While the cause of Tuesday night’s UC Santa Cruz bus crash remains under investigation, some students and union reps say the university has not acted on their concerns surrounding bus conditions. Labor leader Rebecca Gilpas said that if a mechanical issue does end up being the cause of the accident, “somebody has to be held accountable.”
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UC Santa Cruz bus crash injures six, damages historic lime kiln
A UC Santa Cruz bus drove off the road Tuesday night and struck a lime kiln near the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. In a campuswide email Wednesday, administrators confirmed that six people were injured, two critically; five are students and one is a university employee.
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Carmageddon: Santa Cruz Metro prepares for free rides, 15-minute wait times in bid to double ridership
Santa Cruz Metro is set to begin rolling out the first phase of its Reimagine Metro initiative aimed at more direct, frequent routes and 15-minute all-day service. The changes will begin as a three-year pilot program, and civic leaders will work towards transitioning the pilot into a permanent fixture.
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Lookout Update: UCSC says it will start constructing Student Housing West in the spring
UC Santa Cruz officials say they plan to begin construction on the long-delayed Student Housing West project in the spring. Opponents of the project say legal challenges will likely prevent the school from breaking ground.
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Dozens of UCSC professors sign letter against plans to create ‘viewpoint-neutral history of Middle East’
About 150 University of California professors, including 33 from UC Santa Cruz, signed a letter urging UC President Michael Drake to take back his call for a “viewpoint-neutral history of the Middle East” in educational programming. Drake’s comments referenced a $7 million commitment to combating rising Islamophobia and antisemitism as campuses grapple with escalating tensions over the Israel-Hamas war.
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How UC is navigating the complicated response to the war in Gaza
Students on California campuses are fearful and upset weeks into the Israel-Hamas war, with Islamophobia and antisemitism on the rise at colleges across the country. The climate across the University of California system is especially tense and has students feeling unsafe, forcing system officials to navigate a delicate issue that is painful for many on […]
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Carmageddon: This week’s delays and Metro’s ramped-up UCSC campus service
In Metro’s big pursuit of doubling ridership, the transit agency is improving service to the UC Santa Cruz campus. Last week, Metro secured 12 extra-long buses to carry more passengers per ride as it looks to keep wait times no longer than 15 minutes.
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Ron DeSantis or ChatGPT? When is it cheating? UCSC chancellor on artificial intelligence in education
The emergence of ChatGPT and other generative AI applications has marked an inflection point in education, technology and beyond. UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive sat down with local tech heavy hitter Guy Kawasaki for an insightful conversation about education in this new era, what Larive considers cheating and the role of a teacher in a world when knowledge sits at the tip of our keyboard.
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‘Israel/Palestine Learn-In’ at UCSC seeks to inform on ongoing conflict
Amid fraught campus debate over the Israel-Hamas war, UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Jewish Studies brought together several dozen students, faculty and community members Wednesday in an attempt to answer any questions on any aspect of the conflict.
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UCSC, Cabrillo confront fraught campus debate over Israel and Gaza
The Israel-Hamas conflict has triggered a reckoning for college campuses across the country — including at UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College — where tensions over free speech and academic freedom have simmered for years until boiling over in the past month, challenging students, faculty and administrators alike.