On his cross-country tour to stump for President Barack Obama and Democratic Congressional candidates, President Bill Clinton visited the UC Irvine campus for the “California’s Voice” rally on Tuesday, Oct. 23. Exactly two weeks before election day, President Clinton spoke to the crowd of over 5,000 and issued his public endorsements of candidates Mark Takano (CA-41 Riverside), Julia Brownley (CA-26 Ventura), Scott Peters (CA-52 San Diego), Raul Ruiz (CA-36 Palm Springs) and Alan Lowenthal (CA-47 South Bay).

The night began with opening statements from the five Congressional candidates, each espousing their respective platforms, experi-ence and areas of focus if elected. After being introduced by the president of the UC Irvine College Democrats Jose Quintana, Local Congressional candidate Mark Takano of the 41st District took the stage to make his case for the Orange County crowd. He invoked the

line, “Don’t boo, vote!” each time the crowd booed his characterization of the Republican party. When describing his positions against those of his opponent, he said, “It’s the choice between common sense California values, and extreme Washington ideology.”

Clinton spoke for over half an hour on a variety of issues prevalent this elections sea-son and how President Obama and the local Congressional candidates on stage would address them. “It’s very important to realize that—particularly in California, because you are the state of the future, because you repre-sent every hope we have for living in a world of shared prosperity and shared responsibili-ties, a world where we embrace our diversi-ty—we are proud of our identity but we think our common humanity matters more,” said President Clinton. “It’s really important that we get the best Congress we possibly can to make the most of the next four years and turn back the reactionary tide.”

Although he spent a large portion of the

On Oct. 24, Chancellor Tim-othy White hosted his last town hall meeting, which included a campus overview presentation comprised of topics including Governor Jerry Brown’s Propo-sition 30 tax measure, the UCR Schools of Medical and Public Policy, fundraising campaign strategies, furthering research and economic development, and leadership transitions. With potential slashes of $250 mil-lion to the UC system if Propo-sition 30 does not pass, Chan-cellor White alluded to several approaches the system may take to account for the cut, includ-ing a student tuition increase of roughly 20 percent.

With much at stake for the current election season, Chan-cellor White highlighted a me-morial, signed by the UC Aca-demic Senate, which supported funding higher education bills inclusive of Prop 30. A memo-rial is the highest level of com-munication between the UCAS and Board of Regents. UC poli-cy prevents all staff and faculty from utilizing campus resources to express political viewpoints, with the exception of the Board of Regents, who have openly

expressed prior support for Governor Brown’s tax measure. Failure to pass Prop 30 would result in the system’s likely pur-suit of refinancing of debt, re-duced operating costs, possible changes in tuition to need-based financial aid, funding adjust-ments for retirement programs, and staggering tuition and fee increases.

“I don’t think the increase will be that much because there will be some savings like I’ve just said, but a big chunk of this will go right on the backs of stu-dents,” stated White.

In terms of the total under-graduate and graduate popula-tion, UCR has surpassed the 21,000 mark in enrollment for the first time in its history. A

goal of the UCR 2020 strategic plan, passed in 2011, includes increasing the total enrollment of graduate and professional students by 18 to 20 percent. The number of international students has doubled and the freshman class has enrolled an additional 400 undergraduates,

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Health care reform and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were the primary topics of part two of the Meet the Bal-lot Political Speakers Series on Tuesday, Oct. 23. Panelists included Dr. Bradley Gilbert, CEO of Inland Empire Health Plan, Lisa Folberg, Vice Presi-dent Medical and Regulatory Policy, California Medical As-sociation, Dr. Rebecca Patchin, Chair on the Board of Trustees for the American Medical As-sociation (AMA), and Dr. Mi-chael Nduati Associate Dean of Medical Affairs of the UCR School of Medicine. After a night of discussion, the gener-al consensus suggested needed reform to transform the ACA into a more workable policy, in terms of cost-control and extended coverage.

Signed into law on March 23, 2010 by President Barack Obama, the ACA is one of the most extensive regulatory health care laws since the en-actment of Medicaid in 1965. According to the moderator, Dr. Emma Simmons, many ad-ministrations have tried to do something to change the health care system but nothing has ever been done until now.

“Although we have the best medical care in the whole world, we spend double, triple, what other industrialized coun-tries do, but we fair poorly. On a [World Health Organization] list we are ranked 37 despite our spending and technology. We have a major problem for access in the country for the under and uninsured,” contin-ued Dr. Simmons.

When asked to simplify the ACA, the general consensus provided that financially-effi-cient health care coverage im-proves the overall quality and accessibility for all Americans.

Dr. Patchin pointed out that some Americans would be de-clined coverage through their insurance providers because they forgot to mark that they had acne on their insurance ap-plication. As a result, patients would be denied life-saving

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Last Thursday, UC River-side was presented with awards from two local organizations in recognition of its recent achievements in sustainability.

“It’s great getting recogni-tion for what we have accom-plished here on campus,” John Cook, the director of UCR’s Office of Sustainability, said of the two awards in a phone interview with the Highlander. “We’ve reduced green house gas emissions, implemented new green policies at UCR, improved transportation… there’s a lot more new technol-ogy,” he said.

UCR was named the “Green Organization of the Year” by the Southern California Cor-porate Growth Partners and the Minority Business Develop-ment Agency (SCCGP/MBDA) Business Center, an organi-zation funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Develop-ment Agency (MBDA). Keep Riverside Clean and Beautiful (KRCB), a community pro-gram sponsored by the city of Riverside and the Greater Riv-erside Chambers of Commerce (GRCC), presented the uni-versity with its “Outstanding Waste Management Award.”

The SCCGP/MBDA Busi-ness Center aims to stimulate job creation and retention and advance the economic growth of eligible minority owned companies. KRCB organizes community beautification projects focused on litter pre-vention, graffiti eradication and tree planting projects year round.

The two organizations pre-sented the awards on Oct. 25 at separate luncheons—one

in Riverside and the other in Rancho Cucamonga. Repre-sentatives from the Office of Sustainability were present at both events.

As a part of the 2012 Mi-nority Enterprise Development Week Awards at the SCCGP/MBDA Business Center, the “Green Organization of the Year” award recognizes the individual or organization’s leadership in promoting a sus-tainable environment, innova-

tion and renewable and clean energy.

KRCB’s Outstanding Waste Management Award recogniz-es the campus’ effort in waste diversion and between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012, UCR recycled a total of 3,799.43 tons of waste. The university’s several food waste, campus construction, and recycling programs have kept UCR at a diversion rate of nearly 80 per-cent from landfills.

“We have a great across-the-campus stakeholder com-munity. The students, faculty and staff are all involved,” said Cook.

He noted that although the awards recognize what UCR has accomplished so far, there is still work to be done.

“We need to get even more people involved... sustainabil-ity affects people in their work life and personal life,” Cook said.

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up from 2011-2012 to this year. The UCR School of Medicine

received accreditation on Oct. 2, which will allow the inaugural enrollment of 50 medical students begin their studies in August of 2013. Chancellor White explained the dynamic of increased student enrollment and the urgent need for sustained state funding for the medical school. “On the one hand, we’re celebrating an enormous success, the first public medical school in California in over 47 years...but at the same time we haven’t been able to extract any persistent dollars out of Sacra-mento,” stated Chancellor White, who added that continued advo-cacy for higher education will take place despite of inconsistent state funding.

With the accreditation for the UCR School of Medicine, stu-dents may now obtain a four-year medical education at UCR, instead of a mid-way relocation to UCLA. “The Thomas-Haider program, which has existed for 28 years, is not actually ending this year, it is transforming this year,” stated UCR School of Medicine Dean G. Richard Olds. “Historically for about the last 10 years, 24 students that did their undergraduate train-ing for at least six semesters, have

gone into the [program], for which they spent two years on our cam-pus and two years at UCLA.”

Currently accepting applica-tions on a rolling-basis, the new program will enroll 24 eligible UCR students and 26 will be slots open to the public, in which poten-tial medical school applicants can apply through the online American College Application Service (AM-CAS). With a 3:1 admissions ratio for UCR students, other candi-dates have a 10:1 chance in a pool of current applicants. Olds also noted that medical school deans are barred from the admissions process.

Assigned by Chancellor White, the search for a founding dean of the UCR School of Public Policy is currently spearheaded by Exec-utive Vice Provost Dallas Raben-stein. Deriving from the existing UCR faculty, the candidate is ex-pected to be selected by late No-vember or early December.

Through a research and eco-nomic development plan, Chan-cellor White aims to expand a comprehensive fundraising cam-paign through private support, cor-porate partnerships and alumni re-sources. “Over the last five years, our ability to raise funds has now started to grow exponentially. This all occurred...in a very difficult economy where discretionary re-

sources have been hit exponential-ly,” stated White, who anticipates a five percent annual improvement in total yearly research funding due to the opening of the School of Medicine.

“But of equal strategic im-portance for us is to get students engaged in cultural philanthropy while they’re still with us, so when they leave us as alumni, they stay engaged.” Last year’s senior class pledged $25,532, which will fund services for student veterans at UCR.

Expanding communications in-clude a 75 percent increase of over 17,500 in UCR Facebook fans, along with 15.5 million visits to UCR’s homepage. Including the 34.7 million page views to UCR’s Living the Promise campaign, nearly 74.1 million impressions have been left through online news outlets, social blogs or even hashtag references.

Lastly, leadership transitions will include the replacement of in-terim Vice Chancellor of Finance and Business Operations Chuck Rowley through which airport in-terviews will be conducted in late-November. A search committee led by Dean of the UCR Graduate Division seeks to fill in the soon-vacant position of retired Univer-sity Librarian Ruth Jackson. In succession of Michele Coyle, Da-

vid Bergquist was named interim General Counsel effective Nov.1.

Launching a search for UCR’s next chancellor, UC Vice Provost Aimee Dorr collected input from the UCR community on Oct. 18. A search committee will select a candidate for interim chancellor, who will be sent for regental ap-proval during the Nov. 13 to 15 bimonthly UC Board of Regents meeting. The overall search for a permanent chancellor may range from six to 18 months.

“As I have told President Yudof and Provost Dorr...that the question for them and for us is to not ask a new chancellor what we should be doing but to ask a new chancellor this is where we’re going, how are you going to help us get there?” said Chancellor White. “And that should be the criterion by which a new chancellor is chosen. UCR is in a position of strength and don’t ever doubt that.”

In regards to his departure, Chancellor White expressed the difficult decision to fulfill a greater role in the California and not due to any ill-will toward the campus. “You individually and the campus in the larger, greater Riverside community collectively will re-main a part of me and my family forever. My many thanks, distinct priviledge really, of serving you as your chancellor,” stated White.

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Assembling for the weekly Senate meeting on Oct. 25, ASU-CR members reported on campus-wide projects to strengthen bonds within the student body, which began across the board. A special elections meeting was conducted on Monday, Oct. 22, which saw the instatement of CNAS Senator Ahlam Jadallah to the student gov-ernment. President Pro-Tempore Sai Patadia and head of the Leg-islative Review Committee (LRC) motioned for the passage of a pub-lic relations and outreach bylaw for greater transparency purposes. During the public forum, a student proposed the entry of food truck venues to increase dining diversity options on campus.

According to chapter six and item 13 of the ASUCR Elections Code, a special elections meeting may be held to fill a vacated sen-ate seat. “Due to the change in the Constitution, any representa-tive from any of the three colleges (CNAS, CHASS, BCOE) could fill the vacant spot in Senate,” Special Elections Director Harmony Chai told the Highlander. The meeting was open to the UCR campus, where speeches were heard by the top two alternates of each college from the previous election cycle. ASUCR senators voted in favor of Ahlam Jadallah, who will be succeeding former CNAS Senator Martin Maduakor.

Announced by Senator Patadia, the LRC passed a public relations bylaw in order to encourage great-er accountability between ASUCR and the student body. An outreach bylaw was also passed, which now includes a clarification section that specifies certain roles of general

outreach members. Lastly, Sena-tor Patadia announced finalized efforts to restructure the brand-new ASUCR constitution, by fix-ing grammatical errors, renewing senatorial positions and updating bylaws.

Taking the podium during the public forum period, Campus Ambassador of Student United Way (SUW) Elliot Thompson re-quested ASUCR support for his food truck proposal. Establishing initial collaborations with Senator Chris Salvador and Brian Leung, Thompson hopes to allow food trucks temporary on-campus entry to expand an ethnically-diverse ar-ray of healthy and vegetarian op-tions. Thompson seeks to network through ASUCR in order to garner student input about possible food options. A flat-rate passage fee for food venues may potentially raise revenue for student organizations that partake in the festivities, while creating greater campus involve-ment.

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During the public forum, a student addresses the ASUCR senate about a food truck proposal.

1. Over 800 students were registered to vote during the final voter registration day

on Oct. 22; continuing efforts will include the Get Out the

Vote (GOTV) initiative.

2. Free pizza, senatorial pho-tos and a public whiteboard drew attention to the “Meet the Senate” event located at

the HUB Plaza last week. Students were given a chance to interact with ASUCR sena-tors and learn about campus-

wide initiatives.

3. To increase campus in-volvement, portable storage units may one day be pro-

vided to organizations during weekly nooner events.

4. Works-in-progress include the Big Buddy program,

which involves matching a fellow UCR student with a first year, while maintain-

ing contact throughout their college career. A Cubbies-for-Commuters program is

also starting up to provide a storage space for on-the-go

students.

5. Discussions with UCR Director of Housing Andy Plumley has bred the idea of renovating the Barn to

include surrounding buildings

and ultimately a Barn Plaza.

6. To increase ASUCR public relations, plans for a GPS-monitored weather

balloon launch is currently underway, which will be

located at the Bell Tower.

7. Collaborations with CNAS Dean Marylynn Yates

involve the planning of Discovery Day to showcase graduate research on-cam-pus and a UCR-version of the Long Nights of Arts &

Innovation.

8. Recent GCAP projects include a waste character-

ization project as an effort to improve composting and recycling practices. Addi-tional funding was passed to support the solar panel program in Lot 30 for one

year.

9. Future on-campus events include a Fear factor tour-nament, which is still in its

initial stages and a Guinness World Record event, sched-uled for next year’s Home-

coming.

10. Senators are looking into the possible distribu-tion of snack packs during midterm or finals’ week.

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On Oct . 9 , the Princeton Review recog-nized the UCR School of Business Admin-is t ra t ion (SoBA) among the nat ion’s best business schools in i ts “The Best 296 Busi-ness Schools : 2013 Edi t ion.” The Prince-ton Review doesn’t rank the schools f rom number 1 to 296; instead 11 categories are created where the top 10 business schools are acknowledged.

The Princeton Review conducted a na-t ionwide evaluat ion of business school based on academic programs and inst i tu-t ional data provided by facul ty, s taff and community input . Student input was also col lected through an 80 quest ion survey, re leased by the Princeton Review.

SoBA received an esteemed ranking due to their academic inspirat ion to the s tu-dents . According to SoBA, they focus on two sets of themes: the f i rs t is “Innovat ion, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth,” and the other is “Leadership, Strategic Thinking and Personal Growth.” The grad-uate program seeks to make s tudents into entrepreneurial scholars and world-wide leaders in their future careers . Establ ished in 1972, SoBA was the f i rs t research-based professional school in the Inland Empire . Not only does SoBA have the largest un-dergraduate program, but i t i s a lso home to the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management .

