Constructing Futures
Before a word had been spoken, the nearly 200-strong audience that filled the Stevenson Event Center was on its feet with a raucous applause. Many of those standing had never heard Van Jones speak, but that didn’t matter. His presence alone was enough to lift...
Mainstream Media Blacks Out the Bern
Everyone was for Bernie. As many as 20,000 people who filled Bonney Field in Sacramento on May 9 represented different factions of the community — signs read “Muslims for Bernie,” “Farmers for Bernie,” “Students for Bernie,” “Moms for Bernie” and “Nurses for Bernie.” “When we...
Showing Our Pride
Cupcakes, colorful flags and the clear directions “gay ahead” in bright blue chalk led the Kresge PRIDE march into Kresge College for its 11th annual celebration. The Kresge Multicultural Education Committee (KMEC) is a student-run organization that has put on PRIDE for the last decade....
Special Issue: City on a Hill Press’ 50th Anniversary
Activism is a big word. It can look like hunger strikes, building occupations or thousands marching on the national mall. But it can also look like your dinner plate, shopping bag or keyboard. It’s a word used often on this campus, taking on a different...
Defunded, Suspended and Cut
More than 32 students were left out of Martha Mendoza’s Newswriting Workshop in winter 2003. Those students didn’t just miss out on taking a course with the first UC Santa Cruz graduate with an independent major in journalism and a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press journalist....
A Wrench in the Machine
By Nick Nodine and Alex Wilkins Over 100,000 lives lost, $815 billion spent and years of fierce protest. President George W. Bush announced his global war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Just over a year later, he announced a full-scale invasion...
Illuminating Education
After two hate crimes against Filipino students at UC Santa Cruz, students of color unified and mobilized to create Engaging Education (e2). In spring 2000, a Stevenson affiliate threw empty alcohol bottles at prospective UCSC students during A Step Forward, now one of e2’s student-initiated...
Reviving From the Roots Up
The first step to making acorn flour the traditional Amah Mutsun way is to gather the acorns. Matt Lopez wanders through Big Basin State Park scouring the ground. He fills five 5-gallon buckets with tanoak acorns. When he gets home, he lays them out in...
UCSC’s Blueprint
At UC Santa Cruz, buildings don’t haphazardly sprout up like trees. The Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) decides where and when these buildings are developed. While not binding, it’s the guiding document that helps inform campus planners of future development. It’s re-evaluated every decade...