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8 Strawberry fields for better As the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems celebrates its 50th anniversary, we take a look at how its research and fieldwork have revolutionized the cultivation of one of California’s most valuable crops— strawberries. 13 Alumni Weekend program Alumni Weekend is April 28–30, 2017. Now, more than ever, it feels right to come home. Check out the full program of events and join fellow alumni for mingling, reminiscing, learning, and lingering. Flash point 18 Portraying intimate moments to some of the most defiant in California history, the extraordinary photographic archive of Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion First 50 Celebration events Baruch, recently given to UC Santa Cruz, provides APRIL (during Alumni JUNE 50th celebration dinner guest students and researchers with a rare opportunity to speaker is Alice Waters, engage with the images. Weekend, April 28–30) Poetry & Music in the Alan founder and owner of Chadwick Garden June 3, Farm & Garden Chez Panisse Restaurant, 12–2 p.m., free Lights, camera, social action tours; see full Alumni celebrated chef, and food 24 Weekend program, page 13. Outstanding in the Field activist UC Santa Cruz’s Social Documentation Program, now dinner with Santos Majano celebrating its 10th anniversary, is producing socially from The Kitchen at Discretion, OCTOBER Farm & Garden conscious films that bear witness, address injustice, June 4, UC Santa Cruz Farm. Spring Plant Sale Fall Harvest Festival and shine a light on neglected subjects. See outstandinginthefield.com April 29, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. October 1, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. for details. April 30, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. UC Santa Cruz Farm, $5 general Barn Theater parking lot JULY admission; free for kids 12 and under, and for members of the MAY UC Santa Cruz Farm & Friends of the Farm & Garden. Garden: The First 50 The Buzz 2 This Is UC Santa Cruz 4 Alumni Profiles 29 Strawberry & Justice Celebration July 28–30 Festival May 18, 4–6 p.m. See casfs.ucsc.edu/news- Calendar 3 Campaign Update 28 1 More Thing 32 Includes a reception; Hay Barn, free events/events for event details, symposium; 50th celebration updates, and registration Original Thinkers: 50 Years dinner; workshops; field trips; information. of the Farm & Garden and more. Registration opens May 24, 6 p.m., Hay Barn, $10 March 31. specialevents.ucsc. About the cover: Illustration by Lisa Haney

