From a Phở restaurant, to the Homes of Evy and Soledad, and Back to Santa Cruz: Rainbow Theater Transports Audiences in 29th Season
With standing ovations and final bows, Rainbow Theater officially closed out their 29th season this past weekend. Rainbow Theater played out over two weekends, “My Home on the Moon” and “blu” debuting and finishing over the weekend of May 6. Poet’s Corner, dubbed “So You…
Engaging Education Hosts Speaker Blowout: May 11
While some nights Earth and Marine B206 houses lectures, on May 11 the auditorium will be home to a conversation. Tamika D. Mallory, co-organizer of the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, will be engaging in conversation with Tiffany Dena Loftin for the annual Engaging Education…
Rainbow Theater Takes to Stage This Weekend
In anticipation of their 29th annual production, members of Rainbow Theater are spending this week finalizing costumes, marking their stage placements, and spending long hours rehearsing at the Stevenson Event Center. In just two weekends, four different shows will be brought to the stage by…
Clean Your Room With Me
After opening the door to my bedroom, guests and friends are occasionally greeted with mountains of papers towering over my opened laptop, a fleet of dirty cups lining my coffee stained desk, and waves of blankets strewn about my unmade twin XL bed. You may…
Student Organizers Host Rally at Kerr Hall Over Chancellor Larive’s Raise
Teaching assistants (T.A.s) and graduate students alike struggle to find housing and affordable child care while they work more than 40 hours per week, while, in some circumstances,being forced to live in hotels with unstable WiFi. All while Chancellor Cynthia Larive received a $105,286 pay…
Earth Summit April 20: No Time To Waste
The 21st annual Earth Summit, hosted by Enviroslug, will be descending onto campus for UC Santa Cruz’s greenest day of the year next week. The in-person event will be held on April 20, at the Quarry Plaza from 9:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. and will…
Navigating Resource Centers at UCSC
African American Cultural and Resource Center (AARCC) Thirty years after its inception as UCSC’s first ethnic resource center, the African American Resource and Cultural Center (AARCC) focuses on the personal and academic growth of students within the African diaspora. AARCC hosts Black Academy, a program…
Margaret Wander: Navigating the Waters of American Art
Of the eight recipients of the Luce/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, seven focus their research and writing on the continental United States. Breaking the mold is UC Santa Cruz’s Margaret Wander. Wander is a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the…
Sesnon Gathers Underground Scholars to Share Their Goals, Stories, and Art
As MJ Hart was installing their mural at the Baskin Art Department on May 3, an observer called campus police to report what they thought was vandalism. While Hart, the UCSC Underground Scholars outreach coordinator described this as ironic, their story led the attendees and…
Central Valley Musings
The biggest of the small towns. That’s the only way I can think to describe Modesto, California. Known primarily for agriculture and the birth of George Lucas, among other less savory statistics, Modesto doesn’t exactly receive love letters from those who grew up here. But,…