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VOLUME XLIII, ISSUE XXX THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2011 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG REVELLE COLLEGE SENIOR PASSES AWAY IN CAR ACCIDENT By Regina Ip vehicle collided with another. to live with her mother. friends and there were countless experiences, I N E The individuals in the other vehicle, a 41-year- Dallas Patterson, a high school friend who was heard of many.” old female driver and a 10-year-old female her date to junior prom and on the swim team Patterson commented on her career goals. Barbara Cano, a Revelle College senior passenger, survived. with her, commented on Cano’s personality. “She seemed to be the only one who knew where majoring in physiology and neuroscience, died “As her father, I watched “The biggest thing that you always noticed she was going,” Patterson said. “When I first met Sunday, Jan. 30, in a collision on her way to work my daughter Barbara grow about her was how friendly, smart and her, she always knew she wanted to be a doctor. as a nanny. from a teenager into a hardworking she was,” Patterson said. “She was She always talked about it. She was very, very “We’re in total shock...total shock,” Cano’s aunt beautiful, responsible young really intelligent, really ambitious [and] really studious [and] very hardworking.” Rosita Olmstead said. adult,” Nicolas Cano said motivated. She really knew what her goals were Cano was a member of UCSD’s Kappa Kappa Cano was traveling southbound on Interstate in an e-mail. “As the cliché [and] what she wanted to be, which was pretty Gamma sorority for two years. 15 and took the State Route 56/Ted Williams goes, ‘the good die young,’ unusual for most of the people I knew back then.” UCSD alumnus Krystle Vega was one of Parkway exit, where she was initially in the right and Barbara’s journey has For her senior year, Cano returned to her Cano’s sorority sisters and a close friend with lane taking State Route 56. ended. In spirit of Barbara, hometown to attend Los Lunas High School in whom Cano spoke with on the phone every day. According to the California Highway Patrol Barbara Cano live each day to the fullest New Mexico. Cano then enrolled at UCSD, where “I am beyond grateful to have had Barbara as collision report, Cano veered left for an unknown Student for life is not to be taken for she was scheduled to graduate this June. such a huge part of my life for the past four years,” reason and traveled across the off-ramp into a dirt granted.” “Barbara went to San Diego to attend UCSD to Vega said in an e-mail. “I am honored to have such area causing her to go airborne. The vehicle then Cano attended Mission Hills High School in pursue her dream of becoming a neurosurgeon,” traveled over the dirt area and onto I-15, where the San Marcos, moving there her junior year in order Cano’s father said. “While there, she made many See CANO,Êpage 3 TROLLEYÊROUTEÊTOÊUCSDÊ PLANNEDÊFORÊ2016
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Warren Main Gym. conference to solve global issues, is present. putting into practice the theories that College Senator Kevin Hoang won President Wafa Ben Hassine coming to UCSD from April 1 to 4. The CGIU team announced that you’re going to be learning about — the competition announced that the Former President Bill Clinton and a it is holding the conference at UCSD [having] workshops, hearing from and will now be New York Times host of celebrities, including actor largely because of its reputation for the keynote speakers, putting that featured in Alpha will be delivered Sean Penn, will attend the event. the student body’s commitment to energy to work,” Sotelo-Solis said. Chi Omega’s Mr. New to UCSD for free The three-day event will begin service. Sotelo-Solis expects everything Alpha Chi Omega for a six-week with an opening reception at RIMAC “As the no. 1 for university to be finalized by the end of the male beauty Business trial. The Office Arena. Saturday will be include skill service, commitment to service, month. pageant. REBECCA HORWITZ of the President workshops and feature sessions, and giving back, UCSD came up to be a “Our role as part of the Center University [email protected] will then decide Sunday will involve a large-scale perfect fit,” CGIU Communications for Student Involvement will be to Centers Advisory whether to keep student community service project Director Hannah Steiman said. “The identify areas that will be ideal for Board student member Nicole Metildi the newspaper free based on how to be completed off campus. Clinton campus embraced us. It’s an amazing a community service project,l” she gave a presentation in favor of a many issues are picked up. Ben will be present all three days. All university, a great campus.” said. “Again recognizing the number University Centers $5 fee increase, Hassine also said that Executive conference attendees are required Community service proposals of people, what services they provide, which adjusts for the annual consumer Director of Housing and Dining Mark to spearhead a project that must be require a tangible action plan on rain contingency, a lot of variables price index. Metildi said UCAB Cunningham was very open to the fulfilled within the following year. one of the subjects of education, that come into play — security for reserves will be depleted to nothing if idea of removing water bottle from the The projects are required to improve environment and climate change, the President. It’s a great team that no action is taken. dining halls. social or environmental conditions peace and human rights, poverty we have going.” The CGIU student AVP of Student Organizations AVP of Athletic Relations Pauline are universities or communities alleviation and public health. organization at UCSD has done Carli Thomas is working on a forum Nuth encouraged councilmembers across the world. “Students are able to propose tabling and advertisements to the for student organization visibility to attend Sprit Week events this As of Jan. 25, 19 applicants a community service project in student population. during the Sun God Festival. week, including men’s and women’s from UCSD have been accepted. any of the five,” Steiman said. “We Students such as Etehad have been Muir College Senator Lynne basketball games at RIMAC Arena The application deadline is Feb. 7. thought it would be a perfect fit working to prepare. Swerhone asked councilmembers to tonight. Before the men’s game, there About 3,000 applications have been to engage a student body that is “What we’ve done is that we’ve join the SHIP committee. She also will be a tailgate serving free Chick Fil received so far. already activated and energized, and done tabling, we have this event and mentioned that Muir is holding a A and Subway at 7 p.m.. Friday night “The goal is to gather the mobilized around some of our key make advertisements so that people Superbowl Sunday event in the Middle is the first official conference game for community and to see how students issues. can learn more about the issues that of Muir this Sunday, Feb. 6. UCSD’s baseball team at 6 p.m. Feb. are really interested to seeing how it With 1,200 students participating are involved with global affairs, and All-Campus Transfer Association 5 is Spirit Night, where doors open at is outside the community,” Eleanor in the conference, including they come here, they listen to this, President Adam Powers announced 4:30 p.m. Free prizes and candy will be Roosevelt College sophomore and international students, there are get excited to go and they submit that a Valentine’s Day Dance will take given out. CGIU representative Melissa Etehad various logistical issues to handle, their application,” Etehad said. place at the Village on Feb. 11. Campuswide Senator Michael said. like transportation, accommodation “The goal ... is to prepare for the Sixth College Senator Parminder Raimondi said there will be a Greek Of the 1,200 participants, a and