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We need more money is the problem.I dont think theres a huge chunkof weight, really, anywhere. The

remodeling of the library and of Porter I wish we hadnt done that and paidfor professors [instead].

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Parking enforcement. Im sure theyre

bringing in a lot of prot. If the moneyis going back to school, money made

on campus should stay on campus.

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Thats a hard one. I guess I would cutthe people with the highest power, likethe chancellor.

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Table of Contents

TABLE CONTENT

P. 5 Event CalendarCompiled by Laurel Fujii

P. 6 Bill Monning Speaks onState Budgetby Arianna Vinion

P. 8 County Le with BigDecisions and Empty Walletsby Chelsea Hawkins

P. 10 UCSC Mens LacrosseBuilds Upon St. Marys Rivalryby Eli Wole

P. 11 Te Sesnon GalleryInvites Students to Refect on40 Years o Artby Hannah oda

P. 12 Vinyls Revolution

by Nikki Pritchard

P. 18 Proessor Daniel WirlsExplains His Start in Academiaby yler Maldonado

P. 21 Revolutionary WomanDeserves RevolutionaryPortrayalby Rosela Arce

P. 22 Editorial: BP Not

Deserving o Second Chance

Editorial: Painting a Picture oFear: Politicians Exploit Art orVotes

P. 23 Slug Comicsby Muriel Gordon

P. 24 Who the HellAsked You?!Compiled by Chelsea H

& Prescott Watson

Cover photo illustratioby Molly Solomon

P. 9 UCSC GYMNASICSGOES NAIONALby Samved Sangameswara

P. 7 UCSC FARMPREEMPSFINANCIAL FAMINE

by EmilianoOFlaherty-Vazquez

Nick Paris Sal Ingram

P. 16 HROUOUR LENSby Molly Solom

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P. 14 LOW-BUDGE FILMCOMPANY PARODIESRICH HOLLYWOODby Gareth Rees-White

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Event Calendar Compiled by LCampusHURSDAY, APRIL 7

Living Writers: Chang-Rae Lee,

author o Native Speaker andA Gesture Lie. HumanitiesLecture Hall. 6 to 7:45 p.m.

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

Social Fiction Conerence.A transormative conerenceexploring social justice throughthe genres o science ction,gaming and antasy. CulturalCenter at Merrill. 4 to 11 p.m.

SAURDAY, APRIL 9

Slug Ultimate presents April

Fools Ultimate ournament.Upper and Lower East Fields. 8a.m. to 7 p.m. Free.

Collegiate Water Polo Asso-ciation Sierra Pacic LeagueChampionship Games. EastField Center Main Pool. 9 a.m.

to 9 p.m. Free.

SUNDAY, APRIL 10

Collegiate Water Polo Asso-ciation Sierra Pacic League

Championship Games. EastField Center Main Pool. 9 a.m.to 9 p.m. Free.

Maccabiah Day-Santa CruzHillel. College 8 Lawn, Out-door Basketball Court andOutdoor Sand VolleyballCourts. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Free.

UESDAY, APRIL 12

Microbiology & Environmentaloxicology, and the CaliorniaCenter or QuantitativeBiosciences (QB3)Distinguished Seminar.

Physical Sciences Building,room 240. 12 to 1 p.m. Free.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13

A History Mystery: Was J.Robert Oppenheimer, Fa-

ther o the Atomic Bomb, aSoviet Spy? Stevenson CollegeDistinguished Alumni Lecture,visiting aculty Gregg Herken.Stevenson Fireside Lounge. 4 to5:30 p.m. Free.

Florence Howe, ounder o TeFeminist Press and author othe memoir A Lie in Motion.Presented by Kresge WritersHouse, Living Writers andFeminist Studies. Humanities1, room 202. 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

CityHURSDAY, APRIL 7

Aaron Glass & Friends, TeMowglis, the Angry Oats. TeCrpe Place. 9 p.m. $8.

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

Clan Dyken & Joshua Loweand the Juncos. Kuumbwa JazzCenter. 8 p.m. $12 in advance,$13 at door.

A Number by CarylChurchill. A play about natureversus nurture. Broadway Play-house. 8 p.m.

SAURDAY, APRIL 9

Bellydance Community Show-case. Te Crpe Place. 1:30p.m. Free.

Young Perormers Showcase.Benet concert to raise moneyto support music programs inthe Santa Cruz City Schools.Te Rio Teatre. 7:30 p.m. $8or students, $20 adults, $40 orGold Circle seating.

SUNDAY, APRIL 10

Antique Street Faire. LincolnSt. (between Pacic and Cedar)

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Miral Film Screening to ben-

et the Middle East Programo the Resource Center orNonviolence. Film ollows ourwomen in conict and war. DelMar Teatre. 11 a.m. $10 to $25

suggested donation Te 6th Annual Se

Festival. Del Mar Ta.m.

MONDAY, APRI

Preservation Hall JKuumbwa Jazz Cenp.m. $25 advance, $

UESDAY, APRI

7 Come 11. Te Crp.m. to 12 a.m. Fre

Poets Richard illiDoren Robbins. BoSanta Cruz. 7:30 p.

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Campus

Local Politician Callsfor Student Activism

Assemblyman Bill Monning

seeks UC support or proposed budget

Assemblyman Bill Monning(D-Carmel) spoke and initiated an opendiscussion in the UC Santa Cruz NamasteLounge last Tursday. Monning addressedhow the state, the UC and students are allaected by the state budget crisis.

I hope we can use this afernoon notjust as a Q&A, but as a brainstormingsession on how we might best continue tomobilize and work with students and thecommunity, and not just in Santa Cruz,but in the state o Caliornia, Monningsaid to the group at the beginning o thediscussion.

Students, aculty, community mem-bers and executive vice chancellor AlisonGalloway engaged in a lengthy discussionafer the Q&A session.

Although she elt Monning answeredsome questions indirectly, like a politi-cian, iany Lofin, chair o the StudentUnion Assembly (SUA), said the meetingwas inormative and a benecial venueor addressing budgetary concerns. Lofinalso serves as the national people o colorstudent coalition chair o the United States

Student Association.All the questions we wanted to ask we

got to ask, and it increases shared gover-nance when assembly members come tous, Lofin said. When we come to themwe have 15 minutes, when he comes to uswe have two hours.

Questions rom the audience rangedrom the possible but unlikely advantageo Democrats voting or an all-cuts budgetto the social and economic benets ocriminal sentence reorm.

Te topic most requently brought upwas a need to secure the our assemblyvotes that would make an overall two-thirds vote, and the governors signature,which would pass the proposed budget.

Te extent o the state budget's imple-mentation o cuts to higher educationhinges on the passing o tax extensions atthe state level. Without the tax extensionsin the proposed budget, the UC systemaces an all-cuts budget that could lead toa $1 billion cut instead o the proposed$500 million.

Monning chided the actions o Repub-licans who will not vote to pass the budgetnor present a budget o their own.

Te main problem is not the legisla-tion or the regents, said Jeremy Wol,immediate past president o the CollegeDemocrats at UCSC. Its the system itsel,and as long as the ocials we elect aceroadblocks like the two-thirds vote, wewill continue seeing the degradation o theUC system.

President o the SUA AmandaBuchanan played an integral role inorganizing the talk. Buchanan preacedMonnings talk with a speech.

Students in this room are here to

work, she said to the group. We are hereto collaborate with aculty, sta, unions,community members and administra-tion to produce an outcome that meetsthe educational, social and cultural goalso the UC. Give us something to ght or.Give us the issue that makes our powercome to lie.

Buchanan said students have alreadybegun to eel the cuts in larger class sizes,longer wait lists, and discontinued majors,and the impacts will only go deeper. Woladdressed this trend, saying that long-termlack o revenue could take the orm olowered student admission, increased ees,cut classes, online classes and a physi-

cal deterioration o the campus that willbecome apparent in about ve years.As long as we continue to lose und-

ing because the system doesnt allow [us]to get new revenue sources we will see theUC system get weaker and more priva-tized, and less accessible to the majority oCaliornia, Wol said.

Monning spoke o the importance ostudent activists teaming up with commu-nity members and more disenranchisedpopulations to get the proposed budget,which includes the $500 million cut ratherthan an all-cut budget, passed.

