“Now if you all turn to the back of your tickets, I’m going to read a disclaimer,” senior co-director Maura Bonini said before reading off a university mandated disclaimer in a mocking, affected voice about how the university does not necessarily condone the message of the show.

Those against Affirmative Action imply that I’m only here because Santa Clara needs to fill a quota. That is insulting to every student at this school because it reduces our worth to skin color.

With “Compton” written across a silhouette of Africa behind him, Kendrick Lamar brought his six minute Grammy performance to a close. In his few minutes onstage, Kendrick taught us a lesson in racism and the black experience.

The show must go on—even if you have a sore arm from a meningitis shot. Dancers in Images 2016 showed off their tenacity and spectacular dance moves last weekend during a performance that had been in the making since Fall Quarter.

Models will be strutting their stuff while draped in access cards, bottle caps and candy bar wrappers at the 6th Annual Eco Fashion Show in the de Saisset Museum.

The winners of the 88th Annual Academy Awards will be white. Sure, there might be a couple of minority directors or special effects teams nominated, but the major award-winners will be lily-tinted. For the second year in a row.

During her senior year of high school, Santa Clara first-year Riley O’Connell wrote a 15-minute slam poem that earned her a spot among five finalists vying to be 2015’s Denver Youth Poet Laureate. It was her first official poetry performance.

“It’s been very exciting because I love the idea of combining art with the sciences.”