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 Public Discourse
STAFF
Editors-in-Chief
Public Discourse
Jenny Cain
Arianna Puopolo
Has social media changed the way you date? If so, how?
Compiled by Rosela Arce & Nick Paris
Managing Editors
Julia Reis
Alejandro Trejo

Copy
Melinda Széll, chief
Nicole Hardin
Molly Kossoff
Rachel Singer

Production
Tess Goodwin, design director
Emily Chisholm
Hilli Ciavarello
Samved Sangameswara

Campus News
Arianna Puopolo, editor “People just follow movies and advertisements “No, it’s still old-fashioned. Even with media,
Julie Eng, editor and see what they’re being shown in the you’re still meeting people out in public, so I
Rosela Arce media, and really adapt to that.” don’t think the media has anything to do
Rosa Castañeda
Elaine Ejigu with it.”
Kara Foran
Laurel Fujii SHOSHIE KUPFERMAN CAMERON SEFTON
THIRD-YEAR, STEVENSON FIRST-YEAR, COWELL
City News
Blair Hartgraves Stenvick, editor PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH SCIENCES
Mikaela Todd, editor
Chelsea Hawkins
Stephanie Meade
Michael Mott
Nikki Pritchard

Sports
Joey Bien-Kahn, editor
Elizabeth Arakelian
Sasha Yovanovich

Arts and Entertainment

Asa Hess-Matsumoto, editor
Gareth Rees-White
Rosanna van Straten

Politics and Culture

Jenny Cain, editor “Yes, of course it has. I’m in a long-distance “It’s sort of taken out a lot of the personal
Opinions and Editorials relationship, so we don’t rely on letters and connection involved in relationships, because
Joey Bien-Kahn, editor phone calls — just go online, Skype, just look a lot of people now communicate over the
at posted pictures of me and him and just be Internet and figure out facts about each other
Web able to know that it’s there, just having those from reading their Facebook page, instead of
Timothy Lindvall II, developer
types of outlets.” just sitting down for a cup of tea and talking.
Photo/Illustration Yeah, I don’t like that.”
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Isaac Miller, editor FOURTH-YEAR, KRESGE DARROW FELDSTEIN
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Table of Contents
P. 5 MORE CUTS TO UC,
EAP EVACUATES EGYPT
by Julie Eng & Laurel Fujii

P. 7 STUDENT REGENT-DESIGNATE
SEEKS SUCCESSOR
by Blair Stenvick

P. 8 ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER
ANCIENT GALAXY
by Kara Foran

P. 9 EVENTS CALENDAR
by Molly Kossoff and Rachel Singer

P. 10 A GUIDE FOR YOUR

VALENTINE’S DAY WEEKEND
by CHP City Reporters

P. 13 THROUGH OUR LENS

by Isaac Miller

P. 16 POLYAMORY PRESENTS AN
ALTERNATIVE TO MONOGAMY
by Julie Eng

Ryan Tuttle P. 18 PROM WEAR FOR CHARITY

P. 6 STUDENTS EMBRACE NEW WAYS TO DATE by Chelsea Hawkins
by Samved Sangameswara and Rosa Castañeda
P. 20 TO PLAY OR NOT TO PLAY
by Sasha Yovanovich

Table of Contents P. 21 CYCLISTS FACE THE CLIMATE

by Sasha Yovanovich

P. 22 GLOBAL GAME JAM

by Gareth Rees-White

P. 24 THE ART OF THE TWO-MINUTE

DATE
by Asa Hess-Matsumoto

P. 25 EDITORIAL: UCOP’S HIDDEN

FEES

P. 26 EDITORIAL: THE NEXT BIG

THING FOR NEWSPAPERS

P. 27 WHO THE HELL ASKED YOU?!

compiled by Sal Ingram, Bela Messex
& Ryan Ayers

SLUG COMICS
by Louise Leong

COVER ART BY
BELA MESSEX

Louise Leong
P. 14 THROUGH OUR PENS
by CHP Illustration Staff

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This Week in News
Illustration by Rachel Edelstein
UCSC Faces $31
Million Cut
The university will need to
cut $19 million from the current
2011–2012 budget, executive
vice chancellor Alison Galloway
announced in an e-mail to the
campus community on Feb. 7.
The University of California
will face a $500 million budget
cut under Gov. Jerry Brown’s
proposed budget. Galloway
estimates UC Santa Cruz’s share
will be about 6 percent, or
$31 million.
UCLA, UC
Berkeley and
UC Davis will all
contend with larger
cuts. UCLA faces
the largest shortfall,
at $99 million, with
UC Berkeley and
UC Davis close behind
at roughly $80 and $70 million,
respectively.
Last year, the university made
permanent cuts rather than
relying on temporary funds,
which decreased the actual
shortfall UCSC will face to $19
million.
“The [$31 million] cut is
roughly equivalent to cutting
the entire division of physical
sciences,” Galloway said.
Though no specific
program cuts have been made,
preliminary cuts have been
assigned by division. The
academic divisions face 6 percent
cuts, and all other units have
been asked to make 16 percent
reductions.
These numbers may change,
pending the outcome of Brown’s
proposal to extend current
personal income and sales taxes
for five years. If the measure does
not make it on the ballot or is not
passed by voters, Galloway said,
the UC will face larger cuts.
The proposed cuts are also
dependent on tuition stability,
said Peggy Delaney, UCSC’s
vice chancellor for planning and
budget.
“These numbers are based on
an assumption that there won’t be
a student fee increase,” she said.
Though there hasn’t been any
formal discussion among the UC
regents about further increasing
tuition, which will increase 8
percent in the 2011–2012 school
year. Higher student fees would
lower the amount campuses
would need to cut.
Students who want to take
action can encourage their
representatives to put Brown’s
proposal on the ballot, Galloway
said.
“The bottom line is, if the
ballot measure doesn’t happen,
we’re looking at the scale of about
a $62 million [cut],” she said.
By Julie Eng
City Co-Editor
& Laurel Fujii
Galloway and Chancellor
George Blumenthal will hold two
town hall meetings in March to
discuss the cuts with the campus
community.
UC EAP Students
Evacuate Egypt
Amid protests in Egypt, UC
Education Abroad Program
(EAP) students at the American
University of Cairo were
evacuated on Feb. 1.
The group of 19 students,
a team of archaeologists,
faculty members and a parent
of a student were moved
to Barcelona, according to
the University of California
Newsroom website.
The decision was made
to transport the group when
protests regarding Egyptian
president Hosni Mubarak’s
resignation from office became
violent, potentially jeopardizing
their safety.
As of Feb. 9, the students are
transferring to different study
abroad programs, including
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Campus
Campus Reporter
ones in Israel and Europe, or
are resuming classes at their
respective colleges.
Many of the students were
from UCLA and UC Santa
Barbara. UC Santa Cruz did not
have any students in the Egypt
program.
Students were evacuated
according to established protocol
for such instances. Similar
measures have been used to
ensure the safety of members
of the UC community, such as
following recent earthquakes in
Chile and Haiti.
Alicia Ochsner, a junior at
Tulane University, was supposed
to be studying abroad in Egypt
this semester.
Ochsner, not an EAP student,
arrived on Jan. 1 but left a month
later due to the travel advisory.
Classes had been pushed back,
but she never attended any.
She said the Egyptian students
were excited and inspired by the
political climate in Tunisia.
“They were like, ‘That’s great
that they can do this. Let’s do it
now,’” she said.
Campus
Slugs Look for Love
Speed dating and new websites change the college dating scene
STUDENTS GATHERED for the third annual speed dating event. The event, put on by the Colleges Nine and Ten
Community Programs office on Feb. 4, drew in over 200 people throughout the night.
By Rosa Castañeda &
Samved Sangameswara
Campus Reporters
“At speed dating: male, black hair. You were No. 17.
You are so my type. So cute and interesting. Kinda shy,
but you know how to open up. Hehe, I really hope we
meet again. ^_^”
This submission joined hundreds of other posts on
the new website Like a Little on the afternoon of Feb. 5.
The site has recently gathered a following at UC Santa
Cruz.
Similar to the missed connections page on Craigslist,
Like a Little is a way for people to anonymously post
about someone who has caught their eye around cam-
pus. Evan Reas, creator of the site, launched Like a Little
in October 2010. He saw the website as a way for shy
people to put themselves out there more without having
to identify themselves.
“[Like a Little] lets people break the ice and flirt with
people around them in an extremely easy way,” Reas said
in an e-mail. “Because it is anonymous, it gets rid of all
the awkwardness, and there is no downside of telling
somebody how you feel.”
Like a Little is just one example of some of the new
ways in which people look to find a significant other, a
date or just a friend. People have branched out from the
usual small talk at parties to anonymous posts on the
Internet and dozens of first dates at the College Nine and
Ten speed dating event.
Every two minutes a bell chimes over the sound of
hundreds of voices at the Colleges Nine and Ten Multi-
Purpose Room. Over 200 people got to experience mul-
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tiple first dates in one night as they circled the 30 or so
tables that filled the room. Each table, which seated six,
was adorned with a little candle surrounded by choco-
late kisses and sugar sweethearts.
Jessa Rabanal, an undeclared first-year from Col-
lege Nine, was one of the 209 people who attended. In
the line of women crowding the entrance waiting to be
seated, Rabanal’s hopes were not exclusively to look for
romance, but to meet new people as well.
“[My hopes are] to probably find someone at least to
say, ‘I hope to see you around sometime,’” Rabanal said.
“Maybe an add on Facebook.”
These kinds of connections are what Nick Margarite
had in mind when he started this event at UCSC three
years ago. Margarite, a class of 2010 alumnus, worked at
the Colleges Nine and Ten programs office and decided
to bring speed dating to UCSC after hearing about it at a
conference for residential advisors.
Margarite started the event hoping that it would cre-
ate a safe and inclusive space for students to meet new
people in a less intimidating environment.
“It gives them an opportunity to meet people that
they’re comfortable with,” Margarite said. “They don’t
have to feel shy.”
Tables labeled “Boy Meets Boy,” “Girl Meets Girl” and
“Boy Meets Girl” provided an opportunity for speed-
daters to interact with whomever they wanted to.
It’s useful to have the chance to meet people outside
of the typical college lifestyle of beer pong parties every
Friday night, or classes every Monday morning, Krys-
tinne Maica said. Maica, the current advisor for the Col-
leges Nine and Ten community programs office, advo-
cates for speed dating as a way for people who choose to
abstain from the stereotypical college lifestyle to go out
Ryan Tuttle
and meet people.
“There are not a lot of outlets for people to meet that
don’t involve drinking and that kind of stuff,” Maica said.
The speed dating event brought together both stu-
dents looking for romance and those looking to get out
of their rooms and meet new people.
These unconventional ways of meeting people have
become more popular in recent years. In 2006 Charles
Whyte started the CruzDate website, an exclusive UCSC
dating site. Whyte, a class of 2006 alumnus, started the
site after hearing about other students’ idea to potentially
start a dating club. The dating club had all the elements
of an online dating website, but was being conducted by
hand, so Whyte had the idea to expand it exponentially
through the Web.
Whyte is an advocate of online dating, as he sees how
the average ways in which people meet can be trouble-
some.
“I feel good about the increased popularity of online
dating, as it’s a great way to meet new people without
having to feel too awkward,” Whyte said in an e-mail.
Ultimately, these means of meeting new people are
picking up steam because people enjoy the combination
of a wide selection and a less intimidating environment.
Sites like CruzDate and Like a Little as well as events
like Speed Dating create a space for all students with a
variety of intentions to seek out new friends and possible
suitors.
His sentiments, as well as those of the organizers of
speed dating and the users of Like a Little can be sum-
marized in a short statement seen on the home page of
CruzDate:
“The campus is big, and it is sometimes hard to meet
the right people.”

