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The new A.S. Council — voted into office early this quarter — entered last night’s meeting prepared to vote in a roster of new associate vice presidents, only to leave four of the 10 positions empty. According to a college senator on one of the 10 AVP selection committees who wished to remain anonymous, the remaining appointments were tabled over DID YOU concerns about the candidates’ KNOW? lack of experience. JOHN HANACEK/GUARDIAN AVPs are responsible The 10 A.S. for closely managing key AVPs are each council responsibilities such as paid a stipend organizing the annual Sun God of $3,500 for a );+W]VKQT,Q[K][[M[;XZQVO*]LOM\ Festival and allocating money to one-year term. student organizations. By Angela Chen the Fall Revise system, they created an ini- The selection committees, each consisting of News Editor tial budget that postpones the allocating of PROJECTED ALLOCATIONS three to four council senators and the outgoing funds to a pre-determined set of items. The AVP, review the candidates’ applications then A.S. President Wafa Ben Hassine and council will then finalize the budget during present their appointment recommendations to the Vice President of Finance and Resources Week Three of Fall Quarter. ESTIMATED REVENUE $2,682,198.21 president and the three vice presidents. Andrew Ang presented a first draft of the “This is only the initial budget,” she said. Among the candidates who were approved as 2010-11 fiscal budget to the A.S. Council “It’s the spring budget that covers summer OFFICE OF PRESIDENT $40,100.00 scheduled were 2009-10 Marshall College Senator last night — a plan that includes newly through Week Three of fall.” Brian McEuen, nominated for AVP of Enterprise OFFICE OF STUDENT LIFE $2,244,237.22 instated A.S. senator stipends and expands READ ON Ang said it was necessary Operations by Vice President of Finance and the council’s graphic-design and web-devel- Pick up to use the Fall Revise system SUN GOD FESTIVAL $555,000.00 Resources Andrew Ang. opment positions. our Monday in order for council execu- Eleanor Roosevelt College Senator Pauline edition for OFFICE OF FINANCE AND RESOURCES $229,628.00 Next year’s budget is based on a pro- tives to draft the most accu- Nuth was selected as AVP of Athletic Relations more details MEDIA UNALLOCATED $30,000.00 jected revenue of $2,624,766.21 — most of on the rate budget possible. after a recommendation from VP of Student Life which will be generated by the quarterly 2010-11 “I’m really in favor of the OFFICE OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS $22,950.00 Kristina Pham. Nuth will oversee programs like $47 activity fee paid by every student. Of A.S. budget. Fall Revise,” he said. “We don’t Triton Tide. this budget, the council has allocated all but know how many people will COUNCIL STIPENDS $116,147.41 Marshall College junior Alyssa Peace and $219,505.09 among its various offices and be attending — we allocated for [a total CABINET STIPENDS $60,750.00 Eleanor Roosevelt College senior Brian Wong — enrollment of] 21,850, but there could be services. SENATE STIPENDS $10,800.00 both also Pham’s picks — were selected to serve as According to Ben Hassine, she and Ang more. and that would change our budget. AVP of Diversity and AVP of Concerts and Events, followed the Fall Revise budget-planning The Fall Revise makes sure that we don’t OFFICE STIPENDS $31,350.00 respectively. process — the same system utilized last year SERVICE & COMMISSION STIPENDS $12,200.00 by then-A.S. President Utsav Gupta. Under See BUDGET,page 7 See AVPpage 7

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May 10 to 14 and included the instal- recently learned from a popular tech lation of a mock-Israeli division wall blog that two of my favorite websites on Library Walk — a new flame was — Facebook and Pandora — have added to the fire. begun to communicate with one In retaliation, Young Americans another, sharing my personal infor- for Freedom, an otherwise unknown, mation behind my back without my politically conservative student org, invited slimeball pro-Israel commenta- tor David Horowitz to speak on cam- pus that same week. During a ques- Head Meets tion-and-answer session, Horowitz ILLUSTRATIONS BY REBEKAH HWANG/GUARDIAN dodged a legitimate request from MSA Ground member Jumanah Albahri to back his Black Student Union rallied to stop and seeing their pain is just as valuable While we’re on the topic of REZA FARAZMAND claim that terrorists fund her organi- putting student fees toward the Koala’s as learning the facts that have caused it Horowitz, though, we’d advise students [email protected] zation. He also bullied Albahri into racist jokes, the cocky marsupials are — even if it does make the stroll down not to take his exchange with Albahri agreeing she would support a mass still printing new issues. Library Walk a little uncomfortable. so simplistically. Of course, Jewish stu- knowledge or consent. genocide of Jews, simplifying the issue The information presented during We support the council’s fund- dents are entitled to feel threatened or My initial reaction: “Those moth- into “for or against” language. Justice for Palestine Week — which ing of Justice in Palestine Week, just upset by recent events on our campus, erfuckers are talking shit.” However, Now, fears of anti-Semitism are does not even approach the Koala’s as we support its (partial) funding of but it takes quite an imagination to after quickly suppressing my natural trickling into the campus conversation, caliber of disrespect — is