security. The coordinators said conference and make a community Sandhu announced that UCSD is the Housing meeting at 6:30 p.m. tonight maximum of 240, or 20 percent of they are confident it will all come of UCSD students who are taking on second-most applied-to UC campus. in the A.S. offices. the applicants, can be from UCSD. together since UCSD has hosted a challenge, making a difference in Freshman Senator Baldeep Muir College Senator Ryan O’Rear “They’re so many projects high-profile gatherings in the past. the world.” Dhaliwal said she and her colleagues introduced council’s new Panhellenic throughout the entire world that can “We work with hotels, security to While Steiman said she could not will hold office hours from 6:30 p.m. Representive: Jillian Wolter. help people all over,” she said. “We’re pull off a safe and fun opportunity for disclose the overall cost of the event, to 8:00 p.m. this Friday at Pines. Metildi’s presentation on the passionate about making a change. students,” Steiman said. “We will rely she said it is free for all students who Freshman senators are also planning a University Centers fee increase We want people to know that UCSD heavily on local security to help out.” are accepted to the program. freshman dance for next quarter. took precedence last night. are making a difference outside of UCSD Community Law Project “We, President Clinton, along AVP of Concerts and Events Councilmembers needed to give the community.” Director and National City Vice with the CGI, think it’s going to be a Brian Wong said the Winter Triton UCAB an extra 10 minutes to speak, Last year, 1,500 students from Mayor Alejandra Sotelo-Solis, great event,” Steiman. Festival has been postponed due to a mostly due to multiple concerns about 344 universities came from all 50 along with the Center for Student scheduling conflict. how the fee increase would affect the states to CGIU at the University Involvement, are working with the Readers can contact Chris McCoy at Campuswide Senator Victor students. of Miami. More than a quarter of CGIU staff to prepare for the event [email protected]. VOLUNTEER at Clinton Global Initiative University 2011 • April 1-3 The Clinton Global Initiative is coming to UC San Diego April 1-3, 2011. CGI U is a three-day meeting hosted by President Bill Clinton and attended by 1,200 students from around the world, students dedicated to making concrete change on social and environmental issues. APPLY TO BE AN EVENT VOLUNTEER WWW.CGIU.ORG CGI U relies on the help of over 200 student volunteers to produce the CGI U Meeting. Volunteers fill a large variety of important roles at CGI U including: serving as on-campus hosts, assisting with the production and logistics of the event, helping our press and media team, and supporting our program staff. FOR APPLICATION INFO, VISIT getinvolved.ucsd.edu 4 THE UCSD GUARDIAN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2011 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG/OPINION WEB 77% Yes. POLL Props to the U.S. aviation security authorites, who unveiled a new DO YOU airport scanning system depicting generic male and female bodies FEEL instead of images of the actual person. SAFE AT UCSD? No. Flops to Whistler Company Outdoor Adventure, who ordered 100 Out of 79 23% sled dogs slaughtered after tourism dipped votes. OPINICONTACT THE EDITOR: [email protected] following the 2010 Winter Olympics. EDITORIALS Giving Punctuality THE the Time of Day here are two types of people WAITING in the world: those who are punctual, and those who are Tlike me. When it comes to being on time, despite all efforts at avoiding the GAME ‘snooze’ button, it just doesn’t happen for me. My internal gauge that deter- INSTEAD OF TARGETING THE LACK OF ‘S’ SPOTS, mines how long something will take is permanently defective. PETITIONERS SHOULD SEEK ALTERNATIVE So it’s lucky that, growing up, my SOLUTIONS TO PARKING CONGESTION. dad taught me some of the best excus- es for every occasion. fter 133 undergrad parking hour to park in Muir College surface A Change of spots in Sixth College were lots, and with the elimination of dozens eliminated this quarter, Sixth more S-permit spots, the wait is bound Pace ACollege sophomore Allie Platt took a only to increase. CHERYL HORI stand. On Jan. 25, Platt created an offi- And while the loss of those under- [email protected] cial petition for more ‘S’ parking spots grad parking spots has been paired with on campus, and the cause has apparently cuts to grad student and faculty parking, The all-purpose: “There was a ter- struck a nerve: Since then, more than the distribution is glaringly uneven: rible accident down the block! I think 2,700 students have signed. 23,000 undergrads (many of whom, it was a three-car pile-up. I hope no The petition statistics help justify the granted, don’t have cars parked on one got hurt.” The moderately urgent: students’ anger: While the undergrad campus) share a total of 4,910 ‘S’ spots, “I’m one exit away” (as I pull out of population has swelled by 43 percent in while 6,059 faculty members and grad my driveway). And, the gutsiest of the last decade, to over 23,000 students, students are well-provided for with a all: “I locked my keys in the trunk of the office of Transportation and Parking combined 6,003 spots. my car and I don’t have a spare. The Services has eliminated about 2,000 stu- But however frustrating it is when AAA guy is breaking into my car as we dent spots due to continued construc- colleges are left with only one paved lot speak … be there as soon as I can.” tion on campus. available, most students fail to realize the Despite the bad karma that’s accu- According to Vice Chancellor of root issue at hand. The UCSD Master mulated over these years I’ve been Resources Management Gary Matthews, Plan stipulates that no surface park- driving, I’ve learned two things about ‘S’ permit sales have slid in the past few ing lot (i.e. none of the ones replaced myself. years due to the rising use of alternative by expanded on-campus housing or First, I hate people who are early, transit — this is all well and good, but department buildings) is to be perma- even if it’s just by a few minutes. by the looks of the petition, they haven’t nent, which means that whenever it They’re either way too eager to see me, slid enough to assuage the frustrations comes time to erect a new building on or they just don’t have a life — either of ‘S’ permit holders. campus, existing parking spots are the way, it’s unnatural. Platt and some 3,000 others have first to go. But on the flipside, I’ve become good cause to be upset. It’s already not See PARKING, page 5 envious of the punctual. uncommon to wait upwards of half an They don’t have to constantly apologize for circumstances “beyond their control.” And since they’re not late, they’re not inclined to speed, which means the wonderful California Highway Patrol won’t be inclined to write them $400 tickets. (Not that I’m speaking from personal experience or bitterness.) So, after Googling how to “not be late,” WikiHow gifted me with, of all things, a 12-step plan. It just seems excessive — it’s not like I’m an alco- holic, and this really shouldn’t require that many steps — so I only read the first four. The first step is self-actualization: JANE RHO/GUARDIAN “Acknowledge you have a problem.” (Done.) Be conscious of the time. (Well, no Gov.’s Proposals are Unpopular, But at Least He’s Got a Plan shit. I know what time it is, I just can’t control how long it’ll take me to get ov. Jerry Brown wants you Brown’s already proposed $12.5 But, feasibility of the tax tive to borrow $15 billion. somewhere.) to vote to raise your own billion in budget cuts — including increases aside, Brown should be Brown’s ideas may not be the Don’t hit the snooze button. (Ha. taxes — and in return, he over $1.4 billion from higher edu- commended for calling for a legis- most welcome or even the best, We’ll see how that goes.) Gpromises to rebuild California. cation — is part