THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012

THE NEWSPAPER OF SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1913VOLUME 99, ISSUE 51

BackcourtAztecs: Junior guard Jamaal Franklin has been both brilliant and erratic this season. He’s av-eraging 18.6 points and 10.6 re-bounds per game, but also turning the ball over five times per game. Junior guard Xavier Thames and senior guard James Rahon have been steady and reliable. The big question is if senior guard Chase Tapley will play – and be effective – after straining his patellar ten-don last week. Bruins: Shabazz Muhammad is one of the top-rated college fresh-man and might end up as the top pick in the NBA draft next year. He’s averaging 17 points and five rebounds per game since he be-came eligible three games into the season. Yet, he’s not even the best freshman on his team right now. 6-foot-5 guard Jordan Adams has the highest points per game, aver-aging 18.5 points through the first six games.

Edge: Even

FrontcourtAztecs: Redshirt sophomore for-ward JJ O’Brien and freshman forward Skylar Spencer played well on Sunday against the Univer-sity of Southern California and its two centers, who both stand taller than 7-feet. O’Brien scored 12 points on 6-of-9 shooting, while Spencer grabbed 11 rebounds and defended well despite his size dis-advantage. The Aztecs will likely have senior forward DeShawn Stephens back after he missed the majority of the USC game with a hip injury suffered early in the first half. Bruins: Redshirt junior forwards Travis and David Wear are 6-foot-10 twin brothers that combine to average 22 points and 12.8 rebounds per game together. Ju-nior center Joshua Smith left the program on Wednesday, which could play a factor in Saturday’s game. As a result, freshman Tony Parker will likely see his minutes increase. The Aztecs may have trouble matching up with the Bru-ins’ huge front line.

Edge: Bruins

Intangibles Aztecs: The game is being played at a neutral site closer to UCLA and in honor of legendary Bru-ins coach John Wooden. Still, the crowd might favor the Aztecs. SDSU fans traveled en masse to the USC game last Sunday and a similar crowd is expected on Sat-urday. Experience also favors the Aztecs. SDSU starts two seniors and brings one off the bench, while UCLA has just one senior and its two top scorers are freshmen. Bruins: UCLA is the most storied program in college basketball his-tory, owning 11 national champi-onships and 17 Final Four appear-ances. But much of that is ancient history. The Bruin’s last Final Four appearance was in 2008. Since then, the Aztecs have gone to a Sweet 16, while the Bruins haven’t advanced past the round of 32.

Edge: Aztecs

San Diego State ranked No. 7 on Business Insider’s list of “Most Dangerous Colleges in America.” The list included 25 U.S. colleges ranked by averaging a combina-tion of violent and property FBI crime data from 2008 to 2011 for schools with more than 10,000 students enrolled.

The report stated SDSU expe-riences approximately 27 violent incidents per year. According to Business Insider, in 2011 there were five forcible rapes, three robberies and five aggravated assaults.

But, property crime is where SDSU experiences the most crime. Business Insider reported there is an average of 575 incidents per year. SDSU foods and nutrition sopho-more Kelsey Wild, experienced an on-campus robbery firsthand when her iPhone was taken out of her hands last semester while walking down Montezuma Road at 3 a.m. with a few friends. “We were in the middle of crossing a crosswalk and this guy came up behind me and grabbed my iPhone 4 from my hand and ran,” Wild said. Wild immediately reported the incident to the SDSU Police De-partment but he was never found.

Graphic design junior Jesika Frain, also experienced on campus criminal activity when her apart-

SDSU ranked 7th most dangerous collegecampus

Stephanie SaccenteStaff Writer

ment at Aztec Campus was broken into last year. Frain and her room-mate had their laptops stolen. “Our window had been closed but not locked, so the guy ripped open the screen and came through that in the middle of the day…I also had a whole load taken out of the dryer in my apart-ment building,” Frain said.

SDSUPD Capt. Lamine Secka said he feels strongly for campus safety although he said he feels the list is misleading in the way crime history is calculated. He advises students and parents not to take the No. 7 ranking for face value and to do their own research. “It’s important for students to have awareness of what’s going

on around them, have awareness of where their stuff is and who has access to their areas, wheth-er it’s a commonly shared lab or the library,” Secka said. “Just be aware of what’s going on and what security precautions are in place and be smart about the de-cisions you make.”

SDSUPD car sits parked in front of Love Library on Campanile Walkway. Business Insider ranked SDSU No. 7 out of 25 most dangerous college campuses in U.S.

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Preview: Aztecs vs.

Bruinsmen’s basketball

Alex RigginsContributor

After months of development, a San Diego State student convert-ed his backyard swimming pool into a garden pool in order to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle.

On Tuesday, social science stu-dent and aspiring entrepreneur Travis Wennen received a visit from SDSU’s Center for Regional Sustainability Coordinator Mari-ah Hudson and SDSU geography lecturer Diana Richardson,so they could see his newly convert-ed garden pool after months of development.

