Flogs and Fantasies
Kathryn walked through the dark streets of San Francisco. In heels and little else, she traversed the hills unsure if she was ready for what she would find. Finally stumbling upon the red door she was looking for, she got past the bouncers, grabbed her...
Cantú Connection
For UC Santa Cruz students Addie Salcedo and Geneva DeBlasi, a card game was all it took to spark a conversation that would eventually blossom into romance. This moment took place at an undergraduate mixer one year ago. “I always went to [the mixers to]...
The Disintegration of Liberal Arts
A young Catherine Jones first became interested in history when she came across a dirt-filled swimming pool in her small southern town. “To an eight-year-old on a hot summer day in southwestern Virginia, that seemed like a travesty,” Jones said in an email. “When I...
Hunger at Home
The college student living off of microwave ramen has become a trope in popular culture. It becomes much less endearing, however, when the student is in the next room over, and their mental and emotional health are at risk. Over a quarter of University of...
Memorial Held for Shireen Ahsan
“Pain becomes positive when it brings you back to Allah […] Be thankful, it can always be worse. Allah never tests you with something you cannot overcome.” Shireen Ahsan wrote these words just days before she died. They were projected on a screen at her...
Mapping the Future
UC Santa Cruz fourth-year Madeleine Turner has worked hard to transform visions into actions since last August. With two new interns, who joined her this past fall, the team is crowdsourcing students’ ideas to form a comprehensive outline for campus-wide change — the Blueprint for...
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...
Cafe Ivéta Preps for Opening This Quarter
When Yvette and John Bilanko opened a tiny espresso bar in a Chicago suburb in 1991, their customers wanted more — “you have coffee, you need scones,” John remembers the customers suggesting. It was good timing, too. Yvette had just traveled to a trade show...
Sacramento Resists #OpRight2Rest
A group claiming to be part of Anonymous, the international cyber hacking organization, has launched #OpRight2Rest against the City of Sacramento in response to the anti-camping ordinance targeting houseless individuals outside City Hall. While Anonymous’ threats are surprising in themselves, Sacramento’s response to the threats...
UC Applications Set All-Time Record at Over 206,000
Over 206,000 students applied to at least one UC campus for the fall 2016 quarter, UC officials announced Monday, setting a new record for the 12th year in a row with a 6.4 percent increase from last year. At UC Santa Cruz freshman applicants increased...