UCR SOBA NAMED IN PRINCETON REVIEW

On Oc t . 13 , t he UCR Alumni Assoc ia -t ion and the Founda t ion Board o f Trus t ees hos t ed i t s annua l Chance l lo r ’s D inne r, wh ich inc luded s tuden t en te r t a inmen t and the Alumni Awards o f D i s t inc t ion . Chan-ce l lo r Whi t e awarded Mayor Ron Lov-e r idge and Marsha Lover idge the UCR Meda l l ion . As ide f rom the meda l l ion , t h ree a lumni were each awarded the The Di s t ingu i shed Alumnus Award , A lumni Se rv ice Award and Ou t s t and ing Young Alumnus Award . Fo r the pas t fou r yea r s , t he annua l d inne r has been he ld to honor p rominen t con t r ibu to r s t o the R ive r s ide

communi ty.Ron Lover idge has been the mayor o f

R ive r s ide fo r t he l a s t 18 yea r s , a fu l l -f l edged r e s iden t fo r a lmos t 50 yea r s and a UCR meda l l ion nominee fo r h i s ph i l -an th rop ic con t r ibu t ions to R ive r s ide . Ac-co rd ing to UCR Today, he was awarded the meda l l ion due to h i s v i s ions , l ead-e r sh ip and t r ans fo rma t ive impac t on the communi ty. As a p ro fes so r o f po l i t i ca l s c i ence a t UCR, he has he lped s tuden t s by p rov id ing in t e rnsh ip oppor tun i t i e s i n the r ea l wor ld tha t wou ld con t r ibu te to the i r fu tu re goa l s and a sp i r a t ions .

UCR MEDALLION AWARDED TO RIVERSIDE MAYOR AND WIFE

UCR Chance l lo r Timothy Whi te recen t ly s igned a memorandum of unders tand ing wi th Pres iden t Kar l -Die te r Gruske o f Fr iedr ich-Al -exander Univers i t ä t (FAU) , Er langen-Nürem-ber. On Oct . 5 , the memorandum was s igned a t UCR’s Alumni and Vis i to r s Cente r. Through the memorandum of unders tand ing , UCR and FAU wi l l now engage in ach iev ing common ac-ademic goa l s wi th in the i r r espec t ive un ivers i -t i e s .

Both un ivers i t i e s seek to inc rease c iv ic s tu -den t pa r t i c ipa t ion by c rea t ing more awareness about p rob lems a ffec t ing each separa te commu-ni ty. Communi ty ac t iv i t i e s may inc lude v i s i t s and in formal exchanges o f facu l ty, jo in t con -fe rences , and jo in t research p rograms and co l -l abora t ions . Another goa l i s to o rgan ize g loba l awareness even ts meant to mold ind iv idua l s in to l eaders , who wi l l t ake on a pos i t ive ro le in the i r communi ty.

UCR and FAU d id no t s imply focus on the i r ind iv idua l s goa l s , bu t may poss ib ly co l labora te to c rea te a 3+2 program. In th i s p rogram, FAU s tuden ts wi l l be ab le to s tudy fo r th ree years a t the i r un ivers i ty and then t rans fe r to UCR to comple te two more years . The program wi l l end in f ive years where s tuden ts wi l l r ece ive a bache lor ’s degree in eng ineer ing f rom FAU and a mas te r ’s degree f rom UCR. Through th i s program, s tudents wil l be able to f inish a year ear l ier and wil l gain internat ional experience.

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evening discussion national politics and the presidential election, Clinton took time to address the circumstanc-es of California and particularly, the circumstances of the largely college-aged crowd. “I have tried to be a friend of California,” said Clinton. “When I was president I came here 29 times in just my first term. Be-cause of all the economic challenges that California faced back in ‘92, I have been through this before. And I just want to say a few things to set the stage for the candidates here, and those in the audience and the issues and we’re facing and the choices be-fore us. Because I remember what it was like. And I saw California flat of its back and I saw California come roaring back to lead America into the 21st century. First of all, we live in a world. Not just a state, not just

a nation, a world. Full of enormous possibilities represented by you, and by UC Irvine and by the finest sys-tem of public higher education ever created that has been under assault now for years by the economy and from the Republican party.”

When addressing his reasons for endorsing Takano, Clinton cited his experience as a public school teach-er and a trustee of a community col-lege. In the process, Clinton touched on some of the difficulty faced by public higher education to meet the growing employment demands of the science and technology job mar-kets. “If every school in the UC sys-tem, let’s say, got this information at the beginning of every year. ‘Here’s what the profile is, here’s what America needs, here’s what Califor-nia needs,’ here it is, at least tell the students. Tell them so they’ll know.

Give them this information. This is the kind thing that a practical, non-ideological caring person who actu-ally has helped to run a community college network will do for you, and the best reason to elect Mark Takano to the United States Congress.”

The reaction from UCI students after the event was one of enthu-siasm. “Getting the chance to see President Clinton speak for the Democratic Party at UC Irvine was inspirational and motivating,” said Deshani Senewiratne, a fourth-year international studies major at UC Ir-vine. “His support of education for students stirs passion and renews our hope and commitment for the future. President Clinton reminded us that with action and courage, it is important to pave the future for our generation and future generations to come.”

treatments such as sur-gery or chemotherapy. Dr. Patchin supported the ACA because the act provided more access, where prob-lems like this “donut hole coverage” problem could be solved.

Dr. Lisa Folberg men-tioned that the ACA expand-ed government programs, yet restricted insurance agencies in terms of funding for patient care, while limit-ing profit.

First and foremost, Dr. Gilbert stated that he sup-ported the ACA, but ques-tioned how much the act has improved the overall health care system. By providing more affordable access to insurance, he wondered why the ACA did not provide di-

rect access to care. The In-surance Exchange provided by this bill will make in-surance cheaper, but one of the problems lies in the fact that there is no cost control. People might pay the fine created rather than pay to be covered because they find the fine more affordable or making better sense than to make such an expensive long term investment.

Overall, the panelists agreed that the ACA needs work, and lent a hand to attendees to make the fine print of the complex law much more comprehensible.

Part three of the Before the Ballot Political Speaker Series takes place on Oct. 30 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Lo-cated in HUB 302, the topic for the night is the debate over gay marriage.

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The Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts at UC Riverside, ac-tive since 1996, was honored by the Max H. Gluck Founda-tion Oct. 13 for its collabora-tive effort to integrate art with local outreach.

“This award was for our long service with [the Max H. Gluck foundation],” stated Christine Leapman, coordina-tor of the UCR Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts. Although we’ve been [here] longer than 15 years, this was for our 15th year.”

The event took place at the Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles for the bi-annual dinner of the Gluck Founda-tion. All programs associ-ated with the foundation sent representatives to the event where members got a chance to network and converse about possible outreach practices. Approximately 23 programs af-filiated with the Gluck Founda-tion were in attendance.

Leapman, along with the director of the program, Pro-fessor Erika Suderburg, Senior Executive Director of Develop-ment, Marie Schultz, and asso-ciate dean of the UCR College of Humanities, Arts and So-cial Sciences (CHASS), Shaun Bowler, all accepted the acco-lade, which was a framed print created by Sister Mary Corita Kent. The print was presented to them by Board President of the Gluck Foundation, Jon Kas-

wick. “I was very excited and

proud to go receive it from Dr. Kaswick,” Leapman said. “[I was] very happy to be repre-senting UCR.”

The Gluck fellows program hosts numerous events cele-brating art such as Gluck Day of the Arts, Summer Camp for the Arts and the First Sundays programs at the Sweeney Art Gallery and the California Mu-seum of Photography—an off-campus CHASS department of UCR. According to the Gluck Fellows’ website, the purpose of the program is to “create opportunities for students and faculty of the departments of art, creative writing, dance, history of art, music and the-atre to bring their creativity to Riverside County venues, such as schools, elder care facilities and community centers.”

Leapman has been involved with the Gluck Fellows pro-gram on campus since 2008. Since her arrival, she has seen the program grow to include the Alvord Unified School District in its outreach efforts. Raised in the city of Riverside, Leapman is an alumnus of UCR and previously worked in the arts administration of her own company in London, United Kingdom.

“The Gluck Foundation is confident in our abilities and that they appreciate the work that we’re doing. They recog-nize the importance of the con-tribution that our fellows make to the community,” stated Leap-

man in response to the award. She also made references

to possible outreach areas that the Gluck Fellows program has yet to embark on such as health care facilities including hospic-es and hospitals. Currently, the arts program is working with the California Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, who is this year’s Gluck artist and resident. They are collaborating on an anti-bullying project titled, “I promise Joanna.”

For Leapman, she described the work she has done as being fulfilling. “I very much enjoy it. It keeps me very busy. I get to meet a lot of people and I get to express my creative side as well,” expressed Leapman.

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The UCR Gluck Fellows Program is honored by Camilla Townsend, executive director of the Max H. Gluck Foundation (left).

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co u Rt E s y o f GL u c k fE L L o W s PR o G R a m o f t h E aRt s at ucRBallet Folklorico de UCR event takes place at the Riverside Highgrove Library.

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The UCR Center for Bib-liographic Studies and Re-search (CBSR) has received a grant of $250,000 from the Institute for Museum and Li-brary Services. The award is dedicated to the Un Catalogo Colectivo de Impresos Latino Americanos hasta 1851, or the CCILA, which is an ongo-ing project of the CBSR that looks to catalog printed work of Latin American and the Philippines. The grant will enhance the size of the data-base, as well as scholars’ ac-cess to Latin American works dating back to 1851.

CBSR is a research center that catalogs and archives a variety of works. Accord-ing to its website, the center “seeks to support and encour-age intra- and extramural study in its chosen areas of specialization.”

The grant will provide stu-dents with further access to early Latin American works that were previously difficult to track down or obtain. The project is composed of two phases. This grant funds the second phase of the CCILA project, which is the expan-

sion of the database to in-clude more sources of early Latin American works from other libraries, and consoli-date them into one. Phase two will double the size of the da-tabase.

The first phase of the proj-ect has already been com-pleted. It involved importing significant printed bibliogra-phies and library catalogs into a file of approximately 60,000 entries from about 500 librar-ies. Written works are trans-lated in Portuguese, Spanish and original native languages.

Expansive cataloging of Latin American literature is known for being a greatly un-derstudied area, according to UCR Today. The long-term goal of the project is to en-able scholars of Latin Ameri-can bibliographic studies to have an open avenue to the printed material, heretofore exclusive, to academia and UCR. The catalog, available at the CBSR website, is a free resource open to all students.

In a press release, Brian Geiger, the director of the CBSR, commented on the grant they received from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). “IMLS’s support will pro-foundly transform research based on early Latin Ameri-

can printing,” he said, “and will go a long way to provid-ing the unified catalog that scholars and librarians have sought for decades.” Created in 1996, the IMLS is an in-dependent U.S. agency that provides most federal funding to museums and libraries na-tionwide.

According to the CBSR website, since the project’s inception, Geiger has visited libraries all across the globe

in hopes of soliciting partici-pation from as many sources as possible to contribute to the CCILA. His travels have taken him to libraries in Latin America, North America and Europe.

As reported by Geiger, in-terest in Latin American stud-ies has grown over the last few years and the timing of the research grant could not be better for the CBSR.

“North American interest

in the culture, history and art of the one-time Spanish and Portuguese sphere has in-creased dramatically in recent decades,” Geiger stated in a press release.

The CBSR hopes to ca-ter to the growing interest in the Latin American culture by completing the remaining phase of the CCILA project with the help of the $250,000 grant that is currently funding the research.

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$250,000 grant awarded to fund bibliographical research project

WE s L E y nG/hiGhLandERLocated in Highlander Hall, the UCR Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research houses Latin American and Filipino literature.

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A team of UC Riverside computer scien-tists has received a $1.2 million grant from The National Science Foundation to mine data from pediatric intensive care units. Leading UCR computer science Professor Eamonn Keogh is working with professors of computer engineering, Dr. Walid Naj-jar and Vasilis Tsotras, to identify binary relationships, which may potentially save lives and reduce healthcare costs. Keogh is working closely with Dr. Randall Wetzel, a doctor from Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, as well as graduate student David Kale.

Through the creation of fast, specialized software, Professor Keogh’s team hopes to use algorithms to find patterns that will provide doctors with another resource of information for treating patients. Keogh plans to use a process called “Machine Learning,” in which a computer learns with more experience. Keogh related this to how an email inbox filters spam. Essen-tially, the two basic phases of this detailed operation are mining and monitoring.

Normally, vital sign data such as heart-beat, respiration rate and temperature is measured through sensors that are hooked up to a patient. Most of the data collected is discarded, since health physicians typi-cally only record numbers such as a pa-tient’s daily temperature.

This data, however, is on record at the Dr. Wetzel of the Children’s Hospital, which has stored a collection of archives for 10 years. The collection includes sets of data called a time series, which is used to keep track of a patient’s health over a pe-riod of time. Keogh claimed the easy part of the project is encoding the algorithms in the computer software at the hospital and having it constantly monitor for a rule. The challenging parts of the process is actually

finding the algorithms.“You want to find rules in data,” said

Keogh. “Most rules in the data though, are either wrong or trivial.” An example might be that one may find that people who have babies tend to be female. Although this is perfectly valid, it’s a rule that is already known.

Keogh and his team will display the results of all mined data as estimated per-centages on graphic charts. Any degree of uncertainty is commonly experienced in health examinations, due to a number of external factors that may affect the results. “The initial monitoring will occur by rep-licating patients through computer simula-tions, in which data will be gathered and monitored in real time,” states Keogh. Af-terwards, Keogh and his team can decide whether or not they have found something that should be brought to the attention of the medical community.

“Telling the algorithm what rule to find and containing that rule is really the great

challenge actually,” said Keogh. Once they propose a certain rule through pub-lishing papers, people may do follow-up studies to validate it. After validation, Keogh promotes his philosophy of re-producibility and claims the world can do what it wants with the information. How did they actually obtain an approval for their project’s money proposal? Early stages of experimentation involved the use of insect prototypes.

Most notably, Keogh and team re-ceived the best paper award this year for looking at a set of trillion data points—the largest mining data paper ever pub-lished. The team is well on their way to starting up their research that will im-prove the quality of pediatric care. “This kind of thing is very close to our hearts that we can make a medical difference. [And] my key to research is, if you can find something you’re passionate it in, it’s not work it’s basically fun at that point,” stated Keogh.

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Our nation is forward thinking, focused on matters immediate to our circumstances. We have been tested by slavery, war, civil rights and the Great Depression. We have pushed through adversity addressing socio-economic injustice, a struggle that continues. Today, we are in the grips of a devastating economic downturn and as we seek to restore our econo-my, never in our nation’s history has it been more important to give action, not words its proper due come No-vember. I premise the following by saying, “He who hangs from a poli-ticians promise hangs from a thread. Actions are a politician’s greatest measure.”

Not a member of Congress, on either side of the aisle, will deny that President Obama inherited the larg-est deficit in this nation’s history, at $10.626 trillion. When President Obama took office, the economy was losing 800,000 jobs a month. Now, we’ve seen 31 consecutive months of job growth and 5.2 million new pri-vate sector jobs. On the other hand, under the leadership of Governor Romney, the State of Massachusetts fell from 36th to 47th out of 50 states in job creation and lost more than 40,000 manufacturing jobs, twice the national average. Under Obama’s leadership, since January 2010, U.S. manufacturing has added 459,000 jobs—the most manufacturing job growth in a decade. The economy was in free fall when Obama took of-fice and he stopped the bleeding and turned the tide, a tide that has been like no other, given global economic dynamics.