I think our secret weapon is the activ-ism on the campuses, rom communitycolleges to Caliornia State Universities to

UC all around the state, Monning said.Lofin said that Monning's presence

at UCSC was empowering to studentactivists who ofen eel unheard by electedocials.

He came to us and said I see whatyoure doing and its important, Lofinsaid. I eel like there were a lot o studentsthere and I elt very empowered by that,because its not every day that an assemblymember comes to UCSC.

Tough Lofin observeda large student presence,she said there was a lacko students o color in at-tendance.

Students present at thetalk voiced their desire oraction. College Nine SUArepresentative Sasha Mucesaid it is time to demandthat elected ocials stepup.

April 1115 is a week o

action or Higher Educa-tion, which some UCSCstudent organizations will be observing.A rally will be held on April 14 in ronto Gov. Jerry Browns Los Angeles oce.UCSCs SUA will be organizing buses totransport students who wish to attend.

By Arianna VinionCampus Reporter

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In anticipation o budget cuts,students and aculty are takingpreemptive action to protect theprograms they deem important.

As talk o extensive cuts to theUCSC arm and the CASFS cir-culate, members o the commu-

nity take precautions to protectthe campus resourceAn email petition is being

circulated by ChristopherKrohn, an environmental studiesinternship program coordinator,and second-year graduatestudent in environmentalstudies Michelle Glowa, urgingChancellor Blumenthal anddean o social sciences SheldonKamieniecki to considerthe ramications o issuingextensive cuts to the Center orAgroecology and SustainableFarm Systems (CASFS).

Kamieniecki, however, said

in an email that no nal decisionhas been made regarding anycuts in the division o social sci-ences, including CASFS.

Te petition states that CASFSis set to lose $1.4 million out oits $2.3 million operating bud-get roughly 60 percent o itsunding.

Faculty, sta and studentsare still uneasy about the impactthese potential cuts could have

on the programs eectiveness.CASFS is an integral part

o the environmental stud-ies departments commitmentto experiential learning, saidproessor Karen Holl, chair o theenvironmental studies program,in a email regarding the potentialcuts to the program. AssumingCASFS continues to unction, itwill have a substantially reducedability to support both course-

work and research. Dependingon how deep the cuts go, it isquestionable how long CASFSwill continue to be able to exist.

Te CASFS, which started oas the Student Garden Project in1967 and ocially became theFarm in 1974, supports a num-ber o programs on its 25-acreproperty located on the UCSCcampus, including apprenticeshipprograms, the Farm Stand, andvarious undergraduate classes.Te six-month apprenticeshipprogram at CASFS is a hallmarko the center, and boasts over1,400 graduates since 1967. Upon

completion, graduates o theprogram receive a Certicate inEcological Horticulture.

Te environmental studiesdepartment realizes that di-cult choices must be made inresponse to severe cuts in stateunding or higher education inCaliornia, said environmen-tal studies proessor DeborahLetourneau in an email. Teaculty is nevertheless extremely

concerned about the lastingdamage that these budget cutsto CASFS will cause to a centraleature o the UCSC campus thathas attracted excellence and hasmore than paid or itsel in indi-rect unds rom ederal researchgrants and worldwide prestige orover 30 years.

Upper division courses inenvironmental studies suchas Ecophysiology, Integrated

Pest Management, Soils andEntomology depend on theCASFS or the eld portion o thecourse curriculum. Te abilityo the CASFS to adequatelyprovide or the student body hasalso been called into question byenvironmental studies aculty.

Undergraduate educationin environmental studies reliesheavily on the CASFS in anumber o ways, Letourneausaid. wo core courses inthe agroecology emphasis ENVS 130A/L Introduction toAgroecology, and ENVS 133BAgroecology Practicum rely

entirely on the arm or eldlaboratories and hands-onexperiences.

Ian Wilson, a second-year ap-prentice or the CASFS who takespart in the day-to-day routine othe arm and mentors new ap-prentices, emphasized the armsrelevance to the larger SantaCruz community.

Te arm and all o theprograms related to the arm are

important or the people on thearm and also or the commu-nity at large, Wilson said. Weprovide academic internshipsor students who are coming

onto the arm and learning theundamentals o organic armingand gardening. It seems reallyclear to me that its a place that isvital to the community and theuniversity.

Members o the Santa Cruz

community are concthe potential impact as well.

Its a jewel in the said Gail Harlamo, director o the Lie LProgram, an agricultprot program that scate school-age childsustainable agricultuand works with the Cthink these cuts will

eect, she said. Its ew organic researcharms in the country.

According to theistatement, the CASFo research capabilitybe in question. As ununding or the proges, its dependence onsources o revenue inwhich may lead to itocus being determinagendas o those exteo unding.

Its sad, Harlamreerence to the univthey arent able to un

grams, someone elseor it wont get done.

Te Farms value reected in both the participants in the prin inrequent visitors

We get regulars obasis, he said, but wpeople who just wanare enchanted by thebeauty o all the work

doing here.

Farm Preempts Cuts with PetitionHallmark o campus lie anticipates decrease in

THE FARM, NESTLED AWAY in the elds below campus, is an organization that teaches students about sustainable and organic farmingFarm runs the produce stand at the base of campus, promoting community supported agriculture.

Photos

By Emiliano

OFlaherty-VazquezCampus Reporter

Assuming CASFScontinues to unction,it will have a

substantially reducedability to supportboth coursework andresearch. Dependingon how deep the cutsgo, it is questionablehow long CASFS willcontinue to be able toexist.

Karen Holl, chairo the environmental

studies program

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Community Projects ChoppeWith budget o $75 million, Board o Supervisors struggles to narrow down 5-year plan

By Chelsea HawkinsCity Reporter

Afer several weeks o deliberation, theSanta Cruz County Board o Supervisorsnalized a list o projects to be completedin unincorporated areas like Live Oak andSoquel under the countys redevelopmentagency.

Redevelopment agencies do a range owork, rom taking on building projects tocreating aordable housing to handlingbasic inrastructure work. Board memberJohn Leopold o the First District said that55 percent o the population in Santa CruzCounty live in unincorporated areas.

In 2009 the county held a hearingto discuss the community projects theywanted to see completed in the area. Te

result was a ve-year plan that consisted oa list o projects tallying $600 mill ion. Nowthat Gov. Jerry Browns budget will resultin the closure o redevelopment agencies,the county has been orced to reduce itsbudget to $75 million.

Due to the closure o redevelopmentagencies throughout the state, the countycan only nish the projects it has agreed tostart. Tese projects are likely to be the lastto break ground under the organization.

Betsy Lynberg, director o the CountyRedevelopment Agency, said many bene-cial projects will be halted.

I think there are a lot o other impor-tant, worthwhile projects and programsthat the agency is engaged in that have alot o interest and support in the commu-nity that will not move orward, Lynbergsaid, which includes a community centerin Soquel and a park associated with thecommunity center.

Te required supermajority, whichmeant our out o the ve board membersneeded to agree in order to pass a motion,complicated the vote on the nal approvedprojects.

Despite diculties the board membersaced when slimming down the prospec-tive projects, individuals like Ellen Pirie,a board member representing the SecondDistrict o Santa Cruz County, expressedsatisaction with the nal list.

While it wouldnt have been the list Idrew up, rankly, it wasnt the list anyonedrew up, Pirie said. It was a series ocompromises.

One project in particular took a largeportion o the redevelopment unds thenew mid-county Sheris Oce, whichwas allocated $44 million out o the total$75 million. Pirie said design consultantsoriginally estimated the Sheris Ocewould cost $55 million.

Despite agreement that the SherisOce needs to be constructed in Live Oak

to tackle the high volume o calls rom thearea, Leopold said the price tag was toomuch. He also said the money he antici-pated would be allocated to the economic

development project was instead directedtoward the Sheris Oce.It was completely regrettable that we

had to sacrice that or a project whichcould clearly be built or signicantly lessmoney as we see rom other places acrossthe state, Leopold said.

Because the board attempted to ndmiddle ground and approve projects pri-oritized by the community, many projectswent to the chopping block.

One casualty was the economic devel-opment project. Te economic develop-ment project, like all the projects underconsideration, was part o a long-termplan constructed rom the concerns andwants o the community.

