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ACMS Renames Ted System to TritonEd Starting Winter 2016, the learning management system will be completely rebranded to reflect the name change.

BY Kevin Santos

The UCSD Guardian chats with actresses Carey Mulligan and Saiorse Ronan about finding the confidence and courage to escape confinement and fight for individual identities in their latest leading roles.

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Black Student Union Protests Racism on College Campuses

BY JACKY TO AND JULIE YIP ASSOCIATE

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embers of the Black Lives Matter movement formed a single line on Library Walk at noon this Wednesday to stand in solidarity with black students across the country who face racism on their campuses.

The participants then proceeded to march down Library Walk at 1:30 p.m., chanting “Black Lives Matter” before stopping at the Silent Tree in front of Geisel Library. Here, they formed a circle in which students shared their experiences with racism.

The Black Student Union’s co-traditions coordinator Refilwe Gqajela explained to the UCSD Guardian that racism is a systematic problem that does affect UCSD students.

“Things that are happening to the climate at other campuses are not isolated incidents,” Gqajela said. “It’s happening institutionally. It’s happening here at UCSD.” Student leader and Sixth College junior Ashley Emuka argued that the discomfort of spectators and passersby is indicative of their perspective.

NEWS EDITOR AND EDITORIAL ASSISTANT “If you feel uncomfortable with people standing out here not doing anything, then truly your racism and privilege is showing,” Emuka told the Guardian. “It really shows who is part of this community and who is not.”

Gqajela also explained how participants used the action of closing their eyes to symbolically communicate their message.

“You may notice that some of us have our eyes closed,” Gqajela said. “The idea is that the only way to have the campus climate that we want is to imagine it.”

Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Gary Radcliffe told the Guardian that he, as well as several members from his office, attended the demonstration to ensure that the students could demonstrate peacefully without intervention. He added that it was better to have his office there than the campus police, who may have made the students feel uncomfortable.

Gqajela disclosed that the Black Student

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SUN GOD FESTIVAL

Officials Meet to Brainstorm Sun God Changes Proposals include temporarily canceling the festival and hosting three smaller concerts.

BY ming-ray liao

Staff Writer The Sun God Festival’s team, along with Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Juan Gonzalez, met earlier this month to discuss the future of the Sun God Festival. Also in attendance was the Associated Students Concerts and Events director Christian Walker, the Chief of Police along with other students and administrative representatives.

ASCE posted on their Facebook page on Nov. 12 that the attendees of the meeting proposed various changes to Sun God Festival such as, “a temporary ban on the festival which included splitting up the festival into three smaller concerts at RIMAC and a possible permanent cancellation of the festival.”

Walker stated that ASCE and Gonzalez will continue to discuss how planners should implement new changes to the Festival.

“The situation is that the Vice Chancellor [Gonzalez] has tasked us to bring substantial-enough changes to the table for him to be comfortable with the festival moving forward,” Walker told the UCSD Guardian.

“When we brought our ideas to the table, those were the ones that were pitched in response. We’re now in a position of either accepting those changes or pushing back and trying to see whether we can come up with a way to continue the traditions of Sun God Festival.”

There have been almost 500 health and safety cases at the festival in recent years, including arrests, detox admissions and medical transports,

which called for immediate structural changes to the event. Walker said that the team is attempting to alter how students see the event but they ultimately need more time.

“We’re trying to move away the event tradition so that it’s not centered around drinking and drugs, but the problem is that there’s always going to be a body of students that know the current and past versions of the event,” Walker said. “[In] the past couple of years, seniors and juniors have ended up in detox more often, but if we can see a 25-percent reduction in health and safety incidents, it’s an indicator that the older quarter of our student population with a problematic view of the festival has left. A lot of the changes that we’ve set in place — we See SGF, page 3

Academic Computing and Media Services announced today that Ted, the campus learning management system used by students and faculty for online academic resources, will be renamed TritonEd, beginning Winter Quarter 2016.

ACMS Assistant Director and Office for Online and Technology Enhanced Education Managing Director Daniel Suchy explained that because a significant amount of time has been dedicated to modifying the LMS, the opportunity presented itself to change the name to something that resonates better with the university and reflects the UCSD brand.

“In the past year, we’ve had a really big push on improving the user experience for students and faculty,” Suchy told the UCSD Guardian. “It just seemed like a good time to also rethink the name.

We’re trying to bring more school spirit and make it more connected with UCSD.” There will be no major changes to UCSD’s LMS other than the name.

However, Suchy says that in the future, ACMS plans to use TritonEd to improve student performance through the use of analytics.

“We’re hoping to better inform faculty about how their students are using TritonEd,” said Suchy.

“If we can identify when a student suddenly stops using it, that could be a sign that the student might need additional support. Often, there are students who are in trouble and need a little help … If we can catch them in the middle of the quarter when they’re tanking a little bit and give them the help they need, that could make a difference. For that, we need analytics.”

According to Eleanor Roosevelt College junior and ACMS/ResNet Help Desk technician Gevorg Aghabekov, the name change is welcome, because many confuse UCSD’s Ted with the globalized TED Conferences.

TED, which stands for Technolog y, Entertainment and Design, hosts talks given by renowned presenters focusing on a variety of topics. There is no relationship between TED and UCSD’s Ted LMS. “I think [the name change] will be better because a lot of people confuse [the UCSD] Ted with TED Talks,” said Aghabekov. “Our Ted actually stands for Triton Education.”

With regard to how students will handle the transition from Ted to TritonEd, Suchy does not think there will be any issues.

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Student Teams Compete for Funding in Entrepreneurial Innovation Contest Called the Proof of Concept Competition, the program will provide $5,000 to a maximum of 10 winning teams.

BY lisa chik

Staff Writer The Office of Innovation and Commercialization, in collaboration with The Basement, announced the new undergraduate Proof of Concept Competition. OIC will award UCSD student teams up to $5,000 each in entrepreneurial funding for materials and creating prototypes.

Last Monday, Head of the OIC Paul Roben released a statement in a campus-wide email about how the organizers expect that the competition will promote entrepreneurial experience. “The competition challenges students to be creative and [to] engage in entrepreneurship to enhance their readiness for today’s global economy,�

Roben said.

He further explained that the PoC competition will have a multifacted impact on exposing resources at UCSD as well as helping students discover their entrepreneurial interests. “[PoC] will serve to raise the

profile of The Basement, which is a fabulous resource that we hope to develop further over the coming years,� Roben told the UCSD Guardian. “And this also helps to raise awareness across campus among the student body that innovation and entrepreneurship is an opportunity and something you can do with your career. We will also be using this as a platform to reach students to see if they can really ignite the spark of entrepreneurship across campus and mobilize [other] students to become active.�

The competition is divided into two phases. First, current UCSD undergraduate students with good academic standing form teams of two to four with an idea for a startup business or product. In addition to the online application, teams must submit a proposal describing the project or product and a plan for using the PoC funds by Dec. 23. Judges will evaluate proposals based on the level of innovation, commercial potential, competitive advantage and use of PoC funds.

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The judges will qualify a maximum of 10 teams as phaseone winners on Jan. 31 and award $2,000 in funds per group. These teams will move on to phase two, in which they will spend February and March completing another application and creating a presentation. Four winning teams will receive another $3,000 each and will have the opportunity to present their developments at The Basement’s Demo Day on April 28. The financial awards will be provided by OIC, which is funding the competition.

