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Associated Students, UC Santa Barbara Volume 7, Issue 11 | Jan. 23-Jan. 29, 2013

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UC President Sexual Assault on Camino Corto Mark Yudof Will Terminate Tenure This August, UCSB Isla Vista Punk Band Breaks Student Leaders Musical Norms and Garage Doors Weigh In

by THOMAS ALEXANDER Isla Vista Beat Reporter

A female Isla Vista resident was sexually assaulted at approximately 1:30 a.m. Saturday morning near the 900 block of Camino Corto.

The suspect was described as a college-aged white male with a slender build, standing approximately 5-foot-10. The UCSB Police Department is looking into the matter but a suspect has not yet been apprehended.

The UCSB Police Department has urged anyone with relevant information to contact Crime Stoppers at the following link: http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/Government/Departments/Police/Crime_stoppers_of_santa_barbara_county

by CHEYENNE JOHNSON Staff Writer President of the University of California Mark Yudof announced via press release on Friday, Jan. 18, that his tenure would come to a close this Aug. 2013.

“It has become clear to me,” said Yudof in the UC newsroom press release, “that the time has come for me to step away and return to the teaching of law on the Berkeley campus. The prior 18 months brought a spate of taxing health issues. Though these challenges have been largely overcome, I feel it is time to make a change in my professional lifestyle.”Yudof, age 68, said that while he plans to teach law on the UC Berkeley campus, he will miss his duties as the UC president.“UC remains the premier public university system in the world,” said Yudof, “and I was both honored and humbled to serve as its president for what has been nearly five years now. I will miss my daily interactions across the system with so many dedicated, capable, and intellectually stimulating people.”Since his 2008 appointment, Yudof has made a salary of $591,000 per year, and after retiring, is expected to receive a pension of at least $230,000 per year, according to the Associated Press. Yudof said the decision not only suits him personally, but is also a good decision for the UC system.“Beyond personal considerations,” said Yudof in the statement, “this also appears to be an apt time for the University to bring in fresh leadership. When I arrived in 2008, the economy had begun to unravel and state coffers were tumbling deep into the red. With its budget slashed, the University was presented with one of the most severe challenges in its history.“Now, it appears the storm has been weathered. We are not fully in the clear, but we are much closer than we were even a few months ago.”Helping the UC system weather the storm is the 2012-2013 budget presented by California Gov. Jerry Brown. The budget proposes increasing state funding for the UC by $250 million, a move made possible by the passage of Proposition 30.

Currently, no one has been discussed as potential replacements for Yudof come August. The Regents will create a committee to search for Yudof ’s replacement, according to AP. Word of Yudof ’s decision to end his term quickly reached students across the UC system and UC Santa Barbara Associated Student President Sophia Armen informed those at UCSB of the news via the Associated Students Facebook page. “The racist, inaccessible man,” wrote Armen, “who brought you fee increase after fee increase, oppressive legislation and privatization of public education is ending his term in August.”Other students and UCSB alumni disagreed with Armen’s opinion. Daniel Melnick, a theater major with an emphasis in directing who graduated from UCSB in 2011, said the poster above the Associated Students Main Office declaring “Mark Yudof is resigning! Thank the universe!” was unjustified.

“Why thank the universe?” said Melnick, “I thought Yudof did a fine job under immensely difficult circumstances. He fought hard against each round of budget cuts, never acquiescing to pressure from the state government. When that failed, he started grassroots campaigns to raise additional funds for the UC. What exactly did he do to deserve the ire of AS?” UCSB External Vice President of Statewide Affairs Nadim Houssain said he’s glad Yudof is not returning after August.

“Honestly, I’m actually relieved that he’s resigning,” said Houssain. “I think that he took our university in a path towards privatization and I really didn’t like how it looked. I didn’t see this coming, but I’m not so much concerned or relieved about him leaving office. I’m more concerned about the process of whoever’s going to be his successor and how that’s going to be decided, sort of what they envision for the UC, what path they see the UC taking.”

The search for Yudof ’s replacement extends beyond the state to the rest of the country and is a process already codified by the Regents. A Special Committee appointed by the Chairman of the Board of Regents, Sherry Lansing, will pick potential candidates.

An Academic Advisory Committee will also be created to assist the Special Committee in screening candidates, and it will be composed of at least one representative from each of the 10 UC campuses as well as the Chairman of the Academic Council.

Houssain said he was concerned over the level of student involvement in the process.

“At the very least I think there should be student input,” said Houssain, “and they should be there for whatever interviews are taking place. They should be able to ask these potential candidates questions. I think the main thing is I hope it’s someone who’s going to bring in a new, fresh perspective that’s progressive and is willing to be innovative in terms of finding alternatives to tuition hikes when the state doesn’t fund our education and just someone that’s going to be honest and transparent with the student bodies is my main concern.”

Houssain warned against students relying too much on whomever is selected as Yudof ’s replacement.

“I think that whoever it’s going to end up being,” said Houssain, “we can’t depend on them to change the system. We’re going to have to continue this momentum that we got from Prop. 30 and continue to take things into our own hands because we should never lay our fate in the hands of the President of the UC Office of the President.”

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by ROBYN WEATHERBY It’s nighttime on Saturday, Jan. 19, in the BIKO Co-op garage, and I’m in a sea of spontaneous combat—elbows and knees jutting from belligerently weaving bodies, restrained only by a circle of hearty shoves that establish the paradigm of a mosh pit.

On the 6500 block of Del Playa this scene would undoubtedly warrant handcuffs, but at the concerts put on by all-girls punk band Genghis Kunt (GK), it’s a commonality.

“It’s a great release of energy,” said Stephanie “Staph Infection” Luna, the bassist of GK and a fourth-year history and geography double major at University of California, Santa Barbara, said about the nature of this “mosh pit.” “You’re not really trying to hurt people; there’s definitely set of unspoken rules.”

Vanessa Dasalla, the band’s guitarist and a third-year biology major, added, “If somebody falls, you pick them up right away.”

GK began as a conversation between lead singer Katrina

Munsterman and Luna after a statistics class in the spring of 2013.

Today, it is four girls using punk as a mouthpiece for acceptance, integration, and raw, innovative expression. Their spin on punk music can best be described by Munsterman’s description of punk in general.

“It’s something inside me that just wants to go against things,” she said.

Not only do GK’s lyrics criticize societal norms, but their musical style ruptures punk norms as well. Creating a playful, funk drum lead in the song “Pit Spit,” drummer Julie Shay broke with traditional punk percussion rhythm at the Jan. 19 concert.

Remixing the band Peaches’ song “Fuck the Pain Away,” GK redefined the punk ballad in an innovative and humorous way.

Each band member had creative ways to define punk culture.

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Discussions About Online Education Prove Fruitful, While Some Skepticism Continues

by ANNALISE DOMENIGHINI Executive Managing Editor Two words dominated the majority of the first half of the University of California Regents meeting today: online education.

Since an inaugural online pre-calculus class at UC Merced in January of 2012, the Board of Regents have been discussing the future of online education at UC. Today, with presentations from three different online education providers and Gov. Jerry Brown, the Regents made headway in their continuing discussion of how best to provide UC students with effective online courses.

“Within the next two months, I will announce a new incentive program for faculty to develop additional online courses,” said UC President Mark Yudof during his introductory remarks before the discussion. “Within a few more months, we will have completed the rudimentary infrastructure for our first system-wide catalogue of courses. These courses will be both online and classroom-based. And they will be available for degree credit to students on any UC campus.”

The tentative idea behind UC online education is that it will make up for a number of problems within the UC system and the larger California education system. By offering what are deemed “massive open online courses,” a great number of people will benefit, including students who often find themselves having to repeat large lecture classes and high school students whose schools do not offer AP or Honors classes because of low enrollment. The availability of online courses will also potentially be able to reduce the time it takes students to receive degrees.

“The work we’re going to do [for online classes] is very focused on undergraduate education, especially higher impacted classes,” said Provost Aimee Dorr, who gave a presentation on online education at UC. According to Dorr’s presentation, as of now, 10 campuses have completed or are developing strategic plans for online education; eight campuses have established committees to evaluate, facilitate, and support online education; seven campuses have staff and resources for current demand but will need more to expand offerings; and five campuses currently offer grants or

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awards that encourage innovative use of technology in course design.

“What the potential for this is, is to make sure that the quality for the course is the same...it gives us the ability to serve more people,” said Chairman Sherry Lansing, addressing concerns that an online class might mean a less quality class. “We’re going to constantly be reevaluating it.”

Dorr’s presentation also mapped out plans to launch a temporary systemwide course catalog and pilot a cross-campus online course enrollment between three unspecified campuses by the end of 2013.

While many regents appeared to be on board with the university’s move toward more online education, some, like Student Regent Jonathan Stein, opposed moving forward without extensive student feedback on the issue.

“No one has asked students if they want this,” said Stein, who cited issues like lack of students actually working together, in person, on assignments as one downfall to online courses.

“Online education as supplement is acceptable and probably a good thing. Online education used to entirely substitute class education is not something we would embrace,” said Stein.

Online UC courses would potentially be hybrid courses, with everything done online via simulcast videos of lectures, online discussion boards and course materials, office hours and video analysis, and much more, save for midterms and finals which may or may not, depending on the class, be done in an actual classroom.

The Regents met with representatives from three different online education companies: Daphne Koller, co-founder and co-CEO of for-profit Coursera; Sebastian Thrun, co-founder and CEO of for-profit Udacity; and Anant Agarwal, president of not-for-profit edX. During their presentations the three representatives explained their services and showed to the board of regents what other universities are doing for online education.

