LOCAL BAND SAVES THE CHÉ PAGE 6 VOLUME 45, ISSUE 3 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG UC REGENTS UC IRVINE UCÊREGENTÊDAVIDÊCRANEÊWILLÊ TenÊof ÊtheÊ ÒIrvineÊ11ÓÊ LIKELYÊNOTÊBEÊREINSTATED FoundÊGuilty By Natalie Covate • Staff Writer By Kashi Khorasani Illustration by Rebekah Hwang Staff Writer C Regent David Crane if he were re-appointed by Governor — appointed by for- B row n .” Ten of the “Irvine 11” students were mer Governor Arnold Even though it is only through found guilty of two misdemeanor USchwarzenegger in December 2010 the Senate’s lack of action that Crane charges for disrupting Israeli Ambas- — is unlikely to continue his term may lose his position, some student sador Michael Oren’s speech at UC as a regent after the end of this year. leaders see Crane’s lack of confirma- Irvine in February 2010. e students In order to be a confirmed mem- tion as a benefit to the UC system. will serve three years of probation ber of the UC Regents Board — a “Californians are sick and tired and 56 hours of community service member that is allowed to continue of not being adequately represent- based on charges of disrupting a law- for the entirety of the three-year ed by UC’s regents,” UC Students ful assembly and conspiring to com- UC Regent term — the state Senate Association (UCSA) President mit said crime. e 11th student, Ha- needs to vote for his confirmation Claudia Magana wrote in a Sept. 15 kim Kebir, accepted a plea bargain for before the end of this year. statement. “We need leaders who 40 hours of community service earlier The state Senate is not scheduled will represent our interests and fight to meet again until Jan. 4, eight days to keep our UC public and afford- this year. after Crane’s Dec. 27 deadline. This able, not out of touch millionaires e Irvine 11 initially faced the means that in order for the Senate and investment bankers who are possibility of a year in jail for their to make a decision regarding Crane, beholden more to Wall Street than actions. During the scheduled speech they would need to be brought back to everyday Californians.” on U.S.-Israeli relations, the eleven into session in order to formally call Crane, however, believes his shouted various insults such as “Mi- a last-minute meeting with Crane’s position and voice as a UC Regent chael Oren, you are a war criminal” status on the voting agenda. has been beneficial to students. and “Murder is not free speech.” “By not acting one way or the “What I bring is [the voice of] the e Orange County jury reached other on confirmation, the state boy who noticed that the emperor their verdict last Friday aer a Senate ensured that he could serve as has no clothes,” he said. “Tuition has couple of days of deliberation. a regent for the entire year,” UCOP tripled in the last three years, and for According to defense attorney Dan Media Relations Director Steve middle-class families with dreams of Stormer, his team is currently working Montiel said in an email. “Unless getting their child a higher educa- the state Senate comes back into ses- tion, it’s just brutal.” on appealing the verdict to address sion and confirms his appointment, Even in his likely absence, Crane the charge of “the disturbing of an as- Regent Crane would continue to REBEKAH HWANG/GUARDIAN serve beyond December 2011 only See REGENTÊpage 3 See IRVINE,Êpage 3 TRANSIT ATHLETICS UCSDÊTrolleyÊ UCSD ATHLETICS RANKED NO. 1 OUT OF ALL DIV II SCHOOLS By Nicole Chan puses. Every university is eligible the top position in Division II five those areas. Being ranked as the No. Associate News Editor for the top 100 — the Collegiate years in a row. 1 institution in Division II is some- toÊbeÊBuiltÊbyÊ Power Rankings are calculated for According to “Survey Ranks thing we’re extremely proud of, but I UCSD athletics placed No. 6 each university. NCSA takes into UCSD as Top NCAA Division II feel our overall ranking is even more overall — up from last year’s No. 23 account student-athlete graduation Program,” published Sept. 20 in the significant.” 