UCSD alumni launched The Basement in February of 2015 with a “student-centric mission to stimulate, encourage and serve the entrepreneurial spirit of UC San Diego students,� according its website. The Basement includes over 3,000 square feet of co-working space, has held over 60 events and raised over $80,000 in competitions and from Kickstarter, the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects.

Roben told the Guardian that the

awarded funds will be monitored, and all teams are expected to report their advancements even after the competition is over. “The funds need to be applied to the development of [the team’s] ideas,� he said. “We will be asking for receipts from expenditures.

[The teams] will be expected to come back to us at the end of the academic year, and tell us about their progress.�

However, Roben added that while not every group will receive a monetary award, all teams are encouraged to continue the development of their projects. “This is not just going to help the students who win funding,� Roben told the Guardian. “We will stay in contact with all of the applicants.�

According to Roben, if the PoC Competition succeeds, OIC and The Basement will consider making the event annual.

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Union hosted a town hall meeting on Monday with other leaders of San Diego’s black community to organize today’s action.

Another issue that participants mentioned was how a satirical newspaper on campus, The Koala, published articles that some consider racist.

Earlier today, UCSD administrators issued a joint

statement condemning The Koala, an on-campus satirical newspaper that many have accused of publishing racist articles, and making clear that it is not funded by the university.

“We, the UC San Diego administration, strongly denounce The Koala publication and the offensive and hurtful language it chooses to publish,” the statement said. “The Koala is profoundly repugnant, repulsive, attacking and cruel. The UC San Diego

administration does not provide any financial support for The Koala, and we call on all students, faculty, staff and community members to join us in condemning this publication and other hurtful acts.”

The statement was signed by Chancellor Pradeep Khosla, Executive Vice Chancellor Suresh Subramani and all of UCSD’s vice chancellors.

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letting students know … I don’t have any worries,” Suchy said. “I think the students are going to be fine. We’re letting the faculty know so they’re aware of what’s going on as well.”

Aghabekov believes that, should any problems arise for students when TritonEd goes live, the ACMS Help Desk will be the first to know.

“We’ll see how students respond

to the change when it happens,” Aghabekov told the Guardian. “If anything, we’ll be the first to hear about the responses.”

Suchy added that the change from Ted to TritonEd was not ACMS’s first attempt at modifying the LMS name. Prior to Ted, the LMS went by the name WebCT. “Before it was Ted, it was called WebCT,” Suchy explained. “It was the name of the company but it

is now defunct. We changed our name to Ted, which stood for Triton Education, because at the same time, we changed our LMS.” For students in the habit of using the original Ted website, the web address www.ted.ucsd.edu will automatically redirect to the new address at www.tritoned.ucsd.edu.

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haven’t really had enough time to see how they could affect the festival and it’s what we’re trying to draw administrators’ attention to.”

ASCE also hosted Hullabaloo last Friday and saw a positive trend in the number of health and safety concerns; Walker indicated that results like these may help preserve the Sun God Festival tradition.

“Health and safety was something we really wanted to prioritize and address in planning Hullabaloo this year to show that our students can handle an event of this scale,”

Walker said. “If we can work with students, educate them about their responsibility at these events and see real tangible success; that’s something we can show administrators and it definitely helps our efforts in convincing them that there’s an upwards positive trend. We ended up having one medical transport at this huge event, which is a huge improvement on six from last year, and it shows that we’re able to act in a way that improves our community.”

Thurgood Marshall College junior Aryo Jarhomi argued that UCSD needs a campus-wide event like this to rival those of other campuses.

“Other schools have huge concerts, such as the Block Party at UC Riverside and [University of Southern California] and Outside Lands at UC Berkeley,” Jahromi told the Guardian. “We need something like Sun God Festival to bring out our school spirit and unify the colleges, as it is something that everyone knows about and looks forward to.”

There will be another meeting this Friday and students can send their ideas and suggestions to the ASCE Festivals team via email.

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UC Regents has created a plan to enroll 10,000 more local residents of California into UC schools. Although the Ed Board appreciates this sentiment, there is a lack of feasible space and resources to provide for additional students.

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he UC Board of Regents recently unveiled a proposal to admit 10,000 more residents of California into the UC schools. In the 2016–17 academic year, the university will admit 5,000 more Californians. “The University of California is meeting the challenge of educating as many students as it possibly can to meet, and solve, the challenges of the future,” UC President Janet Napolitano said. In the following two years there will be additional increases of California residents by 2,500 spots per year. If executed correctly, the state budget will allocate $25 million worth of funding for the UC system. The goal of this enrollment increase is to improve the chances that California residents will be admitted into local universities. But do we actually have room for them?

This proposed enrollment increase is a plan created solely to appease the state, gain more funding and prove that the UC system is beneficial for California residents. While it is a step in the right direction to include more local residents at our universities and to cut down on the recruitment of international students as high-tuition payers, who currently represent 28.4 percent of the student body at UCSD according to the Los Angeles Times, we must also be realistic about the quantity of students that the UC system can support. The six colleges at UCSD are already overcrowded with students squashed together in single rooms converted to triples and in the overstuffed Nobel/Arriba and MTS buses. The procurement of more state funding sounds nice, of course, but the UC Regents seem to underestimate how many additional costs extra students will bring in. Are we as a university prepared to construct a seventh college, when we haven’t even bothered to officially name the sixth one yet?

“We are committed to sustaining increased access to our campuses and the world-class education they offer,” Napolitano said at the Board of Regents meeting. This so-called world-class education may suffer if the proposal passes.

We must remember that quality and quantity of our education system are often inversely proportional to each other. Without a doubt, by accepting increasingly numerous amounts of students, the quality of education at the university will surely suffer. Most concerningly, the UC Newsroom announced that “as faculty are added in tandem with more undergraduates, graduate students will support faculty in the university’s research mission and help with the teaching load associated with undergraduates.” The same quality of education cannot be derived from the instruction of teaching assistants as from highlyeducated professors. Furthermore, graduate students should not be unfairly taken advantage of in the university’s efforts to procure state funding. Both undergraduate and graduate students are ultimately present at UCSD to receive a top-notch education, not to merely assist professors.

As accepting more in-state students into the UCs requires raising faculty employment, potential increases in monetary support of undergraduate student enrollment comes in hand with allocating an additional $6 million in state funding to enroll 600 more graduate students. Having more money to expand graduate student population, however, does not guarantee that, as teaching assistants, college graduates will receive fair salaries. In fact, recent protests that took place on UC campuses, such as last week’s Million Student March and protests organized by students and faculty during last spring quarter, remind us that TAs’ labor is largely underpaid. Working part-time, graduate students are not affected by the recent minimum-wage raise implemented in October.

Therefore, if the proposed budget plan is approved by UC Regents, an increased number of graduate teaching assistants may face underpayment — a solid reason to express skepticism toward benefiting Californian undergraduate students at graduate students’ cost.

To generate additional funds in order to provide for more in-state

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The Million Student March Tackled Too Many Issues at Once The Million Student March at UCSD was more like the Mini Student March. The event, which took place Nov. 12, was a dismal attempt to resuscitate our apparently apathetic campus culture. However, it may have been the case that the goals set out by the event organizers did not accurately reflect our concerns as a student body. Organizers of the event listed their goals as being tuitionfree public college, cancellation of all student debt and a $15 minimum wage for all student workers. While these aspirational goals establish a foundation to engender student activism, they are undermined by the very same qualities that rile up crowds in the first place.

According to statistics released by the UC Office of the President, approximately 57 percent of students have their tuition fully covered, and 45 percent of students graduate debt-free. The other 55 percent of students graduating from other schools within the UC system take on an average of $20,210 of student debt. Comparably, other fouryear public institutions leave their students with an average of $25,700 in student debt.

