San Bernardino office shooting leaves 14 dead, 21 wounded
At approximately 11 a.m. on Wednesday, two shooters wearing black ski masks and bulletproof vests entered a end-of-the-year office party in the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California and opened fire, killing 14 and wounding 21 others. The center, which provides services to people with...
#DoUCmyStudentDebt
What started as a few students setting up a table in Quarry Plaza turned into a powerful speak out and march through campus and into lecture halls. The protesters interrupted classes with collective shouts of “Out of the classroom and into the streets — no...
SUA Appeal Overturns 2014 Divestment Nullification
With a 28-5-7 vote, the Student Union Assembly (SUA) approved Students for Justice in Palestine’s (SJP) appeal of former SUA Chair Shaz Umer’s controversial decision to nullify a divestment resolution passed in May 2014. The University Socially Responsible Investment Resolution (USRIR), which calls for the...
Tending to the Community
A bittersweet atmosphere hung over Beach Flats on Friday morning as community members gathered to reflect on and celebrate the community garden and mourn the expiration of its 20-year lease. However, this aura began to change as wafts of burning sage drifted over the fences,...
The March for Mizzou
Photos by Calyse Tobias Around 40 students from the black community and some allies gathered in Quarry Plaza at 1 p.m. on Wednesday to stand in solidarity with the students at the University of Missouri. At Mizzou, students have faced a history of racially charged...
UCSC Receives $3 Million Grant as Hispanic Serving Institute
The population of Latin@/Chican@ students at UC Santa Cruz has been on the rise since 2005 and reached an all-time high in 2014 with 31.6 percent. Despite a small drop in 2015-16 Latin@ enrollment, the university works to cultivate an environment that welcomes students of...
Q&A with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies invited Ruth Wilson Gilmore to UC Santa Cruz to discuss police violence and mass incarceration in a lecture called “Organized Abandonment & Organized Violence: Devolution and The Police.” Her discussion in the UCSC Music...
Including All Identities
Jamie Epstein first realized bathrooms were a place of gender conflict while at a train station a year ago. They had short hair and wore baggy clothes. While in the stall in the women’s room, Epstein noticed that the bathroom had become silent, and they...
Identity and motive of student accused of stabbing four at UC Merced released
Authorities revealed new information regarding the identity and motive of the assailant who stabbed four people at UC Merced on Nov. 4 before being shot and killed by a campus police officer. In a press conference, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke identified the suspect as...
129 Killed in Paris Terror Acts, California Mourns Long Beach State Student
Last Friday, Paris was struck by six coordinated terrorist attacks, killing at least 129 people and injuring over 350 others, according to multiple news outlets. Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old student from CSU Long Beach, was one of the victims of the terror. The Nov. 13...