Merrill Programs

09/28/2017

This page is no longer going to be active. Please follow our other pages, Merrill College and Merrill Student Government - MSG. We hope you have a great year.

05/23/2017

Bringing it back...SNOW CONES!!!

2-4pm @ Merrill Plaza with FREE Testing supplies! Treat yo self :D

05/16/2017

Last College Night of the year TOMORROW 5/16!!!

Come out to listen to some smooth jazz with UCSC Jazz Ensemble :D

For off-campus Merrillites & folks living around Merrill, don't forget to pick up your tickets from the housing office :)

05/14/2017

Mis Quince happening now!

05/06/2017

Come out to MOAT DAY!!

05/03/2017

Please help us spread the word to your students about our Ritual as Resistance workshops this Thursday, May 4th.

The Cantú Q***r Center is hosting two workshops with Sofia Rose Smith, who is a q***r femme of color writer, healer and intuitive coach from Los Angeles.

1-3pm at the Cantú Q***r Center: opening ceremony and community circle

6-8:30pm at the Women's Center: dinner and workshop discussing personal, healing ritual practices and intuitive tarot

These workshops center q***r & trans people of color, q***r women, femmes, trans and nonbinary folks, but everyone is welcome to join!


Read some of Sofia's work on the Huffington Post:

Being a Q***r Femme of Color Magic-Maker

You Are An Altar {A Q***r And Feminist Love Poem}

Self-Love or What to Do When You Fall Down the Rabbit Hole of Negative Self-Talk (Q***r Edition)

Finding Your Heart When You’re Suffering

Sofia Rose Smith is a q***r femme of color writer, healer and coach (+ a UCSC alum!). Sofia believes in ritual, ceremony, joy and liberation — and that these practices are deeply ancestral and rooted in acts of resistance. As a radical entrepreneur, Sofia intuitively works to find holistic solutions for our communities: to get us all healing and caring for our collective selves in sustainable ways. To learn more about her work to support q***r & feminist visionaries, visit sofiarosesmith.com

05/02/2017

Message from Campus Diversity Officers Dr. Teresa Maria Linda Scholz and Professor Martin Berger

Dear Students, Staff, and Faculty,

Over the past several weeks, flyers urging whites to “love who they are” have appeared across campus. They are produced by an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as a white nationalist hate group. While we unequivocally support freedom of expression on campus, and student and employee pride in their identities, as an institution of higher learning we are equally committed to ensuring that our campus community has the historical context needed to understand the arguments these flyers make.

Campus Diversity Officers Dr. Teresa Maria Linda Scholz (Staff & Students) and Professor Martin Berger (Faculty) invite you to participate in a conversation about the flyers and campus climate. The event will take place on Monday, May 15 from 5:30-7:30 pm in the Oakes Learning Center.



We will begin the event by hearing briefly from faculty who work on race, gender and representation about the flyers’ ideological significance before turning to audience roundtable discussions. We ultimately want your perspective in determining concrete steps that our campus can take to build a more inclusive community—for those of us of color, those of us who are white, and all of us with multiple, intersecting identities.



We want people of color to feel safe and valued on campus and we want European Americans to feel safe and valued on campus. We hope that European Americans will understand that they have a role to play in addressing the problems of race and that students of color will appreciate that European Americans can be allies in the fight for racial justice.



We—a daughter of Central American immigrants and a son of European immigrants—stand united in urging our community to embrace our multiracial makeup as a strength. The conflict we face is not between different groups of people but between different systems of belief. We know that all of us can be united on the right side of that conflict, on the right side of history. Whatever your identity, please join us in rejecting any message that seeks to divide us by race.



Sincerely,



Teresa Maria Linda Scholz

Campus Diversity Officer for Students and Staff



Martin A. Berger

Acting Vice Provost for Academic Affairs & Diversity Officer for Faculty

04/28/2017

This year's mural winners! Stop by the Merrill Moat for MOAT DAY: Art-A-Palooza and see this art come to life. If you're interested in volunteering please email: [email protected]

04/18/2017

Winter's coming in 2 DAYS!!!

This Wednesday 4/19 Game of Thrones College Night with UCSC Medieval. Sword Fighting Demonstration and many more!

For off-campus Merrillites, tickets are available now through the Crown/Merrill Housing Office!

04/14/2017

On Friday, April 14, Dear World is here at UC Santa Cruz! Come share your story!
At the Photo Shoot, a Dear World photographer will take your portrait. At the Storytelling Event & Photo Reveal, the Dear World team shares portraits and stories that will make you smile, cry, and laugh out loud. Students are selected to share the stories behind their powerful portraits.
Photo Shoot
Friday @ 10am-4pm
Quarry Plaza
Storytelling Event & Photo Reveal
Friday @ 8pm-9pm
College 9/10 Multipurpose Room

On Friday, April 14, Dear World visited UC Santa Cruz! These are their stories...

If you took your portrait with us, please tag yourself and your friends and share the story behind your message. If it feels appropriate, please share that story with us here: goo.gl/forms/AJ5gTTXz5H
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About Dear World:
Dear World is an interactive, award-winning portrait project that unites people through pictures in their distinct message-on-skin style. Their work has been published in over 30 countries and have been featured on the Today Show, CNN, PBS and in the New York Times, Washington Post and Inc. magazine.

04/14/2017

happening now at Terra Fresca.

04/12/2017

Upcoming Crown/Merrill event this Friday! 5.30-7.30pm (correct time)

Relax. Unwind. Rejuvenate.
Love yourself & your computer