Santa Cruz
| Santa Cruz | |
 The University of California: Santa Cruz | |
| Site Information | |
|---|---|
| College | University of California at Santa Cruz |
| Location | Santa Cruz, California |
| Dates | Session 1: July 2 - July 21 | Session 2: July 23 - August 11 |
| Years of Operation | 1998-present |
| Avg. Number of Students | 200 |
| Courses Offered | |
| Humanities | Cognitive Psychology | Great Cases: American Legal History | Logic: Principles of Reasoning | Philosophy |
| Writing | Crafting the Essay | Fiction and Poetry | Writing and Imagination | Writing Your World |
| Math | Inductive and Deductive Reasoning | Mathematical Logic | Paradoxes and Infinities | The Mathematics of Money |
| Science | Introduction to Astronomy | Introduction to Robotics | Principles of Engineering Design | The Physics of Engineering |
| Links | |
| Staff | Santa Cruz Staff |
| Memories | Santa Cruz Memories |
| Hall of Fame | Santa Cruz Hall of Fame |
| Hall of Shame | Santa Cruz Hall of Shame |
Santa Cruz is a CTY, CAA, and YS site located at The University of California, Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, California.
Contents
Places
- Porter A&B (residence halls)
- Porter C Dinning Hall
- The Squiggle/Squiggle field
- The Fishbowl
- Oaks College
- Oaks Field
- Rachel Carson College
- Porter College
- Social Sciences I and II
- Oaks Trail
- Lower Quad
- Upper Quad
Student Life
Activities
- Four Square
- Braveheart
- Intergalactic Space Battle
- Running
- Volleyball Circle (Keepy uppy)
- Tennis Baseball
- Cloud Watching (sometimes without clouds)
- Ultimate Frisbee
- Basketball
- Soccer
- Mafia
- Arts and Crafts
- Pet Rock Making
- Fuse Beads
- Bookmarking
- Origami
- Dance Decorations
- Friendship Bracelets
- Pointless Debates
- Square Dancing
- Salsa.
- Critic (students go around and critique other activities performance)
- Pokémon Go
- Reader's Digest
- Casino Practice
- Nature Walk
- Band Practice
- Bookstore walk
Traditions
- Ninja
- Four Square
- Volleyball Circles
- Canon Songs. This includes American Pie, (which at the last dance includes instructors, TAs, and RAs, who make a circle inside of the lager student one) as well as several line dances. NOTE: In 24.1, RAs banned the Chant. Senior campers in Logic (Aaron, Graey) taught it to as many people as possible, and succeeded in doing it on the last dance.
- Passionfruit
- Creating fan instagrams for instructors, RAs, and TAs. (23.2 Caden5012 shenanigans)
- Silly gossip time, a quad/hall/early dance/pretty much any time specialty, especially in girl's halls.
- Casino Night
- Talent Show
- Singing "I Want it That Way" at all times constantly (23.2).
- Birthday celebrations in halls, often including singing happy birthday at the top of your lounges at some point during every meal of the day, whether or not there even is a birthday in the first place. In 23.2 one hall sang happy birthday thrice a day for nearly a week to one hall member. This student became notorious and receive birthday greetings every day for the rest of the session.
Weekend Activities
On the weekends halls spend the majority of their time sleeping in through optional breakfast, having sleepovers on all non-week nights, and chilling out in the halls. Laundry is also done on weekends primarily, although it varies depending on the hall.
On Fridays, CTYers only have one activity, and skip evening class for the dance, then on weekends the morning up until lunch is open, then there is typically both an afternoon and evening activity, which is evening class on Sundays.
Afternoon activities are traditionally Carnival first Saturday with Color Wars on Sunday, and CTY Olympics(Field Day) second Saturday, with some other activity like a movie or sports tournament on Sunday. Casino Night(now called Game night) is on first Saturday evening, and the Talent Show is on second Saturday evening.
Additional Info
The Santa Cruz site is known for being very strict. CTYers must be escorted everywhere by a teacher or RA, including to the bathroom during class or meals. Lights out is enforced by RAs who walk outside the perimeter of the dorm buildings looking for lights on in the windows. Thankfully most of these restrictions were put in place by Big CTY, and most RAs and instructors are pretty chill compared to other sites. OS and YS are combined on this site with YS being made up of around 30 students (much smaller than other sites). Santa Cruz in general does not see a lot of returners making traditions hard to keep and causing the spirit of cty to feel much weaker on campus compared to other sites.
History
SCZ 25.2: Blammo is brought to Santa Cruz. This session saw a revival in tradition thanks to many staff members who had been students at cty at other sites. With "Royalty" members: RA Ace Isabella, RA King Henry, SRA Queen Ashley, and RA Jack Thomas, Blammo was run for the first time in cty Santa Cruz and for the first time by staff at any site. The first American Pie was shaky with students being on their phones. Color Wars, Game Night, and Carnival also faced the same problem.
Note: Isabella had run Blammo as the Holy Ghost at los 22.2 and Henry had played Blammo as a student on the Seattle location. Santa Cruz also saw returning RA Sean Henderson, RA Matthew Gormon, and RA/Health Assistant Christopher Lee (who had attended cty in 2013).
