UC SANTA CRUZ Winter 1998 R E V I E W

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Plus: elementary school kids discover the university, behind-the-scenes learning, building the tools of modern astronomy CONTENTS FROM THE CHANCELLOR By M.R.C. Greenwood

UC Santa Cruz Features Building bridges to India s chancellor of UC Santa Cruz, They are bright, eager to acquire new Review / Winter 1998 Just a month before the I am asked frequently about the knowledge, committed to improving 50th anniversary of Chancellor India’s independence, many attributes that define the society, and very focused. M.R.C. Greenwood Today’s UCSC Students...... 6 Chandra (left) and Narpat quality and character of our extra- At UCSC, these traits are not Director of Public Information Bhandari gave $250,000 to UCSC, establishing Aordinary campus: our historic commit- unique to the students featured in this Elizabeth Irwin one of the few endowed Windows on the Universe...... 18 ment to teaching and the undergraduate magazine. In fact, they are qualities Editor chairs in India studies experience; the nationally recognized that are shared by the large number of Jim Burns in the United States. 2 caliber of UCSC’s graduate programs UCSC students that I’ve had the plea- Art Director/Designer Jim MacKenzie Kids Around the University...... 20 and research activities in the arts, sure of meeting and working with in

Associate Editors Today’s UCSC students humanities, and sciences; our new and my year and a half as chancellor. Mary Ann Dewey Gabriella de la Rosa, a innovative school of engineering; the Whether at college open houses, Jeanne Lance If All the World’s a Stage ...... 22 senior who is studying many important contributions that at meetings with student leaders and art history, is one of 10 Writers don harris highly motivated students the campus’s people and programs make members of a variety of student organi- Carolyn Christopherson profiled for our cover Robert Irion Departments to the vitality of our region of the state zations, or at receptions at University story—a feature that No description of the campus Barbara McKenna provides a glimpse into of California. House, my interactions with UCSC Jennifer McNulty the makeup of today’s Francine Tyler While UCSC is indeed multi- students have left me very optimistic From the Chancellor...... 1 UCSC students. 6 can—or should—ignore our Cover photography faceted, no description of the campus about the future that awaits both them R. R. Jones can—or should—ignore our most and the society to which they will most precious resource: UCSC’s Office of University Advancement Campus Update ...... 2 Tools of the trade precious resource: UCSC’s students. contribute. Carriage House Optician David Hilyard They are, after all, the people who are The interactions have also left University of California is a member of a team of 1156 High Street the focus of our educational endeavors students. They are, after all, me excited about UC Santa Cruz’s technical wizards who, Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 Alumni News ...... 24 working in the observatory and energies today; the people our fac- future in the new millennium. For if voice: 408.459.2501 laboratories on campus, ulty are diligently preparing to become the people who are the focus it’s true—and I believe that it is—that fax: 408.459.5795 construct the sophisticated the leaders of tomorrow’s society. one important measure of the vitality e-mail: [email protected] Alumni Notes...... 26 instruments astronomers web: www.ucsc.edu/review need to study Our cover story in this issue of our educational endeavors of any university is the caliber of the universe. 18 Produced by UCSC Public Information of the Review, therefore, puts the spot- students it attracts, then UCSC will and Publications. Printed on recycled Alumni Profile...... 27 light on “Today’s UCSC Students.” continue to occupy a very special place paper; recyclable. 2/98(98-116/58.7M) and energies today; the While we regularly provide you, in higher education. UC Santa Cruz (USPS 650940) Through young eyes Vol. 35, No. 3 / Winter 1998 Researching college life for our readers, with information about UC Santa Cruz is a series of admini- people our faculty are diligently strative publications published quarter- a class project, a group of our current students, this issue of the ly by University Advancement at UC elementary school students magazine tells the story of our student Santa Cruz. Periodicals postage paid decided to write their own preparing to become leaders at Santa Cruz, CA 95060. Postmaster: book on the subject when body through the lives of 10 of our Send address changes to the University they were unable to find of California, Santa Cruz, University students. Though their interests are M.R.C. Greenwood Advancement, 1156 High Street, Santa information for of tomorrow’s society. Cruz, CA 95064-1077. young readers. 20 varied, the 10 have much in common: Chancellor

UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 1 Fall enrollment highest Three receive Alumni $500,000 fellowship CCAMPUSAMPUS UUPDATEPDATE in campus history Association’s top honors don harris to UCSC astronomer ith a student body total- or the fourth consecutive New degree in business and public sectors, said economics ing 10,638, UCSC recorded hree people committed to enriching year, a UCSC researcher has professor Nirvikar Singh. He W its highest enrollment ever the lives of others have won the top F captured one of the nation’s management economics added that the Economics this past fall—up 4 percent, or 423 T awards given annually by UCSC’s most prestigious honors for young Department’s marketing, finance, students, from the prior year. Alumni Association. faculty members: a David and or the first time in campus and accounting electives are consis- The fall enrollment included Marge Frantz (top), a lecturer emerita in Lucile Packard Fellowship for history, UCSC is offering an tently among the most popular 6,970 continuing, 239 returning, the American Studies and Women’s Studies Science and Engineering, worth a F undergraduate degree in busi- classes. “Students have been begging and 3,429 new students. Of the Departments, won the Distinguished total of $500,000. ness management economics. us to do this,” he said. total, 9,570 were undergraduates Teaching Award for 1997. Frantz is highly Astronomer Dennis Zaritsky, Responding to strong demand from The new program combines the and 1,068 were graduate students. regarded for her dedication to students and 33, will receive $100,000 per year current and prospective students, strong analytic approach of eco- “We met our target for new passion for her subject matter. for the next five years to support economics faculty proposed the nomics with the technical aspects of undergraduates, and we’ve main- John Reid (center), the founder and john reid courtesy his innovative research on the life new bachelor of arts degree pro- management. tained the diversity and quality executive director of A Grassroots Aspen histories of stars in two nearby gram. Beginning this winter quar- In addition to intermediate and of students,” said J. Michael Experience, won the Alumni Achievement galaxies. He is among 20 scientists ter, students can officially declare advanced accounting courses, class- Thompson, associate vice chancel- Award. Through his nonprofit organization and engineers chosen by the the new major. es offered as part of the new major alexander david lor for enrollment management and in Aspen, Colorado, Reid helps inner-city Packard Foundation for their excep- “UCSC is becoming an increas- include: Chancellor Greenwood, left, with Chandra and Narpat Bhandari, whose director of admissions. The boost kids take part in an outdoor adventure far tional promise and creative abilities. ingly prominent player in the R Money and Banking; $250,000 gift has established an endowed chair in India studies at UCSC follows a similar rise last year. from their urban neighborhoods. UCSC is one of just four insti- regional economy, and this new R Real Estate Economics; “There’s increased interest in Angie Christmann (bottom), a coordina- tutions that have earned at least major will help prepare students for R Industrial Relations; spectrum of activities, including UCSC, and that’s due to our suc- tor for student programs and events at one Packard Fellowship each year

Gift establishes rare don harris burgeoning job prospects in the R Management in the Global distinguished scholars-in-residence, cess in communicating about the Cowell College, won the Outstanding Staff for the last four years. The others computer industry as well as other Economy; chair in India studies graduate research fellowships, campus both through our outreach Award. For nearly 27 years, Christmann has are the California Institute of business growth in the area,” said R Managerial Finance; course development, international materials and the personal school helped students make their ideas for festivals, Technology, the University of Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood. R Business Strategy and $250,000 gift to UCSC has conferences, the acquisition of visits made by admissions coun- performances, and other events a reality. Chicago, and UC San Francisco. The business management Entrepreneurial Studies; established one of the country’s resources on India studies for the selors, current students, and alumni The three, nominated by students, “These prestigious fellowships economics major builds on the R Environmental Business; A few endowed chairs in India University Library, and activities of volunteers,” said Thompson. alumni, faculty, and staff and selected by to our recently recruited faculty strengths of UCSC’s economics R Security Markets and Financial studies and is the first step in a faculty in the field of India studies. Beginning this year, state fund- the Alumni Council, were honored in a attest to the continuing quality of program while meeting the needs of Institutions; vision to establish an international “We are delighted to receive ing is based almost entirely on a campus ceremony in late January. UC Santa Cruz faculty,” said a growing number of students who R Management Science; center for the study of Indian civi- this gift,” said Chancellor M.R.C. campus’s enrollment figures. Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood. are interested in business and man- R Economics and Management of lization and culture. Greenwood. “Narpat and Chandra “These fellowships are exceptionally agement in the private, nonprofit, Technology and Innovation. The gift comes from Narpat and Bhandari are well respected for their Health care approved competitive and indicate that our Chandra Bhandari, Silicon Valley ongoing support of education both young researchers are second to entrepreneurs who were both born regionally and in India, having for domestic partners none—and their accomplishments Music major puts in India. Their gift has established dedicated personal resources and enhance the high-quality research jennifer mcnulty the Chandra Bhandari Endowed their talents as educators over the he university’s Board of and teaching at UCSC.”

focus on performance pfleger mickey Chair in India Studies, named in years. Their gift has established an Regents, meeting in Zaritsky, an assistant professor honor of Chandra Bhandari, an ed- important endowment that will be a T November, voted 13 to 12, of astronomy and astrophysics and rowth in the Music ucator with a lifelong interest in the catalyst for a myriad of activities not with one abstention, narrowly an assistant astronomer at UC Department has not been history and culture of India and the only in the area but across the globe. authorizing UC President Richard Observatories/Lick Observatory, G limited to facilities. Along precepts and practices of nonvio- In early January Chancellor C. Atkinson to extend health care joined the UCSC faculty in 1994. with the new Music Center, the lence. The announcement coincided Greenwood led a delegation of top benefits to the same-sex domestic Zaritsky’s research addresses one department has been expanding with Chandra Bhandari’s birthday. campus administrators and faculty, partners of UC employees and of astronomy’s fundamental ques- its nationally recognized music “I am deeply touched by the love who traveled to India at the invita- certain other family members who tions: How did galaxies evolve? program. This past fall two and affection from my husband that tion of the Indian ambassador. are financially interdependent. initiatives were launched to this gift represents,” she said. The chancellor met with the Indian “This was the right decision by Dennis Zaritsky strengthen the department’s The establishment of the chair prime minister, and she and mem- our Board of Regents,” UCSC’s performance programs. came just a month before the 50th bers of the group also met with a chancellor, M.R.C. Greenwood, A new bachelor of music anniversary of Indian independence number of other key leaders in gov- said following the vote. “It recog- (B.M.) degree offers greater The UCSC Orchestra rehearses. (August 15, 1947). “Fifty years ago, ernment, academia, the arts, and nizes the important principle of opportunities for students inter- India launched the most ambitious business. Campus representatives Face painting and pumpkin painting are always a big hit with equal compensation for equal work ested in focusing their studies existing B.A. degree in music, democratic project in world histo- visited the cities of Calcutta, the many children who attend UCSC’s Harvest Festival each year. and will help to keep our university on performance. And to help fill which stresses scholarly achieve- ry,” said Narpat Bhandari. “I believe Bombay, Hyderabad, Bangalore, The festival held this past fall was special for another reason: competitive and world class.” that major with top students, ment, or through the B.M. it is vital that we devote resources to and New Delhi. Upon her return, It was part of a weekend of activities marking the 30th anniversary Atkinson brought the proposal the Resident Student Ensembles degree. the study of what is not only the Chancellor Greenwood said, “This of UCSC’s Farm & Garden. In all, the three-day celebration in before the Regents in July, saying scholarship program has been Beginning next academic world’s largest democracy but also journey has helped strengthen the early October attracted more than 1,000 people to UCSC for tours, that offering medical, dental, and created to recruit top student year, the Resident Student one of the world’s oldest and ties between our campus and the workshops, and garden talks; a Saturday-evening benefit dinner vision care benefits to same-sex performers. Ensembles program will provide most enduring cultures,” added world’s largest democracy. As a that featured a vegetarian menu prepared by some of the area’s domestic partners would strengthen Music majors can now focus four-year merit-based scholar- Bhandari, a trustee of the UC Santa result, I expect we will build many best-known chefs; and a Sunday symposium for alumni of the UC’s ability to compete for faculty their studies through either the ships to four UCSC students. Cruz Foundation. new mutually beneficial partner- Farm’s apprenticeship program. and staff without significantly

