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Freshmen Apply in Record Numbers; Campus Rate Drops

By Omair QaziStaff Writer

The University of California received a record number of enroll-ment applications for fall 2009, but saw a significant decrease in appli-cation growth compared to previous

years. UCSD incurred a 0.7 percent decrease in applicants for the class of 2013 compared to the number of applications received last year.

UC spokesman Ricardo Vazquez said the drop in enrollment growth is a result of a smaller high-school graduating class.

“We are still seeing continued growth despite the decrease in [high- school] graduates and that indicates that there is a strong demand among California students for a UC educa-tion,” Vazquez said.

The UC department of finance has projected incremental decreases in the

number of graduating public high-school seniors over the next few years before the application rate stabilizes. According to Vazquez, demographic shifts like these are not uncommon in the UC system’s history.

UCLA secured the highest num-ber of applications, followed by UC Berkeley and UCSD. UC Merced and UC Riverside received the fewest applicants.

According to Assistant Vice Chancellor of Admissions Mae W. Brown, out of 47,032 applicants,

Regents’ decision to cut enrollment by over 2,000 will result in fewer offers from top campuses, more from Merced.

See APPLICATIONS, page 2

IRVINE LEADS FIRST STEM-CELL STUDY ON HUMANS

By David HarveySenior Staff Writer

Using research and methodol-ogy developed by UC Irvine’s Hans Keirstead, California-based stem-cell research company Geron will be the world’s first to conduct clinical trials on people using human embryonic stem cells following federal govern-ment approval earlier this month in a procedure that will attempt to treat acute spinal-cord injuries.

Keirstead gained international attention in 2006 when his lab pub-lished results showing the successful use of stem cells to repair damage in the cellular sheath protecting spinal nerves in mice. The procedure induc-es stem cells — capable of transform-ing into any cell type — to become those that reconstruct the sheath pro-tecting spinal nerves. Without this protective coating, electrical impulses fail to complete their path, leaving victims paralyzed below their injury.

Less than a dozen paralyzed subjects will participate in Geron’s nationwide trials, receiving treatment seven to 14 days after injury, the peri-od deemed suitable for the procedure, according to Keirstead’s studies.

Evan Snyder, a professor at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, said in an online forum that this trial will monitor several possible side effects, such as the emergence of cell types inappropriate to the ner-vous system like muscle or bone cells, the overgrowth of transplanted cells causing tumors and compression of nerve fibers that could instead inhibit function in patients.

“Until there is some data from this study it won’t have much impact on current research,” said Larry Goldstein, director of stem-cell research at UCSD. “We won’t know for some time. ... It is a shot in the arm for the field but this is still a phase-one trial.”

After Months at the Bullhorn, Workers Secure Wage Hike

By Jesse AlmAssociate News Editor

The University of California reached a tentative contract settle-ment with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Wednesday morning, closing a 15-month bargaining peri-od for its 8,500 service workers.

Since October 2007, the custodi-ans, gardeners, food-service workers and bus drivers have picketed, lob-bied and gone on strike statewide to decry UC executive salaries and demand a living wage.

“After a year and half of nego-tiations, this is truly a historic day,” said Lakesha Harrison, president of AFSCME Local 3299. “[Our actions] were key to getting UC executives to do the right thing and readjust their priorities from executives to the low-est-paid workers at UC.”

The five-year contract includes annual, across-the-board raises of 3 percent — paid retroactively through October 2008 — as well as an addi-tional 1 percent bonus effective in July of this year. All service workers will reach a statewide minimum wage

of $14 per hour by January 2013, up from the current minimum of $10.28, and a series of category-spe-cific increases will reward employees for their experience.

In addition, contract language

prevents the university from modify-ing health care and retirement ben-efits without union approval.

Shelley Nielsen, the university’s chief negotiator for the contract, said she is proud that service workers will

finally receive the compensation they deserve.

“We are very pleased to have reached what we believe is a fair agree-

UCSD Senior Pioneers Domestic-Partnership InitiativeBy Vanessa DoSenior Staff Writer

Voter approval of Proposition 8 last November — which ended same-sex marriage in California — inspired one UCSD student to create the Domestic-Partnership Initiative, a project aimed at finding a compro-mise between the debate’s pro and con camps.

Founded by John Muir College senior Ali Shams, the initiative calls for the word “marriage” to be removed from California law and replaced with “domestic partner-ship,” repealing Proposition 8 and

giving legal equality to all couples regardless of sexual orientation.

The California constitution cur-rently states that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid and recognized in California.” According to Shams, the initiative’s goal is to take “marriage” out of the constitution entirely, rendering it a social ceremony rather than a politi-cal institution.

Shams hopes this compromise can resolve the Proposition 8 dispute without offending those opposed to gay marriage for religious reasons.

“I grew up with a different ethnic-ity and people would discriminate

for being a minority,” Shams said. “But this is California, we’re sup-posed to be liberal. It’s not fair for people to get married, and then to have their rights removed. I also real-ize that the religious community may not follow these things and it’s hard to persuade them to look past their religious beliefs, so a compromise is necessary.”

California Institute of the Arts student Kaelan Housewright is work-ing alongside Shams.

“By making marriage a social institution, we will create equal-ity for both men and women within the state, regardless of their sex-

ual orientation,” Housewright said. “Furthermore, the Domestic Partnership Initiative upholds the belief of separation of church and state put forth by Thomas Jefferson and the First Amendment of our Constitution.”

Housewright and Shams submit-ted the initiative to the state attorney general’s office last week, where it now awaits fiscal analysis and the official title and summary that would appear on the petition.

Shams hopes to receive the title and summary on March 9, and will

See WORKERS, page 3

Contract stipulates $14 minimum hourly wage, 3 percent annual increases until 2013.

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In the past 15 months, students, faculty, staff and community members have repeatedly gathered on Library Walk to support wage increases for the university’s 8,500 service workers. Their efforts have been part of a statewide movement marked by boycotts, sit-ins, letter writing and a five-day strike.

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BY BEN HOLM

The Alumni Association has named five UCSD graduates to be honored at its 31st Annual Awards for Excellence event, on Saturday, June 6.

The honorees include Donald W. Murphy, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center’s chief executive officer; Abbie Celniker, a renowned molecular biologist; Jeffrey Rabin, UCSD professor of math-ematics and former co-director of the Algebraic Thinking Institute; Gary Curtis, a biomedical entrepreneur; and Wayne Kennedy, UCSD’s former vice chancellor of administration and the UC Office of the President’s for-mer senior vice president of business and finance.

Ticket sales for the event, which is open to alumni and the general public, will raise funds for the alumni association’s endowed scholarship programs.

The UCSD alumni award recipi-ents will join other accomplished individuals who have received the award, such as Roger Revelle.

Alumni Association to Honor Award Recipients

CURRENTSUCSD expects to enroll a freshman class of 3,775.

Overall, UC applicants had a mean GPA of 3.67 with an average SAT score of 1,726 and an average ACT score of 25. UCSD applicants had a mean GPA of 3.77, while those applying to UCLA and UC Berkeley held, on average, 3.79 and 3.84 GPAs respectively.

“The quality of the UC freshman applicant pool remains high, and this year’s outcomes are generally consistent with the last two cycles,” Vazquez said.