“This is work worth doing,” Gov. Jerry Brown said about the discussion during a lunchtime press conference. “The claim is made that through online learning, through technology, actually people can learn more, better, and it will be cheaper in the long run. That’s a powerful claim. We’re not there yet but I’m committed to going as far down that road as we can.”

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Combat Journalist’s Lecture Sheds Light On War in the Middle East

by FAISAL AJAM Staff Writer Campbell Hall was graced last Wednesday, Jan. 16, with the presence of Dexter Filkins, a combat journalist who spent seven years in Afghanistan and Iraq. This talk was the first of many in a series called “Fallout: In The Aftermath of War.” Set to run through 2013, the first event was a talk on “The Impact of War on Literature and Film in Afghanistan” by Wali Ahmadhi, a specialist on comparative literature and the author of “Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan.” Filkins has been a staff member of the magazine The New Yorker for about two years now, and prior to that he was a reporter for The New York Times for over a decade.

Filkins opened his lecture with statements about being shot at and kidnapped. His goal was to convey to us what it was like to be in that situation through powerful photography from the narratives of his own experiences. Right off the bat he told the audience that living in war

was “more boredom than terror, but all you can remember is the terror.” Filkins would frequently place “happy” photos or tell the audience humorous stories to break the tension. He began covering wars by accident; while he was working for The Los Anegeles times in 1997, his editors went through a list of people they wanted to send to New Dehli, and all declined until the list reached Filkins. He began to notice “something wrong with these areas [the Subcontinent and Near East]” and after Sept.

11 it all “clicked.”

The first half of the talk focused on Afghanistan and the Taliban’s rule over the region.

Afghanistan itself was portrayed as a curious place. Some of the photos taken looked like they were nearly 150 years old. Filkins romantically called it, “the land that time forgot.” Eventually Filkins arrived at a photo that he told all of us to remember. It was a picture of downtown Kabul following its decimation by the Soviets. It was quiet and barren. Filkins said the reason the United States struggles in Afghanistan is that

be necessary to rectify Baghdad.

Then he spoke of suicide bombings. All of this was accompanied by very vivid photography.

The audience seemed to feel the horror of the event.

After the lecture a questions panel opened, a question was asked about the hatred and blame that the region holds toward the United States. Filkins had mentioned this sentiment several times throughout the lecture. He stated that as long as the Americans took on the responsibility for happenings in the region, ill will shall grow; however, “but can you please get Photo by Julian Moore | The Bottom Line me a visa [to the US]?” is a common desire held by the Middle we “forgot about it” while moving our forces to Easterners Filkins encountered.

Another member of the audience asked, Iraq for five years. The government in Afghanistan effectively collapsed in three days.

“What was the most fun part of it all?” To Following this Filkins moved onto the which Filkins replied, “Never decline a ride in Iraq portion of the lecture. It began with a lot a Blackhawk helicopter.”

According to the Interdisciplinary Huof humor, but quickly took a dark tone. He demanities Center’s website, the Fallout series is set scribed the day Saddam was toppled.

“At 10 a.m. the looting began, at 12 p.m. to end April 16 with a talk by Nina Berman, an the city was ablaze, at 3 p.m. it was complete American photographic documentor. There are and total chaos,” Filkins said. As Filkins looked still 10 events left, with the next being, “Knowon he remembered thinking that for every 20 ing Terrible Things: Thinking the Unthinkable minutes that passed, another eight years would in times of War,” which will be held Jan. 24.

Recent Resignations Bring Up Dissidence in Associated Students Senate

by LILY CAIN AS Beat Reporter Just one week into Winter Quarter, four Associated Student (AS) Senators announced their resignations at the meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 16, adding to the six that resigned during Fall Quarter.

Two On-Campus Senators, Steven Beringer and Tejas Patel, and one Off-Campus Senator, Ricardo Mora, announced their resignations in emails to Internal Vice President Mayra Segovia.

Neither Beringer nor Patel cited specific reasons as to why they were resigning, although they attributed much of the reason to Senate interfering with their academic performances.

“I have been having a lot of family [and] personal issues in regards to my academic performance and other things going on,” said Patel in his email. “I want to wish you and the Senate best of luck with the rest of the school year.”

Mora cited personal and financial problems in regards to his resignation.

On-Campus Senator Mac Kennedy was the only one to announce his resignation in person, which he did at the beginning of the meeting.

“I’m here to tell you all that I’m quitting Senate; I’m resigning,” said Kennedy. “It’s a really tough decision for me, but the length of these meetings has taken a toll on my personal well being and grades.”

Although all four ex-Senators cited different reasons for their resignations, the rebuttal from other members of the Senate focused on the time commitment to Senate and the length of the meetings, some of which have gone until 4 a.m.

“I’m tired of the resignations where it’s just ‘I didn’t have time,’” Off-Campus Senator Kaitlyn Christianson said. “You didn’t try to have time.”

In addition, Christianson voiced her concern over why people ran for Senate in the first place.

“For those two awful weeks, why are you here?” said Christianson. “It’s a big deal. We can do so much for the students, but you have so much more power than so many people who

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want to make a difference.”

Kennedy, however, believes being a member of Senate isn’t the only way to make a difference.

“I’m not going to go back to Senate, [but] I recommend people get involved,” said Kennedy.

“That’s one thing I really want to work on— outreach and recruitment of people to AS. There [are] so many BCCs so I don’t want to discourage anyone from getting involved, I just couldn’t do the long meetings.”

After the bill Kennedy and Off-Campus Senator Taquan Harrison introduced in the first meeting of the quarter, which would create a cap on the meetings at 9:45 pm, was tabled indefinitely, Kennedy felt that there would be no consensus among the Senators in regard to a time limit.

“There’s this mountain that is Senate and they can’t see around it,” said Kennedy. “People are so ingrained to this ‘this is how it is, this is what you should’ve expected’ that they can’t imagine any alternatives or solutions to fixing the problem that is the length of the meetings.”

The main argument from Senators against setting a time limit was the inability to hear students’ full ideas if they were constrained to too little time.

However, the Senators that resigned, both this quarter and last quarter, did so because too much time was not being used efficiently enough that it affected their academic performances.

“I didn’t quit because I didn’t have the time for my meetings,” said Kennedy. “I quit because of the length of the meetings. I had the time commitment for the job. That’s why it was a really hard decision, but it ended up making sense.”

According to Segovia, many other schools in the UC system do not have this many problems about the length of the meetings, nor have they had this many resignations.

Until new Senators are appointed to the now-empty positions, current Senators will be taking over the posts of the resigned Senators.

“I just want the best thing to happen for the campus, whatever that is,” said Kennedy.

Gov. Brown Reveals State Budget, Allocates Unexpected Funds to UC, CSU Systems

by ELIZABETH AGUILAR Staff Writer Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled his new balanced budget for the state of California on Jan. 10. The new budget includes much needed restoration to public education funding; however, the governor is still urging schools to close the monetary gap by increasing their efficiency.

When Brown took office in 2011, he faced a budget deficit of just over $25 billion. Now, he says, there’s a modest surplus left over after affording extra money to public schools. The governor’s new budget proposes that an additional $2.7 billion be allocated to public education with the University of California and California State University systems reaping $125 million each from the new deal. The $250 million awarded to the UCs and CSUs follow the $250 million reinstated into the budget thanks to recent voter-approved tax increases.

Political and education officials have praised Brown for effectively reducing the deficit and simultaneously increasing funding for schools. Brown, however, hasn’t yet stopped to admire his work and is still looking with foresight to improve the efficiency of public education.

In the same news conference in which he revealed his budget, Brown spoke about the tuition increases taking place within California universities. He reports that universities in California, still under stress from the economic recession, have responded to the crisis by increasing tuition costs, thereby shifting the burden onto students who then have to find ways to cope with school expenses Brown says are “twice the cost of living.” While the increase in funding to schools suggests that he understands the crucial necessity of money for improvement to public education, Brown has been vocal about his belief that the school systems are still operating inefficiently. He has

adamantly urged that “teaching resources be deployed more effectively.”

Budget Director Ana Matosantos followed Brown at the press conference, answering questions and providing elaboration on the new budget.

“The expectation is that fees will remain level,” said Matosantos at the press conference, responding to a question about possible increases in UC and CSU tuition despite increased government funding. She went on to specify that maintaining reasonable tuition costs was a responsibility that resides within the UC and CSU systems.

“The expectation is that UC and CSU will be working to change their model, to have a model that is more sustainable, [and] that has costs that are growing more in line with the economy.”

These, along with other efforts to increase funding for schools in poorer regions through “concentration” grants, are all commendable affirmative actions on the part of the California state government to improve the quality and equality of public education. However, with universities like UC Santa Barbara receiving a record high number of applications for fall 2013 - 76,026 undergraduates and a 14 percent increase in freshman applicants, the puzzle of figuring out how to accommodate waves of incoming students with the same amount of public funding may prove to be a difficult struggle.

In response to these obvious difficulties, Brown is expected to attend the CSU Board of Trustees meeting in Long Beach on Tuesday, Jan. 22, still intent on ensuring quality education for students and working to help public universities improve their efficiency.

It is precisely these intents that provide a display of good faith between bureaucrats and school officials, and which may finally indicate the turnaround in public education demanded by students, parents, and school officials for so long now.

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International Experts Discuss Different Aspects of Globalization

by BEATRIZ GONZÁLEZ Benjamin Sutherland, correspondent for the prestigious news magazine The Economist, discussed how globalization has changed the shape of conflicts around the world at University of California, Santa Barbara on Jan. 10. Sutherland described how globalization is affecting world politics as a guest speaker of the The Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies.

According to Sutherland, determining the probability of coming into some sort of conflict can be done through a critical look at a government’s incoming funds.

“We have to analyze how much money the government is getting from the population. It can be seen as a cynical method, but it works,” said Sutherland.

