One Overpriced Diploma, To Go, Please!
What I like about Chipotle is the limited menu. You stand in the line, get either brown rice or white rice, black beans or pinto beans, you put a little cheese, a little this, a little that, and you’re out of there. I think that’s...
We Believe Dr. Blasey Ford
Why are you afraid of flying? Why do you have two front doors? What music was playing when you were leaving the party? None of these are relevant or appropriate questions to ask a potential rape survivor. But the relentless and condescending panel of senators...
What’s More Lost: Migrant Kids or US Humanity?
Please, don’t feign surprise when our government lies to us again and again about the state of immigrant affairs and detention centers. Don’t feign shock when news of 1,475 unaccompanied immigrant children disappearing from government oversight hits the headlines. Don’t feign sympathy when you know...
Voluntourism Won’t Help Your Resume
Graduates or students with the privilege to pay to travel the world this summer should be doing so ethically, not with the mentality of ‘fixing’ non-western communities or using their degree to be saviors. Voluntourism is traveling to a county with the intentions of...
Transgender Inmates Confined to Conformity
In a brazen display of its hate-fueled anti-LGBTQIA+ agenda, the Trump administration is retracting Obama-era protections for transgender inmates. Without these desperately needed protections, which aimed to stop the rampant verbal, physical and sexual harassment transgender inmates face behind prison walls, assailants will go unchecked....
U.S. Gets an F in Education
Public school teachers across the nation are using social media to expose the broken desks, dead rats and moldy walls that are the standards at their schools. These horrific working conditions are a visual clue to inadequate education funding nationwide. The problem goes deeper than...
No Hesitation, Resist Exploitation
Eating in the dining hall. Riding on the loop busses. Having clean and stocked bathrooms. These are things we take for granted, and these are things that AFSCME workers do for students. Yet UC has consistently denied AFSCME workers, who are essential to the successful...
Lukewarm on Climate Action, Hot on Hypocrisy
Self-proclaimed environmental champion Gov. Jerry Brown supported legislation that challenged nationwide emission standards in 2007 and opposed offshore drilling. Supporters swoon at Brown’s half-hearted protection of the environment. Meanwhile, he continues to support dirty oil production in California, ignoring the disproportionate effects on communities of...
California Fails to Watch the Watchmen
California’s bigwigs often trumpet the state’s progressive culture and politics, but the state’s records and policies reflect an entirely different story. While accounting for 12 percent of the nation’s population, California accounts for 16 percent of persons shot and killed by police. Of the 162...
Santa Cruz Tenants Need Your Signatures
No more stories of unjust evictions, no more stories of raising rents on decaying, mold riddled homes, no more skating around the housing crisis. The city of Santa Cruz can no longer permit landlords to take advantage of one of the most susceptible housing demographics...