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NEWS The Best Day of the Year

By Nicole Chan • Associate News Editor Front page illustration by Jeffrey Lau

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his Friday’s Sun God Festival, featuring headliners alternative rock band Silversun Pickups and electronic dance music producer Paul Van Dyk, marks the event’s thirtieth anniversary.

Planning for the annual event is a yearlong process. According to an email from Associate Vice President of Concerts and Events Oliver Zhang, ASCE started the booking process during Fall Quarter.

“We literally inquire about several hundred artists, paying particular attention to those that are recommended by our students through a variety of methods,” Zhang said.

“The booking process is very complex and artists may or may not work out because of numerous reasons, even though they may initially seem to be available or in our price range.”

Zhang said he is proud of the team’s final product and believes strongly in the quality of live performances with the lineup for this year.

“I truly stand by the claim that each act is going to absolutely blow your mind with their live performances and I really believe that this is one of the most diverse festival lineups we’ve had in the festival’s 30-year history,” Zhang said.

Sun God guest tickets sold out on Tuesday, May 15. For the first time in the event’s history, guest tickets were available for purchase online starting April 23. This year, the 3,000 guest tickets were available for $60 each, up from last year’s 3,000 tickets that sold at $50 each. Last year, guest tickets sold out in three days.

Of the 20,0000 available tickets — the maximum capacity of RIMAC field — 17,000 tickets are reserved for students. Student wristbands will be available at Marshall Field starting today from noon to 7 p.m. and Friday at 10 a.m. In 2011, student tickets sold out in six hours after going on sale.

“Given the popularity of the festival in

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Regents Confirm Pradeep Khosla as UCSD’s Next Chancellor

By Zev Hurwitz Associate News Editor UCSD’s new chancellor and a possible tuition increase topped the agenda for the Wednesday, May 16 UC Board of Regents meeting in Sacramento. The meeting was the Regents’ last of the academic year.

The regents officially confirmed Carnegie Mellon University’s Engineering Dean Pradeep Khosla as UCSD’s eighth Chancellor early in the meeting, which started with public input at 8:30 a.m.

Khosla, who officially takes over for current Chancellor Marye Anne Fox on August 1, will receive an annual salary of $411,084.

Like Fox, Khosla will receive university-funded housing and a relocation allowance of over $100,000

over four years.

In a May 16 interview with UCSD News, Khosla said that he looks forward to working with students to improve university life.

“I cannot imagine an education better than the one provided by UC San Diego, because of its great strengths in the arts and humanities, the sciences and medicine and engineering and technology,” Khosla said.”

Khosla will visit UCSD’s campus on Thursday, May 17 to hold a press conference, viewable online at 11:45 a.m.

The Regents held its meeting amidst talk of a controversial multibillion dollar state budget gap and the possibility of more tuition hikes for in-state students. The meeting was interrupted at one point by a

group of around 15 student protesters. According to the Los Angeles Times, the regents had to switch rooms to avoid disruption from the protesters.

Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled a new budget proposal on Monday, where he said that the state would have to make up a nearly $16 billion shortfall for the 2012 fiscal year — seven billion more than had been anticipated in January.

The Associated Press reported in a May 9 story entitled, “University of California weighs more tuition hikes” that UC Regents is considering a 6 percent increase in tuition — roughly $731 per year — for 201213 if the state legislature passes a $50 million cut to each the UC and See REGENTS, page 3

recent years, we expect that we’ll be able to distribute every festival wristband this year and for RIMAC Field to reach capacity,” Zhang said.

The open dance area, which replaced the dance tent in 2011, will return this year to play host to electronic music acts like Tokimonsta and Tommy Trash. According to Zhang, the dance stage will be modified from last year’s set-up to accommodate for the surge in popularity of electronic dance music.

“We got rid of the Dance Tent in 2011 because the popularity of electronic dance music exceeded the capacity of the dance tent structure that we had previously at the festival,” Zhang said. “Not going to lie, it’s going to look really cool this year.”

The inflatable obstacle course and wrecking ball will serve as additional attractions for students. ASCE will also create an interacSee sun god, page 6

THIS WEEK

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Delta Spirit performed in a free show for students at Price Center on Monday, May 14.

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New Council Meets for First Time; Selects AVP Commitees The new A.S. council met for the first council meetings of their terms this week.

Former A.S. live blogger John Wang was elected to replace Courtney Hill as the council speaker.

Vice President of External Affairs Olamide Noah reported that the UCSA Daniel Song Congress has d9song@ucsd.edu tentatively been scheduled for August 30 to September 2.

Associate Vice President of Student Advocacy Bryce Farrington informed the council that the changes to the student conduct code regarding police jurisdiction have been reverted back to their current position.

Associate Vice President of Student Services Leigh Mason announced that A.S. Safe Rides would be changing its format next year from giving out three passes per quarter to a single sign-up system.

Arts and Humanities Senator Sean Estelle notified the council that the Public Education Coalition is organizing carpools up to a statewide student union organizing conference.

Arysha Sharifian was unanimously appointed as the executive director of the Student Organized Voter Accessed Committee. He told the council that currently, four of UCSD’s colleges are in a different precinct than the rest of the campus. In response, SOVAC is currently making an effort to help redraw precinct maps and provide each college with its own polling location.

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Campus-wide Senator Brad Segal gave a presentation to the council on the possibility of creating an A.S. Human Rights Board. His hope is for A.S. Council to create an avenue for students and organizations that engage in social issues and advocacy of global justice to collaborate together. He added that he was inspired by UCSB and the annual Human Rights Week that they hold, and wants for UCSD to be able to do something similar.

