Submission: SUA President Statement in Response to Resignation Letter
By Tias Webster, Student Union Assembly President When originally asked to respond to the letter written by Jay Semana, I refused, saying that all students have the right to develop and publicize their own opinion, and that I would be happy to meet with anyone...
Submission: Resignation Letter From SUA Representative
By Jay M. Semana The purpose of the Student Union Assembly (SUA) is to promote student activism and civic engagement among the undergraduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Unfortunately, the SUA presently stands as a bloated, bureaucratic structure that is not conducive...
Submission: Afrikan Black Student Alliance Demands
Note: A/BSA has postponed demanding for numbers 1 and 6 in their reclamation of Clark Kerr Hall. The intend to reintroduce and demand them at a later date. By Afrikan Black Student Alliance (A/BSA) To Chancellor Blumenthal and any other involved party, The Afrikan Black Caribbean...
Submission: An Open Letter to Chancellor Blumenthal and Acting EVC Lee
Thank you for the letter from interim campus provost’s office titled “Sexual assault and harassment on campus” which certainly goes further than Chancellor Blumenthal’s earlier letter. The chancellor’s letter to the campus community said in short, “We are changing the culture around campus sexual...
Letter to the Editor
Dear CHP Editors, The Brand New Council is a rump group of 60 Bernie supporters out of the thousands who voted for Bernie in Santa Cruz. This group, which met after Hillary won the Democratic nomination, and most of us Bernistas — including Bernie himself...
Letter to the Editors: Administration Has Lost Its Way
What can the administration of UCSC possibly be thinking with the decision to eliminate athletics? Equally horrifying is putting the cost burden on the backs of students. They’re not thinking, and that’s the problem. This is an administration that’s lost its way… Athletic Director Mark...
Letter to the Editor: Support Student-Governed Spaces
Video by Banana Slug News and City on a Hill Press Dear editors, UC Santa Cruz is expected to take 300 additional students this upcoming fall. We have seen the impact of the increase of enrollment this year; CAPS, LSS and other services that help...
Open Letter from the Inter-Greek Council and Panhellenic Council
The Inter-Greek Council and Panhellenic Councils at UC Santa Cruz, representing 26 Greek letter organizations, are shocked and saddened to see the news about the arrest of six UCSC students affiliated with two Greek letter organizations. The Greek letter organizations at UCSC and their governing...
Letter to the Editors: UCSC’s Meatless Monday
Have you ever had a “Healthy Monday” meal at a dining hall on campus? If your answer is yes, then you’ve participated in UCSC’s version of a Meatless Monday program. The Meatless Monday movement—which is as self-explanatory as it sounds—prompts all of us to consider...
Letter to the Editors: ‘Horrors of Humane’ Response
I appreciated the recent piece “Horrors of ‘Humane’” (Sarah McLaughlin, November 1), bringing to light the truth behind meat, dairy and egg labeling, which is so often misleading. As Sarah covered, there is a lot of mystery behind ‘big ag’, a lot that is shrouded...