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Public DiscourseWho do you trust more, Steven Colbert and Jon Stewart, or real-life politicians?

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Stewart and Colbert, because, unlike politicians,they dont pretend to be religious.

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Stewart and Colbert, because theyreget elected.

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Table of Contents4 Cowell Dining Hall Nationally Recognized for S

by ROSANNA VAN STRATEN

5 Linguistics Professors Honored for Academic Acby ROSA CASTAEDA6 Dressed to Impress, Santa Cruz Trick-or-Treaters

the Citys Most Popular Holiday in Safety by SUSAN SUN

7 Event Calendar: Whats New in Santa Cruzcompiled by Tess GOODWIN

8 Local Farmers and Environmentalists Oppose UsCarcinogenic Pesticide on Local Fieldsby ROSIESPINKS

10 New Equestrian Coach Takes the Reigns to HelpFind Its Stride

by NATALIAEQUIHUA11 Sur ng Protg Rides Wave of Success by NATALIAEQUIHUA

12 Music Department Struggles to be Heard Abovof Budget De citby MIKAELATODD

Cover photos by Andrew Allio

Molly Solomon

The Few, the Proud, the Slugs14 by ASAHESS-MATSUMOTO

Through Our Lens16 by ISAACMILLERSpecial Collection Spotlights the Human Condition19

by VERONICAGLOVER

California Has Spoken: Election Results20 by BLAIRSTENVICK

&MAJAVOJNOVIC

A Giants Fan Tips Her Glass to the 2010 Champs21 by JULIAREIS

Be Kind, Remind: Why the Video Store Matters22by ROD BASTANMEHR

Editorial: Of Puns and Pundits23

Who the Hell24by JULIAREIS &MORGAN GRANA

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LEED certi cation o Cowell Dining Hall kicks of 3-week conservation competition

UC Santa Cruz is the 11th greenest college in thenation, according to a ranking released by the Sierra Clubin August. On Monday, the university held the rst everSustainability and Resource Fair at Cowell College.

Te event, which was sponsored by the Sustainability O ce, eatured over 30 campus environmental organizations and a presentation by Chancellor George Blumenthal, who o cially declared the new Cowell Dining Halla silver LEED certi ed green building. LEED certi cation, which stands or Leadership in Environmental and

Energy Design, is an internationally recognized greenbuilding certi cation and has our di erent levels: certied, silver, gold and platinum.

Blumenthal is the rst UCSC chancellor to declaresustainability a priority in his two year plan. Te crowdlistened as he explained the importance o sustainability on the UCSC campus.

It is truly a mark o distinction, nationwide and worldwide, he said. It says something about who we areand what we are as a campus.

Cowell Dining Hall is the second building on campusto be LEED certi ed, and one o the 12,000 LEEDcerti ed buildings in the country. Steps toward achievingcerti cation included maximizing natural light, conserving water, minimizing and composting waste, using computerized ovens to save energy and installing completely recycled and recyclable carpet and countertops.

Te next campus buildings to be LEED certi ed include several buildings at Porter, the biomedical sciences

acility and the Student Health Center. Te crowd cheered when Blumenthal announced news

about the McHenry Library renovations, which willeature an environmentally riendly addition.

When the new section o the library opens, there willeven be solar panels on the roo , Blumenthal said.

Te Sustainability and Resource Fair also served as thekick o or the COOL Campus Competition, a three

week event with 40 universities competing to reducetheir resource consumption. UCSC is adding an intercollege aspect to the competition, with Kresge, Porter,Cowell and Stevenson each vying or the title o the mostenergy e cient.

Te competition is sponsored by the Student Environ

mental Organization, the Green Campus Group and theSustainability O ce.Cameron Fields, one o the events main organizers,

described the competition process, as well as the outreache ort, intended to promote participation.

Meters have been installed in each o the our colleges to measure their water and electricity usage, Fieldssaid, and students can check online to see how they are doing, as it updates their electricity usage live andtheir water usage weekly. Weve been tabling at colleges,knocking on students doors and posting yers to try toget students involved.

Te installation o the meters cost the school approximately $17,000 including the cost o labor and thesetting up the website. Fields said that, although the costis high, the awareness that could come as a result o thiscompetition will outweigh the expense.

As this is a pilot event, its the rst time we are doing something like this, [and] well have to see how it

goes, Fields said. But I eel really positivestudents seem to as well. Rafes will be held three weeks as the competition continues. St

win iPods and other gadgets.Blumenthal expressed his intent to urthe

sustainable and environmentally riendly rereiterated the positive e ects that the LEED

will have in the uture.Tirty two percent less lighting will be u

computerized lights that adjust as the light cbuilding, he said, and 62 percent less heatin

Rosan

Colleges Compete to WinGreenest Title

By Rosanna van StratenCity Reporter

CHANCELLOR GEORGE BLUMENTHreLEED plaque in recognition of Cowell Diningcerti cation as a green building. The presentathe plaque was part of the Sustainability and RFair on Monday.

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Linguistics Professors ReceiveHonorable Recognition

Ladusaw and McCloskey made ellows o the Linguistics Society o Amer

Studied through elds such as anthropology and computer science, usedin court cases, politics and in practically every eld imaginable, linguistics or thescience o language is incorporated intoalmost every discipline.

When interim humanities dean William Ladusaw and linguistics pro essor

James McCloskey sat together in theirgraduate level historical linguistics classat the University o exas more than threedecades ago, they never imagined that oneday they would teach at the same institu

tion, write research papers together andreceive acceptance into the LinguisticsSociety o America.

Te LSA was ounded in 1924 toadvance the scienti c study o human language. Its goals are to urther research inlinguistics and keep the broader linguisticscommunity in ormed through publications, presentation and discussion. Teorganization has over 5,000 members, allo whom were nominated and selected togain membership into the organization.

Ladusaw was born and brought up inLouisville, Ky., where he got his B.A. inlinguistics at the University o Kentucky.

Linguistics was a much less widely studied eld at this time, Ladusaw said.

When I started, it was a rather oddthing to be a linguistics major, he said.Most people in high school had neverheard the word, he said.

Ladusaw recalls that the majority o people at the time thought o linguistics asgrammar.

He obtained his masters degree incomputational linguistics and his doctorate in semantics at the University o exas.

Tis branch o linguistics, which studies meaning in relation to structure, was a

airly novel eld o study when Ladusaw was in school.

At the time we were in graduateschool, semantics was the relatively newer

eld in linguistics, he said. raditionally [it had] been part o philosophy.

Ladusaw said that semantics unmaskshow a person understands language.

Te reality is that what you understand the meaning o something to beis a very complicated interaction between

what you know in virtue o knowing yourlanguage and what you can in er based onreasoning about the act that somebody said that to you in that context.

Ladusaw started teaching linguisticsat UCSC in 1984 and says that the majorhas de nitely matured, especially a terextending the eld to a graduate programin the late 80s.

His colleague McCloskey who

came to UCSC in 1988 ocuses onsyntax, which is the study o principlesand rules o the structure o sentences. Terelationship between syntax and semantics structure requires meaning, and meaning requires structure has allowed McCloskey and Ladusaw to work together.

Born in Ireland, McCloskey obtainedhis rst degree in linguistics at University College Dublin and his doctoral degree atthe University o exas. His dissertationand career ocus is on the syntax o theIrish language.

McCloskeys teaching career began atUniversity College Dublin in 1979 whileholding visiting appointments at the Massachusetts Institute o echnology andUC San Diego. He spent a year as a ellow o the Center or Advanced Study in theBehavioral Sciences at Stan ord be orebecoming a pro essor at UCSC.

Currently, McCloskey is in Ireland orsabbatical leave and conducting researchin the syntax o the Irish language. Hecould not be reached or comment.

His webpage outlines his careerinterests and the slow death o the Irishlanguage.

I am necessarily and sadly interestedin issues o language death, language extinction and language revival, McCloskey said on his webpage.

Both Ladusaw and McCloskey will be

o cially recognized as part o the LSAat the annual meeting in Pittsburgh in

January 2011.

Prescott Watson Photo Courtesy of Jam

By Rosa CastaedaCampus Reporter

INTERIM HUMANITIES DEANWilliam Ladusaw (left) and linguistics pr Jim McCloskey (right) were recently elected Fellows of the Linguistics SoAmerica. Ladusaw focuses on semantics, the branch of linguistics that deameaning, and McCloskeys focuses is syntax, which studies the structure oguage. During their teaching careers, linguistics has expanded from a smato a large, well-known eld.

