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To: UCSC Community

Fr: Chancellor George Blumenthal and Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Felicia McGinty
Re: April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
 

Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff:

In an ongoing effort to promote a safe, healthy campus environment, we are writing to remind you that
April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Along with colleges and universities throughout the country,
UCSC is taking part in the designated month to reduce the incidence of gender-based violence, including sexual
assault, domestic and dating violence, and stalking.

Every member of the community can stand up against sexual violence. Sexual assault is an unfortunate
reality on college campuses and affects us all in some way. According to national statistics from the National
Institute of Justice and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in six American women and one in 33
American men have experienced rape or attempted rape, and most survivors do not tell anyone about the
assault or report to the police.

We strive to make our campus a safe place by bolstering victim assistance services, supporting and
advocating for survivors, and enhancing education and prevention programs. In recognition of Sexual Assault
Awareness Month, the Student Health Outreach and Promotion (SHOP) office and Women’s Center are hosting
a month-long series of programs to raise awareness about sexual assault and prevention.

April 1-30, UCSC Fact Walk: Awareness campaign to educate the campus community about
sexual assault.

April 11-27, SHOP Outreach: Increase visibility of campus resources and opportunities to get
students involved in ending sexual violence.

April 27, National Denim Day: Wear denim as a visible sign in support of ending sexual assault.

April 29, Take Back the Night: March and rally against rape and other forms of sexual violence.
 

Sexual violence impacts out entire community. Join us in taking a stand and learn more about available
resources and campus efforts to end sexual violence.  For more information,
visit: http://www2.ucsc.edu/healthcenter/shop/sadv/index.shtml
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Table of Contents
TABLE
Kyan Mahzouf
P. 8 SANTA CRUZANS P. 9 THE METHODICAL P. 10 THROUGH P. 12 WHY SANTA CRUZ
PROTEST CORPORATE
TAX EXEMPTIONS
by Mark Rad
P. 5 George Blumenthal Q&A
by Sarah Naugle, Laurel Fujii &
Emiliano O’Flaherty-Vazquez
P. 6 A Changing UC:
Student a Major Victim of
Budget Cuts — Twice
by Ryan Mark-Griffin
P. 7 Busting the Budget and
Opening the Floor
by Rosela Arce &
Chelsea Hawkins
4 | Thursday, April 21, 2011
of
Prescott Watson
WORLD OF
ORIENTEERING
by Eli Wolfe
P. 15 Reviews: “Win Win”
Wins, “Hanna” Hits the Target,
and More
by Mitchell Bates & Hanna Toda
P. 16 One-Woman Play
Has Soul of Full Cast
by Hanna Toda
P. 17 4/20: Lighting Up the
Yearly Tradition
by Michael Mott & Laurel Fujii
CONTENTS
Rachel Edelstein
OUR PENS
by Staff
P. 18 Community Chest:
Duo Strives to Suspend Sale of
Plastic Water Bottles
by Michael Mott
P. 19 Editorial: Lethal
Injection Cocktail Missing Key
Ingredient — Critical Thinking
Editorial: U.S. Military
Cover-Ups of Sexual Assault
Are Egregious
Morgan Grana
WATER DISTRICT
HAS TURNED TO
DESALINATION
by Sarah Naugle
Cover illustration
by Louise Leong,
Bela Messex & Ryan Ayers
Corrections: In the April 14 article
“Silian Rail’s Instrumental Tale,”
the Parhelion orange vinyl album is
a European release from record label
Subsuburban.
In the April 14 article “Saving Campus
Culture,” the Measure 49 referendum
was sponsored by a petition
signed by at least 10 percent of the
undergraduate student body.
 Campus

Q&A with Chancellor Blumenthal

Blumenthal and executive vice chancellor Alison Galloway discuss the budget
By Sarah Naugle state, student, federal money). They used a compli-
Campus Co-Editor cated formula to do that. Generally, they took more
money from state general funds than from medical
&
centers. But if you look at the total budget for UC,
Laurel Fujii the total state funded budget for UC next year un-
Campus Reporter der Jerry Brown is $2.4 billion. But the total budget
& of UC, if you include medical centers and all that,
Emiliano O’Flaherty-Vazquez is closer to $20 billion. A flat tax on all expenditure
Campus Reporter is going to be advantageous to campuses like Santa
Cruz, which are more dependent on state funds,
as opposed to campuses like UCLA for example,
where a large part of their operation is a huge medi-
cal center.
UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal and
executive vice chancellor Alison Galloway sat down
KZSC: With the increase in student fees, what is
on April 14 with student media organizations to
the outlook for incoming freshmen next year?
discuss issues facing the university. City on a Hill
There’s the possibility that they won’t be able
Press, KZSC, SCTV, TWANAS and The Fish Rap
to apply because they can’t pay, and with the
Live! touched on the topics of decentralization and
removal of more grant programs, how can they
the $500 million cut to the UC system.
enter a UC?
Blumenthal: First the good news — Cal Grants have
City on a Hill Press: At the UC Board of Regents
been preserved in the budget at the federal level,
meeting in March, you said if the state legislature
although as you probably know from reading the
ends up cutting $1 billion from the UC system,
papers, there was a push by some to severely limit
“some fundamental assumptions have to be
them ... We have at UC the Blue and Gold Program,
thrown out.” In regards to UCSC, what assump-
which guarantees that students with a household
tions are you referring to?
income of less than $80,000 don’t pay fees. They
Blumenthal: I really don’t believe that the campus
should not be concerned. The people who are really
can responsibly take cuts of that magnitude and still
hurt by fee increases are people in the middle class.
maintain the kind of student experience that you’ve
Prescott Watson
come to expect. I think that the responses will
KZSC: Just going off avail-
have to be systemic — there will have to be a major
ability for classes, there was a
effort to bring additional money into the system,
proposal to cut the class time
and that’ll have to be done on a systemwide basis. I
to 60 minutes, down from 70.
think in the short run, it’ll probably lead to signifi-
Is this correct ... [and] was the
cant fee increases. I don’t see any other choice ... A
purpose to save revenue or to
billion-dollar cut to UC really is Armageddon, and
increase availability?
the way you deal with Armageddon is with really
Galloway: It was largely to
radical solutions.
increase availability, because it
would give us an extra slot in
SCTV: On April 5 [Gov.] Jerry Brown said “the
the day in which students could
university is an engine of wealth creation.” I’d like
get a class. One of our problems
to get your response to that idea.
is we have so few large lecture
Blumenthal: I completely agree with that. Let me
halls, so it’s difficult to have the
limit my response to California. California is a
large classes which preserve the
knowledge-based economy — there’s a lot of farm-
smaller classes. Another slot
ing, but a lot of California’s economy has a lot to do
would help us move enough
with intellectual property, creating things, whether
students through so they could
it’s Hollywood or IP. We really need an educated
all get into a class.
populace in order for that to happen. It’s true that
for every dollar invested in UC, the long run repays
KZSC: What do you think the
that investment many times over. It’s a great invest-
potential benefits and down-
ment for the state of California. The reason they
falls are to this plan?
don’t do it is because they need the money now, and
Galloway: Benefits would be
they’re not so worried about the future. I think it’s
students getting into classes
short-sighted.
that they need. Less delays in
their progress to their degree.
CHP: Regarding the decentralization plan, where
Downsides are pretty obvi-
all the campuses will pay a flat tax to UCOP
ous — if you have less time in
instead of paying them funds and getting funds
class, you’re going to get less out
back — this will probably be more beneficial to
of the class. It’s frustrating as a
smaller campuses rather than larger campuses.
faculty member when you have
Could you comment on that?
a certain amount of material
Blumenthal: It’s a little more complicated than that
you have to get through. We’re
... For every different color of money that came to
teaching a semester’s worth of
the system, like the mafia, they would take a piece
material in a quarter. It’s hard to
of the action off the top, and it was a different piece
do in the first place.
and percentage based on the color (health, lab,

