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Public DiscourseWhat determines whether you hitchhike or pick up a hitchhiker?

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“I am willing to pick up everyone because I feelthat carpooling is the way of the future. Basically, Iam the future.”

GILBERT VAN DER FEINSFOURTH-YEAR, KRESGE

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“I don’t think I would ever really pick hiker — I feel too nervous about it. Manother woman.”

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“Nothing. I just don’t do it. I’d probably only take aride from a girl. She’d have to be smaller than I am,with a reliable car.”

DANA BERLINTHIRD-YEAR, COWELL

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Table of Contents4 California Legislature Approves State Budget

by JAMESAUSTIN5 Student Rally Helps HEAL in Light of Bully Ep by DANA Burd

6 McHenry Adopts iPad Amid Budget Cuts by ROSA CASTAÑEDA

7 Event Calendar compiled by TESS GOODWIN

8 ALBA Helps Farmers Buy the Farm by SUSANSUN

9 Santa Cruz Rental Homes under Inspectionby NIKKIPRITCHARDand ROSANNA VAN STRATEN

10 The Meaning of the Mentor by RYAN MARK-GRIFFIN

12 This Week in Photos by MOLLYSOLOMON

Cover photo illustration by Rachel Edelstein& Isaac Miller

Morgan Grana

15 This Week in Sportsby JOEYBIEN-KAHN

17 Exploring the Artistic Spaceby ALEJANDROTREJOand CHELSEAHAWKINS

18 Controversy over Cannabisby MAJAVOJNOVIC

19 Editorial: Should McHenry Be Shamed for Apple-Picking?

& Slug Comics

20 Who the Hell Asked You?!

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Campus

UC Receives$3 Billion from Statefor Next YearCali ornia approves state budget in midst o scal crisis

By James AustinCampus Reporter

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signedthe Cali ornia state budget Oct. 8., pro viding the UC system with $3 billion in

unding. Te signing o the budget bill coincid

ed with the 50th anniversary o the Caliornia Master Plan or Higher Education.Schwarzenegger would not sign

a state budget without the increasedunds or higher education, he said at an

April meeting in Sacramento with UCPresident Mark Yudo , CSU chancellorCharles Reed and Cali ornia Community Colleges chancellor Jack Scott.

Te governor upheld his promise whenhe approved the budget proposed by Cali ornia legislators a ter multiple revisions. Te budget includes approximately $3 billion or academic programs, student

nancial aid and health education andresearch. Tis is a $370.4 million increaseover the 2009–10 budget.

“Although we have a long way to goto make up or the cuts o the past three years, it is encouraging to see lawmak

ers willing to reinvest in the university,”said UC Santa Cruz chancellor GeorgeBlumenthal in an e mail to the campuscommunity.

Be ore the budget was approved, Caliornia aced a budget gap o $19.3 billion.“A budget gap is the di erence between

spending and revenues,” said Max Selridge, a third year College en economicsand politics double major. “ o close thegap, they have to keep cutting spending.”

Te other option in closing the gap isto raise taxes, but in the 2010–11 May revision o the Cali ornia state budget,Schwarzenegger pledged to increase unding or higher education without raisingtaxes.

Assistant pro essor o economics JustinMarion explained the aspects o thebudget that will a ect public education inCali ornia.

“Some o the things they would do would be to de er payouts in certainprograms until the uture scal year, so itlooks like they’ve done that a couple times.Some o the unding or K–12 educationactually in the current budget is goingto be put on next year’s budget,” Marionsaid. “It’s obviously a good thing or UC

to get the additional unding,but eventually the state revenuesare going to have to come back

or us to get something morepermanent.”

Te 2010 budget gap was $5billion smaller than in 2008.

Te 2010 Budget Act took e ect a ter the proposed budgetbill was signed into law by thegovernor. Te act bridged thegap by cutting spending to

the Department o Parks andRecreation, health and humanservices, child wel are servicesand community based services, amongother areas.

Te daily lives o Santa Cruzans willbe a ected, as they will likely see cuts topublic services.

“Te Metro service is going to bedevastated because public transportationis one o the rst things to go,” said RyanCoonerty, city councilman, UCSC pro essor and soon to be mayor.

However, there is a plan underway inSanta Cruz’s Westside to stimulate business.

Te Delaware Addition is a large spaceunder development that will include 44land parcels, each consisting o at least9,000 square eet. Each o the parcels willinclude a prepared building pad, all serviceutilities, paved access streets and roads,improved parking lots, drainage acilitiesand common area amenities.

“Te idea [o the Delaware Addition]is or people to live and work in the samespace to grow business,” Coonerty said.

While taxes are not going up, studenttuition is. In addition to last year’s midyear

ee increase — at the November 2009meeting, the UC regents approved a 201011 ee increase — as o all 2010, student

ee increases included $1,344 or resident

undergraduates, $1,458 or non residentundergraduates, $1,344 or resident graduate students and $1,398 or non residentgraduate students. At their Nov. 16 18meeting this year the regents will considera proposal or an additional 2011–12 eeincrease.

