Friday, November 04, 2005

IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR THOSE COMING TO CHINATOWN

We will be taking a later bus to SF, so meet at the F bus stop at Bancroft and Telegraph (just in front of lower Sproul) at 10am, NOT 9am as was the plan before.

See you there!

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Urban Outing on Saturday, Nov. 5

BUSSA is holding their semesterly "urban outing" this Saturday, November 5, in San Francisco. We will be taking the Chinatown Alleyway Tour which is led by youth who live or have lived in Chinatown. The tour costs $10 with student ID and the proceeds benefit the community. Afterwards we will be eating a yummy lunch in Chinatown. This is a great opportunity for everyone, whether you've never been to Chinatown or you've been a hundred times. This area of SF is a diverse and vibrant neighborhood where there are always new things to discover. The entire event will last from about 9am to 3pm. More details are available at the end of this message.

I hope to see you at this very special event. You do not have to be in BUSSA to participate, so bring your friends! Bring about $20 for the tour and lunch and don't forget your student ID. If you are interested in attending please email me so I can know how many people to expect. Please email me with any questions you may have.

See you there,

Carmen Oleksinski
BUSSA Pres.

carmen12@berkeley.edu


The details are as follows:

9am - The F transbay bus leaves for SF (free for students with a class pass, $3.00 for those without). Meet at the Bancroft and Telegraph stop (in front of Lower Sproul). The bus leaves at this time so please arrive a little earlier!

10:30 - Chinatown Alleyway Tour (
http://www.chinatownalleywaytours.org/index.php)

12:30 - Eat lunch

2:00 - Head on home, or you can stay to explore more of SF

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

A bit of a late notice but:

1st Meeting of the Semester Tonight!

106 Wurster @ 5:30

Come get to know other people interested in urban studies while enjoying your coordinator Carmen's homemade brownies. (Yum) Especially come if you're interested in taking on a leadership position in the club!

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Hello BUSSA-

Our representative to the new faculty hire committee, Daniel Zoughbie, has the following annoucement:

Hey BUSSA folks,

Lets try and show up to as many lectures as possible (all of them :) ).

We want our opinions to count. I will schedule a feedback session where you will tell me who you think is most qualified. I will relay your opinions to the faculty.

Best,

DZ

Dear DCRP Students:

Please mark your calendars for the Comparative Urban Development faculty candidate lectures and student meetings. As the candidates’ schedules are quite full, the brownbag lunch meetings will include MCP students and Urban Studies Major students*.

Doctoral students will have a separate meeting with each candidate. I would like to encourage all students to attend the lectures and participate in the meetings in order for the candidates to feel most welcome.

Please note that the lectures will start on “Berkeley” time, 10 minutes past the announced hour.

Professor Manuel Pastor
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Lecture and Q&A @ 11 am – 12:30 noon in 106 Wurster Hall
Brownbag Lunch with students* @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, room tba
PhD student meeting with candidate @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm, room tba

Professor Amrita Daniere
Friday, April 8, 2005
Lecture and Q&A @ 12 noon – 1:30 pm in 106 Wurster Hall
Brownbag Lunch with students* @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, room tba
PhD student meeting with candidate @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm, room tba

Professor Teresa Caldeira
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Lecture and Q&A @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm in 106 Wurster Hall (CP 207 will be rescheduled)
Brownbag Lunch with students* @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, room tba
PhD student meeting with candidate @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm, room tba

Professor Paul Ong
Monday, April 18, 2005
Lecture and Q&A @ 11 am – 12:30 noon in 106 Wurster Hall
Brownbag Lunch with students* @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, room tba
PhD student meeting with candidate @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm, room tba

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Hello BUSSA!

We have some firm dates for our next three BUSSA events. So mark your calendars for the following:

Saturday, February 26th @ 9am - 12pm
TREE PLANTING IN SF
Meeting location TBA
RSVP by Wednesday Feb. 22 (carmen12@berkeley.edu)

We will be volunteering with Friends of the Urban Forest whose mission it is to help SF neighborhoods be more green. Planting trees is lots of fun plus you get to meet SF locals who know a lot about their neighborhoods (like the best cafes, restaurants, etc.) Please RSVP to Carmen (carmen12@berkeley.edu) so we can arrange rides to the city.