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STATS
Name: Lexi Stephenson
Year: Fourth-year
Major: American studies
Predicament: Stephenson
joined community studies
in her sophomore year.
Returning from studying
abroad in her junior year, she
found the program cut. Less
than a year later, her second
major, American studies, was
suspended, leaving her with
limited class selection and
unsatisfied with the quality of
her education.
6 | Thursday, April 21, 2011
A Changing UC
Budget cuts force student through two majors
Prescott Watson
By Ryan Mark-Griffin
Campus Co-Editor
Lexi Stephenson’s mother likes
to say, “No one can take your
education.” But after Stephenson
switched from community
studies after it was cut last winter,
only to see the suspension of her
current major, American studies,
it seems like someone is trying
very hard to do so.
Stephenson fell in love with
community studies as a second-
year when she took an introduc-
tory course taught by Sean Burns.
Although a self-proclaimed sci-
ence and math student by nature,
she said she felt inspired by that
class to make a difference.
“Walking out of the class-
room, I felt like change really
could happen and that I could
be a part of it,” Stephenson said.
“That was one of the greatest feel-
ings I have ever felt in my entire
life.”
Stephenson decided that she
wanted to provide educational
opportunities for immigrants
“When you believe in something and [the university] decides it isn’t
valuable, it’s very disheartening.”
— Lexi Stephenson, fourth-year American studies major
and the children of immigrants. “A lot of us come here to get the Stephenson says American
So after declaring the commu- alternative education offered at studies majors should not be left
nity studies major, Stephenson UCSC. Unfortunately [budget to fight for social sciences and
focused her courses in education. cuts] are changing that.” humanities programs.
Studying abroad in Barcelona, Stephenson said she and fel- “I think it is the responsibility
Spain during her third year, low American studies majors are of students and teachers to
Stephenson met a fellow commu- angry about what is happening, do something about this,”
nity studies major from UCSC but are unsure of how to act. For Stephenson said. “A lot of
in a dive bar. Learning of her a while Stephenson had been students come here with the false
peer’s field study orchestrating considering utilizing public art to notion that they will be able to
a needle exchange program for make her frustrations heard, but take these classes.”
sex workers, Stephenson became decided that might not accom- Despite her frustrations,
increasingly excited about her plish anything. Stephenson feels lucky to have
own field study. However, when “I wanted to make signs that been a part of the program
she returned to UCSC for winter say, ‘Fuck UC’ really big and put before it was suspended.
quarter last year, she found her them all over campus. But that “I think the [American
major had been cut and the is not very mature,” Stephenson studies] major is the best
courses she intended to take were said. “If you do that, no one is education I could have gotten at
no longer offered. going to listen.” this school,” she said.
“It was just sad,” Stephenson
said. “When you believe in
something and [the university]
decides it isn’t valuable, it’s very
disheartening.”
She scrambled to redefine her
interests to fit course offerings,
but eventually decided she was
unwilling to compromise her
education to remain in the major.
“I was trying to change what
I wanted to do just to get into
classes,” Stephenson said. “That
defeated the purpose for me.
Community studies is supposed
to be about finding a passion and
then figuring out a way to use it
to make a difference.”
After debating her options,
Stephenson declared the Ameri-
can studies major. In January,
faculty in the American studies
department voted to suspend
admission to the major start-
ing July 1. They cited as the
primary reason for suspension
the dwindling resources that
significantly reduced the capabil-
ity of the program to provide a
quality educational experience
for students.
Stephenson said programs
like American studies are the
reason many students come to
UCSC, and eliminating these
options degrades the value of the
university.
“Santa Cruz attracts a certain
type of student,” Stephenson said.

Santa Cruz Democrats
Address Budget
Concerns
Open primaries and public redistricting
are hot topics and possible solutions
In light of the federal gov-
ernment’s last-minute bud-
get compromise, many Santa
Cruzans are concerned that the
California state congress is going
in the same direction — toward a
budget stalemate.
The Santa Cruz Democratic
Party hosted a forum to discuss
California’s budgetary problems
on April 13 in the Police Depar-
ment Community Room.
At the forum, community
members were able to engage
with a pannel comprising Santa
Cruz mayor Ryan Coonerty,
who led the forum and county
treasurer Fred Keeley.
Cynthia Matthews, city of
By Rosela Arce & Chelsea
Hawkins
City Reporters
Santa Cruz chamber of com-
merce board member, acted as
moderator.
The majority of the topics
addressed involved proposals
to balance the state budget and
encourage compromise in Cali-
fornia’s legislature.
“We are all feeling the rotten
economy magnified by the state
budget crisis,” Matthews said.
“There aren’t quick fixes and easy
solutions.”
Keeley proposed two major
changes that would help resolve
tensions in the state legislature
and accelerate the budget plan-
ning processes: open primaries
and public redistricting.
These proposals would allow
for greater inclusion of political
moderates, Keeley said. Current-
ly, in the state of California 20.4
percent of voters are registered as
having “no party preference,” a 5
percent increase since 2003.
Keeley said the growth of
the middle gives Democrats “a
negotiating partner who can give
and take” and “doesn’t laugh, but
listens.”
Diane Le, a fourth-year
politics major and president of
College Democrats at UCSC who
was at the forum, was intrigued
by open primaries.
“Open primaries are a really
interesting idea because it brings
forth a more moderate source
for candidates to go to, so
Democrats aren’t completely
leaning on the left or Republi-
cans leaning on the right,” Le
said.
Some, however, oppose
Keeley’s other proposal —
public redistricting — because
of the possible implications for
the Democratic Party.
Le said that as a representa-
tive of the Democratic Party,
she did not agree with the idea
of public redistricting.
“[Democrats] are the party
in power right now, and letting
us draw the lines keeps the
politicians where they are,” Le
said.
Public redistricting, some
people — including Le —
believe, would threaten the
power balance that currently
favors the Democratic Party
Illustration by Bela Messex
“[The city and its
residents are having]
a much more honest
conversation than Sac-
ramento is having with
the state of California.”
—Ryan Coonerty,
Mayor of Santa Cruz
because it would allow district
lines to be drawn by the people,
and could result in a change in
legislature seats.
Keeley saw the fear of los-
ing power in the legislature as
unfounded.
“There’s not a shred of evi-
dence that [public redistricting]
will hurt Democrats,” Keeley
said. “These are the same voters
who elected Jerry Brown gover-
nor, who elected Barbara Boxer
to another term in the Senate
last year, who said no to Meg
Whitman, who said no to Carly
Fiorina, [and] who said no to
repealing the California climate
change law.”
While Keeley focused on the
state level, Coonerty stressed
the importance of maintaining
a balanced city budget and the
relationship between state and
local power.
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Campus
“[The city and its residents
are having] a much more honest
conversation than Sacramento is
having with the state of Califor-
nia,” Coonerty said. “We simply
say, ‘We cannot provide you with
all these services that we once
did, and we have to raise taxes,’
but that’s what it takes to balance
our budget.”
Santa Cruz’s general fund has
dropped from over $70 million to
$55 million. As part of the city’s
pledge for a balanced budget,
it has reduced social service
programs by 48 percent in the
past two years, Coonerty said.
The city also raised taxes four out
of the last five times it presented
proposed tax increases to the
community.
Coonerty said it “hurt” to
make such decisions but that they
were fiscally responsible.
Like Coonerty, Keeley reiterat-
ed throughout the night that the
solution to the California budget
crisis lies in “targeted cutting and
temporary tax increases.”
The speakers stressed the
importance of including politi-
cal moderates in the discussion,
especially with the necessary
two-thirds majority vote needed
to pass a budget.
“California has a democracy
problem,” Keeley said. “We have
set a game where it is impossible
to win.”
City
Tax Day Protest Challenges
Corporate Practices
By Mark Rad
City Reporter
Santa Cruzans protested in
front of Bank of America on
Monday, declaring that corpo-
rations should pay taxes to the
government like individuals do.
Around 40 people protested
outside the Bank of America on
River Street and later moved the
protest to the downtown clock
tower. Santa Cruz’s local chapter
of MoveOn.org — a family of po-
litical organizations that sponsor
campaigns for federal issues like
the Iraq War, as well as presiden-
tial campaigns — sponsored the
event.
Organizers picked Bank of
America because of the bank’s
previous bailout of $1 trillion,
according to a list entitled “Guide
to Corporate Freeloaders” by Sen.
Bernie Sanders (D-Vt).
In the 2011 U.S. federal
budget, corporations like Valero
Energy Corporation, Carni-
val Cruise Lines and Bank of
America were exempt from pay-
ing taxes. Businesses paying their
taxes would alleviate the state
financial deficit, said Pat Arnold,
president of the Santa Cruz
United Nations Association and
Bay Area organizer of political
activism group Raging Grannies.
“If the corporations just paid
their fair share, all of the states’
debts would be accounted for,”
Arnold said.
In “Guide to Corporate Free-
loaders,” Sanders listed corpora-
tions that do not pay taxes to the
federal government but received
a federal bailout or large IRS
refunds. The list includes Gold-
man Sachs, Bank of America and
Exxon Mobil, among others.
The number of corporations
that do not pay taxes prompted
MoveOn.org organizer Sara
Bassler to help coordinate the ral-
ly outside the Bank of America.
Bassler and other MoveOn.
org organizers manned the
megaphones, took down names
and passed out signs for those
who turned out. Arnold said the
Santa Cruz Bank of America
protest was part of a campaign in
450 cities nationally to fight the
budget’s tax exemption of major
corporations.
8 | Thursday, April 21, 2011
Santa Cruzans rally to urge large
businesses to pay taxes
“I want to give corporations Arnold and Bassler, said they
more of a sense of responsibility,” were disappointed with the lack
Bassler said. “While it is lawful of UC Santa Cruz students in
for their corporations to make the crowd. They said the fight for
money for their shareholders, more funds to be appropriated
they forget their shareholders are to basic services is relevant to
part of society.” all students, including students
Protesters passed out signs in higher education and their
bearing slogans like, “Close your budget needs.
B of A account,” and “Fat Cats are Bassler and Arnold want
stealing our future.” Many were UCSC to be represented in
heard shouting, “Cut from the protests rallying for corporations
top, not from Mom and Pop,” and to pay their taxes, or to host the
“1, 2, 3, 4 — pay your taxes like next rally on campus.
the poor.” “We need a sister rally at the
Protesters centered most of university,” Arnold said. “There
the blame for the national budget are 450 of these [rallies] happen-
crisis on congressional Repub- ing in American cities and it’d be
licans. This includes Sen. Paul great to have one at the Bay Tree
Ryan (R-Wis.), who proposed Bookstore.”
the new budget that passed after
much deliberation and hesitation DISGRUNTLED CITIZENS
by Congress — deliberations that took to the streets outside
almost led to a full government of the River Street Bank
shutdown. of America and the clock
“The Republicans say the tower on Monday morning.
country is going broke and Kyan Mahzouf
they’re making cuts to the bot-
tom,” Bassler said. “We’re broke,
yet they give huge tax breaks to
companies that can really help
out our financial crisis.”
Bassler feels that the money
the U.S. government is not col-
lecting from corporations like
Bank of America can be put to
better use in American social
programs.
“Politicians need to wake up,”
Bassler said. “We need to work
together to help keep our society
what it is now, and help the less
fortunate and build libraries.”
To illustrate the impacts of
budget cuts on national programs
in comparison to those of corpo-
rate tax breaks, a child spoke at
the rally about how she would be
affected by the cuts.
“I want to stop the budget cuts
so that teachers can come back to
work and kids can learn,” said Ju-
lia Knight, a student of Montclair
Elementary School in Oakland
and a “MoveOn granddaughter,”
according to her grandmother.
Santa Cruz political organiza-
tions like Organizing for Santa
Cruz, the community organiz-
ing arm of the Democratic Party
in Santa Cruz, turned out at
the event. While the rally was
pronounced a success by many
protesters, some organizers, like

