AFSCME Protests for Future
By Maya Bakshani With the potential expansion of UC Santa Cruz, the jobs and working condition of staff on this campus could change drastically. For staff who feel overworked and underpaid, the LRDP could prove to be beneficial.Currently, workers are unhappy with their wages.In a...
City Fires Back with Lawsuit over Environmental Concerns
By Allen Young Santa Cruz resident Don Stevens stood on the steps of Santa Cruz City Hall with several other members of the Coalition for Limiting University Expansion (CLUE) early Monday morning."The Regents basically approved their own institution," he said. "There has been no analysis...
A Sham of a Visit
By The UC Regents aren’t held in high regard by most students. Their visits are protested at almost every campus. And the slogan they have earned, "Fuck the Regents," while not being entirely comprehensive, clearly reflects disdain for the governing body.During their visit last week,...
Dealing with Development
By Jackie Dever Last July, a state Supreme Court ruling brought the Monterey Bay campus of the California State University (CSU) to the forefront of a debate over the campus expansion taking place around California. In a case brought against the CSU Board of Trustees,...
Protestors Decry Violence
By Leah Bartos In the aftermath of last week’s boisterous demonstration of the UC Regents’ visit to UC Santa Cruz, some protest participants are questioning the effectiveness of their action.On Wednesday Oct. 18, about 150 students and staff protested outside the new Humanities building, eventually...
Galactic Comes to the Catalyst
By Zoe Blumenfeld and Sara Williams Don’t book your $200,000 Virgin Enterprise flights with non-stop service to outer space just yet; the future of funk, Galactic, is landing in Santa Cruz.Galactic is a funk-jazz-rock band hailing from New Orleans and will perform at the Catalyst...
Bringing Concerns to Regents
By Hannah Mamont Last Thursday, Oct. 19, staff, faculty, campus, and community speakers gathered outside the Music Recital Hall, waiting for the second public comment session held by the UC Regents to begin. Unlike the previous day’s session, no cries of protest could be heard...
Political Opposites Debate in the State Capitol
By Jose San Mateo SACRAMENTO – Of all the candidates competing for statewide office on the November ballot, the pair vying for perhaps California’s least significant post offer voters the greatest contrast. In the race for lieutenant governor, Republican Tom McClintock and Democrat John Garamendi...
Big Plan on Campus
By Rachel Stern As the next wave of college applications starts to roll in, administrators at UC Santa Cruz look to a future where the university will have to provide higher education to a larger student body. Many question if the wooded campus will be...
"Shortbus" Makes Artful Use of Graphic Sex
By Jessica Skelton Where do we draw the line between sex as an art form and sex as pornography? That is the central question brought up by the controversial release of writer/director John Cameron Mitchell’s new film "Shortbus." Some of the sex scenes in "Shortbus"...