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UC System to Loan State $200 Million This Month By Nicole Chan Associate News Editor

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(In Millions) Amount UC to loan to state

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(In Millions) Amount CSU to loan to state

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(In Millions) Amount the bill will make available

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(In Millions) Amount of UC Cuts

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(In Billions) Amount state already owes UC

Student Satisfaction Survey to Brings Changes to Campus

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Students from historically black colleges and universities will be able to participate in a new University of California fellowship program called Summer Institute for Emerging Managers. UC Provost Lawrence Pitts announced the program at a Jan. 24 press conference in the Robinson Memorial in Pasadena. SIEML will accept 25 students this summer and will take place every year at one of six participating UC business and management schools. They include UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, UCSD’s Rady School of Management, the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business, UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and UC Riverside’s A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management. “We hope the experience for those students selected to attend SIEML will aid them in successful enrollment in professional degree programs such as the MBA,” UC Provost Lawrence Pitts said in a Jan. 24 UC Office of the President press release. The program is currently offered to undergraduate students enrolled at Morehouse College, Hampton University, Howard University and Florida A&M, among others. Selected students will be offered an allexpenses-paid trip to one of the six UC business programs. They will spend two weeks

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California’s revenue is $2.6 billion less than projected, while spending is higher by about the same amount, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “We have to go out and borrow this money ourselves, it’s not like we can open a drawer and fling cash about,” Klein said. According to Klein, the UC system has a better credit rating than the state and will borrow the requested $200 million at an interest rate of 0.5 percent. The UC system will loan the $200 million to the state at an interest rate of 2 percent. “We don’t want to lose money in the deal,” Klein said. Klein said the state originally requested the loan by March 2, but recently expedited the loan to Feb. 29. The state is expected to pay back the loan by April 20 of this year. “We’ve been in talks with the state government for a while to find a long-term funding plan for the UC,” Klein said. “This is part of the process. We understand that they have a cash flow problem, so we’re in a position to help them out. We’re all Californians and we all want the same things. This is not in an adversarial way, and we’re in a position that we can loan this money.” According to Klein, the state already owes the UC system $1.7 billion. “It’s not that we want to keep doing this,” Klein said. “For the time being, it’s what we feel is the best thing to do.”

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espite facing $750 million in state funding cuts for the 2011-12 academic year, the University of California will loan the state $200 million on Feb. 29. The $200 million loan is just a portion of the $3.3 billion needed to keep the state in the black. The state is expected to fall below its safety cushion of $2.5 billion by the end of the month and in more than a week will fall $730 million in the red, state controller John Chiang said in “California could run out of cash by March, controller warns” in the Jan. 31 Los Angeles Times. According to the Los Angeles Times, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on Feb. 3 that will allow the state to borrow from special funds, such as those allocated for transportation or scientific research. The bill will make $865 million available. The rest of the funding will be made up from loans from the UC and California State University systems and delaying reimbursements for doctors of stateprovided healthcare programs. “As we all know, the state of California is in a pretty bad financial situation,” UC Office of the President spokesperson Dianne Klein said. “They came to us and Cal State and asked, ‘Can you loan us money so we don’t default?’ As a gesture of good will, we agreed.” In addition to the UC loan, the CSU system will loan the state up to $250 million, according to the Daily Californian.

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Student Business Services will be opening a survey to students on Feb. 15. They will be using this input to improve their ability to serve students Every year, Vice Chancellor of External and Business Affairs Steven Relyea’s metrics division invites approximately 25,000 students to take the Student Satisfaction Survey and provide feedback on various student business services. The feedback is later discussed and analyzed at a retreat by Relyea’s metrics division. “The responses [on the survey] are looked

at and discussed carefully to see what needs to be changed,” Communications Manager for Business and Financial Services Barbara Field said. Specifically, they look at budget allocations, resources and what can be improved for specific business services. Changes have already been made based on the past years of the survey. Mail services, for example, no longer delivers junk mail to students living on campus. They also send email alerts when a package is received from the United States Postal Service. These changes were first implemented based on results of the survey. See Survey, page 3

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Social Networking Found to Predate the Web By Michael Chang Staff Writer Back in a time when writing on someone’s wall implied crude scribblings on their side of a cave, humans had already begun utilizing social-networking as a way to stay connected. A recent study by Harvard and UCSD researchers suggests that ancient hunter-gatherers had interactions similar to the social networking of today’s Facebook or LinkedIn. This helps answer whether networking is a product of modern technology or if it could have been a survivalist tool utilized by ancient man. The existence of an ancient social network system that allowed cooperative and altruistic humans to gather together would help explain why these facets of human life exist today. Some even theorize that selfishness would have out-competed selflessness without this form of networking. “We found that what

modern people are doing with online social networks is what we’ve always done, not just before Facebook, but before agriculture,” UCSD professor James Fowler said in a Jan. 25 campus press release. The researchers studied the Hadza, an ethnic group in northern Tanzania. Within it is a smaller population that still practices the traditional hunter-gatherer model of living, which predates agriculture and domesticated animals. Fowler and Nicholas Christakis, a professor at Harvard Medical School, chose this group not only because of the lifestyle, but also because of its level of genetic isolation. Researchers administered tests that were co-created by Fowler. First they asked the adults whom they would prefer to live with. Later, knowing that honey was a favorite food among many of the Hadza, each adult received

