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Publisher, Stewart Sallo Editor, Joel Dyer Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn EDITORIAL Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Associate Editor/Special Editions, Elizabeth Miller Online Editor, Steve Weishampel Interns, Cayte Bosler, Abigail Faires, Cecelia Gilboy, Erica Lindberg, Stephanie Riesco Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Dave Anderson, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Clay Fong, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, Jim Lillie, Jessie Lucier, P.J. Nutting, Brian Palmer, Adam Perry, Alan Sculley, Tom Winter, Tate Zandstra, Gary Zeidner SALES Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Account Executives, Andrea Craven, Joe Fuchs, David Hasson, Chelsea Mack PRODUCTION Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Marketing Manager & Heiress, Julia Sallo Office Manager/Advertising Assistant, Jamie Peterson CIRCULATION TEAM Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 13-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo April 4, 2013 Volume XX, Number 35 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holdsbarred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper. 690 South Lashley Lane, Boulder, CO, 80305 p 303.494.5511 f 303.494.2585 editorial@boulderweekly.com www.boulderweekly.com Printed on 100% recycled paper with soy-based ink. Boulder Weekly is published every Thursday. No portion may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. © 2013 Boulder Weekly, Inc., all rights reserved.

MJ growers should pay more for electricity

(“Where the grass isn’t greener,” Boulderganic, March 28.) These highuse customers drive the need for increased supply, which all customers have to pay for. A gas electric plant costs in the neighborhood of $80 million. Should we all have to pay increased rates, or just the customers who use twice the average or more? For the MJ growers this is a business

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Highroad Texas natives tussle with foreign invaders by Jim Hightower

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urf wars can be the silliest of all scuffles, and no place does silly with more zeal than Texas. For example, the fine people of Dallas recently fell into a doozy of a turf tussle between the natives and foreigners — and the foreigners are winning. The out-of-staters, hailing from such distant lands as Bermuda and St. Augustine, Fla., are not people, but

expense. For the rest of residents it is a living expense. There should be a tiered rate for growers. Fred Kirsch/via Internet

Erie mayor is promoting his own agenda

Mayor Joe Wilson, in the scheme of things, is now using the Town of Erie’s publication “The Erie Edition” as his own personal soapbox mailed bimonthly with our water bill. Every

turf grasses. Many homeowner associations, Realtors, chambers of commerce and city officials applaud (and even mandate) the use of such outliers to give a community that uniform, wellmanicured, lush lawn look. The natives, on the other hand, are tufts of tenacious prairie grasses, prickly cacti and rough rocks — local elements that were “landscape” ages before lawns were invented, and way before there was a Dallas. Enter Burton Knight, owner of a modest home in the city’s Junius Heights neighborhood. In the interest of water conservation, and in the interest of nature’s own beauty, he ripped up his lawn and went native, creating a xeriscaped yard. Beautiful! But not in the eyes of the lawn lords who rule the local landmark commission and city planning office. Knight’s problem, sniffed a planner who oversees the Junius Heights histor-

Erie resident receives one. The methods of promoting his own agenda and beliefs have gone beyond tolerable limits. Some of Mayor Joe’s articles are neither mind-boggling nor earth-shattering, but it is a government-produced newsletter and Erie citizens are not allowed to share their ideas or opinions in this publication. Once see LETTERS Page 8

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ic district, is this: “The lack of lawn. There’s none. Zero.” She cited an ordinance that sets standards for such things, but all it says is, “Landscaping must be appropriate.” Well, wonders Knight, in this land of constant drought and a critical water shortage, how appropriate is it to keep landscaping with water-guzzling, chemical-demanding, imported turf grasses? Besides, he adds, “How can you say that cactus is not historic?” This is, after all, Texas, the natural home of prickly pears and scrappy people. Loosen up, Dallas — go native, or give up your Texas passport. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. April 4, 2013 7

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If you don’t like fracking, hope you like global warming by Paul Danish

o you don’t like fracking, huh? Hope you like blood for oil. Surely you remember “blood for oil.” Blood for oil was the reason we invaded Iraq — at least that’s the way the local peace and justice crowd told it. Blood for oil — or more precisely, the slogan “no blood for oil” — was all the rage in 2003. During the Iraq War the hyperactive activists at the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center — the folks who are behind some of the local anti-fracking hysteria — were obsessed with blood for oil. But that was then. Today the phrase “no blood for oil” seems almost quaint. That’s because U.S. petroleum imports peaked in 2005 and 2006 at about 13.7 million barrels a day (5 billion barrels a year), or about 73 percent of consumption, and started an abrupt decline. Last year they amounted to 10.6 million barrels a day (3.9 billion barrels a year, or about 62 percent of consumption), a 22 percent decline in the space of six years and the lowest level of imports in 20 years. A lot of analysts think imports could keep dropping at that rate indefinitely. Energy independence is a real possibility. In no small part thanks to fracking. Thanks to fracking, the United States’ strategic interest in what goes on in the Middle East is taking quantum leaps downward. The need to intervene militarily in the Persian Gulf, or anywhere else in the world for that matter, to secure access to oil is fading away like a Cheshire cat. Blood for oil? Hey, that’s about to become a Chinese problem, not an American one. But all of this would turn around in a heartbeat if the United States were to ban fracking, as the erstwhile “No blood for oil” activists are demanding. Imports would again increase, along with prices and international blackmail, and the potential need to shed American blood to secure the oil on which the American economy and lifestyle is absolutely dependent (Boulder’s economy and lifestyle included) would return. Under the circumstances, you would think that the peace and justice folks who do not approve of shedding 8 April 4, 2013

American blood for oil would view a technology that reduced America’s need to import oil from hostile countries as the hottest thing to come along since Mahatma Gandhi. Uh, not exactly. Still don’t like fracking? Hope you like global warming. The glut of natural gas produced by fracking has resulted in plunging U.S. prices. They are currently about $3.30 per 1,000 cubic feet, down from more than $10 per thousand cubic feet in 2008. This has made it possible to substitute natural gas for coal in American power plants. The switch has taken place at a breathtaking pace. In 2007, the U.S. got about 50 percent of its electricity from coal and 20 percent from natural gas. Last year it got about 32 percent of its electricity from coal and 31 percent from natural gas. Since natural gas produces only half as much CO2 as coal, this has led to a spectacular drop in CO2 emissions from U.S. power plants that, in turn, led to overall U.S. CO2 emissions falling to their lowest level in 20 years in 2012. According to the U.S. Energy Information Agency, U.S. CO2 emissions in 2012 were 800 million tons lower than they were in 2007, the year they peaked. According to David Victor, an energy expert at the University of California-San Diego, 400 million to 500 million tons of the drop came from the switch to natural gas. In contrast, America’s 30,000 wind turbines accounted for just 50 million tons of the decline. Biofuels’ share was 10 million tons and solar’s was 3 million. According to Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, the 400 million to 500 million ton reduction from the switch to gas from coal — made possible by fracking — is twice the total effect of the Kyoto Protocol on carbon emissions in the rest of the world, including the European Union. In other words, the American oil and gas industry’s merry fracksters have done more to reduce the country’s CO2 emissions than 20 years of eco-activism and government subsidies for alternative energy. Of course, we would be much farsee FRACKING Page 11

