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  • Exhibition of Chicano Posters Previews Friday
  • Plous Winner to Speak on India
  • Gift to Endow Children's Center
  • Campus Notes
  • New Middle Eastern Center Launches Programs
  • Academic Senate Touches Lompoc High
  • Ocean's Call Drew Biologist to State, Campus
  • Highway 217 Design Process to Continue
  • Contract and Grant Awards
  • Credits
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    CAMPUS NOTES

    Chicano Music's 'Father' Donates Papers
    Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero, often described as the "father of Chicano music," was saluted last month in the Faculty Club for donating his personal archive of music cassettes, phonograph records, scrapbooks, and memorabilia to Davidson Library's Special Collections Department. Spanning a 60-year bilingual and bicultural musical career, the Guerrero Collection will be part of the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives.

    CUE Members Vote for Contract
    UC clerical workers voted in favor of a contract that calls for managers to treat them in a "fair and respectful" manner, and will boost wages through 2001, including retroactive payments. The terms accepted by the Coalition of University Employees are on the Web at <www.ucop.edu/humres/contracts/cx> and effective as of Dec. 20.

    HONORS & AWARDS

    Michael Beckerman, professor of music, has received an honorary diploma from the Czech Music Council for his research and efforts on behalf of Czech music. He joined UCSB in 1992.





    Gary Leal, professor of chemical engineering at UCSB since 1989, has received the Society of Rheology's coveted 2000 Bingham Medal, which is given for long-term achievement. He is currently the coeditor of the Physics of Fluids, one of the two most prestigious journals in fluid mechanics.




    TAP/Bookstore Awards
    Each month the Transportation Alternatives Program awards a $50 UCSB Bookstore gift certificate to one of its nearly 1,200 participants. In October it was van-pooler Ross Fontes, a student affairs officer in EOP: in November the winner was bike rider Brendon Larson, a Ph.D. candidate in ecology, evolution, and marine biology; in December it was bike rider Peggy Mendel, a data processor in the Registrar's Office.


    TRANSITIONS

      
    Kathleen Bohnett is the UCSB Foundation's new finacial accountant and Melodie Nelson is the foundation's new senior finacial accountant. Both came from private industry Bohnett was manager of Silver Wings Restaurant most recently, and Nelso was a senior accountant at GRC International for nine years.





    Beth Ford, a former Portland, Ore., attorney and local director for Girls, Inc., has been appointed assistant manager of the Comminity Housing Office. She is also coach for the UCSB womens's Ultimate Frisbee team.





    Steven C. Velasco, a three-year employee of UCSB, has been appointed director of institutional research and planning following a nationwide search. He has been acting director for the past year.