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Council’s Speed Dating D-I Event Proves to Be a Success

his week’s A.S. Council meeting was full of serious politics and Valentine’s Day love. Associate Vice President of A c a d e m i c Affairs Mac Zilber reported a record 300 students applying for A.S. grants. Natalie Covate Ap p r o x i m a t e l y ncovate@ucsd.edu $50,000 is necessary to fulfill the need. Vice President of Student Life Meredith Madnick was so excited to announce the location for this quarter’s A.S. Council Retreat that she asked everyone to begin a drum roll. I suppose laser tag is a pretty epic way to spend a retreat, and I would bet that Madnick should expect a heavy turnout. “You’re not required to go, but I will heavily judge you if you don’t,” Madnick said. As if council needed any other motivation to go. Vice President of External Affairs Samer Naji attended a California State Board meeting where it was decided that a millionaire’s tax will be put on the ballot, so that anyone making more than $1 million a year will be taxed. This money will mostly go to higher education. Muir Senator Leah Wong announced that all the UCs will be collaborating in the creation of a “Shit Broke UC Students Say” video, where five students from each UC will be filmed on their campus saying some shit that broke UC students would say. A.S. President Alyssa Wing has already taken some action in response to an email sent out by UCSD Recreation Services to students enrolled in Recreation classes that

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clearly advocated the support of Division-I sports. “No department or staff member should be influencing the vote,” she said. “Vice Chancellor Penny Rue is already aware of it and is taking action. We are asking the Recreation office if they can issue a public apology for a breach of neutrality.” After this dark revelation, Madnick lightened things up with the announcement of Sixth Senator Cody Marshall for Council Member of the Week! He strutted his stuff to LMFAO’s “Sexy and I Know It,” which seemed appropriate since he was nominated for Council Member of the Week for his Division-I speed dating event. Madnick and Vice President of Finance and Resource Kevin Hoang announced that they want all of council to be their valentines this year. They distributed Sweetheart candies and even saved a box for me. How sweet. This was followed by a very serious discussion about whether the External Affairs office should be given funding for a new scanner, since they are responsible for scanning voter registration forms. The funding was eventually allocated. Muir Senator Elizabeth Garcia opened a discussion regarding the placement of a question about what students want to see happen to CLICS on the special election ballot. After some editing, a question was deemed worthy of a student vote. Look for it on this year’s special election ballot.

Program to Begin at Haas School at UC Berkeley in May ▶ fellowship, from page 1 learning about different areas within business. Instructors will consist of UC business school faculty. UCSD Rady School of Management Dean Robert S. Sullivan said that students will learn networking skills as they are introduced to chief executive officers and chief financial officers from local businesses. The participating students will also be guaranteed internships in management environments. “The program will allow the [UC system] to build relationships and a long-term rapport with the faculty at the universities that are recommending the students,” Sullivan said. “Even when they go back we are hoping there will be mentorstudent relationship, and that they will continue to communicate beyond

the two-week program.” Executive Director of the undergraduate program at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business Erica Walker said that deans from the six business schools sent letters to partnering historically black colleges and asked that they begin to identify students for the program. Students will be selected based on their academic performance during their first year of college. According to the SIEML website, students must have at least a 3.0 GPA, demonstrate leadership skills and display an interest in management positions in the fields of business, engineering, healthcare, government or the non-profit sector. Applicants must also receive recommendations from faculty at their colleges and universities. “We are limiting the pilot program

to 25 students mainly for budgetary reasons,” Walker said. “After the first summer we will learn some things and at that point we will look at expanding the program to larger numbers as well as other underrepresented groups such as Hispanics.” Prospective students must turn in applications by March 30 and will be notified by April 16 if they are selected. The 2012 program will run from Sunday, May 20 through Saturday, June 2. SIEML will last for two consecutive summers with the initial session taking place at UC Berkeley. For the second summer, the students will be invited to a different UC campus not yet identified for another two weeks. Readers can contact Javier Armstrong at jtarmstr@ucsd.edu

Student Feedback Collected Annually to Improve Campus Life ▶ satisfaction, from page 1

Additionally, E-Communications has observed through past surveys that Apple products make up 57 percent of network-enabled devices used by students on campus. They are now putting more resources toward Apple products and interfaces. Student feedback is also what

drove Student Business Services to create an e-check payment option. Now, 80 percent of students pay UCSD through e-check. Students also asked the bookstore to expand their non-book products, such as dorm supplies, toiletries and gifts. Bookstore shoppers can see that these products are now available and the selection changes every year depending on student needs.

Both undergraduate and graduate students may be invited to take the survey. “Ideally, at least 40 to 50 percent of the people we invite would take the survey,” Field said. This year’s survey will open on Feb. 15 and run through March 14. Readers can contact Natalie Covate at ncovate@ucsd.edu.

Scientists Study Effect of Hunter-Gatherers’ Mutual Friends ▶ SCI/TECH, from page 1

draw out initial social ties among the participants. Scientists also studied friend connectivity between other traits, such as height, strength, food preference, and the transitivity of friendship, which is whether or not people had mutual friends.

When the researchers mapped the data by examining the camp ties and the transfer of straws, they discovered how sharers were often friends with other sharers while non-sharers were friends with other non-sharers, with little to no intermingling in between. “We turned the data over lots of different ways,” Fowler said. “We

looked at over a dozen measures that social network analysts use to compare networks and pretty much, the Hadza are just like us.” Fowler could not be reached for comment as of press time. Readers can contact Michael Chang at mechang@ucsd.edu.

