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To: UCSC CommunityFr: Chancellor George Blumenthal and Vice Chancellor o Student Aairs Felicia McGintyRe: April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Dear Students, Faculty, and Sta:

In an ongoing eort to promote a sae, healthy campus environment, we are writing to remind you thatApril is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Along with colleges and universities throughout the countryUCSC is taking part in the designated month to reduce the incidence o gender-based violence, including sexuaassault, domestic and dating violence, and stalking.

Every member o the community can stand up against sexual violence. Sexual assault is an unortunatereality on college campuses and aects us all in some way. According to national statistics rom the NationalInstitute o Justice and Centers or Disease Control and Prevention, one in six American women and one in 33American men have experienced rape or attempted rape, and most survivors do not tell anyone about theassault or report to the police.

We strive to make our campus a sae place by bolstering victim assistance services, supporting andadvocating or survivors, and enhancing education and prevention programs. In recognition o Sexual AssaultAwareness Month, the Student Health Outreach and Promotion (SHOP) of ce and Womens Center are hostinga month-long series o 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 o campus resources and opportunities to getstudents involved in ending sexual violence.

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

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

Sexual violence impacts out entire community. Join us in taking a stand and learn more about availableresources and campus eorts to end sexual violence. For more inormation,

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TABLE CONTENT

P. 5 George Blumenthal Q&Aby Sarah Naugle, Laurel Fujii &Emiliano OFlaherty-Vazquez

P. 6 A Changing UC:Student a Major Victim oBudget Cuts wice

by Ryan Mark-Grin

P. 7 Busting the Budget andOpening the Floorby Rosela Arce &Chelsea Hawkins

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P. 18 Community Chest:Duo Strives to Suspend Sale oPlastic Water Bottlesby Michael Mott

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UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal andexecutive vice chancellor Alison Galloway sat downon April 14 with student media organizations todiscuss issues acing the university. City on a HillPress, KZSC, SCV, WANAS and Te Fish RapLive! touched on the topics o decentralization andthe $500 million cut to the UC system.

City on a Hill Press: At the UC Board o Regents

meeting in March, you said i the state legislature

ends up cutting $1 billion rom the UC system,some undamental assumptions have to be

thrown out. In regards to UCSC, what assumptions are you reerring to?Blumenthal: I really dont believe that the campuscan responsibly take cuts o that magnitude and stillmaintain the kind o student experience that youvecome to expect. I think that the responses willhave to be systemic there will have to be a majoreort to bring additional money into the system,and thatll have to be done on a systemwide basis. Ithink in the short run, itll probably lead to signi-cant ee increases. I dont see any other choice ... Abillion-dollar cut to UC really is Armageddon, andthe way you deal with Armageddon is with reallyradical solutions.

SCV: On April 5 [Gov.] Jerry Brown said theuniversity is an engine o wealth creation. Id liketo get your response to that idea.

Blumenthal: I completely agree with that. Let melimit my response to Caliornia. Caliornia is aknowledge-based economy theres a lot o arm-ing, but a lot o Cal iornias economy has a lot to dowith intellectual property, creating things, whetherits Hollywood or IP. We really need an educatedpopulace in order or that to happen. Its true thator every dollar invested in UC, the long run repaysthat investment many times over. Its a great invest-ment or the state o Caliornia. Te reason theydont do it is because they need the money now, andtheyre not so worried about the uture. I think itsshort-sighted.

CHP: Regarding the decentralization plan, where

all the campuses will pay a at tax to UCOPinstead o paying them unds and getting undsback this will probably be more benecial to

smaller campuses rather than larger campuses.Could you comment on that?Blumenthal: Its a little more complicated than that... For every dierent color o money that came tothe system, like the maa, they would take a pieceo the action o the top, and it was a dierent pieceand percentage based on the color (health, lab,

state, student, ederal money). Tey used a compli-cated ormula to do that. Generally, they took moremoney rom state general unds than rom medicalcenters. But i you look at the total budget or UC,the total state unded budget or UC next year un-der Jerry Brown is $2.4 billion. But the total budget

o UC, i you include medical centers and all that,is closer to $20 billion. A at tax on all expenditureis going to be advantageous to campuses like SantaCruz, which are more dependent on state unds,as opposed to campuses like UCLA or example,where a large part o their operation is a huge medi-cal center.

KZSC: With the increase in student ees, what isthe outlook or incoming reshmen next year?Teres the possibility that they wont be able

to apply because they cant pay, and with theremoval o more grant programs, how can theyenter a UC?

Blumenthal: First the good news Cal Grants havebeen preserved in the budget at the ederal level,although as you probably know rom reading thepapers, there was a push by some to severely limitthem ... We have at UC the Blue and Gold Program,which guarantees that students with a householdincome o less than $80,000 dont pay ees. Teyshould not be concerned. Te people who are reallyhurt by ee increases are people in the middle class.

KZSC: Just going of availability or classes, there was a

proposal to cut the class timeto 60 minutes, down rom 70.Is this correct ... [and] was the

purpose to save revenue or toincrease availability?Galloway: It was largely toincrease availability, because it

would give us an extra slot inthe day in which students couldget a class. One o our problemsis we have so ew large lecturehalls, so its dicult to have thelarge classes which preserve thesmaller classes. Another slotwould help us move enoughstudents through so they couldall get into a class.

KZSC: What do you think thepotential benets and downalls are to this plan?

Galloway: Benets would bestudents getting into classesthat they need. Less delays intheir progress to their degree.Downsides are pretty obvi-ous i you have less time inclass, youre going to get less outo the class. Its rustrating as aaculty member when you havea certain amount o materialyou have to get through. Wereteaching a semesters worth omaterial in a quarter. Its hard todo in the rst place.

Q&A with Chancellor BlumenthBy Sarah NaugleCampus Co-Editor

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Laurel FujiiCampus Reporter

&Emiliano OFlaherty-VazquezCampus Reporter

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Lexi Stephensons mother likesto say, No one can take youreducation. But aer Stephensonswitched rom communitystudies aer it was cut last winter,only to see the suspension o hercurrent major, American studies,it seems like someone is tryingvery hard to do so.

Stephenson ell in love withcommunity studies as a second-year when she took an introduc-tory course taught by Sean Burns.Although a sel-proclaimed sci-

ence and math student by nature,she said she elt inspired by thatclass to make a dierence.

Walking out o the class-room, I elt like change reallycould happen and that I couldbe a part o it, Stephenson said.Tat was one o the greatest eel-ings I have ever elt in my entirelie.

Stephenson decided that shewanted to provide educationalopportunities or immigrants

and the children o immigrants.So aer declaring the commu-nity studies major, Stephensonocused her courses in education.

Studying abroad in Barcelona,Spain during her third year,Stephenson met a ellow commu-nity studies major rom UCSCin a dive bar. Learning o herpeers eld study orchestratinga needle exchange program orsex workers, Stephenson became

increasingly excited about herown eld study. However, whenshe returned to UCSC or winterquarter last year, she ound hermajor had been cut and thecourses she intended to take wereno longer oered.

It was just sad, Stephensonsaid. When you believe insomething and [the university]decides it isnt valuable, its verydisheartening.

