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VOLUME XLII, ISSUE III THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2009 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG *HTW\Z <*)<+.,;*90:0: +W]VKQT5W^M[ .LHYZ\WMVY .WZ_IZL?Q\P :^PUL-S\ +INM:M^IUX 7HY[;^V Despite Grove’s longterm financial Health Center heads struggles, councilmembers remain awareness campaign; optimistic about new business plans. vaccinations to be By Reza Farazmand offered by November. Senior Staff Writer By Natalie Covate Contributing Writer our months after a controversial A.S. Council vote nearly shut down the Student Center’s National concern about the spread F Grove Caffe, top councilmembers are moving of the H1N1 flu virus — common- forward with plans to renovate and restructure the student-run business over the next several weeks. ly known as the “swine flu” — has JOHN HANACEK/GUARDIAN A.S. President Utsav Gupta, along with several prompted campus officials to prepare Undergraduate activists met last night to discuss Sept. 24th’s campus walkout. Although all present agreed the protest against potential once again for a potential campus student fee hikes and budget cuts was an overall success, some felt that the rally lacked organization and offered suggestions for future events. leading cabinet members, has worked closely with epidemic. Grove student manager Thomas Frank over the According to Student Health last two weeks to generate a Services Director Gina Fleming, );>W\M[\W+WVLMUV*]LOM\+]\[ new business plan capable UCSD officials have spent the sum- of pulling the cafe out of its mer preparing for the threat of a nearly $130,000 debt. By Hayley Bisceligia-Martin The Grove has suf- renewed outbreak, primarily by Staff Writer spreading awareness about how to fered financially since its avoid catching the virus. Declaring solidarity with the students, faculty conception, struggling to The Student Health Center and staff who participated in the Sept. 24 system- draw a profit amid grow- is anticipating a shipment of the wide campus walkouts, the A.S. Council passed a ing competition from new swine-flu vaccine from the Centers resolution last night endorsing the protests and campus coffee shops, heavy for Disease Control and Prevention, condemning the UC Board of Regents’ proposed turnover among its student which should be available by early fee increases. employees and diminished November. A virtually identical resolution, drafted by campus visibility. “There are many stu- “It’s really important “We are hoping to be able to have UCSD A.S. Vice President of External Affairs The cafe’s debt more than dents who say that our that we all come to enough for everyone,” Fleming said. Gracelynne West, was passed by the UC Students doubled last year, after coun- one walkout didn’t do these teach-ins ... Temporary vaccination clinics Association on Sept. 13. cilmembers voted to hire anything, but I don’t they’re going to be will be set up around campus to “We really tried to make [the resolution] former manager Cleveland believe that. It’s a step speaking on issues that cope with the large influx of people all-inclusive, both to students affected by priva- Thomas as a full-time employ- towards our ultimate impact us all.” expected to seek the vaccine. tization and lack of public funding, but also to ee — breaking from the Grove’s goal, and we have to Currently, the Health Center faculty and grad students,” West said. “The effects student-run model and incur- start somewhere.” holds a limited amount of seasonal of these budget cuts are going to be widely felt by ring a cost of $45,000 over the flu vaccinations available for students TIM MOK GRACELYNN WEST course of a year to pay Thomas’ with pre-existing conditions — con- THURGOOD MARSHALL A.S. VICE PRESIDENT salary. ditions which may leave them more See RESOLUTIONpage 6 COLLEGE FRESHMAN EXTERNAL AFFAIRS vulnerable to the swine flu virus, See GROVEpage 3 Fleming said. Get-Well Kits — containing a thermometer, throat lozenges, Tylenol, hand sanitizer and tissues — are now available for $5 at the Student <*:+P7OVUL(WWSPJH[PVU7\[Z;YP[VU3PURPU@V\Y7VJRL[ Health Center. “The most important item in the University works with According to Assistant Vice No idea where Real-time shuttle Chancellor of Administrative to find that See FLUpage 6 student org, tech Computing Elazar Harel, student locations and obscure lecture up-to-date company to design response has been overwhelmingly hall? Maps schedules. positive. can help. campus-themed tools Over 8,000 people have down- loaded the latest Version 1.1, for iPhone users. Frequent updates released a few weeks ago and includ- Look up your classmates, from a variety of Angela Chen ing podcast capability, news sources, campus news Contributing Writer athletics updates, video links and a professors, and administrators. sources (Guardian feature that allows users to monitor not included). In late June, UCSD became the exact location of campus shuttles the nation’s first public university in real time. to offer its students iPhone access The most popular facets of the A full schedule Images from to campus-related of classes with application are the campus map, campus events. GET IT information. descriptions, shuttle, directory and course fea- The UCSD The first version locations and tures, Harel said. iPhone app of the application times. University spokesperson Rex Keep up with is available was downloaded by Graham praised the thorough nature all your favorite for download 2,100 users in the of the application, particularly the Browse Triton teams. at the Apple first two days. map feature. student-made App Store. An early glitch Harel emphasized the impor- videos and allowed public access course pod- tance of student involvement in the to unauthorized personal informa- casts. development of the application. tion through the directory feature, but was fixed within a few hours. NEWSDAY/MCTCAMPUS See IPHONEpage 2

