Submission: End the Criminalization of Immigrants
Early in the morning of Feb. 7, ICE agents stopped a couple driving their three children to daycare near Watsonville. The couple thought it was a routine traffic stop, but to their shock, the husband was detained and is now in custody, awaiting deportation proceedings….
SUA Hosts Q&A with Chancellor Blumenthal, EVC Tromp
For the first time in three years, Chancellor George Blumenthal attended a Student Union Assembly (SUA) meeting the night of Feb. 20 along with Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Marlene Tromp. This is the first of a potentially quarterly event going forward, Blumenthal said….
UC Responds to Audit Investigative Report
The UC regents are still deliberating on appropriate repercussions and institutional changes after an investigative report commissioned in May found UC President Janet Napolitano and the UC Office of the President (UCOP) intentionally interfered with last April’s state audit. Napolitano and other UC officials are…
Slugs Overcome Setbacks, Make Championships
UC Santa Cruz’s women’s soccer team qualified for the NCAA Division III championship tournament on Monday for the third year in a row. It’s the only independent team in its division to earn a spot in the tournament. As an independent team, meaning the team…
New Hires for UCSC NCAA Sports
Following department reorganization and staff dismissals and layoffs in June, UC Santa Cruz’s NCAA athletic department has filled its three vacant head coaching positions. For track and field, cross country, swim and dive and women’s soccer, last year’s assistant coaches have been hired to fill…
Restructuring of NCAA Athletics
As the contracts for coaches in UC Santa Cruz NCAA athletics approached their annual renewal in June, most of the staff was optimistic for the future. The student body had just passed a referendum, Measure 68, to provide student fee funding for the program and…
Measure 68 Passes
Measure 68, the proposed referendum to fund UC Santa Cruz NCAA athletics, has passed with an 80 percent “yes” vote from the UCSC voting student body. The fee will officially be enacted in fall of 2018 and continue for 25 years. It will charge each student…
Solidarity & Strawberries
Students on campus consume millions of strawberries each quarter. In Santa Cruz County, one of the state’s top strawberry producers, the fruit’s harvest earns hundreds of millions of dollars for local farmers each season. However, on May 17, when the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable…
Deconstructing Measure 68
What is Measure 68? For the past four years, the Chancellor’s Office has temporarily provided $1 million in funding for NCAA athletics with the intention of ending institutional support by fall 2018. Measure 68 is a student fee referendum intended to support NCAA athletics at…
Reserve Funding Conflict Resolved
Interim Executive Vice Chancellor Herbie Lee agreed to a proposal by the Student Union Governance Board (SUGB) to split the Student Life Facility Fee Reserve Fund (SLFFRF). On April 19, Lee agreed with the said proposal to divide the reserve 60-40 between the Office of…