Associate Vice President of Academics Samuel Chang expressed that he would like A.S. to allocate more funding for the Academic Affairs office in the future.

These student funds would be used to continue to grant student funds, educate the student body and provide a bridge for students and professors.

“Academic affairs has a lot of potential and I think that this council should continue to let it grow,” Chang said.

Council passed its first piece of legislation unanimously, changing the bylaws to specify that the vice president of external affairs position would chair the Legislative Committee.

Senators were randomly selected in front of the council for the associate vice president selection committees. This was done to ensure transparency of the entire process.

The selection continues next week with meetings and interviews for the candidates.

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Student groups called for Justice in Palestine and Israel Solidarity through a series of weeklong demonstrations on Library Walk.

The Muslim Student Association’s Justice in Palestine event featured a multi-paneled wall that is meant to simulate the walls separating Israel from the West Bank and Gaza.

Tritons for Israel organized the Israel Solidarity Week event, which featured display panels on Library Walk to address MSA’s claims of Israel as an “apartheid” state.

Both events had scheduled speakers throughout the week to discuss the controversial issue and its implications in the twenty-first century.

Look for a story to follow in Monday’s issue of the Guardian.

A student observes the wall erected for MSA’s Justice in Palestine Week.

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Cal State systems.

In a YouTube address to Californians released May 12, Brown warned that more cuts to education may be imminent if voters do not approve his new tax initiative in November.

“We can’t fill a hole of this magnitude with cuts alone without doing severe damage to our schools,” Brown said in the video. “That’s why I’m bypassing the gridlock and asking the people of California to

approve a plan that avoids cuts to schools and public safety.”

Brown’s tax plan would raise sales taxes by a quarter of 1 percent over the next four years. Additionally, “high-income earners” would pay up to 3 percent more in income taxes for seven years.

UC administrators have said earlier this month that tuition may rise by a double digit percentage increase if the tax plan fails.

“We’re at a critical stage at the university. The Regents would face more draconian choices if the gov-

ernor’s initiative fails,” UC Vice President for Budget and Capital Resources, Patrick Lenz said in a May 9 interview with The Associated Press. “Short of an ability of the state to buy out a tuition increase, I’m not sure how we would avoid one.”

The regents will not vote on the proposed 6 percent tuition increase until its next meeting in July at earliest.

Readers can contact Zev Hurwitz at zhurwitz@ucsd.edu.

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Mann CONTACT THE EDITOR Madeline opinion@ucsdguardian.org

OPINION Gay Marriage, Hypocrites and Bristol Palin’s Big Mouth

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n light of his recent support for gay marriage, President Barack Obama has been called a flip-flopper, an evolver, a hesitator.

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A Different Course

While cutting communications major requirements is a step in the right direction in helping students graduate on time, the changes should have focused on adding more practical coursework.

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ver the last few years, fears have run rampant over the number of college students graduating in five years or more. University of California undergraduate graduation rates hit their all time low in the mid-’90s, with nearly 40 percent of college graduates across UC campuses taking more than four years to graduate.

It was no wonder that university officials have enlisted an effort to shuffle over 150,000 undergraduates through dozens of different disciplines in as little time as possible. And in doing so, the most recent data circa 2004 has shown a decrease in five-plus year graduates, now hovering around 23 percent. Clearly, changes still need to be made.

The UCSD Communications Department made such a change this past spring, effective Fall Quarter 2012.

By cutting its major requirements from 15 classes to 13 classes, and generalizing

the way the courses are labeled, the major now can effectively be finished in less than three years, with minimal prerequisites.

Before, the major followed three major paths that each student had to complete to finish the major.

For instance, to take a class labeled COCU 177, one had to take the lower division introductory course COCU 100, which of course had an overcrowded waitlist. By eliminating the unnecessary constraints of the COCU, COHI and COSF sequences, the Communications Department effectively opened up its major like its more enrollment-friendly peer, political science. Even though political science majors can choose any number of specialties, they essentially have free reign over which classes they wish to take out of the 15 to 20 offered in a quarter.

But while these dramatic major changes are a step in the right direction in pushing

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GUEST COMMENTARY

Students Should Stay Safe to Keep Sun God Tradition Alive

BY OLIVER ZHANG Associate Vice President ASUCSD Concerts & Events Another year, another Sun God! For us at A.S. Concerts & Events, it’s been a challenging but extremely rewarding process just to get to this point. Needless to say, we’re very excited for tomorrow and can’t wait to see you all on RIMAC Field.

I wanted to use this space first and foremost to address some safety concerns: A zero-tolerance policy will be in effect and all UCSD Police, RAs, RSOs and resident deans are strictly enforcing all policies and laws.

Free water will be available for all attendees who bring a non-glass, reusable, empty water bottle to the festival. Stay hydrated!

Any visibly intoxicated person will be denied entrance to the event

and may be detained by the police.

Please be respectful of neighboring residents and university staff, especially around the Marshall Field Box Office on Thursday and Friday.

Your cooperation in following all UCSD policies and remaining in control of your use of alcohol will minimize many potential problems during the event.

We know that the mood is pretty festive during Sun God (I was right there with you all in 2010 — danced my glasses off during Designer Drugs and proceeded to squint through Drake’s performance), but I want to encourage you all to party safely.

