UCUC SANTA SANTA CRUZ CRUZ REVIEW Spring 2004

UNFAIRUNFAIR EXPOEXPOSSUREURE Professor Manuel Pastor seeks justice for communities bearing the brunt of toxic hazards CONTENTS FROM THE CHANCELLOR By M.R.C. Greenwood

UC Santa Cruz Features widely praised book by he recent visit of UC President health care and agriculture, progress Review faculty member Tricia Robert C. Dynes provided an in education, expressions of cultural A Rose begins to break Chancellor excellent opportunity to showcase richness, and other benefits that M.R.C. Greenwood Breaking the Silence ...... 8 down a culture of silence that has prevented many our campus’s distinctions. I was Californians enjoy from UC’s research, Vice Chancellor, University Relations African American women very proud to introduce our new teaching, and service. Ronald P. Suduiko The Geneticist T from speaking openly about president to representative faculty, Today, more than ever, UC Santa Associate Vice Chancellor & the Biochemist ...... 12 sex, love, and relationships— staff, students, alumni, research part- Cruz needs the continued support of Communications and, in the process, may help Elizabeth Irwin ners, and community friends and to our alumni, parents, and friends. Your explain their increased Editor join him in applauding their remark- advocacy on behalf of the university Fair-Trade Coffee: jim mackenzie risk of AIDS/HIV. 8 Jim Burns able achievements. will help us share more widely the facts Is It Working? ...... 16 wo versions of a parable, Art Director/Designer This issue of our magazine also of UC’s contributions to our society. written by geneticist Jim MacKenzie presents examples of the many ways And your support in the form T William Sullivan and Unfair Exposure ...... 18 that UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, of gifts is also vitally important. As Associate Editors jones r.

biochemist Douglas Kellogg, r. Mary Ann Dewey have become legendary and alumni are making a positive student fees increase and state support Jeanne Lance A strong University of among students at UCSC difference across the disciplines, from declines, your donations are more criti- Writers and elsewhere for the way advancing social justice and increasing California will continue to cal than ever. Your contributions to Louise Gilmore Donahue the fictional stories portray Jennifer McNulty Departments appreciation for cultural differences advantage all Californians UC Santa Cruz create undergraduate the rapidly evolving Scott Rappaport to working toward cures for cancer scholarships and graduate fellowships techniques used in through advances in health Doreen Schack and inventing implantable devices to for deserving students, make possible Tim Stephens From the Chancellor ...... 1 jim mackenzie biomedical research. 12 care and agriculture, progress overcome blindness. important research activities like those Cover doctoral candidate in in education, expressions of In fact, the innovation and intensity chronicled in these pages, and help Photograph by Ben Balagot environmental studies, Campus Update ...... 2 of the campus are driving progress cultural richness, and other build the classrooms, labs, and other Office of University Relations AChris Bacon is doing Carriage House fieldwork in northern in many fields, and in a number of benefits that Californians facilities in which our students prepare University of California Nicaragua, where he is prestigious studies, UC Santa Cruz enjoy from UC’s research, for their futures. 1156 High Street Alumni Notes ...... 23 finding that the fair-trade shines. For example, our campus is I thank you most heartily for your Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 teaching, and service. movement is having a ranked first in the nation for research past assistance, and invite you to voice: 831.459.2501 beneficial effect on the lives Alumni News...... 24 impact in both the space sciences continue your generous support of fax: 831.459.5795 and livelihoods of the e-mail: [email protected] region’s many coffee- and the social sciences. We have been Although the University of California our students and faculty. web: review.ucsc.edu r. jones r. Alumni Profile ...... 27 r. growing families. 16 named the second most influential expects to participate in addressing Produced by UC Santa Cruz Public Affairs. research institution in the world in the state’s fiscal emergency, the pro- 3/04(04-045/70M) s a leader of the state’s environmental justice the physical sciences. And, among posed budget cuts would jeopardize movement, UCSC’s more than 60 elite universities, the world-class quality and access that M.R.C. Greenwood UC Santa Cruz (USPS 650940) A Vol. 41, No. 4 / March 2004 Manuel Pastor documents UC Santa Cruz ranked 15th for characterize our university. The inno- Chancellor UC Santa Cruz is a series of administrative how polluting industries the percentage of bachelor’s degree vations that UC researchers create and publications published in August, September, locate a disproportionate If you are interested in legislative advocacy November, and March by University recipients in all disciplines who com- the contributions made by our highly share of their facilities in efforts, please contact our Government and Relations at the University of California, pleted doctoral degrees. educated and trained graduates affect Santa Cruz. Periodicals postage paid at Santa minority neighborhoods— Community Relations Office; to learn about Cruz, CA 95060. Postmaster: Send address and the toll this practice is UC Santa Cruz is making excep- every one of us. A strong University of private gift support, please contact our changes to the University of California, Santa tional progress toward our goals— California will continue to advantage Development Office. Both offices can be Cruz, University Relations, 1156 High Street, taking on the people

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UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 1 New evidence of global CAMPUS UPDATE warming supports scott rappaport scott greenhouse gas models Heinlein’s literary latest acquisition includes all of his honors and tributes includ- cientists have filled estate given to UCSC ing his four Hugo awards, plus in a key piece of the global artwork and other memorabilia, carolina amanda brill, university of north climate picture for a period ourtesy m. humayun, usc m. humayun, ourtesy

c S he ucsc archive of as well as his extensive working 55 million years ago that is con- renowned science fiction and personal libraries. sidered one of the most abrupt T writer Robert Heinlein William H. Patterson Jr., and extreme episodes of global has received a $300,000 gift of founder of a nonprofit educa- warming in Earth’s history. The chemical composition of the materials and money from the tional organization that is dedi- The new results, from an shells of microscopic plankton, estate of Heinlein’s late widow, cated to promoting Heinlein’s usic librarian Paul Machlis surrounds himself with just a few analysis of sediment cores from above, holds clues to sea surface Virginia Heinlein. social legacy, has been selected of the 2,700 classical CDs donated to UCSC from the personal the ocean floor, are consistent temperatures 55 million years ago. The donation was accompa- as the campus’s Heinlein Mcollection of the late Jesse C. Rabinowitz, a professor emeritus with theoretical predictions of nied by a grant to establish Scholar for 2003–04. of molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley. When fully cataloged, how Earth’s climate would re- massive release of heat-trapping at UCSC the position of a the Rabinowitz collection will increase the UCSC library’s classical spond to rising concentrations greenhouse gases is thought Heinlein Scholar, who will CD collection by almost 50 percent, raising it to a very high standard of greenhouse gases in the to have triggered a runaway work to organize, document, for a campus of UCSC’s size. Rabinowitz, an enthusiastic cellist and atmosphere. process of global warming. The retinal prosthesis, which professor of electrical engineering Wentai Liu has and promote the scholarly avid patron of the arts. was a knowledgeable collector, buying deeply been working on for over a decade, involves an internal unit that is implanted Led by James Zachos, profes- Climate theory predicts that use of the archive, housed in in genres ranging from early to contemporary music. sor of Earth sciences at UCSC, the increase in greenhouse gases in the eye and a pair of high-tech glasses that transmit images to the implant. the University Library’s Special the study was published in would have caused temperatures Collections since 1968.

ourtesy of robert a. heinlein archive a. heinlein of robert ourtesy Science magazine’s online site in to rise all over the planet. UCSC engineers’ work Often referred to as one of c Alaska field course in the course after graduating in June. “Spending time with other October. Zachos and a team of re-

tim stephens the grandmasters of science will aid development of The temperature estimates searchers at UCSC and several fiction along with such col- gets rave reviews students who are interested in were derived from chemical other institutions have now ob- implantable prosthetics leagues as Isaac Asimov and Alaska’s environmental issues, analyses of the shells of micro- tained the first reliable estimates Arthur C. Clarke, Heinlein rom gazing in awe at a and really getting to know them scopic plankton preserved in of the change in tropical sea mplantable microelectronic produced more than 50 novels mother grizzly bear frolicking in the place we’re talking about, the seafloor sediments. The surface temperatures during this devices for overcoming blind- and collections of short stories Fwith her cubs to meeting was incredible.” sediments were deposited on period. The findings fit well Iness, paralysis, and stroke over his long career. with Native tribal advocates and For the second consecutive the seafloor during a period with the predictions of comput- damage are the focus of a new The Robert Heinlein Archive business leaders, students in last year, the class offered students known as the Paleocene-Eocene er simulations based on current center in which UCSC engineers at UCSC contains a priceless summer’s Alaska field course from around the country an Robert and Virginia Heinlein are Thermal Maximum, when a climate theory. are collaborating with scientists collection of the author’s origi- pictured on the set of Destination shared three weeks of unforget- immersion course in the natural at the University of Southern Liu directs UCSC’s participation in nal manuscripts, correspon- Moon, in 1949; the film was based table experiences. history and public policy chal- California (USC) and California the new center. dence, and personal effects. The on his novel Rocketship Galileo. “I’ve tried to explain the expe- lenges facing the Last Frontier. Chemers named to Institute of Technology. rience to family members. It was The course combines travel, lec- The National Science to a paralyzed limb; and a amazing,” said Arwen Edsall, an tures, field research, and reflec- UCSC’s No. 2 post

Foundation (NSF) is providing retinal prosthesis to provide UCSC launches bold tunity to advance important environmental studies major at tion. Five UCSC students were services ucsc photo $17 million over five years to artificial vision to people who and potentially world-chang- UC Santa Cruz who participated among the 16 students from artin m. chemers, fund the USC-based Center for have lost their sight due to NASA collaboration ing research,” said Chancellor nine universities dean of social sciences Biomimetic MicroElectronic diseases affecting the retina, M.R.C. Greenwood. “The who participated Mat UCSC since 1995, csc will manage a UARC moves NASA and uni-

Systems (BMES). such as retinitis pigmentosa john anderson in 2003. has been named interim Biomimetics refers to the use and macular degeneration. national research program versity collaborations in a “Alaska is a campus provost and executive of technology to mimic biologi- All three of these projects Uvalued at more than $330 whole new direction,” added great case study vice chancellor of UCSC. Martin M. Chemers cal systems. BMES researchers share common technological million under an agreement G. Scott Hubbard, director of because it’s a The appointment, made are developing prosthetic challenges, said Wentai Liu, a between UC and NASA that the Ames Research Center. microcosm of by Chancellor M.R.C. foremost scholar on cross- devices to restore abilities that professor of electrical engineer- was announced in September. The initial focus of UARC development in Greenwood, took effect in cultural and social psychologi- have been lost due to injury or ing and director of the center’s The 10-year contract, a activities is likely to be in the the West,” said December. cal aspects of leadership. disease. activities at UCSC. “The basic first-of-its-kind for NASA, areas of information technolo- Dennis Kelso, A professor of psychology, Chemers replaced John The center will focus on problems involve power and will establish a University gy and computer science, an assistant Chemers brings to the cam- B. Simpson, who was named three “testbed” projects: a corti- data management, miniaturi- Affiliated Research Center nanotechnology, and aero- professor of pus’s No. 2 post an exception- president of the University at cal prosthesis for implanting in zation of the microelectronic (UARC) at the NASA Ames space operations. Additional environmental al scholarly record and exten- Buffalo, SUNY. Michael M. the brain to restore cognitive systems, and the interface Research Center in Moffett areas of interest include astro- studies at UCSC sive administrative experience. Hutchison, an economist at functions lost due to stroke or technology that allows the Field. biology, biotechnology, and Students in the Alaska field course gathered data on the and one of He is widely regarded among UCSC, has been named inter- other causes; a neuromuscular microelectronics to interact “This is a singular oppor- fundamental space biology. distribution and abundance of plants in the subarctic the course’s social psychologists as the im dean of social sciences. prosthesis to restore movement with living tissue.” alpine tundra of Denali National Park. instructors.

