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THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2013

FUN IN THE SUN

Keeping in check

SUMMER ACTIVITIES

College Councils in need

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opinion, Page 4

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Final Touches Made to Galbraith Hall BY sarah moon senior

staff writer Zev hurwitz managing editor

The renovations include a new lecture hall, study areas, and office and studio spaces.

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ollowing months of construction, the interior renovation project of UCSD’s Galbraith Hall is nearly complete. The renovation, which started in February, features the addition of a new lecture hall, study areas, and office and studio spaces.

The new lecture hall seats 417 students and has a demonstration bench and sink for chemistry demonstrations, similar to those found in York Hall. The hall also features two 90-inch flat panel displays and a 17-foot screen. The new lecture hall

will allow for the addition of 15 three-hour classes during the standard Monday-Wednesday-Friday and Tuesday-Thursday time slots from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The hall will be available for classes beginning in Summer Session I. “The renovation exceeded our expectations, and I think that students will find the space enjoyable,” Director of Space Planning Tom Allen said. “The architect did a great job of See renovations, page 3

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Council Releases 20132014 Summer Budget

BY Mekala Neelakantan

News Editor

The approved budget projects fund allocations until Fall Quarter Week 5

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IFS, ANDS AND BUTTS The Young Americans for Liberty at UCSD hosted a campus-wide smoke-out along Library Walk on Wednesday, May 31. The event came in response to the upcoming ban on tobacco, to be implemented on September 1, 2013.

A.S. Council released its 2013– 2014 summer budget last week, containing projected fund allocations for referenda, administration and various A.S. offices. Put forth

by Vice President of Finance Sean O’Neal and approved by council, the budget will be in effect until week 5 of fall quarter, when A.S. reconsiders the budget during its Fall Revise.

Including operating reserves, referendum reserves and the A.S. activity fee income — considering a $562,417 return to financial aid — this year’s council has an expendable fund total of $2,786,514, to be distributed throughout the coming term.

According to O’Neal, much of the budget remained consistent from previous years, due to constitutional locked-in referendum allocations to Student Promoted Access Center for Education and Services, Academic

Success Program, Student-Initiated Access Programs and Services, and the Student Sustainability Collective.

For these referenda, A.S. has allocated $511,874.

Regarding internal office allocations, O’Neal has provided each section — including the office of the president, finance and resources, student life and external affairs — with contingency funds to be expanded upon following the Fall Revise.

“I basically gave each office a contingency fund so they can plan events all the way up to week 5,” O’Neal said.

“Which is basically telling students that these are things happening in their offices. This way, they at least have some money set aside to advertise for events [after the Fall Revise].”

Changes within office allocations include an increase to $75,000 for the A.S. Concerts and Events’ Hullabaloo festival to feature more rides and attractions and $25,000 for the All Campus Dance in order to enhance security and transfer to a larger location.

Collectively, allocations for offices total $338,884 with administrative See BUDGET, page 3

Advocate General of A.S. Council Resigns BY aleksandra konstantinovic

ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR A.S. Council Advocate General Collette “Max” Tamez announced her resignation from her position on Wednesday, May 29. Tamez sent her letter of resignation over the council Listserv only a few hours before Council was set to hold its weekly meeting.

In her letter, Tamez emphasized her gratitude for the opportunities she had while on council and explained that her resignation is for personal reasons.

In an unrelated interview, Vice President of Finance Sean O’Neal told the Guardian that Tamez was supposed to represent A.S. Council in a Judicial Board hearing against the grievances regarding college council funding before she announced her resignation.

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UCSD professor of chemistry and biochemistry Nathan Gianneschi and his team of researchers published their work on shape-shifting nanoparticles on May 28 in the Advanced Minerals journal. The researchers designed sphere nanoparticles that can be injected into the bloodstream and shape shift when triggered by an enzyme.

“We wanted to come up with a new approach.

Specifically, we wanted to design switchable materials that we could inject in one shape and have them change to another between the blood

and tumors,” Gianneschi said to UCSD News.

The cancer-associated enzymes, matrix metalloproteinases — MMP-2 and MMP-9 — prompt the nanoparticles to morph into a scaffold within the cancerous tumors.

“We figured out how to make an autonomous material that could sense its environment and change accordingly,” Gianneschi said to UCSD News.

The nanoparticles are hydrophobic on one end while hydrophilic on the other end.

Because of this, they form spheres when put in a solution to be injected into the vein.

When mixed with the MMP

enzymes, the nanoparticles opened up into netlike threads.

The researchers then tested the nanoparticles in mice with fibrosarcomas, a human cancer that produces MMP enzymes in high levels. In order to see when the spheres changed shape, they added fluorescent dyes, Forster Resonance Energy Transfer, that lit up after the nanoparticles morphed.

Currently, the researchers are aiming to develop nanoparticles with infrared dye so they can see the tumors deeper within the body. hhejran@ucsd.edu

SAN DIEGO TROLLEY PROPOSED TO BE EXTENDED TO UCSD AND UNIVERSITY CITY

The Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project will extend Trolley service (light rail) from the Santa Fe Depot in Downtown San Diego north to the University City community, serving major activity centers such as Old Town, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and Westfield UTC. The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)—which will develop the project in partnership with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA)—has prepared a draft environmental document analyzing potential impacts of the project. To learn more and comment, come to one of these five public meetings being held along the route of the proposed extension: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 Open House from 4 to 7 p.m.

Cadman Elementary School, School Auditorium 4370 Kamloop Avenue, San Diego, CA 92117 (Bus 105 at Clairemont Mesa Blvd./Moraga Ave.)

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Open House from 4 to 7 p.m.

La Jolla Country Day School, Community Room 9490 Genesee Avenue, La Jolla, CA 92037 (SuperLoop Bus 201/202 at Genesee Ave./Eastgate Mall)

Monday, June 10, 2013 Open House from 3 to 6 p.m.

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Price Center East, The Forum, Level 4 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 (Bus 30, 150, 41, 921, 101 and SuperLoop Bus 201/202 at Gilman Dr./Myers Dr.)

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Open House from 4 to 7 p.m.

Caltrans District 11 Office, Garcia Conference Room 4050 Taylor Street, San Diego, CA 92110 (Bus 8, 9, 10, 28, 30, 35, 44, 88, 105, 150 & Green Line Trolley and COASTER at Taylor St./Juan St. Old Town Transit Center)

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), SANDAG will accommodate persons who require assistance in order to participate in the public meetings listed above. If such assistance is required, please contact SANDAG at (619) 595-5620 at least 72 hours in advance of the meeting. To request materials in an alternative format, please call (619) 595-5620 or fax (619) 699-1905.

For more information about the Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project, please visit www.sandag.org/midcoast.

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Friday, June 21, 2013 Public Hearing at 9 a.m.

SANDAG Transportation Committee, Board Room (7th Floor) 401 B Street, San Diego, CA 92101 (Bus 3, 120 at 4th Ave./B St. & Bus 2, 7, 15, 30, 50, 150, 923, 992 at Broadway/5th Ave. & Blue and Orange Line Trolley at 5th Ave. Trolley Station) Para leer esta notificación en español por favor visite www.sandag.org/midcoast.

