Around a dozen students protested the presence of the U.S. Marines and Raytheon, a missile producer, at the job fair on Tuesday morning at the UC Santa Cruz Stevenson Event Center.

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta announced the $450 billion cut to the Pentagon’s budget may partially have to come out of the military’s health insurance program, Tricare. Raised fees and renegotiating retirement pay of veterans are unacceptable measures compared to the price tags of the Pentagon’s other defense contracts.

The United States prides itself on being the country where justice is served in an orderly and complete fashion. While Americans have been made aware of the fact that this is more a fallacy than a complete truth time and time again, this adage is a complete farce when it comes to the United States military, which has allegedly been covering up cases of sexual assault and rape for years.

Veterans on campus and in the community share their stories.

At a university boasting an impressive track record for anti-military activism, several students train to become Marines. Between drill cadences and midterms, student officer candidates provide a new face to the military’s presence at UCSC.

The Bible verses found etched onto U.S. Military rifle scopes is yet another constitutional amendment ignored by the people meant to protect our nation’s honor.