After taking a U.S. geography

Student converts pool into a fishpond

course last semester, Wennen brought his geography urban ag-ricultural project to life within three months of planning. Em-bracing the idea of sustainability, Wennen converted his backyard swimming pool into a garden pool, also known as a “fishpond” or aquaponics system, which combines aquaculture (fish) and hydroponics (soilless cultivation). In his garden pool, Wennen add-ed three turtles and 26 fish in-cluding tilapia, koi, minnow and goldfish. One of the ways Wen-nen takes care of his fishpond is by ensuring his fish eat an organ-ic diet of algae, roots from pond plants, duckweed and, occasional

pellets as a treat.Richardson, Wennen’s geog-

raphy professor last spring, said she was delighted to hear back from Wennen, when she learned he followed through with his ge-ography project to create his own aquaponics system.

“I was so excited. He told me he was going to build this, so I asked him to keep me in the loop and he did,” Richardson said. “He shot me an email telling me that he had finished the project, so I was thrilled that he carried this idea forward.”

Richardson continued to explain the work and sacrifice Wennen en-dured in completing this project.

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Terence ChinStaff Writer

“He made this extraordinary effort to work with his family and his resources. He had to cut back on eating well for a while and ate lots of peanut butter in order to fund the project,” Rich-ardson said. “He really spent a lot of time and money and re-sources to do this and I’m just really proud of him for carrying this idea forward and really mak-ing it work.”

Wennen invested roughly $2,500 into funding his garden pool, whereas maintaining a swimming pool can cost about $200 per month. His garden pool is surrounded by a 14-millili-ter reinforced UV plastic sheet, which helps shade his turtles and fish, in addition to regulating the water temperature and blocking out UV rays. Every month, Wen-nen maintains the garden pool by changing 20 to 30 percent of the water to ensure it’s sustainable enough for his fish and turtles.

Wennen explained why he felt the need to create this sustainable project.

“I think it’s really crucial to know where your food comes from, and to even go further in producing your own food,” Wen-nen said. “Being self-sufficient is an even more important concept now that the prices of food are rising and genetically modified foods are becoming so popular. Organic farming and doing it for yourself is really becoming more important than it was before.”

Once Wennen’s fish develop and

Travis Martin Wennen shows SDSU geography lecturer Diana Richardson his newly converted pool. Wennen brought his geography urban agricultural school assignment to life by turning his pool into a fishpond with live algae, fish and turtles.

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organizations as well as schools. With the collaboration and range of sources and information, the team will be able to comprehen-sively analyze the data.

Gates said one of the prime sources of data will be collected from perpetrators, people who have been related to gangs, people who are involved in trafficking, the team will report on discovered patterns and information high-lighting key parts of the issue.

The research will give the team a better understanding of sex traf-ficking in the San Diego area. The team hopes to find out in-depth de-tails that will provide new insight.

“There are very few large-scale empirical studies that help us to understand the dynamic of this phenomenon, so it’s a hard real-

ity to measure,” Gates

said. “There’s a large concern about the issue, but we know little about what’s going on because it’s a clandestine activity.”

The team anticipates the meth-ods of data collection could be replicated in other research. The methods used in the study will be publicly accessible so they can be utilized for other studies of simi-lar nature.

The team will recruit under-graduate and graduate research assistants from the three universi-ties to help with the data collec-tion and analysis process.

San Diego State will work with lo-cal universities to study gang in-volvement in sex trafficking.

SDSU criminal justice associate professor Dana Nurge will team up with professor of cultural an-thropology at Point Loma Naza-rene University Jamie Gates and University of San Diego assistant professor of peace studies Ami Carpenter to study sex traffick-ing. The research will be funded by a $400,000 grant from the Na-tional Institute of Justice.

The study, which will be called “Measuring the Extent and Na-ture of Gang Involvement in Sex Trafficking in the San Diego/Ti-juana Border Region,” will examine the connec-tion between gangs and sex trafficking in the local area to understand the is-sue and scope of sex traf-ficking.

The team members will work together to combine their areas of expertise to approach the issue from all angles.

“We decided that it makes sense to collaborate,” Nurge said. “We have very different but related backgrounds. It all fits.”

Nurges said, San Diego is part of the top eight hotspot cities na-tionwide for sex trafficking. The team hopes its research will shed light on the nature and reality of the issue in the area.

The team received the grant and made an outline of its strategies, but is still formulating some of the details for the project.

The team will also receive co-operation from local law enforce-ment agencies and social service

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campus

Hannah BeausangStaff Writer

from FISHPOND page 1

SDSU geography lecturer Diana Richardson visits SDSU student, Travis Wennen, at his home to witness the aquaponics system he created in his pool.

terence chin, staff writer

Research to shed light on trafficking

grow, he plans to eat them with his family and friends. He men-tioned his mother didn’t initially agree with his plan, claiming it

would bring down the value of the house. But, with support from his father, Wennen’s mother is adjust-ing to the new garden pool.

