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THE FEATURES

14 Will The Next Extinction Hit the Oceans THE DEPARTMENTS

18 The Green Side of Jack Johnson

22 Isla Vista News Roundup

Up Front On the Cover

Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) at Gota Sagher (Red Sea, Egypt). Photo:Wikipedia.

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29 Special All Gaucho Reunion Section

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5 Around Storke Tower 9 Research

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10 Arts 12 Sports

In the Back 25 Milestones

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UCSB Movin and Shakin the Rankings UC Santa Barbara continues to place highly in rankings based on academics, quality of life and sustainability. The U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate schools placed UCSB’s Materials program as No. 2 in the country and No. 1 among public universities. The chemical engineering program ranks No. 9 overall and No. 5 among public universities. The College of Engineering was ranked No. 23 in the country and No. 12 among public universities. In rankings of the top 500 global universities, UCSB ranks No. 28 while placing No. 10 among the best public universities in the world. On the environmental front, Mother Nature Network ranked UCSB as No. 17 in its top 20 Green Colleges in the U.S. MNN noted UCSB’s 83 LEED-certified green buildings as well as the newly built, student-financed solar voltaic system for the Student Resources Building. It was also noted that there are 32 environmental student groups and more than UCSB Storke Plaza. Photo: Tony Mastres. 90 percent of students walk, bike or take public transportation to the university. The Online Schools Center has ranked UCSB No. 4 on its list of “30 Colleges With the Best Extras.” The list was created to increase awareness of colleges that allocate significant funds and resources to student life. College Factual, which offers an online analysis of college majors for prospective university students, has ranked UCSB’s Sociology Department as No. 1 in the country. The ranking is based on graduate earnings, overall university quality and accreditation reports. UC Berkeley scored No. 2 while UCLA scored No. 4. The Sociology Department is celebrating its Ph.D. program's 50th anniversary this year.

Feds Provide Funding for Mental Health Services In the aftermath of the Isla Vista shootings and stabbings last spring the U.S. Department of Education has awarded UC Santa Barbara $570,000 to hire additional mental health and social workers. The grant comes at a time when UCSB is expanding its mental health services into Isla Vista. Counseling and Psychological Services (C.A.P.S.) plans to temporarily hire more staff members and Student Affairs proposes to expand physical space for mental health services. The funding comes from the federal Project School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV) program and has provided funding to schools that have experienced violent incidents. In 2008 the Education Department expanded the program to include colleges and universities. Photo Courtesy of Alex Nagase of The Daily Nexus.

Regents Debate Coaches Bonuses Tied to Graduation The University of California Regents heard President Janet Napolitano call for tieing UC athletic coach bonuses to graduation rates within their sports. Two of the most powerful Regents, Gov. Jerry Brown and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom did not think the new system went far enough in penalizing coaches with low graduation rates. Newsom noted that only one coach out of 120 in the UC system would have been penalized under Napolitano’s plan: the UC Riverside basketball coach.

Not all Regents agreed with Brown and Newsom. Regent Eddie Island said the new policy was one of “cultural arrogance” that undervalued sports and the opportunities it presents for minority students. In a remark that receive notable media attention he said, “A college degree is not the goal of every athlete who comes to the university.” Napolitano’s proposal was tabled to a future Regents meeting. Her ire was raised with the revelation that the UC Berkeley football team had the lowest graduation rate in the country in 2013.

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“Immediately after starting at UCSB I joined Los Ingenieros,” she said. “It gave me an opportunity to meet people from similar backgrounds and with similar interests.” —Jocelyn Ramirez, Senior UCSB Jocelyn Ramirez. Photo: Spencer Bruttig.

Hispanic Enrollment Tops In Research Ranks UC Santa Barbara has become the first major research university in the United States to achieve 25 percent Hispanic enrollment. As a result, the federal government has designated UC Santa Barbara as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) making it eligible for greater federal grants. “It basically says that a top-ranking, national university can be a diverse campus and that adds to its strength,” said Lisa Przekop, director of admissions at UCSB. “It sends the word out nationally.” Among the American Association of Universities, the top 62 research universities in the U.S., only UCSB has reached the 25 percent milestone. At UC only four of nine campuses are HSI, while at CSU 18 of the 23 campuses are HSI. While 46 percent of all California high schools are Hispanic, only about 22 percent of UC enrollment is Hispanic. UC Santa Barbara has been engaged in outreach to Hispanics for decades. Admission recruiters target high Hispanic enrollment high schools throughout the Central Valley and Southern California, and in recent years have targeted high school Hispanics in Texas and Colorado. The federal government dolls out $98 million a year in special grants to HSI institutions. UC Riverside, the first UC campus to attain HSI, received a $4 million grant for improving transfer success among Hispanic students at two-year colleges who were in science, technology, engineering and math. Acting Dean of Undergraduate Education Carl Gutierrez-Jones hopes the HSI designation will help dispel decades-long stereotypes about the UCSB campus. “If students come to an institution where they feel they belong, their ability to persist and overcome challenges is really assisted. That success feeds on itself.” A series of celebrations of the HSI status is planned for the campus during the spring and fall.

Carlson Wins Prestigious Ocean Science Award

Craig Carlson. Photo: UCSB Public Affairs.

Craig Carlson, chair of UC Santa Barbara’s Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department, has been awarded the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. The award recognizes outstanding research in both ocean and inland waterway systems. Carlson’s specialty is studying the levels of dissolved organic material in the ocean and their possible impact on earth ecosystems. In 2002 Carlson received the inaugural American Geophysical Union’s Ocean Sciences Early Career Award.

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The Committee of Two Dive into UC Budget Gov. Jerry Brown and UC President Janet Napolitano continue their “Committee of Two” budget negotiations in an attempt to resolve UC funding issues for 2015-16. At the March UC Regents meeting the two reported they were making progress and their talks were constructive. Napolitano has called for a 5 percent tuition hike each year for the next five years as well as a freeze on California resident enrollments for the fall of 2015. She has also said both UC Berkeley and UC UC President Janet Napolitano. Photo: Daily Nexus. Los Angeles must cap their out of state enrollments for next fall. The tuition hikes and the enrollment freeze could be mitigated if Brown comes up with an extra $100 million Napolitano says the system needs to meet growing enrollments and rising pension costs. Brown has offered UC an extra $125 million in the 2015 budget but has fiercely opposed any tuition hikes and has said UC does not need another $100 million on top of his proposed budget hike.

Napolitano has argued that in-state applications to the UC continue to rise and that it is unfair for the state to provide pension assistance to the Community College and CSU systems but not to UC. In March Napolitano rallied UC alumni in Sacramento and urged them to convince the state Legislature that UC is a critical economic engine for the state. She hopes to Govenor Jerry Brown. Photo: Daily Nexus. mobilize UC’s 1.7 million alumni to help in her budget fight. Napolitano told the Regents in March, “We want to keep tuition as low as possible and as predictable as possible. We want to extend the planning horizon line, moving to a longer term approach that allows California families, our partners in state government, and the University itself to make good choices as they contemplate their shared futures. And we want to do all this without sacrificing a single iota of the quality of the University.”

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Mitragotri Joins Academy

Economics Dept. Receives Major Gift The estate of an economics alumnus who also played basketball and ran track and field has designated the UC Santa Barbara Economics Department for a $5 million gift. The estate of Richard Aster, ’63 MA ’65, made the unrestricted donation. “The Aster money is going to lift us up in every dimension, from undergraduates to endowed chairs and everything in between,” said Peter Rupert, chair of the department and executive director of the Economic Forecast Project. Economics is UC Santa Barbara’s largest major with 2,400 undergraduates and 70 graduate students. It is also home to Nobel prize winner Finn Kydland. Aster’s career in finance led him to found Meridian Funds, a major mutual funds company.

Samir Mitragotri. Photo:Ian Barin.