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Council kicked off the date be changed from the traditional again fully student-operated. upon the debt to bring us out of design flyers and posters advertising 2009-10 academic year with a Friday of Week 7 (during Spring “We didn’t really change anything debt,” Gupta said. the Grove, to be distributed through- T four-hour meeting yesterday Quarter) to Friday of Week 6, which last year,” Gupta said. “What we did Frank also intends to reinvent the out campus. night. Highlights included a presenta- precedes Mother’s Day weekend. The is we added a full-time manager, eatery’s menu, in an effort to simplify Ghosh said the council will tion on the current UC budget crisis change was suggested to avoid con- which is responsible for most of the the customer experience and speed absorb the cost of the campaign. and a debate over whether the council flict with a “potential softball game” at additional debt.” up service. They hope to strip the “We’re taking a realistic approach should continue funding the Koala RIMAC Field. Gupta — who campaigned heav- Grove’s daytime offerings down to based on the market,” Gupta said. campus newspaper. However, Gupta disagreed. ily on plans to preserve and revamp sandwiches and pizzas while imple- “There’s no dining hall in Muir. Before things got heated, the A.S. “I don’t want people having to the Grove during last year’s A.S. menting assembly-line food prepara- There’s no dining hall in the School Graphics Studio team welcomed the choose between their mothers and presidential election — has made tion. of Medicine. Students want more new council by taking a group shot of a popular campus tradition,” Gupta the eatery a top priority for his first “We’re going to simplify the way choice in terms of where they spend the members for their latest project: a said. quarter in office. you order food at the Grove,” Gupta their money. Students don’t really see “Who’s Who in A.S.” brochure. Marshall Senator Brian McEuen The Grove is currently operating said. “We’re going to take concepts the Grove as a food place — they see With the began the Koala at partial capacity — serving only from Chipotle and from In-N-Out us more as a coffee place, which is photo op over, funding debate by coffee and pastries — in order to and really make it simple to see what accurate, but it’s not all we provide. President Utsav politely condemn- cope with the changes being imple- we offer — and we’re going to reduce We’re going to re-advertise ourselves Gupta introduced 5L^ ing the comedy mented. Within two weeks, the eat- what we offer.” as the Grove the restaurant, and not Akos Rona-Tas — )\ZPULZZ newspaper’s most ery will shut down completely while Gupta has also discussed extend- just the Grove the cafe” a UCSD sociology 2LSZL`>VUN recent issue for major structural renovations take ing the Grove’s hours of operation Gupta, Frank, Ghosh and Vice professor — to poking fun at sec- place, including a new deck and the past 9 p.m. — a move that would to President of Finance and Resources present a lengthy, RS^ '\JZKLK\ ond-year Revelle installation of new interior flooring. capitalize on the lack of late-night Peter Benesch hope to premier the graph-heavy slide- student-athlete “In order to compete with all eateries available on campus. Grove in its new form by Five Week. show on the state of the UC budget. Leon Roach, who was killed in a pole- these new places that seem to be “The idea is to appeal to stu- They have discussed offering a full A key slide in the presentation vaulting accident this September. popping up every six minutes, we dents coming back from parties or week of free food items in order to evaluated the amount of money that Councilmembers were split on need to look good,” Frank said. students who are up late studying attract customers. the state of California spends on a UC whether they should continue fund- Frank and Gupta acknowledged who want somewhere to find good “We’re going to make it so nobody student versus a prison inmate. Rona- ing such a controversial newspaper. that the cafe’s debt will increase before food,” Associate Vice President of can not know about the Grove,” Tas pointed out that the state spends “You guys say you’re support- the renovations are complete. They Enterprise Operations Rishi Ghosh Gupta said. “We’re going to be offer- approximately $46,000 per year on ive of free speech, but we have to estimated the deck alone will cost up said. “There’s a void on campus right ing free food, free sandwiches. We one inmate, next to a mere $9,560 on take the blows that come with it,” to $10,000, while the installation of a now for that kind of service.” definitely intend to see thousands of the average UC student. said Campuswide Senator Adam new conveyor oven — similar to the Gupta said one focus of the eat- people try out the Grove in its first Gupta called the presentation “one Kenworthy. ones seen at Quiznos restaurants — ery’s revamp will be a renewed pub- week of new operation.” of the most useful so far,” and was After much discussion, the council will cost approximately $4,000. licity campaign — an effort to attract echoed by a roomful of snaps (signi- voted to continue funding the Koala. The cost of replacing the eat- new business to the Grove and move Readers can contact Reza Farazmand fying agreement). It took only a few seconds for ery’s interior flooring has yet to be away from its reputation as strictly a at [email protected]. Miscommunication between the the council to unanimously approve council and the speech-policy com- a resolution — authored by VP mittee caused the committee’s special External Affairs Gracelynne West — presentation to be pushed to next in support of the systemwide walkout week. on Sept. 24. Campuswide Senator Katie Hall As the meeting drew to a close, presented plans for UCSD’s 50th dreary-eyed councilmembers perked :MXWZ\?ZQ\M/M\8IQL anniversary celebration. Three main up to sing “Happy Birthday” to events — Founder’s Day, Innovation Warren Senator Emily Law. 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WEB POLL 65% They’re outrageous. Props to Tufts University for its new policy forbidding on-campus HOW DO residents from having sex while their roommate is in the dorm. YOU FEEL 18% Not ideal, ABOUT but necessary. YUDOF’S 14% Rather cut more, Flops to the Senate Finance Committee for passing a bill Tuesday PROPOSED charge less. FEE that would restore $50 million annually to 7816176+76<)+<<0--,1<7:"[email protected] INCREASES? 5% Undecided. abstinence-only sex education. -,1<7:1)4 7N :ML?QVM ?M¼ZM*ZWSM*]\\PM3QVOLWU/I\M[)ZM/WTLMV IVL:ITTQM[" I4M[[WV NZWU.ZIVKM ast Thursday’s walkout was the largest protest I’ve ever L witnessed at UCSD. But it’s one thing to miss a single day of syllabus handouts, and quite another to protest for days, weeks, months — however long it takes — to ensure our fees don’t skyrocket and our services don’t dwindle. Seasoned to Taste JAKE BLANC [email protected]

While studying abroad in France last year, I witnessed a national uprise of students who saw a threat to public education and reacted with nine weeks of protests. My university, Sciences-Po Lyon, and other schools across the coun- try boycotted the classroom for the same reasons that drove students to storm lecture halls on the first day of instruction here at UCSD: rising tuition costs, the demand for uni- versal access to a quality education and uncertainty about the future of public education itself. PHILIP RHIE/GUARDIAN The students at my French uni- versity were upset because tuition value should be placed on a plan that recommends cutting 18 percent from and tenured faculty to take out low- had risen to just under 2,000 euros “reflects an appropriate balance cen- all wages ranging from $200,000 to interest loans through the university. — a 10-percent increase. That’s A]LWN _IV\[][ tered on fairness and sacrifice.” $225,000, and 24 percent from all Currently, $800 million dollars of chump change next to Yudof’s pro- True — but Yudof seems to have a those above $300,000. the fund’s reserves are unused. We posal to increase fees 32 percent. \WJMTQM^MPM¼[TMN\ different definition of what’s fair. In other words salary cuts to a few suggest using these reserves to fill the Relative to our tuition, French Hiking next year’s fees by 32 per- thousand top executives gaps in core operations. students are charged peanuts. But VW[\WVM]V\]ZVML cent is not fair to students who have would yield $20 million According to AFSCME, that didn’t stop them from fight- struggled to afford an education since more than Yudof’s pro- More than it could offset up to 98 ing even harder. Seeing students QVPQ[I\\MUX\\W fees began steadily rising eight years posal to raise fees for all anything, the UC percent of the state’s march through the streets made me ago. Neither is cutting 10 percent from 220,000 UC students. leadership’s reduction to our gener- question whether my own country WNN[M\\PMLMÅKQ\ already meager salaries. More than anything, al-funds revenue. values education as much as France A less-accessible and therefore the UC leadership’s will- willingness to Even if it means does. *]\KWV[QLMZQVO more privatized public univer- ingness to sacrifice their sacrifice their freezing complimen- Understandably, some American sity not only contradicts the UC’s luxuries for the greater luxuries for the tary low-interest loans students in my program weren’t founding principles, but it also hurts good of our institution for UC hotshots, it thrilled to have such a large part \PM=+¼[JTWI\ML California’s chances of bouncing back would unite them with greater good of would aid those at the of their year abroad disrupted by from its current financial dilemma. workers and students in our institution bottom who don’t have a movement in which they weren’t M`MK]\Q^M[ITIZQM[ An educated workforce has played a coping with the strained would unite the privilege to such invested. But I saw it as cultural crucial role in California’s past suc- economy. monetary aid but des- immersion at its finest: What’s UMLQKITKMV\MZ cess: Both Silicon Valley and San Yudof has also them with perately need it. more French than weeks of block- Diego’s biotech industries have ben- ignored any possibility workers and Not to mention, in ading university buildings and dis- XZWÅ\[IVLJ][\QVO efitted from the talent, research funds of temporarily utilizing students in coping 1993, the University of cussing the movement’s future over and capital tied to the UC system. the UC medical centers’ with the strained California used $43 mil- bottles of wine? QV^M[\UMV\ The regents must explore other high profits to offset lion of short-term invest- Without a doubt, the most options before cutting from essen- some of the academic economy. ment funds to alleviate nerve-racking — and, in the end, XWZ\NWTQW_M tials. These include: reducing the slashing. According to budgetary problems. If rewarding — moment of my entire salaries of the top 2 percent of UC AFSCME Local 3299, it was a possibility then, year abroad was when I stood earners, considering use of the UC if the UC medical centers continue Yudof should consider it now, too. before 700 French students at one JMO\WLQNNMZ medical centers’ profits to preserve with the financial success reported Though we do not expect the uni- of my university’s general assem- basic academic essentials and utiliz- in the first nine months of the fis- versity to rip apart its every last asset blies and delivered an impromptu here’s no doubt you’ve already ing funds from the UC’s short-term cal year, they could potentially have to save our education, we do expect speech about the need to set an heard: Our beloved univer- investment portfolio. earned over $200 million in profits Yudof to get much more creative example for students worldwide. T sity is in a dire financial cri- Since the start of this budget cri- for the most recent fiscal year. before he raises student fees and cuts Clearly, the French aren’t the only sis. The state went broke, didn’t give sis, Yudof has defended high-paying Though medical centers’ net prof- staff salaries. For those of us who can’t ones facing threats to higher educa- the UC its $813.2 million when we executives and insisted that the uni- its are set aside to serve a specific hold on much longer, it’s the only fair tion. My hands had long stopped thought it would — and then all hell versity maintain “competitive” mar- function, Yudof should at least con- thing to do. trembling by the time I wrapped up broke loose. ket prices to retain essential talent. sider using a small percentage of my main point: Their movement’s UC President Mark G. Yudof But if we’re already so desperate as that cash to fill in gaping holes at the success could inspire the courage declared emergency powers in July to cut most employee salaries while operational level. After all, the 1997- in others to ignite movements of its — despite disapproval from the sys- demanding more from struggling 98 Budget for Current Operations kind globally. temwide Academic Senate and many students, we can no longer offer the shows that UC execs used medi- ,+0;690(3)6(9+ I couldn’t have anticipated a bet- other bystanders — and has since same high-end salaries as our peer cal-center assets to meet emergency :PTVUL>PSZVU ter lesson in linguistics: When you speak to hundreds of your foreign cut employee salaries by 10 percent, universities. needs during the budget crises of EDITOR IN CHIEF employed mandatory We back the American Federation 1993 and 1995. peers about their own country’s WEB POLL furloughs for UC pro- of State, County and Municipal Though it’s unclear whether our (S`ZZH)LYLaUHR problems, you better be damn sure Would you fessors and staff and Employees Local 3299’s recommen- medical center would be able to lend 9LaH-HYHaTHUK to use the right form of subjunctive. support proposed to hike stu- dation to reduce the top 2 percent of us a hand, we’ll never know without a MANAGING EDITORS As the movement progressed, cutting UC dent fees by 32 per- University of California earners. This push from Yudof himself. @LSLUH(RVWPHU I came to view the protests as a executive cent for 2010-11. cut would apply to roughly 3,600 Currently, the UC also holds an NEWS EDITOR necessary part of my young-adult salaries to His actions are individuals earning over $200,000 investment portfolio chock full of ;YL]VY*V_ education. I was surrounded by offset the OPINION EDITOR a mass of students who were not defecit? based on a simple per year, and free $220 million for liquid assets. premise that he other critical priorities. Though much of the portfolio is The UCSD Guardian is published twice a week at only outspoken about their current the University of California at San Diego. Contents © explained in his June This would, granted, apply dis- restricted to fund different programs, 2007. Views expressed herein represent the majority grievances, but were also willing to vote of the editorial board and are not necessarily take a stand for the future of public 22 furlough proposal: “There are no proportionately higher cuts to those $1.4 billion of its assets are allocated those of the UC Board of Regents, the ASUCSD or perfect choices for how to achieve earning more. Employing different to the Mortgage Orientation Program the members of the Guardian staff. the needed cost-savings.” He said that cuts for four income levels, AFSCME — a system that allows UC executives See BLANC page 5 OPINION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2009 THE UCSD GUARDIAN 5 ON THE LINE By Christina Aushana LETTER TO THE EDITOR

