UC Santa Cruz Students Rally for DREAM ACT

by eartusio

Students are fighting for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act to provide a pathway to legalization for educated immigrants. Last Thursday, a rally for the act lead to 7 UCSC student arrests. Emily Artusio met with Estrellita Munoz and Michelle Romero, who spoke about the event and the Dream Act itself.

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Congress Considers Repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell within the Military

by ghegarty

Congress will be voting this week on the regulation proposed to repeal the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell military policy, a repeal that has been endorsed by the White House. Students debate whether this is necessarily the right way to go about seeking justice for queers.The Human Rights Campaign backed the Repeal DADT Now campaign and [...]

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Surina Khan Presents Regent Lecture

by ghegarty

Surina Khan,  the vice president of programs for the Women’s Foundation of California, and regent lecturer, held talks all week about social movements. This is a copy of the majority of her lecture at the Stevenson Event Center on Thursday, May 27th, 2010.

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UC Santa Cruz Still Not Exclusively Using Cage Free Eggs

by sbolaria

What is something that most of the other UC’s, walmart, and even Burger King have that UC Santa Cruz does not? The answer is cage free eggs. Most of the eggs provided by UC Santa Cruz dining services come from battery-caged chickens; however, student activists are trying their best to hatch a plan that will [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-23

by Jacob Margolis

We will be covering the UCSC walkout tomorrow. Come out and say hi! # Going live on KZSC.org or 88.1 FM at 7 P.M. #

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UCSC Students Walkout For Education

by eartusio

On May 18th and 19th students at UC Santa Cruz organized a walkout, held at the West Entrance and the Base of Campus. Emily Artusio reports on organizers of the strike who claim education is becoming peripheralized by the budgetary policies of the Regents and the administration. Although participation was low, students will continue to [...]

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty on Freedom

by nmorente

Given the unique nature of the protests that occurred, there were many views on exactly how students can rise up and make a change.  Leave it to a philosopher to observe what is going on and what will happen next.  Phenomenologist, Maurice Merleau-Ponty offers a philosophy that can teach students the limits of their freedom, [...]

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Lower Student Participation at Walk Out

by sbolaria

With a different method of protesting comes a different result. The walk out was an alternative technique to the familiarized strike and resulted in a lower student participation than what has been seen in the past strikes this year. Simren Bolaria spoke with students to get their opinion as to why fewer students participated and [...]

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Understanding UCSC’s Center for Adaptive Optics

by Brian Nickerson

The Center for Adaptive Optics on UCSC’s Science Hill functions as a veritable Mission Command for one of the most innovative and unexplored fields of scientific research on the planet. Originally aired on 3/18/10

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Starving For Education In California

by Brian Nickerson

California has subjected its public education to an overwhelming amount of budget cuts since Spring 2009. As a direct result, student protests have been widespread and vehement throughout this academic year. On March 4th, a day of state-wide demonstrations in defense of public education, I spoke with Superintendent Michael Watkins about the effects budget cuts [...]

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Grassroots Politics in the Central Valley

by Brian Nickerson

Just a few days before conclusion of the historic March For California’s Future, we consider the important role that grassroots political campaigns have played in shaping political consciousness in some of California’s most underrepresented communities. Originally aired on 4/8/10

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You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Study

by Brian Nickerson

Student protestors took to the libraries again this week with a series of controversial Library Study-In’s.  While the students are outraged over reduced library hours and starved library resources, the librarians are concerned with the protest’s apparent ineffectiveness.  But regardless of right and wrong, one thing has become clear: UCSC loves its libraries.

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