2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 3 New program sends as well as their ability to com- Moore Foundation municate with younger students. Alumni Association and animals. Her work has humanities students The program was proposed awards $17.5 million for pio greg scott rappaport scott tracked the movement of dif- and designed by Christopher names award winners ferent animals as they were in- into local schools Thirty-Meter Telescope jun ueno sunseri Connery, associate professor of services ucsc photo troduced into environments iterature graduate student literature at UCSC. he gordon and betty california assemblyman, along with the people who Veronica Kirk-Clausen was “We have great reserves of tal- Moore Foundation has an anthropologist, and a herded or tended them. La little nervous when she ent here in the division and want- T awarded $17.5 million to A housing staff member have In her more than 20 years stepped into Martha Dyer’s ed to do more to share that with the University of California for been named winners of the at UCSC, Outstanding Staff eighth-grade class at Mission our community,” Connery said. collaboration with the California UCSC Alumni Association’s Award winner Carol Douglas- Hill Junior High in Santa Cruz Connery added that one of Institute of Technology on a highest honors for 2003–04. Hammer has gained a reputa- last spring. the goals of the program is to project intended to build the In ceremonies that took John Laird Diane Gifford-Gonzalez Carol Douglas-Hammer tion across campus as an “I’m used to teaching under- introduce middle and high world’s most powerful telescope. place on campus in February, effective, results-oriented pro- graduate sections and writing school students to the idea of Coupled with an award by John Laird received the Counties, Laird served two archaeologist who reaches fessional. As assistant director classes with students ages 18 graduate school and research in the foundation to Caltech for Alumni Achievement Award; terms on the Santa Cruz City out to students at every level, for Student Housing Services, to 21,” Kirk-Clausen recalled. the humanities. It is also intend- the same amount, a total of $35 Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, the Council, where he was elected teaching large introductory she has been particularly effec- “I didn’t know what to expect ed to give graduate students ex- million is now available for the Distinguished Teaching Award; to two one-year terms as may- courses as well as upper-divi- tive in directing the creation or how to anticipate their reac- perience in sharing their knowl- two institutions to collaborate and Carol Douglas-Hammer, or. He also served as a Cabrillo sion topical and theory cours- of informational materials tions, but they surprised me by Veronica Kirk-Clausen edge with diverse, nonacademic on the Thirty-Meter Telescope the Outstanding Staff Award. College trustee for eight years. es. She also sponsors several for prospective and current being very interested, excited, and audiences, as well as to strength- (TMT) project. The project’s Laird was elected in 2002 He graduated from UCSC’s independent studies each students and their families. asking sophisticated questions.” humanities subjects to high en ties between UCSC graduate first step is the formulation of to represent the state’s 27th Stevenson College in 1972 quarter and collaborates with The Alumni Council, the Kirk-Clausen’s junior high school, junior high, and middle programs and area teachers. detailed telescope design plans. assembly district. Prior to with a degree in politics. students on paper and poster association’s governing body, visit was part of the Graduate school classrooms in Santa The presentations cover a A 30-meter-diameter optical representing a district that Distinguished Teaching presentations at national meet- selected the winners based on Student Speaker’s Bureau, a new Cruz and Monterey Counties. wide range of topics: English, and infrared telescope, complete includes parts of Santa Cruz, Award winner Diane Gifford- ings. Her research centers on nominations from students, program launched by UCSC’s Graduate students are selected language arts, history, literature, with adaptive optics, would Monterey, and Santa Clara Gonzalez is an anthropological the interrelationship of people faculty, alumni, and staff. Humanities Division. It offers to participate on the basis of linguistics, philosophy, and result in images more than 12 free classroom presentations on their particular areas of expertise, cultural studies. times sharper than those of the Hubble Space Telescope. The UCSC gains from two been renamed the Eugene and degree in history in 1971. In Wireless access points TMT will have nine times the Bessie Walsh Conference Room. 1990 she received a master’s Film professor wins heard the news; light-gathering ability of one of generations of giving A plaque inside the room will degree in applied economics. going up on campus I never imagined the 10-meter Keck Telescopes, describe the careers and philan- Judy is now the development ‘Academy’ award I would win,” said which are currently the largest in ugene walsh knows the thropy of the Walshes. officer for UCSC’s New Teacher orget tripping over Stamp. “But I’m the world. With such a telescope, value of higher education. “This is a lasting way of Center, and has worked for cords or fumbling with wires helley stamp, associate so grateful that the astrophysicists will be able to EForced to cut short his honoring my parents,” said Carl UCSC in other capacities. Fwhen you use your laptop professor of film and academy is recog- study the earliest galaxies and the studies at UCLA to support Walsh. “They set a good example “We feel especially happy around campus: UCSC is going Sdigital media at UCSC, nizing research details of their formation as well his parents during the Great of doing things they thought and grateful that this wonderful wireless. has been named one of two on early women as pinpoint the processes that Depression, Walsh returned would make the world a better gift is from one of our most Following jones r. r.

2003 Academy Film Scholars filmmakers.” university georgetown archive, quigley ourtesy c lead to young planetary systems to the classroom decades later, place.” renowned faculty members and trial runs at by the Academy of Motion A director of around nearby stars. graduating from UCLA’s Judy Walsh is a member of one of our staff members who is two UCSC Picture Arts and Sciences— the silent-film era, “We are very pleased that executive program in 1964, the pioneer class of Crown also a UCSC alumna,” said buildings the same folks who bring us Weber became the Gordon and Betty Moore and receiving an M.B.A. from College, earning a bachelor’s then–social sciences dean last summer, the Academy Awards. the first and Foundation has recognized the Pepperdine in 1972. Martin M. Chemers. 130 wireless Stamp is receiving $25,000 only woman strengths of the University of Now, Walsh’s son and In the conference room named in honor of Eugene “Both Carl and Judy access points from the academy to complete granted California and Caltech to carry daughter-in-law are doing and Bessie Walsh are, from left, Carl Walsh; Judy Walsh have been con- are now a book about silent film membership out such an important project,” their part to ensure that Walsh; Glenn Walsh, also a son of Eugene and Bessie tributing to the success in place Walsh; and Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood. director, screenwriter, and in the Motion Shelley Stamp, left, will complete a book said UC President Robert C. future students won’t of UC Santa Cruz in throughout actress Lois Weber. Picture about silent-film director Lois Weber. Dynes. “The giant telescope have to abandon college. their respective capacities campus,

The Film Scholars Program Directors rappaport scott will help our astronomy faculty UCSC economics profes- for many years,” he said. mainly in

was created in 1999 “to stimu- Association, a precursor to the directors such as D. W. Griffith stay at the very forefront of that sor Carl Walsh and his heidi renteria “Their establishment of common areas such as dining late and support the creation Directors Guild of America. and Cecil B. DeMille,” Stamp dynamic field of science.” wife, Judy, have estab- this scholarship endow- halls, lounges, and libraries. of new, innovative and signifi- Despite achieving widespread noted. “But in the 1910s, “The University of California lished the Walsh Family ment, and their naming Some residence halls also have cant works of film scholarship fame during the early 1900s, Weber would have been in- and Caltech will work in close Scholarship Endowment of this conference room wireless service. about cultural, educational, Weber has been mostly neglect- cluded along with them in any and constant collaboration to for social sciences majors in honor of Carl Walsh’s Areas with wireless access historical, theoretical, or ed by film historians. mention of the industry’s top achieve the goals of the design in honor of Eugene and parents, is a hearten- points are being marked with scientific aspects of theatrical “Her reputation has not directors. Until very recently, effort,” said Joseph Miller, Bessie Walsh. ing and very generous signs. The new service, called motion pictures.” survived as well as those of her filmmaking legacy was director of UC Observatories/ In recognition of the expression of support for CruzNet, is expected to be “I was stunned when I other prominent silent film largely lost.” Lick Observatory, which is gift, the conference room the campus’s educational established throughout campus headquartered at UCSC. in Social Sciences 1 has endeavors.” by June.

4 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 5 Three faculty awarded 1981 by the UC Regents. President’s ‘inaugural Ocean scientist fills Enrollment, fees, aid Professor Burke’s proposal In Memoriam Presidential Chairs to establish a World History tour’ comes to UCSC Ida Benson Lynn Chair would be affected by Center at UCSC will not only Mark Christensen, second natural sciences. Ruby retired Donations can be sent to: budget proposal hree faculty members benefit the History Department, c president Robert C. rofessor of ocean sciences chancellor of UC Santa Cruz, from UCSC in 1991. UC Santa Cruz Foundation– at UCSC—history professor but will strengthen the campus’s Dynes got off to a fast start Kenneth Bruland has spent and a distinguished professor An annual award will be Kitsuse Memorial, Attn: John alifornia governor T Edmund Burke III, litera- reputation for excellence in Uduring his first visit to Pmore than 25 years studying at UC established in Ruby’s name Leopold, Social Sciences 1, ture professor Helene Moglen, research and world history. UCSC on January 27, as mem- the chemistry of the ocean and Berkeley for for excellence in teaching the 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz,

Schwarzenegger’s don harris C2004–05 state budget, and psychology professor Professor Moglen, a well- bers of the the ways in which trace amounts almost four natural sciences at UCSC. CA 95064. proposed in January, would Barbara Rogoff—have been known literary critic and femi- campus of certain elements influence decades, Donations can be sent to: UC reduce fall ’04 freshman en- appointed to UC Presidential nist theorist, proposed using the community marine ecosystems. died in Santa Cruz Foundation–Ruby Thomas Rees, a UCSC rollment throughout the UC Chairs. resources awarded to the chair joined him Bruland was a pioneer in the October at Award, University Relations, Foundation trustee since 1998 system, increase the student- Chancellor M.R.C. Green- to support programming for on a morn- development of the demanding his home in Attn: Gift Administration, and former member of the faculty ratio and student fees, wood made the appointments, UCSC’s new Institute for ing jog techniques needed to measure Carmel. He Carriage House, UCSC, 1156 Friends of Long Marine ourtesy uc office of the president ourtesy and reduce financial aid. The which extend through June Advanced Feminist Research. before a full c trace elements in seawater. His was 73. Christensen served as High Street, Santa Cruz, CA Laboratory board, died in budget also proposes deeper 2006. Annual support for each Professor Rogoff proposed day of meet- appointment in November to chancellor at UCSC from July 95064. December. He was 78. cuts for outreach, research, chair is $45,000 and will fund assembling an interdisciplinary, ings with faculty, staff, and the Ida Benson Lynn Endowed 1974 through January 1976. Rees, an proposals made by the appointees intergenerational set of scholars students. The visit was part of Chair in Ocean Health recog- Prior to his appointment as John Kitsuse, a second-genera- attorney who

and administration. don harris In all, the UC system prior to their selection. “These to study how social interaction the “inaugural tour” of UC nizes Bruland’s contributions in chancellor, Christensen had tion Japanese American who retired to would sustain $372 million three scholars help distinguish is organized in support of learn- campuses the new president is this area and provides support served as vice chancellor at was imprisoned in an intern- Santa Cruz in cuts if the governor’s our campus, and it is an honor to ing in communities where conducting in lieu of a formal for his ongoing research. Berkeley, the principal aide ment camp during World County in budget were to be adopted. recognize them,” she said. schooling has not been preva- swearing-in ceremony. The Ida Benson Lynn to then–Chancellor Albert War II and became a leading the 1980s, “The governor is making Presidential Chairs exist lent. Particular emphasis is on Dynes began his meeting Endowed Chair in Ocean Bowker. scholar in sociology, died in served in the difficult choices, and asking on each UC campus through indigenous communities in with Chancellor Greenwood and Health was established in 1998. After serving as chancellor November at his Santa Cruz California many parts of state govern- an endowment established in North and Central America. other UCSC officials a day earlier Bruland's five-year appointment at UCSC, Christensen re- home after Assembly and Senate as well ment to sacrifice,” said UC at NASA Ames Research Center. to the chair includes $15,000 turned to UC Berkeley as a suffering a as the U.S. House of Repre- There, he was briefed on the per year to support his teaching, professor of geology and geo- stroke the sentatives. President Robert C. Dynes. llewellyn obert r

om van dyke om van University Affiliated Research public service, and research, and physics. He retired in 1994 as day before. Memorial donations may “That is understandable. But t these cuts, coming on top of Center program (see pg. 2) and $40,000 to support graduate a professor emeritus of energy He was 80. be made to the Friends of ourtesy sheila namir ourtesy c

ourtesy barbara rogoff ourtesy learned of UCSC activities in student fellowships. and resources. Kitsuse, Long Marine Lab or Hospice previous budget cuts, would c have a very serious impact genome research, teacher prepa- Bruland said he has several a professor of Santa Cruz County. on the university and its ration, and other areas. ideas for using the funds that Ronald Ruby, professor emeri- emeritus of tradition of providing a top- “I’m very impressed with the come with the endowed chair. tus of physics at UCSC, died sociology at UCSC, was one of William Chavez, a UCSC quality, accessible, affordable strengths in research and the “I am especially excited about in Santa Cruz in November. the premier theorists in the alumnus and trustee of the education for Californians. quality of academic programs,” the idea of being able to use this He was 70 years old. Ruby field of social problems and de- UCSC Foundation, died in From left: Edmund Burke, Helene Moglen, and Barbara Rogoff he said during his visit. endowment to help recruit and came to UCSC in 1965, one viant behavior. He had a wide January at the age of 49. support outstanding graduate of the first faculty members range of academic interests, A politics graduate of students,” he said. hired by including education, sexuality, Merrill College, Chavez was Dizikes, whom I admire and tenure at UCSC in 1965. The Bruland also said he would the newly and crime, but was primarily a distinguished leader in