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Council Discusses Strategic Planning and Transportation I would like to offer a suggestion a Last night’s council meeting kicked la San Diego Padres outfielder Carlos off with a bang, with a presentation Quentin — let’s just up and bum rush on the proposed potential changes Los Angeles. to the Office of Student Conduct’s Actual suggestions from counStudent Conduct Code that may hapcilmembers include establishing an pen during Fall Quarter 2013. They’re Islamic Studies minor and introducthinking about maybe changing the defin... Sorry. Dozed off for a moment ing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training for faculty there. and staff. Council During also brought up the reports of mem- aleksandra konstantinovic topic of transportabers, Matthew alkonsta@ucsd.edu tion a number of Mayeda times, particularly announced that in relation to improving the accesthe undergraduate council will review sibility of our fortress-like campus. several new minors, such as Chicano Song acknowledged that the proposed Literature, and possibly eliminate cuts to transportation are currently a those that are underperforming. touchy issue in the study.

This comes at the behest of A.S. President Andy Buselt conChancellor Pradeep Khosla, who gratulated councilmembers on their would also like to see all majors original input. have more similar numbers of units.

“This is a council with a lot of Currently, the academic requirements opinions, and that’s a great example of the two most demanding majors of student involvement,” he said. “But — bioengineering and electrical I feel like it needs to extend beyond engineering — total 168 units. On the what’s happening in just this room.” opposite end of the spectrum, several Strategic plan or not, it seems other majors tie at just 48 units.

Mayeda also reported that Therapy UCSD is doing pretty well. We are the eighth-best public university in the Fluffies will join us on Tuesday of nation, and in at least one ranking, finals week. among the top 20 universities in the Angela Song, director of world — so kiss our geeky, chalkOrganizational Performance covered butts, SDSU. Assessments, continued special preUCSD’s mission, coincidentally, is sentations with an update on the firststated as follows: We will be a model, ever strategic plan for UCSD. student-centered, world-class univerThough Song stated the purpose of the plan in kinder terms, it is essen- sity that will boldly go where no man has gone before. tially a series of initiatives to make I might have made that last part our university more than just a safety up. But if a UC campus were to jourschool to top applicants. Currently, ney to outer space, it would totally be the list includes strengthening our UCSD. co-curriculars and improving facCouncil then began the agonizing ulty retention. Song also encouraged process of approving its budget by councilmembers (and everyone else going through the spreadsheet office on campus) to offer their suggestions by office. You’ll be relieved — I ceron how to improve campus climate while continuously pushing for higher tainly was — to know that it passed with only minor bumps in the road. academic rank.

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Summer Budget Includes $7,345 Allocation to College Councils ▶ BUDGET, from page 1

expenses as well as council stipends totaling $669,690, ending in a 52.74 percent over-allocation of $1,199,597.

O’Neal also said that budget revisions during the Fall Revise will focus on the current $7,345 allocation to college council funding, marking the first time that council has provided funds to college councils since 2006.

The Buselt Administration planned to address the issue of college council funding since the start of its term, with the decision to allocate funds made shortly after a meeting with college council presidents during week 6 of spring quarter.

However, due to the recent grievance filed against A.S. Council regarding the alleged unconstitution-

al elimination of funding to college councils, all allocations to college councils are contingent upon the outcome of the Judicial Board hearing.

“I met with the CCPs and I asked them what they wanted to do with the college council funding,” O’Neal said. “Basically every college council except for Marshall asked for the funding back, and only one college council asked for the back funding. I already told the college councils that I would fund them all the way up until the Fall Revise, but because the grievance came about, I don’t know what’s going to happen with everything.”

Should the Judicial Board mandate that A.S. Council continue providing funding to college councils in accordance with the 1987 referendum — at a rate of 65 cents

per student per quarter — A.S. will revise its budget to reflect the entire $44,070 allocation to college councils, with the inclusion of a $248,144.85 retroactive allocation if required.

In the coming weeks, O’Neal and the rest of the Buselt Administration will prepare for Judicial Board, introducing an undisclosed council representative for the hearing following Advocate General Collette “Max” Tamez’s resignation.

“We have ongoing talks with the current college councils,” A.S. Council President Andy Buselt said. “We’re looking for a solution that’s also healthy for A.S. Council’s budget.”

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allowing the light from the building’s original skylights to filter into most of the spaces outside of the enclosed lecture hall.”

The new hall is listed, for enrollment purposes, as “GH 242” and will house large lectures, such as BILD 10, which will take place in the new hall in Fall Quarter 2013. The room itself rests in what looks like a giant box in what used to be a study area atrium on the second floor of the Center for Library and Instructional Computing Services, or CLICS. “It was a pretty clever idea on the campus administration’s part to put a two-story lecture hall inside the old atrium space,” project construction executive Jim Mills said.

Two new study areas, which seat total of 120 students, will be available for beginning June 3. The rooms will be open 24/7 during Week 10 and finals week. Details are still being

worked out for summer hours and for Week 1 through Week 9 of fall quarter. Both areas have a wireless Internet connection and tables with electrical outlets. Two restrooms and a small group study room can be found in the larger study room.

“The two study spaces are dedicated for student use, and the additional classes that can be offered because of the new lecture hall should help alleviate some of the impacted courses and help reduce the time to degree for some students,” Allen said. “I consider all of these a benefit to the students.”

Additional space for the Theatre and Dance instructional studios for acting, dance, and design will also be provided for the undergraduate instructional program, in addition to office spaces for Academic Affairs, particularly for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Environmental Systems office. Priorities for other office spaces are still under review.

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In late 2011, a group of students broke into the then-abandoned CLICS building and claimed it as a student-run study space. For much of the latter two quarters last year, students used the space as a large study space under the Occupy CLICS movement and had vandalized much of the building.

Mills said that when he and his company, Mortenson, first began construction six month ago, much of the building was still in the state it was during Occupy CLICS. “There was still a lot of graffiti on the walls, elevators and windows,” Mills said. “But everything has been painted and is brand new.”

Galbraith Hall’s renovated space also includes new hydration stations and the renovation and expansion of existing restrooms.

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A.S. Council must either give back the student fee funds it has withheld from the six college councils since 2006, or stop making students pay for them.

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n television game shows, contestants sometimes will eat cockroaches or jump from planes to earn a quarter of a million dollars. At UCSD, the six college student councils have their own way to earn that sum of money: charge everyone enrolled in classes 65 cents in student fees every quarter for six years.

The difference, however, is that the game show winners actually receive their cash prizes after the competition.

College councils have not received a penny of the funding that A.S. Council owes them since 2006.

According to a recent report compiled by a former councilmember, A.S. Council has withheld over $44,000 in funding to the college student councils for most of the past decade. The fee, which was approved by the student body as a 50-cent increase in 1985 and raised to 65 cents in 1988, is meant to be allocated annually back to college councils, but A.S. Council discontinued the funding allocation to college councils in 2006.

Years later, council has been served with a grievance for the financial neglect which the co-authors of the document say is an A.S. constitutional mandate.

