The First Step in a Long Road: SUA Holds its First of Two TAPS Town Halls
Over 30 UC Santa Cruz community members gathered to air grievances about the safety and reliability of transportation on campus. The Student Union Assembly (SUA) held the first of two town hall events regarding the Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) department. Attendees gathered on Zoom...
Resistance Through Art: UCSC Faculty Signs Solidarity Statement with Freedom Theatre
Ahmed Tobasi, the artistic director of the Freedom Theatre, was woken by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) pounding on the door of his house in Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. Immediately, he knew it was another raid. Dec. 13 was the beginning of...
Faculty Hopeful for New Online Creative Technologies Major
The rapid development of digital-age learning invites campuses to rethink the ways in which they offer online instruction. UC Santa Cruz will provide a ”first of its kind” Bachelor of Arts in Creative Technologies beginning in fall 2024. UC Santa Cruz music professor Ben Leeds...
UCSC Students and Community Members Lead ‘Shut it Down for Palestine’ Walkout
Editor’s note: Because students at other universities had their personal information leaked as a result of their views, City on a Hill Press will not publish speakers’ or interviewees’ names or identifying characteristics. (Above) A protester walks around the intersection waving a Palestinian flag. The...
Students Hold Rally and Vigil for Palestinian Liberation and Mourn Thousands Killed
Editor’s note: Because students at other universities had their personal information leaked as a result of their views, City on a Hill Press will not publish speakers or interviewees names or identifying characteristics. Students and community members rallied at UC Santa Cruz for the liberation...
Goodbye Natural Gas, Hello Electrification
Fossil-free by 2030. Once a resounding call from student activists, the message is now echoed in plans to completely sever the campus’s reliance on natural gas. On Oct. 12, the Decarbonization & Electrification (D&E) Task Force completed and released their Predesign Report to the public....
The Path to Recognition: UCSC’s Efforts to Support Faculty of Color
Even before assistant professor Julissa Muñiz stepped into a classroom at UC Santa Cruz, the messages were starting to pile up. “I don’t teach until the winter,” Muñiz said. “But I was receiving emails from students of color here, both graduate and undergraduate, expressing how...
Creating Safe Spaces: The Expansion of ABC Housing at UCSC
Moving to the College Nine and John R. Lewis College African, Black, and Caribbean (ABC) housing block was different from any other on-campus housing experience for third-year Eric Herbert. “[My roommates and I] don’t have the same experiences, but we have similar enough backgrounds where...
A Night of Remembrance: Dia de Los Muertos at the Quarry Amphitheater
It was a moment of remembrance. People called out the names of their loved ones — names of those who had passed on but were not forgotten. With each name, the audience repeated together, “Presente,” reassuring them of the presence of the spirit of their...
Kresge Renewal Phase I Unveiled, Construction Continues
Beyond the whirring of power tools and sprawling construction of Old Kresge, new residence halls and academic centers stand among the redwoods. These are the buildings that have sprouted out of the first phase of the Kresge Renewal project. At the start of this academic...