Humanities teaching foote carol respect,” Hershatter noted. humanities teaching award use some of the funds from the established known for developing the Sacramento—as chief of staff award presented at Dizikes, a professor emeritus comes with an unusual provi- endowment to make his research Cowell theory of social construction, to a state senator, director of American studies, began his sion. In addition to being accessible to a wider audience. College. He which explored how social of the senate’s Democratic Merrill’s 35th honored with a check conducted problems come to be under- Caucus, and an education Bruland, on a research vessel during research in stood as such. lobbyist. for $3,000, the winner an expedition to the Bering Sea istory professor Gail is entitled to select an biophysics, Kitsuse, who joined the A scholarship fund benefit- Hershatter was presented rappaport scott undergraduate student focusing on the physics of UCSC faculty in 1974 and ing UCSC students has been Hwith the 2003 John Dizikes to receive a $3,000 chris best photosynthesis. He was also retired in 1991, served as established in Chavez’s name. Teaching Award in Humanities scholarship. known for his innovative and president of the Society for the Donations at a reception in November Hershatter chose zestful approach to teaching. Study of Social Problems from may be sent celebrating the 35th anniversary Joshua Townsend, a Ruby’s involvement in 1978 to 1979. He was chair of to: William of Merrill College. student in her Chinese For more news about campus activities ranged from UCSC’s Sociology Department A. Chavez neil michel/axiom Presented by the Humanities history courses. He par- UC Santa Cruz’s people participation in long-range from 1985 to 1988 and for Memorial Division to honor outstanding ticularly impressed her planning efforts to coaching two quarters in 1980. Scholarship and programs, see UCSC’s teaching, the award was named after she assigned him the rugby team. He served as The family requests that Fund, at in honor of one of UCSC’s the role of Emperor of weekly online newspaper: chair of the Physics Depart- donations in Kitsuse’s memory Merchants founding faculty members. China in a historical ment, chair of the Academic be directed to the UCSC National Bank, 1015 7th R “I am grateful to be named Gail Hershatter, John Dizikes (center), and simulation that recreat- currents.ucsc.edu Senate, and associate dean of Sociology Department. Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. in the teaching tradition of John Joshua Townsend ed the Quing dynasty.

6 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 7 jim mackenzie

breaking the silence By Scott Rappaport

n a New York Times commentary last year, UC Santa Cruz American studies professor ITricia Rose offered up a set of stunning statistics—while black women make up less than 15 percent of the female population in the United States, they represented 64 percent of all new AIDS cases among women in 2001. Simply put, a black woman in this country is 20 times more likely to develop AIDS than a white woman. Why are AIDS/HIV levels rising at such an alarming rate among African American women? tricia rose And why do so many black women who know R

8 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 9 about safe-sex practices decline to adopt stars—that African American women that we are sexual people, the way insists. “That’s not really going to solve longing to tell is a natural extension them, putting their own lives at risk? are more comfortable than whites in we dance, the way we move.” this health crisis. We need to have more of Tricia Rose’s high-profile efforts to spotlight and confront many of our While there is no single answer to discussing and understanding their This culture of silence also extends complicated, less flashy, conversations country’s political and racial divisions. An outspoken and often-quoted these questions, a widely praised new sexuality. She contends that in actuality, to a similar reluctance to talk about among ordinary women.” resource on contemporary black culture, she is also the author of Black book by Rose offers a window into the opposite is true. Rose says that many safe-sex practices and may affect the Rose argues that a better alternative to Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, which re- the intimate lives of everyday black of these women fear that discussing ability of a black woman to convince a the recent advertising campaign in major ceived the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation women—and in the process, may pro- intimate topics will only reinforce racial partner to use a condom to help prevent U.S. cities—featuring basketball star and was named one of the Top 25 books of 1994 by the Village Voice. vide at least a partial explanation for stereotypes about their sexuality. HIV infections. Rose notes that in order Magic Johnson as the face of AIDS pre- Featured frequently on National Public Radio and numerous other these catastrophic infection rates. In In Longing to Tell, Rose argues that to understand why a black woman will vention—would be an outreach effort led radio outlets throughout the country, Rose also pens articles and essays Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About the long history of distorted stereotypes or will not choose to practice safe sex by major institutions in the about American culture, politics, women’s issues, and Sexuality and Intimacy, Rose begins to in our culture—dating back to times at a certain moment, it is necessary to black community such as black popular music for magazines and newspapers, break down a culture of silence that of slavery—still affects today’s public reveal the hidden layers of behavior in churches, public schools, jim mackenzie including the New York Times, Village Voice, Time, she says has prevented many African policies and may be indirectly related many sexual relationships. and black AM talk radio. Essence, ArtForum, Bookforum, and Boston Book American women from speaking openly to issues such as the AIDS epidemic “Some men interpret behaviors such as But if this kind of public Review. She has lectured at such venues as Harvard, about sex, love, and relationships. among black women. As she writes in using a condom, or following a woman’s outreach is the only ap- Yale, Wesleyan, the Whitney Museum of American the book’s afterword: sexual demands as a threat to masculine proach taken to fight the Art, UCLA, and Princeton. escribed as a “pioneering prowess,” says Rose. “Similarly, they per- “I see one of my roles as challenging or affirming All of these myths—although AIDS epidemic, she believes collection” by Henry Louis frequently perceived as outmoded and ceive women who are sexually informed that it too will fail. key concepts and values we have in the world—such DGates Jr., chair of Afro- no longer resonant—remain embed- and who set the terms for a sexual rela- “This is a war that as democracy and social justice—and helping us to see American studies at Harvard University, ded in our everyday lives and contin- tionship as less desirable or less feminine. must be fought on many the ways in which we are not living up to these ideals,” and a “landmark book in black letters ue to influence legal, medical, and These hidden calculations are given battlefields at once,” says Rose says. “I think it’s critical to create a framework to and scholarship” by renowned author public policies. Until about thirty to added force in a popular culture where Rose. “Lobbying for interpret the world that we live in, instead of allowing forty years ago, it was a commonly Michael Eric Dyson, Longing To Tell black women—especially young black health resources, funding, corporate and media interests to have the last word.” held belief in legal courts that black presents 19 in-depth testimonies about women were too sexually loose to be women in music and film—are ritualisti- and awareness campaigns Born in Harlem and raised in the Bronx, Rose sexuality and intimacy, told by black raped. This made charges for raping a cally portrayed as highly sexually available must go on full- earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology from Yale women who span a wide range of ages, black women virtually impossible to and valuable because of it.” throttle. However, and a Ph.D. in American civilization from Brown educational levels, and socioeconomic prosecute successfully. As late as awareness cam- University. She came to UC Santa Cruz in 2002 via backgrounds. 1971, a judge admonished the jurors ose hopes that her new paigns must be New York University, drawn to this campus by “its reputation for very seri- not to apply ordinary presumptions Although the sexual lives of black book will inspire dialogue accompanied by a ous scholarship, as well as its progressive, political commitment.” She also of chastity to black women. women have been powerfully portrayed R about issues relating to sex and real commitment felt that Santa Cruz would offer her something that living in the heart of in fictional works such as Alice Walker’s Rose says that while some black intimacy—and help break this pattern to explore the lega- New York City could not—the space to sit back, observe, and think. The Color Purple, Rose’s book records the women such as rappers Lil’ Kim and of silence. She says that presenting cies of sexual stig- “Constant engagement and distraction is a hallmark of contemporary genuine experiences of ordinary African Foxy Brown have decided to cash in on honest sexual testimonies of black ma associated with life,” Rose observed. “But you know, your best ideas don’t come when American women. “It’s the first oral the profitability of these distorted sexual women is an important first step in African Americans, you’re racing down the street. They come when you’re not doing things history of black women’s sexuality ever in stereotypes—exploiting and reinforcing dispelling prevailing cultural stereotypes the silences they directly—when you’re just sorting laundry or looking at something. ourtesy farrar straus giroux straus farrar ourtesy print,” says Rose, the new chair of UC negative images of black women’s sexu- by portraying the sheer diversity of their have produced, c During those quiet times, your thoughts settle down and ideas galvanize. Santa Cruz’s American Studies Depart- ality as excessive, illicit, and exotic—the experience. But Rose also points out and the deep-seated dynamics that Santa Cruz allows for those moments far more frequently than any other ment. “There are snippets of black majority of black women have retreated the dire need for many more discussions shape contemporary sexual behaviors.” place that I’ve ever been.” women’s tales here and there in other into silence. that go deeper into the black com- Midway through Longing to Tell, The driving force that links all of her work—from hip-hop scholarship to books, but no sustained oral narratives As 22-year-old Veronica puts it munity, and far beyond recent celebrity, 35-year-old Rhonda poignantly sums urban politics to African American sexuality—is Rose’s rapt attention to the like Studs Terkel’s work that chronicles in one of the book’s interviews: “At male-dominated efforts in the mass up the toll that AIDS has taken in the contexts in which we live, the stories we tell, and how they shape us as people. the lives of ordinary Americans.” times I question being open about sex. media to address the health crisis. black community: “I work at the juve- “When the forces that shape us are revealed—both productive and de- Rose takes issue with the widespread I question whether people compute “We have to stop saying, ‘oh, what nile court, and daily I see sisters dying structive—then we are better able to fashion informed choices and develop popular belief in this country—fueled in that and use words like ‘promiscuous’ did Colin Powell say? What did Spike from the silence, and it’s painful,” she strategies that open possibilities,” Rose says. “Hopefully then, we’ll be part by media images of assertive, sexy, that I think are linked to this idea Lee say? What did Jesse Jackson say? says. “So my belief is that the more better able to fight for the creation of more just and diverse environments and outspoken black hip-hop and film that black women are jungle things— What did Puff Daddy say’?” Rose of us talk about it, the better.” 6 and institutions.” —Scott Rappaport

10 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 11 tists approach biomedical a postdoctoral fellow and useful teaching tools for tures and interactions. research from different angles, Kellogg was a graduate stu- explaining these two funda- “I think one reason the Health-related research and over the years they have dent working in the same lab- mental approaches to basic stories struck a chord with maintained a friendly rivalry oratory at UC San Francisco. research in biology. people is that—in those at UC Santa Cruz over whose approach is more Their sparring lives on in “Maybe I should do days, at least—geneticists fruitful. As a geneticist, a tongue-in-cheek parable more of that—it only took had the reputation of being UCSC’s Department of Molecular, Cell, and Sullivan is particularly inter- Sullivan published in the me an hour to write that, armchair scientists and kind Developmental Biology is entirely devoted to health- ested in the genes that are 1990s, which Kellogg coun- and it takes me two years to of arrogant, while the bio- related research. “Most people don’t think of this responsible for regulating tered with his own version. produce a scientific paper,” chemists did all the nitty- campus as doing research on human health, but cell growth and division. The stories have been widely Sullivan quips. gritty work,” Sullivan says. you don’t need a medical school to do health-related The genes carry instructions reprinted and posted on The fictional protagonists “What I like about genetics, research,” says John Tamkun, professor and chair for making specific protein numerous academic web sites of both stories are a retired though, is that the experi- of MCD biology. “Faculty in this department molecules, and Kellogg, the (see review.ucsc.edu/spring04/ geneticist and a retired bio- ments can sound ridiculous, are doing work that applies to a variety of health biochemist, focuses on those bio-debate.html). Sullivan chemist, who live on a hill yet they’ll lead to the discov- concerns, including cancer, neurological diseases, proteins and how they carry has even been asked to auto- overlooking an auto factory. ery of a major disease gene.” antibiotics, and HIV.” out their regulatory functions graph students’ copies of his Having spent their lives in Kellogg acknowledges the In addition to MCD biology, many other in the cell. essay when visiting other pursuit of higher learning, power of genetics, but says departments at UCSC are also involved in health- The two researchers began universities. the two characters are wholly biochemistry gets closer to related research: debating the relative merits The popularity of the unfamiliar with how cars the action. “Genetics gives Chemistry and biochemistry: Chemistry faculty are of genetics and biochemistry stories is partly due to their work. So they set about you great tools for identify- engaged in a wide range of health-related research

