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{January 30, 2010}
Global Game Jam is Live… Like Now
The 2010 Global Game Jam, an annual indie game competition that challenges teams from across the nation to develop an innovative game in just 48 hours, is going on right now. Yes, like right now.
Tags: Contests & Competitions, Game Design, Global Game Jam 2010, Live Coverage, School of Engineering, Video Games
{January 6, 2010}
Celebrate Happy Flu Year With a H1N1 Shot This Friday
Because nothing says “Welcome Back” like a boost to the immune system, the UCSC Health Center will be hosting a H1N1 flu shot clinic this Friday. Read on for specs….
Tags: Flu Shots, H1N1 Influenza
{December 2, 2009}
More Seasonal and H1N1 Flu Shots on Friday 12/4
*sniffle* So, it seems some more shipments of seasonal and H1N1 vaccinations have made their way to UCSC. Which means it’s time for another flu shot clinic! Now if only they would have arrived a few days earlier… *sniffle*
Tags: Flu Shots, H1N1 Influenza
{December 1, 2009}
UCOP Extends App Deadline to Dec. 2nd
Well, good job, procrastinators… you broke the UC’s application system. You broke it so badly, UCOP decided to extend the application deadline for Fall 2010 admits to December 2nd at 11:59pm. And who ever said procrastination never pays off?
Tags: Deadline Change, Oops, Sad Servers, UC Applications
{June 5, 2009}
The UCSC Farm Apprentices who grow and harvest food found in dining halls, farmers markets, and community-supported agriculture (CSA) boxes are now being honored by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors who declared the month of June “Grow an Organic Farmer Month.”
Mark W. Stone, Fifth District Supervisor of the County of Santa Cruz, expressed [...]
{June 2, 2009}
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 and [...]
{May 31, 2009}
Fighting for Friendship and a Cure
“It is impossibly hard to learn that someone you love is dying. It is a thousand times harder when you learn it is a child. It is ten million times harder when you learn it is your child.”
Thus begins the letter from the parents of Chelsea Gerber, a young woman suffering from the rare epileptic [...]
{May 30, 2009}
Louise Chen's "Cerebral Flatulence"
Photos by Isaac Miller
According to Louise Chen, her art is a result of brain farts.
For the month of May, Chen, a third-year art student, will exhibit her collection titled “Cerebral Flatulence” on the walls of Caffé Pergolesi. She describes her illustrations of abstract plants, family portraits, and bikes as “uncontrollable byproducts” of her brain.
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{May 29, 2009}
Three protests on third day of actions against budget cuts
Thursday marked the third day in a week-long action to protest cuts to community studies, ethnic resource centers and Latin America and Latino Studies (LALS) professors.
At the base of campus, the crowd of protestors seemed have thinned, but those in attendance played guitar, listened to music, and exchanged ideas. Several students and community members spoke, [...]
{May 28, 2009}
Students of Color Collective stage hunger strike
On Tuesday, the Students of Color Collective (SOCC) pledged to empty their bowls in the interest of activism, a measure that commemorates the Third World and Native American Studies (TWANAS) hunger strike in 1981 that protested UC Santa Cruz’s lack of recognition of issues facing students of color.
Massive funding cuts and ineffectual communications with administrators [...]