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Study: Crop New Price Center Skeleton Takes Shape PROGRAM
project
Yields Down Expansion
TO OPEN
phase marked by steel
installation to
as Temp. Rises beam
LITERARY
be completed later
Researchers say California
harvests could decrease
by up to 20 percent by
mid-century because of
global warming.
By Jessie Chau
C ONTRIBUTING W RITER
Global warming will have severe
negative impacts on California crop
yields in the coming years, according to a new study by researchers at the UC-managed Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory.
LLNL’s study, published in the
journal Agricultural and Forest
Methodology, showed the effects of
rising temperatures on six major
[ CROPS, page 3 ]
CROP CATASTROPHE?
▶ Researchers explored
six staple California crops
planted historically every 25
to 40 years.
▶ Study predicted an a
average 20-percent
decrease in crops by midcentury.
▶ Avocado yields will be
most affected, potentially
dropping 40 percent.
▶ Temperatures will rise
between 1.4 degrees and
5.8 degrees Celsius by 2100.
S OURCE : LLNL, IPCC
PORTAL
this month.
By Petr Feytser
UCSD will host renowned
Clarion sci-fi workshop,
which will draw upon the
campus’ strong science
background.
S ENIOR S TAFF W RITER
The Price Center expansion has
recently transitioned to the “flying
steel” stage of construction — the
latest phase of the massive upgrade
to the 1989 facility — following the
completion of concrete flooring in
new areas of the building.
This current phase of the expansion is expected to be completed
by the end of this month and will
include the installation of 1,400
steel beams, according to interim
University Centers Advisory Board
Director Paul Terzino.
“This is a phase when we really
see progress as the frame structure
emerges from the basement, and
the expansion takes shape,” Terzino
stated in an e-mail.
The steel alone costs $8 million,
which is included in the total $55
million pricetag of the new facility. Since the university received
the original estimates, the cost has
increased by approximately $5 million because of rising steel and concrete costs, Terzino stated.
“The biggest roadblock was
funding the overage to the original
budget,” Terzino stated. “Once the
budget was finalized and the actual
work started, there have been no
major roadblocks.”
To install the European-made
steel beams, which weigh approximately 650 pounds per square foot,
UCSD has employed the largest
crane ever used on campus to lift
and secure the 1,800 tons of steel
By Christina Homer
S TAFF W RITER
the relocated Cross Cultural Center,
new programming and Alumni
Association offices, meet-ing spaces, a full-service grocery store, an
expanded bookstore and more
lounge space.
The bookstore expansion will be
completed this summer, after which
the original store will undergo several months of remodeling.
The upgraded facility will
also feature a full-service bank,
an Asian tea shop, a coffee shop,
UCSD is the new home for the
nationally distinguished Clarion
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’
Workshop, a six-week summer program for professional or aspiring science fiction and fantasy writers.
The Clarion workshop is an annual summer program now in its 40th
year that focuses on the fundamentals of science fiction and fantasy
writing. The instructors include leading writers and editors in the science
fiction field today.
The campus decided to partner
with Clarion for a variety of reasons,
including drawing more attention to
its writing program.
“First of all, interestingly enough,
UCSD has produced over the past
30 years several successful science
fiction writers,” Dean of Arts and
Humanities Michael Bernstein said.
These UCSD alumni include
Gregory Benford, David Brin, Nancy
Holder, Vernor Vinge and Kim
Stanley Robinson, a current member
of the Clarion board who helped
negotiate Clarion’s move to UCSD.
[ CONSTRUCTION, page 9 ]
[ WRITING, page 8 ]
S ANH L UONG /G UARDIAN
The largest crane ever used at UCSD will install 1,400 steel beams as part of the
massive renovation of the nearly 20-year-old Price Center.
necessary for completion of this
phase of the project.
The next major phases include
constructing the roof, enclosing
the building via external walls and
mechanical, electrical and plumbing
installation, which will be followed
by construction of the internal walls
and then finally the addition of finishing touches such as carpet and
paint. The entire project should be
completed by next January.