Hudson said she was overjoyed when she saw Wennen’s garden pool, and offered some thoughts for families in San Diego.

“It’s fantastic seeing a concept go into practice. From what I see here, families across San Diego can replicate this. This is fantas-tic,” Hudson said.

In the future, Wennen hopes to inspire others and eventually be-come an entrepreneur for sustain-ability. In addition to building a garden pool, Wennen also built a chicken coop and has three chick-ens ready to lay eggs.

“I was excited that a student would get excited about the ideas of sustainability and implement them into his life and even even-tually make a career out of it,” Richardson said.

There’s a large concern about

the issue, but we know little about what’s going on...

Jamie GatesCultural anthropology professor

at Point Loma Nazarene

Cultural BeatAfrikan Student UnionKwanza Reception*Time: 7 p.m.Date: Monday, Dec. 3Place: Parma Payne Goodall Alum-ni Center Andres Bonifacio SamahanHigh School Conference*Time: 6 a.m.Date: Saturday, Dec. 1Place: Aztec MesaAsian Pacific Student AllianceKinda Sorta Formal*Time: 6 p.m.Date: Saturday, Dec. 1Place: Marina VillageMeetingTime: 2 p.m.Date: Tuesday, Dec. 4

Place: Aztec Mesa 105Association of Chicana ActivistsMeetingTime: 3:30 p.m.Date: Thursday, Dec. 6Place: Aztec Mesa 101Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de AztlánNoche EspiritualTime: TBDDate: TodayPlace: Cross Cultural CenterStudent African/African American SisterhoodFilm screeningTime: NoonDate: TodayPlace: Lipinsky Conference Room

Becoming a Woman of PurposeTime: 4 p.m. Date: Friday, Nov. 30Place: Cholula community center Celebrate the Power in You Through Yoga and MeditationTime: NoonDate: Friday, Dec. 7Place: Cholula community centerVietnamese Student AssociationMeetingTime: 4 p.m.Date: Thursday, Dec. 6Place: Aztec Mesa 106

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-compiled by staff writer Amanda Guerrero

Coaching Aztecs: Steve Fisher recruits players who can defend and it’s paying off early this season. The Aztecs are averaging 10 steals and 5.8 blocks per game, while the Bruins are averaging just 6.7 steals and 3.7 blocks per game. Bruins: Ben Howland led UCLA to three consecutive Final Four appearances from 2006-2008 and brought in a top-rated recruiting class this season. His team has struggled though, needing overtime to beat UC Irvine at home and giving up an 18-point second half lead in a loss to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo at home.

Edge: Aztecs

Prediction Aztecs 78, Bruins 75

BackcourtAztecs: Led by Mountain West Conference Player of the Week Courtney Clements, the Aztec backcourt has proven to be the driving force behind the Aztecs’ early success this season. Clements averages 17.6 points a game, while senior point guard Chelsea Hopkins averages 10 points per game. But Hopkins’ specialty is getting the ball to teammates. She averages five assists per game. The two lead the team in scoring. Trojans: USC also has a solid pair of scorers at the guard positions. Sophomore guard Ariya Crook leads all guards in scoring with 14.3 points per game and freshman guard Jordan Adams, who is averaging eight points per game. USC builds its offensive game plans mostly around its centers and forwards, resulting in both Crook and Adams averaging around three assists per game.

Edge: Aztecs

FrontcourtAztecs: Sophomore forward Erimma Amarikwa is tied for second on the team in scoring with 10 points per game and creates balance between the presence of Clements and Hopkins. She provides a dominant inside force, averaging 6.8 rebounds per game.

SPORTS 3ThursdayNovember 29, 2012the daily aztec

SDSU to take on USC at homeLogan BurnsContributor

The Aztecs have a strong presence in senior forward Malia Nahinu, who averages 5.6 points per game. These two provide an even perimeter and paint attack for the Aztec offense.Trojans: The leading scorer of the team is junior forward Cassie Harberts, who averages 17.4 points per game. Harberts matches up nicely against the Aztecs’ Amarikwa.

Edge: Even

IntangiblesAztecs: The Aztecs are playing at home against USC following a loss to the University of Colorado, Boulder on Friday. The way the Aztecs respond will show their mental toughness and ability to come back against a premier Pacific-12 school. Look for Clements to provide spacing around the floor. If Clements plays a good game, the Aztecs could win this game handily. Trojans: The edge the Trojans could have against the Aztecs is their presence down low in the paint. Harberts has been dominant thus far in the season. If she outduels Amarikwa, this game could be close, depending on the Trojans guard play.

