Stevenson College
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Adlai E. Stevenson College is a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz. It is located on the east side of campus, east of Cowell College and south of Crown and Merrill colleges.
Named after Adlai Stevenson, an American politician and United Nations ambassador, the college was founded in 1966, a year after the establishment of the university and its first college, Cowell. Its motto, and the theme of its freshman core course, is Self and Society.
The Self and Society course centers on a selection of important literature from throughout human history. Selected readings for the course range from holy texts like the Bible and Bhagavad Gita to the political theories of Machiavelli and Karl Marx, the science fiction of Philip K. Dick, and Malcolm X's Autobiography. The core course places a strong focus on writing, utilizing writing tutors who meet with students in small groups in the residence hall buildings.
The college hosts the departments of linguistics and philosophy. Many faculty members from those departments and others have their offices at Stevenson. Like most of the other colleges at UCSC, Stevenson also contains several classrooms and a restaurant, the Stevenson Coffee House. The coffeehouse is a popular place for students to study and socialize.
Student housing at Stevenson consists of two clusters of dormitory buildings, usually called "upper quad" and "lower quad." In addition, a new apartment complex opened for the 2004-2005 school year. The residential buildings, or "houses," are relatively small, accommodating about 60 students each. Many students say this helps to create a strong sense of community in each house and at the college as a whole.
