'Kaleidoscope of Cultures' underscores principles ...

If you see students and others sporting T-shirts that ask "UCDiversity?" consider it your invitation to a weeklong celebration of the campus's Principles of Community starting Feb. 28.

This second annual event highlighting the ideals and expectations for campus interactions is titled, "A Kaleidoscope of Cultures." With its official kickoff Feb. 28, the week will include a cultural showcase, a film festival, a resource fair and workshops.

Two workshops, set for Feb. 28 and March 2, respectively, aim to raise awareness about the issues faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and to foster discussion of heterosexism and homophobia.

The resources of community and campus organizations will be featured in a festival setting March 1, and student performers will draw on their heritage in a showcase of song, dance and the spoken word that same evening.

A panel of students will highlight the achievements of people of color in California and the nation on March 2.

And the film festival will screen four movies over March 4 and 5.

For more information about the week's events, visit http://occr.ucdavis.edu/kaleidoscope/.

To learn more about the Principles of Community, visit http://principles.ucdavis.edu/.

Honeybee research highlighted on UCTV

UCTV on Monday launched the winter 2005 installment of the TV magazine program State of Minds. The new episode features a segment on efforts at UC Davis to protect honeybees threatened by the Varroa mite.

The tiny parasitic Varroa mite destroys the lifecycle of honeybees that are needed to pollinate the nation's fruit and nut crops. Without honeybees, California would be out about $4.4 billion worth of crops.

This episode of State of Minds also features the work of UC Riverside singer and storyteller Karen Wilson, UC Santa Barbara archeologist Philip Walker and an interview with new UC Berkeley chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau.

The episode will air 14 more times between Feb. 18 and March 6. The program looks across the 10-campus system at the people and programs that place UC among the nation's finest public universities.

For show details and affiliates or online viewing of the program, see http://www.uctv.tv.

Remains found at construction site laid to rest

A memorial service was held Feb. 4 at St. Mary's Cemetery in Sacramento for the interment of the remains of 72 people discovered last year during the excavation for an expansion of the UC Davis Cancer Center. Public officials and members of private historical organizations believe the remains are from an indigent cemetery of the Old Sacramento County Hospital. The one-acre site was used to bury the indigent dead from about 1877-1927.

Chinese exercise class builds inner strength

A free workshop on Chinese "physical culture" will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, at the University Club Conference Center. Desmond Murray, principal of the College of Chinese Physical Culture in Leeds, England, will lead the session.Chinese Physical Culture is founded on the tradition of Weihai Li Shi Quan Fa. For details and to register, contact Lynette Hunter at 759-9580 or lhunter@ucdavis.edu.