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he much-anticipated Cataracs concert has been rescheduled from Oct. 20 to Nov. 16 due to personal scheduling issues with the hip-hop indie duo. Despite being scheduled to perform at UCSD this week, posts on their twitter page show that the Cataracs are currently in Brazil recording their album and will be there for the remainder of October. “HOLY MOTHER OF MARY,” The Cataracs tweeted on Oct. 11. “WE MADE IT! WE SHALL BE LIVING IN A CASTLE IN BUZIOS, BRASIL & MAKING OUR ALBUM
FOR THE REST OF THE MONTH.. vida!” University Centers publicly announced the date change on Oct. 18 without a reason for the change of date. “Obviously the change of date was due to an issue with the artist’s schedule but we worked hard to keep this show happening and to make sure that UCSD gets to see The Cataracs,” University Centers Special Events Coordinator Eliot Dreiband said in an email. Tickets purchased for the Oct. 20 concert are valid for the new concert date. Refunds will be available to students until Nov. 9 through the UCSD box office, according to the Associated Students Concerts & Events facebook page. “True, the rescheduled date is a bump in
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the road, but what’s in store for UCSD on Nov. 16 with the Cataracs is now bigger and better,” the University Centers Marketing & Programs Office said in a statement to the Guardian. The concert will take place at the Price Center West Ballroom at 9 p.m. “We are so juiced that we got to make up our date at UCSD in November,” The Cataracs said in a statement. “We’ve been recording a bunch of new music that we’ll be debuting for you guys.” Additional tickets are available through the UCSD box office for $20. Readers can contact Laira Martin at lmm002@ ucsd.edu
Amidst a year of budget cuts and closures, the UCSD libraries and students will benefit from a new endowment of $1.1 million from the Alice G. Marquis Living Trust, the university announced Oct. 11. The grant will help offset the last year’s $3 million cut to the university’s library 2011-12 budget as the university faces a $60 million school-wide cut in funding from the state. The cuts are a result of Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposed in Jan. 11, which cut $500 million from the entire UC system. In response to the planned closures of four major university library resources — three have already closed — part of the grant will be allocated to the creation of a new 24-hour study area in Geisel Library – open five days a week – scheduled to begin operation in fall 2012. “This helps students because now they have access to a 24-hour study space,” Academic Senate Library Committee undergraduate representative Anish Bhayani said. “This is something that students have been begging for since the beginning. It is definitely a big win for students in terms of having more access to study space during the school year.” Previously, Geisel Library has only hosted 24-hour study areas during Week 10 and finals week. This will still be the case for 2011-12 — the new “24/5” study areas will not be open until next fall. “This gift will benefit students as well as faculty by providing funds to support See grant, page 3
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conduct code revisions to be enacted by 2012 By Kashi Khorasani Staff Writer The Student Conduct Code Revision Workgroup will hold final consultation sessions in the coming weeks and is expected to have a draft of the code finalized by winter quarter. “The goal is to have the Code ready for full implementation in Fall 2012,” Director of Career Services Center Andy Ceperley and Director of Student Conduct Benjamin White said. All registered UCSD students, academics and staff received an email from the Office of the Vice Chancellor earlier this week, informing them of the current public input period. “A draft of the revised Code, an updated presentation schedule, and other related materials are available on the web
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Glowing Jellyfish Proteins Used in Gene Tagging to Find Degenerative Diseases
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obel Prize Winner and UCSD professor of biochemisty Dr. Roger Tsien used glowing proteins from jellyfish to track genes and look for degenerative diseases in brains. The process of gene tagging — a commonly used technique for tracking genes in cell biology, molecular biology and biochemistry — is a technique created by Tsien, who won a Nobel Prize in 2008 for his discovery in green fluorescent protein (GFP). He created genetically engineered bacteria capable of producing differentlycolored fluorescent proteins. Scientists use these glowing proteins to effectively track the location and time when certain genes are expressed in cells, and to isolate specific proteins within organisms. To make a gene glow, gene coding for the GFP is fused with the gene for a fluorescent protein. This causes the GFP to glow, allowing scientists to track its location within a cell or an entire organism.
GFPs have many useful applications. Researchers can use these fluorescent proteins to highlight neural circuits within the brain, which could help researchers discover defecting circuitry that causes degenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzhemier’s disease. In 1995, Tsien determined how GFP became fluorescent, then his discovery to create mutant forms of GFP and differently-colored proteins. This single point mutation increased the effectiveness of GFP and broadened its spectrum of colors as well. Tsien spoke of the significance of having a range of proteins that each emits unique colors. “Basically you can monitor many signals at once inside the cell, and you can monitor interactions of proteins by the phenomenon of fluorescence resonance energy transfer,” Tsien said in a Dec. 6, 2008 interview with Nobelprize.org. Tsien initially had difficulty making the original wild-type GFP — the standard form of a species
as it appears in nature — useful, because it was easily influenced by its environment. It was harvested from jellyfish. “One remarkable property of the original jellyfish protein is that it actually isn’t just green. It excites, well it emits green, but it excites mostly in the UV, and only a small amount in the blue,” Tsien said. “And that’s a strange paradoxical phenomenon because we discovered that almost any mutation of one amino acid right next to the chromophore will shift it to being all of one or all of the other - either all UV or all blue.” Scientists do not yet understand why the jellyfish proteins glow. “One of the great mysteries that I’ve never figured out is why the jellyfish chose the only amino acid that would compromise, and be schizophrenic, and be partly UV and partly blue in its absorbance,” Tsien said. “And it could have so easily shifted it to all of one or all of the other. Instead it’s preserved this split character. We don’t know why.” Scientists can manipulate amino
