State Court Casts Seals out of Cove Bush Gives Boost to Pell Grant Program in Light of Rising College Maximum Pell Grant Tuition Fees, Bush and Breakdown by Year

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www.ucsdguardian.org Monday,Thursday, February October 69, 4,6969 2007 The Student Voice Since 1967 State Court Casts Seals Out of Cove Bush Gives Boost to Pell Grant Program In light of rising college Maximum Pell Grant tuition fees, Bush and Breakdown by Year

Congress will increase Year Budget student aid by slashing 2002 ...... $4,050 lending profits. 2003 ...... $4,050 2004 ...... $4,050 By Candice Wu 2005 ...... $4,050 Senior Staff Writer 2006 ...... $4,050 2007 ...... $4,310 President George W. Bush sur- 2008 ...... $4,600 prised the Democratic Congress last week by signing the College Cost 2009 ...... $4,800 Reduction and Access Act of 2007 2010 ...... $5,000 — legislation that would increase the 2011 ...... $5,200 maximum Pell Grant by more than 2012 ...... $5,400 $500 as well as lower interest rates on subsidized Stafford student loans SOURCE: FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM — a move that could significantly benefit lower- to middle-income stu- and [resolve] any complications.” ERIK JEPSEN/GUARDIAN FILE The maximum Pell Grant had The colony of harbor seals at La Jolla’s Casa Beach will be displaced after the 4th District Court of Appeals decided to uphold a 1931 trust and dredge the sand. dents struggling to afford skyrocket- ing tuition fees. remained stagnant at $4,050 from LOCAL NEWS efforts to preserve the seals’ home he felt let down by the ruling. Bush’s decision will raise the Pell 2002-06 but began gaining momen- for several years, despite the site’s “I am dismayed at the appeals Grant maximum to $4,800 in the next tum when Bush signed a February La Jolla seal colony ruled historic designation as a children’s court’s decision because the La Jolla academic year and $5,400 by 2012, funding resolution that enacted area. Students have volunteered to harbor seal rookery is the south- while interest rates on undergradu- a $260 increase on the maximum a public nuisance, source guard the seals’ designated area, ernmost [one] in the United States,” ate Stafford loans will drop from 6.8 award for this academic year. About of contamination. Local educated visitors and conducted Hudnall said. percent to 3.4 percent over the next 5.3 million low- to middle-income research, while others have written Under a trust established in 1931, four academic years. students across the nation currently tourist spot returned to letters and spoken at city council in which the governor handed over Pell Grant funding distribution is qualify for Pell Grants, with 6,600 pool for toddlers. meetings. certain submerged state lands to the determined by the enrollment size of UCSD students receiving $952,000 Dredging the sand requires city, the beach was intended to be lower-income students attending a during the 2006-07 academic year. By Peter Feytser city officials to declare the seals a a bathing pool exclusively for chil- given university. The boost marks the A $20-billion reduction in sub- Senior Staff Writer public nuisance and health threat. dren as well as a public park. More single largest increase in student aid sidies to loan companies during the The officials also must acquire per- than a decade ago, however, seals since the GI Bill, which was enacted next fiscal year will allow federal To the dismay of many involved mits from the U.S. Army Corps began gathering and finally over- in 1944 to assist World War II veter- administration to fund the increase UCSD students and staff, a state of Engineers and the California took the children’s pool, prompting ans with loans and educational aid. in the maximum Pell Grant award. appellate court ordered sand dredg- Coastal Commission, which has a the city to limit access to swimmers, “The government is saving money The bill consists of various modi- ing at La Jolla’s Casa Beach — bet- history of supporting marine wild- divers and tourists. by cutting back on the discount rates fications in both undergraduate and ter known as the Children’s Pool life. The 4th District Court of Appeals given to lending companies — caus- graduate financial aid, adding the — last month, thereby ousting a Jim Hudnall, charter member of ruled 3-0 to restore water quality by ing lenders to become concerned public service loan-forgiveness and seal colony that has lived at the site the Society for Marine Mammalogy dredging the sand and removing about the future of their business- increasing the income protection for over a decade. and the activist who convened the the seals, whose feces are said to es,” UCSD Financial Aid Director allowance — the amount of income Members of the UCSD commu- first general public meeting at the Vincent De Anda said. “They’ll be nity have been active participants in La Jolla Public Library in 1999, said See COVE, page 3 forced to consolidate their programs See GRANTS, page 8 New Position Grows to Senior Celebration Aims to Unify Colleges Communications Stacie A. Spector, to rise. Suit a Greener Campus Planning committee to oversee preparations for the cel- Support for the campuswide cel- moves forward with ebration. ebration, however, has proven rela- The proposal for an all-cam- tively high. The planning committee By Rachael Rettner “There’s all this effort, but it’s never really been coordinated,” Souder all-campus baccalaureate pus graduation was prompted by has received $25,000 each from the Staff Writer said. “One of the main [tasks] will ceremony for UCSD last year’s Undergraduate Student A.S. Council, the chancellor’s office, be to talk to everybody on campus, Experience and Satisfaction report, and the vice chancellor of external How green is UCSD? Maggie find out what’s seniors. which emphasized student desire relations’ office. The group is also Souder, the campus’ new sustainability going on and for more campuswide traditions anticipating further contributions coordinator, is about to find out. then have a cen- By Casey Lo to improve the university’s overall from the vice chancellor of student Souder, a UC Riverside alumna tral place where Staff Writer atmosphere. affairs’ office. with more than 24 years of experi- people can go “We realized that students wanted The all-campus event will not ence in environmental preservation, to learn about In an attempt to attract more the opportunity for all colleges to replace individual college gradua- was appointed to the newly created campus sustain- prominent speakers for undergradu- come together and celebrate,” Sandoe tions, but aims to give graduating coordinator position before the start ability.” ate graduation ceremonies, the A.S. said. “A lot of people thought it was a students the opportunity to celebrate of Fall Quarter. The coordinator is Souder said Council recently announced the good idea and the administration has together, regardless of their college. responsible for synchronizing all of she envisions reintroduction of a campuswide bac- been very cooperative.” “I think that graduations last UCSD’s sustainability efforts in order her position calaureate — known as the Senior Inadequate funding has consis- quarter were appropriate for the level to increase the effectiveness of the pro- Maggie Souder Celebration — to supplement the six tently been an issue with graduation of ceremony,” Rodriguez-Palacios as a campus UCSD Sustainability grams and help the university achieve resource, and Coordinator individual college graduations. ceremonies. According to former said. “My college only had student its environmental goals. Souder will feels her guid- Chancellor Marye Anne Fox Eleanor Roosevelt College Senior speakers, which was fine, but if we work with the many committees, cam- ance will allow staff and students has charged the Senior Celebration Senator Erik Rodriguez-Palacios, want to attract more high-profile pus departments and student organi- to collaborate more effectively by Planning Committee, co-chaired who helped lead the push for a uni- speakers, we’ll need a bigger audi- zations involved in decreasing UCSD’s by Biological Sciences Senator fied baccalaureate last year, funding ence.” environmental impact and promoting Emma Sandoe and Associate has not increased in several years sustainable living. See SUSTAINABILITY, page 18 Vice Chancellor of University though student fees have continued See BACCALAUREATE, page 7