I am deeply disappointed that wehad to give up the economic redevel-opment program, Leopold said. Tisis a program I ought to create hereafer many discussions with the com-munity. Tere was a lot o potential orit. I thought we had carved out a milliondollars to keep up that work.

Te economic development projectwould have been a multiaceted ventureintended to expand upon existing busi-nesses, assist businesses in marketing,seek out new industries to introduce tothe county, and provide overall supportthrough networking.

As the county struggles with double-

digit unemployment, the economicdevelopment project would have providedbusinesses and individuals with resources.Such a project is woeully missing in thetools we have available, Leopold said.

Lynberg named the economic develop-ment program as only one o many proj-ects the county could no longer proceedwith because o depleted unds.

Other projects that did not cross thenish line included the establishment oseveral parks. One o them is Farm Park,which was intended to go hand-in-handwith an aordable housing project.

Board member Pirie said that shewould have liked to see the Farm Parkproceed as well as the economic develop-ment project but reiterated that the deci-sions boiled down to compromises oneveryones part.

While the nalized list o projects andthe immediate issues at hand are resolved,there remains the task o closing rede-velopment agencies. Te concern now iswhat that means or local government.When redevelopment agencies no longerpossessed the purse or a clearly deneduture, such long-term plans and manyprojects tacked onto them became

obsolete.Addressing the reality that lies ahead

o redevelopment agencies, Lynbergdescribed their shutdown as sudden and

chaotic, leaving the county scrambling.Its going to be much more dicult orthe county to secure unding on its ownor even basic inrastructure.

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Its not every season that UCSanta Cruz athletes get attentionat the national level. However,this weekend Banana Slug athlet-ics might be able to make a nameor itsel in the gymnastics worldon the back o a 5'6 reshman.

Tis weekend, Julian Laguis-ma will be competing in the Na-tional Association o Intercolle-giate Gymnastics Clubs (NAIGC)championship tournament inRichmond, Virginia. Laguismawill be the sole representativerom the College GymnasticsClub at UCSC this year, and the

third in the programs history.Founded in 2006 by UCSC

graduate Andrew McMartin, theCollege Gymnastics Club eldscompetitors on both the regionaland national level. McMartin cre-ated the club with the intentiono it also being a recreational clubor people o all skill levels.

As the club is not entirely o-cused on competing, it does notalways send members to nationalcompetitions. Laguisma, whoqualied by competing in twoclub meets earlier this year, is therst gymnast rom the CollegeGymnastics Club since 2009 toattend nationals.

A competitive gymnast sincethe age o 12, Laguisma joinedthe club in all quarter and hassince become one o its premiergymnasts. Michelle elegas,owner o the Santa Cruz SportsCentral gym where the teampractices, has been watchingLagusima and noted that his skilllevel makes him stand out amongthe other members o the club.

Hes denitely one o thestrongest gymnasts in the UCSCclub program, elegas said. Hemakes his routines satisy the

rules and play to his strengths.In the ve years since its

ounding, the College Gymnas-tics Club has grown into one othe bigger collegiate clubs on the

west coast. On Feb. 26 the clubhosted the ourth annual BananaSlug Salto, a tournament thatoutgrew the Santa Cruz SportsCentral gym this year. Drawingteams rom as ar as Oregon StateUniversity and UC San Diego,the competition had to be movedto a larger gym in south SanFrancisco to accommodate thenumber o entrants.

Te program has made a loto progress and exceeded my ex-pectations, McMartin said. Westarted years ago as this smalllets get together thing and nowwe are one o the biggest clubs on

the west coast.Laguisma placed third in the

all-around event at this yearsBanana Slug Salto and has sinceturned his attention to nation-als. His demanding regimen practices about ve times a weekat both the Santa Cruz SportsCentral gym and the Santa CruzGymnastics Center is neces-sary or the challenges ahead.He will be competing in everycategory at nationals. Tis meansprepared routines or pommelhorse, rings, vault parallel bars,horizontal bar and the oor.

While this is his rst time atnationals, Laguisma has highhopes or his perormance. Tetournament has six preliminaryround sections, with the top ourrom each section going on to anal round. In addition to theindividual event competitionsthere is also an all-around eventthat combines all the dierentroutines.

Afer watching videos romlast years competition, Lagu-isma eels condent that he canachieve at least moderate successin the tournament this weekend.

From what I saw, I could be

competitive in oor and vaultbecause those are the two main

UCSC reshman represents Gymnastics Club inRichmond, Virginia this weekend

Gymnast to Participate in NationCompetitionBy Samved Sangameswara

Sports Reporter

events that I ocus on, Laguismasaid. I I could place top threein vault or oor that would begreat.

Laguismas success would notonly be a personal achievement,but a denite step orward inbringing the gymnastics programurther into the UCSC sportsconsciousness. As o right now,

the team is not aliated withthe school on the NCAA or clublevel. Rather, the College Gym-nastics Club is a student organi-zation that elds a team in thesetournaments.

McMartin, who now serveson the board o directors orNAIGC, sees these nationalcompetitions as opportunities tostrengthen UCSCs presence inthe gymnastics world.

I would love to see UCSC

take up a stronger tradition osending athletes to the nationallevel, McMartin said. I alsohope that UCSC will able to takeon a leadership level, not onlyon the west coast but across thecountry as well.

elegas, who is also a membero USA Gymnastics, the govern-ing body o gymnastics in the

United States, says that she, too,would like to see the programgrow. elegas has allowed theclub to use her acilities sinceits creations and thinks thatcontinued success could lead toa urther establishment o theprogram at UCSC.

I would love to see [UCSCgymnastics] become completelyaliated with the school, becomea ull club sport, elegas said.

elegas and McMartin are

both ocusing on howisma will do in Richmweekend. McMartin competition will be sthat he will be going the big dogs in the cis still condent in Lability.

A lot o these guyelding competitors

seasoned and matureso I think its going toMcMartin said. Butare quite high.

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FRESHMAN JULIAN LAGUISMA practices for the National Association ofIntercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs national tournament this weekend in Richm

Bio BoxName: Julian Laguisma

Year: FreshmanSport: Gymnastics

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Sports

Slug Lacrosse Feeling the PressuUCSC loss to St. Marys heats up rivalry

Photos by

By Eli WolfeSports Reporter

Te UC Santa Cruz menslacrosse team suered a 2-6 lossto St. Marys College on Saturday.As the weary Slugs departed theeld, stripping o sweaty shirtsand tossing their sticks to theground, a lone St. Marys sup-porter planted a St. Marys agon the side o the eld, tauntingthe Slugs, bellowing, Tis is ourhouse now!

Although it was ocially onlyone conerence game o ve, orthe players and coaches o theUCSC team, losing to St. Maryshas been the hardest experiencethey have had to endure in astruggling season.

Midseason, UCSC standswith two wins and eight losses,a record that threatens to upsettheir previous seasons record o10 wins and ve losses. Te lossalso marks the second consecu-tive conerence game UCSC haslost to St. Marys.

UCSC mens lacrosse headcoach Jeremy Graves attributes

the bitterness o their loss tothe erce competition growingbetween St. Marys and UCSC.

Its built up and esteredover the years into a big r ivalry,Graves said. We play them in theregular season and the [West-ern Collegiate Lacrosse League]conerence. St. Marys and SantaCruz are the top two. Were al-ways the two top teams.

UCSC mens lacrosse is a club

sport that competes in DivisionII o the WCLL, playing a regularseason in the spring with inter-mittent conerence games. From2007 to 2009, UCSC won threeconsecutive WCLL Division IIchampionship games.

Prior to Saturdays game, teampresident Samir Chaudry saidthat the rivalry really intensiedollowing UCSCs rst-ever de-eat at the hands o St. Marys inthe 2010 WCLL Championship.

Tey make my ucking bloodboil, Chaudry said. Tey beat

us last year in the WCLL Cham-pionship and took our spot.Tis game is probably the mostmeaningul game o the season weve waited so long to playthem again.

Scowling as he repeatedlyhurled a lacrosse ball against theOPERS gym wall afer the game,senior midelder Jamie Merklersaid that deeat was especiallydicult to swallow because hebelieves UCSCs team is superiorto that o St. Marys.