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letters LETTERS from Page 7

again, it looks like we citizens are being used as government pawns. Let me give you a few examples of his obstruction of justice in journalism as printed in the current March/April Erie Edition. Headlines: Daily Camera: “Erie’s oil & gas agreement could serve as statewide model.” This article goes in favor of major players in Big Oil and Gas. The facts are that we citizens were sold out by our elected representatives on the hydraulic fracking issue to Big Oil and Gas. Bottom line is ... our Town Board dropped the ball and lifted the ban on fracking. The Denver Post: “A closer look at Colorado air quality.” This article involved oil and gas and clean air. Of course, with major supporters of oil and gas Mayor Joe and Governor John (drinking hydraulic fracking fluid) Hickenlooper. Or should I say “Frackenlooper?” Need I say more? Hometown Weekly: “Once again Erie’s air and water have shown to be clean ... Very clean, in fact.” This article was submitted to the Weekly by Mayor Joe with another ascerbic comment: “When dealing with pollution levels created by oil and gas emissions, you should know that gas and oil well sites are safer than the car drop-off areas at Erie’s elementary schools.” Perhaps the most disturbing and obvious is Mayor Joe’s overwhelming difficulty to see the other side of the coin. He should employ a bit of diplomacy before reporting information filled with skepticism and facts that

have not been proven to be true. David L. Johnson/Erie

End Obama’s ‘double taps’

President Obama’s drone strike program has come under increasing criticism from many quarters. A study by Stanford and New York University showed that the civilian casualty rate from Obama’s drone strikes is between 90 percent and 95 percent. Another study by the Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute found that in Pakistan, as many as 98 percent of those killed by Obama’s drone strikes are civilians. The United Nations has been arguing that Obama’s drone strikes violate international law. Lawyers for the British High Court have been insisting that Obama’s drone strikes are illegal. Recently, reports have been surfacing in the press about Obama’s “Double Tap” program. Under Obama’s Double Tap program, an American military drone fires a missile at a house or apartment building, then comes back a few minutes later and fires a second missile into exactly the same spot. The second missile kills the family and friends who come to help the wounded. The second missile also kills the firefighters and paramedics who come to tend to the wounded. This is clearly barbaric behavior on Obama’s part and is a war crime too. For Obama, as commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, to authorize and implement a see LETTERS Page 11

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When it was announced that Boulder County Commissioner Elise Jones was going to debate Gov. John Hickenlooper on the issue of fracking, we weren’t sure what to expect. To be honest, we were afraid that the debate might turn out to be more of a conversation among friends who just sort of disagree on a few things. We were worried for no reason. Elise Jones kicked the governor’s butt. During the debate, Jones cleverly deployed the same strategy over and over again, namely, she used actual facts to explain to the governor why his current positions on fracking and natural gas in general are wrong, shortsighted and out of step with the citizens of Colorado. Jones did her homework, and the final result was embarrassing for Hickenlooper. While it was great to see Jones operate, it was actually alarming, make that angering, to listen to the governor of Colorado try to defend his enthusiasm for oil and gas extraction and fracking. Hick put to rest any notion that he has carefully thought about these issues or has even vaguely acquainted himself with the current research. During the debate, the governor often rambled about things like becoming an oil and gas geologist because he loved to walk in the mountains. He looked befuddled when confronted with such realities as the fact that we are exporting gas because we have a glut, and that some recent research indicates that leaking methane from wells may actually make natural gas worse for global warming than coal. It was pathetic and telling. Jones won the debate by a landslide, and in so doing, demonstrated that Gov. Hickenlooper has not arrived at his enthusiasm for oil and gas extraction and fracking by way of careful analysis of the available research. The man was pretty clueless. We’ll leave it to the voters’ imagination to consider what Hickenlooper’s true motive for blindly supporting the oil and gas industry might be.

Young’s apology more telling than racist remark

Don Young has been Alaska’s at-large district Republican representative for 40 years. He recently went on a live radio show in his home state to talk about agriculture. During the program, Young was recounting his youth when he said, “My father had a ranch — we used to have 50 to 60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes.” What the heck is up with Alaskan politicians and their inability to control their mouths, or their brains, for that matter? Between this old fart and Sarah Palin it kind of makes you wonder if they have some kind of secret inbreeding program for political nut-jobs hidden away in the Yukon. It’s bad enough Young said what he did about Hispanic migrant workers, but when John Boehner and the rest of the high-ranking Republican posse in Washington demanded that he apologize, the situation just got worse. Rep. Young said he didn’t mean to say anything offensive, he was just using what was the proper terminology in the old days. No you stupid, racist a-hole, it was always a mean, disgusting thing to say. You can be made to apologize ’til the cows come home by your embarrassed Republican colleagues, but the truth is in your apology. You really don’t understand what all the hoopla is about. It is shameful that our broken system of campaign finance makes it possible for relics like Rep. Young — ancient white men so disconnected from modern culture that they still view the time before the civil rights movement as the good old days — to remain in power. And we apologize for calling you a racist a-hole. We’re pretty sure that back in the day it was a term of endearment. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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program that intentionally kills paramedics and firefighters is unforgivable. United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Christof Heyns said, “Secondary strikes on rescuers who are helping the injured are war crimes.” Clive Stafford-Smith, the lawyer who heads the Anglo-U.S. Charity Reprieve, says that such strikes “are like attacking the Red Cross on the battlefield.” Write Obama and demand that he immediately cease his Double Tap

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ther along the path to CO2 reduction if we were replacing both coal and natural gas with a genuinely carbon-free energy source. Like nuclear power. If we had not abandoned nuclear power in the 1970s, coal’s contribution to U.S. electricity generation would probably be measured in single digits by now, and natural gas’s contribution would be falling, not growing. However, the anti-nuclear activists of the 1970s — aka the anti-fracking activists of today — succeeded in killing nuclear power in the United States. This resulted in a more than doubling of coal burning for electric power generation over the next 30 years. Between 1974 and 2006, coal burning increased by about 643 million tons a year, which produced 1.8 billion tons of CO2 a year — that could have been avoided if anti-nuclear activists had been less active. Now the same activists are trying to take out another technology with a demonstrated ability to reduce the country’s carbon footprint. They claim that wind and solar can replace natural gas and oil, and therefore fracking can be banned. Some day they probably can. But not yet. Because of their intermittent nature and the absence of suitable batteries, wind and solar can’t provide base-load electricity, which means they can’t provide more than 20 percent to 30 percent of the country’s electric power needs. And in the absence of practical, mass-produced electric cars (which are also absent because of the absence of suitable batteries), wind and solar are pretty irrelevant when it comes to replacing oil and gas as transportation fuels. Which means that if fracking is banned, the U.S. will burn more coal and produce more CO2. If you don’t like fracking, learn to love global warming. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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s far as — well, academic isn’t the right word — intellectually minded events go, the Conference on World Affairs (CWA) is pretty chaotic. After all, the conference is basically one giant grab bag. More than 100 intellectuals and experts in their fields descend on Boulder to partake in panel discussions. The only hint to the subject matter is the title of the panel. Except the panels aren’t named until a few weeks before the conference, and the panelists often have little connection to one another, making for a spontaneous and lively meeting of the minds. “This isn’t an academic conference,” says conference Director Jim Palmer, also a professor in the film studies department. “This is about the play of minds and ideas. That’s why it’s exciting.” It’s a milestone year for the conference, and it’s a milestone year for Palmer, too, his 15th year leading the festival. His first experience with the festival was way back in 1966, when he was not yet a tenured professor but working on a contract basis. The keynote speech was “Ralph Nader On Cars,” Palmer says with a laugh. The conference is more than just high-powered private sector careerists and public intellectuals. It offers live music, storytelling, film, multimedia presentations and more. This year’s conference, as is long-standing tradition, will host a jazz concert featuring long-time conference participants Dave Grusin and Don Grusin, joined by eight other jazz musicians. Another tradition, the cinema interruptus, for which Roger Ebert served as host and crowd-wrangler for more than 30 years, continues this year with One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Tony Awardwinning playwright and longtime conference participant Terrence McNally will lead the interruptus this year. The main stages of this year’s conference will be occupied by people with long histories in politics and journalism. Former CIA spy Valerie Plame Wilson will give a talk called “My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House” on Thursday, April 11. Columnist Robert Novak outed Plame as a spy after her husband, longtime diplomat Joseph Wilson, wrote a series of op-eds questioning the rationale for the 2003 invasion in Iraq. Plame, whose work involved nuclear nonproliferation while with the CIA, will also give a lecture with Joe Cirincione, president of global security foundation Plowshares Fund, titled “Nuclear Nightmares.” (Another panel, “India, Pakistan, Kashmir: The Forgotten Nuclear Hot Spots,” will also deal with nuclear issues). David Orr, a distinguished professor of environmental studies at Oberlin College, will give a talk titled “Security and Resilience in a Black Swan World.” Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Arizona, will talk on an immigration-related panel as well as give a speech called “Bipartisanship, Civility and Dialogue” on Monday, April 8. On Friday, April 12, David Corn, the Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine, will speak at the Molly Ivins Freedom Fightin’ Memorial Plenary. Corn is best known for leaking the video of then-presidential hopeful Mitt Romney giving a speech in front of wealthy donors, calling the 47 percent of the country that doesn’t pay income taxes “dependent on government” and “entitled” to government handouts. Many believe the video was the final nail in the Romney campaign’s coffin. A wide variety of topics get addressed during the conference, including psychology, world affairs, economics, food politics, environmental issues, defense, foreign policy and more. A panel of musicians and storytellers will discuss “Music That Changed My Life”; another panel will discuss “Tweeting for Freedom and See CWA Page 15

