SUBMISSION: When does CAPS do more harm than good?
By Grace Shefcik, current UCSC senior and this year’s Vice President of Internal Affairs of the SUA. She began working with CAPS over the summer in hopes to share concerns about their programs and services, specifically as they relate to cultural competency. To learn more or get involved,...
Submission: Letter from the Graduate Student Association
May 11, 2017 To whom it may concern: We, of the UCSC Graduate Student Association Executive Board, write to express our deep concerns over the email thread “Graffiti and Leaflets” initiated by faculty members in theLiterature Department on Sunday, May 7th. While this email thread...
Submission: Letter from UCSC Jewish Studies Faculty
To the Editor, As students of the history of anti-Semitism, members of the UC-Santa Cruz community who are opposed to all forms of racism and discrimination, and Jews ourselves, we were greatly distressed to read in The Santa Cruz Sentinel on May 4, that some of the participants in the recent Afrikan Black...
Submission: Massive Library Consolidation Without Consultation
By Professor Emeritus Michael Nauenberg, UCSC Physics In your article entitled “Library Purges Print Collection” in the April 21 issue of City On A Hill Press, the interim Executive Vice Chancellor, Herbie Lee, is quoted as saying that “there definitely was an attempt by the library...
Submission: Letter from Merrill Student Government Chair
By Kimberly Runyan, Merrill Student Government Chair As a college birthed from student activism, we cannot allow the words of Jay Semana to be silenced nor forgotten. Merrill Student Government stands with Semana as his actions opened up an essential conversation to reform the Student...
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...