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Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Pays Council a Visit Yesterday, A.S. Council had yet another adorable moment as Muir College Council addressed the council with a gift of a pot painted with “MCC [heart] AS.” Everyone was touched by this moving moment. (Guardian snaps.) A.S. Council was also very pleased to have special guest Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Natalie Covate Penny Rue speak ncovate@ucsd.edu to them. “You have set yourself apart from other students by your willingness to serve fellow students and sitting in on sometimes achingly long meetings,” Rue said. “I want you to think about your hopes and aspirations for this year. When you get to the end of next spring, what do you want to be known for?” Yes, what do you want to be remembered for, council? No pressure. It’s only your legacy. “Working with you is one of the highlights of my job,” Rue said. “I’m delighted to look for individual opportunities to help you achieve your goals.” Council addressed Rue with the conflict Hullabaloo had with Marshallpalooza. This conflict caused Marshallpalooza to move from Friday of week eight to Thursday. “People like their traditions, but students enjoy things like the Unolympics and Spirit Night that remind you that you’re a part of something bigger than yourself,” Rue said. “You’re going to come back in 10 years and think, ‘Holy Moses, I had a part in making [Hullabaloo] happen.’” The Afghan Student Organization addressed the council with its request for $33,029 for their American
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Medical Overseas Relief fundraising event. It will be a comedy show on Friday, Dec. 3 starting at 6 p.m. “[AMOR thinks it is] important to make sure that it is not just Americans running a hospital, but that they are teaching Afghans how to do it themselves,” Co-President of the Afghan S t u d e n t Organization Nilofer Hamed said. A.S. Council passed the budget at $14,794, since the council can only pass half of external contracts. This was followed by a special presentation from the Student Conduct Code committee. The new conduct code has officially entered public input. Eventually we finally made it to my favorite segment. “I have been receiving input that Council Member of the Week needs a little more excitement,” Vice President of Student Life Meredith Madnick said, to my utmost excitement. “So I have added a runway component, where the new Council Member of the Week will need to strut their stuff while I explain why they are being awarded.” Let me say I was delighted to watch Vice President of Finances and Resources Kevin Hoang do the catwalk, strutting and turning while wearing the infamous bright blue, glittery sash we all adore. Work it, Hoang, work it. Council finally announced the appointment of Freshman Senators Shahrzad Gustafson, Vincent Honrubia and Andrew Clark as well as Transfer Senators Steven Kim and Diana Lee. Congrats, kiddos.
Additonal 260 Study Seats Will be Added to Geisel in Fall 2012 ▶ grant, from page 1 our collections, especially in History,” University Librarian Brian E. C. Schottlaender said in an email. “Students will be very positively impacted next fall, when our new 24/5 study area will open in Geisel.” Last February, the university administration announced the closure of four university libraries, including the Center for Library & Instructional Computing Services and the International Relations & Pacific Studies Library. Schottlaender said that though the gift is much appreciated, it wouldn’t be enough to reopen the libraries that closed last year. “In spite of this bequest, the university and the libraries continue to face severe budget
cuts as the State’s situation shows no signs of improving,” Schottlaender said. According to a university press release, approximately 800 study seats were lost in the closures. As part of A.S. Council’s May 2011 “Save Our Libraries Campaign,” 126 new computer workstations will be added in Geisel during Fall Quarter and over 260 new study seats will be added next year. The Geisel expansion is expected to be completed during summer of 2012. In addition to the study lounges, a portion of the gift will be used to enhance and maintain the library’s collection, and will also fund the H. Stuart Hughes UCSD Libraries Endowment for Modern European History.
The Alice G. Marquis Living Trust is named after a UCSD alumna who graduated with a doctorate in modern European history in 1979. The trust’s donation is the biggest single donation ever made to the university’s libraries. Marquis was a Holocaust survivor who immigrated to New York City after fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938. She passed away in 2009. The collections of the closed libraries are being merged into the university’s two remaining libraries, the Biomedical Library and Geisel. It could take up to three years to complete the consolidation of the libraries. The Scripps Institute of Oceanography Library is scheduled to close in 2012, though the exact date has not been set. Readers can contact Zev Hurwitz at zhurwitz@ucsd.edu
Conduct Code Feedback Positively Reinforces Simplified Language ▶ student conduct, from page 1 site. Please provide your feedback on the draft Code either via the web site or directly to the work group’s chair as identified on the site,” Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Penny Rue said in the university-wide email. Any affiliate of the university is encouraged to submit comments regarding the revisions visible in the draft last updated on April 29, 2011. Consultations are being held throughout this quarter with various university committees and other entities such as the six college councils and the Graduate Student Association. A general forum open to all student organizations is being held Oct. 20. “Much of the feedback we’ve already received has supported the simplification of how the code is written and the overall student conduct process.” Ceperley and White said. In comparison to the existing code — last revised on Aug. 29,
2008 — the new draft contains less legal language and unnecessary text. Despite lengthening the introduction and adding a new “definitions” section, the writers shortened the document. Most sections are seeing minor formatting and phrasing adjustments, but the guidelines for the appeals process is undergoing major changes. In the established code, the Council of Provosts is designated as a secondary judicial body open only for appeals involving multiple students from more than one jurisdiction. The council would be more prevalent as the sole board of appeals for undergraduate students. Currently, if a sanction is imposed upon a student or student organization, an appeal can be made within seven academic days after the notice is given. Under the new conduct code, the appeal must be made within 10 business days. “A major goal of the workgroup has been to review best practices
from campuses across the country. The workgroup has reviewed and adopted Code provisions from the UC System wide Student Conduct Code, two Model Student Conduct Codes and Codes from the University of Maryland, the University of Florida, Rutgers University, and other public and private institutions.” Ceperley and White said. The workgroup, chaired by Ceperley, consists of 24 members. Constituents of the committee include a number of UCSD affiliates such as A.S. Council members, Graduate Student Association members and college deans. In May 2009, Rue charged these representatives with the task of reviewing and improving the Student Conduct Code in hopes of enhancing the campus atmosphere. Readers can contact Kashi Khorasani at kkhorasa@ucsd.edu
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Students, Assemble
The Occupy College movement is a prime opportunity for students to take part in history, but whether the protests will make a difference is still uncertain.
