Challah Bake: Celebrating 52 Years of Leviathan Jewish Journal
Hannah Benveniste learned to style their hair by braiding challah dough. As a kid, they’d roll out strands on a floured surface, gently tugging each lock — left to the center, right to the center — until the amorphous blend of ingredients before them resembled...
What the Hell is Going on with the UCSC Budget?
UC Santa Cruz — at every level — has been reeling from a structural budget deficit. The effects trickle down to students in many aspects of their education such as larger class sizes and less accessible campus services. Despite significant effects beginning to materialize, many...
Enroll, Waitlist, Repeat: Psychology as an Impacted Major
When enrolling in psychology classes, UC Santa Cruz students wait in anticipation. Multiple alarms are set for their enrollment appointments. They hover over their computers hours before their assigned time. They have to be on high alert to make sure their required classes don’t fill...
Cutbacks and Consequences: Who Really Pays for UCSC’s Budget Crisis?
Editor’s Note: Some sources in this article have chosen to remain anonymous. City on a Hill Press has verified the identities of all such sources. Longer response times, larger classes and fewer appointments. Changes are already happening to the UC Santa Cruz campus and they...
Measurements Of Growth: Five Years of a Garden, 25 Years in a Cell
Five years ago, a handful of volunteers split open the earth in front of the Baskin art studios. They laid out a nest of manure and placed emerging seedlings into soft soil. Full classes of students have come and gone since; plants have grown, wilted...
Meet This Year’s SUA Candidates
UC Santa Cruz’s spring 2024 undergraduate Student Union Assembly (SUA) elections are in full swing. After a week-long delay, the ballots are officially open for voters from May 20 until May 31. UCSC students can access ballots virtually through the campus elections website. This year’s...
SEATS at the Table, A Seat on the Loop: Student Union Governance Board Pushes for TAPS Reform
$513. That’s the amount each UC Santa Cruz student pays in fees to Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) each year, the highest transportation fee at any UC campus. The fees amount to nearly $10 million annually. “We pay two-thirds of TAPS’ budget just through our...
A Look Inside Santa Cruz County Main Jail
The only sunlight that penetrates the concrete walls of Santa Cruz County Main Jail seeps past a ceiling of barbed wire and metal into the exercise yard. If they’re lucky and the weather is just right, incarcerated people in the general population can spend at...
UCSC Students and Community Members Lead ‘Shut it Down for Palestine’ Walkout
Editor’s note: Because students at other universities had their personal information leaked as a result of their views, City on a Hill Press will not publish speakers’ or interviewees’ names or identifying characteristics. (Above) A protester walks around the intersection waving a Palestinian flag. The...
Santa Cruz County Debates New Main Jail
Santa Cruz County’s Main Jail was at capacity the day it opened in 1981. In years since, the jail has been so overcrowded, that at times, it has housed over 500 incarcerated individuals – despite only having beds for 319. Problems including overcrowding, maintenance failures,...