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Chancellor to speak at staff forum May 6
Gear up for Bike Week 2002 May 12-18
HR is offering information sessions for assistant professors
Put a team together for the Prediction Run/Walk May 14
Final University Club luncheon of the year on May 9
Scholar of Latin American literature to give lecture May 7
Work by faculty artist E. G. Crichton on display at Santa Cruz museum
Upcoming classes from the Recreation Office
KZSC holding Spring Pledge Drive
May 6, 2002
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Parking fees set to increase
TAPS is proposing a 5 percent (approximate) increase in parking and vanpool fees for 2002-03. The proposed increases will be effective July 1 if approved. Visit the TAPS web site for a detailed rate sheet.
Questions or comments regarding the proposed changes in
fees should be e-mailed to taps@cats.ucsc.edu by May 31.
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Chancellor to speak at staff forum May 6
Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood will address a range of issues at the Spring Staff
Forum from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday, May 6, in the Media Theater, Room M110,
at the Theater Arts Center.
The "brown-bag" forum is sponsored by the Chancellor's Office and the Staff
Advisory Board.
Later this month, Chancellor Greenwood will host the second annual free staff
breakfast, sponsored by the Staff Advisory Board. "Pancakes and Jazz with M.R.C."
will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. at Stevenson Dining Hall on Wednesday, May 22.
The Latin jazz quartet, Carne Cruda, will perform, and there will be raffle drawings
for prizes.
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Gear up for Bike Week 2002 May 12-18
Santa
Cruz County Bike Week 2002 is May 12-18,
and Bike to School/Work Day will be May 16. On Bike to Work Day, there will be three
UCSC breakfast sites--at the top of the bike path, the Women's Center, and the Bike
Co-op (in its new location in the old Whole Earth Building). A complete list of breakfast
sites can be found by following the links on the web site.
There will also be a commute race on May 14. The race will pit a cyclist against a car driver, a bus rider, and a bike-to-shuttle rider and will conclude at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. The goal of the race is to demonstrate how feasible--and quick-- it is to commute by bike to UCSC.
For more information, go to the Bike Week
2002 web site or call (831) 423-3733.
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HR is offering information sessions for assistant professors
Information sessions for assistant professors will be held on Tuesday, May 14,
from 3 to 5 p.m., and Wednesday, May 15, from 10 a.m. to noon at 325 McHenry Library
(you only need to attend one session). These sessions are intended to help assistant
professors understand some of the policies and procedures in academic personnel reviews.
Contact Nancy Furber, Academic Human Resources, (831) 459-4779 or furber@cats.ucsc.edu,
to register.
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Put a team together for the Prediction Run/Walk May 14
Work out at a comfortable pace in a beautiful setting, get a free t-shirt, and win some not-so-fabulous prizes at the 15th annual Prediction Run/Walk on Tuesday, May 14, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the East Field Track. The event is sponsored by OPERS, the Bay Tree Bookstore, and Human Resources.
To participate, all you need to do is select your team (four staff/faculty members), name your team, estimate your time, and send in your entry form. Contact OPERS/Dan Wood at (831) 459-2531 if you do not have an entry form. The entry deadline is May 7.
Each person on a team of four predicts his/her time to run or walk a distance
of 1/2 mile at a comfortable pace. The captain of the team predicts how long, in
minutes and seconds, the team will need to complete two miles (four 1/2 mile laps).
During the relay, one person from the team will hand a baton to the next person.
Participants do not have to run or walk fast to win the event; the closest actual
time to the predicted time wins. Bring your own creative baton and leave your watches
at work.
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Final University Club lunch of the year on May 9
Join campus faculty and staff for a "surf and turf" luncheon at University
House on May 9, with sittings at 11:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. The lunch is part of an
ongoing University Club series of themed lunches aimed at bringing together friends
and colleagues from around campus. The menu includes herb-marinated tri-tip, grilled
salmon fillet, wild rice salad, baked potatoes, spinach salad, garlic bread, and
fresh fruit tarts for dessert. Coffee and iced tea are also included. The cost is
$11 per person, cash, check, or recharge. Reservations are required; call (831) 459-5271
by 5 p.m. May 7.
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Scholar of Latin American literature to give lecture May 7
The 2001-02 Department of Literature Distinguished Lecture in Literary Studies
will be "Fear and Loathing in the Polis: The Dark Side of Modernization,"
by Jean Franco, professor emerita of English and comparative literature at Columbia
University.
Franco received the 1996 PEN award for her lifetime contribution to the dissemination
of Latin American literature in English, and has been recognized by the Chilean and
Venezuelan governments, respectively, with the Gabriela Mistral medal and the Andres
Bello medal for advancing literary scholarship on Latin American literature in the
United States.
The annual Distinguished Lecture in Literary Studies brings to campus renowned scholars
of literary studies who are gifted teachers and whose work represents the innovative
directions in which literary studies are developing. The lecture is cosponsored by
the Literature Department and the Humanities Division. This year's lecture will be
on Tuesday, May 7, at 4 p.m. in Kresge Town Hall. The event is free and open to the
public; for more information, call (831) 459-4129.
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Work by faculty artist E. G. Crichton on display at Santa Cruz museum
A video installation, entitled In the Year of Her Age, by E. G. Crichton,
assistant professor of art, is on view at the Santa
Cruz Museum of Art and History through July 21.
Crichton developed In
the Year of Her Age from two research interests: a decade's worth of collected
clapping chants, jump-rope rhymes, and the fortune-telling games of childhood, and
a more recent interest in the inscriptions and forms of gravestones. Using video
collages and text, Crichton mingles the repetitive singsong of children's rhymes
with epitaph references, creating an installation that suggests memory, secrets,
and cycles of time.
Check the museum's web site
for location and hours, or call (831) 429-1964.
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Upcoming classes from the Recreation Department
Register for these classes through the UCSC Recreation Department at (831) 459-2806, Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Salsa Dance Workshop
Wednesdays, May 8 and 15, from 8:30 to 10 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room at the East
Field Center. The cost is $10/UCSC students and Wellness Card holders, $20/general
admission. Basic steps of salsa and building off them. You will learn a dance routine
with a partner. Instructors are Valentina Torres and Gabriela Casal.
Wilderness First Responder
Friday, June 7 - Sunday, June 16; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (and some evenings) in the Multipurpose
Room, East Field House; $425/UCSC students, $480/non-UCSC students. 80-hour course
designed to provide outdoor leaders, guides, rangers, and travelers with the knowledge
needed to deal with medical emergencies in remote settings. Emphasis is placed on
prevention and decision making. Instructors are staff of the Wilderness Medicine
Institute. Certifications upon successful completion.
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KZSC holding Spring Pledge Drive
88.1 FM KZSC Santa Cruz, listener-supported, educational, public radio for the
masses (recent winner of the Silver in the 2002 Santa Cruz Metro's Readers'
Choice Awards) is holding its Spring 2002 Pledge Drive April 29 through May 12. Call
(831) 459-2811 or 459-4036 to make a pledge. And check out the station
web site.
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Construction update
Currents provides regular updates on construction projects that have an impact on campus transportation and parking. Construction update story
For more information, visit the Transportation
and Parking Services web site and the Physical
Planning and Construction web site.
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