Despite the decrease in freshman applicants, transfer applications to the UC system increased by 13 per-cent, and by 17 percent to UCSD specifically.

At the advisement of UC President Mark G. Yudof, the Board of Regents voted this month to cut 2009-10 freshman enrollment by 2,300 stu-dents due to a lack of state funding. However, at the same meeting, the regents also increased the number of systemwide transfer enrollments by 500 students.

“[Transfer enrollment] is very

important to us,” Vazquez said. “It’s a path that is important to be kept open, especially since it is cost-effec-tive for many students in these eco-nomic times.”

UCSD plans to adhere to Yudof ’s request to reduce freshman enroll-ment targets.

“We are overenrolled at the fresh-man level and are trying to bring our enrollment in greater alignment with the funding provided by the state so the reduction at the freshman level is appropriate,” Brown said.

Despite a lack of funding, Brown said UCSD will ensure that “we continue to offer quality academic programs for those students that accept our offer of admission.” She said there are diverse programs for those entering at either the freshman or transfer level, and the university makes no recommendation regard-ing which path a student should choose to enter the university.

Despite the curtailment of fresh-man enrollment, the university will still offer placement at a UC campus to every eligible California resident who applied. According to Vazquez, students who are eligible and are not

admitted by any of their preferred campuses will be referred to UC Riverside or UC Merced.

Despite slow application growth overall, ethnic and racial minori-ties increased their presence in the application pool this year. American Indians showed the largest rise, with an 18.9 percent increase in applica-tions compared to last year. Latino applicants rose by 9 percent, while black applicants rose by 5.8 per-cent and Asian American applicants increased by 4.8 percent.

“We are very pleased with the healthy jump in applications from African American and Chicano/Latino [groups], particularly at the transfer level,” Vazquez said.

According to university offi-cials, with enrollment caps and the increase in freshman applications this year, admission will be more restrictive. As a result, students who may have qualified for admission at three campuses in prior years will most likely receive one or two accep-tances this year.

Readers can contact Omair Qazi at oqazi@ucsd.edu.

Transfer Applications Rise at All Campuses▶ APPLICATIONS, from page 1

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2009 THE UCSD GUARDIAN NEWS 3

Approval for the trial came just after the inauguration of President Barack Obama, who co-sponsored the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 and promised to repeal former President George W. Bush’s moratorium on federal funding for studies using embryonic stem-cell lines, or batches, derived from embryos after August 9, 2001.

“Many of our best investiga-tions [at UCSD] have federal fund-ing and they’ve been very limited on which stem-cell lines they can use,” Goldstein said. “Studies that receive private funds with nonfeder-ally approved lines have been limited because equipment has been federally funded. We have to forgo the use of that equipment in those investiga-tions.”

In California, private dona-tions and funding made available by 2004’s passage of Proposition 71, which made $3 billion available for

the development of human embry-onic stem cells, have supported much of the research being conducted, including Keirstead’s and a portion of UCSD’s stem-cell research.

Worldwide, 10 labs obtained stem-cell lines prior to Bush’s announce-ment, falling safely within the allowed guidelines for federal funding.

Geron’s trial would be eligible for federal funding regardless of the policy’s reversal as it uses one of the federally approved lines, and both Geron CEO, Thomas B. Okarma, and a spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration said poli-tics had little to do with the trial’s approval.

“[This trial] marks the dawn of a new era in medical therapeutics,” Okarma said. “This approach is one that reaches beyond pills and scalpels to achieve a new level of healing.”

Readers can contact David Harvey at dharvey@ucsd.edu.

ment, and one that rewards our ser-vice workers for their continued hard work and dedication to the university,” she said. “The university worked very hard throughout the process to bring the negotiations to a successful con-clusion, and ultimately compromises by both sides enabled us to reach an agreement.”

Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, a UC regent, was part of an outspoken coali-tion of public officials supporting the union throughout negotiations by writing letters and meeting with uni-versity officials.

“This is a good settlement,” he said. “It will give some of the lowest-

paid workers at the greatest university system in the world enough of a salary to meet the minimum needs of their families.”

He added that despite the uni-versity’s repeated efforts to attribute the stalled negotiations to California’s budget crisis, the contract was largely independent of state funds.

“Only a small portion of the work-er’s contract comes from the state bud-get,” he said.

UCSD groundskeeper Jorge Olvera, who has led several dem-onstrations on Library Walk in past months, said the contract is not per-fect by any means. He cited parking, in particular, as a rising expense on

which the university was unwilling to compromise.

However, he called the contract a symbolic precedent for future UC labor negotiations.

“It’s a moral victory more than anything else,” he said. “This is a pub-lic institution, and it belongs to the people of California. [The contract] is a step in the right direction in being able to change the culture of the uni-versity.”

Harrison said she expects union members to ratify the contract by early next month.

Readers can contact Jesse Alm at jessealm@gmail.edu.

Unlike last week, there was only one member of the public present in the forum cham-

bers at last night’s A.S. Council meet-ing. Jackie Beoris came in as a rep-resentative from the Global Brigade, a year-old organization that has been rapidly expanding and reaching out to university campuses nation-wide.

“I just wanted to speak to you to remind you that we exist and let you know that we may ask you for support in the future,” Beoris said.

Reports followed, during which Vice President of Student Life Darryl Nousome told the council on behalf of Associate Vice President of P r o g r a m m i n g Garrett Berg that all Death Cab for Cutie student tickets were sold, yielding $30,000 in ticket sales.

President Donna Bean remind-ed everyone that there would be a meeting on Friday for those inter-ested in running for office as part of the Student Voice! slate in the Spring Quarter general election. She added that there will soon be a discussion regarding the addition of a Loft fee provision on the general election bal-lot in order to provide the funding that the Loft needs to survive.

There were few reports from com-mittees, but conversation stalled for some 20 minutes on a request for $650 from the Inter-Fraternity Council for Greek columns, which was sponsored by Associate Vice President of Athletic Relations Peter Benesch.

Vice President of Finance and Resources Naasir Lakhani objected to the allocation on the basis that IFC had requested and was awarded the same amount the previous quarter.

“C’mon, its 650 bucks,” Associate

Vice President of Student Advocacy Frank Carroll said. “Look at how much we fund the Koala!”

(For the record, the Koala is fund-ed $2,500 per quarter.) Ultimately, the council approved the allocation.

During open forum Lakhani told councilmembers that he would not be able to represent them in the Mr. Alpha Chi competition, prompting All-Campus Senator Chris Westling to quickly nominate Biological Sciences Senator Daniel Nguyen.

“Wait, are you serious?” Nguyen asked after a brief pause. “What does this actually entail?”

L a k h a n i explained that he would be coached in the art of pag-

eantry and showcasing a talent. After several minutes of serious introspec-tion, Nguyen announced that he had no discernable talent and respectfully declined the nomination.

Carroll then revealed a softer, more vulnerable side of himself, which momentarily sobered up the council. In recent weeks, councilmembers have come under a significant amount of criticism since the circulation of the first drafts of a resolution condemn-ing the recent acts of violence in Gaza, deeply affecting certain councilmem-bers, including Carroll.

