UCSC Undergrad and Salinas Council Member Anthony Rocha’s Trailblazing Path to Public Service
Salinas was a place of opportunity for Anthony Rocha. His mother moved their family to Salinas when he was just 5 years old, looking for new opportunities after the death of Rocha’s father. Sixteen years later, Rocha is simultaneously a Salinas city council member and…
UCSC Undergraduate Bridges the Gap Between Incarcerated Family Members and Their Kids Through Literature
Matt Sioson, a UC Santa Cruz third-year student majoring in legal studies, reaches behind his desk and collects a handful of crisp uniform envelopes. He singles one out, opens it, and takes out a letter that reads “family is everything.” This is only one of…
Shirazi v. Oweis: COLA Graduate Student Takes Police to Court
UC Santa Cruz graduate student Sabrina Shirazi sued members of the UC Police Department and a member of the California Highway Patrol on Jan. 14, 2021, for numerous claims related to alleged excessive force by the police while Shirazi was protesting with the COLA movement…
UC Set to Cut Back Out-of-State Students
With tension among applicants and complaints among California’s taxpayers, the state Senate proposed to cut back the number of nonresident students admitted into the University of California to make more space for in-state students. The new proposal would gradually limit the UC’s out-of-state and international…
GABRIELA SC, Black Student Union, COLA4ALL, and Others Organize May Day Demonstration
Sixty students flooded the desolate streets of campus, rallying and protesting for workers rights and protections moving gradually from Quarry Plaza to the empty Kerr Hall, a UC Santa Cruz landmark known for hosting student protests. Workers around the world rallied for better working conditions…
SUA Debates 2021
With the clock ticking on campus elections, the Student Union Assembly hosted a virtual debate to garner election engagement from the student body. This comes after a record low turnout, with only 11 percent of students voting last spring. Most of the candidates ran unopposed,…
SUA Passes Muslim Student Association’s Statement in Support of Palestine
In May, the eruption of brutality toward Palestinian civilians from Israel Defense Forces in both Palestine and Israel-occupied Palestine caught international attention. In response, UC Santa Cruz’s Muslim Student Association (MSA) sought to get Student Union Assembly (SUA) to issue a statement in support of…
3 DJs and a Pandemic
Reporter’s Note: Having joined KZSC in winter 2021, I witnessed firsthand the benefit of being a part of this community during such an isolating time in my life. The impact of being a part of the station changed the way I listened to music during…
Street Vendors to Return to Beach Street with New Permitting Process
For a beach town boasting a historic boardwalk, buying street food in Santa Cruz is a much more elusive task than you would think. As restaurants, bars, and even the boardwalk itself have reopened recently, hoping to recover from COVID-related economic losses, street vendors have…
Books, Activism, and How to Be an Ally: Noname and Tiffany Dena Loftin at ‘Amplifying Radical Voices’
Donned in her own merch and a pair of silver hoops, musician Noname sat in front of soundboards that line the wall of her Los Angeles home office. In the Zoom box next to her sat UC Santa Cruz alum Tiffany Dena Loftin, sporting a…