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Judicial Board dismisses grievances over alleged misinformation, improper campaigning in D-I election.

By angela chen • Editor in Chief

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he all-campus pro-referendum email sent by former A.S. President Utsav Gupta does not violate election guidelines, the Judicial Board ruled 4-0-2 on March 7. Although the Elections Committee unanimously agreed that misinformation presented in the email broke election bylaws — and thus forwarded the grievance for an official hearing before J-Board — the board dismissed the grievance on the grounds that there was no intent to mislead.

A.S. Advocate General Courtney Hill, who chairs the Elections Committee, represented con campaign leader Kevin Quirolo in the hearing. Speaking on behalf of Quirolo (who filed the grievance), she stated that claims in Gupta’s Feb. 29 email were false. Gupta wrote that the move to D-I would lead to higher U.S. News & World Report rankings, which Hill said was not necessarily true, as News & World does not use sports funding as criteria for ranking. In addition, the email said that students on financial aid would not be affected by the $495 annual student fee increase, since 29 percent of the increase returns to scholarship. Hill said that a portion of financial aid consists of loans, which students will need to pay back. Hill clarified that the grievance did not address the method Gupta used to send the email; Gupta has stated that he did not use any official resources or access a campuswide listserv improperly, as was earlier alleged.

Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs Mac Zilber represented Gupta, who is currently in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Zilber first addressed procedural problems with the hearing that violated sections of the Election Code — for example, Gupta had not been notified of the grievance in a timely manner. In regard to the charges, Zilber stated that Section 7.2.3 of the Elections Code allowed for sanctions against providing misleading information only if the information was “intentionally and provably false.”

He cited Gupta’s arguments in defense of his email, specifically that although News & World does not use sports funding as a criteria, there is a definite correlation between D-I athletics and the rankings. In addition, Gupta had interpreted “on financial aid” loosely, as the term could be used to indicate students who have a full ride to UCSD and may not be required to pay back additional loans. Gupta obviously believed in the validity of his arguments and his arguments were not intentionally false, Zilber argued.

The Judicial Board ruled in favor of Gupta by dismissing

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By Zev Hurwitz Associate News Editor A California judge temporarily blocked the planned March 6 release of a report about last year’s UC Davis pepper spray incident. The Federated University Police Officers Association OPINION The report filed a restrainshould be ing order March 5 released ASAP. against the report, PAGE 4 claiming that it named and incriminated several police officers who were involved in the incident.

California Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo ruled that the findings must be postponed in conjunction with California Penal Code sections 832.7 and 827.8, which bar release A lyssa S tocker -K eefe /G uardian

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J-Board Dismisses Grievances Filed Against Both Pro- and- Con-Referendum Campaigns ▶ GRIEVANCE, from page 1 the grievance in the interest of having a “free and fair election,” according to the official statement.

Quirolo said that the wording of the election code represented a policy failure.

“The policy is written in such a way that it’s almost impossible to find someone guilty of offense, except in the most extreme examples,” Quirolo said. “Another issue is that this result failed to give special weight to the fact that [Gupta’s] not a student and he’s trying to influence the election.”

But Zilber argued that the policy deliberately created a high standard for grievances related to misinformation.

“It is not for A.S. to police free speech or campaigning,” Zilber said.

“We deliberately set a very high standard of evidence in these cases so that people could only be sanctioned if they said something blatantly false,

such as that the referendum would cost $0 or $1000.”

The second grievance of the night, filed March 7 by Engineering Senator Parminder Sandhu, alleged that members of the con campaign violated election guidelines by campaigning in classrooms. The evidence provided included photos of an individual writing anti-referendum messages on classroom boards.

Quirolo said that the con campaign leaders had explicitly told other members not to campaign in this way.

“It would be extremely difficult to pin down the con campaign as specifically responsible for a lot of the chalking,” he said. “I, personally, told people to stop chalking the classrooms, but apparently that didn’t happen. I stopped as soon as people told me it was an offense, told other people, and so it would be inappropriate to hold responsible representatives of the official campaign. We did the responsible thing.”

The Judicial Board eventually voted 5-0-1 to dismiss the grievances on the grounds that the photographic evidence had no timestamp confirming its veracity. In addition, the official statement said that there was evidence that, on or prior to Feb. 29, both sides of the campaign had already communicated regarding the issue, which was evidence that should have been submitted.

Hill said that, despite both grievances being dismissed, the new method of having the Elections Committee represent a grievance — and not the parties themselves — was a success because it preserved neutrality and reduced stress.

Students can vote in the special election on TritonLink until Friday, March 9 at 4 p.m. The results will be announced March 9 at 6 p.m. at Round Table Pizza.

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It is not for A.S. to police free speech or campaiging. We deliberately set a very high standard of evidence [...] so that people could only be sanctioned if they said something blatantly false.”

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UC Office UnsuccessfullyTried to Block Report Ban, Hearing Set for March 16 ▶ Spray, from page 1

of confidential police personnel records.

UC President Mark G. Yudof appointed a task force on Dec. 15 in the aftermath of the Nov. 18 pepper spray incident. The task force, led by former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, compiled the report, which was scheduled for release on Tuesday.