Granted, we expect that there is likely some political motivation behind the timing of the grievance, but the authors — all three former councilmembers — see only two solutions: end the fee by a repeal referendum, or cough up the dough. A.S. Council needs to stop avoiding the college council funding action, and stop violating its own constitution.

College council funding exists to boost student activity funding at the college level, at least in theory. The money is not a ton of coin (What would one expect for 65 cents?), but the roughly $8,000 each college expects to receive annually is certainly enough to run a sizable event, or help maintain basic operations.

With that in mind, the loss of the funding hasn’t completely killed the college councils. The six councils, at least since we’ve been here, have been fully operational and are making do, even in the face of financial struggle (a familiar feeling). It is certainly possible that college councils are treading water or even thriving in the absence of the money they are owed, but the real problem lies with the fee-paying student.

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GUEST COMMENTARY

Revamped All-Campus Graduation Celebration Is a Must-See

by Cassondra Randolph ACGC Planning Committee Chair Junior, Thurgood Marshall College We all understand the limitations of the six-college system.

Many of us are discussing one of the biggest issues right now: When it comes time to graduate, you are separated from some of your closest friends. It’s not only a downer, but it can be plain frustrating. That’s why the All Campus Graduation Celebration was created. It’s the only time graduates from all colleges, current students and families can celebrate

all together with food, beer and live music. Although this is an annual event that is part of UCSD Commencement Weekend, ACGC is not the same event you may have heard about in the past. As chair of the ACGC committee, I set out to create an awesome team made up of some of the same students who brought you the Sun God Festival, Bear Garden and Hullabaloo. The results have been incredible.

I would describe this event as family-friendly Bear Garden meets live concert. Attendees will have a selection of a dozen food trucks and vendors to choose from including

InSlider Gourmet Burgers, My Urban Eats, Delicioso and Sno-Cones. There will also be beer and wine served for those who are 21 and over. If you’re a “One Tree Hill” fan, you’ll be excited to hear that Robert Buckley, Muir ʼ03, will be kicking off the celebration. The Rocket Summer will be performing on the main stage while you sample the many tastes of San Diego available to you.

This is your time to celebrate with peers and families, no matter what college you represent. Best of all, you can leave your cap and gown at home. Come early: The first 500 graduates to arrive will receive a free

Class of 2013 beach towel.

If you are graduating next month, congratulations on the accomplishment. Your ticket to the event is free; Just bring your student ID to the Price Center Box Office any time before the event. If you would like to attend the event and are not graduating, you can purchase a ticket for $10 at the Box Office. The event starts at 5 p.m. on June 14. If you still have questions, check out seniors.ucsd.edu for more information. I am proud of the ACGC 2013 event and am looking forward to celebrating with the Class of 2013.

ike other impressionable fourth graders, I thought that the special faded T-shirt I wore to competitions would magically make me smarter or more efficient. At the time, the evidence in its favor was staggering. Every time I wore it, I would do well.

Unfortunately, I had to learn the hard way that my lucky T-shirt, with its cracked Quiksilver logo and multiple holes, was not in fact able to net me an extra 40 percent on every test. Most painful, though, was the revelation that all my other superstitions were also just vicious scams.

Many of my childhood behaviors had been rooted in irrationality. Going to sleep at 11:11 the night before a big event, the peculiar way I laced my cleats — I fastidiously observed a list of rituals merely because I had done so once and enjoyed some success.

This problem, termed noncontingent reinforcement, was investigated to great lengths by famed psychologist B.F. Skinner in 1948. An experiment was set up using caged pigeons, which were rewarded with food regardless of what they did. Skinner found that three-quarters of the observed pigeons would start repeating any odd actions that they had been doing when they were fed, such as bobbing their heads upside down, frantically scratching their wings or turning in circles. Their comedic antics, which had no bearing whatsoever on their being fed, bear uncanny similarities to the oftengoofy things that we do in an effort to replicate success.

However, while those of us who have shattered a mirror recently or been confronted by a black cat might breathe a sigh of relief at the foolishness of superstition, we should note that ritualistic practices are sometimes helpful. Simple rites tend to have a placebo effect — if we believe in their efficacy we will have more confidence and perform better. Take pre-exam concentration rituals, for example. A 2011 University of Chicago study found that those who write down their thoughts prior to starting the test tend to do better. Whether or not this actually works is another matter, but the mere belief that it increases our score will lead us to attack the questions with great faith in our abilities.

Superstitions are not always played out on such a trivial scale, however. Most buildings worldwide omit the 13th floor, while airplanes omit the 13th aisle. While simply relabeling the number on the elevator doesn’t magically make the 13th floor anything other than the 13th, it puts people at peace. With unlucky numbers or otherwise, we appear to be a society of hopeless lunatics.

Lunacy aside, the lingering question is what you can do to help your luck once the dreaded finals week swings by. There are several directions in which to turn. You can walk backwards underneath Sun God, you could write with the hotel pen you’ve had since forever, or you might try actually studying.

I, on the other hand, know a surefire route to success. I’ll be sipping on some Felix Felicis.

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Amoral Compass Director Zal Batmanglij and actress Brit Marling discuss their upcoming psychological thriller “The East” and its sociopolitical intentions.

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s the location for an interview about a film set in a hidden, run-down mansion without electricity but with peeling wallpaper and vines reaching through its open windows, the posh W Hotel in Downtown San Diego seems somewhat ironic. Especially when it’s a film that critically explores the ethics of consumer culture and the corporate system we are living in.

Lead actress and co-writer Brit Marling and writer-director Zal Batmanglij sat down with the Guardian to talk about their newest project, “The East,” a gripping espionage thriller that rapidly nabbed a spot on the list of most anticipated movies at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. They’ve been making their mark on the indie scene for quite some time now, with films like “Another Earth,” which Marling starred in, or “The Recordist” (directed by Batmanglij, also starring Marling). If those don’t ring a bell, their critically acclaimed 2011 psychological thriller “Sound of My Voice” might: a film about two journalists who want to debunk a cult led by the mysterious Maggie (Marling) but instead inevitably become ensnared by it.

“The East” plunges into the realms of subculture with Marling in the lead role. This time, she plays an overambitious agent, Sarah, who works for a private intelligence firm that helps corporations hide their crimes from the public. She is sent to spy on The East, an anarchist collective of eco-terrorists that tries to seek revenge on these corporations by beating them at their own games. Determined to bring the collectives to justice, she soon successfully integrates herself with the group. But the more time she spends with them, the more emotionally connected she becomes — especially with Benji (Alexander Skarsgard, “True

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Blood”) — and soon faces the moral contradictions of fighting for justice as an intelligence agent on the one hand and as an activist on the other.

“The East” is a film that raises many questions, but — deliberately — leaves out the answers.

“We are no message senders,” Marling said. “There was no way we were ever going to make a didactic movie with an answer for what should be done. I think it’s too hard to make sense of our times in order to have a prescription; we are so interested in the questions. We left that summer with more questions than we had answers, for sure.”

Consequently, Marling said, it is left to viewers to judge each character’s decisions and actions. We are carried along until we slowly begin to put ourselves in their positions, wondering what is right versus wrong.