Check the festival website (http://sgf.ucsd.edu/safety) for more useful information. The back cover of the festival guide this year will also include some safety tips and space to list an emergency

contact.

It takes a village to plan a Sun God, and this year is no exception.

The ASCE staff and interns have been putting countless hours into this event since early Fall Quarter, and I’m incredibly proud of what we have accomplished. We’ve had to work through a number of difficult obstacles this year, and that we were able to overcome them has been an incredible growth experience. I’m not writing this column because we’re stoked on ourselves and want to pat ourselves on the back, but because I’m truly grateful for those involved in the planning process and for the opportunity to work on this festival itself.

Sun God has been a campus tradition ever since 1983. Since then, it’s changed venues and formats numerous times, and continues to grow bigger and better

each and every year. Events of this magnitude and scale at universities almost never last this long, so it’s a testament to the students and university community that we’re able to continue producing this festival every year (and are in good shape to keep going for another 30 years).

The Sun God Festival is arguably the biggest college music and arts festival in the country.

It’s something that I’m incredibly proud to be a part of, and incredibly grateful for as a UCSD student.

When you’re on the field tomorrow, take some time to take it all in and appreciate how special and unique the festival really is. It’s something I’m planning on doing throughout the day.

Have fun out there, and be sure to take care of yourselves and each other.

a dramatic picture of the president with a rainbow halo around his head and the statement “Our First Gay President.” And because of the historical nature of Obama’s decision to (finally) back gay marriage, political pundits from both the right and left are stepping up on their soapboxes to shine a light on Obama’s decision. Seasoned political reporters from the New York Times to the Washington Post to the Christian Science Monitor have all weighed in — and so has Bristol Palin.

Some may remember Bristol Palin from her momma’s disastrous first stint with big girl politics, when she single-handedly helped John McCain lose the 2008 election. Others may remember her through Levi Johnston, her baby daddy who, despite impregnating Palin and tattooing her name on his ring finger, ditched her to become a model and an actor in Hollywood.

In any case, Palin responded to Obama’s decision to change his stance of same sex marriage on the religious blog Patheos.com, stating that in general, children grow up better in a household with both a mother and a father. Of course, the first response to this frankly narrow-minded statement is that Bristol Palin is a gigantic hypocrite. A single mother at 17, abandoned by her douchey baby daddy — what gives her the right to open her big Alaskan mouth and say these things? And people, from the thousands of comments that her blog post has already garnered, to JWOWW, the perennially orange one from the cast of Jersey Shore, have all responded in kind.

But the thing is, Palin has responded to these comments about her hypocrisy.

And dare I say it — she makes a good point: “I find it strange that the culture rightfully applauds former drug addicts who warn children of the dangers of drug use. They are happy to listen to former alcoholics talk about how they finally are living a clean life. But when it comes to me talking about waiting until marriage for sex, it’s almost like people want me to slink away in shame…unable to show my face in public again because of my past mistakes.”

I may not agree with Palin’s view on mixed-sex marriage or her mother’s views on, well, anything.

But she’s right — blindly attacking Palin for being a hypocrite is like criticizing a smoker turned lung cancer patient for talking about the dangers of smoking. Perhaps we were the hypocrites after all.

That being said, Obama’s support of gay marriage, though a bit late and could only have happened with Biden’s prior statements, was a huge and historic event. I support it.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Peace-Washing Orgs Fail to Condemn Massacres Dear Editor, Occupations are illegal, immoral and violent and I’m with Students for Justice in Palestine as they recognize that and organize against it.

As poet Remi Kanazi said on Tuesday’s SJP event, “We’re told to be ‘moderate,’ but that’s a code word for ‘Don’t defend your rights.’ Everyone should be against occupation, everyone should be against war crimes.”

J Street, Tritons for Israel, and the other “peace/democracy-washing” organizations use these terms to ignore gross war crimes (UN, documented cluster bombs, white phosphorus, collective punishment [banned after the Nuremberg trials], to name a few), human rights violations and systemic threats to peace and democracy in the region such as refusing to grant citizenship to occupied peoples.

These organizations fail to recognize that Israel is in fact the aggressor (which is the definition of an occupation: There’s an occupier and an occupied).

The occupied, Palestine, is protected under international law to protect itself. This isn’t a “conflict” as these “peace-washing” groups call it, but Palestinian self-defense against violent occupation which receives funding, arms and training from the other imperialist military in the Middle East: the U.S. These groups love to say: “it’s more complex” or “Let’s talk for seven hours ’til you agree it’s complex.” I base this off the many, many, many times this happened during my undergraduate years, but lesson learned: These groups — maybe some of the individuals

are not but their leadership and the nature of these groups themselves — definitely are not interested in a one-state solution that provides dignity and human rights for all, but are only interested in a solution that divides Israelis and Palestinians, which under current borders would mean Israel would have access to all major roadways, water sources and the best farming land.

J Street and these “peacewashing” organizations fail to condemn the many Palestine or Lebanon massacres, and fail to support the hunger strikers and Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement among a host of other nonviolent Palestinian-led campaigns.

These and many, many more reasons are why I cannot morally or politically go to any J Street or Tritons for Israel or any “peacewashing” organization’s events, and why I encourage others not to as well. Plus I have never seen any of these organizations ever actually organize or build a movement to end the occupation. They remind me of the adage about “talk shop” campus groups: ‘They organize people to have events, instead of having events to organize people.’

