The ABCs of Empowerment
A is for Angela Davis, B is for Billie Jean King, C is for Carol Burnett, D is for Dolores Huerta, and X is “for the women we haven’t heard about yet, and the women whose stories we will never read.” “Rad American Women A-Z:...
Sharing the Weight
Hands reached up to collectively carry a mattress, each person equally bearing the burden. “The mattress represents the weight those who survive sexual violence on college campuses are forced to bear and live with in their daily lives — the weight that they carry,” said...
The Sounds of Social Justice
The fusion of percussion and vocals by Los Angeles band La Chamba produced an upbeat vibe throughout the ninth annual HOPE International Music Festival. Amid busy food stalls, students swayed their hips to the music or crouched on the pavement with rainbow-colored chalk in their...
A New Way to Think About Leadership
Students and staff were looking for a theory to match the work they were already doing in their SOMeCA organizations — student-run organizing in the truest sense, operating under unorthodox methods of leadership. After looking through dozens of models, the Action Research Group (ARG) found...
Anzaldúan Thought Transcends Borderlands
“I knew Gloria Anzaldúa very well, I miss her, I miss her presence in the world,” said UC Santa Cruz feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker, as she took the podium to commence the two-day conference on the work of poet, philosopher and critical scholar Gloria...
An Obscured World of Punishment
Why do we know so little about mass incarceration? What psychological damage is developed in prison as a result of living in confinement? How can we respond to crime in an appropriate, humane way? These were questions asked and discussed by UC Santa Cruz psychology...
Thousands Gather for Festival of Colors
Nearly 4,000 friends and strangers danced, sang and celebrated the coming of spring amid an explosion of color at UC Santa Cruz’s second annual Holi Festival last Friday. Holi is an annual celebration of love, renewed relationships and the triumph of good over evil. Although...
Jupiter — the Missing Piece in a Galactic Puzzle
In the early stages of our solar system, Jupiter may have swept through the initial debris destroying the first generation of inner planets before retreating into its current orbit. Had it not been for Jupiter, Earth would not exist. UC Santa Cruz astronomy and professor...
‘Highway Six’ Set to Appear in Court April 30
The six students who were arrested for blocking traffic on Highway 17 on March 3 and suspended from UC Santa Cruz until September 2016 appeared before Santa Cruz Superior Court Judge Denine Guy for about 10 minutes on Wednesday. Restitution was set at $19,000, and...
In Memoriam: Jenna Rose Fiorello
UC Santa Cruz first-year Jenna Rose Fiorello, remembered for her passion for nature and the great outdoors, died last Tuesday in a car accident in the Big Sur region off of Highway 1. She was 19. Fiorello was driving back to Santa Cruz from a...