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UC SANTA BARBARA ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONBOARD OF DIRECTORSJan Campbell ’74, Santa BarbaraPresidentJustin Morgan ’07, Los AngelesVice-PresidentTravis Wilson ’02, Santa BarbaraSecretary-Treasurer

Cuca Acosta ’02, Santa BarbaraShanna Bright ’93, El CajonJorge Cabrera ’02, ChicagoTeresa Carranza ’09, Simi ValleyRon Chiarello ’83, LayfeyetteCarl Clapp ’81, Honolulu, HIManuel Esteban Ph.D.’ 76, Santa BarbaraMark French ’73, Santa BarbaraRalph Garcia ’83, San MateoDebi Kinney ’97, Henderson NVFrancesco Mancia ’80, CoolMary Moslander ’88, San FranciscoKristen Nesbit ’02, Los AngelesNiki Sandoval Ph.D. ’07, LompocMichele Schneider ’91, Los AltosRich St. Clair ’66, Santa BarbaraWenonah Valentine ’77, PasadenaSue Wilcox ’70, Ph.D. ’74, Santa BarbaraMarie Williams ’89, Ashburn, VA Marisa Yeager ’95, Riverside

Ex OfficioAli Guthy ‘15President, Associated StudentsBeverly ColgateExecutive Director, The UCSB FoundationZach Rentz President, Graduate Student AssociationHua Lee, M.A. ’78, Ph.D. ’80Faculty RepresentativeEd BirchUCSB Foundation Board of Trustees

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UC Santa Barbara Alumni AssociationWinter 2015 Vol. 45, No. 2

16 The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

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Up Front

5 Around Storke Tower

10 Research

12 Arts

14 Sports

In the Back

26 Milestones

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On the Cover

How UC Santa Barbara Has Become the Center of the Physics World

19 A Conversation With Charlie MungerWhy He is Giving UC Santa Barbara $65 Million for a Visiting Scholar’s Residence

22 A Call For Action In Isla VistaFoundation Trustees Want Self-Government, Better Living Conditions

24 A View of Isla Vista From the PulpitFather John Love’s View of His Community

Photo Composite of the

Kavlit Institue Building

and the Monkey nebula.

The “Monkey nebula”

NGC2174 is a cloud

of gas and dust that

surrounds the star cluster

NGC2175, on the border

of the Gemini and Orion

constellations. Photo

credit: KITP Building:

Tony Mastres; Monkey

Nebula: NASA/JPL-

Caltech/UCLA

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Photo left: A rendering

of the East entrance

to the Kavli Institute

for Theoretical Physics

(KITP). Photo credit:

Murray Duncan

Architects.

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Around Storke Tower— Campus Community Newsbits

Editorial contributions from the staff of the Office of Public Affairs.

From his office window

at UCSB, Michael

Young can see the

array of solar cells on

the roof of the campus

Recreation Center. It’s

a tangible reflection

of the changes he

has seen as Vice

Chancellor for Student

Affairs, a position from

which he is retiring

after 25 years at UCSB.

While Young admires the ‘green’ initiatives on campus, he’s most gratified about the role that students have played. He notes that they voted to tax themselves to fund green energy, and as a result, additional campus facilities will eventually produce more energy than they use. “Our students have defined themselves as this extraordinary group of young people who have a conscience, and a sense of citizenship and responsibility.”

Young has witnessed this in varied aspects of student life. “At Student Affairs, we have a lot of different functions – from student health to counseling, and from childcare and admissions to financial aid.” While he speaks modestly about his own role, he ardently touts the strengths of UCSB students. “We have the highest number of registered voters of any university in the country. Not percentage,” he stresses. “But the highest numbers. We’ve had that for two Presidential elections in a row.”

The collective spirit of generosity also impresses Young. “We’ve had students tax themselves to provide child care for other students, although the vast majority of our students don’t have children. Our students have voted to tax themselves to provide disabled student services, although the vast majority aren’t disabled. They have built a food bank for hungry students. A very high percentage of students join the Peace Corps, and we may have the highest percentage of volunteers helping the broader community.”

If one principle has defined Young’s tenure, it is Teamwork. Growing up in Chicago, he explains, “I was raised on team

sports like baseball and football. And I played basketball as both a young man and an old man.” (In fact, until a couple of years ago, Young could been seen shooting hoops at UCSB. “I gave it up because my legs couldn’t stand the pounding,” he laughs.)

“A saying I use is ‘Teams Win Championships.’ We’ve worked hard to instill a notion of collaboration, cooperation and a willingness to ‘pass the ball.’ We now have a Teams Win Championships Award that we give to departments that have crossed boundaries in particularly important areas.”

That message is especially important for a campus that is more diverse than ever. “It is stunning to see the racial, ethnic and sexual diversity of our student body,” says Young, who was a student leader at Beloit College during the turbulent 1960’s. “Unlike my generation, this generation ‘does diversity’ in an easy way. It’s just life to them.”

They also interact differently, due to the explosion of social media, and this has made the Student Affairs division rethink its outreach. “We had to purposefully understand the new realities. We have young professionals who help us communicate with students. We’re doing videos and sending out tweets and text alerts now.”

Social media clearly helped Young’s team respond quickly when tragedy struck the community of Isla Vista on March 23, 2014. “I was at home when I got a call from the President of Associated Students, who was driving somewhere in California with friends. They had heard—through social media—that shots had been fired. So my first communication about this tragedy came from a student who was hundreds of miles away. We then used social media to tell people to shelter in place. When we learned that there were students who could not get back to their homes or cars that were near crime scenes, we used social media to tell anyone who needed a place to stay overnight that they could come to the Student Resource Building. Social media was a mechanism to receive and provide information to students and their parents.”

Far from thinking of today’s students as a ‘selfie’ generation, Young views the future optimistically as he departs UCSB. “This is the best generation of young people I have ever worked with. If the old folks don’t screw things up before we let these young people take charge, we’re in good shape!”

Vice Chancellor Michael Young Reflects on 25 Years at UCSBBy Ellen Wolff


Around Storke Tower— Campus Community NewsbitsEditorial contributions from the staff of the Office of Public Affairs.

Thomas Weimbs, a UCSB biologist, has been award a $600,000 grant for his lab from the Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust of New York to support his team’s continued work on autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease.

Polycystic kidney disease affects more than 600,000 people in the U.S. alone—and some 12 million worldwide. It is a potentially fatal genetic condition that leads to renal failure and causes major cardiovascular complications. Weimbs hopes to develop a new therapeutic approach by targeting the mechanism that causes the cysts to grow.

Weimbs earned a PhD from the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Cologne, Germany. He did postdoc work at the Department of Anatomy, UC San Francisco. In the same year, he

UC president announces $10 million research awards initiativeUniversity of California President Janet Napolitano announced on December 10, 2014, the first recipients of the President’s Research Catalyst Awards, chosen from a pool of almost 200 proposals. The projects involve multi-campus, multi-disciplinary efforts, incorporating research, teaching and learning for undergraduate and graduate students. The awards are designed to stimulate UC research in areas that could benefit California and the world.

The $10 million will be spread over three years to fund research in areas of strategic importance, such as sustainability and climate, food and nutrition, equity and social justice, education innovation, and health care, promoting projects that take advantage of the shared facilities, expertise and economies of scale available through UC’s 10 campuses and five medical centers.

The award recipients are:• Understanding how California ecosystems will be affected by climate change, led by Barry

Sinervo, UC Santa Cruz ($1.9 million).• Helping California address the prison health care crisis, led by Brie Williams, UC San Francisco

($300,000).• Advancing physics, materials science and computing through quantum emulation, led by David

Weld, UC Santa Barbara ($300,000).• Tapping big data to inform questions of health, poverty and social justice, led by Sean Young,

UC Los Angeles ($300,000). • Using music to better understand the human brain, led by Scott Makeig, UC San Diego

($300,000).For more detail about the awards and the recipients projects, please go to

http://ucop.edu/research-initiatives/index.html

joined the Department of Cell Biology in the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic as an Assistant Professor where he established his research laboratory focusing on investigating membrane trafficking and epithelial cell polarity as well as molecular mechanisms underlying polycystic kidney disease. In 2005, Dr. Weimbs was recruited to the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and moved his laboratory to UCSB.