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UNIVERSITY November 1, 2016 November 3, 2016 January 23 This weekend is for you OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ YAY! UC Santa Cruz Rainwoods advances to #27 on U.S. Chancellor News & World Report’s George Blumenthal Best Global University Rankings! (Tied with Come Home Vice Chancellor, UC SANTA CRUZ ALUMNI WEEKEND 2017 University Relations New York University) Keith E. Brant Assistant Vice Chancellor, Alumni Communications Today UC Santa Cruz and Marketing breaks ground on restoring Weekend Sherry L. K. Main the historic Quarry Amphitheater. Since 1967 April 28–30 UC SANTA CRUZ MAGAZINE the Quarry had long been See page 13 for full Spring 2017 known as the heart of the weekend program Editor campus, hosting concerts, Gwen Jourdonnais speakers, and graduations. 2017 Spring It’s been closed since 2006 APRIL 28–30, 2017 Creative Director due to safety concerns, Emeriti Lecture Lisa Nielsen but now, thanks to the featuring Albert Thelab I have no Art Director/Designer $8 million project largely Harry Noller Linda Knudson (Cowell ’76) doubt that they are just supported by the Student getting better and better. Fee Advisory Committee, April 4 Associate Editor Proud of you. the Quarry looks to be Barry Koskie I 7 p.m. Dan White The quality reopened in the fall of 2017. remember walking 1617-054VolunteerPostcardR1.indd 1 UC Santa Cruz 1/19/17 3:29 PM Proofreader of research being done Sharon Marcacci I through the forest in the Music Center Recital Hall Jeanne Lance at UCSC is stupendous, remember climbing the rain. Sounds and smells See page 4 for more on given its student body were amazing. College 8 Photography walls as a student in early Professor Noller Carolyn Lagattuta size. The campus is one 70s, lured by a roommate. 1979. of the most beautiful in Officially forbidden I’m Linda Peterson I have the world to study. Business Contributors sure, and probably for fond memories of Zoot Suit Melissa De Witte Carlos A. León- good reason (I was scared walking in the rain back Design May 16–28, June 1–4 Scott Hernandez-Jason Bocanegra Jr. Our Alma while climbing, LOL). to the dorms after the A rich Showcase Guy Lasnier (Merrill ’78) 7:30 p.m.; Sundays 3 p.m. Mater keeps getting library closed for the tradition of Rachel Long Dan Mager I took April 18 Theater Arts Mainstage better and better!!! Humanistic (aka Sun Tan) night. Scott Rappaport non-traditional 5 p.m. Directed by Kinan Valdez, Psychology in the Quarry Joan Springhetti Josue Cano UCSC... 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What would it be is the best explanation for Peggy Estrada, THIS IS like to be a pedestrian? features revealed by NASA’s an associate Actually, pretty good, New Horizons spacecraft, research according to Adam Millard- according to a new analysis. scientist in UC Ball, assistant professor of The idea that Pluto has a Latin American environmental studies. In fact, subsurface ocean is not new, and Latino studies, pedestrians might end up with but the study provides the has been awarded SANTA the run of the place. most detailed investigation a three-year, yet of its likely role in the $999,999 grant In his study, “Pedestrians, evolution of key features such to study how to Autonomous Vehicles and CRUZ as the vast, low-lying plain best help school-age Cities,” Millard-Ball looks at known as Sputnik Planitia. English learners achieve the prospect of urban areas English-language proficiency where a majority of vehicles Sputnik Planitia, which forms and academic excellence. are “autonomous” or self- one side of the famous heart- driving. It’s a phenomenon shaped feature seen in the Estrada said 43 percent of that’s not as far off as one first New Horizons images, is California K–12 students have might think. suspiciously well-aligned with a primary language at home Pluto’s tidal axis. The likelihood other than English. Students “Autonomous vehicles have Rising up that this is just a coincidence who do not score English the potential to transform the rankings is only 5 percent, so the proficient on a state test travel behavior,” Millard-Ball UC Santa Cruz is among the alignment suggests that extra when they enter school are says. He uses game theory top 50 universities in the mass in that location interacted classified as English learners. to analyze the interactions world, according to the U.S. with tidal forces between Nationwide, they are the between pedestrians and self- News & World Report 2017 Pluto and its moon Charon to fastest-growing proportion of driving vehicles, with a focus Best Global Universities reorient Pluto, putting Sputnik public school enrollment. Breakthrough of a lifetime on yielding at crosswalks. Planitia directly opposite the rankings. The grant is a Lyle Spencer Because autonomous vehicles side-facing Charon. But a UC Santa Cruz tied for No. 27, Harry Noller, the Sinsheimer “Harry Noller has performed a ancient structures that provide Research Award from the are by design risk-averse, deep basin seems unlikely the fifth-highest University Professor of Molecular Biology at tour de force in molecular biology the link between the genetic Spencer Foundation. With it, Millard-Ball’s model suggests to provide the extra mass of California campus. The UC Santa Cruz, was the winner of for the past 50 years,” said UC instructions encoded in DNA and Estrada and colleagues Timea that pedestrians will be able needed to cause that kind of rankings evaluate 1,000 a $3 million Breakthrough Prize Santa Cruz Chancellor George RNA molecules and the proteins Farkas, an assistant research to act with impunity, and he reorientation. universities in 65 countries in Life Sciences for revealing how Blumenthal. “This recognition is that carry out most of the activities scientist in Latin American thinks autonomous vehicles across 12 indicators, including the complex molecular machines well-deserved.” of living cells. “It’s a big, elliptical hole in the and Latino studies, and may facilitate a shift toward global and regional research called ribosomes translate genetic ground, so the extra weight Claude Goldenberg, professor Noller’s research group was the first Each ribosome is composed of pedestrian-oriented urban reputation, publications, code and build the proteins in all must be hiding somewhere of education at Stanford to solve the complete structure of both proteins and RNA molecules neighborhoods. However, citations, and international living cells. beneath the surface. And an University, plan to conduct a ribosome, publishing landmark interlaced together. When Noller Millard-Ball also finds that collaboration. ocean is a natural way to get a small-scale experiment The award was presented at a star- papers in 1999 and 2001. More first proposed in the 1970s that the adoption of autonomous that,” said Francis Nimmo, involving 16 schools in a large The campus has continued studded ceremony in December recent work in his lab has shown the RNA component performs the vehicles may be hampered by professor of Earth and California school district, one to increase its ranking, even hosted by Academy Award– how the ribosome actually works ribosome’s key functions, the idea their strategic disadvantage planetary sciences. of the biggest in the country as the number of universities winning actor Morgan Freeman at to carry out protein synthesis. This met stiff resistance because only that slows them down in with a large population of reviewed has expanded. the NASA Ames Research Center research has practical applications proteins were thought capable of urban traffic. in Silicon Valley. because many antibiotics work by catalyzing biochemical reactions. English-learning students. Last year, UC Santa Cruz blocking the activity of bacterial But he turned out to be right. came in at No. 48 (out of 750 The Breakthrough Prizes were ribosomes. Understanding the universities), and No. 63 (out founded in 2013 by Silicon Valley “This was a huge paradigm shift. structure of the ribosome has of 500 universities) in 2015. entrepreneurs Sergey Brin and It turned our understanding of This cutaway image of Pluto enabled the development of novel Anne Wojcicki, Mark Zuckerberg molecular biology upside down,” shows a section through antibiotics that hold promise for use For more and Priscilla Chan, and Yuri and said Noller, a professor emeritus of the area of Sputnik Planitia, against germs that have developed information about Julia Milner. molecular, cell and developmental with dark blue representing resistance to current drugs. Harry Noller and biology. the Breakthrough a subsurface ocean and light Noller’s discoveries also shed light Prize, see reports. blue for the frozen crust. PHOTO: NOLLER, USED WITH PERMISSION OF AREA BAY NEWS GROUP ALL RIGHTS © 2017. 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Below: UC Santa Cruz music professor David Dunn listening to bark beetles. But for the Bureau of Land figure who wrote one of the enabled them to qualify for Reef madness art practice, Crochet Coral Both Crochet Coral Reef: Management and the Calpine first captivity narratives about higher math courses. Yarn has come alive at UC Reef: CO2CA-CO2LA Ocean CO2CA-CO2LA Ocean and energy company, the serene survival in the wilderness. highlights not only the the Many students who had Santa Cruz with the visit of UC Santa Cruz Satellite Reef patch of blue that sits amid damage humans do to the are sponsored by the Institute The longtime codirector of placed into College Algebra a traveling sculpture exhibit a volcanic landscape was Earth’s environment, but also of the Arts and Sciences, part the UC Santa Cruz Creative (Math 2), for example, were called Crochet Coral Reef: a promising geothermal our power for positive action. of the UC Santa Cruz Arts Writing Program explained placed into Precalculus CO2CA-CO2LA Ocean, a energy site. For more than Division. how she came up with the (Math 3) or Calculus after world-renowned art and In addition, UC Santa Cruz 30 years, the Pit River idea of having twin fetuses working through online science project by Margaret students and community tribe—including the young narrate the story. adaptive instruction. Others and Christine Wertheim of the members are busily LeBeau and his family— who had initially placed into Institute For Figuring. crocheting the UC Santa Cruz protested the proposal, and, “I originally wanted a big more advanced courses Satellite Reef as part of the last year, a court ruled the storytelling voice, but I The exhibition, on view at the than College Algebra also Crochet Coral Reef project’s energy-company leases had didn’t want the voice to be Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery improved their placement, worldwide reefing effort, one been made without proper anonymous,” Perks recalled. until May 6, 2017, responds enabling them to make more of the largest participatory environmental review or tribal “I liked the idea of this big, to the environmental crisis rapid progress toward their science and art endeavors consultation. Whitmanesque voice coming of global warming and the from a tiny being inside the academic goals. All of this escalating problem of oceanic in the world. “That (the prolonged fight) was accomplished without main character—a little like plastic trash. The UC Santa Cruz Satellite Below: Margaret Wertheim was what influenced me,” said worsening overall pass rates the position of the author.” Reef will be exhibited at the in the Föhr Reef, Museum Sounding them out and came up with a simple LeBeau, 20, who is a member in these courses. Residing at the intersection of “I love twins, and I love all mathematics, marine biology, Seymour Marine Discovery Kunst der Westküste, Föhr, UC Santa Cruz music listening device that cost less of the Illmawi Band of the Pit the utopian possibilities with handicraft, and community Center starting May 4, 2017. Germany, 2012. professor David Dunn has than $10 to build. Designing River Nation. The experience, twins,” she added. “And joined forces with two forest unique and inexpensive he said, “really pushed me to the ‘we’ voice now seems scientists from Northern devices in order to listen to say I want to stop that.” essential to what the book is Arizona University to combat sound had long been a part of Recently, LeBeau (Stevenson about: the tension between an insect infestation that his artistic work. ‘18, environmental studies) individual desires and the is killing millions of trees was given a $10,000 award desire for community.” throughout the West. as part of the Morongo Band They are applying the results of Mission Indians’ Rodney of nearly a decade of acoustic T. Mathews Jr. scholarship Doing the math program. His plan is to earn research in an unconventional A pilot program in online a Ph.D. in order to help collaborative effort to stop adaptive learning at UC tribal communities with bark beetles from tunneling Santa Cruz has led to higher environmental and land-use through the living tissue of placement in math courses issues. weakened, drought-stressed for newly admitted freshman pine trees. students—and a commitment The trio has now received a A novel concept to instruct students in math in patent for a device that uses ways that adapt to their own In What Becomes Us, a proficiencies. sound as a targeted sonic new novel by UC Santa Cruz weapon to disrupt the feeding, literature professor Micah Of the more than 722 entering communication, reproduction, Perks, twin fetuses tell the students who completed and various other essential story of a pregnant woman math placement via online behaviors of the insects. who abandons her controlling assessment during the “When massive tree death husband in Santa Cruz, moves summer of 2015 and made started occurring in northern Guardian to a small upstate New York use of adaptive learning New Mexico where I was of the sacred town, falls in love with a software to review and Chilean man, and becomes reassess, 84 percent showed living, I became curious if For Raymond LeBeau and obsessed with a historical marked improvement that there were sounds associated other members of the Pit with such a large amount of River tribe, Medicine Lake in biological activity,” said Dunn. Above: Raymond LeBeau (Stevenson ‘18, environmental studies, northeastern California is a philosophy minor), who won a $10,000 scholarship, plans to earn a Ph.D. in Dunn thought about how to sacred site, a place of healing. order to help tribal communities with environmental and land-use issues. listen to the interior of trees PHOTOS: BEETLE COURTESY U.S. FOREST SERVICE; DUNN COURTESY DAVID DUNN; LEBEAU BY C. LAGATTUTA; CORAL REEF © THE IFF MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU 6 UC SANTA CRUZ MAGAZINE Spring 2017 7 By Peggy Townsend Strawberry fields for better

Over an old barbed-wire fence, Surrounded by a crew of eager As the Center the two men began talking about students, Chadwick soon created soil diseases, crop rotations, and a beautiful organic garden on a for Agroecology how every expert and grower hillside near Merrill College using in California believed it was what he called the biodynamic/ & Sustainable impossible to successfully grow French intensive method, which Food Systems organic strawberries. involved natural fertilizer and a lot of shovel work. Little did the two men know, but celebrates its that 1986 conversation would In the 1970s, students asked for a 50th anniversary, start a revolution in strawberry larger plot of land and were given farming that would prove the 17 hidden acres on the lower part we take a look naysayers wrong and also launch of campus. Chadwick had left one of the signature achievements by then, but acolytes continued at how its of UC Santa Cruz’s Center for his work. They plowed the soil research and Agroecology & Sustainable Food with a pair of brother-and-sister Systems (CASFS), which this year draft horses. They planted rows fieldwork have celebrates its 50th anniversary. of cypress as a windbreak and put up teepees for a burgeoning Today, organic berries fill cases in apprenticeship program. revolutionized stores like Safeway and Costco, the cultivation and the number of acres of By the early ‘80s, public concern organically grown strawberries in over the impacts of conventional of one of California has risen from just 134 in agriculture was on the rise, and 1997 to 2,989 in 2016. Gliessman, recently returned from a California’s most stint farming and teaching in Mexico, The men’s meeting would was hired to expand the academic valuable crops— also spark UC Santa Cruz’s reach of the program. He turned the reputation as the mothership of farm into an outdoor laboratory and strawberries organic agriculture, a standing classroom for teaching and studying Above: that continues with campus The experiment the new science of agroecology. Charismatic Jim Cochran was researchers still delving into new Strawberries are the princess-and- English master ways to fight agricultural disease He and other researchers began standing on his Swanton the-pea of crops. While economic gardener Alan and pests without using chemicals. some of the first formal research royalty, strawberries also easily fall Chadwick, who Valley farm, pondering on agroecological practices, “It’s important to remember,” says prey to a wide variety of insects and was recruited including crop rotation and natural the organic strawberry Daniel Press, an environmental soil-borne pathogens, especially in 1967 to pest control, as a way to avoid studies professor and executive when they are raised in the same develop a place plants at his feet, when agriculture’s increasing dependence director of CASFS, “that we had no fields year after year. of connection for on chemicals, an unsustainable his new neighbor, Steve business doing this.” Most growers used chemicals to students, created system to their way of thinking. Gliessman, approached. protect the finicky plants, including a beautiful organic Seeds of change “It was a nonconventional faculty the fumigant methyl bromide, garden on a Cochran was a maverick that was barely tolerated by which wiped out soil diseases so hillside near Merrill Every story should begin at its roots, farmer who was fascinated campus,” Press says, striding effectively berries could be raised College using and the rise of California’s organic toward the university’s now-30- on the same plot of land without what he called the by European intellectual strawberry industry has a crucial acre farm with its lush cover crops, interruption. But environmental and biodynamic/French part of its origins with UC Santa Cruz history and Gliessman blueberry canes, and humped rows health concerns caused a phase- intensive method. and a charismatic English master of strawberries. “At best we were out and ban of the fumigant with a was a UC Santa Cruz plant gardener named Alan Chadwick. considered loopy and irrelevant. deadline of 2017. In 1967, Chadwick was recruited At worst, we were considered ecologist who had recently Cochran, who’d been sickened by to create a place of connection for dangerous, subversive, and an accidental pesticide exposure started a program that students on campus at a time when possibly illegal.” while working for a farmworker- combined ecology with protests raged against the Vietnam War and the assassinations of Martin All that would change. owned strawberry cooperative, agriculture, a science he Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy decided to give organic berry would shortly rock the nation. farming a try in 1983.

