COVID-19 Vaccinations Required for Fall 2021
Making preparations to reopen all campuses in the fall, UC Office of the President (UCOP) will require all campus personnel to receive the COVID-19 vaccination prior to returning to on-campus instruction and programs. UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive shared this policy with the campus...
Remembering Founding Faculty Member Harry Berger
When Harry Berger Jr. first stepped onto the Yale campus as a 16-year old student, he knew he wanted to write. Young at heart, he got his start writing passages in the Yale Record, the college’s humor magazine, but his passion for the written word...
SUA and Sesnon Underground Connect Student Government and the Arts
In a campus as large as UC Santa Cruz, it can be difficult to find your place. After leaving high school, third-years Edie Trautwein and Sydney Eliot both initially joined Cowell Senate, but found their campus homes in two radically different areas. Trautwein is now...
Pirouettes and Plies Paused by a Pandemic
With one leg stretched along the three-foot barre, I looked over at the floor-to-ceiling mirror and wondered if my teacher would tell me that my toes weren’t pointed. I leaned over, connecting my hand to my foot for the stretch I noticed all the other...
Rainbow Theatre: Telling Multicultural Stories Since 1993
When she was 15 years old, Kayla Ybarra sat down at the Pasadena Playhouse to watch Real Women Have Curves, which follows a Latinx young woman torn between staying home to help her family or going away to college. When Ybarra left her own family...
UC President Michael Drake Stars on Speech Spotlight Live
UC campuses have long been sites of political activism and protest. From the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, to anti-apartheid protests across the campuses, to the recent fight for a cost of living adjustment. In 2017, protests over the planned appearance of far...
Indigemedia: Navigating Native Representation in Film Virtual Q&A
Sci-fi thriller “Chambers” was released on Netflix in 2019. The 10 episode series stars Sivan Alyra Rose, the first Native lead actress in a television series, accompanied by a group of Native directors and writers, including Jason Gavin. The show deals with topics like assimilation...
Navigating Your Twenties in the ’20s
Growing up is the phenomenon every adult warns you about. “Cherish your childhood.” “You’ll miss it once it’s over.” Now, in your twenties, with the rose-colored glasses of childhood removed, you realize why adults are stressed all the time. Instead of eating candy and swinging...
UCSC Hosts High School Regional Ethics Bowl
Is it ethical to dine out in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic? Do you think the government should be able to restrict or ban platforms like TikTok? Is contributing to fast fashion wrong, even if it is the only thing you can afford? These...
Drake Announces Return to Campus Next Fall
The UC Office of the President (UCOP) released a statement on Jan. 11 announcing that all 10 UC campuses will return to in-person learning fall 2021. In the statement, UC President Michael Drake expressed hopes that students might enjoy a normal on-campus experience in the...