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La Jolla, CA 92093-0316 risk factors. contribute to emotional regulation. UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2007 THE UCSD GUARDIAN NEWS 3 Council Ponders Grove Debt, Experts Worry Dredging May Harm Environment ▶ COVE, from page 1 tor for the Animal Protection and Hieber has volunteered to guard Makes Plans for Own Surplus contaminate the water. Court docu- Rescue League, whose gradu- the designated seal area since his ments estimate the cost of sand ate work at Scripps Institution of freshman year. his year’s mellow inaugural A.S. have long-term budget effects that the dredging to fall between $250,000 Oceanography was based in infor- “The only in-water human use of Council meeting began with council must consider. and $500,000. mative signage directly linked to the beach I’ve seen there is an entry public input as usual, dur- In special presentations, Triton Tide Hudnall said the land could be the seals. point for scuba divers,” Hieber said. Ting which the treasurer of the UCSD President and Muir College Council returned to the state for manage- “Just looking at the trust without “I feel the best thing to do would be Student Foundation, James Iwaz, chal- Chair Dave Payne reported on the ment purposes, rendering the court looking at the biological needs, in to remove the sea wall and restore lenged the council in the upcoming group’s activities since the A.S. Council decision moot. my opinion, is not the best deci- the beach to how it was in 1930, and Chancellor’s 5K run. Iwaz proposed cut its funding in last year’s epic budget The plan to dredge the beach sion,” she said. let nature determine what happens that the losing team bake cupcakes meeting. Triton Tide now has a budget alarmed UCSD professor emeritus VanderWalde also said that pub- to the seals when the beach is in its for the winning team, but his chal- of $17,500, and Payne expressed his Douglas L. Inman, a specialist in lic attitude toward environmental natural state.” lenge wasn’t acknowledged until the usual gusto regarding UCSD’s “elite coastal oceanography and sedi- causes has drastically changed since Moore said the implications of meeting’s end. spirit crew.” mentation, because of the impact it the trust was drafted in 1930, a the court’s decision pertain to more During mem- “We’ve done would have on the beach and those decade during which the seals were than just the seals. bers’ reports, more so far than all surrounding it — including acceler- hunted to near extinction. “[The seals’] presence is a poten- Associate Vice New of Fall Quarter last ated cliff erosion. “Over and over again, we hear tially powerful message to all the President of Local year,” he said, refer- “Two years ago I called a meet- the controversy framed as ‘humans foreign tourists who visit La Jolla Affairs Aida Business ring to the chalked ing and went to the sight to show versus seals’ when obviously it is that American concern for wildlife Kuzucan revealed Smruti Aravind fields exhibiting what would happen,” Inman said. not — no seal has ever written a let- and the environment is not just a plan to acquire slogans and dou- “[The meeting] was attended by city ter or given an interview,” professor lip service,” Moore said. “Asking a $5,000 lifetime [email protected] bled attendance at councilmembers and engineers. It of anthropology Jim Moore said in Africans to deal with elephants and membership in games. would’ve diluted the entire area of an e-mail. “It is between humans lions in the name of conservation, the La Jolla City Council, which would Triton Tide managed to bring up sand that right now has a tentative with one definition of recreation: but unwilling to accept any ‘hard- allow the council more influence in to 772 supporters for a women’s vol- balance.” active, sporty, using the environ- ships’ ourselves is hypocritical.” local town decisions. leyball game this year, doubling the Some have suggested the city ment; and humans with another A public opinion poll commis- Associate Vice President of attendance of last year’s matches. open the sluiceways, which can serve definition: passive, watching and sioned by APRL in May showed that Enterprise Operations Chelsea Payne also unveiled a new pro- as gates in the breakwater — origi- enjoying the environment.” eight out of 10 San Diegans favor Maxwell gave an update on the Grove posal, which will include a billboard nally meant to be open — to allow The San Diego City Council has limits on use of the Children’s Pool Caffe, which has yet to open this year on I-5 that advertises UCSD sporting the ocean water to flow more freely. proposed a compromise by allowing to protect the harbor seals. after racking up more than $17,000 events and stretches the budget with “They’ll have to pump sand out swimmers to occupy the pool dur- San Diego City Attorney Michael in debt. The Grove now has a new giveaways that are more economical to open them, but if the sluice gates ing the summer, while providing Aguirre said he intends to appeal the manager in Cleveland Thomas, who and numerous, like key chains and function as they were supposed to, special protection during the seals’ decision to the California Supreme formerly managed the RIMAC coffee paint. it would re-establish some equilib- birthing and pupping season from Court. cart. Thomas has experience working During question time, Earl Warren rium,” Inman said. December to May by installing a with students, said Maxwell. The cafe College Senator Peter Benesch told Rachael VanderWalde is the cur- rope barrier. Readers can contact Peter Feytser at will open in a couple of weeks. the council he discovered that A.S. rent education and policy direc- Revelle College junior Aaron [email protected]. A.S. President Marco Murillo Safe Ride is not yet operating because said the expected carryover from last of an “unfortunate circumstance.” year’s A.S. budget had unexpectedly Apologizing, Vice President of Finance increased to over $264,000. In the past and Resources Sarah Chang clarified few years, not all money allocated to that Safe Rides would not be dispatched Read the administrative salaries had been spent, until Oct. 11 — as noted in the user GUARDIAN with the unused funds “rolling over and agreement. over and over,” Murillo said. He specu- Iwaz’s challenge was finally accept- lated that these now-freed funds might ed during open forum by Sixth College be spent on a new event coordina- Senator John Cressey, who encour- tor position to help convert program- aged council members to participate READ ming ideas into realities. However, he competitively. stressed that the windfall was a “one “Otherwise,” he warned, “someone’s UCSD time thing,” and creating a permanent going to have to spend a lot of time in Check out the Guardian online at www.ucsdguardian.org. position with the excess funds would the kitchen.”

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▶ BACCALAUREATE, from page 1 get the large-scale graduation that a UCSD held five all-campus bac- UCSD education deserves.” 2008 Graduation calaureates in the mid-1990s that The planning committee is com- Ceremonies successfully recruited prominent prised of 11 undergraduate students, one graduate student, Alumni speakers such as former President • Fr iday, June 20 — Bill Clinton, former Sen. Bob Dole, Association representatives and sev- Qualcomm CEO Irwin Jacobs and eral provosts. The committee held its All-Campus Senior Celebration social activist Patch Adams. Last first meeting on Oct. 3. year, individual college commence- University administrators recent- • Sat ur day, June 21 — ment speakers included actor James ly announced that although Spring John Muir College Quarter classes end June 13 next Avery, film producer and alumnus Thurgood Marshall College Thom Sherman, two professors and year, individual college commence- four UCSD students. ments will be delayed until June 21 Sixth College “I went to most of the ceremonies and June 22 due to conflicts in hotel last year, and while the speakers were and parking availability with the U.S. • Sunday, June 22 — all amazing, I can’t remember any Open, which will be held at La Jolla’s Earl Warren College Torrey Pines Golf Course the preced- of their names,” Sandoe said. “I’m Eleanor Roosevelt College envious of the past years who heard ing week. The all-campus baccalau- from Bill Clinton or other universi- reate is scheduled for June 20. Revelle College ties that are congratulated by very inspiring public speakers. I feel that Readers can contact Casey Lo at SOURCE: TRITONLINK it is very important to students to [email protected].

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Campus Aims for Complete Transition to Biofuel UCSD GUARDIAN ▶ SUSTAINABILITY, from page 1 Gary C. Matthews said in an e-mail. expansion and improvement of its sus- knowing what projects other campus “To ensure that we address the need to tainability programs. Efforts are being groups are working on. communicate our successes as well as made to increase the amount of renew- However, she stresses that cam- gather input and suggestions from the able energy used on campus from the pus sustainability requires everyone’s campus community, we felt it essential current 17 percent to 20 percent by participation, not merely that of a few to develop and fund the position.” 2010, as well as to install enough solar interested individuals. Souder will also work to ensure panels to produce one megawatt of “What we’re trying to do is help that UCSD complies with the current solar energy by 2014. The campus also our planet, and since no one person UC Policy on Sustainable Practices aspires to increase the number of elec- can achieve that, it’s going to take a real that applies to all UC campuses. tric vehicles used and to drive shuttles community effort,” she said. UCSD is already making signifi- that run on 100 percent biofuel. Souder A new arrival to UCSD, Souder cant progress in its sustainability said she is impressed with the level began her campus work by meeting efforts, Souder said. The Facilities of enthusiasm she has seen at UCSD