both emo- the YAF’s distasteful guest speaker. If believe that MSA members are out to gangster rage, I realized that the and TFI is asking the A.S. Council tionally charged and controversial, but members of TFI are upset about how kill off UCSD’s Jewish population. situation was far more serious. They to stop funding Justice in Palestine that’s all the more reason to financially Justice in Palestine Week presented Ultimately, we must remember that weren’t just talking — they were Week, while requesting that a long list support it. the facts of the conflict, we encourage the issue at hand is the Israeli govern- talking about my taste in music. of departments, groups and colleges The MSA’s mock security wall may them to take equal advantage of the ment’s occupation of the Palestinian Facebook tells Pandora what bands on campus stop endorsing the event, have come off as shocking, but how student fees at their disposal and plan territories. But when any number of I like, and Pandora tells me what I which many pro-Israel students per- often to does a passerby stop for a an event of their own. Ultimately, pub- student groups disagrees with each should be listening to based on those ceive as hurtful. tame little info session? MSA members lic forums like these spur healthy dis- other, they should all be given the bands. Is it just us, or did we already settle have every right to be upset about the cussion among uninformed students, means to deliver their opinions to the Assholes. Who do they think the funding debate last quarter? If human rights violations being com- who would otherwise spend their time public. It’s the only way the rest of us they are? Spying on me? Selling my you’ll recall, no matter how much the mitted against the Palestinian people mulling over the “Lost” finale. might learn something. information to one another? Telling me I should listen to more Arcade Fire? I’d expect this kind of think from Facebook, who is generally kind of a bitch-ass anyway, but Pandora? What a Novel Idea: Fewer Pens, More Classes What the hell, Man? I thought we couple weeks ago, our much- were cool. maligned royal circle — the It gets worse. AUC Board of Regents — stum- Shortly after discovering this bled upon two big no-brainers. harrowing betrayal, I logged onto They found that if they bought Pandora and was confronted with a less office supplies for administrators, small pop-up bubble at the bottom they could put those savings toward of my screen. It informed me that my classes and professor salaries. They old friend Lisa — who I hadn’t spo- also chose to more clearly define the ken to since high school — was a fan student registration fee — which was of the song I was listening to. designed to go toward student resourc- “Lisa likes this song,” Pandora es — as the “Student Services Fee.” said, like some demon-possessed car- Nice and transparent. However, nival attraction before, presumably, they also slipped some ambiguous feasting on the soul of a baby giraffe. language in to the fine print — lan- I was mortified. The robots were guage that completely contradicts taking over. I had to save Lisa. its upgraded name. The Student She picked up after two rings. Service Fee can now technically to “Hello?” toward state-funded areas such as “Lisa! You like the song ‘In Ear admissions, the registrar’s office and Park’ by Department of Eagles, don’t libraries. you?” You win some, you lose some, and “Yeah, I love that song.” it’s a 50 percent positive track record in “You know how I know?” a year of budget shortfalls. “How?” A round of applause, please, for the financial weathervane swings. No document banned. service fee by the same amount. It “Because Pandora told me!” the board of geniuses! Office supplies? public office should shine like it’s in We — along with Registration Fee seems an obvious solution — but then, “Oh. Cool.” We’d have never thought to sacrifice the Fortune 500. After all, it’s academic Advisory Committee Chair Erik Van so did those belated office-supply “Doesn’t that freak you out?” monogrammed staplers while public prowess that defines our university, Esselstyn — are all for putting our fees cutbacks. “Not really.” education collapses. The plan will not our supply of ballpoint pens. into education rather than less essen- “Oh. Well, uh … What did you funnel $500 million of administrative As for the new Student Services tial services. When push comes to think of the ‘Lost’ finale?” funds into the classroom — the brain- Policy, it includes all sorts of clauses shove, it’s better that more money go “I never watched that show.” child of UC Chief Financial Officer meant to clarify where our money is toward the academic side of our col- Maybe she wasn’t worth saving, Peter Taylor. Taylor’s first move: reduce going. Each campus will have a web- lege experience. At a time when wait- after all. Regardless, it was clear that $100 million in printers, paper and site revealing how the fees are being lists are inflating and departments are ,+0;690(3)6(9+ Lisa and I had been out of touch for staplers — amenities for which we spent, and chancellors will supposedly facing a 20-percent cut, the classes and :PTVUL>PSZVU a while — a fact that I immediately shell out $4 billion a year. solicit student input on how much the professors at the crux of our university EDITOR IN CHIEF remedied by browsing her Facebook It’s a practical, albeit obvious, fee should be. can always use a little help. (S`ZZH)LYLaUHR page for several minutes. Turns out solution; now, Taylor just needs to Ironically, this transparency won’t However, blurring