More interestingly, because of .IK]T\a+]\[?WV¼\ people like me, the UC system has a )TTM^QI\M=+,MÅKQ\ very successful research and clinical program that accounts for more than Dear Editor, 75 percent of the UC budget — virtu- I would like to take exception to ally all of which is financed by funds the statement made in Trevor Cox’s the faculty raise. If you calculate how article (“We Need an Education, Not much state and local taxes are paid a Podcast,” run on Sept. 24): “Or do due to the expenditure of the UC we accept the fact that, for now, we budget, it ranges from a low of $2.1 can’t afford to keep the expensive billion to a high of $2.3 billion per professors and research that gave the year. Which is basically to say that university its esteemed reputation?” because of its large research and clini- As one of those you mention, I cal enterprise, the UC system doesn’t, note the following: in net, cost the state anything. I pay 100 percent of my sal- Isn’t the solution to accurately ary from my research funds and explain the UC system’s financial situ- teach at no cost to the University of ation, and thus, argue for a realistic California. level of state support that would result The construction of the building in lowering tuition to what it was in I work in was paid for and is main- the ‘60s and ‘70s, when the UC mas- tained by grant funds, even though it ter plan was last in force? supports education. —Richard Kolodner When I hire an undergraduate Professor of medicine, UCSD part-time during the school year, I am personally providing financial aid ▶ The Guardian welcomes letters from its readers. using my grant funds. All letters must be no longer than 500 words, And when an undergraduate does typed, double-spaced and signed with a name and applicable title. Letters must also contain a phone independent-study research in my number. We reserve the right to edit for length and lab, I am paying for costs associated clarity. Letters may be dropped off at the Guardian with his or her education with my office on the second floor of the Student Center or =VQNa7ZOIVQbM1VNWZU¸IVL4M\

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TONIGHT (SPJLPU*OHPUZ¸*OLJR4`)YHPU¹ The Coronado Playhouse asks one *YV^U*P[`9VJRLYZ¸)YLHR¹ question: “To be or not to be.” That’s right folks, Shakespeare’s most ;OYLL+H`Z.YHJL¸3VZ[0U@V\¹ famous tragedy, “Hamlet,” takes the boss ditties .OVZ[MHJL2PSSHO¸)HI`¹ stage at 8 p.m. under the direction of ;/,),:;:65.: 9HLR^VU¸*H[HSPUH¹ Keith A. Anderson. 05/0(;<:;/0:>,,2 HCONTACTiATUS THE EDITOR: [email protected] THEATERREVIEW Tour of 2MENin ONE-ON-ONE Creditors THERAPY REVEALS Thizz: DIY STARRING KATHRYN MEISLE, OMAR METWALLY & T. RIDER SMITH A TANGLED PAST OF DIRECTED BY DOUG WRIGHT Journey Goes THE LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE LIES, SECRETS AND SEPT. 29-OCT. 25 aROOM ADULTERY. BY LEILA HAGHIGHAT Dumb, Dumb pen-ended health-care reform may be eclipsing economic woes on the political frontier, PT. 2 but the La Jolla Playhouse is doting on debt — of the marital type. In the house’s latest O he following is a travelogue from production, Creditors, news pundit jargon of subprime mortgaging relents to the lexicon a two-week West coast tour that of bitter spouses. Adapted by Doug Wright from August Strindberg’s original play, Creditors my band, Nobody Wave, and my centers on a quarreling menage a trois whose simplification of marriage into a creditor- T neighborhood friends’ band, Pretend, debtor relationship lands them in divorce and suspicions of adultery. With an unapolo- embarked on this summer. Last week, getically acerbic script, the play disembowels marriage with little hesitation. I left you in a sick binge of Indian cui-

