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Volume 60 Issue 20
Thursday, April 27, 2023
THE USD VISTA
The Official Student Newspaper of the University of San Diego since 1968
Drenched dorms debacle
Students left in limbo after Cuyamaca flooding SASHA BUKHTIYAROVA CONTRIBUTOR At approximately 2:30 a.m on Tuesday, April 11, USD sophomore Charles Lorenzo had a rude awakening. “I was laying in my bed trying to go to sleep, and then the next thing I know, I got blasted in the face with water, and I was soaking wet,” Lorenzo said. “I was drowning.” With the fire alarms blaring, students vacated the Cuyamaca short hall of the Alcalá Vista apartments. It was here that Lorenzo found his RA who then called Public Safety to the scene. “I was just in this shock of being extremely wet, cold, all my clothes are wet — I’m in my underwear and a towel outside, just freezing my a** off,” he recalled. Lorenzo is one of about 14 students – according to USD’s Associate Director of Media Relations, Elena Gomez – whose apartments were flooded the early morning of April 11. “The flood was caused by a damaged sprinkler in one apartment, and there is no evidence of a malfunction or issues with USD’s infrastructure or piping,” Gomez clarified. Residential Life sent an email to most affected students early
Cuyamaca is the site of a recent water leak that damaged property.
Photo courtesy of Sofia Morales
Frank Ocean Coachella drama Singer drops out of second weekend after controversy
JESSICA MILLS ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR
Flooding, Page 2
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After a six-year performance hiatus, singer Frank Ocean graced the Coachella stage as a headline performer for the event’s first weekend. Despite being the largest music festival in North America — featuring hundreds of popular artists — many Coachella-goers bought festival tickets solely to watch Ocean’s set on the third day. Ocean was announced as the final headliner for Coachella’s lineup back in 2020, which was canceled due to the COVID19 pandemic and rescheduled for 2022. However, Ocean was unavailable during the event’s new dates, according to Rolling
Theater in San Diego See A&C, page 5 Coachella audience members watched Ocean’s performance on a large on-stage screen.
Stone, and was replaced by Kanye West. West later pulled out, and The Weeknd took his place. While many had high performance expectations, videos and posts flooded social media platforms, chronicling attendee’s distress over Ocean’s set during and after his performance.
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Wednesday (April 12) morning that provided instructions on how to move forward. “We ask you to pack all your items that are dry by 5 p.m. tomorrow (April 13), in the boxes provided to you today,” the email stated. “USD will relocate the remainder of your dry items to your temporary space tomorrow. Do not remove any items contaminated by water.” USD sophomores Sofia Morales and Cecelia Baker, who were directly beneath the flooded room, received this email and followed the provided instructions. Due to their proximity below the flooded dorm, all of their belongings were soaked. Both Morales and Baker received temporary housing reassignment the night of the flood, and packed their belongings on Wednesday, after receiving the email. The morning of April 13, however, Baker returned to her old dorm to make sure everything was packed correctly. “I go over in the morning to make sure [my belongings are packed],” Baker recounted. “And my things have been scattered throughout the apartment, [movers] are putting wet things in cardboard boxes, sealing them up,
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After showing up late, his show ended sooner and more abruptly than many listeners were expecting, due to Coachella’s curfew of midnight on Sunday. Vulture detailed that per the festival’s agreement with Indio, going five minutes past curfew costs $20,000, plus an added $1,000 for every additional minute. Due to his tardiness, Ocean’s set went 25 minutes past Coachella’s curfew, costing the festival $40,000 in fines. Ocean briefly walked off stage before coming back to
Photo courtesy of Maile Nomura
announce that the show was over. USD senior Maile Nomura was among those disappointed in his overall performance. “If I could describe Frank’s set in one word, it would be: disrespectful,” Nomura explained. “When Frank sang, it was absolutely beautiful. I am a huge Frank Ocean fan; I bought tickets in June [2022] before the lineup was announced and Frank was the only confirmed artist, because I knew the rest of the lineup did not matter,
See Ocean, Page 4
Sexual Assault Awareness See Feature, page 6
Colorism in Hollywood See Opinion, page 9
Moore joins USD Football See Sports, page 12