the line between 9LaH-HYHaTHUK she studied abroad in Spain, her keep up the steam. He says that nine change the fact that our registra- our registration and educational fee MANAGING EDITORS birthday is in November and she’s still similar initiatives have been launched tion fees will now officially be able ignores the intent behind having two /H`SL`)PZJLNSPH4HY[PU interested in men. Super. I love catch- since 2008, but — at the first sign to go toward educational areas that fees in the first place: When the going (UNLSH*OLU ing up with old friends. of economic upturn — everyone a 2002 UC Council on Student Fees gets tough, the registration fee should NEWS EDITORS Here’s what I don’t love about old trashes their cheap schizophrenic document deemed “inappropriate” ensure that certain services don’t see ;YL]VY*V_ friends: the fact that those unbearable copy machine for the latest laser for registration-fee usage. The 2002 their funds pulled arbitrarily. To keep OPINION EDITOR weirdos can now view all my Pandora stations at will. At will! That means printer. Though there are few signs document provided guidelines that things honest, the regents should have The UCSD Guardian is published twice a week at that California’s $1.2 billion deficit will were never officially approved — but just re-adjusted the two fees instead of the University of California at San Diego. Contents whenever they want. I’m not saying © 2010. Views expressed herein represent the begin to fill anytime soon, we hope the the official, updated version gives the making them overlap. majority vote of the editorial board and are not I have anything to hide, but I don’t necessarily those of the UC Board of Regents, the regents can at least enforce a modest regents permission to use our Student Van Esselstyn said it best: raise the ASUCSD or the members of the Guardian staff. administrative budget, no matter how Services Fee for purposes the old educational fee, then lower the student See GROUNDpage 5 OPINION THURSDAY, MAY 27, 2010 THE UCSD GUARDIAN 5 DRAWING FIRE By Johan DeLaTorre LETTER TO THE EDITOR

then cut her off and asked her to leave, Campus Dialogue Could and the mainly white, middle-aged Prevent Misunderstanding audience booed her. Some yelled, “We don’t want you here.” Meskin talked Dear Editor, about racism in her letter to the edi- It’s amazing how people can see tor, and that is indeed what I saw that one event so differently. night against this woman on our cam- Myra Meskin, a member of Tritons pus, as a representative from the uni- for Israel, submitted a letter to the versity administration just stood by. Guardian on May 17 about how While attending the event, I was a member of the Muslim Student extremely upset by what happened, Association “stood up in a public and it is only more angering to see forum and announced her support for someone misrepresent the situation. Hamas and Hezbollah” at an event on Racism does exist in the form of anti- May 10th. Semitism — I have experienced it — It’s so sad to see such a misrepre- but it also exists because of individuals sentation of what happened that night, like David Horowitz, who seize upon even leaving out the actual context fear and stereotypes of others to attack of the event. Tritons for Israel (who them. initially supported the event, then What is needed on this campus later pulled out), Young Americans for more than anything else is dialogue Freedom and the College Republicans — so that individuals can listen to invited the right-wing pundit David one another, find out where they are Horowitz to speak on campus in coming from and open their minds as support of Israel during Justice in a result — rather than spreading mes- Palestine Week. sages of hate. During his speech, Horowitz —Nathan Ellstrand labeled it “Hitler Youth Week” and Graduate student, falsely accused the MSA of being a ter- Latin-American studies Social Networking Isn’t So Harmless After All rorist arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. The student who asked the question ▶ The Guardian welcomes letters from its readers. ▶ GROUND, MYVTWHNL same websites. The Internet is forc- The Facebook-Pandora alliance to Horowitz never said that she sup- All letters must be no longer than 500 words, exactly go around advertising the fact ing me to find commonalities with does nothing to make my life better. ported either Hamas or Hezbollah, but typed, double-spaced and signed with a name and applicable title. Letters must also contain a phone that I still listen to Cursive some- my pseudo- It doesn’t enrich my music-listening rather simply asked Horowitz to clarify number. We reserve the right to edit for length and times. Because I don’t. I swear. I’m not saying friends and experience, or enhance my personal- his claim about the MSA. clarity. Letters may be dropped off at the Guardian What it all comes down to is pri- — to connect ity, or make me more handsome. In response, Horowitz went on office on the second floor of the Student Center or I have anything e-mailed. Send all letters to: vacy. I currently have a total of 763 with them What it does is tell me that my friend to call members of the MSA at uni- The UCSD Guardian Facebook friends, approximately 500 to hide, but I through Daniel — an individual whose taste in versities throughout the country Opinion Editor of whom I haven’t seen in person don’t exactly our musical music I have always deeply respected “terrorists,” and disgustingly called 9500 Gilman Dr. 0316 for at least a year, and approximately go around interests — — has been listening