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UCSAN DIEGO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2005 VOLUME 114, I S~UE 16 Campus launches SRTV inquiry Guardian editors approve Lawyer to investigate regulations compliance changes to constitution unidentified woman. By CHARLES NGUYEN achieve both." The Koala, a con trover ial cam Staff Writer Changes ro the Glllmllllll finan pus publication, has previously cial structure were suggested 111 the clashed with university officials In an effort to streamline publi hope of boosting ailing ~inal1l: es. over its content. ca tion, editor of the Guardian have which have forced the newspaper to "While we were hesitant to approved change to the paper' con puhlish smaller is ues, Worfolk ~aid . welcome the Koala when they stitution, including the addition of a "The new paper has dropped in approached us last quarter about Business Oversight Committee. page numbers as a renection of our having their own show, SRTV The Guard,oll Executive Board budget," he sa id . "\ Ve hope that In could not discriminate [against) voted 17-0-0 in favor of the amend entity su h as the Busines Over~ight them for their past behavior," sta ments at a Feb. 21 meeting. Voting CommitTee will allow us to 111.1:'\.1- tion manager Chelsea Welch stat members included all edit rs and the rnize what we want this paper to be." ed in a Feb. 22 e-mail ent out to paper's business manager, a universi ccording to it annual tinancial the student body. "When it comes ty career employee. Among other . reports, revenue of the new paper Billy Wong/Guardian to students' shows, [ have to stay duties, the board is vested by the have dropped over the past four paper's constitution with authority Action: SRlV Station Manager Chelsea Welch (left) sent students a letter, explaining content-neutral. " years, cau ing it to lose almost [n an e-mail to the Guardian, to set paper operating policies. $60,000 last year. the station's decision to air pornographic materials featuring Koolo Editor Steve York. York stated that his broadcast was "The reasons behind the The Guardian is funded by 3llver By CHARLES NGUYEN in the station's charter, Federal meant to support free speech changes are to make the goals of tisi ng, which students often'misun Staff Writer Communications Commission rights and that he invites any chal the editorial and business as one," derstand, according ro Advertising regulations and campus policies, lenge from the school administra Editor in Chief Clayton Worfolk Director Michael Foulks, a uni"ersi Campus administrarors have she said. Vazquez said she expects tion. said. "Changes such as the Business ty career employee. ordered investigations into the to have answers from the attorney "['ve been put into a po ition to Over ight Committee arc the first "We receive no aid from .S. or legality of a Student-Run Television as early as this week. advocate for free speech issues and step toward doing that." the university," he said. broadcast of a video showing sexual Until the investigation is com it's great that the tool for them has The COtTUnittee will provide "offi In order to maintain :I fisC'JII}, sus acts performed by KDaIo Editor and pleted, no further action will be been my penis," he tated. cial oversight, supervision and gover tainable balance of content, the pub AS. Elections Manager Steve York. taken, Watson said. As a closed-circuit station, nance of the business deparunent," lication has created a 50-percent split Assistant Vice Chancellor of "We want to do this objective SRTV is not bound by FCC oper according to the new amendments. between advertising and editorial Student Life Carmen Vazquez will ly," he said. "Once we have all the ating regulations. York's broadcast Virtually every business aspect will be space, Foulks said. However, due to spearhead the inquiries, at the facts, then we will know what to was in accordance with SRTV supervised by the committee, includ heavy advertising competition from request of Vice Chancellor of do from there." standards, according to Welch. ing ratifying the newspapers annual other bodies, the Guordial1 has suf Student Affairs Joseph W. The Feb. 3 "Koala TV" broad Obscene material without copy budget, determining the size and fered financial los es, which has cre Watson. Last week, Vazquez asked cast on SRTV included acts of oral rights may be broadcast between structure of the business department ated less room for editorial content. campus counsel to examine if the sex and ejaculation by York, a John and working with the business man "An ideal situation would be with broadcast abided by policies with- Muir College senior, and an See PORN. Page 3 ager to set advertising sales goals. the Guordioll being the show and Approved amendments to the being all there is," Foulks sa id. "But constitution set the membership of with every week, it seem that there the Business Oversight Committee are more and more entities where to include the Guardian editor in people on campus and merchant Study: UC service workers underpaid chief, managing editors, business can direct their advertising money." manager and an administrator from While revenues have been By MARNETTE FEDERIS wages and health benefits. the universitys Student Life business deciining, the ituation is hopeful, Senior Staff Writer The study concludes that office. The editOr in chief may al 0 Foulks sa id. salaries of UC service workers are move to add members to the com "I've been around this place for a Service workers within the low enough to qualify them for nine mittee with approval by a majority while and things usually ebb and University of California earn 15 welfare benefit programs. It com vote of the Executive Board. flow," he sa id . "The economy always ptrcent less than their California pared the current wages of UC ser The changes also removed the goes up and down, which kind of State University counterparts and as vice workers to a "self-sufficiency business manager from the reflects the new paper.... Now we'rc much as 26 percent less than those standard," defined as the amount of Executive Board. in a uit of a down period." in community colleges, according earnings needed to cover the basic Previously, the business manag