Even though nobody expects anything more than mediocrity in most strip clubs, San Diego's clubs fail to even show up on the titillation radar. To make matters worse, the strippers are now stabbing patrons who refuse lap-dances. The stab-happy stripper, 24-year old Lawanda Dixon, had a canister of methamphetamines with her, which had me hoping this was off in the wastelands of El Cajon. Turns out the incident took place on Convoy, practically in my own backyard.

I never thought I'd say this, but if any of you incoming students were planning on having rheumy vagina awkwardly thrust into your face you might be better off biting the bullet and heading to goddamn Tiajuana.

Multiple blasts have paralyzed London, with six underground blasts being reported as well as explosions on double-decker buses above-ground. This comes just after the IOC announcement, and right at the beginning of the G8 summit. Keep an eye on the BBC News feed for updated information. No sense in bothering with CNN or anything.

Yeah, this isn't related directly to UCSD. I think it's fair to say that it's still a goddamn important thing to keep on eye on.

ERC student Katy Jovin died in an accident on the 5 near Mission Bay Park when her Mustang crossed into opposing traffic and struck a Ford Ranger. Full story here.

According to UCSD News, actor Ricardo Chavira, who plays the role of "Carlos Solis" on the popular show Desperate Housewives, will speak to the graduates of Earl Warren College. Berkeley got Warren Beatty and we get some bad actor that no one has heard of. I'm sure he will have plenty of intelligent advice for all of us.

It would appear that this isn't a good year for student employees of the University. We've been told that no less than five of the Housing Advisors from Muir College have either resigned or been fired for unbecoming conduct. According to what information we've become privy to, two of the HAs were intercepted by law enforcement while trying to drive a university-owned golf cart to the cliffs overlooking the beach. Both were fired. Word has it that another decided it would be a good idea to throw a Sun God party in his or her room – the party host was fired, and it's believed that two other HAs who were at the party ended up resigning. We'd be glad to receive any clarifications, confirmations, or information from people involved, especially those students in the dorms who were left without advisors in the last few weeks of the school year.

On the agenda this week in A.S.:

1. A proposal changing A.S. bylaws to allow the council to fund organizations' summer travel expenses. Submitted by Senator Jason Hoskins.

2. A request for summer travel expenses ($400) from a fraternity of which Senator Jason Hoskins is a member.

Obviously, this is a complete coincidence.

The change to the bylaws is not discreet. A.S. doesn't collect money over the summer, and the budget is already stretched thin. Also, fraternities almost never come asking A.S. for this sort of stuff. Word is that it might pass because no one wants to accuse Hoskins of his own blatantly self-serving actions. But this has generated a significant amount of chatter - enough to prompt Hoskins to send out an e-mail which didn't try to explain his motives, but instead focused on complaining about all the trash talk.

Funny stuff. Council votes Wednesday.

We procured an eye-witness description of the stabbing that occurred in line at Sungod. In true Ghetto Journalism style, here is the AIM conversation that landed in our inbox a couple days ago:

anonymous: i'm standing in line, and i see an argument about three people in front of me
anonymous: this one guy (call him tom) has tried to cut in line
anonymous: since the line is so obscenely long
anonymous: and this other guy (call him john) is pissed
anonymous: so, john starts yelling at tom
anonymous: tom yells back
anonymous: john shoves tom
anonymous: tom shoves john back
anonymous: much macho chest-to-chest posturing occurs
anonymous: then, john throws a blow
anonymous: a really sissy, weak, looping, would make anyone who actually knows how to fight cringe in disgust sort of blow
anonymous: tom throws a flurry of punches (of similar quality) back at john
anonymous: and then john stabs tom
anonymous: quickly, through tom's sweatshirt
anonymous: he stabs him in the upper chest, so it doesnt go in deep
anonymous: ribcage is in the way
anonymous: as far as stabbings go, really, its pretty weak
anonymous: tom's friends pull him away, and he leaves
anonymous: the crowd that had gathered to watch the fight disperses
anonymous: i advance in line
anonymous: few minutes later
anonymous: security is yelling
anonymous: trying to find tom
anonymous: tom comes up to the fence
anonymous: and says, "man, i just got stabbed"
anonymous: pretty nonchalant about it, though
anonymous: police take him away (for questioning and a ride to the hospital, i assume)

We'll leave it up to your judgment to ascertain the veracity of this story.

Some of you may be asking, "What stabbing?" Good question. The Guardian did not mention the incident in their long, monotonous Lights and Sirens, and has refrained from reporting it otherwise—despite knowledge of the scuffle. Anyone know why?