jim mackenzie years ago, when Sullivan was humor, but they are also studying them in their accus- ing a gene involved in a projects, including targeted drug design, screening of tomed ways. certain pathway,” he says. natural products for potential drugs, and develop- The biochemist gets him- “But genetics doesn’t tell you ment of a novel blood-glucose monitor for diabetics. self a car and immediately what the gene does, so you By Tim Stephens starts taking it apart and also need the biochemistry Computer science: The field of bioinformatics The Geneticist studying its component to figure out what the arose from the need for advanced computational parts. The geneticist, mean- protein produced by that techniques to analyze vast amounts of biological data. while, strolls down the hill gene actually does.” Internationally known for its work on the Human How a friendly rivalry illustrates the two and ties the hands of one Not surprisingly, the Genome Project, UCSC’s bioinformatics group is of the workers headed into two versions of the parable engaged in a variety of collaborations with researchers cornerstones of biomedical research & the Biochemist the factory. While the reflect the prejudices of in MCD biology and other departments. biochemist gets covered in their respective authors. Environmental toxicology: Research in this depart- he billions upon worms, and yeast—“model grease and oil, the geneticist In Sullivan’s story, the ment includes investigations of the health effects of billions of cells that organisms” that yield valu- watches the cars rolling geneticist’s approach is suc- toxic metals such as lead and manganese, as well as make up a human able insights into human off the assembly line and cessful while the biochemist studies of environmental influences on infectious being all descend from biology and diseases. observes that they are all miss- flounders—an outcome diseases such as cholera. Ta single cell, the fertil- Researchers in UCSC’s ing a certain part (the steering that is reversed in Kellogg’s ized egg. Cells are the basic Department of Molecular, wheel) and fail to make the version. Social sciences: UCSC faculty in several depart- building blocks of life, and Cell, and Developmental first turn in the road. Today, a decade after their ments in the social sciences are engaged in an array of even cells from different Biology (MCD biology) use The analogy in the parable parables were first published, health policy–related research projects, including organisms share common model organisms to study, isn’t perfect, but you can both Kellogg and Sullivan pathbreaking work in environmental justice (see story, features and a common among other things, the think of the factory workers actually find themselves pg. 18), medical anthropology, the AIDS epidemic, evolutionary origin. In fact, molecular roots of cancer. as genes and the car parts they using a combination of race and gender aspects of health, and health care in the genes involved in basic Geneticist William Sullivan are responsible for as proteins genetics and biochemistry prisons. Research in psychology includes studies of cellular functions have (above) and biochemist and other cellular compo- in their research. Instead depression in adolescence and investigations of mem- remained largely the same Douglas Kellogg (at right), nents. Geneticists knock out of competing, the two fields ory, perception, and other cognitive functions. over billions of years of evo- for example, both study the genes and study what goes have become the complemen- More information about biomedical research at lution. That’s why scientists regulatory mechanisms awry in the resulting mutants. tary cornerstones of modern UCSC is available online at biomedical.ucsc.edu. trying to understand how whose failure turns normal Biochemists isolate proteins biomedical research. And new human cells work study such cells into cancer cells. and other molecules from laboratory techniques, based —Tim Stephens

unlikely creatures as flies, But the two UCSC scien- jim mackenzie cells and study their struc- on advances in both fields, are

12 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 13 giving scientists an increasing- Tamkun, for example, that blocks or enhances the tar- or two of their publication. “You can look at 10,000 biology by getting them ly complex and detailed view studies genes and proteins that get molecule’s activity is likely “The area of biology that or 15,000 genes in a single directly involved in state-of- of the molecular interactions control which other genes in a to have therapeutic value. our department covers evolves experiment, and it’s saving the-art research. One of the that make cells tick. cell are turned on. Some of the Just about everything sci- so rapidly that even our years of work,” Tamkun says. projects they are tackling genes studied in his laboratory entists do to unravel the mol- undergraduate curriculum is Ares has established a addresses a major global ll cells pass through have turned out to be mutated ecular mechanisms of cellular being revised constantly,” microarray facility at UCSC health issue: malaria. a well-defined series of in certain human cancers. processes is of potential value Tamkun says. “For students, and is developing special “Students come to college steps, known as the cell Other members of the to the pharmaceutical indus- that really highlights the value microarrays for detecting dif- wanting to do something that cycle, as they grow to a department are investigating try, says Manuel Ares, a pro- of being at a research universi- ferences in the way cells inter- will help the world. It’s easy anne royou Acertain size, copy their tram uyen the genes and proteins that fessor of MCD biology. ty where the faculty are active- pret the information in their for them to see how they can chromosomes, and divide Combining genetics and biochemistry, Sullivan studies the effects of control the growth of nerve Ares, Noller, and others in ly engaged in these areas.” genes. His research is revealing help people by becoming a into two new cells. Sullivan mutations on the cell cycle using staining techniques that tag different cells and the formation of the Department of MCD One factor behind the a whole new level of complex- doctor, but it’s a lot harder to studies the regulation of the molecules involved in cell division with fluorescent labels. In the divid- connections between neurons Biology are contributing to a increasing pace of discovery ity in gene regulation. make the connection between cell cycle in the fruit fly, a ing wasp cells on the left, DNA is red and the protein tubulin is green. in the developing nervous great flood of new information in biology is the use of new In 2002, Ares was named doing research in a lab and mainstay of genetics research In the dividing fruit fly cells on the right, DNA is blue, tubulin is red, and system. Their work has im- and insights that is making “high-throughput” technolo- a Howard Hughes Medical helping the world,” Ares says. for more than 100 years. the protein myosin is green (to see the Sullivan lab’s movies of cells plications for understanding this area of biology one of the gies. For example, DNA mi- Institute Professor, giving him “When they see the tremen- Kellogg investigates the cell dividing, go to www.biology.ucsc.edu/people/sullivan/images.html). neurological disorders and most dynamic disciplines in croarrays (or “gene chips”) are a $1 million grant to establish dous effort and technical skill cycle using another classic treating injuries to nerves. science. The field, in fact, is enabling scientists to monitor a special teaching laboratory and accomplishments of the model organism, yeast. Tremendous progress has been lung cancer cells. But lung Harry Noller, Sinsheimer changing so fast that introduc- the activity of thousands of for undergraduate students. people doing biomedical Both Kellogg and Sullivan made over the past ten years cancer can result from defects Professor of Molecular tory textbooks in cell biology genes at once, rather than In this new lab, Ares is teach- research, I think they start have identified gene mutations in understanding how the cell in many different genes that Biology, has earned inter- become outdated within a year studying one gene at a time. ing students about molecular to see the value of that.” 6 that disrupt normal cell cycle is controlled. Cell-cycle control the cell cycle. national acclaim for his growth and division. They checkpoints have become a “One person’s lung cancer groundbreaking work on the are particularly interested in major focus of efforts to devel- cells are not the same as an- structure of ribosomes, the “checkpoints” in the cell op new cancer drugs. Never- other person’s,” Sullivan says. protein factories of all cells. cycle—points where the cell, theless, the clinical payoff so “Doctors would like to be The ribosome is a complex clear to potential students identify good opportunities terminology but also relevant in effect, makes an assessment far has been disappointing, able to define each individ- molecular machine one mil- New health that they can participate in for students to work with cultural considerations. and decides whether to pro- according to Sullivan. ual’s cancer genetically and lionth of an inch in diameter. this valuable program when health care professionals Tamkun says the health ceed to the next part of the “We have learned so much then say: These are the drugs Inside every cell, tens of sciences major they come to UCSC, and in the local community. sciences major complements cycle. Disruption of the check- about what drives the cell that will be effective against thousands of ribosomes take will make it easier for stu- Students will also be able to the health-related research point mechanisms is one of cycle, and amazingly it has cancer cells with these partic- orders from genes and turn has unique dents already at UCSC to receive academic credit for programs at UCSC. The the hallmarks of cancer cells. had almost no impact on ular genetic mutations.” out fresh proteins with amaz- plan their studies to prepare the internships. new major also marks the first Kellogg’s biochemical in- what doctors currently do to ing speed and precision. requirements for a career in the health The Spanish language step in a broad health sciences vestigations in yeast cells are treat cancer patients,” he says. n general, basic re- Noller’s findings have sciences,” says David Kliger, requirement was inspired by initiative at UCSC that will In fall 2003, helping to sort out the inter- So Sullivan has joined the search in biology does not practical significance because UCSC began dean of physical and biologi- conversations with various eventually include an array of I offering a new health cal sciences at UCSC. health care professionals, says programs for students inter- actions between different growing effort to translate lead directly to new med- many antibiotics work by sciences major designed for The new major’s commu- Lindsay Hinck, an assistant ested in different aspects of proteins involved in check- advances in molecular biolo- ical treatments. Rather, it binding to and disrupting students interested in med- nity service requirement es- professor of MCD biology human health and health care point mechanisms. He com- gy into the arena of cancer provides the fundamental bacterial ribosomes. Under- ical careers. The program is sentially formalizes what has who worked with Tamkun, issues. —Tim Stephens pares their dynamic interac- therapy. His lab has devel- knowledge that enables med- standing how the ribosome unique in the UC system, become an informal require- assistant dean of physical and tions to a constantly running oped a system for evaluating ical researchers to understand works will help pharmaceuti- requiring students to become ment for admission to many biological sciences Charlotte engine that is highly respon- the effectiveness of cancer and combat diseases. cal companies develop new proficient in Spanish and to medical schools, says John Moreno, and others to drugs against cells that have “The work we do to sive to signals coming in and more effective antibiotics. do an internship in a com- Tamkun, professor and chair design the new major. Hinck specific mutations in known understand how a gene or from other parts of the cell. The identification and munity health care setting, in of molecular, cell, and devel- says many doctors empha- cancer genes. protein works in a model “It’s really a remarkable characterization of potential addition to taking the usual opmental (MCD) biology. sized the importance of Traditionally, the drugs se- organism can be used by peo- system, and we’re just “drug targets” is an increasing- science courses required for In the past, premed stu- language skills in their scratching the surface,” lected to treat a particular type ple in the clinical setting to ly important outcome of admission to medical school. dents at UCSC have had to medical practices. Kellogg says. “We have these of cancer have been chosen on accelerate their understanding research in molecular biology. “While many of the seek out such opportunities UCSC’s health sciences little stick-figure diagrams for the basis of the tissue in which of human diseases,” says Molecules that play important courses students will take for on their own. Now, the cam- major requires four quarters something that is far more the cancer originated. So stud- John Tamkun, professor and roles in the cell are of great this major existed before, pus has hired an internship of Spanish, plus a new course sophisticated and complex ies are done to find the drugs chair of UCSC’s Department interest to pharmaceutical linking them together into a coordinator for the health in medical Spanish designed

that most effectively kill, say, of MCD Biology. dyke om van than a car engine.” companies, because a drug coherent major will make it sciences program who will to teach not only medical t