Last year we beat them inthe regular season, then won the[WCLL] championship, Merklersaid. Were denitely a betterteam than them.

Te disappointment o Satur-days loss was compounded by alackluster season or UCSC thatChaudry ascribed to the seasonsunusually unbalanced schedule.

Were a Division II team, andweve played a bunch o Divi-sion I teams and all o them areranked, Chaudry said. And ev-ery Division II team weve played

is also ranked.In 2009, the Slugs deeated

the St. Marys team in the WCLLDivision II championship game10-1, making it the third con-secutive year UCSC went homevictorious.

Chaudry credited the teamsgraduating seniors or buildingup the teams national reputationand prestige, as most, i not allo the players, were on the teamduring the heydays o the Slug20072009 dynasty.

With only one more possible

championship game in theiruture, the seniors ound Satur-days loss to St. Marys especiallyunbearable.

Tis group o seniors kind odenes UCSC lacrosse, Chaudrysaid. When they were reshmen,it was the rst time we were na-tionally ranked, the rst time wewent to the national champion-ship. We built the program.

Head coach Graves said thatwhile the Slugs still have a shot atmaking it to the WCLL Cham-pionship, in light o Saturdaysconerence game, working onoense will be essential in orderto win the necessary games.

Oensively, we usually putdouble digits on the board in anygame, Graves said. We have gotto secure the way we play oense.I theres anything we need tochange, its nding a system thatsa little more productive [or o-ense].

Midelder Jamie Merkleragreed with this view, specicallyciting the tendency o the oense

to operate independently insteado coordinating attacks amongthe players.

Our deense was great, andour oense too, but they didntput it in the net, Merkler said.We couldnt produce like weshould have.

Despite Saturdays setback,both coach and players expressedunwavering condence in thestrength o their team as a wholeand their eagerness or the nextmatch with St. Marys in theregular season.

I think theres a rea lly brightuture, especially because o thereshman class we brought in,Chaudry said. Te younger kidshave an incredible passion or

the team. Coach Graan incredible regimeWell be zooming bacnational tournament

Huddling togethegame, Coach Graves his disappointed playloud, rm voice that the jeering o the lonthe St. Marys ag.

We will see themGraves said. Put it ocalendar. We will seeYou will line up again

Marys. I will see you

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Four decades, endless bound-aries o creative expression. TeSesnon Gallery at UC Santa Cruzcelebrates its 40th anniversarythis month with an art exhibi-tion, ime Lapse. o commemo-rate the event, the gallery willexhibit its vastcollection o artpieces to the stu-dents o UCSC.Te show beganApril 5 and runsthrough May 7,showcasing arange o artistsrom Ansel Ad-

ams to Jack Za-jac. Decades o art are celebratedas the gallery takes its viewersthrough years o its selection.

Te operation o Porter Col-leges Sesnon Gall ery is a jointeort between volunteer studentsand Shelby Graham, the curator

and director o the gallery. Be-cause it is an anniversary show,the selection or this exhibitionis compiled rom a list o artistswho are amiliar to the gallery,

and the pieces are never-beore-seen.

Graham spoke about thecareul selection and curationprocess.

I like it when artworks have a

dialogue with each work, and itsbecause they are curated to-gether. ogether they tell a story,she said. Anytime you curatea show, its a new composition.Works have a dialogue with each

other when theyre in a gallery.And thats the beauty o a curatedexhibition.

Designed in chronologicalorder, the pieces range rom

the 1970s curated works o thegallerys rst director, PhilipBrookman, to the present.With the rapid advancemento technology in the past ourdecades, the Sesnon has evolved

as well.Te biggest

changes havebeen theoretical,with the sparko postmod-ern thinkingblowing apartthe tenets omodernism that

we were taughtto embrace inthe early 1970s, Brookman saidin an email. And the shifingimportance o the photographic,technological image alongwith the exponential growth odigital media has introducedentirely new denitions o art.

While art majors are moreamiliar with the Sesnon Gal-lery and its exhibitions thanother students are, Graham em-phasized that the gallery invitesstudents o all majors to stopand reect or a minute.

A goal o any art gallery or

museum is to interrupt yourday and remind you to eitherreect, take a break, analyze orshif your thinking, because artcan do that or you, Grahamsaid. It might make you appre-ciate something, to understandsomething to a dierent level,or just reect on who you are.

Te gallery challengesdenitions and meanings oart as it displays a range opieces, rom conceptual workall the way to paintings done byelephants.

We can learn rom his-

tory. Just because theres newtechnology out there doesntmean its the end o the road,Graham said. Art can re-ally push your boundaries andmake you gure out what yourstereotypes are, or your judg-ment when you dene Whatis art?

Like many campus resourc-es, the gallery has not beenimmune to UC budget cuts.Losing internship and work-

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study programs posed a chal-lenge in curating the event.

Budget cuts happened, andthen I made it as best as I could,Graham said. So thats whereI elt like I could have done alot more, but I did the perectamount considering the spaceand time and budget that wehad.

While the curation o thegallery now depends on studentvolunteers due to budget cuts,Graham has used the situationas a learning experience or stu-dents interested in curation.

I never really thought abouthow things are packaged andtransported. Teres a lot obubble wrap, lots o tape, saidourth-year volunteer CarlyMcGaugh. I think [the gallery]helps students to be more

aware o art.Brookman stressed

tance o the Sesnon GSanta Cruz communit

Its so connected too the university, and tGallery is one o the oin Santa Cruz that studhave a rsthand experexceptional works o a

Brookman, who is notrst director o the gala UCSC alumnus. Tportant in learning abo

experience art and art

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Art can really push your boundaries and makeyou gure out what your stereotypes are oryour judgment when you dene What is art.

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CURATOR SHELBY GRAHAM WATCHES as

manager Leah Hanson prepares to arrange a Pillustration on mat board. Volunteer Carly McGaI never really thought about how things are pacand transported. The careful creation of an exh

itself a learning experience for students.

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Feature

Reach into your pocket.

Its likely your hand is now incontact with a music player or audio

storage device. Whether it is an MP3 player,a multimedia phone or a ash drive, music isincredibly compact and portable in the 21stcentury.

However, in the age o digital sound thereare still those who opt or the smooth, blackdisc that has charmed audiophiles or decades the vinyl record.

While CD sales and digital downloadsconstitute the majority o music purchasestoday, vinyl has made its way back rom rela-

tive obscurity to be the chosed medium o asignicant portion o listeners.

National vinyl record sales reached 2.8million in 2010, more than tripling rom the858,000 sold in 2006, according to NielsenSoundscan, a sales tracking system that hasbeen tabulating music sales since 1991.

While the company does not track somesmall music vendors, the sales leap reportedby 14,000 participating businesses indicates achanging music culture.

Daniel Munoz, a Ph.D. student incross-cultural musicology at UC

Santa Cruz, is currently doingeld work or his dissertation on

noise music in Los Angeles.He said in an email that vinyl has a special

connection to the human condition, whichmakes it attractive.

o make a vinyl record [is to] put a physi-cal object back in the hands o the consum-ers, Munoz said. It also says tacitly that thismusic is going to die over the years. It willnot live orever, just like we wont live orever.Vinyl and magnetic tape (cassettes, 8-tracks,etc.) deteriorate over time, while digital tech-nologies dont.

In their recent history, vinyl records havebeen subject to a cycle o popularity that is

inuenced by new audio technologies and thesubcultures that react to them.

Vinyl made a comeback in the 1980swhen DJs sampled records to rap over or tocombine into a new song. CDs gained popu-

larity in the 1990s, but critics claimed theircompressed audio les produced a dierent,more metallic sound.

Munoz said some youth embraced vinylrecords as an alternative to CDs that oodedthe music market.

Some kids rebelled against CD distri-bution on the grounds that records werecheaper, cooler, sounded better, and that thecover art on vinyl records was superior sincethere was a larger space or the art, Munozsaid.

Most vinyl records were cheap in the1990s. Ofen you could nd vinyl records at

ea markets or at Goodwill being sold orchange. Vinyl record stores were stagnant,and the music world prepared or a digitaloverload.