Professor Samir Mitragotri has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for 2015. The Academy is comprised of 67 members, 27 whom are from UC Santa Barbara and of them three are recipients of Noble Prizes. Mitragotri’s research in drug delivery—particularly in the field of clinical translation and commercialization of transdermal drug delivery systems—is the reason for his appointment to such a prominent organization. Joining the UC Santa Barbara faculty in 2000, Mitragotri is currently the director for UCSB Center of Bioengineering and Transnational Medicine Research Laboratories.

UCSB Gevirtz School Receives $2 million Gift to Establish Michael Gerber Chair An anonymous donor has given a $2 million estate gift to UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. The funds will establish the first endowed chair in the Gevirtz School, The Michael M. Gerber Chair in Instructional Innovation and Technology for Exceptional Children. Named in his honor, Dr. Michael Gerber said “Of course, I am deeply honored and humbled to have my name associated with this extraordinary endowment. I think it really represents not only the creative efforts of many students and colleagues over the years, but also high confidence in the future for education innovation and research at UCSB over the decades to come. For that I am most grateful.” Support from this gift will furnish chair incumbents with funding to pursue cutting-edge research and recruit top graduate students dedicated to that research. Dr. Michael Gerber is a professor of education and leader in the field of special education, disabilities and risk studies.

A Pediatric Diabetes Gamechanger Anyone who lives with Type 1 diabetes is all too familiar with the sheer amount of effort — and often round-the-clock attention — required to manage the disease. Food intake is closely monitored, as is physical activity, and the period between meals is carefully tracked in order to calculate appropriate insulin dosages, which have to be delivered at the right time. All this to keep blood glucose levels within a healthy range. For parents of children with Type 1 diabetes, the stress is amplified. Childrens’ unpredictable eating habits and food preferences, spontaneous physical activity and sensitivity to insulin require parents to be extra vigilant. The dreaded overnight hypoglycemia — a condition in which glucose levels drop to dangerously low levels between dinner and breakfast — requires parents to interrupt their own sleep habits so they can check their children’s blood sugar and give the child a snack if needed. Conversely, if the glucose reading is too high, they would need to administer insulin. And those eagerly anticipated birthday parties (complete with cake and ice cream), sleepovers and playdates? Only if the other parents involved can be trusted to monitor the child closely and respond to emergencies.

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Kelp Forests Are Vital

That Plastic Bag is Headed to the Sea

UC Santa Barbara provides an exclusive opportunity for marine science education and research. The Marine Science Institute (MSI) is ranked internationally in the top forty by QS World University Ranks for Earth and Marine Sciences. The MSI researchers have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $997,312 to eliminate the knowledge gap in the correlation between kelp forests and beach ecosystems. Jenifer Dugan, UC Santa Barbara associate research biologist, is leading the research team on this project. “The recently funded study will provide needed new insights into the dynamics of connectivity between a donor ecosystem, kelp forests, and a recipient ecosystem, sandy beaches, using the Santa Barbara Channel as the study region,” Dugan said. “By investigating links between kelp forests and sandy beaches, this project will expand and transform our understanding of crossecosystem fluxes in the coastal ocean and enhance our ability to manage and conserve coastal resources as they respond to the Earth’s ever-changing climate system.” The team will begin with a two year study of kelp forests in the Santa Barbara Channel – Mohawk Reefand 10 kilometers of neighboring coastline. Research in this field is often overlooked, but is vitally important to local economies that are dependent on coastal ecosystems. When on the beach, kelp sustains food webs within coastal ecosystems as it delivers important resources. More at: http://msi.ucsb.edu/sites/ msi.ucsb.edu/files/docs/education/ FieldGuide.pdf

A new study conducted at one of UC Santa Barbara’s premier research facilities shows that 8 million metric tons of plastic, or the equivalent of 1.5 million cars, is being dumped into the ocean every year. The study was published in Science and was conducted at UCSB’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and at the Washington DC Ocean Conservancy. While the massive plastic float in the middle of the ocean grabs much of the public’s attention, the sheer magnitude of all the plastic being dumped was the focus of the research co-authored by Bren School associate professor Roland Geyer. He estimated that the plastic dumped each year into the ocean would cover an area 34 times as large as Manhattan ankle deep. In fact the amount of plastic now dumped into the ocean equals the total world production of plastic in 1961. What is known is the plastic that ends up floating in the ocean. What is not known, and what potentially could be the greater danger of all this man-made material going into the ecosystem, is all the plastic that sinks to the bottom of the sea. By 2025 the plastic dumped into the ocean could reach 155 million metric tons, or 20 times what is dumped today. There is hope, according to NCEAS Director Frank Davis, who is also a professor at Bren School. The research notes that waste reduction and more producer responsibility for plastic waste could stem the tide.

Hurtado: Beyond Machismo UC Santa Barbara professor, Dr. Aida Hurtado from the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, has been named the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) 2015 Scholar. Hurtado is a highly recognized researcher and author on issues of social and ethnic identity, feminist theory and media portrayals of ethnic and racial groups. A noted researcher and author, Hurtado’s career in the field began in the 1970’s. Her book—co-authored with Mrinal Sinha—“Beyond Machismo: Chicana Intersectional Understandings of Latino Feminist Masculinities,” consists of numerous interviews with Latino men examining their views on feminism and gender awareness. The book addresses issues beyond feminism as it explores the problems of Latino ethnic and identity stereotypes.

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Arts Hot Type—UCSB Authors

William Conelly ’68, Uncontested Grounds.

Jo Perry ’72, PhD. ’82. Dead is Better.

This is William Conelly’s first full length selection of poetry published by The Able Muse Press. It was a finalist for the Able Muse Press Book Award in 2013. The venues for the poems range from seashore to Hollywood and even include a jet fighter cockpit. Conelly is an associate professor and instructor of creative writing and lives in Warwick, England.

Perry's first novel is about Charles Stone, who is dead and a ghostly dog who try to unravel the circumstances of Charles’s death. They uncover a criminal who is raking in millions of dollars by cruelly exploiting, and sometimes killing, his victims. What difference can a ghost make? Perry was a CCS Literature major and received a Ph.D. from the UCSB Department of English.

Peggy O’Toole M.ED. ‘87. Then I Won’t Seem So Far Away. A collection of the letters she sent home about her time studying abroad in France in 1970, plus annotations on what really transpired. O’Toole paints a universal comingof-age story, as well as an evocative portrait of an era now firmly fixed in the past. O’Toole is an alumna of UCSB’s Teacher Education Program and has served as long-term chair of the Dean’s Ambassadors Circle for the Gevirtz School.

Art of Extinction—UCSB MFA Graduate Penelope Gottlieb MFA ’04, brings extinct wild life back. Upon learning that many botanical species are disappearing at a rapid rate she set out to re-image these species only existing through sparse historical descriptions and accounts. She often paints without any existing visual references, reconstructing images of lost species from descriptions. Her paintings are comprised of vibrant, dynamic and dramatic depictions of plants. Gottlieb’s pieces are intended to provoke thought, in some of her works; birds are bound and suffocated by the presence of an invasive botanical growth. For more information on Gottleib, please go online at www.ucsbalum. com/Coastlines 10

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Thomas Garrison ’06. Hiking Southwest Utah and Adjacent Areas, Volume 1. The guide describes 25 hikes that originally appeared as a published story in The Spectrum. The book includes more than 25 color maps and 50 color photos taken during the hikes. Available in ebook and paperback formats. Garrison received his Ph.D in Political Science from UCSB.

Armel Abundis '57. Two Asturians.

Karima El-Hakkaoui ’94 . The Wedding A to Z.

The adventure novel tells the story of a princess, Isabela, who is kidnapped from a convent; and a nobleman, Alfonso, who volunteers to rescue her in exchange for return of his father's land. His search causes repercussions in the Byzantine Empire and civil war with her return to Asturias. Finally, as Queen, Isabela has to decide whom she loves, her former fiancé or Alfonso.

Everything brides-to-be need to know and stuff they never thought to ask. The book provides expert advice on subjects that matter most to brides and hilarious topics they may not have considered, for example, how to ask for cash as a gift and not look greedy and does throwing rice make the birds explode? Other more serious topics include accessories, cocktail hour, and fitness with advice from industry gurus.