The officers’ union that requested the postponement hopes to censor the names of involved police personnel and replace them with pseudonyms. According to the San

Francisco Chronicle, several officers, namely Lt. John Pike — the officer caught on film spraying the protesters — were probably referred to by name in the report. The union believes that the inclusion of officer names and actions is a violation of the state law, which protects the confidentiality of on-duty officers’ privacy.

The unreleased task force report provides an analysis of police action during the Occupy UC Davis demonstration, in which police doused over a dozen protesters with pepper spray. The report will also include recommendations for action in this

and future cases.

As recently as March 3, the UCD website noted that the report would be available for download by the general public on March 6.

A statement released March 5 by the UC Office of the President said that the UC General Counsel’s office tried to block the ban, but was ultimately unsuccessful.

“The entire UC Davis community deserves a fully transparent and unexpurgated accounting of the incidents in question,” Yudof wrote.

“Though I have not seen the reports, I am told the task force and its supporting investigators have provided

just such an accounting.”

A separate UCOP statement made Tuesday by General Counsel Charles Robinson said that the UC System would continue to pursue the immediate release of the report.

“We look forward to the next round, and we will fight vigorously in court to ensure that the task force report sees public light as soon as possible,” Robinson said.

A hearing regarding the report’s release to the public is scheduled for March 16.

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ERC Junior Found Dead After LGBT Dance Council Talks Pancake Breakfast, Chancellor Search

By Nicole Chan Associate News Editor

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fter voting down Students for Justice in Palestine’s divestment resolution last week, A.S. Council faced harsh complaints and criticism from members of the public.

“Yes, this [resolution] is Natalie Covate about the Israelincovate@ucsd.edu Palestinian conflict, but it’s also about neutrality,” SJP member Samera Yousef said. “All thoughout the year, we are divided. It’s similar to asking College Democrats and College Republicans to come together and make a resolution that both sides can agree on.”

Revelle College Council also addressed the councilmembers, continuing the college council visits that started during Week Seven. They offered a poster of a hand-drawn Sun God to A.S. council. Their school spirit was well appreciated after a politically charged week.

Vice President of Student Life Meredith Madnick announced that this quarter’s Pancake Breakfast will be sponsored by the Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Conference and the Student Foundation. The money from these sponsors will fund new food options for the event.

Everyone is anxiously awaiting the announcement of the new option (either fruit or meat), which will be revealed at next Wednesday’s meeting.

President Alyssa Wing announced that she will not be present for next week’s council, as she must attend a chancellor selection meeting.

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She took the opportunity to address council with thoughts she would have saved for next week’s meeting, which will be the last meeting of Winter Quarter.

“I really just want to thank you all for your commitment through everything,” she said. “I really am proud to call you my councilmembers and my friends as well.”

Council was very touched

by Wing. AVP of College Affairs Leonard Bobbitt encouraged council to remain active in getting students to vote on the Division I referendum, even though only two days remain in the election.

“Really push [voting on the election] because every student’s voice does matter in this,” Bobbitt said. “Let democracy run free and freedom for everyone.”

Madnick was disappointed when announcing this week’s Councilmember of the Week, as the recipient was not present at Wednesday’s meeting.

“It’s [AVP of Student Services] Leigh Mason, and I’ll make her do the embarrassing runway thing next week,” Madnick said.

Hopefully she reads this so she can prepare an awesome runway show for next week. No pressure, Mason.

Council sang an enthusiastic “happy birthday” song to Campuswide Senator Matthew Bradbury. I’m sure Bradbury will be excited to legally join council during its occasional after-meeting trips to Porter’s Pub.

Eleanor Roosevelt College junior Ernest Andrew Martinez Jr. was found dead Sunday, March 4 at approximately 2:40 a.m.

According to a letter released March 4 from ERC Dean Patricia L. Scott, Martinez fell from Pangea Parking Structure to his death in an accident. He was 21 years old.

According to a March 4 UCPD crime log/media bulletin, Martinez was reported to have fallen accidentally from the fifth floor stairwell in Pangea Parking Structure

at 2:42 a.m.

Martinez, a mechanical and aerospace engineering major, was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, the a capella group Frequency and was, most recently, an intern for Ducommun AeroStructures.

According to the official notification of death sent by Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Penny Rue, Martinez is survived by his sister Carinna Martinez and his brother Gabriel Martinez.

Readers can contact Nicole Chan at n3chan@ucsd.edu.

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Scripps Research Used in Clinton Initiative

By Daniel Song Contributing Writer Research from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography is being used as the guideline for a new climate change initiative launched by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Feb. 16. This new environmental preservation campaign is officially known as the “Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants Initiative.”

According to Scripps, Clinton said that this coalition — formed by the United States, Canada, Bangladesh, Ghana, Mexico, Sweden and the United Nations Environment Programme — is the first ongoing international effort with a high level of participation, and is looking for solutions to stop the spread of short-lived pollutants.

“It will mobilize resources, assemble political support, help countries develop and implement a national action plan, raise public awareness and reach out to other

countries, companies, NGOs and foundations,” Clinton said in a press release.

In January, Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan — who is Director of the Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography — and colleagues issued a UNEP report that identified 16 possible actions.