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n an effort to address the issues of higher education, college students plan on bringing the protest closer to home with the Occupy Colleges movement, slated to start on Thursday, Oct. 20. This is a chance for college students to make an impact on a social movement that is quickly growing in importance. Media outlets are not the only ones picking up the hype — social media is flooding with pictures, videos and blogs that illustrate the urgency of the movement. Occupy Colleges is acknowledging a top-down issue: the small minority at the top of the hierarchy makes pivotal decisions affecting students. But in spite of all the justified anger, students may not have the pull — or strength in numbers — to fix this persistent hierarchical problem. The Occupy Wall Street campaign that began on Sept. 17 is looking to stoke the flames of social and economic discontent by pointing a finger at the fat cats on Wall Street and anyone else in the top 1 percent of incomeearners. What began as a small protest against corporate greed in downtown Manhattan has grown to become a loosely cobbled nationwide movement. With a more modest set of grievances than its New York cousin, the college-based protests aim to express concern over the students’ inability to find employment upon graduation, while concurrently facing undue amounts of educational debt. California’s education system has seen $15 billion in cuts the past four years and employers are only adding 11,000 net jobs this year. But while Occupy Colleges has a relatable mission, it lacks the narrow demands that other successful protests have had in the past. For example, the Freedom Riders from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s traveled to Mississippi to register black voters and thus integrate them politically
to increase equality. Students today must channel their indignation towards one particular adversary — without focus, the movement is merely a waste of poster board. If students could establish clear grievances and take responsibility in eliminating them, then the vast education groups could make substantial strides. Students are not the only ones to protest in the name of education — teachers have already come out in vast numbers in the Occupy L.A. effort. They are fighting the major cuts in education and the enormous salary gap between the top district executives and the subordinates. While the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles agreed to a 12 percent pay cut to save jobs, the Los Angeles Unified School District hired nine new administrators for six-figure salaries. Re Corporations often fund be ka h salaries for executives to influHW an ence their decisions for personal g/ Gu benefit instead of the best interests of ar di an the students and educators. The United Teachers of Los Angeles provides an example of an organized union with a purpose, definitive leadership and stated grievances, including the fact that over 1,000 staffers were laid off despite a $55 million in surplus and classroom sizes pushing 40 students per teacher. According to the Occupy Colleges website, the movement has students from 150 colleges participating across the country. Two UCLA graduates, a California State University Northridge student and a California community college student started the movement. It’s no wonder that California students are leading the movement — with California having the second-highest unemployment rate in the country and with 150,000 students turned away from California community colleges last year, it’s time students’ voices See Protest, page 5
Early Budget Night Due to Slate Supermajority and Advance Planning
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ast Wednesday, with a combination of prior planning and might makes right, A.S. Council passed its 2011-12 executive budget in just over an hour. The one-hour figure may not seem like much, but it’s heartstoppingly impressive given that our motley group of campus bureaucrats was once known for 12-hour meetings spent debating exciting topics, such as whether to fund the Loft or not. And when it came to the budget meeting, which determines the annual funding allocations and is the guiding document of our student government, senators, executives and Guardian A.S. columnists alike knew that making it to a Thursday 8 a.m. class was unlikely. This year’s success can be traced back to two factors, one of them that is out of the control of future aspiring politicians and the other a new idea that should be continued. First, our current council benefits enormously from being chock-full of members that ran on the same political slate and thus
have the same priorities and voting patterns. This time last year, thenA.S. President Wafa Ben Hassine was fighting a losing battle in the midst of divided government. Ben Hassine of the Students First! slate was alone in the executive council and struggled to push through her diversity- and tuition-oriented initiatives; the rest of the council were awash with the yellow of Tritons First and were less than impressed with either her ideas or the execution of them. When it came to the executive budget, Ben Hassine created a draft — presumably the one she thought would be discussed — that implemented an 8-percent across-the-board cut. Dissatisfied council members — including then-Vice President of Student Life Kristina Pham, the second in command, who disagreed with her allocations and created an alternative budget that preserved the funding for student orgs and events such as Bear Garden, while removing the senators’ $10 weekly stipend. They sprung this budget on Ben Hassine
on the day of the budget meeting. Frustration ensued. This time around, there was no such repeat; with over 90 percent of council elected from President Alyssa Wing’s Board the Wing slate, these preexisting connections were nothing but an asset to cooperation. But while the biggest aid to a painless budget is working with people who agree with you, A.S. Council should still be commended for its planning initiatives, especially its open communication and work done before the day of the meeting. Kudos to Vice President of Finance Kevin Hoang for creating a Budget Appropriations Committee dedicated to reviewing past spending trends. His efforts toward compiling descriptions of line items and making presentations regarding the budget ensured that other council members were prepared coming in to discuss the allocations themselves, instead of bogging down the process with questions that could have been answered weeks before. Future councils should take note of the process
that made passing the budget as relatively painless as it was on Oct. 12 — while there’s no way to guarantee another single-slate council, the Budget Appropriations Committee should continue working before meetings so less fighting will occur on the council floor.
