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…
April in Santa Cruz Showcases Music Without the Audience
Roy Malan’s formal composure broke as he picked up his sleek brown violin. His eyes grew wide, and his demeanor became animated. Malan leaned against his violin, securing the dark wood under his chin and began plucking the taut strings with his nails, producing sharp…
One-Stop SHOP for Virtual Student Health and Wellness at UCSC
In response to the pandemic, 62.9 percent of young adults reported peak anxiety and depression levels according to the New York Times, coinciding with 24.7 percent reporting an increase or start in coping with substances. Sex, drugs, and alcohol did not disappear with the pandemic,…
UCSC hosts first sexual assault and violence research symposium
Content Warning: Contains references to sexual violence and harassment. Before the pandemic, 13 percent of all undergraduate and graduate students were likely to experienced rape or sexual assault, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. With that, the Department of Education is planning…
UCSC Student Housing West Project Won’t Break Ground Until Earliest Spring 2022
After five years of continued litigation and complaints, the UC Santa Cruz Student Housing West (SHW) project was re-approved by the UC regents on March 18. Ongoing lawsuits from environmental committees and organizations forced them to restart the environmental review process. The lawsuits primarily contested…
Stones Unturned — The COLA4All Movement Continues
Dylan Davis’s work toward earning his doctorate in politics at UC Santa Cruz was temporarily derailed by the university when he was fired in Feb. 2020, alongside 81 other graduate students, for participating in last year’s COLA4All movement. The movement, founded at UCSC, saw graduate…
UCSC Deep Read Program Highlights Contemporary Native Stories in Novel There There
Tommy Orange was in a West Oakland Target when he pulled two spider legs out of his calf. Shocked, Orange scoured the internet for answers. “I thought it was an ‘Indian thing,’” Orange said during UC Santa Cruz’s Deep Read event. “It was really scary…