When Romney supported bank-ruptcy of the auto industry, which would have given an edge to foreign imports, Obama stood firm and re-fused to turn his back on Americans, saving more than one million jobs. Romney, on the other hand, failed to protect jobs in Massachusetts, as governor, and outsourced state jobs to India. This is more than a numbers game; it is about doing the right thing

in difficult times. In the State of Texas, the unem-

ployment rate fell to 6.8 percent last month down from 7.9 a year ago. And in Central Ohio unemployment dropped below 6 percent, for the first time since the recession, to 5.7 per-cent last month, which was at 7.4 a year ago. Unemployment rates in 41 states fell to 7.8 percent down from 9 percent a year ago, but this trend does not play well for Romney’s cam-paign. So instead of hearing percent-ages you will hear unruly numbers from the Romney campaign because they are dramatic and divert your at-tention from an economy on the re-bound. But the trend is undeniable and gives credence to an economy being restored responsibly notwith-standing Republican’s refusal to pass Obama’s jobs stimulus bill.

President Obama not only prom-ised tax cuts to the middle class, but delivered, saving the average middle class family $3,600 annually, in his first term. Comparatively, Governor Romney cut taxes for himself and 278 of the wealthiest individuals, in Massachusetts, and went on to in-crease taxes and fees to the middle class.

Obama has developed a specific budget plan to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over 10 years, which in-cludes $1 trillion in spending cuts. His plan has been verified by the non-profit, non-partisan Tax Policy Center. The center also examined Romney’s proposal and determined that it would reduce federal revenues by $480 billion in 2015 and create a tax cut just this side of $5 trillion over 10 years, by increasing taxes on the middle class and decreasing taxes on the wealthy. Governor Romney left Massachusetts with a debt of $1 billion and borrowed $600 million to maintain basic government services, something he vowed never to do.

When weighing action and words, there is no question that Obama made promises regarding our economic circumstances based on collective and sound economic strategies, but he did not deliver. Neither did he an-ticipate a Republican controlled Con-

gress that would place their politi-cal agenda before the interest of the people and vow to make him their number one priority—a one term president. I can’t help but have ab-solute disdain for this position when our country suffers from conditions created by the Bush Administration. Despite these difficulties Obama has managed to turn an economy around and resurrect the idea that more than economics drive this nation. There are issues of social justice, equity and access on the line in November.

President Obama supported women in their struggle for equality and signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a bill that helps women fight against pay discrimination; a bill that Governor Romney refused to take a position on and a bill that his running mate, Senator Paul Ryan, opposed.

On the matter of gay rights, Obama committed his support to the gay community in their struggle for equal protection under the law, in all regards. Governor Romney, in response to the Massachusetts’s Supreme Court decision upholding gay marriages said, “I disagree…Marriage is an institution between a man and a woman. I will support an amendment to the Massachusetts constitution to make that expressly clear.”

Obama’s positions have been clear and consistent and Romney’s positions have been a moving target. One day Russia is our greatest threat, a nation that supported UN sanctions on Iran, the harshest in world history and the next day Iran is our greatest threat. Obama ended the Iraq War and brought all our troops home, a position Romney disagrees with.

President Obama supports the rights of women to make their own health care choices without politi-cal interference. Romney believes women’s health choices should be legislated by government and will seek to overturn Roe v. Wade. Presi-dent Obama supported funding of Planned Parenthood, one of the larg-est providers of women’s health ser-vices and Governor Romney vowed to eliminate all federal funding for

Planned Parenthood, directly affect-ing millions of women across this na-tion, as parents and employees.

In matters of education, President Obama’s budget doubles funding for Pell Grants and establishes an educa-tion tax credit. His student loan re-form has saved over $60 billion and prevented interest rate increases on student loans, creating greater access to higher education for low income households.

Romney, on the other hand, sup-ports education vouchers, which sends tax dollars to private institu-tions reducing funding for public ed-ucation. Romney said if you want to start a business or go to college, bor-row money from your parents. He has led a privileged life and sees the world through rose-colored glasses. This is not a fault, but a reality that does not exist for millions across this

nation.This election may lead to the steps

of the U.S. Supreme Court. Four sit-ting justices are over the age of 74, two Democratic and two Republican appointees. A vacancy on either side of this equation may affect decisions regarding gay marriage, women’s health, unlimited corporate campaign contributions, voting rights and affir-mative action.

Consequently, when weighing actions and words, actions do not lie. Therefore, if you are seeking sustainable economic growth, tax equity, foreign diplomacy, protection of our environment, social justice and looking to improve the overall health of this nation from the middle out, down and up then the choice is clearly President Obama. It is action not words that speak loudest in this matter.

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On Nov. 4, 2008, people every-where across the nation stood trans-fixed to their televisions, straining to catch a glimpse of whom our de-mocracy had decided would be fit-test to shepherd our country out of a recessionary disaster. And in an over-whelming victory Barack Obama was swept into office with the wind of huge popular support at his back to staunch the bleeding of jobs, disen-tangle ourselves from the morasses in the Middle East, and pass legislation on immigration and climate change. The nation collectively held its breath as it waited to see if President Obama could deliver on his message of hope and change.

It’s been a long four years.According to Gallup, President

Obama’s approval ratings are down 19 points from his post-election high four years ago. The RealClearPolitics polling average shows that a major-

ity believes that the nation is headed in the wrong direction. Immigration and climate change bills never mate-rialized, and the tension surrounding the country’s rocky relationships in the Middle East has ratcheted up. And the real unemployment rate remains at 14.7 percent.

President Obama’s second cam-paign is remarkably devoid of change, or hope. This time, it is Mitt Romney who now represents the country’s best hope for change.

To be sure, no single person could have solved crises so great in number and magnitude in only four years. And President Obama has taken posi-tive action to stem the loss of jobs, as well as making great strides on a num-ber of social issues. But though these accomplishments are positive on the surface, they belie a more pessimistic story when viewed through a magni-fying glass. The vast majority of bills passed through Congress during Pres-ident Obama’s tenure occurred during the first two years—when Democrats

were firmly in control of Congress. In 2010 the story changed. Though the Senate remained in Democratic hands, Republicans won control of the House of Representatives. With that, the legislative process ground to a halt. Congress passed 385 public and private laws from 2009 to 2010. That number was sliced in half during the following two years, and many of those laws were only temporary stopgap measures that never became permanent.

The dysfunction of Washington was epitomized by the debate over raising the debt ceiling during the summer of 2011. A necessary mea-sure to avoid defaulting on the na-tion’s debt was mutated into a holy crusade against spending that almost led to the country defaulting, implod-ing the entire world economy. Presi-dent Obama, to his credit, extended an olive branch numerous times to House Republicans. But they single-mindedly thumbed their noses at the peace offering, resulting in a hair-rais-

ing roller coaster ride that ended only when a vote to raise the debt ceiling was traded for a promised $1 trillion in cuts. But again due to Washington dysfunction, the $1 trillion in cuts never materialized. Now, defense, education, infrastructure and myriad important budget items are on the chopping block. Should Congress fail to act, these programs will all receive the axe.

Frankly, if President Obama is reelected, it doesn’t seem likely that he’ll be able to avert catastrophe. House Republicans have refused to compromise with the president, lead-ing to a political paralysis that has prevented action on pressing issues, including government assistance to ensure lower food prices, action on energy development, and most damningly, the inability to pass a budget. Does anyone really believe that the same Republicans who so vo-ciferously stonewalled anything the President put forward will suddenly have an epiphany about the power of

compromise and cooperate with the president after the elections? Anyone who thinks that the anti-Obama fever of House Republicans will break af-ter November 6 and a glorious age of cooperative lawmaking will be ush-ered in is delusional. They have been convinced that shadows are reality; a second term for Barack Obama will not make them leave Plato’s meta-phorical cave.

But House Republicans would be willing to see the light and work with a President Romney. Instead of Presi-dent Obama’s offering of votives in vain to petulant House Republicans, Governor Romney would be able to convince them to come to the table ready to compromise. If President Obama is reelected, the mandatory $1 trillion in cuts will likely devastate the country’s economy, not because President Obama wants it to occur, but because he will be powerless to stop House Republicans from driving

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No one ever thinks of vot-ing for the little man. Some may disagree with me and say that they support the under-dog, but America’s “two-party system” has dominated the po-litical race thus far. President Obama and Governor Romney seem to be the only options be-ing considered. Hardly anyone accepts the fact that students, including myself, have dwelt on contrary alternatives; spe-cifically for a candidate that may have a hard time getting elected, but is nonetheless another viable choice and is someone whom I will be cast-ing my vote for.

Gary Johnson first felt like a replacement to the previous Libertarian ticket holder, Ron Paul. Although Ron Paul was unfairly looked down upon by most political analysts, many supported his cause. This was until Romney became the of-ficial Republican nominee, and now that the debates be-tween the president and the Massachusetts governor have been re-televised all over the networks and discussed as a rattling pursuit for higher elec-tion polls, people have ignored their other contender. John-son’s progression in the battle for president has been slow, but well sought-out, and he be-gets interesting questions and well-to-be deliberated con-trasting views.

Governor Johnson has ad-vocated for a change in big government, such as ridding the elections of unfair advan-tages caused by the shunning of involvement from other po-litical parties. The reason that the third party politicians have been looked down upon is be-cause the Democrats and the

Republicans have been provid-ed with the best funding pos-sible; this makes it easier for the two-party system to stay intact. Without a change such as expanding on the national debates by allowing other run-ners to participate, this coun-try will be stuck in a black and white spectrum. Now, our country has been brought up to believe that our vote is wasted if we do not support a failing system. So, who do we vote for? Well, which can-didates can even be believed these days? The Pulitzer Prize winning website PolitiFact summarizes this: Romney’s statements are 31 percent true (another 27 percent being half true), Obama’s are recorded as 45 percent true (also an ad-ditional 27 percent being half true), and Gary Johnson sits with a comfortable 76 percent true and none being complete-ly false (indicated by the web-site’s “pants on fire category”). I know these are just statistics, but I’m sending in my vote for Johnson because I believe we need a change in how the gov-ernment works and because I want a national crackdown on spending, less interference abroad on our part, the right to bear arms, a redefining in the drug laws, affordable energy, a beneficial and simple way for illegal immigrants to rightfully become citizens, increased ac-cess to health care with a re-duced cost, better education, elimination of the business tax and Internal Revenue service, and soon a progression that will put America back on its well deserved pedestal.

Less interference abroad is an important issue in the long drawn out foreign policy de-bates. Both candidates, Rom-ney and Obama, have equally

promised to end all wars, pull out troops and decrease Ameri-can intervention in foreign af-fairs. This is all well and good, but what about deploying more soldiers into Afghanistan, budging into Libya and using a threat of war as a tactic against Iran? Obama has been the ad-vocator for all three of these previous decisions.

What about Obama’s chal-lenger? Romney will influ-ence more turmoil is what the democrats say, and Obama has specifically commented that Romney has “often talked as if we should take premature mili-tary action.” Let’s look at the facts: Obama has failed to im-prove America’s status in the Muslim World; he has failed to establish a reasonable amount of residual troops in foreign countries; and he has failed to strong-arm Israel. I am not a fan of Romney’s foreign poli-cies, especially since most of them sit in agreement with the current president’s. The most recent debate is proof of that.

Either way, while the ma-jorities bicker, the only third party candidate to have their name on the ballot in all 50 states, Gary Johnson, has fully addressed the issues abroad with honesty. He admits to America’s faults rather than pulling out blurbs of numbers and rationalizing poor deci-sions, saying that there should be “no foreign aid spending unless it predicts U.S. inter-ests.” He believes that a tough national defense should be the last of our country’s concerns, and, when reflecting upon the $16 trillion deficit, it is clear that the people of the United States should not be involved in foreign policy programs because the protection of the nation’s domestic interests is

more important.Another immensely signifi-

cant matter is the economy. The president’s campaign has focused on the statistical im-provements and allegations that the Bush administration is still at fault for everything. Of course, the republicans con-tinue to blame the democrats, claiming that Obama has left his guarantees on the side of the road. Mr. Romney is cer-tain that President Obama has made the recession worse, in-creased unemployment and “added almost as much debt as all the prior president’s com-bined.” Naturally, on the op-posite side of the spectrum, Obama promotes exactly what Romney says he hasn’t been

doing; he is going to create jobs and keep a watch on gov-ernment spending because ac-cording to him he has saved the United States from another great depression.

Remember, these are all just contentions used to win the votes of the undecided people. Johnson boldly comes clear and easily states that we are borrowing too much, a state-ment Romney has also made, but the New Mexico Gover-nor emphasizes our faults with printing money. He also be-lieves the real answers lie with a budget proposal made with-out the intent to please each side’s headstrong beliefs, and rather to come to a balanced

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the car over the fiscal cliff. Gover-nor Romney would have the power to broker a deal and thereby prevent our fragile economy from collapsing overnight.

Despite the empty rhetoric both candidates employ on the campaign stump, Governor Romney is not a conservative. He is a moderate. His long struggle in the Republican pri-mary is evidence of that. He managed to secure victory in his 2002 cam-paign for the governorship of heavily Democratic Massachusetts by almost the same margin that then-Senator Obama won in his race for the presi-dency. His tenure as governor featured him working with the huge Demo-cratic majorities in the state legislature to pass a state ban on assault weapons, increased penalties for drunk driv-ers and a health care reform law that expanded coverage to 98 percent of Massachusetts. Famously, it served as President Obama’s model for his own health care reform bill. In addi-tion, one of the jobs of the president is to work with hundreds of conflicting interests and manage their demands. This simple fact results in presidents forced into pragmatism and modera-tion, something even Ronald Reagan found it incumbent upon himself to do.

Although both candidates are guilty of oversimplifying complex problems, Governor Romney has raised serious issues that the Demo-cratic Party fails to address. His plan to reform Social Security is a start. Because Social Security is funded by workers to pay for the retired, and our population is gradually aging, there is less funding for Social Security and more payouts to retirees. This is not a complicated problem; it’s only arithmetic, as Bill Clinton would put it. But Democrats continue to insist that there is no problem with Social Security and it is solvent into the fore-seeable future. Governor Romney’s plan to repair the Social Security pro-gram is itself by no means perfect, but having a plan is a starting point for a dialogue, and is infinitely better than having no plan, as is the case with the Democrats.

In the areas where the president has latitude to take action on his own, Governor Romney’s positions are not much different from President Obama’s. Governor Romney sup-ported the president’s course of action in Egypt, where Egyptians deposed despotic Hosni Mubarak in a revo-lution. Both candidates declared that they “will stand with Israel if it’s at-tacked,” and supported “crippling sanctions” against Iran. The distinc-tion between the two candidates is

more stylistic than it is based on pol-icy. If anything, Governor Romney displayed a better understanding of the world than most candidates, rec-ognizing that the United States’ rela-tionship with China is symbiotic, not parasitic, and observing that the Unit-ed States needs to maintain a positive relationship with Pakistan because of its geopolitical importance, despite re-cent calls to eliminate support for the country.

