Update: Body of Missing Santa Cruz 8-Year-Old Girl Found
Update 7/27 9:45 p.m. : The body of an eight-year-old girl who was last seen outside the Tannery Arts Center Sunday evening has been found. A male teenager was reportedly arrested in connection to the case. The FBI has joined the search for a missing 8-year-old...
Takeaways from the July UC Regents Meeting
Napolitano Announces UC Minimum Wage Increase to $15 per hour by 2017 On the same day that a New York panel approved a proposed $15 per hour minimum wage for fast-food chain employees and a day after Los Angeles county decided to increase minimum wage...
Judge Tentatively Rules $28,103 in Restitution for “Highway Six”
One day after being sentenced to 30 days in jail, five of the UC Santa Cruz “Highway Six” students were tentatively assigned $28,103.73 for their total restitution costs. Criminal restitution is the amount of money awarded to victims — government agencies in the case of...
Five of “Highway 17 Six” Students Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail, Eligible for House Arrest
Five of the six UC Santa Cruz students who blocked Highway 17 as part of the “96 Hours of Action” in March were each sentenced to 30 days in jail, along with three years of informal court probation on Monday. Judge Denine J. Guy told...
SUA Election Commissioners Terminated in Closed-Session Meeting
Updated 5/14 10:20 a.m. with newly elected SUA Election Commissioner Grace Shefcik’s interview and new information that Aron Garst and Tamisha Davis have received reasons regarding their termination from SUA Chair Justin Lardinois on behalf of the SUA voting members. During a closed-session portion of...
Interviews with SUA Officers
SUA Chair Candidate Julie Foster SUA Chair Candidate Brad Mleynek SUA Chair Candidate Shubhankar Sharan SUA Internal Vice Chair candidates SUA Organizing Director candidates SUA Commissioner of Diversity candidates Commissioner of Academic Affairs candidate Seamus Howard
Acquirefest Takes The Stage
“Every group is different,” said fourth-year Acquire member Michel Gellad. “They all have their own identity, so it’s nice to bring together all the different groups onto one stage.” The natural follow-up to that statement is, “So, what’s Acquire’s identity?” Multiple members of the group...
Out of Service
For the first couple of weeks, Laura Harrison thought it would get fixed. “Elevators go out. It’s a normal thing,” she would say to herself and her colleagues working out of the College Eight academic building. As days turned to months, Harrison saw no signs...
A New Way to Think About Leadership
Students and staff were looking for a theory to match the work they were already doing in their SOMeCA organizations — student-run organizing in the truest sense, operating under unorthodox methods of leadership. After looking through dozens of models, the Action Research Group (ARG) found...
Men’s Volleyball Headed to NCAA Tournament
The men’s volleyball team earned its spot in the NCAA Tournament after finishing the season ranked No. 2 by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) coaches and earning a Pool B berth among the independent teams. The Slugs are the No. 3 ranked team in...