UC Regents Chairwoman S. Sue Johnson announced Friday that S. Stephen Nakashima would immediately resign from the UC Board of Regents.
Nakashima is reportedly stepping down from the post he has served in since 1989 due to the loss of his wife of 52 years, Sally, in July 1999 and the stroke he suffered eight months ago.
The 79-year-old Nakashima is an attorney from San Jose. He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from UC Berkeley and received a law degree from the Boalt School of Law.
There are a total of 18 regents on the board, which consists of 26 members. Regents are appointed by the governor of California and serve 12-year terms. Nakashima’s term was not set to expire until 2004.
UC Task Force Assesses Campus Cooperation with Act
A UC systemwide task force, which was formed in September 2000 to determine how thoroughly and accurately UC campuses were reporting their crime statistics, has reported that while campuses need to make some adjustments to how they report statistics, there was no deliberate under-reporting of crimes.
UC Senior Vice President for Business and Finance Joseph Mullinix commissioned the task force to see how well UC campuses were complying with the Clery Act.
The legislation sets forth stringent guidelines about how campuses should report their crime statistics and that those statistics be publicized where students, staff and faculty can find them.
Several instances of over-reporting were found, however. For example, at UC Davis, DUI offenses were reported when it was found unnecessary to do so.
Also released Friday was the University of California’s response to questions put forth by the U.S. Department of Education regarding campus compliance with the Clery Act. The University of California stated that while it had not met every aspect of the act, it was close to being fully compliant.
Scripps Researchers Document Tuna Muscle Motion
A study currently being conducted at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography is examining the complex muscle system in fish, the muscles credited with giving fish their swimming power and speed.
Researchers have long suspected that tuna have the strongest system due to a concentration of the muscle that runs from the middle of their bodies to their tails, giving them a thrust-producing hydrofoil.
Stephen Katz, Douglas Syme and Robert Shadwick, the researchers doing the study, have documented the motion of this muscle structure in their results, which they published in the April 12 issue of the journal Nature.
Shadwick and his colleagues used ultrasound technology to record the electrical activity of the muscles. Their findings may lead to a greater understanding of comparative physiology and the evolutionary biology of fish.
Cesar Chavez Symposium to be Held April 28
“”Si, Se Puede: The Legacy of Cesar Chavez,”” a day-long symposium, will be held April 28 in the Duetz Conference Room of Copley International Conference Center at UCSD as part of the university’s monthlong tribute to the Chicano civil rights leader.
UCSD Theater professor Jorge Huerta will moderate the event, which is free and open to the public. There will be two sessions: a morning session that will feature historical and cultural information regarding Chavez’s life and work, and an afternoon session that will offer musical and theatrical presentations.
Speakers participating in the morning session include Dionne Espinoza, who will talk about farmworker women activists; Jorge Mariscal, who will discuss Chicano and Chicana experiences of war; and Daniel Rothenberg, who will present a lecture on modern farmworkers.
For more information about the symposium, contact Mariscal at (858) 534-3210 or Edwina Welch, director of the UCSD Cross Cultural Center, at (858) 534-9689.