Also, if any group wants to promote dialogue, please have your event/tabling not during the main event week of the group you want to have dialogue with. It’s almost like it’s competing which is a shame because there are 9 other weeks to present these views that aren’t during Justice in Palestine (this week!), whose views on the Apartheid differ from J Street and the other “peacewashing” groups.

Introducing his “This Poem will not End Apartheid,” Remi said, “Those organizing for Palestinian liberation always have two things on their side: history and truth.

Palestinians are not helpless people in need of aid, but occupied people fighting for freedom. Inaction isn’t an option.”

—Nikolai Smith Ph.D Student, Department of Philosophy

One Cent Water Tax Can Solve Calif. Deficit Dear Editor, Here’s a simple suggestion that could solve California’s financial deficit problem: If California would impose a tax of 1 cent per gallon of water, and/or at least $1 per gallon of gas, the California deficit would quickly be eliminated. It might also cause Californians (and following the same approach in other states, Americans in general) to be less wasteful of water and energy. It would help address the crucial issues of water shortage and climate change, particularly since pumping water uses 40 percent of the entire California state electricity supply. All countries in Europe charge over $4 tax per gallon of gas, covering their social needs. Rich America could similarly provide for its citizens.

It is a path to responsibility. What do you think?

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Junior Seminar Requirment Provides Students with Practical Experience ▶ Communications, from page 4

students towards graduating on time, these easier requirements only highlight the fact that if communications wasn’t notoriously the easiest major before, it certainly is now.

However, this shortened major (that allows Ds as passing grades, no less), certainly will push students who want to stay their full four years to take up a second major or at the very least, a minor.

Another significant shift in this major change is the fact that it highlights just how theoretical communications is. When the program was founded in the 1970s with the development of Thurgood Marshall College, the department took on a more theoretical approach to communication studies instead of going a more practical route.

According to Communications Professor Patrick Anderson, the Communications Department was created to train communication theorists in critical thought. This is certainly reflective now, with such class requirements as “Situated Practices,” “Interpretive Strategies” and “Social Formations.” With such theoretical courses and a great deal of intellectual repetition (Stuart Hall, for one), many of the courses start to seem almost expendable.

While this approach has made UCSD’s Communications Department, according to Anderson, one of the most cutting edge departments in the nation, we posit that the major could benefit from more practical course offerings. Currently, the curriculum offers classes that balance practical knowledge with theory — media offerings in the context of political science, journalism in the context

of sociology.

And though these offerings are certainly helpful in a theoretical standpoint, the fact of the matter remains that most communications students plan to graduate and enter the workforce, and to do so, need to learn practical skills.

In fact, the Communications Department already offers classes under the title, Communications and Media Methods, which offer practical skills such as “non-linear digital editing” and “Digital Journalism.” Now that the mandatory COHI, COCU and COSF sequences have been eliminated from the major, it incentivizes taking these media classes that were once considered “electives.”

In the case of UCSB, communications coursework takes a dive into the practical, with courses like “Interviewing theory and practice” while keeping the study theoretical with courses called “Persuasion.”

One positive outcome of this shift is the requirement of junior seminars in the major.

Though of course, these seminars stay firmly rooted in the realm of the theoretical, it allows communications students an opportunity to take classes taught by their favorite professors and develop a rapport, crucial to getting letters of recommendation postgraduation.

In short, while the communication major changes are certainly a step in the right direction in reducing the number of five-plus-year graduates at UCSD, a greater focus on the value of coursework (theoretical or otherwise) will ensure the value of a communications major.

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Sun God For a Cause Campaign Will Donate Proceeds to Local Public Schools ▶ sun god from page 2

tive art wall piece on RIMAC field and bring performance acts to the Midway Tent.

“In our efforts to improve the [Sun God] festival look and feel this year, we’re bringing more performance-based acts to the festival such as Cirque Berzerk and the Burning Man-esque Billion Jelly Bloom,” Zhang said.

A.S. Council is collaborating with ASCE to raise grants to support music programs at local public schools. Students can contrib-

ute to the new “Sun God For a Cause” campaign through purchase of a special tank top, raffle entry or donations at the festival and its related events throughout the week.

As part of Sun God Week, University Centers presented a free concert at Price Center Plaza on Monday featuring San Diego indie-rock band Delta Spirit. KSDT hosted its first show at the Loft featuring Craft Spells Wednesday night as part of the weeklong celebration. Sun God Week concludes with Thursday’s fifth annual Up & Coming Student Film Fest that

showcases student films selected by a panel of industry professionals.

According to University Centers Campus Events Manager Alex Kushner in an email, ASCE is working with Student Health Services on the “Don’t Miss the Music” campaign, which encourages students to make safe choices during the festival.

“The health and safety of our students is our highest priority in planning this event and we make great efforts to ensure that this is reflected not only in the way produce the event but in the messaging

and information and informational campaigns surrounding the Sun God Festival,” Kushner said.

Zhang said ASCE works closely with its partners to ensure health and safety precautionary measures are taken.

According to Zhang, this year’s festival will have similar numbers of security as the 2011 festival.

University police spokesperson Jeff Gattas could not be reached for comment as of press time.

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

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hose pining for a resurrection of the Smashing Pumpkins’ sappy and soaring ‘90s alt-rock found it in the Silversun Pickups’ 2006 debut, LP Carnavas. Driving single “Lazy Eye” was as unabashedly angsty and explosive as anything off Siamese Dream, lead man Brian Aubert’s whisper-yell delivery sounded uncannily like Billy Corgan’s and, not to mention, the bands conveniently shared the same initials.

