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SENATOR PROPOSES CAP ON CSU Chancellor NONRESIDENT STUDENTS Announces SEN. MICHAEL J. RUBIO’S PLAN WOULD IMPLEMENT A 10 PERCENT CAP ON OUT-OFSTATE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS. BY NICOLE CHAN • ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
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would establish a 10 percent cap on undergraduate enrollment of out-ofstate and international students for Fall 2013. This year, the UC system’s undergraduate enrollment totaled 181,028, with 11,600 out-of-state and 16,134 international students, or 6.4 percent and 8.9 percent, respectively. “SCA 22 ensures that California students get a fair shot at attending our University of California system
— and not be turned away simply because a wealthy student from the East Coast or abroad shows up with checkbook in hand,” Rubio said in a May 16 press release. The measure has already drawn criticism from UC representatives. In a May 24 message from UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, he states the importance of out of state and international students to the
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
California senator proposes to cap out-of-state and international student enrollment at all ten UC campuses in a measure designed to give California students a “fair shot” at attending public state universities. Sen. Michael J. Rubio (D-Shafter) presented the Senate Constitutional Amendment 22 on May 16. The measure, if passed into legislation,
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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS educational experience of California students and to the campus’ revenue stream. Out-of-state and international students composed 18 percent of the 25,885 undergraduate students enrolled at UC Berkeley this year. Specifically, 2,374 non-California students and 2,423 international students were admitted. See RESIDENTS, page 3
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Left and Bottom Right: Students perform at the open-mic-style “You at the Loft” event on Tuesday, May 29. Top Right: Attendees at the Gaia Music Festival rifle through previouslym-owned clothing in the Old Student Center on Thursday, May 24.
Resignation Charles Reed, who has held his post since 1998, announced his retirement last week. BY ZEV HURWITZ Associate News Editor Charles Reed, Chancellor of the California State University System, announced his retirement last week pending the appointment of a replacement. Reed, who has led the Cal State system since 1998, announced his departure in a May 24 email sent to CSU faculty and staff. “It has been an incredible honor to serve as chancellor of the California State University during such a dynamic period in the university’s history,” he wrote. “Over the C HARLES R EED past decade and a half, the CSU has emerged as a national leader in providing access and support to students from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds.” Over the course of Reed’s tenure, student enrollment increased by almost 25 percent. Additionally, Reed presided over the establishment of the 23rd CSU campus at Channel Islands. Reed received several degrees from The George Washington University including an Ed.D. in Teacher Education. Previously, Reed, 70, headed the State University of Florida system from 1985 until 1998. UC President Mark Yudof released a statement May 24 commending his CSU-counterpart for the work he accomplished during his tenure. “California owes a deep debt of gratitude to Chancellor Reed,” Yudof said in the statement. “For close to 15 years now, he has provided the vital California State University system with consistently dynamic and innovative leadership.” Reed presided over a challenging time for CSU. A series of fee increases and over $1 billion budget cuts have made it difficult to manage the system. When Reed took office in 1998, tuition on CSU campuses was around $1,500. An increase announced in November brought tuition to nearly $6,000. During the CSU Board of Trustees See CHANCELLOR, page 3
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Algae: Key Ingredient in Malaria Vaccine BY REBECCA HORWITZ Staff Writer UCSD scientists have created the first malaria vaccine out of algae, a development that could make treatment affordable and accessible for the two billion individuals worldwide affected by the disease. According to San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology Director Stephen Mayfield, graduate student Miller Tran pointed out the advantages of working with algae to create proteins that could be used to vaccinate malaria, such as the ability to fold complex proteins. Tran proposed using algae because it is less expensive to produce than the bacterias and cells used to create vaccines. It is a different way to create proteins that have not been used before. “We’ve always thought about making vaccines because they’re very expensive,” Mayfield said. “The main strength of algae is that you ILLUSTRATION BY SNIGHDHA PAUL /G UARDIAN can grow this stuff at very large scale SNIGHDHA PAUL /G UARDIAN
for really cheap because it’s essentially a crop.” More specifically, Mayfield’s lab works with algae and its use as an alternative resource. Mayfield said that the UCSD lab is one of the only facilities that has the tools to create a vaccine for malaria out of algae. Mayfield’s team injected the proteins they created from algae into mice. The mice then made antibodies, which blocked the production of the malaria parasite. The team then collaborated with UCSD School of Medicine professor Joseph Vinetz, who studies malaria. Vinetz has mosquitoes that carry malaria as part of his research, and he injected the proteins Mayfield’s lab created into the mosquitoes. The proteins successfully blocked the malaria parasite from developing inside the mosquito. According to Mayfield, bacteria are not good at folding complex proteins, which is crucial to the creation of vaccines, and they put sugar on their proteins. Many cells pro-