Governor Romney is certainly not correct on all the issues; for that mat-ter, neither is President Obama. But a Romney Presidency would look much different from a second Obama Presi-dency. Critical issues that our country needs to solve, such as energy policy and entitlement reform, will be ad-dressed. The nation’s foreign policy, better than it has been in years, will be fine-tuned. And most importantly, laws will actually be passed. Unlike President Obama, Governor Rom-ney will be able to moderate between House Republicans and Senate Demo-crats to form difficult compromises our country desperately needs. President Obama is a good person with good ideas. But through no fault of his own, he simply lacks the leadership author-ity to change ideas into reality. Gover-nor Romney will be able to translate ideas into action and do his country a great service in the process. co u Rt E s y o f R E a s o n.c o m

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The good ‘ole USA has always been numero uno, right brother? Number one! What exactly are we number one at, though? I’m pretty sure we got that diabetes thing on lock down, but what else? It turns out there is another strange statis-tic that we dominate at: incarcera-tion. The U.S. leads the world in prison inmates at 2.3 million crim-inals behind bars. That means one in every 100 Americans is locked up. And now we have a proposi-tion on the ballot that could knock us off this number one spot? I say go for it, I’m tired of being num-ber one. We have held this ranking for too long.

Under the current three-strikes law, a person convicted of a felo-ny who has two or more serious or violent felonies is sentenced to 25-to-life, regardless of the latest crime. Proposition 36 revises the three-strikes law so that you must be convicted of a serious or vio-lent third felony to be given life in prison. It will offer re-sentencing for offenders serving life sentenc-es if their third-strike conviction was not serious or violent. Con-victs that commit felonies involv-ing firearms along with serious or violent crimes still fall under the three-strikes law and it will be up-held to them.

According to the LA Times,

Scott Andrew Hove, who has an arrest record of burglary, drug possession and theft charges, was arrested last year at a Lake Elsinore Home Depot for steal-ing $20.94 worth of merchandise. Because of California’s current three-strikes law he is now look-ing at life in prison. Hove is 45 years-old and according to KPBS, keeping an inmate in prison from the age of 37 to 77 will cost Cali-fornia taxpayers $4 million dol-lars. Justice is served, though! We caught this hardened criminal stealing a whopping 20 bucks!

Prop 36 has been designed specifically for this reason. The only harm this man is causing to California is the fact that we have to pay to keep him incarcerated. I’m all for having murderers and rapists locked behind bars but this is outrageous—a man steals $20 of merchandise and now we have to shell out $4 million? All while cities in California like San Bernardino are seeking out bank-ruptcy protection. We need to pri-oritize where taxpayer money is going.

By reducing the amount of non-violent offenders, this revi-sion to the three-strikes law can save California anywhere from $100 to $200 million every single year. Rather than putting in repeat drug offenders we can create drug programs with the saved money

to get them treatment rather than incarceration. This prop would, at the same time, save the state mon-ey and also reduce the ever grow-ing population problems within our prison institutions.

If Prop 36 is approved by vot-ers, 3,000 convicted felons who are serving life terms, whose third strike was a nonviolent crime, would be eligible to reduce their sentence; right off the bat that is saving us $100 million dollars in the first year. This means getting more nonviolent offenders out of our prison system to make room for the people that should really be locked up like murderers, rap-ists and child molesters.

These 3,000 inmates make up almost half of Californian pris-oners serving life in prison. By enacting this single proposition we make a great step forward in reducing the prison population and getting us back on track at not being number one. It gives us a chance to rid the moniker or be-ing the most incarcerated country in the world.

I know there is worry about the releasing of these inmates. I’m sure many people argue to vote no after the thought of releasing many multiple convicted inmates onto the streets just like that. These are hardened criminals and having them on the streets again can scare many people. A lot of

the criminals that would be getting reduced sentences or released, however, are ones who had a third strike involving things like drug possession, minor burglary and theft. We are not just tossing mur-derers, rapists and child molesters into the streets. We’re just letting that pothead with dreadlocks who got busted for marijuana posses-sion back onto the streets and out of our wallets. The money that we will be saving from releasing inmates can go towards helping them adjust to civilian life and even help ramp up police forces that are constantly struggling for money. It might seem scary let-ting prison inmates out of prison but this isn’t creating total anar-chy and the country isn’t turning into the movie Mad Max. The way things are going for the U.S, today, doesn’t leave a perfect set plan of attack. We are in an age of compromises.

ABC News states that the na-tion’s inmate population is at an all-time high. From June of 2005 to July of 2006, the U.S. incarcer-ated more than 2.2 million people, overfilling prisons by more than 10 percent above capacity. Fur-thermore, facilities in California and Texas house two-thirds of all offenders in the prison system. California can make a step for-ward in reducing the amount of U.S. inmates by approving Prop

36. With California sharing two-thirds of all offenders in the U.S we can take a large chunk out of the amount of nonviolent offend-ers and make room for the serious and violent ones. This not only saves space but saves an incred-ible amount of money for Califor-nia.

Bloomberg Magazine stated that in a 2010 study of 15-year-olds, U.S. kids ranked 25th in math and scored in the middle in science and reading tests out of 34 other countries. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said that the results show that the U.S. stu-dents must improve to compete in a global economy. Now we aren’t even able to compete in a global economy? Maybe if we can take the money we are wasting on non-violent offenders we can get to work on our schools and get us back on top.

There is no doubt that we have witnessed an almost unheard of fi-nancial crisis to the U.S. in these past few years. There is no telling how long it will be before we can feel like we are back on our own two feet. Passing Prop 36 can do tremendous efforts at saving the state money, while reducing the grizzly number of inmates that the U.S. currently holds. This can help us shed the shame of being number one when it comes to in-carceration. Vote yes on 36.

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Proposition 37 aims to require new labels identifying all foods made from genetically engineered material. It will give consumers more knowledge about the foods they eat and will, for the first time, allow each Cali-fornia citizen clarity in their right to choose between genetically modified foods or or-ganics.

Prop 37 initially seemed to me like a logi-cal new addition to the California health and safety codes. However, the fevered rhetoric propagated by the prop’s opponents would have you believe this legislation adds to an already bloated set of bureaucratic regula-tions.

I’ve seen televised political attack ads ac-cusing this prop of increasing taxpayer costs, and raising the price of food. The opposition also claims the proposed legislation is poorly written and unfair to food producers.

Attempting to cut through the rhetoric, I more thoroughly researched Prop 37 as my journalistic and civic integrity demands. It’s become clear to me the opposition’s claims against Prop 37 are all baseless.

In fact, the labeling mandated by Prop 37 will cost consumers nothing. The prop gives manufactures ample time, until July 2014, to phase in the new labels or to change their products to avoid the labeling requirement. More importantly, if Prop 37 passes, it will clearly illuminate the extent to which ge-netically modified foods have infiltrated our daily diets.

According to the center for food safety, up to 85 percent of corn produced in the US is genetically engineered, as are 91 percent of soybeans. For the average consumer, this means that an estimated 60-70 percent of all processed foods contain at least one geneti-cally engineered product.

That’s a lot of food. This includes all food and drink that’s been artificially sweetened by high fructose corn syrup or aspartame, and almost all foods that use a corn or soy base. In simpler terms, this means that almost all pre-packaged food products, be them from a grocery store or a fast-food chain, contain genetically engineered material.

Therein lies the frenzied opposition to Prop 37. According to KCET, corporations who engineer the modified seeds and cor-responding pesticides such as Monsanto,

Dupont and Dow have contributed over $14 million to the opposition, which is a drop in the proverbial bucket when compared to the over $40 million total raised, in op-position, by corporate interests such as the Grocery Manufacturers Association, Morton Salt, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Kraft Foods, Goya Foods, Kellogg, General Mills, and Pepsi, to name a few.

In this context, the multimillion dollar opposition makes much more sense. Alto-

gether, sales from the pesticides, genetically engineered seeds and fresh and processed foods industries equate to a multibillion dol-lar industry.

Moneyed interests and rhetoric aside, Prop 37 is simple. A no vote saves corporate interests the trouble of having to label their products slightly different. A yes vote em-powers consumers, and makes what’s in the food we all eat a little more transparent. Vote yes on Prop 37.

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In response to Issue 5’s editorial, “Vote yes on Proposition 30”

Proposition 30 is not, as stated by last week’s article titled “Vote Yes on Proposition 30” the direc-tion that California must go.

Simply put, the tax initiative created and heavily endorsed by Gov. Jerry Brown will do noth-ing to halt the failing economy off the fiscal cliff. Instead, Prop-osition 30 is just another form of political smoke and mirror; this is an initiative built on holding the current educational system hostage and false promises. If prop 30 passes, California citi-zens will not see change for the better, but rather see their tax money be spent on prison build-ing and whatever other social projects politicians see fit.

As stated in the article, Propo-sition 30 would generate money for the educational system, but nowhere in the language in the bill does it ensure for the money to be spent for educational pur-poses. The money generated with this new tax (1/4 of a cent) can go into two different accounts: Public Safety and Education. If money reaches the education ac-count, the funds are split 89 per-cent for K-12 and 11 percent for Community Colleges.

The problem with this is that the money in these accounts can

be transferred to each other, thus, if the controller of the accounts needs money for Public Safety, then they can legally take out education money in order to sup-port the Public Safety account. Of course, the controller will most likely be installed by Gov. Brown who will push his agenda.

Considering that Brown is a big proponent of prison building, a fan of handing our state’s im-prisoned people to local counties and, on top of that, add the fact that a large proportion of the Cal-ifornia state’s profit is in the pris-on system, one can see that there is a conflict of interest between prison building and education funding for Brown. His priorities can be seen once you get past his argument that this will “save education,” as it becomes appar-ent that the argument serves as a decoy while the true purpose, which is to launder money and maintain the United States’ larg-est prison-state, remains hidden.

In fact, this idea of using money for prisons instead of the educational system is one of the main sections for Prop 30 as the money can also be used for “re-alignment.” For those who are not familiar with Brown’s early work as Governor, “realignment”

was the term he was using to switch the power of prisons from State to counties. Therefore, not only is this initiative planned to be used for Public Safety and Education, but also Brown’s re-alignment plan.

Ultimately, for every 1/4 of a penny gained, the governor aims to split it between three different systems or agendas of the state--two of which most Californians are not aware of.

This ship does not stop sink-ing there. Many voters believe that, if proposition 30 fails, then California’s educational system will face the apocalypse. The problem with this, however, is that these trigger cuts and in-creases are not automatic as the governor says, but, instead, a voluntary action. This is Brown’s decision; it is a form of a tan-trum throwing, if you will, by the governor if his proposition fails. In other words, Brown is really threatening to gut the edu-cational system in order to bully student, faculty, and staff to vote for his proposition. The truth is that, even if his proposition pass-es, the UC system will continue to face tuition increases and the education system will still be in the gutter catching any scraps the

State decides to throw its way. In short, most of the money will most likely be spent on Brown’s realignment agenda and pub-lic safety rather than education. On the K-12 side, the California School Boards Association has noticed how much of a sham this initiative is, stating that Prop 30 “does not provide new funding for schools.” For us UC students, think about it. The regents have been steadily increasing the tu-ition as the years go on regard-less of the economic times. Are we to believe that this proposi-tion aimed more for the Public Safety budget will somehow, as the editor in the mentioned ar-ticle states, delay the education budget from flying off the fis-cal cliff? This is wishful think-ing. Passing proposition 30 will not delay the eventual tuition increases. Sure, it might make things seem nicer, slower and less turbulent, but we are still driving off the cliff.

All is not lost, however, as prop 38 does what 30 does not. This proposition gives the mon-ey all to that is education. The proposition roughly gathers tax the same as 30, but allocates the funds responsibly and directly. 60 percent goes to K-12 schools,

10 percent to early childhood programs like preschool and the remaining money is spent on paying off state debt. 38, then, delivers on what 30 falsely prom-ises - fund schools. Although this money is limited to up to high school, the money generated will ease the burden on our school system and educational budget therefore allowing California to invest remaining money back into higher education. The trick, however, is ensuring that politi-cians follow up and serve those who are truly relying on this state’s system and, by giving the funds directly to our schools, prop 38 delivers.

I hope that fellow UC stu-dents will not play by the games and fear mongering issued by the governor and go for the right choice for California. If wasting money on prisons and continue to inadequately fund schools is the road that Californians want to take, then Prop 30 is the clear-ly the ideal choice. If holding politicians accountable and help support and maintain our public educational system while creat-ing avenues for surplus funds is the road that California wants to take, then 30 should get a big “no” and 38 a definite “yes.”

conclusion that sets aside Washington’s extremes be-cause our spending has not been ideal.

The candidates of the ma-jorities have also spent their time debating over whether or not 4.3 million jobs have ac-tually been generated (which is what Obama is said to have accomplished). When it comes to the amount of oc-cupational availability, both Romney and Obama could be wrong or right; they have merely mastered the art of construing a story to fit their campaign direction. To verify Governor Romney’s claims, the Bureau of Labor Statis-tics has documented that “the country has 552,000 fewer jobs now than when the presi-dent was inaugurated.” On the other hand, the president begins his counts concerning the working force in March 2010 when his famous stimu-lus package was taking effect. Without purely tallying the private sector and “counting government work forces, the job growth is actually lower, 3.8 million jobs,” according to the bureau. Obama may not have increased jobs to the point of 4.3 million, but there was an increase, and only based on when the sta-tistics were counted. So, who is really correct on this issue? Both can be said to have bent the truth because in the end it’s just a dirty battle for the oval office.

Gary Johnson has put his cards on the table many times and in various interviews, one in particular with John Stos-sel, where he plainly asserted that government does not cre-ate jobs. Job growth does fluc-tuate, like temperature and the housing market; what causes the expansion of it is deter-mined by consumer spending and the resulting allocation for more production. College students have a vital election approaching because the topic of jobs revolves around as-pects of education. These days a degree is essential for a job. The problem here is affording higher education, an institu-tion Johnson acknowledges is now doing more with less. The governor advertises the mistakes made when dealing with education, saying that federal funding takes valuable dollars away from the class-room due to federal mandates and regulations. Gary Johnson says that “one thing the feder-al government could do when it comes to education would be to abolish itself from the educational business,” and proposes a “school choice” initiative allowing for open enrollment and a tuition tax credit which permits individu-als to deduct a certain amount of their income taxes in order to pay for education.

Students worry about find-ing a job after graduation. Well, when it comes to jobs, if Johnson did expect to battle out a debate on unemploy-

ment he could easily endorse his own state, New Mexico. If one scrolls through the statis-tics posted on the Department of Numbers’ website, New Mexico hovers around 6.4 percent this September, com-pared to the national average of 7.8 percent. At one point, the said state had the greatest proliferation compared to the other 49. But the reason that Johnson’s candidacy should be seriously pondered upon as election day nears is because of his statements about the economy and taxes. He says, “I think that repealing or do-ing away with the corporate income tax is simply getting us back to where we were. We need to understand that the corporate income tax is a double tax, that we all own the corporations and that when in-come gets distributed to us we pay the tax on that.” The re-peal of this, he says, “will lit-erally create tens of millions of jobs.” Gary Johnson knows the role of government, the reality of the economy, how the job market works, and he focuses his goal on how to best improve what the people deem necessary without trying to construe facts or win on a numeral basis.

Governor Johnson says that “Man is superior to govern-ment,” and this is exactly why his policies should supersede the embellishments thrown around by the candidates who practically beg the American people for their votes.

