All Eyes on Rafah: Students and Artist RedVeil Gather in Quarry in Solidarity
A crowd of over 300 people filled the Quarry parking lot, facing a makeshift stage of wooden pallets in front of the UC Santa Cruz Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Around 5 p.m., a board member of UCSC Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) got up on...
Negotiations Stall, Encampment Moves
Editor’s Note: Jamie Hindery serves as an Undergraduate Representative on multiple Academic Senate committees, but only spoke to City on a Hill Press on behalf of the negotiation team at this time. Demonstrators hoisted a 30-foot banner above the entrance of the new UC Santa...
UCSC SJP Encampment Remains Despite Failed Negotiations
Editor’s Note: Out of concern for privacy and safety, some sources chose to be identified by a pseudonym. It has been over a week since UC Santa Cruz Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) launched their Gaza Solidarity Encampment. At noon May 10, SJP released...
New Loop Buses Unveiled, Community Concerns Remain
There are two new loop buses circulating UC Santa Cruz campus — well, new-er. Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS) just acquired four buses, 2007 model 15 Gillig BRT, previously owned by Contra Costa Transit Authority. Two have been in operation on campus since April while...
Uncertainty Looms As UCSC Announces “Structural Budget Deficit”
UC Santa Cruz is going through what administrators described as a “structural budget deficit.” This information was released in a post on the campus website by Chancellor Cynthia Larive and Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Lori Kletzer on Feb. 12, titled “Update on the...
Tiffany Dena Loftin and Wisdom Cole Set to Speak at the Dream It, Build It Event
Tiffany Dena Loftin and Wisdom Cole will be coming to UC Santa Cruz on Apr. 18, 2024 to participate in the Dream It, Build It: Organize Our Power event, as a part of Student Organization Leadership (SOL) Council’s Spring Special. The event will focus on...
Three Years Later, Fentanyl Crisis Persists
Content Warning: The following article contains descriptions of excessive and deadly drug usage — specifically fentanyl and heroin. From five deaths in 2019 to 65 deaths in 2022, the number of fentanyl-related deaths has steadily climbed in Santa Cruz County since 2020. The County’s fentanyl...
Is the “Better FAFSA” Really Better?
The 2024-25 Federal Aid Financial Student Association (FAFSA) form process has implemented a major redesign for the first time in over 40 years. Also called the “Better FAFSA”, this redesign includes changes to the form itself, the eligibility calculation, and how students and families will...
Unions Rally to Quarry Plaza to ask “Where’s the Love UCSC?”
On a gray Valentine’s Day morning, students and staff joined the Cross-Union Solidarity Rally to march from the Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall to the Quarry Plaza. Many donned red bandanas reading “UCSC Workers United” as they made their way to the quarry, where the crowd gathered...
A Look Inside Santa Cruz County Main Jail
The only sunlight that penetrates the concrete walls of Santa Cruz County Main Jail seeps past a ceiling of barbed wire and metal into the exercise yard. If they’re lucky and the weather is just right, incarcerated people in the general population can spend at...