University of California, San Diego
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Events with structured involvement data
The University of California, San Diego is the institutional host of the televised debate; its invocation imposes timing, format, and public scrutiny constraints that shape the campaign's rehearsal urgency.
Represented via C.J.'s broadcast copy and the procedural details she reads aloud, collapsing rehearsal into imminent live performance.
Exercises institutional power by defining the debate format and schedule; the campaign must conform to its rules and media environment.
Creates the external pressure that forces the campaign to professionalize answers and convert private phrasing into public-ready responses.
Not examined internally in the scene; functions as an external institution whose rules the campaign must navigate.
The University of California, San Diego is named as the debate venue during the scene's closing announcement; as an organization it provides the public stage toward which the team's messaging work is directed.
Mentioned via C.J.'s opening copy announcing the debate being broadcast from the university.
Hosting institution with logistical and symbolic power over the debate stage; otherwise neutral relative to campaign actors.
Places the campaign's communications work into a larger public and institutional frame, emphasizing the transition from private prep to national performance.
Not directly involved in campaign decisions; functions as a neutral host coordinating with broadcasters and campaign teams.
The University of California, San Diego functions as host and institutional frame for the debate; its facilities, timing protocols, and staff expectations impose the live-broadcast constraints that turn a private joke into a time-critical production problem.
Via campus hosting duties and the moderator's formal opening—institutional protocol and venue logistics are visible.
The university, as host, indirectly exerts authority over timing and space; production protocols subordinate personal staff rituals to institutional schedule.
The university's procedural demands heighten the stakes of backstage mistakes, forcing private behavior into conformity with public timetable and raising the consequences of delay.
Operational chain-of-command between stage manager, venue staff, and debate producers determines the pace and enforces discipline; backstage domesticity conflicts with these procedures.
The University of California, San Diego operates as the institutional host of the debate, providing venue, moderation protocol, and production standards that constrain backstage behavior and demand punctual, television-ready appearances.
Via the moderator's opening remarks, venue staging, and production protocols enforced by the stage manager and PA announcements.
Acts as neutral arbiter and infrastructural authority; its procedural demands override individual backstage rituals and personal timing.
The university's hosting shapes the scene's constraints — time pressure and formal rules force private habits to yield to public process.
Tension between production staff (stage manager, PA) enforcing schedule and the human, emotional contingencies of candidates' teams; no factional politics shown, primarily procedural chain-of-command.
The University of California, San Diego functions as host organization, supplying the physical venue, an implied neutral institutional frame for the debate, and the audience whose presence heightens stakes.
Via the formal use of university facilities and the moderator's on-stage declaration of the university as the debate location.
Acts as neutral host that confers legitimacy and manages logistics, while the candidates and media exercise rhetorical and production power within that space.
By hosting, the university lends civic legitimacy to the broadcast and shapes the decorum and rules governing candidate behavior, reinforcing the public-institutional nature of political contest.
Not explicitly explored in the scene; implied chain-of-command between venue staff and debate production.