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P r e s i d e n t B a r a c k O b a m a’s f i r s t t e r m i n o f f i c e d i d n’ t c o m e c l o s e t o l i v i n g u p t h e g r a n d i o s e p r o m -i s e s h e m a d e o n h i s c a m p a i g n t r a i l t h e f i r s t t i m e a r o u n d . A l t h o u g h h e d i d n’ t c o m p l e t e l y f i x t h e e c o n o -m y, c l o s e G u a n t a n a m o B a y, e n a c t s w e e p i n g i m m i g r a t i o n r e f o r m , e n d b o t h w a r s , o r d e l i v e r o n m a n y o t h -e r s , h e f o u n d m o d e r a t e s u c c e s s i n h e a l t h c a r e , s t u d e n t a i d a n d n a -t i o n a l s e c u r i t y .

T h e b i g g e s t r e a s o n t o r e e l e c t P r e s i d e n t O b a m a i s p r o b a b l y h i s o p p o n e n t , G o v e r n o r M i t t R o m -n e y. G o v e r n o r R o m n e y ’s e l u s i v e p o l i c y p l a n s f o r t h e n a t i o n a n d h i s i n c r e a s i n g l y v a g u e p o s i t i o n s o n e v e r y t h i n g f r o m s o c i a l i s s u e s t o f o r e i g n p o l i c y m a k e h i s e l e c t i o n a s p r e s i d e n t t o o r i s k y o f a g a m b l e

t o m a k e . A l t h o u g h h e w o u l d b r i n g a b o u t a r g u a b l y n e e d e d c h a n g e i n f i s c a l p o l i c y, w h a t e v e r t h a t m a y b e , h i s a n t i q u a t e d a n d t r o u b l i n g p o s i t i o n s o n g a y m a r r i a g e , p u b l i c i n v e s t m e n t s , e d u c a t i o n , t h e e n v i -r o n m e n t , g r e e n e n e r g y a n d m o r e a l l o u t w e i g h t h a t c h a n g e . N o t t o m e n t i o n h i s l u d i c r o u s t h r e a t t o d e f u n d P B S — a n i d e o l o g i c a l s t u n t w i t h n o s i g n i f i c a n t i m p a c t o n t h e b u d g e t w h a t s o e v e r.

P r e s i d e n t O b a m a h a s n’ t b e e n t h e p r e s i d e n t w e h a d h o p e d f o r, a n d w i t h a R e p u b l i c a n C o n g r e s s , h e m a y n o t h a v e h o p e f o r a c c o m -p l i s h i n g m u c h m o r e i n h i s s e c o n d t e r m , b u t t h a t i s f a r b e t t e r t h a n m o v i n g t h e c o u n t r y b a c k w a r d t h e w a y G o v e r n o r M i t t R o m n e y w o u l d l i k e t o .

When it comes to relieving the gridlock in Washington, John Tavaglione is the 41st Congressional District’s best option. His experience as the Supervisor for Riverside County’s 2nd District, strong ties to the re-gion and private-sector work all bolster an impressive resume. But the most impor-tant distinction between Tavaglione and his opponent, Mark Takano, is partisanship. Whereas Takano has made painstaking ef-forts to emphasize his party allegiances, Tavaglione’s moderate positions on social is-sues and ability to reach across the aisle will prove most effective as the Representative for the 41st District.

In their debate at the UCR Extension Center, Takano displayed a troubling lack of confidence and experience, continuously relying on ideology rather than policy. Near-ly all of his answers included some form of

bashing the “extreme Republican ideology” or Tavaglione’s “doubling-down on trickle-down.” Although a nifty catch phrase, it became nothing more than hollow rheto-ric without any substance to back it up. Tavaglione, on the other hand, discussed in clear, practical terms how he would ad-dress issues important to the region with the fluency and expertise one would expect from a congressman. If Tavaglione had not displayed such a willingness to work across party lines to reach compromises, then his fiscal conservatism could have otherwise posed a problem when juxtaposed with the president’s economic plans.

In the end, Washington needs less parti-sanship, not more. Tavaglione is the expe-rienced, moderate candidate that has the capacity to get the most done for not only the country, but for this region.

Rusty Bai ley has proven his com-mitment to the c ity of R ivers ide and is the c lear choice to succeed Mayor Ron Lover idge as mayor of R ivers ide ( f rom whom he has been endorsed) . As a c ity counci l member, Bai ley has a real ist ic grasp on both the c ity ’s problems and potential , and under-stands what i t takes to get things done in the c ity.

Bai ley understands what should be R ivers ide’s top pr ior it ies : eco -nomic development and education. R ivers ide needs jobs, and with an increasingly younger populat ion, i t needs to make sure those young people are prepared for employ-ment.

On the other hand, opponent and former c ity counci lmember Ed Adk ison’s over inf lated accusat ions about the c ity ’s wasteful spending,

in a t ime when the c ity is f inancial ly stable compared to the struggl ing neighboring cit ies across the region, indicate his preference for playing up pol it ical rhetor ic rather than fo -cusing on R ivers ide’s real issues.

What may be most appeal ing to UCR students is Bai ley ’s pursuit of a streetcar l ink ing UCR to Downtown Rivers ide. Under his conception for the projec t , the new form of publ ic transpor tat ion would al low the UCR community to easi ly access more re -mote areas of the c ity, whi le encour-aging much-needed development along i ts routes. In addit ion, br ing-ing more youth- or iented enter tain-ment options to downtown wil l a lso resonate with students, who are other wise relegated to either on-campus events or those outside the c ity.

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Proposition 30 is a measure that will temporarily fund edu-cation and guarantee local public safety by raising taxes on those who can afford to pay a little more.

The measure would increase personal income taxes on those who earn $250,000 or more for the next seven years. It would also increase sales taxes from 7.35% to 7.5% over the next four years. The revenues would directly fund programs in the state budget. Among these programs are public educa-tion and public safety.

Public education has been hit hard over the past few years. Schools have suffered $20 billion in cuts over the last four years alone. California now has 30,000 fewer teachers than it did four years ago. Tuition has also increased all across the board and students have had difficulty trying to afford college.

The measure would prevent $6 billion in cuts to schools and colleges all across the state. It asks the wealthiest to tem-porarily prevent cuts on education, provide billions in educa-tion funding, guarantee public safety and balance California’s budget. It’s an investment in the future of the state.

At first glance, Prop 32 sounds great; kicking money out of politics is always a good thing. But Prop 32, which entails a ban on both union and corporate contributions to state and local candidates, contributions by government contractors to the politicians who control contracts awarded to them, and automatic deductions by corporations, unions, and govern-ment of employees’ wages to be used for politics, is nefarious. This proposition disproportionately affects unions, who heavily rely on payroll deductions for contributions, while corporations rarely use them. This would effectively prevent union contribu-tions while corporations continue doing so. Favoritism doesn’t belong in politics. Vote no on 32 and support equal voices.

The Highlander endorses Proposition 31, which requires a two-year cycle for California’s annual fiscal budget and shifts $200 million from state to local governments. Local gov-ernments are best-suited to tailor state-funded programs specifically to the needs of the county. The ballot measure provides a greater degree of transparency in the state bud-getary process and requires a real balanced budget based on current revenue sources. The California governor will also be granted the authority to make budget cuts during periods of fiscal emergencies, which is necessary due to the restricting two-thirds requirement in the state legislature for passing tax measures.

If passed, Prop 34 would repeal the death penalty and re-place it with life in prison with parole. Not only would this save the state money, it is a step forward for California. We live in 2012, where an eye for an eye has no place in a society as advanced as ours, where humanity and empathy trump violence. And can we trust a life, as precious as it is, in the hands of an imperfect government? No. Add the fact that the death penalty is more costly than life without parole, and it is a clear choice. Avoid the risk of sentencing an innocent person and vote yes on Prop 34. No longer will Californians have to worry about innocent blood on their hands.

If Prop 33 is approved, it will allow insurance providers to advertise discounts to those who can prove coverage by any licensed company in the past five years.

The problem with this is that it allows insurance compa-nies to increase their prices. This is unnecessary and doesn’t consider legitimate reasons for not having car insurance. Those that may have discontinued their insurance, such as those who could not drive due to major health problems, will then be punished by having to pay large amounts to rein-state their insurance. Also, those with perfect driving records who had no need to buy insurance within the last five years will be forced to pay the higher rates. Proposition 33 de-reg-ulates insurance companies allowing them to set prices as they please without any accountability.

The Highlander Editorial Board does not endorse Prop 35. Prop 35, the “Californians Against Sexual Exploitations Act,” claims to increase prison terms for human traffickers, amongst other things. It requires that convicted sex traffickers register as sex offenders and disclose their internet accounts. On the sur-face, this seems that it will make progressive means to end hu-man trafficking by holding them accountable for their crimes, and one that will help protect protect children and teens from exploitation via the Internet. But there are deceptive elements of the prop that propels the Highlander to conclude that, though human trafficking is a serious issue that needs to be fur-ther addressed, Prop 35 is not the way to go about it. One deter-mining factor was the fact that it would expand the sex offender registry, meaning that those registered as sex offenders would largely be non-sex criminals, making it difficult for police and residents to track the potentially dangerous from those who are associated in a non-criminal way. The issue of human trafficking needs a law that is capable of honing in on the actual problems, which Prop 35 is not.

If Proposition 37 is passed, there will be an increase in an-nual state costs ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to over $1 million to regulate the labeling of genetically engi-neered foods.

Vote no on Proposition 37. It is full of special interest ex-emptions and very problematic. It would increase grocery bills for families by $400 per year and increase taxpayer costs by millions.There could be tons of lawsuits against farmers and small businesses. It would only require certain labeling on raw or processed foods that are offered for sale to consumers if made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified way. Ironically, it exempts foods that are certified organic and unintentionally produced with genetically engi-neered material.

The Highlander has decided to endorse Prop 36, which seeks to reform the “Three Strikes Law” initiative. The three strikes law has been ineffective and one of the reasons for the overcrowded and expensive cost of our prisons. The law does not take into account the level of the crime when de-ciding upon a life sentence, and is hugely unfair for those who have been sentenced based off of non-violent or petty crimes. The revision of the three strikes law would state that it is only effective for felonies that are considered serious or vi-olent. It would allow those who are in prison serving life sen-tences to have their sentence reevaluated, as long as they are not a risk to society. Ultimately, if the proposition is passed it will potentially save $90 million over the next few decades.

The Highlander opposes Proposition 38, which does not fund higher education and inflicts an across-the-board income tax spike on all working Californians who earn at least $7,316. Prop 38 creates a reserved fund of $10 million to the K-12 sys-tem for 12 years, yet offers little reform to California’s broken education system which is supported by more than half of the state’s budget and ranks 48th in the nation. Effective in 2013-2014, Prop 38 will not prevent a $6 billion cut to California’s education system during this fiscal cycle. The K-12 system and community colleges will lose $5.5 billion, while the UC and Cal State system will each face a $250 million trigger cut this year, if Prop 38 passes.

If Prop 39 is passed, it will force out-of-state businesses to adhere to California taxes as well as add $1 billion towards construction and clean energy jobs.

California currently loses $1 billion because out-of-state businesses aren’t required to stick to the state’s taxes. Prop 39 will close this loophole and create nearly 40,000 jobs that are desperately needed. This money can only help California in its deficit. On top of these benefits, there will be public ex-posure of independent audits, reviews and evaluations by Citizens Oversight Board and accounting of funds and ex-penditures. The financial accountability for out-of-state cor-porations cannot be a harmful motion for California.

The Highlander supports Prop. 40, which affirms the State Senate lines drawn by the voter-approved California’s citizens redistricting commission. There’s nothing wrong with fair dis-trict maps. A “no” vote invalidates the maps, which would then need to be redrawn, costing the state $1 million.

RUSTY BAILEY

JOHN TAVAGLIONE - REPUBLICAN

BARACK OBAMA - DEMOCRAT

PROP 31YES

PROP 33NO

PROP 35NO

PROP 37NO

PROP 39YES

PROP 32NO

PROP 34YES

PROP 36YES

PROP 38NO

PROP 40YES

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52%

13%

24%

11%

Which political party do you identify with?

Prop 30: Should income taxes for income earners of over $250,000 and sales taxes for all CA residents be raised to fund education and local public safety?

Prop 31: Do you think the governor and local governments should be given greater autonomy in the state and local budgets?

Prop 32: Do you think there should be a ban on corporate and union political contributions from payroll-deductions?

Prop 33: Do you think car insurance rates should be based on a person’s history of insurance coverage (“persistency discounts”)?

Prop 34: Should the death penalty be repealed?

Yes: There will be an increase in personal income taxes for earners of over $250,000 for the duration of seven years. Sales tax will increase for the duration of four years. The funding will go towards public education.

No: Personal income taxes and sales taxes will stay the same. The state will reduce funding to schools.

Yes: State budget and all laws will be made available for public input and reviewed three days before a vote is taken. Requires a real balanced budget and performance review of all state programs.State will save taxpayers ap-proximately $1.2 billion by enacting auditing reforms. Does not raise taxes, increase costs to taxpayers or set up any new government bureaucracy.

No: Transfers $200 million per year from the state to local experimental pro-grams, can make tax cuts. Expenditures must be offset by possible revenue sources or tax cuts. New budgeting practices will costs tens of millions of dol-lars/year, stated the Legislative Analyst’s Office. Expands powers of the Gov-ernor, which can only be overridden by a 2/3rd vote by the state legislature.

Yes: Ban both corporate and union contri-butions to state and local candidates. Ban contributions by government contractors to the politicians who control contracts awarded to them. Ban automatic deductions by corporations, unions, and government of employees’ wages to be used for politics.

No: Status quo.

Yes: It will allow insurers to offer discounts to new customers who can prove they were continuously covered by any licensed auto insurance company over the previous five years. These discounts are known as “persistency discounts” or “loyalty discounts” and under current Califor-nia law, insurance companies can only offer them to existing customers. Proposition 33 exempts soldiers and those who have been unemployed for 18 months from paying more after a lapse in persistency.

No: Status quo.

Yes: Death penalty is repealed and is replaced with life imprison-ment without parole. Current death sentences will be resentenced to life imprisonment. Over the next four years, the state will give grants to local law enforcement agencies for the investigation of homicide and rape cases.

No: Death penalty remains in place and current inmates with the death sentence will not be resentenced. The state will not provide any funding for local law enforcement agencies.

Democrat

Republican

Independent

Other

REPUBLICAN

NO

INDEPENDENT

OTHER

NO

NO

NO

NO

DEMOCRAT

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

89%

39%

46%

4%

48%

43%

29%

71%

61%

28%

Prop 35: Do you support funding a stricter legal system for human traffickers?Yes: Increases penalties and fines for child traffickers. Requires convicted sex offenders to provide information to authorities about their Internet presence, which protects chil-dren from sexual exploitation online.

No: Does not increase increase the prosecu-tion rate for sex offenders or provide greater protection to victims. Only benefits law en-forcement agencies, non-profits and detri-mental to state budget.

NO

YES

76%

17%

Prop 36: Do you support a repeal of the Three Strikes law?

Prop 37: Should genetically engineered foods be specifically labeled?

Prop 38: Do you support raising state income tax (on a sliding scale) to fund K-12 education?

Prop 40: Do you think the current Senate district maps should be redrawn by the Citizens Redistricting Commission?

Which Riverside Mayoral candidate are you voting for?

Which Congressional candidate are you voting for? (41st Congressional District includes: Riv-erside, Perris, Moreno Valley, Jurupa Valley)

Which presidential candidate are you voting for in November?

Yes: Revise the three strikes law to impose life sentence only when the new felony con-viction is “serious or violent”.