In spirit of the business school "hacking", there is now a way to view the fall schedule of classes a couple days ahead of time. It's nothing special, but for those who just can't wait, take a look inside...

Edit: it looks like a quick fix on the part of the maintainers of StudentLink may or may not block you from using this to look at the schedule. I'll see if anything can be done about it.

President: Christopher Sweeten
Sweeten: 1416
Watts: 908
Hanson: 718
Kiki: 426
Abstain: 443

Vice President Internal: Angela Fornero
Fornero: 1722
Klitofsky: 1190
Abstain: 767

Vice President External: Kevin Alan Mann
Mann: 1455
Maczka: 845
Bui: 832
Abstain: 632

Vice President Finance: Greg Murphy
Murphy: 1566
Ward: 1315
Abstain: 886

Vice President Academic Affairs: Harry Khanna
Khanna: 2510
Abstain: 1258

Commissioner of Communications: Soap Chum
Chum: 1809
Rozhansky: 1046
Abstain: 1048

Commissioner of Diversity Affairs: Eiko Anna Arseniak
Arseniak: 1183
Lee: 931
Bass: 859
Abstain: 787

Commissioner of Student Services: Maurice Junious
Junious: 1388
Shalts: 1048
Abstain: 1294

Commissioner of Enterprise Operations: Angela Chen
Chen: 1450
Shousterman: 1290
Abstain: 1017

Commissioner of Programming: Eric Morris
Morris: 1956
Nguyen: 1050
Abstain: 744

All our endorsed candidates won except for Student Services, and for that we endorsed the independent. Not bad. This calls for a celebratory bender. Go away.

Sun God is scheduled for Friday, May 13 (mark your calendars, kids), and the The Walkmen's website reports that they're coming to UCSD on that very day. Coincidence? I think not. Unless they cancel, the Walkmen are playing Sun God.

Yeah, bitches, who breaks the news first? Uuuuuuuunnnnnnnnngh.

It's fairly rare that we have some decent acts come through and perform on campus, so make a note of these:

The Mars Volta
Friday, April 22nd
RIMAC Arena
tickets on sale: 3/12 @ 10am
$22.50
themarsvolta.com

Wilco
Friday, April 29th
Price Center Ballroom
tickets on sale: 3/11 @ 10am
$20 for students
$30 for public
wilcoweb.com

Yes, we are forcing our own opinion of "good music" on you, but only because you need it. Now shut up.

Lame-sounding Sixth College is set to be given a real live name, just like the big kids. Unfortunately, the currently favored namesake - Atkinson, after former UC president Richard Atkinson - isn't much of an improvement.

A little bird wrote in with details about the behind-the-scenes machinations; the full text is after the jump.

A recent trend in universities is to start a ban against military recruiters on campus because their "don't ask, don't tell" policy conflicts with the university's antidiscrimination policy. The opinion of myself and others, of course, is that UCSB has other problems they need to deal with first.

If you can't get to the Newspress article (which you probably can't), read it below.

Some of you might not know who Brother Jed is, which is understandable. I don't think he's been to UCSD this year – when he does visit most people ignore him in the grand UCSD tradition. He'll usually be standing in the Price Center, telling people who are trying to enjoy their fast food that they'll be going to hell for their sins. Occasionally, he'll have some friends with him, followers who refer to themselves as Jed-Heads. His family is sometimes there, handing out flyers and pamphlets, and while I've yet to agree with anything I've ever heard him say, it's clear that he knows how to speak well in public. There's a rather significant problem, though, as evidenced by a recent visit he made to the University of Arizona.

Brother Jed is fucking insane. Why? Keep reading and find out.

Some of you might not know who Brother Jed is, which is understandable. I don't think he's been to UCSD this year – when he does visit most people ignore him in the grand UCSD tradition. He'll usually be standing in the Price Center, telling people who are trying to enjoy their fast food that they'll be going to hell for their sins. Occasionally, he'll have some friends with him, followers who refer to themselves as Jed-Heads. His family is sometimes there, handing out flyers and pamphlets, and while I've yet to agree with anything I've ever heard him say, it's clear that he knows how to speak well in public. There's a rather significant problem, though, as evidenced by a recent visit he made to the University of Arizona.

Brother Jed is fucking insane. Why? Keep reading and find out.

Shit, I've been putting off this post for a couple weeks.