The new Price Center will
include an expanded food court,
more student organization offices,
Governor Ups Funding for Blue Congress Could Be Green for Student Aid
proposal
LOAN RATE PROPOSAL
Alternative Energy Research Dems’
lowers Stafford loan
By Kristyn Kennedy
S TAFF W RITER
Late last month, Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger announced a plan
to allocate $95 million of this year’s
state budget to university-based
research in the area of “green” technology, including alternative energy
forms and supercomputer advances.
“The Golden State has more scientists, engineers and researchers
and invests more in research and
development than any other state,”
Schwarzenegger stated in a press
release. “As a leader in d eveloping
new technologies, California will
reap tremendous rewards for our
economy and environment from
this investment.”
Much of the allotted money
could benefit UCSD, should the
Legislature approve the application.
Currently, UCSD and UC
Berkeley are two of five international universities competing to win a
$500 million grant from the British
Petroleum Energy Biosciences
Institute for long-term research
into the production of alternative
fuels. Should either university win
the grant, $40 million in additional
state money would supplement the
grant.
The budget would also provide
$5 million in state-matching funds
to money already raised by three
UC entities: Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, UCSD and
Lawrence
Berkeley
National
Laboratory. The labs recently submitted a bid for a federal grant of
[ GREEN, page 9 ]
rates over time, but
fails to address Perkins
loans and Pell Grants.
By Charles Nguyen
S ENIOR S TAFF W RITER
The new Democratic majority in
Congress — making good on a compact to lower student loan debt by
slashing interest rates in half — has
unveiled a slimmer version of last
year’s debt reduction plan that falls
short of some expectations, but also
championed the onset of legislative
support for issues of college affordability.
The current plan includes reductions only for federally subsidized
undergraduate student loans, such as
FOCUS
SPORTS
Tossing Out a Lifeline
Straight Shooting
Campus psychological services contingency
tackles touchy topic of suicide prevention.
page 10
Stafford loans, and gradual implementation, both exceptions made to
control costs that got a similar proposal, costing $18 million, rejected
last year.
Under this year’s plan, interest
rates on those loans would be reduced
from 6.8 to 6.1 percent in 2007, to
5.4 percent in 2008, to 4.8 percent
in 2009, to 4.1 percent in 2010 and
finally to 3.4 percent in 2011.
Speaker of the House Nancy
Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and her
contingent, including Rep. George
Miller (D-Concord), chairman of the
Committee on Education and Labor,
are set to vote on the issue by Jan. 17.
Miller, who introduced this proposal as well as its costlier predecessor last year, said the effort will save
students millions and help stem costs
that are “putting college out of reach
for more and more students.”
The Democrats’ plan, in full effect,
would save about $4,400 in interest
Women’s basketball ups winning streak to five
after a Jan. 6 overtime victory over Sonoma State.
page 20
▶ Stafford loan rates would
drop from 6.8 percent to
6.1 percent in 2007.
▶ Rates would fall to 4.8
percent in 2009.
▶ Rates would fall to 3.4
percent in 2011.
▶ Changes would save
average borrower about
$4,420.
S OURCE : R EP . G EORGE M ILLER
costs for a borrower with $13,800 in
loan debts.
Support from public advocates
extolled the proposal’s other moneysaving figures: “The average work[ AID, page 9 ]
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Some Still Protesting ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell’ Ruling
Despite outrage over the
U.S. Supreme Court’s decision
to uphold the much-maligned
Solomon Amendment, a majority of surveyed law schools have
shown little increase in faculty and
student protests against military
recruitment on campus, a new
study says.
The amendment, which gives
military recruitmers full access
to public university campuses,
became a topic of controversy in
the 2005 lawsuit Rumsfeld v. Forum
for Academic and Institutional
Rights. The suit, filed by a coalition of law schools, alleged that
the military’s discriminatory “don’t
ask, don’t tell” policy violated the
campuses’ First Amendment rights.
