I Won’t Be Using My Flat Iron To Press My Graduation Gown
Soft curls loop in on themselves and lay haphazardly across the top of her head and onto her forehead. Her eyes are big, round, and bright, and seem to take up most of her face. The eye doctor tells her she needs to pin her...
“Kids Can Handle It”: Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone on ‘How to Be a (Young) Antiracist’
“The better I understood racism, the better I was able to navigate it,” said New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi to the packed bleachers of Kaiser Permanente Arena. “I think it is critically important for Black students to understand racism,” continued Kendi. “And...
UAW Strike Underway
The first days of the largest strike in the history of higher education are over. The strike was authorized with 98 percent approval from UC graduate students and academic student workers on Nov. 3. The UC-wide strike is in response to unethical labor practices enacted...
Childcare, Healthcare and Rent Burden: Why UC Graduate Students Are Striking
48,000 Graduate Students in the UC system are represented by three different unions: United Auto Workers (UAW) 2865, which represents over 19,000 academic student employees (ASEs), including graduate student instructors, teaching assistants (TAs), tutors, and readers. UAW 5810, which represents more than 11,000 academic researchers...
The Creativity of a County: A Look Into Santa Cruz’s Open Studios
In the entryway of Floasis Pottery Studio, visitor Kirsten Snobeck’s eyes grew wide as she held up a mug ornamented with mushrooms. Floasis Studio was Snobeck’s sixth or seventh stop of the day in her self-guided tour of Santa Cruz Open Studios on Sunday, Oct....
Pilipino Cultural Celebration in Review
The audience rose from their seats as the lights came up on Mainstage. Onstage, a sea of students dressed in white and black with their right hands on their hearts began singing “Lupang Hinirang,” the national anthem of the Philippines. For the first time since...
Fire Behind Colleges Nine and Ten Spark Late Night Evacuations
Second-year Diana Celebrado was hanging out with her roommates Tuesday night, when they heard someone scream, “Fire!” from outside their apartment window. “We started panicking and then the alarms started going off,” Celebrado said. “So we grabbed our stuff and evacuated.” At roughly 11 p.m....
UC-AFT Calls for University Solidarity at Pre-Strike Rallies
Lecturer Joy Hagen has taught the same class in Rachel Carson at UC Santa Cruz for the past 16 years. Each year she has to reapply to teach the class, with zero guarantee she will be able to teach it again. Hagen stood on the...
Campus COVID-19 Numbers Stay Low but Concern Remains
As of 6 p.m. Wednesday Oct. 13, there are 8 confirmed COVID-19 cases in students from the UC Santa Cruz community. For more information, please visit UCSC’s Tracking COVID-19 website. Since the onset of the fall 2021 quarter, The UCSC Molecular Diagnostic lab has reported...
3 DJs and a Pandemic
Reporter’s Note: Having joined KZSC in winter 2021, I witnessed firsthand the benefit of being a part of this community during such an isolating time in my life. The impact of being a part of the station changed the way I listened to music during...