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SURF REPORT
Comedian Conan O’Brien — of TBS’s “Conan” and “Saturday Night Live” fame — will host
a talk as part of Sixth College’s tenth anniversary event, Sixth College Student Life Officer Elaine Scott con-firmed Monday in an email. The April 20 event, held at RIMAC Arena, will also include a question-and-answer session with the TV star. According to Sixth College’s website, ticket dates will be announced next Monday, April 9.
Sixth College’s Tenth Anniversary
Committee, composed of seven staff members and two Sixth College stu-dents, started planning the celebra-tion event during Fall Quarter and collectively decided on O’Brien to headline the talk.
“[The committee] wanted a speak-er,” Scott said. “So we put feelers out to people, submitted a request to Conan, got a date and decided to go with him.”
Scott said the committee will not
By margaret yauManaging Editor
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke at UCSD as part of an annual lecture series pre-sented by the UCSD Center of Global Justice, the Helen Edison Lecture Series and the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Brown conducted a free lecture at the Estancia Hotel and Spa about “Meeting Millennium Development Goals” on Tuesday, April 3. Around 450 people attend-
ed the lecture, which hit maximum capacity.
Brown focused his lecture on glob-al education. After serving as Prime Minister and the head of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom from 2007-10, Brown co-led the Global Campaign for Education’s High Level Panel in 2011. The panel is part of the Global Campaign for Education, an organization that’s aided in funding more than 40 million educations in developing countries such as South Sudan, and has promised to make governments accountable to their education pledges.
“If you educate a child, it’s the best anti-crime, the best anti-deprivation, the best anti-delinquency policy,” Brown said. “If you educate a child,
By Zev HurwitZAssociate News Editor
A California judge has struck down the UC Davis Police Union’s attempt to block the release of a report on the UC Davis pepper spray incident. Union members tried to block the report — which documented the findings of a UC-appointed task force — because they feared that the report, which like-ly named individual officers, would compromise the privacy of the officers in question.
In his March 28 ruling, California Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo wrote that the report should conceal the names of all but two of the officers involved. Grillo’s ruling is in com-pliance with California Penal Code sections 832.7 and 827.8, which pro-hibit general release of private records of police activity. UCD Police Chief Annette Spicuzza and Lt. John Pike — who became notorious last year when videos of him deliberately spraying Davis Occupy protesters went viral — will both be named.
In his ruling, Grillo said that nei-ther the state government nor the California Supreme Court provides any provisions allowing for significant restrictions on the public release of reports about law enforcement offi-cers.
He also said that there is no legisla-tion preventing “public entities from disclosing the results of those investi-gations if they touched on the conduct of individual police officers.”
The report is the findings of a task force led by former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso. UC President Mark G. Yudof commis-sioned the task force last November with the job of investigating the now-infamous UC Davis pepper spray inci-dent and providing insight on how to approach similar scenarios in the future.
While Grillo ruled that no legal codes prevented the report from being released with names withheld, UC General Counsel Charles Robinson released a statement on March 29 announcing that the task force would postpone the release even further as to allow the police union a chance to appeal the decision.
The task force will postpone the release past the first week in April to allow 21 days for an appeal to be filed. The earliest date the report can be released is April 23.
Readers can contact Zev Hurwitz at [email protected].
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O’Brien to speak at RIMAC Arena in honor of Sixth College’s tenth anniversary. Tickets are free.
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Brown, who led the UK Labour Party, spoke at Estancia Hotel about global education, poverty.
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A UCSD-led team is close to verifying the location of the lost Leonardo da Vinci
art piece “Battle of Anghiari.” The search is being spearheaded by UCSD engineering professor and lead researcher Maurizio Seracini (who is also a 1973 UCSD alum) and project manager Alexandra Hubenko.
Data from the team’s analysis in late 2011 suggests that the piece is located behind Giorgio Vasari’s mural “The Battle of Marciano” in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy.
In 1503, da Vinci was com-missioned to paint “The Battle of Anghiari” in the Hall of 500 of the Palazzo Vecchio. “Battle” is believed to be his largest painting.
Then, in the mid-16th century, Giorgio Vasari enlarged and remod-eled the hall, possibly hiding the painting behind one of six new murals on the walls.
“We’re trying to find out is if it’s there,” Hubenko said. “The research that we did late last year basically proved that we are looking in the right place, but we still have more research to do to definitively say ‘Yes, it’s there’ or ‘No, it’s not there’ and to be able to identify the state of its conservation.”
Seracini’s interest in the lost painting started in the 1970s.
Since then, he has been pursuing it periodically based on access to funding and access to the building itself.
There is a large body of back-ground research spanning multi-ple disciplines about the Palazzo Vecchio.
These studies include a high-resolution three-dimensional laser scan of the Hall of 500 and geo-radar scanning of the walls.
The latter identifies the air gap where the team eventually per-formed its analysis.
The Palazzo Vecchio is both a government building, which houses the mayor of Florence’s office, and a
museum that hosts many art pieces. Due to its dual nature and the
rate at which government power exchanges hands, it was difficult to obtain permission. The team need-ed the approval of both the govern-ment and museum directorates.
“The Italian government tends to change pretty frequently,” Hubenko said. “So if we had gotten all of our permission and then the adminis-tration changed, it might be neces-sary for us to reapply for everything from the top.”
The team exercised extreme cau-tion because of the delicate nature of the paintings.
