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University to Penalize Single-Sex Social Groups Members of fraternities, sororities and finals clubs at Harvard will not be able to hold leadership positions.

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he UCSD communication department opened its “Tell us howUCit” exhibition on Tuesday, which aims to serve as a forum for discussion about institutional racism. Organizers of the installation, which is located southwest of Geisel Library, encourage the campus community to post written messages as a way to join the larger conversation about racism on campus.

According to UCSD assistant professor of communication Fernando Dominguez Rubio, the exhibition was organized by students and faculty from the communication department with the intent of creating a space for the UCSD community to openly discuss discrimination. “[Tell us howUCit] is a response initiated by the communication department [between] graduate students, undergraduates and faculty,” Dominguez Rubio told the UCSD Guardian. “We wanted to bring the [racial] discussion out into the open so people can share their experiences of racism at UCSD.”

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VERBATIM AS LONG AS THOSE PARTAKING IN CAMPUS CHALKINGS RELY SOLELY ON XENOPHOBIA AND RACISM TO MAKE THEIR STATEMENTS, AS LONG AS THEY REFRAIN FROM PUTTING FORTH POLITICAL REASONS FOR ENDORSEMENT AND AS LONG AS THEY REMAIN ANONYMOUS, SUCH STATEMENTS FAIL TO EXHIBIT FREE SPEECH AND INSTEAD TARNISH IT.”

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Event organizer and Sixth College senior Nick Lopez emphasized that the event was not a direct response to recent chalking incidents, but rather to passive forms of racism that occur on a daily basis.

“This isn’t about the chalking,” Lopez told the Guardian. “This is about the institutional and structural racism that persists in our everyday lives that goes unnoticed and unchallenged.”

The event featured ropes tied along the trees southwest of the Geisel Library entrance. Attached to the ropes were papers with messages written by students and faculty describing instances and thoughts relating to racial intolerance.

Event organizer and Muir College junior Hamoun Dolatshahi described the exhibit as a means of combatting policies rooted in structural injustice.

“We are hoping that this event will encourage people to call for a change in policies that are holding others down,” Dolatshahi said. “In order to create a more equal and unified society, we need to help those who have

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Governor Signs Bill to Raise Legal Smoking Age The new state law changes California’s smoking age from 18 to 21 and restricts e-cigarette sales.

By lisa chik

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a series of bills, including Senate Bill X2-7, into law which will raise California’s smoking age from 18 to 21 last Wednesday. The reforms, which take effect in early June, will also include restrictions on electronic cigarettes with respect to licensing sales and their use in public places as well as an expansion of no-smoking areas at public schools.

A stipulation in the bill exempts military personnel age 18 and over from the new restrictions.

Other legislation signed by the governor categorizes electronic cigarettes as tobacco products, which cannot be used in restaurants, theaters, bars or other

areas where smoking has been previously banned.

California state Senator Ed Hernandez (D-San Gabriel Valley), who authored the bill, said that the new laws are a “victory” for this generation and for generations to come. “[These laws] will save countless lives, reduce astronomical costs to the health care system, and cost very little because it uses existing enforcement mechanisms,” Hernandez told CNN. The tobacco industry threatened to seek a referendum vote to overturn the bills increasing the smoking age and restricting e-cigarettes. The Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association said in a statement that it would educate voters about the industry and differences between vaporizers and cigarettes.

“California took a step

backwards today by reclassifying vapor products as tobacco,” the group said. “Stigmatizing vapor products, which contain no tobacco, and treating them the same as combustible tobacco while actively seeking to economically penalize smokers attempting to switch is counterproductive to public health.”

When the bill was introduced, Altria tobacco company spokesman David Sutton said that the industry preferred the issue be handled by U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

“We believe states and localities should defer to this regulatory process and give the FDA, the [Institute of Medicine] and others the time to review the science and evidence, before enacting different minimum age laws,” Sutton said See SMOKING, page 3

Starting with next fall’s incoming freshman class, any undergraduate members of Harvard University’s single-sex social organizations “unrecognized” by the school will be barred from holding student and athletic leadership positions or receiving recommendations for certain scholarships. All fraternities, sororities and final clubs, which are considered to be exclusive social clubs, because they are mostly single-sex, will be included in the ban.

Harvard President Drew Faust sent an email to the undergraduate student body explaining the changes last Friday. Faust established the policies based on recommendations from the Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana, who framed the ban as an effort to eliminate gender discrimination and inequality among students. Khurana wrote about the chauvinistic nature of final clubs that exclude women, saying that the practices of singlesex organizations are contradictory to Harvard’s values.

“The d i s c r i m i n at o r y membership policies of these organizations have led to the perpetuation of spaces that are rife with power imbalances; the most entrenched of these spaces send an unambiguous message that they are the exclusive preserves of men,” Khurana wrote. “In their recruitment practices and through their extensive resources and access to networks of power, these organizations propagate exclusionary values that undermine those of the larger Harvard College community.”

According to Khurana, this ban is only part of Harvard’s “long and complex history of grappling with gender discrimination.” In the 1970s, Harvard officials spoke out against the practices of undergraduate allmale final clubs, viewing them as acts of gender discrimination and not conducive to the university’s intellectual and social climate. A little over a decade later, in 1984, Harvard’s administration no longer recognized final clubs when the exclusive groups decided to remain single-sex. This change in university status classified all single-sex social organizations, including fraternities and sororities, as being “unrecognized.”

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UCSD Researchers Measure Effects of This Year’s El Nino Storm Results show that although the 2015-2016 El Nino event was the strongest since 1997, rainfall in California was less than expected.

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An interdisciplinary group of climate researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography was funded by the National Science Foundation to document and analyze the 2015–2016 El Nino season. According to the data gathered by scientists at SIO, heavy rainfall did not fall in Southern California as expected; they observed other extreme phenomena associated with El Nino.

Mark Ohman, a biological oceanographer and professor at SIO, described the project as encompassing multiple areas of scientific specialty and outlined the various methods involved in investigating the impact of El Nino.

“This particular research team is an interdisciplinary group of biological, chemical and physical oceanographers that collaborates with climate scientists to understand climate influences on the ocean ecosystem off the California coast,” Ohman told the UCSD Guardian in an email. “We use a variety of experimental studies at sea [as well as] autonomous observations using ocean gliders, moorings and satellite

remote sensing, shipboard surveys and ocean numerical models, in order to understand ecological responses to climate forcing.”

The El Nino event is part of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation cycle, which is a natural event in which the temperature of the Pacific Ocean and its surrounding atmosphere fluctuate between hot and cold due to changes in equatorial trade winds. El Nino is a warm water anomaly caused by the weakening of the trade winds that form in the equatorial Pacific and propagates to higher latitudes via oceanic surface currents. The heat released via convection is thought to drive surface winds causing frequent storms and heavy rainfall across Southern California.

Director of the Center for Western Water and Weather Extremes at Scripps Marty Ralph stated although the signs pointed toward an extreme El Nino, rainfall did not reach expected levels or expected locations.

“It was clear that while El Nino had stacked the deck for a wet Southern California, it was still possible to draw the wrong card and that’s what happened in Southern California,” Marty Ralph said in a

press release.