Set in a Swedish sea resort, the that a “naked woman is an underdevel- three-act play opens with Adolf, a oped boy with tits, who hemorrhages Suburban nonplussed artist, and his pseudo- every month.” But in the second act, psychiatrist Gustav (who takes on Gustav’s oddly extensive knowledge of Steez the Freudian persona, complete Tekla’s affairs slowly unravels, bringing CHRIS KOKIOUSIS with circular glasses and a tweed to light connections between characters [email protected] vest). Uncertain of his coquettish that weren’t immediately apparent. wife Tekla’s fidelity and haunted By the third act, these blurred rela- sine on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz. by thoughts of her first husband, tionships are solidified when Gustav That night, the gang rolled over Adolf mopes in the doldrums and reveals himself to be Tekla’s first hus- to my close friend Stephen’s place on resigns from painting altogether. band, a creditor in his own right, col- Bay Street, where we’d planned a free Feeling stuck like “a frozen lecting the dues of Tekla’s adulterous impromptu show for whoever cared clock,” he looks to Gustav to love for Adolf and her degradation of to come. Stephen was psyched to see wind him back up, but is met his honor. us and quickly procured cardboard only by the shrink’s misogy- Loaded with dramatic irony, the and Christmas lights for self-promo- nist sensibilities. play uses modern expletives and tion purposes. We strung the lights in Gustav warps Adolf’s graphic one-liners to revamp it from a haphazard maze outside and inside mentality, leading the the house, around the Econovan and troubled artist to believe See CREDITORS, page 12 KIM CYPRIAN/GUARDIAN along the “Free Show” signs we had Sharpeed with beaming stick-figure faces. A few of my friends showed up CONCERTPREVIEW with a few of their friends, and soon we had a bona fied party. druthers Tragically, the po-po were called after just one Pretend jam, but we had HIATUS PICKS THE WEEK’S BEST BETS a bit of time before quiet hours, so we each finished a short set. Stephen was ANDRE NICKATINA so impressed with his house-turned- CANES BAR & GRILL venue that he decided to christen it THURSDAY, OCT. 3, 9 P.M. / $10 the Bay St. Music Box, hoping more Old-school players in the Bay Area hip-hop scene bring the bands would roll through someday. Yay down south to Canes Bar and Grill. After breaking into We partied the rest of the night at a the hyphy circuit as Dre Dog, Andre Nickatina made a name for himself as homeboy to the late Mac Dre, father of hyphy. lower volume, gathering kumbaya- Clever and forceful with his flow, Nickatina soon became a style on the hardwood floor. main player in the Bay’s young hip-hop movement. Opening Early the next morning, we col- Thursday for Dre are Souls of Mischief, who promise to rock lected our gear and split up with from “93 ’Till Infinity.” (JS) Pretend, planning to meet up later on in San Francisco. We drove up to UC Santa Cruz for some authentic “AMREEKA” burritos and then went on a tide-pool LANDMARK LA JOLLA VILLAGE beach walk before setting out for OPENS FRIDAY, OCT. 2 the Bay. When we got to Cal’s friend Writer/director Cherien Dabis makes her feature-film debut April’s apartment in Lower Haight, we with a dramedy that puts a fresh spin on the immigrant PORTLAND decided to take our day off easy and experience. When single mother Muna (Nisreen Faour) and her teenage son Fadi (Melkar Muallem) decide to leave the hit up Dolores Park to lounge in the West Bank in search of a new life in America, they’re faced shade and sap on Slurpees. with major culture shock: Instead of navigating through However, we soon got bored military checkpoints, Fadi has to find a way to survive high WEIRDOS STARFUCKER watching weirdos hula-hoop so we school while his mother flips burgers at the local White Castle. The two struggle to find their niche in the midwest headed back to April’s and helped while staying true to their heritage. (JB) Pretend lug the gear up the three DROP TRENDY ELECTRO-POP ON LOFT brutal flights of stairs to her place. After some local pizza and late-night deep conversations over High Life, we By Janani Sridharan While their current rather risque name has exit strategy Associate Hiatus Editor supposedly (according to the band) hindered passed out in sleepy sardine rows. Starfucker’s ability to reach a widespread audi- The next day was epic. The whole THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS espite the glaring expletive, Starfucker ence through mainstream media outlets and crew wanted to see our buddy Mike’s isn’t exactly edgy. In fact, they’re trying booking agencies, Starfucker’s studio albums are art show downtown, so we trekked CROCODILES & BOOMSNAKE & really hard not to be: The indie electro- painstakingly radio friendly. Aside from sam- through Haight and Japantown until BEST COAST MIA VALENTINE D pop trio from Portland, Ore. recently announced pling the late Buddhist philosopher Alan Watts, we got to a high-rise gallery by Union CHE CAFE CHE CAFE a name-changing contest in which the fan who nothing separates the band from the plethora Square. We spent a good hour admir- OCT. 2, 8 P.M. OCT. 5, 7:30 P.M. comes up with an FCC-friendly moniker to the ing Mike’s meticulous tally-line draw- $7 $5 band’s liking wins a free concert. See STARFUCKER, page 12 ings (and other photo exhibits) before THE CROWD “AS IT LAYS” MOVEMENT VISUAL ARTS CENTER See KOKIOUSIS, page 12 PORTER’S PUB OCT. 6-9, 12 P.M. - 4:30 P.M OCT. 2, 8 P.M. $15 $4 FILMREVIEW HUTCHINS THE SILENT CONSORT COMEDY NEUROSCIENCES INST. KSDT Earth Doc Attains Off-Grid Enlightenment OCT. 3, 7:30 P.M. - 9:30 P.M OCT. 7, 12 P.M $15 FREE By Amanda Martinek environmentally unfriendly aspects of their intention: to find out whether it’s physically SUEDEHEAD & RAILCARS & Staff Writer Fifth Avenue New York lifestyle. No food that possible for the average caffeine-reality TV- MOURNINGSIDE THE BLUENESS is not locally grown, no meat, no trash of any CHE CAFE CHE CAFE n the same change-the-world, DIY vein kind, no form of carbon-producing transpor- See IMPACT, page 11 OCT. 3, 7:30 P.M. OCT. 7, 8 P.M. as 2004’s fast food expose “Super Size Me” tation, no television, no buying anything new $6 $6 I comes this year’s token environmentary: for a year and no disposable diapers. STUNNA SHADES SOCAL “No Impact Man,” one guilty liberal’s experi- Sound rough? Over time, the family learns No Impact Man DANCE SOUNDBYTES mental attempt at turning his family into to live without electricity — that’s right, no STARRING COLIN BEAVAN & MICHELLE CONLIN THE LOFT THE LOFT ecological guinea pigs. lights, no microwave, no refrigerator. Author Colin Beaven, his wife Michelle Even the most extreme recycling-obsessed DIRECTED BY LAURA GABBERT & JUSTIN SCHEIN OCT. 3, 8:30 P.M. OCT. 7, 9 P.M. NOT RATED PAY AS YOU CAN PAY AS YOU CAN and their two-year-old daughter Isabella tree-huggers out there have to admit, this 01:33 make the radical decision to phase out all seems a tad extreme. But that was Beaven’s THE UCSD GUARDIAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2009 HIATUS

I the room. “Don’t go to The Econ Tutor, it is a waste of time. Last quarter, I had to fail W with the Dean of Students for their college. Sometimes, for my students, the thirty students” because they went to him. The students are looking away. Everyone is initial meeting was merely to discuss the situation, but often the Dean had a uncomfortable. list of punishments that the students could accept to resolve the matter quickly or could reject to continue the matter through a hearing process. A student describes his meeting The Economics Department is attacking me again. Over time, I have learned that some with the Dean: instructors would say and do anything to discredit me, but I never thought they would go so low as to attack me by attacking my students. My students ask: She continuously stated: it has to be yes or no. Black or white. “Did you cheat or not?” I am a good student. I already had an A in the class and I did not need to “WHY DO THEY HATE YOU SO MUCH?” DO THEY VIEW ME AS A THREAT ? DOES MY cheat. I have never been accused on anything of this nature before. Going into VERY EXISTENCE PUT A SPOTLIGHT ON THEIR DEFICIENCIES ? ARE THEY EMBARRASSED the meeting, I was expecting that they would listen to me and we would quickly THAT 10, 20 AND EVEN 50% OF THEIR CLASS WILL ATTEND MY REVIE W SESSIONS ? resolve this. Instead it was like talking to a brick wall.

think at some level, the University views me as threat. They tell the legislature that they Iprovide world class research and instruction. But in reality, the quality of teaching is one who cheated on 120B.” It was like I was already judged. I was trying to explain very uneven. There are wonderful instructors at UCSD, but sometimes being a good my situation and I could tell she wasn’t listening. “Did you cheat or not? Yes or no!” researcher doesn’t translate into being a good instructor. Sometimes they are too busy I said no and she said that I would have to go to a hearing and that wouldn’t take to care about teaching and their lectures are unclear, disorganized or no longer relevant. place for several months. I was planning to graduate in the summer and I already had a job lined up for me in China. I cannot wait until the end of the year. She In this environment of uneven quality and overworked teaching assistants, outside in- kept on pressuring me to say that I cheated and she told me that she could not structors provide a useful service. In a negative light, I serve as a safety net when the wait any longer for my answer and that she had to go to another meeting. “Did course instructor is lacking and the students are frustrated and lost. But in a positive light, you cheat or do you want to wait until the end of the year to resolve this?” I was - thinking that I cannot wait. I felt sick to my stomach, but I said, “I guess I cheated.” rial or by providing a convenient late night session for students who have to juggle their course load with outside jobs. Moreover, I provide a continuity of instruction to a system I was just trying to be a good student. I go to TheEconTutor because it acts as a TA reviews, only better. We work through the problems and it really helps. I’m mad because I spend a lot of time on the questions before the sessions and work or almost ten years, I have run a review service called TheEconTutor. It started with F private one-on-one tutorials, but as I became more popular, we transitioned into I went to TheEconTutor, then…I cheated. twelve. The following quarter, I had thirty and so we grew until we currently have over a ven though the Dean presented cheating as a simple yes or no question, experts in thousand students. E academic misconduct know that it is often ambiguous. As Dr. Gallant, UCSD Coordi- nator of Academic Integrity points out in her blog, faculty and administrator often THIS SUMMER, OVER 20 OF MY STUDENTS WERE CHARGED WITH ACADEMIC MIS- say that the rules are common sense but she readily admits “students are swimming in a CONDUCT FOR ATTENDING ONE OF MY REVIE W SESSIONS . sea of confusion surrounding over ‘what is academic misconduct’”.

