Artists Exist Somewhere: A Thank You Letter to the Staff of City On a Hill Press
Spring 2022. Fifteen of us sat around connected tables in a first-floor Kresge classroom. Some of us reporters, illustrators, some fact-checkers and copy-editors, all of us staff members of City On a Hill Press, as our media advisor Susan Watrous began our first class of…
I Won’t Be Using My Flat Iron To Press My Graduation Gown
Soft curls loop in on themselves and lay haphazardly across the top of her head and onto her forehead. Her eyes are big, round, and bright, and seem to take up most of her face. The eye doctor tells her she needs to pin her…
Was My White Boyfriend a Better Asian Than Me?
There I am in the kitchen, staunchly positioned in front of a flour-dusted cutting board and a small rolling pin. It’s as if I just stepped up to a podium and I’m soaking in the crowd — but in response, I only get awkward feedback…
UCSC to Break Ground on Student Housing West Development, Regardless of Litigation
Guaranteed housing is a bygone ideal rather than a realistic expectation for UC Santa Cruz students in 2023. With only one year of guaranteed housing for first-years, students are quickly thrust into the highly competitive Santa Cruz housing market. In 2017, then-Chancellor George R. Blumenthal…
The Legacy of the Tabby Cat: Santa Cruz Says Goodbye to Cafe and Organizing Space
On May 21, customers lined up at the Tabby Cat Cafe for its final day of operation. Changes are brewing as it prepares for new ownership.
Slug Life Productions Board’s Edge of Eden Brings Musical Magic to UCSC
Fluorescent blue lights reflected off every inch of the treeline, smoke spilled over the stage at the heart of the Quarry Amphitheater, and flocks of students migrated from their seats to the pit the moment a sound erupted from the speaker system. The only thing…