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SMOKING BANNED ON CAMPUS

A.S. transitions

Council Seeks Two New Members

By J.J. Magallon Contributing Writer

first implemented in September 2009, states that smoking is banned within 25 feet of all buildings. Last year, the UCSD Health Sciences campus located in Hillcrest enacted a smoking ban on a trial period.

Yudof ’s new policy would create a blanket ban that includes all outdoor areas, including RIMAC Field. According to the announcement, the ban will be slowly implemented to allow smokers to adjust to the ban. The ban will affect all students, faculty and staff.

A.S. Council is still trying to fill two vacant positions after Associate Vice President of Student Organizations Lynne Swerhone and Sixth College Council president Kristian Castro stepped down during Fall Quarter 2011. A.S. Speaker Ryan O’Rear also vacated his position, but the council appointed Associate Vice President of Diversity Affairs Jesus Romero as his replacement during the Jan. 11 meeting.

Swerhone resigned from office after the Nov. 30 meeting, during which council passed the referendum allowing students to vote on a possible $165 per-quarter student fee increase to move UCSD into Division-I athletics.

“I am so deeply disappointed in all of you,” Swerhone wrote in her resignation letter to the A.S. Council listserv. “That was one of the most disgusting displays of mindless groupthink I’ve ever seen.”

Swerhone said she disapproved with passing of the D-I athletic referendum because students are dropping outschool from not being able to afford to pay their fees.

“You have successfully made

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Policy gives individual campuses ability to set specific guidelines to “gradually” become smoke-free in two years, Yudof says.

By LAIRA MARTIN Associate News Editor

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he University of California will ban tobacco use on all 10 campuses by 2014, UC President Mark G. Yudof announced in a letter to the chancellors on Jan. 9. The new policy, which each committee is responsible for creating, would also ban the sale and promotion

of tobacco products on campus.

Colleen Stevens, chief of the tobacco control branch at the California Department of Public Health, emphasized the extent of the UC system’s efforts in a Jan. 12 article of the Mercury News.

“People have been actively OPINION working on this for 10 years,” This is the Stevens said in the article. “The worst time UC system has been very vocal to be greedy.

See our Jan. about protecting people from secondhand smoke.”

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According to a Jan. 12 article on ABC 7’s website, only 8 percent of UC students smoke, while 10 percent of faculty and staff smoke.

Currently, UC campuses already ban

smoking within 20 feet of buildings, while UC San Francisco has banned smoking entirely since 2008. UCSD’s current smoking policy,

C ourtesy of the L os A ngeles T imes

Record 60K Freshmen Applicants compared to Fall 2011 but that will not be determined until our enrollment target is set for Fall 2012.”

The campus press release reported a total increase of 2000 applications from African Americans, Latinos and A record 75,987 students applied to UCSD Native Americans. This year, for the first time, Latino in fall 2011, according to figures released Jan. 12 Total applications for Fall applicants to UC campuses outnumbered whites. UCOP by the UC Office of the President. While this is Interim Director of Admissions Kate Jeffery said the UC an overall increase of nearly 8 percent — with 2012 system’s new admissions policy was a factor in the rising freshmen applications jumping 13.8 percent to a number of minority applicants. This new admissions record 60,819 — transfer applications fell nearly 11 policy — approved by the Board of Regents in 2009 percent to 15,168 from just over 17,000 a year ago.

— no longer requires students to take the SAT Subject According to a press release issued by UCSD although SAT I or ACT scores are still required. spokesperson Christine Clark, the average high Freshmen applications tests, According to the UC website, the change was made to school GPA of freshmen applicants is 3.76. increase the pool of high-achieving applicants and the Transfer applicants, largely from community tests were deemed to “add little to the prediction of how colleges, average a 3.3 GPA. UCSD is the third well a student will do at UC.” most applied-to UC campus for the 2012-13 year, Previously, UC was the only system nationwide to trailing UCLA and UC Berkeley. require the tests.

Applications increased at each of the nine UC Transfer applications According to the UCOP release, SAT I and ACT undergraduate campuses. Overall, the UC system scores remained similar to those of last year. saw over 160,000 individual students apply for admission — an all“It is good news for the university to have such significant time high. demand from high-achieving California students,” Jeffery said.

UCSD Assistant Vice Chancellor and Director of Admissions “We’re doing something right in providing an education that Mae Brown said that, despite the surge in applications, enrollment California students want and their families value.” numbers will not be dramatically different in the fall.

“We don’t expect to see a significant change in the enrollment Readers can contact Zev Hurwitz at zhurwitz@ucsd.edu. target for 2012,” Brown said. “More students may be admitted

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UCSD Professor Leads Search for Famed “God Particle”

By JAVIER ARMSTRONG Staff Writer Scientists led by UCSD physicist and professor Vivek Sharma have found potential glimpses of the so-called “God particle” — the Higgs Boson — and have narrowed the list of possible hiding places for the Higgs.

The Higgs Boson, if it exists, would be an elementary particle responsible for mass in the universe.

Scientists announced potential glimpses of the elementary particle during a special seminar at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in mid-December.