The journalist believes that having failing or weak states renders conflict more complex.

Nonetheless, globalization also shows a brighter side.

“Growing networks around the world moderate behaviors and allow the stabilization of a lot of areas, but it takes time,” said Sutherland. In addition to that, the nature of conflicts has changed.

“The ideological conflict has been replaced by cultural conflicts. Many of them are the result of fictitious states. The former empires created countries attending political reasons,” he said.

However, the globalization process can be defined as the growing of worldwide interconnectedness and can be analyzed in terms of economics and culture. Globalization contributed to the widespread expansion of the economic crisis in 2008 because trade and financial flows were more deeply connected. At the same time, it has reduced the poverty around the world, where the BRICS (Brasil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries are leading in the growth of a middle class.

Professor of global studies at UCSB Aashish Mehta believes globalization to be a positive process with potentially positive outcomes.

“It has to be well managed—setting up safety nets, distributing the wealth through democratic institutions,” said Mehta. The BRICS countries play an increasingly very important role in the globalization of world economics.

“Their middle classes have increased very much and those people buy trade-able products which makes work for the manufacturer engine around the world,” Mehta said.

Globalization has affected the cultural production around the world.

According to journalism professor at the Complutense University in Madrid, Joaquín Aguirre Romero, programming and standardization, or cultural uniformity, are two characteristics of the current culture. The hybridization of cultural products is another key aspect. It represents the strategy of mixing elements in order to offer cultural goods adapted to the taste of more widespread communities. Aguirre thinks that there is a positive side to globalization in cultural terms.

“This process has provided new tools to creators, with the predominance of the new digital technologies of communication and the new networks in order to reach a wider audience,” Aguirre said.

However, globalization also means that cultural production is at the service of the logic of the consumption market.

“The most worrying aspect is the loss of the cultural tradition. New cultural productions are disengaged from it, and they are more focused on the market’s needs,” said Aguirre, in regard to the current cultural production.

The process of cultural creation itself has also been modified. Aguirre explained that during the Middle Ages there was already a “global” culture. Latin was the common language and there was a close canonical collection of writing.

At that time, individuals adjusted themselves to the cultural objects, but times have changed.

“The standard has been opened as result of the extension of communications, and languages have diversified in order to adapt the content to the local scale,” said Aguirre. Now, the objects adjust themselves to local tastes as a consequence of the globalization process.

Globalization is shaping our world nowadays both positively and negatively in many complex ways and must be analyzed from a many-sided perspective.

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Santa Barbara Goes Subzero, Affects Local Crops, Influenza

by NIKKIE SEDAGHAT “The average global temperature in 2012 was among the 10 hottest since official record keeping began in 1880,” said Neela Banerjee, energy and environment reporter for the Los Angeles Times.

However, in contrast to the world’s extreme warm weather, Southern California has recently experienced subfreezing temperatures affecting fresh produce and people’s risk for disease.

The cold climates have affected thousands of acres of avocados, strawberries, and citrus plants, and farmers have had to keep wind machines running to remove the frost, according to The Santa Barbara Independent.

“When the weather gets that cold, the avocados fall to the floor and the leaves turn brown. It [cold weather] completely damages the new crops,” Mery Marquez, produce specialist at Rancho Santa Cecilia. Lolita Lopez, reporter for NBC, also claims that freezing temperatures can destroy fruit even before they are ready to be taken off the trees. Not only can cold winds destroy the plants of thousands of farms, but the cold weather will decrease in the amount of avocados available, leading to an increase in their price. Moreover, on Jan. 14 meteorologist David Sweet with the National Weather Service reported a reading of 27 degrees, breaking a 24-yearold record.

Even though 2012 was one of the hottest years recorded, the world has simultaneously been exposed to extreme cold climates that have negatively affected people’s health. Experts on climate change have claimed that the abrupt weather changes can be attributed to global warming.

“The report shows that global warming may have a wide variety of severe impacts on Southern Californians including more storms, winter rainfall,

and in increase in respiratory illness due to excess smog,” stated the Environmental Defense Fund on their website, edf.org. Dr. Janine Bloomfield, Environmental Defense senior scientist claimed on the EDF that, “heavy storms, intense heat, and smoggy skies could become more common, more severe and more damaging unless action is taken now.”

The cold weather does not seem unusual for some students and staff at the University of California, Santa Barbara, but for others, the winter season is becoming colder and colder every year. Mary Ferris, UCSB Campus Physician & Student Health Executive Director, recently sent out an email to all students urging them to get the flu shot in response to the spreading influenza across campus. While the flu epidemic is normal this time of year, colder temperatures could have caused the epidemic spread faster.

“I have no interest in getting out of bed in the morning because it’s so cold outside,” said Daniel Riboh, a third-year biopsychology major at UCSB. Other students like Riboh who don’t have the urge to leave their warm bed in the morning also find it difficult to commute around campus during the night.

“When I know I have to go to the library to study at night, I never end up leaving because it’s not worth the bike ride,” said Lauren Jacob, a junior sociology major at UCSB. The cold weather can especially be dangerous for people living in Santa Barbara because, according to The Pasadena Star News, a cold, low-pressure weather system is combining with high tides to increase the danger of flooding along the California coast. While the freezing temperatures are unavoidable, students and staff can actively make efforts to do their part in reducing the effects of global warming and protecting the environment.

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Features

Miss Behavin’: IV’s One-Stop Fashion Shop

by KELSEY GRIPENSTRAW Executive Content Editor

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The retail landscape of Isla Vista is in the wake of a massive wave of changes.

Out is Chinos; in is Angry Wings. Out are the remains of Isla Vista Surf Company; in is Chase Bank. And perhaps the most discernable change—the swanky new housing options of ICON, The Loop, and The Plaza Lofts, which spearhead IV’s visual transformation from aging, rickety beach town to contemporary, commercial gold mine.

Despite the changes that led to IV’s new skyline, some eateries and shops aren’t going anywhere.

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Questions with Retiring Women’s Volleyball Coach Kathy Gregory

by VIJAY MODI

Q: What were some of your major goals that you wanted to accomplish as a coach?

A: When you're a young coach, your major goal is to win, so winning was always a priority, but as I matured, and after the winning, I really tried to focus on the life skills. I was a very tough and demanding coach and my girls will tell you I was a hard coach but I take it as a compliment. Now that I've retired, I've received hundreds of thank you letters and emails and all I've wanted them to be was confident young women and to take whatever life gave them. Life is challenging and there are going to be times in your life where you are going to have to pick yourself up and recover for something. And I think that's the most important goal I had, for them to be prepared for the real world.

Q: What made UCSB so appealing to coach at?

A: When I was 28 years old I was playing in the IVA, which was the first women and men professional league, and I came up here for a playoff game. The coach that was here said to me ‘Hey, I’m getting my Ph.D., would you be interested in the job?’ At the time he knew Q: Out your 38 years of coaching, what I was interested because I was coaching at Marymount High School, I was a top beach would you say was your greatest moment? player and I loved the beach. At the time it was a hard decision because I didn’t want to A: It’s very hard to pick the greatest moment, leave Santa Monica, so for my first year I took a leave of absence just to make sure I liked but I will say that one of the greatest moSanta Barbara. The first year was interesting because I had to teach like 10 classes a quarments was when I coached a player by the ter, and I was coaching, and I was in this old gym that was like 199 degrees and I had no name of Judy Bellomo who transferred here scholarships and I had no assistants! So after that first year I thought that I would have to and had two years to play. Her first year she go back to high school, but at the end of the year, there was a proposal where coaches only helped us get to the NCAA tournament and had to teach half time, so if I hadn’t gotten that, I would have gone back to high school. then asked me “How can I be the best player I can possibly be?” She worked harder than anyone I had ever seen, her personality was Q: You've been in the volleyball world for years now, and I can't imagine that this extremely similar to mine. After a game, her is it for you, so what do you have planned next? voice would be so hoarse just like mine. She A: Well since I've announced my retirement I've had numerous requests to start went from an average player to a first team a training center. I'm going back San Marcos, California, where they are going to All-American. It will never be done again. start a beach volleyball program where I will work with Erica Menzel, one of my She then went on to be a top beach player all time favorite players that also went to San Marcos High School and is coming and joined the Olympic team. The sad part of back to coach. I'm also going to try and get the UCSB and San Marcos volleyball the story is that she passed away at the young program going. I've gotten calls to do TV because I've worked with ESPN before, age of 23. I think the reason why I coached so and I've even gotten calls about doing some motivational speaking. So I think my long was because every day that I had a down plate is going to be pretty full and I want to accomplish more. I'm a firm believer day, I would talk to her. I would talk to her in giving back, because in return I have been blessed with so much happiness each before every match, and I think she inspired day. I'm so lucky to be able to retire in Santa Barbara and walk the beaches and to me to coach longer than I ever would. reflect and be happy.

Photo by Morey Spellman | The Bottom Line Q: You’re one of eight coaches to have won over 800 matches. How did you feel after accomplishing such a feat?

A: I’m very blessed because I’m in tremendous health, and I have an unbelievable amount of energy. I feel that I was lucky to be in that situation at a university, to be able to accomplish that number of wins, with physical and mental health. My life has always been one of gratitude and appreciation, and I try to never take anything for granted, and to live in the moment.

I’m one of the luckiest people in the world to have been able to coach for 38 years. It will never be done again because coaching has become very difficult and challenging. Times are much different so I appreciate what I was able to do.

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Uncle Sam Wants YOU...

To Believe the Public Perception of Military

by GIUSEPPE RICAPITO Staff Writer There’s a vacuum in the Middle East that’s been filled for over a decade by the force of American national identity—but what you think you know about the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is an elaborate hoax, and you’ve been taken for a fool.