Despite the court’s decision to
uphold the amendment, the ruling
encouraged those who wished to
protest against the recruitment to
feel free to do so “while retaining
eligibility for federal funds.”
However, a high percentage of
the 112 law schools that responded
to the survey reported little to no
increase in anti-military activism,
according to National Association
for Law Placement Executive
Director James G. Leipold.
A panel at the American
Association of Law Schools’ annual
meeting in Washington, D.C. suggested that frustration and fatigue
caused by trying to change the
discriminatory practices could
be a factor in the low numbers.
However, many believe that the
coming months — with a Congress
controlled by Democrats — could
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potentially aid the fight to change
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Study: Law Schools
Lack Ethics, Practicality
While many American law
schools excel at teaching their students how to think like attorneys,
they lack emphasis on practical
applications of trial skills and ethical foundations, a new study from
the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching suggests.
The two-year study, focused on
16 law schools throughout Canada
and the United States, says that
while the schools do a good job
of training students to perfect “a
distinctive habit of thinking” in the
manner of a lawyer, but also that
that alone is not an adequate foundation for a legal career.
“Learning to think like a lawyer ... is insufficient as a basis for
becoming a competent legal professional,” Carnegie senior scholar
and study co-author William M.
Sullivan said.
Instead, Sullivan and the other
authors encourage a three-part,
integrated curriculum that emphasizes the moral and ethical considerations of legal practice yet
still values legal scholarship over
clinical instruction.
The study also suggests that
schools increase the number of
“capstone” opportunities for
second- and third-year students
designed to help them develop
skills in their area of focus and
pursue advanced clinical training
in an atmosphere of significant
faculty presence.
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A SSOCIATE N EWS E DITOR
▶ CROPS, from page 1
Californian crops: wine grapes,
almonds, table grapes, oranges,
walnuts and avocados.
Historically, each of these crops is
typically planted only once every 25 to
40 years, so climates have the potential capability to change considerably
in the lifetime of individual vines
or trees. To investigate the effects of
temperature on the crops, scientists
put them in 20 different climate settings, each with 2 to 4 degrees Celsius
difference in temperature.
The team found that the varied
temperatures had little influence on
wine grape yields but spurred notably
lower yields for the remaining crops
in the study. Considering the current
harvesting locations and conditions
of almonds, table grapes, oranges
and walnuts, researchers projected
a potential 20 percent decrease in
yields by mid-century.
Researchers’ temperature intervals mirrored separate findings from
the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change’s third assessment
report, which predicted that Earth’s
average surface temperature will
increase between 1.4 degrees Celsius
and 5.8 degrees Celsius due to global
warming between 1990 and 2100.
“We were interested in how
the production of crops that are
most valuable in California will be
helped or hurt by climate change,”
lead study author David Lobell
said in a statement. “So we developed models to simulate how crops
respond to the amount of climate
The research did not include
potential effects of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide or farming modifications due to increasing temperatures and less rainfall.
However, the team did take into
account multiple factors that can
influence yields in a changing climate, including plant physiological
processes and the climate-related
effects of crop pests, pathogens and
air pollution.
According to Lobell, the results
put concrete numbers on the potential cost of climate change for these
particular crops, so Californians
know what is at stake in a warmer
world. For example, a 10 percent
loss on a $1.5 billion crop — such
as almonds — translates to $150
million. These numbers can then
be compared to the cost of reducing climate change or adapting the
—David Lobell, Researcher, crops to the new climate.
The study also noted that
Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory although the crops can be grown in
cooler regions, it would take time for
the orchards and vineyards to mature
without an increase in warmth.
and become harvestable. There is
Ninety-five percent of the also the issue of finding fertile soil
United States’ avocados are grown and conditions suitable for farming.
in California, 80 percent of which
“The impacts are based on the
are from San Diego County. The assumption that farmers do not
study, which was funded by the move to other locations with more
U.S. Department of Energy’s favorable climates,” Lobell said.
