Empowering the Next Generation for Higher Education
Story by Daniela Gonzalez and Hannah Ross Kimberly Balmorez, now in her fourth year, knew she wanted to attend UC Santa Cruz when she visited campus in 2014 for Student-Initiated Outreach (SIO) weekend. “It was the first time I was surrounded by a large amount...
Emotional Experiences of Black Men
Through community engagement and an emphasis on vulnerability, The Confess Project, an agency focused on education and awareness of mental health, and its CEO Lorenzo Lewis promote the importance of an unspoken taboo in communities of color — mental health. Lewis worked as a behavioral...
12th Annual Birth of Word Festival
The 12th annual Birth of Word festival brought together a collection of dancers, poets and performers who expressed the importance of self-care, treating others with love and using art as healing. Featured performer and professional poet Venus Jones stressed the important role art has in...
Harm Reduction Coalition Comes to Santa Cruz
Denise Elerick stood in the benchlands, a former home for many houseless individuals. A candle’s flame illuminated the memorial of someone from the benchlands who had recently overdosed. “Someone in the group was suffering in their grief. They wanted Narcan. They didn’t know that the...
From Cowell Coffee Shop to Food Pantry
The Cowell Coffee Shop, which opened in 1985, will cease its cafe operations and be reopened as a basic needs hub with a food pantry and cooking workshops as early as fall 2018. Part of the process of designing the basic needs hub involved two...
Santa Cruz High School Students in Solidarity with Parkland
Photo by Calyse Tobias Santa Cruz High School students filed out of classrooms and down the front steps of the school at about 10 a.m. on March 14, the one month anniversary of the Parkland, Florida school shooting that left 14 students and three staff...
ICE Sweeps Northern Calif., Arresting Over 150
Over 150 people suspected of being in violation of immigration laws were arrested by federal agents across Northern California since Sunday, including the Bay Area, according to a Tuesday news release from U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). About half of those arrested have criminal...
Supreme Court Rules Trump Must Follow Standard Court Proceedings in DACA Case
The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s request to bypass the U.S. Courts of Appeals on Feb. 26, which would have sped up the administration’s attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This decision will keep DACA going for an unknown...
SUA Hosts Q&A with Chancellor Blumenthal, EVC Tromp
For the first time in three years, Chancellor George Blumenthal attended a Student Union Assembly (SUA) meeting the night of Feb. 20 along with Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Marlene Tromp. This is the first of a potentially quarterly event going forward, Blumenthal said....
Bilingual Education at a Crossroads
Before most of us even entered the K-12 classroom, a battle was fought and lost for bilingual education. In elementary school, we all either watched our friends leave the classroom for English as a second language (ESL) classes or we participated in the programs ourselves....