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OCEAN PARK Nearly a year after the birthplace of Dogtown was saved from demolition, the owner of a building that housed the old Zephyr surf shop returned to the Ocean Park neighborhood, this time with a new set of plans. Juli Doar, whose family owns an 86-year-old commer- cial structure on the corner of Main and Bay streets, pre- sented plans last week to develop a three-story apartment REACHING OUT complex behind the original home of Zephyr and Jeff Ho Productions, where the Z-Boys skateboard team was Samohi students spread the word about Darfur credited with revolutionizing the recreational activity into the form seen today. STORY BY MELODY HANATANI PAGE 11 The building caused a stir among Dogtown loyalists and Ocean Park residents after Doar filed a demolition permit in fall 2006 to build an environmentally-friendly Alexis Hawkins [email protected] apartment complex. The demo permit was subsequently SPEAKING OUT: Leah Sotelo (left) and Hannah Squier (right) inform Samohi students about the situation in Darfur on Tuesday. withdrawn after Doar learned about the impact that Zephyr and its skateboard team had on the world of skateboarding. The Landmarks Commission designated the west- ern part of the C-shaped building as a landmark, Come on and take a free ride which is the retail space, in May of last year, keeping it intact while allowing the rear to one day be demol- ment on the part of the Board of routes — two of them newly estab- ished. The retail space is currently the home of SMC employees, Trustees and the Associated Students lished — was first made available to the Horizons West Surf Shop, which was founded by one to support my vision of creating a reli- college’s students and employees. The of the Z-Boys and is now in the hands of long-time able way for students and employees routes are the Line 6 to Mar Vista, the surfer, Randy Wright. students to ride to get to campus without having to Crosstown Ride to midtown Santa Doar and her architect, Howard Laks, returned to the pay the high price of gas, battle traffic Monica, and the Sunset Ride connect- Ocean Park community last Thursday with new drawings for free on BBB and waste time looking for parking ing SMC’s satellite campuses and new spaces,” said SMC President Chui parking lot. SEE PROJECT PAGE 13 BY KEVIN HERRERA Tsang. “We are incredibly impressed with EDITOR IN CHIEF “Only a very few public colleges in the initiative of the SMC student body California have attempted to provide and administration toward advocating SMC Beginning this fall, Santa Monica no-charge transit passes.” public transit use,” said Stephanie College students and employees with The new program will require an Negriff, BBB director of transit servic- I.D. will be able to ride any Big Blue SMC financial commitment of $1.2 es. “We are confident that this partner- Bus line any time for free. million in 2008-09, of which approxi- ship will significantly reduce the num- In an historic move designed to mately one-third will come from the ber of cars on local streets. improve access to the college and to Associated Students, one-third from “With the support of the college, we reduce traffic, noise and air pollution, the SMC general fund, and the remain- also hope to address regional traffic the SMC Board of Trustees voted der from new revenues generated by issues by introducing Rapid 7 service unanimously Monday night to approve increased parking and Associated along the Pico Boulevard corridor to MOCK: A model of the “Any Line, Any Time” program Students fees. more efficiently transport SMC stu- the proposed development with the BBB. The program will go into The action is a major expansion of dents and staff from campus to the at Horizons West Surf Shop on Photo courtesy of Howard Laks effect in late August when the fall SMC’s transportation initiative, Rimpau Transit Center in mid-city Los Main Street. While the structure housing the surf shop has semester begins. launched in 2007 in partnership with been declared a landmark, the structure behind it was not and “This is an extraordinary commit- the BBB, when free access to three bus SEE BBB PAGE 12 therefore can be removed to make way for new development.