Last spring, an inexperienced instructor, Dr. Bernotas, was teaching an upper level eco- As I work and write in the area of academic integrity, I am continually amazed nomics (Econ 120B) class of 200 students. He assigned a take-home exam with very at the complexity of the issue for most everyone… When we talk about student unusual instructions. Normally, on a take home exam, students are suppose to work by academic (mis)conduct, we need to acknowledge up front with students how themselves; Dr. Bernotas told his students they could work in groups of three people. Fur- unclear the situation really is. thermore, those groups of three could consult with other groups. The day he handed out the exam, he even told the class that “ I don’t care if you work in groups as long as you don’t Even though the situation is often unclear, faculty and administrators want a simple pro- turn in a hundred of the same thing.” Given those instructions, the students and I felt that cedure to process cases. As Dr. Gallant writes: we could hold a review session for the take home exam. I have a confession to make---I just realized this morning that I have been focused Weeks later, the students were charged with academic misconduct. The formal charges (nay, obsessed) on the number of cases that come in my door and how quickly said that even though they could work in groups, their work should not have been so simi- they are being resolved…. I am enamored with routinely crunching numbers-- lar to each other, and the similarities indicated that they copied from a common source. -How many cases did we have reported at this time last year? How quickly did Faced with an unapproachable and inept instructor, these students turned to me for help. we get them resolved? How many pretty graphs can I create which pictorially These students did not copy from a common source, they were taught by me. represent the increase in the number of cases? And people love it! Administrators and faculty love getting this information. They love to see that more faculty are reporting student cheating. They love to see the T majority of cases are resolved without formal hearings….And I love to be loved. If they could not answer it, then they should look at it again to see if they could answer it. If the students could still not answer the question, then Dr. Bernotas said they he penalties for academic misconduct are potentially quite harsh. Besides receiving should ask the TA for help. If they still did not understand, then and only then, should they a failing grade and having your academic record permanently crippled, you can be ask him for help. As one senior explains: T suspended or expelled from UCSD. Almost all of these students were Asian, and I have never had a professor as bad as that. I have had professors who were worse teachers but at least they would talk to you. This guy was completely un- frightening; if they are suspended they lose their visa and they will be deported. Regard- approachable. He didn’t care. That is basically it. He didn’t care. I guess he is of- less of how slight the infraction or how dubious the charges, students are in a horrible fended or he has some ego problems with students getting outside help. Maybe life-altering situation. The students know that they are at the mercy of the administration he feels that he is the professor of the class so we are supposed to go to him, but and they have an enormous incentive to cooperate. That is why, Dr. Gallants’s observation that the faculty love to see that the majority of these cases are resolved without a formal hearing is so chilling. Some students are not accepting their punishment and forgoing a hearing because they are guilty, they are forgoing a hearing because they are afraid of with the quality of instruction but the major spikes in demand occur when you have an in- being deported.

his is not a simple case of cheating. It is not a simple case in which a student copied were similar in size and had inexperienced instructors. In Dr. Wang’s class, 35 students at- T the answer from another student during an in-class exam or when a student went tended my review session. For Dr. Bernotas’ class, I had 56. - tion that they were receiving from UCSD and went to an outside instructor for help. Fifty six students did not go to my review session to commit misconduct. They did not sponta- neous decide to have a cheat party. They came to me to learn.

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THIS SUMMER, ONE OF MY STUDENTS TOLD ME A FUNNY STORY. HE WAS TALKING TO ONE This made me interested in the economic aspect of repression and I started studying OF HIS FRIENDS AND HIS FRIEND EXCLAIMED, “I CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE TAKING SIX economics at University of New Mexico where I received a Masters Degree and worked COURSES THIS SUMMER.” M Y STUDENT REPLIED, “IT IS NOT SO HARD, AFTER ALL, I ONLY HAVE as an instructor teaching intermediate micro and macro economics. PROFESSOR…MY PROFESSOR IS THEECONTUTOR, I SEE HIM FOR EVERYTHING!” ONE moved to San Diego and became a graduate student at UCSD. Although I withdrew from the program before I finished my doctorate, I passed all my qualifying exams INSTRUCTION AT THEECONTUTOR I and I was one or two classes short of completing all my course work for a PhD. My advisor was George Borjas who is the country’s leading scholar on Immigration and who subsequently left UCSD for an endowed chair at Harvard University. At UCSD, ne of the misperception about TheEconTutor is that we are merely a place to I was a Teaching Assistant for several courses and was a research assistant for Julian get answers. It is true that if you come to my sessions, you will get answers Betts (the current chairman of the economics department) and Hal White (perhaps O but you will also leave with 10 to 20 pages worth of notes and a couple hours the departments most distinguished scholar). I also studied econometrics under two worth of instructions. Nobel Laureates: Professors Engel and Granger.

The majority of my reviews are spent working through practice problems. My answers In retrospect, going to UCSD was mistake. The theoretical and technical slant of the tend to be long and meticulous. New students often have to pause and shake out their department was not a good fit with my humanistic concerns. My father was math- fingers because their hands are not used to writing so much and the older students ematician and he made sure that I had the technical skill to survive and occasionally knowingly smile at them. flourish, but I lacked any passion. Increasingly, I sought refuge in the Visual Arts and in particular painting. This was especially true after my mother unexpectedly died In fact, my answers will often last one or two pages when the solution in the answer of a brain aneurism. However during my last year at UCSD, I rededicated myself to key is only one or two sentences and this frustrates some students. But it is through economics. Unfortunately, this was not because of a renewed love of the topic but my answers that I give my lectures and introduce the key concepts that my students because my father contracted an aggressive form of brain cancer; he requested that need to learn. So instead of giving one long lecture, I give several mini-lectures as I I complete my doctorate before he died. I worked on a project under Prof White to work through our problems. develop neural networks. Mainly I worked on software, but I hoped that this would be hen we have homework sessions, we work on the the foundation of my dissertation. In any case, the cancer worked faster than I did and actual problems. This makes some professors anx- I stopped working on the project when my father died. W ious but I feel it is appropriate and it is what I did as a THE TURNING POINT Teaching Assistant at UCSD. The point of homework is to motivate students to study the material before their exams. It introduces ThisT started a particularly dark period in my life. But it was from them to difficult material and it encourages them to seek help if tthat darkness that TheEconTutor emerged. I was very close to my they need it. While there is merit in solving difficult problems by parentsp and now they were both dead. I felt very alone and angry. yourself, there is also merit from having careful and experienced I felt like a failure for letting my father down. I was sick of econom- instruction which makes difficult problems seem less intimat- icsi and the drudgery of being a research assistant. Art has always ing. This provides context so that students can see the linkages bbeen an escape for me, so I decided to be a painter. Although I had to problems that they have already solved and which can turn a a few shows, I was not able to sell any of my paintings. I became solitary grind into a supportive and interactive group experience. poorerp and poorer and soon I was homeless. At this point, I should hhave turned to my relatives and friends for help but I felt cut-off I take homework very seriously because I believe that students fromf the world. cannot succeed on their exams if they do not know the material ONLY $200 LEFT, I WENT TO TARGET AND BOUGHT A TENT AND A SLEEPING BAG AND on their homework. The bottom line for any review service is that students will not WITH return to you unless they do well on their exams. The incentives to teach your students WENT TO LIVE IN THE NATURE RESERVE ACROSS FROM RIMAC. NOW I HAD $130 LEFT AND effectively and efficiently are very strong. If my students do not learn and do not suc- WHILE I COULD SHOWER AT THE GYM AND EAT RAMEN NOODLES FOR FEW DOLLARS A DAY, I ceed on their exams, then my business fails. NEEDED A WAY TO EARN SOME INCOME.

