A.S. Council at a Glance 1 SPORTS Opinion 4 Retreat en passant Letters to the Editor ,"; • Triton fencing lose to Thursday Coupons 11 Columbia, NYU and st. Hiatus Calendar 13 Johns in home dual Classifieds 16 duel. page 20 THE UCSD ARI) UC SAN DIEGO THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2003 VOLU.VlE 108, [SSlJE -+ Davis proposes UC fee hike New bioengineering Cal Grants, students with aid 'covered' building completed By EVAN McLAUGHLIN effective spring 2003, student fees studentS getting financial3ld grants News Editor had not been raised since 1994. should es entially be covered." One-third of the increase will According to the univerSity, F.lced wnh a shortfall of $34.6 be funneled directly to financial Davis' new budget proposal fur­ bIllion dollars, Gov. Gray Davis .lId, UC spokesperson Brad thers the University of California's unveiled his 2003-04 budget pro­ Ilayward said . The Board of funding shortfall to almost $1 bil­ pChal onJan. 10, which includes an RegelHs insttruted the policy of lion, where over $500 billion has addition.11 II1creasc to student fce~ returning one-third of all fee been slashed from funding and .If the nivcrsity of aliforma. increases to financial aid in the another $400 million-plus in According to the new proposal, early 1990 , when California uf­ tate-university partnership fund­ rC~ldent undergraduates at the fe red another economic down­ ing of staff and faculty pay increas­ IlIVCrSlty of California will pay nlrn. Hayward said the money es has been forgone since 200 1- an adclili onal $795 per yea r in stu­ alloca ted to financial aid should 02. Budget analysts for thc dent fees, while resident graduate allow studems from all finanCial Univer ity of California say the ~ rudent fees WIll increase by 855 . backgrounds to attend the univer­ fee increase will net an extra 179 The proposed increase, if sity in light of the fee hikes. million this year and next, cover­ added to the mid -year increase of "I t ~ obviously very IInporrant mg less than 19 percent of the uni­ $135 per quarter approved by the for the university to remain acces­ ve rsity's tOtal budget shortfall. UC Board of Regems in sible to lower-income srude,ptS," Other depa rtments affected by December 2002, would raise fees Haywa rd aid. "Between the Davis' most recent round of cuts for undergraduate residents to increased financial aid offered by include a $36.5 million reduCtlon 4.629 per year. Before the $13 5- UC and the governor's proposal t~ Sierra trsk/Guardion per-quarter II1crease, which will be increase funding to Cal-Grants, See INCREASE, Page J New EBU: The \09.000 square-foot Powell-Focht BlOCogll1eenng Hall was the fllst pnvately funded bUilding on the UCSD campus, cOming at a cost of $37 million Critics Students for Justice Powell-Focht to serve reject posters torn down undergrads, grads, research By GAELLE FAURE building adjacent to Associate News Editor Bioengineering Building I ill E.lr1 trolley Flyers removed, defaced; Warren College. Powell-Focht Bioenginecring The building, constructed 111 Hall, the newest building addition re ponse to the rapidly gro\\ In!\" Line to UJS 'disgusted' by incident to the Jacobs School of cngll1eerll1g student cnrolll11cllt. Engineering, opened its doors to caters to both undergraduate .lI1d By LAUREN RAU students and faculty at the start of graduate smdent as well a. to UCSD in Staff Writer winter quarler. \-\lhlle minor con­ research faculty. struction is still taking place IIlside "It' hke movll1g IntO a lIew question Students for Justice has the new Powell-Focht buildmg, lab house: It Just takes .1 Ill{ of .llllmt- alleged that fl ye rs promoting its re earch has started and faculty and week of evcms about Pale tinian­ staff have moved into the five-story See EBU, Page 3 By THOMAS NEELEY Israeli con fli ct awareness were Associate News Editor tOrn down or vandalized within On<! year after the 24 hours of bClllg posted. "Over half of our flyer were ,\Ietropolitan Tran It Dcvelopment Board began ;1 t rn down," sa id nl~lenb for Justice PreSident Fawad S113Iq . A.S. Council to revise ,>tully to bring the San Diego "There were others left next to Trolley to CSt) Jnd Wc~tficld thel11 thut I had see n when U nlvcr ~ Il Y 'lolV ne Ccntcr, Crit­ (lutting lip ollrs the night before. Constitution, bylaws IC, hOlh ' In S.ln Diego .1£)' Council ,mel at uest) arc l(lok­ 1o,t 01 the t1yer~ that wert: va n­ In/-( Inward .lltcrnJuve tr.1I1',­ dali7cd \\ ere III the Price 'cllter By CLAYTON WORFOLK dctcrl11l11c wh.ltch.llI!!,e, .Irc 1Il:<e,­ along the h.lIIdll:ap w.llkw.IY Courtesy 01 Sludents for iuSlKe ,ary .1 lid belletlC;.11 to the portalloll w~trlll'>. Senior Staff Writer The ,\ lld-CoJ'>t "l'r311'>11 FIT'>I About 20 toiO were \'Jnd.11I7cd." Tom down: About 20 to 30 Students Cuullcll." Accordll1g to Sh:llq. l110re The ,\ .S. COllnell II 11 .1 111 111111ISI), \ ccordll1!!, to It', ch.lner. 