Student Regent-Designate
Visits Campus
Mireles encourages people to apply for student regent and outlines some of his goals
STUDENT REGENT-DESIGNATE ALFREDO MIRELES met with UCSC students Tuesday afternoon and discussed the California state budget,
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UCSC’s closure of the American studies department and his experiences as a regent.
By Blair Stenvick
City Co-Editor
Student regent-designate
Alfredo Mireles Jr. visited UC
Santa Cruz on Tuesday to
encourage students to apply to
be a regent. He discussed the
issues currently affecting the UC
and his role on the UC Board of
Master of Social Work and Regents.
As part of his day-long
Graduate Psychology Programs schedule of meetings, Mireles
met with the press and students
interested in applying to be a
student regent in the University
Azusa Pacific University’s graduate programs empower Center Alumni Room. Student
you to put compassion into action. Prepare to make regent Jesse Cheng was also
a difference. expected to be there but was not
able to attend.
Master of Social Work Mireles explained why he
Internships in the Greater Los Angeles area finds his role as a student regent
Integration of faith and social work practice worthwhile.
Full-time and part-time options “You really get to feel like you
For more information, visit www.apu.edu/explore/msw/. have a say in the university,” he
said. “We oversee the 10-cam-
Graduate Psychology Programs pus, five-hospital, three-national
APA-accredited Psy.D. Program laboratory university system that
M.A. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and has about a $21 billion budget.
Family Therapy Because of a constitutional au-
Alignment with current California licensure requirements tonomy, what we say goes, so we
For more information, visit www.apu.edu/explore/graduatepsychology/. have a lot of authority.”
Of the 26 members of the
UC Board of Regents, 18 are ap-
pointed by the governor for 12-
year terms. Seven are ex officio
members, such as the governor
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and the UC president, and two
are student regents. Student
regents are appointed for a two-
year term.
After the application process,
the student serves the first year
as regent-designate, participat-
ing in all the regent meetings,
but not voting.
The next year, the student
gains the right to vote on policy
and introduce measures before
the board.
With the exception of UC
Merced, UCSC is the only
campus that has not produced a
student regent since the position
was created in 1975.
Because of the lack of diver-
sity among student regents in
recent years, Mireles is hoping
for a wider array of applicants.
“It’s been five male student
regents in a row,” he said. “And
Jesse is the first undergraduate in
eight years. The student popula-
tion is 80 percent undergradu-
ate, and I think it’s majority
female too. I’m not saying, ‘Men,
don’t apply,’ I’m just saying I’m
encouraging undergraduate
females to apply because I think
their voice has been underrepre-
sented.”
There were about 10 students
at the meeting, a low count ac-
cording to Mireles, who said he
encountered a crowd of 50 at his
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Photos by Prescott Watson
recent trip to UC Irvine.
One of Mireles’ two main
goals is a tobacco-free UC.
“I’m the first health sciences
student to be a student regent,
and I wanted to make sure my
policies reflect that,” Mireles
said. “I think people are entitled
to the cleanest air possible.”
His second goal is to better
educate students about private
scholarships.
“I like to feel like I have own-
ership of my own financial cir-
cumstances,” he said. “We can go
to the state and ask for money,
but unfortunately those tactics
haven’t worked almost ever.”
Mireles said the UC cannot
follow the trend of increasing
fees.
“As a conservative regent told
me, we are close to a billion dol-
lars underfunded,” he said. “The
fee increase brought in about
$116 million. Year after year af-
ter year, eventually they’re going
to be like, ‘Enough is enough.’
Even conservative members
believe that.”
He ended the meeting by
describing what it takes to be a
student regent.
“You have to be able to sit at
a table with a millionaire on one
side and a millionaire on the
other side and advocate for
the UC.”
Campus

UCSC
Astronomers
Look Back
Through
Time
Photo courtesy of NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz),
Faraway galaxy unveils R. Bouwens (University of California, Santa Cruz, and Leiden University), and the HUDF09 team

BELIEVED TO BE 13.2 billion light-years away, this image shows one of the earliest
the universe’s early years and farthest galaxies in the universe. The image was created through an ultra-deep-
field exposure taken with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

By Kara Foran
Campus Reporter
UC Santa Cruz astronomers
have detected what may be the
most distant galaxy ever found
by scientists. This galaxy is the
closest in age to the Big Bang and
helps astronomers understand
how the universe grew into the
solar system we know today.
“[These galaxies] are actually
so far away that the light has
taken most of the life of the
universe to reach us,” said
Garth Illingworth, professor of
astronomy and astrophysics.
“We’re looking back through
most of the life of the universe —
we’re looking back through 13.2
billion [light-]years.”
Looking this far into space
requires a powerful tool: the
Hubble Space Telescope. The
telescope orbits around Earth,
taking far-reaching pictures of
the universe.
Scientists used this telescope
to obtain the biggest picture of
the universe ever taken. The in-
frared image was then combined
with the deepest optical image
of the universe, which created a
vast visual reaching far into outer
space.
The discovery of this galaxy
allows astronomers to make
data-driven statements about the
universe’s early growth. Looking
at the star formation in galaxies
such as this enables astronomers
to assess how rapidly or slowly
the universe was forming during
its youth.
This image is provided by a
500-pound camera, Illingworth
said. The astronomers that
captured the image looked at one
spot on the sky for 87 hours.
“[In] the photograph, because
it’s so far away, the galaxy im-
age is so small ... This object is
about 2,000 times smaller than
[your pinky finger],” said UCSC
astronomy professor Raja Guha
Thakurta.
The discovery of this galaxy
pushed Hubble to its limits. So
the recent breakthrough leans
against the boundaries of tech-
nology.
Hubble’s new camera is re-
sponsible for its recent reach into
the previously unseen depths of
the universe.
“It’s just like when you go
and buy a digital camera now,”
Illingworth said. “It’s way more
sophisticated.”
UCSC astronomer Rychard
Bouwens credits Hubble with
much of the success.
“These instruments really
allowed us to do this,” he said.
“Looking back through all of
cosmic time is not so easy, so
you’re going to need a very good
camera.”
The galaxy candidate formed
200 to 300 million years after
the Big Bang, a time when the
universe was only 4 percent of its
current age. Being able to view
this galaxy is like finding a pic-
ture of outer space as a toddler,
an unprecedented addition to the
universe’s photo album.
Deeper discovery into the
universe will have to wait for The
James Webb Space Telescope,
scheduled for launch in 2014.
“It always inspires wonder in
your mind that we can use this
instrument to go back to the be-
ginning of time,” Bouwens said.
“To be on the cutting edge, you
just feel like you’re exploring for
the rest of humanity and report-
ing back what you can see.”

