From Pens to Picket Signs: Hollywood Writers Fight for Industry’s Future
“Pay your writers, pay your writers!” Students’ chants echoed through the venue as Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav delivered a commencement address to Boston University’s class of 2023 on May 21. Though the logos of Disney, Netflix, or Warner Bros. are stamped on our...
Anti-Trans Hysteria is Jeopardizing Our Youth: Let’s Fight Against It
On April 4, Idaho Governor Brad Little signed legislation that classifies the provision of gender-affirming care to minors in Idaho as a felony. On April 5, Indiana Governor Eric J. Holcomb signed legislation, effective July 1, which will prohibit doctors from performing gender reassignment surgery...
No, But Seriously, Go Vote!
Once a year, UC Santa Cruz students have the full attention of the university. From May 15 to May 22, the campus elections can demand concessions from the university — but only if we break historical patterns of low voter turnout. In 2022, the total...
Existential Crisis in the Dining Hall
“I’m just saying! ‘New Tea, New Me. Numi.’ It’s got rhymes, alliteration, and word play. I’d buy it just for that slogan.” This ingenious conversation is just one snippet of the many memories I have from my freshman year of college, seated with my friends...
#StopCopCity and Help Protect Weelaunee Forest
They say all the trees in a forest speak to one another. Root to root, a connection is made beyond each individual tree and between forests. The roots of the old-growth trees that touch us also connect to the roots of the trees in the...
Price Gouging of COVID Vaccines Prioritizes Corporate Greed over Public Health
Capitalist greed strikes again. As both President Biden and Governor Newsom plan to end their respective state of emergencies for the COVID-19 pandemic on May 11 and Feb. 28, Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will nearly quadruple in cost as the shots transition to the commercial...
If It Feels Good, Wear It
I work at a not-so-conventional boutique in downtown Santa Cruz. Walk in, and you’ll find paper-white walls, a speckled tan linoleum? floor, and black metal racks filled with clothes curated from Oakland to Uruguay. It would be boring, if not for the bright clothing and...
Love: What We’ve Got to Do With It
An orange sea washed over the steps of the California State Capitol. Students several years my junior, adorned in orange shirts, glasses, and hats, held up handmade signs as they rallied for proper relationship health education. This “Orange Day of Action,” named after the signature...
University, Pay Us More Than Fifteen-Fifty
Santa Cruz’s current minimum wage is $15.50. That’s $11.94 short of the minimum amount needed to cover living expenses for a resident of the country’s second most expensive place to live. Although California’s minimum wage was raised 50 cents to $15.50 as of Jan. 21,...
How Do We Learn Past the Letter?
At UC Santa Cruz, grades matter — but the process doesn’t. Universities seek to inspire change and educate the bright minds of the future by challenging young people to think critically. UCSC was founded with that mission in mind, offering a unique grade-less pedagogy. Students...