City on a Hill Press

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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.

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, National, International, Gender/Sexuality, Health/Science, Arts and Sports.

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, prior to Winter 2007, the National/International desks were combined as one, 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.

1 Editors
2 Awards
3 Alumni
4 See Also

[edit] Editors

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

Leah 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 UCSC anti-war group Students Against War (SAW), police brutality, immigrant rights protests, the Taser-attack at UCLA, the San Francisco Giants and the best coffeehouses in Santa Cruz.

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 Cowell 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Alumni

Notable City on a Hill Press alumni include Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Dana Priest and Martha Mendoza.

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

[edit] See Also

Official City on a Hill Press Website

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