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CAMPUS LIFE

Ché Café to Hold Benefit Concert

By Natalie CovateStaff Writer

The Ché Café Benefit Blog has raised approximately $2,000 toward its goal of saving the Che Cafe via benefit t-shirt sales.

The Ché Café currently faces clo-sure if they fail to raise $12,000 to pay off insurance debts. Ché Café enthusi-asts are utilizing the Ché Café Benefit Blog to raise the money necessary to make the payment.

The t-shirts made exclusively for the Che Cafe by the Hellfish Family — a merchandise company for Southern California bands — feature the hardcore bands Bane, Unbroken and Seven Generations. All profits from the $13 shirts go directly to the Ché.

The band Bane created the first t-shirt design, which was available for purchase at the Ché during Bane’s show on Oct. 24. It is also available online at the Hellfish Family website.

“[Hellfish] will be printing these shirts on demand, so as they are ordered, they will be printed,” Ché Café Benefit Blog founder Jesse Kranzler said.

The hardcore bands Unbroken and Seven Generations will also be releas-ing Ché Café Benefit t-shirts for pur-chase directly from the Hellfish Family.

“I didn’t think it was in the DIY interest of the Ché to get corporate support,” Kranzler said. “But I felt this would be in the DIY spirit of the Ché.”

The Ché Café Benefit Blog will move into the second phase of fund-raising — the Ché Benefit Festival from Jan. 6 to Jan. 8. The lineup will be released on Nov. 15.

“All of the bands have agreed to play for free, we’re just covering expenses for gas,” Kranzler said. “For the most part, everything is going to the Ché. We’re also doing a benefit with a [merchandise] company [at the event].”

A CD is to be released — with exclusive Ché Café Benefit tracks — in early 2012.

“Hopefully, the festival will [raise] enough to keep [the Ché] going, but [the Benefit CD] will be a more steady, long-lasting form of income for them,” Kranzler said.

Readers can contact Natalie Covate at [email protected]

Ché Café reaches one-sixth of their $12,000 fund raising goal to save a UCSD landmark.

CAMPUS SAFETY

Student drugged and raped in the village laSt weekendBy Zev HurwitZContributing Writer

A UCSD student was drugged and raped a week ago in The Village East trans-fer housing area. Police are still investigat-ing the incident, which occurred Oct. 28.

According to the UCSD Police Department’s daily report from Oct. 30 — the day the incident was reported — the rape likely occurred between 2:11 a.m. and 3:18 a.m. on Oct. 28 in The Village East Building 1. Neither the victim nor any suspects have been identified.

UCSD spokesperson Rex Graham said that the department would not make any statements regarding the occurrence until the investigation progresses further.

“As this is an ongoing police investiga-tion, we are unable to comment on [the incident] at this time,” Graham said in an email. “We have no further comment.”

Last spring, several similar incidents occurred that brought attention to sexual

violence on campus. On May 20, 2010, an unidentified female student escaped an attempted kidnapping by a male assailant near Geisel Library around 8 p.m. Two weeks later, on June 3, an attempted rape occurred in the apartments of Earl Warren College. In those instances, UCSD Police sent out a safety alert to the campus that cautioned students against taking short-cuts across campus.

UCSD’s Sexual Assault & Violence Prevention Resource Center launched a campaign last year to raise awareness of sexual violence and prevention on campus. University police also offer the Community Service Office Program, a program that allows a student to call a community ser-vice officer to escort him or her around campus between sundown and 1 a.m.

The assailants in the incidents from last year are still unidentified.

Readers can contact Zev Hurwitz at [email protected]

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CAMPUS ProTEST dEFEnd PUbLIC EdUCATIon ProTEST oCCUPIES CAMPUS

By NiCole CHaN aNd reBeCCa HorwitZAssociate News Editors

About 50 people surrounded the Silent Tree yesterday, Nov. 9 at noon to protest the UC Board of Regents proposal to raise tuition 16 per-cent a year for four years. Protesters chanted, “They say cutback, we

say fight back,” and “It’s bullshit get off it, schools are not for profit, cuts to education, will never lead to liberation,” at the march.

Revelle College freshman Emily Stoffer co-founded the Public Education Coalition in September after hearing about the UC Regents’ proposal to raise tuition. The PEC collaborated with other organizations, including the People’s Assembly at UCSD, to organize the Nov. 9 protest.

“It doesn’t matter if you can personally pay the $22,000, there are lots of people that can’t and that’s not okay,” Stoffer said.

The proposed tuition increases would bring tuition to approximately $22,000 by the end of the four-year installment plan. UC President Mark Yudof announced Nov. 8 that the proposal to raise tuition will not be voted on at next week’s UC Regents meeting. Despite this, Stoffer said Wednesday’s event was still important.

“There will be cuts in services here,” Stoffer said. “The general experience at UCSD is going to dwindle. This affects every student and professor and everyone here on campus.”

Instead of raising tuition next year, Yudof plans to ask for additional fund-ing from the state, according to “UC to seek state funds to avoid a tuition hike next year,” published Nov. 9 in the Los Angeles Times.

“Even though the plan to raise tuition isn’t going to be voted on anymore,

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Scripps Discovers Four Inch Single-Cell Deep Sea OrganismsSCIEnCE AND TECHnoLoGY

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Scientists at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography have discovered giant single-celled amoebas known as xenophyophores six miles deep in the Mariana Trench, the ocean’s deepest known region.

