When Anxiety Meets Apathy
Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) throughout the UC system are not equipped to meet the mental health needs of students, and the UC itself is to blame. Three in five students nationwide are burdened by anxiety, and around one in four students report it severely...
Spirit of the Game
A special mixture of adrenaline, pride and nausea. This is my reward at the end of a three-hour ultimate Frisbee practice. The UC Santa Cruz women’s ultimate team, Sol, possesses a free-spirited culture unlike any other sport I’ve played and teaches me how to be...
Forgotten Voices
The rise of the #MeToo movement has amplified the voices of the historically silenced. It has seized the microphone from the powerful and passed it to the previously powerless, providing a long-overdue platform for survivors of sexual abuse. One critical voice, however, is still inaudible:...
Bitter and Frustrated: A Retrospective of Pop Music in 2017
With political and social tensions increasing in the U.S., disturbance from this broken climate consumed American pop music in 2017. Artists responded to a frustratingly chaotic year with more down-tuned, grim and drained music — an appropriate companion to the multitude of global problems. 2017’s...
Hey Congress! People Aren’t Pawns
As the three-day government shutdown comes to an end, relief washes over the Trump administration and Senate members — but hundreds of thousands of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients are yet again put on the backburner. At midnight on Jan. 19, government operations...
Grammys: Still So White?
Last year’s Grammys left people so astounded that Adele’s “25” took album of the year over Beyoncé’s “Lemonade,” even Adele cracked her Grammy in half. “Lemonade,” a 12-track reclamation about being a Black woman in the American South, became the third best-selling album worldwide in...
W is for White Privilege
California’s legalization of marijuana, which took effect on Jan. 1, allowed thousands to rush to the nearest dispensary to pick up an eighth. What it did not do is offer adequate recompense for the countless Black and Brown people who were arrested, are serving, have...
Segregation in Education
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled public school segregation unconstitutional through the historic Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954, igniting a hard fought and unfinished battle toward national school desegregation. These steps taken toward social and educational equity are not shown in the classrooms...
California Must Support Students’ Reproductive Health
Should a UC Santa Cruz student need to obtain an abortion, they must schedule an appointment in between classes and work, and take the bus — which over two-thirds of students are limited to — to and from their appointment downtown. While Santa Cruz Planned...
Sorry, But You Can’t Be Woke and Go to Coachella
Coachella is the Woodstock of our generation. Advertised as a hub for peace and good vibes, in its most recent years it has drawn in upward of $700 million and crowds of over 70,000 people in per-day attendance. Unbeknownst to most festival attendees, money from...