The endowment will fund a ships in a wide array of disciplines.” increasing costs to the university. services ucsc photo

2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 3 $15 million approved Helping students students prepare for college, meet NSF awards $460,000 essential tool. This is true espe- college admissions requirements, In memoriam cially for researchers who explore for fisheries lab prepare for college apply, and enroll. for visualization work monica lee variations over a complex surface Services being offered to each of Eduardo Carrillo, or within a volume of space. csc’s vision of a leading n ambitious partnership the 10 high schools in the district a founding sent the csc scientists soon will Large sets of numbers, in and of center for coastal marine between the East Side Union include: member of Oakes College and rural Central don harris create powerful and infor- themselves, can reveal some useful U research in Santa Cruz surged A High School District and R Faculty-to-faculty support in professor of art, died in July; Coast. He U mative graphical images knowledge. But when a scientist forward in November, just as a UCSC will dramatically improve which English and math faculty he was 60. Professor Carrillo had held that seat from their data at a new interdis- sees the data—with help from threatening El Niño served to college participation rates of from UCSC meet with their a long and respected career in art until 1966. ciplinary laboratory, thanks to a colors, shading, vectors, and other remind residents of the fragility students from East San Jose. East Side Union counterparts to education and was an accom- While $460,000 equipment grant from visual aids—crucial insights often and mystery of our oceans. “Our goal is to provide a full exchange ideas. plished muralist. in the state the National Science Foundation. emerge much more strikingly. The U.S. Congress, in one of its host of academic support and R Intensive tutoring for students. Before coming to UCSC senate, Farr The Natural Sciences Division “This grant enables us to put last acts before adjourning for the outreach services to economically R Creation of Parent Advisory in 1972, he was an instructor focused his legislative efforts on will match the federal grant with together a state-of-the-art visual- year, voted to allocate $15.2 mil- disadvantaged students in one of Boards to facilitate parent involve- with UC San Diego Extension, environmental protection and about $240,000 in funding and ization facility that wouldn’t other- lion to move a National Marine the most racially diverse districts ment throughout the partnership. CSU Northridge, and CSU planning. equipment, making the new lab wise be possible,” said project Fisheries Service (NMFS) labora- in California,” said Francisco R Information and counseling Sacramento. Farr joined the Foundation worth about $700,000. director Jane Wilhelms, associate tory from its aging facility in Hernandez, vice chancellor for services for students during the Having received his B.A. Board as a trustee in 1983 and Today’s complex scientific professor of computer science and Tiburon, north of San Francisco, student affairs at UCSC. “Research college application period, and and M.A. from UCLA, Carrillo served on the board and as a research makes visualization an Jane Wilhelms an expert in computer graphics. to a new building next to UCSC’s shows that these types of early aca- biweekly site visits in the fall. founded the Center for Regional tireless champion of UCSC Long Marine Lab. Scientists at demic outreach efforts can make all In the spring, three schools will Arts in La Paz, Mexico, in 1969. until his death. He had held the the fisheries lab study fish that the difference. A lot of these kids also host an intensive seven-week He served as the center’s director board position of parliamen- Support boosts time Arboretum supporter Elspeth Innovative marijuana live close to the seafloor along the have the potential to be the first in academic enrichment program for two years. tarian since 1995. His particular Bobbs has pledged $500,000 to es- California coast, as well as the their families to attend college. It’s known as “Saturday College” that At UCSC, Professor Carrillo interests at UCSC included UCSC’s Arboretum tablish an endowment that will help study seeks answers environmental and human-caused our job to help make them aware of emphasizes math and English was a fellow of both Oakes and marine sciences, regional devel- support the Arboretum’s general op- factors that affect their populations. their educational options and to instruction. Porter Colleges. His record of opment, and international csc’s arboretum, home to erating expenses. The gift was made he federal government The funding will pay for plans help them make decisions that will In addition, UCSC is tailoring campus service includes work on relations, and he generously some of the world’s finest to honor Ray Collett, who stepped has funded an innovative in- and construction of a new building keep those options open for them.” programs and services to meet the many com- supported the Educational U collections of plants from down in December from his admin- T depth study of marijuana use near the recently opened Oiled The program will focus on individual needs of schools as iden- mittees and Enrichment Fund and the the Southern Hemisphere and istrative role as Arboretum director. that is designed to answer funda- Wildlife Veterinary Care and improving the academic prepara- tified by principals and school ad- a term as Karl S. Pister Leadership California, has been the recipient Under terms of the $500,000 mental questions about the drug, Research Center, operated jointly tion of students in the district and ministrators. Some of those services chair of the Opportunity Awards Program. of several major gifts and grants pledge, the campus and community including whether it leads to the use by the state Department of Fish increasing the number of students include scholarship-search training Art Board Ruth Frary, this year. The support is helping the have been “challenged” to match of “harder” drugs, what its long- and Game and UCSC’s Institute of who enroll at UC campuses. To for career counselors, analysis of (1986–91). the first campus Arboretum sustain its activities at the gift. term effects are, and whether users Marine Sciences. Construction that end, UCSC faculty and staff standardized test results, access to Professor physician and director of a time when state funding sources Another gift to the Arboretum, become dependent on the drug. could begin as early as next sum- are teaming up with district person- UC libraries and public events, and Carrillo also 1971 services, ucsc photo University Health Services, died are dwindling. made by Santa Cruz resident Craig Reinarman, a sociology mer, with completion by late 1999 nel to build programs that will help university field trips. taught drawing, pottery, ceram- in June at age 83. A native of The David and Lucile Packard Barbara Shields in late December, professor at UCSC and an expert or early 2000. ics, crafts, and art history, and South Dakota, Dr. Frary earned Foundation of Los Altos has grant- has taken the campus halfway on drug policy, will oversee the The new project adds to a veri- worked in set design and video. her undergraduate degree at the ed $309,757. During the three-year toward that matching goal. A life- project, which is part of a three- table tsunami of activity at Long Satellite tag monitors time, a juvenile bald eagle’s He had a strong interest in rock University of South Dakota and grant period, Arboretum staff will long gardening enthusiast and high- nation comparative study. The Marine Lab and its environs. remarkable coming-of-age quest art and made frequent trips to went on to study medicine at work with the Packard Foundation’s ly recognized watercolorist, Shields U.S. component will target San Already under way is construction bald eagle’s migration for food and independence. Baja California to study and gain Tufts Medical School in Boston. Organizational Effectiveness has established a charitable trust Francisco, where the names of of UCSC’s $5.3 million Marine The eagle wears a tiny backpack inspiration from cave paintings. Shortly after UCSC opened Program to devise plans for the with a gift of $250,000. 4,000 residents will be drawn at Discovery Center, which will long the wild rivers fitted with a lightweight satellite A nationally recognized in 1965, Dr. Frary accepted the Arboretum’s long-term financial “This generous support will random from U.S. Census data triple the lab’s capacity to educate of Alaska and British transmitter that beeps every 10 Chicano artist, Professor Carrillo position of university health self-sufficiency. provide a tremendous boost to the A Columbia, immature bald days. Signals from the satellite, exhibited his art in solo and officer, a position which devel- and then surveyed by employees of schoolchildren and the general In another expression of sup- Arboretum,” noted Chancellor UC Berkeley’s Survey Research public. The Santa Cruz Predatory eagles forage for dead salmon sent via e-mail to SCPBRG group shows throughout the oped along with the campus over port, Santa Fe resident and long- M.R.C. Greenwood. Center. Respondents who have Bird Research Group, housed at and learn to hunt for live ones researchers, show that the bird U.S. He leaves behind a body of the years. In addition to her roles used marijuana more than 25 Long Marine Lab, will build a in the late summer and flew some 900 miles work in many media, reflecting as adminis- One of the Arboretum’s many specimens of Leucospermum times in their life will be asked to $250,000 Oiled Seabird Facility fall. These eagles fly in August from its nest common themes of Chicano trator and participate in a detailed follow-up next to the state’s Oiled Wildlife north on fast migrations in northern California history, culture, art, and religion. physician, survey. Identical surveys will be Center to focus on the care and from their birthplaces to central British Dr. Frary was in California and else- Columbia. The jour- Fred Farr, attorney, environmen- also a fellow don kenny administered in Amsterdam and monitoring of oiled birds. Bremen, Germany. Reinarman and Indeed, years of behind-the- where, stunning first ney took less than talist, former state senator, and and lecturer his Dutch and German counter- scenes efforts at UCSC and in journeys from the nest three weeks. UC Santa Cruz Foundation at College parts will convene at the University Washington, D.C., are now paying guided by thousands Two subsequent Board trustee, died in June in 1971 services, ucsc photo Five (now of Amsterdam to conduct the off. “I am excited that we finally of years of instinct. signals reveal that the Monterey; he was 86. Porter College). She taught a cross-national data analysis. have the funding needed to move At least, that’s what scpbrg bird is staying at the He was born in Oakland and popular course in human The National Institute on Drug the NMFS Tiburon laboratory to wildlife biologists have thought. Dean River, apparently having received undergraduate and law sexuality in the early ’70s. Abuse, under the auspices of the Santa Cruz,” said U.S. Congress- Now, an information-age eagle found a rich source of food. degrees from UC Berkeley. After By the time she retired in National Institutes of Health, has man Sam Farr (D-Carmel). has made that picture more Biologists think other young World War II, he settled in 1980, Dr. Frary had completed provided the initial funding for the “The NMFS laboratory will bene- believable. eagles venture even further Carmel with his wife and three her oversight of the Cowell three-year, $780,000 U.S. study, fit from a new partnership with Scientists from UCSC’s Santa north, into northern British children. Farr was elected to the Student Health Center; a patio which will greatly expand knowl- Long Marine Lab and collaborative Cruz Predatory Bird Research Columbia and southeastern state senate in 1955, the first at the health center is named edge about the use and impact of efforts with UCSC and the Oiled Group have tracked, for the first Alaska’s spectacular fjords. Democrat in 43 years to repre- in her honor. marijuana, said Reinarman. Wildlife Center.”

