Debate racked the first statewide TA union meeting under newly elected officials. One member was voted out of office at the meeting, raising questions of election committee member bias.

At any given moment last Saturday, Oakes Lower Lawn was packed. Sixteen fraternities and campus organizations were serving up lunch to attendees from 12 to 6 p.m., and nine different dance troupes performed on stage. Members of the campus community all came together to celebrate diversity within UC Santa Cruz. This year’s Multicultural Festival, “Rhymes, [...]

Parkour, a sport that traditionally conjures up images of urban environments, is growing in popularity all over the globe, including here in Santa Cruz, as is evident through the increased number of parkour gyms and representations of parkour in the media.

The 2011 Susan Benteen and William Hyde Irwin Scholarship recognized 13 exceptional art students with an award of $2,500 and a display of their artwork. The exhibition will display the students’ interest in a range of subject matter and media including photography, painting, printmaking, installation and electronic media.

Fewer and fewer students are graduating from college with the ability to read and write effectively. This is because of the emphasis on getting a degree over an education, and leads to a defunct system that produces an equally defunct workforce.

As I write this, I’m just three weeks shy of my college graduation. My inevitable existential crisis, having started sometime in April, has been in a state of flux for weeks now — am I excited, nervous, nostalgic or just over it? One thing, though, is certain. For the remaining days of my collegiate career [...]

The major networks announced their new pilots for the fall season a couple of weeks ago, and a few shows stood out as trying to cash in on Mad Men’s nostalgia-fueled hype. It remains to be seen whether the writers for these shows intend to only rip off “Mad Men’s” aesthetic, or if they’re looking to go deeper than that.

Third-year transfer Brittney Bevelaqua’s opportunity to major in philosophy is being threatened by the department’s loss of recent faculty. But she maintains vigor for the subject even as she and the department both face challenges.

City on a Hill Press’ illustrators reinterpret literary quotes through artwork in this edition of “Through Our Pens.”

While it may be difficult to envision a time when the notoriously liberal town of Santa Cruz actively supported a war, it is precisely this sentiment that the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) will be remembering. The MAH, along with the McPherson Center and the UC Santa Cruz History of Art and [...]