Let’s be clear: this isn’t a peace mongering condemnation of the United States military—I grew up fascinated by military strategy with an appreciation for the historical significance of wars in the centuries past. But in the process of growing older and gaining consciousness it became apparent that warfare was the product of a much larger international system to compel capitalist economies and assert eminent recognition for emerging or deteriorating national states. The emergence of modern social media in the past decades has given public military doctrine and reputation a new dimension, one some would argue is propagandistic. In films, news, and advertisements, the combat action of service is overstated as a patriotic ideal— ultimately utilizing the unfailing principles of loyal adherents to justify a principal role on the world stage.

The system of national security in America is comprised of a handful of armed organizations—Marines, Army, Navy, Coast Guard, as well as the CIA and FBI—all operated through the metonymic symbol of the Pentagon. According to the Capitol’s 2011 budget, over $660 billion has been allocated to the Department of Defense; with this, according to a 2007 study done by the RAND Corporation: National Defense Research Institute, $600 million was spent total on military advertising.

News organizations on television or in print do little to provide an unsubstantiated analysis of warfare—the actions of the military are misrepresented to constantly fall under the umbrella notion of a patriotic ideal. When Iraq or Afghanistan is even mentioned, the viewer is barraged with a series of unsettling facts and clips of destruction meant to illicit a personal condemnation on those that violate our way of life. There is a strange paradox also in the news media’s investment in tragedy—keeping the viewer glued to the screen by fear and disbelief is the business model that has made Fox News and CNN so successful.

Fictional and dramatized forms of social media originally based in fact—including military recruitment, T.V. advertisements, and recent films such as Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty” and “The Hurt Locker”—can be unintentionally detrimental when they validate notions of American hegemony and justify the rightness of foreign campaigns. Many critics of “Zero Dark Thirty” have pointed to an opening scene depicting the graphic torture of a captured terrorist who gives up information crucial to the hunt for Osama bin Laden in Abbotabad, Pakistan.

Though Bigelow claimed publically that “depiction is not endorsement,” her film lends credibility to the argument that torture is acceptable as long as it gets the job done. On a subconscious level, the (media engineered) mass catharsis over the death of Bin Laden directs viewers to considering national security, or the lives and institutions of Americans, as more important than the acknowledgement of human dignity. What happened to the classic heritage of American films critical of the human degradation of war, indicating towards the destructive, transformative effects it has

on people and environments? Watching “Zero Dark Thirty” and “The Hurt Locker” motivated me to see “Apocalypse Now” and “Platoon,” just so I could remember a time when it was all right to be critical of our military and have opposition toward its role as an international police force.

Military recruiting advertisements mold public perception of the role of the military from a young age. They are commonly seen during sports events and even on cable channels like Comedy Central, eliciting a nationalist pride in the foundational strength of our communal military protection. Over time, the public representation of the military has become so widespread that it’s a concept rather than a verifiable truth; the ads are purposefully exaggerated as a marketing tool. The military is selling you a brand—the seemingly epic, buccaneering, and courageous campaigns function to motivate your absorption into their organization. Even if you don’t want to join, your mind lingers on the depicted institutional scope and presence of the military: it’s something that a single person cannot contend with. With each branch of the military has their own motto—“The Few, the Proud, the Marines”; “Army of One”; “America’s Navy: A Global Force for Good”— all Americans familiar with military media are predisposed to conceding to the propagandistic elements of their unquestionable martial authority.

Unless you’re a soldier yourself, or have family and friends that provide you with firsthand information, you perceive the military through the unreliable guise of social media.

Not only do TV commercials and (many) movies assert an inconsistent portrait of warfare, but they also distort the very real international strategies that armed forces function

The United States of FEMERICA

by CHEYENNE JOHNSON Staff Writer The world is changing. The United States has its first AfricanAmerican president. Technology has taken over the world, simultaneously uniting us and highlighting our differences. Facebook, Disney, and Google are vying for world domination (which actually isn’t that unusual) and Twinkies are now a disgustingly squishy memory of our childhood. But, some things aren’t changing. In fact, some things seem to be almost moving backwards. All my single ladies, and just ladies in general, I’m talking about us.

Women’s rights are being infringed upon and debated across the country. Middle-aged and Gandalflevels of just plain old rich, white men are trying to define “legitimate rape” and claim we can’t get pregnant when violated because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Thank you, Todd Akin. I understand my body so much better now.

On top of this, the Iowa Supreme Court decided we can be fired for being too attractive, and the Violence Against Women Act, which provides protection to women of domestic abuse and other violent crimes, was allowed to die with the 112th Congress. Add to all of this the debates over contraceptives, abortion, and a woman’s right to equal pay, and it’s a dangerous time to be a woman.

Which leads women to wonder—what if it wasn’t that way?

What if we had a woman in the White House, sitting comfortably in the Oval Office, in charge of one of the leading nations on the planet?

Would anything change?

I hate to be pessimistic, but no. I don’t think very much would change. Obama becoming President did little to stymie racism. If anything, it made it more apparent.

Suddenly, it was acceptable to ask for his birth certificate and make news worthy claims that he was actually a Muslim terrorist. If we can’t blame Cold War Russians and World War II Nazis for the current state of the world, we’ve got to blame someone, right?

Thus, even with a black president, racism still exists. Even with a female president, we’d still need feminism and it’s “radical” assumption that women deserve equal treatment. We’d still have boys saying our place is in the kitchen and that we should only open ours mouths to stick a specific body part in it. Women will still be valued, and simultaneously criticized, for our physical appearances—and nine times out of ten, my hair style and the length of my skirt will matter more than my opinion.

This is not to say a strong female president wouldn’t have some effects. She’d be a guiding light for other women to aspire to. She’d be a force to be reckoned with. She’d also face countries that would criticize her both privately and publicly, declaring that she was unfit to rule simply on the basis of her gender, because society as a whole decided

that women aren’t capable of running pretty much anything.

I take offense to this. Women manage to function perfectly well at work and in college, despite the supposed hindrance of being female. If a vacuous Southern cretin like George W. Bush can govern the country, I guarantee a woman could handle it and could probably do so with more dignity and grace.

All of this prejudice actually has a benefit. Whatever woman becomes our first female president, she’ll have to be intelligent, motivating, and exceptional enough to convince the American population she can run a country, even though, with people like Romney and Santorum in the running for president, white, rich men don’t appear to be held to these standards anymore.

If a female president, even a great one, won’t truly change the status quo in this country, then what will? We will. Our generation. And not just the female component.

Men, too, must be involved, and that means proving to them that we are not delicate flowers in need of their protection. We’re women. We push life from between our legs. We balance work and classes and clubs all while having cramps that feel like a Prius is twisting its way through our uterus. To be fair, our mood swings are vicious. But our ability to be sexy, brilliant, and strong is even better.

I’m not saying we should ditch the male companion. Just remember to be independent enough to survive without him. Cuddles are awesome.

Oppression isn’t.

for. We are being peddled a narrative about the war, and like any other story, there is a specific setting and moral intent to what the viewer is told. This is the propagandistic element of American military in social media— we are meant to relate to the national humanity of our own men in uniform, but ignore the systems of international strategy and intrigue that they service.

The United States military is obligated to convince you, the viewer, possible recruit and figment of public opinion, that the goals of American international warfare are not only justified, but an extension of a broader campaign for necessary justice. After a lifetime of patriotic, nationalist rhetoric spewed from various authorities, the American public has come to identify with American life preeminent above all others. Since the Cold War, military institutions in the United States have increased their own authority to unilaterally operate outside the governance of true social approval—they serve as the mechanism for maintaining American interests abroad, but these goals are in many cases foreign and antithetical to the normal American citizen.

How does the United States military cope with a general lack of knowledge on the purposes and intents of their operations?

The American public is placated by a distant satisfaction that the democratic and capitalistic ideologies they are expected to revere will be successful in countries of supposed chaos.

There might be chaos on American soil if the complex, rooted institutions of military international relations were to be made public.

There would be even further carnage if some wake-up call ever came, shattering the idea that American life is more valuable than those of foreign men and women across the globe.

House It Going?

by ADAM SHELLEY Staff Writer

As students, we should prepare mentally and physically for the barrage of stress thrown at us on a daily basis. A great way to avoid losing the uphill battle against the mountain of assignments and exams throughout the academic school year is to have a good home base—a headquarters, if you will. This is where housing comes into play. As a student, acknowledging the benefits of a few variables that determine the best housing can make all the difference in your career here at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Now, it’s easy for some to say: “It doesn’t really matter where I live, as long as I can get my work done and still socialize on the weekends.” Sure, but it seems that that confidence is not always warranted; where you live directly affects the workflow at one point or another throughout the quarterly grind. Your ability to get work done can be affected by several factors such as location, room size and situation, price, roommates, and regulation.

For starters, location changes everything. Obviously there is a natural progression for younger students to go from living on campus dorms to living in apartments in Isla Vista—and occasionally, the older and perhaps slightly more mature student who wants to “get out of that IV scene,” will move to downtown Santa Barbara. For obvious reasons all three locations have a drastically different influence on the student’s mentality and productivity, with both negative and positive qualities. Pros: The dorms offer students a

simple lifestyle, providing food, shelter, and, in my experience, the occasional hot shower; apartments in Isla Vista are social and in the center of activity; and living downtown offers easy access to jobs, bars, and clubs.

Cons: The dorms situate students like packing-peanuts, apartments in Isla Vista are questionably sanitary, and apartments downtown Santa Barbara are just too far away. In the end, the aspect of location can be attributed to an issue of preference.