duce sugars for proteins as they fold into their proper shape because the sugars help them retain that shape. However, malaria proteins do not use sugar. Another one of the problems with bacteria is that the proteins in malaria are too complex for bacteria to fold. Previously, scientists were not able to create a vaccine for malaria because the cells and bacteria they normally use to create vaccines put sugar on their proteins. To create vaccine malaria, Mayfield’s team needed to find a way to fold complex proteins without putting sugar on them. “Our hypothesis was, algae can make complex malaria proteins, fold them correctly and not put sugars on them,” Mayfield said. “And quite often you come up with a wonderful hypothesis and you do it and you’re dead wrong. But sometimes you’re right and in this case we were right.” According to Mayfield, the next
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Berkeley Chancellor Says Cap Would Lead to Budget Shortfall Council Debates Human Rights Board; Appoints AVPs Things got contentious among the A.S. Senators this week as they discussed creating new positions and the A.S. Human Rights Board as well as the new senate appointments. Members of the Student Sustainability Collective and other UCSD activists came to the meeting DANIEL SONG voicing their d9song@ucsd.edu displeasure with the proposal to create a human rights board. Their concern is that the board was created without consulting relevant members of the UCSD activist community. “It’s really insulting to us as activists who have been working for years to think that there needs to be a human rights board in order to do the work that we’ve already done,” SSC member Cecilia Zhou said. Other members of the public commended the efforts of Campuswide Senator Brad Segal and the rest of council in their work trying to create a human rights board but advised them to try to rework their idea and take a different approach. Some senators objected to the idea stating that it infringes on the role of SSC. The resolution was referred back to Rules Committee. “Overall this is a really good idea, and we should really push for it,” Warren Senator Nhat-Dang Do said. All Campus Transfer Association gave an end-of-the-year report discussing the events that they held this year such as a Bowl-Off. “We definitely want to work with AS more because we like you guys. You give us money,” an ACTA representative said. Shashank Gupta was appointed
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Sixth College Senator with unanimous approval. VP Finance and Resources Bryan Cassella gave a report on the A.S. budget. He told the council that he would only be allocating up to Week Three, this way Council could use the entire summer to think about what they wanted to do with the rest of the academic year and make revisions to the budget in the fall. He also mentioned that he would be attempting to cut down on the over allocation system from over $150,000 to the traditional $100,000. “There’s a lot of things that have no caps right now and I think that’s the target. We need to start working on consolidating where the money is going,” Cassella said. AVP of Academics Sammy Chang, AVP of Student Orgs Pauline Nuth and AVP of Student Advocacy Bryce Farrington gave a presentation tracing past trends in the budget in order to understand how to manage the rising costs that Council is encountering. They believe that they need to create a new model as the current one is unsustainable, and provide quality events that demonstrate fiscal responsibility for the bigger picture. Council once again discussed consolidating the roles of Speaker and Advocate General into one position. The resolution to create the position eventually failed with a vote of 16-10-1. Many members were concerned that the position silences senators and representatives who were appointed and elected in order to give their constituents a voice.
▶ RESIDENTS from page 1 According to the message, UC Berkeley is hoping to increase outof-state and international students to 20 percent of the total undergraduate enrollment. Birgeneau said Rubio’s proposed 10 percent cap would lead to a $60 million shortfall that would have to be made up by increases in student tuition. UC Berkeley admitted 3,759 out of state and international students for Fall 2012, down from last year’s 4,403. Currently, tuition and fees for outof-state students at UCSD amounts to an annual $36,078 per student. Resident students at UCSD pay
$13,234 in tuition and fees for the 2011-12 academic year. According to “UC, UCSD outof-state admissions spike,” published April 17 in the U-T San Diego, the UC system admitted 18,846 nonresident students for Fall 2012, a 43 percent increase from 2011. At UCSD alone, 7,425 nonresidents were admitted for Fall 2012, representing a 75 percent increase from 2011. According to the UCSD Fall 2011 college portrait, out-of-state and international students represented 9.6 percent of total undergraduate enrollment. Of the 23,046 total undergraduate enrollment at UCSD
CSU Board of Trustees to Name Chancellor to Succeed Reed
Researchers Hope to Develop Oral AlgaeBased Vaccine for Malaria By July
▶ CHANCELLOR, from page 1
meeting at Reed’s office in November 2011, police arrested several demonstrators who had attempted to break in to disrupt the meeting. A largescale protest had taken place outside the office to protest the tuition fee increases. Board of Trustees Chair Bob Linscheid praised the chancellor for his tenacity during the recent hard times for CSU. “Charlie has persevered through the worst budget crisis in the history of California, and has had to deal with deep budget cuts to the CSU,” Linscheid said in a May 24 article published by the CSU Office of Public Reed’s replacement will be determined by the CSU Board of Trustees. Readers can contact Zev Hurwitz at zhurwitz@ucsd.edu.
this year, 697 students were from out of state and 1,511 students were from out of the country. “We’re thrilled UC San Diego continues to attract many highly qualified and dynamic students,” Assistant Vice Chancellor for Admissions and Enrollment Services Mae Brown said in the U-T San Diego on April 17. “Our students have made tremendous contributions to this campus, helping to establish UC San Diego as a world-renowned, academic powerhouse.” Readers can contact Nicole Chan at n3chan@ucsd.edu.
