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Winter 2008 Vol. 38, No. 3

Contents

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FEATURES

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Save the date!

April 24-27

8 Going Green At The Blue and Gold

Erasing UCSB’s Big Carbon Footprint

By Elizabeth Werhane ‘00

13 UC Struggles In Budget Hammerlock

Going Private One Fee at A Time

By Richard Paddock ‘81 17

2nd Annual All Gaucho Reunion Guide Events, Sponsors and Registration

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Father of Stem Cell Comes to UCSB Jamie Thomson Sets Up Campus Lab

By George Thurlow ‘73

DEPARTMENTS 4 5 29 31 36

Chancellor’s Column: Introducing Santa Catalina Hall Letters: We Were Young Conservatives Research Roundup: Big Brainwork Sports: Ryan Spilborgh’s ’00 Amazing Streak Milestones: ‘60’s – The Present

COVER: Perrin Pellegrin ‘00 in the new Student Resources Building that is seeking Gold LEED status.

Cover photo by Jeff Clark

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George Thurlow ’73, Interim Editor and Publisher Natalie Wong ’79, Art Director Kate Yarbrough, Art Director Emily Einolander, Editorial Intern JoJo Wahlstrom, Editorial Intern Thomas Johnson, Editorial Consultant

UC SANTA BARBARA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Robert Jupille ’89, Los Angeles President Ron Rubenstein ’66, Moraga Vice-President Alexandra Sasha Meshkov ’79, M.A.’89, Palm Desert Secretry-Treasurer Jodi L. Anderson ’94, Goleta Arcelia Arce ’98, Los Angeles James Barber ’67, Walnut Creek Keith C. Bishop III ’69, Sacramento Richard L. Breaux ’67, San Mateo Philip J. Bugay ’81, Santa Barbara Jeffrey Flory ’91, Huntington Beach David C. Forman ’66, Chula Vista Thomas J. Jevens ’87, San Jose John Keever ’67, Alfred F. Kenrick ’80, Palo Alto Jack Krouskop ’71, San Mateo Jennifer Pharaoh ’82, Washington, D.C. Lisa Przekop ’85, M.A.’89, Goleta Wendy Purcell ’84, Manhattan Beach Kim Shizas, ’77, Santa Barbara Markell Steele ’93, Long Beach Catherine Tonne ’81, Livermore Linda Ulrich ’83, Vienna, Virginia Michael Williams ’86, Santa Barbara Ex Officio Stephanie Brower President, Associated Students Gary Greinke Executive Director, The UCSB Foundation Amber M. Gonzales Graduate Student Association Loy Lytle ’66, Ph.D. Faculty Representative Fredric E. Steele ’67 UCSB Foundation Board of Trustees John Wiemann, Ph.D. Vice Chancellor, Institutional Advancement

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StudentsAretheReasonWeAreAllHere

By Chancellor Henry T. Yang

I am sure that many of our alumni have vivid memories of living in or visiting Isla Vista’s Francisco Torres residential complex (perhaps better known as “FT”). FT was built in 1966 and was subsequently owned by a number of for-profit private companies. In 2003, our campus had the opportunity to purchase FT. We invested significant funds into improving the facility, from seismic retrofitting to major interior renovations. Our most important change was to extend a full complement of student-life services to residents, including academic and personal counseling.

My wife, Dilling, and I have visited our students there frequently, and have had the pleasure of helping some of our freshmen move in every fall. We have seen and heard first-hand that this residence hall has now become a favorite choice of many students. Over the past few years, I have also frequently heard the voice of our students that they would like to have a new name to reflect the transformed image of this popular residence hall. It was felt that a name change would be in keeping with the growth in public recognition of our campus’s vibrant learning environment. After all, as noted by a string of media reports, UC Santa Barbara has become a campus of choice for high school graduates. The number of freshman applicants has grown by nearly 30,000 over the past dozen years, from 18,291 in 1995 to this year’s 46,766 applicants. About a year ago, the Wall Street Journal highlighted UC Santa Barbara as one of eight up-and-coming public institutions that were “raising the bar” and becoming increasingly selective.

During one of my visits to Francisco Torres last year, the residence hall director said to me point-blank, “We need to change the name of FT.” Campus standards for names of residence halls suggest that naming should be based on prominent geographic features of our area. So following consultation with student leaders, the faculty senate, and student affairs staff, as well as the recommendation of a campus committee, we have adopted a new name: “Santa Catalina Hall.”

The reinvigorated living and learning environment at Santa Catalina Hall is just one example of UC Santa Barbara’s strong commitment to the quality of life of our students. I look forward to updating you about other exciting projects underway on campus in future columns. In the meantime, Dilling and I look forward to seeing you at our second annual All Gaucho Reunion in April. The first reunion was a wonderful event. I can assure you that the second will be even better. I expect that by the third reunion, this special event will have become a tradition, a culture, and a homecoming weekend for UC Santa Barbara.

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letters A Gaucho By Birth

WeWereYoungConservatives

I am a Gaucho by birth. (Sort of. My mother taught English and writing at UCSB in the 1960s.) I am a Gaucho by marriage. (If that’s possible—my wife, Kathleen Clancy, graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Speech Language Pathology in 1990.) I am also brother to a Gaucho (Larry Crandell, Jr. Spanish in the 1970s), brother-in-law to a Gaucho (Sunny Crandell, my sister-in-law, is currently doing graduate work in school psychology) and son to a Gaucho fund-raiser (Larry Crandell, Sr., who helped raise the funds for the chair in Catholic Studies named after Father Virgil Cordano).

Unfortunately, I wasn’t accepted to study at UC Santa Barbara and had to make do at a four-year school in Palo Alto.

I am writing to say how much I enjoyed the Fall 2007 issue. I thought George Thurlow’s piece on the transition at the top of the UC administration was both balanced and insightful. I found the map showing just how many alumni hail from which state was an excellent way to demonstrate both how widely dispersed your graduates have become (significant numbers in all 50 states) and what a large number of graduates stay in our home region. (UCSB has an international reputation, but it remains an economic engine for Santa Barbara—both in terms of the people it directly employs and in terms of the numbers of talented people it attracts here.) The piece on Jeff Henley was a good reminder that success has many definitions and incarnations. I was impressed that, rather than sit on his laurels as one of the most successful businessmen in America, he has started, in effect, a new career as a philanthropist, and is already showing signs of remarkable success in his new field.

Congratulations on a fine magazine. Though I am not an alumnus, I feel very interested and affected by your growing success. Perhaps that is one of the keys to UCSB’s development under the leadership of Chancellor Henry Yang.

As UCSB chalks up more world-class achievements in research and scholarship, it has taken great strides to become more involved with the communities that surround it. As a resident, I am both fond of UCSB and proud of its work.

I look forward to stealing my wife’s next edition of Coastlines, to find out more about what is happening at what I think of as Santa Barbara’s university.

As were many, I was saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Larry Adams. The letters in the recent Coastlines were certainly heartwarming and truthful. Larry was a rare individual, to say the least.

I am probably the only alum who knew Larry as a young pre-teen. After World War II, my father, upon returning from the Pacific, was unable to locate a home in Santa Barbara because the house we had prior to the war was rented. Housing was, to say the least, scarce. Eventually, we moved into veteran housing (Pilgrim Terrace) across the street from La Cumbre Jr. High School. This was your typical roughshod type housing with four units to the building. My first friend was a boy my age by the name of Larry Adams. Larry and his family also lived in Pilgrim Terrace and he and I soon became inseparable. I was the jock and Larry was the brains.

Unfortunately, Larry was a hemophiliac, more commonly known as a “bleeder.”

Many days we would be sitting in his bedroom with him sporting an ice pack on a badly bruised or swollen elbow or leg.

We would spend hours planning how we would become FBI agents and, as a means of preparing, we both had Junior Fingerprinting Kits. We learned the different types of fingerprints and made it our goal to fingerprint every young child in the housing complex. I think I even fingerprinted my parents.

Yet another area of his interest was, and those who knew Larry during his adult life will find this almost unbelievable, the military and a strong, conservative, view of our political machine. He and I wrote to congressmen and senators expressing the need for a well-manned, well-trained and equipped Air Force, Army, Marine Corps., and Navy. We were young conservatives, which as I have alluded to, was not Larry’s way of thinking in his adult life. I mention this not to draw a line in the sand but, rather, to pay tribute to a person who, as a young pre-teen, was even then, capable of forming and expressing opinions on subjects not typically paid attention to at that age.

Steven Crandell Santa Barbara, CA

Larry Adams Was My Inspiration I read with saddness of the passing of Dr. Larry Adams. I had the privilege of being one of his students in Political Science 20. Of all the “Poli Sci” classes I took at UC Santa Barbara, his was the most challenging, thought-provoking and rewarding to me as a Poli Sci major with visions of a future in politics. I did succeed in local politics; however, my legacy to Larry was through my donations of blood since my first involvement in his Larry Adams Blood Drives. My first blood donation was for him, and over the years I donated while serving in Korea with the Army and continued through various blood drives in New York and in California. I recently completed my 15th gallon with the San Diego Blood Bank. Dr. Adams gave me the gift of knowledge as well as the gift of life for others.

Carl Kruse ‘67 Poway, CA

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letters I was also his defender. Kids of that age are not always aware of the delicate lifestyle a hemophiliac leads. Larry could not play ball, run races, climb trees or partake of any of the forms of entertainment preteens take part in. I admired Larry and only regret that we didn’t remain close as we went through high school and college. I do remember giving blood, however, even while I was playing football (those were great days and what a shame UCSB does not support football now).

Larry was brilliant. I remember him taking mid-terms and final exams orally because he was unable to write due to his illness. Try taking an oral final exam. It must take a very special person and mind to do that. He went on to prove just how capable he was becoming a very forceful educator. As Ken Khachigian pointed out in his remembrance of Larry, I know he would not have approved of my “wayward political ways” but he certainly would have

respected them. That was the kind of man Larry was.

