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...

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...

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...

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...

Despite opposition from various groups and individuals, including regent and Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, the board approved a plan that will require each member of the 180,000 UC workforce to take between 11-24 unpaid days, off depending on salary level. If the plan is also...

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...

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...

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.

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...

For years, UCSC has been praised throughout the country as the pinnacle of alternative education; UCSC has long been portrayed and idealized as a campus with a unique community and liberal ideology, paving the way for progressive curriculum and alternative fields of research. But times...