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May 10, 1999
Information sessions for assistant professors will be held on Tuesday, May 18, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and Wednesday, May 19, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 219, McHenry Library (choose one session). These sessions are intended to help assistant professors understand some of the policies and procedures in academic personnel reviews. Contact Academic Human Resources at (831) 459-4300 or terilynn@cats.ucsc.edu to register.
Paul Holocher is the new men's soccer coach. A two-time All American at Santa Clara University, Holocher has played for the San Jose Clash and on the U.S. National Team. He is director of coaching at Soccer Central Indoor Arena in Watsonville, founder and director of the Catalyst Soccer Club, and coach of several top-ranked Santa Cruz County youth teams.
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| Still from the film Pather Panchali
(Song of the Little Road) by Satyajit Ray
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Dilip Basu, associate professor of history, will be a featured speaker and guest during a film retrospective of the works of Satyajit Ray this month at the Stanford Theater. Basu also heads the Ray Film and Study Collection at UCSC, which provided the films for the retrospective. Basu and Sandip Ray, son of Satyajit, will speak before the screenings on Friday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Stanford Theater. The retrospective is sponsored by the Packard Foundation. For more information, call (650) 324-3700.
Learn the moves that allow you to dance in style at a Lindy Hop Dance Workshop with Rob and Diane on Sunday, May 16, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Kresge Town Hall. Steps include the swingout, the eight-count basic, Charleston, and Boogie Woogie. This class is designed for beginners and more advanced dancers. The cost is $18/rec cardholders, $23/others. Sign up at the Rec Office at the East Field House or call (831) 459-2806 for more information.
Get your hands in the soil at an Organic Gardening Workshop on Sunday, May 16, 10:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m., 4680 Smith Grade Rd. (Christopher Hobbs Garden). The cost is $15/rec cardholders, $20/others. Sign up at the Rec Office at the East Field House or call (831) 459-2806 for more information.
Reminder: Nominations for the Alumni Association's 1998-99 awards are being accepted through Friday, May 28. The three awards are the Distinguished Teaching Award, Outstanding Staff Award, and Alumni Achievement Award. The association holds a tribute luncheon in honor of award recipients. Faculty and staff winners each receive a $500 cash award. Nomination forms are available on the Web or by contacting the Alumni Association at (831) 459-2530 or alumni@cats.ucsc.edu.
Plans are under way for Student Achievement Celebration Week, scheduled to take place on campus June 14 to recognize outstanding achievement by current UCSC students. The week will culminate with an awards ceremony on June 4 at University House. The first-of-its-kind week has been initiated by Lynda Goff, associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education, and is being planned by a committee of faculty and staff.
The annual staff and faculty Prediction Walk/Run is Thursday, May 20, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the East Field. To participate, each person on a team of four predicts his/her time to run or walk a distance of 1/2 mile, and the team captain predicts the time the team will need to complete the 2-mile race. The team with the actual time closest to its prediction wins. Everyone gets a free t-shirt and the chance to win prizes. The entry deadline is May 17. A voluntary donation of $5/person helps to support women's athletics. For an entry form or for more information, call (831) 459-2531.
Family Student Housing is offering summer school-age day care for the children of students, staff, and faculty June 21 through August 27, Monday through Friday, from 7:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Variable length contracts are available. The program offers weekly swimming, visiting artists, and field trips. For more information, call Conne Lester at (831) 459-4085.
Ruth Gilmore, assistant professor of Geography and Women's Studies at Rutgers University, will give a talk titled "Fatal Festivals: Race, Gender, and Power in Corcoran" on May 12 at 12:15 p.m. in the Oakes Mural Room. Gilmore is currently completing a book titled "Sunshine Gulag" (University of California Press, 2000), a study of California's crisis-driven prison expansion in rural and urban contexts. Gilmore argues that prisons are built from gendered and racialized surpluses of land, labor, capital, and state capacity, and that defeats of radical struggles and the weakening of organized labor were key preconditions for prison growth.