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The foyer on the first floor of Ellison Hall has finally shed its purely institutional look. Sure, the wall-mounted interactive campus map made a welcome change from the bleak directories we used to have, the new marquee featuring infographics about Geography has been a big hit, and the Plexiglas frames for holding poster projects are a lot classier and user-friendly than double-sided tape. Still, the huge expanse of linoleum flooring...

Bill Norrington, the UCSB Geography staff editor/writer for the past few years, is being put out to pasture, effective January 1, 2016. He’d like to thank the Department for putting up with him for so long and would like to say that it’s been an honor and a privilege to work with all concerned. Apart from kowtowing to the demands of his supervisors on his home front, i.e., his wife Val and his tenant Meryl Wieder (ex-MSO for...

The following article was written by Catherine Gautier-Downes, Professor Emerita of Geography, UCSB, who has been in Paris for COP21, acting as a Special Correspondent for the Santa Barbara Independent. The article was posted December 12, 2015, with the title above: As an author of this publication, I am taking the liberty to repost this article under the Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivatives licence. Republished from...