USD Magazine, Summer 2000

ALCALA ~ ALMANAC

Log On, Look Up Old Friends

USD by the Numbers Campus Flora

Pounds of fertilizer used each year 525 Number of rose bushes planted over the past 50 years 7 Number of rarest plant on campus - Dragon Tree (Dracaena Draco)

Alumni can now find the addresses and ~ phone numbers of former classmates via USD's Online Community, a Web site accessible only to grads. The site also ptovides a variety of other services, incl uding a free e-mail address chat forwards your mail for life, access to USD's career services program, and a Yellow Pages section where alumni can promote their businesses. The premier feature of the Web site is the searchable directory, which lists personal and professional information on more than 30,000 alumni who participated in the uni– versity's print directory. Only those alumni with a valid university– issued ID number can access the site. To find your ID number, turn to the back cover of USD Magazine and find the mailing label. The five- to seven-digit number after your name is your access number. The site is fou nd by logging onto http://www.acusd.edu, clicking on the Alumni and Friends page, and then clicking on the Online Communi ty site. Confused? Call (800) 248-4873, ext. 7, from outside San Diego, or (619) 260-4819 within the city, for help.

Annual flowers planted

Pounds of grass seed spread each year 188 Hours a week mowing common areas and playing fields 450 Tons of sand used to dress athletic fields 22 Hours a week striping athletic fields

Building aWorld from Blocks

USO sophomore Felipe Martinez shows off the "keg filler" device he created with a team of engineering students as part of a design project sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Engineering students, who are routinely recruited by firms like Qualcomm and SAIC, worked with Lego-like building blocks and circuit boards to create a draw bridge, Ferris wheel and car wash during a May I I engineering department open house.

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