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Table of Contents5 Pistol and Pepper Spray: 13 Arrested At Regents by ROSA CASTAÑEDA& ARIANNAPUOPOLO

6 Students Rally Against 8 Percent Fee Increase by ROSELAARCE

7 Event Calendar compiled by TESS GOODWIN

8 Going Loopy for Loopfest by SUSAN SUN

9 Theater Troupe Shows the Odyssey of PTSDby ASAHESS-MATSUMOTO

10 Through Our Pensby CITY ON A HILL PRESSILLUSTRATORS

Cover photos by Rosanna Van Straten, Molly Solomon and Prescott Watson

Nick Paris

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12 Put Down Your Kindle, Pick Up the Paperby ROSIESPINKS

13 Getting Personal about America’s Most Unlikely Iconby BLAIRSTENVICK

14 Supernatural in Santa Cruzby JULIEENG

17 Editorials : Unfair Cuts to Childcare&

18 Graphics the Key to Stopping Smoking&

Video Gamers Prove Themselves Philanthropists

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13 Arrested atUC Regents Meeting

Tensions rise be ore proposed ee increases are put to a vote

Anticipation hung in the air at the UCSan Francisco Mission Bay con erencecenter while students and workers demonstrated in opposition to proposed ee hikesand a two tier pension program.

UC President Mark Yudo dismissedallegations o ine cacy o UC O ce o the President presented during the publiccomment period at the Nov. 17 regentsmeeting.

“Despite what you’ve heard the dropout rate has been at,” he said. “Tis ideathat [the Blue and Gold Opportunity

Plan] is a sham is nonsense.”Meanwhile, outside the con erencecenter, spectators, activists and journaliststried to access the public meeting. However, new protocol or regents meetingsput a stop to the process o credentialingreporters, giving police o cers the authority to deny entrance to anyone.

UCOP director o media relationsPeter King blamed a San FranciscoChronicle article or this change.

King said reporters displaying presspasses and abstaining rom participating in any demonstrative actions will stillbe a orded the appropriate rights in theevent that police dismiss protesters.

Inside the con erence room, UCStudent Association president ClaudiaMagaña urged the regents to avoid imposing another ee increase.

“Fee increases are no longer an option,”she said. “We have given too much.”

Magaña presented student testimonials as evidence o the negative impact o student ee hikes.

Student regent Jesse Cheng and student regent designate Al redo Mireles Jr.agree that it is the state’s and UC’s responsibility to provide quality higher educationto its own residents.

“Te thing about alternative revenueis that it does give up this idea o publiceducation,” Mireles said. “It seems impos

sible to have more students, ewer classesand the non residential students notpushing out Cali ornia students.”

Yudo denies this.“We’re not privatizing,” he said. “My

problem is the state legislature doesn’t want to und the Master Plan.”

A ter the public comment session, anestimated 300 protesters assembled outside the building.

UCSC student organizer Brian Maloneaccused the regents o being apathetic.

“Tey’re not even pretending even a

little anymore that they care,” he said.One group o protesters attempted

crossing the police line by overwhelming a single police o cer stationed at thecon erence center’s stairway entrance romthe parking garage.

UCSF police chie Pamela Roskowskireported that the o cer responded tothe advances o the crowd by drawing hisbaton. Peter Haul, a UC Merced studenttook possession o the baton and struck him on the head with it.

Haul was charged with assault with a

deadly weapon.Roskowski said that a ter the o cerrecovered his baton, he drew his gun whenthe crowd continued to advance towardhim.

By the end o the day, 13 people werearrested. Roskowski said seven o thosedetained were UC Berkeley students andone student each was arrested rom UCSanta Cruz, UC Merced, UC Davis andPeralta Community College. wo morepeople were also arrested.

Fi teen people were hit with pepperspray and our police o cers were reportedly injured.

“Tere was excessive orce used — thisis the way the UC maintains power overstudents,” Malone said.

UC Berkeley student Victor Mendez,among the 15 pepper sprayed, said he wasboth pleased that this dispute would meritthe attention o the regents and mediaoutlets.

“I hope this gets better and by better Imean I hope we shut this shit down,” hesaid. “So besides my burning ace, I eel

ucking incredible.”Roskowski declined criticism o UCSF

PD and SFPD o using excessive orce.“I have no in ormation to tell me pro

tocol was not ollowed,” she said.In the last open session o they day, a

joint committee o the UC Board o Re

gents approved an action item to change“student ees” to “tuition” that will be votedon Nov. 18.

Student regents Cheng and Mireles expressed concern about the hastiness with

which the motion was passed.“It’s a signifcant change to the Master

Plan and although we’ve been paying whateels like tuition or years now, it merits

notice, and it’s disappointing,” Mirelessaid. “Tose o us who believe in the Master Plan still think there should be ees,not tuition.”

By Arianna PuopoloEditor-in-Chief

& Rosa CastañedaCampus Reporter

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PROTESTERS CLASHEDwith police outside the UC regents’meeting yesterday. The regents met to discuss a proposed feeincrease and faculty pension plan.

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On uesday, members o the UC community continued to rally to attract theattention o the UC regents, who will voteon a ee increase and workers’ benefts today. Tis came a day a ter UC Santa Cruz administration sent out a campuswidee mail about orming a DemonstrationAdvisory Group that will make recommendations about campus responses todemonstrations.

Te potential 8 percent ee increase would amount to an additional $822 perstudent, annually i passed. Changes in

workers’ benefts include a proposed increase in the amount employees contributeto their retirement plans and a gradualreduction in retiree health premiums.

“I’m worried about my pension, but Ineed to work,” said a dining hall employeeas marchers attempted to hold a sit in

inside the University Center. Te worker and his ellow employeestried to close the entrance shared by theUniversity Center and the Colleges Nineand en Dining Hall when protestersattempted to enter. Some students positioned their bodies in ront o the door tokeep an entrance open.

In a campuswide e mail, Alison Galloway, campus provost and executive vicechancellor, said that the DAG will addressthe responsibilities o demonstrators andthe consequences or participants who

violate campus policy.“I would like to see aculty, students

and sta represented on this committee,”Galloway said in the e mail.

