November 25, 1996

Headliners

Romney Dunbar of KSBW-TV covered a visit to the UCSC Farm and Garden by seven farmers participating in an international exchange program. (Photo) Hailing from Honduras, Lithuania, and Russia, the farmers spent a day at UCSC learning about sustainable agriculture. KSCO radio also covered the visit. . . .

Sociologist Andrew Szasz was featured in West, the Sunday magazine published by the San Jose Mercury News, for his work on the distribution of toxic wastes in Santa Clara County. Szasz is one of the first researchers in the country to use federal inventories of toxics in this way. . . .

The new Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope at Lick Observatory, for which UCSC played a critical role in raising funds, received widespread attention following its recent dedication. Nature, the Journal of College Science Teaching, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Santa Cruz County Sentinel all took note, as did the San Jose Mercury News, which ran a photo of the telescope's creator, Alex Filippenko of UC Berkeley. Astronomy plans an article as well in a forthcoming issue. . . .

Psychologist Barry McLaughlin was quoted at length in a package of stories about bilingual education that appeared in the Santa Cruz County Sentinel. . . . Also in psychology, Tom Pettigrew was quoted in a pre-election San Francisco Examiner story about Proposition 209, saying that the wording of the ballot initiative--which omitted the words "affirmative action"--greatly enhanced its chances of passage.