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New Athletic Director Named

Chancellor Yang with John McCutcheon. Photo: Spencer Bruttig.

John McCutcheon, the athletic director at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has been named the new UC Santa Barbara Athletic Director by Chancellor Henry Yang. McCutcheon was the Cal Poly athletic director from 1992 to 2004 where he oversaw their move to Division 1. At UMass McCutcheon’s teams won 38 conference titles and reached 29 NCAA tournaments. McCutcheon was known at UMass as a prolific fundraiser and investor in new facilities. In just the last year UMass has opened a Football Performance Center, a Press and Skybox Complex at the football stadium, and a Rowing Boathouse. A $28.5 million Champions Center is set to open later this year as the new venue for men’s and women’s basketball. Before he took over at Cal Poly he spent 12 years at Boston College serving in key administrative roles managing finances and team sports. Prior to that he worked at the University of Maine. He has a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University and a masters of education degree from Ohio University. McCutcheon takes over for former Athletic Director Gary Cunningham who served as interim director after the departure of Mark Massari in 2014.

Men’s Baseball

Newell Named Big West Field Player of the Week UC Santa Barbara senior outfielder Cameron Newell has been named the Big West Field Player of the Week, the league announced on Monday morning. Newell had a career week over UCSB's four games last week, helping the team to a win over BYU and a series win against Kentucky for a 3-1 overall record. This is the second career weekly honor for the Roseburg, Ore. native. He received the same honor in Apr. 2013 after hitting .643 in four games against USD and UC Riverside.

Women's Tennis

Cameron Newell. Photo:Vince Agapito.

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Women’s Soccer

UCSB women’s soccer adds 11 recruits The UC Santa Barbara women’s soccer program has signed 10 high school athletes to National Letters of Intent for the 2015 season, and the Gauchos have also added a transfer from Colorado as well, head coach Paul Stumpf announced Friday. “We are very excited about the future of our program, and that is because, in no small part, of the fine young ladies we have committed to us for the Fall of 2015,” said head coach Paul Stumpf.

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The UC Santa Barbara women's tennis team has just become nationally ranked for the first time since 2013. The Gauchos come in at No 64 in the nation, right behind St. Mary's College, who the Gauchos defeated earlier this year by a 4-3 score. Freshman Lou Adler, despite her absence, has remained nationally ranked, coming in at No. 120 in the nation.

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The Next Extinc Will The Ocean Survive It? by George Thurlow '73

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ction is Coming

here have been five massive animal extinction periods since the planet was formed. Scientists now believe we are heading for the sixth extinction that will be as cataclysmic as if an asteroid hit the Earth. But a young UC Santa Barbara scientist, one so fresh to the campus that he has yet to teach an undergraduate class, believes the ocean has a chance to miss this tidal wave of animal extinctions. Only if the human race begins to act now. Doug McCauley, an assistant professor of life sciences, and only arrived at UC Santa Barbara a year ago, has published an intriguing research paper in Science that has caught the attention of the major media in the U.S. His groundbreaking research offers both hope and a serious warning. The ocean is more resilient than the land but not that much. Without intervention and a change in human behavior right now, a wide swath of the ocean’s environment, the source of a huge amount of protein for the world’s population, will disappear. From coral reefs to sharks to kelp beds, the entire ocean environment is on the precipice. McCauley’s personal story is as interesting as his research, which was featured on the front page of the New York Times, on the network news and National Public Radio. His office on campus is a small cramped space you can only get through by entering a controlled construction area in the center of campus. The new

Bioengineering building is going up right outside his window and he works while buffeted by the sound of bulldozers and earthmovers. His desk is glass and it is covered with designs and sketches made by him and his graduate students with felt markers. His is a California beach story, a young man who grew up near the ocean, embraced it, and now is trying to save it.

The Beach Boy McCauley grew up in Torrance and attended San Pedro High School—a school that had a magnet program in marine science. In the summer he worked sport fishing boats. “I learned fish by catching them,” he recalled. “I learned the health of the oceans by getting paid.” The experience led him to a “love of the ocean” and a burning curiosity about how the vast oceans affected human life. He did his undergraduate work at UC Berkeley, double majoring in political science and integrative biology. “Those were the two parts of my personality,” he recalled. “The science taught me

Facing page: Coral reef ecosystem at Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Photo: Jim Maragos/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Because there have been so many

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The Rhino of the Sea: Its Slow Recovery How do you top the fact that your first major research paper as a professor at UC Santa Barbara landed on the front page of the New York Times and on network news? If you are Douglas McCauley you apply for a grant to study one of the most unique sea creatures alive today, one that is on the edge of extinction. The giant sea bass, or streolepis gigas, is critically endangered, regularly caught off of Santa Barbara and to McCauley is the “rhino of the sea,” both because it is in danger of extinction and because of its size and beauty. The giant sea bass (or black sea bass) can grow to seven feet in length and weigh more than 750 pounds. It was commonly found off the coast of California in the 1950s, including the Channel Islands. But it was fished to near extinction and commercial or sport fishing for it is now banned. But fishermen are allowed to “accidentally” catch one a day and you can buy it in local fish markets for $24.95 per pound. According to the Channel Islands National Park staff it is making a slow recovery. McCauley’s interest is in whether or not it can fully recover if its habitat is changed and its food chain is disrupted. It may be that it can be commercially caught, he noted, but scientists and conservationists just don’t know enough about it. As for McCauley’s good fish eating list: halibut, white sea bass, yellowtail, lobster, crab and urchins. Stay away from giant sea bass, white sharks and swordfish, though he says they are coming back. Above: Streolepis gigas. Photo: Catilin Childs, Taken at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

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exist for the hundreds of terrestrial wildlife species that have already crossed the extinction threshold .

how the ocean works, and the political science taught me what to do about it.” He has travelled the world working for the National Marine Fisheries office counting fish catches and remarking on the thousand pound fish he witnessed being hauled in off the coast of Africa. He went to Stanford for his doctorate, joined the Hopkins Marine Station, and began studying the impact of human intervention in the ocean on the size of fish. As humans fish an area, the size of the fish in that area diminishes as the older, larger fish are caught and fish cannot grow to larger sizes. The impact is huge on both economies and diets. His work took him about as far from San Pedro High School as one can get: the Palmyra Atoll, a U.S. territory 1,000 miles south of Hawaii in the middle of what ocean lovers call “the blue Pacific.” The Atoll, on which the U.S. military built a crude landing strip during World War II, is now home to up to 20 visiting scientists who are studying its wildlife conditions. McCauley’s wife also has worked on the Atoll studying its native forests. (Her work focuses on the impact of the loss of species on human health. Think of a predator in Africa that is facing extinction, resulting in an explosion of the rodent population it once fed on, which in turn leads to massive numbers of disease carrying fleas, ticks and mites.) “On the Atoll you can look back in time, hundreds if not thousands of years ago,” McCauley explained, because the life both on the land and in the sea has not been impacted by humans. He is quick to note however, “nowhere is the ocean pristine.” UC Santa Barbara has an ongoing presence on the island and it is there that McCauley met some of his future colleagues.

McCauley said “the stars aligned” and when there was a faculty position open in the UCSB department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, McCauley was hired. He started in March 2014 and immediately went to work on a question posed to him by the editors of Science magazine, one of the most prestigious scientific research journals in the world. If humans were closing in on causing the Sixth Extinction, what was going on beneath the surface of the seas?

Extinction is Near McCauley is blunt about our impact on terrestrial Earth. “We humans are the asteroid on land.” He is referring to the largest extinction in Earth history when an asteroid collided with the planet and wiped out most of the massive land mammals like the dinosaurs. “We now are hitting the Earth with such force that we’re causing rates of extinction as high as when the asteroid hit,” McCauley explained. What about the ocean? “There are not good answers,” McCauley admitted. So he and a group of fellow researchers, from UCSB (Robert Warner), Rutgers, Stanford, Georgia and other universities, set out to find the answer. The difficulty is that while it is easy to see when a wolf population is decimated, it is much harder to see when a shark population is depleted. What the scientists did find gave them some hope. But the bad news is that hope has a timetable. “As McCauley told the New York Times, “We may be sitting on the precipice of a major extinction event. But the oceans today are still robust enough to recover and return to something as diverse as what existed four or five centuries ago."