Inside the temporarily closed building,a server and a dining hall patron attempted to speak out against the demonstrators’actions. Teir voices were drowned out by the shouts o protesters.

A ter the group le t the attemptedsit in at the University Center, it beganheading toward the fnal destination,Quarry Plaza.

“Hit the street!” students yelled out.

Several people owed onto the road,almost not noticing the APS bus thatnearly struck them.

A ter being halted or about two anda hal minutes, another APS bus drivershared his view on the situation.

“I’m in solidarity with what’s going onright now,” said the APS driver.

Some o the marchers stormed into thebus. “Out o the bus and into the streets!”they said.

Fourth year Merrill student ElenaPasquez, a participant in the event, commented on the turnout.

“It’s just disappointing to see the lack o student turnout here, because thisis something that a ects everyone, not

just students — workers, aculty, As,”Pasquez said.

In contrast to last year’s November

demonstrations, which drew hundreds, uesday’s rally began slowly with a crowdo about 40 gathered in the Porter Quad.

“I they’re not going to come to theprotest, we’ll bring the protest to them,”said a woman in command o the bullhorn.

Demonstrators turned the rally intoa march, as the group advanced up toKresge, hoping to gain recruits.

Nestor Rivera, ourth year Kresgestudent and the organizing director orStudent Union Assembly, attended theevent. He said that the event is closely tiedto aspects o his position and viewed itoptimistically.

“People are still here,” Rivera said. “It was a good turnout.”

Te march halted at the intersection inbetween Quarry Plaza and Cowell. Somestudents blocking the road began playing

with a soccer ball and a hacky sack.A young woman got a hold o the

loudspeaker be ore the group disbanded.“Let’s have a clap,” she said. “Let’s pat

ourselves, and go to UCSF tomorrow.”

Students Rally AgainstFee Increase

Administration orms demonstrationadvisory group

By Rosela ArceCampus Reporter

STUDENTS GATHEREDin protest of the budget cuts to be discussed todaUC regents meeting. The rally took place on campus on Tuesday.

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Event CalendarCITY

Tursday, Nov. 18• Art: Near and Far Photography S how. SantaCruz County O ce o Education. 9 a.m. to 4:30p.m.• Educational: Body Worlds Vital Exhibition.

ech Museum, San José. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. $17

students. Trough May 2011. ickets available attickets.thetech.org .• Concert: New Almaden rio. Kuumbwa Jazz Center. 7 p.m. $12 in advance, $15 at door.• Presentation: City o Santa Cruz Dra t ClimateAction Plan. City o Santa Cruz Council Chambers. 7 p.m. Free.• Film: “Star rek III: Te Search or Spock.”Regal Cinema 9. 8 p.m. $5.• Concert: Slightly Stoopid. he Catalyst. 8:30p.m. $25.• Concert: Hobo Nephews o Uncle Frank,

Wagon Wreckers, Sioux City Kid & Te Revolutionary Ramblers. Te Crêpe Place. 9 p.m. $10.

Friday, Nov. 19•

Concert: L A Riots, Donald Glaude, Mr. yler Jackson, Keltec. Te Catalyst. 8 p.m. $22.• Concert: Birdhouse, Grand Lake, Matador, Jeremy Lyon. Te Crêpe Place. 9 p.m. $8 in advance,$10 at door.• Film: “Te Shining.” Del Mar Teatre. 11:59p.m. $6.50. Event repeats Nov. 20.

Saturday, Nov. 20• Concert: Mike & Ruthy, Te Shalants, VirgilShaw, Kites & Crows. Te Crêpe Place. 8 p.m. $8.• Concert: Eliquate, Rec League, Pro el Inc. TeCatalyst. 9 p.m. $6 in advance, $8 at door. Ages 21and up.

Sunday, Nov. 21• Per ormance: Poet/Speak Open Poetry with

eatured reader Daniel Yaryan. Santa Cruz PublicLibrary Meeting Room. 2 to 4 p.m. Free.• Concert: Na Palapalai, Ka Nalu. Kuumbwa Jazz Center. 5:30 p.m. $26 in advance.• Concert: Blazing Steels: Amee Chapman & theVelvet umbleweeds, eaturing Carolyn Sills. TeCrêpe Place. 7 to 10 p.m. Free.

Monday, Nov. 22• Concert: Ray Brown and the Great Big Band.Kuumbwa Jazz Center. 7:30 p.m. $15–20.• Film: “Te Princess Bride.” Te Crêpe Place.8 p.m.

uesday, Nov. 23• Film: “Warren Miller’s Wintervention.” Rio

Teatre. 8 p.m. See warrenmiller.com or tickets.Event repeats Nov. 24.• Concert: 7 Come 11. Te Crêpe Place. 8 p.m. to12 a.m. Free.• Concert: Rasta Cruz Reggae uesdayz. TeCatalyst. 9 p.m. Cover charge up to $5. Ages 21and up.

Wednesday, Nov. 24• Beneft: 2nd Annual Santa Cruz Derby Girls’

urkey Bowl. Boardwalk Bowl. 6 p.mthree games and shoe rental.• Concert: ater Famine, Junior BoogCatalyst. 9 p.m. $5. Ages 21 and up.

CAMPUS

Tursday, Nov. 18• Educational: Haiti Day. Upper Quato 5 p.m.• Presentation: “What I Learned at SCamp.” Journalist ed Cox. UCSC Sedent Alliance. Media Teater. 7 p.m. Fre• Play: “Holy Ghosts.” Teater Arts E

Teater. 7 to 9 p.m. $12 general, $11 senstudents. Event continues through Novarts.ucsc.edu or additional show times• Per ormance: Poetry Slam. CollegRevolución. 9:30 p.m. Free.

