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Nooses at UCSD? Wait, is that the plural form of noose? Either ways, we thought that the ‘Compton Cookout’ was a marginally acceptable form of celebrating free speech (I mean, srsly, how many times have we laughed with the Koala?, not to mention picked up from them), but we strongly condemn the recent hanging of multiple nooses (yeah, multiple) on our beloved campus. Sure UCSD has a dead social scene, and sure the lack of black people around gives most bigots a chance to openly propagate their nonsense (”satirically” or not), however we feel that cooler heads will prevail and we will come out of this controversy looking just as we we always did in the past. You know, boring.

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During the Vietnam War an American, on about May 10, 1970, a student immolated himself on the campus of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). His name was George Winne Jr, and he was 23 years old. He placed a sign next to himself saying “For God’s sake, stop the war.” At 4pm in the Revelle plaza, he lit the gasoline soaked rags he had placed on his body. SRS Police responded quickly, smothering his body to put out the flames. One was badly burnt as well. Winne was rushed to Scripps Hospital where he died from 2nd and 3rd degree burns over 94% of his body…at 2am May 11th. He was fully conscious until his death, stating that his choice was “very personal and spiritual,” and instructed his mother to write a letter to Nixon demanding the cessation of the Vietnam War. His dying words were “I belive in God and hereafter i will see you there.”

Students lit candles and crafted a makeshift memorial to Winne, in the center of Revelle Plaza, where his immolation began. However, the Triton Times ran an article a week later making a point to justify Winne’s actions, and chide students for trodding through the candles on their way to class.

The permanent memorial to him on the east side of Geisel has an artistic skeleton imprint to remember this act (whether it was done in the position he died is unknown). It is unlabeled.

The supposed location of immolation, at least according to the most known version of the event.

The permanent memorial, in a rarely-trafficked garden on the East end of Geisel Library, towards the South side of the snake path.

Please visit the link below for more information

- Information and pictures from:

http://socialarchitectures.pbworks.com/The-Invisible-Shape-of-University-Past

- Thanks to John John for informing me of its existence.

If anyone has anything of artistic value you would like to share with like minded UCSD students, send me your work @ ucsdsecrets@gmail.com and I will post it on my website. I will not own the work, you will retain all rights to its sale, distribution and usage.

The drum circle is still going strong although the Rainbow Family has withdrawn from hosting it.

A List of Drum Circle Dates I compiled for 2008-2010
2008 Apr 20 10:27 Sun
2008 May 20 02:13 Tue
2008 Jun 18 17:32 Wed
2008 Jul 18 08:00 Fri
2008 Aug 16 21:18 Sat
2008 Sep 15 09:15 Mon
2008 Oct 14 20:04 Tue
2008 Nov 13 06:19 Thu
2008 Dec 12 16:39 Fri
2009 Jan 11 03:28 Sun
2009 Feb 9 14:51 Mon
2009 Mar 11 02:40 Wed
2009 Apr 9 14:58 Thu
2009 May 9 04:03 Sat
2009 Jun 7 18:13 Sun
2009 Jul 7 09:23 Tue
2009 Aug 6 00:57 Thu
2009 Sep 4 16:05 Fri
2009 Oct 4 06:11 Sun
2009 Nov 2 19:15 Mon
2009 Dec 2 07:33 Wed
2009 Dec 31 19:15 Thu
2010 Jan 30 06:19 Sat
2010 Feb 28 16:40 Sun
2010 Mar 30 02:28 Tue
2010 Apr 28 12:21 Wed
2010 May 27 23:09 Thu
2010 Jun 26 11:32 Sat
2010 Jul 26 01:38 Mon
2010 Aug 24 17:06 Tue
2010 Sep 23 09:19 Thu
2010 Oct 23 01:38 Sat
2010 Nov 21 17:28 Sun
2010 Dec 21 08:15 Tue

