Samuel Stone, a 20-year-old former UC Santa Cruz student, was booked into the Santa Cruz County Jail following his arrest early Friday morning. The victim, a 21-year-old Santa Cruz woman, died at Dominican Hospital.
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UC Santa Cruz faculty mothers say lack of child care is hurting their academic careers
UC Santa Cruz faculty mothers say the cost of child care and rent is unsustainable and negatively affecting their careers. They’re submitting a child care subsidy proposal to administrators in the coming weeks.
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‘How do we eradicate hate?’: UCSC receives $500K to tackle Islamophobia, antisemitism and hate speech
UC Santa Cruz officials received $500,000 as part of a UC-wide initiative to eliminate hate and bias on its campuses amid escalating tensions stemming from the crisis in Israel and Gaza. Vice Chancellor of Diversity Anju Reejhsinghani hopes this will bring some much-needed healing to the campus.
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UCSC returns to traditional-style commencement after ‘significant feedback’ about Slug Crossing
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive announced Monday that the campus is returning to its old-style commencement ceremony after receiving feedback opposing the university’s Slug Crossing of the past several years.
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UCSC students raise campus transit concerns in three-hour town hall
In the wake of a fatal bus crash and a damaging California Highway Patrol report that called UC Santa Cruz transit operations “an imminent threat to public safety,” students shared their frustrations at a town hall meeting Friday.
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CHP says UC Santa Cruz transit service ‘imminent danger to public safety’ after shuttle inspections
The California Highway Patrol classified UC Santa Cruz’s transit service as an “imminent danger to public safety” after conducting inspections in the wake of December’s bus crash on campus. UCSC officials say they’re making improvements.
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Santa Cruz Metro floats plan to take over UCSC campus loop bus service
As UC Santa Cruz faces increasing pressure from students and union workers to improve its bus system, campus and Santa Cruz Metro officials say they’re in talks to do just that. Outgoing Metro CEO Michael Tree says the talks are very preliminary for Metro to take over the campus loop buses.
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UCSC plan to scrap housing priority process for a lottery raises alarm among students
Many UC Santa Cruz students are concerned they won’t get on-campus housing next year after officials eliminated its priority-based housing selection process. Campus officials say students shouldn’t lose hope.
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UC delays vote to ban political statements on its websites until March
University of California regents agreed Thursday to delay a vote on limits to what faculty and others can post on university channels until March. Among those speaking out against the proposal is Christine Hong, a professor of critical race and ethnic studies at UC Santa Cruz.
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UCSC event looks deeper into the history behind ‘The 1619 Project’
UC Santa Cruz professor Greg O’Malley leads an in-depth presentation Feb. 1 of what the world was like in 1619, a year that has come under more cultural focus since the 2019 publication of The New York Times long-form journalism work “The 1619 Project.”