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COFFEEHOUSE
ALI ENRIGHT
BY ALLISON HOLLENDER
The newly formed Coffee Shop Advisory Committee
released a campuswide survey on May 24 for input about the
controversial takeover of the historically college-run Cowell
Coffee Shop and Stevenson Coffee House by UC Santa Cruz
Dining Services.
They are set to be absorbed by dining to address consistent
deficits for both coffeehouses that have been covered by the
two colleges over the majority of the past 20 years. But there
is significant pushback from faculty, staff, students and alumni
who fear one of the oldest and most unique spaces on campus
will be homogenized.
Our goal is really just to gather feedback and use that as
vision-making as we continue to move forward, said Carolyn
Golz, college administrative officer for Cowell and Stevenson
Colleges, who put together the committee including two
students, two staff and four faculty members.
She said the ideas for the committee and survey were born
from suggestions during the April community forums for
Stevenson and Cowell students to provide feedback on the
absorption.
But students, especially at the forum, condemned dinings
takeover of the Stevenson Coffee House that has been a part
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ARCHIVES
Celebrating
50 Years of
the Grateful
Dead
Dead Central continues
to commemorate
bands legacy
BY MARWA SAFI
PHOTOS BY CASEY AMARAL
Halloween 1965, Soquel Avenue a Victorian house filled
with college students experienced two seminal 60s moments.
Not only was it Ken Keseys first Acid Test, but it was also the
Grateful Deads first house show. This was the night that began
the bands legacy in Santa Cruz.
The legacy has continued through Dead Central, the bands
public exhibit in McHenry Library. The tribute is built heavily
from exclusive archival photos donated to UC Santa Cruz, and
last month archivist Nicholas Meriwether reopened the space
after a month of renovations for its latest exhibit. This is the fifth
installment in Dead Central since its opening in 2008.
Named Imagining the Dead: Photographs and Photographers
in the Grateful Dead Archive, 1965-1995, the exhibit contains
more than 200 objects and artifacts, celebrating the bands 50th
anniversary.
The archive includes never before seen footage of [the] band
collected over the last 50 years of their career, Meriwether said.
Meriwether has collected over 1,000 photographs related
to the Grateful Dead, a band known as the godfathers of jam
session music. Founding members Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Bill
Kreutzmann, Ron McKernan and Phil Lesh are credited with the
psychedelic sound associated with the hippie movement in San
Francisco.
Their fans, known as deadheads, are known for their
extreme devotion. Deadheads followed the band, created
specific lingo and dressed in tie-dye. The intense relationship
formed between fans and the band allowed unprecedented
access to the rise of the Grateful Dead. While some bands shied
away from photographers, the Dead embraced and encouraged
rock journalism.
Dead Central has been a part of UCSC since the band itself
chose to display their memorabilia here. Bob Weir stated at a
press conference announcing the exhibit, We looked around
and UC Santa Cruz seems the best possible home.
Even though the Grateful Deads prime was before most
UCSC students were born, their legacy has touched many.
I guess Dead Central played a part in me choosing to attend
UC Santa Cruz, said third-year student Camille Halley. I was
really into them my senior year of high school and thought the
exhibit was super cool and wanted to work there.
Last year, Halley got a tattoo with the signature Grateful Dead
roses along with the words, Rambling Rose, to remind herself of
the impact the Dead has had on her life.
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Heartwork
2016 Irwin Scholars
inspire faculty and
students at the Porter
Sesnon Gallery
BY GABRIELLE GARCIA
PHOTOS BY ALI ENRIGHT
4 JUNE 2
Chloe Yantis.
With
a
highly
moving
combination of concept and
execution with a humanitarian
focus,
each
piece
captured
onlookers. During the awards
ceremony at the Sesnon Gallery,
the artists thanked their mentors,
loved ones and audience members.
Banuelos thanked his peers and
parents with a poem in Spanish.
Gracias por tener fe en m. Los
quiero con todo mi corazn. Thank
you for having faith in me. I love you
with all my heart, Banuelos said.
Students arranged their works
alongside Sesnon Arts Gallery
manager Mark Shunney. Associate
professors
Dee-Hibbert
Jones,
Enrique Leal and Norman Locks
and staff research associate Bridget
Henry were among those thanked
onstage by students for pushing
them to their full potential.
We encourage the Irwin Scholars
to stay in touch with the Sesnon
Gallery and UCSC after graduation,
said Shelby Graham, Sesnon Art
gallery director and curator.
We send the scholars gallery or
job opportunities and encourage
them to go to graduate school if they
are interested, Graham said. We
stress the importance of networking
with other artists and to continue to
build a strong creative community.
GALLERY
Recipient
Caetano
Santos
thanked his mentors and did a roll
call of his friends, main supporters
and family. Santos is widely known
in the arts community and often
participates in off-campus art house
shows. As his work has evolved
from graphic print style, his new
pieces demonstrate more than just
craftsmanship.
Thematically,
Santos
work
deals with loss and memory while
exploring a new method he learned
from professor Leal a glass etching
made by silk-screening photographs
onto glass with asphaltum.
I was thinking about my aunt
and the fragility of memory, of the
glass, of peoples lives, Santos said,
referencing his aunt who recently
died and meant a great deal to
Santos.
Santos is proud to pay homage
to what matters to him most a
family member who contributed to
and shaped his bicultural identity,
since he has family in both Brazil
and California.
