By Justin Bercovich This year’s UC Santa Cruz men’s soccer team may not resemble the teams of the recent past, but so far they are getting the same results. On Saturday, the Slugs defeated Cal State University, East Bay 3-0 to even their record at...

By Will Norton-Mosher Three stories tall, off-white, full of students and the smell of pot, House Five is like every other dorm building in Stevenson-except that students aren’t the only ones who call it home. Student residents now share the dorm building with administrators who...

By JJ Yang A team full of freshman usually means one thing: Wait until next year.Of the 21 players currently on the roster for women’s volleyball team, 13 are freshmen with an additional five players returning for just their second year.But after a successful 11-8...

By Allen Young With the crashing waves of the Boardwalk Beach clearly visible behind long glass windows, about 60 Santa Cruz citizens gathered in the Sun Room Terrace Ballroom last Thursday Sep. 28 to discuss violence in the Beach Flats area. The meeting opened with...

By Samantha Thompson From broken fingers to hernias to knee injuries, the UC Santa Cruz’s Men’s water polo team has been battling obstacles since the beginning of the season. "You name it, we have it," coach Randy Whitchurch said.The team struggled to stay afloat this...

By Daniel Correia For 51 days between mid-June and early August, Cowell’s Beach was home to unsafe levels of bacteria in the ocean, prompting the County of Santa Cruz to post signs warning patrons against the potentially dangerous bacteria levels. Cowell’s was not alone in...

By Elizabeth Limbach There are two sides to every issue. But what can be said when both sides claim to accomplish the same thing? The slogan on Proposition 85’s website reads "For the real protection of a young girl," while the No On 85 campaign...

By Ian Sherr Joseph Wilson’s belt buckler reads, "Baghdad, Iraq" across the top. He wears it like a badge of honor now, joking that the first line of his obituary would have said that he was the last American diplomat to meet with Saddam Hussein...

By Sam Laird Last Thursday, dozens of customers lined up at the door of Noland’s on the Wharf, a local swim and sportswear shop, clamoring to be among the last to buy T-shirts depicting a surfer catching a wave amidst the words declaring Santa Cruz,...

By Kate Ayers It has been called the biggest breakthrough in women’s health since the birth control pill. Others think of it as just another excuse for teens to have premarital sex. Whatever you call it, Gardasil, the new immunization for the human papillomavirus, or...