Weimbs Grant for $600,000

“Accidents are ‘a thorn in the side of reason, a threat to cosmic order and intelligibility.’”

Thomas Weimbs.

Photo: Rod Rolle.

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Christian Felipe Gift of $1 MillionInvestor Christian Felipe has given a $1 million endowment to UCSB’s Technology Management Program in support of the new Master’s degree in Technology Management. The money will establish a new endowed professorship for the emerging program, which has been designed to catapult engineers and scientists toward becoming leaders of technology ventures.

The Technology Management Program (TMP) provides driven, innovative, and entrepreneurial students with a solid foundation in business principles and professional skills vital to their success after graduation. Students work under the guidance of dedicated faculty, practicing professionals, and experienced mentors. They are introduced to state-of-the-art business methods, strategies for successful technology commercialization, new venture creation, and best practices for fostering innovation.

Felipe is a Southern California native with a bachelor’s degree in economics from UCLA and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Felipe has been a member of the financial industry since the late 1980s. He started as a technology analyst and later became a top portfolio manager and later co-founder of Boston-based hedge fund Sirios Capital Management, which he sold over a decade ago.

Christian Felipe.

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Around Storke Tower— Campus Community NewsbitsEditorial contributions from the staff of the Office of Public Affairs.

Piper Kerman.

Photo: Sam Azlutsky.

Densovirus May be Culprit in Sea Star WastingSince the summer of 2013, millions of Sea Stars native to the Pacific coast of North America from Baja California to southern Alaska have succumbed to a wasting disease in which their limbs pull away from their bodies and their organs exude through their skin.

Kevin Lafferty, a principal investigator at UCSB’s Marine Science Institute, along with a team of other researchers, has identified the most likely cause as the Sea Star Associated Densovirus (SSaDV), a type of parvovirus commonly found in invertebrates.

During their research, the scientists have found traces of the virus in museum samples from as long ago as 1942. Some possible explanations for the sudden rise of the virus are changes in the environment, Sea Star overpopulation, or mutations of the virus.

As a seemingly unlikely predator, Sea Stars are a keystone to the marine ecosystem.

Bat Star ( Patiria miniata) showing lesions

of sea star wasting disease in a California

Quarantine facility. Photo: Ian Hewson.

Orange is the New Black: UCSB Reads 2015 SelectionPiper Kerman’s best-selling memoir is the latest selection for UCSB Reads. Not only does it chronicle her 13 month

sentence at a federal miminum-security prison in Connecticut, but it opens the broader conversation about who, how and why people get there, prison conditions, and, ultimately, prison reform.

UCSB Reads is presented by the UCSB Library, in partnership with the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor. A committee that included faculty and staff members, administrators and student representatives made this year’s selection.

An annual event now in its ninth year, UCSB Reads engages the campus and the Santa Barbara community in conversations about a key topic while reading the same book. UCSB Reads is presented by the UCSB Library, in partnership with the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor. A committee that included faculty and staff members, administrators and student representatives made this year’s selection.

UCSB Wins Grant to Study EbolaA team of UCSB scientists have won a $128,202 grant from the National Science Foundation to study how people react psychologically to Ebola. Ebola is one of the deadliest contagious diseases to emerge into the public consciousness in recent years, and it has been a source of much fear globally, despite the fact that the actual risk of contagion is quite low in many parts of the world.

The research will focus on how people differ in how they perceive their vulnerability to Ebola, and how these different reactions are related to cultural values in large samples of Americans. By knowing the role of cultural values, the researchers believe that they can understand why people react the way that they do. Eventually, researchers hope to figure out more effective ways to cope with the anxiety and stress of disease-related threats.

Upcoming Events

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A variety of UCSB Reads events, including faculty panels, book discussions and screenings, will take place throughout winter and spring quarters, both on campus and in the community. All events are open to the public, and they will culminate in a public talk by the author on April 15 in UCSB’s Campbell Hall.

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Sexual Assault RoundtableAssemblyman Das Williams, D-Carpinteria, chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, and state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, incoming chair of the Legislative Women’s Caucus, organized a roundtable discussion on strengthening education and prevention programs, improving the handling of sexual assault complaints, and expanding resources for survivors at UC Santa Barbara.

At UCSB, between 2010 and 2014, there have been 42 cases filed with the Office of Judicial Affairs, but only three cases have resulted in any formal discipline (suspension of one to three quarters). An estimated one in five women will experience a sexual assault during their college career, but fewer than five percent of those will be reported to law enforcement. Survivors also often experience feeling discouraged by investigators and law

enforcement from moving forward.

For victims of sexual assault, there is the Campus Advocacy, Resources & Education (CARE) program at UCSB. Its goal is to help students who are experiencing or have experienced stalking, dating/domestic violence, and sexual assault by providing confidential advocacy and support. In January, new California legislation (SB 967) goes into effect and requires that colleges update their campus policies so that specific affirmative consent is defined as the standard in campus policies.

UCSB Fraternity Closes Its DoorsThe Beta Theta Pi General Fraternity closed its UCSB chapter after a series of infractions over several years, particularly for alleged hazing and forced alcohol consumption. The final straw was a recent incident in which a fraternity member was hospitalized due to overconsumption of alcohol.

Roberto Pregadio, president of Beta Theta Pi, says the chapter was shut down after five years of trouble, from before he was even a member. He denies that the recent incident of two pledges being taken to the hospital for drinking too much was hazing related. Predagio says that they are being punished for taking care of others and believes the decision to close the chapter may cause situations in the future where students do not take their friends to the

Matthew Fisher. Photo: Sonia Fernandez

Matthew Fisher Winner of Buckley AwardUCSB physics professor Matthew Fisher has been awarded the 2015 Oliver E. Buckley Prize for discovering and pioneering investigations of the superconductor-insulator transition, a paradigm for quantum phase transitions.

The prize is awarded annually to recognize and encourage outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics.

Fisher obtained a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from Cornell University in 1981 and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986. He has worked for the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Microsoft’s Station Q, and now UCSB.

Fisher’s research has focussed broadly on theories of strongly interacting quantum-many body systems, especially those which exhibit exotic behavior. For example, superconductor/superfluid-insulator transitions, one-dimensional Luttinger liquids, fractional quantum Hall bulk and edge states, quantum spin liquids in frustrated magnets, Bose metal phases, deconfined quantum critical phase transitions, non-Fermi liquid phases of 2d electrons, and bosonic topological insulators in 3d.

Legislature Hearing at UCSB. Photo: Courtesy of

Assemblyman Das Williams’ Office)

hospital because they are afraid of the consequences. He also believes that the closure was based primarily on legal liability concerns of the national chapter and the Office of Student Life.

Beta Theta Pi pledges are still able to join other student groups. Members of Beta Theta Pi can continue living in the same house and are automatically alumni members. The chapter has the option to re-charter in several years.


Unraveling the secrets of concussionsBy Ellen Wolff

Editorial contributions from the staff of the Office of Public Affairs.

Research

“The ability to gather

information, which used to be so crucial, is now far less

important than the ability to sift through it.”

That observation from author Pico Iyer wasn’t prompted directly by the state of scientific research today,

but it certainly applies. Scientists often talk about the ‘fire hose’ of data being generated these days, and the challenges

involved in evaluating what much of it means. At UCSB’s Brain Imaging Center, researchers are developing analytical tools and

strategies to understand more clearly what is going on inside our heads.

