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fter an unexpected surge in requests from student-media organizations for more money, the A.S. Council is searching for a way to fund UCSD’s 13 active student-run publications for Spring Quarter. Media orgs requested $62,511.31 in funding this quarter, nearly double that of the 29,897.48 requested last quarter. According to Vice President of Finance and Resources Peter Benesch, the A.S. Council allotted $45,000 to media organizations this year, estimating that $15,000 would be used each quarter. Instead, $23,114 was allocated in Fall Quarter and $25,912 was allocated in Winter Quarter. This quarter, $39,393 is being allocated to media organizations — leaving the council with a large deficit.

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ive candidates attended the A.S. presidential debates last Friday, including two on brandnew slates that grew out of Student Voice! — which swept most election seats in recent years — and a three-person slate called NOW! Candidates present were current A.S. President Utsav Gupta, on NOW!, Campuswide Senator Wafa Ben Hassine on Students First, Marshall College Senator Brian McEuen on Tritons First and independent KEEP UP candidates Thurgood Marshall Watch the viceCollege Chair Tan Dhillon presidential and Muir College junior Joe candidates Virgilio. debate on Independent candidates Monday at 12 Sixth College senator John p.m. in Price Condello and Muir College Center Plaza. senior August Ryan Brenner did not attend. The debates focused on the failed transportation referendum — which proposed raising student fees $40 per quarter, in order to maintain all campus shuttle lines — and the Winter Quarter studentmedia funding freeze enacted by Gupta in response to Koala Editor in Chief Kris Gregorian’s use of a racial slur on SRTV. Gupta defended the A.S. Transportation Committee’s recommendation to abandon the contentious referendum, and said he formed a Defense of Public Transportation Committee to save the Blue and White shuttles without raising student fees. “We’ve recommended proposals and other sorts of cuts,� Gupta said. “We wanted to explore other referendums so that any referendums that do come before

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B.o.B. to Play Main Stage By Janani Sridharan Senior Staff Writer

After teasing students a week ago with bookmarks listing a partial lineup of this year’s Sun God Festival, Associate Vice President of Concerts & Events Alex Bramwell has named B.o.B., Crash Kings and The Parson Redheads as the remaining Sun God acts. They will join Drake, Relient K, Thrice and Michelle Branch on the main stage. Deejay acts Designer Drugs, Skeet Skeet, Robbed By Robots and Shark Attack will perform in the festival’s dance tent, leading up to a set by headlininger DJ Z-Trip. The idway stage will host performance by student organizations Donald Glover, Joe Mande and Dan Mintz. Cirque Berzerk, a troupe of gothic tra-

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peze artists from Los Angeles, will take to the stage periodically throughout the day. Bramwell said students’ reactions to the lineup released a week ago have been mixed. â€œThe general reaction has been very positive,â€? Bramwell said. “Of course, there are going to be complaints and some people are upset. ... We definitely don’t just choose whoever we feel like booking. Any name you could throw out as a suggestion for a headliner, we’ve likely checked [to see] if they are available or not, and if they’re an option.â€? The festival’s total budget, which is drawn from student fees guest ticket sales, is roughly $690,000. Bramwell said security for the festival — including UC

THE LINEUP MAIN STAGE Diversion Sound Crash Kings B.o.B Michelle Branch The Parson Redheads Thrice Relient K Drake

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Additionally, Transfer Senator Adam Powers has reopened the media-org committee created by A.S. President Utsav Gupta during Winter Quarter to reexamine the funding guidelines. According to Powers, the committee aims to ease current guidelines with changes such as creating an emergency reserve for lastminute issues. Associate Vice President of Student Organizations Andrew Ang said he supports the committee’s goals. “I think that we should allocate more money, and I don’t think $45,000 is enough,� Ang said. Benesch said he is concerned that such lax standards will open the floodgates for requests in the future, forcing the council to spend its funds unwisely.

“It’s the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever heard,� he said, “You need some sort of fiscal discipline. If you believe that this is a one-time occurrence, then maybe that would be appropriate. But it’s my opinion that it’s only going to get larger.� Out of the 13 media organizations that requested money, three were brought in for a council interview because they either submitted a request for an overly large sum of money, or because they represented a new publication. One major funding request came from No. 15, a newly established fashion and arts magazine that requested $8,693 — the entirety of which was approved. In addition, the A.S. Council fully approved humor newspaper the

â–ś LINEUP, from page 1 police officers and Staff Pro personnel — is approximately $50,000. â€œWe spend less than half of our budget on booking acts, because of production and security costs that limit the money that we can spend on artists,â€? Bramwell said. Last year, according to 2008-09 AVP Concerts & Events Garret Berg, ASCE spent about $550,000 on Sun God Festival, $40,000 of which went to security and about $120,000 of which went toward the talent budget. Twenty thousand wristbands will be created for the event. Of these, 3,500 will be set aside for guests and sold for

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LIGHTS AND SIRENS Friday, March 26 8:56 a.m.: Welfare check ▶ A veteran in his 30s with posttraumatic stress disorder reported “feeling down” and reacting unpredictably to “loud noises.” Saturday, March 27 8:05 a.m.: Welfare check ▶ A 15-year-old male wearing a blue T-shirt and a black jacket was reported as missing at Lot 103. Sunday, March 28 8:41 p.m.: Incomplete phone call ▶ A female was heard saying “What the heck” before getting disconnected while making a 911 emergency call. Unable to locate. Monday, March 29 9:12 a.m.: Vandalism ▶ A hole was punched in the wall where a sign was once posted at the Cognitive Sciences Building. 12:44 p.m.: Reckless driving ▶ A female driver with “possible medical problems” was seen driving erratically in the “wrong lane” at Campus Point Drive. Unable to locate. 1:38 p.m.: Incomplete phone call ▶ “Laughing” was heard through a Thurgood Marshall College call box. 1:44 p.m.: Fire ▶ A trashcan was set on fire at Gilman Drive. 7:22 p.m.: Suspicious person ▶ A 20-year-old male wearing a white sweater with yellow stains was seen “holding a syringe” and walking toward the Student Center. Gone on arrival. Tuesday, March 30 9:12 a.m.: Suspicious person ▶ A bald white male wearing beige clothing was reported as “yelling at people” and “shouting something about being a prophet” at the Center for Molecular Medicine

Building. 10:43 a.m.: General disturbance ▶ A homeless black male wearing a red sweater and blue beanie was reported as cursing, “yelling at staff ” and saying “You might not live that long” to customers at the Mobile gas station. 3:32 p.m.: Burglary ▶ A laptop was stolen through a broken window at the Sixth College apartments.

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Thursday, April 1 3:13 p.m.: Noise disturbance ▶ “Bands” were reported as causing noise disturbance at the Revelle Plaza. 10:08 p.m.: Alcohol contact ▶ An intoxicated 20-year-old female was seen “passed out” at Lot 705. 11:08 p.m.: Suicide attempt ▶ A female student texted that she had “taken 15 pills and [was] overdosing.” 11:39 p.m.: Drunk in public ▶ A female reported that her intoxicated friend was “trying to strike” her at the Matthews apartments.

