By Julia Guest Häagen-Dazs ice cream gave UC Davis and Penn State a quarter of a million dollars to study the disappearance of honeybees. How are honeybees and ice cream related, one might ask — and why did Häagen-Dazs decide, like BP, to fund the University of California? Forty percent of Häagen-Dazs’s ice cream flavors [...]
By Julia Guest Fifth-year student Mark Lopez, a member of UC Santa Cruz’s Coalition for Justice, stands on the Quarry Plaza steps wearing a green shirt that reads, “Taking Back Our University — We Make UC Happen.” He introduces himself to the cheering crowd of fellow green-shirt-wearers banging pots and pans and says, “I’m just [...]
By Matt Skenazy Mysto Moves? The Eskimo Loop? A flying tail squirt? Confused? Get a lesson down at Steamer Lane during the 22nd annual Santa Cruz Kayak Surf Festival (SCKSF). The SCKSF is the largest surf kayak competition in the world. It features expert categories for men, women and juniors in high-performance kayaks under nine [...]
By April Short Santa Cruz residents will once more have the opportunity to find that perfect household item among the lawn statues, vintage furniture and colorful costume jewelry of flea market vendors. With help from the efforts of over 1,700 petition signatures, the beloved open-air market reopens tomorrow, in the same location as the former [...]
By Sheli DeNola From the blood of revolution, Haiti was born, its independence the result of the world’s first successful slave revolt. Ever since this turbulent beginning, Haiti has been no stranger to violent rebellions and political unrest, and this constant resurrection of political strife has lead Haitian youth to express their political dissent through [...]
By John Harley The next time you shiver and shuffle into the ocean wishing it was a few degrees warmer, you might want to bite your chattering lip. The latest threat to ocean ecosystems to join the usual suspects of pollution and overfishing is none other than global warming and the absorption of excess carbon [...]
By Nick Winnie This particular tragedy has become all too common and too rarely discussed. A young veteran of the Iraq war returns home safely from what may be his or her first, second or third tour of duty with many invisible scars. The soldier has or will soon develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Having [...]
By Arianna Puopolo Now a hamburger may give you more than some extra fat in your diet. The largest beef recall in the United States since 1999 was instated this February due to a risk of mad cow disease. After a six-week undercover investigation of the Hallmark Meat Packing Company, 143 million pounds of beef [...]
By Andrea Pyka Forget spending money on costly night-vision binoculars and state-of-the-art video-game systems. Engineers at the University of Washington (UW) are modifying the way you use your contact lenses. Babak Parviz, assistant professor of electrical engineering at UW, is heading an ongoing project to install an electronic circuit onto a regular contact lens. “We [...]
By Valerie Luu & Arianna Puopolo “Not doing it is like telling sick people their lives count less than a rat’s,” said Sam*, a UCSC faculty member involved with animal research. The issue of animal testing is raising new concerns in the Santa Cruz community. Reactions to the impending construction of a brand-new biomedical facility [...]