Laura Engeman, manager of the San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative, added that even though total rainfall was less than anticipated, the effects were still detrimental.

“This year’s El Nino brought less overall rainfall than expected; however, it did bring very intense rains over very short periods of time and at abnormal times of the year,” Laura Engeman in a press release said. “These rains led to severe flash floods in several cities across the region, exemplifying how these climatic shifts can impact our businesses and communities, and why it is important that we plan now to make us more resilient to the impacts of these climatic extremes.”

Scripps coastal oceanographer and assistant professor Sara Giddings maintains that El Nino’s effects, notwithstanding the lack of rain, are evident.

“There’s a public perception that El Nino never came, but it certainly did from an ocean perspective,” Giddings said in a press release.

“Storm activity — waves and total water levels — was unusually strong, enough to increase the infill rates of estuaries and move not just sand but

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According to a manuscript submitted to the Geophysical Research Letters, the 2015–16 El Nino caused abnormally high sea surface temperatures, the highest since 1982–83 and 1997–98 El Nino events. SIO physical oceanographer Dean Roemmich says that it’s important to distinguish largerscale El Ninos because they may result in different effects.

“El Nino is not a linear phenomenon, meaning that the impacts of El Nino may be different for strong versus weak episodes,” Roemmich told the Guardian.

In addition to causing extreme weather, the warmer surface waters also prevent the upwelling of nutrient-rich water from the deep sea, restricting the growth of single-celled photosynthetic phytoplankton and thus decreasing food availability for organisms higher up in the food chain.

El Nino is typically followed by La Nina, a period of colder oceanic temperatures created when the equatorial trade winds pick up again and allow for the upwelling of cold seawater from the deep sea.

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been structurally held back.”

Eleanor Roosevelt College and event organizer junior Joel Goldsmith stated that there is a possibility that the coalition will use postings shared during the event as a list of formal requests to send to the administration.

“A lot of the writings are changes

that students want to see, and one of the ideas is that we will aggregate them into a list of demands and forward them to the university,” Goldsmith elaborated.

Professors and TAs were invited to use the event as a learning opportunity for their students.

Sixth College freshman Jeremy Borja applauded the event and recognized it as a safe space for

people to speak against recent cultural hostilities.

“I think it’s a good place for people to say what they’re feeling about racism and how it’s present,” Borja said. “Especially within the last quarter, since there have been a lot of racist acts on campus, it’s good for people to have a place [to voice their concerns].”

Dominguez Rubio added that the

display will be up indefinitely; there are currently no plans to take down the installation.

“We are going to keep [the exhibition] up for the next few days, and the plan is to just keep it up,” Dominguez Rubio said. “When it goes away, it goes away.”

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National Greek Organizations Criticized Harvard’s Condemnation of Exclusive Social Groups Harvard’s decision has received widespread backlash from national fraternities and sororities which claim that, in trying to create a more equitable environment with the ban, the administration is unfairly punishing members of single-sex organizations.

On May 8, Harvard’s student-run newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, reported that female undergraduate students from sororities and allfemale final clubs were using Facebook to express their outrage

over the decision. Several students who posted online felt that new policy disregards the importance of all-female groups and that they were surprised to find it fails to make a distinction between their organizations and all-male ones.

UCSD Interfraternity Council President Sam Shapiro disapproves of Harvard’s decision and explained that it is important for students to be able to participate in whatever activities they like.

“As a fraternity member here and seeing what fraternities can do for people, obviously I am not

happy about Harvard’s choice, and I would say most people here are not happy with Harvard’s choice, but as a private school, it is a lot different for [students because the administration has] a lot of choice as to what they can limit their students to do,” Shapiro told the UCSD Guardian. “We do not like to see that obviously because we like people to have the choice to join whatever organization they want to join, whether it is a single sex organization or whatever type of organization they are looking for.”

In addition to the new bans, the

policies mandated that the university form an advisory board that consists of faculty, administrators and students who will be responsible for devising the exact procedures to implement the restrictions. Should any single-sex organizations decide to become co-ed, as the previously all-male Fly and Spee Clubs have, Harvard will work with the groups to assist them in becoming genderinclusive and potentially restore some of their lost privileges.

in March.

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health reports that about 90% of tobacco users start before the age of 21, and about 80% first try tobacco before age 18. A 2015 Institute of Medicine study estimated that increasing the

deaths for those born between 2000 and 2019.

In 2014, the UC system joined more than 1,100 colleges and universities nationwide by implementing a systemwide smokeand tobacco-free policy. UCSD Director of Health Promotion Services Deborah Pino-Saballett

will increase within the next year, without explicit attribution to the new law.

“Currently, there is only educational enforcement, but there is growing interest on our campus and across the UC system for stronger enforcement including the issuance of citations,” Pino-Saballett said.

vetoed a bill that would allow voter approval of local tobacco taxes to pay for healthcare expenses for people with tobacco-related illnesses. In November, California residents will vote on a $2 increase in the state’s cigarette tax.

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Last week, Harvard College announced plans to prohibit students involved in Final Clubs — student organizations separated by gender — from obtaining university-sponsored leadership positions and receiving recommendations for prestigious scholarships. While some have deemed this decision unfair, it is a necessary move to counter the exclusionary foundations of many of these clubs.

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NO MORE BIDS FOR GREEK LIFE Last week Harvard College formally announced that students involved in “unrecognized singlegender social organizations” will be ineligible to receive the recommendation from the university for major fellowships and scholarships, including the Marshall and Rhodes scholarships. These organizations include, but are not limited to, final clubs and Greek organizations, which the college argues are inherently discriminatory. According to Harvard President Drew Faust, one of the college’s goals is “broadening opportunity and making Harvard a campus for all of its students.” In addition, she pointed out that these organizations perpetuate “forms of privilege and exclusion at odds with our deepest values.”Scholarships and leadership positions that require university recommendations require that the university support and affirm that a member of a single-gender social organization, and his or her values, are supported by the institution itself.

Since Harvard College openly condemns the values of single-gender organizations, it would be nonsensical for administrators to sponsor a student whose affiliations went entirely against their own. While the college is being criticized for allegedly infringing upon an individual’s right to freely assemble and associate, it is important to note that Harvard is not banning these organizations from existing on its campuses, and administrators are not prohibiting students from joining them. Rather, the college, as a group of individuals with shared values, is exercising its right to not be represented by members of groups who do not share the college’s values by preventing them from obtaining prestigious scholarships and leadership positions. As an institution, UCSD also seeks to uphold the values of diversity and inclusion. Like Harvard, UCSD administrators should seek to dismantle a culture of exclusivity based on class and gender. To promote the change, UCSD should apply similar restrictions, limiting some Greek-affiliated individuals from obtaining university endorsements for

leadership positions and scholarships. The organizations that demonstrate and provide concrete evidence of how their membership is accessible to students of all socioeconomic statuses and genders can be reconsidered for university endorsements.