In a July 2011 expedition led by Scripps researchers and National Geographic engineers, researchers arrived at Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, located in the Western Pacific, and deployed remote-controlled land-ers called “dropcams.”

Equipped with HD cameras and lights, the team explored a region of the trench known as the Siren Deep, 6.6 miles below the surface of the ocean. There, researchers found sin-gle-celled amoebas known as xeno-phyophores. The organisms can reach four inches in length.

While there are other single-celled organisms on earth, most are micro-scopic and are therefore classified as microorganisms. However some are visible to the naked eye, such as bac-

teria. Xenophyophores are the largest known single-celled species.

“[They’re] multi-nuclei, mean-ing they have many nuclei, with no membranes between them,” UCSD professor of biological oceanography and director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Lisa Levin said.

Levin said that there are trends among some organisms to get larger in the deep sea than in shallow water for unknown reasons. These xenophyo-phores are consistent with that trend.

Previous xenophyophores were known to live 7,500 meters below the surface of the ocean.

According to Doug Bartlett, the Scripps marine microbiologist who organized the Mariana Trench expe-dition, this discovery in the deep-est marine environments is of great importance to the field of studies in biodiversity, biotechnological poten-tial and extreme environment adapta-tion.

“Although it is part of Earth, the trench environment, the darkness, high pressure and low temperatures

seems more like one of Jupiter’s moons [like] Europa,” Bartlett said. “We can learn a lot about how life can evolve to such as bizarre set of conditions.”

The xenophyophores — which resemble sponges or cauliflower coral — are exclusive to the deep sea, and according to Bartlett it is only the tip of the deep-sea ecosystem iceberg.

The extreme ocean depths of the expedition presented new challenges for National Geographic engineers who developed the instruments to spot the mysterious giant amoebas.

The dropcams were developed and used by National Geographic Society Remote Imaging engineers Eric Berkenpas and Graham Wilhelm.

“The dropcams are versatile auton-omous underwater cameras contain-ing an HD camera and lighting inside a glass bubble,” Berkenpas said in the Scripps News article “Researchers Identify Mysterious Life Forms in the Extreme Deep Sea” published on Oct. 21. “They were created to allow scien-tists and filmmakers to capture high-quality footage from any depth.”

The gathered photographs and

video of the xenophyophores were positively identified by Levin and con-firmed by Andrew Gooday of the UK National Oceanography Center.

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CorreCtionsOn Oct. 23, a article titled “Students Participate in Occupy UCSD,” incorrectly said Samer Naji was the AVP of External Affairs. He is the Vice President of External Affairs. On Nov. 3, the column “New Business” incor-rectly stated that an impeachment failed with a 17-9-9 vote. The vote was 17-9-1.

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ing tuition and fees and won’t be able to take it much longer.”

According to Sixth College junior and protest coordinator Sean Estelle, the potential fee increase would raise tuition to $22,068 at the end of the four years — a 200 percent fee increase over the last decade.

“It used to be $50,000 to go to USC — one of the most expensive private colleges in the nation — public school might reach half that,” Estelle said. “It should never reach half that — it should never even reach a tenth of that. [Education] is for the people, people aren’t going to be able to afford that. Education is a right for everyone.”

San Diego Faculty Association President and UCSD sociology professor Ivan Evans spoke at the protest. He said students need to be released from debt and all Californians should defend students and teachers from UCs, California State Universities and California Community Colleges.

“This is a policy that is really awful and insupportable,” Evans said.

By the time the march started, more than 50 people had gathered. There were pre-made signs for everyone and free red bracelets. The protestors marched from Silent Tree down to PC Plaza and stopped right in front of the crosswalk at Gilman Dr.

The protestors walked in cir-cles on the crosswalk to keep it blocked while screaming “Occupy Crosswalk.”

Graduate Student in Ethnic Studies Alborz Ghandehari and Vice President of External Affairs Samer Naji led the protestors, encouraging them to continue walking.

They marched on the crosswalk for 30 minutes. They stopped traffic,

including shuttles and buses with students trying to get to class. The 30 bus was one of the vehicles stopped — frustrated students walked off the bus after five minutes.

Around 20 protestors stayed on the end of Library Walk, holding their signs.

The protestors let the shuttle through after occupying the street for 15 minutes on the crosswalk, but quickly retook the street once the shuttle had left.

The police arrived halfway through Occupy Crosswalk. The officers tried to block the students from the street to let the traffic through. One officer pleaded with the protestors to stay away from the street.

The students broke past the police, and Police Chief Orville King pulled a female student away from the street because a car tried to get around the protestors. Graduate stu-dent in sociology Aaron Marquette challenged King in response to his action.

“You assaulted that woman,” Marquette said.

The protestors marched back to the Silent Tree after 30 minutes of occupying the crosswalk. They dis-cussed the police interfering with their occupation of the crosswalk. The megaphone was passed around the circle so anyone could have a say.

“If they need to get to class tell the students to get the fuck off the bus,” Eleanor Roosevelt College sophomore Jack Beegah said.

Beegah was not alone in his sen-timents. Muir College sophomore Adam Netanel said there should not have been an issue with obstructing the roadway.

“Blocking traffic is not a civil disobedience,” Netanel said to the crowd.

After the protest, Police Chief Orville King and Police Captain David Rose talked to lingering pro-

testors who were upset about police interference. King was asked mul-tiple times about pushing protestors back, and he was adamant that he did not assault anyone.