to a lot of Black the woman a “terrorist” for wearing a La Jolla, CA 92093-0316 200 of whom I don’t like very much when all I Eyed Peas recently, which makes me keffiyeh (scarf) around her neck. He e-mail: [email protected] at all but feel obligated to maintain advertising that I really want respect him a whole lot less. If a man an Internet-based friendship with listen to Cursive is to distance wants to listen to terrible, terrible because we did some half-assed sometimes. myself from music, he should be able to do so in group project together in a class these people the privacy of his own home, free whose name I’ve already forgotten. Because I don’t. as much as from intrusion and ridicule. Though I have no real desire to be I swear. possible and The Internet is stalking us, watch- OPINION in contact with any of these people, occasion- ing us, learning our habits and pre- we are now linked inextricably by ally glance through their Facebook paring meticulously for the impend- WRITE WHERE IT MATTERS. our presence on the Internet, simply albums while I wait for my Hulu vid- ing robot revolution. Or something. because we frequent a couple of the eos to buffer. Get out while you can. APPLICATIONS AT UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG. Clinical Research Study For Birth Control Menstrual Medical Center for Clinical Research is conducting a clinical research study of an investigational oral medication for birth control. Migraine Headaches

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After a string of disheartening theththe lalladiesadid eses ooff ‘t‘‘toto beb ssung’unng’g hithiti allallll thetheh rightriightt notesnototeses — BUTBUTU suggestions — including such stun- ners as Courtney Love, Garth from DON’T EVEN TRY TO UNDERSTAND THEM. By Arielle Sallai “Wayne’s World” and that chick who was banging Scott Peterson — one of Electro-Heroes Ride my coworkers (apparently not needing or such a sizable production, there isn’t a whole lot going on in “To Synths to New Lands a letter of recommendation anytime in Be Sung” — the latest chamber opera to fill the Conrad Prebys Music Center in song. All that sits onstage — awaiting the cast before the oled up with a line of bizarre opening notes — are a couple of big, white origami … things. They instruments in an old rural Straighter really don’t look like much. For that reason, though, nothing could mansion in upstate New York — F better exemplify the performance to come. H Than instead of the urban apartment that There is no discernable plot in “To Be Sung,” nor are there any birthed most of their past successes — Narrow particularly strong characters to identify with. Take away the music, and you’re once Mike Stroud and Evan Mast laid down SIMONE ELECTRA WILSON again alone with those glowing white lanterns. But don’t run away just yet — theirs [email protected] the tracks for their sixth album in as may be an obvious foray into abstract, head-scratching territory, but a world of mean- many years. The departure from such the future) informed the entire news- ingless insight can be gained from the grad-student opera. a winning protocol may have been room that he had finally stumbled Composed by French luminary Pascal Dusapin in 1993, the production has risky, but given the indie duo’s love of upon my true doppelganger: the since been re-imagined more than 50 times throughout Europe. Now that director exploration, a shift from routine was morning-after scarecrow behind such (and original cast member) Susan in the cards. grrrl-power party hits as “Tik Tok,” Nurucki is teaming up with the The electro-rockers typically trade “Blah Blah Blah” and “Your Love Is My THEATERREVIEW Kallisti Ensemble — an experimen- out standard vocals for such oddities Drug” — each chronologically more tal group of chamber-opera grad as bird chirps, wildcat screams and likely to kill brain cells than the last. students at UCSD — “To Be Sung” German voiceovers — a trend that Although I’m 99 percent positive is finally seeing its West Coast pre- continues throughout LP4. The pair he only made the Ke$ha connection miere. devised the album during the same because my hair is always so fucked The opera begins with a soli- recording sessions that wrought LP3 up (unless he also snooped the mini tary figure (UCSD Professor Philip two years ago; they divided the tracks bottles of Jack lining my medicine cabi- Larson) at the center of the stage, a between the former and its brand-new net), said editor did inspire me to more purple spotlight bringing him out sibling. closely investigate the talentless twenty- of complete darkness. In his best While its title is a decidedly lat- something’s freak rise to fame. I braved Tom Waits growl, Larson describes eral move, LP4 expounds on the her three-video YouTube dominion, a vase, a lamp and an arm chair. He otherworldly aesthetic honed on LP3 her Saturday Night Live disaster and a then leaves the stage to sit with the — weaving an unfamiliar body of few excruciating interviews. orchestra and provide nonsensical global exoticism into LP3’s clean-cut “I’m just honest about the things commentary that refuses to indulge sound. The latest incorporates a tribal I believe in,” Ke$ha said to Interview our grasps at a storyline. backbeat and — for the first time — a Magazine. “For instance, I went yester- Meanwhile, a group of four full string section, building upon the day to a past-life regressionist, and he women (Stephanie Aston, Tiffany vanilla-synth lightness of its 2008 pre- told me that in my past life I was assas- Du Mouchelle, Leslie Ann