$40 each. This year, wristbands will be available on the Thursday before the festival, in addition to the day of the event. They can be retrieved from Marshall Field on Thursday, May 13 from noon to 6 p.m., and on Friday, May 14 starting at 9 a.m. “If students have class on Thursday and Friday, they can decide which classes are more important and pick up their wristbands on the best day,” Bramwell said. Last year, student wristbands could only be picked up on the day of the festival. Many concertgoers — worried by the fact that Sun God 2008 had run out of student tickets — crowded the lines Friday morning and spent up to four hours waiting to pick up their wristbands. According to Bramwell, there were roughly 1,000 wristbands left over after the 2009 festival. “Last year, we didn’t sell out,” he said. “I’m not concerned [about running out of tickets], and I would advise students that they don’t necessarily need to be concerned and they can come on Friday to pick it up. Of course, no promises can be made.” Bramwell said he hoped that moving the distribution to Marshall Field will help keep the line more contained and easier to regulate by campus police. Following the annual Battle of the Bands and the first-ever DJ Battle Dance Party — which took place over the weekend at the Loft — student act Diversion Sound and deejays J-Sharp and Barons of Bass will also perform at the festival.

— Compiled by Sonia Minden Senior Staff Writer

Readers can contact Janani Sridharan at jsridhar@ucsd.edu.

Wednesday, March 31 3:35 a.m.: Report of rape ▶ A Thornton Hospital nurse reported that a rape had occurred at the UCSD campus. 3:10 p.m.: Animal call ▶ A student reported being “bit” by a 64-pound black dog in front of the Student Health Building. 3:29 p.m.: Suspicious person ▶ A female magazine solicitor in her 20s was reported as “aggressive[ly] cursing” at someone on Library Walk. Unable to locate. 3:32 p.m.: Animal call ▶ A white dog without a leash was reported as “growling” at Foodworx.

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SUN GOD FESTIVAL wristbands may be reserved for guaranteed admission to the festival by a limited number of Society 60 members starting Thursday, April 15. Reserve your wristband, learn more about Society 60 and join at alumni.ucsd.edu/society60

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WHY WE ENDORSE HIM He’s got the right ideas — and the popular support to make them happen.

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he Guardian editorial board has been skeptical of a Condello candidacy ever since he tried to melt the student-media freeze with his bare hands last quarter. After a series of tipsy committee meetings with campus-newspaper leaders that ballooned his head to epic proportions, that cocky son of a gun sauntered into the A.S. Council meeting with nothing to show for hours of “deliberation” (read: chair swivelation, ball bustation). It was an overconfidence that allowed Vice President of Finance and Resources Peter Benesch to come dangerously close to pushing a well-prepared, content-biased funding model through council. Then there’s the fact that Condello has an absence record like a battlefield, two untouched senator projects and one of the hottest tempers in the room. Last Friday, he missed the presidential debates in Price Center Plaza, and has proven five times less likely to answer our phone calls than current A.S. President Utsav Gupta. But do we really want Gupta

answering our calls when all we can get out of him is the same old dodgy press release? What sets Condello apart from Gupta is that he wears his heart on his sleeve. He’s completely unscripted — often to a fault — but we’d rather know what our president is thinking than watch him whisper it among his office entourage. Unlike the current president, Condello has his priorities straight. Sloppy and angry as his performance may have been, the Sixth College senator was one of the only councilmembers during the funding freeze to sacrifice his poker face for the absolute protection of student rights. Gupta and Benesch’s proposal would have given self-important A.S. kids the right to choose which newspapers could thrive on campus. Not only would that be a fucking snore, it would be downright unconstitutional. In a way, it will break our hearts to see the current president go. Gupta is one of the hardest-working student politicians we’ve ever encountered on the council — even if he has estranged half his governing body and entered annoying legal battles like making the council into a 501(c)(3) organization and trying to shut down the Koala. Yeah, he would probably get a lot more paperwork done than Condello. But at this point, no affinity for gruntwork can make up for the skewed, isolated ideologies Gupta has revealed himself to hold over the last couple months. Of the other candidates, no one beats Condello in consistency and likability. Tritons First frontman Brian McEuen says all the right things, but his goals are lackluster, his contributions are impossible to

track and he makes us feel like we’re talking to a teleprompter. Students First figurehead Wafa Ben Hassine is a doer and a dreamer, but her devastating political correctness is offputting to the average student, and her record of emotional investment in certain issues could make for toxic council relations. Independent candidate Tan Dhillon also shows promise, but he could use a year on council to understand the hot mess he’d be dealing with, and his presidential swagger is in dire thirst of some Obamafication. As for independents August Brenner and Joseph Virgilio — hope you guys at least got laid on the “I’m a presidential candidate” pitch. If this was high school, Condello would be the candidate with “cool kid” syndrome, but we think there’s just enough UCSD nerd in him to fuel the late-night Excel binges and student-org visits. He did completely change the direction of the shady nonaffiliate speech policy committee last year, and has proven he can wake up at 4 a.m. for crew practice. Plus, in the end, Condello knows the ultimate peacekeeper is a nice, cold beer. It’d be refreshing if the A.S. Council could finally earn a little cred with its constituency by doing what college students are supposed to do. Most importantly, whether or not Condello hits the grindstone as hard as he says he will, at least he won’t do more harm. He’s far more cautious about the idea of a D-I football team, and won’t waste any more time trying to defund the Koala. Sorry, Gupta — it was good while it lasted.

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WHY WE ENDORSE HER She knows Student Life is about more than event planning.

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n the past, the vice president of student life might as well have been called the VP Sun God. Year after year, diversity and athletics have been thrown to the wayside by a bubble event planner who loves fliers, music and parties. If elected, Desiree Prevo, who’s running on the Students First slate, will change all that. As a board member on the Black Student Union and a current A.S. campuswide senator, she played an instrumental role in drafting the BSU’s list of demands and sustaining resistance in the aftermath of Winter Quarter’s racist events. Her close ties with the Students for Affirmative Action Committee will ensure outreach and retention won’t be ignored in favor of a few annual concerts. Prevo — a calm, rational thinker — also believes that defunding the Koala isn’t the answer to improving UCSD’s campus climate.

Incumbent VP Student Life Ricsie Hernandez has, to put it lightly, taken a hands-off leadership role this year — especially in ensuring AVP Concerts & Events Alex Bramwell didn’t completely ruin Sun God with another underwhelming lineup. Prevo’s plan to have weekly check-ins and improve communication within her office may seem an easier-said-than-done response to the current lack of supervision, and it’s a bit concerning that she lacks a specific vision for what she’d like to see each of her three associates accomplish. But her greatest strength as a candidate lies not so much in her specific plans for the three sectors of Student Life — Diversity, Concerts & Events and Athletics — as in her demonstrated passion for reform. Her commitment to diversity is an especially strong indicator that she’d expand the office to become more than a sideline Sun God cheerleader. It’s worth noting that Prevo’s opponent, Kristina Pham of the NOW! slate, has a host of awesome ideas — such as restoring afternoon concerts at Price Center in the week leading up to Sun God. But unlike Pham and Tritons First candidate Nicole Metildi, Prevo has already proven herself both a competent leader and an honest, sensible strategist — two qualities to value in a VP who promises to pump new life into those two neglected parts of Student Life.

