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he A.S. Council excused six senators from possible impeachment last night, including A.S. President-elect Wafa Ben Hassine. Although only three weeks remain until the 2010-11 student council takes office, A.S. Advocate General Parminder Sandhu submitted six resolutions to impeach councilmembers who have consistently missed council or committee

Critics still claim admission is based on racial identity.

meetings. According to the A.S. constitution, voting members who receive more than three unexcused absences are subject to impeachment. During Winter Quarter, the council voted to impeach Biological Sciences Senator John Ehrhart and Sixth College Senator Kevin Nguyen. The six senators considered for impeachment yesterday were Revelle Senator Jaclyn Storey, with three absences; Revelle Senator Arvind Satyanarayan, with five

absences; Campuswide Senator Adam Kenworthy, with three absences; Campuswide Senator Desiree Prevo, with three absences, Campuswide Senator Ben Hassine, with three-and-a-half absences; and Arts & Humanities Senator Omar Khan, with eight absences. Because roll is called twice during each Wednesday-night meeting, an absence during either call counts as half an absence. Sandhu said there is still value in pursuing impeachments, despite the short amount of time the cur-

rent council has left in office. “I think that, at this point, it’s really the principle — a lot of these people who are being impeached, one was impeached before but it failed, so we’re doing it again,� Sandhu said. A.S. President Utsav Gupta said he believes that excessive unexcused absences negatively affect the accountability of the governing body. “The No. 1 duty of a senator is to See IMPEACHMENT page 2

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Having concluded a 10-day investigation into the integrity of UCSD’s International House admissions policies, administrators are denying allegations that their selection process is racially biased. Though I-House Director Christi Gilhoi did not release any specific details about the investigation, she said that both the UCSD Office of Campus Counsel and an outside statistical analyst were contacted to review the admissions procedure. “The study found no evidence of bias with respect to cultural categories,� Gilhoi said. “Our legal counsel has identified no legal problems with the admissions process.� The review was launched on April 10, after the system came under fire last month when Gilhoi mistakenly sent a confidential e-mail to everyone on the I-House listserv. The e-mail — which was sent to all current I-House residents — contained a spreadsheet with the personal information of 148 students who applied to live in I-House during Fall Quarter 2009. Some students who received the information expressed concern over columns on the spreadsheet that identified the “citizenship� and “cultural identity� of applicants. Gilhoi said that indicating one’s cultural identity and national origin is an optional component of the application.

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or seven years, California students have been fighting for a bill that would provide financial aid to undocumented immigrants. The existing law AB 540 allows long-time California residents without official citizenship to pay in-state tuition at public universities, but does not provide that they receive aid. Under the California Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, AB 540 students would be able to receive financial aid from the state — which proponents say is a major step toward making a college education accessible to students who have not been granted U.S. citizenship. Carmina Ocampo, a lawyer for the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, said that — despite the high profile of the bill — there remain misconceptions about it would work and who it would impact. One common assumption is that most students protected by AB 540 are immigrants from Latin America. In fact, almost half are Asian-American. “It’s surprising, because there’s a widespread stereotype that Asian-Americans are the model minority,� she said. “They seem privileged in terms of education and finances and are overrepresented in academic institutions — but they can actually be a vulnerable and marginalized group that come from poor families struggling to pay for

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mittee meeting that she missed on Feb. 5. However, she said that she had cleared her absence prior to the meeting because she had work, and that the excusal had not been properly recorded. “This is ridiculous,� Prevo said. “I work really hard, and this is really disrespectful. I think this just shows how faulty the system is.� Ben Hassine agreed that the counting system sometimes does not line up with the amount of effort councilmembers contribute. “Keep in mind, I’m going to be here next year,� she said. “I work hard and I usually never miss Senate without missing council, and I always try to excuse myself.� Gupta said there was no basis for the impeachments being pardoned, and that all members in question were

still eligible for impeachment. Sandhu added that he would bring the matter to council again. According to Sandhu, once a councilmember accrues more than three absences, he submits a resolution for impeachment, which is then voted on by the Campus Affairs Committee. If passed, it is submitted to the entire council. Impeachment requires a twothirds vote to pass. Sandhu expressed concern that those in associate vice president positions — who are paid $3,500 per year — cannot be impeached, even though some of them have accrued as many as 13 absences, because of their nonvoting status. “They have three times as many absences as the rest of council, and they are subject to the same attendance code as senators,� Sandhu said. “Their

exemption is a double standard.� He said the council should implement an AVP impeachment process. “Let’s say the Vice President of Finance Peter Benesch doesn’t like one of his AVPs tomorrow — he can just remove them,� he said. “So, at this point, it’s hard to remove the AVP, because it’s a personal decision. I’m trying to find a way to make it less of a personal decision and more that if you’re not meeting the absence requirement, then you immediately get punished.� However, Gupta said AVP absences do not affect the council’s operations, since AVPs do not have a vote. Additional reporting by Angela Chen. Readers can contact Anqi Chen at anc028@ucsd.edu.

