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P. 5 HIS WEEK INby Rosela Arce & Kara F

P. 6 INVESIGAI

INVESIGAORby Laurel Fujii and April

P. 9 EVEN CALENby Copy Desk

P. 10 SUDENS ‘PLANFOR HEALH CARby Stephanie Meade

P. 11 CERIFICAIONO GREAER INCENIV

SANA CRUZ DERBY Gby Elizabeth Arakelia

P. 12 HROUGH OUR Lby Kyan Mahzou

P. 16 RALLIES AND PRSIMMER DOWN?by Kara Foran

P. 18 YOUUBE FAD UP WIH UCSC WEEK

ACIVIIESby Gareth ReesWhit& Rosanna van Strate

P. 21 NO ‘DOUGH’ FOD’OH.

by Asa HessMatsumo

P. 22 EDIORIAL: ANIN HE DEFENSE OF MAR

& EDIORIAL: HE SECRE

UCSC’S $6,000 SCAN

P. 23 WHO HE HELLYOU!?

by Muriel Gordon & Prescott

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P. 8 MARCH 1 & 2 DEMONSRAIONSby Rosa Castañeda

P. 14 RACE RELAIONS AND HE UC: A YEAR LAERby Elaine Ejigu

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By Kara Foran Campus Reporter

Rosela ACampus ReThis Week in News &

Illustration by Rachel Edelstein

Alumni Awarded orJournalismUC Santa Cruz alumni Dana Priest and

Richard Harris were recently given awardsor their work in investigative journalism.Long Island University awarded Priest, atwotime Pulitzer Prize winner, with hersecond George Polk Award or NationalReporting. In Washington, D.C., theAmerican Association or the Advancement o Science (AAAS) presented Harris,a Crown College alumnus, with a 2010AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award.Harris, a National Public Radio science

correspondent and UCSC graduate in biology, accepted his award on Feb. 19. Hisinvestigation o the BP oil spill promptedthe ormation o a ederal panel to examine the Gul o Mexico.Senior editor Janet Ralo o Science

News said Harris’ reporting on the Gul oilspill is “important and groundbreaking.”Kavli Science Journalism Award win

ners receive $3,000 and a plaque at theAAAS Annual Meeting.

Priest, a ormer Merrill student andCity on a Hill Press alumna, receivedthe award with ellow Washington Postreporter William M. Arkin or their story “op Secret America.” Te report uncovered the vast and growing network o national security and intelligence systemsaer the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.2010 George Polk winners will

receive their awards at a luncheon at TeRoosevelt Hotel in Manhattan on April 7.

Priest and Arkin ound counterterrorism and homeland security involvement in over 10,000 locationsacross the United States, where some

854,000 people have topsecret security clearances to work on issues or 1,271government organizations and almost2,000 private companies.Both Priest and Harris previously

received UC Santa Cruz Alumni Achievement Awards. Priest received her UCSCAA award in 2008, Harris in 2010.Priest said that ormal experience is

not essential to success as a proessionaljournalism and oered advice to aspiringjournalists.“I still have never taken a class in jour

nalism,” Priest said. “My advice would beto get out o the oce or behind your desk or behind your computer and go immerseyoursel in somebody’s world where youwould ordinarily never be.”

$1 millionDonated toBaskin School o EngineeringPhilanthropists Jack and Peggy Downes

Baskin have donated $1 million to theSchool o Engineering at UC Santa Cruzto create a graduate student support

und, Chancellor George Blumenthalannounced at the UCSC’s annualundraising gala on Saturday.“Tis new gi establishes the Jack

Baskin and Peggy Downes Baskin Fellowships the largest und or graduatestudent support in the history o the campus,”Blumenthal said at the benet dinner.Te nearly 350 attendees raised an

additional $160,000 plus to directly aidundergraduate student scholarships.

Jack Baskin has a long history o contributions to UCSC. He gave his rstdonation o $1 million to open a computerengineering program in 1983. Baskin’ssupport or the School o Engineering now

amounts to more than $9 million.

Student RegentResponds to SexualBattery ChargeUC student regent Jesse Cheng was

arrested on Nov. 4 based on the accusation that he committed sexual battery.Charges were not led, but his case wasorwarded to the Orange County DistrictAttorney or investigation. Cheng issued

a statement on Feb. 21, detailing his pointo view.As reported by the Daily Cal, the

Orange County D.A. rejected this case dueto lack o “corroborating evidence.”Te UC Irvine student was accused

by his exgirlriend, who claimed the act

took place in October o last yher claims have not been subsevidence, Cheng said.“I think overall, about the c

important I’m innocent ,” C

“Te D.A. never led any charinnocent.”Cheng’s exgirlriend, who

dated or about a year, oeredthe police. However, none o tproved him guilty, so he remaCheng said.Te case does not aect Ch

ing as a UC student regent. AnUC Irvine lists dismissal romversity among the possible repor committing sexual batterycontinue his studies there unleconvicted.Despite the ensuing threat t

Cheng’s good standing, he ma

everyday duties as a student re“Right now, I’m just contin

my student regent work,” he saHe said that the case is com

end, maintaining that he is no“Te case is over,” Cheng sa

case is closed.”

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Fourthyear om Pazo recently received a public recordsdocument he requested o theuniversity about seven monthsago. Te returned request consists o two pages: an invoice andocial record o purchase thatdetail $6,000 spent by UCSC tocontract private investigator ScottH. Newby to photo and videodocument a student demonstration on May 18 and 19 last year.

According to the invoice,UCSC contracted Newby or 24hours at $100 per hour, including postproduction and transportation ees rom San Jose toSanta Cruz. Te “demonstration”on May 18 and 19 to which theinvoice reers was a UCSC StrikeCommitteeled event entitled“Walk Out to Your Education.”Te Strike Committee is an

open collective o undergraduates, graduate students, workersand proessors who volunteerand organize in the deense o public education. Te event wasorganized as an alternative way to educate the campus about theunstable budget situation.“It was basically a really

mellow, just studentteaching

demonstration, attended in totalthroughout the day by aboutno more than 150 students atany given time,” said Pazo, whoattended the event last May. “Itwas met by heavy, heavy policepresence ... A complete policebarricade, a line o ocers blocking the road, sheris on AVs,trucks, ourwheelers, all sortso things. And they were alsophotographing students.”

At the May 18 and 19 event,Pazo noticed an unidentiable man with a telescopic lenscamera snapping photographs o event participants rom behindcar doors and trees. When Pazoand Spanish lecturer MariaMorris, who was also presentat the event, walked up to theunidentied photographer, hewas reluctant to tell them why he was there and who he workedor, Pazo said. Te only inormation Pazo received was the man’sname, Scott Newby. Pazo had ahunch that UCSC had contractedthe man, so he decided to requesta public record o the transaction.Newby did not respond to

phone calls and emails requesting an interview.

Pazo also noticed

police vans rom UC Santa Barbara and UC Berkeley present atthe event.His public record request in

quired about UCSC’s authorization o outodepartment policerom other campuses on May 18and 19.A portion o Pazo’s public

records request, including theinvoice and receipt o purchaseo Newby’s services, was returned

Feb. 15. Te rest o his requesthas not yet been unullled.Te heavy police presence

was expected on May 18, as itcoincided with the Amgen ourde Caliornia bicycle race, butorganizers and aculty say thecontinued police presence onMay 19, and the presence o anoutsourced photographer, wasunwarranted.

SAFETY VS.

PROFILING

Students and aculty expressedconcerns that photographs takenat organized events such as May 18 and 19 walkout and teachoutwould be used to prole and possibly reprimand students.Morris, a Spanish language

lecturer, has taught at UCSCsince 1989. Morris held classat the May 18 and 19 event to

express hersolidarity, andspoke withScott Newby at the eventalongsidePazoabout

his presence

and purpose in photographingstudents present.“I was real upset that [Newby]

was hiding behind a tree acrossthe street taking pictures o my class,” Morris said. “I was pissed… because I wouldn’t exposestudents to any danger. I’m thereto support them … Some o them were quite upset [that theirpicture was being taken].”Director o university rela

tions Jim Burns said in an emailthat photographs such as theones taken by Newby are notused to prole students.“Rather, they are taken in

the event that there is activity that violates university policiesor regulations and/or the law,”Burns said in the email.Leo RitzBarr is an under

graduate at UCSC and organizerwith the Strike Committee. Lastyear he was cited with sevenviolations and assigned 40 hourso community service ollowingthe November 2009 occupationo the Kerr Hall administrative building. At the Kerr Hallprotest, many students, includingRitzBarr, were retrospectively identied and cited with violations based on photographs takenat the event.Ever since the Kerr Hall

occupation drew attention toRitzBarr, campus police ocersgreet him by rst name wheneverthey see him on campus, RitzBarr said.“Te cops call me Leonard,”

RitzBarr said. “Nobody calls meLeonard. My parents don’t callme Leonard, no teachers call me

Leonard. Only administratorswho don’t know who I am, oronly know me through camerasand pictures o my photo ID, callme Leonard ... It’s scary as uck.”Pazo said that on May 18 he

experienced a similar exampleo what he called UCSC “police

intimidation tactics.”He said Augie Zig

captain o the UCSCDepartment, approathe event.“He asked me, ‘Ar

om Pazo?’ and I wataken aback, like, ‘Wknow?’” Pazo said. “Hing i I was an organiwhat was going to hathe day.”