We cannot discount the fact that single-gender organizations have indeed tried to be more inclusive and accept individuals of diverse backgrounds and identities, even offering scholarships for those who demonstrate financial need. In addition, a New York Times article pointed out that participating in Greek life encourages students to advocate for political causes and become more active within their communities. Furthermore, some argue these organization can internally reform themselves. However, just this past October, the Safe Campus Coalition (comprised of the National Panhellenic Conference, North American Interfraternity Conference, Kappa Alpha Order, the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and the Sigma Nu fraternity) lobbied for the “Safe Campus Act,” which would prohibit campus officials from holding assailants involved in sexual assault cases responsible unless the victim filed a report with the police and with the university. It is evident that the national organization goes to great lengths to preserve its reputation and ensure its members adhere to traditional standards, even if that means compromising the safety and well-being of vulnerable students.

In addition, the selection process itself is subjective and exclusionary, as members are chosen based on their compatibility with members of the organization. Yes, each fraternity and sorority has a focus and specific set of ideals they adhere to, but their criteria as far as who gets accepted is private. Indeed, students who want to join sororities sometimes spend thousands of dollars to perfect the “art of conversation” and get ready for rush weekend. The return for this “investment” is social connections and professional opportunities. If these organizations were so intent on being inclusive,

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Defense of Anonymous Xenophobic and Racist Statements as Political Tarnishes First Amendment For the second time this quarter, statements in support of Donald Trump have been found scrawled, sprayed and plastered throughout UCSD the Friday night before Tritonsto-be came to visit the campus on Triton Transfer Day. And again, the same debate raged in which the familiar and tired platitudes of the First Amendment and freedom of speech were dragged back into spotlight of social media. However, what separates this instance from the chalking over a month ago is that the “Chalkers” were caught in the act. One was even recorded commenting that the purpose of the statements was to make the students of a liberal campus be made aware of conservative political viewpoints.

But this convenient distortion of their argument into a matter of free speech reflects an ignorance as to what is actually protected under free speech. This blatant attempt at antagonizing individuals, masked as political discourse, is not valid political discourse and should not be recognized as such.

While it is true that the First Amendment prevents Congress — and, in recent years, public institutions — from punishing or preventing free speech, it does not protect these individuals from private retaliation, so long as this retaliation is within the boundaries of the law. Furthermore, having the right to speak freely does not automatically justify doing so.

Claiming that offended persons should therefore learn to accept or tolerate the Trump chalkers’ messages simply because their messages are protected under the First Amendment is not a valid justification; people offended by the messages of Trump followers have every right to be angry, frustrated and hurt by those statements given the context in which they are used, and they are allowed to express their anger without needing to temper themselves for the sake of respecting “free speech.”

Some students, including the chalker who was filmed, have claimed that these messages constitute valid political discourse. While it is true that the statement “Tritons for Trump,” as literally written, is not bigoted, this statement was not written in a vacuum. When these slogans are paired with statements like “Deport them all!” — which was found written in front of the Raza Resource Centro after the first incident — it is necessary to look past the “political discussion” going on and recognize the existence of an ulterior motive.

One particular student critical of the initial chalkings was singled out with a statement proclaiming her support for Donald Trump’s presidency. Is the targeting of individuals by names really what constitutes valid political discourse? When messages of hate are involved and students are being targeted by name, as was the case in

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Tina Butoiu the recent chalkings, claims that the Trump chalkings are legitimate forms of political discourse do not hold up.

These chalkers hide behind messages that are hateful, targeting and intolerant, all the while claiming that it is in the name of heightening political discussion at UCSD. If they are truly committed to this, then why are they highlighting only the infamous parts of Trump’s political platform targeting minorities? Trump supporters should know that no one has run a presidential campaign in this nation without having some clear plan of action that didn’t just involve the persecution of Hispanics and Muslims. Trump supporters could highlight his status as a Washington outsider, a valid political concern that does not rely on bigoted messages.

And surely, there are other, more effective ways to promote your politics than this “tag-and-run” method of writing statements.

However, the chalkers have yet to do so and instead highlight Trump’s racist agenda under the cover of

darkness. It is evident that the Trump chalkers are more focused on stirring up controversy with racist messages than actually contributing to political discussion. If this mindset is reflective of Trump’s support base at large, it does not bode well for a country that would elect such a person.

If our campus’ Trump supporters truly believe in properly endorsing their candidate, and if they wish to be taken seriously in the political forum, they should openly protest without resorting to targeting individuals or writing racist statements. This means expressing their opinions openly, clearly and in the light of day. Trump supporters should also be prepared to debate just what makes Donald Trump so enticing to them. As long as those partaking in campus chalkings rely solely on xenophobia and racism to make their statements, as long as they refrain from putting forth political reasons for endorsement and as long as they remain anonymous, such statements fail to exhibit free speech and instead tarnish it.

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why the secrecy? Even if they intended on filtering individuals out based on a superficial set of criteria, they should at least give potential members an equal opportunity to prepare themselves or know what to expect before they rush. In addition, the initiation process itself is also cryptic, with each set of Greek letters having different rituals. Hazing is technically prohibited, but there is no way to verify whether or not fraternities actually abide by the rules of national organizations. We know only who is picked, not why certain students are selected instead of others, nor how their qualifications stack up.

Just like Harvard administrators, UCSD administration should be concerned with the role of Greek community in the sexual assault

debate. Harvard’s Task Force for the Prevention of Sexual Assault has reported that 47 percent of surveyed senior women at Harvard who had been involved in final clubs “reported having experienced nonconsensual sexual contact during their undergraduate years,” with 31 percent being the average for all senior women. The discrepancy in these statistics demonstrates that the Greek system, which mirrors final clubs’ organization, not only excludes women and individuals who are transgender or genderqueer, but also creates a hostile, threatening environment for female members.

While we do not advocate for complete abolition of Greek system and recognize sororities and fraternities’ right to assemble, these organizations are far from being irreplaceable. There are numerous

on-campus organizations that can provide people with a sense of belonging and help them find like-minded individuals and offer networking opportunities — often all free of charge. Cultural, ideological and professional similarities that these organizations are based on enable students of different identities and backgrounds to bond with fellow Tritons without experiencing any forms of gender- or classbased exclusion. In response to the restrictions it instituted, Harvard allocated discretionary funds to other student organizations that don’t segregate genders. Like Harvard, UCSD should also continue to invest into college-sanctioned social events and “social alternatives” to Greek life, with future student-approved increase of the Campus Activity Fee being a source of extra funding.

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Thurs. to Sat. 12 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Morning, evening, at the break of day, or anytime in between, Lestat’s is your go-to study spot in Normal Heights with a functional, multiroom setup. The leftmost entrance, on the corner of Adams and Felton, leads into a huge workroom packed with tables and chairs of all shapes and sizes, available on a first come, first serve basis. The walls are decked out in vibrant paintings displayed for sale by local artists. The middle room is where you can grab a snack, meal or a drink from their wide variety of delicious, and mostly caffeinated, options. The last room is a cozy in-house stage, where local bands and comedians have the opportunity to share their talents. Lestat’s provides an ideal environment for grabbing a drink, checking out cool homegrown art and spending a late night studying, but be sure to allow time to find parking on the busy streets surrounding the area.

