Unsheltered
At about 5 a.m. on an October morning, two houseless people were tucked away beneath the arch of a Pacific Avenue doorway. Red and blue lights brought an end to their rest as a police vehicle came to a stop before them. The emerging officer...
Kresge’s New Look Ready for Review
Kresge College, shadowed by redwoods and most accessible by pedestrian bridge, is slated for renovation in fall of 2021. What many remember as an isolated hillside town will adapt to a bustling pedestrian highway once the project is finished. The Kresge Renovation Project released its...
Weakened Housing Guarantees Impact EOP and Transfer Students
As California spirals deeper into a housing crisis, students feel the pressure. At UC Santa Cruz, reduced housing guarantees and increasing admissions mean on-campus housing is becoming scarce. In 2017, UCSC decreased housing guarantees for Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) and transfer students because of increased...
Renters and Landlords Clash at City Council Meeting
A tense crowd of about 114 people filled Santa Cruz City Hall to capacity, with about 100 people looking on from outside, during the Nov. 27 City Council meeting intended to discuss potential amendments to the Relocation Assistance For Displaced Tenants Ordinance. The meeting surged on...
Student Activists Halt Chancellor Search Committee Meeting
Surrounded by student activists pressing forward, third-year Jared Semana was at the front of the police line when UC Santa Cruz police officer Robert Locke-Paddon pushed his forearm against Semana’s neck, a move which caused Semana to believe he was losing consciousness. “Even though he...
Moving Forward from Budget Mismanagement
Reconvening at the Cervantes and Velasquez room above Quarry Plaza, Student Union Assembly (SUA) officials and UC Santa Cruz ethnic organization representatives met at SUA’s general meeting for the third week in a row. Two weeks after four of the Big Five ethnic organizations confronted...
Lay Down Our Arms
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 2018, the Santa Cruz clock tower tolled to mark 100 years since the end of World War I, known as Armistice Day. Timing his strikes with the tower’s, Vietnam War veteran and...
Basic Needs Cafe Opens
About 48 percent of UC undergraduates experience food insecurity, according to a 2016 UC-wide study. In an effort to combat food insecurity at UC Santa Cruz, food systems and dining leaders announced in May that the long-standing Cowell Coffee Shop would be transformed into Cowell...
UAW Local 2865 Holds Hearing for its Executive Board
After a union vote that snubbed the top priorities of 95 percent of union workers and suppressed dissenting votes, the validity of the student-worker contract is under question by a team of the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2865’s own members. Forty-nine members of UAW,...
Vice Provost Hosts Second Cafe for Strategic Academic Plan
Vice Provost Herbie Lee hosted the second SAP informational pop-up, or “Cafe SAP,” from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. in the Jack Baskin Engineering courtyard on Nov. 14. This cafe focused on increasing circulation of UCSC’s achievements as an institution, in order to draw more attention...