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OPINION The Fight for Equal Women’s Health Rights is Far From Over

EDITORIALS

usan G. Komen’s decision on Feb. 3 to reinstate funding to Planned Parenthood has been trumpeted as a clear victory for pro-choice advocates. The breast cancer awareness organization pulled

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Worst-Case Scenario The San Diego Unified School District’s fatalistic plan to resolve its budget crisis ignores one key component — the union’s stronghold on district funding.

ome worst-case scenarios are too terrible to stomach. And such is the case for San Diego Unified School District — faced with overwhelming state budget cuts, a stalwart teachers’ union and a terrifying lack of funds, the district superintendent issued a worst-case draft budget that includes, among others, a 1,200 across-the-board staff layoff. The draft budget is full of unpleasant realities. If the district sees a (likely) $122-million cut from state funding for the 2012-13 school year, then the following will happen under the new budget: 1,169 staff members laid off, including 781 teachers, dramatically increased class sizes that push the maximum allowed by the state and decreased funding to the arts, school nurses and security. This is based, of course, on the worst-case scenario that assumes that Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget ultimatum

will fall through — a risky gamble that gives voters the choice of passing a tax raise on high-earning individuals in November or see the state funding ax fall on school funding. It also assumes, more pessimistically, that the teachers’ union and other teaching unions in the area demand their scheduled 7-percent raise in 2012-13 and a generous health care package. This is not to say, of course, that teachers do not deserve these funds. But when 90 percent of the district’s general fund budget is consumed by employee compensation and payment, and when the teachers’ union looks unlikely to concede even a small portion of their additional benefits, it is clear that hardnosed negotiating has shifted towards something akin to selfishness. District official predictions are even more significant — if the See Layoffs, page 5

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When College Rankings Become a Game, Cheating is Inevitable

hen a Claremont McKenna College admissions officer admitted to inflating SAT scores to improve rankings, the world of higher ed received the much-needed reminder that university is a business — dedicated to selling the school to yearning high school seniors and big-time academics alike. As a result of the Jan. 30 announcement, education experts have been weighing in on the internal pressure admissions officers face, but the greater focus should be on the role of the rankings themselves, the indicators used and the problem with a system that can, and is, easily manipulated. Amid the discussion, “pressure” is not a satisfying justification for falsifying information, as doing so creates both a slippery slope and a double standard. Professors rarely give free passes to students who plagiarize or cheat on exams due to academic pressure, and senior officials should be held to at least this standard. That said, it’s easy to see where the temptation lies. According to UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute, almost two-thirds of students cite “academic reputation” as the most important factor when selecting a school; in other words, they

rely heavily on rankings, and especially the most hallowed ranking of them all: U.S. News & World Report. While there are those rare high school seniors who will conduct an in-depth study of various university options, most will glance at the ratings and, based on these, apply to some target, safety and reach schools, then call it a day. Yet according to the San Francisco Chronicle, a 2010 rankings survey revealed that more than 80 percent of college admissions officers felt that U.S. News offered misleading conclusions, even as 70 percent came from schools that happily splashed their ranking across promotional materials. The conclusions are worse after looking at the methodology of the U.S. News rankings. By far the most important factor, accounting for 22.5 percent of final rankings, is “reputation” as determined by the opinions of those at similar schools. And “selectivity” — aka SAT scores and acceptance rate, which are gathered via the honor system — accounts for 15 percent of the ranking, nearly twice that of “graduation rate.” When the system that influences the decision of thousands nationwide is based on things as intangible as “opinion,” or self-reported factors like SAT scores,

it’s no surprise that everyone starts fudging the facts. Although CMC is the most recent and most “prestigious” school to have been caught with these shenanigans, other universities are simply more blatant with their attempts to game the system. For example, Baylor University in Texas pays accepted students to retake the SAT so it can report higher scores. More commonly, schools often target outreach to students who have no chance of being accepted, simply so the acceptance rate goes down and the prestige goes up. Even we’ve been trying to rebrand for a while, whether it’s been morphing the name of the school from UCSD to UC San Diego, designing new flyers with pictures of happy students with surfboards or the move to Division I sports that’s currently the talk of the town. Rankings are here to stay; they do have value and are simply too convenient in terms of reducing information cost to be tossed aside completely. But Claremont McKenna, Baylor and other universities that see them as a easily manipulated system show that their methodology should be reevaluated — and maybe these schools’ values too.

$650,000 of funding from 16 Planned Parenthood affiliates 72 hours prior, under claims that they don’t fund institutions under governmental scrutiny. It was only after immense public pressure from politicians, nonprofits and ordinary people through social media sites that they decided to reverse their decision. It’s a big win, to be sure, but for pro-choice advocates, the fight is hardly over. This is not the first time that Susan G. Komen has come under pressure from anti-abortion groups to pull its funding from Planned Parenthood. Many groups cite the fact that Planned Parenthood-sponsored mammograms and biopsies are not provided in-house, but are actually referrals. Others, better at getting to the point, cite their refusal to work with an organization that provides abortions. Particularly staunch churches and religious schools have gone as far as to boycott Komensponsored breast cancer awareness walks and runs for their continued funding of Planned Parenthood. Faced with this continued backlash, a few staffers within Komen, according to the Los Angeles Times, began meeting in private to discuss how to deal with the Planned Parenthood backlash. In the end, they decided to continue funding to avoid any controversy. This very astute decision clearly did not impact Susan G. Komen’s senior vice president of public policy, Karen Handel, a staunch prolifer. She had formerly run as the Republican nominee for governor in 2010, ironically losing because she was not considered pro-life enough. Handel, along with a number of anti-abortion supporters at Susan G. Komen, saw the government’s investigation of Planned Parenthood in September as a golden opportunity. The investigation in question, started by Rep. Cliff Sterns (R-Fla.), operated under the belief that Planned Parenthood illegally uses public funds to pay for abortions. Despite the fact that Komen Chief Executive Nancy Brinker claimed that the decision to pull Planned Parenthood funding had unanimous support in the Susan G. Komen foundation, the rush of Komen resignations following the announcement speaks otherwise. This controversy can be a learning experience for Susan G. Komen. A women’s health organization needs to know exactly where it stands when it comes to the controversial topic of abortion rights. When half of Komen is continuing to pressure the organization to drop funding for Planned Parenthood and the other half is willing to quit over the same issue, this is clearly something that will come up again.