Mankind will miss Larry Adams.

Theo (Ted) Harder Jr. ‘59 Solana Beach, CA

My BA Worth $125,000?

I got my quarterly issue of Coastlines and enjoyed the magazine immensely.

One of the articles said that the average cost of one year of undergraduate education for a student living in the dorms (tuition, fees, room and board, books, etc.) at UCSB is now $25,000 per year. It said it takes the average student five years to get through.

Question: Would my B.A. in History be worth $125,000? I think not. That’s probably ten times what it cost my parents to send me to UCSB in 1968.

I have been a successful engineering

manager in the commercial radio broadcasting field, either self-trained or “OJT,” for 30 years. I am sure the possession of a college degree helped open some doors along the way, but the question remains: Would it be worth it at today’s prices?

Coppell (Texas) High School is trying something new. They have a program for juniors and seniors allowing them to earn up to two full years of college credit in cooperation with North Lake College, a nearby community college. Once they achieve that, they could then go to, say, Northwestern State University in Wichita Falls to complete their last two years at less than or equal to $10,000 per year.

Therefore a History degree would cost $20,000 vs. $125,000. Hmmm. Let me think about this.

I am proud of my UCSB degree, but I wonder. Maybe UCSB is just a finishing school for rich kids, like the article said.

Erik Disen ‘72 Coppell, TX

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Blue & Gold

by Elizabeth Werhane ‘00

Perrin Pellegrin hollers into the men’s restroom. It’s empty so she walks in and proudly points out the 100 percent recycled, bleach-free paper towels, automatic faucets and a ceramic contribution to conservation – waterless urinals.

The lowly, yet undeniably necessary urinal, Pellegrin notes, in its waterless form can save about 40,000 gallons of water per year.

Whether it’s urinals or air conditioners, all fall under Pellegrin’s purview. As Campus Sustainability Manager, she’s responsible for executing UC Santa Barbara’s Campus Sustainability Plan. A 72-page document spanning the next 20 years, the plan calls for eventual net zero greenhouse gas emissions, net zero waste, more local and organic food served on campus, green purchasing and additions to environmental education.

Pellegrin(’00) started her journey down the green brick road as a biology student in the late 1990s, when she worked on the plans for the lab infrastructure of the notably green Bren Hall.

“There’s not an activity that I do that I’m not thinking, ‘How does this affect the environment?’” Pellegrin said. She drives a hybrid car, shops with a canvas bag and posts flyers titled “Global Warming Mitigation Factoids” and “What can you do about energy at UCSB?” in her florescent-lit office.

When she weighs in on decisions affecting the entire campus, she asks: “Is the technology there? Is it cost-efficient?” Those questions will guide UC Santa Barbara as it tackles the sustainability plan.

High-Tech, Low-Energy Campus The sustainability plan decrees UC Santa Barbara evolve to a carbon-neutral campus within the next 20 years, meaning that the school would not generate more greenhouse gas emissions than it can offset by generating or procuring clean and renewable energy.

Carbon neutrality is, as Al Gore might opine, inconvenient. It’s especially inconvenient for a campus of 20,000 students plus faculty and staff working and studying in energy-intensive, high-tech research labs. Fortunately, the sustainability plan has ideas that don’t require turning Campus Lagoon into a wind farm.

With more energy-efficient heating and air conditioning systems, some sensor-based lighting and smarter designs for new buildings, operational changes alone have reduced energy consumption.

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Pellegrin, along with the facilities team, will also conduct energy experiments. As an example, this spring she’ll be testing more energy efficient light emitting diode, or LED, options for outdoor lighting.

Photovoltaic solar panels on top of Bren Hall can produce 42 kilowatts of energy, which -- on a good day -- only provide about 7 percent of the building’s energy. Similarly, the Recreation Center’s larger 133 kilowatt array provides only a small fraction of the power required by the building on which it resides. Housing and Residential Services has solar panels on three residence halls and two apartment complexes. Panels on Anacapa Residence Hall heat some of the building’s water, reducing the natural gas consumption by an average of 30 percent.

Grassroots efforts pick up where Pellegrin and the facilities team leave off. Katie Maynard, a sustainability coordinator and member of the Ellison Hall Sustainability Committee, encourages employees and students to turn off computers and lights when not in use, or take the stairs instead of the elevator.

Computers and other electronic gadgetry are among the campus’s energy gluttons. According to the Gaucho Energy website, a third of UC Santa Barbara’s energy flows to what people plug into the walls and switch on and off.

“We really believe that building users should understand how a building works,” Maynard said. “In order to do these behavioral changes, we have to get building occupants engaged.”

The Ellison Hall Sustainability Committee also runs a more extensive recycling program than most buildings. The campus as a whole recycles 54 percent of its waste, but Ellison Hall’s stewards hope to hit 75 percent waste diversion for their building in 2008.

The committee even collects food waste in six locations throughout the building, which it dumps into two – soon to be three – large worm-filled composting bins. The worms turn leftovers into garden fertilizer.

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Taking Research To The Consumer

Why Grass Isn’t Green

photo: Jeff Clark

As counterintuitive as it may seem, open grassy areas are not particularly green. Lawns require watering and maintenance often in the form of gas-powered tools and petroleum-based fertilizers. But who wants to study or play Ultimate Frisbee on a cactus patch? Don’t despair. Other sustainability strategies exist. For example, the athletic field next to the Recreation Center was replaced with artificial turf. Plastic doesn’t need to be watered.

Plus, campus sprinklers nourish living grass and plants with 80 percent reclaimed water—far less wasteful than spraying pure drinking water—and it’s 30 percent of the cost. The goal: Put all campus vegetation on reclaimed water. To help, “for the most part, we try to get adaptive and hearty plants,” Pellegrin said. The tall, drought-tolerant native grasses outside the Bren Building require less care than a lawn.

Remember those waterless urinals? Inside Bren Hall, Girvetz Hall, the Student Resources Building and the Recreation Center, they are saving about 3 million gallons of water per year.

More than 70 urinals are installed to date.

Another innovation coming to the local UC Santa Barbara restroom is the dual-flush toilet.

This device offers two flushing modes, one for liquids, one for solids. The liquid flush uses at least Solar panels on the Bren School. half a gallon less water.

The dual-flush toilets are installed in restrooms at the Student Resources Building and the Recreation Center.

While energy companies around the world scramble to find new sources and ingredients to burn and churn, UC Santa Barbara’s engineering dean is setting out in the opposite direction.

Matt Tirrell, who also holds the title of Richard A Auhll Professor, early this year unveiled a bold plan to springboard from UCSB’s current research in energy-efficient technologies, now running at greater than $10 million annually, into a major initiative aimed at slowing the global growth of energy consumption and, consequently, its concomitant climate change.

“We’re after technologies that deliver results without wasting energy,” Tirrell told Convergence, UC Santa

It definitely has implications to slow down the rate of climate change and global warming.

—Matt Tirrell

Barbara’s magazine of engineering and the sciences.

Citing strengths in materials science, control systems and computational sciences, Tirrell wants to bring UCSB’s multidisciplinary approach to everything from lighting and heating to the Internet. Pointing to charts that show that the U.S. uses 40 percent of all its energy to power buildings—25 percent to light them and 15 percent for HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning)— and another four percent (growing to 10 percent over the next couple of years) to power the Internet, Tirrell states that “More efficient delivery of light, heat, fresh air and data offers a quicker and more economical solution to the U.S. energy problem than developing alternative energy sources and delivery channels.

“More efficient use of energy will clearly create jobs and strengthen the

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California economy,” Tirrell told Coastlines. “It also has major implica-

Thinking green isn’t just a way for environmental studies students to get extra credit. In fact, supporting green projects is now mandatory. In 2006, 75 percent of undergraduate students and 82 percent of graduate students voted to approve a quarterly $2.60 fee for The Green Initiative Fund, or TGIF. “It was less than the cost of a burrito,” said Logan Green, campus sustainability coordinator and TGIF grants manager.

“We wanted to have enough to invest in real projects and make a difference without burdening students with a large fee.”

TGIF pays for projects that the university would otherwise not. “For example, it is UCSB policy to put

than developing alternative energy sources and transmission methods.”

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tions in slowing global warming, and can yield results far more quickly The dean is actively working with John Bowers, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, to develop a new institute that will house the research. With a lead gift from UCSB alumnus Jeff Henley and matching gifts from UCSB Foundation trustees Phil White, Fred Steck, Dan Burnham and John Marren, Tirrell has a substantial seed fund to launch the institute as additional philanthropic, government, foundation and industry funding is sought to more than triple the funding level for energy efficiency research over the next three years, and to build a physical home for the institute.

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waterless urinals in all new buildings,” Green said. “Therefore, TGIF would not fund waterless urinals in new buildings.

But in most cases, there is not funding for retrofitting older buildings with waterless urinals. That is where TGIF will step in and fund the project.”

Some students want to put their minds where their money is.

The Associated Students David Davis, Zone Lead, and Perrin Pellegrin Environmental Affairs developingacommissionplantoimprovebuilding Board started a petition to performance. make sustainability classes a new general education requirement. The Academic Senate will have final say, but it has not yet been presented with a formal request.

Looking Ahead “The sustainability plan is an evolving, living document,” Pellegrin said. The campus is not on a straight path to its environmental ideals. In fact, some of its most significant improvements may come from future inventions.

For now as budgets, time and technology allow, UC Santa Barbara tackles the nine groups in its plan: • Academics and research • Built environment • Energy • Food • Landscape/Biotic Environment • Procurement • Transportation • Waste • Water What’s been highlighted here is just a sampling of the green headlines from campus. The sustainability Website consolidates information about campus-wide efforts in one online resource.

