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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prescott Watson Molly Solomon Illustration by Kristian Talley Illustration by Matt Boblet

P. 4 UC STRUGGLES TO P. 12 THROUGH OUR P. 14 NO REST FOR THE P. 20 OVER-SHARERS

WITHSTAND BILLION LENS WEARY NOT ANONYMOUS: ON
DOLLAR CUT by Staff by Rosela Arce FACEBOOK AND POP
by Laurel Fujii & Prescott CULTURE
Watson by Blair Stenvick

P. 5 City Council Proposes New P. 10 Film Reviews: Feeling Like a P. 22 Editorial: UC System Needs
Fee For Tobacco License Renewal “Sucker,” and More TAs Now More Than Ever
by Nikki Pritchard by Blair Stenvick & Hannah Toda by Staff

P. 6 Libraries Compromise, All 10 P. 19 With Japan in Distress, P. 23 Who the Hell Asked You?!
Branches to Stay Open Santa Cruz Steps Up to Donate Compiled by Bela Messex
by Rosela Arce by Mikaela Todd & Sal Ingram

P. 7 Event Calendar P. 21 Couch Culture: Trick Slug Comics

Compiled by Copy Desk Question — The Tax or the Axe? by Bela Messex
by Asa Hess-Matsumoto
P. 9 This Week in Sports Cover photo illustration by
Compiled by Asa Hess-Matsumoto Kristian Talley & Prescott Watson

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Campus

Budget Cuts to UC to Exceed $500 million

UC regents meeting addresses cuts, restructuring the current
fund distribution method across UC campuses

By Laurel Fujii
Campus Reporter
& commodate that $1 billion,” said
By Prescott Watson
Photojournalist
The UC Board of Regents
convened on March 16 in San
Francisco to discuss how the
University of California will ad-
dress a $500 million drop in state
funding from Governor Jerry
Brown’s proposed budget. On
March 24 Gov. Brown signed the
bill that would slash this funding,
and on Tuesday he announced
that negotiations to extend taxes
through a special June election
ballot have failed.
UC vice president for bud-
get Patrick Lenz said campuses
could face more severe reduc-
tions if Gov. Brown’s proposed
tax extensions aren’t enacted. If
the proposed tax extensions fail,
the state will need to find other
areas to reduce spending. UC of-
ficials expect that the UC system
will see a $1 billion cut to state
funding.
Three UC campus chancellors
from Berkeley, Irvine and Santa
Cruz spoke at the meeting and
addressed how additional cuts
would have drastic impacts on
their campuses.
“We have no model to ac-
UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert
Birgeneau. “It would devastate
our staff and faculty.”
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor
George Blumenthal presented
direct effects from previous cuts.
Like Birgeneau, Blumenthal said
he does not have a plan to ac-
commodate further cuts.
“I’m not sure what we’ll have
to do if the tax extensions don’t
go through,” Blumenthal said.
“It’s going to be a much more
noticeable change.”
Blumenthal said the cuts
made UCSC vulnerable in many
ways, and the campus “can’t even
exempt public safety operations
— fire, police, and environmental
health and safety.”
Regarding future budgetary
concerns, Blumenthal asked the
regents to consider changing how
the reduced budget is spent on
individual campuses. Currently,
all campuses generate funds and
send them to UCOP to redis-
tribute, which results in some
campuses receiving more than
they generated, and vice versa.
UCSC had historically received
less than 100 percent of the fund-
ing generated by its own campus tured funding model would allow ing he would not attend in hopes
community. A restructuring of administrators to reduce UCOP’s of preventing such protests. The
the funding structure proposed budget by $50 million. UCI undergraduate was found
by Yudof would change all of this. Protesters outside the meeting guilty of sexual battery against
“We’ve never had a coherent held signs calling for the resigna- an ex-girlfriend by the UC Irvine
philosophy and we need one,” tion of UC student regent Jesse Office of Student Conduct.
UC president Mark Yudof said Cheng. Cheng was not present at Additional reporting by
regarding funding distribution the meeting, and was quoted say- Arianna Puopolo
across the UC campuses.
The proposal would ensure
that each campus keeps the
funding it generates, with UCOP
assessing a tax and thus leaving
the president with much less
influence in funding matters.
Not all campuses are enthu-
siastic about this restructuring.
Large campuses with medical
facilities will receive less money
than usual under the new plan, as
they will then be limited by what
their campus communities can
generate.
“The smaller campuses will
benefit from this,” said Nathan
Brostrom, executive vice presi-
dent for business operations for
the UC. “The major opposition
to this was from medical centers,
[which] may be taxed more than
they have been. [The proposal] is
designed to be revenue neutral,
not biased towards or against any
campus.”
Brostrom said this restruc-

Prescott Watson

CHANCELLORS FROM THREE CAMPUSES present the difficulties of absorbing past

cuts. Chancellor Blumenthal of UCSC presented grave expectations for our campus’
future. “We will not be able to make these cuts strategically … These reductions will cut
right to the heart of our instruction and research missions,” Blumenthal said.

