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Vol. 45 Issue No. 3

Let’s Talk About SEX:

Undressing the Double Standard p. 14

Death of Tree Nine p. 10 Regulating the Reefer p. 12 The Race to Register p. 18

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Table of Contents
5 Slugs Have Full, Bright Futures Ahead of Them
by KARA FORAN

6 Pencils and Picket Signs: New Year, Old Struggles

by RYAN- MARK GRIFFIN

7 Event Calendar
compiled by TESS GOODWIN

9 Transfers Find Home at Porter College

by ROSA CASTANEDA

10 Students Get Sappy Over Tree Nine

by ROSA ACRE

11 Taking Safety Measures
by ROSANNA VAN STRATEN

12 Santa Cruz Weighs in on Weed

by BLAIR STENVICK

13 Sleeping Ban Serves as Wake-Up Call for Santa Cruz

by NIKKI PRITCHARD

14 The Female Standard

by ROSIE SPINKS

Photo by Courtesy of Dennis Keen

Adore a Laureate 17
by MIKAELA TODD

The Spirit of Competition 18

by STEPHANIE MEADE

Female Asian Americans Find a Place of Their Own 20

by VERONICA GLOVER

First Friday is a Good Friday 21

by CHELSEA HAWKINS

Through Our Lens 22

by ROSANNA VAN STRATEN

Women’s Soccer Recruits 16 24

by NATALIA EQUIHUA

OP/ED: Who’s to Blame for the Bullies? 25

OP/ED: The Father, the Son and the Homeless Spirit 26
OP/ED: Going Out on a Limb to Save Santa Cruz’s Soul 27

Photo by Nick Paris

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Thursday, October 7, 2010
Students Head Overseas
on Fulbright Scholarships
National scholarship provides grant money to 6 UCSC students this year
By Kara Foran
Campus Reporter
Dennis Keen is going eagle hunt-
ing. As one of six Fulbright Scholarship
winners at UC Santa Cruz this year he
and his peers will use their awards to fund
research projects abroad. Five of the six
students were awarded scholarships in the
field of anthropology and one received an
environmental studies scholarships.
“I applied for the Fulbright last Sep-
tember, knowing that I would need some-
thing to do after graduating,” Keen said.
“I was really just crossing my fingers and
hoping it worked out, because I was not
looking forward to getting my bachelor’s
degree and then having to go work at the
Boardwalk.”
In the years since its inception, the
Fulbright Program has saved lots of
students from working at the Boardwalk.
The program has provided grants for over
294,000 students and professionals to
travel to more than 155 countries world-
wide since 1946. The U.S. Department of
State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultur-
al Affairs sponsors the international edu-
cational exchange program, which awards
scholarships to 1,500 U.S. students and
3,000 foreign students every year.
Eight UCSC students received Ful-
bright Scholarships in 2008, and three in
2009. In last year’s ranking of UC schools
by number of Fulbright scholars, UCSC
came in before UC Santa Barbara, which
ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENT Dennis Keen will use his Fulbright scholarship to
study eagle hunters in Kazakhstan.
had one, and behind UC Berkeley, which
had 18.
The only undergraduate in the group,
Keen graduated in the spring of 2010
with a B.A. in language studies and
education.
He developed a passion for Central
Asian culture when he spent a summer in
Almaty, Kazakhstan at 17. And he began
investing his time in anthropology courses
during his senior year at UCSC.
Keen continued building upon his ex-
isting foundation in Russian language and
culture, by teaching English in Mongolia.
He spent two weeks in the Bayan-Olgii
province living with eagle hunters, doing
formal interviews, and studying the hunt-
ers’ training methods.
Keen returned home and applied for
the Fulbright to further pursue his inter-
est in eagle hunters.
With the financial aid of the Fulbright
Scholarship, Keen will be able to con-
duct his research on the Kazakh eagle
hunters beyond the two-week period he
was initially given. The amount of each
individual scholarship is different, and
takes into account travel expenses and
the cost of living in the country in which
the research will be conducted.
“Without the Fulbright, any research
abroad would have been next to im-
possible,” Keen said. “It’s expensive to
Courtesy of Dennis Keen
travel, and anthropology is not a lucrative
profession. I had very little savings, so
Fulbright is the only way that this adven-
ture is possible.”
These scholarships aren’t only ben-
eficial to students like Keen who receive
them.
“[The scholarship] does a lot for
[UCSC’s] national ranking,” said Lisa
Rofel, anthropology professor. “The fact
that graduate students get so many grants
makes our national status rank very high.”
The National Research Council ranks
departments such as UCSC’s anthropol-
ogy department, and Rofel said Fulbright
scholars help improve these rankings.
“The Fulbright Scholarship is the gate-
way from the classroom to the research
field,” Rofel said.
“Otherwise, [field work] would be very
Campus
difficult,” she said. “Especially since an-
thropology encourages students to study
internationally.”
In this uncertain economic climate,
grants like the Fulbright are highly sought
after, and the already-stiff competition is
increased by the scholarship’s inclusion of
both the sciences and the humanities.
The six UCSC students who made the
cut include Nellie Chu, who is studying
manufacturing in China, Carlo Moreno,
who is looking at agroecology in Venezu-
ela, Sarah Eunkychee, who is researching
Protestant Christianity in South Korea,
Jonathan Crosson, who will focus on
Spiritual Baptism in islands such as Trini-
dad and St. Vincent, and Naomi Glenn-
Levin, who will be learning about child
services through research in San Diego
and Tijuana.
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Campus
Students Take Action for
Public Education
‘Creative disruptions’ to take place
throughout the day
By Ryan Mark-Griffin
News Editor
Students, faculty and workers
have been spent hours at work
organizing against fee increases
and budget cuts. Today’s events
will be a testament to that hard
work.
As part of a national day of
action to defend public educa-
tion, today’s rally is the next in
a series of protests against UC
fee increases and budget cuts.
Students at UC Berkeley and
UCLA have organized similar
rallies in solidarity with the
movement to save public educa-
tion.
Education for All, a San
Diego-based organization
formed to fight cuts to education
and services, will be marching
to numerous public buildings to
hold rallies and place headstones
outside them with messages like
“R.I.P. Education.”
At UCSC, the day will begin
with a series of “creative disrup-
tions” spread across campus
to call attention to the noon
rally that will take place in the
Quarry Plaza. Organizers were
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hesitant to say much about the
disruptions, except that they
are meant to call attention to
administrative decisions that re-
duce the quality of a UC educa-
tion while increasing the cost of
attendance, like increasing class
sizes and cutting library hours.
“Closing down campus for
a day is a momentary disrup-
tion, but the decisions that the
administration has made disrupt
a student’s entire life,” said orga-
nizer Mark Paschal, a third-year
graduate student.
Last year, UC regents ap-
proved an increase in student
fees, swelling the price tag from
$7,483 annually to $10,302,
and implemented budget cuts
that reduced academic support
services systemwide.
At UCSC and other UC
campuses, these administrative
decisions were met with multiple
protest actions, including cam-
pus shutdowns and the occupa-
tion of university buildings.
UCSC director of public
information Jim Burns had little
Thursday, October 7, 2010
to say about the day of action.
“At this point, we under-
stand that on our campus
the day will feature a noon
rally at Quarry Plaza,” Burns
said. “The state’s declining sup-
port for public higher educa-
tion, which has eroded UC’s
quality and student access to
that quality, is certainly an issue
that deserves such attention.”
Despite extensive outreach to
students, many faculty members Illustration by Louise Leong
were not aware of today’s action
day until this week. As recently budget. momentum for other actions
as yesterday, several professors Their vote will coincide throughout the school year and
said they knew nothing about directly with the national day of inspire students to become more
the protest. action. Legislators told Reuters politically active.
“I didn’t find out about the that the plan called for more “I think students are going
protest until this week when a than $7 billion in spending cuts to be upset,” said organizer Erin
student in my class asked if we’d from areas including schools, Ellison, a graduate student in
have class on Thursday because welfare and other social services. psychology, about the possiblity
of the day of action, and I said, A related ruling from the of another fee increase. “I don’t
‘What day of action?’” said as- California Supreme Court on want them to feel helpless. I
sociate professor of community Monday upheld Gov. Arnold want them to take action to
studies Mary Beth Pudup. Schwarzenegger’s decision to change the situation.”
The national day of action furlough more than 200,000 In addition to the noon rally
comes one day after state legisla- workers last year in order to trim on campus, there will be a 4
tors held a public hearing on the state deficit. p.m. rally at the Santa Cruz
the proposed 2010-2011 state The organizing commit- clock tower with K-12 students,
tee hopes the rally will create parents and teachers.
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Event Calendar

Event Calendar
CITY
Thursday, Oct. 7 ■■ Performance: SMOKE Cabaret starring Lori Rivera with Marshall Otwell. Kuumbwa
Jazz Center. 7 p.m. $15-30.
■■ Concert: Tokyo Police Club. Rio Theatre. 8 p.m. $15 in advance, $18 at door.
■■ Concert: Tech N9ne plus E-40 and others. The Catalyst. Doors at 7 p.m., music at 8
p.m. $36 in advance, $41 at door.
■■ Performance: Free comedy. The Blue Lagoon. 8:30-10 p.m. Free.

