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special 50th anniversary commemorative edition About the cover For five decades, UC Santa Cruz has sought answers to life’s most difficult questions. Today the community is asking: How do you Catherine Ramírez, associate professor of Latin make a American and Latino studies and director of the campus’s Join the fun at the Chicano Latino Research first-ever Banana Slug Center, is among the Parade! Think floats, Banana hundreds of UC Santa Cruz faculty whose bold ideas marching bands, dance push boundaries and groups, costumed kids, Slug challenge assumptions. costumed old hippies, or. . . Ramírez focuses on 20th century Mexican-American history, histories of migration There will be awards and float? and assimilation, Latino prizes for the top entries. literature, feminist theory, We ask that all entries have and comparative ethnic studies. She is writing a book a thematic connection with on the history of assimila- UC Santa Cruz or Banana Slugs. tion in the U.S., and she leads a team that was recently awarded a grant from the 11 a.m., Sunday, October 25 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Downtown Santa Cruz for a project on migration, be- longing, and non-citizenship. UC Santa Cruz’s Latin American and Latino Studies Department offers the only doctoral program in Latin American and Latino studies in the world. Sign up at downtownsantacruz.com/slug

Organized by the City of Santa Cruz and the II UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 III Downtown Association of Santa Cruz About the cover From the Chancellor

With a past so audacious, our vision of the future is limitless

Santa Cruz. The celebrations Our breakthroughs in astron- of our 50th year have been a omy will yield stunning insights smashing success so far, with into our understanding of the more to come this fall. universe, and our discoveries about the deep oceans and It’s gratifying to see the the coastal environment will UC Santa Cruz community prompt policy changes to pro- recognize this anniversary and tect these precious resources. the strengths and accomplish- ments of our first half-century. Our commitment to social justice will help us find answers to What will we do in our next five persistent questions of inequal- decades? ity, from feeding a growing Considering its relative youth population to providing access and modest size, this campus to education. has made outsized contribu- New forms of creative expres- tions. We are consistently sion will sustain and challenge ranked one of the best young us, while scholarship in the universities in the world, and humanities will enrich and our pathbreaking research has transform our relationships with tsunami-sized effects that up- ourselves and one another. end disciplines. We will grow our 100,000-

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II UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 III THE campaign for UC SAnTA CRUZ CAMPAIGN UPDATE

As our campus celebrates 50 years of original thinking and questioning authority, the Campaign for UC Santa Cruz is building resources for its future. As we collectively enjoy the look back and the year’s special events, we are moving full-speed ahead to ensure we have the resources to continue our extraordinary education and research mission.

Good news Mapping our A table’s worth of chairs genomic differences for the Cowell Press When UC President Janet Napolitano Alumna Patricia Rebele (Porter ’88) and A $2 million gift to UC Santa Cruz from announced a program to accelerate her husband, Rowland, made a gift of the W.M. Keck Foundation supports the creation of faculty chairs on the UC cam- $500,000 to the Cowell Press Endowment, building of the Human Genome Variation puses with matching funds of $500,000 established in 2013 by Cowell and Porter Map. The new guide will provide a means per chair, UC Santa Cruz was first to take colleges. For more than 40 years the to name, identify, and analyze all common up the offer. And it has now matched press has served as a center of hands-on variations in the human genome, greatly donors with all eight chairs available. creativity in typography and printing. The enhancing both medical research and Chairs bring honor to the recipient and gift supports the Transformative Student basic research in life sciences. provide critical support for faculty and Experience initiative of the campaign. The gift comes as UC Santa Cruz graduate students. celebrates the 15th anniversary of its Bringing back the Quarry Donors have funded chairs in each aca- assembly and posting of the first human Building on strong student support (a demic division and the library. They are: genome. In the spirit of that project, commitment of up to $6.38 million in fees) Sage Weil Presidential Chair for Open when completed, the variation map also toward reopening the Quarry Amphitheater, Source Software (for more on the Sage will be publicly and freely available to all. alumni and other friends of the campus have Weil gift, see page 11) The Keck gift follows earlier support given more than $250,000. Another $1.5 Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dick- from the Simons Foundation. Building million is needed to reopen the iconic space. ens and 19th Century Literature Studies, funded by John Jordan and Michael Stern support for the work of the UC Santa Learn how you can be a part of bringing back Cruz Genomics Institute is a key priority the Quarry at campaign.ucsc.edu. The Wilton W. Webster Jr. Natural Reserves Presidential Chair, funded by the Helen and of the Campaign for UC Santa Cruz. Quarry is a priority in the campaign’s Trans- Will Webster Foundation formative Student Experience initiative. Stephen R. Gliessman Presidential Chair in Water Resources and Food System Sustainability, funded by the Helen and Will $300 MILLION Webster Foundation The Faggin Family Presidential Chair for campaign PROGRESS the Physics of Information, funded by Federico Faggin Kenneth R. Corday Family Presidential now at $210 million Chair in Writing for Television and Film, The Campaign for UC Santa Cruz supports funded by the Corday Foundation $200 excellence across the university through Richard L. Press University Librarian increased private investment in the people Presidential Chair held by UC Santa Cruz and ideas shaping the future. It is bringing Librarian Elizabeth Cowell, funded by the critical new resources to each academic Helen and Will Webster Foundation division, the library, and to signature initia- Symantec Presidential Chair in Storage tives in the student experience, genomics, and Security held by Professor Ethan Miller, coastal sustainability, data science, and at funded by Symantec Corporation $100 MILLION the intersection of the arts and sciences.

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Creative Director Lisa Nielsen From saving falcons to peering Art Director/Designer into the universe and putting Chef, restaurateur, author, and Linda Knudson (Cowell ’76) organic food on American tables, unapologetic spokesperson for Associate Editor UC Santa Cruz has become sustainable food Alice Waters Dan White known as the small university shares common cause with where big things happen. UC Santa Cruz. Proofreader Jeanne Lance

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Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 1 Memories

Gratitude for Our sons’ academic and profes- lasting gifts sional success is completely (in My wife Julie (Abramson) is a 1977 my humble view) due to the ethos, Crown grad. When I met her I was flexibility, and support of disciplined living with some dear friends who passion that Julie experienced at UC were attending UC Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz. She passed this type of living in a house at the end of Swift value on to our sons as their coach Street. and mentor regarding the importance and essence of attending a One of my closest friends to this great school, with outstanding pro- day is Paul Sparrow [see an alumni fessors, and enjoying the process, while it moves them forward toward their dreams and goals in life. The spring ‘15 UC Santa Cruz Review My deepest thanks, appreciation, magazine—the first of two and gratitude to a great institution of commemorative issues this year celebrating UC Santa learning and all you have contributed Cruz’s 50th anniversary— to my friends and my family. opened the memory flood- gates for alumni and friends, —William “Chuck” Morrison some of whom wrote in with Las Vegas, Nev. detailed descriptions of how the campus enriched and Thanks for the memories changed their lives. Here are a few such correspon- What a great surprise it was to find dences. Write us with your in my mailbox an issue of UC Santa own: [email protected] Cruz Review tracing its first 50 years. I’m glad you found me. The issue brought back a veritable flood Above: of memories. Robin Lewin, left, and profile of Sparrow, page 30]. We Larry Tyrrell, right grew up together and spent our I was a busboy in the Pogonip high school years on Long Island, Polo Club (as it was called then) NY, fantasizing about “going to around ‘65 when ground was just California.” Paul went to UC Santa beginning to be broken on the roll- Cruz, and I became a goldsmith ing green grassy hills above the working in Carmel Valley and com- club. I remember we were all a muting from Santa Cruz. little wary about the action and what the consequences would be Robin Lewin (Kresge ‘79, communi- from this pretty serious ecological cations and music) and Larry Tyrrell disturbance. These were hills we (Porter ‘80, aesthetic studies/music) had grown up in, and on, after all. also lived in our Swift St. house. Looking back of course, the jewel Lewin is a video producer in Los that UC Santa Cruz became erased Angeles today. He was a disc jockey any qualms or misgivings I had. and station manager at KZSC from 1976–79. Tyrrell is a world-famous Two years later, on weeknights dur- Shakuhachi flutist living in Portland. ing the school year, a friend and I would pedal our 10-speeds after din- As for Julie, she is now Julie ner from Live Oak all the way up the Morrison, and has been with me for excruciating grade to the campus, the past 38 years. Her dedication to to while away the evening hours the type of education she received doing our homework at McHenry Find UC Santa Cruz on at UC Santa Cruz has served her Facebook, Instagram, Library. As high school students still, well, and she has passed it on to Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, we found it awe inspiring to wander and Pinterest. Read UC our two boys. Santa Cruz Review stories at review.ucsc.edu.

2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Above: Mementos from alumnus Ron Pease, including his UC Santa Cruz student ID card and a group photo with his friends in Scotts Valley. “A number of my friends here were also UC Santa Cruz students at the time,” said Pease. Pictured left to right are Peter Canepa, Ken Chelonis, Rick Jones (Cowell’73, history), Debbie Jones (obscured), Tim McCandless, and Pease with his dog, Yogi.

around that majestic edifice, in and although I have counted many oth- at UC Santa Cruz [“Original vision,” out of the stacks, until we found our ers as mentors as well. But Brother page 22]. private corner to set up camp—at Antoninus, né William Everson, I cherish my college education, es- which time, totally to our surprise, as was special. Bill would hold forth pecially the relationships with the well as that of our parents, we found in a mesmerizing extemporaneous likes of Tom Vogler, George Amos, ourselves far more able to study there fashion befitting a poet of his talent, Marshall Leicester, and Norman O. than anywhere else we had stumbled while I and other ragtag students Brown. They provided rich stimula- onto to that point. Of course it did lay on the dirt floor of the geodesic tion in an unprecedented academic not hurt, in fact it was an added perk, dome on the College Five campus atmosphere. to be able to coast at death-defying that served as Bill’s classroom. He speeds back down that grade, in the hypnotized us with his eloquence, But there was more to our college ex- moonlit night back into Santa Cruz. his way of speaking. Our assignment perience than intellectual exploration. was to keep a journal of our dreams. There was a backdrop of doubt, fear, In ‘73 I found myself a student at and anger. The war and the threat Stevenson College in my junior year. I saw Cesar Chavez and Dolores of conscription weighed heavily on I would purposely schedule my day Huerta speak for the United Farm many of us, and we found ourselves around classes, making sure to park Workers in the Quarry. I had a confronting the values of our parents, at the bottom of the hill at the en- class there, I think it was The who had sacrificed everything to de- trance. This would enable me to hike Anthropology of Religion. There fend the very freedoms that we chal- through what surely must have been were many small musical events lenged. Generations were torn apart. e the most verdant and untouched, held there. I once fell off a skate- It was a time of flux and fire. as wild even, grounds of any university board in the Quarry parking lot, cre- of UC Santa Cruz’s stature. If I allot- ating a permanent floating bone frag- Add to this the widespread drug ted enough time, I might be lucky ment in my elbow. Please, please, culture, which started out as fun, but enough to find some of my favorite please bring back the Quarry! It was led to the inevitable collision with real redwood clusters unoccupied, and something of a shock to hear of its responsibilities. so would sit, meditate, and play my closure. The physical and cultural isolation of new silver flute. It somehow always UC Santa Cruz raised doubts about orrison and ron pe Thank you so much again for finding prepared me, grounded and rounded me. the privileges that allowed us to be out the experience I would have sub- there at all. sequently in class. —Ron Pease (Stevenson ‘73, y chuck m anthropology) It was a wonderful time to be young, s e During that same year one of my but moral, social, and political confu- favorite courses was Birth of a Poet, sion took some of the edge off the A time of flux and fire taught by that old rascal bard William flossy magic that you describe. : court (Bill) Everson, who, years later, be- I am a 1971 graduate of Cowell —Frazier Crawford (Cowell ‘71, came my friend and mentor, College, and I was struck by your hotos literature) p recent article about the early years

Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 3 Editor’s Note Hot Dates

Founders CELEBRATE YEARS YOUNG Celebration 2015 The kids are alright September 25 Faculty Research Lecture Susan Strome, professor of And you brought your kids. College is not for everyone, molecular, cell and develop- and there are certainly other Children were here—kids mental biology routes to success and fulfill- of all ages, from babes in ment in life. arms to toddlers and grade- September 26 schoolers. They were as But when I looked at the adorable and fresh-faced faces of those beautiful kids as you can imagine. I also at Alumni Weekend, I felt saw some high school kids like they were already be- Dinner and hanging out near the photo ing encouraged to become Fiat Fifty booth and taking in the their best, most authentic Reception views. selves—just by being there, Honorees being exposed to ideas, in- I got to campus early Foundation Medal tellect, friendship, tradition, Saturday to help set up knowledge, creative expres- the Banana Slug Kid Zone, sion, and the unabashed where there were crafts, chef, restaurateur, activist, eccentricity that is the hall- Alice Waters snacks, and fun stuff for mark of UC Santa Cruz. and author the little ones. I guess I shouldn’t have been sur- I thought, as they darted Fiat Lux Award prised, but kids showed between the redwoods and We invited you to a special up, chased each other and babbled during lectures, Pioneer staff and faculty anniversary party … and made Play-Doh renditions that those children might be In conversation you came. of Sammy the Slug. observing their parents and feeling like college is a place with Herman Blake at Alumni descended upon These children were being that can open the mind, McHenry Library UC Santa Cruz in unprec- exposed to a college cam- expand the heart, and teach edented numbers for UC pus and seeing their parents life lessons from the divine True Originals: Santa Cruz’s 50th anniver- being active alumni, attend- to the mundane. “An Incubator of Stars” sary Alumni Weekend in ing lectures and thought- April. You walked familiar provoking panels, enjoying I hope I’ll see those kids at Moderated by paths, chatted with current festivities, and connecting future Alumni Weekends. Chancellor George students, called out to each with a network of friends But I wouldn’t be surprised Blumenthal, featuring other, and laughed in the and supporters. if, in 10 or 15 years, I also astrophysicist alumni sunshine. You asked ques- see a few of them in a class- This seems like an invaluable Douglas Duncan, tions in the classrooms, room on campus. gift. fired up your minds during CU Boulder Here’s to the next 50 years! lectures, and lingered over Geoff Marcy, fine wines and plates of — Gwen Jourdonnais, editor UC Berkeley good food. Steven Hawley, Kansas University Where’s Sammy? Congrats go out to Estrella Woods Right: (Porter ‘97, language studies), who was randomly chosen as the Sammy Dress Like It’s challenge winner for the spring ‘15 issue! She lives in Colorado with her 1965 Day husband and two dogs, and works in international sales at Telluride Ski & Golf Resort. She even gets to see some fellow Slugs who live in Colorado. | For the record, Sammy was on page 5, snuggled in the scarf of Dress-Up Day winner Emily Graily. | We received 30 responses to the Where’s Sammy challenge. And now he’s slithered off again! Can you find him? He looks like the Sammy at right. | We’ll choose a Where’s Sammy winner at random. So start the hunt—and Go Slugs! Write us at [email protected].

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We thank our Fiat Fifty Other sponsors 50th events UC Santa Cruz started in 1965 as an unconventional for their place that pushed against the stodginess of educational generosity September 12 and support Farm to Fork Benefit Dinner institutions, a place where innovation—no matter how in making September 12 messy—was part of the campus’s DNA. | Our celebra- this a Cowell Ranch Hay Barn tions of the campus’s 50th anniversary—a year of fes- memorable Dedication tivities, reunions, talks, and collaborations—have been celebration. September 15 Retirees/Emeriti Brunch sensational successes, with sold-out events, world- REDWOOD LEVEL SPONSORS September 20 class talent, and capacity crowds. | At left and below is Arboretum 50th Jubilee a guide to a few of the year’s anchor events; to see the September 25 full list of events, visit 50years.ucsc.edu/events.html Pioneer Alumni Welcome Celebrating the incoming | Join the fun and add your voice: 50years.ucsc.edu. class of 1965 Dressing up September 27 to party down Pioneer Alumni Brunch In January, the campus kicked off its 50th birthday year with a October 15 FiatThis year’s Founders Fifty Gordon (Crown ’72) Ken Norris fashion flourish with “Dress Like Celebration, called and Tanya Ringold Memorial Lecture It’s 1965 Day.” Staff, faculty, stu- Fiat Fifty, will be a spectacular dents, and community members Russ Flegal evening under the stars in Fieldhouse participated—and had a blast Pete Raimondi celebration of trailblazers, radicals, LEVEL SPONSORS (from the past)! Outfits were Kristy Kroeker and legends. To be held September judged by Mad Men Co-Costume 26 on the campus’s East Field, the Moderated by Designer Tiffany White Stanton evening—the crowning event of Ryan Coonerty, (Kresge ‘03, psychology). Check UC Santa Cruz’s 50th celebratory CONTRACTOR LIC. # 342751 Santa Cruz County out the photos at 50years.ucsc. year—promises to be a once-in-a- 3rd District Supervisor edu/kick-off. lifetime occasion. October 25 The dinner will be unlike anything Slug Parade & Expo Alumni bash the campus has done before. Downtown Santa Cruz A record-breaking crowd of revel- In a pavilion overlooking the ers took part in a special 50th Monterey Bay, Kathryn Sullivan November 10 anniversary Alumni Weekend. (Stevenson ‘73, Earth sciences), Emeriti Lecture The buzz about returning for the first American woman to walk Pavel Machotka next year’s reunion filled Cowell in space, will be our master of Courtyard. Plans for Alumni ceremonies as we honor chef and Anne Beroza November 12 Stevenson ‘72 6th Annual Morton Marcus Weekend 2016 (April 29–May 1) food activist Alice Waters with are already underway. The party the Foundation Medal and our Sarah C. Latham Memorial Poetry Reading Vice Chancellor, Business gets better every year! pioneer staff and faculty with the Al Young, and Administrative Fiat Lux Award. Services See page 28 for more Alumni attuta California Poet Laureate Linda S. Peterson g Weekend news and photos. See page 20 for more on a Stevenson ‘70,

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Purevdorj Davaa, who partnered with UC Santa Cruz astronomy grad Sharing the universe student Tuguldur Sukhbold on a For UC Santa Cruz grad student Tuguldur Sukhbold, doing advanced research in astro- project to bring telescopes to 44 physics on the wooded campus of Santa Cruz is a long way from his native country of schools in Mongolia, drives across Mongolia, where he had to build his own telescopes. the steppes on a delivery run. Opportunities he got at UC Santa Cruz allowed him to organize a project that, last year, delivered telescopes to 7 percent of the schools in Mongolia—44 in all—so that science- starved kids might be exposed to the wonders of the universe. “A lot of these kids will probably never travel to another country, or even travel to a city,” said Tuguldur of a country where horses outnumber people and where science education has lagged in the past 20 years. “Their world view is very limited. But with these telescopes, even if they can’t see the world, they can see the universe.”