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Event Calendar
Campus
THURSDAY, FEB. 10
• Cross-Disciplinary Perspective on
Human Rights in the Americas: Women
and Violence on the Borderlands. College
9/10 Multi-Purpose Room. 7 to 10 p.m.
Free.
FRIDAY, FEB. 11
• Cross-Disciplinary Perspective on
Human Rights in the Americas: Women
and Violence on the Borderlands. College
Nine, Namaste Lounge. 12 to 3 p.m. Free.
• Dance Performance: Random with a
Purpose XIX. Theater Arts Second Stage.
7 to 9 p.m. Free for UCSC undergraduates,
$11 adults, $10 seniors and other students.
Event repeats Saturday.
• “Baroque Flute on Tour”: Greer Ellison.
Music Center Recital Hall. 7:30 to 9:30
p.m. $8 students, $12 general admission.
• Air Band Competition. Cowell/
Stevenson Dining Hall. 9 to 11 p.m. Free.
SATURDAY, FEB. 12
• Workshop: Animal Tracking. East Field
Center. 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $15.
• Queer Prom 2011: “Masqueerade,”
preceded by mask-making workshop.
Stevenson Event Center. 9 p.m. Free.
SUNDAY, FEB. 13
• Men’s soccer: UCSC vs. UC Berkeley.
Lower East Field. 12 p.m.
MONDAY, FEB. 14
• Course: Women’s self-defense. Course
held every Monday for six weeks. East
Field Center, Martial Arts Room. 3 to 5
p.m. Free.
TUESDAY, FEB. 15
• Non-Profit, Sustainability and Govern-
ment Job Fair. Colleges Nine & Ten Multi-
Purpose Room. 11 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. Free.
• Meeting: Writers Society. For students
interested in creative writing. Meetings
every week. Kresge Writing Center. 8 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16
• Reporting Italy: A Talk by Italian
Journalist Enrico Deaglio. College Eight,
Room 240. 5 to 7 p.m. Free.
City
THURSDAY, FEB. 10
• Paris — The City of Lovers: A Valentine
Photo Exhibit. Twist. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Bassnectar. Santa Cruz Civic
Auditorium. 7:30 p.m.
• Flashback Flick: “Pretty in Pink.” Regal
By Molly Kossoff
Copy Editor
& Rachel Singer
9 Cinema. 8 p.m. $5.
• John Vanderslice, ...And Hod. The
Crêpe Place. 9 p.m. $12.
• Bill Frisell’s Beautiful Dreamers
feat. Eyvind Kang and Rudy Royston.
Kuumbwa Jazz Center. 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
$25 in advance, $28 at door.
FRIDAY, FEB. 11
• Play: The Ibsen Follies! West End
Theatre. 8 p.m.
• White Album Ensemble Unplugged.
Kuumbwa Jazz Center. 8 p.m. $25. This
event repeats 2/12.
• Midnight Film: “The Adventures of
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”. The Del
Mar Theatre. 11:59 p.m. Event repeats on
Saturday.
SATURDAY, FEB. 12
• Ryan Bingham with The Dead Horses.
Rio Theatre. 7:30 p.m. $21 advance.
Tickets at snazzyproductions.com.
• Jewish Movie Night. “They Came to
Stay,” part one of three-part series “The
Jewish Americans.” Congregation Kol
Tefillah. 7 p.m.
• The Vagina Monologues. Fundraiser
benefits Santa Cruz Women’s Health
Center. Rio Theatre. 8 p.m. $20 general
admission, $15 students with ID.
• Ky-Mani Marley. The Catalyst. Doors
open at 8 p.m., show starts at 9 p.m. $20 in
Events
Copy Editor
advance, $24 at door. Ages 16 and up.
• Valentine’s Dance. Center Street Grill.
7 p.m.
• Zivanai Masango and band. Don
Quixote’s. 8 p.m. $10.
SUNDAY, FEB. 13
• Wild Cat Adventure. Rio Theatre. 3
p.m. $10 adults, $5 children.
• CYH Presents: Break Yr Lover’s Heart
Baller, The Bad Apple Burlesque, feat.
Jimmy Lavalle of The Album Leaf and
live music. The Crêpe Place. 9 p.m. $8 in
advance, $10 at door. See ticketweb.com
for tickets.
MONDAY, FEB. 14
• Valentine’s Day raffle for Transition
Santa Cruz. Greenspace. 12 p.m. Tickets
$3.
• Paris — the City of Lovers: a Valentine
Photo Exhibit. Twist. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
TUESDAY, FEB. 15
• 7 Come 11. The Crêpe Place. 8 p.m.
Free.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16
• CYH Presents: Cowboy & Indian,
Bluetail Flies. The Crêpe Place.
9 p.m. $8.
Contact us at events@cityonahillpress.com.
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City

A GUIDE TO
VALENTINE S
<<
Santa Cruz is a town with a lot to
offer. But despite the wide array

DAY IN
By Chelsea Hawkins, of options, students often end up
Stephanie Meade,
Michael Mott, &
scratching their heads over what to
Nikki Pritchard do each weekend. With Valentine’s
City Reporters
Day weekend coming up, the City

SANTA CRUZ
on a Hill Press city reporters took
it upon themselves to suggests
activities, beaches, stores, and
restaurants worth checking out.