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BY DAILY PRESS STAFF People who have never ridden the wheel have likely seen it. According to Pacific Park, the SANTA MONICA PIER It is perhaps one of Pacific Wheel has been in 105 photo shoots, 71 the most iconic symbols of the Los Angeles television commercials, 69 television shows, 28 area, featured in television shows, feature feature films and 13 music videos. films and commercials, and now fans can At night, the wheel is illuminated by put in a bid to purchase the Ferris wheel on 5,392 light bulbs. the Santa Monica Pier. Before deciding to bid, however, potential The famed Pacific Wheel and its 20 col- orful gondolas are up for grabs on eBay, with the opening bid at $50,000. The WHERE THERE IS online auction began late Tuesday and lasts until April 25. Half of the winning bid will THE WHEEL, THERE be donated to Special Olympics Southern California. IS A WAY FOR PACIFIC PARK “Where there is the wheel, there is a way for Pacific Park to raise money for Special TO RAISE MONEY FOR Olympics,” says Jeff Klocke, director of mar- keting and sales at Pacific Park amusement SPECIAL OLYMPICS.” park. “We have partnered with the great organization for more than 10 years and feel Jeff Klocke, this is the grandest gift we could offer the Director of marketing and sales organization. It’s a sign of our commitment at Pacific Park amusement park to their mission and reinforcing our valued long-term relationship.” buyers should be aware that the wheel weighs The Pacific Wheel, which originally cost 122,000 pounds, and the winning bidder must $800,000, was installed at Pacific Park in 1996. have the wheel moved. The base of the wheel is It was upgraded two years later to become the not included in the purchase price, but Kansas- world’s first solar-powered Ferris wheel. based Chance Morgan Inc. — the original Standing 90 feet tall and carrying riders manufacturer — will offer the winning bidder 130 feet above the ocean, the wheel has given a base for about $135,000, with 10 percent of more than 3 million rides over the past 12 that amount going to Special Olympics years, park officials said. Kansas. “Pacific Park and Special Olympics con- The wheel has two hubs that say “Pacific tinue to strengthen their relationship and Wheel,” but one of them will be removed and commitment to families, athletes and the donated to the Santa Monica Historical Society. community with this unique donation and The wheel will be replaced with a $1.5 auction on eBay,” said Maria Shriver, who million, more contemporary Ferris wheel sits on the board of governors for Special next month. Installation is expected to begin File photo Olympics Southern California. “The win- May 5, with a grand-opening ceremony set GOING ONCE: Pacific Park has put the iconic Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier on eBay, with ning bidder will gain a historical piece of for May 22. the starting bid set at $50,000. Proceeds from the sale will go to the Special Olympics. The amuse- Santa Monica while making a difference in ment park is replacing the wheel with a more energy efficient one this summer. the lives of Special Olympics athletes.” [email protected] Jury reaches some verdicts in murder-for-profit trial of elderly women BY LINDA DEUTSCH they are not unanimous on one of the crim- charge possible in the case is second-degree The defendants, Helen Golay, 77, and Associated Press Writer inal counts involving the deaths of two murder rather than first-degree. Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, spent the day in a homeless men. The jurors said they had reached some holding cell at the courthouse awaiting the LOS ANGELES Jurors deliberating in the Superior Court Judge David Wesley verdicts which they submitted to the judge verdict. They are accused of befriending two murder-for-profit trial of two elderly referred them to a jury instruction which in a sealed envelope before retiring for the transients, buying insurance policies on women said Tuesday they have reached some deals with the possibility of reaching agree- day. They were to resume their deliberations their lives and ultimately drugging them and verdicts but asked the court what happens if ment on a lesser charge. The only lesser on Wednesday. running them over with cars. Since 1967 Quality & Value Always! Open 6am - 2:30pm Mon. - Fri. 6am - 4pm Sat. - Sun.

