A pro-life prayer and fasting vigil outside the Cedar Street entrance to the Planned Parenthood downtown began Sept. 22. The group, affiliated with the international 40 Days for Life campaign, will continue the 40-day vigil through Oct. 31. The aproximately 10 participants, gather daily from 8 a.m. to around 7 p.m. “We are pro-life, which [...]

A dance party of approximately 125 people at Porter College was shut down early when three participants were arrested last Friday. Charges included carrying a weapon, assaulting an officer, resisting arrest and attempting to free someone under arrest. The party, which began at 9:30 p.m. in the Porter Quad, ended just a half hour later [...]

Chancellor George Blumenthal appointed Allison Galloway to the position of executive vice chancellor (CP/EVC) Sept. 16. Galloway enters the position at a fiscally challenging time for UC Santa Cruz. Blumenthal selected Galloway and she was subsequently approved by the UC Regents. Galloway succeeds David Kliger, who stepped down after a five-year term as CP/EVC. He [...]

If it weren’t for Charles Griffin Farr leaving his private collection to UCSC in his will, his artwork might not be exhibited at Porter College’s Sesnon Gallery this quarter. Farr was active from the 1930s through 1980s, and his work is characteristically described by some as “magic realism.” In his early years, he worked at [...]

A child holds a handmade sign that says, “Go Daddy” and squints in the morning sunlight as she scans Monterey Bay. She peers about her grandmother’s legs, stands on the tips of her toes, and leans out as far as she is able to over the wharf’s edge in order to get a better view [...]

Nasser al-Awlaki, the father of U.S. citizen and assassination target Anwar al-Awlaki, appealed to the American Civil Liberties Union to seek a federal court order restraining the execution of his son. This plea, made in early July, comes in light of the Obama administration’s practice of assassinating U.S. citizens considered potential enemies of the state. [...]

The current political climate — a dysfunctional one in which comedians are journalists, nearly one in five Americans think President Barack Obama is Muslim, and fringe political parties become mainstream overnight — got even more bizarre last week. This time, though, it came at the cost of an important issue, one that affects thousands in [...]