No: Status quo.

Yes: All foods that are made from geneti-cally enhanced plants and animals must be clearly labeled as “genetically engineered” and cannot be marketed as “natural.”

No: Genetically engineered foods would remained unlabeled.

Yes: Increase state income tax rates for most Californians, result-ing in increased revenues to the state of about $10 billion a year. The state income tax increase would end after 12 years, unless voters re-authorize it. Earmark most of the new revenue of $10 billion for public school districts and early childhood development programs.

No: Lacks the ability to enforce efficient reform to California’s educa-tion system and there is no accountability to the distribution of funds. Locks you into a higher income tax bracket for the next 12 years and small businesses will be hurt by these taxes.

Yes: It will maintain the current state Sen-ate and State Assembly maps, drawn by the voter-approved independent Citizens Redis-tricting Commission. California voters ap-proved Proposition 11 (2008), which created this commission and assigned them the task of re-drawing congressional district boundar-ies through Proposition 20 (2010).

No: It is no longer an opposition, campaign-ers abandoned efforts in mid-July 2012.

William “Rusty” Bailey

Ed Adkison

Mark Takano (Democrat)

John Tavaglione (Republican)

Barack Obama (Democrat)

Mitt Romney (Republican)

Other

61%

39%

71%

29%

70%

17%

13%

NO

NO

NO

NO

YES

YES

YES

YES

70%

15%

54%

48%

39%

37%

33%

52%

From Oct. 1-27, the Highlander conducted a campus-wide online poll to find out how UCR students would be voting in the upcoming election. Students were asked to share their party preference, choices for Congress, presi-dent, mayor and many of California’s propositions. The results of that poll are published here.

“The pain, the stench, the look of hate in his eyes. It’s finally over. And now a blackness has come over me,” wrote Kristin Cooper in a poem. Kristin Cooper was a victim of rape, depression, and suicide and on Sunday Oct. 21 students gathered to hear her story.

A around 1:30 p.m. in the University Lecture Hall, the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation and the Women’s Resource Center sponsored a presentation entitled, “Kristin’s Story: A Story of Acquaintance Rape and Depression.” Acclaimed speaker and Delta Delta Delta alumna Andrea Cooper spoke out about her late daugh-ter Kristin Cooper to approximately 400 students, in-cluding around eight or nine fraternities, according to Shima Vasseghi, president of Alpha Chi Omega.

On Aug. 4, 1995, Kristin was raped by a “friend” during her sophomore year at Baker University, a small, private institution in Baldwin City, Kansas. Sev-eral months following her rape, Kristin committed sui-cide on New Year’s Eve. Andrea Cooper began speak-ing to colleges, universities and conferences across the country in 1998. She has now spoken at over 325 campuses, 27 conferences, and has reached 100,000 students, faculty, and administrators in order to raise awareness of acquaintance rape and depression.

“She was 20 years old, and hadn’t had a curfew…we kind of knew who her friends were,” stated Coo-per as she began speaking in regards to the night Kris-tin committed suicide. Cooper confirmed that Kristin went to a party on New Year’s Eve just like other typi-cal college students during winter break. Cooper ex-pected nothing out of the ordinary as she said goodbye to her only child before leaving to the party. There was not a worried bone within Cooper’s body because she, “wasn’t one of those moms that said, ‘Okay, call me when you get to the house.’” However, Cooper also was not aware that this would be the last time she saw Kristin. Around 2 a.m. was when Cooper surprisingly discovered that Kristin had come home, which seemed slightly early in Cooper’s eyes. She said, “I expected her to stay out all night, and that was fine,” stated Coo-

per. The next moment is what truly startled Cooper.Once Cooper entered her home, she thought that

Kristin had been asleep on the family room sofa. As Cooper described the moment she found Kristin, she stated, “She looked very peaceful. She was on her back. Her eyes were closed. Her color was good.” Cooper thought Kristin had passed out due to alcohol poisoning. However, “when [Cooper] leaned over, there was no pulse; she wasn’t breathing, and she had a gun in her hands,” according to Cooper. Kristin had shot herself to death.

Before her death, Kristin had suffered from severe depression, but Cooper thought her depression was caused by a break-up. However, Cooper said, “I found out through her sorority sisters that Jeff broke up with her after she went to him, and told him she’d been raped. And he dumped her.” Strangely, Cooper noticed Kristin’s sudden happiness when she came home dur-ing winter break from Baker. “She had made the deci-sion,” said Cooper. “If you have a friend that’s been depressed and they suddenly get happy, it could mean they have a plan, and they feel that the pain is going to end”.

“Rape is a crime of the heart for the victim and a crime of convenience for the perpetrator,” said Cooper. Cooper made it clear that rape is a serious crime that can only end if spoken about, as well as made aware about. She said that in addition to the dangers of rape, each and every single one of us needs to be made fully aware of the dangers of depression and suicide. Ac-cording to Cooper, “30 percent [of sexual assault vic-tims] contemplate suicide.” The connection between sexual assault, depression, and suicide is a fatal cycle that must be stopped.

“I think the most important thing is to know where to go if you are sexually assaulted. The Women’s Cen-ter told us about their services being available. Campus police, you can always call. And also if you see a friend has depression or possibly being suicidal, you need to tell someone about that, and hopefully they will get help. Help them get help,” stated Cooper. She wanted audience members to know that there is always hope, even in light of such tragic events.

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Andrea Cooper, mother of Kristin Cooper, speaks to UCR students.

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Following the presentation on Oct. 21, the annual “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event took place at the Bell Tower at 2:30 p.m., where approximately 100 young male students participated. Various fraternities and student organizations (including the Surf Club) came out to the walk, took off their typical day-to-day sneakers to slip on heeled shoes in order to walk around the perimeter of the Bell Tower. The walk is intended to stand up against sexual assault and do-mestic violence against women.

Alpha Chi Omega President, Shima Vasseghi stated, “She [Cooper] told me herself that she’s nev-er been to a campus with this many guys [that are] absolutely interested…” Though many of the men seemed uncomfortable walking in high-heeled shoes, the experienced turned out to be great for many.

Second-year business major, Rosti Vana stated, “Heels are not a thing for men to wear, but respect for the ladies who wear heels. Much respect for them,

because this is not easy!” The event wanted to show that just as walking in heels is not a simple task, nei-ther is being a woman. The annual event symbolizes the hardships that hundreds of thousands of women struggle with every day of their lives.

The annual “Walk a Mile in her Shoes” event is co-sponsored by the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation and the Women’s Resource Center. Second-year English major and Alpha Chi Omega member Kaitlyn Palme-ter stated, “Our philanthropy is domestic violence, so of course it’s something close to our hearts, and I know personally it’s close to my heart, so we’re tak-ing a stand for women and trying to make it known to other people.” In conjunction with Alpha Chi Ome-ga’s intention to hold the event each year, Kristin Cooper was also an alumna of Alpha Chi Omega at Baker University.

Both the presentation and the walk were held in observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Raising awareness in regards to domestic violence, as well as sexual assault is one way of ending the si-lence of violence against women.

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The former El Taco Nazo underwent a makeover across its locations throughout Cali-fornia in order to properly represent the heritage of Baja California. 20 years ago the family-owned chain spread through Southern California with the success of the “baja style fish and shrimp tacos.” Now the chain is known as Señor Baja. Pulling into the Magnolia Shopping Center made me skeptical of what kind of atmosphere to expect with generic grocery stores and fast food chain vendors right around the corner; how-ever, the restaurant exceeded face-value judgments.

I was greeted with a friend-ly chorus made by the work-ers behind the counter as I soaked in the plethora of menu choices: Baja favorites, specials, tacos, traditional and breakfast. This Mexican establishment is on the more

traditional end compared to Chipotle or Del Taco and it is refreshing to have the Baja heritage-infused Mexican food. Beverages even ode to tradition with the horchata, jamaica, and orange whip selections. In addition to the variety of options that can at-tract you, the affordability for the typical starving, college student keeps the door wide open with the price range of $2 to $9 for each dish, includ-ing daily 99¢ specials.

Indecisiveness took over me as I skimmed the menu for possible. The result? Tacos de papa, carnitas, pescado, lengua, and a bean and veg-etable tostada. The head ca-shier recommended I try the various dishes Señor Baja has to offer, so I just had to order it all. Taco de papa would not be my first choice, it did not occur to me to put potatoes into a hard taco shell, but the

execution was surprisingly pleasant. Taco de carnitas is below par of the traditional, marinated pork I grew ac-custom to, but for $1.89 I was satisfied with the non-Amer-ican influenced dish. Taco de lengua was an interesting experience, to say the least. Without knowledge of the tender and juicy meat being cow tongue, one would thor-oughly enjoy the traditional dish. Considering the fish is the restaurant’s icon, the taco de pescado deserves to stand as one of the most popular dishes at Señor Baja with its perfect balance of crisp skin and juicy meat wrapped in a taco. The bean and vegetable tostada was just a tasty bean and vegetable tostada, noth-ing excited my taste buds. For dessert, the “home made flan casero” fell short. I was underwhelmed with the odd

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tofu-like texture, but the recipe itself was a delightful balance of caramel sweetness.

The beauty of all of these dishes lies behind the food it-self, Señor Baja does not bother with presentation at all, taste is

what matters. The simple reci-pes of each dish are executed with carefully marinated and well-cooked meats and married with fresh ingredients that deliv-er tasty food in homage to Baja California.

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The dessert, a homemade flan casero.

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On Friday, Oct. 26, Downtown Riverside hosted an impressive array of local enter-tainment, family-friendly scares and fresh kettle corn during its annual Ghost Walk. Presented by California Riverside Ballet in conjunction with local high schools and theatre groups, the Ghost Walk is a story-telling adventure through some of River-side’s oldest and most historic buildings.

When I arrived at the event, I was greet-ed with a section of booths within Main Street Mall. The main venue extended from Coffee Bean to the ArtsBlock and was filled with a midway carnival games arranged around a small stage. Speakers blasted Lat-in Folklorico music as Grupo Mayo, a dance group based in Riverside, stepped through a colorful and well-choreographed perfor-mance. An enthralled audience of children and their parents gathered around Grupo Mayo, while other children—dressed as

witches, faeries, and I saw at least one Cap-tain America—played carnival games and chowed down on sweet-smelling kettle corn.

The biggest part of the event took place across the street. Led by volunteers costumed in elegant Victorian suits and ghostly face paint, people gathered into reasonably-sized lines depending on which Ghost Walk they wanted to attend. Tickets cost $15, which seemed a little steep, but proceeds benefitted the efforts of Califor-nia Riverside Ballet. In any case, the walks were split into different themes and levels of scares; volunteers were available to di-rect families towards the kid-friendly tours, which ensured scares without any lasting emotional trauma. For the more adven-turous folk, two tours, “Dark Dreams” and “Spell Bound Night,” promised gripping sto-ries and bigger frights.

Leading the tours were performers from various theatre groups and high school drama departments, including Poly High School Theater Department, the WolfPack Players and the Ramona Theater Masquers. Of course, these were not regular walking tours; they were closer to live performanc-es. For example, the Dark Dreams tour—which a helpful volunteer assured me was “fun, but still pretty scary”—began with “Hide and Don’t Seek,” a story written by Anna Ludvig, Ashleigh Loughner, Helen Yo-shikawa and Akio Yoshikawa. It took place at the Riverside Police Department, which is frightening at any time of day, and was told by spirited drama students from J.W. North High School.

For attendees who did not want to spend $15 on a walking tour, the event hosted a series of exceptional performances from local talent. Patrick McKeone, Grupo Mayo

and the RCC Bass Quintet each held the stage for a 45-minute performance, but lo-cal gypsy cabaret band Mad Marionettes stole the show.

The Mad Marionettes is a band from Riverside whose music sounds like a fren-zied run through a strange, but wonderful, carnival. Their songs feature the memo-rable sounds of instruments like an upright bass, accordion, toy piano and cajón, and their vocalist’s lingering melodies created a hauntingly beautiful set of songs that melded perfectly with the evening’s Hal-loween theme. Their set included slow waltzes and fast-paced beats, and they drew a large audience, lots of dancing and plenty of applause.

Overall, Ghost Walk Riverside was a big success. If you want to experience a tour for yourself, keep an eye out; the event occurs late October each year.

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MOVIE REVIEWS

★★★★☆RATING: BY: DIANA S. HUANG, STAFF WRITER

CLOUD ATLAS

Courtesy of Warner Brother’s Pictures

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Considering the vastness and in-tricacies of David Mitchell’s novel, turning “Cloud Atlas” into a movie took considerable work and strategy to make it connect with the audi-ence and required top-notch actors. In short, “Cloud Atlas” is a combi-nation of six stories spanning from the South Pacific to the far future of Neo-Seoul to the post-apocalyptic future.

“Cloud Atlas” can be extremely overwhelming for those who aren’t prepared for a movie of its caliber: six different stories can be difficult to keep track of, especially when audiences are trying to grasp and meaning and theme behind each one. Many who have read the novel imply that the film had been simpli-fied to elicit the right emotional re-sponses, whereas the book had more depth and well-thought-out ideas that can only be conveyed through ink and paper. Tom Hanks and Halle Berry, the most advertised actors of the film, were featured in stories in different eras that eventually lead to their union in a post-apocalyptic future. Another notable role is Son-mi-451, played by actress Doona Bae. Her character as a “fabricant” (clone) in Neo Soul being rescued by rebel Hae-joo Chang (Jim Sturgess) is reminiscent of “Blade Runner,” where a dystopian society places value on oppression over humanity. Sonmi-451’s transformation from a programmed serving girl to a martyr for freedom and an inspiration for

equality is particularly touching and resonates within the other stories. Jim Sturgess consistently plays the hero in his two main story arcs. Oth-er than being Sonmi-451’s savior, he is also Adam Ewing, a naïve Ameri-can notary from 1850 who witnesses slavery and violent racism first hand. His nature leads him to defend an African American stowaway on the ship named Autua (David Gyasi), who eventually saves Adam’s life from the evil doctor Henry Goose (Hanks). This experience leads him and his wife Tilda (Bae) to leave California and head east to join the cause against slavery.

Ben Whishaw does a phenom-enal job of portraying tormented young English musician Robert Forbisher in the 1930s. The tal-ented Forbisher is in love with fel-low student Rufus Sixsmith (James D’Arcy) but has to leave him to work as an amanuensis for famous yet egotistical composer Vyvyan Arys (Jim Broadbent). The love sto-ry between Forbisher and Sixsmith ends tragically, as both die decades apart, but with the same loneliness and helplessness echoing through their story.

In present day, Tom Cavendish (Broadbent) is an old, comical, down on his luck publisher that gets caught up in the dealings of his gangster client Sachs (Hanks) and seeks help from his brother, only to be confined against his will in a nursing home. Cavendish’s experi-

ence later becomes a film that plays a major role in Sonmi-451’s story in the future.

The final story is set in a post-apocalyptic future where Sonmi-451 has become an odd deity of some sorts, and where Zachry (Hanks), haunted by a devilish figure, and his family live with a small tribe of people on a remote island. Their pre-historic way of living is sharply contrasted with their foreign visitor, Meronym (Berry), who comes from a technologically advanced ship with a whole colony of people look-ing for a place to call home.

