Brawls with vegetables? Ingesting processed breakfast with a beer bong? The Rad Girls are not your ordinary girls next door. They burp, scratch and mess around like a bunch of fraternity boys on their prank-filled TV show.

April 3 marked the third annual HOPE event at UC Santa Cruz. This year’s theme advocated the abolition of violence against women. The HOPE organization serves to entertain and educate the public, focusing specifically on global issues and ways to turn them into solutions

On Tuesday, April 7, almost a week after the news of possible fatal cuts to the community studies department spread throughout the UC Santa Cruz community, an emergency meeting was held in Oakes College to determine how to save the 40-year-old program. The Coalition to...

Thirty-nine percent of Beach Flats residents live below the poverty line, where the median household income is just below $20,000 and 44 percent of the adults over the age of 25 have below a ninth-grade education. The neighborhood is eight blocks in diameter, with the...

From cheerleader pyramids to a cappella music groups, UC Santa Cruz’s Slug Day 2009 last Friday was full of entertainment. A diverse variety of student organizations tabled in the Quarry Plaza from noon until 2 p.m.

Amid a supportive crowd of friends and parents, UC Santa Cruz’s men’s volleyball team proved why it has earned a spot in the Molten Division III Invitational with a 3-0 win over Santa Clara in its final regular season game. The team finished another successful...

The UC Santa Cruz men’s tennis team hopes to go down in history this season, adding to their long history of success in preceding years. Members of the tennis team said they came into the competition this year believing that if they played up to...

Pride for Oakes College ran thicker than blood at the “Is Oakes Really Ghetto as Fuck?” community forum last week.The forum was held in response to the feature article “What College Are You From?” printed in the March 5 issue of City on a Hill...

UC Santa Cruz is no stranger to the California budget crisis. As part of the UC systemwide decrease of $115 million in funding, UCSC itself has felt the weight of an estimated $13 million cut in its budget. UCSC’s Arts & Lectures program is the...

Two years ago, conservative writer and activist David Horowitz proclaimed that our community studies department makes UC Santa Cruz the most dangerous university in the country due to its social justice agenda. Coming from a hyper-conservative like Horowitz, we’ve learned to take that as a...