On Campus (Oct. 10, 1977)

              On Campus
FOR THE UC SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY
$556,500 FEDERAL GRANT AWARDED
COASTAL MARINE LABORATORY
A federal grant of $556,500 awarded to UCSC this
week, will enable the campus's new Center for
Coastal Marine Studies to pursue significant
advanced research and instruction in controlled
laboratory conditions using running seawater.
As explained by the Center's director William
Doyle, "Our researchers need to carry out
studies of seals, porpoises, plankton, invertebrates, and plant mariculture under carefully
controlled conditions which do not exist in
natural environments.
"This grant for construction of a research
support building, coupled with the saltwater
system already at our new oceanside facility
site, will make the first phase of the
Coastal Marine Laboratory operational.
"It will give us all kinds of opportunities for
flexible experimentation with marine mammals,
small plants and animals, geology, and sea
chemistry using seawater taken directly from the
Pacific."
The grant was provided by the Public Works
Employment Act of 1976 through which the State
of California is receiving a total of approximately $56.3 million in grants for public works.
SEARCH COMMITTEE FORMED
FOR MERRILL PROVOSTSHIP
Chancellor Robert L. Sinsheimer has formed a
search committee for the provostship of
Merrill College, following the announcement that
Provost .John Marcum will step down from the
post December 31.
The committee consists of Crown Provost Siegfried
B. Puknat (chair); Professors Terry Burke,
Stuart Schlegel, and Diane Gifford, all members
of the Merrill faculty; Bunny O'Meara, Merrill
staff member; and Merrill students Maureen
Bevans and Paul Drummie.
Chancellor Sinsheimer has charged the Committee
as follows:
"...you should limit your search to
tenured members already on the faculty
at Santa Cruz."
Interested members of the University community
should submit applications, nominations, or
any comments to the committee by October 14.
AUTHOR PETER MATTHIESSEN
TO READ FROM WORK IN PROGRESS
The novelist/naturalist Peter Matthiessen (At
Play in the Fields of the Lord, Wild Life in
America, and, recently, Far Tortuga), will
read from his work in progress, The Snow Leopard,
Tuesday, October 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kresge
Town Hall.
His appearance at UCSC, open to the public,
free of charge, is being sponsored by Kresge,
Crown, and the Literature Board.
Matthiessen, who has homes in Long Island and
East Africa, conducts nature study safaris in
addition to his writing.  Among his other works
are The Cloud Forest,  a travel journal through
South America, and Under the Mountain Wall,
the narrative of a New Guinea tribe.
In this issue:
SPECIAL AWARDS AND GRANTS, FALL RECREATIONAL
PROGRAMS, OFFICE MOVES, NEW PRESS AT COWELL,
PROGRAMS FOR RE-ENTRY WOMEN, AND MORE
OPEN FORUMS ON BAKKE CASE
Two more open public forums on the issues of the
Bakke case, expected to be heard by the U.S.
Supreme Court this month, will be held October
13 and 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the UCSC Chancellor's Office, the
forums will discuss the issues involved in the
case of alleged "reverse discrimination" in
UC admission policies and what effect the Court's
decision will have on minority access to University programs.
On October 13, in the Performing Arts Theater,
JCSC administrators will discuss the impact of
the case on the Santa Cruz campus.  Included
in the forum will be Chancellor Robert L.
Sinsheimer, The Academic Vice Chancellor Eugene
Cota-Robles, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
David Tilley, and Provosts J. Herman Blake and
Richard Randolph.
On October 17 John Vasconcellos and Art Torres,
two California assemblyman who have had a longtime interest in minority access to higher
education, will discuss the case and its impact
on public policy.  Vasconcellos is chairman of
the Assembly's postsecondary education subcommittee.  This forum will be in Classroom Unit I.
Both forums will be telecast on the campus's
closed circuit system.
A group of student organizations will hold an
anti-Bakke decision teach-in and rally on
Wednesday, October 12, at noon in the Quarry.
AFFILIATES LECTURE SERIES TO OPEN
SECOND YEAR WITH TALK BY CHANCELLOR
Chancellor Sinsheimer will speak at the first
public luncheon in the second year of the
Public Affairs Lecture Series, sponsored by the
UCSC Affiliates.
"Genetic Engineering: Problems and Prospects"
will be presented by Sinsheimer to any interested
member of the Santa Cruz community on Thursday,
October 13, at the Holiday Inn, 611 Ocean Street..
Price of the 11:30 to 1:30 luncheon/lecture is
$5, payable at the door.  Reservations must be
made in advance by calling the UCSC Public
Affairs Office, 429-2530.
10 OCTOBER 1977
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