As students it is helpful to be aware that university housing is a viable option; however, be aware that the regulatory presence is much more apparent. Resident Administrators, Coordinators, Community Coordinators, and the plethora of other -ators come along with living in university housing, which to me really breaks the image of the “college-lifestyle” so often observed in pop culture. This is where regulation becomes an oppressive burden on the social preferences of individuals who intend to be actively involved with the party scene. In short, university housing is like living with another set of parents.

When all is said and done, price is usually what brings anyone to a final decision. As students begin to search for housing the price of rent becomes a determining factor. Of course, there are obvious financial benefits to living in dorms or university housing; however, who can deny that paying extra to live oceanside on Del Playa isn’t worth it?

These are just some of the aspects of housing that one should think about when preparing to make a decision of where to live for the upcoming 2013-14 academic year.

President Yudof Resigns: I Don’t Know Why You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello

by ANDREW HANEY Staff Writer When I heard the news of our University of California President Mark Yudof ’s resignation, I was in my kitchen taking inventory in preparation for our upcoming presidential inauguration (I lead an unexciting life, celebrate Inauguration Day like Americans celebrate the Super Bowl, seven layer dip and all. And why not when seven layer dip is involved?).

My initial reaction to the resignation was disinterest. The UC Office of the President, like my life, is relatively unexciting compared to the title. Though the president is a member of the Board of Regents and actively works with the state legislature on issues relevant to UC, he can’t do much without approval from the board and, in terms of enumerated powers, doesn’t rank much higher than a UC chancellor. If Chancellor Henry Yang were to resign, it would create a fissure in the earth’s crust where Storke Tower stands and a sudden die-off of

puppies in Santa Barbara County. This is because Chancellor Yang is the only reason we live in paradise. Yudof ’s resignation probably registers a 2.3 on the Puppy Endangerment Scale: felt slightly by a few people, but no damage to buildings or gas lines.

Yet my second reaction was that of conspiratorial distrust. Part of this has to do with the fact that a successor has not been mentioned. Yudof ’s predecessor Robert C. Dynes announced his resignation eight months before Yudof took over. It could be until the next fall quarter before we hear any talk of Yudof ’s successor. And anyone who claims to be a government conspiracy theorist knows that during a time when, for the first time in the state’s history, students pay more money than the state to keep the UC system afloat, one does not spend eight months drafting a shortlist.

One government conspiracy theorist might also notice that Yudof began his term right before the Great Recession, effectively turning Yudof into a “wartime UC president,” con-

stantly brawling with the legislature to work out a budget plan. The fact that he is leaving now suggests that the war is over. Yudof hints at this in his resignation letter, “this also [in addition to “taxing health issues”] appears to be an apt time for the University to bring in fresh leadership.” But the coin flips both ways on this one. Either the war is over and Yudof is playing Cincinnatus: returning to private life after taking the reigns of power and saving a nation where others would grow drunk with power, or the war is about to get worse and he’s playing Neville Chamberlain: resigning the prime ministry before he gets blamed for letting Hitler take over Europe, but keeping his Nobel Peace Prize behind bulletproof glass.

But I am not a government conspiracy theorist. If I were a true conspiracy theorist I would probably say that Yudof ’s resignation was an attempt by aliens to increase oil prices. I will say however that Yudof became UC President around the same time Barack Obama became President of the United States.

Obama, when he speaks before the nation on Jan. 21, is not expected to make the same “change is coming” pitch that got him elected in 2008. After doing battle with Congress for four years President Obama is emerging with battle scars and grey hairs and comparatively little to show for it. “Change is coming” doesn’t cut it anymore. Mark Yudof faced the same dilemma, working to compromise with a hostile legislature without letting we the students suffer for it.

In that role, Yudof did more for us to prevent crushing tuition hikes than President Obama did, and with fewer enumerated powers to boot. Though his public image frequently shifted between benevolent overlord and mafioso kingpin, Yudof showed us that compromise, with a dose of sacrifice, is possible.

Instead of having to put in another four years duking it out with legislators, he has earned the right to leave on his own terms. It also means that we don’t need to fear whomever replaces him.

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‘The Art Seen’ Gives Viewers Plenty to See and Think About

by CHEYENNE JOHNSON Staff Writer Black History Month gets an artistic flair at University of California, Santa Barbara’s MultiCultural Center with the bright and vibrant addition of “The Art Seen,” an exhibit by artist Aaron Carey (a.k.a. Phatty B.). An author, artist, and illustrator, as well as a UCSB alumnus, Carey combines music, dancing, and people to create colorful pieces that nearly move with pent up energy.

“We are so excited to have Aaron Carey ’s exhibit here to kick off Black History month,” Ruby Mojarro, the MCC Acting Programmer, said, “especially since he is a UCSB alum. His artistic style is so incredible and unique!”

A former dance and fitness instructor, Carey was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2001, and realized he would need a new way to continue expressing his love of dance and movement. His attention turned to painting where, through brush strokes and color, he could continue his passion for motion. He gave himself the name Phatty B., an alter-ego not constrained or defined by his physical limitations.

“From the first scribble to the masterpiece, my creations are a personal, introspective process of failure, patience, and perseverance choreographed on canvas,” Carey said. “Completely defying my physical imprisonment, I

Photo by Caitlin Griffin | The Bottom Line “The Art Seen: An Exhibit by Phatty B.” is currently being featured in the Multicultural Center lounge as part of Black History Month. choreograph my dance moves on walls. The music plays. The beat drops. Feelings of freedom and possibility fill my instruments to create the Art Seen; it’s the Phatty B. flow. I love the rhythm of emotion and mood.”

The works themselves inspire beauty and elegance, the images distorted and convoluted in ways that alter the observer’s attention. Perspectives on many of the pieces are shifted to focus on specific elements, like the hands of a man playing piano or the curved hip of a woman. Faces are extended, chins made longer, and cheeks hallowed out into almost cartoonish figures that, through the grace of Carey’s brushstrokes and details, withstand the lean towards caricature and parody.

A key component of each work is its extravagant color scheme and the vitality and dynamism it incorporates. The colors are bold

and vibrant, the oranges, yellows, purples, and blues swirling together to ensure each painting resonants with a life all its own. Twisted and hidden among the brushstrokes, one can see the urgency for vitality and action that Multiple Sclerosis has denied the creator.

Tim Yeh, a second-year global studies and Portuguese double major, said the paintings are attracting and demand attention.

“They portray a lot of liveliness,” said Yeh. “When I look at them, I feel intrigued. I want to work with it. I want to see it. I feel like a lot of times when you see art, sometimes you’re not drawn at it. But when you see these art pieces, you are physically drawn into the art.”

Yeh said the paintings tie in well with Black History Month and accurately reflect the lives and culture of African Americans.

“It’s upbeat, and I feel like you really see

that through the representations in the paintings,” said Yeh. “At the same time, the struggle of being an African Diaspora, specifically in the United States, is portrayed through various themes that come up within the paintings themselves. So I feel like it is a very good representation.”

Mojarro said she’s excited to have the artist come to UCSB to speak with students about the artwork.

“We hope many UCSB students, faculty, staff, and friends are able to help us welcome Aaron Carey back, Jan. 31 at our Conversation with the Artist at 6:30 p.m.,” she said.

The exhibit runs until March 22, and the MCC encourages students to take a quick break from studying and work to visit the paintings and get a new perspective on Black History Month.

Santa Barbara Symphony Delivers Skilled Performance With Broad Range of Pieces

by CHEYENNE JOHNSON Staff Writer The Santa Barbara Symphony gave concertgoers a taste of the East coast and the Eastern hemisphere on the weekend of Jan. 19, when they resumed their 2012-2013 season with a polished, engaging performance at the Granada Theater in downtown Santa Barbara. The twohour concert featured violinist Glenn Dichertow and viola player Cynthia Phelps from the New York Philharmonic, who enhanced the diverse selection of pieces for the concert that included a trifecta of musical genres, composers, and time periods. Under conductor Nir Kabaretti, the symphony opened with a modern piece from Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, and then moved to the more traditional fare of Mozart and Mendelssohn.

Kabaretti began the concert by giving a thorough description of the Takemitsu piece, “How Slow the Wind,” which was composed in 1991. This introduction, which included individual orchestra members playing selected passages, gave interesting context to this beautiful but lesser known work of music.

The piece itself had a flowing, smooth tone that was fascinating on its own, while serving the additional purpose of working as a backdrop for the primary motif. A seven-note musical phrase was echoed throughout, repeated in different sections of the orchestra and present at both the start and finish of the work. “How Slow the Wind” was also an excellent example of how differing types of sounds can be incorporated into music: much of the piece featured whistling, ringing phrases that seamlessly interacted with more sustained lines, giving the overall feel of constant motion.

Despite the differing styles, the transition between “How Slow the Wind” and the next piece, Mozart’s “Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola” was smooth. This three-movement piece featured soloists Dicterow and Phelps, whose chemistry onstage was amplified by their connection to the orchestra to achieve a strong balance. Rather than compete for the spotlight, they complemented each other onstage.

As the piece started, the contrast in style became immediately apparent; like other music from the classical period, this work from Mozart was much more structured, precise, and rhyth-

mically consistent. Throughout all three movements, the primary melodies were split evenly between the viola and violin, which gave their individual lines an interactive, call-and-response feel.

The first movement of the piece contained upbeat sections and slower themes, providing an energetic but still controlled atmosphere. As is standard for much of classical music, the second movement had a sedate tempo and minor key, and kept in theme with a more gradual, subdued ending. The final movement to the piece picked up the pace drastically, proceeding at a hurried, exciting speed, and providing an engaging, lively finish to the Sinfonia.

After a short intermission, the symphony resumed with a number from the early romantic period, Mendelssohn’s acclaimed “Symphony No. 3 in A Minor.” This piece is often called the “Scottish Symphony,” as it was written during the composer’s time in that country. The four movements shared sweeping and dramatic themes that are characteristic of the Romantic era, unifying them so that they appeared to be one sustained piece of music.