This research team, headed by Dr. Scott Grafton from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, recently received a $300,000 grant to develop techniques for studying brain processes that could lead to better understanding of injuries like concussions. The grant came from the Head Health Challenge, a research initiative funded by an alliance between the National Football League and General Electric. One of Professor Grafton’s doctoral students, Matt Cieslak, played a role in how this research will proceed at UCSB. Cieslak developed software to organize and analyze data generated by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) brain scans. As he explains, “The algorithm I designed works to understand any difference in brain wiring across different groups.” While the software was initially used to analyze the brains of people who stutter, Cieslak hopes it will prove useful in studying concussions and other disorders in the white matter

of brains. Cieslak first became interested in this analytical approach when he learned about Diffusion Spectrum

Imaging (DSI), a method used to track connections within the brain. At UCSB, Dr. Grafton told

him about the scanning data that was being collected at the Brain Imaging Center, and

Cieslak went to work developing the software code he called DSI 2. “I

ran a preliminary analysis on a few people with mild

concussions and we found a couple of things” Cieslak recalls. “One of the figures in our grant proposal included those results.” UCSB was one of only 16 recipients of this grant, out of more than 400 entries from 27 countries.

The team at UCSB’s Brain Imaging Center is also benefiting greatly from developments in scanning hardware as well as software. “We just got a scanner upgrade, so we can get higher resolution scans in a shorter amount of time,” says Cieslak. “It used to take 49 minutes to get a high resolution scan and now it’s down to 18 minutes. That increases the number of people we can scan. There’s a lot of variation in how people are ‘wired.’ So this lets us broaden the database quite a bit. We’ve currently scanned 89 people and we’re working on getting a lot more.”

The UCSB team has focused on the deep white matter tracks in the brain, where cells process and transmit information. Because there are so many 3D pathways crossing each other, it has been a challenge to tease them apart. “They look like a ball of yarn,” Cieslak notes. “Before we got the high resolution Diffusion Imaging, it was hard to look at.”

Cieslak’s DSI2 software organizes data into a searchable and analyzable format. “It’s a tool that you can put all your data in, and that makes it easier to go through and analyze later.” UCSB has put this software online so that other researchers can download it as well. This open-source approach is one of the hallmarks of the brain research initiative, which is also being pursued by another grant recipient, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. “They are doing the same kind of imaging that we are,” says Cieslak. “They also have open source software. We work together and our software works together. They can log onto ours and we can log onto theirs.”

The Brain Imaging researchers are also collaborating with members of other UCSB departments, from Speech Pathology to Computer Science. “We have people from all over working with us,” says Cieslak. He hopes that the research will ultimately yield insights for a wider population, beyond those who might be injured playing sports. “My ultimate goal is that someone could come in, you could give them a scan, upload the data and then get results back within a couple of minutes.”


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Unraveling the secrets of concussionsBy Ellen Wolff


Arts

UCSB’s Arts DistrictUC Santa Barbara’s Arts District is the campus’ academic center for scholarship in the arts and fine arts.

The District consists of the area that extends from the edge of campus at Pardall Road on one end to the music building and Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on the other, and it includes the arts building; theater and dance buildings, both east and west; Hatlen Theater, the Performing Arts Theater; and the Art, Design & Architecture Museum. Also among them are the arts and music libraries.

The Arts District designation serves to emphasize the vibrancy of the campus’s arts and fine arts programs.

UCSB Arts & Lectures receives $25,000 Arts GrantArts & Lectures received an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support innovative programming in 2015. Art grants support the creation of art, lifelong learning in the arts, public engagement with art and reaffirmation of the arts as part of everyday lives.

NEA Chairman Jane Chu announced the grant recipients on December 2, 2014. UCSB was one of 919 non-profit organizations nationwide to receive the prestigious grant.

Celesta Billeci, Miller McCune executive director of UCSB Arts & Lectures: “We’re thrilled and honored to be recognized by the NEA with this grant. The NEA stamp of approval is deeply meaningful to us – it puts Arts & Lectures on par with some of the greatest arts and cultural institutions in the nation. We are grateful for this support, which will enable us to continue to present innovative new works and programming of the highest caliber.”

Founded in 1959, UCSB Arts & Lectures is the largest arts and lectures presenting organization between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

New Undergraduate Degree in Museum StudiesThe Department of the History of Art and Architecture at UC Santa Barbara has established a new undergraduate major emphasis in museum studies. The emphasis draws on the academic expertise in art and architectural history within the department and from several other departments and entities across campus, including art, Chicana and Chicano studies, East Asian languages and cultural studies, geography, history, religious studies, sociology, spatial studies and the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration.

The museum studies emphasis is designed to help prepare students who apply to

graduate programs in Art History, Architectural Conservation, Museum Studies, Art Business, Art Law, and Arts Management with the intention of having careers in museums, art galleries, historic preservation, public history, and auction houses.

Students who participate in the emphasis will be able to choose from among a variety of lecture courses and more intensive seminars that examine a range of historical, theoretical, and practical issues with which the field is engaged. They will also be required to serve in internships, which will provide intensive “hands on” experience.

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by vibrant banners. Top: Sculpture on

lawn behind Storke Tower.

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Harvey Schechter ’47 and his wife Hope have been strong advocates of UC Santa Barbara for many years. Harvey attended the Riviera campus and has been closely involved with the campus, including serving as a board member of the Alumni Association and also as a trustee of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation.

As Harvey tells it, “There was no tuition in those days, and the registration fee was only $17 per semester. In short,

the people of California gave me a free four-year college education!”

Harvey and Hope sought to create a lasting legacy to show their appreciation for the education he received. Through discussions with the Development Office, Harvey and Hope decided upon one of the most common forms of planned giving – a bequest in their wills. Their generosity will provide UC Santa Barbara with a gift totaling 80% of their estate upon their deaths.

Upon receipt of their gift, the money will be used to help needy students enjoy and benefit from a UC Santa Barbara education that they might not otherwise have been able to afford.

Harvey explains the motivation for their gift this way: “Because that [UCSB] diploma served me so well since 1947, I vowed decades ago to pay back what I owe by doing for the young people of today and tomorrow what was done for me so long ago. If I lived to be 120, I

would not be able to repay UC Santa Barbara and the people of California for what was done for me decades ago. Hope and I are investing in the future of California!”

If you have similar ideas and are interested in a gift plan to meet your financial planning and

charitable giving objectives, please call: Chris Pizzinat, Deputy Director, Office of Development at

(805) 893-5126, toll-free (800) 641-1204 or email [email protected]. For more gift ideas and

examples, please visit www.plannedgiving.ucsb.edu

Hope and I are investing in the future of California!”“

A GIFT OF GRATITUDE

Harvey Schechter, BA ’47, and Hope Schechter


Sports

The UC Santa Barbara men put together a record breaking performance winning the Big West Cross Country Championship with a 21 point effort. The Gauchos claimed four of the top-five places and rounded out their scoring with a ninth place finish. On a day where UCSB put on a marvelous display of team racing, they had their sixth and first non-scoring

Ali Barbeau, Chanel Hoffman, Ali Spindt Honored by Big West Ali Barbeau was named first team all-conference for the second consecutive season, as she led the Gauchos Volleyball Team with 265 kills and 30 service aces. Her aces figure also ranked eighth in the Big West.

Barbeau finished the season on a high note with back-to-back double-double performances. First against Hawai’i, she reached career highs of 22 kills and 15 digs as she pushed the match into five sets after the Gauchos initially trailed 2-0. She went on to close out the year with 16 kills and 12 digs in a road win at Cal Poly, while hitting at a .400 clip.

Of the 17 players named to the first team, Barbeau was just one of the four to have made the team again for at least the second time.

After a remarkable first year with the Gauchos, Chanel Hoffman was named to the Honorable Mention All-Big West and All-Freshman teams. The freshman was third on the team with 229 kills and 22 aces. She also led all UCSB pin hitters with 189 digs (1.93 per set) and 62 total blocks (0.63 per set). A threat on both sides of the ball, Hoffman finished the season with a team-high seven double doubles, including five in conference play.

The outside hitter was named the Big West Freshman of the Week after reaching career highs against UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton. Against

the Anteaters, Hoffman led the Gauchos with 14 kills and a then career-best 14 digs. She followed up that performance with a season-best six block assists and also had 15 kills off a .419 hitting percentage.

Also earning honorable mention accolades was libero Ali Spindt. In 2013, Spindt was named the conference freshman of the year and also led the Gauchos in kills, but she was forced to move to libero this year due to injury. The sophomore made it look easy going from UCSB’s leading attacker last season, to becoming its top defender in 2014 as she finished with 396 digs (fourth in the conference) and 4.21 digs per set (third most).

