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...
Amazon Juices Debuts at Global Village
After some delay, Amazon Juices at Global Village Cafe (GVC) opened on Wednesday with a limited menu of coffee, tea and pastries and a slow but steady flow of customers. The cafe closed in October, when Hoffman’s was evicted. GVC was set to reopen its...
UC Provides Millions to Invest in Student Innovation
The University of California will begin to directly invest in the innovation of its students and faculty by anchoring a venture fund led by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vivek Ranadivé. The fund will consist of a $250 million contribution from the UC, along with Ranadivé’s pledge...
(Video) Game-Changer
Erin Robinson Swink, new creative director of UC Santa Cruz’s master’s program in games and playable media, creates games with whimsical ingenuity and joy. Her independent gaming company, Ivy Games, recently released “Gravity Ghost,” in which the player floats through space, depicted as a relaxing...
New Cowell Provost to Be Appointed
UC Santa Cruz’s oldest residential college, Cowell College, will appoint a new provost this quarter. The current provost Faye Crosby took office in 2010 and will retire from the job in July, but will remain at the university as a professor. “I’m very sad to...