When nearly one in two students graduates debt-free, the “problem of free tuition” becomes one of the latest social media trends rather than a concrete set of demands. It is not

that protests are ineffective. They inspire important conversations and push students to re-examine their place in the university, but a protest is trivialized to semi-organized walking, shouting and poster parties when there’s no substantial strategy to actualize demands.

Regardless of how the protest organizers intended for the march to happen, a low turnout will do little, if anything at all, to achieve those goals. The message was clear, but the protest was a flop due to a lack of cohesion among the marchers, their missions and the general meandering about campus. The protest began 10 minutes early, was 45 minutes shorter than scheduled, took a wrong turn and overall was very disjointed. Members of A.S. Council attended and marched side by side with students, alumni and faculty, demonstrating that they are invested in our campus. However, even this show of solidarity was not enough to incense passersby. In comparison, organizers of protests, such as those for the C.H.E. Cafe, were ultimately successful because they had two fundamental qualities: unwavering resolve and explicit goals. What they lacked in numbers, they made up for in sheer passion, and for over a year, they fought to keep the facility open.

If the Million Student March wants to have any of its goals even remotely

recognized, this March has to be a marathon. This includes setting deadlines and solidifying its message without trying to be an absolute cure for the ills of university students.

Remember Occupy Wall Street — the 99 percenters with their list of overarching and over-generalized demands, like dismantling income inequality and eliminating corruption? The cause was sympathetic, protesters came in droves and the movement created widespread attention to critical issues, such as wage inequality and corruption. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

The protests failed to change anything. Although more people became aware of these problems, the movement provided no channel to create meaningful and lasting change. The Million Student March is similarly beautiful. It’s a heartwarming concept, with students striving to help their fellow students. Yet, this concept will undoubtedly fade into the oblivion of Facebook events and “Like” pages if the movement’s goals are not streamlined. Additionally, organizers need to find a way to connect with students who may feel like the movement has nothing to do with them. Million Student Marchers: Dream on, but keep your head out of the clouds.

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he United States is absolutely terrible when it comes to establishing laws on child marriage. In a country that comes down hard on statutory rape and labels many people as sex offenders, the lax approach on child marriage is unsettling.

The Atlantic reports that in places like Russia, China and Ethiopia, it is illegal to marry before the age of 18. As early as 2004, the Chicago Tribune reported about a study that found that “teen marriage in the U.S. increased by nearly 50 percent in the 1990s thanks to ‘the spread of abstinence-only-untilmarriage sex education at American schools, a shift toward cultural conservatism among some teens and a growing fear among youngsters of contracting AIDS through promiscuity.’” The U.S. is a black sheep of underaged-marriage law in the International community. The United Nations Population Fund reminds everyone on its front page that child marriage is a “human rights violation.”

Between 1995 and 2012, at least 3,449 children were married in New Jersey, according to The New York Times. However, child marriage has two sides: There is a more widely accepted practice in the U.S., in which a teenager can get married between the ages of 16 and 18 with a legal guardian’s consent. This would account for most of the 3,499 aforementioned child marriages in New Jersey. But there is a darker side to child marriage as well. When a child is between the ages of 10 and 15, they can still be legally married by a judge in certain states, including New Jersey. This amounts to 178 of the child marriages in New Jersey that were mentioned above. And remember, this is over just a sevenyear period.

Sadly, the number of these marriages is staggering. The NYT reported that “91 percent of the children were married to adults, often at ages or with age differences that could have triggered statutoryrape charges, not a marriage license.

A judge in 2006 approved the marriage of a 10-year-old boy to an 18-year-old woman. A judge in 1996 allowed a 12-year-old girl to marry a 25-year-old man.” The statutory rape menace is especially important in these cases. The Chicago Tribune story, mentioned earlier, reported that a 14-year-old girl married her 18-year-old boyfriend in order to keep him out of jail.

Let’s go to the other side of the world. In Malawi, a country in southeastern Africa, the government has installed a ban on marriage with anyone who is younger than 18, as of February 2015. Reuters reported that Malawi, “a country where half of girls end up as child brides,” pushed hard for this legislation.

Parliamentarian Jessie Kabwila said: “The country will for the first time clearly articulate that we are saying ‘no’ to child marriage.”

The U.S. is still not saying “no” to child marriage. As of today, the U.S. arguably has worse laws regarding child marriage than a country where, according to Reuters, “half of girls wed before their 18th birthday, and nearly one in eight is married by 15.”

We rest our case.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

“... I am proud to be French, proud to be Parisian.”

To the survivors:

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undergraduates, the University of California suggests phasing out the need-based aid provided to nonresident undergraduate students.

According to the plan, this measure should bring in $14 million in 2016–17. While the aid cut should not affect already-enrolled nonresident students, the complete elimination of need-based scholarships will certainly taint the image of UC schools as international institutions accepting students regardless of their cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.

If the budget passes in its current form, not only might

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graduate teaching assistants and international students experience financial difficulties, but the lack of proper infrastructure to host more scholars will disadvantage all UC students. Admittedly, attempts are being made to build new housing units and parking structures.

This September, the UC Board of Regents Committee approved the East Campus housing project that aims to replace old buildings and construct over 1,000 new living premises for graduate students and professionals. However, these longterm projects do not address the needs of undergraduates, the most prevalent on-campus group, and

will not be able to accommodate new students due to the later deadlines.

The University of California initiative to accept more Californians is neither novel nor improper.

As a public university system, it should indeed set the interests of in-state students as its main priority.

Relocating funds to attract more California residents, nevertheless, is a premature measure that should be preceded by improvements in infrastructure and working conditions for the faculty. And if the number of international and out-of-state students must go down, it should not disadvantage those in need.

Today I stand with all of you who escaped le Carillon, le Bataclan or the Stade de France.

Today I stand next to everyone who lost a relative or a friend in the beautifully shocking attacks that sacked Paris on Friday night. I stand next to any and all Muslims who condemned the attacks and that will sadly be victimized because of their religion once again.

This is war, as it has been called now in the media, that is not dictated by religion. This is not a clash of civilization, not Muslim against Christians. These are jihadist, who kill for pleasure, who kill in the name of their God, a God that continuously preaches peace and nonviolence in the Quran.

They do not make sense yet are gaining grounds on populations that have continuously been underrepresented and underappreciated in Western civilizations. Muslims have never been the enemy, and they should never become one. Categorizing them as a “population sensible to becoming terrorists” is a flaw from specialists and media, who consequently alter the general population into thinking it is us versus them.

This is not to say that those terrorist attacks are unimportant and that we should disregard them or that we should not handle the

issue and respond effectively.

However, at this point in time, barely a week after one of the greatest tragedies on French territory since World War II, we stand there united.

The Western world, as we might call it has responded to these attacks in a way that has made me proud to be French, proud to call Paris my city. The support, the awareness as to this issue has greatly outnumbered the few who have cried about kicking Muslims and Syrian refugees out.

I would gladly accept those refugees and share a meal with Muslims because I do not think a race or religion or nationality should matter. And I wish Europe will continue to lead the way and do the same thing.

Finally, I wanted to address the world’s response to the attacks. I did not change my profile picture to blue, white and red or share the #PrayforParis hashtag, mostly by personal beliefs. Anyone who did it as a sign of respect for my country is appreciated and respected.

