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Amodei, who majored in literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said that “studying the humanities is going to be more important than ever. A lot of these models are actually very good at STEM. But I think this idea that there are things that make us uniquely human — understanding ourselves, understanding history, understanding what makes us tick — I think that will always be really, really important.”

Other billionaires and execs — Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan Chase, Ginni Rometty at IBM, Satya Nadella at Microsoft, Mike Novogratz at Fortress Investment Group and Jack Clark at Anthropic — have warned of the need for emotional intelligence and storytelling in a world dominated by A.I.

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UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) is a premier public research university, consistently ranked #1 among US public universities and top-5 globally for highly cited researchers (2025, 2014-2024), according to Clarivate. Its faculty produce research in the top 1% of citations, particularly in physical sciences, astronomy, and genomics.

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Twenty-five researchers associated with the University of California, Santa Cruz, earned a spot on the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list by Clarivate, and an analysis by the same organization ranks UC Santa Cruz as the No. 1 public university in the United States for highly cited researchers and No. 5 in the world.

This prestigious annual list recognizes researchers globally whose papers rank in the top 1% by citations for their respective fields and year of publication, highlighting their substantial influence in the research community.

A Clarivate analysis of the Highly Cited Researchers lists from 2014 to 2024 finds that UC Santa Cruz is the top public research university, and the fifth institution overall, with the most researchers who have consistently appeared on the list over this 10-year period. Also in the top five are Harvard University, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Max Planck Society, and Stanford University. The analysis notes that if the UC system was accounted as a single institution rather than individual campuses, the system would be first in the world.

Faculty on the 2025 list include: Jonathan Fortney, professor of astronomy and astrophysics; Garth Illingworth, distinguished professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics; David Haussler, distinguished professor of biomolecular engineering and director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute; Karen Miga, associate professor of biomolecular engineering; Benedict Paten, professor of biomolecular engineering; and Yat Li, professor of chemistry and biochemistry.

Staff researchers on the list include: Mark Diekhans, technical director of the Genomics Institute’s Computational Genomics Laboratory, and James Kent, creator and former director of the UC Santa Cruz Genome Browser, along with Genomics Institute research and bioinformatics staff members: Galt Barber, Jonathan Casper, Hiram Clawson, Jairo Navarro Gonzalez, Maximilian Haeussler, Angie Hinrichs, Robert Kuhn, Brian Lee, Christopher Lee, Brian Raney, Kate Rosenbloom, Matthew Speir, and Ann Zweig. Daniel Magee, a staff programmer with the UC Observatories, also made the list.

Three researchers who specify UC Santa Cruz as their secondary affiliation made the list: Steven Bograd, adjunct professor of ocean sciences; Elliot Hazen, associate adjunct professor of ecology and evolutionary biology; and Rychard Bouwens, former UC Santa Cruz postdoctoral fellow and now an associate professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Alumni Achievement Award and keynote

Julie Snyder (Kresge '95, politics), contributing editor for This American Life and co-creator and executive producer of the award-winning podcast Serial, which broke records as the fastest podcast ever to reach 5 million iTunes downloads.

Sandra Chung

Faculty Research Award

Sandra Chung, professor of linguistics, who has been recognized for her contributions to teaching and research in linguistics; advancing syntax through insights from under-studied languages, notably Chamorro; and engaging minority communities in linguistic research.

Claudia and Alec Webster

Fiat Lux Award

Claudia and Alec Webster, major UC Santa Cruz philanthropists whose gifts have had a dramatic impact on campus. Their generous donation enabled UC Santa Cruz to restore the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn—revitalizing the main campus entrance—and strengthen programs in sustainable agriculture, linking the larger community to the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden. Further gifts established several new endowed chairs.

Zach Friend

Master of ceremonies

Zach Friend (Porter '01, history), Santa Cruz County supervisor, author, and spokesman for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.

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http://news.ucsc.edu/2016/06/archivist.html

http://guides.library.ucsc.edu/speccoll/university-archives

Of particular interest are the programs that were cutting edge offerings when they were first created and reflected the culture of the campus, such as Feminist Studies, Community Studies, the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems, the Chicano Latino Research Center, and the Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory.

The new wave of archival practice involves organizing the massive amount of digital content now created, which may involve capturing old websites and digital correspondence, as well as photos, video, and audio files.

“We can’t take everything but we want to have the broadest potential for storytelling,” said Elizabeth Cowell, Richard L. Press University Librarian and Presidential Chair.

...The long-awaited position was made possible through a generous donation by the Webster Family Foundation, which endowed the university librarian position through the Presidential Chair program of the University of California Office of the President. Alec Webster (’02, College Eight) and his wife, Claudia Webster, wanted the gift to create the university archivist position as they have a particular interest in campus history. The gift is part of the Campaign for UC Santa Cruz, which supports excellence across the university through increased private investment in the people and ideas shaping the future.

Long-standing campus benefactors, the Websters have contributed to many vital campus projects including the renovation and programming for the Cowell Hay Barn at UC Santa Cruz.

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Next week, 2015 graduate Juan Dávila Santiago will embark on a new chapter in his life--he’s off to New York where he landed a one-year News Production Fellowship to work at Democracy Now!.

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Jean Langenheim, a Harvard-trained biologist who would go on to become a renowned plant ecologist, sat around a crackling campfire with a small group of undergraduate students.

That she was the lone female faculty member in natural sciences at the new UC Santa Cruz campus was remarkable enough. But the fact Langenheim was actually teaching a class on the ecology of redwoods, not in a classroom but beneath a starry sky and under a stand of the towering trees, was even more notable.

“I was convinced this informal atmosphere of learning in the field and the relationships students and faculty shared there often inspired life-long environmental interests,” said the now 90-year-old Langenheim.

It was that freedom to teach in unconventional ways and engage in research among a close-knit faculty that attracted Langenheim to the Santa Cruz campus in 1966. Many of the pioneering teachers and staff who came to UC Santa Cruz between 1964 and 1967 would be drawn by the same thing.

Born out of the vision of then-UC President Clark Kerr and Dean McHenry, a former UCLA political science professor who was named the first chancellor of the new campus, UC Santa Cruz was to be a grand experiment in education.

It proposed knocking down the walls of a stodgy bureaucracy, encouraging innovation, and allowing students the intimacy of a small college within a large research institution.

But it was the early staff and faculty — many of which came from places like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and even Kings College at Cambridge University — who actually carried out the plan and, in the process, established the roots of what UC Santa Cruz is today.

“Everybody wanted to come. It was the talk of the country,” said Todd Newberry, a Stanford-trained professor of biology who arrived at the university in 1965. “How many times in your life do you get to start a university? It was going to focus on undergrads, and that’s where my heart was.”

The campus attracted new thinkers like a horseback-riding historian from UCLA named Page Smith, the charismatic art history professor Mary Holmes, the brilliant history professor and WWII veteran William Hitchcock, and the gangly Harvard-trained Byron Stookey Jr., who would become head of academic planning for UC Santa Cruz.

The hires were old, young, liberal, and conservative. Some came with impressive bodies of work. Other put their academic careers in jeopardy by arriving at an institution that put an emphasis on undergraduate teaching rather than on being published. They played sports with students, ate with students, invited them into their homes.

“Well, of course it was exceptional and we knew it and a lot of people felt it,” said UC Santa Cruz pioneer History Professor John Dizikes in his oral history. “And (Cowell College founding Provost) Page Smith propagated overwhelmingly the idea shared by most of us, to a great degree, that we were now going to help with the reform of American higher education.”

And reform they did.

One of the first revolutionary acts of the faculty was to toss out letter grades in favor of a pass/fail system with narrative evaluations. The move was urged by Smith, who believed letter grades created a competitive situation where some students prospered at the expense of others and had no place in learning.

Or as the flamboyant pioneer Art History Professor Jasper Rose reportedly said, “Students are not vegetables. We don’t need to grade them.”

Nancy Pascal, who worked in the Registrar’s Office starting in 1966, remembered the faculty writing evaluations of students on “sticky labels, and then we’d get the labels and we’d paste them onto the right student’s records. Later the college staff would have to retype them, so there was this huge effort to support the narrative evaluation for students.”

Today, many of those who gave — and received — these narrative assessments say they were one of the best parts of UC Santa Cruz, a concrete sign that teachers were actually paying attention to students.

Besides a lack of grades, there were other indications the early faculty and staff weren't creating your father’s university.

There were weekly “college nights,” where faculty, staff, and students sat down to a semi-formal dinner with stimulating guest speakers like beat poet Allen Ginsberg, writer/activist Susan Sontag, writer Anaïs Nin, and jazz musician Don Ellis.

There were thought-provoking college courses, which pressed against the boundaries of traditional teaching. Newberry co-taught a college course on death and another on the sense of place. Courses on building a house, on dreams, and on national identity were offered.

Harry Berger, a literature professor who came to UC Santa Cruz from Yale in 1965 and went on to become a respected literary and cultural critic, also remembered Cowell’s famous core course on world civilization. The course included seminars led, not just by humanities professors, but also, in this new world of learning, by biologists, economists, political scientists, and chemists — many who found themselves in unfamiliar territory.

“It encouraged and supported team-teaching,” Berger said of the experience. “It made it easy for people in different fields to teach together. I team-taught courses with classicists, anthropologists, and sociologists… . For me, this meant that I was not only a teacher of undergraduates but also a student of my colleagues.”

Many of the faculty and staff found themselves improvising, inventing, and tackling assignments they’d never imagined.

Pioneer professor of psychology and sociology Bill Domhoff organized a two-day, all-campus “culture break” during those first years. He brought in folklorist Alan Dundes, who gave a talk on the psychology of elephant jokes, and recruited an expert who spoke on drugs and creativity. There were talks on dreams, screenings of Ingmar Bergman movies, and construction of a fake beach, complete with lifeguard, on the East Field.

“The beauty of it turned out to be that students learned to think for themselves and to be more creative,” Domhoff said of the event he dubbed “The Fantasy Festival.”

But the times were already changing. Student protests over the Vietnam War and Civil Rights rattled the campus, and the weight of overturning old systems began to take a toll.

Faculty discovered themselves overwhelmed by the workloads of both the colleges and what were called boards of studies. Some of the campus’s brightest teachers were denied tenure because the entrenched UC advancement system didn’t take into account the new campus’s values. Political pressures mounted. Some of the old ways crept back in.

But one of the things that remained was UC Santa Cruz’s maverick spirit, an attitude that fostered improbable campus achievements like being the first to sequence the human genome, saving the endangered Peregrine falcon from extinction, finding new ways to peer more deeply into space, and helping to put organic food on American tables.

“…You walk across campus now and there are all those energetic, interested young people who are finding their way in life and learning,” said Jerry Walters, a pioneering staff member whose job included the daunting task of housing 652 students after construction delays meant they had nowhere to live. “And then, there are the discoveries and other things going on (at UC Santa Cruz) that don’t just have local impact but have national and worldwide impact.”

The man who retired as executive director of housing, dining, and childcare paused.

“Well,” he said, “it just makes me proud.”

http://news.ucsc.edu/2015/06/founding-faculty-staff.html

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http://50years.ucsc.edu/original-thinkers/index.html

Faculty highlighted are:

Robert Sinsheimer: Sequencing the human genome

Adrienne Zihlman: The role of women in evolution

John Wilkes: Turning scientists into communicators

Craig Reinarman: Focused on costs, societal harms of national drug laws

Harry Noller: Uncovering one of life’s essential molecular machines

Jean Langenheim: Blazing a trail for female scientists

Craig Haney: A career dedicated to social justice

Gary Griggs: A voice of reason amid coastal conflict

Steve Gliessman: Roots of agroecology extend deeply at UC Santa Cruz

G. William Domhoff: Authority on power structure documented the 1 percent

Bettina Aptheker: Building feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz

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Original vision

Reflections on the tumultuous '60s, the heady days of UC Santa Cruz's beginnings, and the ways the campus has stayed true to its mission through the decades

June 19, 2015

Bulldozers, dirt piles, mobile-home dorms, and mooing muddy cows greeted them in the mornings.

UC Santa Cruz was a place of the mind in 1965, and, to a large degree, a place still in the mind; so much of what we now know as the college campus did not exist yet.

But the spirit of adventure, and the willingness to follow an ever-changing road map, united UC Santa Cruz's very first graduating class and the faculty and staff members who helped guide their way to graduation. The founding vision of UC Santa Cruz was grounded in a solid liberal arts education with a multidisciplinary focus. It was also centered around small residential colleges, as well as faculty members who prided themselves on their ability to challenge the young students while taking their ideas seriously.

This winter, UC Santa Cruz Review set up a "roundtable" of voices from the past and present to reflect on the campus turning 50 years old in 2015. They talked about the many changes they've witnessed, and the ways the place has stayed true to its multidisciplinary and idealistic original vision.

The following is a combination of several in-depth phone interviews with the subjects. Dan White's questions are in bold.

Our roundtablers include:

• Economics professor David Kaun, a faculty member since 1966

• Pioneer students Jock Reynolds (Stevenson '69, psychology), a renowned artist and museum director;Michael Gerber (Cowell '69, economics), a professor in UC Santa Barbara's Graduate School of Education, and his wife, Kathy Gerber (Stevenson '69, psychology), a retired teacher (the two met while working together on UC Santa Cruz's first ever yearbook); and Meg Zweiback (Merrill '69, politics), a pediatric nurse practitioner and author

• Staff members Katherine Beiers, a retired UC Santa Cruz librarian who worked at McHenry Library from 1967 to 1992; and retired housing administrator Jerry Walters

Breaking ground

There was a strong sense of breaking new ground, not just on the physical campus but also in the classrooms.

Michael Gerber: It was like living in a forest. It was a beautiful setting and there was no history. Now the campus has institutional traditions you learn about, and there are also upperclassmen. Your behavior as a first-year is mapped against what you see other people doing. The university has rules and procedures, but when we got there, there was not much of that. Everything we were in contact with was being created on the spot. Cowell College was established as countercultural, an explicit experiment: How can you have a small liberal arts college embedded in a university? There were some upperclassmen, and about 100 or so transfer juniors, but they didn't live on campus. We generally didn't see them.

It's hard for me to even imagine attending a school with all those earthmovers and a bunch of un-built structures. I think the risk would have been too much for me to handle. I would have thought, "I don't know about this. What if this new campus is going to shut down next week?"

Jerry Walters: But I think you're coming at this through today's eyes, and you aren't looking at the situation from the perspective of a 17- or 18-year-old. People were more rugged then. The faculty were young, too. And everybody was in the same situation, all new, all excited, coming to a new experiment.

David Kaun: When I got here, initially in February of 1966, the physical buildings of Cowell and Stevenson (respectively, the first and second colleges constructed on campus) did not exist. It was exciting. There were 600 students, and we added another 600 with Stevenson. I had an intro course on economics, and we had four students.

Jock Reynolds: There would be chairs and tables in the Field House and they would empty it out to hold a big World Civilization course, and empty it out again to have a meal, and empty it out again and play basketball. We were making it up as we went along.

Meg Zweiback: At the end of the year, we had a huge comprehensive exam covering everything over the year from three quarters. Lots of people flunked the test. They hadn't figured out that if you flunked you didn't get credit for 15 units, which meant you were out. I read Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy and crammed in 20 unread books, starting with Plato, in one weekend and passed! UC Santa Cruz was teaching us to think "big picture" and to create themes and to ask questions so if you were (only) a dutiful student and did your work and did not have an inquiring mind you wouldn't do as well.

That's a lot of learning in a small amount of time! Did you retain a lot of what you learned?

Meg Zweiback: Yes, because the professors, including Mary Holmes in art, had a great gift for making you see things you hadn't noticed before. I can still tell you more about medieval architecture than what I learned when I first went to Europe.

Counterculture revolution

This was the mid-1960s before the counterculture really caught fire, before the Summer of Love. Often when people think "'60s," they impose this image that started later on.

Jerry Walters: Well, let's put it this way. While they may have looked a lot different when they graduated from here, they arrived clean-shaven, with haircuts and nice clothes. Those were such different times. In those days there was this idea of "In Loco Parentis," where the university was thought to be a parent in a way. As an example, our chancellor had students sign in or out so if parents wanted to find their son or daughter, all they had to do was call the preceptor. They would call up and say, "I haven't heard from my son for a while. Where is he?" We were so small, we could get in touch with people quickly. Well, that didn't go over well. A lot of students rebelled after a while. "This is our time, in our lives, and we will keep in touch with our folks (when we want to)."

David Kaun: Stevenson used to have two sets of dormitories: one quad for men, the other for women. After the first year they realized the quad with four dorms of men turned out to be barbaric, so in the second year they intermingled the dormitories, and by the fourth year students could go into each other's dormitories through the first-floor lounge. Every single year the dormitory policy changed. It was not very long before men and women were living on the same floors. It was difficult for parents to come there. "Wait a minute! There's your room, and there are girls next door?" Not the kind of college their parents went to.

Larger than life founders

Maybe it's because of the iconic photos: Page Smith riding a horse through campus, and Chancellor McHenry posing at a desk on an empty field, but I think of the founding figures as larger than life in those days.

Katherine Beiers: When I was going to the University of Southern California, I'd read a two-volume book about John Adams by (the late historian, professor, and founding Cowell College provost) Page Smith, and those were two of the best books I'd ever read. When I moved up to Santa Cruz I had no idea he was here, that he was a professor. One day I was working on a Sunday afternoon and he called to see if we had a certain book. Normally you don't just check the stacks when people call (they, of course, had no computerized inventory of books). But this was Page Smith, so I got him the book. He rode into the big foyer of the library, where the café is now. I gave him his book. I checked out the book, and handed to him, and off he went on his horse. I did not make that up.

Town and gown

I would imagine that UC Santa Cruz's presence in the sleepy city of Santa Cruz changed the way of life here dramatically by the end of the '60s.

Michael Gerber: You have to try to imagine Pacific Avenue (Santa Cruz's famous "main drag") as an old-fashioned downtown much like Soledad or Watsonville with a single movie theater, one large department store, and a bunch of small shops, a sleepy place. In 1965 it was sleepy; there wasn't much of a youth culture presence, and all of a sudden there were 500 freshmen roaming through downtown; that changed the place instantly.

It seems to me that the social consciousness that people still associate with UC Santa Cruz— in part because of students' Peace Corps participation—was just taking shape then, and had as much to do with the campus's vision as it had to do with the foment of the '60s.

Kathy Gerber: Because I was involved with social sciences, we felt a great need to be involved in making the world a better place to be, and part of the social movement but also exercise our intellectual commitment. We wanted to choose a route in the world that would affect people in the world positively. Part of that was a product of the time, part of that was the social milieu of Santa Cruz, and part of it was the passion of the people we were meeting on campus and in town.

Original spirit

UC Santa Cruz has expanded over time. And it's changed in many ways. I know that many founding faculty were upset about the original narrative evaluations becoming supplementary when grades were instituted for all students in 2001. But I was hoping you could reflect on ways that the "original" UC Santa Cruz remains visible or recognizable in the current campus.

Jock Reynolds: I've been back there enough to think the spirit of the place is in many ways very much intact though you don't expect everything to remain in stasis.

And how does your experience at UC Santa Cruz continue to reverberate with you in your life?

Jock Reynolds: I was just thrilled to get into UC Santa Cruz, and I loved every minute of it. During my senior year, they brought a huge number of amazingly important visiting artists. John Cage, Allan Kapro, George Segal, and (international avant-garde art movement member) Robert Watts.

Meg Zweiback: My husband and I are 50 years out of college. We both hit 65. Neither of us plans to retire because we do things we enjoy. We're still interested in what we do, and that comes from our education. What UC Santa Cruz did for us—and this was very deliberate—was start with these big broad survey courses and then these small seminars that gave us intimate connections with faculty members who cared to probe and explore what we callow children had to say, these brilliant faculty people who thought we were worth investing in.