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Set Your Phasers to Stun: Free Swag at Comic-Con
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he marathon known as the San Diego Comic-Con only comes around once a year, spilling a bonanza of free swag onto the laps of every lucky attendee. It
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can range from the truly absurd (an Edgar Allen Poe 3-D glasses mask from Francis Ford Coppola), to the unbelievably fantastic (I got a mockingjay pin, bitches). The skill set needed to snatch this swag out from under the noses of more than 125,000 competing attendees includes having the tenacity of a linebacker, an eagle eye and a pair of very sharp elbows as weapons. This is perhaps the only way you can survive by ducking and weaving past waves of gawking masses, all inexplicably bent on taking a picture with a child dressed as Thor. One thing to keep in mind before heading into the fray: You can’t win them all. Nothing threw me off my game like seething in resentment over missing out on a Gears of War dog tag giveaway. First world problems. After a quick dose of perspective and the realization that the guy in front of me was jealously eyeing my fat roll of posters (still not a euphemism), I felt ready to tackle the line forming outside the FOX pavilion. I also had to remember that I wasn’t the only fan. At Comic-Con, it doesn’t matter how obscure your interests are — this isn’t an indie rock convention. I thought I liked the Guild — well, so did a thousand other people, all of whom seemed determined to date Felicia Day’s avatar. So no matter who you want to see, or what free giveaway you want to hit up, keep in mind that you will probably have to shove your way past hordes of other crazy people. And this brings up the age-old question: line up or just fight to the death? I guess the general rule was that if a line was already formed, people should follow it. Well, except for a particularly rabid FOX poster giveaway — to spite the line-cutters, I just took the entire stack of limited edition Bones posters and left. If you find yourself in the middle of a sweaty mob, gyrating to the beat of a free t-shirt giveaway, try and flank the mob by pushing to the right or left of the booth. If all else fails — try sympathy. I’m not going to say that using puppy dog eyes will get you a free Marvel t-shirt, but my pile of Wolverine crap can speak for itself. By the last day of the convention, vendors will invariably run out of free swag to give away. Fans even tapped out Lionsgate’s seemingly bottomless pit of Hunger Games posters. I was saddened. I only got ten posters. So the moral of the story is: hit the booths hard for free stuff in the first few days — some employees are more lax about giving things away in the first couple of days anyways. And above all, try and have fun. Comic-Con may have been a dementor-like essence that nearly sucked my life force away, but I’ll be damned if it wasn’t the best four days of my life.
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The Mental fishbowl By Alex Nguyen
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Jacobs Shouldn’t be in Chancellor Committee
Movement Must Channel Focus to Create Change ▶ Protest, from page 4 are heard. With such a vast movement, it is impossible for one person to push the pedals. Occupy Colleges is leaderless, and students hope to keep it that way in the spirit of a collective voice. But this proved detrimental last week at the University of Minnesota when miscommunication and lack of organization brought its activism to a halt, as the university’s planned protest was greeted by only a handful of students. But U of Minnesota students agree that attendance would drastically increase with more advertising and hype. The students care about the protest, it is just a matter of expelling the information. Occupy Colleges faces the challenge of having 150 individual protests across the country and no clear solution on how to centralize action. But a movement like this is more possible than ever with the aid of social media. The Wall Street protests drew media attention
through YouTube videos that featured police attacking protesters. According to the Occupy Colleges Twitter page, the protests are scheduled to take place every two weeks so that students can balance their classes while keeping the sentiment present until there is a significant result. This sounds like an effective plan but the likeliness that people will continue to show up even after the trendiness of the movement fades is unlikely. If past performance is any indicator of present, this will be a rally that one attends for three hours on Thursday and then kicks back to see if they made it on the news. Occupy Colleges has strength in press, but now it is a matter of commitment and endurance. This is an opportunity for anyone who has ever been slighted out of taking an overcrowded required course, stressed over crushing student loans, or has boldly cried out, “I’m part of the 99 percent!” Change is possible — we have the technology. Now we just need you.
Dear Editor, Dr. Irwin Jacobs is on the committee to select the new UCSD Chancellor. He should not be on the committee, as he has contributed $2 million to the refurbishment of the University House, the Chancellor’s official residence: $1 million before, and $1 million after he received the Chancellor’s Medal from the current Chancellor. Indeed, the entire residence at 9630 La Jolla Farms Road should be given back to the Indians (it was constructed on a burial site). It is to have 20 dedicated parking spaces. It is to have a 100 ft. long, 13 ft. high (above grade) retaining wall. Eleven to 13 piers are to be drilled to a depth of 30 ft. and would function to provide gross and surface stabilization to the wall. Dr. Irwin Jacobs and his team at Linkabit (precursor of Qualcomm) developed a coding scheme used by NASA for deep space probes still in use today and developed variableaperture satellites. Since “Dr. Jacobs is one of San Diego’s leading statesman and his company Qualcomm changed the way modern man communicates,” The San Diego Air and Space Museum will induct Dr. Jacobs, along with an astronaut and several other famous military pilots, into their Hall of Fame on Nov. 5, 2011. I attended the memorial service at the Balboa Naval Hospital across from said museum three days before Easter of this year for Seaman Benjamin D. Rast, who was killed by a “friendly” Hellcat missile fired from a Predator drone in Afghanistan earlier this month. The Pentagon says marines in Afghanistan and the crew controlling the drone in Nevada
were unaware analysts watching the firefight via live video in Indiana who had doubts about the targets’ identity. “Unmanned aircraft is taking on increasingly difficult missions. However, in the fog of war, there are still situations where you need a pilot’s instinct inside the cockpit,” an analyst said. “If the military has a plane that can do both missions, it may save money on maintenance personnel and spare parts. It’s the same engine. It’s the same airframe. The only difference is how it’s piloted.” Dr. Jacobs emphatically was not the drone pilot. Yet the costs of failed scientific experiments at UCSD and elsewhere in the University of California system were socialized by grants and fees paid to public higher education by the federal and state governments, and by students and their parents — while the profits were privatized by Irwin M. Jacobs, by former UCSD Chancellor and University President Emeritus Richard C. Atkinson, by Andrew Viterbi (also of Qualcomm) and by many others. You may want to start reviewing a federal judge’s ruling early last month citing California law that Juno, plaintiff, had to put up a $800,000 bond before proceeding to trial in a patents-infringement lawsuit against Qualcomm. —Richard Thompson Alumnus ‘83 ▶ The Guardian welcomes letters from its readers. All letters must be addressed, and written, to the editor of the Guardian. Letters are limited to 500 words, and all letters must include the writer’s name, college and year (undergraduates), department (graduate students or professors) or city of residence (local residents). A maximum of three signatories per letter is permitted. The Guardian Editorial Board reserves the right to edit for length, accuracy, clarity and civility. The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject letters for publication. Due to the volume of mail we receive, we do not confirm receipt or publication of a letter.
