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January 16-30, 2014 | Vol. 24 Issue 1 | Always Free THE NUT JOB L.A. COLLEGE TIME TO GET A LIL’ bIT NUTTY! MUSIC SCENE USC STUDENTS’ 4 ARTISTS TO WATCH IN 2014 GUIDE CRYSTAL METHOD TO DTLA RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM! ©2014 CAMPUS CIRCLE • (323) 939-8477 • 5042 WILSHIRE BLVD., #600 LOS ANGELES, CA 90036 • WWW.CAMPUSCIRCLE.COM TABLE OF CONTENTS January 16-30, 2014 WHAT’SINSIDE Vol. 24 Issue 21 Editor-in-Chief Sydney Champion editor.chief@campuscircle.net 18 Art Director / Food Editor 13 Sean Michael Beyer food.editor@campuscircle.net NEWS 04 The Latest from L.A. and Beyond Film Editor film.editor@campuscircle.net 05 A Chat with the UC President Music Editor music.editor@campuscircle.net COLLEGE LIFE REAL 911 Calls sure to make you... 06 Everything You Need to Know Calendar Editor Frederick Mintchell About Meningitis Laugh Your calendar.editor@campuscircle.net Arse Off! Editorial Interns AROUND L.A. Truth is by far funnier than fiction, and this collection of real calls Diego Girgado to law enforcement in Hometown Police Blotter is exactly that. 07 USC Students: Make DTLA Your Whether you give it a gander atop the throne, or share it with Blanca Palacios friends, it’s sure to bring a smile to everyone’s face and then some. Laura Koeller New Hangout! Available in Paperback, Hard Cover and ePub. Luyi Yang www.HometownPoliceBlotter.com FILM Contributing Writers 08 Stars Reveal Voice-Over Secrets Jennifer Boucher Sydney Champion in The Nut Job Frederick Mintchell Luyi Yang SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY MUSIC Center for Esthetic Dentistry ADVERTISING 13 The Chrystal Method Talks Illness, Sean Bello New Album sean.bello@campuscircle.net 13 Coachella is Almost Here: Joy Calisoff 5 Acts You Have to See! joy.calisoff@campuscircle.net 17 Musical Artists with College Ties Spice Up L.A. 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UCLA School of Dentistry, Westwood Campus All rights reserved. in 2013-14 www.CampusCircle.com Campus Circle - January 16-30, 2014 3 NEWS G ary F RIEDMAN /L OS A NGELES NEWS&VIEWS T IMES The latest from Los Angeles and Beyond. BY CAMPUS CIRCLE STAFF /MCT November 2013, health officials will soon offer an imported lab fees or whatever else they may need. You might think these vaccine that will cover about 20,000 UCSB students, according programs are helping out lower-income students, but that is to NBC News. Last month, more than 5,200 Princeton University not necessarily the case. According to The Hechinger Report, students received the imported vaccine, which is called Bexsero. a lot of the work-study money (which is funded by federal It is approved in Europe, Canada and Australia but not in taxpayers) goes to children of better-off families at expensive USC, UCLA HAVE TOP-NOTCHIN the U.S. However, thanks to an emergency clearance, the Ivy private universities. Much of this $1 billion in work-study funds ONLINE MASTER’S PROGRAMS League school in New Jersey was able to give it to students after goes to these “richer” students instead of students who perhaps In a recent ranking released by U.S. News & World Report, meningitis B sickened eight people in March 2013. Bacterial need it more. Approximately one in four work-study students the University of Southern California and the University of come from families that earn more than $80,000 a year, and California, Los Angeles were noted to have some of the best almost half of work-study students attend private, nonprofit online programs for students. USC is once again ranked No. “Many students who are in the universities and colleges. However, fewer than half meet the 1 for having the best online graduate program in computer federal definition of financial need. information technology, while UCLA’s online master’s basketball and football programs engineering program was ranked No. 2 (USC’s online master’s CNN: SOME COLLEGE ATHLETES PLAY LIKE ADULTS BUT engineering program was ranked fourth this year). U.S. News at public universities…can only READ LIKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS & World Report has been releasing annual rankings on the best Sure, they can score 30-yeard touchdowns or shoot 3-pointers online programs for three years now, covering online bachelor’s read up to an eighth-grade level.” from the outside like it’s nobody’s business, but some athletes degrees and online master’s degrees in engineering, business, are struggling trying to do basic functions inside the classroom: education, nursing and computer information technology. reading and writing. According to a recent CNN analysis, many According to the Los Angeles Times, older, working professionals meningitis is a rare but potentially deadly infection, which can students who are in the basketball and football programs at tend to be the ones taking USC’s online graduate computer kill one in 10 victims and cause disabilities in 20 percent of public universities across the country can only read up to an science and engineering programs. The Times also reports those who survive. Along with the eight people in New Jersey, eighth-grade level. Additionally, the investigation found that schools like USC and UCLA are trying to broaden their market meningitis B has infected four students in California, including there is a staggering achievement gap between college athletes as demand for online classes continues to grow. one college student who had to have both feet amputated. and their peers at the same institution. When it comes to scores on the SAT, many student-athletes scored in the 200s and 300s UCSB STUDENTS TO GET IMPORTED WORK-STUDY MONEY REPORTEDLY on the critical reading test; students need to score at least a 400 MENINGITIS VACCINE GOES TO RICHER STUDENTS to be considered college-literate. When it comes to the ACT, the After an outbreak of meningitis strain B that sickened four Colleges everywhere have work-study programs where students threshold is 16, but some students scored in the single digits (the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) students in can work on campus and earn a bit of cash to pay for books, highest score possible is a 36). 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Napolitano spoke in her office last month, cautiously answering questions about tuition, labor relations, community college transfers, Sacramento politics, Cal football’s low graduation rate, and the protesters who dog her at public appearances to highlight the illegal immigrant deportations that took place during her time as the Homeland Security chief. The questions and answers that follow were edited for brevity and clarity. Q: One of your first proposals was to make tuition rates more UC President Napolitano is predictable. What might that look like? getting ready to tackle big A: I really don’t want to say right now because the task force is issues in the UC system. looking at different models, and the minute I say, “For example,” then that becomes “Well, the president has proposed,” and it’s like, no, no, it’s being looked at. In my view, these are public universities and they should be as affordable as possible, and A: Close to 30 percent of our students are transfer students, so in policy or funding? that means we need to be looking at tuition and financial aid terms of the numbers, they’re pretty good.

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