The team worked closely with art restorers, who removed parts ready for restoration and allowed the researchers to drill in those par-ticular areas d.
The original plan was to use non-invasive procedures.
In the end, the team selected to use an endoscopy; this requires sticking a very thin tube (with a camera attached to the end of it)
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you are breaking a cycle of poverty for the future.”
Specifically, Brown addressed Millennium Development Goals formed by world leaders at the 2000 UN Millennium Summit. Several of the goals, including reducing the infant mortality rate and women’s childbirth mortality rate, are likely to fail by the goal’s 2015 deadline, Brown said.
“We can meet one goal, the edu-cation goal,” Brown said. “We have managed over the last few years to get millions of children to school, but today there are 67 billion chil-
dren who are not going to school. In the year 2012, it is wholly unac-ceptable for a young child in Africa or Asia to be denied that chance for education.”
Two of the eight Millennium Development Goals focus on global education.
These goals aim to ensure that all children complete primary school-ing by 2015, eliminate gender dis-parities in primary education by 2005 and eliminate gender dispari-ties at all educational levels by 2015.
The Helen Edison Lecture Series offers free public lectures about humanitarian issues and has hosted
the likes of Al Gore, Mohammad Yunus and Toni Morrison.
Helen Edison funded the lecture series with a generous endowment. Edison died in 1990.
“This is a donation and request after [Helen Edison] died, we got the money to fund free public lec-tures to stimulate public discourse and to discuss important topics,” media coordinator Henry DeVries said. “Students can attend at no charge, and they are aimed at both students and the public.”
Readers can contact Margaret Yau at [email protected].
Council seemed disappointed that Guardian veteran Natalie Covate had forfeited
her role as A.S. Columnist and laughed a little when I asked them to go easy on me. They laughed even harder when I not-really-jokingly said that I was hoping to find someone else to write this column.
Natalie’s departure seemed fitting, as change was a running theme for last night’s meeting. Council began its first meeting of Spring Quarter with a quick election to replace AVP Diversity Affairs Jesus Romero as speaker. Romero emailed his resignation as speaker on Monday and President Alyssa Wing, who was filling in temporarily, was quick to solicit nominations for a replacement.The two nominated candidates, Advocate General Courtney Hill and VP Student Life Meredith Madnick each made brief speeches, before council elected Hill as the new Speaker.
During the logistical planning of the impromptu election, VP Finance & Resources Kevin Hoang wondered aloud if the Speaker job conflicted with the Advocate General job.
“We need Mac back, he could decide this for us,” Campuswide Senator Matthew Bradbury said, referring to former AVP Academic Affairs Mac Zilber, who graduated last quarter. Bradbury’s comment was met with a chorus of “awwww” from council, who decided that Hill was eligible to be speaker.
Once Hill assumed the mic, Romero announced a new campus-wide poster campaign about ending
stereotypes called ‘We’re Individuals.’ He asked that members of council email him stereotypes that they would like to see included on the
poster.AVP College
Affairs Leonard Bobbitt tried recruiting councilmembers to attend a dodgeball game in the RIMAC
Rec Gym between A.S. Council and various college councils on Saturday night. Unfortunately, not everyone will have a chance to throw balls at councilmembers personally, so we hope our own college councils can represent us well.
Wing said that she hoped that council would be active and take an official stance on California Assembly Speaker John Perez’s proposed middle class scholarships for public universities.
AVP Enterprise Operations Brian McEuen announced that Triton Outfitters has started allowing student-run organizations to sell T-shirts through the A.S.-run boutique. He also noted that the retail outlet for TO, currently in Price Center, will move to the Old Student Center near the Soft Reserves. It’s always nice to have new neighbors, and TO will soon be below our new offices. Maybe we can get some cool T-shirts too.
Before council went on a recess to attend a vigil and go to practice for UCSD Lipdub 2012, council cheered as Warren College Student Council RFAC Representative Samuel Chang was tapped to replace Zilber as interim AVP Academic Affairs. He has big shoes to fill, and hopefully he’s ready for the challenge.
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into a wall to examine the space behind the wall.
The team also utilized a scraping tool to gather samples for analysis.
The team’s next step is to verify the painting’s existence.
“It’s not up to us to make deci-sions about how to restore some-thing or whether to take a wall down,” Hubenko said. “It’s our job as engineers and scientists to collect
as much objective data as we can and help people like the restorers or the people in the cultural heritage field make decisions on how best to protect and preserve their cultural heritage.”
The team is now waiting on Italian officials to convene and determine the next step for the project to take.
“We are waiting to hear from the Minister of Culture at the Italian parliament level and he is supposed
to go to a meeting with the mayor in Florence and they’re supposed to dis-cuss the project and decide what the next steps are in terms of proceed-ing,” Hubenko said. “We’re kind of in a holding pattern right now.”
Seracini is currently in Florence, Italy and could not be contacted as of press time.
Readers can contact Michael Chang at [email protected].
Brown’s Lecture Part of Free Helen Edison Lecture Series
Team Waiting on Italian Officials to Determine Next Step
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Certain Ticketing Days Reserved for Sixth College Students disclose any financial details.
