This was the first athletic team at UCSC in 1967

This Bay Area native and author of the “Joy Luck Club” attended summer classes at UCSC.

Stevenson alum David Watson opened this downtown business in 1990. Professor Jody Greene says, “I think it’s the most intellectual piece of real estate in Santa Cruz, where I can buy the latest book by any major intellectual published in English.”

In previous gigs, these ladies would have jumped in to save your life in the unfortunate event that you were not staying afloat in a swimming pool

This repurposed building was the first home of College Eight, now Rachel Carson College.

The banana slugs have taken numerous singles and doubles championships within NCAA Division III of this men’s athletics team.

After completing a PhD in Psychology at UCSC, this science journalist has been a frequent host of NPR’s Science Friday

As volunteers for this service organization, UCSC is frequently ranked #1 for contribution of alumni who work in Hispanic-serving institutions

This person's first job was driving around and taking pictures of the antennae people were using to "steal" HBO.

This reg staff person was a child actor who sang in the chorus in Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof.

A courtyard in the Natural Sciences complex includes a bronze statue of one of these pinnipeds. It was considered as a possible mascot before the mighty banana slug won the student vote.

Environmental Studies alum Jonah Peretti co-founded both Huffington Post and this internet media company initially known for its online quizzes, listicles & clickbait hooks. More recently it has expanded into long-form journalism, as well as publication (almost in entirety) of an infamous 35-page dossier…

Located in the South Pacific Sea, an extinct one of these is named after UCSC Geochemist James Gill.

This person was a columnist for the “Half Moon Bay Review.”

You used to be able to buy towels, underwear, and kitchen items at this pre-earthquake department store in downtown Santa Cruz.

Some fans have been heard to shout this alternate cry when cheering on the slugs…

Tofa Borregaard (MA in Anthropology, 2009) aka author Gail Carriger, is currently combining the genre of young adult fiction with this retro-futuristic aesthetic vision [GRAPHIC #2]

Look out! UCSC physicists discovered that rays of antimatter were beaming down to earth by one of them called Patricia in 2015.

While we know this staffer for very different abilities, this person won a national parks contract to install a solar webcam to monitor a colony of Caspian Terns in Elkhorn Slough….due to tidal changes, they had to synchronize the daily research schedule with the timing of the tides.

This enchanted space, which included a labyrinth said to cause madness to traversers, has been mostly replaced by new construction, and is now memorialized in stories and photos housed at McHenry Library Special Collections.

These fun, freeform races are held annually for charity at Harvey West Park [GRAPHIC FILE #1]

"I Got this Way from Kissin' Girls" (1990) and "The Angel of Woolworth's" are two of the films that this alumna (and current Registrar staff member) showed at San Francisco’s historic Castro Theatre.

It wasn’t a folk tale when UCSC Astronomer Steven Vogt and his research team detected a “super-earth” orbiting a nearby star, making its theoretical home in this.

This is an adventurous soul who has lived in an English village and visited MachuPichu, and has also worked in a methadone clinic.

The party was on at this annual college-sponsored campus event that included feasting on a wild boar and once featured musical headliners Camper Van Beethoven and Primus.