She scrambled to redene herinterests to t course oerings,but eventually decided she wasunwilling to compromise hereducation to remain in the major.

I was trying to change whatI wanted to do just to get intoclasses, Stephenson said. Tatdeeated the purpose or me.Community studies is supposedto be about nding a passion andthen guring out a way to use itto make a dierence.

Aer debating her options,Stephenson declared the Ameri-can studies major. In January,aculty in the American studiesdepartment voted to suspendadmission to the major start-ing July 1. Tey cited as theprimary reason or suspension

the dwindling resources thatsignicantly reduced the capabil-ity o the program to provide aquality educational experienceor students.

Stephenson said programslike American studies are thereason many students come toUCSC, and eliminating theseoptions degrades the value o theuniversity.

Santa Cruz attracts a certaintype o student, Stephenson said.

A lot o us come here to get thealternative education oered atUCSC. Unortunately [budgetcuts] are changing that.

Stephenson said she and el-low American studies majors areangry about what is happening,but are unsure o how to act. Fora while Stephenson had beenconsidering utilizing public art tomake her rustrations heard, butdecided that might not accom-

plish anything.I wanted to make signs that

say, Fuck UC real ly big and putthem all over campus. But thatis not very mature, Stephensonsaid. I you do that, no one isgoing to listen.

Stephenson says Astudies majors shoulto ght or social sciehumanities program

I think it is the reo students and teachdo something about tStephenson said. A lstudents come here wnotion that they will take these classes.

Despite her rustr

Stephenson eels luckbeen a part o the probeore it was suspend

I think the [Amestudies] major is the education I could hathis school, she said

A Changing UC

By Ryan Mark-GrifnCampus Co-Editor

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Name: Lexi StephensonYear: Fourth-yearMajor: American studiesPredicament: Stephensonjoined community studiesin her sophomore year.Returning from studyingabroad in her junior year, shefound the program cut. Lessthan a year later, her secondmajor, American studies, wassuspended, leaving her withlimited class selection andunsatised with the quality ofher education.

Budget cuts orce student through two majors

Prescott Watson

When you believe in something and [the university] decides it isntvaluable, its very disheartening.

Lexi Stephenson, ourth-year American stud

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In light o the ederal gov-ernments last-minute bud-get compromise, many SantaCruzans are concerned that theCaliornia state congress is goingin the same direction toward abudget stalemate.

Te Santa Cruz DemocraticParty hosted a orum to discussCaliornias budgetary problemson April 13 in the Police Depar-ment Community Room.

At the orum, communitymembers were able to engagewith a pannel comprising Santa

Cruz mayor Ryan Coonerty,who led the orum and countytreasurer Fred Keeley.

Cynthia Matthews, city o

Santa Cruz chamber o com-merce board member, acted asmoderator.

Te majority o the topicsaddressed involved proposalsto balance the state budget andencourage compromise in Cali-ornias legislature.

We are all eeling the rotteneconomy magnied by the statebudget crisis, Matthews said.Tere arent quick xes and easysolutions.

Keeley proposed two majorchanges that would help resolve

tensions in the state legislatureand accelerate the budget plan-ning processes: open primariesand public redistricting.

Tese proposals would allowor greater inclusion o politicalmoderates, Keeley said. Current-ly, in the state o Caliornia 20.4percent o voters are registered ashaving no party preerence, a 5percent increase since 2003.

Keeley said the growth othe middle gives Democrats anegotiating partner who can giveand take and doesnt laugh, butlistens.

Diane Le, a ourth-yearpolitics major and president oCollege Democrats at UCSC who

was at the orum, was intriguedby open primaries.

Open primaries are a reallyinteresting idea because it brings

orth a more moderate sourceor candidates to go to, soDemocrats arent completelyleaning on the le or Republi-cans leaning on the right, Lesaid.

Some, however, opposeKeeleys other proposal public redistricting becauseo the possible implications orthe Democratic Party.

Le said that as a representa-

tive o the Democratic Party,she did not agree with the ideao public redistricting.

[Democrats] are the partyin power right now, and lettingus draw the lines keeps thepoliticians where they are, Lesaid.

Public redistricting, somepeople including Le believe, would threaten thepower balance that currentlyavors the Democratic Party

because it would allow districtlines to be drawn by the people,and could result in a change inlegislature seats.

Keeley saw the ear o los-ing power in the legislature asunounded.

Teres not a shred o evi-dence that [public redistricting]will hurt Democrats, Keeleysaid. Tese are the same voterswho elected Jerry Brown gover-

nor, who elected Barbara Boxerto another term in the Senatelast year, who said no to MegWhitman, who said no to CarlyFiorina, [and] who said no torepealing the Caliornia climatechange law.

While Keeley ocused on thestate level, Coonerty stressedthe importance o maintaininga balanced city budget and therelationship between state andlocal power.

[Te city and its are having] a much mconversation than Sahaving with the statenia, Coonerty said. say, We cannot provall these services thatdid, and we have to rbut thats what it takeour budget.

Santa Cruzs gener

dropped rom over $$55 million. As part pledge or a balancedit has reduced social programs by 48 percpast two years, CoonTe city also raised tao the last ve times iproposed tax increascommunity.

Coonerty said it make such decisions were scally respons

Like Coonerty, Keed throughout the nisolution to the Caliocrisis lies in targeted

temporary tax increaTe speakers stres

importance o includcal moderates in the especially with the ntwo-thirds majority vto pass a budget.

Caliornia has a dproblem, Keeley saidset a game where it isto win.

Santa Cruz Democrats

Address BudgetConcernsOpen primaries and public redistricting

are hot topics and possible solutions

By Rosela Arce & ChelseaHawkins

City Reporters

[Te city and itsresidents are having]a much more honestconversation than Sac-ramento is having withthe state o Caliornia.

Ryan Coonerty,Mayor o Santa Cruz

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Santa Cruzans protested inront o Bank o America onMonday, declaring that corpo-rations should pay taxes to thegovernment like individuals do.

Around 40 people protestedoutside the Bank o America onRiver Street and later moved theprotest to the downtown clocktower. Santa Cruzs local chaptero MoveOn.org a amily o po-litical organizations that sponsorcampaigns or ederal issues likethe Iraq War, as well as presiden-tial campaigns sponsored theevent.

Organizers picked Bank oAmerica because o the banksprevious bailout o $1 trillion,according to a list entitled Guideto Corporate Freeloaders by Sen.Bernie Sanders (D-Vt).

In the 2011 U.S. ederalbudget, corporations like ValeroEnergy Corporation, Carni-val Cruise Lines and Bank oAmerica were exempt rom pay-ing taxes. Businesses paying theirtaxes would alleviate the statenancial decit, said Pat Arnold,president o the Santa CruzUnited Nations Association andBay Area organizer o political

activism group Raging Grannies.I the corporations just paid

their air share, all o the statesdebts would be accounted or,Arnold said.

In Guide to Corporate Free-loaders, Sanders l isted corpora-tions that do not pay taxes to theederal government but receiveda ederal bailout or large IRSreunds. Te list includes Gold-man Sachs, Bank o America andExxon Mobil, among others.

