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By Kashi KhorasaniStaff Writer
Ten of the “Irvine 11” students were found guilty of two misdemeanor charges for disrupting Israeli Ambas-sador Michael Oren’s speech at UC Irvine in February 2010. The students will serve three years of probation and 56 hours of community service based on charges of disrupting a law-ful assembly and conspiring to com-mit said crime. The 11th student, Ha-kim Kebir, accepted a plea bargain for 40 hours of community service earlier this year. The Irvine 11 initially faced the possibility of a year in jail for their actions. During the scheduled speech on U.S.-Israeli relations, the eleven shouted various insults such as “Mi-chael Oren, you are a war criminal” and “Murder is not free speech.” The Orange County jury reached their verdict last Friday after a couple of days of deliberation. According to defense attorney Dan Stormer, his team is currently working on appealing the verdict to address the charge of “the disturbing of an as-
UC Regent David Crane — appointed by for-mer Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger in December 2010 — is unlikely to continue his term as a regent after the end of this year.
In order to be a confirmed mem-ber of the UC Regents Board — a member that is allowed to continue for the entirety of the three-year UC Regent term — the state Senate needs to vote for his confirmation before the end of this year.
The state Senate is not scheduled to meet again until Jan. 4, eight days after Crane’s Dec. 27 deadline. This means that in order for the Senate to make a decision regarding Crane, they would need to be brought back into session in order to formally call a last-minute meeting with Crane’s status on the voting agenda.
“By not acting one way or the other on confirmation, the state Senate ensured that he could serve as a regent for the entire year,” UCOP Media Relations Director Steve Montiel said in an email. “Unless the state Senate comes back into ses-sion and confirms his appointment, Regent Crane would continue to serve beyond December 2011 only
if he were re-appointed by Governor Brown.”
Even though it is only through the Senate’s lack of action that Crane may lose his position, some student leaders see Crane’s lack of confirma-tion as a benefit to the UC system.
“Californians are sick and tired of not being adequately represent-ed by UC’s regents,” UC Students Association (UCSA) President Claudia Magana wrote in a Sept. 15 statement. “We need leaders who will represent our interests and fight to keep our UC public and afford-able, not out of touch millionaires and investment bankers who are beholden more to Wall Street than to everyday Californians.”
Crane, however, believes his position and voice as a UC Regent has been beneficial to students.
“What I bring is [the voice of] the boy who noticed that the emperor has no clothes,” he said. “Tuition has tripled in the last three years, and for middle-class families with dreams of getting their child a higher educa-tion, it’s just brutal.”
Even in his likely absence, Crane
By Rebecca HorwitzAssociate News Editor
The Federal Transit Administration approved the proposal for the extension of the Old Town Trolley that will run through UCSD, making it officially eligible to receive federal funding. Completion is set for 2015.
The Mid-Coast Corridor Transit would run 11 miles from Old Town Transit Center to UCSD and Westfield University Town Center. There will be eight sta-tions along the route, with stops planned at Tecolote Drive, Clairemont Drive and Balboa Avenue. The stops close to UCSD are at Gilman Drive, Nobel Drive, a stop on-campus around Price Center, Genesee Avenue and UTC.
The trolley extension costs $1.2 billion. Local officials hope for half of the funding to come from TransNet, a local half-cent sales tax for transportation passed in 2008. They hoped that they could receive federal funding for the remainder, something they are now eligible for.
Ten of the “Irvine 11” Found Guilty
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By Nicole ChanAssociate News Editor
UCSD athletics placed No. 6 overall — up from last year’s No. 23 ranking — by the National Collegiate Scouting Association (NCSA), fin-ishing behind NCAA Division I No. 5 University of Notre Dame and No. 4 Stanford University. The uni-versity was named the top NCAA Division II institution in the country by the NCSA, in its Collegiate Power Rankings released on Sept. 20.
This marks the campus’ seventh year making NCSA’s top 100 cam-
puses. Every university is eligible for the top 100 — the Collegiate Power Rankings are calculated for each university. NCSA takes into account student-athlete graduation rates and academic rankings, pro-vided by the U.S. News & World Report. Strength of athletic depart-ments are taken from the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup rankings. Last year, the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup ranked UCSD as the fifth best overall athletic department out of 300 schools. UCSD first made the top 100 list in 2005, placing No. 26 overall. The university has earned
the top position in Division II five years in a row.
According to “Survey Ranks UCSD as Top NCAA Division II Program,” published Sept. 20 in the La Jolla Patch, less than six percent of colleges and universities make it to NCSA’s top 100 list.
“We are very pleased to [be] ranked among the top universities in the country,” UCSD Director of Athletics Earl Edwards told La Jolla Patch. “We pride ourselves on excel-ling both academically and athleti-cally and it’s great to be recognized for our accomplishments in both of
those areas. Being ranked as the No. 1 institution in Division II is some-thing we’re extremely proud of, but I feel our overall ranking is even more significant.”
NCSA’s annual study is designed to aid student-athletes in the process of selecting a college. UCSD athlet-ics — which moved from Division III to Division II in 2000 — boasts 30 National Championships, just a frac-tion of 194 total national, regional and conference championships.
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UC Scientists Discover Youngest Type of SupernovaBy Rebecca HorwitzAssociate News Editor
Ever woken up to a bright light? Imagine that multiplied by millions and you’ve got a super-nova. In early September, UCSD researchers located a supernova — a dying star that unleashes a burst of light — just as it was exploding.
UC Berkeley Astronomer Joshua Bloom said that there has not been a supernova this close in over thirty years. He called it the “supernova of a generation” in an interview on Sept. 13 for NBC San Diego.
UCSD’s High-Performance Wireless and Research Education Network used technology in the San Diego Supercomputer Center to transfer high-volume data in real time to facilities miles away. The technology helped research-ers at the San Diego Palomar Observatory discover the super-nova’s coordinates early, giving observation access to hundreds of amateur astronomers. They used a Palomar 48-inch Oschin Schmidt
telescope from the observatory to digitally survey a large portion of the sky every night.