with different sustainability groups to Management and Transportation regarding environmental action. WEB discuss their interests and goals, and and Parking Services campus trans- “I’ve never seen a campus so then making that information avail- portation programs have worked engaged and so interested [in sustainable campuswide. However, she hopes hard to reduce carbon dioxide emis- ability],” she said. to accomplish much more in the com- For Souder, a self-confessed “tree- New look • New features • New site ing years. hugger,” environmentalism has been a  “My long-term goal is to help the life-long commitment. campus be number one in the world Her passion has fueled her entire in sustainability,” she said. “I want My long-term goal is career in environmental awareness. people to look at UCSD and say, ‘not to help the campus At UC Riverside, she started out only were they on the forefront of as a student collecting hazardous Online Exclusives: identifying climate changes and world be number one in the waste, and then moved on to hazard- problems, but they’re also engaged in ous-waste management. She spent finding the solution.’” world in sustainability.” her last eight years developing and In June 2005, Chancellor Marye managing environmental remedia- Anne Fox established the Environment — Maggie Souder, UCSD tion efforts, before having what she • Slideshows! and Sustainability Initiative, a pro- Sustainability Coordinator calls an “ah ha!” moment and tran- gram that aims to facilitate collabo-“ sitioning to work on sustainability ration between campus departments programs. and schools in order to confront envisions. Fleet Services has purchased “This is what I’ve been working for ronmental problems. more than 300 electric vehicles for all this time,” she said. “The sustain- About six months later, the cam- campus use, as well as over 50 hybrid ability profession didn’t exist when I • Site Seen interactive map! pus created the Advisory Committee vehicles, and the campus shuttles started out, but it just feels like such on Sustainability, a group that aspires run on 20 percent biofuel. UCSD a natural match for what I’ve always to increase awareness of and support also offers several alternative trans- wanted to do.” for sustainability activities at UCSD, portation options, including shut- For now, Souder is focusing her while also promoting education and tles, carpools, vanpools, Triton Bikes attention on uncovering all the cam- • Past installments of columns! research related to environmentally and the Free Bus Zone. pus has to offer in terms of sustainabil- friendly practices. Souder will work The campus has also undertak- ity, and said she is very excited to test with both of these programs, as well en projects to become more energy the limits of her new position. as others involved in facility plan- efficient. The Central Utilities Plant, “There’s so much going on and so ning, including student organizations which powers most of UCSD, has a much interest, that, on one hand, it’s such at the Green Campus Program. natural-gas cogeneration facility that like trying to drink from a fire hose,” “We have numerous outstanding supplies about 85 percent of campus she said. “But, on the other hand, I’ve www.ucsdguardian.org conservation and energy-management energy needs. And in 2006, a 12.8-kilo- never been happier in my life. It’s a systems that have been implemented watt photovoltaic system was installed good thing I’m thirsty.” and a number of major energy related on top of the Powell Structures Lab to Check for the icon for Web exclusives! initiatives in planning,” Interim Vice provide solar energy. Readers can contact Rachael Rettner at  Chancellor of Resource Management However, UCSD hopes to continue [email protected]. Props to the UC Board of Regents for not rejecting tobacco-company research 4 grants at its meeting last month, ending a yearlong controversy over the matter. CONTACT THE EDITOR Natasha Naraghi Flops to UCSD Parking and Transportation [email protected] Services for converting Gilman Parking Structure into “V” spots and banning OPINION overnight parking in the structure. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2007 EDITORIALS Nation Gifts Fox’s Four-Year Stay a Medley of Wins and Losses Journalists with cknowledging the limits of an occupation’s lifespan might be defeatist to the rank-and-file, but Chancellor Marye Angry Letters, AAnne Fox nods to a valid point: “[University] chancellors usually serve five-year terms at the most,” she told the editorial board at an annual Little Praise lunch meeting. And just as one’s mid-life conjures up open efore the angry letters start rolling in retrospection (what have I accomplished?), the this year, and before our readers charge campus should visit Fox’s own mid-life achieve- us with making any egregious errors or Bbeing irresponsible journalists, I’m taking the ments at UCSD since her arrival in 2004. Fox’s first luncheon with the Guardian back then was opportunity to climb atop my soapbox and get textbook in goal and execution: the hob-knob- this off my chest once and for all. bing and gladhanding yielded stock goals, lofty Journalists are an underappreciated breed. in aim but ultimately weak in realism. Initially, We’re overworked, underpaid and despite our among her largest aims was the establishment of best efforts, journalism itself has become a a lively campus community and identity. dying art, eclipsed by sensational Web pages Her administration’s most utilized tool in and humor-driven, late-night mock-news that effort was the Undergraduate Student Experience and Satisfaction report. The report’s methodology was pleasantly ground- All That’s level, allowing scores of student interviewees to offer concerns and suggestions about their Fit To Print own campus in a more direct fashion. Finally, Natasha Naraghi the student’s voice had been consolidated and formalized. Under the umbrella of the student [email protected] affairs department, the survey bred a litany of subcommittees to analyze and act on students’ concerns. shows. The tidal wave of change and the inva- Fox’s approach to the U.S.E.S. — self- sion of modernity have cast a looming shadow evaluation to instigate change — has, at the over this profession and have all but knocked very least, yielded concrete results. Specific lines us off our feet. in the U.S.E.S. have spurred specific changes. And the angry letters keep rolling in. Establishments under heavy student use, such Despite our withering popularity, the stan- as Geisel Library and Subway, are now open late dards have not fallen. If anything, the public into the night. Core centers of student life, such — and especially the government — has grown as Price Center and Student Center, are under- But improvements are still sorely increasingly unforgiving and unappreciative going either reconstruction or expansion. lacking in the undergraduate sphere. Fox of our toils. There was a time when America Also, the vein of a college’s student life pumps is suprisingly obtuse regarding heavier, stu- JASON CHIM/GUARDIAN considered us the quintessential fourth branch through its housing, an understanding Fox was dent-centric issues. Her response to the recent of government; now we’re pigeon holed as lib- 8 Transcript Online: Fox Speaks Out well aware of in 2004. The furthur development scandal within the Dimensions of Culture pro- eral extremists among a population who takes of on-campus housing would extend a student’s gram was underwhelming and broad, much our exposes for granted. on-campus experience, thus strengthening their like her response to Student-Run Television’s needs a change-by-movement. Service-level Though the public may see us romanticized connection to their college, Fox rightly rea- shutdown. Both issues received national press impacts have been instigated through drives such through film, tenaciously chasing Superman soned. Recently, housing for graduate students attention. Both issues made splashes in student as U.S.E.S., though Fox’s self-admittedly short or valiantly unearthing Richard Nixon’s dirty was completed to much fanfare, just as housing life, the kind that aid in the formation of identity. shelf-life conjures another mid-life question: secrets, our reality is one far more mun- for transfer students has broken ground. The Fox’s step-back technique to hot-button issues What can I still accomplish? With weighty prob- dane, and our work far more vilified than two facilities answer Fox’s call to community in a buys her breathing room, but costs her also: An lems such as parking and undergraduate housing Hollywood portrays. Our pressroom is dirty, hopeful fashion, with underrecognized popula- undefinable leader can’t produce the inspiration still looming, the prospects of Fox fully achieving our sleep is little and our stakes are high. tions of students, such as transfers, getting the needed for a philosophical sea change. And as her vision are gloomier than the accomplish- Mistakes mean scornful letters that almost dividends of Fox’s vision. Fox herself acknowledged, UCSD’s student life ments she has already made. depict us as sinners. For our victories, we earn no prize — at least not outside personal satisfaction and the Pulitzer. Remember New York Times op-ed writer Joseph Wilson? Probably not; he never Undergrad Blues Leave Alumni Donors Scarce received his prize either. Wilson, a former United States ambassador hen UCSD began its billion-dollar to Gabon, traveled to Niger in 2002 at the fundraising campaign seven years Funding Distribution for “What’s Next?” request of the CIA to investigate the possible ago, consultants were skeptical. sale of Nigerian uranium to Iraq. By the end TheyW challenged the university’s status as a of his stay Wilson concluded that there was pubescent school and questioned its ability to little chance, if any, that such an arrangement garner needed levels of financial support from 7% Faculty Research had occurred — an opinion that he shared alumni just now approaching their 50s. with government officials, including the State But Chancellor Marye Anne Fox had other 10% Department’s African Affairs Bureau. plans. Realizing that UCSD’s youth would like- Students Less than a year later, with still no reason ly limit possible donations from alumni, cam- 10% to believe Niger was capable of selling ura- paign leaders targeted private organizations, 40% nium to Iraq, President George W. Bush pub- including the Skaggs Insitute for Research Innovation licly accused Iraq of attempting to purchase (which gave $30 million to the university). uranium from Africa. Wilson later discovered Now, however, with the colossal “What’s the accusation, announced in the president’s Next” campaign completed, and the univer- 33% state of the union address in January 2003, sity an astounding $1.03 billion wealthier, it Faculty was referencing Niger. is the perfect time to re-examine the college’s In an effort to bring these government approach and determine where future efforts inconsistencies to light, Wilson wrote of his would be most effectively directed. Do we Academic Programs experience in a July 2003 article in the New stick with our traditional approach of appeal- York Times, in which he criticized the admin- ing to San Diego’s bevy of biotech companies, & Facilities istration for “[going] to war under false pre- or do we turn to our aging alumni base? SOURCE: CAMPAIGN FOR UCSD WEB SITE tenses.” One thing is clear: While consultants may Shortly after, in an act of retaliation, have pegged the school’s age as an insur- government officials leaked the identity of mountable obstacle toward fundraising efforts Campaign Facts Wilson’s wife — prominent CIA operative with alumni, a more problematic handicap is • Only 33 other U.S. colleges have raised Valerie Plame — to the press. The events UCSD’s undergraduate environment. Before similar levels of funds. EDITORIAL BOARD spurred an FBI investigation during which I. we can attract a thick alumni base, graduating Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff to seniors need to leave UCSD feeling connected, Charles Nguyen Vice President Dick Cheney, was accused and feeling like the four years they spent here were • $400 million will be directed to faculty EDITOR IN CHIEF eventually charged with perjury and obstruct- four years they could not have spent anywhere research, $300 million to academic and Matthew McArdle ing justice. He was sentenced to two-and-a- else. facilities needs and $100 million to Hadley Mendoza half years in prison. For this to happen, students need to campus organizations. MANAGING EDITORS Despite the fact that Wilson’s reporting experience both community and satisfaction Matthew L’Heureux experience was a one-time deal, his story, and throughout the course of their stay — some- • Fifty-one percent of the donations were NEWS EDITOR the personal abuse it earned him, illuminates thing the campus’ disunity has yet to allow, as the unfortunate byproduct of being a journal- the Undergraduate Student Experience and received from friends of UCSD, 28 percent Natasha Naraghi OPINION EDITOR ist — intense and often unjust criticism. Satisfaction report indicates. from alumni, 14 percent from parents, 5 per- Judith Miller, another New York Times Until the administration can find remedies cent from corporations, 1 percent from founda- The UCSD Guardian is published twice a week at the reporter notorious for her coverage of Iraq’s for the UCSD’s lingering internal problems, University of California at San Diego. Contents © 2007. tions and an additional 1 percent from various Views expressed herein represent the majority vote of the possible weapons of mass destruction, also the safest course for future campaigns is also organizations. editorial board and are not necessarily those of the UC experienced this hostility first hand. Miller, the most traditional one. Board of Regents, the ASUCSD or the members of the SOURCE: CAMPAIGN FOR UCSD WEB SITE Guardian staff. See FIT TO PRINT, page 5 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2007 THE UCSD GUARDIAN OPINION 5

