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TrI’Countles comes to campus Tuesday : ...... Cal Poly has ■k , *1#' ... ..ir-« $1B economic impact on SLO Study finds that university contributes more than 11 percent to county’s entire $9.4 billion GDP
Nicole Angeloni MUSTANG DAILY
C'al Boly has a $1.12 billion impact on San Luis Obispo County, according to the latest edi tion of the economic impact study dtiiie by the C^rfalea College of Business. Last summer, professor and chair of finance for the OCX3B Kenneth
Reiner and business senior Robert COURTESY PHOTO Rendler conducted the survey as Chair of finance Kenneth Reiner
MATT WECHTER MUSTANG DAILY part of Rendler’s senior project. speaks about the impact. A student diverts her attention by squeezing a toy penguin whiie giving biood on campus. This is the sixth edition of the study. studies and figuring it in there. “We came out with this data There was still a big increase in right after Mardi Ciras,” Reiner impact this time around.” said. “So it was pretty good timing The overall impact of Cal Poly in Opositive supply low to remind the community that Cal San Luis Obispo County represents Poly does have a positive impact.” more than 11 percent of the entire Kendrick J. Carson us behind because it is the most needed." The study examines the impact $9.4 billion gross domestic product MUSTANG DAILY According to the Tri-Counties Blood Bank, Cal Poly has on the local economy, of San Luis Obispo County, accord the increase in hospital usage means that an extra ing to the study. This means that of Cal Poly was reccMitly given an award from the such as the university payroll, uni day’s worth of blood must be collected each every $9 spent in the county, more Tri-Counties Blood Bank, commending the uni versity purchases, student spending, month to keep up with the demand. Hospitals than $1 can be directly traced back versity’s outstanding community service after retired faculty and staff spending, must average 150 units of blood per day to keep to Cal Poly. donating 850 units of blood during 2003.pace with the Central Coast. Though hospitals visitor spending, local capital “It was also interesting to discov However, the blood hank has said this year they are have experienced a 5 percent increase in products expenditures, the increased earning er that Cal Poly has a larger eco e.xtremely low on the type O-positive supply. and supply, it is not enough to combat the esca power of local Cal Poly graduates Local hospitals are experiencing an increasedlating need. and other categories. Reiner andnomic impact than Diablo Canyon, demand for blood due to the population growth. “We would love to see regulars bring in a friend Rendler also factored in the impact which has a $640 million econom The recent climb in overall population and its or relative to donate,” Kleman said. “Also, it would of the many visitors the university ic impact,” Reiner said. density in the area have caused an increase in thebe great if people would give blood twice a year draws to the area. Employment at Cal Poly also local hospital’s blood usage and resulted in a short instead of only once. Everyone can do little things “In this edition, we also took greatly influences the economy in age of type-O positive blood. to help out in the big picture.” into consideration impacts like San Luis Obispo County. The uni “O-positive blood is the most common type out At the beginning of this month, the O-positive retired staff and faculty spending,”versity creates about 10,5(K) jobs, there,’’Tri-Counties Blood Bank communications blood level entered its seventh week at a critical Rendler said. “But we accounted which is estimated to be 10 percent relations employee Mona Kleman said. “It has put see Blood, page 2 for that by going back to other see Impact, page 2 Hundreds meet in San Randsco to create supercomputer Experiment organized to build a machine with the same hundreds of millions of dollars. some lugging their monitor-less houses three full-size basketball capabilities as some government, corporate computers “Flashmob is about democratizing desktops in wheeled suitcases. courts. While the event didn’t attract supercomputing,” said John Witchel, Volunteers included programmers, as many volunteers as expected, the Terence Chea University of San Francisco who a USF graduate student who code self-described “computer geeks,” university and some private compa ASSOCIATED PRESS wanted to see whether a gymnasium veloped the concept. “It’s about giv teenagers, college students andnies helped pick up the slack by full of off-the-shelf personal comput ing supercomputing power to the researchers curious whether flash lending their computers. SAN FRANCISCO — ers could muster enough power to people so that we can decide how we mob supercomputing could be used Organizers had hoped to break into Hundreds of technophiles wiredprocess the most complex research want supercomputers to be used.” for their own projects. the ranks of the world’s top 500 super together their laptops and desktops problems. Saturday’s event, known as “I just want to be part of history,” computers by generating more than recently and succeeded in their grass Supercomputers perform highly “FlashMob I,” was designed to mea said Glenn Montano, a USF senior500 gigaflops of power. A powerful PC roots bid to create a computing sophisticated functioas such as predict sure how much computing power majoring in computer science. can generate about half a gigaflop.The force on par with the world’s most ing weather patterns, modeling biolt^- hundreds of networked computers When the experiment began top spot is held by Japan’s Earth powerful computers. ical processes or animating movies. could generate, rather than to tackle three hours later, organizers said 660 Simulator, used to simulate weather The Saturday experiment in Most are run by government labs or a specific task. desktop or laptop computers had patterns with about 35,(KX) gigaflops. “Flashmob Supercomputing” was big corporatioas because they’re so Participants began trickling into been connected by thick bundles of Saturday’s flashmob managed to organized by researchers at the expeasive — running from millions to USF’s Koret Gym around 8 a.m., wires throughout the gym, which see Computer, page 2
Carrey shines in Kaufman movie W I \ I M I It It I I’« > K I ‘Eternal Sunshine’ is fragile, provocative comedy T o d a y ^ Tld*i IN ARTS & CULTURE, page 5 Mostly Sunny 64 High 4.7 at 10:47 a.m. Sun, sandals and spring Low 0.5 at 4:40 p.m. TXj e s d a y SUNRISE 6:43 A.M. Classes no longer focus o f Cal Poly students Partly Cloudy 6 6 SUNSET 7:28 P.M. IN OPINION, page 4 NEWS 2 Monday, April 5,2004