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in my library that can’t be denied. I have Ke$ha. Some Drake. Jamiroquai. The entire Britney Spears discography. Several albums of “wizard rock.” Worst of all, more Bruce Springsteen than anyone who isn’t my mother or from New Jersey should ever have. Clearly, there’s no hiding my love for pop music (and Harry Potter). But I’m not ashamed. I hate the idea of the “guilty pleasure” — if you like something, you like something, and I see no point in lying to people about it to seem cool. I’ll admit, there are some things that I’d rather keep on the down-low (namely, my obsession with “Moves Like Jagger”). Too bad Spotify and Facebook are out to get me. When Spotify came to the U.S. this summer I was undeniably stoked. The streaming music service has a library of over 15 million tracks, ranging from the obscure to the Top 40; you just have to sit through a few ads an hour to access it all. The only downside: Your friends can see exactly what you’re listening to. As soon as you set up your Spotify account, the service reminds you to connect with your Facebook. A sidebar is then activated, which includes a list of all your Facebook friends who are using Spotify. Their profiles feature the top artists and songs they’ve been listening to, as well as playlists they’ve made on iTunes or Spotify itself. You can make any of this as private as you want; the problem is, most don’t realize how public their playlists are until too late. Not everyone was meant to see See horizon page 8
THE WAR ON DRUGS When: Oct. 21, 8:30 p.m. Where: The Soda Bar Tickets: $8 Phone: (619) 255-7224 Online: sodabarmusic.com
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espite their ominous moniker, Philadelphia’s the War on Drugs are less concerned with the contemporary dangers of narcotics than they are with digging out backroom obscurities at the local record shop. The group’s sophomore release, Slave Ambient, filters classic Americana through a lo-fi, psych rock lens, crafting a unique brand of retro rock. Rugged frontman Adam Granduciel spoke with the Guardian this week to discuss the band’s recent tour and return to California, which will land them in San Diego on Oct. 21. “Good Mexican food… great guitar shops…the reefer…awesome crowds,” Granduciel recalled as personal highlights of past SoCal tour dates — a brief, yet fitting list for the young working-class warrior. The War on Drugs hasn’t slacked off since the departure of co-founding member and rising solo artist Kurt Vile in 2008. Slave Ambient
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is a bold step forward in terms of songwriting and overall cohesiveness from War on Drugs’ full-length debut Wagonwheel Blues. “The first one was more of a collection of songs that I had that got put onto a record,” Granduciel said. “This one I began and ended as a record.”
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Plus, despite several line-up overhauls since the band’s formation in 2005, Granduciel feels confident that the current War on Drugs collective will remain recording and touring indefinitely.
While listeners and critics might be quick to parallel Slave Ambient’s rambling swagger with that of classic rock singers/songwriters like Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen, Granduciel is first to object. He insists that motivation comes more from the lesserknown forefathers of alternative music, such as Krautrockers Neu! and countless electronic composers of the late ’70s. These nuances certainly do reveal themselves on Slave Ambient, be it in the motorik drum rhythms (of Neu!) or the atmospheric electronics that engulf the tracks and transition between them. According to Granduciel, the most interesting experience on tour so far (which included shooting the shit with the likes of Dan Bejar, Craig Finn, and A.C. Newman) was when legendary Detroit producer Christopher Koltay (Iggy Pop and MC5) unexpectedly dropped in on one of their shows. See drugs page 7
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Mandeville Center / oct. 21, 8 p.m. / free The original vampire movie, F.W. Murnau’s 1922 classic “Nosferatu” makes the pale, whiny kids on “Twilight” look like a bunch of schoolyard bitches. And despite its age, “Nosferatu” is as terrifying and beautiful as ever. The silent film will be accompanied by a live performance of a new original score by the San Diego New Music Collective. What better way to get in the Halloween spirit? (RE)
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Gaslamp 15 & Town Square 14 / oct. 20-25, 7 p.m. / $5 What do you get when you devote an entire month to the master of suspense? Hitchcocktober. If the name doesn’t amuse you enough, the month-long celebration (already underway) gives you the opportunity to check out some of Hitchcock’s classics on the big screen. This week’s offerings include “The Man Who Knew Too Much” at Town Square 14 on Oct. 20, “Rear Window” at Gaslamp 15 on Oct. 22 and “Psycho” at Gaslamp 15 on Oct. 25. (AS)
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▶ drugs from page 6 “He was at one of our shows playing shuffle board, and I couldn’t believe he actually showed up,” Granduciel said. “I mean, he recorded some of the greats. We went back to his house — he has the MC5 royalties so he’s doing pretty well for himself — and he took us out to his recording studio that’s 100 yards out on Lake Eerie. It’s a floating studio on the lake. The guy had all our records!” It’s easy to imagine Granduciel living off the grid, too; the War on Drugs’ taste for obscurities is hardly traditional. But, like a random structure in the midst of a Great Lake, the band’s music is one impressive puzzle.
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Spotify Makes Playlists Public ▶ horizon from page 6 your Makeout mix — especially not your Facebook “friends” (who, in all likelihood, include family and coworkers). But that ain’t the worst of it: Unless you’re wise enough to deactivate the feature yourself, Facebook will post every song you listen to on your Facebook wall. And that new mini-feed on the side of your page? It will be buzzing with all the Usher you decided to use as a distraction from your literature reading. See, I didn’t know this at first. One day, I opened Spotify to make a playlist for my friend. I had been telling her about my obsession with ’60s girl groups and decided to send her my favorites. But, before I started pouring over Spotify’s endless stream of Phil Spector-produced jams, the service asked me if I wanted to connect to my Facebook. I assumed that this meant, Last.fm style, that Spotify might track my listening habits and send me recommendations — not that it would notify everyone I know what I’m listening to when I’m listening to it, in a sort of hipster James Joyce-type stream of consciousness. Now, my friends can wonder why I was listening to so much Diana Ross on a random Saturday afternoon. I guess for some this might be a desirable feature. It’s a great way of hearing about new music and stalking your friends. But I think there’s something worrisome about how much our music collections are becoming public. While I love sharing new tunes with my friends, the act of pouring over a new record alone in my room (without any judgment) — and then recommending it personally to the friends who’d appreciate it most — sounds way more appealing than watching songs fly by on a feed. So call me a musical Luddite, whatever. I won’t be letting anyone see my dad-rock playlist anytime soon.