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 City

County Votes to
Collect Fee from
Tobacco Vendors
Funds would be used to step up enforcement of underage
tobacco law, taxation, legislation
By Nikki Pritchard tobacco license [fee] gives us the tools to make
City Co-Editor sure tobacco doesn’t get into the hands of
minors.”
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted District 5 Supervisor Mark Stone was the
last week in favor of an annually renewed tobacco sole opposition among the Board. He argued
retail license. The license would include a yearly fee for that businesses had not been given the chance
all 104 tobacco vendors in the county. to makes changes before imposing a fee.
The ordinance, supported by a 4-1 vote on March “The issue that I have with the proposed
22, includes a fee of $318 per year. The funds will be ordinance is not the need to combat teen
used to support tobacco education and enforcement smoking, but rather the process that will best
programming. accomplish our goals,” according to the Board
While it was a preliminary vote, the decision is of Supervisors’ minutes. “Imposing a fee on
a major step toward addressing underage access to vendors during these economic times should be
tobacco. The final vote will be on April 5, and the pro- a last resort and not an initial proposal.”
posal is expected to pass. Stone said he wanted to propose an amend-
The county plans to run at least one compliance ment that included business owners in the
check on vendors per year. First-time violators will regulation conversation.
face a 60-day suspension of tobacco sales. Businesses “I think any time we
found in violation four times in the span of five years regulate people without in-
can lose their tobacco licenses. volving them in the discus-
A recent study conducted by the Santa Cruz sion, we are not having good
County Tobacco Education Coalition indicates local government practices,” he
vendors have been in poor compliance with the 18 said. “I was trying to come
years or older requirement. up with a better commu-
In Santa Cruz County, 27 percent of vendors sold nity situation for people in
to underage youth during the survey conducted in the Valley who would be
August 2010. subsidizing the program
Compared to the state average of 8.5 percent, this elsewhere in the county.”
number is alarming to local representatives and com- Under the circumstances,
munity members. Stone said he will be voting
The survey indicated that each area of the county in favor of the ordinance on
performed differently. District 1 Supervisor John April 5.
Leopold said in Soquel 67 percent of stores sold to A local 7-11 owner, who
underage smokers, and so did 47 percent of vendors in wishes to remain anony-
Live Oak. mous, said the new license is
Leopold said 42 percent of retailers sold to minors not likely to affect business
in unincorporated parts of the county overall. He said at the store.
it is the county’s responsibility to address this disparity. “Nobody ever stops
“I consider that an epidemic,” Leopold said. “We’re smoking,” the owner said.
clearly not doing what we can to prevent the sale of “They can gripe about it all
cigarettes to minors, and we need to step up our ef- they want, but it’s not going
forts.” to change.”
Since the study, local representatives have been The county has taken
grappling with how to tackle the problem. The retail li- on the responsibility of
cense and accompanying programs have gained broad reducing underage access to
community support. tobacco in spite of the often
Many local organizations support the ordinance, discouraging nature of the
including the Dominican Hospital Respiratory Care issue.
Services and the American Cancer Society. Supervisor Leopold said
While unincorporated areas of the county had the he is looking forward to the
highest percentage of sales, the city of Santa Cruz impact of the tobacco retail
didn’t fair well either. With 26 percent of vendors sell- license on the Santa Cruz
ing to minors, the city is on board to reduce sales to community.
minors. “Hopefully,” he said,
Mayor Ryan Coonerty said he supports the new “Clerks at stores that sell
tobacco retail license. cigarettes will be better
“This is one more step we can make to make sure trained not to sell to
we have a healthy community,” he said. “I think the minors.”
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City
Library Proposal to Save Smaller Branches
Library Joint Powers Board seeks community feedback on new model
Rosela Arce
City Reporter
Members of the Library Joint
Powers Board (LJPB) held meet-
ings in Aptos, Santa Cruz and
Felton March 26 to hear from
the community about the newly
proposed public library model.
The members will vote on the
proposal April 4.
By July 2012, the proposed
plan would increase library
hours by 53 percent. It would
also slowly reduce the amount
of paid library staff. This model
received mixed support in the
Santa Cruz meeting. The LJPB
plans to continue a dialogue with
the community throughout the
process.
The proposed plans would be
an alternative to closing branches
in the face of budget cuts.
The Aptos and Felton meet-
ings had about three dozen
attendees each, and a smaller
crowd appeared at the Santa Cruz
meeting. Ellen Pirie, a county
supervisor and library board
member, took note of the turnout
at these meetings.
“I support this compromise,”
Pirie said. “I think it’s great that
people turned out, especially
given the weather. We had a great
turnout at Aptos, and I think that
it’s because people care. They
want to be sure that our library
continues to be relevant.”
Proposed Full Hours by July 2012
Branch Days
Downtown 7 56
Aptos 7
Scotts Valley 7 48
Capitola 5
Live Oak 5
Boulder Creek 5 35
Branciforte 5 35
Felton 5
Garfield Park 5
La Selva Beach 5
TOTAL 392
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The new proposal would raise
revenue and keep all 10 branches
open. Local library patrons, like
Peter Pethoe, are pleased to find
that the new model wouldn’t
close smaller branches.
“I think all of these prob-
lems are solvable,” Pethoe said.
“It seems to me that, as long as
we have the 10 branches in the
neighborhood, that’s the most
important thing.”
The new plan would seek vol-
unteers to replace some paid page
staff, those who shelve and sort
library materials. Some see this
as an opportunity to reach out to
schools. The plan would call for a
Hours per Week
48
40
40
30
30
30
SANTA CRUZ
COMMUNITY MEMBERS
gather to discuss the library
board subcommittee’s
proposed service model.
The recommended library
model would keep all
10 branches open and
increase open hours
by 53 percent.
Molly Solomon
full-time volunteer management “I believe that’s what’s being cut unfamiliar with computers. The
staff. back in order to invite more LJPB is continuing to work on
Barbara Gorson, chair of the hours.” the details of this structure.
library board, said that these Reference services will be Gorson said that the compro-
changes are needed for the devel- available on-site during peak mise is the most promising.
opment of the library system. hours at some branches, over “I’m really happy that we are
“It’s a model that, since it does the phone, on the website, and able to come up with something
keep all the branches open, is through a 24/7 online chat that seems to meet most of
flexible,” Gorson said. “Libraries service. Some worry that finding our needs,” Gorson said. “And
everywhere are changing rap- reference information would nothing would ever meet all of
idly. This model will allow us to be difficult for people who are everybody’s needs.”
change direction. It’s a big change
for staff.”
If the model is implemented,
LJPB will seek continual feedback
with surveys. David Terrazas,
Santa Cruz council member and
library board member, said he
would like to hear from UCSC
students.
“I think sometimes there’s a
disconnect between what hap-
pens in the city [and at UCSC],”
Terrazas said. “It’s important that
UCSC students who use the li-
brary also comment on the types
of programs they’d like to see,
how they can get more involved
— either volunteer opportunities
or how to make contributions to
the success of that system.”
Although many are relieved
to see no library closures, others
are worried about what reduced
staffing would mean. Carol Long,
a meeting attendee, said that
she is concerned about losing
personal interaction.
“I really think that people
don’t understand what’s at stake
here, in terms of the professional
reference services,” Long said.