No, it wasn’t just an April ple hats or spinning in circles — Fools’ Day joke. Computer then quickly disperse, leaving continued from page 1 Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain Mustang Daily’s new look, bystanders scratching their heads. implemented Thursday, is a com generate 1 SO gigaflops — an impres To create their supercomputer, plete revamp in the design and sive amount of power, but not Flashmob volunteers booted up did more than entertain orgafiization of the paper’s identity. enough to make the Top 500 list. Linux open-source softw'are that The redesign was the senior Still, organizers said they were connected their PCs to a high-speed Gene Johnson “Music at that point was so pre project of art and design senior thrilled with the results, which vali network and formed a single com ASSOCIATED PRESS fabricated, so fake, so hairspray that Brooke Finan and graphic com dated the concept of flashmob puting system.The software, designed Nirvana was really a breath of fresh ABERDEEN, Wa.sh. — Beneath munication graduate Lisa Arias. supercomputing. by USF researchers, runs on each air,” CaTss says. “It was more organic this bridge above the muddy banks Their goal was to add organiza “This proves that this kind of computer’s Cd^-ROM and doesn’t than anything we'd seen in music in of the Wishkah River, a troubled tion and consistency to the lay computing can be competitive with touch its hard drive — so participants years.” young Kurt Cobain would come to out and incorporate a look of computers that cost tens of millions didn’t need to worry about security As his fame soared, though, so did escape his unhappy home and the professionalism and maturity. of dollars,” Witchel said. or viruses, organizers said. his heroin use, in part as a self-treat persistent gray drizzle of the “After working at the Daily for The term “flashmob” comes from Saturday’s event wasn’t the first ment for his chainic stomach pain. Washington coast. tw’o years, 1 wanted to leave with the spontaneous Internet-organizedtime citizens have pooled their com Encouraged by his wife, Courtney Among the cracking concrete more th.in just an appreciation tor gatherings that gained popularity puting power. For example, the Love, who had her own drug prob supports, he would smoke pot and the accomplishments we’ve made last year. During the events, hun SETl (at) home project has created a lems, Cobain checked into detox drink and plot his stardom, bragging v\nth the content of the paper,” dreds of people suddenly appear at virtuala supercomputer, through several times over the next 2 1/2 to friends of his “suicide genes” and said Finan, who is also the produc predetermined location, perform a Internet-connected PCs, to search years. But he always returned to that he would die a young mck star. tion manager of Mustang Daily. wacky stunt — such as wearing pur for signs of extraterrestrial life. heafin, even around the time his It’s here that many of his fans have daughter was born in the summer of come to pay their respects since he 1992. when it is needed. fulfilled that prophesy with a needle Nevertheless, his songwriting Blood “It may seem like a local prob and a shotgun 10 years ago todiiy. Impact remained impressive and became continued from page 1 continued from page 1 lem because we have been critical “Peace, love, empathy,” reads one more polished w’ith Love’s collabo level. The Tri-Counties Blood for two months, but the shortage of all jobs in the county. message scrawled in graffiti under ration, especially on “Heart-shaped Bank is doing everything they canis nationwide. We need everyone The economic impact has the bridge. Box” and other songs for Nirvana’s to help raise the blood supply, to help out,” Kleman said. “The grown by more than 53 percent “Kurt,” says another, “Your spirit third album.“In Utea).” including increasing overall col cold season at the end of last year will bounce on happily.” since the 1992-93 academic year, In January 1994, as Cobain’s lections this year. and beginning of this year hurt the Cobain and his band. Nirvana, even considering Cal Poly’s poli despondency spiraled, he recorded They have reported that the supply because a lot of donors spent only three years in the public cy of slow enrollment growth. his last ga*at song,“You Know You’re current level of O-positive blood have been sick over the past cou eye, and they released only three stu Much of the increase is attrib Right.” It would not be released has depleted to less than a single ple of months.” dio albums. But what he accom uted to additional student fees, until 2002, following a long legal increased research and grant- day’s supply, despite increased col The Tri-Counties Blood Bank plished befba* committing suicide at lections last year. battle between Love and the surviv related activities and increased recently visited Cal Poly for col age 27 — deciding it was “better to Tri-Counties Blood Bank, ing Nirvana membepi, but the song’s donations made by CLil Poly lections. Flowever, due to the con burn out than fade away,” as he which has four offices on the ia>nic couplet “Things have never alumni and friends. stant need of blood, they will be quoted Neil Young in his suicide Cd’iitral Coast, is looking for been so swell/ and 1 h.ive never been visiting campus again soon. They note — was amarkable. “I was really surprised at how more volunteers to support the so well” lent a serious insight into will be in front of Mott Cym Oitics describe 1991’s much of an impact Cal Poly has growing need for blood. In a Cobain’s mind at the time. Tuesday and by building H with a “Nevermind,” which has sold mom on San Luis Obispo,” Kendler press release, they said standard While in Rome a month after barbecue on Thursday. After, they than 10 million copies, as one of the said. “Studies like these are always surgeries could use from one to recording it, he tried to kill himself a work in progress because num will visit the residence halls and be decade’s most important albums. Its 20 units of blood per patient, biggest hit,“Smells Like Teen Spirit,” by taking 60 tranquilizers. The over bers change, but there was a huge a part of Creek Week. depending on the severity of the R'lnains a semin.il expassion of teen dose left him in a coma. increase represented in this edi procedure. Patients who have suf The Tri-C'ounties Blood Bank angst. C'obain bnnight the dark, dri He survived, but in early April he tion." fered m.ijor injuries from a seri has an office in San Luis C'ibispo, ven sound of grunge rkL to the jumped a w.ill at a detox center in For more information on the ous car accident can use 25 to 50 located adjacent to the Sierra Vista nation, helped save