Despite the increased unding overthe last year, “permanent state support orUC remains 10 percent below the levelprovided in 2007 08, and since then UC’senrollment o Cali ornia residents hasincreased by 16,000 students,” said Patrick

Lenz, UC vice president or budget in hiso cial statement regarding the budget.

In November, the UC regents willmeet at UC San Francisco Mission Bay to vote on the spending plan or the 2011–

2012 year. Te most importthey will consider are enrRetirement Plan contributcompensations, retiree hestudent ees.

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QueerCommunity Speaks Out

Against HateStudents honor victims ollowing recent increase in LGBTQ-related suicides

“I have a riend who just died

o an intentional overdose. I wishI had known. When you arestruggling, talk, just talk ...”

As the survivor o a brutalanti queer hate crime, UCSCalumna Lex, knows all too wellthe harsh reality o bullying andharassment acing many queer youth today.

wo and a hal years ago, Lexand our riends were assaultedoutside a San Francisco club, andrecently Lex su ered the loss o aclose riend.

For that reason Lex, who goesby her rst name, speaks out atevents across Santa Cruz county,such as uesday night’s campusHEAL event, or queer acceptance.

UCSC hosted the Honoring,Educating, Activating, LivingQueer (HEAL) memorial eventto honor young queer people who have died rom suicide or violence rom anti queer hatecrimes. Te group comprisesqueer and ally members o theSanta Cruz community.

Rutgers student yler Clementi committed suicide a terclassmates outed him, by postinga video online o Clementi hav

ing sex.At least six teenagers —Raymond Chase, 19, Cody J.Barker, 17, Seth Walsh, 13, AsherBrown, 13, and Billy Lucas, 15,and Aiyisha Hassan, 19 — havecommitted suicide since September a ter struggling with theirsexual orientation or anti gay bullying.

Matthew Shepard, a 21 yearold student at the University o Wyoming, was among those

honored. Shepard’s 1998 murder

brought national attention tohate crime legislation. He wastortured and murdered nearLaramie, Wyo.

“It’s important to me to tellmy own story and makes thestories real — to give a voiceto those who have lost but alsothose who are losing,” Lex said.“Tese are real people we aretalking about.”

Te event, sponsored by theCantú GLB I Resource Center,Student A airs and the Dean o Students, brought students andcampus administrators together

or a discussion o the toughissues o hate, bias, bullying andsuicide.

Bill Ladusaw, interim humanities dean, participated in theevent sharing his personal experiences with the group, encouraging those who are struggling toseek help rom campus resources.

“Te major importance o events like these is that we havethis opportunity to be seen,”Ladusaw said. “We want to say topeople who are struggling, ‘Reachout — we love you.’”

Te revor Project, a nationalorganization that aims to end

suicide among LGB Q youth,provides resources and a 24 hoursuicide prevention hotline.

Suicide is the second leadingcause o death on college campuses, according to studies citedon the revor Project website.Lesbian, gay and bisexual youthare up to our times more likely to attempt suicide than theirstraight peers. More than onethird have attempted suicide.

Te accompanying teach

in was co acilitated by Cantú

Center programs coordinator am Welsh and College Eightprograms coordinator, MikeKittredge. It ocused on buildingcommunication skills, becoming better allies and discussingmodes o bullying and harassment.

“Be committed to havingan inclusiveenvironmenthere at UCSC,”Kittredge said.“Be aware o the various identitiesthat exist withinthe community ... Learn asmuch as you canand be aware o yoursel and theprivileges youmight have i you identi y asstraight. Work towards equity

or all olks inour society, educating yoursel and others.”

Sixty members o the

campus andSanta Cruz community thenparticipated in acandlelight vigil, which endedin the Quarry Plaza, whereparticipantsshared theirpersonal storiesand words o encouragement.

Fourth year community stud

ies major Xochixlquetzal wasamong the dozens who spokeup to share their stories with thecrowd. Like Lex, she goes by her

rst name.As a young child, Xochix

lquetzal was teased and ridiculedor acting and dressing in a way

that was atypical o

Her response was“It turned into nagainst people wh

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Pressing a dime sized buttonat the bottom o the 10 by 8inch touchscreen plat orm lightsup the iPad and its applications,and with it, the newest gadget atMcHenry Library.

Jenesis Bonilla, a ourth yearOakes student, heard rom a

riend about the library’s new acquisition, and went to see orhersel .

“I did not know they hadiPads,” Bonilla said. “[I checked

it out] just to actually play withit. I’ve never actually been ableto use it or experience it.”

Virtual pages withapplication icons slide romle t to right with the toucho a nger across the tabletcomputer’s smooth screen. 3DBrain, Amazon Kindle, New York imes’ Editor’s Choice,NPR, Pulse Newsreader, theElements, Wall Street Journaland World Factbook are amongthe 41 applications equippedin the iPads. Netfix, Facebook, You ube, Brushes and Virtuosoare included as well. Anapplication to annotate directly on PDF les was also added, perthe request o a student user.

