Co-Curricular Programming
Kresge College is home to many exciting co-curricular activities, including the UCSC student newspaper City On A Hill, the literary magazine TWANAS Press, the Media & Society speaker series, and the Kresge Graden Co-op. Co-curricular activities and programs are learning experiences that complement and enhance academic education in a classroom setting. Many of Kresge’s co-curricular programs are organized and run by students, empowering our students to learn with and from their fellow students.
City on a Hill Press
City on a Hill Press is produced by and for UCSC students. Our primary goal is to report and analyze issues affecting the student population and the Santa Cruz community.
We also serve to watchdog the politics of the UC administration. While we endeavor to present multiple sides of a story, we realize our own outlooks influence the presentation of the news. The City on a Hill Press (CHP) collective is dedicated to covering underreported events, ideas and voices. Our desks are devoted to certain topics: campus and city news, sports, arts and entertainment, opinion and editorial. CHP is a campus paper, but it also provides space for Santa Cruz residents to present their views and interact with the campus community. Ideally, CHP’s pages will serve as an arena for debate, challenge, and ultimately, change.
CHP is published weekly in the fall, winter and spring quarters by the City on a Hill Press publishing group, except during Thanksgiving and academic breaks.
TWANAS Communities of Color and Native American Students Press
The Magazine
TWANAS is one of the oldest student-run magazines at the University of California, Santa Cruz. TWANAS is dedicated to providing a media outlet for students of color to write about the issues that affect students of color.
We publish approximately two magazines each academic year, and hold weekly staff meetings. Quarterly meeting times and locations will be updated regularly.
TWANAS is regularly accepting new staff members, as well as submissions to each of our issues. For more information about joining or submitting to TWANAS, visit www.twanaspress.com.
Submit to us at : twanaspress@gmail.com
What’s in a Name?
“Third World and Native American Student” Press Collective, is derived from the 1979 struggle for a Third World and Native American Studies Department at UCSC, during which TWANAS founders went on hunger strike. To this day, this mission has not been completed.
After much consideration, TWANAS changed its name from Third World and Native American Student Press Collective to Communities of Color and Native American Student Press Collective in 2017. The reason for the change was to be more inclusive. TWANAS members had long discussions about what term could represent students of color on campus. Members contemplated many terms that could replace “Third World”, a phrase that felt outdated. Communities of Color is a term that’s meant to be like a blank slate that students create and claim their identity and representation through. TWANAS itself was kept as the official acronym in respect of the original history and struggle that birthed it. Native American was also kept in the longer name in recognition of the land we stand on today in the United States and the oppression Native Americans students face.
Mission Statement
TWANAS facilitates an open inclusive space for individuals at UCSC who hold various identities across all intersections creatively expressing issues that affect all communities of color through journalistic and artistic mediums. TWANAS accomplishes this goal by producing a publication twice a year, hosting a website online and engaging in critical dialogue at member meetings.
Diversity Guidelines
TWANAS works to create an inclusive and diverse place. We expect the TWANAS community to be conscious of our personal multiple perspectives, motives, assumptions and thus our overall bias. To help ensure this, we strive to create an environment where members can feel comfortable speaking up when our diversity guidelines are not being followed. Our goal is to make our content as well as our meetings inclusive of issues surrounding race, gender, sexuality, and other identities. We aspire to be a space for expression, engagement, and learning.
Copyright © TWANAS 2019.
Kresge Garden Co-op
The Kresge Garden is home to a community of students who share a common interest in gardening. It is a space where students empower themselves to learn how to grow their own food from seed, dig beds, create a functional compost system, and work together cooperatively. Students share skills, previous gardening experience, meaningful conversation, and a passion for fresh food.
The garden hosts an apple orchard, a culinary herb garden, greens, and an assortment of other seasonal fruits and vegetables. We gather together in the garden several days a week to work on projects and co-create what we want to see in the space. Come garden with us!
Media & Society
Kresge’s Media and Society series presents lectures and public conversations on the role of media and popular culture in contemporary society, and now partners with City on a Hill Press to host events with print, digital, TV, and radio journalists. Media & Society also partners with Writers House, a themed housing floor and accompanying speaker series that brings local poets, novelists, journalists, and other writers to Kresge.