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UC Santa Cruz Features Crime & Punishment Review One of the nation’s leading researchers in the areas of Chancellor capital punishment and M.R.C. Greenwood Crime & Punishment 8 penal institutions, UCSC’s Vice Chancellor, University Relations Ronald P. Suduiko Craig Haney has devoted his career to documenting Director, Public Affairs Oceans of Wonder 14 the long-term pyschological Elizabeth Irwin damage that inmates Editor

r. r. jones r. r. are experiencing. Jim Burns 8 Reinventing the Reel 18 Oceans of Wonder Art Director/Designer Jim MacKenzie The new Seymour Marine Discovery Center, which Associate Editors Mary Ann Dewey Departments attracted some 4,000 visitors Jeanne Lance of all ages during its opening

Writers weekend this past March, Barbara McKenna is introducing tomorrow’s Jennifer McNulty From the Chancellor 1 scientists to the workings Doreen Schack of a world-class Tim Stephens Karin Wanless pfleger mickey marine laboratory. 14 Campus Update 2 Reinventing the Reel Cover Photograph Mickey Pfleger UCSC’s Film and Digital

Office of University Relations Media major, one of the Carriage House Alumni News 22 most popular on campus, University of California offers undergraduates 1156 High Street exposure to more than Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 theory and history classes— voice: 831.459.2501 Alumni Notes 24 they also have access fax: 831.459.5795 to graduate-level e-mail: [email protected] web: review.ucsc.edu jones r. r. tools of the trade. 18

Produced by UCSC Public Information Alumni Profile 25 The Bridge at No Gun Ri and Publications. Printed on recycled Martha Mendoza, becoming paper; recyclable. 6/00(00-046/66.7M) the third UCSC graduate UC Santa Cruz (USPS 650940) Vol. 37, No. 4 / Spring 2000 to receive a Pulitzer Prize, UC Santa Cruz is a series of admini- was honored for her work strative publications published quarterly by University Relations at UC Santa Cruz. on an Associated Press story Periodicals postage paid at Santa Cruz, CA documenting the killing of 95060. Postmaster: Send address changes hundreds of civilians by to the University of California, Santa Cruz, University Relations, 1156 High Street, U.S. soldiers during Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077. ap photo / kathy willens / kathy ap photo the Korean War. 25 FROMTHE CHANCELLOR By M.R.C. Greenwood

or the first time since 1972, capital punishment and penal institu- UC Santa Cruz is opening a new tion psychology (page 8). Throughout college. With the enrollment of his career, Professor Haney has been students this fall, College Nine actively engaged in criminal justice represents a tangible symbol of issues, and his academic findings have FFthis campus’s vitality. Located in a helped shape public policy for more redwood grove next to Social Sciences than two decades. He is part of a 1 and 2, College Nine will serve as the growing cadre of faculty whose work home of students interested in global has spawned UCSC’s new Center for and international studies (page 6). Justice, Tolerance, and Community Like UCSC’s other colleges, College (page 13). Nine will create a “living and learning” Likewise, our alumni continue to environment for our students. Students achieve distinction. Among those affiliated with the new college in its don harris recently acknowledged is Martha early years of existence will have the Mendoza, who received a Pulitzer Prize unique opportunity to work with our As we say farewell to our most this spring for her reporting on the faculty and staff to shape College massacre of civilians at No Gun Ri Nine’s academic direction. during the Korean War (page 25). The campus has already benefitted recent graduates, we are reminded Mendoza is the third UCSC graduate from the contributions of the Class of to receive journalism’s highest honor 2000. As we say farewell to our most in the past five years. recent graduates, we are reminded that it is our students who define Another highlight this past year was that it is our students who define the the gala opening of the Seymour Center essence of the UCSC experience. They at Long Marine Laboratory (page 14). achieve excellence in the classroom Private donations, including a corner- while taking advantage of unique the essence of the UCSC experi- stone $2 million gift from H. Boyd undergraduate research opportunities. Seymour Jr., funded nearly all of the Like their UCSC predecessors, they center’s $6.25 million cost. The three remain committed to service, finding ence. They achieve excellence components of our mission at UCSC— the time to apply the knowledge they teaching, research, and public service— acquire in the classroom to community all come together with excellence at the service needs off campus. Our students’ in the classroom while taking Seymour Marine Discovery Center. work in the ArtsBridge Program (page 3) is one example of such commitment. This issue of the Review also spot- advantage of unique undergraduate lights excellence among our faculty through a story on psychology professor M.R.C. Greenwood Craig Haney, a leading researcher in research opportunities. Chancellor

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 1 CCAMPUSAMPUS UUPDATEPDATE UCSC to establish UC

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ontinuing a process that commenced officially Clast summer, UCSC is making progress toward the establishment of a Silicon Valley Center. Supported in Governor Davis’s proposed 2000–01 bud- get, the center will consolidate UCSC programs already serving George Brown, chair of the Academic Senate’s Committee on Educational Policy, Silicon Valley, while offering To record diving behavior, UCSC addresses the faculty in February about the grades proposal. to the region for the first time researchers mounted a video camera direct access to UC resources. on this trained bottlenose dolphin. Faculty senate adopts eliminated the requirement that A faculty committee has instructors provide “narratives” developed recommendations for grades plan; reform of in all lower-division courses; the academic planning principles, Taking a relaxed plan, which would also apply and a working group has identi- approach to diving ‘narratives’ proposed to entering undergraduates in fied prospective locations for a fall 2001, would continue the permanent site. The former will or years scientists have csc’s academic senate requirement for upper-division provide a basis for developing puzzled over the ability of voted overwhelmingly in classes. That meeting, however, the teaching and research activi- F dolphins, seals, and other UFebruary to make letter was canceled due to a student ties at the center. Meanwhile, marine mammals to perform grades mandatory for entering protest, and the NES discussion existing activities operating in long, deep dives that seem to UCSC students in fall 2001. is expected to resume at the Silicon Valley are headquartered exceed their aerobic capacities. Faculty members this spring senate’s fall meeting. at an interim site in Cupertino. Now, with the help of sophisti- were also poised to discuss a cated instruments and video proposal that would amend the technology, a team of researchers campus’s traditional Narrative has resolved the paradox and Evaluation System (NES). discovered a laid-back diving The 154–77 vote in favor strategy that appears to be wide- of instituting UC's traditional services ucsc photo spread among marine mammals. grading system may still be over- The research team, led by turned by full vote of the senate, Terrie Williams, an associate conducted by mail. (A request professor of biology at UCSC, for such a ballot was made in late studied Weddell seals hunting March; at press time, the results beneath the ice in the Antarctic, had not been announced.) a northern elephant seal diving Specifically, the grades in Monterey Bay, a trained bot- resolution approved in February tlenose dolphin diving offshore permits students who enter of San Diego, and a 100-ton UCSC a year from this fall blue whale traveling off the to continue to be able to take A Workout with a View With a weeklong open house in February, coast of northern California. courses on a “pass/no pass” UC Santa Cruz’s Wellness Center officially opened to students, faculty, “Basically, they’re turning basis. But no more than 25 staff, and others affiliated with the university. Overlooking the Monterey the motor on and off in percent of the course work Bay and the East Field, the center was constructed as a 10,600-square- the course of the dive, and applied toward graduation foot, two-story building. The $4 million center is equipped with two that enables them to reduce credit could be taken P/NP. complete floors of cardiovascular and strength-training machines. Above, oxygen consumption by The senate, meanwhile, was Dan Wood, executive director of UCSC’s Office of Physical Education, 10 to 50 percent compared scheduled in late May to discuss Recreation, and Sports, explains the programmable workout functions with what they would need changes to the NES, including a of a new fitness bike to Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood. if they swam all the way proposal that would have down,” Williams said.