Edge: Aztecs

CoachingAztecs: Head coach Beth Burns has taken the Aztecs to new heights in her eighth season,

accumulating three trips to the NCAA Tournament in 2009, 2010 and 2012. She also reached one Sweet 16 in the 2009-10 season and groomed superstars such as Clements and former center Paris Johnson.Trojans: USC’s head coach Michael Cooper, spent time as the head coach of the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women’s National Basketball Association. Cooper collected a .622 winning percentage in four seasons at USC.

Edge: Aztecs

PredictionAztecs 60, Trojans 51

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women’s basketball

Volleyball to play St. Mary’s in first round of NCAA Tournamentafter winning a share of the 2012 Mountain West championship along with colorado State University, the San diego State volleyball team received an at-large bid into the Ncaa tournament and is scheduled to play St. Mary’s at 5 p.m. today at the Galen center on the campus of the University of Southern california. the winner will face either USc or Fairfield University in the second round on Friday.

the aztecs are 23-7 overall and finished 13-3 in conference play. Because cSU won the tiebreaker against SdSU, the Rams were given the MW’s automatic bid to the Ncaa tournament. this is SdSU’s first appearance in the tournament since 2001 and 14th all-time. St. Mary’s owns a 17-10 overall record and had a 12-4 record in the West coast conference.

Recently, senior middle blocker andrea hannasch, junior outside hitter Raegan Shelton and junior setter Johnna Fouch were named to the all-conference team. Fouch was also named the MW Setter of the year, while sophomore outside hitter Michelle Waber was honored as the MW Newcomer of the year after transferring from the University of hawai’i. SdSU volleyball head coach deitre collins-Parker was voted MW coach of the year.

Muema earns player of the week honors

Sophomore running back adam Muema was named Mountain West co-Offensive Player of the Week and college Football Performance awards Running Back Performer of the Week.

against the University of Wyoming, Muema rushed for a career-high 255 yards and four touchdowns, as the aztecs defeated the cowboys 42-28 to win their seventh consecutive game and a share of the MW title, its first since 1998.

the 255 yards are the most since larry Ned’s 285 in 2001.

Muema now has 1,355 rushing yards and 16 rushing touchdowns on 211 carries. his 112.92 rushing yards per game rank 17th in the country.

Clements named MW Player of the WeekSenior guard courtney clements was named the Mountain West Women’s Basketball Player of the Week for her performances again auburn University and the University of colorado at Boulder as part of the 26th annual Omni hotels classic in Boulder, colo.

against the tigers, clements scored a season-best 26 points, including six 3-pointers, to go along with five rebounds, three steals and an assist in the aztecs’ 78-57 victory. in the tournament championship against the Buffaloes, clements put in 19 points in the 67-53 loss. this is clements’ fourth weekly honor of her career.

4 ENTERTAINMENTThursdayNovember 29, 2012The Daily azTec

David DixonSenior Staff Writer

all the world’s a stage

Yoshimi battles robots, goofy plot in new play

It is hard not to go into “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” without high expectations. The musical is directed by Des McAnuff, the man responsible for Tony Award- winning and crowd-pleasing shows, such as “The Who’s Tommy” and “Jersey Boys.” Also, the music is comprised of songs from offbeat rock band, The Flaming Lips.

In modern America, Yoshimi (Kimiko Glenn) is an artist who recently broke up with her boyfriend, Ben (Paul Nolan). She immediately rebounds into another relationship with a stockbroker, Booker (Nik Walker); but Yoshimi faints shortly thereafter.

In a hospital, Dr. Peterson (Tom Hewitt) tells Yoshimi she has lymphoma and there are pink cells, similar to robots, weakening her body. The doctor persuades the sick woman to fight her disease. Imaginary battles take place on a far away planet, apparently in the past as the program describes it, where Yoshimi tries everything she can to defeat evil pink robots that pose a dangerous threat to her existence.

There is no denying how strong the singing is in this production. Glenn has a pure and innocent voice that is enjoyable to listen to. Nolan’s rock vocals bring to mind The Flaming Lips’ lead singer, Wayne Coyne. This might be distracting to some, but he sings musical numbers such as “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song” and “Do You Realize??” with endless energy. Walker has a mesmerizing presence as Yoshimi’s conflicted boyfriend, Booker. His rendition of “Waiting for a Superman” is powerful and a highlight of the evening.

The staging of “Yoshimi” is full of memorable and evocative visual imagery. Frequent use

Kimiko Glenn stars in La Jolla Playhouse’s new production, “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.” In the play based on the album of the same name by The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi battles pink robots, which actually is a physical manifestation of lymphoma.

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of projectors, created by video and projection designer Sean Nieuwenhuis, aren’t too flashy and actually play an important role in the plot.