the world from Los Angeles and flew back to Seattle. Orfalea C'ollege of Business, or to units. People who need blood Hospital. They are taking new hair metal, and with a single line — On April 5, 1994 — give or take view the economic impact study, transfusions, and their doctors, donations every day and can be “Hea we aa now, entertiin us” — 24 hours — Cobain wrote a suicide go to www.cob.calpoly.edu. also expect to have blood ready reached at 549-0303. captua*d and captivated a generation note, in which he said he couldn’t that had gaiwn boa*d and cynicalstand to think of his daughter about popular music. becoming “the miserable self Cobain buigrapher Cffiarles ('toss destructive, death rocker that I’ve s.iys that when Nirs’ana went to become.” He went into the ga*en- acoal “Nevermind,” they followed house of his mansion, injected him Warrant into the studio — a band self with a massive dose of heaiin, known fi>r big hair, open shirts and put a 20-gauge shotgun against the their “Cherr)' Pie” video. axifof his mouth and fia*d. ATTENTION SUMMER GRADS
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URIAH — A single-engine private plane was WASHINGTON — Despite escalating violence NAJAF, Iraq — Supporters of an anti-American found near the Ukiah airport Sunday morningafter that killed 10 U.S. service members over the week cleric rioted in four Iraqi cities Sunday, battling it crashed next to U.S. Highway 101. end, the Bush administration is sticking with its coalition troops in the worst unrest since the spasm The PA-32K hit the shoulder of the freeway and caught timetable to turn over power in Iraq. of looting and arson immediately after the fall of fire shortly before S:l() a.ni.The pilot is believed to have The chairman of the Senate Foreign Kelations Saddam Hussein. At least 22 Iraqis, eight U.S. troops and died in the crash, said CHP Sgt. Wayne Ziese. Committee Sunday raised the prospect of extending the one Salvadoran soldier died. Federal Aviation Administration officials have not deter Bush administration’s June 30 deadline for turning over Hundreds were wounded as fighting raged m Baghdad, mined whether the crash occurred during landing or after power in Iraq, questioning whether the country would Najaf, Nasiriyah and Amarah. Tanks rolled through the takeoff. be ready for self-rule. Iraqi capital and two Humvees burned in the streets of its • • • • • • eastern Sadr City neighborhood. SAN FRANCISCO — Three bald eagle chicks WASHINGTON — The commission looking Protesters, some dressed all in black or waving green have hatched from their DDT-contaminated eggs at into the Sept. 11 attacks will ask Condoleezza banners, raced toward the fighting in Najaf as heavy gun the San Francisco Zoo and will be returned to the Rice why government anti-terror efforts failed to fire echoed through the city. One man stood on a bridge, wild, a zoo spokeswoman said Sunday. stop the strike and how the Bush administration a rocket-propelled grenade launcher at the ready. The three chicks that hatched last week are from eggs plans to fix the problems,panel members said The riots were ignited by the arrest on Saturday of an that were retrieved from wild nests on Santa Catalina Island Sunday. aide to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. in January, Nancy Chan said. Dummy eggs are substituted “Nineteen men with $350,OOO defeated every single • • • for the real eggs and the eagles continue to incubate and defensive mechanism we had up on the 11th of JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel rotate the eggs, she said. September, 2001, and they defeated it utterly,’’ said for Sharon said his pledge to the United States not to Contamination by DDT, a pesticide banned in 1972, mer Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska. harm Yasser Arafat no longer holds,declaring that the makes the eggs too thin to survive, so the eggs are incubat President Bush’s national security, adviser, in her pub Palestinian leader and the head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah are ed and monitored at the zoo’s Avian Conservation Center lic testimony Thursday, will need to answer how that potential targets for assassination. until they hatch. • • • happened, Kerrey said. In an interview set for broadcast Monday by Israeli • • • SACRAMENTO — Environmentalists who suc Army Radio, Sharon also said for the first time that under cessfully tapped taxpayer money to buy thousands BOSTON — Trying to reverse partisan stereo his plan to leave the Gaza Strip, evacuated Jewish settle of acres of California coastline to stop development types, Democrat John Kerry is launching a cam ments would not be destroyed. • • • are now targeting the Pacific Ocean,with a plan to paign to portray himself as a fiscal conservative, curb human activity by buying boats, fishing permits and comparing his economic strategy with the $6 trillion in MADRID, Spain — The suicide apartment house possibly underwater land. unpaid spending that he says President Bush has pro blast that killed the alleged ringleader o f last The idea is provoking a renewed struggle between some posed over the next 10 years. month’s Madrid train bombings and four other ter of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful environmental For weeks. Bush’s campaign has been saying Kerry ror suspects left the core o f the terror group either groups and California fishermen who fear they gradually would raise taxes $900 billion over 10 years. dead or in jail, Spain’s interior minister said on Sunday. will be booted off the ocean they prowl for recreation and Kerry is striking back with a report to be released Explosives discovered in the building where the five profit. Monday that says the president would increase the killed themselves to avoid capture Saturday night indicat California voters could be pulled into the fight this deficit with his unfunded spending proposals and tax ed they were plotting more violence and were linked to November. cuts. the failed bombing of a high-speed rail line Friday. — Associated Press — Associated Press — Associated Press
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Rock the Vote Concert featuring Additional Information including an Objective Statement & Financial NOFX, AUTHORITY ZERO, JEU O BIAFRA and ALKALINE Saturday, A p ril 10 Analysis, Pro and Con Statements, sample ballot and polling times and 7 p.m. in the Rec Center (doors at $ p jn.) locations is now available on the web, by clicking on the link located on Tickets for both concerts on sale at ail VaHitix locations, vallitix.oom, Cal Poly's home pagewww.calpoly.edu ( ). or (888) 825-5484. CP student price at the Mustang Ticket Office only.