14 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 15 Environmental Studies ON 16 S S POTLIGHT Ph.D. program TUDENTS Chris Bacon R Is it working? coffee: Fair-trade F Chris Bacon, right, on a fair-trade in Nicaragua coffee farm ago in Europe, guarantees farm- which began more than 50 years N and landscapes of northern trade movement on the people document the impact of fair- with small-scale coffee farmers to S environmental studies at UC for a living. of Nicaraguans who grow coffee more stable life for thousands hopes, the avenue to a healthier, of his doctoral research, and, he anta Cruz, Baconanta Cruz, is working icaragua. The fair-trade movement, A doctoral candidate in It is more than a beverage. or Chris Bacon, ’s his passion, the subject coffee consumers to buy fair-trade stepped in to help, encouraging gling to break even ever since. century. Growers have been strug- their lowest levels in more than a sent wholesale prices plunging to worldwide glut of coffee beans since the late 1990s, when a coffee has grown dramatically growing practices. farmers to adopt Earth-friendly environment by encouraging their families and to help the improve the lives of farmers and production costs. The goal is to based on labor, land, and other ers a fair price for their products, F A air-trade advocates have wareness of fair-trade

simon bujold conventional ones. organic farms than on certified shade-tree and orchid diversity and there appears to be greater of conventional coffee producers, to go school than children organic coffee appear more likely farmers who grow fair-trade encouraging: The children of ability of bean production. landscapes to gauge the sustain- economic well-being and on farm as a measureopportunities of ing on childhood educational ing a difference, Bacon is focus- the fair-trade movement is mak- tional market. Eager to know if coffee beans sold on the conven- about 40 cents per pound for cents per pound, compared to higher rate of return—about 90 coffee because it offers farmers a Corps and served in Nicaragua,Corps and served I wanted to be useful.” “I wanted firsthand experience. behind them,” says Bacon. they didn’t have faces and names tion, hunger, and poverty, but many statistics about deforesta- W environmental think tank in R while working for the World in sustainability 1995 come to UCSC,” he said. and a pretty good fellowship to program. “I turned down Yale F F for Agroecology & Sustainable r studies, as well as two key and Latin American Latino faculty in environmental studies ics, and culture. Stellar UCSC combines ecology, socioeconom- field that an interdisciplinary at the forefront of agroecology, and ecological impacts, Bacon is esearch facilities—the Center arm—drew him to the Ph.D. ood Systems and the 25-acre esources Institute, a global ashington, D.C. “I learned so By H So B acon became interested is preliminary resultsis preliminary are Bacon joined the Peace examining both social those goals.” looking at whether we’re meeting communities. This research is in their be active participants schools, protect biodiversity, and their families, build support paying a fair price so farmers can farmers,” says Bacon. “It’s about between consumers and family relationshipsabout building new tration of coffee roasters. system and the corporate concen- of the conventional commodities ers to succeed given the structure it is possible for small-scale grow- driven by questions of whether the market. Bacon’s research is and 25 percent, respectively, of N rations like Philip Morris and r 12 acres. By contrast, coffee of less than 5 hectares, or about are grown by farmers on parcels the vast majority of coffee beans tional coffee market. Worldwide, scribes the players in the interna- and Goliath scenario as he de- U.S., and Bacon paints a David less than 1 percent of sales in the fair-trade coffee still makes up there is. It’s called ‘fair trade.’” be a way to help producers, and thereconsumers. I knew had to linkages between farmers and to think about the “I started of native forests,” recalls Bacon. r farmers who were producing etables, and I met small-scale into the hills to help plant veg- themselves. Then came coffee. small vegetable gardens to sustain ture as he helped villagers plant 1998 shifted his focus to agricul- devastation of Hurricane Mitch in became fluent in Spanish. The environmental projects and where he promoted community eally good coffee in the shade oasting is dominated by corpo- estle, which control 24 percent “ D “I was biking 20 kilometers The fair-trade movement is espite increasing demand, — Jennifer McNulty Justice Java W It and social justice by making this change. campus could really aid the environment and how it is distributed, and how the and they described where the money goes gram are doing research about coffee, “Students in our own agroecology pro- after hearing the concerns of students. introduce fair-trade coffee on campus at UCSC, who made the decision to director of residential and dining services works,” says Alma Sifuentes, industry began educating me about how the coffee into the pockets of farmers. man” and ensures that more profit goes fair-trade coffee eliminates the “middle more than conventional coffee, certified coffee on campus. Although it costs ecologically friendly high-quality,flavorful, together to introduce who have worked from students and staff dining halls. ment is to provide economic stability for into practice.” theory the university,of running that’s putting and faculty research with the business can connect undergraduate, graduate, of the university,” says Sifuentes. “If we and the mission our internal departments degree in economics. alumna who graduated in 1986 with a sustainability, says Sifuentes, a UCSC that builds on UCSC’s commitment to is also a good business decision fee carts dining halls and at campus-operated cof- ’s very exciting.” very Se “ That’s the message The goal of the fair-trade coffee move- “I’m looking to build alliances with The students talked with us and r ving fair-trade coffee in campus coffee in UCSC the fair-trade ake up and smell LoPresti (left) and Suzanne Langridge (right), with Alma Sifuentes, director Fr of residential and dining services ee-trade coffee organizers Tony winter. student organizers in Santa this Cruz ever national conference with other Comercio Justo hosted the group’s first- for Fair Trade UCSC’s (USFT), Coast representative for United Students trade coffee campaigns. As the West U lege and university campuses around the because they drink so much of it.” port, modity for students on campus to sup- also available. “Coffee is the ideal com- trade bananas, chocolate, and textiles are ships,” says Langridge, noting that fair- re toward equity on a global scale.” LoPresti. “It’s about taking a small step this gives them a way to take action,” says the negative impacts of globalization, and coffee. “Students learn so much about the lives of farmers by buying fair-trade dents can have a direct role in improving coffee crisis on peasant farmers. ization and coffee, the impacts of exhibits, and presentations about global- and LoPresti organized workshops, photo J trade coffee. As members of Comercio ucate the campus community about fair- to ed- spearheaded the student-led effort in Latin American and Latino studies, who graduated in June with a bachelor’s usto (Spanish for “fair trade”), Langridge nited States that are conducting fair- working producer-consumer relation- UCSC is one of more than 200 col- “ As consumers, they explained, stu- The fair-trade movement is about UC Santa Cruz Review

— jennifer mcnulty and TonyLoPresti, S coffee production. political aspects of economic, social, and are researching the r G including Stephen faculty members, r techniques that sustainable growing and to encourage small-scale farmers Jennifer McNulty eplenish the Earth. eplenish the Earth. onmental studies, uzanne Langridge liessman of envi- G At raduate student UCSC, several / Spring 2004 17 UNFAIR Exposure: Seeking justice for neighborhoods bearing the brunt of toxic hazards

and apartment houses, fast confirmed their fears: By Jennifer McNulty food joints, and modest store- Neighborhoods like South fronts. Every so often, an as- Central and Huntington Park anuel Pastor remembers the phalt playground surrounded were far more polluted than by chain-link fencing reveals Malibu and Beverly Hills. day he proudly told his aunt the presence of a school. But, like dancers doing the he’d received a large research This is where most of tango, industry and corporate the city’s African American, attorneys pushed back, raising Mgrant for his work in the burgeoning field Latino, and Asian residents the chicken-and-egg question of environmental justice. live, work, and play. It is also of which came first, the a hotbed of California’s envi- minorities or the toxins? “That’s wonderful, Manuelito. I’m so ronmental justice movement. Perhaps, they suggested, proud of you,” she said. “But what is A decade ago, saying their minorities and the poor chose neighborhoods appeared to these neighborhoods after environmental justice?” be bearing the brunt of the they were already home to Pastor explained that environmental city’s dirtiest industries, hazardous materials because residents took their concerns they offered cheaper housing. hazards tend to be concentrated in poor about air and water quality Longtime residents who had neighborhoods and communities of color, to city officials, community watched the steady influx of groups, and the media. these facilities into their and the pattern seems to reflect political Unlike Pastor’s aunt, busi- neighborhoods were dumb- power more than pure market dynamics. ness and civic leaders, as well founded and called the as some academic researchers, assertion a racist “argument Looking him directly in the eye, Pastor’s rejected the “commonsense” of scoundrels.” They also aunt didn’t miss a beat: “But, Manuelito, notion that environmental knew they couldn’t ignore it. hazards were concentrated Rallying their resources, they everyone knows that.” in low-income and minority sought assistance from fledg- neighborhoods. They ling environmental justice Throughout much of Los landscape is a tangle of wide demanded proof. So mothers organizations and enlisted Angeles, poor and working- boulevards lined with a mix of and fathers joined forces the help of experts with the class neighborhoods are small manufacturing plants, with schoolteachers, retirees, skills to conduct the detailed bisected by freeways carrying auto body shops, dry cleaners, and others in their communi- chronological analyses they exhaust-spewing vehicles across and nondescript warehouses, ties to investigate. The would need.

BEN BALAGOT town. The relentlessly urban broken up by aging bungalows documents they compiled continued on page 20

Manuel Pastor (center), research colleague Jim Sadd (left), and community activist Carlos Porras, in a Los Angeles neighborhood dominated by industrial development

18 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 19 self-described the residents of Los Angeles. performance, including the Rachel, we lacked the sophis- portionate exposures, and the and the state recently ordered nerd, Pastor By working at a regional level percentage of students on ticated tools that were first step is to admit that we the multimillion dollar devours data where industries are concen- free-lunch programs, teacher needed to document these have a problem. Then we cleanup of Suva Elementary the way others trated, rather than a national quality, and the percentage of problems,” says Carlos look at resources, the signifi- School, where highly toxic consumeA French fries. The level, they have succeeded English learners. Porras, executive director of cance of the inequity, and we hexavalent chromium emitted founding director of UC where others have failed. Indeed, the team estimates Communities for a Better go from there.” by a neighboring chrome- Santa Cruz’s Center for They bring sophisticated that differences in air-related Environment. “Now, when In California, officials plating plant was linked to Justice, Tolerance, and skills to the endeavor, but respiratory risk could account we take this work to agencies and policy makers have several deaths and numerous Community, Pastor was they try not to talk about for up to 10 percent of the and policy makers, it stands begun responding to pressure illnesses among students and drawn to the environmental their methodologies in public disparity in academic perfor- alone in its credibility.” from groups like CBE. In a teachers at the school. justice movement out of a because they don’t want peo- mance between black and first-of-its-kind action, the “That is one of the most sense of fairness. For him, the ple to fall asleep. These are white children in Los Angeles astor is happy to South Coast Air Quality tragic stories in the work

enduring message of the envi- guys who pore over Census BEN BALAGOT Unified School District. perform research Management District recently we’ve been doing in south- ronmental movement was the Bureau data and live to con- Pastor, Sadd, and Porras hear from a concerned Angeleno. Using sophisticated models, that is valued in reversed itself and reduced the east L.A., because several fundamental recognition that duct multivariable studies. the researchers revealed an- both the academic number of permissible cancers children died and a number everyone has an equal right to They scoff at the inadequa- And they love being able to advocates of environmental other measure of the impact Pand activist arenas. “The associated with emissions from of adults were diagnosed a clean environment. Society cies of established practices, see it visually,” says Pastor. justice for years. How do you of environmental inequity: If thing communities need now existing manufacturing plants with brain cancer before the has not kept that promise to such as using zip codes to “It resonates with them.” quantify the potential conse- the school district could wave is good research to back up from 100 per million to 25 per site was cleaned up,” said many of the residents of Los glean demographic data. Even the harshest oppo- quences of greater exposure a magic wand and move the their organizing,” says Pastor. million. The Los Angeles CBE’s Porras, who helped Angeles, says Pastor, also a “Zip codes have a lot to do nents of the environmental to toxics on the health, well- schools in the most-polluted “That’s one of the things the International Airport expan- fight for the cleanup. professor of Latin American with how you deliver mail, justice movement now con- being, and productivity of areas to the least-polluted university can bring to bear, sion plan was also revised to Nevertheless, California and Latino studies. but they don’t tell you much cede there’s a problem in Los people, or what economists sites in the district, the and it’s why I always tell stu- incorporate the Pastor team’s leads the nation in efforts “It’s part and parcel, about socioeconomics,” says Angeles. Thanks in large part blandly call “human capital”? schools would see an imme- dents to master the latest early analysis of the project’s to redress environmental albeit the most toxic part, of Pastor, noting that East Palo to a high-tech research effort Pastor and Sadd took on diate 10 percent boost in technology and be conver- environmental justice impacts, continued on page 22 a system in which opportuni- Alto—a poor, largely African by Pastor, Sadd, and a the task by focusing their scores—enough to receive fi- sant with datasets. Some- ties and costs are distributed American community with UCSC undergraduate, they attention on the academic nancial bonuses for improve- times people who believe in unequally,” says Pastor. high crime and unemploy- acknowledge that it is not achievement of schoolchild- ment under the state’s school social change don’t spend “People should have an equal ment rates—shares the same simply a question of minori- ren in Los Angeles Unified accountability program. enough time at the comput- shot at a clean environment.” zip code as tony Palo Alto. ties “moving in” or choosing School District. They were “It sure looks like dirty air er, crunching the numbers.” In addition to righting a When it’s time to present polluted areas (see story, joined in their trailblazing is holding back the academic Establishing the correla- wrong, pushing for equity in their findings publicly, Pastor pg. 22). In the process, effort by Rachel Morello- performance of students in tion between air pollution the distribution of toxics will makes the research sound Pastor and Sadd have set Frosch, an assistant professor the most polluted neighbor- and respiratory ailments isn’t ultimately reduce the risk for easy, using lay language and the standard for research on in the School of Medicine at hoods, and that reduces their the same as resolving the everyone. “If you can dump color-coded maps. “People environmental inequity. Brown University who spe- resources. Inequity builds on still-unanswered question of toxics in someone else’s back- know there’s something The team’s most recent chal- cializes in how race and class inequity,” says Pastor, noting whether air pollution causes yard, it lessens your incentive wrong. They know it’s unfair. lenge is one that flummoxed affect the distribution of that Los Angeles Unified is asthma, emphasizes Pastor. to reduce the toxic stream,” health risks associated with slated to build more than 80 Without evidence of a causal explains Pastor. “If everyone Pastor was drawn to the environmental air pollution. Morello-Frosch new schools during the next relationship—which would shares the burden equally, joined the team while work- five years. “We hope the dis- require formidably expensive we’ll have less of the bad stuff justice movement out of a sense of fairness. ing as a postdoctoral scholar trict will continue to assess epidemiological studies to to deal with.” For him, the enduring message of the at UCSC under sociology the environmental hazards of investigate—policy makers For the past seven years, professor Andrew Szasz in potential sites when it decides have a choice, says Pastor: Pastor and his research part- environmental movement was the fundamental 1998–99. Pastor’s group where to build new schools.” They can do nothing, or they ner James Sadd, chairman of found that estimated respira- The academic perfor- can act on what’s called the the Environmental Science recognition that everyone has an equal tory risk from local pollution mance study sets a new stan- “precautionary principle” and map courtesy jim sadd map courtesy and Studies Program at right to a clean environment. Society had a significant effect on dard in environmental justice assume that disproportionate Occidental College in Los school scores, even after they research, and it gives organiz- exposure produces dispropor- Angeles, have worked with has not kept that promise to many of the controlled for socioeconomic ers valuable ammunition for tionate risk. School Scores and Respiratory Risk Communities for a Better and demographic differences their policy work. “It’s like a 12-step pro- in the Los Angeles Unified School District Environment (CBE) to pur- residents of Los Angeles, he says. that generally explain much “Before we began working gram,” says Pastor. “We know sue environmental equity for of the variation in student with Manuel, Jim, and that Los Angeles has dispro-