According to Scott, Sixth College students will have priority for pur-chasing tickets to the event. Scott said that certain ticketing days will be limited to Sixth College students only. She added that the committee hopes the event will reach full capac-ity. RIMAC Arena can hold up to 4,000 guests, and there are approx-imately 3,500 students enrolled in
Sixth College currently, Scott said. Remaining tickets will be made
available to UCSD students and Sixth College faculty and staff members on a first-come, first-serve basis. Tickets will be free.
“His team has been very generous and Conan has been very generous with his time,” Scott said. “We want to pay him back with love.”
The committee sent O’Brien a care package filled with Sixth College
T-shirts, sweatshirts and a video of reactions from students. Student committee members are also host-ing a “Sixth Loves Conan” contest for Sixth College students to submit artwork, videos or other items as a “thank you” to O’Brien. The contest ends April 16. The winner will receive special seating at the event.
Readers can contact Nicole Chan at [email protected].
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When the facts about Trayvon Martin’s death were first profiled by
the media, a few things seemed clear. First, 17-year-old Martin, unarmed except for a can of iced tea
and Skittles, was shot to death by 28-year-old George Zimmerman, a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain in a Florida gated community. Oh, and there was the small but hugely significant fact that Trayvon was black and that Zimmerman, despite being half-Hispanic, was largely profiled as white and racist.
Zimmerman has since claimed protection under the “Stand Your Ground” bill — which states that a person is allowed to use force when there is a reasonable belief of a threat — alleging that Martin attacked him and smashed his head into the ground before Zimmerman pulled the trigger. There are a number of incendiary words in this case: Aggressor. Victim. Racist. Unarmed. Suspicious persons.
Because of this media firestorm, Martin’s tragic case became a cause célèbre, spurning calls for justice from talk show hosts to movie stars to a congressman who wore a hoodie in solidarity with Trayvon, who had donned a hooded sweatshirt that day. Even President Obama, who has already come under fire for “overstepping his boundaries” by commenting on racially charged cases, stated that if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon.
All across the nation, calls to punish Zimmerman have rallied a large swath of the population behind the common goal of racial justice. Fueled by fury, fueled by horror, fueled by the stench of decades of continued racial injustice, America calls for Zimmerman’s blood.
But the trial hasn’t even started yet. A huge chunk of crucial evidence hasn’t been released to the public. But as every new piece of evidence relating to the case is revealed, it becomes obvious that the media, despite its best intentions, are distorting a case that grows bigger with every article.
Newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel have taken to hiring voice analysis experts to analyze a key piece of evidence — a 911 call made by a neighbor where a person could be heard screaming for help in the background. Further, ABC News published an enhanced version of a police video, shot after the night of the murder, of Zimmerman’s injuries. And obviously, there is the matter of published mug shots. Shortly after Martin’s death, the photos that depicted him showed a fresh faced young man, while Zimmerman’s corresponding photo depicted him as a large aggressor.
Undoubtedly, the media eye surrounding this case has boosted the Justice for Trayvon cause, and has transformed, for better or for worse, the way the public will view the case. But if the public truly wants justice for Trayvon, distorting the case will only take us further from the truth.
How the Media Transformed Trayvon Martin nto a Cause
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Every Week One of Spring Quarter, the Guardian Editorial Board holes up in Hi Thai to interview A.S. Council hopefuls for our annual endorsement issue, which runs Monday of Week Two. This long-standing tradition gives us an opportunity to get to know the candidates running for office, and share the results with the campus at large.
But while we schedule interviews religiously and debate qualifications for hours, we’re less adept at following up and evaluating the performance of those we thought would be good councilmembers, and those who actually turned out to be good councilmembers. So, since we spend 59 issues of the year covering council mistakes and writing critical editorials, we’re launching our first annual A.S. Honors feature to honor those who exceed expectations, and give a good name to our local bureaucracy.
This piece is not representative of the Editorial Board and is solely written by myself, Angela Chen, news editor 2009-10 and editor in chief 2010-12. It is unscientific, not as comprehensive as I would like and, of course, wildly biased — but if anyone has the credentials to write an A.S. feature, it’s this long-suffering Guardian hag. I’ve been covering A.S. Council for longer than any of this year’s presidential candidates have been on A.S. Council. This week marks my third round of endorsement interviews, next week will be my third year moderating the candidate debates and I look forward to having 2 a.m. calls and emergency meetings with a fourth A.S. president.
This piece is restricted to councilmembers who sat on this year’s council and who are not running in the current election. Members are gauged by their achievements, transparency and visibility. There are other deserving councilmembers whose projects haven’t received as much publicity (or who have refused to return my calls), but it’s these six I have chosen to spotlight, and these I have chosen to thank.
Look for our elections issue on stands Monday, April 9, which is also the first day students can begin voting on TritonLink. Voting ends Friday, April 13, and results will be announced that night.
AngelA Chen | editor in Chief
Vice President of External Affairs Samer Naji has been the odd man out in this year’s populist, single-slate council. Last April, Naji was swept to victory as part of Board the Wing’s pro-Division I slate, and then unexpectedly became a dissenting voice against allowing the Division I referendum to pass to a student vote. He received the endorsement of pro-Israel groups after promising that he would vote “no” on the divestment resolution — and then the criticism of pro-Israel groups after sponsoring Student for Justice in Palestine’s divestment resolution. When it comes
to sticking to slate politics, it’s clear that Naji has violated major campaign promises. When it comes to pure performance, Naji is the most impressive VP External in at least four years.