Leytham decessor. sinated. I’m pretty sure that I was JFK and Meghann Welsh) congregate An excess of dicing, reversing and in my past life.” around the stage, and — like their layering makes it difficult to discern Does that mean my doppelganger omniscient narrator — let out a which instruments are responsible actually gets to be JFK? I fucking hope stream of jumbled, indiscernible for the group’s new Eastern twang. so. Above all, though, dearest Ke$ha To Be Sung abstractions. However, the notable reintroduction “Two walking!” shouts godlike got me thinking: Maybe the career STARRING KALLISTI ENSEMBLE of Stroud’s heavy guitar rifts — in con- path of filthy-rich superstar is not as DIRECTED BY SUSAN NURUCKI orator Larson sporadically through- trast to the rock-emaciated LP3 — is a farfetched as I once imagined. CONRAD PREBYS MUSIC CENTER out the show. 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Tracks “Drugs” and chosen by god to relive the ’60s on 25 ed Cubist painters like Picasso into literary form, creating striking word portraits made “Party with Children” have a similar times the budget. At least in SoCal, to evoke feelings rather than follow literal storylines. effect — shifting from lurching, eerily everyone’s just trying to have a good Dusapin’s opera follows suit. sober beginnings to full-bodied elec- time. So the Bay’s out. That said, San The set’s notable cubism and cast’s nonsensical turns of phrase are meant to repre- tronic symphonies. Diego, admittedly, is not exactly the sent the relationships and desires of the four women. Sure, LP4 is technically a cheat: doofy surf-bro niche to which I want to “Sometimes the women are demanding to be kissed; sometimes they are showing The title practically owns up to the fact culturally condemn myself. So LA it is. off,; sometimes they are just lost,” Nurucki explained. that these are the dregs of 2008. 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FILMREVIEWS Girls Go Sexless Outside the City Gyllenhaal Plays Swingers Ditch NYC, Take Gucci Along for Ride. By Trevor Cox Sole Diamond in Rough ‘Prince’ ‘Pirates’ Captain Puts Anglo Spin on ‘Aladdin,’ Gets Stuck in Own Trap. By Leila Haghighat

Prince of Persia STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, GEMMA ARTERTON & BEN KINGSLEY DIRECTED BY MIKE NEWELL RATED PG-13 1:56

hile accordion monkey Johnny Depp is on hiatus until the fourth “Pirates” installment, mega-produc- W er Jerry Bruckheimer is trading in the Caribbean for Sex and the City 2 ancient Persia in his latest kid-friendly action flick, “Prince STARRING SARAH JESSICA PARKER, KIM of Persia: The Sands of CATTRALL, KRISTIN DAVIS & CYNTHIA NIXON Time.” But it seems — with here’s a steep price of entry to direc- Picking up two DIRECTED BY MICHAEL PATRICK KING After a remark from a a tendency to drown itself in tor Michael Patrick King’s followup to years after the first RATED R stranger on her childless prolonged action sequences T 2008’s Sex and the City: For any sem- installment left off, 2:26 marriage, Carrie starts rather than explore new blance of enjoyment, you’ll have to buy into we meet Carrie and to question the relation- sands — “Prince” may just Carrie Bradshaw and friends’ glimmering Co. at the wedding of ship it took her six TV find itself in Davy Jones’ unreality of impromptu private-jet getaways — hey, why not? — Charlotte and Carrie’s seasons and one hapless big-screen adapta- locker even sooner than and $22,000-a-night hotel suites. But boy, respective gay besties. In case the bowtied tion to land. Captain Jack. does it glimmer. show choir and pond of white swans grac- When Charlotte, Miranda and even Based loosely on a 2003 Don’t be fooled by the title, though: Not ing the ceremony aren’t decadent enough, Samantha begin to show some signs of wear video game of the same name, “Prince” opens in the desert only do the sex scenes number exactly two Liza Minelli swoops in to both officiate as from decidedly grown-up threats to their dunes of sixth-century Persia. Orphaned street rat Dastan (and offer little in the way of pity female rabbi and perform a rousing rendition of happiness (ranging from menopause to a (Will Foster) catches the eye of King Sharaman (Ronald nudity for the husbands and boyfriends in Beyonce’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on bra-less nanny), it’s time for a change — in Pickup) in the marketplace, and — after being adopted — the crowd), the bulk of the film takes place It)” — giving way, of course, to shimmying the form an all-expense-paid trip to Abu soon matures into the buff-biceped Jake Gyllenhaal. 6,000 miles from New York City in Abu backup dancers and a swooning crowd. Dhabi, courtesy of a generous sheikh who Like the prince of Egypt, this prince is raised with the Dhabi, displacing the fabulous foursome It’s a telling taste of the extravagant alter- happens to want Samantha’s help in pro- King’s natural-born sons, while Sharaman’s brother Nizam far from their cosmo-twirling, bed-hopping nate universe in which the girls have always moting his new, impossibly over-the-top (Ben Kingsley) serves as token shady advisor to the court, origins into a conservative Muslim society existed, but the wedding also marks the — but more on that later. spot at which everything starts to unravel. See CITY, page 11 See PERSIA, page 12

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THEATERPREVIEW Our New Play Spectacular UNDERGRADUATE THEATER FESTIVAL ARTHUR WAGNER THEATRE MAY 27 TO JUNE 5 FREAK SHOWCASE The Best of the Weird Comes Out to Play in Student-Made Foursome.

