My Trans Experience
By Julian Hodge *This column contains reference to self-harm. Ever since I came out as transgender nonbinary in high school, I hear things from people like, “you are so chill for a trans person” or “you’re the only trans person I like to hang out…
UCSC Student Calls For UC Regent Resignation
Rebecca Ora spoke during the public comment session of the Nov. 13 UC Board of Regents meeting, alleging that Regent George Kieffer grasped her leg under a table at a dinner in 2014. Ora is a doctoral candidate at UC Santa Cruz in the film…
Students Led the Way to Divestment
After six years of student organizing, meetings, sit-ins, calls, letters, emails, direct action, political education on climate justice, academic senate votes on all 10 UC campuses and nonstop efforts from fossil free’ers, the UC has committed to divesting from fossil fuels. “We believe hanging on…
Vote ‘Yes’ on SUA Constitutional Amendment
City on a Hill Press is tired of covering the Student Union Assembly’s mistakes. Over the years, SUA has mismanaged funds and miscommunicated with other student organizations. Officers have left promises unfulfilled and it isn’t clear who representatives are really serving at the end of…
Tampons are Not a Luxury. Period.
If candy and Viagra are considered basic necessities in the California Revenue and Taxation Code, pads and tampons should be too. In early May, California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a plan to exempt menstrual hygiene products and diapers from sales tax for five years. Many…
Mexican Culture is Not a Costume
If you bring sombreros, ponchos, fake mustaches and tequila to your Cinco de Mayo celebration, you’re doing it wrong. In the U.S., frat boys and politics majors alike use Cinco de Mayo as an excuse to party without recognizing the day’s historical and cultural significance. …
What the Frack
Along with wildfires and earthquakes, California faces another environmental threat — the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) obsession with fracking. The BLM released a report on April 25 labeling one million acres — three times the size of the city of Los Angeles —…
We Get It, You Went to Paris
When an arsonist burned three Black churches between March 26 and April 4 in the St. Landry Parish in Louisiana, most prominent news feeds were silent. But the world wasted no time mourning the loss of a historic French cathedral. The Notre Dame Cathedral in…
Open Access for All
Researchers spend months, often years, developing their work before sharing their findings with the world. Once they go through a publication company they often lose the rights to their research. Readers must pay to read their work and the researchers still don’t make a profit….
Let Puerto Rico Decide
About 97 percent of voters in Puerto Rico voted in favor of statehood in a nonbinding referendum in 2017. The U.S. federal government disregarded the vote, neglecting Puerto Ricans’ call for representation. This undermines any remaining claim of democracy our country can make. Christopher Columbus…