All six stories intertwine in one way or another, and each hero from

their time period bares a similar comet-shaped birthmark that sym-bolizes their importance to the story and the rippled effect they create throughout the rest of the movie. Un-fortunately, it’s hard to put the theme of the film into one sentence, or a paragraph for that matter. Simply put, “Cloud Atlas” is an exploration of human kindness, compassion, op-pression, bravery, love and how the human soul can transcend centuries to become capable of something else entirely, good or bad. Despite the different tones in each arc, the common undercurrent to all of them is optimism, that no matter how dark the world gets, humanity lights the

way to a better future. While a difficult film to digest at

first, the almost three hour movie is definitely worth the watch for those who have the time, will and taste for, as “Variety” puts it, a “big emotional payoff.” Even if it’s tough to get a handle on the narrative, the cinema-tography and daring ambition alone is enough to warrant it a watch (or two). One of the most expensive in-dependent films ever made, “Cloud Atlas” is worth every penny, and Tom Tykwer and The Wachowskis deserve recognition for taking on and handling beautifully the daunt-ing task of translating such a dense book to the screen.

★★★☆☆RATING: BY: JACQUELINE BALDERRAMA, STAFF WRITER

CHASING MAVERICKS

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Chasing Mavericks by directors Michael Apted and Curtis Hanson was released Oct. 26. The sports drama is based on a true story set in 1994 about Jay Moriarty, a fifteen-year-old boy who seeks the help of local surfing legend, Frosty Hesson, after discovering the mythic Mav-erick surf break off the California coast. The film features Gerard But-ler as Frosty, a carpenter, father and surfer who has learned to ride the Mavericks, and Johnny Weston as Jay. Together, Jay and Frosty build a friendship that not only prepares Jay to surf the monstrous waves but also rescues them from the mounting struggles in their lives.

Raised by a single mother in Santa Cruz and oftentimes looking after himself, Jay turns to Frosty who saved him from drowning when he was eight-years-old. He immediately becomes thrilled with the sport of surfing. With Jay’s de-termined character against the reality of a neglecting parent, it is effortless to sympathize for the small boy who soon grows into a handsome teen-ager. Jay attends high school, works at a pizza shop, and still finds time to surf. With a natural talent and an obsession for surfing, it is not long before Jay witnesses Frosty surfing the Mavericks—thirty foot waves

some miles from Santa Cruz. Frosty is reluctant to help, but does recog-nize the same passion for surfing that he himself has. He is persuaded by his wife to train the boy in the twelve week window that the swells are still present. And so the rigorous training begins.

Over the course of the film there are a plethora of impressive ocean scenes. Exquisite shots of surfing, white foam bursting from crashing waves and underwater shots of the murky blue reef expose the beauty and ferocity of nature. Scenes with the Maverick were especially awe-inspiring as experienced surfers show up as small dots against its thirty foot crest. These scenes, too, were paralleled by the complex life in town that Jay faces among friends, taunting rivals and his childhood sweetheart who ignores him dur-ing school. Even without the action scenes, the sheer expanse of water during Jay’s training subtly shows what surfing is to both Jay and Frosty. It’s a way of life.

While the various shots of the ocean were impressive and the story inspiring, the dialogue was occa-sionally stiff. No particular character stood out, which is disappointing especially in the leading roles. With that said, the film relied primarily on

the sincerity and quality of its story. With regards to its progression, the film was satisfying. There were cer-tainly twists and turns in regards to both Frosty’s and Jay’s home lives that forced heavier burdens on their characters. However, in the end, their initial goal in Jay riding the waves is what seems to stabilize the chaos.

“Chasing Mavericks” is appeal-ing in the way that it presents the sto-ry of Jay Moriarty on a very sincere level. There is not a focus of girls in bikinis or ridiculous parties that

might be expected of a movie fea-turing a teenager. Rather, it unveils the reality of life with surfing as an escape and solace. By the end of the film, it seems that surfing is some-thing sacred to Jay.

Overall, “Chasing Mavericks” is an inspiring film despite its weak dialogue and mediocre acting. The spectacle of the colossal waves matched with the compelling home lives of both Frosty and Jay was more than enough to grab one’s at-tention for the duration of two hours.

Furthermore, there were no uneven chops in the surfing scenes which is often telling of stunt-doubles. In-stead, the special effects were per-fectly seamless, which is important in relating the true danger of these waves. These smooth transitions al-low the viewer to invest fully in the story. As a result, “Chasing Maver-icks” is a successful film not just in displaying the athleticism of surfers on spectacular waves but in relating an inspiring story about the bond be-tween two unlikely heroes.

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MUSIC REVIEWS★ ★ ★ ★ ☆RATING: BY: JAKE RICH, CONTRIBUTING WRITER

BLAK AND BLU // GARY CLARK JR.

Courtesy of Warner Brother’s RecordsShining in authentic old-school

blues fashion, guitar virtuoso Gary Clark Jr.’s major-label debut, “Blak and Blu,” brings true soul and pain back to an R&B realm that has been wallowing in over-produced hip-hop. Clark’s earnest tone and masterful guitar playing should definitely earn this album a spot as one of the year’s best.

Opening up with the brass filled “Ain’t Messin ‘Round,” Clark shows off his range going from intense cries of, “Give it up now,” to a soothing falsetto, “Play it cool.” The brass and frantic guitar solo in the second half of the song kicks off the album in a thrilling way.

One of the biggest highlights of “Blak and Blu” comes in “When My Train Comes In,” a track that slowly builds up with Clark la-menting his unfulfilling life in a boring town where no one cares for each other. Clark sings over this slow, but rhythmically chug-ging guitar for about four minutes before he explodes in the most ex-pressive guitar solo heard. Heavy distortion, jarring changes of pace and the whining, nearly desperate voice of the guitar emote much more than lyrics could.

Clark does experiment with modern R&B, however. Tracks

such as “Blak and Blu,” and “The Life” show a different side of the singer. Loop-like drum beats and more understated guitar fill these songs, which sound much more produced than the rest of the al-bum. Though they are solid songs, they are noticeably different from the rest of the album and sound more similar to some of today’s radio hits, which jars the flow a bit.

“Blak and Blu” becomes more diverse through songs such as the Chuck Berry-esque “Travis Coun-ty,” the high powered, harmony drenched “Glitter Ain’t Gold” and the deafening roar and pain of “Numb.” “Please Come Home,” is a yearning, 50s sounding love bal-lad, while “Third Stone From the Sun / If You Like You Say,” is an epic nine minute plunge into the absolute depth of emotional guitar playing.

The album is truly diverse and maintains a sense of true old-school blues mixed with modern sentiments while keeping Clark’s signature raw sound. Though its changes in pace don’t always flow perfectly, Clark’s stellar musi-cianship and genuine lyrics and voice shine through for a refresh-ing change of pace in mainstream rock and blues alike.

★☆☆☆☆RATING: BY: GRACE KANG, STAFF WRITER

SILENT HILL: REVELATION

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You may think that director/screenwriter Michael J. Bas-sett (“Deathwatch,” “Solomon Kane”) recently took over the reins of the “Silent Hill” film franchise. What he did was fumble with the reins, veer off-road and manage to get the carriage trampled beneath the horses. Apparently Bassett be-lieves that sequels are supposed to be unpleasant to sit through, and that making a horror movie means startling your audience with cheap jump-scares. “Silent Hill: Revelation” is something you might expect from a film student with minimal creativity and a $20 million budget.

Adelaide Clemens (who looks like she was cast from a lineup of Michelle Williams look-alike contestants) portrays Heather Mason, an angst-rid-den girl with a shadowed past. Our scrappy heroine wakes up the day before her eighteenth birthday after dreaming about her demonic doppelganger who warns her not to go to Silent Hill. In reality, Heather and her dad Harry (Sean Bean) have spent the last decade on the run. If you’ve seen “Silent Hill,” it’s clear early on that Heather is Sharon, the adopted daughter of Christopher and Rose Da Silva.

Sharon’s return is explained through a half-baked flashback that picks up immediately after

“Silent Hill.” A ghostly Rose (Radha Mitchell) explains to Christopher/Harry that she somehow discovered a one-passenger trip home; she stays behind in order to send Sharon back, and makes Christopher promise to keep Sharon away from Silent Hill at all costs. Sharon has no memory of Si-lent Hill; Christopher tells her she was in an accident that killed her mother. In present day, Sharon/Heather attends her first day of school, and fel-low new kid, Vincent (Kit Har-ington), stalks Heather around town with the devotion of a needy puppy, cramming cheesy flirtations in between her wak-ing-nightmare episodes. When Harry’s abducted by the same cult that’s been hunting for Heather, she sets off for Si-lent Hill with lover boy (a.k.a. please let him die first) in tow.

One of the biggest problems with “Revelation” is that there are no people in this movie, just talking “Silent Hill” guide-books. It seems that the char-acters can’t go five minutes in Heather’s company without blurting out something that she should’ve found out for herself. It takes the fun out of the sto-ry when any “revelations” are handed to the protagonist on a blood-soaked platter. If I want-ed to spend ninety-four minutes listening to the characters tell

me the story instead of acting it out, I would buy an audiobook.

Bean and Mitchell aren’t the only victims of Bassett’s writ-ing. Douglas Cartland (Martin Donovan) and Dahlia Gillespie (Deborah Kara Unger) return to the series to recite unending expository discourse between unoriginal and poorly strung-together lines of dialogue. Speaking of Dahlia, Alessa’s deranged mother appears to have been pushed aside by Leonard Wolf (Malcolm Mc-Dowell) for the coveted role of town fruitcake. The last reunion guest is Pyramid Head (Rober-to Campanella), Silent Hill’s beloved Angemon-meets-Pory-

gon, who’s since been demoted to carrousel operator. The re-turnee cast are so lackluster in their denigrated roles I thought I was watching “Silent Hill: Recession.”

Christophe Gans’ “Silent Hill” boosted an otherwise av-erage story with the convincing plight of a mother searching for her child and, more memo-rably, striking aesthetics that wrought grotesque beauty from the monsters and visual set designs. It imparted an atmo-sphere that, while not enough to carry the movie, respectfully rang true with the games. It’s as if the people involved in the making of “Revelation” were

so excited about new monster designs (the spider composed of mannequin parts was admit-tedly cool) that they forgot to figure out how they fit into the plot. Bassett’s gauche handling of the sequel does more harm than good to the franchise.

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The UC Riverside wom-en’s volleyball team started the match against the Uni-versity of Pacific with a 2-0 set lead but fell late, losing 3-2 against the Tigers in a high-energy game. The High-landers started great in the first set, completing on 63 percent (14-22) of their side outs. That was due in part of Ashley Cox’s ability to create kills. UCR won the first set 25-21.

The second set finished with the same result in a 25-21 shootout. At the half, Ash-ley Cox led the team in Kills with 12, Amanda Vialpando had five, Megan Reza with nine, Tyler Dorsey and Jas-mine White accumulated two kills. The second half was a different story.

Pacific took over the third set winning 25-23 after UCR trailed 5-2. The fourth set de-flated UCR. Pacific connect-ed on 86% (13-15) of their side outs as compared to the Highlanders’ 50 percent (12-24). The 5th and final set was won by Pacific 15-11. UCR matched the Tigers point to point, tying the game 4-4. After that point, Pacific cre-ated more off of their attacks as the Highlanders were not able to create plays to win.

Coach Ron Larsen com-mented on his team’s effort, “Our expectations aren’t good enough to think that we can win these games be-cause we lost a number of them already, we were still happy with how well we did on games 1 and 2 and weren’t

really focused on this game here (Game 3)” In addition to that, he stated they must “play with composure” and how they “can have emotion-al ups but we can’t have any downs and must do a better job with swings with the right players at the right times.”

Emily Borges spoke on the team’s play saying, “It came down to the third and fourth game, we almost got too much of a high and got too excited which ended up pull-ing us down at the end.”

Coming off of Friday’s loss vs Pacific in a 5 set match, the UC Riverside Women’s Vol-leyball teams played its sec-ond game of a back-to-back on Saturday vs UC Davis. UC Riverside looked to get their first win in conference play and to break out of their 11 game losing streak, however, the UC Davis Aggies swept the Highlanders 3-0.

The first set was close with UCR leading early 3-0 that was created by kills from Ashley Cox and Amanda Vi-alpando. UC Davis pulled away by finishing off their attacking opportunities while the Highlanders were playing with no sense of awareness and effort on the defensive end leaving open spots in the middle of the box leading to easy points for UC Davis. UC Davis took the first game 25-13.

The second game was the same story but with a differ-ent start. UC Davis capital-ized by attacking early and gained a 3-0 advantage. UCR was plagued with nine er-

rors while completing 41% of their side outs. In the third set, the Highlanders started off 8-7 but were not able to keep the lead as UC Davis pulled away 25-16 and win-ning the game 3-0 to com-plete the sweep.

Coach Ron Larsen on his team’s effort, “I thought that we were playing like we were going to play well, but they (UC Davis) made a couple of nice plays and we stopped playing… I don’t think the level of play changed from our end, we didn’t play at a level of play that we could compete with them tonight, we never sustained a high level of play. We’re definite-ly not as strong in our funda-mentals as we need to be.”

Ashley Cox and Amanda Vialpando were the statistical leaders of the game. Amanda Vialpando had 15 kills and 4 digs and Ashley Cox had nine kills and eight digs. Amanda and Ashley commented on their efforts. Amanda stated, “The other team just per-formed better than us.” In terms of any adjustments needed, she added, “We all know what we need to do, we just need to come fighting

and know what we got to do to execute to win.”

Teammate Ashley com-mented on the game, saying, “We need to keep building, I don’t think we need to change anything, our confidence

needs to get higher.” With 8 games remaining in the sea-son, the Highlanders are still looking for their first confer-ence win and to break away from a string of 11 losses in a row.

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The UC Riverside men’s golf team tumbled out of the Bill Cullum Invitational as they concluded the fall por-tion of their season finishing 19th place out of 20 teams at the Wood Ranch Golf Club in Simi Valley, California. The Highlanders, who won the event in 2010, struggled to maintain the early season form that saw them finish in the top three in two previous events.

UC Riverside started the 54-hole event slowly as the team shot a first round score of 307, which placed them 17 out of 20 teams for the

day. David Gazzolo paced the squad with a respectable score of 73. Three other Highland-ers scored in the seventies be-fore the second round of 18 holes was suspended due to darkness.

The final day was an uphill battle for the Highlanders as they started the second round 19 shots behind the leading team, University of San Di-ego. Led again by Gazzolo, the Highlanders recovered from a lethargic start to finish ninth place in the middle round with a score of 298. Gazzolo rolled in five birdies as he continued his strong tournament play concluding the round with a score of 72. Teammates Chris-tian Rajcic and Ryan Smith

finished with scores of 74 and 75, respectively. Following a complete 36 hole round, the Highlanders were in fifteenth place trailing the overall lead-er, San Diego, by 38 strokes.

The deciding round saw the Highlanders plummet as they finished in last place with a score of 317 for the third round. Smith led the High-landers firing a score of 78 while Gazzolo, Rajcic, and Bruce Doucett each scored un-der 81. Jason Semthiti round-ed out the team with a score of 82. UC Riverside, following a disastrous final round, con-cluded the invitational with a total score of 922, which po-sitioned them in 19th place over all preceding only CSU

Bakersfield. Gazzolo paced the High-

landers with a 225 total (73-72-80) to finish tied for 41th place overall in the final indi-vidual standings. Smith (78-75-78) and Rajcic (77-74-80) both tied for 69th place with a total score of 231 among the 108 total participants.

