UCSC Basic Needs

@ucscbasicneeds

OPEN TO ALL: We provide the UCSC community with info on food, housing, health & wellness, financial, and technology resources both on and off campus!
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‘Basic Needs Fee Campaign Pack’ 2026 🗳️ Prints, Stickers, Buttons, Patches, Paper-Bags UCSC STUDENTS, TODAY IS THE FINAL DAY TO VOTE IN CAMPUS ELECTIONS. USE THE LAST SLIDE TO CAST YOUR VOTE BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE! 🗳️ 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐖𝐖𝐖!
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UCSC elections are due TODAY MAY 18TH 11:59 PM‼️ 🫶Takes 5 minutes to vote 🗳️ Swipe to learn what’s on the ballot and make your voice heard
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Living off-campus next school year? Here are some great resources to check out at any point of your housing search!🏡
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Don’t “wait for it- wait for it.” Vote NOW!!!!!!
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VOTE, SIP, CRAFT, SNACK! This Tuesday, 5/12, 4:30PM at Cowell Coffee Shop. Come hang out, eat some snacks, sip some shrub, sew some patches on your clothes and get one of our Basic Needs Cookbooks with recipes from RFM, Produce Pop-Up, CCS and UCSC students! Bring clothes you want to patch and any other projects you want to work on🪡🎨🧶 PROOF OF VOTING IN UCSC ELECTIONS IS REQUIRED UPON ENTRY! HAPPY VOTING! HOPE TO SEE YOU TUESDAY🫵🧵🍓
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PLANT PROM THIS WEEKEND!!! Here are some reminders and information about the event!! Also this event is for UCSC students only! We’re excited to see you there! 🍅🌱
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Hi merrill! 🦋🫶 Campus elections are open, where students can vote on Student Union Assembly and Graduate Student Association campaigns and proposed student fees.💰This year, there are three new fee measures on the ballot, and this is your guide to the 2026 basic needs fee measure! 🤓 Make sure to vote online at the “campus elections” page of the UCSC website or at the QR code here! 🗳️
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A HUUUUGE SAVORY FOOD DUMP!!🧂 1. Edamame fried rice with tofu and gochujang 2. Breakfast tacos with leftover ingredients from Raíces y Futuros 3. Baked mac n cheese with cavatappi noodles 4. CCS salad pre-mixed :D 5. House made focaccia and pesto 6. Breakfast tacos for Food as Resistence at CCS 7. Cabbage pancakes with miso dipping 8. Biggg breakfast scramble for Taco Tuesday 9. Hotel pan enchiladas 10. Fruit salad plate from Food as Resistance 11. Baked cheesy focaccia bread 12. The assembly lineeeee 13. Gyoza with minced tofu filling 14. Morning setup downstairs feat. CCS salad, oatmeal, and arepas! 15. Tacos again… but PINK 16. CCS salad with carrots, beets, and chickpeas 17. Bean and cheese pupusas going into the dumb waiter 18. Chana masala curry with tofu 19. Beet pasta!! 20. Loaded rainbow focaccia WE ❤️ YOU ALL!!!!!!!!! Let us know, as always, if there are any recipes you would like a copy of or any dishes you want to see at CCS (message this account or tell us in person/ in our feedback box)! We aim to utilize seasonal produce from the farm and ingredients we have on hand, but we can get creative in the kitchen 🥬🍅🍋🥕🧅🫜
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Grab a breakfast burrito 🌯 TOMORROW at Science Hill from 9-11 AM. It’s likely that we’ll run out before 11, so come early! AND BRING YOUR PROOF OF VOTING (you can also vote there)
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Fresh. Local. Affordable. Our Produce Pop-Up brings seasonal fruit and vegetables — grown right here on the @ucsc Farm and sourced from local organic growers — to campus twice a week, at prices that make good food accessible to everyone. Grown by students, distributed by students, open to all. What’s on the table changes with the season, so there’s always something worth showing up for. Wednesdays 11am–3pm outside McHenry Library Fridays 11am–3pm outside the Science & Engineering Library Open during the academic year — come find us. 🌱 Follow @ucscproducepopup for the latest updates and schedule. What spring produce are you most excited for?
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IT’S HAPPENING!! ๋࣭⭑ Come to Cowell Coffee Shop on April 8th for a night of karaoke! As always, this is a free event ➫ CCS will be providing mocktails and RFM will be providing spam and tofu musubi! See you then🎙️🎶
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WELCOME BACK FROM SPRING BREAK EVERYONE!! 🌷🌼🌱We are so excited to welcome everyone back into the café on Thursday, see you then! 𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘
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