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PUBLISHER LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Going Postal Ross Furukawa Send comments to [email protected] Steve “the Mailman” Breen Send comments to [email protected] [email protected] EDITOR IN CHIEF The list Kevin Herrera Editor: [email protected] Each week when the newspapers publish the MANAGING EDITOR (Department of Defense’s) list of names of the Don’t ask, do tell Daniel Archuleta American military personnel who have died in Iraq, I [email protected] take the time to read them. “Everyone knows that gays have served self-directed individuals in our Armed I don’t know a single soldier. I’ve never met his or honorably in the military since at least the Services! STAFF WRITER her family. But they were somebody’s someone spe- time of Julius Caesar.” Much of the electoral discourse is rife Melody Hanatani cial, and somehow I feel I owe it to them to take a - Barry Goldwater with concern over the war. Collectively [email protected] moment and consider their lives, and their deaths. ponder this query: How is it that a Green STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Most of those on the weekly list are killed in Iraq by LET ME GET THIS, AHEM, STRAIGHT … Card immigrant is allowed a path to citi- Brandon Wise roadside bombs or snipers. social conservatives from both sides of the zenship based on successful completion of [email protected] Most are not even 25 years old. Political Divide have had their leopard print military service yet a “pink” citizen is But last week, those demographics changed. man panties in a twist over the open inclu- excluded out of hand from the same serv- CONTRIBUTING WRITERS An Army colonel and Army Reserve major were sion of gays in the military. OK, let’s start ice to the Republic and must hide in the Bill Bauer, David Pisarra, killed by a rocket attack while working out in the U.S. with the uniforms. shadows? Meredith Carroll, Kenny Mack, Embassy’s military fitness center in what the The US Army could use Karl Lagerfeld’s And redoubt yourselves that “Don’t Jack Neworth, Lloyd Garver, (Department of Defense ) refers to as Baghdad’s “forti- help here with their Class A dress togs. Ask, Don’t Tell” will ch-ch-change under Seth Barnes, Taylor van Arsdale, Dane Robert Swanson, Ryan Hyatt, fied” Green Zone, which is where they live and work. They look like Christmas trees without the the ministrations of Barry Obama. Steve Breen, One report said their unit was attacked by indirect fire. electric lights plugged in … way too busy Recently, yet another of Obama’s platoon Mark Marchillo, Ken Tarr, In reality, they were on the treadmill in the workout and way too many accessories. And the Air has deployed to the front lines and has Mike Heayn, Brian Hepp room when the mortars hit. Force, booorrring! Those hunky buzz cut charged forth from the same racist fox- Mariel Howsepian and Cynthia Citron The Army colonel had served for 35 years, and his Marines are a close second as America’s hole as his “Uncle” Jeremiah but with the latest assignment was to help train and equip the Iraqi Next Top Model yet this season’s Hot added alpha-tango-foxtrot of LGBT hate NEWS INTERNS army. His sister said she could hear in his voice the last Topic is the US Navy with its Gothic mid- baiting. Chiara Canzi few weeks that even though he said he was safe, she night blue 13-button bell-bottoms [email protected] didn’t think he believed it. And since there had been matched with a fetching jumper topped Jon Haber more mortar attacks on barracks, some soldiers had with a Dixie cup chapeau cocked at jaunty [email protected] taken to sleeping in their offices. The major from the angle. Simple, elegant and so tres THE ARGUMENT OF Army Reserve leaves behind his wife and three daugh- FABU!! The Village People even have a PHOTOGRAPHY INTERNS ters all under age six, who he often referred to as the song, you know. ‘LIFESTYLE VS. BIOLOGY’ Geoffrey Dunn “beautifuls.” It was his third tour of duty in Iraq. When I was in the Reagan Navy, the [email protected] These two men and the 16 others on last week’s list imprimatur of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was IS STUPID AND MEAN join more than 4,000 other U.S. soldiers who have died Slick Willy’s futuristic wet dream. Quite Morgan Genser in Iraq. They are fathers, brothers, wives, sons, and frankly, most of us didn’t give a rippin’ AND THE SOCIAL [email protected] daughters. They