Around the same time UCSD was threatening us with similar measures, UCSB was trying to force James Baron to dismantle his web site, The Dark Side of UCSB. Mr. Baron actually contacted us in early November of last year in hopes of allying in our fight with the UC, but because I am a lazy asshole when it comes to email (plus their site was just getting started and looked anything but promising) we never set anything up.

Earlier this month, UCSB followed UCSD's lead and ceased their censorship efforts. While no legal precedent has been set at this point, it is at least comforting to see more people standing up to the University of California's legal bullshit.

For a full account of the story, go here.

The official SRTV response to the Koala Porn incident via UCSD email flyer boils down to this: "Oh wah wah, get over yourselves". Read below to get the full letter in case you're too lazy to read your email.

Author and icon Dr. Hunter S. Thompson passed away on Sunday, Febrary 20th at his fortified compound in Woody Creek, CO. The cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He was 67. A full obituary, and a retrospective of writings by and about Thompson can be found here.

Thompson's passing is unexpected. Despite years of recreational drug use, he was not an addict. And while his lifestyle revolved around destruction, it was always without malice, and usually wrapped in direct, vicious commentary against American popular culture and the Republican party. Strange, then, that Thompson seems now to have been one of the most admired men in America.

Thompson was a regular guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, right-wing blogger Matt Drudge routinely linked to his columns, and he met with John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign. Antagonistic as he was, he was also irresistable.

Some might say that this was because Thompson was hilarious, inimitable, and never really joking. I say it was because he was truly great. We are a weaker nation without Hunter S. Thompson.

For just over one month now, I've been happily sitting on the knowledge that YouCSD.com is in the clear with university officials. There exists no good explanation why I haven't announced this sooner, but I'm going to casually mention my crippling priapism as a possible candidate.

Ann Parode, the legal attack dog who first came nipping at our heels, emailed me after several weeks of silence to bury the hatchet as incompletely as any good lawyer knows how.

... So, as long as your content remains as mindless as it was last time I went there, and the Library image is off of the site such that there is no likelihood that anyone would consider your site to be an official UCSD site or otherwise endorsed, I plan to take no further action on this matter....

To make a point, let me repeat some of what she said with a bit of my own inflection. "As long as your content remains as mindless as it was last time I went there ... such that there is no likelihood that anyone would consider your site to be an official UCSD site..." Do you SEE that?! That, my friends, is a mandate to swear. Ann, I hope we make you proud.

So, fuckin' shit, we're staying put. Suck our dicks. Lick our assholes. Keep reading our goddamn blog. Now fuck off.

Related articles:

• Free Advertising, Part II

Sometime after 11:00 pm last Thursday night, as part of the Koala's weekly TV show, SRTV ran a short clip of hardcore amateur pornography. The video reportedly showed Steve York, Koala editor, engaged in sex with an unidentified female.

Although YouCSD.com only received a single email about the incident (in which a Koala staff member used poor spelling and high school insults to try and goad us into announcing York's conquest), my collaborators have reminded me that it would be best to post this story before the Guardian got around to it later this quarter.

Scant hours after the incident, Brian Uiga was seen on SD Uncensored's message boards sucking York's ego-cock. Way to go, buddy.

The thinnest of rumors has suggested that York's co-star was a paid 'actress.' Anyone able to substantiate this will be rewarded, doubly so given the presence of a dollar amount.

In May of 2004, SRTV was temporarily shut down for showing similarly indecent material.

Those beastly dead bodies, all running off and being sold on the black market and embarrassing UC officials and making nasty puddles on the floor if you're not careful. The UC has become so beseiged by scandals involving the illicit selling of their medical programs' cadavers that the Regents are considering using high-tech devices to keep track of their blue-lipped medical subjects.

Apparently there's good money to be made in the black market for bodies and body parts, which would explain why the box of elbows I tried to order last week was going to cost me $12,000. Twelve thousand dollars! Maybe for skulls, but not elbows. That's just a ripoff, man.

Read the full and slightly creepy article here.

Everyone's favorite overplayed band headed by guys with unfortunate names, the Killers, is coming to RIMAC on April 12. The lowdown:

• Half of the arena is reserved for students who can go for free; half is open to the public for $18. That's 2000 UCSD students and 2000 confused and slutty girls from assorted San Diego high schools.


• Starting Feb. 7 at noon, students can pick up one ticket at the Price Center Box Office. They'll scan your ID, so you will not be able to pick up more than one ticket. Kinda like a Soviet bread line: one loaf per person, punks. You will need a ticket and a student ID to get in the door so don't try to sell them.


