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Video: Police Confiscate $15,000 Joint During 4/20 Smoke Out At UCSC

While things may have gotten violent in Golden Gate Park on 4/20, on the campus of the UC Santa Cruz the annual marijuana celebration was getting heavy in a completely different way.

Arts & Entertainment

Video: This Head-Bobbing Sea Lion Has Better Rhythm Than You

Have you ever yearned to see a California sea lion groove to "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys? Well, want no more. Ronan, a 4-year-old sea lion rescued from Highway 1 in San Luis

Student Accused Of Staging Fake UCSC Rape Attack Through Craigslist

You recall the fake rape report that went down in February at UC Santa Cruz, right? Well, the suspect in question, oddly described by NY Daily News as a "visiting brunette" from UC

Police Say Woman Lied About UC Santa Cruz Rape

The 21-year-old woman who told police she was beaten and raped while walking along a wooded area on the UCSC campus has reportedly confessed to investigators that, in fact, the attack was a

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Police Release Sketch UC Santa Cruz Rapist

Santa Cruz police released a sketch of a man who beat and raped a visiting 21-year-old woman visiting the UCSC campus on Sunday afternoon. According to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, the suspect is

Woman Raped, Beaten On UC Santa Cruz Campus

A 21-year-old woman survived being raped and beaten while visiting the UCSC campus Sunday afternoon. The suspect, described as "a white man in his 30s with pale skin and a round-shaped face," attacked

Car Plows Through Occupy Demonstrators At UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz students and professors are taking part today in a massive protest to state education cuts. It's all part of peaceful Occupy Education rallies occurring at numerous UC and CSU schools,

Classes Canceled, Campus "Quiet" After Threat Of Violence At UCSC

A threat of violence, via graffiti sprayed on a bathroom wall, prompted some classes cancelations at UC Santa Cruz today. According to Santa Cruz Sentinel, here's what happened: "On Jan. 11, UCSC administration

UC Santa Cruz Grad One Of Six Killed In Arizona Shooting Rampage

Of the six people killed during Saturday's rampage in Arizona, UC Santa Cruz graduate Gabriel Zimmerman, 30, was among them. Zimmerman was Gabrielle Giffords' community outreach director. He had organized the "Congress on

UC-Santa Cruz Grad Shot, Killed at Pentagon

Hollister resident John Patrick Bedell, 36, was shot and killed last night after pulling a handgun at the Pentagon entrance and firing at guards. Bedell held a bachelor’s degree in physics from

Protesters Block UCSC Entrance During 'Day of Action' Protest

In honor of a Day of Statewide Action for Public Education, protesters at UC Santa Cruz are trying to make sure students don't receive one. As of this morning, UCSC students and employees

"Deeply Disturbing" Noose Scribbled On Bathroom Door at UCSC

Next to never flushing, anus shaving in the mirror, coded toe-taping on the floor, and other hygiene-free experiences -- daily occurrences at your SFist editor's alma mater -- another shocking incident happened inside

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Check Out One Market's Penthouse at Grow-a-Farmer Benefit

One Market has undergone some renovations. Swankier renovations, we hear. Tomorrow, they open The Penthouse, located on the 42 floor. It will feature stellar 360º-degree views like the one at right. Want to

UCSC Students Protest Budget Cuts Via Hunger Strike

Dozens of students and staff at the University of California at Santa Cruz have gone on a hunger strike "in order to bring attention to $13 million in state funding being cut at

Vandals Attack UC/Santa Cruz Campus

While the banana slugs are on break for the holidays, hooligans went on a vandalism spree on Wednesday night at the UCSC campus. According to reports, the unidentified misfits damaged "up to 20

Poor Man's UC-Berkeley Tree-Sitters Worried

Did you know that UC-Santa Cruz has its own set of tree-sitters? Yeah, neither did we. (Some students at the UCSC campus live in the trees, foliage, shrubbery, and Elf Land year round.

FBI Increases UCSC Firebombing Reward to $50,000!

Holy cow! The Federal Bureau of Investigation (crudely known as the F.B.I.) added a cool $20,000 to the reward being offered for the arrests of the animal activists who injured

UPDATE: $30,000 Reward Offered For UCSC Bombings

Like "molotov cocktails on steroids," the ALF, or Anti-Abortion Animal Liberation Front, has NOT claimed responsibility for this past weekend's firebomb attacks on UC Santa Cruz research biologists. (Let an authentic Journalist tell

Buzz-Killing UCSC Officials Puts the Kibosh on 4/20

Perhaps due to the many squares of acid or complete the lack of sex, we don't remember UC Santa Cruz demigods coming down so hard on 4/20. But SFBG's crusty-but-benign (and victorious!

SHAC7 Claims No Responsibility for UCSC Researcher Attack

We just made contacted with a member of the reportedly elusive SHAC7. They told us the following: No--we are not responsible. In fact, the only knowledge we have of the whole ordeal is

Extreme Animal Rights Activists Attack UCSC Faculty Member?

Pro-life animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty is being accused of taking part in a break in of a UC Santa Cruz faculty member, whose research using animals "sheds light on the