suffer from malaria because their tropical regions attract mosquitoes. “Well, it’s okay for me and famstep for the team is to create an oral version of the vaccine, since ily we got [the hepatitis vaccine],” the method of injecting a vaccine is Mayfield said. “But nobody in Bali can afford that — nobody in Asia very expensive. “There are two billion people can afford $230, that’s a third of who are susceptible to [malaria] their yearly income.” Mayfield said that and there’s no way his team is spending we’ll ever afford an this month injecting injectable vaccine,” the mice with their oral Mayfield said. vaccine. Mayfield said There are two They said that they that he went to Bali billion people who will know by July if the a few years ago, but vaccine is effective. he needed to first are susceptible to “If that works, get the hepatitis [malaria] and there’s instead of having a vaccine, consisting vaccine that costs hunof two injections at no way we’ll ever dreds of dollars you $115 each. afford an injectable have a vaccine that He also said that costs one or two penthe price of the vac- vaccine. nies,” Mayfield said. cine was too expensive for most resiSTEPHEN MAYFIELD dents of the country. DIRECTOR, SAN DIEGO Readers can contact Horwitz at Many Asian CENTER FOR ALGAE Rebecca rahorwit@ucsd.edu. countries, such as BIOTECHNOLOGY Pakistan and India,
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SAN DIEGO MAYORAL ENDORSEMENT
BOB FILNER
Democratic Party
W
hen the Guardian Editorial Board approached the 2012 San Diego mayoral race this week for our endorsement issue, we were forced to disseminate the ideas of four candidates with vastly different platforms. Ultimately,
we endorse Democrat Bob Filner because of his stances on the important issues, namely immigration reform and his opposition to taxheavy “cosmetic” projects like the Jacobs’ Plaza de Panama reformation See Filner, page 5
The Mayoral Candidates, Issue by Issue
There is No Quick Fix for Botched High School Ratings
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ast week, our office was abuzz with not-so-relevant bragging — we were boasting about our high school’s ratings on U.S. News and
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Margaret yau
Bob Filner (D) Proposition A (Ban Project Labor Agreements) Proposition B (Pension Initiative)
Bonnie dumanis (r)
nathan fletcher (I)
Carl demaio (R)
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legislators can serve from 14 to 12 — but more importantly, it would allow all of these years to be served in one house. This allows talented politicians to rise to different positions within the assembly instead of simply rushing to raise money and press the flesh so they can be elected to the senate before the term limit is up. The major contention of opponents is strangely semantic: They say that the proposition is misleading and seems to get rid of term limits, when it actually reduces the total time from 14 to 12 years. Given that this issue of
marketing is the main concern, and that the proposition has the backing of Common Cause and League of Women Votes, organized labor and the chamber of commerce, it’s a good bet that Prop. 28 improved current term limits and could relieve some of the problems plaguing Sacramento. While it may be counter-intuitive to reduce the total term limit, allowing politicians the option to focus on serving constituencies and areas — instead of focusing on the next fundraising campaign — can bring little but good.
axing cigarettes to raise money and reduce smoking rates — as Prop. 29 suggests — is a good idea in theory. Using the nearly $800 million in yearly revenue to create a potentially unaccountable grant board and out-of-state jobs is a terrible idea in practice. Prop. 29 would increase the state cigarette tax from 87 cents to $1, which is still lower than the $1.46 national average. The problem is not with the tax itself, especially as these penalties have been shown to reduce smoking rates, but with all that taxpayer money going toward an extremely limited purpose. The National Institute of Health already spends more research funding on
cancer than any other disease, and other smoking-related illness like heart and lung disease top their list of priorities as well. There’s little need to create a state commission to replicate the NIH’s work, and even less need to provide said commission with money that circumvents an existing proposition which guarantees a share of all state funding for education. This new state commission would not be able to funnel a single cent of that $800 million toward schools — but the ninemember commission could spend the money on rent, consultants and travel. Not to mention that the board in charge of spending this money includes top researchers, but nobody who will represent the public’s wishes
in how their taxpayer money in spent. There are no guidelines preventing the money from funding out-of-state research and jobs elsewhere, and the narrow focus ignores the fact that California’s major problems include lack of funding for education and public services. Former California Board of Education Executive Director Tom Bogetich contends that Prop. 29 will direct money away from our schools, and thus shortchange our greatest prioritize. He’s right: When the state government can barely afford to keep K-12 open, we need to prioritize education and have tax money go to schools, not to out-of-state research that could be covered by national organizations.