Te new gadgets allow

students the chance to use theseapplications or both schoolwork and entertainment.

“I’m going to play with itor a bit, and then I have online

articles that I have to read, somight as well just read them o o here,” Bonilla said.

Calling it an experimentto see how popular iPads areamong students, Greg Careaga,the head o teaching and learning services at McHenry, con

rmed in an e mail that or thepast three and a hal months theve iPads together have circu

lated 274 times, averaging out to17 times per day.

Te iPads have been availablesince late June or our hourcheckouts by students, and late

ee charges apply as they do toother books or electronics.

On the UCSC Libraries’Facebook page, a post in ormingstudents about the new iPadsreceived two “likes” and onecomment by ourth year Kresgestudent Samuel Corbin.

“Students have to levy a eeagainst themselves in order toget slightly more reasonablehours because the library budgetis so tight,” Corbin said on the

Facebook post, “but the library is buying IPADS?”

In response to Corbin’sstatement, the UCSC Library Facebook account wrote, “We wanted to continue our recentexperience with small scaleprojects that o er students access to technologies they mightnot otherwise have.”

An estimated $2,800 wasspent on the ve iPads, whichincluded the cases and some

so tware, university librarianGinny Steel said.“[Te iPads] were bought

with a small amount o yearend discretionary money that we had last year a ter scrapingand saving all year long,” shesaid. “We got the iPads in June. Te [ ees charged to increaselibrary hours] weren’t paid untilthe all. We are very clear that we are using that unding torestore the library hours.”

College Nine ourth yearClare Angami compared theutility o iPads against the laptops that McHenry already rentsout to students.

“A lot o things, such as theiPad, are new innovations totechnology,” Angami said. “But

… given the context that we were overcharged or library hours, I eel that whatever theiPad can bring, we have already

ul lled those needs or thestudents in renting laptops andhaving computer labs.”

From a scale o one to 10,Subhas Desa, pro essor andundergraduate director o the

In ormation Systnology Managem would give the nea two or a three.

“Is it necessaryprobably not,” Dethink the world won and people wo what they have toiPads.”

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MCHENRY LIBRARYnow offers ve iPads for student The touchscreen computers were bought in June with enyear discretionary funds, a decision that has raised criticlight of budget cuts and limited library hours.

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Event CalendarCITY

Tursday, Oct. 21• Concert: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey with openerEva Rusnik. Kuumbwa Jazz Center. 8 p.m. $15 inadvance, $18 at door.• Concert: Minus the Bear. Rio Teatre. 8 p.m.$18 in advance, $20 at door.• Film: “A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor LIVE.” Regal Cinema 9. 8 p.m. $22.• Concert: Zdrastvootie, Motorcycle Snakebite,the rees. Te Crêpe Place. 9 p.m. $8 in advance,$10 at door.

Friday, Oct. 22• Per ormance: Winged Woman presents “TeFork in the Road.” Yoga Center Santa Cruz. 7 p.m.$15 20.• Gala: Casino Night Where Dreams Come rue.Dream Inn. 7 p.m. $25 75.•

Concert: Cat Power. Rio Teatre. 8 p.m. $30.• Concert: Mishka, White Bu alo, Chris Velan. Te Catalyst. 9 p.m. $8 in advance, $11 at door.

• Concert: Women, Manchild, Te Ian Fays. TeCrêpe Place. 9 p.m. $8 in advance, $10 at door.• Film: “Te Haunting.” Del Mar Teatre. 11:59p.m. $6.50.

Saturday, Oct. 23• Charity: Girl Scout Coat Drive. Santa Cruz Bible Church. 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.• Festival: Wilder Ranch Heritage Harvest. Wilder Ranch State Park. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• our: Monarch Butterfies. Natural BridgesState Beach. 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. Free.• Concert: Tumri & Khayal Indian Vocal Music

with Purnima Chaudhuri. Rio Teatre. 7:30 p.m.$3 10.• Concert: Mickey Avalon, Machete Fight, TeHalos. Te Catalyst. 9 p.m. $25 in advance, $30 atdoor.• Concert: Te Brothers Comatose, Redwood Fur,Buckeye Knoll. Te Crêpe Place. 9 p.m. $8.• Film: “Te Shining.” Del Mar Teatre. 11:59pm.$6.50.

Sunday, 10/24• Food: Santa Cruz Chili Cook O . Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.• Per ormance: Reverend Billy. Rio Teatre. 7 p.m.$12.• Concert: Murs, Moe Green, J Billion. TeCatalyst. 8 p.m. $15 in advance, $19 at door.• Concert: San Narciso, French Miami, XOXO. Te Crêpe Place. 9 p.m. $8 in advance, $10 at door.

Monday, 10/25• Concert: ia Fuller Quartet . Kuumbwa Jazz Center. 7 p.m. $20 in advance, $23 at door.

uesday, Oct. 26• Concert: Barrington Levy. Te C$19 in advance, $24 at door.• Concert: 7 Come 11. Te Crêpe 12 a.m. Free.