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http://45years.ucsc.edu/plus5/index.html

50th timeline: http://50years.ucsc.edu/1975-1984/

Institutional Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz:

http://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/ucsc

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Our Trustees

Brandon Allgood  ’05

Co-Founder/CTO, Numerate, Inc

San Bruno, Ca

Ricky N. Bluthenthal  ’86

Professor of Preventative Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine

Los Angeles, Ca

Stephen A. Bruce  ’79

Managing Partner, Bruce Trust

Calabasas, Ca

Laura I. Bushnell

Partner, King & Spalding

Palo Alto, Ca

Barbara W. Canfield

Community Volunteer

Santa Cruz, Ca

Henry D. Chu  '72

Retired Pathologist

Denver, Co

Stephen J. Crowe

Retired Vice President of Finance and CFO, Chevron Corporation

Danville, Ca

David Doshay '82

Retired Scientist

Saratoga, Ca

Ken Doctor  ’71

Founder, Content Bridges

Santa Cruz, Ca

Mary E. Doyle  ’74

Vice President, Events

VP of Legal, Global Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer, Oracle

Woodside, Ca

Lewis G. Feldman  ’78

Partner and Los Angeles Chair, Goodwin Procter LLP

Los Angeles, Ca

Ron Gonzales  ’73

President and CEO, Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley

San Jose, Ca

Theodore C. Goldstein  ’83

Research Associate, UC Santa Cruz

Los Altos, Ca

Michael P. Graydon ’70

Retired Administrator

Pasadena, Ca

Paul J. Hall  ’72

President

Partner, DLA Piper, LLP

Sausalito, Ca

Stephanie D. Harkness

Former Chairman and CEO, Pacific Plastics

Santa Cruz, Ca

Kamil H. Hasan

General Partner, HiTek Venture Partners

Saratoga, Ca

Matthew J. Howard  ’85

Senior Vice President, Bank of America Global Wealth Management

Santa Cruz, Ca

Peder Jones  ’70

Founder and Consultant, Straight Line Editorial Development Inc.

San Francisco, Ca

Narinder S. Kapany

Retired, Director of Research and Development, K2 Optronics

Woodside, Ca

Loren L. Kinczel

Managing Director, Scharf Investments

Los Gatos, Ca

David Korduner  ’85

Associate National Executive Director/Senior General Counsel

Directors Guild of America, Inc.

Los Angeles, Ca

Frans M. Lanting   ’78

Nature Photographer and Author

Santa Cruz, Ca

Anuradha Luther Maitra

CEO, Floreat, Inc.

Saratoga, Ca

Kumar Malavalli

Chief Strategy Officer, InMage Systems

Los Altos, Ca

Kiran Malhotra

Nutritionist and Arts Advocate

Saratoga, Ca

Kristen Marinovic  ’91

Financial Advisor, Integral Investment Advisors

Santa Cruz, Ca

SB Master  ’75

President and Founder, Master-McNeil, Inc.

Berkeley, Ca

Richard F. Moss  ’85

Vice President, Board Affairs

President, The Moss Group

Los Angeles, Ca

James Panetta  

Deputy District Attorney, Monterey County

Salinas, Ca

Linda Peterson  ’70

Retired Associate General Counsel

Los Angeles, Ca

Vikram Sahai  ’92

Software Engineer, Google

Mountain View, Ca

Garry A. Spire  ’77

Co-founder and General Counsel, Venture Technologies Group, LLC

Pacific Palisades, Ca

Loren A. Steck  ’73

CEO, Loren Steck & Associates

Carmel, Ca

Senator Art Torres  ’68

Vice Chair, Governing Board, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

San Francisco, Ca

Alec J. Webster  ’02

Community Volunteer

Bonny Doon, Ca

John M. Woodward ’74

Director, Public Finance Group at Bank of America, Merrill Lynch Global Markets

San Francisco, Ca

Zia Yusuf

CEO, Streetline Inc.

Foster City, Ca

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Also at 11 a.m. that Saturday, Paul Hall (Merrill '72) will moderate an interdisciplinary panel of distinguished alumni who will take a close look at the interplay of money and power in political and governing systems; from campaign finance and the effect of money in politics to legal and political responses to global warming and climate change. The presentation, "Money, Politics, Climate Change and the Law: Will We Rise to the Challenge?" takes place at the Stevenson Fireside Lounge at Stevenson College.

Panelists include: Mary Doyle (Porter, '74), former vice president, legal and global chief compliance and ethics officer at Oracle; Judge Kelvin Filer (Stevenson ’77), Los Angeles Superior Court in Compton; Judge Alan J. Goodman (Stevenson ’67), Los Angeles Superior Court; Judge Teri Jackson (Stevenson ’77), San Francisco Superior Court; Art Torres (Stevenson ’68), retired state senator and vice chair of CIRM; and

Zach Wasserman (Merrill ’69), public interest lawyer in Oakland.

Summary

I work with private businesses and public agencies to negotiate and draft complex real estate and financial structures. Working frequently with state and local regulatory and permitting agencies, I represent clients before a variety of administrative bodies to enable clients to complete some of the region’s most intriguing projects.

I serve as general counsel to the Alameda County Transportation Commission, the East Bay Economic Development Alliance, the Oakland Chamber of Commerce and several non-profit corporations and foundations engaged in economic and business development.

Specialties:SOLVING COMPLEX REAL ESTATE AND GOVERNMENT PROBLEMS

Obtaining Land Use Approvals Efficiently - Negotiating Public/Private Partnerships - Government Contracts Negotiations and Appeals -Nonprofit Organization Issues Including Related Business Activities - Public Infrastructure and Transportation Projects

Partner|Lawyer

Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP

510.834.6600

FAX:

510.808.4691

EMAIL

zwasserman@wendel.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zackwasserman

During the Alumni Weekend celebration

For more information contact Meg Corman, Special Assistant to the Chancellor and VC of University Relations.

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greenhist

In 1980, when Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer chose the sea lion to be our mascot, the student body collectively shouted "Fiat Slug!" In 2003, years before Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth made "being green" hip and cool, UC Santa Cruz students passed Measure 9 to support environmentally sound practices on campus.

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HUBS:

ART: Ant Farm (architecture: house of the century, geodesic domes), ansel adams (weston), gary snyder

Beats:

MUSIC: jello biafra, Talking Heads

ethno-botany, shroom, LSD  Agent Orange

Ecology: DDT, falcons, rewilding, earthfirst judi bari, cougars,  wildlife photogtaphers (3)

FOOD: Chadwick, CA cuisine, organic food, Imolokee labor;

Marine mammals: Dolphins/whales: embassy, Norris, otters

Literature: carver,

Chaos, gambling, Systems,  Bateson, Cybernetics (THARP)

Physics: a-bomb, Peace/LLNL, Capra, Higgs-Boson, Hubble telescope, frack/tar sands, black holes, supernova Woosley, primack,

NASA:

2 astronauts, hawley deployed Hubble,Faber, Sullivan 1st woman to do EVA

Steve Collins (Porter '85, physics and theater arts) guided the Mars Rover. Besides his work at the Jet Propulsion Lab, he is a dancer/ choreographer, a soccer player, an autocross racer and a musician in an indie-rock band. "I'm curious about things in a cross-disciplinary way," he said simply. His adviser allowed him to do a rather unorthodox senior thesis on orbital rendezvous, which required him to learn computer programming. "He was very self-motivated to do unusual things, and to do them well," Scott said of Collins. His job as an "attitude control" engineer is to keep spacecraft pointed in the right direction, perform trajectory corrections, and figure out "what the heck just happened," he said. On the Deep Space One project, for instance, Collins helped fly the revolutionary, ion-propelled spacecraft toward the comet Borrelly. On the way, however, the spacecraft's star-tracker instrument failed, basically blinding those guiding it. Over the next months, Collins and five others cobbled together a way to successfully fly the craft without the crucial sensor. During his career, Collins has helped deliver twin rovers to the surface of Mars, capture spectacular photos of Jupiter and its moons, send a spacecraft on a flyby of the Hartley-2 comet, and pilot the rover, Curiosity, to Mars with an innovative "sky-crane" landing system that allows spacecraft to settle in smaller and more discovery-rich areas.

Black Mtn: Fuller, Cage

JOURNALISM: Garrett, priest

SOCIAL JUSTICE: Global Exchange, divest/apartheid, sweatshops, prisons, Angela Davis

POLITICS Black Panthers, Jerry Brown, Peace Corps

HISTORY  HistCon

College 1 cowell

College 2 1966 stevenson

College 3 Crown College was founded in 1967 as the third college

College 4 1968 as the fourth college at UCSC. The college takes its name from Charles E. Merrill

College 5 1969 Porter

College 6 Kresge 1971

College 7 oakes 1972, named 1975  HistCon, Black Panthers

College 8 1972 moved 1990

College 9 elfland

College 10

In the latest analysis of the world's top universities published by Times Higher Education (THE), UC Santa Cruz ranked first in research influence as measured by the number of times its faculty's published work is cited by scholars around the world.

Published as part of the THE World University Rankings 2014-15, the analysis, conducted by Thomson Reuters, measured overall research influence based on the average number of citations per paper, using a database of more than 50 million citations to 6 million journal articles published over five years, from 2008 to 2012.

With a citation score of 100, UC Santa Cruz is tied for first place with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Other institutions with high citation scores were Rice University at 99.9 and California Institute of Technology at 99.7.

In describing their methodology, THE editors called the evaluation of research influence their "flagship" indicator. As explained on the web site for the World University Rankings, "it is the single most influential of the 13 indicators, and looks at the role of universities in spreading new knowledge and ideas."

THE has also ranked UC Santa Cruz 11th among the top 100 universities under 50 years old. UCSC's overall ranking in the THE World University Rankings for 2014-15 was 109th. It is one of eight UC campuses among the top 150 universities worldwide.

In another ranking published recently, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), UC Santa Cruz is ranked 93rd among the world's best universities and in the top 50 in the United States. Known as the "Shanghai ranking," ARWU is an annual study by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy that looks at more than 1,200 universities in the world and publishes data on what it deems are the top 500.

2012

In a new analysis of the world's top universities, UC Santa Cruz ranked second in research influence as measured by the number of times its faculty's published work is cited by scholars around the world.

Published as part of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2012-13, the analysis, conducted by Thomson Reuters, measured overall research influence based on the average number of citations per paper, using a database of more than 50 million citations to 6 million journal articles published over five years, from 2006 to 2010.

With a citation score of 99.9, UC Santa Cruz has the same score as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is surpassed only by Rice University, with a score of 100. Other institutions with high citation scores were Princeton University at 99.8 and the California Institute of Technology at 99.7. UCSC's score of 99.9 is unchanged from the previous year's rankings.

"I'm delighted but not surprised by this latest affirmation of the impact of UCSC faculty research," said Bruce Margon, vice chancellor for research. "Our campus is 'small' only in size, not in influence on world knowledge, and this type of analysis--how often UCSC discoveries are cited and used by others--is exactly  the right way to judge the significance of our faculty's research. Our students benefit tremendously from being taught in an intimate setting by internationally recognized creators of knowledge."

In describing their methodology, THE editors called the evaluation of research influence their "flagship" indicator. As explained on the web site for the World University Rankings, "The citations help show us how much each university is contributing to the sum of human knowledge: they tell us whose research has stood out, has been picked up and built on by other scholars and, most importantly, has been shared around the global scholarly community to push further the boundaries of our collective understanding, irrespective of discipline."

UCSC's overall ranking in the THE World University Rankings for 2012-13 was 122nd. It is one of eight UC campuses among the top 200 universities worldwide.

In the overall rankings by subject, UC Santa Cruz was among the top 50 universities in the physical sciences (ranked 48th worldwide).

1997 - December 3 – 1000 student protesters successfully halt the introduction of

grades159

2000 - May – 1000+ students demonstrate to end the Faculty Senate’s attempt to

remove the narrative evaluation system, yet the Senate votes to require mandatory

letter grades for the majority of classes – a radical shift in the nature of UCSC.162

base of campus to oppose a U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.171

2003

work related to the military, causing a controversy on campus.

2005

January 20 – Students Against War established as students sit-down and

strategize at the end of an antiwar rally of about 100 on a now paved-over lawn in front

of McHenry library. They decide to hold their first meeting the next day.

February 14 – “Where’s the Love” protest by labor unions and supporters at

UCSC draws several hundred students and workers at Kerr Hall, where the Budget Office

was occupied by student activists singing “solidarity forever” for a few hours.217

March 11 – Comercio Justo rally at Taco Bell in support of farm workers in

Immokalee, FL turned into celebration as Taco Bell agrees to the Coalition of Immokalee

Workers (CIW)’s demands.218

April 5 – Students Against War organizes 300 students, kicking military

recruiters off a campus job fair.219 The Border Patrol also left, thinking the protest was

about them. MSNBC later reported that the protest was listed as a ‘credible threat’ by the

Pentagon in a secret database.

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April 14 – AFSCME 3299 service-workers go on strike statewide, and clericals

associated the Coalition of University Employees (CUE) strikes in solidarity. The Student

and Worker Coalition for Justice (SWCJ), which had been building a campaign for

months, gets teachers hold class on the picket line. 1000+ students shut down both

entrances to campus in solidarity. The UCSC campus is dead, with major disruptions at

other UCs as well.220 Two weeks later, AFSCME wins a new, better contract.

April 15 – Anti-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) rally attracts

50-100 students in the Baytree Plaza in solidarity with Central American workers who

fear the destruction of their livelihoods by the multinational corporations that come along

with “free trade.”221

April 18 – Tent University begins. UC police use ‘pain compliance’ methods to

separate students who have locked arms, eventually resulting in the arrest of 19 for

camping at the base of campus in violation of the “free speech zone” rules.222 A rally is

held the next day to demand the charges be dropped and TUSC continues with various

daytime events throughout the week.

April 20 – SAW joins the Watsonville Brown Berets in protesting military

recruiters at a Watsonville High job fair. A UCSC student driving by is given a citation

from Watsonville police for honking her horn in support of the protest.223

April 20 - Action in Defense of Education (AIDE) statewide day of action. UCSC

students organize a variety of schools to march from campus to the County building for

increased funding for education.224

April 22 - SAW organizes its first (of three) weekly weapons inspections tours of

UCSC to highlight UC’s involvement in weapons development.225

April 29 – The District Attorney drops all criminal charges against the Tent U.

arrestees, as requested by Chancellor Denton and Police Chief Aluffi, who had been

pressured by a letter226 of over 200 faculty.227 A video228 on the police actions, “To

Protect and Serve” was viewed more than 60,000 times, leading to local and national

condemnation of the University’s response to the protest. Many of the students, however,

still received various forms of administrative discipline like community service and

academic probation.

2006 October 18 – In response to a UC Regents visit, AFSCME and SWCJ march to

the base of campus and rally in support of Wage Parity/living wages for low-paid

custodians.283 A few hours later, a large coalition of activists from a variety of struggles,

organize a march of a few hundred students, resulting in the disruption of a UC Regents

meeting on campus. In the process, a dozen students get pepper-sprayed by UC police for

the first time in UCSC’s history, and three students are arrested. 284 The next day, the new

Chancellor, George Blumenthal, expresses no concern about the pepper spraying and

condemns the protest. After six months, the university tries to make an example out of

one of the arrestees - a black woman activist named Alette Kendrick – by suspending her

for 3 years. A large struggle to “Defend Alette, Protect Free Speech and Fight Racism”

ensues.

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UC and the Bomb Student-run course. City on the Hill article UCB syllabus with readings

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November 30 2005 – On a UC wide Nuclear Day of Action, SAW organizes a

‘marriage ceremony’ in Baytree Plaza between the ‘UC’ and ‘Bechtel Corp.’, resulting in

their baby: the bomb. The marriage was officiated by ‘the U.S. Department of Energy.’

Dozens look on and sign a 6 foot tall paper-mache nuclear bomb.249

December 13 – MSNBC releases a document showing that the Pentagon has been

spying on more than 1500 ‘suspicious incidents,’ many of which were antiwar or counterrecruitment

protests. On the list, SAW’s April 5, 2005 counter-recruitment action, spied

on by the Army’s 902nd Military Intelligence Group, is listed as both “credible” and a

“threat,” the only college-based event to receive both designations. SAW releases a press

release the next day, initiating what has come to be known as the Pentagon Spying

Scandal.250

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In 1980, when some campus teams wanted more organized yet still low-key participation in extramural competition, UCSC joined Division III of the NCAA in five sports. The application required an official team name, and UCSC's chancellor at the time, Robert Sinsheimer, selected a new moniker: the sea lions.

While the chancellor considered sea lions more dignified and suitable to serious play than Banana Slugs, the new name did not find favor with the majority of students, who continued to root for the Slugs even after a sea lion was painted in the middle of the basketball floor.

After five years of dealing with the two-mascot problem, an overwhelming proslug straw vote by students in 1986 persuaded the chancellor to make the lowly but beloved Banana Slug UCSC's official mascot.

The Banana Slug has attracted a good deal of national attention over the years. In 2008, ESPN named it one of the 10 best college basketball mascots. Four years earlier, Reader's Digest named it the best. Peoplemagazine once dedicated a full-page spread to the Santa Cruz Banana Slug movement. The National Directory of College Athletics named it the best college mascot and Sports Illustrated magazine once named the Banana Slug the nation's best college nickname.

The Banana Slug even figured in a court case involving campus mascots. Judge Terence Evans, writing the opinion for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, stated: "We give the best college nickname nod to the University of California, Santa Cruz. Imagine the fear in the hearts of opponents who travel there to face the imaginatively named 'Banana Slugs'?" (Crue et al. v. Aiken, June 1, 2004)

Sammy the Slug mascot has been appearing around campus at sports events and other functions. And, when the men's tennis team played in the NCAA championships, their T-shirts read: "Banana Slugs-No Known Predators."

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January, 2007UCSC EVENTS & MILESTONES

Starship Trooper goes online

The complete archive of renowned science fiction author Robert Heinlein made available online. Heinlein donated his archives to the Library's Special Collections in 1968.

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July, 2005UCSC EVENTS & MILESTONES

Antarctic landmarks

Two geological features in Antarctica are named after UCSC biologists—Terrie Bluff and Costa Spur, named in honor of Terrie Williams and Daniel Costa, respectively, professors of ecology and evolutionary biology.

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Astronaut Hall of Fame

Two UCSC alumni inducted into NASA's Astronaut Hall of Fame: Kathryn Sullivan (Cowell '73, B.S. Earth sciences), the first American woman to walk in space inducted in May 2004; and Steven Hawley (Ph.D., astronomy and astrophysics '77), whose five space shuttle flights included the 1990 mission to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope, inducted in May 2007.

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Pulitzer haul

Alumnus and Los Angeles Times reporter Hector Tobar wins a Pulitzer for his work as part of a team covering the Los Angeles Riots. Other Pulitzer-winning Slugs are author Laurie Garrett, Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, photographer Annie Wells, and Associated Press reporter Martha Mendoza.

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January, 1986UCSC EVENTS & MILESTONES

Banana slug officially named UCSC's mascot

Banana slug officially named UCSC's mascot in 1986.

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John Travolta sports UCSC t-shirt in Pulp Fiction

Academy Award winning film Pulp Fiction has a (now infamous amongst UCSC alumni and students) scene showing John Travolta walking around in a UCSC Banana Slug t-shirt. History and rumors have said that director Quentin Tarantino was dating someone who went to UCSC.

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September, 1987UCSC EVENTS & MILESTONES

Center for Nonlinear Science established

The Center for Nonlinear Science is established. see chaos cabal farmer etc

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1991

over holiday break. 42 people are arrested in daylong demonstration and woods actions.

Native shell site trampled and sacred sites destroyed. Construction of Colleges 9 and 10

begin.133

1997

grades159

2000

UCSC, involving ‘fashion shows,’ guerrilla theatre, teach-ins and petitions,

ends in success when the UCOP adopts a ‘Code of Conduct.’ The system had

many loopholes, however, which is why in 2005, a new sweat-free

“Designated Suppliers Program” campaign is launched to ensure that apparel

comes from specific labor-friendly factories.

