igi6 2 0 0 5 MC A L, I F Oustang K N O L Y T F: c: H N I C S T AD T E U ailyN 1 V E R ST I T Y T O D A Y ’S WEATHER Late inning heroics help Indie-rock sisters, Mustang baseball sweep Tegan and Sara, University of San Diego brew up that over weekend coffee house feeling MIDDLE EAS r Ambassador Cardboard vessels risk a wal£iy grave C^n its second time across on his Catamaran-like boat including design flipped as soon as he was low­ Sinsheimer Bool, the inevitable effect a couple of nights spent on the floor ered inside it. warns o f of water on cardboard melted the under the lab table. “1 wasn’t heavy enough,” he said.“l craft as it took on water. “If I put as much time into robbing thought I’d go farther in.” problems for Homer did not win Saturday’s a bank as I put into this boat. I’d be Architecture professors, regatta vet­ Cardboard Boat Regatta, but like all rich,” he said. erans and upperclassmen discussed the the architecture sophomores in the All the various poor design choices from the Iraq election race for the coveted Cardboard Cup, hard work sidelines amidst cries of “I’m he learned the dangers of pooc was put to going under” and “the design. the test as seat’s breaking, for the Large turnouts are expected “You are standing behind your t h e love of God get among Shiite Muslims and design,’’ architecture sophomore Jon in your boats.” Kurds, but it is unclear whether Mayfield said. “If it doesn’t Others Sunni Arabs will participate work you get wet.” bantered Robert H. Reid Students in _ about ASSlH:iATfcl) PRESS misapplication 44ai«l4a the three sections of ______^ of Archimedes BAGHDAD, Iraq — The US. an architecture buoyancy ambassador to Iraq acknowledged design class were allowed tw’o 4 by 6 principle. serious problems ahead of next week­ foot sheets of cardboard, a roll of “A lot of them end’s election but gave assurance brown paper tape and a can of messed up and made Sunday that “great efforts" were being polyurethane for w'aterproofing. the front too low so they sunk,” made to ensure every Iraqi can vtite. In architecture senior Lindsey Engles -SHEIIA .SOBCHIK m u s t a n g o a u y Other universities host similar races an audiotape posted on the Web, a Architecture students raced in but let the students use as much c r a f t said. speaker claiming to be Iraq’s most Sinsheimer Pool during the cardboard as they want or even other entered the O f course, paddling speed was an feared terrorist declared “fierce war" C’.ardboard Boat Regatta, on Saturday. materials like fiberglass. water and students important factor as well. As the quali­ on democracy, raising the stakes 111 the “It’s all about economy of means,” began the delicate process of posi­ fying heats progressed, snorkeling tins vote. Crystal Phend and ping pong paddles littered the said architecture professor Howard tioning themselves inside with the Rebels who have vowed to disrupt MUSTANC. DAIIY pool alongside bits of cardboard float­ Weisenthal, whose class participated help of friends. the balloting blew up a designated ing. Derrick Flonier had a dream. He in the tournament. Several boats pmmptly swamped or polling station near Hiilah south of By the final race, all but one of the had a dream of the design that w’ould The 54 students in the week long rolled the rowers into the water. Baghdad and stormed a pvilice station non-ty'pical boat designs had fallen make a cardboard square into a float­ project designed and tested models Many students were prepared for a in Ramadi west of the capital, author­ prey to the water. able boat. And, float it did — at least before building their vessels. dousing m bikinis, board shorts and ities said. A U.S. soldier was killed "Simple is the best,” said Matt Saturday on a security patrxil in Mosul, for a while. Architecture sophomore Andrew flip-flops. the U.S. command said Sunday. f^umaydan spent close to 1(H) hours Greg Magley’s bold vertical tube see Cardboard, page 2 U.S. and Iraqi officials fear more such attacks in the run-up to Sunday’s election and have announced massive security’ measua*s to protect voters. Troop memorial in University Unión this week Iraqis will chose a 275-seat National Assembly and pmvmcial councils in IraqS IH pmvinces in the first nation­ Display has more than 1,000 YOUTEW said. wide balloting since the ouster of photos of United States soldiers The piece was created this summer Saddam