Around 3 p.m. on Dec. 3, the smell of burning wood pervaded the air surrounding the Academic Resource Center and the Student Media/Press Center (SMPC). Smoke rose from a ravine adjacent to the buildings.
According to a crime bulletin by the UCSC Police Department, an unknown person intentionally set a fire in the gully separating the SMPC from McHenry Library.
This incident follows an additional intentionally set fire — also by an unknown person — on Nov. 27 near Chinquapin Road, which caused minor damages.