These actions included replacing inefficient cook stoves, stopping the burning of agricultural waste and adopting emissions standards on vehicles.

Incorporating these changes would be small steps toward the goal of limiting the rise in global temperature to two degrees, Ramanathan said.

“This is a significant step towards fighting climate change that the world has been waiting for, for such a long time,” Dr. Ramanathan said.

According to Scripps, the UNEP report, along with the rest of Ramanathan’s work on climate change, is the foundation for this

initiative. Ramanathan’s work on climate change dates back to 1975, when he identified chlorofluorocarbons (such as refrigerants and propellants) as significant factors in climate change. “[The initiative] will also have a major impact in reducing air pollution and its negative impacts on health and the food security of developing nations,” Ramanathan said.

Clinton has said that she is optimistic about the prospects of the new campaign.

“The range of countries, organizations and industries gathered in this room today reflects the weight of scientific research showing that climate change is one of the most serious and complex problems facing our world,” Clinton said. “When we discover effective and affordable ways to reduce global warming, not by a little but by a lot, it is a call to action for all of us.”

Readers can contact Daniel Song at d9song@ucsd.edu.

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OPINION There’s No Superheroics in This Year’s Super Tuesday

EDITORIAL

Access Denied An investigative report regarding the UC Davis pepper-spray incident has been blocked by the UC police union, an injunction that can only be solved through compromise.

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he November UC Davis pepper spray incident resurfaced this past week, this time in the form of a blocked University of California-mandated investigative report. At the behest of the UC police union, Alameda County Judge Evelio Grillo temporarily blocked the release of the report due to an alleged illegal release of confidential information in the report. It is a jumbled mess of whether the police had the right to issue a court injunction (the police department hasn’t even seen the report), but one thing is clear — the report, in its entirety, ought to be released as soon as possible. Yet given the discussion regarding the legality of the information in the report, a compromise between the drafters of the report and the UC police union may have to occur before the information can be released.

The police actions in question occurred Nov. 18 when the UC Davis campus police pepper sprayed a row of seated students who were protesting as part of the college Occupy movement — a violation of authority that quickly garnered outrage in social media spheres. The consequential widespread student and public outrage spurred UC

President Mark G. Yudof and UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi to form an independent task force to investigate the incident and provide feedback for preventing future conflicts. The task force looked like a suitable administrative action to all involved since it would consist of a cross section of students, faculty, staff and other UC community members.

The release of the report, originally scheduled for 30 days after the incident, was later pushed back to March 6 and as a result of the court injunction, further pushed back.

After a March 16 court hearing with the attorneys for each side, Judge Grillo will decide whether the report can be released, and in what form.

The Federated University Police Officers Association claims that the report contains confidential personnel information about the officers, while UC attorneys insist that no such information exists in the report, according to a March 7 Huffington Post article “Judge blocks UC from releasing pepper-spray report.”

Currently, only task force members (attorneys included) know all of the information in the report, so it seems

A compromise between the drafters of the report and the UC police union may have to occur before the information can be released.

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he results from the biggest day of the Republican primaries thus far are in. Conservative America has spoken. Super Tuesday, a 10-state primary contest with 437 delegates at stake, is the ultimate

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decider of the political fates of frontrunners Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum and their trailing opponents Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul.

Historically, March 7 isn’t the biggest, most crucial Super Tuesday — four years ago, it was a battle for 24 states. This year, it has come down to 10 — Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia and Wyoming. Victories in these 10 states will be crucial to securing the 1,144 delegates necessary to win the nomination. Super Tuesday might have featured 10 states, but in the end, it all came down to Ohio.

In one of the closest primary races since Iowa in January, Romney again edged Santorum out with 38 percent of the vote, narrowly besting Santorum’s 37 percent. This, coupled with Romney’s clear victories in the more predictable states of Virginia, Vermont, Massachusetts and Idaho, essentially solidifies Romney’s status as frontrunner of the Republican nomination with a total of 415 delegates.

Still, this isn’t exactly the knockout punch for Santorum. He picked up important victories in Tennessee, Oklahoma and North Dakota and provided a real nail biter of a race for Romney in Ohio, coming to a total of 187 delegates. These crucial wins (even without the big prize of the night, Iowa) are enough to poke holes in Romney’s aura of invulnerability and never-ending wealth. After all, if a social conservative so far right that he is isolating female voters can still be a serious contender for Romney, clearly something is wrong with his campaign. In other news, Newt Gingrich is running in his very own race, untainted by anything as bothersome as an opponent.

Therefore, Georgia was a big win for Newt Gingrich. It was actually his only win. But if he had failed to snag his crucial home state on Tuesday, his presidential hopes would effectively be over. Gingrich’s campaign is revived for now — but only just.

Early predictions about a possible Ron Paul victory in Alaska — which would have marked his very first in these primaries — fell through, as Paul failed to pick up even a single state, keeping his delegate count steady at a low 47. Right now, Romney seems to be the only candidate of the four remaining with actual chances of securing the nomination. In the coming month, large swaths of the Republican Party will slowly begin to accept the inevitability of Romney’s election, even if the acceptance stems from a desperate need to just secure a nominee. The longer the nominations draw on and prod holes in the Romney, the frontrunner, the slimmer the chances the Republicans have to beat Obama.