4 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 5 Today’s UC SC Students

WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEY’RE STUDYING, WHAT THEY WANT FROM COLLEGE AND LIFE

umbers offer just one view of UCSC’s undergraduates majoring in the social sciences 36% current student body. Certainly, there are more 34% undergraduates from southern California enrolled than ever—10,638 this past fall. the Net N 226 undergraduates who studied abroad during 1996–97 More importantly, individual distinction continues to characterize the 59% current students who are women ribonucleic acid students who choose UC Santa Cruz. Among this year’s new students,

pollution credits for example, are 48 Regents Scholars, high acceptance rate of UCSC students into graduate and professional programs 93% school graduates whose academic excellence qualified them for the undergraduates majoring in the arts 13% University of California’s most prestigious scholarship. But statistics reforestation students receiving some form of financial aid 65% can’t tell the best part of the story. Like their predecessors, today’s undergraduates majoring in the humanities 19% UC Santa Cruz students are passionate, energetic, and—above all—

eager to use their UCSC education to make a difference in the world. 900 re-entry undergraduates age 25 or over Beginning on page 8, we profile 10 gamma rays 45% students who live on campus Delacroix current students who are preparing to do just that. 6 NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports teams photography by r.r. jones undergraduates majoring in the natural sciences and engineering 31%

6 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 7 Thomas Dundon Changhua Sun Rich Junior, politics Ph.D. candidate, economics

n his way that are trying to reduce their home from classes emissions. Rich’s proposal capi- each day, Thomas talizes on the unfortunate fact Dundon dodges that China’s acid rain is affecting Odonkey carts, careening buses, Japan—providing an additional and even bicyclists balancing tall impetus for cooperation. stacks of bread on their heads. Rich’s research has given her It’s not your average commute, unprecedented access to China’s but Dundon isn’t your everyday top scholars, many of whom student. represent China in negotiations A participant in UCSC’s on global warming, and she Education Abroad Program, he recently had a paper accepted by is conducting his studies this the American Economic Review, year in Cairo, Egypt. The the field’s leading academic adventure is only the latest in journal. Coauthor Daniel a string of diverse experiences Friedman, an economics profes- that have defined Dundon’s sor, says it was the fastest accep- three years at UCSC. tance he’d ever seen, “with noth- Not only is he earning a ing but praise from referee and bachelor’s degree in politics, editor.” Dundon expects to add a sec- Rich’s success is even more ond major in classics. In addi- impressive considering she tion to his heavy course load, came to the United States in the high-octane student has 1987 at the age of 32 with found time to volunteer for the only a fourth-grade education. United Farm Workers and the Although economic booms have International Association of clearly fueled global warming, Machinists, act in UCSC the- But the rewards are worth it.” Persian scholar, to support Taiz’s his understanding of the world. or Changhua borders, contributing signifi- summit on global warming in she is excited about harnessing ater productions, sing with sev- One of his most inspiring research on the history of plant “People talk about the universi- Sun Rich, a doctoral cantly to global climate change. Kyoto, getting countries to the power of economics to help eral UCSC ensembles, and serve experiences at UCSC has been biology. ty as an ivory tower, but I don’t candidate in economics, Rich’s research has placed collaborate on these issues chal- save the environment. as a rape prevention counselor. the Stevenson College core In Cairo, Dundon is learning think that’s true,” he says. “If finding solutions to the her at the forefront of efforts to lenges the limits of diplomacy “We have only one earth, “I made a conscious choice course—a yearlong class on Arabic and studying the eco- you follow your interests and Fglobal warming crisis is a chal- develop economic incentives and international cooperation. one atmosphere, and all peoples to get a broad education and world culture and social heri- nomics of underdevelopment in keep your mind open, the uni- lenge with both personal and that will encourage countries to “Industrialized countries are are one,” says Rich. “Countries become involved with a range of tage. “That course gave me a the Third World. “I want to versity offers many opportuni- professional meaning. work together to reduce their saying ‘We must act now to can work together to enhance student groups,” says Dundon, launching pad to get interested bring something back for my ties to take an active role in the A native of China, Rich has sulfur dioxide and carbon diox- clean up carbon pollution.’ their common interests.” a junior who holds a prestigious in many other things,” he says. studies at UCSC. I’m interested real world.” witnessed the severe environ- ide emissions—by-products of But developing countries feel —Jennifer McNulty Regents Scholarship. “There are For example, Dundon in seeing how my ideas change —Barbara McKenna mental degradation that has industrialization that cause acid no obligation to participate in a phenomenal variety of people recently took on the unlikely after being in a new school in a accompanied China’s recent rain and global warming. In her the cleanup, saying ‘You made and programs on campus that role of research assistant for different country.” economic resurgence. Outdated dissertation, Rich proposes a this mess. You clean it up,’” will lead you to places you never biology professor Lincoln Taiz. As his expedition to the coal-burning power plants are system of tradeable pollution says Rich. knew existed. These opportuni- Accomplished in Latin and Middle East demonstrates, creating acid rain that is damag- permits that provides incentives Under Rich’s system, indus- ties aren’t written into any Spanish, Dundon translated Dundon embraces every new ing lakes, rivers, forests—even for Japan and China to reduce trialized countries get credits for B.A. program, so it takes a little Medieval Latin texts by opportunity to learn, believing buildings and bicycles. And the their emissions cooperatively. providing financial and technical more energy to find them. Avicenna, a 10th-century that each experience broadens problem goes far beyond China’s As was evident at the recent assistance to developing nations

8 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 9 Zoë Tobier Patrick Lapid Freshman, film/literature Sophomore, computer engineering/sociology

any college Lapid likes UCSC’s strength students spend in liberal arts—he’s also major- years sampling ing in sociology, with an dishes from the emphasis on racism and class- Macademic smorgasbord, search- ism. He finds time for Lambda ing for a few special subjects Phi Epsilon, a national Asian that are especially satisfying. Just American interest fraternity, 18 years of age, Zoë Tobier is and for tutoring in computer already feasting from a buffet of science and math. Last year scholarly interests. he danced with Pagkakaisa, a “The idea of studying to Filipino troupe. become an elementary or high With these talents and a stel- school teacher appeals to me,” lar academic record to boot, it’s she says. “Or I might enroll in easy to see why Joel Ferguson, law school some day and pursue chairman of the Computer the legal profession. Then again, Engineering Department, says I can see myself becoming a Lapid will have his choice of psychoanalyst—or even a film- labs to join as an undergraduate maker.” researcher. He hasn’t yet picked Laughing, she finally pon- a faculty mentor, but Lapid ders the possibility of combin- plans to focus on networks: ing a couple of interests: optics, routers, switches, and “Maybe I’m destined to become the like—the hidden guts of a filmmaker who specializes in the burgeoning Internet. psychological thrillers.” On one level, Lapid sees For now, this freshman from himself “tinkering with hard- New York City has declared her ware” to improve the networks intention to pursue a double University of California’s most many ways, Tobier resembles its in making one of her first nformation zips modestly of his childhood. potential for many of my class- of tomorrow. But clearly his major in literature and film. prestigious scholarship. main character. important decisions as a UCSC around the globe today Nevertheless, his aptitude for mates to go to UC,” Lapid says. motivation cuts deeper than The decision reveals much She competed for admission When it came time to apply student: In the fall quarter, with the greatest of ease. math and science and his drive “They just needed someone to that. Advanced communication about Tobier’s light and serious to her high school, an experi- for college admission, for exam- the first in which grades were Indeed, thinking about the to use the Internet for societal motivate them.” tools, he believes, offer great sides. “I enjoy reading and mental school for academically ple, she followed her heart, not offered in every UCSC course, Iinterconnectedness of our world good have brought him to Through the Filipino Student promise to level the playing watching movies a lot,” she says. talented students run by the her friends, “most of whom Tobier opted to receive narrative can be a bit “mind-boggling,” in UCSC as a budding computer Association (FSA), Lapid and his field. In his view, the wired “But I’m also very interested in City University of New York’s applied to Brown or Vassar.” evaluations only. the words of sophomore Patrick engineer at the new Jack Baskin friends try to do just that. They world may grant what the world critical thinking. Declaring early Hunter College. Even before Tobier narrowed her college “I can understand why peo- Lapid. But it’s not daunting School of Engineering. bus high school students to at large does not: equal access will let me enroll in some very graduating from Hunter High, choices to three: UC Berkeley, ple want grades, but I decided enough to deter Lapid from Lapid grew up in working- UCSC to give them a taste of to information, via a medium challenging upper-division she dabbled in cinema, receiving Evergreen College, and UC grades are not what motivates wanting to plunge his hands class Vallejo, northeast of San college life. FSA members also where prejudices and miscon- courses right away.” a credit for preproduction work Santa Cruz—“West Coast me personally. I want to learn to into the Internet’s innards to Francisco, the son of parents contact Filipino students who ceptions don’t exist. Tobier has never shied away on the 1997 film All Over Me. schools where I could get a great write well, to explore ways to find out how it all works. who immigrated from the have been admitted, just as —Robert Irion from learning. She is one of 48 The film tells the story of a education.” Accepted at all three convey ideas to others,” she says. Lapid is part of the fearless Philippines in 1970. Many Lapid was called two years ago. new Regents Scholars on cam- young woman who begins to campuses, Tobier opted for “For me, real satisfaction comes new generation of students who students of color attended his That helped nudge him toward pus, students whose academic understand who she is—and Santa Cruz. from the interaction with others have known computers all their crowded high school, but the UCSC over the other four achievement in high school how important it is to be that Once on campus, she em- and the exchange of ideas.” lives. “I wasn’t like a mini–Bill best resources went mainly to UC campuses that sought him, qualified them for the person without apology. In ployed the same independence —Jim Burns Gates or anything,” Lapid says honors students. “There was including Berkeley and UCLA.

10 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 11 Justin Balas Miguel Morales Senior, American literature Ph.D. candidate, physics

