Category: 60th
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Elena Baskin Visual Arts Studios dedicated
Elena Baskin Visual Arts Studios are dedicated on the campus’s west side.
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Chancellor Sinsheimer meets with students protesting apartheid in South Africa
Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer meets at McHenry Library with students protesting apartheid in South Africa.
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Planning for NatSci 3
Plans to build Natural Sciences 3 (later named Sinsheimer Laboratories) are approved by the UC President’s Office.
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Warhol in the house
Cowell Provost House receives a donation of an Andy Warhol rug. The rug, which features a repeating flower image, has decorated the Provost House in different years, according to the taste of the provost in office.
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz debuts
Shakespeare Santa Cruz presents its first season, featuring outdoor performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Festival Glen and King Lear in the Performing Arts Theater.
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George McGovern named the first Adlai Stevenson Fellow
George McGovern is named the first Adlai Stevenson Fellow at Stevenson College in May 1982.
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The Dickens Project is established
The Dickens Project is established at UCSC as an intercampus research group to further academic investigation and teaching of Charles Dickens’s works in the context of Victorian society.
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The play’s the thing
Shakespeare Santa Cruz is founded. Audrey Stanley is founding artistic director and Karen Sinsheimer is founding board president.
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Exchanging students with China
A student exchange program between UC Santa Cruz and China’s Beijing Language Institute begins in 1981.