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Halloween Draws Major Crowds, Minimal Law ViolationsDowntown law en orcement presence works to reduce crime during annua

Marilyn Monroe, Neytiri, Bob Marley, Pikachu andthe Little Mermaid danced to the impromptu beats o adrum circle on closed o Paci c Avenue. People on stilts

towered over the crowd and a group o zombies perormed choreographed dance moves to Michael JacksonsTriller, blasting rom a boombox.

Tousands took to the streets o downtown SantaCruz on Halloween night and helicopters, gang specialists and over a hundred police o cers joined them.

Zach Friend, spokesman or the Santa Cruz PoliceDepartment, said the turnout on Halloween has grownexponentially over the past six or seven years.

Halloween night is the largest unsanctioned event we have in Santa Cruz, Friend said. Tis isnt an o cialorganized Santa Cruz event. We usually have up to about25,000 people here downtown on Halloween night,

which is about hal the citys population in one squaremile.

Police made 40 arrests this year, 32 o which were orpublic intoxication. Other charges included drug possession, violation o parole and battery.

Santa Cruz resident Mark Ruiz, who attended theevent, said Halloween is pretty crazy.

Paci c Avenue is generally pretty sa e, but the sidestreets are where things get shady, Ruiz said. I de nitely suggest walking in a group, because it can be very dangerous when youre running solo, especially or a girl.

Public intoxication and rowdy crowds were commonplace, but there were no reported cases o shootings orstabbings this year. Tere were seven gang related stabbings on Halloween o 2006 and two on the Halloweeno 2007.

Over the last couple o years, police orces havestepped up en orcement to maintain public sa ety, augmenting the security budget or the event to $60,000, up

rom about $40,000 last year.Costs cover lighting, police overtime and other ex

penses or what is essentially one large downtown party. Tis year, according to Friend, actual costs ran between$45,000 and $50,000.

Every police agency in the county is providing law o cers to patrol this event, Friend said on Halloween.We have over 100 o cers that are here tonight, whichincludes probation and parole agents. We also bring insome gang specialists rom Santa Clara County and theSalinas area.

Police o cers patrolled the premises all evening, attempting to prevent violence be ore it could take place.

Tis year, the ocus was on removing possible threatsbe ore problems began. A unanimous motion by city

council allowed police to issue triple ne tickets to discourage law violations.I we see someone thats intoxicated who may become

an issue, we get them o the street early be ore it rollsinto something else, Friend said. I youre caught withan open container, itll cost you about $500 tonight, so besure to put your beers away.

Te preventative measures and increased law en orce

ment presence lessened crime downtown onnight. Attendees said they appreciated beingsecure.

Tis is my rst Halloween at downtown rst year Juliet Ulibarri said. Te vibes are rom everyone, and I havent elt any sense

any point o the night. I eel secure with ththere are so many police o cers roaming aro

where.

By Susan SunCity Reporter

THOUSANDS OF TRICK-OR-TREATdowntown Santa Cruz for the unof cial holiSunday. The city spent more than $45,000 onmeasures for the event, including salaries fospecialists and over a hundred police of cer

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Event CalendarCITY

Tursday, Nov. 4 Film: Race to Nowhere. Rio Teatre. 7 p.m. Free Concert: Paul Contos Quartet. Kuumbwa

Jazz Center. 7 p.m. $12 in advance, $15 at door. Film: Race Against the Sky 2010. Regal Cinema 9. 8:30 p.m. Concert: Old Man Markley, Forrest Day, WestNile Ramblers. Te Catalyst. 9 p.m. $6 in advance,$9 at door. Ages 21 and up. Concert: John Cragie, Patrick Cooper, ElizaRickman. Te Crpe Place. 9 p.m. $8.

Friday, Nov. 5 Film: MINE. Rio Teatre. 7:30 p.m. $15 inadvance, $20 at door. Bene t: Lacy J. Dalton pe ormance bene tting Second Harvest Food Bank. Kuumbwa Jazz Center. 8 p.m. $21 in advance, $25 at door. Per ormance: Cheech and Chong. Get it

Legal. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. 8 p.m. $34to 60. Concert: Steel Pulse, Lloyd Brown. Te Catalyst. 9 p.m. $26 in advance, $30 at door. Concert: John Miller & Jean Louise, PoorBailey, Electric Leaves. Te Crpe Place. 9 p.m. $8in advance, $10 at door. Film: Ed Wood. Del Mar Teatre. 11:59 p.m.$6.50. Event repeats Nov. 6.

Saturday, Nov. 6 Festival: Sea Glass and Ocean Art. CoconutGrove, Santa Cruz. 10 a.m. $3. Concert: Gala Gourd Evening. Kuumbwa Jazz Center. 8 p.m. $15. Concert: Ribsys Nickel, Flea. Te Catalyst. 9p.m. $5. Ages 21 and up. Concert: Hillstomp, McDougall, Te Drops.

Te Crpe Place. 9 p.m. $10. Event repeats Nov. 7.

Sunday, Nov. 7 Concert: Archie Fisher. Kuumbwa Jazz Center.7 p.m. $19. Concert: Sublime with Rome., Sexrat TeCatalyst. 8 p.m. $44 in advance, $49 at door. Ages21+.

Monday, Nov. 8 Concert: Te Je Lorber Fusion. Kuumbwa

Jazz Center. 7 & 9 p.m. $25 in advance, $28 atdoor. 9 p.m., hal price or students. Concert: Sublime with Rome; Sexrat. TeCatalyst. 8 p.m. $44 in advance, $49 at door. Ages

16 and up. Concert: Kisses. Te Crpe Place. 9 p.m.

uesday, Nov. 9 Concert: Stars. Rio Teatre. 8 p.m. $18. Concert: Te Supervillains; Ballyhoo!; PourHabit. Te Catalyst. 9 p.m. $10 in advance, $14 atdoor.

Wednesday, Nov. 10 Weekly: Downtown Farmers MarCedar Street & Lincoln Street. 2:30 t Community meeting: DesalinatioIssues, Solutions and the Environme

Process. Louden Nelson Communityto 9 p.m. Class: What Jazz Students ShouldPaul Contos. Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Per ormance: Open Mic Night. GStudios. 7 to 9:30 p.m. $1 5 donation Concert: Borgore, Downlink GetteRate P. Te Catalyst. 8 p.m. $28.

CAMPUS

Tursday, Nov. 04 Author reading: Irene Reti. Bay r12 to 1 p.m. Free.

Author reading: Ed Lin. Humaniti6 to 7 p.m. Free.

Friday, Nov. 5 Per ormance: In the Waves. Teateond Stage. 7 to 9 p.m. $11 to 12. Eveuntil Nov. 14. See santacruztickets.cotional dates and times.

Saturday, Nov. 6 Class: Underwater Robotics Workmour Center at Long Marine Lab. 9 aFree. Film: A Night o Fun and Film.

Teater. 6 to 9 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 8 Daylight Savings ends. Clocks swhour. 2 a.m. Meeting: Friends o the Farm andUCSC Farm Center. 5:30 to 8 p.m. Per ormance: Poetry Slam. CoweFireside Lounge. 8 to 10 p.m. Free.

uesday, Nov. 9 In ormational: Masters in EducatCredential Program In ormation NigRoom, University Center, above CollDining Hall. 7 to 9 p.m. Free.

Wednesday, Nov. 10 Discussion: Collaborative Printmtal Arts Research Center, Room 308. Free. Per ormance: Open Mic Night. PHall Mezzanine. 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.

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Ramiro Medrano is a grassroots organizer with the BrownBerets, a youth empowerment and education program in Watson ville. He is part o an e ort to educate the local community, whichlargely comprises arm workers and their amilies, about the new pesticide.

Te students are the ones who are most interested in this, because many o them go to school near these e lds, Medrano said.We tell them about the dangers, and they eel the responsibility to take this on through educating their parents and their studentbodies about pesticides and methyl iodide.

I approved, methyl iodide will replace the widely used methylbromide, a chemical that is being phased out due to its deleterious

e ects on the ozone layer, putting it in violation o the international Montreal Protocol o 1992. Both the new and old pesticides are soil umigants, which means they are applied to the soilbe ore the crop is planted in order to sterilize it and kill any weeds,organisms or other organic matter that might impede growth o the crop.

