Through Our Lens: Friends in Low Places
If you are like me, you were drawn to Santa Cruz by the seemingly endless nature. But with an increasingly full schedule, my impromptu nature excursions have become less and less frequent. Trips to the tide pool have been the perfect solution. I can only…
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…
Dr. Darrick Smith on the Path of Higher Education: Stay and Stray
“Once you graduate from here and leave, you realize that there are so many things that you thought were so important here, that are actually not that important at all,” Dr. Darrick Smith said to a packed crowd of UC Santa Cruz student leaders. It’s…
A Clamtastic Culinary Competition: The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk’s 42nd Annual Clam Chowder Cook-off
What’s the secret to the best bowl of clam chowder? Ask any chef at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk 42nd Annual Clam Chowder Cook-off and you’ll get a laugh, maybe a knowing smile — but no answer. Celery, perhaps. Onions and potatoes, obvious staples. Bacon…
Concerns Rise Over Potential UCSC-Cabrillo Joint Housing Complex
Housing is housing. Even if it’s halfway across the county, right? In a Jan. 17 vote, the Cabrillo Governing Board voted to approve the final draft of a proposed housing complex with 271 units that could house 624 students. The catch is that it would…
Delayed Construction Projects Impact Student Life
Aditi Karadakal is a third-year student living at Oakes College. For Karadakal, there are many parts of Oakes that she loves — the people, the lower lawn, and the cabin-style buildings. However, like many students on the west side of campus, she is often hungry. …
UAW Strike Underway
The first days of the largest strike in the history of higher education are over. The strike was authorized with 98 percent approval from UC graduate students and academic student workers on Nov. 3. The UC-wide strike is in response to unethical labor practices enacted…
Celebrating 30 Years of the Newly Renamed Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
From young children clinging on to their parents’ arms to elders who once stood in solidarity with farm workers during the Delano Grape Strike, a multitude of guests began trickling into the Historic Cowell Hay Barn on Oct. 20 at 5 p.m. People of all…
From City Council to County Board, Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson and Justin Cummings race for District 3
After working together on Santa Cruz City Council for two years, Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson and Justin Cummings know each other well. This midterm election season has the two city representatives facing each other for a county supervisor seat. Only 500 votes separated the two candidates in…
Midterm Measures: California’s Contentious Ballot Proposals
Proposition 1 Prop 1 would amend the Constitution of California to forbid any future laws blocking the existing right to reproductive freedom, including the right to an abortion. Voters in Vermont face a similar measure, while Kansas voters already rejected a measure that would have…