UCSC Chinese Student Association Hosts 35th Annual Lunar New Year Banquet
A year ago the circular tables of the Porter dining hall at UC Santa Cruz were piled high with food, the room transformed with red streamers and decorations, and the stage hopped with student performers. This year the cafeteria tables continued to collect dust and...
Hiscon Minor On Pause
When third-year Lucy Dasilva learned her minor was suspended, she was overwhelmed with unanswered questions. Could she still take the courses she was hoping to? Would this impact her graduation plans? Why was the History of Consciousness (HisCon) minor suspended in the first place? “I...
Feeding the Houseless Good Food
All sources in the following piece requested that their last names be omitted for their safety. The Santa Cruz People’s Kitchen was born out of flames. During last summer’s CZU Lightning Complex fires, Sal, a UCSC dropout and experienced line cook, was evacuated from Boulder...
Santa Cruz Warriors Heat up in G League Bubble
Since starting the season 1-3, the Santa Cruz Warriors have been on fire, ripping off a five game winning streak over their recent games. They currently sit in a four way tie for third in the standings, two games back from the first seed. Though...
The World of Green Onions
When I was in high school, having authentic Chinese food for every meal was something I took for granted. Now, as a 20-year-old child, I keep finding myself browsing food blogs trying to find a recipe that feels familiar, but knowing the names of many...
Visualising Abolition Puts the Abolition Feminism Movement into Perspective
Ending mass incarceration, stifling sexual assault and police violence, fighting for equality for all races, genders, and sexualities — are the pillars of the abolitionist feminism movement. As a political philosophy and a practice, abolitionist feminism was founded in the 1830s when antislavery and women’s...
Family Student Housing Upgrades 20-Year-Old Internet
Even though his school and job is virtual, Mykel Brinkerhoff still commutes. Brinkerhoff lives in UC Santa Cruz’s Family Student Housing (FSH) with his wife and daughter. While he juggles being a graduate student and a TA, he has to venture to Rachel Carson College...
COVID-19 Recovery Task Force Announces Plans for Fall 2021 Return to Campus
As of Friday Feb. 26 there are 14,628 cases of COVID-19 in Santa Cruz County, including 183 deaths and 13,998 recovered. For updated information on vaccine eligibility, please check the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency (HSA) website. As of Friday Feb. 26, UC Santa...
African American Theater Arts Troupe Presents 30th Anniversary Gala
African American Theater Arts Troupe (AATAT) founder and director Don Williams wore a proud smile on Feb. 20 as one of his students, August Stevens, softly strummed her guitar singing “A Change Is Gonna Come,” written by Sam Cook in 1964 in support of the...
Rainbow Theatre: Telling Multicultural Stories Since 1993
When she was 15 years old, Kayla Ybarra sat down at the Pasadena Playhouse to watch Real Women Have Curves, which follows a Latinx young woman torn between staying home to help her family or going away to college. When Ybarra left her own family...