Get an inside look at off-campus digs from students who’ve been there. PAGE 8 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO www.ucsdguardian.org Monday, April 28, 2008 The Student Voice Since 1967 Playing for Greener Pastures UCSD Enters Stem-Cell Research Partnership which was created after voters passed Consortium to lead Proposition 71 in 2004. The amount increased research on of the grant will be determined at a meeting of CIRM’s governing board regenerative medicine early next month. If the funds are with help from state granted, the facility must be finished within two years. facilities grant. The goal of the SDCRM is to By Christina Homer promote collaboration between lead- Senior Staff Writer ing biologists, physicians, engineers, physicists, chemists, computer sci- Four major research institutions entists and bioethicists. It will pool are joining to form a cutting-edge San resources to buy state-of-the-art tools Diego Consortium on Regenerative and instruments. In addition, the Medicine, which will draw togeth- consortium will recruit and train new er a number of major resources in researchers in stem-cell research. the field in an attempt to further “The consortium provides an addi- develop regenerative science. UCSD, tional catalyst for collaboration among the Scripps Research Institute, the the great research organizations here Burnham Institute for Medical in San Diego,” John Reed, CEO of the Research and the Salk Institute will Burnham Institute, said in an e-mail. be equal partners in the collabora- According to Reed, the Burnham tion. Institute has a long-standing commit- KAREN LING/GUARDIAN The SDCRM is working on a major ment to stem-cell research dating back Alternative rock band Finch plays a set April 25 at the ninth annual Muirstock festival in the John Muir College quad. The concert took place as part of the facilities grant from the California college’s 40-year anniversary celebration, which included a week of events devoted to promoting environmental sustainability. Institute for Regenerative Medicine, See RESEARCH, page 14 Israeli, Palestinian Youths Promote Cooperation REC BOARD strate to the leadership and people An organization devoted on both sides of the conflict that to advocating cooperative demand for peaceful resolution EXPLORES exists among those affected by the solutions to a decades- situation. old problem brings its “The majority [of Israelis and BUDGET Palestinians] want to achieve res- message to UCSD. olution nonviolently,” Rapp said. By Vanessa Do “There are about 300,000 Israelis Senior Staff Writer and 300,000 Palestinians who have OPTIONS signed the OneVoice mandate. Our A group of Israeli and Palestinian goal isn’t to change people’s minds By Matthew L’Heureux youth activists spoke at UCSD last but to start a thinking process. It’s Senior Staff Writer week as part of an effort to spread already what most people want and a message of peace for their embat- we’re just amplifying the voice of Following heated debate regarding tled home region and advocate a the Palestinian and Israeli people.” student representation in the layout two-state solution to the ongoing Shani Gershon, a OneVoice repre- of the RIMAC Annex, the Athletic, Israeli-Palestinian conflict. sentative from Jerusalem, spoke about Recreation and Sports Facilities The OneVoice movement, an the challenges she faces in Israel while Advisory Board has recommended the international nonpartisan grass- handing out pamphlets that publicize implementation of two ad-hoc com- roots organization, stopped in San the organization’s mandate. mittees that would oversee the use of Diego on April 24 for the final “They would read it and say the campus’ intercollegiate athletics and leg of its Southern California it’s great but wouldn’t want to sign sports facilities and recreation fees. tour. Sponsored by the Americans because they thought the Palestinians ARSFAB Student co-Chair Dan for Informed Democracy and would not sign it,” she said. “What Palay, who made the recommenda- the Organization for Muslim motivated them was that I told them tion at the board’s last meeting, said and Jewish Awareness, the event I had a Palestinian counterpart saying the committees will help cultivate a allowed OneVoice to spread aware- the exact same thing.” motivated core group experienced with ness about ways to promote peace Co-president of OMJA and handling budgetary matters, a skill that in the region. Eleanor Roosevelt College sopho- has taken past members several quar- OneVoice representative Laurel more Marina Triner, who lived in ters to develop. Rapp said it is not always clear Israel, said that as an American “Too often, ARSFAB takes a while to people outside of Palestine and student she has had the opportu- to get moving because it doesn’t have Israel that the region’s inhabitants nity to view the Israeli-Palestinian people trained to look at budgets,” want to arrive at an agreement conflict from a point of view to Palay said. through nonviolent means. which she would not otherwise be