2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 Biologist receives Arts program meets Presidential award needs of on- and off- barbara mckenna campus communities ssistant professor of biology Yishi Jin is among t’s quite common these Aa select group of young days for UCSC student researchers to receive the 1999 IJessica Fisher to take a walk Presidential Early Career Award downtown and be hailed for Scientists and Engineers. enthusiastically by a group of The award is the highest honor excited preteens. It’s not that bestowed by the U.S. govern- she resembles Britney Spears. ment on outstanding scientists Rather, Fisher teaches in a and engineers who are in the local junior high every week, early stages of their research which has given her a small careers. Jin went to Washington, fan club of her own. D.C., in April to accept the Fisher teaches art to two Seventh grader Jenna Escobar gets tips on a bookmaking project award at the White House. classes of seventh graders each from Jessica Fisher. Jin studies the genetics of ner- week through ArtsBridge, a vous system development. Most program created to increase they reach more than 1,700 cement what they have of her research is based on exper- arts enrichment in California’s secondary school students learned at the university by iments with a tiny roundworm, secondary schools. each week. The UCSC stu- breaking it down and adapt- C. elegans, known to molecular UCSC launched the pro- dents are part of a cadre of ing it to the needs of individ- biologists as “the worm.” The gram last fall, sending 21 some 600 UC students teach- ual classrooms,” says Porter worm’s nervous system consists students into area schools to ing through ArtsBridge across College provost and professor of 302 interconnected nerve teach classes in the arts. This the state. of theater arts Kathy Foley, cells. The human brain, in past winter quarter, 58 UCSC As its name indicates, the who is the director of UCSC’s contrast, contains at least one students were in classrooms in program was conceived as a ArtsBridge program. “At the trillion nerve cells. four counties—Santa Cruz, bridge between two commu- same time, the program aims “We have learned a lot about Santa Clara, Monterey, and nities with common interests to be of service to the larger behavior from studying the San Benito—teaching art, and symbiotic needs. community and to bring the human brain, but we know music, drama, dance, and “ArtsBridge is a wonderful joy of learning and creativity little about how its structure digital art and film. In all, way for UCSC students to into every classroom.” develops and how all the neural connections are made,” Jin said. She has been identifying Admissions program terparts at each of the schools, transfer-related activities, such genes involved in creating the participants have launched a as advising, campus visits, and worm’s relatively simple neural launched by UCSC, dual admissions program that staff assistance. “We know that circuitry; so far, all of the genes guarantees community college many of our students aspire to she has found in the worm have 14 community colleges students a spot at UCSC after transfer to the University of had matching genes in humans successful completion of their California, and the Regional and other organisms. csc is teaming up with first two years of course work. Council’s goal is to make 14 regional community “By offering a clear pathway that vision a reality for more Yishi Jin Ucolleges to increase the to the university, dual admis- students,” said President

number of students transferring sions takes the uncertainty out Chui L. Tsang of San Jose City jones r. r. from community colleges to the of the transfer process,” said College. “Pooling our resources University of California. Foothill College President will allow us to do more for UCSC Chancellor M.R.C. Bernadine Chuck Fong. greater numbers of students.” Greenwood is collaborating with “Students know that once In addition to UCSC, the presidents of community they have met the basic require- participating colleges are colleges in Silicon Valley and the ments, there will already be a Cabrillo, Cañada, De Anza, Monterey Bay Area to make it spot at UCSC waiting for Evergreen Valley, Foothill, easier for students to transfer to them.” Gavilan, Hartnell, Merced, UC campuses. As a result of Dual admissions is the first Mission, Monterey Peninsula, the first meeting of the newly initiative of the Regional San Jose City, Skyline, and formed Regional Council, made Council, which has the over- West Valley Colleges and up of Greenwood and her coun- arching goal of supporting College of San Mateo.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 3 Major grant boosts Summer festival pairs Latin American and

Shakespeare, Sartre shmuel thaler Latino studies or its 19th season, ho would guess that Shakespeare Santa Cruz pop music superstar Ricky Fwill take its audiences WMartin embodies a across the ages, with plays set phenomenon that is shaking up in ancient Britain, Renaissance the intellectual roots of Latin France, and 19th-century American studies. But the fact England. The plays are that Martin is a hit with audi- Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s ences in his native Puerto Rico, Lost, directed by Daniel Fish; across Latin America, and in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, the United States is a shining directed by Danny Scheie; example of the way in which and Jean Paul Sartre’s Kean, traditional social and cultural directed by Michael Edwards. borders are becoming blurred. The season opens with That phenomenon has neces- preview performances on July sitated a “rethinking” of Latin 12, with all three plays running American and Latino studies, in repertory between July 27 and UCSC is at the forefront and August 27. of a growing movement that is The 2000 season features spreading throughout academia. several Shakespeare Santa Cruz UCSC’s effort to broaden veterans, including SSC artistic the scope of Latin American director Paul Whitworth, who and Latino studies got a major will play the title role in Kean, endorsement recently from the and directors Edwards and Ford Foundation, which award- Scheie, both former artistic ed a $235,000 three-year grant directors of the festival. to the Chicano/Latino Research For tickets and more Center and the Latin American information, call (831) Robert Jason Jackson and Lise Bruneau in Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s and Latino studies program. 459-2159. 1998 production of Othello. The grant will help UCSC researchers bring a greater “transborder” focus to such Ph.D. programs rated has been highly ranked in literature and cultural studies. issues as migration, globaliza- other national assessments. • Astrophysics/Space. UCSC tion, and techology, says Patricia among nation’s best A National Research Council made the top-10 ranking, finish- Zavella, professor of community survey in 1995 ranked Earth ing tenth, in the Astrophysics/ studies and one of the project’s hree ph.d. offerings at sciences in the top quartile of Space “specialty” in the field principal investigators. UCSC are among the best all doctoral programs in that of physics. The campus’s Tin the country, according to field; the assessment takes place Astronomy and Astrophysics Patricia Zavella the 2001 edition of U.S. News every ten years. Department, which offers a & World Report’s popular guide • Third World Literature. doctorate and an undergraduate helping students select graduate UCSC made the top-10 rank- minor, has also been highly schools. The rankings appear in ing, finishing fourth in the ranked in other national assess- the magazine’s “Best Graduate Third World Literature “special- ments. UCSC astrophysicists, Schools” guide. ty” in the field of English. The were recently ranked first in a Specifically, UCSC was campus’s Literature Department survey measuring the impact of highly ranked nationally in the offers bachelor’s and master’s research on the field. The survey, following Ph.D. program areas: degrees in addition to a Ph.D. evaluating the top 100 federally • Geology. In the overall The doctorate offers concentra- funded U.S. universities, was rankings in this field, UCSC tions in American, British, and completed by the Institute made the top-25, finishing in a other English literatures; French for Scientific Information and tie for 23rd. The campus’s Earth literature; modern literary stud- ranked universities whose Sciences Department, which ies; pre- and early modern stud- research papers attracted the offers bachelor’s and master’s ies; Spanish, Latin American, most attention from other schol-

jon kersey degrees in addition to a Ph.D., and Latino literatures; and world ars between 1994 and 1998.

4 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 Women’s studies petitioned the administration to establish a full-fledged program. don harris program turns 25 In the spring of 1975, the first degrees in women’s studies were ot long ago, the idea of conferred. At that time, UCSC women’s studies was little was one of the few schools in the Nunderstood or regarded. country to offer a major in the But then came the Women’s subject. Liberation Movement of the Since it was established, late 1960s and early 1970s and, UCSC’s Women’s Studies along with it, a whole new Department has gained interna- perspective on the importance tional distinction as the home of the role of women in history, of some of the country’s most literature, science, and myriad outstanding scholars in the field. other fields. “Women’s studies at UCSC One of the country’s most has shown itself to be a world- highly regarded and long-stand- class model for an academic ing women’s studies programs discipline—deepening our body turned 25 this year. The pro- of knowledge and, at the same gram, located at UCSC, began time, making the world a better with a single class in 1971. The place to live,” says Chancellor Women’s studies faculty: (front row, l–r) Bettina Aptheker, Akasha Hull, following year some 700 students Greenwood. Marge Frantz; (back row, l–r) Tina Campt, Carla Freccero, Helene Moglen UCSC teams up with Physicists and (SCIPP) will take the lead in Scientists will use the instru- designing and building one of ment to investigate objects Nature Conservancy astronomers work on the principal components of such as distant galaxies pow- the instrument, the silicon ered by supermassive black new partnership gamma ray telescope strip detectors used to record holes at their centers, remnants between UCSC and the the direction of gamma rays. of stars that have exploded as ANature Conservancy aims csc scientists are now In addition, a proposal supernovae, and many other to put the best available scien- involved in several aspects by associate professor of phenomena at the extremes of tific information to work in Uof the Gamma ray Large astronomy and astrophysics mass and energy. the area of marine conservation Area Space Telescope (GLAST), Stephen Thorsett was chosen GLAST will be built and and management. A coopera- scheduled for launch in 2005. as one of four “interdiscipli- used by an international collab- tive agreement signed this After years of planning and nary scientist investigations” oration involving more than 20 spring provides the foundation evaluation of proposals, NASA to broaden the scientific institutions from six countries. for an effective working rela- has announced the main expertise involved in the “We were working under tionship between UCSC’s investigations on which the project. the assumption that we would Institute of Marine Sciences project will focus. GLAST will explore the do the project, but NASA’s (IMS) and the Conservancy’s UCSC’s Santa Cruz most energetic and violent decision formalizes it,” says Coastal Waters Program, says Institute for Particle Physics events in the universe. SCIPP’s Robert Johnson, an IMS director Gary Griggs. associate professor of physics. “The Nature Conservancy Thorsett’s project will use can help us in our efforts to un- GLAST to study gamma rays derstand the biology of marine emitted by pulsars. Pulsars are environments, and it also pro- the collapsed cores of massive vides an urgently needed con- stars left behind after superno- duit to export this knowledge