of Brown’s goal of lative check-in and never skirting but unlike his predecessor, he’s not Commit yourself to be 15 minutes Needless to say, now is probably bridging our state’s ever-widening the elephant in the room that is afraid to reach out, use some force early. (Finally, something I can work not the best time to be asking $25-billion deficit. our fiscal crisis. and make himself unpopular for with.) more from California’s citizens, Nice try, but even if the GOP With California between a the good of the state. The day after this extensive aca- and Brown duly noted that this is approves the special election, it’s rock and a hard place, Brown has demic research, I had a job interview by no means a popular request. It’s unlikely that the vote will pass. An targeted the Golden State’s big- at 1 p.m. Following this plan, I figured probably not a feasible one either, extension of the same temporary gest problem with alacrity, asking I should try to be there at 12:45 p.m. but when the state has already been tax increase already appeared on 48,000 state employees to return Driving down Miramar Road, it was declared to be in a “fiscal state of California’s ballot two years ago, in cell phones, canceling fleet services just my luck: Every single light I hit emergency” and every sector is May 2009, and was quickly voted to save money and both being AngelaÊChen turned red. Of course. suffering massive cuts, it’s a breath down. frank with worries that lawmakers EDITOR IN CHIEF This must be all that bad karma of fresh air to see that our leader at With the economy only margin- do not have an adequate plan for finally catching up to me. As I pulled least has a focused, concrete plan. ally better than it was in 2009, it’s the state and stressing that he is TrevorÊCox into the Panera Bread parking lot, I MANAGING EDITOR The crux of the governor’s hard to imagine voters turning out open to suggestions from all sides. checked my phone: 1:03 p.m. Not bad. Monday night State of the State to offer more of their income when His 15-minute State of the State ReginaÊIp Later that day, I had a 4 p.m. class. speech lies upon this proposed spe- they are receiving less funding, no speech pulled no punches in regard NEWS EDITOR Usually, it takes me 30 minutes from cial election. Brown, who previous- matter how necessary for the state’s to where we are now, acknowledg- CherylÊHori walking to the Arriba stop to pulling ly served as governor for two terms recovery may be. ing that “it’s serious this time.” OPINION EDITOR into the Mandeville bus loop. That day, beginning in 1975 and was inau- So Brown is better off focus- This is a contrast to former The UCSD Guardian is published twice a week at I left 45 minutes early. Stepping off gurated for his third in January, ing on other branches of his plan Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who the University of California at San Diego. Contents the bus, I had an extra 15 minutes to © 2011. Views expressed herein represent the wants state Congress to approve an — which include working to create told the Los Angeles Times last majority vote of the editorial board and are not kill — and that could only mean one election in June that would allow more jobs, focusing on renewable month that he should have “used necessarily those of the UC Board of Regents, the ASUCSD or the members of the Guardian staff. thing: Mandeville Coffee Cart and hot- voters to approve the extension of energy and investing in education his political muscle” and forced tie grad-student patrol. Maybe there’s higher vehicle fees and sales tax. — than holding his breath on this residents to confront the budget something to this whole ‘punctuality’ This initiative, combined with one. crisis instead of backing an initia- thing after all. OPINIONÊ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2011Ê THE UCSD GUARDIAN 5 JOAN OF ART By Raechel Wong LETTER TO THE EDITOR Revelle College Senior is ever met and the two of us could look at anything and find it hilari- Gone, but Not Forgotten ous. I could always trust Barbara. She was the voice of reason when Dear Editor, I was upset and overreacting. She Everyone who had the pleasure laughed with me during the good of meeting Barbara is truly blessed. times and supported me through the She is the most genuine, amazing, bad. She was by my side at the first beautiful, smart, inspiring person I Welcome Week dance, the Warren have ever met. I feel so lucky to have concerts, nights out in PB and Vegas been able to spend six wonderful and the time we had to walk all the years calling Barbara my best friend. way across campus in high heels. When I met her back in high school, I have so many memories with she had just transferred to school in Barbara that it is impossible for me San Marcos. It was the first night of to pick one to exemplify how amaz- swim team tryouts, and I had been ing she was. The world has truly lost told she was my competition. We a remarkable and inspiring young swam the same events and I knew woman. Barb will always be in my there was a possibility she could thoughts and prayers and I will cher- take my spot on the team. However, ish the memories we have forever. when I talked to her, none of that Words really cannot even begin to mattered. Our personalities clicked explain how phenomenal Barbara is instantly and she quickly became or the impact she has had upon my my best friend. Barb only stayed at life or that of all those she has met. I Mission Hills for one year before am so blessed to have had Barbara as moving to New Mexico for her my best friend. senior year of high school. Before — Ashley Nijinski she left, she and I sat for hours recit- Senior, Eleanor Roosevelt College ing all the good times we’d had and would go back and forth saying our ▶ The Guardian welcomes letters from its readers. First-Year Parking Should Be the First to Go inside jokes. Even though she was in ▶ PARKING, fromÊpageÊ4 but petitioners shouldn’t hold their And at UCLA, students may apply All letters must be no longer than 500 words, a different state, Barb and I remained typed, double-spaced and signed with a name and breath. for permits, but none are guaranteed a And though there are dozens of friends and we were reunited when applicable title. Letters must also contain a phone If the petition indicates anything spot; the campus transportation office number. We reserve the right to edit for length and unoccupied graduate student parking we both decided to attend UCSD. spaces on any given day of the week (other than the irritation of every stu- uses a need-based point system to clarity. Letters may be dropped off at the Guardian My memories of Barbara from office on the second floor of the Student Center or dent who’s ever fought evaluate each application, taking into in the East Regents lots high school and college are filled e-mailed. Send all letters to: fellow swoopers for a account relevant factors such as class near Triton ballpark, the If the petition with joy and laughter. Barb had a The UCSD Guardian spot), it’s the need for standing, on-campus employment and fact remains that when indicates contagious smile; when she smiled, Opinion Editor TPS to reevaluate the the distance of one’s commute. 9500 Gilman Dr. 0316 it comes to parking, the everyone in the room did. She also anything, it’s the permit system. At UC Each of these options is worth La Jolla, CA 92093-0316 university does have had an amazing sense of humor. She Davis, freshmen are assessing and it’s time to change how e-mail: [email protected] to give priority to the need for TPS to is by far the funniest person I have convenience of a relative barred from bring- we issue our permits. An estimated few in order to incentiv- reevaluate the ing cars to campus. At 53,000 students, employees and faculty ize working here. permit system. Berkeley, students can members commute to UCSD daily. The suggestion that purchase a specific pass The fewer who spend half an hour some of those exist- for carpooling. (Our daily searching for a place to park — WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG ing ‘A’ and ‘B’ spots be converted to office allows carpoolers to share the whether by means of improved car- ‘S’ spots may be ideologically sound cost of a permit, though the system pool programs, shuttle lines or even, APPLY ONLINE. — undergrads represent, after all, the mostly operates as informal agree- perhaps, the proposed San Diego-wide overwhelming majority of campus — ments between commuters.) trolley system — the better. 