Pazo attended thea participant, but waorganizer.Te UCSC Police

did not respond to inrequests.RitzBarr said it w

irresponsible o the ation to hire Newby tostudents.He said Adam Sno

ordinator or the ColUniversity Housing SCommunity Saety Pthe Emergency PrepaProgram, could havethe same services.Snook worked or

“in the private sectorinvestigator and corpand security proessicording to his proleUCSC website.“Snook already st

ers at all events, and o us,” RitzBarr saidAugie Zigon, the heaup here. Why couldnhave pulled out one olittle cameras rom wa private investigatorally need to outsourcwe could have done i

Snook declined toment. He said in an ehe would be on vacatseveral days and thatwas “outside o [his] expertise.”Zigon did not resp

email request or an

Public Records Reveal University

Surveillance of Student OrganizeStudents, aculty, sta question university’s motives, spending on last year’s May walk-out, teac

By Laurel FujiiCampus Reporters

PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR Scott H. Newby, shoby a police van, was hired by the UCSC adminia photographer and videographer to surveil stu

By April ShortContributing Writer

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Jim Burns, director o university relations at UCSC, saidthe UCSC Police Departmenthired Newby as part o planningor what was originally billed asa “threeday shutdown” o thecampus.“[Newby] was hired as a

videographer/photographer,”Burns said in the email. “He wasnot hired as a private investigator.Tis decision was based on legitimate lawenorcement concerns.”Organizers o the May 18 and

19 event said they inormed theadministration ahead o time o their plans or the event.“Te administration was made

aware with several emails thatMay 18 and 19 was not plannedas a hard strike,” Pazo said.Burns said photographs taken

at events like May 18 and 19 are

attached to a case le documenting an event.“In the absence o the sus

picion o criminal activity, thephotos are purged aer one year,”Burns said in the email.

ALLOCATION OF

FUNDS

Because o Caliornia’s budgetcrisis, in the past couple o yearsthe UC system has seen ee hikes,

aculty and sta layos, andeducational cuts to programsincluding entire majors. Gov.Jerry Brown proposed in January a $500 million reduction o UCunds.Literature graduate student

and teaching assistant BrianMalone compared the university’sspending o $6,000 to what itcould pay or at UCSC.“Six thousand dollars that’s

more than members o my unit,the [teaching assistant] union, get

paid to A or a quarter,” Malonesaid.Six thousand dollars is the

amount necessary to und most

UCSC lecture courses or onequarter.Burns said the university’s

spending on a photographer orthis event was necessary.

“It made sense to contract orsuch services or several reasons,”Burns said in an email. “Teuniversity police departmentdoes not have the expertise toprovide such services. Using apolice ocer to provide suchservices prevents the ocer romullling his or her lawenorcement duties, and i such documentation ultimately was needed,it made sense to contract withsomeone who had proessional

experience in that area.”Malone said the photogra

pher’s presence was a show o orce to intimidate students.“Te issue wasn’t just this

photographer, this outsider although he was belligerent but it was also the hugeUC police presence,” Malonesaid. “It’s one thing to talk about$6,000 spent on this outsidephotographer they must havespent tens o thousands o dollarson importing UC police rom

other campuses and putting themall out there.”Pazo said the public records

he received demonstrate a largerissue regarding UCSC’s attitudetowards and allocation o unds.“What this says is it’s a

complete joke and lie to say thatthere’s not enough money orunding,” Pazo said.

PUBLIC RECORD

RELEASE

In a recent study, the groupCaliornians Aware evaluated all UCs and CSUs or their

compliance with public recordsrequests. With 40 points outo 100, UCSC received a ailinggrade.Pazo made his original public

records request last year onJuly 28. Seven months later, hereceived the main portion o thedocuments he requested.An agency must determine

within 10 days whether to comply with the request and mustinorm the requester o its decision at that time, according to theCaliornia Public Records Act.“I possible, records deemed

subject to disclosure should beprovided at the time the determination is made,” according to theattorney general’s ocial summary o the Public Records Act.“I immediate disclosure is notpossible, the agency must providethe records within a reasonableperiod o time, along with an estimate o the date that the recordswill be available.”Te request was ormally

acknowledged on August 6, in

compliance with the law, JimBurns said in an email.Pazo said the sevenmonth

response time is unacceptable ora public institution.“It’s still a very slow response,”

Pazo said. “Tat calls into question [the administration’s] prioritizing o public records request.I think it took longer than itshould, whether or not it was incompliance with the law.”Pazo did not receive responses

or up to two weeks in between

each email.“I did ollow the proper

procedure,” Pazo said.“[Specicity] is sometimesmaybe a problem or some publicrecords requests, but I asked orvery specic things. I asked orreceipt o purchase, purchaseorder regarding the hiring o aprivate investigator by the nameo Scott Newby on May 18 and19, 2010. Very specic. Tesethings do take time, but there’sreally no excuse ... And this isjust a drop in the bucket o all[UCSC’s] lack o accountability.”

DEMANDING

ACCOUNTABILITY

A portion o Pazo’s public records request is still not ullled.Te unsatised portion asks

or a “record or the authorization o out o department policerom other UC campuses on May 18 and 19, 2010,” as Pazo andothers noted members o the UCBerkeley and UC Santa Barbarapolice present. Pazo receivedan email rom Denise Dolezal,inormation practices and policy analyst or the Chancellor’s O

ce, on Feb. 15. Dolezal saidthe administration continues tosearch or this record.Lt. Alex Yao o the UC Berke

ley Police Department said hedid not remember the May 18and 19 event, but that it is notuncommon or the UCSC PoliceDepartment to be assisted by UC Berkeley Police Department,which is one o the largest UCpolice departments.Te UC police department

chie o one campus request or more polirom other campusesMatt Bowman o UCBarbara Police Deparcould not recall the eWhoever has personresponds.Malone and sever

said the amount o ption on May 19 was u“Part o it was a pu

o resources on the padministration, and a

o money, presumablthousands o dollars and travel or other Ucome [to UCSC],” MUC campus police

ments have dierent between each other rwhich campus undstion and ees to bringpolice orces.“It’s more commo

requesting school to other police departmportation,” Bowman cost money so it’s nolightly.”Malone said the p

ence was an unnecescation that was inconthe peaceul atmosphevent.“By what stretch o

nation do you need 1police or a poetry reMalone said.One o the things

sta have demandedtransparency rom thsaid.“o an extent the

tration’s] message is, and write us a check,said. “Tere’s nothing

there’s nothing you ckeep your head downto classes, keep writinchecks or your tuitiodon’t know the extenwhat they did has mathink twice about dothing out o the ordincampus, even i it’s jua poetry reading at tho campus.”

24 hours @ $100 an hour per Camera Operator on site including 2hour roundtrip travel rom San Jose, and 12 ho$100 an hour or photo & video postproduction services (5/18/10 Photo/video documented demonstration at Wentrance; 5/14/10 [sic] Photo documented demonstration at main entrance, and on standby to video document 2 camera units; 5/24/10 Processed images, including cropping & enlarging, and printed 32 proo sheets; 5/26/10Uploaded video to computer and made DVDs and copy tapes in duplicate rom videos) $6,000.0

STUDENTS GATHERED at the Walk Out to YourEducation event last May. The event was organized toeducate the campus community about increased tuition,budget cuts and university spending.

Photos courtesy of Tom Pazo

SERVICES RENDERED:

Te ollowing document is an excerpt rom private investigator Scott H. Newby’s invoiceto UC Santa Cruz. It was released as part o ourth-year om Pazo’s public recordsrequest. It details Newby’s video and photo services on May 18 and 19, 2010.

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Tree hundred demonstrators gatheredin Quarry Plaza yesterday. Organizerscited continuous ee hikes, lack o representation or minorities on campus andlack o transparency rom the administration as the catalyst or the movement.Chris Hables Gray, Crown lecturer and

part o the American Federation o eachers, attended the rally in support o theongoing student struggles as an extensionto the budgetary problems o the University o Caliornia.“Tis university is going in the wrong

direction … Tis is not the way it wasestablished in the constitution,” Gray said.“Anyone who eels America is democratic,they need to go to a university. I this isdemocracy, we need more and more.”

