Students from Mission Hill Middle School, Santa Cruz High and UC Santa Cruz came together on Friday, along with veteran environmental activists, to speak out on behalf of taking climate change seriously and continuing the fight against fossil fuel dependency.
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UCSC College Ten to be named in honor of civil rights icon John R. Lewis
UCSC announced Wednesday that its youngest college will be renamed after the late congressman and civil rights icon. The formal renaming will occur in spring 2022.
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UC Santa Cruz grad students demand increased housing stipend, recognition of UC student researchers union
In a rally on the UCSC campus Tuesday, graduate students had two main purposes: demand both that UC Santa Cruz administration triple their housing stipend and that the UC system recognize the unionizing of student researchers.
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How two new UCSC student-led groups are trying to tackle the housing crisis
The Student Housing Coalition held its first meeting last week on the UCSC campus and announced its goals to bring diverse groups together to support solutions for the housing crisis across the Monterey Bay area. A Slug Shelter co-founder told Lookout the group is searching for land where it could potentially set up a mobile unit for 10 to 12 students experiencing homelessness.
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Pressure mounts on UC system to reach agreement with lecturer workforce as strikes, class cancellations loom
The UC workforce has a churn problem as about a quarter of the system’s 6,000 lecturers don’t return annually. The lecturer union and UC have made some progress in their multi-year impasse over a new contract, but many issues remain unsolved as the threat of strikes loom.
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Born from the pandemic, pop-up shops thrive on East Cliff Drive
Two pop-up places, Coffee Conspiracy and S.C. Bread Boy, provide their food and drink to customers along East Cliff Drive. The owners of both decided to strike out on their own after getting laid off from jobs in the service industry amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Seeking more stability, better pay, UCSC lecturers inch toward strike after UC offer: ‘It’s not an adequate proposal’
Lecturers across the University of California system, including at UC Santa Cruz, organized rallies last week following UC management’s latest contract proposal. After reaching a bargaining impasse and authorizing a strike in June, lecturers believe the UC has more to bring to the table.
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‘We hope people will listen’: Tribal leader talks Cabrillo, mission bells and a culture ‘brutally destroyed’
With the annual celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day, it’s a good time to recall and reflect upon why Native Americans feel so strongly about changing the celebrations of colonial history. Amah Mutsun Tribal Band leader Valentin Lopez talked to Lookout about his thoughts on mission bells, Cabrillo College and more.
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Cal Grant expansion: Newsom vetoes game-changer bill for 150,000 college students
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a huge expansion of the Cal Grant, the state’s main financial aid tool. It would have topped off a banner year for legislators who for years sought to reduce the cost of college.
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UCSC prison abolition initiative sees ‘powerful statement’ in $1.97M grant
UCSC’s Visualizing Abolition project — made up of graduate students and faculty aiming to further the discussion on mass incarceration and policing in the U.S. through art — was awarded a $1.977 million grant this week by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The initiative has produced two art exhibitions and a speaker series that has reached thousands across the country.