HPWREN Director Hans-Werner Braun said the HPWREN was a piece of cyberinfrastructure that was essential for the discovery of the supernova. Braun stressed that the discovery was a collabora-tive process — astronomers from UC Berkeley were also involved.
“The key were people, par-ticularly researchers who make things happen,” Braun said in an email. “They are stronger and far more effective when they utilize key technologies.”
The scientist who first noted the supernova was Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Staff Scientist Peter Nugent. Nugent runs a sub-traction of the Palomar Transient Factory at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Part of his job is to search for potential supernova candidates in the laboratory’s database based on pictures from the telescope. His search for the
best candidate in a known nearby galaxy yielded a supernova in the Pinwheel galaxy.
Nugent then asked Oxford Astrophysics Member Mark Sullivan for a spectrum – the dif-ferent colors of light that come from a star – of the supernova’s components. The spectrum would allow them to scatter the light and determine the elements in the atmosphere of the supernova. That was when they realized they were dealing with a type 1a super-nova — a white dwarf star’s ther-monuclear explosion. Not only is it rare to find a supernova in this young stage — this is actually the youngest type 1a supernova ever seen.
The reality of Nugent’s discov-ery has not yet hit him.
“For now I think the very best part about it is how I have been able to show my family this discovery in our little telescope,” Nugent said in an email. “This has been very cool.”
Due to the technology used at the San Diego Computer Center,
thousands of people have been able to look at the supernova.
“It’s well within the reach of ordinary [people] which makes it quite special,” Bloom said. “This is the kind of supernova that people who study supernovas on a regu-lar basis are all they get basically once in a lifetime.”
Supernovas help scientists understand how some stars die. Scientists can use their brightness to measure distance in astrono-my and discover more informa-tion about the star, including the temperature and elements in the atmosphere. The supernova that is currently being studied is a rare opportunity in the world of astronomy. Bloom said that near-by supernovas allow scientists to study their “exquisite details.”
“Observing the [supernova] unfold should be a wild ride,” Nugent said in a statement released to NBC San Diego Sept. 13. “It is an instant cosmic classic.”
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is covered under the first amendment. “We intend to fight this on the grounds that the penal code [§ 403] is unconstitutional,” Stormer said. In addition to increasing political tension, the case sparked a national debate on the interpretation of free speech rights. Some agree with the jury’s decision, but there are also those who concur with the defense that the law against assembly disruption contradicts the right to free speech. “It is not against the law to protest,” D.A. Chief of Staff Susan Schroeder said. “It is against the law to shut down a legal meeting so that no one would be able to speak,” “We believe that this is a victory for the first amendment.” When the same argument was made in an appeal about 40 years ago, a su-preme court justice found the penal
code particularly troublesome since “...section 403’s prohibition of ‘dis-turbances’ potentially may collide with safeguarded First Amendment interests” (In re Kay [1 Cal. 3d 930]). The Muslim Student Union at UCI, of which one defendant is president, was found to be deeply involved in the protest. The organization was suspended for an academic quarter and remains under probation. Emails and message board postings affiliated with the organization were found to have been integral to the planning of the protest. According to Schroeder, prosecuting the group as a whole would not have been easy for the D.A., since the Muslim Student Union is a registered student organization. “We nurture a campus climate that promotes robust debate and welcomes different points of view,” UCI spokes-man Rex Bossert said in a statement.
Of the 11, three are students at UC Riverside — the rest are from UC Ir-vine. All are said to have been disci-plined by their respective universities. It is rumored that the Irvine students have been suspended for a quar-ter, however the university refuses to comment, according to UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “My view is that this is a crimi-nal prosecution which never should have been brought. The 10 students acted wrongly in disturbing Ambas-sador Oren’s speech...” Chemerinsky said. “They were then properly disci-plined by the university. That should have been the end of it. The prosecu-tion was unnecessary and harmful.” UCSD’s Muslim Student Associa-tion could not be reached for com-ment.
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During their very first meeting of the year, A.S. Council has already had a rough start.
Sixth College Senior and previous Sixth College Senator John Condello a p p r o a c h e d A.S. Council, disappointed in a recent A.S. event held at Target. He pointed out that Target is a company that does not allow labor unions and has a terrible environmental history.
“You all are a symbol of UCSD and you need to act that way,” Condello said.
However, A.S. Council has already had some success. A.S. Vice President of Student Life Meredith Madnick was excited to announce that over 200 students have already been signed up for A.S. Safe Rides.
A.S. President Alyssa Wing announced that the Save Our Libraries campaign has resulted in even more student workrooms and computers once Geisel renovations have completed than there were even before CLICS was closed.
The entire A.S. Council board is excited about their recent changes to the website, including a live feed of the A.S. meetings available to the public online, just in case anyone is interested enough to watch but not attend the meeting.
Council has also created an all-important new policy of announcing Council Member of the Week, where one A.S. Council member will be donned with a bright blue, glittery sash to wear during the meeting to be passed on at the next. The first ever recipient of this prestigious title is Revelle College Senator Caesar Feng.
“Caesar, during all of Welcome Week, was such a rock star,” Madnick
said.Even though it’s only week one,
A.S. Council is already foreseeing challenges they will face this year.
An insurance issue has arisen between the UCSD and student o r g a n i z a t i o n s . Now, UCSD is requiring that anyone involved in any on-campus event, even if they are buying
Korean BBQ on Library Walk, will be required to sign a waiver. The A.S. Council is charged with making this somehow possible. A.S. Vice President of External Affairs Samer Naji has also informed the council that UC is planning on raising tuition yet again this year.
“Be prepared to fight that when it comes,” he said.
In an attempt to open up communication between students and A.S. Campus-wide Senator Carlos Molina has started an experiment project, in which a white board will be placed on Library Walk where students can write notes directly to A.S. Council regarding what they think about A.S. Council and what A.S. Council should do.
