REMINDER:
1st General Meeting TOMORROW (9-15-04) 5:30, 106 Wurster Hall. Come!

BUSSA Officers will be available to talk, answer questions, and hand out BUSSA brochures in the Wurster Hall Lobby most of tomorrow. Drop by and say hello. Otherwise, see ya at the meeting!

...and now some annoucements from Pat Ramirez:

CPA 290B – Brown Bag Seminar

Friday, September 17, 1:00 PM, Room 106 Wurster

Presents

Susan Kishi, Career Counselor for CED
Career Center

A special event open to
Urban Studies, CRP Minor students, MCP and Ph.D. Students (all levels)
Explore the many services provided through the Career Center…
everything from job postings to help with resumes and interviewing skills, academic and non-academic job searches for Ph.D. grads and soon-to-be grads, job faires and graduate school/law school faires…
The list goes on.

Don’t miss this introduction to an important resource
for the department and CED as a whole.

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...and from Sara McCarthy:

TO UNDERGRADUATE FIRST-TIMERS IN CED

SUBJECT: PIZZA PARTY

The Undergraduate Dean, Fred Collignon, is throwing an informal pizza party get-together on Sept. 16 at 5 pm in room 108 Wurster for freshmen and new transfer students.

Come meet fellow students and grab some free food. Some faculty will also attend. This is a rescheduling of the event originally announced at orientation for 9/2.

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So...you lucky new CED Students now have before you a wonderful opportunity, two nights of free pizza at 106 Wurster Hall! Yum.

First General Meeting of the Year!

BUSSA will be holding its first general meeting this coming Wednesday!

Here are the details:

When: Wednesday, September 15 at 5:30
Where: 106 Wurster Hall
Who: All BUSSA members and any students interested in Urban Studies and the club.
Why:

-Meet other students studying City Planning at Cal.

-Meet City Planning Professors /Urban Studies Major Advisors Ananya Roy and Karen Christensen

-Hear about the events BUSSA already has planned this semester, and help brainstorm others.

-Find out ways to get involved with BUSSA, including open leadership positions.

-Join our common class list to find other students and friends in City Planning classes to study with.

-Enjoy *free* drinks, snacks, and pizza!

Hope to see you there!

Hola Bussa-

There will be an informal "back to school" lunch meeting this Sunday for the officers and any other members so we can begin planning for the coming semester. New/transfer students are welcome to come too. We will be meeting outside of Wurster Hall at 12:00, and then head down to Southside to grab some grub.

Hope to see ya there!

-Nick

Hello Everyone!

Hope you are all enjoying the last few days of summer break!

Also, welcome to any new Urban Studies majors and City Planning minors who wandered over to our little blog from the DCRP's web site. We're hoping to get a real web site up this semester, but for now this will do.

For anyone interested in joining BUSSA this semester, or learning more about us please send an e-mail to nperry@berkeley.edu and we will add you to our e-mail list.

BUSSA reps will be at Thursday's DCRP Orientation at 12:00 to lead any new Urban Studies majors who want to join our lunch group. Anyone is free to join them to grab lunch somewhere on Southside. Just drop by Wurster around noon.

Also, on Friday two BUSSA reps will be at Friday's DCRP Peer Advising session at 106 Wurster from 2:30 to 4:30. Come drop by and say hi to Carmen and Nick.

Officers and Active Members, we're hoping to have a meeting this Sunday to talk about the coming semester and catch up on how everyone's summer went. More info on that later.

Welcome back to Berkeley BUSSA! This semester should be a great one.

Hello Folks,

For those of you at the get together tonight, here's a link to the trailer for the movie I was talking about. Just click on the movie poster!

-Nick

Dear BUSSA fans,

In honor of our graduating seniors, BUSSA will have a potluck/party at
Mike's apt this Friday at 7:00pm. It will be a potluck so please sign up
(by responding back to me) to bring something. But if you have no money,
kitchen, or even a generous roomate to prepare something for you to bring, don't worry, we'd still love to see you there.

I will see you all there and remember, it is good for your brain and body to take a break, especially during finals time:)

Mike

p.s. Salad, meat, deserts, fruits, drinks, etc. are all needed. Please let me know what you will be bringing.

Our last general meeting of the year will be held THIS Thursday at 6:30 at 106 Wurster. We will be electing new officers for next semester, so please attend! Remember to spread the word about the meeting, and announce it in your classes.

-Nick

BUSSA's third general meeting on April 10th marked a promising start for the club. Professor Christensen appeared as guest speaker, sharing her experience of what it took to establish the Urban Studies major and minor at Cal, as well as facts about carrying out Cal education into the professional field.

To All Officers and Organizers,

We have our officer meeting this Thursday. As usual, we will meet in
Wurster lobby at 6:30pm and walk down to Raleigh's or any other restaurant where we can talk.We have a lot to discuss including: our 5th General Meeting, elections, upcoming events, re-evaluation of our events so far, etc.

Sincerely,

Kate & Mike

p.s. If any of you still want to submit logo designs, please do so asap.

HAVENS HOUSE TOUR - April 25, 2004

Drawing of Weston Havens House, Berkeley CA

On Sunday, April 25, 2004 BUSSA members joined Architecture History Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty and a few Architecture170b students for a tour of the historic Weston Havens House.

Located on Panoramic Way above the UC Berkeley campus, the house was built c.
1941 by architect Hamilton Harwell Harris (1903-1990). The Havens House is considered his masterpiece. Its unique use of inverted gables and dramatic geometric forms earned the house its reputation as one of the greatest examples of Modernist residential architecture. The house also offers stunning views of the San Francisco Bay and a beautiful courtyard. The University of California is currently in the process
of purchasing the house, and a restoration is planned.

Special thanks go out to BUSSA co-chair Kate Grindlay and Professor James-Chakraborty and our tour guide, Weston Haven's friend Sergio, for making this great event possible.

Photos are below:

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font size="1" face="Arial">view from the house, group on the balcony, carmen and another balcony view

living room, dining room, view of top of staircase

nick in the mirror, staircase looking up, sergio describing the master bedroom to the prof, her son, and jeanine

 

view of house from courtyard, view of courtyard, view of bridge connecting house with street

group in the courtyard, group in the bridge

the staircase from the bridge to the street, a view of the courtyard from the roof

an inside look at the houses inverted gables, sergio talks to kate on the roof

SF MOMA Trip

On Thursday, April 14th some of the members of BUSSA headed over to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to view a photographic exhibit on the last years of the town of Monticello, Ca, before it was destroyed to make way for Berryessa Resevoir. The photos were taken in 1956 by Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones.

After checking out the exhibit the group headed to the Mission District for some good burritos. Thanks to Rudy for planning the trip! Photos are below
(click to view larger image)



the san francisco museum of modern art (moma)

night view of metreon from MOMA, mike, julia, and chris on the MOMA balcony


rudy does some unique poses from across the moma rotunda

nick,chris, and julia with rudy in the background
...and a group photo (back row) mike, nick, rudy (front) kate, julia, chris

julia (left) and kate's out-of-town friend enjoy some burritos in the mission district after moma

Graduate Student-Undergraduate Student Mixer

With the promise of free pizza and drinks, dozens of City Planning Graduate Students, Urban Studies Majors, and City Planning Minors gathered together in the Wurster Lobby for DCRP's first Graduate-Undergraduate Mixer. Thanks to everyone who helped plan BUSSA's first large event! It was a great success.

Photos below (click to see larger version):