Down Highway 17 and Up the 1: Commuters Face Rising Gas Prices
Jillian Kerney, a third-year linguistics major, commutes 50 miles up and down Highway 1 to UC Santa Cruz three days out of the week. Not only does this allow her to keep her job in Monterey, but it also lets her avoid the struggle of...
“No Concessions Made”: UCSC UAW 4811 Representatives Disappointed with Latest Contract
Fifth-year astrophysics doctoral candidate Isabel Kain recalled her experience at a rally in the Quarry Plaza in fall 2021. As she listened to a mother of two speak about her struggles to support her family while making only $20,000 a year, Kain felt empowered and...
Sprouting Success: The Revival of the Stevenson Garden
“A beautiful and strenuous, fatiguing experience.” That’s how Zuri California, an agroecology and global and community health double major, and co-lead intern for the People of Color Sustainability Collective (PoCSC) described restoring the beloved Stevenson Community Garden. After many years, the Stevenson Community Garden is...
“Report Up, Not Out”: C9/JRL RAs Voice Frustration Over ICE Policy
Editors’ Note: Anonymous sources mentioned in this article are referred to as “RA ‘A’” and “RA ‘B.’” City on a Hill Press is committed to protecting the identity of these sources. All protocols and policies stated solely pertain to College Nine and John R. Lewis...
Hope is on the Menu
“Our biggest goal for the conference was for people to feel hopeful,” said Ren Luevano, steward of the UC Santa Cruz community herb garden. Luevano was a speaker and primary organizer for Raíces y Futuros, a student-led conference focused on combining food justice and abolition...
DEI & Demographics: Can the Trump Administration Collect Detailed Student Data?
Editors’ Note: Some sources in this article have asked to remain anonymous. After President Trump took office for his second term, UC Santa Cruz’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) did not close. However, language slowly shifted nationally, as the words “diversity, equity and...
A Seat at the Table: Students Advocate for Representation on Board of Regents
The UC system is a network of over 300,000 students. But at the highest level, only one student voice is allowed to vote in representation of the collective student body. How each of these campuses operate is largely determined by the UC Board of Regents...
Food as Resistance: Cooking up Community
Not many students at UC Santa Cruz spend their Friday mornings as line cooks. But in the kitchen of Cowell Coffee Shop (CCS), the smell of cilantro, the aroma of citrus fruit and the rhythmic sound of chopping greet you as you enter. On Feb....
More UCSC Students are Graduating in Three Years, but Why?
Finn Westley, an applied linguistics and education double major at UC Santa Cruz, wants to pursue a career in bilingual education. Double majoring while completing general education requirements on a condensed timeline is no easy feat. However, after only three years at UCSC, Westley is...
WestFest Music Festival Makes its Return to UC Santa Cruz
Flower crowns, picnic blankets and banana slug balloon hats strewn about the Oakes Upper Lawn — is this Coachella 2016? No, it’s WestFest 2026, the annual music festival hosted by westside colleges and student organizations at UC Santa Cruz. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the...