University of California, Santa Cruz

One of the University of California's nine campuses, located just north of [Santa Cruz, California]?, built amidst redwood forest and former ranchland in the foothills of the [[Santa Cruz Mountains]], overlooking [Monterey Bay]? and the [[Pacific Ocean]]. The mascot of UCSC is the [banana slug]?.

The Santa Cruz campus was designed an built in the 1960s, when student protests on college campuses across the US were common. The campus, therefore (as the story goes), was designed on a decentralized plan, with no central quadangle or central administrative buildings that would lend themselves readily as rallying points for such protests.

http://www.ucsc.edu