“How far would you go to avenge your sister’s death at the hands of a corporation? If your father was responsible for harming people he had never met, would you be able to hold him accountable?” Marling asked. “If you are obsessed with the letter of the law, how far could you go to protect the man you love if his lifeblood is anarchy?”

Judging by these difficult moral questions, it would be wrong to peg “The East” as just another social issue movie, despite its provocative tone. In fact, it is primarily a multilayered journey in which the characters are constantly stretched to their emotional limits. Take Sarah— whose initial image of a strong-willed woman slowly blurs while she is more and more forced to question her principles.

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enneth Anger pulled himself out of the cement-grey quicksand of suburban Santa Monica in the early 1940s only to find himself faceto-face with two daunting and inexorable obstacles. The first was a compulsion to make films — dense and mystical films. Films that arranged satanic and sacred symbology within Hollywood melodrama and that reimagined a silent-era America in which occultist Aleister Crowley’s psychedelic Egyptian spiritualism permeated the collective consciousness.

Films the likes of which had never been made. He began making them when he was 10 years old.

The second obstacle was his being a gay man years before the legislation of homosexuality in the United States.

It was the latter which got him thrown in prison on “obscenity” charges following a public film screening in 1947. It was the former which brought the first American film with pervasive and self-implicating homosexual themes — Anger’s masterpiece, “Fireworks” — to the Supreme Court, where it was famously deemed art rather than pornography. Anger was released from prison, and so were his inner demons — now fueled by a radical spirit and an ever-deepening obsession with Hollywood’s B-list tabloid fantasies and Crowley’s black magic rhetoric.

It’s almost a shame that “Fireworks” is rarely mentioned historically without the words “homoerotic” or “court case” appearing within the first sentence of its description. This is only to say that Anger’s cinematic voice wholly transcends any obligatory ties to its sociopolitical groundbreaking. “Fireworks” is a stunning fever dream that navigates documentary (the contemporary rawness of the bedroom scenes) and hyper-staged Hollywood conventions (the sets, the dramatic studio lighting and the attention to the artificial ephemera of Hollywood worlds: the costumes, the makeup, the fake blood, et cetera). And while it surely includes imagery that, at the time, would’ve been deemed homoerotic, “Fireworks” is, at its core, an absolutely heartbreaking and deeply personal love story.

“This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, See Anger, page 8

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Love is a labour to be lost in “Before Midnight.”

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ith only the community of rich old folk and the occasional tourists to keep you company, summer in La Jolla may seem like a snooze fest to students. But you can still scratch that summer itch by having fun under the San Diego sun with these beach activities.

Kayaking BY MOZELLE ARMIJO Only 10 minutes from campus, La Jolla Kayak offers an array of kayaking experiences sure to make for a day outside. Breathe in the salty air on a two-hour kayak tour of La Jolla Cove’s Seven Caves and Underwater Park for only $49. Don’t forget to take an underwater camera to document the experience. Take photos of dolphins and sea lions, or snap pictures of your friends as they ungracefully flip their kayaks. For those who crave adventure, La Jolla Kayak also offers a snorkel-and-kayak combination tour that begins with a guided kayaking tour of the La Jolla caves followed by a snorkel session with leopard sharks, bat rays and fish. Not only is kayaking a fun activity for those flying solo; it’s also perfect for all the summer lovebirds out the there. For only $70, couples can go on an hour-and-a-halflong guided tour and end the evening by soaking in the romantic sunset from their kayaks.

While kayaking in La Jolla mainly revolves around sight-seeing, the Mission Bay Aquatic Center offers a two-and-a-half hour-long lesson that focuses on technique and will have you kayaking like a pro in no time. If you have already mastered the skill of kayaking, skip the tour and venture into La Jolla’s uncharted waters with a kayak rental for just $30.

spear fishing BY HILLARY DAKIN

snorkeling BY HILLARY DAKIN

Spearfishing is not a summer activity for the faint of heart. It is exactly what its name suggests: hunting fish using a spear. The spear can be propelled by hand and the use of an elastic band, which is referred to as a polespear, or it can be fired from a pneumatic gun. Hunters usually wear diving gear, though a snorkel can be substituted as well.

Spearfishing is one of the most environmentally friendly fishing methods, because hunters target a single fish at a time, leaving no bycatch, and causing no pollution damage to underwater habitats. It can also provide a fresh meal for those willing to brave the deep. There are some costs to take into consideration, as spearfishing requires investing in diving equipment, like wetsuits and goggles, as well as the polespear or spear-gun itself. Those “catches” aside, spearfishing is an art that can be practiced locally in La Jolla and along the shoreline of California in areas where fishing is permitted. Beforehand, it is also important to research laws on size limits and to be aware of which species can be targeted. There are a few dive shops near campus that provide equipment, such as the Spear Shack of Ocean Beach. La Jolla Water Sports also offers guided spearfishing tours ($80) for novices and experts alike.

Easily one of the most accessible beach activities for the casual beachgoer, snorkeling is a popular pastime, since it requires little additional skill beyond basic swimming ability. It is a great way to relax and cool down during the warm summer months. As far as equipment goes, only a snorkel and a mask are necessary in order to set out to discover the interesting sights beneath the water’s surface.

As locations go, La Jolla Cove is not only one of the most acclaimed snorkeling spots; it is also quite accessible from campus. As a marine ecological reserve, it has a wide variety of sea life native to California, such as garibaldi, sea lions and lobsters. La Jolla Shores and Mission Bay are also good places to snorkel. While snorkeling is very novice friendly, some services are available to take groups on guided tours through more challenging areas. Snorkeling San Diego offers a tour of the famed La Jolla Cove ($70) as well as the breeding grounds for local leopard sharks in La Jolla (pricing depends on group size). La Jolla Water Sports also offers a tour of the Cove (pricing is available upon request). Both services provide paying customers with a mask, snorkel, and fins.

Stand Up Paddle Boarding BY MOZELLE ARMIJO A cross between kayaking and surfing, stand up paddle boarding is perfect for those who want a relaxing way to enjoy the waves while still getting a full body workout. The cost of SUP in La Jolla is relatively high (prices range from $75 to over $100), but the Mission Bay Aquatic Center — only 20 minutes south of La Jolla — boasts a number of water sports at a special discounted price for UCSD students. Splurge on a two-hour introductory SUP lesson for $39 and learn the basics of the sport on the calm waters of Mission Bay. After mastering the basics, up the ante with some other challenging SUP courses. MBAC offers intensive exercise classes, such as SUPcore Yoga, in which you do yoga while floating on your board, or SUPcore Fit, in which you complete rigorous paddling sets that will put your athletic prowess to the test. SUP will leave your body sore the next morning, but it’s so fun that you’ll yearn to go back and try it again.

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he first stage of grief is denial.

We cannot quite bear the thought that we will be parting with California imminently.

Our first column was an attempt to expose the secrets of rushing, and every column since seems to have essentially been a record of us partying or raging in different locations (e.g. Santa Barbara, Berkeley, Vegas, I-House, Coachella).