“I’m not very emotional as you can tell by my nickname that’s been circulating around, ‘the Beast,’” Carroll said. “But I’m upset and offended by the accusations that I can’t do my job because of the color of my skin. I just want people to be careful and realize what they’re saying.”

The meeting, though not entirely sweet, was certainly shorter than last week’s, which dragged on for over six hours.

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then have 150 days to collect 700,000 signatures. If everything goes as planned, the initiative could be put on the ballot as a proposition in 2010.

Shams also started a Facebook group to build support for the initia-tive. So far, the group has attracted over 1,800 members.

“We are relying on social Internet networks to get the word out and spread out a petition,” Shams said. “It’s also a social experiment to see if we can do this on a minimal budget. It is pretty ambitious for two college students because usu-ally legislators or actual groups and organizations do this, but we want to see if our generation can really change things.”

Readers can contact Vanessa Do at v3do@ucsd.edu.

Initiative Uses Facebook to

Gather Support▶ INITIATIVE, from page 1

Garamendi Was Vocal Supporter of Wage Increase▶ WORKERS, from page 1

OPINIONTHURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2009

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Alyssa Bereznak opinion@ucsdguardian.org

When California vot-ers narrowly approved Proposition 8 last

November, the state constitu-tion was amended to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry. Religious groups immediately hailed the victory as a defense for the tradi-tional meaning of “marriage,” claim-ing the one-man, one-woman insti-tution should never be altered to accommodate changing attitudes or alternative views, while gay-rights advocates recoiled in shock, vow-ing to press on in their struggle for equality.

Both sides, however, vowed to defend their interests, with Proposition 8 opponents charging minority rights can never be taken away through popular vote and tra-ditional-marriage supporters claim-ing their cause had been vindicated once and for all. The California Supreme Court will have the ulti-mate say when it revisits the issue later this year.

Meanwhile, John Muir College senior Ali Shams, along with California Institute of the Arts student Kaelan Housewright, have thrown a wrench into the machine, leading an initiative that would banish the word “marriage” from the state’s lexi-con entirely, instead replacing it with “domestic partnership.”

Their goal is to remove the reli-gious connotations associated with marriage entirely by renaming all state-recognized unions as domestic partnerships, thus rendering them sociopolitical contracts rather than

religious rituals. Aiming to appease pious citizens who refuse to budge on their antigay views, they see the initiative as a fair solution to the problem of semantics, allowing theologians to keep their allegedly unalterable practice while simulta-neously granting equal recognition to all committed couples regardless of sexual orientation.

Although the move was meant with the noblest of intentions, the effort will most likely fail. Too many people won’t to give up their marriag-es for an attempt at political correct-ness, with the strongest opposition surely coming from Californians who might support expanding marriage rights to same-sex couples but who do not want to lose the meaning of

their own marriages. No one dreams of “domestic

partnering” the person they love; in our society, marriage is the term embraced by the vast majority of people — religious or atheist, gay or straight — and it is highly unlikely people will be willing to give up such a deeply ingrained institution so easily.

However, by forcing Californians to confront the idea that their own heterosexual marriages could poten-tially be reclassified, Shams and Housewright have opened up a new chapter in the fight for marriage equality. Hopefully, citizens will use this initiative as a means to realize that it is time to stop fighting about semantics, and expand the right to

marry to their gay and lesbian neigh-bors, or risk losing it altogether.

University of California President Mark G. Yudof ’s newest proposal to cover sys-

temwide fees for students whose fam-ilies earn below $60,000 annually isn’t a radical concept: Not only are the 1,100 students who would be affected by the plan already covered by federal aid and grant programs, but other prestigious research institutions have already adopted similar ideas. Simply put, Yudof ’s proposal — named the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan — is a public-relations move cre-ated to make the already-available aid offered to low-income students seem

more accessible.And that’s exactly why it’s a good

idea.As worries of college afford-

ability grow with increasing inac-cessibility to private loans, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed Cal Grant cuts and the UC Board of Regents’ consideration to raise undergraduate student fees, many uniformed lower-income families whose children may be first-genera-tion college applicants are unsure of whether they can afford a University of California education. By making a blanket guarantee for a certain

income bracket and effectively pub-licizing it to families, the univer-sity will both restore confidence in higher education’s affordability and reduce confusing paperwork.

Even better, this measure’s annu-al $3.1 million cost, which would come from increasing the amount of fee revenue reserved for financial aid from 33 percent to 36 percent, wouldn’t affect the grants offered to UC students with family incomes between $60,000 and $100,000, both ensuring full aid to low-income families without cutting that of the middle class.

Paired with Yudof ’s proposals to increase next year’s transfer stu-dent enrollment, the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan would ultimately push for a greater racial and socio-economic mix and support the UC system’s goals of providing higher education to all California residents — an aspect of the UC mission threatened by state budget cuts.

While it’s obvious this proposal is the same old financial-aid sys-tem with a new title, at the very least it offers a spoonful of sugar to help struggling low-income families swallow sour economic times.

Financial-Aid Makeover Will Raise Confidence, Ease Worries

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Gone are the days where an awkward elevator ride with a stranger would be filled

with eerie silence. Instead, awk-ward moments like these have been replaced with the fingers-punching-digits click of phone keypads. But choosing your iPhone over a strang-er is only the beginning. A coffee date to catch up with an old friend is no longer a sentimental conversa-tion, but rather a series of paused, incomplete sentences, interrupted

by an important text or e-mail. In this supposedly advanced century, our lives revolve around technology and texting; e-mail and Facebook make us the most disconnected gen-eration, as simple human pleasures are left by the wayside.

Working at a classy Italian res-taurant this summer, I witnessed the degree to which a certain fam-ily of three had succumbed to tech-nology’s firm and unforgiving grip. Every Saturday night, the mother and father entered the restaurant with their daughter trailing behind, laptop under her arm and head-phones in ears. She sat down at the table, plugged into cyberspace and checked out of the real world. As her parents ate their pasta in silence, she remained fixated on the screen, shoveling food into her mouth with-out so much as a blink, only occa-sionally looking up to make sure she hadn’t spilled any tomato sauce on her Macbook. Her parents made no attempt to engage her in conversa-tion, as though they had given up hope of interaction, and had sur-rendered her to technology’s pull. I couldn’t help but wonder what was so damn important on the computer screen. Was it a photo of Lindsay Lohan’s private business? A new addition to Lolcats.com? Whatever she was looking at was pretty capti-vating; she didn’t even flinch when our delicious dessert tray rolled by.

But a constant laptop connection isn’t the only techno-heroin drip our generation fiends over. Thanks to the cell phone, we’ll never be alone again. Although it is an admit-tedly practical accessory, it’s also the reason the text-crazy 10-year-old social butterfly can’t wait until recess to share life issues with her besties, and the cause for couples — no longer defined by spit-swap-ping — to worry if their PDAs (per-sonal digital assistants) will deliver “ILY” texts.