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Breaking Bad Godfather of theatrical art-folk makes triumphant return
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meaning of the word. Bad as Me, Waits’ 17th studio LP, opens with the cacophony of banjo, brass and the ragtime key-pounding of “Chicago” — an instant “Great Train Robbery”-style classic and defiant reminder that Waits is louder and irresistibly weirder than ever. Echoing the port of call sea-chanty of Rain Dogs opener “Singapore,” Waits delivers the same booming vocal energy, this time dropping anchor amid sleeker production and a surprising focus on cohesive songwriting. In true “why-the-hell-not” fashion, the aging Waits enlisted a team of A-list rockers for Bad as Me, each sounding less like a collaborator and more like an actor leafing through Waits’ meticulously paced musical: Flea’s crawling
bassline faintly pulsates beneath “Raised Right Men”’s sleazy, bayou stomp and gypsy jazz guitar, while Keith Richards’ acoustic noodling creates a pleasant fireside atmosphere for Waits’ tortured poetry on introspective southern ballad “Last Leaf.” But Bad as Me shines even brighter when Waits strips down the brass stabs and kitchen cabinet percussion, placing his brilliant songwriting and Closing Timeera croon in the smoky barroom spotlight. Showstopper “Back In The Crowd” finds a forlorn Waits, accompanied solely by lazy, luau guitars and brushed drums, delivering a chorus that is both simple and achingly tender. Album climax “Satisfied” — a tongue-in-cheek Waits-rock
response to the Rolling Stones’ “I Can’t Get No” — is simultaneously a tribute to his peers (Richards also appears on the track), and a smiling jab at the ultrastylish generation to which he played mysterious crackpot uncle. “Mr. Jagger and Mr. Richards / I will scratch what I’ve been itchin / Before I’m gone,” Waits growls partway through. It’s a bold statement at an age where most fading legends are prone to “cute” and “nostalgic” deathbed releases, but Waits has never really been one to embrace subtlety. With an album brimming with as much youthful passion and creativity as Bad as Me, he has no reason to. — Ren Ebel Hiatus Editor
Only Sleeping French producer cranks out career’s worth of dream pop jams
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fter five solid albums and a three-year break, Anthony Gonzalez (aka M83) returns with a vast, enriched sound on Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming — an epic double LP in which the song-
writer tones down the reverb in favor of a kind of retro space-pop. Slightly tweaking the more ambient-pop sound of past jams like “Run Into Flowers,” tracks such as first single “Midnight City” layer energetic synths, danceable basslines and delicate, ghastly harmonies on top of Anthony Gonzalez’s usual wall of drone. This early track — a solid, infectious pop gem — provides a break from the denser soundscapes Gonzales returns to later in the album. “Wait” utilizes these soundscapes — or indiscernible layers of reverb — while easing into soft
acoustic guitar chords and floating synth bleeps, making for a melancholy slow dance. Beck producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen interjects orchestral moments that meld perfectly with Gonzalez’s tender, echoing vocals. Transitioning straight into “Raconte-Moi Une Histoire,” Gonzalez lays a vocal sample of a young girl expressing her colorful imagination over simple synth loops and a steady, snapping beat. The strong imagery is reminiscent of some lost home video, simultaneously eerie and gorgeous — a spoton recreation of childhood emotion.
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Latter tracks like “OK Pal” adopt the sounds of the greatest in ’80s pop; Genesis’ reverbed harmonies, DEVO’s funky synth riffs and Spacemen 3’s muffled, oscillating keyboards all reinforce the hazy memory of a first love. On Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, M83 marks its strongest collection to date, affirming not only Gonzalez’s prowess in electronic production, but also his promising move into charming, cohesive songwriting. — Tanner Cook Staff Writer
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Suzuki Should Stay the Course ▶ HOWE, from page 12
the late ’80s with its GSXR-750, the first fully faired “race bike with lights” that has become commonplace with other manufacturers since. But in recent years Suzuki has started pulling back from what it created, making sports bikes with the best blend between ergonomics and rider comfort, sacrificing some of the rider’s ability to rage around corners and down straightaways. Following this trend, and the fact that the manufacturer did not import any bikes to the U.S. for 2011 due to the economic recession, there are fears that Suzuki will be pulling its support from Rizla Suzuki, its factory racing team in MotoGP. While Ducati has had Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden testing the GP12, and Honda has had Stoner on the RC213V, Suzuki has reportedly not been working on a new bike for the 1000cc rule change next year. While MCN.com has reported that negotiations within Suzuki are “positive” and that the company would like to remain in the series, there have been no promises. The trend of manufacturers dropping out of MotoGP is not new. As recently as 2009, Kawasaki’s “Team Green” MotoGP team was pulled, leaving local San Diegan John “Hopper” Hopkins without a bike and temporarily ending his MotoGP career. Aprilia also dropped out in 2004 and Ilmor dropped in 2007 after only two years of competing. In every case, the manufacturer failed on the racetrack and followed with poor sales, forcing a rebudgeting program that wound up cutting the MotoGP branch of the company. In the 2011 season Rizla Suzuki did not have a good year, beginning when their only team rider, Alvaro Bautista, broke his femur in a practice session in the opening race at Qatar. Following a string of poor 12th place finishes, Bautista did get his confidence back up to finish 5th at Silverstone. However, he crashed in two races in a row at Laguna Seca and Brno, then again at Motegi and in slippery conditions at Philip Island.