6 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 7 Professor Hershatter joins American Academy UC Santa Cruz History Professor Gail Hershatter has joined Nobel Prize–winning chemist Brian Kobilka, astrophysicist Neil de- Grasse Tyson, singer-songwriter Judy Collins, novelist Tom Wolfe, and UC President Janet A. Napolitano as a newly elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The 2015 class of 197 includes some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, and civic, business, and attuta

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iv contributions to the field of history. energy is driving climate change, biotech company Genentech, then el She is best known for her pioneer- as cofounder of VaxGen, and now ing field research and oral history and he described how costly the pe d at UC Santa Cruz, where he is the among Chinese women, and for impacts of global warming will be,

sco Baskin Professor of Biomolecular her major contributions to the his- in both economic and human terms. Alley also made the case that the Engineering. Since his arrival at UC ele tory of women, labor, and sexuality.

: t technology is available now to Santa Cruz in 2006, Berman has es- make the transition to a sustainable tablished a major vaccine research Changing climate of effort funded by a series of grants

hotos energy system, and that it makes p climate change talk sense economically to do so. from the National Institutes of Health, including two new grants in “If you just look at dollars and cents, Most of the discussion at the sec- 2014 totaling $2.6 million. ond annual UC Santa Cruz Climate the economy is still better if we start & Policy Conference in March to wisely reduce our use of fossil The latest results from this effort was not about how to reduce fuels,” Alley said. “Dealing with it have Berman sounding optimistic greenhouse gas emissions, but makes us better off—it gives us a about the prospects for a vaccine about how to plan for and adapt stronger economy and more jobs.” that can be effective in protecting to the inevitable consequences of against HIV infection. His lab has

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developed new vaccine candidates versity found 73 percent of gradu- that he said are promising enough to ating seniors had assisted in faculty consider advancing into clinical trials research or creative projects during within the next two years. their time at UC Santa Cruz. Science? The rewards of Or science fiction? research Tired of answering questions about Sanjin Mehic’s parents left every- cloning mammoths, Beth Shapiro, thing behind when they fled war- a professor of ecology and evolu- torn Bosnia-Herzegovina for the Right, Sanjin tionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, quieter streets of San Jose, Calif. Mehic; Below, wrote a book called How to Clone a “My parents worked hard to get Beth Shapiro Mammoth. (Spoiler alert: You can’t going and never looked back,” said actually clone a mammoth.) Mehic (Porter ‘16, biochemistry and molecular biology). For Mehic, 24, that industrious- ness shaped his own life. Mehic is engaged in a research study that focuses on the role of bacteria in the production of an algal toxin called Sleuthing a domoic acid in the Monterey Bay. killer shrub Domoic acid not only kills marine organisms but also can cause neu- Wading her way through dense rological damage, sometimes fatal, thickets of Scotch broom in in humans. Washington State, Jennifer Thompson, 22, realized just how Thanks to Assistant Professor of damaging the plant could be. Ocean Sciences Marilou Sison- Shapiro is a leading authority on an- Mangus and a grant from the Dean’s Growing up to 12 feet in height, the cient DNA—how to recover it from Fund for Undergraduate Research, perennial shrub with its bright yel- fossils, museum specimens, and Mehic is studying whether certain low flowers had overrun land once prehistoric remains buried in frozen bacteria influence production of filled with Douglas fir. But what was tundra, and how to analyze it for domoic acid during algal blooms. most interesting to Thompson was clues to the evolutionary history of the fact that, even if all the Scotch species and populations, both living broom were removed, the Douglas Holy bacteria! and extinct. She has studied DNA fir would most likely not regrow. Bacteria found naturally on some from ancient populations of bears, bats may prove useful in controlling horses, humans, and, yes, mam- Thanks to a grant from UC the deadly fungal disease known moths. But she is not a big propo- Santa Cruz’s Dean’s Fund for as white-nose syndrome, which nent of “de-extinction”—the idea Undergraduate Research and has devastated bat populations that scientists could use ancient to Professor of Ecology and throughout eastern North America DNA to recreate extinct species. Evolutionary Biology Ingrid Parker, and continues to spread across the Thompson (Cowell ‘15, plant sci- In How to Clone a Mammoth: The continent. ences) spent a year doing research Science of De-Extinction, Shapiro ad- into the question of why the Scotch Scientists at UC Santa Cruz isolated dresses the scientific and ethical chal- broom was so toxic to Douglas fir. bacteria that strongly inhibited the lenges that would confront any effort growth of the white-nose syndrome to bring back extinct creatures. Thompson’s work is emblematic of fungus in laboratory tests. a UC Santa Cruz ethos grounded in “I question if it’s something we the founding days of the university: Experiments are now in progress to should do at all, for many ethical and the opportunity for undergraduates see if treating bats with the bacteria environmental reasons,” Shapiro to take part in research. In fact, a can protect them from the disease, said. “I’m trying to separate the sci- 2014 study conducted by the uni- said Joseph Hoyt, a UC Santa Cruz ence from the science fiction.” graduate student who led the study.

8 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 9 Historic structure is ‘barn again’ The Cowell Ranch Hay Barn at the base of the UC Santa Cruz campus is being “barn again.” The structure is being rebuilt as a center for UC Santa Cruz’s environmental and sustainability programs and will become the home of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems and a campus and community hub. The project, made possible by a $5 million gift from the Helen and Will Webster Foundation, supports the Coastal Sustainability initiative of the Campaign for UC Santa Cruz. When a weather-tight exterior is finished, the barn will contain a large multipurpose space for exhi- bitions, assemblies, barn dances, and more, along with a conference room, restrooms, and utility rooms. A future phase—still to be funded—will add other conference rooms, kitchenette, and exterior improvements. The rebuilding will be celebrated with an event on Sept. 12. The

attuta doors of the barn will be opened g a at 7 p.m. and the community wel- . l comed to an evening of lively mu- used to extract information from the sional model and virtual tour that sic and refreshments. light emitted and reflected by plan- will demonstrate how an ancient etary atmospheres in order to under- Egyptian site evolved over more hic by c The search for life stand their atmospheric temperatures than 3,000 years. and the abundance of molecules. UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist The $47,200 grant was one of 17 Jonathan Fortney is one of 15 Astronomers routinely analyze awards directed to development iro and me p principal investigators for a NASA the light from distant stars by of new digital tools for study of the initiative that is embracing a team spreading it out into a spectrum of humanities that are part of a larger ; sha different wavelengths. Fortney is slate of 232 grants announced by r approach to the quest for life on e planets around other stars. The developing tools for analyzing the the NEH.

asni spectra of distant planets to deter- Nexus for Exoplanet System Sullivan is co-principal investigator mine molecular abundances in their Science (NExSS) will benefit from of a Digital Humanities Research atmospheres. the expertise of several dozen Cluster funded by the Institute for scientists across the NASA sci- Humanities Research (IHR) at UC arn by g. l ence community in an effort to find Ancient Egypt in 3D Santa Cruz. y b clues to life on faraway worlds. Assistant Professor of History “I think of digital humanities as us- : ha Fortney, an associate professor of Elaine Sullivan received a Digital ing new technologies to answer astronomy and astrophysics at UC Start-Up Grant from the National questions I can’t answer now— hotos

p Santa Cruz, will lead a team exploring Endowment for the Humanities opening up new realms of scholar- how novel statistical methods can be (NEH) to develop a three-dimen- ship,” said Sullivan.

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Hibbert-Jones and San Francisco “I wanted to shed a light on this Anita Hill speaks artist Nomi Talisman—was honored omission as ‘cultural amnesia’ to truth to power with two awards at the 18th an- convey an alternative lens through Anita Hill’s life changed forever in nual Full Frame Documentary Film which Filipino bodies can be rep- 1991 when a television audience Festival. resented and therefore not easily ‘exoticized’ and easily ‘consumed’ of 22 million saw her testify before It received the Jury Award for for entertainment.” the Senate Judiciary Committee “Best Short,” qualifying the film during the confirmation hearing for for a possible nomination for an Supreme Court nominee Judge Academy Award next year in the The book of Clarence Thomas. category of “Best Documentary ‘rad women’ (Short Subject).” Her calm demeanor—as she was “American history is filled with pressed to endlessly repeat the In choosing Last Day of Freedom stories of brave and powerful men, graphic descriptions of sexual ha- for the award, the festival judges but have you ever wondered where noted: “This film demonstrates and the women are?” reminds us of the simple power and intimacy of the human voice. It So begins Rad American Women interweaves different visual styles of A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and animation and engages the audience Visionaries Who Shaped Our fully in an increasingly fraught tale History…And Our Future, a book that ultimately presents the supreme for kids by alumna Kate Schatz cost of doing the right thing.” (Stevenson ‘01, women’s studies and creative writing). The short blends animation with poignant testimony to create a It features the stories of 26 women haunting story of a man who discov- who have had a major impact on ers his brother has committed a American life—from artists and ab- serious crime. olitionists, to scientists and sports heroes, to rock stars and writers. Fighting Above: Anita Hill; rassment she endured while work- cultural amnesia Right: Kate Schatz ing for Thomas—struck a chord Splinters in Our Ankles is UC Santa (Stevenson ‘01, with the public and began a con- Cruz Theater Arts Professor Gerald women’s studies versation about sexual harassment Casel’s choreographic response to and creative and power in the workplace that what he calls “the collective cul- writing) still resonates today. tural amnesia” about the Philippine Now an author and professor of national dance. law, public policy, and women’s studies at Brandeis University, Hill Born in the Philippines and raised in came to UC Santa Cruz in February California, Casel actually grew up with to deliver a free public lecture little knowledge of the popular dance. on the topic: “Speaking Truth to But recently, his research took him Power: Gender and Racial Equality, back to the Philippines to dig into 1991–2015.” the historical context of the na- In a telephone interview from her tional dance, which originated dur- office in Boston, Hill recalled the ing the Spanish colonial occupation groundbreaking hearings that took of the Philippines that began in the place 23 years ago in Congress. 16th century. “The experience itself was surreal “As a choreographer, I question the beyond anything that I think anybody most famous and beloved traditional could have prepared for,” said Hill. dance, Tinikling, and why it is represented in such a lively and festive way,” said Casel. “I argue that dur- Short stands tall ing the time it was being created, Last Day of Freedom—an Filipinos were under Spanish colonial animated short by UC Santa Cruz rule—a violent past that is not dis- Associate Professor of Art Dee cussed when this dance is presented.

10 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 11 2 It also has the distinction of being classroom, in applying for a job, at UC Santa Cruz. “It’s great to Above: Photo at the first children’s book published and by volunteering.” see one of our students succeed the 50/50 show in such a visible way, and then for by Charley Stern by San Francisco’s famed City The team ended the season with him to give back to us in this way is (Crown ‘69). Lights Publishers in the company’s a 24-6 record and earned a visit just extraordinary.” Pictured are Martha 60-year history. In May, the book to the NCAA Division III national Brown (Merrill ‘70), debuted at No. 5 on the New York championships in Hoboken, N.J. The gift supports the Data Science Times bestseller list. seated, and Greg hoto Leadership initiative at UC Santa Calvert (Cowell d p Cruz. e Ph.D. thesis to ‘70 and Grad. Div.

ut Setting up

b ‘89) on the ladder. i philanthropy R for success 50 artists, Original gelatin Alumnus Sage Weil (Ph.D. ‘07, silver print, 1969 The UC Santa Cruz men’s volleyball computer science), who developed 5 decades z cont team spent its season honing sets (reprinted as a his thesis project into the highly suc- UC Santa Cruz alumni from across 20 x 24 inch digital

hat and kills, doing conditioning, and

C cessful open-source software data the country contributed their works watching game film. Team mem- print for 50th storage system Ceph, has given UC to 50/50—an art exhibition cele- y; s y; bers also sold donuts and athletic anniversary). Santa Cruz $2.5 million to support brating the 50th anniversary of the

rsit gear, worked on their résumés, and

e research in open-source software. campus that ran in February. picked up trash on the beach. Weil’s gift supports a faculty The show took place at both the R. The unusual regimen was born not is univ chair in open-source software Blitzer Gallery on the Westside of e just from the financially strapped and research led by Professor Santa Cruz, and on campus at the squad’s need to raise money in or- of Computer Science Carlos Porter College Faculty Gallery. rand der to compete, but also from Head Maltzahn, who directs the Center y b Featuring 10 artists from each de- s Coach Todd Hollenbeck’s decision

e for Research in Open Source cade of UC Santa Cruz’s 50-year to approach this team in a new way: Software at UC Santa Cruz. by building solid human beings first, history, the exhibition spotlighted both on the court and in life. “Sage was a brilliant student and local and visiting alumni artists ll court a serial entrepreneur even before from Santa Cruz to New York City. “It’s not about wins and losses,” : hi he came here,” said Scott Brandt, Visit 50years.ucsc.edu for addi- said Hollenbeck. “It’s how can we professor of computer science and score points when we’re not even tional events celebrating the 50th

hotos now vice chancellor for research p touching the ball. We do that in the anniversary of UC Santa Cruz.

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Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is chair of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, where in- novative faculty have led breakthroughs in everything from telescope design to theoretical astrophysics.

12 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue By Peggy Townsend

ideasFrom saving falcons to peering into the universe, sequencing the human genome, and putting organic food on American tables, UC Santa Cruz has become known as the small university where big things happen

It was May 2000, the race to sequence the human genome was on, and UC Santa Cruz Biomolecular Engineering Professor David Haussler was worried.

A private firm named Celera Genomics was beating a path to the prize with a big budget and what was reported to be the most powerful computer cluster in civilian use. p o l Meanwhile, an international consortium of public scientists—which Haussler had only recently been invited to join—was lagging behind. con by nick dun

l The public institutions assigned to write a program

; fa that would assemble the 600,000 fragments of DNA the consortium had decoded into a comprehensible sequence hukova were having trouble. On top of that, the heads of Celera na z Genomics and the public consortium had agreed to jointly

z by ele announce the results of their work at the White House on rui June 26. The deadline was approaching like a speeding bullet. ez- ir m What happened next was the stuff of movies, and also : ra a reflection of the kind of maverick, can-do ethos that has hotos

p pervaded UC Santa Cruz for all of its 50-year history.