stanford linear accelerator center linear accelerator stanford va explosions. Spinning rapidly and apply it in marine conser- in deep space, a pulsar sends vation and management,” flashes of radiation sweeping Griggs says. across Earth like the beam of a The Nature Conservancy lighthouse. focuses on preserving habitats “The energy range of and species by protecting the The Gamma ray Large Area Space Telescope, shown in this GLAST is a natural place to lands and waters they need to diagram, will be used to study some of the most exotic phenomena study the physics of pulsars,” survive. The organization cur- in the universe, such as pulsars and supermassive black holes. Thorsett says. rently manages 1,340 preserves around the globe.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 5 Artist sets her sites space in the contemporary

r. r. jones r. r. urban world,” says Nagasawa, around the world an assistant professor of art. Another piece in the works hen it opened this is a collaboration with a land- spring, the new National scape artist for the McEnery WGovernment Center in Children’s Park in downtown downtown Saitama, Japan, San Jose. For the project, became one of the busiest Nagasawa designed wind vane pedestrian corners in the world, sculptures in the form of insects. with some 50,000 people The idea was inspired by the crossing the plaza each day. park’s proximity to the As they traverse the area, many of those people glance downwards

toward their wrists to barbara mckenna check on the time. UCSC artist Nobuho Nagasawa, who installed one of her many “site- specific” works in the plaza, hopes that a glance downward will evoke a more primordial College Nine administrative officer Deana Slater, surrounded by four sense of time. current UCSC students on the site of the campus’s newest college Nagasawa’s project, commissioned by College Nine to accept ment of College Nine. the Ministry of “College Nine’s affiliation Construction in Japan, students this fall with the division will strengthen covers 15,700 square Nobuho Nagasawa inspects a model of a the academic themes of global feet of the plaza with 12-piece installation that she has created for or the first time since studies, including economics, an iridescent lunar a new park in downtown San Jose. 1972, UCSC is establishing a ethics, and cultural diversity,” calendar that is periodi- Fnew college. College Nine says Chemers. cally sprayed by a mist fountain. Guadalupe River. “These in- will serve as the intellectual home “We want to encourage un- “The genesis of this proposal sects, dragonflies in particular, of students interested in global dergraduate research, interdisci- was to question the concept of are important monitors of river and international studies, the first plinary studies, and experiential people’s perception of time and ecology,” she says. of whom will enroll in the fall. learning through academic field “Like the campus’s other programs and internships.” eight colleges, College Nine will Deana Slater, the college’s The book of of “stay-at-home” Christian integrate living and learning administrative officer, will separatists into a daunting environments by bringing oversee the student affairs Jerry Falwell force that has forever changed together students with shared in- functions of the college, includ- this country’s cultural and terests,” Chancellor Greenwood ing co-curricular and academic ver the years, UCSC political landscape. says. “Students affiliated with programming, administration, anthropologist Susan “For most of the 20th the college during its first years and residential life. Campbell OHarding has studied century, fundamentalists will have the opportunity to work Leaper, associate professor of Jerry Falwell and American were in self-imposed exile,” with faculty and staff to develop psychology, has been named Christian fundamentalism Harding says. “They were the college’s theme of global associate dean of the college and of the 1980s. separatists who shunned the studies and to shape the aca- will fulfill the responsibilities of The result of that years- secular world as profane and demic direction of the college.” college provost. long effort is Harding’s corrupt.” Located in a redwood grove Construction of apartments new book, The Book of Jerry But the 1980s marked a next to Social Sciences 1 and 2, that will accommodate 280 Falwell: Fundamentalist dramatic reversal, during College Nine is the first college continuing and transfer students Language and Politics. which the definition of “good to open at UCSC since College is under way and is expected Harding found that Jerry Christian” became synony- Eight was established in 1972. to be completed this fall; Falwell and his fellow mous with “engagement” at As dean of Social Sciences, residence halls that will house preachers masterminded all levels of secular society, Martin Chemers has been close- 400 students are slated to open the stunning transformation including politics. ly involved with the establish- in fall 2001.

6 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 Scholar appointed to Setting record straight In Memoriam chair in India studies on affirmative action Peter Rushton, a longtime rofessor of theater arts he most gratifying UCSC lecturer in Chinese Kathy Foley, chair of the feedback Faye Crosby has language, died of cancer in P Theater Arts Department T received on her new book, April; he was 50. and provost of UCSC’s Porter museum asian art san francisco courtesy Sex, Race, & Merit: Debating Rushton held a Ph.D. College, has been appointed to Affirmative Action in Education in Chinese language from hold the campus’s Chandra and Employment, came from a Stanford University. He joined Bhandari Endowed Chair in student who was a strong the Language Program faculty India Studies—one of the advocate of affirmative action at UCSC in 1984, where he country’s few endowed chairs in —until she read the section of taught the full range of Chinese India studies and a cornerstone Crosby’s book that presents language curriculum from of the campus’s burgeoning arguments against the policies. Chinese 1 to advanced courses program in South Asia studies. Traditional Indian art is one of the “What she read made her in Chinese literature and Foley, who will serve as many subjects studied at UCSC with think more deeply about the philosophy. chairholder through the spring support from the Bhandari Chair. issue, and at first she was “His reputation as a leading of 2001, is a respected scholar disturbed to find herself ques- young Chinese scholar in the in the field of Indian and and institutions in India. tioning her own beliefs,” says U.S. reflected highly upon not Southeast Asian dance and “Professor Foley is a respect- Crosby, a psychology professor only the Language Program, theater. Her areas of research ed leader at UCSC with a deep at UCSC, who coedited the but on the division and the include the arts and culture of regard for and understanding of book with Cheryl VanDeVeer campus,” says Jorge Hankamer, India. Foley received a Ph.D. South and Southeast Asian arts of the campus’s Document Humanities Division dean. in Asian theater from the and culture,” Chancellor Publishing and Editing Center. His wife, Jacqueline Ku, University of Hawaii, where Greenwood says. “Under her The book brings together a is also a lecturer in Chinese she specialized in Indonesian leadership, this program will rich array of material, including language at UCSC. puppet theater. She studied the serve as a bridge between the articles and essays by leading A scholarship fund in dance art of Tamil Nadu in the university and the community scholars on both sides of the Rushton’s memory is being l970s and conducted research at large, supporting activities issue. “If people are going to established to benefit as a Fulbright scholar on the that promote an understanding argue about this, let’s argue on students studying in China. impact of Indian arts and of India and drawing upon the the basis of information,” For more information, call culture on the German rich resources of the area’s active Crosby says. (831) 459-2501. Romantic movement. Indian community as well.” Her recent research has Narpat Bhandari says he is focused on interconnections confident that Foley “will fur- Librarian lends a hand between South and Southeast ther our vision to establish Asian performance and visual UCSC as an international focal to ‘Wicked Widow’ iconography and has resulted point for India studies that barbara mckenna in exhibitions on South and can support interdisciplinary lthough well known Southeast Asian puppets and collaborations with academic in the Santa Cruz com- Vietnamese water puppets. and nonacademic colleagues Amunity, UCSC librarian The Bhandari Chair was around the world.” Margaret Gordon never had established by Silicon Valley Foley plans to generate multi- to cope with widespread entrepreneur Narpat Bhandari disciplinary activities, drawing fame. Now Gordon’s name is in honor of his wife, Chandra, on campus, community, and known to just about every ro- in 1997. Since its inception, the international resources. “I am mance novel fan in the coun- chair has supported a number looking forward to working try, thanks to a dedication in of important events, including collaboratively with the Indian a New York Times best-seller. two international conferences community in the Santa Cruz– The book, Wicked Widow, Margaret Gordon, with Jayne that have brought scholars San Jose area,” she says. “I would is authored by UCSC alumna Ann Krentz’s latest romance novel together from around the world like to build programming that and best-selling romance to examine India’s economy allows students to interact with novelist Jayne Ann Krentz. historical setting of the book. and the art and culture of India, the community to learn about (The book is credited to Gordon provided Krentz as well as a visit to India by a the rich history of Indian culture Amanda Quick, one of with information on the campus delegation, which has and also to understand its Krentz’s many pen names.) Vauxhall Gardens—the plea- sewn the seeds for a variety important contributions to Krentz’s thanks are for sure gardens of 18th-century of multidisciplinary collabo- American culture, economy, Gordon’s research on the Regency England. rations between UCSC and the arts.”

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 7 RIME C & Punishment r. r. jones r. r.