Friday, Nov. 19• Per ormance: Mixed Nutz! Teater stage. 7 to 9 p.m. $14.75–$32.50.E venthrough Dec. 5. See arts.ucsc.edu or tiadditional showtimes.• Concert: A Ceremony o Carols. MRecital Hall. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. $6–10.• Per ormance: Te Rocky Horror Pic

with Slugs in F ishnets. Porter CollegeHall. 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. ickets on salePorter Dining Hall and in Quarry Plaz• Dance: “Dance or Peace.” UCSC tural Center. 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. $3 in adat the door. Proceeds go to the Genocition Network and its civilian protectio

Saturday, Nov. 20• Sports: Rock Paper Scissors ag tition. Merrill Cultural Center. 4 to 6 pto [email protected] by Nov. 19 with

players and team.• Beneft: Fall Brawl Video Game FeCollege Dining Hall. 4 to 10:30 p.m. $• Per ormance Beneft: “Shakespearin Love.” Shakespeare Santa Cruz. TeSecond Stage. 6:30 to 8 p.m. $50.• Concert: Kresge Music Co op ConOn! Kresge own Hall. 9 p.m. to 12 a.

Sunday, Nov. 21• Per ormance Beneft: “Shakespearin Love.” Shakespeare Santa Cruz. TeSecond Stage. 1:30 to 3 p.m. $50.• Concert: Jazz Ensembles and Big BCenter Recital Hall. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 22• Beneft: Meal Plan/Flexi Dollar DriHalls/SVC website. 1 to 2 p.m.• Discussion: “A Conversation with Scherer.” White House correspondentMagazine and UCSC literature and cring alumnus. Kresge Seminar Room 1Free.• Per ormance: Poetry Slam. CowelFireside Lounge. 8 to 10 p.m. Free.

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Layers o ambient beatsreverberate back and orth acrossthe walls o the room as thesound waves resonate through

the audience. Psychedelic videosproject onto the white backdrop. Te sounds escalate, climbingtheir way to a musical peak, andthen gradually zone out into thedistance, ading into an eventualsilence. Te artist stands up andtakes a bow. Te next artist takesthe stage and begins to play beauti ul olk music, adoptingthe unusual combination o abanjo and a violin bow.

Tis is Loop est.Last month, Rick Walker

hosted his 10th annual Loop est,a live digital looping estival.Seventy artists came out rom 17di erent countries to per ormin three di erent cities over thecourse o nine days. Four showstook place in Santa Cruz occurring rom Oct. 13 through 17.

Walker, a longtime riend o and amiliar ace in the SantaCruz music community, plays ahuge role in spearheading themovement o bringing live digital looping out o obscurity.

“Part o the reason why Istarted this estival in the frstplace was that I was really excited that there’s this new modeo communicating,” Walker said.

Electronic music has beenaround since the advent o synthesizers in the 1960s. Aided by technology, music looping came

into play around the same time.It generally uses repetitions o sounds, layered on top o eachother to create a complex rhythmic sound texture.

“When digital looping cameout, what it did was that itcompletely reed the musician toeither think o new sounds, orto re contextualize their instruments,” Walker said. “Looping

reed us to start thinking moreabout sound and rhythm overanything.”

From 1999 to 2000, Walkerhosted around seven small scale

estivals in Santa Cruz at WhatIs Art, eaturing 35 artists, 30o whom had never played livebe ore.

“Everyone was in their closets.I elt like I wanted them to getout and do it,” Walker said. “Andsince then, tons and tons o artists have put records out andare out there per orming theirmusic.”

Many o the per orming artists who ell under the umbrellao Walker’s new interest arenewbies who had the talent, butnot the opportunity, to per ormin ront o a live audience.

“It’s wonder ul to come outhere and be with other Loopers,because I am the only one out inFinland doing this,” said Finnish

per ormance artist Mir 0.In act, all 70 artists travelrom all across the world entirely

on their own expense. Noneo the artists are paid or theirper ormances.

“People think I’m crazy outthere, and then I come here andsuddenly it works,” Mir 0 said.

Digital musical looping is widely applicable to any genreo music, and serves simply toexpand an artist’s selection o instruments and rhythms, thereby generating a huge variety o musical sounds that have neverbe ore been produced.

“With a tape loop, you’re reeto use all kind o sounds that you

would not normally use,” Walkersaid. “I can basically make a

whole drum set using Frisbees.” Walker said he will not host

another Loop est next year because o the work it demands.

“It’s just a tremendousamount o work,” he said. “Ihaven’t been able to produce any o my own music because it justtakes up so much o my time.”

Although Walker will not beputting on the event next year,he hopes that it will happen. Hesaid the Loopers are determinedto make it work.

“Loop est will continue onnext year,” said Scott Erickson,a member o the audience atLoop est. “Tis event was puton through a collaborative groupe ort. Most o these people herehave contributed somethingto the putting together o thisevent. Tat’s not going to stop.

Tis is Santa Cruz we’re talkingabout.”

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By Susan SunArts & Entertainment Reporter

Live Loopfest Event Hits Santa CruzLocal music estival attracts artists rom around the world

Photo Courtesy of Rick Walker’s loop.pool

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Modern Odyssey Offers a Sobering MessagePlay tells veterans’ story

o post-traumatic stress disorder

Since when has the Odyssey had azombie fght scene, watermelon iconography and a bathroom setting?

At a glance, Ailin Conant’s “Nobody’sHome” bears little resemblance to its attributed origin, possessing only a hand ulo scenes that immediately recognizableas a throwback to Homer’s epic. But i allone were looking to fnd rom “Nobody’sHome” were a simple remake, the point o the show would be missed altogether.

Over the course o just over an hour,the London cast guides the audiencethrough an emotional tale o one soldier’sstory o reintegration. Will Pinchin, actorand co writer o “Nobody’s Home,” playsthe role o Grant, a soldier come home

a ter having served three tours o duty in A ghanistan and who also — quickly made apparent — su ers symptoms rompost traumatic stress disorder.

Easily becoming lost in his owntrauma induced nightmares, the pitiable character Grant represents themany P SD victims o the wars in theMiddle East. Grant’s inability to readily discern reality rom nightmares severely strains his relationship with his wi e,Penny, played by co writer Dorie Kinnear.

