Quarry Queries: Where Did the Quarry Plaza Go?
The Quarry Plaza has served thousands of students throughout UC Santa Cruz’s 61 years of history. Countless UCSC campus tours have begun at the Quarry Plaza — guides ready to welcome prospective banana slugs to their future home. But for the past several months, safety...
More Requirements More Fees More Money: Upcoming Changes to Campus Parking
This coming fall, increased parking prices will require hundreds of UC Santa Cruz students, staff and faculty to budget extra money to afford parking on campus — making it more difficult to get to class, meetings or even their work shifts. Again and again, drivers...
Women’s Rugby Pride Game: Pride On and Off the Field
When you play for the Division 1 (D1) Women’s Rugby team, Saturday is “rugby day.” Every week, over 30 players don cleats and mouthguards before marching out onto the playing field to represent the Banana Slugs of UC Santa Cruz. The latest match was different...
How Long is Long Enough?: Uplifting Incarcerated Voices
“What does justice mean to you?” That is the driving question of the student-led documentary, “How Long is Long Enough: The Excessive Sentencing of Quntos & Layla.” The film was re-screened on Jan. 19 and centered stories rooted in abolition, resistance and the ongoing pursuit...
Two Dialogues, One Topic: “DROP DILLER” Protest
The glass wall of UC Santa Cruz’s Cowell Ranch Hay Barn separated two modes of dialogue on Jan. 28. Though both events discussed the topic of Jewish Studies, the atmospheres were starkly different. On one side, academics and community members listened to a lecture about...
Behind the Scenes of Barnstorm Theater Company
Four actresses gather around a cardboard box. As they bicker, one of them reaches into the box, pretending to strangle a cat for an initiation ritual into the Dead Leaders Club. In the background, members of the crew meow, imitating the cries of a dying...
More Than a Production: AATAT’s ‘Dreamgirls’
“When I say ‘AA,’ you say TAT!” The strong voice of Don Williams, founder of UC Santa Cruz’s African American Theater Arts Troupe (AATAT), can be heard from anywhere in the Theater Arts Center. In the mainstage, 20 students-members of AATAT, stand in a huddle,...
More Debt, Less Reward: Students with Multiple Concentrations at Risk of Losing Financial Aid
For Lucas Sanchez, a fourth-year UC Santa Cruz student, university is a place where he is able to access pathways to opportunity. “I wanted to have a real enhanced experience and try everything that is possible for me, and for me, that looked like pursuing...
Hundreds of Students Gather to Protest Against U.S. Imperialism
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UC Santa Cruz spends $160,000 on Hiring Search for Top Administrator
UC Santa Cruz is spending $160,000 on finding a new Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor (CP/EVC), one of the most powerful roles in campus administration. In a letter to the campus community on Oct. 8, Chancellor Cynthia Larive announced that UCSC has, “retained the executive search...