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he loss of civil liberties, especially privacy rights, over the past dozen years is among the topics that will be discussed extensively at this year’s Conference on World Affairs (CWA) at the University of Colorado Boulder. “It would be nice if we got back our privacy and civil liberties,” says investigative journalist Chip Berlet, a CWA veteran who will serve on the panel “Civil Liberties: When Left Meets Right” on April 9. “Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the erosion of civil liberties and privacy rights has been astonishing. Usually, after a major traumatic event in the United States, there is a wave of repression because that’s a natural tendency of both government and the fear of the population, but usually it rolls back a lot sooner.” From the Alien and Sedition Act to Japanese interment to the McCarthyism of the 1950s, he says, knee-jerk reactions that have curtailed civil liberties have usually self-corrected in a decade or less, but not so in the case of 9/11. Berlet says the administration of President Barack Obama has been slow to rein in the reactionary moves that occurred in the wake of the terrorist attacks, in part because the Democratic Party hasn’t forced him to. “Right now there’s no political pressure of any substance to move him back toward obeying the Constitution or, I should say, obeying the Bill of Rights,” he says. CWA Director Jim Palmer says privacy rights and civil liberties are issues that permeate the entire conference, whether the conversation is about espionage, guns, reproductive rights, prisoners, voting rights, immigration or medical records. “I wonder how much people know about how their privacy is compromised, from what they buy on the Internet to what they read,” he says. “I wonder how much they care. And if they do care, what do they do about it?” Even the use of drones raises related issues, Palmer points out. “We’re not going to know if there are drones overhead,” he says. Berlet uses drones as an example of state-sponsored terrorism that can violate civil liberties. But he maintains that the push to restore things like privacy rights is neither a Democratic nor Republican ideal and, in fact, administrations on both sides of the aisle have suppressed such

rights in the past. He cited as Democratic examples former President Harry Truman’s “Brown Scare” after World War II that was prompted by fears of emerging fascist groups, and former President Bill Clinton’s Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. More recent examples, Berlet says, are the Patriot Act and the surveillanceand intelligence-gathering fusion centers created under former President George W. Bush and continued by Obama — even though he says studies have shown that the fusion center “simply increases the amount of sewage heading upstream toward the government’s intelligence analysts, rather than really focusing on potential criminal activity.” He notes that the accused have included “people taking pictures of trains, and they end up being train buffs.” Berlet also criticizes the heavy-handed approach that has been used lately toward political demonstrations and students like those at the University of California-Davis who were peppersprayed for protesting. “It’s troubling,” he says. “If police can’t tell the difference between peaceful protesters sitting down and people who blow up buildings, then we’re in big trouble in this country, and they don’t appear to be able to make that distinction anymore.” Berlet adds that the right to protest one’s government is one of the basic principles on which the country was founded. “Without dissent, democracy withers, and when the government is crushing dissent, it’s crushing democracy,” he says. Joining Berlet on the civil liberties panel at 2 p.m. April 9 in the University Memorial Center (UMC), room 235, will be Guy Benson, political editor of Townhall.com; Andrew Goddard, president of the Virginia Center for Public Safety; and Michael Stoff, history professor at the University of Texas at Austin. There are several other panels related to civil liberties and privacy rights. For instance, earlier that same day, at 11 a.m. in the Wolf Law Wittemyer Courtroom, participants will debate the topic “Invasion of the Privacy Snatchers.” The panelists are Monika Bauerlein, co-editor of Mother Jones; Mary V. Hughes, president of strategic communications and political consulting firm Hughes & Boulder Weekly

news Company; Vivian Siegel, director of scientific education and public communications at the Broad Institute of MIT; and Jon Sinton, the media entrepreneur who created Air America Radio. Regardless of where participants land politically, when it comes to the CWA, most seem to agree that the fun is the fact that it is an intellectual free-for-all. “I always look forward to the CWA because you never know where the conversation is going to go,” Berlet says. “It keeps you on your toes; that’s one reason

I keep coming back. It’s like a mental Olympics for all of us.” Panels related to privacy rights and/ or civil liberties include: • “Immigration: My Land or Our Land,” 9 a.m., April 8, UMC Center Ballroom • “Voting is a Right, not a Wrong,” 9 a.m., April 8, Wolf Law Wittemyer Courtroom • “Healthcare: Right or Privilege,” 10 a.m., April 9, Grusin Music Hall • “Digital Espionage, Crime and

Warfare,” 9 a.m., April 10, Wittemyer Courtroom. • “Republicans Ravage Reproductive Rights,” 1:30 p.m., April 10, UMC Center Ballroom • “NRA: Killing Me Softly With Your Lies,” 4:30 p.m., April 10, UMC Center Ballroom • “Incarceration as Injustice,” 11 a.m., April 11, UMC Center Ballroom • “The Right to Bear Arms,” 1:20 p.m., April 11, Boulder High School • Plenary: “My Life as a Spy, My