roposition A, or the “San Diego Ban on Project-Labor Agreements Initiative,” asks that the city be more transparent with construction projects, and increase contractor competition for these projects to drive down prices. The initiative achieves this by not requiring all contracts to be a Project Labor Agreement for city construction projects, unless otherwise mandated by the state or federal law in order to receive their funding. This is a propo-
sition that opens up fair competition by allowing non-union construction workers to compete on even ground with unionized to be hired for a project — currently, PLAs favor unionized workers. When contractors openly compete for projects, the price of the project generally decreases by 13 to 15 percent, according to supporters in the official ballot pamphlet. The opposition states that this proposition may jeopardize the amount of funding the city of San Diego may receive
from the state since the city will be doing projects more independently. However, a look at the language of the bill shows that it addresses that if state or federal funding depends on San Diego having a PLA, then the city will abide by the requirement. Finally, the proposition asks for the city to post all details and bidders for construction projects online to increase transparency — something that all government should be working towards.
he “San Diego Pension Reform Initiative,” otherwise known as Proposition B, aims to make the maximum pension 80 percent of the worker’s salary, instead of the current 90 percent, saving a projected $141 million over the next five years. Under the proposition, San Diego employee’s pensions will move to a 401(k) plan and city officials would be urged to impose a five-year freeze on pension pay for city employees.
Voters should support the proposition because it will keep pensions reasonable and affordable for the city. According to opponents of the bill, the pension reform will cost the city $54 million to pay off actuarial liabilities on an accelerated schedule for the first three years. But this bill will save money for the city in the long run, and while changes in the system will initially cause San Diego to pay it forward, the savings could be in the bil-
lions by 2040. Also, the pension reduction is reasonable for workers, because the idea that city employees are paid less than the private sector is no longer the case. According to the Union Tribune, when job compensation in the public and private sectors are compared, public salaries often come out significantly on top. Therefore Proposition B will move towards a more standardized and fair system of public employee compensation.
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on prop
on prop
Cut City Regulations
n 1990, California became the first of 15 states to create term limits for its state assembly and congress. Prop. 140 limited lawmakers to 14 years total, or three two-year terms in the assembly and two fouryear terms in the Senate. Yet, judging by the increasingly frequent headlines about political deadlock and fiscal crisis in recent years, this guideline hasn’t exactly led to a harmonious and effective group of legislators. Prop. 28, the first of two statewide initiatives on the June 5 ballot, would reduce the number of total years
29 T
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Supports Convention Center Expansion Financial Reform
World Report’s 2012 rankings, which had just come out. Part of our staff was deeply disappointed by their alma mater’s “unranked” status on the list, and similarly deeply amused by their school’s ranking of 21.8 out of a 100 for college readiness. Well, we‘re all in the same boat now. I didn’t care that much — my nearly all-white high school ranked 51 in the state, not bad considering our status as the third worst high school in our district. Yeah, we were really competitive. But what shocked my friends back home (who were also rehashing the ratings), was Dublin High School’s 4th place ranking. For my legion of loyal readers who are not from the San Francisco Bay Area, Dublin High School is not exactly the cream of the crop in terms of K-12 education. On average, 15 percent of Dublin High School seniors are admitted into the UC system, compared with neighboring school Monte Vista High (also a public school), who had 43 percent. Dublin’s drop out rate, according to the California Department of Education, is 20 percent, surpassing the state average of 18 percent and far, far surpassing Monte Vista’s zero percent. So when Dublin High School was ranked 4th in the state, nobody believed it. It just didn’t register for folks in the Dublin Unified School District that their little-school-whocouldn’t did that well. Quickly, they figured out the problem — the report stated that Dublin had 493 students, as opposed to their actual tally of 1,650 students. Their unbelievable student to teacher ratio of 7:1 was just that, unbelievable — their real student to teacher ratio was 23:1. And most importantly, Advanced Placement test pass levels were hugely skewed. This entire problem was caused by a glitch in a system when the district switched to a new student data reporting system called the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System — allegedly, only Dublin High School had the mistake of misreporting its student population. In one single glitch, the school’s rankings shocked an entire state. Let’s move a little closer to home. San Diego High School’s School of International Studies received no ranking this year unlike previous years, solely because their IB testing scores went through an incorrect file. Again, one glitch — huge problems. These two schools may be polar opposites, but have both suffered from the consequences of sloppy journalism. Several other schools (in the San Diego Union School District, no less) have stepped forward to correct their school’s incorrect data. It’s time for U.S. News and World See Ratings, page 5
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Dumanis is Second-Best With Her Education Plan ▶ Filner, from page 4
