By Julia Guest Last Thursday night, concerned students piled into Classroom Unit 1 for the “Student Justice Teach-In,” an event held in support of Christopher David Benterou and Cruz Adam Molina. Benterou and Molina, both first-year students, are being sued by UC Santa Cruz due to their affiliation with the Long-Range Development Plan (LRDP) protest [...]

By James Clark Oleg Timofey plays a seven-stringed guitar. Timofeyev, now half of the musical pair the Czar’s Guitars, started studying music at the age of 15, when he took up classical guitar. “When I was 20, I had something that could be called a guitarist’s crisis,” Timofeyev said. “I didn’t know what I should [...]

By Jono Kinkade After being imprisoned for three-and-a-half years and severely tortured by his own government, the “Warrior,” a former special forces officer under Saddam Hussein, vowed never to return to the military. Then, when the American forces entered Iraq, he rejoined his unit and has since been a leader in the Iraqi resistance. This [...]

By Andrea Pyka Roughly 40,000 people suffer from strokes each year in Malaysia, and two UC Santa Cruz professors are helping to pave the road to recovery. Sri Kurniawan, assistant professor of computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, is teaming up with UCSC psychology professor Dominic Massaro to create a virtual speech therapist that will [...]

By Marie Haka Issues of identity sometimes lead to division or strife, but UC Santa Cruz students are hoping to bring people together in an enjoyable and meaningful way to engage with an array of categories such as sexual and ethnic identity. UCSC’s 14th Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival will create a [...]

By Gianmaria Franchini John Dizikes’ Santa Cruz home on King Street, off Bay Street, is locally registered as a minor historical landmark. A recondite plaque on the shingled two-story building reads 1919 — the year it was built. On a gloomy rainy afternoon in February the home’s interior is inviting, placid. It matches the temperament [...]

By Maricela Lechuga What images come to mind when one thinks “Muslim woman”? Is it perhaps the image of a woman whose eyes are the only thing to be seen through the slits of a black niqab? Last Thursday night the Muslim Student Alliance held an event titled “Women in Islam” at the Colleges 9/10 [...]

By Russ Megowan With peer-to-peer programs and CDs making music far cheaper than buying vinyl records, it seems impossible that a store that sells only vinyl could still exist. But they do. On the corner of Maple and Cedar streets in downtown Santa Cruz, Metamusic Records is the sole vinyl-only store in the area, selling [...]

By Russ Megowan Good filmmaking isn’t quite as elementary as point and shoot. Countless hours of writing and filming, meticulous attention to detail and obsessive editing go into a good film project, on top of a regular student workload. SCTV, UC Santa Cruz’s broadcasting channel, plans to honor those students who try in spite of [...]

By Carley Stavis Frans Lanting has built his career by traveling the world with a camera. He has peered through the lens at the animals of Africa, the canopies of South America’s rainforests, and the untouched beauty of Borneo in Southeast Asia. He has ventured into the freezing Antarctic, the heat of the desert and [...]