Yoshimi has to face a lot of pink robots, but the most unforgettable one is the 14-foot leader, 3000-21. Out of the imagination of puppetry designer Basil Twist, the gigantic machine is similar to something out of a big-budget science fiction blockbuster.

Unfortunately, despite the great singing and stagecraft, I cannot recommend this world-premiere play. The big issue is the story written by Coyne and McAnuff.

While practically every song

would work when watching The Flaming Lips perform live, a lot of the tunes are incorporated in a forced way.

In addition, the characters are poorly written. The audience should be rooting for Ben to start dating Yoshimi again, but instead he comes across as a stalker who cannot accept being without her. This is not Nolan’s fault, but how his role is developed by the writers.

Peterson gets the lion’s share of spoken dialogue, which is mostly used to describe Yoshimi’s disease. Hewitt is forced to say some over-the-top and unintentionally campy lines when he tells Yoshimi to go to battle with the pink robots. This should make us want to cheer for her to become a warrior, but instead I was flabbergasted by

how ridiculously this part of the adventure was set up.

While “Yoshimi” can be both an engaging visual and audio

experience, the unsatisfying story results in a disappointing misfire. This causes spectators to be emotionally uninvested in the fate of the characters. Fortunately, McAnuff always recovers from the occasional bomb such as “Dracula, the Musical” with a hit like “700 Sundays.” Based on his past, he will go on to make another great piece of entertainment soon.

Tickets and information about “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” can be found at lajollaplay house com.

While “yoshimi” can be both an engaging visual and audio experience, the unsatisfying story results in a dissappointing misfire. This causes spectators to be emotionally uninvested in the fate of the characters.

Paul Nolan stars as Ben, Yoshimi’s recent ex-boyfriend. Despite Nolan’s strong voice and acting, the writing doesn’t make the character interesting or relatable.

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Though the story may not be all there, the production features many stunning visual set pieces. The music by The Flaming Lips is also very well done, with all the actors turning in strong vocal performances.

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PLAY: yOShiMi BaTTleS The PiNK ROBOTS

Director: DeS McaNuff

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Cedric LansanganStaff Contributor

aztec gaming

Series crosspromotion a benefit, not a hindrance

that it will have a second “season,” after its first “season” ended with the release of episode 5 “No Time Left” earlier this month across all platforms. “The Walking Dead” is an excellent example for video games in transmedia, but Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise is also hot on its heels in terms of its respective transmedia presence.

The majority of those reading this have played, or are at least aware of, Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise. Odds are you probably didn’t know Facebook has an “Assassin’s Creed”-related app called “Project Legacy.” None of the advertisement or promotional efforts by Ubisoft

Robert Kirkman’s critically acclaimed comic series “The Walking Dead” was adapted into a TV series, which subseuqently was adapted by Telltale Games into a video game. No mat-ter which media one engages “The Walking Dead” in, all provide a gripping human tale.

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for The two first “Assassin’s Creed” matched the success of “Project Legacy” and its tie into “Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood,” in which Ubisoft allowed for syncing with “Project Legacy” progress to unlock exclusive rewards. Also, for those who dug deep and did well enough, “Project Legacy” added even more depth than the main “Assassin’s Creed” games in the form of first-person descriptions of secondary characters that you’d never get unless you went to the Assassin’s Creed wiki or bought the Assassin’s Creed encyclopedia.

Moving away from the Facebook app, the plot of “Assassin’s Creed

3,” the latest installment in the “Assassin’s Creed” franchise released on October 30, benefited greatly from the addition of the Subject 4 story arc in the form of “Assassin’s Creed”-themed comics about Daniel Cross, the modern-day descendant of Russian Revolution-era assassin Nikolai Orelov. No spoilers here on that, but Daniel does tie into the core present-day story of “Assassin’s Creed III” in an important, but ultimately tragic way. On that note, the Subject 4 graphic novel combines the three separate issues of “The Fall” and the recently released “The Chain” graphic novels, and is definitely worth obtaining for the complete “Assassin’s

Creed” experience. Transmedia once again makes a video game franchise even more popular than it could have been alone. It’s worth mentioning as a side note that the “Assassin’s Creed” movie mentioned previously, not yet in production, is supposedly being “creatively supervised” by Ubisoft itself. So, when it does release, expectations will probably, and should rightfully should, be high for a title created by Ubisoft.

In conclusion, video games don’t need transmedia to shine. However, as Telltale’s “The Walking Dead” game proves, franchises can benefit greatly from the mutual promotion which transmedia can create.

“The Walking Dead,” “Assassin’s Creed,” “Halo,” “Tomb Raider,” “Uncharted,” “Avatar” and even “The Simpsons;” You’re probably familiar with at least one of these triple-A franchises, be it from video games, comics, books, TV or movies.

Why is it the developers of these video games, among many others, are invested in transmedia for their products? First of all, what the heck is transmedia?

