Vlogger Laci Green Tackles Rape Culture
There’s a question on the screen: What is rape culture? As the answer is revealed, 360 audience members brace themselves for an hour of disturbing facts and an amusing parody of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” music video. “Taking Down Rape Culture” was one of a...
Wading Through the Waters of History and Culture
The 24th annual Pilipino Cultural Celebration (PCC) gathered a total of 583 students, alumni and community members to experience the original production “Alon ng Panahon” on April 24 and 25. “Alon ng Panahon,” or Waves of Time, was written, produced and performed by the aspects...
Q&A with Civil Rights Leader Dr. Clarence Jones
On May 4, Dr. Clarence Jones will give a lecture titled “After the Civil Rights Movement: The Legacy of Dr. King — Today and Beyond” at the UC Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. The lecture will be free and open to the public.
Out of Service
For the first couple of weeks, Laura Harrison thought it would get fixed. “Elevators go out. It’s a normal thing,” she would say to herself and her colleagues working out of the College Eight academic building. As days turned to months, Harrison saw no signs...
Celebration Through Different Mediums
Over 120 cast members from eight different performing arts groups gathered at UC Santa Cruz’s Main Stage Theater for a full evening of rehearsal. All of the performers had been practicing in smaller groups for months before they started piecing the show together two weeks...
Intertwining Theory and Practice
The UC Santa Cruz chapter of Unión Salvadoreña de Estudiantes Universitarios (USEU) gathered 91 students on Saturday and 51 on Sunday from colleges across California for its seventh annual statewide conference. During the two-day conference, students were encouraged “to fill the breach between theory and...
UCSC Added to Nationwide Title IX Investigation
The Title IX office has received 100 reports since July 1 — 48 of which were sexual harassment and 29 were sexual assault. In March, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) notified UC Santa Cruz that it would be under investigation...
After 365 Days, 230 Girls Still Missing
“If things had been different, I could have been sitting exactly in the same region around the same time,” said Abyan Mama-Farah, who is Nigerian and was raised in northern Nigeria for the first five years of her life. “It could have been me.” Mama-Farah,...
“We need our people here.”
By Georgina Sandoval For three days and two nights, 85 admitted high school students visited UC Santa Cruz to experience student life through Engaging Education’s (e2) Student-Initiated Outreach (SIO) programs last week. The three programs — Destination Higher Education (DHE), A Step Forward (ASF) and...
The ABCs of Empowerment
A is for Angela Davis, B is for Billie Jean King, C is for Carol Burnett, D is for Dolores Huerta, and X is “for the women we haven’t heard about yet, and the women whose stories we will never read.” “Rad American Women A-Z:...