esignated Morales and his coworkers can a nonscholarship detect with sensitive light tubes campus in intercol- (pictured). By analyzing the legiate sports, UC flashes, the team tries to trace DSanta Cruz attracts athletes to where the gamma rays came its NCAA teams who excel at from—the remains of a super- more than sports. “Athletes here nova, for instance, or a black have to perform in the class- hole gulping a stellar neighbor. room like any other student,” Milagro intercepts less inter- says Justin Balas, a member esting cosmic particles as well, of UCSC’s nationally ranked thousands of them every sec- tennis team. ond. These also spawn flashes, Balas, who expects to gradu- but they differ in subtle ways. ate this spring, wouldn’t have Morales is working on smart it any other way. “What I’ve computer software that zeroes learned at UCSC as a student- in on genuine gamma rays. athlete will make a huge He models his approach on a difference in the person that biological network of simple I become.” neurons, almost like the brain An American literature ma- of an insect. Over time, the jor, Balas is learning balance— network should “learn” to spot and not just the kind that pro- all gamma-ray flashes in their duces well-timed ground strokes many guises. on the tennis court. While “I’m trying to design some- carrying a full load of courses, thing that behaves like the early he has emerged as one of the visual processing system of top players on a UCSC team science institute telescope space courtesy background an animal,” Morales said. with a glorious tradition: Turning to a particularly scholarship after his sophomore paced world that awaits him. hen we and chock full of water and Morales earned his B.S. at “It boils down to recognizing national championships in well-worn page, Balas recites year and began looking at other “There are not too many pro- gaze at the detectors. This device catches Swarthmore College and then objects. That’s the first question 1989, 1995, and 1996. his top two off-court goals: schools. grams you can walk into where night sky, we gamma rays, the most powerful taught science for three years any developing brain has to Most students at UCSC have excelling in the classroom and “A coach of mine back east the expectation is a national see sparkles of bursts of energy in the cosmos. at a private high school in deal with.” plenty of demands on their time, graduating on time. A separate suggested that I take a look championship,” Balas says. Wvisible light. But stars and galax- It’s fitting that Miguel Milwaukee. One of his course The project reflects the juggling classes, labs, and home- page lists his tennis goals, which at Bob Hansen’s program at “I like it that way. The success ies also unleash radio waves, Morales, a physics graduate themes was, “What is matter creativity fostered at the Santa work. As a student-athlete, Balas begin with the dream he shares UCSC,” he says. Balas liked I’m experiencing in tennis here is x-rays, and other radiation student at UCSC, works on made of?” Today, he asks a very Cruz Institute for Particle must also shoehorn in four hours with his teammates: to bring a what he saw: UC-quality showing up in my schoolwork. toward earth. Ignoring that Milagro. Morales has always different question: “What are Physics (SCIPP), a research unit of practice each weekday and fourth national championship scholastics to prepare him for And it’s made a big difference in steady rain would be like hear- loved “wonder science,” the big some of the wildest things mat- at UCSC. “I would not thrive tournaments on weekends. back to UCSC this spring. a career in law or teaching how I think about what I can ing just one octave within questions about the universe ter can do?” in a graduate student factory,” To help him succeed as both A Boston native, Balas began and a grade-A tennis program. accomplish as a person.” nature’s symphony of sounds. that Carl Sagan used to pose. Gamma rays give Morales Morales said. “At SCIPP, the pro- student and player, Balas relies his collegiate career at the Working with Coach Hansen —Jim Burns Astronomers capture those “Many areas of physics are some clues. They crash into fessors listen to our ideas, even on a small black notebook, a University of Massachusetts, has made a believer of Balas. His special waves with some rather pretty well mined,” Morales said. earth’s atmosphere, triggering the crazy ones. It makes learning personal journal that contains the beneficiary of a four-year tennis has never been better, and odd telescopes, including one in “But with Milagro, we’re at such showers of other particles much more entertaining.” not only the smallest details of tennis scholarship. Unfulfilled he’ll graduate this spring fully New Mexico called Milagro. It’s high energies that we don’t know that cascade to the ground. —Robert Irion his life, but his largest dreams by the caliber of the tennis prepared—academically and a football-field-sized reservoir, what we might find. That’s an In Milagro’s dark waters, the as well. there, Balas relinquished his organizationally—for the fast- shielded by a light-tight cover interesting place to be.” particles spark tiny flashes that

12 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 13 Gabriella de la Rosa Felix Cooper Senior, art history Senior, sociology/film

rt history documenting the lives and student Gabriella experiences of students of color de la Rosa had the at UCSC. time of her life last Cooper now feels that he Asummer. Working as an intern is part of several communities: for the Art Institute of Chicago, Porter College, UCSC, and de la Rosa was treated to an Compton. “This is my last year insider’s view of the world she of college, and I want to really hopes to join one day as a enjoy it,” he says. “Next year professional. I’ll probably go back to L.A. During the internship, de la That’s where I grew up, and it’s Rosa experienced the thrill of where I want to work.” handling the original artwork of Although still captivated by such artists as Rembrandt, film and awed by the power of Matisse, Picasso, and Delacroix. the medium, Cooper is planning She was also responsible for to apply to law school after tak- conducting extensive research ing a year off. He volunteered for a catalog on French decora- last summer at the Compton tive painting that will accom- Legal Aid Society to get a feel pany an exhibition the Art for the profession, and he liked Institute will mount three years what he saw. from now. “I thought about going into “That was probably the high law about four years ago, but so point of my whole undergradu- many people go into law these ate experience,” says de la Rosa. days that it seemed like a clichéd “I learned about things I always thing to do,” he recalls. “But I took for granted before. I had no wanted something with a little idea it can take up to five years to very cutting edge in that way.” in one year. The teachers in the another door opens,” says de la verybody really been out of L.A.,” he says. he is active in student govern- more substance, and less than pull together some exhibits. You Never short on initiative, de Language Program are so dedi- Rosa, whose academic choices knows Felix Cooper. “I saw my first deer on campus.” ment, both at the campus and 5 percent of lawyers are black, see a painting on the wall and la Rosa decided in her freshman cated and inspiring.” reflect a keen mix of pragma- At least, that’s how UCSC has opened Cooper’s college level. so maybe it’s not such a cliché never think about what it took to year to add intensive work in Along with her hefty aca- tism and adventurousness. As it seems as he crosses eyes to many new worlds. “I went a whole new direc- after all.” get it there and what happens to French to her other studies. In demic load, de la Rosa shoulders she prepares for graduate school Ethe Porter College quad and is A movie buff who’s majoring in tion when I got here,” says —Jennifer McNulty it when it comes down.” the spring quarter of that year her financial responsibilities. and a career in teaching or greeted by virtually everyone film and sociology, Cooper now Cooper. “I went from just want- Even as a student at her Los she went to Nîmes, France, as She is funding most of her edu- curating, the resourceful de la who passes by. enjoys independent films as ing to edit film in a little editing Angeles high school, de la Rosa part of the Language Program’s cation through student loans Rosa is likely to find many more For Cooper, who grew up much as the “popcorn movies” room to working to save affir- was interested in art history. study abroad program. In her and work study, tutoring fellow doors opening along her path. in Compton—the central he grew up on. And he has mative action. I’ve never been as When the time came to select a sophomore year, she lived in students in writing and French. —Barbara McKenna Los Angeles community that discovered a passion for political active as I am now.” university, she chose UCSC Cowell College’s Maison She was able to participate in has come to embody popular activism that he never knew This year, Cooper is a because of its uniquely interdis- Francophone, where residents the Art Institute internship be- notions of “the hood”—arriving he had. residential assistant at Porter ciplinary program. “What I love converse exclusively in French. cause of grants she received this at UCSC as a junior transfer Sociology classes have given and chair of the Porter College about art history is that it brings De la Rosa speaks with lin- past year from the Humanities from an inner-city community him an opportunity to explore Senate. As a member of the together all these interests I have gering amazement about her Division and the Art History college gave him a case of issues of race and class—“things Porter Multicultural Activities in art, history, and cultural experience learning French at Department. culture shock. that were going on in my Group, he is spearheading an studies. UCSC’s program is UCSC. “I acquired a language “For every debt I incur, “Until college, I’d never personal life,” says Cooper. And effort to produce a video series

14 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 15 Erika Fay Lynn Lee Senior, environmental studies/community studies Senior, chemistry

raduating a Ph.D. in biophysics—then senior Erika Fay embark on a career in research. jokes that she’s a “Research is difficult, frustrat- “walking advertise- ing, and time-consuming, but Gment” for UCSC. “I love it,” that’s where the challenge lies,” says Fay, a double major in envi- she says. “If the answers were ronmental studies and commu- trivial, why bother?” nity studies. Lee isn’t inclined to shy One feature in particular away from arduous work. As an stands out: “The professors are undergraduate, she spends 10 to really available to you,” says Fay, 12 hours a week in Kanavarioti’s a Davis native. “I’ve always felt I lab during the academic year; could go up to any teacher after over summer breaks, she’s class and ask whatever I needed. worked there full-time. I have friends at Berkeley who She also finds the time never talk to their professors.” to regularly summarize her Fay’s double major offered research results in quarterly her both theoretical and analyti- reports. These summations hold cal grounding, as well as real- the promise of becoming the world application. “I’ve spent foundation for a research article enough time in the classroom, published in coauthorship with but a good chunk of time out- Kanavarioti—a rare accomplish- side of it, too,” she says. ment for an undergraduate. The highlight of Fay’s under- Lee won’t have to wait to graduate years was a six-month earn public recognition, how- field-study project in Costa ever. Last year, she was asked to Rica, where she worked with present her research findings elementary school students in “The mother was pregnant, and to reach their full potential.” school garden as a “living labo- ynn Lee is uncov- chemical soup that may have the lab. Since then, Lee has at the American Chemical 13 villages on a major reforesta- they said if the baby is a girl, Like many overseas volun- ratory” to give children hands- ering clues to one of given rise to earth’s first life- worked shoulder-to-shoulder Society’s Undergraduate tion project. they’ll name her Erika,” says teers, Fay says she feels like she on experience with science. science’s most vexing forms. with Kanavarioti. “Every day Research Symposium, held at Fay describes the experience Fay. “It was really hard to leave.” benefitted as much from the “Teaching kids is so reward- riddles: How did life The lab work is helping sci- I’m drawing from what I’ve UCSC, and at a NASA/Ames as “invaluable.” The goal was to The field study, sponsored experience as those she was in ing,” says Fay. “They’re so into Lon earth begin some 3.5 billion entists understand how certain learned in the classroom,” she symposium at Moffett Field. plant as many as 3,000 trees per by the Community Studies Costa Rica to help. She came what we’re doing, and they years ago? In the process, the molecules might have merged to says. “It gave me a sense of village to reverse the erosion Department, was not without home with a clear vision of really like learning-by-doing.” UCSC senior has discovered a form ribonucleic acid (RNA), In one and a half years in the achievement,” Lee says. “Being r.r. jones r.r. damage caused by massive clear- its bumps, however. Fay credits her desire to pursue a career in So, clearly, does Fay. personal passion for the world the chemical chains that many lab, Lee has had no “Eureka!” able to present my results after cutting that began in the 1950s. program coordinator Mike environmental education and —Jennifer McNulty of basic research. scientists regard as nature’s earli- moment: In basic research, she spending a full year in the lab “I was teaching in Spanish, Rotkin with helping her get now plans to earn her teaching A chemistry major working est tool for passing along genetic has learned, such breakthroughs was very rewarding.” and by the end, I was being through some rough moments. credential. under the guidance of researcher information. are rare. Lee has, however, iden- —Francine Tyler mistaken for a native,” says Fay. “He gave us his home num- The practical experience also Anastassia Kanavarioti, Lee Lee’s first brush with research tified several factors that affect “That was awesome. That was ber and said to call anytime up helped her land a part-time painstakingly mixes an assort- came during her sophomore the formation of RNA chains, the highest compliment.” until midnight,” says Fay, who job—and another field-study ment of metals, ions, and organ- year. Taking a class in organic and she has synthesized a new Fay grew attached to the took him up on the offer more opportunity—this year as a Life ic molecules—analyzing the re- chemistry, she discovered that RNA molecule. family she lived with and plans than once. “He was always Lab teacher at a local elemen- sultant products over time. Her undergraduates at UCSC can Bolstered by her undergradu- to visit them over spring break. there. He really pushes students tary school, where she uses the goal: to replicate portions of the become valued collaborators in ate experience, Lee plans to earn

16 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 17 Windows on the Universe Lick Observatory specialists quietly build some of the world’s finest astronomical research tools.

