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I'll give you my Starsky for your Hutch "You make more friends if you laugh at yourself first," says officer Devin Kochis, who is the driving force behind the new edition of UC police trading cards. When the department bought digital cameras to use for collecting evidence, Kochis saw the opportunity to jazz up the department's image. "My goal was to produce some of the best, most fun and eye-catching police trading cards anywhere," he says.
The cards have proven quite popular with the public. "It's surprised me," Kochis says. "It's amazing how many people of all ages come up to you on the street and ask, 'Do you have a trading card?'" It's worth asking: The back of Kochis's own card promises a police ride-along, complete with coffee and donuts, to anyone who collects all 50. Auction action It's not exactly the "Antiques Road show," but the campus has put some unusual items up for sale recently. Early in the summer, the Berkeley Art Museum sponsored an auction of elephant art--not paintings of elephants, but paintings by elephants. The elephants, out of work since the forest logging industry that employed them in Thailand was outlawed, were taught to paint by conceptual artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid, who spent the spring semester as artists-in-residence at Cal. The auction raised almost $10,000 to support the Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project and elephant art academies in Thailand, Bali, and India. And, on July 28, several hundred pieces of vintage scientific equipment discovered in the dusty recesses of LeConte Hall went on the block. The items, including oversized demonstration slide rules, wood and brass balances, and several "devices of unknown use," pulled in more than $34,000. The money will be used to buy new equipment for undergraduate physics laboratories.
Go Bear Faster than a speeding bullet? Well, maybe not, but getting over 1,068 miles per gallon is still quite a feat." After a year of design and construction, the Bear took first place among universities at the Society of Automotive Engineers Student Design Supermileage Competition in Michigan in June. But don't expect to see this jalopy at your local car dealership anytime soon: the three-wheeled vehicle seats just one person and has no headlights, seatbelts, air conditioning, or CD player. And it comes in only one color scheme. |
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