Betrayal by the White House,” by Valerie Plame Wilson, 3 p.m., April 11, Macky Auditorium • “Supreme Court: The Tyranny of the Third Branch,” 9 a.m., April 12, UMC Center Ballroom • “Preventing Violence: It’s not Just the Gun,” 1 p.m., April 12, UMC Center Ballroom • “Droning on and on: New Conventional Warfare,” 1 p.m., April 12, UMC 235. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Frivolity.” There is a panel on Barack Obama’s foreign policy and one reviewing his “second” first 100 days in office; a series of panels on privacy; a panel on dreams; a panel on vampires; a panel on too-big-to-jail bankers; a pair of panels where conservatives give advice to liberals and vice-versa; and many more. The conference is the product of a small staff and hundreds of volunteers, including many students. A series of different committees composed of staff and volunteers invite the 100-plus attendees to the conference and then arrange housing for them. The attendees submit lists of topics in which they have expertise, and from those lists, a committee will group attendees by topics and form panels around them. The festival’s tagline is “bringing the world to Boulder,” Palmer says, and that guides whom conference organizers invite. The focus is on getting people from outside Colorado, Palmer says, and keeping the conference agenda-free. “We also don’t have politicians who are running for office. ... We’re not a platform for launching political careers and campaigns,” Palmer says. “But we do have politicians who are in office who come and speak to us. We do have a lot of government officials, like ambassadors, people who are in [non-governmental organizations], lots of people from Washington.” It’s no easy task getting people to fly to Boulder on their own dime and spend a week giving talks, Palmer says. But thankfully, the most effective recruiters for future conference speakers are the attendees themselves. “I don’t make cold calls over the phone to tell them they need to spend their own money to come out here,” Palmer says. “It’s other participants who recruit for us. People who our participants think would be terrific new people for the conference. ... There really is nothing like the Conference on World Affairs, and new participants tell me this all the time.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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n one generation … America has become the first culture to have substituted secondary, mediated versions of experience for direct experience of the world. Interpretations and representations of the world were being accepted as experience, and the difference between the two was obscure to most of us.” — Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, 1978 Things have certainly changed since media critic Jerry Mander made the above observation, but not as much as we’d like to think. Thanks to computers and the Internet, we now have more screens from which to get our secondary, mediated messages, and we now spend even more of our time substituting them for input from the real world. As a culture, we have literally lost touch with reality, and this is particularly true when it comes to the content we define as news. Communication guru George Gerbner, the man responsible for identifying “Mean World Syndrome,” summed up the power of media this way: “Whoever tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time has effectively assumed the cultural role of parent and school.” Mediated messages have always played a pivitol role within all cultures. For instance, in indigenous cultures, storytelling — a mediated message — was and still is the primary means for passing down a cultural belief system from generation to generation. Such secondhand interpretations of reality can literally make a people who they are. Such messages account for why one culture might be influenced by the growth cycle of corn while others closely tie their beliefs to the cycles of the sea or moon or perhaps the appearance of certain creatures such as buffalo or a raven. Early on, as civilizations advanced, the shaman’s storytelling tended to give way to the equally mediated messages being conveyed through the structures of school, church and, eventually, newspapers. For most of the last century, it has been these powerful forces, coupled with parental input, that have determined which stories would be most widely disseminated and thereby be most influential within our society. But now, thanks to the technological revolution that has been unfolding for

the last several decades, we once again find ourselves on the other side of a major evolutionary leap concerning who is in charge of telling our stories and shaping our culture. The storytelling role once played by school, church, parents and daily newspapers has now been delivered into the hands of those who own and control the new structure of modern communications technology, particularly television and the Internet. But the passing of control over our mediated messages is different this time around. This awesome responsibility has not been conveyed to the new tellers of our stories because these media owners are viewed as more capable of performing this important task; rather, the torch has been passed by default. And more disturbing still, as pointed out by Mander, because we have tied the stories to what seem to be images of reality, these mediated messages are being accepted as reality, and that is a new twist with potentially catastrophic consequences. For the sake of space, here is but one example of many. Since the early 1970s and until recently, crime in the United States was actually holding flat or decreasing for the most part. However, beginning in the 1980s, the giant corporations that had been buying up media companies at a rapid pace decided that like other programming, the evening newscast should turn a profit. During this time period, television news was particularly important because it was the primary news source for 83 percent of Americans. This corporate decision to make news more profitable resulted in massive layoffs of journalists, the closure of many foreign bureaus and, most importantly, it meant shaping the news content to what could be reported on most inexpensively, and yet would be sensational enough to increase ratings and thereby ad revenue. The content of choice was clear when it came to cheap to produce and profitability: violent crime. As a result of media consolidation and the push for more profit and lower expenses, coverage of crime increased three-fold at the very time it was actually decreasing. Enter Gerbner’s Mean World Syndrome. Gerbner’s decades of media research found a startling connection: The more television that people watched, including news, the more likely they were to Boulder Weekly

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corporations, which include the likes of defense contractors and entertainment companies, have created media monopolies in which each owns dozens upon dozens of other media entities operating in every conceivable storytelling format and have now — by default, not choice — taken over much of the responsibility for who we are and what we will become as a people. For democracy to flourish, a strong, independent news media committed first and foremost to serving the public as a watchdog over government must also exist in abundance. This is no longer the case, as demonstrated by the current state of the ever-consolidating media landscape. This dangerous shrinking of voices within the news industry is something Boulder County residents know all too well as they have watched nearly every newspaper in the region get gobbled up by the same giant company, only to see newsroom resources slashed to the bone and beyond. Media consolidation is a serious threat to all of us because of the media’s new role as our culture’s principal storyteller. Many of the subjects above, from media consolidation to the causes of the current dearth of serious news reporting, will be discussed at this year’s Conference on World Affairs by some of the nation’s leading experts on these issues. The following is a list of some of the media-centric panels being offered this year: • “Imported News: The Best Reporting Comes From Overseas,” 9 a.m., April 8, UMC 235 • “So Much Noise, So Little News,” 4:30 p.m., April 8, UMC 235 • “Journalism for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow,” 3:30 p.m., April 8, UMC Center Ballroom • “Jail for Journalists,” 9 a.m., April 10, UMC Center Ballroom • “Miss Representation: Portrayal of Women by the Media,” 11 a.m., April 10, UMC East Ballroom • “Media Monopoly: Too Big to Fail,” 3 p.m., April 10, UMC Center Ballroom • Radio Broadcast — A Public Affair, “The Future of Progressive Media,” 8:30 a.m., April 11, KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM • “Foreign Media’s Perception of American Politics,” 4:30 p.m., April 11, Chemistry 140 • “Molly Ivins Freedom Fightin’ Memorial Plenary,” 2:30 p.m., April 12, Macky Auditorium. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Conference on World Affairs panelists discuss biases and the struggle for equal opportunity and equal confidence by Abby Faires

ON THE BILL: The “Women in Science: Outnumbered and Outearned” panel will take place at the 2013 Conference on World Affairs at 12:30 p.m. on April 11. The panel will be held in the ATLAS Black Box on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. Panelists are Leah Buechley, Charles Love and Vivian Siegel. Mindy Pantiel will moderate.

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hortly after Ben Barres, a professor of neurobiology at Stanford University, gave a speech about his discoveries regarding nerve cells at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998, an MIT faculty member was overheard saying, “Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but then again, his work is much better than his sister’s.” Barres, however, did not have a sister. He had recently undergone a sex change operation. “There is a perspective and perception of how good a woman is, which reflects on an unconscious bias in gender,” says Vivian Siegel, director of scientific education and public communications at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. “That bias comes from our own kind of personal experiences as

well as remembering ones.” Siegel, who knew Ben Barres when he was a post-graduate student named Barbara, will participate in a 2013 Conference on World Affairs panel titled “Women in Science: Outnumbered and Outearned” on April 11 that is expected to explore stories like Barres’. According to a report issued by the United States Census Bureau in 2008, fewer women than men are entering science and technology professions, and the ones who do are being paid far less than men. Many 21st-century scientists, such as Siegel, say gender bias is at the heart of both sides of that equation. Siegel calls Barres a “striking example” of the role See GENDER Page 22