O the $500 million cut the UC aces,UCSC stands to lost $31 million in the2011–12 scal year. As a result, studentsace another ee hike eective all 2011.Te budget decit has led to the

suspension o American and community studies on campus.Te demand or an ethnic studies

program has been highlighted in thewake o these suspensions. UCSC, unlikeUC Berkeley, UC Riverside and UC SanDiego, does not oer an ethnic

studies major.Literature proessor Christine Hong

pointed out the lack o diversity on campus and critiqued the ecacy o the ‘saespaces’ that the university provides.“When you set aside a oor or hous

ing or black students as a ‘sae space,’what message are you communicatingabout the whole campus?”A petition to establish an ethnic stud

ies program and calls or change circulated during the rally.Te petition reads: “UC Santa Cruz

must adjust its institutional prioritiesaway rom bloated administrative salariesand allocate permanent unding or ethnicand critical race studies … that articulateswith queer, eminist and labor studies inchallenging asymmetrical power relations...”Workers, students and proessors ad

dressed ongoing eorts to democratize

education. opics o discussion includedTe DREAM Act and international revolutions.Te DREAM Act, which would give

conditional permanent residency toundocumented students aer graduatingrom high school, has been an ongoinglegislative proposal since 2001.Student speaker Christian Cuadrado

Garcia said: “We need to imagine a betterworld, here and now.”With this, he invited students to con

tinue advocating or ethnic studies.An hour and a hal into the rally, over

60 student demonstrators occupied theEthnic Resource Center (ERC). Some saton the oor while the others crowded thehallways and the entrance to the ERC.Some said the organization was start

ing to eel militant.Student organizers said the build

ing was chosen or the demonstration toaddress the small space given to ethnicresources.“Tis is a space we al l pay or, a space

or people o color and everyone else,”said a student who wished to remainanonymous. “Resources are not enough… the ERC should not be stuck at the endo this hall.”Te ERC is located on the third oor

o the Bay ree Conerence Center, andshares the oor with the Career Center.American Indian Resource Center

director Carolyn Dunn addressed thestudents.“Tis is a designated sae space or

people o color,” Dunn said. “We are incomplete support o what you guys aredoing [but] I’m asking everyone to respectthe work o this oce.”In response to Dunn’s request, some

demonstrators exited to the patio whileothers gathered in a conerence room.Aer a short time the group reconvened.Leo RitzBarr, a ourthyear political

theory major, said that in ordetogether students needed to ueveryone’s dierent societal ro“Solidarity is not sympathy

through struggle,” RitzBarr sato eel uncomortable as a whi… students o color are the afwe’re going to have to articulaor ethnic studies to help makpeople understand their privilMaximilian Rosa, a junior t

student, said that the disputesstudents needed to happen.“Where this needs to go ne

these venues and events to getconsensus and publicize thempeople aware o them,” Rosa sDemonstrators discussed h

tiate with the administration. 6 p.m., dean o students Almainormed the group that execuchancellor Alison Galloway h

meet with students on Friday i they agreed not to occupy thing overnight. Siuentes later inegotiators that this oer onlyorganizers responded by 6:30 Students decided to stay th

at press time had occupied theVelazquez conerence room ooor o the Bay ree ConerenTe protesters have created a wand a witter account to keep updated.

8 | Thursday, March 3, 2011

Campus

Student Rally Moves to Ethnic Resource CenDemonstrators pledge to remain in the building overnight

DEMONSTRATORS GATHER in Quarry Plaza to protest fee hikes and lack of representation for minorities on campus.

By Rosa CastañedaCampus Reporter

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Event Calendar Compiled by Cop

CampusHURSDAY, MARCH 3• Dropin bicycle maintenance. Next tothe outdoor basketball courts at the EastField House. 2 to 5 p.m. Free.• Stones into Schools: Promoting PeaceTrough Education in Aghanistanand Pakistan. Community reading anddiscussion o the Greg Mortenson book.Bay ree Bookstore. 3 to 4:30 p.m. Free.• “Mummied Deer.” Play .Teater ArtsMainstage. 7 to 9 p.m.$15 or generaladmission, $12 or seniors and students,ree to UCSC students with ID.• “Some o the Many Men o JaimeMarshall .” Studentwritten play.Barn Teater. 7:30 p.m. Event repeatsdaily through Monday. Free to UCSCundergrads, $3 all nonundergrad UCSCstudents, and $5 general admission.

FRIDAY, MARCH 4• “Decolonizing Film: Indigenous

Filmmakers Speak.” First lm screeningat 12 p.m. Te American Indian ResourceCenter at UCSC presents a daylong lmestival. Bay ree Building, Cervantes andVelasquez Conerence Room.• Men’s volleyball. UCSC vs. Holy Names. West Field House. 7 p.m.

SAURDAY, MARCH 5• UCSC Cycling Club Road Race. Eastside o campus. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.• Multicultural Career Conerence.Alumni o color share proessional careeradvice with students. Stevenson EventCenter. 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Open toUCSC students only. Free.• Men’s lacrosse. UCSC vs. UC Merced.Upper East Field. 1 p.m.• Women’s tennis. UCSC vs. University o LaVerne. East ennis Courts. 2 p.m.• Men’s volleyball. UCSC vs. HopeInternational. West Field House. 7 p.m.

SUNDAY, MARCH 6• Women’s tennis. UCSC vs. ClaremontMuddScripps. East ennis Courts. 9 a.m.• “Riddle Me”: an opera or youngaudiences. Music Center Recital Hall. 11a.m. to 12 p.m., and 1 to 2 p.m. Free.

MONDAY, MARCH 7• Water Management Challenges in

India: Part o CGIRS and College NineFaculty Research Seminar Series, eaturingNirvikar Singh and Ben Crow. SocialSciences 1, Room 261. 3:30 to 5 p.m. Free.

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condential space. All genders welcome.Cantú Queer Center. 7:30 to 9 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9• Men’s tennis. UCSC vs. SwarthmoreCollege. East ennis Courts. 2 p.m.• Academic Senate Meeting. StevensonEvent Center. 2:30 to 5 p.m. Free.

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“I you want sae sex, saveitle X!” A crowd walking downthe middle o Pacic chanted asthey marched together, carryinghandmade cardboard signs.A group o UCSC students

organized the rally in oppositionto the recent Feb. 18 vote by theHouse o Representatives in avoro an amendment to bar Planned

Parenthood centers rom receiving ederal unding or any o their services.Many Republicans in the

House argue that taxpayermoney should not be used tound abortions. However, itle X,the guidelines or how PlannedParenthood is unded by the government, already prevents ederalunding o abortions.I the Senate passes the bill,

Planned Parenthood will nolonger receive unding or itscenters, which provide serviceslike ree or reducedcost birthcontrol options, cancer and SDscreenings and counseling.Tis vote is in conjunction

with several unding cuts toother public programs including Women, Inants andChildren Centers and Head Startprograms, which aid lowincomeamilies with education, healthservices, ood packages andnutrition education.Te rally event, which was not

connected to the Planned Parenthood Federation, started at noonlast Saturday by the Clock owerin downtown Santa Cruz.Secondyear Juliana Schwartz

was one o the students whohelped organize the event.“It’s a part o a nationwide

walk,” Schwartz said. “Santa Cruzdoesn’t have one so we decidedto put one together. It is important or everyone to walk or theability to choose health and wewant to make sure the Senatedoesn’t pass this bullshit bill.”Schwartz works as a volunteer

escort or Planned Parenthood.“Every Saturday is abortion

day and antichoice protesterspicket outside o the PlannedParenthood clinic. I walk withgirls into the clinic so they eelsae and more comortable,”Schwartz said. “It’s not just women, either. I walk with childrenand amilies too.”Jesse, a student who chose

not to give her last name, helpedto organize the event and talkedabout the goals or the rally.

“I really hope that we canempower people and acilitateconversation,” Jesse said. “I don’tthink the legislation is the only thing we should be ocusingon. It’s the general oppressiono women. We need to build amovement and work together orthe cause.”Beore the march, organiz

ers passed out signs and handedout inormational leaets andzines. One popular sign simply depicted a clothes hanger with a“X” through it, reerring to thedangerous abortion methodsused when there are no saealternatives provided by medicalcenters.Amid car horns and rushing

trac, Katya Birken stood on theledge o the ountain underneaththe clock tower and addressedthe crowd.“Tey want to redene rape.