called agroecology. ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THIS ARTICLE BY LISA HANEY continued on page 12 MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU Spring 2017 9 Growing farmers and the food movement for 50 years In its five decades, the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems has cultivated a community of thought leaders who are redefining organic farming

Training apprentices More than 1,500 Ecological Horticulture apprentices have gone on to establish their own organic farms, oversee Creating food policies, and head farmers similar programs. CASFS instructors have taught organic farming and gardening skills to thousands of students, culminating in a 700-page training guide available free online.

Improving organic farming A consortium of more than 50 growers, researchers, and others is working to improve Developing organic farming. novel CAL-CORE’s projects include developing approaches crop rotation systems Our researchers did the that are financially earliest testing for the and environmentally use of sex pheromones in successful and finding stopping the codling moth, ways to suppress Helping farmers which does tremendous soil-borne diseases internationally damage to apple crops. and pests without What was once considered chemicals. Mexican and Nicaraguan coffee farmers are living a radical innovation is better thanks to the nonprofit Community Agroecology now used in organic Network, founded by emeritus professor Steve Gliessman and conventional apple and his wife, Robbie Jaffe. Beans are roasted and sold orchards globally. at prices that help growers, local sustainable agriculture, and women’s economic power. MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU 10 UC SANTA CRUZ MAGAZINE Spring 2017 11 STRAWBERRYFIELDS continued from page 9 This weekend is for you

broccoli helped get rid of the UC Santa Cruz, thinking outside the disease organisms that so box continued to be the hallmark of damaged the berries. the campus. Over time, the organic strawberries For instance, UC Santa Cruz Come Home thrived. The conventional berries entomologist Sean L. Swezey, UC SANTA CRUZ ALUMNI WEEKEND 2017 seemed slightly larger but the working with researchers Diego organic fruit tasted great, the yield Nieto and Janet Bryer, found a was high, and Cochran made method for controlling the pesky money because he could sell the lygus bug. Using the fields of organic berries for a higher price. grower Larry Eddings, they People began to notice. discovered that if a grower replaced “In fact, it was going so well, every 50th row in a strawberry field people accused us of falsifying with alfalfa—a crop that attracts data,” says Gliessman who said lygus insects like gamblers to a it took six years of analyzing and Las Vegas buffet—and then used resubmitting data before his first a vacuuming machine to suck the study was finally published by a bugs from the alfalfa, the pests scientific journal. could be greatly reduced without the use of chemicals. Gliessman and other UC Santa Above: Grower Jim Three years later, he was standing in Cruz researchers took their work Meanwhile, around 2002, Cochran (left) and his field scratching his head over his into the farming community, and, environmental studies professor Sean Swezey of plants when Gliessman came along. because demand for organic Carol Shennan, then-director of the Agroecology the Center for Agroecology & By 1987, the two men had set up produce was growing and the Program (now Sustainable Food Systems, noticed a series of experimental plots on deadline to phase out methyl CASFS) examine that, despite using crop rotations, three acres of North Coast land, bromide was set, growers listened. strawberry plants the strawberries on campus were a project funded by UC’s newly in 1989 at a Today, thanks to many of the again falling prey to the damaging established Sustainable Agriculture “conversion study” methods pioneered by Cochran, soil pathogen, Verticillium dahliae. Research and Education Program plot in Davenport, Gliessman, and other UC Santa designed to meet the needs of A friend of Shennan’s, a Dutch California, where Cruz researchers, more than small-scale farmers, farmworkers, plant pathologist, saw the listless conventionally 10 percent of the state’s multi- and alternative-farming systems. berry field and described a process farmed land was billion-dollar strawberry crop is organic, according to the called Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation, converted to “Steve said, ‘Let’s set up a or ASD, that seemed a promising organic production. demonstration project and try to California Strawberry Commission. Even large-scale growers are solution but said no one seemed understand the soil biology and willing to test it. insect ecology here,’ and that was turning toward more sustainable brilliant,” Cochran remembers, strawberry-growing practices. Shennan began thinking. “because it really provided the “A lot of scientists go on with the She turned to her colleague, scientific underpinnings that would existing paradigm and do what associate researcher Joji be able to transform the industry.” everybody else is doing and don’t Muramoto, and asked him to help For instance, the conventionally rock the boat because that’s the set up a small ASD experiment on grown strawberries would be way you get promotions and the UC Santa Cruz Farm. get published,” says Cochran as sprayed with a miticide to rid ASD involves putting a carbon he drives his dusty SUV toward the plot of the destructive two- source like chopped cover crops or his 12-acre organic farm north spotted spider mite, while a host rice bran or even molasses into the of Davenport. “Steve took the of beneficial predator mites would soil. The ground is then irrigated and opposite route of going in an be loosed in the organic berries to covered with plastic, which sparks entirely different direction.… He’s fight the same pest and the results decomposition by soil microbes that sort of emblematic of the rogue recorded. can thrive without oxygen, producing scientist who ends up discovering various organic acids that are toxic to When the strawberries began something important.” suffering because repeated the pathogens. It’s tricky business, plantings caused soil-borne Still at work needing the right temperature, pathogens to rise, the two men water, and soil amendment to work. If being different marked the early experimented with crop rotations, “It took us a few years to figure out years of agricultural research at discovering, for instance, that how to do it,” Muramoto says of PHOTO BY JIM MACKENZIE; ILLUSTRATION ©DOUGROSSFINEART.COM