Wednesday, Oct. 27• Film: “Who is J.O.B.?” Rio Tea$5.• Concert: R X, Te Groggs. Te Cp.m. $10.

For a list o ongoing ree classescommunity, visit santacruz. reesk

CAMPUS Tursday, Oct. 21

• In ormational: Research Revie

Engineering 2. 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m• Lecture: “Te Student MovemenStruggle or Democracy in VenezPatiño, leader o Venezuelan studMerrill College Lounge. 4 to 5:30• Lecture: “Synergy ExplorationSociety. Polar Ampli cation: Whahappening now?” Science & EngiCurrent Periodicals Room. 4 to 5 • Living Writers series. Reading James Maughn. Humanities 206. 6

• Class: Personal Finance. OPERRoom. 6:30 to 9 p.m. $12 with stuness card.

Friday, Oct. 22•

Concert: Özgen rio. Music CeHall. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. $8 11.

Saturday, Oct. 23• Sports: Ben Quaye Memorial MRugby ournament. East Field Cep.m.• Con erence: 8th Annual PractiCon erence. College 9/10 Multi10:45 a.m. to 5 p.m.• Concert: New Music Quirks. MRecital Hall. 7:30 to 9 p.m. $3 23

Monday, Oct. 25• Colloquium: Film & Digital Mo Art and Visual Culture with guKeeling (USC). Porter College D

Wednesday, Oct. 27• Discussion: “Love and Money:o a Chinese Factory Girl.” ColleLounge. 12:30 to 2 p.m.• Per ormance: Open Mic. PorteHall. 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. UCSC Co

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Local Organization CreatesOpportunities for New Farmers

Center teaches organic arming and business methods

Susan Sun

Standing under a smallcanopy, two women sell resh organic produce directly rom their

armland in Aromas, hal an hourrom Santa Cruz.A ter recently completing a

six month training program atthe Agriculture and Land Based raining Association (ALBA) inSalinas, the two have been able

to make a smooth move into the world o organic arming.ALBA plays host to the Farm

raining and Research Centerthe two women participated in.It serves as an organic armingtraining center that provides educational opportunities or peopleto start arms as small businesses.

Karina Canto, a recentgraduate o the ALBA trainingprogram, told about her experience with the program.

“My English is no good, butI can speak a little bit,” Cantosaid. “I started this business a terstarting this program and to meit was easy to make the transition.”

Unlike other armers’ trainingprograms, ALBA doesn’t only o er training but also o ers land,access to water, and access toequipment. ypically, these costsexcede the budget o start up

armers, making it very hard orarmers to start up a new busi

ness.Food systems program man

ager Deborah Yashar said theprogam’s intention is to providemore opportunities or thoseinterested in owning a arm.

“We’re reaching out to thepeople who have experienced working the land, but have neverhad the opportunity to actually own their own arm,” Yashar said.

ALBA o ers a six montheducational program, available inboth Spanish and English, thatcovers all topics related to what ittakes to start a arming business.At the end o the course, the students graduate and they completea arming business plan.

Executive director BrettMalone said that ALBA reachesout to immigrant armers, Latino

arm workers and amilies withlimited resources. Te tuition ee— which is based on income —ranges rom $250 to $2500.

Grants rom the U.S. Department o Agriculture and rom

oundations are used to nancially support the educationalprogram.

“We want to allow low in

come amilies an opportunity o economic advancement, a chanceto support themselves and their

amily,” Yasher said. “We’re aneconomic opportunity organization as well as an educationalorganization, teaching peoplehow to take care o the land and

arm organically using sustainable practices.”

What makes it extra di cultor the armers is that in order

to keep ALBA’s land certi edorganic, armers have to comply with many requirements regulated by the USDA.

“It’s hard,” Canto said. “I yousee the weeds in the land, youcan’t use the herbicides. It’s just with hands or with tools. It’s alot o physical work. Te weedsgrow so ast, and we have to handpick the weeds because we’re notusing herbicides.”

ALBA’s local certi ed agency is CCOF, Cali ornia Certi edOrganic Farmers. One o thebasic tenets o organic agricultureis the building and maintainingo soil ertility. Certi ers look atcrop rotations and types o inputsused on the soil.

Yasher explained that themain di erence between organic

arming and conventional arming is conventional arming reliesheavily on chemical inputs tomanage issues like soil ertility,pests, and weeds, whereas organic

arming nds natural solutionsto control those problems. Forexample, organic armers will use

insects that eat the pests insteado using a chemical poison. Tey rely upon nature’s own controlsso pests and weeds do not get outo hand.

Tere are certain pesticidesand herbicides that are acceptedas part o organic management,but organic inputs cannot besynthetic and they are not toxiclike conventional inputs are.

“[Organic arming] requires

an understanding o ecology andnatural systems,” Yasher said,“and these armers are really scientists, to a certain degree.”