Event Calendar
Campus
THURSDAY, MARCH 31
• Life Lab Workshop: The
Growing Classroom. Intro-
duction to Garden-Based
Learning. UCSC Farm, Life
Lab’s Garden Classroom. 9
a.m. to 3 p.m. Two-day event
repeats on Friday. Pre-regis-
tration required. $300.
• UCSC Men’s Tennis vs.
Williams College. East Field
Tennis Courts. 2 to 4 p.m.
• Drop-in bicycle mainte-
nance. Next to the outdoor
basketball courts at the East
Field House. 2 to 5 p.m. Free.
• Familia X. A space for queer/
two-spirit, Chican@ and
Latin@ students. Kresge
Lounge. 8 p.m. For informa-
tion, contact ucsc.lafamilia@
gmail.com.
FRIDAY, APRIL 1
• UCSC Men’s Tennis vs. So-
noma State University. East
•
Field Tennis Courts. 10 a.m.
to 12 p.m.
Java with Jesus. Discuss
issues of faith with other
members of the community.
Cantú Queer Center. 8:30 to
10 p.m.
• Blender. A safer space for
gender deviants, transgender
people, transsexual, gender-
queer, androgynous, tran-
nyfag, soffas, third gendered,
two-spirit, gender non-
conforming, non-identified,
intersex individuals and
allies. Cantú Queer Center. 6
to 8 p.m.
SATURDAY, APRIL 2
• Seed Starting Workshop.
Led by gardening instruc-
tor Trish Hildinger. UCSC
Farm, Louise Cain Gate-
house. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
$15 for Friends of the Farm
and Garden, $20 for general
public, $5 for UCSC students
with I.D.
• UCSC Men’s Tennis vs.
Sonoma State University.
•
East Field Tennis Courts. 12
to 2 p.m.
UCSC Men’s Lacrosse vs.
Saint Mary’s College. Upper
East Field. 1 to 3 p.m.
• UCSC Men’s Rugby vs. Fres-
no State University. Lower
East Field. 1 to 5 p.m.
SUNDAY, APRIL 3
• UCSC Men’s Lacrosse vs.
Humboldt State University.
Upper East Field. 11 a.m. to
1 p.m.
• Feasting with Feast. Meet
other students living out
their faith and members
of the local faith commu-
nity. First Congregational
Church. 5 to 7 p.m.
900 High St.
TUESDAY, APRIL 5
• Time Lapse: Four Decades
of Art. Opening reception at
the Sesnon Gallery celebrat-
ing the gallery’s 40th an-
niversary. Curated by Shelby
Graham and UCSC students.
Porter College, Sesnon Gal-
lery. 6 to 8 p.m. Exhibition
runs through May 7. Free.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6
• Sustainability Breakout:
Transportation, Purchas-
ing, & Land, Habitat, and
Watershed. Education on
current student, staff, and
faculty efforts in those areas.
College Eight, room 201. 5 to
7:30 p.m. Free.
• Concert: Los Angeles
Percussion Quartet. Music
Center Recital Hall. 7:30 to
9:30 p.m. Free.
City
THURSDAY, MARCH 31
• Sand Drawings Photo
Exhibit by P-sign Paul. The
Windmill Café. 7 a.m. to 4
p.m.
• 8th Annual UCSC Slug Golf
Scramble. Fundraiser for
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UCSC Women’s Athletics.
Pasatiempo Golf Course.
11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Reg-
istration is $200. 20 Club-
house Road.
• GF Presents: David Hillyard
& the Rocksteady 7, Mon-
key, Good Hustle. The Crêpe
Place. 9 p.m. $10.
• Robben Ford and Jonathan
McEuen Acoustic Duo.
Kuumbwa Jazz Center. 7
p.m. and 9 p.m. $23 in ad-
vance, $26 at door.
• My Run Film Premiere
Event. Watch the premiere
of the documentary followed
by a Q&A with the film’s star
Terry Hitchcock. Regal Cin-
emas Santa Cruz 9. 7 p.m.
• The B Foundation with
Katastro and Arden Park
Roots. The Catalyst. $10 in
advanced, $12 at door. Ages
16+.
• For Your Own Good: SM
Relationships workshop.
Pure Pleasure 7:30 to 9:30
p.m.  $20 advance, $25 at
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Event Calendar
Continued from p. 7
door. 900 High St.
• Salsa Dancing for Women.
Dance Synergy. 7:45 to 8:45
p.m. $15. 9055 Soquel Ave.
• Concert: Indian Giver, Sugar
Sugar Sugar, Cactus Pricks,
The Terrible. $5. 105 Pioneer
St.
• SubRosa Weekly Open Mic.
Sign-ups at 7:30 p.m. $3–7
at the door. No one turned
away for lack of funds. Sub-
Rosa Café. 8 to 10 p.m.
FRIDAY, APRIL 1
• First Free Friday at the
Museum of Art and History.
McPherson Center. 11 a.m.
to 9 p.m. Free admission.
• First Friday Art Exhibit at
Pure Pleasure. 10 percent of
art sales to Red Cross/Japan
Relief Fund.
• First Friday Art Opening Re-
ception. SubRosa Cafe. 6 to
10 p.m. 703 Pacific Avenue.
• Dan Bern & Common Rota-
tion. The Crêpe Place. 9 p.m.
$12 in advance, $15 at door.
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• Antsy McClain & The Trailer
Park Troubadours. Kuumb-
wa Jazz Center 8 p.m. $20
in advance, $24 day of show.
Purchase tickets: brownpap-
ertickets.com
• The Dream Box. Aerial
Circus Show. The Cypress
Lounge. 7 p.m. Event repeats
April 2, 3, 8 and 10. $28 in
advance, $30 at door. $20 for
kids 16 and under.
• J-Stalin with Mistah Fab and
Kreyashawn. The Catalyst. 8
p.m. $15 in advance, $20 at
door.
SATURDAY, APRIL 2
• The Rolling Stones Con-
cert Experience. Live rock
tribute performance by URS:
The Unauthorized Rolling
Stones. Rio Theatre. 7:30
p.m. $28 in advance, $33 at
door.
• Bellydance Commu-
nity Showcase. Hosted by
Helene: Nadika, Janelle &
The Dreamettes. The Crêpe
Place. 1:30 p.m. Free.
• Wallace Baine & Shmuel
Thayer. Kuumbwa Jazz Cen-
ter. 7:30 p.m. $21 in advance,
$25 at door. Purchase tickets:
SnazzyProductions.com
• Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Honor Band. Gilbert’s on the
Wharf, Monterey 1:30 p.m.
Free.
• Santa Cruz Aids Walk. Starts
at Santa Cruz Municipal
Wharf. 9:30 a.m.
• 5th Annual Walk to Stop the
Silence. Walk for child abuse
awareness. Starts at Watson-
ville Plaza. 11 a.m.
SUNDAY, APRIL 3
• Barbara Lopez Group. The
Crêpe Place. 6 p.m. Free.
• Introduction to Nonviolent
Communication. Learn
how to resolve issues in a
non-violent way. NVC Santa
Cruz’s Center for Compas-
sion. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
• Ensemble Monterey Cham-
ber Orchestra presents: Five’s
a Crowd. First Congrega-
tional Church of Santa Cruz.
7 p.m.
• Chris Robinson Brother-
hood Tour. Moe’s Alley. 8
p.m. Ages 21+.
MONDAY, APRIL 4
• Concert: Ani DiFranco. Rio
Theatre. 8 p.m. $39.50.
• Movie Nite: “Forgetting
Sarah Marshall”. The Crêpe
Place. 9 p.m.
• Stanley Clarke Band. Stanley
Clarke, 2011 Grammy
Award Winner for Best
Contemporary Jazz Album,
performs. 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
$28 in advance, $31 at door.
• The Writer’s Journey with
Laura Davis. Bookshop
Santa Cruz. 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, APRIL 5
• Crosby and Nash. Santa
Cruz Civic Auditorium. 7
p.m. Prices vary. Purchase
tickets at the Civic Audito-
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rium box office or SantaCru-
zTickets.com.
• You’re Not Losing Your
Mind; You May Be Losing
Your Hormones! Learn how
to handle your hormones
and take control of your life
naturally. McCollum Well-
ness Center. 12:30 to 1:30
p.m.
• Strap-On 101. Pure Plea-
sure 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. $25 in
advance, $30 at door.
• Diversity Center Dine-out
Fundraiser at Shadowbrook.
5 to 9 p.m. 30 Percent of pro-
ceeds will go to center, 1750
Wharf Road.
• Susie Bright, Big Sex Little
Death. Book signing. Book-
shop Santa Cruz 7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6
• Swing Dance Lessons and
Dance Party. Palomar Ball-
room. 7:30 p.m.
Contact us at events@cityonahill-
press.com
 Sports

This Week in Sports Compiled by Asa Hess-Matsumoto

Recent Results
MEN’S LACROSSE
March 25: UCSC vs. UC San Diego (away) 5-3 (win)

WOMEN’S TENNIS
March 26: UCSC vs. UT Dallas (away) 9-0 (win)

MEN’S TENNIS
March 27: UCSC vs. Trinity University (away) 5-4
(win)

Upcoming Athletics
MEN’S TENNIS
April 2: UCSC vs. Sonoma State University (home) at
10 a.m.
April 2: UCSC vs. Fresno CC (home) at 3 p.m.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
April 1: UCSC vs. Holy Names (away) in Oakland,
CA at 7 p.m.

Sal Ingram

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Arts & Entertainment

This Week at the Movies

What’s worth seeing in theaters — and what isn’t
“SUCKER PUNCH”
REVIEW BY BLAIR STENVICK

One good thing about “Sucker
Punch” — it’ll be easy to review.
That’s because it was awful.
And the worst part of it is,
it had the potential to be great.
From the creators of “Watch-
men,” “Sucker Punch” is a story
within a story within a story — a
teenage girl, nicknamed Baby
Doll, is sent to an insane asylum
in the 1950s, where she overhears
(strange that she would choose to
be in a brothel in her daydreams,
but then again, she is insane).
Baby Doll soon teams up with
four friends (including a fantas-
tically dim Vanessa Hudgens) to
try to escape, and the majority
of their plan involves stealing
items like knives and light-
ers. The five girls realize that
whenever Baby Doll dances for
dancing, by the way), Baby Doll’s how video games blur the line
mind is transported into yet between reality and fantasy.
another world, where she and her Instead, it had a weak
friends enter a video-game like plot line, overwhelming
“‘Sucker Punch’ seems to be grasping at some
sort of message about the power of the self, but
that’s only apparent in the opening and closing
voiceover...”