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to remain anonymous. Michelle said that many students in her situation are unwilling to speak publicly about their immigrant status, which keeps others from understanding how many students the bill would postively affect. “I came to the United States with my mom under her working visa, and she was fired for economic situations,� Michelle said. “We suddenly lost our statuses. I haven’t told all my friends yet — it’s something I’m trying to find the right time to do.� According to Connie Choi, an immigration rights lawyer for APLC, the 2000 U.S. census found that there were 2.5 million undocumented students under 18 living in the country — of these, 40 percent lived in

California, and 21 percent were Asian or Pacific Islander. According to documents released by the university in 2010, there were 572 potentially undocumented undergraduate AB 540 students within the UC system as of 2008. Of these, 263 were Latino, 263 were Asian, 3 were black, 23 were white and 20 were from an unknown ethnic background. In total, under AB 540, these students paid $26.9 million less than they would have with out-of-state tuition. Of these, 81 are potentially undocumented undergraduate students at UCSD. “A lot of people have stereotypes,� Michelle said. “[People say] illegal immigrants [are] from across the border, [that] ‘they’re Mexicans’ —

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empers flared last night as councilmembers, with only two meetings left in term, discussed impeachments and student-org funding — again. The meeting began with a presentation by Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Penny Rue, who stressed that one role of the council is to improve campus climate, and announced that the 2010 graduation speaker will be Laren Poole, a Marshall College alumnus. Poole is a co-founder of Invisible Children, a group dedicated ANGELA CHEN to protecting chilshchen@ucsd.edu dren in Africa. Triton Television Station Manager Thomas Dadourian announced that the station was planning to pair up with individual college stations to share knowledge and ensure that the smaller stations didn’t “die out every four years.” Advocate General Parminder Sandhu presented awards to councilmembers who had good attendance records or had improved over the past quarter. Recipients included Transfer Senator Adam Powers, President Utsav Gupta and Campuswide Senator Tobias Haglund. Haglund was not present to receive his award. Vice President of Student Life Ricsie Hernandez announced that the Sun God Festival store is now open on the second floor of Price Center, near the old post office. A.S. President-elect Wafa Ben Hassine announced that she was working with the Housing, Dining and Hospitality committee on a project that would allow students to exchange dining dollars with other students. “Mark Cunningham supports it full on, even though they don’t make

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a profit,” Ben Hassine said. “I almost feel like there’s something shady going on.” During campus affair committee presentations, the council passed an amendment that requires the outgoing VP of Student Life to appoint members to the next year’s campuswide committees by Week Eight, instead of only “when requested to do so.” The council then turned to the question of whether to impeach oft-absent voting members. Campuswide Senator Bryant Pena argued that very few people eligible for impeachment during Winter Quarter had been impeached. “We impeached two people though there were 11 eligible,” he said. “One had like 13 absences and the other, well, I don’t even remember what they look like.” All impeachments were failed. Afterward, councilmembers debated whether they should fully fund an event put on by Students for Justice for Palestine on April 20. A.S. Council policy determines that it funds only half of all contracts, but, due to a misunderstanding, SJP put on the event expecting to be fully reimbursed. The council was concerned about being inconsistent, but Campuswide Senator Adam Kenworthy disregarded these claims. “This council has never been consistent,” Kenworthy said. “If consistency was a batting average, we would be traded.” The council reimbursed SJP. The meeting ended with Sandhu again bringing up impeachments. “I’m like the guy in Green Eggs and Ham,” he said. “I will talk about impeachments with you on a boat, on a house, outside a house, on the sea.”

New silicon chips send data through higher wavelengths to improve video speed and quality. By Ayelet Bitton

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You may not be able to afford an iPad just yet, but you might want to start saving up for the next version, because researchers are developing technology that will transmit viral videos like those on YouTube at higher speeds and qualities than ever before. Combining silicon chip technology with the latest wireless communication tools, researchers at the Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits group are testing the limits of the amount of data that can be transmitted wirelessly — at a speed faster than your laptop’s current network connection. “We’re all sort of pushing to help deliver next generation wireless services to smartphones, notebooks, iPads and more,” electrical-engineering professor Lawrence Larson said. Larson has been teaming up with fellow electrical-engineering professors Peter Asbeck, James Buckwalter and Gabriel Rebeiz for the past decade to study the evolving technology of wireless data transfer. “We’ve been working on it for 10 years, and will be working on it for the next 100, I’m sure,” Larson said. “Communications is kind of an insatiable human need, and that’s not going to be satisfied any time soon.” The work of Larson and his colleagues is primarily focused on video transmission, which requires

sending significantly more data through the air than sound or text alone. “In order to transmit video to a wireless device, you have to be able to transmit lots and lots and lots of bits very, very quickly over the air,” Larson said. “It’s kind of like a greater order of magnitude than any other application — more than e-mail, more than voice. Video is a dramatic increase. What we have to do is go to higher frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum.” While television signals travel at about 500 MHz and cell phone signals travel at about 2,000 MHz, Larson and his team are developing chips that can handle signals ranging from 20,000 to 60,000 MHz. “It’s really because video has this amazing requirement of data rate bits per second, we have to go [to] these higher frequencies,” Larson said. Larson said the main challenge his team faces in their research is developing hardware capable of operating at such high frequencies while still maintaining the precision and accuracy necessary to produce a quality video or transmission. In order to test the different chip prototypes, researchers monitor the quality and speed of each transmission. “We have test equipment that generates the exact type of signals that might be received wirelessly or the types of signals you might want to transmit wirelessly,” Larson said. “Then we measure our devices and see how well they do against the specifications that are needed in order to work well. It’s the same kind of test equipment that people in industry use to test high-speed wireless equipment.” Larson said that, eventually,

