By Jenna PurcellCity on a Hill Press Reporter In the summer of 1967, Sgt. George Skakel began writing to City on a Hill Press (CHP) from the treacherous frontlines of the Vietnam War. A former UC Santa Cruz student, Skakel was drafted against his will after his freshman year and forced to put his education [...]

By April ShortCity on a Hill Press Editor “Undead corpses” in pale, blood-splattered aprons staggered about rooms adorned with grotesque paintings and blaring music to serve the especially jam-packed crowd at Caffé Pergolesi last Saturday night. Artists and admirers with mangled makeup and garb laughed, ate and drank amid those clad in mortal attire. All [...]

By April ShortCity on a Hill Press Editor If your vagina could talk, what would it say? This was one of many questions posed at a run-through of “The Vagina Monologues,” a benefit presentation that will play this weekend in the Porter Dining Hall. “The show has such an array of vagina wisdom that I [...]

By Samantha WilsonCity on a Hill Press Reporter Armed with pillows, hoodies, and backpacks full of processed snack foods and enough caffeine to successfully fuel a rocket, UC Santa Cruz students and Santa Cruzans alike filed into the Del Mar at midnight last Saturday for 12 hours of movie mystery. The ultimate testament to movie [...]

By Jenna PurcellCity on a Hill Press Reporter For any UC Santa Cruz student savvy in all things fabulous, the annual Queer Fashion Show (QFS) is infamous for raising queer awareness while singing, dancing, stripping and strutting all the way. While glitter and lingerie once again adorned the runway, the directors and performers hoped to [...]

By Samantha ThompsonCity on a Hill Press Co-Editor in Chief Ten broken records, 1,496 points, zero regrets. In the four years that Kayleigh Calandri has played for the UC Santa Cruz women’s basketball team, she’s made a name for herself as one of the greatest players in the history of the program. She’s achieved about [...]

By Jack CalhounCity on a Hill Press Reporter Take a brief walk through the East Field on campus, and you’ll be more than likely to stumble across a vibrant and active scene of runners traversing the jogging track, while soccer balls get kicked across the field and a dozen or so other activities simultaneously occur. [...]

By Samantha ThompsonCity on a Hill Press Co-Editor in Chief The UC Santa Cruz men’s rugby team squared off against UC Berkeley last Saturday in a friendly, but fiercely physical game that saw no end to the kind of aggressive hits that made fans from both sides wince and players gasp for air. Cal, which [...]

By Alyssa JarrettCity on a Hill Press Columnist Daniel Petric, a 17-year-old from Ohio, shot his parents and killed his mother in October 2007. The reason? She refused to let him play Halo 3, which he would regularly spend 18 hours a day playing. Sadly, this is not an isolated case. Over 5 million children [...]

By <i>Just before print time last week, we were approached by the editor of the Daily Cal – UC Berkeley’s student paper – to sign onto a letter of solidarity for the student staff of the Daily Emerald. Due to the time constraints of a weekly print schedule, we were unable to print the letter [...]