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Friday, Alumni Shabbat Services Elephant Seal Research Tour Tour of the Alan Chadwick Garden How Students are Catalyzing Social What’s Growing On in the Garden? and Dinner at Año Nuevo 11 a.m.–12 p.m. Change with Technology 2–3 p.m. April 28 5:30–7:30 p.m. 9 a.m.–2 p.m. / $40 Alan Chadwick Garden, Center for 1–3 p.m. Kresge Garden Co-op Stevenson Event Center Meet at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center; Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems Everett Program Office, Lecturer David Shaw will lead an interactive tour of tour will go to Año Nuevo Island Reserve, Garden manager Orin Martin will lead a tour of the Social Sciences 2, Room 47 Kresge Garden, which is used in his course open to Digital Arts and New Media Alumni, current students, staff, and faculty alumni. Light refreshments. M.F.A. Exhibit welcome. Services 5:30–6 p.m., followed by a 30-minute drive north of Santa Cruz. Alan Chadwick Garden, celebrating its 50th year Come check out incredible projects from our diverse a traditional Shabbat dinner. Space is limited. in 2017! student body that will inspire you to look at the ways 12–5 p.m. Calligraphy for Peace Digital Arts Research Center Elephant seal researcher and Año Nuevo Island very accessible technical tools can support social Recent Grad Mixer Reserve director Patrick Robinson will lead a tour of Language of Conservation justice and sustainability movements globally. 2–4 p.m. An exhibition of the work of students graduating Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery from the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) 7–9 p.m. the elephant seal colony at Año Nuevo. He will 11 a.m.–12 p.m. M.F.A. program. Pour Taproom, 110 Cooper St., Santa Cruz discuss elephant seal biology and the various Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room Educational Opportunity Programs See the current art displayed at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery and meet the artist in residence. A An annual mixer for recent graduates, sponsored ongoing research projects to study these amazing A talk led by Daniel Guevara (philosophy) and and Learning Support Services animals and how they migrate thousands of Claudio Campagna (ecology and evolutionary Open House master calligrapher from Japan will also show how UC Santa Cruz by the Senior Class Council. Current seniors are we can use art in our daily lives. Attendees will have kilometers and find food in the depths of the pelagic biology, and the Wildlife Conservation Society) 1–3 p.m. Greenhouse Tour invited, and they look forward to hearing about an opportunity to create their own works of art. your experiences after UC Santa Cruz. ocean. We will meet at the Seymour Center at Long on giving a compelling and rigorous voice to an Academic Resources Center (ARCenter) 2–4:30 p.m. Marine Lab and carpool up to Año Nuevo. Complimentary appetizers and a no-host bar. authentic ethical concern for nature. Light An open house display of the growth within the Thimann rooftop greenhouses refreshments and coffee. Celebrating Crown College’s 50th— Guided tours with light refreshments. Educational Opportunity Programs Office and Alumni Weekend Keynote Address Brunch at Baskin Learning Support Services. Tour the ARCenter and Screening of Crown College: 50 Years Cultivating Innovation 7–9 p.m. 9:30 a.m.–12 p.m. Porter Arts Festival enjoy the courtyard patio view, network, and make Crochet Coral Reef, Exhibition Baskin Auditorium 11 a.m.–2 p.m. connections. Presentations will update alumni about 2–4 p.m. Tour with the Curators Cocoanut Grove, Bayview Ballroom Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Baskin Alumni Advisory Council and Baskin School Porter Upper Quad programs supporting student success. Merrill Cultural Center 3–5 p.m. Keynote alone: $35 of Engineering will give a presentation followed by An arts festival to showcase student and alumni art View a retrospective film commissioned for Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery Keynote/Kick-Off Party combo: $40 brunch and guided tours of the lab. and wares as well as student performances on the In Celebration of Black Life UC Santa Cruz’s 50th anniversary exploring the history and ethos of Crown College. Q&A and Meet the curators of Crochet Coral Reef: Carmen Perez (Rachel Carson College, pre-psychology) quad stage. at UC Santa Cruz reception will follow. CO2CA-CO2LA Ocean and see the internationally Criminal justice reform activist and organizer, executive Econ. Alumni Reception 1–4 p.m. renowned Crochet Coral Reef project. Wine director of juvenile justice nonprofit The Gathering for 10–11 a.m. Artisanal Carry-Out Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room and snacks. Justice, and one of the national cochairs of the Women’s Engineering 2, Room 499 Lunch on the Lawn and the adjoining patio Rachel Carson Documentary March on Washington. After a brief introduction and short presentation, 12–2 p.m. With the help of alumni, faculty, staff, and students, Movie Screening Social Sciences Distinguished enjoy a continental breakfast in the courtyard Quarry Plaza and upper Cowell lawn we are collecting memorabilia and testimonies that 2–4 p.m. Alumni Award while mingling with other alumni and Economics $20 per box, $35 for a group of two will help us showcase the vibrancy and history of Rachel Carson College, Room 240 4–6 p.m. Department faculty, staff, and current students. $65 for a group of four black life on campus. Remarks from one of our Watch (or see again) the new PBS documentary La Feliz Room, Long Marine Lab SATURDAY, Join your friends and family for a gourmet carry-out cochairs will open the event; then the space will be Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, provided by filmmaker Light refreshments with award ceremony, APRIL 29 Cowell Celebrates 30 Years lunch to enjoy at the tables in Quarry Plaza or in the open to the public to come and go. Light Michelle Ferrari expressly for Alumni Weekend. Join including remarks from Chancellor George of Sammy the Slug family-friendly Kid Zone at Cowell’s upper lawn. refreshments. us for a mixer afterward (Rachel Carson College Blumenthal. Provost’s House, 3–4 p.m.). Campus 5K Fun Run with 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Spread out a blanket and enjoy a hand-picked Cowell Provost’s House variety of delicious goodies before heading out to Entrepreneurship and Leadership: OPERS and Financial Aid Alumni Weekend Enjoy a slice of cake and celebrate the 30-year your next event. Pre-registration required for pick-up Graduate Division Panels Ethnic Resource Centers Mixer Kick-Off Party/Beer Garden 8:30–10:30 a.m. anniversary of the design of Sammy the Slug. at Quarry Plaza. 1–3:45 p.m. 2:30–4:30 p.m. 4:30–6:30 p.m. Race starts at OPERS and ends on the East Field View original and new student art and reminisce Humanities, Room 259 UC Santa Cruz Women’s Center Cocoanut Grove, Garden Area Family of four: $90, Family/couple of two: $50 over the years of Slug pride! Digital Arts and New Media The five academic divisions and Division of Graduate Whether you considered the Resource Centers home Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Alumni individual: $30, Students: $15 M.F.A. Exhibit Studies have invited speakers who will share their for your time at UC Santa Cruz, or if you want to Kick-Off Party alone: $10 Calling alumni, family, and friends to join us for Merrill Society Breakfast 12–5 p.m. stories and work experience in academic careers, mingle with Banana Slug friends, or even connect Kick-Off Party/Keynote combo: $40 our first-ever 5K Fun Run in support of student 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Digital Arts Research Center nonacademic careers, government, and startups. with current students, join us for this mixer. Starting scholarships! A beautiful course will take you Mingling before the Alumni Weekend Keynote Charles E. Merrill Lounge An exhibition of the work of students graduating Refreshments provided. with food and music at the Women’s Center, then across all 10 colleges, pass through some of the (7–9 p.m., Cocoanut Grove, Bayview Ballroom; from the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) walking to the Alumni Vintner and Brewer Reception most iconic and nostalgic spots on campus, and Meeting open to all Merrill alumni. see right) with light refreshments and beverages. M.F.A. program. 1–2:15 p.m. (4–6 p.m. at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn). provide plenty of locations for water, photos, or a rest. Light breakfast buffet. Careers and Resources Afterward, join us on the East Field outside OPERS for Entrepreneurship A collaboration between the Lionel Cantú Queer and take advantage of their facilities to shower and International Photo Contest Natural History Field Quarter Center, UCSC Women’s Center, African American get ready for the fun day ahead. Refreshments and Showcase and Alumni Reception Celebrates its 45th Anniversary Information for graduate students in the Santa Cruz Resource & Cultural Center, American Indian commemorative gifts for all racers. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. 12 p.m. Saturday, April 29, through 12 p.m. region, San Francisco to Monterey. Resource Center, Asian American/Pacific Islander Humanities, Room 359 Sunday, April 30 (overnight) / $40 Resource Center, and Chicano Latino Resource Bioblitzes The Office of Global Engagement invites you to Little Basin State Park 2:30–3:45 p.m. Center (“El Centro”). 9 a.m.–12 p.m. mingle with fellow alumni and current students This year we will be camping together at Little Basin Graduate Student Alumni Leaders State Park in Boulder Creek. Join us for a weekend Information for graduate student alumni leaders in UCSC Bioblitz while viewing winning photos showcasing Teach-In: Ex Post Facto: How to photography from both our returned Study of reminiscing, seeing old friends and making new the Santa Cruz region, San Francisco to Monterey. Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, Respond to a ‘Post-Truth’ World Alumni Weekend Abroad student participants as well as that of our ones, botanizing, journaling, birding, sketching, Room 221 2:45–4:15 p.m. international students and scholars. All photos are observing, questioning, and rekindling that amazing Real Good Fish: Innovations Stevenson, Room TBD Younger Lagoon Reserve Bioblitz centered on the theme “Cultural Exposure.” NHFQ fire within us all. in Sustainable Fisheries Younger Lagoon Reserve Light refreshments. Gina Dent, associate professor of feminist studies, 1:30–2:30 p.m. history of consciousness, and legal studies, will Join the UC Santa Cruz Natural Reserves for our Teach-In: Rejuvenate Now: Stevenson Coffee House discuss the role of the humanities in responding to Don’t Miss! second annual community-building bioblitz event Banana Slug Kid Zone Stem Cells at UC Santa Cruz Join us for an interview with Alan Lovewell (Cowell the current discussion of “alternative facts.” How and help inventory the biodiversity of the UC Santa 10 a.m.–4 p.m. 1–2:30 p.m. ’05, art), founder of Real Good Fish, a cutting-edge can we develop a critical relationship to “facticity,” Artisanal Carry-Out Cruz campus and Younger Lagoon Reserve. The Upper Cowell lawn Humanities Lecture Hall community-supported fishery located on Monterey while preserving the ability to think and Lunch on the Lawn main campus and Younger Lagoon Reserve events Family-friendly zone with craft booths, games, Join us for a special talk by Professors Lindsay Bay. Presented by UCSC Dining. (For more on act politically? will run concurrently from 9 a.m.–12 p.m. and are and snacks. Hinck, Camilla Forsberg, and Daniel Kim to learn Lovewell, see page 31.) open to everyone. We will meet as a large group, about the stem cell research taking place at the attend a brief training, then break up into small Saturday, April 29 / 12–2 p.m. Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells (IBSC) at UC continued... Quarry Plaza and upper Cowell lawn groups to survey the surrounding natural lands, Santa Cruz. and finally reconvene during the last hour of each $20 per box, $35 for a group of two time period to share results. Light refreshments. $65 for a group of four