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IN Other News By Rebekah Hwang

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

D-I Editorial Ignores Well-Balanced Colleges

Police Union and Task Force Need Compromise

▶ POLICE, from page 4 rather absurd that the UC police union could make a move to block an injunction that they have not yet seen. Without the vital knowledge that only the task force holds, the UC police union risks hurting its own reputation and the reputation of the Davis police force with their court injunction.

According to the March 7 Inside Higher Ed article “More Angst Over Pepper Spray,” Cruz Reynoso, the chair of the task force, says that preventing the public from finding out the full report will hurt the police because they will lose the public’s confidence regarding their job proficiency, as well as hurt the public who want to be informed about the incident. Clearly, a compromise needs to be reached between the task force and the police union, one that will push the report toward completion and release.

One such compromise can be found in the issue of name recognition. In the union’s request for a restraining order, the police officers are referred to by such names as “Roe” and “Doe.” Pike is identified,

but his name has long been known to the public.

It is understandable that the other officers do not want their names released — in the aftermath of the incident, Pike was forced to change his phone number and abandon his home when he began receiving death threats, according to the Inside Higher Ed article. It might be a worthy trade-off for the officers in the investigative report to be anonymously designated, so that the legal barrier can be lifted and the report can be released immediately. That way, the report can skirt any of the legal issues that the union is claiming, and will be able to do what the creators of the task force like Yudof intended — recommending solutions for the current incident and those that may occur in the future.

It’s been months since the incident, and both the students and the public deserve to have some closure on the subject through transparent access to the facts.

The investigative report needs to be released as soon as possible — a feat that can only be achieved through a compromise between the attorneys from both parties.

Dear Editor, I am a UCSD (undergraduate) alumnus and a current graduate student at the University of Arizona. I read your editorial regarding the Division-I athletics referendum, “Keep The Change.”

I will preface my comments by saying that I am an avid sports fan and support the Division-I referendum, even though as an alum I cannot vote.

As a Warren College student, I was always encouraged to “live a life in balance.” While there are many prestigious academic institutions such as those you mentioned that do not have Division-I athletics, there are many examples of schools which do achieve a balance between the two, such as Stanford, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Harvard and Princeton, among others, and I feel that this is a model which UCSD should try to emulate, with or without football.

In the coming weeks, the nation’s attention will be captivated by the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball tournament, colloquially known as “March Madness.” While a football team may never happen, March Madness appearances, another source of school spirit, are well within the realm of reasonable possibility, as evidenced by the UCSD Women’s Basketball team’s recent success.

Also, in the editorial you state that schools such as Oklahoma State University and the University of Arizona are “athletics powerhouses

with horrible academics.” In my opinion, it is reckless journalism and an insult to the many students, faculty and staff who work hard to make the University of Arizona a fine academic institution to characterize it in such a manner.

Any Division-I institution will have some student athletes who do not fit the first half of that title, but to characterize entire universities like this, without giving any quantitative evidence, is irresponsible.

The University of Arizona is one of the leaders in the field of astronomy. Additionally, the University of Arizona operates the Phoenix Mars Mission, which aims to “study the history of water and search for complex organic molecules in the icerich soil of the martian arctic” (taken from the NASA Phoenix Mars Mission fact sheet). Its Steward Observatory operates the Mount Graham International Observatory, which serves as an observatory for the Vatican Observatory. At the Steward Observatory’s mirror lab, telescope mirrors are cast, including ones which are (or will become) part of the Magellan telescope in Chile.

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GREEK BEAT WITH STEPHEN SOLOOK

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hile most middle schoolers filed awkwardly into the band Stephen Solook room for the first time, blindly When: March 11 picking from the array of polished gadgets Where: Conrad Prebys Music that lined the walls, UCSD Masters of Center Black Box Performance candidate Stephen Solook was fully aware of his destiny.

Tickets: Free “I started playing percussion in 4th Phone: (858) 534-3230 grade,” Solook told the Guardian in an Online: music.ucsd.edu email interview. “I can still recall the day before we were told we could select instruments to take lessons for in school, and remember specifically thinking that I knew exactly what instrument I wanted to play.”

Solook continued playing percussion, first in high school and then again at Ithaca College, where he played mallets in the pit ensemble with the nowdefunct Rochester Patriots.

“Because it was not a Division-I corp, other members seemed to treat it more like a high school drama fest rather than a competing organization,” Solook said. “I took it extremely seriously, and people throughout the organization singled me out in a positive manner for the effort.”

After moving to New York City and receiving his Masters at Mannes College of Music, Solook had already built a reputable career as a full-time performing musician, playing with various orchestras and world music ensembles in the city. But Solook had another career path in mind.

“I’ve had a goal and dream of having my own percussion studio at the collegiate level,” Solook said. “So it was time to come back to school before I wouldn’t want to. UCSD was one of the only schools in the world I wanted to go to, and fortunately it worked out.”