Friday, Oct. 8 ■■ Concert: Shadow Shadow Shade. Rio Theatre. 8 p.m. $15.
■■ Concert: Audiafauna. Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Doors at 7:30 p.m., music at 8 p.m. $13
advance, $15 door.
■■ Concert: The California Honeydrops. The Crêpe Place. Doors at 8 p.m., music at 9
p.m. $10.
■■ Concert: The Pack featuring Lil B the Based God, Young L, and others. The Catalyst.
Doors at 8 p.m., music at 9 p.m. $14 in advance, $17 at door.
■■ Film: “Beetlejuice.” Del Mar Theater. 11:59 p.m. $6.50.

Saturday, Oct. 9 ■■ Fundraiser: 4th Annual Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament and Fundraiser. Bocci’s
Cellar. 5 p.m. $50 buy-in.
■■ Concert: City Folk. Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Doors at 7 p.m., music at 7:30 p.m. $22 in
advance, $26 at door.
■■ Performance: The Blushing Barefoot Burlesque. Rio Theatre. Doors at 8 p.m., show at
9 p.m. $20 advance, $25 door.
■■ Concert: Heavyweight Dub Champion. Cypress Lounge. 10 p.m. $10.
■■ Film: “Ghostbusters.” Del Mar Theater. 11:59 p.m. $6.50.

Sunday, Oct. 10 ■■ Outdoor: Welcome Back Monarchs Day. Natural Bridges State Beach.10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Free.
■■ Concert: Overtone. The Catalyst. Doors at 8:30 p.m., music at 9 p.m. $10. Ages 21+

Monday, Oct. 11 ■■ Concert: Triveni: Avishai Cohen, Omer Avital, Nasheet Waits. Kuumbwa Jazz Center.
7 p.m. $20 advance, $23 door.
■■ Concert: El Ten Eleven, The Baths, Sister Crayon. The Crepe Place. 9 p.m. $10.

Tuesday, Oct. 12 ■■ Expo: Bellies, Birth, and Babies. University Inn & Conference Center. 7-9 p.m.
■■ Concert: 7 Come 11. The Crêpe Place. 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Free.

Wednesday, Oct.13 ■■ Community: Downtown Farmer’s Market. Between Lincoln & Cedar St. 2:30-6:30
p.m.
■■ Concert: Danielle Ate the Sandwich, Les Shelleys: Tom Brousseau, Angela Correia.
The Crêpe Place. 9 p.m. $8.

CAMPUS
Thursday, Oct. 7 ■■ Tour: Younger Lagoon Reserve Tour. Seymour Marine Discovery Center. 2-3:30 p.m.
$4 students. $6 adults. Reservations required, call (831) 459-3800.
■■ Performance: Living Writers Series. Visit by writer Joël Barraquiel Tan. Humanities
Lecture 206. 6 p.m. Free. New visiting author or poet every Thursday through Dec. 2.
■■ Lecture: Ken Norris Memorial Lecture. Seymour Marine Discovery Center. 7-8:30
p.m. $3-4.

Saturday, Oct. 9 ■■ Outdoor: California Native Plant Society Fall Plant Sale. Arboretum. 12-4 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 10 ■■ Celebration: Seymour Center’s 10th Anniversary. Seymour Marine Discovery Center.
12-5 p.m. $4-6.

Wednesday, Oct. 13 ■■ Sports: Drop-In Slacklining and Rockwall. East Field Center. 2:30-4:30 p.m. Free.
■■ Debate: Marijuana & Proposition 19. College 9/10 Multi Purpose Room. 7-8:30 p.m.

Compiled by Tess Goodwin

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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Campus
Porter College Welcomes
Transfers to Their New Home
University resources accommodate new students

By Rosa Castaneda
Campus Reporter to Pandora Radio,” said third-year Bianca In effect, the Services for Transfer and
Bracamonte, Merrill transfer. Re-entry Students has become more acces-
After years of debating the idea, admin- In the larger perspective, “it brings a more sible. STARS now has a lounge area at Por-
istrators finally decided to house transfer age-friendliness … in showing that since ter opened Monday through Friday from 3
students in one location. we have a transfer community, on-campus to 5 p.m. and also offers workshops at Porter.
Transfer students expressed enthusiasm living isn’t all just about freshmen, 18 years Another resource is the College Academic
about residing in a community with fellow old, fresh out of high school,” said third-year Support Team (CAST) located at Kerr Hall.
students new to UCSC. Porter CA Marc Atkinson. Yamauchi-Gleason said that administration
“[As a transfer] you’re around the same The transfer community helps ease stu- will work with services by “doing ongoing
maturity level … you all went through the dents’ transition to UCSC. surveys and focus groups.”
same things so you’re already in the same “They have made it so easy for us to see Structurally, everything is geared for
wavelength,” said Cheska Bacaltos, third- the opportunities available,” Bracamonte transfer students to make the most out of
year Porter transfer. said. their education at UCSC.
A common remark among transfers was
that instead of coming to UC Santa Cruz
undecided about a major, they are already
thinking ahead to graduate school and career
options as they seek an academic network.
Out of the total 1,369 transfer students
admitted to UCSC this fall, 42 percent live
in university-sponsored housing, which
includes Porter College, University Inn and
University Town Center. Porter A houses
393 transfer students, and 86 live in Porter B.
“We had such a strong response for
people wanting to be at Porter College,” said
Michael Yamauchi-Gleason, college admin-
istrative officer (CAO) for Kresge and Porter
colleges. “We actually have some transfer
students at the other colleges too because we
just couldn’t fit them in.”
Transfer students have been designated to
live at Porter as opposed to their college of
affiliation, as was done in previous years.
“It’s hard to say that [transfers] are actu-
ally affiliated with their home college [when]
they just go to their advising,” said Alexis
Grove, second-year Oakes student and Por-
ter community assistant (CA).
Transfer students get much of their advis-
ing from their department because by the
time they transfer they are already estab-
lished in their major and well on their way to
graduate, Yamauchi-Gleason said.
This year’s transfers are required to live
in the dorms for at least one quarter. After
that, upon request and depending on space
availability, they may move to any other
university-sponsored housing.
“It’s kind of weird,” said fourth-year Mi-
chael Giglio, Porter CA and Kresge student
living in the dorms for the first time. “It’s
like they really want them to have the dorm
experience. However, I feel that it makes the
transfer community an actual community for
once. [It] gives them more of an identity.”
For some transfers, community building
outweighs resource access. Their own peers Photo by Molly Solomon
have become their strongest resource while PORTER COLLEGE has changed considerably due to the addition of 479 transfer
sharing new experiences. students.
“We have singing shower parties listening
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Campus
Grounds Services
Cuts Tree 9
Branches to Stop
Student Climbing
Iconic tree beloved as a UCSC landmark
By Rosa Arce
Campus Writer
Helen Sylvia looked up to find sap
dripping from the lower 20 to 25 feet
of Tree Nine’s sawed branches. The
third-year Stevenson student was not
expeting the amputated icon when
she visited Tree Nine in August.
For many, climbing this ap-
proximately 150-foot Douglas-fir is
a tradition and staple of UC Santa
Cruz heritage.
Climbing Tree Nine is considered
by many to be almost an initiation
into UCSC, “but not mandatory,”
Sylvia said. “There is so much of an
emotional connection. Why are you
going to cut down this main symbol?”
Two reasons: the first “to discour-
age people from climbing the tree,
thereby protecting them from pos-
sible injury,” said director of public
information Jim Burns in an e-mail.
The second, “to protect the tree itself
from harm.”
UCSC arborists indicated the
impact foot traffic can have on Tree
Nine’s root system, having effectively
removed the organic soil at the base
of the tree. There have also been
recent reports on injuries students
received while climbing other trees.
“Why this tree?” Sylvia said. “The
impact that the students are giving it
is nowhere in comparison to what the
university plans on doing with the
[Long Range Development Plan].”
“Students aren’t going to stop
climbing trees,” she added. “What are
[the arborists] going to do, cut down
all the branches of all the trees that
are climbable?”
Gage Dayton is director of UCSC
Natural Reserves.
“Students can certainly get se-
verely injured or even die if they fell
THE ADMINISTRATION cut the lower branches
from Tree Nine over the summer. The climb,
once a staple student experience, is now
considerably riskier. It isn’t clear if the measure
will stop students from seeking the summit.
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Thursday, October 7, 2010
out of this tree,” Dayton said in an
e-mail. “But now there’s a rope here.
Has the risk gone down? Now what?
Do we cut down the tree? Where
do you stop? Do we pave the whole
forest?”
Dayton was supposed to be
consulted with matters regarding the
protected area to which Tree Nine
belongs, but he was not.
There are several issues that Day-
ton must consider in his position. He
lists “human safety, sensitive species
protection, land stewardship, facility
construction and placement, trans-
portation, research [and] education”
among them.
“Often, many of these consid-
erations are contradictory to one
another and we simply have to make
the best decision we can based on
collective reasoning,” Dayton said in
an e-mail. “I believe the lack of com-
munication in this event was simply
a breakdown in the process during a
time when there had been personnel
turnover and reduced staffing.”
He will continue to work on im-
proving the communication between
the two parties.
“There were so many other
options,” third-year Sylvia said.
“What they did was the most drastic
measure. There was no process, no
democracy, no communication. There
is a lack of communication with the
students.”
Sylvia was right about one thing
at least. Students have continued to
climb Tree Nine — with one differ-
ence.
“It’s a lot scarier than it used to
be,” said a climber who was found in
the area.
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Putting Safety to a Vote