A.S. Associate Vice President of Student Advocacy Bryce Farrington put together a presentation about the revised student conduct code. Changes include certain definitions, jurisdictions and sanctions. Additionally, student advocates are not mentioned at all.
A.S. Council fiercely debated funding a Day of the Dead event for UCSD’s Latin American Student Organization discussing the role of skull candies and deciding if they were to be considered decoration or food. Tough call A.S., tough call.
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Crane’s Appointment Hampered by Political Viewshopes that the UC Regents will work towards goals of broad access to Californians in order to remain one of the top public universities in the world and to keep tuition affordable.
“It’s not about me,” he said. “It’s an extraordinary institution that pro-vides a remarkable benefit and the state is effectively stepping away from support of it. People who want to see UC maintain the three goals have got to step up in support of UC and get the state legislature to start behaving differently.”
Crane has faced opposition due to his previous position as finan-
cial advisor to former Governor Schwarzenegger and statements he has made against collective bargain-ing rights in an op-ed published in the San Francisco Chronicle.
“Collective bargaining is a good thing when it’s needed to equalize power, but when public employees already have that equality because of civil service protections, collective bargaining in the public sector serves to reduce benefits for citizens and to raise costs for taxpayers,” Crane wrote.
This op-ed was a source of the opposition to Crane, led by the UCSA and state Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco). According to a May 2011
UCSA press release, they were not informed of Crane’s appointment.
According to Crane, he originally became interested in the position because he has an interest in improv-ing California’s higher education.
Once his term as UC Regent ends, Crane will continue to be president of Govern For California and a lecturer at Stanford University. Crane is plan-ning to attend the Regents meeting in November, the final Regents meeting for 2011. If action is not taken to con-firm him, it will also be Crane’s final meeting.
Readers can contact Natalie Covate at [email protected]
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Irvine 11 Students Rumored to be Suspended This Quarter
Mid-Coast Corridor Trolley to Service 20k People Per Day
Paul Jablonski said in “Mid-Coast Trolley gets key federal approval” in the Sept. 16 San Diego Union-Tribune. “It means the federal gov-ernment recognizes this as a needed and valuable piece of transportation infrastructure. It is a major step for-ward toward federal funding.”
The trolley extension is only part of a larger transportation plan to
reduce green house gases, a new California law that requires the dif-ferent regions to show how they will reduce their green house gas emis-sions with transit and freeways.
San Diego Association of Governments (Sandag) officials were confident that they were mak-ing strides by working with the Metropolitan Transit System.
“We are advancing environmen-tal and design efforts to deliver this
project as fast as possible,” Sandag Executive Director Gary Gallegos said in the same Sept. 16 Tribune article.
The planners expect the Mid-Coast Corridor Trolley to provide service to at least 20,000 riders a day.
The approval moves the project into preliminary engineering.
Readers can contact Rebecca Horwitz at [email protected]
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As a result of Mothers Against Drunk Driving’s (MADD) unrelenting crusade against
alcohol, a bill (Assembly Bill 183) that would ban the sale of alcohol at self-checkout lanes is now on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. Despite MADD’s noble intentions, there is scant evidence to support their cause.
MADD cites only one survey and one scientific study to support their claim that minors abuse self-checkout lanes in order to buy alcohol. A 2009 survey on the frequency of ID checks conducted by the Community
Economic Development Clinic at UCLA used participants as old as 41. Therefore, any alcohol purchasers whose IDs remained in their pockets may not be due to the incompe-tency of the clerks, but the number of wrinkles on customers’ faces. And the SDSU study from 2010 cited — though it is more comprehensive — doesn’t even compare the effective-ness of self-checkout lanes to regular checkout lanes. However, it does conclude IDs were not checked 10 percent of the time. On the flip side, one study in 1995 actually showed that regular checkout lanes had a 44 percent failure rate to check IDs.
Yes, that’s right: self-checkout lanes may be even more effective at stopping alcohol sales to minors, yet Sacramento has pushed a bill that would ban it. According to the 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, nearly 80 percent of minors get their alcohol from providers over the age of 21.
The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control states there is no evidence to support MADD’s claim. Between 2008 and 2011, of the 2,300 accusations of sell-ing alcohol to minors, 90 percent were attributable to small liquor stores, and only four percent to large supermar-kets with self-checkout lanes.
Part of the reason it has gotten to Brown’s desk is the United Food and Commercial Workers’ (UFCW) claim that self-checkout lanes are killing jobs. This is no different than the Luddites in 19th-century England who destroyed machines because they ‘killed’ jobs. Anti-technological fervor is no reason to sign a bill into law.
What’s worse is that grocery chains that rely on self-checkout lanes like Fresh & Easy will now have to hire cashiers just for alcohol purchases. This bill would increase employment costs causing the store to raise prices on their products. Students and the unemployed will particularly suffer from these prices while only a few new employees will reap any gain from this bill.
Undoubtedly, Governor Brown should veto this bill if he wants to stand on the side of reason and innovation. Bowing down to spe-cial interest groups like MADD and UFCW will not stop alcohol sales to minors and will have the unintended consequence of stifling the spread of technological improvements like self-checkout lanes.
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Last Saturday, Orange County judge Peter Wilson put an end to a UC legal saga that had all the hallmarks of a court drama: police, free speech, protests and Middle
Eastern politics. The bad news: As of approximately 2 p.m. on Sept. 24, 10 UC students now have crimi-nal records for disrupting a speech. The good news: It could have been worse. The students — charged with the misdemeanors of “conspiracy to disrupt a public meeting” and “disruption of a public meet-ing” — faced jail time, and ended with sentences of community service and fines instead. But while 56 hours of community service is a relief compared to a year behind bars, it’s a shame that District Attorney Tony Rackauckas saw the need to prosecute in the first place — after the university had already pun-
ished the students. Let’s rewind. In February 2010, 11 students at
UC Irvine were arrested for disrupting a speech on U.S.-Israeli relations given by Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. The students — now labeled the “Irvine 11,” though charges against one were dropped — interrupted Oren’s speech and accused him of “propagating murder” and being “an accomplice to genocide” before being escorted out of the building by police. (Oren spoke at UCSD prior to the incident at Irvine; though he was met with protesters, they mostly stayed outside the building and there were no notable disruptions.)