Steven Schick’s world-famous graduate percussion studio and Red Fish Blue Fish ensemble accepted Solook in 2009. At UCSD, Solook has worked on a variety of projects with Red Fish Blue Fish, including this Sunday’s performance at Conrad Prebys Music Center, also curated by Solook. The program will include percussion works by Chinary Ung, Philippe Manoury and Katharina Rosenberger, as well as Roger Reynolds’ theatre/musical piece Justice, which was commissioned for the celebration of the Library of

Congress’ Bicentennial in 2000.

“Katharina Rosenberger’s Settings of E.E. Cummings are a world premiere and are amazing examples of how percussion and voice can and do become similar on a phonetic and rudimental level,” Solook said. “Chinary Ung’s Cinnabar Heart is scored for solo singing marimbist and is loosely inspired

by Cambodian folk music.”

The centerpiece of the evening, however, is Reynolds’ Justice — a fully staged, Greek-inspired dramatic piece written for percussionist (Solook), soprano (Tiffany Du Mouchelle), actress (Alice Teyssier) and computer musician (Paul Hembree).

“Justice is based on the ancient Greek tragedy Clytemnestra, and the nightmare-reality of her husband, Agamemnon, killing their daughter, Iphigenia, for permission to go to war, leading her to action against his injustices,” Solook said. “Starting on Thursday a sound installation will run 24 hours a day until the performance with musical elements that are from Illusion, the work that follows Justice chronologically. lllusion deals with the ancient Greek figure Kassandra and her dealings of premonitions.”

But Justice is only the first of Solook’s several upcoming projects.

“Related to the concert, I have a duo, Aurora Borealis, with Tiffany Du Mouchelle who is performing the soprano part in Justice. We have several new compositions being written for us to help highlight our new focus of equally composed works for voice and percussion. Another long term project that is with a non-profit organization, Pacific Blue Foundation, to document and locate pre-contact/pre-colonial music in Fiji.”

Solook has built quite an eclectic body of work — a testament to the diverse role percussion can have in an ensemble, which is something Solook believes is fundamental to the craft.

“In regards to the role I think a percussionist plays, I would like to not comment on that,” Solook said. “There is such a variety of ensemble types and styles of percussion that I would easily leave off more than I would mention. But what I will say is that percussion is an extremely broad area that can allow a person to delve into many different areas, and the only thing that limits what you do is yourself.”

The performance is free and will begin at 3 p.m. this Sunday at the Conrad Prebys Music Center Black Box.

writer Kyle Krillen, creator of the failed “Lonestar,” but this time he’s got a highly original concept that could give “Inception” a run for its money.

After a major car accident, police detective Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) finds himself alternating between a pair of realities where his wife dies in one, and his son dies in another. Visiting different shrinks in the two worlds (played, ironically, by “Law & Order”’s B.D. Wong and a rather irritating Cherry Jones) doesn’t seem to help either, as each shrink in each world fervently tries to convince him that the other world is fake. The mind trip occurs when different cases Britten works on, in different realities, mysteriously crossover.

The contrast between the strained father-son relationship in one reality and the marital husband-wife relationship in the the other is particularly poignant. In one world, Britten finds that he’s unable to communicate with his son since he let his wife take up that responsibility while he worked his long hours on cases. In the other world, Britten finds that he’s unable to fill the void of losing a child, finding that his wife wants to move out and have more kids in order to move on.

Although the extremely nuanced performances by Isaacs and the rest of the talented cast bring the writing to life, Krillen dabbles too much in the little details. The constant, unrefined switching between the two worlds, the two shrinks and the two cases in question can get a bit tedious to watch.

Instead of finding creative transitions where the audience progressively becomes cognizant that they’re watching another reality (like in “Inception,” where Ellen Page’s character Ariadne slowly becomes aware that she’s in a constructed world), Krillen’s transitions are very formulaic. He sticks to the strategy of progressing the plot by having a different shrink ask Britten about what is happening in the other reality. Once repeated, this strategy begins to grow old.

Also, since the show seems to want to support the notion that each reality is equally real, it’s entirely logical to come to the conclusion that none of the realities are real at all and Britten is actually in a coma (an idea similar to the 2011 sci-fi flick “Source Code”).

That sort of predictable answer to the problem at hand does not create an environment where “Awake” can survive for more than a season. Other psycho-thrillers like “Dollhouse” clearly accounted for this sort of problem: After Eliza Dushku’s character, Echo, attains self-awareness, and the focus shifts to the new set of problems that the self-awareness created.

Regardless, “Awake” has a huge amount of mind-crushing potential. If Krillen can manage to tighten up the script, he could really attain a cult following that rivals J.J. Abrams’ “Lost.”

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Psychedelic Outback

Nocturnal Clubhop La Roux keyboardist digs ‘90s dance gems out of the abyss.

8 10 Fort Romeau Kingdoms 100% Silk

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ast year, Los Angeles psych scene figurehead Amanda Brown started 100% Silk, a record label devoted to releasing DIY, house-indebted dance music. After twenty-odd records of sleazy, hallucinatory dance floor anthems, 100% Silk is shifting gears, releasing Fort Romeau’s Kingdoms, the debut solo record

by La Roux keyboardist Mike Norris.

