City on a Hill Press California Proposition Endorsements
Proposition 14: YES City on a Hill Press endorses YES on Prop. 14 which will authorize $5.5 billion in funding for the continuation of stem cell research, which has increased the understanding of how diseases occur, according to the Mayo Clinic. This funding stems from…
Change the Conversation About Prop. 25
“Yes” or “no.” These are the choices we get when we vote. If only the issues the proposed policy changes attempt to tackle were so simple. If only justice was a question to which we could just say “yes.” If you make it to the…
On The Inside: Life Inside the UCSC Bubble
Arriving at UC Santa Cruz for the first time in September 2019, I still remember my university starter pack from move-in: an academic advising folder with my schedule of events, a UCSC key chain I still use today, and a blue UCSC tote bag for…
Uncelebrated Wins
Finding a sense of belonging in ourselves
Have you ever felt like all your hard work isn’t good enough? I’m a first-generation student, and my parents constantly ask me about my future. To them, it’s important that I keep working hard to get a degree. It’s easy to gloss over our success…
Chancellor Larive: Cancel All Spring Final Exams and Fulfill BSU Demands
Students should be in the streets, not on Zoom
After police murdered Breonna Taylor on March 13 and George Floyd on May 25, the world is in mourning and young Black folks, primarily high school and college students, are on the front lines of the call for justice. We can all recognize their strength…
Journalist to Journalist, I’m Asking You to Not be Impartial
To my fellow journalists covering the protests following George Floyd’s murder, I have an important request: don’t strive for “objectivity.” I choose to put objective in quotation marks because I believe it is neither a possible nor desirable ideal. Many days in the past week…
How Diet Culture Ruined Self-Care
Self-care is fundamentally about supplying our minds and bodies with food, water, sleep, connection and movement. Self-care is not what diet culture has turned it into. For some of us self-care is waking up on a set schedule, for others it’s just getting out of…
UC Labor Unions are Fighting for Housing Rights During Global Pandemic
As unions representing low-wage workers at the University of California, many of our members faced housing vulnerability before the pandemic. Now, with COVID-19, housing insecurity is an even scarier reality. The shelter-in-place order will not keep us safe if we cannot stay housed. And to…
Leverage Left Unused
House Democrats are blind to their own power
As COVID-19 continues to sweep through the U.S., President Donald Trump’s once strong economy has been shattered by the virus. House Democrats can use that to their advantage. Prior to the past few months, Trump’s reelection strategy was simple — tout the humming economy, low…
Bernie Sanders: What Went Wrong for the Former Frontrunner?
On April 8, Senator Bernie Sanders ended his 2020 presidential campaign. The announcement came almost five years after the start of his 2016 run. In those five years, despite never ascending to the presidency or even clinching the Democratic nomination, Sanders transformed the American political…