SUA Election Commissioners Terminated in Closed-Session Meeting
Updated 5/14 10:20 a.m. with newly elected SUA Election Commissioner Grace Shefcik’s interview and new information that Aron Garst and Tamisha Davis have received reasons regarding their termination from SUA Chair Justin Lardinois on behalf of the SUA voting members. During a closed-session portion of...
Interviews with SUA Officers
SUA Chair Candidate Julie Foster SUA Chair Candidate Brad Mleynek SUA Chair Candidate Shubhankar Sharan SUA Internal Vice Chair candidates SUA Organizing Director candidates SUA Commissioner of Diversity candidates Commissioner of Academic Affairs candidate Seamus Howard
Capitola: First City in Santa Cruz County to Adopt Body Cameras
Capitola police officers will be equipped with 20 body cameras and nine vehicle cameras come July, with the help of a $100,501 state grant. Many community members are celebrating the purchase as a step toward ensuring public protection, but some argue that body cameras are...
Student Fee Measures / Constitutional Amendments
Campus-specific student fees are proposed and voted through by way of a referendum during SUA elections. Stringent budget cuts have turned student fees into one mechanism to keep on-campus organizations, student facilities, student health and a number of other student services afloat. For most measures,...
Driving Out Of Deficit
Over 20,000 people ride a Santa Cruz Metro bus every day. Over 10,000 of those riders are UC Santa Cruz students. The Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District (SCMTD) gets over 100,000 people in Santa Cruz County to where they need to go every week —...
‘Highway Six’ Plead No Contest
One by one, the “Highway Six” stood in front of Santa Cruz Superior Judge Denine J. Guy and pleaded “no contest,” neither admitting nor disputing the two misdemeanors of creating a public nuisance and resisting arrest. The UC Santa Cruz students’ May 7 hearing was...
UCSC Students Speak Their Truth
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. Everytime survivors tell the truth about their life, the world splits open,” Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha said, reflecting on a saying from one of her professors. “Abuse is in...
‘A Census of the Invisible’
A study by UC Santa Cruz students found that the median wage for low-wage workers in Santa Cruz County was $10, much lower than the $17.81 county median and well-below the poverty wage.
A More Intersectional Sustainability Movement
When Melanie Fornés found out she was the first woman of color to direct the annual Earth Summit in its 14-year history, she knew she needed to make the conversation about sustainability more inclusive for people of color. “It all began for me when I...
A Century of Denial
With duct tape covering their mouths and the word “DENIAL” scrawled across in red, more than a dozen Armenian Students Association (ASA) members staged a “die-in” in Quarry Plaza. Known as Red Sunday, April 24 marks 100 years since the killing of over a million...