Action Network. Redwood Empire files a lawsuit, then withdraws it, that

would bar tree-sitters from the property.160

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http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2007/11/08/an_incomlete_history_of_activism_at_uc_santa_cruz_-_timeline.pdf

1965 – 2006

1965 – UCSC is founded

1967

– January – In one of his first acts in office, Governor Ronald Reagan fires UC

President Clark Kerr for being “too soft” on student protestors, particularly at Berkeley.1

In his time as UC President, Kerr had reinstated a lot of faculty who had refused to sign

the McCarthy-era “loyalty oaths”.2 He was also the UC President during the time of

Berkeley’s Free Speech movement and played a leading role in envisioning UCSC.

1968

greeted by days of mass protest.4 From the Sentinel: “Then Gov. Ronald Reagan received

a taste of the times when he attended a UC Regents meeting at the Santa Cruz campus in

October 1968. For three days, university students, joined by their peers from Cabrillo and

other community members, blocked buses, heckled speakers and held rallies to protest a

decision to restrict Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver from speaking on university

campuses. Protesters also demanded that the new College 7 be named in honor of

Malcolm X and that the United Farm Workers-sponsored grape boycott be respected in

university dining halls.”5

VII be called Malcolm X College with a focus on domestic and Third World concerns. 6

College VII is now Oakes. From Oakes College’s website: “In 1968, the Santa Cruz

Black Liberation Front issued demands for College Seven to be a Black college, not only

in focus and emphasis, but in its student, faculty and administrative makeup. They

originally planned to name the college after Malcolm X. Herman Blake, the only Black

UC Santa Cruz faculty member at that time, met with the Black Liberation Front and

proposed instead an ethnic studies college, to include the studies of historically

marginalized groups in California: African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Chicanos,

Native Americans and European immigrants. In February 1969, the Academic Senate

made an unanimous decision approving the development of an ethnic studies college.”7

They were undoubtedly inspired by the Third World Liberation Front strike at San

Francisco State in 1968 (the largest campus strike in the history of the U.S.). SF State’s

strike occurred after CSU ordered the SF State President to suspend controversial

teaching assistant George Murray, a grad student in English and Black Panther Minister

of Education.8 Berkeley also had a Third World Strike, beginning early in the Winter

quarter of 1969, during which CA Governor Reagan declared a “state of extreme

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emergency,” banned all rallies and public meetings, and put the campus in control of the

Sheriff.9 Both SF State and Berkeley’s strikes were successful in the establishment of

Ethnic Studies and other programs.10 This was also around the same time as the efforts by

Black and Chicano students at UC San Diego to establish a Lumumba-Zapata College

“devoted to relevant education for minority youth and to the study of the contemporary

social problems of all people,”11 and similar struggles nation-wide.

1969 - 1st UCSC commencement disrupted by anti-war demonstrations and students

give Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton (in prison) an honorary diploma.12 Years later

(1980), Newton graduates with a PhD from the History of Consciousness program. His

thesis (later, a book) was entitled, “War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in

America.”13

1970

student strike is called, started by folks at Yale – where thousands of students and youth

had gathered to protest the trial of Black Panthers Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale in

New Haven. After protesters at Kent State, Jackson State and Augusta, GA are killed by

police, the strike quickly spreads to hundreds of schools nation-wide. Students shut down

UC Berkeley and the Regents, fearing more intense riots, close Berkeley for a four-day

weekend.14 At UCSC, many spring classes are cancelled or ‘reorganized’ to focus on

Vietnam War issues.15

Fort Ord.17

remained on separate floors, rather than separate buildings.18

book, Uses of the University, at the commencement ceremony and Kerr refuses to speak

after him.19

1971

Alternative in Sexual Expression” attracts 120 people.20

his class22 – possibly the first professor to do so in the nation.23 A few years later he was

denied tenure (1977).24

down Highway 17 and Highway 1.26

the right to vote. In Santa Cruz, this allowed students to have a greater say in local

politics.27

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1972

folks from UCSC.28

Seabright.30 Note: This may have been part of the May 9-11 actions below.

organization in which women support women” due to “[concern] about the level of rape

and violence against women in the community and the lack of sympathetic supportive

services for women survivors.” They defined themselves as a “Socialist-Feminist group

committed to ending sexism, racism and classism” and attempted to operate as a nonhierarchical

collective. The group, many of which were lesbian31, offers a 24-hr rape-line,

free self-defense workshops, and monthly description of male rapists, assaulters and

harassers.32

May 9 – After Nixon resumes the bombing of Vietnam, approximately 600

UCSC students march to the County Building. They deliver a petition to the County

Board of Supervisors (who came out to the steps to meet them) asking that the U.S. cease

the bombing and withdraw the troops. Three of the Supervisors sign the petition, and the

entire Board agrees to hold a meeting the following evening to consider whether it had

the jurisdiction to officially adopt the petition.33

May 10 – Protesters block traffic on Highway 17, with police eventually

dispersing the crowd. Following the previous days’ promise, the Board of Supervisors

meet that night at the Civil Center with over 2,000 people in attendance. Supervisor

Henry Mello introduces a resolution disapproving of the war in Vietnam and for sending

Board Chairman Phil Harry to Washington D.C. to deliver the message. The Board

members take a non-binding vote 3-1 in favor of the resolution, after an angry supervisor

storms out. The next week the Board officially endorses the resolution 3-2 and Phil Harry

immediately goes to D.C., where he eventually manages to get the Santa Cruz resolution

read into the Congressional Record. Unbeknownst to those attending the meeting, police

and TAC Squad members were lined up behind the curtain of the stage in case the crowd

stormed forward. The audience, however, was very civil, and contributed to Chairman

Harry’s travel fare by placing donations in shopping bags passed around the room.

Following the meeting, the crowd held a march down Pacific Avenue with torches and

candles, flanked by the TAC Squad. At some point, three cops began to beat a protester,

eventually leaving him there on the sidewalk. Afterwards, an order was given to clear the

streets and the cops went down Pacific Avenue beating on protesters and bystanders.

Eight people and one officer were treated for injuries at Dominican Hospital.34

May 11 – Large groups of protesters gathered in several locations across Santa

Cruz with numerous struggles between cops and the crowds. At the intersection of

Highway 1 and River Street, cops forcibly clear the crowd, while at another point,

demonstrators march past sun-tanners at the beach.35

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1974

lesbians), and offers counseling, pregnancy testing, and transportation for women to San

Jose for abortions (since no place, at the time, offered them in town). It is now the

Women’s Health Center downtown.36

established by a group of students, many of which had taught Student Directed

Seminars.37

Like her male predecessor, Alan Sable, she was later denied tenure (1982). However,

unlike Sable, who had consulted the ACLU and didn’t want to spend up to 6 years

fighting for his position38, Shaw and her allies initiate a high-profile defense campaign,

winning her job back in 1987.39

of Gary Patton to the county Board of Supervisors—a victory made possible in large part

by UCSC student support—signaled a momentous shift in city and county politics.”40

1975

done much of the work of the organization.41

parade a few weeks later with a lot of angry on-lookers.42

employees on the basis of sexual orientation.43

1976

American Coalition (TWANAC). The Coalition united students from many different

communities to actively organize for their educational rights and other issues that affect

them. Almost 20 years later, TWANAC becomes the Ethnic Student Organization

Council (ESOC).46

1977

May – After the dramatic and well-publicized arrest of 250 Stanford students,

UCSC’s Coalition Against Institutional Racism (CAIR) organizes 1000+ demonstrators

to demand that the UC divest from South Africa, reject the Bakke decision outlawing

Affirmative Action, support the Third World Teaching Resource Center and undo an

increase in the required SAT score for admittance (which led to a decline in Third World

applications and enrollment). They occupy the Central Services (Hahn) building,

resulting in 401 arrests. 47 The efforts were associated with Campuses United Against

Apartheid (CUAA), who also helped organize actions at Davis (18 arrests), and Berkeley

(58 arrests).48

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Native American Studies program at UCSC49

(GALA) is denied tenure at the end of spring quarter when all the students have left. He

later becomes one of the first openly gay counselors in San Francisco.50

1978

Briggs initiative (Prop. 6) campaign to prevent gay teachers from being fired in CA.52

in the state.54

assassinated. 40,000 hold vigil outside of SF City Hall.55

1979

Santa Cruz Women’s Health Collective, including many students.57

Livermore and Los Alamos. The month before, 1500 marched at Berkeley and held a

‘die-in’ as the University administration and selected guests held a luncheon.58

what became known as the ‘White Night Riot’ after SF Supervisor Dan White is

convicted of the lesser sentence of ‘voluntary manslaughter’ for killing Harvey Milk.59

Press Collective (TWANAS) paper comes out. TWANAS, which was an integral media

source on campus for decades, was launched to provide news relevant to communities

often ignored by other campus and local media.60

official housing coop in UCSC dorms. It goes on to include the Merrill PAD, a 17

member PAD at Porter College, and a couple of downtown PAD houses.61

including UCSC Alum/Lecturer Mike Rotkin and Bruce Van Allen. Two years later

(1981), UCSC Alum John Laird and Mardi Wormhoudt’s elections give progressives the

majority, which (depending on how you define progressivism), they’ve held ever since.62

1980

Feminism” course.

the United States, in part due to promoting his reputation of heavy-handed treatment of

student radicals in CA.

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1981

is dismissed, TWANAS and the Native American Studies Support Group merge and

decide to present specific demands to secure permanent faculty positions. Nearly 600

people march to the Chancellor’s office (at McHenry) to present 5 demands to be met in

5 days. The administration doesn’t address the demands, but proposes the formation of

yet another committee. The TWANAS Support Coalition organizes another rally in

response and 25 people commit to not eating until all demands are met. Third World and

Native American faculty meet and unanimously agree to support the hunger strike64,

which lasted from April 20 to April 25. Eventually, the University agrees in writing to65:

a. One tenured track faculty member in both Asian American Studies and Native

American Studies,

b. The continuance of a part-time position in Asian American Studies,

c. Additional funding for staff to search for these faculty,

d. To replace Third World and Native American faculty who go on leave with

Affirmative Action guidelines,

e. To propose to the Academic Senate that each student take a course substantially

focused on Native American and/or domestic Third World studies,

f. Increased financial support for the Third World Teaching Resource Center.

At the same time, students at UC San Diego organize for the university to meet the Third

World Student Demands, including the tenure of Dr. Emory Tolbert in the History

Department, the diversification of History Dept. faculty, Asian-American, Black and

Chicano Studies Departments, to make EOP directly accountable to students, a Student

Review Committee to review faculty tenure files, a Third World Student Center Building,

financial support for students from low-income backgrounds, and amnesty for students

arrested participating in a demonstration for those demands.66

Politics: Queer Politics) at UCSC67, one of the first such courses in the nation.68

Color, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (a PhD student in Literature UCSC

until her untimely death in 2004. She was later granted a posthumous PhD71).

undercover arrests of gay men in the beach area of Capitola.72

same-sex handholding and/or kissing. Mardi Wormhoudt and Mark Rotkin participate.73

There were also kiss-ins on campus. Much of this activity was organized by ACT UP

(AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and Queer Nation.74

1982

Livermore National Laboratory, one of the two UC-managed nuclear weapons production

sites. Many UC students – mostly from Berkeley and Santa Cruz – take part.75 By 1982,

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every student government at every UC campus had passed a resolution opposing UC ties

to the labs.76

Women’s Health Collective, etc.) Nancy Shaw (Stoller) is denied tenure. She had

previously been highly recommended for promotion by the Community Studies Board,

Oakes College, outside reviewers, an ad hoc committee and the Committee on Academic

Personnel (CAP), yet in June 1981, Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer ignores the

recommendations and starts a new internal review. The committee charged with the new

review also recommended her tenure, but Sinsheimer denies Stoller tenure anyways.

After a year long-review, the Committee on Privilege and Tenure unanimously rules in

March 1983 that Stoller had been victim to Sinsheimer’s political bias, a violation of

University policies. Yet in June, UC President David Saxon overrules the Committee on

Privilege and Tenure and upholds Sinsheimer’s decision to deny Stoller tenure.78 After a

long legal battle, Stoller wins in 1987 and returns to teach at UCSC.79

self-defense class.80

Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Stories, is published. It is edited by Gloria

[Akasha] Hull (who taught at UCSC from 1988 to 2000), Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara

Smith.

blockade to “stop the bomb where it starts.” 81

1,475 are arrested – one of the largest mass arrests at a political protest in U.S. history.82

1983

murderers (including the son of a UCSC provost) in town making Santa Cruz the percapita

“murder capitol of the world.”

severing ties with its two nuclear labs, UCSC’s Academic Senate passes a resolution (48-

2) saying, “We do not believe that it is part of the University’s mission to be involved in

the design and development of weapons…nor do we believe that the University or any

committee of the Faculty can realistically oversee and control what is done at these

institutions.”83

courses dissolved.85

mayor in the United States.86

orientation.87

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Operating on a consensus model and having trouble getting things done, it dies after two

years.88

Livermore.89 5 days later, roughly 6,000 people participate in a “Hands Around the Lab”

protest there. The actions prompt the Lab Director Roger E. Batzel to recommend that the

Department of Energy purchase a new 196-acre “security buffer zone” surrounding the

lab property. The DoE complies. 90

1984

Studies G.E.91

grad collaboration at UCSC.92

Conspiracy” on its cover.93 It would later be brought back by a new generation of

activists as the “Disorientation Guide” in 2004, 2005, and 2006. Radical students first

introduced the Disorientation program in the UC system at Berkeley in 1969, including

1977 and 1981 issues of “Disorientation.” There are now Disorientation guides at

universities nation-wide.

“personalize the possibility of nuclear exchange”. Inspired by a referendum passed at

Brown University the fall before, SAFE puts a resolution on the spring 1985 student

ballot for UCSC’s health center to “stockpile suicide pills to be distributed on request to

registered students in the event that the UCSC campus is exposed to lethal quantities of

nuclear radiation.” The resolution also calls for administrators to provide transportation to

ground-zero sites, construct Radiation Monitoring Stations at each college and establish

burial sites for members of the UCSC community in preparation for extreme radiation

fallout. The resolution lost by 60 votes (less than one percent), but it convinced

Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer to fund the students’ distribution of an informational

packet on the dangers of nuclear war. 94

1985

(UTA) – a collection of Third World organizations - is born.95

Studies G.E. requirement and submits them to the Faculty Senate. After 13 years of

struggle, the faculty senate agrees to the new requirement.96

Nancy Shaw (Stoller)98

downtown) established.99

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gay men (3 of which are men of color). In a sign of solidarity, many of the volunteers are

lesbians.102

position with the administration on campus wide issues and other areas of common

concern. Issues included: campus development, the expansion of sports facilities, the

proliferation of fraternities, campus wide administrative policies, and racism on campus.

College 8 initially refused to join, arguing that colleges should have “total say” over how

their SUA representatives were selected, rather than popular elections. Porter initially

followed suit in solidarity with C8, boycotting SUA. Fearing a lack of representation,

Porter eventually acquiesced. The SUA vs. College 8 problem persisted for several years,

however. Initial SUA victories included the official adoption of the banana slug as

mascot rather than the ‘Sea Lions.’103

protest the Miss California pageant, which had been taking place in Santa Cruz since the

1920s. Simonton, in tune with the chant, ''Dress meat, not women,” dons a dress made

out of meat while demonstrators spill “the blood of raped women” on the steps of the

pageant hall. Simonton was later jailed for 15 days, but the pageant moves to San Diego

the next year. A film named Miss… or Myth? 104 is made about the successful protests

that received international press and encouraged activists in Japan and Canada to start

their own protests.105 From the Sentinel: “Some local historians consider the departure of

the Miss California Pageant a major turning point in Santa Cruz history, when the

"Atlantic City of the West" made way for a progressive college town brimming with

activists and rabble-rousers.”106

1986

vote to divest from South Africa by the end of the 1980’s. The UC becomes the largest

public institution yet to take a stand against apartheid in South Africa. Actions at all the

UC campuses, including mock shanty towns, sit-ins, teach-ins and rallies caused such a

disruption and bad press for the UC that it sold its $3 billion in stocks held in companies

that do business with South Africa. Nelson Mandela would later state that UC divestment

was a key part of international pressure to end apartheid.107

Crown College by gay and lesbian students. It is first called “The Alternative Fashion

Show” and has a strong emphasis on fashion, with little of the high-tech glitter of today.

It was renamed to QFS in 1997.108

employees.109

UCSC. It is later renamed the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Concerns Committee

(GLBCC).110 Its creation also a partial result of Nancy Shaw (Stoller)’s tenure fight.111

faculty requirements.112

the fall of 1999 or 2000. In its early years, Michael Perlman, the paper’s publisher, dies

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of AIDS, along with numerous other UCSC students, activists and alumni, especially

during the 80s and 90s. These deaths decimate the community locally and nationally113

1987

of a GLBCC study of homophobia on campus114

three UCSC students – Alison Kim, Cristy Chung, and A. Kaweah Lemeshewsky. This is

believed to be one of the first anthologies about API lesbians.115

National Laboratory, 2,000 people are arrested and jailed for 11 days. By this time,

however, students were less involved than they had been in the early 80s.116

1988

approximately 500 attendees from all over the country (a 300-person increase from the

previous years’ conference at UC Irvine) and prominent speakers like Annie Sprinkle and

the heads of both the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Human Rights

Campaign. 60 Minutes does a show on it, enraging the Christian Coalition and others

from the far-right, who push to get UCSC’s public funding cut.117

going on to be extremely active in organizing against 1994’s Proposition 187, a bill to

deny public services to undocumented immigrants. The group marched in pride, hung out

socially, and organized other activities.119

organizations are formed at UCSC.120

1989

and has its grand opening. It is run by the student organization, GLBN (Gay, Lesbian,

Bisexual Network), which replaced GALA. The space was previously a rec room, the

Kosher Co-op, a pottery studio and a dance studio. The Center was run for 7 years by

students before Merrill College attempted to take the space back to use for administrative

offices in the summer of 1996. As a result, students organized, saved the Center, and got

it a little bit of funding through the Student Fee Advisory Council. Deb Abbott was later

hired as its director, a position she still holds today.123

1990

organization forms at UCSC.125

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Students is prepared by the GLBCC126

management of the nuclear weapons labs (the report called for severance), the UC

Academic Senate conducts a UC-wide faculty survey on whether the Regents should

sever ties with the labs. 64.6% of faculty say yes, with an enormous margin at UCSC

(195 to 29). Even with the cold war over and a enormous public pressure for severance,

on September 22, 1990 the UC Regents vote 13-3-1 to renew their contract with the labs

and keep producing weapons. After this vote, the UC anti-Nuke movement almost

completely dissolves.127

the Vito Russo House in honor of a UCSC prof. who documented gay activism.128

forms129

Education (CODE) take over the McHenry library and foyer, with people sleeping

outside of the Chancellor’s office. 130 The protest helps ensure that ethnic studies courses

are listed in the Schedule of Classes131 and results in the creation of a position for a Dean

of African American Student Life.132

1991

over holiday break. 42 people are arrested in daylong demonstration and woods actions.

Native shell site trampled and sacred sites destroyed. Construction of Colleges 9 and 10

begin.133

Storm.135

controlled benefits (library cards, recreation cards) to domestic partners.137

1992

Santa Cruz passes a watered down version of a civil rights law pushed by queer activists,

fat women’s rights groups and others, including provisions on sexual orientation, height,

weight, and personal characteristics. Rush Limbaugh and the Christian Right had come

out in force against the law, while the national media and all the major papers “picked up

this wild thing that was happening in Santa Cruz, this crazy law that would protect people

with purple hair and pierced tongues.” They referred to it as “the looks law.” The law

initially protected a broad range of personal appearances (piercings, tattoos, haircuts,

etc.), but was narrowed down to only include only ‘uncontrollable’ elements of one’s

appearance. This was very controversial within the queer community – as some didn’t

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want their rights separated from others considered more ‘radical,’ while others, like John

Laird, considered it a “frivolous debate.”140

Around this same time, activists associated with UCSC were also involved in

confronting Santa Cruz County Sheriff Al Noren. Noren was involved in the highlypublicized

shutting down of all the local massage parlors (like Staircase Massage Parlor

on Front St.), which had been around for a while, and busts of gay men having sex at a

rest stop (Vista Point) on the way to Watsonville. He would create spectacles by bringing

TV crews with him and dragging men out from the bushes. On two weekends, 14 men

and one heterosexual couple were arrested.141

1994

community and unity between the myriad if cultures that stitch the dynamic fabric of

America”. Despite continued attempts to lay off Williams (who also founded the African

American Theater Arts Troupe), consistent mobilization has ensured that Rainbow

Theater continues to this day.

services to undocumented immigrants. It was later overturned by a federal court. Students

had been active in anti-Prop 187 campaigns, including members of the Lesbian of Color

Alliance (LOCA).

