The Legacy of the Tabby Cat: Santa Cruz Says Goodbye to Cafe and Organizing Space
On May 21, customers lined up at the Tabby Cat Cafe for its final day of operation. Changes are brewing as it prepares for new ownership.
150th Sparks Celebration
The savory aroma of Paradise Dogs, a hot dog booth on Main Beach, wafted through the air, mixing with the sounds of local funk music and conversation. Throughout the day of Oct. 1, thousands of community members stood on the makeshift stage located next to...
Eaten to a Pulp
Between the chrome tinsel, black fur frames, fifty-six cherries hanging from the wall and red satin draped over a small parlor table and chair, everything in the exhibit was eye-catching. And that was not even part of her photography. In a 200 square-foot space, UC...
White Supremacy Package Reported
White supremacy packages were reported on campus — at Merrill College, College Nine/Ten, McHenry library and the KZSC radio station — as well as throughout the city of Santa Cruz on Sept. 28 and 29. “What we are trying to understand is the purpose behind...
Kresge Hate Crime Allegation Dropped
Former UC Santa Cruz student, Brandon Beaton, was accused of being involved in an alleged hate crime at Kresge College in February 2015. Though Beaton was found guilty on three counts — assault causing great bodily injury, battery and resisting arrest — all other charges...
Status Over Survivor
*Trigger warning: this editorial contains references to sexual harassment. When he rubbed her neck, she felt uncomfortable. When he squeezed her, she froze with shock. When he grabbed her hands and placed them on his hips and kissed her, she cried in a bathroom stall...
‘Santa Cruz for Bernie’ on the Ballot
Just a few months ago, the small county of Santa Cruz generated a surprisingly large number. Fifty-nine percent of those who turned out in the California Democratic primary voted for Sen. Sanders, one of the largest margins in the state. Despite Sanders’ failure to win...
Repaying the Impossible Debt
My Mother, the Care-Taker My 90-year-old abuelita’s cataracts gleam under the florescent kitchen light as she watches my mother, her caretaker, pour her a warm cup of milk. My mom has just finished her eight-hour shift at Keiro Nursing Home in Lincoln Heights, California, but...
Rethinking the Trailer Park
As trailers have been towed out of UC Santa Cruz’s trailer park, it has left empty gaps in an anxious community. One student thumbed through a binder of camper park history pointing to a list of over 100 names. “The history of this park is...
Black Lives Are YOUR Future
Now that I am entering my senior year at UC Santa Cruz, I have learned firsthand how to navigate the predominantly white institution through the “veil.” The “veil” is a metaphor coined by Dr. W.E.B. DuBois in his novel “The Souls of Black Folk”, which describes how a Black person...