Men’s and Women’s Tennis Close Out Seasons
Women’s Tennis UC Santa Cruz women’s tennis fell 5-0 to Lewis and Clark College in the first round of the 2016 NCAA Division III National Championships last Friday at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center in Claremont. UCSC lost all three doubles rounds. Sylvia Brummitt and…
Defunded, Suspended and Cut
More than 32 students were left out of Martha Mendoza’s Newswriting Workshop in winter 2003. Those students didn’t just miss out on taking a course with the first UC Santa Cruz graduate with an independent major in journalism and a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press journalist….
An Advocacy for NCAA Funding
With a 2015-2016 budget of $722 million, UC Santa Cruz administrators are too caught up in the $1 million it would take to fund athletics. That’s 0.14 percent of university operating costs. The most prevalent argument against funding athletics ridicules the small percentage of athletes…
Planetary Movement
In his first semester as a Ph.D. candidate in the astronomy department at Harvard University, UC Santa Cruz alumnus and cross-country athlete Theron Carmichael is once again breaking personal bests. Carmichael ran a marathon in his first three months in Cambridge, Massachusetts with other graduate…
Women’s Basketball Makes History
For the first time in school history, UC Santa Cruz women’s basketball qualified for the NCAA Division III championship. This will be the only time a UCSC basketball team, men’s or women’s, have appeared in the tournament. The Slugs earned an automatic NCAA tournament bid…
NCAA Funding Extended Through 2017-18 Season
In a sharp turn of events, UC Santa Cruz administration extended NCAA funding through 2017-18, instead of ending the $1 million budget supplement next spring. This news comes just weeks after Chancellor George Blumenthal notified the athletic department that its proposed fee increase to support…
UCSC Administrators Pull NCAA Referendum Proposal off 2016 Spring Ballot
With less than four months until campus elections, the UC Santa Cruz administration pulled the proposed NCAA referendum models off the spring voting ballot. This spring, students will not vote on the fate of NCAA athletics. The per student, per quarter fee previously planned for…
Wounded Warriors
The 2016 NBA D-League showcase at the Kaiser Permanente Arena featured 19 teams and 19 games, with two NBA call-ups and one showcase champion. For the Santa Cruz Warriors it resulted in a 0-2 record and a Net Rating of -18.0, the worst in the…
Fighting for the Future
Santa Cruz, California is by no means a city on the average NBA fan’s radar. But yesterday, over 100 NBA figures — including scouts, general managers and future stars — united in this Bay Area city for the first day of arguably the NBA Development…
Defending the D-League
In an opening night saturated in remembrance of their 2015 NBA D-League Championship, the 2015-16 Santa Cruz Warriors made a statement of their own, cruising to a 104-87 victory against the Bakersfield Jam on Nov. 13 at sold-out Kaiser Permanente Arena. “For the most part,…