2015 ranking — by the National Collegiate rates and academic rankings, pro- La Jolla Patch, less than six percent of NCSA’s annual study is designed Scouting Association (NCSA), fin- vided by the U.S. News & World colleges and universities make it to to aid student-athletes in the process ishing behind NCAA Division I No. Report. Strength of athletic depart- NCSA’s top 100 list. of selecting a college. UCSD athlet- By Rebecca Horwitz 5 University of Notre Dame and ments are taken from the Learfield “We are very pleased to [be] ics — which moved from Division Associate News Editor No. 4 Stanford University. The uni- Sports Directors’ Cup rankings. Last ranked among the top universities III to Division II in 2000 — boasts 30 versity was named the top NCAA year, the Learfield Sports Directors’ in the country,” UCSD Director of National Championships, just a frac- The Federal Transit Administration Division II institution in the country Cup ranked UCSD as the fifth best Athletics Earl Edwards told La Jolla tion of 194 total national, regional approved the proposal for the extension by the NCSA, in its Collegiate Power overall athletic department out of Patch. “We pride ourselves on excel- and conference championships. of the Old Town Trolley that will run Rankings released on Sept. 20. 300 schools. UCSD first made the ling both academically and athleti- through UCSD, making it officially eligible This marks the campus’ seventh top 100 list in 2005, placing No. 26 cally and it’s great to be recognized Readers can contact Nicole Chan at to receive federal funding. Completion is year making NCSA’s top 100 cam- overall. The university has earned for our accomplishments in both of [email protected] set for 2015. The Mid-Coast Corridor Transit would run 11 miles from Old Town Transit Center to UCSD and Westfield University LIGHT UP Town Center. There will be eight sta- YOUR LIFE tions along the route, with stops planned at Tecolote Drive, Clairemont Drive and Bioluminescent Balboa Avenue. The stops close to UCSD dinoflagellates have are at Gilman Drive, Nobel Drive, a stop temporarily taken on-campus around Price Center, Genesee over the Scripps Pier Avenue and UTC. and La Jolla Shores. The trolley extension costs $1.2 billion. La Jolla locals went Local officials hope for half of the funding swimming in the to come from TransNet, a local half-cent glowing algae which sales tax for transportation passed in 2008. is only on the coast They hoped that they could receive federal temporarily due to funding for the remainder, something they migration patterns. are now eligible for. ANDREW OH/GUARDIAN See TROLLEY,Êpage 3 WEBSPOKENSPOKEN POLL FORECAST SUNRISE NIGNIGHTÊWATCHHT WATCH SURFSURFÊREPORT REPORT GAS PRICES INSIDE DO YOU THINK THE THURSDAY FRIDAY LOW COMICS ...................................2 “IRVINE 11” TRIAL WAS 6:42 A.M. Height: 4-5 ft. Height: 4-5 ft. NEW BUSINESS ...................... 3 NECESSARY? 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RebekahÊHwang Art Editor the sky every night. Pinwheel galaxy. “It’s well within the reach of Page Layout Ever woken up to a bright HPWREN Director Hans- Nugent then asked Oxford ordinary [people] which makes it PraneetÊKolluru,ÊArielleÊSallai light? Imagine that multiplied by Werner Braun said the HPWREN Astrophysics Member Mark quite special,” Bloom said. “This is millions and you’ve got a super- was a piece of cyberinfrastructure Sullivan for a spectrum – the dif- the kind of supernova that people HayleyÊBisceglia-Martin Development Editor nova. In early September, UCSD that was essential for the discovery ferent colors of light that come who study supernovas on a regu- MelodyÊChern Design Program Director researchers located a supernova — of the supernova. Braun stressed from a star – of the supernova’s lar basis are all they get basically a dying star that unleashes a burst that the discovery was a collabora- components. The spectrum would once in a lifetime.” Business Manager of light — just as it was exploding. tive process — astronomers from allow them to scatter the light Supernovas help scientists EmilyÊKuÊ UC Berkeley Astronomer UC Berkeley were also involved. and determine the elements in understand how some stars die. Marketing & Advertising Director Joshua Bloom said that there has “The key were people, par- the atmosphere of the supernova.