City on a Hill Press, originally launched in 1966 as "The Fulcrum," is the student newspaper of record for the University of California, Santa Cruz. Designed as a newsmagazine, the weekly tabloid-sized paper releases new issues every Thursday of the academic quarter, for a total of 30 issues per school year. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UCSC or UC Santa Cruz, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California. ... A newsmagazine, sometimes called news magazine, is a usually weekly magazine featuring articles on current events. ...

The paper serves to bring relevant news and features not only to the campus of UCSC, but also to the population of Santa Cruz, California. The current desks are: Campus, City, World/National, Gender/Sexuality, Health/Science, Arts/Entertainment and Sports. The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC or UC Santa Cruz) is a coeducational public university located in Santa Cruz, California. ... Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California, United States. ...

Although campus coverage has been—and will always be—a permanent fixture to the paper, the other desks are often adjusted from quarter-to-quarter to best fit the strengths of the current editorial staff. For example, in Winter 2007, the National/International desks were separate, while in previous quarters, the Music desk and Arts/Entertainment desk were separated. The Multicultural desk was eliminated after Winter 2005 due to the lack of a suitable editor. The Gender/Sexuality desk has not always been a permanent fixture to the paper, while the City on a Hill Press staff members of the late 1980s adamantly refused to devote any column inches to sports coverage.

While in previous decades the title of the paper was shortened to simply "The Press," in current years City on a Hill Press has been fondly referred to as CHP—inevitably causing unintentional confusion with another well-known CHP, the California Highway Patrol. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is a state agency that acts as the state police force of California. ...

Editors

The current editors-in-chief, as of UCSC's 2007 Spring Quarter, are Claire Bergeal and Claire Walla.

Claire Bergeal, a History of Art and Visual Culture major hailing from Stamford, CT, served as the CHP production manager for a number of quarters. Stamford is a city located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 117,083. ...

Claire Walla, a Literature major from Studio City, Los Angeles, CA, worked for CHP for a number of years, taking a year off to study in Sweden and then coming back. She most recently served as one of CHP's managing editors in Winter 2007. Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... Studio City is a district in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California. ...

The most recent editors-in-chief of City on a Hill Press were Leah Bartos and Ian A. Stewart (publishing under the pen name I.A. Stewart).

Lah Bartos, a native of Santa Barbara, California, is a fourth-year Anthropology student from UCSC's College Nine who previously edited the Music, City and Gender/Sexuaility desks. She has covered a variety of noteworthy topics including sex workers, the infamous UCSC anti-war group Students Against War (SAW), police brutality, immigrant rights protests, the Taser-attack at UCLA and the best coffeehouses in Santa Cruz. Nickname: Santa Barbara is situated on the southward-facing coast at far right. ... Anthropology (from Greek: ἀνθρωπος, anthropos, human being; and λόγος, logos, knowledge) is the comparative study of the physical and social characteristics of humanity through the examination of historical and present geographical distribution, cultural history, acculturation, and cultural relationships. ... Dorm buildings at College Nine. ...

Ian A. Stewart's journalism background is in sportswriting, as he previously wrote for the Santa Cruz Sentinel before returning to edit City on a Hill Press. Stewart, a fourth-year European History major from Crown College and a pitcher for the UCSC club baseball team, is a native of Berkeley, California. He has been featured in Hustler magazine as a guest writer. The Santa Cruz Sentinel is a daily newspaper published in Santa Cruz, California, covering Santa Cruz County, California, and owned by MediaNews Group Inc. ... This article discusses the history of the continent of Europe. ... Crown College is one of the residential colleges that makes up the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. Located on the upper northern side of campus by Merrill College, Crown also borders the newly constructed Colleges Nine and Ten. ... Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ... Larry Flynt Hustler Club on West 52nd Street in New York Hustler is a monthly pornographic magazine aimed at men and published in the United States. ...

Desks and Staff

Elizabeth Limbach and Rachel Stern currently serve as the Spring Co-Managing Editors

As of Spring 2007, CHP hosted the following desks and respective editors:

Campus - Jose San Mateo, City - Katia Protsenko, World/National - Daniel Zarchy, Health/Science - Alia Wilson, Arts - Erin Harrington, Sports - Justin Berkovich, Gender/Sexuality - Sophia Kirschenman,

Awards

City on a Hill Press has a long-standing tradition of journalistic excellence. The paper was named the 1986 College Gold Crown Newspaper by the prestigious Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Various editorials, illustrations have also received other CSPA awards in the past two decades. Most recently in 2006, City on a Hill Press received CSPA honors for cover design and feature illustrations. Logo of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. ...

Alumni

Notable City on a Hill Press alumni include Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Dana Priest and Martha Mendoza. The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... Dana Priest is an author and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. ...

Laura Mattingly, a 2006 CHP alumna, is now an editor of the weekly entertainment magazine Santa Cruz Metro.

See also

Official City on a Hill Press Website

• UC Santa Cruz
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