Contents of this page: Chancellor to speak at staff forum Feb. 27 United Way campaign wrapping up this week University Orchestra to perform Boléro and Romeo and Juliet Hawaiian poet and playwright to perform March 7 Workshop offers help with managing priorities Alice Walker talk available online 2002 Title IX Advisory Council announced Construction update	February 25, 2002 More Campus News Chancellor to speak at staff forum Feb. 27 Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood will address a range of issues at the Winter Staff Forum from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, February 27, in Earth and Marine Sciences Room B206. Greenwood plans to offer updates on the budget, including the status of the campus hiring freeze, and on campus emergency preparedness, then answer staff members' questions on those or other subjects. The brown-bag forum is sponsored by the Chancellor's Office and the Staff Advisory Board. Back to top United Way campaign wrapping up this week The campus United Way campaign concludes this week, with pledge forms due by Thursday, February 28. For more information, see earlier Currents article and visit the campus United Way campaign web site. Back to top University Orchestra to perform Boléro and Romeo and Juliet The UC Santa Cruz Music Department presents the University Orchestra in a program featuring Maurice Ravel's 1928 orchestral sensation Boléro, Tchaikovsky's classic Romeo and Juliet (1870), and professor David Cope's Lieder von Leben und Tod (Songs from Life and Death). David Cope guest conducts. The performances will take place on Friday and Saturday, March 1 and 2, at 8 p.m. in the Music Center Recital Hall. The approximately 45-member University Orchestra is made up of UCSC students as well as a small handful of gifted area high schoolers and musically inclined university staff and faculty (including professor of computer science Charles McDowell, trombone). Seating is reserved; tickets are $8/general, $6/seniors, and $4/students w/ ID. To purchase tickets, call the UCSC Ticket Office at (831) 459-2159. Back to top Hawaiian poet and playwright to perform March 7 Leilani Chan Leilani Chan, an internationally known poet and playwright, will perform her one-women show "E Nana I Ke Kumu: Look to the Source" on Thursday, March 7, at 8 p.m. in the Porter College Dining Hall. Interweaving hula, poetry, monologue, and music, Chan will deconstruct Hawaii's stereotypical lei-wearing, surf-boarding society. A native Hawaiian, Chan has worked as a performer, writer, director, and producer at many multicultural theaters, which has led to the development of the Los Angeles based TeAda Productions. As artistic director and founder of TeAda Productions, Chan has united many of L.A.'s ethnic communities in performances that offer authentic stories for, by, and about people of color. Admission is free for UCSC students with ID and $5/general. The performance is sponsored by the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center. Back to top Workshop offers help with managing priorities Do you have too much to do? A staff workshop on "Managing Multiple Priorities" may offer the help you need. The workshop will be led by Elaine Fukuhara Schilling, an experienced workshop presenter who is on the faculty of the College of Health and Human Services at San Francisco State University and is a former manager of training and development at UC Berkeley. Fukuhara Schilling will discuss some approaches and techniques for effectively managing priorities at work and at home. The brown-bag workshop, offered by EEO/AA and the Women's Center, will take place on Thursday, March 14, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Conference Room D at the Bay Tree Bookstore. Drinks and desserts will be served. All are welcome, but preregistration is required. Contact Roberta Valdez at the Women's Center, (831) 459-2169 or rvaldez@cats.ucsc.edu. Back to top UCSC Photo Services Alice Walker talk available online Those who missed the appearance of author Alice Walker at UCSC's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation on January 23 can now listen to her speech by checking out the online archives of public radio station KUSP, 88.9 FM. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author spoke to an overflow crowd at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on "What it Feels Like to Know Someone Died for You: Living with the Voice of the Beloved." Back to top 2002 Title IX Advisory Council announced The 2001-02 Title IX Advisory Council membership is as follows: Campbell Leaper, professor of psychology, associate dean of social sciences, and provost of Colleges Nine and Ten Sandra Chung, professor of linguistics Helen Shapiro, associate professor of sociology Amy Smith, graduate student in psychology Antoinette Gonzalez, undergraduate adviser for politics, legal studies, and UCDC Emily Dubin, undergraduate student at Stevenson College Susan Taylor, administrative assistant to the vice chancellor for research and staff to the committee For information on the role of the Title IX Advisory Council, see the UCSC Sex Offense Policy, the UC Santa Cruz Procedures for Reporting Sexual Assault(s) (Section VI, page 10), and UC Santa Cruz Procedures for Reporting Sexual Harassment (Section III C, page 19, and Section V, page 21). 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