s 50th anniversary looks at the early architectural plans that were taking shape 50 years ago, in preparation for UCSC’s opening in 1965. To read a longer version of this story with more details about the plans, go to review.ucsc.edu. UCSC became a daring experiment, not only in its The road to ’65 academic form but also in its 50 years ago: Countdown to UCSC’s 50th anniversary architectural design. If things had gone differently, The master planners persuaded the there might have been a futuristic tower right Regents that the heart of the campus out of The Jetsons featured prominently on should be in the trees rather than in the campus. meadow, as early planners had proposed. They talked of using light colors and off- But thanks to two visionary UC admin- whites in densely forested areas with istrators, a modernist landscape architect, warmer earth tones on sunny hilltops. and an influential team of California And while the residential colleges would architects, some of the early campus be informal in style, the central campus architectural plans mercifully died a quick buildings would be more formal, “almost death. Instead, UCSC became a daring monumental.” experiment, not only in its academic form but also in its architectural design. Three of the architects went on to design buildings on campus. The first plan for Cowell UC President Clark Kerr and UCSC’s first College, by Theodore Bernardi, was rejected chancellor, Dean McHenry, championed a both by Kerr and the Regents, however. bold academic plan for UCSC: a cluster of 15-20 small, residential colleges allowing “It looked like a motel on Lake Tahoe students to mingle closely with their … ,” Kerr said in his oral history. The professors while enjoying the benefits of a architecture firm was sent back to design major research institution. They wanted the a cluster of inward-facing buildings around architecture of the new campus to reflect two courtyards,“one for men, the other those same ideals. for women,” reported McHenry in a 1963 Chancellor’s memo. In his oral history, Kerr likened his vision of the campus to an old fishing village in Construction of Stevenson, Crown, and An artist’s rendering of the proposed tower southern France, Aigues-Mortes, where Merrill Colleges followed. The Stevenson near Science Hill included in UCSC’s one step through an ancient wall took a architect, Joseph Esherick, skewed some of early architectural plans. visitor from a bustling town into the forest. the building footprints in order to preserve (Image courtesy of Frank Zwart) a number of massive redwoods, according The two men convinced the Regents to to Campus Architect Emeritus Frank Zwart hire a consortium of influential Northern (Cowell ’67). California designers to prepare a master plan to solidify their vision. 2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2013 “best of” social media HOT dates Commencement exercises Get social events.ucsc.edu/commencement June 14-16, 2013 Our nearly 32,000 Facebook friends share their memories, thoughts, rants, and compliments with Founders Celebration 2013 us. Check out some of the best comments from our ucsc.edu/founders Facebook page in the past few months. October 18, 2013 Founders Day Gala Dinner University of California, Santa Cruz Cocoanut Grove, Santa Cruz Founders Celebration 2013 Honorees see story, page 5 With finals a week away, we’d like to wish all our students the best of luck! FOUNDATION MEDAL We’d also like to welcome them to their temporary new home (McHenry Library). Frank Gehry world-famous architect Danielle Langman: I miss McHenry. FIAT LUX AWARD photo: vester dick Regardless of how many painful hours were spent slaving away on papers, it was Don & Diane Cooley, long-time The Regents Committee on always refreshing to look out the window UCSC supporters and advocates Grounds and Buildings met and see the beautiful redwood trees. on January 17, 1963, at First ALUMNI AcHIEVEMENT AWARD Congregational Church on Mad love out to our Banana Slug family Jock Reynolds High Street, where they ap- today! Do you have a UCSC love story? (Stevenson ’69, psychology), artist, proved the campus’s original Share it with us! Long Range Development Plan. director of the Yale University Art Gallery Dean McHenry, UCSC’s found- Colleen Jendreas: Met my husband on ing chancellor, is at the very move in day at College 8 in Sept. 2001. MAITRA LECTURE bottom right. Been married 5 years now with a 1 year December 5, 2013 old son. It was Slug love at first sight! Peter Sellars, renowned theater, opera, All four of the early colleges and festival director seemed to satisfy the ideals set The last time the San Francisco 49ers won the SuperBowl was 1994, which out by the founding architects. happens to be the same year Vincent However, neglected from the Vega wore a Banana Slugs shirt in the Alumni Weekend 2014 Long Range Development movie Pulp Fiction. Coincidence? Not April 25–27, 2014 Plan design was a giant tower likely. What were you doing in 1994? rising out of the redwoods near For more events, visit: Science Hill.