March on the Dining Hall
About 60 students and unionized workers gathered in front of the Cowell/Stevenson dining hall Feb. 1 to picket for a fair labor contract with UC administration. Demands included wages consistent with the high cost of local living and retirement benefits for unionized employees befitting their...
Kinks, Coils and The Culture
My natural hair is my favorite part of all my African American features, and it provides me the bliss I need to combat daily bigotry. “Going natural” is a way for people of African descent to reconnect with their roots and embrace their kinky hair...
Seeking Statewide Action
The UC Santa Cruz chapter of the California Public Interest Group (CALPIRG) convinced Santa Cruz City Council on Jan. 23 to adopt a resolution calling for a statewide ban on the importation of Amazonian crude oil. Santa Cruz marks the first city to support it....
Santa Cruz Enters Legal Battle with Major Oil Companies
In December 2017, Santa Cruz joined the lawsuit against 29 fossil fuel agencies over negligence of greenhouse gas emissions. The defendants — top fossil fuel companies such as Exxon, Chevron and Shell — are accused of not only knowing for over half a century of...
Transfer and First-Year Admission Changes for Fall 2018
A record number of applications flooded UC Santa Cruz’s admissions office last fall, with a 12.8 percent increase in transfer applicants. The increase in transfer applications from California community colleges was nearly double this year’s 7.1 percent increase in high school senior applications. A state...
Athletics and OPERS Merge Director Positions
For the first time in years, UC Santa Cruz filled a permanent position that oversees intercollegiate athletics teams as well as the Office of Physical Education, Recreation, and Sports (OPERS). UCSC athletics and OPERS are in a time of transition as they set out to...
Institutions Must No Longer Protect the Patriarchy
The silence is breaking across the country as sexual assault and harassment become more visible to the public. Change is on the horizon, but only if institutions develop concrete consequences for harassment and assault instead of letting perpetrators skate by. The UC system has been...
Q&A With the First American Woman to Travel to Space and UCSC Alumna
Kathryn Sullivan graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1973 with a bachelor’s degree in earth sciences, and went on to be the first American woman to walk in space. She traveled on three missions throughout her time as a staff scientist for NASA. In her...
Call It What It Is
Universities across the country are failing to accurately label violence toward Black students as hate crimes. Chennel Jazzy Rowe, a Black woman, began college at University of Hartford this fall, experienced chronic health issues and was harassed by her roommate. After a month and a...
Forum Draws Criticism of Student Housing West
About 40 UC Santa Cruz students discussed their concerns on Wednesday about the 3,000 new beds slated to be built on campus and talked about plans to get more students to weigh in about the project. The forum was organized by the Student Environmental Center...