Support DACA Emergency Fundraiser for UCSC Students
President Donald Trump upended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program last week, leaving 800,000 DACA recipients across the country facing a future of uncertainty. In the days following, 16 state attorneys general, including California’s Xavier Becerra, sued the Trump administration over its decision,…
Across the World, Across the Classroom
Delegates from Asia passionately debated China’s territorial claim of the South China Sea in Engineering Classroom 192. Next door, the General Assembly drafted a resolution on drone warfare. Across in Baskin Classroom 169, 12 figures from American history held a Crisis Committee planning session for…
A New Way to Think About Leadership
Students and staff were looking for a theory to match the work they were already doing in their SOMeCA organizations — student-run organizing in the truest sense, operating under unorthodox methods of leadership. After looking through dozens of models, the Action Research Group (ARG) found…
Past and Present SOMeCA Students Reflect
“Wherever SOMeCA alumni go, we bring a sense of openness and principle and a dedication to dialogue in the true sense of the word,” Sayo Fujioka said to all of the alumni and students in the room. “That is, we exchange ideas with an openness and looking forward to emerging change in a different direction, and that’s rare, and we all do it wherever we go.”