Ironic, given that we had both independently Googled UCSD prior to our arrival and found that it was supposedly “socially dead.” Having spoken to other internationals at UC campuses and reflected on our own experiences, we have concluded we’ve had a pretty “dank” deal (or a bloody good time).

Given that this is our last column, we wanted to give our final British perspective on California and the Land of the Free. People often ask us about the main cultural differences between here and home. While we never observed a huge cultural shock, there is something undeniably dissimilar, although it’s almost impossible to explain. Here is our best attempt.

Although we speak the same language, there are some things that are just completely lost in translation. British colloquialisms are often just completely lost on Americans. Take note.

“Got on like a house on fire” is not a literal expression, and we are not arsonists. For us, “Fancy Dress” on an invitation is a cue to wear your best costume, not your best button-up. Just a teaser: Come visit us in Great Britain and we will pop the trunk, take out the trash and host a “car boot sale.” For those of you who are unfamiliar with this idea, a “car boot sale” is essentially a vintage market with people selling things from the trunks of their cars. Despite what you Americans may imagine British people saying, never in either of our 21 years have we heard someone say, “Chip, chip, Cheerio!”

Americans always say they love British comedy, British accents and British clothing. Yet they haven’t mastered British sarcasm and selfdeprecating humour. Americans need to learn — it’s always funniest when you are laughing at yourself.

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon San Diego Kick off summer with the right beat by running, dancing and funding cancer research.

BY Nichole Perri

Staff Writer

Nothing livens up San Diego like the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon.

Thousands of out-of-state visitors, rock music, Elvis impersonators and a course that encompasses most of South San Diego creates a perfect atmosphere for one of California’s largest and most popular marathons. The 20,000 runners and estimated 100,000 spectators can attest to that fact. Every year since 1998, San Diegans and visitors alike lace up their running shoes for the San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon. Registration fees for this annual event benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. This year’s

race takes place bright and early at 6:15 a.m. on Sunday, June 2. The 26.2-mile event begins at Balboa Park and encompasses most of San Diego, including nine miles of scenic oceanfront views and a stretch inside SeaWorld, and ends at Petco Park. A half marathon, a 5K race and a 7K race will also occur while the marathon is going on.

Watching the race isn’t the only form of entertainment — there will be live music from local San Diego musicians, and high school cheer squads will perfom along the course to keep morale and excitement up.

After the race, there will be a concert with headliner The Psychedelic Furs — an English post-punk and new

wave band. But don’t forget the best thing about races — free food, drinks and other promotional items available for both runners and spectators.

It’s not too late to register for the marathon or any of the smaller races.

Go to the San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll website, and fill out the registration form. Although the fee is high — $125 — the money goes toward cancer research. Due to the increased volume of traffic and pedestrians on the day of the race, the Guardian does not recommend taking the MTS bus or trolley system to get to the race — find a ride instead.

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film review

Before Midnight Linklater ties up his trilogy about love with an uncompromising depiction of fading ardor.

Directed by Richard Linklater Starring Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke rated R release Date May 24

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f esoteric awards were ever warranted, one would go to Richard Linklater’s ability to not once, but twice, create a sequel that rivals the original film in power. In both the cases of “Before Sunset” and the writer-director’s latest, “Before Midnight,” his sequels do not merely parrot the original but enhance it and add commentary.

“Before Sunrise” (1995), the first film in Linklater’s (for now) trilogy, chronicles roughly 12 hours, as Jesse (Ethan Hawke, “Gattaca”) and Celine (Julie Delpy, “2 Days in Paris”) meet on a train heading to Vienna and decide to spend a night together in the city. In 2004’s “Before Sunset,” the two, having not communicated with each other since their previous interaction, unexpectedly reconnect for an afternoon in Paris nine years later.

Like the first sequel, “Before Midnight” is set another nine years after “Before Sunset” and acts as counterpoint to the two preceding films, as Jesse and Celine now finally have what they dreamed of, living together as parents in a committed relationship. If, thematically, “Sunrise” explored young love and fantasy, and “Sunset” depicted rediscovered love, “Midnight” is an examination of what happens to fantasy when it is realized and romance

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when it clashes with reality.

The film finds the couple in Greece at the end of their summer vacation. As before, Linklater uses the idyllic foreign landscape as a backdrop to the conversations between the two, but since it’s set in an ocean-side town rather than the bustling cities of the two previous films, the pair consequentially feels isolated, and the film is more focused on their personal history.

The lack of any real background music reinforces this singular focus on the couple.

The film starts relaxed enough, though, with the charm and witty dialogue between the Hawke and Delpy still abundant. In one of the early single-cut scenes in the film, the couple is driving along the coast when Celine complains about Jesse ogling young women. Jesse mocks her insecurity by putting on a “sexy” pseudo-European accent and, in broken English, slurs, “No … I make love to them with my eyes.” The familiar banter provides plenty of humor in the beginning of the film, but small incidents like this also serve to reveal the underlying instability in the couple’s relationship, underpinning the constraints each feel in a committed relationship.

The small squabbles between the couple eventually converge in a big-

ger argument about their future together. This final scene, nearly 30 minutes long, allows both characters to vocalize their emotional baggage unrestrained. This scene is a marked departure from the playful nature of the previous two films, as both characters tear into each other’s weaknesses.

Part of the appeal of these films is that Jesse and Celine exist as heightened versions of us — more gregarious and passionate than we generally are. Linklater makes a bold move by showing his characters at their lowest rather than attempting to phone in the sentimental. For viewers of the prequels, the film is especially rewarding, as Jesse and Celine’s disputes can be framed against their personal history, begging the question of what a relationship should be founded upon.

Both Hawke and Delpy deliver their roles perfectly in this film, echoing the problems faced in real relationships without ever becoming operatic. They fight like real people, bringing up uncalled-for details and never knowing when to quit. With neither an easy way out of their differences, nor moral superiority on either side, Jesse and Celine’s disputes about the real choices partners have to make turn the story into a microcosm of what most couples will face 10 years down the line.

The film’s realism is only enhanced with the natural aging of Hawke and Delpy. No CGI can duplicate the way their faces and bodies have been worn by the passing years, and Linklater never lets the camera hide this facet of their chemistry.

With his unobtrusive use of camera and long single-shot sequences, it’s hard to believe the film is meticulously scripted rather than improvised.

“Before Midnight” is a harder sell for cinemagoers than its two prequels.

Viewers should watch its earlier counterparts in order to better appreciate the changing dynamic of Jesse and Celine’s relationship. Like other films about couples facing relationship difficulties (“Blue Valentine” comes to mind), the viewing experience can be exacting, but for those looking for a niche film that realistically portrays the difficulties of love, there are few as well-crafted and uncompromising as “Before Midnight.”

— dieter joubert

associate a&E editor

“The East” Defies Convention for a Trek into the Minds of an Anarchist Collective ▶ East, from page 6

“I don’t ever get any pleasure out of watching a sort of thinly discussed social commentary,” Marling said.

“I love information. I love people showing me a world that I have never seen before and characters I have never met before, but I want them to let me think on my own. We try to be aware of that.”

