Loma Prieta Fire Update
Update 9/28 8:35 p.m.: Fire now covers 2,865 acres and is 22% contained. Update 9/27 8:14 p.m.: Loma Fire spreads to 2250 acres and containment increases to 10 percent. Update 9/27 1:44 p.m.: The fire has reached 1500 acres (2.34 square miles) and is 5...
Strength in Colors
Nearly a million people, donning rainbow clothing, body paint and balloons, packed San Francisco’s streets for its 46th annual LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade on June 26. The event began in 1970 and serves to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riots against police raids on queer spaces and to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community....
Rethinking the Trailer Park
As trailers have been towed out of UC Santa Cruz’s trailer park, it has left empty gaps in an anxious community. One student thumbed through a binder of camper park history pointing to a list of over 100 names. “The history of this park is...
Digitizing the Past
Studies of the intra-American slave trade reveal a limited understanding of the forced migration of millions of Africans onto this continent. UC Santa Cruz associate history professor Greg O’Malley wanted to know why. “There seemed to be a missing link,” O’Malley said. “I decided to make that missing link my research.”...
UC Laborers Union Protest Pay Wage
About 30 protesters representing the Teamsters Local 2010 union of over 14,000 UC clerical and administrative employees gathered in Quarry Plaza on Aug. 16, denouncing the two-month bargaining delay for a wage contract and demanding better salary and a secure pension. “[The UC] has tens of billions of dollars in reserve […] are their top administrators...
New Name Set for College Eight
The new name of College Eight will be Rachel Carson College, and it wasn’t a courtship, but it started with a cup of coffee. “We met at the cafe right here,” Provost Ronnie Lipshutz said, gesturing to the courtyard by the College Eight cafe. “It was completely unplanned,...
Computer Engineering to Lose ABET Accreditation
The UC Santa Cruz computer engineering department chose not to renew its 20-year Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), which is required or strongly preferred for many government engineering jobs. While the electrical engineering (EE) B.S. degree will continue to carry its accreditation, beginning...
UCSC Receives Offensive Fliers for a Third Time
UC Santa Cruz printers received another series of offensive fliers targeting communities on campus on Aug. 22. This is the third instance this year that printers have been hacked. In March, 104 printers were and again in August, 48 were. The fliers printed Aug. 22...
UCSC Admission Data Released
Following the UC’s commitment to enroll 10,000 more students over the next three years, UC Santa Cruz admits over 22,300 California freshmen for fall 2016, 4,700 more than last year. The UC office of admissions expects 4,305 freshmen, 3,805 of which are California residents, to...
Serving Student Voice
The newly formed Coffee Shop Advisory Committee released a campuswide survey on May 24 for input about the controversial takeover of the historically college-run Cowell Coffee Shop and Stevenson Coffee House by UC Santa Cruz Dining Services. They are set to be absorbed by dining...