After an investigation, the university discovered that the protest was planned by the UCI Muslim
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Regent Confirmation Must Look Beyond Unpopular Political Beliefs
UC Regent David Crane has quite the track record. He served as a special eco-
nomic advisor to former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He donated large sums of money to aid Republican Tom Campbell’s attempt to snatch Barbara Boxer’s senate seat and even helped fund San Francisco’s Measure B — a bill that attempted to curb the pension and health benefits of city employ-ees. Crane’s Feb. 27 op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle sparked con-troversy when he openly expressed his anti-union and pro-collective bargaining political stance. In short, he’s a liberal’s nightmare.
Politics aside, Crane has con-sistently expressed a concern for tuition hikes while keeping students in mind. His goals as a UC Regent parallel those of students — lower-ing tuition is one of his main con-cerns. So why won’t Crane be back this coming winter? The answer comes down to logistics.
Crane is not a confirmed regent just yet, since he was appointed at
the last minute by Schwarzenegger in December 2010. His appoint-ment sparked controversy among those who disagree with his pro-collective bargaining and anti-union stances. Because of the nature of his appointment, Crane has to be voted in by the California Senate by Dec. 27 in order to become an officially confirmed regent who can serve a full term. But the state Senate will be in recess from Dec. 5 until Jan. 4. This means a mere eight days and a couple senators singing “Auld Lang Syne” is all that’s keeping Crane from being reinstated.
Whether one supports Crane’s platforms or not, the reality of this obstacle is absurd and once again highlights the convoluted nature of our state’s bureaucracy. It’s apparent that many bureaucrats disagree with Crane’s anti-union stance (rightly so) but because of this, they are standing idly by while Crane loses his position due to a logistical error rather than a problem of qualifica-tions. In essence, his right to a fair trial is being violated.
Crane’s consideration for the position of a confirmed UC Regent should be based solely on his goals for the public university system and his actions thus far, despite heavy student and worker opposition based on Crane’s right-wing stances on unions and collective bargain-ing. The state’s political apathy towards Crane is far from subtle and although he’s nothing but open with his political views, he is sadly becoming the butt of this bureau-cratic joke.
Crane’s recent statements in the Guardian are far more democratic than expected. His concern for the perpetually undermined middle class is both surprising and com-forting but do not reflect his overall political stance.
We may not all agree with his less-than-empathetic view for union members (read: blue collar America) but like any fair govern-ing board, the UC Board of Regents (which currently consists of 26 vot-ing members) should have a diverse bevy of political viewpoints to be as
effective as possible.The ability to juggle mounds
of bureaucratic nonsense may be a necessary trait for a UC Regent — but it shouldn’t be necessary to keep their jobs.
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The Irvine 11 are at the center of a national discussion over free speech, but their case should never have been taken to court.
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The MenTal fishbowl By Alex Nguyen
Dear Editor,
As the Irvine 11 trial draws to a close and the students involved discuss the possibility of appealing the decision, I feel compelled to point out the double standard that condemns 10 Muslim students to criminal charges for behavior that has been customary procedure for college protests spanning a spec-trum of issues and contexts.
That Muslim students chose to speak out against the Israeli ambassador in favor of Palestine seems to be the deciding factor in this case; indeed, there have been several instances where protesters expressed dissent in a similar pat-tern and were neither arrested nor prosecuted, their affiliated organi-zations were not incriminated, and their entire community was not put on trial for their actions.
In fact, on Sept. 8, 2011, Code Pink protesters interrupted former Vice President Dick Cheney dur-ing his speech in Orange County, CA in much the same way as the Irvine 11 had done roughly a year earlier. During Justice in Palestine Week 2011, one of the evening events arranged by the Muslim Student Association on this cam-pus was delayed for 45 minutes because an individual chose to disobey posted guidelines and
attempted to videotape the speak-ers against their will.
While the individuals in both cases were simply escorted out of or allowed to leave the gathering, the Irvine Muslim students were arrested and slapped with criminal charges simply for speaking their mind.
If the issue really was about shutting down the free speech of the speaker at the podium, as some opponents of the Irvine 11 claim, then the punishment afforded to the Irvine 11 would be applied to all individuals who decide to disrupt speech, regard-less of their religious or political convictions.
Freedom of speech is not a selective right; it is ensured to all citizens of the United States—even ambassadors from foreign coun-tries—and should not be used as an excuse to deliberately stifle spe-cific opinions and identities.
— Huma WaseenJunior, Marshall College
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Irvine 11 May Not be Protected by First AmendmentStudent Union. The university suspended the MSU, disciplined the students in question and passed the case along to Rackauckas.
Here’s where the case gets caught up in legal nice-ties, with, ironically, both sides claiming censorship. The Irvine 11 claimed they were merely exercising their con-stitutional rights, while the prosecution, and free speech experts such as Dean of UCI Law Erwin Chemerinsky, said that the First Amendment does not protect behav-ior that infringes on other people’s rights. According to Rackauckas, the person censored in the Irvine 11 case was not any of the students, but Oren himself. There are methods of protesting that don’t silence the person speaking, but the students interrupted Oren’s speech to the point where he was unable to continue. Given this, evidence of MSU emails planning the event and video of UCI officials pleading with the students, it’s not surpris-ing that the jury decided on a guilty verdict.