The opening movement was defined primar-

Shatner Gives Performance That Is Out of This World

by ADAM SHELLEY Staff Writer In what may be the final frontier of a lifelong career of impeccable success, William Shatner’s new show “Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It” premiered at the Arlington Theater in downtown Santa Barbara on Jan. 18. The space-venturing actor, musician, writer, and director’s performance focused on his own established persona, drawing heavily on his interpretation of Captain James T. Kirk and mixing comedic life experiences and anecdotes that he has developed into an act that brought the audience into his own personal world.

As the lights dropped and the all too familiar Star Trek theme began to play, and the sound effects of the teleportation beam whirred, Shatner interrupted and came onto stage shouting: “No, no, no, no beaming in—you said I can make an entrance with a rocket strapped to my ass!” This entrance was only the beginning to a high-energy evening, where amidst various anecdotes, sound bytes, and quips Shatner made a slew of self-deprecating jokes about his age and how the years have affected his looks.

Much of Shatner’s performance and hu-

mor derived from his acceptance of himself as an American icon, and a representative of a galactic cultural phenomenon. For instance, Shatner said during his act, “[the] American Film Institute asks me to do the opening act to a George Lucas retrospective…and I say, “What’ll I do?” And

It is arguable that Shatner’s entertainment appeal is rooted from a long career of stage acting. Before his time spent on the original “Star Trek” series commanding the USS Enterprise from 1966 to 1969, Shatner was already a seasoned classical Shakespearean actor, and began performing for the Stratford Festival of Canada in Ontario, Canada in 1954. Within the next few years, he made his Broadway debut in such productions as Christopher Marlowe’s “Tamburlaine the Great” in 1956.

Despite his great success playing the role of Captain Kirk during “Star Trek,” Shatner faced economic hardship during the early 1970s. However, due to the cult following that had accumulated by then among Trekkie fans, he was quickly elevated to become a distinct cultural icon. This success proved to be a saving grace for his economic troubles.

As he reminded everyone with his performance, Shatner’s talent has definitely led him on Photo by Deanna Kim | The Bottom Line a journey that rivals some of the they say, “Well, you know, you’ll come out, get on greatest heroes he has played in film and televistage…and, umm, they’ll laugh.” This sort of self- sion. At 81 years old he continues to entertain aware approach to getting laughs from the audi- the masses with his unique personality, proving ence is exactly the sort of clout that Shatner has in every sense of the phrase that he has certainly built up over the years and uses to his advantage. “lived long and prospered.”

ily by lyrical melodies that, while repeated among different voices of the orchestra, were constantly changing from calm to frantic. This was followed by a lively yet dignified second movement that continued the previous section’s trait of passing off melodies between orchestral sections, which reinforced motifs while also highlighting the tonal differences among instruments.

While the third movement maintained the ever-present lyrical atmosphere, it transitioned into a slower pace and partially dropped the tension of the work’s other sections in favor of a more elegant, refined mood. The piece concluded with a dramatic finale of changing rhythms, fast, scurrying notes, and soaring phrases in the wind section, leading up to a triumphant ending.

The Santa Barbara Symphony’s performance this weekend reinforced their reputation as an accomplished group of professionals. However, this concert went beyond simply talented musicianship with its selection of music. The program featured selections from the classical, romantic, and contemporary eras, which, when combined with a more than capable execution, resulted in a well-rounded and satisfying performance.

PUNK BAND, continued from page 1 with traditional punk percussion rhythm at the Jan. 19 concert. Remixing the band Peaches’ song “Fuck the Pain Away,” GK redefined the punk ballad in an innovative and humorous way.

Each band member had creative ways to define punk culture.

“It’s not just for people who wear patches and studded shit,” said Shay, a UCSB alumnus. “You can get in the pit and people will treat you just like anybody else…[it’s] the reason people have a good time at punk shows,” she continued, “It’s about the energy they’re giving.” Led by momentous, swarthy mosh pits and continuous head bobbing, a positive energy consumed the multi-colored garage throughout the set.

Punk music, though not as well known in Isla Vista, is not an obscure genre. Last August punk music made international headlines when the all-girls Russian punk band Pussy Riot was arrested and imprisoned for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.” In November, Yakaterina Samutsevich of Pussy Riot told the Daily Beast, “our art is meant to make the entire world laugh at Putin...” Slipping in social critiques through humor is what GK calls “Punkception,” or “a good way to ease things in that no one wants to hear,” Luna explained. Their song “I Hate the Beach” with lyrics like “I hate the flies” is laughable, but at the song’s core is a harsh commentary. “I don’t like a lot of the way that men treat women in Isla Vista,” Munsterman said. The key lyrics— see PUNK BAND, page 8

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New Report Exposes National Health Woes How Government Fund Allocation Affects Our Health

by VIJAY MODI

A new report released by the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine reveals new facts about our nation’s health woes.

The report was created by a panel of distinguished professors, including University of California, San Francisco’s Paula Braveman, who compared

health outcomes in the United States with those of 16 other high income industrialized countries. It turns out that health-wise, we are a long way off from national recovery.

Through this comparison, researchers found that Americans not only have a shorter life expectancy than other industrialized countries, but that the gap between the U.S. and the other countries is

steadily growing. According to a U.S. News report on the recent findings, Americans spend $2.8 trillion per capita on health care each year—“far more than any other country spends on health care.”

In addition to the shorter life expectancy, the U.S. is also last among all countries in a worrying number of categories. A quick look at this list should be a shocking wake up call to all of us, both individually and as communities who would want their children to inherit a world that is safer and healthier for them to grow in. The United States currently ranks last in rates of infant mortality, adolescent pregnancy, dang e r for severe injuries and homi-

cides, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) infections, and, last but not least, drug-related mortality.

Of course, the ridden nationalscale problem of obesity still exists, leading the way to an

increased chance of chronic heart and lung diseases—categories in which our country is among the top three. In these scales, winning is not a good thing. A press release written by Steven H. Woolf, professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, dubbed these resolutions “Striking...Americans are dying and suffering at rates that we know are unnecessary because people in other countries are living longer and enjoying better health.”

“If we live sicker and die younger in almost every way, shape, or form, and we pay more, it’s a damning indictment of how we’ve done,” says James Marks, senior vice president and director of the New Jersey-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Group and retired assistant surgeon general. Fixing these trends, he says, are larger issues at hand than just the way we eat or exercise. The national problem we are facing involves both the individual side of our personal behaviors, but also the policies that surround our health.

A 2011 report written by a group of Yale researchers states that for every dollar America spends on health care, it puts 90 cents toward social services. All the other industrialized countries are doing the exact opposite. In Dec. 2011 The New York Times published an op-ed piece by Elizabeth Bradley and Lauren Taylor, professor of public health and program manager, respectively, at Yale’s Global Health Leadership Institute. Bradley and Taylor found that counties that put more money into social services relative to health care have a higher life expectancy than those who adopt the reverse strategy. This finding connects with one of the conclusions the NRC report adopted, which marked the disparity between the qualities of health care among different economic groups as a fundamental cause to see HEALTH | page 8

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Seven Falls: A Great Hike For Fierce So-Cal Winters

by LILY CAIN Beat Reporter Just a short drive down the 101 to La Cumbre Road is one of the most popular hikes for University of California, Santa Barbara students, the one to Seven Falls.

The hike starts at the end of Tunnel Road, although you have to walk up a fire road to the trailhead.

The trail begins with some switchbacks down to a creek, where you have two options.

To the left is a moderately steep hike to Inspiration Point, which offers a great view of the ocean, downtown Santa Barbara, UCSB and some of the Channel Islands.

To the right is a trail up the creek that leads to the Three Pools and Seven Falls.

Although the trail to the falls is not very steep, it is not a simple dirt path. The trail is

mostly rocks you must climb over, jump to and slide down.

However, the distance from the bottom of the creek to the first pool is not very long. Although this pool looks very clear, it is small and shallow and not a good spot for swimming.

Farther up are two more pools, the second of which is a good place to stop and take a break to admire the beauty of nature and hang out on the rocks with some friends.

If you wish to go further to the Seven Falls, you must continue up a trail to the left of the pools that is steeper and more difficult, but is worth the reward.

The climb up consists of some more small pools, but soon enough you will hear the rushing of water and will come to a larger pool and waterfall where you can hang out and go swimming (in good weather). see SEVEN FALLS | page 8

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UCSB’s Water Action Plan: Conserving Today for Tomorrow courtesy of BREN WATER ACTION PLAN GROUP Fresh water is a limited resource with several competing uses that pose an ever-increasing burden on water supplies. In California, water supply issues are magnified by the state’s growing population and semi-arid climate. In order to better prepare for current and future challenges regarding water supply, six students from the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management are working to produce a “Water Action Plan”(WAP) for University of California, Santa Barbara, which will also serve as their Master’s Thesis.

The WAP seeks to build upon the school’s historic water practices that have allowed the university to surpass California’s 20 percent water-use reduction mandate nine years in advance. The plan will examine UCSB’s historical and current water use data on the following water types: potable, non-potable, wastewater, stormwater, industrial, reclaimed, and graywater. The WAP Group has also collaborated with regional and university stakeholders to identify and evaluate strategies

for water reduction and explore education and outreach opportunities pertinent to on-campus water conservation. Upon completion, the WAP will be implemented under the university’s University of California Sustainable Practices Policy; the guidance document will enable UCSB to minimize water usage while meeting growing demands of future water users.

