Porter College
Benjamin F. Porter College, known colloquially as Porter College, is a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz. It is located on the lower west side of the university, south of Kresge College and north of Rachel Carson College. The college was founded in 1969 as College Five and formally dedicated on November 21, 1981. On that day the college was given the motto ''Ars Longa, Vita Brevis'' (Art endures, Life is short), and a series of college symbols, including a faculty mace and a college bell, were inaugurated. The faculty of the college has had a distinguished leadership. The provosts of the college have included the writer James B. Hall, the painter and psychologist Pavel Machotka, filmmaker Eli Hollander and composer David Cope. In early years, the college community was famous for Friday-afternoon sherry hours and afternoon croquet matches on the quadrangle (architecture), quad, suggesting that "l'esprit de Santa Cruz" was not far from that of Oxbridge. ...
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Residential College
A residential college is a division of a university that places academic activity in a community setting of students and faculty, usually at a residence and with shared meals, the college having a degree of autonomy and a federated relationship with the overall university. The term ''residential college'' is also used to describe a variety of other patterns, ranging from a dormitory with some academic programming, to continuing education programs for adults lasting a few days. In some parts of the world it simply refers to any organized on-campus housing, an example being University of Malaya. Various models A prominent model for residential colleges is the Oxbridge model at the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge, where the colleges are legally independent constituents of the universities that are both residential and teaching institutions. This model was modified at Durham University, also in the UK, in the 19th century to create non-teaching colleges that w ...
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Bohemianism
Bohemianism is a social and cultural movement that has, at its core, a way of life away from society's conventional norms and expectations. The term originates from the French ''bohème'' and spread to the English-speaking world. It was used to describe mid-19th-century non-traditional lifestyles, especially of artists, writers, journalists, musicians, and actors in major European cities. Bohemian is a 19th-century historical and literary topos that places the milieu of young metropolitan artists and intellectuals—particularly those of the Latin Quarter in Paris—in a context of poverty, hunger, appreciation of friendship, idealization of art and contempt for money. Based on this topos, the most diverse real-world subcultures are often referred to as "bohemian" in a figurative sense, especially (but by no means exclusively) if they show traits of a precariat. Bohemians were associated with unorthodox or anti-establishment political or social viewpoints expressed through f ...
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Kresge Dining Hall
Kresge may refer to: * Kresge (surname) * S. S. Kresge Corporation, a former American department store chain, predecessor of Kmart retail stores * The Kresge Foundation, a philanthropic organization established by Sebastian S. Kresge in 1924 * Kresge Hearing Research Institute, a research institute of Department of Otolaryngology in Ann Arbor, Michigan * Kresge College, one of the residential colleges that make up the University of California, Santa Cruz * Kresge Auditorium Kresge Auditorium (MIT Building W16) is an auditorium structure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located at 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was designed by the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, with g ..., a main performance space on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology * MIT Chapel or Kresge Chapel, on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Kresge Building (other) * Kresge Art Museum, predecessor of the Eli and ...
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Psychedelic Experience
A psychedelic experience (known colloquially as a trip) is a temporary altered state of consciousness induced by the consumption of a psychedelic substance (most commonly Lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD, mescaline, psilocybin mushrooms, or N,N-Dimethyltryptamine, DMT). For example, an acid trip is a psychedelic experience brought on by the use of LSD, while a mushroom trip is a psychedelic experience brought on by the use of psilocybin. Psychedelic experiences feature alterations in normal perception such as visual distortions and a subjective ego dissolution, loss of self-identity, sometimes interpreted as mystical experiences. Psychedelic experiences lack predictability, as they can range from being highly pleasurable (known as a good trip) to frightening (known as a bad trip). The outcome of a psychedelic experience is heavily influenced by the person's mood, personality, expectations, and environment (also known as set and setting). Researchers have interpreted psychedelic e ...
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Nomads
Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas. Such groups include hunter-gatherers, Nomadic pastoralism, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), tinkers and Merchant, trader nomads. In the twentieth century, the population of nomadic pastoral tribes slowly decreased, reaching an estimated 30–40 million nomads in the world . Nomadic hunting and gathering—following seasonally available wild plants and game—is by far the oldest human subsistence method known. Pastoralists raise herds of domesticated livestock, driving or accompanying them in patterns that normally avoid depleting pastures beyond their ability to recover. Nomadism is also a Lifestyle (sociology), lifestyle adapted to infertile regions such as steppe, tundra, or desert, ice and sand, where mobility is the most efficient strategy for exploiting scarce resources. For example, many groups living in the tundra are reindeer herders and are semi-nomadic, following forage for their ...
