Everyday is Earth Day
Live samba music played from Abbott Square Market as Santa Cruzans floated from booth to booth. Community members from across the county gathered on April 18 in Downtown Santa Cruz to celebrate Earth Day 2026. “The one takeaway we want people to have when they...
DEI & Demographics: Can the Trump Administration Collect Detailed Student Data?
Editors’ Note: Some sources in this article have asked to remain anonymous. After President Trump took office for his second term, UC Santa Cruz’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) did not close. However, language slowly shifted nationally, as the words “diversity, equity and...
Earth Quake and Boots Shake: Mother Earth Drag Extraveganza
Drag queen Zimina, formally introduced as “the hair, the hips, the heels” of UC Santa Cruz, sashayed down the catwalk, gussied up in black fringe and eight inch heels. While voguing to “HARD” by FKA twigs, Zimina darted a fierce look at the audience, and...
A Seat at the Table: Students Advocate for Representation on Board of Regents
The UC system is a network of over 300,000 students. But at the highest level, only one student voice is allowed to vote in representation of the collective student body. How each of these campuses operate is largely determined by the UC Board of Regents...
UCSC Holi Celebration Heralds the Arrival of Spring
Monisha Garika and her friends stood in a circle, coated in rainbow-colored powder and soaking wet, yet smiling. The white clothing they’d donned that morning made “a really good canvas,” Garika joked. “I guess it just, you know, happened,” she said slyly — still holding...
UC Santa Cruz Lecturer Ami Chen Mills is Running for Mayor
Ami Chen Mills, founder of Santa Cruz County’s Get the Flock Out campaign and current lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, is running for Santa Cruz mayor. As of publication, Gillian Greensite, Chris Krohn, Ryan Coonerty and Joy Schendledecker have also announced their candidacy. Elections will...
Santa Cruzians Call for Change in “No Kings” Protest
Editors’ Note: Some sources in this article are referred to by just their first name. How many protests does it take to make change? “Nobody knows,” answered Eric, a Santa Cruz resident of over 50 years. “It depends on the change that’s being called for.”...
Tea House Spa Considering Closure Due to Catalyst Demolition Project
City on a Hill Press is dedicated to continuing coverage of the threatened closure of The Catalyst. When Alyssa Pullen, a third-generation Santa Cruz local and owner of the Tea House Spa in Downtown Santa Cruz, learned of the impending shutdown of the historic Catalyst...
Food as Resistance: Cooking up Community
Not many students at UC Santa Cruz spend their Friday mornings as line cooks. But in the kitchen of Cowell Coffee Shop (CCS), the smell of cilantro, the aroma of citrus fruit and the rhythmic sound of chopping greet you as you enter. On Feb....
More UCSC Students are Graduating in Three Years, but Why?
Finn Westley, an applied linguistics and education double major at UC Santa Cruz, wants to pursue a career in bilingual education. Double majoring while completing general education requirements on a condensed timeline is no easy feat. However, after only three years at UCSC, Westley is...