San Diego steamrolled through the competition accu-mulating a score of 850 (288-279-283) for a fourteen-under par. Arizona State was nine strokes back as they finished runner-up with a total score of 859. Arizona State’s Jon Rahm Rodriguez won med-alist honors with a 12-under par and an individual score of 204. Three shots behind was

San Diego’s Grant Forest, who took second place honors with a 207. Travis Russell of UC Irvine completed the top three with a 209 finishing with a rare tournament eagle.

The start of 2012 season was one of the best in recent Highlander history as they fin-ished in third place in the first two tournaments. The High-landers haven’t had a pair of third place finishes in the same season, excluding dual matches, since the 2004-2005 season, a span of over eight years. The Highlanders look to recapture their fervent early season play as they return to competition Jan. 28 at the Ari-zona Intercollegiate tourna-ment in Tuscon, Arizona.

The UC Riverside women’s golf team jolted into first place out of 11 squads after they fired a 301 first-round score Monday, Oct. 22 at the Santa Clara Colby Invitational. The Highlanders had a two-shot lead over Ball State (303) and a six-stroke ad-vantage over the host Broncos (307) before things took a turn for the worse when the High-landers fired 315 and stumbled back into a fourth place finish out of 11 teams.

Highlander Amelia Ek and Savannah Vilaubi were tied for second out of 68 golfers with

identical even-par scores of 72. Brittani Ferraro was tied for 16th with a 78 while Han-nah Lee was in 20th with a 79, and Tiffany Koyano fired 82 to place 40th. Playing as an indi-vidual, Christy Fogerty shot 75 to tie for 9th place.

The UC Riverside women’s golf team had the lead after Monday’s first round of play at the Santa Clara Colby Invi-tational, but when they shot the 315 second-round score on Tuesday, they dropped back into fourth place out of 11 teams with a 616 total.

Even though the Highlanders fell back three spots they still played well in the tournament

compared to other teams from the Big West. UC Riverside fin-ished higher than two other Big West teams, Cal State North-ridge (626) and Cal Poly (629).

Ball State won the event with a 605 two-round score, followed by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IU-PUI) with 609, the host Broncos with 615, and the Highlanders one stroke back at 616.

Savannah Vilaubi led the UC Riverside squad when she tied for sixth overall with a 149 (72-77). Playing as an individual, Christy Fogerty also tied for sixth place carding rounds of 75-74 (149). Brittani Ferraro was tied for 12th place with

78-75 (153), while Amelia Ek tied for 18th with a 155 (72-83). Tiffany Koyano fired a 162 (82-80) to tie for 35th while Hannah Lee shot 79-85 (164) to tie for 43rd.

Ball State’s Jenna Hague won the individual crown with a 142, three shots ahead of IU-PUI’s Lauren Kuss.

The women’s golf team has now placed in fourth place in the two tournaments they have played this fall season and looks to make ground when they finish up their fall por-tion when they head to Arroyo Grande, CA for the Cal Poly Invitational. Last year during first two tournaments in the fall

season, the women’s team fin-ished 17th out of 22 and tied six out of 14 teams. The year before that, they placed 12 out of 20 and 11 out of 15. The best year for the women’s came in their 2009-10 season when they started out with top five finishes going five out of 14, three out of 10 and was tied for second out of seven teams in the third tournament. The only first place finish was in the 2008-09 sea-son when they finished tied for first out of 12 at the Bronco Fall Invitational in Meridian, ID.

The Highlanders will partici-pate in the Lady Mustang Invi-tational on October 29-30 in Ar-royo Grande, CA.

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David Stern, the longtime commissioner of the NBA, fi-nally announced his intent to call it quits. Come 2014, the commis-sioner will retire after 30 years of service to one of the most popu-lar leagues in the world.

In all honesty, it’s about darn time.

It’s finally over. After vetoed trades, two huge lockouts and a heavy load of unnecessary rule changes, Stern will finally retire.

No longer will the NBA have to deal with his tyrannical rule. The league can finally move on and play ball without the fearful watch of Stern over the players’ shoulders.

Now, to be fair, his reign as commissioner did bring a great deal of progress, income and change. In his time as commis-sioner, he turned the league into a global sport, he added seven teams to the NBA and he man-aged to get through six collective bargaining negotiations. Credit must be given where it is due.

But criticism must also be handed where it is earned.

Let’s look at a list of some of his most unpopular moments as commissioner. During his reign, hand checking was discontinued, the whistle was blown every oth-er second, strict and unnecessary dress codes were implemented, and technical fouls spoiled en-grossing and intense moments during games.

In his 30-year reign, Stern also changed NBA basketball from an intense, physical and entertaining sport to a soft, un-inspired and referee-dominated game.

Players could no longer play freely as many had to deal with the constant worry of fouling out. Defense was no longer an impor-tant aspect of the game as players refused to guard the opposition because they knew they would hear that dreadful whistle if they did. It was Pavlovian Condition-ing at its worst.

The NBA earned the reputa-tion of being a soft league during Stern’s time. In all honesty, even college basketball was more physical than the NBA.

With the commissioner fi-nally stepping down, here’s hop-ing for a more entertaining NBA without the harsh and unusual rule changes. The reign of Stern is over. Players should be rejoic-ing knowing that the league has the potential to change for the better. It’s truly an exciting time for basketball. Good riddance, Stern.

MICHAEL RIOS

Stern’s retirement is long overdue

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UC Riverside women’s soccer ends season with a loss against the Aggies

The UC Riverside women’s soccer (7-9-3) team continued their success when they marched into Knoles Field at the University of the Pacific last Friday Oct. 26 and snatched a 3-2 overtime vic-tory on the road against the strug-gling Pacific Tigers (3-13-1), now losers of their last six.

It only took seven minutes for the first goal of the match to be scored, when Highlander Alex Duran’s shot was deflected, yet still found itself into the back of the net off the hands of Pacific goalkeeper Kathrine Larsen. The Tigers fought back and scored the equalizing goal in the 37th minute. Lauren Olvera’s attempt hit the crossbar and found Brittni Bee-man, who headed the ball in for

the score.The Highlanders struck swiftly

in the second half, led by Tyler Cunningham’s goal at the 45-sec-ond mark of the second period to make the score 2-1 and give the Highlanders their second lead of the night.

The Tigers would continue fighting, albeit letting scoring op-portunity after scoring opportunity pass them by as the clock drew ever so closer to the dreaded dou-ble zeroes that would all but add to the pain of a disappointing season. In the 84th minute, when all hope seemed lost, Tiger Brittni Beer-man picked up her second goal of the night, continuing her stellar performance, as well as the hopes of the Pacific Tigers.

Those hopes would soon be squashed by the Highlanders, who scored the winning goal and their seventh win of the season when Tyler Cunningham found Jes-

sica Cortez in the fourth minute of overtime.

Coming off Friday’s win against the Pacific Tigers, the Highlanders traveled 60 miles north to UC Da-vis on Sunday to square off against the Aggies in their final match of the regular season.

The Highlanders picked up where they left off on Friday and got off to a fast start, taking the lead on the first goal of the after-noon in the 16th minute, courtesy of Andrea Morales.

The Aggies had a chance to equalize in the 29th minute off of a shot by midfielder Stephanie Bell, but it ultimately ended up in the hands of UCR goalkeeper Jessica White, canceling out the Aggies’ only shot on goal of the first half.

It would be a tale of two halves

though, as a seemingly lifeless Aggie squad found rejuvenation in the second half, starting with a score in the 64th minute when Lindsey O’Tousa found Taylor Duffner to tie the game at 1-1. The match seemed destined for overtime until the 82nd minute, when UC Davis midfielder Kirstin Holmberg fired a crosser to Ash-ley Edwards, who headed the ball into the net for the game-winning score.

The Aggies’ offensive explo-sion in the second half saw them outshoot the Highlanders 11-2.

The loss puts the exclamation mark on a lackluster season for the UCR women’s soccer team, finishing the 2012 season with a 7-10-3 overall record and a 2-6-1 record in Big West conference play. Junior Andrea Morales and Freshman Crystal Lopez ended the season tied for the team lead in scoring with nine points each.

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Highlanders 3 – Tigers 2

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Our UC Riverside men’s and women’s basketball season starts this upcoming weekend with an exhibition game Nov. 3 at the Student Recreation Center.

The women’s basketball team will face off against Cal Baptist at 3 p.m and following that game the men’s team will square off against San Diego Christian at 7 p.m..

The men’s team is filled with eight young freshmen and will be led by senior Robert Smith. The Highlander fan base will be the driving focal point to help the team thrive through the sea-son, along with the great coach-ing from Jim Wooldridge. Yet, they must wait until next season for the playoffs.

Wooldridge and UCR kept three players on scholarship for the 2010-11 school year, and made them subject to counting under the Academic Progress Rate scoring system. The system awards points for each semester/quarter a player stays eligible and stays in school. However, the players dropped away and did not continue classes.

Their hopes of going to the Big West Conference playoffs are shattered, even if they go undefeated. This puts a damper to the team’s season, but they will need all the support to get through this season. This does not mean to forget about the men’s basketball season and not show up. It is now more impor-tant than ever that we show the Highlander pride we have at this great and wonderful school.

Moving on to the women’s basketball team. The Big West Conference released its 2012-13 Preseason Poll and they selected the UC Riverside women’s bas-ketball team to finish eighth. Senior guard Tre’Shonti Not-tingham was also picked to the preseason all-conference team.

The team has averaged 15.9 wins per season and has made the postseason in five of eight years, all the while winning three Big West Tournament titles and one Big West Confer-ence regular season title during Margaritis’ UC Riverside ten-ure. The women’s team has a le-git shot with their young core to make back to the playoffs, and Nottingham can lead the High-landers there.

Show some Highlander pride. Come out this Saturday, Nov. 3, to support the Highland-er basketball squads. Let’s start out the season with a bang.

KENDALL PETERSON

Highlander basketball is back

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On a sunny Saturday morn-ing Oct. 27, UC Riverside’s cross country teams looked to keep the pace with schools like Cal Poly and UC Davis at the Big West Cross Country Championship. Before the Championship run, UC Riverside’s very own Coach Nate Browne responded to questions concerning how he felt about UC Riverside’s women this week. “The women have put together some strong performances. We feel like we’re flying a bit under the radar and we like it that way,” said Coach Browne.

Indeed the women’s cross country team put together some strong performances this week-end, coming in fourth place overall with 81 points. Led once again by Damajerma Dubose, who finished fourth with a time of 20:16.0, Raquel Hefflin and Jzsa-nette Lindstrom finished ninth and 15th with times of 20:34.3 and 21:01.5. With two top 10 finishers, UC Riverside’s women showed another strong perfor-mance, and led a balanced attack as Katy Daly and Alisha Brown also finished in the top 30, with Briana Simons finishing just out-side the top 30.

With both Daly and Brown fin-ishing at 21:23.09, and Simmons finishing at 21.36.0, the High-lander cross country team dished out strong performances to keep pace with UC Davis, Cal Poly and UC Santa Barbara at the Agricul-tural course. The team lived up to Coach Browne’s expectations, when he responded to another question regarding his expecta-

tions for the women earlier this week, Browne said, “The only real expectation is compete hard and race all the way through the finish. We can only control what our teams do. If our women have their best day as a unit they’ll be tough to beat.”

Following the completion of the women’s race, UC Riverside’s Highlander men came out and also ran a strong race, dealing with injuries to their top runners. With upper echelon competition such as first place Cal Poly, sec-ond place UC Santa Barbara, third place UC Irvine, fourth place UC Davis, and fifth place Long Beach State, the Highlander men came in sixth, with 155 points.

Coach Browne responded to questions about his men’s cross country team. “The men have had some strong individual perfor-mances but we have struggled a bit as a team since the UCR Invi-tational. We dealt with a couple of inopportune injuries and since we are a bit thin it gets exposed when someone is out,” said Browne.

Even with injuries, the men’s team came out with once again a balanced attack led by explosive junior, Seth Totten, who placed 14th with a time of 24:48.4, fol-lowed by top 30 finishes by fresh-men Cesar Solis and Michael Gauger, who ran a 25:23.5 and 25:45.3 respectively.

These finishes couldn’t top

a gauntlet of top runners by Cal Poly, who finished with first, sec-ond and third place runners, but it represented a strong unit and strength in the face of injury.

When asked about home field advantage for both his teams, Coach Browne responded, “I think they love [it]—there is fa-miliarity and they sleep in their own beds the night before a cham-pionship race. They don’t have to break their routine and they get to perform in front of their family and friends.”

The UC Riverside women’s and men’s cross country team must prepare for the NCAA West Regional Championship on Nov. 10 in Seattle, WA.

Women claim fourth place at Big West Cross Country Championships, men’s cross country claim sixth place

WE s L E y nG/hiGhLandERCesar Solis runs in the men’s 8K.

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With just one week remaining in the regular season, the UC Riv-erside men’s soccer team played its final home game of the year against Cal State Northridge in hopes of earning a spot in the post-season. The Matadors currently have the lead in the Southern Di-vision of the conference and have already secured their playoff spot. The Highlanders, however, are still fighting for the final playoff position in the Southern Division. Saturday night’s game set River-side back a bit, however, as UCR fell with a final score of 2-1.

The first half saw no score from either side as both teams went into halftime with a 0-0 tie. The second half would prove to have more of-fensive rhythm as Northridge dealt the first blow to the Highlanders. After just three minutes of playing time, Northridge’s Edwin Rivas scored the first goal of the match for the Matadors on an unassisted kick to the goal. The score put the Matadors up, 1-0.

Rivas would go on to score yet again after an assist from team-mate David Turcios to give the Matadors a comfortable 2-0 lead.

The Highlanders were then dealt an even heavier blow as UCR’s Jose Diaz was called for

a red card after a collision with a Northridge player late in the game. Diaz exited the match and the Highlanders were forced to continue with just nine players on the field.

Head coach Junior Gonzalez commented on the play later on. “Jose has the tendency sometimes to lift his left foot when he’s going into tackles,” he explained. “He got into a bad tackle.”

Despite losing a key player, UC Riverside still battled back late in the second period. At the 2:12 mark, the Highlanders managed to get the ball close enough to their opponents’ goal to clutter the pen-alty area and eventually force an own goal from the Matadors. This cut the lead to just one point at 2-1.

The Highlanders rode that mo-mentum until the final seconds of the match. Riverside put the pres-sure on the Matadors late in the game as the team attempted shot after shot to try to tie the game. With just under a minute remain-ing, the Highlanders received a corner kick and nearly managed to tip the ball through the net to tie the game. The effort was to no avail, however, as the Matadors stopped the Highlanders’ final at-tempts to score.

The clock eventually ran out and the Highlanders went on to

lose the game, 2-1.The Matadors managed to spoil

the Highlanders’ special evening as UCR celebrated Senior Night during the match, recognizing their six graduating players.

The Highlanders have two scheduled games remaining this season. Both games will be on the road. After Saturday’s match, Coach Junior Gonzalez voiced his thoughts on this game and the remaining matches the team will have.

“I just felt we weren’t as sharp

as we needed to be to get the re-sult,” Coach Gonzalez said about Saturday’s game. “All we have to do is focus on the next two match-es. We got to bring heart, we got to bring effort, we got to get the work in.”

The final playoff spot in the Southern Division is still up for grabs. The Highlanders will travel to Irvine on Halloween night and will then conclude the regular sea-son on Nov. 3 against Fullerton in hopes earning the final spot in the postseason.

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