In Response to: Food Systems Week at UCSC [5/19/2011] Thank you for taking the time to cover Friends of Community Agroecology Network’s (FoCAN) Food Systems Week. I was very excited to see a full page dedicated to an event that I helped coordinate this quarter with an amazing team of individuals. The quality of the [...]

In the twenty-eighth episode, Thomas and Danny chat with Grant Brisbee of McCovey Chronicles about the recent Giants injuries, possible solutions at catcher and shortstop, movies and bourbon, and what to make of the youngsters in the offense. Click here to listen to Two Guys, a Glove and Coke Bottle Thomas Todd and Daniel Zarchy are [...]

I knew I was in for a hell of a weekend when our caravan got pulled over waiting in a line of cars leading to the front gate of Sasquatch! Music Festival. The Washington police department seemed less than pleased with our impromptu dance party. After a strict lecture about roadside safety, we were free [...]

Last month the US Supreme Court ordered the state of California to reduce the number of inmates in its prisons by about 46,000. But is the problem really about accommodation, or the means that brought the convicts there in the first place?

In light of the nonavailability of fine arts courses in the art department, third year Lukas Flynn is considering abandoning the degree that he came to UC Santa Cruz to pursue. Flynn will not be able to graduate in time, if he sticks to courses that are in his area of interest in the art department.
UCSC’s $34 million in budget cuts will affect a staff and faculty already stretched thin financially . The administration will try and protect Students’ courses needed for graduation.

Question: Who is going to be the next Oprah? And what will they give away?

Thirty years ago this Sunday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported for the first time the case of five gay men in Los Angeles who contracted what was then interpreted as a rare form of pneumonia. Little did anyone know that this “pneumonia” would turn into a global pandemic that would kill nearly [...]
In the May 29 article “What the Athletes Eat” Chelsea Henry was incorrectly identified as captain of the UCSC women’s water polo team. Henry is captain of the UCSC women’s swim team.
On May 24, executive vice chancellor Alison Galloway hosted a forum to bridge the gap between student and faculty discussions on the possible inclusion of an ethnic studies program.
