Student Housing West Stalled by Legal Action Again
After being stalled through legal action two years ago, UC Santa Cruz’s Student Housing West project (SHW) hit a nearly identical roadblock on April 15. The East Meadow Action Committee (EMAC) filed their second lawsuit against the UC Regents, alleging that the reapproval of developing…
The Creation of an Uncommon Campus
When Gary Merrill transferred from Chapman College in Southern California in 1972 and made his way north to UC Santa Cruz, the campus had just taken shape and was tucked away behind a thicket of redwoods. A meadow surrounded the trees like a golden moat….
UCSC Offers Virtual Commencement and In-person Stage Crossing Opportunities for The Class of 2021
Even though there will be no crowds or diplomas on the stage, this year’s commencement will offer a chance for family and friends to celebrate their graduates around the globe via the internet. To add festivity to the occasion, UC Santa Cruz is holding an…
Jody Greene and CITL: How Classes Have Adapted Over the Past Year
Jody Greene is the last person you would think would be the founding director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) at UC Santa Cruz. She will tell you that herself. She’s old-school and appreciates the traditions of centuries-old learning structures, like…
African American Resource and Cultural Center Celebrates 30 Years
During the 1980s, African American students at UC Santa Cruz held a 21 percent six-year graduation rate. Recognizing the need for additional resources for this student population, Sister Paula Livers-Powell established the African American Resource and Cultural Center (AARCC). 30 years later, the six-year graduation…
The Path Forward for Reparations in the US: Panelists Discuss History and H.R. 40
“40 acres and a mule” could have been the federal government’s monumental move to redistribute wealth to formerly enslaved Black people after the Civil War. But after President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, this promise was forgotten. Now, 156 years later, “40 acres and a…
Housing Priority Announcement Leaves Some Applicants in Limbo
Carly McCaw was sure that this May, the third time would be the charm. A first-year Rachel Carson affiliate studying remotely from San Diego, McCaw tried to get on-campus housing at the start of the fall and winter quarters. She pulled out in fall due…
UCSC Banana Slugs are Back in the Game
Outside the East Gym, you see a familiar campus scene. Phones lay flat across the blue basketball courts to light up the night sky. Music bounces off the concrete from bluetooth speakers while students dribble under the moonlight. But as UC Santa Cruz athletes started…
Remembering Founding Faculty Member Harry Berger
When Harry Berger Jr. first stepped onto the Yale campus as a 16-year old student, he knew he wanted to write. Young at heart, he got his start writing passages in the Yale Record, the college’s humor magazine, but his passion for the written word…
How Do You Think Like Barry Sinervo?
Chris Garrison nearly got lost on the way to Lizard Land, Los Baños — the temporary home and habitual stomping grounds of renowned UC Santa Cruz reptile and amphibian biologist Barry Sinervo. “I was cracking up because he would always write these cryptic emails,” Garrison…