While over harvesting of many species, from cod to shark, is the most apparent sign of the ocean problem, the daunting issue is the loss of habitat or the degradation of habitats. McCauley’s research shows that in 20 years, the world’s population will receive more protein from farmed fish than wild caught fish. Mining operations on the ocean floor have already claimed more than 1,000,000 kilometers. From wind machines to oil drilling to desalination plants, the ocean is being industrialized at a quickening pace. So far, only 15 species of fish have been identified as going extinct. That compares to 500 species of land animals that have disappeared in the last 500 years. History has shown that controls on coastal fishing can bring fish back from the brink of extinction. But once habitat is lost, the process of restoration is much more difficult and costly. McCauley argued that we need to limit the ongoing industrialization of the ocean. It does not have to be eliminated, it just needs to be limited to low impact areas. Carbon emissions on land need to be lowered and fish farming needs to be controlled. As McCauley’s co-author, Stephen Palumbi of Stanford University, told the Times, “If by the end of the century we’re not off the business-as-usual curve we are now on, I honestly feel there’s not much hope for the normal ecosystems of the ocean. But in the meantime, we do have a chance to do what we can. We have a couple decades more than we thought we had, so let’s please not waste it.” Doug McCauley tracks a bumphead parrotfish, recording bite by bite how much material it removes from the coral reefs upon which it feeds. Photo: Lauren Palumbi

Douglas McCauley has been honored with a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship. UC Santa Barbara is ranked 14th for the number of faculty that has received this award especially notable considering the University has fewer assistant research professors than other highly ranked colleges. McCauley conducts research on the processes that manipulate the assembly of ocean life communities, the operation of those marine communities and how humans impact the ecology of the oceans. He will receive $50,000 to advance his research from the grant program that endeavors to encourage outstanding work and individuals. McCauley is amongst recipients who have gone on to receive 39 Nobel Prizes, 16 Fields Medals, and 13 John Bates Clark Medals. www.ucsbalum.com

Jack Johnson on Staying Local, Environmentalism and Superstardom

Musician Jack Johnson has achieved international superstardom with the help of his wife, Kim, earning enough to donate more than $30 million to causes they support. Find out how the power couple strike a balance. By David Thompson 18

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Five-hundred children sit on the cafeteria floor at Kalihi Waena Elementary School, laughing and cheering as a long line of fourth graders bury Jack Johnson’s head in a stack of lei made from reusable classroom materials. They pile so much paper, tinsel and pipe cleaner around Johnson’s neck he can barely see his fingers on the fretboard of his guitar. “I never played with this many leis in my whole life,” he says into the microphone, then launches into a set of cafeteria classics from his soundtrack album for the animated children’s film Curious George. It’s fall, Johnson has just returned to Hawai‘i after his latest world tour, and he’s looking forward to retreating from the craziness of the music industry for a while to spend time doing the everyday things he likes to do when he’s home. These include surfing, volunteering at his kids’ school garden, working in his own garden and making surprise appearances on the cafeteria circuit for the Kōkua Hawai‘i Foundation, the nonprofit organization he and his wife, Kim, founded in 2003 to promote environmental education. “I love playing cafeterias,” Johnson says later. “Those are the best venues. You can hardly hear yourself play because the kids are so loud. But it’s just good fun, you know?” With more than $20 million in album sales, Johnson breathes the air of rock superstardom. Yet somehow he remains the solidly grounded product of the surf-stoked North Shore beach culture from which he came. He drives a dinged-up minivan, he can’t walk by litter on the beach without picking it up and throwing it

Johnson plays “The 3R’s” for the Kalihi Waena kids, and they happily join him in singing the refrain: “Reduce, reuse, recycle!” Although this song appeared on the Curious George soundtrack, Johnson wrote it as the theme for the Kōkua Hawai‘i Foundation’s 3R’s School Recycling Program, which provides students and teachers with training and bins to promote waste reduction and recycling in schools. The recycling program was Kōkua’s first initiative, growing from a single pilot school in 2003 to 51 schools across O‘ahu. In the early days, teachers were sometimes surprised when Jack Johnson himself showed up at their classroom door to deliver a stack of multicolored recycling bins. But the program went into decline in 2012 when the City and County of Honolulu stopped picking up recyclables on state school campuses. The occasion for the Kalihi Waena concert is to announce that the DOE had renegotiated its trash hauling contract so that recyclables will be picked up at schools once again. Kim Johnson grins broadly throughout the school concert. “Now that the DOE is taking it on and doing the pickups, we’ll be able to work with all those schools that we had and add even more—as many as we can,” she says. Kim is the executive director of the Kōkua Hawai‘i Foundation and though Jack is president, it’s really her baby. “Jack always says he’s my fundraiser,” Kim says. “All the programs and planning and vision of where we’re going, where we’re heading, is kind of more my role. He chimes in every step of the way, but he’s not someone who is going to go, ‘Let me write this curriculum.’ The cool thing is, I’ll say, ‘Hey, will you write a song about recycling?’ And he writes ‘The 3R’s.’”

away, he surfs every chance he gets, and he usually wears slippers, whether playing onstage before tens of thousands of fans or strumming bar chords for a cafeteria full of grade schoolers. He is in real life exactly as you would expect him to be: easygoing, unassuming and, all things considered, pretty ordinary. “He’s just so not a rock star,” says Kim Johnson, who is pretty down-to-earth herself.

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Facing page: Kim and Jack Johnson as seen in Honolulu Magazine in February 2015 - Photo by Ryan Foley. Right: Jack Johnson performs for students at Kalihi Waena Elementary School. Photo: Ryan Foley

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Jack has been writing songs for Kim since they met in the cafeteria at

Styrofoam food containers. Kōkua also awards grants

the University of California, Santa Barbara, during the first week of their

to teachers for environmental projects and field trips,

freshman year, in 1993. He has often said that every love song he has

organizes family cooking classes and holds workshops,

written is for her, while all the breakup songs are for friends, since he’s

among other things. But the foundation’s flagship initiative

never been through a breakup himself. Jack and Kim married in 2000, while Kim was immersed in graduate

is the ‘ĀINA in Schools Program, a complete elementary school curriculum designed to cultivate children’s

school and Jack was about to embark on tour as the opening act for Ben

appreciation for the environment, healthy eating and

Harper, his first really big musical break. Johnson’s debut album, Brushfire

locally grown food.

Fairytales, didn’t come out until the following year, but, when it did, it

The ‘ĀINA curriculum, which 15 schools have adopted,

quickly went platinum. Jack’s career was on fire, and in 2002 he whisked

ranges from a kindergarten introduction to the life cycles

Kim from the Santa Barbara high school where she was teaching math to

of flowers and butterflies to a sixth-grade lesson on

help with the business side of touring. Kim’s role in Jack’s music changed

decoding food labels. It includes cooking demonstrations,

from simple muse to muse-slash-manager.

farm visits and lots of time spent in the school garden.

She still plays that role today, sharing her management duties with a close friend of Jack’s from college. “I’m her boss, but then she’s my boss,” Jack says. “The tour wouldn’t happen without me going on tour. So she’s my manager. She’s working for me. But if she needs somebody to replace the ink cartridge, then that’s me. If she needs somebody to run to pick up a supply, I go. So I’m kind of her assistant, even though she’s my manager.” Also in 2002, the Johnsons moved from a cheap apartment in a Santa Barbara duplex to a house they bought on about an acre of land on the North Shore, not far from the house where Jack grew up. Jack immediately set about transforming the two-car garage into a recording studio, and the Johnsons began talking about how to put their unexpected success in the music industry to good use. Helping out in Hawai‘i’s schools seemed natural. Jack loved working with kids as a summer camp counselor and surf instructor during college. Kim, who earned a master’s degree in education, comes from a family of educators. Teaching is in her blood, and she can hold forth on educational theory as naturally as she can hold the attention of a class of fidgety fifth graders. “When you have that teaching

Jack working with kids as the Director for the UCSB Surf and bug, and you’re Kayak Camp during his years at UC Santa Barbara.

wanting to work with kids, you don’t get that when you’re on tour,” she says. “I needed something to fill my soul.” And so the Kōkua Hawai‘i Foundation was born.