Trough the dynamic between Grant andPenny, the show makes it brutally andpain ully clear that Grant’s journey homeis ar more than just a trip overseas.

“When we frst began working, we were just looking to modernize ‘Te Od yssey,’” director Ailin Conant said. “Butthe show was a little too abstract, and it

wasn’t until we started to integrate veterans into our work that the show becameas well polished as it is.”

“Nobody’s Home” was the brainchildo Pinchin, Kinnear and Conant. Tey said contributions made by wartime

veterans, who have worked alongside thetroupe, give the show its hard hittingedge. In workshops acilitated by veteranErin Maxon, the trio sought help rom local Santa Cruz community veterans in ane ort to better represent the people thecharacters symbolized.

“We are telling a pertinent story that isnot ours, and we are getting an immenseamount o support in doing it,” Conantsaid.

Te troupe was at frst very hesitant tomeet with the veterans because o the earthat the story would misrepresent it. For

Will Pinchin, “Nobody’s Home” is meantto convey a sense o hope or those su ering rom P SD. Te last thing Pinchin

wanted to do was o end the very people whose collective stories the troupe te lls,he said.

“Tose whom this story belongs tohave good reason not to want to share it

with us,” actor Will Pinchin said. “TeOdyssey is a sa e story. It’s been told timeand time again. Te scary bit that’s neverbeen addressed in a show is the traumaticpart o the journey home, the P SD bit.”

Veterans who come to see the show along its tour through San Luis Obispo,Cali . and Hamilton, NY will appreciatethe cast’s dedication to attend to thedevil in the details. From corrected shi tsin combat posture to proper about acemaneuvers, Pinchin has taken in as muchas he can to better his per ormance onstage.

“Tere are certain things ingrained inthe body o a soldier that, quite rankly,I don’t have,” Pinchin said. “Te veteranshave been invaluable in just correcting

my behaviors that are second nature tothem. Te details may seem superfcial,but the trans ormation one sees [as aresult o ] incorporatingthem makes them truly critical.”

From Grant’s distrusto his psychiatrist toPenny’s inability toemotionally connect

with her husband, theshow highlights theproblems o P SD. Telack o understandingon behal o all partiesputs Grant in a helplessposition. And while theshow very clearly anddirectly addresses theproblems brought aboutby P SD, its endingmessage is relatively ambiguous, althoughnot absent o hope.

“In our last session with the veterans, wespoke directly about

what we thought theanswer should be, andhow we could bring thatinto the show,” actorDorie Kinnear said.“I want to say that it ’s

about working togetherto overcome this horrible condition. People

who su er rom P SD will likely have to deal with it or the rest o their lives, and the bestsolution I can think o ,being Penny, is just being there or Grant.”

“Nobody’s Home,”as a modern Odyssey,does not end with the

typical satis action o a triumphant heroreturned home in Ithaca. Tere are noobvious suitors to be driven out, no divine

interventions deus ex machina, but justthe saddening realities o P SD.As Homer once said, “Zeus metes out

ortune to good and bad menhim. Hardship he sent to you,must bear it.” By this token, t

comes into its own as a tragicstory o con usion, lonelinebut not without hope.

“NOBODY’S HOME,”directed by Ailin Conant, is a modern-day renditioHomer’s Odyssey. In the place of protagonist Odysseus’ is Grant, a U.S. swho has returned from ghting in Afghanistan. Grant’s journey, as he strugwith post-traumatic stress disorder, takes on new meaning.

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Your Kindle May Be Convenient, Your iPad Sleek,

But My Crinkled Magazine Is Better

I duti ully work through 10 page articles about oreign aid agencies, get lost in short stories that I orgetare actually fctitious, read about uptown gallery openings that I will never be cool enough to go to, and smileat the subtle yet smug humor o its amous cartoons.

My a nity or Te New Yorker is indicative o aparticular attitude o mine. Te belie that yes, technology is great, but no, I don’t need any more o it in my li e. O ten, it makes me eel like somewhat o a luddite,putting me at odds with my more tech savvy peers.

But there’s something about my New Yorker exercise that brings me a kind o satis action that cannotbe replicated in any other ormat. urning the textladen pages with the knowledge that I really shouldbe reading or a c lass, wiping the crumbs o the pageas I eat my burned toast, and, most o all, reveling inthe unmistakable pleasure o taking the time to readsomething that’s actually in print.

Yes, I use Gmail and Facebook, and I’ve gained an

unquantifable amount o knowledge rom the Googlesearch box. I am aware o the incredible impact thatthe Internet has had on my social developmental andeducational li e, as well as my status as what my athercalls a “digital native.” But no, I don’t like it when my

riends are searching something on their iPhone while we’re having a conversation, I don’t want to know every thought that exits in your head via witter, and I dothink it’s sad that an over reliance on spell check hasdiminished my peers’ ability to spell words like “conscientious” and “maintenance.”

It’s not surprising that our generation has developedthis dependency on technology, as it echoes the consumerculture we grew up in.Tis idea — that more is more,bigger is better and instant gratifcation trumps delayedsatis action — reigns supreme. But with this ever increasing stream o global data, we’re simultaneously losingsome things: a amiliarity and appreciation or simplerpleasures, an awareness o local knowledge, and perhapseven a portion o our common sense.

It’s not that there isn’t room or both the print anddigital media in the modern world. Te quality o a pieceo journalism remains intact regardless o the ormat. Buttechnology’s o er o unlimited options and immediateaccess to any publication or in ormation source doesn’tsupersede the value o reading something in print. Tereis a tactile and time tested value attached to this activity that technology simply can’t replace.

When was the last time you used intuition and a good

sense o direction to fnd your way around or talked to aliving, breathing librarian while researching a paper? How about taking the time to write a note to send to a riend,or making yoursel unreachable or an entire day? Teseactivities may seem blasé in a world o e mails, tweets andapps, but they’re all things that have been done by humanbeings long be ore there was a place known as SiliconValley.

echnological progress is good. I am not advocatinga li e o Internet abstinence or a reliance on the Dewey Decimal System or all o our in ormational needs. Butthe benefts we accrue rom these technologies are notunlimited. Tere is a point at which one more iPhone

app that calculates the number o steps untilatte is not making your li e better — but ra

you duller. How about looking at a real map, real book, or buying a real newspaper in whiactually stumble upon a whimsical or thoughpiece o local journalism that can’t be ounington Post?

