By Katelyn JacobsonCity on a Hill Press Reporter If you don’t know where you’re going, any map will do. On Feb. 26, the powerhouses of campus sustainability came out in force for the eighth annual Earth Summit, with a mission to figure out where UC Santa Cruz is headed and a road map for getting [...]
By Alyssa JarrettCity on a Hill Press Reporter Everything from condoms and caution tape, to sheets and shower curtains, adorned those out for a gender-bending good time last Friday night at the “Anything but Clothes”-themed, 11th annual Oakes Drag Ball, which took place in the Oakes Learning Center from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The [...]
By Toan P. DoCity on a Hill Press Reporter Bill Domhoff has been a sociology professor at UC Santa Cruz ever since its establishment in 1965. Now the esteemed professor emeritus is the co-author of “The Leftmost City,” a book which studies how Santa Cruz’s history has led to it becoming one of the most [...]
By Alyssa JarrettCity on a Hill Press Reporter There are many things that people might not know about UC librarians. For one thing, a master’s degree is a requirment. They’re also as tech-savvy as they are book-smart. And they make about $10,000 to $19,000 less per year than librarians at CSUs, said reference librarian Ken [...]
By Cynthia ArmourCity on a Hill Press Reporter Whether it’s crawling over mountain summits, tight-roping a chain on a bike, or base jumping into a cave half a mile deep, at the Banff Mountain Film Festival, expect the unexpected. The Banff Mountain Film Festival is produced by the Banff Centre, a Canadian organization promoting creativity [...]
By Jenny CainCity on a Hill Press Reporter At the end of a nearby Santa Cruz street stands a large house sheltering big dreams. The plain brown stucco on the outside wouldn’t garner a second glance, and could never suggest the complexity of the approximately 20 international UC Santa Cruz students that live within. Many [...]
By Cynthia ArmourCity on a Hill Press Reporter It’s time to break up with your car. You’ve kept it around because you can’t imagine life without it, not because it’s a sustainable or cost-effective form of transportation. But now, with Zipcars and other car-sharing methods available, this is a perfect post-breakup backup plan. The anti-car [...]
By Alyssa JarrettCity on a Hill Press Reporter <a href="#" onclick="window.open(‘http://www.cityonahillpress.com/multimedia/collegeMatchingGame_20090304/’,’mmwindow’,’width=400, scrollbars=1′); return false;"><img src="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/multimedia/collegeMatchingGame_20090304/images/launchButton.png" alt="" /></a> <p>To the untrained eye, UC Santa Cruz is just one huge, sprawling campus. But every Slug knows that it’s broken down into 10 individual colleges, each with its very own personality.</p> <p>These colleges within the university were built [...]
By Lauren FoliartCity on a Hill Press Reporter Santa Cruz is no stranger to the threat of fire. The summer fires of 2008 are still fresh in mind and as the one-year anniversary gets closer, community members jump at opportunities to be better prepared to fight fires. In February, Central Coast firefighters received three separate [...]
By Samantha WilsonCity on a Hill Press Reporter This year, a cappella club Acquire will host its first benefit concert, “Pump it Up!” The concert supports Playpumps International, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing water pumps to villages, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, that do not have access to a clean water supply. “I suggested donating [...]