• Grad students and staff members must buy tickets for $18 a pop


• General public can buy tickets starting Feb 12th

Ooh, a free concert! Too bad it's the Killers and not, y'know, Ashlee Simpson or something. Ashlee's the best!

Ladies and gentlemen, please connect to StudentLink and take a look at the top of the standard menu. See that little colored triangle? That would be a part of the new UCSD Emergency Status page, with a three-color system meant to let us know exactly when there's a "campus-wide emergency, such as a strong earthquake, which overwhelms available resources and personnel, causing widespread damage and injuries." There's also a little note about how the system applies only to UCSD, and for the national terror alert level, one should check in with the Homeland Security Advisory System.

Now, it's probably a good idea to have a resource page for general emergency information, but when has a color-coded system ever helped anybody, ever? Hell, by the time the triangle goes red all of the fire and blood and screaming will have tipped most off that there's either an emergency situation or another goddamn tuition hike.

The lineup for Winterfest is out: Social Distortion, Backyard Babies, KRS-One, Willow (DJ set). Looks like a solid show on both sides of the rock/hip-hop divide.

SATURDAY February 5th
RIMAC Arena
Doors: 6:30

FREE to UCSD students only with valid ID
Space is limited; arrive early.

Pay attention to the 'arrive early' part—my friends and I watched a few hundred people get turned away at the door before Jimmy Eat World took the stage at Fall Fest.

When crooked wannabe politicans aren't imitating Richard Nixon, they're masturbating on the Cal Republicans' messageboard, incriminating themselves in the process. The link was furnished to us by Kevin Hsu (the Students First! candidate Kevin Hsu, who, his enemies fail to mention, still managed to get more votes than the puppet Kevin Hsu). He warns us we might appear "communist" by publicizing this little tidbit, but after reading the meessage board postings it seems the current meaning of "Communist" is "hated by lowlifes who can't tell their head from their asses." So I'm afraid we're guilty as charged.

Part 1 of "College Republicans Are Dicks" is here.

During this year's All Cal Ski & Snowboard Fest, a student from UCR stabbed a student from UCSD, slicing his brachial artery and causing him to lose approximately 12 liters of blood (hint: the human body only holds 16). More info and anecdotes in the extended.

News articles can be found here, here and here, in chronological order.

I feel bad giving this guy extra publicity because I'm sure he is a creepy mother fucker, but it is still funny...
UCSD Student? Will Pay Cash for Modeling - m4w

UCLA recently spent $98,000 on a new logo. It looks like shit. Better typography fell out of my asshole and onto PowerPoint slides back in high school. High school.

UCLA students are a bit peeved, and it sounds like their worries of frivolous spending amidst budget cuts parallel our own.

PS: We haven't been updating because we hate you. To quote another blog I like, "I'll update my blog whenever in the fucking hell I feel like it, you slavering, puckered assholes!"

A couple of readers forwarded us this letter:

Dear Eleanor Roosevelt Students,

We are deeply saddened to inform you that a fellow ERC student, Christina "Chi" Cho, a second year resident student, passed away on campus Sunday evening. Christina's family has requested that their privacy be respected and sensitivity extended in the announcement of her passing.

To all of you who knew Christina, we extend our sincere condolences and recognize that this is a loss particularly for you but also for the entire ERC and UCSD community. Christina's family has provided the College with information regarding the viewing service scheduled for Thursday evening in Los Angeles for those of her close friends who would like to attend. You may contact the ERC Dean of Student Affairs Office to obtain this information at 534-2237.

A death of someone so young is always a tragedy and saddens us all. If any student would like to speak with a counselor regarding the impact of Christina's death in their life, we encourage you to contact Psychological & Counseling Services, 534-3755; ERC Academic Advising, 534-9864; ERC Dean of Student Affairs Office, 534-2237 or the ERC Residence Life Office, 534-2261.

We also encourage you to provide Christina's family with your support as they mourn her passing and celebrate her life.

Sincerely,
Patricia L. Scott
Dean of Student Affairs
Eleanor Roosevelt College

Additionally, a source has come forward claiming reliable information that Christina's suicide was not motivated by the stress of school but instead by the death of her boyfriend in a car accident mere days earlier. If this is true, it would invalidate my previous commentary about learning to stop and smell the roses despite UCSD's crushing course loads. Even so, my suggestions still hold true for the rest of you.

Rest in peace, Christina.

