A Garden Gamble
By Georgia Johnson and Juan Cristian Villamil Santa Cruz Seaside Company offered to extend just under two-thirds of the Beach Flats community garden’s lease for another three years. The remaining 10,000 square feet excluded from the lease will be used by Seaside Company as a...
The Power to Heal Ourselves
A successful doctor struggles with repressed memories, a preteen boy copes with an abusive father and a teenage girl waits out her final week in a juvenile detention center. These three separate plays, each defined by their own distinct tones and protagonists, shared a single...
California Dreamin’
California is the promised land, from the Gold Rush to now, in the 21st century. The state is the birthplace of Hollywood and the booming tech industry. California and its unyielding potential makes it the home of a better possible future — a utopia. This...
Students for Justice in Palestine Appeals Overruling of Divestment from 2014
During the Student Union Assembly’s (SUA) last meeting, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) representatives presented its appeal of former SUA Chair Shaz Umer’s controversial decision to nullify a divestment resolution passed in May 2014. Within minutes of the meeting’s start, appointed Porter College representative...
Cafe Brasil’s Amazon Juices to move into Global Village Cafe space within the next month
Amazon Juices, owned by Cafe Brasil, signed a five-year lease to the Global Village Cafe (GVC) space and will open by the end of 2015. Amazon Juices — located on 41st Avenue in Capitola — is nearly two years old and specializes in juices, acai...
Fight Continues for Beach Flats Garden
By Keiera Bradley and Juan Cristian Villamil By 7 p.m., Santa Cruz City Hall was filled with about 100 Beach Flats community garden supporters wearing neon green shirts and handmade vegetable-shaped paper hats. The crowd was a mix of Beach Flats residents, UC Santa Cruz students and...
Redesign of Bus Lines
The Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit Department (SCMTD) is asking the difficult questions before redesigning the bus system’s operating routes. “How do you balance serving as much of the county and at the same time providing service in those areas where you really know that you...
Challenging the Carbon Conundrum
The University of California wants to be carbon neutral by 2025 and it needs students, faculty and staff on board to do it. On Oct. 6 the UC launched the Cool Campus Challenge, a social media-friendly carbon reduction competition between campuses, devised as part of...
Students Hold a Die-In While Slugs for Israel Table
As Slugs for Israel (SFI) members tabled in Quarry Plaza last Friday afternoon to stand in solidarity with Israel after several attacks against Israelis, about 10 students dressed in all-black and lay motionless on the ground next to them representing the Palestinians killed in Israel in...
UC Santa Cruz Rolls Out ‘Consent is Sexy’ Campaign
Is consent sexy? It’s a question UC Santa Cruz students may ask after they see posters in dorms and buses with the slogan “Consent is Sexy.” At the beginning of the school term, UCSC — which is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education...