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the most powerful computer systems at the time, and we, basically, had 100 cell phones.” Kent spent the next month hud- dled in the garage office at his Seabright home, writing 10,000 lines of code so furiously and for so many hours, he had to ice his wrists. On June 22, four days before the White House announcement—and three days before Celera finished its computer assembly—Kent ran the first successful draft sequence of the human genome using the UC Santa Cruz computer farm and 13 sets of data sources. The announcement of the successful sequencing of the human genome was hailed around the world. Two weeks later, on July 7, Haussler and Kent had the honor of posting the first human genome on the Internet. In September, they also debuted the UCSC Genome Browser, a graphic web-based “micro- scope” for exploring the human Haussler, a tall man with a a time at least, “open science” genome that continues to be penchant for Hawaiian shirts, would have meant “open only to free to anyone who wants it. managed to wrangle 100 Dell those who could pay.” Today, thousands of biomedical Pentium III processor worksta- On May 22, Kent, who’d cut his researchers worldwide use the tions—each with less power than coding teeth in the commercial UCSC Genome Browser in their one of today’s smart phones— world of paint and animation work to uncover the causes of and assemble a makeshift “su- programming, e-mailed Haussler disease and develop treatments. percomputer.” He then started saying he thought he had found The browser has been mentioned a behind-the-scenes attempt to a way to write an assembly pro- in more than 20,000 different write an assembly program. The gram using a simpler strategy. scholarly papers in biomedical lit- going was slow, however. erature, an indication of its impact Haussler replied with one word: in disease research. The site gets Enter Jim Kent, an unruly- “Godspeed.” haired UC Santa Cruz graduate about a million hits per day. “So Jim went for it,” Haussler student in molecular, cell, and It was an audacious achieve- said. “It was a classic scene. developmental biology. He wor- ment but not the only time UC I knew Jim was a genius and ried that if a private corporation Santa Cruz has beaten the odds I thought, ‘It may be hopeless sequenced the human genome to make a difference. From sav- but, at this point, what have we first, thousands of genes might ing falcons to peering into the got to lose?’ Celera had one of be patented—meaning that, for universe and putting organic

14 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue food on American tables, UC Lower Quarry—which Norris Santa Cruz has become known had threatened to power with as the small university where the “world’s longest exten- big things happen. sion cord” until administrators Here are just a few examples. agreed to supply electricity to the site. There, the eggs would be hatched in modified chicken Bring back the birds incubators and the chicks Peregrine falcons are the warmed on heating pads placed F-16s of nature. They can dive in cement-mixing tubs. The to speeds of up to 300 mph, birds would be fed with ground snatch other birds out of mid- pigeon or quail meat raised by air, and have a ratcheting func- staff and volunteers, watched tion in their feet that allows 24/7 by program employees and them to lock onto prey and hold students, and finally transported

, it with very little energy. back to the nest for their “re- sch But by 1970, there were only birth,” often to the surprise of

. Oe two breeding pairs left in their avian parents. California thanks to the pesti- By 1999, the peregrine falcon cide DDT, which thinned the had recovered enough to be

gee, and P shells of the falcons’ eggs, removed from the federal endan- causing them to break under gered species list.

, D. Ma, D. the weight of the nesting adult. It was an impudent fight, head- Today, there are nearly 300 pro- quartered on a campus known worth ductive pairs of the iconic bird, mostly for its lack of grades, g in and their return is due in large and one that included a lot of part to a seat-of-the-pants orga- . Ill improvisation, more than a few nization started in 1975 on the bent rules, and even the threat SA; G

m UC Santa Cruz campus by the of arrest. (One volunteer was a late Natural History Professor swarmed by a Los Angeles Ken Norris. SWAT team while trying to y NASA; E s capture pigeons from a freeway e Like Haussler, the Santa Cruz

e HUDF09 Te Predatory Bird Research billboard in order to supplement Group, as it was known, had to the program’s food budget.) MacGyver its way to success. “It’s one of the greatest envi- y; andy; th hoto court Led by a tireless scientific re- ronmental success stories of all e; p rsit searcher named Brian Walton, time,” Stewart said. e the group sent climbers up rock niv walls with homemade plywood

n U In a galaxy… e

archionn backpacks to retrieve falcon id e eggs, which they would replace About the same time the per- m , L egrine falcon population was o with fake eggs created by the ns e UC Santa Cruz Art Department. taking flight, a group of scientists from UC Santa Cruz were revolu- According to Glenn Stewart, tionizing the way we studied the now director of the program, heavens. z; R. Bouw the falcon eggs would then ustration by T ru Two physicists, Jerry Nelson ll be transported by volunteers and Terry Mast, had recently

me i to the research group’s make- anta C arrived on campus from UC no shift headquarters in the Berkeley. The two had con- UC S ge

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ceived a radical Mexican islands telescope design where feral cats that used seg- were obliterating mented, hexagonal Cassin’s Auklets, mirrors to peer Scripps’s Murrelets, more deeply into and Black Storm- space than ever petrels. before. The result The men knew was a multimillion- what was happen- dollar project to ing on those specks build two of these of land was em- breakthrough blematic of a larger 10-meter tele- Right: problem: Nowhere scopes on the Thanks to Science winner Sandra Faber were extinctions slopes of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. work done in have allowed researchers to dis- greater than on the world’s part by non- In order to work, the telescopes cover scores of extrasolar plan- islands, home to 20 percent of profit Island also needed precisely crafted ets, find direct evidence for the bird, reptile, and plant species. Conservation, secondary mirrors, and, even which has Hot Big Bang theory, and make With the help of a legendary though a few outside companies its roots in major progress in mapping the bobcat trapper, the determined UC Santa could make them, UC Santa Cruz evolution of the universe for the but underfunded environmental Cruz, breed- scientists decided to tackle the last 5 billion years. tacticians went to work, manag- difficult assignment themselves. ing tufted UC Santa Cruz was also at the ing to clear the islands of the puffins were Then–professor of astronomy vanguard of adaptive optics, destructive felines. Within five again spotted Joe Miller remembered: “I said, years, the two assembled a rag- on Hawadax technological advances that com- ‘We’ve got the well-equipped tag team of graduate students, Island in bat atmospheric distortion so the Alaska. optical laboratory, a very experi- images scientists see through trappers, and Mexican conser- enced and great optician (Dave telescopes are sharp and clear. vationists, freeing nine islands Hilyard), and superb support off of Baja California of invasive “We’ve developed and built from Jerry Nelson, Terry Mast, rats, feral cats, rabbits, goats, these absolutely forefront instru- and Harland Epps, who is the and burros—allowing native ments,” said Michael Bolte, UC leading designer of astronomi- birds and plants to return. They Santa Cruz professor of astron- cal optics in the U.S.’” turned the group into a nonprofit omy and astrophysics, sitting in called Island Conservation and Today, the twin Keck tele- his campus office underneath established its headquarters in scopes use secondary mirrors a photo of one of the Keck tele- a rented space on the UC Santa built in a series of unassuming scopes. “The place where it all Cruz marine-lab campus. metal-roofed shops amid the happened is right here.” redwoods of UC Santa Cruz. Today, Island Conservation is an The Kecks are considered the Lights, science, action independent, Santa Cruz–based most productive telescopes in nonprofit with a $6.5 million the world. Down the hill and a few years budget and projects around the earlier, a couple of research bi- world. Their success also inspired ologists and confessed seabird a new effort to build a 30- freaks from UC Santa Cruz em- “To us, it was: Why apply meter version of the Keck barked on a mission that would science just to describe prob- telescopes—an international grow to save 389 species from lems?” Croll said. “Using sci- endeavor with roots still deep possible extinction on more than ence to find solutions seemed in Santa Cruz. four dozen islands in the world. way more interesting.” But secondary mirrors were not It was the 1980s, and Don Croll It was a culture born from early the only instruments born amid and Bernie Tershy had loaded faculty like Michael Soulé, a the woods. Instruments con- up their surfboards and headed professor of environmental ceived by astronomer Steven to a pair of wind-wracked sciences known as the father Vogt and by National Medal of of modern conservation biol-

16 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue ogy, and the late Ken Norris, a in the real world of prisons, Pennsylvania and to a federal UC Santa Cruz natural history talking to inmates in window- supermax prison in Colorado. In professor who not only helped less solitary confinement cells California he saw men packed craft the Marine Mammal where the smells of 23-hour-a- into a sweltering gymnasium Protection Act of 1972 but also day living and a sense of grief with bunks stacked three high as co-founded the 756,000-acre created an almost palpable armed guards patrolled catwalks UC Natural Reserve System, heaviness in the air. above them. according to Croll. He witnessed prisoners break “Men were living not for weeks Since then, the UC Santa Cruz under the pressures of isolation or months but for years in these researchers have helped bring and documented how others abysmally overcrowded, dan- about policy changes like a clung to slivers of humanity by gerous, and unhealthy environ- West Coast ban on fishing for imposing an almost obsessive ments,” he said. krill, shrimp-like crustaceans order on their solitary lives. He In 2011, Haney’s testimony that are a major food source for saw inmates transition from a about the psychological effects marine life, and are now work- fear of being alone to appre- of this kind of treatment being with postdoc Asha de Vos came the cornerstone for a U.S. to examine a possible modi- Supreme Court decision that fication of shipping lanes that forced California to reduce its could help save Sri Lankan blue prison populations because of whales. Their students have cruel and inhumane conditions. helped stop construction of a liquefied natural gas plant in an Sitting in his office in advance environmentally sensitive area of of a CNN interview about Mexico and supported modifica- solitary confinement, Haney re- tion of rules so oil-spill money flected on his work both inside for seabird restoration can be and outside the university. used beyond spill boundaries to “I think when you see injus- places the winged victims travel tices that other people haven’t, and breed. it’s important to communicate “The ethos of this place is to those observations beyond an encourage people to go out and academic world,” Haney said. do things,” Croll said. “We have an obligation to share knowledge not just with stu- Left: attuta Beyond bars dents but with a larger society. Psychology g a Especially when that knowl- Professor

. l When Psychology Professor Craig Haney arrived in Santa edge bears directly on things Craig Haney Cruz in 1977, he’d already wit- about which the public should ey by c nessed the psychological dam- know and care about.” hension about being around

; han age prison could cause. people, and chronicled the rise The past is present He had been one of the princi- of the use of isolation in prisons pal researchers in the famous around the country. If you want to know about climate change, you may want to mz/ usfws Stanford Prison Experiment, In 2012, he told a U.S. Senate which had student volunteers look deep into the Earth. That’s subcommittee that, for many what Christina Ravelo, UC ana ni playing the roles of guards and l inmates, “solitary confinement inmates in a simulated prison Santa Cruz professor of ocean precipitates a descent into mad- setting, and which had to be sciences, has done, and what ness.” halted because of the psycho- she discovered has rattled the uffin by i way scientists go about predict- : p logical mistreatment and break- Haney’s four decades of prison downs that ensued. research has taken him from ing the effects of climate shifts. hotos frightening prisons in Texas to Ravelo, a paleoclimatologist p But now Haney found himself medieval-looking facilities in

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with a shock of dark, curling Seed to table hair, has spent countless hours studying sediment cores har- If you’ve ever picked up a car- vested from deep beneath the ton of organic strawberries from ocean in hopes the past would your local supermarket, you shed clues on the present. Her have an eccentric English gar- interest is in an epoch known dener, a passionate farmer/plant as the Pliocene Warm Period ecologist, and UC Santa Cruz to 3.5 to 4.5 million years ago, thank. when temperatures were a few The odyssey of those straw- degrees higher and CO2 levels berries began in 1967 when a roughly the same as today. quirky master gardener named What she discovered was evi- Alan Chadwick arrived at UC dence of a permanent El Niño– Santa Cruz. Tasked with creat- like state in the tropics with ing a student garden, Chadwick its resulting drought, floods, and a host of young acolytes and damaging storms. Her grabbed digging fork and discovery shook the scientific spade, and soon turned a rocky community because modern hillside on the upper campus climate-prediction models did into a garden overflowing with not forecast that kind of result. flowers and vegetables. His technique, which he called the “The issue has fueled a lot of French Intensive Biodynamic debate and a lot of scrutiny method, would come to lay the about how Earth responds to groundwork for organic gardens high CO2 levels,” said Ravelo. around the world. “There may be even more radical changes that the models But by 1981, Chadwick had left, aren’t picking up yet because and a campus farm born out we haven’t been able to simu- of that first garden was strug- late a tropical climate accu- gling under a financial drought. rately. We’re trying to figure out Things looked bleak until an why the models and the data enthusiastic plant ecologist and from the Pliocene don’t agree.” farmer who’d just come from southern Mexico, where he’d Her findings, along with worked the soil using traditional those made by her col- farming systems, arrived on league Professor of Earth and campus. His name was Steve Planetary Sciences Jim Zachos, Gliessman. and her use of a laser system to analyze the geochemistry of Hired to teach a spring natural fossils in order to understand history field quarter, Gliessman climate and ocean dynamics, was also asked to revive the has put her—and UC Santa struggling UC Santa Cruz Farm. Cruz—on the forefront of cli- His idea was to tie the Farm mate research. to academics in a science he called agroecology—the appli- cation of ecological principles to Master Gardener agriculture as opposed to fac- Alan Chadwick tory farms’ reliance on chemi- cals and what he saw as unsus- tainable practices.

18 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Cobbling funds from philanthro- treatments against the disease. CGHub The renowned Dickens Project pist Alfred Heller and a state is the largest public database of cancer began at UC Santa Cruz. A scholarly genome sequences in the world and the consortium of members from more program that generated money first “NIH Trusted Partner” authorized than 40 universities around the globe, it from custom license plate sales, to distribute genome sequence data to is recognized as the premier center for Gliessman turned the Farm into biomedical researchers. Dickens studies and home to the popular an outdoor classroom—the By mapping, at the atomic level, the summer Dickens Universe gathering. first formal academic agroecol- structure of the ribosome, a complex Thanks to a high-tech tracking collar molecular machine found in all cells developed at UC Santa Cruz, researchers ogy program in the world and that translates the DNA molecular are able to monitor the movements of a program that would also help machine into functioning proteins, Harry mountain lions and determine how much launch a movement that has Noller, professor of molecular biology energy the big cats use to pounce, stalk, changed the way America eats. at UC Santa Cruz, and his colleagues and overpower their prey. have helped provide a basis for the The Jack Baskin School of Engineer- As part of the program, development of targeted antibiotics. ing started the first undergraduate major Gliessman and students be- UC Santa Cruz Professor of in computer game design in the UC gan working with local farmer Anthropology Adrienne Zihlman’s system. critique of the “Man the Hunter” model Jim Cochran in 1985 to study In the midst of the 2014 Ebola changed the idea that male-dominated outbreak in West Africa, the UC Santa whether organic berry growing activities like hunting were responsible Cruz Genomics Institute released a could be an economically viable for evolutionary adaptations like big free Ebola genome browser to assist venture. brains. Her notion that female gathering global efforts to develop a vaccine and activities could just as easily account for antiserum to help stop the spread of the The answer is evident in the these adaptations was responsible for a disease. organic produce grown by large- shift in evolutionary perspective that is now mainstream. The hows and whys of Earth’s scale farms and sold in the likes reversals of its magnetic fields can Retired UC Santa Cruz Psychology of Safeways and Wal-Marts be better understood thanks to a 3D Professor Elliot Aronson’s work on simulation developed by UC Santa today. cognitive dissonance and his invention Cruz Professor of Earth and Planetary of the Jigsaw Classroom as a way of “What we’ve done is call atten- Sciences Gary Glatzmaier. Along with reducing ethnic hostility and prejudice a colleague from UCLA, Glatzmaier tion, on one hand, to the non- in schools resulted in his being created the first computer simulation sustainability of the industrial listed among the 100 most eminent of the geodynamo in the Earth’s core, approach to farming,” said the psychologists of the 20th century. which maintains the globe’s magnetic now-retired Gliessman while sit- As leaders in the development field. of custom electronics and sensors ting under the silvery branches UC Santa Cruz’s Kudela Lab is a for state-of-the-art particle detection leader in understanding the effects of an olive tree he had planted systems, physicists at UC Santa Cruz’s of harmful algal blooms on the West years before at the campus’s Institute for Particle Physics have been Coast. Its founder, Professor of Ocean Sustainable Living Center. “And, at the forefront of high-energy physics Sciences Raphael Kudela, is working experiments for the past 30 years. Their on the other hand, we’ve devel- with the California Department of Public contributions include a significant role Health to develop better monitoring oped a system of food health in the discovery of the Higgs boson tools for harmful algal blooms and and justice from the soil to the at CERN, a large part in designing is developing predictive models for and building the Fermi Gamma-ray forecasting when and where harmful people around the table.” Space Telescope, and ongoing work n algal blooms will occur. e on upgrades to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. In a paper published in Nature, UC Santa ard More greatest hits Cruz scientists—physicist Joel Primack Nathaniel Mackey, professor and astronomers George Blumenthal and In addition to the aforemen- emeritus of literature at UC Santa Cruz, m & g Sandra Faber—along with British scientist tioned big ideas, UC Santa Cruz won the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Martin Rees outlined a theory for the role Poetry Prize. The $100,000 award goes z far is responsible for an impressive of Cold Dark Matter in the formation of list of other groundbreaking to a living U.S. poet whose lifetime work galaxies. It remains the dominant working warrants extraordinary recognition. achievements, including the paradigm for structure formation in the Researchers at UC Santa Cruz universe. following. pioneered the use of satellite tags In recognition of the important work y santa cru to monitor the migrations and habits s UC Santa Cruz scientists are doing with e The Cancer Genomics Hub, built and of elephant seals. Their tags have data storage and management, industry operated by the UC Santa Cruz Genomics recorded dives to well over a mile deep giants have partnered with the campus Institute, is an essential resource for and tracked elephant seal migrations to form the UC Santa Cruz Center for : court scientists studying cancer genomics data throughout the entire northeast Pacific Research in Storage Systems. with the goal of developing targeted Ocean and as far as the coasts of Japan

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Alice Waters—who has an international reputation as a chef, cookbook author, and spokesperson for sustainable food—shares common cause with UC Santa Cruz’s pioneering role in sustainable food systems

In 1971, Richard Nixon was On opening night, Waters wore president of the United States, a used polka-dot rayon dress Vietnam War protesters con- from a neighborhood boutique verged on Washington, D.C.,at and called Bizarree Bazaar.r She wass ’ edgeEditor’s note: Alice Waters the New York Times caused a crouched on the floor, nailing will receive sensation when it published the down a carpet, when the first the Foundation WPentagon Papers. curious diners wandered in. Medal at UC Santa Cruz’s Little did she know that the In advance of her visit to cam- During that turbulent year, a Founders restaurant would still be thriving pus, Waters, who will receive Celebration highly ambitious Francophile more than four decades later— the Foundation Medal during Fiat Fifty dinner and food obsessive named Alice on September and considered one of the best UC Santa Cruz’s Founders Waters, along with a group of 26, 2015. in the world. Celebration Fiat Fifty dinner on idealistic friends, opened up a September 26, spoke candidly tiny restaurant in an Arts and From this humble beginning, with UC Santa Cruz Review is Crafts house along Shattuck her restaurant became legend- l about her career as a slow-food Avenue in Berkeley. ary, while Waters herself soon advocate, her life as a chef, her arsa gained an international reputa- The restaurant was centered fight against the “fast-food nation—not just as a chef and around organic, locally grown tion,” and her common cause anda m cookbook author but a spokes- food, ecologically sound harvest m with the ideas and mission of person for sustainable food, un- methods, and environmental UC Santa Cruz’s pioneering sus- afraid to take controversial posi- stewardship—concepts virtually tainable agriculture program. tions that have made her critics

hoto by a unheard of at the time. p label her everything from a food zealot to an “absolutist.”

