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Public DiscourseDoes the legality of a drug affect your decision to use it? Why or w

Compiled by Rosannavan Straten & Presc

No, it doesnt, because I think the decisionto use a drug comes from a deeper place thansocietys perception of that said drug.

JESSY MANUELTHIRD-YEAR, PORTER

ECONOMICS

Yes, I guess so, because its illegal.wouldnt do drugs either way, becaubad for you.

KARETHIRD-YEAR, COLL

MARINE

It never has affected my decision in the past.Hypothetically, if youre smart about it, youre

not going to need the law to keep you in

check.

RACHEL FORMANFOURTH-YEAR, STEVENSON

FILM

No, because whether or not the druits still up to me. Its not like they ar

able because of their illegality.

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Table of Contents

P. 5 A MAJOR PROBLEAMERICAN STUDIESSUSPENDEDBy Rosa Castaeda

P. 7 SANTA CRUZ WRAUP IN PLASTIC BAG DEBy Nikki Pritchard

P. 10 DELVING INTTHE MURKY WORLOF 2C-IBy Rosanna van Stra

P. 13 NEW GOVERNORTACKLES OLD PROBLEBy Mikaela odd

P. 14 ARTISTS WORK

THIS IS SANTA CRUZBy Asa Hess-Matsumoto

P. 16 THROUGH OLENSBy Staf

P. 18 WHAT SARAH PALASKA SAYS ABOUTPOLITICSBy Blair Stenvick

&LETTER TO THE EDITOR

P. 19 EDITORIALS: SETURNS GRATEFUL DEARCHIVE INTO DIRTYPOLITICS&UNIVERSITY EXECUTCHOICES DEFINED BY

P. 20 SLUG COMICS

By Bela Messex&WHO THE HELL ASKEDCompiled byRosela Arce& Nick Paris

COVER AR BYRACHEL EDELSEI

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Upper illustration by Rachel Edelstein/Lower photo by Nick Paris

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American Studies EliminatedDepartment aculty votes to suspend admission to the major

By Rosa CastaedaCampus Reporter

Te American studies aculty has votedto suspend admission to the American

studies major as o July 1 this year.Since the 1970s, the American studies

major has given students an interdisci-plinary and historical context in which tostudy the United States. It allows studentsto study the diversity within its political,social and cultural institutions. Te de-partments mission is to prepare studentsto think critically, be eective writers andresponsible citizens.

Te aculty voted to recommend tothe academic senate that the program besuspended or one or two years. Tis isnot a cancellation o the program, saidvice provost and dean o undergraduateeducation Bill Ladusaw.

Declared and proposed Americanstudies majors should not have any di-culty completing their degrees, said EricPorter, proessor and head o the depart-ment, in an e-mail to students aliatedwith the department.

Te academic senate committee on ed-ucational policy, which has authority overall undergraduate matters, will decidewhether or not to cancel the program.

Tere are currently around 125 de-clared American studies majors. In the20082009 academic year, 36 studentsgraduated with degrees in Americanstudies.

Te eminist studies and linguis-tics departments, which are also in the

humanities division, also granted around30 to 60 degrees in the 20082009 schoolyear. In the same academic year, psychol-ogy granted 422 degrees. Te molecularengineering department granted three.

Currently the American studiesdepartment has only ve aculty mem-bers. Literature, the largest department inhumanities, currently has around 40 ac-ulty members. Te linguistics departmentand language studies program has around11, philosophy has seven and eministstudies six.

Te limited number o aculty mem-bers is the primary reason or suspendingthe program, Ladusaw said. But because

other departments are already stretchedthin, the American studies departmentcannot count on them to provide neces-sary proessors to maintain the major.

Hiring new aculty is not an option,because the process is very slow, Ladusawsaid.

Te wise thing to do is to take a time-out, [rather] than bring more students inthan we can ser ve, he said.

Porter, the head o the American stud-ies department, assured students whoreceived the e-mail that students currently

declared or proposed in the major will beable to complete their major and obtaintheir degree in a timely ashion. He ad-vised proposed American studies majorsto take the courses required to declaretheir major by spring quarter. Coursessuch as Introduction to American Studies

will be oered or the last time this spring.Fourth-year American studies andpsychology major Elena Brown said sheis unhappy with the murky ate o theAmerican studies department.

It sucks, and Im upset about it,Brown said. Its really rustrating. Teyvealready cut community studies. Humani-ties are just not important here, appar-ently where you learn to think criticallyabout big issues like multiculturalism anddiversity. American studies is the closestthing to ethnic studies, and now its beingtargeted.

Te decision to suspend the un-dergraduate major will aect graduatestudents as well.