Te illegal music pirating

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boom beginning in the late 1990s produceda generation with access to a multitude oMP3s. Many old vinyl singles never madeit to MP3 ormat, and some music buyersscoured newly reemerging record stores andeBay to collect them.

KZSC music director yler Wardwellsaid the unavailability o some recordings indigital ormat has led UCSCs radio station tocovet vinyl copies accumulated over the years.

A lot o the material that we have wasacquired or sent to the station in the 70s and80s, he said. A air amount o it is hard tond digitally. It wouldnt make sense or us

to get rid o this vinyl because a lot o it isntbeing pressed anymore.

By 2006, music giant ower Records ledor bankruptcy and was orced to close itsdoors afer more than 45 years at the ore-ront o music distribution, though it stillmaintains an online presence.

Te early 2000s saw a rise o Britishand American indie rock, which has beenmarketed by labels that press vinyl. Recently,a whole youth culture has sprung rom theindie movement that has commercializedthe novelty o vinyl records.

Munoz said the recent vinyl revival isreminiscent o the youth CD resistance twodecades prior.

Fast-orward to contemporary hipsterspressing vinyl, Munoz said. Tis is much thesame phenomenon that started in the 1990s,with a twist o course. Digital technologiesthat are shared using a computer take theobject-hood out o the process o listeningto music. In other words, there is no longer aphysical object to hold in the hands.

Nostalgia or a medium that provides atangible representation o music has en-chanted young music buyers. For a sample ocommercialized indie culture, go to UrbanOuttters on Pacic Avenue in Santa Cruz.

Youll nd a small display o vinyl recordson the lef side o the store. Roughly 125 vinylrecords, the vast majority o them still in cel-lophane, sit in the store.

Urban has ramed Pet Sounds by TeBeach Boys and put it on display above therest, indicating that the aesthetic value oolder vinyl record covers ascinates someconsumers.

Other artists represented in the storeinclude She & Him, Belle and Sebastian, theMC5 and re-pressings o Michael Jackson,Bob Dylan and Jeerson Airplane albums.

Tis new generation o record collectorsis not generally looking or the authenticity

o an original pressing. Most o these albumscan be easily ound digitally so access isntthe draw either; it is the novelty o the vinylrecord that entices them.

O course, there is a market or vinyl be-yond the trendy Urban consumer. It is one

that marks up older albums that once livedin the 10-cent bin at De Anza Flea Marketin Cupertino, Cali. just over a decade ago. Itproduces indie rock, metal and pop, amongother genres.

WHY DO LABELS

PRESS VINYL?

New vinyl records are comparable in costto CDs. Metavinyl Records, a store on CedarStreet, is entirely dedicated to vinyl records.Within its walls, new vinyl is mixed with theold and alphabetized by genre.

On the right when you walk in there is awall or $1 albums, a new arrivals bin to yourlef, and a classical bin in the ar lef corner.

Te owner, Jonathan Schneiderman, saidhe buys vinyl records rom over 40 distribu-tors internationally. Some are locally ownedin the Bay Area and others are operatedoverseas.

Similarly, local radio stations receive andpurchase albums internationally. Indie rocklabels like Matador and Merge press singlesand ull-length albums on vinyl and sendthem around the world.

KZSC music director Wardwell said thestation requently receives indie rock vinylsingles.

We get sent new vinyl rom artists andlabels, Wardwell said. A air amount o newvinyl is rom indie rock artists and they willsend us 7 inches with one song on each side.

While indie labels may be best known orpressing vinyl records, consumer demand hasencouraged labels that had seemingly movedon rom the medium to return to it. Schnei-derman said small labels arent the only onescranking out vinyl.

Even the major labels are pressing vinyl,he said. Teres nothing thats not available

right now.Some music lovers note a dierence in

intentions between small and large labels.Zachary Watkins, a lecturer in the UCSC

music department, teaches History oElectronic Music and lower division studio

courses. He writes or Foxy Digitalis, anonline music site where he reviews albums.Watkins said money is a great inuence onlarge labels.

Independent labels are more interested inputting out music than prot, Watkins said.Major labels dont care about music. Teycare about money.

Watkins said choosing vinyl gives labels anedge in the music market by setting them-selves apart rom other mediums.

Right now there are so many labels outthere, and its kind o hard to break out o thenoise o the output being created, he said.Sometimes it takes spending money, mean-ing putting eort into the design, packagingand creation o the object. Vinyl is the apex

o that.Te quality o new vinyl records is highly

regarded. Ofen pressed at 180 grams, thick,new vinyl plays cleanly.

However, records deteriorate as the stylus,or needle, wears down the grooves that holdinormation about the sound. Cross-culturalPh.D. student Munoz described the processin terms o geologic erosion.

For example, think about the Grand Can-yon, Munoz said. Te grooves in a recordare like a canyon, and the needle reads thedepths o the canyon, and then that inorma-tion is outputted to a speaker (or is ampliedand outputted to a speaker). But the needleitsel erodes the grooves. Tus, records dete-

riorate over time each time the needle readsthe inormation o the grooves.As Munoz points out, new vinyl records

cannot stay perect orever i you play themrequently. Many new record players haveUSB capability, allowing or transer o re-cords to digital ormat.

Te old technology is so prevalent thatmanuacturers have capitalized on it by mak-ing the integration between analog and digitalmedia ever more easy, Munoz said.

Many labels include MP3 downloads oContinue

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NATIONAVINYLRECORDSALES

TYLER WARDWELL, KZSCsmusic director, picks out some of his

favorite records. KZSCs library holdsan extensive vinyl collection that is

constantly growing.

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Feature

TheMaddeningWorld ofThe Asylum

Production studio churns outmockbusters, achieves popularity

Based out o Burbank, Cali.,Te Asylum lm production anddistribution company has beenmastering the mockbuster or thepast 14 years. David Latt is oneo the three ounding partners othe company. Prior to his careerin Hollywood, Latt worked in the

magazine publishing industry. Herst met his producing colleagueDavid Rimawi, then a VillageRoadshow Pictures Executive, ata lm estival in 1991.

My colleague [Rimawi] hadalways wanted to produce. I hadalways wanted to direct, Lattsaid. What we did then is whatwe do today. We went out, oundwhat stars people wanted andwhat genre they liked, ound out[what] people would pay andbegan working.

Since its origins in 1995, thecompany has never lost moneyon a lm, and is constantly grow-

ing, both in output and popular-ity, despite constant criticismrom lm reviewers and main-stream consumers. Te Asylumboth recognizes and relishesits position as a niche market,and isnt discouraged by publicbacklash. While not or everyone,this style o lm is recognized bysome within the lm communityas still having merit. In addition,their mockbuster lms have be-

ransmorphers. Almighty Tor. Sherlock Holmes.Tese could be the titles o some o the biggest lms o recent years. Ten

ollows a trio o more suspect titles:Megashark vs. Giant Octopus. Snakes on a rain. itanic II.Tis is not mainstream Hollywood.

By Gareth Rees-White, Contributing WriterIllustrations By Matt Boblet

come something o a litmus testor Hollywood worthiness.

Te mockbuster is a low-budget lm that uses a plotsimilar to that o a currentlyreleased blockbuster whileexploiting its publicity campaign.

As a result, Columbia

Pictures Battle: Los Angelesbecomes Battle o Los Angeles,Marvel Studios Tor becomesTe Amazing Tor, and Dis-neys High School Musical be-comes Sunday School Musical.

Hollywood has been in adownward spiral or some years,and Te Asylum perpetuates thiswith cheap-to-make, cheap-to-buy lms. Te existence andsuccess o Te Asylum begs thequestion, Can a company thatprots at the expense o others be

truly successul?Director and star o Te

Asylums itanic II, Shane VanDyke, who has worked with thecompany or a number o years,says he has the answer.

Sometimes people like towatch a movie where they dont

have to think too much, VanDyke said. Get a six-pack obeer, sit down and enjoy a moviethat more likely than not willhave its air share o ery explo-sions, giant monsters and good-looking women.

Since its inception, TeAsylum has produced over 100lms. A new lm is releasedevery our weeks, during whichtime another lm begins produc-tion. Te studios average budgetranges anywhere rom $250,000

to $2 million per lm. By com-parison, the current average Hol-lywood blockbuster budget is inthe ballpark o $60 million, whileproduction length runs betweensix months to more than a year.