However, a lack of cOlTunun ica to a new tudy -from the National necessities to live in a given area. er alone was responsible for making cion has posed a problem for the Economic Development and Law "UC cannot control the cost of staff employment decisions as well paper, said As istant BUSlIlcss Center released in February. living in California, only what it can as handling advertising administra Manager Emilee Schumer, a studcnt. EDLC released the snldy in offer in terms of salaries and bene tion. Both of those tasks will be "The financial side and editorial the midst of contract negotiations fits within available resources," the shared with the Business Oversight si de of the Gllfmlitm have been very between the university and the UC Office of the President stated Committee under the updated con separate," she said. "Operating that American Federation of State, in a written response to the find stitution. All voting members on way has not been very heneficial." County and Municipal Employees ings. "We are commitTed to paying B~1y Wong/Guorc/ion the committee will be students, Although the new Bu s ines ~ Local 3299, which represents UC our employees market-competitive Pay: Media Services employee Ed except the business manager. Oversight Committee will serve ;15 a service workers. The study was sa laries and benefits, provided we Orcino has 'M>rked on campus for four The structure of the committee conduit between the stud ent-run commissioned by the union. have the resources to do so." years, a period of few wage increases. could be successful, according to editorial and mostly adult-operated Talks between the two have cur The self-sufficiency level varies Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs business parts of the paper, the areas rently reached an impasse and depending on the county and com community-college campuses. Joseph W. Watson. While student will remain divided, Worfolk sa id. workers are scheduled to vote on a pares a family's income to its cost of UCOP believes that the analy operated and self-supporting, the "Now there will be a line of suike in March. Among the issues living. NEDLC then compared sis is inaccurate because it com paper is an administrative unit connection between the goals of up for debate include increases in wage ranges to those at CSU and pares wage ranges and not actual within Watsons deparnnent. the Executive Board and business sa laries, according to the universi "Businesses should be very much staff," he said. "There ha s always ty's statement. a learning experience for students, been a wall between the two, and WEATHER SPOKEN SURF "We use a methodology that is so they're never going to run as effi we realize now that the two need to pretty straightforward," NEDLC ciently as nonstudent-run business be interrelated. This board is a uni "Once we have all REPORT Senior Program Specialist Aimee es, but that's not saying all nonstu fying element, but we recognize Durfee said. "But even if we 'use dent-run businesses run very well," that the wall between the two sides actual salaries within the wage he said. "But I think in the experi is still important." the facts I then we 1/24 range, the top wage for UC is still ence of UCSD, situations allowing Feb. 24 Feb. 25 'Mod: 15 kt The new policies require the below the bottom wage for com students to be involved with busi H62 L49 H63L48 wiU know what to Height: 4-6 It. committee to communicate regularly Water Temp.: 57-60 deg. munity colleges at all of the cam ness sides [have) served as a good with the Executive Board and "alert do from there. " puses but two." learning experience and allowed the the board to all unexpected changes Nearly half of all UC service business to function quite effective 1/15 to the fiscal health of the paper." -~ w. WIlson, Wnd: 15 kt workers do not have enough ly in terms of providing a service Feb. 21 "27 vice ChInceIIor of Height: 3·5 It. and remaining financially viable. It's ReaMrs can ContllCt Charles Nguyen at H63L48 H63LSO student .. water Temp.: 56-59 " , '" ~, " " " , , , 'II , , , , , \ , " " , .,' " \" '" \, \" , THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24 , Z00 5 THE UCSD GUARDIAN O PI N tON 5 THURSDAY Housing: FiBRUARY 24, Guardian staff 'decadent and depraved Triples won't fie creeps down Las Vegas passing into view from all directions Gonzo journal ism works to indict 4 Boulevard, spitting neon offers and of this insane city. Depraved are the its creator as much as its subject, solve housing Lines in cheap pollution from rudden speak casino leeches, eyes glossed over and Thompson never tri ed to make ers and chrome exhaust pipes. with neon, a Marlboro 100 in onc himself out to be better than the the sand Waves of pedestrians wander by the hand and slot box lever in the other. slobs and cheats he wrote about ... shortages lake of motor verudes with only the Depraved are the Bud Light brutes, except when tho e slobs and cheats Ian s. Port inebriated kind of aba ndon, mosey hooting and hollering at every were named ixon and Bush. EDITORIAL conrinued from page 4 ing across three lanes wrule taxicabs semi-vixen in range, spoken for or I :08 a.m., Feb 19 - I can ce nonetheless the only solution to :56 a.m., Feb. 20, 2005 - aim straight for them. 1llls is chaos otherwise I Depraved am T, pockets the bulbous pink and cream lights Clayton Worfolk Vladimir Kogan provide UCSD students a reason The slot macrune in front of incarnate. We are overjoyed. stuffed with cans of Pabst Blue of the Flamingo from here Editor in Chief News Editor able amount of housi ng over the 3 me is fading in and out of Chaos, after all, is what one Ribbon and IWlgs choking from hits (althoug h I don't know if I'm in Mather Martin Marianne Madden next tive years. focus, making it hard to slide my would expect on an infamous trip of contraband vapor, sprinting with New York or Paris or Rome or Managing Editor Opinion Editor Likewise, HDS needs to imple crumpled dollar bill into where it that tries, with considerable effort, toothy overconfidence toward as Egypt) and they seem punishingly ment more aggressive solutions to needs to go. But I have to play it to pay homage to the events of much stimulation as a broke 20- far away. Every