Anwar al-Awlaki killing justified byadministrationOn Monday, United States AttorneyGeneral Eric Holder Jr. said the U.S. cankill an American citizen living abroadwho poses a terrorist threat if he or shemeets a three-step legal test.

The administration gave its legal justi-

fication for killing Anwar al-Awlaki, the

man who allegedly inspired several ter-

rorist plots, namely the Fort Hood mas-

sacre and the Christmas Day Underwear

Bomber. Al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who

also spent time studying at San Diego

State, was killed in Yemen last September

by an unmanned drone attack. Now, Holder has come out with a

legal justification for why the attack wascarried out, in spite of not having a trialand evidence brought to court.

He stated killing a U.S. citizen is legalwhen the government has decided after“careful review” that three qualificationshave been met: the citizen poses athreat against the U.S., capturing the cit-izen is not feasible and his or her act isconsistent with the laws of war.

Recently, there have been lawsuitsfiled against the Obama administrationto force the release of the legal justifica-tion contained in a secret Department ofJustice memo. The Associated Press alsofiled a Freedom of Information Actrequest for the memo, which was subse-quently turned down.

Hina Shamsi of the American CivilLiberties Union was quoted by theHuffington Post as saying that “Fewthings are as dangerous to American lib-erty as the proposition that the govern-ment should be able to kill citizens any-where in the world on the basis of legalstandards and evidence that are neversubmitted to a court.”

University of Notre Dame interna-

tional law expert Mary Ellen also statedin the article the memo should be

released to gain more insight about theadministration’s position. She said thesememos sound “highly reminiscent of

the torture memos written during theBush administration.”

Wall Street recapStocks fell Monday morning as the DowJones industrial average fell 14 points to12,962, the Standard & Poor’s 500 indexfell to 1,364 and the Nasdaq fell to 2,950.Stocks continued their fall into Tuesdaywith the Dow down 164 points to 12,798,the Nasdaq down 42 points at 2,907 andthe S&P 500 down 18 points at 1,346.

Data compiled from the Monday closeand the Tuesday open on Wall Street.

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Last weekend, San Diego State hostedthe “Forging a Sustainable Future”green solutions symposium, spon-sored by local group UnitedGREEN.The weekend included panel speak-ers, in addition to presentations bylocal environmentalists and sustain-able activists. The highlight waskeynote speaker Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,who is a longtime activist and sup-porter of green initiatives and conser-vation efforts.

He spoke at length about thedamages, both ecological and social,of a controversial mining techniquecalled mountaintop removal. Thispractice is common in the Coal RiverValley of West Virginia and is viewedby activists such as Kennedy as aresult of the United States’ “rapa-cious appetite” for using coal, ratherthan renewable resources such aswind or solar.

In Kennedy’s address, he recountedhis experience of riding in a truck thatglided on an asphalt road, leading inand out of the mining towns wheremountaintop removal is practiced, asif it were a sheet of ice. According toKennedy, the asphalt was 22 feet thickon certain stretches of the roads. Thisextreme thickness is designed toaccommodate trucks that weighmore than 200 tons.

Kennedy also discussed his exten-sive fight to protect the nation’sresources, a struggle he outlined in hisbook, “Crimes Against Nature: HowGeorge W. Bush and His CorporatePals Are Plundering the Country andHijacking Our Democracy.”

In his book, he attacks formerPresident George W. Bush andRepublicans for deferring energy andenvironmental policies to corpora-tions. He said a concerted grassrootseffort is what is needed to take thenation back to citizen oversight,claiming the various bureaus andagencies that were supposed to bewatching out for the environmentwere supervised by those associatedwith big oil and timber lobbying firms.

Kennedy encouraged audiencemembers to seek out his new film,“The Last Mountain,” which won anaward at the Sundance Film Festivalfor best environmental documentary.

Local sustainability innovator andpresident of 4 Walls International,Steven Wright, also gave a presenta-tion. The presentation documenting agrassroots effort to provide housingand sustainable agriculture to peoplein desperate need.

Wright spoke about his work inSoutheast Asia, as well as “PlanMexico Hambre Cero,” which is a

grassroots effort to deliver food andhelp create sustainable agriculture forthe Tarahumara people, who sufferfrom starvation in the mountains ofChihuahua, with little or no help fromthe Mexican government.

Wright holds a degree in evolutionand ecology from the University ofCalifornia at Riverside. He has workedaside his colleagues in the nonprofitorganization he founded, 4 WallsInternational, along the border on theeastern edge of Tijuana, Mexico. Workis focused specifically in areas nearcanyon lands and along dry creekbeds, where citizens scrape togethermaterial to make homes.

A PowerPoint slideshow displayedimages of him and other members ofthe 4 Walls International team, as well

as local community volunteers build-ing walls from used tires. They formeda sustainable home from the reusedand recycled materials, including arain-capturing cistern systemdesigned to funnel irrigation water toa small vegetable garden.

Richard Anthony of Zero WasteInternational delivered a speechabout the need to become a zerowaste-producing society.