Even high-school archetypes — like jocks or prom kings — are being redefined by telecommunica-tion. Renamed “texting kings” in my high-school friend circle, these Casanovas knew all too well how to make a girl swoon with a smooth, wink-faced emoticon or a noncha-lant “how you doin’?’” text. Forget old-fashioned dinner dates: these boys got the job done with a swift button press and lived for their unlimited texting plans. Boy and girl did everything from flirt to fight

You Know What’s Lame? Oh, Hold on, I Have a Text

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By Jonathan ShanContributing Writer

NATIONAL NEWS — All across the country, students, teachers and administrators gave a small sigh of relief as the $819 billion economic stimulus bill containing $150 bil-lion for education made it through the House of Representatives yes-terday. Now, they are holding their breaths once again, anxiously await-ing Senate approval of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — a bill that will increase the federal Pell Grant budget from $19 billion to $27 billion and provide extra aid to school districts, special education and pre-kindergarten programs.

The bill provides a short-term

boost in education funding, which is particularly essential for stu-dents who fall on the socioeco-nomic scale’s lower end and rely on Pell Grants to finance their college tuitions. The maximum amount of Pell funds will be raised to $4,860 per student for the 2009-10 award year. This bill is one step closer to achieving President Barack Obama’s campaign promise of increasing Pell Grants while at the same time keep-ing up with college inflation. Obama plans to expand the Pell Grant to $5,400 per student in the next few years. With the proposed cuts for Cal Grants and ever-rising tuitions, other means may be needed to com-pensate, and the Pell increase will help blunt the blow of any cuts.

By adding $1.6 billion to Title I programs — those that support stu-dents in low-income families — in California, the bill will also resus-citate No Child Left Behind, largely criticized by educators for demand-ing high standards without financial support. According to the Forum

on Educational Accountability, the Bush Administration’s budget fell $15 billion short of the amount Congress and the administration authorized for NCLB in 2007. With proper funding, NCLB can promote student performance, rather than punish failing schools. By giving this program more funding, educa-tors will come to respect NCLB not just for its high-minded ideals but also for its ability to support schools while encouraging greater account-ability.

Students in California with learn-ing disabilities would also receive $1.4 billion through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, leg-islation that oversees and guides spe-cial-education programs. I.D.E.A. has been criticized as an unfunded mandate, receiving less than a quar-ter of Congress’s pledged funds. The process of fully funding programs to help special-education students must start again, because these students require additional atten-tion and support early on to help

them become independent mem-bers of society, which will reduce the requirement for social services later on.

While the bill’s passage may have been necessary to address short-term needs, it must be molded in a way that will create a solid foundation for future progress. New York Times columnist David Brooks called the entire stimulus package a “muddled mixture of short-term stimulus haste and long-term spending commit-ments.” However, the last eight years have shown that high expectations cannot be paired with a lack of sup-port. Politicians are finally putting their money where their mouths are, and with adequate oversight their investments will pay off in the long run. To not pass the bill would sim-ply leave the job of economic recov-ery to a generation of students who remain largely uneducated and thus unable to meaningfully contribute to the taxpayer system.

Stimulus Bill Addresses Neglected Educational Goals

See LEGISLATION, page 5

Props to University of California officials for compromising with AFSCME to increase wages for service workers after 15 months of negotiations.

Flops to the Peanut Corporation of America for ignoring the strains

of salmonella it found while testing peanut products in 2007 and 2008.

After passing in the House, new legislation will support students and boost economic progress.

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without ever having to communi-cate face to face, and when one such king cheated on his girl at a random party, her only option was to text a sad face paired with “we’re over.”

But, of all the distracting techie toys available, there is one ultimate Web site controlling our social prowess and networking ability: Facebook. It becomes clear times have changed when we no longer see gifts as the physical manifestation of someone’s appreciation wrapped in a bow, but rather a digital balloon appearing as one new notification on our news feeds. Bumper stickers are no longer for decorating cars, instead taking the form of Edward Cullen pictures plastered on your wall. And no, I don’t mean your bedroom wall.

Facebook is such a priority that choosing the right profile picture takes precedence over a four-page English essay, without question. Even if your relationship status claims you’re single, anyone with the sense to view your wall-to-wall convos knows exactly how you feel about that certain someone. And,

most importantly, you know last night wasn’t a success until a photo album has been posted of your drunken adventures.

So the next time you pause from your current, intense text fight and notice there’s an old friend with coffee across from you, please take a step back. Our reliance on what we deem to be the advantages of modernity is diminishing necessary human interaction. The rapid growth of technology is inevitable, but I implore you to remember where we came from. Not so long ago, people had survived for centuries without a wireless Internet connection, and boys still got laid without seductive text messages. So, when you’re done reading this column and you begin typing the Facebook Web address into your laptop browser, shut the computer off and walk away. Go outside or talk to your roommate. Overcoming our addiction to con-stant social connection takes time, but someday we’ll have to learn how to have a real conversation. And if you don’t make the decision to give your BlackBerry a rest, carpal tun-nel will for you.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN By Niven Wilson Art of Conversation, Humanity Lost Between Incessant Texts

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But even with all its positive and necessary funding, the bill con-tains questionable provisions that reek of special interests — more specifically, a provision that would temporarily increase subsidies for banks in the student-loan program. This could be likened to the inef-fective bank bailouts, after which bank lenders tightened credit stan-dards and, according to a New York Times report, students had a harder time qualifying for private loans. As this bill currently stands, it con-tradicts Obama’s campaign plan to eliminate government subsidies and guarantees for banks and lend-

ers, and undermines his goal of allowing greater student access to loans. The bill’s problems are not unsolvable and can be amended to ensure taxpayer money isn’t being misused.

Obama’s new Education Secretary Arne Duncan must ensure this boost in funding over a two-year period will be used efficiently and will remain consistent with Obama’s education policy goals — such as removing complex financial-aid forms like the FAFSA, and creating a program to make students aware of their college readiness early on.

An increased government role in education will not solve all the sys-

tem’s troubles — $150 billion won’t convince students of the importance of college nor will it be the sole factor in determining their success later on down the road. What it does provide is a lifeline and an opportu-nity for students to succeed.

With a competitive global econ-omy, there is not a moment to waste in investing in America’s future. As America rises out of its economic collapse, it needs educated citizens who will fill jobs and generate taxes. This bill is the first step toward that recovery.

Readers can contact Jonathan Shan at jcshan@ucsd.edu.

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Rumor has it that Katy Perry’s going acoustic for ‘09. The momentary princess of bi-curious radiopop released the admittedly less lipsticky “Thinking of You,” a leaf-turning ballad that’s winning brownie points from her numerous critics. Though it might sound more at home on an angsty alt-rock record, who’s to say a girl can’t reinvent herself? Along for the ride are the Daylights, the lucky junior stadium-rockers touring with the biggest pop-tart since Britney. Reminiscent of U2 deities (minus the price of sterling production quality) the band delivers Coldplay-worthy tunes that could herald a couple sold-out gigs. (AC)

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Suburban Buzzkill: Hutchinson Sobers Up the Pub

W hat does California sound like?” asks Steven Schick into his cell phone, to me and to himself, reach-ing for a chair in a hotel room

somewhere in San Francisco. He has freshly arrived via BART from the East Bay after flying in from San Diego, and will soon depart for a weekend of per-cussion-course planning in the Canadian Rockies (“just about as beautiful a place as you’ll find on the planet”).

Seeing as Schick is the one between the two of us who, a couple years back, took a six-week, 716-mile stroll up the California coast to record its noise in slowness and openness, I let him answer the question.