14th Annual Black History Luncheon Revelle wed., Feb. 9, 2011 PLAZA CAFE college lunch served 11am-2pm Special gift for the first Entertainment 12noon- 1PM 100 guests (starting at 11:30 am) UC San Diego students, staff, faculty, General admission is free. Complimentary and the public are invited to enjoy a taste dessert is included with the purchase of of African-American culture through home- a full entree*. For more info, please visit cooked soul food, inspiring entertainment, hdh.ucsd.edu/bhm. and more! * Lunch prices vary. Visa and MasterCard accepted. 6 THE UCSD GUARDIANÊ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2011Ê NEWS UnionÊSaysÊUniversityÊisÊIntentionallyÊDeportingÊResearcher BiologyÊMajorÊVolunteeredÊatÊHospitalÊ ▶ PROTESTS, fromÊpageÊ1 Jan. 6. andÊWantedÊtoÊBecomeÊaÊNeurosurgeonÊ “A lot of people were walking by, it was right in Helen then filed an appeal for her termination under front of Library Walk, and start listening in,” Office of the terms of UAW’s collective bargaining agreement. ▶ CANO, fromÊpageÊ1 because they’re supposed to bring her the President Press Secretary Reem Ateyeh said. “Other “Her termination, we believe, is based on false a warm, loving, fun and selfless best body home and they haven’t released reactions were just looking, listening. It allegations about her work, so she is appealing through friend that would do anything to make her yet,” Olmstead said. “We still didn’t seem like anyone had any negative the grievance process in the union contract,” the people she loved happy.” don’t know anything as far as when reactions. It was pretty positive.” UAW 5810 representative Scott Clifthorne Volunteer Services Manager services will be.” Kamil said the event was relevant to said. Susan Vandendriesse said Cano was Olmstead and Patterson will hold students. Clifthorne said UCSD deleted her record a volunteer for Scripps Memorial a memorial service for her in San “I personally had wanted to do She is being in the federal Student and Exchange Visitor Hospital-La Jolla since last summer. Diego as well, but the date has not something because I felt that it was denied due Information System. “She was a dedicated volunteer been determined. Cano is survived really necessary for the campus to know “ “[The university] is not required to do who was very supportive of our staff by her mother Julie Reger and father something is going on beyond just process. If she that,” Clifthorne said. “They chose to do and patients,” Vandendriesse said. Nicolas Cano. classes,” Kamil said. was a U.S. that. The university knew that Dr. Helen was “All of our volunteers are a big part “She lived each day, taking none The group marched with baguettes, postdoc, she appealing her termination.” of our staff here and I think she was for granted, as some of the journal which Le said were to reflect the revolts After an employer deletes an employee pursuing a career in medicine and entries I have come across express in Egypt. would easily have in the SEVIS system, he or she has 30 days will be missed by all of the people [that] ‘there were no bad days,’ Cano’s “The revolutionary baguettes wielded the right to go to leave the country or else remain illegally. that she worked with or volunteered father said. “Enjoy your lives, follow today mirror the protests of the Jasmine through the full Through the system, Helen is required to with here.” your dreams, and as my baby girl Revolution and those in Egypt against leave the United States by this Saturday, Cano’s family in New Mexico will believed in life and death, make this the shortage of food and high prices grievance Feb. 5. be holding a memorial and funeral place a little better having lived.” for staples,” Le said. “Central to the procedure and go “Dr. Helen wants to appeal her service for her. A date has not yet struggle is literally fighting to eat and we through an termination, wants to take it to arbitration been set. Readers can contact Regina Ip at rwip@ wanted to demonstrate this particularly [and] wants to present the facts to a neutral, “We don’t know anything yet ucsd.edu. visceral, essential reason that Tunisians arbitrator.” third-party arbitrator but the university is and Egyptians are rising up.” trying to force her out of the country this SCOTT CLIFTHORNE Saturday before she has a chance to do that,” During the same afternoon, members UAW 5810 REPRESENTATIVE SDÊCommunitiesÊGiveÊPositiveÊ from the solidarity demonstration joined Clifthorne said. about 50 postdoctoral researchers, Clifthorne said the grievance process academic student employees and faculty takes a long time. If the issue is not resolved ResponseÊtoÊNew,ÊDevelopingÊTrolleyÊ members to occupy the Chancellor’s through the department, university labor TROLLEY, fromÊpageÊ1 $3 one-way and $5 for an all-day relations or the UC Office of the President, then the ▶ Complex for about 25 minutes and protest the appeal reinforcement from the public also pass. Matthews said that UCSD appeal is taken to a neutral, third-party arbitrator. process of researcher Wilda Helen. known as the Mid-Coast Corridor wants fare structures to emulate the “She is being denied due process,” Clifthorne said. “We call on Chancellor Fox to intervene Transit Project. arrangement set with Metropolitan “If she was a U.S. postdoc, she would easily have the and provide Dr. Helen a chance to appeal her Locations for stops are still Transit System and North County right to go through the full grievance procedure and go termination,” Xiaoqing Cao said in a statement. being discussed, but will most likely Transit. through an arbitrator.” Cao is the president of the United Auto Workers 5810, include Pepper Canyon Hall and UCSD Director of Physical Engler said in an e-mail he could not comment on a union for UC postdoctoral researchers. a spot near the Preuss School and Planning Brad Werdick said a trolley the topic due to confidentiality issues. Labor relations Chancellor Marye Anne Fox was not in the office at Health facilities. can hold up to 120 passengers and specialist Belinda Hein, who is handling the case, could the time of protest. Environmental studies will be travel at a maximum of 55 miles per not be reached for comment. Helen, who is from Indonesia, worked as a completed by the end of 2011 and hour, running every 7.5 minutes. postdoctoral researcher at bioengineering professor publicly released in 2012, according “[With] greater transportation Readers can contact Regina Ip at rwip@ucsd. Adam Engler’s stem cell biology and bioengineering to SANDAG Project Development options on campus, people are not edu...... laboratory for two years before being terminated on Program Manager Greg Gastelum. bringing as many cars to campus,” “We’re developing a footprint,” Matthews said. “We haven’t sold as Gastelum said. “Then we can start many parking permits over the last NEWS evaluating those areas that are several years as we had done in the within that footprint to make an p a s t .” EAT, APPLY, LOVE. assessment.” APPLICATIONS AT UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG. A fare structure has not been Readers can contact Laira Martin at set. Currently, SDSU students pay [email protected]. The experience is everything\ Party & sightsee your way through Europe, island hop in Greece, chill out on Thailand’s amazing beaches, see the Great Barrier Reef in Australia... Contiki has over 190 trips to choose from worldwide. Find yours! Greece France $ 