Doctors Protest Lack of Funding
The original version of this article included information that was unclear and has been edited. More information is at the bottom of the article. For the first time in 43 years, the Union of American Physicians and Doctors, which represents doctors that work at UC student health...
The Cosmos Through Disciplines
The UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research launched its first public event, “Questions That Matter: Making the Cosmos Local,” on Jan. 27. About 200 attendees listened to a dialogue between UCSC physics professor Anthony Aguirre and associate history professor Minghui Hu at the Kuumbwa...
UC Student Regent Visits for ‘Recruitment Tour’
About 20 students gathered at the Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room at the Bay Tree Conference Center on Monday...
Disciplines Connected Through Cosmos
The UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research launched its first public event, “Questions That Matter: Making the Cosmos Local,” on Jan. 27. About 200 attendees listened to a dialogue between UCSC physics professor Anthony Aguirre and associate history professor Minghui Hu at the Kuumbwa...
A Bridge Between Race, Class and Sexuality
Cherríe Moraga visited UCSC last Thursday evening to reflect on the influence writer and UCSC alumna Gloria Anzaldua had on Moraga's writing.
Protesters Make Noise at 50th Anniversary Kick-off Event
A rhythm of clanking metal and unified chants filled Quarry Plaza on Thursday at noon as nearly 40 students marched from Humanities 2 to protest the tuition increase at UC Santa Cruz’s 50th anniversary kick-off event, “Dress Like It’s 1965.” The disruption of the university...
Blumenthal Attends SUA Meeting, UCSC PD Called to Intervene
By Diana Dolloff and Montse Reyes University police officers escorted Chancellor George Blumenthal from the Student Union Assembly’s (SUA) first meeting of the quarter on Jan. 13 after student demonstrators blocked the exit. In anticipation of Blumenthal’s expected discussion with SUA members, about 30 student...
Driven to Donate
Derek DeMarco received a phone call indicating he was a potential bone marrow donor seven years after he registered. DeMarco, the Crown College coordinator for residential education, is a part of the 8 percent of the small pool of potential matches who have the chance...
Celebrating Young Leaders and Martin Luther King Jr.
Ten Santa Cruz community members met at the Del Mar Theater on Jan. 13, but rather than watching a film, they gathered to discuss one. The discussion, co-hosted by the Resource Center for Nonviolence (RCNV) and Santa Cruz’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
Dressing Down History
For some, the 1960s evokes nostalgia for doo-wop music or vintage dresses, while for others the era was the time of African American and Chicano civil rights movements, the United Farm Workers (UFW) Delano grape strike and later in the decade, the assassination of Martin...