“It sounds like people speaking different lan-guages, it sounds like construction, it sounds like the ocean, it sounds like traffic, it sounds like a — a lot of things, things that have become important to us that we don’t even notice anymore. And if we forget what things sound like, then we pretty soon forget who we are, I think.”

Schick is far more regal a UCSD landmark than “The Cat in the Hat” or the stone bear; his office is a secret garden of grand percussion instruments; he has worked with Philip Glass and John Cage but would love to work with you in office hours. Anyone who’s even come so far as to graze the outer rungs of the music department has a story about him, or has heard one, or at least thinks he must be wonderful. The Beatles class he taught for decades and finally let lie last year — soon to be no more than a legend, as all who bore witness make their way out into the world — will go down in campus

By Allie CuerdoAssociate Hiatus Editor

F ollowing in the giant footsteps of his soul-ful idols — Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson — Eric Hutchinson claims

he needs to sing like he needs to breathe. But he doesn’t stop at the shower: According to his Web site, he sings at coffeehouses and funerals with equal timbre.

Unfortunately, all that practice couldn’t keep his third album, August 2007’s Sounds Like This, from deflating. A jumbled reincarnation of Jason Mraz, Jack Johnson and Adam Levine, Hutchinson’s eerily familiar take on the sensitive young songwriter fails to transcend that boy-meets-girl pop grooves formula.

But maybe we should cut Hutchy some slack — after all, la-la land can be a tough gig. A brand-new addition to the music biz, the Maryland native

graduated from Emerson College in 2001; a film degree, along with a reputation as an open-mic regular in Boston, fueled the dream that prompted his starry-eyed move to Los Angeles. He released 2003’s popcorn debut That Could’ve Gone Better, on Madonna’s Let’s Break Records — but six months later, the lucky streak was halted by parent company Warner Bros, who decided to drop Hutch from their lineup. At the end of his rope and scrambling for lunch money, the hopeful managed to squeeze out Before I Sold Out, with tracks like “Breakdown More” and “Outside Villanova” spinning through pervasive loneliness and sex with minors, highlight-ing his darker corners and blues-rooted soul.

Anxious to pull Hutchinson out of his funk, a friend recently sent notorious gossip blogger Perez Hilton (aka everyone’s favorite skinny bitcher) his latest album, Sounds Like This. The next day,

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R egardless of how insultingly predictable a film is, it can (and will) still appeal to a major por-tion of the nation — as long as its starring faces

are pretty enough to watch. With blonde-then-bru-nette, frail-then-fat Hollywood chameleon Renée Zellweger as the featured vehicle in “New in Town,” the cheeseball flick is destined to draw an enthusi-astic crowd of Bridget Jones diehards.

It all seemed so promising — an Oscar-win-ning bombshell and a Danish director (Jonas Elmer), distant enough from the grave chick-flick epidemic that has overtaken our magnifi-cent shores. Alas, Elmer has obviously done his research thoroughly, studying popular American film culture enough to slop out a sapfest as for-mulaic and underwhelming as any other love-potioned Joe Shmoe could in Hollywood.

So here’s the gist (which you could probably gather from the minute-long commercial alone): Lucy Hill (Zellweger) is a majorly stressing high-up exec at some deathly important, suspiciously immoral corporation — you know, the kind with all the douchy ties walking around like they’ve got more than a couple things to hide. When her co-workers decide that one of the corporation’s

ramshackle factories is costing them money, Hill volunteers to get her hands dirty. She plans to inspect the factory and retrain its workers, willing to terminate those who can’t quite meet the chal-lenge. But there’s a twist: The factory is located in Minnesota — a far cry from the sandy paradise of Hill’s Miami hometown.

But this blue-collar beauty is blinded by a hunger to climb the corporate ladder (why she didn’t just sleep her way to the top will always be a mystery), and thus books the next available flight to Middle America. A true maverick.

Surprise, surprise — it turns out that the state of many lakes might as well be a different planet. Not only is the weather 10 times too chilly, but the townies are completely pedestrian. And everyone wears ugly shoes. Zellweger’s arrival recalls that infamous “Legally Blonde” entrance, sans Reese Witherspoon’s glimmer of smarts to offest that thick veneer of West-Coast idiocy.

Thankfully, Hill doesn’t scorn the wintry nights for long. Enter Ted Mitchell (Harry Connick Jr.), sporting a rather somber face — a face he wears for the length of the film — who pretends to despise the shapely suit sent from Florida to lay down the law. The consummation of their secret love is deterred by a classic element of conflict that shouldn’t have been attempted at all, because we’re just waiting for them to make out.

As mentioned, Connick, Jr. is set on stone-face autopilot, and, for the immobility of mouth, deliv-ers all his lines in a crusty monotone. Zellwegger is charming enough, but at the ripe age of 39, her perpetual sucking-on-a-lemon face has reached new extremes, with a pout that almost never unpuckers. An obligatory supporting cast is

thrown into the mix for comedic value, but they don’t seem ready for even that job.

One exception is J.K. Simmons (known for his hilarious portrayal of J. Jonah Jameson in the “Spider Man” films), who plays the exaggerated Stu Kopenhaffer. Simmons has so long been cast as the loud, sardonic, fast-speaking boss that he’s a true master at it, and highlights the film with a glowing performance that almost makes the film worth watching. Almost.

history as the most coveted gen-ed course of all time, with sit-inners spilling out the double doors and a waitlist like a battleground.

But Schick moves on and resettles where he is needed. Last year, on top of professorship, he was named conductor of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, and has since created a course in the fall devoted entirely to lab-studying their rehearsals. “Oftentimes in the professional musi-cal world, you play a concert with these groups of people, a little bit like what I’m doing this week — here, then going somewhere else, and the scenery changes all the time,” he says. “To see the same group time after time after time, rehearsal after rehearsal, and to develop a rapport, a way of working with the same group, has been just fascinating.”

It was only a matter of time before Schick’s ambitions made their way over to the Loft. The new campus venue’s hallmark mission — and ultimately what makes its new-car smell so hard to get rid of, as the over-eclectic, hyper-hip deliv-ery is often clunky — is to help high art off its gilded easel and rephrase it in colloquial terms, then squeeze it nice and chummy (but still A-line, still in the know) into that comfortingly corpo-rate corner of Price Center. Event coordinators aim to show students the ins and outs of snotty traditions such as fine wine and string concertos, and reveal how nonscary — even how pleasant — those things can be.

Schick’s vision for the new La Jolla Symphony Informances series is shrouded in similar educa-tion-meets-entertainment ideals. Only difference is, unlike the somewhat traditionless (at no fault of their own) foundations of the Loft, this music-department darling and good king of Mandeville is equipped with the long-standing respect, ado-ration and hard-earned hipness one can only wear after years at the helm of the scene.

That said, the agenda for Feb. 4 — following up a Dec. 4 Informance that set Tijuana dancers ablaze with Indonesian compositions on which to troupe — is almost inconceivably burdened with ambition, continuing in the sccatterbrained tradition of the Loft’s everything-goes lineup.

Branching off the La Jolla Symphony’s yearlong “DNA of music” theme is the show-specific focus on “Home,” weighted by an obligation to tribute Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin’s 200th birthdays, and meanwhile adhere to Black History Month with pieces by black composers and a dialogue on their place in the history of classical music. Schick’s idea is to pull themes and elements (pianist here, budding UCSD com-poser there) from the formal La Jolla Symphony concert that will take place on the following weekend, mixing them up with a little hump-day art dialogue and making a night of it.