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Guests of Chez Panisse have a unique view of the kitchen as their meal is prepared.

Fellow travelers learn to raise their own food. our teachers for granted. Let’s lift up the farmer and the teacher as the “The UC Santa Cruz program really The UC Santa Cruz Farm, build- most important jobs of our country.” ing on the success of UC Santa trains apprentices for farming in a Cruz’s Student Garden Project very particular way so they can come Chez Panisse and other like-minded started by Master Gardener Alan and, immediately, become a teacher restaurants have tried to do their Chadwick, was founded the same for young children,” she said. part to “lift up the farmer” by listing the names of the farms that raised year as Chez Panisse. UC Santa Waters also said that farm appren- the food on their menus—a trend Cruz’s Center for Agroecology & tices, such as the ones in UC Santa that has become so prevalent, it Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) Cruz’s program, are more impor- was spoofed on an episode of the offers a popular Apprenticeship in tant than ever these days because satirical television show Ecological Horticulture, an inten- “young people are redefining what Portlandia, in which a diner got to meet the sive organic farming and gardening it means to be a farmer, and they chicken he was about to eat. training program (now in its 48th are bringing us out to the country, season) that has “seeded” the and showing us the culture of agri- Waters continues to embrace the organic farming and food industry culture.” idea of listing farm names because, with a wealth of graduates. in her view, it is a way not just of giv- In the process, these hard-working ing credit to the hard work of growers Waters once visited with Chadwick apprentices are building more of a but forging a relationship built on himself while he was staying at community around farming, she said. the Green Gulch Farm near San transparency and honesty between “Even in the ‘60s, organic farmers, Francisco. Waters has worked the restaurant and its patrons. Diners, if they weren’t on a commune, were closely with several apprenticeship if they wish, could drive out and visit mom-and-pop operations—hard alumni from the UC Santa Cruz the farms themselves, she said. work, and pretty solitary,” she said. Farm, in both her restaurant as well She also spoke of the similar root “We’ve never elevated the farmer in as her Edible Schoolyard garden, systems of her restaurant and the this country. We’ve taken them for where urban public school students UC Santa Cruz Farm program. granted the same way we’ve taken

22 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 23 “We were really involved with Diet Rieux praised Waters for her for a Small Planet in the ‘60s, and strong emphasis on “educating the there was lots of dropping out (of senses.” the industrial food complex, which Growing, preparing, and tasting started in the 1950s) and growing good food is a great way for chil- your own,” she said. “I felt that was dren to engage with the world in a whole part of the hippie culture. an experiential way, regardless of At that time, there was this feeling: economic background, she said. whatever you did, people would come and support it. I mean, we “You can hone your senses and stopped the war in Vietnam. We have a very rich life,” said Rieux, had this strong sense of an idealistic who founded Mala’ai, a similar world we could create ourselves.” school garden/kitchen project at Waimea Middle School on the Big It is that idealism, and that sense of Island of Hawaii in 2005. adventure, that unites the mission of Alice Waters with the goals of CASFS, said Daniel Press, CASFS Fringe to executive director and the Olga T. Griswold Professor of Environmental mainstream is

l Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Since Waters started out, terms “If CASFS is the mothership of

arsa like “organic” have gone from California organic agriculture, Alice fringe to ultra-mainstream. Waters is the matriarch of California This is encouraging, she said— anda m chefs,” Press said. “UC Santa Cruz’s

m though a little disarming at times. Farm & Garden and Chez Panisse She finds it striking “that I am con- both recognized early on the impor- sidered completely unusual,” she tance of sourcing food locally and said, even though, in her opinion, establishing strong connections hotos by a she’s merely espousing “common p between growers, restaurants, local sense.” grocers, schools, and consumers. She said that the fact that she stands “And of course, Alice Waters and out as much as she does suggests CASFS have long insisted that our that “fast-food culture has really food should be grown in harmony become the way people think, and it with nature, based on sound agro- has changed the whole world.” ecological principles, and with the strongest commitment to justice in But Waters is not at all hopeless “We have to learn about farming Waters in the our food systems,” Press said. about the future of good food in when we’re little, not when we’re dining room of America. She is excited about ef- graduates,” she said. the restaurant forts such as the UC Global Food she opened in Articulate, humble, Initiative, which aims to put UC “It’s in our DNA to love nature, 1971. forceful campuses, the state, and the world and it doesn’t take long for chil- on a pathway to sustainably and dren to feel connected to the natu- Waters is an “articulate, humble, and nutritiously feed themselves. ral world and the cycle of planting, forceful voice, speaking out at a time growing, and eating healthful But the battle, she said, must be of a huge rise in food corporatiza- and delicious food,” said Waters, fought early on, and in the public tion,” said Amanda Rieux, a 1998 who has vivid memories of eating school system, where children can CASFS apprentice and one of the tomato salad and strawberry com- learn to appreciate and grow high- early garden teachers at the Edible pote that came straight from her quality food. Schoolyard. “The perspective Alice parents’ garden. It was a taste that To read our lends to the world is that every- She is already doing this with her drew her into the world of food Q&A with Alice thing about food matters—where Edible Schoolyard Project, in which and that, even now, reconnects Waters, visit it comes from, how it is grown, the students at Martin Luther King Jr. her to the spirit of childhood. variety, the season—that carefully Middle School in Berkeley use a one- news.ucsc. “If children grow something and edu/2015/08/ engaged and loving attention to what acre organic garden and “kitchen cook it themselves, they will want alice-waters-q- we put in our bodies.” classroom” to learn every aspect of to eat it,” she said. “It’s like falling and-a.html. growing, harvesting, and cooking in love.” seasonal vegetables and fruit.

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Life, realized Alumni authors give voice to transformative experiences at UC Santa Cruz that changed their lives and shaped their careers

24 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 25 Looking back on our college careers, some of us remember certain pivotal moments that redirected us and shaped our futures, clarified an issue that puzzled us and troubled our sleep, or challenged us to examine our assumptions. ’70s For this issue of Review magazine, we’ve asked a group of five distinguished alumni writers—one for every decade of UC Santa Cruz’s existence—to reflect on some of those moments that changed their lives.

mouthing off about how stupid Along the same lines, Weschler Plato’s Republic was. ‘No wonder relates how once, when studying Socrates wins all these argu- with Marine Biology Professor ments,’ I declared. ‘The people Todd Newberry, he presented him- he is arguing with are a bunch of self during office hours, flounder- doofuses!’ Harry looked over at me ing over some over-broad essay and said, ‘The thing of it is, Ren, assignment. that Plato is a genius and you are “Newberry advised, ‘Were you to a freshman, and he is playing you be walking on a beach and come like a piano. Maybe you should try

ey upon a dead walrus and wonder to make out to the music. Does why it had died, you could do one it occur to you that as far as Plato of two things. You could pick up a was concerned, the tragedy of piece of driftwood and start bash- Socrates’s life was that he never ing its flanks, and all you would do found someone to talk to—a wor- is make a complete hash of things. thy interlocutor—in his lifetime? Or you could take that same stick, Lawrence Weschler And that the dialogues were sent go over to a boulder, pick up a nonfiction author, former out into the future in search of stone and spend several hours someone for him to have a conver- sharpening the stick, at the end of

ustration by david hockn staff member New Yorker sation with.’

ll which you would have a blade— r i Asked to recall a hinge moment, That was a pretty good lesson to thanks to which within minutes all le Lawrence (Ren) Weschler (Cowell hear one’s first week in college— would become clear.’

sch for starters that you should not e ‘74, philosophy, Western civiliza- He paused and continued: ‘When assume that you necessarily know ; w tion), a much-praised author of nar- you are dealing with huge, amor- rative nonfiction and formerNew more than these masters, but phous issues, don’t ask huge, amor- Yorker staff member, offered up more to the point, that you should phous questions. Spend 95 percent two classics. always read actively, both read and of your time honing the questions, monitor how you are reading and ordon situ after which the topic will open itself “My first week at Cowell College, how you are being read. Which in a seminar for the Western Civ up to you.’ Another lesson I regularly proved a good life lesson, whether take to heart to this day.” core course with 12 of us students engaging texts, or, later on, any

hoto by g being led by Harry Berger, I was sort of reportorial situation.” p

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Collective)—and I wrote, for the To see what war looked like, in first time in my life, very long es- person, as a 19-year-old was says and papers. outrageous. The refugee camps, Back then, you might write a 40- bombed homes, towns made un- page final paper for a class. I hacked inhabitable because of land mines ’80s these out on my typewriter, and were fundamentally disturbing. I then in the computer lab where was aggravated that there was very something called ‘word processing’ little public awareness about this. was being introduced to us, on com- Conn told me 30 years ago I had puters that were so big we weren’t ‘enormous potential as a profes- even in the same room with them. sional journalist.’ And then when we were done we’d No one had ever said anything like drive or bike into town to celebrate, that to me. I believed him, and still and then ride back, up to the mead- work to live up to his belief in me.” ows and the forests.”

Hector Tobar Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author ’90s For Hector Tobar (Oakes ‘85, Latin American studies/sociology), now a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author, there were many decisive moments—and they started hap- pening from the minute he set foot on campus as a 17-year-old in 1980. “I’d grown up in a very flat, very dry series of Los Angeles neighbor- Martha Mendoza hoods—from the inner-city to the Pulitzer Prize–winning AP suburbs,” he said. “I was awed by the landscape of the campus, with reporter and author its soaring redwoods and expansive vistas. More than that, UC Santa Martha Mendoza (Kresge ‘88, Cruz was a cauldron of causes, of journalism and education), Pulitzer idealism and activism. I was a pre- Prize–winning Associated Press med major, but quickly switched to reporter and author, had an awak- the study of Latin American history, ening with personal, political, and and to the theories of injustice and professional implications. social change. Writing became my Reyna Grande “My pivot moment came when I award-winning author passion, in part because I was of- landed in Conn Hallinan’s journal- ten in small classrooms where my ism class,” she said. “He was lively professors worked hard at critiquing and engaging, and as angry as I Reyna Grande’s hinge moment and editing my papers. was about the wrongs of the world. happened during one of those longstanding UC Santa Cruz traditions: a UC Santa Cruz made me a thinker For the first time I saw work I could protest. and a writer. I spent many long do that had real meaning. hours in my apartment at Oakes I had just spent a summer visiting The future award-winning author College, and those of my friends, Central America and was really (Kresge ‘99, creative writing, film and discussing and debating ideas and perplexed by the role the U.S. was video) attended UC Santa Cruz on the how the world worked and how we playing in several small Central advice of her junior college English might make it better. I wrote for American countries. Our military teacher, who thought it would be the ‘minority’-run quarterly paper was getting involved in civil wars good for her to get out of Los Angeles TWANAS (as in Third World and and domestic issues, going well and see something new. Native American Student Press beyond humanitarian aid.

26 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue “At UC Santa Cruz, it was my first I felt different after that day. I had By the time he left to travel in New time being immersed in nature. The more confidence in myself. I was Zealand and Indonesia after gradu- redwood forest offered peace and more determined than ever to get a ating, UC Santa Cruz had provided a tranquility to my troubled spirit. I college education and really make a focus and framework for those jour- had left a home where I had been difference in my family, my Latino neys. “On those trips, I didn’t bring physically and emotionally abused community, and my country.” a camera. If I wanted to remember by my father. In my dorm at Kresge anything, I had to write it down.” College, I was free from the abuse. Looking back, he is grateful for I finally felt liberated, and the beauti- Hallinan and another alumna and ful surroundings helped me heal faculty member, lecturer and stu- from my psychological traumas. It dent media adviser Susan Watrous was there where I began to flourish. (Kresge ‘87, American studies), for When I chose to live at Kresge, I didn’t encouraging him to write. know that most Latino students (there ’00s “When I was away, I’d send them weren’t many of us back then) were stories. Nine months later, I came at Oakes College! Coming from L.A. back to join the soccer team for pre- where the Latino population is 50 per- season in Brazil. I wrote a feature cent, it was a shock to me to find my- story for the school paper about the self as the minority. Often in my lit- trip, which was the first piece I ever erature and creative writing classes at had published. I guess what I’m Kresge, I was the only Latina student. getting at is that though UC Santa One day, as I was heading to class, Cruz no longer had a formal journal- one of my roommates—a Caucasian ism program [the program ended in girl—asked me why I wasn’t down at 2003], there were ways to develop e Hahn Hall with my people, protesting as a nonfiction writer anyway; with them. I didn’t know what she that is why we have such a long rand was talking about and I insisted that I

; g and wonderful list of alumni writ- a needed to get to class. But she took z ers—Martha Mendoza, New Yorker me by the arm and dragged me to staff writer Bill Finnegan, Lawrence ndo Hahn Hall because she said I needed ordon situ Weschler, etc. to support my people in their protest.

as me Later, I wrote a story for City on a Hill

m When I arrived, I was in for a shock. ge by g about noted author and magazine a There they were, the Latino students. Matt Skenazy

m writer Dan Duane (Ph.D. ‘96, litera- Several hundred of them linking assistant editor, ture), also a UC Santa Cruz alum. He

a by tho hands, chanting ‘Sí Se Puede!’ [‘Yes, z Outside magazine had a job I thought sounded great—

round i We Can!’] and ‘El Pueblo Unido traveling around and writing about g ndo Jamás Será Vencido’ [‘The People Matt Skenazy (Cowell ‘08, litera- adventures for Outside, The Surfer’s ack United Will Never Be Defeated’]. ture), assistant editor at Outside Journal, and National Geographic y; me y; ; b magazine, wasn’t interested in

n They were protesting Proposition

nc Adventure. When I went to interview 209, which abolished California’s af- writing before coming to UC Santa lle ge him, he was doing something in an- u Cruz. But when he arrived on firmative action program, a program other room, but told me to look out le a that had benefited me. campus, he found out that Conn a the window and write down what I p Hallinan, who so greatly influenced elle m , o That day I suddenly didn’t feel alone alumna Martha Mendoza, was saw so I would have a scene to set anymore at seeing all those Latino the article in. and about to teach his last class on m students. And as I joined hands campus. Also, Hallinan was a fam- Of course, I started the story with with them I silently thanked my zy by dani ily friend (Skenazy’s father is Paul him telling me to look out the e nor

na roommate for bringing me there. I

e Skenazy, a UC Santa Cruz profes- window. So those trips, my experi- found it incredible that a non-Latina sor emeritus of literature). ences at UC Santa Cruz, and Dan atric

y; sk y; had held me accountable and made r “For those reasons alone, I figured taught me to look out windows, so H me support my people! That first

d to speak.”

U protest showed me that we all have I should take it,” Skenazy said. ar by p b a voice, and that together, we need “The class changed everything.” to speak up for the injustices that S: to

ran cha we see in the world. m hoto p by i

Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 27 An Alumni Weekend to remember y h p ra

Alumni Weekend in April cele- alumni wines and beers, g brated and honored UC Santa and each other’s company. hoto

Cruz’s 50th anniversary in fit- The weekend included TEDx z p Visit 50years. tingly grand style. A record- Santa Cruz; a keynote by M. e kurt v

ucsc.edu/alumni breaking crowd of thousands Sanjayan (Ph.D. biology, ‘97), e weekend2015 for enjoyed a farm-style lunch al an event recap host of the groundbreaking S by st and more photos. fresco overlooking Monterey new PBS nature series EARTH

Bay, tours and scavenger hoto And mark your A New Wild; lectures by leg- p calendars to help hunts, musical performances, endary professors Bettina UC Santa Cruz reunions, presentations, start out its next Aptheker and Craig Haney; 50 years with a alumni panels; and more. bang at Alumni Weekend 2016— April 29–May 1.