Critics cite the potential health e ects o the new pesticide asthe reason it should not be registered. Methyl iodide is a knowncarcinogen under Proposition 65, according to a report compiledby Susan E. Kegley, a consulting scientist or the Pesticide ActionNetwork. It is our times more neurotoxic than methyl bromide,and up to 3.5 times more acutely toxic than methyl bromide.

Strawberry production on the Central Coast is part o a $2 billion industry.O all the strawberries grown in the United States, 88 percent o the crop is grown in Cali ornia, wi

roughly 50 percent coming rom the Watsonville, Salinas and Santa Cruz areas alone.In the next ew months, the Department o Pesticide Regulation (DPR) is poised to make a decision

on the registration o a new pesticide called methyl iodide. While the Environmental Protection Agenchas already approved the chemical at the ederal level, local agricultural communities are demonstratia resistance to the new pesticide at the state level because o its dangerous health e ects on schools anresidential neighborhoods nearby.

By Rosie SpinksCity Editor

WatsonvilleCommunity OpposesRegistrationof New Pesticide

Local arming communities await adecision on methyl iodide

STRAWBERRIES AREa lucrative cash crop, ideal for the mild and cool mediterranean climate of the Central Coast. Soil fumigants like methyl bromide increase yiewhile risking the health of farm laborers and locals exposed to the carcinogen. The California Department of Pesticide Regulation is reviewing the registration of a pesticide for strawberry production, methyl iodide, but opponents have criticized the new chemical as even more carcinogenic than methyl bromide.

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Te DPR commissioned two teams o scientists, some rom withinthe department itsel , along with eight independently contractedscientists, to review the toxicity o the chemical. Cali ornia Watch,

which is part o the Center or Investigative Reporting, reported thata ter receiving the scientists ndings, the DPR then set the level o exposure 196 times higher than what their own scientists had recommended.

Te Cali ornia Strawberry Commission (CSC), which is based in Watsonville, represents a conglomeration o 600 growers, shippers andprocessors in Cali ornia. Its members include both conventional andorganic armers, who pay 3.5 cents per t ray o strawberries to undresearch.

Carolyn ODonnell, the communications director or the CSC,explained that the commission is waiting or the DPR to completetheir regulatory process be ore taking a stance on methyl iodide.However, she did say that o the $13 million in research that the CSCinvested in nding an alternative to methyl bromide, much o it wasdevoted to non pesticide alternatives.

Te commission is looking into the uture, ODonnell said.Research devoted to arming without umigants gives strawberry growers more options or sustainable ways to grow strawberries. Tereare a variety o potential solutions, and they are not a one size ts allapproach.

Local assembly member Bill Monning is opposed to the registration o methyl iodide, and he is working with the community in the

Watsonville area to prevent registration o the chemical. Monningsdedication to this issue comes rom his ormer work as an attorney orthe United Farm Workers Union, in which he was involved in litigation on pesticide poisoning cases.

Monning explained that the DPR was designed to be a bit moreree standing than the ederal Department o Food and Agriculture,

but it still has various interests to represent and sometimes does nottake real world arming practices into account.

Te department is charged with making objective and rationaldecisions based on science, but it s also a balancing act o balancingthe interests o agriculture and public sa ety concerns, Monning said.You can have certain standards and requirements listed on a label,but in the eld, people dont always ollow the requirements. You have

wind, you have tarps that ail. You have to actor in human error atsome level.

Te education e ort in Watsonville that Medrano and Monningare part o includes community town halls, pesticide awareness clubsin high schools, petitions and an e ort to get local school boards andcity councils to adopt a resolution ormally opposing the registrationo the chemical.

Last week, the Pajaro Valley Uni ed School District was the rstschool board to adopt a resolution against the registration o methyliodide. School leaders emphasized the need or more scienti c research on the pesticide be ore it is used in elds that abut numerous

Watsonville school grounds. While the school boards actions represent a victory, Medrano said,

he expressed some rustration at the act that those most a ectedmost by the issue arm workers themselves are the hardest toreach.

A couple o armers at our last orum showed us their hands,and some o them didnt have any [ nger]nails because o exposureto pesticides. Tat, or their skin was very deteriorated because o thesame exposure, Medrano said. A lot o them, un ortunately, also havea very low education. Unless we go out there and in orm them, they dont know much about the danger.

When it comes to an alternative to methyl bromide and methyl iodide, both Monning and Medrano stated that they personally believeorganic agriculture is the answer. However, Medrano conceded, it isprobably not possible to produce the amount o strawberries grownon the Central Coast without the use o umigants.

I dont know i thats a bad thing, Medrano said. A lot o theseenvironmental agriculture jobs are very dangerous to the workers andthe community.

Steve Gliessman is a UC Santa Cruz environmental studiespro essor whose work as a armer, author and teacher is centered onagroecology and sustainable ood systems.

Gliessman said that while implementing more sustainable methods o arming strawberries might mean a reduction in overall yield,it doesnt mean the loss o a lucrative industry altogether. He said the

ocus should be on more, smaller growing operations and ewer largeones, as well as selecting more resilient varieties o the crop to grow.

Te varieties o strawberries that have been used since methylbromide have zero [natural] resistance to diseases, Gliessman said.Growers have been selecting varieties based on the [quantity o ] ruitthey produce, and not on their ability to resist disease, because they didnt need it.

Gliessman cited the enormous economic investment that strawberry armers take on as part o the reason why using pesticides inproduction can be so tempting to a grower.

Tere is so much risk in strawberry production: $25,000 to$30,000 per acre, he said. Almost hal o that is pre harvest. Tats alot o money you gotta get that back somehow.

WITH THE HELPof soil fumigants like methyl bromide increas-ing yields, the Central Coast produces 88 percent of strawberriesin the United States. Strawberry production in the Santa Cruzand Watsonville area is one of the highest per land area in thecountry. Local farms are visible from over 4,000 feet in the air.

Photos by Prescott Watson

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Horseless Equestrian TeamRides Off Campus to Train

Club sport welcomes new coach,access to riding acility in Watsonville

By Natalia EquihuaSports Reporter

Members o the equestrianteam travel 14 miles rom UCSCto Watsonville in order to nd

what they dont have on campus:a training acility, horses and acoach.

Te team hired CassieBelmont, who also coaches theMonte Vista Christian Schoolhorse riding program, this year.

For Martha Gustavson,third year Cowell student andcaptain o the team, this marksan important shi t in the teamsdevelopment.

It makes it easier to be moreo a team, because they can allride together every day, Gustavson said. Tey can work withthe coach as much as they want.

Belmont has o ered theteam the opportunity to use the

schools acility in Watsonville atalmost hal the price o a normallesson, which she said ranges

rom $50 to $60 per day.Here I have a pretty big

program, and so Im o ering [theteam] a reduced ee so they cancome and ride, Belmont said.I have lots o horses. Its a goodpartnership.

Each member o the teampays or his or her own ridinglessons. raining is required inorder to compete at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association(IHSA) championships.

In the IHSA competition,the teams are not asked to own ahorse. Instead, in each show, they are provided with horses ownedby the association. Tis ormo competing means smallerexpenses than in a normal horseshow, in which the rider mustbring a horse to each competition.

While riders und their owntraining, Gustavson said that theequestrian team receives somesupport rom the university,

which pays or transportation,horse show ees and teamapparel.

Other state universities,like UC Davis one o the

ew public universities witha barn had to get rid o more than hal o the schools

horses due to budget cuts,according to the SacramentoBee.

Belmont said schools likeStan ord are hard to competeagainst because they have a

very high quality acility onthe campus and lots o really

abulous horses or their students to practice on.

In a couple o weeks,UCSCs team will ace wellequipped teams like Stan ord,as well as the University o Nevada, Reno and the Uni

versity o Santa Clara, among

others.Second year Sarah Dennis,

a new team member, noted thedi erence in UCSCs equestrianprogram compared to others.

Were one o the only teamsthat doesnt have [an on campus

acility], Dennis said.Formed in 2001 by ormer

College Eight student AllisonAlrich, the team has struggled togrow. UCSCs team remains as

one o only two within the UC along with UC Davis.

We only had six competitors on our team in these shows,against teams with over 40competitors, Alrich said in ane mail. We knew we were abrand new team and we wantedto make a lasting and positiveimpression at the IHSA.

Te team continues to improve, as seen at its last competi

tion, in which it got place nishes: one

varsity rider and theintermediate rider inclass. But the team i

where Belmont thinkbe.

It would help ihave to drive 40 mina lesson, Belmont sgirls could be champcould only practice.

