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...
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...
A Call for #DoublingThePell
The UC system has struggled for the past several decades to provide adequate financial aid to students in the wake of continuously rising tuition and cost of living. In order to stop the pattern of underserving low-income students, it is vital that we double the...
I Am Not Your Professor
Lecturers teach a third of the credit hours at UC Santa Cruz, but we are chronically disrespected by UC, with devastating effects for undergraduate education. That’s why we are ready to strike. When my students call me “professor,” I feel like an imposter. See, I’m...
Submission: Law Enforcement Actions That Harm Rather Than Heal
On Jan. 6, we all witnessed a horrific event unfold on the news. Thousands of people who “disagreed” with the election results marched to the Capitol with violent intent. Armed with zip ties, nooses, metal batons, firearms, and stun guns, they pushed past the “thin...
UC Labor Unions are Fighting for Housing Rights During Global Pandemic
As unions representing low-wage workers at the University of California, many of our members faced housing vulnerability before the pandemic. Now, with COVID-19, housing insecurity is an even scarier reality. The shelter-in-place order will not keep us safe if we cannot stay housed. And to...
An Open Letter to the UCSC Administration
I write this letter as an individual faculty member who has been at UC Santa Cruz since 1990. I am not representing any faculty group, department or Academic Senate Committee. It is my own assessment after 30 years at this university. I attended the Academic...
Students Led the Way to Divestment
Submission by Fossil Free UCSC After six years of student organizing, meetings, sit-ins, calls, letters, emails, direct action, political education on climate justice, academic senate votes on all 10 UC campuses and nonstop efforts from fossil free’ers, the UC has committed to divesting from fossil...
Students Led the Way to Divestment
After six years of student organizing, meetings, sit-ins, calls, letters, emails, direct action, political education on climate justice, academic senate votes on all 10 UC campuses and nonstop efforts from fossil free’ers, the UC has committed to divesting from fossil fuels. “We believe hanging on...