Q: What student clubs and organizations are active at Santa Cruz?
A: UC Santa Cruz has over 100 registered student organizations and associations based on academic, ethnic, religious, political, and cultural interests. The Student Organizations Advising and Resources (SOAR) office provides administrative, advisory, and fiscal assistance to all student organizations, governments, committees, and media. The following organizations are currently active on campus:

• Acquire (a cappella)
• Acts 2 Christian Fellowship
• African American Recognition Ceremony
• African American Theatre Arts Troupe
• African/Black Student Alliance
• Alpha Epsilon Pi
• Alpha Kappa Delta Phi
• Alpha Psi Sorority
• AMSA UCSC Premedical Chapter
• Armenian Student Union
• Asian Cinema
• Asian/Pacific Islander Student Alliance
• ASPIRE (sciences)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Baha’i Association 
• Bemani Club
• Best Buddies
• Black Science Network (BSN)
• CalPIRG Students
• Campus Bible Fellowship
• Centro Americanos Unidos
• Chicano/Latino Yearend Ceremony
• Chicanos and Latinos Educandose
• Chicanos in Health Education
• Chinese Student and Scholar Association (CSSA)
• Chinese Student Association
• CineMaiZ: Latin American Film Fest Committee
• Circle K
• Cloud 9 A Cappella
• College Democrats @ UCSC
• College Gymnastics Club
• College Republicans of UCSC
• Committee for Justice in Palestine
• Community of Christian Students (CCS)
• Community Unified Student Network (CUSN)
• Delta Lambda Psi
• Delta Sigma Theta
• Diversity Dance Troupe
• Ethical Career Opportunities
• Faith, Education, Action, and Service Together (FEAST)
• Filipino Student Association
• Friends of Fungal Gardening
• Friends of the Community Agroecology Network (FOCAN)
• Future Health Professionals at UCSC
• Gamma Phi Beta
• Global Chillers
• Green Campus Program
• Habesha Student Union (HSU)
• Haluan (hip-hop dance troupe)
• Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha
• Hillel Student Group
• Hmong Student Association
• Homes on Wheels
• Indian Student Organization
• Information Systems Management Association
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Inter Greek Council
• Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Club
• International Socialist Organization at Santa Cruz (ISOSC)
• International Students, Inc.
• InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
• Iranian Student Network
• Jewish Student Union
• Kappa Gamma Delta
• Kappa Kappa Gamma
• Kappa Zeta
• Kasama (hip-hop dance troupe)
• Kinetic Poetics Project (KDP)
• Kuya Ate Mentorship Program
• Lambda Phi Epsilon
• Latino Business Student Association
• Latter-Day Saints Student Association/LDSSA
• Los Mejicas
• Mathematics Diversity Alliance (MaD)
• Meditation Club
• Mixed Ethnicities Student Headquarters
• Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano/a de Aztlan
• Multicultural Engineering Program (MEP)
• Multi-Cultural Festival Planning Committee=
• Munay
• Music Industry Club
• Muslim Student Alliance
• National Association of Black Accountants
• National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
• National Society of Collegiate Scholars
• Network, The
• Newman Catholic Club
• NUOC Vietnamese Literary Journal
• Pagkakaisa Dance Troupe
• People of the Islands
• Phi Delta Xi
• Phi Iota Alpha
• Pi Alpha Phi
• Poetry Slam
• Program in Community and Agroecology (PICA)
• Queer Geeks
• Queers Latina Network
• Quidditch Club, The
• Rainbow Theater
• Regent Scholars Association
• Russian Club/Russian Circle
• Sabrosura Dance Troupe
• SANAI (American Indian)
• Santa Cruz Futurist
• Santa Cruz Israel Action Committee
• Santa Cruz Linux Users' Group
• Sierra Institute Student Coalition
• Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi
• Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity Inc.
• Sigma Omicron Pi
• Sigma Phi Zeta
  
• Sigma Pi Alpha Sorority
• Sigma Pi Fraternity International
• Slug Anime and Manga Association
• Slugs with Learning Challenges
• Socialist Organizers (SO), Fourth International (FI)
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
• Society of Physics Students at UCSC
• Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
• Stand with Us – Santa Cruz
• Student Coalition for Queer Rights
• Student Coalition for Responsible Electronic Waste
• Student Philosophical Association
• Students for Reproductive Justice
• Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND)
• Students Together Opposing Poverty (STOP)
• Taiwanese Student Association
• Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
• Take Back the Night
• Theta Chi
• Tri Chi Sorority, Chi Chi Chi
• UC and the Bomb
• University Economics Association
• Veritas Forum, The
• VietNamese Student Association
• Zetas at UCSC

Q: What kinds of arts and entertainment does the campus offer?
A: Two art galleries, the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery and the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, show works by students, faculty, and outside artists.

The Music Center, completed in 2000, includes a 396-seat Recital Hall with recording facilities, specially equipped classrooms, individual practice and teaching studios, rehearsal space for ensembles, a gamelan studio, and studios for electronic and computer music.

The Theater Arts Center includes theaters and acting and directing studios.

For fine arts students, the Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center provides modern, well-lit, spacious studios.

In the 2005-06 academic year, UC Santa Cruz sponsored 128 musical concerts, 50 dance performances, 154 theater performances, and 107 film or video screenings.

UC Santa Cruz is also home to the nationally acclaimed professional theater company Shakespeare Santa Cruz.

In addition, UC Santa Cruz sponsors many student instrumental and vocal groups, including its own student orchestra.

For further information, please see the following links:

Calendar of Events
Arts and Lectures
Shakespeare Santa Cruz (only in the summer)
Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery
Porter Faculty Gallery

Q: What kinds of arts and entertainment does the city of Santa Cruz offer?
A: There is always something happening in Santa Cruz in the arts, from street fairs, to world music festivals, to avant-garde theater. The Santa Cruz art world presents a lively showcase year-round, daytime and evening, weekends and weekdays. For a complete list of events and activities, search the Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitors Council Calendar of Events.

Q: How safe is the campus?
A: Because the campus is the size of a small town--providing housing to faculty and approximately 6,700 students--the UCSC Police Department supports a proactive crime prevention program that works closely with members of the community to make the campus a safe place to work, live, and learn.

In the evening, access to the campus is limited to members of the campus community and their guests. Security guards are stationed at both campus entrances, and a night proctor is on duty at each college to maintain a safe and secure environment.

Officers assigned to the Crime Prevention Program give presentations on topics such as personal safety and vehicle and residential security. Brochures and workshops are also available.

The campus produces Crime Awareness and Campus Security, a handbook available upon request by calling (831) 459-2231.

Q: What is the ethnic breakdown of the campus?
A: UC Santa Cruz seeks to enroll and graduate a student body that is not only academically exceptional but reflects California’s broad diversity of cultural, racial, geographical, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The ethnic breakdown for fall 2007 was as follows: