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unusual facts about uc santa cruz



2009 California college tuition hike protests

At UC Santa Cruz, over 100 students participated in a sit-in at the campus' Kerr Hall.

Adam Cornford

He attended the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he studied with (and was first published by) kayak editor George Hitchcock; and San Francisco State University, where his mentor was the Greek surrealist Nanos Valaoritis.

Allison Brennan

In 1987, she graduated from Menlo School in Atherton, California and attended college at UC Santa Cruz from 1987 to 1989, working as a legislative consultant in the California State Legislature from 1992 to 2005.

Angus Ellis Taylor

Taylor was also an astute administrator and would eventually rise through the UC system to become provost and then chancellor of UC Santa Cruz.

Arthur Torres

He holds a Bachelor's degree from UC Santa Cruz and a Juris Doctor from University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall).

Elizabeth Stephens

Elizabeth M. "Beth" Stephens is an artist, sculptor, film maker, photographer, Professor and former Chair of the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz.

Jesse Reklaw

Reklaw was born in Berkeley, California and grew up in Sacramento, studied at UC Santa Cruz, and completed a master's degree in computer science at Yale University.

Rachel Somerville

She holds an undergraduate degree in physics from Reed College, awarded in 1989, and a Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she worked with Joel Primack.

Thomas Dolliver Church

He oversaw the master planning of UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Harvey Mudd College, Woodside Priory School, and the Wascana Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan.

UCLA Taser incident

On November 18, 2006, the University of California Students Association passed a "Police Brutality Resolution" regarding recent incidents at UC Santa Cruz and UCLA.


see also

Metro Santa Cruz

Locally based in Santa Cruz, the alternative weekly is owned by Metro Newspapers, a company started by UC Santa Cruz graduate and former Santa Cruz publisher Dan Pulcrano.

Telluride Association Summer Program

Nationally known faculty who have taught TASP include: John Schaar (UC Santa Cruz), Hanna Pitkin (UC Berkeley), Donald Kagan (Yale), Kurt Heinzelman and Sue Heinzelman (University of Texas), Herbert Storing (University of Chicago), Robert Nozick (Harvard), Leon Kass (University of Chicago), and Thomas Palaima (University of Texas).