Food, Funds, and Frustration: How the End of the COVID-19 State of Emergency is Impacting CalFresh Recipients on Campus
For fourth-year Meri Klingelhofer, the additional $95 she received per month from CalFresh’s COVID-19 emergency allotment funds made all the difference in her ability to maintain a nutritious diet. The comfort of cooking and eating fresh produce with reduced financial concern is something she will…
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…
Grounded in Community: Terra & Self takes on Pacific Avenue
Kenné Johnson-Scianna remembers not knowing how to take care of her skin at an early age. It wasn’t until she was hired by Lush that she learned personalized self-care. After seeing the rise of small businesses during the pandemic, she wanted to share that knowledge…
A Clamtastic Culinary Competition: The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk’s 42nd Annual Clam Chowder Cook-off
What’s the secret to the best bowl of clam chowder? Ask any chef at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk 42nd Annual Clam Chowder Cook-off and you’ll get a laugh, maybe a knowing smile — but no answer. Celery, perhaps. Onions and potatoes, obvious staples. Bacon…
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…
“Kids Can Handle It”: Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone on ‘How to Be a (Young) Antiracist’
“The better I understood racism, the better I was able to navigate it,” said New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi to the packed bleachers of Kaiser Permanente Arena. “I think it is critically important for Black students to understand racism,” continued Kendi. “And…