
The UCSC Writers’ Society hosted a get-together at the Kresge Writing Center on Oct. 30 to celebrate the kickoff of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The project challenges participants to write 50,000 words Nov. 1–30.

Kresge hosts PRIDE 2012, a parade and festival celebrating the LGBT community.
The Kresge Town Hall was filled last Wednesday night with roughly 200 faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students prepared to discuss future tactics in preventing furloughs, fee increases and layoffs similar to those that have ensued this year. The meeting, hosted by the Student Union Assembly (SUA), was held to form a coalition to address the current statewide budget crisis in wake of the last week’s occupation of the Humanities 2 building at UC Santa Cruz.
Kresge College recently began offering a two-credit independent study course that focuses on expanding and improving the quality of the garden. Since the inception of the course, the garden has thrived, thanks to eager and involved students who enrolled in the spring session.