Visit www.sustainability.ucsb.edu to learn more. Then recycle this magazine.

Alum Pushes New Green Laws in California The governor said the bills would help keep the state at the“forefront of energy and water efficiency”…

photo: Santa Barbara News Press

UC Santa Barbara alumnus Jared Huffman ’86, (D-San Rafael) pushed through four major environmental initiatives that were signed into law in October by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

One of the most important environmental bills to pass the state Legislature AB 1109, according to Huffman’s office, will require the state Energy Commission to adopt regulations that will cut electricity use by 50 percent over the next decade while making light bulbs more environmentally safe.

A spokesman for Huffman told the Associated Press that the lighting bill “is pushing the big lighting companies to really come up with new technology that they think is right around the corner.”

Two of Huffman’s bills address water use by requiring the state Energy Commission to develop water efficiency standards in new construction and allowing recycled water in condominium toilets. Huffman’s fourth bill creates a 10-year Top California officials met at the Bren School to announce new $250 million subsidy program to help consumers buy solar water heaters. The environmental legislation. solar initiative has a goal of installing 200,000 solar water heaters in the state by 2017 through a new surcharge on natural gas bills.

The governor said the bills would help keep the state at the “forefront of energy and water efficiency” and came just days after UC Santa Barbara hosted Schwarzenegger’s top environmental officials at a ceremony outside Bren Hall.

John McCamman, the acting director of the state Department of Fish and Game, said the governor’s office wanted to recognize UC Santa Barbara’s significance in the passage of six major ocean and environmental bills. He called UCSB “key” to ocean research and lauded the Bren School’s research on the environment.

The bills ranged from new regulations on the cleaning of vessels docked in California ports to control invasive species to the formation of a panel to prioritize research needed to protect coastal and ocean ecosystems.

—George Thurlow ‘73 Winter 2008

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As State Funds Decline

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By Richard C. Paddock ’81

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Privatization of UC

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On the right the new Pollock Film Theater goes up with all private funds. In the background, the new Letters & Science and Gevirtz Graduate School of Education buildings are being built with public and private funds.

ibrary assistant Linda Snook isn’t usually someone to stand up in front of hundreds of people and discuss her personal finances. But when the UC Board of Regents met at UC Santa Barbara last summer, she pleaded for help.

Snook told the regents that she makes $26,000 a year working full time at UC Santa Barbara and pays more than half of that in rent. Her supervisors have recommended her for raises, she said, but there is never enough money in the budget. She’d like to enroll in graduate school at UCSB, but, on her pay, that’s a distant dream.

“I am barely making it,” she told the regents. “We’re not paid what the private sector would make. We desperately, desperately need help. Please.”

These days, such appeals are commonplace. Students, custodians, campus police, clerical workers, faculty and administrators regularly beseech the regents to give them more money.

But soaring student fees, huge fundraising drives and controversial corporate donations have not made up for a sharp decline in the state’s commitment to higher education. UC administrators and faculty fear that a waning commitment is eroding the 10-campus system’s reputation for excellence and will trigger a slide toward mediocrity. Already, the salaries of professors and workers lag behind comparable institutions while faculty posts remain open and more classes are taught by teaching assistants.

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Administrators and faculty also worry that the University of California and the 23-campus California State University will become de facto private institutions, where most of the costs are paid by students.

Officials at UC and CSU say that each institution needs about $1 billion more in annual funding to match their level of quality in 2001, the last time the universities were in relatively good fiscal health.

University leaders say the two public institutions are the state’s engine of long-term growth and its main supplier of highly skilled workers. But the universities’ importance to state policymakers is declining, at least as measured in tax dollars.

In 1970, the state spent 6.9 percent of its budget on the University of California. Today it spends 3.2 percent . In 1965, the state covered 94.4 percent of a UC student’s education. Last year it paid 58.5 percent .

This year, California will spend an estimated $3.3 billion to operate UC. It will spend three times as much—$9.9 billion—to run the state’s prisons.

Unlike other state-sponsored programs—such as health, K-12 schools and community colleges—UC and CSU have no level

Dynes, who will step down by June, and Reed say the compact stopped the universities’ bleeding and gave them fiscal stability.

But critics say the pact has left UC and CSU chronically underfunded and locked the universities into a steady decline.

“Bob Dynes and Charlie Reed fundamentally changed the nature of higher education in California without any public debate,” said Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco who chaired a faculty committee that analyzed the agreement.

“The effect of the compact is a permanent, substantial reduction in the quality of the university.”

Among its many provisions, the compact set a little-noticed precedent by calling for the use of private fundraising to pay for core university operations. “UC will continue to seek additional private resources and maximize other fund sources available to the University to support basic programs,” it says.

Long gone are the days when Californians were willing to pay taxes to build three new UC campuses in a five-year span and subsidize annual student fees of less than $250.

Supporters of more privatization argue that the universities’ main beneficiaries are the individual students, who greatly increase their earning power by obtaining a degree. But public education advocates argue that the universities provide a major social benefit in preparing California’s workforce and developing technology that helps power the economy.

In announcing the compact on May 11, 2004, Schwarzenegger said that he, Dynes and Reed had “found a compromise that will protect the quality of our world-renowned higher-education system.”

The compact is similar to deals worked out with the previous three governors. But critics accuse Dynes and Reed of undercutting the Legislature and negotiating a bad deal.

Democratic Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, who like Schwarzenegger sits on the governing boards of both institutions, calls the pact a disaster.

“This compact is a formula for the diminution of both UC and CSU,” he said. “It’s a formula that ratchets down the state’s funding.”

A study by UC’s Academic Senate concluded that during the life of the compact, UC will never return to the spending level of 2001, before the Davis and Schwarzenegger administrations’ cuts.

At UC, the spending gap means that faculty salaries lag nearly 15 percent behind comparable institutions, while salaries for campus workers like library assistant Snook trail the market by at least 10 percent . Needed seismic retrofitting and building improvements are delayed. And fewer top graduate students are choosing to attend UC, a key indicator of a research university’s decline.

“The effect of the compact is a permanent, substantial reduction in the quality of the University.” of state funding guaranteed by law. Will the two huge university systems, with 665,000 students, become the equivalent of private institutions?

“I worry about it every day, because we must continue to look for other sources of support,” said UC President Robert C. Dynes.

“And the question is, do we end up becoming a private institution to get those resources?”

In May 2004, Dynes and his CSU counterpart, Chancellor Charles Reed, traveled to Sacramento to meet privately with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The state was facing a $14-billion shortfall and the new governor was threatening the universities with major cutbacks for the third consecutive year.

The two university chiefs struck a deal with the governor: They agreed to slash spending that year by hundreds of millions of dollars in exchange for a funding formula lasting until 2011. Titled the “Higher Education Compact,” the agreement calls for modest annual increases in state funds, private fundraising to help pay for basic programs, and large student fee hikes, especially for graduate and professional students.

There was no hearing on the pact; no legislative discussion; no vote. Many UC regents were not told of the deal until it was done. Richard C. Blum, who became the regents’ chairman this year, called the lack of disclosure “an error in judgment.”

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Paul Weakliem, director of information technology at the California NanoSystems Institute, stands in front of a Hewlett-Packard computer donated to UCSB for research.

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UC’s spending gap is now $1.1 billion, the faculty study found, and will steadily grow for the duration of the compact despite modest increases provided by the agreement.

“The compact permanently reduces the fraction of core funds the state provides,” UCSB professor Christopher Newfield, chairman of the faculty Senate’s planning and budget committee, told the regents in July as he presented the faculty findings.

Private fundraising, he said, cannot offset the loss in public funds. For UC to return to its 2001 spending level without an increase in state funds, he told the regents, would require raising the basic annual undergraduate fee from $6,366 to at least $15,000 in three years, with large increases thereafter.

“We’re at a crossroads in public investment,” Newfield said in an interview. “California had a good record in the past, but I think we have lost our memory of what we did. We’re living on our past investment.”

While defenders of the compact acknowledge the budget gap, they say the universities would be in even worse shape without it.

Last summer, when Republican legislators proposed cutting higher education below the level of the compact, Schwarzenegger weighed in on the side of the universities. The lawmakers backed off. “Thank goodness for the compact right now,” Reed said.

Fees at some UC professional schools are expected to reach $40,000 over the next three years. Undergraduates have fared better, but have seen fees rise by 90 percent over the last six years.

In 2007, the UC regents and the CSU trustees voted to raise undergraduate fees 7 percent and graduate fees 10 percent .

Some expressed frustration that they had no choice in the matter.

Private funding has stirred controversy, such as a $500-million donation by oil giant BP to form a joint UC-BP research laboratory at UC Berkeley to develop biofuels. BP researchers will work alongside UC professors, and the company will have exclusive rights to some of the expected discoveries.

“The compact is driving the UC and CSU systems to seek funds from corporations at an unprecedented rate,” said John Simpson, an advocate with the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. “What we are witnessing is the corporate privatization of what was once the nation’s greatest public education system.”

Educators say that maintaining competitive faculty salaries is the key to preserving the quality of the universities. But during hard times, pay raises have been the first thing to go.

The pay disparity has left UC open to raids by elite private universities. To help shore up the faculty at UC Berkeley, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation announced in September that it would give the campus $113 million—the school’s largest gift

ever—to endow 100 faculty chairs.

Both UC and CSU have adopted plans to raise salaries to market levels over the next four years.

“The No. 1 goal is to get the faculty more money,” said Blum, the regents’ chairman, who in August called for overhauling UC’s administration in hopes of saving many millions of dollars.

Whether Blum can solve UC’s financial problems by restructuring its operations remains to be seen.