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Commentary humans is tragic. The World Health life is jeopardized. down, one to go Organization’s global smoking sta- According to a study published As smokers took their last legal tistics in 2002 reported that about by the Journal of the American Commentary puff in pubs in the Irish Republic one-third of the world’s male pop- Medical Association in 1998, the last week, controversy ignited across ulation smokes, killing one in 10 respiratory health and lung function Dexter Lawn is once again covered with students worshipping Europe over the importance of adults. of bartenders improved after the sun god. Lucy’s Juice is luring away Julian’s coffee guzzlers, health versus social customs. In the US, cigarettes cause more California enforced the legislation, and students throughout campus are bustling to crash courses that For Californians, the dilemma than one in five deaths. The fiscal A worldwide ban on smoking in will fill their required 12 units to maintain financial aid. seems like a no-brainer. The state impact is enormous; smoking relat- bars is unrealistic today, because That’s right, after two quarters of non-stop schoolwork, we’re enforced a ban on smoking in pubed diseases cost the US more than more imminent issues confront into the home stretch. Spring quarter is finally here and it’s time lic places 10 years ago. Business and $150 billion a year. most nations. to buckle down in one final attempt to do our parents proud life went on. It a mystery before we come face to face with them during summer break. But for some Europeans, taking how people in Who are we kidding? Spring quarter is here, which means we away their smokey bars would rob Europe or else Citizens of Ireland, who hold can all breathe a well-deserved sigh of relief. them of their civil liberties. where in the Europegreatest rate of heart disease, All fall and winter we sat in the library, huddling together in “A ban on smoking in bars andworld will fight realized that you have to be alive in study groups to conserve body heat in the pubs will be met with resistance for a social cus order to have social customs. mild cold of the San Luis Obispo chill. Now because it’s taken root with our cus tom that releases that the sun is out on a consistent basis, toms,” said Francesco Giannini, anmore than 4,000 we’ve exchanged backpacks and books for aerospace engineering senior who toxic or carcinogenic chemicals “Our country has a lot of other beach balls and sandals, and class sizes seem is studying abroad in Italy. “Afterinto the air we all breathe. problems to fix before outlawing meals and sex, people smoke.” to have dwindled, even in the first week. “Obviously smoking was banned smoking in bars,” said Yevgeniy Citizens of Ireland, who hold Who can blame us, really? With the beach in California because the needs of Gisin, an aerospace engineering Europe’s highest rate of heart dis being a mere 10-mile drive, and monotoned the many outweighed the few who senior who grew up in Russia. ease, realized that you have to be M lecturers drilling theorems and definitions smoked,” said Paul Brown, owner of “Smoking is bad for you, but drink alive in order to have social cus M other’s Tavern in San Luis ing is much more of an issue. I I into our brains, the sand and surf serve as a toms. Smoking is a cause of heart nivAiiitii much-needed respite from the daily grind. Obispo. There’s a great difference between disease. The country enforced a ban Despite the statistics, many vodka and nicotine addictions.” yerBITCHIN' Really, when it comes down to noon class or on smoking in bars and pubs andEuropeans stubbornly oppose However, some countries and beach volleyball under the sun at peak sun those who violate the law can face smoking bans in bars. Instead ofstates within the US are making shine hours, we know you’ll choose the feel a fine up to more than $3,000. completely banning smoking, some progress. For a country where a pint of sand between your toes. Unless, of course, “Health and quality of life issues encourage pubs, hotels and restau of beer and a cigarette with a friend you are a dedicated student (and we are not are important to people in their rants to introduce smoke-free zones in a bar is a national pastime, Ireland sure if those even exist — at least in the place of work,” said Irish Prime according to customer’s wishes sacrificed an indulgence for the College of Liberal Arts). Minister Bertie Ahern on CNN. rather than enforce legislation. well-being of many. So what shall we do while we skip our so- About 25 percent of the Irish The logic of bar smokers might Hopefully, the rest of the world called required courses? smoke and there are about 7,000 also hold that a person won’t die will follow. That’s an easy one. Like we mentioned before, soak up the sun tobacco-related deaths each year infrom a being in a smokey bar for a at Ihsmo or Avila. If you’re feeling ambitious, you can make your Ireland, the BBC reported. night. But the health of bartenders Carrie McGourty is a journalism junior way to the glorious Montana de Oro. If you’re not enjoying the The global effect of smoking on who work in a pub for their whole and Mustang Daily staff writer. outdoorsy feel, stay home and follow the Major League Baseball season from the start. Speaking of which, it’s a shame we have to wait until th^ Giants play the Dodgers or the Braves to watch our beloved team on San Luis Obispo TV stations.This town is about Letters to the EcJitor 30 miles closer to Los Angeles than San Francisco, but must all the Ciiants fans suffer because of a few measly miles? This could