• CCS Grads Start Off the Farewells
  • UC's Budget Takes Hits
  • Regents Restore Admissions Authority to Senate
  • Summer Courses Discounted for Staff
  • Parking Rates on an Upward Trajectory
  • Campus Notes
  • Panel to Dissect U.S. Media's Influence
  • Book Signing Set for Historian Horne
  • Gevirtz Campus Tribute to Be June 4
  • 93106's letters
  • Campaign 2000 Gathering to Salute Chaffee
  • Kerrey to Keynote 'Acts of Service' Conference on May 31
  • Anti-drug Prize to Cap Festivities
  • Credits
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    CAMPUS NOTES

    Fire Damages Chemistry Lab
    An early morning fire on May 17 in a chemistry lab in Physical Sciences North was confined to Room 2658 by sprinklers, reported John Kennedy, fire protection division manager for Environmental Health & Safety. When the Fire Department arrived they had to deal with a small fire under a bench, which Kennedy said was the probable point of origin. Damage estimates are underway, and sources in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department say that a figure now is premature. Professor Guillermo Bazan, whose lab was damaged, said he hoped power and equipment could be restored quickly, but that his students' work had been effectively erased.

    HONORS & AWARDS

    UCSB Student Health Service Director Cindy Bowers, M.D., has joined the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics' board of directors. The 13-year campus employee is immediate past president of the Santa Barbara County Medical Society.





    Cottage Health System has elected Matthew Tirrell, dean of the College of Engineering, to its board of directors. He joins 17 other volunteer directors in overseeing three nonprofit hospitals in Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Santa Ynez.




    TRANSITIONS

    Britt Andreatta has been promoted to director of First Year Programs and Leadership Education in the Office of Student Life, but she will continue to be involved with Orientation Programs where she was associate director.





    Kim Equinoa, a UCSB alumna, is the new director of Orientation Programs. She worked in orientations at the University of Vermont, and most recently served in student development at the State University of New York, Purchase College.





    Ron McConnell, a former district director for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, has joined the Development Office as a director of development, regional and annual giving. He will concentrate on northern California.




    IN MEMORIAM
    Steven Chaffee, professor of communication and holder of the Arthur N. Rupe Chair in Social Effects of Mass Communication, died unexpectedly on May 15 after hospitalization for a heart ailment. The native Californian was 65. He was a reporter and editor for Los Angeles area newspapers before turning teacher and scholar. He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for 16 years and Stanford for 18 before coming to UCSB in 1999. Besides a brother and a sister, among those surviving him are his current wife, Debra Lieberman, a 9-year-old son, Eliot, a former wife, Sheila Chaffee, one son, two daughters, and three grandchildren. The family asks that, in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to the Yosemite Association of El Portal, Calif.