Sources tell us that A.S. got the bill for October's A.S. Safe Rides, and it's huge—a quarter of the program's annual budget. A.S. now has to scramble to find cash for the program. However, blaming Commissioner of Student Services Kian Maleki (or Kelly Vasant) would be like blaming Gray Davis for the energy crisis. A.S. underfunded the Safe Rides program by a tremendous degree on the unlikely hope that they could reduce usage: they couldn't. This is the first of what will likely be many instances of the Pae/Gallagher budget cuts catching up to the council. Prescott Andover, Nov 15 2004, 10:46 PM (Permalink)

Do your econ professors not give you enough attention? Are you lost in the 200 student mess that is Econ 120C? Well, Eric Kyner, aka the Econ Tutor, is here to save you! (For a very small fee of $10.) He will seriously get you through any upper division econ class on campus. His makeshift class room set up is a little sketchy, but he gets the job done. If you are an econ major and you somehow have not heard of The Econ Tutor, please check him out. You will thank me, I promise.

We received word from a reader that a female student living in ERC committed suicide on Sunday night. Her apartment is now vacant; a sign on the window asks that students not inquire with the RA but instead visit the Res. Life Office directly.

If you or a friend are affected by this and wish to discuss it, you can make an appointment with Psychological Services; call the Central Office at (858) 534-3755 or contact your RA/HA/Residential Life Office. Psych. Services also has a web site you could visit for information.

C'mon people, if you're not liking college and you're stressing too much, take 12 units per quarter or change your major, then drop us a line and we'll get you blasted, baked and laid and you'll learn just how good these years of your life are meant to be.

[We have had some great information passed to us by a student 'in the know' asking to go by the pseudonym Prussian Warrior. A list of representatives (and their email addresses) on this matter can be found in the extended entry. If you'd like to make your opinion known, I would highly suggest emailing one of all of them with a polite, succinct letter stating your position. You have no idea how much a simple email can effect policy decisions, especially if you are well spoken.]

Meetings with key student body leaders and the Department of Student Affairs are taking place right now to determine the future of the closed circuit, student-run television stations on campus. Two events from last year have put UCSD administration's panties in a knot: the broadcast of nudity on SRTV (which is piped to both UCSD Medical Centers and the Pruess School for some reason) and the showing of the beheading of an American hostage on WCTV. Since then, most colleges have put a halt on the production of new, student created content until the school can better delineate what is appropriate for broadcast.

They keep getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar earlier and earlier these days. Anyone know if UCSD's CR clan was involved?

The College Republican National Committee has raised $6.3 million this year through an aggressive and misleading fund-raising campaign that collected money from senior citizens who thought they were giving to the election efforts of President Bush and other top Republicans.

Many of the top donors were in their 80s and 90s. The donors wrote checks—sometimes hundreds and, in at least one case, totaling more than $100,000—to groups with official sounding-names such as "Republican Headquarters 2004," "Republican Elections Committee" and the "National Republican Campaign Fund."

But all of those groups, according to the small print on the letters, were simply projects of the College Republicans, who collected all of the checks.

And little of the money went to election efforts.

The Seattle Times has a story that I think you should read.

The co-ops emailed us an open letter to Vice Chancellor Watson concerning the ongoing rent negotiations that are quickly sliding from the public consciousness. You should read it.

To members of the UCSD Community:

You may have received e-mail from Vice Chancellor Watson on October 15 entitled "Controversy Regarding UCSD's Student-Run Co-ops". While we appreciate Watson's acknowledgment of our value and his expression of support for our continued presence on campus, we take issue with a few of his statements.

Firstly, I must thank the Guardian for distributing 18,000 copies of our Marye Ann Fox poster on Thursday on top of the original 300 that we sprinkled about campus. I guess it must have been a slow news day. This response is tardy because I spent my Friday and Saturday evenings doing more important stuff than typing things on the internet.

If the Guardian runs any more articles on us I'm going to file a restraining order or ask for a hand job. I haven't decided which yet—groupies can be touchy.

Clarifications and details on Christine Kwon's Thursday article after the jump, along with a note on (our) anonymity.

YouCSD.com has been informed of an upcoming press conference to be held by the Associated Students and the Graduate Student Association, intended to explain the current co-op situation. From the press advisory –

UCSD THREATENS TO EVICT STUDENT CO-OPS, BANS STUDENT GOVERNMENTS FROM NEGOTIATIONS

The Associated Students and the Graduate Student Association of UCSD have scheduled a public press conference in the North Conference room of the Student Center at UCSD on Monday, October 11, at 1:30 P.M., to explain the situation and current developments regarding threats by UCSD administrators toward the co-ops and student governments.