William Schlitz, political and communications director for the American Federation of County, State and Municipal Employees, says UC is shifting more of its costs to campus employees, including doubling healthcare fees for some. UC Santa Barbara, he said, has begun charging custodians who work the midnight shift $150 a month to park in an otherwise empty lot.

“At some point there needs to be a frank discussion: Is this the public’s university or not?” Schlitz said. “It’s scary. These are great institutions, but it’s an uncertain future, and it’s an uncertain future for the employees.” © Copyright 2007. Richard Paddock ’81 covers higher education for the Los Angeles Times

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Ukraine on the Dneiper River April 21-May 1, 2008 Ukraine is rapidly forging a new identity within today’s Europe. Explore the stunning architecture and romantic squares of Bucharest, Romania, before sailing the fabled Dnieper River. Embark in Tulcea, and cruise to Odessa, Ukraine.

Admire the natural beauty of the Crimea, and visit Yalta and Livadia Palace, site of the famous post-WWII conference. Experience Bakhchisarai, a city that inspired author Aleksandr Pushkin.

Travel to Kherson. After visiting Zaporizhia, cultural home of the Cossacks, see the historic Caves Monastery. Disembark in Kiev.

From $1,895 land only per person, based on double occupancy. Assistance with booking air can be provided.

Discovering Jordan: Her People, Culture and History May 3-13, 2008 Post Trip Extension to Oman Explore archaeological and historical sites accompanied by a number of private visits and briefings. Visit Amman.

Spend a night at the Feynen Lodge in the Dana Nature Reserve in Petra. Drive to Wadi Rum where rock pillars rise abruptly and majestically from the desert floor. Enjoy a night at the Dead Sea. Meet those committed to the preservation of Jordan’s cultural heritage. Enjoy a cooking session—a briefing in the home of Widad Kawar and lunch at the American Center of Oriental Research. This exclusive UCSB departure is limited to 28 passengers.

This UCSB walking journey provides cultural, historical, experiential and people-to-people opportunities.

Daily walks combine the Tuscan Hills, and Renaissance cities with the landscape of Umbria. Explore Siena, Radda in Chianti, Cortona, Assisi, Bevagna, Spello, and Orvieto. Enjoy a home visit and tour the cellars and gardens before tasting olive oils and honey produced there; learn about the wines while sampling the many varietals, and absorb the glorious art and architecture through visits and discussions. Accompanied by a support vehicle and two local experts/leaders, walk as much/little as you want. Limited to 16 people.

$4,920 land only per person based on double ocupancy. Assistance provided with booking international air.

$3,795 per person land only, based on double occupancy. Assistance booking international air available.

May 13-17, 2008

Magical China & The Yangtze River Cruise June 4-16, 2008

Black Sea Cruise: Budapest to Bucharest July 3-13, 2008

Appreciate China’s past and present through immersion in its unique life and culture.

Explore the diversity of China’s regional cultures. Visit Beijing, the Great Wall and the Forbidden City; in Xian, the terracotta warriors; and on a three-day cruise on the Yangzi River, the T h r e e Gorges and the Yangzi Dam. Our last stop will be Shanghai, China’s most Europeaninfluenced city, with its wide boulevards, world-class museums, meticulous gardens, and bustling life.

Scenic beauty and rich cultural history greet you at every turn. Begin in Budapest. Immerse yourself in 11th Century Kalocsa and charming Novi Sad. Visit Belgrade’s, before cruising through the dramatic Iron Gates. Ancient stone houses and Patriarch’s Church greet you as you enter Veliko Târnovo, and the Church of the Nativity await you in Arbanassi. Visit Constanta; your final stop is Bucharest. Enrichment discussions will be provided throughout the trip by Professor Robert Gurval, associate professor and former chair in the department of classics at UCLA.

$4,390 per person land only, based on double occupancy. Add $1,190 international air from Los Angeles.

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Walks Through the Tuscan/ Umbrian Countryside May 24-31, 2008

Cruise from $2,500 per person, based on double occupancy. Assistance booking international air available.

Scotland June 8-17, 2008

Discover the very best of Scotland. From Oban, travel to the Isle of Mull and its 13th century Duart Castle. Visit the Isle of Skye’s Armadale Castle to learn about ancient Gælic life. Enjoy a drive through the Highlands. Admire the charm of the Slate Islands and journey through the Trossachs to view the “bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.” Visit the stately castle in Stirling and the monument to William Wallace. Explore St. Andrews, and the important port city Dundee.

Conclude with an excursion to Edinburgh. $2,895 per person land only, based on double occupancy. Assistance booking international air available.

To request brochures for these trips or to be placed on the mailing list for these and future trips, such as New Mexico, Greece,Coastlines Argentina or other destinations,call the UCSB Alumni Association at (805) 893-4611 or email gaucho.getaways@ia.ucsb.edu.

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2nd ANNUAL ALL GAUCHO REUNION FAST FAC TS REUNION REGISTRATION IS FREE. Tear out the registration form in this special Reunion insert or go online and register at www.ucsbalum.com. Registration will also be available during the Reunion at tables inside the University Center and the Mosher Alumni House. All fees for special weekend events are nonrefundable.

PARKING. Parking on campus will be underwritten by the Alumni Association all day Saturday, April 26, 2008.

On Friday, April 25 parking fees will be charged at a rate of $5 for three hours and $8 for all day. Parking stickers can be obtained at kiosks located in all parking areas and garages. On Sunday, April 27 parking is $2 for all day.

RIVIERA REUNION. Riviera campus alumni will hold a special reunion buffet at the old Riviera campus from 4-6 p.m. Saturday, April 26. The charge for the event will be $30 and will include wine, beer and soft drinks. Registration for the Riviera Reunion buffet can be made at www.ucsbalum.com or by calling Mary MacRae at 805-893-2957.

2008 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION GOLF TOURNAMENT. The 9th annual golf classic will be held at the Municipal Golf Course on Friday, April 25 with a 1 p.m. shotgun start and 5 p.m. cocktail hour. Dinner will be served with an awards ceremony highlighting the event. Registration for the tournament, which can be made at www.ucsbalum. com or by calling Mary MacRae at 805-893-2957 is $100 or $35 for dinner only.

MOSHER ALUMNI HOUSE GRAND OPENING. A special grand opening for the new Mosher Alumni House will be held Saturday morning, April 26. During the opening the UC Santa Barbara Classes of 1958, 1983 and 1998 will all be honored. Tours of the Mosher Alumni House will be offered.

GAUCHO ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME BANQUET. An induction banquet for the Gaucho Athletics Hall of Fame will be held Sat. April 26 from 5:-8 p.m. Registration for the banquet can be made through the Athletics Department.

Past Hall of Famers will be recognized with a special commemorative jacket.

GAUCHO GEAR. The UCSB Campus Bookstore is sponsoring a sale on all Gaucho Gear during the Reunion weekend. A special Alumni-only preview sale and wine reception will be held Fri. April 25 at 5:30 p.m.

ACCOMMODATIONS. Sponsor hotels are offering special Gaucho Reunion rates. Check out their web sites by visiting the All Gaucho Reunion website at www.ucsbalum.com.

ALL GAUCHO REUNION UPDATES. Specific times and venues for Reunion events will be posted on the Reunion website at www.ucsbalum.com and a special Day of Event program will be available to all Reunion registrants.

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2nd ANNUAL ALL GAUCHO REUNION EVENT SCHEDULE Thursday April 24

l Senior Week Events—Campus locations l Alumni Faculty and Staff Reception—Mosher Alumni House l Andy Borowitz from NPR’s Weekend Edition—Campbell Hall

l Special Alumni Reception and Sale—UCEN Bookstore

Friday April 25

l Alumni Golf Tournament*—MUNI Golf Course

l Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Depts. Alumni Reunion­ —Mosher Alumni House l Pfizer’s UCSB Research into Diabetes and Obesity—TBD l Senior Class Bonfire—Campus Lagoon

Saturday April 26

l Gaucho Gallop 10K/5K—Campus Lagoon l Grand Opening—Mosher Alumni House l Men’s and Women’s Soccer Games—Harder Stadium l Alumni Parents Reception—Student Resources Building l 50-, 25- and 10-Year Class Recognition Ceremony­—Mosher Alumni House l Riviera Alumni Reunion—Riviera Campus l Walter Capps Vietnam War Class Reunion and Panel—Embarcadero Hall l Kids Soccer Extravaganza and Barbecue—Harder Stadium l Too Small To See Exhibit—Elings Hall, California NanoSystems Institute l Classes Without Quizzes—Campus Lecture Halls

Economic Forecasts

Santa Barbara Real Estate

Advances in Cancer Treatment

Political Sociology l College of Creative Studies 40th Anniversary Reunion—CCS l Gaucho Athletics Hall of Fame Banquet*—Events Center l Alumni at The Hub—Rock and Roll in the UCEN’s hot new nightclub—UCEN l Alumni Wine and Beer Tasting*—Faculty Club

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2nd ANNUAL ALL GAUCHO REUNION EVENT SCHEDULE Sunday April 27

l UCSB Women’s Soccer Golf Tournament*—Sandpiper Golf Course l How to Get Your High Schooler into UCSB—Mosher Alumni House l Alumni Author Reception—Miller McCune Library—Mosher Alumni House l Association Life Member Reception (Brunch)—Mosher Alumni House l Isla Vista Church Services l Education Abroad Alumni Reception—Mosher Alumni House

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2nd ANNUAL ALL GAUCHO REUNION Don’t Miss These Reunion Highlights l GRAND OPENING MOSHER ALUMNI HOUSE Come tour the spectacular rooms and vistas of the new Mosher Alumni House. l GAUCHO ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME DINNER Honor 2008 inductees: Erin Alexander (basketball); Amy Smith (basketball); Roberta Gehlke (volleyball); Rob Friend (soccer); Larry Mouchawar (water polo); Don Gaynor (tennis); and the 1967 Men’s swimming team.