This is barely a week after the attacks and just thinking and speaking about it hurts me to the core. I am sad today after what happened, angry also maybe. But I am not scared. Today I am proud to be French, proud to be Parisian.

Je suis fier d’etre Francais, d’etre parisien. Fluctuat nec mergitur.

Paris will rise again.

- Marcus Thuillier Sixth College Sophomore

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Daughters of Cinema Carey Mulligan

“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”

-St. Augustine

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arey Mulligan’s Maude — a working-class mother turned suffragette — is a portrait of revolution. She is neither innately radical nor militant, and the opening scenes of “Suffragette” reveal a tired laundress skeptical of disruptions to the 20th-century English ideals of domesticity and social hierarchy. Surely this Maude is a far cry from the woman we see talking back — albeit eloquently — to police and proudly burning down houses in later episodes. “[Maude] starts the film as such an ordinary woman,” Mulligan told the UCSD Guardian. “And it’s through this journey, through meeting these women that she becomes extraordinary … it’s a really big shift that she makes in a lot of her personality.”

Maude’s initial fascination with the movement comes as she witnesses several suffragettes throwing bricks through storefront windows. And, when she hurries home to the open arms of her husband and son, we see just how much she has both to lose and to gain from joining the suffragettes’ campaign.

Her domesticity, though confining, comprises the entirety of her life, and to renounce her family is a tremendous sacrifice.

Yet nestled in this household, alongside the warmth of familiar arms, lies an overwhelming cloud of oppression. Maude is allowed to remain a part of this household only if she retains its identity. To gain an identity of her own, she must look to an alternative form of support: a group of rebellious women both unsatisfied and courageous enough to pursue a freedom that may take years to acquire.

“At that time, to make that choice to be a suffragette was incredibly dangerous and risky and could ruin you,” Mulligan said.

“And they stood behind it and endured everything that you see in the film … not for themselves but … [for] the future generations. And I think that kind of conviction for their beliefs and doing things for the betterment of society … was completely, in a way, really unselfish … because the change that would be affected wasn’t really going to affect their lives.”

It was this unity among women, that gave Maude the strength to make sacrifices in exchange for her own voice.

“It was interesting because it was the first time in history in England that the classes … really mixed,” Mulligan said. “That was a big part of the movement.”

Maude’s struggle to find her own voice is one common to each woman in the campaign.

“She was based on a lot of real women,” Mulligan said. “There was especially … one girl who I really focused in on who was a suffragette who … essentially started off life very poor and married very young. And had a lot of similar background to Maude. And then she came across the suffragettes, and they sparked something in her. And she just took on this completely different life.”

But Maude’s character resonates with more women than the distant, bonnet-clad suffragettes of the past.

“I think there are lots of things that make it relevant today,” Mulligan said. “We never wanted this to feel like a sort of old costume drama; we always wanted it to feel very present.”

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rom young-adult novel adaptations to science fiction thrillers to Wes Anderson funhouses, Saoirse Ronan has refused to box herself in as an actress.

Her latest film “Brooklyn,” however, has her returning to a genre in which she first gained notoriety as a risingchild actress — period dramas. In both features, Saoirse portrays characters limited by their youth and environment. But this time, innocence, which underlaid the entirety of her performance in “Atonement,” served merely as a starting point.

Eilis, her character in “Brooklyn,” is stuck in innocence, working part-time at a small-town bakery in 1950s Ireland under a wicked and embittered boss. That is, until her sister arranges to send her on a frighteningly permanent-but-hopeful trip to America — specifically Brooklyn. Simultaneously, in her own life, Saoirse experienced similarly daunting circumstances as she left London, her home at the time, to live in New York City.

“Every kind of stage that we see Eilis reaching and overcoming, I was going through myself,” Ronan told the UCSD Guardian. “There was sort of nowhere to hide, but by the same token, once you actually get through something like that there’s nothing more gratifying.”

Gratifying, it indeed was for Eilis as she grows confident in her strange and boisterous surroundings. She goes out at night to Irish dances, falls in love with an Italian sweetheart and even learns how to eat spaghetti correctly. Her character’s willingness to engage in acts beyond what she’s used to reflects Saoirse’s own courage to take on a role embedded with a maturity beyond what she herself is used to.

“It was like a bloody guardian angel or something coming down and kind of going, ‘Okay, you’re ready now,’” Ronan said. “I was very much ready to take that step.”

Eilis’s development halted, however, when a personal tragedy forced her to return to Ireland. Though she intended for the trip to be temporary, versions of everything she valued in America appear in her hometown — a job, a man and a future. In spite of this, Eilis realized that all of these things, though attractive, are being forced upon her as if she were a child.

“Even though she has evolved into the young woman who has her own life and her own job … nobody knows that at home and decisions are slowly starting to be made for her again,” Ronan said.

But fortunately, Eilis is no longer a girl from a small Irish town. She’s now a Brooklyn woman, and she unleashes this side of her in a final confrontation with an all-too familiar face — the mean, old bakery lady.

“She had to rise up and she had to stand up to this woman who had kicked her down for so long and profess who she was and the life that she had chosen,” Ronan said. “It’s really at that moment that she realizes that this can’t last forever, and she needs to go back to the life … she had chosen before she left.”

And just as Eilis returned to her newfound roots in America, so did Saoirse to her native realm of drama. Her courage has paid off as she no longer carries the burden of proving that she can match whatever genre of script is given to her. Instead, Saoirse has earned the freedom, without risk of confinement, to do what she does best: act.

— KARLY NISSON A&E Editor

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New Art Spaces Open at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Photos provided by MCASD // Artwork located at MCASD Downtown, Jacobs Building

Tired of the biochemistry/mechanical engineering/computer science culture that dominates UCSD? Revel in the artistic side of things and check out the new installation exhibits at the Museum of Contemporary Art to fulfill the creative side that calculus and balancing chemistry reactions can often snatch away.

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Ernesto Neto Mother Body Emotional Densities, For Alive Temple Time Baby Son

Famed Brazilian contemporary artist Ernesto Neto’s art piece “Mother Body Emotional Densities, for Alive Temple Time Baby Son” will once again grace the space within the Farrell Gallery.

It was previously installed January 2007 but was only presented until May of the same year. The installation, permanently owned

by MCASD, encapsulates Neto’s neoconcretistic style. The piece is a vibrant sensory experience — spices are collected together and suspended within fabric, forming celestial sacs, each with a colorful personality and life. The warm hues and polyp-shaped sacs create an alien space contrasting the everyday experience, while hinting at something organic and familiar. Installations usually provide only a visual stimulation, but Neto is able to spark olfactory nerves, a feat most artists don’t consider tackling. The many spices converge into a unique perfume permeating the room, gently touching the senses. This multidimensional piece can be viewed from Nov. 20 to Feb. 21.

