Long Overdue: The UC Regents Must Call for a Ceasefire Now.
It has been 66 days since Israel initiated the brutal massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. With every passing second, it becomes more evident that our policymakers are neglecting the protection of civilian life. Our leaders are failing us. To the UC Regents and...
How Do You Get Into Nonfiction?
Nonfiction is hard to read. I get it — whether it be the emotional connection you form with the characters or the escape from reality afforded by a rich plot, fiction just hits different. Usually, people’s mental image of nonfiction looks like dense academic articles,...
Submission: Student Activists Make Their Voices Heard at UC Climate Leadership
Editors’ Note: Hazel Kyle is a member of the Climate Coalition. Students waved cardboard signs, chanted, and sang in unison outside the UC Santa Cruz Hay Barn doors on Oct. 19. They were gathering at a reception for UC Chancellors and the Chief Financial Officer...
Book Banning: Interfering With the Right to Education
The infamous book-burning in Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” is a nod to how citizens do not gather knowledge for themselves. Instead, they are spoon-fed it. The lack of access to information has long been a cornerstone of many dystopian universes. What happens when the distribution...
Higher Prices, Hungrier Students
The most expensive meal at UC Santa Cruz dining halls is now $14. The minimum wage in Santa Cruz is $15.50. Just last year, paying with a debit or credit card at a dining hall meant spending $10 for breakfast, $12 for lunch, and $13.50...
The Last Word: We Move Together
Note to reader: This letter is a Call-In to our community, compiled with reflection and advice that graduated student leaders and past City on a Hill Press editors want to share with you. We graduated this year. Just like that — goodbye college, goodbye Santa...
Booking a Trip to Hawai’i? Think Again
Editor’s note: This article was written on behalf of the Editorial Board. After years of begging mainland tourists to stop vacationing in Hawai’i, demands from the Kānaka Maoli — the Indigenous people of Hawai’i — are finally being heard. All it took was one of...
The Transfer Blues: Reflecting on My First Weeks at UC Santa Cruz
“It’s high tide, you’ll learn to get by.” I moved into my apartment last September with all the grace of a bull in a porcelain shop. Sweaty, disheveled, butterfingered. Nighttime settled in before I could ferry my precious cargo from my dad’s minivan to the...
Artists Exist Somewhere: A Thank You Letter to the Staff of City On a Hill Press
Spring 2022. Fifteen of us sat around connected tables in a first-floor Kresge classroom. Some of us reporters, illustrators, some fact-checkers and copy-editors, all of us staff members of City On a Hill Press, as our media advisor Susan Watrous began our first class of...
I Won’t Be Using My Flat Iron To Press My Graduation Gown
Soft curls loop in on themselves and lay haphazardly across the top of her head and onto her forehead. Her eyes are big, round, and bright, and seem to take up most of her face. The eye doctor tells her she needs to pin her...