Noticeably, there are no tricks on Kingdoms. Unlike the rest of 100% Silk’s roster, Fort Romeau refrains from indulging in disorienting digital textures, broken rhythms or over-stimulating vocal samplings, leaving the listener with restrained, well-crafted night-drive house music.

Norris’ background with relatively highbudget pop is also quickly evident. These tracks resound with the kind of lush analog synth work and professional attention to detail that’s surprising given Fort Romeau’s choice of label.

Opener “Jack Rollin’” makes Norris’ intentions clear from the start: Beginning with a spacious arrangement of fluttering hi-hats, the song quickly evolves into a catchy, bass-driven floor filler. Highlight

“Say Something” finds the perfect intersection between nocturnal pop and ebullient house, sounding like some lost ’90s dancepop classic with its vocal refrain of “If it’s worth your while, say something to me.”

The rest of the album is more restrained than those almost radio-friendly tracks, but no less masterful at creating a considerable amount of ambience without losing sight of the groove. This balance is what makes Kingdoms so successful.

By tempering his keen ear for melody with the restraint of a skilled producer, Norris has managed to create one of the most cohesive, vividly-realized electronic albums of the year so far.

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69 Memories Lo-fi quirk-mongers Magnetic Fields reach for defining sound.

6 10 Magnetic Fields Love at the Bottom of the Sea merge

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ven after over 20 years as downer pop champions, the Magnetic Fields still bare the flame of romantic cynicism that will continue to haunt socially awkward lovers. And after a trilogy of stripped down “rock” albums throughout the 2000s, Love at the Bottom of the Sea

also marks a return to the Magnetic Fields’ avant-garde synth sensibilities.

Love at the Bottom of Sea also hearkens back to the swift sound-bite song lengths of their past, managing to shell out 15 songs in little over a half an hour. The difference here is that they are less concerned with moping about failed affairs than poking fun at the struggles of transitioning into aging romantics.

“The Horrible Party” presents a list of trivial complaints of egregious drug use and distasteful plastic surgery pointed at their fellow hedonistic socialite partygoers over the backdrop of an electro-orchestral waltz, while “God Wants Us to Wait” tackles the task of satirizing the outlandish narrative of an avid abstinence supporter by offering the condolences of “Though it

would be the perfect end to our date/I love you baby but God wants us to wait.”

By halfway in, the consistent baroque shuffle of Bottom of the Sea wears thin, with the less-inspired instrumentals unable to stand on the stilts of Merritt’s witty lyricism. Much-needed relief comes in the form of the record’s penultimate track “Quick!” which could easily be mistaken for one of the Fields’ classics.

With its pop hooks and jangling stomp, “Quick!” taps the warm, juvenile modesty that made the Fields’ a household indierock name, though it ultimately serves as a mere mental note to give their ramshackle, lo-fi opus 69 Love Songs one more spin.

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Tame Impala offshoot Pond live the indie recluse dream.

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ond is an Perth-based Australian band composed of Tame Impala members Nick Allbrook and Jay Watson, along with collaborator Joseph Ryan. From humble beginnings on local Perth label Badminton Bandit, their lo-fi bedroom recordings Psychedlic Mango, Corridors of Blissterday and Frond were all psychedelic ramblings, providing the same lethargic sense of delight one might find on a lazy afternoon.

Yet despite moving to major label Modular, Pond appears to have opted out of a pop-friendly debut, instead moving straight into the bearded, reclusive stage many bands fall prey to. In fact, Bear, Wives, Denim was literally born out of exactly the kind of idyllic, nature-discovering sessions one would expect from such a musical approach; the band recorded the album in an old country farmhouse.

Mixed by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker at Poon’s Head Studio in Perth, Beard, Wives,

Denim is more tightly crafted than would be expected from these perpetually tripped out Aussie jammers. These songs might lack the refined professionalism of Tame Impala, but it’s clear Pond is stepping out of their smoke-filled bedroom and taking things a bit more seriously.

First track “Fantastic Explosion Of Time” starts out as a fun and nostalgic ode to ’60s-style psychedelic rock, using distorted, fuzzy vocals over garage style strums. It transitions gracefully into next song “When It Explodes,” a nonchalant take on psych rock, complete with slowed down, spacey interludes.

The ’60s influence continues on “Sorry I Was Under The Sky” (more British Mod than Allman Brothers, this time), and the vocals lead the track along a trippy blissful journey. The track is the perfect soundtrack to warm summer days.

Beard, Wives, Denim still very much captures the ethos of Pond — three friends under a mulberry tree in Western Australia — but this record proves that sometimes hippies need to stop kissing the sky and get grounded; with the studio setup and more focused attention, Pond has made their best record yet.

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Softball Goes Yard At San Bernardino

Significant

Figures 502

Number of career wins for UCSD head softball coach Patti Gerckens.

26 Number of career homeruns senior Kris Lesovsky recorded in her four seasons.

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By RACHEL UDA Sports Editor

game 1 ucsd vs san bernardino 9-0 After going without a hit for the first four innings, the Tritons recorded five runs on six hits during their next turn at the plate.

