Letter from the Editors: Connection to Student Body Outweighs SUA Experience
This Letter from the Editors is published with our Elections Special Issue, on stands Thursday May 14. Vote at elections.ucsc.edu. Voting ends May 18. About 430 seats in Classroom Unit 2 were empty during Monday night’s Student Union Assembly (SUA) debate. Fittingly, almost every candidate...
Student Fee Measures / Constitutional Amendments
Campus-specific student fees are proposed and voted through by way of a referendum during SUA elections. Stringent budget cuts have turned student fees into one mechanism to keep on-campus organizations, student facilities, student health and a number of other student services afloat. For most measures,...
Stevenson College Night Followed by More Cultural Insensitivity
While Stevenson has a deeper history of cultural insensitivity and racist incidents than the other colleges, this event is a part of a larger issue on this campus.
“We need our people here.”
By Georgina Sandoval For three days and two nights, 85 admitted high school students visited UC Santa Cruz to experience student life through Engaging Education’s (e2) Student-Initiated Outreach (SIO) programs last week. The three programs — Destination Higher Education (DHE), A Step Forward (ASF) and...
‘Urban Renewal’ Destabilizes Established Neighborhoods
It’s hard to overlook the changes in sights and sounds of Highland Park, a neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles. Walking through the community in 2005 would have meant listening to the conversations of locals chatting about work or family, being enticed by the smell...
March 18 Regents Meeting Recap
By Gabby Areas and Alexa Lomberg Following 20 minutes of public comments during the UC regents meeting on March 18, about 30 students, mostly from UC Berkeley, stood on chairs in the forum section and threw fake money toward the regents, chanting “Raise up Richmond,...
Student Demonstrators Delay Regents Meeting: ‘Put People Over Profit’
Story by Alexa Lomberg, photos by Stephen de Ropp Updated 3/18, 4:15 pm. Following 20 minutes of public comments during the UC regents meeting on Wednesday, about 30 students, mostly from UC Berkeley, stood on chairs in the forum section and threw fake money...
Students Plan Protest at UC Regents Meeting on March 18
Students are planning to shut down the upcoming UC regents meeting on Wednesday, in protest of tuition increases and the Berkeley Global Campus (BGC) in Richmond, California. The agenda for the meeting does not include reversal of the previously approved tuition increase plan, as UC...
Safety Concerns Go Unaddressed by Administration
In 2011, there was one on-campus intimidation incident and one vandalism incident characterized by sexual orientation bias. In 2013, there was another on-campus vandalism incident that was also characterized by sexual orientation bias. These crimes are all recorded by UCSC’s Clery Act Report, which will...
Both Entrances to Campus Blocked by Protesters
This story is developing. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @cityonahill for updates. Updated 3/5, 9:40 a.m. Source says all six UCSC students who were arrested March 3 are officially being charged with just two misdemeanors each — resisting arrest and causing a public nuisance. Four of...