But six years and two more LPs later, the Pickups are likely sick of the Smashing Pumpkins comparisons — particularly because they riddle each and every article, album review and press release about the band since their inception in 2005.

Their latest album, this month’s Neck of the Woods, certainly reflects the urge to embrace an updated sound. Allegedly inspired by the band’s love for horror films, the album is full of clean and brooding synth rock songs with eerie names (“Skin Graph,” “Bloody Mary,” “Mean Spirits,” to name a few) that sound less like shoegazey homage and more like Jimmy Eat World.

With the help of Bloc Party and Snow Patrol producer Jacknife Lee, Neck of the Woods has more production sheen than any of the Pickups’ previous studio releases — while keeping drummer Chris Guanlao’s motorik grooves and Aubert’s distinctive vocal intimacy intact. The album has already gained critical attention, receiving praise from Paste, The A.V. Club and Alternative Press.

If last year’s parade of blunt-happy hip-hop headliners wasn’t your cup of tea, prepare to headbang the final hour of Sun God away to some triumphant, occasionally nostalgic jams.

— Ren Ebel Hiatus Editor

H

e may be the old guy at this year’s Sun God Festival, but Paul van Dyk hasn’t seen many shortcomings to his dancefloor formula since he started mixing in Berlin way back in 1988.

Admittedly, it’s hard to ignore the fact that times have changed since van Dyk first learned the ropes two decades ago. Though he reached international fame as a globe-trotting DJ and remixer in the mid-1990s — making van Dyk a legend in the electronic dance music scene — youngsters like Skrillex and Deadmau5 continue to hog the spotlight today.

So this Sun God, don’t expect their kind of party; nah, expect a ‘90s revival with van Dyk bumping the kind of ethereal trance that made EDM a phenomenon, soundtracking the raves Dateline first worried would destroy a generation of adolescent pacifier-suckers — Electric Daisy Carnival be damned.

Paul van Dyk may be older, and RIMAC may not be an abandoned warehouse, but the smooth, stylish grooves of his debut single and mega-hit “For An Angel” might

just bring us back to 1994. Not that van Dyk only has nostalgia to offer. The DJ-producer has been quietly chugging along as the second wave of EDM flourishes, releasing his sixth studio album Evolution this past April.

According to van Dyk, the album’s title reflects the diversity of the music.

“For me, electronic music is not about just house music or electro or trance or dubstep or techno — it’s about electronic music all together,” he said in an interview with The Vancouver Sun. “This is obviously what this album reflects real well because you find elements from all of those sub-genres on that album put together in a different way.”

Still, trance will be the name of the game. New tracks like “Verano” and “Rock This” mesh rustling, synthesized beats with catchy vocal hooks — the obvious makings of one raucous Sun God. — Arielle Sallai Managing Editor

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“Kids” — promises to be one of the most memorable highlights of this year’s festival.

Chiddy Bang will arrive for their Sun God appearance almost half way through the most important year of their career. February saw the release of their first full-length record Breakfast, which see the duo continuing the accessible rhymes and genre-crossing beats of their earlier work. The group’s performance at RIMAC on Friday will be just one of many throughout a hectic summer of touring, which will include festivals across the United States and Europe and an enticing set of shows with Wiz Khalifa and Kendrick Lamar in August. Sun God offers an ideal opportunity for this notoriously energetic and interactive live act to justify their escalating reputation.

— Piers Barber Staff Writer

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ew can deliver infectious alternative hip hop quite like Chiddy Bang, aka rapper Chidera “Chiddy” Anamege and DJ/producer Noah “Xaphoon” Jones Beresin. After meeting at university back in 2008, the duo quickly achieved underground fame on the back of a collection of mixtapes on which they refined their unique style, consisting of playful rap delivered over a mixture of electro loops and indie rhythms.

Xaphoon and Chiddy, who currently holds the Guinness World Record for the “Longest Freestyle Rap” (9 hours, 16 minutes, and 22 seconds), have made rapid progress since the release of The Preview in 2010 — an EP memorable for some catchy reworkings indieminded artists like Passion Pit and Sufjan Stevens. The mixtape’s most popular single “Opposite of Adults” — featuring an instantly recognisable sample of MGMT’s

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The band is known for its punchy and organic rock grooves reminiscent of Vampire Weekend, supported espite their sunny, indie-pop by sweeping orchestral cello and disposition, the members of violin arrangements in the vein of Ra Ra Riot are no strangers Arcade Fire. to adversity. With the tragic loss of “I always saw myself playing viofounding drummer John Ryan Pike lin as I got older, but never in a rock in 2007 (inspiration for the band’s band,” Zeller said. poignant 2008 release The Rhumb This transition from modLine), and the departure of cellist est indie club rock to epic festival Alexandra Lawn earlier this year, the anthems was particularly evident on band has had a rocky — albeit criti2010’s The Orchard, whose triumcally celebrated — career.

Yet they show no signs of slowing. phant title track opener fed into the breathlessly exuberant lead single Ra Ra Riot consists of vocalist “Boy.” Wes Miles, bassist Mathieu Santos, Currently, the band is back to guitarist Milo Bonacci and violinwork, writing and recording for an ist Rebecca Zeller — all of whom as-of-yet undisclosed project. met during their time at and around “We just got out of the studio, Syracuse University in New York. and there is a possibility of some new Though they graduated six years material,” Zeller said. “It’s not a guarago, the band’s college spirit remains antee but a possibility.” intact.