1995

U.S. atomic bombings in Japan.142

Regent Ward Connerly push forth two initiatives: Standing Policies (SP) 1 and 2 that eliminate

affirmative action in admissions and hiring at the University of California. Both initiatives would

be the catalyst in pushing the anti-affirmative action Proposition 209 that would pass in the fall

of 1996 by ballot initiative. The UC Student Association (UCSA) and the Student Union

Assembly (SUA) work to inform students about SP 1 and SP 2, the Academic Senate speaks out

against the two initiatives, and local unions voice their opposition as well.144

Native American Studies Coalition (TWANAC), which began in 1976. ESOC plays a key role in

campus politics for the next decade, launching the Students First slate, which is consistently

elected to represent UCSC undergrads in SUA, as well as the 2003 founding of the Engaging

Education center (e2) after numerous post-911 hate incidents.145

1996

Affirmative Action Coalition (AAC) mobilizes 500+ people to shut down the campus for

seven hours.146

Road until an injunction is issued. Resistance continues over the next three years until

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monkey wrenching finally bankrupts the company, but not before the canyon is

trashed.147

by students. In 2005, the Department changes its name to Feminist Studies.149

name150

before, eliminating Affirmative Action in CA) encircle the Hahn Student Services Building for

12 hours. The demonstration ends at 8pm with Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood and the students

issuing a joint statement, 151 including 7 points (outreach and retention, ethnic studies, the

development of an Asian Pacific Islander Resource Center, and a post prop-209 commission) on

how the administration will support student efforts to ensure a diverse campus.152

1997

relatives and same-sex domestic partners of UC employees.153

1999

listed as a priority in a joint ‘Statement of Consensus’ issued by Chancellor MRC

Greenwood and student activists following the Prop. 209 protest of November 1996.155

the question, “UCSC is currently planning to build a 6-story (Faculty, Staff and Grad

permits only) parking structure on Science Hill and EVERYONE'S parking fees will be

increased in order to cover the cost. Should UCSC build this parking structure?” The

administration goes ahead with it anyways – building what is now called the “Core West

Structure,” located by the Kresge bus stop.158

grades159

2000

UCSC, involving ‘fashion shows,’ guerrilla theatre, teach-ins and petitions,

ends in success when the UCOP adopts a ‘Code of Conduct.’ The system had

many loopholes, however, which is why in 2005, a new sweat-free

“Designated Suppliers Program” campaign is launched to ensure that apparel

comes from specific labor-friendly factories.

Action Network. Redwood Empire files a lawsuit, then withdraws it, that

would bar tree-sitters from the property.160

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remove the narrative evaluation system, yet the Senate votes to require mandatory

letter grades for the majority of classes – a radical shift in the nature of UCSC.162

respond yes to the question, “Due to the fact that Sodexho-Marriot Services

(Dinning Hall Food Services) is the leading financial investor in private-for-profit

prisons, should UCSC discontinue its contract with them?” Additionally, 94% of

students say the Student Regent should be elected by the students, rather than the

Regents, and 70% of voting students disagree or strongly disagree with the

Academic Senate’s decision to require grades for ¾ of classes. 164

visiting campus with the Filipino Student Association's outreach program A Step

Forward (ASF). The Chancellor issues an apology and the student is expelled.165

trying to prevent a fight between his friend, a fellow Filipino Student Association

(FSA) member and some white students at College 8 who aimed a football at him.

Minimal disciplinary action is taken against the perpetrators by the college, the

UC police and the UC Judicial System.166

2001

January 25 - The Ethnic Student Organization Council (ESOC) organizes a candlelight

vigil to “Speak Out Against Violence on Our Campus!!!”, a response to the

recent hate crimes and the lack of support they felt from the administration and the

campus community in general. Engaging Education (e2) is envisioned by Kimi

Mojica, one of the coordinators of ESOC, as “a conscious movement by students @

UCSC towards owning and taking responsibility of our education.”167

Spring elections: Leo Grandison and Latrice Jones elected to SUA. 80% of

respondents agree with the statement, “In imposing a mandatory grading system, and

in consistently denying students a fair and adequate opportunity to advance their

academic concerns through direct participation, the Academic Senate is failing in its

duty to promote excellence in undergraduate education at UC Santa Cruz.”168

September 11 – Attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Immediately

following, the country sees a spike in hate crimes, particularly against people

perceived to be Muslim and/or of Middle Eastern descent. At UCSC, white students

commit multiple 9/11-related hate crimes, including two men throwing a Palestinian

woman in traditional clothing to the ground, individuals shouting anti-Muslim slurs,

the repeated posting of white supremacist flyers, a bus driver humiliating an Asian

student by asking if his school project was a bomb, and a Jewish student with a

traditional beard being called “Habib.” These are just the reported incidents that

occurred within a month of 9/11. The number of reported Hate/Bias incidents

increased 400% from the 2000-2001 year (10 reported incidents) to the 2001-2002

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year (40 reported incidents), including an 833% increase in the reported number

Hate/Bias incidents based on race.169 There are undoubtedly 10 times more incidents

that remain unreported. This was the last published Hate/Bias report – as of June

2007, there is currently no system for reporting hate crimes on campus, and the

administrative response is almost always abysmal.

When white supremacist flyers were posted at Oakes, a confrontation ensued between

the poster (a white woman) and two African Americans. The white student received a

slap on the wrist from campus police and protection from administration. Students

assert that the University’s disciplinary action was unclear and minimal. In response,

ESOC, students, community members, student organizations, colleges (specifically

Oakes College), and student government gathered on multiple occasions and

dialogued about hate and bias on the UCSC campus. The result was the Hate/Bias

Peer Response Team, which was to focus on the issue specifically, and to educate the

campus on issues of hate, bias and discrimination.170

base of campus to oppose a U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.171

American/Pacific Islander Resource Centers open up in the new Baytree

building.172

of same-sex marriages.173

called Pilipino Historical Dialogue (PHD), due to the extreme lack of classes on

the Philippines or about Filipino-American experiences. Up to this point, the only

course was a class on Philippine history offered once every two years. Except for

PHD, this situation hasn’t changed by June 2007, especially with this year’s

forcing out of professors Neferti Tadiar and Jonathan Beller.174

2002

becomes active.176

domestic partners and opposite-sex domestic partners.177

Organizing Director – both by landslides. 88% of respondents (25% of undergrads) urge

UCSC to commit to the Kyoto Protocol, while 85% of voters agree with the concept of

funding the Student Environmental Center’s office, staff and events.178

organizations move from what is now the Academic Resources Center (ARC) to the Student

Union in the Quarry Plaza. Activists struggle to maintain the same amount of space for student

organization offices – particularly for the Big 5: the African/Black Student Alliance (A/BSA),

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Asian Pacific Islander Student Alliance (APISA), Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana y Chicano de

Aztlán (MEChA), Filipino Student Association (FSA) and the Student Alliance of Native

American Indians (SANAI). Students also fight to ensure a space to reproduce the hard-foughtfor

Third World Lounge, yet are unsuccessful.179

October 7 – 700-800 UCSC students walk out of class and meet up at McHenry

against the possible war in Iraq in coordination with the nationwide Oct. 6-7 days of

resistance.180

October 14-15 – As part of the largest strike in UC history up to that point, the

Coalition of University Employees (CUE) and the American Federation of Teachers

(UC-AFT - lecturers) stage a 2-day strike at five UCs in response to ‘unfair labor

practices’ (deliberate stalling, etc.) by UC administrators. UCSC is shut down by the

unions, who receive tremendous support from student and worker allies.181

November 12 – the Student Union Assembly (SUA) passes a resolution against

war with Iraq.182

November 20 – Standing United for Peace organizes 150 students to march

around campus and stage a ‘die-in’ in against the looming war in Iraq.183

2003

work related to the military, causing a controversy on campus.

January – Food service workers, students and AFSCME 3299 come together and

start a campaign to cancel the university’s contract with the global corporation

(and prison-contractor) Sodexho and bring workers in-house. SUA later passes a

resolution in support.184

February 14 – 150 students and workers rally to demand that the university

cancel its contract with Sodexho and that all Sodexho employees be brought in as

full University employees.185

February 15 – the Santa Cruz Peace Coalition organizes 5,000-7,000 people

(police estimate), including students, to march in a peace march from the County

Court House to Mission Plaza Park. Tens of millions around the globe marched

against the pending war in Iraq in the largest coordinated protest in the world’s

history.186

February 19 – the Faculty Senate votes 58-0 (with 2 abstentions) in favor of a

resolution187 authored by Standing United for Peace (SUP) and sponsored by Paul

Ortiz, opposing “unilateral U.S. intervention in Iraq.” Prior to the meeting, Prof.

Ortiz had collected support from 112 professors.188

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February 26 – First ever UC Day of Labor Action with all UC campuses and

unions. At UCSC, Students for Labor Solidarity (SLS) joins CUE and UPTE for a

rally at Baytree.189

February 28 – In a victory of SLS and AFSCME, UCSC announces that it will

break off its contract with Sodexho, bringing workers in-house.190

March 5 – 300 students take part in “Books Not Bombs” demonstration at UCSC

in conjunction with actions at schools across the country.

March 20 – UCSC students join upwards of 20,000 people in shutting down the

financial district of San Francisco the day after the War in Iraq begins,

targeting war profiteers like Bechtel Corp., and the Carlyle Group. More

than 2,000 are arrested.191

April 7 – SUP initiates a multi-day peace camp and vigil on Porter College’s

lawn to talk about the future of student activism on campus.

April 8 – Protest of military recruiters at the Last Chance Job Fair – Stevenson

College.192

April 9 – Students at Santa Cruz High, Cabrillo College, and UCSC participate in

a National Day of Silence to represent marginalized communities in the U.S.,

ending in an afternoon march from the Diversity Center to the Vets Hall.193

Spring campus elections – Students overwhelmingly (69%) pass a referendum

(Measure 10) creating the Engaging Education (e2) center to institutionalize

student outreach and retention as a way of maintaining diversity at UCSC. The

idea was first brought up in the ESOC leadership and e2 classes of winter and

Spring 2003 as a response to threatened cuts of student initiated outreach and

retention programs.194 Other approved measures include a campus sustainability

programs fee (70%), a student government fee increase (72%), and a theater arts

fee (76%). In the opinion section, the vast majority of students show their support

for the creation of departments and/or minors in: GLBTI Studies (73%), Ethnic

Studies (88%), African American Studies (84%), Filipino/a Studies (77%),

Chican@/Latin@ Studies (82%), Native American Studies (85%), and Asian

Pacific Island Studies (83%). Approximately 25% of undergrads voted on these

items. Finally, 92% of students vote against cutting the Journalism minor or other

aspects of the Writing program, and 94% of students vote against increasing

parking lot enforcement from 5pm to 8:30pm.195 The University still has no

Ethnic Studies programs, the Journalism minor was cut anyways, and parking

enforcement has been increased to 8:30pm regardless of student opposition. In

Spring 2006 elections, after an expensive advertising campaign, TAPS convinced

students to increase their fees, falsely suggesting that the bus service would go

bankrupt unless we each gave them hundreds of dollars each year. After

promising otherwise, campus bus service decreased after TAPS got their money.

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June 1 – 29th annual PRIDE downtown, debuting the Gender Funk Collective196

June – Engaging Education (e2) proposes to the Student Union Governance

Board (SUGB) that the Redwood Building (in the Baytree Plaza) be used to house

the new e2 center, approved by students in spring elections. In August, the SUGB

agrees, and on October 29, 2003 the e2 Center holds its Grand Opening.197

July 17 – the UC Regents unanimously pass a Clean Energy and Green Building

policy after a yearlong “UC Go Solar!” campaign by students and Greenpeace.

Following UC’s lead, students on over 50 campuses were expected to start Clean

Energy campaigns.198

Summer – The Coalition to Demilitarize the UC forms to end military research

within the UC, including the management of Los Alamos and Lawrence

Livermore National Labs.199

September – All former Sodexho employees are hired by the University, winning

better salaries, full time jobs, health care for their families, union representation

through AFSCME 3299, and respect.200

ensuring that $1.26/lb of coffee goes to the farmers, rather than $0.55/lb offered

by the conventional market. In the spring of 2004, coffee is purchased directly

from a cooperative in Costa Rica through the Community Agroecology Network

(CAN), earning $3.77/lb for the farmer.201

2004

Media Collective.202

February 11 – Following Friday night info pickets, a 150-strong picket line is

organized in front of Safeway on Mission St., in solidarity with 70,000 striking grocery

workers in SoCal (members of the United Food and Commercial Workers – UFCW).

UCSC grads (members of UAW), AFSCME members, and profs are prominent in the

Grocery Workers Solidarity Committee along with the Monterey Bay Central Labor

Council (MBCLC).203

February 20 – Boycott Safeway rally at Baytree, with speakers from SoCal

UFCW, urging TAPS to divert the shopper shuttle to another grocery store.204

February 23 – Students organize the first of two Save SOAR (Student Organization

Advising and Resources) rallies at Baytree Plaza. 150 students march to McHenry library where

three students are in a meeting with Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Francisco Hernandez

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(who has now moved to Hawaii). Without the consultation of SOAR staff or the hundreds of

student organizations (particularly ethnic organizations) it advises, the university had been

completely reorganizing SOAR since 1997, cutting the staff from eleven205 down to six, only two

of which were filled, taking away the business center, and changing SOAR’s name, paralyzing

student organizations in the process. At McHenry, students presented Hernandez with 4 practical

demands to revitalize SOAR. Three of the demands were met soon after the rally, but because

the first (that all 6 positions be filled) was not, students decide to rally again on March 11.206

February 27 – In conjunction with a National Day of Action in solidarity with

struggling farm workers in Immokalee, FL, 300+ students, UFW and UFCW workers

rally at the Mission St. Taco Bell, followed by a march to the Taco Bell on Laurel and

Pacific.207

March 11 – Over 150 students attend the second Save SOAR rally at Baytree

Plaza, signing letters of support and listening to testimonials. At the same time, student

leaders are meeting in the Redwood Building above with Vice Chancellor of Student

Affairs Francisco Hernandez to discuss the unmet demand to continue the SOAR

Program Manager hiring process. Students say that no commitments were made during

the meeting, but Hernandez comes out to the rally afterwards to observe. By April, the

pressure pays off and long-time student ally Sayo Fujioka is promoted to be the new

Director of SOAR, ending years of instability with that position.208 The next school year,

Adrian Dorris, Lee Maranto and Leon Wann are hired as Program Managers/ advisers for

students.209

March 19 –A Santa Cruz Superior Court judge rules that a SC City law

prohibiting political tabling downtown for more than an hour is unconstitutional.210

April 13 – A group of students, along with counselors from the Resource Center

for Nonviolence, stage an informational protest outside of a job fair including military

recruiters. Two students are threatened with arrest for politely passing out flyers inside

the fair.211

April 16 – About a dozen students marched through campus in the ‘Santa Cruz

March for Women’s Lives,’ organized by UCSC’s chapter of Feminist Majority to

support the April 25th March for Women’s Lives in D.C.

May 20 – 300+ students and workers kick off a campaign in support of a better

contract for AFSCME workers. They march from the Baytree Plaza to the steps of the

Chancellor’s office at McHenry, where 2450 student and 300 worker support cards are

turned in. The Radical Cheerleading squad entertains the crowd.212

May 21 – the Faculty Senate joins over 300 U.S. cities in unanimously adopting

an anti-PATRIOT ACT resolution, authored by Barbara Epstein and the Senate’s

Committee on Academic Freedom. The resolution directs the campus (including the

police dept.) to refrain from participating in a “Joint Terrorism Task Force” or disclosing

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information about members of the campus community to local, state or federal law

enforcement officials, as well as other protective measures.213

Spring elections: 92% of students say meal plans shouldn’t be mandatory for

students living on campus, and 72% of students say they don’t want the student

population of UCSC to grow, or only a little bit if it happens.214 The administration

makes meal plans mandatory anyways, and continues its efforts to significantly enlarge

the campus – over much opposition from students and community members.

May 29-June 1 – 16 UCSC students and 5 community members walk from San

Jose to San Francisco to dramatize the need for a U.S. Department of Peace. They deliver

a petition with 1000+ signatures at Nancy Pelosi’s office when they reach SF.

June 3 – After UCSC Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood is promoted to UC Provost

with a $110,000/yr pay increase (up to $380,000), University Labor United (ULU) a

coalition of campus unions, calls on Greenwood to turn down the raise. ULU, student

supporters and others protest Greenwood’s departure gala at the Coconut Grove.215

September 24 – After 10 years of broadcasting to the community, Free Radio

Santa Cruz is raided at 8 am for operating without a license by armed US Marshals and

FCC agents. The station goes back up in little time.

November 10 – Hundreds rally in the Baytree area in support of AFSCME

workers while they bargain with UC representatives in the conference rooms above.216

2005

January 20 – Students Against War established as students sit-down and

strategize at the end of an antiwar rally of about 100 on a now paved-over lawn in front

of McHenry library. They decide to hold their first meeting the next day.

February 14 – “Where’s the Love” protest by labor unions and supporters at

UCSC draws several hundred students and workers at Kerr Hall, where the Budget Office

was occupied by student activists singing “solidarity forever” for a few hours.217

March 11 – Comercio Justo rally at Taco Bell in support of farm workers in

Immokalee, FL turned into celebration as Taco Bell agrees to the Coalition of Immokalee

Workers (CIW)’s demands.218

April 5 – Students Against War organizes 300 students, kicking military

recruiters off a campus job fair.219 The Border Patrol also left, thinking the protest was

about them. MSNBC later reported that the protest was listed as a ‘credible threat’ by the

Pentagon in a secret database.

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April 14 – AFSCME 3299 service-workers go on strike statewide, and clericals

associated the Coalition of University Employees (CUE) strikes in solidarity. The Student

and Worker Coalition for Justice (SWCJ), which had been building a campaign for

months, gets teachers hold class on the picket line. 1000+ students shut down both

entrances to campus in solidarity. The UCSC campus is dead, with major disruptions at

other UCs as well.220 Two weeks later, AFSCME wins a new, better contract.

April 15 – Anti-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) rally attracts

50-100 students in the Baytree Plaza in solidarity with Central American workers who

fear the destruction of their livelihoods by the multinational corporations that come along

with “free trade.”221

April 18 – Tent University begins. UC police use ‘pain compliance’ methods to

separate students who have locked arms, eventually resulting in the arrest of 19 for

camping at the base of campus in violation of the “free speech zone” rules.222 A rally is

held the next day to demand the charges be dropped and TUSC continues with various

daytime events throughout the week.

April 20 – SAW joins the Watsonville Brown Berets in protesting military

recruiters at a Watsonville High job fair. A UCSC student driving by is given a citation

from Watsonville police for honking her horn in support of the protest.223

April 20 - Action in Defense of Education (AIDE) statewide day of action. UCSC

students organize a variety of schools to march from campus to the County building for

increased funding for education.224

April 22 - SAW organizes its first (of three) weekly weapons inspections tours of

UCSC to highlight UC’s involvement in weapons development.225

April 29 – The District Attorney drops all criminal charges against the Tent U.

arrestees, as requested by Chancellor Denton and Police Chief Aluffi, who had been

pressured by a letter226 of over 200 faculty.227 A video228 on the police actions, “To

Protect and Serve” was viewed more than 60,000 times, leading to local and national

condemnation of the University’s response to the protest. Many of the students, however,

still received various forms of administrative discipline like community service and

academic probation.