Latt is unapologetic about thelow budget and rapid output o

Te Asylum.We run our company on cashow, Latt said. I we dont makemoney that week, people dontget paid.

But they do get paid. Te Asy-lum reports an annual revenue oaround $5 million. As the lmsare so cheap to make, and asdemand is high, all lms make aprot.

While Te Asylums lms aremade on lower budgets thanthose o other companies, size o

production is growinthat while the compalms in Burbank, it hover the world.

South Arica, IsrIowa, Latt said. WeBelize three times. Icalls or it, we believe

go there.Long an inside joko so-bad-its-good cAsylum ound a modmainstream recognitEuropean cinematic Mega Shark vs. Gianin 2009. Te lm onlroughly $700 at the bbut made back the re$250,000 budget andDVD sales, rentals anloads. Netix views wpercent higher or thothers Te Asylum h

Noteworthy scenewhale suicide en mas

octopus venting its ron a Japanese oil rig,who changes rom AAustralian and back whole lot o submariHowever, the most nscene involves the meating a ull-sized paplane in mid-ight. Texample o jumping treceived over a millioYouube.

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Reviews ranged rom theamused to the bemused. KimNewman o Empire Magazine,Britains premier lm journal,reerred to the lm as being daf,plain daf. With aew daf but spec-tacular stunts.

Film websiteRotten omatoeswas even lesskind, stating thatwith shoddyFX, acting anddirecting, this isntso bad its good.Its just so bad itsterrible.

UC SantaCruz lm lecturerSuzanne Scott

commented onthe popularityand purpose othese lms in anemail.

She discussedthe act that hor-ror and sciencection lms generally echo thesociopolitical climate o theirtime. In the case o Te Asylum,Scott said their lms seem to beless interested in oering a so-

ciopolitical critique than they arein critiquing the overabundanceo computer-generated imagery(special eects) in Hollywood.Instead, the un o watching

these lms isin reveling inlow produc-tion values andcampy appeal.

Scott saidthey caterto ironic,postmodernmodes ospectatorship,and celebratethe artice andspectacle oHollywoodsoutput.

All theactors andproducersinterviewedagreed thatthey enjoyedmaking theseparticular lms

not despite the cheesy aspect, butbecause o it.

Im a big an o the horrorgenre, Van Dyke said. At thetime I rst met with Te Asylum,

they were doing mostly horrorlms I contacted producerDavid Latt, and it turned out ouramilies had worked together inthe past. My involvement withthe company grew rom there. Atthe end o the day, youre makingmovies, which is what I love.

Van Dyke had no issue work-ing within the constraints o TeAsylum meaning quick shootsat low budgets.

Working with small budgetspushes you to get creative andlearn rom your experiences, hesaid.

Unlike other studios, TeAsylum is also notable or oer-ing rapid on-the-job promotions.Jude Gerard Prest began hiscareer with them as a bit-part on

cowboy lm Six Guns beorebeing promoted to a key roleafer another actor didnt turnup on set, and is now one o thecompanys producers.

Van Dyke got to direct i-tanic II simply because he asked.

Mary E. Brown, who hasworked with the company on sixlms, has held a dierent posi-tion on each lm. She is currentlyacting as line-producer.

Wes Pannell, the head o DVD

sales and acquisitions at SantaCruzs Streetlight Records, haspast dealings with the companysdistribution branch. Pannell hasa sel-described aversion to thecompanys lms.

[Mega Shark] is part o whatspopular right now. Itll go away ina ew months. Some other crazyanimal-type movie will take itsplace, Pannell said in an email.Since were a small record storeweve got to order a limited num-

ber o B-movies [because] mosto them do not sel l well.

Prest had a dierent perspec-tive.

I you embrace the cheesinessgoing in, they are a lot o un,Prest said. I you go in with awell, thats ridiculous attitude,then yourenot going tolike a lot o thethings they do.

Other thanlow-budgetmonster mash-ups, most oTe Asylumssuccess hasbeen throughthe mockbust-er sub-genre.

We dontdo a lot othem any-more, produc-ing partnerLatt said.[But] i a lmis going togenerate a loto attention orinterest in thepublic, we are interested in riding

that wave.Latt was quick to point out

that Te Asylum is not copyingthe big studios, just trying to takeadvantage o current interests.

[We make] lms that aresimilar to others thematically andcontent-wise, Latt said.

Latt has no qualms with whathis studio does, saying, It isnothing other studios dont do.Were just a little more audaciousand obnoxious about it.

As an example, the producerrecalled the release o the lmTe Da Vinci Code ve years

ago.Every other channel wasdoing a documentary on thereal Da Vinci Code, Latt said.Everyone sees a blockbuster andsees a way to take advantage. Itsno dierent rom what we do.

Warner Brothers releasedSherlock Holmes in Dec. 2009.Te Asylum released its ArthurConan Doyles Sherlock Holmesin Jan. 2010. Te ormer had abudget o $90 million. Te lat-

ter, like all Asylum budget in the region to $2 million.

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anything actionable awe do.In most cases this

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OUR LENSWords & Photographs by Molly Solomon

Fishy Business

We arrive at Pier 38 and its still dark out. The crisp air of the refrigerated room makes me shiver. Men we

jackets and knee-high rubber boots shovel ice onto the sh being unloaded from the docks. A bell rings as

5:30 a.m. and a continuous stream of numbers and fast-talking negotiations ensue. I look around and thin

where am I? Few would guess Im vacationing in sunny Hawaii. On a whim, I decide to check out the Hono

Auction, the only daily sh auction of its kind in the United States. Modeled after the famous Tsukiji sh au

the auction allows independent shermen to sell their catch to the buyer with the highest bid. The buyers o

Saturday morning ranged from worldwide sh distributors to local restaurant chefs. Keeping up with the fof bidders while trying not to get run over by the dockworkers pushing pallets of 200-pound bigeye tuna w

adventure.

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Community & Culture

In this series, City on aHill Press will be interviewingcommunity members who arecurrently making a mark onUC Santa Cruzs campus.

Kicking o the series isDaniel Wirls, a proessor opolitics who has published twobooks, Irrational Security: TePolitics o Deense rom Reaganto Obama and Te Inventiono the United States Senate.Currently he is teaching Politics

1, Politics: Power, Principle,Process, and Policy.

City on a Hill Press: What doyou think o the level o political activism at UCSC?

Wirls: Id say that Im happythat there are a lot o studentsinvolved in a lot o things. Tatsometimes is a problem, though there isnt so much a move-ment around a ew ocal causes,sort o a disadvantage wheneverybody is standing in thequarry soliciting their own indi-vidual causes. So Id say that youcertainly have more studentsinvolved in dierent things thanyou ever did. What this accom-plishes is yet to be seen.

CHP: eaching politics atUCSC, what are the challenges you ace in interpreting

the world o politics or yourstudents?Wirls: Current events sort ooverwhelm the class gettingacross certain concepts andmaking sure they relate to whatsgoing on in the world.

CHP: How would you compare

teaching politics at UCSC withother schools?Wirls: Well this has been reallymy one and only job teachingpolitics. I arrived on campuswhen I was 28, right out ograduate school, so aside romdoing a little bit o teaching

as a grad student or Cornell,my entire teaching experiencehas been at UCSC. In eect, Iarrived here only seven or soyears older than the people Iwas teaching. And o course Iwas younger than a ew o thepeople I was teaching.

CHP: Did that actor disadvantage you in any way?Wirls: No, I just thought it wasun. Tere were a couple timeswhen the sta on campus wouldmistake me or a student, butthat was just kind o unny.

CHP: Youve oen been de

scribed to me by other students as very passionate about

what you teach whethat passion come romWirls: I care deeply abogoes on in the world anproblems within it, but intend to preach to eveabout how they shouldabout the world or stanparticular issues. My mgoal is really to be passabout the political procPolitics is rather dicuunsightly, but you havewith it and learn how itto organize your passioactivist around it, usingoundation that knowlehow it works. In politicnot just a student, but azen and active participa

CommunityChest

By Tyler MaldonadoCommunity & Culture

Reporter

A closer look at someo UCSCs nest

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R E V I V A LContinued from p. 13the vinyl record purchased toincrease appeal and provide asimilar access to turntables withUSB ports.