Written by: Maria Manalang //Lifestyle Contributing Writer

In an exhibition that is, in the most literal sense, dark and unconventional, Judith Barry seeks to explore the relationship between the physical and psychological. That is, in one When you were a kid, were you told not to stare possible interpretation of this masterpiece, the relationship at the sun for too long? Well, here’s your chance to Judith Barry between hearing intentional clear voices and distracting fight back. At this promisingly ethereal and dazzling ourselves with meaningless background noise. We try to collection of light, Robert Irwin returns to the differentiate the insignificance of noise from the importance primitive building blocks of art to create an expose Voice Off of voice in our lives, but there comes a time, more often than that’s sure to be stunning. Without giving too much not, when we feel the need to merge the two in hopes of away, Irwin’s display of minimalist and geometric reducing the burden of separating the things that truly matter fluorescent patterns draws you into two binary worlds from those that don’t. Best known as a writer, architect of light and dark and plays with your senses through and artist, Judith Barry brings to life these concepts in her perspectives and shadows. As an installation-based exhibition “Voice Off.” As the name suggests, the exhibition artist, Irwin teases the human eye by creating multiconsists of a large room divided into two by a curtain dimensional pieces, and through the medium of light, serving as a double-sided screen, onto which two entirely his concoction of incandescent innovation is sure different projections and metaphoric narratives are displayed to please both your intellectual and aesthetic sides. simultaneously. One cannot help but wonder what the New Sure, it may not be the sun, but its brilliance comes York artist had in mind when imagining such a thoughtful at a very close second. Make sure to check out this affair, which “dramatizes complex aural and vocal cues” in Written by: Ian Le Tran //Lifestyle Contributing Writer installation from Nov. 20 to Feb. 21.5DLM13305FAL__CollegeDayPrintAd__GUARDIAN__RUN:11_19_15__10X8 an intimate physical space.

Written by: Brittney Lu //Lifestyle Co-Editor

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The ultimate college team-up boasts the best of both worlds – partying, rivalries, grilled meat, D.J. battles, libations, racehorses and football. Sponsored by the San Diego County Toyota Dealers, a student I.D. gets you into the afternoon celebrations for free.

Races begin at 12:30 p.m. along with other festivities to commemorate the day.

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Wrap up your party day with the alternative/reggae sounds of this fall’s Reggae Fest, in the Seaside concert area, west of the Grandstand. Admission to the track before the last race gets you into the concert for free. Concert is ages 18 & up.*

*Pre-paid tickets, complimentary tickets and season passes will not be accepted for concert admission after the last race.

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Red Bull DJ, College-priced BBQ Specials, Live College Football on Flatscreens,Tailgate Games, Wagering Pamphlets, Hippity Hop Sign-Ups

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Hippity Hop Derby Heat No. 2 (First Half to Finish Advance to Final)

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Hippity Hop Derby Heat No.1 (First Half to Finish Advance to Final)

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RESTAURANT REVIEW

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Lifestyle Co-Editor Another routine day draining you of energy when all you can think about is gulping down some liquid zeal, commonly known as coffee? If this feeling caught you off guard at East Village, now you can get your “cup of life” at Copa Vida, a Pasadenabased coffee shop that opened last month in the Diamond View Towers.

Located down the block from Bean Bar, which just celebrated its one-year anniversary, Copa Vida shares a similar minimalistic, bright atmosphere. Both coffee places actively implement wood as a decorative material, adding coziness to balance out the exposure created by floor-to-ceiling office windows.

It becomes evident that these two businesses are not just neighbors once you notice they both installed the same espresso machine, uniquely elegant Spirit rare for local cafes.

Knowing that the espresso machine is the heart of every coffee-serving place, Copa Vida’s owners deliberately

chose Spirit for its small size and clear tops to allow baristas to maintain a conversation with customers while preparing their drinks. The coffee shop’s focus on serving the community is also clear, since Copa Vida promotes itself as a venue for business meetings and local music and art performances.

Soon after the opening, it hosted one of the tours of Thursday Night Throwdown, the main latte art competition among San Diego coffee shops, proving that Copa Vida is here to become an active member of San Diego coffee scene.

In addition to the space, Copa Vida’s menu is created to serve customers with all possible preferences. Today, many cafes prefer to focus on either food or coffee to guarantee high-level quality. In fact, some coffee shops choose to narrow down their drinks spectrum and serve coffee without any additional ingredients, while others specialize in more complex, mixed hot drinks.

One place can offer coffee but refuse to sell tea. But making up your mind and coordinating your preferences

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Monday to Friday: 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Saturday to Sunday: 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. with others is never easy, so Copa Vida does not limit its clients and provides a menu that combines popular coffee options and a truly extensive tea list with a surprisingly all-encompassing number of breakfast, lunch and “extended hour” dishes. Luckily, Copa Vida employees equally value the quality and quantity of their culinary creations. With five people at the counter and more at the kitchen and a self-order system, this cafe’s professionals quickly prepare well-known classics like cappuccino, jasmine tea, traditional French toast and smoked turkey melts. It also does not take them long to make Copa Vida’s very own Mediterranean couscous, breakfast burritos, Shakerato (iced latte with an extra shot shaken with agave) and, the UCSD Guardian’s new favorite, Brulee Mint Latte (hot tea-based drink that combines minty, creamy and caramel flavors).

Located among many office buildings, Copa Vida is ready to speed up for those who are too busy to stand in line. Free of snobbism and full of

appreciation for customers’ time, it offers an “honor bar” option with coffee on Fetco and cold brew on tap for iced coffee and iced tea. Those who prefer to work in a coffee shop environment will be pleased to know that Copa Vida can accommodate coffee- and tea-loving laptop users by providing Wi-Fi. The number of outlets, however, is rather limited and, as Copa Vida’s employees believe that everything is good in moderation, Wi-Fi is turned off on Saturday and Sunday mornings from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to encourage people to look up from their screens.

Copa Vida’s East Village location is steadily becoming a busy place, daily visited by local office workers.

And while it is located rather far from campus, trust us in that paying Copa Vida a visit during brunch time from 8 a.m till 4 p.m. is a worthy weekend pursuit.

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PLAY REVIEW

as you like it At the Old Globe, USD Theater M.F.A. graduate students shine in the 1950s styled “As You Like It.” Directed by Justin Waldman Written by William Shakespeare Starring Amy Blackman, Ally Carey, Makha Mthembu, Ajinkya Desai Runs Nov. 14 to Nov. 22 Location The Old Globe In the intimate Sheryl & Harvey White Theatre, you will fall in love with “As You Like It,” just as the characters of the play fall madly and suddenly in love. Directed by Justin Waldman, the play represents a partnership between University of San Diego’s Theatre M.F.A. program and The Old Globe.

“As You Like It,” the Bard’s most beloved comedy, tells of the banishment, romance and return of Rosalind (Ally Carey), Celia (Makha Mthembu) and Orlando (Daniel Petzold). After Rosalind’s father, Duke Senior (Nathan Whitmer), is usurped and banished to the mysterious Forest of Arden, she and her faithful cousin Celia are forced to leave the court of

the newly crowned Duke Frederick (Lorenzo Landini). They escape to the Forest of Arden with Rosalind posing as a young lad, Ganymede, and meet the lovesick Orlando, also banished.

Rosalind, now dressed as Ganymede, promises to cure Orlando of his love for Rosalind by pretending to be her.

Homoerotic subtext, wit, wordplay and drama flow freely.

This hilarity of the mistaken identity is undercut by the evermelancholy Jaques (Amy Blackman), who performs some of the Bard’s most famous monologues and arguably some of the most cunning lines of the play. Famous for his unexplainable sullenness, Jaques exhibits quiet sadness, undercutting

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his biting wit, which is more cynical than petulant. This depth is best seen in her scenes with the wounded deer which weave hauntingly through the play. When the deer is finally killed, her sadness isn’t overdone, instead it burns through her lines and cynical humor. Blackman plays Jaques like the character is supposed to played, with subtlety and an understanding of the woes of the world.

Another standout character is the loving Celia. The most beautiful aspect of Celia is her ability to love, and Mthembu gives the role her heart as well as her quick tongue.

