Crown College, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Crown College is one of the residential colleges that makes up the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Located on the upper northern side of campus by Merrill College, Crown also borders the newly constructed Colleges Nine and Ten. Crown is made up of eight three-floor residence halls as well as having about half of the Crown-Merrill apartment buildings. The UCSC fire station is located at Crown.
Crown was founded in 1967 when the Chancellor Dean E. McHenry invited Kenneth V. Thimann to come to Santa Cruz and head what would become Crown College and to build the science faculty at UCSC.
Because of its strong science-related roots and continuing tradition, all of the student residence buildings have science-related themes and names: Gauss House, Galen House, Rutherford House, Harvey and Maxwell Houses, Leonardo House, Galileo House, and Descartes House. Because of its strong academic roots, Crown College is regarded as one of the quieter colleges on the campus.
Despite its thematic grounding in natural science and technology, like at all UCSC colleges, Crown students major in subjects across all disciplines. Crown has a favorable repuation for academically-focused students, possibly due to both its reputation as a science college and its secluded location on the Santa Cruz campus. It is very close to Upper Campus, frequented by hikers and mountain bikers, and where drum circles takes place during full moons.
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