The sophomore perhaps had a strong performance during the UCSB/Cal Poly Invitational when she was named MVP and was voted as the Big West Defensive Player of the Week.

Article reprinted from UCSBgauchos.com. For more, see UCSBgauchos.com.

From Left to Right: Chanel Hoffman, Ali Barbeau, Ali Spindt. Photo: UCSBgauchos.com

member finish eleventh overall, ahead of five other teams No. 1 runner. The Gauchos tied the fifth lowest team score in the 45 year history of the Big West Cross Country Championship.

The Gaucho women placed third overall in the 6,000m competition. Dani Moreno ran in the No. 1 spot for the Gauchos in every meet of the season, placing fourth.

Sarah Schreck ran in the No. 2 spot for the Gauchos for the second consecutive race, placing 14th overall and senior Bailey Miller broke the tape in 19th. Maxine Goyette, a steeplechase specialist during track season came in 22nd and Kelsey O’Connell finished the team scoring in 27th place. This was the first time O’Connell broke into the top-five for the Gauchos this season.

A Run For The Ages, Men Win Big West Title, Women Place Third

Women’s Volleyball

Cross Country

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How Kavli Institute Will Change

The Laws of the WorldGeorge Thurlow, ’73

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How Kavli Institute Will Change

The Laws of the WorldFred Kavli, who died last year, was born on a small farm in Eresfjord, Norway. He liked to recount the story of how he and his brother were once buzzed by a Nazi fighter and spent winters stealing fuel oil from the Nazi invaders.

Charlie Munger was born in Omaha, Nebraska and grew up with fantasies of being a modern day Robinson Crusoe.

In some ways, there are no two more different men than Fred Kavli and Charlie Munger. In other ways, these two brilliant trendsetters are from the very same scientific pod.

The legacies of these two men will forever change the intellectual landscape of UC Santa Barbara and influence the history of physics in profound ways.

Top: Fred Kavli. Photo: The Kavli Foundation.Bottom: Charlie Munger. Photo: Courtesy of rebalance-ira.com.

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Both became incredibly wealthy one dollar at a time. And both had

a love for physics that brought their dreams to UC Santa Barbara.

At the beginning of the 21st Century Kavli began funding some of

the most cutting edge basic science research institutes in the world,

with their foci ranging from physics to astronomy. To burnish this

investment in pure science, Kavli instituted the Kavli Awards, three

$1 million prizes for basic science research to be awarded biannually

and to one day compete in prominence and prestige with the Nobel

Prize.

His bold move into funding modern science began at UC Santa

Barbara when he donated $7.5 million to help fund the Kavli Institute

for Theoretical Physics (KITP). The Institute had been at UCSB since

1979, when it was established by a grant from the National Science

Foundation. But the Kavli grant put the Institute on a whole new

footing.

The Institute is a one of a kind research center. It has five

permanent scientists, a little over a dozen postdoctoral fellows and

a handful of graduate students. Yet over the course of a year it will

host more than 1,000 visiting scholars, some for as long as 20 weeks.

Some come for “conferences” that only last a week.

All the programs are different from almost any other scientific

gathering in the world. There are few lectures or presentations. The

days are filled with discussions among scientists, free for all debates

and time to think. The goal: forge relationships among scientists from

very different areas, get them talking, begin the process of discovery.

At the core is physics and Lars Bildsten, the director of the KITP, calls

his Institute a “physics oasis.”

The results are more than impressive. There is one Nobel Prize

winner on the permanent faculty, Professor David Gross, and just

this year two of the three Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or

Medicine attended the KITP program entitled: “Neurophysics of

Space, Time and Learning”.

The topics of the programs are both varied and rarefied. They have

included:

• A summer conference on “Super Bugs” and the evolution of drug

resistance. The program brought together researchers from biology,

medicine and physics to study how evolutionary processes are

demonstrated in the evolution of pathogens.

• A fall conference on “avalanches,” not the ones on the ski slopes,

but the ones that trigger breaks and fissures in glass, crystalline

structures and of all things, the human brain.

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• A month-long program in 2006 studied

how theoretical physics could be applied to the

problem of irregular heartbeats. More than 40

cardiologists, physicists and biomedical scientists

participated.

• A future program will focus on

“Entanglement in Strongly Correlated Quantum

Matter” and have topics including tensor-

network states, density matrix normalization and

“c-theories.”

• Also planned is a program on Astrophysics

and the Milky Way to discuss the last 15

years of data pulled from satellites and earth

observatories. Invited guests will be experts in

stellar astrophysics, Milky Way Structure and the

stellar population of the local Universe.

BUNKS FOR THE BRILLIANTCharlie Munger’s interest in physics goes

back to his days at the California Institute for

Technology where he took a physics class while

in the Army during World War II. For the rest

of his life, he was a voracious reader of science

biographies and likes to cite the work of Madam

Curie and Albert Einstein.

Through a fishing buddy Munger, who has a

home in Santa Barbara, heard about KITP and

its interest in building a residence hall for the

visiting scientists. The idea would be that when

the scientists were away from their labs and

blackboards they could be positing string theory

over barbecued tri-tip or Santa Ynez Valley pinot

noir.

What emerged from lengthy discussions

between Munger and UC Santa Barbara was a

unique partnership rarely seen in the University

of California system.

Munger would lease University land on El

Colegio adjacent to the recently constructed San

Clemente residence halls for graduate students.

On that land he has begun construction on a

$65 million residence using local builder and

UC Santa Barbara trustee Michael Towbes’

construction company. The residence can be

built to Munger’s standards, including king

sized beds, oversized rooms and large gathering

places. When completed, Munger will donate the

building to UC Santa Barbara.

Taken together, the existing KITP building

and the new residence hall will make UC Santa

The Institute is a one of a kind

research center. The goal: forge

relationships among scientists

from very different areas, get

them talking, begin the process

of discovery.


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Charlie Munger is the partner of Warren Buffett who together

control the fifth largest publicly traded company in the world, Berkshire

Hathaway. In December shares of Berkshire Hathaway hit $235,000 per

share. Munger’s wealth is estimated by Forbes magazine at $1.2 billion,

and like Buffett, he has made philanthropy a key life goal.

Munger recently appeared before the UC Santa Barbara Foundation Board of Trustees to discuss his $65 million gift to the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara. Excerpts from Charlie Munger’s remarks appear below:

The reason why physics has gotten so much attention is that it is so

important. You can argue that physics got started with the Greeks

who were just naturally curious about math and how things worked.

When civilization shifted to Rome they were great engineers but their

net contribution to math and physics was zero. …But the world eventually

returned to the Greek tradition.

What really showed the world that physics was important was Issac

Newton. His achievements were so obviously important that when they

buried him at Westminster Abbey the inscription on his tomb was: Here

lies what was mortal of Issac Newton. There is no better epitaph that

has been written. With Newton and physics the modern world changed.

If you could imagine if we were all living with no electricity, no internal

combustion engines, no modern agriculture. Without modern agriculture

we would all be starving.

Where physics really got a huge boost was in World War II. At that

time, the English made two remarkable advances in the hard sciences.

A Conversation With Charlie Munger on Physics, Philanthropy and the Munger Way

A rendering of the East entrance to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)

Visiting Scholar’s Residence, a three-story, 75,000-square-foot facility to house the

visitors to the KITP. Common space inside and outside will allow for continued scientific

interactions for the hundreds of visiting scientists who come to the KITP every year for

programs in theoretical physics. Photo: Courtesy of Murray Duncan Architects.

Barbara the center of the pure physics universe.

Bildsten brings more than administrative heft

to the growing KITP universe. In 2009 he received

kudos for having predicted a type of supernova

explosion in the galaxy that had never been

witnessed. Two years later the event was observed

by a team of astronomers at UC Berkeley, a rare

occurrence where a theoretical physicist predicts

an astronomical event.

In a recent interview with Coastlines, Bildsten

explained that KITP is moving more forcefully into

the field of quantitative biology, itself a new field.