In the aftermath of the verdict, defense attorney Lisa
Holder has announced plans to appeal, according to the Jewish Journal, but the heart of the issue is not neces-sarily the inns and outs of the First Amendment but the, as Chemerinsky told the Los Angeles Times, “terrible mistake” of prosecuting the case. Yes, the students defi-nitely broke university protocol and probably crossed a line. Yes, it may be debatable whether they are protected under free speech. But the decision to prosecute them is an example of inconsistency that hurts everyone. UCI administrators had already punished the students and their organization, so there was little need to escalate the consequences. Many college students continually take actions that would technically be labeled a misdemeanor in court, but because their cases don’t involve high-profile politicians and highly controversial issues, they don’t become a lesson in not crossing important people. Ultimately, there’s little to be gained for anyone in the decision to pursue the case and the decision to burden a bunch of 20-somethings with criminal records for life.
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While recording last fall’s Fires of Comparison EP, Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell of noise-pop duo Crocodiles shared
a pipe with a homeless man in San Diego’s Presidio Park. It didn’t end well.
“If you play with fire, you’re gonna get burned,” Welchez told the Guardian in an email interview. “Or in our case, strep throat.”
But rather than waiting for their singing voices to return, Crocodiles released Fires of Comparison as an entirely instrumental album to be enjoyed, according to their offi-cial press release, “under the mind-altering influence of 2XB-27, a drug concocted in Charles’ toilet by their friend, Dr. Russel Cash.”
It’s this kind of unprovoked jackassery that gained the public approval of art-punk juggernauts No Age, doused their debut LP Summer of Hate in irresistible, fuck-you charm and landed Crocodiles on just about every notable “up-and-coming” list in the blogosphere.
Longtime friends and San Diego natives Welchez and Rowell formed Crocodiles in 2008 after the breakup of their former experi-mental hardcore act The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower. In response to their vapid,
sunburnt environment, the pair began craft-ing punchy pop songs about love and death — buried under distorted drums, reverbed guitar hooks and layers of piercing feedback — that captured the pent-up angst and adren-aline of bands like the Velvet Underground and the Jesus and Mary Chain.
But as far as Welchez is concerned, the influences end there. Since their inception, Crocodiles have focused on evading criti-cal pin-downs, following their own creative intuition.
“That shit follows any new band,” Welchez said. “It doesn’t really bother us. I’d say it makes the journalist who’s writing those com-parisons look stupider.”
On the heels of their well-received 2009 debut, Summer of Hate, Crocodiles entered the studio last year with English producer and Simian Mobile Disco frontman James Ford (Arctic Monkeys’ Suck It and See, Klaxons’ Myths of the Near Future) for their sophomore release, Sleep Forever.
“Production was just as important on Summer of Hate, it’s just that we had far less tools to work with, and us and our friend [and producer] Jon Greene were learning a lot as we went,” Welchez said. “James was great, he was a lot of fun to work with.”
Tapping a wider array of influences, from krautrock to 1960s she-pop, and racking up more than a few album-of-the-year nods, Crocodiles have wasted little time preparing their next project.
“We just spent the summer in Europe, playing festivals and recording our third album,” Welchez said. “We were in Berlin all September, living in a flat and recording the album. It was great.”
Now, with UCSD’s iconic Ché Café facing $12,000 in debt and threats of foreclosure, Crocodiles are returning to San Diego to rally support for the influential venue and local landmark.
“Crocodiles have only played [at] the Ché two or three times, but since we were teenag-ers it was our stomping ground,” Welchez said. “I’ve seen so many of my favorite shows there and played there a million times with old bands. When I read that it was in finan-cial trouble I contacted a friend who volun-teers there and asked if we could organize a benefit. It’s important to me that we do our part because the Ché played such a big part in our own musical history.”
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I’ll Judge This Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of LameIt may seem like an obvious state-
ment, but I have to say it: I love rock ‘n’ roll.
Yeah, everyone likes The Beatles. Everyone likes Led Zeppelin. But my
obsession is much more serious than that. When I was little, and my friends were watching Disney Channel, I’d be flipping to VH1 — ogling “Pop Up Video” and learning about drug over-doses on “Behind the Music.”
So, obviously, I was pretty excited to hear the announcement of the latest nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this week.
Like the years before it, this year’s crop includes an odd assortment of radio staples and more obscure pioneers: Guns N’ Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Beastie Boys, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, the Cure, Heart, Eric B. and Rakim, the Small Faces/Faces, Donna Summer, Rufus with Chaka Khan, War, Laura Nyro, Donovan, Freddy King and, finally, the Spinners.
Here’s my personal take on which five artists deserve to actually be inducted on April 14, 2012:
Beastie Boys: This one’s a no-brainer. The Beasties have been a major force in hip hop since their 1986 debut Licensed To Ill — the first rap album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. And, unlike most of the other nominees, they are still going strong. Last spring’s Hot Sauce Committee Part Two is, thus far, one of my favorite releases of the year — an album chock-full of freewheeling rhymes just as goofy and ambitious as the ones the Beasties spit when they were young.
The Cure: They’ve inspired some very unfortunate goth fashion, but the Cure’s contribution to pop music is indelible. From upbeat romps like “Close To Me” to rom-com mainstays like “Friday I’m In Love” to moody landmark albums like Pornography and Disintegration — which ultimately inspired countless shoegazers (for better or for worse) — the immor-tally morose rockers have never wavered.
Guns N’ Roses: I actually really despise Guns N’ Roses — their brand of slimy cock rock has always rubbed me the wrong way and Axel Rose is the biggest douchebag in rock music — but the influence of their 1987 instant-classic Appetite For Destruction can’t be denied. In a decade that had mainstream rock ‘n’ roll mostly defined by embarrassing glam metal and Bret Michaels’ hair, GnR look like goddamn saviors.
The Small Faces/Faces: It’s peculiar that these two very different bands are lumped together; Though members of the mod-pop outfit The Small Faces would eventually join Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood and rename themselves Faces, the two bands sound noth-ing alike. Either way, The Small Faces’ Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake and Faces’ wild rock ‘n’ roll legacy (immortalized in the image of a boozed-out Stewart), make the set perfect for the Hall of Fame.
Donna Summer: Yes, this is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Yes, Donna Summer is disco. Yes, disco and rock are immortal enemies. But, let’s be real, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is really just the Pop Music Hall of Fame, and Donna Summer easily defined an entire generation of dance music. She deserves recognition for that, whether her genre is dead or not.