30 years ago, faculty to draw up detailed plans. Then, teams arguably is the finest of its kind. HIRES, the plifies why the Kecks were built—and why the of specialists work on the guts of the device. size of an average living room, splits light into a UCO/Lick shops excel. Machinists create the metal skeleton and mov- rainbow and spreads it with unprecedented de- “This will be the deepest, most extensive astronomy was a simpler ing parts, usually from scratch; opticians grind tail across an electronic detector. It has revealed survey of galaxies, and it promises to teach us the mirrors and lenses, often jaw-dropping in the temperature of the early universe, probed much about how the universe has evolved,” he science. Basic instruments, their size and complexity; and electronics the nature of distant quasars, and sampled the said. “It’s like Darwin’s voyage: We’re exploring technicians devise efficient ribbons of wiring. ingredients of ancient stars in our Milky Way. the uncharted territories of the cosmos.” often built by lone Equally vital are millions of lines of com- “I couldn’t imagine trying to build HIRES —Robert Irion puter code, written by UCO/Lick software without the entire team at Lick,” said UCSC researchers, captured light whizzes. These programs run the instruments astronomer Steven Vogt, its designer. “Every More information about the UCO/Lick and, in some cases, allow them to diagnose astronomer I’ve talked to thinks HIRES is Observatory Laboratories is available on the Web at www.ucolick.org/~loen from stars and galaxies. their own problems. totally awesome. That’s a tribute to the top- At the heart of these efforts are craftspeople notch work at the shops.” of the highest caliber, many of whom have Also notable are the “secondary Cameras recorded the worked at UCO/Lick for decades. “All of our mirrors” for the Keck Telescopes— technicians know how their parts fit into the surfaces that reflect light from the glory of the heavens. overall instrument,” said Erich Horn, instru- main mirrors into the instruments. ment lab supervisor. “They take pride in their To mesh with the Kecks’ compact The romantic notion of work and in the scientific results.” design, UCO/Lick optician David Such work has kept venerable Lick Hilyard had to polish the 57-inch an astronomer perched at Observatory at the forefront of the field since secondary mirrors to odd shapes with Supervisor Erich Horn of the UCO/Lick instrument lab is its founding near San Jose in 1888. In a recent exquisite accuracy. example, UCSC alumnus Geoffrey Marcy, Under way are two more spectro- a telescope in a chilly dome dwarfed by an extraordinary work in progress: DEIMOS, a six-ton spectrograph for the Keck Observatory. UCSC now at San Francisco State University, used graphs, to be installed at Keck II later astronomers will use DEIMOS to study 15,000 distant Lick’s 120-inch Shane Telescope and its ultra- this year: the Echellette Spectrograph was still quite real . . . galaxies in detail. Mechanician Jeff Lewis (in back) stands sensitive Hamilton Spectrograph to detect tiny and Imager (ESI) and the Deep before a simulator that tests the spectrograph’s components. wobbles in nearby stars—evidence of the back- Extragalactic Imaging Multi-Object photos by r. r. jones r. r. by photos and-forth gravitational tugs of planets outside Spectrograph (DEIMOS). The latter our solar system. Another key instrument, instrument will displace HIRES as the Telescopes are far bigger, generation of tools to study the universe. the Kast Double Spectrograph, lets scientists most ambitious spectrograph ever Times have changed. and today’s complex “Today, it requires a team of experts to build examine faint galaxies through the increasingly built. Designed by UCSC astronomers instruments can take an instrument,” said astronomer Joseph Miller, light-polluted skies above San Jose. Sandra Faber and Garth Illingworth, years and millions of dollars to build. Gone director of UCO/Lick Observatory. “We have A brighter spotlight now shines on DEIMOS will scrutinize 15,000 faint Optician David Hilyard used polishing wizardry to create these that team here. Almost any astronomical ques- are photographs and darkrooms, replaced by UCO/Lick technicians for their work on instru- galaxies to make a comprehensive map lenses for a camera in DEIMOS, including the world’s largest tion we can ask—that it’s conceivable to build ments for the twin W. M. Keck Telescopes in of the distant universe. polished crystal of calcium fluoride (rear, on table). Nine electronic detectors and banks of computers. an instrument to address—they can do it.” Hawaii. The Kecks’ segmented mirrors, 400 Chief engineer David Cowley, lenses, smoothed to within millionths of an inch, will focus And, astronomers observe the skies from Most visitors are stunned to find world-class inches across, now rank as the world’s largest. who manages UCO/Lick’s technical light from galaxies onto a detector. The diagram below shows warm control rooms or even their own offices. astronomy labs amid UCSC’s redwoods. Yet to New instruments for the telescopes help facilities, said DEIMOS will require how light rays bend through the lenses. Pioneering this transformation is a band of step into the UCO/Lick shops, as they are astronomers analyze nearly every precious bit of $5 million and 60,000 staff-hours to engineers and technicians at UCSC, ensconced known, is to enter an arena of precision engi- light from objects billions of light-years away, so complete. “This is the leading edge of within nondescript warehouses behind the cam- neering, machining, optics, and electronics. distant that we see them as they were when the technology, for the most exciting tele- pus’s power plant. This setting befits the modest The long road to a finished instrument universe was a small fraction of its current age. scope on earth,” Cowley said. “This is nature of the staff at the UC Observatories/Lick begins with a vision from one of UCSC’s One such device, the $3.6 million High- as good as it gets.” Observatory Laboratories, birthplace of the next leading astronomers. Engineers work with the Resolution Echelle Spectrograph (HIRES), To Joseph Miller, DEIMOS exem-

18 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 19 niversity around the their own local UC campus, private college, community d college, or state university. U Moran, an early champion of the book project, said the publi- s cation will be an “incredible tool for thousands of children.” “This book has the very real K potential to make a difference in We want kids to know what iprepare for college. Because the In college you have to study their lives,” she said. “That’s college is like, to know book is written in English and hard. That means no goofing why we felt so strongly about that study and hard work Spanish, it helps bridge a cultural around. encouraging students to repli- gap, too. Students sleep in the dormi- cate the project in their own are important, and to know “These kids really captured tories. . . . You can keep your communities. Expanding the that learning at college is the essence of university life,” room messy or neat. fun and exciting. said UCSC vice chancellor Lots of people who work at

—from the introduction to for student affairs Francisco universities and colleges are not ellison kurt Kids Around the University Hernandez, who was profiled in professors. Their job is to keep the book. “They were able to students safe, healthy and hances are, distill the activities and value of learning. the kids at a university, and they conveyed To get into a university you Aromas School it in their own powerful words.” have to take certain classes in didn’t know Indeed, the young authors’ high school. C their book impressions of college life If no one in your family went would change lives. But chances are refreshingly candid and to a college or university before are that it will. on the mark—and their clear, you, that does not mean that

For two years, simple prose appeals to you should not go to one. jones r. r. third and fourth graders at children and adults alike: The book’s content is based largely on dozens of interviews The editorial staff of Kids Around the University and teacher Katy Stonebloom Aromas School in Monterey the youngsters conducted with County researched and wrote a The young writers show Chancellor Greenwood their creation. students, faculty, and staff at light a candle they didn’t know Stonebloom, who graduated The students, whose reading bilingual book about college life UCSC and Cabrillo College in even existed. It reawakened the from UCSC in 1976. McCue levels ranged from first to tenth at UC Santa Cruz. Called Kids Aptos. The kids took on the wonder in me about what the also attended UCSC, graduating grade, benefited academically Interviewing Francisco Hernandez Around the University, the book project after being unable to university is, and it caused me to in 1984. Another alumna, from the project, too, scoring quickly won the hearts of find a book about colleges and step back and see the university Renée Flower, collaborated on higher on writing tests than their elementary school curriculum to UCSC administrators, who universities that was appropriate through the eyes of a child.” the design of the book with peers who were not involved include a unit on higher educa- published the book and are dis- for their grade level. For Aromas School teachers UCSC publications manager with the school’s bilingual pub- tion will open a lot of doors for tributing it to fourth graders “This book fills an enormous Katy Stonebloom and Linda Jim MacKenzie. lishing program. young people.” around the state this year. void. Teachers and educational McCue, who shepherded the Many praise Stonebloom and Carrol Moran, coordinator In an era of expanding part- For UCSC, the book repre- professionals say there’s nothing project from conception McCue for making the book a of the UCSC-based Monterey nerships between universities sents a powerful outreach tool like it,” said UCSC associate vice through distribution, knowing reality, but the teachers give all Bay Educational Consortium, and K–12 schools, this project that will expose young school- chancellor for enrollment man- that the colorful, 32-page book the credit to their team of nearly teamed up with Stonebloom enjoys widespread support. children to the academic and so- agement and admissions director is receiving broad distribution is 60 students who worked cooper- and McCue to produce a “It has rekindled a spirit of cial value of attending college— J. Michael Thompson, an ardent overwhelming. “The project has atively—many of them on week- curriculum guide designed to hopefulness and discovery in all and it gives kids hands-on supporter of the project. “For been successful beyond our ends and after school—to see inspire teachers around the state of us,” said Thompson.

information about how to liddy laura some students, this book will wildest expectations,” said the book through to publication. to help their students explore —Jennifer McNulty

20 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 21 If All the World’s a Stage. . . The Techs Keep It Turning

ike Hamlet, who declared “the uates are able to assume a level of responsi- program, I just can’t imagine what my Working with professional technicians gives UCSC undergrads play’s the thing,” most theatergoers bility practically unheard of in most other life would be like,” she says. “They have this focus on the plot and the actors programs.” incredible gift for teaching.” Among recent who deliver it. And yet, it is the “If I’d gone to a university with a large projects, London has worked as assistant the valuable hands-on experience they need to gain entry handiwork of the stage techni- graduate program, I would have spent my stage manager for the touring company of cians—an alchemy of sets, lights, entire four years as an assistant to a graduate the Broadway show Kiss of the Spiderwoman, sounds, and costumes—that makes student—if I was lucky,” confirms Jennifer as a dresser on the Broadway production of into the world of film and theater production after graduation. Lthe world of the play come alive. Boggs, who graduated in 1992. Instead, Damn Yankees, and as production designer At UCSC, students learn the secrets of during her years at UCSC, Boggs was able in Los Angeles for the film Ill-Gotten Gains. this theatrical magic in the Theater Arts to try her hand at such high-level positions Another distinction of the production Department’s production program. Like as designer and stage manager. Since gradu- program is its affiliation with a professional those in the major who focus on perfor- ating, she has worked in film and commer- theater company. Shakespeare Santa Cruz mance, production students must complete cial production, and she tours Europe each (SSC), a campus-based summer festival, and a rigorous academic curriculum and a mini- summer with a performing arts troupe. the Theater Arts Department share facili- mum of 150 hours of hands-on experience. Rik Converse, who received a degree in ties, equipment, and people. Several theater Among their teachers are the seven arts faculty and staff are also longstand- members of the theater arts production ing leaders of the festival. “This is educa- staff, headed by technical director Joe Weiss Graduates have had notable success tional theater at its best,” says assistant and assistant technical director Paul House. technical director House. “We can con- Through their guidance, graduates in in the film and theater industry— tinue to work in the professional arena recent years have had notable success in the each summer and bring that back to the film and theater industry—landing jobs on landing jobs on and off Broadway, students each fall.” and off Broadway, in film and commercial SSC and the Theater Arts production in Los Angeles, and in theater Department also collaborate on the companies across the country. in film and commercial production in Summer Internship Program, through The hands-on emphasis is one of the which UCSC students may participate in program’s many strengths, and the oppor- Los Angeles, and in theater the festival, and with Shakespeare To Go, tunities for production students to gain an academic-year course in which UCSC firsthand experience are numerous. companies across the country. students perform a condensed version of Working in the production shops, some 60 a Shakespeare play in local schools. students each quarter design and build sets, The unique structure that makes the costumes, and props; record and mix sound; literature here in 1984, is head of Media production program so successful is a reflec- design and rig lights; and hammer out bud- Slugs, an organization for UCSC alumni tion of those who have created it. While they gets and production schedules for shows. working in the entertainment industry. His are working the alchemy of illusion onstage, “In the four years I’ve worked here there roster holds the names of nearly 160 people they manage the rigors of teaching offstage. have been roughly 200 shows—all but one in the Los Angeles area, the majority of Los Angeles film producer Danny Kaufman, of which were student designed,” says UCSC whom, he says, are flourishing in the highly who has worked with a number of UCSC costume shop manager Naomi Arnst. “As competitive field of technical production. students recently, is a believer. “I can tell you students, experiencing that level of responsi- A recent addition to Converse’s list is that I’m impressed by all of the Santa Cruz bility is invaluable. That’s how they really Stacie London, who graduated in 1994. graduates I’ve worked with. Whatever it is learn the ropes, and it’s what makes them London was working on a video shoot for you’re doing up there, you’re doing it right.” stand out when they start looking for jobs.” rap singer Queen Latifah last summer when —Barbara McKenna UCSC’s program, which focuses solely she learned she’d received her stage techni- on undergraduate studies, offers another cian’s union card—an accomplishment Making the scene: (l–r) Paul House, Naomi advantage: “Our students here don’t have to practically unheard of for someone so Arnst, Nick Farwell, Joe Weiss, and Don Williams compete with graduate students for oppor- recently out of school. are five of the theater arts production staff who help tunities,” Weiss explains. “Here, undergrad- “If it weren’t for Joe and Paul and that students learn the ropes of technical theater.

