By Nick Winnie Carolina Gonzalez is a 33 year-old mother of two who came across the border 11 years ago with her husband and baby daughter. She has been living as an undocumented immigrant in California and working as a domestic servant ever since. Gonzalez...

By Claire Walla The perfect storm is a combination of fierce weather conditions, that, when taken individually, are perfectly manageable for any nautical ace. It is the impact of their combined force that puts helpless sailors on their knees reciting Hail Mary’s. Some have described...

By Andrea Pyka In an effort to maintain his high standard of astronomical goals, Acting Chancellor George Blumenthal and former Astronomy and Astrophysics professor at UC Santa Cruz, named his longtime colleague Michael Bolte as the new director of UC Observatories/Lick Observatory (UCO/Lick). UCO/Lick is...

By Amirose Eisenbach The variances that exist in sound are astonishing and infinite. Sound can be as abrupt and easily recognizable as a car alarm or a child’s scream. It can be elusive, like a soft breeze or the extremely light frequency of a humming...

By Jeremy Spitz Picture your organic salad being assembled in an industrial refrigerated plant in San Juan Bautista from ingredients shipped, in refrigerated trucks, from a combined 26,000 acres of farmland in California, Arizona, Colorado, and three Mexican states. Then picture it being put back...

By Samantha Thompson Saturday, Nov. 11 may have just been another day for most college students, but for UC Santa Cruz cross country runner Tamara Torlakson, it wasn’t just any other day. The junior from Antioch, California soared her way into Slug history as she...

By Natalie Phillips How to put this in a subtle and artful manner… One look at the cover of progressive metal band Mastodon’s newest album Blood Mountain and you know you’re in for a fucking trip. Symbols that manage to be familiar and alien at...

By JJ Yang Moaning and grunting to keep pace, UC Santa Cruz junior tennis player Justin Woodjack ran the ball down left and right across the baseline of the court. Playing in the singles finals of the RH Phillips Slug Open Tennis tournament, Woodjack was...

By Kate Ayers At a school that boasts the Sexcapades, the Sex and Sexuality Game Show, the Condom Co-op, our own nationally recognized "sexpert" and a slew of other events and organizations dedicated to sex and sexual health, one might assume that UC Santa Cruz...

By Melody Chu Ultimate Frisbee is not just a sport for hippies."I came out the first day in bare feet," said George Van Pelt, a fifth-year UC Santa Cruz ultimate player and now graduate student. "I thought it would be a bunch of hippies, but...