“Rather than coming simply to a symphony orchestra concert, hearing an hour and a half or two hours of music and that’s it, we create a companion concert that will flesh some of those themes out,” Schick says. And in doing so, in letting everyone in on the varitable rehearsal din-ner and brainstorming phase before the formal Mandeville sit-down, his humble excitement for dialogue shows promise in melting those artier-than-thou barriers the Loft often fumbles to topple. “We’re going to have a discussion also of the relationship of so-called art music — and I don’t know what to call it, I don’t like that term, but you know, music that’s destined for the con-cert stage — we’re going to talk about if there’s a social component to that music. Should we be involved in our community? Should we care about political and social events? Or should we care more?”

If he finds the time — and that’s definitely an if, at this rate — Schick would love to retrace John Muir’s steps from San Francisco to Yosemite Valley, absorbing that much more of California’s, and therefore our own, natural sounds. But for now, he’s here with us, evolved from a lifetime of experiments into the conductor we need. “You know, the raw material of art — you don’t make art if you don’t have hope,” he said. “Art is about the future.” And so we get started.

The La Jolla Symphony and Chorus’ Informance event “Home” will take place Feb. 4 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Loft in Price Center East. For the full transcript of Steven Schick’s interview, visit www.ucsdguardian.org/hiatus.

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Hilton listed it as a top 10 fave on his Web site, garnering millions of hits literally overnight.

In nearly every interview, Hutchinson still incredulously recalls how, within a few weeks, he had rock-eted all the way to No. 9 on iTunes’ most-sold list. At the time, he claimed he barely knew who Hilton was.

Predictably, Warner Bros. pulled an “Oh, my bad,” welcoming him back to the label with open arms. Suddenly, he had fans calling them-selves Hutcheads. White-bread America wore him as proud as its pastel Uggs and Abercrombie hood-ies, blasting sugary, summer-bar-beque tunes and extra-cheese odes to “Rock and Roll” that sound more like Jason Mraz B-sides.

And why should generation Britney care? On “Okay, It’s All Right With Me,” Hutchinson’s skipping right with them, borrowing Maroon 5’s trademark nasality to spin the kind of apathy one can only feel with a nothing-else-matters mouthful of cotton candy. Dwindling love? “Not the same/ But it’s all right with me,”

he croons. The love ballad is, after all, a staple

of the soul-rock gods our Hutchead worships. He stretches farthest toward “She Will Be Loved” romance on the gravelly “It Hasn’t Been Long Enough” — a rough-edged, scratched-up gasp for air under waves of deep blue jazz. For a moment there, as he admits “I think I’ve been wrong enough to know when I’m right,” we forget the smiling press shots long enough to let one heartstring snap.

Tapping into this secret, char-coaled sadness will almost certainly garner success beyond his 10,000-plus MySpace fans. He’s already won the Yahoo! Music users’-choice award, and his clap-happy single “Rock and Roll” recently reached No. 11 on VH1’s Top 20 Countdown. Just maybe, if he can sink a little dark-er into the caverns of his self-pro-claimed “acoustic soul,” Hutchinson might one day be selling just as many UCSD-rack Valentine’s compilations as the olden-day idols he so esteems.

Eric Hutchinson will play for free at the Pub on Thursday, Jan. 29. Doors open at 8 p.m.

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Blackout Beach■ Skin of EvilSOFT ABUSE

P ressing play on Carey Mercer’s second solo album Skin of Evil feels almost shamefully invasive, like stumbling upon something you weren’t meant to witness. It’s a

dirty, shivering comedown from Mercer’s work with his band Frog Eyes — still gothic but more desperate and scat-tered, a collage of riffs stolen from blues and baroque pop to noise, whirled into sensational chaos.

It opens with a pulsating, trance-inducing beat that ebbs and rises throughout the album, reappearing erratically and without warning. Each impulsive track is virtually indistin-guishable from the last, as Mercer never quite reveals where one ends and the next begins.

It’s not that Skin of Evil is repetitive; its compositions are simply unconstrained by numbers. The album lets us forget its identity as a collection of recordings and becomes noth-ing more than a mood, a glimpse of experience to which Mercer is allowing us privvy. His work could be classified as experimental or conceptual, but that wouldn’t do justice to

the album’s complete departure from familiar compositional techniques. Its hallucinogenic, echoing guitars sweep in and out, reaching crescendo before slipping away, coming back to life in the form of Mercer’s haunting voice. He comes to us from somewhere far away, eerie cries building to deep wailing. Like a phantom wanderer wearing the haggard scars of a man long imprisoned, he bemoans a life misled and deeds better left undone. At times, lyrics froth over into the stormy, non-sensical mutterings of a schizophrenic plotting murder.

Without his bandmates to counsel him, Skin of Evil finds Mercer pervaded by a heavy sadness; voices and their echoes and uncertain beats swirl into a painful and troubled density that only its creator could understand. For the rest of us, though, that isolation proves arresting, captivating and remarkably unresolved.

— Michael BarrusContributing Writer

White Lies■ To Lose My LifePOLYDOR

T he new incarnation of London trio White Lies attempts to recall the darker side of UK post-punk, in the merg-ing of dark church organs and overwrought synths

with a thundering backdrop of bass. A brooding Harry McVeigh recalls his adolescence with aching desolation; ghoulish murder tales and allegories are underscored with the most dramatic of their compositions, as a frozen apoca-lypse catapults us far into the depths of disco.

“I love the feeling when we lift off/ Watching the world so small below/ I love the dreaming when I think of/ The safety in the clouds out my window” chides the tortured Brit with a dreamlike stupor on “Death,” summoning us into his chilling nightmare.

Raw instrumentation is soon swapped for the slick pro-duction on title track “To Lose My Life,” with a sparkling reverb lending the London trio a hollow industrialism. The title track shakes with doom, gloom and swirling, razor-

sharp guitars, unabashedly borrowing from contemporaries in the likes of the Editors, Franz Ferdinand and the Killers. By the halfway mark, the trio’s repeated crescendos start to grind a little too formulaic, a subdued tension always on the cusp of spilling over into unadulterated revelation, but never quite achieving that release. The finales predictably buzz with moody, wistful synths and crashing drums.

The one exception to the torment is “Unfinished Business.” Sunnily strumming to an upbeat, tightly wound thump, McVeigh menacingly demands, “Get off your low/ Let’s dance like we used to.” But even where White Lies try to pick up the pace, they certainly leave unfinished business in refining their brand beyond the ease of emulation.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2009 THE UCSD GUARDIAN SPORTS 11

and a superhero can be found in Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner. Since taking over from Matt Leinart in the preseason, Warner has put together a remarkable year. With wide receivers Larry Fitzgerald, Anquan Boldin and the emergence of Steve Breaston — along with a strong running game led by young running backs Tim Hightower and J.J. Arrington and the experienced Edgerrin James — the Cardinals had all the elements needed to be an offensive powerhouse. However, it was Warner who pulled everything together, solidifying a spot in the Hall of Fame with one more great season, even though his enshrinement was previously far from a hot topic.

