The gifts include a creative writing seminar for people withdisabilities “philosophy cafes” at bookstores in the region todiscuss “trenchant philosophical topics” with faculty and talks bymedical students on alcohol, smoking and HIV and AIDS atelementary, middle and high schools throughout the county. Get an inside look at UC San Diegofrom anywhere in the world. The publication also describes the 40 “gifts of service” UCSDplans to give this year to the region. Join online live dance and yoga classes, watch experimental performances, participate in virtual wellness workshops and more. The university describes some 250 outreach programs in the arts,health and education in a pamphlet called “UCSD and You,” publishedfor the 40th anniversary. “That’s not too bad,” Sawyer said, noting both that the"coverage rate” was about 50 percent in the mid-1980s and that eventoday’s success fell short of the federal government’s goal ofimmunizing 90 percent of the children in the year 2000. “I looked up to them and I thought that inorder to do what they do, I’d have to do well in high school to getto college.”Īnother speaker, Mark Sawyer, a pediatrician at UCSD, said theuniversity, joining with other government agencies, helped immunizemore than 80 percent of the two-year-olds in San Diego Countyagainst measles last year. “I wanted to be like them,” she said in an interview after theprogram at the library plaza, where guests sipped wine and ateshrimp, hors d’oeuvres and sandwiches to the accompaniment of aclassical guitarist. Nancy Duran, a senior at Escondido High School, said the UCSDstudents who helped out at the center inspired her to pursue acollege education. With a center in Solana Beach, theprogram aims to prepare Latino children and adolescents, as well asadults, for success in school. Among the other speakers was a recipient of one of the 40 gifts,Nancy Duran, daughter of Lourdes Duran, who directs a program knownas Casa de la Clase Magica.