I am fairly strict. My students have to sit-up straight and pay attention. They are not You can always earn some money by being a subject in medical experiments, but my allowed to eat meals, talk to their neighbors, use their cell phones, leave before the big break came when I saw a flyer from a student needing help in econometrics. I still session ends, and laptop use is limited to specific computer intensive projects. I need remember when that student offered me $75 to tutor her for 10 hours a week. Since these rules in order to be productive and it is a trade-off that my students are willing my living expenses were down to $15 a week, it truly felt like I hit the mother lode. Af- to make. ter a quarter or two, I became increasingly popular and my schedule would quickly fill- up. Eventually, as it became harder to get an appointment, students would crash the he strictness is tempered by an atmosphere of familiarity. It starts with learning appointments of their friends and that is how I started doing group tutorials. As the their names but it really results from our high retention rates. In a typical year, a groups got bigger and bigger, we moved from one location to the next until now we T thousand students will go to TheEconTutor. Sometimes, they only attend one or have a classroom for fifty students in a shopping mall across from campus. There was two classes but there is a core of about 250 students who come to us for all their class- never any business plan except to survive the latest attempt of the Econ Department es. These core students typically come to us during their junior year. By the time they to shut us down. I knew that we had made it when an instructor called TheEconTutor a graduate, they will have come to us for help in 10 to 15 classes, they will have attended parasite in his midterm exam. Imagine, five hundred students having to intensely read 60 to 90 review sessions and I will have spent 120 to 180 hours teaching them. This about TheEconTutor during their exam. You cannot buy publicity like that! creates the strong bonds of trust and familiarity that are at the heart of my business. I stayed in that forest for a year and half. The freedom from fiscal constraints gave me WHAT AND WHO IS THEECONTUTOR time to learn the undergraduate curriculum but mainly it gave me time to rebuild my soul. Tutoring, especially private tutoring is a wonderful way to fill the loneliness in I have undergraduate degrees in Biology-Chemistry and Literature from Pitzer Col- your life. During the hours that you spend with your students, you help them with lege. My senior thesis was a joint project with Los Alamos National Laboratory and was their classes but you also help them weather the turbulence in their lives. You get to one of the first applications of magnetic resonance to living systems. However I soon learn about their friends and family and even the names of their pets, but more than tired of laboratory work and became active in protest movement against the Reagan anything, you get to feel needed again. I think that is why I try to keep our rates low Administration’s policy toward Central America. I joined a Peace Brigade and then and why I try to help my students in all their classes. I have an almost compulsive need traveled through much of Central America. The region was suffering from extreme to be needed and helping theses students was the way I rebuilt my life. poverty, civil war and death squads. I walked through slums and visited prison camps.

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ALBUMREVIEWS Alice in Chains 8 Crown City Rockers 7 Three Days Grace 6 Black Gives Way to Blue The Day After Forever Life Starts Now VIRGIN 10 GOLD DUST 10 JIVE 10 Ripped Jeans and Plaid Make Unforseen NorCal Music Nerds Spit Smart-Hop Nu-Rock Rioters Learn to Tone Shit Down Comeback with Alice’s ’90s Revival ven at their conception, Ahmad gets right on first hree Days Grace is all expected, but 3DG is sur- Crown City Rockers track “Soul,” spitting over grown up. Remember the prisingly earnest on their earl Jam churned out the band’s cult following sat- E never fit neatly into a an upbeat rhythm heavy on T days when Adam Gontier first real grown-up love yet another album this isfied on “Check My Brain” hip-hop concept box. The the hats, laced with synth, had the moptop and wore ballad. Its verses are unspec- P summer, Nirvana’s set — and over a decade removed band’s 2001 debut, Mission: saxiphone and a fluttering black coats during the One-X tacular, but its chorus is built to release live material in from grunge’s heyday, it still One, spills over into jazz and flute melody. phase? All the songs about for singing along (or for November and Alice in Chains works. Just like Nirvana, AiC even dabbles in classical as Featured vocalists Silya being misunderstood and “Sleepless in Seattle 2”). just dropped its first studio can’t help but trade electric the Oakland, Calif. fivesome and Solas B. Lalgee bring the losing control, bashing away Of course, the newly album since 1995. Children of acoustic — and damn it all if showcases its unique back- Crown City jazz factor to the at four-chord wonders in the minted adults occasionally the ’90s: Grow your hair out that doesn’t work, too. ground as a former student next level, pseudo-scatting garage? Face it — it doesn’t regress with mopey cuts like and dust off that plaid button- The title track (and the clique at the elite Berkley on their respective tracks. get more teenage than “I Hate the ranty “Someone Who up, because grunge is back. album’s coda) is AIC’s farewell College of Music. Production takes a large leap Everything About You.” Cares,” but mostly make up After vocalist Layne to Stanley; the band sends him Eight years later, the as well; guitar dances around With Life Starts Now, for it on the climax title track. Stanley’s fatal heroin over- out bobbing gently down the group’s third full-length, The a melody laid by brassy they’ve finally come off Life’s a lot like One-X dose in 2002, AIC makes an river on a pillow-soft palan- Day After Forever, breaks that synths and held by heavy bass puberty, though the evi- in that it ends on a hopeful improbable comeback with quin. music box wide open. on the intro to “Go On” — dence is subtle on lead single note. The difference is that Black Gives Way to Blue. From Apart from scattered bouts Since their popular while “Break” could straight- “Break.” Most of the track is One-X reeked of predestined a sprinkling of acoustic tracks of formulaic grunge, Blue bal- sophomore Earthtones in up pass as a party-rock track. just another humdrum hard- success — Life’s more about to the snarling electric guitars, ances the old with the new 2004, the Crown City mem- Listening to Forever, it’s rock anthem like “Riot” — picking up the pieces. Blue picks up right where the almost flawlessly. And if you bers have honed their craft clear that the quintet had no but we’re banging our heads Wall o‘distortion and band left off. crank the album up loud on solo and side projects rust to shake off after the five- anyway, because Barry Stock honest Oasis? If Grace can “Check My Brain” and “A enough and headbang from including emcee Rashaan year vacation. Instead, they has discovered the power of keep it fresh like this, hell — Looking in View” slide us right black to blue, you have the Ahmad’s two solo efforts in came back with new, fresh palm-muting. we won’t mind if this former in, evoking alt-rock Sabbath pleasure of forgetting what as many years. Now, they perspectives to think even Once we get to “Lost In high-school favorite keeps with crunchy, dissonant riffs. decade it is. come back smarter, slicker further out of the box. You,” though, we have to playing into middle age. DuVall includes enough of — Matthew Pecot and more versatile. Forgoing — Janani Sridharan stop and rub our eyes — is — Matthew Pecot AIC’s signature growl to keep Staff Writer interludes and instrumentals, Associate Hiatus Editor this Oasis? It might not be Staff Writer

ith typically terrible Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in His R&B beats, appropriately, Ghosface Killah Wu-Tang’s Wu-Tang timing, Clan sta- Emerald City. have never been cheesier, but they’re 9 W ples Raekwon and Ghostface Ghost’s theme (which doesn’t also deep and sticky. Poetry ain’t Ghostdini: Wizard of Poetry Nastiest Killah have both decided to really hold up past cover art) is so all perfume and petals: “Stapleton release new, all-original LPs this awful to be almost endearing: Badly Sex” narrates the nastiest fuck since in Emerald City DEF JAM 10 Saves the September. The former hits us with photoshopped ’90s babes sink into “Strawberry,” leaving out nary a hair the long-anticipated follow-up fields of poppies lining the yellow on Mrs. Killah’s pussy. (But, ever the Clan from to 1995 cult favorite Only Built 4 brick road, watched over by a float- romantic, Ghost can only come after Raekwon Cuban Linx… — a landmark that ing emerald-lit Ghostdini — a scene she tells him she loves him). Far from 8 Obscurity. bossy Wu beatmaker RZA has apparently wheeze-cackle brain- the outer-space weirdo on 2006’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... been wolf-crying for years — and stormed over a family-room grav- Fishscale, the new Ghost is a shame- By Simone Ghostface dives off the deep end ity bong with the kids. (Question: less old fart with a pregnancy fetish Pt. II ICE H20/EMI 10 for good, into a maple-syrup pud- What does Houdini have to do with Wilson dle of pure R&B, hilariously named “The Wizard of Oz”?) See WU-TANG, page 12 HIATUS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2009 THE UCSD GUARDIAN

