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Students Blaze at UC Santa Cruz on Four Twenty, 2008
Thousands of students from around the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Areas participated in a "Four Twenty" celebration in Porter Meadow at UC Santa Cruz on April 20th, 2008. Four Twenty (420) is a time of day when people, often a group of friends, smoke cannabis together or eat foods cooked with it. For that reason, April 20th has evolved into a counterculture holiday where people gather to celebrate and consume cannabis. Porter Meadow at UCSC has traditionally been the largest 420 gathering place around, and this year was said to be even larger than 2007. Despite the severe measures initiated by the UCSC administration to curtail the unorganized convergence, folks showed they were determined to experience Four Twenty as one large group of people in the Porter Meadow.
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Great picks, Bradley! Thanks for letting us that couldn't be there relive the experience. :) Oink oink!
Niceness! What a wonderful show of unity and collective justice, not to mention auto-free campus attendance. Out of the car we can all go far, out of the box we outfox. In a roadblock we rock the trails, it never fails. Car culture vulture can't touch our root route. Try to shut it down and what? Bigness, big-ups and bigger than ever. Forward all-ways. Peace.
Love the peace symbol earrings in the one photo. Wish I could have been there. Peace!
Much better than the Sentinel coverage! I didn't see any 5 foot bongs there!
Also, the music, and the litter pick-up documented. I heard that the next day, after 5,000 people
had gathered in the meadow, that there was no trash found.
Also, the music, and the litter pick-up documented. I heard that the next day, after 5,000 people
had gathered in the meadow, that there was no trash found.
April 24, 2008
To: Members of the UCSC Community
Fr: Ginny Steel, University Librarian
Re: Grateful Dead Archives Given to UCSC
It is a thrill to write to tell you that the surviving members of the iconic rock 'n' roll band, the Grateful Dead, have selected the UCSC Library as the permanent home for their substantial archive of materials documenting the band's history. The collection will be the largest donation ever made to the library's Special Collections Department, and it includes more than 2,000 square feet of memorabilia, artifacts, and other documents. This incomparable archive will undoubtedly become a major resource for research related to the Grateful Dead, the phenomenon of the Deadheads, American music, and popular culture during the last three decades of the 20th century.
The formal announcement of this gift will be made this morning at a press conference to be held at the Fillmore in San Francisco, a singularly appropriate venue where the band performed many times. Chancellor Blumenthal will be present to accept the archive on behalf of the campus, and he will be joined by Grateful Dead band members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart.
UCSC has a long tradition of academic interest in the Grateful Dead. Fred Lieberman, professor of music, teaches a course on the band, and he has also collaborated with Mickey Hart on two books, Planet Drum and Drumming at the Edge of Magic. It was through Professor Lieberman that we first became aware of the search for a home for the archive.
The Library will be raising funds to support the processing and preservation of the archive, and, as work on it begins, we will provide regular updates on our web site.
The press conference, which will begin at 11 a.m., will be streamed live on the web. You can access it via a link on the UCSC home page; a press release, providing more information about this substantial gift, will also be posted there at that time.
To: Members of the UCSC Community
Fr: Ginny Steel, University Librarian
Re: Grateful Dead Archives Given to UCSC
It is a thrill to write to tell you that the surviving members of the iconic rock 'n' roll band, the Grateful Dead, have selected the UCSC Library as the permanent home for their substantial archive of materials documenting the band's history. The collection will be the largest donation ever made to the library's Special Collections Department, and it includes more than 2,000 square feet of memorabilia, artifacts, and other documents. This incomparable archive will undoubtedly become a major resource for research related to the Grateful Dead, the phenomenon of the Deadheads, American music, and popular culture during the last three decades of the 20th century.
The formal announcement of this gift will be made this morning at a press conference to be held at the Fillmore in San Francisco, a singularly appropriate venue where the band performed many times. Chancellor Blumenthal will be present to accept the archive on behalf of the campus, and he will be joined by Grateful Dead band members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart.
UCSC has a long tradition of academic interest in the Grateful Dead. Fred Lieberman, professor of music, teaches a course on the band, and he has also collaborated with Mickey Hart on two books, Planet Drum and Drumming at the Edge of Magic. It was through Professor Lieberman that we first became aware of the search for a home for the archive.
The Library will be raising funds to support the processing and preservation of the archive, and, as work on it begins, we will provide regular updates on our web site.
The press conference, which will begin at 11 a.m., will be streamed live on the web. You can access it via a link on the UCSC home page; a press release, providing more information about this substantial gift, will also be posted there at that time.
Wait... HOW MANY thousand people drove how many miles, consuming how many gallons of gasoline which belched untold quantities of shit into the atmosphere, so that a bunch of selfish people could stand around in a "natural" setting and get stoned while telling themselves how incredibly cool and in-touch-with-the-earth they all were?
You're celebrating this? Have you considered protesting it, instead?
Does it seem odd that the campus administration gets labeled as bunch of fascists because they want to limit the number of cars?
How many police officers were there wandering through this giant meadow you were all in? Were there a lot of arrests?
In the interest of environmental sanity, organizers (and everyone) should consider voluntarily canceling the "big event" next year. Instead we could encourage people to view 4/20 as a day to share with friends locally, enjoying each other and appreciating the natural environment. Don't get in a car. Get high together and go for a walk. Or stay home and make love. Or go outside and make love, who cares? Just don't drive there, ok?
You're celebrating this? Have you considered protesting it, instead?
Does it seem odd that the campus administration gets labeled as bunch of fascists because they want to limit the number of cars?
How many police officers were there wandering through this giant meadow you were all in? Were there a lot of arrests?
In the interest of environmental sanity, organizers (and everyone) should consider voluntarily canceling the "big event" next year. Instead we could encourage people to view 4/20 as a day to share with friends locally, enjoying each other and appreciating the natural environment. Don't get in a car. Get high together and go for a walk. Or stay home and make love. Or go outside and make love, who cares? Just don't drive there, ok?
dats wat im talking bout keep da tradition going im coming soon as i graduate
April 20, 2013: Scandalous 420 at UCSC [YouTube Video]
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