“I wouldn’t say I pushed you,” King said. “The issue is safety.”

Rose told the remaining crowd that they were not allowed to block the roadway. He said the police could have formed a barrier for the protestors, but in that situation, the police would have shut down the protest.

“We don’t want cars hitting you,” Rose said. “Cars are the wild card.”

Naji said the large turnout was good because it meant students knew about it and were interested in learning more.

“A lot of the people who joined us were students who saw us marching towards the intersection,” Naji said. “Just marching alone doesn’t accom-plish, civil disobedience is what’s needed to get students to come out.”

Naji said the students who joined the protest now have a new sense of empowerment.

“We got our message heard by shutting down the streets,” Naji said. “We accomplished that phenome-nally today.”

According to Marshall College senior and protest co-organizer Iris Loughran, Wednesday’s rally was a statewide event.

“The main goal of the protest is to share solidarity with the whole statewide movement because this is affecting all of us equally,” Loughran said. “No UC is feeling it more than other UCs.”

Faculty at CSUs and CCCs are going on strike Nov. 17.

The UCSD Police Department could not be reached for comment as of press time.

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After a tense failure to impeach Marshall Senator summer Perez last week, this week’s meeting began with an equally tense air when two Marshall councilmembers expressed their disappointment with the out-come.

“For a while, I was not even aware that there was a second sen-ator,” Co-chair of Marshall Student C o m m i t t e e C h e l s e a Herrmann said. “My voice is not being heard, and that shows a lack of concern for her constituents.”

Attendance issues are not just about following rules, according to Vice-chair of Marshall Student Committee Prianna Nelson.

“Even as a highly-involved student in the Marshall Committee, my voice is only heard through my senators. The purpose of a senator is to rep-resent our voice,” she said. “I find it inexcusable to ignore the rules you put in place.”

After two special presentations, Associate Vice President of Student Organizations lynne swerhone need-ed to leave the meeting. On her way out, she was nearly tackled by Vice President of Student Life meredith madnick and a bright blue glittery sash.

“I know she needs to go, but I wanted to make sure she was rec-ognized by council as the Council Member of the Week before she left,” Madnick said. “I’m sure she appreci-ates the recognition… and the harass-ment.”

Vice President of External Affairs samer Naji was pleased with the pro-test on Nov. 9 against tuition increases.

“We had our voices heard and let

them know we are not okay with tuition increases,” he said. Indeed, everyone trying to study in Center Hall heard protesters’ voices.

A.S. President alyssa wing went on a recruitment campaign for coun-

cilmembers to star in A.S. Council commercials for Triton TV.

“I know we have some Hollywood stars in here, so please sign up,” Wing

encouraged. Are you ready for your close-ups, ladies and gentlemen?”

Engineering Senator Parminder sandhu put forth an apparently con-troversial budget for the new engi-neering event “Engineering-on-a-stick.” This event will feature free hot-dogs on a stick and cheese on a stick catered by Hot Dog on a Stick.

While it is an event centered on engineers, it will be open to all stu-dents, and Sandhu has even planned advertising.

“You are going to love this flier,” he said.

However, many councilmembers were disappointed in the event’s lack of planning.

“I like this event and it has a lot of potential, but we need to add more substance, if I’m going to be frank,” Wing said. I’m sure the pun was intended.

In the end, the budget was passed. We are all anxiously awaiting the unveiling of the event’s flier.

Since the Campus Affairs Committee did not pass the motion to excuse one of Perez’s absences, the meeting was then closed to revisit her impeachment. This time, the impeachment passed with a vote of 26-4-1.

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Locked AwayFederal financial aid will now be revoked from students who can’t maintain at least

a 2.0, giving them little time to recover from a bad quarter.

The U.S. Department of Energy released a report last week that world emissions of carbon

dioxide jumped 6 percent in 2010 — a figure far worse than what climate scientists predicted four years ago. And half of the increase is attribut-able to China and the United States. Despite all of this, President Obama

halted the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to regulate air quality in September, succumbing to a belief that regulations would kill jobs.

95 percent of active climate researchers agree that humans are contributing to global warming, yet free market fundamentalists continue to deny our responsibility. Last month, former global warming skeptic Dr. Richard Muller released a comprehen-sive report, partially funded by fervent deniers, that confirmed previous find-ings that global warming is real.

If we continue to debate this issue, we may as well reopen the debate on whether the Earth is round. Far from being based in skepticism, denials of anthropogenic global warming are rooted in sycophancy to the energy industry. Exxon-Mobil alone donated over 1 million dollars to Republican candidates in 2010.

Relying on reports from energy companies, Republicans like Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) argue that the EPA’s regulations will kill jobs. Yes, it would kill jobs. That’s the point. It would kill jobs at coal plants, but open new ones at natural gas plants. Manufacturers of pollution-control devices would thrive. Construction investments would create 1.5 million jobs, accord-ing to a UMass Amherst study.

The United States must remain committed to promoting clean energy if we are to leave a prosperous nation to our grandchildren. Naysayers will point to Solyndra as an example of government failure, yet Solyndra represents only 1.3 percent of an oth-erwise prosperous portfolio of clean energy companies that received loans.

More money needs to be spent on research and development. While the industry average overall amounts to 3.5 percent of revenues spent on research, the energy industry spends only 0.1 percent, according to the American Energy Innovation Council. Further, the government spends only about $3 billion on energy research while defense research receives a stag-gering $77 billion. Neither the market nor the government is sufficiently spending money to innovate and cre-ate green technologies.

