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by Andy
Evangelista First
appeared 15 April 1999
What's Black and White and Red All Over?
 An embarrassed penguin? Well, not quite. Empact!
Presents' Red Mangio, who's jolly in his normal clothes, was more than happy to don a
furry penguin costume during this warmest week of the year and waddle around campus
pushing tickets for the Saturday night, May 1 UCSF Black and White Gala. It will be held
at Golden Gate Park's California Academy of Sciences, where you can eat, drink and party
among the stuffed mammals. (No, not your bosses - there really are stuffed giraffes,
zebras and bears in the museum displays.)
The big ball will be held in four rooms at the Academy and will feature some real UCSF
talent. Cubanacan, a salsa band led by Marcus Israel Lopez, who doubles in the daytime as
a processor in campus mailing and addressing, performs in the Wild California room. Jas
Syndicate, headed by Pfelton Sutton, who is also a technician at UCSF/Mount Zion, plays in
Cowell Hall near the main entrance. The Michael Weiner Trio, featuring Weiner, a
neuroscientist and physician at the VAMC, performs in the Tidepool and Fish Roundabout
area.
The Cheeseballs, who play 70s and 80s dance music, and DJ Wisdom, who offers the hip-hop
variety, also are part of the party package. Fo' mo' info, check out Empact!'s website for the event.
Keep the Comp. Packed
UCSF police continue to warn campus members to keep eyes and hands on your belongings,
especially laptop computers. A report distributed this month detailed the 47 thefts
reported for February alone, which totaled more than $70,000 in losses. In addition to the
usual wallets snatched from purses and jackets, there were 15 computers, including 10
laptops, stolen when the owners weren't looking. In all of 1998, only 30 computer thefts
were reported to campus police.
Big Time Boasting
Daybreak was mentioned in a recent LA Times feature that listed "terrific"
university web sites that offer information of interest to patients and consumers. The
Times' weekly "Your Health Online" column by Marla Bolotsky also touted UCSF
Stanford Health Care's Health Tips and
the award-winning HIVInsite.
She Deserves a Break Today
A Parnassus panhandler on a recent Wednesday had a good line to loosen spare change from
the pockets of passersby: "It's 29 cent hamburger day at McDonalds." So, what do
you tell her when you're caught red-handed and red-faced walking out of Millberry Union
holding a Palio bag with the splurged $6.95 fancy-wrapped, grilled portabello mushroom
"Don Bosco" inside? "Here's a buck, get some fries, too."
Test Your Co-Workers
From the research wire: A study in this month's issue of the journal Brain found that
people with right frontal lobe brain damage have trouble getting punch lines and show a
preference for Three Stooges-like slapstick humor. Researchers at the Rotman Research
Institute/University of Toronto made that conclusion after studying 31 adults' humor
responses to various written and verbal jokes and cartoons.
Here's one of the jokes used in the study:
A teenager is being interviewed for a summer job.
"You'll get $50 a week to start off," says his boss. "Then after a month
you'll get a raise to $75 a week."
Study subjects were offered three possible punch lines.
A. "I'd like to take the job. When can I start?" (Straightforward logical
choice)
B. "That's great! I'll come back in a month." (Correct "funny" choice)
C. "Hey boss, your nose is too big for your face!" (Slapstick ending most often
chosen by patients with right frontal lobe damage)
Readers: If you have any items or suggestions for this
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