They do it well — and it’s because they know what they’re talking about. After all, this film is not merely a product of thorough research about anarchist collectivists and their deliberate decision against conventionality: It stems from Marling and Batmanglij’s reallife experiences. Inspired by the “freegan” movement — the idea of embracing a community-based life that rejects the concepts of materialism and consumerism — they decided to spend a summer living off the grid, growing their own food, dumpster diving and becoming radically autonomous beings.

“We learned to train hop, and we started to work on a organic farm,” Marling said. “Once you fall in with travelers, you fall in with freegans; once you fall in with freegans, then, you find the anarchist collectivists.”

According to Batmanglij, these collectives pool in places all over the world.

“There are lots of anarchist groups all over Europe, Berlin especially. Big time. There are lots of squads, for sure,” he said. “It’s not something that most people have heard of, even in America. It’s a whole other lifestyle; it’s not like a hotel. You can’t just look it up and go there.”

The freegan “lifestyle” attracts people of many different socioeconomic backgrounds, sharing their anarchist manifestos, especially online.

“The beauty of the Internet is that it’s connecting all sorts of disparate groups together; all sorts of fringe movements are gaining the followers who really want to follow it,“ Batmanglij said.

This social diversity can also be seen in “The East,” in which a college dropout, a med-school graduate, a hacker, an ex-soldier, a street kid, etc. — all of them with their own personal reasons — join forces to fight for their beliefs.

Originally, Marling and Batmanglij did not intend to make a

movie that examines the complexity of our society’s corporate structure.

“We were always very passionate about these [freegan] ideas in theory, but it wasn’t until we lived them that we really understood them emotionally,” Batmanglij said.

Batmanglij particularly recalls the BP oil disaster in 2010 as both a driving and confirmative force in the writing process.

“Sometimes, confidence is the ingredient that you need to get going, and that gave us confidence,” he said.

It is this rich repertoire of firsthand experiences and profound investigation that make “The East” so authentic. But their summer on the American road wasn’t always fun. Batmanglij and Marling encountered many situations that took time to get used to — moments when both wanted to quit and go back to their conventional way of life.

Batmanglij recalls his most challenging experience: when his group found some broken bicycles, fixed them and went downtown toward the city’s fountain.

“We were playing around downtown, and it started to rain a little bit,” he said. “A few of us just started to take off their clothes and jumped in the fountain. You know, just having fun. I did not want get into that fountain.”

With the rain coming down, a long bike ride back and the definite prospect of an uneasy night on the floor with the squad ahead of him, Batmanglij would have had rather given up and taken a hot shower, but he decided to stick it out.

“The rain was pouring so hard — at some point, you just let go. You just break. Then, you look around and think: ‘I’m young. I’m not alone.

I got my best friend and this whole community. Rain isn’t going to hurt me,” he said. “There’s nothing to look forward to. There’s nothing in the past. There’s just this ride.’ You feel the wheels going and the rain hitting your back.”

The same is true of Sarah: A number of times, we see her on the brink of giving up, yet she always battles her way through. And although her final decision in the moment of truth is unexpected, it is meaningful in various ways. “The East” leaves it up to us to unravel its implications.

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album review

"Trouble Will Find Me"

by The National Release Date May 7

6/10 Thoughtfully-penned lyrics and exceptional vocals fall flat with a mundane sound.

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t this point, The National could be considered heavyweights in the alternative genre. The band has released five LPs which have ranged from being worth a good listen (their self-titled album) to sounding so good that hipsters would lynch you for mentioning their name in vain (“High Violet”) — so there is no reason to assume that their latest album, “Trouble Will Find Me” would be anything less than respectable.

However, any listeners expecting much more than that might find themselves a little disappointed.

Fans of The National should be familiar with lead singer Matt Berninger’s melodic, baritone vocals.

“Trouble Will Find Me” has strong, compelling singing throughout, and in “Demons,” Berninger takes full advantage of his talents by singing a beauti-

ful, lulling bass melody over dreamily delayed guitars. Considering that 99 percent of singers in the alternative genre have a note range that implies that their testicles never dropped, Berninger’s consistently deep voice is a refreshing change of pace.

The problem is that apart from the novelty of Berninger’s vocals, everything else regarding the album’s arrangements is average. Apart from a few standouts, like the dark bassrange synth and muted guitar on “Fireproof,” most of the instrumental arrangements — and the sound in general — are uninteresting and won’t hold a listener’s attention. Though “boring” can be a hard characteristic to quantify, a listen to “Graceless” or “This is the Last Time” will show that there isn’t anything special or worthwhile about either song in terms of instruments — both contain

bland guitar or piano that convey chords but do nothing interesting or memorable. “Graceless” and “Don’t Swallow the Cup” both have a rock ‘n’ roll feel on the drums, but they lack the kind of energy of, say, an Arcade Fire song. Most of the album faces similar impediments.

For those who can get past the uncompelling sound, though the lyrical content can be very rewarding. The album is centered on the ways that Berninger’s old friendships affect him in the present, and although it might be difficult to portray that subject matter, The National pulls it off. “Pink Rabbits” plays into this them e with the chorus, “Am I the one you think about/ When you’re sitting in your fainting chair drinking pink rabbits?”

Likewise, other songs, like “Slipped” and “Heavenfaced,” use similarly compelling imagery, and many of the songs have found the vital balance of leaving some things open to interpretation while not being frustratingly metaphorical. The lyrical quality is barely enough to balance out the album’s “meh” sound, and the result is a compilation that’s more well-written than it is enjoyable.

— Kyle Somers

staff writer

Kenneth Anger Paved the Way for Gay Rights with His Heavy Hitting Films ▶ Anger, from page 6

American Christmas and the Fourth of July,” Anger often said of the film.

Much in the way that David Lynch would (four decades later) abstract Hollywood conventions to develop his distinct brand of American surrealism, Anger dissected these tropes with the tenacity of a madman, creating familiar and haunting dream spaces that his closeted thoughts could inhabit.

In more ways than one, Kenneth Anger was advanced. The fact that he was making films this experimental and sublime in the ’40s and ’50s

is astonishing. He tirelessly made art in a punk frame of mind years before the Velvet Underground or the Stooges were even foggy blips on the horizon. Lynch, as well as John Waters and Martin Scorsese, often cite Anger as a major influence. And, of course, Anger was undeniably a crucial gay rights activist, if only because he was determined to make his art, no matter what the public called “lewd” or “obscene.” For the first time in American cinema, Anger made gay culture visible to the public simply by embedding it in some of the most potent and timeless cinematic work ever made.

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caffeine fiend

Zumbar Coffee & Tea Focus not on the minimalist atmosphere, but rejoice in the artisan coffee roasts. brew.

The visual highlight of the shop, a vintage cast-iron roasting Located off of the Sorrento machine, lies in plain sight behind Valley Road exit on I-5, Zumbar the counter.

Coffee & Tea may go amiss due A limited menu offers the classic to its small sign and odd location espresso drinks, rang— but true caffeine ing in price from $2 to fiends would be $3.85. Zumbar also has disappointed if they Hours: Mon. - Fri. 6 am to individual French pressmissed out trying this 5 pm, es ($3.85), each featurestablishment’s roast, Sat. 7:30 am to 1 pm, ing one of their signadespite its lackluster Sun. Closed ture roasts. They offer environment.

