UCPD Policies Provide New Vague and Lenient Guidelines for Officers
Content warning: police violence Weapons that launch tear gas into large crowds, and a police force with full range to cause death or very serious injury at their discretion, are among the new, vaguely worded policies that will serve as the basis for UC police...
UC-AFT Reaches Strike Pledge Goal During May Day Rally
“Insulted, degraded, angry, humiliated.” These words cascaded down the Zoom chat from UC American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) affiliates as they typed their responses to the UC Office of the President’s (UCOP) ignoring their requests for rehiring rights during this April’s bargaining sessions. As they...
UCSC Banana Slugs are Back in the Game
Outside the East Gym, you see a familiar campus scene. Phones lay flat across the blue basketball courts to light up the night sky. Music bounces off the concrete from bluetooth speakers while students dribble under the moonlight. But as UC Santa Cruz athletes started...
One-Stop SHOP for Virtual Student Health and Wellness at UCSC
In response to the pandemic, 62.9 percent of young adults reported peak anxiety and depression levels according to the New York Times, coinciding with 24.7 percent reporting an increase or start in coping with substances. Sex, drugs, and alcohol did not disappear with the pandemic,...
UCSC Student Housing West Project Won’t Break Ground Until Earliest Spring 2022
After five years of continued litigation and complaints, the UC Santa Cruz Student Housing West (SHW) project was re-approved by the UC regents on March 18. Ongoing lawsuits from environmental committees and organizations forced them to restart the environmental review process. The lawsuits primarily contested...
UCSC Chinese Student Association Hosts 35th Annual Lunar New Year Banquet
A year ago the circular tables of the Porter dining hall at UC Santa Cruz were piled high with food, the room transformed with red streamers and decorations, and the stage hopped with student performers. This year the cafeteria tables continued to collect dust and...
AATAT Explores the Importance of Black Theatre in Upcoming Workshop: ‘Does Black Theater Matter?’
“Does Black theater matter?” For decades the African American Theater Arts Troupe (AATAT) at UC Santa Cruz has elevated and centered Black roles in the arts. It serves as a springboard for generations of Black alum and students who vie for the opportunity to answer...
‘Prisons and Poetics’ Conversation Highlights Importance of Arts in Understanding the Push for Prison Abolition
Poetry is about understanding the past, recognizing where we are now, and re-imagining the future. “It really is poetry and art that takes us to another place,” said UC Santa Cruz social psychology professor Craig Haney, “and in this criminal justice system,…another place is exactly...
Portraits in Protest: Santa Cruz Artist Zendrea Marshall Paints 100 Black Activists
As a wave of Black Lives Matter protests flooded through the summer of 2020, Santa Cruzan artist Zendrea Marshall watched from her studio as a revolution unfolded in the streets. Painting portraits is a protest for Marshall, much more than a regular side hustle or...
UCSC Younger Lagoon Reserve Offers Virtual Tours Amid Pandemic Restrictions
For the past 10 months, the unruly willow trees, pink pickleweed, and freshwater marsh of the UC Santa Cruz Younger Lagoon Reserve have been out of sight to the general public. Usually accessible through guided tours, the reserve found a new way to keep people...