50 ON TOP OF OUR BEST OFFER IN THE MARKET Italy Australia when you mention CAMPUS101 Restrictions apply. ContikiStudents.com Over 190 Trips Worldwide. Find Yours. CST #1001728-20 HIATUSÊ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2011Ê THE UCSD GUARDIANÊ7 TONIGHT MENÊÒCreditÊCardÊBabie$Ó If you’re searching for an empty mic MENÊÒLifeÕsÊHalfÊPriceÓ to show off your poetry or musical prowess with, head on over to the DemdikeÊStareÊÒCagedÊInÊStammheimÓ Food Co-Op, where Mania Magazine boss ditties DemdikeÊStareÊÒRegolithÓ will be providing some open mic THEÊBESTÊSONGSTHEÊBEST SONGS LupeÊFiascoÊÒWordsÊIÊNeverÊSaidÓ entertainment at 7 p.m. INÊHIATUSÊTHISÊWEEKINÊHIATUSÊTHISÊWEEK HCiONTACTONTACATUST THE EDITOR: [email protected] PLAYREVIEW If Stars Are Like Us, Then Vagrants, Whores and We’re Worried tupidity often seems directly propor- tional to how famous someone is (or, S as Kanye puts it, “The ego is overdone … it’s like hoodies”). Most seem to think All That Jazz public celebrity mishaps are a rare thing Adaptation of 20th-Century Theatre Classic Hits Pop and the Right Notes, But Gets Lost in the Details. Circumstance NEDA SALAMAT By Natalie Bui • Contributing Writer [email protected] (false) or that most are unintentional (also here’d be no “Chicago,” no every corner, and each colorful false). For your amusement, here’s my “Cabaret” and no “Sweeney Todd” character is guilty of trickery. roundup of the stupidest celebrity head- if it weren’t for German playwright People use others for their own lines over the past two weeks: T Bertolt Brecht and one of his most advantage. People use others for Lady Gaga is working on a perfume — famous works, “The Threepenny Opera.” sexual pleasure. People use others which smells of blood and semen. Brecht’s landmark 1928 script — along for political means. And Mack the First off, celebrities should not pioneer with the innovative music of Kurt Weill Knife uses others for everything their own perfume lines. Spending 40 — sparked the darkly comic, jazz-cabaret As the play progresses, we see hours a week singing on stage, churning style that has given birth to some of the Mack rise to the top. He has men out addictive pop songs and sporting a most famous musi- bowing at his feet, cops under his sweat-soaked crotch doesn’t make some- THE THREEPENNY cals of our time. belt and is able to balance Polly as one an expert on the art of perfumery OPERA With John Gay’s his lover, Lucy (Megan Robinson) as (go away already, Fergie). Second, exactly Starring: 18th-century opera his old flame and Jenny (Anne Stella) what demographic is Lady Gaga’s perfume Zach Harrison, Taylor “The Beggar’s as his hooker on the side. (which one can only hope will be called Shurte & Anne Stella Game” as its source Despite the exciting plot-twists, “men’s locker room”) appealing to? Serial Directed by: Jeffrey Wienckowski material, Brecht Wienckowski’s two-and-a-half-hour killers? The cast of “True Blood”? Megan Sheila and Hughes crafted a musi- interpretation regrettably loses the Fox? Hold on — no one. Even Foxy Potiker Theatre cal that claimed sarcastic undertones of the original. wipes that mess up before she steps out. Feb. 3-5 to be “by and for Sarah Cogan’s dark lighting makes the Kobe Bryant wants Pau Gasol to be a B- beggars.” Brecht’s characters appear more frightening than “black swan.” world of Victorian spiteful. Poorly choreographed, awk- Just when the Hollywood frenzy over London is rife with familiar characters: ward slap-stick jokes are inserted in an Lamar Odom and Shrek Kardashian’s cold-blooded vagrants, thieves, whores attempt to enhance the humor, though nuptials died down, Kobe Bryant — like and backstabbers. And like the Sweeney they mostly detract from the darkness of the visionary team captain he is — came Todds and Roxie Harts that it inspired, the plot. Other additions, like the rickety, out with this movie analogy gem in an “The Threepenny Opera’”s cast of dark ostensibly unfinished set and animated interview with ESPN: characters is appealing enough to seduce projections in the beginning make little “When I’m out there being aggres- the audience straight to the bottom of significant contribution. sive and doing my thing, [Gasol] needs the chain. The gifted cast puts on credible per- to follow suit and just be just as aggres- For UCSD’s adaptation — run- formances nonetheless. As Polly, Shurte sive which is hard for him because ning at the Sheila and Hughes Potiker is the perfect innocent, playing well off it’s kind of against his nature ... Even Theatre until Saturday night — third- Harrison’s debonair, mischievous Mack. when he was in Memphis and he was year MFA student and director Jeffrey Stella hits the right combination of the go-to guy, he was always very nice. Wienckowski transplants the story to the seduction and arrogance playing Jenny, Very white swan. I need him to be black Great Depression, allowing the Marxist while the rest of the hookers — with swan.” criticisms of the capitalist world in the their ditzy, nasally delivery — add a No word (yet) on whether Bryant original to shed light on the American nice little touch to the story as a grown- plans to incorporate homoerotica as Dream. up interpretation of Cinderella’s evil a regular part of the Lakers’ pre-game The show opens in the shop of stepsisters. rituals — fingers crossed that tutus Jonathan Peachum (Zach Martens) — But the lifeblood of the play is Weill’s become a part of their uniforms. who leads and trains a group of beggars exuberant music, boosted by jazzy chord James Franco teaches James Franco — as he notices that his daughter Polly progressions, light accordions and the about James Franco. (Taylor Shurte) has not come home since melodramatic organ that embody the When Movieline recently announced she went out the night before. Little does liveliness of the ’20s — if you’re famil- that Columbia College Hollywood he know, she’s hooking up with, and iar with the Billie Holiday and Louis would be offering a Masters course planning on marrying (in a stable, of all Armstrong renditions of “The Ballad of taught by James Franco, UCLA film places), criminal du jour Macheath, aka Mack the Knife,” you will enjoy the bril- students heaved a collective sigh of Mack the Knife (Zach Harrison). liantly performed version in the play. relief. The course, called “Editing James Peachum is furious when he discov- But for a show that claims to be for Franco … with James Franco” (seriously ers the news, and sets out to arrest Mack the corrupt thief, the cast and crew — even the college’s course registrar is with the help of the sheriff, Tiger Brown should have stolen more from the sim- laughing at this shit) will have 12 stu- (Mark Christine), getting caught up in plicity of the Brecht original. New set- dents create a 30-minute documentary manipulations along the way. tings and new ideas don’t always make a using footage from the actor’s career. Meanwhile, betrayal lurks around lasting impression. Franco plans on occasionally attending the class and Skyping in to lecture, too. Franco’s overexposed self-love affair is sort of like Speidi 2.0. Maybe it’ll be “irreconcilable differences” for Franco and Franco, too. They Tried to Make Him go to Rehab druthers exit strategy As Egypt tears itself inside-out, the HIATUS PICKS THE WEEK’S BEST BETS THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS press has latched onto a greater tragedy — Charlie Sheen of “Two and a Half Men” took a break from starring in the world’s SPIRIT NIGHT DANCE PIERCE THE VEIL XENAKIS, DEBUSSY & PHIL PALIMPSEST NEW MUSIC worst sitcom to check into a rehab center CONRAD PREBYS MUSIC CENTER GEISEL FORUM / FEBRUARY 5, 9 P.M. / FREE PORTER’S PUB KLINE PREMIERE after being rushed to an LA hospital, FEB. 3, 7:30 P.M. 