FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2006
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Volume 5, Issue 155
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
SHEPARD
■ Curtis Gokey filed a claim against the city of Lodi, Calif., after a municipal dump truck rammed his car in December, but the claim was dismissed when it was learned that the actual driver of the dump truck was city employee Curtis Gokey. (Subsequently, Gokey’s wife declared that she would sue, instead.) ■ Adult education teacher Robert Colla was hospitalized in Ventura, Calif., with severe burns and shrapnel wounds, and lost part of his right hand, when he tried to smash a bug with the paperweight on his desk. The “paperweight,” which Colla had found years ago, was a 40mm artillery shell, which, unknown to Colla, was still live.
GIVING PEACE A CHANCE: This mural design created by a Santa Monica student for the high school has come under scrutiny.
Art Courtesy
In the eye of the beholder Mural created to promote peace at Samohi is sending mixed messages BY KEVIN HERRERA Daily Press Staff Writer
SAMOHI — It’s back to the drawing board for artist Jun Cha, a student here whose design for a school mural promoting peace and racial harmony was rejected earlier this week by a committee charged with approving public art on campus.
Cha, 17, was asked to design the mural by a student group, Against All Odds, which has been working to unite Santa Monica High School following incidents of racial conflict on campus over the past year. The group wants to create a mural that will remind students about the dangers of discrimination and racial hatred, while simultaneously honoring Eduardo
“Eddie” Lopez, a 15-year-old Samohi student who was killed earlier this year by a suspected gang member. “The mural is supposed to symbolize all of us coming together to try and take down the thing that is dividing us, with the gang-banging, drugs ...” Cha said. “I’m willing to make changes to the mural as long as the original message of peace still stands.”
The mural, which some students hope to place near the center of campus, shows angry African-American and Hispanic men charging a black wall, some with their fists in the other while others are depicted throwing rocks or carrying bats to bash it down. Behind the wall are See MURAL, page 6
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 132nd day of 2006. There are 233 days left in the year.
Something to fret about
For some, the perfect community can be built
On May 12, 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. In 1870, Manitoba entered Confederation as a Canadian province.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Dissent is not sacred; the right of dissent is.”
THURMAN ARNOLD
AMERICAN LAWYER (1891-1969)
INDEX
BY KEVIN HERRERA
Horoscopes As you wish, Scorpio
Daily Press Staff Writer
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Snow & Surf Report Water temperature: 59°
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Opinion Licking the mail problem
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Local Bab boys, what’cha gonna do?
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State Calling out the mayor
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National Climber’s precarious position
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People in the News Chappelle’s wife wants answers
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Comics Laugh it up
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Classifieds Ad space odyssey
Alejandro Cesar Cantarero II/Daily Press Ed Gorsk of Koreatown, strums a left-handed acoustic guitar alongside Ken Oak, also from Koreatown, who plays the cello. The Ken Oak Band entertained passersby on the Third Street Promenade on Thursday.
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Be Prepared for
CITYWIDE — Robert and Rayni Joan Moskowitz don’t just want to know their neighbors, they want to purchase a home with them. The Santa Monica couple is looking to create a co-housing development, or intentional community, in which families ban together, purchase property and collectively design, finance and develop land to fit their definition of the perfect neighborhood. Under most models, each family would own a portion of the development, including their own residence See COMMUNITY, page 7
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