8 raig Haney remembers the first Social scientist time he saw William Wagner. It was during Craig Haney exposes a tour of Pelican Bay, California’s state-of- the-art high-security prison on the desolate the psychologically north coast. “I remember him because he was so dra- devastating conditions matically psychotic,” recalls Haney, a pro- fessor of psychology at UC Santa Cruz who inside our nation’s Cwas gathering evidence for a lawsuit on conditions of solitary confinement inside Pelican Bay. “He was ‘supermax’ prisons lying in the fetal position, disturbed and incoherent.” A longtime heroin addict whose criminal history consisted of drug-related theft, Wagner deteriorated in Pelican Bay. Along with nearly half the prison’s population, he was held in solitary confinement, or so-called “supermax” conditions. “He was transferred to solitary for fighting, and after that he just unrav- eled and became catatonic,” says Haney, an expert on the psychological effects of incarceration. Despite his obvious suffering, Wagner was never hospitalized or given proper treatment while he was incarcerated. The next time Haney encountered Wagner, it was too late. Just five months after he was released from Pelican Bay, Wagner was facing capital murder charges for a slaying committed during a robbery in Sacramento. “Here was a man who had previously committed only nonviolent offenses stemming from his drug addiction, and within a few months on the streets, he was accused of committing capital By Jennifer McNulty murder,” says Haney, whose testimony contributed r. r. jones r. r.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 9 to a judge’s landmark ruling searchers in the areas of capital thousands of maximum-securi- lthough there is no that conditions at Pelican Bay punishment and penal institu- ty prisoners, including many work he would rather “may press the bounds of what tions. convicted murderers, acknowl- do, Haney almost most humans can psychologi- With degrees in both law edges the horrible nature of the missed his calling. In cally tolerate.” and psychology, Haney has crimes and the tragic conse- A 1970, during his first We may never know for sure amassed an impressive record quences for victims. “I’m not year of graduate school in psy- if the despair Wagner experi- of important research results in wired any differently than chology at Stanford University, enced while incarcerated con- both fields. He was the first re- anybody else,” he says. Haney was becoming frustrated tributed to the slaying, but the searcher to establish the biasing “Particularly if there were by an education that felt “too warehousing of unprecedented effects of a process known as children involved, I ask myself many steps removed” from numbers of people has dramati- “death qualification”—the ‘How could somebody do society’s problems. cally increased prison over- practice of asking prospective that?’” But Haney has always On a hunch, his adviser, crowding and brutality while jurors to express support for been able to see the humanity Philip Zimbardo, whose break- exhausting prison resources for the death penalty before allow- inside even the most dangerous through Stanford Prison medical and mental health ing them to participate in capi- criminals, and he is struck by Experiment would soon rock services. Haney, whose research tal cases. That research, which the consistencies of what he the world of psychology, sug- has documented the long-term showed how the selection hears about their childhoods. gested that Haney explore the psychological damage inmates process itself predisposes “By trying to find the origins complaints of a New Jersey are experiencing, warns that mother who felt her son had surging prison populations and been wrongfully convicted and deteriorating conditions are a “Even if you no longer care much about was now on death row. dangerous combination. “I was going back to New “Even if you no longer care the well-being of prisoners while they are Jersey for spring break to see much about the well-being of incarcerated, you need to remember that my family anyway, so I looked prisoners while they are incar- into it,” recalls Haney. “It was cerated, you need to remember most of them are going to get out one day. like that moment in The that most of them are going to Wizard of Oz when the picture get out one day,” says Haney. It should matter to all of us what state of turns from black and white to “It should matter to all of us mind they are in when they are released.” color. In that one case, I saw what state of mind they are in 100 different ways that psy- when they are released.” chology related to the legal sys- potential jurors to inflict the of violence, I consider myself a tem, and nobody seemed to be n some ways, Haney’s job death penalty, has had a lasting friend of victims,” says Haney. making the connections. I was is to find the humanity effect on judges and attorneys. “I want to understand the ori- invigorated, and it totally reori- where often there appears to Haney and his students have gins of violence so that some- ented my career.” The woman’s be none. Inmates sentenced continued to publish studies of day we can live in a society son was spared by the U.S. I to death for heinous crimes jury decision making in capital where there’s less of it.” Supreme Court’s decision in do not evoke much public sym- cases and to discover and docu- Unlike many of his contem- 1972 to set aside the death pathy, and the plethora of maxi- ment the psychologically dam- poraries, Haney is committed sentences of everyone on death mum-security prisons today aging conditions of imprison- to taking his academic results row, and Haney went on to reflects society’s appetite for ment. Last year, Haney’s expert into real-world legal arenas. earn a law degree as well as his vengeance. Yet Haney has spent testimony proved pivotal in a “One of the reasons the crimi- doctorate in psychology from his entire career probing the psy- lawsuit in which a federal judge nal justice system is so hard to Stanford. chology of violent criminals and declared supermax conditions change is that a great deal of But times have changed since acting on his belief that an im- in Texas prisons unconstitu- the knowledge generated by Haney’s days in graduate portant measure of the quality of tional. And he has researched academics has never penetrated school, when he and Zimbardo social justice that exists in a soci- the backgrounds of more than it,” he says. “The legal system were understandably optimistic ety can be found in the way it 100 individuals on death row rarely comes looking for new that their work on the Stanford treats its least-favored citizens. In in an attempt to unlock one ways to think about a problem, Prison Experiment would help the process, he has stripped bare of society’s darkest secrets: so you have to be prepared to speed reforms of U.S. prison the devastating psychological ef- what drives people to commit carry the message to whoever in policy. The experiment in 1971 fects of imprisonment, emerging unthinkable crimes. decision-making positions will attracted international media as one of the nation’s leading re- Haney, who has interviewed listen.” attention for the new light it

10 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 shed on the powerful psycho- public is willing to inflict in the or, like heroin addict William had decided differently, it logical effects of institutional name of crime control,” wrote Wagner, untreated drug prob- would’ve had a huge impact on settings. In the experiment, a Haney and Zimbardo. lems that contribute to erratic the overall deterioration of con- group of psychologically and sometimes violent behavior ditions there and elsewhere.” healthy college students were s one of a handful of in prison. Inmates in supermax In California, Haney was randomly assigned roles as psychologists who sys- units typically spend 23 hours a part of a landmark federal “prisoners” and “guards” in a tematically assess the day in solitary confinement. lawsuit, Madrid v. Gomez, that prisonlike setting. But the harmful effects of incar- Their meals arrive through a examined conditions of con- planned two-week experiment A ceration under adverse slot in the solid-steel cell door, finement at Pelican Bay. The was aborted after only six days, conditions, Haney has spent a and they rarely, if ever, interact California Department of when student “prisoners” began lot of time in Texas. Conditions with or touch another human Corrections was ultimately suffering acute psychological there are so bad that the prison being. They often stay there for ordered to change a number trauma and the “guards” began system has been under federal years on end. of practices, including the use mistreating their “wards.” scrutiny for 20 years. Haney’s research has estab- of excessive force by staff and The experiment’s results “There is a swagger in the lished the precise ways in which a critical shortage of medical dramatically demonstrated the Texas prison system that doesn’t the majority of supermax in- and mental health care. ways in which social situations exist anyplace else,” says Haney, mates suffer lasting psychologi- Haney also testified as an can overwhelm personality who inspected several of the cal trauma as a result of being expert witness in Coleman v. traits in determining behavior, and the findings appeared to have profound implications for Fueled by political propaganda and media-induced fears of crime, correctional policies. On the 25th anniversary of the experi- the number of people incarcerated in the United States skyrocketed ment, however, Haney and from 200,000 to 1.7 million between 1970 and 1997, earning the U.S. Zimbardo wrote for American Psychologist of “the death of the distinction of locking up a higher percentage of its population rehabilitation” that took place instead. Rehabilitation, based than any other nation on earth—and a wildly disproportionate on the idea that incarceration number of racial minorities. would facilitate an individual’s productive re-entry into the free world, was publicly and state’s supermax units and inter- confined in this increasingly Vasquez, a sweeping federal case politically discredited in the viewed more than 100 inmates popular form of incarceration. in which the quality of mental 1970s and replaced by a and prison guards there for a In his Texas decision, Federal health care in the entire “rage to punish,” they wrote. recent court hearing. In his District Court Judge William California prison system was at Fueled by political propagan- testimony, Haney described wit- Wayne Justice relied heavily on issue. A statewide study had da and media-induced fears nessing a level of despair among Haney’s testimony when he found thousands of California of crime, the number of people inmates that was “unparalleled” ruled that the extreme levels of prisoners suffering from unde- incarcerated in the United in his experience. He testified psychological deprivation im- tected and untreated major States skyrocketed from about observing inmates who posed in Texas supermax facili- mental illnesses and that many 200,000 to 1.7 million between had smeared themselves with ties were cruel and unusual. He mentally ill prisoners in the 1970 and 1997, earning the feces, and others who were noted that the “most compelling California prison system were U.S. the distinction of locking incoherent, babbling, shrieking, testimony” on the prison condi- being placed in disciplinary up a higher percentage of its banging their hands on the tions came from Haney, whom segregation rather than being population than any other walls, or begging for help. he referred to as “perhaps the na- provided adequate mental health nation on earth—and a wildly Supermax facilities were de- tion’s leading expert in the area care. Haney presented the results disproportionate number of signed to hold the nation’s most of penal institution psychology.” of his own more detailed follow- racial minorities. notorious violent criminals, but “That case was important be- up study. In a separate opinion “For the first time in the prison administrators have also cause it brought constitutional with even more widespread 200-year history of imprison- grown fond of using them as principles to bear on this po- implications than Madrid, the ment in the United States, holding pens for gang members tentially very harmful form of judge in the Coleman case or- there appear to be no limits on and those who suffer from pre- imprisonment,” Haney says of dered the state to make substan- the amount of prison pain the existing psychiatric conditions the Texas ruling. “If the court tial improvements in the quality