Photos Courtesy of Dana FMARTHA GUSTAVSONjumps at an Intercollegiate Horse Show Associatcompetition on Oct. 16. Since UCSC has no horses or equestrian trainingfacilities, the equestrian team goes to Watsonville to practice for competitio

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THE RISE OF A YOUNG SURFERLocal 13-year-old impresses national sur ng community

On the windy beach at Pleasure Point, NicHdez, 13, stands contemplating the waves. Whileall o his riends are at school taking notes, Hdez is deciding whether it is the right time to get intothe water. He needs to practice those ips ornext weeks competition, because he has made apromise to himsel : He will continue to be the bestamateur sur er in Northern Cali ornia.

Hdez began his career as a competitive sur erat local sur ng contests when he was eight yearsold. Last month, ve years a ter his rst sur , Hdez competed at the ONeill Cold Water Classic atSanta Cruz's Steamer Lane. Te competition isone o the most important international sur ngcompetitions in the area, attracting sur ers rom allaround the world, most o them between 18 and35 years old. Hdez was the youngest competitor.

One other Santa Cruz sur er, 17 year old Nat Young, also took part in the competition. He ad vanced to the semi nals but did not make it pastthat round.

Other sur ers got surprised that I got in,because you need a certain amount o points to getin and I didnt have them, Hdez said. I got in asan alternate someone didnt show up.

Hdez lost in the rst round o this competition,but or him it was a positive experience.

It was hard to compete against [older sur ers],he said. I only got to do one round cause I lost,but it was so un and hard to get waves againstbigger guys.

Although Hdez has been competing or morethan our years in events around the Cali ornia

coast, his commitments have become more demanding with every year.Tis year, hes starting to do some o the

pro junior events, Anita Hdez, his mother, said.

Weve already been to Florida, New York, New Jersey, Huntington Beach and Newport Beach.But de ending a title and becoming a pro es

sional hasnt been without its downsides. ForHdez, becoming a competitive sur er has meantcompeting on weekends, and it required his missing classes on Mondays and Fridays in order to

ul ll his sports commitments.Four years ago, Hdezs parents decided to pull

him out o public school to continue to supporthis development in sur ng.

[Te school] was giving us a hard time, so we decided to start home schooling him, AnitaHdez said.

Hanging out with his riends has become moredi cult, Nic Hdez said, as he is only able to spendtime with them a ter they get out o school.

Coming rom Northern Cali ornia has alsoproved to be a challenge.

Its really hard or Nic to compete with theSouthern Cali ornia crowd, because that is wherethe industry is all located, Anita Hdez said.Tose kids always get a little more advantage

when it comes to exposure and sponsorship.Nevertheless, Nic Hdezs talent has been

enough to capture the attention o many important sur companies. He received a sponsorship

rom Billabong at the age o 10 and now, someo his other sponsors include Oakley, Nike 6.0 andO.A.M.

For Hdez, sur ng may be a golden ticket toother opportunities as well.

In the uture, I would like to go out and sur

good waves, go on sur ng trips and check new places. I want to go to Indonesia, Hdez said.Once you start sur ng and get the hang o it, you

just cant stop.

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NIC HDEZ DIPS IN WATERthree to four times a day ,his sur ng skills. After competing against the worlds prlast month in the Cold Water Classic , Hdez said , It w and hard to get waves against bigger guys.

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Santa Cruz County and UC Santa Cruz experience cutbacks due to fscal c

Jay Arms cant play his music.As a th year in classical

guitar per ormance at UC SantaCruz, he has seen prices rise orindividual lessons. Arms has also

witnessed multiple programs inthe music department, includingthe classical guitar ensemble, eartraining and the piano programget slashed and cut. He is quickly realizing that his circumstancesare not about to change any timesoon.

Te cost o [music] classeshas gone up or me, and thatscoming out o my tuition, Armssaid.

Arms nds himsel caught

up in the budget crisis and eelsespecially targeted as a classical guitar student. Many o the ensembles that he used toparticipate in have either beencut completely rom UCSCcurriculum or dont have enoughspaces to accommodate all o the15 to 20 declared classical guitarstudents on campus.

In 2009, Chancellor GeorgeBlumenthal announced that theuniversity would be taking a hit

upwards o $28.7 million, an approximately 20 percent reductionin unding. Tose budget cuts

were passed down to the separatedivisions, including the musicand art division, which was toldto retro t the music department.

Graduate student CamilleChitwood, who studies conducting at the university, commentedon how the inaccessability toteachers and lessons could inhibitstudents who want to embark ona career in music.

Its a hard career as it is, because were always going to haveto rely on outside [resources o ]

unding, Chitwood said.

Budget cuts to music programs havent just a ected theuniversity but programs in thecity o Santa Cruz and across thenation as well. axes that would

und music programs in SantaCruz elementary schools werereduced by roughly $500,000.

As a result, teachers jobs arebeing cut, and they are a raid that

without proper instruction, students wont be interested in thearts anymore. Because students

learning improves with art andmusic in their basic curriculum,these cuts are having adversee ects on students academic andsocial skills.

Arms has tried to nd waysto get around music unding andclass cuts at UCSC to little avail.

A lot o us got stuck with Jazz Big Band, in which thereare only two open slots a quarter,and the Early Music Consort,Arms said. So what we do now is play in a chamber music groupthat we ormed as a quartet. Teproblem is we dont get as muchtime with an instructor as when

we play with a large group.

By playing in a larger ensemble, students get about our hoursa week with an instructor. In thesmaller ensembles, like the oneArms participates in, they only get about one.

Tats not really enough timeto learn how to play with a group

well, so were just trying to gureit out ourselves, he said.

Te piano program hasalso been cut back, and thepiano placement exam that Arms

would have had to taentered UCSC a yeano longer required ing class. Arms saiddisappointing becauskills he would havethat exam could havlater on in his music

Ensembles in thepartment have been hard by a lack o utwo largest ensemblthe concert choir anensemble, were on thchopping block unti

unding was made athe end o last schoo

Tose bridge und

posed to bridge thethrough bad times, department chair anconcert choir Amy B

Te unding comesurplus pool money over in the division o the school year. T

way to determine iany longer than one two large ensembleseventually anyway.

Music departme

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STUDENTS IN THEwind ensemble practice

four hours a week. Althoughthe ensemble avoided

elimination last year, budgetcuts continue to threaten the

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expensive to run, Beal said. You

need so much extra equipment.People say that the only thingmore expensive than a musicdepartment is a medical school.

Beal says that a main reasonthe department is expensive torun is because all music studentsreceive one on one tutoring during their time at UCSC. eachersare a large expense, and so theirhours have been cut, making itharder or students to get therequired amount o instructionneeded to graduate.

Chitwood said the cuts makeit more competitive or students

vying or those ew hours o instruction.

O course priority goes topeople who have already beenhere and have been taking lessons, which also makes it a littleun air, she said. And I know ora act that there are some teachers teaching students that theyreonly supposed to teach or a hal hour or an hour, because they know thats what the studentsreally need.

Beal said that reducinginstruction hours is one o many strategies or dealing with the

unding crisis.

Layout design, layo s, reduced hours thats how wevedealt with the budget, but thatsonly part o it, Beal said.

As department chair, Beal wasa part o redesigning the musicdepartments curriculum or this

year in a way that she hopes willsave money. Te department hasput classes, especially ensembles,on rotation. Now, instead o ensembles being o ered every

quarter or every year, they are o

ered every ew quarters or every ew years.Beal is trying to make the

most out o restructuring by dealing with the budget crisis asa creative opportunity or a new,and hope ully better, curriculum.She thinks the department issecure or the time being.

Tings are stable, she said.Tings were bad last year, butnow they really have stabilizedand tightened. Its been anincredibly pain ul process, but itlooks like its going to be better.

She also hopes that part o the $3 billion granted to the UCsystem or the 20112012 school

year makes its way to the musicdepartment.

Wind ensemble director RobKlevan has a positive outlook as

well.Im hoping the budgets will

improve and, you know, Impretty optimistic, because it happened or us this year, Klevansaid. It happened at the lastminute, but we dont care. Welltake it.

Although the wind ensemble was not cut or this school year, Klevan has ewer students

participating because o circulating rumors that the ensemble would be cut, he said. Studentssigned up or other c lasses andthen werent able to change theirschedules when they ound outthe ensemble was going to be o

ered. Wind ensemble is down to60, but it ended last school year

with close to 80 students.Klevan has been teaching at

UCSC or 13 years and says he

stopped trying to recommend tothe department that the schoolhave two ensembles, one basicand one more prestigious, eventhough many colleges acrossthe United States do. He knowstheres no money or it.

