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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Children shyly approached the microphones adorned with rainbow scarves and talked about how much they loved their parents and how much it hurt to see rights denied to them. One woman grasped her chest saying, “It felt like the day Harvey [Milk] was killed. I just felt this stabbing pain in my heart.”
Who knew the next time you play beer pong it could be courtesy of City on a Hill Press? On Thursdays, generally between 1-3 pm, CHP staffers will be in the Quarry Plaza tabling for the newspaper. CHP-stamped ping pong balls, pens, and copies of the new issue, which come out every Thursday, will be [...]
The results are in for the Student Union Assembly (SUA) elections that occurred May 13th-May 20th. Kalwis Lo won his re-election for the SUA Chair with 52 percent of the vote. Tiffany Loftin, Victor Sanchez, and Matthew Palm ran unopposed and won their re-elections for SUA Internal Vice Chair, External Vice Chair, and Commissioner of [...]
UC Santa Cruz is a nationwide leader when it comes to environmental causes on college campuses and now has a magazine to prove it. The Environmental Media Project, a student media organization founded at the beginning of this year, has recently released Gaia magazine, the first publication to highlight sustainability efforts on campus. Created by [...]
April showers are gone and the sun is shining. The ground is dry and the skies are a clear vibrant blue. It’s that time again: flip-flop season. While footwear choices are as diverse as the student population at UC Santa Cruz, this summer staple is criticized as the cause of many health problems such as [...]