By Next week, students will have the opportunity to vote for Student Union Assembly (SUA) officer candidates and ballot measures in the Spring SUA elections. City on a Hill Press will cover the ballot measures in this issue, and focus on the officer candidates next week. All ballot measures that require campus-based fees must be [...]
By John Williams There is no food and no end in sight for a group of approximately 20 hunger strikers who are protesting University of California involvement in the management of nuclear weapons labs. Yesterday, students from five different UC campuses joined the strike protesting the nuclear weapons research at UC-owned Los Alamos National Labs [...]
By John Williams Stats: Appointed to the Board of Regents in 1996 by Republican Governor Pete Wilson Chairman of the Board from July 2004 until January 2007 Term ends March 1, 2008 Shawn Steel, the president of the California Republican Party from 2003-2005, wrote in an article in the National Review saying that Gerald L. [...]
By Will Norton-Mosher Over 300 students shuffled into the cavernous UC Santa Cruz Media Theatre lecture hall and took their seats for a sociology lecture. Like clockwork, they opened their backpacks and took out the usual pens, pencils, notebooks, and something that looked like a remote control. Although the companies that make them call these [...]
By Matthew Sommer On a tensely divided topic, opposing campus groups may find the destruction of thousands of Palestinian homes on the Gaza Strip and West Bank a unifying issue. On May 3, Israeli citizen and political activist Jeff Halper — founding member of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) — spoke about activism [...]
By Rachel Tennenbaum “American Beauty” references aside, the plastic bag is not “the most beautiful thing in the world.” San Francisco faced this reality in late March, when the city banned plastic bags from its stores. This new law has left environmentally conscious Santa Cruz residents thinking, should we do this too? According to the [...]
By Claire Walla For a man whose image greeted us every night on the evening news for 30 years, and a reporter whose name is etched in history books across the nation, the quiet seaside community of Monterey Bay seems one of the least likely places to visit. But on May 4, former CBS news [...]
By Allen Wolfe For supporters of presidential candidate John Kerry, the day after the 2004 presidential election might be remembered as a day of disappointment and lost hope. However, a few tried to do something about it. One of those individuals was Joseph Anthony, a paralegal working out of Los Angeles. Anthony decided that his [...]
By Darren E. Weiss One year after the Georgia legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill allowing elective public high school Bible courses, the state school board has approved a curriculum for this fall. The courses will be the nation’s first state-funded Bible classes, with the likelihood of lawsuits in the future. Georgia’s school board approved the [...]
By Ann Daramola The International Lesbian and Gay Association (IGLA) met in Johannesburg this past weekend for the first pan-African, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) conference. Over a dozen LGBT organizations from Canada and Africa came together to plan the conference, including a Swedish LGBT organization – Riksförbundet för sexuellt likaberättigande (RFSL) – that [...]