are 19, 36, 54 years old. They are squat. Our bottom line was, “can you do Alexis Hawkins from farms, cities and suburbs in Illinois, Florida, your flippin’ job, squid?” What one did while CRIPPLES WHO USE IT [email protected] California, Alabama, Puerto Rico. Their hometowns on liberty was one’s own affair just so long as now host another flag, another memory. hospitals, fire departments or Shore Patrol AS A JUSTIFICATION TO ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER And as I write this, and as you read it, more names weren’t involved, although it’s really bad Rob Schwenker are being added, I fear. when all three show up. It does take the “F” DISALLOW AN INDIVIDUAL [email protected] But I am tired of finger-pointing and hatred. I want out of “Fun.” ADVERTISING ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES no enemies, at home or abroad. Therefore I will stay In the 1970’s, I lived in San Francisco THE DISTINCT PRIVILEGE Julie Martinez informed, vote, and do my best to encourage peace with my first wife. My neighbor, Mike, was [email protected] through my thoughts and actions. a decorated Vietnam era Army Ranger. He OF SERVING THEIR In his speech in Seattle over the weekend, the Dalai was a walking recruiting poster for the Robert Hertel [email protected] Lama urged people to support not only nuclear disar- Armed Forces: 6’3”, blond hair, hazel eyes, COUNTRY ARE FRIGHTENED mament, but an “inner disarmament.” It is the only a smile and chin like Dudley Do-Right, yet ADVERTISING TRAFFIC FACILITATOR one I have control over. was as gay as the sky was blue. He did not BY THEIR OWN Amber Kessee In the meantime I will continue to read the weekly affect the stereotype of a “Will and Grace” [email protected] list, and remember each person with sadness, and Nancy Boy. His personal expressions on IGNORANCE. OPERATIONS MANAGER hope that somehow, someday, there will be no more deportment regarding his homosexuality Connie Sommerville lists to read. was, “… if you’re gonna be queer, be a man [email protected] Vickie Jenkins about it.” Tony Rezko-funded Illinois state Sen. 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I just bought a couple of their coffee doubt surrender to guilt by association? is published six days a week, mugs to show my support. I don’t blame What else is in Barry’s closet besides race Monday through Saturday. the LGBT community for Right-fully arm- baiters and homophobes? 19,000 daily circulation, 46,450 WRITE daily readership. Circulation is audited A LETTER, AN OP-ED OR DRAW A CARTOON. ing themselves; Matthew Shepherd comes Don’t ask, do tell. and verified by Circulation Verification Council, 2006. Serving the City of to mind. 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ENERGY Concerns over global crude oil supplies lead to record high prices BY ADAM SCHRECK I AP Business Writer “In an emotionally driven market like we’ve got now, it where mid-range and higher grades are now averaging more just doesn’t take much in the way of a headline to prompt a than $4 a gallon. NEW YORK Crude oil prices rose to within a penny of $114 psychological response,” said Jim Ritterbusch, president of Diesel prices at the pump jumped to $4.119, also a record, a barrel Tuesday, setting new records as concerns mounted Ritterbusch & Associates in Galena, Ill. setting the stage for higher prices on food and other goods about global supplies. U.S. retail gasoline and diesel prices Light, sweet crude for May delivery rose as high as transported by truck, ship and rail. also struck new highs. $113.99 a barrel for the first time on the New York Prices are widely expected to keep rising as summer Traders honed in on a report by the International Energy Mercantile Exchange before settling at $113.79, up $2.03 approaches. Gasoline futures jumped by nearly 6 cents Agency that said Russian oil production dropped this year from Monday’s record settlement price of $111.76 a barrel. to finish at a settlement record of $2.881. That is less for the first time in a decade. The report raised concerns Meanwhile, retail gasoline prices rose to a new average than a nickel less than the intraday record for the about whether the key oil-producing nation will have national record of $3.386, according to AAA and the Oil benchmark contract that was set as Hurricane Katrina enough supply to help feed growing global demand. Price Information Service. Prices were highest in California, made landfall in 2005.