It is un ortunate that we havethese unding restraints becausetheres so many things that couldbe done here that would openup new doors or repertoire,Klevan said. We have the aculty to do it, theres interest rom thestudents, but theres just a lack o

unding.Elementary through high

school art programs dont look any better. Signi cant cutsto music programs have notremained at the collegiate level,but have a ected public schoolsK 12 throughout the country as

well.Recently, band was cut com

pletely rom elementary schoolsin the Santa Cruz County School District. Sandy Cherk,

ormer arts coordinator or Bay View Elementary, said she waslaid o because o a lack o

unding and that art and musicteachers at Bay View arenow struggling to nd work teaching.

Te teachers areoverwhelmed,because now they are teachingmultiple levels aday, Cherk said.Teir hours havebeen cut, and thestudents arentgetting as muchinstruction.

Tese cutbacks are a resulto a number o nancial actors.Over the past ew years, unding

rom the Packard Foundation, which has been o ering grantsto Santa Cruz, Monterey andSanta Clara Counties since 1997,has shi ted ocus and no longero ers money or art and musicin schools. Parcel taxes P and B2,initiated by Santa Cruz voters topick up where the Packard Foundation le t o , have been reduced

rom approximately $1,635,347a year in 2005 to only about$1,103,256 now.

Te main concern or Cherk

is that the education elementary students are receiving now, a terthe cuts, is less than what is essential.

Its not providing all thetools necessary to give kids whomight have a talent or artthe chance to start early,Cherk said. Tey cutkindergarten classesand those seempretty important.


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USMC at UCSC: A Paradigm Shift?

U.S. Marine Corps o cercandidate Andrew Perlik standsat attention in ront o his peers.Its 7 a.m. Te early morning ogis breaking and his breath is heavy

rom all the running theyve donethus ar. Reaching deep insidehimsel to draw all the air his lungscan muster, he bellows out at thecandidates, What makes the grassgrow?

Blood, blood, blood! the othercandidates return, their voicesechoing across the empty EastField.

Joggers pause at the roaring, startledthat the quiet tranquility o the morninghas been shattered. Tey stare in a daze, amix o con usion and disbelie at the sceneun olding be ore them.

At a nod rom their candidate platoonsergeant, Colin Campbell, Perlik bellowsonce more, UC Santa Cruz, ready to

ght, ready to kill!

A hearty, guttural Oorah! is returned,a common call phrase among Marines,and the candidates are dismissed rom themornings physical training.

Its easy to see how the Marine Corpsculture, centered around its combat in antry and substituting common words likeyes or kill, would have di culty meshing with the ree spirited, counter culturalUCSC campus. Te tension, having aredup times be ore in clashes between military recruiters and the student body, wasle t to ester without proper closure.

Tey have no o cial club, organization or group recognized by UC SantaCruz. Brought together by their commoninterest and a desire to serve their country,Campbell and Perlik are members o ahard lined ew on campus that are working or more than just a degree at the endo their our years.

I had considered grad school, but Istopped and asked mysel , What are theexperiences I want in li e? Perlik said.Te Marine Corps culture, being thesmallest [o the branches o the U.S. military], combat specialization attracted me.

Yet, as made evident by the display atOPERS, candidates at UCSC nd them

selves awash in the anti military sentimentthat has been present on the campus sincestudent activism in recent years.

In 2005, the student led organizationStudents Against War held a protest thatreached a evered pitch among the hundreds o students. Tis ultimately drovemilitary o cer recruiters o campus. In2006 and again in 2007, the protest wasrepeated, with recruiters retreating romthe campus or never showing up at all.

Te on campus activism spurred discussion and urther action nationally onboth sides.

David Zlutnick, a ormer member o SAW, said similar groups and organizations ormed in colleges and universitiesnationwide to push or a ban on schoolrecruiting.

As a result o the pressure, legal battlesover the application o the SolomonAmendment ared up in the SupremeCourt in March o 2006. Te amendmentallows the government to deny schoolsand their students ederal unding i military recruiters are barred rom theircampuses. Allegations that the Pentagon

was spying on SAW while collecting

documentation on its members arose. UCSanta Cruz was even labeled as a cesspoolo liberalism by one commentator.

College students aiming to becomeMarine o cers must pass through the arduous trials o O cer Candidates School,the summer boot camp or becomingo cers. Students involved in every level o the program are re erred to as candidate.

OCS candidates at UCSC ace stressrom three ronts, not only rom being in

college and the Marine Corps, but alsoby the misunderstanding their peers haveo the military and o the program, saidEitan Sheer, a third year Cowell studentand OCS candidate.

[Unlike other universities,] the military is not as appreciated here becausestudents dont know what we eel, Sheersaid. Tey cant relate to what were goingthrough. How could they? Nothing they do is comparable to what [OCS candidates] must overcome.

Candidates condition themselvesphysically and mentally or summersaway at OCS. Long hours, hard runs,

weight training and classroom time withtheir more knowledgeable peers and theoccasional o cer de ne the candidates

relationship to the Corps.USMC Capt. Leo abilin, the o cer

selection o cer responsible or the oversight o the candidates at UCSC, ndsthat there is no certain type o person whoapplies or their program.

O cer Candidate School o ersour nations premier leadership trainingopportunity, abilin said in an e mail.Whave candidates who have a longlegacy o amily with military service,and we have candidates who dont know anyone who has served in the military. We

have male and emale candidethnic diversities.

Over up to two summers adidates are graded on numerotests including general militaland navigation and weapons

Tey are also graded on numeractivities including the physic a combination o timed thsit up and pull up tests cotest, obstacle course and endu

Unlike participants in simiprograms, such as the Reserve

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EITAN SHEER,a third-year Cowell student is one of the few OCS candidaUCSC. He said he would like to see relations between the military and thecommunity improve.

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raining Corps (RO C) ound at othercolleges and universities nationwide,candidates like Perlik are not obligatedcontractually to serve. Rather, the commission into the Marine Corps is only extended to those who not only pass OCSbut graduate rom college as well. Candidates may walk away at any time up untiltheir commission, leaving only the mostdedicated, motivated candidates committed to leading Marines.

Colin Campbell, a UCSC alumnusawaiting his commission, re ected uponthe grueling experiences he had at OCS

with a smile.You can expect three to our hours o

sleep daily the entire time you are there, atmost, Campbell said. [Te drill instructors] dog you everywhere, all the time.

Tey are, hands down, the scariest uckingguys youll ever meet in your li e. Its themost un youll never want to have again.

Ultimately, success ully passing OCSis but one hurtle in a long line o hurtlesto ollow a ter graduating college. Monthso ollow up training combined with theexperiences at OCS mold the edglingcollege student into a pro essional leadero Marines.

Capt. abilin also underscored the importance o displaying admirable leader

ship above all else at OCS.[Te candidates] ability to make

solid decisions under duress and the moststress ul conditions are an important parto the evaluation process, abilin said. Acandidate may be physically t and mentally prepared, but i he or she cannot lead,they will not be a Marine o cer.

Te Mountain View O cer SelectionO ce, which oversees a wide variety o schools in addition to UCSC, including Stan ord, Santa Clara University, CalPoly and all o the junior colleges in itsarea, only sends 25 to 30 candidates toOCS each year. abilin said the selectionprocess is extremely competitive.

Last year, there was only one UC SantaCruz candidate selected: Several weremedically disquali ed be ore their applications could be submitted while others

were rolled over to be considered or theollowing OCS availability.

OCS attrition rate can uctuate rom year to year based on weather, sta andcandidates. ypically, however, over 30percent o the candidates who go will notcomplete OCS or a variety o reasons.

OCS candidate Sheer Yet said wordscannot ully describe the hardships elt

and aced by those going to OCS.Its impossible to grasp precisely how hard OCS is or someone who hasntgone, Sheer said. For those that have,they know precisely what I mean. Its allhard.

Although Students Against War(SAW) has dissolved over time, the e ects

rom the active years protests and demonstrations are still elt by the OCS candidates today.

We wanted to propagate a local levelo change to show the nation that i what

we were trying to do could be done here, we could apply pressure to a ect thesystem at large, said David Zlutnick, a2006 UCSC alumnus and ormer membero SAW. Te university was meant to discuss issues, not support an institution witha proven track record o taking peoples

reedoms, sovereignty, sel determinationand, in many cases, their lives.