In general, transmedia, is the crossover of a topic or subject across multiple forms of media. If that definition is confusing, then maybe an example is best. Transmedia is a sort of marketing strategy that generates awareness and popularity for the topic or subject being expanded upon. In the case of video games, the best example would definitely be “The Walking Dead,” the postapocalyptic zombie-ridden world first introduced in comic book form and recently translated to video games.

Spanning across video games, comics, a TV series and a Facebook app, “The Walking Dead” is beyond viral now. Telltale Games, the developer of one of two video games (the other being developed by Activision) based on “The Walking Dead,” and well-known for its episodic games, discussed how its version of “The Walking Dead” stays true to the gritty and dark themes in the comics.

Telltale, like many other developers utilizing the same transmedia strategy, uses Twitter to promote not only its video games, but also the “The Walking Dead” TV series. At the moment, the third season of the show is experiencing its highest ratings ever. But why mention the television series, you ask? Because the Twitter accounts of Telltale Games and the “The Walking Dead” show cleverly build off each other’s momentum. The Telltale “The Walking Dead” game recently announced on Twitter

Tori HaynesStaff Writer

Brooke SchlyerStaff Writer

Hollywood Happenings

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1. “Gossip Girl” star Leighton Meester was born while her mother was serving time in a federal prison for her involvement in a drug ring. The actress was fortunate to have been raised elsewhere to avoid following her mother’s footsteps.

2. Drew Barrymore first hosted “Saturday Night Live” in 1982, when she was 7 years old, after her role in “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” She is the youngest person ever to host the show to this day.

3. In addition to being a mother of four, a famous supermodel and the star of a reality show, Heidi Klum has yet another talent she’s been keeping on the down low. Klum is an avid painter and her work has appeared in several national magazines.

4. Before her singing career took off, Jessica Simpson tried out

and was rejected by “The Mickey Mouse Club.” She became shy and froze up after seeing Christina Aguilera’s audition.

5. We may all know her as Lady Gaga, but the American singer and songwriter’s actual name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. With such a long name, it’s no surprise she came up with a concise and clever stage name that fans could easily remember.

6. Almost everyone loves a good Chuck Norris joke, but what about a good Carlos Norris joke? “Chuck” Norris was actually born Carlos Ray Norris after a minister who was a close friend of Norris’ father. Norris gained the name Chuck from his Air Force nickname “Ground Chuck.” 7. Talk about some baby mama drama. Actor Jack Nicholson was made to believe his grandmother was actually his mother. When Jack was 37 years old, the truth came out that his “sister” June Nicholson, who had Jack at the age of 17, was in fact his mother. Jack only found

out the truth after a Time magazine reporter was writing a story about the actor and was calling to verify the fact about whom his mother really was. Nicholson had to call his “sister” who was actually his aunt to find out the truth as his grandmother and mother had both died without telling him his real parentage.

8. Johnny Depp had to learn the hard way that relationships come and go but tattoos are forever. While dating actress Winona Ryder, Depp

had “Winona Forever” tattooed on his arm. After splitting up, the actor changed it to “Wino Forever.” 9. Before his claim to fame, Brad Pitt had to work many jobs in Hollywood to support himself. Pitt worked as a furniture mover, a limo chauffeur for strippers and, perhaps the most comically, he dressed up as a chicken to hand out fliers for El Pollo Loco on Sunset Boulevard. He finally landed his first acting role on the daytime soap opera “Another World.”

10. Justin Timberlake is known for being multitalented in music, movies and even having his own clothing line, but who would have thought that he competed in beauty pageants. Before his ‘N Sync days, Timberlake won the 1991 preteen America’s Mr. U.S. National Pageant at the age of 10. The next year, he competed and won in America’s Universal Charm pageant, becoming its first male winner.

6 OPINIONThursdayNovember 29, 2012The Daily azTec

Baby boomers pass blame for climate inactionclimate change Leonardo Castaneda

Opinion Editor

The Muppets are making a comeback. They’ve had a well-received movie and

Elmo’s involvement in child abuse allegations bodes well for the impeccably moral Kermit the Frog. However, Kermit’s trademark, “It’s not easy being green,” is still as true as ever, particularly for youth in the U.S. During a recent interview with KPBS, San Diego author Richard Louv criticized younger generations for not leading the charge in climate change advocacy. He blames what he calls “youth’s nature deficit disorder” on the fact that today’s youth “don’t go outside much.” He told the story of a “very hip young woman” disillusioned with the fight against climate change. How did he know she was “hip?” Because Louv said she bore the undeniable mark of coolness—tattoos. Louv isn’t alone. A recent Time Magazine story also discussed the idea of youth environmental disillusionment. During the interview, Louv perfectly summed up the criticism, saying, “it’s been asked recently, in several articles, ‘Where are the young people? Why aren’t they in the streets, almost, about climate change?’”So, are video games making today’s hip youth insensitive to climate change? No. A Pew Research