A DROP FROM THE INKWELL By Priscilla Lazaro New Manager Detracts from Grove’s Student-Run Spirit By Marissa Blunschi benefit the struggling A.S. enter- Associate Opinion Editor prise. The Grove first burst on to the STUDENT CENTERS AND campus scene 21 years ago with HEALTH — After several years of its unique, hipster vibe and serene, slipping deeper into debt — and pre-Price Center atmosphere. The many failed efforts by the A.S. Associated Students had high hopes Council to stop the bleeding — it for the restaurant, aiming to create seemed as though the Grove Caffe a largely student-run business that might be rescued by the Rady School would provide young entrepreneurs of Management last May. Plans of a with hands-on business experience, partnership were meant to bolster and customers with economically the Grove’s profits and bring a fresh and socially conscious products. approach to its marketing strategies A.S. Enterprise Operations encour- while preserving aged the devel- it as a student- opment of stu- run enterprise. dent services at Alas, not long the Grove to the after dialogue Without its point of running had been initi- distinctiveness a continual defi- ated between the cit. After a long A.S. Council, the as a student-run history of finan- Rady School and cial fluctuations Grove employees, enterprise, the Grove and the liquida- it became appar- tion of Carlson’s ent that the Grove has lost part of what ownership, the needed more sta- makes it stand out ...” Grove found ble and perma-“ itself in a des- Greatest Journalists Often Forgotten nent management perate situation, ▶ FIT TO PRINT, from page 4 drunk with excitement; I felt vener- if once in a while the angry letters than the Rady possibly facing also involved the in the leak case and ated and hopeful. But it didn’t last weren’t, well, quite so angry and the School could offer, if the historical closure. Unfortunately, the Grove believed to have evidence regarding long. Now I see how forgotten we bylines not quite so forgotten. At the coffee shop hoped to survive. received minimal assistance from the disclosure of Plame’s identity, are. very least I wish America could recog- Without the Rady School to the A.S. Council, which had left the was jailed in 2005 or her refusal to From Wilson, to Miller, to nize its most dedicated and investiga- dig the Grove out of debt, the A.S. indebted coffeehouse on the back testify before a grand jury about the Seymour Hersh, to Ida Tarbell and tive journalists — people like Miller Council has elected to appoint an burner for a little too long — its information. Despite widespread Murray Waas, most Americans have and Hersh. external manager to regain control problems have only been continuing public opposition over her decision, no idea who these people are — I won’t hold my breath for the res- of the Grove’s finances in hopes of to worsen. Miller unflinchingly stood by her and yet their contributions to this urrection of newspaper appreciation ensuring stability for the fraught At this point, it would take actions. nation’s political society are undeni- and journalists everywhere will just A.S. enterprise. However, deciding almost a miracle to save the Grove. These stories, however, are only able. keep on keeping on. If by chance, how- to hire a non-student manager won’t Without its distinctiveness as a stu- the half of it. The profession, by Maybe it’s lagging readership, ever, you should find yourself wander- alleviate the Grove’s ever-escalat- dent-run enterprise, the Grove has nature, forces journalists to have maybe it’s disinterest, maybe it’s mod- ing campus between classes this week, ing debt, which soared to approxi- lost part of what makes it stand thick skin, so criticism we can ern media getting in the way, but any twiddling your thumbs with nothing mately $17,000 before the original out as UCSD’s original coffee shop. handle. It’s the obliviousness of way you look at it it’s a sad view. to do, grab some coffee and a copy of owner, Ron Carlson, liquidated his Although the Grove certainly can no the American public that gets me I’m not trying to toot my own horn the New York Times. Find a shady spot 50-percent ownership of the Grove’s longer continue on its current path down. or elevate the marginalized efforts of to settle down, pull up a chair and contract last spring. This gives good as a student-run business (incur- I remember the first time my American journalists everywhere. All actually read it. I dare you. reason to be skeptical as to how name appeared in print — I was I’m saying is that it would be nice drastically new management would See GROVE, page 6 6 OPINION THE UCSD GUARDIAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2007 Sparse Advertising the Root of Grove’s Lagging Sales

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▶ GROVE, from page 5 ally unavoidable for students walking ring further debt along the way), it to and from their classes. The Grove, may come as an upset that student- on the other hand, is generally out of employees will no longer have the the way for many students, nestled same access to applied practice in away in the serene Student Center. small-business management as they On top of that, the never-ending con- have for the past 21 years. By bring- struction does little to help persuade ing in outside management, the A.S. potential Grove customers to step Council is simultaneously taking inside the restaurant even if they hap- away much of what sets the Grove pen to be famished and wandering Caffe apart from the multitude of near Revelle College. coffee shops on the UCSD campus. To address these issues, the Grove Besides excising tradition, the clearly needs better advertising to A.S. Council is also spending a great bring in more business, but even more deal of money so, it needs to by bringing in introduce more a new manage- unique products rial system for the If the Grove Caffe and services to Grove. Obviously, keep its custom- hiring a new, hopes to serve customers ers coming back outside manager for more. is significantly for another 21 years to Clearly, if more expen- come, its new manager the Grove Caffe sive than hiring hopes to serve UCSD students will have his work cut customers for — a precarious another 21 years move, especially“ out for him.” to come, its new when there is no managerwill guarantee that have his work cut new management will save the Grove out for him. Though it has become a from extinction. Unstable manage- small landmark on campus with its ment aside, there are multiple prob- scenic patio, tasty dishes and foamy lems that have been contributing to lattes, the Grove has quite a way to go the Grove’s tremendous deficit over before its charm wins over the hearts the past several years that must also of the multitude of customers that it be addressed. needs if it wants to emerge from the One problem that undoubtedly red. Also, the Grove (along with most damages business at the Grove is that A.S. Enterprises) barely turns a profit. its salads, sandwiches and cappuc- Now, we can only hope that the new cinos, though delicious, can often be management that the A.S. Council found at many, much more conve- elected will have the persistence, deter- nient locations on campus. Virtually mination and the revolutionary ideas every UCSD cafeteria offers similar to turn the Grove around, bringing items that can be purchased with pre- it back to its original level when it paid meal points, and the dozens of opened its doors as the first coffee shop coffee carts and restaurants in Price on campus. Otherwise, let’s hope the Center and all over campus are virtu- A.S. Council has a plan B. Opinion Writers Wanted! Applications can be found in the Guardian office located on the second floor of Student Center or online at www.ucsdguardian.org THE BEST SONGS IN HIATUS 10 boss THIS WEEK CONTACT THE EDITOR ditties Simone Wilson Eddie Vedder Bruce Springsteen Manu Chao [email protected] hiatus • “No Ceiling” • “Radio Nowhere” • “Rainin’ in Paradize” �� • “Long Nights” • “Your Own Worst Enemy” • “Me Llaman Calle” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2007

HIATUS PICKS THE WEEK’S BEST BETS druthers the Lil’ Scrappy, Jim Jones Off & Shane Capone SD CONVENTION CENTER/ OCT. 7 / 7 P.M. / $20 One piece of Trillville (the rap group that made the wood- creak beat famous with 2005’s “Some Cut”), Lil’ Scrappy Road might be too throwback or obscure for Dirty South fans, especially considering today’s revolving door of Southern rap stars. But considering that big-market revivals fall flat (see, Chingy), it might be due time to revisit high school’s musical requirements (a.k.a. can I shake my goods to it?). Plus, Jim Jones, creator of the summertime stomp-beat “Ballin’,” and Motor City’s own Shane Capone. (CN) Into the Wild