OCS candidate Campbell has a di erent account o the protests.

You couldnt believe what was happening, he said. Tere were guys out there

with signs and hoods chanting it wasaw ul. It wasnt good by any means.

Even now, OCS candidates Andrew Perlik and i any Dang express rustration in having to de end their stanceagainst many o their peers. Dang saidthat while other issues, such as the

economy, have distracted some, attitudestowards the military have hardly changed.Its hard to de end sometimes. Its like

talking to a brick wall, she said. I keephearing things like Youll be a pawn o the government and that my choice is amistake. Its just one o those things I justhave to sit back and let the stigma run itscourse. o me, my choice is admirable, andits rustrating to hear people just trashthose who work so hard to de end thiscountry.

Perlik said he looks to his amily orsupport.

I nd mysel constantly de ending my choice, at UCSC or anywhere else, Perlik said. Its a pretty contentious matter. Idont really bring it up in conversations.Im not ashamed o my decision, just tiredo doing the same dance.

For candidates who must already overcome the enormous physical and mental

hurdles imposed by virtue o training tobecome Marine Corps o cers, dealing with the UCSC community is just anotherburden.

Tere is no relationship between theMarine Corps and UCSC, said OCScandidate Sheer. But I dont believe thecampus should be viewed as anti military as a whole. I there were a way or us to

acilitate knowledge to the student community doing things not connected torecruiting theyd see were not all aboutstealing kids to the dark side.

Visible change in attitudesthe establishment in 2008 o erans Educations eam Suppoand the UCSC chapter o Stuans o America, may yet indihow the campus community cmilitarys presence.

Politics pro essor Daniel Wormer member o Faculty A

speculates that there are a num

reasons why the campus has csaid the election o PresidentObama in 2008, the o cial cothe Iraq War and the mountinnationwide to repeal the militAsk, Dont ell policy may bresponsible.

I think there are still plenhere at UC Santa Cruz who mconcerned or distrust the mili

City on a Hill Press conducted asurvey among 25 UC Santa Cruzstudents o diferent genders,ages and colleges regarding thecurrent UCSC communitys takeon the military.

Te military should not recruit romhigh schools and colleges. Strongly agree: 24%Somewhat agree: 24%Somewhat disagree: 40%Strongly disagree: 12%Dont know: 0%

Joining the military is a mistake. Tere are better ways o getting what youwant. Strongly agree: 4%Somewhat agree: 16%Somewhat disagree: 36%Strongly disagree: 36%Dont know: 8%

Military recruiters should not be present at UCSC career airs. Strongly agree: 8%Somewhat agree: 12%

Somewhat disagree: 56%Strongly disagree: 20%Dont know: 4%

You have seriously considered enlisting/ commissioning into one o the brancheso the military. Strongly agree: 8%Somewhat agree: 12%Somewhat disagree: 24%Strongly disagree: 52%Dont know: 4%

UPON COMPLETION,candidates at OCS receive a uniquely designed shhighlighting their experiences at OCS, as well as their immersion into its l

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OUR LENSPhotography & Words by

Isaac Miller

Tere exists at UCSC a smallcommunity o spear shers. O tencomprising marine biology students

and SCUBA enthusiasts, theseaquatic minded students traversethe Cali ornia coast in search o rock sh and Perch. Having only heard stories o this, I ventured withrecent marine bio graduate BrianRepp up Highway 1 to GreyhoundRock County Park, located justseven miles past Davenport tosee or mysel . Spear in hand,

Brian marches con dently intothe oamy sur . Te three prongedspear he carries is propelled like aslingshot and has surgical tubingthat stretches across the length o his arm. When released, the tubing

ings the spear orward. A terseveral minutes, Brian emergesempty handed, de eated by therough, breaking waves. Brian didnot catch anything that day, butcome calmer waters, hell be back,spear in hand.

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Art a ects the kids in how they learn, cognitively and socially and in every other way.

Elementary schools besides Bay View havebeen able to salvage art and music programsthrough active parent involvement. WestlakeElementary School is one that has been able to

do just this.Dorothy Franks, arts coordinator at Westlake, said that her school undraises or di

erent types o art enrichment, whereas otherschools in the district are not capable o doingthis because they dont have parent bodies thatare willing or able to do the same.

Its a little bit o a political hot potato rightnow, Frank said. Money was cut quite a bit.

Vocal music is now only o ered one hour a week or ourth and th grade, whereas it usedto be o ered two hours a week or ourth graders, and th graders were o ered the choicebetween vocal, strings and band. Now they are only o ered vocal, and even that provideslimited instruction.

What is happening at the elementary schools will a ect us in a ew years, saidChristina Latham, band director at Santa Cruz High School. My job is not a ected now, butit could be in the uture because i theres notstudents to take band, then theres no studentsto teach.

Latham is worried that without properinstruction, students will not be interested in

taking band in high school at all. As o this year, two o ve music teachers at the elementary and middle school levels were laid o , andhours o instruction have signi cantly dropped.

Although the arts are still surviving in theSanta Cruz County School District, UCSC

graduate student Chitwood does not see aneasy way out o this crisis any time soon.Until the economy o Cali ornia turns

around, I just dont think it can turn aroundhere either, she said.

Chitwood adds that she is proud o theaculty at UC Santa Cruz and hopes that the

department is not hit any harder than it already has been.

It would be a huge shame i any o [theaculty] were cut, Chitwood said. I think it s

terrible that many o their hours have been cutalready.

Wind ensemble director Klevan believesthat public school districts like Santa Cruz target arts un airly, and that the city has not yetrealized that it is a mistake to do that.

I could go on and on about how wrong itis, Klevan said. In Cali ornia, we havent realized how arts can a ect academics and othersocial aspects o a students li e and development. We continue to cut programs. Its hard

or me to understand. My grandchildren willnot have the same quality education that I had

when I was their age, and thats sad.

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said. But now the suspicionsabout the military its extended tours, psychological andphysical damage to our soldiers,all the carnage now its moredirected as concern or someone

who they know is in or joiningthe military.

Wirls notes that in hisclasses, some o which revolvearound the military and its postCold War era policies, severalstudents are members o thearmed orces or in the process o

joining.Te class doesnt become

hostile or ocused on them, Wirls said. o the contrary, Iobserve the students respectingtheir point o view, which is notalways positive precisely becausethey themselves were in the

military. With the dissolution o bothStudents Agaisnt War and Faculty Against War, it may be that,at least or now, both parties areextending an olive branch toone another.

Capt. abilin describes his

experience with UCnothing but pro e

Volunteering tomilitary, especially

when the nation is atough decision, aTe candidates we hUCSC and all o ouhave my respect o

or their decision tcountry and to honoas Marines.

OCS candidate Slooking orward tohis training this sumpotential hope in esstronger ties betweecandidates and UCS

While I dont estudent body to comderstand what it is wcan come to recogn

association with theCorps is just as proand reasonable as acareer choice, Sheuniversity is meantknowledge and undand that is still key

what the case is now

OCS on Campus

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A combination o prints, picturesand paintings rom the private collection o UC Santa Cruzs Dean o ArtsDavid Yager awaits art enthusiasts atthe Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery.

Te gallerys current show, entitledHuman Conditions, eatures a variety o artists among them Ansel Adams,Diane Arbus and Robert Mapplethorpe and showcases di erent portrayals o human experiences.

Among the works on display arehumorous Reagan era re erences,eye catching experimental pieces and aportrait drawn entirely with an artiststhumbprints. Each work o art is alsoaccompanied by a summary written by amember o the UCSC art department.

Yager accumulated his vast collectiono artwork during his time working atthe University o South Florida and atthe University o Maryland.

Angelica Alamo, a Sesnon Gallery employee, said that the exhibit has

received plenty o supportive eedback.A lot o people have had a positive

response to the show, Alamo said.

Tere are a wide variety o themespresent in all o the pieces. My avoritesare the photographs by Diane Arbus.

Fourth year art major Amanda Nazzal described the show as random.

But thats what the human condition is, she said. Its random.

Gallery curator Shelby Grahamspoke enthusiastically about Yagersaccumulation o such a vast and diversecollection o artwork.

Tis is really an incredible collection, she said, pointing out images in

which cadavers were used as models,and a pop up book done entirely insilhouettes.

Graham discussed the wide selectiono mixed media pieces represented inthe art show, including etchings, photographs and lithographs.