Metavinyl Records ownerSchneiderman said the practiceo including an MP3 downloadcode is strategic to appealing to avariety o consumers.

Labels gure that i youregoing to buy it then you should

only just have to buy it once, hesaid. I you buy the record youshould get a ree digital copybecause then theres really noreason not to buy it.

WHY DO WE

LOVE TO

CONSUME VINYL?

Labels produce vinyl to meetdemand rom music buyers. DJs,radio stations and listeners withprivate collections note manyreasons why vinyl is a great op-tion.

Wardwell said vinyl recordsare an important part o theKZSCs library.

We maintain a vinyl col-

lection because we play it, hesaid. Music purchases are splitbetween CDs and vinyl. We alsoget donations, so our vinyl collec-tion is always expanding.

For Wardwell, the experienceo watching a vinyl record spininto music is an enjoyable aspecto the medium.

I like the physicality o vinyl,and that its all done in openspace, he said. Te CD playsbehind a plastic shield and youdont really get to see whats goingon. With vinyl, theres a humanattraction where you lif that tone

arm and drop the needle downinto the groove, and as the platespins the disc, the 33 or 45 RPM,you can experience that visualcue o seeing motion becomesound.

Wardwell said the stations DJssometimes bring in vinyl recordsrom their really extensive per-sonal collections to play on air.

Musicology student Munozsaid DJs o live events ofenpreer vinyl, and have turned thevinyl record into an instrument.

DJs in the dance music scene(and other genres) still tend to

preer vinyl to spin at live events,especially or scratching andother purposes, he said. In thisway, vinyl records are more thanjust a recording medium, but areactually musical instruments.

Mark Augustine, aka DJ Swif,is co-ounder o a music promo-tion group based in RedwoodCity called Abide Productions.He DJs at weddings, events,dances and birthday parties.

Augustine emphasized theimportance o gauging the audi-ences idea o the classics interms o artists and songs. He

said he keeps anything consid-ered a classic o its genre.

As a DJ, Im always hav-ing the audience in mind. Idont know exactly who I comeacross, so i its a record that Ithink someone will want to hearin the uture Ill keep it. You

have to keep the classics.While he does use MP3s

ofen, Augustine said vinylrecords are the most respectedmedium to play among DJs. Hesaid there is nothing like theeeling o a record under yourngers.

Te sound that vinyl has isclean, raspy and gritty, he said.Although digital is crisp, vinylis clean. DJing is my drug. Itsmy addiction. And its a positiveaddiction.

Te unanimous complaintabout vinyl records is their sta-tionary status. Large and heavyto pack around, vinyl recordsare meant or in-home listening.

THE FUTURE OF

VINYL

Many think vinyl will nevergo out o style. Augustine saidnostalgia and appreciation or

predecessors will keepeoples collections.

I think the recorbe around, he said. be the classic thing thhave.

Munoz predicts threcords appeal will eor later.

My personal predwhich is really more eeling, is that eventurecords will go out osaid. Vinyl records atoo big and heavy. Tsonic advantage, quathe sounds are continthan discreet will ally ade as MP3s areby smaller les with requency responses

Some say they wilwant vinyl because itits kind. Watkins doe

anything getting in thvinyls popularity.

Culturally, peoplnyl as a medium andseek vinyl, I think, hthe best analog masswe have.

Digital recordingspassed vinyl in convesize. However, the wasound is still a prioriFor some serious audthe urther products physical mechanics osound, the worse muto translate on a reco

Metavinyl RecordSchneiderman said avinyl is top quality thdemand or it.

Vinyl will alwaysollowing, he said. better ormat comes

surpasses its quality.

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Feature

World of the Asylum: CHP investigates the mockbuster

cease-and-desist letter, in addi-tion to attempting to get the low-budget rival lm removed romthe shelves. Fox was unsuccess-ul. Te Asylums lm can still bepurchased rom online retailers.

According to the ocialpress release issued through

Yahoo! News, Fox was particu-larly enraged by the act that TeAsylum took advantage o itsmulti-million dollar advertisingcampaign. Fox has also arguedthat as it owns the rights to theoriginal lm, Te Asylum wasplagiarizing.

Neither studio was available tocomment on this particular issue.

Legal issues aside, the growingsuccess o Te Asylum in thecult market, at least does raisequestions about the state o Hol-lywood.

In some sense, [Te Asylum

shows] that we havent yet movedbeyond the A/B movie paradigmo the classical Hollywood studiosystem, lm lecturer Scott wrote,except in this case, instead o a

double eature Te Asylumsimply creates a B-movie ortelevision out o whatever A/bigbudget movie is currently in the-aters. Tere isnt economicspace or the productiono B-lms in Hollywoodtoday. Te emphasis is

on tent pole lms andranchises.

Wes Pannell oStreetlight Recordssaid in an email,Hollywood sucksright now. Teyredesperate or any cheapway to make a movie, be itthrough rehashing a title theyalready own the rights to, ormaking a straight-to-DVD title.

So i it is just unctioning likeall other Hollywood studios, whydoes Te Asylum not see moremainstream success? Because it

does not need to, according toAsylum line producer Brown.

Te Asylum has its ownmarket, Brown said. It has itsaudience that looks or specic

Te Asylum has

its own maWe have a an

the types o pthat Te Asabout. Teyhuge ollow

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Illustration by Rac

Ilearned recently that Rachid Bouchareb, a Franco-Algerian producer-director, is taking on the biopicabout Angela Davis, political activist and proessor

emerita o UC Santa Cruz.His choice or the lead? Beyonc Knowles.

Im really interested in seeing what this will look like.Its a lm about an Arican-American woman activistduring the 60s and 70s, directed by a man who wantsthe role to go to a ormer Destinys Child member, witha screenplay written by Mohammed Moulessehoul, aormer Algerian army ocer.

Hearing about the lm got me thinking about whatwould be the best way to represent such an importantgure. Although Beyonc is a whole lotta woman, itwould be kind o a shame i images o Beyonc with anaro conjured up more associations with Foxxy Cleopatrarom Austin Powers in Goldmember than Angela Davisduring the middle o the American civil rights movement.

Im not knocking Beyoncs acting abilities. I also donthave a xenophobic suspicion o the creators motives orthe lm. Just the opposite.

Te movie will have an outsiders perspective o Amer-ican history, given that the lmmakers are Algerian. Somemight worry that this means less authenticity. However,afer learning about writer Moulessehouls lie, I rea lizedthat in the end its more about making a link or connec-tion with others across international barriers.

Youre probably wondering, What could a ormerAlgerian army ocer possibly have in common with anex-FBI ugitive who wants to abolish the prison system?

Tough Davis and Moulessehouls experiences withprison ell on opposite sides o the line, Moulessehouldealt with a dierent type o incarceration in Algeria.

Afer his ather lef him in a military academy at thetender age o nine, Moulessehoul comorted himseland sought escape through literature. As a grown man,Mohammed Moulessehoul adopted the pen nameYasmina Khadra (Jasmine Green) to avoid censorship

rom the oppressive military regime during the civil warin Algeria.

While on the military man worked amid the brutalityo civil war, Yasmina Khadra wrote against the corruptand idle leaders o Algeria and the Islamists on the otherside o the conict.

Te day was divided in two, Moulessehoul said in aninterview with Te Guardian. Most o the time I was atwar. Te rest was or writing.

Afer revealing that he wasnt an oppressed Muslimwoman, Moulessehoul exiled himsel to France.

He still uses the pen name Yasmina Khadra or most o

his work, including the Angela Davis scr ipt.Its interesting that Moulessehoul would even choose to

write a screenplay about Davis lie.Maybe Moulessehoul sees in Angela Davis the strong

woman he envisions in Yasmina Khadra. When Mou-lessehoul could not nd the courage to speak out againstthe brutality in Algeria, Yasmina was there to express her

opinion in print.Given her history o resistance and perseverance,

Angela Davis is the perect model or strength in tryingtimes. And Moulessehouls own story is a ll about strength,as well as the power o art and entertainment as a way tospread ideas.

