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Summer Movie Preview Cowboys & Aliens July 29 — The very title “Cowboys
& Aliens” is so gleefully ridiculous (a la “Snakes On a Plane”), it’s shocking that the film’s marketing has such serious actionflick purpose. And no one — from the heavyweight co-stars (Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford), to the honorable threesome at the helm (Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer) — seems in on the joke. Based on a 2006 graphic novel, “Cowboys & Aliens” is just your standard trans-dimensional sci-fi Western battle royale featuring a ragtag gang of gritty, poker-faced cowboys who must take a stand against their invading alien foe. A premise that seems more like a parody than the setup for a typical summer blockbuster, it leads one to hope that the flick takes itself less seriously than the previews so aggressively suggest. While the trailers provide a few additional plot points — Craig afflicted with Jason Bourne-style amnesia, a magical bracelet suspiciously reminiscent of “The Mummy Returns” and the sultry Olivia Wilde shedding her clothes — the money-shot clip depicting an army of pistol-toting horsemen charging a dive-bombing fleet of futuristic spacecraft should speak for itself. Regardless, whether it’s triumphantly tongue-in-cheek or a legendary failure, we’re going to watch out for “Cowboys & Aliens.” — Imran Manji
Will Icrease Business On Library Walk In 2011-12 By Sarah Kang Staff Writer
After launching Spring Quarter of this year, the A.S. Store plans to continue onto into 201112 by expanding business hours and targeting student orgs. The idea for an A.S. store was first conceived in 2009 as former All-Campus Senator Tobias Haglund’s senator project. The original proposal — which passed unanimously at the last A.S. meeting of Spring 2010 — suggested setting up a brick-andmortar store in Price Center. This year, Associate Vice President of Enterprise Operations Brian McEuen decided that the store should become a mobile one to save $80,000. “He proposed an idea to make it into a mobile store,” 2010-11
Vice President of Finance and Resources Andrew Ang said. “This way we could start small, try to generate logistics on what the market is, what merchandise sells, what kind of events we should be targeting, who we should be targeting, what kind of merchandise we should do if it’s seasonal or if we should be doing other kinds of merchandise for outreach.” A.S. Council allocated $204,000 for the store’s start-up costs in Spring Quarter 2010, after which Ang and McEuen became responsible for the enterprise’s success. “In terms of costs, our budget allowed for a $7,000 build out of the space, and we did come in under budget,” McEuen said in See outfitters, page 3
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Social Sciences Dean Bans Professor’s Manuscript, Violates Academic Freedom By Laira Martin News Editor
The UCSD Academic Senate has deemed that Social Sciences Dean Jeff Elman violated academic freedom after he attempted to prevent a controversial manuscript by sociology professor Richard Biernacki from being published. The Committee on Academic Freedom released a report on May 24, after an Academic Senate meeting was held regarding statements made by Elman in June 2009 in which he ordered Biernacki not to publish his book “Inside the Rituals of Social
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Science.” Biernacki’s book critiques the work and data use of other sociologists, including that of a colleague within the UCSD sociology department. “To the best of my knowledge... the dean never received and therefore never read my manuscript before he directed me not to publish it upon threat of dismissal,” Biernacki said. “His preemptive injunction expresses a new extreme of administrative paranoia.” Elman sent a letter to Biernacki on June 16, 2009 with claims that Biernacki’s critique of the colleague — anonymously identified as Professor B — in his manuscript constituted harassment.
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“You are to stop harassing [Professor B],” Elman stated in the letter. “...do not publish texts that refer to [Professor B].” The letter also threatens formal discipline which includes “written censure, reduction in salary, demotion, suspension or dismissal.” “We were flabbergasted and couldn’t believe that any dean could have written such a thing,” CAF Committee Member and associate professor of history Sarah Schneewind said. Biernacki has been a State of California Whistleblower since 2007,
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