Church Shelter Program Gets Facelift
By Daniel Correia The Homeless Service Center on Coral St. has a wooden sign hanging that says, "Though you may not have wealth, you are rich in soul because you have a heart of gold."Some people are waiting in line for food and others are...
Saving Roe: Why South Dakota Should Reject HB 1215
By Roe v. Wade is on a respirator and South Dakota is embroiled in a fight over whether to pull the plug. Within a context of perceived moral obligation to the fetus, abortion issues confound liberal principles of freedom and ownership over one’s body almost...
Campus Fights for Diversity
By Maya Bakshani While administrators boast the increase of students of color at UC Santa Cruz, other members of the campus community say the school is still lacking in diversity.Don Williams, director of the Center for Culture, Arts and Diversity, says he has been paying...
Construction on High Street Nearing Completion
By Sam Laird Students and residents frustrated by construction delays on High St., your wait may finally be over. The multi-million dollar Bay St. Reservoir System Transmission Improvement Project, meant to quicken the replenishment of Santa Cruz’s treated water supply, is now almost a month...
New School Art from Old School Students
By Scott Nossen The image is familiar, but something is off. It’s the Virgin Mary, but where the soft and nurturing features of her face should be there’s only a blank skull staring back. La Virgen, a painting by Sally Rodriguez, is one of over...
Proposition 1D Costs California Residents More Than it’s Worth
By It sounds like a financial blessing. Run down K-12 schools shaky about their safety in earthquake land, and UC administrators anxious about ways to accommodate rapid expansion would get the money they need for modernization projects and new classrooms.Proposition 1D, if favorably voted for...
One Woman’s Decision, A Country’s Benefit
By Elizabeth Limbach In August of 2005, Dr. Susan Wood made a decision that would not only change her own life, but the entire nation’s awareness of women’s health issues. After years of knowing of the safety and effectiveness of the emergency contraception pill Plan...
Saving the World One Coffee Bean at a Time
By Andrea Pyka A French food company has transformed biting into a chocolate bar from a guilty pleasure into a political statement. With a new line of organic fair trade products, Alter Eco serves to cure world poverty as well as individual hunger. The company...
Soulful Aussie Pair Head to Felton
By Natalie Phillips Australian folk duo Bluehouse is back in America and preparing to play Don Quixote’s in Felton on Oct. 19. The group, made up of the lively Jacqueline Walter and Bernadette Carroll, took a few minutes to speak with City on a Hill...
Modern China
By Erik Oatman Since the beginning of Chinese-European trade in the 13th Century, the most densely populated country in the world has acquired and adapted to western standards of trade and business. With China becoming the next economic super-power of the world, the country has...