Tough Moulessehoul was technically in a position opower during his time in the Algerian army, these women Davis, a real lie inspiring political gure, and Yasmina,a ctional person with the power to move thousands oreaders are much more powerul than the army ocercould be on his own. As the old saying goes, the pen really

is mightier than the sword.I Yasmina Khadra could have such an in

literary world, why not ask the same o Angellm?

Maybe Bouchareb does want Beyonc soleher notoriety entertainment is a big part oindustry. Te outsiders perspective that Bouc

Moulessehoul could bring to this lm has theshow the human ties that transcend borders aentertainment is a good vessel to carry messa

Davis will be at an event hosted by the InsWriting Project this uesday at 7 p.m. I wondwould have to say about Beyonc playing her

Either way, the lm deserves a chance. AlthRachid Bouchareb should know that Halle Bemagazine in January that she wants to play Anbadly, so badly.

Beyonc isnt the only Arican-American aworld. Just saying.

They Want Who to Play AngelOutside Looking In

Giving the proposedAngela Davis movie

the benet o the doubt

By Rosela ArceCity Reporter

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Editorial

BP: A Long Way from ForgivenessGlobal oil companys recent request to drill afer largest spill in history is appalling

Illustration by Muriel Gordon

Eleven people died in vain because o BPsMacondo well blowout on April 20 last year.

For 86 days, 4.9 million gallons o oil gushedrom BPs stores and polluted the Gul o Mexico.

Te accident slowly became the worlds largest oil spillas BP ailed to get the leak under control.

Marine lie was decimated, shing economies de-stroyed. With assistance rom the Coast Guard and

volunteers, the sel-proclaimed leader insustainability hung its head and got to work.

Te companys eorts to reorm saetypractices and compensate aected com-munities are a step to [earn] back the trust

that was lost and build a sustainable BP, ac-cording to a public letter penned by groupchie executive Bob Dudley. Paying or the2012 Olympic energy bill is a nice gesture,

but may be more representative o theirpolitical prowess than anything else.

Now BP has applied or permissionto resume drilling in the Gul. While

the companys rhetoric is remorseul,the oil spill and its ghastly environ-mental and community impacts

overshadow the sentiment.Te act o the matter is BP has not made

amends or the spill.Te ederal government should not permit BP to

drill oil in the Gul because it has not earned the trust oimpacted communities. It is still paying or costs related

to the oil spill, cleanup and ongoing civil and criminalinvestigations into the incident.

Moreover, the United States needs to proteronmental health and a ltering economy. It isry or the United States to allow BP to drill inadministrations commitment to rigorous saeand punishment o those in poor compliance

BP has claimed that it would be unable to rest o the reparations without drilling in the congresspeople and more oil company ociagetting back in the Gul is necessary to reestabeconomic success. However, numerous complot o money because o last years spill, not ju

It is not the responsibility o the United Stapull international corporations out o nanciaespecially those who brought their woes uponTe relationship between BP and countless Aaected by the spill is deeply damaged beyondU.S. government should demand the rest o thtions and disallow BPs request or permissionis the ederal governments responsibility to penvironmental health o the nation. Drilling osustainable enterprise.

Energy companies should set their sights o

energies like solar and wind power. Not on thAmerican waters.

Land of the Censored, Home of the ConstrainedSmithsonian removes controversial piece o art because o Washington scare tactics

Censorship is never acceptable. It makes or anuninormed and ignorant public, easy or thosein power to deceive and manipulate. But censor-

ship used specically to divide and distract a nation isespecially toxic. And thats the type o censorship thatshappening right now in our nations capital.

On Dec. 2 o last year, a memo was leaked revealingthat G. Wayne Clough, secretary o the Smithsonian Insti-tution, had chosen to remove a video called A Fire in MyBelly by artist David Wojnarowicz rom the museum.

Cloughs decision came afer many religious groupsand conservative politicians called or its removal. Tevideo, which was part o an exhibit about the gay andlesbian experience in the 1980s and 90s called Hide/Seek, eatured graphic images, including one o a crucixcovered in ants.

One politician in particular, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), voiced his concern to Fox News.

Absolutely, we should look at [the Smithsonians]unds, said Kingston, who is a member o the HouseAppropriations Committee. I theyve got money tosquander like this o a crucix being eaten by ants, oEllen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts, men in chains,

naked brothers kissing then I think we should look attheir budget.

It was this sort o threat the possibility o losingunds that drove Clough to remove the video. He saw itas a compromise, taking down one controversial piece sothe entire museum could still exist.

However, letting politicians push him around was theworst thing Clough could have done in the interest opublicly unded art.

Its obvious to anyone who isnt living under a rock thatthe country is in serious nancial trouble, and cuts to theSmithsonian at a time like this might be understandable.

But letting the threat o those cuts dictate the content othe museum is a grave mistake. Te state o the economyshould be used as a reminder to be responsible, not anexcuse or allowing discr imination in taxpayer-supported

institutions.And whats more is that politicians like Kingston did

not even bother to learn what A Fire in My Belly reallymeant. Te crucixion was not meant as an aront onreligion but as a symbol. Te plight o people with AIDSwas alluded to with the cross, which is a well-known sym-bol o strength in suering.

argeting a work o art with queer and AIDS-relatedthemes smacks o the culture wars o the 1980s and 90s.During this time, politicians used wedge issues and scaretactics as a way o dividing people and driving them to thepolls.

Illustration by Louise Leong

Te Reagan administration was painully hacknowledge the AIDS crisis when it rst sur80s. Tat the government is still using its inusuppress rather than spread inormation and sobering reminder that we as a country are noas we may think we are.

Republicans know that the Smithsonian w

tinue to receive some amount o unding and entirely legal to have an exhibit with supposedversial themes. Tey just use the ear o the otto get votes and as a way to distract the Amerirom the general ineectiveness they have in W

Tese politicians arent brave soldineying o into culture wars on behrightened constituents. Teyre a mbumbling Don Quixotes, engaging

geous political theater or personal gArt is ofen seen as dispensable. Art progra

being cut rom public schools across the countruth is that it is as important to a society as bis a way o expressing new ideas and actively othe status quo, and key struggles and conceptsbrought up in the art world beore they becom

the mainstream. Losing public support or cero art is as serious as when people try to ban sbooks in libraries.

Clough will ace artists later this month in to make amends. Hopeully the conerence wrestoration o the video in the museum and thtion o public aith in the Smithsonian.

We as students stress the importance o opcensorship o all kinds. Write your congresspedialogue about the importance o publicly uneven make your own art with that theme in mbe a casualty in the latest culture war.

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material. We have a an base othe types o projects that TeAsylum is about. Tey have ahuge ollowing, not just nation-ally, but internationally.

Te ultimate test or Te Asy-lum is time. Other cheaply madelms have gained a strong cultollowing over the years. Perhapsthe ultimate example is ommyWiseaus TeRoom. Despitebeing regardedby critics as one

o the worstlms ever made,Te Roomstill sells out intheaters acrossAmerica. Tishappenedrecently whenSanta Cruzs DelMar Teatrechose the lmor its weeklymidnightmovie, on theweekend o Feb.18th19th.

A story toldby actor Prestsuggests thatTe Asylumsmove towardsthe cult mayhave alreadybegun.

It was thegif that kept ongiving, Prestsaid, discussingthe 2010 lmMega Piranha.Te monsterlm, which pre-miered on the

SyFy Channelin April o lastyear, becamethe most viewedoriginal movie o 2010, with ap-proximately 2.2 million viewers.

Afer that, it played at mid-night at Comic-Con. Tere was aline around the block, Prest said.Its since played at a number oother estivals and become a culthit, both online and on the SyFy

Channel.Perhaps one day i

showing alongside Tthe Del Mar in downCruz. Asylum criticshowever, do not agre

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Cult does notmean schlock,which is whatTe Asylum olksmake. What makessomething a cultclassic? Te cultdoes.

Wes Pannell,head o DVD salesand acquisitions atStreetlight Records

I you embrace

the cheesiness go-ing in, they are alot o un. I yougo in with a well,thats ridiculousattitude, thenyoure not goingto like a lot o thethings they do.

Jude GerardPrest, actor

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Hell AskedYou?!Fill in the blank:

Home is where you _______.

Compiled byChelsea Hawkins &Prescott Watson

Where I get to snuggle with puppies.

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