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Psychedelia
Psychedelia usually refers to a Aesthetics, style or aesthetic that is resembled in the psychedelic subculture of the 1960s and the psychedelic experience produced by certain psychoactive substances. This includes psychedelic art, psychedelic music and style of dress during that era. This was primarily generated by people who used psychedelic drugs such as LSD, mescaline (found in peyote) and psilocybin (found in psilocybin mushroom, magic mushrooms) and also non-users who were participants and aficionados of this subculture. Psychedelic art and music typically recreate or reflect the experience of altered consciousness. Psychedelic art uses highly distortion, distorted, Surrealism, surreal visuals, bright colors and full spectrums and animation (including cartoons) to evoke, convey, or enhance the psychedelic experience. Psychedelic music uses distortion (music), distorted electric guitar, Indian music elements such as the sitar and tabla, effects unit, electronic effects, sou ...
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Fissilicreagris Imperialis
''Fissilicreagris imperialis'', the Empire Cave pseudoscorpion, is a species of arachnid in family Neobisiidae. ''Fissilicreagris imperialis'' is endemic to Empire, Dolloff, and IXL caves in Cave Gulch, Santa Cruz County, California. It may occur in one or more of the other caves in Cave Gulch, but it is certainly restricted to this small, isolated karst Karst () is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone and Dolomite (rock), dolomite. It is characterized by features like poljes above and drainage systems with sinkholes and caves underground. Ther ... area. Its habitat is threatened by groups of students who come to the cave to drink and party, and possibly by the clean-up efforts that follow.The Journal of Arachnology (1995) 23:171–176 - "GENERIC PLACEMENT OF THE EMPIRE CAVE PSEUDOSCORPION, MICROCREAGRIS IMPERIALIS (NEOBISIIDAE), A POTENTIALLY ENDANGERED ARACHNID" http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v23_n3/%20Jo ...
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LARP
A live action role-playing game (LARP) is a form of role-playing game where the participants physically portray their characters.(Tychsen et al. 2006:255) "LARPs can be viewed as forming a distinct category of RPG because of two unique features: (a) The players physically embody their characters, and (b) the game takes place in a physical frame. Embodiment means that the physical actions of the player are regarded as those of the character. LARP participants may dress in the costume of their character and carry appropriate physical props (e.g., an 18th century militia LARP participant may wear a military uniform and carry a musket). Whereas in a RPG played by a group sitting around a table, players describe the actions of their characters (e.g., "I run to stand beside my friend"); in an equivalent situation in a LARP, a player would physically run to the appropriate point within the game space." The players pursue goals within a fictional setting represented by real-world envi ...
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UCSC Koi
UCSC may refer to: *University of California, Santa Cruz, a public university in Santa Cruz, California *Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, a private Catholic university based in Milan, Italy *University of Colombo School of Computing, a college affiliated with the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka * University City Science Center, an urban research park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States *Catholic University of the Holy Conception The Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, translated into English as "Catholic University of the Most Immaculate Conception", is a private catholic university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. History ...

1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake
On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. Pacific Time Zone, PST, the Loma Prieta earthquake occurred at the Central Coast (California), Central Coast of California. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, California, Santa Cruz County, approximately 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Santa Cruz, California, Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta, Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains. With an magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity scale, Modified Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), the shock was responsible for 63 deaths and 3,757 injuries. The Loma Prieta segment of the San Andreas Fault System had been relatively inactive since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (to the degree that it was designated a seismic gap) until two moderate foreshocks occurred in June 1988 and again in August 1989. Damage was heavy in Santa Cruz County and less so to t ...
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First Rain
First most commonly refers to: * First, the ordinal form of the number 1 First or 1st may also refer to: Acronyms * Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters, an astronomical survey carried out by the Very Large Array * Far Infrared and Sub-millimetre Telescope, of the Herschel Space Observatory * For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, an international youth organization * Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, a global forum Arts and entertainment Albums * ''1st'' (album), by Streets, 1983 * ''1ST'' (SixTones album), 2021 * ''First'' (David Gates album), 1973 * ''First'', by Denise Ho, 2001 * ''First'' (O'Bryan album), 2007 * ''First'' (Raymond Lam album), 2011 Extended plays * ''1st'', by The Rasmus, 1995 * ''First'' (Baroness EP), 2004 * ''First'' (Ferlyn G EP), 2015 Songs * "First" (Lindsay Lohan song), 2005 * "First" (Cold War Kids song), 2014 * "First", by Lauren Daigle from the album '' How Can It Be'', 2015 * "First", by ...
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UCSC 420 Celebration
UCSC may refer to: *University of California, Santa Cruz, a public university in Santa Cruz, California *Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, a private Catholic university based in Milan, Italy *University of Colombo School of Computing, a college affiliated with the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka * University City Science Center, an urban research park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States *Catholic University of the Holy Conception The Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, translated into English as "Catholic University of the Most Immaculate Conception", is a private catholic university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. History ...