Port O’Brien Starring Emile Hirsch, Catherine Keener, William Hurt, THE CASBAH / OCT. 10 / 8:30 P.M. / $14 Vince Vaughn & Hal Holbrook They may only be openers for Rogue Wave, but when a Directed by Sean Penn Bay Area/Alaska buzz pack is dubbed best new band by the Rated R M. Ward, there’s definitely magic in the air. Citing everyone from Spoon to Neil Young as inspiration, it’s hard not to draw comparisons with yesteryear’s classic rock and latter-day indie folk, yet they’ve definitely got something of their own – wisps ‘ ILD’ MAPS YOUNG REBEL’S TREK OUT WEST, UP NORTH of Bay fog plumped with small-town Alaskan hoke – that W & suggests their status as a songwriting juggernaut. Created in Kodiak, Ala. by fisherman/boathand TO THE FURTHEST LIMITS OF HUMAN DESOLATION. By Chris Mertan twentysomething Van Pierszalowski, who also spent time in Cambria, Calif., Port O’Brien quickly rocketed by sharing stages with the likes of Modest Mouse and Bright Eyes – (and all this when their average age was a mere 21). Makes you wish you had signed on that fishing vessel as a teen, eh? (CM) hen you graduate But McCandless couldn’t take these pages of John Krakauer’s bestselling book, from this univer- things with him on his trip. And had he and now, through the harrowing lens of W sity, you will not do not died of starvation by virtual accident actor-turned-director Sean Penn, who tells Justice the things Chris McCandless did. You will in the Alaskan wilderness, he would have the cross-continental mini-epic with eager CANES BAR & GRILL / OCT. 7 / 7:30 P.M. / $20 not ditch your car in Arizona and burn gotten what he wanted and we would have bursts of visual existentialism. After a 10- Nothing makes me wanna “get drunk and freaky-fied” your money, nor trade in your identity and never heard his story. with mah ladies like fancy Paris electro-chick Uffie, lending the toss your savings to charity. But of course, we did — first, on the See WILD, page 14 finishing party-girl touch to the best dance album of the year, without a shadow of a doubt: Justice’s wet, urban Cross. Crazy- catchy single “D.A.N.C.E.” barbed hipsters and boutique playlists worldwide with its irresistable swells of kiddie-choir, even securing a spot next to Video-of-the-Year nominees like Beyonce and Justin Timberlake (and ultimately losing to the unbeatable Rihanna) on MTV. Though their grungy thump is probably better danced to in the privacy of your own sweaty closet, air and compare those killer moves this Sunday in Canes’ sea of worshippers, all without dirtying the morning’s fresh sin-slate — just keep your eyes locked on that glowing cross. (SW)

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“MOST WANTED” THE HIGHER “PIRATES OF THE BEAR GARDEN THE ATOMS, THE “PINK FLAMINGOS” ROMA NIGHTS: JOHN WATERS La Jolla Playhouse Porter’s Pub CARIBBEAN” Sungod Lawn PRAYERS & MORE AND PRE-PARTY SASIA CONGER Mandeville Center Oct. 4, 8 p.m. Oct. 4, 7:30 p.m. Price Center Theater Oct. 5, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. Che Cafe Price Center Theater Espresso Roma Oct. 10, 8 p.m. $22 FREE Oct. 4, 6 & 9 p.m. FREE Oct. 6, 8 p.m. Oct. 6, 10 p.m. Oct. 8, 8 p.m. $20 $3 $5 FREE FREE recordings PJ Harvey G&D ■ White Chalk ■ The Message ISLAND LOOK

rooding singer-songwriter P.J. Harvey nor song ever gets a grip, as Harvey trades in her f you knew the world was ending in five mor- accidentally left on the open mic. slumps, hung in a vintage gown, hair ung- fiery guitar anthems and punk nihilism for the tal years, what would your message sound Accordingly, their project can only be fully B roomed. Even before we wrangle off the lackluster piano recital that is White Chalk. I like? For ex-Stones Throw groovies Georgia appreciated during that first chaotic listen. After plastic wrap, it’s easy to deduct what kind of It would be unfair to critique this chameleon Anne Muldrow and Dudley Perkins (or G&D, enduring 45 raw, hard minutes of G’s wet-paint album this will be: Hers is a haunting portrait, for departing from her past. After all, her abil- if you’re hip to that cosmos), the Mayans’ neo-soul — possibly the freshest, most difficult- ghostly in the spotlight — a Sylvia Plath bride, a ity to sound completely unlike herself is exactly pending 2012 apocalypse apparently warrants to-wrangle out there — with D’s jumbled premo- Diane Arbus silhouette, a modern-day Ophelia. what drives her fame: Harvey is notoriously hard an invitational floodgate for their scrambled nitions heaped atop like 40 slo-mo, drugged and We saw it coming in 2004’s Uh Huh Her, as to pinpoint, constantly recreating and decon- philosophies — on love, peace, time, space, brainwashed Busdrivers, we emerge cleansed Harvey reined her gait by stripping instrumenta- structing her fluid sound. She’s long managed higher powers, oneness with the earth and most and triumphant (if only to have survived what at tion and lowering vocals to a whisper. On White to adapt and sample techniques from a range everything else worth pondering over a godsent first felt like warped hip-hop torture — until we Chalk, the childish musings are familiar in tone, of genre-defining contemporaries (including psychedelic funk drift. realized that beauty is pain.) but now completely lack their veil of intrigue. Tom Waits, Cat Power, even Elvis Costello) It wouldn’t be surprising to learn that The You may snicker now, but we’ll see who’s Deep-throated echoes and punky whines from while still remaining distinct as a memory . Message was recorded in a single take. A slaugh- laughing when Perkin’s doomsday has indeed past albums fall to the wind of a new ethe- White Chalk, however, sees the least-creative tering of messy harmonies and dream-state arrived. Or sooner, even: “Critics? The hell real haunting, as comprehensive as underwater Harvey to date — Harvey dabbling in tired New tangents, pulled over roughly 10 full-length with the critics! La la la la!” he squeals to the whale calls. Both “Before Departure” and “The Age, Harvey sampling the worst of Tori Amos, tracks, are then thrown into the wastebasket heavens, where even the supreme being himself Mountain” — long, drawn-out affairs stranded Harvey thrown to the whales for good. with an equal number of seeming outtakes: self- can’t look away. in painfully predictable arrangements, thrill- PJ Harvey performs live Oct. 15 at Orpheum indulgent skits, fragments of long-lost Muldrow G&D will host an official listening party at ing as an afternoon with a windup music box Theatre in Los Angeles. beats (from her not-so-long-ago gig as that Dream Street in Ocean Beach on Oct. 13. — lose themselves in sparse keys and operatic mysterious sprig of springtime pine on Stones moans. “Piano” and “Broken Harp” come clos- — Jia Gu Throw compilations) and uncomfortably long — Simone Wilson est to the grittier blues of Dry, but neither singer Associate Hiatus Editor moments in which it seems someone must have Hiatus Editor THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2007 THE UCSD GUARDIAN HIATUS 11

Jia Gu Associate Hiatus Editor Foreign Film-Fest Darling ART Throws ‘Caution’ to ‘Lust’ By Autumn Schuster with an underground theater. HOPPING Senior Staff Writer Thrust to the forefront of these quiet rebels is the angelic Wang ith a resume like Ang Lee’s, Jiazhi (Wei Tang, in her first-ever Through Oct. 13 hotography’s ability to capture yet lage method into a new system in which a new intrigue-laced war movie role), forced to become “A White Table and P simultaneously distort the essence of over 100 photographs comprise a single W film promises to be much China’s serpent in the grass, slowly a Black Table, Each different objects is the central thesis of Roy table. This recomposition of shots elimi- more than another humdrum roll whittling away pieces of her iden- Off Depicted in Photograph McMakin’s exhibition at Quint Gallery. His nates the three-point perspective inherent in the cinematic hay. In the same tity to become the bourgeois adul- and Sculpture” fifth exhibition is stripped down to two in single frame photographs, so that solely vein as last blockbuster “Brokeback teress of Mae Tai Tai. Quint Gallery found tables — guess what colors — and perfect lines comprise the image. His work Mountain,” Lee’s latest showcases Lee’s contemporary creation is 7739 Fay Avenue select collaged photographs that reexam- attempts to construct a new photographic talented unknowns, graphic sex a visual triumph, weaving its way La Jolla, CA 92037 ine the relationship between object and perspective, and questions ways the camera scenes and stunning cinematogra- through wartime realities and the Road lens. McMakin has digitalized the col- shapes our perceptions. phy. But here is where the similar- many sacrifices made on every ity ends — the seasoned director behalf, as Wang slowly seduces the Through Oct. 14 leaves Montana behind for a war- cruel and domineering Mr. Yee “Impressionist Giverny: A Colony threatened 1938 Hong Kong, and (Tony Leung), head of the ruth- of Artists, 1885-1915” the Japanese-occupied Shanghai in less, Japanese-collaborating secu- San Diego Museum of Art 1942. rity forces. But before we can write 1450 E Prado “Lust, Caution” follows a group “Lust” off as a hackneyed wartime San Diego, CA 92101 of six student actors as they resist the encroaching Japanese regime See LUST, page 12 erception also went under the micro- P scope at the turn of the century, when artists began to reexamine the role of light Lust, Caution in images and image construction. Their exploration took place outside the camera but inside the canvas. Impressionists from Starring Tony Leung, Tang Wei & Joan Chen or near Giverny, France, a countryside art- Directed by Ang Lee ists’ haven, pushed the possibilities of light Rated NC-17 and shadow through their blurred land- scapes of lilyponds and rural village life. Including works by major artists such as Claude Monet, Theodore Robinson, John Leslie Breck and Pierre Bonnard, all works in the exhibition are investigations into paint- COURTESY OF SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ing’s capacity to convey without mirroring.