all consumer products will feature wireless communication capabilities. “The number of devices [that can communicate wirelessly] is really kind of limited,” he said. “In the future, I think that the theory is that almost every manufactured object on the planet will have the ability to communicate wirelessly — so books, and packaged food and clothing and appliances and everything on earth that is manufactured will be able to wirelessly connect to the Internet.” Larson said the continued development of wireless technology — specifically, by firms located in California — will allow the state to maintain a technological edge in the U.S. “We really feel that this kind of work is part of the creativity that will spawn new jobs and new startup companies, and new opportunities for wireless devices,” Larson said. “Hopefully one of the big implications of our research is that this will help California maintain its high-tech lead in the wireless industry on a worldwide basis.” Readers can contact Ayelet Bitton at arbitton@ucsd.edu.

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n a time when almost every business this side of Wal-Mart is posting profit losses, it’s especially hard to be the little guy with a niche market. And if anyone knows about failing businesses, it’s us. UCSD’s student-run co-operatives — whose $3 wraps and $2 DVD rentals provide an invaluable alternative to the Price Center mall — have proven to be no exception. From 2005 to 2008 — during an intense period of construction at the old Student Center — the Food Co-op, the General Store Co-op and Groundwork Books all suffered financially from decreased foot traffic. Since then, not one has been able to rebound in full force. Tomorrow, co-op representatives will meet again with Director of University Centers Paul Terzino to negotiate lower rent — and, because they’re paying as much as $1,700 per month while providing valuable student resources, the break would be well-deserved. Terzino has made it

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ust when we thought we were waking up from the Triton football dream, A.S. President Utsav Gupta has gone and hired an athletics consultant to measure the feasibility of his monumental pet project. The student council is chipping in $7,000 for university athletics expert Carl McAloose to evaluate the cost of a brand-new football program along with what it would take to move existing UCSD teams to Division-I. Despite the fact that A.S. President-elect Wafa Ben Hassine has made it clear she plans to trash Gupta’s dream faster than we can say “student fees,” the hiring of McAloose is not entirely in vain. Not only did the money come from the A.S. Enterprise income (not direct activity fees) but Gupta persuaded the administration to cover the remaining $21,000 of the $28,000 cost — no small feat in the age of the bleeding

budget. At town halls and public meetings held this year on the prospect of a football team, its estimated cost has fluctuated from $1 million to $16 million. A professional study of what it would take to make it happen is valuable knowledge for everyone involved in the debate. If it’s far too expensive, it will hopefully put the pigskin to rest, or if it turns out more feasible than we thought, a future council could continue to negotiate a deal with the university. Though we predict that the final estimate won’t be worth all UCLA’s school spirit and Berkeley’s prestige combined, we’re much more hopeful that McAloose’s study will bring us one step closer to a D-I athletics upgrade (which Ben Hassine is much more ready to support). Understandably, many university athletes don’t want to make the move — it would be a bummer to go from

being the No. 1 D-II school in the nation to being at the bottom of the top. Should UCSD make the upgrade, Triton athletes would have to wait as long as four years before being able to compete at nationals. But as our teams hit their D-II peak and the upgrade option opens up next fall, it’s time to think long-term. Football isn’t the sole reason we’re only third best in the UC popularity contest; our D-II status is just as much a reason we’ve always lagged in reputation behind Berkeley and UCLA. An upgrade would place us in the same league as our sister schools and pit us against top-caliber teams across the country — garnering more publicity from spectators, current students and prospective students alike. We’d also be able to offer athletic scholarships; suddenly a 70-degree year-round climate wouldn’t be the only perk we could

offer high-school recruits uninterested in attending a nerdy science-only institution. Most importantly, the prestige and student investment that would come from a D-I ranking could bring in some sizeable donations for the Alumni Association for something other than cancer research. And hey, if a the D-I move works out, maybe a few years down the line, we can talk football. Until then, baby steps.

hen I heard they’d built a brand new Urban Outfitters in Pacific Beach, all that’s trendy in me couldn’t help but swing by for a brief tour. Being a self-loathing hipster of sorts, I’ll admit I hate myself for getting juiced about $30 hair clips and shorts that give me camel toe. My theory is that I’m drawn to the fauxalternative chain because I’ve been hypnotized by genius psychological marketing strategies for so long that there’s no more hope of resisting the establishment’s indie-chic pull.

