Housing at What Cost? UCSC to break ground on Student Housing West development, regardless of litigation.
Editor’s note: This story was previously published on June 9, 2023 and has been revised for print. “Where are you living next year?” It’s an annual and nerve-wracking question for many students, as we run between open houses, hoping for a room, a shed, or...
The Last Word: We Move Together
Note to reader: This letter is a Call-In to our community, compiled with reflection and advice that graduated student leaders and past City on a Hill Press editors want to share with you. We graduated this year. Just like that — goodbye college, goodbye Santa...
UCSC to Break Ground on Student Housing West Development, Regardless of Litigation
Guaranteed housing is a bygone ideal rather than a realistic expectation for UC Santa Cruz students in 2023. With only one year of guaranteed housing for first-years, students are quickly thrust into the highly competitive Santa Cruz housing market. In 2017, then-Chancellor George R. Blumenthal...
No Detectable Amount of Lead Found, Yet Students Remain Concerned
The Process of Uncovering Answers When Luisa Perez brought her collection of water samples back to the lab at UC Santa Cruz’s coastal science campus for testing in fall quarter, the last thing she expected was a positive result for lead. But after waiting the...
Poco a Poco: Little by Little, Agricultural Workers Rebuild After Winter Storms
Drive deep into Watsonville on a road off CA Route 129, turn right and you will find a nursery that welcomes you with this sign: Blue and Green Nursery – Watsonville, CA: Open to the public everyday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunup to...
Bands Go to Battle in the Porter Dining Hall
What is the Santa Cruz music scene? “It’s like the Twilight Zone,” said Aidan Greathouse, the lead singer of Casino Youth. “ Sometimes they’ll just start screaming over guitar chords,” said Elijah, the drummer of Casino Youth. “Or it’ll be spoken word over a random...
No Roof and Drenched: How the Unhoused Endured the Storm
It’s 45 degrees, and it’s pouring. The light of a sunless day is waning. Kazoo, a member of the unhoused community, begins to realize that his tent is not going to cut it — it’s not an all-weather tent. Hearing word of an open shelter...
The TAs Have a Contract. What’s Next?
“ACADEMIC STUDENT EMPLOYEES AND STUDENT RESEARCHERS RATIFIED OUR NEW CONTRACTS!” says the second most recent post by UAW-2865 on Instagram. With over 80 comments under the post, almost all expressed disappointment, either in the Union itself or with those who voted yes. “You don’t vote...
When The Picket Takes To The Streets
A symphony of passing car horns beeped to Honk 4 Cola signs while making U-turns away from the main entrance of UC Santa Cruz. In the background, different speakers with megaphones demanded of the crowd, “What do we want?” “COLA!” exclaimed the group. “When do...
UAW Strike Underway
The first days of the largest strike in the history of higher education are over. The strike was authorized with 98 percent approval from UC graduate students and academic student workers on Nov. 3. The UC-wide strike is in response to unethical labor practices enacted...