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or the last decade or so, Macklemore, aka rapper Ben Haggerty, has been releasing the kind of reflective rap music that makes semi-educated social commentary listenable. His tracks touch on topics as diverse as the prevailing acceptance of cough syrup abuse in the rap industry on “Otherside” (featuring a great Red Hot Chili Peppers sample of the same name) to the negative effects of consumerism in “Wings,” an ode to avid sneakerheads everywhere.

Despite addressing these issues, Macklemore makes a conscious effort to avoid preaching in his songs.

“I’m not trying to tell people how to live their lives,” Haggerty told the Guardian. “A lot of the time, I’m talking to myself on these songs, dealing with issues that I have.”

One such issue, the staunch anticonsumerism Haggerty advocates on the aforementioned “Wings,” admittedly presents a challenge for the Seattle-bred underground rapperturned frat party sensation.

“Right now I’m sitting in a Cadillac wearing Jordans,” Haggerty said.

Macklemore’s music is refreshing in its Yeezy-esque mix of honesty and self-contradiction. But that’s not to say that Macklemore can be relegated to the ranks of “conscious” rappers that insist on social statements at the expense of making fresh, listenable pop music.

Much of Macklemore’s work is made with producer Ryan Lewis, who will be accompanying Haggerty at Sun God. The two mix traditional rap production with violins, pianos and trumpets, creating a full sound that blends well with Haggerty’s passionate flow. Both Haggerty and Lewis hail from Seattle, and Macklemore credits

the city’s diverse musical history — he cited Quincy Jones and Nirvana as influences — with giving his music a distinctive sound. Though Haggerty asserts that “there’s a fine line between emulating and biting,” he said he’s currently inspired by Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q, as well as Kanye West.

If this range of musical influences seems incredibly broad, it’s by design.

Macklemore says that his next studio album, slated for release in the fall, will be “a mixture of lots of different sounds.” This conscious aim for diversity is true of Macklemore’s performances, too.

“Expect a range of emotions, lots of high energy, and an engaging show,” Haggerty said. “It’ll be hella fun.”

— Sebastian Brady Contributing Writer

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ith her subtle blend of playful, unassuming melodies and bass-heavy hip hop beats, Tokimonsta has quickly risen to the upper ranks of Los Angeles’ fertile electronic music scene. Currently signed to Flying Lotus’ influential Brainfeeder Records, Toki has spent the last several years steadily releasing music, most notably on her debut album Midnight Menu for Japanese record label Art Union. Her style, while firmly rooted in LA hip hop culture, possesses a sense of melodicism uncommon to artists of that genre — a fact that should come as no surprise — given her background in classical piano.

According to Jennifer Lee, the woman behind the stage name, she

began listening to hip-hop as a way of differentiating herself from her punk-listening upper-middle class peers while growing up in Torrance, Calif.

Recently, Tokimonsta (“toki” is Korean for rabbit, while “monsta” should require no explanation) released Creature Dreams, an excellent EP of smooth, down-tempo songs often featuring, for the first time, the artist’s vocals. Don’t let that record’s nocturnal hip-hop lullabies fool you, though: when she DJs, Toki goes hard. Her DJ sets often combine her own gently psychedelic productions with heavy hip-hop tracks of all kinds.

— Andrew Whitworth Associate Hiatus Editor

Dia Frampton

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ike yesteryear’s Michelle Branch and Sara Bareilles, Dia Frampton’s Sun God performance will provide the allotted bubbly acoustic female set scheduled to give your addled brain cells some happy afternoon downtime.

Beginning her career with older sister Meg under the Meg & Dia moniker, Frampton self-promoted her band via MySpace (back in 2005, when it still made a difference), landing the duo on the 2006 Vans Warped Tour lineup. Meg & Dia released two full-length albums in 2007 and 2009, and were eventually dropped from their Warner Bros. label in 2010.

Last year, however, Dia auditioned for the TV singing competition “The Voice” and ended up the

first season’s runner up, under the wing of coach Blake Shelton. And though Meg & Dia now perform under the name Dia Frampton, Meg still supports her sister on the back-up guitar on stage. Frampton released her anticipated solo debut, Red, last December.

Self-described as “indie folkpop with a lemony twist,” Dia Frampton’s pretty pop melodies are sure to go down as smooth and sweet as the setting sun. With an early evening set, Dia Frampton’s doe-y eyes and bubblegum voice will be a pleasant precursor to the messy debauchery that the night will bring.

— Amanda Martinek Senior Staff Writer

recent press release claims that L.A.-via-Australia DJ Tommy Trash is “rescuing the world from dance music apocalypse.” While this is unlikely, Tommy Trash is an excellent electro-house DJ who is certainly no stranger to the world of electronic music.

From remixing artists like Kaskade and Armand Van Helden to mixing two volumes of Ministry of Sound’s reputable Electro House Sessions, Tommy Trash has stayed busy in recent years, at one point simultaneously holding the #1 and #2 positions on the Aria (the Australian equivalent of the Billboard Charts) Club Chart.