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that gender bias plays in science. “I explained to them that they needed to under“As a transgendered person, no one understands stand that I was a single mom, and if there was a more deeply than I do that there are innate differbattle between needing to do something for work ences between men and women,” Barres wrote in a and my child, my child is always gonna win,” Siegel 2006 article featured in Nature, an international sci- says. “I can’t be wedded to this job.” ence journal. Although she does not have children of her own, Researchers agree that nearly all humans have Michelle Thaller, assistant director for science comunconscious biases about gender that aid them in munication and higher education at NASA, says she making sense of the gender stereotypes they see can relate to Siegel’s experiences. starting in early childhood. Males are expected to be independent, assertive and competitive; females are expected to be more passive, sensitive and supportive. But can innate characteristics be used to support the idea that men are naturally better at science than women? For Barres, the answer is, absolutely not. He writes that there is no evidence that sexually dimorphic brain wiring is at all relevant to the abilities needed to be successful in science. “The simplest conclusion is that the — Jennifer Raymond dearth of women scientists is caused largely by bias and social factors,” Barres said in speech at Harvard University in 2008. “By far, the main difference that I have noticed is that people who don’t know I am trans“When both people are trying to get the family gendered treat me with much more respect: I can going, more often, it falls on women,” she says. “It’s even complete a whole sentence without being hard to get over that.” interrupted by a man,” Barres wrote in the Nature Thaller was expected to speak on the “Women article. in Science” panel this year, but won’t be able to For Siegel, the societal roles of being a wife and make the trip due to federal sequestration funding a mother conflicted with her role as a scientist. cuts. Now, she looks back on her previous marriage, realShe isn’t sure whether these biases come from izing that there were a lot of expectations for her as cultural pressures or psychology, she says, but we a wife and a mother, which she and her husband can’t deny the importance they play in modern socihad failed to discuss before getting married. ety. Still, she says gender biases aren’t scientific, so “Of course I had a career and always planned to they can’t be used to justify the idea that women are go forward and not stay at home, but he may not innately bad at science. have known that,” Siegel says. “Still, there is a sense “People say that women are innately better at that it is really abnormal for a man to stay at home.” navigating relationships,” Thaller says. “So wouldn’t Siegel came to the Broad Institute as a single that mean they should make better presidents, or mother. And despite a study published in 2007 by CEOs, or leaders than men? Or what about in Cornell University, which showed that mothers are terms of cooking? Why are all of the top chefs men? 79 percent less likely to be hired and are offered an … We are always less. That’s the pattern.” average of $11,000 less per year, Siegel decided to It’s easy to blame men for a gender bias, like put her role as a mother out on the table. women being innately less capable in science. But

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women are nearly just as biased as men, according to Jennifer Raymond, a neurobiologist at Stanford University and colleague of Barres. “The socialization process of understanding typical roles is very powerful. Once we internalize those roles, it results in biases of whether people are good at certain things,” Raymond says. “Because we internalize these, we tend to rate ourselves lower and are less confident to put ourselves out there.” What makes gender bias so insidious, especially for women, is that the bias is unconscious, according to Raymond. She says she believes that most people want to be fair and don’t want to have a gender bias. So they work to rationalize their biases in different ways. “Bias can put our rational systems to work for us,” Raymond says. “People are so good at rationalizing their opinions — creating a story to fit their value systems — that it’s really hard to see what’s driving the decision.” Raymond says Stanford University has some of the best graduate students in the world, and a majority of them are women. “It’s alarming to see the rate at which these women say, ‘Well, I don’t know if I’m really cut out for this,’” Raymond says. “There is a lot of self-doubt and a lot of push-back.” For Raymond, this self-doubt and push-back are signs that unconscious gender bias isn’t going anywhere anytime soon unless institutions work to recognize and overcome bias. “Because we have gotten rid of explicit bias, people have gotten very complacent,” Raymond says. “They think, ‘Oh, the problem will work itself out.’ But if we don’t take active steps to change processes, to reduce biases, then my 8-year-old daughter is going to be facing the same situation.” It’s important for people to accept that bias exists in order to overcome it, she says. “By enabling more women to succeed, despite the existence of unconscious bias, we can gradually eliminate the stereotype of the successful male scientist, which is the root of gender bias,” Raymond says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

steps to change processes, to reduce biases, then my 8-year-old daughter is going to be facing the same situation.”

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Meehan on a tandem paraglide in Ghana

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t’s a lot like that dream you had as a kid — the dream where you could fly. “I used to love that dream and was always disappointed when I woke up and couldn’t fly,” says Tim Meehan, a freelance digital designer and tandem paraglider pilot based in Boulder. “And now, now I fly all the time, for real,” he says. Meehan is a certified tandem paraglider instructor — the highest rating a paragliding pilot can have. “It takes you a long time to get to where you are certified for that stuff.

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“Finally [the Tourist Authority of Ghana] said, ‘OK, we can only afford to have three pilots come over,’ so I was one of those three.” The Ghana Paragliding Festival was started in 2005 by Walter Nesser, according to Stein, a rated paraglider pilot and one of the festival’s founders. Nesser was living in the area while working for a telecommunications company, Stein says. “He was working on this tower that was in the perfect location for flying, so he started flying a little bit, and then he came upon the idea that it’d be nice to maybe start a little flying activity there,” he says.

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In areas like the Front Range, flying conditions are inconsistent and flying may be suspended multiple times in a day because of high winds. But because of its equatorial location, the area where the paragliding festival is held has rare flying conditions that are very smooth and consistent. “It’s one of the few places in the world where you can really fly from 9 in the morning ’til dark consistently,” Stein says. “The meteorology there is really phenomenal.” Nesser started flying his paramotor from a launch spot just below the towers and caught the attention of Jake Tonka Obetsebi-Lamptey, who was Ghana’s minister of tourism at the

time. Nesser started working with the Tourism Authority of Ghana to create the paragliding festival as a way to attract tourism to the west African country. “That was the vision and still is the vision of the [Tourism Authority] — to entice people from around the world to come there for that activity,” Stein says. The area of Kwahu is in the eastern region of Ghana, not far from the cities of Accra, the largest city in Ghana, and Kumasi, another densely populated area in Ghana. The end of March is a time of carnival for the people, and they come to Kwahu for

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the Easter Festival and recreation, Stein says. “It’s a wild festival event. Not just the paragliding, the paragliding is just one part, but it brings a lot of people up here,” Stein says. “It’s always been a festival event with street festivals. They go there to party.” Working with the Tourism Authority is a struggle for Stein and Meehan, even after eight years of practice. Meehan says he’ll board a plane to Ghana without really knowing what will happen once he gets there. “Just keep your fingers crossed,” see PARAGLIDING Page 26

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Stein tells Meehan via Skype. “It’s now Wednesday, we’re leaving Monday ... I haven’t heard from them ... but it will happen.” To bring the international tourism the Tourism Authority of Ghana staff have said they hope to bring, they’ll need increased launch space, which currently can only host one paraglider at a time, seriously limiting the number of people pilots can take out in a day. “They could do a lot more. I think there, like with every area, a lot of it has to do with their funding and who is in charge and the politics,” Stein says. Even with all the uncertainties, it’s worth it, Meehan says. “After 20-plus years of paragliding, I’ve kind of been there, done that, seen it all,” Meehan says. “I get a bigger kick out of seeing those saucer eyes, wide open mouth and smiles of people seeing the world from the air for the first time.” While being invited to fly in such a pristine flying area, Meehan and Stein have tried to give back to the people of Ghana. One year, after receiving some extra funding, they bought a cistern to put into a school. Another year, co-pilot Honza Rejmanek, a former Red Bull athlete, had some extra time during the festival and gave one lucky Ghanaian student a free flight.

“He walked into the nearest school and asked the teacher who was the best student of the day,” Meehan says. “We took the student flying and made his day.” Meehan was first introduced to paragliding in the late ’80s, when he traded his windsurfer for a very old, very dangerous paraglider. “I got started back before there were instructors, before there were helmets, reserve parachutes, back protectors or even wings that can fly the way we do today,” Meehan says. Without any training or great physical health, Meehan hiked up his first hill and took a running start off. “I wasn’t in very good shape back then and it was a real challenge to hike up that hill. ... By the time you got to where you wanted to take off, all you could think about was, ‘God this is horrible. Who would do this?’” he says. “Of course, the first time my feet left the ground, I was like, ‘I’ve got to go back and do that again!’” When Meehan first started paragliding, he says, it may have been a bit unsafe, but the sport has come a long way since then. “With passengers, nobody has ever been hurt except for an occasional twisted ankle,” Meehan says. “The fact is, well, you can’t get hurt in the air.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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hen Terrence McNally, the fourtime Tony Awardwinning playwright, was completing his undergraduate degree at Harvard University in the late ’60s, he spent a summer as program director for a camp of chronic schizophrenics. The camp took 25 patients from a Boston hospital, each with an average stay of 12 years, and paired them up with college students, who lived with the patients, took care of the farm and received course credit for their work. To prepare, McNally got a copy of Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which had come out several years prior. The film version of the book instantly came to mind when the Conference on World Affairs invited McNally to step into Roger Ebert’s shoes and lead the cinema interruptus, a cherished tradition Ebert carried on for more than three decades, in which he led a democratic dissection of a film, where anyone in the audience could shout out at any time and stop the film and begin a discussion, over the course of a week. McNally had to choose a film, and he whittled his selection down to two finalists, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Dr. Strangelove. He went with the former, after festival director Jim Palmer told him to “choose the one that you would most like to spend Boulder Weekly

the week with.” One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is Kesey’s first published novel, inspired by his experience working at a California mental hospital. It tells the story of Randle Patrick McMurphy, a free spirit who had several minor run-ins with the law before finally getting arrested for statutory rape and sent to prison. (The girl said she was 18, McMurphy claims.) He rigs a transfer to a mental hospital, thinking he would have an easier time there than jail. Instead, he enters the bizarre reality of the mental ward, ruled with an iron fist by the controlling, manipulative Nurse Ratched. McNally’s thoughts drifted back to his time working with the mental patients as he re-watched the film. Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of McMurphy in Miloš Forman’s 1975 adaptation of the film struck deep for McNally.