categorized by theme. Showcase A lives of the wife and children of Josef By Leila Haghighat Staff Writer dwells on the apocalypse in “Acid “rapist of his own daughter, who Rain” and “Freak Show,” while he kept in a basement” Fritzl, while wo ordinary actors lug a pile of Showcase B dabbles in entrapment Howard’s “American Apparel” pro- ordinary clothes onto the ordi- with “Animal Animal” and “Wigs.” files the titular company’s CEO Dov T nary stage of the Arthur Wagner In “Wigs,” salacious protagonist Charney — whose free-trade business Theatre. But once you learn they’ve Lulu talks in verse amid a chaotic standards parallel his equally liberal got a prostitute inside the pile, it’s clear wreckage of clothing, caution tape, sex life. To explore the character of a that undergraduate theater festival toilet paper rolls and a Barbie doll. man who Howard calls an “eccentric “Our New Play Spectacular,” will be Over her corseted bridal gown, Lulu and hedonistic type of person,” the anything but ordinary. sports a Marilyn Monroe screen T, play centers on Charney’s nonplussed Currently in its seventh year, the offset by a Lady Gaga-inspired noose director of communications, who festival showcases UCSD’s riskiest tal- of hair around her neck. The costume confronts Charney with an article in ent in the form of playwrites, actors is a juxtaposition of 18th-century “Jane” magazine that describes him and directors. Altogether, over 40 pomp against modern pop culture, a walking around his office naked and undergraduates translate student- la Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” masturbating while being interviewed. penned pieces from page to stage in — the noose serving as an extension Howard said he had no difficulty what artistic director and Marshall of the entrapment theme. translating the imagery to stage. College senior Spencer Howard For all their allusions to the past, “If the storytelling on the page is described as “replicating life at a the pieces in the festival balance engaging, then it would be difficult heightened level.” their nostalgia by diving into current to lose that when you’re doing it on The fest is composed of four plays, affairs. “Animal” explores the cellar stage,” he said.

Blah Blah Blah: If That Ho-bo Can Do It, So Can I Carrie Swaps Manolos for Stereotypes ▶ NARROW, MYVTWHNL 2) I somehow sing even worse 3) From there, being $imone won’t ▶ CITY, MYVTWHNL Abu Dhabi has already yielded criti- 1) I’ll be living in a cardboard than Ke$ha — meaning convertibles be much more complicated than resort. cism from the United Arab Emirates’ box. (Until my record company starts brimming in16-year-olds will be even alternating my Coachella and Burning As soon as the ladies land in the National Media Council. making it rain, of course). This will more inclined to drown me out with Man outfits every other week while Middle East, the requisite culture Of course, in every respect that provide for sufficiently nappy jeans hairbrush-in-rearview renditions. Also turning all Uffie’s stiletto stories into clash results: Charlotte whines that really matters in this $95 million ode and a whole host of catchy anecdotes — though it’s a lesser-appreciated talent the common whore’s walk-of-shame her iPhone won’t work; Miranda to extravagance — sassy dialogue, about hardcore street liquids with — bitch ain’t got shit on my smoker’s equivelents. Pretty soon, I’ll be chillin’ butchers her tour-guide Arabic; male eye candy and, most impor- which I am forced to brush my teeth. cough. Think about it: Nothing can in the control room with P. Diddy, Lil Samantha won’t dream of covering tantly, new exotic fashions — writer- Since I’ll be rather young and attrac- unlock memories of last night’s six- Jon and LMFAO, cackling into our her 52-year-old chest. A string of producer-director King delivers. tive by bum standards, I’ll probably footer like some rib-rattling aveoli on crystal balls while the masses swarm to puns — varying in cringe-worthiness And delivers. And delivers. Until even reap enough coinage for a music- the beat (or “the telltale cough,” as the “Shots!” like dying flies to hot shit. from “Lawrence of my labia” to “bed, — one arrest, 142 minutes and 2,000 video handycam and glow-in-the-dark News girls call it when I’m doing edits). So please — stop asking what I’m bath and Bedouin” — don’t do much wardrobe changes later — it’s hard bodypaint. I may need a pro-bono Now imagine what kind of studio doing when I graduate. Because now to help the ladies’ cause. In fact, the to muster much sympathy for this boob job, though. Know anyone good? magic I could make with a stethescope. you know: I’m doing it big. film’s simplistic depiction of modern whiny, overindulged foursome.