Though cap-and-trade foundered last year, the federal government should consider implementing a carbon tax. Lest anti-tax advocates shudder in their seats, the tax should follow Australia’s model, where the bulk of the tax proceeds allowed millions of Australians to have their income taxes reduced. An alternative to this, endorsed by some Republicans and Al Gore, is to cut payroll taxes in response to the carbon tax.

Care for the environment should not be sacrificed on the altar of jobs.

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While we were all away this summer, the U.S. Department of Education enacted a big change to federal financial aid: Effective

since July, any student who does not maintain a 2.0 GPA while taking at least 36 units per year will be ineligible for federal financial aid such as Pell Grants and federal loans. Though the policy’s creators have tempered it with exceptions for approved part-time students and loopholes to account for “special circum-stances,” the regulation still adds financial pressure to academic stress and heaps insult upon injury.

This new “Satisfactory Academic Progress” guide-line replaces the university’s long-standing policy of “academic probation” and stipulates that students who do not meet their university’s minimum academic requirements (the aforementioned 2.0 and 36-unit benchmarks) cannot receive aid for the next aca-demic year. Under academic probation, students with a cumulative GPA between 1.5 and 2.0 had a grace period of two quarters in which to bring their GPA up; continued under performance, after to quarters, lead to “academic disqualification” (read: kicked out).

It may seem like the new law has little effect, given that students with sub-2.0 GPAs are in danger of being ineligible to even attend university. But the difference lies in the fact that, under the more forgiving academic probation, students had time to recuperate from a bad

quarter and raise their overall GPA until they were out of danger, all while receiving aid. Now, students who can’t pull their grades up enough by the following Fall Quarter will no longer be able to receive aid, even if their academic record is moving in the right direction.

Secretary of State Arne Duncan says that these new guidelines are to ensure that only “eligible” students receive federal funds to complete their education. In light of the continuing downslide of education fund-ing and national debt, it makes sense that Duncan and other members of the Department of Education want to ensure that the money is going to those who are making every effort to succeed academically and grad-uate on time (and then help the economy, of course), instead of the sixth-year who’s slacking in his classes.

But in a fiscal climate where students are already struggling to pay for state schools, and when over 13,000 students in the UC system alone are receiving need-based financial aid, these guidelines ignore that federal aid is often the only way students can receive a university education, and create a slippery slope by ignoring all the reasons students may fail to make the 2.0 cut. Thankfully, there’s an appeal process, and students will be able to use summer classes to bring up their GPAs in time to become re-eligible by fall. But the only summer classes that apply for this are those

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The bullet train: A $98-billion project founded on the fan-tasy that Californians could

zip through the state in no time, and for less money than a plane ticket.

But since the project’s approval, the high-speed rail has been awash with criticism to the expected costs and toll on communities, not to mention derailed from its original completion date of 2020 by 13 years, with a new expected completion date of 2033. So, in an attempt to start fresh, the California High-Speed Rail Authority released a revised ver-sion of its business plan on Nov. 1, addressing some criticisms and con-firming others.

Let’s start with the good. The revised plan will adopt a “blended approach” to construction in Silicon Valley, using existing rail lines to bring riders to the train’s San Jose starting point, rather than building a new rail that might ruin homes, farms and businesses essential to the livelihood of the local communities.

But here’s the bad: After complet-ing rigorous analysis of ridership and long-term costs, the price tag of the

rail — the largest infrastructure proj-ect in the nation — has doubled due to projected higher project costs and inflation. What was once anticipated by the rail authority in 2006 to be a $45-billion project has now increased to $98.1 billion — and that doesn’t include promised links to San Diego and Sacramento, nor a connection to San Francisco.

It would then be impossible for a UCSD student to ride home to San Francisco for Thanksgiving — that is, without riding up to LA first and taking other public transit from San Jose into San Francisco at the end of the line. So without several major cities included in the rail system — including our own — there are virtu-ally no benefits of the train to a large portion of the state’s population. Plus, based on past cost estimates, including San Diego and Sacramento would bring the total cost to $115 billion or more. Therein lies the tricky part: Where the hell the High-Speed Rail Authority is going to come up with that money.

According to the plan, the High-Speed Rail Authority hopes about

half the funding for the Los Angeles to San Jose portion would come from a bill now before Congress that would expand an existing tax-credit program, while the other half would come from private investments.

Basically, the High-Speed Rail Authority requires a giant federal subsidy to even put a dent in the project, and considering the Obama administration and congressional leadership in both parties are com-mitted to cutting down on federal spending in the coming years, the help seems unlikely.

But for those itching to travel up and down Central Valley (no one), there’s almost enough money. By combining some of the $9.95 billion in bond seed money provided by the passage of Proposition 1A in 2008 and already-promised federal grants, the rail authority is $2.7 billion shy of funding the 130-mile Central Valley segment. If they made up for the difference in more bond sales, the interest would rise to $300,000 a year — three times the amount of the state’s park budget.

And with no money to continue

after the middle segment is com-pleted and a cost two times greater than initially proposed, it’s doubtful voters will be as supportive as they were when they voted three years ago, especially when other programs — like education — are receiving cut after cut.