Q Bio, as it is called, is a new type of thinking where

physics theory is applied to biological processes,

explained KITP Deputy Director Greg Huber. While

in the past KITP would host a physics-biology

program every couple of years, now the Institute

hosts two a year.

Physics will be able to bring new theoretical

tools to investigations into biology, medicine and

chemistry. Physics also can provide hand held tools.

It was breakthroughs in physics that led to the

invention of light microscopes.

Bildsten believes the world is on the verge of

major breakthroughs in the area of biology and

medicine and it will be partly driven by new ways

of approaching old problems. He notes that the

real breakthroughs come not from answering the

question that bedevils researchers, but by finding

what the right question is. That, he argues, is the

role of the physicist.

Charlie Munger obviously agrees. As he told the

New York Times when discussing his gift to UCSB,

“Physics is vitally important. Everybody

knows that.”

Taken together, the existing

KITP building and the new

residence hall will make UC

Santa Barbara the center of

the pure physics universe.

“


They developed the most powerful radar in the

world, the cavity magnetron, and they also used

modern computer science to break the German

codes. …The salvation of England was absolutely

caused by hard science and it was obvious.

Physics is hugely important and it has had this

remarkable affect. When I was young practically

nobody took physics. In my high school in

Omaha there were no physics courses. When

I went off to the University of Michigan a very

small proportion of the students took physics.

Now there are physics courses everywhere.

The whole world has changed and this basic

engine of competency (physics) has gotten the

recognition it deserves. And little UCSB aided

by the philanthropist who deserves the credit

today, Fred Kavli, quietly pushed its physics

department higher and higher, step by step

and got the leading visiting physicist program

in the world. It is not a slight lead, number two

is not even close. When I got an opportunity

to participate I did not consider it a wonderful

burden, I considered it a wonderful privilege

to be associated with wonderful people and a

very interesting program. I’m just continuing

the program of somebody like Fred Kavli who

had an enormous influence on physics by doing

what he did with his life. This is just one more

consequence of Fred Kavli.

I read scientific biography as a permanent, life-

long habit. That has given me insight into how

the scientific achievements have occurred. The

most interesting man to me is Einstein. Einstein

came very close to dying in total obscurity. If it

had not been for his friends, his pals with whom

he discussed physics he never would have gotten

the job in the patent office that enabled him to

survive in life at a time when he was failing. If he

had not had people to talk to about physics he would

not have been able to make his discoveries. He got a

reputation for being alone, but he wasn’t totally alone.

Even Einstein needed to talk to other people who knew

a lot about physics. I am so aware of the fact that that

is the way it works that the idea of getting physicists

together is just such a wonderful idea.

What is happening here is enormously important

and a credit to UCSB. Imagine UCSB. It wasn’t even a

university when I came to California for the first time

in 1943. And here it is, the leading visiting physics

program in the world.

The Berkshire system, the Munger system, is that

you have got to lead. You don’t stop. You increase it.

This residence we have worked on we have tried to

make it just the way we would want it if we were the

visiting physicists.

Some people have noticed that this building is going

to cost a fair amount per square foot. I am not known

as an idiot who spends a lot of money per square foot

needlessly. …There is nothing gaudy about it. It’s not

like we are putting gold plating on the fixtures. But the

walls are thick and soundproof, the doors and windows

will be unusually attractive, and there is a lot of indoor-

outdoor living.

In this building the main formulas of physics are

going to be scattered around the building engraved

in stone and wood. It will also have hanging space

for flags so when you come from that country we will

haul out its flag and put it in its place in the hall. There

are a million little things we have considered in the

architecture here because it was what we would have

wanted if we were the visiting physicists. I predict we

will have trouble getting them out of this place once

they have come in.

I have this thing about always putting things in

context and seeking synthesis. I’ve done this all my

life. It has turned out to be very remunerative. You

are talking today to a very lucky man….In my lifetime

the UC system when I was young was so much better

than any other system it was almost a joke. I went to

the University of Michigan which I always thought was

the number two state university system in the United

State. Number one was Berkeley. So California

has this long tradition of being good at universities.

“What is happening here is enormously important and a credit to UCSB. Imagine UCSB. It wasn’t even a university when I came to California for the first time in 1943. And here it is, the leading visiting physics program in the world.” –Charlie Munger

The Munger Way con’t.

Director of KITP, Astrophysicist

Lars Bildsten.

Photo: Courtesy image.

”

Charlie Munger, vice chaiman

of Berkshire Hathaway

Corporation is funding a new

visitor housing facility for the

Kavli Institute for Theoretical

Physics.

Photo: AP Images.

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Growing UC Santa Barbarato 25,000 students

The university’s academic goals are the foundation for the LRDP, which provides a detailed road map for UCSB’s potential growth and ensures stringent environmental protections. The document outlines the physical development plan for the campus, from land use and building, to transportation and parking, to open space and landscape, to utilities and infrastructure. It is considered an essential tool as UCSB pursues its overall mission of teaching, research and public service.

Besides detailing potential new academic buildings — the LRDP is a blueprint for possible projects — the plan provides for enrollment growth of up to 5,000 additional students, including 5,000 new bed spaces for undergraduates. It also features 1,800 faculty and staff housing units.

Following a thorough and collaborative public process that involved multiple agencies and stakeholders both on campus and off, UC Santa Barbara has received unanimous approval from the California Coastal Commission for its Long Range Development Plan (LRDP).

The Board of Regents of the University of California, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors and the Goleta City Council all previously approved the plan. A comprehensive land-use document, the LRDP will guide campus planning and development through the year 2025.

“On behalf of UC Santa Barbara, I want to express my tremendous appreciation for the approval and thoughtful review by the California Coastal Commission, including Executive Director Charles Lester and his dedicated staff, whose support and wise counsel to UCSB played an integral role in this process,” said Chancellor Henry T. Yang, who attended the commission’s meeting today in Half Moon Bay. “We are extremely grateful to all who collaborated with us on UCSB’s Long Range Development Plan. The collective insight and true partnership provided by so many throughout this process have made our plan even stronger, and ensured that it is in harmony with our neighbors, the California coast and the environment.

“I am also thankful to the County of Santa Barbara and the City of Goleta, as well as to the Metropolitan Transit District, the Goleta Water District and Sanitary District, Sustainable University Now and all of other our community partners who participated,” Yang added. “We have solicited, welcomed and benefited from their input. Most of all, I would like to sincerely thank our campus community –– our faculty, staff and students, as well as our administrative colleagues –– for the tremendous team effort over many months and years to make this the best possible plan to fulfill our shared vision for the exciting future of UC Santa Barbara.”

“This important achievement will allow us to pursue thoughtful and creative academic planning with the aim of renewing our faculty and making a superb University of California education accessible to more students,” said David Marshall, UCSB’s executive vice chancellor. “This LRDP will help us to fulfill our potential as a great public research university, contributing to knowledge, education, culture and society.”

Kum-Kum Bhavnani, chair of UCSB’s Academic Senate and a professor of sociology, agreed: “The LRDP will ensure that UCSB’s innovative academic plans for the coming period will be well-supported by the physical development of our campus. The Academic Senate is thrilled with this approval by the California Coastal Commission, which ensures that the vitality of our future programs can be realized in the coming decades.”

“We feel very good that we’re able to move forward with a plan that does allow the campus and the university to grow but at the same time preserves and protects large chunks of valuable California coastline,” said Marc Fisher, UCSB’s vice chancellor for administrative services. “The final product is one of true collaboration, a reflection of stakeholders on all sides working together to create a plan that works for the university, the Coastal Commission and the community.”

More at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014565/foundations-future#sthash.283j6ihO.dpuf”

California Coastal Commission Finally Gives The Green LightBy Shelly Leachman, UCSB Public Affairs Writer

This aerial view of the campus highlights the amount of open space

preserved in the Long Range Development Plan. More than half of

the university's total 1,117-acre holding, 590 acres, are designated as

protected open space.


Spotlight: Isla Vista

Update

Earlier this year, Coastlines

Magazine , Winter 2014, examined

the history of Isla Vista in the article,

“So Close to UCSB, So Far From

Good.” Since then, the Chancellor’s

Coordinating Committee on

Isla Vista, UC Santa Barbara

Foundation Board of Trustees and

the community are examining and

discussing the issues currently

facing Isla Vista and advising and

developing recommendations to

address these issues. This article

will be one of a continuing series in

Coastlines providing updates on

community progress towards solving

Isla Vista problems..