The banter between Rosalind and Celia is easily the fastest and funniest of the show. The two cousins are matched in acumen only by Orlando and Jaques. However, the funniest lines of the show are awarded to Touchstone (Ajinkya Desai), the exiled court jester or fool. Desai, another reason to see the production, is a UCSD alumna who majored in engineering and plays Touchstone with exaggeration and exuberance.

Each of the characters stands

out in his or her own way, which they must in the small theater-inthe-round. A ladder, two boxes and the occasional rope or set of papers serve as the only props of the play. However, the excellent acting and choreography make the props appear to be much more; the ladder becomes a tree, table or wall based on the character’s need. Adding to an already beautiful rendition of this comedic classic, all the characters are dressed in 1950s apparel from floral dresses to knit cardigans. Each look is tailored to the character’s social standing and attitude; the exiled members of the court wear patchy tweeds while Touchstone wears a set of pastel shirts reminiscent of the motley costume of jesters.

Whether you are a lover of Shakespeare or just along for the ride, the USD M.F.A. Program’s Production of “As You Like It” isn’t just likeable and fun — it’s lovable.

— Allison kubo

Staff Writer

’m currently writing an essay and I don’t know where to start. What should I do? — Anonymous Always start at JSTOR. Plebeians begin their adventure in the shallow waters of Wikipedia with their Abercrombie-esque inflatable tubes, wading through mounds of circumlocutious jargon written by an adjunct professor desperate to get work out somewhere. News flash: “The Breakfast Club” is a fictitious construct made of keratin; the real line is, “No, I am your father” and anything inspired by the contents of a Wikipedia page is about as lively as a sad chicken wrapped in a shower loofa. You have come to UCSD with a premeditated agenda, whether that is the enforcement of a careless appropriation of Kumeyaay land to get a degree in STEM (only to be struck with a sudden epiphany or perhaps tough it out and stick with becoming an acclaimed physician) or say you attend a school right next to the beach with a music festival as acclaimed as Coachella. If such is the case, you should also be aware of the many resources UCSD offers: databases, librarians and the faculty at this school.

Perhaps you’ve carelessly glazed over the list of items in your UCSD goody-bag when you hastily signed your intent to register at UCSD and avoided the run-down of tools that you’re paying for. No, you’re not just paying for the sustenance of Price Center, student organizations and RIMAC; you’re also paying for wellcoveted access to an extensive list of databases. Normally, you’d be wading in bills for an academic article that discusses Gangnam Style’s aesthetic cinematography, but as a student, you’re covered. Need to research cephalopods as an alien discourse?

Database that. Don’t know where to begin with your extensive, in-depth investigation of the Spanish Civil War? #database.

Now, if you’re oblivious to this resource, swipe right on this fact: You can appropriate a librarian and have them do the research for you.

How postmodern, I know. Ask-ALibrarian is a shiny, new state-of-theart technology invented specifically to make sure your papers don’t flop around like a soggy Maruchan noodle.

There’s a 24-hour chatroom where you can ask surface-level questions about all your needs to a librarian, who is happy to assist you with whatever needs might float your way.

Trust me, they can help with anything.

I once asked if there were any articles on “psionic abilities with dogs,” and I got some great articles.

If you need extra assurance and you’re starting well in advance, there’s nothing wrong with discussing your paper with a professor or a teaching assistant. You can play brain volleyball and discuss your project — just don’t do it last minute!

Need any advice on acclimating to UCSD? Struggling with a nasty case of the break-up? Need better ways to burn a tuna melt sandwich? Reach out to us at lifestyle@ucsdguardian.org with your questions and your anonymity, if wanted, and we’ll answer as many as we can!

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FILM REVIEW

the 33 “The 33” shallowly develops a narrative that skims over the realities of the Copiapo mining accident.

Directed by Patricia Riggen Starring Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche Rated PG-13 Release Date Nov. 13

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ased on the true story of the San Jose mine collapse in Copiapo in 2010, the aptly named “The 33” tells the story of the mission to save 33 miners trapped deep underground for 69 days. Though marketed as a serious documentary drama, the film’s cliched comic relief, underdeveloped characters and larger-than-life situations reduce it to a mere shadow of its potential.

Opening with dramatic, sweeping scenes of the Atacama Desert in Chile, “The 33” begins with well-framed cinematography that delves deep into the mine, giving audiences an ominous sense of the depth of the hole and delivering a promising start to the movie. The film then cuts to scenes of

the miners and their families’ day-today lives: there’s Alex (Mario Casas), a new husband with a pregnant wife; Dario (Juan Pablo Raba), a drunk who sleeps on a bench despite his sister’s (Juliette Binoche) attempts to engage him; Mario (Antonio Banderas), a passionate family man; Yonni (Oscar Nunez), with both a wife and a mistress vying for his affections and many others. Despite setting up heartwarming backstories, these moments are, sadly, the only glimpses into the characters’ motivations in the entire movie.

The drama unfolds before work on a seemingly normal day as the shift supervisor, Luis “Don Lucho” Urzua (Lou Diamond Phillips), warns his boss of its instability. The unnamed

mine owner dismisses the concern in a stereotypical, businesslike way in one of the movie’s only attempts to address underlying social issues behind the collapse. When the mine eventually collapses, families begin to gather and protest. Golborne (Rodrigo Santoro), the idealistic Minister of Mining then convinces the president to stage a government intervention. In the span of a few minutes, Golborne goes from promising Maria to do something about the issue, to proclaiming there is nothing to be done and finally recommitting to action in an overly dramatized manner.

Throughout the rest of the movie, various attempts are made by the pragmatic head engineer Andre Sougarret (Gabriel Byrne) to find the miners, and, of course, in keeping with true Hollywood fantasy, the idealistic Golborne ultimately proposes the successful strategy. Meanwhile, slowly starving, the miners rally under “Super Mario,” whose hope of rescue spurs him to meticulously ration food for all and uplift his comrades’ morale.

Banderas’ bombastic performance as

Mario, while exaggerated, emphasizes the individual heroism of the character in a thoroughly entertaining manner. After successfully locating the miners, the crew above looks to the next task: struggling to get them out, which takes the bulk of the 69 days they are trapped. However, the movie passes quickly after the miners are found — the starved miners’ delirium is quickly replaced with sudden fame and a vast supply of gifts, and Mario is tempted by a book deal that he ultimately refuses in favor of preserving his friendship with the miners. The miners are eventually rescued, and families are triumphantly reunited as all emerge above ground safely. As the credits roll, footage of the actual miners is shown in an admirable attempt at a poignant end to the film, with text that proclaims that the miners were never compensated, attempting to bring up some sort of commentary on social issues surrounding the event.

Rather than focusing on the miners’ — particularly Mario’s — individual heroism, “The 33” glosses

over the underlying issues of why the mine collapsed, why government support was so delayed and how such an unsafe mine could be allowed to operate. While still an engaging story, it’s clear that it aims to have more significance than it achieves. Though filmed on location, the script is almost entirely in English. Despite being filmed close to the actual mine site, “The 33” disappointingly highlights little of the culture it is representing.

Albeit admirable performances by the lead actors, the little character development present in the movie comes solely in the form of comic relief and literally undermines the depth of the movie.

Peppered with tired tropes, shallow character development and unnecessarily obtuse portrayals of events, “The 33” aims to add big screen drama to a real event but delivers an entertaining yet unsubstantial piece.

— chandra couzens

Staff Writer

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FILM REVIEW

spotlight McCarthy admirably shines a light on the moral and bureaucratic faults of the Catholic Church.

