 Welcome to CalTV's first off-script for spring 2018. My name is Tomas Maglonia, the news director for the department, and today we'll be discussing our first three stories of spring 2018. As a reminder to our audience following us throughout the semesters, off-script is behind-the-scenes stories from in the field, and today we're fortunate to have three of our reporters, Polina, Laylee, and Bobby, and we especially want to welcome Laylee as she is new member who just started this spring 2018, a first year with the department. And we're going to go ahead and kick it off with Bobby. Bobby, your story is going to come out over the weekend and it's about e-cigarettes and their impact to those who use it. Do you mind giving us context about how you went about that story and what are some of the interesting things you found? We're going to go ahead and pass the mic over to you. Yeah, absolutely. And again, thank you Tomas for having me on this show. I found e-cigarettes to be particularly fascinating because on campus we have a no smoking policy, we have a no vape policy, no electronic cigarettes, but you see a lot of students using e-cigarettes on campus. Lately it's been a trend of using an e-cigarette called a drool. It's really small, looks like a USB. It's a gray or black and basically you can use multiple flavors. Personally speaking, it's delicious and that's what's frightening is because a lot of students in middle schools and high schools are using e-cigarettes. Does that mean they're going to be addicted to other drugs while they start smoking nicotine a lot more often or tobacco? So this little thing that we were doing was basically seeing what students had to say. Do they smoke on campus? Do they use this socially? Are they addicted to nicotine or is this a better alternative to smoking cigarettes? So I thought it was just really fascinating. Thank you so much and that story will be coming out in just a few days but thank you for joining us and setting that up. Lately we're going to go ahead and move on to you. You were one of the first reporters to utilize our Facebook live platform and you covered the controversial arrest of one of the workers during your protest and they stood out California Hall protesting that this person be released. Do you mind giving us context about that? We didn't do a news story but you were there at the protest for a while. Explain how that experience was like. Yes, so I was able to be a live reporter for that protest and what had happened was a couple days prior the same workers organization had held a protest just protesting the unfair discrimination practices that happened at UC Berkeley with their workers and during that protest one of their workers David Cole was unjustly arrested and was charged. So the protest that happened a couple days later was outside of California Hall and the basic thing was that they were making sure that he was released and that those charges were dropped as well as just addressing the discriminatory practices that happened on our campus with policing. So it was super interesting because it was a live stream and I was able to use Facebook live as a platform which was really cool for me and what happened was first I just was able to talk to the leaders of the protest ask them what was going to happen and then I started filming when the speakers went on and it was really cool because actually an African-American studies teacher was there speaking and something that was super interesting was she talked about how a lot of times during protests not a lot of teachers come out and support protests and that's what it was super valuable for her to be out there which is something that I really liked. All right thank you so much for sharing that and Polina for you the story that you worked on was actually really interesting it carried on from last semester you can you brought us behind the scenes of Zellerbach and maybe we walk by this building every time but we don't really know what goes on you know even on stage or at the back of the stage of students who you know maybe don't frequent it can you tell us a little bit about what you learned behind the scenes at that area? Yeah so like you said it was kind of a layover from last semester and I got in touch with Cal Performances with the executive director there and the PR department there and they set me up to talk with just the executive director marketing director stage manager and I think the most surprising thing to me and I think the other students here would find interesting is that they plan years in advance they have programs set up for the 2021 season already so it's a lot of work that they put in and you know what we see is just on the stage but takes a lot of more work than that to get it out. All right we want to thank all of you Polina, Laili, Robert who had to leave the set for a bit for joining us and off script is going to happen throughout the semester and we hope for the next few semesters every time you have stories published the links will be posted on this post specifically below so please be sure to check out the stories that we're discussing again off script is behind the scenes stories from in the field thank you Bobby Laili and Polina my name is Tomas Maglania thanks for joining us off script spring 2018