be a Founder’s Tree shows extend the road without incurring purpose of the tour is “to form a unit whole other article. age and growth this loss. ed front in opposition to the danger Back to the springtime. ous, deadly and destructive policies of Cal Poly’s recent decision to destroy There is more to this magnificent time of year than getting Terrence Murphey Is an architecture George Bush Jr,” the 98-year-old Founders Tree insenior. half-naked by the pool, contrary to what you may have read in the (wrww.punkvoter.com). order to extend Highland Drive J-Spot. Spring is the last time of the year to catch up with friends As much as 1 would like to see the and solidify relationships before we all part ways for the long- (Tribune, “A new way through” The politics behind bands play, I am not going because it is March 30) is shortsighted. awaited summer. Some will stay here, some will go home and the Punkvoter Tour in blatant opposition of what I believe some will accept that coveted internship in the heart of Nebraska. While extending Highland, will is right. I just wanted people to know I just wanted to let people know So it’s important to fire up the barbecue every now and then, improve circulation, the Founders Tree what they’re supporting in case they what the concert on April 10 is all open up some beers and reminisce: “Remember that time fresh is one of the best reminders of the col hadn’t heard what the tour was all lege’s age and growth. It is hypocriti about. I was stoked about Authority man year when you (insert embarrassing moment here)?’’ “Oh about. I’ll let the Numbskulls do their Zero and Alkaline Trio (NOFX and man, I saw that girl you were trying to hook up with last summer, cal that a college which recendy cele thing without complaining, but I brated a centennial in 2(X)1 wouldJello Biaffa are also playing) coming to she looks like she’s moved on.” It is moments like these that truly won’t throw my money at them. thoughtlessly destroy one of the last the Cal Poly Rec Center. What I did define springtime. remnants of its founding years. Caln’t know, however, is that Numbskull So here we are, on the eve of our summer vacations, left with Steve Bachmeier is a mechanical engi Poly planners should explore ways to is presenting this Punkvoter Tour. The only one thing to say. We offer, on behalf of the entire student neering sophomore. population, a collective “I’m sorry” to any instructor who teach es an afternoon class this quarter. While (in most cases) it is not Letters Poliev your lectures that make us gaze out the window with longing, we Letters become the property of the Mustang Daily. Mustang Daily reserves the right to edit letters for grammar, pro hope you understand our unexcused absences and mysterious fanities and length. Letters, commentaries and cartoons do not represent the views of the Mustang Daily. Please sunburns. These are just the consequences of being a college stu limit length to 250 words. Letters should include the writer’s full name, phone number, major and class standing. Letters must come from a Cal Poly email account. Do not send letters as an attachment. Please send the text in dent in the spring on the Central Coast, and we appreciate your the body of the email. Your letter will not be printed unless you submit it in the correct format. support. You were there once, too. 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Stacay Anderson and watches as his recollections fade ^ A.. ^ 'V '»■ ** . '■ MUSTANG DAILY sorrowfully and forever away. Realizing what he is losing, Despite its opening image of Jim knowing he can’t change the past Carrey’s slumbering face, “Eternal but no longer wishing to, he begs Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’’ is from inside his head to stop the not the same solo spotlight show as operation; when that fails, he begins his past efforts. a frantic dash through his mind to The fragile, provocative comedy save the memory of Clementine. rests on a sharp screenplay, innova Luckily, the whirling psychologi tive direction and a series of well- cal premise is tempered by com acted plot veins that play on the pelling, haunting performances both title’s irony. The movie fights with in front of and behind the camera. and eventually concludes that eras Carrey delivers his finest dramatic ing painful memories is not ignorant work to date, restraining his usual bliss but the robbery of life’s most behavior to make Joel a subdued, rewarding struggles. discontent soul with a ■■■■■■■*■■ voice that scarcely The fragile, provocative comedy rests on^ mumble. From a sharp screenplay, innovative directionto the subtle tightening and a series of well-acted plot veinslines framing his facial that play on the title's irony. features, Carrey’s wear- COURTESY PHOTO ing a different mask Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet take a trip through memory in the twisted love story ‘^Eternal indeed. No longer the Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” “Eternal Sunshine’’ centers on the cinematic focal point but the main love gone awry of meek nine-to- contributor, he interacts with the ac behind “Being John Malkovich,” music videos some of the best ever look so elegantly wasted in “Like a fiver Joel Barish (Carrey) and kitten- brilliantly volatile, vulnerable “Confessions of a Dangeriius Mind” created. Joel’s surroundings sequen Rolling Stone.” ish free spirit Clementine Winslet, forging an utterly believable and “Adaptation,” finally channelstially pop away a la the White As Joel battles to keep Kruczynski (Kate Winslet). After bond between the characters. Never his intricate creativity