City
Increase in crime and gang-related activities continue the debate on Measure H

By Rosanna Van Straten
City Desk
On a typical night at 7 p.m., the corner of Barson and
Clay streets in Santa Cruz’s lower Ocean neighborhood is
not the safest place.
Last Wednesday, though, the neighborhood had a dif-
ferent vibe, as the organization Neighbors of Santa Cruz
gathered approximately 25 people to do a walk-through
of the lower Ocean area and make the community aware
of changes implemented by the organization to make
the neighborhood a safer one. Neighbors of Santa Cruz
is a citywide non-profit organization that represents a
network of neighborhoods and provides a voice for the
residents of the city.
As he led the group around the neighborhood, Erik
Larsen, who helped found the group, explained that the
area used to be a center for drug-related crime and pros-
titution. By taking landlords to small claims court, they
forced them to clean up and watch their properties. In
addition, city officials closed a local bar that was plagued
by gang activity.
The event was in support of Measure H, which ad-
dresses public safety in Santa Cruz. The measure, which
emerged during the recent summer months and will be
on the November ballot, intends to increase the city util-
ity tax by 1.5 percent and use the revenue to fund public
safety. The funds will go primarily toward supporting the
police department and prevention of gang-related crime.
“There is now less money and more crime, and we are
trying to level it off,” said city councilmember Don Lane,
who supports Measure H. “We can either have a bare-
bones police department that gets a call and works the
crime, or have the funding to increase police forces and
prevent crime activity in the first place, through providing
alternatives for youth, for example.”
In the past two weeks alone, there have been several
shootings in and around the city. Although the cir-
cumstances were not clear, a shooting was reported on
Woodrow Avenue and Walk Circle, in the lower Westside
area of town. According to witnesses, it involved a man
opening fire on a group of people sitting on a porch. Ad-
ditionally, this past weekend, three shootings occurred.
One man was left dead and two were wounded.
In addition to the mitigation of rising crime, propo-
nents of the measure cite its attention to economically
vulnerable citizens and seniors as a positive factor. The
measure affords these groups the chance to dismiss the
first $34 to $100 off their utilities bill depending on need.
To be passed, Measure H must receive a 50 percent
plus one majority vote, which means the revenue from the
measure would go into the city’s general fund as opposed
to a fund that is set aside for one particular purpose.
This leaves some residents of the city worried. Ac-
cording to its website,
the Santa Cruz County
Republican Central
Committee opposes tax increases that cannot be clearly
justified by need and appointed to the correct area. The
group said that Measure H does not meet the minimum
standard, and fears it will not be spent in the appropriate
areas.
Furthermore, the increase in utility tax could very eas-
ily be a discouraging factor in an economically challeng-
ing time, and some see it as as oppressive.
Don Webber, a longtime community activist from the
beach area, does not view this as a threat or problem.
“Public safety is already a major part of our general
fund expenditures, and the city leaders have resolved to
use the Prop H proceeds for police staffing. I trust them
to do so,” Webber said. “[But] with the nation in a tea
party tizzy, it will be hard enough to get over the 50-per-
cent threshold to pass a general fund tax measure, let
alone the super-majority necessary to pass a tax restricted
to a specific use. The city is right to run this through the
general fund.”
Erik Larsen of Santa Cruz Neighbors said that in
addition to a grassroots approach to crime mitigation,
revenue from this fund is the best way forward for Santa
Cruz.
“Crime-related activity can be zeroed down, [and]
door to door communication is the essence of neighbor-
hood organizing,” he said.
As for the increase in utility taxes, those supporting it
claim that this would be a small sacrifice. The slogan of
Measure H simply reads: “More than a utility. A neces-
sity.”

Photos by Rosanna van Straten

TOP LEFT: Erik Larsen, who helped found Neighbors of Santa Cruz, speaks
with a local about safety on the corner of Barson and Clay Street.
BOTTOM LEFT: Community activists and neighbors gather outside of lower
Ocean’s Little Caesars Pizza to discuss the changes that have been made over
the years.
TOP RIGHT: Police cars round the corner of Ocean and Brason on the
Eastside of Santa Cruz.

