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John Mock envisioned UC Santa Cruz as a university where the study of South Asian languages, culture and history would thrive, but the ever-steepening cuts the campus is facing have buried those plans. With Arabic already eliminated, UCSC’s languages are taking another hit — next year, the university will no longer offer instruction in Hindi, [...]
Published on: Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Category: Campus
Tags: A Changing UC, Profile, Volume 44 Issue 16
Kyle Thomson wants to study Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, but cuts to UCSC’s language department could dissolve his plans.
Published on: Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Category: Campus
Tags: A Changing UC, Profile, Volume 44 Issue 16
Fees push first-year student back to Michigan, despite his happiness at UCSC.
Published on: Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Category: Campus
Tags: A Changing UC, Out of State Students, Profile, Volume 44 Issue 13
Budget cuts and packed classes lead one UCSC student to change her major and consider leaving the university.
Published on: Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Category: Campus
Tags: A Changing UC, Class Cuts, Profile, Volume 44 Issue 13
At City on a Hill Press, we’ve started a special online feature to document the ongoing story of our student fees and the system’s changing culture. This week, a special preview of what’s to come.
Published on: Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Category: Campus
Tags: A Changing UC, Profile, Volume 44 Issue 10
Women’s Cross Country Runner Makes Nationals
Junior women’s cross country runner Mikayla Murphy placed seventh out of more than one hundred participants in the NCAA DIII West Regionals on Saturday, November 14, earning her the chance to represent UC Santa Cruz in the NCAA Championships this weekend in Cleveland, Ohio.
Published on: Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Category: Sports
Tags: Championships, Mikayla Murphy, NCAA Championships, Profile, Volume 44 Issue 9, Women's Cross-Country
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.
The hunt for Robert Steffen, one of Pacific Avenue’s unique and regular characters, was no simple task. It took three days and the entrusting of a personal phone number with a homeless man. But when Steffen finally returned the call, there was certain excitement and urgency in his voice.
More commonly known as “The Pink Umbrella Man” or simply “The Pink Man,” Steffen has abandoned his family life as a NASA electrical engineer only to wind up a homeless Santa Cruzan spending his days shuffling endlessly around, and left, ultimately, alone.
Published on: Monday, September 21st, 2009
Category: Primer 2009
Tags: Downtown Santa Cruz, Profile, Santa Cruz Culture, The Pink Man, Volume 44 Issue 1
Richard Donnelly is on a mission to create the best tasting chocolate in the world.
In a unassuming, toffee-colored shop on the corner of Bay and Mission, the middle-aged chocolatier believes that he’s almost reached perfection when it comes to concocting the world’s finest chocolate.
Published on: Monday, September 21st, 2009
Category: Primer 2009
Tags: Chocolate, Donnelly Fine Chocolates, Food, Profile, Volume 44 Issue 1
Mike Rotkin is a busy man. He is a lecturer, a union leader, the coordinator of the UC Santa Cruz community studies field study, an activist, a father, a husband, the faculty adviser for Fish Rap Live! magazine, a former Santa Cruz mayor, chairman of the local ACLU chapter, and a City Councilmember. He also kayaks, enjoys sports, and spends time outdoors.
Published on: Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Category: City
Tags: Community Studies, Mike Rotkin, Profile, Q&A, Volume 43 Issue 30
Converting Crisis to Change Via Creativity
Her melodies were hand-delivered to the Dalai Lama, and she plans to send musical mail to President Obama by the end of the year.
Two years after being voted “Most Inspirational Psychology Professor” at UC Santa Cruz in 1992, Michelle Chappel reached success overseas.
Published on: Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Category: Arts
Tags: Michelle Chappel, Music, Profile, Volume 43 Issue 30