“I think we are getting very close,” UCSD physicist and professor Vivek Sharma said in a Dec. 13 msnbc.com article. “We may be getting the first tantalizing hints, but it’s a whiff, it’s a smell, it’s not quite the whole thing.”

Sharma leads a team of 600 scientists from Europe, India, Korea, Brazil and the U.S. at CERN. The scientists used the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest high-energy particle accelerator.

An energy particle accelerator creates a stable acceleration at constant orbital radius in an annual magnetic field.

CERN runs the 17-mile loop buried under Switzerland and France.

Particles in the LHC travel near the speed of the light and release large amounts of energy created from collision explosions.

The energy released combines into new particles, which sometimes include species like the Higgs.

In the past two years, the scientists have used the Large Hadron Collider to smash over 500 trillion protons.

They recorded the findings with a camera capable of capturing 80 million pixels and 1 billion frames per second in hopes of catching a glimpse of the Higgs.

University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Sau Lan Wu said the universe would have formed very differently if Higgs Boson was nonexistent.

Scientists believe that the Higgs Boson is the reason there is mass.

“It is through the interaction with the Higgs Boson that elementary particles acquire their

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masses,” Wu said. “Therefore, without the Higgs Boson, quarks would be massless, with the consequence that there are no protons, no neutrons, no atoms, no molecules, no bulk matter and of course no humans, no planets, etc. In other words, without the Higgs Boson, the world would be entirely different.”

English theoretical physicist and professor emeritus Peter Higgs at the University of Edinburgh theorized in the 1960s that a field exists throughout the universe the same way that we experience magnetic fields and gravitational fields.

However, the Higgs Field cannot be turned off the way an electromagnetic field can.

Scientists adapted this theory and now refer to it as the Higgs Field.

Sharma said if the particle does not exist it will shake the foundations of science because we will have to start from scratch in trying to find the answer of where mass comes from.

“It will be chaos,” Sharma said. “But science thrives in chaos.”

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Health Sciences Campus Already Smoke-Free

Council Debates CLICS, Fate of Proposed D-I Referendum

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ednesday night’s A.S. Council Meeting was one long update on ongoing A.S. projects.

This included President Alyssa Wing’s update on the move to Division-I sports. According to Wing, the UC Office of the President has not responded to the technical revisions that were submitted Natalie Covate over a week ago. ncovate@ucsd.edu “Once we get that [approval], hopefully by next week, we can definitely move forward,” she said.

Wing also announced that Wednesday, Feb. 1 will be A.S. Council’s “super-public” meeting, where constituents can come to the meeting early for a council meet-andgreet and enjoy free snacks. (Because starving college students will only sit through an A.S. Council meeting for free food.)

Speaking of food, Vice President of Finance and Resources Kevin Hoang handed out assignments for Council Lunches. Councilmembers are very serious about their bonding time.

Vice President of External Affairs Samer Naji reminded council that the Board of Regents meeting is in a few days, and buses will be leaving tonight and tomorrow morning for students who find protesting to be more important than their time in class. He was also happy to announce that the A.S. Council website was blacked out for the day in protest to SOPA and PIPA. I’m sure many students noticed and were dismayed.

With so much business, Hoang was anxious to know who Councilmember of the Week was,

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and demanded that Vice President of Student Life Meredith Madnick make the announcement.

“I’m so surprised you asked that question,” she said, and then went on to announce this week’s winner of the glittery sash, Associate Vice President of Diversity Affairs Jesus Romero.

Among his accomplishments was his stepping up to the position of Council Speaker after Ryan O’Rear resigned last quarter.

The meeting closed with Wing’s unveiling of the first draft of the new CLICS facility. The layout includes a large lecture hall in the middle, an entryway with standing work bars similar to those in Price Center East and three study areas to hold approximately 130 seats.

Council debated whether students would value having the rooms set up in a three-tiered noise level system, so that one room allows open talking, one room is quiet talking and one room is eerily silent. It might also be possible to make the three study spaces into one larger study space to allow approximately 150 seats and a consistent, open noise level similar to what students could expect at the old CLICS. “There will be a tribute to [the old] CLICS,” Wing said. “[What CLICS was] won’t be lost in this building. CLICS will live on!”

While there were mixed feelings about whether the extra seats or the noise control would be the best value for students, A.S. Council all snapped in agreement to the suggestion of the addition of hydration stations throughout the building.

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smoking policy.

In February 2011, A.S. Council passed suggesting that smoking be limited to outdoor parking lots.

Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Wellness Karen Calfas could not be reached for comment as of press time.

▶SMOKING, from page 1 According to a March 3, 2011 Guardian article titled “Students Discuss Changes to Campus Smoking Policy,” the American College Health Association surveyed over 500 UCSD students in Spring Quarter 2010; the survey concluded that about 67 percent of students were in favor of a revised

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That was one of the most disgusting displays of mindless group-think I’ve ever seen. ” Lynne Swerhone

Former AVP of Student Organizations

Council Interviewing Candidates This Week ▶ Transitions, from page 1 yourselves the council that thought it reasonable to raise student fees during a fiscal crisis for a benefit that you’ll see when no one gives a fuck about where you went for undergrad,” Swerhone said.