Perhaps the 10th time will be the charm.In a scathing indictment of just about every player that has ever touched Isla Vista, a volunteer group

of UC Santa Barbara’s biggest donors and friends called for vast reforms for the campus’ bedroom

community.

No powerful interest group emerged unscathed from criticism and the most powerful message in the

report was a call for self-governance of Isla Vista’s largely student and youth population.

“The current situation in Isla Vista has reached a crisis wherein critical infrastructure and services

are not being provided and the safety and well-being of its residents are not being adequately

protected,” the report stated. “Without proper self-governance in Isla Vista, a growing population is

likely to lead to further deterioration of conditions over time.”

The report grew out of questions raised by Trustee and Professor Emeritus Duncan Mellichamp

at the Trustees meeting held just weeks after the May 23 shootings in Isla Vista. Mellichamp called

on University officials to take swift and determined action to improve living conditions in the

23,000-population community.

As a result of his comments, Trustee Chair Marcy Carsey formed a 13-member committee to study

and report back on how to quickly and effectively improve Isla Vista.

The Committee worked with breathtaking speed, finishing the bulk of its work before school

opened in October. Its report was formally released in early November. (https://chancellor.ucsb.edu/

memos/?9.25.2014.Isla.Vista.Safety.Progress.Report.)

In comments to Coastlines, Mellichamp said the report came out of the “degenerating circumstances

in Isla Vista over the last five years with several major losses of life and several serious assaults. These

are things you don’t associate with a functioning community.”

Mellichamp, who taught for many years in the chemical engineering department, was head of the

Academic Senate and chaired the statewide Academic Senate, has donated more than $10 million to

endow 13 faculty chairs. He was critical of UC Santa Barbara’s lack of strategic perspectives on Isla

Vista. “UCSB years ago should have understood its future is going to depend on its ability to interact

constructively with Isla Vista.” He added, “If [Isla Vista] ever was in the University’s sphere of influence,

it is completely out of University hands now.”

The Committee conceded in its preamble that there have been 9 different major studies and reports

on Isla Vista problems over the last 45 years. None has seemed to gain much traction.

Why is this one different? The main reasons, Mellichamp said, is that the report “took on the

governance issue head on. Every other report has addressed the existing governance structure and

expected they would deal with the issues.

“This report says the existing government attitudes are not capable of dealing with the issues and

Isla Vista needs and deserves its own form of government.”

In a response to the report Chancellor Henry Yang said, “I am indebted to our dedicated Trustees for

the time and energy they devote to our University and the Isla Vista community, and for their timely

report and thoughtful recommendations.”

Trustee and Alumnus Mark Linehan, who owns the Camino Real Marketplace and was a member

of the Trustee panel, concluded, “It will take an enormous amount of heavy lifting from both the local

stakeholders and government officials along with UC Santa Barbara. It is imperative and urgent that

those who have the ability step up and make Isla Vista the great community it is and has the potential

to be.”

A Call For Action In Isla VistaUC Santa Barbara Foundation Trustees Throw Down the Gauntlet By George Thurlow, ’73

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Key Findings and Recommendations of Trustee’s Report

• Establish an Isla Vista Neighborhood Restorative Justice Court for low level crimes committed in Isla Vista

• Create a UCSB Isla Vista Safety Task Force• Extend commercial business from the Isla Vista core along

Madrid, Seville and Trigo towards campus• Reduce population density through purchases of existing

apartments or a master lease agreement by the University• Establish a Community Center that anchors community

activities• Improve the Student Affairs judicial conduct process and

make it more transparent• Eliminate the difference in UCSB conduct codes between

on campus and off campus • Appoint a Vice Chancellor with primary responsibility to

oversee Isla Vista• Create an internal UCSB oversight committee for Isla Vista

Trustee’s Report Has These Isla Vista Goals• Develop a form of self-

governance for Isla Vista that will provide improvements, services and promote safety.

• Improve safety and security in Isla Vista

• Create a livable urban community in Isla Vista

• Create a dynamic intellectual environment in Isla Vista

• Require UCSB students to adhere to certain conduct and adhere to standards of scholarship, leadership and citizenship

• Communicate UCSB excellence to the world

• Enhance UCSB’s ability to administer programs involving Isla Vista

Students at the top of the loop, looking out over I.V. Photo: Tony Mastres.



Update

TheIsla Vista

View From the PulpitA Candid Conversation With

St. Mark’s John Love Story by George Thurlow, ’73.

Photo of Father Love: Kaitlyn McQuown ’14


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Father John Love probably has one of the best views of Isla Vista, even if it is not the prettiest or most breathtaking.

Within “a five iron shot,” as he described it, sit six fraternity houses. Next door is a massive three story apartment house that used to house low income Hispanic families. They were moved out by a new owner and replaced with high income college students.

From his churches small vestibule the Isla Vista homeless are fed. In the large church regular community meetings are held to debate the future of Isla Vista.

For more than five years, Father Love has been an imposing if comforting figure in the Isla Vista community. (In his sparse spare time he serves at a Lieutenant Colonel in the California Air National Guard.)

He takes confession from students and workers. He shares communion with families who live in and around Isla Vista. He hosts fraternity initiation ceremonies inside the Catholic Church—“They seem to like the dark and all the candles.”

When asked from his vantage point what needs to change in Isla Vista he does not hesitate and the answer is a little surprising.

“The first thing we have to do is remove the liquor stores from Isla Vista, perhaps allowing the sale of beer and wine,” Love said. He said he has heard that one store in Isla Vista is one of the largest retailers of vodka in the U.S. “Studies show that if you remove liquor stores from blighted areas crime goes down. These are good kids who do dumb things when they are lit up.” From his experience with students in Isla Vista he has concluded that “they are not fully formed adults. The look like adults and sound like adults but they are still pretty tender.” The alcohol is contributing to them “getting sick or injured or dying.”

He noted that at Westmont there is a rule that students are not allowed to possess alcohol within one mile of the campus. He believes that the community should return to the rules of the 1970s when the sale of alcohol was banned within one mile of UC campuses.

His second suggestion is for UC Santa Barbara to create more University-run housing in Isla Vista. “Then you would have residence assistants with their eyes on the ground,” he said.

“I’m also concerned about the noise level,” he added. As for the UC Santa Barbara Foundation trustees report recommendation that a special district be formed in Isla

Vista, Love said he favored it. “Because once you do that you can take control of the community.”Love has deep ties to the Santa Barbara community. He came to Santa Barbara with his family in the late 60s,

attended Bishop Diego High School, then Westmont. He received his ministry doctorate from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He came to St. Mark’s in Isla Vista in 2009 after serving as the pastor in Fillmore at the Piru Mission.

St. Mark’s has been ministering to students and community families since 1965. The view from its pulpit has changed, the needs of the community has not.

TheIsla Vista

View From the Pulpit

St. Mark’s is a specially designated university parish, with programs and activities that revolve around the lives of the 23,000 undergraduate and graduate students who attend the world class University of California at Santa Barbara. In 2016, the modest church/office/rectory complex will be fifty years old. St. Mark’s is launching Phase II of their capital campaign. For more information, please contact Father Love at 6550 Picasso Road, Isla Vista, CA 93117.

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Proposed St. Mark’s church façade remodel. Photo: Courtesy St. Mark’s University Parish Campaign


Milestones— Connecting thru the Alumni Association

1970s Mariana Marin ’71, retired as an attorney from the Office of the Legislative Counsel. She graduated with a BA in History and Spanish.

In September 2014, the California Supreme Court elevated Richard Honn ’74, from trial judge in the State Bar Court of California (a position he has held for

the last twelve years) to an appellate judge in the Court’s Review Department. The State Bar Court adjudicates attorney discipline

and administrative matters, making recommendations to the Supreme Court.

