By Sam Laird Last Thursday, dozens of customers lined up at the door of Noland’s on the Wharf, a local swim and sportswear shop, clamoring to be among the last to buy T-shirts depicting a surfer catching a wave amidst the words declaring Santa Cruz,...

By Daniel Correia For 51 days between mid-June and early August, Cowell’s Beach was home to unsafe levels of bacteria in the ocean, prompting the County of Santa Cruz to post signs warning patrons against the potentially dangerous bacteria levels. Cowell’s was not alone in...

By Allen Young With the crashing waves of the Boardwalk Beach clearly visible behind long glass windows, about 60 Santa Cruz citizens gathered in the Sun Room Terrace Ballroom last Thursday Sep. 28 to discuss violence in the Beach Flats area. The meeting opened with...

By Will Norton-Mosher Three stories tall, off-white, full of students and the smell of pot, House Five is like every other dorm building in Stevenson-except that students aren’t the only ones who call it home. Student residents now share the dorm building with administrators who...

By Shane Patterson Having pride is important. Pride is about having a sense of one

By Chancellor Denice Denton’s suicide was a tragedy that left a deep hole in the campus community. The loss was great for our campus as well as the world, for Denton was a hero in her field, a pioneer for gay and female scientists.We at...