According to Swerhone, the referendum would cost an estimated $500 per student per year.

O’Rear stepped down Nov. 27 due to personal reasons. Castro could not be reached for comment as of press time. A.S. President Alyssa Wing said that, while she could not speak about the specific

positions, resolutions are common in student government.

Romero, O’Rear’s replacement as Speaker, said that there “is not more added responsibility.”

According to Romero, the Speaker of the House is responsible for running a speakers list and enforcing Robert’s Rules of Order, which govern how the council interacts. Romero said that the biggest transition would require becoming more familiar with Robert’s Rules.

Vice President of Finance and Resources Kevin Hoang and Vice President of External Affairs Samer Naji are filling the vacant positions

of AVP of Student Orgs and AVP of Local Affairs until replacements can be found.

A.S. Council started accepting applications for the vacant positions Jan. 10. The filing period for all open positions closed Monday, Jan. 16. A.S. Council started interviewing qualified candidates this week for the two positions.

Speaker of the House and AVP of Local Affairs Ryan O’ Rear declined to comment. Sixth College Council President Kristian Castro could not be reached as of press time.

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OPINION You Will Never Fear Being Alone Again

EDITORIALS

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ad and alone on a Friday night?

Don’t worry, Omegle’s got your back. How-to Guru is here to teach you how to chat up the Internetbound ladies and gents in style.

Omegle.com is an online chat website on which people are randomly entered into anonymous one-on-one chat sessions under the usernames of “You” and “Stranger.” To your relief, you don’t even have to pretend to be Sir Shits-a-Lot who lives on 123 Fake Street because none of that registration mumbo jumbo is required.

A Hazy Future

A systemwide ban on smoking at UC campuses is a well-intentioned move, but will prove largely ineffective and costly.

Editorial Board Angela Chen Editor In Chief

Arielle Sallai Margaret Yau Managing Editors

Madeline Mann Opinion Editor

Hilary Lee Associate Opinion Editor The UCSD Guardian is published twice a week at the University of California at San Diego. Contents © 2011. Views expressed herein represent the majority vote of the editorial board and are not necessarily those of the UC Board of Regents, the ASUCSD or the members of the Guardian staff.

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hen UC President Mark G. Yudof announced that all 10 campuses would ban smoking by 2014, it sounded like a drastic change. The decision has made headlines nationwide, was applauded by environmental blogs and even merited an editorial in the Los Angeles Times. But for the students who’ve been following campus policy changes for the past two years, Yudof’s big moment means exactly one big thing for UCSD smokers: Parking lots are no longer fair game.

As of the Jan. 9 mandate released in a letter to the 10 UC chancellors, the system is more committed to “healthcare and environmental concerns” than ever. Yudof is wisely leaving the nitty-gritty details of the new policy up to each school. While smoking is now banned in all areas, from the obvious (residence halls) to the former havens of the nicotine-addicted (said parking lots), the specific details of the ban

radius and punishment will be decided on an individual level. Since all campuses already ban smoking within 20 to 30 feet of buildings, this mostly means that lighting up in outdoor areas is no longer permitted.

For UC San Francisco, which already bans smoking, and the Hillcrest UCSD Health Sciences campus, which banned smoking on a trial run last year — this means nothing.

For the rest of us, living and studying at a school which alternately is one of the biggest campuses and also has one of the most stringent existing no-smoking policies, this means that 50 or so designated “smoking areas” and the people who used them are out of luck. Everyone else will likely keep calm and continue surreptitiously smoking in Warren Field.

We simply lack the resources to properly patrol this soon-to-be infraction and, with See Smoke, page 5

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UC Increase of Non-Residents Signals Move Toward Privatization

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he University of California released preliminary data on undergraduate applications Jan. 12, revealing two significant, but not altogether unsurprising, figures: Applications from out-of-state and international students are up, while applications from transfers are down.

Let’s break it down with the stats: The number of non-Californians that applied to become UC students in Fall 2012 rose 56 percent over last year to about 33,000. In-state applications are also up, rising 9.8 percent over last year to about 93,300, while transfer applications are down 6 percent.

Put the data together, and it’s shitty all around for California residents seeking a public education.

According to Kate Jeffrey, UC’s interim director of undergraduate admissions, the increase in non-resident applications can be attributed to students nationwide “hedging their bets and not just applying to private institutions.”

Apparently, students are applying to a public university careening toward privatization instead. Oh, the irony.

For non-residents, the fact that the University of California is a public system is irrelevant, as the higher tuition they pay means the cost is the same as any private university.

So the more out-of-state and international students are accepted to a UC, the more the system is essentially privatized — and the more money the UC gets. Considering the dismal state budget is hardly reliable (750 million has been cut from UC state funding this year), that money is more crucial than ever.