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So I dropped by for a visit. And, as I was standing behind some spraytanned PB rats in line for a fitting room — tapping my foot to the whiny sleeve-pop (yeah, bet you haven’t heard of that one) on the store’s omnipresent soundtrack — my eyes wandered to a mannequin in a black shirt. At first glance the shirt seemed typical Urban: slim-fitting, covered in colorful images reminiscent of a cooler decade and overpriced as hell. But a closer look revealed the graphic to be three grinning black kids hovering above funky block-letter text that read “HAITI.” My first reaction was to get pissed at whatever corporate slime decided it was chill to squeeze profit from the decade’s most devastating natural disaster. However, easily distracted by something covered in sequins on the fitting-room return rack, I soon forgot about it entirely. But once I’d officially evacuated the store — $100 poorer and high on consumerist thrill — I decided to do some sleuthing on the subject. Turns out clothing company OBEY partnered with Awareness and Artists For Peace and Justice to develop the trendy Haiti attire as a way to raise money for the country in turmoil. Apparently, when somebody buys one of the shirts, all profits go directly to the cause. Hipster gets his outfit, Haiti gets its money. Everybody wins, right?. Still, the idea that some trendmongering kid would buy the T-shirt — probably because it matched his skinny jeans and made him look compassionate and informed at some Owl City concert — sort of makes me hate humanity. More and more, companies looking to capitalize on a charity campaign are making a big fashionable spectacle out of it. Bono may have intended to heal the world when he started his Product Red campaign in 2006 — sprinkling iPods and Starbucks cups with a sharp red label to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria — but he also developed a way for corporations to profit from bourgie rich folks who want to look like they’re giving back. The Haiti shirt campaign is no different. No matter how much money is donated to the suffering country, it doesn’t change the fact that half the people who contributed to the cause didn’t give a shit about it. I guess it’s better than the profits going straight to another trust fund — but it’s still pretty embarrassing that our country’s current most popular form of philanthropy hinges on the American consumer’s bad sense of taste.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2010

DRAWING FIRE By Johan DeLaTorre

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Campus Co-op Model Needs Reevaluating

Off the Beaten Path, Smokes and Cheeses Abound ▜ CO-OPS, MYVT WHNL The Food Co-op, for its part, sells affordable vegan and vegetarian grub without the side of MSG from chains like Panda Express. Groundwork Books offers $1 book sales on used reads from fairly popular authors. The Che Cafe hosts shows regularly for under $10. The General Store is the only place on campus to buy cigarettes. Making greater efforts to publicize events put on by the co-ops wouldn’t hurt either. The occasional fiction and poetry readings might not draw a Loft-sized crowd to the muraled doors of the food co-op, but it wouldn’t hurt to advertise — especially if you consider yourself an all-student service. It could even be as simple as hiring a student artist to create promotional

signs to hang around campus. Due to a lack of consistent promotion, most students aren’t even aware of the cheap curry and American Spirits that the co-ops have to offer — and it’s no wonder a small customer base of close friends can’t provide enough profit to make rent. Despite the fact that longtime co-op members such as General Store core member Andrew Rubens insist that student-run co-operatives are not businesses — but rather student organizations providing products in exchange for money — the co-ops still have to assume some level of fiscal responsibility — which includes recruiting a solid customer base and keeping profit records. Business or not, it’s the purpose of any buy-and-sell

system to at least break even. Because the co-ops have yet to present Terzino with any sort of records, it isn’t apparent exactly how large a break they’d need to stay in the clear. Still, we’re inclined to say rent should be halved — in exchange, of course, for a simple list of buys, sells and promotional efforts. After all, the co-ops’ operation relies on finances, so some form of rent should be maintained at least as a symbol of exchange. Of course, instituting these kinds of changes may require more organization or helping hands, but if that means pulling the co-ops out of the red — and teaching students how to run a more sustainable operation — then it’s more than worth the effort.

Dear Editor, I love co-operatives. They can be extremely successful. I belong to REI, which is a co-op, as well as Canada’s Mountain Equipment Co-op, which I think is the best thing since sliced bread. The co-op model is one of the most underappreciated and ignored business models in America — some of the most well-informed people I’ve encountered don’t understand how co-ops work. Contrary to popular opinion, a co-op is not a commune or a collective. It is not ideologically socialist, communist or capitalist. It is a formal organization with owners like any other corporation. The difference with a co-op, though, is that the organization’s owners are the consumers, rather than investors. A co-op exists to serve the people that use it, rather than make money for the people that own it. It is rather like a union, but for consumers — those that use the space get to say how it runs. With this understood, though, it doesn’t seem to be the case that the General Store or the Food Co-op are, in fact, co-ops. It is unclear why the default assumption is that the individuals currently there are those who

should be there. So, a proposal: Given that the university student population is constantly changing, the A.S. Council and Graduate Student Association should consider deciding yearly to whom it should give the space, based on an application process that preserves the spirit and intent of the co-ops while recognizing that no particular set of students have a right, by heritage, to manage the space. Alternatively, it could mandate a genuinely co-op-style governance structure, in which users of the co-op vote on a board of directors who are then responsible for choosing who manages the space. Otherwise, it’s just a club with cash registers and a guaranteed space. —Leo Trottier Graduate Student, Cognitive Science ▜ The Guardian welcomes letters from its readers. All letters must be no longer than 500 words, typed, double-spaced and signed with a name and applicable title. Letters must also contain a phone number. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. Letters may be dropped off at the Guardian office on the second floor of the Student Center or e-mailed. Send all letters to: The UCSD Guardian Opinion Editor 9500 Gilman Dr. 0316 La Jolla, CA 92093-0316 e-mail: opinion@ucsdguardian.org