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As a companion to the recycling program, Kōkua launched Plastic Free Hawai‘i, which gives away reusable water bottles and shopping bags and encourages people to avoid single-use plastics, such as grocery bags and

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Kim and students from the ‘ĀINA in Schools garden class. Photo: Ryan Foley.

For the fourth grade, there’s an end-of-year harvest party where the students eat a meal prepared with the food they grew. “The main goal is to connect kids to where their food comes from,” says Kim. “Just knowing that connection to the earth is important. Knowing where their food comes from is important.” Every lesson is designed to meet the DOE’s Common Core State Standards, and because they are taught by trained volunteer docents, they actually lighten the workload for teachers. Both Jack and Kim work as docents in their own children’s school. “Some days I wake up and I have an idea of what I might want to do that day, but then Kim will remind me, ‘Oh, we’re doing garden lessons today,’” Jack says. “I might at first think, ‘Oh shoot.’ But every day after I do these kinds of things, it always reminds me that this has come out of the music, and it makes it all feel a little more like a career worth pursuing. It reminds me, Oh, yeah, a lot of good can come out of music.”

Storke Plaza was packed with some five thousand students at the "Come together: Remember, Reconnect & Unite" event in October 2014. Kenneth Song/Daily Nexus.

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I get to see Jack’s vegetable garden for myself. There isn’t much to look at—just a 30-by-30-foot plot of freshly tilled soil with a recently transplanted mulberry tree going into shock in the middle of it. “My garden’s pretty unimpressive right now, but you can see the potential in it,” Jack says. He had stayed up late the night before, after putting the kids to bed, plotting on graph paper the paths and beds he would build. “Besides surfing, this is what I love to do,” he says. “Just get out here and put the radio on, listen to NPR and, like, work in the garden.” The garden is in the big backyard of the home Jack and Kim bought in 2002, which now serves as the Kōkua foundation’s headquarters. Not surprisingly, Kōkua’s offices run on solar power. So does Mango Tree Studio, the converted two-car garage where Jack has recorded most of his albums. He also records at his Solar Powered Plastic Plant, the studio in the old Victorian house in Los Angeles where the recording label he created, Brushfire Records, is based. The music industry’s environmental impact has always weighed on his conscience, and he’s become the leading proponent of greening up the business. But not in a pushy way. That’s not his style. Unless you’re a concert venue. A Jack Johnson concert is a paragon of green virtue, from the biodiesel fueling the trucks, buses and generators, to the locally grown produce feeding the band and crew, to the digital counters on the reusable-water-bottle filling stations keeping track of exactly how many 16-ounce plastic bottles were avoided. As for the concert venues, they have to sign the “green rider,” a list of ecofriendly requirements that must be met if Jack is to appear there. These run the gamut from installing energy-efficient light bulbs throughout the facility to recycling or composting at least half of the waste generated on show day. After inspecting the garden, Jack takes me to the new house where the Johnsons now live. It’s a simple, roomy place on the beach, with a picnic table on the back lānai and enormous sliding screen doors that bring the sea breeze right into the living room. Jack and one of his brothers, a contractor, built the house from scratch a few years ago. They salvaged the rafters, redwood siding, tongue-and-groove

paneling and most of the other lumber from two tear-down houses in the neighborhood. Rooftop photovoltaics provide the power and charge an electric car (it’s Kim’s; Jack drives the dinged-up minivan) in the garage. A catchment system collects rainwater to drink, and a three-phase water treatment system cleans up household sewage well enough to irrigate the lawn, which, during my visit, sported a few rescued plastic toys. “Every night you look down there on the beach, and there’s always one or two things left behind,” Jack says. “We have the best bucket of beach toys.” The Johnsons say the house is so ecofriendly it earned a platinum LEED certification, the highest honor in the world of green building, and the first house in Hawai‘i to attain it. A funny thing about Jack Johnson is that despite his considerable green credentials, he hesitates to identify himself as an environmentalist. “The industry that I’m a part of has a pretty big footprint on the environment, so I always feel funny calling myself an environmentalist,” he says. “To me, I’m a touring musician who’s trying to help make my industry more responsible.” At another point he says: “Mostly, I just think of myself

Kim and Jack Johnson will receive the 2015 UCSB Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award as part of the All Gaucho Reunion on April 24 at UCSB's Corwin Pavilion.

as a surfer, kind of first and foremost. That’s the thing I love to do most.” Jack eyeballs the waves, which are good, and I don’t have to ask about his plans for later that day. But before the interview ends, he emphasizes that his philanthropy “doesn’t feel like some huge sacrifice or task” to him. “It just feels like the thing that anybody would do if they had the chance. You know what I mean? It just feels like, most of my friends, if they were given the opportunity, might do the same sort of thing. I get surprised when people say, ‘What you’re doing is so amazing!’ It’s a compliment, and I appreciate it. But to me it’s just the natural stuff I enjoy doing.” The copyrighted story is excerpted with permission from the February 2015 issue of Honolulu Magazine. For the full article, please go to www.honolulumagazine.com www.ucsbalum.com

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I.V. Roundup Update The continuing series in Coastlines providing updates on community progress towards solving Isla Vista problems.

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A.S. Survey Points to Safety As Issue An Associated Students survey of students who live in Isla Vista over the last year shows that safety is an issue with more than half the respondents. Students also said that the main resource they want is “fresh/healthy food choices” in Isla Vista. The biggest housing concern is affordability of apartments and the biggest service they want is “sexual assault Hundreds of students and locals gathered in the parking lot of the Isla Vista prevention.” Food Co-op. Photo: Lorenzo Basilio/Daily Nexus More than 3,000 residents of Isla Vista, including SBCC students and long time residents, responded to the survey. What they indicated they liked most about Isla Vista is its sense of community and its proximity to the beach and campus. What they like least is the trash on the streets and the party scene that includes an unsafe feeling. Their top priority is more lighting along with a general community “clean up.” Respondents also said they feel least safe during the unsanctioned Deltopia event. The study is the first step in the Associated Students' leadership developing a strategic plan for involvement in Isla Vista. An estimated $5 million has been spent by the A.S. in Isla Vista over the last decade.

Innovative Tenant Program Ends

County Cops Get Body Cams

An innovative tenant program that rewarded students for their grades and community service through reduced rents has been ended by Isla Vista landlord St. George and Associates. Called the Ambassador Program, students could reduce their rent if they maintained a 3.0 GPA and participated in four Isla Vista community events. The discount could reach 20 percent per year. But complaints were made by the Associated Students Legal Resource Center about what activities were being credited for community service. With the threat of a lawsuit, Ed St. George said he was ending the program and it would be converted to a strict scholarship program with specific service events required to receive the scholarships. St. George told the Daily Nexus it “broke my heart” that the program was ending. Students and their attorneys said St. George constantly changed the requirements for community service making it hard to meet the goals.

Members of the Isla Vista Foot Patrol will soon be sporting body cameras, just in time for the annual Deltopia unsanctioned Isla Vista event. The cameras are part of a test program by the Sheriff’s Department to see if they should be deployed to all sworn officers in the department. The cameras cost between $300-$550 each. Funding for total deployment has not been obtained, according to the Sheriff’s Department.