20 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 21 Undergrad finds ties in exposure to toxic- inequity, and lawmakers in southern California, so they producing facilities had Sacramento are heeding know the issues.” neighborhoods worsened over time and the call for change. The An engaging public ALUMNI NOTES undergoing ethnic that new facilities were California Air Resources speaker, Pastor presents his more likely to be sited in Board was the first state findings to neighborhood transition are Schober, who works for the city of two daughters, four dogs, and two friends may reach her at minority neighborhoods agency in the country to groups, policy makers, and Cowell College most vulnerable Los Angeles as a management cats. In addition, he volunteers [email protected]. than in white areas. adopt environmental justice fellow academics, and he reg- ’74 Gayle WILCOX is the analyst, won a nationwide contest to as president of the CorgiAid ’94 Darren LEVINE was ordained s an undergradu- Wondering what makes policies, and legislation spon- ularly writes opinion pieces assistant chief of the Volunteer write Metallica’s acceptance speech Foundation and as a board member as a rabbi by Hebrew Union College– for the 31st annual American Music of Readassist.org. Jewish Institute of Religion in May ate at UC Santa neighborhoods vulnerable sored by Senator Martha for the Los Angeles Times. But Fire Department and an emergency medical technician with the volun- Awards (were they to win, which ’77 Mitch HALPERN writes 2003 and got married one month Cruz, John Hipp to the siting of new facili- Escutia (D-Norwalk) in 2000 the alliance with CBE allows teer ambulance service in Port they didn’t); his prize included red that his daughter says he’s a great later. Prior to entering rabbinical A carpet treatment at the November dad, and his wife says he’s a great school, Levine had been a member of (economics and sociology ties, Hipp probed further required the state to incorpo- Pastor to concentrate on the Orford, Oregon. 2003 event, which he attended husband; he reports that he is still the U.S. men’s volleyball team that ’99) helped Manuel Pastor and uncovered what the rate environmental justice “nerdy stuff” he loves. He digs ’76 The April 2003 issue of The Sun magazine carried a profile of with his first UCSC dorm mate, a good tennis player and loves won the bronze medal at the 1997 crack the chicken-and-egg team now calls “ethnic principles into its policies. up the facts, and CBE takes Timothy CONWAY and his work on Damien VEN DER BERG. visiting UCSC. Maccabiah Games in Israel; he has question that churning.” Those recommendations were them to the streets. “People— engaged spirituality; Conway teaches ’99 Christopher CHRISTIANSON ’82 Starting as a news reporter/ also worked with Ethiopian immi- is still paying off his student loans writer for wire and radio, Kimberly grants in Jerusalem and served in the dogged the Neighborhoods sent to Winston Hickox, not science—drive change,” at Santa Barbara City College and is the author of Women of Power and and painting houses—work that he HUGHES spent three years at Israeli army. early days of undergoing rapid secretary of the California he insists. “No policy has ever Grace: Nine Astonishing, Inspiring could have done without a college KBLX Radio and then 16 years ’02 After graduation, Helen ourtesy john hipp ourtesy the environ- c ethnic and racial Environmental Protection changed because of research Luminaries of Our Time (Wake Up education. “Let’s just hope all’s well doing national promotion for RCA KILGALLEN spent four months that ends well,” he writes. and LOUD/Sony; she is now in India putting her newly acquired mental justice transition—shift- Agency in October, one week alone. Ultimately, what moves Press, 2000) and the upcoming book “Healing Our World: Urgent crossover editor at Hits magazine. Hindi skills to use; now she’s back movement in ing from predom- before the recall election that an issue is a mobilized com- Solutions for Pressing Problems.” Stevenson College Julie SPIEGLER works for Helium, in the Central Valley, applying for Los Angeles: inantly African ousted Governor Gray Davis munity. What really makes a ’77 James McCLINTOCK has a consulting firm on the San Mateo the German master’s program at coast that has built a sophisticated California State University, Long Which came American to large- from office. “Before the elec- difference is when people are been named University Professor ’69 Jennifer LAUGHEAD in Polar and Marine Biology at the Robinson left bookkeeping for database system for the San Francisco Beach, and preparing herself for first, the city’s ly Latino, for tion, momentum was build- out there fighting.” University of Alabama, Birmingham; teaching in 2002 and has moved 49ers’ defensive squad; the system immersion in southern California most polluted example—lack the ing and agencies were re- And the fight, he believes, he is an authority on marine to the Nevada desert with her manages scouting reports, tracks op- culture. Andrew STANBRIDGE ponents’ tenden- is spending a year in Chiang Mai, neighborhoods John Hipp tight community sponding to these problems,” is bigger than environmental chemical ecology and echinoderm husband, Kim, biology. to live off the grid cies, and helps Thailand, as a Fulbright scholar, or minority networks that typ- says Porras. “Now, that’s all justice. Childhood exposure ’84 Coast Guard Reserve and be energy We’d like to produce a weekly pursuing his photography career. residents? The issue arose ically organize to oppose been threatened.” to environmental hazards at Lieutenant Commander Michael self-sufficient. playbook. hear from you ’83 Sarah when critics, trying to proposed toxic facilities. Land-use decisions are in school is part of a much BEE won the 2003 Admiral ’70 After teaching Crown College Frederick C. Billard Intelligence at St. Cloud State R Use the card in CREWE and her deflect the charge that dirty “It turns out that polit- the hands of local officials, bigger picture of inequality Award, which recognizes the University for nine the middle of the husband, Patrick ’72 Marilyn GREEN is in her industries concentrate their ical power matters far though, and environmental in U.S. society. individual whose performance had years, Michael magazine to send Connor, adopted 17th year working on state and twin girls, born in facilities in minority areas, more than income,” said activists are pressing for rules “These kids face dispro- the greatest impact on the Coast FISKE is now chair us your class note federal projects for Moorpark Guard in various areas related to of the Department May 2003. Unified School District; her older suggested that minorities Hipp, who coauthored a that will require city council portionate risks walking to intelligence or national security. of Mathematical R or send e-mail to ’86 David son, Alex, is a junior at UCSC, might have chosen to move paper about ethnic churn- members and boards of school because of crime in In May 2003, Steven KATZMAN Sciences at Shawnee [email protected] HARROWER is living at Oakes College, and her State University in living in Phoenix, younger son, Nathaniel, is a fresh- into neighborhoods that ing and hazard location supervisors to consider the their neighborhood, because was appointed U.S. Trustee by the R or submit a note U.S. Department of Justice, a top Portsmouth, Ohio, working for an man at Stanford. were already heavily indus- that appeared in the cumulative impacts of multi- of poverty, lower teacher job enforcing the nation’s bankrupt- succeeding Chris via the web at engineering com- ’73 Charles LAWSON has been trialized because they offer Journal of Urban Affairs. ple facilities when they make quality, and hunger,” says cy laws for the southern district of O’CONNOR alumni.ucsc.edu pany, and teaching working on Middle East issues in the computer and in- more affordable housing. “UCSC was just an development decisions. Pastor. “How do you weigh California and the districts of (Stevenson ’84), (go to Class Notes) State Department, and for the last Hawaii, Guam, and the Northern who served as inter- formation science 10 years he has focused on water and Tackling the question incredible experience for Current law allows each pol- the different risks? Is environ- Mariana Islands; he lives with im chair for two courses at a local environmental issues in the peace pushed Pastor’s research me,” says Hipp, now a luting facility to be measured mental justice the most his wife and three children in years. “Who else has two UCSC junior college; he’s been married for process. five years. team to new levels, requir- doctoral candidate in soci- and regulated separately. important thing for society to San Diego. graduates on its mathematics facul- ’77 Aaron BERNSTEIN is a senior ’85 Mark TEAGUE has illustrated ty?” asks Fiske. ’87 Vince TROFIMOFF is a writer for Business Week magazine, ing members to wade ology at the University of Pastor’s work has found be working on? I don’t know. more than 40 children’s books, the ’71 In July 2003, then-California- lecturer at California State coauthor of the book In the Company through mountains of North Carolina at Chapel support from The California For me, this movement is an latest of which he created with writer governor Gray Davis appointed University, San Marcos, where he of Owners: The Truth about Stock teaches a wide variety of psychology government records, Hill. “There were tons of Endowment and the Cali- attempt to say, at a funda- Jane Yolen. Titled How Do Dinosaurs Maggie BARR to an 18-month Options (And Why Every Employee Get Well Soon? (Blue Sky Press, position on the board of directors of courses; in his free time he still Should Have Them) (Basic Books, file numerous requests opportunities to work fornia Wellness Foundation. mental level, there is inequity, 2003), the book is a sequel to the the 14th District Agricultural occasionally rocks out with Steve 2003), and author of Grounded: Frank for records under the with people like Manuel. “Environmental justice is and let’s use environmental popular How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Association (Santa Cruz County BOGUSIEWICZ (Stevenson ’89). Lorenzo and the Destruction of Eastern ’92 Amy EVERITT recently moved Freedom of Information I learned an incredible a common-ground issue,” justice as an entry point to Night?, and it has the same friendly Fair); Barr works as a paralegal Airlines (Simon & Schuster, 1990). dinosaurs who misbehaved at bed- and manager at the office of Santa back to the Bay Area after a 10-year Maximiliano CUEVAS is living in Act, and reconcile it all amount from him. When says Pastor, who grew up in raise questions about the time acting up in the doctor’s office. Cruz attorney Ian McPhail. adventure in Vietnam, Washington, Salinas and working as the CEO of against three decades of I got to graduate school, the La Puente suburb direct- inequality all around us.” 6 ’92 May CHE received her law ’74 Walter BOYES has been a con- D.C., and grad school at UCSD; Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas, degree in May 2003 from Fordham sultant for a number of years and is now currently she is the political director which provides health care services to Census Bureau maps. I was far better prepared ly east of L.A. “Latino voters at EdVoice and a Democratic politi- For more information about the University School of Law; she is now editor-in-chief and publisher of Control families in the Salinas Valley. Their efforts paid off than most of the other are a major constituency, and an assistant district attorney with the magazine (www.controlmag.com); he has cal consultant. Marcia WALL is Center for Justice, Tolerance, and when they were able to students.” a lot of Latino legislators in Bronx District Attorney’s Office. published six books, sold one science doing stand-up comedy in the More Alumni Notes on page 26 R Community, visit cjtc.ucsc.edu. French Quarter of New Orleans; demonstrate that dispari- —Jennifer McNulty Sacramento grew up in ’96 Marvin (DIMACULANGAN) fiction short story, and has a wife,