Students Lose Themselves in Orienteering
Cross-country racing meets on-the-fly navigation
By Eli Wolfe
Sports Reporter
“Can you see the control from
here?” asked UC Santa Cruz
second-year Cameron Ferguson.
Standing on a knoll
overlooking the sun-blasted
valleys and hills of Pacheco
State Park, Ferguson wiped
the sweat from his face and
scanned the landscape. After a
moment broiling under the sun,
Ferguson — oblivious to the heat
— pointed to a tree a kilometer
from his position. Squinting,
Ferguson noted the tree’s position
on his topographic map.
“It’s right there,” Ferguson
said. As if on cue, three runners
in the distance loped through
the high grass toward the tree.
Ferguson, already jogging down
the knoll, called over his shoul-
der, “See?”
The sport is orienteering.
In a wilderness setting,
participants use a topographic
map and a compass to find
“controls” — small markers that
have an electronic register to
record the time when a runner
locates it. The controls can be
placed several hundred meters
to several miles apart. The goal is
to find all of the markers in the
correct order as fast as possible.
Half cross country racing,
half wilderness survival, orien-
teering combines all the physical
Prescott Watson rigors of endurance athletics
SOPHOMORE CAMERON FERGUSON discusses with the mental acuity of a chess
how Bay Area collegiate orienteering is hindered by a game.
lack of support and the difficulty of getting to the remote But despite an enthusiasm
locations for tournaments. for racing and the wilderness,
Americans have yet to make
orienteering popular in the
United States. Given the sport’s
widespread popularity in Europe,
enthusiasts wonder: What’s
keeping orienteering off the
map?
Jay Hann, an event coordina-
tor for the Bay Area Orienteer-
ing Club (BAOC), said that it is
sometimes difficult to explain the
appeal of orienteering.
“It’s what you get when you
cross mathematics and P.E.,”
Hann said. “It’s hard to explain
what’s fun about it — it’s a lot
easier to explain when you’ve
experienced it.”
The BAOC is one of 74 clubs
in the United States that belong
to the International Orienteer-
ing Federation. Each year, there
are a multitude of international
championships held for differ-
ent types of orienteering, but the
biggest ones are trail and skiing.
In the United States, individu-
als compete in A-level meets to
qualify for a spot on one of the
U.S. championship teams.
On Saturday, Hann was
organizing the second day of a
three-day meet in Pacheco State
Park for the U.S. Intercollegiate
and U.S. Interscholastic Cham-
pionships, which the BAOC was
hosting.
Despite the swarms of partici-
pants streaming in from Seattle
to West Point, Hann said this
event’s numbers were nothing
compared to those in Europe.
“In the big European events,
they’ll have camera crews out in
the field taking pictures of the
“It’s what you get when
you cross mathematics
and P.E.,” Hann said.
“It’s hard to explain
what’s fun about it
— it’s a lot easier to
explain when you’ve
experienced it.”
—Jay Hann,
event coordinator
for the Bay Area
Orienteering Club
runners,” Hann said. “They’ll
have a big display board in their
arena and have 1,000 or 2,000
people watching the video foot-
age coming across.”
Gavin Wyatt-Mair, another
event coordinator for the BAOC,
said that because of the spon-
sorship given to orienteering in
Europe, Europeans tend to domi-
nate the United States in interna-
tional orienteering competitions.
“We usually have some people
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go over there, but they kick our
butts,” Wyatt-Mair said, laughing.
“They are so much better than
we are!”
However, Wyatt-Mair is the
father of a successful navigator.
His son, Malcolm Wyatt-Mair, is
a U.S. orienteering champion and
UCSC graduate who competed in
Australia and Sweden for the Ju-
nior Orienteering World Cham-
pionships in 2007 and 2008.
For Gavin — who has been
orienteering for 24 years — ori-
enteering has practical value off
the course as well.
“When you are in a job, you
have to make decisions quickly,”
he said. “Orienteering teaches
you how to make quick deci-
sions. It also teaches you to focus
on a goal — your next control —
teaching you to focus on it and
get there in the most direct way.”
For the few college students
who do orienteering on the West
Coast, the benefits of the sport
are outweighed by the logistical
troubles of reaching a meet.
“You have to get to these dif-
ferent state parks around the Bay
Area, and most college kids don’t
have cars,” Ferguson said. “If it
were big in the states, it would be
big among college kids, because
then colleges would take buses to
the events.”
BAOC coordinator Hann said
orienteering has the potential to
catch on as a popular sport in the
United States, but that would re-
quire teaching orienteering early
on in schools.
“We’re trying to figure out
ways to make it easier for P.E.
teachers to do it,” Hann said. “It’s
kind of a mind sport, and there
are a lot of things about it you
can’t tell people through photo-
graphs.”
Taking a break from helping a
few dozen latecomers register for
their races, Wyatt-Mair described
the philosophical benefits of
orienteering.
“One of the things that occurs
in life is that you’re going to get
lost, and it occurs in every aspect
of your life,” Wyatt-Mair said.
“Orienteering teaches you to re-
locate. And when you do that, it’s
a wonderful experience because
you say, ‘Yeah, I was lost, but I’m
going to find my way out.’”
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CRITICAL TIME FOR WATER