dmnken step is a (irant Schrader Bryan Tsao acrually deal with the culinary cool and function through the haze "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," year-old can get! marathon, every energetic reveler Managing Editor Opinion Editor needs of an increasing student - this is a dare, goddamnit. Hunter S. Thompon's famous But in that glorious orb of pro blocking my way cause fo r the body, and offering students who "So, I saw you earlier at Deja depiction of the fanity, where immediate demolition of this The UCSD G(J(}rdian is published twice a week at the University of Californ ia at San Diego. have escaped the tyranny of a meal Vu," I slur toward the girl at the outer edge of American con wicked place. I don't know if I'm Contents © 2005. VifYIS expressed herein represent the maiority vote of the editorial board and plan the option to "extend their machine next to mine. "What do American hedo sumption is ele alone or if I'm lost ... (Or where I are not necessarily those of th e UC Board of Regents. the ASUCSD or the mennbers of the service" is not one of them. you do when you're not there?" nism. As dedicated vated to can get more of something, always Guardian staff. Improving the quality of food and She leans over to me with a long and upstanding . ,. Thompson" saw Dionysian inde what we're after.) T he madness training student workers might look. "I'm an entertainer, baby" young journalists, cency and big-box lanterns are reflecting more bright entice more eater loyalty and (with such a smooth voice ...) . I we GUllTdill7l staffers American life as a volume, attitude is ly now off the blood in the streets, improve repeat business. A call fumble for a response, nying to talk hit the Flamingo little cockeyed and a what matters. or is that rain' The neon balloon of Timing wrong for a ahead option at each of their to her II1Ui look interested in the Hotel and Casino Vegas is a mental Paris is wrong, pro foundly. -100 restaurants could reduce wait time game going on in front of me so as - Thompson's lair little hungover ... " city, not a physical much cursive - how will we (I .. . ') during lunch hours and help HDS not to be obvious. But my "credits" of choice - with one; you have to ever make it back? Shiny traffic eateries gain more business as well. are dwindling 13ster than I can keep resplendent reck- check your better pummeling through the streets; is service workers' strike So would adding a simple cart in a track, and I already forgot her name lessness every year to practice the reasoning at the front gate if you that the howl of a V8 or a bache high traffic area to sell sa ndwiches ... I'm losing on both fronts. And basics of gonzo journalism as pro want full access. Thompson under lorette? This is over, done for. I hen they I,lead out versity. While surely unfair, and drinks; if Espresso Roma can things are starting to go blurry fessed by the originator himself. No stood that most of America, from look at the slimy gutter and it to the polls in these examples provide little erect an ugly strucmre in the mid again ... one had a "briefcase full of uppers" the Kentucky Derby to the Hell's seems comfortable. We'll never W March, UC service evidence that the university dle of Library Walk, why can't 6:37 p.m ., Feb. 18 - You can or "a salt shaker of cocaine," but we Angels to even our most exalted survive. Might as well ju t lay down workers should vote against can afford wholesale wage HDS do the same along the dread see the light for miles. It shines on pressed our most iU-conceived plots carnival, the presidential election, and ... a strike. Nothing could hurt hikes for thousands of ser ed York Hall to Warren Lecture the overcast nighttime sky lilc.e the into action and had a great, if not was the same way. Instead of trying We don't know why Thompson the workers and the univer vice workers without Hall walk? fires of hell, layers of gray and memorable, time. to report on it, as most journalists took his own life. He suffered from orange and yellow and black There was just one thing: We do, with dispassionate, unbiased back pain, a replacement hip and sity more, at this point, than increased state support. With these two pl ans to cram students into triples and offer com writhing rugh above for hal f an bore the rainy return from Sin City accounts, Thompson wrote about poor health (the consequence of a prolonged labor dispute. Instead of searching for murers caustic grub - all in the hour before we come down into the only to find that Dr. Gonzo rumself America as he experienced it: first covering a corrupt life firsthand), Clearfy, union members evidence of malfeasance, I PROPS & FLOPS name of "student savings" - HDS va lley that holds Las Vegas. Even if committed suicide on the last day of hand, fucked up and soaked from and he always joked about taking have legitimate reasons to be union heads should work on has shown that business as usual we weren't stoned - a modest our pilgrimage to his greatest work gutter to Oval Office with corrup his own life one day. But the king uf angry. They continue to toil a persuasive case to show will continue and the quality of liv transgression, considering the task - 0 , irony, what order has our bes tion. H e ca lled it gonzo journalism; subjectivity deserves to be judged for poor wages and their why the state must send Gonzo 10M: Props to Infected: Cell phones are the ing arrangements will steadily and at hand - descending upon Sin tial errand Wldone? and it won rum a reputation as a by his own standards. America is a frustrations are more than more money the university'S Hunter S. Thompson's latest electronic gadget to be surely decrease. City by night would have been an 11 :13 p.m., Feb. 18 - I've read dubious counterculture bard, offi depraved land, its cities aglow with understandable. way. invention of a literary genre threatened by a disabling Ever wonder why UCSD alum awesome experience. As we are, it is "Fear and LoatlUng" enough times cial spokesman for the paranoid, fear and loathing still. Than ks , The case of the service To succeed in lobbying and amazing life. virus. ni donations have been dropping overwhelming. T he pleasure dWl to know that "depraved" is not an the underground, the