In the fifth inning, sophomore Caitlin Brown and junior Dyanna Imoto both singled to get on base, advancing to second and third respectively off a throwing error. Brown was batted in by freshman Monique Portugal, as the Tritons went up by one run. Next up, junior designated hitter and right-hander Jennifer Manuel hit a big double to left field for two RBI. Back at the top of the batting order, senior Kris Lesovsky homered to put the Tritons up 5–0. The hit was Lesovsky’s 26th career homerun.

Senior pitcher Camille Gaito kept the Coyotes hitless in the bottom of the fifth inning, as the Tritons capped the win with a big four run inning in the sixth.

With bases loaded sophomore Mya Romero sent a homerun to center field, and the Tritons went up 9–0.

game 2 ucsd vs san bernardino 10-1 The Tritons finished their second game

within five innings. Hitting in the leadoff spot, Lesovsky hit right-hander Abreanna Landeros for a homerun in the first inning.

The Tritons tacked on another run in the second inning, and in the third capitalized on three San Bernardino errors to record three more runs.

The Coyotes registered their only run in the third inning, off of only one hit. Freshman pitcher Michelle Escamilla records the win, in her first complete game as a Triton. The freshman had a standout performance, allowing just four hits in five innings.

UCSD closed out the game in the fifth inning, as Lesovsky picked up her second RBI off of a double to left center. Romero and sophomore catcher Charly Swanberg both popped up to bring in two more runs, and Brown homered to left center to put the Tritons up 10–1.

game 3 ucsd vs csu san bernardino 3-2 UCSD recorded all three of their runs in the first inning. In the leadoff position, Lesovsky singled to right field, advancing to third on a Romero walk and a Swanberg single. With bases loaded, San Bernardino pitcher Courtney Wilhelms walked the next two batters, to put the Tritons up 2–0.

UCSD picked up one more run, scoring off a groundout. The Coyotes staged a comeback,

registering runs in the fourth and sixth innings, but it wasn’t enough to push the games into extra innings. The win was UCSD head coach Patti Gerckens’ 500th career win.

In her 20th season, Gerckens has a 500–440 all-time record.

game 4 ucsd vs csu san bernardino 4-5 The Tritons registered eight hits, but only managed to convert four in the last game of the series. CSU San Bernardino went up early in the bottom of the first inning, scoring two runs off a Triton error and a sacrifice bunt.

UCSD took one back in the fourth inning, as Brown advanced to third off a Portugal bunt and was brought home on a sacrifice fly from senior Tess Granath.

Down just 2–1, Gerckens brought in Manuel to relieve Escamilla. But San Bernardino pitcher Courtney Wilhelms hit Manuel for a solo homerun in the fourth, while junior Alyssa Flores launched another one out of the park for two RBI. UCSD tacked on three more runs off doubles from Lesovsky and Swanberg, but it was too little too late as San Bernardino walked away with the win in the series finale.

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Baseball Splits Against CSU East Bay

By NICK HOWE Associate Sports Editor

game 1 ucsd vs CSU East Bay 5-4 The Tritons battled throughout the game, culminating in a big three-run homer off the bat of first baseman Richard Siegal in the fourth inning.

In the bottom of the third inning, the Pioneers took an early 2–0 leadoff with two hits and an error, but their lead was shortlived. The top of the fourth saw pinch-hitter Gregg Ringold double to left field. Designated hitter Nick LaFace then reached second on an error, which also moved Ringold to third. With men on first and third, Pioneer pitcher Bryce Miller lost a bit of command enough to put it right in the wheelhouse for Seigel, making the game 3–2.

The Pioneers responded in the bottom of the fourth inning, to take back the lead. Ryan Goodbrand, the Triton hurler and NCBWA West Region Pitcher of the Week, allowed a single, hit Pioneer shortstop Eddie Retagliatta and then threw a pass ball to advance the two Pioneers to third and first. They were batted in on a single to left for a 4–3 Pioneer lead.

In the top of the fifth, junior Danny Susdorf struck out swinging but managed to reach on a catcher’s error. The junior stole second and was then brought home by Ringold, who singled to left.

Tied at 4–4, the Tritons manufactured the winning run by bunting Siegel to third, where he was batted in off Northrop flying out to center field.

game 2 ucsd vs CSU EAST BAY 5-6 The first of Saturday’s games went to the Pioneers even though the Tritons took the early lead with a run in the second inning.

Shortstop Garrett Tuck singled to left field to extend his hit streak to 11 games. With two men on base, Michaels then flied out to right field for the sacrifice and the first run of the game.

CSU East Bay came back with a one run inning in the third, where they scored off a fielder’s choice.

The Triton bats really came to life in the fifth inning, where the team racked up three runs on just one hit, capitalizing on the Pioneer’s poor pitching and shoddy in-field play. Ringold doubled down the left field line to score Susdorf. Ringold would later

score on a wild pitch.

The two teams were tied at five runs apiece going into the ninth inning, and were still tied coming out of it, sending the game into extra innings. The Tritons had a good chance to score at the top of the tenth, but left a man on base.

The Pioneers shut the door with a run scored off a fielder’s choice to take the game by one run.

game 3 ucsd vs csu east bay 2-3 The Tritons again battled the entire game against a tough Pioneer defense, only to lose the lead to a stellar Pioneer comeback in the sixth inning.