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 11 of its prison mental health care “I thought that within a year, On a case-by-case basis, The process of gathering the and in the psychiatric screening the system would be totally Haney feels that he and his col- facts of a life gets to the core of of prisoners. and completely fixed,” recalls leagues have made a difference. psychology, says Haney, who has Haney’s legal work gives him Haney, who had been hired “But you have to realize that made major contributions to unprecedented access to the by the Justice Department. the courtroom victory is the the understanding of how adult people and places that are the Instead, the court decision was beginning of making change, criminal behavior is rooted in subjects of his academic re- just the beginning of a decade not the end of it,” says Haney. early childhood experience. search. He evaluates each case of “pushing and shoving” to “Capital cases are fascinating at the outset to determine translate the judge’s decision or Haney, fielding because you don’t just interview whether psychological issues are into tangible changes. “It was a call from National the client,” he explains. “It’s the at the fore. If so, he may volun- incredibly frustrating, and it Public Radio’s All Things client, the client’s family, teach- teer his services, be appointed was very difficult because I had Considered on Christmas ers—anyone you can find. You by the court, or join one of the to go back and face the prison- F Day is all part of being a piece together these different legal teams as a paid consultant. ers who had provided me with leading expert on capital punish- parts of the defendant’s life to He protects the integrity of his a lot of information for the ment. In capital cases, where the gain insight into the course it research by insisting on doing case,” says Haney, adding that zeal to punish reaches its apex, has taken.” legally and scientifically defensi- inmates who participate in law- Haney knows he is fighting an Mitigation provides the ble studies. In prison cases, for defense team with its first and example, he interviews repre- only opportunity to present sentative groups of randomly Haney felt acutely the weight what it knows about a defen- selected inmates, not just the dant’s background that might associated press associated handful of individuals that of his responsibility in the case of convince the court to show attorneys have selected. Robert Alton Harris, who in 1992 mercy. “Remember, sentencing “Attorneys don’t influence hearings are not about getting me or shape the data I collect. became the first person executed people released,” reiterates I tell them, ‘Look, I’m not Haney. “We’re looking for the going to just walk around and Robert Harris in California since the death factors of an individual’s life give you my impressions.’ The penalty was reinstated by the courts in 1978. story that help explain who he expert opinions that have the is and what he did, thereby most influence on judges are lessening the need to punish based on competent studies,” suits over prison conditions uphill battle against public opin- him with death.” says Haney. “The prison system may be singled out for retalia- ion and trends in the courtroom. Haney felt acutely the weight now touches so many people’s tion that takes much subtler— Haney’s research has also of his responsibility in the case lives in this country, and we’re though perhaps no less devas- focused on the psychological of Robert Alton Harris, who in spending so much money on it, tating—forms than beatings. backgrounds of people accused 1992 became the first person yet there is almost no accurate Court-appointed monitors are or convicted of capital crimes, executed in California since the or honest commentary on typically assigned to follow up for which the death penalty death penalty was reinstated by what’s going on inside.” on a judge’s orders, some of may be imposed. His profiles the courts in 1978. Harris had As he has learned over the which, such as improved access of defendants are typically pre- been sentenced to death for the years, change takes time. to work programs, can be imple- sented during the sentencing 1978 murders of two 16-year- Although Washington State’s mented within months. But phase of a trial. Such docu- old San Diego boys, and Haney prison system is now among the money is always an issue, and ments are often all that stands was called on late in the appeal better ones in the country, that judges frequently have to order between a capital defendant to compile Harris’s social profile was not the case in 1979 when state legislatures to fund im- and a death sentence. for the defense. Haney docu- Haney, fresh out of law school, provements. Attitudes are often “The law and the constitution mented a life of unrelenting took on his first prison litigation the last to change. “Guards at require us to consider the back- abuse that began with Harris’s case. The U.S. Justice Depart- places like Pelican Bay can come ground and character of the de- birth three months prematurely ment was suing the state of to believe that they are giving fendant,” says Haney, explaining after his father kicked his preg- Washington’s Department of prisoners what they deserve,” that those elusive factors, known nant mother in the stomach Corrections, and when the court says Haney. “And they stop as mitigation, provide the legal during a drunken rage. Harris ruled in favor of the inmates and thinking about them as human grounds for consideration of a suffered from fetal alcohol syn- ordered improvements in the beings. Once that happens, mis- life sentence without parole drome, years of beatings, and system, Haney was elated. treatment is almost inevitable.” rather than death. cognitive disabilities.

12 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 “A lot of people point to someone like Robert Harris and research will be innovative say, ‘So what? Plenty of people The Road to Social Justice and interdisciplinary, and it have had it tough and gone on will bring together university to lead productive, law-abiding researchers and community lives,’” says Haney. “But people members who are affected r. r. jones r. r. rarely know the real facts and by—and taking action on— details of these people’s lives. what we’re studying.” They are not encouraged to To be successful, Pastor look past what they believe are says, CJTC researchers will evil forces who need to be exter- need to work collaboratively minated and see the human with individuals, nonprofit beings who are the product of organizations, and other extreme poverty and brutality advocacy groups. In addition, and a whole range of truly the center will place an unusually strong emphasis terrible circumstances.” on sharing findings with the After Harris was put to public and policy makers. death—an execution Haney re- The initial focus will be luctantly witnessed at Harris’s on California, which is at the request—it would have been forefront of what Pastor easy to walk away feeling hope- calls “the new economy, the less. But Haney, who remains new diversity, and the new troubled by the “Kafkaesque” Martin Chemers (left), Anne Levin, and Manuel Pastor inequality.” Research efforts atmosphere that unfolded will be complemented by around the execution, says it hortly after his arrival on Chemers. “The center will public lectures, interaction made him more determined campus in 1995, Social bring them together and fund with policy makers, mainte- than ever to educate people SSciences Dean Martin their work with the explicit nance of databases and survey about the facts that underlie Chemers noted the unusual goal of changing public policy capacity, and an information capital cases. concentration of faculty to create a more just society.” switchboard that will incor- As scarred as Harris’s own members addressing issues of Fundraising efforts recent- porate media response background was, Haney says inequality, diversity, and social ly got under way with a strategies and web-based that degree of childhood abuse justice. For several years, $100,000 gift from former dissemination of research and trauma is commonplace he dreamed of creating an UCSC Foundation President findings and other materials. among people who have com- intellectual home for his Anne Levin, whose contribu- Dozens of professors on mitted egregious crimes. And colleagues. Now, thanks to a tion was matched by support campus will ultimately be therein lies the real key to faculty effort launched by from the Division of Social affiliated with the center, says crime prevention, says Haney: Chemers, a new interdiscipli- Sciences and the Office of the Chemers, who promoted the Rather than calling for ever nary center that will provide Chancellor. Manuel Pastor, idea of the center to anyone more sophisticated prison such a home is under way. professor of Latin American who would listen, bending fortresses that numb us to the The Center for Justice, and Latino studies, was the ear of the chancellor, his humanity of those inside, Tolerance, and Community named director in January. faculty colleagues, and poten- prison officials must tend to will support rigorous academ- “My goal is to sponsor tial donors. “I think this is an the individual needs of inmates ic research and provide a research on a wide variety of important addition to the and prepare them for eventual forum for participation in topics, from the psychologi- campus,” says Chemers. release. And society needs to public discourse and policy cal roots of racism and ho- The center will be directed address the real causes of crim- debates. mophobia to policy recom- by a faculty steering commit- inal behavior, embracing its “One of this campus’s mendations that will help tee and an advisory board youngest members early on to great strengths is the number reduce the huge income made up of prominent com- ensure that all children receive of researchers we have who disparity between high-level munity leaders. For more the emotional and material are committed to understand- executives and service work- information, contact Jocelyn support that will help keep ing the causes of social and ers in the digital economy,” Nelson at (831) 459-5743 or them safely beyond the reach economic inequality,” says says Pastor. “The center’s [email protected]. of prison walls.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 13 Oceans of

“Marine scientists are

ordinary people with Long Marine Laboratory has always WOattracted visitors interested in the ocean extraordinary curiosity UCSC’S and curious about the lab’s research activities. They began showing and interest in how up as soon as the lab opened in 1978, prompting a decision to welcome the public with regular programs and tours that made the ocean works.” Long Marine Lab an unusually accessible research facility. —Gary Griggs By the 1990s, the lab was attracting more than 30,000 visitors per year, offering docent-led tours, special programs for school groups, Director, Institute and training for teachers. Unfortunately, demand for these programs went well beyond the capacity of the modest facilities available. of Marine Sciences With the opening of the Seymour Marine Discovery Center in March, Long Marine Lab now has a splendid new center devoted to marine science education, and it has been earning rave reviews. The center gives schoolchildren and the general public an inside look at the workings of a world-class marine research lab. Interactive exhibits feature the work of researchers in UCSC’s Institute of Marine Sciences, which operates the lab. A fascinating assortment of marine life is on display in rows of aquariums and at the touch tanks, where visitors can get their hands wet examining the denizens of local tide- pools and kelp beds. “We have created a space where people can see how a marine lab works, who the researchers are, and how and why they do their photo by ed young by photo work,” says Seymour Center director Julie Barrett Heffington. “It’s not a traditional aquarium, or a museum, or a nature center, but it includes features of all three as part of a working marine laboratory.” The goal of the center is to educate people about the role scientific research plays in the understanding and conservation of the world’s oceans. The center’s “people-oriented” approach helps make the science accessible. Researchers themselves are featured as prominently as the subjects they study. (continued on page 16)