In addition to being a key organizer in the reclamation of CLICS during Finals Week of Fall Quarter, Naji has been prominent at every student protest, including the March 1 Day of Action, whose turnout — while not comparable to 2010 numbers spurred by racial protests — was bounds ahead of last year’s no-show. He’s collaborated with the Public Education Coalition, participated in the occupation of the Chancellor’s Complex, helped spurred record UCSD turnout at lobby conferences and worked on informing students about issues in the Middle East.
Having seen little from the rest of his office, and knowing little about the internal organization, this praise is for Naji’s conduct as an individual and an activist. That said, the Guardian Editorial Board didn’t endorse Naji last year — and in doing so, underestimated who has become of the most active members of A.S. Council.
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Advocate General Courtney Hill has one of the most thankless jobs on council. As a combination attendance taker and elections manager, she has no vote, is required to stay neutral and is stuck enforcing the rules no one knows and everyone wants to protest. She’s received accusations of corruption, heard grievances over unsolicited emails and overeager flyering and fielded many calls
from yours truly, always with a cool head, easy-to-work-with attitude and ready information.
While she’s made her share of slips — scheduling the CLICS survey schedule to be placed on the wrong ballot, and thus rendering it negligible — Hill oversaw the recent Division I election and led it to a record-breaking 51-percent turnout. She facilitated informative forums, developed equally friendly relations with members from both campaigns, took the time to send corrections to Guardian articles and kept her own political leanings private. Hill is in charge of managing next week’s general elections and thus ineligible to run for office, but the sophomore has a chance at an appointed position, and lucky is the cabinet that has her sitting on it.
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Say what you want about A.S. President Alyssa Wing’s views — and I have often disagreed with her stances — but this hyper-involved Warren College senior knows how to deliver. By sweeping last year’s elections by an overwhelming margin, Wing ensured that she would rule among supporters instead of being plagued by the divided government that hindered her predecessor, and the past two quarters have been one success after another.
She’s passed the budget in record time, begun the A.S. live
blog and, most importantly, fulfilled an ambitious initiative that began nearly three years ago by bringing the Division I referendum to a student vote. Wing’s support for the $165-per-quarter Division-I referendum and public disapproval of the divestment resolution has made her unpopular with the more progressive students, and it’s easy to argue that her priorities don’t take into account the state of California higher education.
But Wing was clear about her priorities — ones largely shared by the sizable Greek and athletic
communities — during last election season. She pitched her ideas, she won in a fair and democratic election and she made good on her promises to those who voted her in. I have repeatedly seen non-A.S. members appraoch her and thank her for her work, a first for me, and A.S. members who have been on council for two years talk favorably of the differences between Wing’s lovey-dovey council and the previous one. At the end of the day, Wing is a first-rate politician who has remained true to her goal and done her job.
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I first came into contact with Mac Zilber — the 2011-12 Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs — two years ago. I had an obscure question about an email he sent to the A.S. listserv; today, I no longer remember the email, the question or the issue. Instead, I remember that he answered my inquiry, then immediately called me two times to clarify his comments and add more information. I was flabbergasted. A council member who knew what he was talking about? A council member who would talk to me of his own volition? Say it isn’t so.
In the years since, Zilber has racked up accolades far more impressive than mine. He’s been publicly honored by former President Bill Clinton for his project dedicated to raising awareness of a $2,500 annual student tax credit. He’s been thanked by students for creating the Grade Distribution Tool, which has generated massive traffic for the A.S. website and provided conclusive evidence that yes, one must truly fail to get less than an A in Magagna’s poli sci classes. He’s worked to revise academic integrity laws, been involved in rewriting A.S. election bylaws, worked on issues of student privacy, helped to increase transfer representation on council and (perhaps most amazingly) created voter regression on A.S. elections for seemingly no reason other than personal interest. Zilber graduated at the end of Winter Quarter and has since relocated to Los Angeles, and council has lost one of its most pragmatic, effective members.
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Imagine if the Flaming Lips headlined Sun God this year. Instead of some boozed, semi-famous hip-hop crew
slurring through uninspired verses, we’d stand in awe of Wayne Coyne — the crazed and beautiful, silver-haired, LSD-fried Lord of the Cool Dads — slowly emerging from a gigantic computer-generated vagina in his signature giant hamster ball, just before the rest of the band rips into the triumphant orches-
tral stabs of “Race for the Prize.” On our way out, we’d swing by the merch table and pick up a copy of the band’s latest release: a tiny flash drive contain-ing a three-song EP wedged into the translucent green center of a life-size, marijuana-flavored gummy skull. Most importantly, it’d be some of the best songwriting, and likely the greatest performance, to grace the historic fes-tival since whenever it was that Modest Mouse allegedly played (though such a phenomenon remains difficult to believe).
For fans of one of modern music’s few classic bands, what could be more exciting and outrageously unexpected?
If you said, “A musical based on the Flaming Lips’ psych-rock opus Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots that stars the members themselves and is directed by the guy who did Jersey Boys,” then it’s time to get very, very stoked.
If you haven’t heard the news, the Lips’ ambitious theatrical project, which has been in the works with Tony Award-winning writer/director Des McAnuff since 2007, is being rehearsed and set for debut this November. And if that wasn’t extraordinary enough, the musical is opening in UCSD’s own backyard, the La Jolla Playhouse.