way people normally treated them, my way was just, ‘Come on! Let’s go do this!’ … It was phenomenal how most of them would respond very well to being asked more of.” Nicholson’s performance is stunning and captivating, dripping with the sort of charisma for which Nicholson would soon become famous. He won an Oscar for his work, and the film became just the second film at the time to sweep the Best Louise Fletcher Actor, Best Actress, Best won Best Screenplay, Best Director Actress for her portrayal of and Best Picture at the Nurse Ratched. Academy Awards. McNally says the “I treated the patients that I themes of the film, along with a worked with in the camp basically stellar cast highlighted by the the same way that McMurphy Oscar-winning performances of did,” McNally says. “Instead of Nicholson and Louise Fletcher as playing to their disability or the Nurse Ratched, make the film one

Jack Nicholson’s performance won him an Oscar for Best Actor.

that remains incredibly accessible 35 years after its release. “College students, I think this is a film that they can really relate to,” McNally says. “My sense is ... that notion that you aren’t allowed to exercise your freedom, that you’re under the control of, whether it’s your parents or the administration or the fact that you’re not 21 yet, all these things, I think the situation really resonates. So I’m hoping that we will attract a lot of students.” The cinema interruptus begins with an uninterrupted screening of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest on Monday, April 8, at 4 p.m. at Macky Auditorium. Discussions of the film begin Tuesday, April 9, at the same time and place and continue throughout the week of the conference. see CWA ART Page 30

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**** he cinema interruptus is just one of the many arts-related events offered at the Conference on World Affairs. Along with the traditional Tuesday night (April 9) jazz concert, featuring Dave Grusin and Don Grusin and eight other jazz musicians, there are a number of panels on different aspects of entertainment, featuring a diverse mix of panelists. “I dislike ranking culture — high-brow, middle-brow — it just doesn’t make sense to me,” says Palmer. “I can talk with enthusiasm about panels on vampires, cartooning, tattoos, those are Jeff Lieberman, terrific panels. We also have self-portrait a panel on Hamlet, a panel on creativity in art and science.” Jeff Lieberman will serve on at least eight panels durevolutionary ideas and maybe some of ing the conference. Lieberman, a the paradoxes in our current scientific multi-media artist, speaker, designer paradigm,” Lieberman says. and musician, has four degrees from One of the panels he will serve on, the Massachusetts Institute of “Eureka! Creativity in Art and Technology. His work focuses on Science,” will take place at 9:30 a.m. on merging art and technology in a way Thursday, April 11, in the UMC that brings people “an emotional and Glenn Miller East Ballroom on cammystical connection with science and pus. Creativity is key in science as well the universe.” as art, Lieberman says. “I talk about more intersections “In school when you learn science, between science and meditation and you’re learning what we’ve already figspirituality, and what it means to be ured out,” Lieberman says. “You’re tryhuman, and where our sense of identity ing to replicate the formulas and see if comes from, and how that relates to you can do what they do. It doesn’t feel 30 April 4, 2013

very creative. But as soon as you’re [in the professional world] doing research and trying to understand what we don’t understand ... then it’s a completely creative process. Seeing our hidden assumptions and questioning them and removing them and allowing them to dissolve and relax into this unknown space.” He will also serve on a panel called “Halo and Jigsaw: Blaming Violence on the Screens” at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, April 12, in the Eaton Humanities building. Lieberman is hesitant to believe violent media inspire true-life violence. “I think any discussion that places the violence on one specific thing ignores where violence really comes from,” Lieberman says. Another panel Lieberman will serve on, “The Nature of Dreams,” makes Lieberman recall his time spent in India. “I’m going to talk about how waking hours are a form of dreams, and how most people don’t seem to notice that,” Lieberman says. “There’s a great mystic from India, and he has this riddle saying that, imagine if every night you had a dream that picked up where the last dream left off. You’d have no way to prove which one was waking and which one was sleeping. It’s only the lack of continuity from night to night [that alerts you when you are dreaming].” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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9:00-10:20 ATLAS Black Box 5111 What Makes a BFF, What 11:00-11:50 ATLAS Black Box 5301 DUET Makes a Soul Mate Cartooning Gooding Jim Borgman Kevin Kling Willow Wilson Evelyn Resh Moderator: Lissy Garrison Moderator: Sharon Adams

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9:00-10:20 Macky Auditorium 1117 Strategic Uses of Soft Power Peter Lighte Steve Radelet Jim Smith Ike Wilson Moderator: Daniel Sher

9:00-10:20 UMC Gallery 1118 Growing Old: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Lillian Boutté Robert Egger Feargal Lynn Steve Sauer Moderator: Fintan Steele

9:00-10:20 UMC 235 1119 Imported News: The Best Reporting Comes From Overseas Anne Goddard Trey Lyons Jurek Martin Jon Sinton Moderator: Dan Powers

11:30-12:20 Macky Auditorium 1350 KEYNOTE Who Stole the American Dream? Hedrick Smith Moderator: Phil DiStefano

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Old Main Chapel aths to Addiction P Thomas Hardaway Jenni Schaefer Vivian Siegel Glenn Treisman Moderator: Shelley Schlender

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UMC East Ballroom .S. Budget: A Deficit of U Common Sense Gordon Adams Michael Franc Jurek Martin Reza Ramazani Moderator: Richard Reeves

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UMC Center Ballroom J ournalism for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow Shane Bauer Jon Sinton Hedrick Smith Moderator: Erika Stutzman 4:00-6:00 2831

Macky Auditorium EBERT INTERRUPTUS I One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Terrence McNally