Palay said that while ARSFAB has In order to further their goal exposed to. a relatively high annual turnover rate of spreading this sentiment, the “I believe it’s my duty to impact among members, he hoped the commit- organization seeks to acquire one the situation in my home country tees’ membership would be “less fluid.” million signatures by the end of because I am removed from the WILL PARSON/GUARDIAN While he said that the committees the year from those sympathetic OneVoice representative Shani Gershon addresses a crowd of students April 24 as part of the organization’s to the cause in order to demon- See ONEVOICE, page 14 tour of Southern California. The group promotes peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. See BUDGET, page 3 FOCUS SPORTS INSIDE WEATHER Wading into Third Lights and Sirens .................3 Weeding Out the Truth Seasoned to Taste ................4 April 28 April 29 UCSD researchers explore both the advantages The No. 16 Tritons went 1-2 in their conference Letter to the Editor ...............5 H 83 L 57 H 72 L 55 and addictive qualities of marijuana. tournament to finish in third place. Through My Lens .................7 page 8 page 20 Classifieds ..........................17 April 30 May 1 Crossword ..........................17 H 60 L 51 H 69 L 52 2 NEWS THE UCSD GUARDIAN MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2008 BLOCKHEADS BY LARS INGELMAN Charles Nguyen Editor in Chief Matthew L’Heureux Managing Editors Matthew McArdle Hadley Mendoza Nicole Teixeira Copy Editors Teresa Wu Jesse Alm Associate News Editors Kimberly Cheng Reza Farazmand Charles Nguyen Opinion Editor Hadley Mendoza Associate Opinion Editor Rael Enteen Sports Editor Jake Blanc Associate Sports Editors Danai Leininger Janani Sridharan Alyssa Bereznak Focus Editor CURRENTS Katie Corotto Associate Focus Editors Serena Renner attempts to silence the collective Chris Kokiousis Associate Hiatus Editors Proposal Would Increase Chris Mertan Union Strike Capabilities voice of UC nurses,” Geri Jenkins, Sonia Minden a member of the union council of GUARDIAN ONLINE Will Parson Photo Editor presidents, said in a statement. Erik Jepsen Associate Photo Editor The state Public Employee UC Office of the President Relations Board has issued a pro- spokesman Paul Schwartz said Richard Choi Design Editor posal that legalizes unfair-labor- the university is reviewing the pro- www.ucsdguardian.org Wendy Shieu Associate Design Editor practice strikes by public employ- posed ruling and will likely appeal Christina Aushana Art Editor ees throughout California. If final- it. Patrick Stammerjohn Web Designer ized, the proposal will represent a “We are very disappointed in FOCUS HIATUS Page Layout victory for the California Nurses the decision as we think it fails to Emily Ku, Sonia Minden, Kent Ngo, Association — among other labor reinforce the joint duty that labor Slideshow: An Inside Look Blog: The Mixtape Michael Wu, Kathleen Yip Copy Readers unions — which is currently amid and management have to resolve Photo Editor Will Parson Hot tracks reviewed weekly. Allie Cuerdo, Rochelle Emert, Matthew L’Heureux, Christine Ma, efforts to bargain over patient care disputes at the bargaining table documents the Earth Day This week: indie hip- Najwa Mayer, Elizabeth Reynders, Anita Vergis issues. and protect against conduct such Trash Sort Extravaganza. hop cuts from Bilal, Jay Monica Bachmeier General Manager PERB administrative law judge as strikes that threaten public Mike Martinez Advertising Manager Donn Ginoza’s order found that safety,” he said in a statement. Electronica and Quelle. James Durbin Advertising Art Director the University of California violated If the UC system does contest OPINION Michael Neill Network Administrator Student Advertising Manager the law by refusing to bargain over it, Schwartz said the ruling will not Julia Peterson the union’s staffing proposal and take effect until it is resolved by Web Poll: What part of this Podcast: Episode III Advertising/Marketing Reps by concealing information from the full board. year’s Sun God Festival are Guests join Hiatus crew Maggie Leung Business Assistants nurses about patient classification you most looking forward Chris Kokiousis and Philip Charissa Ginn, Maggie Leung systems used to determine staff- Advertising Design and Layout to? Rhie to talk up Kanye West’s Nick Alesi, Jennifer Chan, George Chen ing decisions. Zimbabwean Art Exhibit Distributors Unless it is appealed, the pro- “Glow in the Dark” tour, Charissa Ginn, Jason Gubatayao, to Benefit AIDS Treatment Scott Havrisik, Danai Leininger posed ruling will be finalized on Vampire Weekend and the Marketing and Promotion May 8. Dara Bu, Priya Kanayson, Kathleen Ngo, state of the gaming industry. Jennifer Snow, Lisa Tat, Jennifer Wu The proposed ruling would UCSD’s AIDS Research The UCSD Guardian is published Mondays and Thursdays during the academic year by UCSD students and for the UCSD com- require the UC system to negoti- Institute and the Zimbabwe AIDS munity.