This is something to celebrate for a number of reasons, with the first being that it’s just a perfect fit for the band. The Flaming Lips have always been theatrical. The band’s live performances have gained a legendary renown for their technicolor spectacle of confetti, nudity, teletubbies and an array of bizarre props that contribute to the psychedelic on-stage narrative. And of course, there’s “Christmas on Mars,” the “Eraserhead”-meets-“2001” sci-fi feature film the band made in Coyne’s backyard along with Fred Armisen and Steve from “Blue’s Clues.” But with a seasoned musical theater veteran at the helm, the Lips have someone to keep “Yoshimi” from sinking into the kind of spazzy — albeit delightful — psy-chosis that may not fully succeed on Broadway. Still, it will be interesting to gauge the reaction of the Playhouse’s dedicated congregation of rich and elderly patrons.
On a more general level, the notion of the Flaming Lips taking a break from studio recording to jump into musi-cal theatre seems to verify the band’s absurd genius. The Flaming Lips’ entire career has been a testament to the fact that serious music doesn’t have to be so serious — a concept taken for granted amongst the Radioheads and Arcade Fires of modern music’s exclusive high throne. They’re a hefty injection of whimsy and naive wackiness that music, theatrical or otherwise, needs right now.
Is it what UCSD needs right now? That sort of goes without saying.
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In the spirit of such recent success stories as Mumford & Sons, Button Willow Locomotive has developed a polished brand of unobtrusive folk-rock bursting at the seams with cuteness and quirk. The duo, UC Irvine’s Alex Heflin and Amanda Carson, met in college and began mak-ing music together in 2010. Now, they’re backed with a band (drummer Albert Law and bassist Kyle Gustafson), propelling the peppy shuffle of “The One With the Moon” and the Dire Straits-esque barroom groove of “Don’t You Worry” to confident new heights on stage.
“We’re all originally from the Los Angeles County area but we’re currently boppin’ around all different parts of southern California,” the band told the Guardian in an email Wednesday. “What can you expect from our performance? Some bumbling awkwardness and Amanda’s attempts at wit, but mostly music from our hearts.”
Sun GodBattle of the Bands
Having already secured a dedicated following, and opening for notable acts such as Devin the Dude, the Cataracts, the Game, People Under the Stairs and the upcoming Freddie Gibbs show at the Loft this May 8, Alier Johnson is hardly a newcomer to San Diego’s hip-hop scene. And, with his refresh-ing, revivalist approach to purely analog live rap, it’s little wonder how Alier and “the Band” (guitarist Andrew Ramos, drummer Kyle Venezuela and bass-
ist Nina Dumas) have turned so many heads. Johnson’s flow is fine-tuned and consistent with
a lyrical approach more akin to the recent trend of everyman rap a la Curren$y and Kendrick Lamar’s Black Hippy crew, than to the gangsta rappers of decades past. With the solid soul/rock grooves of his skilled accompanying band behind him, the result is some infectious hip-hop that’d start Sun God off with a seriously smooth pre-party.
The Guardian’s own Opinion Editor/up-and-coming songwriter Madeline Mann made the cut for this year’s Sun God Battle of the Bands, bringing her carefree blend of folk and pop to the Porter’s Pub stage this Friday night. Hailing from Santa Monica, Mann writes clever and sassy songs in the style of a stripped-down, bedroom pop version of Taylor Swift.
Mann’s most notable track, “Hot Guys with Four Eyes” has appeared on more than two dozen geek and gamer websites — landing her a proud, self-proclaimed “geeky following” and over 7,000 views on YouTube. More recently, Mann won a Battle of the Bands at UCSD’s Home Plate and headlined at this year’s Los Angeles Mensa Convention. She is also set to perform at Revelle College’s music festival Revellution in May.
Unlike the other bands competing this Friday, We Care has no official biography or flashy up-and-comer website. The only publicly available information about the three-piece UCSD band made up of Alan McCaffrey, Tyler Cranford and primary songwriter Kenny Katayama is on their Bandcamp page in the form of two streamable demos.
But the music kind of speaks for itself: brief and loud explosions of dirty, sweaty synth-punk.
Songs like the fuzzed-out and funky “Cash” and the even heavier sex-thrash of “Flashing Lights” recalls a lo-fi, slightly more unhinged Death from Above 1979. When the band slows things down to place the focus on meditative harmo-nies and bouncy grooves, they lose some of their edge, but the rest of their recorded material is some of the most inspired debauchery set to appear this Friday, straight from this year’s dark horse competitor.
Taking cues from the slightly less obvi-ous champions of psych-rock and shoegaze, the dubiously named Lucinda Matlock, are lead guitarist Matt Yantzer, bassist Michael Wied and brothers John and Luke Vickers (front man and drummer, respectively). On songs like the driving “Brittle” and trium-phant, jangling “Walls” Lucinda Matlock aims for a pretty straightforward take on the starry, soaring 90s power-rock/pop of bands like the Smashing Pumpkins and Jimmy Eat World.
“We have been playing together for about nine months now, and we’re really starting to gel together as a band and develop a sound we can all get behind,” John Vickers told the Guardian in an email Tuesday. Despite their relatively recent formation, Lucinda Matlock has some of the most confident and sleekly-produced recorded music of the six bands set to play this Friday. In terms of what’s to be expected of Lucinda Matlock’s set, Vickers seems as confident as the band’s radio-ready demos suggest: “You can expect us to get on stage and have one hell of a good time playing some rock ‘n’ roll!”
