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Building Community: Mutual Aid Funds in Santa Cruz County
Volunteer run mutual aid funds have been making waves throughout the country since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more about what mutual aid funds in Santa Cruz are doing to build community amid COVID and the CZU lightning fires.
Virtual and Viable: UCSC Student Organizations
How do you harmonize over Zoom? What happens when the dance floor is your bedroom floor? Incoming freshmen and returning students typically look forward to getting to join campus organizations, but due to the pandemic, student organizations won’t be meeting in person. City on a...
Food Not Bombs: Forty Years of Free Meals
Food Not Bombs began in Boston. There, forty years ago, Keith McHenry and seven of his friends donned military uniforms and held a bake sale in front of the local nuclear power plant’s headquarters. They told passersby that they were going to use the proceeds...
SOAR Spotlight on Student Leaders
SOAR is home to over 100 organizations categorized into Academic, Cultural and Identity, Environmental and Sustainability, General Interest, Greek Letter, Performing/Visual Arts, Political and Advocacy, Professional, Religious and Spiritual, and Service. Starting college is intimidating, but there are many community spaces available for incoming students...
Bangers and Bops: Summer 2020 Edition
New school year, new music. If your playlists are starting to grow stale, look no further for a new music injection, courtesy of CHP’s fall staff. View the playlist on Spotify here. If you’re looking for more music reccommendations, follow @cityonahillpress on Spotify, or check...