Te number o corporationsthat do not pay taxes promptedMoveOn.org organizer Sara

Bassler to help coordinate the ral-ly outside the Bank o America.

Bassler and other MoveOn.org organizers manned themegaphones, took down namesand passed out signs or thosewho turned out. Arnold said theSanta Cruz Bank o Americaprotest was part o a campaign in450 cities nationally to ght thebudgets tax exemption o majorcorporations.

I want to give corporationsmore o a sense o responsibility,Bassler said. While it is lawul

or their corporations to makemoney or their shareholders,they orget their shareholders arepart o society.

Protesters passed out signsbearing slogans like, Close yourB o A account, and Fat Cats arestealing our uture. Many wereheard shouting, Cut rom thetop, not rom Mom and Pop, and1, 2, 3, 4 pay your taxes likethe poor.

Protesters centered most othe blame or the national budgetcrisis on congressional Repub-licans. Tis includes Sen. Paul

Ryan (R-Wis.), who proposedthe new budget that passed aermuch deliberation and hesitationby Congress deliberations thatalmost led to a ull governmentshutdown.

Te Republicans say thecountry is going broke andtheyre making cuts to the bot-tom, Bassler said. Were broke,yet they give huge tax breaks tocompanies that can really helpout our nancial crisis.

Bassler eels that the moneythe U.S. government is not col-lecting rom corporations likeBank o America can be put to

better use in American socialprograms.

Politicians need to wake up,Bassler said. We need to worktogether to help keep our societywhat it is now, and help the lessortunate and build libraries.

o illustrate the impacts obudget cuts on national programsin comparison to those o corpo-rate tax breaks, a child spoke atthe rally about how she would beaected by the cuts.

I want to stop the budget cutsso that teachers can come back towork and kids can learn, said Ju-

lia Knight, a student o MontclairElementary School in Oaklandand a MoveOn granddaughter,according to her grandmother.

Santa Cruz political organiza-tions like Organizing or SantaCruz, the community organiz-ing arm o the Democratic Partyin Santa Cruz, turned out atthe event. While the rally waspronounced a success by manyprotesters, some organizers, like

Arnold and Bassler, said theywere disappointed with the lacko UC Santa Cruz students in

the crowd. Tey said the ght ormore unds to be appropriatedto basic services is relevant toall students, including studentsin higher education and theirbudget needs.

Bassler and Arnold wantUCSC to be represented inprotests rallying or corporationsto pay their taxes, or to host thenext rally on campus.

We need a sister rally at theuniversity, Arnold said. Tereare 450 o these [rallies] happen-ing in American cities and itd begreat to have one at the Bay ree

Bookstore.

Tax Day Protest ChallengesCorporate Practices Santa Cruzans rally to urge largebusinesses to pay taxes

By Mark RadCity Reporter

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DISGRUNTLED CITIZENStook to the streets outside

of the River Street Bankof America and the clock

tower on Monday morning.

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Can you see the control romhere? asked UC Santa Cruz

second-year Cameron Ferguson.Standing on a knoll

overlooking the sun-blastedvalleys and hills o PachecoState Park, Ferguson wipedthe sweat rom his ace andscanned the landscape. Aer amoment broiling under the sun,Ferguson oblivious to the heat pointed to a tree a kilometerrom his position. Squinting,Ferguson noted the trees positionon his topographic map.

Its right there, Fergusonsaid. As i on cue, three runnersin the distance loped through

the high grass toward the tree.Ferguson, already jogging downthe knoll, called over his shoul-der, See?

Te sport is orienteering.In a wilderness setting,

participants use a topographicmap and a compass to ndcontrols small markers thathave an electronic register torecord the time when a runnerlocates it. Te controls can beplaced several hundred metersto several miles apart. Te goal isto nd all o the markers in thecorrect order as ast as possible.

Hal cross country racing,

hal wilderness survival, orien-teering combines all the physicalrigors o endurance athleticswith the mental acuity o a chessgame.

But despite an enthusiasmor racing and the wilderness,Americans have yet to makeorienteering popular in theUnited States. Given the sportswidespread popularity in Europe,enthusiasts wonder: Whatskeeping orienteering o themap?

Jay Hann, an event coordina-tor or the Bay Area Orienteer-

ing Club (BAOC), said that it issometimes dicult to explain theappeal o orienteering.

Its what you get when youcross mathematics and P.E.,Hann said. Its hard to explainwhats un about it its a loteasier to explain when youveexperienced it.

Te BAOC is one o 74 clubsin the United States that belong

to the International Orienteer-ing Federation. Each year, thereare a multitude o internationalchampionships held or dier-

ent types o orienteering, but thebiggest ones are trail and skiing.In the United States, individu-als compete in A-level meets toqualiy or a spot on one o theU.S. championship teams.

On Saturday, Hann wasorganizing the second day o athree-day meet in Pacheco StatePark or the U.S. Intercollegiateand U.S. Interscholastic Cham-pionships, which the BAOC washosting.

Despite the swarms o partici-pants streaming in rom Seattleto West Point, Hann said this

events numbers were nothingcompared to those in Europe.

In the big European events,theyll have camera crews out inthe eld taking pictures o the

runners, Hann said. Teyllhave a big display board in their

arena and have 1,000 or 2,000people watching the video oot-age coming across.

Gavin Wyatt-Mair, anotherevent coordinator or the BAOC,said that because o the spon-sorship given to orienteering inEurope, Europeans tend to domi-nate the United States in interna-tional orienteering competitions.

We usually have some people

go over there, but thebutts, Wyatt-Mair saTey are so much bwe are!

However, Wyatt-Mather o a successulHis son, Malcolm Wa U.S. orienteering chUCSC graduate whoAustralia and Swedennior Orienteering Wpionships in 2007 an

For Gavin whoorienteering or 24 yenteering has practicthe course as well.

When you are inhave to make decisiohe said. Orienteerinyou how to make qu

sions. It also teaches on a goal your nexteaching you to ocusget there in the most

For the ew collegwho do orienteering Coast, the benets oare outweighed by thtroubles o reaching

You have to get terent state parks aroArea, and most collehave cars, Ferguson were big in the statesbig among college kithen colleges would tthe events.

BAOC coordinatoorienteering has the pcatch on as a popularUnited States, but thaquire teaching orienton in schools.

Were trying to ways to make it easieteachers to do it, Hakind o a mind sportare a lot o things abocant tell people througraphs.

aking a break roew dozen latecomertheir races, Wyatt-M

the philosophical benorienteering.

One o the thingin lie is that youre glost, and it occurs in o your lie, Wyatt-MOrienteering teachelocate. And when youa wonderul experienyou say, Yeah, I was going to nd my way

Students Lose Themselves in OrienteeriCross-country racing meets on-the-y navigation

Prescott Watson

By Eli WolfeSports Reporter

Its what you get whenyou cross mathematicsand P.E., Hann said.Its hard to explainwhats un about it

its a lot easier toexplain when youveexperienced it.