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Breaking the Rules of the Game‘Moneyball’ is a new breed of sports movie. By Neda Salamat • Senior Staff Writer
Sports flicks tend to fall into two (somewhat loosely defined) categories: emotionally charged heavy-hitters that
come with moral and family baggage in-tow (“The Fighter,” “The Blindside”) or sappy, gutless films about a horse (“Seabiscuit,” “Black Beauty,” “Sex and the City 2”).
“Moneyball” is an entirely differ-ent ball game. In a narrative where ballers are benched and the
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managers are up to bat, the biopic explores the story of the unsung antihero of America’s favorite pastime, Billy Beane (Pitt), the thankless general manager of the Oakland A’s.
After being hamstringed by the smallest salary constraint in baseball (and losing a siz-able chunk of the team’s top-notch players as a result), Beane teams up with Yale graduate Peter Brand (Hill) to revolutionize the way the A’s acquires players, using America’s least favorite pastime — math (or as it is known in the biz, “Sabermetrics” — where players are chosen based on who gets on base most). The result is a mismatched collection of seemingly delinquent players: league under-dogs who surprisingly (or predictably, from Beane and Brand’s view) begin to impress.
In terms of popular appeal, “Moneyball”
is akin to “The Social Network” (screenwriter Aaron Sorkin penned both scripts) — a film that, with all of its technical lingo, could eas-ily lose the average filmgoer mid-shuffle. But just like its predecessor, “Moneyball” makes the potentially tedious relatively smooth — and with a far more bouncy, accelerated pace.
Though “Moneyball” lacks the acidic wit of “Social Network,” it makes up for it with characters that radiate far more warmth than the former’s oily protagonists. Pitt’s jovially staunch every-Joe and Hill’s fumbling and soft-spoken savant balance each other out, creating surprising moments of goofy, broth-erly camaraderie. Jonah Hill, first introduced to audiences through his boisterous slacker-dork in “Superbad,” sits mute and pensive, offering advice and perspective only when asked.
Pitt’s transformation is almost more
unsteadying. Long gone are the days of “Troy”-esque concern for on-camera pretty-boy glam shots — director Bennett Miller (“Capote”) has made the ageless man finally live all his forty-something years. And Pitt delivers: Gruff, upbeat and unyielding, he radiates fatherly knowing and charm in his dealings with both Hill and daughter Casey (Kerris Dorsey).
Miller, to his enormous credit, shows remarkable restraint from the director’s chair, opting for delicate directorial flourishes (a snarky off-camera remark, a change in light-ing, an awkward pause) rather than bloat the tense moments for overly dramatic effect and dice it with a melodramatic score.
“Moneyball” may not pack “The Fighter”’s wallop, but its ragtag mob comes out the gate swinging — with a lesson in unflinching belief and loyalty that hits home in these rough economic times.
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Canadian synth-pop outfit Purity Ring is the collaboration of Corin Roddick and Megan James. Receiving early blog buzz from single “Ungirthed,” Purity Ring’s dreamy harmonies have been described as “future pop.” UCSD’s own kisses combine the sugary vibes of 80s pop with modern indie rock to create infectious gems that are both beautiful and introspective.
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Get your flannel ready: In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind, AS Concerts & Events is presenting a film screening of “Nirvana: live at Paramount” — the only Nir-vana show recorded on a 16 mm film. The set includes favorites like “lithium,” “Breed,” “About a Girl” and, of course, “Smells like Teen Spirit.”
w hen Nika Danilova was a girl, she wanted to be an
opera singer. “I think my lit-tle baby toddler mind-heard some opera song and became fixated on how powerful it sounded,” she told Pitchfork in 2009.
On Conatus, her third studio album as nu-goth rock persona Zola Jesus, Danilova delivers a haunting testament
to just how powerful — and versatile — the human voice can be.
Where it once struggled to surface a sea of layered reverb, Danilova’s icy croon glides atop the cleanly-pro-duced synth stabs of opener “Swords,” quickly shifting the ominous mood of the song with breezy, uplifting har-monies.
“Ixode,” with its subtle, arpeggiating keyboard and repetitive bass line, finds Danilova emulating a gothic Stevie Nicks — her aggres-sive, almost southern-tinged melodies cascading out in multiple counter-rhythms.
On “Lick the Palms of the Burning Handshake,” easily the most powerful song on Conatus, Danilova’s
sorrowful, full-on popstar wail weaves in and out of a minimal electronic drum-beat, rising to a triumphant, orchestral coda.
And as if Conatus wasn’t eerie enough, “Seekir” sweeps ghostly tribal chants into a disconcerting ’80s pop groove, amounting to a sort of Lynchian cover of Yaz’s “Situation (Move Out).” The song then shifts abruptly toward a frightening, vocals-in-reverse outro.
While Conatus doesn’t explore much more stylis-tic ground than last year’s equally disturbing Stridulum II, Danilova’s vocal command will send chills down your spine as dreams turn into beautiful, sonic nightmares.
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holding since junior high. After a prolonged hiatus, Blink-182 returns to reclaim the pop-punk throne with Neighborhoods, the band’s first studio release in over eight years.
From the tinny, excessive drumming and open-chord strums (not to mention, the
title) of opener “Ghost on the Dance Floor,” it is clear that Blink has not matured a bit.
Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker are as they’ve always been: full of dorky teen angst and infectious pop hooks.
And though Neighborhoods’ first single “Up All Night” half-assedly attempts to interject mean-ingful lyrics about raising children and finding one’s place in the world, the intended theme, as is the case with any good Blink song, quickly gives way to fist-pumping verses and one relentlessly catchy chorus.
Closer “Even If She Falls” employs all the schmaltzy winners in Blink’s bag of
tricks: some ear-worm lyricism, Barker’s patented ADHD percussion and the kind of bubbly tween-age chord progression that seems scientifically calcu-lated for radio play. The track easily stands alongside past Blink superhits such as “First Date” and “What’s My Age Again?”
