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UCSB Divided By Porn
By Daniel Haier - Staff Writer
Friday, September 26, 2003

Editor's note - This is the second of a two-part series on porn parties in Isla Vista. Today's article explores UCSB's concerns over these parties, sponsored by what it calls "predatory pornography companies."


Sept. 20 - Tonight, at the last Collegefuckfest.com-sponsored party before UCSB classes begin, very few girls take off their shirts, kiss each other, grope each other or do anything else that makes for wild party footage in the eyes of Micah Coy, a 21-year-old Isla Vista resident and cameraman for Collegefuckfest.com. Some refuse because they said that kind of behavior is degrading, others said the weather was simply too cold for topless antics.


James "Stu" Long, a 19-year old UCSB film studies major didn't care - like many people at the party - that his face might show up in crowd footage that could later be spliced into a pornographic College Fuckfest video and sold online. He had little sympathy for girls who feel exploited by their appearance in such films.


"If the girls are drunk enough and stupid enough to get on the videos, then that's what they deserve," Long said.


Kristin, who would not give her last name or age, refused to take off her fishnet top when cornered by Coy's camera in the kitchen of tonight's party house at 6500 Del Playa Dr.


"I've got enough respect for myself not to do that," Kristin said. "At one of their other parties, the camera wouldn't stop following me around and harassing me."


When told that funds from College Fuckfest helped pay for the alcohol she was drinking tonight, her attitude toward the company softened.


"It's hella cool they sponsor the party," she said. "Let the ho girls do whatever."

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UCSB's administration is less broad-minded about these parties and what goes on at them but has limited ability to control or punish student behavior in Isla Vista and prevent the operation of porn companies like College Fuckfest.


Under the university's extended jurisdiction policy, UCSB can levy penalties on students arrested off campus for their engagement in violent crime, stalking, sexual assault, sexual harassment or hate crimes. However, there is no university policy against flashing or appearing in pornographic videos.


Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Michael Young and Dean of Students Yonie Harris signed an e-mail warning this week sent to every UCSB student regarding "predatory pornography companies" operating in Isla Vista. The e-mail urged students who are contacted by employees of these companies to notify the UCSB Office of Student Life or the Isla Vista Foot Patrol.


"The university is very concerned about these predatory companies that are exploiting our students," said UCSB Chancellor Henry T. Yang in a statement to the Nexus. "We have taken action to alert our students to the risks they face in taking part in what might appear on the surface to be private parties but in reality are organized, commercial enterprises designed to capture film footage of young people behaving in ways that will help sell pornographic videos. Our foremost concerns are the health, safety and well-being of our students."


Harris said the university is working with the IVFP to get the addresses of porn companies that have found their way into Isla Vista, to express the university's displeasure.


"We want to communicate directly with them that, as a campus, we don't welcome them," Harris said. "Their presence detracts from the quality of life."


"They have a right to come here if they choose, but we have a right to tell them we don't want them," Young said. "They pose a continuing threat to the community."


An administration source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the mass e-mail warning "was a great compromise" on behalf of university officials because for public relations reasons, the university had to do something after the Rolling Stone magazine article hit the stands.


"You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't," the source said. "On the one hand, people would be upset if you did nothing. On the other hand, some people would be upset if you said too much. Now that you have the info, you can make responsible choices."


While urging porn companies to stop operating in I.V. is a far cry from legal action, Harris said the university will be on the lookout for illegal activity, including the provision of alcohol to minors.


"It is a concern," said IVFP Lt. Tom McKinny. "We are looking into this. We're asking the [district attorney] if there are any permit violations being committed associated with these parties, such as providing beer to minors."


McKinny said the IVFP started putting two and two together after the fact - that officers had been to several of these functions and not realized what was going on "in the back rooms."


"I think it hurts the reputation of the college and community," McKinny said. "We will be looking at it. If we can enforce violations we will."


Beyond the e-mail warning, Harris said the university has no plans to identify students featured in such videos for any sort of punishment.


"Students can make whatever personal choices they want," Young said, but he is hoping that direct communication with the porn companies will make them want to move somewhere where it's easier for them to operate.


"It's important to be able to tolerate things you don't like," Young said, "but we're hoping they'll go some place where visible officials don't call them out for what they are. They're exploiting people for money."

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Coy and company leave the party around 12:30 a.m., slightly annoyed that they didn't get better footage. They cruise Del Playa westbound for a few minutes, unsuccessfully lobbying two more groups of women to remove their tops.


With work wrapped up for the night, it's back to Coy's apartment for some drinks.


A passerby on DP spots the light of Coy's camera.


"Woooo! Girls gone wild! Yeah!" he shouts.


"Why does everyone think we're from GGW?" Coy said "I hate those guys."

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The day after the party, Blair Lindeland, a 20-year-old Santa Barbara City College student who started the online party picture collection at Drizunk.com with Coy, sits in his Isla Vista apartment next to his lizard, Puff. Puff's camouflaged skin blends in with the tan couch. Unlike Chewy, Coy's snake that stays in a glass cage in his apartment, Puff roams around the sofa. Blair's TV is much smaller than Coy's new wide-screen, but he isn't working for collegefuckfest.com anymore so he can focus on his classes.