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City
County Starts Regulating
Medical Marijuana
Dispensaries
Santa Cruz places a
moratorium on
new dispensaries
of the drug
By Patrick Rooney
City Reporter
Laws and attitudes toward marijua-
na are changing throughout the state,
and Santa Cruz is no exception.
The Santa Cruz County Board
of Supervisors formally expressed a
policy Sept. 26, which addresses medi-
cal marijuana dispensaries that have
sprung up in past years. The policy al-
lows and regulates the facilities, as well
as places a moratorium on new medical
marijuana dispensaries until the board
finalizes the new policies.
Supervisor John Leopold said the
board plans to have a rough draft of the
new policies by Nov. 9.
“There were no land use rules [for
the dispensaries] in unincorporated
areas,” said Leopold, who spearheaded
the legislative effort with supervisor
Neal Coonerty. “We wanted to create
an orderly process with reasonable rules
which ensure access.”
Santa Cruz’s policy changes are a
microcosm of the policy and attitude
changes taking place throughout the
state. On Oct. 1, Gov. Arnold Schwar-
zenegger signed into law a bill that
decriminalizes possession of less than
one ounce of marijuana, changing the
penalty from a misdemeanor to an
infraction similar to a traffic violation.
What’s more, Proposition 19 on the
ballot in November seeks to regulate,
tax and legalize marijuana altogether.
Polls show the measure has a good
chance of passing.
There are already eight counties and
37 cities in California with regulations
in effect for medical marijuana and the
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dispensaries that provide it.
“We don’t really have to reinvent
the wheel,” Leopold said. “We can pull
out the best features already present in
those policies. The one area which is
different is the priority we are plac-
ing on ensuring access to low-income
individuals.”
One of many individuals who use
medical marijuana in Santa Cruz
County is Harold “Hal” Margolin, 78,
who has used marijuana since 2000 to
treat his painful symptoms of leukemia,
pneumonia and neuropathy. Margolin’s
luck took a turn for the worse last week
when he suffered a heart attack and a
broken hip. He is now in the hospital,
where he expects to stay for another
three weeks.
“I can’t smoke in here,” Margolin
said. “So I do have to take painkillers
instead, which I prefer not to use.”
He described why he favors mari-
juana and its beneficial effects for him.
“It’s the one medicine without any
side effects like dizziness,” Margolin
said. “That’s really important. I will not
categorically say it is a painkiller. But
even if I do have the pain, the con-
sciousness is diverted, and I don’t think
about the pain.”
Marijuana helps Margolin not only
with the constant presence of pain in
his life but with the other symptoms of
his condition.
“It helps me sleep,” he said.
Contrary to what opponents of
medical marijuana say about people
who use the drug, Margolin doesn’t
often get high from the amount he
smokes to alleviate his symptoms, he
said.
Margolin obtains medical mari-
juana from the Wo/Men’s Alliance for
Medical Marijuana (WAMM) in Santa
Cruz. WAMM, founded in 1993, was
the first medical marijuana collective
in the nation, and though it indeed
dispenses marijuana, director and co-
founder Valerie Corral goes to great
lengths to distinguish WAMM from
dispensaries and buyers’ clubs.
“The difference between us and dis-
pensaries is that even if you don’t have
money, you can access us,” Corral said.
WAMM does not seek to make
a profit, and its website contains a
reference to Marxist principle: “Each
member receives according to need
and returns to WAMM according to
ability.”
Corral weighed in on the as-yet-un-
known policies being formed regarding
medical marijuana dispensaries.
“We hope the new county policies
will call out so-called ‘compassion clubs’
to employ compassion, not just enrich
their financial bottom line,” Corral said.
Corral herself uses medical mari-
juana to treat her epilepsy and prevent
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seizures, and helped author Proposition
215 in 1996, which legalized medical
marijuana in California.
Corral named pain relief, sleep aid,
increased appetite and the alleviation of
behavioral disorders like oppositional
defiant disorder, among the beneficial
effects of medical marijuana. She also
emphasized the psychological benefits
for people dealing with serious illness.
“It changes the way people look at
sickness and reduces anxiety people
have when looking at the end of life,”
Corral said.
Corral has an ally in Supervisor
Leopold, who first became interested
in medical marijuana when he served
as executive director for the Santa Cruz
AIDS Project 14 years ago. Leopold
first began doing AIDS work as a
student at UCSC. He graduated from
Merrill College in 1988 with a politics
degree.
“I saw first-hand the nature of this
medicine for people, especially in the
late stages of terminal illness to main-
tain a better quality of life,” he said.
Leopold said that past voter ac-
tion bodes well for Proposition 19 in
November.
“When Prop 215 passed with 74
percent of the vote,” Leopold said, “I
interpreted that as the voters under-
standing the value of compassionate
use to alleviate pain.”
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CITY COUNCIL PASSES CHANGE TO SLEEPING BAN
This month will see the enactment of a new policy on sleeping outside
By Nikki Pritchard
City Reporter
On an industrial section of Delaware Avenue, a core
group of cars and campers inhabit the roadside week after
week. With a state park to the west and UCSC adminis-
trative buildings to the east, those who live and sleep here
do so in an attempt to evade the sleeping ban in Santa
Cruz, and are generally unbothered by the Santa Cruz
police. In a recent development to a contentious issue
in Santa Cruz, the city council voted to waive citations
of the camping ordinance if offenders were on a wait
list at Homeless Shelter Services on the night of their
infraction. The change is meant to make homeless living
in Santa Cruz a little more tolerable for those seeking
shelter.
A camping ban has been in effect in the city for nearly
40 years. Originally intended to keep students off the
beaches at night, the rise in the city’s homeless population
has transformed the use of the policy. It is now intended
to curb the amount of people sleeping on private prop-
erty, as well as to prevent unwanted disturbances in Santa
Cruz communities.
After controversy surrounding the ban this summer,
including the Peace Camp protests held since Aug. 10,
Mayor Mike Rotkin points out that there have actually
been fewer citations than one might expect.
“The vast majority of homeless people on any given
night find some place to sleep and don’t get cited,” Rotkin
said.
Police do not approach individuals sleeping on the
street or in their cars unless someone in the neighbor-
hood has reported them, Rotkin said. Police often give
warnings after a complaint is first made. People who
move on to another location are generally not cited.
However, if they sleep in the same area the next night and
a complaint is made with the police, they will be cited.
The exception to this policy has been for people who
sleep at City Hall. Though not an issue for much of
the policy’s life, the recent demonstrations of sleeping
protests at the site have prompted police to patrol the
area and issue citations in an attempt to prevent further
incidents.
Between Jan. 1 and Sept. 29, 232 citations were is-
sued under Section 6.36.010(A1) for sleeping outdoors
between 11:00 p.m. and 8:30 a.m., according to the police
department, while 114 citations have been issued under
Section 6.36.010(C) for setting up campsites anytime.
Zach Friend, police department spokesperson, said in
Photos by Arianna Puopolo
THE SANTA CRUZ CITY COUNCIL recently voted to
waive citations of the camping ordinance if offenders
were on a wait list at Homeless Shelter Services on
the night of their infraction.
City
an e-mail that 100 of the citations were associated with
the Peace Camp protest since Aug. 10.
The change was necessary, because during the summer
months, the Homeless Services Center, with just 46 beds,
cannot meet the needs of even five percent of the home-
less population in Santa Cruz, estimated to be between
1,000 and 1,200 in the city alone.
“[There] certainly isn’t enough [space] to provide a
roof over the head of every homeless person in Santa
Cruz,” said Monica Martinez, executive director of
Homeless Services Center.
Organizations within the City of Santa Cruz provide
more than 100 services for homeless people in our com-
munity, ranging from the Homeless Garden Project to
local soup kitchens like St. Francis Soup Kitchen. Rotkin
said that such programs are useful but must be supple-
mented by long-term solutions and vocational opportuni-
ties.
“A significant number of people come to Santa Cruz
and get out of homelessness through our programs,” he
said. “We could get a regional solution to this that would
allow us to set up regional camping grounds or reestablish
the civilian conservation corps.”
However, the latter of these idealistic solutions may
not be plausible for homeless people, Martinez said.
“Someone who isn’t housed is not likely to succeed in
vocational programs,” she said. “We need to work toward
solutions that will house our most in need.”
The sleeping ban isn’t unique to Santa Cruz. Santa
Barbara, Santa Monica and Portland are just a few other
cities that enforce similar policies. The issue points to a
structural problem of our economy, Rotkin said.
“It’s one of the contradictions of capitalism,” Rotkin
said. “There’s no piece of land that isn’t owned by some-
body.”
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By Rosie Spinks Illustrat

City Desk Editor Patrick

Debunking the Double

T
hrough Victorian conservatism and post- dards, it’s perceived as more be any additional or resulting or promiscuous, are lacking in
acceptable for men to do that.” relationship … [but] the range popular culture.
modern feminism, female sexuality has Sexual options and preferenc- of emotional experiences people Friedman finds this problem-
been constantly evolving. es are by no means uniform. Nor have in those scenarios varies atic and insists that women can
are the challenges and obstacles widely.” and should engage their sexuality
Where once a wide-eyed Britney Spears ap- faced by people of different However casual sex is defined, freely, provided that is what they
peared unaware of her sexual objectification, sexual orientations and gender Generation X didn’t invent it, want and they take the necessary
identities. Beyond different inter- Friedman said. precautions.
Lady Gaga now commands it. Are we cur- pretations of casual sex, there is “There is sort of a ‘kids these “The assumption is that
rently in a time where a woman can pursue sex also abstinence, or reserving sex days’ sheen over these argu- women can never want sex just
only for committed relationships, ments,” Friedman said. “I really because they want sex,” Friedman
for the sake of sex, or is society stuck in the to name just a few of the paths reject that.” said. “All women are supposed to
the “stud vs. slut” dichotomy? people may choose to follow. want is love and all men are sup-
“What we even mean by DE-STIGMATIZING posed to want is sex and we have
‘casual sex’ is incredibly diverse,” to trick [men] into loving us by
Jaclyn Friedman, a feminist taries, books, magazine columns, said Heather Corinna in an A DOUBLE STANDARD withholding sex.”
writer, activist and speaker who websites and blogs devoted to the e-mail. Corinna is an author, Third-year Oakes student
co-edited the anthology “Yes “epidemic” of casual sex. While activist and founder of the popu- Despite the fact that casual Zac Stein says he sees a distinc-
Means Yes: Visions of Female it’s clear that older generations lar sex-ed website Scarleteen. sex has been around long before tion between women who enjoy
Sexual Power and a World may not approve, the question “When I say it, what I mean is a there were websites devoted to sex and women who are overly
Without Rape,” explains that is whether the negative stigma sexual scenario in which some- it, social cues that a woman can promiscuous.
conventional gender roles that attached to casual sex, particu- one is considering that outside pursue sex for the sake of sex, “The stigma is attached to
accompany sex are problematic larly as it applies to women, has of that scenario, there may not and not be considered loose girls because there’s this idea that
because they perpetuate assump- lessened in the college environ- women don’t enjoy sex, that that’s
tions about female sexual desire. ment. not what they’re interested in,”
“The typical idea is that girls On a hot afternoon in the Stein said. “But there’s a differ-
want a relationship but they’re Quarry Plaza, students offered ence between someone who has
[settling for] hooking up,” Fried- diverse definitions of “casual sex.” a lot of sex and someone who’s a
man said. “The idea that all girls “Casual sex is sexual inter- slut and that’s the way that they
want one thing from hooking up course with no long-term goals themselves use sex. They don’t use
is silly.” or exclusivity,” a fourth-year sex as some kind of social gain.”
For both females and males, male student said. “Key point is Second-year Cory Faust said
navigating sexual experiences and that it’s not exclusive, there’s no that as a woman she also sees a
the double standard of sexuality agreed-upon terms.” distinction in how women treat
is as much a part of the college “No ‘I love you.’ No ‘I want casual sex.
experience as choosing a major or to be with you.’ Just kind of like “If you’re a mature adult and
dealing with a roommate. hit it and quit it,” a second-year you make it clear that you’re in
Casual sex, or what has been female said. a relationship just to have casual
deemed the “hook-up culture,” “I think it’s discouraged for sex, then I feel like society won’t
has become synonymous with girls and definitely encouraged necessarily perceive you as a slut,”
the college-age group, as evi- for guys,” a fourth-year female THE CONDOM CO-OP, run by the SHOP office, sells 40 differ- Faust said. “But if you kind of
denced by a litany of documen- said. “Because of double stan- ent varieties of condoms, priced at eight for $1, at various loca-
tions around campus.