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IN Other News By Rebekah Hwang

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

D-I Move Damages Quality of Education

Severity of Cuts Depend on Union Compromises wisely, school districts across the state, San Diego Unified included, have opted out and chosen to look at reality. Now is not a time to be Pollyanna. Budget gimmicks November tax hikes pass and the unions agree to forgo and delaying solutions in the past have only served to their raises and take cuts to their health care packages, move the problem to the next year, and the next year nearly all the planned layoffs can be avoided. Even if on. The state’s annual revenue has dropped the tax hikes aren’t passed, deeper cuts to If tax hikes aren’t $17 billion since 2007, and it is clear that generous compensation packages can help more specifically K-12 education, avoid this catastrophe. After all, allowing passed, deeper education, will see the brunt of it. In the next two nearly 1,200 layoffs — to protect the raises of those teachers who avoid pink slips next year cuts to generous years, San Diego Unified will be operating under a $150-billion deficit, two-thirds of — is a plan that lacks altruism. compensation which can be attributed to the lack of union The leader of the teachers’ union, the San negotiations. But enough is enough. Diego Education Association, has dismissed packages can The school district is up against a wall, the school district’s worst-case scenario help avoid this and no matter what, will have to choose worries with a claim that it is too “cynical,” catasrophe. which tough cuts to make for the 2012-13 that the district has been faced with school year. Just how tough these cuts will be overwhelming budget cuts in the past and will depend on whether the teachers’ union has persevered. Gov. Jerry Brown has urged will finally recognize the direness of the situation and school districts to pass optimistic budgets, based on his projected tax increase and a huge dose of confidence. But make concessions.

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Dear Editor, You might reasonably ask why I care about a referendum over a fee I won’t have to pay. On a personal level the referendum doesn’t affect me one bit. However, as a citizen, I take great pride in University of California and its campuses — the greatest system of public education the world has seen — and I fret when I see that greatness threatened. There are two problems with a move towards NCAA Division I: The first is that it’s fiscally irresponsible and the second is that it will damage the educational quality of UCSD, a campus which has so far been free of the negative influence of increasingly professionalized sports on college campuses. We like to blame the investment bankers and hedge fund managers for the latest economic crisis. However, the cause of the housing bubble and bust was people paying for luxuries they could not afford; the financial industry just decided to take quick profits by looking the other way. We have all paid for this carelessness with lost jobs, lost homes and recession. Division-I athletics is exactly one of those luxuries we cannot afford right now. Education is the engine behind the American dream and our economy. It ought to be getting more affordable every year, not less. We’ve all seen the dramatic fee increases at UC over the last years and there’s likely more to come. Some of you may be willing to pay an extra $495 a year. But in these trying financial times, I don’t think it’s right to saddle future students with another burdensome

fee, especially since fees have a way of increasing over time. More costly than the fee itself is the negative impact Division-I athletics will have on the quality of a UCSD education. I like attending sporting events as much as many of you. But UCSD is an educational institution, not a training program for professional athletes. Our priority must be educational quality. Our job prospects depend upon employers recognizing that a UCSD diploma means we’ve received a rigorous education. One need only look at the various academic scandals involving athletics that are constantly reported to realize the dangers. Some of these scandals have been close to home: Stanford’s athletic department recently circulated a list of suggested easy courses to student athletes and athletes at Berkeley were found to have received fraudulent grades for courses they hadn’t even attended in some cases. Mind you, many student athletes are extremely capable students. However, I think it’s clear that Division-I athletics, and the money involved, has been a massive source of corrupting influence in higher education. At UCSD we know better than to jump on a bandwagon just because everyone else has. —Jonathan J. Sapan Graduate Student, Center for Magnetic Recording Research ▶ The Guardian welcomes letters from its readers. All letters must be addressed, and written, to the editor of the Guardian. Letters are limited to 500 words, and all letters must include the writer’s name, college and year (undergraduates), department (graduate students or professors) or city of residence (local residents). A maximum of three signatories per letter is permitted. The Guardian Editorial Board reserves the right to edit for length, accuracy, clarity and civility. The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject letters for publication. Due to the volume of mail we receive, we do not confirm receipt or publication of a letter.

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Disney Can’t Compete With Ghibli Classics

nime frightens me. Maybe it’s the generally dark subject matter or the foreign cultural tropes that are still alien to me, but the animation style has never failed to strike

