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By Daniel SongStaff Writer
The Department of Justice ended its two-year federal investigation into racial tensions at UCSD last Friday, April 13. University admin-istrators entered into a voluntary settlement with the Justice and Education Departments that estab-lishes an Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination to resolve allegations of race-based discrimination. The agreement also requires mandatory anti-discrimina-tion training for staff and students.
“Students have a right to seek and obtain an education without facing racial harassment,” Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division for the Department of Justice Thomas E. Perez said in an April 13 press release.
The Department of Justice launched the investigation into UCSD after the racially charged inci-dents of 2010.
“UCSD, like all colleges and uni-versities, has an obligation to make clear that racial discrimination and harassment on campus will not be tolerated, and this agreement is a significant step in the right direction,” Perez said.
The OPHD declined to comment further regarding the provisions of the agreement due to the confidential nature of the settlement. Although the office declined to comment, the university released a statement about the agreement.
“At UC San Diego, we are pleased that our discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice have resulted in a collaborative agreement that recognizes our extensive efforts to address harassment and discrimina-tion, and reinforces a plan for con-tinued improvements in campus climate,” the university wrote in an April 13 press release.
The racially charged incidents in question began in February 2010, when UCSD fraternity members held an off-campus party known as the “Compton Cookout.” Outrage over the racial climate and the discov-ery of a noose inside Geisel Library culminated in marches and protests
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Dept. of JusticeInvestigation Into UCSD ConcludesDue to new agreement, UCSD to mandate anti-discrimination training for all staff and students.
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DALAI LAMA COMES tO uCSD
By Javier armStrongStaff Writer
UCSD introduced a new type of trash can, called BigBelly Solar, on campus this week. The Massachusetts-based company claims the solar panel-powered trash and recycling bins reduce the collection frequency by up to 80 percent.
UCSD Facilities Management purchased a total of 25 stations. The units consist of one trash compactor and one recycling compactor and can be found around Library Walk and Town Square.
Assistant Superintendent of Facilities Management Alonso Noble said this is just the first step and that UCSD will purchase more solar-powered trash cans.
According to the BigBelly Solar website, the trash cans can hold about 180 gallons of trash, five times the capacity of a traditional 35 gal-lon trash can. The units also house a built-in sensor that alerts main-tenance workers when it is time to empty them. The people responsible for pick-up will be notified via a website.
BigBelly personnel are training the UCSD Solid Waste Management
Department staff how to manage the units.
With the new trash cans, UCSD is following the lead of cities like Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston that have already bought into the initiative. Harvard and MIT have also implemented the trash cans onto their campuses.
“We are looking at how it will benefit staff, how it will benefit the university and how it can attribute to the sustainability of the universi-ty,” Noble said. “With the old system, a landscape staff would be assigned to drive out to the trash cans to see if they needed to be emptied or not.”
Noble said that, with the new system, the last shift of the cleaning crew can just check the website and take care of the units that need to be serviced. The saved trips allow those on staff to spend their time doing other tasks.
The CEO of BigBelly Solar said in a Fox Business Network interview on Nov. 18 that the cost of each unit depends on the system. If a park sys-tem needs 10 of the trash cans in, the cost might be about $1,000 a month over a five-year period.
Readers can contact Javier Armstrong at [email protected].
University Purchases Solar-Powered Trash CansCAMPUS LIFE
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama began his panel before a sold-out RIMAC Arena crowd with a joke.
“Usually, when I give a talk, no notes,” he said. “No preparation. Main reason: I’m lazy.”
See DALAI, page 3
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By ayan KuSariStaff Writer
A research team has built a five-story building just to tear it down and set it on fire.
The researchers, led by struc-tural engineering professor Tara Hutchinson, will use a giant earth-quake “shake table” — a rectan-gular hydraulic platform designed to mimic the shaking motions of an earthquake — to recreate the conditions of the 6.7 magnitude Northridge quake of 1994.
The scientists began testing at the country’s largest shake table, built by UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering at Scripps Ranch, this Tuesday, April 16.
“What we are doing is the equiv-alent of giving this whole building an EKG,” Hutchinson told the San Diego Union-Tribune on April 16. “We want to see how it performs after an earthquake and a fire.”
The narrow structure, which resembles a tower, is designed to serve as a model for a variety of
building types. While the bottom three floors have been constructed like private homes, the top two have been built to function as a realistic model of a hospital.
The hospital-like top floors of the building have been outfitted with a full surgical suite, including an intensive care unit and a working elevator.
These floors are com-pletely electrified to resemble the conditions of a real hospital being subjected to an earth-quake.
Once the building has been subjected to the full battery of earthquake tests, it will be set on fire to determine how struc-tural damage induced by these disasters affects the spread of fire.
Because gas and electrical lines are frequently broken by seismic shaking, fires are a common side effect of earthquakes.
The researchers hope to get a
better understanding of how fires spread in damaged buildings.
They believe this information will help them design buildings that
are more r e s i s t a n t to flames when broken down.
Scientists will be able to record every last detail of the m o v e m e n t as things c r u m b l e , shatter and burn.
The inte-rior of the building will be moni-tored care-
fully — with over 500 sensors and 70 cameras — throughout the test-ing.
In addition to simulating the Northridge earthquake — one of the costliest disasters in California
history — researchers also plan to model the 7.9 magnitude quake that struck Alaska in 2002.
This earthquake is of particular interest because the vibrations of Alaskan fault lines tend to resem-ble the vibrations along the San Andreas fault system, which domi-nates seismic activity in southern California.
Finally, the researchers plan to recreate the conditions of the 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile in 2010.
The Chile quake, which occurred on Feb. 27, was one of the largest in recorded history. It resulted in over 500 fatalities and caused a tsunami that touched every corner of the Pacific rim.
The $5-million project received materials and funding from cor-porate partners, government agen-cies and the National Science Foundation.