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EASTSIDE The bosses of energy drink heavyweight Red Bull think that the cola business is missing something. Instead of the countless unpronounceable and decidedly un-natural ingredients in most mainstream sodas, Santa Monica-based Red Bull is going all-natural with its entry into the cola wars. Due out later this year, Red Bull Cola includes an array of ingredients not normally associated with soft drinks. The new drink primarily contains coca leaf and kola nut, but the list grows considerably more unorthodox after those time-honored elements. Some of the more interesting items include clove, pine, mustard seed and ginger. Red Bull officials hope to hearken back to the “old days” of Photo courtesy Red Bull cola when things were more natural — and had more kick. STRANGE BREW: Red Bull Cola features a unique mix of ingredients. The new drink will be released in the U.S. later this year. “Red Bull Cola contains no phosphoric acid, no preserv- atives and no artificial flavors. And it is the only cola that Kastner and Associates, also based in Santa Monica, has “It’s a major step for Red Bull,” Grabner said. “This is the contains the original kola nut as well as coca leaf,” said handled all of Red Bull’s advertising to date and will handle first time (Red Bull) has launched a different product.” Patrice Radden, Red Bull’s director of corporate communi- the launch of this new drink. CEO Thomas Grabner said that The company is quick to point out that its cola is not a cations. “Red Bull Cola has more caffeine and is therefore his company has been with Red Bull since its inception in new energy drink or an energy drink that tastes like cola. It stronger than a traditional cola and has a unique composi- 1995 and looks forward to see how the introduction pans out. stresses that Red Bull Cola should be considered a bona fide tion of ingredients from 100 percent natural sources. All “There is a lot of PR around the launch,” Grabner said. cola and will market it as such. ingredients are listed on the back of the can.” “Just the fact that Red Bull is launching a cola is big news. No “If it tastes anything like it sounds, I’m not sure what to Red Bull released the drink earlier this year in Europe and big advertising campaign is planned for it. It depends on the expect,” said Robert Ingman, while browsing the drink isle at company officials say it’s too early to determine whether or not consumers and how they react. There is already so much Vons on Lincoln Boulevard.“Those ingredients sound kind of the launch has been a success. What little reaction Red Bull has buzz going around.” wild, but I’d be willing to give it a try considering it is from received has been “really positive from consumers and retail While the drink comes years after the creation of Red Red Bull. I’ve been drinking (the energy drink) for years.” partners,”Radden said. Red Bull is planning a test launch in Las Bull’s flagship product, the idea has been in the works for Vegas this summer with a national roll out expected later this decades. Red Bull’s creator Dietrich Mateschitz came up with [email protected] year. Small 8.4 ounce cans of the beverage will be available in the idea for a cola around the same time the now iconic ener- bars, restaurants and nightclubs and larger 12 ounce cans will gy drink was conceived. He even developed the design of the WHAT DO YOU THINK? be available in grocery and convenience stores. packaging and has kept it under wraps for all these years. ■ Send letters to [email protected] 10 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2008 ADVERTISEMENT Local Visit us online at smdp.com WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2008 11 Darfur meets Santa Monica camp demonstration, has taken several trips Samohi students hope to Camp Farchana and could bring the tents with him on a future excursion. to empower others Among the tents that seemed to have a lasting impression on the students were the through knowledge ones that focused on the disparity between the amount and quality of food and water that Darfurians receive as compared to BY MELODY HANATANI Americans. Daily Press Staff Writer The average American consumes about 2,200 calories as compared to the average SAMOHI The Darfurian genocide, seeming- refugee who gets just 1,000 calories, accord- ly worlds away, touched the high school ing to junior Brianna Blumenthal-Cohen. community on Tuesday during a day-long The demonstration included a tasting of a campus demonstration where students popular dish in Darfur, a pasty concoction experienced first hand the atrocities, the dire made from flour, water and vegetable oil. living conditions and slowly dissipating The dish was displayed on the table along- hope that accompany the deadly conflict in side a plate of brownies, pasta and the Sudan. McDonald’s fast food. The Human Rights Watch Student Task Force at Santa Monica High School set up a series of tents in the science quad on cam- A LOT OF pus, simulating a refugee