The world around us, as captured by the photographers of City on a Hill Press. Looking for the lighthouse wallpaper? Check out last week’s This Week in Photos.
In Public Discourse, we ask you (yes, you!) what you think about current events. This week’s question: What do you think constitutes a healthy community?
President Obama inherited a giant mess of a country. He deserves more than 10 months before the country gives up on him.
Amid a growing fiscal crisis, the UC attempts to mitigate the effects of reduced state funding and ponders the question of privatization.
It started with a lot of numbers. The first was 80, eluding to the 80 percent of state parks that were facing extinction at the hands of Governor Schwarzengger’s budget plan just this past spring. Then it was 100, the whittled-down number of parks that the Governer’s plan actually set its sights on. But a surprise announcement from state officials on September 25 added a whole different number to the mix: zero, referring to the number of state parks actually in danger.
WTH!? is a painless procedure designed to probe student minds. Nothing to see here, move along…. This week’s question: Have you ever had anything paranormal happen to you?.
{Last Week’s Results} Men’s Soccer 10/2 vs. Chapman (home) 1-0 (win) 10/6 vs. Fresno Pacific (home) 4-3 (win) Women’s Soccer 10/2 vs. La Sierra (home) 3-0 (win) 10/4 vs. Whittier (home) 6-0 (win) Women’s Volleyball 10/3 vs. Menlo (home) 3-1 (win) {Upcoming Athletics} Men’s Soccer 10/8 at Claremont-Mudd Scripps (away) at 4 p.m. Women’s Soccer [...]
Not many people would expect to find the site of the most prolific drug problem in the county in such a serene environment. But at a September meeting of local organization Santa Cruz Neighbors, Steve Carney, former head of the Sheriff’s Office Narcotic Enforcement Team, shared some surprising information: Pogonip State Park, located directly across Coolidge Drive from Stevenson College, is the “meth capital” of Santa Cruz County, where between 10 and 30 drug arrests are sometimes made in a single 10-hour police shift.
Ninety-six percent of over 10,000 union employees, faculty and students at the University of California (UC) have voted that they have no confidence in the leadership of UC President Mark Yudof.
The ballot was distributed between Aug. 26 and Sept. 2 by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Coalition of University Employees (CUE), the University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), for the purpose of raising awareness locally and throughout the state that UC workers are displeased with their management.