“... it had the potential to be great.”
that she will be lobotomized in
five days. From that point on,
Baby Doll and the audience enter
the fantasy world she creates to
cope with her harsh reality.
In that fantasy world, Baby
Doll is in a glamorous brothel
the men in the club, the men are
all distracted enough to be easily
stolen from.
This is where the third story
comes in. While she dances (the
audience never actually gets to
see what’s so great about her
fantasy realm and fight crime,
usually something that parallels
whatever task they are trying to
complete in the brothel.
This might sound cool to you
— I know it looked interesting to
me. I thought it might possibly
have the complexity of “Incep-
tion,” the artful insanity of “Black
Swan,” and a commentary on
visuals and audio, an annoying
soundtrack and some disturbing
over-sexualizing of teenage girls.
“Sucker Punch” seems to be
grasping at some sort of message
about the power of the self, but
that’s only apparent in the open-
ing and closing voiceover, and if
you have to overtly tell people the Illustration by Muriel Gordon
message, it’s not all that powerful.

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“THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU”
REVIEW BY HANNAH TODA
Matt Damon is confused.
Again. In his latest film, “The
Adjustment Bureau,” the exis-
tence of free will is questioned as
fate takes the form of a group of
suited, stoic men wearing debo-
nair fedora hats. The film has
both a romance and sci-fi tone as
it tells a love story in a fictional
“As the bureau haunts and chases the couple
throughout the film, poor, hasty plot choices are
made that left me wondering, ‘Is this it?’”
world where everything in life
is predetermined by a book. As
in the “Bourne” trilogy, Damon
is the only man who knows the
secret of the bureau’s existence
and is unsure of how to navigate
it. Way to go, Matt Damon.
The first half of the film fol-
lows the same cookie-cutter plot
as any romance movie. Boy meets
girl. They fall in love. Something
happens, and now they must do
something slightly off-course
to get back to that happy place.
British actress Emily Blunt is a
perfect fit for the role of Damon’s
love interest, Elise, as her subtle
accent adds to her mystique. The
chemistry between Damon and
Blunt makes an appealing love
story that keeps the audience
intrigued. The second half of the
film shows the aftermath of Da-
mon finding out that Blunt was
never meant to be with him.
As the bureau haunts and
chases the couple throughout the
film, poor and hasty plot choices
are made that left me wonder-
ing, “Is this it?” While the overall
combination of a world without
free will and a pretty couple
doesn’t make for the best film,
the concept of the fictional world
alone is interesting enough to
watch, and an adequate reason to
get to the theater.
“LINCOLN LAWYER”
REVIEW BY BLAIR STENVICK
This movie might be off-
putting to a lot of people. After
all, Matthew McConaughey’s
over-relaxed acting style and
good-ol’-boy Southern drawl
can be irritating, and the title
sounded more like a “Saturday
Night Live” sketch than a
legitimate film.
But I got talked into seeing
it anyway, and it turned out
to be a fairly entertaining
two hours. Because he isn’t
trying too hard to be funny or
charming, McConaughey works
as a street-smart, self-indulgent
criminal defense lawyer whose
morals and worldview are tested
when his own client turns on
him. Ryan Phillippe plays the
defendant, a wealthy young
man accused of assaulting a
prostitute. His blank stares and
even tone of voice help to create
the scariest kind of criminal: the
one you would never expect.
You find out soon in the film
that Phillippe’s character is guilty
of assault and much more, and
the next hour and a half focuses
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Feature
“I’m going to fall asleep. I’m going to
fall asleep.”
After walking once around the
car, after smacking myself, after
singing at the top of my lungs,
after silence, I wake up speeding
past bands of metal and green.
I crashed into a shrub-covered
fence right before reaching the E.
Brokaw Rd. exit on I 880. My car
was totaled. It was 2:36 a.m.
When the police came, I felt
relief and panic.
“Have you been drinking
tonight?” the officer asked.
I looked down at my red
flower-patterned pajama bottoms
and shook my head. No, I hadn’t
been drinking, but I might as
well have.
After only sleeping two and
a half hours during a span of
three and a half days, I somehow
managed to make myself feel
invincible.
“Normal people would have
gone insane by now,” I had
boasted to others.
Research papers and finals
were my foremost concerns. I
spent the majority of the school
term having a social life, but I
wasn’t going to let that stop me
from getting A’s in my courses. I
functioned under the “work hard
— party harder” ethic, like so
many of my peers.
With this ethic, I found myself
bawling by the side of the road
on the other side of the fence.
Mascara-stained tears poured
down my cheek, as the officer
gave me back my driver’s license.
“Happy birthday,” he said.
14 | Thursday, March 31, 2011
Losing
Sleep over
Losing
Sleep
An increasing struggle to get
proper rest
By Rosela Arce, City Reporter
Illustrations By Kristian Talley
adults. In another study, NSF re-
ported that 63 percent of college
Cognitive impairments, often
the cause of collisions, are only
you’d like to get done.”
Last minute frenzies to soak
students do not sleep enough.
“The [National Highway Traf-
some of the more immediate
effects of sleep deprivation. Insuf-
in the maximum amount of
information, commonly known
I Am Not Alone fic Safety Administration (NHT- ficient sleep has direct connec- as “all-nighters,” inadvertently
SA) has] been very alarmed by tions to a person’s health in the produce the opposite effect.
“Your experience is not sleep deprivation,” Hyde said. “I long-term. A study led by Dr. Matthew
unique,” said Elizabeth Hyde, just had somebody in the office “The data is just really clear Walker of the Harvard-affiliated
nurse practitioner and patient the other day that fell asleep on that somewhere around eight Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
care coordinator at the UC Santa their way back from Tahoe. Four hours of sleep is really necessary Center found that memory im-
Cruz Health Center. kids in the car — dove into a for good health,” Hyde said, “and proved by 20 to 30 percent with
She gives me an empathetic snow bank.” some people can get by on a little proper rest.
smile and NHTSA less, but you can’t maintain the “You need to get a good night
continues to estimates same health benefits.” of sleep after you’ve learned
explain how The National Highway Traffic that Looking out from her busy something,” Walker said in
common the Safety Administration estimates tiredness Health Center office filled with HealthBeat, a U.S. Department
issue of sleep that every year sleep-deprived or sleep files and paperwork, Hyde said of Health and Human Services
depriva- drivers cause: depriva- students often frequent the center production. “If you don’t get that
tion is on tion causes with sleep issues. good night’s sleep, if you pull the
campus, as
well as across 100,000 100,000
accidents,
40,000
“I would say pretty much
everybody here works regu-
larly with people who are having
all-nighter ... both of them cause
catastrophic deficits in terms of
memory.”
the entire
country. De- ACCIDENTS injuries trouble [with sleep deprivation],” However, a lower test score is
spite health and 1,500 Hyde said. more desirable than no test score
repercussions
ranging from
altered mood
40,000 deaths in
the United
States every
Though the college scene
often motivates students’ decision
to reduce their sleeping, the abil-
at all. In the same National Sleep
Foundation study on college stu-
dents, 15 percent of those polled
and cogni- INJURIES year. As
steep car
ity to sleep is often out of their
control.
admitted to falling asleep in class.
Hyde acknowledges that often
tive impair-
1,500
ment to an insurance “Some people are choosing people reduce their sleep to get
increased prices re- not to sleep, and some people their work done.
likelihood of flect, young can’t sleep,” Hyde said. “I wish that nobody ever had
high blood
pressure and
DEATHS people
under 25 I Choose Not
to pull an all-nighter,” Hyde said.
“I just don’t think you get the
diabetes, are more To Sleep performance you imagine you’re
irregular likely to be going to get. People think, ‘I can
sleep is becoming increasingly involved in sleep-related acci- be productive all night long,’ but
common in the United States, ac- dents. Prior to my accident, I often you just really can’t.”
cording to a poll by the National Drivers awake for 17 to 19 boasted of my ability to limit my Though many can relate to
Sleep Foundation (NSF). hours drive worse than drivers sleep “effectively” and without having the occasional sleep-
The poll found that people with a blood alcohol level of .05 repercussions — or so I thought. deprived night, others go on with
averaged 6.9 hours of sleep per percent, according to research “People think they’re wast- little rest over long periods of
night, dropping an average of two conducted in New Zealand and ing time when they sleep,” Hyde time.
hours since the 1800s. Among Australia and published in the said. “I think that’s a little bit of it, Carlisa Moffett is attending
those with an increased partici- British journal Occupational and especially as the semester closes her last year at Cal State San Mar-
pation in this trend are young Environmental Medicine. and you think of all the things cos. With a workload of over 60