COURTESY OF SDSU ART GALLERY Above: Bethany Johns, “Keep Your Rosaries Out of Our Ovaries,” USA, 1991-92. Left: Andrzej Klimowski, “Racial Harassment is No Joke,” United Kingdom, 1997.

Through Oct. 10 he Cuban insurgency put Ché in his this decade of digitalism) are best mani- “The Graphic Imperative” Tberet. The Chinese Cultural Revolution fested on paper. Posters give slogans a SDSU Art Gallery had Mao and his red book. The iPod visibility that resonates in the individual 5500 Campanile Dr. revolution silhouetted rockers against a and historical consciousness. The Graphic San Diego, CA 92182 psychedelic apocalypse. Revolutions are COURTESY OF FOCUS FEATURES motored by imagery, and images (even in See ART HOPPING, page 13

Bruce Springsteen Manu Chao ■ Magic ■ Radiolina SONY BECAUSE

hen Bruce Springsteen hit 1982, still reel- drive straight off dead man’s curve. Instead, we f, for any number of reasons, you are thinking Okay, so the new one’s not that bad. It ing from the success of Born to Run, his get broken — if salvageable — mirrors. “Your about investing in the work of Manu Chao couldn’t possibly be — this is the legendary W darker side took over: He ditched his Own Worst Enemy” is a worthy grab at 1960s I — you know, heard him at a super-cool party, Manu Chao, who has rallied artists and peoples fellow E-Streeters for Nebraska, a set of bare- nostalgia, but sticks out sore alongside “Gypsy stumbled across him at Coachella, finally tuned across the globe since 1989, with or without boned demos with nihilistic lyrics that wore Biker,” subdued alt-rock in which the band plays in to the rest of the world’s best musical inclina- French group Mano Negra. It could even be his trademark husk down to a Midwestern more as filler than proud members of a legend- tions and/or caught wind of Chao’s genre- and called great when lined up with the majority of tornado. ary ensemble. language-blending “multi-kulti” aesthetic — do 2007s crop. Twenty-five years later, the Boss serves up Magic has all the ingredients for raw not start here. And maybe, if yours are ears not yet sea- Magic, his second single-word title — and it’s Springsteen gold, but that key element — a Instead, pick up a copy of Dimanche á soned to his feathery rhythms and warm melo- how Nebraska might’ve sounded had he perme- long-lost magic — is still missing, as each track Bamako by Malian blind couple Amadou & dies and gentle Spanish politics, you won’t even ated the gloom with a little E-Street sunshine via drops off the radar like a burned-out caddy. It’s Mariam, with full production and contribu- need to forgive dear, aging Manu a few recycled 2002’s The Rising, with as much range in tempo been a few years since Springsteen ditched the tions by Manu Chao. hooks and sound bytes. as 1980’s The River. amp for folkie flannel and a guitar-as-shotgun Or any of a decade’s worth of albums by But to those ears, bodies and minds that At most, Magic is a series of finely crafted stance, so maybe the strings are a bit stiff — and early-’90s Ukranian-American band Gogol worshipped those same hooks and sound bytes pop songs fit for radio play, from rip-roaring hey, he may not be rocking like the good ol’ Bordello, who opened a few Manu Chao shows for years (the last six without any new stu- opener “Radio Nowhere” to the politically laced days, but at least he’s giving a wholehearted stab earlier this year with their Negra-derived “gypsy dio material to wrap around), La Radiolina “Last To Die.” They’re carefully penned, but it’s at the present. punk.” is the anticlimax of a lifetime, dominated by sleep-stuff from the man who single-handedly Bruce Springsteen performs live Oct. 29 and Or, honestly, anything else the man lesser variations on songs we’ve already loved resurrected the soul of rock ‘n’ roll — gone are 30 at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. has touched. But at the top of the list, put to death. the starry-eyed tales Springsteen told to his Clandestino (1998), Casa Babylon (1994) and rabble-rousing fanbase, the freewheelin’ rock- — Chris Mertan tickets to a live show before he turns 50 in — Jessie Godfrey outs that made us want to kiss our gals and Associate Hiatus Editor 2011. Senior Staff Writer 12 HIATUS THE UCSD GUARDIAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2007 From Novella to Tedious Shanghai Close-Up ▶ LUST, from page 11 love story a la “Pearl Harbor,” the film throws us into an interpersonal loop of uninhibited passion and twisted affection. As Wang lures Yee closer MOTIONS OF A CITY to her body and mind, both characters become entangled in a web of love and hate. Lee uses disturbingly violent sex scenes to demonstrate the frustration between the two lov- vident from its opening scene — four women playing ers as they tear each other apart emotionally. As an intense and subtly violent game of mahjong — “Lust, in Nagisa Oshima’s “In the Realm of the Senses,” E Caution” is a film grounded in tension. This tension clothes are ripped in a lustful rage almost pal- unfolds in the streets and back alleys of Shanghai, one which pable in the characters’ eyes. Lee’s film is swept up arises from politics but is later articulated through sexuality and stolen by Wang and Yee as their relationship and, finally, love. Like its story, the city contains enough con- drives the plot forward, the war taking a backseat flict and friction to be epic on its own. to steamy intrigue. Ang Lee casts a fine light on the historic conditions that At times, however, Lee slows up the pace to gave birth to this port city (literally: “on the sea”). The Japanese meander through the lives of the other characters invasion, featured prominently, and the western occupation that remain, for the most part, white noise. Aside (revealed but not discussed) are mere backdrops to the erotic from Wang and Yee, other insurgents, like Kuang trysts. Yu Min (Lee-Hom Wang) and Old Yu (Chung Yet to view mid-century Shanghai under Lee’s detailed Hua Tou) fade into the background without mak- cinematography is reason enough for Sundance gold — from ing much of an impression. It’s almost as if Lee is broad shots of tree-lined French Concession avenues to trying to slow the roll of the film to simply peruse faithful portrayals of Shanghai life (eternal rain). At times, a twirl of cigarette smoke or capture the vivid red the film loses itself to these details: steaming soups cupped of Wang’s lips — perhaps to legitimize his scenes in porcelain, flights of mahogany stairs, the shine of lucky of vicious hate-making. mahjong tiles. But “Lust” keeps the story intact as it jumps Lee is Dicksonian in his capturing of Shanghai, neither from the lovers’ first meeting to their “serendipi- neglecting the terrifically poor, whose daily ration of rice is tous” encounter five years later. Where the plot marked on their fingers in ink, nor shying from the outra- lags in places, it makes up for with hand-held geously wealthy, who banter over five-carrot diamonds like un images of lust and the constant emotional mys- dessert, and who loan cars like cardigans. In “Lust,” we follow d•f tery between Wang and her mark. She is the pic- not only the motions between two lovers, but also the motions oo ture of elusive beauty, her body language all but of a city. And in the words of Salman Rushdie: with motion, f nonexistent in the wake of such a heart-stopping comes friction. • gaze — in fact, every other scene sees her ignite — Jia Gu music emotional turmoil all in the bat of eye. Associate Hiatus Editor The only faults of “Lust” might be found in the indulgent lengths to which Lee takes his sexual zeal and the amount of time he takes to get to the �� point. Like “Brokeback Mountain,” Lee’s newest is �� based on a short story, this time by Eileen Chang. �� Both take a simple tale of complicated affection and stretch it almost to the breaking point of pace — some two and half hours later. But moments of remarkable poignancy recline in even the most lethargic of scenes. Like the final clip, which features a simple play of shadows across a rumpled bedsheet, leaving the lasting breath of artistic awe that has lifted Lee to his revered reputation. COURTESY OF FOCUS FEATURES

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COURTESY OF SDSU ART GALLERY Top: Forkscrew Graphics, “iRaq” USA, 2004. Above: Art Chantry, “Penis Cop,” USA, 1993. 14 HIATUS THE UCSD GUARDIAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2007 Alt-Rock Mainstay Unplugs to Take Penn’s Filmic Opus ‘Into the Wild’

COURTESY OF PARAMOUNT VANTAGE “Into the Wild” star Emile Hirsch plays Chris McCandless, a troubled graduate who meets father-figure Kirk on his way up to Alaska.

