SUBMISSION: Engaging Education Calls for Chancellor’s Match
Engaging Education (e2) is a student-initiated center that creates programs for student from underrepresented and under resourced communities. We, the students, made a commitment to diversity by voting to tax ourselves to fund these programs. Almost all of the funding for these programs comes from…
SUBMISSION: Response Letter to Chancellor Blumenthal from Student Activists
Dear Chancellor Blumenthal, We are sending you this letter in response to your email titled “Community expectations.” As you may have heard, this email ignited a great response within the student activist communities here at UCSC. We are expressing this response to you clearly and…
SUBMISSION: When Does CAPS help? Most of the Time
By Gary Dunn, Ph.D. CAPS Director I would like to thank Grace Shefcik for her thoughtful piece about possible areas for improvement in our Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) program. It is indeed a challenging task to meet the mental health needs of our 18,000 students, but…
SUBMISSION: When does CAPS do more harm than good?
By Grace Shefcik, current UCSC senior and this year’s Vice President of Internal Affairs of the SUA. She began working with CAPS over the summer in hopes to share concerns about their programs and services, specifically as they relate to cultural competency. To learn more or get involved,…
Submission: Letter from the Graduate Student Association
May 11, 2017 To whom it may concern: We, of the UCSC Graduate Student Association Executive Board, write to express our deep concerns over the email thread “Graffiti and Leaflets” initiated by faculty members in theLiterature Department on Sunday, May 7th. While this email thread…
Submission: Letter from UCSC Jewish Studies Faculty
To the Editor, As students of the history of anti-Semitism, members of the UC-Santa Cruz community who are opposed to all forms of racism and discrimination, and Jews ourselves, we were greatly distressed to read in The Santa Cruz Sentinel on May 4, that some of the participants in the recent Afrikan Black…
Submission: Letter of Support for Fossil Free UC
By T.J. Demos, Professor, Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, Director, Center for Creative Ecologies, UC Santa Cruz I write to express support for Fossil Free UC and their ongoing campaign to get UC to divest from fossil fuels. Over the last four…
Submission: A/BSA Reclamation Statement
As of May 2nd, 2017, the Afrikan/Black Student Alliance at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) has Reclaimed Kerr Hall. Who We Are: The Afrikan/Black Student Alliance is an Afrikan/Black/Caribbean (ABC) student-led and student-run organization on the campus of the University of California…
Submission: Massive Library Consolidation Without Consultation
By Professor Emeritus Michael Nauenberg, UCSC Physics In your article entitled “Library Purges Print Collection” in the April 21 issue of City On A Hill Press, the interim Executive Vice Chancellor, Herbie Lee, is quoted as saying that “there definitely was an attempt by the library…
Submission: Letter from Merrill Student Government Chair
By Kimberly Runyan, Merrill Student Government Chair As a college birthed from student activism, we cannot allow the words of Jay Semana to be silenced nor forgotten. Merrill Student Government stands with Semana as his actions opened up an essential conversation to reform the Student…