Body Found on Local Beach Identified as Missing UCSC Student
UC Santa Cruz student Shireen Agha Ahsan’s body was found Monday night at Strawberry Beach, Nick Baldridge from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Unit confirmed. The remote beach in Wilder Ranch State Park is five miles south of where she and fellow student...
Stranded Marine Mammals Hit All-Time High in 2015
In the United States, abnormally lower temperatures in the south and abnormally higher temperatures in the north have produced what The Weather Channel projected to be the strongest El Niño storm in 18 years. In Santa Cruz, these patterns have negatively impacted wildlife and led...
CA Minimum Wage Now $10
Every month, UC Santa Cruz alumna Taylor Lara spends about $800 for living expenses. She works as a server at Pono Hawaiian Grill, where she earns minimum wage plus tips. She gets by each month but avoids adding new expenses to her budget, let alone...
Hundreds of Community Members Gather to Pray for Missing Students
Community members held a prayer service Wednesday afternoon to honor two UC Santa Cruz students who remain missing after being swept into sea Monday night. The students were hit by a wave on Bonny Doon Beach, just 10 miles north on Highway 1. Shireen Agha...
Obama’s Final State of the Union Address
Congress members sat in the House Chamber as President Barack Obama took the podium on Tuesday to give his final State of the Union address. The tradition, outlined in the U.S. Constitution, allows the president to address Congress and the public regarding the nation’s current...
Cafe Ivéta Preps for Opening This Quarter
When Yvette and John Bilanko opened a tiny espresso bar in a Chicago suburb in 1991, their customers wanted more — “you have coffee, you need scones,” John remembers the customers suggesting. It was good timing, too. Yvette had just traveled to a trade show...
UCSA Tackles Gov. Brown’s New Budget
The UC Student Association (UCSA) met in San Diego this weekend to discuss the financial future of the UC, the proposed enrollment growth and the concern of Islamophobia system-wide. UCSA is a student-organized group consisting of 18 representative associations across the UC system, including UCSC’s...
Fungi Fanatics
The forest was brought indoors this weekend, with hundreds of varieties of fungi re-creating a woodland scene, complete with trees and forest floor on display at the annual Santa Cruz Fungus Fair. “They’re really, really weird,” said Christian Schwarz, UC Santa Cruz alumnus and member...
West Cliff Waves Hello To El Niño
With all the rain Santa Cruz has seen in recent weeks, residents may have forgotten the county declared a state of drought emergency just last June, but one look at the San Lorenzo River or the Loch Lomond Reservoir — two of Santa Cruz’s four...
UC Applications Set All-Time Record at Over 206,000
Over 206,000 students applied to at least one UC campus for the fall 2016 quarter, UC officials announced Monday, setting a new record for the 12th year in a row with a 6.4 percent increase from last year. At UC Santa Cruz freshman applicants increased...