But most non-residents will be disappointed come spring. UC officials have promised to cap non-resident students at 10 percent — still a noteworthy increase from the current 6.9 percent. And since UCLA, UC Berkeley and UCSD receive the most applications (respectively), they also might see the most non-residents on their campuses. Put it this way: UC Merced won’t have out-of-state or international students dying to attend — thereby allowing the campus to focus more on the in-state students who were promised an affordable education by the California Master Plan for Higher Education. Instead, the top-tier UC schools will bear the brunt of the surge in

out of state-ers.

Meanwhile, according to Jeffrey, the decrease in transfer students is due to a “pipeline issue,” referring to the bottleneck occurring at California community colleges when classes are cut and students are unable to get the credits they need to transfer. Just look at the numbers: Students from community colleges make up the largest portion of transfer students — and they dropped by 5.7 percent.

As a result, the governing board of the California Community Colleges approved a set of reforms Jan. 9 that aims to streamline the road to graduation, certification and transfers, including prioritizing registration for students who have declared these educational goals.

Hopefully such changes will bring the number of transfer students up again. As for California students looking to attend a UC school, we can only hope that Jerry Brown finds room in the state budget to make them a priority, because without help from the state, the UC system will have to ditch its promises out of dire necessity — and judging by the numbers, there’s plenty of students worth more money outside the Golden State.

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And no, don’t even think about conducting a nice conversation about your political views and favorite indie bands, bo-ring. Adopt any persona you’d like. It’s the Internet, for God’s sake, who’s judging? If you really had a life you’d be out talking to real people.

Nine times out of 10, the stranger on the other end of the line will prompt you with the classy pick-up line, “ASL? ;)” — now this is where the fun begins. Let your inner deviant run wild. Be creepy. Who you will have the most fun being, however, is highly dependent on your victim.

Here are some character ideas: Slutty six-year-old. Use this if you’re talking to a dude — the older, the better. Shoot back with “6/f/lookin’ 4 a gud time” and when Stranger asks if you meant “16” not “6,” kindly correct him and go into a long dissertation about how you idolize Dora the Explorer and wish she would wear a padded kiddie bra like you do. This one requires attention to detail. Replace words with numbers where appropriate, intentionally drop vowels, and spell words juss lyke hw dey sound – only don’t get too carried away, Captain Obvious.

Creepy old guy. You know, the kind who lurks the candy aisle of Ralphs on Valentine’s Day hoping to win over doe-eyed girls with their over-rehearsed, saccharine lines.

This works best with young girls, preferably in their teens. However old they are, simply add 30 years to their age and you’re golden. Remember – the more lust-induced speech, the better. Wooderson from “Dazed and Confused” croons, “Mmm, I love high school girls. I get older, they stay the same age…stayin’ fresh for the pickin’.”

Socially awkward freak. Interject random, useless facts about yourself while the other person is trying to talk. Steer the conversation away from socially accepted conventions.

(Think Kristen Wiig’s lip-smacking, one-upping character on “SNL.”) This section doesn’t need much elaboration because if you’re actually doing this, chances are you’re probably already socially awkward.

Don’t be offended if you are met with the message “Your conversational partner has disconnected” — some lame-os can’t take a joke. Forget that rager that you were expressly told not to show up to, and spend hours of fun huddled around your laptop suited up in your Forever Lazy. You will be laughing all night at the types of responses you will get, and at yourself for your progressively degenerative

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The Mental fishbowl By Alex Nguyen

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor, Regarding “Pendleton General Leads Probe”: The behavior of four Marines depicted by a widely distributed video in which they are seen urinating on the corpses of enemy combatants ought to be evaluated in both psychological and moral terms. Public opinion and the Marine Corps reaction will be quite telling. Locally, former Marine Bruce Kesler of Encinitas is on record as stating, “It sure beats chopping off heads and mutilating bodies, like they do.” This is in response to the Talibans’ purported behavior toward Americans. According to the preeminent child psychologist and moralist Laurence Kholberg, the reaction of Mr. Kesler is at perhaps a third-grade level. Furthermore, liquid seeks its own level and from the Bible, we are admonished that “an eye for an eye makes us all blind.” Mr. Kesler, I would hope that, since the time of Attila the Hun, we are a nation that has evolved beyond the weakness of psychological retribution. Why stand behind the curtain of national morality or lack thereof? I would expect more!

of several states were planning to join in a False Claims Act case against them. EDMC — 40 percent of which is owned by Goldman Sachs — enrolls nearly 150,000 students, operating several careercollege chains, including the Art Institute and Argosy University.

I don’t know if California Attorney General Kamala Harris is co-plaintiff yet, so I wrote yesterday to Sacramento to ask her. UC Regent Richard C. Blum made investments in two for-profit higher education companies, Career Education Corp. and ITT Educational Services Inc. Blum’s San Francisco investment firm is the largest shareholder in both firms; the firm’s combined holdings in these two stocks are valued at about $700 million.

Blum was appointed to the UC Board of Regents by former California Governor Gray Davis (formerly Brown’s chief-of-staff in Brown’s earlier term as Governor).