He said Americans have actuallyslid backward as a society. Anthonyexplained that during World War IIthrough the 1950s, the U.S. hadmandatory separation of all renew-able items. Anthony cited the shifttoward “conspicuous consumption,”with manufactured or producedproducts and packaging that was “dis-

posable,” with only “planned obsoles-cence” in mind to show regression.

He said this is still occurring withcell phones, e-waste and computers.Anthony said landfills are reachingmaximum capacity, and what doesnot make it to the landfill ultimatelypollutes the oceans.

“Do we like the fact that after itrains, you can’t go in the ocean toswim or surf?” Anthony said. He saidthe only solution is to “require separa-tion at the source of generation” andnot at the landfill.

Oscar Romo, the head of the BajaCalifornia Task Force, presented avideo documenting the struggles ofTijuana residents forced to live in theColonia San Fernando, where thechildren play in dirty, sewage-riddenwater that fills the canyon floor.

According to Romo, because thereis no running water, a truck comes tofill a barrel with fresh water that fami-lies have to make last for a week. All ofthis, Romo said, is happening withinsight of the border.

Additional speakers included for-mer sustainability consultant andresearcher Jim Bell, as well as localpoliticians, such as Lori Saldana andCongresswoman Susan Davis.

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It’s no secret that “Project X” has everybit of high school shenanigans knownto mankind: waiting for the parents toleave town so a massive 17th birthdayparty can be thrown for main charac-ter Thomas Kub, attempting to invitethe hottest girls in school to said party,trying to get booze without having anID, the list goes on.

As the decades progress, such filmshave shown that although viewersknow what’s going to happen, eachnew film adds spicier ingredients tothe clichéd recipe for disaster. And justwhat did “Project X” cook up? Threenerdy, outcast best friends, check; abig house sans parents, check; a pool,check; drugs, check; persons slightlyolder than the rest who can provideincessant supplies of booze, check;hot chicks with sex appeal, check;totaling a very expensive car, check;the ultimate goal of the night: to getlaid, double check.

The main characters used thesame names as the young perform-ers playing them, a rather originaltake not normally seen in these typesof films. In an interview with AlexisKnapp and Kirby Bliss Blanton, whorespectively play Alexis and Kirby,they said this film was a gamble forthe director and producer.

“They took a big chance on a filmlike this,” Knapp said, “castingunknowns and doing it documentarystyle, but we’ve said it a bunch oftimes, it exceeded our expectations.”

Parts of this production were ratherpredictable, but the audience won’tcomplain. Bringing up the fact thatpart of “Project X” was unscripted.Knapp and Blanton said about 70 per-cent of the boys’ dialogue was impro-vised and “that’s why their dynamicworks so well on screen,” giving it agenuine feel of camaraderie. Both girlsmentioned this also played a role indeveloping their real off-screenfriendships.

One of the funnier scenes in themovie reveals an “Angry Little Person”being stuffed into an oven, only to popout and start punching people in thecrotch. By people, yes, that means girls

included. This scene by far got themost laughs and proved to be surpris-ingly original for a movie of its kind.Now, obviously, homage was paid tothe ‘80s, but the ‘90s get a quick shout-out in what looked like an ecstasy-induced rave. Thus, another greatscene involving a gnome-turned-piñata really catapulted the movieeven further by turning the quiet townof Pasadena into Partyville, USA.

“Project X” was shot documentary-style as an experiment, giving it amore realistic look, but what appearsto have taken place in just one nightactually took two years to complete.Regardless, both Knapp and Blantonsaid they really regard the film as sim-ilar to others such as “Old School,”“Superbad,” “American Pie” and “FastTimes at Ridgemont High.”

Knapp said she admires “the braveryit takes to make a film such as thisone,” while her co-actor, Blanton, saidshe wonders if this will also become acult classic, perhaps known for itsrather “kute” and “kuddly” bear “Kub”“katch” phrases.

The movie trailer definitely show-cases what it took to make this filmsizzle. But during the fire scenes,although “some of the extras had ahard time breathing, no one washarmed during the making of thisfilm,” Blanton said. Surprisingly, asrealistic as the neighborhood seems,it’s actually fake: a closed set. Whatisn’t fake is the assortment of boob-bouncing and booty-shakin’ present-ed therein. What’s lacking is actuallythe explicit depiction of coitus (spoileralert: it’s only implied). After all, thecast is relatively young and probablytrying to make their debuts with asmuch class as high schoolers of thisday and age can.

Rumor has it this film is the equiva-lent of “The Hangover” for kids, andindeed it is. Moviegoers should expectto laugh with their friends. It’s highschool after all, and audience mem-bers have all been there, but nowthey’re just being reminded of it.

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t was the spring of 1999when I realized mymother was gangster. Icame home from highschool and, walking up,

sensed something was missing. Itook stock of all the usual details:my mom’s car, the birch tree, theshrubs, the gate, the mail stuffed inthe slot … the hedge. That’s whatwas missing.