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DEEPER coke Lohan is offering you her dearest Resident’s Association. Free glow sticks included. condolences. Here’s hoping (knowing) THE LOFT INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS PORTERS PUB Even if we lose the game, at least you won’t CBS can find some other crap to fill their remember it in the morning. (RE) FEB. 4, 8 P.M. FEB. 7, 3 P.M. FEB. 9, 8 P.M. FREE 9 p.m. slot. Or, to quote the good man $8 FREE Kanye once more: “Hangovers ain’t good man… hangovers ain’t good.” 8ÊTHE UCSD GUARDIANÊ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2011Ê HIATUS Wake Up: FILMREVIEW Child Stardom Lost In the is Not So Black Water. and White James Cameron Produces a tarting a new decade is always a drag. When I turned the big two- Watered-Down Thriller That S oh last week, I couldn’t help but feel remorse at leaving teenagedom Traps Its Cast In the Depths. behind. For a long time I held on to the By Rebecca Erbe precocious idea that, before my twen- o ahead and add underwater thriller Less Matter, “Sanctum” to a list of reasons never to G go cave diving. The flick is based on the true story of an expert spelunker/diver who More Art gets trapped with his team (and teenage son) LEILA HAGHIGHAT in a mysterious cave that’s slowly filling with [email protected] water. The team believes that SANCTUM somewhere below its feet, Starring: the cave water leads to the ties, I would write my magnum opus Richard ocean, but they don’t have a or discover my hidden talent for the Roxburgh map — or actual proof that didgeridoo, perform at Carnegie Hall 01:49 the path exists. And with their and become world famous overnight. Rated R C+ entrance completely blocked, But forever gone is that window of the only way out, as the tag- opportunity to stake my claim at being line reads, is down. a child prodigy and, in its place, I’ve “Sanctum” is another one of producer James been ringing in the new decade with Cameron’s epic explorations of picturesque nat- wake-up calls from reality. Please, life, ural landscapes: dwarfing, sparkling and utterly leave a message. devoid of nuanced characters. There’s the gruff Ironically, one of the calls that I leading man Frank (Richard Roxburgh) and his haven’t deferred to voicemail has me rebellious son, Josh (Rhys Wakefield), cocksure realizing how difficult the life of a Carl (Ioan Gruffudd of “The Fantastic Four”) child prodigy actually is. And, given and his bubble-gum Barbie girlfriend, Victoria the present hubbub of movie awards (Alice Parkinson). Each is written as a cartoon- season, it’s only fair to pick on child ish caricature of a person and the effect is as actors. stifling as the waterlogged cave they’re trapped Instead of trekking up an incline in. Though some make admirable attempts in their stardom, child actors work to at breaking through the movie’s entrapping resist the inertia of a downhill career. screenplay (most notably the youngest cast The roles that put them on the map member, Wakefield), others, like Gruffudd, bank millions, making for records hard resign themselves to cookie-cutter kitsch — to trump and characters hard to erase tight cavities. rupted shots of the cave, rather than mimic the Carl speaks with a forced, gum-bearing smile from collective memory. Even those In most films, 3-D effects are added after- frivolous 3-D craze of the ’80s. The expansion and calls his girlfriend “babe” in a mocking who defy the trend struggle at times. ward for the sake of charging an extra $3 at of space allows the audience to experience the monotone. Like we haven’t heard that before. Case in point (despite the zeitgeist the box office. The practice usually results in cave in all its spacious grandeur — sharpening Luckily, in true Cameron fashion, paint- that would beg otherwise): Natalie a series of awkward close-ups — stills of golf layers of glistening rock, a corroding cathedral’s stripping dialogue takes a backseat to visual Portman. balls rolling toward the audience, or Nic Cage’s dilapidated walls and gushing bursts of unim- thrills. Director Alister Grierson keeps the She’s beautiful even when she goes CGI mug peering menacingly out of the screen peded water. audience in a state of near pitch-black suffoca- bald and she’s versatile in her acting (“The Green Hornet” is inexplicably playing in It’s likely that “Sanctum” will draw parallels tion as divers scramble to stay alive — avoiding repertoire, too. Chicken-poxed guisha 3-D right now). to big-brother “Avatar,” though it also ham- jagged falling rocks, drowning or starvation. Queen Amidala scared me shitless “Sanctum,” however, was actually conceived strings itself with a shriller cast of characters The striking scenery is doused with a shipload as a kid, only to be outdone 11 years with 3-D technology in mind. Cameron has than the latter’s sag-faced ensemble. And of visceral, teeth-grinding gore — actors hang later by the spindly feathers that Nina been developing and perfecting his own 3-D unfortunately for Cameron, it’s also bound precariously by their scalp-hair, scrape limbs sprouts from her back in “Black Swan.” technology for years — his Fusion Camera to have a harder time keeping its head above against gritty stone and claw through wet, air- But despite Portman’s beauty and System is being used to glorify lengthy, uninter- water. the accolades that she’s accrued as one of our generation’s most brilliant star- lets, I still feel underwhelmed and not Millipied (yes, you’re supposed to pro- wholly convinced by her more serious nounce it with French flair—“MEEL- performances. Her expression of per- pee-yeh”—but I’m still thinking of the manent constipation in “Black Swan” thousand-legged arthropod). is a disappointing excuse for acting Her interest in the risqué (now so (and the Best Actress nomination), and obvious that no flick of a Hollywood those histrionic face contortions may designer’s wand can cover her scarlet very well be an effort at one-upping “A”) traces back to films as early as WORK FOR the dramatic performances she’s been 2004’s Academy-Award nominated churning out her entire career. APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT “Closer,” where Portman played a strip- WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG Since her breakout role in 1994’s per who told Clive Owen that her lady “The Professional,” Portman has largely parts taste like heaven. QUESTIONS? E-MAIL remained in the dramatic film circuit, What Portman has gone on record [email protected] and, as her recent forays into comedy saying in the past about gratuitous imply, Nina may be an extension of her THE nudity and sex in film has come back very self. to bite her in the ass. “It’s horrible to In other words, Portman has a be a sex object at any age, but at least “Black Swan” complex in reverse. when you’re an adult you can make the Instead of going from the light to decision if you want to degrade your- dark, she’s leaving dramatic chops self,” she said a decade ago. behind for light-hearted humor in the GUARDIAN So, either she’s being hypocriti- just-released rom-com “No Strings cal or her Oscar acceptance speech GET PAID, GET EXPERIENCE Attached” and upcoming medieval this February will indirectly be an THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1967 stoner flick “Your Highness.” extension of thanks to Aronofsky for Although it’s certainly a departure the opportunity to “degrade” her- from the norm she established in child- self in lesbian sex scenes with Mila hood, comedy agrees with Portman. Kunis. Or maybe it just wasn’t up to POSITIONS Her rap on “SNL” in 2006 was ballsy par with her extended nude scene in AVAILABLE FOR but brilliant in playing off our expec- “Hotel Chevalier” or stripping down tations (“When I was at Harvard / I to a skimpy bikini in “Your Highness” WRITERS smoked weed every day / I cheated before the glued eyes of James Franco LAYOUT DESIGNERS every test / and snorted all the yay”). and Danny McBride. In 2009, she effortlessly kept pace with Those accusations of hypocrisy and ILLUSTRATORS Zach Galifianakis’ awkward charac- selling out are the inevitable price a MARKETING ter (and his greatest punch