Tara Hutchinson was not avail-able for interview as of press time.
Readers can contact Ayan Kusari at [email protected].
Researchers Develop Shake Table to Mimic Earthquake Conditions
“What we are doing is the equivalent of giving this whole building an EKG. We want to see how it performs after an earthquake and a fire.
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The audience laughed. His off-the-cuff introduction contrasted with the brief speeches given by his co-panelists, Dr. Richard Somerville and Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, both professors at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
These two professors convened with Tibet’s spiritual leader for a dis-cussion on global climate change. The Dalai Lama’s UCSD visit was the first in a series of three talks given here, at San Diego State University and the University of San Diego, collectively titled “Compassion Without Borders.”
During the talk, the Dalai Lama stressed the necessity of creating insti-tutional change that would prioritize long-term environmental solutions over “short-sighted” economic interest.
“Big building, big house, a big car and big salary,” he said. “‘That’s the meaning of life’ — no, certainly not… This blue, small planet is our only home. We have to take care of it.”
All three panelists spoke about the importance of reacting decisively to
climate change, enacting environmen-tal reform and separating politics from the global warming conversation.
“Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion but not to their own facts,” Somerville said. “I think if we de-polit-icize the debate — you know, there aren’t any Republican or Democratic thermometers; satellites aren’t liberal or conservative — then we could make some progress.”
The Dalai Lama continued his San Diego visit with an afternoon stop at USD; there is also a panel today at San Diego State on ethics. Though the Dalai Lama has visited other UC cam-puses in the past this was his first time speaking in San Diego.
According to UCSD Extension’s Director of Information Technology Henry DeVries, the event took a good deal of coordinating between the Dalai Lama’s Personal Peace Emissary, Lama Tenzin Dhonden and all three schools.
“The Lama Tenzin approached us at UCSD Extension, with the idea that the Dalai Lama would welcome an invitation to speak in San Diego,” DeVries said. “So our chancellor issued
an invitation… but with the size of RIMAC, it would be a shame if only 4,200 people would get to hear him. So we approached the other two universi-ties to see if they would like to form an organizing committee.”
Between all three universities, over 20,000 people attended the Dalai Lama’s discussions. At UCSD, all 2,700 tickets sold out in an hour. At SDSU, with 12,000 capacity, the tickets sold out in two hours. In the past, the Chinese government has protested the Dalai Lama’s appearances at American venues, stressing that he is considered a separatist in political exile.
The Dalai Lama reinforced the non-political nature of the talk in a news conference before the speech, where he explained the meaning of event title “Compassion Without Borders.”
“The world belongs to human-ity, and each country belongs to its own people — not religious leaders, or kings, or queens, or emperors, or political parties,” he said.
Readers can contact Hayley Bisceglia-Martin at [email protected].
involving hundreds, and a teach-in that numbered as many as 1,200.
In the aftermath, Chancellor Maye Anne Fox and Black Student Union co-chairs David Ritcherson and Fnann Keflezighi signed an agree-ment outlining the administration’s commitment to improving the cam-pus climate. The university agreed to implement 19 BSU demands, which included providing more funding for diversity programs and creating new positions dedicated to enriching diversity.
Since then, university administra-tors have created the position of Vice
Chancellor for Education, Diversity and Inclusion, hired 12 non-white faculty members and instituted a diversity requirement for all under-graduates.
The university began drafting a new code for student conduct in May 2009 to increase university jurisdic-tion over off-campus events. The uni-versity hopes to implement the new policy in Fall 2012.
BSU Vice Chair and Vice President of External Affairs-elect Olamide Noah said that she believes that the university has not yet ade-quately addressed the situation. According to Noah, the university initially agreed to the terms put
forth by the BSU, but has since put minimal effort in fulfilling and implementing the demands.
Most other UC campuses have black student resource centers and the administrators agreed to provide one for the UCSD campus in prin-ciple, Noah said, but the burden fell on the BSU to compile the necessary research and put together a proposal.
“Although there have been chang-es, a lot of those changes were initi-ated by students. It wasn’t the univer-sity that took it upon itself to fix this,” Noah said.
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This week, A.S. Council discussed festivals and official school business.
Panhellenic Delegate Katey Soulzberg announced that a member of the Panhellenic Council will attend council meetings from now on. Muir Senator Elizabeth Garcia informed council that Muir Musical “Rent” had been a success, but Muir College Council’s distribution of $10 coupons for the UCSD Bookstore was less fortunate.
“We would say ‘free $10’ and people were like, ‘no thanks,’” she said. “Really what do we have to do?”
Engineering Senator Parminder Sandhu reported that there would be a referendum next year to increase fees to account for the student bus passes.
Associate Vice President of Enterprise Operations Brian McEuen showed off the new Sun God merchandise that goes on sale this Monday, including fanny packs and some slick sunglasses.
“If you have dirty fingers, don’t touch!” McEuen said.
Representatives from The Zone presented council with details on the Good Life Festival it will be hosting on May 3. The festival will feature giant hamster balls in water, a rock-climbing wall and beer goggle race-carts. Everything is free with a valid student ID.
The Student Fee Advisory Committee told council about the necessity of taking another look at student fees.
“It’s probably the most important issue on this campus right now,”
McEuen, who is also the SFAC Chair, said of student fees. “There’s not really a lot of fat to trim. But we have to continue on, We have to supply that number; this is where dwindling state support has screwed
over the students, and with decreasing revenue streams we have to cut something.”
Associate Vice President of Student Services Leigh Mason and
members of the A.S. Safe Rides office (Katie Guadagno and Stella Ng) spoke to council about the future of A.S. Safe Rides. A.S. Safe Rides provides students with an emergency ride home from 11 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, during Weeks One through Ten. Mason noted that the growth of the Safe Rides program was causing it to run over budget by about $10,000.
