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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.
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