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The MenTal Fishbowl By Alex Nguyen Letter tO tHe eDItOr

Dear Editor,From Nov. 15 to Nov. 17, the UC

Board of Regents and CSU Board of Trustees will meet to discuss the proposed $2.5 billion cuts and tuition hikes of up to 81% over the next four years. Brothers and sisters, the privatization of public education is not only an attack on students but an attack on public employees, through the privatization of the pension fund, the rising cost of benefits for workers and the restructuring of our universities following the corporate model. Privatization increases the number of high-paid administration and management positions and cuts staffing and fac-ulty positions.

In order to reverse this process of privatization, the Public Education Coalition has organized a week of mass action on our campus in solidarity with statewide protests to fight back against the budget cuts:

Monday, Nov. 7 @ Noon: Open Mic/Speak-Out Circles Library Walk. Come make your voice heard! This is an opportunity to talk about how the budget cuts have affected you, your friends and those around you. Anyone is encouraged to come and share with their grievances with others!

SSB Room 101 @ 7 p.m.: Outreach/Planning Meeting. Join students and community members to organize for public education and social and economic justice!

Tuesday, Nov. 8 @ Noon The Death of Public Education Performance Library Walk. We will be hosting a performance from 12-12:30 p.m. Come dressed in

black, with an object representing your failed dreams for after college. Be prepared to DIE at 12:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 9 @ Noon: Teach-Out and Rally at Library Walk! Library Walk. The time has come. We warned the UC Regents: Turn the cuts around or we’ll shut this shit down.

At noon, LEAVE classes. Encourage your friends and profes-sors to do the same. Tell everyone you know. Stop a stranger and con-vince them to join you. We WILL come together and make our voices heard all afternoon long.

Monday, Nov. 16: Bus trip from San Diego to Long Beach for a joint CSU/UC protest for public education. To reserve a seat on the bus: [email protected]

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We are committed to uniting with people and movements in all sectors of society who share our commitment to the empowerment of workers, students and the unem-ployed to create an equitable and compassionate society.

Education is a human right! Through collective struggle, another university is possible!

We can take a first step out of this crisis by expanding affordable and equitable public education in California.

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taken at a UC campus, which is a financial burden for many students compared to community college classes, and the path to an appeal is lined with bureaucratic obstacles, including “documentation” of hardship and stipulations on how often one can appeal. In addition, many students suffer from circumstances that are not dire enough to merit an appeal, yet not minor enough to be brushed off. It’s the coeds dependent on need-based finan-cial aid are also often the ones working jobs to compensate for the rest of the costs, which leads to a scenario that can adversely affect academics. But as this scenario has become the norm for so many students, these particular circumstances won’t stand up under appeal.

In addition to placing greater burden on students, the new pressure pushes universities even further into the role of degree-granters instead of institutions of learning. The

coed who’s nervously eyeing that GPA is going to choose the easy A each time over the class that’s reputed to be dif-ficult but life-changing. And while this is nothing new to the crowd that aspires to grad school, there’s an unpleasant sense of weight when the consequence of a bad GPA isn’t just lowered hopes for Ivy League status, but being stripped of the funding to attend university in the first place.

Of course, GPA requirements are nothing new. Private and merit-based scholarships have always been liberty to have minimum requirements, but federal, need-based initiatives should focus on supporting as many students as possible. The students who receive financial aid such as Pell Grants are already the ones with less-than-ideal cir-cumstances, the ones most likely to already be working, to be struggling with problems their more affluent classmates aren’t facing. By placing more burden on the ones who already need the most help, the new guidelines puts the most vulnerable students at the greatest disadvantage.

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Protest Tunes They Are a Changin’S ince Occupy Wall Street began on

Sept. 17, there’s been a lot of yell-ing — but, sadly, not much singing.

Though the protest and all its subse-quent nationwide occupations began over 50 days ago, there has yet to be a

single significant protest song like the anthems that shook the movements of the ’60s.

This upsets me, especially because I’ve spent a lot of time listening to protest songs completely inapplicable to the issues of my generation. Take Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are a Changin’,” an anthem for the anti-estab-lishment of the 1960s. Or “A Change Is Gonna Come,” Sam Cooke’s contri-bution to the civil rights movement. Or “London Calling,” Joe Strummer’s vision of an apocalyptic future, spurred by the paranoia of the Cold War.

Sure, everyone can relate to issues of race, poverty and war. But these songs were also written out of a specific time that our generation can never replicate. We have no Vietnam, no civil rights movement, no Berlin Wall.

Our generation is, as they say, “Generation Me.” We’re angry that our parents’ promises that we can be anything we want to be cannot, and will not, come true. We once thought we had total control of our destinies, and now we know only a small percent (the 1 percent, to be exact) hold the power. Our struggle is an entirely dif-ferent kind of struggle from the kind that’s been seen before — and it’s a struggle that desperately needs its own soundtrack.

So when I went to Occupy San Diego last month, I listened for the protest song that might come out of the movement that is definitively ours.

But I heard nothing.There were drums as we walked

through the Gaslamp chanting, “We are the 99 percent!” I heard a few guitars strumming in the camp. And I’m sure some people were grumbling the words to “Fuck Tha Police” as the threat of arrest grew.

But I didn’t hear a real song until the clock drew close to midnight — the time the police had threatened to arrest people if they didn’t move their tents from Civic Center Plaza. The protes-tors made a circle of tents and filled them with those who were willing to be arrested for the cause. Another circle of people linking arms surrounded them, followed by a mixed crowd of dubious folk (me) who wanted to have an easy escape if the police did in fact show up. (They didn’t until the following morn-ing.)

