Voting On SUA Student Referenda Fees That Support Student Resources Pushed to 2022
Every year, the Student Union Assembly (SUA) holds campuswide elections to elect new student officials. Also on the ballot are campus-based fees that are subject to student approval. These fees help fund campus initiatives and other student organizations, including City on a Hill Press. This…
UCPD Policies Provide New Vague and Lenient Guidelines for Officers
Content warning: police violence Weapons that launch tear gas into large crowds, and a police force with full range to cause death or very serious injury at their discretion, are among the new, vaguely worded policies that will serve as the basis for UC police…
How We Think About How We Think About the Universe: A Conversation With George Blumenthal
Organic artichokes, endangered species, the complexity of the universe, self-driving cars, and the illustrious words of Shakespeare usually don’t find themselves in one discussion series. But for UC Santa Cruz alumni Michael Riepe and David Hansen, topics like these make up Slug & Steins —…
After a Year of Inaction, Students of BSU Revisit Demands
The students of the Black Student Union needed support that was not there in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. With ongoing uncertainties surrounding the pandemic in June 2020, protests happening across the country, and reports of unjust Black deaths constantly in the news, it…
COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing no Longer Required at UCSC in-person Commencement
Important dates for graduates: Deadline to register for Slug Crossing: May 19 @ 11:59 p.m. Deadline to order regalia: May 21 @ 8:59 p.m. From a fully virtual commencement to the newly created Slug Crossing, UC Santa Cruz’s 2020 and 2021 graduating classes have watched…
UCSC Slugs Compete in the Coast to Coast Championship, Taking Home 8 Wins
When the UC Santa Cruz track and field team received the green light to compete in March, they had less than two months to prepare for the Coast To Coast Championship (C2C) in Maryland. Training started at twice weekly, before progressing to five times a…
UC-AFT Reaches Strike Pledge Goal During May Day Rally
“Insulted, degraded, angry, humiliated.” These words cascaded down the Zoom chat from UC American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) affiliates as they typed their responses to the UC Office of the President’s (UCOP) ignoring their requests for rehiring rights during this April’s bargaining sessions. As they…
UC Lecturers Prepare to Strike Amid UC Failures to Address Job Security
UC lecturers are preparing to strike in response to the university’s reluctance to meet lecturers’ demands for increased job security, fair wages and adjustments to their workload. With two years of bargaining behind them and a year and a half since their contract ended, members…
20th Annual Earth Summit Features Naomi Klein in Discussion on Climate Crisis and LRDP
After the Democrats won back the House in the 2018 midterm elections, Speaker Nancy Pelosi might have expected a victory parade. But as social activist Naomi Klein tells it, she instead got a crowd of young climate activists occupying her office on Capitol Hill demanding…
COVID-19 Vaccinations Required for Fall 2021
Making preparations to reopen all campuses in the fall, UC Office of the President (UCOP) will require all campus personnel to receive the COVID-19 vaccination prior to returning to on-campus instruction and programs. UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive shared this policy with the campus…