line) on child actor has to pay for her growing his Funny or Die interview series, pains. The comparisons made between WEB DESIGNERS “Between Two Ferns.” the current Portman and her ingénue PHOTOGRAPHERS Portman’s string of comedic mov- past may be unfair, since she’s just ies isn’t the only thing in discord with breaking out of her childhood mold, GRAPHIC DESIGNERS the straight-laced image she spent her but that’s what an adolescence spent in VIDEO PRODUCTION childhood building as a vegan, faith- the limelight entails. ful Jew and Ivy League graduate. Quite So, until I get my own big break, to the contrary, she’s soon to enjoy a here’s to a new decade of screw-ups shotgun wedding, after being knocked that won’t go publicly chastised (and up by her choreographer, Benjamin hopefully a job when I graduate, too). HIATUSÊ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2011Ê THE UCSD GUARDIANÊ9 ALBUMREVIEWS TRACKREVIEWS MEN 6 Demdike Stare 7 ‘Words I Never Said’ 8 Talk About Body Tryptych Lupe Fiasco IAMSOUND 10 MODERN LOVE 10 ATLANTIC 10 upe Fiasco is angry at the world, and he’s not shy about Electro-Pop Trio Borrows Disco Mind-Boggling, Drone-Sampling it. “Words I Never Said” is five minutes of pure fury — an L avalanche of lyrical broadsides aimed at everything from Beats, Recycles Past Tricks Electronica Haunts Our Nightmares the bumbling media to shitty schools to Obama himself. After Skylar Grey opens the track with a hauntingly beauti- he best of electro riot enting that mostly amounts here’s no other way to put the soundtrack to a long- ful verse sung over echoing keystrokes, Lupe immediately grrrl band Le Tigre to suggesting adoption and it: Tryptych, a collection forgotten horror film. This retorts, spitting such gems as, “I really think the war on terror T perfectly paired feminist borrowing someone else’s T of albums by Manchester approach is pushed to its limit is a bunch of bullshit/ just a poor excuse for you to use up all lyrics with raw and fiery cock. Like Le Tigre with its duo Demdike Stare, is some on tracks like the standout your bullets.” synth punk, turning weighty feminist focus, MEN makes seriously freaky shit. “Regolith,” on which Baltic Lupe’s venom spares no one and builds off a steady, pulsat- issues into songs that were it a point to show the strug- The band, which consists folk guitars are paired with ing beat that works with the chilling chorus to create a sense always catchy as hell. gles gays have with adoption of minimalist techno innova- unearthly female wails and a of doom. It’s a virtuoso performance, more wrathful than past Fortunately, side proj- and the assumptions the tors Miles Whittaker and thundering bass drone. hits like “Superstar” or “Day Dreaming,” but just as packed ect MEN, fronted by Le heterosexual majority has on Sean Canty, spent the last Some of the most intrigu- with effortless wordplay and slick rhymes. Tigre member JD Samson, the subject. year crafting three LPs worth ing music on Tryptych is —Imran Manji is not much different. But the music itself is not of electronic music composed found on the album’s more S S W With the help of Michael nearly as radical. Scattered of samples from obscure up-tempo tracks. The brood- O’Neill (Princess, Ladybug with tribal drumming, tune- sources: old film soundtracks, ing “Bardo Thodol,” named Transistor) and Ginger ful guitar riffs and club beats, fuzzed-out Eastern European after the Tibetan Book of the Brooks Takahashi (LTTR, Talk About Body has Samson field recordings, Middle Dead, begins with a sample The Ballet), MEN’s debut, trying on everyone else’s Eastern folk and 1980s taken from a dated field ‘Hopelessness Blues’ 7 Talk About Body, blends Le style instead of one that is Scandinavian industrial recording of a Central Asian Fleet Foxes Tigre’s radical roots with distinctly her own. In tracks drone. folk group and evolves into a refined electronic beats and like “Simultaneously,” MEN For the most part, the 33 danceable techno groove. The SUB POP 10 bass-lines straight from the even manage to borrow a songs collected on Tryptych‘s similarly-minded “Caged in disco sounds of Indeep’s couple of notes from the xx’s three albums — Forest of Evil, Stammheim” turns a lurch- eattle’s Starbucks-folk collective Fleet Foxes will return this “Last Night a DJ Saved My signature whispery guitar Liberation Through Hearing ing, reversed bass drum and May with their highly anticipated second effort Helplessness L i fe .” and soft vocals. and Voices of Dust — fall female vocals into a hazy dub S Blues. Until then, the album’s first single and title track “Life’s Half Price” starts It would have served into two categories. They’re beat. provide enough plucking guitar, soaring melodies and wispy, the party right, as repetitive MEN better to craft an either atmospheric psyche- That’s what makes Garfunkel-style vocals to satiate our thirst for those bucolic, drums culminate in sweep- original style, rather than delic music or repetitive and Tryptych so interesting. The hippie-bred simpler times. ing guitar and a dance-floor taking so heavily from past complex dub techno. Even for weirdest part of the album “Helplessness Blues” packs an impressive cinematic narra- breakdown. Samson’s drawl projects and contemporaries. listeners that aren’t terribly isn’t the creepy cult-referenc- tive into five minutes. Frontman Robin Pecknold begins with a is more monotone than the Talk About Body weaves well-versed in dark ambient ing spoken word samples or chorus-backed overture about youth and proving oneself, then screech of Le Tigre front- together raw punk and the music (dubbed “hauntology” the early analog electronic picks up steam, erupting in an acoustic-driven chorus that chugs woman Kathleen Hanna, but synth drum patterns of disco, by music blogs), it’s obvious experiments — it’s the fact past lyrical images of waiting tables and working in orchards. by the end of the track she creating edgy buildups and that Demdike Stare know that the results are oftentimes Pecknold wields this aesthetic with emotive sincerity, following gives imitation a shot: “I’m therapeutic releases made for their stuff. so accessible. the musings of a twentysomething who feels helpless in a world not your baby’s daddy / Free grooving. But MEN make no On “Forest of Evil (Dusk)” It’s still hard to get past of dizzying choices and consequences. love / I’m not your baby’s impact on the dance floor — found on the first album the freaky, though: The more Clearly, Fleet Foxes plan to remain faithful to their breezy sta- daddy / free money!” when they borrow so much — whispering voices and eccentric moments will scare ple sound. The single’s combination of stripped-down production Samson’s roots are partic- from others and invent so muddy static are overtaken you shitless. and pleasant lyrical introspection provide hope for a solid return. ularly evident on tracks like little. by a relentless, arpeggiated Andrew — —Neelaab Nasraty “Credit Card Babie$,” where Tanner Cook synthesizer moan that sounds Whitworth — S W she offers advice on gay par- C W as though it was taken from S W BOOKBYTE.COM/USD GBB_NSP_MM_Ad3_USD_5x8.indd 1 11-01-14 2:22 PM 10 THE UCSD GUARDIAN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2011 CLASSIFIEDS Guardian Classifieds are placed online and are FREE for UCSD. Low cost classified placements for our print 4 edition are also available to the UCSD campus and the public at ucsdguardian.campusave.com2 3 12 34 1 Level: STUDENT HOUSING 18-35, right handed, drug-free, Level: no psychiatric history. Studies on ONLINE Level: 4 3 bedroom condo near UTC, M-F, 9-4 only. 