He draws a sharp distinction between Collegefuckfest.com parties and other parties thrown by companies such as Shane's World.


"We don't have people having sex in the middle of parties," Lindeland said. "I can understand why some people are grossed out by it, like whoa, what's going on here, but I also understand the perspective that hey, cool, there's two people fucking."


Lindeland and Coy said the majority of people who attend parties that include live sex end up leaving disgusted and unwilling to come back, which he said is not the goal of College Fuckfest.


"Basically, we just want to throw great parties where everyone has fun," Coy said.


As far as contributing to a negative image of Isla Vista and UCSB, Coy said that College Fuckfest contributes to it. "But people in I.V. are going to party regardless," he said.


"The reputation of Santa Barbara is that it has parties," Lindeland said. "A lot of rich kids go to SBCC just to come down here to have fun in the laid-back ocean party atmosphere."


Coy's parents have mixed emotions about his success working for a company that produces porn videos.


"Basically, my dad is really happy I'm supporting myself without doing anything illegal," Coy said. "My mom is fucking disgusted by what I do, but she's happy I'm doing well."


Sarah Coy, 18, is Micah's younger sister. She doesn't refer to her brother as any sort of "threat to the community."


"There are two very specific sides to College Fuckfest," she said. "There's the porn side and the party side. Micah is strictly on the party side. The parties are always going to be here - Micah just makes them more fun."

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Sharon Hoshida, program director for the UCSB Women's Center, said the first day after the Shane's World article ran in Rolling Stone, the center received two calls from local high school counselors who said parents took UCSB off the list of colleges that their daughters were considering.


"I wouldn't characterize it as an avalanche of calls," she said. "I think there were two."


The sexual harassment prevention education program coordinator at the Women's Center, Judy Guillermo-Newton, said that if there is anything beneficial to come from the publicity these pornography groups are getting, "it is an opportunity to draw attention to the ways women are being exploited."


Guillermo-Newton said that this type of pornography is the latest escalation of reality-style television.


"It's definitely a recent development. Reality TV has permeated the country," she said. "It's helped make risky behavior what partying is all about, especially in the context of college - that this is where you get a chance to do this kind of stuff."


"It just seems unfortunate if someone's been drinking and they do something they regret," said Paula Rudolph, UCSB's sexual harassment complaint officer. "I feel bad for them because there are other forces at work, like peer pressure and the excitement of the moment."


Rudolph said she's a parent of a college student and of a college graduate.


"You can't control everything they do," she said, "even if there aren't porn companies out there."


Rudolph said she wants people to know that the complaint center on campus can help people who feel they have been sexually harassed or exploited.


"I hate to see women or men denigrated," she said, "and then look back and wish they hadn't done it."

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"College Fuckfest discovered I.V. Spring Quarter," said Eric Negendank, a 20-year-old undeclared junior at UCSB, who runs the web site 40zone.com. "They know they can always get good footage here."


Coy and Lindeland's Drizunk.com is not the only Isla Vista-based web site that sponsors local parties and features photographs from Isla Vista parties.


40zone.com, which is owned and operated by residents at 6640 Del Playa Dr., features pictures and movies captured at parties they throw at their house every weekend.


Occasionally, the house accepts money from outside companies like College Fuckfest and Drizunk to throw even larger parties.


"It's like financial aid for us for alcohol-buying purposes," said David "Chang" Jurick, a 20-year-old UCSB junior pharmacology major and one of five contributors to 40zone.com.


Negendank said the money paid by sponsors covers alcohol, sound equipment, web site upkeep and fines issued to the house by the IVFP for violating local noise restrictions.


Negendank said that photographs on the 40zone site are mostly of people the house owners know. However, the web site carries a message reminding viewers that if they see a picture they don't like of themselves, they can request it be taken down.


"We also usually have signs up at our parties that say 'come see yourself at 40zone,'" Negendank said. "No one seems to mind being filmed for the web site. Most people are excited about it - and not just the guys, the girls too - they're willing to deal with the intrusion of the camera."


Negendank said that despite what the UCSB administration might think, one can be a student and party at the same time.


"I'm just a bad student in general," Negendank said, "but we only party on the weekends. Plenty of people involved with 40zone get good grades in respectable disciplines."


"Before they were in Rolling Stone, Shane's World asked us to throw them a party for $600, but they required a bed," Negendank said. "They said they would bring their own sheets, but no one in the house really wanted the sex on their bed."


"Anyway," he said, "lining up around 15 other guys watching a couple have sex seems like more of a frat thing to do."


Negendank said someone from 40zone contacted Shane's World after the Rolling Stone article came out to invite them to 6640 DP again, but after the article the company's offer was less generous - only $200 for expenses.

hottoddy

I went to college at UCSB a little over a decade ago. I spent several years living on Del Playa (the beach street in Isla Vista). Most of the dumb bitches and sluts either live in Isla Vista and commute to SB City College (aka Silly College), or come in from other places to party. The same rules applied to the idiot guys looking to start fights on Halloween, etc..

beemk

wheres that from? fucked up they printed their address.