If boba’s the motivation you need to get through that paper, and TapEx isn’t cutting it anymore, head on over to Infinitea on Convoy. Notorious for its array of boba selections, Convoy’s late night star, Infinitea, is the perfect place to study, play board games (perfect procrastination tool), chow down. Try out traditional Taiwanese snacks, like chicken rice, spring rolls and fried fish cakes, or sip on oolong, fruit juices and, of course, their classic icy milk drinks, filled with creamy slush, decadent pudding, boba and flavored to your preference. With generous portions and even more generous pricings, Infinitea is perfectly catered to the student stomach and budget. Can’t make it off campus? Infinitea also offers a delivery service, so if you just so happen to be stuck in the dorms, or even worse, Geisel, let them come to you.

GRUNION RUN AT SCRIPPS

Full moon paddles

LOCATION: Corner of La Jolla Shores Dr. and

LOCATION: 1548 Quivira Way HOURS: Varies per Season

LATE-NIGHT INDOOR AND OUTDOOR EVENTS COWLES MOUNTAIN NIGHT HIKES SANTEE DRIVE-IN THEATER Thrill seekers, nature enthusiasts and midnight adventurers unite for this 3-mile, 1594-foot summit hike located in the heart of San Carlos. During the day, this hike is one made for the senses, with breathtaking scenery and paths dotted with brightly colored wildflowers; at night, Cowles Mountain takes on a completely different persona. Avoid the typically trafficked trails of the morning and heighten the senses by venturing off at night (with a buddy, flashlight and HydroFlask, preferably), to get a more intriguing and stimulating experience as well as an illuminated view of San Diego.

LOCATION: 10990 N Woodside Ave $ HOURS: Fri. to Sat. 7:30 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 8:00 p.m.

El Paseo Grande HOURS: 24/7

Free

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Thinking of spicing up your Netflix-andchill date night or your superhero movie run with the squad? Don’t hit up the usual La Jolla movie theaters with overpriced movie tickets and popcorn. Instead, take a drive to the Santee DriveIn Theater and enjoy the most recent releases under the stars and in the privacy of your car. Although they only take cash, tickets are cheaper than the Costco movie ticket packages — it’s a poor college student’s dream. And think of the food possibilities: Bring your own classic movie theater snacks and drinks, order some In-N-Out or go classy and pick up some sparkling drinks, prosciutto and brie from Trader Joe’s as you cuddle up with your blanket and enjoy the new Marvel movie release.

The phrase “going on a grunion run” may leave a foreign taste in your mouth with its alliteration and grimy assonance, but catching these silverside fish make for not only a surprisingly tasty treat, but call for a unique California and Mexico coast experience. Attracting a number of curious souls and seasoned veterans with their extravagant mating ritual, grunion abandon the familiar waters during high tide and trek up the sand to spawn for a four-day period. Mating usually occurs during the spring and summer seasons and is an inviting opportunity for the locals to catch grunion for a dinner caught and prepared from beginning to end or to simply observe the circle of life at play (cue “The Lion King” song).

You kayak through the velvet black waters, senses basking in the glorious full moon and spirited lights of the city — this setting, though as dreamy as a scene from a Nicholas Sparks novel, can be enjoyed during every full moon at Mission Bay, courtesy of Aqua Adventures. The 2.5-hour tour through stunning Mission Bay unquestionably beats spending the night lying in bed while staring at the popcorn ceiling of your apartment. Enjoy the sea-salt air and the calm waters while feasting on the cityscape of San Diego. Spend the time with good company as well as the numerous bird species and sea lions.

No experience is needed, as an instructor will provide kayaking basics before the night.

The tipsy crow

the hookah lab (18+)

omnia

21+ Bang bang LOCATION: 526 Market Street HOURS: Tues. to Sun. 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.

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(12 a.m. on Sun.)

Combine cleverly named sushi rolls with Instagram worthy punch bowls, posters of Ryan Gosling in the women’s bathroom, all in a dimly-lit room with club music, and you get Bang Bang. Located in the heart of downtown, overpriced sushi and drinks are to be expected and is hardly a novel concept. What does give Bang Bang its unique feel is how it combines two trendy favorites: sushi and drinks with a DJ and dance floor — making Bang Bang an all in one dinner, club, night out experience. Presale tickets for DJ nights — usually Friday nights — cost around $5 with no cover charge on other nights.

For fusion lovers, who are enticed by the idea of a sushi-club combo and don’t mind dropping $20+ for a trendy Downtown SD experience, Bang Bang is worth a try.

LOCATION: 770 5th Ave HOURS: Sun. to Sat. 12 p.m. 2 a.m.

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This multi-level Gaslamp classic is notorious for being the place where new 21-year-olds in SD enjoy their first legal drink. The Tipsy Crow is a great introduction to the diverse SD bar scene,with three levels, including a downstairs dance floor, main bar-level and an upstairs pool table and chill area. The building dates back to 1847, giving the place an old-timey feel, found in the aesthetics of the bar area and booths, complete with old-school games and comfy couches to sit on and have a conversation. For those not into chilling and playing board games, the bottom level dance floor feels like any average club, playing Top 40 Hits and the occasional ‘90s throwback. The Tipsy Crow is a Gaslamp go-to for college students in big groups, because it has something for everyone, and with only a $5 cover charge, there’s no need to feel guilty about buying a drink or two.

LOCATION: 1140 Garnet Ave HOURS: Sun. to Mon. 5:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m

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You might never have considered going to a hookah lounge for one simple reason — smoking tobacco is bad for you. We are here to tell you that you are not wrong. However, just like many other guilty pleasures, hookah is permissible in moderation, so those rare smoking sessions better be good. Unlike other sketchy hole-in-the-wall lounges, the Hookah Lab Hookah Lounge is located on Garnet and is always full of friendly visitors. The shisha mixologists will educate you on a hookah smoking tradition and provide an impressive choice of high-quality, hand-mixed tobacco blends. Attentive staff, games and tea are there to complete the experience and make you forget about any health-related consequences of this relaxing activity. Just go easy.

LOCATION: 454 6th Ave HOURS: Mon. to Sat. 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.

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Clubs aren’t always for everyone. Some people learn this the hard way, when they decide to try one of those $10 party bus deals to OMNIA from UCSD. While the clientele of OMNIA is not exclusively college-aged students, the majority of the crowd is made up of San Diego State, University of San Diego and UCSD students.

Rivalries, stigmas and superiority complexes are parked at the door as all SD students unite in the name of having a good time, bobbing up and down to the DJ on the overcrowded dance floor.

Other than being a party paradise for college students, OMNIA is known for its unforgettable club experience, pulling in well-known DJs and artists such as: Lil Jon, Steve Aoki and Tiesto.

Omnia is a solid choice for college students who love EDM and don’t mind crowded dance floors or expensive drinks.

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BEST DRUNK FOOD EATERIES Tajima ramen

Rose donuts

LOCATION: 3739 6th Ave

LOCATION: 5201 Linda Vista Rd Ste. 100

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west coast tavern $

LOCATION: 2895 University Ave

HOURS: Sun. to Wed. 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Thurs.