This is definitely going to be an event to keep an eye on, as up until now we've mostly been privy to second-hand information and speculation. If you're curious, we have a copy of the press release available for download as a 54 KB PDF.

(Also, are you wondering what the holy hell that little "-30-" is doing at the end of the press release? It's a symbol meant to mark the end of some text. There's more explanation about the symbol here – I've been led to believe that "learning" can be "fun," so have at it.)

Exciting, gripping, important news! The Guardian reports today in the "Briefly" section that kids aged 8-18 would "rather vote for President George W. Bush than for Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) by a 10-point margin." Shocking, man, shocking! In other shocking news, kids aged 8-18 are stupid and there's a reason they aren't allowed to vote.

Kian Maleki, the A.S. Commissioner of Services, asked us to pass along news of a change in Triton Taxi. Don't worry, kids, Joe Watson hasn't succeeded in killing off Triton Taxi. The program has simply been replaced by a new program called A.S. Safe Ride.

The new program is the same as the old one. If it had a cheesy advertising campaign, the slogan would be "new name, same great service!" Word has it the name change was carried out to curtail students' usage of Triton Taxi as an actual taxi—to get to the store, the movies, that sort of thing. Now, A.S. Safe Rides can focus once again on dragging drunken revelers back home on Friday and Saturday nights.

UCSD students need to re-register to use the new program, which will take over for Triton Taxi after October 31st. Go to the senate chambers, on the third floor of Price Center, with your student ID so they can give you the new sticker. And don't ask us where the senate chambers are—we have no frickin' idea.

Oh, and while you're there, you might as well thank Kian Maleki for taking over from Kelly Vasant, whose inept handling of Cloud 9's contract last year cost us all $20,000 it shouldn't have. Also, thank A.S. for funding a program that's actually valuable and useful to students. You do like being able to escape from lame parties after you've single-handedly finished their one, lonely six-pack of Natty Ice, don't you?

Former Koala editor Bryan Barton got his ass kicked Friday afternoon on the Hump in the Old Student Center, reliable sources tell YouCSD.com. New editor and large man Brad Kohlenberg made short work of the girlish Barton, pummeling him repeatedly with boxing gloves to the point of vomit. And it was bloody vomit. Eyewitnesses reported that Barton flailingly attempted a surprise attack well after the point of his complete and utter defeat, even after the point of his twitching on the ground—and it didn't seem like he had been faking.

Was this a changing-of-the-guard ritual? Probably. Anyone with photos, please submit.

While speaking at Harvard last Tuesday, 68-year-old conservative Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia made a surprisingly non-prudish comment: that "sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged."

According to the Harvard Crimson article about the speech, the orgy comment came after Scalia "ridiculed the European Court of Human Rights’ 2000 decision striking down British legislation that bars group gay sex on the grounds that the law intruded upon private life" and the Justice "asked—rhetorically—how many individuals would have to be involved in a sex act for it to no longer qualify as 'private.'"

“Presumably it is some number between five and the number of people required to fill the Coliseum,” Scalia quipped.

UCSD's co-ops are in immediate danger of losing their spaces on campus, according to a pamphlet made available at the Food Co-op and the General Store in the Old Student Center. The co-ops, which include the above establishments, plus Groundwork Books and the Ché Cafe Collective, have been embroiled since last spring in on-again off-again talks with UCSD Student Affairs regarding tenency in the spaces.

Now, with the co-ops officially off-lease, Student Affairs has notified the organizations that they will be asked to vacate their spaces if an agreement cannot be reached by Friday, Oct. 15th. Student Affairs currently refuses to negotiate regarding the terms of the lease. It is unclear at this point whether negotiations will re-start before that date.

This is a big deal, both in terms of students' rights, and because of the essential services that the co-ops provide, such as not ripping you the hell off for food, books, and entertainment. Seriously, compare the Food Co-op's prices for soups and sandwiches to the (A.S.-run) Grove Cafe's. Do YOU want to be locked into paying upwards of $8 for lunch after October?

The co-ops are requesting that students push the issue to Chancellor Marye Anne Fox. The Chancellor's Chat is unfortunately over, but her office can be reached at 858-534-3135, or via e-mail at chancellor@ucsd.edu.

Developing. Anyone with information related to this story, feel free to use the submissions button to the right.

Former Unity Slate presidential candidate, and Muir Senior Senator Jeremy Cogan has announced his resignation from the Associated Students. In a press release sent out Wednesday, Cogan cited an inability to further "progressive" policy in the current A.S. council as a key reason for his departure.