Returning Hall of Fame members receive an honorary Gaucho team jacket l RIVIERA CAMPUS ALUMNI REUNION Gather for wine and buffet on the Riviera Campus. l WALTER CAPPS RELIGIOUS STUDIES 155 CLASS REUNION Invitation to all who took this iconic class studying the Vietnam and Iraq wars. A special symposium that features some of the most powerful class lectures honoring 30 years of RS155 and the 10-year anniversary of Congressman Walter Capps’ death.

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Take a coffee break at Nicoletti’s or grab a smoothie at Jamba Juice.

Find convenience items at the Corner Store.

Visit the new Arbor across campus for anything from pastries to pizza or stop by the new Subway for a sandwich.

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Father of Stem Cell Research Sets Up Lab at UC Santa Barbara One of the world’s foremost scientists in stem cell research was at UC Santa Barbara Dec. 7 to begin work on setting up a laboratory in Elings Hall.

Jamie Thomson, who is widely credited with first isolating stem cells from human embryos and setting off a fierce ethics debate that rages to this day, will work at UCSB at least once a month to focus on stem cell “sorting.”

Thomson’s original research landed him on the cover of Time magazine in 1999 when he pioneered the work that many believe will one day lead to medical breakthroughs in everything from spinal cord injuries to degenerative diseases.

Stem cells are prized in medical research because they regenerate into almost every one of the body’s 220 cell types, not only giving scientists clues to how the body rebuilds itself, but also how “clones” of stem cells could be used to rebuild damaged or defective cells.

Late in 2007 Thomson again gained worldwide publicity for his stem cell work when his main lab at the University of Wisconsin reported that he had successfully created mature stem cells thus eliminating the need for embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cell research has created controversy because the stem cells come from human embryos that some

consider actual human life.

At the time of the latest breakthrough Thomson told the New York Times, “If human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough. I thought long and hard about whether I would do it.”

In an interview with Coastlines and the Daily Nexus, Thomson cited Santa Barbara’s unique multidisciplinary atmosphere for his decision to build a laboratory here. He noted that he planned to work closely with UCSB engineering professor Tom Soh, a widely recognized young scientist who is considered an expert in the area of cell sorting. Soh is developing super fast, super efficient methods of sorting stem cells so that research breakthroughs can develop at a faster rate.

“There is a nice feel on this campus,” Thomson said. “People collaborate across the disciplines and there are individual people here I want to work with.” He revealed that at least 20 researchers will be working in his UCSB lab.

UCSB already is taking a lead in stem cell research as part of a consortium of Southern California universities and hospitals. Called the Southern California Stem Cell Scientific Collaboration, or SC3, the consortium hopes to facilitate collaboration across disciplines and laboratories and to bring in clinical research work. The consortium includes USC, Chil“If human dren’s Hospital of Los Angeles, City of Hope, embryonic stem the California Institute of Technology and the House Ear Institute. cellresearchdoes UCSB also already receives funding from not make you at the California Institute for Regenerative least a little bit Medicine, the state agency founded as a result of a California ballot measure that will provide uncomfortable, $3 billion over the next 10 years for stem cell you have not research. The UCSB lab will focus on bioengithought about it neering and molecular mechanism.

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FacultyAwards

Winter 2008

Daniel Hone, a UC Santa Barbara emerti professor of physics, has received the Edward A. Dickson Emeriti professorship for 2007-08.

Hone currently serves as the director of outreach and education at UCSB’s Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics and will use the $10,000 award to further expand his area of research. The professorship was established at each campus by a gift from UC’s longest serving Regent, Edward Dickson...

Michael F. Goodchild, professor of geography, has been award the Prix Vautrin Lud, which honors outstanding research in geography.

Goodchild received the award in France and he noted that the award is the closest honor to a Nobel Prize that can be received in the field of geography. Goodchild specializes in geographic information systems and how they are used in education about the Earth...Five UCSB faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The new fellows

Carlos Garcia-Cervera

from UCSB include: Guillermo Bazan, professor of chemistry and biochemistry; Barbara Herr Harthorn, associate professor of women’s studies and director of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society; Ken Macdonald, professor of marine geophysics and Earth science; John Melack, professor of ecology, evolution and marine biology and associate dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management; and Jeffrey Richman, professor of physics. The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publishes the journal Science... Tommaso Treu, assistant professor of physics, has received the $625,000 Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering. The fellowship is awarded to scientists early in their careers to fund unusually creative work. Treu is working on cutting edge research to determine the role of black holes and dark matter in the formation and evolution of galaxies...M. Kent Jennings, professor of political science, has

Richard Kemmerer

received the Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences. The award is presented by the Inter University Consortium for Political and Social Research for work that has a profound impact on social science research. Jennings is known for his work in “large panel surveys” where large groups of individuals are repeatedly surveyed...Carlos Garcia-Cervera, assistant professor of mathematics, has been awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER award, which provides a minimum of $400,000 in research support over the next five years.

Garcia-Cervera works in multiscale modeling of solids in the context of density functional theory...

Richard Kemmerer, professor of computer science, has been appointed the UCSB Leadership Endowed Chair in Computer Science. Kemmerer currently leads the Computer Security Group at UCSB and has done extensive research in the area of computer security.

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Online Library Access for Alumni Association Members

In coordination with UCSB’s Davidson Library, we are pleased to announce a new Library benefit for Alumni Association members. UC’s California Digital Library is offering access to the ProQuest Research Library. ProQuest is an electronic data service featuring thousands of online journals and magazines covering a wide array of subjects.

What is included?

ProQuest Research Library is a searchable collection of more than 2,000 full-text online journals and magazines. Most provide coverage beginning 1992 (or 1995 at the latest) with access to full-text or text and graphics of covered articles.

In order to ensure that the ProQuest Research Library is offered as an exclusive benefit to Alumni Association members, every person who uses the database must obtain an access code.

Are there limits or conditions?

Our contract stipulates that the purpose of access to the service is only for personal use and that users will not unduly exploit the resource by using it for commercial purposes or systematically downloading portions of the file. Therefore we will be requiring all users indicate agreement to these terms before an access code can be provided.

How do I get an access code?

Previous to obtaining your access code, each member of the Alumni Association must download the personal use agreement and email the form to our Membership Coordinator at pamala.blane@ia.ucsb.edu. The agreement is available here: http:// www.ucsbalum.com/membership/ library.html Your response email will act as an acknowledgement of your agreement. Included in this email will be your ProQuest access code, the Web address of the service, and other access information. That is all you will need.

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Alumni Association to be granted access to these exclusive journals. If you are not yet a member, you may join the Alumni Association and receive all the membership benefits, including access to the Alumni Digital Library.

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Methane Bubbles Not That Bad

Brain Imaging Center Director Scott Grafton in front of the new 28,000 pound brain scanner in the basement of the Psychology East building.

Calling The Cell, HangingUpTheNet

UC Santa Barbara continues to gain clout as a center of brain research with the MacArthur Foundation announcing it is awarding $10 million to a new Ronald Rice, the Arthur national program on brain imaging that Rupe professor of mass will be based at UCSB. communications at UC The program will study how U.S. Santa Barbara, has found courts should use the fruits of new that cell phones are continubrain scanning techniques, some of ing to eclipse the Internet in which will be developed at UCSB in terms of popularity among the laboratories of the Brain Imaging U.S. residents.

Center.

The results are part of a Two dozen major universities will survey of more than 1,000 coordinate their research in what is U.S. adults that also found being called the Law and Neuroscithat at least one in seven ence Project. The project will be under Americans is unplugged— the direction of nationally recognized without cell or Internet brain researcher Michael Gazzaniga, access.

The importance of professor of psychology and director of the research, according to the SAGE Center for the Study of the Rice, is that it may help plot Mind. Former Supreme Court Justice a means for bridging the Sandra Day O’Connor serves as the digital divide through the honorary chair of the project. use of cell phones rather The project will study how brain than Internet access. scanning can help determine guilt, punishment and treatment, while addressing the issue of personal privacy and personal responsibility. Among the universities participating are Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, MIT and Vanderbilt.

Just last year the Psychology Department installed a 28,000-pound Siemens 3 Tegla whole-body scanner in the basement of the new Psychology East building.

The scanner is one of the most advanced in the world and will be used by the Brain Imaging Center, which is under the direction of Scott Grafton.

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Any surfer or beachcomber who has walked or swam at Coal Oil Point knows the distinctive odor that identifies one of the most beautiful UC Santa Barbara places. But scientists now are saying that the methane you whiff at the Point is probably not as bad as it smells.

David Valentine, associate professor of earth science at UCSB, published a study this year that has determined that only about one percent of the methane released by the ocean actually ends up in the atmosphere.

Methane gas is considered one of the prime culprits in global warming because it warms the atmosphere far more than carbon dioxide.

But Valentine and his research team found that the ocean dissipates most of the methane before it reaches the atmosphere, much of it through bacterial oxidation.

Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Marsha and Jay Glazer, whose daughter Ellie, attended UC Santa Barbara, have made a gift of $1 million to endow a chair in Jewish Studies.

The gift, made in early December is intended to help spur a larger campaign to expand UC Santa Barbara’s Jewish Studies program and create a Center for Jewish Studies. The minor in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara was established in 1995 within the Department of Religious Studies.

Health Is A Game One of the nation’s leading wellness foundations has given UC Santa Barbara $8.25 million to lead a multicampus effort to improve health through interactive games.

The Health Games Research program, which will be led by Debra Liberman, a communication researcher at UCSB, will look at how video games can be used to change behavior to improve health. The grant comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the country’s largest philanthropy devoted to improving health and health care in the U.S. The types of games that will be studied are those that require players to engage in physical activity or skills and attitudes that lead to better self care behaviors.