Tey want to change the term‘rape vict im’ to ‘rape accuser.’ Isthat OK?” Birken asked.“No!” the crowd shouted

back.“Tey want to make it so

that unless you have bruises orother injuries, then you actually

haven’t been raped. How many o you know that they are cutting$200,000 at Head Start?”“Kids aren’t going to get eye

tests,” Birken said. “Tey are taking away health care rom pregnant women and children, andall other kinds o things. Tis ismuch bigger than having accessto Planned Parenthood. Tey areattacking women and amilies

on all ronts.”Aer her speech, Birken,

who was raped two years ago,explained why she is so activeor the cause. She brought uprecently legislation put orth by Republicans that would redenerape.“Te act that they want to

change our name, our statusrom victim to accuser, whatthat does is place the blame back on the woman,” she said. “Weworked so hard to change that.It doesn’t make sense to go backwards. So, we have to stand upand make sure everybody knowswhat is actually happening.”Birken said that the issues at

hand involve more than women’shealth care and reproductiverights.“A lot o these things are being

cloaked around abortion and

what not because there are a loto Republicans who don’t believein abortion,” Birken said. “Sothey’ll vote down abortion andthese other little things get snuck in under the radar, which weweren’t prepared or, and then wehave new bills that discriminateagainst women and children.”At about 1 p.m., the crowd

began its trek down Pacic Av

enue, turned on Laurel Avenue,and then went all the way up tothe corner o Mission Street. Tegroup was ollowed by a policeocer in a car as well as a ew onmotorcycles that circled aroundthe commotion. Te rally took up the whole right lane o thestreet, which put trac into analmost standstill.At the corner o Mission and

Bay, the more daring participantsproceeded to march a circle inthe middle o the intersection,blocking trac all our ways.Some cars honked while others tried to turn around. Aercreating a satisactory amounto trac, the crowd then turnedaround and walked back the way they came.Despite some hostile

reactions, Birken explainedwhy she will stand by Planned

Parenthood.“Tere are a lot o people who

go to Planned Parenthood orother things other than abortion.I’ve been to Planned Parenthoodor a lot o things. I have neverhad an abortion.” Birken said.“But i [Planned Parenthood]wasn’t there, I wouldn’t have gotten the help I needed.”Te move against abortion,

which has been calledsense legislation by Rerepresentatives, consiseparate bills. Te billi passed, amily planncannot be awarded to that perorms or undprograms that perormtions, according to goHR 3, the third portioederal unds rom beany health benets coincludes coverage o aIn response to wha

been seen as a direct aPlanned Parenthood, Richards, Planned Parpresident, deended thnizations value to womamilies.“For 95 years, Plan

hood has provided mand amily planning sto women across the c

Richards said in an oment on Feb. 18. “OneAmerican women hascare rom a Planned Phood health center dulietime, and last year patients came to one othan 800 health centertrusted by millions oand amilies, and we dto those who need it m

Students, Community Protest

Possible Planned Parenthood CuUCSC students organize rally in response to the House’s vote

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A urry o color rushespast as women dressed ineverything rom shiny shorts toHello Kitty socks skate arounda rink marked with tape on theconcrete oor. attoos peek outrom shirts and wisps o crazycolored hair escape rom helmetsas women o all ages warm upor practice. Tese are the SantaCruz Derby Girls.

In just the last decade,roller derby has catapulted topopularity. In 2001, there wasonly one roller derby leaguein the country. However,over the past 10 years, thatnumber has increased to over400 leagues around the world,most o which are grapplingor Women’s Flat rack Derby Association membership orWFDA. At the end o theirlast season, SCDG was grantedthis certication and is nowcompeting in the Western regionor the rst time.

Liv N. Letdie, who is one o the jammers or the BoardwalkdBombshells, said that receivingWFDA status has provided agreat amount o incentive or thederby girls.“Having the certication has

raised us rom basically a ‘armleague’ to what is consideredthe NBA o roll er derby,” shesaid. “Having the WFDAmembership is like putting abigger carrot in ront o us to

work harder.”eammate Foxxee Firestorm

said that having the WFDAstatus also provides the leaguemore notoriety which in turnincreases support or roller derby in Santa Cruz.Te Santa Cruz roller derby

league has expanded since itsounding in 2007. Starting withjust 25 women, the league hasgrown to around 100 roller derby girls in three teams: the Boardwalk Bombshells, the HarborHellcats and the Seabright Sirens.

Tis threetier approach portions o the women into teamsappropriate or their ability, withthe Bombshells as the “A” team,Hellcats as the “B” team, andSirens as the “C” team. Althoughall teams within the league aresanctioned with WFDA status,the Boardwalk Bombshellsrepresents the league in most o the sanctioned bouts because o their status as the “A” team.Despite having three teams,

the roller derby girls are stilla closeknit crew. Te team’scohesiveness can be attributed

to the extracurricular work thatthe derby girls o Santa Cruz do.Every derby girls is on a committee that serves the league whichranges rom spirit committee topublic relations. At each homebout, they choose a nonprotorganization to receive a portiono their proceeds.Derby girl Cleopatra Ca

tastrophe is codirector o theSCDG.“Everyone is a cog in the

machine that is roller derby herein Santa Cruz,” she said.Since its ounding, SCDG has

donated over $10,000 and morethan 550 hours o volunteer work to community groups, schoolsand nonprot organizations.Te team is currently awaitingapproval rom the IRS to receivenonprot status.Although roller derby takes a

considerable amount o time andcommitment, the women participating are more than happy tocommit.

“Tere is no reason I wouldvolunteer this much time away rom my kids and amily i it

wasn’t important,” said derby girlFoxxee Firestorm.Although the derby girls are

serious about their community

outreach, they also engage in thequirky party spirit o roller derby.Derby girls are known or theireccentric outts and personalities.Liv N. Letdie watched as a

woman with purplestreakedhair and tattoos skated by.“Te booty shorts and shnets

might bring people to the bouts,”Letdie said, “but once they actually see roller derby, they’readdicted.”

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Skating Their Way to SuccessSanta Cruz Derby Girls gain national certifcation and make frst win o the season

RIGHT: Two players collide during a warm-up scrimmage game at the Santa CruzDerby Girls practice. The SCDG is coming off its rst win of the season, during whichthe team destroyed the Sin City Roller Girls last week in Las Vegas.

Photos by Molly Solomon

By Elizabeth ArakelianSports Reporter

Next MatchBoardwalk Bombshells

vs.Sac City Rollers

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OUR LENSWords & Photographs by Kyan Mahzouf

From the dense, monarch-laden eucalyptus trees to the rocky shoreline blanketed with barnacles and t

pools, Natural Bridges State Park’s pristine macrocosm captured my attention as my camera captured t

images for hours. Throughout the quarter I made my way to the park on several occasions, each time w

different subject in mind. I pieced together this compilation, hoping to encapsulate the rich diversity an

geography that make our stretch of the California coastline so revered.

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UC Hate Crimes:

Where Are We Now?

By Elaine EjiguCampus Reporter

UC San Diego ourthyearJasmine Phillips is one o many black students who

have expressed indignation, andshe is one o thousands o students o all racial backgrounds outraged by the string o hatecrimes that occurred at severalUC campuses last year.“We as black students are

continuously attacked and madedisposable on UC campuses,”Phillips said.

Standing at a podium in aUCLA ballroom, the sociology gave a campaign speech at theArican Black Coalition (ABC)conerence held at UCLA earlierthis year. While running or ABCpresident, Phillips addressed racerelations at her school and howto prevent hate crimes.Aer the UC hate crimes

in 2010, UC campus community members and peopleacross Caliornia voiced theirdismay. Students at UC SanDiego, UCLA and UC Davis helddemonstrations to protest the

UCSD “Compton Cookout” andantiSemitic, racist and homophobic grati. Te administrations o all o the aected schoolsdenounced racism, sexism andprejudice, and opened investigations.“As always, the remedy or

bad speech is good speech,” UCpresident Mark Yudo said ina statement about the eventsat UCSD. “For that reason, wecall on all members o the UC

community students, aculty,and sta to arm and deendthe values o the University o Caliornia. We are speaking outand ask that you do the samewhenever, wherever, and howeveryou conront the behavior thatviolates the principles and valueso this university.”Hate crimes continued at UC

campuses this year. Studentshave organized several moves toaction. Leaders o the ABC have

plans to improve the UC campusracial climate. However, there isstill a long way to go beore satisactory conditions are reached,according to a 2010 universitywide report on race relations.“Because we are physically

and emotionally drained, protestscan’t be our only orm o action,”Phillips said about the UCSD student reactions to the hate crimes.Some ABC members plan

to lobby administration at theirUCs to create measures thatwould improve the campus racialclimates.