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Financial Aid Office Summer Hours: Monday - Friday 10:30 am to 4:30 pm. Thank you for your patience while we process summer and fall awards. 12THE UCSD GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MAY 27, 2010 HIATUS ALBUMREVIEWS Ambitious Opera Delta Spirit 7 Janelle Monáe 8 Not for the Weak History From Below The ArchAndroid ▶ SUNG, MYVTWHNL ROUNDER RECORDS 10 BLACKSMITH RECORDS 10 With each action and emotion the women try to represent, the music and lighting change as well. San Diego Blues Children Put the South in SoCal Soul Singer Changes Shape to Play Full Scale Their words don’t tell us much at all, elta Spirit is no stranger to San from his memory — to the real-life hough soulstress Janelle Monáe Monáe ventures into new ter- but a veritable mix of emotions still Diego — or success. The band revenge of Russian Vitaly Kaloyev’s for conceived The ArchAndroid as ritories all the way to album closer shines through. formed a few years ago here in the death of his family on “Ballad of a concept album about her ro- “BaBopByeYa,” an old-fashioned “You can’t understand the words, D T but you can understand the feelings,” our own backyard, and wasted no Vitaly.” bot alter-ego, the end product sug- jazz tune a la Lena Horne. It time in releasing critically acclaimed With a zippy tempo and shout- gests she is anything but. Monáe’s begins with a dramatic brass intro Nurucki said. debut Ode to Sunshine. Now, after along verses, “Bushwick” is rife with ambitious sophomore effort packs — all horns and snaps — before The music is as frenzied as the three long years on the road — in- emotional growls and croons that gush jazz, shoegaze, funk and soul into easing into Monáe’s now-velvety expressions, moving from somber, cluding a headlining spot at Warren freely from Vasquez’s lungs — and, an 18-track patchwork of genres vocals, and a piano melody for wilting notes to jazzy bass over Live — sophomore effort History along with them, an air of true country that no formulaic machine could good measure. She couldn’t hide screeching oboe and menacing From Below is finally complete. soul. begin to render. her prowess if she tried: Her trombone. The female voices layer Recorded in Tom Waits’ exclusive The band has packaged a winning Her true alter-ego — the cha- expertly trained voice slides up themselves — one over another — Prairie Sun Studios and produced by combination: Heartwrenching vocals meleon — shows itself in the world and down the scale, belting out into a chaotic pulse, drawing out sin- My Morning Jacket’s Bo Kester, Delta from an honest front-porch songbook, of difference between “Tightrope” the titular warcry with the lung gular words and morphing them into Spirit’s rhythmic blues-rock has been paired with aggressive acoustic guitar, and the watery “Mushrooms & strength of Aretha. distorted harmonies. Combined with edited by seasoned ears that perfect country-tinged harmonicas and gal- Roses.” The former is greased in Although each track has its colorful, shifting lights, the room every ounce of their homegrown loping drums — all radiating a time- Monáe’s slick vocals, spewing forth own selfish flair, all are bound to- becomes a schizophrenic trip. melodies — ensuring the band lives up less energy that becomes the intangible at a hip-hop pace and punctuated gether by a backbone of fast-paced Those white lanterns don’t seem to their namesake. highlight of Below. The album finds a by thick horns and irresistible drums and smart songwriting on so out of place anymore. The album itself is a scrapbook of happy medium between intimate and chants. The lo-fi latter, on the other the human condition — from love “To Be Sung” clearly isn’t for personal accounts, from lead singer larger-than-life — not without the help hand, lays her dreamy, distorted to war to magic. She couldn’t be a everyone. For the minority of audi- Matthew Vasquez’ tale of heartbreak of those who know both best. voicebox over a steady drum-and- robot if she tried. ence members with the patience and arty enthusiasm to sit through 70 on “Bushwick Blues” — about the one —Amanda Martinek tambourine beat in ’80s shoegaze —Angela Chen person he just can’t seem to scrape Staff Writer style. Senior Staff Writer minutes of challenging nonsense, the kaleidoscope of light and sound will be an inspiration; the rest will find Disney’s ‘Persia’ Has All the Fire of ‘Pirates,’ But None of the Gold themselves in over their heads. ▶ PERSIA, MYVTWHNL obliterating the world. Cue histrionic strings of ates,” the film largely divorces itself from its titular ever-aloof and draped with ulterior motives. doom with the metronomic precision of a snoozing culture. The entirely non-Persian cast speaks When the Persians lay siege to Alamut (a scene alarm clock. strictly in an Oxbridge accent — because, in case loaded in maximum CGI glory), Dastan snags the For all his Spidey moves across the rooftops of a you never learned, ancient Persia apparently Dagger of Time. Unbeknownst to him, when the makeshift Agrabah, Dastan gets stuck in the quick- thought Brit-speak was classier