By JJ Yang From the opening tip, when forward Jarrod Heredia accidentally slapped the ball out of bounds, it was clear that the game was not going to go in favor of the Slugs. The UC Santa Cruz men’s basketball team never recovered from an…

By Samantha Thompson Saturday, Nov. 11 may have just been another day for most college students, but for UC Santa Cruz cross country runner Tamara Torlakson, it wasn’t just any other day. The junior from Antioch, California soared her way into Slug history as she…

By Amirose Eisenbach The variances that exist in sound are astonishing and infinite. Sound can be as abrupt and easily recognizable as a car alarm or a child’s scream. It can be elusive, like a soft breeze or the extremely light frequency of a humming…

By Natalie Phillips How to put this in a subtle and artful manner… One look at the cover of progressive metal band Mastodon’s newest album Blood Mountain and you know you’re in for a fucking trip. Symbols that manage to be familiar and alien at…

By Jeremy Spitz Picture your organic salad being assembled in an industrial refrigerated plant in San Juan Bautista from ingredients shipped, in refrigerated trucks, from a combined 26,000 acres of farmland in California, Arizona, Colorado, and three Mexican states. Then picture it being put back…

By Andrea Pyka In an effort to maintain his high standard of astronomical goals, Acting Chancellor George Blumenthal and former Astronomy and Astrophysics professor at UC Santa Cruz, named his longtime colleague Michael Bolte as the new director of UC Observatories/Lick Observatory (UCO/Lick). UCO/Lick is…