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Foundation Medal in recognition schack doreen Finance among the 310 guests who attended R Denzil Verardo ’70 All-Alumni Reunion Luncheon. grads from the Class of ’74 making “Stewarding College Traditions,” the October 2003 Scholarships of his leadership. The medal was Reconnect with old friends at connections between their education a brunch with early-era faculty— Benefit Dinner fundraiser for designed and created by sculptor Kresge BSSF’s largest event. Classes of at UCSC and their work today. including founding Oakes undergraduate scholarships and Sean Monaghan (Kresge ’83). Richard C. Hall ’92 College provost J. Herman Blake— ’69, ’74, ’79, ’84, ’89, ’94, and ’99 R graduate fellowships. Proceeds from Among the speakers was Sharif Traylor ’85 The Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans, will receive special recognition. concludes the weekend. the dinner and associated activities Aurotaranti Maiolini, a senior Memorabilia will be displayed— Intersex (GLBTI) Resource Center Oakes R Other Events raised more than $500,000. anthropology student. Maiolini is bring your photos to share. will hold a reception/book signing the recipient of two alumni-funded Eric D. Thomas ’84, Past President for Out in the Redwoods, document- • The Departments of American Kathryn Sullivan (Cowell ’73), Filomena Trindade ’85 R The multimedia BSSF ing UCSC’s GLBT history; a Slug Studies, Film and Digital Media, who in 1984 was the first American awards. “I am living proof that Patrick Walker ’84 Distinguished Faculty Lecture will Social at Club Dakota downtown; History, Literature, Philosophy, woman to walk in space, was the education has the power to trans- and an on-campus Sunday brunch. College Eight be presented by renowned astrono- and Women’s Studies; the Language dinner’s master of ceremonies. In form lives,” she said. “As the first one of the evening’s more dramatic in my family who will graduate Susan Brutschy ’80 my professor Sandra Faber, who R 30-Year Reunion of the Class Program; and the Jack Baskin Aaron Cole ’91 has been involved with two of the of ’74 includes a wine-and- School of Engineering will each moments, she pledged $25,000 from college, I am grateful every major optical astronomy ventures hold receptions for their alumni, over a five-year period for a scholar- day for the opportunity and for the Ex Officio hors d’oeuvres reception, dinner, of recent years: the Hubble Space and a multimedia presentation faculty, and guests. ship endowment. financial assistance from people like Carolyn Christopherson, Telescope and the W. M. Keck about UCSC in the ’70s. Send your • Chicano and Latino alumni, “I’m very proud so many alumni you that have made it possible.” Executive Director Observatory in Hawaii. vintage photos (scanned) to Lynn faculty, and guests will gather at the are supporting educational excel- All alumni are invited to make Alison Galloway, Chair, Comedian and TV star Howie Mandel; Alumni Association Los Zachreson at [email protected] and Oakes Provost’s House. lence, so today’s students can bene- a donation toward scholarships, Academic Senate R College Provosts’ Receptions. Angeles chapter president Roz Helfand (Porter ’97) (center); Mandel’s see them on screen. fit as we did,” said Los Angeles fellowships, and other campus M.R.C. Greenwood, Chancellor Colleges will hold afternoon recep- • A tea at the Women’s Center will daughter, Jackelyn (right), an incoming UCSC student; and 250 welcome alumni, past Women’s attorney Kenneth Feingold (Cowell programs of their choice. Mateo Reyes, Chair, tions for alumni, faculty, and staff. R 35-Year Reunion of the Class other guests enjoyed the Los Angeles sun at a welcome celebration for new Student Union Assembly Center directors, and former staff. ’71). “We believe strongly in the Donations may be made online of ’69. Events begin Friday evening UCSC students, held in September. Alumni Association events like this Emily Moberg Robinson, R Alumni Panel Discussion. with a downtown happy hour, and • On Sunday, Hillel will hold a free university’s power to make a differ- at giveto.ucsc.edu or by contacting President, Graduate Student Thirty years ago, UCSC shaped continue on Saturday with a wine- brunch at its headquarters just be- ence.” Feingold attended the dinner Jennifer Wood, director of develop- one offer alumni the chance to interact meaningfully with students. Association them; now they’re shaping the world. and-cheese reception and off-cam- low campus to celebrate “A Jewish as president of the UC Santa Cruz ment for the Annual Fund and Programs of all kinds are held across the nation throughout the year. The panel will feature distinguished pus no-host dinner. On Sunday, Renaissance at UC Santa Cruz.” Foundation; he is the first campus Colleges, at (800) 933-SLUG. For more information, check the events calendar at alumni.ucsc.edu.

24 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 25 life-and-death aspect to this that malaria, which is caused by a continued from page 23 NAJERA, a deputy public defender adds to the whole high-tension, single-celled organism known as a for Contra Costa County and a Porter College Kresge College high-pressure environment,” protozoan rather than a virus. A Jerry RUIZ was recently honored Harvard Law School graduate, suc- ’84 Karen KARAVATOS has recent- ’83 Alaine PERRY is living in the he said. “But it was one of the scourge of the Third World that by the Mexican American Bar cessfully argued a statute-of-limita- ly become “of counsel” to Robinson, Washington, D.C., area and working most exciting things I’ve ever been kills millions annually, malaria has Foundation with its 2003 tions case before the U.S. Supreme Calcagnie & Robinson in Newport as a policy analyst; she would love Professional Achievement Award. involved in.” long been a focus of DeRisi’s ef- Court in spring 2003. Beach, Calif.; her practice focuses on to hear from old friends at ’78 John PETERSON, a physician DeRisi, two postdoctoral forts, earning him the J. P. Morgan ’90 Luis GUEVARA still lives in representation of plaintiffs in litiga- [email protected]. specializing in pediatric psychiatry researchers, and one graduate stu- Chase Health Award in 2001 Austin, Texas, and he is now an aca- tion against tobacco companies. ’85 Liz JANAPOL owns Ari’s and an assistant professor of psychia- dent barely left the lab for three from the Tech Museum in San Jose demic adviser with the Center for ’85 Dana La RUE recently returned Organics in Encinitas, Calif., a obert foothorap courtesy ucsf school of medicine courtesy foothorap obert try in the Department of Medicine r days during the SARS effort. for “Technology Benefiting Mexican American Studies and from Normandie, France, where she produce stand carrying vegetables, © at the University of Colorado Health a recruitment assistant with the painted murals in a 17th-century fruits, and fresh herbs from a variety “We’d been working for two Humanity.” Sciences Center, was named to the Graduate School at the University chateau; she is now teaching art in of certified organic sources. years on developing the technology DeRisi wrote about his re- list of “Top Doctors 2003” in the of Texas. Walter LEVISON is a an elementary school in Mountain ’86 John NORRIS is doing concep- to diagnose and identify a new res- search results on malaria last fall metropolitan Denver area by 5280: consulting arborist, registered with View, Calif. tual art, ceramics, and participating piratory pathogen, and then sud- in a new online biology journal Denver’s Mile-High Magazine. the American Society of Consulting ’89 Jay FIENBERG is living in San in open source; visit his web site at ’84 After many years and the denly a global emergency happens published by the Public Library Arborists; he works out of Millbrae, Francisco with Anastasia Fuller and john-norris.net. assistance of medical science, and we’re able to instantly apply of Science and freely available Calif. Lia Scott PRICE lectured at their cat, Nikita; he is working on an ’88 Benyamin Bergmann Chris CANDELL and his wife are this technology,” DeRisi says. around the world. His research UCSC in fall 2002 as part of the album of his music and developing LICHTENSTEIN has been appoint- expecting their first child. “It was very gratifying.” reveals genetic activity during a Kresge College class The Writing Life, an open source software project ed assistant professor of entrepreneur- ’85 Margaret SHIFFRAR, a a seminar that was part of the called the iCite net (http://icite.net). ship in the Department of DeRisi’s DNA chip has sever- critical phase of the parasite’s life professor of psychology at Rutgers Distinguished Alumni Series; Price ’92 John “Victor” VEYSEY manages Entrepreneurship and Emerging al advantages, including speed. cycle, indicating a potential University, has been awarded nearly has written three novels: two super- the Bike Hut at San Francisco’s Pier Enterprises at the Martin J. Whitman “What used to take weeks now vulnerability that could one day $1 million from the National Eye natural thrillers and a “dark” 40, where his staff and volunteers School of Management at Syracuse. takes hours,” he says. Another be exploited to treat the disease. Institute—part of the National romance. Joe ROZA recently repair and rent bikes while training ’89 Ben BERTRAM is an assistant Institutes of Health—to support key advantage is that the chip “If you’re going to publish defended his doctoral dissertation young people from impoverished professor in the Department of her research on human visual can detect hundreds of different research that’s important to the in history at the University of neighborhoods in bike mechanics; English at the University of Southern perception. viruses. “Almost all other tech- Third World, you’d better make Washington; he lives in Seattle. he was profiled in a September 2003 Maine; his first book, The Time Is ’91 Carolyn SCHNEIDER Lewis niques in this field require you to it accessible to them,” DeRisi ’91 After working as a corporate article in the San Francisco Chronicle. Out of Joint: Skepticism in Shakespeare’s ‘Virus detective’ takes on SARS and her husband, Dan Lewis, live in lawyer in Beijing, Andrea ’93 After graduating from UC’s England, is forthcoming from the know what you’re looking for,” says, noting that he has long Roseville, Calif., with their two Joseph DeRisi (B.S., biochemistry GOODMAN has taken a position Hastings College of the Law, University of Delaware Press. Bonnie and database applications to inter- DeRisi notes. favored publishing his results daughters, Deborah (2) and Rachel as a junior officer in the political Eric JOHNSON has settled in San HASSON was one of 50 child care and molecular biology, Crown pret the reactions that occur on “When we made this array in journals that support free Ann (born in May 2003). section of the U.S. Foreign Service Francisco and is a staff attorney for teachers nationwide honored in 2003 College, ’92) uses his technology the chip, establishing the critical of viruses we decided that we and open access, and posting ’94 Neil LASLETT works for of the State Department—the the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of by the TYLENOL & Terri Lynne relationship of new viruses to had to have all viruses represent- information online. Creative Associates International and to identify the virus. fulfillment of a long-standing Appeals, where he specializes in Lokoff Child Care Foundation for known ones. is in Iraq setting up a secondary ed, including plant viruses, insect “Malaria is a disease the First dream begun when she studied criminal law. their commitment and dedication to school system. hen you study viruses As part of the Global Response viruses, etc., not just human World does not suffer from, and Chinese at UCSC. In spring 2003 ’95 Emily HAOZOUS completed young children; each winner received ’96 Jeremy MARLEY graduated for a living, the stakes are Team formed to battle SARS, viruses,” says DeRisi. As it therefore pays very little attention Jaxon (Daniel FITCH) Ravens her master’s degree in nursing from a $500 cash award and a $500 grant with a master’s degree in undertook a 14-week bicycle Woften high. But the life- DeRisi asked the Centers for turned out, DeRisi’s lab found to,” says DeRisi. “There’s no Yale University in May 2003 and to implement a classroom project. environmental education from Disease Control in Atlanta to send journey across the U.S. following received a scholarship from the ’90 Stephanie ASCH Alber lives and-death nature of his work was that SARS had genetic similari- money really to be made in malar- the University of New Mexico the Lewis and Clark trail from Oncology Nursing Society to with her husband and children in never more clear to “virus detec- him SARS virus samples. Within ties to three coronaviruses that ia; therefore you do not see large in December 2003; he is an Washington, D.C., to Astoria, Ore.; attend the society’s annual congress Florida and teaches English as a tive” Joe DeRisi than when an just 24 hours, his lab determined infect birds, cows, and people, pharmaceutical interests taking environmental education resource the trip coincided with the bicenten- that same month. After living in second language at Miami Dade unknown respiratory illness that the culprit was a previously but was not identical to any of malaria very seriously,” he notes. specialist for the Bosque School nial of the original journey taken by Montana for a while, Christeta Community College. In late 2003, began infecting thousands of unknown coronavirus—part of those viruses. (Hong Kong “The people who die from malar- in Albuquerque. Meriwether Lewis and William HUMPHRY is back in the Monterey Lydia ARIAUDO GRAGG’s second ’00 Rachel BOPP writes that people in more than two dozen the family of viruses that usually researchers later found that the ia don’t carry credit cards.” Clark between 1803 and 1806. Bay Area working in Pajaro with a play, Strangers in Hoboken, was pro- “UCSC taught me to be an extreme- countries a year ago. causes mild disease with coldlike virus was nearly identical to a DeRisi’s efforts to disseminate ’93 Elizabeth (Bets) BRAIT has partially finished teaching credential; duced by the City University of New ly well rounded individual and made Scientists around the world symptons. The finding came coronavirus affecting wild ani- knowledge go well beyond pub- been working on two master’s de- she would love to hear from fellow York Theatre Department; she lives me see things I would normally were desperately trying to find simultaneously with the CDC’s mals in one Chinese province.) lishing. In an effort to make grees, one in social work and another classmates at [email protected]. in New York. overlook.” own identification, providing in law and social policy, at Bryn ’01 Ryan NOONAN entered the ’92 Kelly KOERNER received her out what was causing the ill- “It validated our technology microarray technology more Mawr Graduate School of Social U.S. Air Force Officer Training J.D. from the University of La Verne ness—dubbed Severe Acute valuable confirmation and moving as a method for rapid identi- affordable—and less dominated Merrill College Work and Social Research and will School in February 2002 and was in 2003; she is now working at the Respiratory Syndrome, or scientists one step closer to con- fication of a novel pathogen,” by industry—he drew scientists graduate in 2004. commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant law offices of DaCorsi & Placencio SARS—so they could screen and trolling the outbreak. DeRisi says. “We foresee that this from around the country to a ’74 Anita HEMPHILL ’97 Rebecca PFAEFFLE Lee has in May 2002; in August 2003, he in Woodland Hills, Calif. contain the epidemic. “We were also able to sequence can be a frontline defense against short course on microarrays, held McCormick won the 2003 been teaching preschool in San graduated first in his class from ’93 Joanna GOLDBERG is living DeRisi, an assistant professor part of the virus,” recalls DeRisi. emerging diseases. We’re not at UCSC and arranged through Distinguished Lecturer Award at Francisco for five years; she got specialized undergraduate pilot in Oakland and working in San of biochemistry and biophysics at “We forwarded that sequence to waiting for the next SARS.” the multicampus California UCLA for outstanding contributions married in August 2003, with her training and is now a pilot assigned Francisco as director of human UC San Francisco, thought his the CDC, which assisted in their While SARS appears con- Institute for Quantitative to the university as a lecturer in the college housemate, Veronica DIAZ to the F-16C Falcon at Luke Air resources for the Tenderloin efforts to sequence the whole tained for now, DeRisi’s work on Biomedical Research. Writing Programs. (Merrill ’97), in attendance. Force Base in Arizona. After taking Neighborhood Development lab could play a crucial role. ’79 Ellen FITZPATRICK, an asso- ’02 Sarah COOPER is currently a year off to take a job as a social Corporation. DeRisi and his postdoctoral genome.” the virus drew international me- To DeRisi, it just makes sci- ciate professor of economics and attending law school and planning worker at a nonprofit in Capitola, ’96 Monica Ruth WHALEN researcher, David Wang, had been Looking back, DeRisi says the dia coverage and his phone hasn’t entific sense to share his results finance in the School of Business her August 2004 wedding. Tammy Mary PLATE is in law school in recently returned from a visit with working for two years on a DNA pressure was intense—and in- stopped ringing. In addition to widely. “The idea is to enable as and Economics at Plattsburgh State DO is back in Sacramento and was San Diego; friends may e-mail her at Peace Corps friends in Kenya; she is chip, or microarray, designed to escapable—at a time when images talking to journalists, DeRisi also many people as possible to do University of New York, has received planning to start a combined mas- [email protected]. Devora Elyse teaching English, social studies, and detect a wide range of known of pedestrians in the Far East generously shares his research this kind of science. We’re trying a Fulbright scholarship to study agri- ter’s and teacher credential program ROGERS was a Fulbright Fellow geography at Franklin High School viruses and unknown members of wearing surgical masks flashed with other scientists and students. to accelerate the rate of scientific cultural economics in Turkey for the at UC Davis in fall 2003; friends can in 2002–03, teaching English as a in Los Angeles. existing viral families. DeRisi and regularly on TV. Nearly 800 peo- Nowhere is this approach more discovery as fast as possible.” 2003–04 academic year. Roberto reach her at [email protected]. foreign language in Germany. continued on page 28 Wang had also developed software ple died from SARS. “There is a important than in his research on —Louise Gilmore Donahue

