Why Family Student Housing Doesn’t Have (and Might Not Get) Generator Power
In her five years living at Family Student Housing (FSH), Melissa Svigelj has acquired a bevy of camping lanterns, a battery generator, a solar panel, and a camping stove. These items aren’t for outdoor living, though — they’re for power outages. “My first year here,…
Layoffs on CASFS Farm Leave Lasting Repercussions
Kellee Matsushita-Tseng. Alex Roth-Dunn. Pam McLeod. Dave Stimpson. Ned Conwell. The Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) laid off these five staff members as part of their larger reorganization efforts, an especially devastating blow to those who worked closely with Matsushita-Tseng and Roth-Dunn. …
CSC STOP or CSC GO? UCSC’s Laundry System
Any college student knows that $20 can go a long way. It can buy a comfort meal after a long day, gas for your car, or that book your professor recommended. At UC Santa Cruz, it is what you need to have clean laundry for…
Why did UC Santa Cruz Students Create a New Dining Hall App?
Every student with a meal plan has a dining hall dish that they look forward to seeing, whether it be pasta or samosas. But knowing if or where it’s going to be served on any given day is always a gamble. Students at UC Santa…
Years of Work for 15 Minutes of Celebration
Graduation is a special day, full of jubilation and esteem. A prestigious ceremony, celebrated with the rest of your classmates in prolonged procession. The energy surrounding it is irreplicable. Unless you go to UC Santa Cruz, in which case you get 15 minutes. UCSC’s 2023…
How Implementing Practical Activism Inspires Communities
At 10:30 a.m. on a Saturday, most students are recovering from a night out or getting ready for a relaxing day indoors. However, last Saturday, hundreds of people gathered at College Nine and John R. Lewis Colleges to consider tangible ways to challenge and change…
A mother, a son, and the school to jail ‘Pipeline’
As the lights dimmed, excited chatter subdued to hushed whispers, and the audience turned their attention to the stage. The first spotlight bathed a single figure in a pool of warmth, and Pipeline began. On Feb. 24, UC Santa Cruz’s African American Theater Arts Troupe…
Two Years Later, Zero Waste is Still Far Off
Why is UC Santa Cruz still purchasing single-use landfill products? Why haven’t you done a campus-wide waste audit? When will you present the campus community with a plan to achieve zero waste? What are you doing to get UCSC out of the bottom three UCs…
Out of State Grad Students Struggle with Residency Petition Process
UC Santa Cruz graduate student Rory Willats opened his MyUCSC billing portal midway into fall quarter and received a shock — he owed the university $5,800 he didn’t have. With that charge on his account, Willats would not be considered a student by the university…
A Look into the World of Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline
It’s Wednesday night at Second Stage Theater. Student actors are in their seats diligently studying their lines, while two of their co-stars rehearse a scene on stage. Despite there being only two weeks until the African American Theater Arts Troupe’s premiere of Pipeline, there is…