hours a week, including 15 units
of courses, ministry training, a
full-time job as a McDonald’s
manager and a part-time job as
a stocker at the Camp Pendleton
base commissary, Moffett is left
with very little time to sleep on a
regular basis.
“On most nights, I’m getting
three or four hours [of sleep],”
Moffett said with a bright smile
accompanied by tired eyes. “To
me, when I say, ‘Oh, I get to sleep
five hours tonight,’ that’s good
sleep.”
With tuition increases and
credit card debt, Moffett chose to
get her second job with flexible
hours at the commissary to be
more financially secure.
To save money on a $296
semester parking permit and gas,
Moffett has stopped driving her
car, for which she continues to
make payments. Instead she rides
the Sprinter, a North San Diego
County commuter train.
“It doesn’t really help me with
sleep because you have to get up
earlier to catch the Sprinter, as
opposed to driving,” Moffett said.
“I’ll doze off in the Sprinter every
now and then. I’ve been catching
the Sprinter to school to save the
money, because it’s only $116 for
the whole semester.”
Moffett continues to sacrifice
sleep, though she has felt the
adverse effects. Since she is
finishing her last year, Moffett’s
courses have become more
lecture-oriented. These lectures
keep her confined to her seat
for an uncomfortable amount of
time.
“They’re things that I’m inter-
ested in, but I cannot sit through
them,”
Feature
and Australian researchers found
How To Avoid Sleep Deprivation
Tips on how to get more sleep from acting co-director of counseling and psychological
to be the equivalent of intoxica-
tion.
Apparently, I am drunk all of
services, Mary Jan Murphy, Ph.D. and UCSC Health Center nurse practitioner and the time.
According to a study on 6,000
patient care coordinator Elizabeth Hyde.
women by James McClain of the
Never oversleep — some need more sleep than others, but half a day is pushing it National Cancer Institute, I am
Set your body clock (like Goldman’s strategy) at a higher risk of cancer, as are
Exercise other sleep-deprived women.
Don’t nap And if I manage to live every
Set a bedtime schedule — try to go to sleep around the same time every night day like I do Thursday nights, a
Go to sleep later, until you’re tired, and set that time back 15–30 minutes a night for about a week study led by James E. Gangwisch,
Ph.D. of Columbia University
Don’t make yourself go to sleep
says I am more likely to die at a
Avoid heavy meals before bedtime
younger age than my non-sleep-
Avoid alcohol consumption or other substances in the evening
deprived peers.
Reduce caffeine and nicotine consumption as much as possible Though health is a serious
Develop a “sleep ritual” — this can be something as simple as brushing your teeth concern, people having similar
Eliminate non-sleep activities in bed – you bed is your bed and your desk is your desk difficulties with sleeping don’t
Reduce noise, if needed exactly choose to be at risk.
Keep your room temperature between 60 and 70 degrees With experience in
stress-related factors of
Do a relaxing activity before sleeping — reading, music, or a hot bath
sleep deprivation, Murphy
also understands some of
Moffett said. “I am honestly nod- into her social life. choosing to sacrifice her sleep, the reasoning behind sleep
ding, and I can’t sit straight, and “On Valentine’s Day, I went Moffett does not suggest this deprivation.
I’m fidgety. Because I know I’m out on a date to the movies,” approach for everyone. She said “People react differently to
so tired, it doesn’t matter what Moffett says with a playful laugh. that she forgoes rest in hopes of stress,” Murphy said. “I think
I’m doing. As soon as I sit down “All I could tell the guy is ‘If I fall making a difference in a child’s [there’s] the anxiety about doing
and my body feels like it’s resting, asleep, please don’t think that life with her career. well in school and anxiety about,
I start to fall asleep.” you’re boring, but if I sit in here, “If you’re going to sacrifice ‘Do I have enough money?’ It’s
Walking down a fluorescent I’m going to fall asleep. It’s dark, sleep, make sure that whatever so expensive now to go to school.
hall of the Psychiatric Services and I’m going to get comfortable.’ it is that you’re doing is worth And [there’s] anxiety about may-
wing, MaryJan Murphy, Ph.D., I totally just fell asleep on him.” it,” Moffett said. “It’s not healthy, be, ‘I have to help my family.’ All
training director and acting She also fears becoming part first of all. Don’t jeopardize your that can also cause some people
co-director of counseling and of the 100,000-a-year car ac- health for a pipe dream or for to have sleep problems.”
psychological services at UCSC, cident statistic. something you know you’re not Murphy also pointed to some
says other students have similar “Now I’m scared to drive,” going to complete. It’s unneces- challenges young adults face
issues. Moffett said. “I’m always saying, sary. I wouldn’t tell people, ‘Girl, when entering college.
“It’s more difficult to concen- ‘Somebody drive with me. I don’t you don’t need to sleep. Go get “I do think it’s hard as a
trate and to study,” Murphy said. care if I have to go out of my way a job.’” college student,” Murphy said.
“Feeling overwhelmed and tired to come get you.’ I don’t want to “You’re in different kinds of living
and not having enough energy drive long-distance by myself I Can’t Sleep environment, and those living
to sort of do the tasks that you because I feel my eyes getting environments might not be the
would normally do — being heavy. It’s when my body’s at rest same that you’re used to, so there
burnt out a little bit — those [ef- and I want to be awake that I Though I’ve put my “all-night- are different kinds of noises.
fects] are really common.” wish I would have been able to er” days behind me, I still fail at You’re living with people who
Moffett’s head-nodding has get more sleep.” maintaining a regular sleeping have different cycles than you.
extended from the classroom and Despite schedule. As a self-proclaimed How do you adapt to that kind of
day and night person, I sneak in thing?”
an average of six to seven hours ‘Growing up’ brings with it
of sleep a night. On Thursday several opportunities to set off a
nights, when bars don’t have a person’s sleeping cycle. Spencer
cover fee, sleeping gets closer to Martin, a student at American
four hours. River College in Elk Grove, has
With the amount of sleep I’m struggled with sleep since his
getting, bars aren’t even neces- days in high school.
sary. “There are the eight-hour
In 2003, University of days, nine-hour days, and there
Pennsylvania researchers are the three-hour days, so prob-
published a study in ably that’s just about five [hours
which subjects slept of sleep on average],” Martin said.
under six hours a Martin would often find him-
night for two weeks. At self awake until 5 a.m., staring
the end of the study, the into the glare of Facebook.
volunteer’s performance “I can only fall asleep when
was as impaired as I’m completely exhausted,” Mar-
those who were tin said. “It’s been a long road of
awake for 48 self-induced insomnia. I’ve pur-
hours straight. posefully gotten very little sleep,
This is more than whether it be school work or just
double the amount shenanigans, that now my body
of sleepless hours is in tune with my lack of sleep.”
the New Zealand Continued on p. 18
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Feature