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“When you describe nature and you look very carefully, you see things you couldn’t jeremy lezin have dreamed of before.” —Mary Silver Professor Ocean Sciences

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 15 “We want to introduce teaching labs. One is a wet visitor programs manager, likes IN THEIR visitors to the human side of lab with live specimens and to compare the center to a marine science,” Heffington running seawater, just like winery, an analogy first used OWN WORDS: says. the research labs. The other by the architect who designed Throughout the center teaching lab has cabinets full the building, Jon Schleuning. IMS researchers there are photos of researchers of equipment and marvelous “When you tour a winery, describe in the field, videos of them specimens like shells, fossils, you expect to see a working explaining their research, and and marine mammal skulls. operation, not a polished their work quotes expressing how they There are resources for every display, and you come away feel about their work (exam- age group, from jigsaw puzzles with an appreciation for “Realizing what was ples, left). IMS researchers and hand puppets to reference winemaking in general,” going on was the most regularly present their findings books and microscopes. Borok says. “What people exciting intellectual to the public through lectures learn here about our marine experience I’ve ever and discussions held in the research should give them had. I was so taken center’s main conference hall. an appreciation for all of julia davenport by what we had seen marine science and for the in just that instant. he new center has scientific process in general.” given a tremendous That whole night I boost to the lab’s popu- t the heart of the was up, writing and T lar school programs, enabling Seymour Center’s oper- thinking.” the education staff to develop ations are dedicated —James Estes A new programs for children in volunteers who do everything all grades, from kindergarten from leading tours to main- “Almost all our tide- through high school. These taining the aquariums. pool work was done programs incorporate the work “We want to introduce Currently numbering about in the spring, when of UCSC researchers and are visitors to the 170, the volunteer corps the tides are low in based on the latest California human side of marine has been growing to handle the early morning. Science Content Standards, science.” the increase in visitors and So it was a kind of which specify certain concepts —Julie Barrett the expanded programs. ceremony, meeting that students should learn Heffington Volunteers receive extensive the students in the at each grade level. training, and their own desire The program called “You “Because we have access to to continue learning keeps intertidal at sun- Otter Know,” for example, things like live animals, marine many of them involved year rise. It’s exhilarat- introduces fourth graders to fossils, and other resources, after year, says volunteer coor- ing out there.” the importance of sea otters in we’re able to provide opportu- dinator Sally Real. —John Pearse the coastal kelp forests and to nities that students can’t have “We have one volunteer the work of Adjunct Professor at school,” Keedy notes. who was in our very first “The more we know about James Estes, a leading authori- When the Seymour Center docent class in 1979—she’s marine mammals and how ty on the topic. Through opened in March, its school over 80 years old now, but they relate to their a series of interactive games, programs were already booked she says she just can’t stay environment, the bet- students learn about Estes’s through the end of the school away,” Real says. ter we will be able to findings and absorb key year. Demand is also high for Volunteers not only staff preserve wild dolphins concepts about food webs, the other youth programs, the exhibit hall and lead tours, and whales into the ecosystems, and the interde- such as “Ocean Explorers,” they work directly with stu- future.” pendence of living organisms. a series of weeklong summer dents in school groups and “All of the lessons involve day camps, and a special provide the one-on-one inter- —Terrie Williams hands-on activities where the “Marine Science for Girls” actions essential to all of the kids are fully engaged, figuring program that was offered center’s programs for visitors. “I like being at sea. things out for themselves,” during spring break. “The volunteers provide You’re off somewhere says youth programs manager the personal touch that really doing something Kevin Keedy. or casual visitors, makes the exhibits come exotic and different— The new school programs tours of the center and alive,” Real says. “They are and someone else is take full advantage of the the other facilities at the link between the re- doing the laundry.” F center’s impressive facilities, Long Marine Lab are offered searchers and the community, —Margaret Delaney including two well-equipped several times a day. Lisa Borok, using their interpretive skills

16 and personal anecdotes to convey scientific information in such a way that people will WE’RE OPEN! really remember it.” The grand opening of the Seymour Center on the weekend of March he Seymour Center 11–12 drew more than 4,OOO is a self-supported visitors. Festivities included Toperation, relying on a ceremonial kelp entrance fees, program fees, cutting, live music, memberships, gift and book- storytelling, special store sales, grants, and dona- tions to cover expenses. The activities for kids, members organization, Friends and talks by marine of Long Marine Lab, provides scientists. funding for the programs and daily operations of the Seymour Center, marine mammal programs, and stu- dent research awards. Nearly all of the $6.25 million needed to build the center came from private donations, including a $2 million cornerstone gift from H. Boyd Seymour Jr. of San Francisco. IMS director Gary Griggs shepherded the project through nine years of planning and fundraising. To him, the Seymour Center represents a vital partnership between campus and community. Marine science is one of the most accessible and broadly appreciated research activities at UCSC and elsewhere, and Griggs says the university has a responsibility to capital- ize on that natural appeal to educate people about science and the environment. “People are attracted to the Santa Cruz area because of Monterey Bay and the ocean, so there’s a natural curiosity about marine science in this community,” Griggs says. “With the Seymour Center, we now have a wonderful place to show people all of the fascinating things we’re learn- ing about the oceans, and in the process to give something back to the community.”

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UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 17 REINVENTING THE

“The cinema is an invention without a future.” —Louis Lumière R E E L ouis Lumière and his are pursuing bachelor’s such companies as Skywalker brother, Auguste, are degrees in film, making it one Sound, 20th Century Fox, credited with staging of the most popular majors and Castle Rock/Spyglass Le Cinématographe, 1895 the first exhibition of on campus. Entertainment. “moving pictures” in This year’s graduates were Many universities focus 1895. Even though the first students to receive a their undergraduate film pro- their screening of a mov- B.A. in “film and digital me- grams on theory and history, Ling train caused panicked au- dia.” The name change, from reserving access to equipment diences to shriek and duck for “film and video,” reflects the for graduate students. On the cover, the brothers dismissed evolution in the field as well as other hand, technical schools their invention as a mechani- the program’s emphasis. “Since typically provide hands-on cal novelty with no future. the program was established in experience but rarely offer Today, cinema is one of the mid-1970s, we’ve aimed to academic courses. UCSC’s the world’s most popular art train people as artists. Now we Film and Digital Media forms and, with ticket buyers are training them as artists Department stresses both. paying $7.50 or more at who can be leaders in the digi- Marti Noxon, who graduat- the theater, one of the most tal revolution,” says Professor ed from the program in 1987, lucrative. While the 1900s Eli Hollander, chair of the explained the value of UCSC’s were a time of tremendous department. dual emphasis during a recent growth for the film industry, UCSC film alumni have campus visit. “Learning how the new century—with the excelled in the field, taking to look at film theoretically, as advent of the Internet and leading roles as directors, well as technically, really made a variety of digital media— writers, producers, cinematog- a difference when I began holds even more promise. raphers, and technicians. The writing and selling scripts,” As the industry booms, so list of films and television said Noxon, supervising pro- has the demand for people shows they are associated with ducer of Buffy the Vampire trained in the field. This up- includes Titus, The Abyss, Slayer. “I developed a sensibili- surge in interest is obvious at Flubber, Follow Me Home, ty for how to look behind an UCSC, where enrollments in Glory Daze, Star Trek, Days of image to the ideas that give the film classes last year topped Our Lives, Xena, and Frasier. image depth, innuendo, and 2,200. Close to 400 students Others have landed jobs with spark.”—Barbara McKenna

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Enrollments in film classes last year topped 2,200. Close to 400 students are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in film, making it one of the most popular majors on campus.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 19 a UCSC film historian.