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Cut from the same cloth as such southern rock-tinged radio headbangers as Kings of Leon, with an added dash of Foo Fighters and a singer who belts like Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, the Lifted will provide the Battle of the Bands with the requisite lighter-in-hand power ballads of the night. Their formula isn’t the most original, but after finishing first place in student votes for the Battle of the Bands, the Lifted is probably more concerned with packing a couple hundred smiling, fist-pumping ragers into a sweaty pub than they are with finding artistic solace.
According to the Lifted’s bio, the band
formed last year when UCSD roommates Jeff (bass/vocals) and Jacob (guitar/vocals) contacted drummer Ben and vocalist Jerome in the hopes of forming a band. Since then, the Lifted has played local shows at practi-cally every UCSD venue, from the Che Cafe and Porter’s Pub, to Home Plate and Espresso Roma.
“Expect a lot of rockin’ original material and a lively, passionate following of fans,” the band told the Guardian in an email Wednesday. “These are our two greatest assets. Mostly, we’d like to have a great time and prove once and for all that we are worthy
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when: April 6, 7:30 p.m.
where: Porter’s Pub
Tickets: free
online: sgf.ucsd.edu
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Adam Powers is included as an honorable mention solely because he no longer sits on council. Powers’ student involvement résumé is jaw-dropping, and his repeated efforts to communicate with constituents, do outside research and avoid personal attacks even more so. He not only worked on the Transportation Policy Committee debating the future of our beloved blue-and-whites, but is plugged into transfer and commuter orgs, and has brought the
perspective of these sometimes-ignored communities to light.
Powers has contributed nuanced comments about everything from the transportation referendum to the recent Division I election, where he spoke out against students on both campaigns each calling the other side corrupt and evil.
Powers was the voice of reason when he had a vote, and continues to be so now that he’s on the other side of the public input podium.
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As an Sixth College Indian bioengineer who once ran for president, Parminder Sandhu is not the first of his kind to step through A.S. Council — ahem: 2006-07 President Harry Khanna, 2009-10 President Utsav Gupta — but he may be the one that has come closest to being a legend (at least now that everyone seems to have stopped obsessing over Khanna). In addition to being the man behind such ideas as “hot dog on a stick,” Sandhu has been refreshingly consistent in his views, outspoken about the issues he cares about and truly created a new level of “council visibility.”
As Advocate General his first year, Sandhu came to my attention for both his dedication to impeaching councilmembers who had too many absences, and his eternally quote-worthy remarks. In an environment where everyone is a coworker-friend, our elected officials often let emotions and personal alliances prevent them from keeping each other accountable. In contrast, Sandhu was unafraid to try to impeach anyone (even then-President-elect Wafa Ben Hassine), and this respect for transparency has carried through in his career. Sandhu’s dedication to council is
apparent, his massive amount of Facebook friends and A.S.-related statuses even more so — and thus he has probably been single-handedly responsible for educating more people about the workings of our student government than the combined efforts of other members’ “visibility campaigns.”
He became one of the few officers to return to a voting position after a failed election bid (Sandhu ran for president in 2011), and has weighed in on every issue that has passed through the fourth floor.
At times, Sandhu has been overly harsh and quick to judge — especially when dealing with Ben Hassine — but his presence over the past three years has lent a level of humor and communication rarely seen in student governments. There’s no one quite like Parminder.
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It feels like ages since Chromatics released their last album, 2007’s Night Drive. Night Drive, along with records by Italians Do It Better labelmates Glass Candy and Desire, was a major part of that year’s Italo disco revival, which saw indie bands flirting with slow, arpeg-giated basslines and nocturnal, often mournful female vocals.
Short lived as that movement
was, Kill for Love’s opening track “Into the Black” is a total surprise: A Neil Young cover, it’s driven by distorted, almost sloppy electric guitar, a sound that would have seemed completely out of place on any of Night Drive’s sleek disco tracks. This newfound diversity is employed throughout Kill for Love. Though Chromatics’ signature palm-muted guitar and ambling beats are still present, they’re just as likely to indulge in buoyant AM radio piano lines or shuffling snare-heavy drums.
A key aspect of Kill for Love is its scope. Its seventeen tracks last about an hour and a half, a con-siderable length even for a double-album. Chromatics’ songwriting is consistent though, and the album is generally free of filler. Songs like the standout “Lady,” or the melan-
choly “Candy” evoke the darker side of ‘70s radio rock, and are just as achingly beautiful as similar works by artists like Stevie Nicks or Steve Winwood, while tracks like “These Streets Will Never Look the Same” unfold with a cinematic sense of urgency, with patient, tense drum machines punctuating brittle syn-thesizers.
Kill for Love is perhaps most remarkable in its ability to skillfully evoke a specific sense of atmo-sphere while never forgetting the importance of good songwriting. Though it likely comes as a surprise to listeners expecting more stylish night-disco, Kill for Love stands as an excellent, surprisingly consistent follow-up.
— Andrew whitworthAssociAte HiAtus editor
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After experiencing steadily growing hype culminating in a rambunctious SXSW set opening for Jack White, Alabama Shakes, an Alabama-based buzz band that combines soul music with traditional Americana, has finally released their much anticipated debut album.
Boys & Girls is rife with tracks that embody soulful, back-to-basics rock ‘n’ roll. Without the frills of many modern bands and a palpable influence by their formation in America’s “Bible Belt,” Alabama Shakes’ sound is a blend of Southern rock, gospel and timeless, vintage soul.