However, the Batman analogy does not really hold up when it comes to Warner’s success story; whereas the quarterback went from super-market bag boy to two-time League MVP, Bruce Wayne was already a rich mofo before he went off to get some training, and came back to clean up the streets better than McNulty on “The Wire.”

The Fitzgerald/Boldin duo might serve as a better superhero tandem. Fitzgerald has quietly evolved into the best receiver in the game. Like Marvin Harrison in his prime, other receivers get more talk time and hype, but it’s Fitzgerald who constantly comes through. Boldin is an equally impressive player, perhaps more so, considering that he was a second-round pick with one of the greatest rookie seasons ever by a receiver, and continued to excell even when All-World talent Fitzgerald joined the team. Furthermore, Boldin was able to make the Pro Bowl even after having a plate inserted into his face.

Boldin has suffered some criti-cism lately for seemingly walking out on the NFC Championship celebra-tion because he was angry about his

lack of inclusion. This role of mis-understood superstar only furthers the comparison to Batman, another hero without the credit he deserves. The problem with a receiver is that someone else has to deliver him the ball. Batman went to Hong Kong and brought back Lau all on his own, because unlike Keyshawn Johnson, Batman doesn’t need anyone to get him the damn ball — he just takes it.

Looking at the Steelers, the quar-terback is once again the most obvi-ous target for comparison. After all,

Pittsburgh QB Ben Roethlisberger and Batman both love riding motor-cycles, though Batman is at least smart enough to wear a helmet not to men-tion a bulletproof suit. Roethlisberger is a good, young quarterback, and undoubtedly can set himself ahead of Rivers and Manning as the best of the 2004 QB class with a second Super Bowl win. However, Hines Ward was the MVP of the first Super Bowl, and even if Big Ben is named MVP after this game, few would argue that he’s been the most valuable player on his team.

What the Steelers deem most valuable is instead their defense. Yes, Troy Polamulu’s hair more closely resembles the Joker than anything, but this is a strong, disciplined unit, whereas there probably will never be

another person, performance, or acid trip comparable to the craziness of Heath Ledger as the Joker. While the Steelers’ defense does not conjure up that same status as an all-time great unit, with Polamulu and linebacker James Harrison leading the way, this defense can still be scary good.

The old adage is that defense wins championships, and the last time that a great offensive and great defensive team met, another vet-eran QB Rich Gannon was inter-cepted into oblivion. The Cardinals’ defense has played remarkably well throughout the postseason, includ-ing a humiliation of Panther Jake Delhomme and a first-half beat-down of Eagles’ Donovan McNabb. The Steelers’ defense, while hold-ing up in wins over San Diego and Baltimore, has yet to pull off the same kind of spectacle. However, maybe the most important com-parison is not between a team or its players as Batman, but between the Cardinals’ defense and Two-Face. While putting the pressure on Delhomme, McNabb and Matt Ryan in the playoffs, Arizona also allowed over 30 points to be scored five times during the season, including 56 to the Jets, 48 to the Eagles and 47 to the Patriots. The Arizona defense offers a scary side to the Cardinals’ feel-good coin.

No doubt an Arizona win would continue the tradition the Giants started last year of exhilarating upsets, and meanwhile provide a perfect end to the season for a surprising, excit-ing team and a likable quarterback. Unfortunately, that quarterback is a fumble-prone target for the Steelers, who may not be flashy but know how to win.

The Cardinals might be the cham-pion the Super Bowl deserves, but not the ones it needs right now.

Joe goes with: Steelers 34, Cardinals 30.

Two-Faced Arizona Defense Won’t Win Super Bowl▶ JOE, from page 12

The practice round before com-petition would have allowed players to gauge the difficulty of the course — especially the greens — and allowed for the golfers to make nec-essary adjustments. Less-than-ideal weather conditions further compli-cated play.

“It was really windy and really cold,” Samra said. “It was tough con-ditions not only for us, but for the other teams too. The fast greens were giving everyone trouble in that first round.”

After becoming familiar with the course in the first round, Samra fired a 2-over par 74 in the second, the third lowest score in the competi-tion.

Sophomore Keith Okasaki saw similar progress, improving nearly

10 strokes from his first round score by the end of the second round.

“This was our first tourna-ment since October,” Samra said. “Personally, it is a little different get-ting back into the flow … We’re dis-appointed with how we played, but we just need to get going again.”

Finally warming up after the long break from competition, the team will now shift its focus onto the Cal State San Marcos Invitational in February, with hopes of improving on a middle-of-the-pack, 10th place finish at last year’s invitational.

“We’re going to go out to the Buck [Invitational] and learn how its done — lick our wounds and learn from our mistakes,” Wydra said.

Readers can contact Matt Croskey at mcroskey@ucsd.edu

Triton Golfers Falter, Finish 30 Shots Behind Winner

▶ GOLF, from page 12

by one.The match began to unravel for

the outnumbered UCSD players in the second period, as the Cougars scored a quick goal within the first two minutes to take a 4-2 lead, capitalizing on the tired Triton lines. Unlike during the first period, the Cougars dominated the time of posession in the second, relent-ly pushing the puck up to UCSD’s goal. Gilmore connected on the only Triton goal while the Cougars added five more scores before the second intermission.

“Our short bench took a toll on us,” junior captain Casey Gong said. “We only had two lines and they had four lines — that was the biggest difference in the game.”

In complete control of the contest, the Cougars took a 9-4 lead into the third period. One of the very few bright spots for the Tritons in the game was Gilmore’s first career hat trick, account-ing for most of UCSD’s goals.

“Jackson is usually a defender but it was one of those games when we needed a veteran to step up and he did,” Gong said.

UCSD was plagued with injuries and ineligibilities all season, resulting in a disappointing 3-10 record.

“It was a rough season but we’re not losing too many players so next season should be better,” Gong said.

Readers can contact Janani Sridharan at jsridhar@ucsd.edu.

Hockey Unable to Keep Up in Final Game of Season

▶ HOCKEY, from page 12

The problem with a receiver is that

someone has to deliver him the ball. Batman

doesn’t need anyone to get him the damn ball

— he just takes it.

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Janani Sridharansports@ucsdguardian.org

Kelvin KimMen’s Basketball

The senior guard scored a game-high 22 points on 7-for-11 shooting, helping the Tritons secure a come-from-behind 69-

63 victory over Chico State.

HOT CORNER

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2009

SPORTSTritons Outmatched by UC Neighbors

HYDIE CHEUNG/GUARDIAN FILE

Redshirt sophomore Adrian Guthals delivered five kills during UCSD’s match against UCLA Jan. 23. The Tritons gave the eighth-ranked Bruins a tough match, eventually falling after three tight sets.

Roller-Coaster Season Ends in DefeatON DECK

Men’s Basketballat Sonoma State

and Humboldt StateJan. 30-31

The Tritons hope to extend their current four-game winning streak in Northern California, facing both Sonoma State and Humboldt State. UCSD won a close contest against the Seawolves 57-52 at home ear-lier this season, and a previous matchup with Humboldt State resulted in a Triton blowout vic-tory. UCSD and Humboldt State are currently part of a three-way tie for second place, and the Tritons look to gain separa-tion from the Lumberjacks in the league standings with a win.