Statistics from the American Have you ever been tested for an Did you use a condom last time
College Health Association HIV infection? you had vaginal intercourse?
Surveyed: 2,621 UCSC students Yes: 30.7% Yes: 39.6%
via web survey, No: 65.9% No: 29.4%
administered in 2007 Don’t know: 3.3% Have not engaged: 31.0%

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tions by Photos by
k Yeung Morgan Grana
e Standard in College
get suckered into it and you don’t
have control of the situation then
that’s the ‘not OK’ side. That’s the
slut side.”
The idea that girls “give it up”
and guys are intent on “getting
some” is also flawed, Friedman
said, when applied to men and
anyone who isn’t heterosexual.
“The idea that men are some
sexual robotic atomic bombs is
very insulting,” Friedman said.
“It’s also completely heteronor-
mative — how do queer people
even have sex at all in this view?”
RISKY BUSINESS
While sexual empowerment
and equality for both women and
men is a good thing, most agree
that it cannot come without a
heightened awareness of the
physical and emotional risks at-
tached to casual sex.
When it comes to casual
sex and how it affects men and
women differently, there is some
evidence that suggests that
women are more at risk for infec-
tion, particularly when they are
the receivers of penetration.
This assumption is somewhat
true, Corinna said, but prob-
lematic when viewed through a
strictly heterosexual framework.
“Really, it’s not ultimately
about gender but about types of
sex,” Corinna said. “If a person
is more frequently a receptive
partner in sexual activities with
Did you use a condom last time
you had oral sex?
Yes: 3.8%
No: 67.6%
Have not engaged: 27.8%
Don’t know: 0.9%
Slut:
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entry … that person has greater drunk to become willing to do isn’t necessarily true, Friedman casual sex is a good idea for all
health risks.” something you wouldn’t do sober, said. She said openness with women.
Elizabeth Hyde, a nurse prac- that is absolutely emotionally one’s partner about the expec- “What’s ‘smart’ or a good
titioner and the Patient Care Co- toxic and dangerous,” Friedman tations attached to any sexual fit for one person of one large
ordinator at the UCSC Student said. “You’re basically overriding encounter is key. group emotionally, psychologi-
Health Center (SHC), disagrees. your own boundary.” “The No. 1 predictor of a cally and interpersonally can be
Anatomical differences are not A national study of college positive experience with casual a terrible fit and not at all smart
reason enough to view the risks students indicated that “75 sex is whether or not an individ- for another member of that same
of casual sex differently for men percent of males and 55 percent ual wants to be in a relationship large group, because we’re all so
and women, she said. of females involved in date rape with the person they’re having diverse,” she said.
“There’s no difference,” Hyde had been drinking or using drugs casual sex with,” Friedman said. Friedman endorses “enthu-
said. “Both parties are equally at prior to the assault,” according “It’s gender-neutral.” siastic consent,” or the idea that
risk.” to the website of UC Berkeley’s Corinna said that an egali- the lack of a “no” during a sexual
When it comes to other Health Services. tarian view of sexual empower- encounter does not actually indi-
physical aspects of keeping sex On the emotional side of the ment — that women can have cate consent.
safe, college students in general risks, the idea that females suffer sex simply because they want to “One of the things that is
know the facts and physical risks, more from unattached casual sex — doesn’t necessarily mean that important to do before you jump
Hyde said.
However, in Hyde’s experi-
ence there are several factors
where most students run into
trouble. Paramount among them
are being under the influence
of drugs and alcohol and being
uncomfortable with expressing
one’s sexual needs, she said.
“It’s almost never a lack of
knowledge,” Hyde said. “I don’t
ever have someone say to me,
‘I don’t know how to prevent
an STI.’ What I experience is
people that weren’t able to take
that knowledge and put it into
practice.”
Friedman said that alcohol
and casual sex have a trouble-
some connection, particularly be-
cause so many sexual assaults are
perpetrated under the influence
of alcohol or other substances.
“When you’re getting yourself THE SEX AND SEXUALITY gameshow, a yearly event hosted by Porter and Kresge Colleges, is one
of SHOP’s efforts to normalize students’ sexuality on campus.
Continued on p. 16
What method did you or your parter use to prevent pregnancy the
last time you had vaginal intercourse? (top four responses):
Condoms (male or female): 40.1%
Birth control pills: 39.6%
Withdrawal: 11%
Fertility awareness: 3.1%
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into bed with someone is ask
them about their sexual history,”
Friedman said. “You have to
have an actual conversation with
them. It has the added bonus of
filtering out people that aren’t
mature enough.”
AN AGENDA OF
NON-JUDGMENT
Getting both men and wom-
en to be vocal and open about
their sexual needs is no easy feat
on a college campus.
“In our culture sex is so
taboo,” said fourth-year Bri-
tanny Hoffman, who serves as
the coordinator of the Condom
Co-op on campus, “so having the
knowledge and being able to talk
about it will make it safer. I enjoy
talking with people about sex
and I think it’s totally natural.”
The Condom Co-op is part
of the Student Health Outreach
and Promotion office. SHOP
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versus
works to dismantle the double
standard by normalizing sexual-
ity and provide an environment
where it’s OK to talk openly
about sexual needs, whatever
they may be.
As part of her job, Hoff-
man coordinates the 70 student
volunteers who staff the co-op
in dining halls, the Quarry Plaza
and other campus locations.
Hoffman said that her in-
volvement with the co-op, which
sells roughly 3,000 condoms per
month to UCSC students, helps
her take away the shame of sex
and make sex safer for both men
and women.
At the co-op, condoms cost
$1 for eight and are sold with an
openness and friendly manner,
an alternative to the shroud of
embarrassment that often comes
with buying rubbers.
“OK, so four of the red and
four of the turquoise,” says
SHOP’s senior health educa-
tor Meg Kobe to a customer,
Slut
animatedly referring to the 40
different varieties of condoms
that are arranged in clear plastic
tubs along the wall.
“If a person comes into
our office wanting or needing
something, who are we to judge
them?” Kobe said. “We are a
sex-positive office — we truly
believe that every single person
is a sexual being. When, and
how, and even if you choose your
sexuality is a personal choice.”
Third-year Anya Hunter is
the SHOP education coordina-
tor. In her efforts to organize
campus events that promote
sexual awareness and health, she
often encounters students who
have unhealthy relationships
with their sexuality.
Open dialogue about sex
makes it safer for women and
men, she said.
“I’ve seen both ends of the
spectrum, from girls that are em-
barrassed by sex or girls that use
it as a power tool,” Hunter said.
“Either one is kind of unhealthy.
Sex is a natural thing. You don’t
need to use it as a power tool or
go crazy about it.”
SHOP and the Student
Health Center work in close
collaboration. Hyde said she
does see a difference between
casual sex and sex within a com-
mitted relationship, but she has
no interest in judging students’
sexual practices, as long as they
are informed about what they’re
doing.
“I don’t find my colleagues
judgmental about sexual prac-
tices at all,” Hyde said. “I think
more often we find ourselves in
situations where we’re struggling
to help people feel more com-
fortable about negotiating safer
sex.”
Last year, the SHC had over
2,000 visits related to sexually
transmitted infections. Soon
students will be able to get
laboratory STI tests done after
completing an anonymous online
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survey, with no need to see a
doctor or clinician.
Hyde said that if the clini-
cians at the SHC do have an
agenda, it is to promote open
and frequent STI testing.
“There is no safe sex,” Hyde
said bluntly. “Abstinence is safe,
mutual masturbation holds less
risk, but the term to use is safer
sex. The bottom line is safer
sex is best practiced when you
put barriers between dangerous
fluids.”
Friedman said that once the
physical risks of sex are ad-
equately addressed for both men
and women, there should be no
need for shame or judgment
from other people.
“All of us being more free
to have love relationships and
sexual relationships on our own
terms is a good thing,” Friedman
said, “and I don’t think it can be
argued to be bad as long as we’re
being safe and honest with our
partners.”
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Remembering a Local Poet
2nd annual memorial commemorates the late Maude Meehan
By Mikaela Todd
City Reporter
Poets and poetry-lovers alike crowded into Cabrillo
College’s Music Recital Hall this Saturday to honor local
poet Maude Meehan, and partake in what Meehan dedi-
cated her life to. The memorial reading echoed the love of
poetry that Maude Meehan exhibited and shared through
her teachings.
The second annual Maude Meehan Memorial Poetry
Reading took place this Saturday at the Cabrillo College
Music Recital Hall. Poetry Santa Cruz founded the event
last year after Meehan passed away in 2007, in order to
pay homage to the woman who was known in Santa Cruz
to be a generous and helpful tutor for aspiring poets and
writers.
“It is a way that we can honor Maude, a way to keep
her in our sights and in our hearts,” said Len Anderson,
secretary-treasurer of Poetry Santa Cruz, a local organiza-
tion devoted to promoting poetry in the community.
Meehan’s work includes two novels of poetry, “Chip-
ping Bone” (1985) and “Before the Snow” (1991). She
continued writing poetry until her death three years ago.