stoned. HST, for pointing that out so god workers, however, is only Sacramento lawmakers for off recently' Do you think it might geons of the Strip rise up, abla7-c in ori gi nal word to use to descri be Thompson saw American life a lit damn well. Quidler enby: A study H.rsh words: Pope John Paul blue, green and yellow, with glass anything relating to Las Vegas. But tle cockeyed and a little hungover one among many unfortu increased state support for have sometrung to do with the found that the wait for student 11 narrow-minded~ calls gay conditions under which UCSD walls of lascivious luster. On the no other word so perfectly describes (as he was), and if not exactly facnl I can ser (be bats.' Call )'OU .w·e (be nate consequences of the the UC system, university visas has dropped from marriage part of an ·ideoIogy of students eat and sleep? ground, a clattering serpent of traf- the look of the pl astered partygoers ai, rus reports were always honest. bars? E-mail [email protected] u. bare-bones UC budget pro administrators, students and months to weeks. evir in his new book. vided by the state in recent workers must form a united years. Picketing the univer front. A work stoppage YOU DON'T NEED TO TALK THE TALK sity would do lIttle to fix the would distract the universIty Housing and Dining policy changes underlying problem: inade in its fight for more money :: no foreign language required :: quate state money. and likely only hurt universi Labor leaders. have spent ty staff in the long run. only pave the way for more problems their time find in g outra Only a unified university ~--1 ELECTIONS 2005 geous instances of executive can succeed in the annual Students on a tight budget could conceiva bly bonuses and administrative battle for a bigger share of By BRIAN UIGA ~ Sen ior Staff Writer benefit from the tax breaks and tiny di scounts that raises throughout the UnJ- the state pie. meal plan currency provides when dining at on-cam soon-to-he implemented plan from the On pus eateries, but these discounts (approximately 10 V Campus Residential and Dining Services percent, including a loss uf sales tax) cannot compare A Advisory Committee will give on-campus to the discounted food at tllC various student-run co travel. stUdy. live. residents the chance to squeeze a little closer when op eateries. The only other reason given for such a Media coverage of York several existing two-person rooms become triples, superfluous plan is that a meal pl an could "save stu University officials are quick to label tlUs space-sav dents time." If UCSD students are incapable of the AUTOMATIC UC CREDIT! CAMBRIDGE & ITALY ing maneuver a "rate-saver" plan (because they will extra effort it takes to keep cash in their wallets, they * (humanit ies/socia! science incident grossly lacking be charging less per persoll for th .. three-person sholll..! never leave camp" to fju. liFy for a "('om & art history) rooms). Parents and students are crying foul and muter meal plan," for the peels of the outside world * OrEN ENftOLLIlENT! y now it's cliche to to comment on the incident, calling this "opportunity" what it is: a callous eco would eat them alive. FRANCE attack mainstream leading media outlets to fill nomic solution to UCSD's overpopulation problem As can be expected from a plan dreamed up by (int'l business & management) Btelevision news outlets the resulting information that fails to address the issue of insufficient housing, Resi dential Life committees and A.S. senators, all of * NO FO"EIGN LANGUAGE "EI;fDt for sprea ding sensational void with token, uninformed akin to slapping a Band-Aid on a hernia. these are diversionary arguments that attempt to February 28 Submit completed Election SCOTLAND ism, manufactured contro spokespeople, including stu UCSD Housing and Dining Services has a histo appeal to "student savings" or "student conve Application Packets by noon (history) versy and downright misin dents mined from unin ry of terrible solutions to similar economic prob nience" to disguise yet another simple plan to try * FftEE FIELD TftlrSt anrl bailout the failing on-campus eateries, much SPAIN formation. When an event volved groups like Campus lems. A couple of years ago, its novel solution when Applications will be available on the 3rd faced with bankruptcy was to add a mandatory clean :,"" the mandatory aparonent meal plan did earlier. floor of the Price Center, A.S. Executive (arts & humanities) like the airing of a home Crusade for Christ. ing service, as well as force mandatory meal plans Trus is no solution. If they actually wanted to be m.ASSES TAUGHT IN ENGUSH 8Y Administrative Assistant's Office. * made sex video on Student In one sorry example, onto residents of on-campus aparnnents' rendering consunier-friendly, they would give commuters the FACULTY F"OIl HOST UNIVEftSITY! SWITZERLAN D Run Television is blown out MSNBC's "Scarborougn apartment kitchens practically useless. same price breaks as everybody else (perhaps at a (int'l business & management) of proportion', however, it Country" - which had Neither triples nor forced meal plans will help "UCSD student" discount) without forcing com CHILE -tarnishes UCSD's reputa York and SRTV station HDS with its main problem for the immediate muters to buy a meal plan, but that will never hap February 28 Attend a Mandatory Candidates * ENftOlL + TftA VB. 11TH FftlENDS tion and vastly misrepresents manager Chelsea Welch future: increasing student enrollment. No matter pen. Dining Dollars work like a banl<, and HDS ..