Tag: Ucsc Sat, March 20, 2010
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Forbes to UCSC: Hubba Hubba!
Mar 12, 2010, by Danny Wool News
Some schools, like the University of Bologna or Oxford, have traditions stretching back centuries. Their ancient buildings are the centerpiece of their cities, and those cities are recognized as international treasures. But as the Roman poet Juvenal pointed out, “Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.” That is why a rustic setting is so ideal for an institution of higher learning. It is also probably why Forbes magazine listed UCSC as one of the most beautiful campuses in the world.
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UCSC Officials Shocked by Noose Image
Mar 02, 2010, by Danny Wool News
Could racial tensions be seething beneath the surface of UCSC. Some school officials are worried that they are after an image of a noose was found scrawled on a bathroom door in the Earth and Marine Sciences Building. The image was accompanied by the words “lynch” and “San Diego,” the latter a reference to racial tensions at UCSD two weeks ago.
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UCSC Students Receive Summons
Feb 26, 2010, by Staff NewsThe 45 UCSC students who occupied Kerr Hall in response to a 30 percent tuition hike have been summoned to appear before a council.
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UCSC Students to Admin: Non, Nyet, Nein!
Feb 22, 2010, by Staff NewsForeign language students at UCSC and the faculty who teach them are up in arms over a decision by the school to cut back on foreign language instruction.
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Water Problems Plague UCSC Expansion Plan
Jan 12, 2010, by Danny Wool NewsHas the Santa Cruz Water Department fully studied the implications of a proposed expansion of the UCSC campus? Some members of the county’s Board of Supervisors are not convinced it has.
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Higher Education a Bargain at UCSC
Jan 05, 2010, by Danny Wool NewsDespite the tuition hikes, despite the protests, UCSC is still considered to be one of the 100 Best Values in Public Education anywhere in the country.
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Yudof Cancels Visit to UCSC
Dec 02, 2009, by Danny Wool NewsIn the 18 months since he was appointed President of the University of California system, Chancellor Mark Yudof has never once visited the UCSC campus
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Students Respond to UC Charges
Nov 30, 2009, by Staff NewsThree UCSC graduate students wrote an article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel defending student actions in the recent campus protests.
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UC Protesters to Face Sanctions
Nov 23, 2009, by Danny Wool News
It was the biggest protest against the UC fee hikes, gaining national and international attention. For a while, CNN even featured the story of UCSC’s protesters’ occupation of Kerr Hall on the front page of its website. Then came Sunday morning, and the press was banned from campus for 45 minutes. According to eyewitnesses, including several faculty members, the police arrived in full riot gear and forced the students out of the building. Some were injured. Anthropology professor Mark Anderson was taken away on a stretcher.
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Students Protest at UCSC
Nov 20, 2009, by Danny Wool NewsWhen UC’s Board of Regents met in UCLA yesterday to vote on a 32 percent fee hike for students, they gathered behind closed doors in a windowless room.
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Students Stage Library Sit-in
Nov 16, 2009, by Staff NewsFor some people, Friday night is a chance to get out and party. For many students at UCSC, particularly in the departments of Science and Engineering, it used to be a chance to get some work done at the library.
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Higher Expectations for Higher Education
Nov 11, 2009, by Don Rothman OpinionRetired professor Don Rothman makes the argument for why the UC fee hikes are detrimental to California, from harming diversity to creating a enclave of the privileged.
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Local Scientist Skipped over for Nobel Prize
Oct 08, 2009, by Staff NewsWhen Thomas Steitz, Ada Yonath, and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the faculty of UCSC was puzzled.
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A Social Movement, Not Budget Reform
Oct 06, 2009, by Christopher Barkan Opinion
UCSC doctoral candidate Christopher Barkan explains why student protesters won’t be satisfied with mere budget reform. “What is needed is a broad social movement,” he writes, “to articulate a new collective vision for the future that will replace this era of narrow special interests and for-profit social engineering.”
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Protesters Quit UCSC Building
Oct 02, 2009, by Staff NewsBut not before they trashed the only student-owned building on campus, say graduate students.
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New Paratransit Vans Coming to UCSC
Sep 29, 2009, by Staff NewsDisabled students at UCSC will soon be benefiting from three new ADA complian paratransit vans to replace the existing vehicles.
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Students Still Occupy UCSC Student Center
Sep 29, 2009, by Staff NewsA strike across UC campuses marked the first day of classes. In most schools, things have gotten back to normal, but not in UCSC.
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UCSC Workers to Strike Today
Sep 24, 2009, by Staff NewsIt may be the first day of classes on the calendar, but the staff at UCSC is preparing to strike today to protest enforced furloughs and fee hikes agreed upon by the UC Board of Regents.
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UCSC Vets Wonder: Is New GI Bill Too Good To Be True?
Sep 24, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop News
Michael Hart is a 30-year-old U.S. Coast Guard veteran with eight-and-a-half-years of active duty under his belt, during which he served on a 210-foot security cutter based in Miami Beach doing search-and-rescues and drug interception in the Caribbean. Once a month, he returns to the naval base in Alameda to run drills with the reserves. But come today, the first day of class at UCSC, he’s just another sophomore.
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UCSC Researcher Sues FBI Over “Security Threat” Label
Jun 29, 2009, by Staff NewsLast week Haiping Su, a UC-Santa Cruz earth sciences researcher at NASA Ames Research Center, filed a federal lawsuit against the FBI and NASA Ames for labeling him a “security threat” and destroying his career.
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UCSC Students Vie for Top Biz Plan
May 26, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop BusinessThirty-four teams have already been fired. Now it’s time to find out who gets hired this Friday on the season final-erhm, rather, at the final dinner and judging portion of the first annual UCSC Business Plan Competition.
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A March Toward Machinery
May 14, 2009, by Curtis Cartier Community
With several lecturers and professors already holding pink slips, it seems all but certain that UCSC will follow through with its rumored plans to phase out its Community Studies program. Retired professor and Santa Cruz resident Paul Lee knows what it’s like to be deemed expendable.
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Running Meter 2
May 13, 2009, by Meter Maid OpinionA bit of topical doggerel.
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Community Studies Rallies to Hit Full Stride This Week
Apr 27, 2009, by Curtis Cartier News
Supporters of UCSC’s embattled Community Studies Department are sending the message that they’re prepared for a long fight with another week of planned protests and activities on campus. Three separate events, meant to bolster opposition to university curriculum cuts and staff layoffs, have been slated this week and will be highlighted by a walkout and march on April 29. Organizers of the protests are again claiming, “This is only the beginning.