In the midst of this tent cluster, there was one dirty hipster clumsily strum-ming his guitar and repeating the cho-rus — and only the chorus — to “Let It Be.” I kept waiting for him to pick it up and sing, “And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree/there will be an answer/let it be.” But instead he’d pause, inhale some more marijuana and then start all over again with “Let it be, let it be, let it be, oh let it be.”

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OREGON BIKE TRAILS Song-writer Zach Yudin revamps the ’60s beach-pop sound with a chillwave twist. Full of sunny vocal harmonies, Oregon Bike Trails’ addition of dream-pop haze makes for some uniquely infectious dance jams. (TC)

RAFTER Rafter Roberts has been making strides in the shadows of San Diego’s indie scene since 2006 with his brand of R&B dork-pop. (Ren Ebel)

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Which is, ironically, exactly what the Occupy movement doesn’t want, making it all the more obvious that we need some songs of our own.

Musicians have visited the protests — Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine dropped by, and David Crosby and Graham Nash (sans Stills and Young) played for Occupy Wall Street — but as relics from previous decades, none have encapsulated the unique frustration at the core of the movement.

See, there’s a thing all those classic protest songs have in com-mon: The artists who wrote them were the young people in the frontlines — not the figures of a generation past.

Unfortunately for us, we’ve heard our parents’ music our entire lives, making it hard to follow up the passion they sang about. So, cheesy as it sounds, I guess now it’s our turn to write our own songs.

I don’t want something rooted in a specific anger (the Bush-bashing of Green Day’s “American Idiot,” for example), or clouded by oversized personas (Kanye West and Jay-Z’s “Made In America”). I want something transcendent. Something that’d make Bob Dylan proud.

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A fter establishing him-self, perhaps uninten-tionally, as hip-hop’s

Canadian nice guy, Drake has officially had enough. On his sophomore release Take Care

he poses as slightly more p.c. Weezy, consequently allow-ing his emotive delivery and refreshingly earnest lyricism to fall by the wayside.

Dance floor grind jam “We’ll Be Fine,” for example, incorporates a spacey pro-duction of a whisper loop with heavy bass and a quiet synth oscillation. But the track then takes a drastic turn lyrically, focusing unconvinc-ingly on Drake’s own “gangsta shit” — which comes off as foolish more than intimidat-ing.

The rapper then aims for the hipster crowd with the title track. On “Take Care,” the xx’s beat master Jamie Smith creates a moody soundscape of swaying gui-tars and steel drum rhythms. Featuring a strangely emo-tionless Rihanna, the cleanly produced dance track chugs along with Smith interjecting vocal samples that, though interesting, clash with the vocalists’ lazy delivery.

Most frustrating, however, are Take Care’s consistent reminders of Drake’s unreal-

ized potential. Album high-light “Lord Knows” layers warped choir samples over a Stewart Copeland-style backbeat, as Drake spits some of his rawest verses to date. Finally waking up and taking some risks, Drake flaunts his seamless flow and songwrit-ing ability, leaving us wishing he’d muster the confidence to embrace the boundary-push-ing dweeb of breakthrough Thank Me Later.

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Afew minutes into Lars Von Trier’s latest operatic psycho-drama “Melancholia,” Earth is

destroyed. Echoing the prologue of 2009’s cathartically disturbing “Antichrist,” Von Trier again opens with an extreme slow-mo montage set to classical score. This time around: beautifully composed sur-realistic images of the film’s somber female leads and a mysterious blue planet’s apoca-lyptic collision with our own.

So often fodder for every summer’s obligatory disaster-flick-with-half-baked-environmentalist-message, “Melancholia” instead reduces human annihilation to a simple metaphor for Von Trier’s own chronic depression.

Coming from the guy who was recently banished from the Cannes Film Festival for jokingly sympathizing with Nazis, the arrogance seems fitting of his tortured-artist persona. But — as any fan of the Danish auteur will attest — it is only a persona, and Von Trier’s struggle with depression has always been either the inspiration or thematic focus for his darkly groundbreaking films. In “Melancholia,” he embraces it in full.

Fittingly, part one of the film takes place during the bleakest wedding in cinematic history. Justine, the bride (a strangely catatonic Kristen Dunst), wanders in and out of the reception in a morose trance, leaving her increas-ingly anxious sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and Claire’s husband John (Kiefer Sutherland) to placate her out-rageously pissed off mother (Charlotte Rampling), sleaze-bag father (John Hurt) and manipulative, business-minded boss (Stellan Skarsgård). But the chaos doesn’t

seem to bother Justine as much as the foreboding blue star — the oh-so-subtly named planet Melancholia, we later learn — with which she’s become transfixed.

The mixed bag of animated char-acters, shot on Von Trier’s trademark frenzied hand-held, finds the director inching closest to dark comedy as he’s been since 1998’s “The Idiots.” Justine’s deadpan interactions with a company newbie (Brady Corbet) even provide a small glimmer of comic relief amid the first act’s draining despair.

But darkness quickly falls upon the decidedly more dramatic part two, as planet Melancholia slowly approaches John and Claire’s manor — now unoc-cupied by the clamorous wedding guests. Justine’s dread is now replaced with numb acceptance — a testament to Dunst, who won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her performance — as she supernaturally becomes aware of her mounting fate. The real star, however, is Sutherland, whose tightly-wound John delivers a haunting parable of the over-logical in the face of uncertainty.

