Submission: Rethinking Housing and Transit – The Urgent Case Against Measure M in Santa Cruz
As students, we’ve all had personal struggles with housing in Santa Cruz, like nearly every student to come through UCSC in recent years. An overall shortage of housing units has resulted in a crisis where 9% of UCSC students have reported experiencing homelessness. We fear...
Submission: Student Union Governance Board (SUGB)’s Loop Bus Statement
To TAPS Executive Director Dan Henderson, On December 12, 2023, at approximately 8:30 PM, a late-night loop bus carrying sixpassengers crashed at the base of campus. All six people on the bus were injured, withtwo people requiring medical evacuation due to severe injuries, and the...
Stop Juristac: Indigenous Land over Construction Sand
The Amah Mutsun Tribe first encountered the Spanish in the late 1700s. Since then, they’ve been coerced into a centuries-long colonial project that has seized their native land, toppled their political sovereignty, abused their physical labor, and attempted to erase their culture. We may imagine...
A Chilling Effect: Proposed UC Regents Policy Targets Personal and Collective Expression
The UC Regents will deliberate on Jan. 25 over whether the University of California can restrict the public expression of personal or collective opinions of any departments, centers, units, or schools on official university websites. This includes websites and other official channels of communication maintained...
Santa Cruz Performing Artists and Organizations in Solidarity with the Freedom Theater of Jenin
We, the undersigned, representing a coalition of performing arts professionals and organizations in Santa Cruz, write to condemn the abductions of Mustafa Sheta, The Freedom Theatre’s general manager, Jamal Abu Joas, graduate and actor trainer, and Ahmed Tobasi, the theater’s artistic director, from inside their...
Activism Has Always Been a Part of Our History
The first UC Santa Cruz commencement in 1969 saw students throw their diplomas at UC President Clark Kerr and Chancellor Dean McHenry. Student activists disrupted the ceremony to award imprisoned Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton an Honorary Degree. It’s in this tradition of opposing...
Long Overdue: The UC Regents Must Call for a Ceasefire Now.
It has been 66 days since Israel initiated the brutal massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. With every passing second, it becomes more evident that our policymakers are neglecting the protection of civilian life. Our leaders are failing us. To the UC Regents and...
How Do You Get Into Nonfiction?
Nonfiction is hard to read. I get it — whether it be the emotional connection you form with the characters or the escape from reality afforded by a rich plot, fiction just hits different. Usually, people’s mental image of nonfiction looks like dense academic articles,...
Submission: Student Activists Make Their Voices Heard at UC Climate Leadership
Editors’ Note: Hazel Kyle is a member of the Climate Coalition. Students waved cardboard signs, chanted, and sang in unison outside the UC Santa Cruz Hay Barn doors on Oct. 19. They were gathering at a reception for UC Chancellors and the Chief Financial Officer...
Book Banning: Interfering With the Right to Education
The infamous book-burning in Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” is a nod to how citizens do not gather knowledge for themselves. Instead, they are spoon-fed it. The lack of access to information has long been a cornerstone of many dystopian universes. What happens when the distribution...