It’s formulaic, sure. But it’s a formula that made the darkest days of junior high just a little bit brighter.
After almost a decade off the map and a slew of failed side projects, Blink-182 has nobly managed to cling des-perately to that inner child, even though we’ve long since grown up.
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grueling conditioning drills, but one of the worst — and a particular favorite at UCSD — is the "black widow.” Interestingly enough, the "black widow" drill is known by most players as the "figure eight drill,” but the McManus tag is a bit more indicative of it's effect on a player’s lungs and legs.
The team is split into two, with each group at opposite corners of the field. When McManus gives the OK, the groups sprint the full 120 yards along the length, cut back to sprint the diagonal, sprint the other length of the field, turn the corner and run the diagonal to get back to where they began. The task is repeated at least four or five more times.
Moans and groans can be expected, but like a general addressing his troops, McManus always tries to keep the ultimate goal in mind for his players: a national tournament berth.
This is a goal that's probably hard to forget when just last season the squad finished No. 2 in the nation, after a crush-ing 4-0 loss to Grand Valley State in the NCAA title game.
In his thick Scottish accent, McManus can often be heard saying, "I don't care who finishes first or who finishes last, just do your best."
Oftentimes covered in sweat from the midday humidity, one of the 11 newcomers to the squad are tasked with col-lecting the balls, jerseys, and cones and bringing them back into the storage room.
A second trip to the ATR is a must for most players, either to tend to bumps and bruises, or for an ice bath — a restorative technique used by a number of athletes to aid sore muscles. What it boils down to is sitting in a vat of ice and water up to your navel for 10 minutes. It seemed that when the athletic trainers figured this out, they also figured that if you filled a garbage can with ice and water it serves as a perfect ice bath for two, which is why you will see a number of soccer players standing in a row of garbage cans outside of RIMAC after practices.
Remarkably, most players still have a full day of classes ahead of them.
What’s even more remarkable is that the players are not only ready to repeat the routine five days out of the week, but are also ready to run themselves through the wringer in the hopes of a postseason berth.
Readers can contact Rachel Uda at [email protected].
Women’s Soccer “Puts the Work In” for a Shot at a Postseason Berth▶ UDA, from page 11
Last season Johnson connected with Wilson four times on the attacking end, providing crucial goals in last year’s campaign.
"Our defense is pretty much like our first line of offense,” Armstrong said. “On corner kicks we usually put everyone into the goal box except for Spaventa and Danielle [Dixon]. We just keep making the runs to the posts, and they just keep going in."
Up 1-0, the Triton defense took over, shutting out the Toros to cruise to the win.
Riding a seven game undefeated streak, the Tritons kicked off against CSU San Bernardino in their first home game of the season on Sunday. CSU San Bernardino — with a 0-4-1 record in the CCAA and last place in the South Division — is the only CCAA team to get a draw from the Tritons.
Just two weeks before, the then
nationally ranked Coyotes forced a 1-1 double over-time tie at their home field.
But the game between CCAA South Division teams was drastically dif-ferent last Sunday, as the Tritons collected a resound-ing 4-0 win. Within the first four minutes of play, UCSD fired off four shots. The Tritons' first goal came in the 13th minute, when junior forward Gabi Hernandez won the ball at the end line deep into the Coyotes' half. Seeing senior forward Sarah McTigue at the penalty spot, Hernandez made a perfect pass to McTigue who placed it into the back of the net.
The next goal came from senior midfielder Lindsay Mills, who beat San Bernardino goalkeeper Tiffany
Mallick in the 38th min-ute.
The Tritons put two more on the board in the second half. McTigue got on the end of another Johnson free kick to put the Tritons up 3-0. And with just 15 minutes remaining, junior transfer Taryn Bales scored her first goal as a Triton by touching the ball past Mallick.
Still without a loss, UCSD improves to 6-0-2 overall.
Over the weekend, the Tritons will host CCAA North opposite CSU Monterey Bay this Friday at 4:30 p.m. and CSU East Bay at 12 p.m. on Sunday.
Readers can contact Rachel Uda at [email protected].
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A Day In the Life: UCSD Women’s SoccerFor an athlete on the women's soccer team,
practices are scheduled every weekday at 11 a.m., though players find themselves at
the pitch around 10:45 a.m. — that is, unless they need to be in the ATR (athletic training room) to tape a bum ankle or rehab a busted knee, in which case players can be expected to hobble in anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour before they even reach the field.
By the time 11 a.m. rolls around, the players are laced up and head coach Brian McManus is headed to the practice grounds at RIMAC.
Practices vary in intensity. Before games, the 25-man team (which looks more like an army, all
clad in navy blue) might work on penalty kicks or play soccer-tennis (an aptly named game, which is a hybrid of soccer...and tennis).
Every other day, the tightknit and usually laid-back squad puts aside the inside jokes and the gos-sip, and focuses on what McManus calls, “putting the work in.”
Practices begin with the girls dividing them-selves into lines to practice passing and then cir-cling up for a stretch. Afterward, the squad usually divides themselves again, with starters donning jerseys for a scrimmage against the reserves.
Here, it would seem that things could get contentious. With 25 girls on the squad, and only 11 players allowed on the pitch, tensions can run high, and practices are always competitions for playing time.
At the same time, all the players — from the starting eleven all the way down to the redshirts — appear to have a sort of consensus of collabora-tion, a certain selflessness that allows every squad member to forget about themselves and do what's right for the team.
This is clearly illustrated in the thick of the season, when as a way to save the starting elevens’ legs, the first string is, on some occasions, excused from the most grueling sprint and long distance training, while the reserves eagerly toe the line for sprints.
For a sport where a player can expect to run up to four or five miles in a match, a great deal of soc-cer players does not enjoy the exercise.
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Tritons Continue Undefeated Streak with Weekend WinsNo. 2 rank, but also sit on top of the South Division con-ference standings.