Tommy’s quickly growing stature in the American house music scene (he’s recently put out records on labels like Dim Mak and Deadmau5’ aptly named Mau5trap Records) is likely due to his hardpartying, big-room-ready sound, which he promises to bring to Sun God Festival’s Dance Stage in great quantities. On his current tour, Tommy Trash will be playing sets comprised almost entirely of his own music, which should ensure a riotous electro-house experience that’ll doubtless leave you ready for Dance Stage headliner Paul Van Dyk. — Andrew Whitworth Associate Hiatus Editor

Alier and the Band

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aving already secured a dedicated following opening for notable acts such as Devin the Dude, the Cataracts, the Game, People Under the Stairs and the upcoming Freddie Gibbs show at the Loft this May 8, UCSD Battle of the Bands winner Alier Johnson is hardly new to San Diego’s hip-hop scene. And, with his refreshing, revivalist approach to purely analog live rap, it’s little wonder how Alier and “the Band” (guitarist Andrew Ramos, drummer Kyle Venezuela and bassist Nina Dumas) have gained the atten-

tion.

Johnson’s flow is fine-tuned and consistent with a lyrical approach more akin to the recent trend of everyman rap a la Curren$y and Kendrick Lamar’s Black Hippy crew, than to the gangsta rappers of decades past. With the solid soul/rock grooves of his skilled accompanying band behind him, the result is some infectious hip-hop that will start Sun God off with a seriously smooth pre-party.

— Ren Ebel Hiatus Editor

Clockwork

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aining online fame with his homespun remixes and dance music at just 18 years old, Los Angeles’ Clockwork is a true product of the digital age.

Clockwork’s career took off when DJ kingpin Steve Aoki caught wind of “Squad Up,” an original Clockwork track that was circulating in the electronic music blogosphere, and signed him to the prolific Dim Mak roster.

Since then, Clockwork has kept busy with both official and bootleg remixes of electronic work from

Aoki and Avicii to Dimitri Vegas.

His sound is self-described as having a “bass-heavy, big room sound,” reminiscent of DJ Tiesto and Steve Angello. More recently, Clockwork has made himself a festival staple, with a well-received performance slot at Hard Haunted Mansion Festival 2011. Clockwork’s Squad UP EP is set for release this year on Dim Mak records.

— Ren Ebel Hiatus Editor

Oliver

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liver is, in actuality, two Olivers: Vancouver’s Vaughn Oliver (aka U-Tern) and San Fernando Valley’s Oliver Goldstein (aka Oligee) — the former, a producer at the forefront of modern electronic music’s recent surge of disco revival, and the latter, a beatmaker and self-proclaimed “overlord of third millenium romantifunk.”

Together, the duo has turned heads in the club world with their

cleanly produced nu-disco gems seated proudly in the shadow of Daft Punk. With an arsenal of warbling synths and vocoder riffs, Oliver has remixed the likes of Foster the People, Childish Gambino and Chromeo, in addition to their own original dance tracks fit for any proper boogie night.

— Ren Ebel Hiatus Editor

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First-Seed Baseball Set to Face Third-Seed Dixie State

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good for a second place finish in the Pacific West conference.

The Red Storm will be making its first national tournament appearance since moving up to Division II in 2004. This season, Dixie State was propelled into the West Regional behind a well-rounded offense and a balanced bullpen.

Right-hander Mike Dedrick (5–4) counts as the Red Storm’s most weathered starter, having pitched 81.2 innings thus far with a 2.98 ERA. Seniors Daniel Zapata (3.33

ERA) and Aus Christiansen will likely be looked to close. Dixie State went through 10 different pitchers in their last four game series against the CCAA’s CSU Los Angeles.

On the mound for the Tritons, junior All-CCAA first team selection Ryan Goodbrand (10–0) will look to remain perfect against the Red Storm. Goodbrand is backed by a strong supporting cast in fellow All-CCAA selection, closer Tony York, starter Jeff Rauh, southpaw Richard Kilbury and submariner Elias Tuma.

The rotation will look to keep Dixie State’s senior catcher Joe Andrade and Japanese national Yuto Kato off the base pads. Andrade and Kato lead the team for games played.

Andrade boasts the Red Storm’s highest slugging percentage (.483), while Kato counts as Dixie State’s most consistent hitter.

Conversely, the Triton offense is looking as it has been in 2012.

The top of the order — junior Danny Susdorf, junior Richard Siegel, sophomore Garrett Tuck and sophomore Nick La Face — have

proven that they’re one of the most lethal combinations in the CCAA. The Tritons will look to see if they’re as effective against national competition.

The game is slated to begin Thursday, May 17 at 1 p.m. The winner will play against the winner of the game between first-seed Western Oregon and fourth-seed Chico State, Friday, May 18, at 5 p.m.

Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ucsd.edu

What the Kutztown? NCAA Division II Athletics: An Introduction to Small Colleges

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Sophomore Nick La Face (left) and junior Danny Susdorf. La Face was named the CCAA Tournament’s Most Outstanding player. La Face bats cleanup, with a .472 slugging percentage and a .416 on base percentage. Susdorf—recently named to the All-West Region team— leads the roster with a .383 batting average and a .552 slugging percentage.

▶ UDA, from page 12 sities. But it’s something that’s hard to neglect in the realm of Division II softball, where big name universities take a backseat and where the landscape of creatively named, small higher education institutions moves to the forefront.

This weekend, the UCSD Softball team will compete in the Division II College World Series. The eightteam tournament will feature the likes of Kutztown University, Augustana, Valdosta State, Southern Connecticut State, Central Oklahoma, Flagler and St. Joe (unabbreviated) College.

Don’t worry, I’ve never heard of any of them either.

In my time covering Division II athletics, I have become acclimated to the array of “colorful” small institution monikers.

