Who knew the next time you play beer pong it could be courtesy of City on a Hill Press? On Thursdays, generally between 1-3 pm, CHP staffers will be in the Quarry Plaza tabling for the newspaper. CHP-stamped ping pong balls, pens, and copies of the new issue, which come out every Thursday, will be [...]
Last week the City Council held an emergency community forum on the current budget crisis facing the city of Santa Cruz. Since 2002, the city faced a General Fund budget cut of over $14 million, and over 100 people in the city workforce have lost their jobs.
The results are in for the Student Union Assembly (SUA) elections that occurred May 13th-May 20th. Kalwis Lo won his re-election for the SUA Chair with 52 percent of the vote. Tiffany Loftin, Victor Sanchez, and Matthew Palm ran unopposed and won their re-elections for SUA Internal Vice Chair, External Vice Chair, and Commissioner of [...]
UC Santa Cruz is a nationwide leader when it comes to environmental causes on college campuses and now has a magazine to prove it. The Environmental Media Project, a student media organization founded at the beginning of this year, has recently released Gaia magazine, the first publication to highlight sustainability efforts on campus. Created by [...]
April showers are gone and the sun is shining. The ground is dry and the skies are a clear vibrant blue. It’s that time again: flip-flop season. While footwear choices are as diverse as the student population at UC Santa Cruz, this summer staple is criticized as the cause of many health problems such as [...]
The flavors of Santa Cruz have slipped under the radar. When food choices fluctuate between the variety of supermarkets and the farmer’s market, who would think to eat weeds? Native plants have been overshadowed by domesticated produce and have for the most part completely disappeared from the plates of industrial nations. But free food has [...]
CruzAlert received its first opportunity to alert students of a potential threat to campus safety on Thursday morning. An automated voice message, multiple text messages and e-mails generated by the CruzAlert system were sent out to students, staff and faculty at about 9 a.m. Thursday. The alerts came in response to a “suspicious device off [...]
Breaking news on the search for the next student regent and Community Studies.
What if a shovel, a seed and a conversation could change the world? Students of University Repair find themselves asking such questions every day.
Several generations of United States veterans, from World War II soldiers to present-day service members home from the Iraq War, turned out for a memorial event Wednesday. The event brought tears to the eyes of some of the nation’s proudest service members.