Obstacles of an Undocumented Life
*Names have been changed to protect identity. Until Maria* was 11 years old, the only memories she had of her parents were from photos, phone calls and the remittance checks they sent from the United States to her and other family members in El Salvador....
UCSC Students Arrested for Drug Trafficking Charges
Six UC Santa Cruz students were arrested on March 4 for drug trafficking charges, including conspiracy and possession of a controlled substance for sale, according to a press release from the Santa Cruz Police Department (SCPD). Mariah Dremel (21), Benny Liu (21), Cesar Casil (21),...
Women’s Basketball Makes History
For the first time in school history, UC Santa Cruz women’s basketball qualified for the NCAA Division III championship. This will be the only time a UCSC basketball team, men’s or women’s, have appeared in the tournament. The Slugs earned an automatic NCAA tournament bid...
#DoUCmyStudentDebt
What started as a few students setting up a table in Quarry Plaza turned into a powerful speak out and march through campus and into lecture halls. The protesters interrupted classes with collective shouts of “Out of the classroom and into the streets — no...
A Paak’d Show Starts ‘Pop-Up Series’
Before Anderson .Paak’s performance in Quarry Plaza began Saturday night, lead intern for the dean of students Lily Haile called for the crowd of about 250 UC Santa Cruz students to pause. “Before we start the performance we would like to have a moment of...
Anita Hill Speaks of Equality and ‘The Change That We Need’
A roaring round of applause welcomed to the podium the attorney and professor who put the issue of sexual harassment on the national agenda. Students, staff and community members lined up hours before Anita Hill’s lecture — “Speaking Truth to Power: Gender and Racial Equality”...
TA Struggles Continue with Student Overpopulation
Michelle Glowa, UC Santa Cruz teaching assistant (TA) and president of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2865, has been the only TA in a class of 300 students. It is these conditions that she said constitute “a horrible work environment.” “I could give very little...
Arts, Humanities and Sciences Interconnected
The new department of computational media in the Baskin School of Engineering aims to fuse research approaches of arts and humanities with those of computer science, creating an interdisciplinary field that evaluates, explores and enables the computer as a medium for innovation.
Former Campus Day Care Teacher Under Investigation
A former male employee of UC Santa Cruz Early Education Services (EES), or campus day care services, allegedly engaged “in conduct which is incompatible with being present in a licensed child care facility based on allegations of inappropriate touching,” according to an email sent on...
Q&A With Grammy-nominated Music Producer DJ Dahi
While at UCSC, DJ Dahi participated in student organizations such as Engaging Education, Black Men’s Alliance and Destination Higher Education. He is most recognized for helping produce “Money Trees,” a song from Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-nominated album “Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City,” as well as Drake’s “Worst...