May 19 – Annual Take Back the Night! march against violence attracts a few

hundred people.229

Spring elections: After a highly visible campaign by students activists associated with

e2, various ethnic organizations and allies, Measure 15, the “Community and Resource

Empowerment” (C.A.R.E.) effort passes (66%), allowing the Ethnic Resource Centers,

the Women’s Center and the GLBTI Resource Center to continue to provide programs

for students, after numerous cuts by the administration.230 Students also pass new fees to

support sustainability programs (which now receive over $250,000/yr.), student media,

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and paid student participation in administrative committees. The administration continues

their tactic of bullying students into paying for basic university programs - a sizeable new

fee wins by 29 votes (of over 4000) to expand the problem-ridden Health Center.

Attempts by OPERS staff and many student athletes to charge large new fees to build

outdoor and indoor stadiums, and provide increased funding for sports teams fails by

large margins231. Flyers posted by the group “Athletes Against Unreasonable Fees”

helped challenge the notion that supporting athletes meant students had to charge

themselves hundreds more per year. Much of the debate centered around the nature of

UCSC and how many want it to stay a small alternative school with successful teams like

Tennis, Soccer, Ultimate, and Women’s Rugby rather than a large school crazed over

sports rather than academics and activism. OPERS, in their wantingness to make UCSC a

school with a larger sports reputation, had continuously put athletics-related fee increases

on the ballet for many years. Most of them have been defeated. In Spring 2006 elections,

a couple measures were finally passed after consistent campaigning by athletes and a

significantly reduced fee increase request. Another athletics-related fee increase has been

proposed for the 2007 spring elections.

May 25 - SAW organizes four-dozen students to disrupt a UC Regents meeting

at UCSF in opposition to UC’s bid with Bechtel Corp. to develop nuclear weapons at Los

Alamos National Laboratory. The Department of Energy later grants the UC the

contract.232

May 27 – UCSC researchers, members of the University Professional and

Technical Employees (UPTE) union, stage a one-day strike statewide. The Student and

Worker Coalition for Justice (SWCJ) joins UPTE members at the base of campus picket

line.233

June – Rally to save the African American Theater Arts Troop (AATAT),

specifically Don Williams, their adviser, and the African American Theater History class

at Theatre Arts. The action results in the saving of both Williams’ position and the

class.234

June 13 – 16,500 UC clerical workers (CUE) go out on strike for three days

across the state to demand higher wages.235

June 28 – With students off for summer break, Mike Rotkin and the SC City

Council ignores the pleas of the Student Union Assembly (SUA) and others and passes

what has come to be known as the “No Party Ordinance.”236 Since students are the

primary party-goers in town, it is understood that they are the explicit targets of the

ordinance, which charges exorbitant fees for hosting a party, with no real process for

appeal.

September 24 – March in San Francisco (and cities nationwide) against the war

in Iraq and other causes. A few UCSC students are arrested – one of which is charged

with ‘jaywalking,’ but more likely being associated with the black bloc. Another student

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is held for two nights237, then released without charges after supporters call the S.F.

District Attorney.

September 27 – Metro bus drivers (United Transportation Union Local 23)

initiate a strike (that lasts 38 days) after the Transit Board, in an unprecedented move,

rejects a deal previously negotiated between the union and the state.238

October 3 – SWCJ organizes 50+ students and workers to visit city

councilmember, Transit Board member, and UCSC prof. Mike Rotkin’s office,

questioning him about his lack of support for Metro bus drivers, forcing them to go on

strike. Rotkin admits the board made a bad decision.

October 6 – A dozen students rally and march to the chancellor’s office

demanding the UC insure that their apparel is not manufactured in sweatshops.239 After a

protracted campaign by Comercio Justo and the SWCJ, the UC becomes the largest

institution to sign on to the majority of the sweat-free demands.

October 6 – The College Republicans, under the name “Students for Sustainable

Labor” organize an anti-worker rally at the Metro Center downtown. Only a handful of

students show up to support them and are quickly outnumbered my members of SWCJ,

MEChA, and UTU 23 who reiterated that the best way to end the bus strike is to support

the workers.240

October 7 – SWCJ organizes hundreds of students and workers in a march from

campus to the Metro Center downtown, demanding an end to the bus strike by granting

the union’s demands. Once downtown, the crowd marched to the Santa Cruz Sentinel’s

offices where they spoke out against the Sentinel’s poor coverage of the strike.241

October 18 – SAW organizes a Queer Kiss-In, involving two-dozen students, in

front of military recruiters’ tables at the fall job fair. Another 200 rally outside.242 The

queer press spreads the story. A few months later, students at the University of Nevada,

Reno follow suit, while students at Cal State University Long Beach post photos of the

Kiss-In around their school when recruiters visit.

October 20 – As part of a national day of awareness, the Filipino Student

Association (FSA) holds a vigil at Baytree Plaza in honor of Filipino Veteranos from

WWII – urging Congress to grant benefits denied for more than a half-century.243

November 2 – In remembrance of Rosa Parks, the African/Black Student

Alliance (A/BSA) organizes a candlelight vigil.244

November 3 – After 38 days on strike, Metro bus drivers (with the strong support

of SWCJ, and MEChA, as well as the local labor movement) win a new contract and go

back to work.245

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November 4 – Denice D. Denton is sworn in as Chancellor of UCSC – the first

openly gay chancellor in UC history. SWCJ and Comercio Justo pass out fake programs

for the event, urging Denton to support the Sweat-Free UC campaign.246

November 15 – While Chancellor Denton refuses to take a stand on the issue, the

Sweat-Free UC campaign posts clothing with anti-sweatshop messages around

campus.247

November 16-17 – Hundreds of students from all over the UC converge on UC

Berkeley to protest the UC Regents’ increase of student fees and top-administrative

salaries as well as the need for affirmative action.248

November 30 – On a UC wide Nuclear Day of Action, SAW organizes a

‘marriage ceremony’ in Baytree Plaza between the ‘UC’ and ‘Bechtel Corp.’, resulting in

their baby: the bomb. The marriage was officiated by ‘the U.S. Department of Energy.’

Dozens look on and sign a 6 foot tall paper-mache nuclear bomb.249

December 13 – MSNBC releases a document showing that the Pentagon has been

spying on more than 1500 ‘suspicious incidents,’ many of which were antiwar or counterrecruitment

protests. On the list, SAW’s April 5, 2005 counter-recruitment action, spied

on by the Army’s 902nd Military Intelligence Group, is listed as both “credible” and a

“threat,” the only college-based event to receive both designations. SAW releases a press

release the next day, initiating what has come to be known as the Pentagon Spying

Scandal.250

2006

American Student (TWANAS) newspaper again

American/Pacific Islander Professor Coalition (AA/PIPC) to get a tenured AA/PI

Professor hired within American Studies after the only professor teaching Asian

American studies – Judy Yung – retires and her position is not filled. The group also

forms the Asian American Pacific Islander Perspectives class (AA/PIP) to facilitate

discussions around AA/PI identity formation in the U.S. until the University fulfills its

responsibility to teach these subjects. With student efforts and faculty organizing through

the Coalition for Asian American/Pacific Islander Studies (CAAPIS), an Asian American

Studies minor seems likely.251

January 10 – UCSC students who had been spied on by the Pentagon join local

Santa Cruzans urging the SC City Council to demand an independent investigation into

the SC Police’s infiltration252 of a local group planning Do-It-Yourself new years’ eve

festivities. The Council takes little action.253

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January 19 – In the first rally of their new Wage Parity campaign, AFSCME

workers and SWCJ supporters demand custodians receive higher wages, in accordance

with the salaries of similar workers at nearby institutions.254

January 25 – SAW meets with Chancellor Denton and other administrators to

demand answers in response to the Pentagon Spying Scandal. The students give Denton

and others a 34 pg. document detailing suspected incidents of covert surveillance,

intimidation and first amendment violations that students had experienced on campus in

the past year. SAW asks for an internal investigation into local involvement in spying and

other activities.255 Denton meets with local congress members and CA Senator Feinstein,

resulting in UCSC’s removal from the Pentagon’s list, yet concerns over local

involvement in spying have yet to be addressed.

January 31 – After a hate crime on December 3, 2005, where Jewish Star of

David signs are drawn with a “prohibited” symbol outside of three Stevenson dorms, the

college responds by organizing a showing of the film Crash at the Event Center. Of 120

attendees, the majority were students of color, many talking about their own experiences

with hate crimes and expressing concern about the lack of white students and

administrators at the event. Others wondered why Crash was shown, seeing the film

wasn’t about anti-Semitism and used stereotypes.256 After the event - on February 15 -

Stevenson House 1 is tagged with swastikas and a students picture defaced.

Administrators respond by putting apology notices on doors.257

February 1 – The ACLU files a Freedom of Information Act request258 on behalf

of SAW and others to obtain information from the Pentagon on the details and extent to

which they spied on antiwar organizations and events. After suing the government for

expediated processing (and winning), SAW and the ACLU release over 500 pages of

Pentagon documents related to the spying scandal.

February 7 – A Task Force of the Academic Senate releases a 25 pg. report on

Tent University, including an anonymous spy testimony from someone the administration

sent to a direct action workshop prior to the start of Tent U. This was in stark contrast to

their claims in the wake of the Pentagon Spying Scandal when administrators said they

were not involved in spying on their students.259

February 25 – The Filipino Student Association (FSA) and the Gabriela Network

organize a candlelight vigil at Baytree Plaza after Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the disputed

President of the Philippines, declares a “state of emergency.” The declaration, a response

to a rumored attempt of a military coup, effectively instates martial law for all 7,100

islands of the Philippines, banning all rallies, and allowing warantless arrests and

property seizures.260

March 1 – Sweat-Free UC activists hold statewide ‘clothing optional’ actions. At

UCSC, a rally was held at the base of campus, saying, “I’d rather wear nothing than

clothes made in sweatshops.”261

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March 7 – 200+ AFSCME, MEChA, SWCJ and supporters march to the

Chancellor’s house demanding Denton support workers’ struggles.262

March 8 – Save Our Languages (SOL) organizes 100+ students in a rally outside

the Academic Senate meeting, demanding the University fully fund the language

program.263

March 9 – UCSC Sweat-Free activists join students from all over the UC in a sitin

at UC President Dynes’ office demanding the UC sign onto the Designated Suppliers

Program. After being denied a meeting with Dynes for 6 months, the meeting is

granted.264

March 15 – SWCJ members join hundreds of striking city workers (SEIU 415) in

a rally at the County government building.265

March 17 – Students Informing Now (S.I.N.), MEChA and the Watsonville

Brown Berets organize more than 500 people in an immigrant rights march (against HR

4437) from the County Building, through Beach Flats and downtown.266

March 18 – Mass antiwar march in San Francisco. SAW takes a bus up.267

March 25 – 2,500-3000 people march with Gold Star Families for Peace member

Fernando Suarez del Solar and Iraq war resister Pablo Paredes against the war and for

immigrant rights on the Watsonville leg of their 241-mile peregrenación from Tijuana to

San Francisco. UCSC students, including S.I.N., MEChA and SAW join them in one of

the largest marches in Watsonville’s history.268

April 6-8 – Student initiated outreach organizations A Step Forward (ASF – part

of the Filipino Student Association), Destination Higher Education (DHE – part of the

African/Black Student Alliance), and Oportunidades Rumbo a la Educacion (ORALE –

part of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/Chicano de Aztlan), all housed in the

Engaging Education Center (e2) bring approximately 280 high school students to UCSC

during the annual outreach weekend. Students are given a tour of the school, encouraged

to have pride in themselves and continue their education, and are given academic

preparation workshops along with info sessions on financial aid and the Equal

Opportunity Program (EOP), and a big dinner with everyone all together.269 These

programs have been absolutely vital to having any semblance of diversity at UCSC.

April 11 – SAW organizes 200 students to march from McHenry to College 8,

kicking military recruiters out of a campus job fair through a sit-in and other tactics. This

is the second straight year SAW has kicked recruiters off.270

April 12 – Popular Far-Right blogger Michelle Malkin lists the name, cell phones

and emails for three SAW members, resulting in dozens of racist/sexist death threats

against these students, as well as Chancellor Denton. MSNBC host Keith Olbermann

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refers to Malkin as “the worst person in the world today,” and a left-wing backlash results

in death threats against Malkin, which, ironically, she condemns. SAW is requested to

appear on The O’Reilly Factor for the second time and turns them down. Mason Cohn,

City on a Hill Press’s editor, goes on the show.

April 24 – Faculty Against War (FAW) organizes a day-long teach-in in the

Quarry Amphitheater entitled, “The War on Terror: A Credible Threat,” including former

diplomat Joseph Wilson (husband of Valerie Plame, the outed CIA operative) and two

dozen other notable speakers. The event included the reading of a joint statement with

SAW and FAW arguing that it is the ‘”War on Terror,” with all of its local and global

ramifications, that we need to be concerned about, not just the war in Iraq. 1000+

attended throughout the day.271

May 1 – May Day’s “Day Without an Immigrant” sees upwards of ten million

immigrants and their allies strike and rally across the country against HR4437 and for

immigrant rights. A coalition of organizations including S.I.N., MEChA, SAW, SWCJ

and others organize thousands of students and workers to march from campus to the

clock tower downtown, where they meet up with thousands more who marched from

Beach Flats. United, an estimated 5,000 people then march to San Lorenzo Park for a

rally, in the largest protest in Santa Cruz since a pre-war antiwar march in 2003.272

May 5 – the UC Sweat-Free campaign is victorious as UC President Dynes agrees

to sign on to the Designated Suppliers Program (DSP).273

Spring elections: Students vote (69%) to buy renewable energy certificates ($3 per

student per quarter) to offset campus use of electricity, OPERS finally manages to get

students to increase their fees a small amount for a few intramural and recreation

programs (but not athletic teams). For SUA officers, Flori Lima (Student’s First)

manages to beat Joe Dotson by 20 votes (of 2600).274

May 17 – AFSCME workers and friends fight UC administrative attempt to cut

their pension plans at a UC Regents meeting at UCSF.275

May 18 – SAW and anti-nuke/demilitarization activists from around the state

disrupt a UC Regents meeting at UCSF for the second year in a row. One UCSC student

is escorted out of the building for going over his 30-second comment limit.276

May 18 – The Annual Take Back the Night! event builds solidarity against

gender-based violence by holding a rally, marching through campus, listening to slam

poetry, and sharing testimonials.277

May 23 – AFSCME and SWCJ organize a protest at Chancellor Denton’s ‘Brown

Bag’ event with campus workers, urging Denton to support worker justice with over 1700

petitions. In a separate, but connected action, students associated with the C.A.R.E.

campaign pressure the Chancellor to release money owed to Student Initiated Outreach

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(S.I.O.) programs, as well as give the $57,000 dollars back that top administrators in

Student Affairs stole from SOAR’s bank account.278

June 3 – Reclaim The Streets (RTS) organized in downtown Santa Cruz with a

lot of UCSC folks to assert the notion of the streets as communal spaces, not just for

cars.279

June 6 – A coalition of students under the name ‘the Diversity Coalition’,

organizes a series of rallies (at the Humanities Dept. offices, then outside the Redwood

Lounge, where e2 and the Chancellor and meeting) demanding UCSC address

institutional racism and sexism, especially in the forms of lack of support for student

initiated outreach and retention, the struggles of low-paid UCSC custodians, and the

forcing out of professors focusing on racial and ethnic studies. At the end, Denton’s car is

unable to move out of a parking lot for a short period of time because protesters filled the

small road. This later erupted into a big controversy due to media sensationalization

before and especially after Denton’s death.280

June 7 – The Journalism Now Committee organizes a rally outside the

Chancellor’s office at McHenry demanding that the acclaimed journalism program (cut a

few years ago) be brought back.281

June 24 – Chancellor Denice Denton commits suicide in San Francisco. The day

before, she had been discharged from a UCSF facility where she was being treated for

depression. The press has a field day, while David Kliger is quietly promoted the interim

Chancellor.282

October 18 – In response to a UC Regents visit, AFSCME and SWCJ march to

the base of campus and rally in support of Wage Parity/living wages for low-paid

custodians.283 A few hours later, a large coalition of activists from a variety of struggles,

organize a march of a few hundred students, resulting in the disruption of a UC Regents

meeting on campus. In the process, a dozen students get pepper-sprayed by UC police for

the first time in UCSC’s history, and three students are arrested. 284 The next day, the new

Chancellor, George Blumenthal, expresses no concern about the pepper spraying and

condemns the protest. After six months, the university tries to make an example out of

one of the arrestees - a black woman activist named Alette Kendrick – by suspending her

for 3 years. A large struggle to “Defend Alette, Protect Free Speech and Fight Racism”

ensues.

October 23 – UCSC administrators spend tens of thousands of dollars bussing in

dozens of police from UCLA in anticipation of a protest at a Graduate and Professional

School fair. No protest was planned and the fair was a disaster.285

November 7 – Labor activists, including many from UCSC, mourn the failure of

Measure G – a bill that would have raised the minimum wage in Santa Cruz to

$9.25/hr286, as well as the defeat of UCSC grad and Watsonville Brown Beret Mireya

Gomez who ran for the Watsonville City Council. The local election was also marked by

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a visible anti-Mike Rotkin campaign, the first activist effort in recent years to challenge

Rotkin’s so-called “socialist-feminism.” The campaign questioned Rotkin’s stances on

numerous issues over the years (such as opposition to a minimum wage hike, support of

anti-homeless laws, refusing to limit police power, etc.).287

1 Clark Kerr; fired by Reagan over Calif. Protests. Chicago Sun-Times. 2 December, 2003.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20031202/ai_n12523844

2 Author Interview with Bettina Aptheker. 2006.

3 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006.10

4 Ibid.

5 The 1960s – Santa Cruz Gets Hip. Santa Cruz Sentinel.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/extra/century/61/index.html

6 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 10

7 Oakes College History. Oakes College. http://oakes.ucsc.edu/oakeshistory.html

8 A History of SF State. http://www.sfsu.edu/~100years/history/long.htm

9 History of the Student Movement at Berkeley. Fall 1977 Disorientation (Berkeley). 37

10 Ibid. p44.

11 New Indicator Collective. UC San Diego Disorientation Manual, 1981. 48.

12 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. pg10.

13 Newton, Huey P.. War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America. 1 June 1980.

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/War-Against-Panthers-Newton1jun80.htm

14 Ibid. p39.

15 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 11.

16 Ibid.

17 Ibid.

18 Graham, Father James. Why Be Normal? How UCSC Helped Shape My Gay Identity. The Early Years.

Nothing Out in the Redwoods? The 1960s. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 20.

19 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 11.

20 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 323.

21 Ibid.

22 Ibid.

23 Faculty. Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism: The 1970s. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay,

Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 79.

24 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 323

25 Ibid.

26 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 11.

27 The 1960s – Santa Cruz Gets Hip. Santa Cruz Sentinel.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/extra/century/61/index.html

28 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 323

29 Ibid.

30 The 1970’s – The Rise of Activism. Santa Cruz Sentinel.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/extra/century/71/index.html

31 Lesbian Feminism. Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism: The 1970s. Out in the Redwoods –

Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz –

1965-2003. 65.

32 Santa Cruz Women Against Rape. UCSC Disorientation, 1984. 50.

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33 Lydon, Sandy. Santa Cruz County's Vote to Stop the Vietnam War - May, 1972. Secret History – The

Night of the Batons. http://www.sandylydon.com/html/sec7.html

34 Ibid.

35 Ibid.

36 Lesbian Feminism. Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism: The 1970s. Out in the Redwoods –

Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz –

1965-2003. 59-65.

37 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 323

38 Faculty. Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism: The 1970s. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay,

Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 85.

39 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 324.

40 The 1960s – Santa Cruz Gets Hip. Santa Cruz Sentinel.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/extra/century/61/index.html

41 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 323.

42 Ibid.

43 Ibid.

44 Ibid.

45 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 12.

46 UCSC Student Activism Timeline (part I). engaging education (e2). 1.

47 Ibid.

48 Fall 1981 Disorientation (Berkeley).

49 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 13.

50 Faculty. Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism: The 1970s. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay,

Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 85-86.

51 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 324.

52 Ibid.

53 Ibid.

54 Gay and Lesbian Liberation. Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism: The 1970s. Out in the Redwoods –

Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz –

1965-2003. 53.

55 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 324.

56 Lesbian Feminism. Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism: The 1970s. Out in the Redwoods –

Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz –

1965-2003. 66.