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an unsettling chord. Yet, for as much as it has left me slightly perturbed, anime has always been within reach for me — particularly that of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli. Growing up with Buddhist parents meant, among other things, countless childhood hours spent dawdling in activity rooms stocked with rows of Japanese kids movies — strange and colorful pop-cultural artifacts that, for a white suburban kid whose best friend was a Mormon named Lance, may as well have come from another planet. But I watched them — always in awe, sometimes in curious fear — and Miyazaki’s classics made their way into a heavy rotation. There was the sky-bound fantasy epic “Laputa” and the slightly more adult and considerably more violent “Princess Mononoke,” but it was Studio Ghibli’s coming-of-age masterpiece “Spirited Away” that had me floored — though it took me a decade to understand why. It’s difficult to classify “Spirited Away” (or anything Ghibli, for that matter) as a “cult” film. When it was released back in 2001, it was the highest grossing movie in the history of Japanese cinema. However, at least for the Disney-reared American, it does follow much of the cult criteria: It’s gorgeous, foreign, strange and wildly un-mainstream. And for a film primarily about childhood, presumably for children, it is completely devoid of rehashed Disney archetypes (no ultra-delicate females matched to puffy-lipped male counterparts, no evil-for-sake-of-evil villains, no rococo wedding reception finale). It’d be pointless to try and describe every nuance of the film here: the complex characters, the perfect score, the expertly crafted fables-within-afable, the breathtaking hand-drawn artwork. (I’ll go ahead and blame my recent concentration troubles on a hardcover book of stills from the film that a friend gifted me for my birthday.) But the most salient of “Spirited Away”’s qualities is the fact that it isn’t simply a film about the adolescent experience — it is the experience. As Chihiro arrives at her new home — after leaving her old friends and school behind — she stumbles into a massive nightmare world filled with dangerous monsters and daunting responsibilities. She has her name literally taken from her, leaving her to construct a new identity in this foreign place while clinging to the memory of her old one. In the meantime, she slowly begins to find that all of the seemingly hostile inhabitants of the ghostly bathhouse are just lonely, self-conscious or themselves without an identity. And that’s exactly what it’s like when you’re growing up. The world See beer page 7

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leaping out of the screen Producer Charlotte Huggins talks 3D bliss. By Ren Ebel • Hiatus Editor

or the casual movie-goer, filing into cramped theater seats and donning the dorky glasses that accompany any 3D movie might easily ooze “gimmick.” For Charlotte Huggins, it’s sacred ritual. The film producer and UCSD alum is one of the world’s most prolific producers of 3D films — from blockbusters like 2008’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth” to those nostalgic “4D experience” attractions at theme parks (remember Disneyland’s “Honey I Shrunk the Audience”?).

It’s a pretty remarkable achievement in such a specialized field, and it certainly wasn’t Huggins’ plan back in 1980. “It was a very unexpected but straightforward route,” Huggins said in an interview with the Guardian Wednesday. “I graduated a quarter early but I wanted to do the whole graduation ceremony, so I got a local job at World Research as an economic researcher. And they made movies that had to do with economic topics.” During this time, Huggins was approached by a USC Film School writer about possibly producing a short, highconcept docu-drama. But at that time she had aspirations for law school and international business. “He showed up at my door one day and we wrote a script for a little documentary called ‘Interview 15,’” Huggins said. “And it ended up winning all these

awards all over the world.” On the heels of this unprecedented success, law school began to sound a lot less attractive. Huggins moved to Los Angeles and began working her way up the ladder as a production assistant. Soon, she began writing for the hugely successful police drama series “Hunter” with writing partner and now-husband Tom Huggins, up until the Writers Guild strike of 1988. “It’s funny; [Tom] had an undergraduate degree in film and I had an undergraduate degree in political science, and during the strike he went back to UCLA to get a Ph.D. in biology while I got a job at an FX company,” Huggins said. At Boss Films, Huggins had her first exposure to early 3D, working on such projects as Sony’s “Wings of Courage” See 3D page 7

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ver the last 15 years, French synth duo Air has carved an increasingly limited niche, crafting restrained, downtempo pop songs more evocative of sleek interior design than anything else. This arc climaxed with Air’s two most recent albums, Pocket Symphony and Love 2, which were stylish to the point of total boredom.

On Le Voyage Dans la Lune, designed as a soundtrack to Georges Méliès’ 1902 silent film of the same title, Air attempts to combat this creative stagnation, trading their normally inoffensive synthesizer textures for tom-heavy live drums, unwieldy synth experiments and even the occasional distorted guitar. On some tracks this approach works well, like the brash, driving “Sonic Armada” or album highlight “Seven Stars,” which pairs aggressive motorik rhythms with smooth piano chords and a characteristically breathy vocal by Beach House’s Victoria Legrand. Nonetheless, Voyage contains too much filler to really operate as a cohesive album. Tracks like the aimless “Décollage” and the drowsy

Brian Eno imitation “Lava,” though pretty, aren’t interesting enough to sustain the listener’s attention, while the cutesy “Who Am I Now,” the album’s only other non-instrumental song, fails to meet the high standard set by “Seven Stars.” But even though Le Voyage Dans la Lune is flawed (perhaps a short EP would have been better suited to the material), it may mark the beginning of a new period in Air’s history, one in which the group is willing to stray from its normally tidy approach to music making. This development, though not completely fulfilled on Le Voyage, is an exciting one indeed. — Andrew Whitworth Associate Hiatus Editor

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The Loft / feb. 12, 8:30 P.M. / $7 Austin, Texas’ White Denim combines jangly pop, scuzzy garage rock and a keen ear for the more sonically adventurous aspects of classic rock, creating a sound that’s both evocative and unique. What’s more, the band’s notoriously tight live performers possess the kind of easy improvisatory energy that characterizes bands like Phish and Widespread Panic. The group will perform at UCSD’s Loft this Sunday. (AW)

t’s a story you’ve read on blogs time and time again: Indie-pop trio Tennis was formed by husband and wife Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore, who used a sailing trip up the Atlantic as inspiration for their debut Cape Dory. Unsurprisingly, the band is especially sick of hearing this cutesy