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The UCSD Guardian Editorial Board conducted hour-long interviews with all presidentiai candidates, 45-minute interviews with all vice presidential candidates and 30-minute interviews with all campus sentaor candidates. The board based its endorsements on these interviews, as well as the experience of each candidate. Views expressed herein represent the majority vote of the editorial board and are not necessarily those of the UC Board of Regents, the ASUCSD or the members of the Guardian staff.

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VICE PRESIDENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE AND RESOURCES

FACUNDO RAMOS

JOSH GROSSMAN

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He has concrete plans to reduce superfluous spending.

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ur long-deliberated choice to endorse Josh Grossman for Vice President of Finance and Resources comes with quite a few reservations. His intention to use thinly veiled media-org funding rules to pursue the shutdown of the Koala, for example, demonstrates that he is just another sketchy Peter Benesch character. Not only would such an endeavor be a waste of the VP Finance’s time and potentially cost the university a lot of money in legal battles, it’s also extremely divisive and harmful toward other media that might get caught in the crossfire. The convictions expressed in his interviews, furthermore, show that he is dangerously out of touch with student opinion. It’s not unreasonable to assume that, if both Gupta and

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WHY WE ENDORSE HIM Grossman are elected, they will make the most toxic combination since vodka met Red Bull. Except instead of a lethal hangover, they would cause a divided council and a whole lot of wasted time and money. But Grossman’s edge over competitor Andrew Ang is his fiscal responsibility. With student fees at an all-time high, reducing unnecessary spending within the council’s budget should be a top priority. Grossman has said he’ll scrutinize every item in the budget before it’s approved ,and is ready and willing to place limits and on A.S. spending — something Ang, having been burned for his non-content-neutral attempt earlier this year, is now too cautious to feel comfortable doing. Given the likelihood that administrators try to dip into

the A.S. funding pool next year, we need a VP who will hold his ground against outside interests. Ang seems to crumble to anybody’s will if it’s strong enough, while Grossman’s position in the A.S. committee to review the Transportation Referendum shows an ability to put in the research and resist administrative blackmailing. As proposals like the Transportation Referendum have shown, we are going to need someone with concrete plans for the budget, and the backbone to stay the course — we just wish Grossman’s commendable financial policy didn’t come in such a potentially disastrous package. It’s going to be Grossman’s job to be a “watchdog of student fees” — not shut down the Koala. Hopefully he’ll learn early on to stick to his job description.

His experience in the External Affairs office ensures he’ll get things done in Sacramento.

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t’s been a busy year for student activists. A massive tuition increase, a contentious debate over racial sensitivity and minority retention on campus, student-loan reform and an ongoing statewide dialogue about the controversial D.R.E.A.M. Act have meant a packed schedule for the A.S. Office of External Affairs. Next year will no doubt prove just as critical for student mobilization as the last seven months. With that in mind, it’s clear the candidate most qualified to take the reigns of such efforts is Facundo Ramos. Nearly three years of experience in the external office have given Ramos

the knowledge, the background and the ideas necessary to head up a new year of student-led political activism. He intends to reinvigorate efforts to directly engage with lawmakers, and has plans to join up with the United States Student Association and take his activism to the national stage — a much-needed step toward letting those who can make a difference hear what we have to say. Under the mentorship of current Vice President of External Affairs Gracelynn West, Ramos has been schooled in the ways of effective organizing and dedication to the student cause.

Despite his qualifications, however, there are certain points of concern about Ramos. As the brother of immigrant rights activist Matias Ramos, he seems likely to focus the bulk of his efforts on mobilizing students in favor of the D.R.E.A.M. Act. He should keep in mind that as an elected official, he will be responsible for representing all students — which means making tuition costs and increased state funding for the university a primary goal. It wouldn’t hurt if also practiced his public-speaking skills. While his experience is invaluable, it could all be wasted if no one is listening.

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CSD’s tornado of student leaders — A.S. hotheads, SAAC activists, student-media diehards — often become so wrapped up in themselves that they forget to take into account the sentiments of the remaining 80 percent: the students who would rather their fees go toward stocking essential lab equipment than the Sun God lineup. Jason Caffrey will always err on the side of conserving the council’s $3 million, and funneling it back, wherever possible, into the academic experience. More than your average Geisel geek, Caffrey also has a grasp on which documents he would need to present to which departments to make headway in cutting costs. Sure, he might stick out like a Ticonderoga in a room of bleeding ballpoints. But his cynicism — and indifference to luxuries like a D-I football team — is refreshing, and, unlike most average-Joe candidates before him, Caffrey has stumbled through enough droning A.S. minutes to know a referendum from a resolution from a First Amendment lawsuit.

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Act, which would make Being a longtime runner on the track team, she’s also valuable as a undocumented immigrant students eligible for financial aid. representative of the athlete’s perspective on council matters — which They’re goals that are, granted, pretty lofty for a lowly senator will hopefully result in more coordination with the with three short quarters to push an agenda. But unlike Athletics Department. most of her opponents, Chua has experience lobbying the Our only worry is that Roberson will be so busy capital and has spent two years as an intern in the A.S. RESPONSIBILITIES studying for chemistry and jumping hurdles next year External Affairs office — which, along with a fleshed-out t Complete at least two that she’ll let her senatorial obligations fall to the wayagenda, sets her apart from this year’s crop of inexperiprojects each year, one of side. But considering her success in time management enced slate puppets. which must benefit the thus far, we’re betting she won’t let us down. entire campus t Serve on at least two on’t let her cute little freckles fool you: As the most qualified campuswide senator candidate this spring, very platform supports increasing the number of campuswide committees t Vote on the council floor Elman means business. A superstar member of the on-campus events, but Eleanor Roosevelt College Student Sustainability Collective, Elman is experienced in sophomore Zoe Seher’s intense involvement with the navigating administrative bureaucracy. student-org system proves she has the skills and connecIn other words, when she says she wants to make Sun tions — not just the ideas — to get the job done. God Festival more sustainable and encourage the use of public transporSeher has structured plans for putting on cultural events and tation next year, we believe she’s got the know-how and drive to make it art fairs, thanks to her time at the Center for Student Involvement. happen. Hopefully, she can even impart this know-how onto her more clueless She’s also well-informed about a slew of other issues sure to plague peers. She wants to teach students about event finance and how to the council next year. She’s a tree-hugger who understands the imporfill out paperwork; about how to rent space in Price Center for free, tance of the California Democracy Act and doesn’t think students should so there is more speech about controversial issues; about org delegafoot the bill for the Loft or a football team when tuition is shooting tion and retention. She wants to host more events on campus, and she through the roof. And, in regard to the media freeze, she said she wants actually knows how to do it. Imagine that. to increase access to funds rather than add regulations. Right answer. hough generally inexperienced in the way of administrative bureauNow, if only she’d try and run this entire mess of a council. cracy, Marshall’s main appeal lies in his levelheaded approach to issues he’s passionate about: athletics and student outreach. fter the eye-opening racially charged events last quarter, it’s difficult Unlike most pro-football councilmembers, Marshall has personally to deny the importance of enacting some well-orchestrated efforts to gauged student opinion on the subject, and constructed a solution that educate our campus about cultural diversity. considers alternative funding. His opinion that the A.S. Council must Like many others in the Students First slate, Elizabeth Garcia has find a way to defund the Koala may compromise free-speech ideals, but a staked her candidacy on this hot issue. Though only a Muir College dissenting opinion would still benefit discussions on the topic next year. freshman — and a generally uninformed one at that — Garcia shows Though Marshall is most passionate about football, his well-played potential of becoming an effective leader for her cause. actions during the “Compton Cookout” fiasco impressed us most. While Most of all, Garcia demonstrates the kind of eloquence necessary to many sacrificed diplomacy for easy-to-shout slogans, Marshall kept ensure both cooperation between colleagues and a rational mindset in communicating his viewpoints rationally in public forums and rallies, answering the controversial questions now facing the A.S. Council. encouraging dialogue between upset and frustrated groups of students. Seeing as she hasn’t even been here a year, it’s hard to predict whether His mature level of involvement will be an invaluable asset for the A.S. Garcia will follow through. 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Ben Hassine said all students should be given the right to issue their publications if they are constitutionally protected. “If media orgs don’t fall under such protection, we should take publications off campus through legal channels,â€? she said. Ben Hassine said that, as a member of the media funding committee, she boycotted meetings that she believed falsely pitted the Black Student Union and the media organizations against each other. “If we wanted to make our guidelines better, let’s make a committee to find what’s illegal not go out there specifically for one org,â€? Ben Hassine said. Ben Hassine added that, although her slate is geared strongly toward Students for Affirmative Action Committee organizations, it will reach out to other constituents because of the social and ethnic diversity of her running mates. Virgilio, who is running on a platform centered on improving student life, said he wants to bring more fun to UCSD, but is unsure about how to do so. “[Creating fun] step by step, that’s not something that we can do,â€? Virgilio said. The vice-presidential debates will take place on Monday, April 5, in Price Center Plaza at noon. Voting will begin the same day and continue until 4 p.m. on Friday. At 5:30 p.m., election results will be announced at Round Table Pizza in Price Center. Students can vote both on TritonLink and Library Walk. Readers can contact Andrew Tieu at atieu@ ucsd.edu.