HOURS: 24/7

HOURS: Mon. to Thurs. 4 p.m. to 2 a.m.,

If you’re looking for a hybrid of great Asian cuisine and alcohol-riddled drinks to kick back with a couple friends when the sun goes down, Tajima Ramen in Hillcrest is one to check out. Not only is Tajima well-known for being one of the top Japanese restaurants in San Diego, but is also considered by many to offer the best Ramen noodle soup there is.

Unlike several other restaurants under the same name in San Diego, Tajima Hillcrest promises an intimate dining experience for those savoring Ramen dishes and a mix of craft beer imported from Japan and local city brews. One big perk worth mentioning about Tajima’s location in Hillcrest is that doors close at 3 a.m. every Friday and Saturday. So, in case anyone is hungry for some Ramen after midnight, Tajima is ready to serve with open arms.

While the go-to for many at the late night, post-imbibe hour is something typically carnivorous, smothered in cheese and often served with a side of spuds, let’s not neglect the desire for something sweet. Rose Donuts, constantly open for breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner and twilight needs, caters to those seeking something satisfyingly sweet and equally as filling. With more than a dozen flavors to choose from, like honey cruller to apple fritter to the classic maple bar, and each dozen costing around $13, Rose Donuts does not disappoint in taste or cost. And for the health conscious — don’t worry, have their bran muffin to satiate that carb craving.

Located in the heart of North Park in a historic building, this movie theater-turnedtavern will serve you brunch, late night drinks and everything in between. In addition to an extensive menu full of American favorites, such as burgers, sandwiches, hot wings and macaroni and cheese, West Coast Tavern offers a wide variety of cocktails and happy hour deals — something you cannot miss if you are looking for pre-concert libations before heading to The Observatory North Park hidden right behind the corner. Events hosted right at the tavern are also worth mentioning: Every weekend at 10 p.m. West Coast Tavern turns into a small dance party with a DJ, so give it a chance on a Friday night.

11:30 a.m. 1 a.m., Fri. Sat. 11:30 a.m. 3 a.m.

Broadway pizza LOCATION: 1008 Broadway Ave

HOURS: Sun. to Sat. 3 p.m. 3 a.m.

$

Fri. to Sun. 10:00 a.m. to 2 a.m.

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It’s quite difficult to mess up something as classic as pizza when it’s consumed under the slightest buzz, but, sober or completely inebriated, Broadway Pizza is known to do it right every time. This gem in the East Village is the perfect place to both prepare for and end a night out. Not one to stray from the traditional, Broadway Pizza features signature pies topped with classic meat and vegetable options and sells by the slice, personal or party size. The carbohydrate overload doesn’t stop there, Broadway Pizza also offers pastas, subs, garlic bread and cakes to accompany the already perfect pizza. And with every item, sans combination offerings, costing less than $10, even your most intoxicated self would be proud of this late-night decision.

LANDINI'S PIZZERIA

If you are willing to spend your night in Little Italy — one of the few neighborhoods where San Diegans are still out and about after the curfew — but do not want to lay out a fortune on a fancy dinner $ all’italiana, Landini’s Pizzeria is your next destination. Pretend to be walking to a luxurious restaurant HOURS: Sun. to Wed. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Thurs. 11 surrounded by decked out locals prowling in and out of eateries, but go into this small “pizza by the a.m. to 1 a.m., Fri. to Sat. 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. slice” joint instead. With Neapolitan thin-crust pizza being its specialty, Landini’s combines European-style recipes with New York-style convenience to quickly serve satisfying dough triangles to their customers. Take the pizza to go or eat your slice (or two) at a patio while talking to inebriated strangers — either way, Landini’s is one of the best choices you can make at 2 a.m.

LOCATION: 1827 India St

a chat with "Brave new wild's" Oakley Anderson-Moore on the New World Boulder and More

Directed by Oakley Anderson-Moore Release Date April 12

PHOTO COURTESY OF FILM FESTIVAL FLIX

The UCSD Guardian spoke with director and UCSD alumna Oakley Anderson-Moore about her documentary that explores the motivations and history of early American rock climbing.

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t’s really hard to explain why anyone would risk their life to climb up a rock for no reason. It’s not like you’re finding the Holy Grail at the top, and it’s not like you can’t get to the top any other way … It’s not a tangible thing you can explain. And it’s really hard to describe why you would do that, when you are in fact risking your life.” That’s how Oakley AndersonMoore, director of “Brave New Wild,” describes the compulsion at the heart of her new documentary.

What drives rock climbers to do what they do is a compelling question, especially given rock climbing’s recent surge in popularity,

with indoor climbing gyms popping up all over the place. Yet it’s a question which has received little attention, despite the existence of an entire subgenre of rock-climbing movies. Like other “extreme sport” films though, these primarily consist of supercuts of great moments in the sport, with minimal inquisitiveness as to what drives climbers. As Anderson-Moore calls it, they’re “climbing porn” for those already within the subculture.

Drawing upon historical footage, occasionally supplemented with animation, “Brave New Wild” attempts to answer this urge, primarily by chronicling the golden

age of climbing in the 1950s and ‘60s. “[Climbing] is not as small as it once was. One reason I wanted to make this film was just to make sure that the history of this sport didn’t get lost in this growth,” AndersonMoore said.

At the center of this narrative stands Warren Harding and Royal Robbins, two legendary climbers competing to be the master of their age. A filmmaker could not ask for a better duo at the center of her story. Robbins and Harding, despite their common obsession, contrast as strongly as Apollo and Dionysus.

Robbins is poetic, controlled and poised, believing in the purity and

ethics of the climb. Harding is gruff and passionate, as interested in drinking as he is in climbing. In his own words, Robbins saw climbing as a way of “getting rid of fear.” For Harding, climbing was just a “silly, asshole-ish thing to do” — just a way to have fun and indulge the ego.

Both of these views constitute an escape from the dominant culture of the day. As much as “Brave New Wild” chronicles the golden age of climbing, it refrains from becoming too obsessed with a single thesis and turning the film into a pedantic lecture. Rather it indulges in the fact that, as Anderson-Moore says, “climbing is basically the vehicle through which we’re talking about these different things: about what’s important in your life and what the whole point is of doing anything. Climbing is a small thing that people do but leads to all these big questions.”

Rock climbing, both as a sport and as a lifestyle, is inseparable from the culture it was born in — a consequence of the post-war conformity and economic expansion of the 1950s that eventually spawned the hippie movement. “Brave New Wild” walks an offbeat and circuitous path, telling the stories of those who witnessed this age and the curious adventures they experienced.

Central to this is AndersonMoore’s own father, Mark Moore, who dropped out of society following the Kennedy assassination in 1963 and became a climber of some renown. While Harding and Robbins’ continue their famous fight to ascend the “Dawn Wall” in Yosemite, the film interweaves Mark Moore’s own experiences into the narrative, roaming through the personal moments that were an accepted part of the dirtbag lifestyle: hopping trains, working odd-jobs and avoiding the authorities.

According to Anderson-Moore, documentarian Errol Morris’ films, such as “Fast, Cheap & Out of Control,” played a huge part in the structure of her own documentary.

“Morris takes a bunch of different, unrelated things … and makes a film where he pieces things together thematically … You can still draw great meaning from connecting completely unrelated people and things that relate to each other thematically. And that could give the audience room to think about the connections on their own,” she said.