I learned later it had been uproot-ed and removed by our neighbor,Kathy. There was an unspoken ani-mosity between Kathy and theDorans. She blamed the dog poop inher yard on our Pepper, which was abogus claim as Pepper only did hisbusiness on a tiny patch of (dead)grass in our backyard (he was a shy,modest pup). We didn’t like how sheconstantly had workmen comingand going from the house, though itremained in a continual state of dis-repair. My mother privately accusedher of running a brothel.

It was not a neighborly relation-ship, and when Kathy decided to,without any notice, seize and dis-card the hedge, the veil of subur-ban pleasantries fell. That hedgewas the only thing separating herdriveway from ours. With that ver-dant wall taken out, how could weknow where her criminalitystopped and our nobility began?My mother, the great Bambi Doran,laid down the law.

But before I go into how sheproved herself a fearsome battle-ax, Iwant to consider the other side ofthe hedge, what Kathy’s positionmay have been. What follows is myinterpretation of her reasoning forremoving the hedge …

I was so sick and tired of lookingat that hedge. I watered the s— outof it. I put mulch down every spring.At Christmas, I wove twinkling lightsin and out of it. On Halloween, Idraped it in faux cobwebs and stucka plastic ghost in it. Maybe the hedgefelt it was being abused buttressingholiday props. Or maybe it just gotold. There’s no retirement communi-ty for plants, no Boca Raton of flora.Maybe it felt like a neglected cat. (Ilove cats!) For whatever reason, it upand died. D-E-D, Dead.

I knew immediately it had passed.I knew because, where there wasonce a thick, lush buffer between meand those Dorans, that “family” wassuddenly filtering through its former-ly impermeable wall. My neighborswere infiltrating, no invading, myproperty, my personal, mortgage-paid-off space. It was time for thehedge to go and a new, industrialstrength barrier to be erected.

Naturally, I’m speaking of afence. At first I thought of an 8-foot oak picket fence, paintedsomething fresh — certainly notwhite (I live in suburbia, but I don’tneed to announce it to the worldlike my home is a godd— welcomecenter). I liked the idea of a picketfence, but at that height it mightseem too fortress-like. I didn’t likethe idea of a chain-link fence, butas I was walking Hippo, my grosslyoverweight schnauzer (who neverpoops on the lawn), I saw a housewith a green chain-link fence, andit didn’t look so commercial andgrisly urban. Then I thought, whatif I put in a green chain-link fenceand wove ivy through it? That wayI’d barely notice the fence at all.Brilliant. That’ll be the thick, lushbuffer I need to keep those Doransat bay …

And that’s what happened. Maybeus Dorans aren’t the paragons ofsuburban class we think we are (OK,we totally are but I’m going for hum-ble here). But Bambi certainly didn’tsee it that way. Not only had Kathyneglected to inform us of her land-scape remodeling, we weren’t evensure the hedge was hers to remove.Property rights aside, this just wenttoo damn far in Bambi’s eyes.

Walking through the front doorthat day, I saw my mother in thekitchen and shouted, “Ma, what hap-pened to the hedge?”

Bambi came storming out of thekitchen, yelling, “That BITCH ripped itout. She didn’t even tell us. Justyanked that sucker right out.”

“It looks so weird and naked outthere now.”

“You’re tellin’ me. Does she think Ireally want a closer look at thatdump she lives in? Ya know, I got halfa mind to go over there and tell herwhat a crummy thing she did.”

Recognizing a moment for dramaand an opportunity for Bambi to flyher Sicilian flag, I egged her on.“You should, Ma. She shouldn’t havedone that. It’s really disrespectful.What’s next, she gonna park her carin our driveway? No, you shouldsay something.”

“You know what, you’re right. Ididn’t raise you to take things like thislying down.”

It was on. Bambi marched past me, and I fol-

lowed her into the yard. I could seethe white in her knuckles as her fistsand fury propelled her forward. Shenimbly mounted Kathy’s steps(apparently rage makes my mothermore agile) and furiously knockeduntil Kathy answered. Kathy didn’teven have time to utter a word, mymother quick to go on the offensive.

“Look lady, I don’t know how theydid it down in Florida, but up here, inthe land of the living, we let ourneighbors know when we’re gonnado some serious landscape redeco-rating. Maybe that kind of crap flieswhere everyone is too near Death tonotice, but not here, lady. And I’mnot convinced what you did wasyours to do. That hedge may verywell have been on our property.”

“I think I —”“Oh I’ll be checking the property

records, and if that hedge was on ourside, you’re damn well gonna pay fora new one. Don’t think for one sec-ond this is over. Come on, Matthew.We’re done here.”

Two days later, a green chain-linkfence with ivy woven through stoodwhere the hedge used to. “It looksgood,” Bambi said during dinner thatnight. “But she’s still a bitch.”

—Matt Doran is a creative writinggraduate student and proud of hissuffer-no-fools mother. Email him atmatthewtdoran@gmail.com if youdare think your mother is coolerthan his.

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