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In its first 50 years, UC Santa Cruz has produced a body of alumni who have taken the lessons they learned here—risk-taking, creative thinking, intellectual curiosity, a passion for social justice—and made their mark on the world. With these representative profiles, we recognize and celebrate all of our outstanding alumni, who are evidence that life is, really, a joyful and eternal pursuit of knowledge in the company of friends.

Paul Sparrow: Championing the First Amendment 1977

Paul Sparrow during his thesis concert at UC Santa Cruz in 1977, and on the set of America’s Most Wanted.

Editor’s Note: In June, Sparrow was appointed as the new director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and As a successful TV producer, “It’s an extraordinary facility that Museum, starting Paul Sparrow helped catch murder- tells an important story,” said helped develop a music guild, which July 26. ers and child abductors. He guided Sparrow (Porter ‘77, music), who supported numerous concerts on The Roosevelt a 100-person production team serves as the Newseum’s senior campus. He earned a graduate de- Library is one of across the wilds of Morocco to vice president for broadcasting and gree at the Center for Contemporary 13 Presidential document one of the world’s tough- new media. “The First Amendment Music at Mills College in Oakland Libraries, which est adventure races. He directed has never been more critical.” but discovered after graduation that house the records electronic music wasn’t exactly a more than a dozen documentaries Television and the First Amendment of Presidents profitable line of work. Herbert Hoover and 300 hours of primetime TV, and were the furthest things from through George won two Emmys. Sparrow’s mind when he came to His trajectory changed when he was W. Bush and pre- But ask the 61-year-old Sparrow UC Santa Cruz in 1975. Instead, hired to work as a sound engineer serve and provide for a documentary film about ele- access to histori- about the accomplishment of which the East Coast transplant wanted cal materials, sup- he is most proud and he’ll skip all to study electronic music, and the phant seals at Año Nuevo State Park. port research, and talk about awards and primetime coastal campus was one of the “(UC Santa Cruz Professor of create interactive TV. Instead, he’ll tell you about be- few colleges that not only owned a Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) programs and ing part of the team that helped Moog synthesizer but also taught it. Burney Le Boeuf was the first guy exhibits. design the Newseum, a museum Inspired by luminaries like Music I worked with,” Sparrow remem- of news and journalism that draws Professor Gordon Mumma and vis- bered. “In a way, I went full circle 750,000 annual visitors to its its by avant-garde artists like John because that’s how I got into film site on Pennsylvania Avenue in Cage and Roger Reynolds, Sparrow and T V.” Washington, D.C.

30 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 31 Sparrow moved steadily through the a new father, and the grueling largest program to support the First television ranks after that first two- schedule that included 60-hour Amendment in the world.” year project: from KPIX TV in San workweeks and months-long Now working on a new exhibit about Francisco to co-executive producer stretches of travel was wearing thin. the press and the Vietnam War, for Fox’s America’s Most Wanted He shifted gears again, and was and updating an older FBI display, to executive producer of How’d hired as part of the team that de- Sparrow said he is struck by the im- They Do That, and, finally, senior signed and built the Newseum at its pact of the Newseum on its visitors. producer of the Emmy-winning current location. There were exhibits He sees people walking out of the Eco-Challenge: Morocco on the to plan, scripts to write, documen- 9/11 gallery with tears in their eyes Discovery Channel, the brainchild of taries to make. One of Sparrow’s and watches visitors standing en- reality-TV guru Mark Burnett. films—a look at the media’s cover- thralled by the photos in the exhibit “I found that making film and pro- age of the Holocaust while it was dedicated to Pulitzer Prize winners. ducing television has the same com- occurring—won him an Emmy nomi- “One of the things I learned at UC ponents of music,” Sparrow said. nation and CINE Golden Eagle and Santa Cruz was to follow your pas- “It’s an ensemble sport. It’s all about New York Festivals awards. sion,” Sparrow said. “Committing team. It has cadence and tempo. A “Our mission is to champion the five myself to something I’m passionate lot of structural issues around story- freedoms of the First Amendment,” about is what has laid the foundation telling are very similar to music.” said Sparrow, who is considered an for everything I’ve accomplished.” But by 1999, Sparrow had become expert in new media. “We are the By Peggy Townsend

Barbara Garcia: Health mission

When Barbara Garcia was 23 “It’s a big job. It’s a fun job,” said

1984 and working to organize a free- Garcia, 59, who directs a depart- lunch program for families living in ment with a $2 billion budget and migrant farmworker camps, she 8,000 employees. “Every day is came to a realization. incredible.”

arcia “I would walk through the camps Garcia grew up in a blended family and see that the people who were of 18 children. Her father worked in feeding us were going hungry, the Long Beach shipyards and her and I associated that with a lack mom worked in the defense indus- of food security and also a danger try. It was there, in the beachside arrow and g p to health,” said Garcia (Oakes ‘84, city known for its port and aircraft , s community studies). industry, that Garcia got her first taste of community organizing. So, five years later, when the opportunity came to help start Salud At 14, she found a job in a food Para La Gente, a tiny health clinic for pantry at a neighborhood center. m Morrison

ia those same low-income residents “It gave me a great perspective on ll in Watsonville, Garcia gave up her how to work with people in need,” goal of being a teacher and jumped said Garcia, who was the first in at the chance. Little did she know y of wi her family to graduate from college. s e where that decision would lead. “The one thing I learned was how Watsonville, damaging its hospital, Today, Garcia oversees 20 health to give respect to people who were Garcia, then director of the Salud clinics, two hospitals, and hun- seeking basic needs.” Para La Gente clinic, threw open : court the facility’s doors. Residents dreds of programs in her role as It’s a lesson that has guided her life head of San Francisco’s mammoth flocked to her tiny center to receive hotos and her career. medical care, food, and cloth- p Department of Public Health. In 1989, when a 6.9-magni- ing—10,000 people in all. tude earthquake roared through

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When Garcia came to San serves 120,000 patients as part of of the city she now calls home. Francisco as director of home- the Affordable Care Act, to providing “One thing I tell my executives is less services, she helped start mental health services, and manag- that they can’t get lost in their own an all-day triage-like event called ing more than 2,000 units of housing. power dynamics. We have to keep Homeless Connect. There, volun- She has lofty goals, like reducing to the mission we are here for, and teers and staff linked those living HIV deaths and transmissions in that is to improve the health of San on the streets to services they San Francisco to zero, and sustain- Franciscans,” Garcia said. “We re- needed—everything from finding ing a health network that will keep ally have to focus on who we are an apartment to getting a new pair the two hospitals under her care here to serve.” of glasses. The program has now strong and financially healthy. been modeled in 56 cities. Little known fact: During her free But for Garcia, it’s always about the time, San Francisco Public Health Sitting in her office overlooking community she serves—whether Department Director Barbara San Francisco City Hall, Garcia ran it was during her years at UC Santa Garcia trains and competes as a through a dizzying list of programs Cruz where she was exposed to powerlifter. The 5-foot Garcia can her department supervises: every- the needs of farmworkers and low- deadlift 320 pounds. thing from restaurant inspections income residents or on the streets to running a health network that By Peggy Townsend Kris Perry: Standing for equality

Kris Perry doesn’t think about the 1986 way historians will tell her story. Instead, the 1986 Merrill College graduate with degrees in sociology and psychology thinks how life will be different for children nationwide because of what she did. Perry was the named plaintiff in a Kris Perry, left, lawsuit that challenged, and eventu- and wife Sandy ally overturned, Proposition 8, a 2008 Stier were the California constitutional amendment named plaintiffs banning same-sex marriages. The in a lawsuit that decision opened the door for same- challenged, sex unions in the state. and eventually Her effort also was part of the overturned, groundswell that led to a landmark Proposition 8, a decision by the United States 2008 California Supreme Court in June, legalizing constitutional same-sex marriage nationwide. Her amendment ban- case, Hollingsworth vs. Perry, pro- ning same-sex vided a foundation for other district marriages. court cases and for the marriage- rights movement in general. In addition, the public education she lieved that we now live in a country “We are thrilled for our family and engaged in was part of the change in where everyone can be married,” for all the families across the coun- public opinion that led to more accep- Perry said after the ruling.“We’ve try who can celebrate their love tance of gay marriage nationwide. both experienced not only the joy and connection today.” of marriage these past two years “Sandy (Stier, Perry’s wife and Born in Bakersfield, Calif., Perry but also the sense of permanence always felt like she was different. co-plaintiff) and I are elated and re- and protection marriage provides.

32 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 33 She just wasn’t sure why until she It was not a hard decision, said “Future generations won’t be limited came to UC Santa Cruz. Perry, although she knew it would the way I was,” said Perry from her put her family, including the couple’s Washington, D.C., office where she “The middle of my freshman year, I four children, under scrutiny. What advocates for early childhood educa- started to figure it out,” Perry said. was difficult, she said, was the pres- tion. “I felt shame about who I was “I felt very supported as a person, sure of having to represent an entire partially because of the laws (regard- and I found my voice, and how to group of people with her story “in an ing same-sex marriage) that were in be committed to a cause, and to put authentic and useful way.” place. Those laws will be ancient his- myself in situations where I made a tory before kids today are old enough difference. All the values that were On June 26, 2013, the U.S. to fall in love.” emblematic of UC Santa Cruz were Supreme Court declined to overturn perfect for me at the time.” a lower-court decision that declared Today, Perry is executive director the amendment unconstitutional, of the First Five Years Fund, an In 2004, she married her longtime and Perry got a call from President advocacy group promoting early partner, Stier, at a ceremony at San Barack Obama telling her he was childhood education, and is happily Francisco City Hall. “A couple of proud of what she had done. settled with Stier in the nation’s months later, we got a letter from capital. the City of San Francisco saying Two days later, after the lower they had to rescind the marriage,” court unexpectedly lifted its stay But it’s not hard for Perry to sum- Perry remembered. “They’d at- of the ruling, Perry and Stier were mon the memory of the early days tached the $35 check we’d paid married in a rushed ceremony at when she felt shame, when she for the marriage license. That really San Francisco City Hall. was bombarded by the judgments of others because of who she was. was a punch to the gut.” “I was elated, overwhelmed, Four years later, Prop. 8 passed and excited, happy, and a little bit in “I expended a huge amount of Perry was asked if she and Stier shock,” said Perry of her marriage. emotional energy just to feel OK or would be plaintiffs in a federal law- “I probably felt as happy as I have to be OK when other people were suit challenging the same-sex mar- ever felt except for the day the boys using their energy for totally dif- riage ban. Perry was working for ce- (her twin sons) were born.” (The ferent things like their careers and lebrity activist Rob Reiner on early couple’s two other children are relationships,” Perry said. “I spent childhood education at the time. Stier’s from a previous marriage.) my life in a defensive posture.” hts g i By Peggy Townsend l R Melissa Nelson: Revitalizing native cultures oundation for Equa

1991 Melissa Nelson believes the best University and is the president of After graduation, Nelson explored rican F ways to teach Native American the Cultural Conservancy, a Bay various nonprofit organizations in youth about their cultural past is Area organization that is involved the Pacific Northwest, and in 1992 through their hearts and minds, as in indigenous rights and the food started volunteering for the Cultural y of Ame

s well as their stomachs. Now she is justice movement, re-connecting Conservancy. She went on to earn e using traditional and ancient teach- Native Americans with healthy a Ph.D. from UC Davis in ecol- ings, crops, and food practices as “heritage foods.” ogy with an emphasis on Native American studies. a way of increasing their pride and “We are making sure that these health, and diminishing their reli- foods and plants are accessible to In 1993 she became the first Native Photo court ance on junk foods. people who need them,” Nelson American executive director at the Nelson (College Eight ‘91, envi- said. Cultural Conservancy. Through education and activism, she works hard ronmental studies), is a Native She credits her time at UC Santa to inspire and train youth. “Most American activist and scholar trav- Cruz with blending her diverse native youth are living in urban com- eling the world to educate, inspire, interests in biology, ecology, and munities and are cut off from their and learn from indigenous cultures. religious studies with her strong in- traditional lands,” said Nelson. She teaches American Indian terest in social justice. “I found my studies at San Francisco State kin at UC Santa Cruz,” said Nelson.

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34 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 35 Nelson is working to revive interest “Melissa has influenced me in Sustainable Future (2008), features Left: Melissa in tribal food traditions—and many many ways. She has motivated three of her essays and focuses on Nelson is of her former students, including me to be an active participant in the persistence of traditional eco- surrounded by Trevor Ware, now an intern at the revitalizing our cultures, and she logical knowledge in contemporary artifacts in her Cultural Conservancy, are taking really demonstrates how to do this native communities. She is cur- office at San her lessons to heart. He now grows through the numerous projects she rently editing a book on traditional Francisco State Native American food and medicine is involved in,” said Ware. ecological knowledge and sustain- University. ability, which will be published by at the College of Marin. His harvest The Cultural Conservancy also Cambridge University Press. includes heirloom tomatoes, corn, teaches traditional native cooking, and soap plants, which are being which blends stories and histories In 2005, Nelson was the co-pro- distributed in urban areas in Oakland along with lessons in basket weav- ducer of the award-winning docu- and San Francisco. ing, canoe making, and woodwork. mentary film,The Salt Song Trail:

“For me, learning how to plant, Nelson’s work in academia is also Bringing Creation Back Together, and produces other media through tend, and harvest these plants is part of her mission to revive inter- the Cultural Conservancy. of the utmost importance,” Ware est in Native American history and said. “When I lived among my peo- culture. When she arrived at the Nelson has served on the boards ple in Oklahoma I saw that the vast San Francisco State University 13 of numerous environmental or- majority of them ate whatever Wal- years ago, she was the only full- ganizations including Earth Island Mart had to offer, or a dollar store, time American Indian studies pro- Institute and Bioneers, and her ac- or, even worse, the food at conve- fessor. She’s helped to rebuild the tivism and teaching have taken her nience stores in gas stations.” department to include four other to Bolivia, Paraguay, Australia, and Ware is just one of many students full-time native faculty. New Zealand. who came to San Francisco State Nelson is a regular contributor to “I’ve really worked to integrate my to study American Indian studies academic journals. Her first edited academic and activist work in a re- and went on to work with cultural anthology, Original Instructions— ciprocal way,” she said. revitalization. Indigenous Teachings for a By Amy Ettinger Devin Hibbard: g r

be Beads and blessings in e

s st Devin Hibbard was walking through “She and all her children worked le

1995 the slums of Uganda when she saw in the quarry,” said Hibbard. Millie a woman named Millie sitting on made the beads in hopes of making her front stoop rolling trash paper a little extra money for her family, as into tight little beads. did other women in the slum.

ard by char At the time, Hibbard (College Eight Hibbard bought a few necklaces and bb ‘95, community studies) had already began wearing them around town, ; hi been exposed to crushing poverty. where their inventive and flashy de- on

p She’d spent time in the field in India signs got noticed right away. Before as part of her undergraduate thesis she and her mother left Uganda helping women in poverty. When they bought a necklace from each she saw Millie’s resourcefulness, of the 100 women who lived in mud she just had to learn her story. homes in the slum. nastaciia sa Hibbard discovered that Millie had “We didn’t have any experience fled to the slums during the civil war. selling products,” Hibbard said.

son by A The only way to make any significant “We just wanted to create some el money in the city was to use dyna- economic activity.” : n mite to blow up rock in a quarry, then After returning home to the U.S., break up the pieces by hand, using Hibbard hosted an event at home to

Photos hammers and other tools. try and sell the beads. It was so

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popular that Hibbard decided to move Hibbard marvels at the impact the made of recycled paper in Uganda back to Uganda to form Bead for Life, organization has had on Millie’s and around the world. an international nonprofit organization neighborhood. “We really created a cottage indus- that helps women lift themselves out “It has transformed the community,” try,” Hibbard said. of poverty by becoming self-sustain- said Hibbard. Children who weren’t ing entrepreneurs. This fall, Bead for Life is launching being fed three times a day now a global initiative. “Our goal is to “My experience at UC Santa Cruz, have access to healthy meals, and reach 1 million women around the and specifically with community 98 percent of the children of women world,” said Hibbard. studies, was formative in creating enrolled in the program are in school. my desire to do work that mat- Meanwhile Hibbard continues to The nonprofit has reached more travel worldwide so she can get a ters and makes the world a better than 40,000 people in Uganda. place,” said Hibbard. close-up view of the potentials and Women have started 2,290 micro- struggles of communities across Women enrolled in the Bead for Life businesses as a result of the Bead the globe. program commit to an 18-month for Life training, which offers more training program where they learn than just business know-how. It She met her husband, Mark Jordahl bead-making as well as entrepre- also encourages these women to (Stevenson ‘93, Chinese religious neurial skills and business savvy. have a greater sense of themselves studies), while they were enrolled at and realize that a life outside of ex- UC Santa Cruz. The pair is commit- Bead for Life has grown expo- treme poverty is within their grasp. ted to spending time outside of the nentially during its 10-year exis- United States and exposing their tence so far. It got a big boost in “We help poor women become two sons to the wider world. November 2004, when O maga- self-sustaining entrepreneurs,” said zine ran a 250-word article about Hibbard. “Access to money is not “My 8-year-old lived about half of the organization, and helped trans- the biggest barrier. Access to con- his life in Uganda and is constantly form it into a phenomenon. fidence is.” lobbying to move back,” laughed Hibbard. “We sold $90,000 worth of beads The group’s success has inspired in six weeks,” Hibbard said. These others to follow suit. Now 100 “If you don’t get out,” she contin- days, Bead for Life sells about $2 other nonprofit groups and for- ued, “you have no perspective of million worth of jewelry and other profit businesses are selling beads life in the U.S.” items per year. By Amy Ettinger Tlaloc Rivas: Opening doors through theater 1995

The 2007 story of Johanna Orozco “Her story coincided with my haunted director/playwright Tlaloc desire to upgrade the narrative of Rivas for more than six years. Latinos in the U.S.,” said Rivas, a professional director and play- The 18-year-old Orozco, an orphan wright and an assistant professor raised by her grandparents in a of theater at the University of Iowa. tough part of Cleveland, Ohio, had “The current narrative in pop cul- been shot in the face by an abusive ture, the media, and Hollywood is ex-boyfriend. She survived months that we are only represented by of surgery and grueling rehabilita- what we do in society. We are only tion, then went on to inspire a recognized as people who pick the change in Ohio law that gave more crops or clean houses or cook in protections to teens in abusive re- the kitchens or do your landscap- lationships. ing. We are much more than that in this country.”