“This service is extremely important; we’re seeing this increase every year, we have to re-prioritize what services are getting money and this one is one we should be looking at,” A.S. President Alyssa Wing said.
Campuswide Senator Carlos Molina led the council in a small break by throwing balloons around the Forum.
The council unanimously passed a resolution opposing the policies of the revised Student Conduct Code. The council also passed a unanimous vote in support of UCSD’s bid to host UCSA Congress 2012.
There were high-fives all around for last week’s Councilmember of the Week, Campuswide Senator Brad Segal. This week’s Councilmember of the week is Engineering Senator Sandhu.
Council Excited to Have Fanny Packs for Sun God Festival
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BSU Vice Chair: University Has Not Adequately Responded to Demands▶ DISCRIMINATION, from page 1
2,700 Dalai Lama Tickets Sold Out in One Hour at UCSD▶ DALAI, from page 1
OPINIONMadeline [email protected] THe ediTOR
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Last Friday, as per usual, the Guardian set off to cover the A.S. election results in Price Center East. And while the
green-, gold- and blue-clad group in front of Burger King was every bit as exuberantly loud and heartbreakingly depressed as election candidates should be, a cursory glance around the rest of Price Center revealed a markedly different atmosphere. The expressions of the majority of students that Friday ranged from befuddled, to straight-up confused, to obliviously studying.
Given the generally apathetic expressions of the student body, it is no wonder then that our election turnout, at a meager 21.6 percent, hit its lowest point in four years. Alyssa Wing’s victory in 2011-12 saw a turnout of 27 percent, Wafa Ben Hassine’s, 22.7 percent (2010-11) and Utsav Gupta’s, around 23 percent (2009-10).
A number of factors led to such a low turnout. For one, the general election voting came a mere month after the Division-I vote, which had seen the staggeringly high student response of 51.1 percent. If the athletic referendum had been tied in with the general election, much like how the
Canyonview and UCEN referendums were tied in with elections in 2011, turnout may have been higher. Of course, there was a number of factors as to why the Division-I vote occurred separately, for one, because A.S. Council wanted it to, but the apathetic reverberations from such a high voter turnout certainly had a negative effect in the end. Most students, burned out from the intense campaigning for and against Division I, had difficulty in creating further interest for something that did not seem as dramatic or single-issue.
Another factor that played into election turnouts is the mobilization of college councils. For the past two elections, the candidate with the strongest college affiliation (who mobilized large slates with names that followed the “verb-the-noun” nomenclature and used the color blue) won out. This theory, of course, focuses solely on President-elect Meggie Le, who often cited her experience with Marshall College Council, and our current President Alyssa Wing, with Warren College.
The validity of these theories aside, it is clear that efforts to reach out to campus
Voter Tune OutLow voter turnout may be a result of political apathy on campus, but certain measures
should be taken, such as the creation of a new committee on the A.S. Council.
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This week, everyone’s newsfeed is filled with complaints, accolades,
people complaining about people complaining and “I’ll just take more drugs” statuses. In other words, the Sun God lineup is out, everyone is self-righteous over the selections and I’m left hiding updates from my feed, wondering if the exact popularity and relevance of the artists really
matters that much.Judging by the online debates:
Yes, it does. Judging by studies about the importance of music, especially for our demographic: Yes, it does. In fact, as far back as 1989, scientists ran a test to figure out the all-important question of whether people with societally determined “good” music taste are more attractive: Yes, they are.
First, it’s important to acknowledge that our music tastes are a) probably already set, and b) will get less and less cool over time. A 2008 University of Alabama study showed that lifelong music preferences stem from whatever we listened to from 16 to 21 — suggesting that a large part of this love stems from nostalgia and that 20 years from now we’ll get teary-eyed when “Talk That Talk” comes on the oldies channel. This study is right on the money — why yes, I am excited about Paul van Dyk, and yes, that may have something to do with that (perhaps ill-advised) phase in high school when I only listened to European trance a la Darude and Tiësto.
Then, there’s a battery of papers about the importance of music taste to both personal identification and how we perceive others. A 2009 Cambridge University study determined what we’ve all instincti0vely known since we began shunning others for (still) liking Avril Lavigne in the ninth grade: People, especially, as the study cites, us “young people,” stereotype others based on their music tastes.
More interesting is the research that suggests these stereotypes are generally true. In 2003, Rentfrow and Gosling at the University of Texas at Austin evaluated undergrads on both their music taste and personalities. People who like “high-brow” music (think classical, blues, jazz) are emotionally stable, open to new experiences and have above-average intelligence and verbal abilities.
Most of the same traits are present for those who like rock music, except the latter are also more athletic (which could due to the male-oriented bias in these genres). Lovers of top 40 and rap/hip-hop are not only more athletic, they are also more agreeable, extroverted and likely to
Sun God ComplaintsJustified by Science
Field Notes
AngelA [email protected]
You’ve probably seen the new solar-powered trash cans that look fresh out of the
Star Wars droid sale. It is easy to assume that the
new cans are only UCSD’s latest accessories to our high-tech, environmentally-friendly claim to fame, but these receptacles will end up being a sustainable money-saving investment in the long run.
According to Alonso Noble, the assistant superintendent of Facilities Management, they are still gathering information regarding the money spent on the project, so it is hard to know if the
BigBelly Solar bins are worth it. This information needs to be made known to students before we can trust that the sustainability of the trash cans outweighs the initial costs.
But still, this trash can-recycling bin combo is an effective solution to reducing disposal costs — each unit is a solar-powered trash compactor that can hold about 180 gallons of trash, compared to only 35 gallons that the old trash cans held.
In addition, the units will also save maintenance time because each one has a built-in sensor that detects when bins are full, and
maintenance is alerted on a website to empty the unit.
By having a compactor within in each unit, workers will have to empty the receptacles less frequently, and less money will be spent on the transportation costs of dumping the trash because fewer trips will be taken to landfills.