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MTD Provides New Buses for SBCC Students in IV Much to the chagrin of UC Santa Barbara officials, the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) is providing larger buses to make it easier for Santa Barbara City College students to commute from Isla Vista to the SBCC campus. The issue of SBCC students living in Isla Vista has become a source of contention since one of their dropouts, Elliot Roger, went on a stabbing and shooting spree that killed six UCSB students. SBCC is unable to determine how many of their students live in Isla Vista and can only provide very limited services to them. The new “articulated” buses will have room for 40 more passengers per bus on the direct Isla Vista to SBCC route.

Legislation Introduced for Self Government Assemblymember Das Williams, ’05, has sent his AB3 legislation to the Local Government Committee of the state Assembly in hopes of establishing a Community Service District in Isla Vista. I.V. town hall meeting. Photo: Alex Nagase/Daily Nexus The legislation has already run into opposition from owners of Isla Vista rental property and some small special district members of the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO). Under state law LAFCO is the agency responsible for establishing special districts. But over the past 40 years Santa Barbara’s LAFCO has opposed self-government mechanisms for Isla Vista and it is only allowed to create special districts with fivemember elected boards. Williams is calling for a hybrid board of elected and appointed members, the power to levy utility users taxes and provide a wide range of services, from parking enforcement to funding a community center. More than 20 community meetings have been held to debate self government in Isla Vista.

Sidewalk Parking Crackdown The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department plans to crack down on Isla Vista residents who block sidewalks with their cars. The enforcement action comes as the parking situation in Isla Vista is the worst in years, according to long time residents. The enforcement coincides with the expansion of sidewalk installation in Isla Vista, funded by both the county of Santa Barbara and UC Santa Barbara.

The Capri Apartments where Roger lived. Photo: Jessica Fenton

Sheriff Release Shooting Report The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department has finally released its comprehensive report on the shooting and stabbing rampage of Santa Barbara City College dropout Elliot Roger. The 64-page report, which is available at the Sheriff’s web site, chronicles the minute by minute actions of Roger as he killed six UCSB students and injured 14 others. The report found that Roger acted alone and probably would have caused more mayhem had there not been Sheriff’s deputies and UCSB police on foot patrol at the time of the shootings. The eight-minute rampage ended when a sheriff’s deputy shot Roger in the leg as he drove through Isla Vista, crashed his new BMW, and took his own life with one gunshot to the head. The report details Roger’s long history of mental illness. He purchased his guns from a Goleta gun store, an Oxnard gun dealer and a Burbank gun dealer. He started planning for the events in 2012 with his first gun purchases, the report said.

Vehicles parked in a manner that is on or blocking sidewalks will soon be cited by Isla Vista Foot Patrol. Photo: Stephen Manga/Daily Nexus

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Update

The former fraternity house (pictured above). According to the InterFraternity Council President Carl Provenzano, he remains optimistic about the future of the Greek community despite this past year’s mishaps. Paris Cullen/Daily Nexus

Second Fraternity Shut Down for Misconduct One of the oldest fraternities at UC Santa Barbara — founded in 1966- with one of the largest alumni bases was shut down February 24, 2015. Phi Sigma Kappa had been on suspension since January due to unsafe new member education practices creating a dangerous environment. The fraternity of 110 members is currently under investigation by the University as a result of allegations of hazing and misconduct. Phi Sigma Kappa’s history of violations began when it was closed for the first time in 1990 and wasn’t reopened until 2006. According to Carl Provenzano, Inter-Fraternity president, the closure was an agreement between the University, alumni and the national organization. Three months ago another UC Santa Barbara fraternity was closed down. Beta Theta Pi was terminated due to alcohol hazing of two members that were sent to the hospital. Beta Theta Pi fraternity had been in and out of trouble since 2009 and had a suspension status since January 2014. Prior to the present academic year, the last fraternity to close was Sigma Alpha Epsilon two years ago. Daryl Lu, president of Signet Housing Corporation which owns Isla Vista property, has agreed to allow the undergraduate students to remain living in the Phi Sigma Kappa house until the end of the academic year, as long as they satisfy lease obligations and conduct themselves appropriately. 24

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Memorial Garden under construction. Photo: Jess Fenton.

Memorial Garden A permanent garden and sculpture to memorialize the six UC Santa Barbara students murdered last May is taking shape in Isla Vista’s People’s Park. Under the direction of the Isla Vista Parks & Recreation District and with the support of the non-profit Isla Vista Love group, construction on the Memorial Garden has begun. It is expected to be completed by May 2 when a community planting is scheduled for the site. The official dedication of the garden and sculptures is planned for May 16. Project IV Love is spearheading the fundraising for the Garden and is led by alumnus Jordan Killebrew, ’10. He designed a tank top with the logo IV Love and is selling it online with all sales going to the Garden fund. A major supporter has been the Woodstock Pizza franchise in Isla Vista which has been donating proceeds from special sales nights. The Garden will consist of native plants that attract birds and butterflies to the area. There will be six benches, one for each victim,

that are being designed by UC Santa Barbara art students under the direction of art professor Kim Yasuda. The benches will each carry a design and inscription inspired by the members of the victims’ families. Both IV Love and the Isla Vista Parks & Recreation District are seeking donations to cover the more than $25,000 needed to complete the garden and benches. On the UC Santa Barbara campus a special remembrance committee made up of faculty, students and staff has been meeting to plan an event to commemorate the students’ lives. Details and the date of that event have not been finalized. Among those contributing to the Memorial Garden effort was Stoneyard, a garden boulder provider that provided boulders at deep discounts for the memorial. Plants will be provided by the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity. For more information on making a donation go to the Isla Vista Parks & Recreation web site.

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UCSB ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING NOTICE Frank Ochoa, ’72, recently retired as Superior Court Judge in Santa Barbara County and has launched a mediation, arbitration and special master service. Ochoa served for 32 years on the Santa Barbara court.

Miriam Mack ’74, joined CASA of Ventura County in 2012, a year after the nonprofit became independent. Its mission is to train community volunteers to become sworn officers of the court who can advocate for the best interests of a foster child appointed to the program by the juvenile dependency judge. Mack received her master’s in economics from UCSB. George Baldonado, 74, president of Oasis Technology, announced that Oasis has been formally awarded a patent from the U.S. Patent Office for the new Titan Anti-Hacking device. The device is aimed at thwarting hackers and assist financial entities with PCI compliance. The National Black MBA Association – Los Angeles, is honoring Wenonah Valentine, ’77, with the 1st Community Vanguard Award. In addition, Valentine has been nominated for KCET Local Heroes Award for Black History Month. Valentine has served on the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association board since 2007. She has chaired the Association’s Diversity Committee and helped write the Association’s diversity mission statement.

Will be held at the Mosher Alumni House June 5 starting at 6 p.m. Agenda: Approval of minutes from June 7, 2014 Annual Meeting President’s Report Executive Director’s Report Election of Directors Old business/New business/Adjournment The Board of Directors has nominated the following directors to serve an additional term: Cuca Acosta ‘01 Manuel Esteban PhD’76 Sue Wilcox ’70 PhD’74 The Board of Directors has nominated the following slate of candidates to serve as directors of the Association. Eugene Covington’96 Joel Raznick’81 Gary Rhodes’83 All members of the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association are welcome to attend. This is the only notice of the 2015 annual meeting that will be published in print. Travis Wilson’02 Secretary-Treasurer UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association

1980s Kathy Kinane ’81, president of Kinane Events, former UCSB head women’s track and field an cross country coach (’81-’83), received the Women’s Trail Blazer Award. The Women’s Trail Blazer Award is awarded annually to a woman who has been an exemplary leader in the running world.

Steve McMahon ’84 and Michael Beers ’84, Pam Lopker ’77, earned a degree in mathematics played an integral role in building NASA’s Soil from UCSB. She is chairman of the Board and the Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite. Employed at Santa Barbara Astro Aerospace, President of QAD. Lopker was selected to be the keynote speaker and special honoree for the 2015 McMahon and Beers have been a part of the project since its inception. McMahon Top 50 Women in Business awards. and Beers are both alumni of the UCSB Leland Speth ’78, Experimental Psychology and engineering program. McMahon advises Spanish, retired last year from the FBI as a Special students to “get your hands dirty. Do an Agent after 25 years of service. internship and learn to drill a hole or machine a part.”