36 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 37 In May, Rivas (Stevenson ‘95, the- back to school to become a nurse. considered pursuing the craft.” ater arts) directed his original play Rivas planned to study history and Besides teaching, Rivas’s theater based on Orozco’s life, Johanna: political science in college, but an work takes him around the country. Facing Forward for Cleveland Public acting class at Cabrillo College re- His work has been seen in Chicago, Theater—a proud moment that has sulted in the discovery of his true Los Angeles, New York, and other taken him from Watsonville High passion. After an internship with El venues. In September he was set to School to UC Santa Cruz and finally Teatro Campesino, Rivas and three direct the original play In Love and to his role as a prominent voice in other students went on to found Warcraft for the Halcyon Theatre the world of Latino/Latina theater. Chicano Theatreworks, which con- Company in Chicago, and in 2016 “In my career, I have had one foot tinues to stage plays today. he will direct Prospect by his friend Octavio Solis for the Boundless in the classical world, but also a foot Still, it wasn’t until his senior year Theatre Company in New York. in social activism and in theater that at UC Santa Cruz that Rivas was changes minds and hearts—one able to overcome doubts about his But even as society becomes more that creates a dialogue between life’s calling. diverse, Rivas said, the theater art and the audience,” Rivas said world, especially major companies, “I chose to direct a play, The in a telephone interview from his is only beginning to make room for Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa part-time home in Iowa City, Iowa. Latinos and Latinas. He also lives in Pittsburgh where by Luis Valdez,” Rivas recalled. his wife, Megan Rivas, teaches at Inspired by UC Santa Cruz Professor He is determined to change that. Carnegie Mellon University. of Theater Arts Kathy Foley’s work “I want to be able to make an im- with Southeast Asia theater, he Rivas’s interest in social activism pact for others,” he said. “I want added an element of Bunraku, tradi- to be able to update the narratives runs deep. His father, a school tional Japanese puppet theater, to counselor, not only served as of where I came from, my culture, his production. He won numerous my background, and to advocate mayor of the farming town of awards for his work. Watsonville but he also founded a for others. night school for migrant workers in “If I hadn’t gotten that validation,” “I want to open doors.” Vista, California. His mother went he said, “I’m not sure I would have By Peggy Townsend

Akiva Schaffer: It’s all funny business for Saturday Night Live alum

The six-lane boulevard in front

2000 of Akiva Schaffer’s crummy Los Angeles apartment gave off a

r freeway-like roar, a backbeat to the e old cars he and his two roommates drove, the canned chili they ate, the dead-end jobs they worked, and the comedy shorts they churned out at night, in which they were

ivas and schaff writers, actors, and directors. Little did Schaffer (Oakes ’00, film)

y of R know, but those nights with his high s e school buddies—Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone—were actually prep work for a career that would : court lead them to a stint on Saturday Night Live, a series of iconic music hotos

p video parodies, movie credits, and

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even a role as cultural touchstones he drove to his Los Angeles office Jonah Hill, and Vince Vaughn. for the Internet era. from his Hollywood Hills home. He, Taccone, and Samberg are “We were putting ourselves The plan worked. now working on a music-centric film acquired by Universal and pro- through boot camp without any In 2005, Schaffer and Taccone were idea of what we were doing it duced by Judd Apatow. The three hired as writers for Saturday Night for,” Schaffer said of those years, are writing the script and music, Live while Samberg (who studied and Schaffer and Taccone will co- which became the genesis for the at UC Santa Cruz 1996–98) got direct—just like old times. now-famous Lonely Island comedy an acting spot on the show. That troupe he started with Samberg December, the trio created a rap par- “It’s all good when we’re apart (for and Taccone. “We were training ody video titled “Lazy Sunday,” about different projects), but when we ourselves for the jobs we got.” a couple of lame guys planning to get get back together and start work- Born in Berkeley of transplanted some cupcakes and go to a Sunday ing, that’s our thing,” Schaffer said. New York parents, Schaffer was afternoon matinee of The Chronicles “It’s always clear then that we’re at a “shrimpy, short, white guy in a of Narnia. The video was broadcast our best and doing what we’re sup- school that was not full of shrimpy, on SNL. It was also posted on what posed to be doing.” short, white guys,” he said. He, was then a little-known, video-shar- Little known fact: The name Lonely Samberg, and Taccone bonded ing site called YouTube. Island came when Jorma Taccone over their mutual shrimpy-ness and Five million views made “Lazy brought the video Cat on a Hot Tin their love of movies like The Jerk, Sunday” the first viral video. The Roof to the trio’s low-rent apart- Austin Powers, and Airplane. phenomenon was arguably a tip- ment on a noisy Los Angeles street. After he graduated from UC Santa ping point for YouTube, and also Samberg and Schaffer made fun of Cruz—where Schaffer studied com- pushed traditional broadcast media Taccone for being so theatrical. He puter science for two years and also, into the digital age. left, and the pair watched the movie, inspiring Schaffer to write a prank he said, received a good grounding in The Lonely Island went on to pro- Tennessee Williams one-act play filmmaking—the three friends moved duce more parody videos, was with lots of overwrought analogies, to Los Angeles, resisted the lure of nominated for three Grammys, and metaphors, and drinking. Schaffer sitcom-writing jobs, and churned out saw the men also branch out into called it refer- overnight comedy videos. their own careers. Samberg be- The Lonely Island, ring to their apartment, which was “We didn’t mind being broke and came a movie and TV star, Taccone located in a sea of speeding traffic. really wanted to take a shot at hav- went on to direct the movie The name stuck for both the apart- ing our own voice the way Monty MacGruber, and Schaffer directed ment and the group. Python or the Zucker brothers or feature films, including the 2012 Woody Allen did,” said Schaffer, as The Watch, starring Ben Stiller, By Peggy Townsend swatch / n Cody Townsend: Steep thrills e ns ge It’s almost impossible to breathe At the end of the clip Townsend de- r ö

for the full minute-and-a-half video clares: “That was the scariest thing e j

that shows Cody Townsend hurtle I’ve ever done.” But the 31-year-old ak himself on skis through a narrow is planning for even more adrena- 2007 crevice on an insanely steep, rug- line-inducing adventures. ht bl g ged Alaska mountain. Townsend (College Ten ‘07, linguis- ri Townsend broke the Internet earlier tics) has some advice for skiers py this year with his 90-second YouTube who want to improve: “Go ski with nd co

clip, entitled “Most insane ski line people who are better than you. e ever,” from the ski movie Days of My Surround yourself with people you Youth. To date, the clip has received can learn from.” more than 8.5 million hits. Part of the thrill from watching that y towns

The stunt earned the free-skier the video is the sense that the ter- : cod “Best Line” prize for the best ski rifying ski run was spontaneous, line at the 2014 Powder Awards. as if he put on a pair of skis and

jumped down the mountain. But Photos

38 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 39 Townsend’s approach was me- thodical, not impulse. “It was a five-year process of preparation,” he said. The Santa Cruz native grew up near the waves, but it was always the slopes that captured his heart and imagination. His parents own a cabin in Squaw Valley. Townsend’s first memories involve skiing. “I knew what I was going to do my whole life,” he said. “I was obsessed with skiing from the time I was 6.” The immense popularity of the YouTube clip has given Townsend the freedom to pursue his own film project. That worldwide attention created its own momentum. “It was such a big thing—and people in the ski world want to see what’s next,” he said. After receiving a boost in confidence as well as notoriety, Townsend hired a cinematographer to shoot his own movie called Conquering the Useless this spring in British Columbia. Channeling the same boldness that motivated him to leap down that mountain, Townsend decided to veer away from the formula of many downhill skiing movies— which often rely on the sort of footage that some in the ski world refer to as “ski porn.” Cody Townsend “Ski porn is basically the highest takes big-moun- performance skiing in the world set tain skiing to a to music,” he said. “I wanted to new level on a step outside of that and show the vertical chute human involvement, the pure fun in the Alaska that we have as well as new forms Tordrillo of adventure in the mountain. As Mountain skiers and athletes we have our Range, earning own interpretation of the sport, himself the and I want to bring the audience “Best Line” inside those stories.” award at the 15th Townsend is also using his savvy off annual Powder the slopes. In 2010, he co-founded Awards. Visit Arcade Belt Co., with the aim of YouTube and making functional and lifestyle belts search “Cody with an athlete’s needs in mind. Townsend best Based near Lake Tahoe, the product ski line of 2014” now has national distribution. to view the clip.

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The company website includes a paying jobs and skiers don’t make unexplored areas, where you have to photo and self-effacing statement [expletive] for money.” step outside of established areas and use your own power and wit to go from Townsend, who referenced Townsend’s plans for the future further than before,” he said. “There Santa Cruz locals who made fun of include more exploration and ad- are so many more unexplored moun- him “for being so obsessed with venture, as well as pushing himself tains out there. Those are the ones the oh-so-uncool sport of skiing. to keep improving. Who’s laughing now? Well, they that are enchanting to me.” still are because they have big- “I want to keep trying to find more By Amy Ettinger Stephanie Foo: Story hunter

A couple years out of UC Santa Cruz, Stephanie Foo decided she wanted to work for the radio show This American Life. She was a frustrated journalist 2008 working as a graphic designer and, in her own words, became obsessed with the show. So, the 2008 Stevenson College graduate with a degree in modern literature did what any self-respecting UC Santa Cruz student who’d lived through the 2005 bus strike would do: She hitchhiked to the world’s biggest porn convention with a load of bor- rowed radio equipment, talked her way inside with a fake press pass, and began a podcast she called “Get Me On This American Life.” Japanese comedian who became of natural curiosity and a tough It worked. the subject of a cruel reality TV show, work ethic. She’s often at her office Even though Foo claims her first a lowly government official who was until late into the night. She also pieces were awful, she sent them picked to assume the presidency if has a strong sense of social justice, to UC Santa Cruz alumnus and all the attendees at the State of the which, she said, was nurtured dur- Public Radio International host Union address were suddenly wiped ing her years at UC Santa Cruz. Jesse Thorn (Porter ’03, American out, and a 60-year-old man with a fe- While there are plenty of successes tish for Asian women and a 30-year- studies), who introduced Foo to —This American Life has 3.6 mil- Roman Mars of 99 Invisible podcast old wife from China. lion listeners—there’s also a lot of fame. A short internship later, Foo “One of the things I care about is failure inherent in the job, Foo said. was a producer for the NPR show showing the world there are other Interviews fall through, stories come Snap Judgment, which brought her perspectives,” said Foo, 27. “I try to unraveled, pieces are rejected. to the attention of Ira Glass of This educate people to open themselves “I wasn’t good at failure for a long American Life and a full-time job. up to others and to different ideas, time because it made me feel less- “It was sort of meteoric,” Foo to make this a less binary world.” than,” Foo said. “But since I’ve admitted recently, as she sat in To that end, she spends her days been here, I’ve come to embrace her tiny Manhattan This American scouring the Internet, scrolling failure, and, every time it happens, Life office, its walls spotted with Facebook, and striking up conver- I say, ‘This is great. I just learned radio show posters and the kinds sations in a search for stories. “It’s something today.’ of letters from prison inmates that keeping your eyes open all the “One of the things this job has done journalists tend to get. time,” she said. is given me the courage to fail.” Foo’s job as a radio producer takes It helps that Foo, who was on her By Peggy Townsend her into lives she never imagined: A own by the age of 15, has a streak

40 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Tiffany Loftin: Changing the narrative around higher education

2011 Tiffany Dena Loftin met President Loftin is the youngest person on is the largest student-run and Barack Obama for the first time the commission. Her work involves student-led organization dedicated just minutes after he delivered his changing the conversation about to advocating for college students famous speech about the death of higher education in this country. in the United States. Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black “I believe education is not a privi- Loftin grew up in Los Angeles, the teenager in Florida: lege—it’s a right,” said Loftin. She’s daughter of a single mom. She is “ … this could have been my son,” been fighting for this right ever the only person in her immediate Obama told the nation. “Another since she started at UC Santa Cruz. family to graduate from college. Her way of saying that is Trayvon life story adds urgency to her mis- Martin could have been me sion and her message: “We need 35 years ago.” to change the narrative around higher education,” she said. “It When Loftin (Oakes ‘11, should not be about whether or political science), a young not college is worth it. If I hadn’t African American activist, gone to college, I don’t know met the president in the Oval where I’d be.” Office that day, she was overwhelmed and nervous, Part of her job is to confront but she managed to pull her- barriers to education including self together. costs. After all, she wanted to talk Loftin, who is currently paying with him about a pressing off her student loans, dreams civil rights issue that had of a time when no qualified been on her mind for many student defers or cancels plans years—the right for everyone for college because of financial in this country, including under- constraints. represented groups—to have Loftin’s energy and enthusiasm access to an excellent and af- seem tireless—she holds down a fordable higher education. full-time job with the labor organi- She must have made quite zation AFL-CIO and travels across an impression. In February, the country for her activism work Loftin, 26, found out that with campaigns like Freedom she had been appointed to Side and #BlackLivesMatter. the President’s Advisory She’s charismatic and talks fast Commission on Educational and efficiently. She talks with s Excellence for African Americans, During her time on campus Loftin pride about President Obama’s sug- mm which focuses on improving stu- served as Student Union Assembly gestion that she run for office. In dent achievement. president. She was also a part of spite of that glowing endorsement, she’s happiest as a grassroots orga- The commission hopes to increase the movement addressing recruit- nizer and activist. the number of African American ment and retention for students students applying to, persisting in, of color through programs like Loftin maintains contact with many oftin by ron si and successfully completing college Destination Higher Education (DHE), of the organizers she met through ; l a to ensure that the United States and hate crimes and safety toward SOAR/Student Media/Cultural Arts ll a meets the president’s 2020 goal of the black community on campus. and Diversity (SOMeCA). b r becoming the world leader in col- e “Because of hate crimes at several “A lot of the networks I work with lege graduates. UCs in 2010, it was a scary time to be today,” she said, “I built with the an d y a black woman on campus,” she said.

r The news of her appointment support and development I re- came as a big surprise to Loftin Loftin also served as president ceived at UC Santa Cruz.” since she didn’t apply to the posi- of the United States Student By Amy Ettinger tion. She found out she was in the Association (USSA) until 2013. The : foo by b running only after receiving word USSA was founded as the National from the White House. Student Association in 1946 and Photos

Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 41 Names of Fame

The names of UC Santa Cruz’s unique colleges, buildings, and centers may Cowell family After driving over the Santa Cruz seem natural and inevitable, as much Mountains on a blistering summer day, the UC Regents, scouting out a part of the campus’s landscape as its Focus possible locations for a new Central famous towering redwood trees and Coast campus, felt the cool ocean breezes on their faces. rambling meadows. But each name Up at the Cowell Ranch property, evokes a surprising story about vision- high in the foothills overlooking downtown Santa Cruz, it was just aries, benefactors, legacies, and leaders the right combination of sunshine and temperature. As legend has who shaped the vision of the campus— it, Almaden Valley in San Jose, another potential location for the cam- sometimes in obvious and direct ways, pus, was so hot and muggy that the Regents groaned in discomfort and

hilanthropy and sometimes by sheer inspiration. would speak no more about locat-

P ing the campus there. Soon the UC Santa Cruz campus began to take root at Cowell Ranch, adding a brand-new chapter for a piece of land that was already rich with history. The Cowell family had relocated from San Francisco in the late part of the 19th century, after amassing a sizable fortune during the Gold Rush. Henry Cowell bought into a lime rock company near Santa Cruz and moved his family down to the Central Coast. Cowell had six children— Roland (who lived only one year),