For now, I will stand in a crowd o a ew.I see that smug person sitting next to me and

Yorker, who appears unable to complete a ubecause his or her iPad/Kindle/fll in the bprovides too many options, I will smile to mquiet, though revolutionary act: turn the pag

Te New Yorker magazine and I havea routine. Whenever I have both thetime and the $5.95 in my wallet to spare

or a copy, I enter a mental commitmentto read the entire issue, becauseanything less would be somewhat o anunderachievement.

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It’s not surprising that our generation has developed this dependency on technology, as it echoes the consumer culture we grew up in.Thisidea — that more is more, bigger is better and instant gratifcationtrumps delayed satisfaction — reigns supreme.

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What I Learned from

Woody Allen More than just a flmmaker,

he’s an inspiration or any cynic

I there were a movie about yourli e, which actor would play you?

It’s a question we’ve all comeacross at some point, and usually I just give some smart ass answer like“Miley Cyrus” or “Betty White.”But when it recently came up inconversation among my roommates,I had just seen “You Will Meet a all Dark Stranger,” and I had to tellthem the person whom I think would

be most appropriate as yours truly: Woody Allen.OK, so we’re not the same gender, and he’s at least

50 years older than me. But Woody understands me the way nobody else, in show business or otherwise, does. With his awkward looks and cynical views, he’s the actualembodiment o a theme Hollywood loves to make crappy,unrealistic movies about: the underdog story. Woody Allen is no charmer, and his paranoia and constantquestioning o “what it all means” keeps him rom being

what anyone would describe as a natural people person.But he managed to make it big in comedy and flm

while staying true to himsel , using his wit, and mostimportantly, his word. My idea o a un evening is stayingin and writing this column, so you can imagine how inspiring Allen is or me.

I was 16 when I frst watched “Annie Hall,” the story o a relationship that doesn’t work out but sparks dialogueabout the pointlessness and paradoxes o relationshipsand li e in general. Te riend I viewed it with reactednegatively. He saw it as just a sel indulgent, whiny movieabout two neurotics. Maybe that’s true, but that’s alsoexactly why I liked it. My parents had divorced a yearearlier, and I had turned bitter and exasperated with li ebe ore reaching voting age. Te experience o watching my amily, the only constant in my li e, split in twoexacerbated the usual angst any teenager will go through.

Being a teenage girl who had a head with plenty o opin

ions inside it, and a mop o impossibly thick, rizzy hairon top o it, didn’t help things. I didn’t think anyone couldunderstand me, but then I ound my cinematic soul matein Woody Allen.

Here was the most honest piece o cinema I’d seen —it is the story o Alvy Singer and Annie Hall, but it is alsothe story o my parents and the story o me. It also happens to be hilarious. Te sarcasm Allen uses to evisceratethings he, and I, don’t like — Hollywood’s mentality,pretentious intellectuals, suburbia — inspired me to holdout hope in high school that, sometimes, it’s the kids whomutter witty comments under their breath, rather thanthe ones who run down the hallways yelling moronicmottos, who succeed. Woody Allen essentially legitimizedanxiety and cynicism. I spent the next ew years coveringmost o the Woody classics and his recent icks, whichbrings us up to “You Will Meet a all Dark Stranger.”

Allen’s most recent e ort i s by no means his best work,but it’s still a treat. I enjoyed watching it because, like allhis flms, it struck a near per ect blend o intelligence andentertainment. “Stranger” opens with the narrator quotingShakespeare: “Li e is … ull o sound and ury, signi yingnothing.”

Cut to the story o Helena, a woman in her mid 60s whose husband, Alfe, has just le t her and plans to marry a prostitute, Charmaine. Te plot is a classic Allen set up,

ull o characters who aren’t sure what they want but tendto gravitate towards the opposite o what’s best or them.

Te flm wraps up with the same quote it began

with, although I’m not sure the whole thing

anything. Tere is poetic justice, in that the peends up happiest in the end is Helena, the mcent o the characters. However, most o hebased on illusions, so maybe the only thingsin li e are the things that don’t exist. Lookinall the bad things I’ve gone through in my lithat most o them were done to me instead I can relate to the eeling o having no contli e that prompts Helena to solicit the advicteller. Having watched my parents su er the infdelity and having gone through it myselthartic or me to watch all the damn cheaterdue, even i it wasn’t realistic.

Let’s go back to another Allen classic, “HHer Sisters.” Woody plays Mickey, a suicidalfnds solace in the movies.

“I’m watching these people up on the scrstarted getting hooked on the flm. I started tocan you even think o killing yoursel , I mestupid?” Mickey tells his riend about a tripa theater at his lowest point. “Look at all thethere on the screen, they’re real unny, and w

worst is true? What i there is no God and yaround once and that’s it? Well, you know, doto be part o the experience?”

Te pains o growing up and learning less way caused a lot o stress in my li e, but as are people like Woody Allen out there, I stillpart o the experience.

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“You know how when someone standsclose to you, you can eel it? It’s like that.Or it’s a static energy type eeling, that’s

what makes your hair stand up,” Nancy Bowmen described.

Te co ounder o Paranormal Zone V (PZ V) is certainly qualifed todescribe the presence o a ghost. Since shepredicted her ather’s death at the age o nine, Bowmen has had numerous experiences with paranormal entities, including

witnessing two ull body apparitions anddeveloping a personal relationship withSarah Logan o the Brookdale Lodge, oneo Santa Cruz’s most amous ghosts.

For Bowmen, investigating supernatural activities is not just a job but a deeply rooted passion that is evident in her

willingness to express her belie in ghosts with an emphatic “yes.” Her interest canbe traced back to a paranormal incident

rom her childhood.“I was sitting on the lawn with a

girl riend and I was picking at the grass— but you know, when you’re … doingsomething mundane, and you kind o go blank in your mind?” Bowmen said.

