HIATUS ;A.S. Council at a Glance 2 SPORTS Opinion 4 H~· Cinematic creations ,Column 5 handed Thursday Coupons 9 UCSD baseball The San Diego Latino Film Festival boasts an extensive edges Northern collection of feature films from around the world. ~mReviews I' Kentucky, 4-2. page 8 Classifieds 13 page 16 UC SAN DIEGO THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2005 VOL ME 114, ISSU E 20 Ultimate disc team By PATRICK ALLEN faces suspension Senior Staff Writer On March 4, the Student Affirmative Action Committee Area schools to charge held a "peak-Out" rally in response to the airing of pornogra­ fines for damage to fields phy on Student-Run Television. The rally was also meant to address By CHRlmNE CLARK However, director of recreation the problems of racial and sexual Staff Writer David Koch said he disagrees with domination at UCSD, which have the team's decision. been overlooked by the A.S. The UCSD men's ultimate "They could have done serious Council and the media, according disc club team has been suspended damage to UCSD's fields - that to SAAC Chair Emily Leach. for three weeks and will have to is why we closed the tourna­ "Something is wrong on cam­ pay fines as a result of damage ment," Koch said . "The students pus, but does anyone notice'" done to the fields of local schools made the decision to move the Leach said. "I see hurt. I see dis­ during the team's annual tournament off-campus without empowerment. I see anger. President's Day Tournament. The conferring with us, and as a result Things border on hate speech and tournament, one of the largest in they did damage to other fields, hate crime, and we are the voices the nation, has also been ca nceled which now they have to repair.... of resistance." for next year. It was not a well thought-out More than a dozen people Held over the President's Day decision." spoke at the event, which was weekend, the tournament included University City High School meant to serve as a forum for stu­ 47 club teams from all over the was one of the local schools used dents who feel silenced, with stu­ ~ c.mp.JGuardion country, but was canceled by cam­ for tournament play, and although dents watching from the audience. Souads of IIIUIk: A member of the Student Affirmative Action Committee, pus personnel in order to prevent the damage to the school's facili­ While some of the speakers the Kaibigang PiIipino club commemorated its annual Pilipino Awareness Day field damage during the heavy ties has not yet been assessed, the addressed the campus "climate" in celebration with presentations about traditional music and dance on March 8. rains. team used the field illegally, general, many focused on their As a result of the campus field according to University City personal experiences and their pointment with its response to the Koala Editor and A.S. Elections closure, the teams decided to move High School Athletics Director opinions of the Koala . Asian porn video. "We are told that we Manager Steve York said that the competition to different fields Ed Yandall. Pacific-Islander Student Alliance do not belong, that we have there have been problems with the near the UCSD campus, according "Nobody had a contract to use Representative Mohan Kanungo unnecessary privileges, and when publication in the past, but th at he to UCSD Club Sports Director the field that particular day," said that he has faced racial slurs we raise our voices, we are told hopes to move away from its con­ Scott Berndes. Yandall said. "I believe the reason and jeers of " terrorists" while that we are 'too sensitive.'" troversial history. "They were playing on Marshall why they couldn't use the UCSD passing by Porter's Pub. Speakers at the rally echoed "While I understand the Koala Field, but when it started raining field was because they didn't want The coalition also discussed Leach's frustrations with the publi­ and many groups on campus have we told them that the tournament to do any damage to it. I guess the existence of the Koala, whose cation. Thurgood Marshall College had a confrontational history, it is was off and that the fields were they spread out and decided to editor appeared in the Feb. 3 freshman Kyle Samia said that he not my aim to target these groups closed," Berndes said. "Once they use this field because it wa s SRTV sex video. Leach said the felt the publication was offensive. in my role as editor," York said. "I couldn't play at UCSD, they pan­ closed, so they figured they could Koala isolates minorities by mak­ "The Koala has defiled the see the Koalo in my term more as