Proponents o organic armingcite several negative repercussions

or chemical usage in arming tosupport sythetic ree herbicideand pesticide use. Hash chemicals impact all the plant andanimal li e that on that land andthe arm workers who are applying them, as well as the consumers who buy oods with pesticideresidue.

Luckily or armers enrolledin ALBA’s training program, theorganization provides technicalassistance with pest managementand organic certi cation. For

armers who are just starting out,ALBA teaches the new armers how the organic certi cationprocess works. Te new armersmaintain their own paperwork,supported by ALBA. During thisthree year “incubation period,”ALBA’s involvement providesphysical and moral support. Tisallows the new armers time to

become amiliarized with how that process works be ore they have to go into it on their own.

“Te idea o the incubator isthat these armers are preparedonce the incubation period endsto do this on their own,” Malonesaid. “We try to be along withthem every step o the way because we want to give them anopportunity to sort o catch up

rst.”

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THE SALINAS-BASEDorganization Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association offers a six-month training program for newfarmers. ALBA focuses on organic farming methods and subsidizes costs for farmers starting out.

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New Policy Cracks Down on Rental HousingHome inspections to be required starting at beginning o next year

Obstruction o the street or sidewalk.

Litter and rubbish accumulation. Clearcorner blockage. Tese are just a ew o the unseemly habits that the city o SantaCruz will attempt to eradicate through anew housing inspection policy that willcome into e ect at the beginning o next year.

Te policy has sparked controversy among landlords, some o whom say thatthe ordinance is un airly targeted towardstudent housing.

Since passing the ordinance in August,the city council has expressed its intent to

ocus on overpopulated units and neg

ligent landlords, as well as houses withexisting complaints on le. In addition,homeowners will now be expected toregister with the city and submit to sa ety and health inspections, both at a ee.

Harold Gri th, a landlord o threehomes on Santa Cruz’s Westside, is suing the city in opposition to its plannedimplementation o the policy. He said itis illegal because the state constitution o Cali ornia guarantees all people a right toequality o the law. argeting rental housesonly, he said, is not equal and there ore

not legal.

“Tey have a right to inspect any house that could have structural de ects,”Gri th said. “What they don’t have aright to do is to only apply the law ontenant or student occupied houses. Tey set up quali cations that don’t work. It justdoesn’t make any sense that you exclude

amily homes and such.”Houses that ail to correct a violation

upon a second visit rom an inspector willbe charged or additional inspections andsubject to civil penalties.

However, Vice Mayor Ryan Coonerty

said in an e mail that stu

would not necessarily be rental properties in genera“By the beginning o t

will begin by ocusing onproperties that have compunsa e,” Coonerty said. “inspecting other units orrental units will be inspec

ve years to ensure that thDeborah Elston o the

Neighbors Association wepolicy. She said it is necescertain residences that co

complaints.“It’s a process

in order to be ablethe problem housesaid. “We need to healthy housing ..to start ... the ordiimproved and wogoes on.”

Coonerty explahouses fagged witin ractions o thGathering Ordinatargeted in the enthe home inspecti

Rather, the cityon “housing that thealth and sa etyCoonerty said.

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with José. Without missing a beat in

his game o catch, José tells methat he is excited or his soccerteam’s rst real match the nextday. Speaking o his two avoritepositions, goalie and de enseman, José is relaxed and talkative.

However, his expressionchanges when I ask him aboutthe mentoring program andhow he and his sister Martacame to be involved in it. Now,he resembles a student whodoesn’t know the answer to theteacher’s question. He glancesat his younger sister be ore heresponds. A ew seconds passbe ore he says anything.

“We have amily problems,”

he says.Esmeralda Rizas, crisis inter vention advocate and community educator at the Women’s CrisisCenter in Watsonville, explained why having an adult outsidethe amily to talk to can helpchildren who have experienceddomestic violence.

“Te child or teen has the opportunity to speak with someone who is there to listen and providesupport,” Rizas said. “Un ortunately, they don’t always havethat kind o relationship withtheir parents.”

She said that a mentoringprogram allows or a sa e spaceto talk.

“Tey know that they can talk to someone, and they won’t bescreamed at, or punished or saying things that might not be OK with their parents,” Rizas said.

Te Liz Claiborne Foundation also ound a correlationbetween the worsening economy and increasing rates o both

violence in teen relationships anddomestic violence. Seventy ourpercent o teens surveyed orthe study said that their amiliesexperienced some orm o economic hardship in the past year,and o those, 44 percent reported witnessing some orm o violenceor other abusive behavior in their

parents.Maisy*, a seventh grader

involved in the WAWC mentoring program, echoed Rizas’ words when she talked about her relationship with her mentor, MeganLudwig, a UCSC ourth year.

“It’s kinda like having anotherolder sister who I can talk to,”

Maisy said. “I eel com ortabletalking to her about anything.”

Sitting com ortably at a tableoutside one o their avoritehangouts on Paci c Avenue,Ludwig and her middle schoolmentee Maisy laugh as they sharememories rom their experienceas a mentoring pair.