Te Controversy

Last February, the most publicized UC hate crime occurred atUC San Diego when a group o students decided to hold a party called the “Compton Cookout”satirizing Black History Month.Students were asked to dress inbaggy clothes, eat ried chicken,drink KoolAid and act “ghetto.”Less than a week later, racial

slurs, including the nword, wereused on a studentrun programcalled Koala V. A week aerthat, a noose was ound hanging rom the top o one o theschool’s libraries.Te same month, students

ound proanity and derogatory slurs spraypainted all over theentrance to UC Davis’ Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual and ransgender(LGB) Center. In March, spraypainted swastikas were ound on

multiple suraces o the UC Daviscampus, including the social sciences and humanities building.A column questioning the

purpose and relevance o Black History Month ran in the UCIrvine school newspaper lastFebruary.Tat same month at UC Santa

Cruz, a group o students wereinvestigated or drawing noosesalong with the name Diego Lynchon various locations o the campus, including bathroom stalls.Te students in question said thatthey meant no harm by the draw

ings and were simply putting aplay on words with Lynch’s lastname.“[Te Diego Lynch drawing]

started several years ago,” saidMitchell Landry*, one o thestudents who drew the nooses. “Itstarted out as a play on his name,because he’s a buddy. It was justa joke. It was never intended tohave any racial connotat ions.”Te student whose name was

eatured in the drawings does not

take the incidences as lightly.“Even though [the Diego

Lynch drawings] were stupid andinconsequential, it does not meanthey weren’t oensive,” ourthyear Diego Lynch said. “I wasn’tstopping them ... but I shouldhave.”Te students behind the

“Compton Cookout,” as well asthe student who hung the noosein a library, were all suspended.Aer using the oensive exple

tives on air, UCSD studentprogram Koala V was taken o the air. However, the author o the UC Irvine newspaper columnand the students who drew the“Diego Lynch” nooses were notpunished.

Te Stats

Tree years ago the UC’sAdvisory Council on CampusClimate, Culture and Inclusioncompiled a report includingsurveys analyzing the diversity on UC campuses.

Te September 2010 editiono the UC Diversity Annual Accountability SubReport containsthe results o this endeavor.One graph in the report shows

the results o a survey that askedstudents at UC campuses to agreeor disagree with the statement“Students o my race are respected on this campus.”Te data showed that Arican

American males and emalesagreed with this statement the

least, with a little oveo students. Chicanodents agreed slightlypercent o the time. Aican and white studethe most, with aboutand 95 percent, respeTe next graph sh

results o a survey thon AricanAmericanresponses to the stateUC campuses. Aricastudents at UC Santa

UC Santa Cruz agreestatement the least, wless than 50 percent.In response to the

“My race is respectedcampus,” UCSC studchair iany Loin sno. Why? Because wand racism is still alivhave been certain evprove that black peoprespected on this camwas a racist event at S[very recently].”On Jan. 26, someo

“F n” on a St

college men’s bathrooresponse, someone cthe nword and repla“white power” so the“F white power.”AricanAmerican

at UC Riverside had agreement rate, withthan 80 percent o thagreeing with the staUC Riverside has

AricanAmerican enall the UCs as o 200

Following the string o hate crimes across the UC last year,students and administrators evaluate the progress in the campus clima

“We as black students are continuously attacked and madedisposable on UC campuses,” “Te remedy for bad sp

good sp“It was just a joke. It was never intended tohave any racial connotations.” “We are black, and racism is still alive.”

Illustration Bela Messe

“We need to work together to build a campus climatethat allows everyone to feel welcome, supported

and respected.”

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to promote tolerance on campus.In light o the racial hate crimesat several campuses, UCSC SUAchair Loin held a discussionwith students asking, “Whatthings could be done to makeUCSC a healthier climate orAricanAmericans?” Temedhousing was just one o the ideasthe discussion produced.“Outreach programs, student

retention, and the R.PAAH weresome o the goals on the list o things produced by this conversation,” Pablo Reguerin said.Reguerin is also the director

o the Educational OpportunitiesProgram (EOP) oce at UCSC.“Te R.PAAH was cre

ated 100 percent in response tostudent demands,” he said. “It isinhabited by people who want tobe there.”Reguerin was one o the

administrators heavily involvedwith the realization o R.PAAH.“Te vision o R.PAAH has

been lived out,” Reguerin said.“We were really lucky to get very talented RAs who are not araidto tackle issues o race and discuss them.”However, not everyone is as

optimistic about the accomplishment. Fourthyear Falyn Davis,a black student at UCSC, hasdoubts about the motives o thecreation o R.PAAH.“Te purpose or the campus’s

support o [the R.PAAH] had

nothing to do with black students, but instead with making[the administrators] look good ina time when students o color areunder attack,” Davis said.McGinty acknowledges that

steps need to be taken to improvethe campus climate.“I want everyone to eel

welcome and supported on thiscampus and to know that theirpresence matters,” McGinty said.“[Teir presence] enriches thecampus community. We need towork together to build a campusclimate that allows everyone to

eel welcome, supported andrespected.”Hoover has made two videos

on Youube addressing the ignorance she and her riends haveencountered since she became anRA at R.PAAH. In them they talk about educating two whitestudents who ignorantly labeledthem with common stereotypeso black people while attemptingto make riends with them.“Tese issues are so prevalent

at our school, UCSC,” Hooversaid. “All [one o the students]sees is ‘Te Boondocks’ whenhe watches V. All he sees is

hiphop when he watches V. Hesees black people associated withthose cultures, and so thereorehe believes that clearly must bean outlet to get along with allAricanAmerican people.”“We are not ‘them,’ and we

are not ‘they,’” one o Hoover’sriends said in the video. “We areindividuals.”

Te ABC Conference 2011

Te eighth annual UC ABCconerence o the UCs washeld at UCLA and spanned theweekend o Feb. 11 through 13this year.Student delegates like Jasmine

Phillips met with volunteers to

look at possible solutions to issues that arise or minorities oncollege campuses.“I’ve emailed UC president

Mark Yudo, as well as otheradministrators about the lack o respect AricanAmericanstudents receive on the UCSDcampus,” Phill ips said.“Loving each other is a orm

o resistance because society tellsus not to love ourselves,” she saidin her campaign speech.Phillips won the presidency.During the conerence, a UC

Davis representative read out thegoals o the ABC. One o thosegoals is to institutionalize diversity programs such as AricanAmerican studies UCwide.Tese programs would providestudents with an important lesson in history that is ocused onin a way that the average U.S.history class is not.Te ABC conerence also

oered UC students a variety o workshops to attend. One o these workshops was called “TeBurden o the Black Student:eaching Moments.” It was heldby UCLA thirdyear ierraMoore.

In the workshop, Mooretaught the students about “microaggressions,” small injustices thatadd up over time, and how todeal with them.“During my riend’s rst year

at UCLA, someone on an elevator said, ‘Oh my God, can I touch

you? I’ve never touchperson beore,’” Mooexample o a microag“Even though it’s notul she didn’t hananything it was a but it still made an imidea is that those littlup, and they create sexperience [at a univAt the workshop,

a personal anecdote o her experiences w

aggression at UCLApolitical sociology cosaid, her teacher shorom the movie “Bulwhich depicted blacknegative stereotypes.Moore was one o

black students in thetook oense to the cl“I was oended b

that the teacher didnpremise to the clip,” “It was as i he were pas i it is the truth.”Another microag

experienced also occclassroom. In one oa classmate made a cabout issues aectingMoore said a stud

that the reason why Aproblems is because there do not listen topolice orce. She thenAricanAmericans tagainst police enorcAngeles in the ’90s, bAngeles Police Depathe SWA team shutTe student’s argu

that black people areunruly and need the control them, Moore

“I waited or her trected by the A, wholder Ph.D student, bsaid, ‘Yes, you have apoint,’ and moved onperson,” Moore said.

to a chart titled UndergraduateEnrollment by Race/Ethnicity by Campuses. AricanAmericanenrollment at UC Riverside isabout 10 percent. Every othercampus had percentages hovering just above 0 percent. UCSChad an enrollment rate o about2 percent. UCSD had the lowestAricanAmerican enrollmentpercentage, with about 1 percent.Felicia McGinty, UCSC vice

chancellor o student aairs, iswellaware that AricanAmericans are a minority on campus,but she said that this minority

does not ace disrespect.“Students have not reportedto me that they eel disrespected,” McGinty said. “Tey havereported that they eel isolated.Tere aren’t many AricanAmerican students on campus.Tey have challenges inherent inbeing 2.6 percent o the population. It’s harder or them to builda community.”