“Maude really was a beloved figure in the local poetry
community,” said Dennis Morrison, program director of
Poetry Santa Cruz. “Not just woman poets, but poets in
general appreciated her generosity and spirit and work.”
The event was not only a memorial, Anderson said, but
also a forum to “expose poetry of great women poets” like
California’s current poet laureate, Carol Muske-Dukes.
Last year, Lucille Clifton, a good friend of Meehan,
gave a reading of her work at the event, but passed away
shortly after. The First Annual Maude Meehan Memorial
reading was the last reading she ever gave.
This year’s event was a success — with over 100 people
in attendance. Despite the large turnout and the location
on a college campus, student attendance was lacking.
“Our events are very poorly attended by UCSC stu-
dents,” Morrison said. “That’s our biggest challenge. We’re
missing out on student presence and students are missing
out on some incredible readings.”
Poetry Santa Cruz invited Muske-Dukes to attend
this year’s memorial reading.
The new Cabrillo Music Hall reverberated with excite-
ment and laughter while Muske-Dukes read poems from
her upcoming book, “Twin Cities,” as well as from “Spar-
row,” a book to grieve her late husband.
Muske-Dukes plans to share her love of poetry on a
large scale with a younger generation through her cur-
rent project, Magic Poetry Bus. Her mission is to finish
“Magic Poetry Bus Driver’s Guide,” a book focused on
poetry learning and memorization, and provide it to
City
Courtesy of Anne Browne
CALIFORNIA POET LAUREATE Carol Muske-Dukes
attended the memorial for the late Maude Meehan, a
Santa Cruz poet who died three years ago.
public schools in California for free, mostly through an
online version.
“There’s a lot of money we have to raise,” Muske-
Dukes said. “I care a great deal about poetry. I’ve been
a poet almost my entire life. I believe in the power of
imagination to change people’s lives.”
She hopes that Magic Poetry Bus will inspire the same
in students in public schools across California.
Muske-Dukes said, “It made a huge difference in my
interest in words and books, literature and great conversa-
tion.”
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The Amazing Registration Race
Politics & Culture
Friendly competition to increase student voter registration numbers
By Stephanie Meade
Politics & Culture Reporter
The University of California Student
Association (UCSA) is taking political
competition to a whole new level for the
upcoming Nov. 2 elections.
In mid-September, the organization
decided to make the voter registration
process a little more interesting by creating
a UC- and CSU-wide competition to see
which school’s volunteer team can register
the most students on randomly chosen
“competition days.”
Whichever school’s volunteer team has
the most students registered on a chosen
day, or within a range of days, wins a prize.
With this competition, the UCSA hopes
to spark political interest in Californian
college students, and also get as many as
possible to vote on Nov. 2.
“The competition was created to make
sure we are doing our jobs,” said SUA
organizing director Nestor Rivera. “It is a
real test of our organization skill. Basically,
if we’re doing our job right, we should
win.”
Tactics to register voters include tabling
in Quarry Plaza and going door-to-door
at on-campus apartments.
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On the first selected competition day,
Sept. 21, UCSC did just that when it won
with a total of 176 students registered. UC
Santa Barbara won the second contest,
this one spanning three consecutive
competition days, Sept. 27 through Sept.
29, with a total of 530 newly registered
students, while UCSC tailed behind them
with a total of 420.
The UCSA competition, however, is
merely a bonus to an already active UCSC
voter registration campaign.
“We have registered above 1,000 stu-
dents so far,” Rivera said, “but our ultimate
goal is 4,000 before Oct. 18.”
As the Oct. 18 voter registration dead-
lines approach, many students may have to
think for the first time about whether to
register to vote in their hometown county
or in Santa Cruz County.
Fourth-year Diane Le, chapter presi-
dent of College Democrats of UCSC, of-
fered some insight to yet-to-be registered
students.
“It all depends where a student’s
interests lie,” said Le, who is registered to
vote in Santa Cruz County. “It is espe-
cially important for liberals that students
get their vote out. If we can’t turn out the
youth vote, Democrats can’t win.”
Le, a politics major, said her choice was
easy after working on a campaign for city
council member Neal Coonerty.
“I worked closely with Neal Coonerty
on his campaign,” Le said. “Also, the club
itself has very close ties to the democratic
party in Santa Cruz and therefore a closer
attachment to local issues.”
First-time voter first-year Mark
McGowan registered to vote in his home
county of Los Angeles. He said he is
happy with his choice to vote via absentee
ballot.
“Even though the issues I’ll be voting
for may not affect me as a student, I’ll be
able to vote on a lot of issues I cared about
before I came to UCSC,” McGowan said.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Illustration by Rachel Edelstein
“I know I won’t be able to vote on local is-
sues that may affect me more directly than
state issues, but I’m more interested in
state issues anyway, so I really don’t mind.”
Personal judgment plays as much of an
important role in where a student registers
as it does in whom a student votes for.
“Santa Cruz is a blue county, but the
county a student comes from may be red,”
Le said. “A student should register where
they think their vote will count the most.”
For those students who have yet to
register, registration forms can be dropped
off in the mailbox on the top floor of the
student union. If you or someone you
know is feeling overwhelmed about who
and what to vote for Nov. 2, look for the
Oct. 28 issue of City on a Hill Press for an
easy-to-understand voter guide with in-
formation about the upcoming election.
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Finding a Place for
Arts & Entertainment
Women Artists
Asian American organization hosts art show inspired
by Virginia Woolf ’s ‘A Room of One’s Own’
BY VERONICA GLOVER
A&E Writer
A bedroom might not seem
special to many people. It’s a
place where you sleep, hook up,
store your belongings and oc-
casionally study. But a bedroom
can be so much more — it can
be a safe haven from the daily
grind, a fortress of solitude or a
place that pays tribute to what-
ever its occupant desires.
The ability of a room to be
and stand for so many things
to many different people has
prompted the Asian American
Women Artists Association to
ask, “If you had a place of your
own, what would it be?”
This fall, the AAWAA
organized and hosted an art
show at the Driftwood Salon
Art Gallery in San Francisco
to display the aspirations of the
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artists featured in the show and
encourage viewers to do the
same. Asian American women
artists of varying ages and ethnic
backgrounds came together to
share with their community by
creating personal installations
and displays that had emotional,
social, psychological or familial
importance to them.
The art show is part of A
Place of Her Own, a two-year-
old project inspired by Virginia
Woolf ’s book “A Room of One’s
Own.” In it, Woolf argues that
women need a place that is
entirely their own to stimulate
their minds, explore their inter-
ests and attend to their personal
or emotional needs. Woolf ’s
novel highlights the importance
of pursuing aspirations, espe-
cially as they pertain to women
in patriarchal society.
“Most of the artists fea-
tured in this show have had to
overcome certain struggles,” said
Cynthia Tom, board president
of AAWAA, “and their pieces in
the show represent the things or
places that emotionally helped
them through their difficult
times.”
There was a variety of eye-
catching pieces at the show. One
piece, suspended off the ground,
resembled a nest. Another piece
looked like a mobile made of
glass jars filled with tiny action
figures. And one piece was
scrawled across the floor of the
venue in chalk.
“I thought the piece by
Nancy Hom was interesting,”
said Adam Chantri, a third-year
Japanese major at CSU Mon-
terey Bay, who attended the
show. “She had a large multi-
colored piece of fabric that was
twisted up and rising out of a
Illustration by Louise Leong
box of purple sand towards the
ceiling.”
Some of the other pieces in
the show included paintings, di-
oramas, large installations, fiber
sculptures and photographs.
Each woman used her me-
dium to illustrate her ideal place.
Vivian Truong, a California
College of the Arts alumna
whose work was featured in the
show, chose to create a fiber
sculpture of a garden.
“I went through tons of ideas
when I was thinking of what to
do for this show, and then, after
a lot of thought, I realized that
my garden is a very special place
for me,” Truong said. “This proj-
ect is about learning to recog-
nize what is important to you.”
Tom hopes that this exhibit
will encourage introspection in
other people. She stressed the
importance of finding a place
Thursday, October 7, 2010
go, physically or emotionally, to
feel safe. She hopes viewers will
use this exhibit as a way to learn
how to connect with themselves
and the community as a whole.
“Each piece displayed was
very personal to the artists who
created them,” Tom said, “and
sharing those pieces with an
audience can inspire people to
really look at themselves and
what they need or want out of
life.”
The project will host another
show in May 2011, and Tom
encourages all art enthusiasts to
get involved. Tom is optimistic
about the effect A Place of Her
Own may have on people.
“This project can have far-
reaching arms,” she said. “We’re
teaching people to take care of
themselves and their commu-
nity.”
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Arts & Entertainment