Jay Hann,event coordinator

or the Bay AreaOrienteering Club

SOPHOMORE CAMERON FERGUSON discusseshow Bay Area collegiate orienteering is hindered by alack of support and the difculty of getting to the remote

locations for tournaments.

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Te Logistics oWater Shortage

Mandatory 40 percentwater rationing. Hotelclosures. Water lines

shut o when consumption ex-ceeds the limit. Businesses relianton tourism struggling to make itthrough the summer months their most lucrative time.

Te City o Santa Cruz WaterDepartment (SCWD) oreseesthis uture i no alternative watersource is integrated to orestallwhat it characterizes as catas-rophic potential impacts o com-

pounded drought years.Te consequences o doing

nothing are dire. I dont thinkpeople understand how bad itcould be, said SCWD waterdirector Bill Kocher.

Te SCWD has spent twodecades examining how to miti-gate the impact o compoundeddrought years. Aer determin-ing roughly 30 various projectsto be insucient or nonviable,SCWD concluded that bringing adesalination plant to Santa Cruzto cover the gap during droughtyears was the only way to prevent

dramatic consequences o criticaldroughts.Desalination is the best

alternative, said public outreachcoordinator Melanie Schum-acher. We have been lookingat alternatives, but they have tomeet the water needs o the com-munity.

Four-minute showers. Citygovernment invests in provid-ing lawn replacement or SantaCruz homes and equipping them

with rain catchment devices.Instruments to support greywa-ter reclamation the processo recycling wastewater gener-ated rom laundry, dishwashingand bathing or landscapingand irrigation usage becomea popular eature in Santa Cruzhomes.

Proponents o desalination al-ternatives envision this uture orSanta Cruz a uture where nonew water source is needed, dueto a capitalization on urther

conservation measures.Money is just a tool,

and we could use thistool to conserve andlive within our meansrather than bringing inthe desalination plant,said Ellen Murtha,co-chair o the SantaCruz branch o theWomens Interna-tional League orPeace and Freedom(WILPF), which ispro-conservation.

Numerous indi-

viduals in the SantaCruz community aremobilizing againstthe potential intro-duction o the plant,saying that such adrastic step to ensurewater provision isunnecessary, becauseconservation andcurtailment eortscould be expanded,and the potential un-

known ramications o bringingin such a acility.

Tere are some major envi-ronmental impacts, said RickLonginotti, coounder o Desali-nation Alternatives. It uses a loto energy it is a guess as to theimpact on the ocean, it is just notclear how much o an impact itwill have.

Tis has been the bone o con-tention between the two ronts,

as proponents argue that desali-nation is the only alternative andit is environmentally sound, andopponents argue that conserva-tion eorts have not been capi-talized on and the plant wouldbring negative environmentalimplications.

Tis contentious engagementwas typied at last weeks debateorum, hosted by the Leagueo Women Voters at the FirstCongregational Church on April

14, where the opponents and

proponents o the desali-nation plant were able

to engage in directdialogue in ront othe people o SantaCruz or the rsttime.

Te debateorum includedtwo individualseach rom theSanta Cruz andSoquel CreekWater District andSanta Cruz DesalAlternatives, repre-

senting the oppo-nent and proponentsides to the issue,respectively.

Longinotti, co-ounder o DesalAlternatives, andJames Bentley,retired city waterproduction man-ager, represented

the opposing side.Mike Rotkin, ormer

mayor and city counand oby Goddard, Sconservation managed the proponents otion. More than 100 o the community atTursdays meeting ttheir investment in tSanta Cruzs water su

It is important omunity to understanor desalination, Schsaid. It creates a levparency. I think that

are being responsiblethat they are pursuinnation plant and I hoare presenting that to that this is not a ssolution [and] we areto evaluate and addrabout the short and lwater supply.

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San Lorenzo River, vCoast diversions, a eLoch Lomond Reserrently, Santa Cruzs wconsists o 95 percenwater and only 5 perwater, making Santaticularly susceptible drought.

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supplies. Te second part o theproject would thereore involvethe wells and associated acilities

necessary to extract this ground-water.

Tis alternative also aced ob-stacles. In a 2009 letter to SCWDwater director Kocher that wascited in the IWP, Jonathan Stein-berg o Route 1 Farms said usingreclaimed water and turning overhis well were not an option.

Our customers expect thevery best, very purest produce I cannot in good aith give themproduce grown in wastewater,Steinberg wrote. I also haveconcerns regarding giving up theautonomy o my water supply I am in no way shape or orm,

interested in reclaimed waste-water being used in my armingoperation nor am I interested insigning over my well to the city.

Larry Jacobs, CEO o JacobsFarm, echoed similar sentimentsin a 2002 letter to Kocher, alsocited in the IWP. Jacobs said hesupports using reclaimed water,just not its use in growing ood.

We are in avor o recyclingreclaimed water on gol courses,car washing, commercial land-scaping, and home landscaping,Jacobs said, but not on plantsgrown or ood, and especially

[not] on plants that are eatenuncooked.

According to the evalua-tions o water demand in SantaCruz listed in the IWP, SCWDsaid that Santa Cruzs currentdemand or water exceeds theestimated available yield rom itsexisting sources during droughtconditions, even with mandatorycurtailment requirements.

Te city conducted the WaterCurtailment Study (WCS)in 2001, which is cited in theIWP, to better understand howcustomers would reach usagerestrictions and how such actionswould impact agriculture, busi-ness and resident customers.

Te WCS analyzed six levelso water shortage severity, rang-ing rom 10 to 60 percent short-ages, and assessed the impactso necessary curtailment on thethree prioritized types o usage,health and saety, business and

irrigation.According to the

the study, household

a 40 percent system swould have serioustions with importanchanges. Catastrophages, however, wherewould be issued 50 tsystem shortages, woresidents concern ousage reaching an ulevel. Te IWP statelevel o shortage woimpose major and buliestyle changes, somcould well aect basisaety.

A 50 percent systeshortage would resul

cent annual revenue which would be catawith hotel and motelIn the business sectoextreme drought whwould have to cut waby 42 percent, businehave to cut usage by and irrigation wouldnated.

Te economy in that depends on wateshut down, and the tindustry would all beness, said SCWD waKocher.

Chirag Mehda, gemanager o the ComPlymouth Street, corthe conclusions in thing that or his inn, 4rationing would impness.

It denitely woubusiness, because cusneed to shower and uand spa. Tey might Mehda said. I wouldI would go out o buseconomy is already n[so] i that happenedmake it worse.

In both operatingstructing the desalinthe SCWD has propomoved orward withwith Soquel Creek W(SqCWD). Te city wnering with Soquel t

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drinking water, which poses aproblem it isnt enough.

We cant bring water romanywhere else, Kocher said.When we run out, we run out.

Te city has been grapplingwith this looming threat ortwo decades. Te Santa CruzCity Council began evaluatingalternative new water source op-tions specically or provision inperiods o drought back in 1997.

In order to ensure that Santa

Cruz will have the inrastructureto withstand compounded yearso drought, SCWD has under-taken the more than two decade-long project o identiying pos-sible new sources o water. Aerdetermining new source aernew source nonviable, desalina-tion eventually became the onlyremaining possible new sourceor water le on the districtsdrawing board.

