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    Associated Students to Create Flacks Internship


     
     
    Richard "Dick" Flacks spins music and information on his KCSB radio show "Culture of Protest."
    Sociologist Richard Flacks, a member of UCSB's faculty since 1969, will have an Associated Students internship created in his honor this month. A proclamation to that effect will be issued at the A.S. Legislative Council meeting on Nov. 29 at 6:30 p.m. in the UCen's Flying A Studio Room. The public is invited to attend.
    The establishment of the Richard Flacks Intern, who will be located in the A.S. Executive Director's office, "came as a complete surprise to me," said Flacks. "I am very moved and tremendously honored to have this internship named after me."
    Selection of the Flacks intern will be this spring, reported Mel Fabi, an A.S. committee chair and this year's Goodspeed intern in the Division of Student Affairs. Fabi, who spearheaded the project, said the first Flacks intern will hold office in 2001-02.
    A long-time advocate of student involvement in their own governance on university campuses, Flacks championed this cause inside and outside his classrooms. For more than a decade he chaired the Academic Senate's Committee on Student Affairs, and his research and writing has often focused on this theme. His Sociology 102, "Sociology, the University, and Society," reflected this and other concerns.
    "I hope this new internship will further enable student government to share in campus governance," Flacks said.
    Since 1982, he has also produced and hosted a program, "Culture of Protest," on campus radio station KCSB-FM that showcased the role of music in historic and contemporary political events. Flacks said he learned so much from his radio show research that a new course (Sociology 118M) grew out of it.