Education Archive
The 7th annual Campus Earth Summit was held on January 31st at the College 9/10 Multipurpose Room at UC Santa Cruz.
A student stood below the tree and told people in and below the tree that the reason he was there was because he received an email from UCSC telling him to avoid the tree-sit.
UC police officers stood below the trees to prevent people from sharing with tree-sitters.
Zach Schlesinger, a professor of physics at UCSC, is among the people that the university alleges engaged in a criminal act of food sharing over the holiday break.
During my brief time on Science Hill, numerous people brought food to the tree-sitters, including Michael Urban, a professor of politics at UCSC.
The parking lot and trees are slated to be replaced by a highly-controversial Biomedical Sciences building, the first project under the University’s plan to develop 120 acres of forest in order to accommodate 4,500 new students by 2020.
UC employees represented by AFSCME held statewide pickets at all five UC medical centers and 10 campuses.
Students at UCSC have been occupying redwood trees since November 7th on Science Hill, site of a proposed Biomedical Sciences facility.
Early in the morning of November 7th, activists opposed to UC Santa Cruz's Long Range Development Plan launched a tree-sit in redwoods near Science Hill.