Im convinced that we needsome kind o additional supply,and as one project aer another

ell by the wayside, this is whatwe have le, said erry McKin-ney, SCWD superintendent owater production.

Te desalination processinvolves converting seawater topotable water, or drinking water.Sodium is removed througha process o reverse osmosis,whereby the water is separatedinto two parts: the reshwaterand the high-sodium concen-trate, brine.

WILPF co-chair Murtha saidthat this two-decade-long invest-ment by the city may be moreo a motivation or the SCWDpushing orward with the de-salination plant than the plantsnecessity.

A lot o it is this investmentthey have it is very hard toslow that down, Murtha said.Tere must be something veryexciting about making a plant.

In 2005, the city o Santa CruzIntegrated Water Plan (IWP) wasdeveloped and utilized. Te IWP

took into account backgroundevaluations on water demand,conservation, curtailment andalternative water supplies, as-sessed rom 1997 up to the plansinception. Te plan includeda background on the status owater demand, consumption andprovision, and looked towardnew sources o water supply. TeIWP recorded the two decade-long process o examining theviability o various potential

resources.Te IWP rst o all looked at

conservation, then looked at howmuch more could be curtailed,then came up with supply plansthat could make up the dier-ence, Kocher said.

Beore the 1990s, SCWDknew surace water was alwaysgoing to be the districts primarysource o water. In 1989, Luhdor& Scalmanini, an environmentalconsulting rm employed bySCWD, concluded that ground-water sources were scant at best.Te rm investigated potentialgroundwater sources, includingwells at both Harvey West Parkand Turber Lane, and assessedthat they could yield only 550acre-eet o water annually, aninadequate amount consideringSCWD annual water productionhovers around our billion gal-lons a year.

In the early 1990s, the Brack-ish Groundwater Wells Projectwas considered the most viablegroundwater option, but resi-dents in the site area were con-cerned that the pumping couldeventually negatively impact theirwells. As a result, the city aban-

doned the project.Waterman Gap Reservoir,

Kings Creek Reservoir, YellowBank Creek Reservoir and LochLomond enlargement were oursurace storage projects on thetable, but the city determinedthese alternatives were not viabledue to the act that an immedi-ate source o water is neededand such projects would be toolengthy an undertaking.

By 1997, only two projectsremained on the drawing board:Reclamation/Coast GroundwaterExchange and Desalination.

Reclamation/Coast Ground-water Exchange would have beena two-part construction under-taking. One part o the projectwould have been a our-to-vemillion gallon per day wastewatertreatment plant, located either onthe existing wastewater treatmentplant site or another location.reated water would be deliveredto area armers or irrigation,and the city would have accessto armers current groundwater

entative timeline or the construction othe desalination plant as draed by theSanta Cruz Water District

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2016

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Seymour Center

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meetings

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Preparation/InitialStudy

2011 EvaluateEnvironmentalImpact Report

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start date or

construction othe plant

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or the plant

We cant bring water romanywhere else. When we runout, we run out.

Bill Kocher, water director for SCWD

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I you value desalinationas a last resort, please haveyour spending prioritiesreect that.

Rick Longinotti, Co-Founderof Desal Alternatives

scal burden o undertakingsuch a project, and to maximizeeach entitys attributes.

It would be good to have amoney partner. We have tried

to partner with Soquel to have away to exchange with each oth-er, said erry ompkins, deputydirector/operations manager oGraham Hill Road reatmentPlant. It would be good to havea partner that has ground watersupply, and vice versa.

According to the IWP guresdraed in June 2003, desalina-tion unded by the city wouldbe a $77 million undertaking.At that point, i responsibil-ity o unding the plant alls onresidents, it would be $7.32 permonth. I SCWD partners with

Soquel Creek, the project wouldbe a $40 million undertakingand cost $3.84 per customer permonth. However new estimatesplace the cost o the desalinationplant over $100 million.

For opponents o desalina-tion, these million dollar guresare cause or alarm.

Te potential cost is going tobe a burden, not just or us, butor generations to come, saidWILPF co-chair Murtha. Tis isa city that does not have a lot omoney.

Te construction cost wouldbe split between agencies. Santa

Cruz Water Department wouldpay 59 percent o the construc-tion cost, and Soquel CreekWater District would pay 41percent. Operational costs wouldbe split 50-50.

Where the unding or thedesalination plant will comerom is still to be determined.Both SCWD and Soquel WaterDistrict are pursuing grants, butthe project will likely becomea bond measure reliant on rateincreases.

Tis thing is or the publicand will be owned by the public,

Kocher said. We shouldnt bedoing stu the public is con-cerned about i we dont have

good answers. Tis has to be paidor by the people i the voterswant to put it on the ballot andshoot it down, sometimes theyget it right and sometimes theyget it wrong. I am advocating orcontinuing to research it is myduty and job but it is not myjob to convince voters.

Tere are our main concernsboth agencies must mitigate withdesalination impingement onthe intakes, proper disposal othe brine l eover, city populationgrowth and the amount o energydesalination requires.

Kocher said that by managingthe intake velocity to compli-ment the natural velocity o thesurrounding waves and utilizinga small screen size, the threat oimpingement is all but elimi-nated.

Te treatment process separating saline water intotreated resh water and a highsaline concentrate (brine) thoughreverse osmosis requires asignicant amount o energy.Where current methods o waterproduction require 2-4 kilowatthours per thousand gallons o

water, desalination requires 12-16 kilowatt hours per thousand

gallons.Even in years o drought, the

plant would only be used 180 to200 days out o the year. Kochersaid the inrequency o use allevi-ates the issue o energy consump-tion.

Te concentrate le over romthe process will be sent back tothe ocean aer being mixed withthe treated wastewater, efuent,rom the water treatment plant.Currently, Santa Cruzs efuentis sent back to the ocean. Tetreated wastewater sent back tothe ocean is essentially reshwa-

ter, so mixing the efuent withthe brine is closer to the naturalsalinity levels in the ocean.

Te reshwater and brinemixture would actually be anenhancement, Kocher said.Everything is a trade, but I thinkit can be mitigated better in theocean than in our current usage.Tis one seems to have the bestchance to meet our needs in anenvironmentally responsibleway.

For some in the Santa Cruzcommunity, despite the SCWDsstatements that the environmen-

tal impacts can be successullymitigated, the integration o aplant that would require triplethe energy to produce the samequantity o water and would tam-per with the marine sanctuarywould be an aront to the valueso the community.

I think [the SCWD] is notgiving us enough credit, Murthasaid. We are a community thatreally cares about the environ-ment. Tis desal plant would

make us hypocrites. I mean, i Iride my bike to work, I am stillcontributing to the desal plant.

Environmental concernscontinue to be a sticking pointwith community members. Atthe debate orum last week, thissentiment was echoed by the op-ponents o desalination and audi-ence members alike when cheerserupted aer speakers broughtup the potential environmentalimpacts o the desalination plant.

Opponents o desalinationhave also consistently arguedthe SCWD has not capitalized

on conservation eorts, andthis point was not omitted romthe debate. Te opponents saidthe city, rather than investingmillions into the desalinationplant, should allocate those undsto urther conservation eorts,among them composting toilets.