Blum’s term on the UC Regents expires in 2014. Blum himself, when we met briefly on the sidelines of the UC Regents meeting held in San Diego, claimed that he had no control over his own portfolio. And besides, he acquired $700 million for-profit college shares “before I married Dianne.” Blum is the husband of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein.

— Daniel J. Smiechowski San Diego Resident

— Richard Thompson Alumnus ‘83

Actions of Select Marines are Immoral

Smoke Radius is Unfair Outside of Enclosed Spaces ▶ smoke, from page 4

burgeoning class sizes, cancellations and underpaid professors, redirecting any money away from academics to target students is absurd.

Unless the committee creating UCSD’s policy comes up with truly draconian punishments for breaking the ban and finds the money to fund those in charge of becoming smoking vigilantes, the new policy is unlikely to be effective on a campus that spans 59 acres — and maybe that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Yudof’s plan smacks of paternalism. While he cites the nearly 600 other universities that have adopted this ban and the need to remain leaders in environmental practices, his staff, including Chief Risk Officer Grace Crickette, plainly said that it was about “helping people live healthier.”

Obviously, the dangers of cigarettes are welldocumented. Unlike most drugs, cigarettes harm others via secondhand smoke, which makes smoking policies a

societal concern that affects non-smokers.

But also, unlike most, drugs cigarettes are legal, and Yudof’s new plan has the university playing mommy and daddy to a captive audience. There’s a difference between an office smoking ban and a ban at a place where nearly 9,000 people live.

Banning smoking in enclosed spaces is necessary, but banning smoking at RIMAC Field, where a single smoker is unlikely to create enough secondhand smoke to harm anyone is inconvenient — which may be part of Yudof’s goal to use the policy as a deterrent.

In the meanwhile, many who live on campus are older adults, not 18-year-old freshmen, and it’s absurd to expect them to leave their homes to escape the radius.

It’s touching that the UC system is concerned about our health, but the university should, if at all possible, retain designated smoking areas in the interest of “inclusion” and to serve the needs of all members of the campus community.

Concerning UC System Finances Dear Editor, In 2009, the Bridgepoint’s CEO took $20 million in stock options.

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The Ché becomes recognized for housing up-andcoming pop-punk bands such as Jimmy Eat World, the Wallflowers and Green Day. To this day, the Ché hosts the annual Blink Fest, a cover band festival that pays homage to the bands that put the venue on the map.

As pop-punk and ska fade from relevance, the Ché branches out to include more experimental and punk-leaning genres.

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As pop-punk and ska fade from relevance, the Ché branches out to include more experimental genres.

A list of memorable performances includes bands like Deerhoof, No Age and even Animal Collective during its Sung Tongs tour.

‘I Promise’ helped brake even, but it’ll take more than a show to save the Ché. By Ren Ebel and Tanner Cook

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he Ché Café has been saved — at least, for the time being. UCSD’s iconic DIY landmark for underground music, vegan food and political activism — not to mention one of the only precious underage indie venues in San Diego — faced looming financial troubles recently, as staff struggled to raise $12,000 in insurance fees to avoid foreclosure. A slew of modest fundraiser shows culminated in the I Promise Benefit Festival, which took place over the course of three days, Jan. 6 to Jan. 8, and featured phenomenal headlining sets from art-punk juggernauts No Age and HEALTH, as well as performances by Crystal Antlers, Weatherbox, XBXRX, Griever and more. The benefit was ultimately a success, selling out each day and raising around $13,000 in donations.

But the fight isn’t over. Though the fundraiser helped relieve the Ché’s financial burden, its primary benefit was the increased publicity. “It’s important that people remember that [the café is] an active and welcoming place to go, perform their own music, set up their own shows and see bands they’ve been wanting to see for years,” I Promise

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booking agent Scott Sanders told the UCSD Guardian last week. Since the Ché first opened in 1980, it has been a staunch defender of independent music, hosting an impressive list of now-influential bands ranging from Green Day and Drive Like Jehu, to Sleep, Animal Collective, and as recent as 2008, Bon Iver. But that was then. Now, the Ché’s biggest problem seems to be a simple lack of oncampus enthusiasm for underground music.

That’s not to say, however, that the Ché is without its loyal fans. “We are going to publish a book: a really cool book, full of poems, songs, illustrations and photographs all done by people who have been a wonderful part of the music scene,” reads Dan Faughnder’s Facebook page for “Friends and Acquaintances Alike: A Celebration of DIY Culture and the Ché Café.” The collaborative book will include voluntary contributions from anyone wishing to help out the Ché, acting both as a chronicle of the landmark’s history and a purchasable fundraiser — a final push for this indispensable venue.

The deadline for submissions is this Saturday, Jan. 21. For more information, visit Ché Café Collective on Facebook or email SaveTheCheBook@gmail.com.

Insurance issues and stolen equipment led to financial problems that brought about scares of eviction. The I Promise benefit show raised the needed $12,000 to save the San Diego landmark.

films. So, with only a few months before the Awards, the Academy’s first major roadblock proved un-Oscars — very un-Oscars indeed.