A gourmet lunch-in-a-box complemented with fruit, cheese, and dessert in a commemorative JOIN OUR FIRST-EVER CAMPUS 5K FUN RUN! Alumni Weekend bag. For Formore more information information and andto register, to register, visit: visit: Supporting student scholarships. MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU 14 UC SANTA CRUZ MAGAZINE 8:30 a.m. Saturday, April 29, at OPERS. ALUMNIWEEKEND.UCSC.EDUALUMNIWEEKEND.UCSC.EDU Fall 2016 15 2

1617-062A AW Program Insert-08.indd 2 2/28/17 9:13 PM 1617-062A AW Program Insert-08.indd 3 2/28/17 9:13 PM SATURDAY, APRIL 29, continued... STRAWBERRYFIELDS continued from page 12 Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Tour of the UC Santa Cruz Farm Star Party/An Evening Screening Mixer 4:30–5:30 p.m. Under the Stars 3–4 p.m. Tour starts at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn 7–11 p.m. Rachel Carson College Provost’s House Take a tour of the UC Santa Cruz Farm led by Location TBD Enjoy light refreshments and discussion following Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems Bring your telescopes and warm blankets and get ready the film screening ofRachel Carson’s Silent Spring (CASFS) Director Daniel Press. Learn for a spectacular night under the stars with UC and Lick the project, which was funded by “Looking back, I can see how about the research, education, and public service On the farm (2–4 p.m., Rachel Carson College, Room 240). Observatories experts as your guides to the night sky. the U.S. Department of Agriculture each thing I did led to the next, but work of CASFS. Hot chocolate and other refreshments provided. and the California Strawberry Rod Koda’s 23-acre strawberry the whole thing never could have Alumni Photo Exhibit Opening farm near Watsonville has a million- 3–4 p.m. Kerr Hall Kegger Commission. been planned,” says Gliessman. 5–7 p.m. dollar view of the Monterey Bay. “I always tell my students that as Social Sciences 1, 2nd floor lobby SUNDAY, Today, 1,400 acres of strawberries Unveiling of a permanent photo project that Kerr Hall main patio He’s worked this plot of land since long as it feels like the right thing and raspberries are being grown connects UC Santa Cruz alumni vocations and life In Rachel Carson College’s earlier days, there were APRIL 30 1985, following in the footsteps of to do, you should do it. Don’t be stories to the themes of its colleges. weekly “keggers” at Kerr Hall. Join us for a revival using ASD, up from one acre his late father-in-law, Kuni Shinta. afraid to take a risk. Hold onto an of the tradition! Share memories and good times Brunch with the Porter Provost only five years ago. Shennan and Tour of the UC Santa Cruz Farm with Rachel Carson College (formerly College Eight) 10–11 a.m. In 2006, he heard Shennan and ideal and then go for it.” alumni on the Kerr Hall patio, with beer varieties Muramoto, meanwhile, are preparing 3–4 p.m. Porter Koi Pond courtyard Muramoto give a presentation from local Santa Cruz–area brewers. a guide that will spell out specific Tour starts at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Brunch with the Porter provost to toast the 35th on ASD and decided to give the anniversary year of the naming of Porter College. guidelines for ASD use in different Guided tour of the UC Santa Cruz Farm, describing Rachel Carson College Alumni technique a try on his own nine current research, education, and outreach work. Refreshments and musical entertainment. areas and for different crops. Weekend Poster Session acres of organic fruit. The process, “We were at the right place at the Molecular, Cell and Developmental 5–7 p.m. Merrill Alumni Brunch he says, netted 800 to 1,000 more right time,” Shennan says. “And Biology Alumni Reunion Kerr Hall 10 a.m.–12 p.m. trays of strawberries per acre— View sustainability-related projects by students 3–5 p.m. Merrill Provost’s House I do think part of it was being at although with rising costs and in Rachel Carson College’s sustainability studies Humanities patio All Merrill alumni are invited to enjoy brunch, UC Santa Cruz. We would try falling prices, organic berries can minor, the new S(ustainability)-Lab, and the Impact meet other alumni and current students, and Reconnect with fellow alumni and faculty at a lovely Designs: Engineering and Sustainability through things that were outside of the still be a complicated business. outdoor reception with wine, beer, and snacks. Join learn about some of the programs sponsored Student Services (IDEASS) program. by Merrill College. box in a way that people at the ag us in congratulating biologist Harry Noller on campuses didn’t. They were doing Meanwhile, UC Santa Cruz winning the Breakthrough Prize, and hear what’s Los Mejicas 45th Reunion researchers are still at work trying new in the field and in our program. (For more on Cowell Alumni Brunch things their own way and had been Harry Noller, see page 4.) 6–11 p.m. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. working with fumigants for years to help farmers like Koda find more, Stevenson Event Center Cowell Provost’s lawn but hadn’t really considered looking and still profitable, alternatives to “Once a Mejica, always a Mejica” is the tagline that An Immersion into A reception for Cowell alumni and fellows. at nonfumigant options.” chemical use in agriculture. Dickensian Cocktails reflects the bond created across generations by all who have participated in Grupo Folklórico Los ] 4–5:30 p.m. Mejicas over the past 45 years. Come home, Stevenson Alumni Brunch Stevenson Fireside Lounge Mejicas, to celebrate our 45th anniversary! 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Wine and food industry professional and UC Santa Stevenson Provost’s House Cruz alumni parent Burke Owens will describe the Mentor Match Dinner Please join Provost Alice Yang at her home to history and preparation of a number of beverages reconnect with fellow alumni and share stories and offer samples. 6:30–8:30 p.m. / $25 University Center, Bhojwani Dining Room and of your time at Stevenson College as you enjoy Pesticide predicament for strawberry growers a delicious meal. Alumni Vintner and Ringold Rotunda The powerful fumigant methyl widespread use has helped make Many growers are experimenting Brewer Reception Spend an evening with the bright students of UC Oakes Alumni Brunch Santa Cruz to talk about their career goals, life bromide was retired from strawberries one of California’s with organics, Guthman says, but 4–6 p.m. / $35 journeys, and more while sharing your personal 11 a.m.–1 p.m. / $10 Cowell Ranch Hay Barn stories of success and failure in the “real world.” Oakes Provost’s House California’s strawberry fields at most lucrative crops. In 2014, it is still not an economic option This year we’re expanding our annual wine With industry moving toward requiring both Enjoy a casual brunch, including mimosas, the end of last year after more annual sales totaled $2.5 billion. for some, because transitioning reception to include some of our brightest brewers! education and experience to get a job, students and catch up with other alumni. involves avoiding the application than 20 years of fierce debate over But methyl bromide is also UC Santa Cruz alumni have perfected the art of are in need of career advice and support its effects and alternatives. of disallowed substances for beverage-making, and you are invited to come and from alumni. Digital Arts and New Media hazardous to humans and the three years while not receiving taste a wide variety, along with appetizers. M.F.A. Exhibit According to research published environment. Because of its the price premium for organics. Student & Alumni Story Slam 12–5 p.m. by UC Santa Cruz professor documented impact on the ozone Graduate Student Alumni and and Open Mic Digital Arts Research Center and food studies expert Julie layer, the Montreal Protocol Furthermore, agricultural land Current Graduate Student 7–9 p.m. An exhibition of the work of students graduating Guthman, these debates often pit mandated a global phase-out as is costly and scarce, Guthman Networking Mixer Terry Freitas Café from the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) 4–6 p.m. We invite Colleges Nine and Ten alumni to M.F.A. program. the health and well-being of farm part of its 1987 pact to reduce notes, especially on California’s Graduate Student Commons commemorate the fifth anniversary of the workers against the economic ozone-depleting substances. Central Coast where growers Panel discussion attendees for the Careers and naming of Terry Freitas Café and to celebrate Dizikes Concert viability of growers while Despite U.S. promises to stop compete with developers for Resources for Entrepreneurship for Graduate our community with an evening of storytelling 12:30–1:45 p.m. overlooking the constraints and importing and producing the prime real estate ideal for Students and/or the Graduate Student Alumni and talent. Light refreshments. Cowell courtyard Leaders panels (1–3:45 p.m., Humanities, Room 259) availability of farmland. substance, California farmers growing strawberries. and current graduate students are invited for the Everyone is welcome to come dance the afternoon away! long continued its use thanks to Guthman has spent the past In short, Guthman finds the opportunity to engage further with the panelists. what’s known as a “critical use Crown Keynote Speaker several years immersed—literally strawberry industry is in a real exemption.” 1–3 p.m. and figuratively—in the field to bind. Her next book will explore Merrill Cultural Center better understand the challenges Because of these exemptions, the historical origins of the Entrepreneur and former UC Santa Cruz Foundation trustee Steve Blank will give a talk on innovation the strawberry industry faces in a the California strawberry predicament and will look at and entrepreneurship, followed by a reception with post–methyl bromide world. industry lagged in developing how the factors underwriting the refreshments and light appetizers. industry’s success have changed ILLUSTRATION ©DOUGROSSFINEART.COM substitutes, Guthman says. Strawberry growers in California into threats. This weekend is for you have long depended on methyl With strawberry growers facing bromide, the most effective strict regulatory constraints, why —By Melissa De Witte For more information and to register, visit: chemical to control soil-borne not switch from conventional to ALUMNIWEEKEND.UCSC.EDU pathogens and weeds. Its organic growing practices? 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1617-062A AW Program Insert-08.indd 4 2/28/17 9:13 PM A member of the Black Panther Party feeds his son at a Free Huey rally in DeFremery Park in Oakland. (Photo by Ruth-Marion Baruch, 1968) FLASH POINT A gift of a major photography collection provides rare opportunities to engage with powerful, poignant images Portraying intimate moments to some of the most defiant in California history, the extraordinary photographic archive of husband-and-wife team Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch is a treasure box for scholars, students, historians, photographers, and community members alike. The archive, given to UC Santa Cruz last year, consists of photographs documenting the people, landscape, and politics of California in the mid-20th century, capturing images of the state at a time of tremendous social change.

