The world of the banana slug is now at your fingertips with the new UCSC iPhone app, which contains the latest news and maps to help you navigate your way from every corner of campus.

Joël Barraquiel Tan, an openly queer Filipino writer, held a reading during the Living Writers Series this past Thursday. Tan discussed his writing, his current activism, his “Filipino-ness”, and what it is he hopes to see from future generations.

More than one hundred opponents of Proposition 23 gathered at the Valero gas station on Mission Street near downtown last Sunday to protest the California initiative funded by major Texas oil companies Valero and Tesoro. The initiative would repeal AB32 of 2006: the California Global Warming Solutions Act.

This week’s question: Should cigarettes be sold on campus? Why or why not?

In this week’s This Week in Pictures, photographer Andrew Allio takes readers on a bus tour of Copenhagen, where he sees similarities to riding the Metro buses in Santa Cruz.

From James Bond to Michael Scott, the parkour phenomenon is already popular in mainstream culture and has a thriving presence at college campuses across the country, including here at UC Santa Cruz.

Meet the faces behind the 2010-11 Student Union Assembly.

Lazy Sundays take a new turn with this week’s slug comic, illustrated by Bella Messex.

Members of the university rallied at Quarry Plaza to unite over the UCSC budget crisis. Pie-eating skit, platform for discussion, and the chanting of slogans made for an enthusiastic rally for rights.

With the rise of the Internet piracy of copyrighted material has become supremely easy. Is there any end to it in sight?