On-campus residents registered to vote in San Diego can cast their ballots for the Oct. 7 recall election in John Muir College at Half Dome Lounge, located in Muir Apartments near Muir College Center. The Muir polling location will be open between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. Students living off campus can find their polling location printed on the back of their sample ballot or find their location on the San Diego County Registrar of Voters Web site, http://www.sdvote.com.
UC Regents to visit Los Alamos Nat’l lab
The UC Board of Regents will hold a meeting at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico on Oct. 7. The meeting will begin at 8 a.m. with public comment, followed by an address from UC President Robert C. Dynes and a laboratory overview by Director George P. Nanos.
The meeting will include tours of laboratory facilities, presentations and demonstrations.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is one of three national laboratories managed by the University of California, will be up for bid following mismanagement problems in the past year. Both former UC President Richard C. Atkinson and the incoming Dynes have announced their intention to stay competitive in their goal to maintain management of the national laboratories.
Pulitzer prize author to give convocation address
Samantha Power, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, will deliver a convocation address during the grand opening week of Eleanor Roosevelt College on Oct. 8.
Power, a Harvard University scholar, will discuss U.S. passivity to 20th century genocide. This is the topic of her book “”A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide.””
Power is a journalist and the founding executive director of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She has studied major cases of genocide in the past century, beginning with the Turkish killings of Armenians before World War I where she questioned why the U.S. government has failed to intercede and watched as a bystander.
Power draws her research from her own experiences in the Balkans, and from her research into Nazi history and genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda.
The event will take place at 7 p.m. in RIMAC Arena. It is free and open to the public.
Stuart Foundation donates $8 million artwork to UCSD
The Stuart Foundation announced an $8 million in-kind gift of artwork to UCSD. The gift consists of nine of the Stuart Foundation’s 15 pieces located on the UCSD campus, which were previously owned by the foundation.
The nine pieces of the Stuart Foundation’s most recent gift include Alexis Smith’s “”Snake Path;”” Terry Allen’s “”Trees;”” Michael Asher’s untitled fountain; Ian Hamilton Finlay’s “”UNDA;”” Elizabeth Murray’s “”Red Shoe;”” Bruce Nauman’s “”Vices and Virtues;”” Nam June Paik’s “”Something Pacific;”” and William Wegman’s “”La Jolla Vista View.””
The Stuart Foundation is named after art philantrophist James Stuart DeSilva, who started the art collection in 1981 and has donated the entire collection to UCSD within the past 22 years. He commissioned an advisory committee made up of art historians, museum directors and working artists to find artist and sculptors who would then create site-specific works on the UCSD campus.
ERC architect will speak during opening week
Moshe Sadfie, the award-winning architect who designed UCSD’s new Eleanor Roosevelt College campus, will speak on “”The Architecture of Interaction”” as part of the college’s opening festivities on Oct. 10.
Sadfie was the executive director of the development of ERC’s 12 acres, including the residence halls, apartments, dining facilities, administrative services and International House. He partnered with Taal Sadfie, his daughter, and Ricardo Rabines of Sadfie Rabines Architects in San Diego.
Sadfie has also won awards for major projects in Montreal, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and at the Harvard University campus.
He received his bachelor’s degree in architecture at Montreal’s McGill University, and his firm, Moshe Sadfie and Associates Inc., located in Boston, Mass., has branch offices in Jerusalem and Toronto.
ERC was the first UCSD college to be built all at one time and not building-by-building.
Sadfie’s talk will take place at 3:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