“Do youremember thatone time we were walkingalong the beachand there wereall these deadsand crabs, andevery time wesaw one you hadto stop and look

at them?” Maisy teased.“I had to

stop and look,”Ludwig said. “It was ascinating,there were likethousands o them — how could you not?”

Tis play ulback and orthsounds morelike old riendscatching up overa cup o co eethan the everyday conversation o a collegestudent and hermiddle schoolmentee. Butthe structureo the programmakes it easy

or students like

Ludwig to learn sor connecting wOver the course

week training prodevelop skills in aharm reduction aning how domesticchildren. A majorthe training procetors take an activediscussing the issu violence, or instengage in brainstoto de ne what conbreak down mythsmestic violence, apotential barriers domestic violencetheir spouse.

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in the training promentors are there not the other way the WAWC wants develop a close retheir mentee, menunload personal is youth.

“Te No. 1 priorprogram is the yosaid. “We make supeople we bring inare prepared to suthat capacity, and using the space

By providing mthe tools they will with the kids, the Wcourages people tBeing willing to sthat is needed to mence in the li e orison said.

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“It’s hard for them to trust relationships whenthey grow up in violent homes, and we create asafe place for them to express themselves. They can come to this safe space and get their needsmet. It’s not about what’s going on at home,it’s about whatever they want to do in that

moment.”— Aleen Raybin, WAWC youth advocate

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THROUGHOUR LENS

“Order Up!”

Photographs & Words by Molly Solomon

Te smell o minced garlic. Basketso produce resh rom the Farmers’Market are unloaded onto the cuttingboard. Steam rises rom pots o boiling water on the stove. Tese arethe sights and smells at the kitchen

o Soi Restaurant and Wine Bar asche Santos Majano leads his culinary team in prepping or another packedSaturday night. “We’ll be runningaround all night,” Majano said. Hedoesn’t know when he and his team will get their next break, and he beginsto thinly slice their house cured kingsalmon. Santos and his sous che sdance elegantly around each other inthe immaculate, narrow kitchen space.

We invite you to see ood createdbeauti ully, and we hope to shed lighton the people behind the process, whoare o ten invisible to us. Tey are truemasters o their cra t.

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training,” Harrison said. “Who you are is per ectly good enoughto work with a young person.”

Back on Seabright Beach, itis almost time to go. But be oreeveryone can go home, Harrisonand a young mentee have organized a makeshi t obstacle courseand the WAWC has provided abrand new boogie board as theprize. Mentors and mentees alike

compete, and eventually one o the boys is declared the winner.Although it may not have

been the point, the competitionprovides a metaphor or the obstacles youth who have witnesseddomestic violence ace and thehelp that mentors can provide. Just as Harrison worked with amentee to construct the course,mentors help youth rede nethe obstacles in their own lives, whether this means makingdecisions about substance use,sa ety planning or when a parent turns violent, or practicinghealthy relationship behaviors.By establishing a un, sa e spaceor youth to deal with serious is

sues, mentors help them developinto healthy adults capable o avoiding harm ul relationshipslater in li e. Since many abuserslearn to use violence in the home

rom their parents, preventing achild rom growing up to do thesame has the potential to break the cycle and positively impactgenerations.

Ludwig said she has discov

ered a passion, and is planning to work with youth when she moveshome to Los Angeles. Maisy, whom she mentors, has plans o her own. Inspired by her experience with Ludwig, Maisy wantsto give to back to the program.

“I have Megan, and it’s niceto have her,” Maisy said. “So it would be nice or another kidsomewhere to have a mentortoo. I would love to be someone’smentor.”

*Names have been changed to protect the identities o children 18

and under.

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Sports

Recent results:

Men’s soccer: UCSC vs. CSU San Marcos (home)Oct. 17, 2–1 (win)

Women’s soccer: UCSC vs. CSU San Marcos (home)Oct. 17, 1–3 (loss)

Upcoming athletics:

Men’s soccer: UCSC vs. Southwestern (away) in San Antonio, TexasOct. 23 at 1 p.m.

Women’s volleyball vs. Dominican University (away)Oct. 23 at 7 p.m.

This Week in Sport

Photos by Nick Paris

Compiled by Joey Bien-Kahn

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I this code en orcement would help her get ittogether, I’m all or it.”

A local certi ed home inspector, whorequested anonymity to protect his business,said he supports Gri th’s suit against thecity. In his eight years o experience, he hasinspected 2,000 structures in Santa Cruz,Santa Clara and San Benito counties. He saidthat in this case the city council is overstepping a boundary and is looking or a possiblerevenue stream rom registration and inspection ees.

“I am behind his case because he or surehas validity behind his complaints,” he said.“It’s no secret that the city o Santa Cruz ishurting or money. Santa Cruz City Council

has gone too ar pushing this objective. Itgoes against the Constitution.”

Coonerty explained that registration andinspection ees are expected to raise roughly $180,000 in revenue or the city. He saidthat this money will only be used to pay orand administer the program, and any nesimposed on violators will cover legal costs.

