Santa Cruz: Beautiful, Hill-filled, and Highly Inaccessible
Walking up Cardiac Hill seems manageable — for the first ten seconds. The next ten seconds drive fatigue through tired legs. The following ten seconds strain the lungs as the heart pumps more blood throughout your body. Navigating the hills and valleys of the UC...
Support City Labor. It Affects Us Too.
UC Santa Cruz students are no strangers to strikes and unions fighting for fair pay. In backing workers, we can signal our support of our university colleagues. We’re inclined to support these strikes because they affect us as students. They’re inherently intertwined with the quality...
Not Just Acknowledging, But Protecting Our Iranian Students
“Azadi, azadi, azadi.” Freedom, freedom, freedom. These words echo through city streets across Iran. The weight of injustice and inequality rests on the shoulders of the young, the “radical,” and the revolutionaries. Zhina “Mahsa” Amini was detained by Iran’s morality police on Sept. 13 for...
UC, Pay Academic Student Workers a Living Wage Now
The University of California (UC) system receives national recognition as a beacon of higher education, diversity, and progress. The UC’s mission page proudly proclaims its “pervasive mission of discovering and advancing knowledge,” but the backbone of the countless awards and accolades proudly accepted by the...
So Much for Good Trouble
“Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” This is one of John R. Lewis’s most famous statements, a statement that UC Santa Cruz had no hesitation printing on the back of...
Remembering with Red: A Promise to Protect Indigenous Women
Content Warning: This editorial mentions gendered and sexual violence towards Indigenous women, as well as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) campaigns. A sea of red greets tourists’ eyes as red dresses are laid out on the warm sands of Waikiki Beach in...
Don’t Allow Measures and Polls to Fall Flat: Vote in the 2022 Campus Elections
The last time UC Santa Cruz held campus elections to approve campus-based fee measures in 2020, students were asked to approve funding for the campus sustainability office and permanent spaces for Slug Support, Counseling and Psychological Services, and the Cove in the new Kresge Renewal...
Healing Santa Cruz’s Polluted Waters Cannot Stop After One Beach Cleanup
Capitola and Cowell beaches are popular with Santa Cruz sunbathers, surfers, sand castle builders — and a lot of bacteria. For ten years, Cowell Beach continuously clinched top spots on environmental organization, Heal the Bay’s “Beach Bummer” charts for most polluted beaches in California. However,...
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Deserve Media Attention
There are 107 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the United States. At least 14 of them received bomb threats on Jan. 31. According to NPR, 20 received bomb threats the following day, many of these receiving threats the day prior. These bomb threats...
The COVE is by No Means Temporary
Substance abuse disorders occur in 39 percent of people between the ages of 18-25, according to the National Center for Drug Abuse. In recent CDC reports, it was recorded that from May 2020 to April 2021, 75,673 people died from drug related deaths. Places like...