into a story Stripes’ “The Hardest Button to Clementine from being as, lost and their bitter break-up, Clementine is there a doubt why such opposites that embraces love instead of smirk Button” and his nomadic confusiongone forever” as her namesake song, impulsively has all the memories of would want the comfort of each ing at its imperfections. Joel and in a distorted world just needs somehe understands he found someone their relationship erased. The other. Clementine’s uncomplicated falsetto warbling to become Beck’s who made him feel as alive as he’d wounded Joel arranges to have the Supporting roles with Tom romance is stretched to the absurd “Deadweight.” Jittery, surreal cam hoped to become. “Eternal same procedure done. His spite leads Wilkinson, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah until it is convincing, and their era work reflects his earlier directing Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is a him forward as his eyes flicker with Wood and Kirsten Dunst flesh out characters show real maturity with endeavors with French pop gixiup sonnet to love itself, a reminder that apprehension at the scary machinerythe depths of the theme — Wood out sermonizing. Oui Oui, and the dreamy blurriness the rough waves of romance lead us that will literally damage his brain. especially conveys the sadness of As does the direction: Michel of his other shots are as polar oppo closer to the true fullness and pur Asleep in his bed during the process, such stolen seasons — but the script Gondry takes special effects out of site to the former as Joel is to pose of living. To watch it is to feel he travels through his memories as really steals the show. Screenwriter the computer and utilizes the Clementine. This is the same effect happy for every ending and every they are blurred to extermination Charlie Kaufman, the skewed braini-sneaky moves that have made his that allowed the Rolling Stones to beginning. Vines deliver lackluster sophomore effort with ‘Winning Days’
Alex Frydman Enter The Vines, an Australian of as an album with a split-person be pop songs — still have the abil es. THE CHRONICLE (DUKE UNIVERSITY) band propelled on to the top ofality. There are the excellent fast ity to get stuck in your head with Compared to the hisses and every magazine’s best new artists songs, such as “Ride” and “ F— their catchy choruses. Songs such screams in the first set of songs, DURHAM, N.C. — We all list with their 2002 debut “Highly the World,” blending catchy guias these build upon the formula Nicholls’ voice seems almost apa know the story: Unknown bandEvolved.” Now they have released tars with the raw, growling vocals established on “Highly Evolved,” thetic, droning on for a majority becomes famous overnight with their follow-up album “Winning of Craig Nicholls, which are yet intensify the aggression presentof each of the tracks. Perhaps if their debut album, then follows it Days.” So have The Vines been almost reminiscent of Kurt on their debut. These songs make ■ this second set had been a release up with such an abysmal release able to avoid the dreaded sopho Cobain or Chris Cornell in his it seem like the Vines were able to in and of themselves, it would not that they eventually fall right back more slump? Well ... sort of. Soundgarden era. These are the beat the norm and release an have seemed so lacking. But when into obscurity. “Winning Days” can be thoughtsongs that — though they may not excellent sophomore album. compared to the intensity of the Yet a good part of this release is album’s faster cuts, the effort seems also devoted to slower songs, with a bit lackluster. So while the Vines out the growls and amp squeals won’t fade into obscurity with this present on the faster tracks. These release, they still have a ways to go IK* songs are sluggish and plodding,to reach the level of superstardom m often lacking memorable chorus predicted for them.
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In Watsonville, some parents and white of 1954. complain that their schools are “When you go back and you getting short shrift in terms of top understand Brown v. Board of When: Wednesday, April 7, 2004 -7:00 PM classes and experienced teachers. Education and what it means to Where: Main lounge of Sierra Madre Residence Hall, In Aptos, parents twice in recent have ‘separate but equal,’ it just years have proposed splitting off strikes a chord because it’s hap (Bldg.113) and creating two districts, but pening in this community,” said were denied by the C'aliforniaformer Watsonville city council State Board of Education. member Kafael Lopez. A third proposal by two school Back in 1950, the Census board members — one from Bureau did not even break out Visit the Housing Web site at wyvw.ho^ and ciick on OFF-CAiMPUS. Watsonville, one from Aptos — to Hispanics as a group. Now they Presi-nti'd and sponsored by Cal Poly’s Housing study a split was postponed in are the nation’s largest minority .And Residential Life Department Tebruary after officials decided it — 39 million, according to a cen 756-1226 was “too divisive an issue,” super sus report last year. Rock climbers: Ban X promotes religion -.•j KENtX Nev. (AP) — A U.S. tioiial and cultural property.” Forest Service climbing ban on a “Listing C',ive Rock .is a tradi Lake Tahoe landmark is unconstitu- tional cultural property does not tuiiial because it promotes religion, a change the fundamental nature of rock climbing group contends. C'.ive Rock as a religious site,” the In papers filed Thursday in sup complaint argues. port of Its federal lawsuit against The group filed the lawsuit in the agency. The Access Fund December in U.S. District Court in claims the ban at C'ave Kock gives Reno. control over public property to Tribal Chairman Brian Wallace the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and w'as out of town and could not be C'alifornia. reached for comment. A phone call The Boulder, C'olo.