• EVEN FftOIl OTHEft COLLEGES (biological sciences) a more unexciting truth at appear on Feb. 21 - how many triples you try to squeeze into the aging makes more profit off of unused meal points at the Meeting, 7:30pm in Center, Room tile university's expense. misidentified UCSD as "the dormitories, new buildings will need to be con end of each year than they would by serving desir able food. 115 Coverage of the event, University of San Diego" structed to deal with the influx of students ifUCSD and framed the controversy has any hope of promising freshmen two years (or Neither of the two proposed solutions to housing even on local television sta even one year) of guaranteed housing. The current and dining shortages are necessarily bad solutions, tions, manufuctured divisions as, "A porn movie at a public promise of .two years of housing for every student but they cannot come close to actually solving the between UCSD students, institution's student-run TV may seem unreasonable given the housing crunch in problems. On the housing front, relentlessly cram when very few students station - should you as tax UCSD facilities, but it is necessary due to the even ming students into rooms in an cffort to spread watched the broadcast and payers be paying for it?" larger housing crunch occurring off campus in the resources thin will provide so few extra rooms that it even fewer harbor strong Host Joe Sca rborough La J olla/UTC community, due to factors that is not even worth implementing for the extra opinions about it. Despite ignored Welchs assertarions UCSD cannot control. bureaucratic costs involved. UC Berkeley, when what the media outlets and that SRTV is funded solely However, to make life a bit more bearable for faced with a similar overpopulation problem, initial filmmaker Steve York him by self-assessed student fees, those students who do not make the cut for triple ly tried the "single- room-into-triple-room" plan, self may have hoped for, the failing to acknowledge the housi ng, HDS has another proposal which will allow but eventually had to cave in and start construction Questions? Please contact the tape hasn't galvanized stu real, and very important, commuters to purchase Dining Dollars so that they on some new dormitories to deal with increased sm can share all of the advantages of cafeteria food after dent enrollment. The difference between UC dents; rather, the conflict is issue at hand: the ongoing their morning or afternoon commute. Yet, the food Berkeley and UCSD is that UCSD has no unu cd A.S. Elections Manager at something the university, dispute between student options offered at the various HDS-operated eater space left; HDS's only remaining option is to level A~soc i atea Students and media and a university hat ies are unpalatable for vegetarians, those who adhere existing dorms and build orne new, hi gher-capacity [email protected]. SR1V will likely work out claims to all ow students to to religious dietary restrictions or anybody who was ones. Mter all, those cockroach-infested E.RC dorms Contact Ann Gray Fallat 949.814.6494 or [email protected] between themselves. settle their own affairs, but not raised on Easy Mac and paint thinner. Recent are beggi ng to be bulldozed. T he replacement of to receive our catalogue. Information and applications are also health grade scores how that the greasy all -night The butchering .of the establi shes oversight com buildings is a big and costly endeavor, but is available online at summer.uct.edu. coverage stemmed In part mittees and initiates investi fare of local taquerias might even be a more sanitary from the university's refusal gation , at the sa me time. alternative to on-campus dining. See HOUSING, Page 5 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2005 THE UCSD GUARDIAN HIATU 7 • INside ORST IP-OFF OF A BOOK "national Treasure' la us orivntl!d by a noble cause, a man seri es. The pier remains as forced as show ARTS & E TERTAINMENT earches f r the hiddcn treasure of ing up to Monday morning classes and as Mthe Knights lcmplar, accompanied by intellectually stimulating as two hours of "Blue's Clues." T/l L' R ~ ll l\Y . FEIlRl '!\RY !4. !OOS a smart female schobr, whilc bcing chased by evilmcn who would like the treasure for The treasure hunter ( icolas Cage) and themselve . ound familiar? companion (Di ane Kruger) don't really do 10dcled after Dan Brown 's best-selling anything special, while the sidekick (Justin "The Da Vinci Code," "Nati onal Treasure" Bartha) reaches a Jar Jar Binks level of u C S D GUARDIAN all but ow ns this category. Of course, Jerry annoyingness. The onl y good part of the Bruckheimer changed it up a bit, replacing movie is when Harvey Keitel arrives, re the Mona Lisa with the Decl ara ti on of enacting his "Pulp Fiction" role as the man ~------Independence. But it dOl!sn't help that the you call when yo u fuck up. "The Da Vinci Code" is written in the mas -Thomas Kim SfPWe9 g'~ S~ terful style of R.L. Stine' "Goosebumps" Sraff yv,'iw' mo. * ORsr ISUS~ O. . - Isr . ~"T "The Stepford Wives' ith a marquee of prominent names that click: Broderick looks like he took a wrong include icole Kidman, Chrisropher Ulrn when heading to the sou ndstage for .. See salon for details WWalken, Glenn Cluse, Bette Midler "ferris Bueller," 'litHer's character is over and Matthew Broderick, "The tepford done and loony, and Roger Bart, as the oblig Wtves" scemed like the must-see coll1edy of atory gay guy, at times seems to caricature the summer. Yet when a mm requires "a cou J ack from "Will and Grace." But these flaws ple of additional shoots to sharpen up the may all stem from the fact that the actors story line," as director Frank Oz told simply did not have a witty script to work Entertainment Weekly, it is typically not a with. good sign . 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UITE 102 IN LA .I0LLA COL ONY PLAZA 858-453-6212 mercy kill . 858-278-2591 ------, , HIATUS THE UCSD GU ARDIAN THURSJ1AY, FEBR UARY 24, 2005 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY H, 2005 THE UCSD GUARDIAN HI ATU 9 rft"n .. dindr MOSl llNINl ::NlIONAU Y ~Icnmr W[ .. MOST tl :: TO ::ASl •.,"VI UI •• iJ'------:------FUNNY MOVI:: f(1~ OH SUT HAVrHT ACT UAU. Ys::rH IM~R::SSIV:: W::S "SftW' "first Daughter" I"Chasing liberty' better to capture the Spotless Mind." Brion's and Nick Cave and the Bad AND::RSON FIf. M mood of a film about a orchestral pop instrumen Seeds' "People in 't No nane of the most gripping Elwes, the star of movies like here are times in life when no episode of "7th !leaven," with (illlt we stillillve him iiIlYWiiYS) womani ze r tryi ng to fin d tals reflect the mood of the Good" do a good job of and disturbing scenes of 2004, "The Princess Bride" and matter how much you'd like to stereotypical corning-of-age story meaning in his li fe than film beautifully. Brion and slowing things down. They Ia doctor escapes the sha ckles "Robin Hood: Men in Tights," Trip