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continued from page 18 Lower right, opposite page: Woman in a black dress that’s “The fact that this collection came to too tight. This page, above: the UC Santa Cruz Library and not to A sale made, a customer sits a private museum is significant,” said and a saleswoman stands Elisabeth Remak-Honnef, head of Special writing up the sale. At left: Collections and Archives. “We are able to Three girls having fun with provide students and researchers with an hats. These photos are from unusually rare opportunity to personally the series Illusion for Sale, engage with the images they wish to see San Francisco, by Ruth- and study.” Marion Baruch, 1961. With Unlike museums, where you can only this series, Baruch offers “a see materials on exhibit, the entire clandestine, but sympathetic collection is available to the general study of very intimate, yet public. People may come in and request universally experienced Above left: Woman in caftan and children with “Free Huey” ban- individual photographs to be looked at in moments of exploring ner at Bobby Hutton Memorial Park in Oakland; from a photo essay the reading room. personal identity,” said Mary deVries, the archivist who is on the Black Panthers by Ruth-Marion Baruch, 1968. Above right: “This very personal experience is quite processing the collection. Black Panthers from Sacramento at the same Free Huey rally; from special in the world of major photography a photo essay on the Black Panthers by Pirkle Jones, 1968. collections,” Remak-Honnef said. Some of Jones and Baruch’s best- known photographic series include Berryessa Valley (1956), Haight Ashbury

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Opposite page, top: (during the Summer of Love, 1967), Black Panthers (1968), and Gate Four men pulling rigging Five in Sausalito (1969–75). (No. 14) in the bohemian The gift includes more than 12,000 photographic prints, 25,000 houseboat community Gate negatives, and thousands of transparencies created by the Five, Sausalito. Below: photographers over the course of their careers, as well as a selection Sculpture on right, houseboat of prints by such colleagues and collaborators as Dorothea Lange, with worm-eaten hull and Brett and Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Minor White. Madonna on the left (No. Project archivist Mary deVries is working with student assistants 26), Gate Five. Both by Pirkle to process the materials and make them easily accessible to Jones, 1970. researchers. This page, left: The work of Jones (1914–2009) and Baruch (1922–97) has been Children behind a chainlink exhibited at museums throughout the country and abroad. The library fence from the Children, They plans to loan items to the de Young Museum in San Francisco for its Grow in the City series by upcoming Summer of Love exhibition, and to traveling exhibits in 2018. Ruth-Marion Baruch, 1948. “The stories Ruth-Marion and Pirkle captured from the 1940s Right: Children on a car through the 1970s are just as relevant today as when they were bumper, North Beach, San created—our society is grappling with the same social, political, Francisco, from the Children, racial, and environmental issues,” said Remak-Honnef. “Students and They Grow in the City series researchers are eager to engage with these issues, and appreciation by Pirkle Jones, 1948. for such beautiful photographs is timeless.” Donated by the Marin Community Foundation, the Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch Collection is the largest single gift in the For more information, visit campus’s history, with an estimated value of $32 million. guides.library.ucsc.edu/speccoll.

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LIGHTS, CAMERA, SOCIAL ACTION

Above: An image of a Haitian ceremony in a Haitian immigrant enclave in Barahona, in the Dominican Republic Top: Juan Mejia (with camera) and Juan Yepes filming the building of a small charcoal oven on the Dominican border near the town of Galván; Bottom: Calina, the Haitian widow of a murdered Dominican A Saudi woman filmmaker travels A filmmaker travels to Rio de Janeiro park ranger, gazes at the camera. She is one of the protagonists of the UC Santa Cruz’s R R filmDeath by a Thousand Cuts. This picture was taken in front of through her native country, overcoming and discovers that the city has not kept her house in the town of Puerto Escondido, Dominican Republic. Social Documentation Program, many obstacles to tell the story of a thrill- its promise to clean up the staggering Rich, fully formed characters help the now celebrating its 10th anniversary, seeking joyrider in Riyadh. She takes pollution in Guanabara Bay in advance of filmmakers tell stories that cross borders, footage of the city on the fly, using her the 2016 summer Olympic Games. challenge preconceptions, and combine is producing socially conscious films iPhone. Unable to meet with her male These bold, human stories often go the personal with the political. subject in person because of gender that bear witness, address injustice, untold, but UC Santa Cruz’s unique Film segregation rules, she hires a cameraman In the process, this innovative two-year and Digital Media Department’s Social and shine a light on neglected to shoot him instead. program has created a bumper crop of subjects Documentation Program, affectionately edgy, talented, well-trained documentary R The teenage sons and daughters of known as “SocDoc,” is stepping into the filmmakers who are already winning undocumented immigrants visit Mexico breach, producing socially conscious films prizes and hitting the festival circuit. This for the first time since being secreted that bear witness, address injustice, and year marks the 10th anniversary of its across the border as young children. shine a bright light on neglected subjects. first graduating class. MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU 24 UC SANTA CRUZ MAGAZINE Spring 2017 25 LIGHTSCAMERA continued

