New Lab Brings COVID-19 Test Processing to UCSC
The UC Santa Cruz Molecular Diagnostic Lab opened its doors on May 1, becoming one of four facilities in Santa Cruz County capable of processing tests for COVID-19. The lab has the theoretical capacity to process upward of 800 COVID-19 test samples per day, though…
Amid Shortage, Psychology Department Opens Two New Senior Seminars
About 85 expectant psychology and cognitive science graduates were left unable to enroll in senior seminars for the spring 2020 quarter, after a Feb. 26 email announced that these courses received more applicants than the UC Santa Cruz psychology department prepared for. The department has…
Sunrise Hosts Congressional Climate Debate
At a debate over the future of U.S. climate policy, Adam Bolaños Scow, Democratic challenger for California’s 20th congressional district seat, faced off against an opponent who wasn’t there. “It’s not personal with Jimmy, we just have different priorities,” Bolaños Scow said, speaking of incumbent…
Santa Cruz County Adopts E-Ballot Markers
Santa Cruz County’s new accessibility enabled voting machines have everything election experts ask for — they’re touch-screen, won’t keep your data on file and aren’t connected to the internet. When I tried one out on Feb. 11, county clerk Gail Pellerin led me into a…
The Winding Path to Presidential Candidacy
Iowa. Super Tuesday. Something about delegates. You might have missed the day in high school where they talked about how our elections work. This guide explains everything you need to know about how the U.S. selects its presidential candidates. Like the process it describes, it’s…
711 Empty Beds on Campus
*Pseudonym used at source’s request. It was fall 2019, and on the fifth floor of Building A at Merrill College second-year Archer Willems and his friends decided to turn the empty quintuple room down their hall into the lounge it once was a decade ago. …
UCSC Misses 2020 Zero Waste Goal
UC Santa Cruz diverted half of its solid waste from landfills last year, missing by 40 points a UC-wide goal mandating that each campus reuse, recycle or compost 90 percent of its solid waste by 2020. No UC campus achieved this goal — and in…
ISU Members Talk Soleimani, Sanctions and Iranian Culture
*Pseudonym used to protect source’s identity From sanctions to the brink of war, the world’s attention has been fixed on Iran. On Jan. 3, a U.S. airstrike killed Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani while on a diplomatic envoy in Iraq. Early Jan. 8, a dozen…
Another Generation Cometh
You’ve heard the stories about the bakeries who won’t cater gay weddings, about conversion therapy and the pickets outside abortion clinics. To many Americans, LGBTQIA+ rights and religion are like oil and water, destined to disassociate by holy texts written in the age of Philistines…
Santa Cruz Shows Up For Dreamers
Four days before the U.S. Supreme Court heard the final arguments in a case deciding the fate of some 700,000 undocumented U.S. residents, a crowd of families, students and activists gathered at the Santa Cruz Town Clock with pickets emblazoned “Home Is Here.” Here, the…