DESALINATION Without desalination, Conservation
residents would efforts have not
be dramatically been capitalized
CONSERVATION
impacted in a MILLIONS
drought OF DOLLARS
EXHAUSTED FOR THIS PLANT
ALL OPTIONS IS TOO MUCH
SANTA CRUZ DOES NOT REQUIRES
HAVE ENOUGH WATER TWICE THE
CONSERVATION ENERGY USELESS
ALONEISNOTA Conservation
By Sarah Naugle
Campus Co-Editor SOLUTION WORKS Illustrations By
Louise Leong

Debate rages over proposed desalination plant

M
andatory 40 percent
water rationing. Hotel
closures. Water lines
shut off when consumption ex-
ceeds the limit. Businesses reliant
on tourism struggling to make it
through the summer months —
their most lucrative time.
The City of Santa Cruz Water
Department (SCWD) foresees
this future if no alternative water
source is integrated to forestall
what it characterizes as “catas-
rophic” potential impacts of com-
pounded drought years.
“The consequences of doing
nothing are dire. I don’t think
people understand how bad it
could be,” said SCWD water
director Bill Kocher.
The SCWD has spent two
decades examining how to miti-
gate the impact of compounded
drought years. After determin-
ing roughly 30 various projects
to be insufficient or nonviable,
SCWD concluded that bringing a
desalination plant to Santa Cruz
to cover the gap during drought
years was the only way to prevent
dramatic consequences of critical
droughts.
“Desalination is the best
alternative,” said public outreach
coordinator Melanie Schum-
acher. “We have been looking
at alternatives, but they have to
meet the water needs of the com-
munity.”
Four-minute showers. City
government invests in provid-
ing lawn replacement for Santa
Cruz homes and equipping them
12 | Thursday, April 21, 2011
with rain catchment devices.
Instruments to support greywa-
ter reclamation — the process
of recycling wastewater gener-
ated from laundry, dishwashing
and bathing for landscaping
and irrigation usage — become
a popular feature in Santa Cruz
homes.
Proponents of desalination al-
ternatives envision this future for
Santa Cruz — a future where no
new water source is needed, due
to a capitalization on further
conservation measures.  proponents of the desali-
“Money is just a tool,
and we could use this
tool to conserve and
live within our means
rather than bringing in
the desalination plant,”
said Ellen Murtha,
co-chair of the Santa
Cruz branch of the
Women’s Interna-
tional League for
Peace and Freedom
(WILPF), which is
pro-conservation.
Numerous indi-
viduals in the Santa
Cruz community are
mobilizing against
the potential intro-
duction of the plant,
saying that such a
drastic step to ensure
water provision is
unnecessary, because
conservation and
curtailment efforts
could be expanded,
and the potential un-
known ramifications of bringing
in such a facility.
“There are some major envi-
ronmental impacts,” said Rick
Longinotti, cofounder of Desali-
nation Alternatives. “It uses a lot
of energy … it is a guess as to the
impact on the ocean, it is just not
clear how much of an impact it
will have.”
This has been the bone of con-
tention between the two fronts,
as proponents argue that desali- mayor and city council member,
nation is the only alternative and and Toby Goddard, SCWD water
it is environmentally sound, and conservation manager, represent-
opponents argue that conserva- ed the proponents of desalina-
tion efforts have not been capi- tion. More than 100 members
talized on and the plant would of the community attended last
bring negative environmental Thursday’s meeting to express
implications. their investment in the future of
This contentious engagement Santa Cruz’s water supply.
was typified at last week’s debate “It is important for the com-
forum, hosted by the League munity to understand the need
of Women Voters at the First for desalination,” Schumacher
Congregational Church on April said. “It creates a level of trans-
14, where the opponents and parency. I think that the agencies
are being responsible in the way
nation plant were able that they are pursuing the desali-
to engage in direct nation plant and I hope that we
dialogue in front of are presenting that to the public
the people of Santa — that this is not a silver bullet
Cruz for the first solution [and] we are continuing
time. to evaluate and address concerns
The debate about the short and long term
forum included water supply.”
two individuals
each from the The Logistics of
Santa Cruz and Water Shortage
Soquel Creek
Water District and SCWD serves a population of
Santa Cruz Desal 98,000 people. The city’s source
Alternatives, repre- of water consists mainly of the
senting the oppo- San Lorenzo River, various North
nent and proponent Coast diversions, a few wells and
sides to the issue, Loch Lomond Reservoir. Cur-
respectively. rently, Santa Cruz’s water supply
Longinotti, co- consists of 95 percent surface
founder of Desal water and only 5 percent ground-
Alternatives, and water, making Santa Cruz par-
James Bentley, ticularly susceptible to periods of
retired city water drought.
production man- Due to low annual runoff,
ager, represented during periods of drought Loch
the opposing side. Lomond Lake Reservoir becomes
Mike Rotkin, former Santa Cruz’s only source of fresh