57 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 324.

58 Fall 1981 Disorientation (Berkeley). p29.

59 Gay and Lesbian Liberation. Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism: The 1970s. Out in the Redwoods –

Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz –

1965-2003. 53.

60 UCSC Student Activism Timeline (part I). engaging education (e2). 2.

61 UCSC Disorientation, 1984. 27.

62 The 1970’s – The Rise of Activism. Santa Cruz Sentinel.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/extra/century/71/index.html

63 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 324.

64 Film: Hunger Strike. Available at McHenry library - Call # VT2162

65 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 14-15.

66 New Indicator Collective. UC San Diego Disorientation Manual. 1981. 51-53.

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67 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 324.

68 Curriculum. We Have Power: The 1980s. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003.117-122.

69 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 324.

70 Ibid.

71 McNulty, Jennifer. UCSC brings Chicana author Sandra Cisneros to Mello Center on April 30. Currents.

Vol. 10, No. 33. 17 April, 2006. http://currents.ucsc.edu/05-06/04-17/cisneros.asp

72 GLB Community and Campus Activism. We Have Power: The 1980s. Out in the Redwoods –

Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz –

1965-2003. 99.

73 The AIDS Epidemic. We Have Power: The 1980s. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian,

Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 126.

74 Queer Activism: The Campus Community. Queering the Academy: The 1990s. Out in the Redwoods –

Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz –

1965-2003. 194.

75 Parrish, Will. The Early-‘80s: A Series of Radical and Creative Actions. A People's History of UC

Weapons Lab Management - Part 4. http://ucnuclearfree.org/blog/history4.htm

76 Parrish, Will. The Rise of Faculty Activism. A People's History of UC Weapons Lab Management - Part

  1. http://ucnuclearfree.org/blog/history5.htm

77 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 16.

78 UCSC Disorientation, 1988. 51.

79 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 324.

80 Ibid.

81 Ibid.19.

82 Parrish, Will. The Early-‘80s: A Series of Radical and Creative Actions. A People's History of UC

Weapons Lab Management - Part 4. http://ucnuclearfree.org/blog/history4.htm

83 Parrish. Will. The Rise of Faculty Activism. A People’s History of UC Weapons Lab Management – Part

  1. http://ucnuclearfree.org/blog/history5.htm

84 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 16.

85 Ibid.

86 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 325.

87 Ibid.

88 Blackshaw, Peter (Cowell ’88). “History of SUA.” 1.

89 Parrish, Will. The Early-‘80s: A Series of Radical and Creative Actions. A People's History of UC

Weapons Lab Management - Part 4. http://ucnuclearfree.org/blog/history4.htm

90 UCSC Disorientation, 1988. 23.

91 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 16.

92 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 325.

93 UCSC Disorientation, 1988. Available at McHenry Library Special Collections

94 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 325.

95 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 17.

96 Ibid.

97 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 325.

98 Silva, Jesse. Interview with Nancy Stoller. Out in the Redwoods. http://library.ucsc.edu/reghist/

oir.exhibit/nancy_stoller.html

99 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 17.

100 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 325.

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101 Ibid.

102 The AIDS Epidemic. We Have Power: The 1980s. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian,

Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 128-131.

103 Blackshaw, Peter (Cowell ’88). “History of SUA.”

104 Miss… or Myth? Directed by Geoffrey Dunn and Mark Schwartz. 1987

105 White, Dan. Santa Cruz makes its mark on the world. Santa Cruz Sentinel. 7 September 2003.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2003/September/07/local/stories/01local.htm

106 Bacon, Amity. Miss California Pageant united the community and served as a platform for protest.

Santa Cruz Sentinel. 22 May 2005.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2005/May/22/local/stories/03local.htm

107 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 17.

108 McGregor, Todd J. Queer Fashion Show. Queer Activism: The Campus Community. Queering the

Academy: The 1990s. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History

at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 209-210.

109 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 325.

110 Ibid.

111 Silva, Jesse. Interview with Nancy Stoller. Out in the Redwoods. http://library.ucsc.edu/reghist/

oir.exhibit/nancy_stoller.html

112 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 325.

113 Queer Activism: The Campus Community. Queering the Academy: The 1990s. Out in the Redwoods –

Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz –

1965-2003. 200.

114 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 325.

115 Ibid.

116 Parrish. Will. The Rise of Faculty Activism. A People’s History of UC Weapons Lab Management –

Part 5. http://ucnuclearfree.org/blog/history5.htm

117 Ibid. 213-217.

118 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 325.

119 Parrish. Will. The Rise of Faculty Activism. A People’s History of UC Weapons Lab Management –

Part 5. http://ucnuclearfree.org/blog/history5.htm

119 Ibid. 205-206.

120 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 325.

121 Ibid.

122 Ibid. 326.

123 The GLBT Resource Center. Queering the Academy: The 1990s. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 217-

220.

124 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 326.

125 Ibid.

126 Ibid.

127 Parrish. Will. The Rise of Faculty Activism. A People’s History of UC Weapons Lab Management –

Part 5. http://ucnuclearfree.org/blog/history5.htm

128 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 326.

129 Ibid.

130 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 326.

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131 Queer Activism: The Campus Community. Queering the Academy: The 1990s. Out in the Redwoods –

Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz –

1965-2003. 203.

132 UCSC Student Activism Timeline (part I). engaging education (e2). 2.

133 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 18.

134 Film: Santa Cruz Responds to the Gulf War (?). Directed by John Malkin. Available at the Santa Cruz

Public Library downtown. It is also searchable with Bettina Aptheker’s name.

135 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 18.

136 Ibid.

137 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 326.

138 Ibid.

139 Ibid.

140 Queer Activism: The Santa Cruz Community. Queering the Academy: The 1990s. Out in the Redwoods

– Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz –

1965-2003. 194-197.

141 Ibid. 193-194.

142 There’s a video on this event/concert (with Crosby and Nash) and the creation of the Collateral Damage

statue by the Town Clock at the Santa Cruz Public Library downtown.

143 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 327.

144 UCSC Student Activism Timeline (part I). engaging education (e2). 2.

145 Ibid.

146 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 19.

147 Ibid. 20.

148 Ibid.

149 Author’s Interview with Bettina Aptheker. 2006.

150 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 327.

151 Wednesday, November 6, 2006 Statement of Consensus. UCSC Currents.

http://www.ucsc.edu/oncampus/currents/96-11-11/resolution.htm

152 UCSC Currents. Volume 1, Issue 1. November 11-17. http://www.ucsc.edu/oncampus/currents/96-11-

11/currents.htm

153 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 327.

154 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 20.

155 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 327.

156 Ibid.

157 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 327.

158 http://elections.ucsc.edu/elections99/results.html

159 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 20.

160 Ibid.

161 Ibid.

162 Ibid.

163 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 327.

164 http://elections.ucsc.edu/elections00/results.html

165 UCSC Student Activism Timeline (part I). engaging education (e2). 4.

166 Ibid.

167 Ibid.

168 http://elections.ucsc.edu/elections01/results.html

169 Hate/Bias Incident Advisory Board and Hate/Bias Peer Response Team Annual Report – January 2001 –

June 2002. http://www2.ucsc.edu/judicial/hate-bias/HBReport_01-02.pdf

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170 UCSC Student Activism Timeline (part I). engaging education (e2). 5.

171 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 21.

172 Ibid.

173 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 328.

174 Raymundo, Joanna. Pilipino Historical Dialogue (PHD). Students Take Education Into Their Own

Hands. TWANAS. Winter 2006. 8.

175 UCSC Unions To Protest UC Regents. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/4130/index.php

176 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 22-23.

177 Timeline: GLBT and UCSC History. Out in the Redwoods – Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz – 1965-2003. 328.

178 http://elections.ucsc.edu/elections02/results.html

179 UCSC Student Activism Timeline (part I). engaging education (e2). 4.

180 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 22.

181 Ibid. 21-22.

182 UCSC Faculty Senate Unanimously Passes Anti-War Resolution. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/4178/index.php

183 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 22.

184 Ibid.

185 Ibid.

186 Ibid. 24.

187 Resolution Against U.S. Military Intervention in Iraq.

http://senate.ucsc.edu/meetings/03feb/scp1371.htm

188 Burns, Jim. UCSC faculty vote to oppose war in Iraq. UCSC Currents. 24 February 2003.

http://www.ucsc.edu/currents/02-03/02-24/senate.html

189 Day of Labor Action at All University of California Colleges. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/4179/index.php

190 Students for Labor Solidarity and AFSCME Kick Sodexho Out of UCSC. Santa Cruz Indymedia. 22

April 2003. http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/4185/index.php

191 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 24.

192 Weber, Ryan. Block the Military's Access to UCSC Students. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4214/index.php

193 Students Rally Downtown for Day of Silence. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4217/index.php

194 UCSC Student Activism Timeline (part I). engaging education (e2). 5.

195 http://elections.ucsc.edu/electionsSpring03/results.html

196 Santa Cruz PRIDE. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4543/index.php

197 UCSC Student Activism Timeline (part I). engaging education (e2). 5.

198 Thompson, Matt. University of California Passes Ground-breaking Clean Energy Policy. Santa Cruz

Indymedia. http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4936/index.php

199 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 24.

200 Ibid. 23.

201 Ibid. 24.

202 Ibid.

203 Bradley. Demonstrators HOLD THE LINE at Santa Cruz Safeway. Santa Cruz Indymedia. 12 February

  1. http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/12/16701531.php

204 Boycott SFWY Rally-2/20, UCSC. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/7531/index.php

205 Wake, Amanda. Missing: $57,000 from the SOAR Account. TWANAS. Volume 21. Issue 2. Spring

  1. 5.

206 UCSC Student Activism Timeline (part I). engaging education (e2). 6-7.

207 Demonstrations at Two Santa Cruz Taco Bells in Solidarity with CIW. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/7750/index.php

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208 Ibid. 7.

209 Wake, Amanda. Missing: $57,000 from the SOAR Account. TWANAS. Volume 21. Issue 2. Spring

  1. 5.

210 Argue, Steve. Santa Cruz Law Limiting Free Speech Ruled Unconstitutional. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8132/index.php

211 Youth Action Coalition. Students, Community, Resist Military Recruitment at UCSC.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8895/index.php

212 UC Workers Hold Statewide Marches. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/9191/index.php

213 Burns, Jim. UCSC's Academic Senate adopts anti-Patriot Act resolution. UCSC Currents. 24 May 2004.

http://currents.ucsc.edu/03-04/05-24/patriot_act.html

214 http://elections.ucsc.edu/elections04/results.html

215 Vinny Lombardo. Rockin' the Boat: MRC Greenwood Sendoff Party/Protest. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/9428/index.php

216 Students, Politicians and Community Members In Solidarity with UC Service Workers. Santa Cruz

Indymedia. http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/12797/index.php

217 UCSC Students and Workers ask the new Chancellor: Where Is The Love? Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/15897/index.php

218 Protest at Santa Cruz Taco Bell Transformed Into a Celebration! Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/16733/index.php

219 UCSC Students Kick Military Recruiters Off Campus. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17073/index.php

220 Service Workers Stage One Day Strike Against UC. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17077/index.php

221 Anti-CAFTA Rally at UCSC on April 15th. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17076/index.php

222 Suddenly, the Cops Ran Away and the People Rejoiced! Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17083/index.php

223 Police and Watsonville High Administrators Fail to Silence Community Voices. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17079/index.php

224 Students and Workers take Action in Defense of Education. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17088/index.php

225 UCSC's weekly "Weapons Inpsections" Tour a success. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17090/index.php

226 Letter to Chancellor Denton and EVC Kliger from UCSC Faculty and Staff. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17092/index.php

227 DA drops charges of 19 arrested at Tent University. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17097/index.php

228 “To Protect and Serve” http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/17436/index.php

229 Take Back the Night 2005 in Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17112/index.php

230 UCSC Student Activism Timeline (part I). engaging education (e2). 7-8.

231 http://elections.ucsc.edu/elections05/results.html

232 UC Regents Ignore Massive Resistance, Vote to Build Nukes. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17121/index.php

233 UPTE Workers Stage One Day Strike. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17122/index.php

234 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 26.

235 UC Clericals Stage Three Day Strike. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17138/index.php

236 No Party Ordinance Approved! Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17148/index.php

237 Dancing is Not a Crime... Free Andrea Kopp Now! Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17190/index.php

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238 Santa Cruz Bus Drivers on Strike. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17193/index.php

239 Students and Workers Demand a Sweat-Free UC. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17201/index.php

240 Students and Workers Teach Republicans a Lesson in Solidarity. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17205/index.php

241 Students, Workers and Community Unite to Support Bus Drivers. Santa Cruz Sentinel.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17208/index.php

242 Rally, Queer Kiss-in Greet Military Recruiters at UCSC. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17213/index.php

243 Students Hold Vigils Seeking Justice for WWII Veteranos. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17217/index.php

244 Student Vigil Honors Rosa Parks' Legacy. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17225/index.php

245 Scott, Wes. Re: Metro bus service resumes Thursday. UCSC Administrative Message.

http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/messages/05-06/11-02.metro.asp

246 Creative Activism Raises Issues at Denton's Investiture Friday. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17231/index.php

247 UCSC students fight for sweatshop free apparel. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17239/index.php

248 Students Unite Against the UC Regents November 16th and 17th. Indybay.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/11/15/37612.php

249 DeNuke UC! -- UCSC Students Rally Against Bechtel and Nuclear Proliferation. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17247/index.php

250 Students Denounce Pentagon Surveillance of Counter-Recruitment Activities. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17259/index.php

251 Uyeda, Ashley and Wake, Amanda. Asian American Pacific Islander Perspectives [AA/PIP]. Students

Take Education Into Their Own Hands. TWANAS. Winter 2006. 9.

252 Police Infiltrate Peaceful Parade Organizers. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17263/index.php

253 "Just Us" Action Against SCPD Spying. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17267/index.php

254 UCSC Custodians Demand Justice. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17270/index.php

255 UC Students Demand Answers about Spying Scandal. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/25/41042.php

256 Romero, Blanca. Crash doesn’t solve all our problems. TWANAS. Winter 2006. 6.

257 Shwab, Nic. A different perspective. TWANAS. Winter 2006. 6.

258 ACLU of Northern California Seeks Pentagon Files on Peace Groups. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/02/01/41592.php

259 UCSC Academic Senate Releases Tent University Report That Includes Anonymous Spy Testimony.

Santa Cruz Indymedia. http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/02/09/42132.php

260 Enrile, Annalisa Vicente. Gabriela Network Opposes De Facto Martial Law! TWANAS. Winter 2006. 5.

261 Students Strip for Sweat-Free UC. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/02/43172.php

262 AFSCME Workers Take Struggle to UCSC Chancellor's Doorstep. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/08/43442.php

263 Students Rally to Prioritize Languages at UCSC. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/09/43492.php

264 UC Sweat-Free Coalition Crashes UC Office of the President. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/12/43642.php

265 SEIU Strike Rally Shakes Santa Cruz County Building. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/13/43722.php

266 500+ March for Immigrant Rights in Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/14/43762.php

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267 March 18 - A few highlights. Indybay. http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/22/18099871.php

268 Marches In Watsonville and Salinas for Peace and Immigrant Rights! Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/22/44222.php

269 Romero, Blanca. Student Initiated Outreach and Academic Preparation, Equity, and Diversity at UCSC.

TWANAS. Volume 21, Issue 2. Spring 2006. 4.

270 Students Kick Military Recruiters off UC Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/04/11/44582.php

271 McNulty, Jennifer. 'Hold your government accountable,' teach-in crowd told. UCSC Currents. Vol. 10,

No. 35. 1 May 2006. http://currents.ucsc.edu/05-06/05-01/teach-in.asp

272 Great American Boycott Rocks the Central Coast. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/05/02/45522.php

273 Timeline of Local Activism. UCSC Disorientation Guide, 2006. 27.

274 http://elections.ucsc.edu/elections06/results.html

275 UC Regents Encounter Strong Resistance on Pension Cuts and Development of Nukes. Santa Cruz

Indymedia. http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/05/24/46882.php

276 Ibid.

277 Take Back the Night 2006. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/05/29/47112.php

278 UCSC Workers, Students Grill Chancellor, Give June 5 Deadline. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/05/30/47272.php

279 Reclaiming the Streets of Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/06/47542.php

280 Students and Workers Rally to Demand Affirmative Diversity. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/07/47592.php

281 Demand Journalism at UCSC. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/15/18280750.php

282 A Complex Tragedy: Denice Denton and UC Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/02/18284785.php

283 AFSCME and Friends March for Wage Parity, Justice. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/20/18322067.php

284 UCSC Community Confronts Regents, Cops Respond with Violence, Pepper-Spray. Santa Cruz

Indymedia. http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/20/18321848.php

285 Administrative Paranoia Taking Its Toll at UCSC. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/24/18332621.php

286 Examining Measure G, Santa Cruz's Wage Hike Ballot Initiative. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/13/18320109.php

287 Mike R's Anti-Campaign. Santa Cruz Indymedia.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/06/18327024.php

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Gaps and Blind Spots

is Broken. My Experiences with Santa Cruz Women Against Rape. Women’s Studies

thesis #44 – 1984)

up of a Kiosk (mentioned in Out In the Redwoods), and counter-recruitment actions

on campus in the 70s. (see: McGranahan, Carole. Women’s Involvement in the Peace

Movement – 1980s (Militarism is a Feminist Issue) – Women’s Studies thesis #31 –

1983)

Women’s Roles in the Nuclear Disarmament Discourses. Women’s Studies thesis

#166 – 1991)

origins of specific communities on campus. Including outreach and retention orgs.

Studies Department. (see: Keach, Catherine. History/Restrospective of Women’s

Studies at UCSC – Women’s Studies thesis #189 [9 volumes] – 1991)

Berkeley Disorientation guide)

1981 – training Marcos’ mayors. (See 1981 Berkeley Disorientation guide)

funding, and set up a new student association. Happens at UC Berkeley and UC San

Diego, and elsewhere in the sixties and early seventies. (see: 1981 Berkeley

Disorientation guide).

(early 60s, Berkeley)

Alliance (see: 1981 Berkeley Disorientation guide),

San Francisco that lasted for 40 days in the late 70s. (see: 1981 Berkeley

Disorientation guide)

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Santa Cruz (see: 1984 UCSC Disorientation).

pg. 31)

Community Studies and American Studies departments

the clerical union (the Coalition of University Employees)

public – like marching into the bosses’ office to make demands.

Theatre: The Formation of a Coalition – Women’s Studies thesis #430 – 2002).

UCSC’s Response to Sexual Violence – Women’s Studies thesis #437 – 2003)

Identity to Community. Women’s Studies thesis #130 – 1989)

Meek, Susan, and Van Gigch, Monique. Sick of Saul Alinsky? Try “Women as

Organizers” The Seminar with a Feminist Approach to Organizing – Women’s

Studies thesis #21 – 1980. AND Lee, Tania. “Engaging Education:” The Politics of

Education – Towards a Feminist Praxis – Women’s Studies thesis #448 – 2004)

The Birth of Defensa de Mujeres – 1987-1991 – Women’s Studies thesis #417 –

1997)

appropriately to sexual harassment. (see: Aleman, Tracy A. The Impact and

Implications of Sexual Harassment on Women of Color – Women’s Studies thesis

#374 – 1996)

UCSC and Santa Cruz, including, but not limited to, the Community Studies field

study students.

1995.

to UCSC.

fundraising of $800-1000 by Bettina Aptheker’s Intro to Feminism class.

it was the anniversary of Pearl Harbor (!!).

Lion

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environmental movement

on draft cards burned in the Quarry plaza.

Theater and the African American Theater Arts Troope (AATAT)

Hunger Strike: UCSC Third World and Native American Studies 1981

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0gqIZKW8GM

* 1600 ?s California invaded by European explorers. They find numerous natives living in the area around Monterey Bay. Wildlife, including salmon and grizzly bears is abundant. Native peoples manage the landscape with fire to encourage deer and other prey species. Shell trade with inland tribes is extensive. Monterey and Branciforte (later called Santa Cruz) founded. Mission system ravages native population due to relocation and disease.