Office of Science, Biological and “With long-lived perennial plants,
Environmental Research Program, moving to another region within
projected an overall 40 percent California is somewhat limited.”
decrease in avocado harvests, which
could lead to a potentially severe Readers can contact Jessie Chau at
negative impact on local farmers.
jlchau@ucsd.edu.
change we expect in California.”
LLNL spokesperson Anne M.
Stark did not respond to requests
for comment.
Overall, the team found that
unless California’s farming techniques adapt to the rising temperatures, most crops will be less
productive in a warmer climate.
For example, by 2020, Californians
can expect yields of almonds and
avocados to be about 10 percent
lower than they would have been
“
The impacts are based
on the assumption that
farmers do not move
to other locations.”
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▶ WRITING, from page 1
“In 2002 these authors appeared
on a televised panel at UCSD,” literature department Chair Don Wayne
stated in an e-mail. “At which time,
then-Chancellor Robert C. Dynes
(now president of the University of
California) noted that ‘UCSD has
created a larger number of really,
really good science fiction writers
than any other campus in the country.’”
Bernstein explained that UCSD
also seemed ideal as the new home
for Clarion because it is an active
research campus, so writers from
Clarion have the opportunity to be
exposed to cutting-edge technology.
“We think it is a nice synergy,”
Bernstein said.
Having a science fiction program
on campus may also foster dialogues
about controversial issues in science, Wayne said.
“Many authors of science fiction
are concerned in their writing with
issues such as global warming, sustainable resources and agriculture
and the development of new technologies, and some are particularly
knowledgeable about the science
involved,” Wayne stated in an email. “So we would hope that a dialogue might develop between writers of fiction and scientists directly
“
We would hope that a
dialogue might
develop between
writers of fiction and
scientists.”
— Don Wayne, Chair, UCSD
Literature Department
engaged in research in these and
other areas.”
A typical Clarion workshop day
would involve a morning lecture by
the visiting faculty member for that
week and the “workshopping” of
a student’s story, including critique
from each of the workshop’s participants and instructor-led discussions
about larger issues that the short
stories raised.
The day continues with time
devoted to individual writing, meetings with the visiting faculty members and preparing critiques for the
next morning’s workshop.
During the six-week session, certain evenings will include readings
by the instructors in conjunction
with Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore,
a San Diego bookstore that specializes in science fiction and fantasy
literature.
Although there is no requirement for any of the participants to
complete a piece of work during the
clinic, all participants are expected
to be active writers, working on one
or more pieces during the workshop.
Initially, Clarion’s presence on
campus will be felt primarily during
summer.
“But the literature department
hopes to develop occasional programs during the regular academic
year, including readings by authors
of science fiction and fantasy literature and lectures and panels involving both authors and scholars who
work in the field,” Wayne stated in
an e-mail.
According to Bernstein, part of
the arrangement involved in Clarion’s
partnership with UCSD includes the
relocation of the workshop’s archives
to Geisel Library, where literary critics and science fiction and fantasy
scholars will be able to access them.
The archives will be housed in
special collections.
Readers can contact Christina Homer
at chomer@ucsd.edu.
MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 2007
THE UCSD GUARDIAN
NEWS 9
Pell Grant Untouched in
Democrats’ New Aid Plan
Thai Restaurant Construction
to Finish by Next Month
▶ AID, from page 1
The interest cuts, for instance, left
ing- and middle-class borrower saves out Perkins and parental loans, and
$4,420 over the life of their Stafford only apply to undergraduates.
loans” and “this year’s average freshAlso, the plan ignored the Pell
man saves $2,280 over the life of their Grant, the largest need-based grant
Stafford loans” were some of the prais- aid program in the nation, which has
es from U.S. Public Interest Research been stuck at a maximum payout of
Group’s Higher Education Project.
$4,050 since 2003-04.
“Over the past decade we have
U.S.