drinking water, which poses a
problem — it isn’t enough.
“We can’t bring water from
anywhere else,” Kocher said.
“When we run out, we run out.”
The city has been grappling
with this looming threat for
two decades. The Santa Cruz
City Council began evaluating
alternative new water source op-
tions specifically for provision in
periods of drought back in 1997.
In order to ensure that Santa
Cruz will have the infrastructure
to withstand compounded years
of drought, SCWD has under-
taken the more than two decade-
long project of identifying pos-
sible new sources of water. After
determining new source after
new source nonviable, desalina-
tion eventually became the only
remaining possible new source
for water left on the district’s
drawing board.
“I’m convinced that we need
some kind of additional supply,
and as one project after another
Timeline
Tentative timeline for the construction of
the desalination plant as drafted by the
Santa Cruz Water District
• Pilot desalination
plant testing at
Seymour Center
• Community
information
meetings
• Preparation of the
desalination facility
environmental
impact report.
Desalination facility
design begins
•Release of
the Notice of
Preparation/Initial
Study
• Evaluate
Environmental
Impact Report
• Respond to EIR
•Proposed
start date for
construction of
the plant
•Proposed
finish date
for the plant
fell by the wayside, this is what
we have left,” said Terry McKin-
ney, SCWD superintendent of
water production.
The desalination process
involves converting seawater to
potable water, or drinking water.
Sodium is removed through
a process of reverse osmosis,
whereby the water is separated
into two parts: the freshwater
and the high-sodium concen-
trate, brine.
WILPF co-chair Murtha said
that this two-decade-long invest-
ment by the city may be more
of a motivation for the SCWD
pushing forward with the de-
salination plant than the plant’s
necessity.
“A lot of it is this investment
they have — it is very hard to
slow that down,” Murtha said.
“There must be something very
exciting about making a plant.”
In 2005, the city of Santa Cruz
Integrated Water Plan (IWP) was
developed and utilized. The IWP
2008 - 2009
2010
2011
2012
2016
took into account background
evaluations on water demand,
conservation, curtailment and
alternative water supplies, as-
sessed from 1997 up to the plan’s
inception. The plan included
a background on the status of
water demand, consumption and
provision, and looked toward
new sources of water supply. The
IWP recorded the two decade-
long process of examining the
viability of various potential
resources.
“The IWP first of all looked at
conservation, then looked at how
much more could be curtailed,
then came up with supply plans
that could make up the differ-
ence,” Kocher said.
Before the 1990s, SCWD
knew surface water was always
going to be the district’s primary
source of water. In 1989, Luhdorff
& Scalmanini, an environmental
consulting firm employed by
SCWD, concluded that ground-
water sources were scant at best.
The firm investigated potential
groundwater sources, including
wells at both Harvey West Park
and Thurber Lane, and assessed
that they could yield only 550
acre-feet of water annually, an
inadequate amount considering
SCWD annual water production
hovers around four billion gal-
lons a year.
In the early 1990s, the Brack-
ish Groundwater Wells Project
was considered the most viable
groundwater option, but resi-
dents in the site area were con-
cerned that the pumping could
eventually negatively impact their
wells. As a result, the city aban-
doned the project.
Waterman Gap Reservoir,
Kings Creek Reservoir, Yellow
Bank Creek Reservoir and Loch
Lomond enlargement were four
surface storage projects on the
table, but the city determined
these alternatives were not viable
due to the fact that an immedi-
ate source of water is needed
and such projects would be too
lengthy an undertaking.
By 1997, only two projects
remained on the drawing board:
Reclamation/Coast Groundwater
Exchange and Desalination.
Reclamation/Coast Ground-
water Exchange would have been
a two-part construction under-
taking. One part of the project
would have been a four-to-five
million gallon per day wastewater
treatment plant, located either on
the existing wastewater treatment
plant site or another location.
Treated water would be delivered
to area farmers for irrigation,
and the city would have access
to farmers’ current groundwater
“We can’t bring water from
anywhere else. When we run
out, we run out.”
— Bill Kocher, water director for SCWD
supplies. The second part of the
project would therefore involve
the wells and associated facilities
necessary to extract this ground-
water.
This alternative also faced ob-
stacles. In a 2009 letter to SCWD
water director Kocher that was
cited in the IWP, Jonathan Stein-
berg of Route 1 Farms said using
reclaimed water and turning over
his well were not an option.
“Our customers expect the
very best, very purest produce —
I cannot in good faith give them
produce grown in wastewater,”
Steinberg wrote. “I also have
concerns regarding giving up the
autonomy of my water supply …
I am in no way shape or form,
interested in reclaimed waste-
water being used in my farming
operation nor am I interested in
signing over my well to the city.”
Larry Jacobs, CEO of Jacobs
Farm, echoed similar sentiments
in a 2002 letter to Kocher, also
cited in the IWP. Jacobs said he
supports using reclaimed water,
just not its use in growing food.
“We are in favor of recycling
reclaimed water on golf courses,
car washing, commercial land-
scaping, and home landscaping,”
Jacobs said, “but not on plants
grown for food, and especially
[not] on plants that are eaten
uncooked.”
What Could Be
According to the evalua-
tions of water demand in Santa
Cruz listed in the IWP, SCWD
said that Santa Cruz’s current
demand for water “exceeds the
estimated available yield from its
existing sources during drought
conditions, even with mandatory
curtailment requirements.”
The city conducted the Water
Curtailment Study (WCS)
in 2001, which is cited in the
IWP, to better understand how
customers would reach usage
restrictions and how such actions
would impact agriculture, busi-
ness and resident customers.
The WCS analyzed six levels
of water shortage severity, rang-
ing from 10 to 60 percent short-
ages, and assessed the impacts
of necessary curtailment on the
three prioritized types of usage,
health and safety, business and
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irrigation.
According to the results of
the study, households issued
a 40 percent system shortage
would have “serious” implica-
tions “with important lifestyle
changes.” Catastrophic short-
ages, however, where households
would be issued 50 to 60 percent
system shortages, would result in
residents’ concern for daily water
usage reaching “an unparalleled
level.” The IWP stated that this
level of shortage “would also
impose major and burdensome
lifestyle changes, some of which
could well affect basic health and
safety.”
A 50 percent systemwide
shortage would result in 30 per-
cent annual revenue shortages,
which would be “catastrophic,”
with hotel and motel closures.
In the business sector during an
extreme drought where residents
would have to cut water usage
by 42 percent, businesses would
have to cut usage by 50 percent
and irrigation would be elimi-
nated.
“The economy in Santa Cruz
that depends on water would
shut down, and the tourist
industry would all be out of busi-
ness,” said SCWD water director
Kocher.
Chirag Mehda, general
manager of the Comfort Inn on
Plymouth Street, corroborated
the conclusions in the IWP, say-
ing that for his inn, 40 percent
rationing would impede busi-
ness.
“It definitely would affect the
business, because customers
need to shower and use the pool
and spa. They might not stay,”
Mehda said. “I would fear that
I would go out of business. The
economy is already not good,
[so] if that happened it would
make it worse.”
Desalination
In both operating and con-
structing the desalination plant,
the SCWD has proposed and
moved forward with partnering
with Soquel Creek Water District
(SqCWD). The city will be part-
nering with Soquel to lessen the
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Continued from p. 13
fiscal burden of undertaking
such a project, and to maximize
each entity’s attributes.
“It would be good to have a
money partner. We have tried
to partner with Soquel to have a
way to exchange with each oth-
er,” said Terry Tompkins, deputy
director/operations manager of
Graham Hill Road Treatment
Plant. “It would be good to have
a partner that has ground water
supply, and vice versa.”
According to the IWP figures
drafted in June 2003, desalina-
tion funded by the city would
be a $77 million undertaking.
At that point, if responsibil-
ity of funding the plant falls on
residents, it would be $7.32 per
month. If SCWD partners with
Soquel Creek, the project would
be a $40 million undertaking
and cost $3.84 per customer per
month. However new estimates
place the cost of the desalination
plant over $100 million.
For opponents of desalina-
tion, these million dollar figures
are cause for alarm.
“The potential cost is going to
be a burden, not just for us, but
for generations to come,” said
WILPF co-chair Murtha. “This is
a city that does not have a lot of
money.”
The construction cost would
be split between agencies. Santa
Cruz Water Department would
pay 59 percent of the construc-
tion cost, and Soquel Creek
Water District would pay 41
percent. Operational costs would
be split 50-50.
Where the funding for the
desalination plant will come
from is still to be determined.
Both SCWD and Soquel Water
District are pursuing grants, but
the project will likely become
a bond measure reliant on rate
increases.
“This thing is for the public
and will be owned by the public,”
Kocher said. “We shouldn’t be
doing stuff the public is con-
cerned about if we don’t have
“If you value desalination
as a last resort, please have
your spending priorities
reflect that.”
— Rick Longinotti, Co-Founder
of Desal Alternatives
14 | Thursday, April 21, 2011
good answers. This has to be paid
for by the people — if the voters
want to put it on the ballot and
shoot it down, sometimes they
get it right and sometimes they
get it wrong. I am advocating for
continuing to research — ­ it is my
duty and job — but it is not my
job to convince voters.”
There are four main concerns
both agencies must mitigate with
desalination — impingement on
the intakes, proper disposal of
the brine leftover, city population
growth and the amount of energy
desalination requires.
Kocher said that by managing
the intake velocity to compli-
ment the natural velocity of the
surrounding waves and utilizing
a small screen size, the threat of
impingement is all but elimi-
nated.
The treatment process —
separating saline water into
treated fresh water and a high
saline concentrate (brine) though
reverse osmosis — requires a
significant amount of energy.
Where current methods of water
production require 2-4 kilowatt
hours per thousand gallons of
water, desalination requires 12-
16 kilowatt hours per thousand
gallons.
Even in years of drought, the
plant would only be used 180 to
200 days out of the year. Kocher
said the infrequency of use allevi-
ates the issue of energy consump-
tion.
The concentrate left over from
the process will be sent back to
the ocean after being mixed with
the treated wastewater, effluent,
from the water treatment plant.
Currently, Santa Cruz’s effluent
is sent back to the ocean. The
treated wastewater sent back to
the ocean is essentially freshwa-
ter, so mixing the effluent with
the brine is closer to the natural
salinity levels in the ocean.
“The freshwater and brine
mixture would actually be an
enhancement,” Kocher said.
“Everything is a trade, but I think
it can be mitigated better in the
ocean than in our current usage.
This one seems to have the best
chance to meet our needs in an
environmentally responsible
way.”
For some in the Santa Cruz
community, despite the SCWD’s
statements that the environmen-
tal impacts can be successfully
mitigated, the integration of a
plant that would require triple
the energy to produce the same
quantity of water and would tam-
per with the marine sanctuary
would be an affront to the values
of the community.
“I think [the SCWD] is not
giving us enough credit,” Murtha
said. “We are a community that
really cares about the environ-
ment. This desal plant would
make us hypocrites. I mean, if I
ride my bike to work, I am still
contributing to the desal plant.”
Environmental concerns
continue to be a sticking point
with community members. At
the debate forum last week, this
sentiment was echoed by the op-
ponents of desalination and audi-
ence members alike when cheers
erupted after speakers brought
up the potential environmental
impacts of the desalination plant.
Opponents of desalination
have also consistently argued
the SCWD has not capitalized
on conservation efforts, and
this point was not omitted from
the debate. The opponents said
the city, rather than investing
millions into the desalination
plant, should allocate those funds
to further conservation efforts,
among them composting toilets.
Upon the proponents of
desalination’s response that such
conservation efforts would not
come to fruition, audience mem-
bers shouted simultaneously: “I’ll
take one!”
Longinotti pointed out that
until the SCWD exhausts all con-
servation efforts, their assertion
that desalination is not “a silver
bullet” solution but the only
remaining alternative is contra-
dictory.
“If you value desalination as
a last resort, please have your
spending priorities reflect that,”
Longinotti said.
Mike Rotkin, former mayor
and city council member, coun-
tered that to depend on con-
servation as a method of water
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Louise Leong
supply insurance is “irresponsible
planning.”
“Conservation [alone] cannot
do it,” Rotkin said. “Emotionally
I am opposed to desalination, but
we have reached a point where
we don’t have any other alterna-
tives.”
Contributing to skepticism of
conservation as a solution is the
degree to which Santa Cruzans
already conserve. City residents
use 66 gallons of water per per-
son per day — compared to the
150 gallons used per person per
day statewide — the lowest per
capita use in California.
Bentley and Longinotti, repre-
sentatives in the April 14 debate
of those opposed to desalina-
tion, commended the district for
their efforts to engage with the
public and their conservation
efforts up to the present. Bentley
asserted that despite dissent and
skepticism mounting around the
desalination plant in particular,
he still believes “the city will take
care of us.”
Opponents of desalination
argued that the environmental
implications of the desalination
plant outweigh the difficulties
that would come from relying
on conservation efforts to solve a
water shortage crisis.
“Nature has its limits, and we
are going to have to live within
them,” Longinotti said during the
debate forum. “If it is a tradeoff
between our needs of today and
our grandchildren, then it is no
contest.”
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In Theaters and Our iPods

