By Toan P. DoCity on a Hill Press Reporter UC Santa Cruz is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful campuses in the nation. Tucked away on the hillside of a beautiful redwood forest overlooking the ocean, UCSC students can enjoy the fresh redwood air as they walk to and from their classes. But [...]

By Cynthia ArmourCity on a Hill Press Reporter Home to cheap condoms, safe-sex education and HIV testing, the Student Health Outreach and Promotion (SHOP) program has been running for over a decade. It is one of the few totally student-run HIV testing programs in the country. SHOP’s free and anonymous HIV testing serves between 160 [...]

By Rula Al-NasrawiCity on a Hill Press Editor This year, UC Santa Cruz rose to second place on the annual list of Peace Corps Top Colleges, its highest ranking since the Peace Corps released its first list in 2003. Established in 1961 by then-President John F. Kennedy, the Peace Corps is an independent United States [...]

By Alyssa JarrettCity on a Hill Press Reporter Just like their American classmates, foreign students housed in the International Living Center (ILC) have their own likes and dislikes about life as a Slug. They come with unique perceptions of the world, and for better or worse, will soon have to return to their native countries. [...]

By Daniel Zarchy and Ashley GlazebrookCity on a Hill Press Staff Shouts of protest rang across Quarry Plaza on Wednesday, as protesters and counter-protesters sounded off on the Israel/Palestine conflict. The event, organized by the Committee for Justice in Palestine (CJP), rallied dozens of people for chanting, passionate public speaking and sign-carrying aimed at raising [...]

By Rosie SpinksCity on a Hill Press Reporter Drum beats and chants of ‘GO-BAMA’ reverberated through Pacific Avenue Tuesday, as scores of Santa Cruz citizens celebrated the inauguration of the first African-American president. The festivities, sponsored by the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, began at the Santa Cruz Courthouse with live music and [...]

By Rosie SpinksCity on a Hill Press Reporter This March, health-conscious Santa Cruzans will have another choice when it comes to feeding their wholesome, organic diets: Whole Foods Market. Two new locations of the health food megachain are slated to open in Santa Cruz County, one on Soquel Avenue in mid-March and the other on [...]

By Lauren FoliartCity on a Hill Press Reporter Once inhabited by Santa Cruz’s Lipton Tea plant until 2002, 2120 Delaware Ave. today is nothing but a field of sourgrass enclosed by a decaying wooden fence. Scattered with construction tractors and piles of dirt, the site shows no hint of the vast development project the city [...]

By Jenna PurcellCity on a Hill Press Reporter A piano bench can be awfully cramped for the pizzazz of two musicians. So, how can UC Santa Cruz’s music faculty foster all the intricacy of a piano duet without scanting on style? In the upcoming faculty showcase concert, “From the Romantics to Brubeck: A Celebration of [...]

By Carley StavisCity on a Hill Press Columnist On the verge of McCarthy-era America, circa 1942, banjo-picking singer-songwriter and political activist Pete Seeger was blacklisted by the United States government. The U.S. was all but cut off from the music of Seeger and his fellow bandmates in folk group the Almanac Singers. Their songs were [...]