Center study shows 64 percent of millennials (people born in the 1980s and 1990s) believe there is solid evidence of climate change and 43 percent believe it is caused by human activity. Compare that with Louv’s baby boom generation (born between 1946 and 1964), where only 55 percent believe in global warming and less than a third believe humans cause it. To be fair, the number of millennials who believe in global warming is down from roughly 80 percent in 2006, but the decline is a trend common among all age groups. Across the board, millennials have higher support than baby boomers for alternative energy and a reduction of fossil fuels. If millennials believe in global warming and government intervention to prevent it, maybe Louv takes issue with their lack of political participation. Yet once again the facts don’t back him up. In 1972—the first year of the presidential election to allow 18 to 20-year-olds to vote and a time when the baby boomer generation was starting to come of age—18 to 24-year-olds had a 55 percent turnout rate. However, it soon declined to 48 percent in 1976 and 45 percent in 1980. In turn, millennials 18 to 24-years-old had a 49 percent turnout rate in 2008

and in 2012, youth’s share of the electorate increased to 19 percent. Millennials believe in climate change and are more politically active than baby boomers were at the same age. Yet, Louv wants to know why the youth isn’t doing more to solve the problem his generation maybe didn’t create, but definitely exacerbated. Perhaps this generation isn’t doing more because it’s dealing with massive unemployment. 20 to 24-year olds have unemployment rates more than twice as high as 55 to 64-year-olds, and 18 to 19-year-olds face unemployment more than four times worse. Even if millennials were doing more for climate change, the impact they would have is questionable. Voting-age millennias represent a considerable 21 percent of the population, but baby boomers are 26 percent. In a presidential election supposed to be about the economy, baby boomers singlehandedly made Medicare an issue because they have the numbers and wealth to direct the public agenda. Louv—or the articles he references—asks, “Where are the young people?” The real question is where are the baby boomers? Why aren’t they in the streets, almost, about climate change? They have the money, time, education and political influence to completely reshape the U.S. policy toward global warming, even if they don’t think they have the number of tattoos necessary to be considered hip. They could singlehandedly make the Kyoto Protocol and carbon caps international law, yet all they seem to do is blame the youth. I agree with Louv in saying the youth should do more to help fight climate change, by pressuring politicians to take action as well as leading more environmentally conscious lives. It would be great if we could all go camping more, but somehow I think this is an issue that will take a lot more to solve. Its not fair to expect our generation to lead in the fight against climate change when we are drowning in student debt and unemployment and it’s not fair to expect baby boomers to do it alone. When I see Louv marching the streets to protest global warming, I promise I’ll be right there beside him. Until then, I’ll keep my eyes on those unemployment reports.

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CSU chancellor sends message with paycuteducation Kenneth Leonard

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Incoming California State University Chancellor Timothy White was recently praised for

requesting a pay cut, but White’s gesture only reinforces my opinion that CSU administrators are hugely out of touch when it comes to the financial problems plaguing public higher education in California. Don’t get me wrong, a 10 percent pay cut is a step in a positive direction and every little bit of money rolled back into the system has potential to help students. But after the pay cut, White will still be compensated to the tune of $380,000 in state funds, plus $30,000 from the CSU Foundation and a $1,000 monthly vehicle allowance. When we add it up, the chancellor will receive approximately $422,000 per year. This salary is still excessive, and White still ranks comfortably among overpaid CSU administrators.

Yeah, I’m saying the guy is still overpaid. I hear the arguments claiming the CSU system needs

to offer inflated salaries to attract the most highly qualified administrators, and I say this argument is obviously bogus. Perhaps if there was significant data suggesting a correlation between executive salary and the performance of an organization, I would buy this argument. The truth is, there is no reason to believe our university system is benefiting by paying the chancellor so much. There is no reason to believe we couldn’t get a similarly qualified administrator for a lower salary. There is no reason why the chancellor of the CSU system should be paid more than the president. I don’t mean San Diego State’s President Elliot Hirshman, though he is certainly overpaid. I mean President Barack Obama, who is paid $400,000 a year—the same as the current SDSU president and less than the current and incoming CSU chancellors.

Let’s take a moment to compare White’s new salary

to Hirshman’s, while taking their relative responsibilities into account. White, who will make a mere $22,000 more per year than SDSU’s president, will oversee the operation of 23 campuses, while Hirshman is only responsible for one. White will supervise an organization with a staff of 44,000 people who serve approximately 427,000 students. Here at SDSU, Hirshman is in charge of roughly 5,400 employees who educate about 31,600 students. As you can see, White is clearly at the helm of a larger corporation, but his compensation package does not necessarily reflect this disparity of responsibilities. He’s still grossly overpaid, but it’s not quite as bad as what’s happening in our own backyard.

