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NEWS ABOUT: UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz stories: 7 news summaries

 Santa Cruz Seeks 
 Deadhead Archivist 

UC offers $70K for job made in hippie heaven

Nov 11, 09 3:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Far out. The University of Santa Cruz is seeking an archivist to help handle its horde of Grateful Dead material—for a very un-hippie-like $70,000 salary, plus benefits. The school is seeking a "creative" professional with a master's degree, and preferably "expert knowledge" of the "history... More »

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music • California • rock and roll • University of California • Santa Cruz • Grateful Dead • Jerry Garcia • UC Santa Cruz • Bob Weir • David Grisman • archives

(Newser) - Penn State has knocked the University of Florida from its No. 1 spot … atop the Princeton Review’s “Best Party School” list. Each year, the Review ranks schools in a huge number of categories based on surveys of their students. A Penn State spokeswoman called it a “... More »

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Virginia Tech • University of Florida • college • George Washington University • Princeton Review • Clemson • Brigham Young University • colleges and universities • Brown University • UC Santa Cruz • Penn State University • party schools • US Merchant Marine Academy • Sarah Lawrence College • Thomas Aquinas College • Bard College

 UCSC Tree-Sitters 
 Hold Their Perches 

Protesters refuse to budge, despite truce with UC Berkeley

Sep 11, 08 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - UC Berkeley’s tree-sitters may have surrendered their perches earlier this week, but demonstrators at UC Santa Cruz are not ready to give up their redwood-saving fight. The activists, nearing the 1-year anniversary of their protest, suspect the university will cut down trees before classes begin in two weeks, but... More »

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UC Berkeley • college • UC Santa Cruz • protesters • tree-sitters • redwoods • environmentalists

Nation's Most Ridiculous College Mascots

Fuzzy aesthetics gone awry, coming to a field near you this weekend

Aug 31, 08 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Granted, managing to create a college mascot whose gigantic foam appendages perfectly straddle the line between ridiculous and comically appropriate is no easy task. That said, the folks at Radar magazine didn't have to dig too deep to discover a batch who utterly obliterate the line. The worst offenders:
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NCAA football • Stanford University • Xavier University • college sports • UC Santa Cruz • college basketball

Firebombed Researcher Fears Animal-Rights Activists

UC Santa Cruz biologist speaks out after weekend firebombing of home

Aug 4, 08 4:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - A university researcher says he fears for his family’s safety after a weekend firebomb attack, the San Jose Mercury News reports. David Feldheim, who does neuroscience research on mice at the University of California Santa Cruz, was slightly injured. He said he expects a continuining threat from animal-rights activists—... More »

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California • bomb • animal rights • attack • academic research • Animal Liberation Front • UC Santa Cruz

 Dead Archives Head
 to UC Santa Cruz 

Collection valued at millions fits with crunchy campus' 'community spirit'

Apr 24, 08 11:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The thousands of pieces that make up the Grateful Dead archive are truckin’ to a new home at UC Santa Cruz, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The materials—worth millions and ranging from the band’s first record contract to life-size skeletons of members—currently occupy 2,000 square feet... More »

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music • archive • memorabilia • Grateful Dead • UC Santa Cruz

Animal-Rights Violence Has Schools Turning to Courts

Battle pits free-speech rights against safety

Feb 28, 08 3:48 PM CST
(Newser) - In recent months, animal-rights activists have strapped a firebomb under a UCLA professor’s car and flooded another’s home in a campaign to intimidate the school into ending experiments on primates. A judge has issued several restraining orders as the university tries to protect researchers, Newsweek reports, while protesters... More »

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protests • animal rights • PETA • UCLA • University of Utah • Animal Liberation Front • Utah Primate Freedom Project • National Institutes of Health • Animal Liberation Brigade • UCLA Primate Freedom Project • Oregon Health Sciences University • UC Santa Cruz

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