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DID IT HURT? YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN? PAGE 16 VOLUME XLII, ISSUE XXXV MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG >/,530),9;0,:*6330+, Affirmative +IUX][:MIK\[\W:IKQIT;T]Z Action Under ▶ .7+=; ▶ -,1<7:1)4 New Review By Angela Chen News Editor ,QITWO]M Low minority representation at UC Two words aired on campuses motivates one organization Student-Run Television ;PW]TL*M to file a lawsuit against Prop. 209. Thursday night brought UCSD into the national -VIJTML By Hayley Bisceglia-Martin spotlight — and into yet News Editor another campus free- 6W\.ZWbMV speech debate. After Kris Fourteen years after Prop.osition 209 banned Gregorian, editor in chief i Kappa Alpha and the affirmative action in California in 1996, a pri- of humor newspaper the less publicized frater- Koala, marily student-based coalition called “By Any said that protestors nities responsible for Means Necessary” is filing a class-action lawsuit of last week’s controversial P the “Compton Cookout” are — which names Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger “Compton Cookout” party breathing a deep sigh of relief and UC President Mark Yudof as defendants — were “ungrateful niggers” right now, because — just in to overturn Prop. 209 and reinstate affirmative on Channel 18, the Black the nick of time — the Koala action in California’s public schools. Student Union declared a has dependably swooped in to The lawsuit, filed on Feb. 16, argues that Prop. “State of Emergency” and WEB POLL steal the spotlight. 209 is unconstitutional, as it violates students’ issued a six-page list of NO YES All anger directed toward 14th Amendment rights by mandating separate demands to the university. DO YOU the Feb. 15 Black History THINK THE and unequal procedures for minority students. In response to the out- Month-mocking frat party was The legal brief states that Prop.. 209 was “specifi- rage — expressed principal- STUDENTS RESPONSIBLE quickly shifted to the campus cally intended to decrease or hold down Latina/o, ly by the black population at FOR THE humor newspaper everyone black and Native-American enrollment.” UCSD, or about 1.3 percent COMPTON 49% lloves to hate on Thursday “We can’t allow the separate and unequal con- 47% I of 22,000 undergraduates — COOKOUT nnight, when Koala Editor in ditions that are not only continuing in California, A.S. President Utsav Gupta SHOULD BE DON’T CChief Kris Gregorian dropped but which are legally in place, and legally codi- immediately shut down PUNISHED? KNOW fied with Prop.osition 209,” Northern California SRTV. Then, on Friday OUT OF See MEDIApage 4 Coordinator of BAMN Yvette Felarca said. 117 VOTES 4% afternoon, he unexpectedly If successful, the lawsuit would allow public decided to freeze all student schools — like the University of California — to fees toward media organiza- reinstate affirmative action. It would not, however, tions. guarantee any university action. According to Party Foul See 209page 7 The Feb. 15 Cookout was a racially themed STATE UC fraternity party widely con- OF CA SYSTEM UCSD demned by the BSU and the Student Affirmative Action Committee, along with Whites 42.3% 33% 26% Chancellor Marye Anne Fox and Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Penny Rue. Asians 12.5% 38% 44% According to ABC 10 News, the party was held at the home of Pi Kappa Latinos 36.6% 16% 13% Alpha member Elliot Van Nostrand, who was also responsible for creating the Blacks 6.7% 3% 2% See COOKOUTpage 3 PHOTOS BY KEVIN WU/GUARDIAN :<5.6+ BEST OF THE MIDWEST A punk-hop P.O.S. +WTTMOM-^MV\[?QTT concert at the Loft on Feb. 20 was opened by Minne- apolis-based rapper 8ZMT]LM5IQV;PW_ Dessa with soulful spoken word. Dessa By Janani Sridharan Chirco, although the A.S. Council has was followed by MC Senior Staff Writer been working with the college councils Grieves on the mic, since Fall Quarter, details of the col- backed by Budo In an effort to bring an all-campus laboration are still being ironed out. on the turntables. feel to the annual Sun God Festival, “It has been brought up to our coun- Associate Vice President of A.S. Concerts cil at the Council of Chairs meetings, When P.O.S. took and Events Alex Bramwell announced and we are discussing the practicalities the stage around 11 plans to fund daytime events at each of of it,” Chirco said. “What we know is p.m., Grieves and UCSD’s six colleges at an open forum that [the A.S. Council] is going to match Dessa came back held on Feb. 18. us up to $500. So basically, if we spend out to perform the According to Eleanor Roosevelt track “Low Light College Council President Brandon See SUN GODpage 7 ERIC WANG/GUARDIAN Low Life.” :762,5 -69,*(:; 50./;>(;*/ :<9-9,769; .(:7,9.(3365 05:0+, LOW It’s always harder to MONDAY TUESDAY *VTPJZ Height: 0-3 ft. Height: 0-4 ft. $2.68 3PNO[ZHUK:PYLUZ MONDAY TUESDAY Wind: 8-13 mph Wind: 5-8 mph Costco, Chula Vista stay on the top than H 59 L 44 H 69 L 46 MONDAY TUESDAY Water Temp: 61 F Water Temp: 61 F 895 East H St. near Tierra del Rey ([>P[»Z,UK to get there." 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L_WYLZZLKOLYLPUKVUV[ULJLZZHYPS`YLWYLZLU[[OLVWPU PVUZVM[OL<*:+.\HYKPHU[OL<UP]LYZP[`VM*HSPMVYUPH ally be able stimulate the growth of zebrafish might Now that scientists have identified VY (ZZVJPH[LK :[\KLU[Z ;OL <*:+ .\HYKPHU PZ M\UKLK a sick patient’s own stem cells, then be good cell providers the area where HSCs are produced, ZVSLS`I`HK]LY[PZPUN>O``V\Z[LWWPUNPU[OLZHSZH& .LULYHS,KP[VYPHS! re-direct them to the area where they because they have proven they can begin trying to produce [email protected] are needed — such as the bone mar- to be a standard test model them independently of a donor. 5L^[email protected] row. This would greatly decrease the for other vertebrates, including Patients with blood or bone-marrow -VJ\[email protected] /PH[\[email protected] chances of infection or graft-versus- humans. The zebrafish embryo is also diseases — like cancer or leukemia [email protected] :WVY[[email protected] host disease, in which the donor cells more accessible in its developmental external in fish.” — would undergo a transplant with 7OV[[email protected] reject or attack the body. stages than the traditional lab rat. The cells — more specifically HSCs that are already compatible (K]LY[PZPUN! The research team that discov- “[The formation of blood cells] known as hematopoietic stem cells with their immune systems. [email protected] ered the location was headed by has been thoroughly described in (HSCs) — have the ability to gener- Because the zebrafish embryo is -H_! assistant professor of biology David the mouse embryo, but since mouse ate many types of cells.