“Do you know what’s in your food? What about your baby’s food? The average baby food sits on a shelf for two years before ending [up] in front of your child,” said Jackie Olin, one of seven finalists in UC Santa Cruz’s first-ever Business Plan Competition (BPC), as she presented her business plan to a panel of judges. Olin, a recent UCSC graduate, was not only a finalist but also the winner of the competition.

Twelve hours after leaving UC Santa Cruz, the caravan of student government officers and interns prepared to leave Sacramento behind. Hundreds of UC, CSU, and California Community College system (CCC) students filed out of the Capitol Building, clinging to the hope that legislators might heed their testimonies. “What is at stake here,” UCSC Student Union Assembly (SUA) external vice chair Victor Sanchez said to the budget committee, “is more than the future of our system of higher education, but that of the state of California.”

A small group gathers in the unused conference room of a church in San Diego. The group spans generations and social boundaries — elderly men sporting political buttons on their suspenders, middle-aged mothers fielding calls from elementary school children, and teenage interns writing in spiral notebooks.  “What have we all done this week to change the [...]

Photos by Isaac Miller. Amid the construction abundant on the changing UC Santa Cruz campus, there is one constant that remains: hungry students. At the end of winter quarter, both the Porter/Kresge Dining Hall and the Hungry Slug Café closed for renovations. Despite the obvious inconvenience to students who frequent these dining spots, College University [...]

Tailor Made is a regular column documenting different looks at UC Santa Cruz by Alex Zamora, a second-year art major and aspiring fashion photographer. I am always intrigued by clothes that either have multi-purposes, hidden textures or secret colors that pop out at you when you least expect them. These little gems are the hidden “Waldos” [...]