The Tritons manufactured a run in both the first and third innings.

Unfortunately, Tuck’s hitting streak finally came to an end as he went 0-for-4, but he did succeed in driving in Susdorf by forcing a fielder’s choice in the third.

Trevor Scott, the Triton starter, was strong through five innings, but started to flag in the sixth, when the Pioneer bats started to come alive. They took three runs on two hits and left one man on base to go ahead and score the final run in Saturday’s meeting.

Scott falls to 1–2 on the season.

game 4 ucsd vs csu east bay 4-1 Keeping the game scoreless until the fourth inning, Greg Selarz started well for the Tritons, racking up two strike-outs and giving up only one run despite eight Pioneer hits. He moves himself to 2–1 on the season and the Tritons to 6–6 in CCAA play.

Tuck busted out two hits in three at-bats while Susdorf went three for four. Susdorf started the fourth inning rally that resulted in a run by singling to right and scoring on a sac-fly by LaFace.

Leading off the sixth inning, Susdorf again led the Triton offensive with a single to right.

Ringold followed with a single up the middle to move Susdorf to third. Reminiscent of the fourth inning, LaFace again flied out to bring Susdorf home. Tuck then doubled to left to move Ringold over to third. They both came in via a Scott Liske single up the middle.

Down by four, the Pioneers couldn’t put together a rally until the seventh inning, where they scored only one run.

Readers can contact Nick Howe at nshowe@ucsd.edu

Average number of points senior guard Chelsea Carlisle recorded this season.

3 Number of Tritons named to the Division II Women’s West Regional Basketball team.

8-1 The score of the UCSD Men’s Tennis teams’ match against Villanova.

10-1 The UCSD Men’s Tennis team in the 2011-2012 season.

UCSD Tennis Tops Villanova, WNMU ▶ MEN’S TENNIS, from page 12 two 6–0 sets against Villanova’s Ryan Peyton, while underclassmen Max Jiganti and Luu also took their matches in two sets. Villanova’s only win on the day came in the No. 5 singles bout, with Tim Abbracciamento overtaking Ling.

The following day, the Tritons faced Western New Mexico University, taking a 7–2 victory over the Mustangs. “[Villanova] had some strong players that matched up really well against us, and they just got the better of us in a couple of those matches,” Willing said. “But overall everyone took charge early.”

The Tritons swept in the doubles component, and took four of their six matches in singles competition.

No. 1 singles Chan, No. 2 singles Yoshida, No. 4 singles Jiganti and No. 6 singles Yuu all won in straight matches.

No. 3 singles West lost 6–3, 6–4, while No. 5 singles Ling dropped a tight 7–6, 7–5 match.

The Tritons continue their homestand.

Their next dual competition is against No. 21 Hawaii-Pacific this Saturday, March 10 at 10 a.m.

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No. 15 Tritons take eight straight games with home wins against Division I Villanova and Western New Mexico University.

By Rachel Uda Sports Editor

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ith back-to-back wins at home against Division-I Villanova and Western New Mexico University, the No. 16 UCSD Men’s Tennis team has taken their eighth straight win in dual competition.

The Tritons have only recorded one team loss this season, a 2–7 loss against No. 15 Grand Canyon University on Feb. 10 at the Grand Canyon Invitational, where they were trounced in the doubles component.

But on Tuesday, March 6 against the Wildcats, the Tritons showed strong from the start. Having just returned from the Pacific Coast Doubles Championships, UCSD took wins in all three doubles matches.

The No. 1 doubles match pitted UCSD’s Austin West and Devon Sousa — a pair that qualified for the ITA National Small College Championships last October — against Villanova’s Thomas O’Brien and Kelly Donaldson. West and Sousa struggled at the start of the match, as O’Brien and Donaldson managed to break serve early. Momentum swung to the Tritons in the seventh set, when UCSD broke the Villanova pair’s service game, taking the game and ultimately the

match 8–4.

“We had a little bit of erratic play in the beginning,” UCSD assistant coach Timmer Willing said. “It was a bit of a back-and-forth at the start. They had a few bigger hitters, but they did make a lot more errors. We were a little bit uneasy at first, and we took a little longer to gain control of the match, but we ultimately did by the end.”

On the other end of the Northview Tennis Courts, UCSD’s No. 3 doubles pairing of Sam Ling and Junya Yoshida won their match 8–5.

The newly-formed No. 2 doubles team of Jason Wall and Kona Luu overcame an early deficit to take their match, 9–7.

“It makes a big difference when you win all three doubles,” Willing said. “It leaves a lot more room for error there. It lets everybody relax a little bit and not have so much pressure on winning or losing.”

It turned out that the Tritons didn’t need the early lead to take the win. UCSD proceeded to take wins in all but one of their six singles matches. No. 1 singles Chapman Chan topped O’Brien with scores of 2–6, 6–2, 11–9, while No. 2 Junya Yoshida also won his bout in three sets.

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ONLINE CHAT WITH MBA ADMISSIONS When: March 1, 2012, 12pm – 1pm Where: www.rady.ucsd.edu/mba