ATLAS Black Box 4:30-5:50 Muenzinger Auditorium ender-based Violence: 2861 G Filmmaking Truth and Disturbing Global Trends Consequences Zulfiqar Ahmad Michael Almereyda Nina Alvarez Nina Alvarez Sarah Holewinski Steve James Judithe Registre Moderator: Patti Bruck Moderator: Scott Walker 5:00-5:50 UMC 235 2:00-3:20 UMC 235 2901 STORYTELLING 2616 Civil Liberties: When Left The Ones Who Got Away 11:00-12:20 UMC 235 Meets Right Feargal Lynn 2316 Addy, Oxy and Molly: Guy Benson Liz Weir College Drug Use Chip Berlet Moderator: Thomas Burke Ross Haenfler Andrew Goddard Howard Schultz Michael Stoff 5:00-6:20 UMC Center Ballroom Sanho Tree Moderator: Mary Jo White 2911 Battling the Military Moderator: David Elm Budget 3:00-3:30 KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM Gordon Adams RADIO BROADCAST 11:00-12:20 UMC West Ballroom 2701 Tammy Schultz 2317 Making a Difference: Metro Hedrick Smith Public Versus Private Non-profits and Small Mark Strand Sector Business Build Moderator: Todd Gleeson Robert Egger Community Scott Flanders Robert Egger 6:00-7:00 KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM Judith Morrison Alicia Robb RADIO BROADCAST 2971 Jim Smith Moderator: Greg Rasheed Hemispheres Moderator: Peter Spear War and Peace: From the 3:00-4:20 Muenzinger Auditorium Near East to South Asia 2711 SCREENING 12:30-1:50 UMC East Ballroom Zulfiqar Ahmad 2461 Homeless, Jobless: The Shorts Shane Bauer Michael Almereyda Waking Nightmare Sarah Holewinski George Dyson Moderator: Alex Cox Robert Egger 8:00-10:00 Macky Auditorium 3:30-4:50 Eaton Humanities 1B50 Feargal Lynn 2999 JAZZ CONCERT 2761 O piate of the Masses: Elaine Miller-Karas Bijoux Barbosa Pop Culture’s Obsession Moderator: Isabel McDevitt Lillian Boutté With Stupidity Henry Butler Jim Borgman 12:30-1:50 ATLAS Black Box Brad Goode 2462 Robert George Poetry: Back by Popular Gooding Ross Haenfler Demand Dave Grusin Gordon Adams Howard Schultz Don Grusin William Nack Moderator: Ryan Van Duzer Donald Harrison Liz Weir Chuck Loeb 3:30-4:50 Chemistry 140 Moderator: Joy Pak Mike Marlier 2762 Climate Change: Get Introduction: Steven Leigh 12:30-1:50 UMC Center Ballroom Used to It 2463 Apocalyptic Charles Love Seth Shostak Demagoguery Chip Berlet Michelle Thaller Joel Gallant Mary Evelyn Tucker 8:30-9:50 UMC 235 Stuart Schoffman Moderator: Jane Saltzman 3061 LIVE RADIO BROADCAST Keith Snow KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM UMC 3:30-4:50 235 Moderator: Peggy Mansfield A Public Affair 2763 GOP in the Wilderness How America Treats the Guy Benson 12:30-1:50 UMC West Ballroom Mentally Ill 2464 Junk Science Policy Mary Hughes Andrew Goddard Monika Bauerlein Neil King Arthur Grim Francesca Grifo Mark Strand Thomas Hardaway Allen Hershkowitz Moderator: Jimmy Calano Glenn Treisman Loretta Whitesides Moderator: Elizabeth Lane 3:30-4:50 UMC East Ballroom Moderator: Patricia Limerick 2764 Overcoming Perfection9:00-10:20 ATLAS Black Box ism and Doing It Right 12:30-1:50 Old Main Chapel 3111 When China Talks, Does 2465 Trey Lyons Diplomacy When There’s Anybody Listen Clare Murphy No State to Talk to Zulfiqar Ahmad Jenni Schaefer Trey Lyons Tom Gold Jay Parker Glenn Treisman Peter Lighte Jim Smith Moderator: Sharon Nehls Jim Walsh Ike Wilson Moderator: Timothy Weston Moderator: Christopher Brauchli 11:00-12:20 Wolf Law Wittemyer Courtroom 2315 Invasion of the Privacy Snatchers Monika Bauerlein Mary Hughes Vivian Siegel Jon Sinton Moderator: Sue Deans

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UMC West Ballroom Technology: Hurting or Helping George Dyson Jeff Lieberman Martin Parker Evelyn Resh Moderator: John Bennett

WEDNESDAY

12:30-1:50 UMC 235 2466 Women and Islam Janet Breslin-Smith Anne Goddard John Tirman Willow Wilson Moderator: Eliza Woloson

9:00-10:20 Old Main Chapel 3112 The Lost Art of Civility Elaine Miller-Karas William Nack Evelyn Resh Michael Stoff Moderator: Mary Ann Shea

9:00-10:20 UMC Gallery 3113 Without the Arts, It’s not Education Leah Buechley Jeff Lieberman Stuart Schoffman Liz Weir Moderator: Becky Roser

10:30-11:50 UMC Center Ballroom 3266 The Human Cost of the War on Terror Sarah Holewinski John Tirman Ike Wilson Moderator: Shirley Berg

11:00-11:50 Macky Auditorium 3301 PERFORMANCE Who Dat, Where Y’at? Lillian Boutté Henry Butler Brad Goode Donald Harrison Moderator: Richard Foy

9:00-10:20 UMC West Ballroom 11:00-12:20 ATLAS Black Box 3114 Youth Around the World: 3314 IY: Making Stuff With D Under-tapped Resource, Our Own Hands Unmet Aspirations Jim Borgman Janet Breslin-Smith Leah Buechley Louis Goodman George Dyson Carrie Hessler-Radelet Seth Shostak Judith Morrison Moderator: Louise Grauer Moderator: Michael Ryan 11:00-12:20 UMC East Ballroom 9:00-10:20 Wolf Law Wittemyer 3316 Miss Representation: PorCourtroom trayal of Women by the Media Scott Flanders 3115 Digital Espionage, Crime Judithe Registre and Warfare Alicia Robb George Dyson Willow Wilson Martin Parker Moderator: Tori Peglar John Tirman 11:30-12:50 UMC 235 Ike Wilson 3361 What the Frack! Moderator: Lloyd Gelman Michael Franc 9:00-10:20 Macky Auditorium Francesca Grifo 3116 Geopolitics of Energy Charles Love Joe Cirincione David Orr David Orr Moderator: Richard Polk Jay Parker 12:00-12:50 Old Main Chapel Phillip Walker 3401 DUET Moderator: Paul Heffron Ending AIDS 9:00-10:20 UMC Center Ballroom Joel Gallant 3117 Jail for Journalists Glenn Treisman Nina Alvarez Moderator: Richard Byyny Shane Bauer 12:00-1:20 UMC Center Ballroom Bob Dreyfuss 3411 War on Ideologies Lou Dubose Chip Berlet Moderator: Clay Evans Heather Hurlburt Tammy Schultz 9:00-10:20 UMC East Ballroom 3118 Jim Smith Revenge of the Nerd: Moderator: Ginny Corsi Nate Silver Got It Right Mary Hughes 12:55-2:25 Boulder High School Neil King 3471 STORYTELLING Jurek Martin W hat Stories Tell Jon Sinton About Us Moderator: Alice Madden Kevin Kling Feargal Lynn 9:00-10:40 Boulder High School Clare Murphy 3131 Space: The Next Giant Liz Weir Leap Seth Shostak UMC 235 1:00-2:20 Michelle Thaller 3511 Break out the Cheetos: Loretta Whitesides Pot’s Legal! Nina Alvarez 10:00-11:20 UMC 235 3211 Terrence McNally The Power of Social Jo Muse Enterprise Robert Egger Sanho Tree Andrew Kassoy Moderator: Cathryn Hazouri William Shutkin 1:00-2:20 UMC East Ballroom Moderator: Paul Jerde 3512 The Evolution and Devolu10:30-11:50 Old Main Chapel tion of TV: From Breaking 3261 UNdone: The UN is Bad to Honey Boo Boo Doomed David Bender Anne Goddard Don Grusin Carrie Hessler-Radelet Steve Sauer James Tanabe Howard Schultz Phillip Walker Moderator: Ellen Mahoney Moderator: Tom Kahn 1:00-2:20 Old Main Chapel 10:30-11:50 UMC Gallery 3515 Hamlet 3262 Fashion, Tattoos and Gordon Adams Piercings: Body as Michael Almereyda Billboard Jay Parker Jeff Lieberman Moderator: Micah Abram Clare Murphy 1:00-2:20 UMC West Ballroom Jenni Schaefer 3516 The Income Gap and the Moderator: Lisa Radelet Rise of U.S. Poverty 10:30-11:50 UMC West Ballroom Neil King 3263 My Most Disturbing Reza Ramazani Thought Alicia Robb Margot Adler Hedrick Smith David Bender Moderator: Alison Peters Abby Rapoport 1:30-2:50 UMC Center Ballroom Tammy Schultz 3561 Republicans Ravage Moderator: Robert Pane Reproductive Rights 10:30-11:50 Wolf Law Wittemyer Monika Bauerlein Courtroom Guy Benson 3265 Resilience Lou Dubose Shane Bauer Mary Hughes Andrew Goddard Moderator: Rick Ridder Kevin Kling Elaine Miller-Karas Moderator: Susan Barney Jones