Hussein in 2(K)3. killed in the war in Iraq and has been on display at Boo Boo’s Large turnouts are expected among since October. Forbes said the Iraq’s majority’ Shiite Muslims in the Caitlin Donnell response fmm the community was MUSTANG DAIIY south and minority’ Kurds in the very positive while it was in the northeast. But the big question is An art piece entitled “The Faces of storefnint. whether Sunni Arabs, who form the War: A Peace Memorial” moved from “People from the community core of the insurgency, w ill defy rebel the window display at Boo Boo would come in and there w.is so threats and their clergs’s calls for a Records and will be shown this week much gratitude for having the piece boycott and participate in substantial upstairs in the University’ Union. in the window,” Forbes said. “One of numbers. The art piece displays more than the girls that worked the front desk Failure of significant numbers of l,(KK> small photographs of most ofsaid that every’ other person that Sunnis to participate would call into the American soldiers who have died came in said thank you for putting question the legitimacy of the new during the war in Iraq.Their pictures, that piece in there.” Iraqi leadership, widening the gulf downloaded from the Internet, are The project w’as inspired by a among the country’’s ethnic and reli­ displayeil on metallic covered pieces piece in Santa Barbara created by the gious groups and setting the stage for of foam core meant to represent an Veterans for Peace, called Arlington even more turmoil. abstraction of dug tags and are hung West, in which a cross was placed in In a series of interviews Sunday on on a large w’ire grid. the sand every Sunday since the war MATT WECHTER MUSTANG DAIIY American television talk shows, U.S. The piece was created by Young in Iraq began. Now, Forbes said, the The group that made the memorial is planning a trip to Washington Ambassador John Negroponte Objectors United to End War sand is covered w’ith cn>sses. acknowledged an increase in rebel D.C. They hope to speak to President Bush about how to prevent war. (YOUTEW), a local gnnip of eight “Part of our effort was that we intimidation of Iraqi officials and secu­ young people, ages 15 to 21, who wanted to create a piece that was father and communities that miss about how war can be prevented. rity forces and noted serious security spent more than 3(H) hours working nonpartisan,” Forbes said. “It is a these young people, making it so per­ With them, they will be bringing a problen« remain in the Sunni Triangle on the project. political statement because we are in sonal.” more portable version of the original north and west of Baghdad. “It was created because we wanted opposition to war but people on both The group is planning to go to art piece. • “But security measures are being to represent all of the soldiers who Washington D.C. on Mother’s Day taken, by both the multinational forces died from the United States and to sides of this issue have responded pos­ “This experience has been really here in Iraq as well as the Iraqi armed just look at it from our point of viewitively because it is an honoring and and have written a proclamation in great,” Salisa Lara, a 17-year-old forces and police,’’ Negroponte told of what a tragic loss of life the war has quiet piece, it shows the loss and sad­ hopes to speak with President George home-schooled high school student sec Elections, page 2 been,” Melinda Forbes, mentor of ness: in every face there is a mother, a W. Bush to let him know their ideas see Memorial, page 2 / »• ■ ■* “1. ' • .1- »..k , J t , NEWS 2 Monday, January 24,2(M)5 start working with young people to gets their own message,” Forbes said. the University Union tor one week Memorial Forbes was inspired to work with stop war and to also keep our children “That is why we chose to work but the group said they hope to keep continued from page I children after she saw her 17-year-old out of harm’s way.” through the arts because we’re not try­ it on campus or somewhere in the and member of YOUTEW who son almost enlist in the Marines after After a town meeting at the San ing to preach anything, we’re just try­ community for longer. helped to create the piece said. “It being approached by a recruiter in Luis Obispo library, Forbes offered to ing to show the loss and then people “ We’d like to find a permanent ‘ high school.