Students come from a wide as well as state-of-the-art lighting even set foot in the place where they catastrophes,” said Taylor. “I say Mejia’s postgraduation work “Our model is to train people to be variety of disciplines. Often, they and camera techniques—but these will be filming.” that, of course, with tongue in includes a feature documentary good enough at production basics he codirected called that they can work as producers bring with them the richness of elements must serve the stories. One student filmmaker, Alex cheek, but it’s also true. If you get Death by a through a documentary production which examines and editors, or work in sound.” their own cultures. SocDoc has “We don’t fetishize style, but we (Jorge) Flores, researched Thousand Cuts, intact and alive and have something the murder of a forest ranger on the attracted students from as far away do push people to be innovative,” immigration history and U.S. A career as a documentary even relatively good, you have Dominican/Haitian border. More as Argentina and Colombia. One said Assistant Professor Jennifer politics before pursuing his filmmaker is not an easy one. beaten the odds. So many things than just the tale of a killing, the recent student was a Fulbright Maytorena Taylor, whose newest project about undocumented Technology and online distribution scholar from Iceland. can go wrong. If you go in thinking movie is also a story of transnational film,Message to Zaire, was students in California who are have lowered the bar of entry and something will go wrong, you can animosities and a thriving These student moviemakers have a broadcast on PBS in February. She known as “Dreamers,” after the the cost of equipment while creating deal with the setbacks and the timber industry in an area that is great responsibility, noted new UC wants her students to “tell stories Development, Relief, and Education a glut of content. But SocDoc trains unexpected, and figure out ways to Santa Cruz Arts Dean Susan Solt. authentically while pushing the for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. He make them part of the story.” envelope artistically.” followed a group of Dreamers in “You can’t look at SocDoc without their late teens and early 20s as For instance, while shooting her appreciating what the filmmaker The student filmmakers retain they ventured back to Mexico to widely praised 2009 documentary has to engage with: immersing their independence and their visit relatives. which is about a yourself in the topic, gaining the points of view. They are making New Muslim Cool, hip-hop duo consisting of Hispanic knowledge, and then making it sophisticated films, not public Other filmmakers have intensive Muslim brothers, she had to contend live as a work of art—grounded, service announcements. Still, the real-world preparation for their with an FBI raid on some of the of course, in truth, reality, and a professors expect them to be fair projects before they even enter the characters’ homes. That incident mission,” she said. and accurate. program. Before enrolling, 2011 graduate Bridgette Auger had been changed the arc of the story that SocDoc’s student filmmakers “We seek to have people look at living in Damascus, Syria, for two Taylor thought she was telling, but embody the ideal of the “citizen subjects with nuance, to allow years, working as a still photographer in the end it deepened and enriched artist, creative people who loom contradictions to co-exist because for the United Nations and covering the film. large in the world, contributing and they do every day in our lives,” the country’s responses to the making a difference, shedding a Taylor said. Iraqi refugee crisis. “I spent my light on problems and providing Life after SocDoc days traveling around the country insight,” Solt said. Telling deep truths All of this training and life experience speaking with Iraqis about their has real-world applications. The program now offers a master’s experiences,” Auger said. So many students move on to degree, but it is transitioning into in a ‘post-fact’ world Auger’s student film, impressive documentary filmmaking an M.F.A. program. Faculty hope In these foggy days of fake news ElShelleh (The is about Iraqi musicians who careers that Rich finds herself the change will be complete within stories and social media postings Guys), resettled in El Cajon, California. “constantly updating” the SocDoc this academic year. that blur fact and fantasy, SocDoc students work hard to capture the “They were happy to be safe, but list of outstanding alumni and their The evolution from M.A. to glorious messiness of real lives and were frustrated because they were achievements. M.F.A. is significant for a few situations. educated and talented musicians Rich spoke with obvious pride when reasons. First, M.F.A. programs wasting away working at gas she mentioned that the prestigious have a unique focus on the arts; “You know, a lot of people think stations and 99-cent stores,” Auger Margaret Mead Film Festival, held SocDoc was founded in the Social you can just capture what is going said. The story was bittersweet; every fall in New York City, has Sciences, but moved over to the on in the world by pointing a the men continued to support each featured the work of one or two Arts Division and Film and Digital camera at it,” said B. Ruby Rich, other and make music as they SocDoc alums without fail ever Media in 2011. Second, the M.F.A. a highly regarded professor in the adjusted to their new lives. As she since it started showcasing the allows SocDoc graduates to teach SocDoc Program and a respected made the film, program professors films of emerging documentarians. at the college and university level if critic and film scholar. “But you can “helped me learn to articulate Juan Mejia filming the charcoal market in Ravin Djab, Haiti, very close to the Dominican border city of Jimani. they wish. easily be misled. You have to know the visual ideas in my head,” said One recent success story, 2007 why you are pointing the camera, graduate Juan Mejia, directed “Most universities will not even Auger, who was the recipient of a you have to be prepared, and know Uprooted, a student film about supposedly off-limits to logging. It consider an applicant who does prestigious fellowship at the Bay its students to stand out from the why you’re there.” the forced displacement of black premiered as part of the Hot Docs not hold an M.F.A.,” noted Film Area Video Coalition in 2016. masses of aspiring filmmakers. communities in Colombia. International Film Festival in Canada and Digital Media Chair Irene That’s why SocDoc is all about and recently won the grand prize Besides, said Rich, “there is a Gustafson. “context, immersion, and deep “I entered the program more as Tales from the field for documentary at the Seattle hunger for new voices. Our students knowledge,” she said. “Preparation an anthropologist, really,’’ said International Film Festival. The film bring real passion to their work.” Bearing witness is so important. We don’t want Professors advise their students Mejia. “I had some basic media also won the Audience Award at students to arrive raw, a blank sheet, in every step, from the theoretical experience but not that much. At SocDoc is custom-made for DOC NYC in New York. The Film and Digital Media when they start their films. We aspects of filmmaking to the art SocDoc I really honed my skills, documentarians who wish to Department presents an exhibition want them to be as knowledgeable of editing. But the professors also but there was also an intensive “I admire the fact that the program immerse themselves in their topics of thesis films from the master’s as can be. Sure, they’re learning give these budding filmmakers theoretical process. We learned a allowed us to come into our and make artful, thoughtful films program in Social Documentation film production, but they’re also advice drawn from life. lot about how to make responsible stories from our deep political that can lead to social change. The annually in June at the Del Mar taking classes in social science and “One of my favorite aphorisms and complex documentaries. You commitments,” Mejia said. visuals can be beautiful, and the Theatre in downtown Santa Cruz. research methodologies. All of that is that production is a carefully can still be committed politically to a techniques eye-catching—some Not all students go on to For more information about SocDoc,

goes on in the first year before they managed series of narrowly avoided PHOTOS CONTRIBUTED BY JUAN MEJIA story and tell it in a complex way.” make use of animation and graphics documentary filmmaking careers. visit film.ucsc.edu/socdoc. “It is a mix,” Gustafson said. MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU 26 UC SANTA CRUZ MAGAZINE Spring 2017 27 CAMPAIGNUPDATE Profiles by Peggy Townsend ALUMNIPROFILES

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The Campaign for UC Santa across campus is benefiting vice chancellor for University Cruz is entering its final from the philanthropy of our Relations. “Initiatives in months having surpassed friends and alumni.” genomics, the renovation of its target of $300 million and The campaign is the first the Science and Engineering focusing on building resources campuswide effort to build Library, and launching a new for unmet priorities all across a culture of giving in support graduate program in coastal campus. The campaign will of students, faculty, and science and policy are among draw to a close June 30. campus programs. More than priority areas before the “This moment is filled with 57,000 donors—many of them close. We hope everyone who potential for our campus alumni—have made gifts to the has been considering a gift and for advancing what we university since the campaign will seize the opportunity to do,” said Chancellor George launch in 2009 and going become a part of this historic

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MILLION Blumenthal. “We are inviting public in the fall of 2013. campus.” everyone who cares about UC “We are excited to see what Santa Cruz to become a part additional progress we can of the campaign in the coming make before we close the Axel Alonso: months. Important work all campaign,” said Keith Brant, Diversity’s

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IN OTHER CAMPAIGN NEWS: As editor-in-chief of reflecting a diverse his editors and writers It’s also important Marvel Comics, Axel and changing world. include people of that comic books say COLLIGAN CHAIR QUARRY SUPPORT FOR Alonso oversees a During his five-year diverse backgrounds, something about life. IN PEDIATRIC GENOMICS RENOVATION UNDERWAY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH world of superheroes, tenure as the head religions, and genders. “One of our guiding villains, and John “Bud” and Rebecca Colligan Construction is underway on The San Francisco–based Koret of the editorial Alonso, whose mantras is that you have established the Colligan restoration and expansion of Foundation is supporting a Student megalomaniacs who division of the famous immigrant parents should reflect the Presidential Chair in Pediatric the iconic Quarry Amphitheater Success Initiative at UC Santa Cruz want to take over the comic-book company, were from Mexico and world outside your Genomics with matching funds in the heart of campus. The with a $1 million grant for the new world. His team of the 50-year-old Alonso England and who is window,” Alonso THE from the University of California project is being funded with Koret Undergraduate Research editors and writers has overseen the married to a woman says. “What are CAMPAIGN Office of the President. The nearly $6.4 million in existing Scholarships. The grant will fund puts out 63 to 72 comic creation of a Muslim of Korean descent, people talking FOR endowed chair will support a student fee reserves and more 50 stipends of $1,500 for students books each month, superhero, a female believes diversity about? What are UC SANTA distinguished member of the UC than $1.6 million in gifts from in any discipline. It will also provide and, in 2015, Marvel Thor, a biracial Spider- needs to be seen in they worried about? CRUZ Santa Cruz faculty whose research alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and program and mentoring support Comics reportedly Man, and Korean the pages of Marvel Our stories strive to is increasing involves pediatric genomics. The others. The venue was closed in for student research projects. made $224 million from American Hulk, among comics. address these things private UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute 2006 after falling into disrepair. UC Santa Cruz is one of 12 Koret sales of its comics and others. He has signed through allegory and investment in the is working to unlock genomic Completion of the first phase of University Partners. “It’s very important trade paperbacks. National Book Award metaphor. We want to extraordinary information to make possible the project, which will allow it to to me that readers But for Alonso the winner and MacArthur speak to the human education and targeted treatment of diseases, be reopened for use as a gathering of all types can see Thank you to all who business of turning genius Ta-Nehisi research mission including a focus on pediatric and event space, is projected for their reflection in the condition.” of UC Santa cancer through its Treehouse fall 2017. joined Giving Day 2017! out colorful graphic Coates to pen the characters,” he says Cruz. Childhood Cancer Initiative. stories on flimsy paper latest Black Panther from his office in