Among specific games being studies are dance pad video games, motion sensitive video controllers in sports games, and games that are virtual but lead people to interact socially with a large numbers of strangers.

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The new Phil Womble Hall of Champions­— in the Intercollegiate Athletic Building.

announcement before the season began to give time for a successor to recruit for next year and “get it out of the way and allow the focus of the rest of the season to be on the team.”

The men’s team has already been nationally ranked 14th in preseason polls and last year climbed as high as No. 3 in the nation in mid-season polls. The team finished last season with a 20-14 record. In 1988 the team advanced to the NCAA Final Four and then the NCAA Championship match.

Legendary AD To Retire Athletic Director Gary Cunningham announced in early January he will be stepping down late this summer after more than a dozen years running Gaucho athletics.

Cunningham worked as an assistant basketball coach at UCLA under legendary Coach John Wooden and then went on to lead athletic departments at Western Oregon, University of Wyoming and Fresno State. He has chaired a number of national and international collegiate sports organizations and has been president of the USA-International University Sports Federation since 1995. He is a member of the UCLA sports Hall of Fame and received the first-ever NCAA Division 1-AAA Lifetime Achievement Award.

Cunningham has said he will spend more time on national and international collegiate sports issues.

Chancellor Henry Yang said of Cunningham, “With his tremendous legacy and stature, he will continue to make important contributions to the promotion of athletics and our understanding of their impact on society.”

Men’s Basketball Starts Fast The Gaucho men’s basketball team started out the season with a 12-2 record, the best in 19 years, before running into Big West powerhouse Cal State Northridge. The Matadors edged the Gauchos 88-84 in what many believe will be a preview of the Big West championships in March. The Gauchos were picked by the Big West coaches in preseason polls as the best team in the league.

The team has been led guard Alex Harris who early in the season had already been named Big West Player of the Week on two occasions. Early in January the Gauchos reached a ranking of No. 6 in the nation among Mid Major Colleges in the Collegeinsider.com poll.

Volleyball’s WinningestCoach Will Step Down This Year

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Ken Preston, who amassed 506 wins in 29 seasons as the UC Santa Barbara men’s volleyball coach, announced he is stepping down at the conclusion of this season.

Preston said he made the

Women’s Basketball Heads Into League Without Green

Ken Preston

The Gauchos women’s basketball team started out with a strong Big West opening by beating both Long Beach State and CSU Northridge but suffered the loss of post player Jenna Green early in the seasons. Green was picked to be one of the best and most dominant Big West players before being sidelined with chronic back problems. She will redshirt the rest of the 200708 season.

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sports Spilborghs Was Streaking But Not Through I.V. Ryan Spilborghs ’05 showed a penchant for streaking early in his college baseball career at UCSB. Gaucho coach Bob Brontsema recalled that “Spilly” overslept as a freshman and missed some conditioning runs. His teammates devised a punishment: “Ryan had to run through Isla Vista in underwear with hearts on it.”

By his junior year, the outfielder from Santa Barbara was the Gauchos’ most consistent player. He had a 35-game hitting streak in 2001 that still stands as the school record.

But that was nothing compared to the streak Spilborghs participated in as an outfielder for the Colorado Rockies in 2007. All but eliminated from playoff contention in early September, the Rockies proceeded to win 21 out of 22 games – including a dramatic tiebreaker victory over San Diego, and back-to-back postseason sweeps of Philadelphia and Arizona – to reach the World Series against the Boston Red Sox. Spilborghs’ most consequential hit of the season may have been his two-run homer in the eighth inning of a September 18 game against the Dodgers. It trimmed L.A.’s lead to 8-7, and the Rockies won in the ninth on another two-run shot

by Todd Helton. The Dodgers dropped out of the playoff race shortly thereafter.

“That was the most fun I’ve had in baseball, probably ever,” Spilborghs said after the comeback victory. “My throat still hurts right now from screaming like a bunch of kids.”

He hit .322 in the final month and finished the regular season with a .299 average.

“Hitting .299 in the big leagues is the worst average you can have,” Spilborghs said wryly. One more hit would have put him over .300. He was quick to add, “I’m not the kind of person who’s defined by stats.”

An early high point in the season was the Gaucho’s near upset of No. 3 ranked Maryland behind senior guard Chisa Onaniwu.

The Terrapins pulled out the game in the closing minutes barely edging the Gauchos, 75-71. Onaniwu scored a season high 20 points in the Thunderdome game.

HeartbreakOnandOffFieldForMen’sSoccer The men’s soccer team suffered a heartbreaking loss in the third round of the NCAA playoffs earlier this year dropping a 4-3 match to Ohio State after leading 3-1 early in the game. It was the Gaucho’s sixth straight NCAA postseason appearance.

Senior defender Andy Iro was named an All American

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The Rockies, who had to wait eight days between their last victory over Arizona and the start of the World Series, were swept by Boston in the Fall Classic.

“The Red Sox played the best baseball they played all year,” said Spilborghs, who went hitless in 10 at-bats in the series. He hit a couple rockets right at the fielders and he drew three bases-on-balls. “Eight days off or not, they were the better team at that time.”

Spilborghs was drafted by Colorado in the seventh round of the 2002 amateur draft. He went 2-for-4 in his major league debut in 2005. He played in 97 games last season after being called up from the minors in May. He figures to stick with the big club now. He bought a home in Denver and is spending the off-season working out with teammates Matt Holliday and Garrett Atkins. Spilborghs does not skip the training sessions.

His days of punitive streaking are over.

—John Zant ’68

defensive back for the third consecutive year while sophomore midfielder Ciaran O’Brien, who transferred from the University of San Diego, was named to College Soccer News All America Third Team.

After the season the Gauchos received bittersweet news when O’Brien and junior Eric Avila announced they were turning pro after receiving Generation Adidas guaranteed contracts. The Generation contracts are only given to the most elite collegiate players and are estimated to be valued at $100,000. In addition, Major League Soccer guarantees the payment of college tuition costs if the players return to school. Coach Tim Vom Steeg told reporters that while the loss of O’Brien and Avila would hurt next year’s team, it would dramatically help in future recruiting of the nation’s top high school players.

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alumni authors East Contra Costa County

A Reference Grammar of Wappo

Carol A. Jensen ‘73 Arcadia Publishing

Sandra A. Thompson, Charles N. Li, and Joseph Sung-Yul Park Ph.D.’04 University of California Press

The book is a captioned pictorial history of the California Delta communities that are part of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. The book’s photos are generally of photographic postcards.

Postcards of photographs became popular in the late 1890s when photographers were able to shoot outdoors because of lighter and more transportable equipment. This technology allowed photographers to shoot outdoors.

East Contra Costa County is known for emphasizing agriculture and recreation more than its more urban East Bay neighbors. The delta was once known as the bread and fruit basket of the United States but now finds itself changing with rapid growth and development. The book is published as part of Arcadia Publishing Postcard History Series.

Riddled with Life: FriendlyWorms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites That Make Us Who We Are Marlene Zuk ‘77 Harcourt We think of disease as our enemy, something we try to eradicate; germs and infections are things we battle. But in this witty, engaging book, evolutionary biologist Marlene Zuk reveals that, in fact, disease is our partner, not our foe, and is responsible for everything from how we look to how we have sex.

Since the earliest days of life on earth, disease has evolved alongside us. Drawing on the latest research and studies, Zuk explains the role of disease in answering a fascinating range of questions such as: Why do men die younger than women? Why does the average male bird not have a penis? Why do we—and lots of other animals—get STDs? How is our obsession with cleanliness making us sicker? And how can parasites sometimes make us well?

Using her own work on sexual selection as well as a sampling of stories from the natural world, Zuk makes us reconsider the fearsome parasite.

The author is professor of biology at UC Riverside.

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For thousands of years, the area in and around the headwaters of the Napa River and the Russian River Valley was home to the Wappo, one of the oldest Native American tribes in California. They had no written language.

While a few Wappo continue to reside in Northern California, the only remaining fluent speaker of the Wappo language, Laura Fish Somersal, died in 1990. Somersal had maintained her Wappo language skills into adulthood, according to Thompson, because she never attended the school in her area run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She had been excused permanently to look after her mother, who was blind and required constant care. Had she gone to school as a child, Thompson says, the English she would have been forced to learn would have replaced her native Wappo.

In an effort to preserve some history and knowledge of the Wappo language, UCSB professors of linguistics Sandra Thompson and Charles Li along with alumnus Joseph Sung-Yul Park have written this grammar. The text offers the most extensive data and grammatical research conducted on the Wappo language. Their main source of information was Somersal.

Research for the book began in 1975. For 10 years, Li and Thompson visited with Somersal every six to eight weeks to record her casual speaking.

Park was the most notable among several graduate students who worked on the project. He analyzed the patterns of word formation—the morphology of the language—and wrote the chapters on verb forms and verb paradigms.

Fast Track Your Career Three Steps To Finding Work You Love Markell R. Steele ‘93 Futures in Motion This 60-page, self-paced career guide describes how people attain careers that make them happy.

The career guide is designed to provide insight into what makes people truly happy in a career and

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mentality or even familiarity. Instead the stories are lush with the discomfort of successfully empathizing with the lives of strangers we are afraid of becoming. The unsettling aspects of the stories are deeply affected by the author’s poetic craft. The stories may not lead to a lighter heart but instead a wiser sense of humanity.

How to Save Your Tail

Room for Love

Mary Hanson ‘73 Schwartz & Wade Books

Andrea Meyer ‘90 St. Martin’s Griffin

Bob the Rat is the palace rodent who loves to bake and loves to read even more. We meet the charismatic rat facing imminent death by the Queen’s cats, Brutus and Muffin. Bob the Rat compromises his personal safety in his desire for a book. Luckily for the reader, it is stories, cookies and a little literary magic that save Bob. The book consists of Bob the Rat’s current story interspersed with tales that he tells the cats to distract them. The stories that Bob tells Brutus and Muffin to avoid becoming their rodent-treat are parodies of fairy tales that make reading aloud as enjoyable for adults as children. John Hendrix’s illustrations, including the family tree and map of the kingdom, will appeal to imaginations of all ages.