“HANNA”
“I just missed your heart,”
whispers a young, pale-blond,
piercingly blue-eyed girl, leaning
over and gazes into the eyes of
the person she just killed.
Meet Hanna. She is a child-
assassin trained by her father, an
ex-CIA agent, to be the perfect
killer for one mission. With a
chillingly beautiful performance
by Saoirse Ronan, director Joe
Wright presents not just your
average action movie, but a mov-
ing drama of humanity as Hanna
leaves her isolated home in the
forest to experience humanity for
the first time in her life.
Hanna is by far the most
frightening killer I have ever seen.
With a doe-like innocence in her
What we enjoyed — and what we didn’t — in entertainment this week
face and a lean, graceful body,
she resembles a ballerina, ready
to dance to Tchaikovsky. How-
ever, the minute she kills four
men in a few swift moves, blood
speckling her porcelain com-
plexion, even the fiercest of black
swans have nothing on her. The
juxtaposition of her dangerous
nature with her innocent façade
is the movie’s ultimate weapon —
it will leave you clinging to the
edge of your seat, anxious to see
what this little girl is capable of.
When Hanna first begins her
mission, her cold, blank stare
provides the intrigue. Breaking
necks without a blink, Hanna
resembles a robot, clearly defin-
ing the movie as an action film.
However when Hanna, leaving
her isolated training grounds,
hears music for the first time
and discovers what a kiss is, the
movie turns from an action film
to a drama. Hanna’s stoicism dis-
appears, and the deeply embed-
ded “adapt or die” motto slowly
fades away.
The film impressively depicts
not just the superficial shock
factor of a child-killer, but also
the psychological complexities of
a young girl torn from a normal
society. Similarly to Mary Shel-
ley in “Frankenstein,” director
Wright explores a fascinating
concept of humanity, as Hanna
discovers what it means to be
human.
With an original score by
The Chemical Brothers, the
film’s whimsical music phenom-
enally complements both sides of
Hanna’s personality — a young
girl and a killer.
Although the film is a major
production, the unique cinema-
tography and camera angles echo
the mood of an independent film.
This movie was surprisingly
different from what I would have
imagined. Supported by a star
cast including the unsur-
prisingly suave Eric Bana
as Erik and a beauti-
fully manipulative Cate
Blanchett as Marissa, this
film is truly one-of-a-kind
and a definite must-see
before the string of terribly
cheesy summer movies hits
theaters.
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while Amy Ryan, co-star of
2007’s “Gone Baby Gone,” plays
REGAL CINEMAS his passionate and oblivious wife,
RIVERFRONT Jackie. The two are surprisingly
believable as a couple, but as
STADIUM 2
I was sitting in the Del Mar
155 South River St.
Theatre scrutinizing “Win Win,”
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I found it incredibly difficult
to shake the feeling that I was
watching Holly Flax cheat on
Michael Scott with Paul Giamatti.
Despite this “Office” -induced
confusion, the relationship
between Mike and Jackie creates
an excellent foundation for the
film.
Mike accepts the responsibil-
ity of caring for an older client
struggling with dementia, so
that he can net a small monthly
stipend. But he encounters prob-
lems when the man’s grandson
suddenly comes to visit. The
16-year-old, played by Alex
Shaffer in an incredible breakout
performance, is fleeing from his
drugged-out mother and her
abusive ex-boyfriend. When the
kid turns out to be a champion
wrestler, Mike takes him in and
puts him to work wrestling for
his losing team. As assistant
coaches, Bobby Cannavale and
Jeffrey Tambor provide excel-
lent comic relief and are allowed
enough character development
during the film to successfully
avoid falling into the typical roles
of goofy and unsubstantiated
sidekicks.
Life is improving for Mike,
until his new star’s mother
shows up to claim the stipend he
received earlier in the movie. The
conflicts that follow are relatively
predictable and could have felt
tedious, but instead they seemed
genuinely emotional because of
the excellent chemistry among
Giamatti, Ryan and Shaffer.
While a very endearing
film, the abrupt and unresolved
ending of “Win Win” may leave
some viewers unsatisfied. When
the credits rolled, I couldn’t
help but think, “This is it? They
couldn’t have added one more
scene?”
However, even considering
its less than stellar finish, “Win
Win” was a superb movie, equally
funny and uplifting.
—­Mitchell Bates

THE NICKELODEON
210 Lincoln St. “NINE TYPES OF
(831) 426-7500 LIGHT”
TV on the Radio album
TV on the Radio lead singer
Tunde Adebimpe intones, “You
AD
threw your hands up and walked
M away, so it’s strange I should feel
ON IT
E this way,” in “You,” one of the
IT
ADM E band’s new songs.
ON Though he is likely singing
about an ex-lover, the lyrics are
applicable to the band itself. After record’s only uninspired track,
the group chose to go on hiatus
in 2009, it might have been easy
to forget about them, but I at
Illustration by Tess Goodwin
least could not. For those of us
who have truly missed TV on
the Radio for the last year-and-
a-half or so, the release of “Nine
Types of Light” has been a long-
anticipated event.
Considering the high expecta-
tions for this album, it’s perhaps a
miracle that it doesn’t disappoint.
“Nine Types of Light” demands
attention from the first seconds
of album opener “Second Song”
and doesn’t let go until the
“Killer Crane.” When compared
to TV on the Radio’s previous
albums, “Nine Types of Light” is
perhaps more laid-back, but the
change is enjoyable and helps
to bring the gloss and refine-
ment of Adebimpe’s vocals to the
spotlight. However, they haven’t
completely abandoned their
edge, and tracks like “Caffeinated
Consciousness” and “Repetition”
serve as a helpful reminder that
the band still knows how to write
vivid and original rock songs.
When viewed through the
concerns of the average UC
Santa Cruz student — rising
tuition, decreasing standards
of education, an abysmal job
market — the song “No Future
Shock” registers as especially
relevant. Backed by a catchy beat,
Adebimpe commands, “Oh dance,
don’t stop, do the no future, do
the no future,” and it’s hard to
ignore the correlations with last
year’s graduate student commons
occupation.
TV on the Radio’s most recent
effort may not outshine 2006’s
“Return to Cookie Mountain” or
2008’s “Dear Science,” but “Nine
Types of Light” accompanies
relaxation sessions perfectly. It’s
smooth, sexy, smart and easy to
like.
— Mitchell Bates