First Friday Unites Local Artists
Program highlighting Santa Cruz talent aims to give back to community
By Chelsea Hawkins
Arts & Entertainment Reporter

Early Friday evening, Twist, a local jewelry and
clothing store, bustles with people surrounding the
brightly-lit counter lined with marigolds. Behind
where owner Lara Marotta stands is a large display
of skeleton dolls and an ofrenda, an altar for the dead
used during Día de los Muertos. The art is the work of
students from Gateway School, a local private school.
The display is vibrant and eye-catching. Marotta
sais she was drawn to the “honesty” of the children’s
artwork. She said it is “very real, and very sweet.” En-
thusiasm is also in the students’ repertoire.
“I just like that people get to see what we do in
class,” said 8-year-old Maddie Hall, who attends
Gateway.
Hall, and her friend and classmate Kanami Okabe,
were excited to explain how they constructed the dolls
and how pleased they are to see them in the store’s
display.
This small exhibit is one of many venues that are
linked together on the first Friday of every month by
the local program First Friday.
First Friday, headed by Kirby Scudder, has for the
last six years transformed downtown Santa Cruz into a
hub for local art and artists.
Through the program, sponsored by associated ven-
ues and galleries, local artists are able to put their art
on display and up for auction. Various galleries, stores
and restaurants downtown set up exhibits to promote
the community’s local art scene, linking individuals
through a shared appreciation of homegrown art.
Art needs to be seen and promoted, Scudder said.
“When I moved [to Santa Cruz] in 2003, I realized
there were so many artists here, but so little promotion
for them,” he said. “That has always been the point —
to promote the huge pool of local artists here in Santa
Cruz.”
However, First Friday isn’t just about art.
“In February, we put on Hearts for the Arts,” said
Linnaea Holgers James, owner of Artisans Gallery,
a venue associated with First Friday. “We had artists
who donated pieces, and we auctioned them off. The
proceeds were donated to the cultural council of Santa
Cruz specifically for art education in schools.”
Hearts for the Arts was only one of many ways First
Friday has given back. Artists Sarah Friedlander and D.
Hooker were recently recognized for their work to raise
and donate money for healthcare for local artists.
Friedlander and Hooker have also previously
organized group shows and auctions, donating to such
groups as the Tannery Arts Center.
The work of individuals like Friedlander and
Hooker has always been the goal of First Friday, Scud-
der said.
“I’m a huge advocate [for community service], but
I don’t tell [the artists] to do it,” Scudder said. “That’s
the whole point of First Friday — giving back to your
community.”
First Friday is celebrating its 80th event this Oc-
tober. Scudder hopes to incorporate other forms of
artistic expression, such as music and dance, because
“music and visual art would work really well together”
and allow local musicians to showcase their work.
“It looks like First Friday is here to stay, and it’s be-
coming part of Santa Cruz as a monthly event,” James
said. “It has grown slowly, and now people really look
forward to it.”

Photos by Morgan Grana

UPPER LEFT: Skeleton Dolls and marigolds line a display in Twist downtown. The display, con-
structed by students from Gateway School, celebrates the traditions of Día de los Muertos.
LEFT: Kanami Okabe (Left) and Maddie Hall (right), stand in front of their art at Twist. Both Okabe
and Hall constructed the skeleton dolls last year while attending Gateway School.
ABOVE: Artist Don Lobner views and discusses his work displayed in Artisan’s Gallery.

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Photography Thursday, October 7, 2010

THROUGH
OUR LENS
“Show me your face.”
Caity Watson
Photography & Words by
Rosanna Van Straten

I like faces, and I like people. Peo-

ple’s faces are a beautiful thing to
photograph. Eyes always say some-
thing, whatever that may be. Por-
traiture is, to me, the most intimate
form of documentary photography,
and there is no satisfaction that
compares to capturing someone in
the light that you, as photographer,
can shine on them.
As the group Outlandish sang,
“Look into my eyes, tell me what ya
see.”

Shot with Canon T1i DSLR camera.

Stephanie Poulain Eliza Cohen

To view more photographs from this week’s

Through Our Lens, visit cityonahillpress.com.

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Photography
Kalou Tara Richard & Caity Watson