On Friday, UCSD faced off against South Division rivals CSU Dominguez Hills, beating the Toros 1-0 under the lights of the Home Depot Center.
The Tritons found a quality side in Dominguez Hills — a squad that went unranked this year after they failed to make the CCAA playoffs last season. The game was tight, with the Tritons only outshooting the Toros 9-8 in the first half.
But just twelve minutes in, the Toros gave away a cor-ner kick. Left-footed and right-footed defender Hayley Johnson sent a high curling ball into the goal box, which found the head of 5'9" junior defender Ellen Wilson.
The goal marks Johnson's team-leading seventh assist of the season, as well as her fifth assist from a corner kick.
"[Johnson] can take the kicks with either foot, which means she is able to swing them into the box, forcing the keeper to make a decision at the top of the sixth [yard box],” senior goalkeeper Kristin Armstrong said. “She puts them in the perfect spot so that our forwards, or in this case our defenders, can run onto them."
▶ W. SOCCER, from page 12
UCSD Men’s Soccer Gets1-0 Win in Home OpenerSunday.
"I noticed that San Bernardino was very concerned about the cor-ner kick, so I took advantage of their lack of awareness and headed toward the corner," Wolfrom said. "I looked up and wanted to put a cross to the back post and it ended up not hitting anyone and going right in."
Although Wolfrom's goal was the only of the game, there were a number of near misses. In the 32nd minute sophomore defender Gavin Lamming's header just missed the mark. While on the other end, 20 minutes into the second half Coyote forward Julio Ayala cracked a shot from 28 yards out that nearly beat sophomore goalkeeper Jesse Brennan.
The win brought the Tritons back up to .500 – 3-3 in the CCAA and 4-4 overall –after their 1-0 loss against CSU Dominguez Hills on Friday.
The Tritons were granted anoth-er corner kick late into the second half, except this time Wolfrom's cor-ner resulted in a breakaway for the Toros.
Dominguez midfielder Ronald Ybarra looked upfield to find for-ward Jordan Rover. Rover slotted
a pass to freshman forward Henry Calistro who sent the ball into the back of the net to score the game winner.
The two squads battled up and down the pitch for the full 90 min-utes, with 28 fouls called on the two teams collectively.
"I'm excited for the upcoming home games. I am excited to play in front of our fans who give us such great support," Wolfrom said. "We are starting to come together as a team and the goals will follow."
With a 3-3 CCAA record — 4-4 overall — the Tritons are scheduled to return to the pitch for a pair of home games. This Friday, Sept. 30, UCSD will face off against CSU Monterey Bay at 7 p.m., and on Sunday, Oct. 2, the Tritons will take on CSU East Bay at 2:30 p.m.
"The boys competed hard and played well last weekend, and we're in position to win both games," assistant coach Eric Bucchere said. "This Friday against Monterey Bay will be another tough test for us, and hopefully we can provide some quality and entertaining soccer for our fans."
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Both the UCSD men’s and women’s soccer teams collected wins in their first conference home games.
HOME FIELD FEATS
After defeating CSU Dominguez Hills on Friday and CSU San Bernardino on Sunday — their first home game of the season —
the women’s soccer team has reclaimed the No. 2 national ranking.
The Tritons struggled to find the net in their first match of the season, tying unranked, non-conference opponent Western Washington 0-0, falling from the No. 2 ranking with which they began their campaign. Since then, UCSD has had no problem scoring goals, and with a 5-0-1 CCAA record, the Tritons have not only retaken their
With the score still drawn after 74 min-utes of play last Sunday against CSU San Bernardino, UCSD midfielder Andisheh
Bagheri lined up to take a corner kick. With all of the Triton attack and most of the Triton defense in the box, Bagheri played the short corner to sophomore midfielder Cory Wolfrom. Pulling a number of the CSU San Bernardino defense out of the box, Wolfrom launched a cross into the six-yard box, which bounced past the Coyote goalkeeper and into the far post.
The goal proved to be the game winner, granting UCSD the 1-0 win against CSU San Bernardino on
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Triton Golf Finishes Seventh in Season Opener
Freshman Jay Lim was UCSD’s top finiser, placing 10th in the California State Intercollegiate Tournament.
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The UCSD men’s golf team returned to the green in their first tournament of the 2011-
12 season on Monday, Sept. 26 to play in the inaugural California State Intercollegiate tournament.
The tournament, played at Diamond Valley Golf Club in Hemet, Calif., featured seven other collegiate golf teams, including NCAA Division II program Cal Baptist and NAIA programs Cal-State San Marcos, Point Loma Nazarene University, Arizona Christian University and Biola University.
The Tritons finished No. 7 out of the eight teams, after a rough second day on the par-72. Starting the day in sixth place, UCSD fell behind Biola
by three strokes to seventh place by the end of the final day.
San Marcos won the tournament by three strokes, finishing with a score of 869 after passing up Cal Baptist in the final round. The Master's College and Point Loma tied for third with a score of 879.
After Triton ace Keith Okasaki graduated, the team leader in both rounds played and stroke average for the past three seasons, UCSD is look-ing to fill in the gap.
The Tritons may look to freshman Jay Lim, who was the top finisher for
UCSD. Lim finished 10th overall, with a final score of 218.
Sophomores David Smith, Jacob Williams, and Lewis Simon finished with respective scores of 228, 231 and 233.
"Jay Lim had a very good showing
in his first college event," head coach Mike Wydra said. "Lewis Simon had a bad first round, but made a come-back on the second day. David Smith has been steady his entire career, and Jacob Williams started strong but then had a very bad four hole stretch in the final round."
Next up for the Tritons is the Lindsay Olive Wildcat Classic hosted by
Chico State, scheduled for Oct. 17-18.
"All the other teams have been in school for a few weeks, and so it's a bit of a disadvantage for us that we start so late," Wydra said. "We're very anxious to play in Corning — it's a very long and difficult course."
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By Rachel Udasports editor