Year: 2009
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‘The ground started moving all around me’
The earth shook. Furniture, dishes, books, and more went flying, and structures shifted off their foundations. Traffic choked the streets. People had to evacuate their homes, so friends helped friends. “I was reaching for my car door when it hit,” Long Marine Lab staff member Maria Choy was quoted as saying in the October 27,…
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Campus safety, security update and scheduled CruzAlert tests
Today marks the second anniversary of the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, which claimed 32 lives and wounded many more. Since that time, UCSC has taken great strides to improve safety and security on our campus and our ability to respond to both man-made and natural emergencies. At the beginning of the Fall 2008 Quarter,…