This has left Alvaro and Rizla Suzuki in 12th place, the lowest factory team in the series. These lackluster results certainly do not inspire a racing following, and the bigwigs at Suzuki may be thinking that with its team doing so poorly and sales doing relatively well in spite of this, they can cut their factory sponsorship and maintain sales. While it is true that their middleweight bikes, the GSX-R 600 and 750, have had great success thanks to their 2011 full redesign, the Suzuki’s flagship liter bike actually has the lowest sales of the big four Japanese manufacturers. With most new sports bikes sold as liter bikes — the reason why BMW has decided not to produce a middleweight as a step down from the barn-storming S1000RR — this does not bode well for Suzuki. A new 1000cc MotoGP bike from Suzuki would excite fans and would help Suzuki catch back up with the competition’s standard ABS and with the stronger engines in the liter bike class. New technology from 1000cc MotoGP bikes (currently 800cc) would almost bolt on parts as per the new rules for 2012. Quitting MotoGP for Suzuki, in the coming year, would be a major step in the wrong direction. With a lagging flagship, uninspired performance and sluggish steering reflected in its MotoGP race bike — the GSV-R — Suzuki needs to stay in MotoGP for 2012. Despite the relatively strong sales overall, the lack of a standout liter bike may spell disaster, although MotoGP is the perfect place to develop new parts for its next offering. If successes such as Yamaha’s R1 cross-plane technology, Honda’s V4 engines in the early nineties or Ducati’s traction control system are not evidence enough of technological revamping, Suzuki should look back to its own “race bike with lights” roots. The bottom line is: the company that made the original superbike needs to stay in MotoGP to remain successful in the field they created over 20 years ago.
Tritons Break Undefeated Streak with 1-0 Loss ▶ W. SOCCER, from page 12 scoreless up until the 89th minute. With the clock winding down, freshman forward Cassie Callahan won the ball in Dominguez’s half. Callahan played a flighted ball to senior forward Courtney Capobianco, who deftly chipped it over the Dominguez keeper to win the game. Capobianco — who has played in only nine of UCSD’s 14 matches and has not recorded a start this season — has become something of a supersub for the Tritons. The goal against CSU Dominguez Hills puts her in second behind McTigue for goals scored this year. Capobianco’s game-winner also ended an offensive drought, in which UCSD had failed to score for the past three matches. “It was nice to put the game away in regulation,” Armstrong said. “[McTigue] and [Wethe]
stressed that we need to make the most out of every minute in every match, and put a little faith in our forwards.” With a 9-1-4 record overall (8-1-3 in the CCAA) and four games left in conference play, the Tritons are looking forward to the post-season. “We’ve positioned ourselves pretty well for the rest of the season,” Armstrong said. “We’re not going to overlook Humboldt. They’re a team that has nothing to lose, and can always surprised you, but we are gearing up for what we know will be an important game against Sonoma.” UCSD will host Humboldt State on Friday, Oct. 21 at 4:30 p.m. before their match against top of the North conference Sonoma State on Sunday, Oct. 23 at 12 p.m. Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ucsd.edu
UCSD Falls to CSULA 4-2, CSUDH 3-2 ▶ M. SOCCER, from page 12 ley off a pass from freshman forward Franco Cruz, bringing the score to 3-1. UCSD was only outshot by the Golden Eagles 16 to 13, but the Tritons struggled in the attack with the loss of sophomore forward Sam Ball, who was forced to sit out against CSU Los Angeles after he accrued five yellow cards in his 12 conference matches. The Golden Eagles netted another goal before the end of the game, as did UCSD’s sophomore forward Tsuk Haroush, but it wasn’t enough to collect a win. “We missed ours and they made theirs,” Pascale said. “We tried to get back into it with a goal, but [CSU Los Angeles] was just a much better team than we were tonight.” The Tritons fell to CSU Dominguez Hills on Sunday in much the same way. UCSD went down by three goals in the first half and were outshot by CSU Dominguez Hills 10-5. After allowing three goals and recording only one save — denying Dominguez Hills a penalty kick — UCSD goalkeeper Brennan was replaced in favor of sophomore goalkeeper Josh Cohen. Statistically, Cohen fared better, recording three saves while keeping the net clean for the remainder of the game. The Tritons had a difficult time in the attacking third as well. UCSD couldn’t seem to break down the
Toro backline, which played up high and smothered forwards Ball and junior Evan Walker. UCSD continued to push and with 10 minutes left were granted a penalty kick. Sophomore midfielder Cory Wolfrom converted from the spot. Less than a minute later, junior midfielder Alex Portela sent a free kick to the feet of sophomore defender Alec Arsht who put the ball past CSU Dominguez Hills goalkeeper, bringing the Tritons to within one with nine minutes left to play. “The guys started slow and dug themselves a hole, and did well to fight to get out of that,” assistant coach Eric Bucchere said. “But against a good team you find that that’s just not enough.” With a 6-8-0 overall record (5-7-0 in the CCAA) and only four games left in conference play, the Tritons will be hard-pressed for a post-season berth. “Looking forward we’re just trying to improve,” Bucchere said. “We’re going to use these next four games as opportunities for growth and to get better. We’re going to try and plug away and play the spoiler.” The Tritons will face off against bottom of the league Humboldt State on Friday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. On Sunday, Oct. 23, UCSD will look for the upset against top-ranked Sonoma State. Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ucsd.edu
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igh performance racing has long been both a brand marketing opportunity as well as a hotbed for advancing motorsport technology and development. Motorcycling particularly benefits directly from advanced technologies initially developed for MotoGP, the premier motorcycle racing category. This is because a person is 10 times more likely to track his or her bike after buying a sports bike than