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Last February, after A.S. president Utsav Gupta made a split-second decision to freeze funds for all student newspapers, one senator in particular took the spotlight. Sixth College sophomore John Condello became the posterboy for Gupta’s opposing army, aggressively vocal about the absolute preservation of free speech on campus — in this case, free speech in the form of access to content-neutral press funding. Condello’s impassioned participation in the debate — which at times became very personal at public forums and meetings, as well as over the A.S. e-mail listserv — was a testament to his commitment against a shady, over-bureaucratic council. “My whole rule is just to take the bullshit out of A.S. and reconnect with the students, rather than this extension of high-school ASB and being the patsy for the administration,” Condello said. The Sixth College senator argued that Gupta’s move to re-evaluate media funding guidelines was a thinly veiled attempt to defund controversial humor newspaper the Koala, which was contributing to racial tensions on campus. “[It was] about shutting down the Koala,” Condello said. “Just be honest about it — if you’re going to fuck someone over, just tell them you’re going to fuck them over.” Though Condello — who became close friends with Koala members during the controversy — acknowledged that the publication’s content is often extremely offensive, he maintained that its purpose on campus is to ensure the right to express ideas freely. “I agree with none of the content of the Koala,” Condello said. “What I do agree with [is] some of the ideas behind it, which is the idea behind any media organization, and that’s to broaden people’s horizon.” Gupta appointed Condello to a committee composed mainly of student-media representatives, tasked with examining alternatives to open funding of all publications. At the pinnacle of the controversy — a March 10 A.S. Council meeting at which councilmembers were to vote on the committee’s findings — Vice President of Finance and Resources Peter Benesch showed up with a PowerPoint unfamiliar to the rest of the

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misrepresented.” After deciding to run again for re-election, he’s focusing much of his campaign on continuing the projects he started this year — namely returning Sun God Festival to its allcampus format and bringing Division-I football to UCSD. He’s also added collectivizing high education in San Diego in order to educate regional politicians about UCSD’s economic benefits (so as to prevent tuition-increasing legislation), protect Shuttle Services from coercing council into a student fee referendum, keeping Geisel Library open late and looking into Greek and student leadership housing in his new campaign. According to Gupta, uncaging Sun God Festival has been a gradual process that — as expected — has met a lot of opposition. Though he’s brought back the Junkyard Derby to Library Walk as well as college council events during the day, he says he was prevented from bringing back student organization booths to Library Walk by the VP Student Life, AVP Concert & Events and AVP Student Organizations as well as Vice Chancellor of Student Life Gary Ratcliff “who waited until it was too late to change the direction of the booths.”

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Last year, Muir College senior August Ryan Brenner held a Seder for his friends — complete with matza and karpas — to “raise cultural awareness” as his friend Doug Rosen put it. Brenner isn’t Jewish. The point of the party was just to bring people together. Brenner, a San Mateo native who goes by Ryan, started his college career at UC Santa Cruz but transferred to UCSD because it was better for his chemical engineering major. Now in his second year at UCSD, this Village resident has taken a new interest in campus politics — albeit in the most lighthearted sense possible. According to Brenner, most of the other candidates for A.S. president are far more qualified, and he doesn’t have much chance of winning. “I talked to my friend in class and he said, ‘You should run for president,’” Brenner said. “I woke up the next day, had a research meeting, got out at 9 a.m., picked up a candidate packet, got 150 signatures and turned in the packet by 11 a.m.” Brenner’s only political experience to date is an office aide position he held during his senior year of high school. But he abused those privileges, and — as punishment for getting students out of class with office passes — Brenner was forced to read the school announcements. He was then kicked out of that position a week before graduation, after he badmouthed a certain teacher over the loudspeaker. If elected, Brenner said his top priorities will be allowing students to start organizations at any time of the year and improving UCSD’s parking nightmare. According to Brenner, faculty ‘A’ spots should be moved across campus and more ‘B’ spots should be changed to ‘S’ spots to benefit students. He’s also angered by the fact that campus employees have to buy their own parking permits. “They’re employed by the campus and spend 500 of their hard-earned dollars every year to work here,” Brenner said. “If I could do something about changing that, I would. I’d find out about it from a qualified person — if I’m somehow able to win.” A firm advocate of free speech, Brenner said he doesn’t agree with current A.S. President Utsav Gupta’s Winter Quarter

Marshall College junior Tan Dhillon is quick to describe himself as “the Indian guy who isn’t Utsav.” And with a collection of campaign promises aimed at rewiring how student government works at UCSD, he apparently aims to make this distinction very clear. Both Dhillon and Utsav Gupta — the current A.S. president now making a bid for a second term — have a year of experience as executives. As chair of the Thurgood Marshall College Student Council, however, Dhillon finds himself at the head of a considerably smaller governing body. While TMCSC’s budget is $90,000 a year, the A.S. President oversees roughly $3 million in student fees. But the frightening prospect of campuswide governance hasn’t slowed Dhillon down at all. In his independent run for the council’s top position, he has worked to define himself from his pack of opponents — several of them seasoned A.S. insiders — by preaching empowerment, administrative accountability and unity. He’s even taking a few well-aimed shots at Gupta — an easy target, but an effective one nonetheless. “Utsav hasn’t been working on unifying the council,” Dhillon said. “There’s a lot of division that hasn’t been addressed.” Dhillon’s vision takes him far beyond the confines of the council’s internal harmony as ell. As president, he pledges to combat the unfortunate nature of “campus monopolies” such as dining-dollar requirements, which Dhillon said lock students into paying dramatically inflated prices for food on campus. He said wants to end the abuse and play the empowerment card by overhauling dining package options and changing all dining dollars to Triton Cash — a move that would allow students greater spending flexibility and more eateries to choose from. Though the promise is enticing, Dhillon has yet to work out the details with Housing, Dining and Hospitality Services. Given that the department could lose a substantial chunk of income by adopting the plan, Dhillon would face a rough battle if elected. “I do understand there is a strong opposition,” he said. “But what is the university here for? The university is here for the

