UCSANTACRUZUCSANTACRUZ R E V I E W HANDS ON Long Marine Lab’s new Seymour Center PLUS: The psychological effects of incarceration, UCSC’s popular film program, a Pulitzer-winning alumna CONTENTS UC Santa Cruz Features Crime & Punishment Review One of the nation’s leading researchers in the areas of Chancellor capital punishment and M.R.C. Greenwood Crime & Punishment 8 penal institutions, UCSC’s Vice Chancellor, University Relations Ronald P. Suduiko Craig Haney has devoted his career to documenting Director, Public Affairs Oceans of Wonder 14 the long-term pyschological Elizabeth Irwin damage that inmates Editor r. r. jones r. r. are experiencing. Jim Burns 8 Reinventing the Reel 18 Oceans of Wonder Art Director/Designer Jim MacKenzie The new Seymour Marine Discovery Center, which Associate Editors Mary Ann Dewey Departments attracted some 4,000 visitors Jeanne Lance of all ages during its opening Writers weekend this past March, Barbara McKenna is introducing tomorrow’s Jennifer McNulty From the Chancellor 1 scientists to the workings Doreen Schack of a world-class Tim Stephens Karin Wanless pfleger mickey marine laboratory. 14 Campus Update 2 Reinventing the Reel Cover Photograph Mickey Pfleger UCSC’s Film and Digital Office of University Relations Media major, one of the Carriage House Alumni News 22 most popular on campus, University of California offers undergraduates 1156 High Street exposure to more than Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 theory and history classes— voice: 831.459.2501 Alumni Notes 24 they also have access fax: 831.459.5795 to graduate-level e-mail: [email protected] web: review.ucsc.edu jones r. r. tools of the trade. 18 Produced by UCSC Public Information Alumni Profile 25 The Bridge at No Gun Ri and Publications. Printed on recycled Martha Mendoza, becoming paper; recyclable. 6/00(00-046/66.7M) the third UCSC graduate UC Santa Cruz (USPS 650940) Vol. 37, No. 4 / Spring 2000 to receive a Pulitzer Prize, UC Santa Cruz is a series of admini- was honored for her work strative publications published quarterly by University Relations at UC Santa Cruz. on an Associated Press story Periodicals postage paid at Santa Cruz, CA documenting the killing of 95060. Postmaster: Send address changes hundreds of civilians by to the University of California, Santa Cruz, University Relations, 1156 High Street, U.S. soldiers during Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077. ap photo / kathy willens / kathy ap photo the Korean War. 25 FROM THE CHANCELLOR By M.R.C. Greenwood or the first time since 1972, capital punishment and penal institu- UC Santa Cruz is opening a new tion psychology (page 8). Throughout college. With the enrollment of his career, Professor Haney has been students this fall, College Nine actively engaged in criminal justice represents a tangible symbol of issues, and his academic findings have FFthis campus’s vitality. Located in a helped shape public policy for more redwood grove next to Social Sciences than two decades. He is part of a 1 and 2, College Nine will serve as the growing cadre of faculty whose work home of students interested in global has spawned UCSC’s new Center for and international studies (page 6). Justice, Tolerance, and Community Like UCSC’s other colleges, College (page 13). Nine will create a “living and learning” Likewise, our alumni continue to environment for our students. Students achieve distinction. Among those affiliated with the new college in its don harris recently acknowledged is Martha early years of existence will have the Mendoza, who received a Pulitzer Prize unique opportunity to work with our As we say farewell to our most this spring for her reporting on the faculty and staff to shape College massacre of civilians at No Gun Ri Nine’s academic direction. during the Korean War (page 25). The campus has already benefitted recent graduates, we are reminded Mendoza is the third UCSC graduate from the contributions of the Class of to receive journalism’s highest honor 2000. As we say farewell to our most in the past five years. recent graduates, we are reminded that it is our students who define Another highlight this past year was that it is our students who define the the gala opening of the Seymour Center essence of the UCSC experience. They at Long Marine Laboratory (page 14). achieve excellence in the classroom Private donations, including a corner- while taking advantage of unique the essence of the UCSC experi- stone $2 million gift from H. Boyd undergraduate research opportunities. Seymour Jr., funded nearly all of the Like their UCSC predecessors, they center’s $6.25 million cost. The three remain committed to service, finding ence. They achieve excellence components of our mission at UCSC— the time to apply the knowledge they teaching, research, and public service— acquire in the classroom to community all come together with excellence at the service needs off campus. Our students’ in the