a icked and decided to play at the play on it." ing them targets of the publica­ intent of free speech, and it offends social and entertainment organiza­ local schools." However, of the five fields used tion's humor - a subject of cam­ me as an American," Samia saId. tion, and it is my aim to make it so. As the bigg t event for the for the tournament, only three pus con trover y in past years. "VVt: - the religious, the queer, Certainly there will be problems sport on the West Coast, the annu­ showed signs of considerable dam­ "We are terrorized and target­ the ethnic - are not here for the given the history; it~ just ridiculous al competition includes teams from age, according to Chang. ed as images for satire and come­ entertainment of the campus. for people to assuJ?e because the colleges as far away as Harvard and Berndes said he and Koch dy," Leach stated in a letter to the Until we are treated with equal Yale. made the decision to sa nction the A.S. Council, expressing her disap- respect, we will be offended." See SAAC, Page 3 Though the weather forced team after he was contacted by cancellation of the first day of play, several parent groups and school tournament organizers decided to principals who complained that continue playing on various fields the teams caused damage to their around the San Diego area, accord­ fields. Newspaper office hit in burglary ing to tournament director Jake "They canceled the tourna­ Chang. ment for one year, we have to pay "There was pressure on us to for the repairs and we have to Personal items reported stolen, police say accommodate those teams who make apologies to some of the were flying in on their own dime," members of the community," By CHARLES NGUYEN through in all of the other "On Sunday afternoon, we team co-captain Adam Desjardins Staff Writer offices as well." discovered [the back door] said. See FIELDS, Page 2 There was no evidence of propped slightly open by an Several personal items were forced entry, according to Smith. apron and the light on in the stolen after burglars broke into Because the front door and win­ darkroom," Kogan stated. "The the Guardian's Student Center dows were still locked in the front door and all of the windows offices sometime last weekend, morning, staff members have in the office were locked when I according to UCSD police detec­ speculated that the perpetrators left on Saturday night and al 0 tive Yolanda Smith. broke into the office using a back on Sunday morning when we got The burglary occurred door that leads into the office's between 10:05 p.m. on March 5, unused darkroom. See THEFT, Page 7 when News Editor Vladimir Kogan left the office, and 11 : 15 a.m. the following morning, when the staff began the paper's WEATHER SPOKEN SURF production, according to police reports. "Something is REPORT "When I got there [Sunday morning), most of the file cabi­ MOOg on campus, 3/10 Mil. 10 Mit " nets in the photo office were Wind: 10 kt. H72 L58 H75L58 but does anyone Height: 6- 10 It open, and the drawers in my Water Temp.: 59·6t <leg. desk were opened as well," nonce.. 7" Kogan stated in an e-mail. "We Jason CMnpa/CilJOrdion realized that there had been a - Emily Leach, chair, 3/11 Ultimate pllJ: The Alcott Elementary School field was damaged by the UCSD Wind: 8·10 kt. break-in after we noticed that Mil. 12 MIl. 13 Student Affirmative Height: 5-9 It men's ultimate disc club team during its President's Day Tournament. the cabinets had been gone H 74 L 57 H 67 L 56 Action Committee Water Temp.: 59-64 <leg. 2 NEWS THE UCSD GUARDIAN THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2005 THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2005 THE UCSD OUARDIAN NEW 3 Fields: Cost of damage to Nearly half,of top sports schools SAAC: York denies that I ETCETERA ••• GdARD~ video targets campus groups area fields could total $7,000 Clayton Worfolk Editor in Chief fell short of NCAA benchmarks continued from page I leges given to people based on continued /rom page I Although the team was sus­ Mather Martin Man"lnc Editors By liLLIAN MCKNIGHT was adopted last April by the president of the University of editor produces adult material that it their race and gender. Grant Schrader Desja rdins said. pended from participating in the U-WIRE (DC BUREAU) NCAA Division I Committee on Hartford. automatically has racial and sexist "It's not abom the white men The repairs, which are es ti ­ Stanford tournament this past Nathan Miklos Copy Editors Academic Performance, and the "Any team with a real Iscore) overtones." in the room," Marquez sai d.