* 183? First commercial milling of timber for shakes started in Aptos.

* 185? First dimension mill built in Santa Cruz County. Deforestation begins with much of the timber going to fire lime kilns in several locations around the county. The rest is exported to build San Jose and San Francisco. Oxen, and later railroads used to extract timber from inland valleys.

* 1906 Earthquake shakes down parts of San Francisco while San Jose burns. Logging accelerates to rebuild the cities and results in near total clearcut of the redwoods south of San Francisco. Only remote, steep canyons spared.

* 19?? Big Basin State Park founded as first California preserve of some ancient forest.

* 1946 Bud and Lud McCrary introduce mechanized logging into Monterey Bay area using surplus tank parts.

* 1979 Dave Foreman, Howie Wolke, Mike Roselle, ? form Earth First! On a desert mountaineering trip to Mexico. Big Creek Lumber starts logging in upper Butano Creek on property owned by Pacific Lumber.

* 1980 Earth First! Journal started and first Round River Rendezvous held in Wyoming (by invitation only!)

* 1982 UCSC Earth First! starts holding meetings during beer hour at College 8 on patio of Kerr Hall.

* 1983 Organizing meetings and potlucks begin around town.

* 1984 Demonstrations against plastic packaging staged at McDonalds on Mission Street.

* 1985 Santa Cruz EF! hosts the first California Rendezvous in Big Basin State Park.. 40 people show up for 2 days of meetings and workshops.

* 1986 UCSC EF! started again. Demonstrations staged at Bank of America. Santa Cruz EF! hosts second California Rendezvous in Big Basin. 300 people show up including Dave Foreman and Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd Society who agree to work together. Dave Foreman and David Brower speak at UCSC. Big Creek Lumber finishes initial Butano cutting. Pacific Lumber is taken over in a hostile purchase by MAXXAM corporation using junk bonds.

* 1987 Demonstrations against cougar hunting at CA Dept. of Fish and Game offices locally and in Sacramento. Rainforest Action Network demonstrations against Burger King. Hunt Saboteurs go to Mojave to protect Big Horn Sheep.

* 1988 1989 Demonstration held at CDF office in Felton. Rufus hangs banner on CDF radio tower. Castagnolas restaurant picketed for selling exotic meat dinners. The Greenpeace ship ?Vega? visits. Hunt Saboteurs go to N. California to protect Tule Elk and back to Mojave to protect Big Horn Sheep. Arizona 5 busted in FBI sting operation using undercover agent-provocateur. Peg Millet evades capture for 2 days. Dave Foreman arrested at home in bed. Oct. 19 - Earthquake rocks Santa Cruz. Epicenter within a mile of first sawmill site.

* 1990 Earth Night Action topples power tower in Aptos ? blacks out Santa Cruz for 2 days. No one is ever charged for this action. Redwood Summer planned in N. Calif. May 24 - Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney survive car bombing in Oakland while on their way to Santa Cruz for a rally. FBI agents on the scene in minutes and start smear campaign. FBI agents start questioning Santa Cruz EF! activists within an hour of the bombing. Hunt Saboteurs go to N. California to protect Tule Elk

* 1991 Big Creek Lumber buys Butano unit from MAXXAM for $8 million. Logging of remnant old-growth begins. Trial of AZ 5 begins. Local activist Gary Reynolds dies. December 16 - UCSC/Big Creek starts logging at Elfland over holiday break. 42 people arrested in day-long demonstration and woods actions. Attorney Debbie Malkin arrested for visiting the site as part of legal action on an injunction. Logging finished before court can rule. Native shell site trampled and sacred sites destroyed. Construction of Colleges 9 & 10 begins.

* 1992 Darryl Cherney plays concert at UCSC for Headwaters campaign. Week long treesit begins in Butano. ?Three Sisters?, treesitter, was eventually lowered to the ground by Big Creek employees while San Mateo County SWAT team pointed guns at her. Todd Shuman, who was doing a resupply run, also arrested.

* 1993 1994 Darryl Cherney and Casey Neill perform in Santa Cruz. Planning for California Round River Rendezvous begins.

* 1995 Walnut tree action fails to save old tree behind former Bookshop site. City sells wood at a profit. and March to demonstration and lockdown at Big Creek Lumber mill in Davenport. SCEF! Does Transportation Coordination for RRR on the Mad River, CA. Proposes Marbled Murellet Habitat 100 times larger than USFWS Rod Coronado, Hunt Saboteur activist, captured after responding to injured eagle ruse that gets him off the reservation in AZ where he was hiding, is sentenced to prison. His infiltration of the fur industry leaves farmers fuming over revealing videos shot during killing and skinning, and ALF farm raid increases. Chris Maser, Andy Stohl, AFSEEE founder, and Ed Grumbine speak at Forest Conference. THP hearing and demonstrations against Grizzly Flat logging in Watsonville watershed.

* 1996 Redwood Empire begins logging at Gamecock Canyon. Kathy Dean, Nick Gombos and others blockade Summit Road until injunction issued. Daily harassment, threats, and gunfire stretch over next three years of logging. Hayward brothers logging company amasses violations that prompt CDF letter of reprimand. Monkeywrenching finally bankrupts Hayward, but not before Gamecock Canyon is trashed. Logging starts at Grizzley Flats after Headwaters heats up in fall and activists move north. Base camp abandoned and only token resistance to logging occurs.

* 1997 1998 Attendance at SCEF! meetings starts to decline. Survey goes out to try and determine where folks want to go with a local group. Attendance drops to 1 by year-end.

* 1999 Headwaters deal announced. Activists return to Santa Cruz

* 2000 18 June, Ramsey Gulch Treesit started with help from Canopy Action Network. Redwwod Empire files a lawsuit, then withdraws it, to bar treesitters from property.

* 2001 Ramsey Gulch Treesit continues with youngest treesitter (7 weeks old) ever.

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lee:

I had seen a plan for the campus that called for a projected

fixed population figure of 27,500, somehow arrived at as the

target for each of the campus sites in the system. This meant

something like 15,000 parking lots, which conjured up a lot

of asphalt. I groaned under this institutional imposition on a

great ranch landscape and could hear the redwoods groaning

with me.

I thought a student garden would help offset this institutional

imposition.

Santa Cruz was supposed to be the new beacon of hope for

higher education, a major departure from the established campuses

of the University of California but for the fixed figure

of the eventual population. Cowell College, the first to open

in 1965, was devoted to the humanities. Each college would

have a theme, a representative faculty, a library, dormitories, all

under the aegis of the university, but autonomous units unto

themselves. Teaching would be honored over publishing, so

the promotional propaganda read, a promise that was not kept

under the pressure of

Notable alumni

Academia

William Drea Adams – President of Colby College, Waterville, Maine

Chester Dunning, - B.A. 1971 - Historian at Texas A&M University who specializes in Russian studies

Alexander Gonzalez, Ph.D 1979 – President of California State University, Sacramento

Steven G. Krantz, B.A - Professor of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis. Winner of the Chauvenet Prize.

Annette Lareau, B.A. 1974 - Professor of Sociology at University of Pennsylvania

Tod Machover – MIT Media Lab

Patricia Nelson Limerick - Professor of History at University of Colorado and a leading historian of the American West

Austin E. Quigley, Ph.D - Dean of Columbia College of Columbia University

John R. Rickford, B.A. 1971 - Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University and African American Vernacular English or Ebonics expert.

Arts and letters

Will Bagley, BA 1971 - historian of 1800 West

Michael A. Bellesiles, BA 1975 - controversial historian

Susie Bright - Writer, sex activist and sex therapy focus leader

Laurie Garrett, BA 1975 - Newsday science reporter and author, Pulitzer Prize winner

Philip Kan Gotanda - Playwright

Reyna Grande, BA 1999 - Author, American Book Award winner

bell hooks, PhD 1983 - Feminist social critic

Miranda July[1] - Filmmaker and writer

Jayne Ann Krentz BA 1970 - New York Times best selling author

Deborah Madison BA 1968 - cookbook author, founding chef of the Greens Restaurant

Steve Martini, BA 1968 - Best-selling mysteries author

Kent Nagano, BA 1974 - Conductor of the Los Angeles Opera and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Larry Polansky, BA 197 - Composer

Dana Priest, BA 1981 - Washington Post reporter and author. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting and 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Lore Sjöberg[1] - Writer

Andrea Smith, PhD 2002 - Cherokee activist and author

David Talbot - BA - Founder of Salon.com, author, journalist

Mark Teague - BA 1985—Author and illustrator of children's books

Hector Tobar - BA - Los Angeles Times columnist, author, Winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1992.

Bernt Wahl, BA 1984, BS 1986 - Author and entrepreneur, Fulbright Fellow. November 1985 coined UC Santa Cruz motto "Fiat Slug".

Annie Wells, BA 1981 - Photographer, filmmaker, winner of Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1997

Lawrence Weschler, 1974 - Author

Richard White (historian) – Historian of American West, Native American history, and environmental history; MacArthur Foundation fellowship, 1995

Daniel James Wolf, BA 1983 - Composer

Laurence Yep – Author

Business

Susan Wojcicki, MS - Senior Vice President, Advertising at Google

Entertainment and broadcasting

Lorin Ashton, a.k.a. Bassnectar - Free-form electronic music artist and DJ

John Brown, BA - Entity who appeared on ego trip's The (White) Rapper Show

Jello Biafra[1] - Singer and songwriter of the Dead Kennedys

Brannon Braga, award-winning film writer for Star Trek Generations and an Executive Producer of 24 (TV series)

Bill Carter, BA, Politics, Economics - Documentary film director and author

The D! BS 2012 - Guitarist, Digging For China

Brett Dennen, Singer, songwriter

Jacob Aaron Estes, BA 1994 - Film Screenwriter and Director

Anne Flett-Giordano, BA 1976 - Television writer and producer (Kate & Allie, Frasier, and Desperate Housewives)

Cary Joji Fukunaga, BA 1999 - Sundance Award winning filmmaker (Sin Nombre)

Matthew Gray Gubler,[1] BA – Actor (Criminal Minds), and Director

Richard Harris - National Public Radio science reporter

Victor Krummenacher[1] - Bassist for Camper Van Beethoven, Monks of Doom, etc.

David Lowery, BA 1984 - Singer and songwriter for Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker

Camryn Manheim, BA 1984 - Actress

Stephen Mirrione, BA - Academy Award-winning film editor

Marti Noxon, BA - TV Producer

Bradley Nowell,[1] Singer and songwriter with Sublime

Joe Palca, PhD 1982 - National Public Radio science reporter

Chuck Ranberg, BA 1977 - Television writer and producer (Frasier, Desperate Housewives)

Rebecca Romijn[1] - Supermodel, actress

Maya Rudolph, BA 1995 - SNL cast member

Jonathan Segel, BA 1985 - Composer/Multi-Instrumentalist for Camper Van Beethoven, etc.

Andy Samberg,[1] BA - SNL cast member

Tim Schafer[1] - Game designer for LucasArts and founder of Doublefine Productions

Akiva Schaffer, BA -SNL writer, filmmaker

John D. Scott, BA 1987 - Singer, songwriter, voice instructor

Nikki Silva, BA 1973 - One half of The Kitchen Sisters, who are regularly featured on NPR

Chris Tashima[1] - Actor, Academy Award-winning filmmaker

Jesse Thorn, BS - Host of PRI's The Sound of Young America

Rubén Valtierra, BA - Keyboardist for "Weird Al" Yankovic

Ally Walker, BS - Actress known for roles in Profiler, Sons of Anarchy, and The Protector

Gillian Welch, BA 1990 - Singer and songwriter

Rich Wilkes, BA 1988 - Writer, Filmmaker (Billy Madison, Stoned Age, Beer Money, XXX, Airheads)

Law

Ellen Leonida, defense attorney for Scott Dyleski

Joan E. Donoghue, BA 1978 - judge on the International Court of Justice

Politics and public life

Bettina Aptheker PhD - leader in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement

Katherine Canavan, BA - former United States Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana and United States Ambassador to Lesotho

John Doolittle, BA 1972 - Member, U.S. House of Representatives, California 4th Congressional District

Ron Gonzales, BA - Mayor of San Jose, California, 1999–2006

Victor Davis Hanson, BA 1975 - Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution

John Laird, BA 1972 - California Natural Resources Agency Secretary, former California Assemblyman, and Mayor of Santa Cruz

Azadeh Moaveni, BA - journalist and writer

Huey P. Newton, BA 1974, PhD 1980 - Co-founding member of the Black Panther Party

Aaron Peskin, San Francisco Board of Supervisors member

Drummond Pike, BA 1970 - Tides Foundation founder, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur.

Art Torres, BA 1968 - California Democratic Party Chairman, former California State Senator

James Charles Kopp, BA Biology 1976 - murderer of Buffalo abortion doctor Bernard Slepian in 1998; convicted in 2003 and serving sentence of 25 years to life

Science

Richard Bandler MA 1975[2] - co-creator of Neuro Linguistic Programming

Joseph DeRisi, BA 1992 - Molecular biologist, Professor at UC San Francisco, MacArthur Fellow, known for work on SARS and malaria

Alan Dressler, PhD 1976, Staff Astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science, member of the National Academy of Sciences, cosmologist, author

J. Doyne Farmer, PhD 1981 - Pioneer in Chaos Theory, Prediction Company, Santa Fe Institute

Debra Fischer, PhD 1998, Professor of Astronomy at Yale University, planet finder

Yoav Freund, PhD 1993 - Computer Scientist, Professor at University of California, San Diego, Invented AdaBoost

John Grinder - PhD 1971 - Linguist, co-creator of Neuro-linguistic programming[3]

Steven Hawley, PhD 1977 - Astronaut, and Professor of Physics Kansas University

Geoffrey Marcy, PhD 1982 - Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkeley, planet finder, and member of the National Academy of Sciences

Marc Okrand, BA 1972 - Linguist, creator of the Klingon language

Mark M. Phillips, PhD 1978 - Staff Astronomer Las Campanas Observatory, inventor of the Phillips Relationship, and pioneer in supernova cosmology

Rob Shaw, PhD 1980–1988 MacArthur Award for work on Chaos Theory

Pamela Silver, BA 1974 - Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, first Director of Harvard University Systems Biology Graduate Program, Synthetic Biologist

Kathryn D. Sullivan, BS 1973 - Astronaut

Nicholas B. Suntzeff, PhD 1980, Professor of Astronomy at Texas A&M University, cosmologist, co-founder of High-Z Supernova Search Team which discovered Dark Energy

Sports

Anton Peterlin,[1] soccer player

Notable faculty

Ralph Abraham - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics; notable for founding the Visual Mathematics Institute and for his pioneering work on Chaos Theory

Bettina Aptheker - Professor of Feminist Studies and History

Elliot Aronson - Professor Emeritus of Psychology, author of The Social Animal and Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion after Columbine, creator of the Jigsaw Classroom model, and one of the few psychologists to win the American Psychological Association's highest honor in all three fields.

Reyner Banham - late Professor of Art History and a pre-eminent architectural historian, in particular of the modern era.

Tom Banks - Professor of Physics. Known for work on string theory, elementary particle physics, and cosmology.

Gregory Bateson - late lecturer and fellow of Kresge College. Anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist.

George R. Blumenthal - Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, and Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz

Norman O. Brown - late Professor Emeritus of Humanities

William L. Burke - late Professor of Physics (Cosmologist); Chaos Theory 'God father'.

James H. Clark - Assistant Professor of Information Science, founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape.

James Clifford - Professor of History of Consciousness. Renowned for groundbreaking publications of postmodernist and postcolonial interpretations of anthropology and ethnography: Writing Culture and The Predicament of Culture and Routes.

David Cope - Professor of Music; notable for his experiments in A.I. and computer-created musical compositions

Angela Davis - Professor of History of Consciousness; writer and activist

John Dizikes - Professor Emeritus of American Studies, author, won the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Frank Drake - Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Proposed the Drake Equation; member of the AAAS (elected 1974).[4]

William Everson - late lecturer and poet-in-residence.

Sandra M. Faber - Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics. Instrumental in inventing Cold dark matter theory and fundamental work in the field of Galaxy formation and evolution. Member of the NAS (elected 1985), the AAAS (elected 1989),[4] and the American Philosophical Society (elected 2001).

Alison Galloway - Forensic Anthropologist who worked in identifying the physical remains of Laci Peterson in the Scott Peterson Trial [4]

Donna Haraway - Professor of History of Consciousness. Doctorate in biology. Often cited author of feminist history of science and culture studies of cyborg. Books: Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science and Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.

David Haussler Professor of Biomolecular Engineering. He and his team assembled the public draft human genome and developed the UCSC Genome Browser as part of the Human Genome Project; member of the AAAS (elected 2006)[4] and the National Academy of Sciences.

George Herbig, emeritus Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, pioneer in the study of star formation, discoverer of the Herbig Ae/Be stars and Herbig-Haro Objects, member of the National Academy of Sciences

George Hitchcock - late lecturer, poetry and theater.

David A. Huffman - Deceased. Founding faculty of the Information and Computer Science Board. Developed the famous Huffman coding

Frederic Jameson -- Professor of History of Consciousness; cultural critic and theorist of the post-modern. Published the essay, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, a significant investigation into contemporary culture and the political economy.

Jim Kent -- Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Biomolecular Engineering. Directs the genome browser development and quality assurance staff of the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group; created the computer program that assembled the first working draft of the human genome sequence; participates in the public consortium efforts to produce, assemble, and annotate genomes.

Robert P. Kraft - Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, stellar astronomer, member of the National Academy of Sciences

Tom Lehrer - lecturer in American Studies and Mathematics. Also well known for his satire and songwriting.

Nathaniel Mackey - poet and editor.

Dominic W. Massaro - Professor of Psychology and Computer Engineering. Originator of the fuzzy logical model of perception, one of the leading theories of speech perception.

Claire Ellen Max – Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, member of the AAAS (elected 2002)[4] and the National Academy of Sciences.

Gordon Mumma - Professor Emeritus of Music, composer

Richard Abel Musgrave – member of the AAAS (elected 1961).[4]

Jerry Nelson - Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics. The scientist who pioneered the use of mirror segments, making the Keck telescopes possible, member of the NAS.

Harry Noller - Professor of Biology. RNA research; member of the AAAS (elected 1969)[4] and the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1992).

Donald E. Osterbrock – member of the AAAS (elected 1968)[4] and the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1966).

Micah Perks - Fiction writer and Memoirist.

Joel Primack - Professor of Physics, noted cosmologist; renowned for Cold Dark Matter Theory proposed along with Sandra Faber (see above) and Sir Martin Rees.

Geoffrey Pullum - Professor of Linguistics and Distinguished Professor of Humanities. Co-author of the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language ISBN 0-521-43146-8; member of the AAAS (elected 2003).[4]

Michael Ellman Soule – member of the AAAS (elected 2005)[4]

Ben Stein – Former professor of economics more notable for his work as a comedian, actor and political commentator

Stephen Thorsett - Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Dean of Physical and Biological Science. Known for work on properties of compact stars.

Hayden White – member of the AAAS (elected 1991).[4]

Jim Whitehead - Chair of Computer Science and creator of WebDAV

Harold Widom – member of the AAAS (elected 2006).[4]

Stanford E. Woosley - Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Noted for his work on supernova gamma ray bursts. Member of the NAS (elected 2006) and AAAS (elected 2001).[4]

Karen Tei Yamashita - author and playwright.

Emeritus Faculty

Jean Langenheim, a professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology, is an eminent plant ecologist and leading authority on plant resins. She broke new ground for women in science, and worked with Richard Evans Schultes of Harvard, his images founder of ethno-botany.

Burney Le Boeuf has conducted extensive research on the behavioral ecology and physiology of marine mammals. In particular, he is known for his work on sharks and elephant seals, as well as their diving, foraging, and migratory behavior. While much of his research was conducted at nearby Año Nuevo Island Reserve, Le Boeuf has led expeditions to research sites throughout the world, including Mexico, Argentina, the Galapagos Islands, and Japan. He is the author of three books and more than 157 peer-reviewed articles.

Manuel Pastor studies Environmental Justice issues.