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laura

thanks !

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hottoddy

It appears to be from The Daily Nexus. It's just the local UCSB school newspaper. Common headlines include "Make Sure To Lock Your Bike" or "Isla Vista Liquor Store May Lose Liquor License."

Watch out if they make the Santa Barbara News-Press ! A few people might actually read it.

Drake

Interesting read

baddog

lost me the middle of the 2nd post . . . .what did they expect was going to happen?

foolio

lol, ya

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reynold

so cool!

Samoan

Worse things happen in Isla Vista than those College Fuck Fest parties. I don't know how people let their daughters attend that school.

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shermo

I wonder what the Triple X Cash crew is doing about this negative press?

Good or bad...press is press! Ride it allllll you can!

bigdog

i wonder if they are makeing sure people under 21 are not drinking

gregtx

good question???


also... serving alcohol at any porn shoot raises lots of liability???

Is this site considered a "documentary". like girls gone wild... or is everyone forced to sign a release... if forced to sign a release... would this document hold up in court if the hosting party is cramming 'free' alcoholic drinkns down everyones throats?

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Keev

LOL Sounds like with this thing going into the mainstream news frats will be told to have no affiliation with cff type parties from their national headquarters or face problems from them or the school itself with probations, charters being pulled etc....

Seems like the remedy would be just get a location and invite everyone over then throw the party, people who want in can, people who don't don't have come period.

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Ross

There's a lot of text in this thread!

Fletch XXX

Who didnt see this coming?

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Fletch XXX

This is what will bring everything down.

They want 18 year old girls, but also want alcohol, you cant have both.

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steffie

Dang - A friends daughter is 17 and attends a college. She told us at her last visit home that she was at a party where guys where walking around with cameras.

My friend knows what I do, so we contacted the person who threw the party (My friends daughter was drinking).

When I talked to the kid (he is 22) he told me basically fuck off. Than I told him she was 17 and god help him if she is in any footage of the video - pictures. He didn't say much after that.

I guess I will be looking for that school now and pictures. God help him if she is in any of those pictures (She said she didn't go TOO crazy, that alone worries me)

What that guy should worry about is the fact she is 17 (looks way older), she was drinking (there was only alcohol at the party)

So she was stupid (I really don't know what she did, I guess she flashed when she was drunk).

Oh well, we deal with it if we see the pictures. What else can you do as a parent?

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Fletch XXX

If video was shot in Santa barbara, I would put money on there being underage drinking going on, those rich kids have the best FAKE IDS ;)

thats ALL SANTA BARBARA is is underage drinking and partying

hahah

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fris

do you have the url for the article?

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CosmicKitten

good times Isla Vista

I've got some party pics from over there myself.

Do people actually get educations over there? Only thing my friends got from I.V. was a heroin problem.

Houdini

It was on the front page of the news press the other day! SB hates this kind of bad press. I was born in SB and lived here all my life. I'll guarantee they'll find a loophole to stop these parties. Old money here talks.

Micah - Drizunk

Alright, as much as I didnt want this article to happen, it did. The guys from the nexus wrote this thing about how Isla Vista is the only place CFF films, which is untrue. They got most of the facts right, and surprizingly used about everything I ever said to the guy.
I figured my one word or vague answers would be enough to force him into giving up.
Then they did the second article that was the administraitions response to the fact that these "preaditory" porn companies are filming in Isla Vista and that theyre going to ruin your life. Of course it was another slam.
What no one seems to note though is the fact that we done condone/support underage drinking. Which (along with the taping) is UCSB's main concern. We make a donation to the house - which this house decided to use as beer money.

UCSB is trying to eliminate the party scene out here cause they want to be known for thier acedemics and nothing else. Thus, they will stop at nothing to scare the vajesus out of everyone.
So far the only effect I've seen in my little hometown here, is that suddenly tons of kids have video cameras, and now nobodys screaming girls gone wild - its "were from college fuck fest show us your tits."
Fuckin posers.
Anyone else have any other questions?

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Paolo

So far the only effect I've seen in my little hometown here, is that suddenly tons of kids have video cameras, and now nobodys screaming girls gone wild - its "were from college fuck fest show us your tits."

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Micah - Drizunk

yeah, sorry about having the press involved to every one from Triple X, I didnt think there would be this much interest in us.

Kev - im giving you permission to kick my ass for this if you want, or if youre just having a bad day lol.

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hottoddy

The I.V. party scene is really no different than most other big college towns. The bulk of the partying is relegated to a few streets near the beach on the weekends (and of course Halloween). I've been to many schools that were far worse. Most of the party related problems are caused by non-UCSB students who flock to I.V. on the weekends desparately trying to be part of the fun. Kids frequently drive in from SF or LA just to party, try to get laid or start fights.

UCSB is a great school and is definitely not filled with just rich kids or partiers. As a state subsidized UC school, it's quite affordable compared to private colleges. The relative cost also makes entry very competitive. I did know a few people who partied too much and found themselves quickly in community college. The quarter system can be brutal.

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