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UCSC students push for meatless Mondays (excerpts) By Shanna McCord, San Jose Mercury News 09/21/2010 SANTA CRUZ — UC Santa Cruz sophomore Virginia Hanrahan hasn’t had a bite of meat since she was 15. The 19-year-old from Orange County started shunning other animal food products, such as cheese, eggs, butter and honey last year in her desire to become a vegan. “I had never associated real animals with what I was eating. Like ribs, you’re actually eating someone’s ribs,” Hanrahan, an environmental studies major, said. “Once I started thinking about it, I was disgusted.” Hanrahan — who adopted the vegetarian/vegan…

A cautionary note about recent higher ed critiques and proposals for reform appears in the excerpt below from “Schoolwork,” Talk of the Town section, New Yorker, 9/27/10: …In higher education, the reform story isn’t so fully baked yet, but its main elements are emerging. The system is vast: hundreds of small liberal-arts colleges; a new and highly leveraged for-profit sector that offers degrees online; community colleges; state universities whose budgets are being cut because of the recession; and the big-name private universities, which get the most attention. You wouldn’t design a system this way—it’s filled with overlaps and competitive excess….

Unlike the previous post, this photo shows a view unlike anything you can see at the location at which it was taken. It shows the interior of a room in Hershey Hall in 1948. Hershey Hall was a women’s dorm, later converted to offices. An addition to it was recently torn down. (Photo from the UCLA digital collection.)

This photo of Kerckhoff Hall as seen from Royce Hall provides a view that may seem familiar. But look closely. It was taken in 1937. Much of what you would see now is not there. (From LA Public Library photo collection.)