Upcoming 24th Annual Motivation Conference
For many disadvantaged communities, access to platforms of higher education and the confidence to apply is not attainable, but the Motivation Conference aims to mitigate this disparity. The Asian Pacific Islander Student Alliance (APISA), a student organization that emphasizes unity and empowerment through awareness of...
3,000 Beds with an Environmental Price Tag
At over 1,100 pages, the length and language of the Student Housing West (SHW) draft environmental impact report (EIR) may be daunting, but it also holds details of a project that could drastically change the UC Santa Cruz campus. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)...
New Bill Would Limit Police Firearm Use
This article has been updated since the original publishing date to include the perspective of the Santa Cruz Police Department and the bill’s text. In response to the Sacramento police shooting of Stephon Clark — a 22-year-old unarmed Black man — California legislators proposed a...
Let Our People Go: Conditions of Confinement
Noisemakers rattled and bullhorns flared as 200 people marched on April 8 toward West County Detention Facility in Richmond, an operating facility of Northern California’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention Center. Individuals of all ages and faiths stand alongside one another holding signs that...
UC Lobby Group Takes on Sacramento to Fight Tuition Hikes
The UC’s first proposed in-state tuition increase in six years is receiving pushback from newly founded student lobby group University of California Advocacy Network (UCAN), which is stepping up in Sacramento for an additional $140 million in annual state funding for the UC. UCAN is...
African American Themed Housing to Expand by Next Year
In response to institutionalized racial discrimination and marginalization Afrikan, Black and Caribbean (ABC) students face at UC Santa Cruz, UCSC’s Black Student Union (BSU) organized a town hall with eight top UCSC administrators to make sure they will and are addressing themes of housing, culturally...
From Cowell Coffee Shop to Food Pantry
The Cowell Coffee Shop, which opened in 1985, will cease its cafe operations and be reopened as a basic needs hub with a food pantry and cooking workshops as early as fall 2018. Part of the process of designing the basic needs hub involved two...
UCOP Declares Major Withdrawal from Fossil Fuels
The UC Office of the President (UCOP) has committed to reallocating $500 million from its fossil fuel assets to other areas in its portfolio. Decided by UC Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Jagdeep Singh Bachher on March 13, the announcement was made public last week —...
Students Seek More than Emails Regarding Strategic Academic Planning
Concerned about campus transparency and low undergraduate response numbers to a campus survey about the Strategic Academic Planning (SAP) initiative, five major ethnic organizations created a student survey to learn if and how students are learning about the SAP process. UC Santa Cruz’s SAP initiative...
Muslim Student Association Successfully Advocates for Halal Options in Dining Halls
UC Santa Cruz recently became one of the only UCs to offer consistent halal options in all dining halls. This change, in effect since January 2018, is the result of three years of conversation between the Muslim Student Association (MSA) and UCSC Dining. The majority...