22 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 pfleger mickey UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 23 Association board In fact, this year’s callers were so

greg pio greg impressed with their predecessors’ sets future direction BUY-A-BOOK stories that they ALUMNI NEWS decided to direct the 1997 senior class gift to this purpose as well. pen to all alumni, Many of the honored faculty the UCSC Alumni Alumni Association taught during the intense and Banana Slug Spring Fair campus open house, April 18 “O Association is a member- exciting formative years of the ship organization whose programs Councilors, 1997–98 Santa Cruz campus, but the foster a lifelong connection with ...... inspiration of younger scholars the university. The purpose of the Cowell has been recognized as well. Association is to promote, influence, Stephen Klein, This year the library received a and support the educational, cultur- President-Elect record number of BUY-A-BOOK al, and social life of the University Michael Twombly gifts in memory of the late Page of California, Santa Cruz, and to and Eloise Smith, mostly from Stevenson provide a means by which alumni Cowell College alumni who Diana Reece,Vice President may both serve the university, its Tom Dadant (center), Merrill ’81, alumnus donor to the UCSC Library’s BUY-A-BOOK remembered their integrity and for Programs colleges, and its students, and help campaign, with University Librarian Allan Dyson (right) and favorite teacher Noel King warmth. Overall this year nearly Heather Urquhart guide the university in the future.” (left). Dadant designated his gift in honor of Professor Emeritus King; the funds were all photos: greg pio greg all photos: used to purchase two new encyclopedias in King’s fields of religious and African studies. 30 UCSC faculty members Crown So reads the new mission statement At Banana Slug Spring Fair 1997 (clockwise from upper left): The volumes are inscribed with a bookplate bearing King’s name. received BUY-A-BOOK tributes Michael Brown of the UCSC Alumni Association. Alumni panelists discuss online publishing during the Alumni from appreciative alumni. Linda Wilshusen, Vice President It was recently updated by the Journalism Conference; regional alumni volunteers (l–r) Amy Spanne, her education, vocation, and life. If you would like to honor a for Finance association’s governing board at Alumni BUY-A-BOOK Najia Rosales, Lillian Locke, and Lindsey Stevens are among the crowd The response from alumni has been beloved teacher with books, send at the all-class reunion lunch; Merrill ’77 classmates (l–r) Don Lane, a strategic planning retreat. Merrill donors honor faculty astounding. The student callers have your contribution, marked BUY- Spencer Sherman, Janice Fuhrman, and Fred Davidson reminisce Over 7,000 dues-paying Alan Acosta been moved and inspired by the A-BOOK and made payable to the during their 20-year reunion; and class of ’77 roommates (l–r) Teri members strong, the Alumni Ricky Bluthenthal, Past President Schweitzer, Cathy Dworsky Warner, and Sharon Turnoy are reunited. ach spring, UCSC supporters memories of a class, lecture, conver- UCSC Foundation, to the Carriage Association is governed by a 24- are asked to help the University sation, or counseling session that House, UCSC, 1156 High Street, Porter person volunteer board of directors Daren Lewis E Library by contributing to the continues to resonate decades later. Santa Cruz, CA 95064. composed of alumni who live Linda Ziskin lumni, prospective and current students and their families, and all friends of annual BUY-A-BOOK campaign. throughout the state. Last summer the campus are invited to visit UCSC for Banana Slug Spring Fair on Saturday, Donors provide a generous gift of Kresge they got together to set the future $50 to $1,000; in return, bibliog- Pamela Baer AApril 18. This year’s campus open house features reunions, tours, lectures, artistic direction for the association. raphers choose critically needed The University of California Douglas Foster As a result of the one-day strategic performances, and receptions at each college. Alumni highlights are listed below. For volumes for the library collection Alumni Associations present the planning retreat, the following Oakes more information, contact University Advancement at (800) 933-SLUG or locally at and inscribe them with a note on G. Chris Brown,Vice President association goals were announced: (408) 459-2501. Web site for the event: admissions.ucsc.edu/bssf the bookplate and in the library for Membership R Offer programs and opportuni- online catalog. ALUMNI CAREER CONFERENCE Renée Martinez ties that encourage alumni to For the past few years, BUY-A- Here are some alumni political activism and education— American studies professor College Eight maintain a lifelong connection BOOK has added a remarkable & JOB FAIR highlights of the upcoming the foci of Frantz’s career. Alumni John Dizikes. Joanne Foxxe with UCSC; $30,000 to $40,000 in annual Banana Slug Spring Fair: interested in participating may funding to the overextended library Robert Weiner, Vice President R Every college will host a recep- R Support activities that attract ☛ Job Fair with exhibitors in every career field for Administration call Kresge provost Paul Skenazy materials budget. The campaign has R The class of ’78 will celebrate tion. In addition, Cowell will hold students to UCSC, enrich the stu- ☛ Workshops with top career professionals at (408) 459-4792. been successful for several reasons: At Large its 20-year reunion with an its annual evening waltz; Porter dent experience, and help students It is headed by founding chancellor Mark Adams evening of conversation, dining, R College Eight will celebrate its will host a celebration of Asian succeed at UCSC and after; ATURDAY ARCH Dean McHenry, whose name is S , M 28, 1998 Carol Bradshaw and reminiscence. 25th anniversary with an evening culture; and Merrill will offer a R Actively support the university’s synonymous with the Santa Cruz Steven Jung, President of music, food, and friends. dance performance by Los Mexicas Conference: 9 A.M. to 2:30 P.M. R The all-class reunion will effort to encourage diversity; John Laird and students will paint the moat. tradition of independent inquiry; Job Fair: 2:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M. recognize the classes of ’68, ’73, R The Economics Department Eric Thomas R Participate in the development and the donors are approached by Marriott City Center Hotel, Oakland ’78, ’83, ’88, and ’93 at this will host a reunion for economics R Acting troupe Culture Clash Kathryn Tobisch and implementation of policies an outstanding corps of student anchor event for all alumni. alumni and their families and will present Radio Mambo in affecting UCSC; callers, whose enthusiasm, knowl- cost (includes lunch): Ex Officio Everyone is welcome! current and former faculty and the Performing Arts Mainstage edge, and dedication are irresistible. $60 Alumni Association members Carolyn Christopherson, staff. Activities include dinner at Theater. Call (408) 459-2159 R Develop programs to engage This year, the student callers Executive Director R Marge Frantz, American stud- $75 Nonmembers a local restaurant. Call (408) for ticket information. faculty and students in an ongoing came up with a creative new Michael Cowan, Past Chair, ies and women’s studies lecturer Add $15 for registration after March 13 459-2028 for more information. discussion of the UCSC academic strategy that has proved to be very Academic Senate emerita, will give a special lecture R The Santa Cruz Hillel, mission, heritage, and values. appealing to UCSC’s increasing For more information, Sara Dozier, Chair, for alumni. Frantz, who is this R A reading of poetry by Douglas UCSC’s Jewish resource center, Alumni interested in supporting group of alumni donors. The call the UCSC Alumni Association: Student Union Assembly year’s Distinguished Teaching McClellan, art professor emeritus, will host a brunch on Sunday, (800) 933-slug M.R.C. Greenwood, Chancellor Award recipient, will also be will be part of a Cowell College April 19, for UCSC alumni. these efforts and joining the associ- students ask each alum they call Nathan Sanders, President, honored by Kresge College with celebration, which will include an Call (408) 426-3332 for more ation may call the Alumni Office to BUY-A-BOOK in honor of a Graduate Student Association alumni panel discussions on exhibit of paintings and text by information. for more information at (800) 933- UCSC faculty member who made SLUG or (408) 459-2530. an important difference in his or