FILMREVIEW The Truth Hurts — but ‘Lying’ Is Excruciating Al Gore Protege

By Jenna Brogan Trashes City Life Associate Hiatus Editor

hether or not you proudly sport to Go Green a “Team Jim and Pam” T-shirt, ▶ IMPACT, MYVTWHNL W you have to admit that Ricky and shopping-addicted American Gervais struck comedic gold when he family to go fully green. created “The Office.” An official selection at the 2009 Sadly, even loyal Dunder Sundance Film Festival, this low- Mifflinites will be disappointed by the budget eye-opener intends to force Brit’s directing debut: “The Invention viewers into questioning their own of Lying,” a comedy about what life personal consumption habits and would be like if everyone told the individual global impacts. truth, and nothing but the truth. But Beaven finds out early on that While it is an interesting idea, the journey to Gore-esque nirvana Gervais proves in a record five min- has its share of not-so-obvious chal- utes that a world without omission lenges — like when he has to convince is not a place you want to be — nor his wife of the value of trekking their does it make for a particularly inter- daughter up 24 flights of stairs instead esting trip to the movie theater. of taking the elevator. Immediately following the opening The family’s compost bin quickly credits — in which we’re told exactly fills with rotting food, earthworms what is going to happen over the bring mating flies into their home and next 100 minutes — we meet Mark Colin gets bombarded with blogger Bellison (Ricky Gervais), a sad excuse criticism about whether his project for a man. He’s broke, fat, single and will have a real impact. Fights between about to be fired. him and Michelle about having a sec- That description may seem a bit The Invention of Lying ond child put emotional weight on the cruel. And it is. STARRING RICKY GERVAIS, JENNIFER GARNER & JONAH HILL already strenuous endeavor. But “Lying” is all about exposing DIRECTED BY RICKY GERVAIS & MATTHEW ROBINSON Yet in the midst of conflict, the the harsh reality of how shallow, rac- Now, back RATED PG-13 prima donna, scenario for all its side-splitting worth, film has the power to convince even ist, sexist, horny and money-hungry to the plot. 01:40 and Jonah but instead of “Office” wit, the audi- the most pessimistic viewers that — at we all apparently are. One day, Hill, who can ence is force-fed dry humor that sub- the risk of sounding cheesy — all crea- See, since no one in this alternate Mark the loser typically be stitutes punch lines for insults that are tures in the world are connected. Who reality has the ability to lie, interper- gets out of a bind by telling the world’s relied on for comic relief, portrays a just plain mean. knows? Maybe it is possible to reduce sonal communication is no more first lie. How he manages to do this suicidal Debbie downer, you might Tina Fey’s character even goes so our negative impact, change world- than each individual’s stream of con- remains a mystery, but one lie leads find the film to be a multi-layered far as to call Mark a “fat faggot.” Heh. views and save the planet after all. sciousness, out loud. to another as Mark capitalizes on his satire about everything wrong with As a result, the only thing even Unlike most biased, agenda-fueled Allow the screenplay to speak for newfound ability, quickly accruing American society. mildly brow-raising about the film is documentaries, “Man” gives face time itself: fame and fortune. Coincidence that it shares an the sheer number of celebrities that to supporters as well as critics with- When Mark picks up Anna Things soon get complicated, opening day with “Capitalism: A Love Gervais evidently tricked into cameos. out sugar-coating the motives which (Jennifer Garner) for their first date, though, when tales concocted by Story”? I think not. Still, all the layers Really? Edward Norton? inspired the experiment, including she admits with a straight face, “I was Mark’s imagination are accepted by the of social commentary about consum- While standing behind that shiny Beaven’s writing career. just masturbating.” world as gospel truth and he is treated erism, capitalism and morality in the 35-millimeter camera may have made But all good intentions and crafty Mark then responds with a more like Moses than Brad Pitt. world can’t hide the fact that the film for a nice holiday from Scranton, a camera techniques aside, the year long simple, “That makes me think of your If you can stomach the fact that is not at all funny. word from the wise to Ricky Gervais: experiment feels more like a decade by vagina.” Garner, who would more likely pass You’d think an award-winning Don’t quit your day job. the film’s conclusion. And let’s be hon- ‘Nuff said. for 13 than 30, plays a perverted screenwriter would milk this uncanny … That’s what she said. est: It’s no “Inconvenient Truth.”

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great way — although you could never tell it from their albums — sometimes opting to show up Wave Gang Fights Unruly Party Animals “EXHILARATING, AND wardrobed by an ’80s hip-hop show (think neon bomber jackets, over- ▶ KOKIOUSIS, MYVTWHNL theater to catch “District 9” — a much- DEEPLY PLEASURABLE.” sized glasses, fresh hi-tops and fat hoofing it all the way back until we hit needed break before the night’s festivi- JOE MORGENSTERN, gold chains). Band members jump the buzz-heavy Ike’s Place for glorious ties. The Oakland show was undoubt- rapidly between a variety of instru- sandwiches. We must’ve walked a good edly the wackiest of the tour: Sloppy “ROMANTIC IN EVERY POSSIBLE ments, with Bjornstad spending a 10 miles that morning. When we got kids slammed into each other, into SENSE OF THE WORD.” significant amount of time on the back to April’s, a few of us took catnaps walls, busting holes in said walls and ones and twos, and replace stale to prep for the madness to come. then passing out on the carpet. Pretend A.O. SCOTT, samples with superior live instru- That night, at least 70 people were roll-bounced when the madness set mentation. shuffling in and out of her place, peeing in, crashing back in SF at a motel. We “‘BRIGHT STAR’ IS Most importantly, the synth- on her neighbor’s back door (because were concerned there wouldn’t even heavy tracks are known for spur- the bathrooms were occupied) and be a clean spot for us to claim on the A THING OF BEAUTY.” ring the entire room into an all- CLAUDIA PUIG, crowd-surfing in her living room to our ground; random German friends of out, seething sweaty dance-party — friends Koalacaust. The cops rolled up Sarah’s had already called the best appropriate for a group that got its multiple times to shine Maglites in our bedroom. We even debated leaving for “SWEEPS YOU UP ON WAVES OF start playing cramped house shows. faces, but — thankfully — the party Portland at 2 a.m. that night and taking RAVISHING ROMANCE.” The verbosely named, guitar-based was never shut down. An even bigger turns at the wheel until morning. PETER TRAVERS, “Rawnald Gregory Erickson the miracle: We didn’t find a single broken In the end, we just manned up and Second” of Target commercial item the next morning. got cozy with each other. When I woke semi-fame is enough to get the After gathering our thoughts and up at 7 a.m. to go pee, there was a dude “A GORGEOUS, crowd moving, while the up-tem- belongings amid the alcoholic debris, passed out on the linoleum kitchen SENSUAL FILM.” po, scratch-laden “Medicine” might we took off across the Bay Bridge to floor and one in the hallway. Like so, even get it rowdy. Performing at Oakland and met up with our friends we took off for Oregon. What would CHRISTY LEMIRE, the Loft should work to Starfucker’s Sarah, Jordan and Bones, who were we find in Weed, California? Would advantage; the confined space was residing in an art space/crack den of we gang-fight local Portland band, the made for a crowded, sweaty (albeit a house. We had time to kill, so we Hugs? What is Burgerville? Find out in snooty) experience. unloaded and then cruised to the next week’s thrilling conclusion. Ghostdini Cuts the Cheese Thick, Gives the Wu its Goo ▶ WU-TANG, MYVTWHNL masterly a sequel as we could have But Linx’ highlights are undeniably and a paisley-robed potbelly. Nothing hoped from the Chef. Tight-wound the eight whopping Ghostface cameos, is too ordinary — stretch marks, back beats are Wu-brand dungeon antique, stanking of the same whiney, finely aged pains, dirty boxers, toe-sucks nor dicks Raekwon’s dragon flow is fire-tight perviness that makes Emerald City so hard as calluses — to earn a mention in — “Blood squirted, look like laundry hot. His raps are pillared by vintage Wu this interlude-free stretch of bumpers detergent, the dread fell out/ Right but made to soar with a sense of new- to hump your old lady by. from there, he gon’ need a surgeon” age self-realization — single-handedly Across the board, fans and critics — as are top-form guest spots from driving the Shaolin grandfathers into a agree that Cuban Linx… Pt. II is as Inspectah Deck to Beanie Sigel. the next century of greatness.