Scheduled host Eddie Murphy (nothing screams “suave” like the Nutty Professor) called it quits in solidarity with friend and Academy Awards producer Brett Ratner, who resigned after using an anti-gay slur in a televised Q&A (double suave). The consequent vacancy led Jim Henson fans from all walks of life to wait and hope that, in this fledgling decade of glorious change, we’d see the once-politically unimaginable come to fruition: the first Muppet host of the Academy Awards.

But the dream was short-lived; Billy Crystal got the part (admittedly backed by a dynamite ad campaign) and none of this would be of much consequence if it all didn’t seem to vindicate the infinite snub festival that these immensely important puppets will have to endure this February.

Only recently have the Oscars begun acknowledging “family movies” as serious contenders, and though their choices have been surprisingly commendable (movies made by Pixar), they’ve all been relatively similar and, above all else, ultra-modern. In fact, not a single movie in Pixar’s arsenal has been without some hefty contemporary proverb in tow. “WALL-E” weaved the consequences of consumer greed and excess into beautifully imagined scenes of deep space, “Finding Nemo” was a bountiful cornucopia of childhood loss, wayward fatherhood and the importance of letting go and “Monsters, Inc.” pulled the cute, fuzzy rug out from under naive children to reveal the disillusionment of a voiceless working class in a coldhearted and impersonal capitalist industry.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m Pixarobsessive, and it’s this kind of multilayered storytelling that allows Pixar to reach such a diverse audience. But what made “The Muppets” so fresh and unforgettable was that it was so remarkably un-modern. Unlike its more recent predecessors in the franchise, “The Muppets” didn’t concern itself with adapting. (In fact, it lampooned the very notion, introducing the comically terrifying Moopets — “A hard, cynical act for a hard, cynical world,” Chris Cooper’s maniacal villain Tex Richman explained.) Of course, the entire gang was present, along with all the dorky vaudevillian schtick, self-referential humor, plenty of fourth-wall destruction and a pitch-perfect batch of songs from perhaps the most worthy of modern Muppet collaborators, Flight of the Conchords’ Brett McKenzie. Most striking, however, was how “The Muppets” still felt like an untouched style of entertainment all its own.

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Early songs like “Hit the Ground

(Superman)” are weighed down by studio-polished mainstream aspirations, while “Give It Up” has the kind of sing-along chorus that would gel instantly in the sonic spectrum of an indie-electro minded festival like Coachella.

Fortunately, this monotonous pop soon gives way to more sonicallyambitious work.

By mid-album, the engines of The Big Pink spaceship hit full force, and the album escapes into more unexplored territory in tracks like “Rubbernecking” and “Jump Music.” Bumping bass and spacey, reverb-laden guitars permeate throughout, and each individual sound becomes harder to distinguish.

By the time we’ve reached the title track, singer Robbie Furze is singing of astral planes and the unpredictable future, only to follow it up with the relatively restrained closing number “77.” The listener is given time to reflect here, as Furze longingly sings, “I wish I had 77 ways to say no.”

Future This is an unpredictable journey. Despite a bumpy take-off, the skillfully-crafted, psychedelically-cluttered soundscapes of tracks like “Jump Music” ensure that the album ends in more fascinating places.

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conrad prebys music center / jan 21, 8 P.M. / Free If you were looking for a way to work some puppet-opera into your Saturday night, you just got lucky: An ensemble of musicians (horn, clarinet, and percussionists, plus puppeteer) are performing Kaspar, a spoken-word opera in which all the characters are puppets. The storyline to Kaspar is drawn from “a collage of Kaspar-the-puppet’s short autobiography.” Artsy!

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Sit in on an inspirational lecture. Co-founder of Qualcomm and inventor of the Viterbi Algorithim Andrew Viterbi is giving a lecture in Geisel Library about his coming of age story. Fleeing Mussolini’s rule as a young Jewish refugee in 1935, Viterbi arrived in America, knowing no English and penniless. Viterbi will also contrast his life story with the story of his cousin, world famous author and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi. (MY)

Please Don’t Snub My Muppets ▶ beer, from page 6 where Malkovich becomes internationally renowned in the absurd craft of puppeteering, moving audiences to tears and even inspiring other high-profile actors to follow in his footsteps. It’s an amusing satire of the art world’s arbitrary standards, but isn’t this essentially what happened to Jim Henson? After the fact, the Muppet formula may seem like a natural winner, but no one could’ve predicted that this avantgarde filmmaker-turned-children’s puppeteer would forever change the landscape of G-rated entertainment (Let’s not forget “Sesame Street,” “Fraggle Rock,” “Labyrinth” and, of course, the tragically-overlooked Jedi Master Yoda).

Henson was successful because he so willingly embodied the ultimate cult artist. Not only did he invent new worlds, he literally invented new, complicated characters to inhabit these worlds.

Equal parts product of the love-andpsychedelia hippie era and response

to the increasingly-homogenized Disney, Henson miraculously weaned a generation of kids off cartoon characters who spent most of their time beating the shit out of each other, in order to simply chat with neighbors on the most racially diverse (and longest running) street in morning television history, or mingle with the strangely intellectual Muppets on the “Muppet Show.” He even managed to include adult artists, musicians and actors in these worlds (Video artist William Wegman’s anthropomorphic weimaraners on “Sesame Street” shall forever hold a special place in my heart), effectively creating a fertile multicultural bazaar custom-fit for the curious mind of a child. Henson’s importance cannot be overstated.