Jeffrey Linzer ’75, was promoted to Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. He continues work with theNational Center for Healthcare Statistics of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention on the US version of the 10th edition of International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM) and with the World Health Organization with the ICD-11 Revision Process. Linzer has a BA in Environmental Studies from UCSB.

Cheri Gurse ’77, became a PhD in Human Development from Fielding Graduate

University this year. Her dissertation title is “Tikkun Olam: U.S. Jewish Women in their 20s Working to Repair the World,” and it focuses on 17 remarkable ethnoracially diverse women and the relationship between their Jewishness and social justice beliefs and activism. Gurse is a diversity & social justice educator/consultant, has continued to live in SB since transferring from UCLA to UCSB in 1975, and is legally married to herpartner Carol of 29 years. .

Jeff Bridgeman ’78, became the permanent pastor of El Montecito Presbyterian Church in Montecito. Jeff is currently finishing his term as the moderator of the Santa Barbara Presbytery of the Presbterian Church (USA).

1980s Gustavo Lavayen ’80 has been appointed by Govenor Brown to sit on the Santa Barbara County bench. Lavayen has24 years at the Santa Barbara Office of County Counsel. Before that, he worked for five years in the District Attorney’s Office and one year as a private attorney. Lavayen will fill the seat of Judge James Iwasko, who retired after serving in Santa Maria since 2002.

Patricia Orena ’82, retired from 32 years of teaching on July 1, 2014.

Steve Lane, ’82, spent 23 years teaching English at what is now known as Vancouver Island University, then served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities for six and a half years before taking on his current role as Associate Vice-President: Academic Planning and Aboriginal Initiatives.

Marsha Bailey ’84, founder and CEO of Women’s Economic Ventures, has been appointed to the National Women’s Business Council, a group that advises Congress, the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Obama

Stephanie Rothstein Bruce ’07, Former Gaucho All-American Signs Professional Deal with Oiselle

Former UCSB Big West Champion and two time All-American Stephanie Rothstein Bruce has signed a professional running deal with Oisell. Oiselle is a women’s running apparel company that currently sponsors several of the top distance runners in the US. Formerly “Rothstein,” after college Stephanie married one of the most accomplished runners in Big

West history in Ben Bruce, a two time All-American and school record holder while at Cal Poly. Together they have one son, Riley.

Aside from their professional running careers, Bruce and her husband have founded their own running company called “Running with The Bruces.” Stephanie is also a co-founder of the energy bar company, Picky Bars.

“Osielle empowers women to be confident in their own skin and I’ve believed in that motto since my days at UCSB.” said Bruce.

While a Gaucho, Bruce was the 2003 Big West Cross Country Champion. She was a member of three Big West Championship squads for the Gauchos, helping UCSB claim the 2003, 2004 and 2006 Big West team titles. She is the current UCSB school record holder in the 10,000m. made headlines in the marathon the year before in 2011, dropping a 2:29:35 in Houston, placing third and etching her name as the 24th fastest American all-time. In 2013, Bruce finished 15th in the Boston Marathon, the third American woman to cross the line.

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Administration on issues that affect female entrepreneurs. Each member of the council serves a three year term.

Keith B. Boone, MD, FACS, FASMBS ’84, was recently promoted to Full Clinical Professor for the Department of Surgery for UC San Francisco School of Medicine. He is also Fellowship Director for the Minimally Invasive/Bariatric Surgery Fellowship. Boone has a B.A. in Biological Science from UCSB.

Ken Rose ’85, recently had his 6th US Patent issued, US 2010/0074391. Rose has a B.S. in ECE from UCSB.

1990s Dr. Scott A. Neel, ’91, has been named as the Director / Curator of the Fort Sill National Historic Landmark and Museum in Fort Sill, OK. Neel has more than 15 years of experience at museums and cultural centers around the country, including the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, both in Washington, DC, the Dorothy G. Page Museum in Wasilla, AK and most recently at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage, AK, where he helped design the first iPhone / iPod interactive tour app using Alaska Native perspectives and stories.

Barry Sanchez ’92, is the Director of Anacapa Surgical Associates and Director of Ventura Bariatrics. He has a BS in Biopsychology from UCSB.

Michelle Morales ’94, has earned a spot on REP. magazine’s annual “Top 50 Wirehouse Women.” The list is ranked exclusively by assets under management custodied at the four wirehouse firms. Only advisors for whom 80% or more of assets correspond to retail clients were eligible for the list. Morales has worked for over 14 years for Merrill Lynch. She has a B.A. in Business Economics.

Pauline Maxwell ’95, will take the Santa Barbara South County seat of Judge Denise de Bellefeuille, who retired in September after 21 years on the bench. Maxwell has held positions as a commissioner, staff research attorney, adjunct professor of law, and a senior litigation associate.

Stephanie Harris-Uyidi ’97, has had her television series, The Posh Pescatarian: Appetite for Adventure! picked up by

Canadian network, The Brand New ONE, and is currently airing.

Jennifer Tobkin ’99, has joined the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office as a deputy City Attorney in the Land Use division. She was formally with Daniels, Fine, Israel, Schonbuch & Lebovits, LLP. She has a B.A. in Political Science from UCSB.

2000s Andrew Kaven ’02, was promoted to partner from senior manager. Kaven is a member of Ernst & Young LLP’s Assurance practice in San Francisco where he primarily serves technology companies in the enterprise software and cloud computing space. Kaven has a diverse accounting and auditing background and has worked with start-ups as well as large Fortune 50 companies. He has taken clients from start-ups through their IPOs and beyond. He has extensive experience in revenue recognition, SEC reporting matters, and managing stock and debt offerings. Kaven holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics with an accounting emphasis from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Certified Public Accountant licensed to practice in California. Kaven has a B.A. in Economics from UCSB.

Sergio Villa ’02, started Alliance Wealth Strategies in Santa Barbara, a financial

wealth management business, and is now its President with a staff of eight and a satellite office in Oxnard, Ca..Alliance Wealth was green business certified in 2013 and looks to be a leader in that arena for other wealth management firms.

Danielle Fest Grabiel ’03, accepted a position as a senior international policy analyst with the Environmental Investigation Agency. She also co-owns Ravenwood Organic Farm in the Mt. Hood area of Oregon

Cami Rouse ’05 and James Statler ’04 married, bought a house and welcomed their daughter Autumn all in 2013. Both Cami and James have been awarded Top 20 Under 40 honors and are recognized as young leaders in their community of San Luis Obispo.

After overseeing the Santa Ynez Chumash Environmental Office from 2007 to 2014, Josh Simmons ’08, recently started Prosper Sustainably, a consulting firm that assists businesses, governments, nonprofits, and tribal communities in developing and implementing solutions to meet environmental and sustainability needs.

After graduating from UCSB, Jessica Wishan ’07, worked for non-profits focused on getting indigent citizens off the streets working for PATH (people Assisting the Homeless) in San Diego.As of November 2014, Wishan returned to Santa Barbara to become the head of

Rocío, a proud alumna of UCSB has nearly 10 years of experience in strategic event management and alumni engagement. She was a double major (Dramatic Art and Spanish) at UCSB and spent two years in Hollywood (working in production) before coming back to her alma mater. She has been a key member of the Alumni Affairs team since June of 2007 with her duties including the direction of Regional

Programs, Constituent Groups and Student Engagement. She will be tasked with increasing alumni engagement through strategic events (both in person and virtual). Rocio will be assuming the leadership role for all Alumni Association events including the All Gaucho Reunion, Welcome Receptions for Incoming Students, student engagement events and Holiday Receptions.

The Alumni Association welcomes our new Programs Director, Rocío Torres ’05


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Casa Esperanza, a Santa Barbara County homeless shelter.

Courtney Walker ’09, Is in pre-production on a documentary titled What Is Hope? The Children of the Selamta Family Project about orphaned and abandoned children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that have had families built around them by the Selamta Family

Project . She and fellow Gaucho and Blue Horizon’s participant plan to shoot the documentary in early 2013. She plans to raise funds via Kickstarter mid-November. Walker majored in Middle East Studies at UCSB.

