Santa Cruz: Beautiful, Hill-filled, and Highly Inaccessible
Walking up Cardiac Hill seems manageable — for the first ten seconds. The next ten seconds drive fatigue through tired legs. The following ten seconds strain the lungs as the heart pumps more blood throughout your body. Navigating the hills and valleys of the UC...
Back in Print Two Years Later: What the Return of Campus Publications Means to Me
On Wednesdays, we’d watch the sunset from the Press Center patio, scarf down takeout from Tam’s, and gather around our desktops as newspaper pages were laid out by Ella Apuntar, our then-production manager (and to me, an absolute wizard). I joined City on a Hill...
36 Hours in Santa Cruz: Things to Do and See
As a Bay Area kid, I grew up going on frequent trips to Santa Cruz, from Boardwalk outings with my parents to annual trips with my high school’s marching band to compete in the Santa Cruz Band Review. The city became imbued with wonder and...
Support City Labor. It Affects Us Too.
UC Santa Cruz students are no strangers to strikes and unions fighting for fair pay. In backing workers, we can signal our support of our university colleagues. We’re inclined to support these strikes because they affect us as students. They’re inherently intertwined with the quality...
Not Just Acknowledging, But Protecting Our Iranian Students
“Azadi, azadi, azadi.” Freedom, freedom, freedom. These words echo through city streets across Iran. The weight of injustice and inequality rests on the shoulders of the young, the “radical,” and the revolutionaries. Zhina “Mahsa” Amini was detained by Iran’s morality police on Sept. 13 for...
UC, Pay Academic Student Workers a Living Wage Now
The University of California (UC) system receives national recognition as a beacon of higher education, diversity, and progress. The UC’s mission page proudly proclaims its “pervasive mission of discovering and advancing knowledge,” but the backbone of the countless awards and accolades proudly accepted by the...
The Californian Privilege in Abortion Access and Proposition 1
Every woman in my life, including myself, has had a pregnancy scare. What felt like cramping, never-ending nausea, and dread in the pit of my stomach are all symptoms of a period and of pregnancy. Their uncanny similarity only added to my stress, causing me...
So Much for Good Trouble
“Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” This is one of John R. Lewis’s most famous statements, a statement that UC Santa Cruz had no hesitation printing on the back of...
Remembering with Red: A Promise to Protect Indigenous Women
Content Warning: This editorial mentions gendered and sexual violence towards Indigenous women, as well as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) campaigns. A sea of red greets tourists’ eyes as red dresses are laid out on the warm sands of Waikiki Beach in...
Don’t Allow Measures and Polls to Fall Flat: Vote in the 2022 Campus Elections
The last time UC Santa Cruz held campus elections to approve campus-based fee measures in 2020, students were asked to approve funding for the campus sustainability office and permanent spaces for Slug Support, Counseling and Psychological Services, and the Cove in the new Kresge Renewal...