For Adam Reed, second-year gradu-ate student instructor and history oconsciousness doctoral candidate, thedissolution o the American studies majormeans that nding work as a teaching as-sistant or graduate student instructor willbe more dicult.

American studies has been a placeor history o consciousness [graduate]students to get A-ships, and were get-ting incredibly ucked, Reed said. So

THE AMERICAN STUDIES major will be suspended in July this year. Students who have already prdeclared the major will be able to complete their degree, but the major will be closed to new applican

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American Studies Major Put on HoldContinued from p. 5

i American studies is gone, there are not going to be any otherprograms or students to A.

Reeds graduate ocus on race in the United States makes himthe perect candidate or a A in American studies, but not orother departments. He said eliminating the American studiesdepartment would mean the loss o valuable academic researchand resources.

Were pretty much closing down a whole important eldo knowledge that students are really interested in and is reallyimportant, Reed said. And its just going to be gone.

Magaly Monroy, ourth-year American studies major, saidthat the suspension sends a very discouraging message aboutwhat kinds o programs the university values.

It makes me eel that the university is telling me that what Iwant to be learning is not as important as either math or sciencemajors, Monroy said.

Brown said one o the key ideas o public education is sup-posed to be that all students should be able to choose to studyany discipline they are passionate about.

Tats the beauty o going to public university the diver-sity between disciplines and people and its becoming lessand less diverse, Brown said. Its really rustrating, because Idont think students care.

An inormational meeting will be held on Monday in Hu-manities 1, Room 202. American studies students will have theopportunity to discuss urther plans or the major and will begiven inormation about how to proceed.

Ladusaw said that the two main goals o his oce are toserve the current students and to engage in active conversa-tion on how to sustain the American studies program inthe uture.

STUDENTS ATTEND the rstday of an American studies classon Chicano and Latino culture.The major will be suspended atthe end of the year.

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Te city and county o Santa

Cruz are grappling with a major

policy change intended to cur-

tail damage to the environment

and preserve the beauty and

health o local beaches.

Te policy would ban single-

use plastic bags. In Sept. 2010,

the Santa Cruz City Councilmoved to conduct research on

the environmental impact o

the proposed ban on single-use

plastic bags.

I enacted, the ban would

prohibit the use o plastic bags.

A 10-cent ee on paper bags is

part o the proposal.

Since plastic bags ofen nd

their way to the oceans, many

consider the policy essential or

the preservation o the Monterey

Bay.

Te Santa Cruz County

Board o Supervisors reviewed

the proposed ordinance in an

April 2010 meeting. AB 1998, a

comparable measure, ailed on

the state level in August.

Te magnitude o environ-

mental damage due to plastics

has caught the attention o many

governing bodies. However,

newly elected city council mem-

ber and UCSC alumna Hilary

Bryant said the policy aces

obstacles.

In the past, the ban has

ailed not because o the lack o

broad-based popular support

but because o strong lobbyingon the state level, Bryant said.

O those opposed to the

bill, the American Chemistry

Council garnered the publics

attention with radio and televi-

sion ads against the state ban.

A Virginia-based company,

the ACC represents plastic bag

manuacturers, including Exx-

onMobil.

All three recently elected city

council members support the

ban, saying they would support

it on a statewide level as well.

City council-member David

errazas said Santa Cruz is

obligated to deal with the plastic

problem.

As a coastal community, we

have a responsibility to nd a

solution, he said.

Because statewide Proposi-

tion 26 passed, the ordinance

must be revised or passed with

two-thirds o a local vote. City

council member Lynn Robinson

said a statewide measure would

be benecial. However, she ors-

ees potential problems with the

policy language in its compli-

ance with Proposition 26.

Local municipalities cant a-

ord to get sued, Robinson said.

Beore you put a policy orward

you need to make sure it works.

Bryant said a statewide

measure would make the policy

more successul.

A statewide consistent eortwould have a larger impact and

would be easier to implement

because o its uniormity, she

said.

Some countries and mu-

nicipalities have enacted similar

policies already. South Arica,

Ireland and China have imple-

mented ees or bans on plastic

bags. While no U.S. state has

passed a ban, the municipali-

ties o San Francisco

and Malibu have pa

ordinances.

Opponents o the

to economic reason

nesses will be aecte

demand or alternat

o transporting their

aquerias, Chinese t

taurants and superm

among those aecte

member Robinson s

major diculty with

Te biggest chal

it does aect the bus

she said. People wa

right thing, but you

it in a way that does

more dicult or th

nesses to do the wor

to do.

In Santa Cruz, so

have already switch

tic to paper. New Le

nity Market, or exa

provides paper bags

Tey encourage c

bring in reusable baing to local sustaina

tions with each bag

cil member Bryant s

such community e

I would be in a

on the use o plastic

voluntarily impleme

local residents and b

regardless o when o

or local legisl ative b

she said.

City Council Conside

Ban on Plastic BagsNewly elected council members support

proposed policy change, anticipate obstacles

By Nikki PritchardCity Reporter

THE PLASTIC BAGS people use to line their garbhold their dogs waste and litter the ground everywsoon be banned in Santa Cruz County.

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Feature

Who Said Lucy CouldBe the Only Girl with

Kaleidoscope Eyes?Taking a trip down the lane ofnew-wave designer drug 2C-I

By Rosanna van StratenArts and Entertainment Reporter

Ilustrations by Rachel Edelstein

You have to realize what Im searching or, which is not or altering consciousness, oror having un or or enjoying this or or discovering that, Shulgin said. Im looking orthe tools that can be used or studying the mind and other people then will use the tools innding out the aspects o the mental process and how it ties to the brain.

Psychedelic drugs and Alexander Shulgin. Its nearly impossible to reer to one withoutthe other. Known as the godather o ecstasy, Shulgin popularized MDMA and created, oras he cal ls it, synthesized, over 230 psychoactive compounds. 2C-I is one o them.

Users doing their own research through experimentation with these drugs areresponsible or the relative legal ambiguity o 2C-I.

Te limited laws that pertain to 2C-I, the ease o accessibility through online purchase,and the relatively little history o the drug create a legal gray area that makes new-wavepsychedelics well trippy.

2C-I, known to chemists as 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenethylamine, and to AlexanderShulgin as one o his babies, is slowly breaking out o its underground shell and makingits way into the drug world. Not just the medical and scientic drug world, but a world opsychedelics that is classied as designer drugs.

Mescaline, the principle active agent in peyote, was the rst known psychedelic. It wasused or thousands o years among Native American tribes, ritualistically and medicinally.

Indigenous tribes all over the world called it the sacred medicine, and used it to combatspiritual and physical battles. However, mescaline was not synthesized as a psychedelicdrug until 1919 and did not emerge until the 1960s when experimentation with psychedel-ics became prevalent.

Mescaline belongs to a amily o compounds known as phenethylamines, whichincludes the 2C amily and more well-known drugs like MDMA, MDA, and amphetamine.Phenethylamines are structurally close to dopamine, which is naturally occurring in thebrain, and is involved with the sensing o pleasure and reward.

2C-I belongs to a amily o 29 2C compounds, which include the more notable 2C-B,2C-E and 2C--7. Tese are designated Schedule I drugs, or dangerous with a high abusepotential and no known or accepted medicinal applications, according to the Food andDrug Administration.

Designer drugs, as dened by Donald Cooper rom the Drug Enorcement Association,are ofen drugs that are designed to get around existing drug laws by modiying ortweaking the molecular structures o already established illegal drugs, or nding anentirely dierent chemical structure that produces a similar eect to an illegal recreational

drug. Between the l ate 1990s and the early 2000s, such substances were sold as researchchemicals.2C-I alls into a gray zone. Special agent Casey McEnry rom the San Francisco eld

division o the DEA, explains the drugs ambiguous legal situation.2C-I is currently not scheduled under the Controlled Substance Act, McEnry said.

However, i it is determined to be structurally similar to 2C-B, which is a Schedule Icontrolled substance, it could potentially be prosecuted under the Controlled SubstanceAnalogue Act.

I 2C-I were to become a Schedule I drug, it would mean that it is not considered le-gitimate or medicinal use or human consumption. Other drugs that all into this categoryinclude marijuana, heroin and mescaline.

In several countries in Europe, such as England, Germany and France, 2C-I has already

been made il legal. However, no deaths have beenreported.

In order or 2C-I to be banned, it would have tomeet certain specic requirements, McEnry said.

Based on my research, it appears that orprosecution under the act the key would be intentor human consumption, McEnry said. Tis canbe proven in a variety o ways, including the way itis sold, methods o marketing and representationsmade by the seller or provider o the substance.

UCSC sociology chair Craig Reinerman, whoocuses his research in drugs and society, said psy-chedelics are dicult to analyze. Te easiest way todescribe them, he said, is as the technology o thesel, a term coined by Michel Foucault. Foucaultwas a French sociologist and philosopher ascinatedby the human mind.

Reinerman said that people viewed psychedelic

drugs through the lens o the cultural context inwhich they were introduced.

LSD was a new drug, introduced at a particu-lar moment o social upheaval, rebellion and so itbecame associated with a eared group, which isthe same or all other drug scares and drug wars,Reinerman said.

Tis description also expresses the ears thathave become apparent due to the popularization odesigner drugs.

[Users were] people who were questioning basicAmerican values. Tese were people who wereprotesting against Americans oreign policy.Tese were people who were attacking capi-talism and the corporate order, Reiner-man said. Tese were not just seen

as misguided victims who becameaddicted to something.Luc Sala, the Dutch author

ascinated with psychedel-ics, asked the amousdrug designer Alex-ander Shulgin howhis ascinationwith psychedel-ics started. Hedescribedhis rst-ever

He sits relaxed in his oldable chair in a tropical spot in Mexico. Lines o palm trees decorate thewhite sand beach behind him and he is wearing a blouse and linen pants, obviously appropriateattire or such a place and time. Calm and composed, and not at all looking the way an older

man who has guinea-pigged over 230 psychoactive drugs is expected to look, Alexander Shulgin isinterviewed by Luc Sala, a Dutch author that does most o his research on psychedelic drugs.

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experience with that other world.I suddenly ound mysel in an extraor-

dinary, physical world around me, visual,sensory world o color, o interpretation,o motion, o orm, o shape, Shulgin said.Te drug allowed me to realize, express,to appreciate. It was there all along andI was totally blind to it. It catalyzed theopening o my own viewing, and thatcaught my antasy.

Ofen used recreationally, 2C-I is anovertly LSD-like psychedelic, tending to

have more visual and intellectual eects,users say.Hana Lurie, a ourth-year psychology

student at UC Santa Cruz, experienced theeects that Shulgin described when sherst experimented with 2C-I. She was witha close riend who was more experiencedin the use o psychedelic drugs the rsttime she tried the drug. She had not triedany psychedelic drugs beore.

Lurie adjusts hersel in her chair, with apensive look in her eyes. Her ace becomesserious as she starts talk ing about the trip.

Te rst thing I noticed was that Icould eel my breathing Im trying tond a word It was much more notice-able, she says. It elt good to breathe I

could eel the oxygen oating through mylungs and pumping through my body []It came on very slowly, and I was still re-ally aware and unctional.

Lurie struggles to nd the right wordsto urther describe her experience. Shepauses and hesitates, mumbling a bit. Afera ew moments o silence, she takes a biggulp o her coee, laughs and continues.

God, its so hard to describe that eel-ing, its so dicult to describe psychedelicdrugs, she said. Everything I touchedand elt would shoot through every cell inmy body Its reallyhard to articulate.

It is strange to sit

in the coee shopwhere we are sitting,talking about anotherworld o conscious-ness. Lie is so normalhere while studentsstudy and baristasserve up lattes behindthe counter. Lurie isquiet. Her eyes lightup when the back-ground music triggersa thought, a memoryViva la Vida byColdplay starts playing.

I ruled the world on 2C-I, Lurie said.Its weird how when you have a drug trip,

aferwards you remember the exact eel-ings, but a ew years l ater you only remem-ber very specic parts o it, like the partsthat aected you the most, you know?

Lurie said she was never worried aboutthe legality o using the drug, trusting herriend at the time he had purchased itonline. Later, Lurie purchased it herseltogether with a riend. Cost-wise, Luriesaid it is an investment but denitely notout o reach or her student budget.

I wasnt worried about getting introuble, but I was absolutely shocked

about how easy itwas or us to pur-chase, Lurie said.

I was somehowexpecting thewebsite ownersto do some sorto check, a checkthat we wereactually usingit or researchpurposes and notrecreationally oror selling pur-poses. But no.

Greg Smith*,the owner o

an online company that sells a variety oresearch chemicals, including 2C-I, saidthat veriying the intentions o 2C-I buyers

is not always easible.It is dicult to distinguish between a

university researcher and some kid who islooking or a x, said Smith, who wishes

to keep his name and the nampany anonymous or security.

Smith said that although dibetween research and recreaticult, his company regulates to 2C-I and other designer drucertain criteria customers mus

It would be naive to think people who use the products willicit purposes, Smith said. Htake every precaution we can ithe chemicals rom being used

manner. I were provided withwhich matches one o our custwere told theyre using the proitly, the account is immediatel

However, he said, the webstected.

We also dont allow our prto be indexed by search engineprevent individuals who may or chemicals or illicit purposnding our products easily. I wthose individuals buy rom a c

Te legal paradox o 2C-I ident through the willingness oresponded or didnt to qparticipating as sources or thi

An anonymous representat

EastCoastChems stressed via eimportance o expressing this right light.

We wish the important po

I suddenly found myselfin an extraordinary world,

physical world aroundme, visual, sensory worldof color, of interpretation,of motion, of form, ofshape.

Alexander Shulgin,the godfather of ecstasy

Illustration by Rachel Edelstein

Continued

It is difcult to distinguish between auniversity researcher and some kid whois looking for a x.

Greg Smith*, owner of an onlinecompany that sells research chemicals

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A Look at Designer DrugsContinued from p. 11

o 2C-I were moreemphasized overits mere availability.In act, we really wishresearch chemical articleswere limited to scientic jour-

nals rather than being placedpublicly where hyper-conservativeolks will be outraged, or wherecriminals will be tempted to acquiresome or the wrong reasons.

Whether the legality o this drug stemsrom a good place is hard to identiy. Te

online seller Smithexplained:Te inventor o a

drug has a period o uncer-tainty to bring the product

to market and sell it commer-

cially beore other chemical anddrug manuacturers can make

generic versions o the chemical.Tats where the majority o my

customers are taking part in research-ing the products properties to ensurelawmakers and policy-makers can make

inormed decisions regarding where andi the chemicals should be scheduled orcontrolled.

Tis may be the stage that designerdrugs are now in: Te laws are ambiguous,there is no denitive or developed user

culture, not enough history. 2C-I is notonly straddling the line o legality, its alsostraddling the make it or break it line asa psychedelic substance.

Alexander Shulgin explains that theact that designer drugs are so ambiguousand there really are no rules may solely ac-

centuate the potentialities thaits current legal state. o him,thing, whatever side o the legmight end up on.

Despite public antagonizaternmental opposition, Shulgin

integrity has remained intact.With all the condence in t

that his way is the right way, sthis beach chair in Mexico, he

Sometimes you have to disthing to see how it works.

*Names have

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Politics &

Illustration

Governor Takes OnHigher Education Struggles

Brown considers new state master plan

Newly elected Caliornia governor Jerry Brown wasinaugurated this week, ready to tackle the $82 billion indebt accumulated over the past year alone but is skep-tical about how much he will be able to take on in the aceo the statewide budget crisis.

Tis debt gure has already begun plaguing talksabout reorm as the states scal situation takes the rontseat, leaving topics like higher education in the dust. Butthe governor will still try to address those problems ac-cording to his inaugural speech.

Te governors plan or higher education was clearduring campaign season, but whether he can keep hispromises during one o the worst economic times in his-tory remains to be seen.

Recent state budgets have raised tuition drastically,reduced the number o new students cut class sectionsso that students cannot get basic classes they need, anddriven good proessors to other states, Brown said on hiscampaign website. Tis situation calls or a major over-haul o many components o the postsecondary system.

Brown plans to stage this overhaul by creating a newstate master plan, meant to provide better college accessand success or the long-term, he said. He also aims tointroduce more online learning and extended universityprograms.

echnology can increase educational productivity, ex-pand access to higher learning, and reduce costs, Brownsaid on his website.

UCSC will begin to implement online courses in

March o this year, along with all o the other UCs inCaliornia.

Politics proessor Daniel Wirls is skeptical oUCSCs initiatives to create online courses.

Such courses are best or a limited number osubjects taught in a airly particular ashion, suchas mathematics with machine-graded exams, Wirlsand in an e-mail. So ar the primary purpose seemsto be revenue-generation rather than cutting costsor increasing aordability. Greater revenue does notnecessarily translate into greater aordability or moststudents.

Donna Blitzer, director o government relations,said in an e-mail that she is looking orward to work-ing with Brown on the subject o higher education.She said he is well inormed and qualied on thetopic.

We understand he is intending to conront a seri-ous state budget challenge, Blitzer said, and we hopeto work with him cooperatively on that in a way thatpreserves the important contributions the UC makesto Caliornia.

Another way Brown hopes to help higher edu-cation in Cal iornias current state o crisis is bystopping state transer o monetary support rom thoseinstitutions to pay or prisons. He called prison expansionunnecessarily expensive and said it would add substan-tially to our states decit.

We can do this without sacricing public saety,

Brown said. By relentlessly pursuing similar cost savings,we can channel needed unds to our higher educationsystem.

Brown has yet to speak as governor on the higher edu-

cation issue, but it will not be what all Caliorhope or in the ace o the states nancial cris

Te budget I present next week will be pait will be an honest budget, Brown said in hispeech Monday. Choices have to be made andecisions taken. Our budget problem is dire,

years o cutbacks, I am determined to enhancschools so that our citizens o the uture havethe zest and the character to keep Caliornia uthe best.

By Mikaela ToddCity Co-Editor

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Arts & Entertainment

Painting and Sculpting the Face of Santa Cr

As the handul o art acionados andneophytes wandered about the SantaCruz Art Leagues gallery, their silent and

thoughtul gazes were only interrupted bythe occasional approving smile or au-dible cool. But cool simply doesnt dojustice to the Santa Cruz Art Leagues rstexhibit o the year, Tis is Santa Cruz. Ina showroom that includes bizarre sculp-tures, used glasswork and more allcontributed by Santa Cruz County artists you can see not just Santa Cruz art butSanta Cruz dened by its artists.

Te ree, non-juried, open-submissionshow spotlights the work o 97 localartists. Te exhibit, showcased by thenon-prot Santa Cruz Art League, openedto the public Dec. 11. It will remain openuntil next Tursday.

Te pieces, varying in both orm and

shape, were priced rom $75 to $10,000.We really got a lot o submissions

rom the community, many o whomwere not members [o the Santa Cruz ArtLeague], exhibit coordinator Carol Jeneidsaid.

Waving a hand across the art hanging

about the gallery walls, Jeneid smiled,pleased by both the quality and the quan-tity o art in the exhibit.

Santa Cruz has such a brilliant artcommunity, she said. Its booming, really.I think the ocean is what draws people in

it provides a sense o place.Lining the walls were phot

ings and sculptures clearly ins

the natural beauty o the MonTe bright, smudged strokes oo Santa Cruz and the compleShell on Drifwood are clearrom the wonders large andound along Natural Bridges.

Yet, amid the expected acryrenditions o recognizable beawave breaks, and boardwalk stthere also appear the weird anorms o creativity one would to encounter in Santa Cruz. Oture shelved an assortment o mimicries o local speakers whin columns rom Good imespiece, a wood carving o a bugalien, conveyed the wisdom:

impress them with your brilliathem with bullshit.

Cindy Liebenthal, editor oCruz Art Leagues newsletter, pressed at both the number ancontributions made to the exh

Tis exhibit was host to a

From the amiliar to the antastical, local artwork reects artists view o the county

By Asa Hess-MatsumotoArts & Entertainment Editor

ARTISTS WERE PROMPTED to create art to show what makes thecounty theirs. This piece of basketry, by Larry Worley, is woven arounda piece of driftwood from the Santa Cruz coast.

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Photos by Po rst-time entries and weve seensome o their pieces already sold, shesaid.

Russell Brutsche, artist behind theuturistic imagery that is San Loren-zo Rivermouth Circa 2080 A.D., saidhe appreciated not only the opportu-nity o the exhibition itsel but whatthe Santa Cruz Art League does orthe art community in general, noting

the classes that the League holds ordeveloping artistic talent.

Im a big believer in encourag-

ing children into art and drawing,he said. Some people say that youeither have it or you dont, but youdont get it i you dont cultivate it.I really like what [the Santa Cruz ArtLeague] does. Its grassroots originsand volunteer ethic allow exhibitions

like this one to take place.Standing in the gallerys entryway,

an abundance o Santa Cruz creativ-

ity behind her, Jeneid said she waspleased about the shows artisticturnout:

Tis exhibition really goes toshow how creative the community re-ally is how we dene ourselves.

LEFT: Open to the public, the exhibit Santa Cruz features local artwork deeverything from beach scenes to aliensocieties.ABOVE: Not all pieces were availableDarnell Waltons Trophy Stand was from his private collection.

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OUR LENSBy Staff Photographers

Baby, its cold outside ...1. South Lake Tahoe Sal Ingram

2. Ann Arbor, Mich. Prescott Watson

3. South Lake Tahoe Sal Ingram

4. Truckee, Calif. Ryan Tuttle

5. Union Square, San Francisco Isaac Miller

6. The Red Square Bar, Las Vegas Nick Paris

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Alaska is a cool place, and I should be able toacknowledge that without the implication that I also ad-mire its ormer governor. But thats impossible, becausewhat Palin is attempting to do with her show is associ-ate hersel inextricably with Alaska the title evensuggests ownership, as i the state wouldnt be the samewithout her and that worries me. LC constantlyshows the Palin amily camping, hunting, dog sledding,rafing and climbing all over the expansive and danger-ous terrain, as well as humbly interacting with everydayolks, and the message is clear: Sarah Palin embodiesAlaska, and thereore is independent, extraordinaryand unique. Never mind her obvious ineptitude anddivisiveness shes just misunderstood by the lower 48,

much like her beloved home state.Te idea o letting origins dene politicians is

certainly nothing new, and in recent memory the GOPspecically has excelled in this endeavor. Sarah PalinsAlaska is basically one long, extended sequel to theclip o ormer President George W. Bush clearing brushon his Craword, exas ranch, which made the roundsduring his presidency. And that video was probablyinspired by pictures o President Ronald Reagan relax-

ing on his own ranch, leaning against a white picketence and wearing a cowboy hat. Reagan and Bush bothplayed at the image o the independent, strong, Ameri-can cowboy, and it worked well enough to get themeach elected or two terms. Palin has a lot going againsther or her inevitable 2012 run, but she denitely hasthe same down-home persona that could help her deeatsterile competition such as ellow Republican Mitt Rom-ney. Her reality show is helping to solidiy that image.

While Palins show is helping her, politicians can alsouse a location as a negative issue to poison their en-emies. Te remarkably low approval ratings o Speakero the House Nancy Pelosi probably have something todo with Republican rhetoric constantly linking her to

her district in San Francisco. Since we all know the Cityby the Bay is ull o nothing but unscrupulous queers,homeless people and potheads, it isnt any surprise thatNancy Pelosi and San Francisco were negatively ea-tured in ads or Republican House candidates all acrossthe country during the past midterm elections.

President Barack Obamas election was historicor racial reasons and also because he was the rsturbanite to be elected president since President John

F. Kennedy rom Boston took oce. As the backagainst Obama grows, led by Republicans and ethe ea Party, the biggest binary divide in Amermight turn out to be not black versus white, religversus secular, or straight versus gay, but urban vrural. Palins Alaska signies integrity and strengwhile Pelosis San Francisco means arrogance anstrangeness. And ofen it isnt even genuine rurathat are being put orth by conservatives. Te eis a acade o excitable citizens being manipulatehind the scenes by businessmen such as the Kocers, who want nothing but money, money and mmoney, as well as politicians seeking personal gaconcerns me as a liberal city-lover, but it also co

me as an American, because people with good idshould be respected in Washington, no matter hmany crevasses theyve climbed over or lattes thsipped.

When choosing whom to vote or, the questioshouldnt be where a person comes rom but thedirection he or she is looking toward, and despitincredible landscapes, Sarah Palin isnt looking tanywhere Id like to be.

How Palin Took AlaskaTe way location shapes identity in politics

By Blair StenvickCity Co-Editor

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Some riends and I have been watching Sarah Palins Alaska lately,because well, what else is there to do on Sunday nights during the o-season o Mad Men? Te show is hilarious, ridiculous, inuriating and

repetitive basically any word you can think o to describe Palin also worksor her reality program. But there are a ew moments o each episode that Ican enjoy in a completely un-ironic ashion, and those are the panoramic shotso the snowy minduck that is the state o Alaska. All I have to do is shut out Sarahsgrating voice-over explaining or the umpteenth time how nice it is to get the heckaway rom evil bloggers and enjoy some quality time in the great outdoors with heramily and her ries, to remember what really matters in lie, and I can appreciate the

unathomably huge and beautiul mountains and glaciers.

I wanted to send a special thank-you to City on a Hill Press and Kara Foran oryour eorts to publicize the Student Health Centers new sel-directed testing orsexually transmitted inections (Dec. 2). Your assistance in reaching students aboutthis important issue demonstrates your commitment to the well-being o the com-munity.

I have one important clarication. For those students who have the student healthinsurance plan (USHIP and GSHIP), we have succeeded in obtaining complete cover-age or the cost o these tests. About 8,000 students are covered under these plans.Tis means that students with SHIP insurance can be tested with no out-o-pocketexpense. Tis required quite a bit o negotiation with Anthem Blue Cross. As a result,we have removed one more important barrier to getting people tested. I hope you willhelp us publicize this. Inadvertently, this important act was omitted rom the article.

For students who have other orms o private insurance (not SHIP), the tests areavailable or a $20 lab ee plus the cost o each individual test. Tese tests range rom

$1.43 to $11.40. A student with no insurance who wants all our tests would hmaximum ee o $51.50.

We are concerned that the article may have lef students with the idea that all ace charges or these tests. In act, only those without SHIP insurance wouout-o-pocket expenses. In many cases, the private insurance companies may burse students who submit these charges to their carrier.

It is sad to think that this generation was born in a time when there are somany dangerous risks rom unprotected intimacy. Anything we can do to promsaer sexual practices and prompt identication o disease is critical. Once agaappreciate the work o City on a Hill Press to make our community healthy.

Beth Hyde, NPFamily nurse practitionerPatient care coordinator

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Sen. om Coburn (R-OK) recently came out with atop 10 list o wasteul government spending. No.4 on the list was the $615,000 ederal grant given

to UC Santa Cruz to digitize the librarys Grateul Deadarchive. Although it is important to identiy unnecessarycosts during this recession, Coburn unairly singled outUCSC and misrepresented the acts about exactly wherethe money was going.