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Rainbow Family Council on the Full Moon Circle (Black’s Beach)

There will be a San Diego Rainbow Family council:
Saturday, October 13 @ noon near Stonehenge on the UCSD Campus - across from the Che Cafe. “A council to discuss how to create a safe, sane full moon circle at black’s beach that supports peace and healing and the positive evolution of the planet. All people who attend or want to attend the full moon circle are strongly encouraged to come and share their ideas and suggestions”

http://home.earthlink.net/~scrollinfo/councilflyer.GIF

Please copy and distribute freely. Only you can make sure that everyone who care’s about the Full Moon Circle makes it to the council.

Just an FYI, Rainbow councils are open to everyone and the more people come and share their thoughts the better. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY If you haven’t participated in a Rainbow Family Council, you might want to check out this link and get an idea of what to expect Rainbow Council Overview

For More Info - Call the San Diego Lightline 619-677-0882

Here’s something you will love if you haven’t come across it already. If you thought Facebook was bad for procrastination, once you have this you’re never getting any work done. Enjoy!

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Some more info about the tunnels -

The UCSD utility tunnels are in 2 distinct sections. These are simple enough that they can actually be described pretty easily in words. (something which could not be said for many other colleges!) I figured a textual description would be interesting and useful to some.

• The first, older & smaller section is Revelle. These tunnels start at Anchorview (the old Physical Plant), connect to all of the mud huts (through tiny, unlit, dirty crawlspace tunnels exiting into the Laundry Rooms) , continue to Galbraith Hall (UGL), branch to York, branch to the current Physical Plant, continue on to Bonner, then they become basically “public”, crossing under the Revelle walkway over to Urey. By “public”, I mean you can see this section any time, as it is part of the Urey basement (the part with the huge pipes on the South side of the hall) The section of these tunnels after Galbraith is round, unlike most of UCSD’s tunnels.
• The main section of the UCSD tunnels basically does a loop around the Eucalyptus grove/Sun God in the center of campus. It starts from the East side of the Physical Plant. After a short stretch it branches (at an outside vent which can be seen on Gilman Drive) into the loop. Going clockwise around the loop, the tunnel continues for a long, straight stretch, turning almost directly beneath the Grove Caffe. It turns towards the Gym, which is connected through a small branch. This is also the location of the most well known Tunnel entrance, the manhole on the hump (the one with “UCSD” on it, light can be seen through it at night). Just north of this corner is a branch to Mandeville. The tunnel continues and branches to the Biology building. (this entrance can be walked up to in the basement of Biology.. you can look in, but the door is heavily chained/alarmed) Continuing on, the tunnel splits at AP&M, which has a tunnel entrance in the basement. The branch here goes west to Muir, ending at McGill hall/the Rat. There is a vent here, right next to the stairs going beneath TOQ. Contnuing around the loop, the tunnel turns east at the Muir Booster Station, which is the loud set of fenced-in pipes next to Campus Loop Drive and Petersen Hall. The tunnel then heads towards Cog Sci, where there is a loud vent fan that can’t be missed. It continues east under the walkway at a steep down-grade and passes another vent next to the library. Beneath the concrete area in front of the library there is a 3-way junction, with a manhole out (again, the one with UCSD on it.) The left branch leads into the library, apparently into the utility room inside the music listening library. The right branch goes south, almost prefectly straight, for the entire length of Library Walk, past a loud fan in the middle of Gilman Dr., and to the quad next to the Medical Library. Here is another manhole, and a branch left (East) over to the Basic Sciences Building. The tunnel continues south after this for a bit, then it angles back to the Physical Plant, meeting the beginning of the loop along the way.
• There is also a “Miscellaneous” tunnel, unconnected to any others, which crosses underneath the “ridge walk”-from the bottom floor of Cog Sci over to Chemical Research.

Right by Warren lecture hall. I remember seeing the float that day. I don’t watch the show, but UCSD looks great.