So while America may not be ready for a Muppet in the Oscar limelight, let’s hope our humble felt friends are not completely forgotten when the red carpet is unfurled. This year, “The Muppets” assured audiences that there’s no rush to grow up.

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Biopic Bomb Squad WWII flick never takes off.

Rusteen Honardoost • Staff Writer

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dvertised as a high-flying, actionpacked, dubstep-heavy, dog-fighting blockbuster, “Red Tails” aims for a combination of red tails “Star Wars” and Starring: Cuba “Glory” with a Gooding, Jr. & dash of “Top Gun” Terrence Howard 121 min. thrown in to make Rated PG-13 it commercially D viable. But even with George Lucas serving as its enthusiastic executive producer, “Red Tails” seemed unsure from the getgo whether it was a semi-serious historical drama or a balls-to-the-wall action pulp — and consequently, the film spends most of its time flailing awkwardly between the two.

In the midst of World War II, black fighter pilots were a part of the little-respected Tuskegee Airmen. These brave pilots were forced to fly hand-me-down planes on insultingly mundane missions that at most involved destroying easy targets. With enough perseverance, they eventually succeeded in getting their first big break as the escorts on a beach assault. The catch: If they failed, their company would be shut down.

Cue inspirational music, then cut to some chanting and later a bit of heroism and our underdogs come back as legends. But even when they return as successful soldiers, their superior officers only see their program as an “experiment,” and not an entirely successful one at that.

There is a lot of story to be mined here: Heroes who give their lives for a country that doesn’t respect them, the personal and emotional issues that keep them from fulfill-

ing their full potential, the pursuit of the American Dream that may or may not be entirely fictional. The themes of brotherhood, unity and perseverance all come up throughout the film, yet first-time director Anthony Hemingway doesn’t seem to know what to do with the material provided to him. Sometimes we cut away from a scene before the emotions can truly resonate with us. Other times we spend far too much time with characters we barely recognize.

Most of the characters we are familiar with can be boiled down to a single identity, and then that identity can be further reduced to a few one-liners after shooting down their Nazi opponents (“Take that, Mr. Hitler!”).

Only the young engineer-to-be Lieutenant Gannon (Tristan Wilds, “The Wire”) gives enthusiastic hope for the soldiers’ future, and though his devotion at times appears naïve, it also makes him more authentic than his comrades Joker (who is a joker in case this was unclear) and Ne-Yo’s cameo performance as someone named Smokey (though it’s hard

to remember what exactly his character does in the film, or when he even appears).

Academy Award winners Cuba Gooding Jr. and Terrence Howard both appear as the commanding officers of the pilots, yet neither gives his role the proper amount of authority to make it believable. This would be tolerable if they instead turned in hammed-up, scenery-chewing performances à la the great Nicolas Cage that would distract from the painfully formulaic, bare-bones script. But as it is, these two are perhaps the most forgettable part of a forgettable movie.

And all of this could be forgiven if “Red Tails” had instead committed itself to being a roaring beast of an action blockbuster. And while Lucas did put an impressive 58 million dollars into the film — a mark that certainly shows in the flight sequences — it still manages to forgo any semblance of drama or thrills. Think of a Michael Bay movie minus the frantic editing, but still dull. A plane flies to the left. Another plane follows. Then that plane gets shot. Rinse and repeat, and soon

the movie is over.

But for all its yawns, it’s hard to completely hate “Red Tails.” Its subjects are truly deserving of our admiration, as they did indeed sacrifice their lives to defend a country that had little trouble forgetting about them. But as an action picture, the film misses out on the actual thrills. And, complete with a hackneyed nationalist point of view that overlooks the real issues of its characters, “Red Tails” is a disappointment not only as a blockbuster but also as an important piece of American history.

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UCSD Men’s Volleyball Splits Matches in Phoenix, Ariz.

Tritons Drop to 2-3, Fall to Grand Canyon

By Rachel Uda Sports Editor

With the win, UCSD improves to 2-2, while New Jersey Tech falls to 0-2. he UCSD Men’s Volleyball team split their The Tritons did not fair as well in their second weekend matches last weekend in the Grand ever match against host, Grand Canyon University.

Canyon University tournament. In their The Antelopes beat the Tritons in straight sets, to two non-conference matches, the Tritons topped record their first win in program history against a the New Jersey Institute of Technology in five sets team from the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. on Saturday, Jan. 14 before being swept by Grand Despite 11 kills apiece from Eberts and Lennon, Canyon the following day.

UCSD never really came Sophomore setter close to Grand Canyon.

Mike Brunsting coordinated The Tritons fell 21-25 in the Triton attack on the first and second sets Saturday, recording a 19-25 in the third career-high of 55 assists In the MPSF so many teams are and set. and 12 digs against the so good that it’s always difficult, but “The biggest issue Highlanders. Outside hitter Carl Eberts also finished I think we’re getting back to playing for us today was the service aces,” said Ring to with a double-double, 15 some good volleyball. We’re just members of the athletics kills and 11 digs.