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affirmative-action supporters By Any Means Necessary. They convened to pressure the board to adopt a D.R.E.A.M. scholarship program for immigrant students. Yvette Felarca, the Northern California coordinator for BAMN, said she was disappointed with the lack of D.R.E.A.M. discussion at the meeting. She said there were approximately 50 students present on March 24, coming from nearly all the UC campuses. “The main discussion about the D.R.E.A.M. scholarship happened on Tuesday, and it was very disturbing what they didn’t say,” Felarca said. “The regents made it loud and clear that they are not interested in abolishing the segregation of UC campuses — a segregation that leads to a hostile climate and means that there is no true public higher education.” Vice President of External Affairselect Michael Lam said that although he could not comment on the D.R.E.A.M. Act at this time, he plans to meet with West before determining what actions he should take upon entering office. Various versions of the bill have been proposed since 2001. In 2005, Senator Gilbert Cedillo (D-Los Angeles) proposed a similar bill called SB 60, which Schwarzenegger vetoed. He then authored a different version, SB 1301, which was introduced in February 2008. It passed through state Assembly and Senate, where it passed 46 to 29; however, it was then vetoed by Schwarzenegger on Sept. 30. The newest version, SB 1460, was introduced Feb. 19 of this year, and is currently being discussed in a Senate committee. If passed, eligible students must fulfill the requirements of the AB 540 bill. Students must be currently enrolled at an accredited institution of higher education in California and must file an affidavit stating that they will apply for legal residency as soon as possible. *Names have been changed. Additional reporting by Ayelet Bitton, Angela Chen and Regina Ip. Readers can contact Neda Salamat at nsalamat@ucsd.edu.

▶ I-HOUSE, from page 1 “They are used for statistical purposes only, and in room selection, to keep with the theme of International House as half U.S. and half international students,” Gilhoi said. “For example, in a four-person apartment, there would be two U.S. students and two international students.” Tatjana Lischetzki — who went by the name of Elizabeth* in a previous Guardian article and was denied acceptance to I-House last year — met with Gilhoi and ERC Resident Dean Rey Guerrero on April 16 to discuss the content of the leaked e-mail. “They used this example that if there are already too many people from the UK, and even if a bunch of UK students got higher scores than someone from France or Italy, they will pick from the applicants from France or Italy,” Lischetzki said. “So even if other people might have higher scores, they can still not get in, because there are too many applicants already accepted from that area.” John*, an anonymous student who used the e-mail address concerneducsd@yahoo.com to criticize the admissions system on the I-House listserv, sent Houston an e-mail on April 9 detailing his concerns. He received an e-mail response from Houston on April 10 acknowledging his concern and notifying him of the investigation. John said that I-House’s practice of accepting 50 percent U.S. students and 50 percent international students should be an illegal quota system. “There is just no way that the 50-percent quota for international students is constitutional,” John said. He referred to the 1978 Supreme Court decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, which allowed race to be a consideration in admissions policy — in the interest of academic diversity — but held that quotas were illegal. Additionally, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin for all programs receiving financial assistance from the federal government. Lischetzki added that she is skeptical as to why I-House officials are not

providing the details of their recent investigation. “It speaks to the fact that there is something that they might not want us to know,” Litschetzki said. “They think its better to not show anything.” According to Gilhoi, I-House reviews applications in two rounds. The first round takes place in February, and is only open to current UCSD students. The second round, which takes place in June, is open to international students, new transfer students and new graduate students. All applications are initially reviewed by a selection committee of 24 current I-House students, including both U.S. and international students. This committee — which Gilhoi said reviews applications “independently and without discussion” — scores the applicants based strictly on essay responses, a creative submission and letters of recommendation. This score sheet is sent to a committee of staff members from both I-House and ERC Resident Life. The committee considers the preliminary rankings — along with “additional criteria” such as housing guarantee status, student conduct and gender balance — to choose the initial round of admits. “We analyze how the applicant would play a role in promoting crosscultural communication and the exchange of global ideas and opinions in the community.,” Gilhoi said. “The committee members evaluate the reason for the applicant’s interest in living in I-House, the activities they are interested in being involved with and how their past experiences and interests would contribute to the I-House community.” Nevertheless, John — along with several other students who registered complaints after the March 4 e-mail — said he is doubtful that past experiences and additional criteria are the only reasons some applicants were rejected. “Obviously they claim to not use race, but I think they have already acknowledged racial discrimination,” John said. The UCSD Legal Counsel could not be reached for comment. Readers can contact Kelly Kim at jhk008@ucsd.edu.

