Portrait of Karl S. Pister. Circa 1990.

Chancellor Karl S. Pister

Multicultural Festival Poster. Nelson Mandela speaks at UCSC. May 11, 1985.

Multicultural Festival poster, Nelson Mandela speaks at UCSC, May 11, 1985

"Condos or Meadows?" Anti-growth flyer. 1990.

Condos or Meadows? anti-growth flyer, 1990

"Save the Great Meadow!" Anti-growth flyer. 1984.

Save the Great Meadow anti-growth flyer, 1994

The Great Meadow [view with rusting farm machinery]

The Great Meadow

"Come Save Elfland!" Flyer protesting the building of College Nine and College Ten on the site of Elfland at UCSC. 1991.

Come Save Elfland! flyer, 1991

Currents (October 27, 1995; Vol. 6, No. 3)

Currents, October 27, 1995

Resources

  • Video about Elfland, includes an interview with Jeffrey Arnett, editor of An Unnatural History of UC Santa Cruz

Oral histories

Books and Articles

  • Arnett, Jeff, ed. An Unnatural History of UCSC (Second Edition, Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz, Bay Tree Bookstore, 2008).
  • Clifford, James. In the Ecotone: The UC Santa Cruz Campus. Photographs and Text by James Clifford. 2015. Available at the Bay Tree Bookstore and the UCSC Library.
  • Waters, Christina. “UCSC Founders Evaluate their Creation on its 25th Anniversary,” Pacific, 13-36, 1990.