Stamp, who won UCSC’s jones r. r. prestigious Excellence in TAKE ONE: Teaching Award in 1998, is one of seven faculty in the “Ladies, if you spare us one evening Film and Digital Media and make use of the enclosed tickets, Department who specialize in such areas as theory, pro- we will consider it a favor.” duction, and history. Her Advertisement for the Star Theater, book is the latest example of New Hampshire, 1913 projects by these faculty— research, publications, and n the 1910s, promoters in the fledg- films—that are expanding ling film industry began actively court- the scope of film studies. ing women audiences. Up to that Leading film historians I point, filmgoers had been largely work- are praising Stamp’s work as ing-class and immigrant an important con- men, and promoters tribution to film hoped that drawing more studies—one that women into their theaters provides a new un- would lend respectabili- derstanding to a ty—and profitability—to crucial era in cinema. “The in female patrons did not always elevate their venture. 1910s were a period of real the reputation of the cinema. Until a new book was transformation in the film “Action-adventure serials, like published this past April, industry,” Stamp says. “The The Perils of Pauline, politically charged the general belief among industry was 15 to 20 years old films on women’s suffrage, and lurid sto- film historians was that and starting to become more ries of white slavery and prostitution all these promotional efforts sophisticated as a visual attracted female audiences during these were a complete success. But the book, and narrative medium, but it still lacked years,” Stamp says. “But none fostered Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion wide cultural acceptability.” the ladylike refinement promoters sought Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon, By targeting women, promoters did out; and all three further challenged an undermines that long-held theory. succeed in attracting more women. But, industry already worried about its public The book’s author is Shelley Stamp, as Stamp discovered, the films that drew reputation.”

have settled on to make his point, he inad- vertently chose one in which the sounds were created by a former UCSC student, courtesy blake leyh courtesy TAKE THREE: composer Blake Leyh. Leyh completed his studies in 1983 with an individual major ast winter, to demonstrate the impor- emphasizing film and electronic music. tance of sound in setting a mood, film Lord and the Coen brothers are not the professor Chip Lord showed his students only ones to recognize Leyh’s talents. Leyh Lthe opening scenes of the Coen brothers’ has produced sound and scored the music offbeat film, Barton Fink. “You can hear for dozens of Hollywood and independent high liquid bursts, distant thunder, long films, including Titus; The Abyss (which metal screeches—they create a montage that received an Academy Award nomination gives you a visceral feeling you can’t get for sound); The Moderns; Get Shorty; from dialogue,” Lord told his Introduction He Got Game; Summer of Sam; Bamboozled; to Production Technique and Theory class. and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Of the thousands of films Lord could UCSC was the perfect training ground

20 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 TAKE TWO: jones r. r.

n June, David Bolam graduated with a degree in film and digital media—and a lot of options. “I have a Plan A, but I I also have a Plan B and C,” he says. “In this field, you have to have alternatives.” Bolam, 46, began a career in theater in England and Europe immediately after high school. Although he eventually left the theater, Bolam never lost his passion for dramatic expression. So, in 1998, he returned to the classroom, enrolling in UCSC’s popular film and digital media program. Bolam quickly discovered that his Plan A would be experimental filmmaking— visual expression without traditional plot-oriented frameworks. Bolam had his first taste of such work in a class taught by Associate Professor Lawrence Andrews, producing a piece on the long- term psychological and social impacts of the Hiroshima bombing. Although filmmaking is his first love, considered in a universitywide screenplay offer Bolam the one thing he sought when Bolam is well-prepared to steer his career competition. At the same time, Bolam is he returned to school—the opportunity to in other directions. He has finished a exploring job possibilities in the lucrative articulate his imagination. “The exciting screenplay penned in Professor Chip field of interactive media (web, CD-ROM, thing for me is to turn the spark of an idea Lord’s screenwriting class. Titled “A and DVD). into something tangible that celebrates the Fighting Chance,” the piece is being As diverse as his options are, they all complexity of being human.”

for Leyh, who haunted the electronic music and film studios. When he left and began working in sound design, Leyh says he was surprised to find out how much of his blake leyh courtesy experience at UCSC was applicable in the professional world. “Sound design requires a lot of creativi- ty—something that was really valued at UCSC,” Leyh says. “The faculty were very supportive and gave us access to what was, at the time, pretty sophisticated equipment. When I began working in 1983, I was, in some ways, ahead of people who were doing the work professionally. I was able to say, ‘Hey, why don’t we do it this way—the way I did it in Santa Cruz.’ ”

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 21 ALUMNI NEWS

Alumni Association Alumni directory Councilors, 2000–01 to be published ...... he Alumni Association Cowell will publish a comprehen- Adilah Barnes Tsive biographical reference Michael Twombly volume that will be available for distribution in 2001. The Stevenson directory will list all known John Laird, President-Elect living alumni—alphabetically, Heather Urquhart,Vice President geographically, by class year, for Administration and by professional occupation. Crown The directory will include Michael Brown the full name, occupation, busi- Carol Hoshizaki ness and home addresses and phone numbers, and preferred Merrill e-mail address of all alumni. Ken Doctor The geographical index will Dominador Siababa show where alumni are located Porter and will be a useful aid in con- Daren Lewis, Vice President for tacting former classmates when Internal Affairs traveling. Linda Ziskin Log on to the new to search for news about the This fall, alumni will receive Kresge university,” said Carolyn a biographical update question- Douglas Foster alumni web portal Christopherson, executive direc- naire to be completed and Richard C. Hall tor of the Alumni Association. returned to the alumni directory he Alumni Association “This portal is our way of offer- publisher. Individuals wishing Oakes has partnered with ing alumni convenient access to to reserve their personal copy of Renée Martínez TMyPersonal.com, a leading premium online content and the directory will be given the Eric D. Thomas, Vice President affinity portal provider, to bring services as well as a way of main- opportunity to purchase a soft- for Finance a new service to alumni: taining a connection to UCSC.” bound, hardbound, or CD College Eight www.bananaslugs.com. Using Alumni can log on to receive edition. For the project to be Joanne Foxxe, Vice President for the portal, web users may a free UCSC e-mail address, successful, all alumni must External Affairs create a customized “start page” stay up-to-date on Banana complete and return these Robert Weiner, Past President containing up-to-the-minute Slug news, and find out about forms as soon as they receive information they need on a alumni events. In addition to them, whether or not they wish At Large daily basis. The portal, or web the UCSC information, they to purchase the directory. Mark Adams Liz Anne Jensen site, also offers e-mail, shop- can stay current on national, The directory will be made Yvette Keller ping, search capabilities, news international, and financial available only to UCSC alum- Sandor Nagyszalanczy and information from UC news; search the Internet for ni, and it will have a limited Pat Walker Santa Cruz, and other special- topics, companies, and people printing—only those directories Linda Wilshusen, President ized content. Users of www. of interest; and shop at their ordered in advance will be bananaslugs.com help support favorite online stores. They printed. Alumni are encouraged Ex Officio UCSC: A portion of all pro- can personalize stock portfolio to watch their mail for the per- Roger Anderson, Chair, ceeds generated through portal information to stay on top of sonalized biographical update Academic Senate activity is donated back to the their investments, bookmark and reservation form. Kami Chisholm, President, campus. their favorite sites, check the Alumni participation in the Graduate Student Association directory project is vital to its Carolyn Christopherson, “We know our alumni are local weather, and more. Executive Director using the Internet on a daily All members of the campus success. All alumni are urged M.R.C. Greenwood, Chancellor basis and we also recognize that community are welcome to visit to complete their personal Lauren Williams, Chair, even though they may be inter- www.bananaslugs.com to make biographical forms, fill out Student Union Assembly ested in staying in touch with the most of their online experi- the order card, and return the UCSC, they are often too busy ence, while supporting UCSC. packet to the publisher.

22 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 Your reunion: Start planning now! Scholarship fund dowment at the association’s biggest event of the year: lumni returned reaches $1 million the annual Alumni Vintners A to UCSC in record Wine Tasting. The tasting numbers for April 2000 want to thank you for will be held on Saturday, July reunions. Now’s the time “ granting this award that 29, from 5 to 7:30 P.M. in to plan a reunion for I will be a great contribu- the courtyard of the Elena your colleges, class, or tion toward my dream, my Baskin Visual Arts Center other cohort. Contact goals, and my life.” In writing at UCSC. Wine-tasting pro- the Alumni Association these words in 1999, Marisol ceeds benefit the AASF. now at (800) 933-SLUG. Tavera, recipient of a need- Some 15 UCSC alumni based scholarship award from vintners generally take part in the Alumni Association, the tasting, including David echoed the sentiments of Graves (Crown ’74) of many students before and since who have greg pio greg received financial support from the Alumni Association Scholarship Fund (AASF). In 2000–01, the fund will provide 12 financially needy Clockwise from left: Mark Clark (Merrill students with $2,500 ’70) and Judy Einzig (Cowell ’69) look Glen Ellen Winery reps Jim and Megan Booth (left) at memorabilia at the All-Alumni Reunion scholarships. Sixty- Luncheon; Oakes founding provost seven students have share libations and a laugh with Alumni Councilor J. Herman Blake pays tribute to founding already received John Laird (Stevenson ’72) at the 1999 Alumni chancellor Dean McHenry at the African $146,000 in scholar- Vintners Wine Tasting. This year’s wine tasting will American Alumni Reunion; alumni and celebrate the $1 million endowment achieved by students at the Mentor’s Circle; Erica ships since the Alumni

