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Nerve-rattling Déjà Vu:
Engineering Researchers
Recreate '94 Northridge Earthquake
to Test Improved Building Designs
Like millions of other Californians on that morning, Maria Narajo was abruptly awakened on Jan. 17, 1994, by the violent jolts of a 6.7-magnitude earthquake. "It was a boom and my bed was shaking and moving all over the place," said Narajo, who was living at the time on the second floor of a three-story apartment building in Northridge and who spoke Wednesday during a telephone interview from Bishop, CA. "In my living room, the living room wall separated from the window and I could see waves in the swimming pool that looked like they were out in the ocean. We were stuck in our building for a day; we couldn't get out."
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Fair
Trade Coffee Now Option Across Campus
 On
a sunny day at Café Ventanas, most customers
were sipping sodas. But the few that
were sipping coffee could enjoy it with
a clear conscience. That's
because Dining and Housing Services
now offers fair trade coffee as an option
at all their locations.
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 Biologists Examine
Success and Failures of Ant Invasions
Many
insects enter the United States accidentally
as hitchhikers on various kinds of imported
plants and other forms of human commerce.
But how many of these potential pests
actually become established once they
arrive? Conventional wisdom suggests
the numbers could be estimated from
the size of the insect invasions and
the number of times they enter the United
States. But new findings published in
the journal Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences by biologists
at the University of Illinois and the
University of California campuses at
Davis and San Diego suggest that opportunity
alone is no guarantee of a successful
invasion.
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Conference
to Explore"Jewish Masculinities"
Scholars from Israel, Germany, France,
Canada and the United States will
meet at UCSD December 11-13, 2005,
to discuss whether antisemitism in
the German past became more attractive
through critiques of Jewish men. The
program will feature papers and talks
from 35 leading researchers in Jewish
history, German literature, and related
fields. Conference keynote speaker
will be Sander Gilman of Emory University,
author of works on Freud, Kafka, the
Jewish body, and Jewish self-hatred.
The conference is sponsored by the
UCSD Judaic Studies Program. More
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Alumni Staff Offer a Unique Perspective on Campus
 If you have an affiliation with UCSD, most likely you're either a student, a graduate, a faculty member or on staff at the university. But there's another segment of individuals within the population of those with an affinity to campus. They can identify with more than one label, but wouldn't know which box to check if asked to fit into a category.
We're talking about former students who make their careers at UCSD - alumni staff.
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Open Enrollment
Ends Wednesday
Remember, 2006 Open Enrollment ends at midnight Wednesday, Nov. 30. Don't wait until the last day - the enrollment Web site will be busy.
Poinsettias for Scholarships
The UCSD Staff Association is selling poinsettias from Ecke Farms as a fund-raiser for staff scholarships. The cost is $10 for the 6-inch pots and $5 for the 4-inch pots. Place your order by Dec. 7.
Holiday Shopping
on Campus
This year's Holiday Vendor Fair will be held on the Sun God Lawn from Monday, Nov. 28 - Friday, Dec. 2. Browse for gifts among booths with craftwork, jewelry, artwork and more. Enter daily movie-ticket drawings.
Upcoming Staff
Education and
Development Courses
Introduction to Microsoft Word 2003
1/04/06
Introduction to Flash MX 2004
1/10/06 and 1/12/06
Communication Tool Belt
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Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975
George Mariscal
"Brown-Eyed
Children of the Sun is a new study of the Chicano/a
movement, "El Movimiento, and its multiple ideologies
from a broad cultural perspective. The late 1960s
marked the first time U.S. society witnessed Americans
of Mexican descent on a national stage as self-determined
individuals and collective actors rather than
second-class citizens. George Mariscal's book
examines the Chicano movement's quest for equal
rights and economic justice in the context of
the Viemam War era. More
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