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Arts & Entertainment
An Extraordinary World
Whimsical one-woman show takes audiences back to childhood
By Hanna Toda
Arts & Entertainment
Reporter
When I first stepped into
the studio of the 418 Project to
preview “The Imagine-a-nation
of Lalachild,” the first play of the
trilogy of The Rising Sun Dance
Theater’s “A Star Called Love;
the Freedom Stories of Lala,” and
looked to the stage to find nothing
but two prop blocks and a sparkle-
eyed, red-headed actress, I was a
bit taken aback.
Throughout the entire
performance, the stage remained
startlingly simple: no other actors
and no new props. However, I was
not prepared for what those two
blocks and that spirited redhead
had in store for me. At precisely 7
p.m. that Sunday I sat down in the
418 Project studio, and by 7:15 p.m.
I was in another world: a world of
rain, dust, laughter and tears.
Told from the perspective of
Lala, an incredibly imaginative and
spirited African-American girl in
the all-black town of Lovely, Kan.
in the 1890s, the play captures
the innocence and rapture of
childhood while also centering
on topics of race, gender and love.
The story follows Lala’s experience
when a mysterious Chinese
man named Longshoe rides into
town on a dust storm, bringing
new perspective and change to a
dull town. The wise teachings of
Longshoe and the town’s reaction
to the change that Longshoe brings
sparks questions of race, religion
and the beauty of life.
Directed by Robin Aronson
and written and performed by
Rivera Sun Cook, “The Imagine-
a-nation of Lalachild” is a
wondrous, inspiring one-woman
show. Though there was only one
woman present on stage, Cook
portrayed not just one, but many
other characters. Three plays, 30
characters, one actress. There were
no costume changes, no props and
certainly no jubilant orchestra. For
a split second, I had even half-
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expected Cook to crack a joke
about a priest and a rabbi, as the
set-up of the play reminded me
so much of a stand-up comedy
performance. However, Cook
was gone the minute the lights
dimmed, as she transformed into
Lala, Mama Lu, Longshoe, the
preacher and the rest of the town
of Lovely.
This play was beyond the
average imaginative caliber of a
performance and chased away
any trace of reality. Through large
amounts of research on heavy
accents and movement, Cook
transported the audience to the
dry, dusty, enchanting world
of Lovely, Kan. She perfected
southern accents ranging from
the young to the old, which
were enhanced by original and
traditional music. Evident in
the title, the play has a mystical,
marvelous, imaginative appeal to Photos by Molly Solomon
it — the childlike enthusiasm
and sheer appetite for life that RIVERA SUN COOK portrays every character in the one-woman show, “A Star Called
Lala displayed transported me Love; the Freedom Stories of Lala.”
to my own childhood, anxious
for what the world might bring.
Full of giggles and wide-eyed
wonders, Lala made me leave
the studio that night seeing the
world as a giant playground,
as I once viewed it. While I am
surely not in Kansas anymore,
after seeing the imagination and
beautiful hopes that Lala had
for her world, I looked around
the world that I live in and
saw it as slightly prettier than I
remembered.
Show Info
What: The Rising
Sun Dance Theater’s
“A Star Called Love;
the Freedom Stories
of Lala.”
Where: Pacific
Cultural Center, 1307
Seabright Ave.
When: May 6 —
May 28
Tickets: $36 at www.
brownpapertickets.
com

4/20, Other
Events Draw
Thousands
Heavily attended unsanctioned events
at UC campuses draw attention
By Michael Mott
Community & Culture
Co-Editor
Fog and rain did not prevent
thousands from flocking to
Porter Meadow this Wednesday.
4/20 is an unsanctioned UC
Santa Cruz event where large
groups of students gather on
campus and smoke marijuana.
It is not unlike Picnic Day at UC
Davis and Floatopia in UC Santa
Barbara, in that it draws students
from other schools.
By Laurel Fujii
& Campus Reporter
Floatopia is an unofficial
annual student day party, which
started as a gathering on the
beach where students “floated”
on the ocean. In 2010, the event
was moved to Del Playa Drive
due to Santa Barbara officials'
restriction of access to the beach
that day.
After the move the event be-
came “Deltopia,” and according
DESPITE THE RAIN, swarms of UCSC students and campus visitors hiked up and
down from Porter Meadow on April 20.
to the 2011 Floatopia Facebook
event, this year's gathering had
over 11,000 confirmed guests.
The official Picnic Day, UC
Davis’ open-house event families
and the public attend. Students
celebrate with an unsanctioned
day party that attracts numerous
partygoers.
According to a report in the
Davis Enterprise, there were 54
arrests during the Picnic Day
enforcement period at this year's
event, from Friday evening, April
15 to early morning Sunday,
April 17.
Crimes and injuries are com-
mon at Floatopia as well. 2009's
Floatopia resulted in two deaths,
as well as 13 arrests, according
to a report released by the UCSB
vice chancellor for student affairs
Michael D. Young.
Safety is also a concern at
UC Santa Cruz's unsanctioned
day party, 4/20. Jim Burns, a
UCSC campus spokesperson,
said that the administration was
concerned about safety this year
in particular, due to the recent
graffiti threats found in a men's
restroom in Porter College.
“Whenever we discover
graffiti of a threatening nature
— and, to be sure, some of it we
probably don't discover — we
are concerned,” Burns said in an
email.
Despite possible risks to
safety, students continue to par-
ticipate. First-year Lauren Dike
attended Picnic Day and said the
police and campus security pres-
ence didn’t affect her decisions to
drink and smoke.
“Any security seeing me
drinking out of a bottle of wine
or smoking a cigarette didn’t say
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anything,” she said.
Burns said 4/20 brings many
people with no affiliation to
UCSC to the campus and is an
inconvenience for those who are
in the campus community and
choose not to participate.
“The event impacts our neigh-
bors,” he said. “The event im-
pedes the ability of our students,
faculty and staff to get around
campus that afternoon.”
Burns said that there are
numerous issues with the event
besides its illegality.
“We have plenty of issues with
this activity aside from the obvi-
ous,” he said.’’
First-year Alexa Romero trav-
elled to Santa Barbara to see her
friends and party at Deltopia. She
was not concerned by the pres-
ence of alcohol and drugs.
“[Deltopia is] already a tradi-
tion,” she said. “You can't put a
judgment on it.”
Like Dike and Romero, who
travelled to see their friends,
Haley Riddle flew from Wood-
land Hills, near Los Angeles, to
UCSC for 4/20 and to visit her
friend.
Even though safety concerns
have been present in the past
at events like Picnic Day and
Deltopia, Riddle said she wasn't
worried.
“I don't get how it works,” she
said of the relaxed atmosphere in
Porter Meadow on 4/20. “It's so
peaceful.”
Community & Culture
Community Chest
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tionb
Illustra
By Michael Mott
Community & Culture
Co-Editor
Third-year UC Santa Cruz
students Gabi Kirk and Lindsey
Roark are on a mission to bring
plastic water bottle sales on cam-
pus to an end.
City on a Hill Press: Can you
tell me about the project you are
both a part of?
Kirk: Take Back the Tap is a
campaign to end the sale of
plastic water bottles on the
UCSC campus, and eventually,
the UC systemwide. We want
to build long-lasting behavioral
change. We want to be teaching
the people who are going to lead
our nation and our future that
these are the social values that we
hold dear, that water is a right for
everyone.
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Five questions with some of UCSC’s finest
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CHP: Would you consider
Take Back the Tap a green
movement?
Roark: Our campaign is more
about the fact that water is
privatized, that water is com-
moditized, and it is something
that should be available to
everyone. It’s great that there will
be less plastic consumption, but
that’s not what our campaign
is about. We’re trying to make
this also a community-based
marketing scheme, [instead] of
an information-based marketing
scheme ...What we’re trying to
do is find out exactly why people
buy bottled water [and] how can
we modify that behavior to be
more sustainable.
CHP: How is the project going?
Roark: Hopefully by mid-May
there will be two spigots, one
in the foyer at OPERS and one
in the upper floor of the Well-
ness Center. They’ll just be little
push-back spigots where you can
fill your water bottles. And if that
goes well, then we are hoping to
install spigots at all of the high-
usage areas that we find around
campus, so probably around 25
more spigots. We’re hoping to
have the rest of the installation
done next year [since] they don’t
have the capacity [this year].
Kirk: We actually got grants from
Measure 43 and Measure 44,
Morgan Grana
which were passed last year on
the ballot. (Left) Roark and Kirk (right) campaign against the selling
of bottled water on campus.
CHP: Any other future plans for
the project? it. If we’re going to be spending support, I feel like the adminis-
Kirk: We want to identify the student fees, we want to make tration supports us full-heartedly.
“deserts,” as we like to call them, sure it’s in a way that’s going to
areas without an accessible water engage the student body. Kirk: There’s a great sustainability
source, and maybe make it into a community here and we’d love
map for a phone, where some- CHP: Have you received sup- this to be a big part of it. Right
one can ask, “Where is the water port from the administration? now it’s a small group of people
fountain near me?” and then later Roark: What’s cool is that we’ve doing it, but we’re slowly getting
on, “Where is the recycling bin noticed in this project that every more and more, so we really want
near me?” [or] “When does the administration, staff [or] faculty people to come out to Earth Day
next bus come?” And we want to [member] that we’ve approached and find out how they can get
build a website with a transparent about this has been so stoked, involved with this effort.
budget, so that people can track and so as far as administration