▶ WILD, from page 10 refuge in an abandoned schoolbus — unaware year fight to acquire the rights to the book and of nature’s impartiality — and begins con- the consent of the McCandless famiy, Penn’s structing the isolated utopia that will ultimately pet-project endurance has paid off: His film seal his fate. Cinematographer Eric Gautier finds every shade of unintentional beauty in captures the isolating vastness of McCandless’ the young traveler’s quest for enlightenment, space, alternating panoramas and close-ups to a worthy extension of the rugged individual- the husky acoustics of Eddie Vedder, whose ism preached by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jack songs transform stunning images of nature into London and others of the “Walden” tradition. a philosophical manifesto. It all peaks when Along a swirling string of adventures, young Hirsch has ultimately faded from fresh-faced talent Emile Hirsch — so spotless in his Oscar- idealist to rag-and-bones survivor during the warranting embodiment of the wide-eyed trav- last moments of life. At that point, Penn’s cut- eler that he is almost not worth identifying throat direction and the actor’s remarkable craft as anyone other than McCandless, — takes unveil a stark and painful reality: the logistics of up with an on-the-rocks hippie couple (Brian literally starving to death. Dierker and the matriarchal Catherine Keener), Although some moments are laid on a little finds work with a grizzled Dakota farmer (the thick — and despite the fact that Penn has brutally realistic Vince Vaughn), ends up on Los never met a montage he didn’t like (how else to Angeles’ skid row and, in the most moving of his compact a film whose first cut was supposedly episodes, creates a father-son bond with a wilted five hours?) — “Into the Wild” is a perspec- veteran (Hal Holbrook). The boy is able to form tive-jolter for we soon-to-be graduates who the kind of family on the road that he never had still dream of being the wealthiest man on the back home, his blood relations glimpsed only block. Some may argue the film glorifies an through a sister’s narration and old Super-8 unprepared idiot, but to reduce him to such is images of his folks (William Hurt, Marcia Gay to misunderstand McCandless’ purpose. Sure, Harden). But they’re suburbanite monstrosities his quest to become a sort of self-sufficient of a consumer culture that McCandless wants monk did ultimately cause his demise, but this nothing to do with. Ahead lies only Alaska, his outcome can only negate his living intentions promised land. as much as any human end. His death makes Penn expertly contrasts these journeys with his path no different than ours — except that a now 24-year-old McCandless in the Alaskan his, a chosen flight through fire and ice, is a wilderness, at adventure’s end, where he finds resounding testament to an extraordinary will.

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he grand tradition of artist/film pair-ups (most famously, Simon & Garfunkel/ T “The Graduate”) is an intimate method of storytelling that almost gives its musicians a supporting role. Now, eager “Into the Wild” writer/director Sean Penn recruits Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder to carry one troubled American rebel across purple mountain and fruited plain, with nothing but some rusty strings and soul-searching poetics to guide Vedder now wears the weight of 21st-century him. know-better. His stadium yowl slows to a Though it’s a dark little treasure, Penn’s weathered sigh (with the exception of Indio film is highly simplistic and naive — not cover “Hard Sun,” on which he feels he must necessarily to a fault, considering this is the out-belt featured girl power Corinn Tucker, very spirit that drives its protagonist to his of Sleater-Kinney), leaning more toward deathbed. What better voice, then, to power Leonard Cohen’s careful love-of-words than the film’s every becoming-a-man-in-the-’90s Nickelback’s nostril-flared hangover babble montage, than Vedder, the hands-down lead- — undoubtedly of Pearl Jam inspiration. er of the post-grunge, alterna-radio pack? Of course, nothing scores the Alaskan “Society, crazy indeed!” he crows on “Society,” outback better than silence, and the few stocked with sentiments as literal as the tipsy scenes that hold out on song certainly crawl bar-scene monologue it tributes. Penn may deepest into our psyche. But in fleshing out be a creative genius, but he doesn’t let that get the post-college angst of a regular kid driven in the way of his most humble fascination: to desperate measures by the Man — and the cliche condition of the outsider. providing the ultimate advertising jangle for But Vedder is not the same older-brother our nation’s eclectic terrain — Vedder serves figure that soundtracked our generation’s as just the right token of nostalgia and fleet- awkward stage. Unplugged, Penn-tousled ing youth. Now, with banjo. and distracted enough by this new sense of purpose to lose the Creed intonation — Simone Wilson that has come to parody the alt-rock boom, Hiatus Editor HOT CORNER 15 Blake Meister Men’s Tennis CONTACT THE EDITOR Meister and fellow senior Eric Rubens worked Rael Enteen over Hawaii Pacific University’s Hendrick Bode [email protected] and Nikola Petrov, capturing the ITA West SPORTS Region Doubles title on Sept. 27 to Sept. 29. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2007 Tennis Tames ITA Tourney Tritons Look to UCSD men’s tennis team takes the ITA West Maintain Streaks Region Doubles Women’s tennis starts Tradition of Excellence Championship in season- the season with four opening tournament. Head coach Liz LaPlante continues to straight CCAA titles and lead her women’s tennis team to success year after year, compiling four By Neil Joshi 40 straight wins in consecutive division titles and fourty Contributing Writer conference play. straight wins in conference. Season CCAA Record Result Fresh off its most successful sea- NCAA son ever, the men’s tennis team is By Neil Joshi 2006-07 10-0 Second Round Contributing Writer NCAA confident that it has the talent in 2005-06 10-0 Second Round place to make a run at another 2004-05 10-0 NCAA Final Four showing this year. In The UCSD women’s tennis team has Elite Eight 2003-04 10-0 NCAA the season-opening Intercollegiate a new look this year, with head coach Second Round Tennis Associate Western Regional Liz LaPlante welcoming seven fresh- Championship, held from Sept. 27 men into the mix. The Tritons hope to threat will be instrumental in fulfill- to Sept. 29, the Tritons started a reclaim their spot atop the California ing the Tritons’ hopes of reaching the potential title-winning season in Collegiate Athletic Association, which NCAA tournament this year. style, capturing the doubles tourna- is an attainable goal as LaPlante has Joining her will be two fellow first- ment and fielding the runner-up in guided UCSD to four consecutive divi- teamers, senior Justine Ang Fonte and the singles competition. sion titles and an impressive 40 straight sophomore Pooja Desai. Desai was UCSD’s leading doubles team, wins in conference. named Freshman of the Year and was seniors Eric Rubens and Blake In addition to the win streak, UCSD the only newcomer to make First-Team Meister, took the doubles crown made the CCAA All-Conference selec- All Conference. It’s easy to make the with an exciting 9-8 victory over tions its own personal trophy case. first-team when you put up the kind of the Hawaii Pacific University duo LaPlante, who has been the head coach results Pooja did last year: As a singles of Hendrick Bode and Nikola at UCSD for 28 years, took home Coach player she was undefeated, going 6-0 Petrov. The championship match of the Year — her fourth — and fielded as the No. 4-ranked singles player and ended with a tiebreaker, when the a stacked team that had four of the nine then 3-0 at No. 3. LaPlante expects score reached 8-8. That’s when the All-Conference First Team selections. more of the same this year. Rubens/Meister duo, which capital- Three of those women returned this Veterans of the women’s tennis team ized on a break of serve at 8-7 to season, with junior Ina Dan leading the will be joined by an eclectic group of force the tiebreak, clinched the vic- way as UCSD’s top returnee. Dan had freshmen, who come to the program SANH LUONG/GUARDIAN FILE tory with a 7-4 scoreline. a memorable 2006-07 season, tying for pressured to sustain the excellence that In addition to his impressive doubles showing on Sept. 29, senior Eric Rubens had a strong the team lead with 14 wins in singles, their predecessors have achieved in Meister was quick to note that performance in singles’ competition, reaching the semifinals of the ITA tournament on Sept. 28. the eight-game pro set format of the and leading the team with 15 wins recent years. doubles tournament is difficult to in doubles. Her versatility as a dual LaPlante is confident that UCSD adjust to, since it differs from the We set a high standard with our can preserve its status as a juggernaut in singles’ format. the CCAA, even with all the newcom- “There’s no room for error in ers. LaPlante called this incoming class a pro set,” he said. “It’s impor- school-record performance last “ the strongest group of players I’ve ever tant to jump on opponents early. had all come at the same time.” Experience in these close matches season, but our goal now is to According to LaPlante, it is the will help us down the line.” team’s combination of talent and depth The win sends the teammates to the win it all.” that helps it excel. Wilson ITA National Championship — Kazumi Negishi, junior “All of them will impact the team,” in Mobile, Ala. where they will be she said. “There will be fierce com- part of an eight-team tournament “ petition, which will make it tough featuring regional champions from year’s Final Four team, the Tritons are Junior Kazumi Negishi thinks to determine who will be the top around the country. The tournament looking for some new faces to make that he is prepared to make a lasting eight.” runs from Oct. 11 through Oct. 14. an impact. Undoubtedly, sophomore impression as well, and is confident Despite all the Tritons’ talent, Head coach Eric Steidlmayer Bijan Moallemi looks primed for a that the team can build off of its past UCSD failed to earn a semifinalist expects the two to lead the team once huge season as one of UCSD’s best triumphs to win a championship. slot in the Intercollegiate Tennis again. singles players. “We set a high standard with our Association Western Regional “Right now we have to expect our Moallemi received a special school-record performance last sea- that took place in Pomona upperclassmen to carry us,” he said. entrance as a wild card into the sin- son, but our goal now is to win it all,” on Sept. 27 and Sept. 28, “It is great for our two seniors, ranked gles tournament of the ITA Western Negishi said. “We’re not worried too the team’s first action of the in the top five in Division II last year Regional Championship, and used it much about other teams right now; young season. However, to start out with a win.” to waltz his way to the finals. we’re focused on ourselves.” LaPlante is not concerned. Steidlmayer added that success in Even though Moallemi’s brilliant UCSD’s fall season highlights “We don’t put a whole lot preseason tournaments would give run was halted in the finals by the include the Chandler Cup at UC of significance on the tour- the Tritons confidence as they enter top-seeded Bode, the Del Mar, Calif. Berkeley from Oct. 26 to Oct. 28, nament,” she said. “No one the conference season and the NCAA native sent a message to his team- followed by the Southern California See TENNIS, page 17 D-II championships. mates that he is a force to be reckoned Intercollegiates in Los Angeles from WILL PARSON/GUARDIAN FILE With three starters gone from last with. Oct. 31 to Nov. 4. Junior Ina Dan dominated last year, capturing 14 singles wins and 15 doubles wins. Men’s Golf Lands 10th at Western Washington Invitational campus climate and the program’s Western Washington Invitational Results • Sept. 24 and 25 UCSD tops Golf coaches and facilities. DAY ONE DAY TWO DAY THREE TOTAL PAR Digest’s Division UCSD ranked first in academics among D-II schools, first in climate 1) BRITISH COLUMBIA 277 279 287 843 - 21 II rankings but has among all schools and in the top 10 mediocre showing in percent for coaches and facilities 10) UCSD 301 299 301 901 + 37 among all schools. season opener. “These rankings mean a lot,” NCAA regionals every year since. that has kept last year’s roster intact. Bellingham Golf and Country Club. junior Nathan Phan said. “It really The rankings are based on things He said that the team is better pre- The 14-team field played two rounds By Matt Croskey gives us a sense of pride to play for you can’t control but are a pretty pared than ever, because the return- Sept. 24 and followed up the 36-hole Staff Writer UCSD. We still want to play consis- good cross section of what makes ing juniors are all consistent con- day with a final 18 on Sept. 25. tently and improve, and the rank- any program good.” tributors and drive others to play Juniors Phan, Olsen, Ryan Bailey, In its annual rankings of the ings will go up if we do that.” The Triton men are coming off better. With so much returning tal- Noah Moss and freshman Bryan nation’s top 792 golf programs, Golf Entering his 29th season at the a sixth-place finish in last year’s ent, it appears the Tritons are poised Olshock made the plane trip for the Digest has billed the UCSD men’s helm, head coach Mike Wydra has NCAA D-II Northwest/West Super to make a run at the NCAA Team Tritons. golf program as the best in Division seen UCSD’s golf program emerge Regional, where Nathan Phan fin- Championships in what would be “[The Invitational] was weird II, and No. 32 across all three col- from obscurity to national recogni- ished in ninth place, just missing a their first appearance since 2003- because it happened before school legiate divisions. tion. bid for NCAA Championships as an 04. started,” Phan said. “We hadn’t had The rankings were printed in “When I was first hired we individual. “It isn’t out of reach,” junior Billy any team practices yet so we just Golf Digest’s September issue as played dual matches against one “I was disappointed, but I wasn’t Olsen said. “We have a solid team showed up at the airport and flew to a guide for aspiring high school other team,” Wydra said. “As we got thinking about making it as an indi- coming back and we have the expe- Washington. We were a little rusty students. Considered factors were farther and farther along, we played vidual,” Phan said. “I just wanted to rience.” after not playing in tournaments in whether a team improved or in a few tournaments a year and play solid for the team, and making That campaign began Sept. 24 awhile.” declined last season, the previous started having post-season success. it as an individual would’ve been a to Sept. 25 in Bellingham, Wash., After day one, Phan led UCSD season’s scoring average, percentage We made the move to Division II bonus.” where UCSD teed off at the Western rate of change, campus academics, in 2000 and have made it to the Phan is part of a UCSD squad Washington Invitational at the See GOLF, page 17 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2007 THE UCSD GUARDIAN SPORTS 17 Junior Dan Leads UCSD Into CCAA Games Men’s Golf Tees Off