-based group Sunday to the Forest Service’s South maintains the tribe has always said Lake Tahoe otTice wasn’t immediate C!ave Kock is a religious, sacred site. ly returned. fìntisi-^ The Washoe tribe has opposed The Forest Service has agreed to climbing on C'ave Rock, located on postpone until May implementation U.S. 50 ______of its romes b e t w e e n 44 Cave C’llenbrook Listhij^ Cave Rock as a traditionR o c k a n d m anage- al cultural property does not f h Zephyr change the fundamental nature m e of n t (Twe on plan, I a h o e ’ s Cave Rock as a relij^ious site. ^ ^which Community F^aturM east shore. -THE ACCESS FUND m e a n s ImMviduai Lm « m , PumblMd ApMOmm HomM, Priv«te BodrooiiM Availabte, WaHdng Dittano« to oose" T h e Houldcr, (-oio.-based group clim bing Cai Poly, On City But Routt, Htatad Pool Plaza wWi Sun OacK, Btautiful Courtyard Artat, Access is allowed VWto Losing« with Big Serttn TV, Computar Cantar and Study Room, On-Sit« Conv«rri«no« Stör« Fund for the with VMao R«ntaia, Fivt Clothe* Car« Contort, 24-Hour Em trgtncy Maintananca argues the ban runs contrary to time being. other federal court rulings that have The management plan would ■ J- * held mandatory closures of public allow such activity as hiking and pic lands for religious purposes are nicking to continue at C'ave Rock. unconstitutional. But it would ban climbing and In a case involving Devil’s Tower require removal of climbing hard National Monument in Wyoming,ware on the volcanic core. the court allowed only a voluntary The plati calls for the land to be climbing closure of the monolith protected as a cultural resource and during tribal religious ceremonies managed as it was prior to 1965.The each June. rock did not become popular with The group also asked the court climbers until the 1980s. 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Fresno State on Saturday at the 15 Senior dances 2 Big cat “We played a good team,’’ Lewis 43 Wearisome one W Wathen Tennis Center. Cal Poly 16 Assert c7 said. “We played well, and I’m happy 44 Archipelago 3 Nutmeg relative (11-7) lost for the fourth time in 17 Flimflam 30 with the outcome.” parts 4 Not worth a ___ the last five matches. 19 Roman cloak Grady was proud of the team’s 46 Some messing 5 Tack on 36 39 In singles, the only win of the 20 ______of a kindaround performance as well. 6 Bad pun 4Ô day came from Lee as she posted a 21 Warp-resistant 49 Narrative response “I think we came out really strong wood today,” Grady said. “I’m proud ofwin by defeating Lucia Sainz, 6-3, 51 The “A" of ABM 7 Having lots of 6 0 22 Temptress ups and downs our performance.” - . 52 Just great 146 23 One who went 8 Cousin of an to tell the king 55 Royal attendant ostrich 50 ¡5' 53 54 the sky was 56 Mishmash The Lakers had their 1 1-game falling 9 Road curve 59 Asia’s shrinking NBA winning streak snapped and 26 Not just ask 10 Morning prayers continued from page 7 dropped into third place in the West Sea W 29 Commotions 60 County north of 11 Off-white NBA champions. — a half-game behind the 30 Family data San Francisco 12 Theater section 62 ¿4' The Spurs served a reminder Sacramento Kings and Minnesota Timberwolves. 31 Juicy tropical 61 Where a stream 13 Skating champ P u n ie by Anne GarelUck Sunday. fruit may run Kobe Bryant led the Lakers (53- Michelle 35 One side of a 46 Title colonel in 52 Man cast out of Tony Parker had 29 points and 33 Watering hole 62 Lots of 18 British gun vote a 1960’s sitcom paradise nine assists and the Spurs beat the 24) with 28 points and six rebounds, but he shot just 9-of-26 Ì2 Busybody 37 Jet black 47 Military chaplain 53 Girl-watch, e g. 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Sacramento shot 63 down to being ahead.” dribble,”Webber said.“We just made began to rally. a commitment to do it and it made Stojakovic scored 11 of his 28 Sacramento’s largest advantage of percent (12-of-19) from the field. The Kings were looking for their the game. Stojakovic’s 13 points in the scorer in that span. a difference.” points in the third quarter, and • • • “1 tried to use my big guys,” quarter helped the Kings move out “We ran some different things Chris Webber added 19 points to With so much attention focused Stojakovic said of his scoring spree. to a 78-68 lead after three quarters. then,” coach Rick Adelman said of lead the Kings to a 99-94 victory on the Lakers, Kings and over the Houston Rockets on ‘‘1 just tried to run around behind “1 felt good after 1 hit a three- the third-quarter spurt. “We tried to Timberwolves, it’s easy to forget the Sunday. them and they’d hand the ball off topointer (with 6:48 left in the third),” run (Stojakovic) off more people. San Antonio Spurs are the reigning Stojakovic scored all but two me. We were moving the ball and said Stojakovic, who also had 11 We pushed the ball more then too.” points in a 13-0 run to give did a good job of working it rebounds. “And the guys just started Webber was glad to see the plan see NBA, page 7 ■ .z: Vp., Women’s tennis m . splits matches Leah Mori Lee finished quickly also, MUSTANG DAILY defeating Tara Fielding 6-2, 6-2. Lee kept her moving by switching The 60th-ranked Cal Poly up her game with different spins women’s tennis team easily on the ball and changing between defeated Idaho on Thursday tolong and short shots. r * stay near-perfect in the Big West