Like the documentarians she admires, Anderson-Moore isn’t afraid to put herself, for brief moments, into the film. AndersonMoore graduated from UCSD in 2007 with a double major in visual arts and in theater arts. Like many students on graduation day, she found herself unsure of where to take her talents and interests.

“I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do, and who am I as a person, and what my life is going to be. So I started looking at the life of my dad — I think I was the same age my father was when he started getting into climbing,” she said. Six years later, “Brave New Wild” was released.

Does it arrive at a satisfactory reason for why people go out and climb? Perhaps. For AndersonMoore, climbing “is cool because we live in this world where safety and security is the number one priority in our culture. Which is understandable. But … you can’t just be scared all the time, trying to stay safe, and live as long as you can in the comfort of your own home, because then you’re not really living.

Climbing is a great way to go out and confront your fears; it can be very valuable to know who you are.”

But “Brave New Wild” delves past such easy conclusions, recognizing that truth is not so easily distilled and may require years of wandering.

Indeed, as one climber in the film says: “If you have to ask why, you wouldn’t understand even if the reason were explained.”

— Dieter joubert

Senior Staff Writer

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filmatic festival

ALBUM REVIEW

a moon shaped pool

by Radiohead Release Date May 8

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Radiohead’s latest album is more than just its ninth; it is the culmination of two decades of avant-garde art-rock music.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ARTPOWER AT UCSD

Date May 7 Location Qualcomm Institute

The 2016 Filmatic Festival demonstrated the current state of evolving technology.

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odern artists, engineers and filmmakers merged traditional cinematic narratives with the technology of the future to create a wholly immersive and interactive experience featuring science, art and technology at the 2016 Filmatic Festival on May 7 at UCSD’s Qualcomm Institute. A total of 22 installations were exhibited, some nestled away in darkened labs and black-box theaters, and others projected outdoors directly onto existing landmarks. Almost all involved one or a combination of interactive headsets, sleek remote controllers, 3-D cinematic virtual reality, audio-visual immersion and, perhaps most importantly, an open mind and vivid imagination.

The following are descriptions of just a few installations from the multi-spectral array explored by the Guardian.

Margaret Dolinsky’s “Figuratively Speaking” is a virtual environment for exploration and contemplation.

Wearing 3-D glasses, the audience is able to enter a fantasy world of little, friendly-looking animated faces and figures bobbing around on an island.

The figures are drawn up using simple, flat-faced geometric shapes

by Dolinsky and then later brought into the third dimension via the Unity game engine. We navigate through the world via a remote control, following brown bulb-like blobs up hills — a metaphor for crowd mentality — and into trees made up of noses, because the figure “nose” something.

According to Dolinsky, navigating this fantasy world represents psychic dilemmas and refracting consciousness. As a whole, Dolinsky’s piece is nonlinear and non-narrative, produced and experienced as a stream of consciousness.

“Quantum Imagination,” created by the San Diego-based NanoVR team, is a virtual reality medium for nanoscale design and simulation. The NanoVR team aims to create virtual reality tools for scientific design, giving users the tools to intuitively design using simple 3-D organic materials comprised of carbon and hydrogen. The simulation itself is impressive — wearing an interactive headset (HTC Vive) and earphones, the user is able to use two handheld remote controls to drag, drop and connect multiple atoms in a 3-D, 360-degree space; whatever the user sees through the headset is simultaneously displayed on another screen for observers. Sensors and cameras placed around the room are used to read and capture matter and motion. The experience starts with instructions to step forward onto a lit blue square; a video introducing the potential for innovation in nano engineering plays, then the user is invited to create their own molecules from different atoms spread out throughout the space, surrounding the user like a 3-D polygonal structure. At this point, the user can walk around within a confine of about 20 feet by 20 feet, reaching in any direction to grab, drag, and drop atoms — the result is limited only by the user’s creativity.

The state-of-the-art Audio Spatialisation Lab offered a preview of the new “Mass Effect 4D” theme park attraction based on the critically acclaimed BioWare game series set to open soon at California’s Great America in Santa Clara, California.

Real-time acoustic simulations accompanied the virtual screen experience through multi-directional speakers equipped with constructive and deconstructive facial recognition, creating a sound cloud constantly attached to the viewer. Sitting directly in front of the screen with the speakers in front of them, the audience is thrust into a live-action scenario: they are aboard a spaceship set for Teranova, a planet in another solar system introduced as the new Earth. The complete attraction, opening soon, is set to take place in a newly design theater with a holographic screen, motion seats and atmospheric surround-sound arrays.

The media presentation “Hearing Landscapes” showcased the latest work of Pulitzer nominee, UCSD music professor and Qualcomm Institute’s composer-in-residence Lei Liang. Liang’s goal was to reconstruct the lost images of Chinese artist Huang Binhong (1865–1955). Along with a team of engineers at QI, Liang translated a series of images which were scanned and digitally enlarged using multispectral imaging into a sound composition. Liang in particular worked on developing new concepts of sonic particles to create a new language of sound design and spatialisation, but his score was largely influenced by both his interpretation of Binhong’s original images and the newly scanned high-resolution, enlarged projections. What resulted was an electro-acoustic composition reflective of the landscape in all its glorious layers and intricacies, going a long way towards answering Liang’s exploration of decoding the simplicity of complexity.

In “Making the Past Present,” UCSD professor and director of the Calit2 Centre of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture, and Archeology Falko Kuester explores the power of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics as an engine of disruptive thinking in pursuit of artful engineering.

Kuester and his team are passionate about cultural heritage engineering as well as innovation and preserving world heritage digitally through the collection of big data. Kuester’s live narration of a short film details a recent project of digitally mapping the Baptistry di Giovanni, in Florence. Two UCSD structural engineering Ph.D candidates traveled last year to the site of the baptistry to conduct a health assessment of sorts on the centuries-old building and to understand the structural and historical interactions of the site, including its flaws. They used LiDAR (light detection and ranging) laser scanning, high-resolution photography, thermal imaging and photogrammetry to construct a 3-D, 360-degree live model of the entire baptistry. Ground-penetrating radar technology combined with a custom-built mobile robotic thermal camera platform allows the team to see through walls and beneath floors.

According to Kuester, the ability to bring the data back home to analyze not only allows us to step into areas of scientific discovery through tools of virtual reality and data interaction, but just as importantly, presents an opportunity for a story spun with compassion and human engagement.

Adding the third dimension and interaction to a medium previously only manipulated on a 2-D screen introduces new perspectives towards the material properties of these elements. In a panel moderated by Benjamin Bratton, UCSD visual arts professor and director of the Centre for Design and Geopolitics, Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Labs director Kamal Sinclair spoke on how language triggers higher thinking and function beyond pure instinct, and voiced curiosity over how new technologies will allow us to experience something neither physical nor normative. What is clear from the myriad virtual reality experiences on display at Calit2 is its monstrous potential for growth. Though virtual reality can be dangerous in its applications, it offers some people a sense of liberation in their experience of a reconstructed world.