Location: delicious pastries, variImmediately upon 10920 Roselle St., ous croissants, muffins walking into the cafe, San Diego, CA and scones, provided by you can tell Zumbar’s 92121 Opera Patisserie ($1.90 main focus is on its to $2.75) and the Vegan coffee. It is a small Donut Bakery ($1.80 to shop that is mini$2.75), which will please malist in all regards: customers looking for an accompaplain walls, limited seating and a niment to their coffee. lack of decor.

The limited indoor and outCustomers do not linger. The majority of action in the store takes door seating makes it difficult to enjoy Zumbar’s drinks on location. place behind the counter, where However, if you can snag a seat at the espresso machine is constantly one of the few tables, it’s the perfect buzzing and friendly baristas are place to enjoy an individual press hustling to prepare each customer’s

BY Adrienne Foley

STaff Writer

with either a book or a laptop courtesy of their free Wi-Fi. Zumbar roasts beans every day, except on Sundays, when they’re closed. The type of bean offered on any given day will change, and the variety will keep customers coming back. Zumbar highlights their roasting technique and experimentation that goes into the beanroasting process, with descriptions like “buttery sweet lemon, floral and spice” and “hints of chocolate spice.” Customers can buy small packages of beans to roast at home; prices range from $10.95 to $12.75.

Zumbar may not be the best study space, due to its limited seating and tight quarters, but it is the perfect grab-and-go place for coffee lovers to get their daily fix.

With a constantly rotating selection of high-quality coffee beans, caffeine fiends are guaranteed to be continually pleased.

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Weather, Public Transit and Jell-O Shots to Top Off Our California Adventure #cheerstothegoldenstate ▶ Column, from page 7

We have learnt to really appreciate how outgoing Americans can be.

From you, we can learn that not every stranger is a murderer, and it doesn’t hurt to be friendly and strike up a conversation on the tube (sometimes called the subway).

Another point: America could do with a tube. California needs to get a proper public transport system, both for the environment and for

struggling internationals who can’t afford a truck.

On a side note: A temperature where “freezing” isn’t actually minus numbers makes absolutely no sense.

Water freezes at 0 and boils at 100 degrees Celsius — enough said.

The extent of social networking in America continues to amaze us. Americans “like” everything. #stoptakingphotosofyourselfandyourmealsonInstagram. Having met Americans, our news feeds will

never be the same. We read far too many emotional statuses — despite what Facebook asks, not everyone really cares exactly “What’s on your mind?” We’ve read a few articles that suggest you can become addicted to Facebook and Twitter.

We recommend either controlling that trigger finger or rehab.

The drinking age is a constant source of bafflement and frustration. To think that at 18 you can go to war but cannot have a legal beer,

outside, in an open container, is ludicrous to say the least. The perils of a high drinking age became obvious on the fateful May 17.

Sun God 2K13: the one day of the year when all UCSD students rally against the “socially dead” stereotype — and who remembers it? The last thing we remember are Jell-O shots for breakfast.

California, there is a reason you are called the Golden State.

(Careful. We feel an emotional

status coming on). We are now fullfledged yogis, (wannabe) surfers and proud members of the Greek community. We have loved every minute of our exchange, and we thank the Guardian for letting us write about it and all you wonderful Americans for providing us with so much inspiration.

Come June 16, we will travel to the Deep South. Watch out, Texas and New Orleans. #MindtheGapontour.

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letters to the editor

San Diego Has Reason for Olympic Aspirations

Students Are Entitled to See Tangible Returns From Their Fees ▶ College Councils, from page 4

Students pay this fee because folks old enough to be our parents voted to fund the then-four college councils to breathe life into the part of our university that the admissions office prides itself in “making a big university small.” We aren’t paying into the system just to boost A.S. Council’s own checkbook. This fee is inherently owed to colleges, and if they aren’t seeing the green, we shouldn’t pay the fee.

The real antagonists here are not the current councilmembers, who were only sworn in four weeks ago. A tentative budget for the 2013–2014 year shows A.S. Council planning a small allotment of around $7,300 to the colleges

(albeit with an asterisk indicating that the allocation is up for review in the fall). This is certainly a step in the right direction, but nowhere near the $248,144.85 cited in the report released last week.

A.S. Council has been spending the money owed to college councils as if it were part of its normal revenue, with the funds being allocated elsewhere — in part to close gaps in its budget like it had in Fall Quarter 2012. Regardless of fault, current students are still paying for what has become a small Band-Aid for a bullet wound to the chest of budgetary issues.

As of now, it’s a higher priority for us to see our fees go toward something tangible. We pay a RIMAC fee, and thus, we have

access to use the RIMAC facilities.

Our athletic fees pay for us to have sports teams. The same is true for our University Centers fees. We expect some bang for our buck, but our student leaders have been shooting blanks for years.

Council needs to address this issue before we enter another year of paying for nothing. And while the grievance should push this issue to the top of the current council’s agenda, we hope that the political climate among our campus leaders remains stable and that this doesn’t spark a year of divide.

Councilmembers aren’t exempt from fees — they pay them, too.

But we all deserve to be held to the simple economic principle of getting what we pay for.

Dear Editor, It’s not quite true to say that a San Diego-Tijuana tandem would be the first-ever international Olympic bid.

The World Cup is an offshoot of the Olympics, and like the Olympics, held every four years. The opening match of the 2002 World Cup was held on May 31 in Seoul, Korea and the final match took place on June 30 in Yokohama, Japan. It would require the International Olympic Committee to change its constitution to allow multiple countries to co-host a Summer Olympiad.

“It’s a stain and stigma on my soul that can never be removed,” said Bill Walton in an interview with the U-T San Diego. “If it wasn’t for my failures, San Diego would have a vibrant, thriving NBA franchise playing in a new, sparkling waterfront arena. That’s the facts.”

But “predicting the fate of a professional sports franchise is impossible. But the Hall of Fame center is not the first to think that had he played up to expectations during his time with the San Diego Clippers, they wouldn’t have moved to Los Angeles,” concluded the interviewer.

That’s why I had the 6-foot-11-inch basketball player — and Triton rugby team players, captains and coaches, too — sign a 2011 World Rugby Cup ball which Mayor Filner proudly retains: “Here we go — 2024!”

(Signed: Bill Walton).

The USA does not directly finance the Olympics when a city wins a bid to host the games, unlike many countries. Instead, the government often pays for improving facilities and various other projects. The 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games were a success — the first major international event after the

Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made clear the games were important for the country and he wouldn’t stand in the way of money for security. Mitt [Romney] declined this time around.

Go Tritons! Go Bears! Go Chargers! Go Xolos! Go Padres! (If the padres hadn’t built the missions, we wouldn’t be living in towns called San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose.)

— Richard Thompson Alumnus ’83

End the Wars and Put America’s Troops First Dear Editor, There are so many editorials that continue to lambaste this administration about the same three controversies: the embassy attack, the IRS and the U.S. Department of Justice about phone records.