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Every year, Indio, Calif., sees a massive spike in population. Tens of thousands of concert enthusiasts flood the city for the West Coast’s biggest, baddest musical attraction: the one-and-only Coachella. I’ve always managed to dodge Coachella due to lack of funds, but this year, a friend of mine found a loophole for all those on a holy-shit-it’s-$300 budget: the volunteer option. In exchange for 18 hours of slavery, volunteers receive free festival entry and complimentary camping. Considering most acts didn’t start their sets until 12 p.m. (and the rave didn’t start until 4 p.m.), it was a pretty sweet deal. Due to a two-hour delay at volunteer check-in, we were fortunate: no Friday shift. If fortunate means having to show up (sober, ideally) at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday. When 6:30 a.m. rolled around, we each took cold showers and brushed our teeth from water bottles — all except one friend. who accidentally grabbed a vodka bottle, a la Ke$ha. This was confirmed by a very un-Ke$ha “What the fuck!” At check-in, we were informed that we were on trash duty. Karma, apparently, for all those bottles I tossed and trampled during Passion Pit’s show the night before. Fortunately, the job was mostly monotonous and straightforward. (By the way, if you went to Coachella and are missing a pair of underwear, we found it — along with 10 others.) I was beginning to resemble Oscar the Grouch by the time our supervisors relocated us. We were whisked down a dusty road in a golf cart, kicked out and made to hold up “Venue is this way” signs. Suck on this, Vanna White. One hour before freedom, a guy ran up to us in panic. He’d left his sunscreen bottle on the bus and wanted it back. We informed him that we couldn’t get it, but offered ours instead. Turns out “sunscreen” was code for “well-disguised alcohol” that he was trying to sneak in. For the next hour, we watched in amusement as he boarded every bus and searched beneath the seats. I can only hope the scenario ended in some whitey trying to prevent skin cancer with a handful of Patron. On Sunday, we were told we’d be on ticketing duty. I was charged with the task of snapping wristbands onto ticketholders after they were scanned by Aaron — the Batman to my Robin. Just when the shift was starting to put me to sleep, there was a deafening clang and thud as one wayward rebel tried to jump the fence behind Aaron, and instead ate a face full of dust. Not to be deterred, he peeled himself up and made for the gates amid cries of “Security!” Admirably, he actually made it in for a second — before being tackled and thrown back into the dirt. (This time, on the outside.) More cautious schemers got creative to swindle their way into the festival. One girl came up, bawling that her ticket had been stolen when she’d been drugged and drunk — only to change her story when she spoke to someone else. One pair arrived dressed as a Chinese dragon, announcing that they were the Coachella dragon and needed to be let in. After being denied entry — looking as scandalized as a plastic dragon mask can look — the costume was found abandoned next to a pile of trash. Of course, there were perks to offset the craziness — volunteers were gifted all confiscated items, including beer. We were fed sandwiches, and the staff was pretty lenient: I even had the chance to sneak off to see MUTEMATH during one of my shifts. Not so bad, considering everyone else who got in free was escorted out by police, sporting a host of battle wounds.

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t’s been years since you moved on to Facebook, but Sherwood’s still playing puppy-love pop like you never got rid of your MySpace. Considering the band’s third album, QU, is dominated by lead singer Nate Henry’s sickly croon, it’s surprisingly mellow — only causing truly unbearable nausea when he prods at the choruses. The biggest

perk is that lyrics like “Now I’ve been making eyes at you all night/ Trying to decide what’s on your mind” might ease your transition from high school to Tioga Hall. Hailing from San Luis Obispo, the band’s niche lies between midCal chill and Freudian repression. The Sherwood signature consists of plinky soft-rock verses with zero-

distortion guitars, strumming so unobtrusively that it’s a shock when tracks like “You Are” break out a choppy rhythm reminiscent of the Jonas Brothers. Sherwood does occasionally amp it up for a stadium singalong — get ready to put your hands in the air — but they’re mainly masters of the awkward sway.

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ive Vampire Weekend a beach and a beer, and you’ve got this LA college-rock happy place. Every chorus is harmonized, and every guitar’s reverb cranked to 11 — and though the California chill smooths out the best of the VW bounce, the Smiles are still the most danceable dudes here. Forget you’re stuck on campus and slow-spin to a sunny bass.

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atally hip student band Funkestra may or may not be happy to see you, but somehow they’ve hidden an entire horn section in their pants — and they’re not afraid to whip it out every Thursday at Porter’s Pub. This goofball outfit plays call-and-response numbers with stanky vocals, but their specialty

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is losing themselves in freakout jazz jams. In fact, the only thing that keeps the funksters grounded is cymbal-happy drum god Burleigh Drummond — but still, only Michael J. Fox and your weird aunt could dance naturally to these polyrhythms, so show up adequately addled to float with one seriously lethal form of funk.

hey might do pretty indie a la She & Him, but unsigned He Is We is more hi-fi studio production than pillow talk. More than a little multi-tracking of singer Rachel Taylor’s soft and soaring vocals pluck He Is We far out of the bedroom genre. You’d think instrumentalist Trevor Kelly was being charged for every note, considering the way he hardly touches his acoustic six-string and piano during a verse — then splurges on a soft-strummed chorus. However treated, Taylor’s voice takes the lead, hopscotching the octave to pump the duo’s brokenhearted lullabies with some star power. Listen for standout headbobber “A Mess It Grows.” It’ll be a welcome romp on the swing set after a traumatic round of midterms.