Te Backlash

As a residential assistant (RA)at the Rosa Parks Arican American Teme House (R.PAAH) o

Stevenson College, ShawneshiaHoover, says she has experiencedmany challenges in her position.Te R.PAAH was created lastyear in reaction to the slew o UChate crimes.Te R.PAAH housing o

cuses on multiculturalism and isopen to anyone who is interestedin AricanAmerican culture andhistory. It is the second AricanAmerican themed house to becreated at any UC, ollowing UCBerkeley’s Ida L. Jackson house.“When it comes to some stu

dents who don’t know anything

about it, they see it as segregation,” Hoover said. “I nd mysel having to explain the importanceo R.PAAH, because so many people don’t understand why black people have their ownthemed house. Te house is notexclusively or blacks being that itonly houses seven black residents, including me.”Executive director o reten

tion Pablo Reguerin said thatR.PAAH was created in order

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Te UC Diversity Annual Accountability Sub-Report was released in September 2010. Here are some of th

“We call on all members o the UC community students, aculty, and sta to arm anddeend the values o the University o Caliornia.We are speaking out and ask that you do the samewhenever, wherever, and however you conrontthe behavior that violates the principles andvalues o this university.”

Mark Yudo, president o the University o Caliornia

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“Tere’s dierent little groupsthat are doing wonderul work as ar as activism’s concerned,but they’re kind o isolated,”Christianson said. “It’s not a

massive organization with many people, a movement. Tere’sa general apathy that you seethroughout the country.”Santa Cruz’s tiedyed ootsteps

o the town’s socalled deningera, the ’60s and ’70s, have beenwashed away with newwaverallying.Activism has evolved rom the

hippieesque, with campus support becoming harder and harderto win over.While the Vietnam War and

the education crisis are completely separate issues, eachdemands a movement to achievechange.In 1970, students burned

dracards at the Quarry Plaza,the same place where somestudents now stroll past rallies

against ee hikes. oday, classesare canceled in community andAmerican studies due to budgetcuts, but in 1970 spring quarterclasses were canceled or reorganized to ocus on Vietnam Warissues.“What we’re talking about is

numbers,” Christianson said. “obe able to marshal lots o peopleto come together on these kindso issues … o get a large representative o the student population to be out there … to puttheir ass on the line and makea righteous hue and cry aboutinjustice, about bullshit, about

corruption.”Last year on Marc

nized strike against tcrisis attracted enougers to shut down threentrances. Sustainingis the strike committchallenge.“Once Kerr Hall,

what?” said ourthyRitzBarr, a politics mstrike organizer. “Hobigger than Kerr Haldown the campus orwhat? What is the mmessage?”Since the occupat

By Kara ForanCampus Reporter

A school historically known for its activism loses its fervor

Rallies and PRotests Fac

the huRdle oF aPathy

Illustrations ByLouise Leong

When it comes to protesting in Santa Cruz, JamesChristianson knows that things just aren’t whatthey used to be.

Christianson wears the ’60s revolution well with hisgrizzled complexion, wild grownout hair and colorulvintage style. As a Santa Cruz resident or over ourdecades and an American studies lecturer at UCSC, hehas witnessed political activism at its peak, and he nowwatches students struggle to get their voices heard.

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Hall and the March 4 protests,students and workers have gonerom largescale action to theincremental approach o ralliesin hopes o spreading awarenessabout UC issues. Te campusdemonstrations o the 200910school year were, i anything,large in student numbers. Butthis year’s inormative ralliessuer rom low student turnout.Student apathy is a threat event

organizers ace yearround, withthe main question being: Why don’t students show up?Christianson attributes

UCSC’s smaller ral lies to issuesthat are harder to pinpoint.He spent the ’60s and ’70s inCaliornia, when the countercultural aspect o Santa Cruzdrove change.“You get the [turnout] num

bers ‘back in the day’ becausethings were more clearly dened,”Christianson said. “Te Vietnamwar was much more clear. [Itwas about] civil rights. Te black movement. Te women’s move

ment. Free speech movements.Students or a democratic society.Tings were more compellingly dened. [Now], there’s a malaiseand abstractness about it.”Te activism that Christian

son reers to such as the women’smovement brought on 700 signatures in 1972 rom students petitioning to orm a women’s studiesprogram at UCSC. In 1981, theonly instructor teaching NativeAmerican studies was dismissed,and 600 people marched to thechancellor’s oce in response,insisting their demands be met in

ve days. oday, despite activisteorts, a similar humanities major, American studies, has beensuspended.oday, rallies that are large in

numbers usually happen duringMarch protest week, petering outduring the remainder o the year.American Federation o State,

County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) interns like

Victoria Salgado try to lessenthis apathy by organizing theeorts o students and workers.Salgado is a secondyear sociology, Latino studies and art majorwhose job is to spread awareness o union issues to studentsand engage them in sustainingUCSC’s studentworker ront.“It’s true it’s like you build

it up or one day and then youjust disperse,” Salgado said. “Sohow can you keep that ow o things? I can’t really explain it toyou, because I mysel don’t knowhow to do that.”Some UCSC workers have

also noticed the lack o campuspresence at rallies.Nicholas Gutierrez is a dining

hall worker at College 9. He became active in the worker’s unionseven years ago. He participatesin ghting or studentworkerrights, but he says oen ve to10 workers show up at rallies andevent organization meetings.“… Tere’s a huge, huge

percentage o students that

don’t support, or they just turnthe other way or they just don’tcare,” Gutierrez said. “And I’vealways wondered why, becausewhen student ees go up, it aectseveryone.”On Oct. 7, 2010, 200 demon

strators appeared at the bookstore. In November 2009, about150 students occupied KerrHall overnight. In March 2010,students shut down the campus starting at 6 a.m. Studentsand workers continue to spreadawareness, but turnout haschanged along with the tactics.

RitzBarr said low turnoutorces organizers to try newstrategies like “occasionally running through a classroom.”“One o the most eective

ways o getting people out isdisrupting large lecture halls,” hesaid. “You’ve got 500 kids sittingin a GE that they don’t want to bein, and you give them an optionto go do something cool.”Noah Miska is a student active

in organizing rally events. He organized the March 1, 2011 event,in which around 500 studentsspelled out “FREE EDUCA-ION” with their bodies in an

attempt to direct people towardcalmer, less agitated discussionsabout campus issues.“You can’t get very ar by just

pointing out what’s wrong, by protesting,” Miska said. “I think you need to lead by example andtry to create the world that youwant to see, which is exactly whatI’m trying to do on March 1 with

the small discussion groups thatwill be happening.”Miska’s approach coincides

with that o the smaller rallies

organized earlier this year. Teseevents may not be bold enoughto shut down campus entranceslike March 4 o last year, but theirgoal is to continue to create an eective dialogue about issues likeee hikes and major cuts.“It’s important to always say

what you think is right and it canbe really powerul with a groupo people, but at the same time… the louder you shout, theeasier you are to ignore,” Miskasaid. “People pay more attentionto someone whispering careully chosen words than shouting everything. Shouting has a

place, but shouting isn’t great orconstructive dialogue, which isexactly what we need right now.”Rally strategies have varied

rom dressing up as zombies topuppets and pieeating skits.Small rallies assist strike organizers in diversiying their eorts,student apathy is still a concern.“[Some workers] just don’t

care,” Salgado said. “Again, it’slike students they’re just very individualistic. It’s, like, screw therest I only care about me.”

But Salgado added that campus activism has worked whenstudents and workers ormed aunited ront.

“I know that a lot o the protests that have happened in thepast have had eects … [like] thenew contract or AFSCME workers, and the workers won,” Salgado said. “Tey won that contractbecause o the protesting. Andi you speak to the workers, they will say that themselves too, thatit was the students that helpedthem out. So it denitely doeswork. It’s just a matter o gettingit organized.”Last year, Salgado was not

active in protests or rallies. Nowshe tries to convince inactivestudents that there is a reason to

get up and do something.“Last year it was just me in my

apartment with my roommatesjust there, hanging out,” shesaid. “And I remember all o thechaos with the rallies, and I wasvery pessimistic. Like, what’s thepoint? Because honestly, it’s very dicult to actually make change,like with one rally.”Aer getting over her pes

simism, Salgado decided to jointhe rally eorts, persuadingstudents to let go o the apathy

that she once had.“owards the end

I was really rustratenothing,” Salgado sai

realized you can comyou can sit and not dabout it, but you migchannel your energything. So, that’s whatto do right now. Somsay I’m not really doior what I’m doing isnamount to anything,I’m trying.”Now, Salgado ace

lenge o speaking to who do not usually gin activism.“It’s easy to get inv

with people who are community but it’s re

to get [involvement] students,” she said. “Ito even talk to them get them interested ithing, because they jushrug it o.”A larger student e

the only problem. Mworkers are needed aevents, and organizinbe even more challenorganizing students.“Sometimes we ha

on location, and ther

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“What we’re talking about is numbers. o be able to marshal lots o to come together on these kind o issues … to get a large representao the student population to be out there … to put their ass on the land make a righteous hue and cry about injustice, about bullshit, abcorruption.”