and new Chargers stadium. But more importantly, he is the only mayoral candidate to support the November tax hike. When we set forth in our research, we stacked our priorities according to the issues that concerned us the most, and in the end, education topped the list. More specifically, we support Gov. Jerry Brown’s November tax initiative that would raise sales taxes and income taxes on citizens who earn more than $250,000 annually. If voters vote down the tax, it would trigger $5.5 billion in cuts from K-12 schools and $500 million in cuts from state colleges. Admittedly, Filner’s education plan largely focuses on less important factors, including a before-and-after school program and free transportation for students (despite the fact that fares for students are already reduced by 50 percent). However, we contend that schools are better off with actual funding from the state (what Filner’s positive November tax initiative vote would help ensure) as opposed to a scarcely funded, albeit structured education plan. Dumanis was a clear second choice — she is the candidate with the strongest K-12 education plan. She advocates a strong mayoral presence in city schooling and intends to create four mayoral appointed members of the school board, and a special department that would oversee school district finances. But despite this solid plan, Dumanis has no way of
funding her plans except through the “rearrangement” of funding in City Hall. Most importantly, she opposes the November tax hike, which would cause $30 million in cuts to the San Diego School District in the middle of the school year. And without funding (or a place to attain funding), none of Dumanis’ lofty plans are likely to pan out. Republican and Independent candidates Carl DeMaio and Nathan Fletcher, respectively, rounded out our list due to their perceived shortcomings. DeMaio, as the most stringent conservative in the race, shows a definite lack of support for unions (teacher unions included), an aspect of labor negotiations that we steadfastly support. Further, his plan to devote all new tax revenues to pothole repairs (a major sticking point of his campaign) seems to us to be a case of misplaced priorities and funding. Fletcher, who recently shunned his Republican affiliation for an Independent party label after a lack of support from the party, intrigued us with his self-label as an innovator and his self-label as the sole bipartisan candidate. But his educational plan focuses solely on creating at philanthropic foundation that would raise money to fund his lofty plans of providing technology to every student. While that is all well and good, Fletcher does not know exactly how much his plan would need, or how much his foundation could raise. And above all, what the San Diego Union
School District (projected to operate with a $118-million deficit in 201213) needs is steady funding, something Fletcher will likely be unable to provide. Currently, the polls as of late May show DeMaio in the lead with 24 percent of the vote, Filner in second with 20 percent of the vote. Fletcher and Dumanis trail with 10 percent each — the additional 35 percent of voters are undecided, according to the San Diego Union Tribune. If a candidate does not win with 50-plus percent of the vote in the June 5 primaries, the top two candidates will battle it out in the November elections. To us, Filner is the most progressive choice in a mayoral race rife with Republicans (and former Republicans) trying to differentiate themselves from each other. If Filner wins, he would be San Diego’s first Democratic mayor in 20 years, a clear partisan shift in a city that is moving towards a liberal majority. Given that the June primaries around the corner seem unlikely to yield a decisive victor, the battle over the mayoral will likely rage on this summer.
Editorial Board Angela Chen
Editor In Chief
Arielle Sallai Margaret Yau
Managing Editors
It’s Time for Intensive Fact-Checking ▶ Ratings, from page 4
Report to go through their files once more and, especially in the case of Dublin High School and the School of International Studies, just fact check. They may seem like petty
ratings in the grand scheme of things, but many top ranking high schools’ public relations use national and state rankings like this to draw prospective students in. It’s time for some heavy editing.
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a variety of contemporary genre f his name sounds familiar, trends — an aspect of modern maybe you’ve seen David music that Miano is particularly Miano play live somewhere attracted to. in San Diego with his new-wave/ “We’re kind of in the indie/ garage revival band Cut. Or peralternative genre — if those words haps you’ve heard of his indie even mean anything these days — record label Aural Gravy — home but there is some diversity,” Miano to local acts the Very, the New said. “Kelsea Little is Kinetics and Kelsea sort of indie folk pop, Little. Sonic Indie and the New Kinetics But most likely, Music Expo are garage rock and the he was your history When: June 2, 12:00 p.m. Very is sort of, like, a professor. post-punk retro new“I have my day job Where: Porter’s Pub wave kind of thing.” and I have my night Tickets: $12 This Saturday, Aural job,” Miano told the Gravy’s first annual Guardian in an interOnline: sonic-con.com Sonic Indie Music view Tuesday. “I teach Expo will aim to comhistory — ancient hisbine the experience of the local tory is my forte — and then on the concertgoer and that of the dealside I write music and work on my hungry vinyl collector into one label and go see local bands play.” day-long festival. It’s an obvious Miano attended UCSD for graduate school, receiving his Ph.D. merger for Miano, and one that he believes isn’t utilized enough. in 2006. Since then, he’s worked as “We just wanted to bring togetha lecturer for upper division history er two elements that are related courses at the school, while develto music: the record show, which oping his brainchild, Aural Gravy is going to have a bunch of vinyl Records. records, CDs, music memorabilia “Originally the idea was to just and collectibles and all that, paired form the label as a pet project to with a really big concert,” Miano release my own material,” Miano said. “We have eight bands playing said. “I became interested in other throughout the course of the day people’s music, and I ended up puton Saturday, and they’re all really, ting out three records before I even really good. They’re not super well put out my own. As a matter of fact known yet, but they’re definitely I’m still working on mine [laughs].” The three artists on Aural Gravy See Miano, page 10 (four, including Cut) sample from