Reevaluating the Death Penalty
Pharmaceutical companies are ethically
conflicted, so why aren’t we?
T
he death penalty, a hot-button issue to say the
least, has been prominently featured within
the news circuits. Some may remember Joey
Bien-Kahn’s feature that City on a Hill Press ran last
quarter, entitled “Killing Them Softly,” about the recent
controversy of the drug sodium thiopental. The drug,
normally used as a rapid-acting general anesthetic, is also
administered in large doses as a key component of the
lethal injection cocktail. California’s remaining supply of
sodium thiopental has expired, and Hospira Inc., the only
company within the United States to manufacture the
drug, has decided to stop selling it. Hospira spokesperson
Dan Rosenberg said in Bien-Kahn’s feature, “The drug is
used for improving life …We never condoned its use for
capital punishment.”
As a result, some states have begun to consider drastic
and inhumane efforts to continue carrying out capital
punishment. Importing sodium thiopental is extremely
restricted under federal law, and it doesn’t help that
earlier this month Keyem, an India-based pharmaceutical
company that had supplied Nebraska and South Dakota
with the drug, decided to discontinue selling it for lethal
injection purposes.
The company said on its website, “In view of the
sensitivity involved with sale of our Thiopental Sodium
Shedding Light on a Dark Issue
Military needs to be overseen more closely in reporting rape, sexual assault
T
he United States military is taking its “don’t ask,
don’t tell” policy to new and egregious heights, and
it has nothing to do with keeping the lid on the
sexual orientation of gay and lesbian service members.
No, this has to do with recent reports that bring to
light the assertion that military leadership and Pentagon
defense officials have been ignoring and covering up al-
legations of sexual assault and rape of service members by
fellow military members.
These claims are being publicized thanks to a lawsuit
filed in February by 17 United States military members,
all of whom say that they were sexually assaulted and
raped during their time of service but were not taken
seriously by their superiors when they tried to report the
Illustration by Bela Messex
to various
Jails/Prisons
in USA and as alleged to be used for the purpose of
Lethal Injection, we voluntarily declare that we as Indian
Pharma Dealer who cherish the Ethos of Hinduism (A
believer even in non-livings as the creation of God)
refrain ourselves in selling this drug where the purpose
is purely for Lethal Injection and its misuse.”
Texas has quickly reacted by trying to institute pen-
tobarbital for use in the case of death row inmate Cleve
Foster, despite the fact that the drug is used predomi-
nantly in the euthanizing of animals. The drug is heavily
regulated — the dosage is determined by the weight of
the animal, only a licensed veterinarian can administer
it and even the light in the room is regulated at the time
of injection.
Pentobarbital isn’t intended to be used for human
executions and has never been used in conjunction with
the other drugs used in lethal injections.
The Supreme Court stayed Foster’s execution, due
greatly to the questions surrounding the use of pento-
barbital.
This entire situation should really force Americans to
re-examine the entire concept of the death penalty — its
use, its legitimacy and its ethical implications. How does
attacks. The defendants in the lawsuit are former defense
secretary Donald Rumsfeld and current defense secretary
Robert Gates.
Plaintiff Panayiota Bertzikis alleges that she was raped
in 2006 by a fellow Coast Guard shipmate, but when she
tried to report the assault to Coast Guard personnel she
was told to keep quiet and called a “liar” and a “whore”
who would have to “pay for snitching.” Even the Coast
Guard’s victim’s advocate encouraged Bertzikis not to try
to press charges because she would be seen as “difficult.”
And this proliferation of sexual assaults and rape isn’t
exclusive to women serving in the military. Nearly 50,000
male veterans screened positive for “military sexual
trauma” at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs last year,
up from just over 30,000 in 2003, accord-
ing to the April 3 Newsweek article “The
Military’s Secret Shame.” In addition, the
lawsuit against Rumsfeld and Gates includes
two male plaintiffs. Overall, the Department
of Defense estimates that 19,000 service
members were raped or sexually assaulted in
2010, but only 13.5 percent of them reported
these incidents.
While the military has reportedly striven
to recognize this issue of sexual assaults, this
lawsuit makes it evident that there is much
more that needs to be done.
In 2005 the Pentagon established the
Sexual Assault Prevention and Response
Office and trained 1,200 military officers on
how to handle incident reports. But despite
the office’s existence, the Pentagon says less
than one in four military rape cases is ever
prosecuted.
Editorial
Illustration by Muriel Gordon
the death penalty act as a form of justice? Is it effective?
Are we truly able to carry out that justice in a humane
and decent manner, respecting the standard that we set
up for ourselves?
It should be obvious that pentobarbital and sodium
thiopental should not be used for lethal injections, if only
because that is not what they were intended to be used
for. Can we really trust that a drug intended and created
to euthanize animals to react the same way in humans?
This brings up a whole different concern of what it means
to create a drug to help kill people “humanely” — how
does one even run trials to prove that?
There’s no easy answer to this problem. Yet, if it has
thus far been difficult to create a death penalty process
that both science and society can agree is humane and
not cruel or unusual, is that not some indication of how
inherently cruel, unusual and possibly inhumane the
practice of taking a life is?
Additionally, a 2008 report from the Government
Accountability Office says that as many as 43 percent of
trained people at a given base still didn’t know how to
report such an incident.
The judicial system within the military branch of
government should be well versed in handling accusa-
tions of sexual assault and rape. It’s unfathomable to think
that there are so many military officials who either don’t
understand how to report these cases or simply blame the
survivors.
Congress needs to make sure the commission they
mandated in 2004 to oversee the military’s review and
prosecution process of reported sexual assaults is actively
serving as a watchdog of the military judiciary. It’s also
necessary that pressure is put on defense secretary Gates,
who has not yet implemented a database — mandated
by Congress over a year ago — that would centralize all
reports of rape and sexual assault in the military.
At least one member of Congress plans to bring this
matter to the attention of other politicians. Rep. Jackie
Speier (D-San Mateo) has pledged to speak out on a
weekly basis on the floor of the House of Representatives
about the military’s overlooking of sexual abuse until
Congress acts on it.
Speier should be lauded for her dedication to this
cause, and with her at the helm there is hope that those
who hold the pens and the purse strings in government
will do something about this problem.
If no one in this administration heeds Speier’s call,
they will continue to stand idly by as the lives of men and
women are traumatized every day, continuing to live in
fear and shame without the support of their home coun-
try’s government.
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