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Each team displayed +WVNMZMVKM Though the Cal Poly Pomona solid defense in the first half, and no goalkeeper blocked her kick, goals were made on either side. 4MILQVO;;= Hernandez came up with the However, the ever-resourceful rebound and proceeded to rocket the Tritons took advantage of two accu- ▶ M SOCCER, MYVTWHNL ball into the back of the net. The goal rate corner-kick restarts late in the only 25 shots during the game. was Hernandez’s third of the season. second half to defeat the Coyotes. Coyote junior forward Albert “Her shot was perfect,” Armstrong “When it is 0-0, the most important Cabrera scored the game’s only goal said. “It was well-placed and [made] thing is to keep a clean slate and not get — his seventh of the season — to with perfect timing.” scored on,” sophomore midfielder and beat UCSD. Defense was critical in the Triton team captain Anne Wethe said. “Our Akman again played well as keep- victory. With less than a minute left in offense is strong enough to score, but er, recording five saves — four of the first period, the Broncos were down the most important thing is to keep which came in the first half. The sec- a goal but kept steady them out of our net.” ond half saw virtually no offense, as pressure on UCSD. Cal Freshman defend- each goalkeeper made only one save Poly made a strong push er Ellen Wilson gave apiece. Senior midfielder Kyle Parton across the field, attempt- UCSD the 1-0 lead in was the Tritons’ lone offensive stand- ing to tie the match in Our offense is the 69th minute, when out, finishing with three shots on goal. the closing seconds. The strong enough she knocked in the ball “Other than San Bernadino’s goal, Broncos took a shot but “ off of a corner kick from the game was pretty even,” senior Armstrong made a criti- to score, but senior midfielder Alexia midfielder Jonathan Sawyer said. “A cal save, maintaining the the most Zatarain. Less than six lot of our games tend to be low scor- 1-0 Triton lead with only important thing minutes later, Wethe ing, so winning often comes down to nine seconds left in the is to keep them headed a second goal off whichever team can finish chances.” half. of a corner kick from Despite ending their weekend road “If the ball comes out of our net.” sophomore Sara Bolton. trip with only one win, the Tritons down to my side of For both Wilson and improved their offense and now look the field, I have to ANNE WETHE Wethe, the goals were to play strong as a team throughout SOPHOMORE their second of the sea- keep everything out,” MIDFIELDER, the upcoming homestand. Armstrong said. “One WOMEN’S SOCCER son. “For the past few games our team goal can really matter.” “It was a really great motto has been ‘stick together,’ which Cal Poly Pomona applied most corner from Sarah Bolton in the basically means no matter what hap- of its pressure during the first right place,” Wethe said. “It was a pens, we stay together as a team and half, outshooting the Tritons 11-5. pretty easy knock-in.” work hard for each other and for the Armstrong’s save late in the first half The Tritons outshot the Coyotes UCSD logo on our jerseys,” senior appeared to have deflated the Broncos’ 14-10 during the match. Armstrong forward Tony Choi said. “With a bit of morale and halted their momentum: had another strong performance, post- tuning up this week, I am confident we Not only did the Tritons hang on ing five saves and recording her second will be fully prepared to take on one of for a victory, but also controlled the consecutive shutout of the season. the best teams in the nation on Friday.” tempo in the second half with an 8-2 UCSD returns home to play UCSD will try to maintain their shot advantage. Armstrong tallied a Sonoma State on Oct. 2. The home winning streak on Friday, Oct. career-high eight saves to earn her Seawolves are 4-4-2 overall and 2, where it will host No. 7 Sonoma first shutout as a Triton. 2-2-2 in CCAA. State st a scheduled start time of 4:30 Head coach Brian McManus said “We have to keep playing like we p.m. The Seawolves are undefeated he was proud of his goalkeeper’s play have been playing,” Wethe said. “Our this season, with a record of 7-0-2 in the key CCAA match. best is better than any other’s best. So overall and 4-0-1 in the CCAA. The “She’s playing tremendously well,” if we can just keep our heads in the Tritons will then host Humboldt State McManus said. ”She has great con- game and play hard, we will do well.” on Sunday, Oct. 4 ERIK JEPSEN/GUARDIAN centration and so much confidence.” Freshman midfielder Gabi Hernandez’s third goal of the season was a game-winner, propelling the UCSD continued its winning Readers can contact John Beck at Readers can contact Cameron Tillisch Tritons to a 1-0 victory over the Cal Poly Pomona Broncos on Sept. 25 to improve their record to 7-2. ways with a 2-0 victory over Cal [email protected]. at [email protected]. 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WOMEN’S SOCCER — UCSD recently capped a stretch of five con- secutive road matches, with a 1-0 victory at Cal Poly Pomona on Sept. 25 and a 2-0 win at Cal State San Bernardino on Sept. 27. The two wins improved the Tritons’ record to 7-2 and 5-2 in California Collegiate Athletic Association play. The Tritons finished the road trip by winning four of five matches. The only loss on the trip was a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Chico State on Sept. 20. The loss against their CCAA DANIEL CADDELL/GUARDIAN rival also knocked the Tritons out of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America rankings for the first time this season. MEN’S LONE GOAL ENOUGH TO “It’s always important to rebound after losses,” sophomore goalkeeper Kristin Armstrong said. “We had SALVAGE WEEKEND SPLIT more than a bit of fire built up from that loss.” The contest against Cal Poly Pomona was defined by a dominant By Cameron Tillisch‡Senior Staff Writer Triton defense that — aside from shutting out the opposing Broncos MEN’S SOCCER — A cluster of tie games season on the UCSD team. After receiving a pass “We were a lot sharper defensively against — held Pomona to a mere eight and low-scoring matches has plagued UCSD from junior midfielder David Bakai, Sarabakhsh Pomona, which made the difference,” senior shots on goal. UCSD’s one goal was so far this season, due in large part to a domi- drove the ball up the left side and booted it past forward Tony Choi said. “Our keeper, Peter enough to squeeze out a victory. nant defense and dormant attack. However, the Cal Poly Pomona senior goalkeeper Thomas Akman, made a few very difficult and crucial The match was scoreless until Tritons stepped up their offensive performance Ryan. The assist was Bakai’s third of the season; saves that kept us in the game to beat Pomona. the 32nd minute, when freshman on the road last week against Cal Poly Pomona, he continues to deliver outstanding plays in the Other than that, we have had problems offen- forward Gabi Hernandez came securing a 1-0 victory on Sept. 25. midfield. sively. We seem to be lacking a bit of energy and through with a thrilling goal that UCSD was unable to retain Friday’s Despite being outshot 20-11, the Tritons creativity in the offensive third, and that has would hold up to win the game. momentum at Cal State San Bernardino on managed to use a more balanced attack to fend been keeping us from scoring goals.” Hernandez skillfully fought her Sept. 27, losing 1-0 to the Coyotes. The week- off the Broncos. On Sept. 27, UCSD traveled to play Cal State way through the Cal Poly defense end split leaves the Tritons with an overall Senior goalkeeper Peter Akman was out- San Bernadino in a match between the No. 3 and positioned herself in front of record of 4-2-4 (1-2-3 in California Collegiate standing between the posts, collecting four and No. 4 teams in the CCAA. Friday’s low- the net. She then received the ball Athletic Association). saves for his 17th career shutout. The Broncos scoring trend continued against Cal State San from freshman midfielder Alexa The lone goal of Friday’s game at Cal Poly applied most of the pressure in the second Bernardino: The Tritons and Coyotes totaled Pomona came in the 23rd minute, off the leg of half, during which Akman stopped three of See W. SOCCERpage 15 junior midfielder Kasra Sarabakhsh, in his first four shots on goal. See M. SOCCERpage 15

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