on a movie, you simply lines not very well hidden behind someone who had the Co. also wisely selected are followed by Pete Yom's of a sinister seri al killer named feeling angry, sad and afraid, aren't wiUing to sit through a free the presidential plot. Scenes where experi ence? pop-rock songs that snugly upbeat "Ever F allen In Jigsaw by cutting off his own leg while the only emotion the view two-hour movie screening. But MooreIHolmes is whisked around The Life flquati The di sc doesn't exact fit Brion's pieces. Love" and Jennifer with a ... wait why's the audience er experiences is humor. "Saw" since I made up this category, I can on a motorcycle by a hunky 30- ly play like a soundtrack. Predictably, Electric Saunders' "Fai ry laughing? This isn't supposed to really wanted to be frightening. "review" what were probably the yea r-old -pia yin g-a -2O -yea r-ol d K - just to set dlings straight·: On its own, it is a coll ec Light Orchestra's "Mr. Godmother Song," respec be funny. It had a lot of gore, a creepy worst movies of 2004: "Chasing (Matthew Goode/Marc Blucas) arc "The Ljfe Aquati c" docs not tion of simple folk and Blue Sky," two tracks by tively. Lipps Inc. bring disco "Saw" would have been scary soundtrack and a dark, grainy Liberty" and "First Daughter," one likely to be gag inducing, and the Osuck completely. Yes, it was blues tracks that ease the the Polyphonic Spree and to the party with and disturbing if it hadn't been look to it. Unfortunately, all this of which stars Katie Holmes, and over-the top climax, where much better th an "Christmas witll Dave Stewart, mind, the type of CD that Various Artists al t -roc k god Beck's cover "Funkytown" while Tom so funny. It wouldn't have been did was make its shortcomings the other, Mandy Moore. MooreIHolmes decides to follow the Kranks," "Closer" and many could play in the back Eternal Sunshine of the of a track by pop band the Shrek 2 Waits' weird "Little Drop of so funny if the acting hadn't more apparent. "First Daughter"/"Chasing her hean and somehow manages other sucky films d,at came our at MlckJaaer been so bad. The acting would ground for hours without Krogis are all there. The Dreamworks Poison" is perfect for the If you're looking for more Liberty" is the story of a college to please her father as well, are around the sa me time. Wes Alfie bothering anybody. Spotless Mind central track, "Wonder," Poison Apple, "Shrek Z's" n't have been so bad if the script unintended laughs, try any of the aged girl (played by both predictable and depressing. Anderson is still awe ome and most Virgin However, each song has a Hollywood by newer garage band the Ii; version of the Prancing didn't have some of the poorest other attempts at a horror movie MooreIHolmes) who just wants to And in case you're wondering, fans still love him. With th at said, reflective and atmospheric Willowz, rehashes classic Pony from "The Lord of the dialogue ever written. M ost peo this year: "Darkness," "Twisted," live a nonnal life. Sucks for her, Holmes/Moore doesn't get naked boy oh boy, "The Life Aq uatic" was hoever planned feeling to it, conveying an formulas: the standard Rings." ple trapped in a room with a "The Grudge," "Exorcist: The then, that her father is the presi throughout the entire film, dissap a major disappointment.' "Shrek 2" avoided dead body would panic. These Beginning," it doesn't matter Where was the fa miliarity widl lfie"*** may only be emotion listeners can listen**** to John Brion's major (happy) chord pro Except for Butterfly dent (overacted by Michael pointing the dozen or so "A turning Smash guys, however, thought it would which one you pick. You'd be Keaton/Marc Harmon). While oddball characters pl aced in grace W boyfriends who got dragged into remembered as identify with. music epitomizes the gression changing to Bouchers rather unconvinc another forget Joss Stone adds some Apop music addict as minor (unhappy), as per Mouth into the "green ogre ing rendition of David be better to sociali ze like middle better off renting "The Shining" Holmes/Moore has the sweet girl the theater with fal se promises of less situations that made us laugh' table Jude Law film, but soul, appearing on several described in "High fected by evetyone from band" by leaving them out Bowie's "Changes," the school girl s eluring a sleepover. or "Seven" instead. next-door loole. down, the acting in post-<:hick-flick sex. Where was tl,e rea li sm in the out the soundtrack has been of the more memorable Fidelity": "The unhappi the Beatles to Pavement. of the sequel, which made it numerous covers work well. Lik e any horror movi e, "Saw" -Jake Nare "Firs! Daughter"/"Chasing - Riley Salant-Pearce there, eccentric characters that receiving a lot of atten tracks, including a remake est people I know... are This formulaic approach is easier for "Shrek 2's" sound Saunders' rendition of has a moving climax with Carey StaffWriuT Liberty" seems plucked from an Staff Writrr made us cry' Where was d,e fl awless tion, including a Golden of the original title song the ones who like pop highly effective and Brion's trad. to do what it should: "Holding Out for a Hero" music execution that drove home Globe for Best Original "Alfie" and "Lonely music ... and I don't know music continuously relies throw out a dozen catchy, effectively brings the movie just the ri ghr ell1 otion at just the Song. While the movie Without You," a good whether pop music has upon it. accessible tracks that mirror to a climax. And how can "'" - - a:....._ , a:a:1 ORST 'M~::RSONAT ION OF lOM ANKS right moment' ope, nonc of that was a remake, the sound Christmas song for those caused this unhappiness, indeed, Brion follows the carefully mapped plot of you forget Eddie Murphy Jennifer Garner i to be found . track features original depressed during the holi but T do know that they've the blueprint of the lives of the film. and Antonio Banderas' duet Instea d, we have a random col tracks cut by Mick Jagger day season. Nothing to been listening to the sad the characters in "Eternal Counting Crows start in "Livin' La Vida Loca"? "The Polar Ex ress' "13Goin on 30' lecti on of jokes revolvi ng arounel and former Eurythmics blow your mind away songs longer than they've