As expected, “Melancholia” abounds

with stunning cinematography and dynamic singular images. A scene in which Claire spies Justine lying on a stream bank in the middle of the night — her fragile, nude body eerily illuminated by the now-giant Melancholia’s terrifying beauty — is remarkable, as are the (liter-ally) explosive final minutes of the film.

But linked only by dreary faux-doc footage of the cheerless heroines trudging around the massive home, these spectac-ular moments often prove too little, too late. It’s easy to wish Von Trier would just pop a few uppers and delve deeper into his emergent Gothic-Romantic kick, giv-ing Tim Burton a final nail in the coffin.

Von Trier is far too serious for that, though — which is, consequently, what makes his work so stubbornly unique. And while “Melancholia” is far from the director’s most provocative (no genital mutilation or Bjork-led musical num-bers) and, by no sane person’s standards, an enjoyable experience, the film has enough gorgeous images and interest-ing ideas to keep us readily awaiting his upcoming and more promisingly-titled “The Nymphomaniac.”

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BIG TROUBLES Though they share Real Estate’s New Jersey home-town, Big Troubles have refined their own sound — a winning blend of My Bloody Valentine’s piercing shoegaze and Belle and Sebastian’s brisk and bashful pop. (RE)

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By Nick HoweAssociate Sports Editor

MEN’S TENNIS — This weekend, the UCSD men’s and women’s tennis teams headed to the 55th Southern California Intercollegiate Championships at the Los Angeles Tennis Center, located on the UCLA campus.

Last Wednesday through Sunday, Nov. 2 to Nov. 6, the Tritons competed against Division I competition at the SoCal Tournament.

On Sunday, the last day of competition, UCSD senior Chapman Chan, junior Austin West and sophomore Devon Sousa all fought their way through the ranks of Division I athletes to reach the singles main draw of the tournament.

Sousa had perhaps the most commanding performance against David Doehring of BYU, winning the match in just two sets with scores 6-4 and 6-2.

West also had a good showing, performing with a level head after falling behind in the first game 2-6 against UC Santa Barbara’s Alex Johnson. West came back 7-6 in game two and won the tie-breaker with an impressive score of 10-2.

Chan, West and Sousa all made it to the draw. They joined teammates senior Sam Ling and junior Junya Yoshida, two Tritons ranked high enough to have had a bye to the main draw.

However, no Tritons made it past their first match in the main draw. While Sousa had a good match against Doehring, when he faced No. 1-seeded Yannick Hanfmann of USC, he was handed disappointment to the tune of 6-2 and 6-1.

On the doubles side, the Tritons fared little better — the team of Sousa and West fought their way into the main draw, beating Azusa Pacific’s team. The duo then faced the top-seeded pairing of Hanfmann and Emilio Gomez of USC, falling 8-5.

Chan and Giganti fought their way to an 8-3 victory against LMU’s Robin Kiyabu and Daniel Simko, shoving their way into the main draw as well, but fell to UCLA’s Warren Hardie and Dennis Mkrtchian 8-3.

This coming Veteran’s Day weekend, the team travels to the campus of UC Santa Barbara for the annual UC Santa Barbara Classic Tournament. The Tritons will again face a number of the same players from last week.

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GOLF — The Triton golf team took fourth place this Tuesday in the Sonoma State Invitational. Following a marginal showing on Monday in which the Tritons sat in fifth place, the Tritons fought their way to a fourth-place finish in the team’s last scheduled tournament of Fall Quarter.

The men’s golf team finished 33 strokes behind nationally ranked No. 3 Chico State, who was only 18 strokes over par, an amazing feat considering they played the 18-hole course three times in two days.

Freshman Jay Lim was the Tritons’ top performer, finishing 17th overall in a field of over a hundred with scores of 76, 73 and 75 on the par 71 course. Not only does the freshman lead the Tritons in Sonoma, but Lim also leads the team overall, hitting the lowest average score of 75.7.

Sophomore Jacob Williams shot just 17 over par to finish in 23rd, while sophomore teammate Lewis Simon led on the second day with a score of 74 to fin-ish 16 over par, good for the 26th overall finish.

“[Lim] played pretty solid. You can always do bet-ter, but he did pretty well,” said assistant coach Keith Okasaki. “Jacob Williams was our second best fin-isher, he’s been having a couple rough tournaments, but I think he’s starting to get his stuff together. So I think we can take a couple of good things away into the off season.”

Tritons sophomores David Smith and Fredrick Palmer-Picard propped up the young team, both fin-ishing 17 over par at 27th place.

“We’re getting a little better, we tried a couple of new things leading into the tournament that seemed to help our performance,” Okasaki said. “It could have been better, but we did beat Monterey Bay, who won the national championship last year, as well as East Bay who’s also in our conference.”

The young UCSD team has done very well during the opening quarter of the 2011-12 season, and big things are certain to come as the Tritons take a break and return to competition at the San Marcos Cougar Invitational on Feb. 6 to Feb. 7.

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valuable defensive player of the year award. UCSD freshman midfielder Cassie Callahan was awarded the CCAA Newcomer of the Year award.

The number of quality players in the starting eleven and off the Triton bench lends itself to a brand of soccer that makes it hard for opponents to keep UCSD off the board. Fifteen different Tritons have recorded goals for UCSD this sea-son — six of whom have finished with three or more.

