University of California/Santa Cruz
 University of California/Santa Cruz  (University)    | |
|---|---|
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| Motto | Fiat lux (Latin) |
| Formation | 1965 |
| Type | • Public • Land-grant • Space-grant |
| Other name | Banana Slugs |
| "The Most Stoned Students...on the Most Stoned Campus on Earth.” | |
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located on Monterey Bay, on the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz, the campus lies on 2,001 acres (810 ha) of rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
A 2004 Rolling Stone magazine article described the 420 celebration at the university, a huge gathering of people celebrating marijuana, as “the Most Stoned Students on the Most Stoned Day on the Most Stoned Campus on Earth,”[1]
History
Founded in 1965, UC Santa Cruz began with the intention to showcase progressive, cross-disciplinary undergraduate education, innovative teaching methods and contemporary architecture. Santa Cruz quickly became the "counterculture campus" where students and faculty either "mellowed out" among the redwood trees or turned into "activist-radical[s]".[2] For example, when UC President Clark Kerr came to deliver an address at UC Santa Cruz's first commencement exercises in 1969, the ceremony was hijacked by students who denounced Kerr and McHenry for having "planned and created Santa Cruz as a capitalist-imperialist-fascist plot to divert the students from their revolution against the evils of American society and, in particular, against the horrors of the Vietnam War."[3] The students then tried to award an honorary degree to Huey P. Newton (who was in jail at the time, although he went on to earn his bachelor's and doctorate degrees at Santa Cruz).[3] Kerr later recalled this episode of "guerrilla theatre" as "one of the worst afternoons of my life."[4] A series of major reforms were implemented by Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer (1977-1987) aimed at making Santa Cruz less experimental and more conventional.[5]
Alumni on Wikispooks
| Person | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Bollyn | US | Author Researcher Journalist 9-11/Dissident | |||
| Steve Kangas | 11 May 1961 | 8 February 1999 | Whistleblower Spook Journalist Teacher | A spook turned whistleblower who was one of the first political campaigners on the internet. Probably murdered by the US Deep state. | |
| Pamela Kerr Omidyar | 1968 | Wife of Pierre Omidyar. | |||
| Dana Priest | 23 May 1957 | Journalist | |||
| Bret Weinstein | 21 February 1969 | US |
References
- ↑ https://wellsuitedforlife.com/2015/04/20/time-capsule-420-at-the-university-of-santa-cruz/
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=jMEZ_47vXkAC&pg=PA282
- ↑ a b https://books.google.com/books?id=jMEZ_47vXkAC&pg=PA286
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=jMEZ_47vXkAC&pg=PA287
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=jMEZ_47vXkAC&pg=PA284