Aside from its dazzling presentation of cinematic reality, and a complete hyperstimulation of the senses, Filmatic Festival communicated the community’s extraordinary progress in the field and galvanised today’s generation of artists, engineers, and scientists to very real possibilities of tomorrow.

— megan chang

Contributing Writer

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ive years in the making, Radiohead’s latest album is a slow-paced tribute to the past, present and future. Thom Yorke, in his characteristic croon, wonders about current politics in “Burn The Witch,” a commentary on the European refugee crisis (he sings “Stay in the shadows/Cheer at the gallows”), and about lost time in “Daydreaming,” where he announces that he is “Beyond the point/of no return/of no return/and it’s too late/the damage is done.”

What sets “A Moon Shaped Pool” apart from the band’s other eight albums, though, is that it marks a new beginning for Radiohead.

Drawing inspiration from its entire body of work, the band presents listeners with new masterpieces complemented by projects that have been tweaked and altered throughout its musical career.

As Radiohead’s most melodic album, the compositional mastery of guitarist Jonny Greenwood (the genius behind the soundtracks for “There Will Be Blood,” “The Master,” and “Inherent Vice”) meets Yorke’s lyrics in brief moments of aural perfection. With the help of the London Contemporary Orchestra, strings play a large part in “A Moon Shaped Pool,” and are

most notably depended on in the deceptively high-energy opening track “Burn The Witch,” in “Glass Eyes” and in “The Numbers.” While in the past Greenwood’s string compositions played the supporting role, they are now the instruments being supported.

In a departure from its longwinded rock sound, songs like “Present Tense” and “Desert Island Disk,” which the band played live in Paris before the album’s release, experiment with Yorke’s version of pop-folk. The tracks are refreshing breathers between passionate odes, but by the end you’ll find yourself eager to return to the beaten path that is Yorke’s comfortable despair.

These tracks are some of the easiest to listen to — their tempos quick and their rhythms predictable.

But if you’re expecting immediate gratification, you’re missing the point of Radiohead — a band which repeatedly enforces the truth of the mantra “patience is a virtue.”

The last song of the album, “True Love Waits,” is a diamond among precious stones and is where Yorke’s emotions couple with a soft, four-chord progression played on the piano to create the most human — that is to say, relatable — track the band has ever produced. It is for

this reason that we’ve been listening to crumby live versions of “True Love Waits” since 1994, when Yorke first wrote and played the song to a live audience. Until the release of “A Moon Shaped Pool,” the love song had only been recorded once on Radiohead’s 2001 live album “I Might Be Wrong,” and had been festering somewhere within Yorke’s presumably incomprehensible conscious as fans wondered if a studio version of the track would ever surface. True to the song’s title, Yorke held off on releasing “True Love Waits” until an equally perfect album was able to frame it. Much different than the live version, and immeasurably better, the track allows us to experience Yorke at his most vulnerable as he buries his pride and pleads “Just don’t leave/ don’t leave.”

“A Moon Shaped Pool” is not just another wildly innovative album by Radiohead; it is the culmination of over two decades of music and the emergence of a fresh, unapologetic sound that the British rock band is sure to build on in years to come.

— Matthew zamudio

Contributing Writer

ALBUM REVIEW

Views

by Drake Release Date April 29

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Drake spans the globe and all its accompanying emotions from the confines of his home — 243 square miles known as Toronto.

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ajor releases from big artists have consistently demarcated 2016’s cultural landscape, at least for a few weeks each, usually leaving nothing behind but remnants of a much-debated marketing campaign and a few decent tracks amid the filler. Drake plans to change that. Now hip-hop’s biggest star, intent on upending the first half of 2016 (already engorged on Kanye, Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar), Drake has unleashed a statement of success. It’s an album that can be seen from two angles. From one side, it’s a triumphant victory lap that hammers in Drake’s status — a continuation of the boisterous 2015 he had. From the other, it’s a breakup album that deals with the material consequences of unprecedented power and fame. The album is many things, but one thing is for sure — it’s all from Drake’s point of view.

The album switches between tracks like the harder, rap-driven “U With Me?” and the R&B inflected “Feel No Ways” without tonal whiplash, a testament to the album’s immaculate sequencing. “Views” is a studio soiree, an audio equivalent to an intimate dinner party — mature when needed to be and cheeky when not. The spontaneity and boasts of “If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late” has been traded in for a composed cool that distinguishes much of “Views.” “9” is a monster of a track, made up of distorted vocal samples and deep crackling drums

while Drake proclaims the spoils of his kingdom. “I turn the six upside down it’s a nine now.” Spoken with the conviction of a national hero, it’s hard not to believe him.

It must be cold at the top for Drake, but heat manages to invade the northern cold. Dancehall’s inherent warmth serves as a significant stylistic influence for a few of the album’s tracks, most notably “Controlla” and “One Dance.” The template gives Drake free reign to practice his patois and effortlessly hybridize contemporary hip-hop with dancehall.

Although some may see it as an intrusion into the cocoon Drake has built, the Caribbean vibes actually come from the thriving West Indian community of Toronto — not so much intrusion as inclusion. Drake’s ability to cross over between genres and establish a new flavor in pop’s soundscape has made him a genuine cultural ambassador. Able to glide through genres and time, the nostalgic hues of “Feel No Ways” are Drake at his best. Produced by Jordan Ullman of Majid Jordan, the song is more than just a spiritual successor to 2013’s massive “Hold On We’re Going Home.” There’s a pure pop sensibility that runs through both, but “Feel No Ways” is the aftermath of a naive, love-stricken romp. The warm chords melt into each other as Drake sings “There’s more to life than sleeping in and getting high with you / I had to let go of us to show myself what I could do.” “Views” is an album for lovers and

the scorned alike.

Tracks with a heavier R&B influence, like the airy “With You,” operate on a weightless plane of sensuous inclinations. That’s why it’s hard to believe that “Redemption,” what should have been a Drake R&B staple, flags — falling back on maudlin antics (“I hate the number 2, that shit is unforgiven / Tryna satisfy everybody / It’s like they can’t get enough”) and running two minutes too long. It’s especially weak when compared to the superior “Fire and Desire,” the album’s penultimate track, which presents similar themes in a much tighter package. One of the other few missteps seems to be inevitable in a long project — filler.

“Pop Style” is an especially odd misstep because this is the sort of 808-driven beat that Drake rode without issue on “What a Time to Be Alive.” Instead of carrying the hyperintense energy of bangers like “Digital Dash” and “Jumpman,” “Pop Style” retreats into half-baked one liners and a weak hook.

“Views” is fitting for Drake’s unprecedented rise to power and fame, both of which he’s handled with aplomb and poured into this project.

He isn’t seeking help in bearing his soul to fans, but rather just talking it off. Less confessional and more casual, this is sonic retribution.

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some critical errors by the Cougars’ defense, Howsley, Hearn and Shirley all ended up with opportunities to add to the score count, once again giving the Tritons a commanding lead over the Cougars.

Just like in their first face-off, the Cougars attempted to save face by scoring some late-game runs, including a home run through right field, but were once again not granted any miracles.

The Tritons came out on top with a commanding 7–2 victory.