Te Institute o Museum and Library Services (IMLS)awarded UCSC the ederal unds to digitize GrateulDead photographs, tickets, backstage passes, yers, shirtsand other memorabilia, according to Coburns list.

Tis is true, but what Coburn ails to point out is thatthe digitization that the archives will undergo is an inno-vative process that earned the title o National Leader-ship Project by the IMLS. Tis process will also helpprotect and archive other non-Grateul Dead related textsand literature.

As UCSC librarian Virginia Steel told the Santa CruzSentinel, the project received a grant not because o theGrateul Dead but because o the archival digitizing itsel.

Te goal is not the digitization o the Grateul DeadArchive but to create a socially constructed archive whichallows individuals access to material, Steel said in theSentinel. Ten people can help in the identication omaterials and also upload their own relevant materials.

Coburn was wrong to underplay the importance o

updating libraries to remain relevant and useul, butthere was also a problem with the entire top 10 list: Allo the spending projects he identied are discretionary.Discretionary spending goes to dierent projects everyyear, which Congress votes on without needing to changeany laws.

Non-discretionary spending, on the other hand,includes items like Social Security, Medicare and otherexpenses that are built into law. Te senator undoubt-edly created the list in hopes o being seen as a budgethawk a true scal conservative who is serious aboutreducing spending.

But all o the projects on the list are discretionaryspending, which only makes up about a quarter o allgovernment spending.

I Coburn were truly serious about cutting spend-ing, hed target non-discretionary programs, as wellas the huge money suction tubes that are the warsin the Middle East, rather than small librarygrants. Coburns website and political ads billhim as a budget reducer. I hes serious aboutthat, he should go afer substantial amounts ospending, an action which might not be popu-lar in Congress, instead o taking easy shots bydemonizing the purportedly wasteul hippies atUCSC. Its clear the Oklahoma senator cares moreabout politics than scal responsibility.

Why Were Not Grateful for Tom CoburnOklahoma senator unairly targets UCSC or spending on archive

Full-ride scholarships to a UC or 196 students.Fify-ve thousand textbooks. Health insurance or454 amilies (maybe the ones who make less than

living wages cleaning the bathrooms in your dormitory).Te salaries o 40 well-paid proessors (maybe the ones

who lost their jobs in the languages, community stud-ies or American studies programs). For $5.5 mill ion, theUC could have any one o these things not to mentionbeginning to pay o its $22 billion decit.

But or 36 UC executives,that money would be

better spent on retire-

ment benets. Teir annual salaries which exceed aquarter o a million dollars just arent enough. Tegroup demands ull-salary retirement benets instead opensions based on a $245,000 ederal cap. Tese proposedbenets would cost the UC $5.5 mil lion annually.

Tose leading the charge say the UC broke a promise.Politicians, unions and the University o Caliornia Oceo the President, however, say the UC just cant aord topay the extravagant pensions these executives demand.

Te Master Plan was developed to provide a publicresearch university system that any qualiying studentcould attend regardless o income or socioeconomic

background, ree rom tuition. Tat is not our reality.It is the responsibility o UC

employees to advocate orand protect students and

educators best interests.While the 36 UC

executives threatening tosue may have legal grounds,

they are morally corrupt.

You cant put a price tag onaccessibility or progress, butan annual $5.5 million towardthe university could help putthe UC back on track to be-ing one o the leading public

universities in the world andimproving the lives o tens o thou-sands o students.

Christopher Edley, Marie Berggren and J. Rosenthal are just three o the 36 petitioning salary retirement benets. In 2009, Edley, BerRosenthal earned $336,511, $637,824 and $72respectively. Edley is dean o UC Berkeley L

Berggren is chie investment ocer, vice presinvestments and o Oce o the President antreasurer o the regents, and Rosenthal is chieocer at the UCLA Medical Center.

Te letter-writers claimed it would be unor the university to not provide the benets dthe past.

But the reality is that the UC has broken mises in the last decade. In November, the UC Regents voted to increase out-o-state studenPrograms are being cut and class sizes are groemployees work or less than living wages. Prteaching assistants are out o work. And studning out o patience.

But not once during rallies have students ocalled or increased spending or executives. A

the ones paying administrators salaries.Tis time at least, the UC is protecting the

the university. Promise or no promise, the prUC is to provide high-quality, accessible highto Caliornias students, not to pay or tropicaand extravagant retirements.

Salary inormation provided by sacbUC salary database compiled by Bay Area

UC Executives Bleed University DryFull-salary retirement benefts would accrue even more debt or UC

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