“There hasn’t really been a standout on our team in the past few years,” Armstrong said. “That’s not to say that we don’t have great players, but our offense is coming from all over the pitch now. Our midfielders are scoring, our defenders are scoring, and a lot of goals have been coming from the bench too.”

Further, the starting eleven, which features

five seniors and five juniors, is a core group that has been playing with each other for the past three seasons.

“We’re just getting better with experience,” Armstrong said. “We know the way every person on the field plays, we know the runs that we need to make, and we know how to react in certain situations.”

When asked about UCSD’s outlook and expectations in the Regional rounds, senior cap-tain Annie Wethe said that the Tritons are look-ing to stay the course.

“We’re not really changing anything in our game, it’s been working for us all season, and now it’s just a matter of playing our best,” said Wethe. “We know that our best is better than everybody else’s best.”

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Tritons Prepare for NCAA Regionals

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CCAA First team selection and Most Valuable Defensive Player of year award.

Scored four goals for the Tritons this season,.

UCSD left forward, McTigue leads the team with eight

goals so far.

Triton left defender, Johnson is the league leader in assists.

The lynchpin of the Triton midfield, the senior captain was named to the First Team.

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Named the Newcomer of the Year, Callahan is the Tritons’ only starting freshman.

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NCAA West Regionals PreviewThe UCSD women’s soccer team is set to host the NCAA West Regionals this Sunday, Nov. 13.

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gk kristin armstrong- CCaa First teamNamed the CCAA Most Valuable Defensive Player of the year, Armstrong has allowed only six goals in 19 games.Cm Cassie CaLLaHan- CCaa newComerAwarded the CCAA Newcomer of the year award, Cal-lahan is the only freshman in the Tritons’ starting eleven.Cm DanieLLe DixonA stalwart central midfielder, Dixon’s distribution throughout the Triton midfield is central to the attack.rF gabi HernanDezHernandez’s height makes her dangerous in the air, but her skill on the ball and vision off the ball makes her a threat from all over the pitch.LD HayLey joHnson- CCaa First teamJohnson’s deadball services are top-class. She now leads the league with 13 asssists for the season.LF saraH mCtigue- CCaa First teamA complete player, McTigue’s speed and ability to get

around defenders makes her one of the most dangerous goal scorers in the country.rD sara spaVentaA veteran defender, Spaventa often is tasked with mark-ing the best players, and usually shuts them down.Cm annie wetHe- CCaa First teamStrong in the air and creative on the ball, Wethe is crucial for mobilizing the Triton attack.rm jessiCa wiThe winger’s quickness and endurance down the flanks, makes her a threat in the offense.CD eLLen wiLsonWilson is not only the anchor of the Triton defense, her long kick allows UCSD to transition from the defense to the attack.Lm sHeLby wong- CCaa First teamShelby”hattrick” Wong has the pace and the ball skills to get by nearly anyone on the flanks.

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First rounD: CSU Stanislaus and Chico State are the only two teams in the CCAA that UCSD has not been able to beat, recording scoreless draws against both squads. CSU Stanislaus ended the regular season ranked fourth, just elbowing past Sonoma State for the last spot in the conference playoffs. The Warriors topped UCSD in the semifinal round of the conference tournament 2-1, before beating third-seeded Chico State 4-0. Stanislaus has a very athletic squad that cuts through defenses with their speed. The Warriors lead the conference in goals scored with 20 for the season, they also field three All-CCAA selections. Despite dropping the final to Stanislaus 4-0, the Wildcats boast an 11-6-3 record and are also a resilient CCAA opponent.

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After being upset by fourth-seeded CSU Stanislaus in the CCAA conference tourna-ment, the women’s soccer team looks to

rebound this weekend in the NCAA Division II national tournament.

Despite the semifinal upset, the Tritons remain the top seed in the West Region and will host the first and second rounds of Regionals. UCSD will advance to the second round with a first-round bye, and will play against the winner of the rematch between CCAA opponents Chico State and CSU Stanislaus. The two Northern California rivals faced each other just last Sunday, Nov. 6 to decide the conference champion, and No. 4 CSU Stanislaus went away with a commanding 4-0 win against No. 3 Chico State. The winner will move onto face the Tritons in the second round this Sunday, Nov. 13.

Chico and Stanislaus represent the top of the Northern California opposition, and are two squads that the Tritons have failed to beat this season. Chico

State (11-6-3) finished the regular season ranked No. 3 overall, and took a 0-0 draw against

UCSD in their one conference matchup.“Chico’s a really similar team to us. They play the same forma-

tion, and they do a very good job of keeping posses-sion and moving the ball around,” senior goalkeeper Kristin Armstrong said. “Last time we played against them, they pressured us really high and all over the field. And they’re also very dangerous on corner kicks.”

But CSU Stanislaus may pose more of a threat, as the Warriors enter the NCAA Division II tournament with a lot of momentum. Stanislaus (11-4-5) overall has won four out of their last five matches, in which they have managed to outscore their opponents 15-1.

“They’re a really strong team going forward, and are especially dangerous attacking down the sides,” Armstrong said. “They’re also very quick and very athletic.”

However, UCSD is in top form for its second round bout against CCAA opposition. The Tritons have a 13-2-4 record overall, finishing at the top of the conference at the end of the regular season. UCSD also boasts five All-Conference First Team Selections: senior captain Annie Wethe, senior captain Sarah McTigue, senior midfielder Shelby Wong, junior defender Hayley Johnson and senior goalkeeper Kristin Armstrong — who was also awarded the league’s most

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