photos: mickey pfleger and greg pio pfleger and greg mickey photos: the Alumni Association Scholarship Fund. Ocegueda of Los Mejicas folkloric dance Association launched troupe performs for Chicano/Latino the AASF in 1991. Saintsbury, Randall Grahm prospective students and alumni attending As of June, generous (who attended UCSC in the the Encuentro 2000 alumni reunion. alumni had reached a goal early ’70s) of Bonny Doon that, in 1991, seemed lofty: Vineyards, and Dawnine raising $1 million for a per- Dyer (Oakes ’74) of manent scholarship endow- Domaine Chandon. Guests ment. Now that this bench- enjoy outstanding wine, mark has been reached, the delicious hors d’oeuvres, Alumni Association will live jazz by alumni musicians, have a permanent ability to and a panoramic view of support financially needy the Monterey Bay. A silent UCSC undergraduates. auction offers wine, dining, The Alumni Association overnight accommodations, Workshops • Exhibits • itself has been a major donor and more. Discount tickets Networking reception to the AASF. In 1998–99 and to two Shakespeare Santa in 1999–2000, the associa- Cruz plays taking place just Cost: $20 for Alumni Association members; tion offered $50,000 in after the wine tasting are $30 all others matching funds for alumni also available. The Alumni Registration deadline (postmark who made new or increased For a wine-tasting invita- Associations of the date): September 1 donations to the endowment. tion, contact the Alumni University of California Add $20 for registration Alumni responded generous- Association toll-free at (800) present postmarked after this date. ly, exceeding the $50,000 933-SLUG, or via e-mail at Register online at match both years. [email protected]. To UC Alumni Career Conference www.ucalumni.net A great accomplishment Los Angeles Westin Bonaventure Or contact the UCSC Alumni make a donation to the Hotel (downtown) Association toll-free at always calls for a great party, AASF, contact the Annual Saturday, September 23, 2000 (800) 933-SLUG so alumni and friends will and Special Gifts Department 8 A.M. to 2 P.M. E-mail: [email protected] celebrate the $1 million en- toll-free at the same number.

UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 23 and Architecture. Angela Genomics, a Cambridge-based applied economics) is preparing THOMPSON is pursuing a College Eight biotech company. for the C.P.A. exam through a career in drafting and architecture; ’75 Hal WHITE is doing the ’95 Anna CAMARENA has been program at Cal State Hayward. on the side, she plays in the pit “Silicon Valley dance,” running a married for five years and is work- ’93 Sara DANIELSEN has orchestra for summer repertory small company that sells computer ing as a social worker; she plans to recently returned to Santa Cruz to theater in Santa Rosa. chips worldwide. attend law school in winter 2001. begin working with Shakespeare ’76 Joseph SCHLEIMER is an Katherine McFADDEN finished Santa Cruz as education and out- entertainment lawyer in Beverly an M.S. at Texas A&M University reach director. Oakes College Hills; his clients include ZZ Top, in wildlife biology and has begun ’95 Laurea LONG Bruscia Sigourney Weaver, Walter a Ph.D. at the Center for (M.A., mathematics) married ’78 Robert FERNANDEZ is Matthau, James Cameron, and Environmental Research and Anthony Bruscia in 1997; Laurea founder and managing director of Sylvester Stallone. Conservation at Columbia is teaching and loving it. a tech venture capital fund, Acuity ’82 Alice BAACKE is retired and University, where she is studying ’98 Mark NECHODOM Ventures. doing volunteer work with hos- population genetics and the feed- (Ph.D., history of consciousness) ’79 Scott ROSEMAN is closing pice and a soup kitchen; she has ing ecology of mammals in the heads up the social and policy in on 15 years of owning and four children, six grandchildren, tropics. sciences unit of the Sierra Nevada running his business, New Leaf and a great granddaughter, and ’97 Derrick CHUA is in his Framework, under the aegis of Community Markets; he now second year of dental school at the Pacific Southwest Research has five stores, all in Santa Cruz she is remarried to Harry Dole Jr. ’83 After being widowed in June Temple University School of Station of the USDA Forest County. Dentistry in Philadelphia, taking Service; he is involved in research ’84 Patrick WALKER “has 1998, Deborah CAMPBELL is studying for her master’s degree in dental courses during the day, tak- and policy analysis focused on stepped off the hamster wheel of ing M.B.A. classes at night, and engaging watershed-based com- Silicon Valley life” and is living in system dynamics at the University of Bergen in Bergen, Norway; she preparing for the National Dental munity groups in planning and Ojai, Calif., with his wife, Beth; Boards. management for natural resources daughter, Devon; and son, Cory. and her two children, Aaron and ’99 Brian LEVINE is working on conservation. ’85 Douglas RIVLIN is living in Rachel, are enjoying life there, learning to live in snow and speak his master’s degree and single sub- Washington, D.C., where he is an ject teaching credential at adviser to the director of the Voice a little Norwegian. ’84 Joanne MURRAY Tabasz Chapman University. Chandra In Memoriam of America. SLAVEN is in her first year of a ’88 Chris BARNES is running is living in Santa Cruz with her Howard GONG (College Eight husband, John TABASZ (College master’s program in city and his graphic design business and regional planning at Cal Poly, ’74), a leader in the field of afford- enjoying his son’s first year of life. Eight ’95), teaching first grade, able housing, died February 23, and raising their three children; San Luis Obispo. ’90 After teaching high school 2000, of complications stemming John is a network engineer at English in Redwood City for the from a bone-marrow disease; he Cisco Systems. past seven years, Jen PETROELJE was 47. Gong was a partner in a ’85 Michael VAN ALTENA Graduate Studies is now teaching at a high school consulting firm specializing in moved to Idaho in May 1999 and program on the campus of Cañada ’82 William ADAMS (Ph.D., development and financial services is telecommuting full-time. College. history of consciousness) has been for nonprofit developers and local ’88 Dave UEBELE is a “comput- ’92 Sharon ANOLIK is corpo- chosen as the 19th president of government; during his career, he er geek,” telecommuting full-time rate counsel for Ask Jeeves in Colby College in Waterville, served as a financial consultant for and living rural. Emeryville, Calif., and can be Maine; he has been president of more than 100 projects that pro- ’91 Jeffrey STURGES married reached at [email protected]. Bucknell University since March vided more than 6,000 units of Rebecca Steed in 1994, and they ’93 After graduating with a Ph.D. 1995. He was the scheduled housing. own a home in Portland, Ore., in educational administration from keynote speaker at this year’s Jeffrey RAMSEYER (Stevenson where he has been a top chef at the University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Studies commencement. ’84) died of an apparent heart Northwest Brew Pubs for four Gerardo LOPEZ is an assistant ’87 Edward STEPHENSON attack May 9, 2000. He was a years. professor in the Department of is revising his dissertation on deputy district attorney for Los ’93 Susan HEDIN Schneider Educational Leadership and Policy Rastafari for publication; he is Angeles County and had prosecut- is currently working on her Analysis at the University of teaching full-time at Florida ed a number of high-profile cases. Certified Investment Management Missouri, Columbia. Memorial College, a historically He is survived by his wife, Consultant (CIMC) designation. ’95 Melissa Hope DAVIS has left black college, and part-time at Kathryn, and three children. ’94 After receiving an M.A in her position as director of social Albizu University, the first Jesse THYNE (College Eight ’98) Russian and East European studies services for a skilled nursing facility Hispanic-based university to have was killed in a car accident on at the University of Toronto, to raise her three children. Since a Hispanic name. January 7, 2000, while serving in Alexandra ARNDT got a job becoming a full-time California ’91 Peter FONG (Ph.D., biolo- the Peace Corps in Guinea, West with a major Canadian newswire Fish and Game warden in January gy) has been granted tenure at Africa; he was 24. He had been in service; now she works for a 1998, Eric KORD has been using Gettysburg College, where he has Guinea since June 1998 and had computer software development his B.S. in marine biology to edu- been an assistant professor of biol- been teaching math in the Labe company. Sherry GALAZYN has cate the fishing public, give cita- ogy for the past five years; Fong’s region in the north of Guinea spent the last five years on staff tions to people who “didn’t mean research has focused on serotonin prior to his death. with InterVarsity Christian to keep the Kelp Bass,” and chase reuptake inhibitors. Fellowship at MIT and is now down fleeing lobster poachers. ’94 Kuniharu MUKAO (M.S., the HR administrator at Cereon

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dance Alvin Ailey II ODC/San Francisco Tandy Beal, Mel Wong, Scott Wells

world music Buena Vista Social Club featuring Omara Portuondo and Barbarito Torres (cuba) Taraf de Haïdouks (romania) Kíla (ireland) Obo Addy’s Okraprong (ghana) Catemir with Ishan Özgen (turkey)

classical music David Finckel & Wu Han Andrew Imbrie Celebration

theater A Noise Within: “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” Teatro de la Esperanza: “Rosita’s Day of the Dead” Les Deux Mondes:“Tale of Teeka” The Acting Company:“O Pioneers” Rinde Eckert:“Romeo Sierra Tango”

lectures/readings Sandra Tsing Loh & Sarah Vowell

special presentation Nanci Griffith with the UCSC University Orchestra uc santa cruz arts & lectures

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