Tis is an opportunity or people tosee a variety o examples o mixed media, and this collection is truly impressive, Graham said.

Te Sesnon Gallery also hosts paneldiscussions to encourage community involvement in events and to draw at

tention to the importance o the arts inthe UCSC community. One discussion was held on Oct. 19 on the topic o artcollecting. Te next will ocus on masterprint makers and will be held Nov. 10.

Te discussion panels acilitateknowledge o the arts, and the gallery employees hope to shed light on theprintmaking process and what it entails.

An exciting aspect o this exhibitioninvolves the artistic process o imagemaking and collaborations with limitededition prints, Graham said.

aking into account the overall positive response o gallery visitors, Sesnonemployee Alamo said that HumanConditions may have set a new campusstandard.

People have commented on how this is one o the best exhibits theyveseen at UCSC, she said.

Human Conditions will be ondisplay at the Sesnon Gallery throughNov. 20.

Honing in on the Human ConditionPrivate collection rom Dean o Arts eatures multiple artists

By Veronica GloverArts & Entertainment Reporter

SHELBY GRAHAM, the woman behinHuman Conditions , discusses the awith interested visitors. The exhibit codifferent techniques and media , rangmassive prints to a photograph wrappa coffee can.

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By Blair StenvickPolitics and Culture Editor

&By Maja Vojnovic

Politics and Culture Reporter

PROP 19 DID NO PASS

Owning any amount o mari juana or personal use remainsillegal, though medicinal useis still permitted. Tis meansthat, although cannabis use isprevalent in Cali ornia, the stategovernment, and by extent, theUC system, cannot tax the statesbiggest cash crop.

PROP 20 PASSED

Te power to recon gure voting districts has moved romthe Legislature to the CitizensRedistricting Commission. Tiscommission comprises Democrats, Republicans and Independents. Te aim o Proposition 20is to eliminate gerrymandering,the practice o drawing votingdistricts speci cally designedto avor certain candidates. Tepropositions passing has nosigni cant e ect on the statebudget.

PROP 21 DID NO PASS

Vehicle registration ees willremain the same, and state parksand beaches will not receivethe extra unding they need.However, the state will continuespending about $200 million a

year to maintain the parks.

PROP 22 PASSED

Tere is now a stricter hold onmoney intended or transportation services. Whereas be ore,legislators had the power torepurpose the money or educa

tion i they elt it necessary, thatexibility no longer exists. Tismeans that receiving adequate

unding or the UC could beeven harder.

PROP 23 DID NO PASS

Voters preserved AB 32, a law passed by the state legislature in

2006 aimed at reducing greenhouse gases by charging companies that emit them. Tis meansthat Cali ornia will remainamong the states with the mostprogressive environmental policy in the country.

PROP 24 DID NO PASS

Te ailure o the propositionmaintains current tax laws thatallow businesses to use their losses to reduce taxable pro ts andtrans er tax credits to a partnerbusiness are two o the recentchanges. Businesses operating inmore than one state will continue to decide how they are taxedin Cali ornia.

PROP 25 PASSED

Tis proposition will lower the vote needed to pass the statebudget rom the current twothirds to a simple majority, 50percent plus one. State lawmakers will permanently lose salary plus living and travel expenses

or every day the budget is late. Tis will stop opposition party lawmakers rom controlling thebudget. Te proposition doesnot change the two thirds voterequired or lawmakers to raisetaxes.

PROP 26 PASSED

Many state and local ees willnow require a two thirds vote

rom lawmakers or local votersto go into e ect. A ected eesinclude those regarding health,

environmental and economicconcerns. Be ore the propositionpassed, politicians could avoidthe required two thirds vote ontaxes by calling them ees. Enacting the proposition will closethat loophole. Te propositionkeeps state environmental andconsumer protection laws intact.

Election Review:

THE VOTESfrom Tuesday s election are in , and four of the nine propositions on the ballot The results will affect social , economic and environmental issues in the state.

Ra

California Proposition

PROP 27 DID NO PASS

Te job o drawing districts or state o ces will remain in the hands o the Citizens Redistrimission. In 2008, Propositon 11 created the commission to establish new guidelines or drawmaps. Proposition 27 would have undone this change. Te ailure o the proposition means thredistricting costs will not result.

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We did it! Tese three simple words echoed

around the state and beyond on Monday night. Tey resonated rom the shores o McCovey Cove in San Francisco to theballpark in Arlington, exas and woundtheir way through the bars and boulevardso Santa Cruz. Te improbable had at long

last become a reality: Te San FranciscoGiants had won the 2010 World Series.I ound mysel repeating that three

word phrase over and over to mysel asI stood in a deserted downtown parkinggarage with my riend Michelle around10 oclock that evening. We had soughtout this spot o seclusion to celebrate a

victory over hal a century in the making by passing a bottle o $6 champagneback and orth, taking turns toasting theplayers who per ormed best in the Giantspostseason run. We gave kudos to Cody Ross and Edgar Renteria, lovingly laudedthe pitching sta , and heaped accolades onthe coaching sta and ront o ce management.

As our joyous voices bounced o theconcrete walls and into the quiet solitudeo this early November night, I oundmysel thinking back over a span o eight

years, to the point in my li e where my orange and black anaticism rst beganuntil now, and about all the people alongthe way who encouraged and tolerated my passionate and sometimesdys unctional love a air with this baseballteam. Tey deserve a toast as much asthese players do, I thought. Because, as

silly as it may sound to the casual an, thischampionship means as much to the players as it does to the diehard ans like me,the hundreds o thousands o people whostood by their team amidst all the heartache and torture o the last several decadeso Giants baseball.

For those o you who may not be privy to the Giants history since the teammoved to the Bay Area rom New York in 1958, it can be summarized rather succinctly with one word: zero. Tats because,despite elding some o the best playersin the history o baseball Willie Mays,

Willie McCovey and Barry Bonds, just toname a ew this ranchise just couldnt

win a national title on the West Coast. Te ew times the Giants did manage tomake the World Series since the westwardrelocation, they were always sent homeempty handed, thanks to some cruel twisto ate a ball that was hit six inches toolow, an unprecedented bullpen collapse, atragic earthquake that delayed the WorldSeries or over a week.

But, despite all the so close but no

championship seasons, as well as the multitude o losing years, so many ans stayedtrue to the Giants ranchise. Te sloganWait till next year became a mantra o the loyal and diehard spectators.

Tese are ans like my ninth gradebiology teacher Owen Lucey, who stuck

with the team since the Giants rst cameout west when he was in middle school. Ispent countless a ternoons in his classroom discussing the previous nights gameor evaluating an o season acquisition, and

when he retired at the end o my junior year o high school, his parting words tome were, Ill be thinking o you when[the Giants] nally win it all.

Sure enough, I received an e mailrom him on Monday night that read:

Te agony began when I was in sixthgrade and nally ended tonight. [It was]certainly an emotional evening or me Itruly believed the Giants would never wina World Championship in my li etime.

But, i a li etime o loyalty deserves atoast, so does the development o andomas a means o getting closer to people youcare about. So heres a toast to my parents,

who at rst tolerated my obsession withbaseball and eventually got caught up inthe craze themselves. I loved seeing how emotionally invested my parents becamein every game this postseason as they wentalong or the ride with me. My dad suddenly began texting me in game commentary as he watched rom home, while my mom started high ving ellow orangeand black clad ans in the grocery storea ter a win. It elt great that they started to

support the team as a way to support meas their daughter, then ell in love with thescrappy Giants themselves.

Speaking o how baseball can bringpeople together, heres a toast to my olderbrother Ryan, who has accompanied me toroughly 20 Giants games over the past ew

years, including the rst game o this years World Series in San Francisco. A &Park was the backdrop or the start o oursibling relationship back in 2007 a ter ali etime o estrangement (see the previ

ous column For the Love oOur mutual love o baseball a stepping stone to help buildrelationship we have today, anhave asked or a better personavigate through the ups and baseball season and to celebraonship with.

All these thoughts continunate in my mind as Michelle up the evening on the ront pBottles, tipping the remnants pagne into paper cups that she

rom the restaurant. As Giantto trickle out o bars at closinleaned back in our chairs or toast.

Heres a toast to all the SaGiants ans in Santa Cruz andthe nation who endured hal torture and stuck by this teamall, I crowed.