Sunshine," constantly things off right with "Shrek 2" is a fun listen. characters with lame accents who we songwriter Dave Stewart. here, just quality music to been living the unhappy changi ng back and forth "Accidentally in Love," a I just hope they use Snoop was the ni ght before trains skidding sideways across ull up a chair, kids, it's time asks to sleep on the rop bunk? don't care about, all motivated sup Jagger may seem like a relax to. lives." from happy to unhappy. good theme for Shrek and Dogg in "Shrek 3." Chrisnna and all through fTozen lakes and when fearsome to play "Name that Moviel " You know, that movie where he po edly by d,e hlmt for some shark. peculi ar choice to create a -Jake Nare Unhappiness dominates - Mehrdad Yazdani Fiona~ honeymoon. The -Thomas Kim Tthe house, not a creature was snow wolves appeared. W\ro PHere arc the clues: Kid gets his own trampoline in his Oh yea h, and Seu Jorgc doing musical score, but who Staff W,'iuT "Eternal Sunshine of the Staff Writrr Eels' "I Need Some Sleep" Staff Wlitn· stirring as creepy, pasty-fa ced knew a trip to the North Pole to wants ro be older; kid makes a apartment? Isn't it that movie acoustic Porntguese adaptations of chjldren fil ed Onto a mysterious go visit SI. Nicle. was so similar to wish to be older; kid wale.es up called "Big"? David Bowie songs, which woul d train conducted by a character one of the "Matrix" flicks> the next morning to find he/she Wrong! I wa s talking abo ut seem cool if they weren't totall y ***** **** *** ** * with 10m Hanks' voice and a fake All that high-class technology is now mysteriously ZO years "13 Going on 30." You know, forced onto d,C pl ot. musta che. No, it's not "Children ro recapture humanesque expres older; kid is now trapped inside the one where a young girl Sure, the ' 70s-inspi red of the Corn VI : Christmas sion and movement didn't quite the body of an adult - a gentle, wants ro be older, makes a wish Cousteau art direction and the Fantastical," it's 2004's holiday pan out. The recycling of Hank's romantic comedy ensues. to be older and wakes up the stop-time animati on looked reall y chjldren's film , "The Polar voice over as the little boy, Santa Sound familiar? Doesn't it next day to find that she is older. ncat. Bllt that was all we got: a Express." ClalL~ and the train conductor just sound like that '80s movie where Oh wait, that's exactly like cool-looking film . We An derson Director Robert Zemeckis' made it a little bit worse. And the a very young Torn Hanks plays "Big." Silly me, ['II let you have fans are willing to let th is one attempt at rurning Chris Van dancing hot chocolate waiters in "Chopsticks" on that big floor "Big" then since they're pretty slide, because every good director is all owed to make one bad film , AJlsburg's Christmas tale into a the North Pole gave the final keyboard thing? The one where much the same bloody movie. but pl ease, Wes; no more Sreve touching holiday pi cture failed punch in completely shooting the he goes up to some genie-in-a - Sarah Mak horribly. Moviegoers must've entire movie to hell. box and wishes to be "big"? Isn't Associau Hiatus Editor Zissou. gone "WrF'!" as expressionless -VuMai it that movie where Hanks - Oakley Anderson-Moore children risked their lives on SrmilJT taff Wri UT brings home his lady friend and Slall Writrr GIVE YOUR VISUAL CORTEX A HEADS-UP. Asia I Barbados I Bmll Engtand FranC(! G~rmany Italy f Me%k:o $oudwse Alia ,Spain PAST IN REVERSE Sw~rland ITNwln I,.". 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In addition to helping her team win the 800 freestyle relay on day one, Delurgio won the 200 breaststroke in a new NCAA record time of 1:47,53, She and her teammates will return to action at the NCAA Division II National Championships on March 9-12 in Orlando, Fla, Delurgio will be looking to add to her five individual national championships while also trying to help the team to its first NCAA Division II National Championship, 1 ------1 :f1W1:z,P FREE 6" Sandwich 1 1 : with purchase of a 6" sandwich of equal 1 1 or greater value and 21-01. soft drink. 1 1 Exp. 31 t 0/05. Not valid with any olher offers. Add·ons extra. 1 1 UCSD Price Center. Costa Verde Center, 8650 Genesee 1 1 ______------______1 J ' " j I J" • , ' . , " j ., THURSDAY FEBRUARY 24, 2005 12 No.3 women's Delurgio breaks NCAA ., IMITHIW GIANf McGibon said. "We IWIIIl rally to win .. fbl event and solidify Spor1s Editor &st - especiaUy those swimmers me ...MCUre victory. who are going to narionaIs and who -Wc apec:ted our women's Coming off monumental suc weren't rested for this meet. 'They eeam to &ish &r out front of the cess at the Pacific Coast Swim came out and had IOIDe of their rest « the COIlfwence," McGihon Conference Championships held fastest races of the teISOIl.W laid. from Feb. 16 through Feb. 19 in From the womcns' team, IS 'Jhe coacb\ confidence in his Long Beach, Calif., the Tritons athletes will be makinJ the trip 10 women's and men's swimming and the NCAA Champioosbips, while diving teams are braced for the the mens tam will send B. While NCAA Division II Championships, other teams smted to uper for the which begins March 9 in Orlando, PCSC Ownpionships. these 28 Fla. individuals had to maintain a rnon The No. 3 UCSD women's rigorous practice regimen in order team ~as crowned PCSC champi to stay in prime condition for their on following its comfurtable win final meet.. over second-place Cal Baptist, The final day of races, Feb. 19. 1449-1131. Senior captain Rosana was arguably the strongest day for Delurgio led the Tritons as a mem the UCSD women's team. u the ber of the winning 8oo-meter Thtons secured first-place finishes freestyle relay, before breaking her in five of six events. Levy started old NCAA record in the 200 the rally in the 1.650-meter breaststroke, beating the event's freestyle, touching the wall in second-place finisher by almost 16:59.74, just three second. seven seconds in a time of twO min before sophomore teammate utes, 15.31 seconds. Junior Sophie Andrea Lippin. The third-p&.ce Levy and sophomores Susan Ben finisher, Lauren Smith of UC and Emily Harlan each won events Santa Cruz, was a full SO IIOCOIHk and broke school records as the behind Lippin. llitons captured first-place finishes In the subeequeot event, the in 10 of the meet's 20 events. 