Almost every year, the A.S. presidential election has its maverick. Either he’s a Koala affiliate advocating more beer and partying, or a highly uninformed sacrificial lamb looking to bitch about the system. But Joe Virgilio falls somewhere in between. The Muir College senior believes the answer to accomplishing anything and everything is to get rid of all these goddamn committees and “just do it” — though he’s often clueless to what that something is. (He’s also been cited lurking around the Koala office once or twice.) Accordingly, it’s often hard to tell if Virgilio’s joking. At the A.S. presidential debate in Price Center Plaza on Friday, he addressed the audience awkwardly, with squinty eyes and trailing anti-slogans. When asked about how he might go about improving student life, he struggled with a couple incomplete thoughts and eventually concluded: “The students tell you what they want, and then you just do it.” When the conversation entered the land of acronyms, he grabbed the microphone to say he was “sort of at a loss of what everybody’s talking about.” Though Virgilio has never been to an A.S. Council meeting, he maintains that he hates it regardless. Too many committees. Too much talking. Too many people. Not enough action. He’s especially not a fan of A.S. President Utsav Gupta, who is currently running for re-election. Virgilio claimed Gupta has not done anything during his presidency this year. “I voted for him last year, you know, and it [seemed] like this guy would actually do things, and he didn’t — I mean, not that I [noticed],” Virgilio said in an interview. “Utsav just seems like a rich kid. He’s kind of smug. I don’t like him.” Gupta, who was stifling laughter throughout the debate on Friday, did say later that Virgilio provides a valuable dialogue about the perspective of the average student. Among Virgilio’s goals are keeping the library open, giving shuttles more funding, giving the co-ops more money, building a giant radio tower atop of KSDT

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%5(11(5 IURP SDJH decision to freeze the funds of student media organizations in response to the actions of humor newspaper the Koala. Though he said he finds much of the content published in the Koala to be vulgar, Brenner made it clear that the students involved have the right to say whatever they want. “What’s the harm? If you don’t want to read it, don’t read it,� Brenner said. “If you don’t like what it says, start a newspaper and write anti-Koala stuff.� According to Brenner, both his biggest challenge and accomplishment at UCSD is waking up in the morning. A typical week for Brenner includes going to “80 percent� of his classes, hanging out with friends and doing his homework. “He’s really everywhere on campus, having a good time, and bringing people together,� said Eleanor Roosevelt College senior Douglas Rosen, who is Brenner’s friend of four years. Brenner’s strategy for victory is simple: make people smile. And as a ballsy conversationalist who likes out-

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his term as TMCSC Chair, Dhillon has actively pursued new avenues for students to voice their opinions on campus matters. When he learned that Marshall’s main administrative committees — the executive committee, the curriculum committee and the DOC committee — held no student positions, Dhillon wrote letters to the Marshall administration demanding that students be represented on the committees. He also insisted that representatives not be selected by administrators. Like many candidates, Dhillon has also jumped in line with supporters of a plan to extend Geisel Library’s operating hours. But if that doesn’t work, he has a backup plan: convert Price Center East into a versatile, alwaysopen study space by adding more power outlets to accommodate laptops. But not everyone agrees that Dhillon’s experience and approach to leadership are what the university needs. “I think Tan’s a nice guy,� said presidential candidate and Sixth College Senator John Condello. “But

I think he demonstrated last night [at the ERC debates] in one of his quotes that he’s not able to lead when he said, ‘Sometimes I think a leader needs to take a backseat role and know when to follow.’ I think that’d be great if he was running for a senator position.� Gupta echoed Condello’s concerns. “He has experience being a college council chair, but there’s no relation between being a college council chair and A.S. President.� However, Dhillon said students can rely on his drive and selflessness. His passion for student life at UCSD, according to Dhillon, is directly influenced by the lessons he took away from his upbringing. After two of Dhillon’s family members passed away from heart failure, he said he realized how much he wanted to help people. “It’s not about the prestige — it’s about helping people, having a direct interaction and seeing a change,� he said. “People always say you have to aim high to reach high, and I want to do both.�

door adventures and collecting interesting facts (about everything from cider to Passover), every once in a while he succeeds. “Ryan is a positive experience every time,� Rosen said. “He always makes everyone his friend. No one is upset meeting Ryan Brenner; he transcends his college. He makes six colleges one university.� At UCSD, Brenner participates in the Tae Kwon Do Club and is a member of the Slavic Student Union. After graduation, though, Brenner said he doesn’t want a lab job. Instead, he’s aiming to be James Bond or conduct research on aliens. “I’m pretty 100-percent confident that aliens exist somewhere in the universe,� Brenner said. “Whether they’re here on this planet is a very small possibility.� Brenner says he’s “pretty 100 percent confident� that aliens exits and that through more advanced, futuristic technology, it might be possible to find other life forms similar to humans, or that

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radio and installing more benches around campus. “I want to see more benches. There’s a lot of walking and there’s no benches anywhere,� Virgilio said. “This really upsets me, actually. It might be my priority number one.� The benches, Virgilio said, would allow him to avoid more public seating areas. Needless to say, he isn’t much of a people person. Ever since he transferred to UCSD in Winter 2009, Virgilio said he’s had trouble adjusting. He’s uncomfortable around large crowds, and on-campus organizations aren’t really his thing. “I had really bad anxiety, and I know a lot of other students that have anxiety when they come here as transfer students,� he said. “It’s like, crippling, almost; there are so many people and it’s just like, you don’t want to go to class, you don’t want to go to school even. I’ve overcome that.� — & 2 1 1 , ( 4 , $ 1 STAFF WRITER