“In a heartbeat I got this little message. Icouldn’t hear a voice but it was like a message, telepathically, saying, ‘Your ather is

going to die.’ And a week later, he passedaway. I really think it was what you wouldcall your guide which prepared me. Ilooked at my girl riend and told her, ‘My dad’s gonna die. My dad’s gonna die.’”

Since then, Bowmen’s interest in thesupernatural has evolved rom a hobby toa pro ession. She worked individually as

well as with various ghost hunting organizations be ore joining PZ V as a co

ounder. Tough the group doesn’t operatespecifcally within Santa Cruz County,they are among the many paranormal in

vestigation groups throughout Cali orniathat have come to the area to search orits amous ghosts. Te town does have its

air share o paranormal investigators —Bowmen’s colleagues at Santa Cruz GhostHunters share the feld with the SantaCruz Paranormal team, and haunted hotspots in the region have attracted investigators and researchers or years.

Santa Cruz’s ghostly history goes back as ar as Native American legend, and thestories o an Ohlone tribe curse have endured to this day. However, it’s the Brookdale Lodge that really put the county onthe map. Te hotel, which was originally built in 1870 as the headquarters o a

lumber mill, was host to stars like Marilyn Monroe and mobsters in its heyday.Brookdale was named the most haunted

place in Cali ornia by Haunted America ours, and has appeared on numerous V shows. In addition to ParanormalZone V, it’s been eatured on “UnsolvedMysteries” and “Sightings,” and is believedto be host to 49 individual entities. Oneo Santa Cruz’s most amous haunts, thelodge has put Santa Cruz on the radar o the increasingly large number o peopleinterested in the paranormal.

According to recent polls, the numbero Americans who believe in ghosts is onthe rise. In 2003, a Harris Poll online sur

vey put the number at 51 percent. Tis isup signifcantly rom a 1978 Gallup poll,

which ound only 11 percent o respondents saying they believed.

Maryanne Porter, co ounder o SantaCruz Ghost Hunters, weighs in on theskeptical side, but a li elong ascination

with all things paranormal has led her onher current mission: to track down theghosts o Santa Cruz.

“I wouldn’t say I don’t believe,” Portersaid. “I am skeptical when we do investigations, because I don’t want to believeevery little bump in the night is a ghost.I go into it with an open mind. But I dohave belie s, I defnitely do, that there is

something more out there — see it with the naked eye.”

Porter had already investig

o the city ’s amous haunts joined ellow Santa Cruz CouDeena Smith to orm their gthey have received requests toanomalies outside the county,the group has no plans to trav“there’s enough here.”

Te city’s history is rich witand unexplained phenomena,some o the stories have deethan others. Geo rey Dunn, lohistorian and UC Santa Cruz and ormer community studihas high standards or authenCruz ghosts.

“I’m sure you can get othemight say something di erenbless them — but or me, I st

what I see as that u y, hauntavor o real history, and rea

linger over the community,” hLong pauses punctuate Du

as the ourth generation Sandigs deep to recall the storieseveryone knew — “i you w

Dunn recalls several ghosttheir origins in local history, bthat pique his interest most aro Santa Cruz’s bloody histo

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nority residents.“Te ghosts that I eel haunt Santa

Cruz are those o the two Cali ornios who were hanged o the Water Street Bridge,”he said. “For me, that has always been ahaunted place.”

Tis oral history, which Dunn hasdocumented in his writings on the area,

was the last lynching o Cali ornios —natives o Spanish, Mexican, Indian ormixed heritage — in Santa Cruz. In May 1877, Francisco Arias and José Chamales,both suspected o murder, were hanged

rom the Water Street bridge by amob o

Santa Cruzans. Te two men were givenan opportunity to say their last words andtake a fnal shot o whiskey be ore they

were killed. Tis, Dunn says, exemplifes the

“vigilante activity and oppression againstnewcomers here, particularly people o color,” that took place in Cali ornia in thesecond hal o the 19th century.

“[Tere is] a history o what was a very real genocide against the native peopleshere,” Dunn explained. “So I do believethat that real history haunts this community, and in many ways defnes thecommunity.”

One specifc aspect o this history isthe abuses Native Americans su ered atthe hands o missionaries.

“Particularly at the Santa Cruz Mission, the treatment was pretty bad,” hesaid. “Tere were some evil padres there,and I think a lot o people consider thecity and particularly Mission Hill to behaunted because o the treatment o thosenative peoples.”

At least one local legend tells o thehanging o one o the mission’s priests by the Native Americans a ter he allegedly raped a woman. His ghost is said to haunt

the area.Like Dunn, Jenni er Nelson o Santa

Cruz Paranormal (SCP) doesn’t deal with“ u y” ghosts.

“It isn’t so much that we’re lookingor ghosts, or spirits, or the stereotypical

bare ooted woman dressed in white,” saidNelson, a recent UCSC graduate and co

ounder o SCP. “It’s the idea that peopleseem to be experiencing things, and seemto be experiencing kind o a similar description o things. So what we’re looking

or is not necessarily ghosts or spirits, butthe perception [o them]. What can we

see, what can we analyze, and what arepeople experiencing? And what is the dierence between the two?”

Nelson and co ounder ChristianSacoolas began their careers as ghosthunters somewhat on a whim. In herthird year at UCSC, Nelson and Sacoolasentered the SyFy channel’s national “Pairanormal Contest” on its last day in ane ort to orestall a homework assignment

or a ew more hours. Tough both hadlong been interested in the paranormal,neither had much experience with ghosthunting beyond watching the station’smost popular show, “Ghost Hunters.” Tecouple put together a short video, which

was judged by Te Atlantic ParanormalSociety and SyFy “Ghost Hunter” co stars

Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson. Te video was assessed on the basis o the team’spassion or paranormal research, groupchemistry and their understanding o investigation techniques.