camp, each tent dedicated to educating students about a spe- PEOPLE THINK IT cific topic related to the Darfurian genocide. While the genocide, which has seen more WAS JUST THE than 200,000 deaths since 2003, is thousands of miles away, the organizers with the HOLOCAUST AND THAT IT Student Task Force hope that knowledge will translate into power, believing that change WOULD NEVER HAPPEN can be effected by the youth population. It’s a conflict that club co-founders AGAIN, BUT IT IS AND IT’S Francis Ahn and Fanny Ballantine-Himberg believe high school students know very little HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.” about, their classroom education limited to the Holocaust, Rwandan and Armenian Orli Robin, genocides. Samohi student “When people hear Darfur, they don’t know what it is,” Ballantine-Himberg, a jun- “It is not a balanced diet,” Blumenthal- Alexis Hawkins [email protected] ior who will graduate in June, said. Cohen said. SPECIAL MESSAGE: Mike Black writes on the tent walls of Samohi’s mock Darfur refugee camp Each of the five tents addressed a differ- Refugees, on average, only have access to on Tuesday. The event was designed to spread the word about the conflict in Sudan. ent element related to the Darfurian conflict about one gallon of water a day, while three — the first tent educating about Camp to five times that amount goes down the substantial impact toward ending the con- tents, some students appearing surprised as Farchana where 22,000 people have died drain in one flush of an American toilet. flict in Darfur, noting that a group of stu- to the severity of the conflict. since 2004; the second about what a refugee “The club’s main goal is to get students dents at UCLA started a divestment cam- Orli Robin, a student in the freshman would eat as compared to the average our age active and aware of what is going on paign and got the University of California seminar, said she knew that the Darfur geno- American; a third about child soldiers forced in the world,”Esme Levy, a Samohi freshman to divest their funds from Sudanese com- cide was taking place but was surprised by into the conflict; a fourth about past geno- and STF member, said. “If students knew panies. what she learned. cides; and the fifth on water rationing. what was going on, they definitely have the “The way young people have made a dif- “I didn’t realize it was this harsh,” she The tents have been traveling to different power to make it stop.” ference is paying attention and making other said. “A lot of people think it was just the high schools across the country thanks to Amy Marczewski, who works with the people pay attention,” Marczewski said. Holocaust and that it would never happen Gabriel Stauring, the director of Human Rights Watch office in Los Angeles “That is really how human rights abuses will again, but it is and it’s happening right now.” StopGenocideNow.org. Stauring, who and serves as an advisor to the Samohi STF, be stopped, is by not tolerating them.” advised Samohi students on their refugee said that students have actually made a Several classes did a walk through the [email protected] Real Hand-Tossed Pizza... Just Like You Get in New York!

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Brandon Wise [email protected] ALL ABOARD: Santa Monica College students get onto a Big Blue Bus at a stop on Pico Boulevard on Tuesday afternoon. BBB and SMC have come together to offer free rides to students and staff. Fees raised to pay for free bus service FROM BBB PAGE 1 free service to all students on every BBB line. The increases will result in an estimated Angeles, and possibly all the way to the $620,000, according to an SMC staff report. Metro Purple Line station at Wilshire Fees were last adjusted in 1996. Additionally, Boulevard and Western Avenue.” staff intends to increase parking by $10 per The proposed new route, which is expect- semester, beginning in the fall, resulting in ed to be approved and launched by the new net revenue of $150,000. beginning of the fall semester, would also be “I think it’s a great idea,” said SMC stu- free for SMC students and employees. dent Shelley Kaye just before she boarded a BBB officials have estimated that the new bus on Stewart Street. “Some may complain and expanded transit services implemented [about the increase in cost,] but in the end it in 2007 have reduced vehicle trips to campus is going to pay for something that is of ben- by 6,000 a day. efit to everyone. I think it’s money well In an analysis done last fall, the BBB spent.” found that new and expanded service on Rob Rader, president of the Board of Line 6, Crosstown Ride and Sunset Ride Trustees, said there are some concerns about have collectively resulted in more than 2,300 over expanding, but SMC and BBB will boardings every weekday. The Sunset Ride closely monitor ridership to see if any now ranks eighth among the 19 Big Blue Bus adjustments need to be made. Rader praised lines in terms of service productivity, and the student body for its commitment to