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ACOUSTIC NIGHT AT THE CHE CHE CAFE / APRIL 27, 8 P.M. / $5 Good news: The last time Chuck Potashner’s teamAWESOME! played the Che, the group wore tails and animal-head hoodies while banging out dance-pop numbers on hide-and-seek and pirate ships. In rebellion to the MGMT electric-playground trend, their show will be acoustic, backed by UCSD students Christina Tsui (aka bedroom guitarist A Book About Elephants) and Anton Haugen on piano. We get to loop back around to kindergarten after graduation, right? (MP)

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t’s a gutsy move to direct a play centered on some of the same racial issues that rocked the campus last quarter — but freshman Master of Fine Arts student Larissa Lury just went there. Based on a script by junior playwright Ronald McCants, “Oyster” follows a black man’s struggle to reconnect with the son he abandoned long ago. Like so, Lury examines the black experience in America through the lens of one father-son relationship.

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f you were at the 2008 Sun God Festival, you may remember those guys with the crazy hair who destroyed the main stage after Sean Kingston spent an hour waddling around like an obese apocalypse. Coheed and Cambria were electric then, and have only gotten better — as demonstrated on new LP Year of the Black Rainbow. Longtime fans know that each of their albums is part of a conceptual story masterminded by lead singer and guitarist Claudio Sanchez; Rainbow serves as the prequel. While stepping back in the storyline, the album takes a step outside the band’s former talent bracket — while never losing touch with its roots. They’re able to deliver their emotive power with more elegance than ever before, taking all the awkwardness out of their signature genre jumps. On lead single “Here We Are Juggernaut,� the band delves for the first time into industrial progrock, clanking drums like pistons and overlaying ground guitars with all the grimy charm of 1800s London. And just when Sanchez’ bombastic pro-

duction is about to get overwhelming, drummer Chris Pennie always takes the beat back to basic. Most of the time, though, Sanchez’s grandstand is appropriate and powerful: “This Shattered Symphony� is the album’s pinnacle, evolving the post-hardcore origins of the band into a modern experiment. Sanchez throws down a punchy guitar riff to accompany an orchestral lead, equally wishy-washy on the mic between a high-pitched croon and vicious growl. Halfway through its vigorous run, however, Rainbow does begin to feel ponderous and overdone; some tracks are virtual photocopies of the first six. The latter-half exception is the softhearted “Pearl of the Stars,� on which industrial drums grind gently behind a delicate guitar line as Sanchez reflects on a girl he calls his “angel from the west, the pearl of the stars.� Powerful, ambitious and melodramatic as ever, Coheed and Cambria won’t win any new fans with Rainbow — but it’ll impress the hell out of the diehards. —Bryan Kim Staff Writer

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hile she never abandons her trademark folk-rock sensibilities from debut Made of Bricks, Kate Nash whips out a brand-new cache psychedelic embellishments for sophomore effort My Best Friend Is You — venturing onto refreshingly adult frontiers without compromising her melodic kiddie-pop core. Nash’s Cockney accent is a daring shell for her trained octaves, alternating between sweet, sassy and snarling amid the most impressive range her side of the Atlantic. The further she strides from the safe, label-padded Bricks, the foxier the riotous modern-Motown sound. Nash has mastered traditional 1960s pop with a punch and a wink: “DooWah-Doo� overlays 12-bar Buddy Holly blues instrumentation with a verbal catfight, doing what the Beach Boys could never do by ending on the line, “She’s a bitch!� But the album’s rarest gems are a handful of slithering, sub-punk numbers on which Nash transforms from podunk beauty queen to snarling, irreverent rock star in the big city. “Mansion Song�

is the best of her party in the UK, driven by powerful jungle drums and a chorus of multi-octaved Nashes chanting “I am a misfit� over a stadiumworthy guitar line. This point of pride, of course, is only realized after one-and-a-half minutes of profane lambasting of “21st-century girls who can get fucked just as well as a man.� Then there’s the fact that — in a stroke of either genius or cheap identity crisis — that same riot-grrrl rant is underscored by a lo-fi, static-crackled solo from a seasoned opera singer. Best Friend is sure to divide the crowd: More conventional (read: boring) tracks like “Paris� and “Early Christmas Present� will please older fans, but it’ll take a much more open mind to appreciate the outlandish scrapbook of honks and genres she takes up as a side hobby. It’s quite a cliff-jump from Bricks’ clean folk-rock to the heroin grind of “I Just Love You More� — on which Nash emits a series of Banshee screams that would put Yoko Ono to shame in an ear-piercing contest. —Bryan Kim

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ormer lead singer of Manchester-based drum ‘n’ bass band Lamb, Lou Rhodes has a set of British pipes that’s both nuanced and easy on the ears — but it’s not nearly enough to set her apart from the Kate Nashes of the world. After gathering a small following with emotionally charged ’90s hit “The Rain� — not to mention a spot on the hit “Moulin Rouge� soundtrack — her third album falls flat, starved of Lamb’s lush sonic textures and blasting further into blandville with every (slightly tweaked) take

on moody acoustics. Rhodes’ whisper does burst with sincerity on the titular track, but her emotion is unrealistically directed at a vague endof-the-world scenario, rendered even more underwhelming by a stock-chord backdrop. Rhodes bleeds emo tree-sap tears on album highlight “Bloom,� relaying her desire to bloom with flowers that lift their heads toward the sun. It begins as the most understated stuff on the album — five strings are plucked on loop — but a more intriguing parade of players slowly

enters the room: A tinkling arpeggio drops at random intervals while swelling strings and singers combine for dramatic crescendo. All the while, Rhodes remains plain and sweet, refusing to either drown out or fall in line with her underlayers. The complex harmony showcases her goods more than any sparse acoustic tune: Rhodes’ voice may be forgettable on its own, but give it a busy enough backdrop and its pure simplicity begins to shine through. — Angela Chen Senior Staff Writer