The 0-1 Highlanders and going to go in and play to the best of department. “When one misses a serve, it the Tritons each recorded our abilities and if we’re doing that guy puts a lot of pressure on 14 kills in the first set, as then we have the advantage.” the next guy and added the squads traded points, pressure on the rest of New Jersey Tech took the Kevin Ring our game.” set 21-25.

Men’s volleyball coach The Tritons In the second set, committed 18 service UCSD rebounded, taking errors compared to the Antelopes’ 13 errors. the first five points off four kills from sophomore UCSD didn’t play particularly poorly, but was outside hitter Vaun Lennon. just edged out by Grand Canyon in all categories. “[Lennon] did a lot of work for us today,” said The Antelopes had an attack percentage of .304 on head coach Kevin Ring. “He really carried a big load 40 kills, 12 errors and 92 attempts, just better than for us, finishing with 49 swings.

UCSD’s .202 attack percentage on 36 kills, 17 errors Lennon finished with 22 kills, nine digs and four and 94 attempts. blocks, combining for a career-high total of 24.5 The Tritons now fall to 2-3 overall as they enter points, leading the Tritons to a 25-21 win in the their conference matchup against No. 2 UC Irvine on second set. Riding the momentum, UCSD took the Saturday, Jan. 21. third set 26-24, but fell in the fourth 20-25.

“We’re going in facing one of the top teams in “In the game against [New Jersey Institute of the country, and it’s going to be a tough match,” said Technology] we definitely came out slow,” said Ring.

Ring. “In the MPSF so many teams are so good that “But we got the big points when we needed them.” it’s always difficult, but I think we’re getting back to In overtime, the Tritons rallied, recording two playing some good volleyball. We’re just going to go consecutive points to take the set, 15-13. in and play to the best of our abilities and if we’re “Both teams had a hard time sustaining runs doing that then we have the advantage.” today,” said Ring. “We just made some key plays down the stretch that really made the difference for Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ucsd.edu us.”

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UCSD Women’s Basketball receives first-ever No. 1 national ranking

By Nick howe Associate Sports Editor

“We know we don’t have a women’s basketball banner up there yet, so that’s something that drives us.”

Charity Elliot

women’s basketball Coach

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oing into last week’s games, the UCSD Women’s Basketball team was ranked No. 2 in the nation and had its sights set on the best start to the season ever.

UCSD surpassed the mark set in 2010 when the team went 25-5, breaking their 15-game winning streak to Humboldt State, who ultimately knocked the Tritons out of postseason play.

After rolling over the only other undefeated team in the CCAA, No. 22 Cal State Monterey Bay, the Tritons are looking at both a conference championship berth and a place in the national tournament.

On Tuesday, the NCAA coach’s poll — made up of 33 Division II coaches from around the nation — voted in favor of UCSD. The Tritons received 26 out of 31 first place votes, jettisoning UCSD into first place over Clayton State University (16-1), last year’s NCAA Division II champions.

“It’s a great accomplishment for our team to have climbed to the top ranking,” said junior guard Emily Osga. “However, it is rather meaningless at this point in our season. We need to be able to back it up and show its full implications by completing the second half of CCAA play as strongly as the first half.”

In the two preceding years, UCSD has collected over 40 wins, but had not been able to break through to the national tournament. This season, after returning all of its starters, the Tritons look poised for success.

The squad is replete with head coach Charity Elliott returning for her fifth season at the helm, as well as 2011 Triton Athlete of the Year, senior guard Chelsea Carlisle.

Elliott — whose husband Chris Elliott is also part of the coaching staff — has the best coaching record of any basketball coach in UCSD’s history.

She has amassed a 113-31 overall record for a 78 percent success rate.

In the midst of her final season at UCSD, Carlisle has some serious career stats herself.

The 2010 All-American has a career shooting percentage of 41 percent from the field and 80 percent from the free-throw line, recording 1,409 points.

No other guard in UCSD history has reached this watermark. But in 2012, the highlight from Carlisle hasn’t been her threat from the field, but her ability to make the players around her better.

Senior shooting guard Daisy Feder averages nearly 11 points per game, senior forward Lauren Freidenberg has nabbed three double-doubles and is averaging 14.1 points per game along with 8.1 boards.

Junior standout Emily Osga is averaging 12 points and five rebounds, and has led the team in scoring several times this year, with a high of 23 points against Chico State on Jan. 7.

Sophomore Erin Dautremont has stepped up to help the Tritons this year.

After playing in 30 games as a freshman, Dautremont earned the starting position and could become a leader for UCSD looking down the road.

“Right now, our mentality is to improve in practice every day and take it one game at a time,” said Osga.

This season’s women’s basketball team looks better than any other team in the nation. Now everyone knows it, and everyone will be shooting to take down the big dogs.

Readers can contact Nick Howe at nshowe@ucsd.edu