Losing Sleep: The struggle to get more rest

Continued from p. 15
Casey Goldman, fourth-year
at UCSC, has dealt with sleeping
problems since childhood. Like
Martin, his body does not feel
the need for sleep until dawn.
Though he falls asleep at around
6 or 7 a.m. and naturally wakes
up at around 2 p.m., he has
given up on trying to match his
own sleeping patterns to those
deemed “normal” by others.
“The way I cope with sleep
the timing of sleep and the peak
period of alertness are delayed
several hours relative to societal
clock.”
DSPS is caused by a shift in a
person’s circadian rhythm, which
leads to feeling tired at later
times. Though it is a common
sleeping pattern among youth, it
is still not understood why this
shift happens.
“We know that typically, in
or not, reduced hours of sleep
have the same effect on everyone.
“There are still times when I
get three hours of sleep and feel
like a zombie for the rest of the
day,” Martin said.
With sleepless nights that
kept Martin feeling like the living I have left to get to the bank, get
dead, he started to think of lead-
ing a different lifestyle.
“Some-
times what
Illustration by Kristian Talley
difficult.
“The rest of the world operates
on a different clock,” Goldman
said. “For most everybody, the
day starts when I’m just getting
ready to go to bed. If I wake up at
2 p.m., there are very few hours
to school, get through all this
stuff and get to the library before
it all closes
down.”
For those losing sleep over
losing sleep, Hyde said that many
of these changes are natural.
“Developmentally, it’s normal
to stay up late,” Hyde said. “I
don’t know that it’s necessarily
college life. I think it’s part of
coming of age, figuring out ‘Am
I a day person? Am I a night
person? Do I need seven hours?
Do I need nine hours? Am I ter-
ribly susceptible to noise? Can I
sleep anywhere?’ [It’s about] just
discovering yourself.”
3
I Will Sleep
Though the “dangers” of sleep
deprivation may be overwhelm-
ing, there isn’t much of a reason
to worry. Before developing into
anything serious, most negative
effects can be reversed with a
solution that is not very surpris-
ing — more sleep.
Determined to change my
sleeping habits, I picked up a few
tips from Martin, Goldman and a
couple of handouts that Murphy
and Hyde printed out for me.
Though Goldman’s hours are
far from the average person’s
sleeping period, he said he has
been able to regulate his sleep
with a suggestion his Los Angeles
doctor gave him.
“The best piece of advice,
though, is staying out in the sun
for about an hour during the
middle of the day, if possible,”
Goldman said. “[My doctor] says
the time-frame is really good to
help your body start to regulate,
to understand that it is noon
when it is noon. I fall asleep right

deprivation now is that I don’t
try to force myself to go to sleep,”
Goldman said. “I let it take its
course, and I try as best as I can
to move my schedule and my life
around when my body wants to
sleep.”
For those who have difficulty
falling asleep, most literature
on sleep health shows that it is
best not to stay in bed awake for
long periods of time, suggesting
activities that make people feel
tired instead.
For a wide spectrum of
reasons, many young adults have
similar difficulties with sleep.
There is a disproportion-
ate number of adolescents and
young adults (approximately
7 to 16 percent) with Delayed
Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS),
according to the Stanford Center
for Sleep Sciences and Medicine
(SCSSM). SCSSM defines this
syndrome as “a disorder in which
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the teenage years, people stay up
later at night and get up later in
the morning,” Hyde said. “But
our society isn’t set up that way.
So you just stay up late and still
have to get up early.”
Adhering to society’s sleep
schedule can be especially
difficult for those with sleep
disorders. But sometimes a lack
of sleep is a result of a conscious
choice.
“It’s hard to tell the difference
between people who can’t sleep
and the people who are bored
and stay up all night,” Martin
said. “It might just be the same
thing, but I think a lot of people
our age stay up pretty late at
night ... because if you can keep
yourself busy with pretty much
anything now, there’s no point in
going to sleep right when the sun
goes down.”
Whether a person chooses to
decrease the amount they sleep
DSPS:
around 6 a.m.-ish. That certainly
happens Because isn’t a usual time for someone to
with Goldman fall asleep, but it is pretty much
college Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome has seen constant, and it’s much better
students A Disorder in which the timing general than it being so erratic.”
is that performance With the winter rain clouds
they start
of sleep and the peak period improve- parting from Santa Cruz, this
worrying, of altertness are delayed ment in us- technique should be useful to me.
‘Oh my several hours relative to ing his new Since beginning his change
gosh! I’m societal clock. Approximately approach in lifestyle, Martin has noticed
not getting 7 to 16 percent of adolescents to sleep, he improvement, as well.
enough continues “Recently, I’ve just been sick of
sleep. Oh,
and young adults have DSPS. to maintain being tired all the time,” Martin
that’s a this sched- said. “I’m a lot more active now
problem,’ ule. How- and getting better sleep, so I
and it starts to get really big,” ever, Goldman does not encour- guess the cure to my situation, at
Murphy said. “If you don’t get age his method for those having least, was just doing more stuff
the sleep you need, you might be problems sleeping. during the day, exercise more, eat
a little bit tired the next day, but “I’ve been able to just get by, healthier. It’s happened slowly,
you’ll still probably be able to do which is good enough for me but I feel a lot better now than I
what you need to do, and hope- right now,” Goldman said. “For did when I drank a bunch of
fully you’ll make it up the next people that have issues with sleep caffeine during the day and
day. It sometimes sets its own deprivation, it makes life very stayed up all night and got very
worry off for college students.” difficult for them. I would hope little sleep.”
Though Goldman gets the that they would see a doctor if
full amount of suggested sleep, they can and they try whatever
adjusting his schedule has been they can in order to get sleep.”
 Community & Culture

Santa Cruz Offers Assistance to Japan

Santa Cruz donations help sister city provide aid for victims of recent natural disasters

