By Phoebe Lipkis You’re over it. You’ve been here eight weeks and it’s already old. And you’ve probably gained weight, as expected.This is when the complaints begin. "Do you think they might put something other than red pepper in the stir fry for once?" Or,...

By Zev Vernon-Lapow In the ongoing tug-of-war over campus expansion, city residents are flexing their muscles with a landslide victory of legislation designed to limit university growth in last week’s election. Local voters approved Measures I and J by 76 percent and 80 percent respectively.The...

By On Nov. 7, bolstered by intense opposition to the state of the Iraq War and recent scandals involving Republican members of Congress, the "Wild Democrats" (as George H.W. Bush recently dubbed them) regained control of Congress. On Nov. 8, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned.But...

By Sam Laird On Election Day Nov. 7, as Colorado, Tennessee, and several other states voted to ban same-sex marriage, the Santa Cruz City Council made a statement for marriage equality.The City Council voted unanimously to officially back San Francisco’s drive to legalize same-sex marriage...

By Andrea Pyka Dubbed the UC Santa Cruz mascot in the mid-1980s, the banana slug has been a longstanding representative for sports teams, clubs, and the overall student population who feel that the banana slug accurately embodies UCSC’s unique community.Marc Ratner, a 1987 UCSC alumnus,...

By Jono Kinkade Despite the intense scrutiny from both the United States and Latin American leftist governments, Daniel Ortega’s victory in the Nicaraguan presidential election might not yield the drastic return to the Marxist revolutionary policies that Ortega once pushed.On the road to the Nov....

By Andrea Pyka Due to a supply shortage, the California Department of Health and Human Services (CHHS) issued a six-week exemption beginning Nov. 2 on the use of an influenza vaccine containing thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative. The presence of thimerosal in vaccines was originally banned...

By Jono Kinkade Amid heated debates in the United States over energy policy, everyone from Democrats to Republicans, environmentalists to energy companies, seem to agree with President Bush that the United States is "addicted to oil." But the agreement stops there. Debate and speculation continue...

By Amirose Eisenbach If you don’t believe a violin and a cello can shred as hard as a guitar, then you are in for a surprise. The band Judgment Day, composed of brothers Anton and Lewis Patzner and Jon Bush, proves that alternative string instruments...

By Justin Bercovich One team flies in airplanes. The other drives in OPERS vans. One team travels outside the state to compete. The other only competes in Northern California. One team receives funding from the university. The other gets nothing. One team is the UC...