background, which is why they make a point to distance themselves from all things nautical on follow-up Young & Old. In case it wasn’t obvious enough: Moore goes so far to croon “I took a train to/ I took a train to get you” in the opening lines. See, they’re traveling via locomotive now — not sailboat. That’s not the only change found on Tennis’ second effort. With the Black Keys’ Patrick Carney on board as producer and drummer James Barone fully integrated in the lineup, the band is bolder than ever. Take first single “Origins”: While certainly no wall of sound, the track sees the band trading Dory’s jangly beach-pop for richer girl-group vibes, with crisp backup vocals and (oddly

enough) a bluesy guitar solo thrown into the standard indie-pop mix. “Petition,” in particular, sounds exactly like a Black Keys song, only with Moore’s Diana Ross-like vocals instead of the expected soulful growl. Even the lyrics take a turn for the dark: “High Road” culminates in Moore belting, “Paradise is all around, but happiness is never found” — glum stuff for a band with a track called “Waterbird” in their discography. But despite this refreshing change of pace from the band, the sweetest moments are when Tennis surrenders to the melody and own their trademark whimsy. — Arielle Sallai Managing Editor

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The Casbah / Feb. 12, 9 P.M. / $18 Los Campesinos! is a hyperactive pop group from Cardiff, Wales. They will play at The Casbah this Sunday, and with at least seven musicians on stage at all times, the concert’s guaranteed to be an enjoyable (if sometimes overwhelming) experience. Experimental Portland rockers Parenthetical Girls open. (AW)

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f the 2000s’ endless supply of precious Brit-rockers, it comes as no surprise that Field Music managed to maintain relevancy in the new decade, with their sound sustaining a certain maturity that draws confidently from pop icons of the past. And Plumb, the fourth

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is huge and terrifying and filled with beauty. You’re scared to tears of what might be lurking in the backyard, but the urge to find out is too powerful to resist. Before we learned to so sternly dismiss it, we embraced the unknown, if only out of pure necessity. And so we were constantly in this state of violent transition — be it a new school, new friends, a new haircut, a new hobby. It was bizarre and it was enthralling. Sadly, now that Studio Ghibli is under the inevitable Disney blanket, the Miyazaki stamp has become less and less distinctive. Recents such as “The Cat Returns” — though not wholly without the occasional visual stunner — have settled for more generic plots and

lazy, two-dimensional characters. The new trailer for this year’s installment, the upcoming “Secret World of Arrietty” based on “The Borrowers,” doesn’t offer much hope for a return to the days of shape-shifting raccoons, suave man-pig fighter pilots and the wonderfully strange spirits who only come out at night. But we still have the classics. What’s remarkable about a film like “Spirited Away” is how it manages to offer something new with each viewing. When I was 10, the film was a psychedelic parade of spellbinding worlds and characters. In another 10 years, who knows? For now, it’s a fleeting glimpse of how it felt to be a kid completely in awe of the world, and that’s magic worth preserving.

release from David and Peter Brewis, may be the duo’s most inspired work to date. Instantly recognizable here is the ’70s power-pop influence, occasionally owing the likes of Paul McCartney and Electric Light Orchestra a royalty check or two. “Start the Day Off ”’s robust major-chord melodies are accompanied by a wistful string and woodwind backdrop, while the oversized chorus on “Sorry Again, Mate” wouldn’t feel out of place on a Badfinger record. The vocal lines on “A Prelude to Pilgrim Street” even manage to echo David Gilmour’s accented chants from Dark Side of the Moon — a testament, also, to the album’s immaculate production.

But there are a handful of throwaways that seem half-heartedly attached merely for their technical elegance (see dragging instrumentals “Ce Soir” and “So Long Then”). Fittingly, Field Music is most dynamic at their most conventional. The confident guitar grit of throbbing rockers “Just Like Everyone Else” and “(I Keep Thinking) About a New Thing” solidly anchors the album. Plumb’s singular gem lies in the straightforward groove of “A New Town,” where proggy guitar shuffle builds pleasant steam from start to finish. — Taylor Hogshead Staff Writer

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and Disney’s “Honey I Shrunk the Audience.” “I was hooked,” Huggins said. “I watched the way people reacted to it, and it was so immersive. I dreamt, then, that it would be more than a wave. It would be a tidal wave.” With practically every animated movie now being released in digital 3D, and the current second coming of 3D re-releases, from the Disney classics to “Star Wars: Episode I,” clearly Huggins’ dreams have been surpassed. Not to mention, she’s found the perfect job. “The core of producing is setting up the best circumstances possible to make the best movie possible,” Huggins said. “I don’t do the job of the director, or the writer, or the cinematographer, but I get to find all those people, bring them all together and give them the most freedom and the most creative experience possible. And that’s incredibly satisfying.” But what truly makes Huggins the perfect candidate for mass 3D production is the simple fact that she’s just 3D’s biggest fan — a mark that becomes apparent listening to her gush about her latest project, “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island,” due out this Friday. “This weekend I will probably see ‘Journey’ — I hate to say it — six or seven times. I’ll see it in digital 3D, I’ll

certainly see it in iMAX 3D, I’ll see it in 2D. I love watching people watch the movie.” Speculations about the near future of 3D are met with even more excitement. “The next big thing, I believe, is glasses-free 3D,” Huggins said. “The technology is there. The minute you can sit in your house and watch 3D without the glasses is the minute it really, truly becomes ubiquitous.” In Huggins’ near future: a 3D collaborative film with Metallica — an as-of-yet under-wraps project that will combine a concert performance, narrative and “will star the five members of the band: James, Lars, Kirk, Robert and the fans.” That’s one more of the countless surprises in the producer’s wildly varied career. (Huggins can’t help but chuckle at the notion of working with one of thrash metal’s most popular bands, though she adds, “they’re amazing, amazing people to work with.”) But as of now, Huggins is simply thankful that she stuck with her instincts. “I worked hard at UCSD,” Huggins said. “I took French and Italian and a lot of business classes. I knew what I wanted to do and then, whammo, I started doing something totally different. At the end of the day, you gotta keep your eyes open.”