Cogan also stated that he was working on a new progressive project, currently being coordinated with "other significant progressive leaders on campus." Lord knows what that might mean: Another run for president?

The real story here, though, is that 10 out of the 24 A.S. council members will be soon be brand new, and they will have been chosen by their respective college councils. Cogan's resignation accompanies three others this quarter, and the council's six freshman senator slots will be reappointed during fifth week. This is a huge chunk—nearly half—of this year's A.S. council that will not have been directly elected.

This is the council that determines how to spend over $1 million of your student fees. Shouldn't its members be elected by you?

Related article: Homophobe Resigns From A.S. Council

Some actually good news, if it's true. The Guardian reported today that no state money will be used to pay for Chancellor Fox's $6,500-a-month house. Apparently the university has funds "from a private donation given to [the university] years ago that has been used by the president to address the maintenance of chancellors' residences," UCOP's director of communications Brad Hayward is quoted as saying. Hey, it's still a ridiculous amount of rent, but at least it's not a ridiculous amount that we, and other California taxpayers, are paying for.

And remember how the whole reason Fox is getting the fancy rental property is because University House, her normal digs, was deemed uninhabitable? Well, according to Hayward, the rebuilding of that property will be funded by donations instead of taxpayer funds. Not sure which fat cat would be willing to cough up some cash just to give Fox a bangin' crib, but one is sure to materialize. We can sure hope.

Of course, the invitation to have tea parties on Fox's front lawn still stands.

See our original post about Chancellor Fox's housing here.

Marye Anne Fox will be hosting an online chat from 4pm-5pm on Wednesday, Sept 29th. All of us should take this chance to ask her why we are all paying 20% more in tuition this year while she is making $70,000 more than Dynes made last year. That puts her salary at a ridiculous $350,000!!!! And don't forget that the University (aka your tuition) is paying for her mansion on Mount Soledad too.

Ronald Reagan would be proud. The Associated Students will soon announce a major budget shortfall rumored to be around $60,000.

Not surprising to anyone who passed second grade math, the revenue from last year’s A.S. Enterprises was absurdly over-projected, leaving our student government with a magnificent deficit.

Rumored plans call for roughly $30,000 to come from the increasingly dwindling A.S. Reserves, while the remainder will be taken from current Associated Student line items.

But fuck, why not just further disproportionately cut services targeted at increasing UCSD’s diversity. Worked in last year's budget—didn’t it?

Welcome back to UCSD, everybody. You're here just in time to watch the city collapse under the weight of its own mismanagement. Feel free to grab something to drink, sit back, and enjoy the show.

Signaling it can no longer vouch for the fiscal health of America's seventh-largest city, a major Wall Street credit-rating agency yesterday suspended its ratings for San Diego because officials have yet to release an audit of the 2003 books.

... Standard & Poor's move is a heavy blow to San Diego's prestige, and brings a new layer of uncertainty to a city that has had its credit ratings lowered three times this year and is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI. The action's immediate effect is unclear, as the city is already unable to sell bonds because of the investigations.

No matter what you think of the situation, you really must admit that that's an epic collection of government agencies to be under investigation by. Color me impressed.

Last year, when commenting on the appointment of UCSD's new Chancelor, Jenn Pae, AS UCSD President, said

"I was very impressed the moment she walked into the room. The student support that she has had in addition to her teaching and her amazing credentials; that impressed me."

What Ms. Pae forgot to tells us is that Marye Anne Fox worked for and is a huge supporter of our awful president, George W. Bush. Marye Anne Fox has also contributed to the Republican National Committee. Thanks Jen Pae! I’m so happy to hear that the only student representation on the Chancellor's appointment committee fails us by bringing more right wing bullshit to this campus. I thought I would never say this, but I think I want Dynes back.

...Estancia La Jolla, a hotel just built and opened on June 1 located on North Torrey Pines Road across from the ERC dorms. It's on university-owned land, which UC whored—er, leased to the hotel for 65 short years.

UCSD used to have a hilarious little press release posted at ucsdnews crowing about how the hotel will supposedly give employment opportunities to students. But alas, it seems to have been taking offline (whereas the bogus employment opportunities were never there in the first place). Charmingly, it included the phrase "lunchtime massages," implying that UCSD students can take advantage of the rich person playground built on the edge of our campus by getting kneaded after chowing down at Wendy's. But wait! What about those of us who spent our lunchtime massage fund on a year's supply of ramen noodles? What do we get? Oh, right, jack shit. Cool. (I didn't want that happy ending anyway.)

