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Image A Time to Dance

Jenna Purcell

Local dancers step up to create a home for their hidden art form.

Image This Week in Photos

City on a Hill Press

The world around us, as captured by the photographers of City on a Hill Press.

Image Coachella’s Peaceful Power Seems Out of ‘Stock’

Rod Bastanmehr & Rula Al-Nasrawi

It all started in 1969.
Thousands upon thousands, and then a few thousand more, journeyed to the town of Bethel, N.Y., sitting through hours of bumper-to-bumper traffic, all for the love of music.
Billed simply as “Three Days of Peace & Music,” the Woodstock Art and Music Festival defined the 1960s counterculture, allowing for both freedom of [...]

Shaking Away the Past

City on a Hill Press

Bush was the devil. And he smelled like sulfur.

That was how Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez often referred to former President George W., along with characterizing him as a dictator, a fascist and a cowboy he couldn’t talk to since he felt Bush was a “Texan who walks around shooting from the hip.”

Image Slug Comics

Rachel Edelstein

Image Shards of Struggle

Toan P. Do

America has benefitted majorly from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). But what are the costs of these benefits? These are the stories from Oaxaca.

Image Students to UCSC: “Stop the Cuts”

Arianna Puopolo

Drs. Susanne Jonas and Guillermo Delgado, UC Santa Cruz lecturers for 23 and 20 years respectively, are battling the university for their jobs.

On Wednesday, April 22, Jonas and Delgado joined various UCSC community members in Quarry Plaza to speak out against the university’s attempts to cut integral programs. The group then marched to Kerr Hall to redress executive vice chancellor David Kliger for his lack of transparency with regard to the budget cuts.

Another Year, Another 4/20 Smokefest

Cynthia Armour

On what was possibly the hottest day of the year thus far, an ever-growing crowd gathered at the Porter Meadow for one of UC Santa Cruz’s most infamous traditions — 4/20.

Image Sandra Chung Revamps Chamorro-English Dictionary

Souri Somphanith

Fresh from a trip to the Northern Mariana Island (NMI) of Saipan, linguistics professor Sandra Chung is already hard at work in her office. Her quiet demeanor underscores the importance of her work updating and adding to the existing Chamorro-English dictionary, originally compiled by Donald M. Topping.

Image Slugs Fall to Division Rivals During Showdown at Harvey West Field

Toan P. Do

The stands of the Harvey West baseball field were uncharacteristically packed with a large crowd of students and parents who all came out to watch the showdown between division rivals UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis.