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P. 7 EVENTS CALENDARby Molly Kosso and

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P. 16 LOCAL BUSINESS OWNERSSTATE OF THE UNION

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P. 17 Former Little Rock 9 Student Speaks at UCSC Panelby Elaine Ejigu and Stephanie Meade

P. 15 THE MAGIC OF BIKE MOBBINGby Rosanna van Straten

Morgan Grana

Kyan Mahzouf

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Campus

Documentary SpotlightsUCSC Employee

Hanging by a Tread proles daily struggles o ood service worker

Maria Romero cant supportthree kids on her annual salary o$30,000. Te University o Cali-

ornia pays the single mother lessthan living wages to eed studentsat a UC Santa Cruz ca by day.She cleans boardwalk bathroomsat night. Romero is a central g-ure in Rico Chavezs documenta-ry Hanging by a Tread, whichillustrates the treatment receivedby the UC workers and sta asopposed to the regents, and theirdiering liestyles.

Te Student Union Assembly,community studies departmentand the Caliornia Federationo Labor co-hosted a screen-ing and ollow-up discussiono the lm at Merrill on Jan.

27. Te discussion was led by apanel comprising Watsonvillemayor Daniel Dodge, associateproessor o psychology ReginaLanghout, h-year studentMoses Massenburg, Romero andher translator. Tey explainedthe pressures workers ace underthe UC system or an audience oaround 30.

About 40 percent o UCSCworkers reside in the Pajaro Val-

ley, which includes Watsonville.Tis is because living in SantaCruz is expensive, said Dodge,a sel-described activist whojust happens to be the mayor oWatsonville.

When we talk about highrents, in Santa Cruz County the

cost o living is comparable toManhattan, Dodge said.

Romero struggles to makerent in Santa Cruz, and shedoesnt know how she wil l sendher children to college.

[I] cant say [Im] going topay or it, she said with the helpo a translator. All I can do ishope or the best and hope mykids are doing well enough inschool now to receive grantsor scholarships that are goingto help them and push them towhere they want to, because thatspretty much practically the only

way.While the UC provides schol-arships or the children o univer-sity aculty, many service workersdo not know about them,Langhout said. And their amilysituations make it more difcultto get into a UC. Te childrenstill have to get the grades, applyand be accepted beore applyingor scholarships.

Another nancial dilemma is

ound in the UCs health insur-ance plan, the recent changeso which aect aculty, sta andworkers.

Te price doubled to stayon Health Net, Langhout said.Tey oered instead this thingcalled the Blue and Gold [HMO]

plan, which Im calling the Blueand Black plan because I thinkits more appropriate.

Not all employees doctorsare included in the new budget-riendly plan, according to theFrequently Asked Questionspage o the Health Net Blue &Gold HMO website.

Health Net Blue & GoldHMO eatures a select networko participating providers, ac-cording to the website. Due toits narrower size, it costs lessor both the university and theemployees who choose it ... I

your medical group isnt in thenetwork, it means they did notmeet the participation criteria orcost-efciency and access.

Langhout said she is upsetwith the new plan because itcosts about the same as the previ-ous plan but has limited services.

Everybody would have tochange their doctors, she said.UCSC is a big employer in SantaCruz County and i something

like that happened, itcould potentially desta-bilize health care or alot o people in SantaCruz County ... Teresalso the issues o whatwere paying now andpeople not really havinga choice.

On top o thenancial obstacles theUCs put beore theiremployees, acultyand workers are notacknowledged or theirwork, Massenburg said.

Tere are some

workers who are over-qualied and cleanwhen they understandthe appropriate mea-sures or chemicals, hesaid. And some o theirsupervisors supervisorsjust sit behind desksand push papers, and

have no idea what [the work-ers] are doing. A lot o times the[workers] are put in danger.

Romero said labor strikescan increase the difculty o the

job, but most workerthrough a union.Are you going to

o work and ght orwant, Romero said, going to risk losing ythats paying or rent ever your responsibil

Dodge said while strike can be a romaits not a good sign wemployees say thingsat this institution thato stand up to it.

He credits the UCoppression to a cyclepoverty.

A single mother, cant aord to send hto this academic instDodge said. So by thare paid, youre not athe people who workprovide the service tomunity here, are not able to send their chiWhat youre seeing hing working people io poverty ... Everyboto three paychecks rpoverty.

By Laurel FujiiCampus Reporter

WATSONVILLE MAYORDANIEL DODGE (left), speaks out for his residents at adiscussion panel after the screening of the documentary Hanging by a Thread. Thelm showed the struggles of UC employees, many of whom are Watsonville residents.

Sal Ingram

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Purple was Rahsheka Keiths

avorite color. Purple cloth hungover the altar at the memo-rial service or the ormer UCSanta Cruz student, arrangedby riends in her memory lastTursday.

At the memorial, a smallcrowd o those who had beenclose to Keith stood in a hushedcircle bordering the redwoodbuildings Engaging Educationofce and remembered theirriend.

Keith died in a snowboardingaccident Jan. 22.

She studied intensive psychol-

ogy rom the summer o 2006through the spring o 2010.Family, riends and members ovarious organizations she was a-liated with spoke o their admi-ration or her ambitious pursuitsand open personality.

Everyones still very muchin shock when we think aboutwhat happened, and were justall trying to remember thegood things, said Rahne Keith,Rahshekas older sister. She wasa good person and gone muchtoo soon.

Loved ones mourn Keith, whodied o blunt orce trauma in a

snowboarding accident at Lakeahoes Granlibakken resort.

Keiths close riends rememberher as someone who had a posi-tive impact on those around her,and big plans or her uture.

I remember [tellingRahsheka], When were older,were going to be [EngagingEducation] and Rainbow[Teater] alumni, and we wouldcome back and talk about howit all started here, said ourth-year Sara Mokhtari-Fox. I wasthinking about societys loss andthinking about how much she

gave, how much she could do.Tats what hurts the most. Isomebody was going to changethe world, it was Rahsheka.

Keiths plans geared towardsocial activism and inspired byher coursework led her riendsand colleagues to remember heras an individual poised to bea strong inuential gure. Sheplanned to attend law school inChicago.

She had a lot more to dohere, and its very sad, RahneKeith said. She wanted theworld to be a really good placeand a air place or everybody

not just minorities, or every-body.

Rahsheka involved herselin various community outreachprograms at UCSC, like Engag-ing Education and theater artsprojects. She was also an activemember o the Arican AmericanTeater Arts roupe [AAA].

Rahsheka lives in all o us,said Don Williams, director ocultural arts and diversity orthe Student Aairs Division andAAA. She was one o the mostextraordinary people. She cameto this university, and she was a

server. She encouraged people.Tose close to Keith remem-

ber her as a well-balanced andcomposed person, and as a lovero all things purple and all thingsMichael Jackson. She was wellknown or her Michael Jacksonearrings and Michael Jacksonringtone, which oen let hercolleagues know she was in theroom.

We drove all the way romSanta Cruz to San Diego or anoutreach meeting with all otherUCs, said Paulina Raygoza,organizing director or EngagingEducation. Te whole time

she had her iPod on, all welistened to was Michael Jacksonand Stevie Wonder. Tat got usthrough the [eight-hour] drivedown and the drive back.

Keiths r iends and colleaguessaid she was an important inu-ence in their lives.

She was a student leader thatshowed incredible integrity, saidSayo Fujioka, director o Stu-dent Organizing Advising andResources. I think she inspireda lot o students and sta. Shebrought a sense o community.

Keiths amily who has

been ollowing activity on herFacebook page said they arethankul or her riends consid-erations.

A lot o her riends rom theschool have reached out to theamily, Rahne Keith said. Ouramily has read every single[Facebook] post, and its reallynice to see how many people shetouched.

Te amily will have quiet

hour today rom 4 to 6 p.m.in Duggans Funeral Services.Memorial services will be heldon Friday at 11 a.m. at Corner-stone Missionary Baptist Churchin San Francisco. A memorial

was held Wednesday night at theNamaste Lounge at College Nine.

Rahne Keith wrote to riendson her sisters Facebook pagewith details, and a request thatthey keep Rahsheka in mind

when dressing or theShe was never a a

idea o wearing all blamemorial service, Kthe page. Some blackher avorite color is p

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UCSC Loses Student LeaderMemorial honors Rahsheka Keith, ormer student who died in snowboarding accident

FRIENDS GATHER at a memorial in remembrance of Rahsheka Keith. Keith,member of the UCSC community, died in a snowboarding accident Jan. 22.

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Santa Cruz has your usual ast oodchains: McDonalds, aco Bell, Jack inthe Box, Burger King and now a Panda Ex-press. And it may soon be welcoming an-other. Despite the citys history o avoringlocal restaurants over chains, In-N-OutBurger is setting its sights on Sur City.

In-N-Out, the amed burger chain othe West Coast, could come to Santa Cruz,said Carl Van Fleet, vice president o plan-ning and development.

Our real estate team has been lookingat Santa Cruz County or some time andwe hope to be there in the not-too-distantuture, Van Fleet said in an e-mail to theSanta Cruz Sentinel.

But i In-N-Out were to come to SantaCruz, it would have to jump through somehurdles regarding the citys drive-throughpolicy.

By our Zoning Ordinance, the Down-town Recovery Plan, and the MissionStreet Plan, drive-throughs are not allowedon Mission Street or in the downtownarea, Juliana Rebagliati, director o plan-ning and community development oSanta Cruz, said in an e-mail. Tey are

allowed in other areas o town, such asOcean Street, but there are many qualiy-ing standards that serve to limit the num-ber o locations where they may be built such as they must be a certain distanceaway rom a signaled intersection, theymust be a certain distance away rom anexisting drive-through, et cetera.

Is Santa Cruz becoming more and moreopen to chain restaurants and ranchises?

On any given night, the new PandaExpress near Saeway might have a line out

the door. Since it opened Jan. 19, Panda isdoing OK, manager Ken Chan said.

We are meeting expectations, Chansaid. Tey [our customers] are mostlylocals, some students. We probably havestolen some [customers rom other restau-rants].

Second-year student Charlene ransaid she is excited about the new PandaExpress but even more excited about apossible In-N-Out.

In-N-Out is the king o all ast-oodrestaurants, ran said. Its delicious, andthey have the riendliest people.

Founded in 1948, the chain now has

over 250 restaurants across the WestCoast, most o which are in Caliornia.Local business manager Seth Landig, oBetty Burgers on Seabright Avenue, isnot too worried about the possibility oan In-N-Out.

Any burger place would aect us, butwe have a l ittle dierent meat, Landigsaid. Were not a ast-ood place either,more o a restaurant. I mean, our burgerstake 10 minutes to make.

Te limits on drive-throughs in SantaCruz have been active or nearly 20 yearsand it might orce In-N-Out to look atother nearby cities.

Te search can be seen on Facebook,

where Kurt Overmeyer, Watsonville cityeconomic development manager, hasset up a page to garner local support.Santa Cruz also has residents dedicatedto bringing in an In-N-Out, and it lookslike Santa Cruz is winning.

While In-N-Out to Watsonville cur-rently has 3,180 ans, Santa Cruzs WeNeed an In-N-Out in Santa Cruz Face-book page had over 9,000. In-N-Out vicepresident o planning and developmentVan Fleet said the use o social media

would help the companys decision.Community support is an important

actor or us, and a Facebook site withnumerous likers could be inuential, hewrote to the Sentinel.

Landig, manager o Betty Burgers,

expressed condence that locawould still be competitive.

Weve always had some chCruz, he said. Some wil l combut people who live in Santa Ctend to requent the local spot

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Is SantaCruz Inor Out?

In-N-Out Burger considers openingnew business in Santa Cruz, aces

restrictions on drive-throughs

Illustration by Rac

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Event CalendarCampus

THURSDAY, FEB. 3

Lecture: Paul Whitworth: o Be... and... Not to Be. Teater Arts Mainstage. 6p.m. to 8 p.m. Free. Valentines Day Ca Night: Cra-

making or upcoming holiday. College 8Ca. 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Free.

FRIDAY, FEB. 4

Concert: Paul Bowles Centennial.Music Center Recital Hall. 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.Free.

SATURDAY, FEB. 5

Womens tennis: UCSC vs. SierraCollege. East Field Center ennis Courts.1 p.m. to 3 p.m. See www2.ucsc.edu/opersor pricing. Mens volleyball : UCSC vs. UCBerkeley. West Field House. 7 p.m. to9 p.m. $5 or general admission, $2 or

aculty and sta, $1 or UCSC students. Concert: Paul Bowles Centennial.Music Center Recital Hall. 5:30 to 6:30p.m. Free. Fire and Ice: Hip-Hop and ElectronicDance! Cowell and Stevenson DiningHall. 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Open to all UCSCstudents. Free.

Lecture: Sean Van Sommeran rom thePelagic Shark Research Foundation. 2 p.m.Open to all. Cultural Center.

SUNDAY, FEB. 6

Concert: Paul Bowles Centennial.Music Center Recital Hall. 11 a.m. to 12p.m. Free.

MONDAY, FEB. 7

Womens sel-deense. Course heldevery Monday or six weeks. East FieldCenter, Martial Arts Room. 3 to 5 p.m.Free. Faculty Research Seminar Series: PaulLubeck: Te Challenge o Global Islamor American Energy Security: Explainingthe Enigma o Radical Islamism inNigeria. Social Sciences I, Room 261. 3:30to 5 p.m. Free.

TUESDAY, FEB. 8

Writers Society. For students interestedin creative writing. Meetings every week.Kresge Writing Center. 8 p.m.

City

THURSDAY, FEB. 3

Concert: Steve Wilson and Friends.

Kuumbwa Jazz Center. 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.$12 in advance, $15 at door. Concert: Lucero. Te Catalyst, Atrium.Doors open at 7:30 p.m., show begins at8 p.m. 16 and up. $15 in advance, $16 atdoor.

Concert: Little Dragon. Rio Teatre. 8p.m. $15 in advance, $18 at door.

FRIDAY, FEB. 4

First Friday artist reception: In Lovewith the Natural World. Paintings byMari Stauer. Santa Cruz RehearsalStudios. 6 to 9 p.m. Gloria K. Alord: A Retrospective, 1974 Present. Mixed media art exhibition.Felix Kulpa Gallery and Sculpture Garden.7 p.m to 9 p.m. Free.

Judith Wellner: Paris, the City oLights, the City o Lovers. Photo exhibitashion show. wist. 7 p.m.

Concert: en Mile ide, Te So WhiteSixties. Te Crpe Place. 9 p.m. $10.

SATURDAY, FEB. 5

Concert: Grand Fanali Presents: JohnMeeks, Will rom the Mumlers. Te CrpePlace. 9 p.m. $8. Concert: Bonnie Lockhart: Songs &Music Games rom Aroudn the World.Kuumbwa Jazz Center. 11:00 a.m. $10minimum. Concert: Dead Kennedys, Disciples.

Te Catalyst. 9 p.m. $17 in advdoor. Ages 16 and up.

SUNDAY, FEB. 6

Flamenco Al Andaluz ZahUnplugged. Kuumbwa Jazz C$20 in advance, $25 at door. Concert: Rob Zombie, Eye

Te Catalyst. 8:30 p.m. $35. Aup.

MONDAY, FEB. 7

Te Crpe Place Movie NigArizona. Te Crpe Place. 8 p Concert: Ethnic Heritage EKuumbwa Jazz Center. 7 p.m. advance, $25 at door. Badsh: A ribute to SublimCatalyst. 8 p.m. $15 in advancdoor. Ages 16 and up.

TUESDAY, FEB. 8

Concert: 7 Come 11. Te C8 p.m. Free.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9 CYH Presents: Birdhouse,Monko, Laura Meyer. Te Crp.m. $8 in advance, $10 at doo

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Sports

Shade slowly crept over thelower eld last Tursday aer-noon as the mens rugby teamhuddled in a scrum. Graspingeach others shoulders and grunt-ing inaudible commands, grassew as each scrimmaging teamstruggled to hook the ball to

their eightman. As the sun con-tinued sinking, loud guaws andsideline banter pierced the air asmen watched their teammates onthe eld.

Just a year ago, we didnteven have enough players to elda ull scrimmage, senior orwardColin Dalton said. Now we have30 on the pitch and then some.

Te mens rugby team, a clubsport, has seen exponential

growth and improvement in thelast year. Tis is due in part to itsnew coach, Jeremy Sanord.

Sanord, who joined the teamin 2008, began exercising more

control over the teams develop-ment in 2009.

He brought a lot toward theinrastructure side o the club,team president Philip Brodysaid. He really wanted us to get

together a student committeethat was accountable. He wantedus to embrace the act that we arethe ones who should be makingthe decisions.

Te development o thismentality has led the club to becompletely student-run.

Our coaches are our coaches they dont do any o theadministrative stu, Brody said.

Tats what we do.Te rebuilt team will take part

in a match against rival San JosState University this Saturday.Te match will serve as a thenand now memorial event tohonor those who have helpedUCSC mens rugby since itsounding in 1967 as the rst clubon campus. It will also be playedin remembrance o club riendand teammate Benjamin Quaye.

Quaye died in the earlymorning hours o February 7,2009 the day aer the teamsvictory against Humboldt StateUniversity. Te night that theteammates heard the news, theygathered at a Chinese restaurantand remembered their riend.

We told stories about Benand we were crying, team cap-tain Michael Richtik said. Wethen walked over to where he

passed and we all saidabout him. Te next wabout 20 o us drove dat his uneral.

Tere, the team gavmother his jersey, andnumber or the remaiyear.

It was tough, Brodenitely took the withe sails or a while.

Tough it was init

cult, Sanord and teaagree that the loss o tmate was one o the mtors that brought the

Tis season, the tespecially tight-knit,said. Te loss o Quabig blow to everyone helped pull the team tso this year there has real emphasis on teamcommitment.

Memorial Match HonorsFallen Teammate

Upcoming mens rugby game to pay tribute to Benjamin Quaye

and those who have supported the team since its ounding in 1967

By Elizabeth ArakelianSports Reporter

MEMBERS OF Tmens rugby teamon the lower Easduring their Thurspractice. The teapreparing for a mmatch in honor oteam member BeQuaye, who diedlast year.

Prescott Watson

We told stories about Ben and we were crying.We then walked over to where he passed and weall said something about him. Te next weekend,about 20 o us drove down to be at his uneral.

Michael Richtik, mens rugby team captain

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Arts & Entert

Maddening deserts, reveredmusic and modernist thinkingare what Paul Bowles will beremembered by.

Author, musician and expatri-ate Paul Bowles uprooted himselrom U.S. culture, breaking reeo national conventions. Hespent most o his lie in angier,Morocco, until his death in 1999.Bowles revitalized his creativeviewpoint by writing music andliterature as a U.S. outsider look-ing in.

Celebrating what would havebeen Bowles 100th birthday, thePaul Bowles Centennial Celebra-tion releases much o his musicor the rst time while honoringhis literary contributions. Peror-mances o his renowned com-positions, experimental writing,lm and personal anecdotesabout Bowles will celebrate theartist in the Cowell Conerence

Room and Music Center RecitalHall this weekend.

Many o his riends areexpected to attend the celebra-tion, which will eature Bowlesshort stories and lms stem-ming rom his lie and works.Irene Herrmann, inheritor oBowles musical estate, is makingit accessible to the public. Storyreadings, concerts and anecdoteswill celebrate a man who was notconned to any one medium oartistic expression.

Literature proessor yrusMiller has organized writingperormances such as short sto-ries and paper readings or the

ceremony, which will take placein the Cowell Conerence Room.Bowles writing pushes boundar-ies, Miller said.

He has a kind o moraltransgression, Miller said. Heswilling to actually contemplatewithout judgment, withoutmoral dismissal, instances oviolence, instances o cruelty, hispersonal derangement, madness,extreme states and hes able to

tell that in a very cool voice.Bowles demonstrates his calm

narration o the horric in hismost well-known novel, TeSheltering Sky.

Te New York imes bestseller delves into the NorthArican desert, telling a storyo doomed characters whoall into a sandpit o madness,disorientation and a dry realityas unorgiving as the desert itsel.

He actually represented abridge between the earlier gen-eration o Gertrude Stein and theParis expatriate thinkers o the1920s and this later generation,the beat generation writers o the

1960s, even contemporary writ-ers, Miller said.Presenting a paper on beat

literature at the event, literaturegraduate student Jimmy Fazzinosaid he considers Bowles aninuential thinker or Americanwriting.

I study beat lit not just in anAmerican context, but in a worldcontext, Fazzino said. Bowleswould be someone who I would

say broadens American writers.Since Bowles was in angier, it

attracted other writers to angierand to Morocco bringingthem out o an American pointo view.

While Bowles le a heavyootprint in literary circles, histrek through 20th century musicis less broadcasted. Herrmann,the events music director, is theinheritor o Bowles musicalestate a one-o-a-kind collec-tion o music, including scorescomposed by Bowles that havegone unpublished or out o print.Tese pieces will be showcasedat the event in a unique array

o orchestra, spoken word andopera.Im the one person who can

distribute his music, Herrmannsaid. Its a rare opportunity or[students] to hear very excep-tional American art music perormed by people who willreally do the music justice.

Te Bowles celebration willalso be an opportunity to hearrsthand accounts o this artist.

Herrmann knew Bowlhis last years, when sh

with him through musHerrmann said the

have a personal conneo insight not just abouas an artist but as a per

Hermann, who invio the guests scheduledat the celebration, exteinvitations to people wBowles personally.

Its a mix o scholapersonal anecdote at a conerence, which is sovery unusual, Herrma

Elaborating on whaBowles works distinct

in his novel Te SheltMiller oered his thouBowles new take on et

[Bowles expresses experimentalism that ssays, Im going to steptell you something thayou would only be tolda certain kind o judgmMiller said. Im goingand Im going to leave you to judge.

An Artists Markon the 20th Century

Centennial celebration honors accomplishments o Paul Bowles

By Kara Foran

Campus Reporter

Illustration by Rachel Edelstein

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Feature

Does the FourthAmendment

Protect You?Warrantless searches o cell phones, upheld by theCaliornia Supreme Court, call privacy rights into question

By Mikaela ToddCity Co-Editor

Illustrations by Bela Messex

I youve ever watched the V show

Cops, youre amiliar with how this sceneplays out. A suspect is ound, arrestedupon reasonable suspicion o a crime andtaken away. Tis is standard procedure orcriminals across the United States.

But what i the picture is much broaderthan that? What happens when the pol iceneed more evidence to convict you aerarrest? In recent years, its become ex-tremely easy to get that extra evidence, nourther eort required.

Tree years ago, a man was pulled overor being involved in an ecstasy drug dealin Ventura County. He was arrested andinterviewed, and his personal belong-ings were taken rom him, including hiscell phone. Te Ventura County Sheri s

Department then proceeded to searchthrough the phone and came upon anincriminating text message that ofcersshowed to the man, causing him to admithis guilt in the drug deal.

Te police claimed that this was not aninvasion o privacy. But Gregory Diaz, un-der the deense that a warrantless search ohis cell phone violated the Fourth Amend-ment o the Constitution, took his caseto trial. Tis amendment says a personhas the right to be guarded against unairsearches and seizures.

Appealing to higher courts did notdo Diaz much good either. On Jan. 3, theSupreme Court o Caliornia upheld the

lower courts ruling, which means state-wide police orces can continue to searchcellular devices without a warrant. Diazwas convicted o selling a controlled sub-stance and was sentenced to three years oprobation.

Diazs case raises the long-debatedquestion o what makes an acceptable bal-ance between liberty and protection in theUnited States, and how this relates to newtechnology. Te Patriot Act o 2001 was a

prominent and controversial example o

how an individuals private lie can inter-sect with the public sphere o the govern-ment, and now the issue o public versusprivate is nding its way not just intolegislation but also to the judicial branch.With the increase in inormation youngergenerations put on the Internet and cellphones, the meaning o privacy itsel maybe redened in coming years.

In her dissenting opinion o the case,Associate Justice Kathryn Werdegar said,Te potential impairment to privacy iarrestees mobile devices and handheld

computers are treated like clothing, ully searchable without probable cause orwarrant, is great.

People v. Diaz is not the only well-known case that has dealt with govern-mental control versus privacy in an ageo new technology. A recent case that set

precedent or Diazs is United States v.Kyllo. It held that the use o thermal imag-ing to monitor movement inside a personshome when the party under surveillanceis in public view did not violate the FourthAmendment, as it was not considered anunreasonable search.

Additionally, the Patriot Act, enactedunder ormer President George W. Bush,has continued to broaden the scope oprotections under the Fourth Amendment

through wiretapping and other, otherwise

illegal activities during a state o emer-gency.Steve Clark, captain o Santa Cruz

Police Department, said that his orce hasbeen searching cell phones aer arrestwithout warrant or quite some time, andthat it is difcult or the department totrack how many o those types o searcheshave happened since the case was upheld.He said, however, that the amount o caseswas numerous.

We have an interest in collecting allthe relevant evidence and keeping it rom

being destroyed or somehow slippingthrough our ngers, Clark said. We ndit particularly useul with drug dealing.

Clark said that now relevant evidenceis extended to cell phones. His depart-ment has ound that cell phones include alarge amount o inormation about crimes

people commit, such as in text messages,photos and contacts.

It helps us put together a better caseand to nd people who might be associ-ated with illegal activities, Clark said.Especially when it involves some moremajor crimes.

Linda Parisi, 30-year criminal deenseattorney and proessor at Lincoln LawSchool in Sacramento, said the court wasconcerned with what containers are

subject to search.

I would submit that a cell should be kept private and subwarrant requirement, Parisi sae-mail.

Clark said that his departmpush the envelope, or consiswarrantless evidence in the evrest, while adding that it has agathering all the inormation build good cases or victims o

Were more interested in ptogether cases that are solid, cgoing to be credible in court, dont want to have the reputatwhere they think were playingthe rules.

Clark said that in some cas

is able to conduct complete oinations o cell phones to use awithout search warrants, whicusing specialized soware to rrom that phone, including anhas ever been deleted. Tey arto use that inormation as evid

Once its digital, it never raway, Clark said.

Generally, however, the poment will obtain a search warrmore intrusive search, he saidleaves the door open or anothment to take advantage o the examination mechanism.

UC Santa Cruz sociology p

and local American Civil Libemember Craig Reinarman saidnext step o overstepping priaries has already been taking ppolice departments across the

For instance, [the police] sYou dont have anything in yodo you? Because when I searcgoing to nd it, so just tell me kids are scared and conused adont want to go to jail, so they

Amendment IVFrom the Bill o Rights

Te right o the people to be secure in their persons,houses, papers, and eects, against unreasonable searchesand seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shallissue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath orafrmation, and particularly describing the place to besearched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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the roach or the joint, and then theyrein trouble, Reinarman said. Ten theyget busted or something like havingmarijuana in public view. Te police haveabused this privacy power up one side anddown the other, particularly with regardto drugs.

Tis is precisely the reason that somenotable Santa Cruz residents are critical owarrantless searches. Mayor Ryan Coon-erty expressed concern over the case andits implications or the uture o FourthAmendment privacy rights.

Im surprised by the [Diaz] ruling,Coonerty said. It would obviously helppolice investigations, but like anything itsabout balancing civil liberties with publicsaety. Its a very difcult line to draw.

Coonerty, who is also a politicsproessor at UCSC and l icensed attorney,said that problems concerning emerg-ing technology continue to be an issue.Although laws have been enacted toaddress issues o new technology, includ-ing alse impersonation, identity the andcyber-stalking, continual developmentwidens the scope o problems that need tobe tackled.

When I teach my classes on civilliberties at the university, I always makethe point that your rights to privacy areset by what is a reasonable expectationo privacy, he said. I think the youngergeneration is lowering that expectation oprivacy with everything theyre puttingonline and their sharing o data.

Student Union Association chairiany Loin said it is the individualsresponsibility to lter their onlinepersonalities and be in charge o

their own privacy especially on socialnetworking websites, she said.

Whatever you put on the Internet orFacebook or witter, you put it on therebecause you choose to do that, Loinsaid. Is it lowering the expectation oprivacy? I say no. Its up to you.

She related the situation to UCSCsrecent grafti threat scare.

I [the perpetrator had] put up theirstatus as something silly like, I did that,everybody on campus is stupid, wewould know who did it and get them introuble, Loin said, and then classeswouldnt have gotten cancelled.

Police captain Clark said that theSCPD has dealt with similar incidentswith some arrestees.

Youd be surprised what people arewilling to post on their Facebook page,Clark said. Well have certain people tellus, No, were not a part o that gang, andthen we pull up their Facebook page, andthere it is.

Clark said that new technologies makeit easier to incriminate people.

We nd a lot o very useul inorma-

tion that has helped us on occasion puttogether some very complex cases, includ-ing homicide, he said.

Loin said that so ar, there has notbeen a reasonable expectation o privacywith Facebook.

Everything I put up on Facebook is up

there because I choose to put it up there,Loin said. And i I dont want people tosee it, then it gets taken down.

Head o the local American Civil Lib-erties Union chapter and ormer mayor

Mike Rotkin said that police convenienceshould not come beore privacy rights, orprecisely this reason. He opposes urtherviolation o the Fourth Amendment in theace o new technologies.

I dont buy it, Rotkin said. Is theConstitution inconvenient? Yeah, becauseyou have to spend time, and you have toargue that theres a valid state interest insomething. Its a pain in the butt.

He said that it was absolutely necessarythat there be a search warrant in Diazscase.

Im hoping that higher courts nd itunconstitutional, Rotkin said. I think itsa total invasion o peoples privacy.

Linda Parisi said the court went tooar in this case.

Te phone is not the person, Parisisaid. And in todays world, a cell phone is

more like a diary or journal that containspersonal inormation.

Reinarman is hopeul that i appealed,the case will be ound unconstitutional.Rotkin said that the police do have validreasons or search-ing arrested per-sons or dangerous

weapons or potentially harmul items,but he does not think cell phones comeunder this category and that he does notwant this ruling to lead to urther, moreinvasive rulings in the uture.

Rotkin said the Fourth Amendmentaces constant pressure, as under the Pa-

triot Act, enacted in 2001. Te act permit-ted warrantless searches through peoplescomputers and personal mail and let lawenorcement listen in on private phoneconversations.

I its absolutely necessary that [thepolice] get evidence without a warrant,Rotkin said, I want to hear what the ar-gument is. I dont see any valid argumenthere other than convenience.

Clark said that warrantless searcheswere only conducted in his department incases in which it was obvious to the policethat the suspect was guilty. He said thatalthough his department does not, thecurrent situation gives leeway or police toconduct searches only based on inconve-nience.

Reinarman said he was disappointedthat some Bush policies like the PatriotAct, which alls along the same lines oprivacy inringement, have not beenrepealed by a new administration.

I nd it disturbing, because o thelong history o constitutional protec-

tion against those sorts o things thatwere written into the very abric o thelegal blueprint or our country, the Bill

o Rights, he said. Its a

urther narrowing o the Fourthment. Te ramers made the pothat citizens have the right to bethese sorts o unreasonable searseizures.

Reinarman said it was worrthat the highest court in the mo

lous state in the country has upcell phones can be searched witwarrant in the event o an arresthe state has no business knowimovies you watch on your phonyou just texted your girlriend oriend.

Tis case removes the necesprobable cause, Rotkin said. Ita slippery slope. Now we want tyour house without a warrant, nwant to search the cell phones opeople we ound doing an inveson your phone, now we want tothe houses [o your cell phone cWere totally obliterating any typrivacy rights, and Im not beinin my view.

On the syllabus or one o hiReinarman includes a particulanent quote rom William Dougmember o the Supreme Court.man said the quote exempliedthat just one case can have the pchisel away at the structure o pthe United States. He searched tthe papers surrounding his desknally came upon the quote, reaaloud:

As nightall does not come once, neither does oppression. Iinstances, there is a twilight wheverything remains seemingly u

and it is in such twilight that webe most aware o the change in however slight, lest we become victims o the darkness.

Once its digital, it never really goes away.

Steve Clark, Santa Cruz Police Department captain

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Wes rode his bike here, sotheres sweat dripping down hisace, meeting his curly reddish-brown beard, which matches thehair on the top o his head. Hehas kind eyes, a wide smile and ariendly voice.

Most classes there have beenabout 15 students, but today is

the last class, so well see whoshows up, he said.

When its time or the classto start, about eight people haveshown up at the ca. Wes wel-comes them.

Tis is Games as a Strategyor Living, he says. Im Wes,and I am ostensibly the acil itatoro the group.

Ostensibly the acilitator.Wes wording perectly reectshis own laid-back nature, and italso gives a glimpse into whatFree Skool is all about.

Free Skool Santa Cruz was

started in the spring o 2004 bya small group o sel-identiedanarchists looking or a dierentkind o education. Tey sawthe traditional set-up o payingpeople to teach dierent skills orideas as problematic.

So, they created a networkin which anyone who wanted toteach something useul coulddo so, and anyone who wantedto learn was able to attend theclasses or ree.

Free Skool has experienceda lack o continuity, but it is anidea that has thrived in SantaCruz, and well beyond the city bythe sea.

Francisco Ferrer o Spain, ananarchist, started the rst reeskool in the 1890s. Ferrer wantedan educational system that was

not tied to the state or a religiousinstitution, so he ounded amodern school that pioneeredexperimental teaching.

Governments have ever beenknown to hold a high hand overthe education o the people,Ferrer said. Tey know, betterthan anyone else, that theirpower is based almost entirelyon the school. Hence, theymonopolize it more and more.

As ar as anyone can tell,Santa Cruz hosts the rst FreeSkool in modern times.

Te idea o ree education

is important to the anarchistideology. Anarchists embracedo-it-yoursel culture andreject corporatization. Free Skoolcollective member BrandonWade points out that Free Skoolis ree in the monetary sense andree in the sense o ree thoughtand expression, as well as beingree rom hierarchy.

Most Free Skools are basedon the anarchist principles osel-reliance, autonomy and mu-

tual support, Wade said. Unlikemost structures in our society,theres no manager or leader. Ev-eryones equal within the project.

Free Skool publicizes its class-es by creating quarterly calendarsand putting them in restaurantsand other public spaces, as wellas on its website. Anyone can ap-ply to teach a course. Classes are

held in such inormateachers homes and town.

Tere are no bookand no required attenjust a passion or learinstructing.

Since the genesis oSkool, Wade estimate

had thousands o clameans Santa Cruz reages and economic bhave taken classes, vaboat design and Femogy or Everyone to Out Capitalism.

Wade was enthusiall the possibilities thwith such an open o

Our whole caleno really unique classbecause unlike the uwere not bound by aeld or majors, so peclasses because theyr

about the classes theying. So i somebodysexcited about, say, coand waterways, thereElkhorn Slough explI someones interesterepair, there might byoursel automotive c

I there is any probFree Skool, it might btoo inormal or its odierent incarnationin Santa Cruz beore,

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You neverknow withFree Skool.

Wes, a typical SantaCruz granola, wear-ing loose-tting slacks

and a button-downshirt, leans back in hischair, speaking calmlyand evenly. He sits at arectangular brown tabletowards the back oStevenson Ca.

Were prettyopen todifferentthings. Maybeits a little

weird, butmaybe theressomethinggood aboutthat.

Annie,

Free SkoolSanta Cruz

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out because o lack o dedication,organizers coming and going,and those involved changingevery season.

Still, at a recent quarterly pic-nic at Ocean View Park, Annie,who has been involved as both anorganizer and student since thebeginning, deended the Skoolsnature. Annie declined to use herreal name out o ear o negativebacklash or her sel-identica-

tion as an anarchist.Were pretty open to dier-ent things, she said. Maybe itsa little weird, but maybe theressomething good about that.

Annie was one o the ounderso the current incarnation o FreeSkool Santa Cruz.

Tere was another Free Skoolin Santa Cruz, and I had gone tothose classes, she said. Its kindo like it comes out o DIY anar-chist culture, this idea o sharingskills with people or ree.

Annie added that when FreeSkool started out, it was solelyabout skill-sharing, then more

academic and discussion-basedclasses were added becausepeople wanted to teach them. Shesaid that almost all class topicsare accepted into the calendar,though there are a ew excep-tions.

We dont want any classesabout business, she said atly.We avoid career-ocused classes,because were looking or lieskills, not business skills.

Te putting together othe calendar is a discreet task,without a headquarters, becausethe group wants to avoid being

targeted as known anarchists. Be-cause classes dont cost anythingto attend, the Skool attempts tobridge the education and oppor-tunity gap in society.

Annie shared the exampleo the dance movement processclass she is taking this season.

Its completely ree, she said.I [a traditional school] taught aclass like that, it would probablycost $300.

Wes was at the picnic as well,where he gave his reason orteaching his Games as a Strategyor Living class.

I was listening to this lecture

about how the joker or jester roleis missing now in society, hesaid. I we viewed what we domore as a game, wed have a di-erent approach.

Wes class is in itsel a game:participants start out playing,then break to discuss what can begleaned about real lie rom theirgames. Its relaxed, without theusual hierarchy that traditionalclasses have.

Wes listens careully toeveryones input, and beginssentences with, I its alrightwith everybody, and I hearwhat youre saying, and Ithink

Wes also taught a class thiswinter titled Soapbox 202,which was an attempt to createan anarchist public speakingseries. A UCSC alumnus, Wesexplained why he embraced

anarchism and Free Skool.

o ignore the benet and

lost opportunity o people toorganize is really a loss, he said.What is lost in turning ourpower over to institutions? Whatis lost when we can only choosecertain classes?

Wade also praised Free Skoolsunique tendencies.

Te thing I like most aboutFree Skool is that it connectspeople in this radical projectthat encourages them not just to

learn in a new way but to connectto each other in a new way, hesaid. Free Skool blurs the line asmuch as we can between teacherand learner, so we learn as muchas we can rom each other.

Wade gave examples o howthe open nature o the programalso makes it possible or stu-dents and teachers to have an e-ect on the larger community.

In our community,

with thousands o FreeSkool teachers and stu-dents participating oversix years, the deep con-nections and riendshipsthat have been establishedare deeply powerul,Wade said in an e-mail.Several DIY projects havespun o rom Free Skoolclasses: Red Root HerbalCollective oering herbalhealth alternatives, vari-ous parenting groups, a radicalmarching band, regular campusorest walks and even the DIYNew Years Parade.

Santa Cruz isnt the only citywith a successul Free Skoolthough it was the rst. Wadediscussed the impact Free SkoolSanta Cruz has had across thenation.

What we are seeing is morepeople questioning conventionaleducation, with ree skools pop-ping up, near and ar, he said inthe e-mail. People are workingon ree skool projects in SantaBarbara, East Bay, Portland, Indi-ana and a dozen other places. Wewant to do what we can to makesure these projects are successul

and sustainable.Te Davis Peoples Free

School, which was started inwinter o 2007 by students liv-ing in the co-ops on campus, ismostly student-run and student-attended, though it is open to theentire community.

Organizer Brett AnneBalamuth has recently takenup the helm o operations, aera brie hiatus due to lack oorganizers.

Te people involved didntrealize what a big time commit-ment it was, or they just arentthe organizing types, Balamuth

said. So Ive been organizingsince this al l. And its interest-ing. Just about this week, itsreally starting to come together.We had this massage work-shop and maybe 20 or30 people showedup, whichwas totallyunexpected.Everyonewent away

being really psyched that theydcome, and theyre signing up or

the next one. Its really great. Imeeling really victorious in myeorts.

Balamuth said that a majorgoal or Davis Peoples FreeSchool, which is based mostlyon the Santa Cruz model, was toreach out to more people in thecommunity.

Specically so that we can allin line more with ourmission statement,we want to behelping dierentdemographics inDavis, Balamuthsaid. Mostly so arits been 20-some-things, and most othem are UC Davisstudents. We want toget all the age groups.Were trying to get intosome o the periodicalsthat get read by older

people in Davis.Considering the t

muth has experiencethe ree skool startedexplained why its a cworth working or.

By bringing peoparound something thwe hope to ensure ththats coming wants tand is there or the ri

Our wholecalendaris full ofreally uniqueclasses,because unlikethe university,

were not

bound by aparticularfield ormajors, sopeople teachclassesbecausetheyrepassionate

about theclasses theyreteaching.

BrandonWade,

Free SkoolSanta Cruzcollective

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she said. I think its importantthat people want to be there, andarent just doing the least thatthey can to get their paycheck.

Davis Peoples Free Schoolmember Greg Zaller knowsabout working with a communityto promote education.

He was volunteering inSargoda, Pakistan aer the 2005earthquake that crippled thecountry. He remembered howbad conditions were, especially atthe local schools.

Schools were so bad there,it was unbelievable, Zaller said.eachers didnt even show up.And the students elt powerless.

Zaller had always seen em-powerment through educationas key, and even handed out penswith the message Tis pen ismightier than the sword and hiscontact inormation on them. Aperson he gave one to in Pakistan

started an e-mail conversationwith him about education, andthe idea or a ree skool in Sar-goda was born.

Te schools were mostly at-tended and taught by women.Te more educated womentraveled rom the cities toteach reading, writing, science,

social studies and craing to thewomen living in more remotevillages. Tere was a very smallee or tuition, and teachers werepaid nothing.

I ound that when you paypeople, youre pretty much doingthings because youre being paid,

Zaller said, so I said I wouldntpay the teachers. Te motivationwas that they were being appreci-ated.

oday, there are about 30 reeskools in Pakistan, with around4000 students.

Zaller is back in Davis now,teaching a ree skool class calledYoga or the Rest o Us. Hisellow collective members areworking on getting grant moneyto expand ree skools.

Balamuth talked about howcollective members are workingto get a grant so they can write acomputer wiki program or Free

Skool. Tis would help othercities start ree skools more, andmake calendars and e-mail listsmore easily.

Once were able to developthis, we would make it public toanyone, and hopeully this wouldallow ree skools to pop up allover, Balamuth said. Wed also

like to be able to start lming ourclasses and get them on the weband start a video library, so thatpeople across the country can usethem.

Free Skool Santa Cruz alsowants to expand its impact.

We want to ocus on outreach

so people know about Free Skooland have the tools and resourcesthey need, Wade said.

Back at Stevenson Ca, WesGames as a Strategy or Livingclass is going well. A dialogue hasopened among him and somestudents about when viewinglie as a game with rules can behelpul, and when rules shouldbe broken.

Aer listening to viewpointsrom a young man who saysgames were his lie as a kid,and rom a woman who makes aliving illustrating or games, Wesinterjects some wisdom into the

discussion.Sometimes not playing by

the rules is just about strategy,he said.

Hes talking about games andlie, but it also applies to reeskool. Tey arent ollowing soci-etys typical rules, but theyve gottheir own strategy.

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Organizer o group bicycleride PB&J Party, Bike andJam Jenna Conway speaks tothe magic o mobbing. For theourth-year history o art andvisual culture student, its a pro-ound, community-building andextremely exciting experience no good eeling outdoes that oriding the town with an eccentricgroup o students and locals.

Last Friday, the second PB&Jride, the monthly mob o over300 bikers took on various cy-cling routes around Santa Cruz,riding rom one venue to the

next to listen to and support localbands and to promote alternativetransportation.

As a participant o the lastPB&J ride, I was completelytaken aback by the vibe o kin-ship that surrounded me whileriding the streets o Santa Cruzwith strangers and riends alike.

Conway comments on herexperience as organizer and herideas that ignited this magicmob, explaining her vision o thealternative world. For her, thegoal is to bring group bike ridingto the attention o the public andmake that world accessible toeverybody.

CHP: What inspired you to orga-nize the PB&J bike rides?

JC: I went on one o the FMLYrides [a previous organized am-ily bike ride that originated inLos Angeles] here in Santa Cruzlast spring, and I was introducedto the thrill o mobbing. I hadnever imagined streets lledwith laughter and bikes insteado noisy, dirty cars. It gave me avision o an alternative world thatI wanted to live in.

I took a class at UCSC overthe summer that exposed meto a lot o critical theory andvisual cultural studies. I wrotea research paper on the CriticalMass [group bike] rides, and aerdoing so much thinking about itI decided to make it a goal to be-come involved in organizing bikerides. I was so inspired by the

overwhelm-ing eelings ocommunity Igot rom that a group oyoung peopleworking to-gether to createa positive and

welcomingspace withina hostile envi-ronment.CHP: How doyou go aboutstarting toorganize such ahuge project?JC: For sucha radical andvisceral experi-ence, theserides start ina very virtualmedium Facebook It makesthe planningprocess mucheasier, becauseit allows ordirect eed-back rom thecyclist commu-nity through-out the entireprocess.

CHP: Why and how do youchoose the venues and bands that

perorm?JC: Tere are some very talentedgroups here in Santa Cruz, and Ilove being able to build our com-munity up by giving our localbands a chance to engage withthe biking community. Te ridesdraw a really large audience, andthey can provide great exposureor new and established groupsalike.

However, I think that theresults o this ride have neces-sitated some changes in what weconsider to be venues. I thinkwere going to need to get more

creative and start using open,abandoned spaces to avoidconrontations with city residentsand the law.CHP: Speaking o the law, thepolice showed up at the lastvenue on Friday. Toughts?JC: Its pretty hard to hide 300bicycles no matter howcray you get. So when the copsshowed up en masse to the laststop, I elt disappointed but sorto resigned. I understand that thepolice are obligated to respond isomeone in the community com-plains about the noise. I dontblame them or doing their job.

I want it known that I do notcondone aggression towards po-lice ofcers [and it] is not some-thing that I ever want to support.It goes completely against thespirit o the ride, which is admit-tedly political in many ways,but intended to be peaceul andun-loving. I would thoroughlydiscourage anyone who wants tobehave violently rom attending

any uture rides.CHP: What makes th

worth it, what is youraspect and what are ying?JC: I love mobbing. leading the last ride, pulsively glancing bamob behind me, becaestly couldnt believethere. I love ridinglove the biking commmusic. When [all] aron such a massive scthe happiest girl in thworld.CHP: What is the puride like PB&J?

JC: Above all, the ridutilizing visibility as ment to create awarerelationship betweenbikers. Te intent o create a sense o camamongst the cyclist cand also to expand itTe experience is meencourage riders to gbikes and become bikthemselves.CHP: Where do youproject going?JC: My hope is that Pgrow big enough to edegree o philosophi

in Santa Cruz. Ideallyachieve a state o coothe city government allowed or a programFranciscos Sunday Sgram that closes largo roads in the city ohours, restricting thecyclists and pedestriahere in Santa Cruz.

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First Lady Michelle Obamainvited Kendra Baker and Zach-ary Davis, owners o the PennyIce Creamery, to attend PresidentBarack Obamas delivery o theState o the Union address.

Baker and Davis initiatedcontact with the White Housein October by posting a videoon Youube. Te video thankedthe Obama administration,Sens. Barbara Boxer and Barbara

Feinstein (D-Cali.), and Rep.Sam Farr (D-Santa Cruz) ortheir roles in the passage o theAmerican Recovery and Rein-vestment Act.

Te business partners wereoriginally covered under a 90percent loan guarantee provi-sion when they led or a 7(a)loan rom Lighthouse Bank.However, the provision expiredin June 2010 and reverted backto 75 percent. Tis caused totalapproved loans rom the 7(a)program to all to $647 millionor June rom $1.9 billion in May.

When the provision expired,

Lighthouse Bank said they wouldhave to put everything on holdand wait or Congresss voteto renew the loan prevision.Without the loan, Davis said, thebusiness plan may have been puton hold.

For about three days every-thing was up in the air, he said.Had it not been renewed wewould have had to nd out i wecould open without [a loan]. Itdenitely would not have hap-pened on the timetable it did.

Te 90 percent loan guaranteewas extended to the end o 2010

under the American Recoveryand Reinvestment Act. Baker andDavis opened shop in August,and Davis said timing was key totheir business plan.

Opening when we did wasreally critical to our successbecause we were able to catchthe end o the summer and makepeople aware that we are here,Davis said.

Vice President Joe Biden per-sonally called Baker and Davis in

November to express his supporto their new business and re-spond to their Youube video.

Joe Biden is a big an o icecream, Davis said. He threat-ened to come eat all o ours. Heoen holds public events at icecream shops.

Baker and Davis arrived inWashington, D.C. at 4 p.m. theday o the speech. Tey attendeda reception at the White Houseor those whom Michelle Obamapersonally invited. Davis said itwas an experience to remember.

It was a really nice cross-sec-

tion o the United States, Davissaid. Tere were young people,small business owners like our-selves, service people, and someCEOs rom bigger companies. Itsvery rare that you would nd allthose dierent types o people inone room with the opportunityto talk and share experiences.

Te presidents address o-cused on restructuring Americaninstitutions to meet the needs oa changing global economy.

We cant win the uturewith a government o the past,President Obama said. Te trueengine o job creation in thiscountry will always be Americasbusinesses. But government cancreate the conditions necessaryor businesses to expand and hiremore workers.

City council member Daviderrazas said Baker and Davishave achieved the kind o suc-cess that the president promisedhoped would come rom theReinvestment Act.

Te Penny exemplies whatPresident Obama was talkingabout in his speech, he said.Tey made an investment thatchanged the look o the whole

block. Its kind o an amazingstory.

While many, like Davis,embrace Obamas vision o theeconomic uture, some rep-resentatives are critical o hispolicies. C-SPAN aired HouseBudget Committee ChairmanPaul Ryans (R-Wis.) response tothe Presidents new and extendedpolicies.

Whether sold as stimulus orrepackaged as investment, Ryan

said, [Te Obama administra-tions] actions show they want aederal government that controlstoo much, taxes too much, andspends too much in order to dotoo much.

Some welcome the newpolicies, noting economic orcommunity benets. Davis ap-preciates the presidents policiesand rhetoric regarding businessin the United States.

I really appreciated thetime he spent talking about theimportance o small business,he said. Te tax incentives thattheyre putting in place enable usto survive when the economy ishitting a rough patch.

errazas said 7(a) businessloans must be granted responsi-bly. While there should always bescrutiny in circumstances where

the government backs economicdevelopment, he said, extendingthe loan to businesses like thePenny Ice Creamery makes himeel condent in the policy.

Although the Penny IceCreamery was not one o thebusinesses eatured in thespeech, Davis said being amongthose Michelle Obama invitedwas gratiying.

Baker and Davis work well

over 40 hours a week to keeptheir business running strong.Davis didnt waste any time get-ting back to work aer returningto Santa Cruz.

I was back in the shop

scooping less than 12 hours aerthe speech, he said.Davis said the 7(a) loan

program was essential or hisbusiness plan to take o. He said

the speechs ocus on tthat have been implemkeeping small busines

Small businesses ddeep pockets, Davis sowners and employee

working together so weconomy struggles, evimmediately aected. to hear him give a shosmall businesses.

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PATRONS THRONG PENNY ICE CREAMERYS counter on an unseasonabJanuary afternoon. Kendra Baker and Zachary Davis, the shops owners, are operating their business after attending the State of the Union address.

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Famed civil rights activist er-rence Roberts visited and spokein Santa Cruz or the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. Memorial Convoca-tion and a discussion panel at UCSanta Cruz this week.

Roberts was part o the LittleRock Nine, a group o nine blackstudents who became the rst toattend an all-white high schoolin Little Rock, Ark. in 1957, justthree years aer the SupremeCourt ruled segregation in publicschools unconstitutional.

At the convocation, Roberts, apeaceul activist, spoke about hischoice to love his enemy, as Mar-tin Luther King Jr. taught himto do when he was a high schoolstudent in Little Rock.

As human beings we havethis belie that we have to ghtto keep what we have, Robertssaid. My mother told me, Youare an animal, this much is true.But you are a human animal. Youdont have to ght or anything.

Roberts received his mastersin psychology at UCLA andcurrently maintains a privatepsychology center.

At the 27th Annual MartinLuther King Jr. Memorial Convo-cation held in Santa Cruzs CivicAuditorium Monday night, theaudience nearly lled the venue.

Wearing gold and purple,Inner Light Ministries Choir wel-comed the audience by perorm-ing traditional civil rights andcontemporary gospel songs.

As Roberts took the stage,he was met by a standingovation.

Te next day, he came tothe Stevenson Event Centerto address a panel o UCSCstudents and audience mem-bers.

Je Rockwell, UCSCdirector o special events oruniversity relations, said theM.L.K. Jr. Convocation Com-mittee chose Roberts to speakin Santa Cruz.

As the chair o that com-mittee, Rockwell also said thatthe UCSC panelists were pickedby the Rosa Parks Arican Amer-ican Teme House (R.PAAH)community in Stevenson.

What a perect parallel,Rockwell said. Tese guys aretrying to bring desegregation toStevenson. Tey are RAs and stu-dents who believe in the ideal.

Te R.PAAH was started lastyear in response to hate crimesacross the UC community, as away to oster racial harmony oncampus.

Only 2.6 percent o the UC

Santa Cruz population is black.iany Loin, chair o

the Student Union Assembly,introduced Roberts by telling theaudience about his academic andproessional career.

Tis background and hisexperiences in the civil rights-eraSouth have equipped Roberts togive advice to audiences.

Student panelist third-year DtAmajoyi kicked o the event witha short speech.

We should know that it ispossible to create change, that itis necessary to spread awareness,that it is worth it to stand up orwhat you believe in, even i youare standing al one, Amajoyi said.

One o the panelists askedhow Roberts was able to over-come the pain o being discrimi-nated against.

Te rst thing to recognizeis that youve been wounded, hesaid. Te actual healing o that

will include reconciliation withthe person who wounded you.Roberts stated that the civil

rights movement did not begin inthe 1950s but 335 years beorethat, when slavery began.

Roberts said during the panelthat anything is possible andhumans can make the choice notto believe in racist ideology.

Te U.S. is an afrmativeaction state and weve never hadintegration, Roberts said. Teoverwhelming majority o uspreer something else. Everyoneis araid to crack the crust. I weare willing to poke through thecrust Im willing to do it. As longas we continue to be this pseudo-community, we cannot be acommunity.

An audience member com-municated his discontent withthe administrations treatmentissues aecting black people oncampus and asked or advice.

You need to learn how tonavigate your environment,Roberts said. Racism is notrunning around in a white hoodanymore. Its sitting around theboardroom table.

Camilla Cooper, a third-yeartheater arts major, discussed therelevance o the topic.

Te civil rights move-

ment hasnt died andreigniting it here toda

Roberts said the laress until the 20th ceresult o people being

When you are bostep into a drama thaunderway, Roberts swas the case with meborn in Little Rock in1941.

Roberts said that the key to progress, amost important tool al can utilize.

Te problem wit

is our belies in mythconstructs, Roberts is no such thing as raword itsel is new to We the people boughpeople and they say, be a part o ll-in-thI just smile and walking and walking awa

response to idiocy.

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Last Tursday, I let my gaze wash down a river opeople who ran rom Santa Cruz Beach Board-walks Coconut Grove all the way to the whar. I elt

impassioned my ellow Giant ans were wasting theirtime waiting in line to get a picture taken with the WorldSeries trophy.

I had urges to play Moses and berate them or theiridol worship.

I know I have my memories o Pacic Avenueexploding with every run and every win. I know that imLincecums hair, Brian Wilsons beard and Matt Cainsstriking resemblance to Bobby rom King o the Hillwill orever be burned into my mind. I elt it dishonest topose by a trophy that could never encompass the magic oa season.

Im a Giants an, which means Im cynical, yet pain-ully loyal. My relationship with the team is a haphazardclip-show o deeats grasped rom the brink o victory. I

still can close my eyes and see Scott Spiezios three-runhomer in 2002, or Jos Cruz Jr. dropping the can-o-corny ball, or J.. Snow getting thrown out at home plate.

Te act that the team won this year still boggles mymind. Its the only incongruity in a history o heartbreak.

Im a Giants an, which means I elt certain the teamwould get swept in the nal series against the Padres andmiss the playos. It means I gripped tightly to a whiskeydouble during every playo game to ease my nerves. Itmeans I believed no lead was large enough, that BrianWilson would blow every save.

Perhaps its this same mentality that made me doubt

the trophy celebration.But halway down the line o ans, I met Larr y Werner

and John Means, and I started to believe there might justbe some value to this event. Te two 40-something-year-old men were grinning and giggly, and they wore match-ing -shirts. Te ront said, Te Negative Brothers. Teback explained: wo Negatives Make a Positive.

Werner and Means are Giants ans, which means theyare cynical, yet painully loyal. Tey watched every game

along with Werners brother-in-law, and they have nick-names or each other.

Our names are Bitch, Whine and Moan, Werner said,chuckling. So we were pleasantly surprised this year.

We stood reminiscing, laughing at tears gone by.Means remembered Willie McCoveys line drive not quiteclearing the leaping Yankee shortstop in Game 7 o the1962 World Series. I mentioned Steve Finleys grand slamthat knocked the Giants out in 2004. Werner recalled theLoma Prieta earthquake that helped the Giants get sweptin the 1989 World Series.

I respected the men, so I had to ask why they wouldspend hours in line. What did the trophy really mean tothem?

It means a lietime o waiting or it, Wernwas 10 years old, and my ather was taking mStadium in San Francisco. Ive been around otime.

At rst I was conused why these sel -procNegative Nancys would spend their aernoonor a cheesy photograph. But then I started tothat the draw was less about the gold and mornally owning a tangible representation o soweve always lacked. Te picture was a guaranorgetting, a saeguard against ever losing sighthat in 2010 we really did win.

Dont Stop Believin played through the I walked back towards my car. Te music wascould still overhear a man standing next to a Hes two years old. I elt like I needed the piccould be his last chance.

I realized that every person in that line waFan. Tey were cynical. But they were also pa

Te scene was estive, with music blasting an wearing their colors proudly, but what rea

to spend an aernoon in line was the naggingthat the Giants might not win or another 56 y

Yankees ans dont wait three hours to takewith a trophy. Tey dont need a photograph aguard against time. Tey can rest assured thatwill win again soon.

But we are Giants ans. We know what it ewait 56 years. Weve watched a team blow gamconceivable way. We are cynical, yet painully

So why not spend a mid-winter aernoon photograph and basking in the victory?

Who knows when it will happen again.

Te Giants World Series rophy tourhas been meaningul to ans

aer years o disappointment

Celebratingthe Blingand the Ring

Im a Giants an, which means Imcynical. My relationship with the team isa haphazard clip show o deeats graspedrom the brink o victory.

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One week aer the Coachella Valley Music andArts Festival lineup was announced, the showsold out. Te Saturday announcement, a disap-

pointment to the tens o thousands o ans who had yet tobuy their tickets, was both unexpected and unheard o.

Coachella, a three-day monster o a music show, an-nually boasts big-name headliners and a slew o smallerup-and-coming acts. Despite its notoriety as being Cali-ornias entertainment event o the year, it shocked ansand critics alike to see event passes sucked up as quicklyas they were.

Tis begs the question: Why did Coachella sell out soast?

Facebook gossipers and orum ragers point to thisyears lineup as the cause. And who could blame them?

Kanye West, Kings o Leon and Arcade Fire amongmany others are known or drawing l arge crowds. Butpopularity isnt solely to blame.

Why not? Because there are still many ticket opportu-nities or those wanting to go.

Scalpers are the ones who have bought out nearly allo the over 75,000 tickets. A quick check across eBay,Craigslist and Stubhub reveals plenty o tickets available,

i youre willing to pay at least three times the ticketsoriginal price ($269). Te generous scalpers also have abountiul number o camping permits available or thethree-day event with bids averaging around $300.

As ludicrous as these jacked-up prices are, perhapsthe most inuriating detail to this story is where thescalpers bread crumb trail leads back to: the originalticket salesmen themselves. Since the 1980s, icketmaster

has developed itsel into a giant in the ticketing oligarchy,now selling tickets or 27 o 30 NHL teams, 28 o 30 NBAteams, and numerous other high-prole stage events,including Coachella.

Te ticketing tyrant plasters its ticket sales with ab-surdly high service charges charges that have amount-ed to up to 50 percent o the tickets actual worth, in somecases.

On top o the back-breaking prices come questionablebusiness practices.

icketsnow.com, a subsidiary o icketmaster, servesas a secondary sales place or tickets in other words, ascalpers market. Multiple lawsuits have since been ledalleging that icketmaster conspired to divert ticketssales to icketsnow, so that the brokering website mightresell the tickets at higher prices.

In a move that would just about monopolize the indus-try altogether, icketmaster sought to mergewith Livenation, another ticket salescompany, back in February 2009.

All that stands between the two isan anti-trust investigation by the USDepartment o Justice.

Now heres the punchline: Back in1993, alternative rock band Pearl Jamrst perormed at the Empire PoloClub grounds, the site that would laterplay host to the annual Coachella Fes-tival. Te perormance, which attractedan audience o about 25,000, was amove meant to boycott icketmaster.

Hows that or irony?Te moral to this story comes rom eedin

culture. Te best move that we, as music-loviners, can do is simply not buy their tickets.

So the real question isnt Why did Coacheso ast? Its How badly do you want to go?

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hey did their best to suocate their countries.Egypts President Hosni Mubarak blacked outthe Internet when nearly a million Egyptians

demanded he step down rom his 30-year rule. Conser-vative leader o Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,clamped down on witter and Facebook aer thousandso protestors used it to organize against him. wo oChinas largest news sites kept people rom searching

Egypt, earlier this week, in order to prevent peoplerom getting ideas about how they might take out leaderHu Jintao.

Since the inception o the Internet, control over thisworldwide communication tool has been a key way ordictatorships to maintain power. In the United States, thepresident, who already has the power to declare war ascommander in chie, may also soon come to possess the

ability to turn o the Internet.Sen. Joe Liebermans Protecting Cyber-

space as a Natural Asset Act, also k nown asthe kill bill, gives the president the powerto declare a cyber emergency.

I the bill passes the many committeeso Congress, the president would have theabsolute power to shut down the Internet.

oday, over 300 million people in theUnited States use the Internet or newsand social networking. Without havingaccess to inormation, our ability to makewell-inormed decisions the very core odemocracy would be threatened.

Giving the president the power to turno the Internet is a violation o our FirstAmendment rights, primarily the reedomo speech and the reedom o the press.

Te language in the kill bill is strikingly sithat o the Patriot Act, which has greatly reductions on law enorcement to search property, ephone lines. Obama recently extended this act,claims to monitor Americans in the name o nasecurity. Te kill bill is another step in this rdirection, where government control wipes outo the people.

Furthermore, giving the president the powedown the Internet could have highly negative rsions on U.S. companies and the entire econom

Te Chinese governments attack on Googlecertainly a bust to those holding Gmail accounincident does not warrant the president havingto hijack the Internet.

Te FBI and Internet providers have already

cyber security and spend millions a year on cybsecurity, so the U.S. ederal government has noneed to award the president a new means o insecurity.

Our leaders know this. Just last WednesdayHouse press secretary made it clear : We suppoversal rights o the Egyptian people, including to reedom o expression, association and assem

Tis statement is available or any one who hInternet access.

Senators proposal would give president unwarranted power to turn of the Internet

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Ill retreat to my bunker. The end is near.

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