Illustration by Matt Boblet

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Fantastic Eats and Cinematic Feats
By Nikki Pritchard
City Reporter
There’s no date more classic than din-
ner and a movie for Valentine’s Day. In
Santa Cruz, there are four movie theaters
to choose from, but the Nickelodeon and
Del Mar theaters are locally owned gems
that all UCSC students should be familiar
with before they graduate. Both theaters
have an old-time charm reminiscent of an
era before illegal movie downloads.
Originally opened in 1969, the Nickel-
odeon Theatre (210 Lincoln St.) is known
for its dedication to independent art and
foreign films. Wednesday nights are the
Reinventing Valentine’s Day for Singles
By Chelsea Hawkins
City Reporter
As Valentine’s Day weekend rolls in, if
you suddenly find yourself without a date
and annoyed by the onslaught of couples
on the bus making you all too aware you’re
going solo once again, remember to step
back and recognize the freedom that
comes with being single.
Embrace it.
For those of us not held up by a rela-
tionship, there are some noteworthy Santa
Cruz singles options for making a memo-
rable night.
Singles might consider paying a visit to
the El Palomar Ballroom, located down-
town on Pacific Avenue.
On Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
nights, the Palomar offers both drop-in
dance classes and dance parties. Drop-in
classes start immediately before the dance
parties and range in style from West Coast
Swing to Latin, giving people the oppor-
prime time to catch the student rate: $7.50.
Restaurant options are abundant in Santa
Cruz, but in the interest of affordability
and proximity, check out Jack’s Ham-
burgers (202 Lincoln St.) next door when
visiting the Nick. During happy hour (3 to
4 p.m. daily), Jack’s patrons can grab one
burger and get the second one half off. A
local favorite, Jack’s burger joint provides
affordable, filling food that will satisfy
your craving for all-American grub.
The Del Mar Theatre (1124 Pacific
Ave.), opened in 2002. It offers weekly
“midnight movies” for $6.50 every Friday
and Saturday night. Owned and operated
by the folks who brought you the Nick,
tunity to learn various styles of dance and
try out their new skills later that evening.
There is no need to pre-register for
classes or even commit to a class. The
entire evening can cost as little as $10.
El Palomar dance parties last from 9 to
11:30 p.m. and cost $5 at the door.
If a night of dancing isn’t exactly what
you’re looking for, there are several other
places where singles might hit a few high
notes.
The Boardwalk Bowl, near the Santa
Cruz Beach Boardwalk, offers more than
bowling — it is also known among stu-
dents for its rowdy karaoke nights.
Karaoke nights at the Boardwalk Bowl
are notorious for the local characters who
get behind the microphone. There is no
need to be part of a duet to enjoy a pop
ballad or two.
Unlike other places in town, the Board-
walk Bowl does not have a minimum
party size or minimum purchase require-
ment, but after 9 p.m., karaoke is closed to
City
AT A GLANCE
BOARDWALK BOWL
115 Cliff St.
Features: Bowling, food, karaoke.
DEL MAR THEATRE
1124 Pacific Ave.
Features: Weekend midnight
movies for $6.50.
EL PALOMAR BALLROOM
1344 Pacific Ave.
Features: Drop-in dance classes
and dance parties (ballroom),
food (restaurant).
I LOVE SUSHI
Photos by Kyan Mahzouf
516 Front St.
Features: Food and a friendly
atmosphere.
the Del Mar stays true to the independent JACK’S HAMBURGERS
flavor Santa Cruzans love. Its quirky staff 202 Lincoln St.
raffles off door prizes before the movie be- Features: Hamburgers, fries,
gins, and there are often trivia questions or
movie quote competitions. This Friday and drinks.
Saturday night’s midnight movie at the Del
Mar will be “The Adventures of Priscilla, THE NICKELODEON
Queen of the Desert.”
Pizza My Heart (1116 Pacific Ave. #B) THEATRE
is a great place to eat before viewing a 210 Lincoln St.
movie at the Del Mar. A chain originating Features: Wednesday night
in the San Francisco Bay Area, Pizza My
Heart sells pizza by the slice until 2 a.m.
student movies for $7.50.
on Friday and Saturday nights. For $6, you
can purchase a slice and grab a Pizza My PIZZA MY HEART
Heart shirt for your sweetie. 1116 Pacific Ave. #B
Features: Pizza, salads.
people under 21.
The Bowl is not the only place in town
that offers singles the opportunity to test
their courage behind a microphone. With
easy access from downtown, local restau-
rant I Love Sushi has become a staple for
the university crowd. It’s not just the menu
that draws a crowd — the atmosphere
and friendly demeanors of the staff make
I Love Sushi a student favorite, and the
owner is known for challenging customers
to sake bombs.
If you’re able to assemble a small group
of eight, you can easily reserve a table in
the karaoke room, order drinks and sushi,
and spend the evening reveling in the
somewhat questionable vocal stylings of
locals.
Although this is only a taste of the
things offered throughout the Santa Cruz
area — cafés, theaters and beaches to
name a few — they are sure-fire ways for
the young and the unattached to get out of
their comfort zones and have a little fun.
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City
Save That Money, Honey
By Stephanie Meade
City Reporter
Valentine’s Day, with all of the expenses
it can incur, can be a dreaded day for poor
college students across the nation. But
some creativity can keep you and your
heart from going bankrupt.
There isn’t anything more intimate than
grocery shopping with your sweetheart.
Santa Cruz has many different grocery
stores to choose from: Safeway (2203 Mis-
sion St.), Trader Joe’s (700 Front St.) and
New Leaf (1101 Fair St. or 1134 Pacific
Ave.), to name a few. See what’s on sale
and bust out your club card when applica-
ble. Pick up some fresh, organic fruit, cold
cuts and cheese to enjoy with a baguette
and butter. This simple meal makes for a
perfect picnic. Plan a nice outdoor activity
— perhaps a hike around Natural Bridges
or a beach-side bike ride, and then settle
down somewhere pretty with a blanket
and your grocery store treasures.
Want a Sandy Romance? Go to the Beach!
By Michael Mott
City Reporter
Santa Cruz is well known for its wealth
of sunny sand. Even in February, you can
traverse the beaches with your sweetheart
like a true local.
If you don’t mind crowds, then a day
at the Main Beach by the Boardwalk is
sure to be fun. After getting an ice cream
at Marini’s, head down to the volleyball
courts and spike a ball. Or relax and un-
wind under the pier if it gets too hot. The
wharf and boardwalk can be expensive for
food, so bring lunch. Picnics are a time-
honored guarantee to impress your date.
The Boardwalk itself is an old-fash-
ioned, classic place that has enchanted
friends and lovers since 1907. Stroll hand-
12 | Thursday, February 10, 2011
Nick Paris
If you or your sweetheart prefer indoor
activities, try taking a fresh spin on the old
“dinner and a movie” date. You can cook
up something romantic for dinner. Pasta
is tasty, cheap and easy to make. Make
it a little more romantic with some red
wine, like Trader Joe’s infamous Two-Buck
Chuck. Lay down a makeshift tablecloth.
Your roommate’s sheets will look great, but
make sure to wash them first. Light a few
candles for ambience.
Trips to the movie theater can cost up-
wards of $40 with snacks for two people.
Instead, you and your date can rent a
movie together and snuggle up under a
blanket. Pop your own popcorn to save
money. Plus, you won’t have to deal with
crying babies, ringing cell phones and
chatty moviegoers interrupting your mid-
movie make-out sessions.
If everything you touch in the kitchen
burns, and you think it would be safe to
dine out instead, try taking your darling
out for lunch instead of dinner. Many
in-hand down past the arcades and the
mini-golf course to the rides, where your
date will be sure to lean in on the roller
coasters.
If you and your valentine scoff at the
tourists, try Seabright Beach just south
of the Boardwalk. This beach has fewer
people and more sand.
You can find some East Side locals and
even a cave to write your lover’s name
in. You might not want to show off your
body-boarding skills just yet here, because
the waves can be vicious. Set up an um-
brella and feel free to people-watch, and
you two will be bound to come up with
some funny stories.
Like the sand? Instead of taking a long
awkward walk, woo your date with your
castle-building and hole-digging skills. Af-
ter the day is done, set up camp and have
AT A GLANCE
BEACH BOARDWALK
400 Beach St.
Features: Marini’s, Main Beach,
Cowell’s Beach, rides, food.
BETTY’S BURGERS
Caroline Dahlberg 505 Seabright Ave., 1000 41st
Ave.
Features: Hamburgers by the
beach.
restaurants offer the same or similar menu
items for cheaper lunchtime prices. Sabi-
eng on Mission Street offers an excellent EL PALOMAR TACO BAR
lunch special. Diners can get the soup of 1344 Pacific Ave.
the day, an entrée and rice for under $7.
If you’re on a first date and you don’t Features: Tacos, burritos, free
want your date to think you’re cheap, you chips & salsa.
have options. Try going out for sushi. It’s
delicious, often affordable and incredibly
adorable to share. Taco platters, another
MARINI’S
classic dish to share, can also be afford- 400 Beach St., 1308 Pacific Ave.,
able. El Palomar Taco Bar all the way at Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf
the back of the Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting
#55A
Company on Pacific, offers tasty tacos and
burritos for relatively low prices, plus free Features: Ice cream, candy, gifts.
chips and salsa. The small dining area can
get very crowded and loud, but the staff at NATURAL BRIDGES
the Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Com-
pany usually doesn’t mind if you bring Swanton Blvd.
your tacos and sit and eat in their much Features: Monarch butterfly trail.
quieter café.
Have fun this Valentine’s Day, and
remember to show love to your sweetheart
NEW LEAF
as well as your wallet. 1101 Fair St., 1134 Pacific Ave.
Features: Groceries, hot food bar,
culinary classes.
SABIENG
1218 Mission St.
Features: Thai cuisine.
Isaac Miller SAFEWAY
2203 Mission St.
Features: Groceries, hot food bar,
gelato, Starbucks Coffee.
a bonfire, because this beach is one of the
few in Santa Cruz that allows them.
After a few hours of spelling each SANTA CRUZ COFFEE
other’s names in the sand, head over to ROASTING COMPANY
the delicious Betty’s Burger on Seabright 1330 Pacific Ave.
Avenue, where you can get such roman-
tic ground beef as the “Big Betty.” This Features: Coffee, smoothies,
half-pound patty and Betty’s secret lube, pastries.
or “The Duke,” a half-pound island-style
burger with grilled pineapple, bacon,
cheddar and sweet teriyaki lube will tanta-
SEABRIGHT BEACH
lize the taste buds. East Cliff Drive
If you’re feeling daring, head east of the Features: Fun in the sun.
wharf for some surfing at Cowell’s Beach.
Unlike in ice skating, however, your part-
ner will not think it’s cute if he or she falls TRADER JOE’S
down and gets obliterated, so keep it safe. 700 Front St.
Got sand in your pants after your beach Features: Groceries, Two-Buck
date? Just one more reason to head back to
your place and shower. Chuck.
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integrity of photography as an art, diluting its truth-telling faculties. On the other, new software and cameras

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offer new and interesting ways of creating images. High-dynamic-range (HDR) photography uses a combination
of three versions of the exact same image: one correctly exposed, one overexposed by three stops and one
underexposed by three stops. The images are then combined in Photoshop, so every inch of the image has the
best possible exposure. Colors and lighting can be adjusted to create an extremely surrealistic effect. I chose to
photograph some of the interesting houses in Santa Cruz and to push the HDR to the point where the houses
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THROUGH Valentine’s Day Edition

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Words & Photographs by Staff
For our special themed issue, our team of illustrators contribute
their interpretations of love — in all its variations.

