University Holds Hearing for Balakrishnan Case
Content warning: This article contains references to sexual assault. Survivor Anneliese Harlander strode into a hearing before the Academic Senate Committee on Privilege and Tenure, her lawyer beside her, to testify against UC Santa Cruz professor Gopal Balakrishnan. On Tuesday morning, before entering the UCSC...
Blumenthal and Tromp’s Final Student Media Chancellor Q&A
City on a Hill Press (CHP) interviewed Chancellor George Blumenthal and Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor (CP/EVC) Marlene Tromp in the administrators’ last press conference with Student Media in their current roles at UC Santa Cruz. Stevenson and Cowell Asbestos Contamination A few days...
2019 Campus Election Guide
It’s time for campus elections, and this year’s ballot includes four different measures that could potentially mean huge changes for campus. Here’s a look into what’s on the ballot and how this election cycle can affect students. WHAT IS SUA? The Student Union Assembly (SUA)...
BSU Protests Police Violence
Student protesters carrying a “Black Lives Matter!” banner led booming chants of defiance through lecture halls, dining halls and libraries last Thursday. About 100 members and allies of the Afrikan/Black/Caribbean community at UC Santa Cruz gathered in Quarry Plaza at noon on May 2 to...
Sprinkler Floods Casa 2
All residents of Stevenson College Casa 2 had to find a last-minute place to spend the night on Sunday. Students evacuated the building and gathered out front, where they met firefighters, campus security officers and a resident advisor. The firefighters barred students from entering the...
Student Housing West Faces Two Lawsuits
Following nearly two years of debate, a pair of local environmental groups are suing UC Santa Cruz over the approval of Student Housing West. The two complaints, filed April 24 and 25 by local conservation groups Habitat and Watershed Caretakers (HAWC) and the East Meadow...
A Guide to the SUA Constitutional Amendment Proposal
It’s no secret that the Student Union Assembly (SUA) at UC Santa Cruz has been fraught with conflict and controversy in recent memory. Five years ago, the Assembly held the largest concert in UCSC history, which put the organization in a $37,000 deficit that took...
Porter Celebrates 50 Years
Porter College celebrated its 50th anniversary the only way it could — artfully. Rock music filled the air as students and alumni mingled around food booths and craft stations, reminiscing on the last 50 years of Porter life. Since its inception, the college has inspired...
‘Fail Fest’ Challenges Notion of Failure
“People like you never make it.” A community college professor once said those words to Black student Brittany Young. Ten years later, Young is a doctoral candidate in psychology at UC Santa Cruz. The words that now echo in her mind are from a different...
Community Studies Program Protests for Recognition
Protestors echoed a resounding sentiment to bring back the comunity studies department. Community studies affiliates — students, alumni and lecturers — gathered at the base of campus at 10 a.m. on April 27 to demand reinstatement as a department. In 2010, the Academic Senate, under...