Their first single “Hold On” show-cases lead singer Brittney Howard’s raw vocals, which fall somewhere between pretty and gritty.
Boys & Girls displays an admirable amount of sonic diversity: “Goin’ To The Party” is a short and sweet tune that changes up the tempo, time and sound — reminiscent of an offbeat yet deliciously cool White Stripes song. The Shakes take it down a few notches on tracks like “Hang Loose,” a breezier
and more carefree number about tak-ing it easy and knowing that “you’re gonna be alright.” “I Found You” goes for subdued soul rather than rocking ferocity, making it a more beauti-ful number and allowing Howard’s smooth and sweltering vocals to shine through.
“Heartbreaker” unfolds in the same vein — a backdrop of drumrolls and piano keys under Howard howling about her heartache. This song, like all of Boys & Girls, showcases the personal in a loud and bittersweet way, making it impossible for the listener not to feel right there with her and believe every word she says.
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Youth Lagoon is the recording project of San Diego-born twenty-two-year-old songwriter Trevor Powers. As Youth Lagoon, Powers crafts achingly melodic, sentimental synth-pop that has recently catapulted him into blog stardom. Last year’s The Year of Hibernation skillfully balanced dream pop’s sense of atmosphere with a pop-minded attitude. Particularly exciting is the opening act, glammy Italian synth-rockers Porcelain Raft. (Aw)
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West Regional appearances and three regular season titles.
Last season, the Tritons earned the program’s first-ever No. 1 national ranking in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll. UCSD’s 2011-12 squad also amassed the program’s longest winning streak, with 26 straight wins. The Tritons lost just one game in their regular season before falling in the West Regional Final of the National tournament.
“Charity had an incredible five-year run at UC San Diego and her team’s record over that time speaks for itself,” Senior Associate Athletic Director Kenneth Grosse said in an email interview. “But her impact went well beyond the court. Her players reflected the academic priorities of the university, she developed excitement around her program and could always
be counted on for leadership in the department. We’re definitely going to miss Charity, but wish her the best at [Loyola] and know that the Triton program will continue to flourish under new leadership, in large part because of the solid foundation she has laid.”
Elliott will have her work cut out for her at Loyola Marymount, which went 8-22 overall last season and 3-13 in the West Coast Conference.
“I am looking forward to this next step in my career, but I know there are many great things to come in the future for the UCSD Women’s Basketball program,” Elliott said to the UCSD Athletic Department. “I am looking forward to following the team’s success.”
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Oklahoma, Western Washington, Mills College, UCSB and Chapman, the women’s varsity eight boat finished with a time of 7:25.43, good for second place just behind Central Oklahoma. The Triton women also competed in the Carley Copley Cup, finishing fifth amongst Division-I opponents.
In the second day of competition, the Triton varsity eight advanced to the final, where they placed fourth behind Humboldt, Central Oklahoma and UCSB’s A shell, with a solid time of 7:54.32. While the Triton novice topped their heat with a time of 8:20.45. “We’re very pleased with our fourth place finish in [the Grand Final], qualifying for the race so we’re pretty excited,” varsity eight captain Alyssa Dixon-Word said. “Our freshmen placed first in their event, which was very exciting. They obviously
have a lot of talent.” On Monday, April 1, UCSD faced off against Western Washington, falling to the Vikings by just under 30 seconds. The Tritons honored their five graduating seniors — Carolyn Belak, Katie Holstein, Natassia Peterson and Ellen Umeda — at their last home meet of the year.
The Tritons have three weeks to prepare for their next regatta, to be held in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Travaglione says the Tritons will be working hard in the interim to claim a place in the national tournament.
“Overall, we did extremely well and hopefully we will continue to improve for regionals so we can qualify for nationals,” Travaglione said. “After having a week of triple and double days, I think everyone was happy with our performances.”
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Sophomore hurdler Lauren Irish also posted a standout performance, finishing sixth in the 400m hurdles with a time of 1:02.52, just 0.02 seconds off of a NCAA National qualifier.
The women’s 4 x 400m race was the second fastest ever run by a UCSD team at 3:43.89. Freshman Sabrina Pimentel stepped up after the usual first leg, senior Caitlin Meagher, contracted an asthma attack and could not race. Pimentel ran a solid 57 second split followed by Irish, who split a 56 second time, and senior Deyna Roberson, who also split a 56 second mark before handing off to Rose. Rose got the baton in third place, 50 meters behind Irvine’s Ericka Nowell. Rose fought hard,
making up all of the ground between the two runners with a blazing 53.1s second split to barely fall short of second place. For reference, the Olympic qualifying time for a 400m run is 52.35 seconds.
Junior javelin thrower Jessica Miklaski threw well to finish in third place in her event, popping off a 137’6” mark to uphold her spot as the best javelin thrower in the CCAA conference.
The women finished 11th overall in a field of twenty teams, and the men finished 8th in a field of 19 teams.
Leading the men’s side were seniors Ka Wai Ng and Nicholas Howe. Ng finished third in the triple jump after scratching several of his best marks, ending with a 49’2.5”
hop skip and a jump well short of his personal best.
Howe’s throw of 214’3” was also well short of his personal best, which opened the door for Cal State Long Beach senior Benjamin Woodruff to take the competition with a throw of 235’10”.