2:00-2:50 3601

ATLAS Black Box DIGITAL SANDBOX Jazz Concert Remix Henry Butler Gooding Martin Parker Moderator: Bret Mann

3:00-3:50 3700

Macky Auditorium LENARY P PERFORMANCE Dave Grusin Don Grusin Moderator: Bret Saunders

3:00-3:50 3702

4:30-5:50 3862

UMC Center Ballroom RA: Killing Me Softly N With Your Lies Margot Adler Monika Bauerlein Guy Benson Colin Goddard Moderator: Michael Radelet

4:30-5:50 3863

UMC East Ballroom ur Cyborg Future O Michael Chorost Ross Haenfler Martin Parker Seth Shostak Moderator: Michael Carrigan

Old Main Chapel DUET 4:30-5:50 Muenzinger Auditorium P olitical Improv: A Truth Decay: Hoaxes and Black Conservative and 3864 Conspiracies a White Liberal Walk Chip Berlet Into a Bar... Keith Snow Gordon Adams Michelle Thaller Robert George Sanho Tree Moderator: Carroll Christman Moderator: Michael Ehlers 3:00-4:20 UMC East Ballroom 4:30-5:50 UMC West Ballroom 3711 Stop Surviving, Start 3865 The World in Africa: Living Developing or Looting Lillian Boutté Joel Gallant Elaine Miller-Karas Donald Gips Evelyn Resh Reza Ramazani Vivian Siegel Judithe Registre Moderator: Adam Chase Moderator: Chet Tchozewski 3:00-4:20 Eaton Humanities 1B50 3712 Understanding Cultures Through Art Elizabeth Berry 8:30-9:30 KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM Peter Lighte 4051 RADIO BROADCAST Charles Love A Public Affair Willow Wilson The Future of Moderator: Randi Stroh Progressive Media 3:00-4:20 ATLAS Black Box Margot Adler 3713 Science Education: Big Abby Rapoport Bang for the Buck Moderator: Gavin Dahl Leah Buechley 9:00-10:20 Macky Auditorium George Dyson 4111 Obama’s Foreign Policy: Francesca Grifo Audacity or Hope Moderator: Nancy Guild Gordon Adams 3:00-4:20 UMC 235 Guy Benson 3714 Investing in a SustainPhillip Walker able Future Valerie Plame Wilson Ross Haenfler Moderator: Kaye Howe Allen Hershkowitz 9:00-10:20 Wolf Law Wittemyer Andrew Kassoy Courtroom William Shutkin 4112 The Power of the Energy Moderator: Paul Repetto Industry 3:00-4:20 Chemistry 140 Francesca Grifo 3715 Failed States: Not LegitiAllen Hershkowitz mate in the First Place David Orr Janet Breslin-Smith Phil Schiliro Bob Dreyfuss Moderator: Bob Noun Trey Lyons 9:30-10:50 UMC 235 Ike Wilson 4161 Global Urbanization: Moderator: Richard Lyons What’s Lost and Found 3:00-4:20 UMC Center Ballroom Tom Gold 3717 Media Monopoly: Too Big Peter Lighte to Fail William Shutkin Scott Flanders Moderator: Chris Allan Neil King 9:30-10:50 UMC Center Ballroom Jurek Martin 4163 Is Childhood Trauma a Howard Schultz Life Sentence Moderator: Clint Talbott Anne Goddard 3:00-4:20 UMC West Ballroom Arthur Grim 3718 Beyond the Glitz: Thomas Hardaway The Business of Elaine Miller-Karas Entertainment Moderator: Christopher Sarson David Bender 9:30-10:50 UMC East Ballroom Steve Sauer 4164 Eureka! Creativity in Art James Tanabe and Science Moderator: Rudy Harburg Leah Buechley 3:00-4:20 Muenzinger Auditorium Don Grusin 3719 SCREENING Jeff Lieberman Journey of the Universe James Tanabe Mary Evelyn Tucker Moderator: Luke Beatty Moderator: Paula DuPré Pesmen 9:30-10:50 Old Main Chapel 3:00-4:20 UMC Gallery 4165 Wisdom 3721 Veganism: We Have to Terrence McNally Stop Meating Like This William Nack Robert Egger Liz Weir Gooding Willow Wilson Alicia Robb Moderator: Beverly Silva Keith Snow Moderator: Rose Pierro 9:30-10:50 UMC West Ballroom 4166 An Expat’s Life for Me! 4:00-6:00 Macky Auditorium Lillian Boutté 3831 EBERT INTERRUPTUS II Colin Goddard One Flew Over the Trey Lyons Cuckoo’s Nest Stuart Schoffman Terrence McNally Moderator: Lawrence Carlson 4:30-5:20 UMC 235 3851 STORYTELLING C hicken Soup for the Chicken Kevin Kling Moderator: Judy Volc

THURSDAY

9:35-11:05 Boulder High School 4171 Men and Women of the Future: Roles and Responsibilities Michael Franc Ross Haenfler Carrie Hessler-Radelet Judithe Registre

10:30-11:20 Macky Auditorium 4250 AL SMITH MEMORIAL PLENARY DUET Nuclear Nightmares Joe Cirincione Valerie Plame Wilson Moderator: Steven McCarthy

11:00-12:20 UMC West Ballroom 4312 Art of Darkness: When Art Provokes Michael Almereyda Kevin Kling Martin Parker Keith Snow Moderator: Paul Gordon

11:00-12:20 UMC Center Ballroom 4313 Incarceration as Injustice Shane Bauer Chip Berlet Sanho Tree Glenn Treisman Moderator: Russell Moore

11:00-12:20 Old Main Chapel 4314 Development: Reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid Zulfiqar Ahmad Donald Gips Carrie Hessler-Radelet Judith Morrison Moderator: Amy Zuckerman

11:00-12:20 ATLAS Black Box 4315 Reel History: Sorting Fact From Fiction David Bender Bob Dreyfuss Jay Parker Moderator: Bruce Montgomery 11:00-12:20 UMC East Ballroom 4316 Getting America Back to Work Robert Egger Reza Ramazani Howard Schultz Moderator: Bruce Dierking

11:00-12:20 UMC 235 4317 Si, Los Latinos Votan Nina Alvarez Robert George Mary Hughes Jo Muse Moderator: Mark Ruzzin

12:30-1:50 Grusin Music Hall 4461 Three Guitars Gooding Feargal Lynn Jenni Schaefer Moderator: Rebecca Folsom

12:30-1:50 UMC West Ballroom 4462 Recovered Memories of Alien Abduction Margot Adler Michael Chorost Seth Shostak Glenn Treisman Moderator: Nancy Geyer

12:30-1:50 Old Main Chapel 4463 ObamaCare: Countdown to 2014 Michael Franc Joel Gallant Phil Schiliro Moderator: Bob Morehouse

12:30-1:50 Macky Auditorium 4464 Diplomacy by Couples Elizabeth Berry Janet Breslin-Smith Donald Gips Jim Smith Moderator: Stein Sture

12:30-1:50 UMC 235 4465 Make Love, not Porn Scott Flanders Clare Murphy Evelyn Resh Howard Schultz Moderator: Marjorie Schaffner