Student Association
asked America’s college students to President Jenn Pae will back
shoulder a heavy burden of debt to such student interests in the U.S.
pay for college,” U.S. PIRG Higher Department of Education’s Student
Education
Loan Negotiated
Advocate Luke
Rulemaking
Swarthout
Committee this
stated in a
year, where she
press release.
will discuss stu“Cutting interdent loan regulaest rates on stutions with other
dent loans will
officials.
help millions of
“Students and
working- and
families have sufmidd le-cl ass
fered immensely
—Luke Swarthout, Higher in order to purstudents and
Education Advocate, U.S. Public sue higher edutheir families
Interest Research Group cation and we
by saving them
thousands of
must prioritize
dollars in stustudents during
dent loan payments.”
this negotiated rulemaking for the
While the previous Republican- success of our country,” Pae stated in
controlled Congress forced “leaders a press release.
[to] simply choose to put the interAlthough the Democrats have
ests of banks and lending companies no immediate or concrete plans to
ahead of the interests of students,” address issues beyond the interestKiley stated, the seat advantage for rate reduction, it is “the first step
Democrats in Congress could mean a we plan to take to make college
new approach to college affordability. more affordable,” Miller spokesman
However, some college lobbyists Thomas Kiley stated in an e-mail.
are emphasizing support for higher education issues left out of the Readers can contact Charles Nguyen
Democrats’ latest package.
at charles_nguyen@sbcglobal.net.
▶ CONSTRUCTION, from page 1
“
Cutting interest rates
on student loans will
help millions of ...
middle-class students.”
pleted by September, according to
a nightclub, a second ballroom Terzino.
and late-night dining. According
The last phase includes buildto Terzino, negotiations are pres- ing a new structure that will house
ently underway to establish late- the General Store Co-op, a comnight dining as soon as this quarter puter lounge and new facilities for
at one of the current Price Center Student-Run Television. In addieateries.
tion, a number of areas will be
Specific restaurant selection for renovated, including Groundwork
the expanded food court will be Books, part of the Food Co-op,
completed late spring or early sum- KSDT and the UCSD Bike Shop.
mer.
The Grove Caffe will gain indoor
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has since added 10,000 students Resource Center, a study lounge
and will level off at 30,000 in the and additional meeting rooms.
coming years.
“Most of the landscape and
Through a 2002 task force estab- hardscape will be replaced, and the
lished by the university, students infrastructure will be upgraded,”
voted on a referendum that provid- Terzino stated.
ed the funding for the expansion via
Construction of a new Student
an additional $39 quarterly fee.
Center restaurant, Hi Thai, began
“A building advisory committee last month and should be completcomposed of a majority of students ed sometime in February, according
was instrumental in developing the to Terzino.
program,” Terzino stated.
At the Student Center, the final Readers can contact Petr Feytser at
construction phase should be com- p.feytser.jr@gmail.com.
“
Most of the landscape
and hardscape will be
replaced.”
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▶ GREEN, from page 1
$200 million to build the world’s
fastest computer, the Petascale
supercomputer. The governor’s $5
million will be the first state installment, should the labs win the grant.
“Green technology is a quickly
expanding area of scientific research
and public interest,” UC Office of the
President spokesman Brad Hayward
said. “The BP Energy Biosciences
Institute and the Petascale supercomputer projects are both competitions
that the University [of California] is
already involved in, but winning those
competitions [will] require a demonstration of state financial support.”
The rest of the money will go
toward established research projects,
including the Berkeley Helios project,
which is dedicated to establishing efficient solar energy technology.
By allocating so much money to
the University of California, Hayward
said, the governor is “emphasizing the
importance of UC research and innovation to the state’s overall economic
and environmental goals.”
The governor has proposed raising
$70 million through bond sales to help
pay for the project. State funds will
cover the rest.
The proposal is strongly supported
by UC officials, with President Robert
C. Dynes praising the decision to
include research funding in the state
budget proposal.
“When the governor included
[green] funding in the budget, he sent
the strong message that the best and
the brightest should work, study and
create here in California,” Dynes stated in a press release.
Readers can contact Kristyn Kennedy
at kikikennedy@mac.com.