classroom while taking Seymour Marine Discovery Center. work in the ArtsBridge Program (page 3) is one example of such commitment. This issue of the Review also spot- advantage of unique undergraduate lights excellence among our faculty through a story on psychology professor M.R.C. Greenwood Craig Haney, a leading researcher in research opportunities. Chancellor UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 1 CCAMPUSAMPUS UUPDATEPDATE UCSC to establish UC karin wanless portal for Silicon Valley kevin mcdonnell kevin ontinuing a process that commenced officially Clast summer, UCSC is making progress toward the establishment of a Silicon Valley Center. Supported in Governor Davis’s proposed 2000–01 bud- get, the center will consolidate UCSC programs already serving George Brown, chair of the Academic Senate’s Committee on Educational Policy, Silicon Valley, while offering To record diving behavior, UCSC addresses the faculty in February about the grades proposal. to the region for the first time researchers mounted a video camera direct access to UC resources. on this trained bottlenose dolphin. Faculty senate adopts eliminated the requirement that A faculty committee has instructors provide “narratives” developed recommendations for grades plan; reform of in all lower-division courses; the academic planning principles, Taking a relaxed plan, which would also apply and a working group has identi- approach to diving ‘narratives’ proposed to entering undergraduates in fied prospective locations for a fall 2001, would continue the permanent site. The former will or years scientists have csc’s academic senate requirement for upper-division provide a basis for developing puzzled over the ability of voted overwhelmingly in classes. That meeting, however, the teaching and research activi- F dolphins, seals, and other UFebruary to make letter was canceled due to a student ties at the center. Meanwhile, marine mammals to perform grades mandatory for entering protest, and the NES discussion existing activities operating in long, deep dives that seem to UCSC students in fall 2001. is expected to resume at the Silicon Valley are headquartered exceed their aerobic capacities. Faculty members this spring senate’s fall meeting. at an interim site in Cupertino. Now, with the help of sophisti- were also poised to discuss a cated instruments and video proposal that would amend the technology, a team of researchers campus’s traditional Narrative has resolved the paradox and Evaluation System (NES). discovered a laid-back diving The 154–77 vote in favor strategy that appears to be wide- of instituting UC's traditional services ucsc photo spread among marine mammals. grading system may still be over- The research team, led by turned by full vote of the senate, Terrie Williams, an associate conducted by mail. (A request professor of biology at UCSC, for such a ballot was made in late studied Weddell seals hunting March; at press time, the results beneath the ice in the Antarctic, had not been announced.) a northern elephant seal diving Specifically, the grades in Monterey Bay, a trained bot- resolution approved in February tlenose dolphin diving offshore permits students who enter of San Diego, and a 100-ton UCSC a year from this fall blue whale traveling off the to continue to be able to take A Workout with a View With a weeklong open house in February, coast of northern California. courses on a “pass/no pass” UC Santa Cruz’s Wellness Center officially opened to students, faculty, “Basically, they’re turning basis. But no more than 25 staff, and others affiliated with the university. Overlooking the Monterey the motor on and off in percent of the course work Bay and the East Field, the center was constructed as a 10,600-square- the course of the dive, and applied toward graduation foot, two-story building. The $4 million center is equipped with two that enables them to reduce credit could be taken P/NP. complete floors of cardiovascular and strength-training machines. Above, oxygen consumption by The senate, meanwhile, was Dan Wood, executive director of UCSC’s Office of Physical Education, 10 to 50 percent compared scheduled in late May to discuss Recreation, and Sports, explains the programmable workout functions with what they would need changes to the NES, including a of a new fitness bike to Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood. if they swam all the way proposal that would have down,” Williams said. 2 UC Santa Cruz Review / Summer 2000 Biologist receives Arts program meets Presidential award needs of on- and off- barbara mckenna campus communities ssistant professor of biology Yishi Jin is among t’s quite common these Aa select group of young days for UCSC student researchers to receive the 1999 IJessica Fisher to take a walk Presidential Early Career Award downtown and be hailed for Scientists and Engineers. enthusiastically by a group of The award is the highest honor excited preteens.