Ernest, Isabella, Sarah, Samuel Henry s (known as S.H. or Harry), and Helen. e Cowell Ranch became a self-con- Many of tained community with orchards, UC Santa Cruz’s a dairy, lumber yard, hay building, roads were named in honor and stables. The Cowells prospered of people whose there—and also faced tragedy. In ctions & archiv

support was vital 1903 Cowell’s daughter Sarah was lle to the founding thrown from a horse and died, giv- of the campus. ing rise to a legend that her ghost l co Pictured are (left still haunts a meadow on campus. cia to right): Frances pe

McAllister, a gen- The heartbroken Henry Cowell z s erous donor; Ella died just a few months after his Barrows Hagar, daughter. Ernest Cowell died in widow of Regent 1911, and then his sisters passed Gerald Hagar; Regent Daniel away. But S.H. lived long enough

Koshland; Sylvia to impart a strong environmental y uc santa cru s

McLaughlin, legacy that helped bring about the e widow of creation of a fledgling campus; Regent Donald instead of selling off the old ranch McLaughlin; and property, he took pains to preserve : court Virginia Meyer, widow of Regent it. A staunch environmentalist, hotos

Theodore Meyer. he deeded Cowell Beach to the p

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City of Santa Cruz, as well as the Celebration of area that became Henry Cowell Porter College Redwoods State Park. In 1955, and the Porter S.H., the last Cowell, died and Endowment in provided in his will for the creation May 2013. of the S.H. Cowell Foundation. In (The Cliff family 1961, the UC Regents purchased members are the ranch for $2 million, with the descendants Cowell Foundation donating back of Benjamin F. $900,000 of the final price. Porter.) Front row: Sheila “Harry Cowell would be delighted to Houser Cliff, Nell see all those smart, environmentally Sesnon Cliff, conscious young people at the uni- Diane Porter versity,” said Ann Alpers, president Cooley, and of the Cowell Foundation. “I can’t Molly Cliff Hilts stress enough how grateful the foun- (Molly Porter dation is to have the university be Cliff, Porter a good steward for the magnificent ‘81); Back row: land that was the Cowells’ home.” Peter Cliff, Lee H. Cliff, Daniel Porter family Cliff, Shanti Cliff The Porter family’s roots in the Porter Gulch. After marrying Kate a summer home on the original Aurell (Susan Santa Cruz area go back even fur- Hubbard, he went on to become Porter property, currently home to Harker Cliff, ther than the Cowells’; in fact, their one of the early directors of Santa Cabrillo College. Pino Alto became a Merrill ‘86), and history in the region spans more Cruz County National Bank. The place for artists and free thinkers to Paul Aurell. than 160 years. couple’s only surviving child, Mary gather, along with patrons and dig- Benjamin Porter moved to Sophia, an artist, married William T. nitaries of the day. These summer California from the East Coast Sesnon, a politician from Alameda. soirées would often go on for days. in 1851 and, with his cousin In 1911, to honor Mary’s parents, Molly Cliff Hilts is Mary’s great- George Porter, acquired the the Sesnons built the Porter-Sesnon granddaughter—and a UC Santa Soquel Tannery on what is now House (then known as Pino Alto), Cruz alumna (she was Molly Porter Cliff in her student days). “I feel a strong artistic kinship with my great-grandmother,” said Cliff Hilts (Porter ‘81, art), mentioning their shared focus on community and celebrating artists. As a student, Cliff Hilts, a Portland artist, had her first exhibition at the Sesnon Gallery in 1981, when the college was named for her great- great-grandfather. “Coincidentally, my senior show was exhibiting at the Sesnon Left: Henry and Gallery during the Porter dedica- Harriet Cowell in tion, and I remember my grandfa- front of the ther walking through the gallery Carriage House that day,” she said. “It was the first at the Cowell time he had seen my body of work Ranch. Date un- from college.” known, probably The Mary Porter Sesnon Art late 1800s. Gallery was established in 1968 with a gift from Mary’s daughter,

Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 43 Barbara Sesnon Cartan, in memory Baskin family His most significant gifts were a of her mother. Members of the Baskin family discretionary fund for the chan- have been important supporters cellor and a capital gift to build a Below: Peggy Cliff Hilts is now developing an of UC Santa Cruz since 1971. The marine mammal research center Downes Baskin exhibition that honors her great- Baskin School of Engineering and at Long Marine Lab. Each of these and Jack Baskin; grandmother through a contempo- Baskin Engineering Building are contributions was more than right: UC Santa rary lens that could tie into the gal- named in honor of engineer, retired $650,000. Cruz founding lery’s 50th anniversary in 2018. developer, and philanthropist Jack Created in 1966, the Joseph & chancellor Dean The Porter and Sesnon families have Baskin, whose gifts to the Baskin Vera Long Foundation continues to McHenry, left, and a longstanding legacy that continues School of Engineering since 1971 support the university. Joseph Long at to this day on campus. If you were total more than $10 million. a 1978 UC Santa to look through their family tree you Cruz McHenry would find UC Santa Cruz alumni While engineering has always been Library Special and recent donors to the campus, Baskin’s passion, he and his fam- Collections exhibit as well as a former UC Santa Cruz ily have given widely and gener- in honor of Long Foundation trustee and president. ously across the disciplines. The family has also contributed to the Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center, the Institute of Marine Sciences, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, feminist studies, an endowed chair in psychology, a scholarship in literature, and instruction in the arts. Since 2007, the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation has contributed $765,000 for girls in engineering and science programs, and scholarships for women from local community colleges. The foundation plans to continue contributing to humanities and feminist studies. “By supporting access to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) as well as feminist studies programs, we are highlighting the “We’ve had a good relationship intersection between these fields with UC Santa Cruz,” said Milton and the need for a comprehensive Long, grandson of Joseph and approach to creating a foundation of executive director of the Joseph human equality,” said Nicole Baran, & Vera Long Foundation. “We’ve executive director of the Peggy and wanted to continue to support the Jack Baskin Foundation. marine lab. It fits in with the foundation’s mission of conservation and Long family education in Northern California.” Joseph Long, an entrepreneur The foundation has continued to in- and founder of Longs Drugs, had vest in the development and growth a strong friendship with UC Santa of the Long Marine Lab. It helped Cruz’s founding chancellor Dean fund the building of the Seymour McHenry. Out of loyalty and friend- Marine Discovery Center with a ship, the highly successful East $250,000 capstone gift to the capi- Bay–based businessman contrib- tal campaign, and gave $250,000 uted $1.9 million to the university’s toward the Center for Ocean Health fledgling marine sciences program. and $1 million to renovate the marine mammal research center.

44 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Joseph’s son, Bob Long, continued building completed on the campus. What’s in a to give personal gifts for decades to Aside from this, Hahn—in spite of (college) name? assist the Friends of Long Marine his bashfulness—deserves remem- A quick rundown of how UC Santa Lab/Seymour Center. brance; his commitment to educa- Cruz’s colleges got their names. tion was genuine, and so was his Joe and Bob, through the Joseph Cowell College is named for Henry desire to help struggling students in Cowell and the Cowell family, former & Vera Long Foundation, also sup- need of financial assistance. owners of the Cowell Ranch property ported South and Southeast Asian that is now the site of UC Santa Cruz. studies, UC Santa Cruz’s librar- The structure now known as the Stevenson College honors Adlai E. ies, endowments for Pacific Rim Alfred Hahn Student Services Stevenson, former governor of Illinois, studies and marine sciences, the Building was completed in 1965 Democratic presidential candidate, and for $465,000. ambassador to the United Nations. He Unfortunately, the original build- was selected because of his life of public service and his dedication to the ing was doomed. In April 1971, principles of democracy. a frayed extension cord sparked the most devastating fire in UC Crown College is named after the Crown Zellerbach Paper Company, Santa Cruz history. Hahn Student which gave the initial donation to fund Services burned to the ground, the college. leaving only the concrete founda- Merrill College is named after Charles tion. But the administration wasted E. Merrill Jr., whose father, Charles E. no time in building an updated re- Merrill Sr., was the founder of wealth placement. Hahn Student Services management firm Merrill Lynch. In now houses student services of- 1968, the Charles E. Merrill Trust do- fices including general administra- nated funds for the construction of the tion, registrar, financial aid, student college. housing, and disability resources. Porter College is named for Benjamin Porter, grandfather of three University Hahn bequeathed a $1 million trust of California benefactors: Porter fund to UC Santa Cruz in 1984, cre- Sesnon, Barbara Sesnon Cartan, and ating the Leadership Opportunity William T. Sesnon. Award, which provides scholar- Kresge College was originally endowed ships for students from each of the by the Kresge Foundation. The Kresge local community colleges, and the family fortune was derived from the Hahn Scholarships, for students Kmart chain of discount department with modest academic qualifica- stores. Seymour Center’s education pro- tions who nevertheless show Oakes College was named after philan- grams, and the apprentice program evidence of having sufficient dedi- thropists Roscoe and Margaret Oakes. at the Center for Agroecology & cation, determination, and ambition Colleges Eight, Nine, and Ten are as Sustainable Food Systems. to complete a college education yet unnamed and still seeking epony- successfully given adequate finan- mous philanthropists. e cial support. askins by R.R. For information about naming a Hahn family

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COWELL COLLEGE The UCSC elementary school teacher, and camp counselor. She is ‘69 Robin Barker retired in 2012 Alumni Association the dog columnist for the after a career in libraries, mostly Los and the in Bellingham, Wash. For her Proudly celebrating the first 50 years of UC Santa Feliz Ledger Larchmont Her latest book, first post-retirement activity, Ledger. Strays, Cruz. Courageously planning for the next 50. is a novel set in Santa Cruz and she decided to take in a foster published by Ashland Creek child, a teen boy, never hav- For five decades, UC Santa Cruz alumni have been Press. She will speak about ing had children of her own—a original thinkers, rebels, visionaries, and change-makers her book at UC Santa Cruz and stressful but rewarding experi- Bookshop Santa Cruz in spring ence! with the courage to forge new and different paths. 2016. ‘71 Father James K. GRAHAM Your Alumni Association has begun its evolution toward recently celebrated his second a more inclusive community. No membership dues ‘99 Brian Patrick FARRELL is an anniversary as pastor of St. required. New networking opportunities provided. actor in Los Angeles and was in Joseph Melkite Greek Catholic Universal Pictures’ TED 2, which Church in Lansing, Mich. Connecting. Mentoring. Thriving. premiered in summer 2015. You He continues to wield the Stay tuned … change is coming! can follow him on Twitter @ red pencil (only figuratively boopityba. Learn more at alumni.ucsc.edu now) of the “Authoritarian ‘02 Sarah Mae NELSON, Grammarian” as copy editor conservation interpreter at of SOPHIA, the journal of the Lands Conservancy and the ‘90 Gregory CANILLAS is the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Melkite Greek Catholic Church Town of Davidson planning an assistant professor of was honored along with in the United States. board. He was recently part of a clinical psychology at the seven others by the White ‘72 Frank O SMITH’s novel, fulfilling project at Lowe’s that Chicago School of Professional House in February as one of Dream Singer, was published in helps to benefit communities Psychology (Los Angeles its “Champions of Change for October 2014. In manuscript, it in the Yucatan Peninsula in campus). He also serves as Climate Education and Literacy.” was a finalist for the Bellwether Mexico: www.youtube.com/ co-chair of the Commission ‘04 Elizabeth HERBERT set Prize, created by best-selling watch?v=JtARlDEU2M8 for Youth and Children (Long out April 28 on a year-long novelist Barbara Kingsolver, ‘81 Sherril BABCOCK- Beach). He presented his trip around the world, and is “in support of a literature of WELLS’s small farm in Fresno research at a number of national writing about it. Check out her social change.” In December, was certified organic in 2014 conferences over the past year website and travel blog at www. it was named a Notable by CCOF. Her husband was and is working on a book on betsyherbert.com. Book of the Year in Literary infidelity. He is co-chairing an featured in a news story about ‘06 Joey ROCCO is COO and Fiction by Shelf Unbound, EOP Reunion that will celebrate farmer/veterans. cofounder of San Diego–based the international indie book the Summer Bridge program ‘83 Peter GOLDSTEIN has been tech startup The Control review magazine. In June 2014, with classmate Laurene appointed vice president for Group. He has been a driving Sonny Days, a book that Smith DOMINGUEZ (Merrill ‘92). communications and marketing force behind the growth of the ghostwrote, was published. It’s at the Population Reference ‘91 Dyane LESHIN-HARWOOD tech culture in San Diego. The the story of a former federal Bureau in Washington, D.C. is the founder of the Depression company has sponsored many undercover narcotics agent PRB is active in analyzing and Bipolar Support Alliance events to educate youth about who became a champion of demographic data to inform (DBSA) of Santa Cruz County, coding and web development community policing. Smith lives policy and practice in health, and facilitates free support and has created numerous tech with his wife on the coast of gender, youth, inequality, and groups for women. She’s thrilled jobs in Southern California. Maine. He can be reached via the environment. Previously, he to announce that her book, Birth frankosmithstories.com. of a New Brain—Healing from ‘09 Catherine COURTIER has was with InterMedia, a global been working as a research ‘75 Sue PERRY is a disaster Postpartum Bipolar Disorder, research group active in the intern since January at the scientist at the U.S. Geological with a foreword by Dr. Walker international development field. Smithsonian Tropical Research Survey and, after long hiatus, Karraa, will be published by ‘88 Hammon P. ACUNA Institute in Panama City, has resumed writing novels Post Hill Press in fall 2016. was appointed as senior Panama, with Dr. Aaron O’Dea (currently a speculative detective vice president of business ‘98 Jennifer (CLARK) Caloyeras on a paleoecology project. series) and enjoying live music. development by the Cooperative is a novelist and short fiction She is also writing for an Her twins have launched toward of American Physicians. He writer living in Los Angeles. environmental company in med school and into parenthood. lives in Silverlake, Calif., with his Her short stories have been Santa Barbara called LoaTree. Life is good. husband, Jeff Muehl, and their published in Monday Night In June she moved to San ‘78 John KENNEDY is busy five-year-old daughter, Lola. Literary, Wilde Magazine, Diego to pursue her master’s in Davidson, N.C., serving on Storm Cellar, and Booth. She of advanced studies in marine the board of the Davidson has been a college instructor,