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Sibuya threw ve By Liam Rose say they have some holes to fill, or you can say complete games and was named an All-American. S E they have six guys returning and they’re just going to be even better.” BASEBALL — Six All-Americans. Defensive Last season, Rossman and St. John com- Player of the Year. Coach of the Year. The acco- bined for a 21-1 record on 199.1 innings lades rolled in by the dozens for UCSD baseball pitched, and the Tritons will need to find a way Guido Knudson RHP Sr. last year, but one accomplishment was just to fill their spots in the rotation. Righty Daniel short of what the team was aiming for. Simmons and lefty Taylor Austin appear set to The righty went 10-3 with a 3.87 ERA, had four complete NCAA Division II Runners-Up. step up. games and had 78 strikouts in 88.1 innings. Had a batting The Tritons had their most successful year “I think our pitching staff is deeper than average against of .229. in program history in 2010, winning the CCAA it’s ever been,” Kehoe said. “Just watching our title, NCAA West Regional Title and setting staff the first two games, they’ve been amazing. program records in wins, runs and team batting They’ve been dominating the other teams.” average. The squad set a total of 19 program But the Tritons have more than just person- records in 2010 including individual marks. nel change this year. Over the offseason, the Aaron Bauman LF Sr. The Tritons finished the season 54-8 and team and the UCSD Athletics Department advanced to the NCAA Division-II title game. embarked on a campaign to have lights installed Bauman started all 62 games in left eld for the Tritons In his 14th year at the helm, UCSD alum at Triton ballpark, and — thanks to a slew of while hitting .413 with eight home runs. He also led the Dan O’Brien is by far the program’s most suc- donations from alumni — were able to have the cessful coach. O’Brien was awarded his second lights installed in January, in time for the 2011 team with .553 OBP and was named an All-American. consecutive Division II Coach of the Year last season. The lack of lighting disqualified UCSD season, and has led his squad to back-to-back from hosting playoff games in the past, even D-II College World Series appearances. when the squad should have hosted based on This year, the senior-laden squad has every record and ranking. Evan Kehoe 3B/OF Sr. chance of returning to the heights of last sea- The Tritons hosted their first night game on son, and is the early-season contender for the Saturday, Jan. 29 in an exhibition game against Kehoe also started all 62 games and was name to the All- national title. The team was the unanimous Point Loma Nazarene. Over 250 attended the West Region team. He hit .351 with eight home runs and coaches’ pick to take the CCAA title again, “Light It Up” celebration before the game, with and ranked No. 2 nationally in the Division-II former player Sean Greer flipping the switch to was second on the team with 63 RBI. preseason coaches’ poll. Southern Indiana, who light the field. defeated the Tritons 6-4 in the 2010 Title Game, “It’s just a huge occasion,” Kehoe said. “It’s begins the season with the top ranking. kind of a watershed moment for our program. The Tritons return with many of the top It’s been one of our goals for a few years now. I players from last year’s squad, and look poised didn’t really think it would manifest itself until Kellen Lee C Sr. to make another run to the College World after I was gone. It just shows that our program The Triton catcher hit .404 with eight home runs and Series in Cary, N.C. Ace Tim Shibuya returns, is headed in the right direction.” and will look to continue his dominating form The growth didn’t come without growing allowed only four steals. Lee also stole 10 bases himself from last year. The senior produced a school pains: The lights were on a timer and shut off and was named an All-American record of 13 wins with a 13-3 overall record, promptly at 10 p.m. in the middle of the ninth struck out 77 batters in 124 innings and threw inning. Facing a 15-minute warm-up time to five complete games. Fellow senior right-hand- get the lights back on and playing only an exhi- er Guido Knudson also returns, after going bition, the game was called short. 10-3 with a 3.87 ERA and four complete games Nevertheless, O’Brien agreed that the lights Kyle Saul RF Sr. last year. mean a lot to the program. Another All-American, Saul hit .414 with eight home runs In the field, the Tritons return six starters, “It was an electric night,” O’Brien said. “It with third baseman Evan Kehoe leading the was just an incredible night — from the alumni, and 53 RBI. He also led the team with 76 runs and 18 way. The senior hit .351 last season, with eight the place was packed, the music was loud, steals. home runs and 63 RBIs. Left fielder Aaron everyone was having a great time. It was a really Bauman also returns after leading the team special night.” with a .553 OBP last season, while hitting .413 On the field, the Tritons defeated Point with eight home runs. Fellow returning starters Loma 5-0. Kyle Saul, Aaron Bauman, Kellen Lee, Danny “This was the first time where you could see Danny Susdorf CF So. Susdorf, Michael Benton and Grant Bauer the team start to realize how good they could A transfer from University of San Diego, Susdorf hit .398 provide a fearsome lineup for any opposing be,” O’Brien said. “I think things are starting to pitching staff. fall into place.” with 33 RBI in his rst season as a Triton. But the Tritons have some significant UCSD has won all three of its preseason holes to fill. All-Americans Vance Albitz and exhibition games, with 2-1 and 3-2 wins over Brendan Gregorich have departed, along with San Diego Christian College. starting pitchers Matt Rossman and Kirby St. The Tritons will open their regular season at John. Gregorich set a school record by hitting home with a four-game series against Western a ridiculous .452 last season, and Albitz won Oregon. The first game is on Friday, Feb. 4 at 6 Grant Bauer 2B Sr. consecutive Defensive Player of the Year awards p.m., followed by a doubleheader on Saturday from his shortstop position. beginning at noon. The series wraps up on Had only one error as the double play partner of depart- “As far as position players, yeah we lost Sunday with an 11 a.m. game. ed Defensive Player of the Year Vance Albitz. He also hit two or three guys but we have six guys coming .310 with 32 RBI. back,” Kehoe said. “It’s good to see younger Readers can contact Liam Rose at lfrose@ucsd. guys fit in. You can look at it two ways: You can edu. Reach Higher with a master’s degree in Sport Management from California State University, Long Beach. This accelerated program prepares you for the business of sport management. Free information sessions are held monthly. Come join us on March 3. On Campus: 6:30 pm Call us today to RSVP at (800) 963-2250 or register online at ccpe.csulb.edu/sportmgmt5 CRD_SprtMgmtUCSD_Ad_Sp11.indd 1 Lorinda Owens 1/3/11 9:17 AM 6 in. x 5 in. UC San Diego Pub Date: 1/20/11 12 THE UCSD GUARDIAN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2011 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG/SPORTS UPCOMING | SPIRIT NIGHT Spirit Night 2011 is this Saturday, Feb. 5. The Tritons will host Cal State Monterey Bay, with the women’s game starting at 5:30 p.m. and the men’s game set to tip-off at 7:30 p.m. Both teams remain in the hunt for the postseason. Last year’s Spirit Night brought record crowds of over 3,500 as each squad picked up wins. SPORTSCONTACTÊTHEÊEDITOR:Ê[email protected] BASEBALL PREVIEW 2011 kyle tim 11 SAUL 41 SHIBUYA grant BAUER 9 UC San Diego evan daniel KEHOE 8 39 SIMMONS Triton baseball returns — complete with lighted field — looking to get back to the Division II Title Game. BASEBALL QUICK FACTS COACH: Dan O’Brien (14th season, 412-268) LETTERWINNERS RETURNING/LOST: 24/14 STARTERS RETURNING/LOST: 6/2 position players, 2/2 starting pitchers 2010 RECORD: 54-8 POSTSEASON: CCAA Title, NCAA Division II West Regional Title, NCAA Division II World Series Runner-Up 2010 PROGRAM BENCHMARKS: Program records for wins, team batting average, and runs; six All-Americans; Defensive Player of the Year; Divsion II Coach of the Year; program-best nish in D-II College World Series. BASEBALL PREVIEW,Êpage 11