Last year, I was unfazed when our softball team traveled up to Rochester, N.Y. — to the campus of

C.W. Post College — to compete in the College World Series.

Last year’s sports editor realized that C.W. Post College was named for Charles William Post, founder of Post Cereal, manufacturers of beloved breakfast foods: Fruity Pebbles, Honey Bunches of Oats as well as the not-so-beloved cereal, Raisin Bran.

It was then that I started to not only take notice of the best of Division II Athletics, but also the best names in Division II Athletics.

Kutztown, appearing in the national tournament in both softball and baseball, is named for its location in rural Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, “Kutztown” for me at least, conjures up images of Wiz Khalifa’s 2010 single, “In the Cut,” where Khalifa details his night, “in the cut, rolling doobies up.”

In the same vein (drugs) — pun intended — there’s North Carolina’s “Coker College,” regrettably named

for Civil War veteran Major James Lide Coker.

Also participating in the 2012 national tournament is Pennsylvania’s Seton Hill.

The only thing funny about the respected Catholic institution is that they sound like a more affordable knock-off of Seton Hall — the “Rice Crisps” to Seton Hall’s Rice Krispies.

Other notable Division II schools in Pennsylvania, evidently a goldmine for eccentrically named higher education institutions, include: Slippery Rock, Shippensburg and Mercy Hurst.

The list also includes a myriad of establishments simply given first names: Lynn, Mary, Lewis, Lane and Barry.

Stuck in Division II, there may only be one thing I can take consolation in after the Division I Referendum failed to pass — the small moments that I can look to my friend and make Post cereal puns.

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SPORTS

No. 1 DOWN, THREE TO GO

The UCSD Softball team upset No. 1 Valdosta State in the first round of the College World Series.The Trons now have three more games to win to take their second consecutive NCAA Division II National Championship.

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Senior first baseman Nicole Spangler knocked in two runs in the Tritons’ win over Valdosta State last Wednesday, May 16.

By Rachel Uda Sports Editor

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reshman Monique Portugal tallied her second multiple run home run in postseason play to launch the Tritons past No. 1 nationally ranked Valdosta State Wednesday, May 16.

This season, UCSD has continuously been forced to upset higher ranked squads.

The Tritons came into the West Regionals with the sixth-seed, clawing their way out of the region by narrowly beating first-seed CSU Dominguez Hills in three games.

In the first round of the NCAA

Division II Championships, UCSD faced the winners of the South Region Valdosta State (52–5), taking a 7–5 win.

Senior ace Camille Gaito, pitching her 13th straight game, retired her first three batters in order, setting the stage for a six run bottom of the first.

Leadoff hitter Kris Lesovsky—2011 and 2012 All-American—was moved to third base off a wild pitch and a sacrifice bunt.

With two outs, sophomore Mya Romero singled to left field to bring Lesovsky in to score.

UCSD went up by two more runs as Valdosta pitcher Alanna Hadley walked two more Tritons to load the

nolan thomas /G uardian Freshman (pictured left) Monique Portugal tallied a three run homerun Wednesday, to lead the Tritons in their win against Valdosta.

bases with senior Nicole Spangler up to bat. The first baseman sent a big double to left field for two RBI. With Spangler on second and freshman Maria Sykes on third, Portugal homered to left field to put the Tritons up a definitive 6–0.

“Hitting is contagious, and when I see my teammates working hard and finding ways to get on base and hitting the ball hard it makes me want to continue the rally and help my team,” Portugal said in an email interview. “Going up to the plate, I was only trying to get a base hit and knock in another run.”

The Tritons picked up their last run of the game in the bottom of the

second as UCSD was granted three bases on illegal pitches, allowing Lesovsky to score.

Hadley was pulled in the second inning in favor of Valdosta’s Courtney Gunby, who kept UCSD scoreless in their remaining four innings, while allowing only three hits.

Valdosta picked up two runs in the third off a costly in-field error, and nearly forced extra innings in the bottom of the seventh. The Blazer’s Morgan Johnson smashed a two-run home run and picked up another run before Gaito was able to close them out.

UCSD will now advance to the winner’s bracket, where they will face

Tritons, Three Wins From World Series

By Rachel Uda Sports Editor BASEBALL — With the regular season and CCAA tournament title in tow, the UCSD baseball team now heads up North to Keizer, Oregon where they will face off against Dixie State in the first round of the West Regionals.

It was announced last Sunday, May 13 that UCSD would enter the four-team West Regional as third seed. The Tritons will be joined by first-seed Western Oregon, fourthseed CCAA rivals Chico State as well as first-round opponents secondseed Dixie State.

The Tritons have yet to face Dixie State this season, but will need to best the second-seeded squad in a threegame series to advance to the West Regional final. The Red Storm enters the tournament with a 32–18 record, See baseball, page 11

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Kutztown (51–5) in the second leg, Thursday, May 17.

Kutztown — the Atlantic Region champions — defeated Augustana in its opening match 4–0.

“I think we’re going into tomorrow’s game very strong,” Portugal said. “We were a little rough around the edges today, but our hitting couldn’t be peaking at a better time. As a whole, our team’s hitting has progressively been getting stronger every weekend, so the outcome of our games will only continue to get better.”

Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ucsd.edu

DII: Home of the Second Best and Creatively Named Teams

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here are roughly 4,495 colleges in the United States.

That’s a statistic that students at a large, nationally ranked, relatively well-funded public university like UCSD tend to forget, because

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