James Christianson, American studie

“Once Kerr Hall, andthen what? How do youget bigger than KerrHall? We shut down thecampus or a day. Tenwhat? What is the mosteective message?”

Leo RitzBarr,ourthyear

and student activist

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These LipsStudent organization to bring

lip dubbing phenomenonto campus

Illustration by Kristian Talley

By Gareth Rees-White &Rosanna van StratenArts and Entertainment

Reporters

For a moment o ame onYouube, past “celebrities” havegenerally been witty, loathsomeor incredibly lucky. Now there’salso lip dubbing.

Rising in popularity at universities all over the world, lipdubbing is the latest trend to hitUC Santa Cruz. A lip dub videoeatures hundreds o costumedstudents lipsyncing to a song,one continuous and uneditedcamera shot winding throughdierent areas o a building andmillions o hits online.UCSC Weekend Activities, a

studentorganized club throughOPERS, is bringing lip dubbingto the West Coast or springquarter. ony Dianda, organizero the club, said that no eventswere organized or this quarter

due to ears o urther inclementweather.UCSC’s lip dub video will

join the many that can be oundonline a quick Youube searchreveals a veritable plethora o other works. Tese range romthe University o Montreal’slibrarybased rendition o Ospring’s “Pretty Fly (or aWhite Guy)” to Rosemead HighSchool’s “I Gotta Feeling,” a covero the Black Eyed Peas’ song.Dianda said that the club’s

biggest motivation is to allow students to reach out and be brought

together rom opposite sideso campus.

“Because there isno real central parto campus or ootballgames that everyone goes to,meeting people is more dicult[than at other schools],” Diandasaid. “Anyone can participate inour activit ies. It’s not targetedtowards any particular group. It’stargeted towards everybody.”

Past events hosted by UCSCWeekend Activities have included campuswide games o Capturethe Flag and stargazing outings.Teir upcoming lip dubbingevent is set to take place sometime during the rst three weekso spring quarter.Te event will be ree or par

ticipants, who can register on thegroup’s Facebook page.“Last quarter we tried to do

stargazing and ended up with140 conrmed guests,” Diandasaid. “I’m expecting somewherebetween 100–600 people or this.”Students have spent the last

month voting on the group’sFacebook page or the song they eel would best represent SantaCruz. Aer much deliberation,Smash Mouth’s “Walking on theSun” lost to the B52s’ “LoveShack.”Tirdyear Robert Culpi, the

organizer o the UCSC event,said he rst had the idea o staging the lip dubbing event aerwatching one o these videos.“My riend suggested I try to

do it mysel ,” Culpi said, “but Iquickly realized that it was artoo big o a project to do on my

own. I realized I needed a biggergroup to get it going so I handed

o the idea to the UCSC Weekend Activities club by writing ontheir Facebook wall.”For the UCSC Weekend

Activities’ lip dubbing project,Dianda has brought together asmall team o about eight people,whose jobs include makeup,costume design, choreography and lming.Secondyear America

Whitten, the advertisement

director, said she is doingeverything she can to publicizethe event.“We will be tabling, putting up

posters, making announcementsin lecture halls and sendingmessages via Facebook,” Whittensaid.Te team said the hardest

part o organizing the eventhas been choosing the locationwhere the lming will take place.Aer much debate, OPERS wasselected as the best location orlming, narrowly edging outthe Music Center. Film direc

tor thirdyear Andrew Burgherhad the nal word on choice o location.“We chose that location

mainly because the area therehas a lot o places or us to movearound in,” Burgher said.Burgher hopes to mesh the

past styles o lip dub videos such as lming in large spaces with “a little twist o Santa Cruz”by potentially adding in shots o the bay and campus.

As the videographer, Burghersaid one o the most challengingaspects o lming a lip dubbingvideo is producing one continuous take.“o make it possible, I will

be using a Steadicam,” Burghersaid. “o pull this o successully, there will have to be a lot o moving parts working in unison this meaning that all logisticalelements o the production rom

camera and crew to sound andchoreography will have to be prepared, practiced and rehearsed.”Eciency and practice are key

to the success o a lipwhich demands splitchronization, hundreand personnel and zethe nal cut, so at leaevent meeting will beTere will be a presetspecic casting or ealar moment in the soCulpi, who had th

create this video, saidis in good hands andquite successul.

“Te team that I mall really approachabsaid, “and I eel they handle on the event.”

Get Involved

I you want to participate in the UCSClip dub, join theUCSC Weekend

Activities Facebook group or contactony Dianda at [email protected] .

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UC Hate Crimesstunned, I didn’t knowwhat to do.”Aer Moore was done

speaking, the studentsin the workshop got intogroups o our and discussed microaggressionsthat they had experienced.One student told their

group about how UCIrvine served chickenand wafes “in honor o”Martin Luther King Jr.Day. Another student toldthe group about how herroommate joked abouthow she must like riedchicken. Both are stereotypically AricanAmerican dishes.At the end o the work

shop, students suggestedimmediate conrontationto combat microaggression. Te idea is or stu

dents to speak up and tellthe oending person theirobjections to the microaggression on the spot.Te statement rom

Yudo regarding the UChate crimes at UCSD last

year encouraged studentsand others to “remedy badspeech with good speech.”He suggested they counterthe ignorance, racism andhatred by speaking outwhen needed.As Moore and the

students in her workshop

concluded, the best way to deal with the unsavory situations that arise romhate is to conront themheadon and let theirvoices be heard.“Tat is the burden o

the black student,” Mooresaid at the end o the workshop. “A lot o the timeblack students have to bemore equipped to handlethings like microaggressions and having to teach[people].”In response to the e

mail with the nword andother racist events, theUCSD administration istaking steps to improve theracial climate on campus. Campus ocials aredeveloping a class to teach

tolerance and working onways to increase retentiono black students.Cultural Intelligence

is a twocredit Stevensoncourse that was oered orthe rst time this quarterat UCSC. Led by Diversity and Inclusion program co

ordinator Donnae Smith,the class trains students togive diversity and inclusion workshops. Based ontheir perormance in theclass, some students willbe chosen to be part o theDiversity Facilitator team,which will begin leadingdiversity workshops nextquarter.UCSC’s campus diver

sity ocers are holdingdiscussions with studentsabout the classroom andcampus racial climate,

according to an emailrecently sent to students.Tey are planning to meetwith student organizationsand are “working to promote an inclusive environment on campus.”

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turnout, and people kind o waituntil it really counts and thenthey show up,” he said. “I tellthem we should show up at every rally because I’ve noticed thatthere’s 3to1, sometimes 4to1students versus workers, and thatdoesn’t look good, because theuniversity sees that.”Gutierrez said workers oen

have children or parents to takecare o aer work, and dininghall workers can’t leave the busy lunch shi or noon rallies. Hesaid, many are nervous aboutspeaking in ront o crowds or donot speak English uently.Ultimately, Gutierrez says

workers just need to put in theeort.“Even when we come to these

meetings, it’s the same group o ve to 10 workers always coming

to this meeting,” he said. “Tis iswhy I say it’s that laziness thingwe need to work out. I think orus, that’s our biggest problem:getting people o their butt.”Psychology associate proes

sor Regina Langhout said that

the way issues are presented today makes it challenging or students to become involved. Langhout is a member o the Faculty Organizing Group (FOG), whichopposes the privatization o public higher education.“I don’t think students are

apathetic,” she said. “Instead,they are pulled in many directions, including having work andamily responsibilities. Many people including students eel overwhelmed. When wererame the issue, the possiblesolutions change.”RitzBarr reluctantly de

scribed the strategy o this pastyear’s rallies as “cautious”. Aerthe diplomas o some studentsaccused o participating in theKerr Hall occupation were withheld and other students were

ned, the threat o authoritieslingers.Lack o student support can

also take the passion out o activism. RitzBarr, a ourthyearstrike organizer, paraphrasedletters rom students who did not

support the protests o last year.“My day was interrupted by

the students marching throughthe center o the intersection,and it took me three hours to getto class,” RitzBarr read. “Tey should be punished to the ullestextent o the student conductand be kicked out o school.”Christianson, a UCSC

lecturer, relayed how the needor students that go out on limbor a cause, or “adventurists,” asFitzBarr calls them, is the mainissue.“Tere’s plenty to be outraged

about. At least as much as they had back [in the ’60s and ’70s],”Christ ianson said. “It’s just howdo you stir up, organize, drivepeople to commit, and thensustain it? Not just or a oneday kind o gesture, because the

people in power are willing to letyou have that. Because they’repatronizing they think thestudents are children. ‘Let themhave their day. Tey’ll be back in class tomorrow.’ And sureenough, they’re right.”