24 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 25 three Golden Globe Awards including one for Best Television ben balagot Series (drama). ALUMNI NOTES For the 1997–98 season, Rabwin added a new dark University of Hawaii and is work- Littleton Chorale spring 1997 ’91 Jeanne LEONE-Sterwerf delicacy to his already full plate: Cowell College ing as an artist and studio coordina- concert; both are enjoying raising received her first film credit for He took on similar duties as co- ’70 Martin KIMELDORF is an tor at the University of Minnesota. their five children, ages 4 to 15. Disney’s Hercules; she married attor- producer of Carter’s latest series, educator and a writer; he is the au- ’90 Susan SKOUSEN is complet- ’83 Sue BERG Lim is a senior ney John Sterwerf in June 1997. Millennium. In its second season, ’92 thor of Creating Portfolios for Success ing a master’s degree in human chemist at East Bay Municipal Barbara NICHOLS complet- the show features an ex–police development and working with Utilities District in Oakland. When ed her master’s in public adminis- in School, Work, and Life (Free Spirit officer who uses paranormal Publishing, 1994) and Portfolio Head Start as a special education she’s not dealing with new state and tration at Syracuse University in Power: The New Way to Showcase placement coordinator. federal water regulations, she still 1997, and she is working at the powers to see inside the minds Your Job Skills and Experience ’92 Gary HEIMANN recently finds time for travel and volunteer Environmental Protection Agency of murderers and serial killers. (Peterson, 1997). completed an M.A. in literature at work. in Washington, D.C. Linette Rabwin started working in the ’71 Kathryn BOYD has been a Claremont Graduate University and ’84 Anne HEDGES writes, THORNTON graduated from entertainment business while still will be pursuing a teaching creden- “While I may not have a Ph.D. or Eastern Virginia Medical School children’s librarian at the San Jose a student at UC Santa Cruz. As Public Library for the past 22 years. tial at CSU Hayward. lots of awards, I consider myself with an M.D.; she is now serving a ’73 Susan ALFORD has been ’95 Dara PAPO received a master’s successful and happy. My most pediatric internship at Portsmouth a junior at Cowell in 1969, he working in assembly and shipping in social welfare from UC Berkeley enduring memories of UCSC are Naval Hospital. Allyson YANCEY took a summer internship with a at DiverseyLever for 16 years. in spring 1997. those that honored the unconven- received an M.A. in clinical psy- television studio, Quinn Martin ’74 Anne-Marie BOUCHÉ has tional, and that is how best to chology from John F. Kennedy Productions. When he graduated been appointed assistant professor Stevenson College describe my success.” University in June 1997. the following year, he signed on in the Department of Art and ’85 Robert MAFFIONE is a ’93 Kristen FOSTER Lenz at Quinn Martin as an assistant Archeology at Princeton University. ’68 Ray STEINER is a visiting senior scientist at Sequoia Scientific received an M.A. in education ’76 Sasha (Alexander) MATSON’s professor of philosophy at Old on Mercer Island, Wash. from UCSC in 1997, and she is to the editorial coordinator in Dominion University for the ’88 recording Range of Light, chamber Gretchen KINDERSKI has now teaching first grade; her son, Paul Rabwin in the postproduction studio working on a forthcoming episode of The X-Files the postproduction department. settings for the texts of John Muir, 1997–98 school year. been married 12 years and has an Nicholas, was born in December In addition to organizing ’71 has been released recently by New Brant CORTRIGHT is eight-year-old son; she’s working 1996. John SCHWEITZER is produced the desired effect. scripts, typing invoices, and director of the Integral Counseling part-time as a self-employed acoun- working in freelance film, video, Albion Records. The solution, in the end, delivering film from one part of ’80 Laura HERMAN lives in Psychology Program at the tant and also as a school volunteer. and photography assisting in the Mechanic of the Macabre Willits, Calif., with her husband, California Institute of Integral She writes that “she is loving life in San Francisco Bay Area. was remarkably low tech. the studio to another, Rabwin Mike, and their daughters, Mollie Studies and a licensed psychologist Oregon and missing Santa Cruz.” ’96 Susan Tarka NELSON is In exasperation, Rabwin filmed “inserts”—close-ups of and Naomi, in a house they with a private practice in San ’89 Stephanie FISHKIN Dark working as an ethnobotanist for Alumnus Paul Rabwin (B.A. English increasingly bleaker landscapes. finally approached the micro- matchbooks, photographs, and designed and built themselves. Francisco. He is the author of has completed a Ph.D. in social Sherman Pharmaceuticals in South One of six X-Files producers, phone. “I leaned into it and other props—and edited trailers Psychotherapy and Spirit: Theory psychology at the University of San Francisco. literature, Cowell ’70) creates She teaches at the middle school Paul Rabwin helps create this went ‘pffft,’ just like that,” he for upcoming episodes. in Laytonville, and she is a math and Practice in Transpersonal Southern California and is now a dark magic behind the scenes of says during a telephone inter- By the time he left Quinn mentor during the 1997–98 school Psychotherapy (SUNY Press, 1997). senior research analyst for Kaiser Crown College mood-setting sound. In the year. Laura enjoys wildflower hikes ’74 John CHAPMAN teaches Permanente. Her husband, John The X-Files and Millennium. course of a day, Rabwin might view. “They didn’t see how I Martin in 1977 to join and writing fiction in her free time. English at Tokay High School in DARK (Stevenson ’89), is a store ’76 Lise SYKES Wilkinson’s help make the shrill whine of made the sound, but they liked Paramount Television, Rabwin ’81 Charles SELF is taking a one- Lodi, Calif., and is developing an manager for AirTouch Cellular. youngest son is beginning kinder- pellbinding plots, a high-tech dentist drill, the it, so we used it in the show. had worked on numerous hit American studies curriculum for garten, and she’s venturing beyond year position as associate professor After receiving an M.A. in commu- engaging characters, and tension-building thunder for That’s the legend of what we call television shows, including of religion and history at George high school students. nication from UC Santa Barbara, the role of mom at home. ’75 John JANGWONG is a clini- Jay ESKENAZI earned a master’s ’77 Marc BOND is working for S the public’s ever-increasing an Antarctic ice scene, or the the ‘gimlet’—me in front of the Cannon, The FBI, and Streets of Fox University, while continuing as senior pastor at Keizer Faith Center, cal case manager in the Department in psychology and a Ph.D. in clini- British Gas International and living fascination with the supernatural sharp sound of a “gimlet” being microphone going ‘pffft.’” San Francisco, and was supervis- an Assemblies of God–affiliated of Psychiatry at UC San Francisco/ cal psychology from the California with his family in Milan, Italy; have combined to make The unsheathed. Rabwin also supervises the ing the postproduction of four church in Keizer, Ore. San Francisco General Hospital. School of Professional Psychology; previously he was in Rome. X-Files one of the most popular One of The X-Files signature postproduction work done on television series at a time. Stanley JUNGLEIB is chairman ’78 Joanne KERBAVAZ, a Cali- ’83 Marco MARTINEZ-Galarce, currently he is working as a psy- dramas on television. props, a gimlet is a weapon that each episode after filming ends More than a dozen television who recently graduated from the and chief executive officer of Seer chologist with the Special Offender fornia State Parks biologist, is one of Each week, FBI agents Fox looks like an ice pick and opens in Vancouver. jobs later, Rabwin’s industry con- Graduate Film Division at Colum- Systems, which he founded in Center in Monroe, Wash. a number of UCSC alums working bia University with an M.F.A. in 1993; his company produces soft- ’90 Matt ARENCHILD is living with Dave VAN CLEVE (Merrill Mulder and Dana Scully investi- like a switchblade knife. The “Anything to do with the nections led him to The X-Files. film directing, is moving back to ware synthesis for the personal near Washington, D.C., with his ’72) at Anza-Borrego State Park. gate bizarre occurrences in which gimlet took its distinctive noise show, from when it leaves the For the show’s first two seasons, the Monterey Bay Area to begin his computer. Davia NELSON is co- wife and three children; he has a ’82 James McNELIS took a posi- voodoo, alien abductions, or straight from Rabwin. camera until it goes on the air, Rabwin had to explain to people career in filmmaking. producer and codirector of Making Ph.D. in economics and is working tion as assistant professor of English government conspiracies often Trying to create an appropri- comes under my department,” what The X-Files was about. ’87 Tutti, a pubic television documen- as a consultant on energy issues. at Kutztown University in Pennsyl- Following three years of inten- play a part. ately chilling auditory effect for he explains. That includes super- “It’s a cross between The Twilight sive research and analysis, Stephen tary on the making of a doo-wop Maria McLAUGHLIN is living in vania in fall 1997. Rick (Raymond) But there’s more to X-Files vising editors, visual-effects Zone, The FBI, and The Night SCHWARTZ’s first book, Atomic gospel musical, Full Moon Over San Francisco and has worked for SPAULDING received his M.S. the weapon, Rabwin’s Burbank- Audit: The Costs and Consequences of Tutti, performed by 600 San six years as a legal investigator on in wildlife and fisheries from the than meets the eye—or ear. based crew compiled 17 sounds artists, composers, and sound Stalker,” he’d tell people. U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940, Francisco schoolchildren partici- death penalty appeals; in fall 1997 University of Arizona, and he is From almost subliminal music to and played them in combina- mixers. Now that X-Files is a Top 10 will be published by the Brookings pating in the San Francisco Arts she entered Boalt Law School to currently employed by Ogden ear-catching special effects, the tions over a monitor for execu- The X-Files has won nine hit, boasting 20 million viewers Education Project. Environmental in Santa Barbara. Institution Press in 1998. Stephen pursue her interest in prison reform sound created for the show sets tive producer Chris Carter and Emmy Awards since 1994, with in 60 countries worldwide, lives in Arlington, Va., with his wife ’78 Linda GRAY Schmale is teach- and alternative sentencing. Tchira ’85 After working 10 years for the the mood for each episode, others in Century City. Hours three of the awards presented in Rabwin finds that the show and two cats. ing art/pottery at a charter school; SELIGMAN is re-entering the city of Lafayette, Calif., Chris ’88 Diana EICHER received her her husband, Michael SCHMALE world of academia by starting an pulling the story lines forward passed while the crew experi- the areas of sound editing and speaks for itself. M.F.A. in printmaking from the (Stevenson ’76), sang a solo in the M.S.W. program at NYU. continued on page 28 and carrying viewers into mented, but no combination mixing. In January, it received —Francine Tyler