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ne goal decided both games against CSU Los Angeles and CSU Dominguez Hills this weekend. In the midst of a 12-game undefeated streak — the longest since 1994 — the UCSD women’s soccer team dropped its first game 1-0 this season against No. 20 CSU Los Angeles on Friday in overtime. “It was a tough way to lose, but the chances were there for us to win the game, and we just weren’t brave enough to win the game, simple as that,” head coach Brian McManus said. “Unless you’re willing to be brave, and put your body in where it hurts, you’re not going to win. They were brave enough. They went hard into tackles. We didn’t.” Despite McManus’ misgivings, the Tritons still managed to play the soccer that has gotten them to the top of the league: getting the ball on the ground, moving it around the pitch and outshooting the Golden Eagles 14-8. All the team missed was composure in front of the net. “We only fell apart once during the game,” senior goalkeeper Kristin Armstrong said. “But it forced us to realize that we just need to finish our scoring opportunities.” The Tritons came close a number of times in the 94 minutes of play. Near the start of the game, 5’10” junior forward Gabi Hernandez won the ball in the air, connecting with senior forward Sarah McTigue. Just feet in front of the goal, McTigue misfired and sent the ball over the crossbar. UCSD suffered another near miss with just five minutes remaining in the regulation time period, when junior midfielder Danielle Dixon collected the ball just outside of the 18-yard box. Dixon sent a lofted shot that would have beat CSU Los Angeles keeper Jesse Walworth — if the ball hadn’t struck the crossbar. The score then remained drawn 0-0. In the fourth minute of overtime, CSU Los Angeles forward Cari Gill collected the ball on the right side of UCSD’s goal box. Gill sent a cross that saw its way through the Triton defense and found forward
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Gabbi Segall, who put a left-footed finish past Armstrong. “[The loss] could be a season breaker, it’s as simple as that,” McManus said after the game. “We’ve put ourselves in a deep hole with the two games last weekend and this weekend, and we haven’t turned out to play.” Safe to say, McManus was unhappy with the result, but despite Friday’s loss, UCSD still stood at the top of the conference with their No. 6 ranking intact going into the game on Sunday. But against the Toros, McManus’ squad looked as if they would be heading into overtime again, as the game remained
after buying a Camaro or a Ford, and for good reason. Sports bikes, percentage-wise, are nearer in horsepower and handling capabilities to their big brother race bikes. The 2012 MV Agusta F4 has a 1000cc v4 engine putting out a claimed 201 horsepower while the Honda RC212V racebike Casey Stoner, 2012 MotoGP world Champion, rode to victory this past weekend at Philip Island, Australia, has an 800cc v4 engine with 207 horsepower. Across the manufacturing board this fun fact holds true, whether you look at a Yamaha R1, Suzuki GSX-R 1000, or a BMW S1000RR. True race bikes are a mere 10k away from being in Joe Smo’s hands, so the opportunity to say my bike beat your bike this past weekend in MotoGP or AMA Superbike, is much closer to home than, say with NASCAR. In the Sprint Cup Series, the cars put out 850900 horsepower, nowhere near what Chevy, Ford, or Dodge sell in their showrooms. Manufacturers of sports motorcycles historically have concentrated on winning races with bikes as close as possible to what can be sold on dealership floors. Suzuki has traditionally led the pack in this respect, pioneering the field in
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he UCSD men’s golf team traveled up to Corning, Calif. on Tuesday, Oct. 18 to compete in the Lindsey Olive Wildcat Classic. The Tritons finished the two-day tournament in ninth place out of the 16 teams (representing Division II, Division III, and NAIA). UCSD sent a young squad up to Corning: three sophomores and two freshmen. Sophomore Lewis Simon was the Tritons’ top finisher, shooting a combined total of 229 in the three rounds. Sophomore David Smith finished in second for the Tritons with a combined score of 234, while freshman Jay Lim shot a total of 234.
“Obviously, there’s lots of room for improvement,” assistant coach Keith Okasaki said. “The course was pretty tough, the wind was blowing around 30 mph, and the team that won is one of the top teams in the nation. But our team’s pretty young, with three sophomores and two freshmen and we’re going to keep looking to improve.” No. 5 Chico State’s senior All-American Kyle Souza was the tournament’s top individual finisher, while the Wildcats also won the team competition finishing 20 strokes above second place Grand Canyon. UCSD returns to the green next Monday and Tuesday on Oct. 24-25, to compete in Seaside, Calif. at the Cal State Monterey Bay Otter Invitational. Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ ucsd.edu
The UCSD men’s soccer team took two more lossess this weekend, 4-2 to CSU Los Angeles and 3-2 to CSU Dominguez HIlls.
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gainst nationally-ranked opposition, the UCSD men’s soccer team dropped two more games this weekend. Despite the losses, the Tritons remain in fourth place in the South Division standings, but the team is now eight points behind third place CSU Los Angeles and with very little hope of a postseason appearance. On Friday, UCSD allowed three early goals against No. 13 CSU Los Angeles. The Tritons fought back to a 4-2 finish, but were unable to overcome the deficit. “The result was pretty disappointing,” head coach Jon Pascale said. “I think how we came out was really disappointing. [CSU Los
Angeles] is a great team. We needed to be at our best, and we weren’t.” The Golden Eagles went up 1-0 less than five minutes into the game, when forward Jason Swope got past the Triton backline. Swope sent a cross to forward Timo Schwar who struck the ball past UCSD sophomore goalkeeper Jesse Brennan. Ten minutes later, CSU Los Angeles put the game at 2-0, scoring off a counter attack started from a punt from CSU Los Angeles goalkeeper Waleed Cassis. The Golden Eagles stretched their lead to three with a well-struck ball from 20 yards out in the 34th minute. Just before half time, sophomore midfielder Andisheh Bagheri finished a left-footed volSee M. SOCCER, page 11
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Sophomore Lewis Simon was UCSD’s top finisher this week at the Lindsey Olive Wildcat Classic, Oct. 17-18.