Other big marks on the men’s side came from Zachary Nagengast in the discus, who finished in sixth with a hurl of 156’6”.
Senior long jumper Jeff Head finished sixth as well, jumping 23’3”.
The throws squad on the men’s side is especially strong going into their next meet, with an intense sibling rivalry brewing. Senior Kiley Libuit threw 199’11” at Cal-Nevada to set a new personal best. However, his mark failed to beat that of his older
brother Brad, who graduated in 2006 with the school record at 200’. The younger Libuit now heads to Arizona with a chip on his shoulder much like the one on the shoulder of freshman Nash Howe. The younger Howe is looking to break out from behind his brother, the current school record holder at 231’6”.
The Tritons now split up between Arizona State’s Sun Angel Invite and the Cal State San Marcos Mangrum Invite.
Seven men and seven women will head out Friday for Arizona with head coach Tony Salerno to practice for the upcoming NCAA National Meet in May.
Readers can contact Nick Howe at [email protected]
Women’s Crew Places Fourth▶ WOMEN’S CREW, from page 12
Tritons Record Strong Performances at Cal/Nevada ▶ TRACK & FIELD, from page 12
Triton Basketball Coach Elliott to Step Down▶ CHARITY ELLIOTT, from page 12
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Record WeekendBy Nick HoweAssociate Sports Editor
This past weekend, Saturday, March 31 and Sunday, April 1 the UCSD Track and Field
team headed to the annual Cal-Nevada Invitational track meet. The meet, now going strong for two decades, attracts more than 80 percent of collegiate track teams from across California and Nevada. Only the top 27 athletes in each event qualify to participate, so for UCSD, a large field of Division I schools made for a high level of competition.
The biggest storyline coming out of the meet was senior Jacqueline “Boo” Rose’s record breaking weekend. The women’s sprint
captain won her heat in the 400m on Saturday to qualify her in lane six for the final the following day. She was ranked second going into finals with a time of 55.6s, chasing a 55.4s mark recorded by Cal State Fullerton’s Katie Wilson. Rose not only beat Wilson in the final with a time of 53.3s, but she also broke the previous UCSD school record of 54.9s set by Olympian Christine Merrill in 2008.
Rose’s time broke the previous record by over a second, making her the fastest female 400m runner in DII and fourth in the entire collegiate realm. She also became the second Triton in a row, following 2011 graduate Kelly Fogarty’s win last year, to be awarded the coveted Cal-Nevada Track Athlete of the Year. The award marks the seventh
all-time award given out to an athlete mentored by UCSD sprint coach Mick Gieskes.
“It was really hard,” Rose said. “I was just so anxious and nervous that I reached another level. I laughed at myself as I was getting into my blocks because I was so nervous, I just decided then, ‘ok lets do this.’”
When asked if she thought there was more in the tank, Rose said there’s still room for improvement.
“I really think there is because for the last 15 meters I was looking for the clock to see how fast I was going,” Rose said. “That made me lose a bit off my stride and probably meant the difference between a 53 [second time] and a high 52 [second time].”
By RacHel UdaSports Editor
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL —After five years at the helm of the UCSD Women’s Basketball team, head coach Charity Elliott has accepted the head coaching position at Division I Loyola Marymount. It was announced Tuesday, April 3 that the three-time conference coach of the year will take over for Loyola coach Julie Wilhoit.
“I am truly, truly grateful for my time and experience at UC San Diego,” Elliott said to the UCSD Athletic Department. “I am so proud of the success we’ve had as a program and I thank all of the student-athletes that have allowed me to coach them and, in doing so, provided me with countless memories that will last a lifetime.”
Elliott began her career at Southwest Missouri State where she served as assistant coach. She received her first head coaching position at Cal Baptist, and after two seasons with the Lancers, took a job at Division I Portland State. Elliott led the Vikings to their first Big Sky conference tournament in three years.
Elliott came to UCSD in 2007 and has since recorded 131 wins with the Tritons, leading UCSD to four
Head Coach Charity Elliott to Take Position at Division I LMU
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By RacHel UdaSports Editor
CREW —The UCSD women’s rowing team recorded promising finishes, while the Triton men came back with mixed results last weekend at the 39th Annual San Diego Crew Classic.
The three-day regatta, held in Mission Bay, hosted 4,000 athletes from some of the best teams in the nation— including UCLA, Gonzaga and USC on the men’s side and seven-time defending national champions Western Washington on the women’s side.
On Saturday, March 31, the women’s varsity eight, men’s novice and men’s second varsity eight all recorded second-place finishes in
the first day of competition.On the men’s side, the Tritons
failed to reach last year’s high water mark. The men’s varsity eight finished last in their heat, as UCSD fell to Harvard, Cornell and University of British Columbia, despite clocking a quick 6:14.588 time.
“We knew going into the Crew Classic that we needed to perform well,” varsity eight rower Ashley Travaglione said. “We hadn’t put together a solid race, but after coming off a week of technical/speed work practices, I think we all were feeling ready for the weekend.”
In a field featuring Central
Crew Competes in 39th SD Crew Classic
▶ CHARITY ELLIOTT, on page 11 ▶ WOMEN’S CREW, on page 11
▶ TRACK & FIELD, on page 11
Jacqueline Rose Runs the Fastest 400M in Division II
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nolan thomas/Guardian file