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UCSD Baseball Splits Western Oregon Series Triton Small Ball ▶ BASEBALL, from page 12 junior outfielder Danny Susdorf, who grounded out his first time at-bat but doubled as the Tritons batted around. Seigel had the first hit of the inning and Tuck singled to left field to bring in Rahn, who was hit by a pitch to get on base. The Tritons rallied again in the fourth, led by freshman Ryan O’Malley doubling to right center. UCSD scored four in the inning, and the Western Oregon one-run response in the fifth and ninth innings was not enough to bring the team back.

Triton starter Greg Selarz went six innings, giving up two runs on eight hits and two errors. Tony York relieved for just one inning, giving up one hit and no runs as the game was called after only seven innings. The Tritons took the lead 1–0 in the bottom of the second inning after LaFace doubled to left center and was subsequently batted in by a Garret Tuck sacrifice fly to the right field. The Triton offense only had three hits to Oregon’s eight hits.

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The Wolves squeaked by UCSD in the second half of Saturday’s doubleheader as both teams’ offenses fell flat.

The Wolves outlasted the Tritons to take the series in a hard-fought finale. Western Oregon jumped UCSD in the

first inning, taking three runs as Wolf centerfielder A.J. Royal tripled and was brought home by a Miller single down the right field line. The inning was capped off with a double down the left field line to make the score 3–0 as the Tritons came to bat. The Tritons struggled to generate offense, but the team played smart small ball to pick up one run in the fifth, two runs in the sixth and one in the ninth. Battling from behind the whole game, the Tritons struggled to find peace with a pitcher, going through five in the game, four of whom only pitched for an inning before being pulled. The Tritons had the last at-bat, but failed to capitalize as Spencer Frazier struck out and Susdorf grounded out to the pitcher to end the series. Readers can contact Nick Howe at nshowe@ucsd. edu

No. 1 UCSD Softball Sweeps Home Opener ▶ SOFTBALL, from page 12 relieved by freshman pitcher Kayla Hensel, who ended the game, with the Tritons securing the lead 8–5.

game 2 Feb. 3 In the second game of the series, Gaito was replaced on the mound by junior Jennifer Manuel and freshman Michelle Escamilla. Escamilla recorded her first win as a Triton as the Tritons went down early. In the second inning, Northwest Nazarene’s Kristin Resfland hit Manuel for a double, putting the Crusaders up 1–0. Northwest Nazarene increased its lead in the third inning after loading the bases. The Tritons recorded their first run of the game at the bottom of the third. Portugal, McQuaid and Romero found their way on base and Granath popped out to center

field, advancing McQuaid home to score. The Crusaders’ Chelsea Anderson walked the Tritons’ next two batters to tie the score at 2–2. Escamilla relieved Manuel at the top of the fourth and kept the Crusaders scoreless for the rest of the game. UCSD broke the draw in the sixth inning. Down two outs after their first two at-bats, the Tritons loaded the bases. With senior Annie Wethe on third, pinch running for senior Nicole Spangler, Romero doubled to left-center for three RBI.

game 3 Feb. 4 The third match of the series saw both starting pitchers face off against each other. Gaito seemed back in her usual form, recording seven strikeouts while allowing just three hits in five innings. The Tritons scored in their first at-bat,

loading the bases and recording two unearned runs off of two wild pitches. In the fourth inning, UCSD recorded just two hits but finished with five runs, capitalizing on two untimely Crusader errors. Up 7–0, the Tritons put the game out of reach as Gaito retired the next three batters in order.

game 4 Feb. 4 In the last match of the series, the Tritons converted eight of their 10 hits to sweep the Crusaders. Swanberg finished with three hits and two RBI, while Romero recorded two hits and three RBI. Hensel went the distance for the Tritons, allowing just one hit and recording her first win as a Triton. UCSD went up early, but put the game out of reach in the fifth inning, ending with five runs on four hits. Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ucsd.edu

▶ UDA, from page 12 make the cut for runs per game. The only area for which UCSD was nationally ranked was its earned run average — almost completely attributable to Gaito’s 0.75 ERA. Obviously, with a pitcher as good as the junior, the Tritons would have always been in contention. And after last season, I just left it to that. Even Gerckens herself couldn’t explain it, spluttering out something about magic and team chemistry and timing. But after some probing I started to think otherwise. It’s no secret that the Tritons aren’t below playing small ball. Whenever graduated senior Katrin Gabriel got up to bat, if the opposing third baseman didn’t sneak in towards home, she would most certainly find a bunt and make her way round the bases. At the time it just seemed like insurance. “Speed doesn’t have slumps,” Gerckens said in defense of small ball. But Gerckens seems to think that speed is good for more than just squeezing out a couple extra runs. “If we can get the defense thinking about the runner on base, that means that the catcher will be thinking about them stealing, which means that some of her emphasis is going to be taken away from the pitch call,” Gerckens said. “And the pitcher may be worried about people taking off. Our goal is to confuse them and make them think about us. And when you can force errors, it really can bring a team down.” Those are a few major assumptions. But Gerckens might have the secret: errors. In the Tritons’ 2011 national championship season, UCSD’s opponents collectively committed 82 errors in 58 games, for 1.41 errors committed per game. Looking at the CCAA statistics for 2011, no team in the conference comes close to the 1.41 error mark other than Sonoma State, whose 62 errors in 60 games puts them at 1.29 errors per game. The trend seems to have continued into the college world series, where three of the Tritons’ four opponents committed errors well above their season averages. In their third match, Minnesota State Mankato’s one error — just higher than their 0.84 average — proved crucial towards the Tritons’ 4–2 win. More telling is first-round matchup C.W. Post’s seven errors, well above its 1.28 average. The Tritons capitalized to take the game 7–0. Numbers don’t lie, but they can also make nothing seem like something — and I will be interested to see if Gerckens’ theory holds up later into 2012.