By Mikaela Todd The southern Japanese city a very long time,” Iwasawa-San
Community & Culture has not been immediately af- said in a thank-you letter to the
Co-Editor fected by the recent tsunami and city of Santa Cruz. He said that
earthquakes in the northern part the donations have helped every-
of the country, but Shingu’s do- thing “from searching for victims
mestic sister city Natori has been to supplying various needs for
Santa Cruz has sent $5,250 in ravaged by the natural disasters. survival and daily living.”
support to its sister city Shingu, Santa Cruz is indirectly In a letter to former mayor
Japan, after a recent earthquake helping Shingu send support to Cynthia Mathews received earlier
left more than 11,000 people in Natori through donations. Once this month, Iwasawa-San said, “I
the country dead. they reach Shingu, monetary heard that more than 60 coun-
Earlier this month, it was donations are used to buy food, tries set up humanitarian rescue
reported that Santa Cruz sent water and petrol as well as fund- teams to this area.”
$3,000 in donations to Shingu. ing emergency teams made up The support is not one-sided.
As of March 28, the number had of firefighters, volunteers, and Japan’s consul general in San
increased to over $5,000. anyone willing to lend a helping Francisco, Hiroshi Inomata,
Shingu is one of Santa Cruz’s hand in a time of crisis. wrote Mayor Ryan Coonerty on
five sister cities, or officially For Santa Cruz’s main sister March 14 to express his concern
recognized partner communities city contact, Iwasawa-San, dona- about Santa Cruz’s tsunami dev-
across the globe. These relation- tions could not have come soon astation, wishing the city swift
ships are intended to promote enough. He is thankful for the recovery of its harbor and boats.
Illustration by Rachel Edelstein
understanding and strengthen city’s concern and help. Current Santa Cruz city coun-
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international ties. “Recovery seems to be taking cil member Katherine Beiers said
that delegations are sent to Japan for the best.” sweeping over fields.” She learned
every year, and just as often, Former mayor Mathews has that this was in Natori. “[Santa
student delegations or the mayor been on several sister city delega- Cruz] responded within a few
of Shingu visit Santa Cruz. tion trips as city council member days.”
“We have a really great and as mayor. She has been in Although nuclear radiation
relationship with our sister city,” contact with multiple people, from the power plant explosion
Beiers said. including her own host mother north of Tokyo has not presented
Lisa McGinnis, a member of in Japan, since the disasters hit. a problem for Shingu as of yet,
the Santa Cruz Sister Cities Com- Yoshiko Umibe, Mathews’ Matthews said, the people of
mittee, said she was “extremely host mother, wrote to Matthews Shingu are still concerned about
heartened by the overwhelming on March 11, “It’s horrible. I can’t this third blow to their country.
response,” with regard to Santa imagine that this is real. There Wayne Nash, a Sister Cities
Cruzans’ support of Japan. Committee staff member, wrote
“Shingu’s relationship with
Master of Social Work and Santa Cruz is one of the longest “They are all wonderful
in a letter to Cynthia Mathews
on March 14, “So far everyone in
Graduate Psychology Programs and strongest relationships of all
Santa Cruz’s sister cities,” McGin- people and it’s sad that Shingu is doing fine. However,
we are a little frantic here at city
nis said. “We are heartened by the people of Japan are hall as we get more news reports
the generosity Santa Cruzans are
showing their friends in Shingu
experiencing this. We’re of nuclear fallout.”
Azusa Pacific University’s graduate programs empower With this looming threat and
and Natori.” all hoping for the best.” the rest of the country in sham-
you to put compassion into action. Prepare to make Overall, Santa Cruz has five bles, Shingu citizens continue to
a difference. sister cities across the world, and
­‑Lisa McGinnis, Santa send help and donations to their
has been connected to Shingu for friends in Natori, and hope that
Master of Social Work
Internships in the Greater Los Angeles area
37 years. The relationship agree- Cruz Sister Cities any friends and family members
ment was signed in 1974.
Integration of faith and social work practice “The Sister Cities Commit-
Committee member who are still missing find their
way home.
Full-time and part-time options tee was formed on the basis that In a letter to Cynthia Mathews
For more information, visit www.apu.edu/explore/msw/. peace can be achieved through dated March 14, Iwasawa-San
Graduate Psychology Programs person-to-person contact,” Mc- is still no reply from one of my shared an old Japanese proverb
Ginnis said. “When you visit, for friends, so I can’t help feeling to illustrate his feelings about the
APA-accredited Psy.D. Program
example, you stay in their homes, worried about her.” natural disasters and the large
M.A. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and
and they stay in our homes when Umibe thanked Matthews number of responses.
Family Therapy they visit.” for her concern and assured her “Rain makes the ground firm,
Alignment with current California licensure requirements These strong ties have made it that everything in Shingu was meaning some immense hap-
For more information, visit www.apu.edu/explore/graduatepsychology/. especially hard for Santa Cruzans untouched by the tsunami and pening may give a good turning
to see Japan in distress. earthquakes. point for the future,” he wrote.
“They are all wonderful “Nobody plans for something “Sharing the experience of this
people and it’s sad that the people like this,” Mathews said. disaster with sympathy can lead
of Japan are experiencing this,” Mathews said she saw cover- us to reconsider issues of life and
McGinnis said. “We’re all hoping age on CNN of “a big black wave death and each view of life.”
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Column
Let’s Talk About Me
By Blair Stenvick
Opinions Editor
A
s I write this, a few weeks before my deadline,
Lent is about to start. Though I don’t consider
myself a practicing Catholic, the lingering effects
of a K-12 religious education have me convinced that the
act of giving something up is beneficial to one’s character.
So come Ash Wednesday, I’ll be committing the most
controversial act a member of my generation is capable
of — I’m going to deactivate my Facebook account for 40
days and 40 nights.
Don’t think this decision comes easily to me. While
I’m not someone who posts multiple status updates about
eating a sandwich (unless it’s just a really phenomenal
sandwich), I do take advantage of all Facebooking has to
offer.
I know I’m going to miss the little thrill that comes
when someone unexpectedly “likes” my new profile
picture. It’ll be weird not being able to leave random com-
ments on my best friend’s page referencing inside jokes.
I’m not sure what I’m going to look at in line at CVS now
that I can’t turn to the news feed on my iPhone.
But I’m anticipating that after a week or two of
withdrawals, I’ll get over missing the supposedly social
interactions that Facebook offers. After all, I’ll still have
texting, phone calls and email, as well as the option of
occasionally venturing outside my room for some person-
to-person conversations.
Illustration by Matt Boblet
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Focus on the personal is taking over entertainment
What I’m really afraid of is that in losing my Facebook,
I’ll somehow lose myself.
Yes, I write statuses so that other people will “like” and
comment on them. But another reason I post them is that
doing so offers some concrete evidence of who I am. Post-
ing links and commenting on pictures is a way of defining
myself.
I can’t always say the perfect thing in real life, and my
self-esteem walks a curious tightrope between irritating
ego and crushing self-doubt. But by constantly adding
and subtracting quotes and favorite movies on my profile,
and posting links and tagging photos that best exemplify
the person I think I want to be, I’m able to create a public,
“Marshall McLuhan famously declared
that ‘the medium is the message,’ and the
self is increasingly becoming a legitimate
medium. So what’s the message?”
virtual version of myself that is easy to like. In the after-
math of rejection or frustration, Real-Life-Blair creeps on
Facebook-Blair, and it’s cathartic. She feels better about
life.
What does it mean that I need that kind of masturba-
tory verification that I am indeed a worthwhile person?
I’m not sure, but from the looks of pop culture these days,
I’m not the only one.
It’s no ground-breaking stretch to connect reality
shows to social media. They’re the community
colleges of stardom — nobody’s first choice as
a means to become a celebrity, but these days
there’s little stigma attached to them, and
they can lead to much bigger things. Heidi
from “The Hills” and Snooki from “Jersey
Shore” don’t have any marketable skills
— they’re famous for being famous — so
they’d better make themselves entertain-
ing to observe. Reality shows are all about
deciding who one wants to be and then
synthesizing that image, so it’s no surprise
that their heyday coincides with the age of
Facebook and blogs.
But it goes deeper than that. Focus on the self has per-
meated American popular culture. David Sedaris’ comical
stories about his daily life always top bestseller lists. With
the success of books like “Eat Pray Love” and “Running
With Scissors,” the memoir has caught up with the novel
as being a standard leisure read.
Even scripted television series are all about their stars.
Tina Fey plays Liz Lemon on “30 Rock,” a thinly veiled
account of Fey’s own experiences working on “Saturday
Night Live.”
In a similar vein, Larry David and Louis CK both play
pseudo-fictionalized versions of themselves in their TV
shows. The personalities are the same as those of their
characters, though. It’s only the plot lines surrounding
them that are false. The comedians aren’t acting — they’re
just being themselves in an alternate, filmed universe.
Marshall McLuhan famously declared that “the me-
dium is the message,” and the self is increasingly becom-
ing a legitimate medium. So what’s the message?
People can’t shut up about themselves, and I’ll confess
that I can relate. And the thing is, most of the works I’ve
mentioned (with the exception of “Eat Pray Love”) are
really, really good, probably because people are writing
about what they know best — their own lives.
But still, I wonder if the focus on the self can produce
any work of lasting merit. One hundred years from now,
will people want to read David Sedaris’ account of his
experiences cleaning rich people’s houses?
Sedaris has been called a modern-day Mark Twain, but
Twain wrote fictional stories with characters very different
from himself. What’s a more insightful representation of
culture: the diary-esque but true observations from one
man, or the made-up tales that are meant to imply some-
thing much deeper about society?
I don’t have an answer to this, except to say that there’s
probably room for both, especially given the extremely
fragmented nature of popular culture today. Good
entertainment is good entertainment, and how it’s made
matters more than what it’s about.
That being said, it’s worth noting that Mark Twain’s
autobiography was released last year. Per the author’s
orders, it was not released until 100 years after his death,
and was met with much praise. Imagine if every Face-
book post took 100 years to process before it appeared.
Somehow, I’m not sure that future generations would care
much about my awesome sandwich.

