May 8, Monday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. -- Top scholars will use a UC Davis Symposium on the Whole Earth Catalog to explore the premise that the 38-year-old counterculture almanac has spawned commonplace aspects of the contemporary world, including the dot-com industry, electronic energy and organic foods. Open to the public, the daylong symposium is expected to be the most ambitious gathering to link the ideas from the Whole Earth Catalog to developments in countercultural arts, sustainability, design, philosophy, media, technology and daily life. Participants include Bruce Clark, professor of English at Texas Tech University (and an original member of the rock 'n' roll band Sha Na Na), Simon Sadler, associate professor of architectural and urban history at UC Davis; and Fred Turner, assistant professor of communication at Stanford University and author of "From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism." The symposium, to be held in MU II of the Memorial Union on campus, has been scheduled in the same week as the campus's 36th annual Whole Earth Festival, set for May 12-14.