The Massachusetts-based company BigBelly Solar, which makes the solar bins, claims that the collection frequency is reduced by up to 80 percent.
Saving on these maintenance fees month after month is a smart way to reduce costs and the environmental impact of
transportation. When walking by the new trash
cans, the only major concern is the fear of vandalism to the fancy solar panels that sit atop the receptacles.
But these same trash bins are found in major cities including Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston — all of which have reputations for crime that just barely beat the mean streets of La Jolla.
Over time it will become more apparent if BigBelly Solar bins are beneficial, but as a campus moving toward sustainability, this looks like an innovation that UCSD shouldn’t throw out.
New Solar-Powered Trash Cans Are Sustainable Money Investment
See TurnouT, page 5
See Music, page 5
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constituents can be reformed. Only one-fifth of the students at UCSD care about who controls a yearly budget of $3 million and their Sun God lineup, or at least, only one-fifth cared enough to actually vote. Council’s Library Walk campaign only targeted a select group of students — namely those who forgot that election week was in full swing and accidentally walked through the gauntlet of over-enthusiastic candidates.
In order to most effectively mobilize the greater college campus, a non-biased committee within A.S. Council could be created, so the work would not fall completely on the Advocate General.
Once this committee is created, a greater emphasis could be placed on targeting students in select groups — for instance, in classes. A conflict of interest may prevent candidates from giving press speeches at the beginning of each lecture, but the Advocate General
or the new election committee could assign a number of neutral, non-returning members of the council to go up in the beginning of lecture to urge students to vote.
The committee could also focus its efforts on greater publicity for the election events that A.S. Council currently hosts — the presidential and vice presidential debates are prime examples. Every year, the debates are moderated by Guardian staffers, and every year, despite our attempts to “mix it up” by asking the candidates to ask each other questions or by allowing public input, nobody pays attention except for the candidates themselves.
And though an individual focus on specific colleges may not be the end-all-be-all of voter turnout, it certainly targets a specific population (underclassmen in certain colleges) and can dramatically help a slate out to boot. Ride the Tide, with three-fourths of its executive board members as active members of the
Marshall college community, is a prime example. So is the fact that two of the very few Student Voice victories this year went to Muir College Council Senators — after all, Muiron Elizabeth Garcia all but led the party this year.
Finally, having larger ballots would likely yield larger turnouts. Instead of having several special elections a year, a larger general election with a few hotly-contested referendums could positively affect voter turnout. Not everybody cares about Division I, or the Canyonview Pool, or even UCEN, but having issues like that on the ballot would prompt students who actually did care to vote, and most importantly, spread the word.
Low voter turnout is a collective action problem that plagues every elective process from college councils to national elections, but effective measures can be taken to combat this problem by narrowing the focus of election campaigns, rather than broadly focusing on the entire college campus.
be politially liberal. And finally, in another blow to everyone’s love-to-hate genres, devotees of pop music, religious music and, yes, country, are agreeable and conscientious and generally wealthier — but also have low verbal ability and are more narrow-minded and politically conservative.
The news is bad for country fans in the dating field as well. In the aforementioned 1989 paper, researchers had undergraduates make several dating videos about themselves in which everything was kept constant except music taste. Other undergrads then judged
the videos and rated the subjects’ attractiveness.
The results showed a correlation between music taste and attractive-
ness, though the individual results were unremarkable: Men who like rock music were more appealing (though the same is not true for women).
Women who like classical music were more appealing (again, not true for the opposite sex).
Everyone who liked country music was less attractive (the exception, of course, being our own Opinion Editor Madeline Mann, who essentially out-Taylor Swifts Taylor Swift).
In conclusion, science confirms everything we secretly thought was true. Music is important. It defines us. Don’t listen to country.
Slates Should Focus Campaigns on Specific Colleges
Women who like classical music were
more appealing. everyone who liked country
music was less attractive.
▶ TurnouT, from page 4
Dear Editor,The registered student
organization “Awareness and Action for Autism” is having a benefit concert at the Loft, in a week, with the proceeds going to an organization called NFAR. This event has a Facebook event, with a wall where participants can post.
I posted the following comment: “While some of NFAR’s programs are beneficial, the language they use to describe autism encourages unjustified fear and dehumanization of autistic people. Citations and additional explanation provided upon request.” They deleted it, with no explanation or justification. Three times. And they have refused to even admit, in public, that they did so. This is clearly not the behavior of a group interested in open, honest dialogue, or apparently, any dialogue at all. Such high-handed refusal to engage with criticism is not acceptable behavior for a UCSD student organization.
—Jesse Weinstein Sixth College, Class of 2012
Dear Editor,The April 9 article entitled,
“Study: UC Education Is Too Leftist” refers to a recently published study by the California Association of Scholars which claims, in almost conspiratorial terms, that the UC system’s curriculum is leading our students down a liberal social science path, shepherded by mostly liberal professors who are, drum roll, Democrats. Scratch the surface and
you’ll find that this group is led by Ward Connerly, a former UC Regent who made it his personal crusade to destroy affirmative action, and is part of a larger organization called the National Association of Scholars.
If you play around on the NAS website for just a few minutes it’s easy to unveil this group’s real goal: bringing the conservative agenda to college campuses to target multi-culturalism, affirmative action and further the ultimate agenda of a “free market”-based society. As always, FOLLOW THE MONEY.
The NAS is funded by such conservative heavyweights as: Sarah Scaife Foundation, Koch Foundation and the John Olin Foundation. The article cites an education-focused website, “Minding The Campus,” which loosely claims that students have complained about their too-radical professors.
Keep in mind that “Minding The Campus” is a subset of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank that relishes the supply-side economics paradigm of deprivation for most and riches for a few. This study is not a case of unbiased research and the Guardian should have done a little of its own to bring its readers a truer picture of the backstory behind this “study.”