Hana Lurie Stephanie Poulain

Loren O’Hanrahan

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Sports
Finding Balance
Women’s soccer team welcomes 16 new players as athletes juggle school and sports
By Natalia Equihua
Sports Reporter
Her heart is beating fast. She is ner-
vous, but she feels so ready. It’s Sunday,
game day, and the adrenaline is running
through her body.
Erica Wheeler-Dubin knows that in
two hours she is about to have another
battle on the field. She had to miss last
night’s party, and she will have another
sleepless night tonight just to finish the
homework that has been piling up on her
desk all week.
As a student, committing to a sport
means having to split your life between
schoolwork and practices — ­­ yet athletes
like Wheeler-Dubin know that their
academic lives are not complete without
sports.
“If I’m not focusing on my work, I
go for a run and do exercise and then I
find it easier to focus afterwards,” said
Wheeler-Dubin, captain and senior
defensive midfielder of the women’s soc-
cer team. “They go hand in hand: playing
soccer and being a student.”
But committing to a competitive team
and combining it with studies can be very
demanding.
At the end of last season, four players
left the team because they no longer
wanted to divide their lives between
competitive college soccer and their stud-
ies, Wheeler-Dubin said.
Photos by Nick Paris This season’s team has 12 freshmen
and four transfers on the 31 player roster.
With four players out and seven seniors
graduated, the 16 new players know they
have a big role in making this team suc-
cessful.
The commitment to the team began
early this quarter. In order to be selected
for the team, new players had to spend
TOP: Cal Lutheran and UCSC players compete to head the ball in the air.
BOTTOM: The UCSC defense rallies to stop the Cal Lutheran Regals from scoring
another point.
RIGHT: Slugs and Regals collide as the rest of the team frantically pursues the
ball.
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Thursday, October 7, 2010
their summer at try-outs.
“We’ve been here since August, before
everyone else came to UCSC,” said Kiku
Koyano, a second-year Cowell student
and new member of the team. “Try-outs
consisted of having three practices a day.”
The team played four games with all
the prospects — after the fourth, the
coach made the final cuts.
Becoming part of a team proved to be
a good way to start new friendships, said
freshman midfielder Gloria Hernandez.
Being with people with the same inter-
ests, even before school actually started,
meant that “we didn’t have to worry
about making friends and feel awkward
like other freshmen do,” Hernandez said.
This season, the team’s record of 0-6-1
has not been encouraging. With so many
young talents, wins have been hard to
come by.
Head coach Josh Schelhorse said he
knows it is a challenge for such an inex-
perienced team to win.
“I like the players that we have and
they have a lot of talent but they need to
learn how to get results,” he said.
The 16 new women are still learn-
ing how to be great soccer players, and
how to balance being athletes with their
studies. Ultimately, in four years they will
have to decide whether or not they want
to take soccer to the next level.
While Wheeler-Dubin plans to play
in either Italy or Sweden after college,
the new players are only beginning to
figure out what they will choose.
“By the time I graduate, I’ll be
focusing on jobs and graduate school,”
Hernandez said. “After four years, I’ll be
done with soccer.”
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Treating the Cause of Bullying
A
dolescent suicide is not uncommon. Neither
is suicide by members of the lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI)
community. And after six gay teenagers committed
suicide in one week, it’s time that changed.
We know their names and faces, how they took
their lives, and what caused their deaths. All seven
boys, whose ages ranged from 13 to 18, were bul-
lied by their classmates. In some instances, we know
exactly who to blame. The tormentors of Rutgers first-
year Tyler Clementi have been arrested on charges
of invasion of privacy, and both face up to five years
behind bars.
Many people have reacted in anger and called for
harsher sentencing. Dharun Ravi, who placed a web-
cam in his room to record Clementi’s date, as well as
his friend Molly Wei, both 18, have been called mur-
derers. And, on message boards and talk shows across
the country, there have been calls for death sentences
for the pair. Anger and grief are justified reactions,
and no one can fault another for seeking justice, but
no amount of revenge will bring back these victims of
bullying. The energy, time and resources spent hating
Ravi and Wei will, simply put, come to nothing.
And, as many have already discovered, we are in a
position to channel our grief and anger into prevent-
ing the loss of any more lives.
Rather than vilifying the bullies, it is important to
consider who created them.
Teasing starts young, and classmates like those
of another victim, 13-year-old Asher Brown, who
committed suicide after being bullied, learned their
behavior somewhere.
It is important to consider the role adults play in
shaping children’s views of others. We must consider
the impact of the offhand joke made by a parent, the
comment from a teacher that reinforces a stereotype
or even the legalized discrimination against LGBTI
people in the military.
These behaviors cannot be tolerated. If we don’t
take casual homophobia seriously, people like Ravi
and Wei won’t understand the severity of their actions.
If Mom laughs when Dad calls his coworker a “fairy,”
their child might not understand that that word, but
Opinion/Editorial
Illustration by Bela Messex
when repeated on a playground or a Facebook page, it
may drive a person to commit suicide. And it doesn’t
necessarily matter if there is hatred behind these
words.
Having gay friends and watching “Will & Grace”
doesn’t mean you’re allowed to make homophobic
jokes. Your behavior justifies the same in others.
Instead of focusing our energy on hating the bul-
lies, we can look at what we can do in our own lives
to stop creating them. And, while we’re at it, the time
spent ranting about Ravi and Wei can be devoted to
reforming federal anti-bullying programs to include
sexual orientation and gender expression.
Or supporting organizations like the Trevor Proj-
ect, which provides resources for suicidal teens or Dan
Savage’s “It Gets Better” project, which was created in
late September and specifically targets LGBTI youth.
Or any of the growing number of groups devoted to
preventing suicide, homophobia and bullying of all
kinds.
We’ll get further by treating the cause of bullying,
not punishing children for displaying the symptoms.
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Opinion/Editorial
Illustration by Rachel Edelstein
G
iven the choice between
helping homeless people and
appeasing a few riled parish-
ioners, what would Jesus do?
That’s the question the story of Rev.
Joel P. Miller brings to mind. Miller, a
minister at Calvary Episcopal Church,
is being shunned all around for trying
to lend a helping hand. Miller’s church
should view him and his actions as
exemplary, not problematic.
In June 2008, Miller, head rev-
erend of Calvary, initiated Coffee
House Ministry. Along with some
local homeless activists, Miller led this
Monday night philanthropy tradition,
in which the church welcomed home-
less people for coffee and dinner. As
many as 150 people would show up on
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any given night.
However, some churchgoers grew
irritated with the attention Miller was
devoting to homeless issues, as well as
the way the church was transforming
into a haven for the homeless.
The anger escalated on June 11,
last year when an argument between
a parishioner and a homeless man al-
legedly ended in the man shaking the
woman by her shoulders and yelling.
Miller was then charged with “conduct
unbecoming a member of the clergy”
by the Episcopalian Church, a serious
charge that could result in the clergy-
man’s suspension or even defrocking.
Although violence should never be
tolerated at a church or anywhere else,
it is a mistake to let one altercation
Punishing a
Priest
Local reverend under fire for
helping homeless
define all of Miller’s efforts.
Incidents happen, and the police
arrived quickly to diffuse the situa-
tion. One man’s mistake should not
overshadow the world of good Miller
did by opening his church and its
resources to Santa Cruz’s homeless
community.
The problems facing homeless
people in Santa Cruz have been well
documented in City on a Hill Press
— there’s even an article in this issue
about the sleeping ban.
The city does not have enough
shelters and kitchens for everybody.
Providing a space for people to
safely congregate is a great help —
and exactly the sort of thing Chris-
tians are supposed to do.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
In his Sermon on the Mount in the
Bible, Jesus says, “Give to the one who
asks you, and do not turn away from
the one who wants to borrow from
you” (Matthew 5:42).
Instead of being hardhearted and
tightfisted, the Episcopalian higher
clergy, Calvary Episcopal Church
parishioners, and the Santa Cruz com-
munity in general should be grateful
towards Miller.
He should be gaining new mem-
bers for his church, not losing them.
We stand in support of Joel
Miller and hope the threat of being
defrocked does not deter him from
continuing to help the homeless, one
of Santa Cruz’s most vulnerable com-
munities.
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Opinion/Editorial
UCSC Blasphemes
Tree 9
Administrator’s decision destroyed
a rite of passage without actually
addressing risk

S
itting atop Tree Nine, 15 stories above the college grind,
you really realize how lucky you are.
One hundred and fifty feet up the Douglas-fir, located be-
side College Nine, your eyes ride their way down the soft green
sea of trees, finally landing within the sapphire blue of the
Monterey Bay. Our campus built into a forest, perched above
a bay, is almost unfathomable and easy to forget while running
from one class to the next.
But this August, UC Santa Cruz Grounds Services cut
the bottom branches off Tree Nine in an attempt to make the
Douglas-fir unclimbable. As they destroyed the branches, the
administration also destroyed a UCSC rite of passage, a shared
experience that made one not just another UC student, but
specifically a Banana Slug.
Tree Nine was the perfect climbing tree. All the way up the
fir, the trunk is surrounded by sturdy, easily reachable branches.
Physically, almost anyone could climb the tree. It was only
the mental challenge of being so far above the ground that
made ascending Tree Nine difficult.
Making it to the top meant facing your fears, trusting your-
self and taking a leap of faith. And the view from the peak, the
experience of sitting above a vast forest, rewarded you tenfold.
On some campuses, freshmen pledge fraternities, shot-
gun cheap beers and run errands for seniors for initiation. At
UCSC, we climbed a tree to become a part of the campus
community.
We are a university of life-lovers who take time to enjoy
beauty, and Tree Nine was a symbol of that way of life. But due
to the administration’s alleged fear of liability, the Tree Nine
experience has been stolen from the majority of the campus
community.
Director of public information Jim Burns explained the
administration’s rationale for cutting the branches.
“Unfortunately, people climbing in or swinging from campus
trees can injure themselves,” Burns said in an e-mail to the
Santa Cruz Sentinel. “Sometimes quite seriously.”
The administration’s fear is understandable. In our society,
avoiding liability is king. Since Stella Liebeck was awarded
Illustration by Ramille Baguio
$2.86 million from McDonald’s after she sued because her
coffee was too hot, every large institution has done any and
everything to protect itself from frivolous suits.
But the decision to trim the lower branches of Tree Nine risk-takers to the fir’s evasive peak. If anything, the trimming of the branches made
was a mistake for two reasons. a once easily climbable tree into a dangerous venture that will attract those looking
Firstly, putting a sign that clearly and visibly defined the risk of climbing a 150- for danger.
foot Douglas-fir could have protected the university without denying access to a However, the decision to cut the branches will succeed in one thing. It will
majestic feature of the campus. take a part of the campus that was accessible to almost all students, and make it
Secondly and more importantly, cutting off the Tree Nine’s lower branches will ascendable only to a limited few. The view from the top will always be as beautiful
not stop people from climbing — it will only make each climb more difficult. and should have always been a place where UCSC students could connect to their
Students will find a way up Tree Nine, because the experience is too deeply campus, their city and the nature around them.
ingrained in campus life for a 20-foot gap to halt climbing. Whether by rope or Now, because of the university’s actions, access to the awe-inspiring Douglas-fir,
some other means, students will make it past the missing branches in order to 150 feet above the stress of lectures, midterms and late-night study sessions, will be
reach the canopy. limited to only some adventure-seekers.
And as time passes, Tree Nine will become a part of campus lore, beckoning And what was once a mental challenge has become a real physical risk.

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 WHO
THE
HELL
“Henry VIII, when you are young, be a player, “Don Quixote. I would say, ‘Stop thinking
when you’re a king, give it a rest.” windmills are monsters. I need to put you in
your place.’”
RACHEL HAUPTFELD AMANDA JAUREGUI
THIRD-YEAR, COWELL FOURTH-YEAR, COLLEGE TEN
ART HISTORY

ASKED
YOU?!
If you could be in a bar fight with “Dave Chapelle. Why [did he go to] Africa? I “Helen Keller. She is one of the few people I
anyone from history, who would it wanted a third season.” would have a chance against.”

be and why? FORBES ROSSBACHER

THIRD-YEAR, COWELL
SOPHIE BAKER
SECOND-YEAR, PORTER
PRE-PSYCHOLOGY ART
Compiled by Bela Messex & Andrew Allio

Tree 9 is no more
Branches gone and hauled away
Eat Pray Love was good

SLUG COMICS
By Rachel Edelstein, Rod Bastanmehr & Julia Reis