John Pearse, a pioneer in ocean research, studies temporal patterns of reproduction in marine invertebrate. Works with NOAA Limpets, high school monitoring program link. More, includinghis role as President of the California Academy of Sciences. UCSC and the Academy recently established links which allow graduate students with interests in systematic biology to be co-sponsored by Academy scientists.

Michael Soule (short bio), one of the founders of conservation biology, Paul Ehrlich's student, and currently an advocate of Rewilding, that is bringing back extinct ecosystems and even species This idea has been picked up by Stewart Brand.A Soule Interview. Co-author of Ghost Bears. tropic cascades. See also Wildlands Network, working to connect islands of bio-diversity. web

Stuart A. Schlegel Wisdom from a Rainforest: The Spiritual Journey of an Anthropologist.

[edit]

In Memoriam

Powerful video: She's Alive... Beautiful... Finite...Hurting...Worth dying for. More Than 900 Environmental Advocates Slain In A Decade As Concern For The Planet Grows. 4/14 (See Terry Freitas below).

Camila Lee, College Eight environmental studies, was from Fallbrook in San Diego County. She wrote an excellent study of the environmental health aspects of Maquiladoras.

Alan Chadwick helped establish organic farming at UCSC and propagate the ideas widely. He came to UCSC at the behest of his friend, a countess who was the widow of a member of the Resistance who was killed in the retribution after the failed Hitler assassination. Film on him at McHenry VT8996 called Garden Song History of organic farming at UCSCArticle. A play based on him. video of his garden today.

Richard Cooley founded the Environmental Studies department and was important in protecting the polar bear and Alaska wilderness, and funded Rachel Carson so she could finish Silent Spring.

Ray Dasmann was one of the pioneers in developing the the conservation concepts of "eco-development," and "biological diversity," and identified the crucial importance of recognizing indigenous peoples and their cultures in efforts to conserve natural landscapes. These concepts over the last thirty years have coalesced in American and international environmental thinking as "sustainable development," the key dynamic concept informing contemporary conservation efforts. Dasmann pleaded to grant legal rights to Nature nearly half a century ago, and it has been the subject of numerous "deep ecology" and some law articles and books Article. A remembrance.

Tony Fink, UCSC's distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, passed away on March 3, 2008, following a year-long illness. During Tony's forty-year career in academia, he made many contributions to the field of biophysical chemistry. With more than 200 scientific publications, 20 book chapters, and three books, he was a world authority on protein folding. Mistakes in this molecular process lead to degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease. Tony's research was to understand what goes wrong and to design treatments to repair the damage or prevent it from happening. He worked tirelessly towards the goal of designing potential drugs and therapeutic methods to combat Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Tony was elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences in 2004, won the BioSTAR Outreach Ambassador of the Year Award in 2002, as well as the Division of Physical & Biological Sciences' Outstanding Faculty Award in 2007. Those who wish to honor Professor Fink may do so by making a donation to the Tony Fink Memorial Fund to support students and research in Chemistry and Biochemistry. Donations can be sent to Attn: Tony Fink Memorial, 1156 High Street, MS: PBSci Development, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064.

Physicist Stanley Flatté, whose work on wave propagation led to important contributions in the fields of atmospheric optics, ocean acoustics, and seismology, is important to oil exploration.

Terry Freitas, UCSC grad student killed trying to stop Indigenous people from being harmed by oil company.Article. In choosing to honor Freitas, who exemplified "the highest UCSC ideals of service to others," the Alumni Association made its first posthumous award. A cafe has been named for him.

Ken Norris, cetologist who helped establish Natural Reserves and Long Marine Lab oral history online and in Science Library QH31.N67 J37 1999. "His pioneering investigations in marine mammalogy confirmed dolphin echolocation skills in a series of elegant experiments. Much of what is now known about whales and dolphins, specifically their social and familial interactions is due to his work. His expertise in marine mammalogy also resulted in his strong influence on public policy in the crafting of the Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972. His leadership and research were also instrumental in the national campaign to reduce the dolphin kill in tuna fishing. Norris was the author of over a hundred scientific papers and several books on dolphins and porpoises."

Don Rothman: Avoiding the Humiliation of Silence in the Face of Cruelty and Injustice.VIDEO (.mov download). Many students said his talk was a highlight of the Core course. Sadly, Don passed away in his sleep in early December 2012; he will be much missed. Don hosts a dynamic discussion with Oakes College founding provost and emeritus Professor J. Herman Blake (2012).

Ph.D. student Jessica Roy was struck and killed by a car while walking in Nairobi in 2004. She was studying women and water use in Kenya. Ben Crow and others have continued her work, using GPS, and found that women invest their freed-up time in income-generating activities such as raising seedlings for coffee and tea growers in the region or raising livestock.

Not a Slug, but Stephen H. Schneider of Stanford played a key role in the global warming debate.Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate. Sadly, Dr. S passed away in July 2010, a remembrance. Video of recent talk (and some remembrances).

Ronald Schusterman, a pioneering marine mammal scientist and an expert in animal behavior and comparative psychology, his work led to some of the first, most creative, and most enduring approaches to training and studying marine mammals in captivity.

Stephen D. Vance (College 8, '79, American studies) was killed by gunmen during an ambush in Pakistan, where he directed a U.S.-funded job creation and workforce development project in the country's FATA region.

Kenneth V. Thimann – Founding Crown Provost and Arboretum, a pioneering researcher in the field of plant physiology; in 1934, isolated pure auxin, an important plant-growth hormone and proved that auxin promotes growth, discoveries that led to the development of a widely used synthetic auxin, 2,4-D. Use of this chemical prevents the premature falling of fruit and stimulates cut stems to grow abundant roots. Because high concentrations of auxins are toxic to most plants, synthetic auxins are effective weed killers, leading to the Vietnam-era herbicide Agent Orange.

Bill Walton, Predatory Bird Research Group leader, was instrumental in saving the Peregrine Falcon, the fastest animal in existence, from extinction. Article on falcon comeback The history of falcon recovery is told by him in this 42 minute video.

Gabriel Zimmerman (STV '02), "community outreach director for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. Zimmerman, 30, graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2002 with a degree in sociology. He was one of six people fatally wounded in Tucson, Ariz., in the shooting rampage that left his boss critically wounded. A room in the Capitol has named in his honor. He was also remembered at a ceremony marking one year. His father Ross is determined that Gabe be remembered for how he lived, not how he died (including a charity a footrace). Gabe's fiancee supports banning large ammo clips that made the shootings possible. Gabe took a course with Prof. Paul Lubeck on globalization information and social change, part of UCSC’s Global Information Internship Program (GIIP), which mobilizes UCSC students to work for civil rights, sustainable development, and social justice causes, while immersing them in the skills they need to succeed as organizers, from social entrepreneurship to web design. This ambitious young man was in good company among UCSC alumni; he was part of a group of former GIIP students who Lubeck described as a 'Washington crew.' Another UCSC grad from the program, Daniel Weiss, is chief of staff for Congressman George Miller (D-Calif.). Another graduate is Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Dana Priest." More. The Gabriel Zimmerman Meeting Room in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center was dedicated (video) in honor of “Gabe”, killed at the January 8, 2011, shooting in Tucson, that left then Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) severely injured. Astronaut Mark Kelly, who spoke for his wife, remarked that Gabe, ran toward the victims when the gunman opened fire. He was the only legislative staff member ever killed in the line of duty and Speaker Boehner (who has done nothing to reduce gun violence) pointed out that the meeting room named in his honor was the first room in the Capitol complex to be dedicated to a staff member. Vice President Biden (who has taken the lead on gun control) also spoke, along with Gabe's parents.

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Emeritus Faculty

Jean Langenheim, a professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology, is an eminent plant ecologist and leading authority on plant resins. She broke new ground for women in science, andworked with Richard Evans Schultes of Harvard, his images founder of ethno-botany.

Burney Le Boeuf has conducted extensive research on the behavioral ecology and physiology of marine mammals. In particular, he is known for his work on sharks and elephant seals, as well as their diving, foraging, and migratory behavior. While much of his research was conducted at nearby Año Nuevo Island Reserve, Le Boeuf has led expeditions to research sites throughout the world, including Mexico, Argentina, the Galapagos Islands, and Japan. He is the author of three books and more than 157 peer-reviewed articles.

Manuel Pastor studies Environmental Justice issues.

John Pearse, a pioneer in ocean research, studies temporal patterns of reproduction in marine invertebrate. Works with NOAA Limpets, high school monitoring program link. More, includinghis role as President of the California Academy of Sciences. UCSC and the Academy recently established links which allow graduate students with interests in systematic biology to be co-sponsored by Academy scientists.

Michael Soule (short bio), one of the founders of conservation biology, Paul Ehrlich's student, and currently an advocate of Rewilding, that is bringing back extinct ecosystems and even species This idea has been picked up by Stewart Brand.A Soule Interview. Co-author of Ghost Bears. tropic cascades. See also Wildlands Network, working to connect islands of bio-diversity.web

Stuart A. Schlegel Wisdom from a Rainforest: The Spiritual Journey of an Anthropologist.

[edit]

In Memoriam

Powerful video: She's Alive... Beautiful... Finite...Hurting...Worth dying for. More Than 900 Environmental Advocates Slain In A Decade As Concern For The Planet Grows. 4/14 (See Terry Freitas below).

Camila Lee, College Eight environmental studies, was from Fallbrook in San Diego County. She wrote an excellent study of the environmental health aspects of Maquiladoras.

Alan Chadwick helped establish organic farming at UCSC and propagate the ideas widely. He came to UCSC at the behest of his friend, a countess who was the widow of a member of the Resistance who was killed in the retribution after the failed Hitler assassination. Film on him at McHenry VT8996 called Garden Song History of organic farming at UCSCArticle. A play based on him.video of his garden today.

Richard Cooley founded the Environmental Studies department and was important in protecting the polar bear and Alaska wilderness, and funded Rachel Carson so she could finish Silent Spring.

Ray Dasmann was one of the pioneers in developing the the conservation concepts of "eco-development," and "biological diversity," and identified the crucial importance of recognizing indigenous peoples and their cultures in efforts to conserve natural landscapes. These concepts over the last thirty years have coalesced in American and international environmental thinking as "sustainable development," the key dynamic concept informing contemporary conservation efforts. Dasmann pleaded to grant legal rights to Nature nearly half a century ago, and it has been the subject of numerous "deep ecology" and some law articles and books Article. A remembrance.

Tony Fink, UCSC's distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, passed away on March 3, 2008, following a year-long illness. During Tony's forty-year career in academia, he made many contributions to the field of biophysical chemistry. With more than 200 scientific publications, 20 book chapters, and three books, he was a world authority on protein folding. Mistakes in this molecular process lead to degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease. Tony's research was to understand what goes wrong and to design treatments to repair the damage or prevent it from happening. He worked tirelessly towards the goal of designing potential drugs and therapeutic methods to combat Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Tony was elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences in 2004, won the BioSTAR Outreach Ambassador of the Year Award in 2002, as well as the Division of Physical & Biological Sciences' Outstanding Faculty Award in 2007. Those who wish to honor Professor Fink may do so by making a donation to the Tony Fink Memorial Fund to support students and research in Chemistry and Biochemistry. Donations can be sent to Attn: Tony Fink Memorial, 1156 High Street, MS: PBSci Development, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064.

Physicist Stanley Flatté, whose work on wave propagation led to important contributions in the fields of atmospheric optics, ocean acoustics, and seismology, is important to oil exploration.

Terry Freitas, UCSC grad student killed trying to stop Indigenous people from being harmed by oil company.Article. In choosing to honor Freitas, who exemplified "the highest UCSC ideals of service to others," the Alumni Association made its first posthumous award. A cafe has been named for him.

Ken Norris, cetologist who helped establish Natural Reserves and Long Marine Lab oral history online and in Science Library QH31.N67 J37 1999. "His pioneering investigations in marine mammalogy confirmed dolphin echolocation skills in a series of elegant experiments. Much of what is now known about whales and dolphins, specifically their social and familial interactions is due to his work. His expertise in marine mammalogy also resulted in his strong influence on public policy in the crafting of the Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972. His leadership and research were also instrumental in the national campaign to reduce the dolphin kill in tuna fishing. Norris was the author of over a hundred scientific papers and several books on dolphins and porpoises."

Don Rothman: Avoiding the Humiliation of Silence in the Face of Cruelty and Injustice.VIDEO (.mov download). Many students said his talk was a highlight of the Core course. Sadly, Don passed away in his sleep in early December 2012; he will be much missed. Don hosts a dynamic discussion with Oakes College founding provost and emeritus Professor J. Herman Blake (2012).

Ph.D. student Jessica Roy was struck and killed by a car while walking in Nairobi in 2004. She was studying women and water use in Kenya. Ben Crow and others have continued her work, using GPS, and found that women invest their freed-up time in income-generating activities such as raising seedlings for coffee and tea growers in the region or raising livestock.

Not a Slug, but Stephen H. Schneider of Stanford played a key role in the global warming debate.Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate. Sadly, Dr. S passed away in July 2010, a remembrance. Video of recent talk (and some remembrances).

Ronald Schusterman, a pioneering marine mammal scientist and an expert in animal behavior and comparative psychology, his work led to some of the first, most creative, and most enduring approaches to training and studying marine mammals in captivity.

Stephen D. Vance (College 8, '79, American studies) was killed by gunmen during an ambush in Pakistan, where he directed a U.S.-funded job creation and workforce development project in the country's FATA region.

Kenneth V. Thimann – Founding Crown Provost and Arboretum, a pioneering researcher in the field of plant physiology; in 1934, isolated pure auxin, an important plant-growth hormone and proved that auxin promotes growth, discoveries that led to the development of a widely used synthetic auxin, 2,4-D. Use of this chemical prevents the premature falling of fruit and stimulates cut stems to grow abundant roots. Because high concentrations of auxins are toxic to most plants, synthetic auxins are effective weed killers, leading to the Vietnam-era herbicide Agent Orange.

Bill Walton, Predatory Bird Research Group leader, was instrumental in saving the Peregrine Falcon, the fastest animal in existence, from extinction. Article on falcon comeback The history of falcon recovery is told by him in this 42 minute video.

Gabriel Zimmerman (STV '02), "community outreach director for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. Zimmerman, 30, graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2002 with a degree in sociology. He was one of six people fatally wounded in Tucson, Ariz., in the shooting rampage that left his boss critically wounded. A room in the Capitol has named in his honor. He was also remembered at a ceremony marking one year. His father Ross is determined that Gabe be remembered for how he lived, not how he died (including a charity a footrace). Gabe's fiancee supports banning large ammo clips that made the shootings possible. Gabe took a course with Prof. Paul Lubeck on globalization information and social change, part of UCSC’s Global Information Internship Program (GIIP), which mobilizes UCSC students to work for civil rights, sustainable development, and social justice causes, while immersing them in the skills they need to succeed as organizers, from social entrepreneurship to web design. This ambitious young man was in good company among UCSC alumni; he was part of a group of former GIIP students who Lubeck described as a 'Washington crew.' Another UCSC grad from the program, Daniel Weiss, is chief of staff for Congressman George Miller (D-Calif.). Another graduate is Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Dana Priest."More. The Gabriel Zimmerman Meeting Room in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center was dedicated (video) in honor of “Gabe”, killed at the January 8, 2011, shooting in Tucson, that left then Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) severely injured. Astronaut Mark Kelly, who spoke for his wife, remarked that Gabe, ran toward the victims when the gunman opened fire. He was the only legislative staff member ever killed in the line of duty and Speaker Boehner (who has done nothing to reduce gun violence) pointed out that the meeting room named in his honor was the first room in the Capitol complex to be dedicated to a staff member. Vice President Biden (who has taken the lead on gun control) also spoke, along with Gabe's parents.

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1863 Daily Alta Obituary

Death or an Old Resident.— Captain Isaac Graham, an old mountaineer, trapper and Indian fighter, and one of the earliest pioneers of this State, died last evening in this city at half-past eight o’clock, aged sixty-four years. The details of this man’s life, if correctly told, would be of value to the historian, and of absorbing interest to the lovers of romantic and thrilling incident. He was born in Botetourt county, Va., from whence he removed, at an early age, to Kentucky, becoming schooled in the rough and dangerous scenes of border life in infancy for his subsequent years of activity and adventure among the savage tribes of New Mexico, the Kovky and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Capt. Graham was one of those links which connected the present generation with the past, he having been intimate with many of the veteran explorers of the West, among whom was the renowned Daniel Boone, at whose death he was present. He has been for over thirty years a resident of California, living for the most part in Santa Cruz county, whore he possessed valuable estates. He leaves several children and numerous friends; who will sincerely deplore his demise. Thus another of the great landmarks of the age has crumbled away. A hero and a warrior sleeps, unsung but not unwept. His friends can view his remains at the rooms of Nathaniel Gray until three o’clock P. M..to-day, when they will be conveyed to the steamer Salinas for removal to his home at Santa Cruz.

Trivia: In the 1830s Isaac Graham established one of the first American communities west of the Rocky Mountains, Roaring Camp in the Santa Cruz mountains. He was a fur trapper and nephew to Daniel Boone. He was said to have created the first highway in the west; it is now known as Graham Hill Road!

November 14, 1863, Santa Cruz Sentinel

Capt. Graham: This old resident who for thirty years has been identified with the history of this vicinity, and especially with its earlier traditions, died in San Francisco the 8th inst.[sic] His remains were brought to Santa Cruz and buried in the cemetery[Evergreen]on Tuesday.

Although only 64 years of age, at his death, his entire system both mental and physical, had been breaking up for a number of years. This early decay may be partly attributable to the vicissitudes of a frontier life full of adventure and excesses.

He was born in Boutetourt county Virginia, but removed early in life to Kentucky, then the “dark and bloody ground” where he was conversant with the explorers and heroes of the border, among them Daniel Boone at whose death he was present. He afterwards went to Texas where he married, and Mexico; subsequently he roamed for years beyond the limits of civilization, through the immense Territory bounded by the Mississippi and Gila Rivers, the Pacific and British Possessions, and figured in many thrilling incidents, with the mountainers and trappers. About thirty years ago he came to Santa Cruz where he has since lived.

Before his decay by age he was engaged as a lumberman, distiller and ranchero, and was at one time very wealthy, but through litigation and excesses, very little of his property remained to him at his death.

He had a powerful frame, a persuasive address, an unerring eye with the rifle, and that daring which is always a concomitant of strength and power.

He was of litigious spirit and in his prime had both friends and enemies, but his last years of child-like age had pacified all enmities and he left none but friends behind him.

Late 1818 – 1820

Travels to Marthysville, Missouri, where he spends time with the famous trapper, explorer, and politician Daniel Boone. Daniel Boone died on Sept. 26, 1820, with Isaac Graham and others at his bedside. His wife buried him on a hilltop overlooking the Missouri River. Years later his body was taken back to Kentucky.

Isaac Graham, a frontiersman, came from Hardin County, Kentucky, in 1833. Three years after his arrival he assisted Juan B. Alvarado in expelling Governor Guiterres with the understanding that the country should be free from Mexican domination. However, shortly after Alvarado came to power, Graham and his associates were arrested as dangerous foreigners and placed in confinement on a boat in Monterey Harbor. A few of the group were released before Dan Jose Castro sailed with the prisoners for Mexico and all were released by Mexican authorities after their arrival. It was reported Isaac Graham received $36,000 as indemnity for the outrage done to him. With this money Graham cast his eyes on the Zayante Tract. Graham, along with his friend Henry Neale, induced Joseph Majors who was a Mexican citizen, to apply for the grant. Majors was named as grantee of Zayante and the adjoining San Augustine Rancho of 4,436 acres.Majors actually procured the land for a syndicate of “foreigners” who declined to become Mexican citizens.

Zayante

Named after an Ohlone tribe, this canyon was the first settlement in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Isaac Graham, a colorful and somewhat infamous rogue, ran a huge and notorious logging and moonshine camp. Graham may be most famous for assisting the empire of Mexico to overthrow Monterey land barons in the ‘Alta California’ revolution.Graham and his ‘riflemen’ as they were known helped create one united state of California under Mexican rule in 1839. By 1850, with tremendous land grants, he was one of the county’s richest men.

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