Te couple won the competition and was dubbed the “Next Great GhostHunting Duo.” With the title came$10,000 worth o ghost hunting equipment, which the team unwrapped enroute to their frst investigation. Among

the group’s new tools were an in raredcamera system, a security system used tocatch anomalies, and HD Sony cameras

with night shot. Te group christenedtheir brand new equipment with a nightin a haunted house in Santa Cruz County — and they have the ootage o a selopening garage door to prove they weren’talone.

“Te notion o what these people aretelling us they’ve experienced, that’s defnitely running through your head when

you’re sitting in that room by yoursel andthere is something that’s supposed to have

happened, like a … really loud bansheeesque scream, that can get unnervingsometimes,” Sacoolas said.

Bowmen acknowledges that not allghosts communicate in a riendly manner.

reating the dead with the respect ordinarily reserved or the living is an important aspect o Bowmen’s belie s regardingghost hunting, and a key ingredient insuccess ul communication with spirits.

“It’s just like me talking to you,” shesaid o how ghosts o ten communicate.“And that’s why we say, have respect, theseare people too. You don’t want to go intosomebody’s house and just start yelling atthem. You wouldn’t like that i somebody did that to you. Tey’re people.”

Tough she warns against provokingghosts or getting involved with negativespirits, Bowmen says interacting withghosts is not usually a scary task.

However, she emphasizes the importance o exercising caution. Recalling aninvestigation at the Brookdale Lodge o aroom believed to be inhabited by an Italian ghost, Bowmen describes how a ellow ghost hunter was injured by a spirit a tercalling out culturally o ensive taunts.

“He heard something screaming in his

ear,” she said. “Ten it punchedeye and hit him in the back oand he went down on his kneAnd he’s a big guy, 6 oot 2

Another well known piecCruz history spawned an endstory and leads Dunn to mentUCSC campus frst when listispots in the town. Te death oCowell’s daughter Sarah on thproperty several miles above source or a story used to riCollege reshmen to this day

Gabe Arden, a third year

major rom Cowell, remembthe story at a Barnstorm Prodcording to Arden, Sarah’s ghoBarn Teater, and actors have t“or else bad things will happea Myspace profle or the theing cites the presence o the Sarah Cowell, but re ers to hCowell’s wi e.

Arden has the acts mostlythough key details have beenmany retellings since the scho1965. Dunn points out that thMeadow,” which Cowell stud

visited in years past as a rite o was not the actual scene o SAnd a Santa Cruz Sentinel neclipping rom the day o the

veals she was a passenger in ato her death when the vehicle

While a 1976 term paper hSpecial Collections o McHeshows the Cowell story in itstellings over the years, no a


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exists o the rumored ghosts o Porter College.

According to ourth yearliterature major Peter Hunter,there is a good reason or thelack o documentation o Porter’sghosts. Tough the stories have

withstood the test o time, someimportant details cast their accuracy into question.

“Te old rumor was thatsomeone jumped o the thennonexistent f th oor o PorterA Building, and that said studentsupposedly haunted that oortherea ter,” Hunter said in ane mail. “Tis was a myth only believed by those outside Porter,because anyone who knew anything about Porter at that timeknew that A building had only

our oors.”

He remembers a similarrumor concerning the basementlevel o B Building, also knownas “the batcave,” where “a studentapparently ended their li e inits seldom used bathroom, andhaunted it therea ter.”

While the rumors o campusghosts remain unproven, oneo Santa Cruz’s paranormal hotspots draws visitors rom acrossthe country hoping to catcha glimpse o its most amousboarders. Te Brookdale Lodge, ahistoric hotel a ew miles outsidethe city, houses up to 49 individual paranormal entities, according to the numerous investigators

who have paid the landmark a visit.

Among them is ParanormalZone V co ounder Bowmen,

who has cultivated a personal relationship with the lodge’s most

well known paranormal resident.A little girl named Sarah Logan

who is said to have drowned inthe indoor creek o the hotel’srestaurant has been seen andheard by numerous witnesses,but none except Bowmen claimSarah knows them by name.

“Investigators call out, ‘Sarah,

Nancy’s here,’ and then on therecorder you hear ‘Where’sNancy?’ all excited,” Bowmensaid, laughing. She adds that sheo ten brings toys or the girl, andproudly says that Sarah alwayscommunicates.

Far rom sounding scared,Bowmen speaks a ectionately o Sarah Logan, almost as one

would o her own — living —children. “I love it when she talksto me,” she said.

Tough her belie in ghostshas been long standing, Bowmensaid her changed religious viewshave been more recent, and partly a result o her work in the feld.

While some owners o hauntedhomes opt to keep the spiritaround, others require speciale orts on the ghost hunters’ part,

which can mean a religious ritualor the Paranormal Zone team.

Bowmen describes the needor a blessing to remove “dark”

spirits, those who won’t leave when asked.

“I do believe there is a god,or whatever you want to call it, ahigher power,” she said. “You doneed to call on it or protection

when you do an investigation,and you can call on it to helpclear [a ghost].”

Whether or not the resident is welcoming o a ghostly inhabitant, Nelson o SCP says thatreceiving more in ormation or

validation o the spirit’s presencecan help provide closure.

“People are scared to talk toeach other about it, and then wecome in and we fnd very oddthings similar to their experience,” Nelson said. “It helps themto recognize and accept what’shappening to them.” AlthoughNelson acknowledges that thereare naysayers who dismiss any stories regarding the paranormal,she says that people should notbe discouraged to come orward

with their experiences.“‘Do I think that it’s Satan or

demons or spirits, or is it greatgrandma?’” asked Nelson. “Youknow, I’m not sure. But do people

eel creeped out, or scared inthe house? Yes. We want to heartheir stories. We want to reachthem where they’re at. You’renot crazy — this is happening tomultiple people.”

Like Nelson, Bowmen seeksto provide explanations or thesupernatural experiences thatincreasingly large numbers o

people have recognized andtaken an interest in.“I you understand it, and you

know that ghosts won’t hurt you,they’re just people, they’re likeus, it just gets in your blood,” shesaid. “You just gotta go out there.It’s like a rush. But at the sametime, our curiosity is getting us.