Redshirt senior pitcher Alon Leichman pitched all seven innings to earn the win. Although he allowed five hits, two runs and picked up two errors, he did more than enough on defense, giving the Tritons the opportunity to bounce back. Hearn once again was fantastic at bat, getting two hits, two runs and an RBI, while Howsley also had two hits on the day.

Game Four Unfortunately for UCSD, Cal State San Marcos would walk away with the last laugh.

In spite of the fact that the Tritons were not able to manage a single hit in the first two innings, the team regained its composure in the top of the third inning, at least momentarily.

With the bases loaded, senior outfielder Gradeigh Sanchez bashed a ball to the right, sending in Howsley and sophomore infielder Tyler Plantier to score, putting the Tritons up 2–1 early in the game.

This would prove to be the offense’s last hurrah, however, as the Tritons failed to capitalize on their early lead. Feeding on their opponent’s floundering offense, the Cougars immediately regained the lead with a two-run third inning, and then built upon that lead with a lone run in the sixth. The knockout punch would not arrive until the penultimate inning of the game: In the

bottom of the eighth, the Cougars did as they pleased against the tired Triton defense, eventually doubling the Cougars’ score for the game. When the game finally wrapped up, the Tritons fell 8–2 to their conference rivals.

Sophomore pitcher Jack Rupe Jr. was credited with the loss, allowing six hits, three runs and obtaining three errors. Howsley managed three hits and a run. While Sanchez had his two hits and two RBIs, that was not enough to top the vengeful Cougars.

With the series split, the Tritons moved to 30–10 overall and 20–17 in conference play and the Cougars are now 23–25 overall and 15–21 in conference play. Next up, UCSD embarks for Stockton for the California Collegiate Athletics Association tournament, which began on Wednesday, May 11.

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W. WATERPOLO

UCSD Uses Early Lead To Knock Whitter College Out of Playoffs On an eight game winning streak, No.10 Tritons will head to Los Angeles to face UCLA in the first round of the NCAA Championship.

BY Samantha Glantz

senior No. 10 UC San Diego Heads to NCAA Championship After Defeating Whittier The UCSD women’s water polo team defeated Whittier College 11–7 in one of the two NCAA Championship play-in games on Tuesday, May 10 at the Canyonview Aquatic Center.

The Tritons improved to 27–9 as they picked up their eighth straight win against Whittier. UCSD will move on to play No. 2 UCLA at UCLA’s Spieker Aquatic Center on May 13, for their first matchup of the NCAA Championship. San Diego State will also move on to the NCAA Championship as it defeated Wagner College 7–4 at Canyonview Aquatic Center. The Aztecs will play topranked USC for their first game.

The Tritons set the tempo early as junior center Lauren Boyer and senior attacker Julia Kirkland recorded the first two goals of the match. Kirkland

went on to score again in the first quarter for the Tritons but not before Whittier got one by senior goalkeeper Courtney Miller.

Senior attacker Lauren Kistler scored twice during the second quarter while junior two-meter defender Lani Tittle also found the back of the net once. Whittier scored twice within the quarter, making the score 6–3 in the Tritons’ favor as they headed into halftime.

The defense held Whittier from scoring the entire third quarter as Kistler and junior two-meter defender Alexis Wieseler scored, making the score 8–3.

The fourth quarter was a little nerve-racking for the Tritons as they allowed four goals, but luckily scored three goals of their own to clinch the win with a final score of 11–7.

Miller had 12 saves on the day while Kistler and Kirkland recorded hat tricks on the night.

Samantha Glantz

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Tritons Split Series F

acing their final matchup of the season, the UCSD baseball team hoped to cap their roller coaster ride of a season at a high point.

Interestingly enough, the team’s final games against conference foe Cal State San Marcos mirrors their season itself: a series full of unbelievable highs and some drastic lows.

Game One Much like the start of the season, the Tritons came out swinging with unbreakable confidence. Catching fire immediately, the Triton hitters had no trouble getting on base in the top of the first inning. With the bases loaded, a well-placed hit by junior infielder JD Hearn gave redshirt sophomore infielder Tim White a clear path to home, a precedence to a barrage of scoring that would cap out at four runs. Even though the Tritons stranded three players on base at the end of the inning, a 4–0 lead proved to be satisfactory for the Tritons.

Of course, a lead doesn’t matter if no one does anything to defend it. Freshman pitcher Kyle Mora manned the fort, holding a hot hand for the five innings he pitched. He allowed only a single hit during his period of play so that the Cougars had a hard time making any amount of offense themselves.

Unwilling to take their foot off the gas, the Tritons continued to pile on the pressure for the rest of the game, scoring two in the third, one in the seventh and another four runs in the top of the ninth.

Despite being down 11–0 in the final inning of the game, the Cougars still had an inning to play, and wound up earning some of their pride back due to a two-run homer by Cal State San Marcos senior first baseman Brandon Bentson. Unfortunately for them, the Cougars were not granted a miracle by the baseball gods, as the Tritons cruised to an 11–2 victory.

Mora was credited with the win after squaring off against 23 batters and refusing to give up a single run. Given the nature of the blowout, it makes sense that a large chunk of the team had their time to shine. White was phenomenal at bat, earning three hits, two RBIs and a run on the day.

Hearn and junior outfielder Christian Leung both finished with two hits, one RBI and two runs, and junior infielder Tyler Howsley picked up two hits, two RBIs and one run.

Game Two But even after it looked like the Tritons had the Cougars’ number, Cal State San Marcos wound up flipping the table on UCSD. From the start of the Tritons’ senior day doubleheader, all of UCSD’s offensive poise from the previous game appeared to have vanished. The outs piled up for the Tritons as the Cougars’ defense made few mistakes, blanking the Tritons for the entire game.

Meanwhile, appearing to have learned from their game-one beatdown, the Cougars managed to load the bases in the top of the second inning and proceeded to score three consecutive runs thanks to a walk, a fielder’s choice and a fielding error. Even though the Cougars would only score one more run for the remainder of the game, the early deficit was just too much for the Tritons to overcome.

Despite pitching seven mostly scoreless innings, freshman pitcher Preston Mott allowed Cal State San Marcos to pull ahead early, giving up the three runs in the second inning. Even though Hearn pulled off two hits for the game, he was unable to spark any momentum for the team as they were shut out 4–0.

Game Three Clearly displeased with their previous performance, the Tritons once again stepped it up and showed off the aggression and poise that made them a contender early in the season — even if it was only for a game.

After a scoreless first inning, the Triton offense kicked into gear. With two players on base, senior first baseman Zach Friedman smashed the ball into right field which gave Leung and junior infielder Vince Mori an opportunity to dash home. This resulted in giving the Tritons a 2–0 lead.

The Tritons would go on to score another run in the following inning, but the fourth inning was where the magic struck for UCSD. Thanks to See BASEBALL, page 11

week in summary W. WATER POLO

BASEBALL UCSD

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11 0 2 4 Cal State San Marcos UCSD

7 2 2 8 Cal State San Marcos

Offense and defense inconsistent over four games against Cal State San Marcos.

Tritons look foward to CCAA Championship versus Cal State Monterey Bay. Written by Senior Staff Writer // Alex Wu

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