As the first of its kind in the UC system, the UCSB WAP will be designed with transferability in mind. It will offer site-specific water conservation strategies for UCSB and additionally, will serve as a comprehensive template for external water action plans. The WAP Group acknowledges the wide range of water needs and uses across the UC System. From agricultural to hospital water demand, each UC faces its own water challenges, but underlying the differences between universities is a common goal: water conservation. The UCSB WAP will lay out a systematic approach to designing a water action plan with the ultimate goal of maximizing water conservation; regardless of each university’s individual challenges, the UCSB WAP will emphasize key components see WATER | page 8

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Media Arts and Technologies Facebook’s Professor Theodore Kim Receives New Feature Academy Award Sparks Interest Across the Globe

by OLIVIA PRIEDITE

At a research university like the University of California, Santa Barbara, we aren’t too shocked that among our faculty are five Nobel laureates. Once an Academy Award winner is thrown into the mix, people get interested.

Professor Theodore Kim will receive an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for his research that produced Wavelet Turbulence, a technique that manipulates thousands of small graphic details to produce extremely real smoke-simulations. His research has resulted in the simulation of smoke for various blasts, eruptions and other pyrotechnics.

According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, “This technique allowed for fast, art–directable creation of highly detailed gas simulation, making it easier for the artist to control the appearance these effects in the final image.” Professor Kim’s research and methods of can be seen in over 26 films, including “Super 8,” “Alice In Wonderland,” “Sherlock Holmes,” and “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.”

On Saturday, Feb. 9, Professor Kim and his colleagues Nils Thuerey, Dr. Markus Gross,

and Doug James will be presented an Academy Award for the invention, publication and dissemination of Wavelet Turbulence software. In an interview with George Foulsham of UCSB Public Affairs, Kim explains, “Usually academics do not receive this award, but we looked at the past academics who have received the award and it turns out if you have about a dozen to twenty movies in which your work was used then that

Photo Courtesty of | George Foulsham seems about the threshold that people start to consider you for this award.”

Professor Kim is an associate professor in the Media Arts and Technology Program, beginning in 2011. He received his Ph.D. in computer

science from the University of North Carolina and joined UCSB after serving as an assistant professor in computer science at the University of Saskatchewan. Theodore Kim has found a perfect fit in the Media Arts and Technology department.

“Growing up there was a little bit of a tension between do I want to program a computer?

Or do I want to do something a little bit more artistic? This industry I suppose is a nice meeting of these two features,” Kim stated to UCSB Public Affairs. His talents for computer science and affinity for pleasing the eye aesthetically have led to his contributions to many major motion pictures.

In his interview with UCSB Public Affairs, Kim said his wavelet turbulence “enables artists to get the look that they wanted for fireballs or for volcanic explosions in enough time that it fit into their work flow.” Unlike other Academy Awards presented for a film or technology created in 2012, Kim’s work will be recognized for its lengthy achievement and influence on the world of film. On Feb. 9, two weeks earlier than the Oscars, Professor Kim and 25 other recipients will be recognized for their contribution to motion pictures at the Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Keep an eye out for Professor Kim’s work in the future.

This year, Wavelet Turbulence will be used in “Man of Steel” and “Iron Man 3.” Next time you head to the movie theater, keep in mind that this talented Gaucho may have played a role in your explosive cinematic experience.

Windows 7 vs. Windows 8

by ANJALI SHASTRY Staff Writer At the end of last quarter, my laptop suffered a slow and agonizing death by drowning. It was stupidity on my part, but I got a new computer out of it (huzzah!). I was thrilled when I found out my new computer would have Windows 8, because all the advertisements between episodes of my “Castle” marathon made the new interface look super exciting!

Those advertisements are misleading.

Windows 8 is one of those interfaces that look really cool on advertisements, but appears to be designed more with touchscreen laptops in mind. I am running Windows 8 on a 4 GB Pentium processor Acer that is trying to support Windows 8 and isn’t doing all that great a job.

In the era of instant gratification, I don’t want to wait 30 seconds on the clock for an app to load when I could wait 2 seconds, and Windows 8 is supposedly pretty speedy. I imagine Windows 8 would be more exciting on an i7 processor that could actually support it and run it more efficiently.

Processors aside, Windows 8 is surprisingly complicated to operate. For example, it suffers from a bulky Start page. The computer boots up to this Start page, which is a page of solid colored blocks called “tiles” that are shortcuts to apps, websites, and programs. There are a bunch of preloaded apps, like “Maps” and “People” and my personal favorite, “Store,” where you can buy more apps and tiles to put on your Start page.

There are also other like “newsXpresso” and “Ebay” and “Chacha,” none of which do anything the Internet couldn’t already do. People is an interesting app; it allows you to sync your Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Hotmail, and Outlook accounts all to this one app that will have all the people in your life and the various

ways to contact them all in one place. However, the apps are a bit annoying, and can slow down the computer.

“Windows 8 is very visually appealing, but I prefer the old version because I’m used to it and it worked just fine for me,” said April Scatliffe, second-year communication major.

Once you’re on the start page, there is a tile that allows you to click on the desktop. The desktop is a function of Windows 7 that is maintained in Windows 8.

“The tiles are a cool concept, but even on a touchscreen laptop, they are bulky and childish,” said first-year computer engineering major Matthew Ruth of the tiles and desktop. “But I do like that they still have the desktop of Windows 7. I thought they would get rid of it altogether.”

The desktop functions much like the desktop of Windows 7, but there is no Start button in the left hand corner. Instead, you slide your mouse over the left hand corner and a picture of tiles pops up so that you can click into the Start page. It’s certainly more effective with the touchscreen laptops.

If you slide your mouse over the upper left hand corner, then slide down, you can see what other apps and programs you have open at any given time. The apps that are not on the desktop don’t open on the desktop, which means you cannot access them at the same time unless you click and drag them to either side of the screen and drop it down so you can have two apps open at the same time. It isn’t as complicated as it sounds when you get the hang of it.

“Windows 8 is not intuitive at all, and using it takes a bit of learning,” said Breann Guzman, a second-year political science major.

“That’s weird because I thought it was supposed to be easy to use.”

Unfortunately, it took me a while to get the hang of it too. I myself spent a fair amount of

by CHEYENNE JOHNSON Staff Writer

Two ocean research groups at University of California, Santa Barbara have received multimillion dollar grants from the National Science Foundation to assist in their long-term research concerning coral reefs and kelp forests. The Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research and the Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research programs are two programs located at least partially on the UCSB campus, and each has received a grant close to $1 million a year to fund its projects and research as well as supplies and salaries.

“This is an amazing thing,” Principal Investigator at Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research Russ Schmitt said about the $960,000 the program will be receiving for the next four years.

MCR LTER studies the coral reefs around the French Polynesian island of Moorea and aims to discover how the coral reefs there recover so quickly from damage by pollution, species invasion, and natural disasters. Though coral reefs take up only a tenth of a percent of the sea floor, Schmitt assures they are a vital part of the

ocean ecosystem.

“From a biodiversity point of view, they are spectacularly important,” said Schmitt. “They are the rainforests of the marine environment.”

The reef at Moorea is particularly special because, despite being invaded by the Crown of Thorns starship and the offshore coral being mostly destroyed by a cyclone, the coral has managed to recover far quicker than expected.

Whereas most coral takes several decades to return to its pervious levels, the reefs at Moorea return to their former glory usually within a decade. While the parrotfish and its tendency to eat algae before it can blossom into kelp fields is one of the likely causes, the other reason remains unsure but hypothesized.

“Despite the fact that the reef has been literally wiped out, baby corals have been able to repopulate at an enormously high rate,” he said.

“That means adult corals somewhere else are producing coral larvae that are somehow ending up at Moorea.”

The research at the MCR LTER will focus on the effects of global warming, changes in seawater chemistry due to ocean acidification, the impacts of human’s fishing, and longterm impact of natural disasters like cyclones.

Last Tuesday, curious journalists finally learned what was hiding behind the mysterious invitation they had received from Facebook, asking them to “come and see what we’re building.”

The event, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, was found to be the unveiling of a new “graph search” bar, which the company had promised would change the site’s user experience for good.

On a Facebook page opened exclusively in order to introduce the new feature, the company wrote that “with graph search, you can look up anything shared with you on Facebook.” So, by typing in the top blue bar on the website, users could search all the people, photos, interests, in their friends lists and networks. As Salvador Rodriguez of the Los Angeles Times’ Tech section added, an innovative feature that was intro-

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time on the Windows 8 website learning how to use Internet Explorer 10 (the default browser of Windows 8) and how to open up different apps at once.

If you scroll to the right hand corners of the screen, a directory of Search, Share, Devices, Settings, and a Start button appear. To search the computer for an app, file, program, or website pinned to the Start page, you have to click on Search which takes you away from the desktop and into the Start menu for your search. In Windows 7, you didn’t have to leave the desktop and whatever file you had open, so it is a bit irritating. Some of the functions of Windows 8 are such a departure from Windows 7 that it doesn’t make sense to me.

I agreed with third-year environmental studies major Matt Manabat’s assessment that “it is trying too hard to look like an Apple Operating System. Many people choose Windows over Apple because they aren’t interested in their interface. That was certainly the case for me.”

On the other hand, the Start page resembles the Xbox dashboard, according to secondyear economics and accounting major Alex Markovich. “The two pages look pretty much identical,” said Markovich, “which makes sense because the Xbox comes from Microsoft, too.

Maybe they are trying to sync up the systems, so it’d be easier for a Windows 8 user to cross over to Xbox, and thus open up a new market.”

No matter the reasoning behind the new system, the interface itself provokes my irritability. As a technophobe who just wants to use Word sometimes to write my papers, and the Internet to spend my life on Tumblr and Facebook, I don’t find this new supposedly userfriendly interface, well, user-friendly.

