Taking Back Santa Cruz

Gov. Jerry Brown rallied students to vote “Yes” on Proposition 30 in the upcoming election, making a stop at UC Santa Cruz on his tour of several campuses across the state.

Gov. Jerry Brown rallied students to vote “Yes” on Proposition 30 in the upcoming election, making a stop at UC Santa Cruz on his tour of several campuses across the state.

Anti-abortion group, Sanctity of Human Life, received a negative response from campus this week during their college campus tour.

Unofficial student organizing group Open University Together (OUT) gathered students in a peaceful and creative demonstration as an alternative way to protest the UC budget epidemic, on Tuesday March 1st. Following the rally in Quarry Plaza on Wednesday, though, demonstrators occupied the Ethnic Resource Center, citing the lack of an ethnic studies program as the catalyst for their action.

STAND, a student led organization at UCSC, spreads awareness about the southern Sudanese independence referendum on January 9th. The referendum will either bring peace or political unrest and civil war to southern Sudan.

Protesters rally in Quarry Plaza and Kerr Hall to protest fee hikes and TA pay cuts.

Krishna Salguero, an employee at the Bay Tree Bookstore, was consumed with misunderstanding and anger, as she vacuumed pieces of shattered glass strewn across the floor at her work Wednesday morning. “I can’t wrap my head around the mentality of vandalism and the satisfaction that someone would receive from something like this,” Salguero said. Around [...]

Hahn Student Services building is put on “restricted access” in anticipation of student protest.

Some say it was the beginning of a revolution. Others felt that it was merely a nuisance. Either way the occupation that kicked off the school year prompted countless responses to its impacts. During their residence in the Graduate Student Commons (GSC), segments of protesters organized various smaller-scale demonstrations of resistance, including two dance parties [...]