Directed by Tom McCarthy Starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Brian d’Arcy Jamese Rated R Release Date Nov. 20

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ew things are as disgusting to our moral sense, and to our stomachs, as the widespread epidemic of child molestation.

Powerful, dramatic films like Shanley’s “Doubt” and Almodovar’s “La Mala Educacion” have explored the endless pain and manifold consequences of this crude, ongoing, institutionalized reality within the Catholic Church.

“Spotlight,” Tom McCarthy’s (“Win Win”) fifth feature as writer/director, aims for something different. The focus here is not on the victims or the degenerate clergy, but on the people who uncovered the abuses. As such,

“Spotlight” plays a delicate game. It needs to portray the somber, oftentedious work of a group of Boston Globe journalists without turning away from the gruesome nature of pedophilic abuses. McCarthy does this by having language, rather than images, do the work: it is the graphic use of words that forcefully capture the film’s gravity and importance. This is no small accomplishment.

The plot follows a group of four investigative reporters — The Spotlight Team — who is assigned a new case by the paper’s new editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber).

Baron is the type of person who may very well go to the grave without ever having smiled. His uncanny hermetism, however, makes him a great journalist. Baron reads a story about a notorious pederast priest, and it doesn’t take him long to decipher that that’s only the tip of the iceberg.

The Spotlight Team is then ordered to stop all activities and begin further investigation. Soon enough they find themselves with their hands full — full of evidence, that is, detailing a systematic cover-up by the Church of dozens child abuse cases. As the research progresses, the extent of the Church’s involvement and the number of people implicated continues to rise.

The script takes its time to unfold, deliberately slowing things down to let the audience process the information alongside the reporters.

A gripping scene shows Spotlight Team member Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) interrogating an accused priest and fearlessly asking if the allegations are in fact true, to which

the priest casually responds that, of course he “played around with kids,” but to please, please be assured that he took no pleasure from it.

McAdams’ expression lingers between confusion and anger: it exists in a place where heinous actions have become fundamentally unintelligible.

“Spotlight” illustrates, once again, the astonishing truth about all hierarchical, institutionalized atrocities: the perpetrators are often mediocre, petty, all-too-normal individuals. The contrast between the magnitude of the crime and the banality (to echo Hannah Arendt) of the criminals makes us shiver with revulsion. It also highlights an even-more-familiar truth: large-scale wrongdoings never go unnoticed and there are always lonely individuals (e.g. the victims) crying out for help. In spite of this, however, the majority of us remain mere spectators. “Spotlight” never shies away from questioning our integrity as a community: “If it takes a village

to raise a child,” says a victim’s lawyer (played superbly by Stanley Tucci), “it also takes a village to abuse one.”

“Spotlight” is a worthy example of a film that remains faithful to its style. The cast, led by Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo, mirrors the script’s pragmatic tone; the performances render the seriousness of the journalistic endeavor, but remain clean of over-blown dramatization. The end product is an accomplished film that knows how to tell its story. Unlike the priests it exposes, and despite its important message, “Spotlight” never indulges in superficial moralizing. Before the credits roll, McCarthy shows the names of the hundreds of cities where there’s been institutionalized pederasty; we recognize this as an act of integrity. There is no heroism in “Spotlight;” there are only honest people doing their job. That has to count for something.

— Mario attie

Senior Staff Writer

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apiece after a Shokoor layup. The Toros finished the quarter with a 13–7 run to take a lead they did not relinquish.

Down 27–33 at halftime, UCSD cut its deficit to five after five minutes of play in the third quarter, but another run from Cal State Dominguez Hills put UCSD in a 15-point hole at the end of the third quarter.

The Tritons never recovered from that third quarter 10–0 run

by the Toros and allowed another 20 points in the final frame, scoring only 11 points and ultimately losing by 24 points, 69–45.

Katuna had a team high of 14 points. Shokoor had nine rebounds for the second consecutive game but suffered through a rough night of shooting. The two were overshadowed by Cal State Dominguez Hills senior guards Breanne Garcia, who led all players with 29 points, and Monay Lee, who chipped in 17.

Fellow senior guard Kielyn Wilson had the only double-double in the game, compiling 11 points and 10 boards.

The Tritons will travel to Azusa Pacific University on a short week for the Northwest Classic. UCSD plays Seattle Pacific University on Friday, Nov. 20 at 3 p.m. and Western Washington University on Saturday, Nov. 21 at 5 p.m.

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start, but I thought in the second half we came out and played with a lot more aggression,” UCSD Head Coach Eric Olen told the UCSD Athletics Department.

Lipovich led the team in scoring with 16 points off of 6–7 shooting, while junior guard Adam Klie led the team with five rebounds to go along with nine points and a teamhigh three assists. The team finished the game with a meager shooting percentage of 38.7 percent but made 11 out of 27 three-point shots for 40.7 percent. The team took advantage of its foul shots, making 14 out of 15.

UC Irvine’s seven-foot-six junior center Mamadou Ndiaye led the team in points and blocks with 16 and six, respectively. Junior guards Jaron Martin and Luke Nelson, junior forward Ioannis Dimakopoulos and freshman forward Jonathan Galloway all scored in double digits.

The match was an exhibition, so neither team’s record was affected by the results.

Game Two Using the knowledge gained from their exhibition match, the Tritons achieved better results on Tuesday night. The team started the game with a bang thanks to a threepointer by senior forward Drew Dyer, assisted by Klie. The first half was a back-and-forth affair with four ties and eight lead changes.

However, after grabbing a rebound off his own missed shot, senior guard Hunter Walker put the team up 26–25 with 6:39 left in the half, a lead UCSD never relinquished.

The two teams shot fairly evenly throughout the first half, with UCSD shooting 14–27 for 51.9 percent and Winona State shooting 11–22 for 50 percent flat. Both teams scored 14 points in the paint, but the Tritons took advantage of their opportunities, scoring eight points off turnovers compared to the Warriors’ two.

During the second half, the Tritons took absolute control of the game. With the help of Klie’s 15 points off of 5–6 shooting, the Tritons dominated the Warriors

on both ends of the ball. Holding the Warriors to just 6–22 for 27.3 percent, the UCSD men’s basketball team’s defense forced 11 turnovers, allowing the Tritons to score 17 points off of them. Leading by as many 22 points, the Tritons easily put the Warriors away 77–60.

Klie led the team with team highs of 17 points, six rebounds and four assists, with Dyer right behind him at 16 points. Sophomore guard Grant Jackson and senior forward Zach McMillan both came away with five rebounds apiece. The team finished the game on 26–50 shooting and hitting 8–19 of its three-point shots.

Winona State’s Mark Blacklock led the Warriors with 15 points on 6–11 shooting, along with four rebounds and four steals, but it was not enough to help the Warriors’ 17–44 mediocre shooting for the night.

The Tritons host the 2–0 Colorado School of Mines on Sunday, Nov. 22.

SPORTS CLUBS COMPILED BY BRITTNEY VIERRA Women’s Volleyball: The UCSD women’s volleyball team headed to UC Irvine for the Anteater Invitational this past weekend.

The Tritons took on the Loyola Marymount University Lions first. UCSD had a strong showing in the first set, but LMU proved too strong for the Tritons in the following two. UCSD was defeated in three tight sets to open up the day.

The second match of the day was against Arizona State University. The Tritons took the lead early on once again and maintained it throughout the entire match to get their first win of the preseason.

In the third and final game of the day against University of Arizona, UCSD lost in two very tight sets, falling to a good defense on the Wildcats’ side.

UCSD started off against Northern Arizona University on Sunday morning.