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PRotest aPathy

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One month, I was short on rent, so I sold my car. Oneweek, I was strapped or cash, so I started volunteeringover at the St. Francis Catholic Kitchen or a couple o ree meals. Deerring payments on my credit card charges or groceries, electricity, water and so on has le me$800 in debt and with a whopping $31.65 dollars in my bank accounts. I thought about writing a check or $0.25yesterday just to revel in some masochistic pleasure o watching it bounce.It’ll be a cold day in hell beore I even dream o dialing

up my house’s thermostat.Sure, I’m rustrated that I’m unemployed, especially

considering how many applications have come back withthat “thanks, but no thanks” response. Even while my work study hours idly waste away, I realize I could bemuch worse o.When I pick up the paper, tune into the news, or even

walk downtown, I’m reminded just how poor the condition o the job market is out there. Just the realizationalone is enough to send shivers down my spine.A broken economy that has resulted in rampant unem

ployment nearly 30 percent in places like Watsonville has created an enormous budget decit at the national,

state and local levels. With cuts like Gov. Jerry Brown’s$500 million to the UC system being implemented, joblessness threatens to be exacerbated, not remedied.At the national level, the budget decit has crippled

ederal unding to nearly every program imaginable.Everything rom public education to health clinics acesthe axe. With many national programs in the budget getting wrung or every dollar they’re worth, it should comeas little surprise that HR 589, which would have retroactively extended already exhausted unemployment benetsby an additional 14 weeks, was shot down in Congress.

We’re doing no better here in the Golden State. Compared to the nation’s 9.8 percent unemployment rate,Caliornia limps along at 12.3 percent unemployed. TeAssociated Press ranked 15 out o the nation’s top 20 mosteconomically stressed counties in Caliornia. Eight o Forbes magazine’s top 20 most “miserable” cities, basedon actors such as unemployment, crime and tax rates, arein Caliornia.Te state, which aces enormous budget decits, high

unemployment, plunging home real estate values and rising taxes, continues to break the backs o the jobless andleave those on the cusp in a nervous sweat. Soon enough,my Golden State will need to trade in its title or silver orbronze.

In other words, it gets worse.Advocates rom the National Employment Law Project

testied beore the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission earlier this month that people without jobsare being discriminated against. According to the NELP,potential employers are overlooking people who havebeen out o work or six or more months in avor o thosewho are transerring rom one job into another. Employers have either atout denied this claim, have stated thatthey preer potential employees’ skilled labors not berusty, or have jumped to the conclusion that those who

have been out o work or so long must possework ethic. Aer all, there couldn’t be any oth6.3 million people would be out o work or sthere?Here’s another twist to our story: Minoritie

disproportionately represented demographic unemployed. 15.7 percent o AricanAmericpercent o Latinos are unemployed, comparedcent o the white population, according to the

Labor Statistics. Although race and genderbdiscrimination is illegal, it is not il legal to disbased upon present employment.Te punchline: Tere are ew jobs out ther

ewer employers who will hire those who nee

am all the more blessed to be able to attend auniversity and nab my degree while the natiothe worst economic period in 70 years. Every pamphlet, Magic 8Ball and ortune cookie sua bachelor’s degree will land me a job one Ilike, or that matter.But no amount o assurance ever put ood

paid my rent or made me eel any better abouI was “overqualied” or work. I’ve looked aroar as I can tell, once I step out o campus, mylems will only get worse.

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Dreams of Luxury,

Not NecessityTe beast o unemployment awaits hungrily, just outside campus

Illustration by Ra

By Asa Hess-MatsumotoArts & Entertainment Editor

I’m broke. Worse, I’m broke and outo work.Being penniless in college is

hardly a new phenomenon. I’m awashin a sea o people who are in ar greaterdebt than I am. ruth be told, I’m doingpretty well, all things considered.

Te state, which aces enormous budget decits, high unemployment, plunghome real estate values and rising taxes continues to break the backs o the joand leave those on the cusp in a nervous sweat.

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DOMA Arigato,Mr. ObamaIs this really the ‘watershed moment’ gay rights

advocates have been waiting or?

Illustration by M

With the 2012 presidential elections quickly approaching, the nation has witnessed PresidentBarack Obama rushing ollow through with

the promises made during his campaign.Democrats grinned and bore through the bank bail

outs, the extensions o the Bushera tax cuts, and seeing30,000 additional troops pour into Aghanistan. But nowthe compromised, reewheeling Obama administration isnally turning its attention to gay rights.Hot on the heels o repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t ell, last

week Obama openly criticized the Deense o MarriageAct (DOMA), saying that the law is “unconstitutional .”DOMA places ederal restrictions on marriage to

legally recognize only unions between one man and

one woman. Te law aected 1,138 ederal programs inwhich marital status was a actor in eligibility or benets,according to a 2004 ederal report. Ever since it wassigned into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton, DOMAhas received heated criticism rom gay rights activists asunair and immoral.Obama’s stance, as backed by Attorney General Eric

Holder, marks the strongest domestic policy move thepresident has made regarding gay rights. Te calls on theJustice Department to simply stop deending DOMA

would also be one o the largest stretches o Obama’sexecutive power to date, something conservatives likeNewt Gingrich have come to see as an “impeachableoense.”While it may be a large stretch, it is not unheard o.In 1990, the administration o President George H.W.

Bush ceased to deend ederal laws that set a preerenceto awarding broadcasting rights to minorityowned busi

nesses. For an added twist, the Justice Department’s attorney who reused to deend the laws was John Roberts,now chie justice o the Supreme Court.Tus, it is a little absurd to suggest, as Gingrich has,

that the president’s actions warrant an impeachment.Te question the Obama administration aces is sim

ple: Can moral legislation be considered lawul? WhileObama has stated that he didn’t “believe” in gay marriagein the past, his “evolving” campaign agenda did includepushing or the states to treat samesex couples with ull

equality in their amily and adoption laws.Te absence o a unied consensus rom bo

bers o Congress having lost the House to acan majority in the midterm elections it is cObama lacks the necessary tools to properly imhis agenda.Tis is why gay rights advocates should be s

tive about this being their “watershed moment

stands, repealing DOMA is an uphill battle in Furthermore, pending the upcoming 2012 pretial election, a dierent president could alwaysdeending DOMA as has been the case or tyears.In lieu o a stronger call or the states to ind

recognize samesex marriage as Iowa, Vermsachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire h the president must push or a more concretto be put in place.

Tuition without InformationUCSC hires private photographer to document student activity

As a student, you pay tuition. As a aculty or sta member, you receive a salary. All checks comerom and go to the University o Caliornia

Regents but beyond that, you don’t know how the UChandles its nances. Because o a lack o transparency,you have no idea.

Last May, $6,000 o UC nances went to Scott H.Newby, private investigator. Disregarding the FirstAmendment right o the students to assemble peace-ully, UC Santa Cruz paid Newby to photograph andlm students participating at a teach-out last spring,arming itsel with the documentation to launch criminalinvestigations against anyone the university could proveattended the event, should it so choose.

And the administration didn’t tell anyone.In the ace o devastating budget cuts coming rom

every direction, the university has continued to promiseboth transparency and scal responsibility. It hasdelivered neither.

Public records requests theoretically aord anyoneliterate an insight into the decisions and transactions thatmake the UC tick. But there’s a caveat: Anyone request-ing inormation has to know exactly what he or she islooking or.

Case in point: om Pazo the student who re-quested the invoice detailing Newby’s 24-hour contract

with UCSC was able to acquire the invoice because heapproached Newby at the May 18 and 19 teach-out anddocumented the name o the private investigator (whowas hired as a “photographer/videographer” i you ask JimBurns Oten).

And $6,000 is not just another drop in the bucket. Atrst glance compared to the tens o thousands o dol-lars students dish out every year to pay or tuition, books,ood, the exorbitant cost o living in Santa Cruz... and thehundreds o millions o dollars Caliornia aces in debt it’s easy to say $6,000 doesn’t matter. But with $6,000,UCSC could have paid one lecturer’s salary or a quarter.A large lecture could have been aorded one more teach-ing assistant. wo quarters o tuition can be purchased at

the price o $6,000.Te implications are not limited to academics. Stu-

dents who might otherwise choose to exercise their rightsto reedom o speech and reedom to assemble may bequieted by the threat o photographic documentation o activity that could be misconstrued as illicit.

Students’ right to access this inormation has been vio-lated by the university, which delayed releasing requesteddocuments or seven months in this case, and more thana year in others.

Te administration claims that it acted with theinterests o the students at heart. It reports compliance

with records requests. Te inormation directmaintained that the university supports studeendeavors to demonstrate against rising ees class sizes.

In reality, UCSC administrators’ clandestitions convey an ugly truth: stu

to assemble without emand is in je

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