Upon the proponents odesalinations response that suchconservation eorts would notcome to ruition, audience mem-bers shouted simultaneously: Illtake one!

Longinotti pointed out thatuntil the SCWD exhausts all con-

servation eorts, their assertionthat desalination is not a silverbullet solution but the onlyremaining alternative is contra-dictory.

I you value desalination asa last resort, please have yourspending priorities reect that,Longinotti said.

Mike Rotkin, ormer mayorand city council member, coun-tered that to depend on con-servation as a method o water

supply insurance is planning.

Conservation [aldo it, Rotkin said. EI am opposed to desawe have reached a powe dont have any othtives.

Contributing to skconservation as a soldegree to which Santalready conserve. Cituse 66 gallons o watson per day comp150 gallons used per day statewide the

capita use in CaliornBentley and Long

sentatives in the Apro those opposed to dtion, commended ththeir eorts to engagpublic and their conseorts up to the presasserted that despite skepticism mountingdesalination plant inhe still believes the ccare o us.

Opponents o desargued that the envirimplications o the d

plant outweigh the dthat would come romon conservation eowater shortage crisis

Nature has its l imare going to have to lthem, Longinotti saidebate orum. I it isbetween our needs oour grandchildren, thcontest.

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WIN WIN

Wrestling is relatively unnyto watch, but thats not the onlything that dramatic comedy

Win Win the newest oeringrom Meet the Parents directorTomas McCarthy has to oer.

Paul Giamatti, known or hisperormance in the AcademyAward-winning lm Sideways,stars as struggling attorney andwrestling coach Mike Flaherty,

while Amy Ryan, co-star o2007s Gone Baby Gone, playshis passionate and oblivious wie,Jackie. Te two are surprisinglybelievable as a couple, but asI was sitting in the Del MarTeatre scrutinizing Win Win,

I ound it incredibly dicultto shake the eeling that I waswatching Holly Flax cheat onMichael Scott with Paul Giamatti.Despite this Oce -inducedconusion, the relationshipbetween Mike and Jackie createsan excellent oundation or thelm.

Mike accepts the responsibil-ity o caring or an older clientstruggling with dementia, sothat he can net a small monthly

stipend. But he encounters prob-lems when the mans grandsonsuddenly comes to visit. Te16-year-old, played by AlexShaer in an incredible breakoutperormance, is eeing rom hisdrugged-out mother and her

abusive ex-boyriend. When thekid turns out to be a championwrestler, Mike takes him in andputs him to work wrestling orhis losing team. As assistantcoaches, Bobby Cannavale andJerey ambor provide excel-lent comic relie and are allowedenough character developmentduring the lm to successullyavoid alling into the typical roleso gooy and unsubstantiatedsidekicks.

Lie is improving or Mike,until his new stars mothershows up to claim the stipend hereceived earlier in the movie. Teconicts that ollow are relativelypredictable and could have elttedious, but instead they seemed

genuinely emotionalthe excellent chemistGiamatti, Ryan and S

While a very endelm, the abrupt and uending o Win Winsome viewers unsatisthe credits rolled, I chelp but think, Tiscouldnt have added scene?

However, even coits less than stellar n

Win was a superb munny and upliing.

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In Theaters and Our iPodsWhat we enjoyed and what we didnt in entertainment this week

HANNA

I just missed your heart,whispers a young, pale-blond,

piercingly blue-eyed girl, leaningover and gazes into the eyes othe person she just killed.

Meet Hanna. She is a child-assassin trained by her ather, anex-CIA agent, to be the perectkiller or one mission. With achillingly beautiul perormanceby Saoirse Ronan, director JoeWright presents not just youraverage action movie, but a mov-ing drama o humanity as Hannaleaves her isolated home in theorest to experience humanity orthe rst time in her lie.

Hanna is by ar the mostrightening killer I have ever seen.

With a doe-like innocence in her

ace and a lean, graceul body,she resembles a ballerina, readyto dance to chaikovsky. How-ever, the minute she kills ourmen in a ew swi moves, bloodspeckling her porcelain com-plexion, even the ercest o blackswans have nothing on her. Te

juxtaposition o her dangerousnature with her innocent aadeis the movies ultimate weapon it will leave you clinging to theedge o your seat, anxious to seewhat this little girl is capable o.

When Hanna rst begins hermission, her cold, blank stareprovides the intrigue. Breakingnecks without a blink, Hannaresembles a robot, clearly den-ing the movie as an action lm.However when Hanna, leaving

her isolated training grounds,

hears music or the rst timeand discovers what a kiss is, themovie turns rom an action lmto a drama. Hannas stoicism dis-appears, and the deeply embed-ded adapt or die motto slowlyades away.

Te lm impressively depictsnot just the supercial shockactor o a child-killer, but alsothe psychological complexities oa young girl torn rom a normalsociety. Similarly to Mary Shel-ley in Frankenstein, directorWright explores a ascinatingconcept o humanity, as Hannadiscovers what it means to behuman.

With an original score byTe Chemical Brothers, thelms whimsical music phenom-

enally complements both sides o

Hannas personality a younggirl and a killer.

Although the lm is a majorproduction, the unique cinema-tography and camera angles echothe mood o an independent lm.

Tis movie was surprisinglydierent rom what I would haveimagined. Supported by a starcast including the unsur-prisingly suave Eric Banaas Erik and a beauti-ully manipulative CateBlanchett as Marissa, thislm is truly one-o-a-kindand a denite must-seebeore the string o terriblycheesy summer movies hitstheaters.

Hanna oda

NINE YPES OFLIGHV on the Radio album

V on the Radio lead singerunde Adebimpe intones, You

threw your hands up and walkedaway, so its strange I should eelthis way, in You, one o thebands new songs.

Tough he is likely singingabout an ex-lover, the lyrics areapplicable to the band itsel. Aerthe group chose to go on hiatusin 2009, it might have been easyto orget about them, but I at

least could not. For those o uswho have truly missed V onthe Radio or the last year-and-a-hal or so, the release o Nineypes o Light has been a long-anticipated event.

Considering the high expecta-tions or this album, its perhaps amiracle that it doesnt disappoint.

Nine ypes o Light demandsattention rom the rst secondso album opener Second Songand doesnt let go until therecords only uninspired track,

Killer Crane. When comparedto V on the Radios previousalbums, Nine ypes o Light is

perhaps more laid-back, but thechange is enjoyable and helpsto bring the gloss and rene-ment o Adebimpes vocals to thespotlight. However, they haventcompletely abandoned theiredge, and tracks like CaeinatedConsciousness and Repetitionserve as a helpul reminder thatthe band still knows how to write

vivid and original rock songs.When viewed through the

concerns o the average UCSanta Cruz student risingtuition, decreasing standardso education, an abysmal jobmarket the song No Future

Shock registers as esrelevant. Backed by aAdebimpe commanddont stop, do the no the no uture, and itignore the correlationyears graduate studeoccupation.

