 Recent news items from the six colleges:
That Watermelon Splat
If you don’t recognize this annual splatter of watermelon, you probably aren’t a Triton. Revelle College’s 43rd annual Watermelon Drop on June 6 continued UCSD’s oldest tradition when this year’s Queen, Ricardo Gonzalez, shirtless, covered in red-and-green paint, and wearing a jewel-studded crown raced up seven stories of Urey Hall to the theme song from Rocky and dropped the sacrificial fruit into history. The splat this year was 67 feet, 3 inches, an impressive distance, but not even close to the 1974 record: 167 feet, 4 inches.
Forty Years-A-Grown’
John Muir College turned 40 this year and celebrated with a week of sustainability-themed events, April 20 to 26. The college co-sponsored a day-long series of presentations and workshops on the theme “Choose to Change at UC San Diego” in partnership with Earth Week and the campus’s Environment and Sustainability Initiative.
On April 26 alumni returned for a Muir College Alumni Day that featured a Welcome Back Luncheon, at which Chancellor Marye Anne Fox and internationally acclaimed science fiction author, Kim Stanley Robinson, Muir '74, spoke.
DOC in Turmoil
Thurgood Marshall College’s Dimensions of Culture program (DOC) has recently undergone changes to reflect contemporary approaches to cultural and academic issues – but not without some controversy. Some student groups accused DOC faculty of “watering down” the program and faculty and student reported on these concerns last fall. As a result, the faculty voted to allow two students to serve on key TMC committees.
Green Warren
Warren College is working with the Environment and Sustainability Initiative (ESI) to go green for orientation. Their efforts include a limit on packet stuffing, printing on recycled paper, teaching students how to recycle effectively while eating in the dining halls and providing all students with re-useable instead of disposable water bottles.
A Global Market
How do you travel the world without leaving campus? Each quarter, Eleanor Roosevelt College’s Global Marketplace offers regionally inspired menus as well as regional arts and crafts, entertainment and speakers who supplement material covered in the Making of the Modern World core sequence. Last January, the Middle East Global Gourmet featured Middle Eastern cuisine, music and decoration as well as a panel discussion that focused on the political relationship between Israel and the Arab States.
New Provost
Science and history professor Naomi Oreskes, who contributed to groundbreaking global warming research, was recently appointed provost of Sixth College. Oreskes says that Sixth College's theme of culture, art and technology resonates with the issues she been concerned with throughout her academic career.
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