Much to the consternation of UCSD’s many NASCAR fans, Revelle Junior Senator Ashley Aluisi announced her resignation five weeks into her term. Aluisi’s term was characterized by her incredible commitment to equality and diversity in the UCSD community.

Mustering her courage to represent two of UCSD’s most marginalized communities—the racists and homophobes—Aluisi fought hard to preserve the rights of UCSD’s underrepresented white heterosexual population.

Last year, when the Associated Students passed a resolution condemning the proposed constitutional amendment that would outlaw gay marriage and civil unions in America, Ashley Aluisi was one of two senators voting "no." She was also a major force against funding the Student Initiated Outreach and Recruitment Commission.

UCSD has less than 1% African Americans in its student population. Obviously that is 1% too many.

We will miss you Ms. Aluisi. You were truly an inspiration.

Bike theft already sucks, but when your ride gets boosted using a $0.08 plastic pen, it's even worse.

A 50-year-old lock design was rendered useless last week when a brief post to an internet forum revealed the lock can be popped open with a cheap plastic pen.
(source: Wired News)

I remember the white trash kids back in high school wearing "Straight Pride" t-shirts in response to the "Gay Pride" logos that a few brave souls sported on their shirts or backpacks. This shit makes me retch.

A federal judge today will consider a case that began with a provocative T-shirt and now pits freedom of speech against a school district's effort to protect gay students.

Tylar Chase Harper, 16, wore a T-shirt reading "Homosexuality is Shameful" to Poway High School last spring during a school-sponsored day meant to promote tolerance of gays and lesbians, according to the Los Angeles Times. Administrators told him the shirt violated school policy and that he would be suspended if he tried to wear it on campus.

On behalf of the teenager, the Alliance Defense Fund, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., filed a suit against the Poway Unified School District alleging Harper was being denied his constitutional rights, The Times reported.
(source: San Diego Union-Tribune)

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: fuck you, Religion.

What's that, CSU San Marcos? Oh, you're located in the redneck backwaters of SoCal and are afraid of leftist agitators? Well, that's a crying shame. Get ready for a big, fat (and I do mean fat) injection of Raving Liberal!

Filmmaker Michael Moore is not out of the picture for Cal State San Marcos, despite the university president's decision to uninvite him to campus.

The outspoken Oscar-winning Moore still may appear if California State University San Marcos student government can cut a deal on its own to bring him Oct. 13.
(source: San Diego Union-Tribune)

Great, now I can't wander down through the Cove at night and shout crude, drunken epithets at those shit-encrusted seals. I guess exposing myself to the children who reclaim the beach will have to suffice.

In a 5-3 vote, the San Diego City Council on Tuesday ordered immediate removal of a rope barrier that over the past five years has provided a buffer between humans and seals.

The council also agreed to proceed with a plan to dredge about half the beach to reduce the seals' resting area and, in theory, improve water quality by increasing tidal flushing.
(source: San Diego Union-Tribune)

My bad.

In one incident, the man — on the floor of a store while a 17-year-old girl browsed through a clothing rack — aimed the camera under the girl's skirt.
(source: San Diego Union-Tribune)

With the state of California — and UC along with it — imploding under the weight of massive budget shortfalls, UCSD's Little Miss Newbie Chancellor, Marye Ann Fox, will be ruling UCSD to the tune of $350,000 a year – a $69,300 increase over Dynes' salary. Not only that, but the La Jolla mansion the university will be renting for Fox is going to cost $6,500 a month.

A Union-Tribune article about Fox's sweet deal reports, "UCSD's counsel would not provide The San Diego Union-Tribune with the address for the home, despite a public records request and legal pressure," which means we're totally gonna track down its address (word is, it&'s on Soledad Avenue) and publish it here, because at $6,500 a month UCSD students should at least be able to have tea parties on that lucky bitch's front lawn, no?

Read the full Union-Tribune article here.

Inter-busboy violence, gasp!

A busboy at TGI Friday's stabbed another in the back with a butcher knife last night as they argued over who was supposed to clean up after a large party, police said.
(source: San Diego Union-Tribune)

This seems pretty stupid, since a policy against songs with "unsuitable lyrics" would turn every school dance into a marathon of the B-52's "Love Shack."

Oh, wait, those lyrics are naughty too.

Aw, poor Ashleigh keeps purging — let's buy her a pony, an Escalade, and send her to the Mandometer Clinic!

Rancho Bernardo is arguably one of the most wealthy areas of San Diego, so this makes sense.

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