Nicholas Kawazoe, a fourth-year economics and accounting major, summed it up perfectly when he exclaimed, “I don’t like change!”

Marine Science Given Multimillion Dollar Grant

by VIJAY MODI

Back in Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research program is examining the local kelp forests to determine the effects of human activities including pollution on the forests and rainwater runoff as well as acidification and a rise in ocean temperature. Principal investigator Dan Reed said the kelp forests serve a crucial function in ocean ecosystems.

“Kelp are what is considered by ecologists to be a foundation species, species that are of overwhelming importance to the community,” said Reed.

Kelp forests provide a habitat for hundreds of ocean species who hide among the kelp stalks and with human involvement and interaction in the area increasing, Reed and his team are researching the long term effects on the ecosystem.

The grants from the NSF ensure that the data accumulation and research currently employed by these two programs, which span several fields of studies and disciplines, will continue into the future.

“I think UCSB,” said Reed, “is known for its very interdisciplinary research, open borders, and collaborative spirit.”

This addition means that Facebook, based on our interests and cyber-relationships, could give us results that are far more personalized than any other search engine.

duced into the graph search bar is its ability to show you the direct answers you were looking for, as opposed to links that might be relevant to your search. During the press conference, Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated another characteristic that is bound to change the search bar playing field. Facebook’s search graph can now understand questions that are written in completely natural language, such as “movies my friend likes in 2010” or “my friends who are living in Isla Vista.” This addition means that Facebook, based on our interests and cyber-relationships, could give us results that are far more personalized than any other search engine did up until now.

As with every announcement that has to do with Facebook’s changing capacities, both acclaims and concerns were on the rise following the event. The first matter on line of concerns is the issue of privacy, which sticks to every innovation Facebook introduces into its platform.

The fact that other users could now sift through personal information faster and more accurately than ever before seems, as always, very daunting to a growing number of users. John Sileo, author of “Privacy Means Money” and an identity theft prevention expert, went as far as to warn ABC News that “hackers and (Identity) phishers woke up to Christmas morning with all this data.”

In reality, most of us should be more afraid of prospective employers or unwanted stalkers looking through our information. Mashable’s Alex Fitzpatrick explains that while not giving more or less access into your private information, it will allow “people to use Graph Search to find information you have already shared with them.” In other words, the new search tool will likely “float” more of the information you have shared than is visible in your profile right now.

Chris Conley, a technology and civil-liberties attorney at ACLU, sums the privacy issue by telling USA Today that “even though (Graph Search) doesn’t reveal information, it makes it easier to find older information you may have on Timeline and don’t want to share.” As an answer to these concerns, Facebook has re-assured that privacy is at the top of its priorities, and that “the search engine will be tweaked to ensure privacy after results from the beta version (which is taking place right now) come in.” All in all, it seems that the new Graph Search feature will not expose anything that we want to keep a secret, yet it’s the things we have already shared on Facebook that we have to worry about.

Leaving privacy concerns aside, advertisers, business analysts and tech junkies alike have been enthusiastic about the new feature. Sterne Agee’s senior analyst, Arvind Bhatia, has raised his estimates of Facebook’s value immediately following Tuesday’s big news. He believes, along with other analysts, that Facebook’s move has “contributed to its longer-term growth opportunity,” through its improvement of user experience and long-term “big revenue opportunity.”

Jennifer Van Grove of CNET, an online Tech news source, who is included in the beta testing version of the Graph Search, summed up her experience of the new feature in a couple of simple words: “It is good. Very good.”

Out of all of these different viewpoints on Facebook’s innovation, one thing is sure: the company is not resting on its laurels, and, despite Zuckerberg’s denial, is slated for a media big bang style collision with search-engine giant Google.

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BAND, continued from page 5 WATER, continued PUNK “I don’t want to go to the beach, I don’t want your hands on me,” fiercely combat the idea of the beach as an arena where women can be objectified by their form. from page 6 “People get excited to see an all-girls band,” Luna added, “but sometimes I

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and analytic processes necessary to developing a thorough and thoughtful water action plan.

The graduate students working on the project hope to facilitate collaboration within and among universities to encourage creativity and information sharing that will maximize water conservation efforts across the board.

Currently, the WAP Group is in the process of writing the plan.

The WAP Group will be producing a document for their Bren School Master’s Thesis and a guidance document for UCSB. The WAP Group will defend their Thesis in late February and present the final report, which will be open to the public, in mid-April.

More information about the project, group members and project deliverables can be found on the WAP Group’s website, http://www2. bren.ucsb.edu/~wateraction/.

wonder if they’re just excited to see us or they actually like our music.” Through “punkception” GK does not mean to say that they “hate men,” nor that they are feminists.

“I don’t mind being associated with feminism,” Munsterman said, “but then musical ability kind of gets shut down.” When focus is put on the “all-girls” image, “people assume things about you that are pretty much stereotypes,” Shay said.

Busting open the garage the garage doors at one point, the rambunctious crowd showed their support for GK’s fresh and innovative spin on punk expression.

HEALTH, continued from page 6 we are facing involves both the individual side of our personal behaviors, but also the policies that surround our health.

A 2011 report written by a group of Yale researchers states that for every dollar America spends on health care, it puts 90 cents toward social services.

All the other industrialized countries are doing the exact opposite. In Dec. 2011 The New York Times published an op-ed piece by Elizabeth Bradley and Lauren Taylor, professor of public health and program manager, respectively, at Yale’s Global Health Leadership Institute. Bradley and Taylor found that counties that put more money into social services relative to health care have a higher life expectancy than those who adopt the reverse strategy. This finding connects with one of the conclusions the NRC report adopted, which marked the disparity between the qualities of health care among different economic groups as a fundamental cause to this national health crisis.

FASHION, continued from page 3

attracting late-night weekend crowds out the door and a steady enough customer base at all hours to remain open 24 hours a day. The Isla Vista Food Co-op recently proved its place as an IV staple by successfully raising over $200,000 to own its property, due in part to efforts of over 1,000 individual participants in a crowdsourcing fund, according to the Co-op’s Facebook page.

Miss Behavin’ is another modern IV staple. Nestled above Bagel Café on the 6500 block of Trigo Road, the boutique will be celebrating its seventh anniversary of selling trendy women’s clothing this year.

The only business in IV with a focus on dresses, outfits, accessories, and jewelry, Miss Behavin’ was founded to bring fashion-forward clothes to residents of IV without requiring them to get on the freeway.

Founder and owner Kelly Scott grew up in Santa Barbara, studied sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and subsequently studied fashion merchandise in New York City at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She hung around New York working for several years in the corporate world of fashion, and came

back to Santa Barbara to start the boutique in 2007.

Miss Behavin’s presence as the only boutique in IV isn’t the only reason the store is so distinctive. The shop’s true exceptionality lies in Scott’s keen sense of trends and careful choice of clothes. Scott’s meticulous fashion selection seems to precede and set IV trends.

“I never buy anything that I don’t think is cute,” said Scott. “For me it’s way more fun to sell stuff that I love.”

Scott spends her days in the shop helping customers select clothes from her offerings, oftentimes taking on a personal shopper role. She says that her constant presence in IV and the fact that she maintains friendships with many of her customers assists in her task of capturing IV style.

“I think that being here all the time I kind of pick up what’s going on,” added Scott. “I’ve always been kind of good at knowing what the trends are, and I don’t know where that comes from.”

When Scott moved back to Santa Barbara after living in New York for five years, she found that IV still lacked a boutique or place for girls to buy clothes, aside from Sweet Jane, a

store focusing more on party accessories than fashion. With the support of family and friends, she secured her spot on Trigo, where Miss Behavin’ has been located ever since.

“It was never a dream I necessarily thought would be a reality, ever since I went to school out here, even before,” said Scott of owning a boutique, though she says it has always been an aspiration. “I was over working for big corporate companies and I wanted to do my own thing.”

Unlike stores on State Street, Scott caters to the strange cycles of IV retail—such as a near-abandoned condition come winter break and the spike in sales that comes around Halloween.

“I seriously put my entire life into the store,” said Scott. “Because this is not like any other retail store— it’s almost the opposite.”

Scott thinks that the effort she puts into customer service, her promotional use of Facebook, and her constant flow of new clothes (shipments come in on a weekly basis) keeps her customers coming back and her business healthy.

Miss Behavin’ is located upstairs at 6551 Trigo Rd. in Suite #6.

SEVEN FALLS,

continued from page 5 The climb down is similarly difficult to the climb up, as you will have to scramble over and slide down rocks without necessarily good footholds. In addition, the trail back down veers off a bit from the creek, and if you do not see where it splits off, you will be climbing down even more difficult rocks.

However, whichever way you go, you will reach the bottom again, where you can either go to Inspiration Point if you have not done so already, or hike back up to the fire road that will lead you down to your car.

Although there is water in the pools year-round, the creek and waterfalls have the most water in the winter, after there has been a lot of rain. While this could seem like a problem because it could be too cold to go swimming in the winter, we are lucky to live in a place where it can reach 75 degrees in the middle of January and going for a nice dip in a natural pool after a long hike is an amazing feeling.

My tips: Bring lots of water and snacks. You will get tired very quickly on whichever hike you take, and you will need energy.

Go when the weather is nice and you can go for a swim (even in the “dead” of winter).

Wear good shoes and don’t be afraid to get your hands dirty. Rock climbing will get your hands and clothes dirty, and you need shoes with good traction for the more risky jumps across rocks.

Go with people who are willing to go all the way. This is a very fun hike, but it can get hard and tiring to climb up all the rocks. You will be sore the next day, but going to the top is a rewarding experience that is worth the fatigue and then pain. *If you’re feeling particularly adventurous, bike there. I had two friends who did that and it created an all-around active day.

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