Despite falling behind early in the first set, UCSD got back up in the two following ones, ultimately winning in three sets to move into the Gold bracket.

Unfortunately, the team lost its first game in the Gold bracket, finishing the tournament 2–3.

Dragon Boat: This weekend, the UCSD dragon boat team travelled 500 miles north to San Francisco to compete in the 11th-annual CDBA College Cup Championship race along with the top dragon boat teams in California. The veteran crew won each of its races up until the finals, and the new recruits who just joined this quarter showed a dramatic improvement from the San Diego Dragon Boat race held just five weeks ago.

UCSD took fifth in the A Division College Championship Finals, sixth in B Division College Championship Finals and sixth in Open Championship Finals, the first time in many years since the Open crew made it to the finals.

Women’s Ultimate: On Nov. 14 and 15, the UCSD women’s ultimate frisbee team traveled to the Sean Ryan Memorial Tournament in Santa Cruz.

In game one against UC Santa Cruz, the Psychos took the first half 7–2 behind a few great layout catches from Maria Zavala. Dena Elimelech contributed in the second half to finish the game with a 12–4 win.

The second game of the tournament was against the USC Hellions. Despite fierce competition, the Psychos came out on top again, winning handily 10–5.

The last game of the day against Sonoma State saw the Psychos take the game 7–4 behind good defense from the rookies, and UCSD finished the day with an unblemished record.

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he UCSD women’s basketball team opened its season with a pair of tilts against California Collegiate Athletic Association rivals. After winning the first game against Cal State San Marcos in convincing fashion on Saturday at home, UCSD suffered a setback in the second game, falling to defeat Cal State Dominguez Hills on the road on Tuesday.

The Tritons stand at 1–1 in CCAA play and overall.

Game One “We are playing a lot of young people, but they are very lucky because they are playing with a very solid core of veterans like Farrah Shokoor, Taylor Tanita, Cassie Callahan and Cassie Macleod,” UCSD women’s basketball Head Coach Heidi VanDerveer told the UCSD Athletics Department.

UCSD started off slow, quickly falling down by eight points after only 10 minutes of play. The perimeter defense suffered against Cal State San Marcos, as UCSD allowed five three-pointers in the first quarter. UCSD closed out the first quarter down 21–13.

“In the first seven minutes of the game we didn’t come to the party,” VanDerveer said. “The party started without us. That can’t happen. We have to really start from the very beginning, and if that happens we will be really great offensively.”

The Tritons responded in the second quarter and went on a quick 16–3 run, fueled by a senior forward Farrah Shokoor layup, two three-pointers from junior guard Beth Mounier and two more made shots by senior guard Jamie Katuna. UCSD continued to put pressure on the Cougars, with Mounier adding another three-pointer and Katuna sinking a couple of free throws to bring the lead to eight at the break. After 20 minutes of play, the Tritons were up 38–30 over the Cougars.

Coming out of the break, the Cougars had a 10–2 run to tie the game up at 40 apiece. The Tritons did not let that get to them, however, and went on to score 22 points to finish the quarter with a 62–49 advantage, thanks to sophomore guard Taylor Tanita’s five points and junior forward Cassie MacLeod’s six.

After a little more than five minutes played in the fourth quarter, a layup from MacLeod put the Tritons up by 18 points, their biggest lead of the game. Up 73–51, UCSD released the pressure a little bit, and Cal State San Marcos scored nine points to close out the game. With such a comfortable advantage, UCSD won the game by 13 points, 73–60, in its first meeting with its new conference opponents.

“I think we have tremendous depth,” VanDerveer said. “We have good versatility and flexibility. It’ll make us better, especially on back-to-backs.”

Shokoor, an all-CCAA and all-West Region selection last season, almost had a double-double with a game-high 19 points, to which she added nine boards. MacLeod added eight points and 10 boards, which both Katuna and Mounier scored in double figures with 15 and 11 points, respectively.

Game Two UCSD was back at it on Tuesday night at the Toro Drome to take on Cal State Dominguez Hills. The Tritons could not shake off a horrendous shooting performance and lost 69–45.

The Tritons suffered another slow start in this game, trailing 7–3 right out of the gate. However, UCSD did not wait to respond and finished the first quarter up by two points, 13–11.

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Tritons Start Season With Win and Loss UCSD Closes Fall Racing UCSD drops game against D-I foe Irvine, trumps Winona State in CCAA matchup. Tritons race against top Division-I boats at Fall Classic.

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The UCSD men’s basketball team entered its exhibition game against UC Irvine, fresh off being voted to finish third in the California Collegiate Athletic Association Preseason Coaches Poll. The Tritons failed to produce, dropping the match to the Division-I Anteaters, but the team quickly turned things around, winning its conference, regular-season opener against Winona State on Tuesday night. The Tritons are now 1–0 in the CCAA to start the season, with Winona State dropping to 1–1.

Game One The Tritons got off on the wrong foot on Friday night in their exhibition against UC Irvine, allowing the Anteaters to go up 9–0 within the first two minutes.

Unfortunately the Tritons did nothing in the first half to turn things around, as they fell behind by as many as 23 points, with the team shooting only 32.8 percent

The UCSD men’s and women’s rowing programs rounded out their short fall season at the San Diego Fall Classic at Mission Bay this past weekend.

The men’s open 8+ came away with fourth place with a time of 15:05 in a tight race against tough Division-I rivals. University of San Diego won the race with a time of 14:54, followed by UC Santa Barbara in 15:04 and Santa Clara University in 15:05.

“We performed really well,” UCSD men’s rowing Head Coach Zach Johnson told the UCSD Athletics Department. “USD is always fast this time of year, and Santa Clara and UCSB are teams we fully expect to be contenders in the spring. It was a fantastic result.”

The Triton women’s “A” and “B” boats posted seventh- and ninthplace finishes, respectively, in the women’s open 8+ race. The “A” crew posted a time of 17:27, while the “B” crew posted 17:53. USD dominated the race once again, with its “A”

(9–28) from the field compared to the Anteaters’ 58.3 percent (14–24).

The half was not without its bright spots, though. Junior guard Aleks Lipovic hit four out of five shots, with three from beyond the arc off of nine minutes of play.

The team improved offensively in the second half, but it proved to be fruitless. Bringing the game within 13 points multiple times, the Tritons were unable to take the next step and bring the difference to single digits.

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The Tritons could not slow the Anteaters’ offense, allowing them to shoot 65.4 percent, compared to the Tritons’ improved shooting percentage of 44.1 percent. Despite the defensive showing, the Tritons’ improved offense allowed them to score almost twice as many points than in the first half, moving their scoring output from 26 to 47. UCSD ultimately lost the game 89–73.

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crew crossing the line in 16:01. The Toreros’ “B” and “C” contingents snagged third- and fourth-place finishes, respectively, to round out a strong day of racing.

In the women’s open 4+ race, UCSD’s “A” crew took seventh in 20:35. The “C” boat followed close behind in eighth, posting a time of 20:37. The “B” crew initially finished in the eighth position with a time of 20:36, but after a collision penalty was assessed, dropped to 12th place with a final time of 21:36. USD once again established its dominance over the field, taking the top five spots with times of 17:52, 18:38, 18:41, 18:53 and 19:17.

“We showed some depth and strength in both races,” women’s rowing Head Coach Colin Truex said.

“It was a good way to end our very short fall season. We have a lot to feel good about and a lot to work on, too.”

The rowing programs will hit the water again in the spring to begin their official season — the Tritons’ official schedule can be viewed at ucsdtritons.com.

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