—Laurel DeanAssociate Direcector of Rec Classes
UC Leftist Study is Case of Biased Research
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I was born two years shy of the 1980s, but I’m just as stuck in the decade as any alcoholic Van Halen
obsessive. Here’s why: For the entire
month of April, a few of my friends and I have challenged ourselves to lis-ten to only music made in the 1980s.
The rules are simple: Exceptions can be made for live shows and when we don’t have control over the music playing, but any time we make the conscious effort to listen to music, it has to be from the ’80s.
You might be wondering what the appeal of such a silly challenge is, apart from the fact that it’s a challenge. It’s simple, really; having constraints to your music-listening means you even-tually have to dig a lot deeper, making ’80s April an enriching experience.
So far, I’ve discovered how great New Zealand indie-rock was, down-loaded the entire discography of cult indie-rockers Felt, made early house music my new cooking soundtrack (I gotta dance while I drain noodles, guys) and began belting out the Smiths more often than usual in my car. For months I felt stuck in a musi-cal rut, with little to no desire to go digging for new music, but now I find myself constantly asking my friends about their new ’80s discoveries and scouting blogs for unknown treasures.
My hunt for the obscure received a slight knock in credibility, though, when the New York Times published a column by Alexandra Molotkow titled “Why the Old-School Music Snob Is the Least Cool Kid on Twitter.”
Molotkow’s point was this: “There is no longer any honor in musical obscurity.” Apparently, the rise of social media has made little-known music even more irrelevant; instead, she argues, the more people like something, the more valuable it is.
Now, let’s forget the idea that “value” in terms of music is subjective, but get to the root of the problem: Molotkow’s point isn’t unique. I’ve noticed an upswing in once-hipsters deciding that they’re now too cool to actually care about discovering music. They look down on those still excited by the prospect of a great new band, scoffing on their high horse while ironically (though they’d argue it’s authentically) listening to more “pop-ulist” acts (whatever that means).
While I, too, relish the fall of music elitism caused by the Internet, a taste for the obscure does not equate to snobbery. There’s a difference between happening upon an excellent band that hasn’t made it big yet and actively seeking out such acts only because they’re obscure. Good music is good music, and I don’t understand why there’s this sudden aversion to the music nerdery I love so dearly.
Molotkow would probably mock my ’80s April jaunt, instead suggesting that I let the populist speak for itself and watch while artists like Azealia Banks rise through the ranks of YouTube. And I’ll do that. But I’ll also continue to hunt through record bins, because good music lives there too.
Now, back to the ’80s.
Digging Deep ‘Aint Snobbery; It’s Just Fun
Combining delicate harp harmonies with dense electronic textures and a sense of melody borrowed from contemporary
R&B, Active Child’s Pat Grossi makes music that sounds both otherworldly and corporeal. Next Thursday, Active Child will play at The Loft at UCSD.
Grossi took the time to talk with the Guardian over the phone Wednesday, discussing R&B, pop music’s past and the difficulties of playing his delicate pop music live.
The combination of harp and electronic beats is certainly an unusual one. “Originally I was doing both separately, and suddenly I realized
‘wow, maybe I should just try to put these two things together to get something really interesting,” Grossi said. “I would listen to the electronic stuff and feel like it was missing something a little more tangible, there was something just out of reach. I couldn’t really connect with a lot of it, and as soon as I started playing harp on top of it, it started to feel like much more engaging music.”
However, making the transition between this intricate approach to production and the often-unsteady realm of live performance has proven to be tough. “It was difficult,” Grossi said. “We’ve been touring pretty much non-
stop since the album came out. I think the songs are changing and
we’re playing them a little bit better each tour. We’ve figured out how to break down a lot of the orchestration and make it happen live.”
As though his approach wasn’t inventive enough, Active Child’s debut album, last year’s You Are All I See, saw the band flirting with the kind of buoyant pop melodies one might find on a Beyonce track. Grossi attributes this shift to increased vocal skills. “I feel like I found myself moving more and more in that direction the more
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Born from the drab suburban sprawls of southern California, wavves is the brainchild of San Diego slacker Nathan williams. The band’s brand of bratty, lo-fi pop-rock has gained steady acclaim from the indie rock community. williams has made a virtue of not taking music too seriously, with his silly fuck-you anthems becoming a staple of outdoor music festivals and college venues. Rising local innovators Cuckoo Chaos and Tv Girl are set to open. (RE)
confident I became with my voice, Grossi
said. “It’s more fun for me as a singer, and I think it carries a lot more soul and a lot more melodic diversity. There’s just a lot more flow to the voice and flow to the melodies.” Grossi is also inspired by the way pop music has evolved over time, finding the ‘80s to be a particularly motivating time.
“I think naturally when you write a song, you’re drawn to certain aspects of old music that you listen to,” he said. “I’ve always been really into the sound of the ‘80s -- gated drums, toms and lots of reverb. I like a lot of the synthesizers from that time period as well, the classic analog pads and synths. I think that to not be influenced by some musical creation is pretty much impossible.”
Last time Active Child played at UCSD was in late 2010, supporting School of Seven Bells. Grossi is excited about the progress the band’s made since that show.
“We’re obviously touring a lot more and becoming a stronger band,” Grossi said. “We’ve also added a drummer and percussionist to the group who’s been playing a mixture of live drum kit and a full electronic kit, so he’s back there doing a lot of work, helping the songs come to life. It should be a much more engaging show than when we played there last.”
The development of Active Child’s live setup isn’t limited to the musical, either: “It should be a pretty all-encapsulating performance where you hopefully feel lost in the music,” he said. “We’ve added a lot of lighting, lasers, smoke and things that will help enhance the mood. It should be pretty powerful, hopefully.”
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Chimp Off the Old BlockFamily nature ‘documentary’ injects chimp footage with sentimental Disney magic. Brana Vlasic • Contributing Writer
J ust in time for this week-end’s Earth Day, Disney’s “Chimpanzee” aims to provide
an environmental, family-friendly romp that’s light on gritty, real-life documentation and heavy on Hollywood sentimentalism and a whole lot of cute and cuddly chimps.