Matt Boblet

Bela Messex

Rachel Edelstein Kristian Talley

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Muriel Gordon Patrick Yeung

Louise Leong
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Feature

Love the Ones

You’re With
Polyamory, or relationships with multiple
consenting partners, attracts a high profile
By Julie Eng Illustrations by
Campus Co-Editor Muriel Gordon

D
awn Davidson doesn’t live her life by
Disney standards.
When you have more than one
Prince Charming, fairy-tale clichés go out the
window.
“In our culture, the only acceptable, long-
term relationship style is monogamy,” said
Dawn Davidson, relationship coach and veter-
an in the polyamory community. “We’re taught
that literally from childhood. What happens
when the prince rescues the princess? They
ride off into the sunset, and they live happily
ever after. Just the two of them. Except she
leaves behind her seven vertically-challenged,
very hard-working housemates.”
Davidson laughs at this allusion and
continues, “That seems like it might be kind of
a light example, but it’s just the beginning.”

Davidson is one of the esti-
mated half a million Americans
who identify as polyamorous.
Polyamory is having romantic
relationships with two or more
individuals simultaneously. As
of 2005, there were an estimated
2,000 poly people residing in
the San Francisco Bay Area. In
Santa Cruz alone, 238 people
participate in an online group
that meets regularly to discuss
polyamory.
In recent years these numbers
tions growing more accepting
of all lifestyles and non-hetero-
normative relationships are in
and out of federal courtrooms,
polyamory is becoming more
high-profile.
The poly community has
received some negative attention.
Conservative groups like Focus
on the Family have publicly de-
nounced polyamory as immoral,
and a threat to the current fed-
eral marriage laws. A pamphlet
released by the Family Research
Council describes a
polyamorous home as “a frat
house with revolving doors.”
“This nebulous, free-for-all
model of the family looms
ahead for our society unless
a bulwark is created in the
form of a constitutional
amendment protecting
marriage,” according to the
pamphlet.
Davidson said people in
polyamorous relationships have
similar motivations as those in

“
have received significant media
attention — notably, Newsweek
described polyamory as “the next
sexual revolution.” Poly books
such as “The Ethical Slut,” by
Dossie Easton and Catherine A.
Liszt, have achieved mainstream
success, bringing new faces to
poly community groups in large
cities throughout the country.
As polls show younger genera-
16 | Thursday, February 10, 2011
monogamous ones, and they year? Are we getting together,
face similar challenges, just in and is there a big enough place to
As of 2005, there were an
estimated 2,000 poly people
residing in the
“ greater numbers. As the number
of members within a relationship
increases, so does the potential
for common dating and familial
problems.
hold us all?’ It’s not an uncom-
mon discussion. It’s just in a very
different context.”
Many conservative groups
wouldn’t agree with Davidson.
“Socially, it’s very similar,” she Publications on the Family Re-
San Francisco Bay Area. said. “We still have to negotiate
around who gets to see whom,
search Council website warn that
“the rising polyamorous culture
Thanksgiving and Christmas, is out to get your children.”
‘Are we driving to so-and-so’s this Stigmas like this drive many

poly people to keep their rela-
tionships relatively private.
Santa Cruz County resident
Steve Jones* said he is openly
polyamorous around his friends,
but he chose to remain anony-
mous in this story to avoid be-
monogamy.
Though Davidson has been
in polyamorous relationships for
more than 30 years, she “didn’t
have a name to put on it” until
the mid ’90s, she said. Since then,
she has married, had children
heterosexual couples found that,
even among those with an
explicit agreement to
be monogamous,
almost 30 percent
had broken the
agreement, with
at least one part-
ner having had
sex outside the
relationship.
While some
might assume
polyamory
and cheat-
ing are the same,
mem- bers of the poly
community are quick to dif-
ferentiate between the two.
Polyamorous relation-
ships usually include
primary and second-
ary partners. Primary
partners often function
in a spousal role, and there
is less expectation for serious
commitment and partnership in
secondary relationships.
Davidson said.
“A lot of men cheat — and a
Jealousy is a common concern
lot of women do too — but they
of people outside the community.
sneak around, and that’s not
But the issue is less common than
what polyamory is all about,”
many think, she said.
said Santa Cruz County resident
“I would actually say that the
and polyamorist Pat Smith*. “If
Feature
these are, in reality, polyamorous
relationships.”
Davidson says mainstream
reluctance to accept polyamory is
because of societal pressure.
“A lot of people just don’t
realize it could be called that,”
she said. “We have a really strong
monogamous cultural assump-
tion.”
While many people interested
in polyamory seek out local and
online groups, Jones guesses
there are many more people
who are not active in the com-
munity. These unaccounted-for
polyamorists may fly under the
official radar simply because they
do not consider their relation-
ships polyamorous.
“I know a lot of people of a
younger generation who just
don’t identify it as polyamory,”
Davidson said. “But if you ask
them if they are monogamous,
they’d say no. They might call
it responsible non-monogamy.
They might call it open relation-
ships ... One group I used to
know used to say their relation-
ships are ‘in the flow.’”
People within the commu-
nity say the term “polyamory”
encompasses many different ap-

“
you really want somebody in proaches to non-monogamy.
your life, you need to work it “In the poly community you’ll
out with your primary partner. find everything from people

Not everybody can give everybody Quite honestly, if you look at the
original tenants of polyamory,
having a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
arrangement, where it is OK to
everything. And we had tried to work
within the paradigm we were raised to
acknowledge, and it wasn’t working.
“ the primary partner gets a veto.
If this doesn’t work for them or
they’re threatened in any way,
you shouldn’t go there. They have
to accept what’s going on. If they
don’t ... it’s considered cheating,
have other relationships as long
as you don’t talk about it,” Jones
said. “That’s on one extreme.
The other extreme would be a
group marriage, where you have
people living together and pool-
— Pat Smith, polyamorist to me.”
The differences between
ing their resources and doing all
of the things that a family does
and Santa Cruz County resident what some poly people see
as undefined polyamory in
together.”

