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, Health/Science, Politics & Culture, Arts, Sports, Gender/Sexuality, Diversity, and Investigative.
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, in Winter 2007, the National/International desks were separate, 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, but is back in Fall 2007 relabeled under Diversity. 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.
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[edit] Editors
The current editors-in-chief, as of the 2008 Spring Quarter, are Samantha Thompson and Daniel Zarchy.
Samantha Thompson, an American Studies major from Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, served as a sports reporter for three quarters before becoming Sports Editor for two more quarters.
Daniel Zarchy, a Global Economics major from Albany, CA, served as a copy editor and National News reporter before taking over as World/National Editor and Managing Editor.
Before Spring 2008, the editors were Claire Bergeal and Claire Walla.
Claire Bergeal, a History of Art and Visual Culture major hailing from Stamford, CT, served as the CHP production manager for a number of quarters.
Claire Walla, a Literature major from Studio City, CA, worked for City on a Hill Press as an Arts Desk writer and a Campus Desk Writer before taking a year off to study in Sweden. She came back to City on a Hill Press as the Health/Science Desk editor, then served as Managing Editor before becoming co-Editor in Chief.
Before Spring 2007, the editors-in-chief of City on a Hill Press were Leah Bartos and Ian A. Stewart (publishing under the pen name I.A. Stewart).
Leah Bartos, a native of Santa Barbara, California, graduated in 2007 with a degree in Anthropology. She previously edited the Music, City and Gender/Sexuaility desks. She has covered a variety of noteworthy topics including sex workers, the infamous UCSC anti-war group Students Against War (SAW), police brutality, immigrant rights protests, the Taser-attack at UCLA and the best coffeehouses in Santa Cruz.
Ian A. Stewart's journalism background is in sportswriting, which led him to a year-long stint as a sports writer for the Santa Cruz Sentinel his sophomore year at UCSC. He then returned to City on a Hill Press first as a Sports and Campus Desk editor, then as co-Editor in Chief. Stewart, a fourth-year European History major from Crown College, University of California, Santa Cruz 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] Desks and Staff
Elizabeth Limbach and Rachel Stern currently serve as the Spring Co-Managing Editors.
As of Winter 2008, CHP includes the following desks with the following editors:
Campus - Lisa Donchak
City - Jeremy Spitz
Health/Science - Melody Parker
Politics & Culture - Katia Protsenko
Arts - Gianmaria Franchini
Sports - Cyrus Gutnick
Gender/Sexuality – Rachel Tennenbaum
Diversity - Cody-Leigh Mullin
Investigative - Jono Kinkade
Melissa Black is the photo editor, and Phil Carter is the multimedia producer.
Laura Fishman is the production manager.
[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 and illustrations have also received CSPA awards in the past two decades. Most recently in 2007, City on a Hill Press received CSPA honors for cover design and page layout.
Alia Wilson (Spring '07 Health/Science editor) and Daniel Zarchy, were awarded the Katharine M. MacDonald Award for excellence in student journalism by the California State University, Sacramento Center for California Studies and the Sacramento Press Club for their 2006 story "Toeing The Line," about immigration legislation in California.
[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