200-meter backstroke, Bell and The No. 3 Triton men took a senior Frances Tran 6nisbed CWO narrow second to defending seconds apart Uld two IICODIIs national champion Cal State ahead 0{ the thitd-pbce Lo,oIa Bakersfield, 1612-1522, despite Marymountracer. Bell. time .... outstanding all-around showings NCAA Division n -A- QUI!ifieI; by senior PCSC Swimmer of the while'Ihln mi!aed the c:utoWby .. Year Kurt Boehm and sensational than half • second, quaIifyiItr hit distance perfonnances by freshman fur a oiJJw time. Both womed" ... Joel Tourtellotte and senior Devin already qualified for the NCAA Spicer. Championship earlier in the-. .... ~ "1 think that the results speak: Harlan 1001&: c:onttol in the 1. explodes ala block in a Jan. 16 for themselves," head coach Scott freestyle event. improviDa 011 .. '~n:====~~II! pia It the PaC Championships. UCS.D fencing team sends four to Junior Olympics By EVAN WANG peted in womens epee, Pathi and for these spots on the Junior World Because of the stakes, a lot of people further." Staff Vllriter Runyan in men's sa bre and Yianilos team, and the competitors are young want to go. You get a lot of people Assistant coach Josh Runyan was in women's foil. and hungry." and a lot of variety. All in all, you get optimistic about what the UCSD The UC5D fe ncing tea m · sent The tournament was split into Runyan, who made his second the best fencers around." fencers gained at the meet. four of its brightest young stars to two rounds: pool play and direct appearance at the Junior Olympics, Pathi finished 2-4 in pool play, "After a really strong showing at the Junior Olympics in Arlington, elimination. In pool play, fencers finished 62nd out of 158 competi just missing the cut to make direct the North American CliP in January, Texas, to compete against the top were assigned to pools of six or seven tors. He finished 2-3 in pool play, elimination, and finished 141 st over we were hoping our fencers would talent in the United States from Feb. fencers, and fencers competed in then managed to win his first direct all in his final year of eligibility. perform a bit better at the Junior 18 through Feb. 21. round-robin, first-to-five-point elimination bout 15-8 before falling "In my three years at the Junior Olympics, but we are mostly just Freshmen helsea Ambon, bouts. After this first round, 20 per in his second, missing out on the Olympics. this was the most fun I've gl3n that our fencers went :lnd Ja~un Runyan and Laurel Yi:milos cent of the competitor w r we d d round of 32, 1}-15. Runyan has had," Pathi said. "I knew the compe gained some valuable experience," and sophomore Ashok Pathi all out, and the remaining 80 percent another year of eligibility in Junior tition would be tough, because assistant coach Josh Runyan said. competed in the junior division, competed in first-to-15-point direct Olympic competition. everybody there has to qualify out of Ambon affirms that the tourna which was filled with competitors elimination bouts until a champion "I was hoping to do better in pool their divisions, not just anybody can ment was a learning experience. age 19 and under. While the majori remained. play," Jason Runyan said. "By not go. 50 I just went in hoping to make "Every tournament I go to, I tty ty of the fencers at the tournament "Tournaments like the Junior perfonning a little better, I made my the best of it, have fun and learn a and take something from it, win or were high school or young c li ege Olympics are different," Ambon matchups in direct elimination few things." lose," she said. "It's always interest students, some of the competirors said. "The competition is so cut rounds a lot more difficult. The Ambon took 84th in a field of ing to learn new things, in terms of were as young as 14. Ambort com- throat, because people are fighting competition here is a lot stronger. 159. After going 3-2 in pool play, she tactical strategy and preparation entered the first round of direct refinement. Also, because you're elimination, the round of 128 com fencing against people you've never petitors. Ambort, a veteran of the met before - and you have no idea Jtmior Olympics in her final year of what to expect - it reall y helps YOll eligibility, feI! in a heartbreaker, 14- prepare [for] similar experiences in 15. the future." "I'm disappointed I didn't do Runyan, Pathi, Ambon and better, because I was hoping my Yianilos will join the rest of their experience would give me an teammates on Feb. 26 in Irvine to advantage against the younger compete in the team's final confer girls," Ambort said. "It's kind of ence meet of the year. The men's interesting though, that I used to squad, currently undefeated at 8-0, be the young girl going out and hopes to sweep the field against upsetting the older girls, and now UC Irvine, UCLA, University of the roles have changed. I just wish I Southern California and UC Santa could have done better for the Barbara to complete their perfect school's sake." season and win the conference. Yianilos, in her second year at the The women, currently at 7 - I and Junior Olympics, went an even 3-3 tied with Cal State Fullerton for in pool play, good for a spot in direct first in the league, hope to sweep elimination and a bye in the first the field as well. The women cur round. However, in Yianilos' first rently hold a slim lead over Cal direct elimination bout in the round State Fullerton in the tiebreaker for of 64, she went down, ending her first place. tournament. Next will be the Western .. After not making it to the direct Regionals on March 5. The Tritons elimination round last year, my goal will get their shot at individual glory, was to not only make it there this fighting for the right to represent GIet D*lGuantan year, but to make it to the second the division at the NCAA o.sh of the Tntons: The UCSD fencing team sent freshmen Chelsea Ambort, Jason Runyan, Lauren Ylanilos and round," she said. "I achieved that, Championships held from March 17 sophomore Ashok Pathi to Arlington, Texas to compete in the Junior OIympcs from Feb. 18 through Feb. 21 . and can go back next year to get even to March 20...... --~-----