News Notes: Budget cuts lead to UCSC hunger strike

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Adan Gallegos, of Oakland, shops for greens at the Berkeley Farmer's Market / Public Press photo by Bea Ahbeck

By Hank Drew Photo by Victor Morales
The Public Press

Dozens of University of California, Santa Cruz, students and faculty are participating in a hunger strike to bring awareness to the effects of $13 million in budget cuts to the university.

KPIX reports that strikers are worried the cuts will negatively impact minority enrollment at the university. The cuts will be enacted by July 1.

The hunger strike is being organized by the Students of Color Collective and they hope to influence a policy reversal before the deadline.

In a statement on the UC Web site, UC President Mark Yudof said the state budget is going to be fluid and many different proposals, some of which could be drastic, could be enacted soon.

"What can be said at this point is that we are gravely concerned," Yudof said. "Under one scenario already being discussed, the UC is looking at a doubling of the $322 million in cuts contained in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s revised state budget proposal for fiscal 2009-10. This would equate roughly to a 20 percent reduction in state support."

Fall 2009 admissions by ethnicity

A recent Public Press report on the UC Santa Cruz budget cuts

 


Anthony Bourdain to channel Steve McQueen during SF stop

The San Francisco episode of "No Reservations," will feature host Anthony Bourdain driving around the city in a vintage Mustang in an homage to the Steve McQueen movie "Bullet."

Eater SF reports that Bourdain spent five days eating and filming in various locations around the city including Incanto, Fog City Diner and Sebo.

"No Reservations," is Bourdain’s foodie travelogue that highlights local cuisine in various parts of the world. The episode is currently in post production and should air on The Travel Channel late this summer.

 


City launches solar map

The San Francisco Department of the Environment and CH2M HILL, a engineering company based out of Denver, have created a map of San Francisco’s blossoming solar power system.

The map allows users to click on private and public solar installations to discover the system’s installer and energy output.

According to sfsolarmap.org:

    * Solar systems installed: 871
    * Total capacity: 5.9MW
    * Annual energy produced: 9,625 MWh
    * Annual savings: $1,585,631
    * Annual CO2 savings: 7,180,287 lbs

Solar Power in the News

President Obama highlights solar power in a speech at Las Vegas


President Barack Obama on Wednesday hailed solar energy as a cost saver for a major Air Force base, one stop on a Western trip devoted to raising political money and promoting his economic policies.

Concentrated Solar Power Summit returns to San Francisco

 


Twitter aids in growing wave of illiegal food vendors


Curtis, "The Creme Brulee Guy,"  is part of a growing wave of unlicensed food vendors crowding the streets of San Francisco.

Curtis uses Twitter like illegal rave promoters once did with voice mail and flyers to connect with potential customers in a clandestine matter. "The Creme Brulee Guy," who sells his custards for three dollars each, does not operate with a city license

NBC Article about the Creme Brulee Guy

"The Creme Brulee Man wants you to know where he is but he just doesn’t want "the man" finding out.

After giving him some love here for serving creme brulee out of a push cart and Monday’s San Francisco Chronicle revelation that the city cracking down on illegal food cart vendors, Curtis "the Creme Brulee Guy" wants to go back under board."

Learn more about the different street vendors in San Francisco (SFGate).

Chowhound users have compiled a list of Bay Area street vendors.

 


SFMOMA readies new rooftop terrace for busy summer


The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is kicking off its summer season with a new rooftop area, a popular coffee bar and an exclusive photography exhibit.

The new 14,000-square foot roof top area is home to a sculpture garden and a Blue Bottle Coffee Bar, a popular Oakland company.

SFMOMA will be hosting an exclusive exhibit titled, "Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004," starting July 11. The exhibit will include over 200 photographs from the artist’s career.

PBS American Masters profile of Richard Avedon.


"What do Jean Genet, Jimmy Durante, Brigitte Bardot, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau, Andy Warhol, and Lena Horne have in common? They were a few of the many personalities caught on film by photographer Richard Avedon. For more than fifty years, Richard Avedon’s portraits have filled the pages of the country’s finest magazines. His stark imagery and brilliant insight into his subjects’ characters has made him one of the premier American portrait photographers."

Yelp reviews of Blue Bottle Coffee

The Shot trip report to Blue Bottle Coffee in the SF Ferry Building

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Full Belly Farm’s Ali Budner hands Dana Berge, of Oakland, her veggies in small reusable cloth bags at the Berkeley Farmer’s Market / Public Press photo by Bea Ahbeck
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Full Belley Farm sells hand-made cotton bags at the Berkeley Farmer’s Market / Public Press photo by Bea Ahbeck
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Shoppers carry their goods in backpacks and cloth bags the Berkeley Farmer’s Market / Public Press photo by Bea Ahbeck

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