Because, when it came dowthis championship wasnt merobtaining bragging rights ovethe baseball world or a year.

a testament to all the diehard team who took decades o ridother spectators o the sport wthem that their team was cursless abomination, a train wrecto happen. Tis was or all the dreamers and me.

o the World Series! Miout, clinking her cup o bubb

Ill drink to tha

By Julia ReisManaging Editor

Soaking in aChampagneShower

One Giants an toasts the night away in honor o the 2010 championsIllustration by

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Column

Digital Killed the Video StarsWhy the demise o the video store matter

W hat scares you more about a bomb beingunder a dinner table? Not knowing its thereand having it blow? Or knowing about itand waiting anxiously or it to detonate?

Existential quandaries like these arent typical or apre teen. Teyre also not politically wise or a MiddleEasterner. But growing up, I was surrounded by lmsthat served as some bizarre window into the real world or at least my vague perceptions o it. Because o this, Ive adjusted to view these questions as being justas, i not more, important than what to eat or dinner, or when my deadline is or a column.

Tese questions came rom the movies, but these movies came romthe video store. And the video store is slowly going the way o the dodo but thats the price you pay or convenience.

From battle wounds to Communist take overs, red has always been a color o culturaldread. Now, the Redbox and the red Net ix envelope bring about a new threat. Tispast September, Blockbuster Video led or bankruptcy, and the company has closeda reported 1,061 stores since 2008. Hollywood Video nds itsel in a worse situation.

Mom and pop video stores even deeper down the hole.So then is the only way to preserve these places to remember them? Are these stores

really even worth remembering? Te video store can be a cold place. Vast, o ten harshly lit and constantly air conditioned, but they o ered us something that ew places could:escapism and enlightenment in unison.

And while lm can o ten bask in elitism, a video store was an equalizer, a place toperuse the latest and greatest the lm world had to o er, or the cream o the crap thatthe industry tried its best to orget. Te video store was the un o lm made tangible.

Ive written many t imes about this vague concept o connection. O how we relateto one another through vessels we never really pay attention to. So allow me to doubledip this chip and declare that the video store is, perhaps, one o the oremost exampleso locations as the catalyst or connection. Record stores can be exercises in pretension.Book stores only operate in hushed tones. But video stores provide release.

Tis is personal, o course. My mother, who raised me as a single mom or a goodnine or so years, used to take me with her to the ca she once owned. But, as is the case

or most young ones, a carbonated beverage or two could only hold my interest or solong. And it wasnt long until I ound mysel spending inordinate amounts o time at the

video store next door, which became a daycare o sorts. Tere, I was sheltered. I maderiends with the regular customers. Chad, the man most o ten behind the counter, would

talk to me not as a kid, but as a ellow an. We would talk about movies. We would watch movies. He took me seriously because he saw what I see now: that regardless o our age gap, we were both products o the video store. It held the same wonder or himas it did or me. We were the same: We were ans. He would restock shelves I would

wander the endless aisles o cardboard slipcases, each adorned with a larger and largeroating head, always culminating in Sandra Bullocks hilariously bloated ace on the

cover or Te Net.

Tose covers were art pieces in a museum. O course, that is an exaggerahowever, is not an exaggeration: Video stores are museums. Both preserveboth o er us shelter when its raining. Honestly, what else is a museum go

So should we keep the video store because every time I walk in, I eel again? Because I remember Chad? No, that would be oolish but itd bthe general public.

What video stores do did is bridge the gap between art and consuits gi t. We have the chance to experience any lm at any time. Consider sgenerations most well established lmmakers the Scorseses and the are the by product o the video store, the prime examples o its notable apeople who rented movies also started making them.

Tere are also, o course, the practicalities. What to do when you want toously rent a movie without the hindsight o having added it to your queueprior? rue, instant streaming has taken the world by storm, but partaking iby using the very tool that you should be escaping rom negates the experi your parents started listening to rap music.

But, since the overwhelming desire or convenience killed the video stlet inconvenience be the reason or its demise. We should love the video so its insistence on late ees. In spite o its requirement that we be physicorder to interact. In spite o its tendency to judge us or a bizarre urge to Katherine Heigl movie that weve already seen.

We should love it because it loves us.Because a recommendation rom a stranger can lead to something else.are what we watch, and a lm watched separately or together a ects us, an

want a break rom lm, we require esh, and the other way around as wel Tere could be a moment at zero hour, right be ore the nal store doors

we change our minds. Tat the owner o the store turns around a ter lockintime to nd the entire town standing there, ready to rent, save his businessnect with each other. Tis is possible. Unlikely, but possible. Ive seen it hap

I saw it at the movies.

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The Loudest People in the RoomWhy the line between media and news needs sharpening. And whos to b

I ts the end o the world. Do we wantto laugh or know whats happening?How about both? How about neither? elevision personalities Jon Stewart

and Stephen Colbert held the Rally toRestore Sanity and/or Fear Oct. 30, an

event made in response to Glenn BecksRestoring Honor rally. Stewart and Colberts rally, which started separately andeventually uni ed, is serious about how unserious American politics are a bizarre act o pop political per ormance art.

For them, Becks rally was a joke. Teirsis the punchline, and the only way to ully understand the inherit ridiculousness o his event is to host one in similar terrain,only with sel awareness.

Heres the thing, though: When youare mobilizing the youth, when youvebecome the beacon o bipartisan commentary, when youve preached detachment

rom political ideology, youve becomesomething aside rom an entertainer:

youre a pundit.So what becomes o the satire? I satire

is the art o saying something ake andpretending its real in order to make apoint, then what do we make o a rally that is real but pretends its ake in orderto make a point?

Tis paradox is a problem. But its indicative o a larger one: We cant di eren

tiate between what is opinion and what isnews. I your job is to entertain by making

un o political rallies, what happens when you then throw a political rally? How are we le t to distinguish between entertainment and news?

Te days o Cronkite are gone. We ignore the unbias voices o reason in avor o commentators who use extremity as a way to gain trust. Te layman logic is this: Telouder you are, the angrier you are. And i

youre angry, then you must be right. So what is the di erence between Beck andStewart, especially now that theyre both

yelling? Stewart is making un o thosepeople, sure. Hes reminded us on many occasions that his show is meant to beentertainment, that its merely making uno things that actually matter. His goal isto criticize the loud olks [who] over the

years dominated our national conversationon our most important issues.

But media is not news. News is notmedia. Tey can throw parties at the sametime, but neither should be attending theothers. When a right wing commentatorstarts commentating, are they speaking onbehal o their party or their opinion?

Stewart and Colbert are supposed tobe are the types o pundits who know that pundits are meaningless. But whilethey think theyre the answer, Stewart and

Colbert are, in actuality, symptoms o theproblem, where we dont take our politicians rhetoric seriously, so we instead turnto our comedians looking or that seriousness. What we need is distance. We needa gap between the people like Stewart

who understand the intricacies o satirebecause theyve made a career o pointingout the existent ridiculousness in nonsatirists. Tis is the blending o new andold media o journalists who are hereto tell a story and personalities striving or

viral in amy. Tey arent the news theyre the

reactions to how others are dispensingthe news. Teyre the critique. Te commentators theyre making un o shouldntbe considered primary news sources. Butthe comedians making un shouldnt beholding political rallies. Heres what weresupposed to know: Te right is crazy andalways yells. Te le t is just as crazy, andsometimes yells even louder. Te middlestays cynical.

Yet this sudden surge o right wingspectacle commentators is a response toColbert and Stewart having become media messiahs or the le t . Teyve dominated the liberal youth, and the only way to

ght re is wi th louder re. So are Colbertand Stewart commenting on a monsterthat theyve essentially helped build? Is

Colbert helping their cause oit? And, most importantly, arequestions worth asking in a topolitical climate?

Weve become an era unabguish between antasy and re

went rom living on arms to and now our in ormation into spectacle, all in the hope

will be its saving grace. We kat something thats wrong, budone, how do we know whathow do we know how to x i

Stewart and Colbert. Beckmann. Tese are not journalistsnot political gures. Tey are eers: clowns in three piece sudi erence is that two o themand two o themdont. So why is everyone soloud?

SLUGCOMICSBy Rachel Edelstein

Illustration by Rachel Edelstein

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HELL ASKED YOU?!

What song is stuck in your headright now, and why is it so sticky?

Compiled by Morgan Grana & Julia Reis

Anything by Katy Perry. Its sticky or obvious

reasons. eenage Dream is my jam. JASPER HI CHEN

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Paper Tin Walls by Modest Mou

combination o the excellent guitacharged with emotion.MA

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