With this piece, you need
distance between the glass and
the wall in order to document the
shadow that it casts, Santos said.
And thats sort of this distance
between my aunt and me. You have
to maintain these relationships and
be very active to keep up with your
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HOUSING
New Trans-Inclusive
Housing Option Introduced at UCSC
All-Gender Housing Task Force adds two inclusive spaces
BY WENDY RENTERIA
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individual basis.
The trans-inclusive housing option was
never meant to be the be-all, end-all solution
for every trans-identified student, Arao said
in an email. We know that trans and gender
nonconforming students are a diverse group,
and thus have equally diverse housing needs.
Uncharted Waters
CONCERT
BY MIKAELA MARCOS
When professor Anna Friz
saw that UC Santa Cruz had an
underwater speaker, a 50-meter pool
and creative students, she figured
why not put on an underwater
concert? With the film and digital
media department, she created the
show Submerging Artists.
Submerging
Artists
was
conceptualized in March after Friz
discovered that UCSC also had a
hydrophone, a microphone that
can record underwater sounds. As a
teenage synchronized swimmer, Friz
has extensive experience listening
to music underwater and is excited
to bring the first-ever underwater
concert to UCSC on June 7.
Art and artistic expression
can take place in a lot of unusual
and everyday settings, said Friz,
a film and digital media assistant
professor. Its sort of unusual to
have a concert in a pool, but its also
this setting that is very everyday. [I
want students] to think of any site as
a possibility for performance or for
more extended listening.
Water as a medium for sound
works differently than air. Sound
waves move faster in water, making
the time between when sound hits
one ear and then the other virtually
nonexistent. Though this brings the
listener closer to the sound because
we are used to listening in air, we
hear things underwater as distorted.
This distortion allows performers to
create sounds they wouldnt be able
to make above water.
The show features graduate
and undergraduate students from
film and digital media and digital
arts and new media who are
interested in water as a space for
creative performance. Most of the
pieces were composed with the
underwater element in mind, using
mermaids, whales and ship horns as
inspirations for the pieces.
Graduate
student
Isabelle
Carbonell
incorporates
ocean
acoustic tomography into her piece
Tomo/veillance. Ocean acoustic
tomography measures temperatures
and currents across the ocean and
is one of the most reliable ways to
track climate change. This technique
was originally developed in the Cold
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FEATURE
A Matter of Choice
A HISTORY OF OPPOSITION
Medically-assisted death has gained positive traction
in recent years, helping to pave the way for Californias
End of Life Option Act. But the legislation didnt come
easily. In addition to the usual bureaucratic difficulties,
authors of the End of Life Option Act had to grapple with
the uncomfortable reality of death.
Our culture now is averse to talking about dying,
said assemblyman Mark Stone (D-Monterey Bay), who
co-authored the bill. Its uncomfortable for people to
even talk about it. To pass a bill like this you have to talk
about the fact that people are dying.
In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize
medically-assisted death after passing the Death With
Dignity Act, after which Californias End of Life Option
Act is modeled. Though Oregons legislation marked a
turning point in the national debate, setting the stage for
what end-of-life legislation might look like in the U.S., it
took almost 20 years for California to pass a similar law.
Two years before Oregon made national headlines,
Californians voted against Proposition 161, the Aid-InDying Act. The initiative failed 54 to 46 percent, after a
well-funded opposition campaign led by the Catholic
Church. Advocates tried five more times to pass similar
measures in 1995, 1999, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
But the debate was galvanized in 2014 when 29-year-
10 JUNE 2
OWEN THOMAS
CATHOLICS - 55%
REPUBLICANS - 55%
DEMOCRATS - 70%
PERCENTAGE OF APPROVAL
OF END OF LIFE OPTION ACT
BY DEMOGRAPHIC
be self-administered.
Removing physicians from the act
of administering the medication was an
essential detail. But, critics say, the absence
of a medical professional at the time of
death raises the potential for coercion, a
criticism leveled at physician-assisted dying
since its inception.
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SPORTS
SKIPPY
RETIRING
THIS
SUMMER
BY JAVIER GUTIERREZ
When Kevin Skippy Givens
came to UC Santa Cruz for a national
Frisbee freestyle tournament in 1979,
he didnt expect it to be his home
for 28 years. Givens, an avid sports
fan, knew he wanted to pursue a
career in sports but never imagined
he would manage the largest sports
12 JUNE 2
STEPHEN DE ROPP
After 28 years as
OPERS competitive
sports supervisor,
Kevin Skippy Givens
will retire Aug. 1
STEPHEN DE ROPP
OPINION
Hillary Clinton and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom greet rally attendees in San Jose on May 26.
BY MICHAEL KUSHNER
Growing up, Hillary Clinton inspired me. I
loved the former first lady who defied traditions
by running for public office and becoming
a serious contender for the first female
president. I admired her moderate ideology
and willingness to cross party lines in a highly
polarized government.
But as she stood across the room from me at
a campaign event, I struggled to connect with
her at all.
This is Clinton Country! repeated like
a broken record at former Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clintons rally on May 26. But
Clinton couldnt even fill the venue. The free
public event at Parkside Hall in downtown
San Jose, which holds 3,000 people, had an
estimated 2,000 attendees. A Bernie Sanders
rally held the week before in Sacramento
filled Bonny Stadium with as many as 20,000
enthusiastic followers.
The rally began with praise for her
commitment to diversity and inclusion. San
Jose city council member Magdalena Carrasco,
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