than American ruby on its hilt is pressed, the dagger reverses the sand of one-dimensionality — both in personality English (or maybe that’s just director Mike passage of time. and physique. His chiseled abs, in particular, make Newell). Princess Tamina of Alamut (Gemma Arterton) their fair share of appearances from behind that Although “Prince” plays off the same tropes that begins to unravel the mythological significance of breastplate armor. catapulted “Pirates” to success, it never quite strikes the dagger — meanwhile falling in love, Disney- The script is chock full of sayings like the same heartstring. There are running gags and style, with Dastan, after an abundance of not-so- “Consider the advice of council, but always listen double entendres involving Gyllenhaal’s dagger, but witty hard-to-get banter. When Dastan is wrongly to your heart” — a bit too syrupy to forgive. 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BASEBALL PROFILE

By Cameron Tillisch Senior Staff Writer

BASEBALL — Above all else, the No. 1 UCSD baseball team had one goal in mind since its season began on Feb. 1: to make it to the College World Series Cary, N.C. Finally, after a record-breaking season with 51 wins, the Tritons are excelling in the Tar Heel State —taking one careful step at a time. UCSD’s first two games in the series were epic nailbiters — battles to the last pitch. Still, the Tritons pull ahead in both games. Behind, junior Tim Shibuya and senior Matt Rossman — the team’s staff aces — UCSD beat Georgia College & State University 3-2 in walk-off fashion on May 22, then outdueled University of Central Missouri 2-1 in a CWS classic on May 25. After being delayed by rain for over three hours, the game against the GCSU Bobcats got off to a slow start. Featuring SWIMMING & DIVING two of the best pitchers in the nation, it was clear from the start that this game would be decided on the mound. Both Shibuya and GCSU’s Martin Dewald threw complete games, but the UCSD ace was the last one HEAD WORLD SERIES WATCH GAME TWO RHE UCSD (53-7) 2010 CENTRAL MISSOURI ABOVE (52-10) 112

Senior righty Matt Rossman pitched an 11-inning two-hit masterpiece — and senior catcher Kellen Lee drove in the winning run — as UCSD beat Central Missouri 2-1.

standing — thanks to timely support from the Triton offense. Shibuya tossed his fifth complete game of the season, allowing eight hits and just two runs. Junior outfielder Kyle Saul drove in senior shortstop Vance Albitz in both WATER the first and fifth innings to put UCSD up 2-0. GCSU strung together four hits in the top half of the sixth to tie the game at 2-2; after the minor blip, however, Shibuya and With the spring graduation of Dewald settled to hold the teams scoreless until the bottom of the ninth. CARIANNE CUNNINGHAM Evan Kehoe led off the bottom of the , ninth inning for the Tritons, reaching first after being hit by a pitch. Senior Chris UCSD will be losing one of its finest athletes Fung then pinch-hit for redshirt fresh- man Danny Susdorf, laying down a perfect and most devoted team leaders. sacrifice bunt to advance Kehoe to second. After the Bobcats forced senior catcher Kellen Lee to fly out, junior second base- BY TYLER NELSON | SENIOR STAFF WRITER man Grant Bauer singled through the left Photo by Erik Jepsen side, allowing Kehoe to score from second and seal the win. Bauer came up with the game-winning hen senior Carianne Cunningham speaks, the UCSD swim single after going hitless in his first three team listens. at-bats. W Once a timid freshman that let her stroke do the talking, “I had been struggling against [Dewald] Cunningham evolved into the team’s vocal leader this season. in my previous at-bats, but a lot of people As team captain, she helped guide UCSD to a third-place finish at the 2010 were talking to me before the at-bat and National Collegiate Athletic Association National Championships in March. telling me to wait for something up and to That’s not to downplay her performance in the pool. Cunningham stay relaxed,” Bauer said in statement. “It’s posted a third-place finish in the 200-meter breaststroke at the 2010 Pacific easy to get pretty excited in that situation, Collegiate Swim & Dive Conference Championships on Feb. 13, and came in so I just tried to stay relaxed, and I got a 14th in the 100-meter breaststroke at nationals. pretty good swing on it.” Still, fellow senior Daniel Perdew said it’s Cunningham’s performance as The Tritons moved to the winner’s captain that has been her crowning achievement. bracket after taking Game One. In Game “Before this year, she was more of a leader by example,” Perdew said. One of the 2009 championships, UCSD lost “This year, she has taken a more vocal role. She made that transition really a 3-1 decision to Dowling University before well, and it’s not an easy transition to make.” battling back to take third place overall in Cunningham was a natural candidate for the job. After making huge the double-elimination tournament. strides under the close tutelage of head coach Scott McGihon and former This year, the Tritons played Game Two See PROFILE, Page 15 See BASEBALLpage 15