Moths in My Wallet,
Axes in Their Hands
California state legislature
denies citizens’ choice
between taxes and cuts
By Asa Hess-Matsumoto
Sports Editor
W
hen it comes to the UC system's budgetary
crisis, any news is typically bad news. Con-
sider the $620.8 million fee hikes imposed on
students in 2009 and 2010, the $28 million one-time cuts
dealt to UC Santa Cruz staff and faculty, and the rapid
extinction of “non-standard” programs such as UCSC's
American studies major.
The UC regents have come to view the budgetary crisis
as gangrenous, hacking away at the UC system until either
it dies or the crisis ends, whichever comes first.
But our financial woes as UC students are closely tied
to, if not exacerbated by, the state's ongoing budget crisis.
Yet the give-and-take relationship between the UC and
the state bears more resemblance to Adrian Lyne's “Fatal
Attraction” than Rob Reiner's “When Harry Met Sally.”
In a plan to close the state's budget deficit, the $305
million that former Gov. Schwarzenegger restored to the
UC system in 2010 was trumped by the $500 million cut
made by Gov. Jerry Brown. Brown's self-described “tough
budget for tough times” additionally included a $400 mil-
lion slash from the California Community Colleges sys-
tem and $500 million from the California State University
system, all part of $8.2 billion worth of cuts made in total.
And that's only half of the bill the state owes.
Brown's plan to close the budget gap also included
extending taxes that were set to expire in June. The exten-
sions, which included a 0.25 percent increase on personal
income tax rates, a 1 percent boost in the retail-sales levy,
and a reduction in the state's annual child tax credit from
$309 to $99, would have helped close the state's budget
deficit by roughly $12 billion.
Barring the approval of the tax extensions, the burden
to make up the $12 billion would rest on a second swing
of the axe — further cuts to health, education, and other
public services. For the UC system, this could potentially
make our $500 million cut into a hefty $1 billion.
In the last meeting of the UC regents, UC Berkeley
Chancellor Robert Birgeneau stressed that further cuts to
the UC budget would all but capsize the higher education
system.
“We have no model to accommodate that $1 billion,”
Birgeneau said. “It would devastate our staff and faculty.”
UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal supported
Birgeneau's sentiments.
“There is no way we cannot cut academic enterprises at
this point,” Blumenthal said. “The amount of our campus’s
cut is equal to the funding of our largest department.”
Throwing their support behind allowing voters to vote
on the tax extensions are over 250 local school boards, the
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and the Bay Area
Council, which represents many of the biggest and well-
known businesses in northern California.
Barring the ballot initiative, however, are four votes
Column
Illustration by Louise Leong
from Republicans — two in the House, two in the Sen-
ate — in the state legislature. Republicans presented the
governor with a list of 53 demands, which included ad-
ditional budgetary cuts, the elimination of redevelopment
agencies, and limiting legal damages that can be sought
in environmental lawsuits filed against businesses, among
other things.
With the Republicans unwilling to budge on their list
of demands, the hammer dropped. Negotiations to put
the tax extensions on the ballot have crumbled and with
it, my faith in the California state legislature. The legisla-
ture has chosen not to let its citizenry decide whether our
colleges are worth keeping.
In his Tuesday announcement, Brown said he was
committed to “coming up with honest and real solutions
to our budget crisis.” But what's left are legally question-
able maneuvers to force the extensions on the ballot or
an all-cut budget with virtually no chance of passing the
legislature.
In retrospect, I'm reminded of the character Corey
Giles from “The Crucible,” having stone upon stone piled
atop his chest in a peine forte et dure (hard and forceful
punishment). Unable to move, unable to breathe, Giles
had no choice but to staunchly bear the pain from being
increasingly crushed. In a morbidly appropriate context,
his last words — perhaps ours as well — before his chest
caved in were grim.
“More weight.”
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Editorial

Keeping the Middle Man

Cutting TAs cuts ties between students and university

T
he teaching assistants at UC Santa
Cruz usually grade your essays and
finals, lead discussion sections, provide a
connection to the professor, and help establish the
curriculum and teaching style of the class. Let’s
take a moment to realize just how important
TAs are to the University of California, though be the ones facing the repercussions.
they deserve much more than just a moment. Let’s build up some of this nightmare.
Granted, there is some overlap in workload Cutting TAs would mean: less student-
with the professors, but they need TAs just as instructor interaction in larger classes, more
much as we, the students, do. How else would a difficulty enrolling in smaller courses (since the
Illustration by Bela Messex
class of 200 students receive their essays or tests number of TAs usually dictates the class size),
back in a timely fashion? and even fewer places to engage in open discus-
However, the TA is a dying breed, due greatly sion and refine our perspectives.
to constant budget issues that have plagued our And that’s just what we’re able to perceive. “However, the TA is a dying breed, due
university system for years. And now, we face Who knows what else would follow in the after-
math of more cuts? It’s probably safe to say there greatly to constant budget issues that
the possibility of losing an additional 120
TAs. would be more protests, and deservedly so. have plagued our university system for
We need our TAs now more Our university is hemorrhaging. It’s an issue years.”
than ever, and making cuts that California is dealing with, from state jobs to
to that sector of our univer- the housing market and even NBA basketball
sity would be doing a huge teams (farewell, Sacramento Kings). The
disservice to the stu- issue is universal.
We just want to know that the uni- administrators’ salaries could easily pay for many TAs.
dents who essential- Another possible solution is offering class credit to TAs
ly fund every aspect versity is truly looking into all aspects
of their spending, and that they aren’t instead of paying them. This is something that is already
of our university at done in some departments, such as psychology and eco-
this point. just figuring that these graduate
students — who give up their time, nomics, and college core courses.
It’s our money, so These are hard times for everyone in California, espe-
we should be able to say blood, sweat and tears — are not
just a dime a dozen. Individual TAs cially within the UC system — with an additional $500
what we want to keep million in cuts on the way, and the possibility of even
— and what we want to can’t be easily replaced, especially
while they’re getting more. However, making cuts to the TAs, the very people
keep is our TAs. who arguably have the largest connection with students
Hang with us here, screwed over as a whole.
City on a Hill and the way that they learn, is not the right move for the
because as crazy as this UC system.
may sound, the TAs are Press has always
integral to our learning suggested looking
at cutting from the What do you think?
environment. If we take them Visit cityonahillpress.com and give us your feedback!
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 Who the Hell?!

Who the
Hell Asked
You?! “No, because he’s expired.” “Yes, I’d make him into tea and drink him.”

DANIELLE LAVY ADONIS MARCUS

If Charlie Sheen were a drug, SECOND-YEAR, KRESGE FOURTH-YEAR, CROWN
PSYCHOLOGY MARINE BIOLOGY
would you take him? How?

Compiled by Bela Messex & Sal Ingram

“Yes, because he’d melt my face off.” “No, because he’s a hot mess.”

VALERIE LEE ERIN CALDWELL

FIRST-YEAR, MERRILL THIRD-YEAR, COWELL
SOCIOLOGY MATHEMATICS

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