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&21'(//2 IURP SDJH committee. It detailed a “government speech model,� which would allow the council to fund only the student press that reflected its own values. Condello had fire in his eyes. “We should talk about why this is bad legislation,� Condello said at the meeting. “It is sketchy as hell — we agreed that there was going to be no PowerPoints.� [There is] a lot of backstabbing through the whole thing.� Stacy Sluys, editor in chief of Sixth College newspaper the Sixth Sense — formerly staffed by Gupta and Condello — said she sees Condello’s passion as an attribute. However, Sixth College President Brian Ng said the senator’s emotional investment in issues can sometimes alienate other councilmembers. “I think his passion — as much as it is his strength — can often sometimes be his weakness,� Ng said. “He can sometimes be too impassioned in debates.� Condello agreed that his debating style can be overly aggressive, but said that when it comes to collaboration, he remains level-headed. “I’m OK with that as long you can work with people after,� Condello said. “Everybody makes mistakes.� If elected, Condello said he hopes to make the A.S. Council more transparent by talking to students individually. “Drink a coke with me, let’s get some pizza together and let’s talk about what you need to see changed,� Condello said. “Let’s work together and get it done. I don’t want to continue the self-imposed isolation that A.S. garnered over quite some time.� According to Ng, Condello has proven his ability to make student government more accessible while working on the college level this year. “He can definitely, and will, listen to a lot of students,� Ng said. “And that’s probably one of his greatest strengths: He has a charisma about him that a lot of people find very approachable. He understands students’ needs without the baggage that comes with being a part of student government for several years. I feel like sometimes folks can be very involved in student government but then often lose sight of what students’ values are.� Condello said he is equally invested

in standing up to UCSD administrators, who are often antagonistic toward student interests. “I don’t think that they’re some kind of ultimate evil,� Condello said. “I just think that what they see as the right thing to do is often very disparate from what the student sees as the right thing to do.� Last quarter, Condello was one of several councilmembers who faced probable impeachment due to 5.5 absences from council meetings, which are held every Wednesday night at 6 p.m. According to Gupta, that fact, along with his lack of experience, indicate that Condello isn’t prepared for the job. “I think he made a lot of things personal against me, but I still really like him,� said Gupta. “Again, though, I’m worried about the experience issue: One year as senator, and he honestly hasn’t shown up to college meetings. He’s only started speaking up in the last bit of the year where elections are starting up.� According to Condello, he collected a large amount of absences because of a class conflict. He added that he missed several more meetings because he was hospitalized due to a knee injury and respiratory distress from mono. Last Friday, Condello did not attend the noontime A.S. presidential debate in Price Center Plaza. According to Condello, he didn’t attend the debate due to a migraine, a problem he’s had since he was a child. As students vote on TritonLink this week, Condello said he plans to dive headfirst into his campaign, which was delayed by his recent recovery period from mono. “It’s going to be a Blitzkrieg kind of campaign for [this] week,� Condello said. “[It’s] going to be a firestorm of me advertising.� If elected, Condello said that, though his brutal honesty may make some uncomfortable, protecting his ideals and the interests of students will come first. “Ultimately, I care more about the right thing than about making people like me happy,� Condello said. “That’s why I can never be a professional politician — because I’d piss [off] too many people.� — 5(* , 1 $ , 3

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— recruited over 30 volunteers and gathering hundreds of signatures. Ben Hassine said she will drop all other commitments if she is voted into the presidency. “I made a decision that if I get elected as president, I’m not doing anything else. And if I don’t [get elected], I’m going to focus on just one org.� According to Ben Hassine, her biggest priority as president would be to institutionalize student activism. “I feel like activism, the word, [is taken] to mean somebody holding a pole or flier or something — but that’s not what it means to me,� she said. “It just means doing something with a purpose.� For the candidates on Students First — the slate Ben Hassine created this year — this “purpose� is achieving access and affordability at UCSD. “Usually, it’s always this fringe group of people that are protesting, that are talking to legislators,� Ben Hassine said. “Every person has a different role, and I feel like students need to utilize that unique role to collectively work for a more affordable education.� Ben Hassine also considers campus sustainability a number one priority, evidenced by her work with One Earth One Justice — which brought Fair Trade on campus and made steps toward taking the UCSD Bookstore sweatshop-free by convincing administrators to discontinue the sale of Russell sportswear. Along with the habit of spreading herself too thin, councilmembers have said Ben Hassine has a tendency to rep-

*837$ IURP SDJH The A.S. Presidency, Gupta says, can be time-devouring — consuming anywhere from “30 hours on a good week to 80 hours a week on a bad week� — it’s something he’s worked his entire senior year to make the most of. Though Gupta has been criticized by his fellow candidates for proposing to start a football team funded by student fees, he believes that the student body should be able to vote on the matter. “He stuck to his promises — he has a large staff, he created a committee to look into all his campaign promises,� said

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resent and advocate for specific groups and issues — a potential detriment to representing the student body as a whole. “Being opinionated is her hardest shortfall,â€? Vice President of Student Life Ricsie Hernandez said. “She doesn’t take time to talk to other people about their views. Being opinionated about one thing is completely detrimental to the whole student population.â€? Hernandez appointed Ben Hassine to the Housing and Dining Committee, and said she performed well there (Ben Hassine was the only committee member to vote against the recent hike in housing and dining fees). However, Hernandez said she doubts the senator’s ability to adapt to the much broader role and reach of A.S. president. “I think there are better choices for president who have good attendance records and are open to all ideas, and could represent the entire student population instead of focusing on specific groups,â€? Hernandez said. UCSD College Democrats President Victor Lin — who worked with Ben Hassine on the CDAC — disagreed. “She’s an all-campus senator,â€? Lin said. “And take a look at her work on the [CDAC] — that affects all students. ‌ It’s good to see someone so passionate about non-trivial things. It’s refreshing.â€? Ben Hassine stressed that her broad focus on access, affordability and sustainability does not mean she will ignore the more lighthearted aspects of student life. “I want to personally assure everyone that I love to party and that I really, really do support student life on this campus,

and I do think it is the one answer to healing UCSD after all that happened with the protests and whatnot — bringing everyone together regardless of race or ethnicity,� Ben Hassine said. “Even if maybe I focus on the budget cuts too much or whatever, I feel that it’s wellplaced because it’s about time students are aware of these issues, and it’s about time they also spend their money sustainably.� Ben Hassine has been especially vocal about her opposition to pursuing a football team — one of current A.S. President Utsav Gupta’s key campaign promises. “I understand football is cool, but it costs $1.5 million just to get it started,� Ben Hassine said. “Do you know what we could do with $1.5 million for our students other than just a football team? It’s not responsible to propose that right now.� Ben Hassine defended her view of UCSD students as “global citizens.� “I always hear things like, ‘Oh, you have an external edge,’ or, ‘You focus so much on the VP of External Affairs,’ or, ‘You care too much about people outside of UCSD, so you can’t work for UCSD students,’� Ben Hassine said. “But I feel like, as A.S. president, I would need to work for students at UCSD but not negatively affect the world around us. We can’t be completely ignorant of the outside world. We can’t. It’s completely irresponsible. We have such privilege to be here.�

AVP of Student Organizations Andrew Ang. “But I believe that they were started, and not fully completed in the term he said they would be completed in.� The way Gupta sees it, aiming high shouldn’t be something candidates avoid. “I think an advantage I’ve had is I’ve been able to specifically state what I want to do — I think it was something that differentiated me last year,� Gupta said. “My platforms have always been very ambitious and I think it was my largest criticism levied against me, but I think a lot of it can be achieved.� Much of the reason Gupta has con-

crete ways to accomplish things, is due to his knowledge of the bureaucracy within A.S. Council and the administration, said VP Finance and friend Peter Benesch. “Even if you ignore the fact that he was A.S. president for the last year, he literally has knowledge that no other candidate does — absolutely no other candidate,� Benesch said. “If you ask any other candidate, ‘How do you do x?’ They might give you an answer but it’ll probably be B.S. because, in all honesty, knowing how to do things is the most crucial thing to being a president in student government.�

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So, looking for a fresh (and hopefully more popular) pitch, McEuen talked with friend and Associate Vice President of Student Orgs Andrew Ang about creating the Tritons First slate. From there, they started recruiting running mates. “We started picking people — what I think is the best of the best,� McEuen said. “Everyone on our slate has experience. They are not just random people who want to get involved.� Even if he doesn’t win the presidential race this year, McEuen said he believes the Tritons First slate — his “biggest accomplishment� — will live on. Indeed, McEuen runs the party like a machine: Every last campuswide senator recites the “Create! Empower! Restore!� catchphrase like it was mentally programmed, and it’s hard to traverse Library Walk without stumbling over a shiny Tritons First flier. “I hope it’s not just a flash in the pan,� he said. “It’s supposed to be a lot more than that.� Eleanor Roosevelt College Senior and fellow Lambda Chi Alpha member Dan Driver said McEuen is “a breath of fresh air.� “Brian always has a smile on his face, and is a good person to look to when you need a calm and levelheaded point of view,� Driver said. McEuen said this affinity toward creating togetherness is what sets him apart from current A.S. President Gupta, who is running for a second term. “Utsav is a very smart person,� McEuen said. “I would bet my bottom dollar that he knows more about the rest of this campus than the rest of the student body. But he hasn’t really brought the council together at all, and that’s one of the main things I want to work on.� McEuen said his ability to facilitate constructive conversation — something the current president has not proven to be his strong point — is one of the

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Monday Apr 5 CAREER

PROSPECT Connect - Interested in international affairs? Featuring a lecture on the Impact of US Foreign Policy on Human Trafficking in India presented by Florence Middleton. Great Hall / 7:30-9pm / Free Obtaining an Internship - Learn strategies for searching internship and part-time job listings to find positions that will meet your goals. Career Services Center, Horizon Room / 12-1:15pm / Free Communicating Across Gender Differences - This workshop will explore the ways in which men and women communicate through the use of activities and dialogue. Presented by Brett Robertson,

Intergroup Relations Program. Price Center West Red Shoe Room / 1-2pm / Free LECTURE

M2P (The Means to Protect): Understanding what Shortens Genocidal Violence - Within this lecture, Christian Davenport will examine what reduces the duration of large-scale, statesponsored mass killing. ERC Room 115 / 12-1:30pm / Free R ECR E ATI O N

You at the Loft: Open Mic Night - The Loft / 8pm / Free Roma Nights presents Sean Gregory and Theo - Espresso Roma / 8pm / Free

Tuesday Apr 6 CAREER

Job Fair Prep - Learn how to approach employers, what questions to ask and how to make a great first impression. Career Advisors will be available for resume critiques following the workshop. Career Services Center, Horizon Room / 12-1pm / Free Resume Critiquing Marathon - Polish up your one-pager with our advisors. Learn how you can make your resume more effective in today’s job market. No sign-up needed, just bring your resume! Career Services Center, Horizon Room / 1:30-3:30pm / Free

Career Peer Educator Program Info Session - Get extensive hands-on training and experience while developing advising, communication, and presentations skills, in addition to leadership and teamwork experience. Career Services Center, Horizon Room / 11am-12pm / Free R ECR E ATI O N

Did You Hear About the Morgans? - Price Center Theatre / 6&9pm / Student $3; General $5

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The Triton Spring Job & Internship Fair - Exclusively for UC San Diego students and alumni career plus subscribers, meet top companies recruiting for full-time, part-time, and internship positions. Bring your student ID, polish up that resume and dress for success! (career.ucsd.edu) PC Ballroom West / 10:30am-2:30pm / Free Presentation Skills for Graduate Students - This interactive session will provide you with the tools to speak confidently and prepare professional presentations. Price Center, Green Table Room / 1-2pm / Free C U LT U R E

That Sh!t Aint Funny: Minority Comedians & the Stage of Protest - This program will explore the ways in which comedians like Margaret Cho and Chris Rock reconfigure stereotypes into tools of activism. Come with an open mind, and be ready to laugh - and to question

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MBA: Preparing for and Applying to Business School - Learn how to prepare for an MBA program and what admissions committees require, and desire, in applicants. Find out about the GMAT and how to write your application essay. Career Services Center, Horizon Room / 3-4:30pm / Free Effective Presentation Skills for International Students - Whether you are presenting research or preparing a poster session, this interactive session will provide you with the tools to speak confidently and prepare professional presentations. Ida and Cecil Green Faculty Club / 2-3pm / Free C U LT U R E

Cesar E. Chavez Kickoff Luncheon - UC San Diego's opening event includes an award ceremony honoring a San Diego community member and a UCSD alum and staff member for furthering César Chávez's ideals in their lives. Suggested donation is $5; proceeds benefit MEChA's Raza Graduation. International Center / 11:30am-1:30pm Peace Corps - Learn how to prepare for an MBA program and what admissions committees require, and desire, in applicants. Find out

why you are laughing. Cross Cultural Center Comunidad / 6pm / Free R ECR E ATI O N

Gretchen Parlato - Resembling Frank Sinatra in terms of dynamics and subtone, or Chet Baker when it comes to cool, the musical sensitivity of Gretchen Parlato pushes the boundaries of the traditional role of a jazz singer. The Loft / 8pm / Student $5 Adv, PAYC Door; $16 General H E A LT H

Hare Krishna Weekly Lunch Come to the Student Center for vegetarian all-you-can-eat Hare Krishna lunch. Student Center Patio / 11am-1pm / $4 Farm2U - The farm moves to a different college each Wednesday to present fresh and delicious seasonal produce and goods. Roger's Place and Market / 3:306:30pm LECTURE

Building a Strong Legislature: The Opposition of the Provincial Deputation of Mexico to the Bicameral System, 1821-1823. Hosted with María José Garrido Asperó, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. Open to the public. No admission fee. Institute of the Americas Complex, Deutz Room / 5pm / Free

about the GMAT and how to write your application essay. Career Services Center, Horizon Room / 12-1:30pm / Free LECTURE

New Writing Series Presents Alberto Blanco - Blanco is considered one of Latin America’s outstanding poets. Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known poet. Both will be reading at UCSD. Geisel Library, Seuss Room / 4:30pm / Free R ECR E ATI O N

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008) - The film intercuts original footage with the hilarious, suspenseful recollections of the 50 men who played in what has become one of college football’s most famous games. The Loft / 8pm / Student $5 Adv, PAYC Door; General $8 Avatar - Price Center Theatre / 6&9pm / Student $3; General $5 Muir Musical Ensemble Presents Seussical the Musical - Through April 10. Don’t miss this years Musical production of beloved Dr. Seuss characters Horton and all of Whoville! Mandeville Center / 8pm / Student $9; Faculty / Staff $10; General $11

Associated Students is preparing for the 2010-2011 school year with the upcoming A.S. Elections, where students will have a chance to shape the future of the UCSD community by voting for representatives for various positions within Associated Students. Vote this week!

