Una Comunidad Desterrada
Fotos por Jasper Lyons Traducido por Edgar Ontiveros Son las 7:45 a.m., y gotas de sudor se acumulan sobre la frente de don Emilio. Con su escoba rosa, él barre la tierra en hileras sobre las cuales pequeños brotes de frijol comienzan a retoñar....
Hoffman’s at Global Village Cafe to Close Doors on Friday
Global Village Cafe (GVC) — operated by Hoffman’s Bistro since 2012 in McHenry Library — will be evicted on Oct. 16. While the McHenry Library administration is still in negotiation with a new tenant, the future vendor is tentatively expected to be Cafe Brasil, said...
A Community Uprooted
*A Spanish translation of this article will be posted soon. Photos by Jasper Lyons It’s 7:45 a.m., and Don Emilio’s sweat has already begun to bead on his brow. He wields a pink household broom, sweeping dirt into rows where young bean shoots are beginning to sprout....
Santa Cruz Music Festival Set to Rock Downtown
Back for a third year in a row, Santa Cruz Music Festival (SCMF) will sprawl across downtown Santa Cruz venues including The Catalyst, Woodstock’s Pizza, Motiv and other locations to round out 15 total stages and 13 hours of musical mayhem on Oct. 10. This...
Cancelled on Technicalities
Update 9/4, 4 p.m: UCSC admissions to offer 120 students whose admission was cancelled acceptance to UCSC in winter 2016. Dominique DeJarnatt was one of the students to be offered a winter enrollment opportunity. *Name changed to protect identity. Five to seven minutes to the bookstore,...
Sustainable Power through Brainpower
Over the course of ten weeks, a team of 24 undergraduate students who make up the UC Santa Cruz International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) team has worked to develop a sustainable energy source with hopes of showcasing its research at the Boston iGEM Jamboree. This...
Fewer Californians, More Out of State and International Students Admitted to the UC
Delayed nearly three months due to uncertainty with state budget, the University of California (UC) admissions data was released on July 2, and showed disappointing results for Californians. The UC system is admitting fewer in-state residents compared to out of state and international students. Undergraduate applications to...
UC Tuition Increase Avoided for Californians Until 2017
The widely-contested annual 5 percent UC tuition hike will not go into effect until the 2017-18 school year for resident students as a part of Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised budget, released on May 14. The “May Revise” budget prioritizes public education funding, with the UC...
Reverberations of Loma Prieta
“It was a really hot day in October,” reflected UC Santa Cruz alumna Susanne Ban DeRisi in her journal. “It was what we Californians jokingly refer to as ‘earthquake weather.’” At 5:04 p.m. on October 17, 1989, the earth beneath Santa Cruz shook for about...
UCSC Students Speak Their Truth
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. Everytime survivors tell the truth about their life, the world splits open,” Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha said, reflecting on a saying from one of her professors. “Abuse is in...