26 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 UC Santa Cruz Review / Winter 1998 27 continued from page 26 cooperatives in southern Mexico Zimbabwe and entered law school year special day class teacher at American history at UCLA; the SCHMUCK received an M.F.A. ’85 Rosemary RENAUER received California Hospital Outcomes and Guatemala. She also runs Soli- at NYU in fall 1997 to pursue her MacQuiddy Elementary School in focus of her study is Chicanos in in glass at Rochester Institute of her master’s degree in clinical Project, which is assessing the CANDELL is now a planner for his darity House, a bed and breakfast interest in international law. Watsonville, Calif., teaching third- California. LaDawn HAGLUND Technology in May 1997 and was psychology at J.F.K. University in quality of care in hospitals; she lives native city of Oakland. “I can’t beat and weekend urban retreat, as a ’95 Adriano Morales AMAYA is in and fourth-grade students. Candace is the coauthor of an article titled accepted for a Fulbright scholarship Campbell, Calif., and she holds a in Davis with her husband, John the 12-minute bicycle commute; benefit for former Guatemalan his second year of graduate school PINYAN Sabers received an M.D. “Perinatal Psychosocial Assess- to study glass at the Australian M.F.C.C. license. She is also em- PIERCE (Graduate Studies ’82), sometimes I even beat the cars,” he refugees who have returned to their at CSU Long Beach, studying from Mayo Medical School and a ment,” which will appear in the National University at Canberra ployed by McGraw-Hill/California and her six-year-old daughter, writes. Susan MILLER is an ecolo- homeland. student development in higher Ph.D. from Mayo Graduate School journal Clinics in Perinatology in in 1998. Test Bureau in Monterey. She adds Katya. gist with the Shoshone National ’73 Terry TEAYS is project scien- education. Dan ZIVKOVIC is a and has begun her postgraduate 1998; she planned to enter the ’90 Since moving to the former that she “finally married for the first ’86 James HATTERSLEY (Merrill Forest in Cody, Wyo.; she and her tist for education at the (Hubble) multimedia and Internet software training in internal medicine at Ph.D. program in sociology at Soviet Union in 1990, Kim time at age 41 and has a 12-year- ’85) is director of a Swiss pharma- partner recently gave birth to a son. Space Telescope Science Institute. engineer at IBM’s Almaden the Mayo Graduate School of New York University in fall 1997. PALCHIKOFF has worked for the old (feminist) stepdaughter named ceutical company based in Chicago; ’88 Daniel OROS is a graduate ’77 Olga NAJERA-Ramirez, an Research Center. Medicine. ’92 After five years of deciding he Moscow bureaus of NBC, CNN, Monica.” Michael VAN ALTENA he has a daughter in high school research assistant in organic associate professor of anthropology ’91 S. Joshua BETH completed did not want to be a clinical psy- and the Los Angeles Times; she cur- recently changed careers and is now and a son in junior high. geochemistry working for his Ph.D. at UCSC, won a Silver Apple an alternative teacher credentialing chologist, Jonathan BENAK began rently is a Moscow-based features working as a software programmer. ’89 Vincent DiGIROLAMO at Oregon State University. Porter College Award at the 1997 National program designed to prepare teach- the Physician’s Assistant Program stringer for Newsweek International. ’89 Having received a master’s in received his Ph.D. in history from ’89 After six years of living in San Educational Film and Video ’74 Robert KUBEY, an associate ers for work in inner-city schools at Allegheny University in August She can be reached by e-mail at theological studies at Harvard Princeton University and has taken Francisco, Stefan KLAKOVICH Festival for her video, titled professor of communication at and will receive a California 1997. Mark KERLIN won his [email protected]. Divinity School, Albion Moonlight a position as an assistant professor has moved to the country and La Charreada: Rodeo a la Mexicana. Rutgers University, has been Professional Clear CLAD multiple second Washington, D.C., Bicycle ’92 Sharon ANOLIK is living in BUTTERS is now working toward in the Department of Inter- is enjoying his vegetable garden T. Scott TENNEY is a lay minister appointed director of the master’s subject credential this year. After Messenger Championship and will Marin and enjoying her work as his Ph.D. in religious studies, with disciplinary Writing at Colgate immensely; he’s teaching science in the Order of Buddhist Contem- program in communication and receiving her M.F.A. in nonfiction go to Barcelona for the world mes- a judicial staff attorney for the a focus on Tibetan Buddhism, at University in Hamilton, N.Y.; at Windsor High School. platives, with a small meditation information studies. writing from Penn State University senger championships. Kelly Anne California Supreme Court. Columbia University. his dissertation was on child street ’90 Annie BOYD Lademan group that meets weekly. ’78 Robert EVERSZ has in May 1997, Kate MADDEN is a KOERNER is currently working ’93 Cristina YEAGER-Strunk runs ’90 Kim WADDELL earned a labor in 19th-century America. married Chris LADEMAN (Crown ’78 John LORONA is a board “temporarily escaped the trash freelance writer in the San Francisco in the graduate program in marine the largest women’s shoe depart- Ph.D. in biological sciences from ’90 Alan RUDY is an assistant ’90). member in the Selma (Calif.) heap of history with the publication Bay Area. biology at the University of ment west of the Mississippi for the University of South Carolina in visiting professor, with a teaching ’91 Ensign Nancy STEWART Unified School District. of his novels Shooting Elvis and ’93 Tim McDERMOTT has Southern California and plans to Macy’s Department Stores. She 1996 and is now working as a post- and research emphasis in sociology, has been designated a naval aviator ’79 Kanani (Barbara) BURNS is Gypsy Hearts into 10 languages— opened up Scooter’s Record Store in pursue a degree in business or law. married Michael STRUNK (Oakes doctoral researcher in entomology at Guilford College in Greensboro, while serving with Training a museum lecturer, visiting curator, none of them Czech, the language his hometown of Hermosa Beach, ’93 Christine GEMPERLE is ’91) on Valentine’s Day in 1995. at the University of Maryland. N.C. Squadron 86 at the Naval Air and consultant in Polynesian/ of the country in which he cur- Calif. finishing a master’s in fisheries and ’92 Since completing a master’s ’95 Scott BRAVMANN’s book Station in Pensacola, Fla.; she was Hawaiian anthropological art histo- rently resides.” ’94 Amanda Hodgin-WILKIN- wildlife at Utah State University; in international environmental law Queer Fictions of the Past: History, presented with the coveted “Wings College Eight ry, and she is a practitioner of feng ’80 Margie SULLIVAN is com- SON is loving life as the mother of in August 1977 she presented her in Belgium, Gabriela SOSA has Culture, and Difference was pub- of Gold,” marking the culmination shui. Kay MOHLMAN is teaching pleting a residency in ob/gyn at eight-and-a-half-year-old Alexan- research at the National American ’74 Christopher BURGART worked for the Panamanian Foreign lished in 1997 by Cambridge of months of flight training. in the Sociology Department of the Kaiser Hospital in Santa Clara; her dra, and she’s planning to graduate Fisheries Society meeting in retired from his job as a private Ministry; she is currently assistant University Press. ’92 Robert GROPP received his National University of Singapore, husband, Richard SPEAR (College with her master’s in counseling Monterey, Calif. investigator in 1988, resided in to the undersecretary of state of Ph.D. from the University of where she lives with her husband Eight ’93), is a research chemist psychology in June 1998. ’95 Daniel McMAHON is in the Paris from 1988 to 1991, and Panama. She can be reached via Oklahoma in 1997, and he is cur- In Memoriam and two cats. Robert TANAKA working in Silicon Valley. ’97 Levi LARKEY is teaching master’s program at the School of has lived in Lahaina, Hawaii, since e-mail at [email protected]. rently a presidential management lives and works in San Francisco. ’82 Alan SCHROEDER’s book math and coaching volleyball, Information Management and 1991. Da-Thuy NGUYEN Van received Sarah Paige BATY (Graduate intern in the Office of Disability in He is principal of Tanaka Design Minty: A Story of Young Harriet skiing, and soccer at Wasatch Systems at UC Berkeley. ’76 Peter POLLOCK has been a medical degree from the Ohio Studies ’90), a visiting assistant the Social Security Administration. Group Landscape Architects and is Tubman was named by Time maga- Academy in Mt. Pleasant, Utah. ’96 Monica WHALEN is serving named a Loeb Fellow at the University College of Osteopathic professor of political science at the Katharina TORRI just graduated the proud father of a two-and-a- zine as one of the eight best chil- in the Peace Corps in Jordan, teach- Harvard University Graduate Medicine in June 1997 and began University of Arizona in Tucson, from the National College of half-year-old daughter. A second dren’s books of 1996. After a decade ing women their political rights. School of Design and a Visiting an internship at Meridia South died July 14, 1997. Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Kresge College child was due in September. working in Los Angeles as a medical Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Pointe Hospital in Warrensville Margarita CONTIN (Oakes ’93), Ore., and she will continue to live ’89 Stacey McKEEVER received a photographer, Mark Grayson ’81 Kevin VOLKAN and Panda Land Policy in Cambridge, Mass., Heights, Ohio. who had worked as an intern for in Portland and work as a naturo- Oakes College master’s in library and information WILLIAMS has returned to north- KROLL (Kresge ’82) and their for the 1997–98 academic year; he ’94 Doug KEEHN is working the San Jose Mercury News and had pathic physician while pursuing science from the Graduate School ern California. While in L.A., he chow, Can Can, appeared in the ’75 Danny SYLVESTER is now will be on special assignment for the for a year on the West Bank of just begun a new job as a reporter training to become a midwife. of Education and Information was director of exhibitions and on New York Times in conjunction with serving as vice president of the city of Boulder, Colo., where he is Israel/Palestine in a conflict-resolu- for the Long Beach Press-Telegram, ’93 Shelly QUENEAU graduated Studies at UCLA, and she interned the board of directors of SITE, a column called “Fresh Starts,” South Berkeley Housing Develop- director of the community planning tion project among the Palestinian died February 4, 1997. with an M.S. in genetic counseling at Quarterdeck Corporation during a nonprofit artists’ organization, which takes people with unusual ment Corporation. division. Christian community. Donald MacMINN (Cowell ’94), from the School of Public Health at the summer. and he taught art part-time at an financial-planning requirements ’78 Ken STILGEBOUER is mar- ’77 Ray SCHOENKE is the own- a graduate student in astronomy UC Berkeley, and she is now work- ’90 Carolyn CHERRY is looking elementary school. and offers them a fiscal makeover ried and has a 13-year-old daughter; er of SouthPaw, Inc., a marketing and astrophysics at the University ing at the Sacred Heart Medical Graduate Studies forward to another year in the ’83 Katy WILDING is a United by two financial advisers. he is an advisory wide-area network communications firm specializing of Chicago, was struck and killed Center in Eugene, Ore. Minneapolis Public Schools, and Airlines flight attendant. ’82 Chuck HOLLIS is vice presi- programmer for IBM Global in medical sales and marketing, ’78 David BEAR is a professor and by a pickup truck while riding his she “gives her congrats to the ’84 Campegius (Keimpe) dent of marketing for NetXchange Services. including strategic planning, the new chair of the Cell Biology bike in Geneseo, Ill., on August 30, Merrill College Developmental Psychology and BRONKHORST writes compilers Communications, a provider of ’85 Scott ROSEMAN owns New product naming and positioning, and Physiology Department at the 1997. The Astronomy and Astro- Psychology Department for the for Borland and misses College Internet telephony infrastructure Leaf Community Markets in Santa and advertising through all media. University of New Mexico Health physics Department at the Univer- ’70 In addition to his ongoing fabulous article in the last issue Five. Jennifer DAVIS-Kay is the and applications. Cruz, which has four locations, ’82 Shelley POTICHA, an urban Sciences Center. sity of Chicago has established a technology-transfer responsibilities of the UC Santa Cruz Review— wife of Woody and the mother of ’83 Kevin ERGIL is director of including the newest store in the planner, has been named executive ’82 Lee Anne MARTINEZ, an new student award, the Donn at the U.S. Department of Energy, it’s so nice to see good, hard work Melanie, and she is a full-time edi- the Pacific Institute of Oriental restored Bank of America building director of the Congress for the assistant professor of biology at the MacMinn Award for Service Mark CLARK is arranging electric- acknowledged.” tor and freelance writer in Boston. Medicine in Manhattan. on Pacific Avenue in downtown New Urbanism in San Francisco, an University of Southern Colorado, Beyond the Walls of the University, ity service for the national labs. ’91 Deborah CARTER completed ’86 Michael CARLIN is pursuing ’89 Anne GARNER is living in Santa Cruz. organization of public- and private- recently received a Fulbright award in memory of MacMinn’s out- ’71 Georgiann McFADDEN Lyga her Ph.D. in education from the an M.F.A. in creative writing. American Canyon, Calif., with ’86 Lydia CAMARILLO is execu- sector leaders and multidisciplinary to explore the efficacy of compost- standing work with disadvantaged has retired after 14 years with the University of Michigan and is an ’87 Shannon QUINN has her husband and two children; tive director of the Southwest Voter professionals committed to the ing toilets in Mali, West Africa. schoolchildren in Chicago and as R. C. Diocese of Sacramento; she assistant professor of education at returned to the Bay Area after she completed a multiple subject Registration Education Project in restoration of existing urban centers ’83 After 14 years in the a graduate student tutor. will continue as volunteer coordi- Indiana University in Bloomington. 10 years in Ireland, the South teaching credential in spring 1997. San Antonio, Tex., which trains and the reconfiguration of sprawl- Washington, D.C., area, Roxanne Daniel SCHAFER (Oakes ’88) nator of the Mayan Diocesan ’92 Kristine CIOFFI returned Pacific, and on the East Coast. ’91 Kristen GUZMAN is a gradu- newly elected officials, candidates ing suburbs into communities ANDREWS has returned to died in an accident on January 27, Exchange Project, which markets from a three-month stay in ’90 Jose FAJARDO is a second- ate student working on a Ph.D. in running for local office, and orga- through citizen-based participatory California, where she works for the 1997. artisan products for seven women’s nizers for leadership roles. John planning and design. state of California as director of the

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