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Obtaining an Internship - Learn strategies for searching internship and part-time job listings to find positions that will meet your goals. Career Services Center, Horizon Room / 12-1:15pm / Free Career Peer Educator Program Info Session - Get extensive hands-on training and experience while developing advising, communication, and presentations skills, in addition to leadership and teamwork experience. Career Services Center, Horizon Room / 11am-12pm / Free

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TRACK AND FIELD — Right in the thick of season play, the Tritons got the a perfect chance to test their depth and flexibility: a small, friendly invite close to home. UCSD track and field competed in the second annual Mangrum Invitational on April 3, turning in some impressive results at the non-scoring meet, which was held at Cal State San Marcos. No team scores were kept, allowing the Tritons to train in events that were not necessarily their best. The meet was a welcome reprieve after the team’s outstanding performance at the high profile Cal/Nevada Championships the week before. “It’s a great opportunity for us to rest people or move them around as we need to,” said women’s coach Darcy Ahner. “It allows us to qualify more people in the relay events, and it can give people a chance to try more events as well.” Several nearby universities showed up to the meet — including the University of Southern California and UC Irvine — but none of the Tritons’ conference opponents participated. This gave UCSD a chance to experiment a little and fine tune for bigger meets later in the season. On the women’s side, junior Kelly Fogarty blew by the competition in the 100-meter dash to clock a time of 11.90 seconds. The school-record holder also anchored the Tritons’ winning 4x100-meter relay team. “Kelly has had so much fire this year, and its been really fun to watch,” Ahner said. Senior Linda Rainwater won three events, recording the top marks in the shot put, javelin throw and high jump. A former All-American in the heptathlon, Rainwater will look to build on her success in the field events at the Mt. Sac heptathlon in Azusa on April 14. The men’s team was lead by Fred Cook: The senior shot putter hit 52’ 2” to win the event and record a provisional NCAA Division-II championships qualifier. Senior Daniel Anderson turned in a similarly magnificent performance, breaking four minutes in his first attempt at 1500 meters with a time of 3:54.40. He earned second place in the event, only a week after he broke a 17-year-old school record in the 800-meter race. Anderson recorded a time of 1:51.12 seconds in the preliminaries of the Cal/Nevada Championships, and bested Mark Yuen’s 1993 record by 0.14 seconds. “That meant a lot to me,” Anderson said. “I’ve been dealing with injuries and I haven’t really had a strong healthy season in a while, so I’ve been waiting to break that record for a long time.” Head Coach Tony Salerno emphasized the significance of Anderson’s performance. “The record is a big one,” Salerno said. “We’re really happy to see him show that kind of talent.”

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With less than a month left in their regular season, the Tritons held tight against Cal State San Bernardino and Brown University on April 4. And the No. 17 UCSD women’s water-polo team could not have picked a better juncture of the season to hit their stride. Senior utility Stephanie Heinrich scored five goals and sophomore two-meter Kirsten Bates added two more, earning the team its sixth consecutive victory: a 11-7 win over No. 20 Brown University. Heinrich had also put in the go-ahead goal earlier in the day against San Bernardino, helping the Tritons to a 6-3 victory. Heinrich scored four goals in the first four minutes of the game, and Brown was never able to recover. “Stephanie Heinrich set the tone immediately as the senior team captain,” head coach Brad Kreutzkamp said. “Four goals on four shots to start the game let everyone know that she meant business — and that attitude carries over to the rest of the team.” UCSD led by as many as six goals in the

third period, but Brown netted three straight goals in the fourth to cut the Triton lead to 10-7 with six minutes remaining. However, the Triton defenders would not allow anything past them for the rest of the game, and Bates added her second goal with 36 seconds remaining as the Tritons held on for the win. Seniors Sarah Glick and Lauren Presant led Brown with two goals apeice. The Bears’ defeat leaves them at 18-7 overall for the season. Against San Bernardino, the Tritons fell behind 3-2 after the first period, but scored the final four goals of the match to seal the win. “Our theory all year long has been that any team can beat anybody on any day,” Kreutzkamp said. “That game was an example of how we can end on the wrong end of that. But, thankfully, our defense kept us in the game until our offense woke up in the fourth quarter.” The Tritons were unable to score for nearly 20 minutes before junior utility TC Coles scored her first goal at UCSD to tie the game with 1:20 remaining in the third period. Heinrich then scored with 6:58 remaining, and Bates and junior attacker Hanalei Crowell

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added late insurance goals to finish off San Bernardino. Redshirt freshman Misty Vu scored two goals for the Coyotes, who dropped to 13-16 on the season. The Tritons have a busy weekend ahead of them in Northern California. The team will play Cal State East Bay on April 9, then compete in the Santa Clara Invitational on April 10 and April 11. Readers can contact Liam Rose at lfrose@ ucsd.edu.

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Softball Team Slides into April With Series Split Against Dominguez Hills By Vishal Natarajan Sports Editor

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In the series against Dominguez Hills from April 2 to April 3, freshman infielder Katie Belanger homered twice and knocked in seven RBIs.

SOFTBALL — UCSD launched into a fourgame series against Cal State Dominguez Hills from April 2 to April 3, playing the best ball they’ve played all season — and possibly in program history. The Tritons got April off to a good start, fresh out of an equally successful March that saw the team win 15 of their 18 games and rocket to third place in the California Collegiate Athletic Association. Moreover, the team’s 23-11 March record marked the best start to a season in the program’s short history at the Division-II level. The Tritons achieved a 29-13 finish in 2000 during their final season competing in Division-III. “We showed what were capable of, and what we expect to be doing,” senior captain Nicole Saari said. “We finally started hitting toward the end of the year. The end of the lineup started getting it together.” Despite their superior NCAA regional ranking, however, the No. 4 Tritons were only able to manage a series split against the No. 10 ranked Toros — sharing the spoils in both Friday’s and

Saturday’s doubleheaders. On Friday, the Tritons picked up right where they left off last month, pummeling the Toros 7-0 behind a career performance from sophomore right-handed pitcher Camille Gaito. Gaito was stingy on the mound for her 12th win of the season, striking out a personal best of nine Toro hitters. She allowed only two hits and walked none. Gaito received ample run support from a fiery Triton lineup that poured in seven runs from 10 hits. Freshman infielder Katie Belanger launched a three-run shot to left field in the fifth inning to seal the UCSD win, and finished the game two-for-three at the plate with four runs-batted-in and one run scored. In their second game, however, sloppy Triton defense allowed the Toros to mount a lopsided lead. The opposition capitalized on five Triton errors for a 9-1 victory to even the series. Saturday’s play followed a similar pattern. In game three of the series, UCSD earned a hardfought 4-2 victory over Dominguez Hills before losing 10-1 in the series finale. In Saturday’s first game, Gaito was again dominant, throwing a complete game six-hitter

and allowing only two earned runs while striking out two. The performance improved her personal season record to 13-6. For the second straight day, Belanger provided the big hits for the Triton offense. Her three-run homerun in the fifth inning broke a 1-1 tie, giving th team a 4-1 lead it would not relinquish. However, in the series finale, the Toro offense rebounded from their Gaito beatdown to tag two Triton pitchers — senior Christine Zankich and sophomore Tess Granath — for nine runs in the first three innings, coming out with a 10-1 victory. The Tritons, still in third place after the series split, now sit at 25-13 overall and 15-9 in conference, with three league series remaining. They return to action on the road against Humboldt State on March 9. “We can’t take them lightly,” Saari said. “We know every team in our conference is capable of winning any given game, so we need to come out strong — play like we did in the first games of our last series.” Readers can contact Vishal Natarajan at vnataraj@ucsd.edu.

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