We want to know what it ’s like. We want to know what’s on theother side.”

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State Makes Parents Bear the Cost of Childcare Eliminating unding or childcare an inadequate way to ree up unds

Financial woe and unemployment have overrun the state. In hopeso closing the gap in the state’s defcit, the governor included in hisstate budget numerous cuts to state unded programs, including stateaided childcare.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed in his May Revision toeliminate $1.2 billion in subsidized childcare services and CalWORKsStage 2 and 3, programs that had a $2.3 billion budget. Te cuts willeliminate subsidized slots or approximately 174,000 children.

Te logic o this particular cut — “Let’s fx the fnancial crisis by increasing unemployment rates” — is ludicrous.

Tere are 659,561 children under the age o six in Cali ornia whocome rom single parent amilies with a parent in the labor orce.Nearly 200,000 children receive care through the CalWORKs program, the program that Schwarzenegger has signifcantly cut. Tise ectively leaves thousands o parents without childcare overnight andmany more in the uture.

Schwarzenegger made the cuts last month and the impacts weresupposed to go into e ect Nov. 1, giving parents only a month’s notice.

However, a lawsuit was fled at the end o October against theCali ornia Department o Education, success ully petitioning to postpone the date. Families receiving their care through the program will

now have until Nov. 23 to fgure out where to send their children or whether they can continue to be members o the work orce.

On average, the annual cost to send an in ant to ull time care at acenter is $11,580. For a 4 year old, it’s $8,234. Te annual cost or ulltime care is $7,937 or an in ant in a amily childcare home and $7,180

or a 4 year old. Any way you slice it, child care is expensive — 42 percent o the median income or a single parent, emale headed amily tobe precise. Tis percentage goes up with each child requiring childcare.

Furthermore, not just amilies will be a ected. Te cuts are expected to impact 62,000 childcare providers as well. Fewer children will beenrolled in childcare, because their parents can no longer a ord it.

o take aid away rom childcare is, or many amilies, an unemployment sentence. With the burden o thousands o dollars in childcarecosts suddenly entirely on their shoulders, amilies are placed in anun air and irresolvable predicament: Do they choose to leave their jobs,or leave their children home alone? And where will these amilies turnto when they have no means o income? Te state. It’s a vicious cycle.

Kudos, Schwarzenegger, you fgured out a way to e liminate $1.2billion rom the budget. oo bad that number is completely negated by the hundreds o thousands o jobs you are potentially costing, and the

years o fscal plague you are tacking onto the state o Cali ornia.

California is struggling.

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Editorials Graphic Labels Will Save Lives New warnings on cigarette packages,

an important step

C igarettes are detrimental to the health o smokers as well as those around them. Over the courseo several decades, this statement has moved

rom controversial claim to clear, indisputable act. Tegovernment knows it, society knows it, and even tobaccocompanies acknowledge it in the orm o warning labelson their products.

Te Food and Drug Administration recently approvedadding images to the currently text only warnings oncigarette packages. Tis is a smart tactic to make potentialcigarette buyers think twice.

Cali ornia is one o the ew states with anti smoking

ads, and we had the second lowest percentage o adultsmokers in the United States in 2006. We can in erthat although people already know the health risks o cigarettes, being periodically reminded o these risks ingraphic ways can help reduce the number o smokers.Spreading the reminder rom a ew states to the entirecountry would be a positive step.

Te FDA’s proposal coincides with e orts elsewhere

in the world to reduce smoking. Te British governmenthas limited television and print ads o tobacco products.Uruguay recently passed a law that would make warnings

cover 80 percent o a cigarette pack’s sur ace. Indonesia is working on a law that could completely ban cigarette ad vertising, and issues o packaging and store ront displaysare coming up all over Europe. Health leaders rom 171nations will meet in Uruguay this week to consider ananti smoking treaty. It would behoove the United Statesto lead the rest o the world by example.

Te strongest argument against the warning labels,

which could include pictures o dead bodiethey’re excessive, prohibit the ree market, example o the government babysitting soc

poisonous substances o ten have intense wa— and, with over 4,000 harm ul chemicals,defnitely poisonous.

Furthermore, secondhand smoke can caushealth damages, so these labels protect the intims o cigarettes. Freedom is key to our socan individual’s actions harm others, the goveright to intervene.

Illustration by Louise Leong

V ideo games are usually seen as time wasters: You

sit down, kill some baddies, save the princessand escape rom your thoughts. However, videogames are now being used in a variety o new ways suchas education and scientifc research, and, this week,Porter College is using video games in a whole new

way: to help give to a good cause and an underprivilegedcommunity.

Te Porter College Fall Brawl is a video gametournament being held at the Porter Dining Hall onSaturday Nov. 20. All the proceeds will go to Child’sPlay, a charity that donates DVDs, video games and toysto hospitalized children during the holidays.

For just $5, participants can end up spending up to 12

hours playing either Super Smash Bros: Brawl or Super

Street Fighter IV. Te organizers o this event haveound a way to make donating time and money easy,rewarding and un.

Tis is a superbly innovative and positive way to giveback to the community.

Te “gamer” community has various negative stereotypes, such as being antisocial or lacking a sense o reality — but these thoughts are untrue and this event provesit. It’s bringing together a gaming community that realizes that there’s more to the world than high scores andbonus levels. Video games have always been consideredcommunal. Teir origins are frmly entrenched in thearcades o yesteryear, and, though it was once seen as a

only hobby or children and men, it is now be

ully realized that everyone plays video gameVideo games are one o the astest rising oentertainment mediums, rivaled closely by comIt’s smart and modern to take this pastime andto utilize its entertainment actor to contributcause.

Maybe you have no interest in playing videor maybe you have homework, like the majorithe student body. Tat’s understandable. But i interested in the cause, you can donate on the

website:www.portervg .org/ allbrawl .Follow the links, go to the event and eel g

yoursel .

Gamers: Not Just

Couch PotatoesFall Brawl gives students a positive way to give back

to the community

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