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FROM THE PLAYHOUSE TO THE POTIKER PAGE 8 VOLUME XLII, ISSUE XXXIV THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2010 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG REFERENDUMPASSED FAILED UCEN Would instate CPI-based fee, then adjust for inflation every year, to fund Price Center TRANSPORTATION Would create fee of $25 per student per quarter to fund shuttles and buses on campus LOFT Would instate $4.47 under- graduate fee per quarter to fund the music venue SPRING BALLOT 2010 SPRING BALLOT <*)<+.,;*90:0: PHOTOS BY JOHN HANACEK/GUARDIAN 4QJZIZa PARTY FOUL ;MMS[ Offended students and administration ;\]LMV\ respond to racially themed frat cookout. By Angela ChenNews Editor n event invitation to a ghetto- event description was published in themed party titled “Compton a note by Revelle College sophomore 1VX]\ ACookout” has incited outrage Elize Diop. The party called for males to among black students and supporters on wear “XXXL” T-shirts and campus, who held a Campus Black Forum OPINION “stunner shades,” and for By Angela Chen We need News Editor on Tuesday night to discuss the issue. The females to dress like “ghetto to chat forum was hosted by the Students for — beer- chicks” in cheap clothing. UCSD Libraries are sending out surveys Affirmative Action Committee, a coali- summit Approximately 275 students to gather student feedback, as they continue tion of diversity-minded campus groups style. RSVPed as “attending.” to slash library services including the Black Student Union. Page 4 The matter was brought in light of a 20 percent GEISEL CUTS The party was held Monday — “in to the attention of Chancellor budget cut in the past hopes of showing respect” to Black Marye Anne Fox and Vice Chancellor of two years alone. History Month — by a group of individu- Student Affairs Penny Rue Monday night According to 7% Students and faculty at the Campus Black Forum voiced their anger regarding als affiliated with a number of fraternities; by e-mails from concerned students. Fox University Librarian reduction a recent Facebook-vetted event called the “Compton Cookout,” and the general particularly, Pi Kappa Alpha. The event Brian Schottlaender, the in 2008-09 lack of student sensitivity toward minorities on campus. received notoriety when the Facebook See PARTYpage 7 budget was reduced by 7 percent in the 2008- 09 academic year, and 14% another 14 percent last reduction year, totaling a reduc- in 2009-10 Robbery Forces KSDT Radio off the Air tion of over $6 million. Half of these reductions By Hayley Bisceglia-Martin everything we have at that studio are permanent. News Editor was gone, even the microphones,” Library hours have 12% Fraire said. “And then I went into the been reduced by 12 per- reduction in hours Deejays at UCSD’s student-run hallway and I noticed our back door cent in Geisel Library since 2008 station were dismayed Wednesday had been broken into, that that’s how — it now closes at mid- morning to discover intruders had the thieves had gotten in.” night from Sunday to Thursday instead of 2 a.m. broken into the KSDT office over- According to KSDT general and closes at 6 p.m. on Friday instead of 7 p.m. night and stolen at least $1,700 worth manager Meredith Wong, theft is In addition, the various libraries have cut their of equipment. not uncommon at the station. book budget by $1.2 million, and have cancelled The first person to notice the “This is definitely not the first almost 750 print subscriptions. break-in was KSDT deejay Andres time we’ve been robbed, but this According to Director of Library Fraire, who showed up at 7:50 a.m. is the first time we’ve been broken Communications Dolores Davies, the libraries to prepare for his 8 a.m. show, “The into,” Wong said. “We have problems will use the survey responses to create a new Omission.” He concluded that the with our headphones being taken strategic plan for 2010 that includes a mission robbery had taken place sometime — that’s sort of what a lot of our statement, statement of values and a prioritiza- after 2 a.m., when a program named operating costs go toward, is the cost tion of services and operations. The old strategic “Commitment to Excellence” ended of replacing equipment that almost plan, adopted in 2006, expired last year. and its hosts went home. systematically goes missing.” “A strategic plan is basically a document that “I went into the studio to start Wong said the robbers probably sets forth an organization’s mission, goals and my show, and I noticed that every- jumped down 15 feet from the sec- strategic priorities,” Davies said. thing was missing. Our mixer was JOHN HANACEK/GUARDIAN missing, our speakers _ pretty much See ROBBERYpage 7 KDST was robbed yesterday night around 2 a.m. Around $1,700 of equipment went missing. See LIBRARYpage 7 :762,5 -69,*(:; 50./;>(;*/ :<9-9,769; .(:7,9.(3365 05:0+, LOW Repentance, acceptance, this THURSDAY FRIDAY *VTPJZ Height: 3-4 ft. 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HUK MVY [OL <*:+ JVTT\UP[` 9LWYVK\J[PVU VM [OPZ UL^ZWHWLY PU HU` MVYT ^OL[OLY PU ^OVSL VY PU WHY[ A team of researchers led by James location where the bee is attacked, and tant because of the implications it has “I hope that other scientists consider ^P[OV\[ WLYTPZZPVU PZ Z[YPJ[S` WYVOPIP[LK HSS YPNO[Z YLZLY]LK ;OL <*:+ .\HYKPHU PZ UV[ YLZWVUZPISL Nieh, associate professor of biology it doesn’t make anything new happen. on understanding other organisms. this example as a type of negative MVY[OLYL[\YUVM\UZVSPJP[LKTHU\ZJYPW[ZVYHY[;OL]PL^Z L_WYLZZLKOLYLPUKVUV[ULJLZZHYPS`YLWYLZLU[[OLVWPU and head of the Nieh Bee Laboratory, It just alerts other bees to stop going “Animals like bees and ants are feedback that might exist in other PVUZVM[OL<*:+.\HYKPHU[OL<UP]LYZP[`VM*HSPMVYUPH VY (ZZVJPH[LK :[\KLU[Z ;OL <*:+ .\HYKPHU PZ M\UKLK has spent the past two years record- there to look for food.” considered superorganisms because organisms.” ZVSLS`I`HK]LY[PZPUN1\Z[ZWVVUTL62& ing the communicative behavior of These experiments were con- the way their colony works is similar According to Nieh, this discovery .LULYHS,KP[VYPHS! honeybees. They discovered that bees ducted in a laboratory at the UCSD to a multicellular organism,” Nieh could also help explain colony col- [email protected] have a specific “stop” signal used to Biological Field.