By Valerie Luu Student Organization Advising and Resource (SOAR) Center, located in the Student Services building, is the campus activities office that works with clubs, student government and various other campus organizations. According to its website, the mission of SOAR is to provide “mentorship, leadership training, organizational development advising and event management services to all [...]
By Julia Guest The long, arduous school day ends and, boy, are you hungry. You head for the dining hall, where you can satisfy any craving: pizza, lasagna, mashed potatoes, salad, watermelon, mint chocolate chip cookies, you name it. Thank goodness you can fit it all on that plastic tray, right? Wrong — at least [...]
By John Harley Blink. In the moments before you next bat your eyes, the United States will spend over $15,000 on the war in Iraq. Two weeks ago, the White House announced its proposed military spending for 2009, which includes a $70 billion emergency allowance to support the Global War on Terror for only the [...]
By Nick Winnie *Primary Update*: In another twist in the Democratic primary, Sen. Barack Obama appears poised to sweep the rest of this month’s election calendar, recapturing momentum from Sen. Hillary Clinton. Obama’s string of victories last weekend in Washington, Nebraska, Louisiana and Maine brought him closer to Clinton in the race for delegates and [...]
By Melody Parker The full-body specimen of a man, whose outstretched hand displays tendons and nails completely intact, greets visitors as they enter the elegantly decorated maze-like corridors of the Body Worlds 2 Exhibition. The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose recently showcased the collaborative work of German anatomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens and [...]
By Matt Skenazy “The first thing I hear when I wake up is ‘I wanna make waffles.’ At least five days a week I make my little girls buttermilk waffles. I try and hold out, ‘Can’t we snuggle first?’ But it’s ‘No. I wanna make waffles.’” We’re in his kitchen and 40-year-old novelist and UCSC [...]
By Rachel Tennenbaum Imagine waking up on a Monday and driving up to Berkeley to check out a new art gallery opening. That night you play some video games and crack open a book before hitting the hay. Think this sounds like a day off for a college student? It’s actually the school day of [...]
By Andrea Pyka Do you already have a stomachache from eating too many Valentine’s Day chocolates? Here’s another reason not to finish that box of cocoa-infused treats. According to a recent study at the University of Western Australia (UWA), chocolate can weaken bones and cause osteoporosis. As part of the study, a group of researchers [...]
By Valerie Luu New Year’s celebrations didn’t end on Jan. 1. This year UC Santa Cruz’s Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) held the Tet Celebration Night Feb. 7, an event to commemorate the Vietnamese New Year. Tet is the weeklong celebration of the Vietnamese New Year, in accordance with the Chinese lunar calendar, said Thanh Nguyen, [...]
By Maricela Lechuga Poetry shook the Porter Dining Hall, as legendary poet Saul Williams captivated the audience with a message: a movement is coming. UC Santa Cruz celebrated the fifth annual Kinetic Poetics Project (KPP) festival last week, a five-day spoken word and poetry festival with free writing workshops and performances by featured artists. After [...]