UC Davis Attempts to Scrub Record, Gets Hands Dirty
It’s not how Kamran Loghman intended his product to be used. Twenty one UC Davis students and alumni sat in a circle on the cement, while two UCDPD officers dressed in riot gear sprayed a stream of an orange chemical agent into their faces —...
Anti-Semitism Has ‘No Place’ on UC Campuses, Anti-Zionism Has No Place in Intolerance Statement
There’s no denying anti-Semitism occurs on UC campuses. Within the last year, swastikas were spray-painted on a Jewish fraternity house at UC Davis, a Jewish student was questioned about how she could remain unbiased on a judicial panel because of her religion at UCLA and...
Don’t Stall SCOTUS
Just when you thought the US political landscape couldn’t get any more complicated, the Supreme Court is facing a likely impasse for its 2016 term. With a newly vacant seat on the bench, upcoming decisions are more likely to result in a 4-4 deadlock and...
Swiping Left on STIs
Tinder executives didn’t swipe right on billboards outside their office last fall. They didn’t “super like” the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s (AHF) campaign, depicting two silhouetted couples — Tinder facing chlamydia, and Grindr nose to nose with gonorrhea. “FreeSTDcheck.org” lay boldly scrawled next to...
Table for One, Please!
Sometimes, self-care can be as simple as three words — “treat. yo’. self.” Tom Haverford, Aziz Ansari’s character, says this on “Parks and Recreation,” and this week I put his words into practice. “Self-care” is an umbrella term for intentional actions used to promote one’s...
The Bundy Militia: A Tale of White Privilege
Only through white privilege can a group of militants cross state lines and take over federal property without facing any physical resistance or being dubbed domestic terrorists. It’s a matter of white entitlement, furthermore, that such militants can possibly expect to avoid accountability for their...
No More Shaming — Period.
Period. Females have had one since the dawn of time, yet this word wasn’t said publicly — in the context of a uterus — until a 1985 Tampax ad. The advertisers who encouraged Courtney Cox to say “period” were congratulated for their then-progressive diction and...
Broadening Our Lens
As students at the University of California, one of the world’s leaders in public research, we can agree that scientific research has value. The UC is renowned for its work in many fields, and its discoveries in astronomy have been especially influential due to the...
‘Hateful Eight’ trivializes violence, sexism and racism
Quentin Tarantino is one of the most respected directors of our time. He boasts an impressive knowledge of film-history and much of the auteur’s works are heralded as modern classics. Yet, as adept as Tarantino is at subverting conventions of plot and telling engaging, complex...
Movement needs support, direction — not cynicism
If various UCSC-related Facebook pages, The Santa Cruz Sentinel’s recent editorial (“UC highway protest: How not to cultivate solidarity” on March 3) and the publication’s comments section are representative of the public reaction to the six undergraduates who formed a blockade on Highway 17, then...