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Jennifer Andaluz: Providing Alan Lovewell: the stepping stones to college Fishing for change Oakes ’94, American studies Cowell ’05, art The photo on Jennifer Andaluz’s graduates go on to college. Reading and math skills are For a guy who grew up fishing, Alan phone shows four teenage Almost 90 percent persist in emphasized. Students are taken Lovewell was frustrated by his inability girls smiling confidently in front college after two years and on visits to college campuses. to easily get fresh seafood that wasn’t of Columbia University after 58 percent finish a four-year Scholarships are arranged. mislabeled or harvested by some huge winning a national engineering degree, Andaluz reports. Today, the school that started corporation using unsustainable fishing competition. The national rate for low- in the hall of a Methodist practices. If statistics are to be believed, income college students church has four campuses, So he decided to do something about it. none of the girls—all from getting a four-year degree is 1,500 students, and a budget low-income, minority families— 10 percent. of $18 million. Today the 34-year-old runs Real Good Fish, a company headquartered in Moss would likely attend a university “The first thing we do at “My call to action was to Landing that connects small-scale like Columbia. But Andaluz DCP is believe our kids can go into communities where fishermen directly with consumers doesn’t believe in those kinds do amazing things,” says kids don’t have the same through weekly deliveries of seafood that of predictions. In fact, a San Andaluz, a former teacher opportunities as wealthy range from fresh-caught Dungeness crab Jose charter school network who founded the school after communities,” Andaluz, 44, to wild salmon and sand dabs. she cofounded 16 years ago seeing kids being graduated says. “College was such a called Downtown College Prep without the academic skills transformative experience “The idea is that we want healthier (DCP) is intended to disrupt that needed for college. in my own life, I knew I oceans and to eat healthier food so kind of data. wanted to be someone who we have to have closer ties” between “Then,” she says, “that stimulated that aspiration in consumers and suppliers, said Lovewell The DCP program, designed for belief is backed up by high- other people’s lives.” sitting in his sun-drenched office at the middle and high school students quality instruction and college Moss Landing harbor, the raucous bark of from low-income backgrounds, knowledge, the stepping stones seals serving as background music. has seen 96 percent of its kids need to succeed.” Four years after it began, Real Good Fish now delivers fresh seafood caught by about three dozen fishermen to about Niketa Calame: Acting with purpose 1,100 clients in Central California. Weekly Oakes ’02, theater arts emails that include fishermen’s stories, catch information, and recipes have When Niketa Calame was 5 But being an African American and walk your purpose, the created a kind of mini marine community. her mom put a microphone in woman in Hollywood and ups and downs, the triumphs Lovewell also has taken that idea a step her hand. suffering from Type 1 and failures, are not as trying,” further through a program called Bay 2 diabetes, Calame did not she says. It was, says Calame, as if she Tray. Under the project, fishermen are always have a smooth path. had suddenly come alive. Her purpose took her to the not only brought into classrooms from There were times, she says, Actors Studio Drama School Monterey to Oakland to talk about their Calame would go on to voice about a woman who runs a when she had difficulty in New York, where she profession, but also their catches end up the character of “young Nala” gym dedicated to keeping at- keeping her confidence earned her M.F.A. It took her on the schools’ cafeteria trays. in Disney’s animated film The risk youth off the streets. because the entertainment to TV shows and roles like Lion King, act on stage, sing in Last year, Lovewell was named one of industry did not see the Squeak in at And it took her to a role choirs, appear in commercials, The Color Purple 12 Champions of Change for Sustainable beauty of her dark skin, and the Celebration Theatre in as a spokeswoman for and make documentary films. Seafood by the White House for his work. the constant vigilance she Los Angeles. the American Diabetes Association and to a “The realization I had was that, if we needs in the face of a disease It also has taken her to her mentoring program where don’t first empower coastal communities that makes even small job as an assistant director she is preparing for work as a to take control of themselves in a decisions a matter of life and at IV I II Studios in Southern death is wearing. community college professor. sustainable manner, there is no way we California, where she makes will have healthy, sustainable fisheries on But Calame, 36, is undaunted. IMPACT brand films and “I’m consistently working and a global level,” Lovewell says. feature documentaries, getting paid to be an artist,” Want more Slug updates? “I was lucky enough to find including the studio’s latest Calame says. “To me, that’s This issue’s Alumni Notes my purpose at a young age, PHOTOS: ANDALUZ BY MANDY CHASE; CALAME BY LEAH HUEBNER; LOVEWELL BY C. LAGATTUTA movie, Boxing for Christ, success.” can be found at and I feel like when you live magazine.ucsc.edu. MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU MAGAZINE.UCSC.EDU 30 UC SANTA CRUZ MAGAZINE Spring 2017 31 1MORETHING by Herbie Lee

WE WILL NOT TURN BACK

Let’s dance

UC Santa Cruz is an institution I can tell you, without reservation, of faith facing harassment and engineer with Cruz’s Office of Physical that the program can that recognizes—and cherishes— that we at UC Santa Cruz will intimidation, possibly in response a geography degree Education, Recreation thrive in perpetuity. diverse opinions, disciplines, and continue to hold our doors open to our current political climate. from UC Berkeley. & Sports (OPERS), then “UC Santa Cruz,” says backgrounds. This commitment wide to “pioneer students” who are Such behavior is at odds with our continued with jazz, folk, is enshrined in our Principles of the first in their families to attend a core principles and values, and we After attending a James, “represents and ballet classes. He Community, which call for mutual four-year college. must speak out against it. performance of everything I value.” went on to perform with respect and celebration of diversity. We will continue to make No one is quite sure what will Yugoslavian folk dance, Whatever your passion, he was inspired to study the Santa Cruz Ballet We Banana Slugs speak English, university access available to happen in the coming years. But as Theater, Ariel Dance you can help it live on Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog, California students through we move into 2017, let’s keep the dance even though Company, and the through generations of and many other languages. Our scholarships, institutional grants, dialogue moving forward. Let us he was 30 years old students who will ancestors, and some members of loans, and Cal Grants. not be fearful. Let us stand strong and had no previous Santa Clara Ballet. When James Duncan benefit from your our community, come from every in the face of those who would try experience. James is including a gift As the interim campus provost/ discovered dance and vision. Find out how to part of the globe. to undermine our community, our in his will to establish executive vice chancellor, I am UC Santa Cruz, he was He audited the modern include UC Santa Cruz In our uncertain political landscape, grateful to live and work in a values, and the progress we’ve an endowment for fought so hard to make. already a broadcast dance class offered in your estate planning. I am proud to be part of the community that will not divulge through UC Santa dance instruction so University of California system, confidential student records which has doubled down on its without judicial warrant, or Herbie Lee is the UC Santa Cruz commitment to the privacy and cooperate with any federal registry interim campus provost/executive civil rights of our scholars, including based on religion. vice chancellor. Newly appointed our undocumented students. For Like many of you, I have read the CP/EVC Marlene Tromp starts June 1. Let us know if UC Santa Cruz us, education—a strong driver of disturbing recent news reports is part of your estate plan social mobility—is the primary goal, about people of color, members of and with that comes growth and the LGBT community, and people Contact Virginia Rivera at (831) 459-5227 or [email protected] opportunity that ripples outward. PHOTOS: FLAGS BY ELENA ZHUKOVA; DANCERS BY TOM VAN DYKE; DUNCAN BY C. LAGATTUTA to learn about including a gift to UC Santa Cruz in your estate plan. plannedgifts.ucsc.edu

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