the Crosstown Ride has experienced a 133 being good neighbors and to protecting the percent increase in ridership from fall 2006 environment by getting more cars off the to fall 2007. streets. In addition, bus officials estimate that “What I am most proud of with regards the new “Any Line, Any Time” program to this is not what Santa Monica College as will result in more than 5,000 new board- an organization has done, but what the stu- ings of SMC students and employees sys- dents have done, saying this didn’t go far tem-wide, over and above the current pro- enough initially and they wanted to make TELL SANTA MONICA WHAT YOU THINK! gram. sure the funds were available to not only The Associated Students initiated the subsidize students, but faculty and adminis- “Any Line, Any Time” program, voting in trators,”Rader said.“The students are paying WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR March to raise the optional Associated the extra amount for everybody because Students fee from the current amount of $10 they feel it is the right thing to do, and I am EMAIL TO: [email protected] OR FAX TO (310) 576-9913 to a new amount of $19, and to support the humbled by their civic duty, their commit- administrative raise of the optional I.D. fee ment to principals.” Visit us online at smdp.com from $8 to $13 to pay for the expanded serv- ice. Students felt it was important to provide [email protected] Local Visit us online at smdp.com WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2008 13

FREE PARKING AVAILABLE 1726 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica Phone: (310) 829-3625 Fax: (310) 829-0254 Alexis Hawkins [email protected] MIXED BAG: Members of the Ocean Park neighborhood had mixed reactions to a proposed development project being considered for the sight of Horizons West Surf Shop on Main Street.

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BY RONALD BLUM baseball’s central offices were nonwhite, AP Baseball Writer including 20 percent among senior execu- tives. Women were 42 percent of employees, NEW YORK Major League Baseball received but 26 percent of the senior executives. its best grade for racial diversity in hiring, He suggested baseball commissioner Bud even as the percentage of black players Selig pressure clubs more to consider minor- dropped again last year. ity candidates. He also said MLB should MLB received its first A- for race Tuesday institute a rule that a woman be considered SURF CONDITIONS WATER TEMP: 53-60° from Richard Lapchick, director of the for all senior job openings, similar to the SWELL FORECAST ( 5-8 FT ) University of Central Florida’s Institute for rule that minority candidates must be inter- Today should see the SW say goodbye with knee Diversity and Ethics in Sports. Its grade was viewed. to waist high waves for south facing breaks. NW B+ in last year’s study. Lapchick would make an exception for should remain for at least the AM sessions, Among major leaguers, though, just 8.2 general manager—there has never been a bringing chest to head high waves then, but smaller by end of day. Winds should calm some percent were black players, down from 8.4 woman GM, and there are relatively few from Tuesday as the trough bringing the heavy percent in 2006 and the lowest level in at high-ranking women in baseball operations. onshore flow passes to the east. Tide will run at least two decades. The percentage of black Kim Ng of the Dodgers and Jean Afterman moderate levels. pitchers remained at 3 percent. of the Yankees have been the exceptions. “Baseball has probably lost a whole gen- “They would have token interviews until LONG RANGE SYNOPSIS eration here,” Lapchick said. “African- we have that one case that a woman is suc- SW FOR 20TH INTO 21ST DOWNGRADED... HEAVY NW WIND SWELL BEING WATCHED FOR WEEKEND INTO NEXT Americans just aren’t playing it at this point. cessful,” he said. WEEK... They’re going to have to increase their He gave baseball a B+ for race and a C for TIDE FORECAST FOR TODAY IN SANTA MONICA efforts.” gender for its senior administration hiring, Although MLB has established its Reviving the same as last year. For team vice presi- Baseball in Inner Cities program and urban dents, the grade was B for race—the same as youth academies, Lapchick said it will take last year—and D- for gender, up from an F. many years for those efforts to pay off. General managers were given a C for Lapchick released the study on Jackie 2007, and Lapchick noted the Los Angeles Robinson Day, the 61st anniversary of Angels promoted Tony Reagins to GM, when Robinson broke the major league where he joins Kenny Williams of the color barrier. Chicago White Sox and Omar Minaya of the MLB received a C+ for gender hiring, up New York Mets as the only minorities. from a C last year. Its overall grade Managers received an A, with six minori- remained at B. ty managers last year. The total increased to Lapchick said 28 percent of employees at eight at the start of this season.

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