▶ TENNIS, from page 15 is ever playing their best tennis at the Next At Sonoma State beginning of the season.” ▶ GOLF, from page 15 Part of the reason for the Tritons’ of 600 placed the Tritons in 10th with a 71-77, four-over total of 148, struggles was a foot injury Desai suf- with some serious play needed to earning him a tie for 22nd in the fered just days before the tournament. catch leader University of British tournament. Bailey supplemented Desai won her first match in the singles Columbia at 556. Phan with rounds of 74-76 for a tournament over Kaitlin Woodridge UCSD posted a team total 301 in six-over 150. of Cal Poly Pomona, 7-5, 6-2, but the final round, leaving the Tritons The challenge of collegiate golf is had to retire in the 16th round. The in the same spot they started at the that there are two winners: an indi- injury ultimately forced her to default beginning of the day. vidual and a team. A typical tour- both her singles and doubles matches. Phan again led the Tritons, card- nament consists Desai’s doubles partner was Dan; the ing a two-over of 54 holes with duo would have made a run if Desai par 74 for a three- each team bring- had been healthy. round total 222 ing five play- The women of the tennis team and a 27th place ers. Each player will return to the courts for the UC In golf, it’s such an finish. Phan fin- competes indi- Irvine Invitational, set to take place ished four strokes vidually, carding on Nov. 10 and Nov. 11. That tour- individual sport that ahead of team- his own score. nament will conclude the fall season mate Bailey, who The team score for the Triton team; the spring sea- you have to play your shot a closing comprises four son starts on Feb. 2 when UCSD hits round four-over of the school’s game as if there is no the road to face the Azusa Pacific 76 for a 226 over- top five, ulti- University Cougars, a team that all. mately cumu- one anywehere near defeated the Tritons in the season Olsen finished lating into one“ tied for 42nd at opener last year. UCSD will look you. It’s important total. As always to avenge that defeat and start its 227, and Moss fin- is the case in season on the right foot this year. if you hear your ished tied for 59th WILL PARSON/GUARDIAN FILE golf, the low- at 234. In his inau- Alumni Day for both the men’s and Junior Ina Dan, who had a spectacular sophomore season, is now one of the veterans on est score wins. women’s teams is Oct. 20. the women’s tennis team, which is trying for a fifth straight undefeated conference record. teammates are doing gural collegiate But the team- event, Olshock play aspect of well because it boosts placed 50th with golf is different score of 230. from any other you.” “It’s really easy www.ucsdguardian.org sport, as Wydra — Mike Wydra, in golf to get down explains. Head Coach on yourself when “What hap- you’re not playing Visit our Web site to: pens in many well,” Olsen said. other sports is your performance “But we have 10 guys on the team - Read stories from last issue depends on how well others around this year and each one is support- you perform,” he said. “In golf, it’s ing one another and helping each - Apply for a job at the Guardian such an individual sport that you other’s swing. We didn’t play that - Vote in our Web poll have to play your game as if there great, but it’s still a long season.” is no one anywhere near you. It’s The long season continues as - Leave story comments for writers important if you hear your team- UCSD will finish out its fall play mates are doing well because it with two more tournaments. First - Access story archives boosts you, but if you hear they’re up is the Sonoma State Invitational doing poorly, you’re an individual so on Oct. 22 and Oct. 23 in Santa - Check out classified ads it doesn’t make you play poorly.” Rosa, Calif. Then the team will trav- - Read exclusive Web stories Despite the independence of el to Hawaii to play in the Mauna each player, the Tritons had a col- Lani Invitational from Oct. 29 to lectively rusty day one: A team total Oct. 30.

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