Women’s Basketballat Sonoma State

and Humboldt StateJan. 30-31

The CCAA-leading Tritons hit the road this weekend, try-ing to keep their unblemished record in league play alive. First up is Sonoma State, a team UCSD defeated 67-56 at RIMAC Arena on Dec. 6. The Seawolves, who do not have a single player who aver-ages double figures in points, could be in trouble against the Tritons. Humboldt State, meanwhile, is currently riding a three-game winning streak led by Katie Franci, who averages 16 points a game.

CHING WU/GUARDIAN FILE

UCSD’s club ice hockey team was unable to build on its two-win weekend on Jan. 16-17, falling to San Diego State University and College of the Canyons last week in their final two games of the season.

CARDINALS DESTINED

TO BE NFL’S ‘DARK KNIGHT’When the Academy Award

nominations were announced, I was left a

little saddened not because I’m judg-ing the films that were nominated for Best Picture; rather, I feel remorse for a film that wasn’t nominated and should have been.

There was only one movie that left

me with the notion of what an award-winning movie should be. (Actually, there were two, but I think my enjoy-ment of “Pineapple Express” might have been due to other factors.)

The film I’m speaking of is “The Dark Knight,” the new Batman movie — no, not the one with Martin Lawrence as a medieval knight. Now, since this is technically a sports col-umn, I won’t go on a long rant about why “The Dark Knight” deserved to be nominated; instead, it seems only fitting to compare the two Super Bowl teams — the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers — to the film, perhaps helping me to make a Super Bowl XLIII prediction.

The first and most obvious simi-larity between a Super Bowl player

By Cameron TillischStaff Writer

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL — Coming off a winless week, the Tritons looked to turn their momentum around against UC Irvine and UCLA on the road. Unfortunately, they failed to squeeze out a victory against either UC pow-erhouse.

On Jan. 23 at the Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, the team faced another daunting task, this time against the No. 8 UCLA Bruins. UCLA pulled out no stops, handing the Tritons their second sweep of the week. The sets came out 30-26, 35-33 and 30-22 in UCLA’s favor, as the Bruins cruised to victory.

Despite the loss, a few Tritons posted solid individual efforts, including junior opposite hitter Frank Fritsch, who fin-ished with an impressive 20 kills on .552 hitting. Ehrman chipped in with 10 kills and Leserman added seven digs.

Sophomore setter Phil Bannan lent 40 assists, while sophomore middle back Calvin Ross and Fritsch contrib-uted three blocks apiece.

UCLA was led by junior outside hit-ter Garrett Muagututia at 15 kills, while freshman opposite hitter Kyle Caldwell and freshman quick hitter Thomas Amberg added 10 kills each.

With the loss, the Tritons drop to 1-4 overall, and 0-3 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, while UCLA improves to 3-4, 2-2 MPSF.

On Jan. 21, the Tritons traveled to Irvine for a tough match at Crawford Court against the Anteaters. UCSD defeated the 2007 National Champion Anteaters twice in 2008, but could not seem to handle them Wednesday night: While UC Irvine hit a .517 clip, the Tritons managed a measly .218.

The opening set was the tightest of the evening for the Tritons, who pulled to within 17-15 after a kill by redshirt

sophomore outside hitter Will Ehrman. A kill from sophomore outside hitter Joel Davidson pulled the Tritons to within two, but the Anteaters quickly opened up a six-point advantage and finished the set with a 30-24 win.

The second set was commanded by UC Irvine, with the Anteaters jumping out to a 22-16 lead. The Tritons were unable to come back, and Irvine cruised to a 30-22 victory. In the third set, the Tritons and Anteaters were tied at six, until UC Irvine went on a tear to score seven straight points for a 13-7 lead. UCSD never recovered and UC Irvine easily won the final set 30-19.

“We’ve been going through a rough patch, both in terms of how we were playing as a team and the teams we were playing against,” Ehrman said. “Irvine played awesome ... but we just didn’t bring it. For us to beat a team like that, we have to play our best.”

Sophomore outside hitter Joel Davidson led the losing Tritons with 10 kills on .353 hitting, while sophomore middle back Calvin Ross added eight kills on .727 hitting. Senior libero Eric Leserman finished with a team-high five digs.

“When we play league games, those teams are the best teams [in the nation],” Davidson said of UCSD’s elite competi-tion. “The thing that Coach Ring always says is that we can’t look at UC San Diego as just a Division-II school. We have to look at it like [UC Irvine] is a team and we’re a team and we just have to play. Once you’re on the court it’s pretty easy to do that.”

After a tough four-game road trip, the Tritons returned home on Jan. 28, hoping to turn their season around against Princeton University. Scores were not available at press time.

Readers can contact Cameron Tillisch at ctillisc@ucsd.edu.

By Janani SridharanSports Editor

CLUB SPORTS — A season filled with disappointments and unfortunate cir-cumstances has fittingly ended in frus-tration for the UCSD club ice hockey team. College of the Canyons handed the Tritons an 11-5 defeat at UTC Ice Town on Jan. 24 one night after UCSD was shut out in a 12-0 loss to San Diego State University. The two losses came after a promising weekend in which the Tritons came out victorious against Cal State Sacramento on Jan. 16 and UC Davis on Jan. 17.

“Coming into the final games, we were trying to play smart defense and not take too many penalties,” junior captain Casey Gong said. “We had a couple players hurt and knew it was going to be tough.”

After the demoralizing loss to SDSU, the Tritons came out strong against College of the Canyons look-ing to finish the season on a high note. With 16:19 left in the first period, senior defender Jackson Gilmore got UCSD on the board first, breaking the scoreless streak that lasted through-out the Tritons’ game with the Aztecs. College of the Canyons answered back with a goal of their own and looked to take the lead on a breakaway, but junior goaltender Matt Hager preserved the tie with a solid save for the Tritons.

After UCSD took a 2-1 lead with seven minutes left to play in the first period, the Cougars racked up two quick goals to take a 3-2 lead and looked to add on at the end of the period. However, UCSD put together two timely stops in the last minute of the first to close out the period trailing

By Matt CroskeySenior Staff Writer

MEN’S GOLF — After a nearly three-month hiatus from competi-tion, the UCSD men’s golf team fin-ished fifth in the second annual San Diego Collegiate Classic on Jan. 26.

The Tritons posted a team total of 635, 30 strokes behind overall win-ner University of San Diego. Junior Raj Samra, senior Ryan Bailey and junior Austin Alfonso all fired 161 two-round totals to lead for UCSD.

While this was not the start they wanted, head coach Mike Wydra was happy his team gained the experi-ence against Division-I schools.

“That kind of competition will serve us well in our next tourna-ment,” he said.

In a battle royale of sorts among the collegiate golf teams of San Diego, Samra said it was a great opportunity to feel out the local competition.

“On a better day, we can compete with them,” Samra said. “I’ve known SDSU and USD have good teams, and it was fun to see how we com-pared.”

Without the luxury of a practice round, the Tritons struggled on the greens in round one. Alfonso led the Tritons with a 6-over 78 while Samra fired an uncharacteristically high 87.

M. GOLF STRUGGLES AFTER LONG

VACATION

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See JOE, page 11

Joe Tevelowitzjtevelow@ucsd.edu

Cup O’Joe

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