monogamous relationships and

coming the subject of “malicious
gossip.”
“If I’m close enough to people
to talk about dating, then they
probably know,” he said. “If we
just have a business relationship
and don’t talk about personal
stuff, then I’m not going to talk
about that any more than any-
thing else that’s personal.”
The roots of polyamory, origi-
nally referred to as “responsible”
or “ethical” non-monogamy,
can be traced back to the 19th
century. The term was not used
with its contemporary meaning
until 1990 and was not included
in the Oxford English Diction-
ary until 2009. In the early ’90s,
prominent figures in several poly
communities used the Internet,
which was still in its infancy, to
organize networks of poly people
and create resources for people
interested in consensual non-
and become a prominent figure
in the Bay Area polyamory com-
munity. Davidson also teaches
classes for the local poly com-
munity at Pure Pleasure, an adult
store located in downtown Santa
Cruz.
Polyamorous relationships are
not unlike monogamous ones,
Davidson said.
“A lot of families are doing
polyamory-style relating,” she
said. “We just call it divorce and
remarriage. There are a lot of
people who have two moms and
two dads.”
As the number of people in
the relationship increases, so
does the potential for common
dating and familial problems,
Davidson said.
“We tend to have more
relationships, so the opportunity
for all kinds of feelings comes up
more in terms of sheer numbers,”
context of monogamy tends to
generate some really strong jeal-
open polyamory in multi-person Continued on p. 23
partnerships can come down to
ousy behaviors,” Davidson said.
semantics.
“Again, it’s condoned and even
“There are a lot of
supported by our culture — ‘A
cases where two peo-
real man will protect his woman’
ple, often close friends,
kind of thing, and it gets into that
have mutual attraction
patriarchal property kind of stuff.
but don’t act on it be-
Or conversely, you’ll hear about
cause of their agree-
women using jealousy to get
ment of monogamy
their man to pay more attention
with their primary
to them. It’s my take on it that
relationship,” Larry
at least the ideals of the poly-
Colen, a Santa Cruz
amorous community, based on
County resident and
openness and honesty, everybody
long-time polyamor-
really has to be on board with
ist, said in an e-mail.
what’s going on.”
“These people are
Having multiple partners is
often lovers in everything but
common among people who
the sexual consummation. Since
identify as monogamous as
polyamory is, in theory, more
well. “Open relationships” and
about the emotional
“friends with benefits” arrange-
attachment rather than
ments remain common, as does
the physical expression,
infidelity. A recent study at Ore-
one could argue that
gon State University of 434 young
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City
Puttin’ on the Ritz: Community
Collects Gowns in Annual Drive
This year’s event
seeks more support
from university
population
By Chelsea Hawkins
City Reporter
As the warm February sun
shines in through the shop door,
local business owner Pamela
Whittington enthusiastically
points out the rack of dresses
near the front of her store,
Classic Cleaners. A spectrum of
brightly colored dresses await
cleaning and sorting. These
prom dresses will then be given
to high schoolers who cannot
afford a dress.
The third annual prom dress
drive aims to give out prom
dresses to local students who
cannot afford one. The Santa
Cruz and Watsonville areas
grappled with 13.8 percent un-
employment at the close of 2010,
up 0.5 percent from December
2009, according to the U.S. Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics.
Organizers of the annual
prom dress drive hope to reach
more students across the Santa
Cruz and Watsonville areas by
holding two different shopping
18 | Thursday, February 10, 2011
PAMELA WHITTINGTON, the owner of Classic Cleaners, shows a few of the donated prom dresses in this year’s
prom dress drive. The drive provides for high schoolers who cannot afford them. This annual event will be accepting
donations throughout the month of February until March 31.
dates in March and April.
Council member Tony
Madrigal, who brought the event
to Santa Cruz after hearing of its
success in other areas, explained
that his goals for this year’s drive
are “to do better outreach, reach
more of the students and more
of the schools.”
Classic Cleaners, on Soquel
Avenue, offers free cleaning for
all the donated dresses. Whit-
tington’s shop, as well as the
Walnut Avenue Women’s Center,
Comerica Banks and Bailey
Properties offices are all dress
drop-off areas.
“[Prom] is ... a milestone,”
Whittington said. “It’s going to
the next level of your life. The
economy cannot let this rite of
passage go away.”
Bridal Veil Fashions in Capi-
tola has already donated new
dresses to the event, despite the
resulting loss in its own sales.
“This is competition [for
Bridal Veil Fashion], and what
do they do? They send brand-
new dresses,” Whittington said
as she pointed towards a row of
dresses, many of which still had
tags. “It just shows how much
they value their community.”
As local support floods in,
many people donate more than
dresses. Whittington smiled and
lifted up several bustiers that
have been donated, explaining
that the drive receives every-
thing from shoes to makeup and
jewelry.
Whittington said that the
committee did not “solicit for
the shoes, or the makeup, or the
bustiers,” but still, community
members took the initiative and
brought unopened makeup, as
well as accessories.
Cita Rasul, who works for the
Walnut Avenue Women’s Center
and serves on the committee for
the dress drive, has seen first-
hand the effect such generosity
has on individuals. Rasul per-
sonally knew a young woman
who received a dress the first
year of the event. She now works
on promotions, giving back to
the community and the event
that gave her the opportunity to
fully experience her prom.
For those involved in the
dress drive, a major concern is
making sure the event is com-
fortable and accessible for the
high schoolers who participate.
“We make sure this is a fun
and exciting time and there is
no shame at all,” Rasul said, “It’s
really exciting to see the grati-
fication on the girls’ faces when
they put on a dress.”
Upon receiving a dress,
students are asked only their
name and their school affiliation
so that volunteers can determine
which schools are being reached
and what can be done to make
the event inclusive to all high
schools in the area.
Molly Solomon
As the event grows, the
organizers hope to better involve
university students in collections
and donations. Currently there
is not a drop-off station at UC
Santa Cruz, but council member
Madrigal hopes to eventually
include one in the drive.
Madrigal, who had gone
to Whittington with the idea
to start the drive several years
back, said that he is “just trying
to have better, out-of-the-box
thinking [and] creative ideas to
help people in our community.”
Whittington said that her
history as a “Salvation Army
baby” and the fact she was un-
able to attend her own prom
are why she hopes to offer local
high schoolers the chance to at-
tend prom without the financial
burden.
Whittington said: “[We’re]
putting the call out to clean out
your closets and donate
that dress.”
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Sports

Taking One for the Team

Student athletes sidelined after injuries

By Sasha Yovanovich
Sports Reporter

Senior Erica Wheeler-Dubin

put down her crutches last week.
The women’s soccer captain is
slowly recovering from the foot
injury she sustained this past
July.
She played through her injury
for the first part of the season,
under the impression that the
pain in her left foot was just a
minor injury.
“I would just avoid kicking
with [my left foot],” she said.
However, during a game
against the University of Puget
Sound, she was forced to clear a
ball using her left foot, causing
further impact injury to the liga-
ments in her foot. After Wheeler-
Dubin sought medical attention
she had to wear a cast for six
weeks. She faced a recovery pe-
riod of almost one year. She not
only struggled with the physical
effects of her injury but also with
the consequences of putting her
athletic career on hold.
“When I first arrived at school
as a second-year captain, I had a
mindset of being on the field and
leading the team,” she said. “I had Nick Paris
to switch my mentality from be- SPORTS INJURIES can cause athletes to take time off from their sport. Women’s soccer captain senior Erica
ing supportive on-field to being Wheeler-Dubin (not pictured) was anxious to return to playing soccer after recently recovering from a foot injury.
supportive off-field.”
Wheeler-Dubin chose not to
quit the team. Instead she kept “Even though I was injured esteem during his recovery. at UCSC and has worked with she said.
her role as captain and contin- I went to practice and I went to “I always felt invincible play- many student athletes who find Wheeler-Dubin went through
ues to lead the team from the all the games,” he said. “I prom- ing rugby, but to feel so vulner- it difficult to take time off from an extensive and painful reha-
sidelines. ised to be captain senior year able and fragile is scary,” he said. sports due to injury. bilitation. She began the recovery
Although she went to almost and promised to prove it to [my Despite these feelings and “I have to evaluate them process with a cast and crutches,
every game, Wheeler-Dubin still team].” the swelling in his knee, Richtik individually and explain the then slowly transitioned to an air
found it difficult to be a part of Richtik tore his ACL in decided to continue playing in consequences of continuing [to cast.
the team with her injury. a preseason game against games. compete],” he said. “I also tell the She is now able to participate
“I had to let go of being in San Francisco State when an “It was up to me,” he said. coach. It’s very cooperative here in low-impact activities like bik-
control, not scoring goals, to opposing player smashed into “The coaches have a lot of respect at Santa Cruz. The coaches want ing and swimming.
have trust in my team,” she said. him, twisting his knee to the side. for me, the final decision [to what is best for the athletes too.” Unlike Wheeler-Dubin, who
“I had to emotionally let go.” At that time he did not know play] came down to me.” For Wheeler-Dubin, the desire missed her whole season and
Men’s rugby team captain the severity of the injury, and he Tim Baldwin, one of the three to play in the future is what kept is still recovering, Richtik has
senior Michael Richtik has also continued to play for the rest of athletic trainers employed by the her off the field. With nearly 14 finished rehabilitation and will
been forced to overcome a seri- the season. UCSC athletic department for years of competitive soccer on play again for UCSC. Richtik
ous injury. This will be his first “I would play in the games, the Division III teams, under- her record, this injury will not be has missed his senior year pre-
season playing since recovering but after, my knee would be swol- stands the challenges an injured the end of her athletic career. season, but is now rejoining the
from a torn anterior cruciate liga- len, so I wouldn’t be able to prac- athlete faces. She wants to begin running in team as a starter.
ment (ACL) his second year. tice during the week,” he said. “It’s never easy to tell an three months and, after finish- “When you miss that much
Like Wheeler-Dubin, he After his injuries, Richtik athlete they can’t play, but it’s all ing her credits for graduation in time recovering, it’s nerve-wrack-
maintained a leadership role struggled to obtain respect from about what is best [for the ath- Costa Rica, her plans are to play ing to return,” he said. “But all
from the sidelines during his the teammates he could not play lete],” he said. abroad. those butterflies go away after the
rehabilitation period. with. He suffered a drop in self- Baldwin has spent two years “My dream is to play in Italy,” first game.”