V on the Radioseort may not outshi

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When I rst stepped intothe studio o the 418 Project topreview Te Imagine-a-nationo Lalachild, the rst play o thetrilogy o Te Rising Sun DanceTeaters A Star Called Love;the Freedom Stories o Lala, andlooked to the stage to nd nothingbut two prop blocks and a sparkle-eyed, red-headed actress, I was abit taken aback.

Troughout the entireperormance, the stage remainedstartlingly simple: no other actorsand no new props. However, I wasnot prepared or what those two

blocks and that spirited redheadhad in store or me. At precisely 7p.m. that Sunday I sat down in the418 Project studio, and by 7:15 p.m.I was in another world: a world orain, dust, laughter and tears.

old rom the perspective oLala, an incredibly imaginative andspirited Arican-American girl inthe all-black town o Lovely, Kan.in the 1890s, the play capturesthe innocence and rapture ochildhood while also centeringon topics o race, gender and love.Te story ollows Lalas experiencewhen a mysterious Chineseman named Longshoe rides intotown on a dust storm, bringingnew perspective and change to adull town. Te wise teachings oLongshoe and the towns reactionto the change that Longshoe bringssparks questions o race, religionand the beauty o lie.

Directed by Robin Aronsonand written and perormed byRivera Sun Cook, Te Imagine-a-nation o Lalachild is awondrous, inspiring one-womanshow. Tough there was only onewoman present on stage, Cookportrayed not just one, but manyother characters. Tree plays, 30

characters, one actress. Tere wereno costume changes, no props andcertainly no jubilant orchestra. Fora split second, I had even hal-

expected Cook to crack a jokeabout a priest and a rabbi, as theset-up o the play reminded meso much o a stand-up comedyperormance. However, Cook

was gone the minute the lightsdimmed, as she transormed intoLala, Mama Lu, Longshoe, thepreacher and the rest o the towno Lovely.

Tis play was beyond theaverage imaginative caliber o aperormance and chased awayany trace o reality. Trough largeamounts o research on heavyaccents and movement, Cooktransported the audience to thedry, dusty, enchanting worldo Lovely, Kan. She perectedsouthern accents ranging romthe young to the old, whichwere enhanced by original andtraditional music. Evident inthe title, the play has a mystical,marvelous, imaginative appeal toit the childlike enthusiasmand sheer appetite or lie thatLala displayed transported meto my own childhood, anxiousor what the world might bring.Full o giggles and wide-eyedwonders, Lala made me leavethe studio that night seeing theworld as a giant playground,as I once viewed it. While I amsurely not in Kansas anymore,afer seeing the imagination andbeautiul hopes that Lala had

or her world, I looked aroundthe world that I live in andsaw it as slightly prettier than Iremembered.


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An Extraordinary WorldWhimsical one-woman show takes audiences back to childhood

RIVERA SUN COOK portrays every character in the one-woman show, A StLove; the Freedom Stories of Lala.

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Show Info

What: Te RisingSun Dance TeatersA Star Called Love;the Freedom Storieso Lala.Where: PacicCultural Center, 1307Seabright Ave.When: May 6 May 28

ickets: $36 at www.brownpapertickets.com

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4/20, OtherEvents Draw

ThousandsHeavily attended unsanctioned eventsat UC campuses draw attention

Fog and rain did not preventthousands rom ocking toPorter Meadow this Wednesday.

4/20 is an unsanctioned UCSanta Cruz event where largegroups o students gather oncampus and smoke marijuana.It is not unlike Picnic Day at UCDavis and Floatopia in UC SantaBarbara, in that it draws studentsrom other schools.

Floatopia is an unocialannual student day party, whichstarted as a gathering on the

beach where students oatedon the ocean. In 2010, the eventwas moved to Del Playa Drivedue to Santa Barbara ocials'restriction o access to the beachthat day.

Aer the move the event be-came Deltopia, and according

to the 2011 Floatopia Facebookevent, this year's gathering hadover 11,000 conrmed guests.

Te ocial Picnic Day, UCDavis open-house event amiliesand the public attend. Studentscelebrate with an unsanctioned

day party that attracts numerouspartygoers.

According to a report in theDavis Enterprise, there were 54arrests during the Picnic Dayenorcement period at this year'sevent, rom Friday evening, April15 to early morning Sunday,April 17.

Crimes and injuries are com-mon at Floatopia as well. 2009'sFloatopia resulted in two deaths,as well as 13 arrests, accordingto a report released by the UCSBvice chancellor or student aairsMichael D. Young.

Saety is also a concern atUC Santa Cruz's unsanctionedday party, 4/20. Jim Burns, aUCSC campus spokesperson,said that the administration wasconcerned about saety this yearin particular, due to the recentgrati threats ound in a men'srestroom in Porter College.

Whenever we discovergrati o a threatening nature and, to be sure, some o it weprobably don't discover weare concerned, Burns said in anemail.

Despite possible risks to

saety, students continue to par-ticipate. First-year Lauren Dikeattended Picnic Day and said thepolice and campus security pres-ence didnt aect her decisions todrink and smoke.

Any security seeing medrinking out o a bottle o wineor smoking a cigarette didnt say

anything, she said.Burns said 4/20 b

people with no aliaUCSC to the campusinconvenience or thin the campus commchoose not to partici

Te event impacbors, he said. Te epedes the ability o oaculty and sta to gecampus that aernoo

Burns said that thnumerous issues withbesides its illegality.

We have plenty othis activity aside roous, he said.

First-year Alexa Relled to Santa Barbarriends and party at Dwas not concerned bence o alcohol and d

[Deltopia is] alretion, she said. You judgment on it.

Like Dike and Rotravelled to see their Haley Riddle ew roland Hills, near Los AUCSC or 4/20 and triend.

Even though saethave been present inat events like Picnic DDeltopia, Riddle saidworried.

I don't get how itsaid o the relaxed atPorter Meadow on 4/peaceul.

DESPITE THE RAIN, swarms of UCSC students and campus visitors hiked u

down from Porter Meadow on April 20.

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Community ChestFive questions with some o UCSCs fnest

Tird-year UC Santa Cruzstudents Gabi Kirk and LindseyRoark are on a mission to bringplastic water bottle sales on cam-pus to an end.

City on a Hill Press: Can youtell me about the project you are

both a part o?Kirk: ake Back the ap is acampaign to end the sale o

plastic water bottles on theUCSC campus, and eventually,the UC systemwide. We wantto build long-lasting behavioralchange. We want to be teachingthe people who are going to leadour nation and our uture thatthese are the social values that wehold dear, that water is a right oreveryone.

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Co-Editor

CHP: Would you considerake Back the ap a green

movement?Roark: Our campaign is moreabout the act that water isprivatized, that water is com-moditized, and it is somethingthat should be available toeveryone. Its great that there willbe less plastic consumption, butthats not what our campaignis about. Were trying to makethis also a community-basedmarketing scheme, [instead] oan inormation-based marketingscheme ...What were trying todo is nd out exactly why peoplebuy bottled water [and] how can

we modiy that behavior to bemore sustainable.