26 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 UC Santa Cruz Review / Spring 2004 27 continued from page 26 Candidate School at Naval Aviation baby son, born in September 2003. was threatening to censor the pro- Schools Command in Pensacola, ’97 Paul FANNING is mortgage ject’s fundraising letter for including ’98 After traveling between Eastern Florida. sales manager for ING DIRECT in antiwar quotes from Goldman at a Europe and California for the past Los Angeles. time when the Bush administration five years, Erica FALT has settled ’99 Kelly REICH is finishing a was preparing for war. down in New York City and is a law College Eight master’s program at California State ’89 Vincent DiGIROLAMO (M.A., student at Columbia University; she ’78 Paul HANDLEMAN is working University, Fullerton, with plans to history) is an assistant professor in plans to marry her Macedonian in Washington, D.C. (“yes, the belly graduate in May 2004. the History Department at Baruch sweetheart in September 2004. of the beast”), as a lawyer for the ’00 Shelly MORGAN has moved to College, City University of New Janda WETHERINGTON is work- IRS; although he never thought he’d Chugiak, Alaska, where she is office York. ing on a documentary film on artists leave the Golden State, he and his administrator, executive assistant, ’91 Will ROSCOE (Ph.D., history in Cuba, Jamaica, and Haiti. partner, Peter, are comfortable on the and trustee-relations manager at of consciousness), an adjunct research ’99 Claire HOFFMAN is in New East Coast and plan to stay there. the Nature Conservancy; she works faculty member of the Institute of York working on a master’s degree at ’81 Brenda VENDOUZIS with UCSC alum Rob BOSWORTH Transpersonal Psychology in Palo the Columbia School of Journalism; Thompson and her husband, James (College Eight ’74). Alto, won a $2,000 Monette/Horwitz in summer 2003 she had a story THOMPSON (College Eight ’80), ’02 U.S. Army journalist Peter LIU Tr ust Scholars Award in 2003. The published in the New York Times Graduation Memories have returned to the Monterey Bay has been serving with the coalition awards recognize activism, research, and subsequently was awarded an Area after eight years overseas; forces in Iraq since March 2003; his and scholarship in combating homo- internship with the paper. Brenda is an information technology job is to educate the public about the phobia. ’01 Philip COFFIN is the director analyst at California State University, positive role the U.S. military is play- ’96 David SONNENFELD (Ph.D., It’s Never Too Late. of education at the New York Monterey Bay, and James is teaching ing and the things they do daily to sociology) has been granted tenure Restoration Project, a Manhattan biology at Monterey Peninsula help the Iraqi people. and promoted to associate professor Maybe you were too broke, nonprofit founded by Bette Midler College. in the Department of Community that serves 1,200 second to eighth ’82 Marguerite SPRAGUE has pub- Graduate Studies and Rural Sociology at Washington saddled with student loans, or graders with outdoor science, lished a book about life in the former State University. gardening, biking, and boating pro- Gold Rush boomtown of Bodie, ’79 Alexander GONZALEZ (Ph.D., maybe you didn’t think it was cool. grams; Philip lives in Harlem and is California, titled Bodie’s Gold: Tall psychology) became president of In Memoriam still playing drums in an R&B group. Tales and True History from a California State University, California Mining Town (University Sacramento, in July 2003; prior to Joshua CRAWFORD (Crown ’97), Oakes College of Nevada Press, 2003). that, he served as president of who was working in the wine indus- ’83 Jennifer NOONE is an indepen- California State University, San try and pursuing his music, died ’84 Rob HIGH is a distinguished dent wildlife biologist, living in a Marcos. Judith TOTMAN Parrish August 31, 2003; he was 31. engineer and the chief architect for the small community in the Tehachapi (Ph.D., Earth sciences) was appoint- Robert KNOWLES (Cowell ’83), WebSphere Application Server prod- Mountains of Kern County, Calif.; ed dean of the College of Science at an award-winning news anchor and uct family at IBM in Austin, Texas; classmates may contact her at the University of Idaho in June investigative reporter at WBTV in he has worked for IBM since 1981. [email protected]. 2003; before she took this job she Charlotte, North Carolina, died on ’92 Sharon ANOLIK was married ’84 Steven TERRINI earned a was associate dean of the College of May 13, 2003; he was 42. Knowles in August 2003 and is an adjunct Ph.D. in psychology from the Science at the University of Arizona, was a student commencement professor at Golden Gate University University of Nevada, Reno, and Tucson. speaker at his Cowell College School of Law; she is also associate is now working as a forensic psychol- ’82 UC Berkeley astronomer Geoff graduation. general counsel and chief privacy ogist for the California Department MARCY (Ph.D., astronomy) was David LESLIE (M.S., geology ’81), officer for Ask Jeeves. of Corrections. profiled in the April 2003 issue of an outdoorsman and avid sports fan ’95 John GARCIA has earned his ’85 After more than a decade in California Monthly, the Berkeley who worked as a long-range land use CLASS DIPLOMA full professional teaching credential Washington, D.C., where he worked alumni magazine; Marcy and his planner for Deschutes County, in social studies and was planning to for Defenders of Wildlife and the team are among the world’s foremost Oregon, and was a founding mem- RINGS FRAMES begin a master’s program in educa- Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Bob hunters of planets outside our solar ber of the Deschutes Basin Land Go ahead—you earned it! Is yours framed yet? tion in fall 2003; friends can drop FERRIS has returned to California system. Joe PALCA (Ph.D., psychol- Tr ust, died May 26, 2003, of him a line at [email protected]. and is the new executive director ogy), science correspondent for melanoma; he was 50. ’98 Karessa HOLDEN married of the Community Environmental National Public Radio (NPR), Hiroyuki MORI (Crown ’89), who Chris Silvers in Malibu in October Council in Santa Barbara, the received a National Academies was finishing graduate work at with all of her UCSC freshman largest nonprofit environmental Communication Award for excel- Caltech and worked as a researcher at roommates in attendance; Karessa is organization on the South Coast, lence in communicating science, UC San Francisco Medical Center, Times Change. a fifth-grade teacher, and Chris is a with diverse programs in pollution engineering, and medicine to the died of leukemia in July 2000; he Preserve your graduate’s memories, photographer. prevention, watershed protection, general public; in October 2003, he was 36. ’02 Angela THIBODEAUX has and environmental education. interviewed his UCSC thesis adviser, Felicia MURPHY (Merrill ’84), who formed an association for students at ’87 Jon GUICE is raising venture professor emeritus of biology Ralph received her Ph.D. in biochemistry or rekindle your own. UCSC who want to experience trav- capital for Point Power Systems, Berger, for an NPR story marking in 1992 from the University of eling and studying in Africa before the first company bringing on-site the 50th anniversary of the discovery Colorado at Boulder, died at home It’s never too late. committing to an Education Abroad wind power to the mainstream; he is of REM sleep. on May 30, 2003, after an eight-year Program; called Ambassadors to married with kids and lives in the Bay ’84 Candace FALK (Ph.D., history fight with cancer. ©2004 UCSC Africa, the nonprofit association Area; friends and interested investors of consciousness) is the founder and Robert STRAND (Crown ’70), takes motivated students to Africa by may contact him at [email protected]. director of the Emma Goldman a 30-year UCSC employee who fundraising. ’91 Elyssa ELDRIDGE and her hus- Papers project at UC Berkeley. In worked as a computer programmer ’03 Alexis RAMOS, a Navy ensign, slugstore.ucsc.edu band live in Oakland, where she is January 2003, the New York Times at McHenry Library for most of his received his commission as a naval staying home to care for their three- brought worldwide attention to Falk career and retired in 1998, died on SHOP ONLINE officer after completing Officer and-a-half-year-old daughter and with a story about how UC Berkeley January 5, 2004; he was 55 years old. Serving the UC Santa Cruz campus community since 1965 831.459.4544

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nly two nesting pairs of peregrine testament to the environmental awareness Ofalcons remained in California in 1975. and activism that continue to distinguish the So, we were thinking a campus-sponsored UCSC community. nursery could help rescue them from the We’d like to bring our alumni back, too-- brink of extinction. Through the years, back to campus for Banana Slug Spring Fair we’ve raised and released 950 chicks using on April 17 (see page 24). Reminisce with centuries-old falconry methods to preserve your classmates. Reconnect with your their predatory instincts. Now they’re off professors. Rediscover UCSC. Because life the endangered species list—a living is always more interesting at the edge.

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