Dr. Lisa Dawley ’89, founder of GoGo Labs Inc., will receive an unrestricted $5,000 grant from the Impact of Entrepreneurship Database. The award will be directly utilized to further develop learning technologies to engage students and teachers. The Database collects data to maximize entrepreneurs time spent applied to programs and understand their challenges. Javier La Fianza ’89, was selected to be president and CEO of Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership, which provides leadership seminars to more than 10,000 high school sophomores across the country each year. From 2001 to 2007, La Fianza was chief operating officer and vice president of programs for Crystal Stairs, one of the nation’s largest child development organizations. He also serves on the Thousand Oaks Business Roundtable.

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Stewart Honored at White House Dr. Tommie “Tonea” Stewart, Alabama State University’s (ASU) dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts is one of only 11 honorees nationwide awarded the White House’s coveted Champion of Change Award in February at the Executive Mansion in Washington, D.C. The prestigious award recognizes faculty and staff members at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s). According to the White House news release, “These leaders have worked with Dr. Tonea Stewart, M.A.'70 students, families, and policymakers to build pathways to graduation at their Photo: www.elkvalleytimes.com respective institutions.” Stewart is one of only 11 honorees from HBCU’s around the country to receive the award. “I’m pleased and I’m humbled because, you know, when you’re just working and giving your all, you never think about anyone noticing or wanting to say congratulations or job well done,” said Stewart. The Champions of Change program was created as an opportunity for the White House to feature individuals doing extraordinary things to empower and inspire members of their communities. Stewart’s career as an educator exemplifies her lifelong commitment to empowering and inspiring her students, many of whom have gone on to pursue successful careers in the theatre, on Broadway, and in Hollywood (television and the cinema), as well as serving as educators in the classroom. Stewart is a native of Greenwood, Miss., and is a child of the Civil Rights Movement. She is an educator, professional actress, motivational speaker, play director, national museum exhibit director, tenured professor and Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Alabama State University. Stewart is a graduate of Jackson State University (B.S.), the University of California at Santa Barbara (M.A.) and Florida State University (Ph.D. in Theatre). She was the first African-American female to receive a doctorate from the FSU School of Theatre and the first McKnight Doctoral Fellow in Theatre Arts.

1990s Joel Naatus, ’94, majored in Anthropology while at UCSB and has co-founded an after school science program that was featured on SciTech Now and Los Angeles PBS station. Dylan Casey ’95, has joined Yahoo as Vice President of Product Management. Prior to Yahoo, Casey built the product management team at Path and was the head of product management at Google for over a decade, ensuring the growth of Google+ and developing a real-time search team. Geoff Green, ’96, the longtime executive director of the Fund for Santa Barbara, has been named the executive director of the Foundation for Santa Barbara City College. The Fund was an important funder of progressive organizations in Santa Barbara County.

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Karna Hughes ’95, has been named the director of communications for Visit Santa Barbara, the tourism promotion organization for Santa Barbara. Hughes had been the publicist for UC Santa Barbara’s Arts & Lecture office. Wannie Park, ’96, has launched a company called Mega Tiny Corporation. Mega Tiny is a consumer electronics company that accessorizes smart phones, tables and other produces. Her company plans to launch a Kickstarter campaign in April.

2000s Zaryn Dentzel ’02, has taken on the role of Chairman at Tuenti. The UC Santa Barbara alumni founded the mobile communications company

Gauchos Sizzle in L.A. A trio of UCSB alums took on a star-studded international field amisdt hot conditions to place well at the 2015 Los Angeles Marathon. On the men's side, Scott Smith '10, finished the hily coulrse in 2:19:10 for 11th place (7th Amerjican)< while Ramiro "Curly" Guillen '05, st a personal record of 2:25:33 for 17th place. Jessia Douglas '09, shaved almost 9 minutes off her marathon person best ot finish in 2:51, good for 24th and 24th American.

nine years ago in Madrid, Spain. According Dentzel, this transition will allow him to play a more strategic role in shaping the broader communications strategy. Rachael Segalman, Ph.D ’02, was named the Edward N. Kramer Chair of Materials & Chemical Engineering. Her endowed, joint seat is in two of UCSB’s highest-profile departments. After graduating from UCSB, Segalman has studied as a postdoctoral fellow at Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France and a decade at UC Berkeley as an associate professor of chemical engineering as well as a faculty scientist in the materials science division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Katie Maynard, ’05, has been appointed to the Goleta City Planning Commission. She currently works as the sustainability

coordinator at UC Santa Barbara in the Geography Department. She identifies ways in which the campus can reduce environmental impacts. Alejandra Gutierrez, ’06, has been named the director of the Franklin Service Center in Santa Barbara, which serves Latino students in the area in career, education and social service advice. Her work at the Center received a front page kudo from the Santa Barbara Independent. Claudia Johnson,’ 07, has been named Santa Barbara City College director of community and business outreach. She has been at SBCC since 2007 and has served as an instructor, advisor and faculty liaison for the Adult High School/GED program. Davis Brimer ’07, is the founder and CEO of Active Life Scientific, which develops technology that quantifies the sense of touch to measure bone strength. The technology is the result of research by Paul Hansma, a physicist at UCSB that enables quantitative measures of bone and other tissue material properties. Blaine Lando ’07, is head of Mattole Valley Naturals, a Santa Barbara Natural Foods company which produces nutritional herbal blends and powders. Maressa Garner ’12 is Mattole Valley's administrative director. Colin Anderson ’12, owner of Shoes & Brews in Longmont, Colorado. The store featuring a specialty running shoe store with a joint taproom combines Anderson's two passions— running and beer. Jesse Bernal, ’11 of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been appointed the Vice President for Inclusion and Equity Division at Grand Valley State University in West Michigan.

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In Memoriam Lowell Steward, ’42, one of the members of the famous Tuskegee Airmen, died Dec. 17 in Ventura at the age of 95. Steward graduated from the original Santa Barbara College with a business degree and joined the Army Air Corps where he trained at Tuskegee Air Field in Alabama. He was sent to Italy in 1944 as a member of the all-black 100th Fighter Squadron flying P-39 Airacobras and P-40 Warhawks. He flew just short of 200 missions out of Italy and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American pilots to be allowed to serve in the U.S. military. Their story was told in the George Lucas movie “Red Tails.” After his military service Steward became one of the first black real estate agents in Los Angeles where he had a career spanning 40 years. He served on the board of directors of the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association and in 2004 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association. Marian Elisabeth Nickel “Niki” Hartfeld, ’48, died Jan. 4 in Santa Barbara. She attended the Riviera campus where she was active in the Chi Delta Chi (now Delta Gamma) sorority. She taught elementary school and later earned her MA from CSU Los Angeles. She went on to become a librarian in the South Pasadena School District.

Mina Girgis ’07, has utilized his unique education in hospitality and ethnomusicology to co-found The Nile Project in 2011 with Meklit Hadero. The project consists of a collaboration between musicians originating from eleven different countries in Africa’s Nile basin Girgis returns to his alma mater as a fellow of Synergos Pioneers of Egypt, Wired 2014 Innovation and National Arts Strategies Creative Community.