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Piers Morgan marks the departure of the only sane judge on the original roster. Howard Stern as a replacement? I mean, I get the fact that Howie Mandel is supposed to be funny, and I guess (believe it or not) Sharon Osbourne has some sort of eye for talent as a music manager in her previous life….but Howard Stern? It’s mind boggling how a raunchy talk show host/fake author would have any sort of credential in judging talent. In previous seasons, Piers Morgan acted as the levelheaded judge, setting the tables straight when Osbourne and Mandel got a bit too preposterous in who they were letting pass. As a journalist, Morgan brought some actual critical thinking to the table, and it’s a bit unnerving to see Howard Stern fail at that. Example: In the last segment of the New York Auditions, street dancer Stepz gave an audition that was completely fresh, combining contortionism with a style of dancing called “popping”. Obviously this was the best showcase of talent seen throughout the entire night, except, not only did Howard Stern refuse to acknowledge that the guy has talent, he also voted against him under the pretense that he didn’t believe that “this is the type of act people will pay for.” Really? Does the show have a history of welcoming good contortionists? Yup. Does the show have a history of welcoming good dancers? Yup. But when you combine the two to create something completely fresh and jaw-dropping, Howard Stern doesn’t think so. Okay, fine. As long as you’re consistent, right? But of course! Stern thinks that the next act, a group of buff men who take off their shirts and touch themselves, not only has unique talent, but will in fact bring in the paying audiences. The show’s emphasis now seems to be showcasing the auditions that are horrible and provocative instead of showcasing actual talent. With every episode the viewers will probably get to see two to three performers with any semblance of talent, and then another seven to eight performers with absolutely no talent at all. I get the fact that there is some draw in mocking the losers who can’t sing, dance or do whatever strange thing they think will be marketable, but this excessiveness completely defeats the purpose of the show. This, combined with the aggressive and ubiquitous Snapple product placement makes watchSee Telly, page 10
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Sonic Indie Music Expo Hits Porter’s Pub ▶ Miano, from page 6
up-and-coming bands that you’re going to be hearing a lot about in the future.” The festival’s roster (handpicked by Miano) will of course include the artists signed to Aural Gravy, as well as Los Angeles’ the New Limb, Bullet & Snowfox, the Colourist and more. The record expo portion of the event will feature sales booths from a variety of local record stores and sellers — a feature that can be attributed to Miano’s inherent love for the rare, dusty treasures of the past.
“The great thing about actually having a hard copy of record is that you have something that you can hold,” Miano said. “I suppose it’s kind of like the difference between reading a book and then getting it on your Nook. Especially with vinyl, you actually have this record and it’s grooved right into the material and you can play it. There’s something romantic about it, there’s something more real about it, and also it’s supportive of the bands who make them. You can illegally download all these free songs on the Internet, but if you really love a band and you want to support
them, you’re going to buy the hard product.” As for Miano, his first album with Cut is coming soon — out on Aural Gravy. “It’s just me and one other guy named Ben Medeiros,” Miano said. “He plays drums and I kind of play everything else. We’re putting the record together now and it should be done in maybe about a month or two.” The Sonic Indie Music Expo will be held at Porter’s Pub this Saturday, June 2, from noon until dusk. $12 at the gate, $11.50 for pre-sale at www.sonic-con.com.
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t’s fun to play cowboy. That’s why the Mystery Jets holed up in Austin, Texas for months in a wooden house on the banks of the Colorado River to write and record their fourth album, Radlands. After recording three records
on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham, London, the English five-piece decided they needed to cross the pond and experience the West for themselves. The result: a hybrid of Brit-pop and western Americana, which, remarkably, isn’t as disjointed and terrible as it sounds. “Greatest Hits” starts the album with lead man Blaine Harrison mumbling about ‘idiots on the BBC’ before diving straight into a simple, breezy guitar line reminiscent of the Eagles and a poppy melody with a bit of attitude (think early Beatles meets Arctic Monkeys). “Lonestar” is most heavily influenced by the band’s bucolic surroundings, with some light honky
tonk picking paired with a soft chorus and homely triangle chimes. “Sister Everett,” inspired by the band’s meeting with a Mormon missionary on an airplane, begins with glistening church organ, and then rolls, fullforce, into classic Brit rock territory — a new rugged sound that the band rocks with startling confidence. Although bassist Kai Fish jumped ship just before the release of Radlands, the album sounds amazingly carefree and poppy for a band on the brink of a breakup. Leave it to a stint in the Wild West to soothe the restless soul. — Amanda Martinek Senior Staff Writer
Azealia Banks reaffirms her ball-breaking, face-ripping swagger.
