The end of the school year is here and I want to thank everyone who read this blog even once. This was a very exciting and new project for both me and City on a Hill Press, and we are glad to say that it was a success! Thank you friends and stay classy. Keep [...]
The UCSC Farm Apprentices who grow and harvest food found in dining halls, farmers markets, and community-supported agriculture (CSA) boxes are now being honored by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors who declared the month of June “Grow an Organic Farmer Month.” Mark W. Stone, Fifth District Supervisor of the County of Santa Cruz, [...]
This spring election season could simply be described, in today’s terms, as an epic fail.
The annual spring campus elections, held every year to decide on proposed student fee increases and student government representatives, fell short of the minimum voter turnout needed to pass four proposed student fee measures, proving that student apathy is on the rise when it comes to campus politics.
On Nov. 4 of last year, UC Santa Cruz students celebrated the election of the 44th president of the United States with a large victory run that spanned the entire campus. However, the joyful mood was soon dampened when news of the passage of Proposition 8 became known, and students’ hopes for marriage equality in the state of California began to fade.
The dramatic landscape of Natural Bridges State Beach served as the backdrop to an impassioned rally on June 1, with over 500 residents coming together to oppose Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed plan to cut $213 million from the California State Parks system by 2011.
Tim Becker came to the farm as a first-year and hasn’t left since.
The seed was planted in 2005, when he arrived at UC Santa Cruz as a proposed language studies major from Los Angeles who had no prior farming experience.
Then he got his hands dirty.
The Students of Color Collective (SOCC) finished a week of hunger strikes, optimistic about the success of their protest. Situating their demonstration at the base of campus, SOCC proved to be an organized and resilient group of concerned students.
Keep SC Beaches Beautiful Summer 2009 is almost here, and everyone knows what that means: people from all over the world will be stampeding to the beaches in Santa Cruz to enjoy some of the most beautiful coastal scenery in California. There is no feeling quite like the one you get when you are standing on the cliffs [...]
It seems impossible that the notion of sexism still exists in today’s world. The 2008 elections marked the first time a woman was a serious candidate for president, while another came could have easily become our nation’s first female vice president. From these women, it could be assumed that the world is progressing toward an era of greater equality between the sexes. But an April 26 Washington Post column by author and University of Texas professor of sociology Mark Regnerus, entitled “Say Yes — What Are You Waiting For?” seems to prove otherwise.