Narrated by Tim Allen and co-produced by Disneynature (2007’s “Earth” and last year’s “African Cats”) and the Jane Goodall Institute, the movie transports audi-ences to the forests of the Ivory Coast in the heart of Africa. With sweeping establishing shots of dense jungle canopies, we swing from tree to tree to Alastair Fothergill’s delightful conga/jazz score reminis-cent of Louis Prima’s “Jungle Book” soundtrack.
From here, the film narrows in on a tribe of chimpanzees, and we’re introduced to our unwitting protagonist, a baby chimp named Oscar. The traditional Disney nar-rative then kicks into full gear when Oscar’s mother is killed by a rival clan of chimps, led by a vicious look-ing chimp who we are told is named Scar (of course). Oscar is secluded from the rest of his community and his chance of survival seems slim until he is unexpectedly adopted by one of the wisest, alpha male mem-bers of the clan, Freddy.
The patient filmmakers man-age to capture moments of Freddy’s remarkable nurturing side, as well as his defensive animal instincts, pro-viding ample opportunity for direc-tors Fothergill and Mark Linfield to develop the chimps’ relationship on-screen. Freddy teaches Oscar how to dig for ants, crack open honeycombs and sniff out the ripest nut. It’s ador-able, sure, but it’s equally fascinating to watch the animals’ daily routine at such an intimate proximity — whether or not Tim Allen’s heavy-handed narration is distracting from the realism.
And, as expected from the target audience of “Chimpanzee,” realism isn’t the film’s goal. For example, the
scene in which Freddy and Oscar hunt for the tasty red colobus mon-keys, they conveniently omit any gruesome footage of our lovable ape heroes feasting upon their cousin specie.
But “Chimpanzee” is undeniably gorgeous. The footage of untouched scenery reveals the hidden beauty of our planet — a certain goal of the Jane Goodall Institute, which is set to receive 20 cents for each movie ticket sold in order to support its goal of educating the public about wildlife preservation.
“There might be easier ways to make a living, but none are this fun,” says one of the film’s featured researchers during the closing cred-its. It’s an inspiring message for a young audience whose dreams may lie beyond a nine-to-five cubicle job, and for “Chimpanzee”’s few modest goals, that’s a solid achievement.
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A fter Bay Area garage revivalist Ty Segall got more introspective and a lot less fuzzy on last year’s excellent Goodbye Bread, Hair, his
eight-song LP with White Fence (aka Tim Presley) finds him back at the distorted, jam-based garage sound he’s become synonymous with. Tim Presley, also of the bands Darker My Love and Strange Boys, brings his bratty lo-fi persona White Fence to the table, resulting in a solid, psychedelic rock ‘n roll album.
Recorded exclusively at Bauer Mansion, a studio in SF’s Chinatown, Hair begins with “Time,” a song
whose long introduction includes clashing cymbals, a deep, chanting voice, dirty garage guitar feedback and almost pastoral acoustic strumming, eventually trans-forming into fuzzy, distorted vocals over loud, gritty rock ‘n’ roll.
“I Am Not A Game,” the album’s first single, is an organ-driven track that begins as an upbeat, fun, dancey tune and ends with a double time, freakishly psychedelic jam. “Easy Rider,” borrowing the name from the ’69 classic counterculture Dennis Hopper film, has a simple and easy-going tempo, its tambourine and snare paired with breezy surf guitar chords, and allows the vocals to dominate, making it easily Hair’s best song.
The album as a whole is less than 30 minutes, giving the album a more cohesive feel and leaving the listener wishing there was more. In a crowd of faceless garage rock acts, Ty Segall & White Fence stick out like redheaded afros. Although both are said to have new solo works in the making, with an album this good, hopefully another collaboration will be in the future.
— Amanda MartinekSenior Staff Writer
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D rugs and Spiritualized have always gone hand in hand, although main man
Jason Pierce’s exposure to restric-tive experimental medicines to treat his recent liver disease and double bout of pneumonia means that Sweet Heart Sweet Light was composed under the influence of a wholly different set of narcotics to which he has traditionally been associated.
His band’s latest effort is Pierce’s attempt to make sense of life following his emergence from an exhausting, and apparently enlightening, recovery process.
Sonically, the record rarely strays from the conventional Spiritualized cocktail: classic blues, Krautrock rhythms, ecstatic gospel with conventional rock and roll arrangements and richly layered soundscapes.
As demonstrated on strong lead single “Hey Jane,” Sweet Light features many lengthy songs that are gradually built up by melodic guitar riffs and attractive piano melodies broken down and then tentatively reconstructed into euphoric, orchestra-led climaxes.
Pierce’s meticulous perfection-ism at the mixing desk means the record retains melody, avoiding disintegration into a confusing cacophony of noise.
The album is also one of the band’s more accessible efforts to date, with much of the epic lay-ers of fuzz and guitar distortion common throughout its earlier work neglected in favor of more accessible melodies and prominent vocals.
Unfortunately, here Pierce’s
limited capabilities as a singer are further undermined by lyrics that are often repetitive, stereotypical and unintentionally amusing, load-ed with predictable references to Jesus, Mary, getting to heaven and “holding on.” “Don’t play with fire and you’ll never get burned,” for example, sounds like another tired line uttered innumerable times across the band’s seven albums.
Though he remains over-whelmingly concerned with the same melodramatic issues, the album features several moments of clarity and optimism.
High-point “I Am What I Am” is a reassuring proclamation of self-peace, while the soaring chant of “So Long You Pretty Thing,” backed by triumphant strings and a powerful choir conclusion, ends the record on an enduring note.
It is with this new backbone of positivity that Pierce narrowly avoids colorless redundancy.