California Sen. Leland Yee has been critical of the CSU system’s poor stewardship of state funds, but praised White’s request for a salary reduction.

“For too long, the CSU administration has focused more on enriching executives than on the betterment of the university as

a whole,” Yee said in a statement. “Fortunately, Chancellor White appears to have a different set of values.”

White will become CSU chancellor in December. CSU spokesman Mike Uhlenkamp said White’s new salary is not intended to establish a precedent for other administrators.

“I don’t think he would be commenting on the compensation of CSU presidents at this point.” Uhlenkamp told U-T San Diego.

SDSU professor and University Senate Chairman Bill Eadie commented on White’s request to

U-T San Diego. “Chancellor White’s show of

solidarity with the realities of the state budget and those who

are affected by it is admirable, to my mind. But his decision is an individual one and I wouldn’t expect anyone else to follow suit. Lots of us, including people in top positions, give back financially to the institutions where we work, but those gifts are usually made quietly,” Eadie said. “I should point out that CSU faculty, staff and administrators are being paid significantly under market, for the most part.”

Perhaps CSU administrators are paid “under market” because the market is a bloated, bureauc ratic mess with nonsensical pay standards. White should be applauded for taking a necessary step in a good direction, but let’s not canonize him just yet.

For too long, the cSU administration has focused more on enriching executives than on the betterment of the university as a whole.

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When I was a kid, my mom once asked me if I wanted to go

throughout town with her while she bought my father’s under-wear and filled the car with gas. I didn’t respond. What did she want me there for? What sort of dilemmas was she planning on running into out there, and how was I supposed to help? I imag-ined her sitting at a gas pump on a busy afternoon, cars lined up around the corner honking at her, a finger pressed thoughtfully to her chin thinking to herself, “Should I get regular or premium gas? Oh, how can anyone know which one to choose? If only my 9-year-old was here with me. He’d know what to do.” I stared at her until she shrugged her shoulders and walked away. I then turned back to my Nintendo 64 and led Link through the water temple.

Since then I’ve tried to stay away from crowds as much as possible, but I become a down-right hermit during Christmas season. Somehow we’ve managed to both rush around from store to store and then leisurely peruse the unneeded product nobody really desires, but everyone really wants.

Yes, I guess there are certain places where moseying is appro-priate—Main Street at high noon before a revolver duel and down to the ice cream parlor after an early dinner. Yet the only place people seem to want to mosey through is Costco with extended family. How many people does it

take to buy the family’s grocer-ies? One, max. The family’s senile dog suffering from hip dysplasia even has the ability to complete this task, and yet, for some reason, people want to bring their children, siblings and parents with them to waste their lazy Saturdays perusing a ware-house, filling their carts with the same old items. The old adage has never been more true: Misery loves company.

If my recent excursions to Costco have been any indication of today’s youth, it seems when asked if they’d like to go shop-ping, they respond with a hearty, “Yeah, Mom!” The generation that has never had more enter-tainment at its fingertips is bored with it already? I don’t get it. Why doesn’t Grandma stay at home and watch episodes of “An-tiques Roadshow” while the kids illegally download pirated video games and movies like normal people? I know you think your family’s pleasant to be around, so you want to flaunt them to the public. Don’t kid yourself. We all think they’re the worst, even if we smile when Junior is having a fit. Yes, your lack of discipline is very charming.

I can already hear a few read-ers retorting, “Some people don’t have sitters. Some people are forced to bring their kids with them.”

I don’t have a problem with a mom and her kids. I get that. Just keep their little limbs away from my cart. I won’t stop, especially

if I run over them. My issue is with eight-person families stroll-ing through the lanes arm in arm like we’re in a game of red rover, parking their carts in the most inconvenient places just to filch a sample of salt-injected salami medallions or a half-teaspoon shot of organic almond milk. Go home. Who are these monsters?

And really, we can substitute Costco with any retailer—the issue’s the same. Most people today are incredibly greedy and inconsiderate. Look at Black Friday, the devil’s holiday. People die on Black Friday, mostly from getting trampled. Stop. Think about this for a moment. In 2012, people in the U.S. were trampled to death for a couple hundred dollars off a flat-screen TV, by people who probably own at least two TVs and have three old computer monitors tucked away in their linen closets.

The first question asked in my senior year economics class was, “How much is your time worth?” We had to respond with an hour-ly figure. Most people threw out responses around $50 an hour. To me, my time was and still is priceless. It’s something I’ll never get back. Why people spend a fortune at a camping supply store for tents to sleep on Best Buy’s sidewalk, beginning on Monday and missing Thanksgiving dinner for a cheap mid-range laptop is beyond me. Do they realize in the process of saving $300 after 96 hours of waiting they’ve told their managers at Wal-Mart $3.12 an hour is an appropriate wage to pay? I can only hope not.