Another student living downtown, whoalso wished to remain unnamed, said she elta little uneasy at the prospect o home inspections, even in the name o health and sa ety.

“I don’t know, I think it would be kind o intruding to have inspectors come in and tellus how we should be living,” she said. “Yeah,it’s a student home, but no, it’s not out o control.”

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Queer Community like me,” she said.

Xochixlquetzal was able to come out many years later as queer and transgender and asked

or the orgiveness o the young woman shehad made un o .

“[I bullied] a beauti ul trans woman and we called her ‘he she’ and ‘shim,’ names I amnow sometimes called,” Xochixlquetzal said.

“Having come ull circle, it still shames methat I ever said those things. In high school

my response to these issues was rage, anger.Now my answer is love and understanding.”

HEAL organizers aimed to educate members o our campus community on hate andprejudice.

“We need to work to oster a community that promotes a culture that does not osterhate,” Kittredge said. “I there is an act o hate, we need to act quickly to condemn it.It only takes one small act to make an entiregroup o people eel uncom ortable, unsa e orunwelcomed.”

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Ed Penniman is a jack o alltrades. Painting, writing, sculpting — you name it, and he doesit. Having been a part o OpenStudios or 20 years, the native

Santa Cruzan nds the spontaneity o the event appealing.“Really what’s happening is

we’re exposing a large part o thepublic sector to art by accident,”Penniman said.

Scattered throughout SantaCruz, 300 artists open theirhomes and personal studiosin order to share, discuss andsell their work. Te range o work displayed in each homeis expansive and exhibits theartists’ own interests and history,

rom lithography to metal work to mixed media paintings. Teevent, Open Studios, gives localartists a chance to market their works and a way or the public tosee the thought, time and laborput into a piece o art.

Ann Ostermann, who works with the Cultural Council tocurate the Open Studios Preview Exhibit, sees the event as a way to create an interpersonal relationship with the artist.

“It’s really a unique thing … you kind o get a story, a story about them, or a story about what inspired the work,” Ostermann said. “It’s very nice to havethat sense o connection with

the person who made the art youpurchased.”Mixed media painter Jeanne

Rosen So en enjoys seeing indi viduals return to her studio yeara ter year.

“Tat’s tremendously satis ying to know that my work touches people like that,” shesaid.

Te relationship that buildsbetween artists and those whoappreciate their work is only one

aspect o Open Studios. Anotheris to “educate the public on theartistic process,” Ostermann said.

Te viewable homes andstudios throughout the area are

marked by neon green signs onthe road and artists engaging intheir work, showing brie demonstrations and discussing theirmethods.

Jeannine Calcagno Niehaussits in her studio at a pottery wheel, explaining to a motherand son how she works.

Niehaus enjoys working inpottery because she likes “makinguse ul things and making beauti

ul things,” and “throwing on the wheel is therapeutic,” she said.

Niehaus’ work is inspired by “nature” and she has “a naturalinclination towards botanicalthings.”

In the same way that Niehausis seen in her element, working ata wheel, jewelry cra tsman KaiaCornell is seen working on metal.

What drew Cornell to jewelry making was “the substance o metal,” she said.

“I like metal,” Cornell said. “Ilike working with moving metal, you know, heating it and melting it. Tat’s probably my biggestdraw [to making jewelry].”

Cornell, like Niehaus, is alsoinspired by elements o nature.

“Bamboo is a huge thing,

and Asian infuences in terms o aesthetic, simplicity and balance,”Cornell said, “but I’ve taken itmore abstract in my recent line.”

When refecting upon OpenStudios, rom 20 years ago tonow, Penniman said that theconsumer appeal o art is lowerthan during the roaring ’90s,considering that “cash is a limitedcommodity” in this economy.

“Art is very low on the eedingscale on what someone needs,”

Penniman said.Nonetheless, even i sales are

no longer booming, Open Studios allows the public a window into the Santa Cruz art com

munity, while giving artists anopportunity to share their work and its purpose.

“For me, with painting, i Ican give an individual a senseo stewardship and valuing the world we live in through my art,”Penniman said, “that’s a bonus.”

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Art tour o ers the public insight into the creative process

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Thursday, October

Politics&Culture

Controversy Brews over Cannabis Proposition

Proposition 19 drawsattention rom supporters

and opponents alike

As the Nov. 2 elections approach, some voters already know how they will vote on Proposition 19.

Te proposition would legalize marijuana use in thestate o Cali ornia in order to generate revenue rom thesale o cannabis. Fi ty two percent o Cali ornians avorthe proposition, while 41 percent oppose it and 7 percentare undecided, according to a Public Policy Institute o Cali ornia survey released last month.

On the opposing side is Roger Salazar, co ounder o Acosta Salazar LLC and “No on Prop 19” campaigner.

“One o the things we’re concerned about is what passing Prop 19 signals to our kids,” Salazar said. “For years we’ve been telling them to stay o drugs. What kind o message does it send when we say, ‘Drugs are bad unless we can make money o o them’?”

