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In the latest issue of City on a Hill Press, the student newspaper for the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), reporter Marc Abizeid spins a bone-chilling tale of silenced professors and a Middle East studies field threatened by a shadowy network of "radical pro-Israel interest groups." At the helm of this nefarious conspiracy is of course Campus Watch, which Abizeid paints as a ruthless organization bent on censoring anyone who strays from the straight and narrow. The problem is none of it's true.Much like the disaffected academics he profiles in the ominously titled, "Silencing Debate on the Middle...

Researchers fear a continuation of climate changes could doom California oaks and the area's beloved banana slugs.Researchers at the University of California-Santa Cruz -- which has a banana slug as school mascot -- said global warming could threaten California's iconic oak woodlands and the slugs that live in them by shifting the growing climate northward.If sea surface temperatures rise along the coast, researchers said, there could be a reduction in fog and thus too little moisture to support the trees.