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09 Jun 2026

Best in the West 

The UC Santa Cruz men’s soccer team is out to prove the adage that numbers don’t lie. With an 8-0-1 record they’re well on their way to proving that they deserve their current ranking as the fourth-best Division III team in the nation, according to...

This Week in Sports 

Last Week’s Results: Men’s Soccer 9/22 vs. Menlo (home) 2-0 (win) 9/27 vs. La Sierra (home) 4-0 (win) Women’s Soccer 9/25 vs. Southwestern (home) 5-0 (win) 9/27 vs. La Verne (home) 2-1 (win) Women’s Volleyball 9/26 vs. Luther (home) 3-2 (loss) 9/26 vs. La Sierra...

Rally at Base Draws Hundreds 

Ashley Nguyen attended her first day of college among a raucous and riled-up group of hundreds at the base of campus yesterday, where unions, faculty members and students rallied against the budgetary problems facing the University of California. At UC Santa Cruz, the local chapter...

Protesters’ Take Over at UCSC 

Twenty masked persons took over UCSC's Graduate Student Commons around 5 p.m. today, protesting the measures taken by the UC Board of Regents to deal with a budget crisis. Pay-cuts, furloughs, cut classes and privatization are among the issues protesters inside and outside the building...

Students Vote to Save Cal Grants 

The University of California Student Association (UCSA) voted in early August to campaign for the preservation of Cal Grants by pushing the state to amend its constitution. The campaign came in response to Gov. Swarzenegger’s proposed state budget revision that opts to phase out Cal...

A Farm of a Different Breed 

Just past the seven-store town of Davenport, 12.5 miles north of UC Santa Cruz on Highway 1, stretches a little slice of paradise. Swanton Berry Farm, this lush, utopian place, includes forty acres of rich, fertile soil from which ruby-red strawberries, sunflowers and a dozen...

Secret Sweet-Tooth Sensation 

Richard Donnelly is on a mission to create the best tasting chocolate in the world. In a unassuming, toffee-colored shop on the corner of Bay and Mission, the middle-aged chocolatier believes that he’s almost reached perfection when it comes to concocting the world’s finest chocolate.

Power Positive 

Homegrown harvests and bread baked by the family down the street. Medical care subsidized by local taxes and available to all residents of a municipality. Mixed-use housing, water catchment systems galore, walkable neighborhoods and thriving community connections. Transition Santa Cruz, a citizen coalition that educates...
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