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Cyclists Welcome, Rain or Shine
Everyday Hero Bike Ride promotes weather-readiness
STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS participated in the Everyday Hero Bike Ride on Feb. 6. The event was meant to show biking as an
option every day of the year. Organizers expected rain but were surprised by sunshine.
By Sasha Yovanovich
Sports Reporter
“With most bikes my butt
starts to hurt,” said engineering
lecturer Karen Groppi, showing
off her unique bicycle — and its
cushioned seat, set low to the
ground, the pedals directly in
front of the seat — to the rest
of the Everyday Heroes. “But I
can sit on this bike all day.”
At 10 a.m. on Superbowl
Sunday, 20 people — a collec-
tion of students and faculty —
biked into the OPERS parking
lot in the pleasant 70-degree
weather. Some wore People
Power T-shirts, and some wore
reflector vests. Some wore hel-
mets, some didn’t bother.
The Everyday Hero Bike
Ride, sponsored by UCSC
Transportation and Park-
ing Services, was deliberately
scheduled to commence on the
rainiest day of the year. The
goal for the ride was to educate
cyclists about rain gear and en-
courage students to bike safely
in all types of weather.
“It’s ironic that they wanted
it to be rainy and it turned
out to be gorgeous,” said
second-year earth sciences and
anthropology major Rachel
Dailey. “They want to help us
be prepared to bike in the rain,
and instead they have to demo
rain gear in the warm California
winter weather.” Cruz,” he said. “There is so much
When a similar bike ride
sponsored by OPERS and People
“They wanted it to be
rainy and it turned out
to be gorgeous.”
— Rachel Dailey,
second-year
Power was offered fall quarter,
it poured rain. The students and
faculty who showed up that day
earned their stripes as “Everyday
Heroes.”
Tawn Kennedy, who gradu-
ated from UCSC in 2007, usually
leads bike rides for middle school
students through People Power,
a Santa Cruz county grassroots
program that works to promote
bike riding as a viable alterna-
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Sports
Sal Ingram
tive to driving. Kennedy said he
relishes the chance to share his
knowledge of Santa Cruz bike
routes with fellow riders.
“There are so many hidden
bicycle [trail] gems in Santa
to discover.”
Frank Proulx, fifth-year
environmental studies and
physics majors at UCSC and the
unofficial bike mechanic of the
ride, became an intern for People
Power at the beginning of fall
quarter through the environmen-
tal studies department.
“I know more about cit-
ies than most people,” Proulx
said. “Biking connects you to
the world more than you would
surrounded by a box of glass and
metal. I’m going to try to never
own a car.”
Proulx, who bikes to school
every day no matter the weather,
said that one of the goals of
People Power is to get every type
of person on a bike.
“This is for everyone,” he said.
“We have Zoe and Zach, our high
school interns, and then we have
Takashi in his 70s. [Students]
should be encouraged. You never
want to get in a car for something
under three miles.”
Arts & Entertainment
PARTICIPANTS FROM UCSC work furiously to design a game in 48 hours for the Global Game Jam. At the end of the competition, games are
rated on the Global Game Jam website. This year marks the biggest Jam thus far, attracting 6,500 participants from 44 different countries.
By Gareth Rees-White
Arts and Entertainment
Reporter
The Baskin Engineering lec-
ture hall is filled with 69 students,
brought together by their passion
for game design. The room grows
quiet as the students discover
what they will be spending the
next 48 hours creating.
“This year’s theme is extinc-
tion,” UCSC event organizer
Teale Fristoe said.
So began Global Game Jam
2011.
Global Game Jam is a world-
wide game design and creation
event. Now in its third year, the
contest attracts students from
universities around the world,
with participating countries
including China, New Zealand
and Denmark. Students compete
to create the best original game
— either video or board — in just
48 hours.
The Game Jams are becoming
increasingly popular. Participants
22 | Thursday, February 10, 2011
Designing Games
on a Global Level
13 UCSC teams participate in third annual Game Jam
this year doubled in number
from past events. UCSC entered
13 teams, adding to the 6,500
participants from 170 locations
in 44 countries that produced
some 1,500 games.
Among the veteran game de-
signers speaking at the opening
ceremony on Jan. 28, was British
programmer Graeme Devine.
Devine, an experienced video
game enthusiast, offered words
of encouragement for those
embarking on the 48-hour design
challenge.
Devine encouraged the de-
signers “to scope your designs —
focus on the play mechanic you
most treasure — your passion, if
you will.”
As the 48-hour deadline drew
closer, students grew fatigued.
The students, fighting off sleep
by downing whole cans of energy
drinks, huddled around glow-
ing computer monitors. In the
background, the sound of people
arguing over whether or not to
include pirates, ninjas, zombies
or space-marines in their games
made the air buzz. Slowly but
surely, finished designs began to
appear.
Reproduction — a single-
screen, brightly colored strategy
game — featured a small herd of
pixelated moose competing for
meat, mates and survival.
Tower of Corpses set the
player to the task of creating and
climbing a tower of alien corpses.
Despite being the brainchildren
behind the game, even the cre-
ators had no idea what truly lay
at the top of the tower, just that
defeating it would somehow save
the Earth.
By 4:30 on Sunday afternoon,
48 hours after they had begun,
the 13 teams met to demonstrate
their products in the hope of
being crowned the winner of the
UCSC 2011 contingency.
All present were allowed
to vote for their three favorite
UCSC games.
While some games grabbed
the attention of all, some voters
were critical.
“Some [games] are really
impressive — some are just a step
away from another game,” said
graduate student and spectator
John Murray.
Murray was critical of many
of the titles he reviewed, saying
some of the content was overly
outrageous, and “pushed the
boundaries of what can be con-
sidered a game.”
On a global scale, four of the
10 grand winners were Finnish,
with others from locations like
China and New York City. De-
spite not making the top 10, the
UCSC team Sock Puppet Cabaret
took solace in winning the local
prize, a gift voucher for the Bay
Tree Bookstore.
The winning title, computer
game Generate Exterminate, in
which two players compete to
first nurture planets, before de-
stroying them and dragging what
remained into constantly moving
wormholes.
“Think of it as a tug-of-war
Photos by Nick Paris
with planets,” one of the team’s
programmers said.
One of the team’s five pro-
grammers, Ryan Loeb, was
stunned, saying that it was his
first time participating in Game
Jam. Loeb said his team recog-
nized sleep as a critical aspect
and tried to get a lot of it. Their
tactical move, along with general
collaboration, resulted in their
winning the contest.
In just 48 hours, 69 UCSC
students proved just what could
be achieved with small teams of
developers who come together
through their passion for game
design.
As the contest came to a close
and the tired programmers began
to return to their lives, former
contestant Kevin Meggs reflected
on the event.
“I did it last year — it was a lot
of fun,” he said. “If it’s something
you’re passionate about, when
the weekend rolls around you can
step back and say ‘I helped
create this.’”

Love the ones you’re with
Continued from p. 17
Jones and his wife are friendly
with each other’s partners and
discuss their relationships, he
said, but their relationships are
separate. They only have two
people in their marriage, he said.
While every relationship is
unique, the poly community
has terminology to distinguish
between the more common types
of polyamorous relationships.
Relationships can be primary,
secondary and casual. A primary
relationship is mostly comparable
to a traditional monogamous re-
lationship and may be prioritized
over secondary relationships.
“
“Often, people
will only have
one primary
relationship, and
Some people come
that person takes
priority,” Colen
who have been in poly
said. “A second- relationships for years, and
ary relationship
others are just dabbling in
is very important
to the person but
usually not the
person you live
with. A long-term
mistress could be
polyamory. Everyone leaves
with something different.
a classic example
of a secondary
relationship.”
Smith and
her husband
have been in
polyamorous
relationships
since they moved
to California more than 30 years
ago. Both had been previously
married, and monogamy had not
worked, she said. After listening
to a lecture by polyamorist author
Deborah Anapol, Smith and her
husband began to consider mul-
tiple partners.
“We kind of looked at each
other and thought, ‘That might
work,’” she said. “It wasn’t about
sleeping around — it was about
needing more in a relationship.
Not everybody can give every-
body everything. And we had
tried to work within the paradigm
we were raised to acknowledge,
[and] it wasn’t working.”
Smith is open about her
relationships to her friends and
family, and while she has received
much support, she acknowledges
that her traditionally-minded
relatives do not understand her
lifestyle.
“My sister is still married to
the first man she ever went to
— Pat Smith
polyamorist and Santa Cruz
County resident
bed with, and she doesn’t want
to castigate me, but I’m sure she
thinks I’m awful,” she said with a
laugh. “They sort of consider me
the batty aunt.”
Though polyamory may not
be mainstream, the community is
not small.
Pure Pleasure co-owner Janis
Baldwin said Davidson’s classes
Feature
have met a need for many Santa
Cruzans, who used to drive to
San Francisco for poly classes and
resources.
“No one was teaching classes
like that,” Smith said of David-
son’s poly workshops. “The last
class was standing-room only.”
Davidson teaches Polamory
101, which is intended to be
an introduction to polyamory.
Participants learn definitions and
terminology, and discuss basic
issues that do and do not work in
polyamorous relationships, like
the importance of time man-
agement and how to deal with
jealousy.
Amy Bald-
win, who owns
the store with
her mother, said
there is “defi-
nitely” a large
poly community
“ in Santa Cruz
that utilizes this
resource.
“Some people
come who have
been in poly
relationships for
years, and others
are just dabbling
in [polyamory],”
Amy said. “Ev-
eryone leaves
with something
different.”
One of the
most important things to take
away from investigating polyamo-
ry, Davidson said, is that love is
the same, regardless of how many
people are involved.
“Honestly, poly relationships
are just relationships,” she said.
“We just have more of them.”
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Column