— Piers BarberStaff Writer
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Ryan Goodbrand 7–0 was credited with the win, throwing seven innings and allowing just four hits.
game 2The next game of the series was
scheduled to be played the following day, but was rescheduled due to inclement weather. “Sometimes it’s tough, being on the field and not knowing if you’re going to play or not that day,” LaFace said. “But you just have to come in with the mindset that you’re going to have a game that day, and everyone’s just gotta play hard, regardless of the weather, because you never know.”
UCSD took a big 14–2 win, as Susdorf doubled, tripled twice and recorded three RBI in the second game. The bats were hot across the roster as shortstop Garrett Tuck recorded three hits on three runs, while Frazier chipped in two RBI. wSenior righthander Jeff Rauh recorded the win, relieving senior Greg Selarz in the fifth inning. Rauh recorded three strikeouts, while allowing only one hit in his three innings.
game 3UCSD’s only loss came in the
second game of the day, where they fell to the Toros 1–0. The Toros capitalized on a Triton error in the bottom of the first inning to go up 1–0. But the Tritons were unable to get the bats going to close the gap.
“It was tough getting shut out in that game,” LaFace said. “I think guys came with the mindset that we had to make a change in our approach and just try and be more aggressive and put the ball in play as opposed to just being passive and waiting for something to happen.”
game 4
UCSD ended the series with a big 16–5 game last Tuesday, April 17 at Triton Baseball field. The Toros took an early two run lead in the first inning, but the Tritons recovered in their turn at-bat. UCSD went up 5–2, off a three run homerun from sophomore Scott Liske. The Tritons kept the bats hot throughout the match, as sophomore Nick LaFace went 4-for-4, while first baseman junior Richard Siegel went
3-for-4, recording four runs. Triton southpaw junior Richard Kilbury 3–0 — the junior has picked up three wins in his past three games — allowed just two hits in his 2.2 innings.
“It was kind of a sloppy game on both ends, there were some things that
we had to clean up defensively. It was just one of those games where different things happened, but I’m glad that we ended up on the winning side of it.”
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The only other team to come out of the tournament unscathed was Division-I San Jose State. The Tritons will have this week to prepare for a non-conference bout against San Diego State, this Friday, April 20, before they head into the postseason.
UCSD will look to replicate its results from last season, where the second-seeded Tritons upset first seed Loyola-Marymount 11–13 in
the conference tournament. This season, UCSD will host the WWPA tournament.
“We have really been focusing on the counter attack and our power play defense,” Kreutzkamp said. “I thought that in both of those areas we are showing huge improvements. Our play is the best; it’s been all season and hopefully we are peaking at the right time.”
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Triton to take wins in both the singles component and doubles component.
The pair of Jiganti and Ling downed Abilene Christian’s Guilherme Gesser and Michael Morris 8–5 in the No. 3 doubles bout. The Tritons fell in the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles matches.
Down 2–1, the Tritons could only manage two wins in the singles competition.
Jiganti won the No. 2 singles match against the Wildcats’ Nick Plum, with scores of 6–1, 1–6 and 6–4. Sophomore Devon Sousa pulled through for the Tritons, playing in the No. 6 singles position, defeating Michael Morris with scores of 6–2, 2–6 and 6–3.
The Triton women did not fare any better, falling 1–8 to the No. 6 Wildcats.
UCSD went without winning a single set in the singles competition. The only match the Tritons were able to take was in the No. 3 doubles match, between junior Katie Mulloy and sophomore Laura Wilke. Mulloy and Wilke took their match 8–4 against Abilene Christian’s Jaclyn Walker and Emily Conrad.
“[Abilene Christian’s] ranked seventh in the country, and we actually played pretty well against them,” UCSD head coach Liz Laplante said. “We weren’t really going into the match necessarily looking to win, but to just hopefully win some matches.”
The following day, Monday, April 16, the No. 21 Tritons conceded another loss, this time to unranked Concordia.
Mulloy and Wilke came through again in the No. 3 doubles match, taking an 8–2 win against Concordia’s Ellie Johnson and Ulrike Hahn.
However, the No. 1 doubles pair of junior Melissa Breisacher and senior
Jacquelyn Davis fell 8–4, while UCSD’s No. 2 doubles team of freshman Melinda Chu and sophomore Tara Vanooteghem dropped their match 8–5.
The Tritons managed to take two wins in the singles competition, with Vanooteghem winning the No. 3 match 6–4 and 6–2 and Mulloy cementing the No. 4 win with scores of 6–3 and 6–0.
“It was a great day for [Mulloy]. She’s a senior, she’s always got three or four injuries at a time, and she played a great match to win that singles battle.”
Both the men’s and women’s
teams will return to competition this Friday, April 20. The men will stay in Southern California, where they will face Point Loma on the road.
The women will travel up to Turlock, where the Tritons will face off against the Warriors for the second time in two weeks.
“We haven’t had a great year as far as our wins and losses go, but we’ve really improved a lot,” Laplante said. “We’re just hoping to end the season with two or three wins, and build from there for next season.”
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UCSD Prepares for Conference Tournament.By Rachel UdaSports Editor
MEN’S GOLF — The UCSD Men’s Golf team placed 11th in a field of 20 schools last Monday and Tuesday, April 18 and 19 at the 39th Annual Hanny Stanislaus Invitational in Turlock, California.
The Tritons came into the tournament after placing second out of 11 schools in the beginning of April at the FLC Skyhawk Desert Shootout.
“The fact that we did place second the other day shows that we actually have the potential to show well at Regionals,” UCSD assistant coach Keith Okasaki said.
In the first day of competition, sophomore Simon Lewis and freshman Jay Lim led UCSD on the green. Both Tritons finished five over par, with scores of 149. The two ended the first day tied for 34th place overall.
Sophomores Jacob Williams and Fredrik Palmer-Picard both recorded decent performances, carding scores of 153 and 155, respectively.