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ne of the more interesting figures to emerge out of last year’s DIY hip-hop renaissance, Azealia Banks has fallen out of the spotlight almost as quickly as she entered it. After a string of excellent singles late last year (including the monumental “212”), Banks has spent the last few months engaged in well-documented Twitter feuds and seemingly little else. The 1991 EP, released digitally this week, breaks this period of inactivity with charac-
teristic bombast. In spite of its short runtime (just over fifteen minutes) and relative lack of commercial promotion, 1991 is nothing short of monumental. Two of 1991’s four tracks, the aforementioned “212” and the sprightly, shuffling “Liquorice,” were released at the end of last year. Upon relistening, it’s clear that time hasn’t rendered those songs any less potent: moments like “212”’s bridge, which features Azealia chanting, “I’m gonna ruin you, cunt” over escalating electro-house synths, resonate just as vividly as they did upon first release. The EP’s new tracks, both produced by stylistically restless New York experimental dance maven Machinedrum, are similarly powerful. The title track, with Azealia’s aggressive, rapidly-delivered rhymes and Machinedrum’s minimalist, melodically-charged backing track,
settles on a breezy early ‘90’s house vibe that suits Banks delightfully. The EP’s most surprising moment, however, is the latter half of “Van Vogue,” which finds Azealia’s voice pitched-down and without accompaniment, stretching the ultra-baritone choruses recently employed by rappers like A$AP Rocky to a stark, jarring extreme. This moment, which is rather risky in light of Azealia’s position as a quasi-mainstream artist, is a reaffirmation of the qualities that made her so intriguing in the first place: Banks is the kind of artist that is both exceptionally talented and unafraid to take risks. While it may be some time before she dethrones Missy Elliott, 1991 proves that Banks is one of the best rappers around today, regardless of gender.
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attempt to breathe life back into the subgenre that produced legends like Ludacris, UGK and 8-Ball & MJG. From the get-go, K.R.I.T.’s flow is unmistakably Southern, with a round drawl and slurred, dropped consonants. He even makes it a point to pepper Live with appearances by the very rappers that first made the Dirty South famous, including guest verses by Ludacris, Bun B and 8-Ball & MJG. On “Cool 2 Be Southern,” K.R.I.T. muses, “Talking ‘bout the dirty south/ folks with the grilles in mouth/ I make it cool to be Southern.” Later in the album, he jokes, “If you looking for a Southern country bumpkin, lemme be him.” But K.R.I.T. is by no means a traditional Southern rapper. While he crafts his beats with instrumentation and heavy bass reminiscent of UGK,
The soda bar / June 2, 8:30 P.M. / $12 Xiu Xiu has been releasing subversive avant-garde pop for the last decade. On albums like 2004’s Fabulous Muscles, Xiu Xiu paired rambunctious electro-pop with Stewart’s vivid, often depressing lyrics to wonderful effect. Most recently, the band released Always, an album of relatively restrained, delicate art rock. This Saturday, the duo plays at North Park’s Soda Bar. Canadian prog-metal eccentrics Yamantaka // Sonic Titan open. (AW)
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the Soda Bar/ June 4, 8:30 P.M. / $8 Hospitality’s self-titled 2012 debut album was produced by Vampire Weekend producer Shane Stoneback, which should come as no surprise: Hospitality’s chiming guitars, breezy percussion and honest lyrical depiction of twenty-something life place them firmly in the tradition of summer-ready indie bands like Vampire Weekend, Ra Ra Riot and Local Natives. Songs like “Liberal Arts” and standout “Friends of Friends” are fun and effortless, and their show next Monday should be a great way to kick off the summer. (AW)
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he rarely achieves their chaotic, yet effortless, soul. Though urgent, K.R.I.T. is often excessively wordy, a flaw magnified by his choice of complex beats that compete with his lyrics for attention. The album’s highlights are promising, though. On “Hydroplaning,” an anti-sobriety anthem with Devin the Dude, K.R.I.T. is able to adjust his flow to a (cough) syrupy-smooth beat. He drawls, “All I know is that my world is slow/ I like this better/ light as a feather/ too fly to land.” This is the essence of Southern rap: music made for driving through the city at a crawl. So, while Big K.R.I.T. is nowhere near ready to relight the Dirty South torch, the Third Coast has reason to be hopeful. — Sebastian Brady Staff Writer
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ing this season a rather unpleasant experience. You know it has to be bad when you find yourself focusing on the awkwardly gigantic Snapple thermoses next to each judge, instead of the act itself. What’s happening to “America’s Got Talent” has been seen before in other reality shows like “American Idol.” With the gradual departure of original judges Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell, ratings for the show
have been waning every single season, with the latest finale dropping about 32 percent from that of last year. I honestly don’t think I can recall any “American Idol” contestants since Kris Allen and Adam Lambert, and that was three years ago. If the producers of “America’s Got Talent” don’t find a suitable replacement for Piers Morgan soon, I really think that this show will go down the same path — which is a shame because America does indeed have talent.
