What does UC Santa Cruz have in common with the rest of the UC? A new book explores the system’s complicated history

What does UC Santa Cruz have in common with the rest of the UC? A new book explores the system’s complicated history

What makes UC Santa Cruz different from the University of California’s nine other campuses? Journalist Miriam Pawel’s new book, “California Dreams,” traces the UC system’s tumultuous history — and explores how UCSC’s distinctive identity emerged from a vision that quickly collided with the upheavals of the 1960s.