46 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 47 biodiversity and conservation education director for Define Board of Trial Advocacy. He and Companies & Venture Capital at the Scripps Institution of American, a media and culture his wife, Judy Rich, co-authored practice. He focuses his practice Oceanography. campaign about immigration, a novel that was published on the representation of ‘11 Halley FARWOOD went on identity, and citizenship. in 2012: The Claimers—a emerging growth companies, to a doctoral program in clinical The campaign piloted a high Tale of Skullduggery on the venture funds, and other psychology. As part of both her school curriculum on the film Backstretch. The novel was well early stage investors. Dan dissertation and a fellowship at Documented. Check it out at received by reviewers. GLUESENKAMP was recently her school, she designed and defineamerican.com. Go Slugs! ‘75 Alan B. LILLY celebrated appointed by Secretary of the produced an educational video ‘92 Timothy WEINER was his 60th birthday by rowing Natural Resources Agency game about clinical depression. commissioned as a captain in a boat 280 miles down the (and fellow alum) John LAIRD Happymart will be a free online the California State Military Grand Canyon. Pete GROSS (Stevenson ‘72) to serve on game to help people learn about Reserves, and has been provided expert advice on how the California Invasive Species depression. assigned to the Judge Advocate to run the rapids. Lorraine Advisory Committee, where General (JAG) Corps, Southern Clarke YOUNG was the 2015 he will provide advice to state Detachment, at the Los recipient of the UCLA Serge and agencies on invasive species STEVENSON COLLEGE Alamitos Joint Forces Training Yvette Dadone clinical teaching issues. Dan is executive director ‘69 Lorrie (MCCLAIN) Farrelly’s Base. In civilian life he is still award at the David Geffen of the California Native Plant novel Timelapse has won First serving as a criminal prosecutor School of Medicine. Charles Society, living in Sacramento Place in Time Travel in the 2014 with the California Department R. CALLEROS has completed with his wife and first-grade Cygnus Awards for SciFi and of Justice, Office of the Attorney his 34th year of teaching as a daughter—who just volunteered Speculative Fiction. Timelapse General. professor of law at the Sandra at a Sacramento chapter UC also won a 2014 Readers’ Santa Cruz alumni event! ‘00 Brie (WELDEN) Jensen Day O’Connor College of Law Favorite International Book was promoted to partnership at Arizona State University, ‘91 Jennifer A. JORDAN is Award and a gold medal in the with Pacifica Law Group in where he teaches contracts, a sociology professor at the 2014 Authors Cave Annual Book January. Nathan LOWENSTEIN international contracts, and civil University of Wisconsin– Awards. is managing partner of Los rights. He has published three Milwaukee. Her book, ‘70 Tom WEINER used his aka— Angeles patent litigation firm books and more than 30 law Edible Memory: The Lure Wyner—for much of his career Lowenstein & Weatherwax LLP. journal articles, is a member of Heirloom Tomatoes and (e.g., as listed on IMDB), but his The firm is changing its name of the American Law Institute, Other Forgotten Foods, came name is Weiner, as it was when from Goldberg, Lowenstein and has earned numerous out from the University of he attended UC Santa Cruz. & Weatherwax LLP to its awards for teaching and social Chicago Press in April. The justice. He and his wife Debbie book was mentioned in the New ‘75 Laurie SAIN was thrilled original name of Lowenstein once studied and performed Yorker in the “Briefly Noted” when her first book,The & Weatherwax LLP, and flamenco dance. He still plays section: www.newyorker.com/ Hidden Leader: Discover and intensifying its focus on its drums, now in an 11-piece soul magazine/2015/05/11/briefly- Develop Greatness Within Your primary practice areas of patent band, the Repeat Offenders. noted-all-involved Company (Amacom Press, infringement litigation and post- 2015), hit the No. 8 spot on the grant patent office litigation. ‘78 Dan WARRICK is the author ‘92 Ruth RABINOWITZ, a nonfiction best-seller list at the ‘09 Quinn LATHROP received of a University of California partner in Rabinowitz Family Washington Post in February. his Ph.D. in quantitative Press book called The Way Farms, finds herself serving as She sustained a concussion in psychology from the University to Make Wine—one of the the family’s point person for a fall from her horse in October, of Notre Dame in May 2015. He press’s only how-to guides. managing 10 farms in six Iowa so it took a few months before is now working as a research The book includes advice and counties as well as one farm in she could contribute to the scientist for Northwest perspective from Environmental South Dakota. book’s success, continue her Evaluation Association, an Studies Professor Daniel Press, ‘95 Suree TOWFIGHNIA’s new writing and editorial consulting educational nonprofit in executive director of the Center documentary explores the business, and, of course, get Portland, Ore. for Agrocecology & Sustainable impact of uranium mining on back on her dressage horse, Food Systems. Warrick is also the water, land, and people of Dezi. She has lived in Lander, an alumnus of the UC Santa the Great Plains. Crying Earth CROWN COLLEGE Wyo., since 1993. Cruz Science Communication Rise Up is now on the festival Program. ‘86 Michael SHIPLEY has ‘69 Vincent VITALE graduated and university circuit and will be worked as a writer/producer for from UC Davis School of Law ‘81 Amy Schrut CONTARDI broadcast on public television TV for 19 years. He’s written in 1972 and went to Alaska continues to work as a Spanish this year. Please reach out if you for more than a dozen shows for a year as a VISTA attorney and ESL teacher in the public are interested in seeing the film. with Alaska Legal Services. including Family Guy and My schools and vineyards of ‘00 Melissa BARTHELEMY Thirty-five years later, he left Name Is Earl. Two years ago, Sonoma County. She also is a Ph.D. student in the Alaska for retirement in Arizona. he and Eva Longoria sold a produces three radio programs Department of History at UC During his Alaskan adventure he show to Hulu. Currently, he is on North Bay public radio Santa Barbara. She is curator participated in one successful an executive producer on Tim stations KRCB and KBBF. She has and project manager for a appeal before the U.S. Supreme Allen’s ABC sitcom, Last Man lived in Sebastopol since 1991. remembrance exhibit honoring Court and numerous appeals Standing. He’s also released the victims of the May 23, 2014, before the Alaska Supreme an album of original songs, tragedy that occurred in the Court. In the 1980s he became MERRILL COLLEGE works with Native American residential community by the one of fewer than 2,000 ‘90 David C. WOOD has been nonprofits, and just got very UCSB campus, in which six attorneys nationwide to obtain promoted to partner at law firm happily married. UCSB students were killed and the designation “certified trial Perkins Coie. He is a member 14 other people were injured. ‘89 Karen WILLEMSEN is the advocate” from the National of Perkins Coie’s Emerging

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The exhibit was up from May honored with the 2014 Cultural Elementary, an all-ages comedy/ students throughout Santa Cruz 20–June 20 and had more than Treasure Award. Cynthia Anne adventure, was published in the and Santa Clara counties. She 1,100 visitors. The exhibit was so HAAGENS graduated from spring of 2014 and won a gold and her son were honored as well received by the families and California State University, medal in the 2015 Independent “2015 Family of the Year” by the larger community that the Northridge, with a bachelor Publisher Book Awards for best Special Parents Information team has been asked to extend in music degree and minor in “Graphic Novel/Drawn Book— Network (SPIN) for all of the the duration of the exhibit. creative writing in December Humor/Cartoon History (U.S.).” volunteer work they do to ‘01 Wilson TAI is the lead actor 2013. Her second bachelor’s Nick shares this award with support local families who have in the film,Will of the Sun degree included magna cum his wife, Gwendolyn DREYER children with special needs. She (2015), a documentary on a Bay laude honors. (Porter ‘04), who served as performs in various musical and Area crew of cyclists riding the ‘91 Maureen O’LEARY editor and contributed the theatrical venues throughout longest and steepest paved Wanket’s second novel The layout and design, as well as the Santa Cruz County and goes out road on Earth to the 10,000-foot Arrow (Children of Brigid Trilogy eight artists who brought his dancing as often as possible. summit of a volcano. In 2015, Book One) was released in 2015 written words to life. he established his company, by Geminid Press. She has short COLLEGE EIGHT Metrotuned, a creative agency stories in Revolution John and KRESGE COLLEGE ‘76 Henri/etta (FINGOLD) empowering #localheroes with Night Journal, as well as Shade ‘78 Joan E. DONOGHUE, who Bensussen has a chapbook of influential marketing in social Mountain Press’s anthology The has served as a judge on the poems, Earning Colors, out media platforms. Female Complaint. Her entry International Court of Justice from Finishing Line Press in won the poetry prize in Heyday ‘02 Nick LEVIN recently married since 2010, received this year’s KY. She serves on the board of Books’ Sacramento Valley Erica Garcia (UC Berkeley ‘06) in Thomas Jefferson Foundation the Mendocino Coast Writers Writing Contest and is slated for Los Angeles, where they reside. Medal in Law. The Thomas Conference and manages its publication in a book about the Nick works as an engineering Jefferson Foundation Medals, blog, blog.mcwc.org; is an Sacramento Valley next year. manager for Netflix, building given in the fields of law, active birder with Audubon; partnerships with movie studios ‘92 Michelle MACH’s book, architecture, and leadership, and devotes herself to writing, and technology companies Unexpected Findings: 50+ are the University of Virginia’s gardening, and walking by the throughout the world. Clever Jewelry Designs highest external honor. ocean. Featuring Everyday ‘11 Jake D. PARENT recently Margaret REED starred in the ‘83 Anne BIKLÉ moved to Components, was published published his first novel,Only Tony Award–winning play Vanya Seattle in 1991 and will soon by Interweave in late fall 2014. the Devil Tells the Truth. The and Sonia and Masha and Spike publish her first book—The She sells her handmade jewelry book is about a working-class in Cleveland and Rochester, Hidden Half of Nature: The online and in selected galleries. teenager from San Jose who N.Y., in April and May. She is Microbial Roots of Life and falls into addiction. It has been ‘97 Jill (GRABOWSKI) Hogan is best known for her roles as the Health. Events that began in well received and highly praised a graduate student in UC Irvine’s kooky romantic Shannon O’Hara the backyard when she and in reviews. Department of Criminology, Law McKechnie on the long-running her husband broke ground and Society. soap opera, As the World for a garden launch them on Turns, the furious ex-date Mary PORTER COLLEGE ‘01 Jacqueline DANZIGER- a stay-at-home journey. They RUSSELL graduated from San Contardi in “The Baby Shower” uncover startling parallels ‘70 Denzil VERARDO and José State University with episode on Seinfeld, and the between the wild and alive Jennie DENNIS Verardo (Merrill a master’s degree in library recurring role of tough lawyer world around the roots of ‘70) have been travelling the and information science. She Felicia Chatham on Law and plants and the human gut and world since their retirement previously achieved an M.A. Order: SVU. make the case for microbial from public service. They in children’s literature from ‘88 Eric RIDENOUR has stewardship in agriculture and also keep busy with their Roehampton University, London been with SERA Architects medicine—employing the mind writing—they are co-authors (2005) and is the author of Girls of Portland, Ore., for the past of an ecologist, the instincts of of The Sempervirens Story: and Their Comics: Finding a decade, where he specializes a gardener, and the care of a A Century of Preserving the Female Voice in Comic Book in campus and community doctor. Redwoods among others. Narrative (2012, The Scarecrow planning. He finds himself back Denzil is a commissioner on the ‘84 Donna MEKIS is currently Press, Rowman & Littlefield). in the Bay Area quite a bit these California Senate Cost Control serving as the president of She is pleased to report that days, working with clients such Commission. the UC Santa Cruz Alumni a copy of her book may be as Stanford and Google. Association. ‘76 Laura DUFRESNE was found in UC Santa Cruz’s own ‘95 Robert SCHMITT was ‘86 Erica SCHAFER is happily named director of medieval McHenry Library. selected by the city council to studies as of fall 2015 at practicing gentle chiropractic in ‘02 Nate COOPER worked be the city attorney of the City Winthrop University, Rock Hill, Santa Cruz and trying to save the in the Film & Digital Media of Roseville, starting February S.C. Her book The Fifteenth- world one back at a time, or one Department until 2006, then 2015. The City of Roseville is Century Illustrated Tradition of sports injury at a time. Married moved to New York City, approximately mid-way along Christine de Pizan’s The Book to fellow Slug Rex WALTERS and most recently started a I-80 between the cities of of the City of Ladies and The (Merrill ‘71), who is a busy company and wrote his first Sacramento and Auburn, and is Treasure of the City of Ladies business broker. She loved her book, Build Your Own Website: a full-service city with four city- was published by Mellen Press entire UC Santa Cruz experience A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS owned utilities. in 2012. and is proud to be a Slug. and WordPress. The book has ‘87 Lawrence COATES has ‘77 Steve EMERY and Kathleen ranked consistently in the top OAKES COLLEGE two books coming out this fall, LIPINSKI, a married couple 10 for Computers, Internet, and his fourth and fifth. His fourth whose landscapes celebrate CSS categories on Amazon. ‘84 Lizz HODGIN is still a music novel, The Goodbye House, is the natural beauty of Marin com, peaking at No. 2 in each and theater freak. She is in her set in San José in 2003. His fifth County, were chosen in category. Nicholas DOAN’s 20th year of being a licensed book, a novella, won the Miami January by the county Cultural first graphic novel,Monster “Music Together” Center and in Services Commission to be that time has served over 42,000 University Press novella contest.

48 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 49 His first book was a Barnes & school track. She attended the and forge her own way. meeting in Denver in March. Noble Discover selection, and UC Berkeley School of Public ‘98 Carol Harper PHILLIPS ‘93 Lynet UTTAL journeyed he’s won the Western States Health Genetic Counseling worked for many years doing from UC Santa Cruz via Memphis Book Award in fiction as well Program and worked as a electronics for telescope and ended up in Madison, as received an NEA Fellowship genetic counselor for many instrumentation at LLNL, UC Wisc., since 1998. She is a in Fiction. He did a reading at years, but had a shift during Observatories at both Lick and professor at the University of UC Santa Cruz in 2004, and he her personal life and lost touch Keck Observatories, and in the Wisconsin–Madison and recently hopes to do another this spring. with her profession. She leaned UCSC shops. She also worked completed her M.S.W. in social ‘91 Paul ALMEIDA is a against writing during this time for NASA as a beta site observer work and is trying to become sociology professor at UC and brought forward a series for the Kepler planet search fluent in Spanish. She is doing Merced. His book, Mobilizing of writing collections of Old/ project on Mt. Hamilton. She is community-based research and Democracy: Globalization and New English poetry and essays currently homesteading along education with Latino immigrants Citizen Protest, was selected in four published books. She the Klamath River in Siskiyou and Tibetan refugees. She is still for the 2015 Distinguished founded the Akasha Spiritual County and in the Santa Cruz married to Dan Veroff and they Scholarship Award from the Faith, a self-realization process. Mountains, and enjoying horse have three sons, David (27, who Pacific Sociological Association. She sends her gratitude to UC and mule packing along the lives in Santa Cruz), Eli (24), and Santa Cruz for offering its own Pacific Crest Trail. Benji (21). ‘94 Usha SUNDARAM was freedoms that allowed her the admitted to medical school but ability to expand her thinking ‘05 Virginia JAMESON ‘99 Lochlann JAIN is an decided to leave the medical graduated in May 2014 with associate professor in a dual master’s degree in Stanford’s Anthropology international affairs and natural Department, where she teaches resources and sustainable medical and legal anthropology. Volunteer profile development from American Her latest book, Malignant: University. She recently began How Cancer Becomes Us (UC as work as the deputy state Press: 2013), received positive g

in director for California at the reviews, including in Nature and l Shelley Alingas American Farmland Trust. Stacy Discover magazines. Porter ‘10 FULLER lives in Washington, ‘12 Calvin MCMILLIN D.C., and is in her second year

ELLEY a discovered, restored, and wrote Residence: of law school. She works as San Francisco the introduction for Frank Chin’s y SH a research assistant and as a previously lost novel, The s e student attorney in the Low Confessions of a Number One Employment: Income Taxpayer Clinic. Digital communications Son, which was published by for the University of San Francisco the University of Hawai’i Press COLLEGE NINE in March 2015. ‘92 Michael SWEET lives in Photo court Davis, Calif. He is a professor IN MEMORIAM Why do you volunteer with UC Santa Cruz? of biology at American River ‘88 Stuart Wayne CULLEN College. He takes his marine I volunteer because, like most of us, I have an inexplicable heart- (College Eight) passed away at biology students all over the connection to Santa Cruz. Choosing to go to UCSC was one of the home in Hillsboro, Ore., on Oct. coast, including to Año Nuevo best decisions of my life. Plus, I love connecting people. And Slugs 2, 2014. He was only 55 years State Reserve, where he used to are some of the best people in the world! old. He only had symptoms for tag elephant seals on the island one-and-a-half years before What types of things do you do as a Slug volunteer? as a graduate student. his death from congestive I plan and host fun and meaningful events in the Bay Area that all heart failure. He graduated types of Slugs would enjoy. My pride and joy is our annual UCSC Day GRADUATE STUDIES with honors from UC Santa at the Oakland A’s (let’s go OAKLAND!). Cruz with a B.S. in computer ‘83 Shannon M. BROWNLEE What has been the most rewarding thing about volunteering engineering. He wanted to thank (College Eight ‘79) was featured with your alma mater? all his instructors for helping in the ARCS Alumni Hall of him attain his dream of being a Simply providing a space for Slugs to interact, converse, laugh, and Fame in their recent national computer engineer. His strong learn with each other. I know it’s been a successful day when alumni newsletter. ARCS Foundation faith helped him through his ask for more. is a national organization of illness. In the end, he would say, women committed to advancing Words of advice for those thinking of volunteering with “See you on the other side.” UC Santa Cruz? science in America through raising funds for scholar ‘91 Juan R. PEREZ (Merrill) Think about what drives you to volunteer and why you want to awards. The Northern California served with his wife Amanda reconnect with UCSC. From academia to socializing to cultural history, Chapter supports UC Santa Cruz Guzman-Perez as preceptors for so many of our events were sparked by alumni who expressed their students. Oakes College Biko House. He strong interests. That’s where our best ideas come from. passed away on January 27 in ‘84 Jenelle (KAISER) Ball has What’s your best memory from your time at UC Santa Cruz? Arcadia, Calif., after going into been awarded the 2015 James cardiac arrest. He was very loved Whether I was on Mainstage, the Barn Theater, or in Porter Dining Hall, Bryant Conant Award by the and will be missed tremendously. my best memories happened while rehearsing and performing with American Chemical Society as To contact the family, please my friends. That camaraderie and playfulness was very special. the outstanding high school e-mail Amanda Guzman-Perez at (Chico High School, Chico, Calif.) [email protected]. For more on UC Santa Cruz alumni volunteer opportunities, chemistry teacher in the United visit alumni.ucsc.edu/volunteer. States. She gave her award presentation at the ACS national

48 UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 Special 50th commemorative Issue Special 50th commemorative Issue UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2015 49 This alumni photo submission feature highlights and celebrates the experiences, travels, and artistic insights of UC Santa alumneye Cruz’s diverse and fascinating alumni.

In May 1974, Dale “Eddie” We’ve selected this image for publication in this issue and Kinnamon (College Eight ‘87, biol- included the story behind it. To learn more, and to view previous ogy) was driving north on U.S. Route photos and honorable mentions, visit review.ucsc.edu. 395, then turned northwest on Send future submissions to [email protected]. See the rules California State Route 89 heading and guidelines at review.ucsc.edu/submissions.html. toward Lake Tahoe. “Even though I was in a hurry to find a place to camp,” he wrote, “I had to stop to try to capture this, the most spectacular sunset I have ever witnessed!”

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UC Santa Cruz’s founding chancellor Dean McHenry set the tone for the campus’s remarkable combination of large research university sophistication and intimate residential colleges when it opened 50 years ago.

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