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...
UCSA Agenda Set for Meeting This Weekend
The monthly University of California Student Association (UCSA) meeting is scheduled for this weekend, Jan. 9-10, at UC San Diego. UCSA is a student government organization advocating for all 240,000 students and addressing issues such as the affordability and quality of the UC system. The...
Police Brutality Extends to the Classroom
Violence doesn’t belong in the classroom. But in this country, it’s becoming shockingly more common. The increase of incidents of violence in public schools have pushed educators to take more steps to ensure students’ safety on campus. Many academic institutions, for instance, have hired a...
Banana Slugs Take the Streets
Wearing a bright yellow hat with antennae poking out of the top, Santa Cruz mayor Don Lane stood next to a 10-foot balloon banana slug and officially proclaimed Oct. 25 “Banana Slug Day.” About 200 Santa Cruz community members, alumni and students walked down...
Cancelled on Technicalities
Update 9/4, 4 p.m: UCSC admissions to offer 120 students whose admission was cancelled acceptance to UCSC in winter 2016. Dominique DeJarnatt was one of the students to be offered a winter enrollment opportunity. *Name changed to protect identity. Five to seven minutes to the bookstore,...
Fewer Californians, More Out of State and International Students Admitted to the UC
Delayed nearly three months due to uncertainty with state budget, the University of California (UC) admissions data was released on July 2, and showed disappointing results for Californians. The UC system is admitting fewer in-state residents compared to out of state and international students. Undergraduate applications to...
Reverberations of Loma Prieta
“It was a really hot day in October,” reflected UC Santa Cruz alumna Susanne Ban DeRisi in her journal. “It was what we Californians jokingly refer to as ‘earthquake weather.’” At 5:04 p.m. on October 17, 1989, the earth beneath Santa Cruz shook for about...