What I don’t understand is the conservatives continuing to put more pressure on this administration about these three events and letting the U.S. troops go unmentioned! Perhaps these editorial writers are saying, “Well the troops will be home next year, so let us argue about scandals!” It has been brought to my attention that the four deaths at the embassy cannot be compared to the troops’ deaths in combat.

To this I say, “Life is life regardless of how or where these deaths occurred!”

I am not “patting myself on my back,” but if millions more were like me and continued the fight against the wars, perhaps the troops would be home already! We, as caring humans, should be calling, writing, emailing and shouting out to bring the troops home! It is well past time for this to happen.

— Timothy Monroe Bledsoe South Carolina Resident

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UCSD Volleyball Coach Ricci Luyties Won Gold in 1988, Ring Assisted U.S. Team that Won Bronze ▶ VOLLEYBALL, from page 12

Mississippi. In 2009, former UCSD head coach Tom Black was offered a position at Loyola Marymount University, leaving a vacancy for Luyties.

“I love it here,” Luyties said. “The school is great, the administration’s really supportive of volleyball, and the student athletes are phenomenal.

It’s great working with them.”

When asked how his playing experience has shaped the way he coaches, Luyties stressed the value of empathizing with his players.

“I think that is where relating to players, and having them know that I’ve done all the things that they’re going through, gives me a little more credit when I’m trying to coach them through things,” Luyties said. “I’ve pretty much played in every type of match and seen a lot of situations, so nothing really surprises me.”

Unlike Luyties, who began his career in Southern California and spent nine years to get back, UCSD head coach Kevin Ring never really left UCSD. Ring earned his undergraduate degree at UCSD, completing the bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in chemistry while also working as a volunteer assistant coach.

Interestingly, Ring, who only started playing volleyball in high school, did not make the UCSD squad in his first two years at school, and instead joined as an assistant coach. Ring proved capable enough to be recommended for a position as team manager for the 1992 Olympic team that won a bronze medal in Barcelona.

“Even though I was still so young at the time, I gained a lot just watching the best players in the world — how they trained, how they were coached,” Ring said. “It was just a tremendous experience.”

After taking two years off to

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coach and travel with the Olympic team, Ring returned to school and competed on the UCSD team for his last three years of college. Upon his graduation, Ring served as an assistant coach for nine seasons — under three different coaches — and also worked as an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego

before he was promoted to head coach at UCSD. Ring has held the head coaching position for the past seven seasons.

“My path, as far as beginning a playing career and a subsequent coaching career, is probably a little different than most guys,” Ring said.

“A lot of guys now come in with three

of four years in high school and six or seven years on a club team before they play in college. But I was fortunate here, that I was able to work as a volunteer assistant coach, and that opportunity led to a paid position.”

In July, UCSD will renew its ties to Olympic volleyball, hosting a match pitting the No. 1-ranked

U.S. women’s national volleyball team against No. 3 Japan. The team, coached by Luyties’ former teammate, Karch Kiraly, is scheduled to play July 10, with general admission tickets selling for $20 each.

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ver a decade before UCSD alumnus and Sri Lankan Olympian Christine Merrill made headlines for her participation in the 2012 London Olympics, UCSD volleyball coach Ricci Luyties won an Olympic gold medal in Seoul, while fellow coach Kevin Ring served as team manager to a U.S. team that took bronze.

Of course, Luyties and Ring might not be as pretty as Merrill — dubbed the most beautiful Olympic athlete by her hometown publication, The Bakersfield Californian — but the coaches are the school’s only Olympians on staff.

Although the two have converged at UCSD — Ring entering his ninth year for the UCSD men’s team and Luyties entering his fourth season for the women — the pair have taken very different paths to get here.

Before beginning his coaching career, Luyties enjoyed an extensive and prolific playing career. In 1988, Luyties took Olympic gold as a setter on the United States men’s national volleyball team. Luyties competed as part of Team USA between 1981 and 1988, before which he won four NCAA national titles at UCLA. Luyties then played professional beach volleyball for 12 years. But it was when the beach volleyball scene became less lucrative that Luyties tried his hand on the sidelines.

For anyone with as successful a playing career as Luyties, one might expect that his time spent on the court would supersede his time as a coach, but Luyties says he enjoys both endeavors.

“There’s nothing that really compares to playing, and getting that moment of competition — although, I will say the coaching thing is where I still get that fix,” Luyties said. “You do get so involved in the games, and sometimes too much, so that you’re just drained emotionally by the end of the match.”

Luyties began his coaching career in San Diego as the head men’s volleyball coach at La Jolla High School. From there, Luyties spent three seasons with the University of Colorado as an assistant coach before he became head coach at the University of Southern See VOLLEYBALL, page 11

f you found yourself on Library Walk last Tuesday, you might have seen a San Diego State University student’s (or students’) cave paintings chalked on the ground. The depictions aired out some long-held stereotypes surrounding UCSD — that the females attending UCSD are unattractive, that the campus is socially dead and that our Division II sports programs and lack of a football team are laughable.

However crudely executed, the chalk art reminded me of a game I attended at the beginning of the calendar year, pitting the UCSD men’s basketball team against SDSU. Over halfway through the game, with a healthy lead in hand, the Aztec fans started a “younger brother” chant.

Was the chant derogatory? Sure, even if SDSU’s Chase Tapley looks like he could be UCSD point guard James McCann’s senior by 10 plus years. But was it a case of bullying, or from a place of spite? I don’t think so. The city of San Diego needs a hometown rivalry, and UCSD is the heir apparent to challenge SDSU. The two are both state-funded institutions in San Diego, with enrollment numbers comparable to each other.

The only problem is UCSD’s youth, or rather SDSU’s antiquity.

SDSU, established in 1897, is nearly twice as old as UCSD. The Aztecs have been competing in the NCAA since 1926, with a football program already in place. SDSU moved to the California Collegiate Athletics Association — the conference UCSD currently competes in — in 1939. It wasn’t until 1969 that SDSU moved into Division I competition.

SDSU’s athletic department’s cycle to maturity is not uncommon, but UCSD’s race to maturation may be. Note, it took SDSU 29 years to move into NCAA competition, and another 30 years to make the jump from Division II to Division I. Allowing for improvements in NCAA infrastructure enabling more easily attainable upward mobility, UCSD seems to be on a comparable track. Beginning competition in the late 1960s, it was an independent in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics before moving to Division III in the late 1970s. In 2000, UCSD moved to Division II competition and in 2011 UCSD pitched a move to the Big West, when we were ousted by the University of Hawaii. And in 2012, UCSD voted down the Division I referendum.

If our “older brothers” are going to teach us anything — and it won’t be organic chemistry — maybe it’s patience. It might be a good 25 years before UCSD moves to Division I, but in the meantime, let’s get the support of the student body, let’s build up our base. SDSU’s just an older sibling impatient to play a competitive game of H.O.R.S.E. with his kid brother. And they’re not the only ones. I’d like to make the trip to Viejas Arena and see a close match between same-city universities (or something a little closer than SDSU’s 80–56 exhibition blowout to kickoff UCSD’s basketball season).

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