CHP: How is the project going?Roark: Hopeully by mid-Maythere will be two spigots, onein the oyer at OPERS and onein the upper oor o the Well-ness Center. Teyll just be littlepush-back spigots where you can

ll your water bottles. And i thatgoes well, then we are hoping toinstall spigots at all o the high-

usage areas that we nd aroundcampus, so probably around 25more spigots. Were hoping tohave the rest o the installationdone next year [since] they donthave the capacity [this year].

Kirk: We actually got grants romMeasure 43 and Measure 44,which were passed last year onthe ballot.

CHP: Any other uture plans or

the project?Kirk: We want to identiy thedeserts, as we like to call them,

areas without an accessible watersource, and maybe make it into amap or a phone, where some-one can ask, Where is the waterountain near me? and then l ateron, Where is the recycling binnear me? [or] When does thenext bus come? And we want tobuild a website with a transparentbudget, so that people can track

it. I were going to be spendingstudent ees, we want to makesure its in a way thats going to

engage the student body.

CHP: Have you received sup

port rom the administration?Roark: Whats cool is that wevenoticed in this project that everyadministration, sta [or] aculty[member] that weve approachedabout this has been so stoked,and so as ar as administration

support, I eel like the tration supports us ul

Kirk: Teres a great sucommunity here and wthis to be a big part o now its a smal l group doing it, but were slowmore and more, so wepeople to come out to and nd out how they involved with this eo

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he death penalty, a hot-button issue to say theleast, has been prominently eatured withinthe news circuits. Some may remember Joey

Bien-Kahns eature that City on a Hill Press ran lastquarter, entitled Killing Tem Soly, about the recent

controversy o the drug sodium thiopental. Te drug,normally used as a rapid-acting general anesthetic, is alsoadministered in large doses as a key component o thelethal injection cocktail. Caliornias remaining supply osodium thiopental has expired, and Hospira Inc., the onlycompany within the United States to manuacture thedrug, has decided to stop selling it. Hospira spokespersonDan Rosenberg said in Bien-Kahns eature, Te drug isused or improving lie We never condoned its use orcapital punishment.

As a result, some states have begun to consider drasticand inhumane eorts to continue carrying out capitalpunishment. Importing sodium thiopental is extremelyrestricted under ederal law, and it doesnt help thatearlier this month Keyem, an India-based pharmaceuticalcompany that had supplied Nebraska and South Dakota

with the drug, decided to discontinue selling it or lethalinjection purposes.Te company said on its website, In view o the

sensitivity involved with sale o our Tiopental Sodium

he United States military is taking its dont ask,dont tell policy to new and egregious heights, andit has nothing to do with keeping the lid on the

sexual orientation o gay and lesbian service members.No, this has to do with recent reports that bring to

light the assertion that military leadership and Pentagondeense ocials have been ignoring and covering up al-legations o sexual assault and rape o service members byellow military members.

Tese claims are being publicized thanks to a lawsuitled in February by 17 United States military members,all o whom say that they were sexually assaulted andraped during their time o service but were not takenseriously by their superiors when they tried to report the

attacks. Te deendants in the lawsuit are ormer deensesecretary Donald Rumseld and current deense secretaryRobert Gates.

Plainti Panayiota Bertzikis alleges that she was rapedin 2006 by a ellow Coast Guard shipmate, but when she

tried to report the assault to Coast Guard personnel shewas told to keep quiet and called a liar and a whorewho would have to pay or snitching. Even the CoastGuards victims advocate encouraged Bertzikis not to tryto press charges because she would be seen as dicult.

And this prolieration o sexual assaults and rape isntexclusive to women serving in the military. Nearly 50,000male veterans screened positive or military sexualtrauma at the Department o Veterans Aairs last year,

up rom just over 30,000 in 2003, accord-ing to the April 3 Newsweek article TeMilitarys Secret Shame. In addition, thelawsuit against Rumseld and Gates includestwo male plaintis. Overall, the Departmento Deense estimates that 19,000 servicemembers were raped or sexually assaulted in

2010, but only 13.5 percent o them reportedthese incidents.While the military has reportedly striven

to recognize this issue o sexual assaults, thislawsuit makes it evident that there is muchmore that needs to be done.

In 2005 the Pentagon established theSexual Assault Prevention and ResponseOce and trained 1,200 military ocers onhow to handle incident reports. But despitethe oces existence, the Pentagon says lessthan one in our military rape cases is everprosecuted.

Additionally, a 2008 report rom the GoveAccountability Oce says that as many as 43 trained people at a given base still didnt knowreport such an incident.

Te judicial system within the military bra

government should be well versed in handlintions o sexual assault and rape. Its unathomthat there are so many military ocials who eunderstand how to report these cases or simpsurvivors.

Congress needs to make sure the commissmandated in 2004 to oversee the militarys revprosecution process o reported sexual assaulserving as a watchdog o the military judiciarnecessary that pressure is put on deense secrwho has not yet implemented a database mby Congress over a year ago that would cenreports o rape and sexual assault in the milit

At least one member o Congress plans to matter to the attention o other politicians. ReSpeier (D-San Mateo) has pledged to speak o

weekly basis on the oor o the House o Repabout the militarys overlooking o sexual abuCongress acts on it.

Speier should be lauded or her dedicationcause, and with her at the helm there is hope who hold the pens and the purse strings in gowill do something about this problem.

I no one in this administration heeds Speithey will continue to stand idly by as the liveswomen are traumatized every day, continuingear and shame without the support o their htrys government.

Reevaluating the Death PenaltyPharmaceutical companies are ethicallyconicted, so why arent we?

Military needs to be overseen more closely in reporting rape, sexual assault

Shedding Light on a Dark Issue

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Illustration by Bela Messex

to variousJails/Prisonsin USA and as alleged to be used or the purpose oLethal Injection, we voluntarily declare that we as IndianPharma Dealer who cherish the Ethos o Hinduism (A

believer even in non-livings as the creation o God)rerain ourselves in selling this drug where the purposeis purely or Lethal Injection and its misuse.

exas has quickly reacted by trying to institute pen-tobarbital or use in the case o death row inmate CleveFoster, despite the act that the drug is used predomi-nantly in the euthanizing o animals. Te drug is heavilyregulated the dosage is determined by the weight othe animal, only a licensed veterinarian can administerit and even the light in the room is regulated at the timeo injection.

Pentobarbital isnt intended to be used or humanexecutions and has never been used in conjunction withthe other drugs used in lethal injections.

Te Supreme Court stayed Fosters execution, duegreatly to the questions surrounding the use o pento-barbital.

Tis entire situation should really orce Americans tore-examine the entire concept o the death penalty itsuse, its legitimacy and its ethical implications. How does

the death penalty act as a orm o justice? Is Are we truly able to carry out that justice in and decent manner, respecting the standard up or ourselves?

It should be obvious that pentobarbital anthiopental should not be used or lethal injecbecause that is not what they were intended or. Can we really trust that a drug intended to euthanize animals to react the same way iTis brings up a whole dierent concern o wto create a drug to help kill people humanedoes one even run trials to prove that?

Teres no easy answer to this problem. Yethus ar been dicult to create a death penalthat both science and society can agree is hu

not cruel or unusual, is that not some indicainherently cruel, unusual and possibly inhumpractice o taking a lie is?

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