You’d hardly know him. He wears a tan floppy hat, thin wire glasses, an ordinary grey sweatshirt with an Easter yellow collar peeking though, faded jeans, and dirty grey shoes. The pink plastic flowers adorning his feet are the only visible clues to his identity....

I remember my first musicianship lab, an often tedious requirement in the Music Department that accompanies any introductory music theory course at UCSC. When my roommate and I got to class, our TA, Nick, was zoned out, staring off at the wall, and effortlessly conjuring...

At the beginning of the fall 2008 quarter, total freshmen enrollment at UC Santa Cruz tallied in around 4,573 students. This fall 2009, campus admission officials estimate that number will drop to under 3,850. What’s the budgetary bottom line of this decrease? About 2,675,100 fewer...

Down the hill from the Porter Meadow in the shadow of Empire Grade's steady traffic, a quintessential UC Santa Cruz landmark lies hidden but not forgotten. Part of the Cave Gulch system, it is the Empire Cave, more commonly known as the “Porter Caves.” The...

Whether you were lounging on a beach in Acapulco, hiking the Himalayas or biking down the Pacific Coast Trail, the world kept on turning and the news kept on coming. Here is a recap of the things that might have slipped under your radar this...

We face extinction. The ‘we’ I speak of can be any number of groups since UC Santa Cruz students (and really, just about everyone else) are now at the center of a constantly changing cultural, political and financial landscape. But our university, our community, our...

It’d be hard to find two students who study in exactly the same way. Some enjoy the structure and silence that characterizes McHenry Library on a mid-week morning. Others require the nighttime bustle and caffeination offered up by the numerous downtown coffee shops. No matter...

As another year of our esteemed higher education begins, perhaps it’s time to treat our bodies to a new way of eating. The collegiate culinary cycle of ramen, frozen pizza, forget to rinse the dishes, repeat, can in fact be broken and forgotten – and...

Learn more about four overlooked sports: Disc Golf, Archery, Paddleboarding, and Roller Derby.

Every Sunday around 2 p.m. at San Lorenzo Skate Park, mallets swing, hockey balls roll and bicycles collide. Its time for some bike polo. Afternoon traffic on San Lorenzo Boulevard stops as rubbernecking drivers swivel their heads to ogle at pick-up games of the emerging...