Organizers Release Petition to Remove Balakrishnan
About 400 people from UC Santa Cruz and the wider academic community have signed a petition demanding a call to action against tenured history of consciousness professor Gopal Balakrishnan. The petition, “#metoo Call for Action: Gopal Balakrishnan and culture of UCSC Humanities Division,” began circulation…
Opening the Door on Retaliation
Graphics by Dagmar Kuta Content warning: This article contains references to sexual harassment and assault. *Name has been changed to protect the anonymity of this source. Due process within the Title IX system provides protection to the accused. But in the last year, several complainants…
Title IX Navigates What’s Next
UC settled 17 Title IX cases for a total of over $3.7 million, enough to pay 123 students’ in-state tuition for a year, from 2013-16. One of the largest settlements in Title IX history, for $1.15 million, was brought forward by UC Santa Cruz student…
Sexual Harassment and Assault Allegations Build Against UCSC Professor
Content warning: This article contains references to sexual harassment and assault. *Name has been changed to protect the anonymity of this source **Gopal Balakrishnan is referred to as GB through student accounts Graffiti and leaflets detailed allegations of sexual assault and harassment by a professor…
DACA to Accept New Applications, Federal Judge Rules Rescindment Was ‘Arbitrary’
Seven months later, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has been through legal disputes, congressional debates and back. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates ruled in NAACP v. Donald Trump that the DACA program must continue protections and accept new applications on April…
Union Protests Against UC’s Mistreatment of Workers in Wake of New Report
About 500 workers, students and activists shut down the intersection at Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley on Wednesday morning, according to American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) 3299 spokesperson Todd Stenhouse. “Monday of this week a bombshell report came out…
The Divide: Gender Disparities in Math
Mathematics is a gateway to all science, technology, engineering and math majors. Systemic barriers throughout U.S. education bottleneck women’s representation from the elementary to senior levels in academia. Sitting in a Jack Baskin lecture hall for an upper-division math class at UC Santa Cruz, you…
Future For DACA Beyond March 5
U.S. District State Judge William Alsup ruled that the Trump administration’s actions to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is illegal in Regents of the University of California v. United States Department of Homeland Security. “The agency’s decision to rescind DACA was based…
Supreme Court Rules Trump Must Follow Standard Court Proceedings in DACA Case
The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s request to bypass the U.S. Courts of Appeals on Feb. 26, which would have sped up the administration’s attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This decision will keep DACA going for an unknown…
Misuse of Adderall on Campus
Adderall prescriptions among 18- to 24-year-olds have remained constant since 2014, but the amount of young people misusing Adderall as a study aid is skyrocketing — particularly among college students crumbling under pressure to excel on exams. Adderall is used to combat attention deficit…