WE DON’T GIVE 10/10 PAGE TO EVERYTHING. 8 VOLUME XLIII, ISSUE XVI THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2010 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG UCÊStudentsÊ AÊCLOSERÊLOOK ArrestedÊatÊ BEFORE THE PublicationsÊ UCSFÊRegentsÊ ReactÊtoÊNewÊ FINAL BATTLE MediaÊFundingÊ Meeting ANGST OVERSHADOWS ACTION IN THE PENULTIMATE FILM OF THE BELOVED “POTTER” SERIES. BY ARIELLE SALLAI * HIATUS EDITOR By Nisha Kurani Guidelines A N E FILMREVIEW By Justin Kauker Eleven UC students were arrested and S W four police officers were injured yesterday when a rally at the UC Board of Regents Council allocated $4,700 to 11 media meeting held at UC San Francisco turned orgs for Winter Quarter at its meeting last violent. night, following funding guidelines passed Approximately 200 students and 100 UC on Nov. 3. The new guidelines place a quar- workers gathered in front of a UCSF hall terly funding cap of $450 on existing media where the Regents were meeting to protest orgs and $200 for new orgs. UC President Mark G. Yudof’s proposed Following the recommendation of 8-percent fee increase. The Regents will Associate Vice President of Student Orgs vote on the increase today. Carli Thomas and Vice President of Finance About 15 of those students and Resources Andrew Ang, council allo- OPINION were pepper sprayed during cated the maximum $450 to 10 media orgs It’s hard their attempts to break though and $200 to the new media org Robot not to feel the barricades and into the ▶ HIATUS Report. defeated at meeting, according to Los Thomas said she is working on creating this point. funding caps for all student organizations. PAGE 4. Angeles Times. arry Potter” has always flirted At the meeting, tensions with darkness. Sure, we get a good She added that she designed the funding between students and police heightened Quidditch match and a couple guidelines to prevent overallocations, but when a police officer, having been struck in of love triangles to break up the hopes it will it motivate media organizations the head with his own baton, drew his gun orphaned teen hero angst, but the to become independent. in the center of a crowd of protestors. Hseries always manages to kill off a father figure “This was painful, actually, I know how “It was unfortunate how violent the or two at the end of every 700 pages. For the much work goes into [media],” Thomas protest got,” UC Student Association penultimate film, “Harry Potter and the Deathly said.“[But] I don’t like to think of myself as President Claudia Magana said. “The Hallows Part 1,” even the smallest remnants of a piggy bank.” students were frustrated. It showed how whimsy are left behind at Hogwarts with the Thomas said the current funding model serious the issue was and how much the Fat Lady, as our heroic trio ditches school and is based on a similar program at UC students care for it to get to a point where a carves through the real world, encountering Riverside and other UC schools. According gun was drawn.” despair that can’t be fixed through extra points to UCR Organization Funding Specialist Magana was one of the select Student to Gryffindor. Maggie Godinez, Riverside gives a flat $750 Advocates to the Regents from UCSA that The old charms of Harry’s first year — a talk- to all organizations. There is no specific were inside the building at the meeting, ing hat, flying brooms, moving portraits — have funding for media, and anyone who wants advocating against the fee increase by become more and more at odds with the series’ to publish must independently make up the speaking with the voting Regents present increasingly foreboding tone. With “Deathly costs in membership dues and fundraising. and speaking during the public comments Hallows,” however, third-time Potter director But Joe Trotten, business manager and section. David Yates has finally settled with gloom, lend- former editor of Riverside’s official student Douglas Wagoner, UCSB student and ing the film some much-needed consistency. newspaper The Highlander, said the funding University Affairs Committee Chair, stated The first of a two-part finale, “Deathly model caused problems for student publica- that the main purpose of the protests Hallows” is essentially a race between good tions. outside was to make the Regents aware and evil — a simple plot device, yes, but only Trotten said that Riverside has had only of the effects the fee increases have on on paper. With a smorgasbord of extraneous three major undergraduate newspapers in students. details, don’t expect much in the way of clarity. the last decade. Of these, Nuestra Cosa, a According to UCSA field organizer, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and pals Ron Weasley Chicano culture publication, has been print- Jaclyn Feldstein, while the student-led (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma ing since 1972. Two others, The Praetorian protests continued outside, the StaRs inside and The X Factor, lasted less than two years. POTTER,Ê attempted to persuade the Regents by See page 6 “Student are really enthusiastic at the See ACTION,Êpage 3 See MEDIA,Êpage 3 AROUND THE WORLD Left: A UCSD catering van crashed into a pole on the corner of Gilman Drive and La Jolla Village Drive on Monday, Nov. 15 Middle and right: Student cultural orgs participated in the International Student Festival at Library Walk on Wednesday, Nov. 17. 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Since 10 trans- 83 percent of its electricity from Advertising Design and Layout Heart failure patients in the Western no hope of ever getting a [permanent] plant surgeries per year are mandated AlfredoÊH.ÊVilanoÊJr. solar panels. The correct percent- A.S.ÊGraphicÊStudioÊ United States can rest assured now that transplant,” Copeland said. for a hospital to maintain its certifica- Distributors UCSD has become the first hospital in The cost of the device is around tion, administrators and doctors wor- age is 2 percent. The university RobertÊEspionza,ÊScottÊHavrisik,ÊAuroraÊLe California certified to offer artificial $125,000, while the cost of the proce- ried that there might not be enough generates about 85 percent of TheÊ UCSDÊ GuardianÊ isÊ publishedÊ MondaysÊ andÊ heart transplants. dure to receive a heart is approximately patients to fuel both hospitals’ needs. the electricity it consumes from ThursdaysÊduringÊtheÊacademicÊyearÊbyÊUCSDÊstudentsÊ andÊ forÊ theÊ UCSDÊ community.Ê ReproductionÊ ofÊ thisÊ The medical school was certified to $12,000. Additional costs include hos- The artificial heart is currently cer- UCSD’s natural-gas-fired cogen- newspaperÊ inÊ anyÊ form,Ê whetherÊ inÊ wholeÊ orÊ inÊ part,Ê withoutÊ permissionÊ isÊ strictlyÊ prohibited.Ê ©Ê 2010,Ê allÊ perform these transplants on Nov. 17. pital care, which is about $9,000 per tified in 13 hospitals in the U.S., and is rightsÊ reserved.Ê TheÊ UCSDÊ GuardianÊ isÊ notÊ responsibleÊ eration plant. forÊtheÊreturnÊofÊunsolicitedÊmanuscriptsÊorÊart.ÊTheÊviewsÊ The program was launched by heart day in the intensive care unit. undergoing certification in nine other expressedÊhereinÊdoÊnotÊnecessarilyÊrepresentÊtheÊopin- ionsÊofÊtheÊUCSDÊGuardian,ÊtheÊUniversityÊofÊCaliforniaÊ surgeon Jack Copeland — who arrived Copeland said he is working to hospitals. orÊ AssociatedÊ Students.Ê TheÊ UCSDÊ GuardianÊ