“Santa Cruz is Not for Sale”: Chris Krohn is Running for Mayor
Santa Cruz resident Chris Krohn posted a photo of a protest surrounding the Downtown Santa Cruz clock tower on Feb. 3, 2025. His caption described the crowd as a dragon rising in response to the Trump administration’s agenda. “Trump-musk is poking the dragon, and could...
UCSC Police Department’s Diversity on the Decline
Editor’s Note: Some sources in this article have asked to remain anonymous. Shaniya Woods chose to attend UC Santa Cruz with hopes of an anarchist space of debate and community. As the current programs coordinator of the campus’ Black Student Union (BSU) and vice chair...
More Unions, More Power: Campus Unions Rally for Workers on May Day
Members of University Labor United (ULU), a rank and file association of union members across the UC Santa Cruz campus, held a rally on May 1. They rallied in protest of past and proposed efforts of budget restructuring at UCSC, especially the recent Transportation and...
Santa Cruz Elections 2026: Where Do the Candidates Stand?
Nine politicians — five mayoral candidates, and two pairs of candidates for District 4 and 6 — were invited to an election forum on May 7 by local newsroom Lookout Santa Cruz. A rowdy crowd of Santa Cruz locals filled The Hotel Paradox, anticipating Santa...
Who Pissed in Your Sweet Tea? Y’all Are Wrong About the South
When I was younger, one of the worst things I could be as a southern child was noticeably southern. As a Black woman from the south, I found myself conditioned out of my southern drawl as early as elementary school. I was convinced that saying...
UC Santa Cruz International Students Face Constricting Job Market
At the end of every academic year, over 4,500 UC Santa Cruz undergraduates step onto a stage to greet professors, shake their hands and accept the diploma they have worked multiple years for. Some graduates step off the stage with a newfound sense of freedom,...
Letter from the Staff
In 2005, Susan Watrous stepped back onto the same campus she had left in her undergrad. Only now, she was in the shoes of her former advisor and friend, Conn Hallinan. When Susan speaks of Conn now, she reflects much on how his mentorship impacted...
Who is Jennifer Johnson-Hanks? Meet the new CP/EVC
Editors’ Note: Answers have been edited for brevity and clarity. In a recent campus news email sent by Chancellor Cynthia Larive’s office, Jennifer Johnson-Hanks was announced as UC Santa Cruz’s new campus provost and executive vice chancellor (CP/EVC). Johnson-Hanks, an anthropologist who specializes in cultural...
Celebrating 60 Years of City on a Hill Press
Sixty years ago, a small group of determined banana slugs set out to build something UC Santa Cruz was lacking: an independent, student-run newspaper. Through the guidance of editor-in-chief Zack Wasserman, the group launched their first issue on Sept. 30, 1966 under the name Campus...
Spring into the IAS: Exhibition Explores Themes of Labor and Incarceration
As soon as visitors enter the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS), they are met with strands of cowrie shells hanging in woven vertical lines. Each one is attached into place so that no single shell stands alone. Up close, the structure symbolizes a...