James Petrovich, ’74, died Feb. 16 in Santa Barbara after battling cancer. A longtime real estate broker in Santa Barbara, Petrovich was very active in the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Council and PARC Foundation. He is survived by his wife, Susan,’69. Kevin McCauley, ’76, died suddenly in January while working as deputy chief of staff to UC President Janet Napolitano. McCauley previously had worked for many years as executive assistant to UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang. Cynthia Ann “Cindy” Dean, ’84, died at the age of 57 on Jan 7 in Santa Maria. She received her bachelor’s degree in law and society and began her career working in the Santa Barbara Probation Dept. She later worked for the Private Industry Council. Alison Campeau Passell, ’83 died December 18, 2014, from a brain tumor. She grew up in Malibu, CA and worked as an elementary school teacher in El Monte, Salinas and Greenfield. She was an accomplished musician, playing piano, cello, flute and guitar. She was an original member of the Monterey County Composers Forum. Sollie Paul Gazin, who interrupted his enrollment at UC Santa Barbara to join the service during World War II, died March 11 in Los Angeles. He received the Bronze Star with combat V and eventually retired from the Army Reserve as a Lt. Colonel. He was the vice president of State Meat Packing in Vernon, CA. Jason Andrew Bennett, a fifth year doctoral student in Philosophy at UCSB, died suddenly Dec. 31, 2014 in Santa Clara County. Richard Cleveland died Dec. 8 in Santa Barbara. He was a graduate of Santa Barbara State College on the Riviera. He worked in the oil and gas industry and furniture business an for a time owned Santa Barbara Aviation and the Flightline Coffee Shop in Santa Barbara. Edward John Kramer, a professor of Materials and Chemical Engineering, died Dec. 27 in Santa Barbara. He joined the UCSB faculty in 1997 and was an expert in the study of polymers.

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April 23-26

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A CONVERSATION WITH HARVEY LEVIN ’72 The New Journalistic Environment

Pollock Theater, UC Santa Barbara Mr. TMZ himself will be sharing insights on his career that has included working as an attorney, TV news reporter, Host of “The People’s Court” and most recently, creating and starring in TMZ!

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Did you know that UC Santa Barbara is ranked in the top ten best public universities in the country? This ranking is highlighted by the school’s recent achievements, including a 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics that moves UCSB’s total to six, as well as the honor of receiving the title of a HispanicServing Institution from the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. In addition to its strong academic reputation, distinguished alumni and faculty, and diverse student body, UCSB is known for the unique environment that it presents to its students. Because of its green initiatives and sustainability programs, UCSB was recently named the Greenest Public University in the country. This year’s All Gaucho Reunion aims to feature the elements of UCSB’s environmental efforts and sustainability, location, and culture that make it truly exceptional.

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The campus and surrounding environment has evolved as the university’s student population and prominence continues to grow, but some things never change: the beauty of Campus Point, the view of the sunset from Sands Beach, the reflection of Storke Tower in the lagoon, or the bustle of bikes in Isla Vista. We look forward to welcoming you back to campus this April as we celebrate UCSB’s unique environment during the 9th Annual All Gaucho Reunion. We extend an invitation to you, your family and friends to celebrate this weekend as we appreciate, reminisce, and reconnect with the wonder that is UC Santa Barbara. Sincerely,

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Friday, April 24, 7 pm, Corwin Pavilion

Kim and Jack Johnson as seen in Honolulu Magazine in February 2015 - Photo by Ryan Foley.

Kim & Jack Johnson: Better Together An Evening of Conversation, Film & Music $20 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $125 General Public $10 UCSB Students Limit 4 tickets per household $125 ticket includes VIP Seating and Pre-event Reception with the Johnsons to benefit the Edible Campus Project Join us in celebrating beloved UCSB alumni Kim and Jack Johnson, who will receive the 2015 UCSB Distinguished Alumni Award as part of the All Gaucho Reunion Weekend. This powerhouse duo has been effecting change worldwide by leading the music industry in greening practices and using their success to support many social and environmental issues. Their work now extends to the UCSB campus with the newly-created Edible Campus Project. The UCSB Alumni Association is proud to honor Kim and Jack in an evening featuring conversation about their sustainability and greening initiatives, film highlights from Jackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2014 From Here To Now To You tour, and music performed by Johnson and fellow UCSB alumus Zach Gill. Co-presented with UCSB Arts & Lectures www.ucsbalum.com

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Harvey Levin '72 April 25, 7:00 pm, Pollock Theater

T U O SOLD Journalism Takes a Different Turn on TMZ In 1970, at the height of the Vietnam War, Harvey Levin was caught on camera engaged in a robust debate with a group of anti-war protestors in front of the University Center at UC Santa Barbara. The tape has become something of a Hollywood artifact on You Tube as Levin’s career in television has taken off like an Isla Vista skyrocket. If you look closely, you see the glint in Levin’s eye that was a hint of what would come later. Levin graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1972 with a degree in political science, went on to the University of Chicago Law School, and ultimately landed on Los Angeles television as a talking head legal expert. It was his coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder trial that turned him from talking head, to soda sipping TV star. Levin is the creator and producer of TMZ, a crazy quilt syndicated TV show of Hollywood gossip, “gotcha” TV clips, fraternity house jokes, and an occasional big scoop. He is coming to the All Gaucho Reunion April 25 to give a free lecture in Pollock Theater on “The New Journalism Environment.” It’s a topic that Levin is an expert on. Critics consider his show the worst of the paparazzi culture that feeds on celebrity success, but more on celebrity miscues. But even the New York Times gave him a nod in a major piece in their sports section citing his uncanny ability to score huge scoops in the world of sports. It was TMZ that broke the Ray Rice elevator beating story and the Donald Stirling racist rant that led him to be forced to sell the LA Clippers professional basketball team. TMZ also broke the story that the number one college football player in the country, Jameis Winston, was being investigated for sexual assault. The Times concluded that in “taking aim at a whole new category of prominent people and powerful institutions, including the country’s richest most popular sports league” Levin was “having an impact.” There have been other scoops too. TMZ was an hour ahead of the rest of the media in reporting Michael Jackson’s death, a virtual eternity in the 24/7 news cycle. They also broke the story of Mel Gibson’s drunk driving arrest and his anti-Semitic diatribe. TMZ is the acronym for the Thirty Mile Zone that constitutes what is considered the heart of the entertainment industry: the 30-mile zone around Hollywood. Levin went from TV legal commentator to host and legal analyst of “The People’s Court” and then created “Celebrity Justice”. When Celebrity Justice was killed, Levin began work on the TMZ concept and it began as a web site in 2005 followed by the TV show in 2007. It has routinely attracted almost two million viewers but its 18-34 demographics, particularly among males, is lucrative for advertising dollars. Levin is not without his detractors. Chris Brown called him “the devil” and one British newspaper referred to him as “the King of Sleaze” who has become “the King of Hollywood.” But what everybody now wants to know is what news clip will appear next on TMZ that will bring down a powerful and mighty entertainment icon. Stay tuned. 36

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Gaucho chefs, brewers, caterers, and vintners are coming to UCSB to bring you the most exquisite cuisine and beverages. Together, we will be celebrating this year's reunion theme: UCSB's Unique Environment. The event will feature a VIP lounge, live music, interactive game booths, and UCSB departments focused on the environmental sciences and sustainability. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss out on the opportunity to spend a blissful afternoon wining and dining with your Gaucho community and friends while giving back to UCSB students! All proceeds from the Taste of UCSB will benefit the UCSB Alumni Scholarship Fund and the Associated Students Food Bank. VIP LOUNGE Featuring a separate entrance, comfortable seating, shade from the sun, wine from our Campus Point Collection, two bars, passed hors d'oeuvres, and much more! Spaces are limited, so ditch the lines and go VIP at the Taste of UCSB!

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Calling all Greek Alumni! Join your sorority sisters and fraternity brothers for a fun-filled GreekFest weekend. Saturday, April 25: Gaucho Gallop & Gaucho Challenge, 9am-12pm (Enter as a team with your sister/brother or alumni!) Chapter Open Houses, 12pm-3pm Sunday, April 26: Greek & Friends Brunch, 9:30am-11:30am We are also celebrating many chapter milestones: 65th Anniversary: Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Phi, Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta & Pi Beta Phi 50th Anniversary: Alpha Chi Omega 35th Anniversary: Alpha Kappa Alpha 15th Anniversary: Lambda Theta Nu For more information or to get involved: Sydne Rennie '16, GreekFest Intern sydne.rennie@ucsb.edu Leslie Solomon Klonoff '80 GreekFest Committee Chair, lesliesolomon.klonoff@ucsbalum.com

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