Rebuilding the Quarry
Correction: In the December 1 article “Rebuilding the Quarry”, provost Ben Leeds Carson was referred to as the Student Fee Advisory Committee (SFAC) advisor. Lucy Rojas is actually the current SFAC advisor. Carson was not on the advisory committee at the time the renovation was...
Gathering in Solidarity, Students Call for Action
The rally began with three women, Bryana Espinoza, Angela Riley and Sara Nune, standing in Quarry Plaza on Nov. 9. Each student was naked except for a single piece of underwear and the messages scrawled in ink across their bodies. The display was an art...
UPDATE: Campus Assault Classified as Hate Crime
City on a Hill Press will continue to update this story as it develops. Update November 17, 5:30 p.m. : UC Santa Cruz Police Department (UCSC PD) has determined the Nov. 11 assault in which a female student reported being followed and attacked by three male...
Condemned Lives in Voters’ Hands
Capital punishment is controversial, from the morality of capital punishment to whether or not the time and manner of its infliction is humane. But both Democrats and Republicans acknowledge that California’s capital punishment system is, at a minimum, in need of reform. “California’s death penalty...
UCSC Police Department Host Active Shooter Training
In 2015, there were 372 mass shootings in the U.S., defined by the Department of Homeland Security as a shooting which involves four or more casualties. In response to public interest, UC Santa Cruz’s Police Department (UCSC PD) hosted an active shooter response seminar, which...
SEMILLA to grow STEM opportunities
Ivette Torres began her scholarly pursuits at UC Santa Cruz with the intention of majoring in biochemistry and eventually going into medicine. Her first year went well — she earned good marks in her math and chemistry courses. Once she entered her second year, however,...