Erickson overpowered Konishi Conference. Saturday’s noncon6-2, 6-1 with tough ground ference match against No. 10 strokes and good net play. Fresno State was a different story, Lewis defeated Timirello 6-3, as the Mustangs were blown out 6-3 with her quickness, net play 6- 1. and with overhead shots. The Mustangs won all three “I stayed aggressive,” Lewis said. doubles matches as well as singles “1 was going for shots, and I matches at Nos. 3 through 6 over stayed focused.” the 75th-ranked Vandals. At the No. 1 position, Waller Idaho’s doubles teams proveil to put up a good fight against be no match for the Mustangs, as Nieuwoudt with long rallies and Samantha Waller and Kristen fast serves but lost in a tiebreak. Grady defeated Sunel Nieuwoudt Thompson had the longest and Jessica Hubbard, 8-2. Chelsy match of the day, lasting about 2 Thompson and Noelle Lee over 1/2 hours and ending in a nail- came Mariel Timirello and biting tie breaker, which she lost Patricia Ruman, 8-0, and Carol to Hubbard, 4-10. Erickson and Sheila Lewis beat Cal Poly head coach Hugh Kareen Konishi and MonicaBream was proud of his team’s Martin, 8-3. "Vil performance against the Vandals. The winning singles matches “It was a strong match,” Bream came in straight sets, and the two said. “The team competed very losses came from split sets. well. There are seven teams BRIAN KENT MUSTANG DAILY Gratiy finished first as Ruman nationally ranked in the Big West, Sophomore Brett Van Linge hits a backhand volley in the Mustangs’ 5-2 loss to the Pacific Tigers. seemed to be no match for so there are no easy matches. I’m He and partner John Nguyen (foreground) lost their doubles match 8-6 to the Tigers’ Lennart Grady’s ball placement and deepconfident we will continue build Maack and Arnar Sigurdsson. Nick Tracy and Travis Crawford were the only Mustangs to win their ground strokes. She defeated ing momentum for the Big West matches. Cal Poly fell to 10-11 overall with the loss. Ruman 6-3, 6-3. see Tennis, page 7 ON THE DIAMOND Pacific wins two Vulcans no match for Mustangs MUSTANG DAILY STAFF REPORT March 23, 2002. Junior right-hander Tony Saipe Senior right-hander Nolan and freshman right-hander Bud games over Poiy Cal Poly held Hawaii-Hilo to Moser started for the second time Norris combined on a two-hit no runs and two hits in both endsin his four-year Mustang career shutout in the nightcap. Saipe (1- MUSTANG DAILY STAFF REPORT took advantage of two Mustang of a non-conference baseball and tossed 1), in his second career start as errors in the inning and would doubleheader Saturday afternoon a com- well, struck out six and allowed • Cal Poly The Cal Poly softball team score two runs on just one hit. at Simmon’s Field as the píete- two hits in six scoreless innings dropped to 0-2 in the Big West, outscored Hawaii- The Tigers put the game away in Mustangs trounced the Vulcans game, for the win. Norris earned his 12-19 overall, as they fell in both the bottom of the fourth when 19-0 and 7-0 scores. Hilo 26-0 in the t w o - h i t first career save by pitching three games to the No. 19 Pacific Tigers they scored four runs. Cal Poly erupted for 15 runs in doubieheader. shutout. hitless, scoreless innings with on Saturday in Stockton.They fell Junior pitcher Cassie the fifth inning of the opener. He struck three strikeouts. Saipe’s other start in game one, 6-1, and in game • The Mustangs Vanderbeek got the loss, allowing They scored in six of the nine out six and was earlier this season at Fresno two by a 2-1 count. six rftns in just over three innings. innings in the nightcap as the scored 15 runs in walked State, a game the Mustangs lost 5- The Mustangs scored their In game two, the Mustangs Mustangs improved to 27-12-1 the fifth inning of two. 4 on Feb. 24 at Pete Beiden Field. lone run of the first game in the would fall 2-1, as the Tigers on the year, winning the first five the opening game. Sam Herbert again produced three top of the first inning as Roni would score the game-winning games of the six-game series. Herbert hits, including a double, and Sparrey led the inning off with arun in the bottom of the seventh. In the first game Cal Poly had two drove in one run while Brandon double down the right-field line. The Tigers would take an early scored a run'in the second inningdoubles and a triple in the open-'Roberts doubled twice and She would later score on a double 1-0 lead in the bottom of the and three more in the fourth er, driving in three runs. Josh knocked in two runs. Matt to left field by third baseman third, but Cal, Poly would rally before sending 20 batters to the Mayo added two doubles and Guiliano, a Blumenthal and Kristi Alvers. The Mustangs back to tie the game in the top of plate in the fifth, scoring 15 runs single for three RBIs while Berglund*all had two hits while would leave three stranded at the the fifth, as Alvers would score on 13 hits — six doubles and Chalón Tietje and KyleDrew Ciillmore had a double, sin end of the first. Alvers was 2-for- centerfielder Amyjo Nazarenus. seven singles.The game was called Blumenthal each had three sin gle and sacrifice fly, driving in 3, with a double, single and a The Mustangs scored one run after five innings due to a 10-run gles. Bret Berglund and John one run. RBI. on six hits, committing one error, rule. It was Cal Poly's biggest Marshall each contributed a dou Cal Poly won their fourth and Pacific would take a 2-1 lead in as the Tigers scored two runs on inning since scoring 15 timesble and two singles with three fifth shutouts of the year in the the bottom of the first as they seven hits. against Bethany College on RBIs. doubleheader.