The Tritons ended the day placed 13th, chasing first-place No. 4 nationally ranked Cal State Stanislaus and second-place No. 7 Western Washington.
The Tritons had a good second day to jump up two spots, finishing 11th with a score of 902. UCSD finished 38 over par, nine strokes behind 10th place Dixie State.
Simon held his stroke to lead the Tritons with a score of 222 on the par-72 course. Lim finished three strokes behind, while Williams and Picard carded scores of 74 and 75 respectively.
“[Simon] played better than his score indicated,” Okasaki said. “It was really windy on Monday, and the conditions made it hard for everyone out there. [Lim] played a solid round, it wasn’t his best performance but we just finished a practice round today, and it went pretty well. So we should have a pretty good showing at conference.”
Hosts Cal State Stanislaus kept its first day’s advantage to win the tournament for the 14th time in the past 17 years, while Western Washington finished in second.
The Tritons now have the rest of the week to prepare for the CCAA Championships, to be played on April 23-24 in Paso Robles, California, where UCSD will look to improve on 2011’s sixth-place finish.
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Tritons Finish 11th at 39th Annual Hanny Stanislaus
SPORTSRACHEL [email protected] THE EDIToR
12 THE UCSD GUARDIAN | THURSDAy, APRIL 19, 2012 | www.UCSDGUARDIAN.oRG
By Rachel UdaSports Editor
Coming off a loss to unranked Cal Baptist the weekend prior, the No. 19 Tritons
have rebounded beautifully, going 4–0 at the Santa Clara Invitational last Saturday-Sunday, April 14 to
April 15.The four wins secured the
second seed for the Tritons, who sit two games behind first place Loyola Marymount and four games in front of third place CSU East Bay.
The tournament, hosted by Santa Clara University, pitted nine Western Water Polo Association squads against each other, serving as a proving ground for the conference tournament, to take place in just two weeks.
On Friday, in their opening
match, the Tritons took on 17–11 Cal State East Bay. The game remained close in the first two periods, as the Pioneers kept within one goal of the Tritons. But UCSD pulled away in the third quarter, outscoring CSU East Bay 3-0, riding their momentum to take a comfortable 9–3 win against the Pioneers, who
sit right behind the Tritons in the conference standings.
Against the Pioneers, the scoring was spread across the roster.
Sophomore utilities Leah Gonzales and Sarah Lizotte each netted two goals apiece. The Tritons also saw contributions from consistent goal scorers senior attacker Jessica Tran and senior center Kirsten Bates.
“I thought that both Kirsten Bates and [senior driver] Katherine Biehle had a fantastic tournament,”
UCSD head coach Brad Kreutzkamp said in an email interview. “[Biehle’s] counter attack skills have helped the team all year and have particularly helped us as of late.”
In their second game of the day, the Tritons fought for a closer 12–8 win against CSU Monterey Bay, who is just 6–7 in conference.
Bates led the Tritons in the attack, tallying four goals, while Lizotte, Biehle and center Melissa Bartow each tacked on two goals apiece.
On Sunday, April 15, the Tritons faced bottom of the conference CSU San Bernardino, who have lost all 14 of their WWPA matches thus far. UCSD strolled to a 26–5 win against the Coyotes, before taking down Division I CSU Bakersfield 12–7.
By Rachel UdaSports Editor
BASEBALL — The Tritons moved back into the national rankings this week after taking three of their four games against CSU Dominguez Hills.
The Tritons — who sit at the top of the CCAA standings — have two more conference series before postseason play.
The first will be a home-and-away series against CSU San Bernardino, beginning this Thursday, April 19 at San Bernardino. UCSD will end CCAA play with another home-and-away series against CSU Los Angeles, and will close out the regular season against Grand Canyon in the beginning of May.
game 1No. 29 UCSD took a tight 3–1
win against the Toros last Thursday, April 12.
The Tritons scored all of their three runs in the bottom of the second inning, when freshman Brett Levy doubled down the leftfied line. Levy advanced to third on an error, and was brought home by junior second baseman Spencer Frazier. With just one out, sophomore Danny Susdorf doubled to load the bases. Frazier and junior Sam Michaels scored off a sacrifice fly. The Toros recovered one run in the fourth inning, but were unable to close the deficit. Triton ace
By Rachel UdaSports Editor
MEN’S & WOMEN’S TENNIS — The UCSD Men’s and Women’s Tennis teams traveled up to Malibu last Sunday, April 15, where both teams suffered losses to Abilene Christian.
On the men’s side, the Tritons extended their losing streak to seven games, as they fell 3–6 to the No. 16 Wildcats. Sophomore Max Jiganti, along with doubles partner senior Sam Ling, were the only Tritons to take three consecutive wins in the Tritons’ three-match Invitational last weekend in Pensacola, Florida. Against the Wildcats, the sophomore was the only
Tritons Go 4-0 in Santa Clara, Secure Second SeedUCSD Tops four WWPA squads: CSU East Bay, CSU Monterey Bay, CSU San Bernardino and Bakersfield.
Baseball Moves Into National Rankings
Men’s, Women’s Tennis Fall on the Road to Abilene Christian
GAME 1Apr. 14 uc San Diego vS. cSueB
UCSD 1 2 3 3 9
CSUEB 1 1 0 1 3
GAME 2Apr. 14 uc San Diego vS. cSumB
UCSD 5 3 2 2 12
CSUMB 1 2 3 2 8
GAME 3Apr. 15 uc San Diego vS. cSuSB
UCSD 5 9 7 6 26
CSUSB 2 0 1 2 5
GAME 4Apr. 15 uc San Diego vS. BaKeRSFieLD
UCSD 3 3 1 5 12
CSUB 3 3 1 0 7
“ Our play is the best it’s been all season and hopefully we are peaking at the right time.
BRaD KReuTZKamPUCSD HEAD COACH
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