'lIb­ ,tudy, willch '> taTted 111 Jallu.111· for Justice posters were vandalized. dun 1,70(J il yc" were pmtcd un pa~scd legislation to creatt: .111 .\ .S. nllttcd b\ \ .S. COIlI1l:d 1'1 e,,,1.:1I1 ~()02, I'> lookllll( ,It way' 10 "disgll'>tcd" by the dl~re,>pcct COn~ tIllitlOlI .Inti Ih I.lw Rcvl\I<)I1'> dc\clop .lIld promotc puhllc .1.111 . 5, .1.111 6 .lIId J.ln. Ii. JC IIII I3nl\\ n. the COIlllllllt!:e 111.1\ ,\lo,t 01 the \'and.lhzed l1\'cr, .,howlI to\\ard Student, fur COll1l1 l1ttc e 011 1.111 . ("he C(lIII­ .11,0 "dl'>lll" JII\ .Iddlllllll.d 1I.111'>1t II'C, ,11th J'> bll'>c~ .lIld \\ el e 11I.lri..ed \\ IIh th e St.lr of JIIStlU:\ cffon~ . II1lllec wdl be ~,ked to "C\ .1luJte ch.lI1l{c, to the l{\l~· CllIlIl!.! doni h~lll 1.111, III the .1 reJ he[\\cell D.IV ld, J Jewl,h wmbol. Sum" the current .. trllcture 01 th e \ .S. 11Il·I1t-S th.1I III.I~ h~lIelit th~ l ·C.'D (lid ' I()\\ n allli ClTIl1cl Valle),­ .111 .Irea th.1I IIIe1ude, UCSD .lIld ilycrs that were IlIled up together s~~ FLYERS, rll~e Ii CO ll stitutlon ,lI1d hyl.I " s 1.lI1dj populntloll .1'> .; \\ hole." Uillverslt y Ci ty. had ollly .1 hne drawn throllgh "The Cil rl lpll" I~ g'1O\\ Il1g trcl11endoll'>ly," Bnm n ,.1Il1. .. \ \·c I-or Chmtlnc Ryc hel, sc mor thcm wl lh a blJck marker, Jcconlll1g to Shaiq. \\ .lI1t to III .ike .. lITe th.1I t\ S. " tLln~p()rtallon 1II.1f1 .1ger with WEATHER SPOKEN SURF A1TDB and prOlect mJI1,lgcr for i\ccortilllg to event voluntcl'r dOll1g cverythll1!:( It CJn to bc tnll"­ I\lurat Yiltll t, there has heen tIIred to represenl the ~tlItlt:11l hod~ Ihe "llIdy, the 1.lTge ~ t I~~UC at REPORT specul.won a~ to whol11 the cul­ the bcst." .. t.l ke 111 Sail Di egu is providmg "Everyone on prits Illight be, but there arc 110 Spccdically, the COlllllllttec \\ III people with a tran pOrlation lin. 16 definitc s u ~pcc t s . this campus has a wIIld NE1 0 E compare current A.S. COli II l"1 I .l lterative that i~ VIable enough " obody ~aw someone per­ JJn. 16 lin. 17 Wind waves 1 10 3 h practices with the te.xl uf m gO \ ­ to Ilire people OUI of their cars. right to protected swell NW 4 10 7 It sonally take it down," Yildiz s,lid. H~L50 ernlllg document~, nalllely thc "!t\ a rough nut to crack," HnL46 " YOII can't blame someone, bllt II A.. 'OnSUlUtlOn, which delillc, Rvchcl . ald . "People 111 free speech." JJn. 17 doesn't take u gcnius to fib'lITC Out WInd. NE the membershIp, pollclc Jlld Southern Ca hfornia - and It 'S who is tIoillg it." WInd waves 2 It. Of ItS heen known for a long time - - EIInI~ powers of the A.S. ollncll, .md In response to the hate in i­ less bylaw that upplcment the Union of JeWish swell. NW 5 10 8 It. dentS, Union of JeWish Snldents H 71 L47 H 71 L 47 SIudenIs \Ilea PIesident Sce TROUIY, Puge B Vice Pre idem Elana Segal wa -" e BYLAWS, Page THURSnAY, JANUARY 16. 2003 THE UCSD CiUAROIAN NE ~ " \ THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 200 I Increase: Hike to give UC EBU: Next buildings to be finished in 2004 continued from paRe r in both popularity and demand. highly tfaliled engll1ecr ... BRIEFLY ETCETERA ••• $1 79 million this year ment," said Bioenginee ring Because applications arc on the The $ I 02.5 mdlion <:'11 -1'1 .2 Undergraduate tudent Affairs rise UC ~ystem-wide, the ~chnol building will focu5 on IIllerdl'CI ­ commUld from P(lRC I posed by Asse mbl y Speaker Herb Assistant Marisol Nierva­ plans to increase enrollment to plinary rcsearch, with .1 focu .. Oil Wesson (D-Los Angeles) in SUill­ Conjoined twins, now New approach helps find to administration and librari cs, a Magnano. "But it's abso lu tely about 20 percent of UCSD ~tu­ wirelcss technology, the I IltcrnCI separated, return home water pollution causes $n.3 million reduction to educa­ mer 2002 to solve the 2002 -03 beautiful and our students love it." dents, ar::cording to Siebel. and other forills of OI11I11UIII ('I­ tiollal outreach programs and budget crisis, but fai led to pass.