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Become a CAMPUS CIRCLE Fan on Facebook http://bit.ly/dhFhEE INSIDE campus CIRCLE campus circle UC Riverside March 2 - March 8, 2011 Vol. 21 Issue 9 Summer Spain 6 Editor-in-Chief England Jessica Koslow Study [email protected] 18 Managing Editor Abroad 8 Yuri Shimoda [email protected] 04 BLOGS D-DAY Program Film Editor Jessica Koslow 05 BLOGS BARFLY [email protected] All UC and Visiting Students are Welcome to Apply! 14 BLOGS TREND BLENDER Cover Designer Deadline to apply: May 9, 2011 Sean Michael Challenge your senses and open your imagination while you explore and 06 FILM TV TIME Editorial Interns discover the far-reaching influences ofSpain ’s Past and Present, Dana Jeong, Cindy KyungAh Lee or spend five weeks walking in Shakespeare’s World inEngland . 06 FILM MOVIE REVIEWS Madrid, Spain: June 20 – July 23, 2011 Contributing Writers 07 FILM DVD DISH London, England: July 25 – August 27, 2011 Tamea Agle, Priscilla Andrade, Mary Broadbent, Erica Carter, Richard Castañeda, Deepthi (Check with your campus Financial Aid Office for program Cauligi, Amanda D’Egidio, Natasha Desianto, assistance and Scholarship opportunities. 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THE MUSIC BOX BOX OFFICE MON–FRI 10AM–6PM 2 Campus Circle 3.2.11 - 3.8.11 NEWS FILM MUSIC CULTURE EVENTS DVD GAMING SPORTS MEDIA BLOGS barfly Colors of Culture d-day games & gadgets the greener side trend blender the Wing girls D-DAY Campus Circle > Blogs > D-Day murders of two Black Panther members and UCLA students Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter and John Jerome Huggins Jr. on MESS WITH the steps of Campbell Hall, which has attracted major news attention till this day (most recently, an effort to memorialize the event with a plaque that was barred by the University). STUDENTS, In the 1980s, students at UCLA erected large tent cities across the north side of the campus in protest against Apartheid in South Africa, calling for divestment of UC FACE A funds from companies that did business there. By 1985, Times/MCT Angeles Luis Sinco/Los about 55 universities had fully or partially divested from the Apartheid regime. UC Berkeley sent a particularly large uCLa students staged a sit-in to protest cuts last year. REVOLUTION message divesting $3 billion in stock holdings, one of the largest public institutions to make the message clear. This by students at UCLA throughout history, this does not mean by denise guerra prompted Nelson Mandela, upon his release from prison, to that any of these social movements is comparable to the ones recognize the event as a major catalyst to end white-minority happening in the Middle East. All social movements come With the historic events happening around rule in Africa. from different places, and the tactics and stakeholders are all the Middle East, there is one thing many have in common: By 1993, an old struggle with new direction began to different. But students have an exceptional role in the ways young people, especially students, leading the charge. circulate around UCLA’s Chicano Studies program. After progressive, even revolutionary ideas are spread, and that is Students from universities are taking their frustration and organizational efforts by students to recognize Chicano they are able to access untapped resources and collectively activism to the streets using the latest technology as their Studies as its own department failed with the administration, gather with like-minded people in their universities. weapon; and this new weapon, you guessed it, was Facebook students began a sit-in demonstration with over 200 students I remember it was at UCLA that I learned the loud chants and Twitter. What is happening in the Middle East right now walking across Westwood to the Faculty Center. Protests of “The people united will never be defeated” and “Ain’t no continues to be one of the most cataclysmic lessons of our began to turn violent, and 99 students were arrested. Fueled power like the power of the people and the power of the time about the power of students to create social change. by the recent death of workers’ rights leader Cesar Chavez, the people won’t stop.” I participated with other students from Even though we saw massive student protests over most dramatic form of activism came when eight students various universities and Cal States, even high school students, rising tuition fees at UCLA last year, the general public and one UCLA professor went on a hunger strike. This was in a fight to recognize Filipino World War II veterans as isn’t aware of the rich history of student activism and highly publicized and attracted support from government American citizens for fighting with the United States during highly controversial events that have taken place at UCLA’s representatives. The event became one of the largest student the war. As we marched across Los Angeles’ city streets, there campus. Since the 1960s, historic moments have included and community mobilizations in UCLA’s history and was a sense of nationalism and pride that I’d never felt before. the controversial firing of Professor Angela Davis, a radical brought to fruition a compromise with the administration A flood of emotion of both anger and excitement hung in the feminist with associations to the Black Panther Party and to create the Cesar Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary air as I marched with other supporters. I believe that sense of whose membership in the Communist Party had her Instruction in Chicana and Chicano Studies. purpose and anger, on a large or small scale, has been proven barred from teaching at any university. There were also the Even though I have described social movements anchored time and again to be a force to be reckoned with. GAMES&GADGETS Campus Circle > Blogs > Games & Gadgets by mike sebastian into your pocket, this app is for you. This little app has hidden depths to it that even seasoned Whirl Mini Notebook Laser Mouse musicians will really appreciate. After selecting your Nothing gets more annoying (or tiring) on a laptop than instrument, you can choose from dozens of alternate tunings. mousing around with your index finger on the trackpad. Tune up using the incredibly accurate automatic tuner. Then There are a lot of mini notebook mice out there, but the head over to the chord library to learn a chord fingering, Whirl (getsmartfish.com) is the most innovative. from the most basic major chord to an m7b5 chord. The first great thing about it is the ErgoMotion design. Don’t like that fingering? Choose from 20 inversions up The revolutionary pivot motion completely reinvents the and down the fretboard. Strum the virtual strings to hear mouse, doing away with the need for a flat, smooth surface to what it should sound like. put the mouse on, greatly increasing your mobility on your Alternately, say you stumble on a really pretty chord on laptop. your own and want to know what you’re playing. Key in the The Whirl remains stationary, stabilized by a small fingering on Chord Finder’s interactive fretboard and presto! platform at the bottom. Instead of tracking, you pivot the GuitarToolkit also includes a metronome and scales for mouse forward and back or laterally to move your cursor. countless modes, so you can bone up on your music theory It takes some getting used to, but once you do, you’ll find and work on your improvising. it infinitely more comfortable than a regular mouse. That’s Great for taking along to rehearsals, learning a tabtoolkit is a great way to learn a song.