Talk It Out:
Finding Love Through Speed Dating
Two minutes is all you get — and sometimes that’s all you need

Illustration by Louise Leong

Here are the rules of the game: Every two minutes, you Perhaps a veteran speed dater might know a more ef-
By Asa Hess-Matsumoto shuffle seats, introducing yourself to the next person in ficient means of shooting the breeze, but then again, who
Arts & Entertainment Editor line. If you liked how things went with any one person, would trust the advice of a “veteran” speed dater?
you write their ID number on an index card that is turned Yet, despite my initial hesitations about speed dating

I
in at the end of the night. In the days to follow, the event and the monotony of some of the conversations, I did
felt weird and out of place Friday night at Colleges
organizers e-mail contact information to the pairs of end up enjoying myself. In the handful of instances when
Nine and Ten’s Third Annual Speed Dating event.
people who wrote each other’s numbers down. conversation escaped the awkward boundaries of intro-
The colleges’ multi-purpose room, which has
Simple. Controlled. Safe. duction, I found myself engaged, interested and attracted
served for dining hall overflow and career fair exhibitions
In practice, I found the time element to be the big- to the ladies I was speaking with.
in the past, was transformed into a soft-lit meeting place,
gest issue of the night. Maintaining polite and interesting Even though the speed dating event made it easier to
complete with chocolates, overly strong mints and flicker-
interact, the daters still seemed too wary to take a leap.
ing candles.
Who are you fooling — besides yourself — by saying
I had harbored reservations about coming there that
you’re content to let your dream date pass you by without
evening, mostly out of pride. To me, speed dating symbol- Who are you fooling — besides yourself a word? You have to meet them halfway.
ized a shameful inability to engage with women in a social
setting. Beyond bruising my cowboy ego, however, there — by saying you’re content to let your Dating implicitly means straying outside of your
comfortable boundaries. But we are so preoccupied with
was little else to lose in going. dream date pass you by without a word? abiding by social rules and maintaining proper public
Admittedly, I also harbored a nagging desire to be
appearances that it becomes far too easy to simply not
there. I was single, and there would be hundreds of other
introduce ourselves to a beautiful stranger.
singles there. But this didn’t stop me from trying to con-
conversation — oftentimes the same, repackaged conver- Even in a setting as solid and secure as the colleges’
vince myself, those who would ask, and even those who
sation — with a new person every two minutes for three speed dating event, people piled on excuse after excuse,
didn’t, that the only reason I had to be there was to write
hours proved to be exhausting. convincing no one.
this column.
There was too much time when conversation fell short, Look, while I may have been writing a column and you
I wasn’t alone.
too little when it got interesting, and none at all with at may have been there to support a friend, we both stood in
Everyone had their reasons why they felt forced to
least two-thirds of the room, who I wasn’t able to meet the same line, talked to the same people, and did the same
be there: to support a friend, because they had nothing
within the three hours I was there. old song and dance. I’m not going to kid myself — I’m
better to do, and — my personal favorite — because their
How I was expected to describe who I am and get a anxiously awaiting an e-mail or two.
significant other doesn’t go out much.
sense of who I was talking to in such a limited time frame, Be it a bar or dining hall, party or speed date, we can’t
Everyone would have had you believe they didn’t care
I’ll never know. To be frank, having two minutes means choose when and where that special someone will drop
to be mincing words, but that didn’t stop the hundreds of
I only had enough time to decide whether I’d like to date into our lives.
them from showing up — a mob of denial if I’ve ever seen
someone based on their looks and their passion for art, We just have to talk to them when they do.
one, and me at the front of the line.
if that.
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Tax on
Campus Fees
Unfair to
Paying
Students
Regents’ plan to take 2 percent from
campus fees is a poor solution to
California’s budget crisis
F
ees, fees, fees. It’s the word
that has been on every
student’s lips these days.
The University of California
Office of the President has no
plans to change that trend.
As UCOP continues to cut
services and students become
more reliant on measure money
to keep those services, the regents
are considering stealthily taxing
new fees. For every new measure
that gets passed, UCOP plans to
take 2 percent of the fee. Measure
fees are usually student proposed
and are voted on by students.
For example, when the regents
cut UCSC’s budget last year, the
library was forced to trim its
hours. Students passed a mea-
sure to pay extra and keep the
resources available.
On Feb. 8, student regent-
designate Alfredo Mireles Jr. said
he didn’t even know about the
tax, so obviously nothing has
Editorial
been done at the regent level
on our behalf thus far. He did
say, however, that the tax was
unfair and that he would fight
against it in the future. He
has consistently brought the
student voice — and vote —
to discussions at the regents’
table, but the regents have still
decided to increase fees.
If taxes are necessary —
although fees have been raised
enough — they should be kept
within their local university
and be used for projects that
are tangible to the students
paying them. If a UC Santa
Cruz student has to pay more
as a result of raised taxes, then
why should those funds be
used to save jobs or build new
research centers at UC Irvine
Illustration by Kristian Talley
or UC Berkeley?
They shouldn’t. Taxes
raised on campus should be kept
on campus.
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Editorial
Reading
into the
Future
Tablet newspapers represent
an exciting new step in reporting
T
here’s an idea that with the rise of technology
comes the death of journalism. And as a result, an
uninformed and ignorant public. However, the dif-
ferent applications made for tablets show that journalism
is not just staying alive but might be getting a whole lot
more interactive. The features tablets lend to newspapers
could have a positive impact, so long as quality reporting
is a priority.
The Daily has been getting a lot of attention lately for
being the first newspaper produced solely for tablets.
Here’s what the Daily does right: It uses links, videos,
and graphics to enhance the reading experience, as well as
provide more information. It also maintains its own staff
of professional writers, meaning it isn’t just feeding off
more legitimate sources to make a profit.
Speaking of profits, it charges readers 99 cents per is-
26 | Thursday, February 10, 2011
sue. The method of each issue being “delivered” to tablets
is far more seamless than that of news websites, which try
to charge for reading certain stories but not others.
But it also has its fair share of problems. For starters, it
is only available on iPads, the most expensive tablet on the
market, which means it promotes the idea of news as an
elitist commodity. And behind all the bells and whistles,
the content is more lifestyle than news. There’s nothing
inherently wrong with that, except that it brands itself as a
newspaper.
The recent merger of AOL and Huffington Post, which
coincided with the leaking of documents revealing that
AOL placed website traffic far above quality reporting,
shows that in the Web’s free-for-all environment, serious
content is too often missing — even in supposedly serious
news outlets.
Illustration by Patrick Yeung
But just because the Daily has drawbacks does not
mean there is nothing to learn from it. The future of
journalism is in new technology, and there’s no reason
not to use all resources that are available to give readers
the most information and insight. The ideal would be a
tablet newspaper with the functionality and sleekness of
the Daily and the investigative and intensive reporting of
the New York Times. According to online user reviews,
the NYT’s iPad app has problems with crashing and isn’t
very intuitive or user-friendly, but hopefully it can work
towards being improved.
Just because the physical newspaper might soon be
a thing of the past doesn’t mean journalism will be, too.
With the rise of newspaper apps, the future is looking a
little brighter — and well-informed.
 Who the Hell?!

Who
the Hell
“Doggie style and reverse cowgirl. But “Doggie style because it’s really intense. I got
Asked
missionary is a classic, because that’s how

You?!
a nosebleed doing it once.”
everyone starts out.”
JENNY SIMEONE
NAHUEL BELLA SECOND-YEAR, COLLEGE TEN
THIRD-YEAR, COLLEGE NINE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES & ANTHROPOLOGY

What is your favorite

sex position? Why?
Compiled by Bela Messex, Ryan Ayers
& Sal Ingram

“Doggie style. It’s powerful.” “Doggie style. The reach-around is a must.”

REX SCOTT SAM MAJOR

THIRD-YEAR, COWELL THIRD-YEAR, COLLEGE EIGHT
POLITICS PSYCHOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE

Slug Comics
By Louise Leong

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