From film screenings, to booths and human chains, Occupy SC was anything but boring over the weekend. The popular local arm of the Occupy Wall Street movement protested injustice and inequality all over town during the long, hot weekend, and many community members came out to join and support them, a sign that shows the movement is still strong.

The county board of supervisors, in support of Neal Coonerty, has taken a symbolic stance against SB 292 — a potential legislative threat to environmental policy — and is now pushing Governor Brown to veto the bill. 

Around 40 UCSC Students and Watsonville Brown Beret members entered the class room of Santa Cruz Mayor Ryan Coonerty unannounced to demonstrate his lack of support for a resolution on the Trust Act.

For the next three months, Mayor Coonerty will host a monthly meeting aimed to educate Santa Cruzans about the way local government works and help dispel myths surrounding City Council, budgetary issues, and the relationship of the city and the university.

It’s about that time of night: eleven o’ clock — maybe 11:45 on a lucky night. Less inebriated attendees sense it will happen any minute. It’s sudden but predictable: knock on door, music stops, expletives are hurled, beers fall out of hands — the cops have arrived to break up yet another Santa Cruz house party.

This recurring scenario seems to be something that students have grown to accept. It has become an unavoidable part of attending college in a city that refuses to be called a ‘college town’.