I Proposition 19 passes, any person over 21 will beable to use marijuana legally in Cali ornia.

“It is easier or teens these days to get cannabis thanalcohol,” said Evan Nison, the “Yes on Prop 19” campusorganizer or the state o Cali ornia and the deputy elddirector or the Bay Area, Central Valley and San Diego.

“In countries that have legalized marijuana, sa ety has

not been jeopardized,” he said. “As most people know,marijuana is a much sa er choice than alcohol, and weshould give adults over 21 this option.”

Counties and cities will have to make regulation lawsor marijuana i the proposition passes.“Local government is the best way you can have your

voice heard,” Nison said. People within the county or city will have a direct say in how marijuana will be regulated.

Opponents say locally en orced regulation is a loophole.

“Proposition 19 claims to regulate tax and controlmarijuana, but it doesn’t do any o those things,” Salazarsaid. “It legalizes pot statewide, but leaves it up to eachcity and county to take on the burden o regulating andtaxing marijuana themselves. Prop 19 doesn’t set up any

ormal regulatory system which means it’ll be the Wild

West o drugs until local governments create a patchwork o laws to x it.”

Another issue that strengthens the confict betweensupporters and opponents o Prop 19 is public sa ety.

Te proposition is designed to increase public sa ety in two ways, said Zaki Manian, regional director orProposition 19.

First, cultivation o marijuana will become “no moreappealing to criminal gangs than cultivating peas andcarrots,” he said.

Second, less gang and gun violence will be associated with the sale o marijuana, Manian said.

Te issue o driving under the infuence o marijuanais another point o contention between the two sides o the argument.

Prop 19 will not make it legal to smoke marijuana while driving. But nor does the proposition orbid people

rom smoking marijuana be ore driving.“Under Cali ornia law, it is illegal to oper

ate a motor vehicle under the infuence o any substance that impairs your motor coordination,” Manian said. “Tis would be unchangedby Prop 19.”

However, there are no devices in the marketright now that test HC levels. Tus, driving under the infuence o marijuana mightgo undetected or a while, until a new kind o breathalyzer is available.

As a result, many transportation sectors areagainst the proposition because o sa ety concerns. Not being able to drug test workers may lead to impairment on the job.

“School administrators worry about not being able to drug test [bus drivers and teachers],”Salazar said.

Te transportation and education sectlonger be a drug ree environment, Sa

UCSC students have taken a liking tProp 19. Some students una liated withave become vocal about their stance o

Tird year Clare* pointed to creationincreased revenue as bene ts o Propothat she is opposed to the proposition.

“I was raised on the preconceived nbad,” she said. “Making marijuana legathe use o it because the drug will be mculated within society. Drug dealers wito minors i the prop passes, because ithat cannot get marijuana legally. Wheto implement Prop 19 come rom, i o

nancial distress — that’s what I want

* Name was changed.

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he lack o general understanding regarding thepurpose and relevance o the Apple iPad hascaused a lot o controversy since its release in

April. Is it a laptop, an electronic reader? Now, the controversy continues, this time within one o our librariesat UC Santa Cruz.

Te McHenry Library now has ve iPads thatstudents or aculty can check out or our hours at atime. In total, the ve 16 gigabyte Wi Fi gadgets cost$2,800, which comes out to $560 per iPad.

A ter experiencing a $1.9 million cut in theiralready dwindling budget, the library administratorsthought that what the students really needed wasiPads.

But what can the iPad possibly do to enhance ourlearning experience?

According to the UCSC Library Facebook page,the iPads were bought because “we wanted to continueour recent experience with small scale projects thato er students access to technologies they might nototherwise have.”

Admirable as it is that our library wants to keepus on the cutting edge o technology, this was just the wrong time or the purchase to be made.

Couldn’t any o that money have been used to keepthe library open a ew more hours in a quarter, or to

add another sta member? While $2,800 isn’t very much, it’s still something, and it couldhave been put to better use.

Anything the iPad is able to do can be doneanywhere else, in a completely viable way, withinthe library. Need to read something on E Reserve, or conduct research or an essay? Te library o ers a computer lab with multiple computers or justthose purposes.

It’s di cult to see a real use or the iPads, beyondallowing students to ool around on them, say, “Ooh”and “Ahh,” and then return them. Tey are useless.

We, as a campus, do not need iPads. What we needare more hours in the library. What we need is or thelines o communication between us and the administration to be open, and a change in the way the UC isbeing run and opperated. ransparency is paramount.

We had protests all last year, and have already hadone this year, which pointed out ways in which theadministration wastes money on items that are not essential to the school.

It’s the little things, like ve iPads, that always,ultimately add up.Mismanagement o nances has become a recurring

trend, and it will continue as long as the student body goes along with it. Illustration by Patrick Y

SLUGCOMICSBy Louise Leong

$2,800 on ancy electronics refects mismanagement o unds, priorities

Library Throws Away Money on iPads

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