What Does Summer Mean for Student Organizers?
Administrators and policymakers don’t stop making decisions once spring quarter ends, creating an obstacle for student organizers over summer. The three-month dispersal of students can halt organizing momentum into the next school year, pressuring students to keep updated and make plans through the break. City...
The Results Are In: SUA Candidates-Elect Gear Up
After a contentious election season and low voter turnout, Student Union Assembly (SUA) candidate results were announced in Tuesday evening’s SUA meeting. Several officer-elects expressed differences in opinion but emphasized a readiness to move past elections to work together in their new positions. The newly...
‘Let’s Talk!’ Panel with UCOP and UCSC Admin Raises Concern
Additional reporting by H. Ann Browning UC Santa Cruz students engaged with members of the UC administration in a panel discussion regarding topics currently dominating campus conversation for just over two hours on May 17 in the Hay Barn. Let’s Talk!, organized by Quality Education...
Student Housing West EIR Comment Period Extended to End of June
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal chose to grant students, staff, faculty and community members an additional 45 days to voice concerns regarding the draft environmental impact report (EIR) for Student Housing West (SHW). SHW, a housing project set to bring an additional 3,000 beds...
AFSCME Draws the Line
For three days, service workers at UC Santa Cruz vacated the dining halls, buses, medical centers and campus grounds and instead gathered at the base of campus to speak out against widening inequality in a UC-wide labor strike — the largest strike in UC history....
AFSCME Local 3299 Delivers Official Strike Notice
Across all UC campuses and medical facilities, 9,000 UC service workers of the AFSCME Local 3299 union will cease work from May 7-9. This means for three days the UC will be without custodians, dining hall workers, bus and truck drivers, mailroom workers and laborers,...
Four arrests, dozens of citations during this year’s 4/20
At least four DUI arrests were made on campus during this year’s unsanctioned 4/20 event. Two of these were non-UCSC-affiliated individuals arrested before 12 p.m. The other two were arrested at the California Highway Patrol DUI checkpoint, their affiliation with the university was unknown at...
3,000 Beds with an Environmental Price Tag
At over 1,100 pages, the length and language of the Student Housing West (SHW) draft environmental impact report (EIR) may be daunting, but it also holds details of a project that could drastically change the UC Santa Cruz campus. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)...
Students Seek More than Emails Regarding Strategic Academic Planning
Concerned about campus transparency and low undergraduate response numbers to a campus survey about the Strategic Academic Planning (SAP) initiative, five major ethnic organizations created a student survey to learn if and how students are learning about the SAP process. UC Santa Cruz’s SAP initiative...
Title IX Investigator Hired to Improve Processes
The UC Santa Cruz Title IX Office hired Rosamaria Garcia as a new principal investigator for sexual assault and harassment cases. She began this position Feb. 5, bringing the office’s total number of investigators to three. The office is increasing staff numbers to address the...