Mix the angst of searching for a compatible roommate with the even more problematic search for a life partner and you end up with this cocktail of fun. Jacquie, a New York magazine editor lands an assignment to look for Mr. Right in the “Roommate Wanted” ads. The story that ensues reminds us that matters of the heart are not always transparent. In this case though, romantic adventures are a humorous romp through friendship, urban challenges and modern complexities.

Paradise Road Kirk Nesset M.A. ’87, Ph.D., ‘91 University of Pittsburgh Press.

This collection of short stories is the 2007 winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and a hauntingly beautiful tribute to the pain-dulled resignation of ordinary people. Nesset’s writing floats between prose and poetry as he manages to convey the interior landscape of his characters who are often the antithesis of eternal optimism and emotional vulnerability. The characters do not illicit senti-

Lights Out Los Angeles Rachel Bird ‘03 A must read for any Chick-Lit fans who love basketball, John Wooden, or Luke Walton. Also a must read for the recent college graduate uncertain what direction to go. Sara Banks (Cinderella) finds herself desperate for income and lucky to find a job doing house cleaning. Of course, the reader has great fun when Sara finds herself maid to the basketball great, Jake Dalton (Prince Charming) who refuses to have a girlfriend. Sara’s intrinsic charm and her friends make the book a page turner. This debut novel will soon have a sequel.

Calling all AlumniAuthors

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Interested in selling your book and meeting other alumni authors at an All Gaucho Reunion reception?

Border’s is hosting an Alumni Author meet-and-greet reception scheduled for Sunday, April 27 at 1 p.m. in the library of Mosher Alumni House. If you are interested in participating please call Mary MacRae at (805) 893-2957 or email mary.macrae@ia.ucsb.edu.

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How four simple retirement planning ideas came together to make one powerful gift: ➢ ➢ ➢ ➢

It’s time to downsize from our house and simplify.

Let’s make sure we have enough retirement income.

Are there tax benefits for us now?

We want a plan that will ultimately benefit UC Santa Barbara.

Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp brought their ideas to the Office of Major Gift Planning and we helped them to come up with a specific plan that: — Provides generous supplemental income for life.

— Takes advantage of all possible tax benefits as they move from house to lower maintenance condo.

— Makes a generous provision that will ultimately benefit a cluster of endowed professorships at UC Santa Barbara.

How was all this accomplished?

Professor Emeritus Duncan Mellichamp and Suzanne Mellichamp, M.A. Education, 1970.

Not surprisingly, their home had appreciated significantly.

First, we made sure that they would receive directly their $500,000 in tax-exempt appreciation as well as their original

If you have some similar ideas and are interested in a gift plan to meet your financial planning and charitable giving objectives, please call: Victoria Wing, Director of Major Gift Planning at (805) 893-5556, toll-free (800) 641-1204 or email victoria.wing@ia.ucsb.edu.

investment in the property. The balance that remained went into a charitable remainder trust to provide income for their lifetimes, then for their legacy at UCSB. The UCSB Foundation, as trustee of the trust, managed the sale—working hard to ensure that the highest possible sale price was realized.

As Professor Mellichamp says, “We received a major tax deduction every year for five years instead of a tax bill from the sale of our house, and the proceeds were reinvested to supplement our retirement income. Best of all, a much larger gift will eventually go to the UCSB Mellichamp Endowment than we could have afforded otherwise. How was all this possible? Only because the feds and state are willing to be such generous co-donors … what a great way to maximize the impact of your assets!”

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milestones 1960s Santa Barbara Ci t y Co u n c i l member Roger Horton, ’62, helped lead regional elected Roger Horton ‘62 officials in proposing On-Trac, an upgrade of commuter rail links between Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. The proposal received unanimous support from LOSSAN Rail Board, a consortium of elected officials, railroad companies and planners along Amtrak’s Southern California rail lines. Randy Boal, ’66, retired after 35 years as a social science teacher at La Canada United School District in La Canada, Calif. Boal was a coach of football, girls basketball and softball, and baseball. Jim Harrington, ‘67, has been elected to a two year term on the Board of Directors of the Southern Oregon Education Service District. Genevieve Anderson, ’68, a professor of biological sciences at Santa Barbara City College, has been named 2007 Naturalist of the Year by the Western Society of Naturalists. Her husband, Shane Anderson, who works at UCSB’s marine laboratory, was also named a recipient of the award, making the couple the first co-recipients of the award.

The Western Society of Naturalists gives the award for work that inspires young people in the area of natural history. Anderson has taught at SBCC for 34 years, after receiving her undergraduate degree in Zoology at UCSB and her masters in biology from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. Brent Thompson, ’69, has been elected president of Friends of Jackson County, a local resource lands preservation group affiliated with 1000 Friends of Oregon.

1970s Rob Simmons, ’70, has been elected president of the Society of Public Health Education (SOPHE). He currently is an associate professor of health policy at Jefferson Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Arthur McGurn, ’71, MA ’73, received Western Michigan University’s Winter 2008

highest award, the 2007 Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award. McGurn joined the WMU faculty in 1986 and conducts research in theoretical condensed matter physics.

Jennifer McGovern, ’71, has been named full time president and CEO of the Housing Trust of Santa Barbara. The organization works to meet ongoing workforce and affordable housing needs. Juan Necochea, ’77, MA ’80, PhD ’81, has been awarded CSU San Marcos’ highest faculty honor, the Harry E. Brakebill Distinguished Professor Award.

He had previously been an administrator in the Lompoc Unified School District and now teaches in the education program at CSU San Marcos.

1980s Gregory P. Broome, ’84, has joined the San Francisco offices of the law firm of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati to specialize in tax practice. The firm has offices in seven U.S. cities and Shanghai. Lupe Navarro-Garcia, ’85, MA ’87, has been named director of the UCSB Campus Learning Assistance Services.

She has worked for a number of years in the Educational Opportunity Program office at UCSB. Joseph Holland, ’81 MA ’87, has been elected to the Santa Barbara United Way board of directors. Holland is the Santa Barbara County Clerk, Recorder and Assessor.

JosephHolland ‘81, MA ‘87 Betsy Baldwin Brink, ’88, was recently appointed assistant director of MBA Communications and Marketing at Harvard Business School in Boston. Joseph Martorana, Ph.D. ’89, has been appointed to a tenure track position at the Santa Barbara City College political science department. He has taught political science at UCSB and CSU Northridge. Rebecca Ho, ’89, has received her MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio School of ManageRebecca Ho‘89 ment in San Francisco. Darrin Kettle, ’89, has been named executive director of the Ventura County Transportation Commission. The VCTC develops and implements transportation

policies for the county of Ventura.

1990s William P. Halford, ’91, has joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine as an assistant professor of medical microbiology, immunology and cell biology. He will also serve as a research member of the SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute at SIU. BentleyForbes, a national real estate investment firm, has appointed Scott McGinness, ’92, as senior vice president, finance and accounting. McGinness had previously been vice president of Becker Companies, a San Diego based placement and staffing agency. TiVo Inc., the creator of and leader in television services for digital video records, has announced that Joshua Donovitz, ’93, has been promoted to vice president, GM of TiVo International. He joined TiVo in 2004 as general manager of TiVo International. Robert D. Mislang, ’98, has been appointed vice president and financial services manager at Rabobank in Santa Barbara. He has previously worked as a branch manager at Bank of America and premier banker at Wells Fargo. O’Melveny & Myers LLP has announced that Matthew T. Kline, ’96; Dhaivat H. Shah, ’94; and Paul L. Sieban, 95, have been named partners in the firm. Kline specializes in general trial and litigation work in the Century City office. Shah is a member of the securities litigation practice in Silicon Valley, while Sieban is in corporate practice in Silicon Valley.

O’Melveny and Myers has 1200 attorneys located in 13 worldwide offices. Tobin D. Ellis, ’96, was sworn into Tobin D Ellis ‘96 the U.S. Supreme Court bar in a ceremony led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts. Ellis is an attorney with the Los Angeles law firm of AgnewBrusavich and specializes in complex business litigation and personal injury law. Matt Powers, ’98, joined with Les Claypool to produce the mockumentary spoof called “Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo.” It played in theaters 35

milestones across the U.S. in November and will open in California early in 2008.

2000s Jen Stroh, ’00, was recently elected president of the Goleta Valley Toastmasters. She is also the Conservation Coordinator for UCSB’s Coal Oil Point Reserve. Jacqueline Duran (Ciprano),’01, is now the sole owner of Flora

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Boutique in Carpinteria and Santa Barbara.

Community Arts Forum has named Kami Shallenberger, ’04, as its communications development associate. She also works as a freelance writer for the Santa Barbara Independent. The Santa Barbara Independent named Juan Zaragoza, ’05, as one of their “Local Heroes” in their annual edition devoted Juan Zaragoza, ’05 to residents who contribute to the quality of life in the Santa Barbara community. Zaragoza was recognized for his work with children and teens through his groups SONando, SB and UCSB Mariachi Integral. Dale Francisco, ’05, was elected to the Santa Barbara City Council Nov. 6, 2007 coming in third in a crowded field of incumbents and challengers. Francisco is a former computer engineer for Cisco Systems who campaigned on a platform of improved public safety and greater neighborhood power.

Dale Francisco ‘05 Mike Wells, ’07, has been hired as an engineer at the China Lake Navals Weapons Center in China Lake. Plug Co., of Santa Barbara, has named Elise Hennigan, 07, as a public relations associate.