David Wiener ’09, received a J.D from UC Davis King Hall, 2013 and was awarded UC Davis Law School Medal for

The Santa Barbara Independent has named several alumni and UC Santa Barbara staff in their annual Thanksgiving issue devoted to community volunteers. Among those cited were:

Sharon Hoshida was acknowledged for her role as program director at the UC Santa Barbara Women’s Center, co-founder of the Women’s Literary Festival, recipient of the state Legislature’s Excellence in Public Service Award and most recently, co-owner of the newly opened Granada Books store on State Street in Santa Barbara. She attended UCSB from 1965-67.

Ed Holdren, Class of ’70, was singled out for his volunteer work in youth athletics. He was the prime mover behind the fundraising and construction of the Page Youth Center in Goleta. He spent 21 years as a volunteer coach in the Youth Football League. He was founder of the Goleta Youth Basketball Association. He currently is the owner of Holdren’s, a popular steak restaurant on State Street in Santa Barbara.

Ed France, Class of ’05, was praised for his work advocating for bicycle transportation. As a student he was a member of the Cycling Club and worked at the A.S. bike shop. He was a founding member of the California Student Sustainability Coalition. He recently opened Bici Centro, a do it yourself bike shop in Santa Barbara that is headquarters for a countywide bicycle education program and the month-long CycleMAYnia celebration.

Michael Morgan, a senior lecturer in the UC Santa Barbara Theater and Dance Department, has been honored as a local hero by the Santa Barbara Independent. Morgan was cited for his work with incarcerated juveniles at the Los Prietos Boys Camp in Santa Barbara County. Each year Morgan brings a busload of the young offenders to UCSB where they perform a version of Homer’s The Odyssey based on their own life stories. The program is now known as the Odyssey Project and has been funded by the University of California.

Monica Spear, Class of ’90, was honored for her work with Girl’s Inc. She has spent 20 years with the organization as its principal fundraiser. More than 1,200 girls are served through the organization which provides two centers with sports, literary, study and counselling services.

“Local Heroes”

the highest Academic Achievement in the graduating class. He has a BA in Political Science from UCSB.

2010s The law firm of Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP announced the addition of Amy Schiller ’10, as a new associate in the


Photo credits: Sharon Hoshida:http://cbmosaics.blogspot.com/2013/12/mosaic-art-exhibit-for-book.htm; Ed Holdern: Paul Wellman; Ed France: http://bicicentro.org/staff; Michael Morgan: theaterdance.ucsb.edu; Monica Spear: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs002/1102552225661/archive/1108418730514.html



William Conelly ’66, Published Tether’s End in August of 2013, a young adult novel for all ages. The story centers around Martin, a nine year old, who finds himself staying with his uncle at a lakeside camp for the summer and the relationships that develop with the tom girl neighbor, Suzie, and his uncle Chick. Conelly has a BA in English from UCSB.

Hot Type—UCSB Authors

Thomas MacKinnon ’71, Cinda (Johnston) MacKinnon published a novel this year. A Place in the World is a multicultural-literary novel set in Colombia where Cinda grew up. It is the story of a young biologist who ends up running a coffee farm in a remote part of Colombia - in spite of calamities too numerous to name.

Revell Carr ’06, recently published his first book with the University of Illinois Press. It is the first book in their venerable series Music in American Life to deal with Hawaiian music. Carr earned a PhD in ethnomusicology at UCSB and is currently an associate professor of ethnomusicology in the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Thomas Garrison, second book, Challenge Authority: Memoir of a Baby Boomer, won 2nd Place in the non-fiction category of the League of Utah Writers, a state-wide write’s organization, Published Book Contest (September 2014). Garrison writes about the ‘60’s and 70’s and what it meant to grow up during those politically and socially tumultuous times.

John Oliver, brother of Joan Magruder, retired Director of News and Media Relations, Public Affairs, at UC Santa Barbara, writes about John David Provoo in Nichijo: The Testimony of John Provoo, who he met while living in Hawaii. What initially began as offering Provoo a ride,turned into a fascinating friendship and account of Provoo’s life: his capture by the Japanese in WWII, being charged with treason by the FBI, and his subsequent training for the Buddhist priesthood.

Chicago office. Having joined the firm as a law clerk in 2012, Schiller practices family law with a strong focus on property issues and the complex financial and custody matters facing professional athletes and entertainers.

Gillian Mellon ’11, graduated with a Juris Doctorate from Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, CA on May 17, 2014, and sat for the California State Bar Exam in July 2014. She has a BA in English from UCSB.

Danielle Quinones ’11, graduated with a MA in Postsecondary Educational Leadership with a specialization in student affairs in May 2013 from San Diego State University. She has a BA in Chicano Studies from UCSB.

Emily Williams ’13, participated in the International Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru as part of a delegate of nearly two dozen youth environmental leaders from across the U.S. Williams is the campaign director for the California Student Sustainability Coalition. While at UCSB she led the Fossil Free Campaign from 2012-13.

Sam Buck ’13, former Development Assistant at UCSB, has accepted a position as Assistant Director of Alumni Relations and Development at Laguna Blanca School, a K-12 college-preparatory school in Santa Barbara.

In August, Yoel Kirschner ’13, moved from Los Angeles to Malawi, Africa, to work as the REDD+ advisor to the government

of Malawi on behalf of the U.S. Forest Service International Programs.

Linda Kwong ’13, began working as a land assistant at Peninsula Open Space Trust in September 2013 and was promoted this past July to land associate. She also married Michael Seeman in June.

Louisa Smythe ’14, became the Bren School’s 1,000th graduate receiving her degree in the Master of Environmental Science and Management Program.

Ronald Tobin, Emeritus Professor of French and Commandeur de l’ordre des Palmes Académiques, was honored with two major distinctions. Professor Tobin was awarded the gold medal of the Renaissance Française USA Organization (its highest distinction) and awarded an honorary degree, the Doctorate of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from Saint Peter’s University in New Jersey.

Professor Tobin with Congresswoman Lois Capps taken

when he received the Renaissance Française medal.

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Lynn T. Butness ’60 earned a B.A. in Home Economics. She taught related subjects at Santa Barbara Junior High School for 2 1/2 years. Burtness married Robert Alderman, and they had two daughters, Janet and Laurie. As a member of the Order of the Eastern Star for 56 years, she became a Worthy Matron and also a Deputy Grand Matron. She was a charter member of the Santa Barbara High School Alumni Association and was the president for two terms. In addition, she chaired her class reunion committee for many years. Lynn was also a long time member of the Santa Barbara Woman’s Club at Rockwood where she served as president.

Roberta Marie Gutshall, ’65 from Gervirtz Graduate School of Education, died Sept. 28, 2014. She taught kindergarten and first grade at La Patera and Foothill schools in Santa Barbara for more than 25 years. She was very active in the Calvary Chapel for many years.

Maria Brown ’72, B.A. History & Political Science, a longtime history professor at

IN MEMORIAM El Camino College died on November 19, 2014. Brown began working at EC in the ’70s teaching political science and history courses. She was involved with Black History Month events and she also taught African American Literature and Women’s Studies. She was 67.

Cveta Gunning, died Oct. 7, 2014. She worked for 37 years at UCSB, retiring as the head of the payroll division in the Accounting Department.

Eileen Davidson Shael died Oct. 12, 2014. For many years she served as the advisor to the Alpha Phi Gamma Beta sorority at UCSB.

Kristen Byler ’14, accepted a postion with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in Washington D.C. as a Fisheries Conservation Manager under the Marine and Coastal Conservation team.

Four graduates from the Bren School’s Class of ’14, Alisan Amrhein, Jocelyn Christie, Heather Perry, and Morgan Visalli, are joining the class of 2015 California Sea Grant State Fellows (CASG). The CASG State Fellowsip matches recent greaduates with “hosts” in state or feredal agencies in California providing experience in planning and implementation of marine and coastal resource policies and programs.

Alexander Gurevich is the new general manager of the New West Symphony. Gurevich earned a bachelor’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, and a master’s in viola performance from UCSB.

Nicole Romasanta, has joined Hospice of Santa Barbara as its directors of volunteers. Romasanta earned a BA in communications at UCSB, and a Master’s in Clinical Psychology at Pepperdine University.

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