Small Event, Huge Impact
During welcome week of every school year, eager students line up outside of Kresge Town Hall in the hopes of getting first pick of the free stuff at the Great Junk Giveaway. Once the doors open, students frantically try to grab anything of value, making...
Kresge Hate Crime Allegation Dropped
Former UC Santa Cruz student, Brandon Beaton, was accused of being involved in an alleged hate crime at Kresge College in February 2015. Though Beaton was found guilty on three counts — assault causing great bodily injury, battery and resisting arrest — all other charges...
‘Santa Cruz for Bernie’ on the Ballot
Just a few months ago, the small county of Santa Cruz generated a surprisingly large number. Fifty-nine percent of those who turned out in the California Democratic primary voted for Sen. Sanders, one of the largest margins in the state. Despite Sanders’ failure to win...
Loma Fire Rages in the Midst of a Drought
Update 9/30 6:55 p.m.: The Loma Fire has grown to 4,345 acres and is 50 percent contained, according to Cal Fire. One firefighter has been hospitalized, and eight residences have been destroyed and 325 structures are threatened. UC Santa Cruz alumna Kimberly Barker had just gotten...
Your Santa Cruz Study Guide
Santa Cruz is a quirky little city full of eccentric locals and hounds of tourists. It can be difficult to navigate — especially if you are carrying mounds of school work and need a place away from your roommates to focus. Thankfully, I like to...
A Guide to Your Student Government
UC Santa Cruz’s Student Union Assembly (SUA) is the undergraduate student government on campus. It’s completely student-led and student-funded, and it serves as a space for student voice both locally and nationally. There are six student body officers of the SUA, 10 student organization representatives...
Building From the Bottom Up
Every year, millions of people attend music festivals around the world but are unaware of the logistics and labor that go into the production. Weeks and hours are spent setting up, and hundreds of volunteers devote time to cleaning up the mess when it’s all...
Digitizing the Past
Studies of the intra-American slave trade reveal a limited understanding of the forced migration of millions of Africans onto this continent. UC Santa Cruz associate history professor Greg O’Malley wanted to know why. “There seemed to be a missing link,” O’Malley said. “I decided to make that missing link my research.”...
Black Lives Are YOUR Future
Now that I am entering my senior year at UC Santa Cruz, I have learned firsthand how to navigate the predominantly white institution through the “veil.” The “veil” is a metaphor coined by Dr. W.E.B. DuBois in his novel “The Souls of Black Folk”, which describes how a Black person...
UC Laborers Union Protest Pay Wage
About 30 protesters representing the Teamsters Local 2010 union of over 14,000 UC clerical and administrative employees gathered in Quarry Plaza on Aug. 16, denouncing the two-month bargaining delay for a wage contract and demanding better salary and a secure pension. “[The UC] has tens of billions of dollars in reserve […] are their top administrators...