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Obituaries Virginia B. Handlos, ‘43, died August 12, 2007. She taught home economics at Richmond Union High School. She was married to Shell chemist Arthur Handlos and they had two children.

Benella B. Caminiti, ’44, died Nov. 25, 2007 in Lake Stevens, Wash. After receiving her degree in Zoology from UCSB, she worked for Kodak, Geigy and later the University of Washington’s Regional Primate Research Center which she managed until her retirement in 1988. The Seattle Times noted that Caminiti was an outspoken defender of parks and open space in the Seattle area.

The Times noted that her “most important

legacy” was a lawsuit she filed in the 1980s to prevent homeowners from building docks on public shorelines. While she lost the case the outcome was that the Washington Supreme Court ruled that the public had a right to access navigable waters, tidelands and shorelines. She served on the boards of the Washington Environmental Council and the Center for Environmental Law and Policy in Spokane. She founded the Seattle Shorelines Coalition.

Col. Rollin C. Reineck, ’47, died on Oct. 9, 2007 and was buried in the Punchbowl, the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii. While serving on B- 29 flight crews in World War II he earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and the Bronze Star. He served in the Air Force for 30 years and became an expert on the last flight of aviator Amelia Earhart, writing the authoritative work “Amelia Earhart Survived.” Last year he appeared in a National Geographic TV special on Earhart’s disappearance.

Dorothy C. (Sherwin) Collins, ’51, died Nov. 27, 2007 in Santa Barbara. She taught English at La Cumbre Jr. High in Santa Barbara for 10 years and worked in the Black Studies Department at UCSB until her retirement in 1988.

Marjorie D. Linton, ’56, died in Santa Barbara Nov. 26, 2007. For 23 years she taught at Franklin Elementary School in Santa Barbara before retiring in 1981. She was a past president of the UCSB Music Affiliates Board and a past president of Alpha Delta Kappa.

Carmen (Cortez) Gonzalez, ’78, died Oct. 11, 2007 after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 51. She earned a masters degree from Cal Lutheran University and worked for many years as a reading specialist at Olive Street School in Porterville. She was active in numerous education associations, Latino political and social issues, and children’s charities.

Jonathan Pevsner, ’79, died Nov. 20, 2007 after a two-year battle with lung cancer. He practiced medicine in Fresno for many years and served as a cantor in the Temple Beth Israel in Fresno. His CD titled “Legacy” will be released posthumously.

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DevastatedbyCaliforniaFirestorm Among those devastated by the Southern California fires that burned thousands of homes and a half million acres were Jay ’67 and Kendra Jeffcoat. Their Rancho Bernardo home in San Diego County was incinerated and their car was melted to the ground in the October 2007 fires.

The small consolation for the Jeffcoats was that President George Bush used their burned out home as a backdrop for a message to Californians that the federal government would quickly and efficiently provide rebuilding aid. The picture of Bush and the Jeffcoats appeared in publications around the world.

“Those of us who are here in government, our hearts are right here with the Jeffcoats,” the Associated Press quoted the President saying. With Kendra Jeffcoat fighting back tears, the President kissed Photo by K.C. Alfred-Pool/Getty Images her on the head before climbing back into his motorcade and viewing miles of devastation.

President George W. Bush (2R), Congressman Brian Bilbray (C), and Governor Arnold Later Jay told the San Diego Union that Bush Schwarzenegger (2L), meet with Jay ‘67 (R) and Kendra Jeffcoat (L) who lost their home in the had promised to replace a baseball, signed by Nolan fires in the Rancho Bernardo neighborhood October 25, 2007 in San Diego, California.

Ryan, that had been destroyed in the fire. Jaycoat, who is past president of San Diego Sports International, said Bush promised to make a call from Air Force One to have Ryan sign a new ball.

Kendra Jeffcoat told the Union, “I just so appreciJay Jeffcoat served on the Board of Directors of the UC ate the warmth, the sincerity and the real genuine concern of all the Santa Barbara Alumni Association from 1977-83. people who are visiting.”

DR. Daniel Farrell Gunther, ’80, died unexpectedly at his home in Seattle Sept.

30, 2007. At the time of his death he was associate professor at University of Washington School of Medicine and an attending physician in pediatric endocrinology at Children’s Hospital in Seattle. He earned his medical degree in 1992 from UC Davis Medical School and served a three-year enlistment in the U.S. Army.

Michael Klein, ’88, and his daughter, Talia, 13, of Santa Barbara, died Dec. 23, 2007 in a plane crash in western Panama. Klein,

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who graduated from UCSB at the age of 17, founded MIBEK Corp., a developer of financial analysis software, which was sold in 1992. His second company, Transoft Networks, was sold to H-P in 1999. He then founded eGroups Inc., which was reportedly the world’s largest group e-mail communication service. He sold eGroups Inc. to Yahoo in 2000 for $400 million and it is now known as Yahoo Groups. At the time of his death, Klein, 37, was the owner and chief investment officer at Pacificor, a Santa Barbara hedge fund company.

Kathleen “Katie” Ogoley, ’89, died Sept.

15, 2007 in Coos Bay, Ore. She was 74.

She worked for the state of Oregon as a caseworker in adult and family services.

Anne Lindsey Napier, ’06, died after being struck by a car while walking near Santa Barbara City College Oct. 5, 2007. She worked as an event coordinator at the Montecito Country Club.

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U C S B A L U M N I A S S O C I AT I O N

ANNUAL REPORT 2006-2007

The dream of a new alumni center at UC Santa Barbara has finally been realized. As the 2006-07 fiscal year closed, the $12.2 million Mosher Alumni House was set for occupancy on Aug. 3, 2007. Its Grand Opening is set for April 26, 2008.

The building contains more than 24,000 square feet of meeting and dining facilities, library, living room, staff offices and catering kitchen. Its plazas and terraces have stunning views of the Santa Ynez Mountains and Cheadle Plaza. It was built with some of the latest environmental features.

As the fiscal year closed the fundraising goal for Mosher Alumni House was $1.5 million. It appeared certain the bridge loan from the campus would be repaid and as a result the Association would retain control of the 8,000 square foot first floor. Plans for the use of the first floor have been discussed among campus units, the Board of Directors and the alumni staff. No specific plan for the future use of this space has been determined.

The fiscal health of the Alumni Association continues to be robust. The fiscal year 06-07 closed with an anticipated annual operating reserve of almost $300,000 in an operating budget of more than $3 million. Family Vacation Center and Summer Inn occupancies for spring and summer 2007 were very strong.

The first All Gaucho Reunion was held April 27-29, 2007 and brought back more than 3000 Gauchos to the campus. Among the highlights were tours of the new Mosher Alumni House, Classes Without Quizzes featuring UCSB faculty, and reunions by diverse groups including KCSB, Greeks and athletic teams. A second annual All Gaucho Reunion is planned for April 24-27, 2008. (See the special All Gaucho Reunion insert in this issue of Coastlines.)

Statement of Financial Position Assets Current Assets: Cash Short-term investments Receivables Prepaid expenses

95,315 2,806,026 103,901 152,484

Total Current Assets

3,157,726

Investments and Other Assets Long-term investments Due from Mosher Alumni House fund Furniture & equipment Perpetual income interest In trusts

2,915,456 500,000 50,167 35,313

Total Investments and Other Asset

3,500,935

Total Assets

6,658,661

Liabilities and Net Assets Current Liabilities: Accounts payable Deferred program fees Total Current Liabilities

356,651 1,633,776 1,990,426

Other Liabilities Deferred royalty revenue Loan payable-net current Portion Total Other Liabilities

Total Liabilities

Net assets Unrestricted – undesignated Unrestricted – designated Total unrestricted

Temporarily restricted Permanently restricted

432,353 42,306 474,660 2,465,086 794,197 3.040,285 3,834,482 335,840 23,253

Total net assets

4,193,575

Total liabilities & net assets

6,658,661

Statement of Activities Support and Revenue: Program Support and Revenue University support Family Vacation Center revenue Membership dues Program events Advertising Travel programs

1,212,982 1,635,183 226,131 163,084 39,541 55,380

Total Program Support and Revenue

3,332,301

A major staff transition occurred in 2007 with the retirement of Coastlines Editor Jon Bartel who served 26 years of distinction at UC Santa Barbara. The Harvard-educated editor will be sorely missed for his keen insights into alumni affairs and his encyclopedic memory of campus history.

Other Support and Revenue Unrealized gain on investments Investment income Realized gain/loss on investments Contributions Royalties Total Other Support and Revenue Total Support and Revenue

360,091 175,567 119,976 4,805 415,555 1,075,993 4,408,294

The Alumni Association was ably represented at the UC Board of Regents by board member Phil Bugay whose voting term as a Regent began July 1, 2007. Bugay sits on the Building and Grounds Committee of the Regents and helped craft the new strategic plan for Alumni Affairs across the 10 UC campuses.

Expenses: Program Services

Member programs and services Support Services

Management and general

Support to UCSB campus

Membership development

The Association and Alumni Affairs offices will continue to play a key role in campus development as the Mosher Alumni House emerges as a key center for campus activities. The start of new student Alumni Association, named Campus Alumni Program for Students (CAPS), promises to be an important bridge to our future alumni. As funding from state sources continues to decline, the role of alumni philanthropy will become increasingly critical to the maintenance of UC Santa Barbara’s excellence in research and teaching. The role of the Alumni Association and Alumni Affairs in this mission will be vital.

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Total Expenses Increase in net assets

2,109,474 484,547 932,993 148,264 3,675,278 733,017

Statement of Changes in Net Assets Balance as of June 30, 2005 Increase (decrease) in net assets for The year ended June 30, 2006 Balance at June 30, 2006 Increase in net assets for the year Ended June 30, 2007 Balance at June 30, 2007

2,858,015 602,543 3,460,558 733,017 4,193,575

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