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game 1 Feb. 3 Junior designated hitter Richard Seigel went two for three with an RBI to lead the Triton offense as it fumbled to find momentum in its loss on Friday. Senior pitcher Jeff Raugh kept the Tritons in the game, only giving up two hits and one run on one error. But when he was pulled after six innings, the Tritons went through five pitchers who gave up seven hits and seven runs in three innings. The Tritons took the lead 1–0 in the bottom of the fourth with one out. Sophomore Justin Rahn reached first on a fielding error.

UCSD Softball’s Error-Free Strategy After 20 years at UCSD, softball head coach Patti Gerckens may be onto something. In 2011, after missing out on the conference championships, UCSD went undefeated at the college world series, winning the championship game by a remarkable (if not uncanny) seven-run margin. In our coverage of the Tritons’ championship run, I threw around a couple

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ideas with the sports staff as to how a team ranked 15 spots under the national favorites could so dominate the series. Not to say, we were incredulous. But I don’t think many people would have put odds on a team that was ranked 15 spots under No. 1 AlabamaHuntsville — a school with a long-standing history of strong softball squads. You could maybe attribute one win to luck, the building of momentum, or the 5’4” Camille Gaito catching a team by surprise. Still, it doesn’t add up. UCSD wasn’t even in the top 50 teams for batting average, nor did it See uda, page 11

Sophomore centerfielder Nick LaFace was then hit by a pitch to move Rahn to second, from where he was hit in by Seigel for the Triton’s only run of the night. In the top of the seventh the Wolves scored two runs off two hits and a Triton error. They sealed the game with a five-run rally.

game 2 Feb. 4 Triton starter Ryan Goodbrand pitched a good six and one-third innings, giving up eight hits and three runs. The Tritons used a seven-run first inning to take the first half of Saturday’s doubleheader. The first inning began and ended with See baseball, page 11

By Rachel Uda Sports Editor

game 1 Feb. 3 In their season opener, the No. 1 Tritons got an early lead against the Crusaders. In the bottom of the first inning, with junior Diane Imoto on second and sophomore Tess Granath on first, sophomore catcher Charly Swanberg hit a solid line drive down the left field line to bat Imoto into home. Northwest Nazarene had no response in its next at-bat, but the Tritons tacked on two more in the bottom of the second inning off of consecutive in-field errors. The score remained 2–0 until the fourth inning when the Crusaders hit senior pitcher

Camile Gaito for five runs. With two men on base, pitcher Cara Duckworth singled for one RBI. Gaito managed to strike out the next batter, but walked the next man up to tie the score. Designated hitter Brianna Kinghorn struck a double to put the Crusaders up 4–2. Northwest Nazarene picked up one last run to end the inning. Down 5–2, the Tritons rallied in the fifth inning. Both freshman second baseman Monique Portugal and junior Emily McQuaid singled to get on base. Portugal advanced home off consecutive infield errors, while McQuaid was brought home by consecutive sacrifice bunts. With two outs, designated hitter Jennifer Manuel doubled to center field for two RBI. Gaito finished out the sixth inning and was See softball, page 11

UCSD Fall to 0-3 Against Point Loma Tritons Lose 7-2 in Home Opener By Rachel Uda Sports Editor The No. 17 UCSD Women’s Tennis team has yet to find a win in the 2012 season. In the Tritons’ home opener against No. 11 Point Loma University last Monday, Feb. 6, UCSD fell 7–2. UCSD’s top doubles team — Triton juniors Jacquelyn Davis and Melissa Breisacher — dropped to Point Loma’s Maika Adair and Sharon Reibstein. Davis and Breisacher looked poised from the start. Breisacher’s strong serve overwhelmed Adair and Reibstein from the start, but the Point Loma pair was clearly better down the stretch. The two counter-punchers slowly took the lead in both sets, winning the match 8–6. UCSD’s second doubles team of Melinda Chu and Tara Vanooteghem took a disappointing 8–2 loss against Point Loma’s Jessica Kwan and Kiersten Steinhauer, though UCSD’s third pair of Katie Mulloy and Laura Wilke picked up an 8–4 win against the Sea Lions’ Wileen Chiu and Samantaha Mohr. Down two games to one, the Tritons were unable to bounce back in the singles component of the competition. The No. 1 singles match featured UCSD’s Breisacher and the Sea Lions’ Adair. The match was close, but again, Adair wore down Breisacher, ultimately taking a 7–5, 7–6 win. UCSD fell in the rest of their singles matches, with the exception of Davis’ contest with Steinhauer. The Houston native took the competition in three sets, winning the first 7–5 and dropping 3–6 before taking the last match 6–3. “Even though we lost, I am encouraged

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with the team’s improvement, especially in singles,” UCSD head coach Liz LaPlante said. “We have some work to do in doubles and after we settle on which teams work the best, we will improve with each match.” The 7–2 loss drops the Tritons to 0–3 this season. UCSD will compete next in

the Arizona Invitational on Feb. 10 to Feb. 12, where the Tritons will look for a win against Division-II opposition — Dominican College, Grand Canyon University and the Academy of Art. Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ucsd.edu