Tuesday, March 1st @ 6:30
GRAD UNDERGRAD MIXER
Wurster Hall Lobby

This is our third mixer, and the previous two have been lots of fun and very well attended (free(!) pizza, drinks, and music). So come on down to the Wurster Lobby and pick the brains of the grad students about careers, planning...and of course, grad school.

Friday, March 11
URBAN OUTING - SILENT FILMS & SAN JOSE
Downtown San Jo

Last fall, the historic Fox California Theatre in Downtown San Jose was reopened after nearly 30 years of abandonment. The theatre has been completely restored by the Packard Foundation, and will be showing a double feature of classic silent films (with an awesome live organist playing the whole time) as part of the Cinequest Film Festival.

On Friday afternoon we're going to head down to San Jose for our first urban outing this semester. We'll start with a short walking tour of all the redevelopment/restoration going on Downtown, head to dinner, and go to the showing of Carmen and La Boheme at 7:30.

So if you've:

a) never been to Downtown San Jose
b) never seen a silent movie
c) never seen a movie in a classic "movie palace"
d) all of the above

You MUST come to this event! It will be tons of fun.

Please let Nick know ASAP (nap98@aol.com ) whether you think you want to go, and what time you can leave Berkeley so we can set up carpools down to the Silicon Valley.

Also, Nick may be able to get discounted tickets since he worked at the Packard Foundation's historic Stanford Theatre (yes,Stanfurd. booo....hisss, etc. The California Theatre is bigger and better, so, go bears). So if you let him know you plan on coming, he may be able to get you tickets that cost less than the already measly $10 ticket price.

That's all for now! Have a great week everyone.

Your BUSSA coordinators,

-Carmen & Nick

PS:For info on the movies they're showing at the California Theatre:
http://www.cinequest.org/2005/programguide/event_view.php?eid=117

and for some GREAT photos of the California Theatre:
http://www.shomler.com/calsj/

Thursday, January 27, 2005

First General Meeting!
When: Thursday, Feb. 3rd at 6:30
Where: 104 Wurster Hall

Welcome back everyone!

BUSSA will be holding our first general meeting of the semester next Thursday. The meeting will start at 6:30, right after ED100.

This meeting will be an informal mixer, a chance to meet fellow Urban Studies majors and City Planning minors, as well as the BUSSA officers. We'll also do a brief run-down of all the activities that we're planning for this semester, so this is your chance to get involved!

Also: those of you that are Urban Studies majors, we will be taking pictures for the undergraduate face board, so remember to look snazy (at least from the head up).

And finally, food! No cheesy sticks this time, but instead we'll have ICE CREAM and homemade BROWNIES from BUSSA co-coordinator Carmen Oleksinski.

Hope to see you there!

(and those of you that e-mailed to be added to the BUSSA e-mail list over winter break, we apologize if we did not get back to you, but you have all been added to our list-serve)

Thursday, January 06, 2005

BUSSA YOSEMITE TRIP!

When: Friday January 14 to Sunday January 16
Where: Mariposa/Yosemite
Who: Anyone who wants to come!

BUSSA's heading to the mountains! Mike has reserved two rooms in Mariposa so we can spend the weekend before classes enjoying the snow and scenery in beautiful Yosemite Valley.

For the details, e-mail Mike at mikelim5@hotmail.com

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Happy New Year Everyone!

Hope you are all enjoying your winter break. Stay tuned for more information about a possible BUSSA trip to Yosemite later this month.

If any of you are still looking for a class to take this spring, check out:

Architecture 179 - "Historic Preservation"
CCN: 04132
Prof: Helaine Kaplan-Prentice
Time: MW 11:00-12:30pm

This is a brand-spanking-new class, cross listed as a City Planning grad school class (CP290). Still plenty of open spots for undergrads. Looks to be an interesting course. Here's a page offering some information on the professor's work in Oakland:

http://www.oaklandheritage.org/helene_kaplan_prentice.htm

See ya in a couple weeks!