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UCSD All-American Nick Howe Will Look to Go Pro in the Javelin ▶ HOWE from page 12 Field coach Darcy Ahner] thought I was the [Cal State Chico] head coach calling to play a prank on them, but as I sent them more and more info I think they just didn’t believe me until I tried out and was actually as good as I said I was.” Howe has continued to stand out in his subsequent four years on the track — a four-time CCAA Champion, three-time All-American, two-time NCAA Division II National Champion and school record holder. Still, Howe is looking for more. “Honestly, this senior year was a little disappointing for me because I did not win [the Cal/Nevada meet] or, more depressingly and recently, NCAA’s for a third time,” Howe said. “But you either get defeated or pick yourself up and keep dreaming, and that’s what I’ll do. I just gotta keep working and learn from my mistakes.” Howe will be training this summer at the Chula Vista Olympic Center alongside U.S. National Champion Mike Hazle. Howe will then spend the next school year training with other Track and Field alumni — sprinters Kelly Fogarty, Stephanie LaFever, Linda Rainwater and Christine Merrill — as part of a group of postgraduates. Dubbed the ‘Triton Track Club,’ made up of former collegiate standouts, the ‘club’ is currently sponsored by ‘Movin Shoes,’ a locally owned small business specializing in running apparel. Howe threw his furthest mark to date last year — 231.5’— at the NCAA Division II National Championship. When asked about where he sees himself this time next year, Howe said he would like to be consistently hitting around 260.’ “I think I have the raw materials to hit that mark,” Howe said. “It’s a matter of getting the form right, the timing right — everything has to come together.”
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Despite taking two back-to-back national titles in 2010 and 2011, Howe hit a roadblock last weekend, May 26 to 28 in this year’s national championships. In a strong field, which included two throwers that bested Howe’s current personal record, Howe ended up with a 223’ mark to finish in fifth place. When asked about bridging the
gap from being amongst the top in NCAA Division II to being amongst the best in the world Howe said, “It’s a matter of just a tiny amount of patience in my form. Just changing the angle of my hips or the way I hold my arm back could make that huge leap of 30, 40 feet that would take me to the next level.” Howe is succeeded by his younger brother, freshman Nash Howe — a
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legitimate 6’5”— who will carry on the family trade. Nash placed second at the CCAA conference tournament this year, behind his brother. “Nash is the best training partner I could ask for. He’s motivational and a beast when it comes to getting focused on what goal or area of technique we are working on,” Howe said. “Its a blessing to have him here with me and I’m so excited to keep
going with him.” Nash’s throw of 199’1” at the CCAAs qualified him for this year’s USA Junior Olympic Trials in Indiana. If he finishes in the top two, he will represent the U.S. at the upcoming 2012 Summer Junior Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ucsd.edu
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Senior Track Captain Nick Howe will graduate UCSD with a school record and two NCAA national titles, but he’s not done yet. By Rachel Uda Sports Editor
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n a campus dominated by the athletically unimpressive, 6’3” Nick Howe (6’3.5” if you ask him, 6’4” according to the Union-Tribune article written about him two weeks ago) is easily recognizable on Library Walk. Howe’s blonde hair, playfully spiked up or shaved on the sides, takes the edge off of the 210-pound, three-time AllAmerican, who trains the NCAA sanctioned six days a week, alternatively lifting weights or working on form in order to generate enough force to send a spear through a person. Or, on the track, in order to propel a javelin upwards to 231.5’ away. The two-time national champion in the javelin has one more meet left in his collegiate career before he walks the stage as part of the graduating class of 2012. Howe will take part in the U.S. Track and Field meet at UCLA this weekend, June 1 to 2 before graduating with a B.A. in Political Science from Revelle College. With a 3.3 GPA, Howe will also graduate with a spot at the University of San Diego School of Law, where he will study part-time for the next four years. “It’s really the best of all situations: personally, professionally and athletically,” Howe said. “I get to stay down here to train with my coach [Tony Salerno], see the development of my brother Nash and be with my girlfriend
Jackie [Rose]. I also get to help coach the throwers next year because I will be attending USD part time, and I will be taking up personal training to supplement my income.” The winningest individual athlete at UCSD comes with an origin story all his own. Howe, who excelled in both basketball and baseball in high school, had never tried his luck in the javelin until the summer before entering UCSD. Convinced by his father, a collegiate javelin thrower at UC Riverside whose 221’5” mark from 1980 still stands as the program record, Howe gave it a try. In the vacant lot outside of his home in Little Elm, Texas, Howe threw an unheard of 180’ in his first attempt. “I didn’t think much of it, and as always, my Dad was super supportive and told me I could do it, and now that’s exactly what I do.” Howe said. “I just walk out there and do it, every day for hours.” Faced with the decision to either walk onto the then-No. 2 nationally-ranked UCSD baseball team with a 91 mph fastball in tow, or trying out for the Track and Field team, Howe contacted UCSD’s track and field coach Tony Salerno. Salerno assumed Howe was a hoax, that one of the many track coaches he’s in contact with had drafted the email Howe had sent to him as a joke. The last person to have thrown comparable to 180’ their first go was former world record holder Tom Petranoff, back in 1977. “Tony and [UCSD Track and See HOWE page 11