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unsure of what Knight was so afraid to re-examine their relationship with of. We only get insight into main the world around them. character Deto’s past, and — though Should make for a winning well-acted — even rehash of “The that storyline is far Breakfast Club� from groundbreakand “Glee,� right? ing. Sorry, Deter, but Unfortunately, it’s STARRING DANIEL RUBIANO John Bender had an more a hasty summaDIRECTED BY TOM DUGDALE alcoholic parent, too. ry of both. The gang’s THEODORE AND After all that, all here: the brain, the ADELE SHANK THEATRE “Band� peeters out princess, the basket APRIL 23 & APRIL 24 with a disappointcase, the criminal and ing conclusion we the leader of the pack: could see coming from a mile away. a beautiful overachiever with a stick up her ass. And sophomore Master of In fact, the only part of the play that doesn’t make for complete deja vu is Fine Arts playwright Krista Knight’s its parting “message� — a tacked-on characters hardly evolve at all over lesson about the music of life being a the course of the play, leaving us

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combination of the good times and the bad. And even that feels force-fed, for obvious reasons. The vast majority of these downfalls can be attributed to a lackluster script. The actors, on the other hand, are charming, and the set is a work of art: A giant suspended tree branch simulates the forest, and the lighting fluctuates perfectly with the tone of the dialogue. But with a theme this uninspired, the whole presentation is pretty much doomed. Unless you’re game for a particularly snoozeworthy sermon on coming of age in America, skip this unnecessary flashback to the horrors of high school.

â–ś OYSTER, MYVT WHNL Anthony (Gabriel Lawrence) — a 15-yearold football hopeful whose only experience is breaking his arm before the first game — and Tony (Bowman Wright), Anthony’s deadbeat dad, who desperately wants to re-enter his son’s life. What follows is twoand-a-half hours of generational bickering; lucky for us, the colossal argument is written in thought-provoking sociological prowess, with a healthy side of tongue-in-cheek humor to make the serious shit go down. With a minimalist set that your threeyear-old sister could assemble — stacked cardboard boxes and stretched white garbage bags — Lawrence and Wright must do all the heavy lifting; and you better believe they deliver. Whether getting low to the Jackson 5’s “Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground),â€? heart-to-hearting about drug abuse or combating what Anthony calls “the black predisposition to failure,â€? both actors give it all they’ve got. The ambitious “Oysterâ€? is not without its rough patches. One disjointed scene watches a game of beer pong between Anthony and his Dartmouth frat brother Jeff (Mark Christine) turn into a nauseating show of bigotry, as Anthony is forced to perform the Sambo song. It’s certainly relevant, but feels pasted into an otherwise cohesive piece — an obvious cater to the college crowd. Even worse are a handful of pop-culture references — “awkward turtle,â€? Lindsay Lohan, etc. — that stick out like cheap buzzwords in an otherwise intimate father-son conversation. Hats go off to Christine for playing three characters, but he never leaves the shadow of his multifaceted co-stars. As the token white guy with a limited world view, he serves as a foil to the drama. Unfortunately, this also means that it’s his job to rake in the cheap laughs — with every hillbilly scratch of his potbelly. Overall, though, “Oysterâ€? is an introspective escape from ignorance that will no doubt serve as a prompt for intelligent discussion long after the shock value off UCSD’s February showdown has dissipated.

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6.1 innings of three-run ball. UCSD tacked on two more runs in the eighth inning for a 10-4 win. On Saturday and Sunday, the Tritons traveled to Reeder Field for the final two games of the series on Saturday and Sunday. Game Three was a spectacle of Triton offensive talent: The team posted six runs in the fifth inning, punctuated by a grand slam from Kehoe — his sixth home run of the season. Junior outfielders Aaron Bauman and Saul also homered in the game. Senior starting pitcher Kirby St. John allowed only three Golden Eagle runs on 14 hits to notch the victory as UCSD went on to win the game at a score of 13-6. Trailing 4-1 into the sixth inning of the series’ final game, UCSD’s victory hinged on another unlikely comeback. Junior righty Guido Knudson had an uncharacteristic out-

ing on Sunday, lasting only four and twothirds innings and allowing four runs; however, the Tritons jumped back into the ring when senior second baseman Blake Tagmeyer drew a leadoff walk. Senior catcher Kellen Lee followed with a clutch two-run homer to left field, pulling UCSD within one run at 4-3. Sophomore outfielder Danny Susdorf came off the bench as a pinch hitter, doubled, and then advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by junior infielder Grant Bauer. With a man in scoring position, senior first baseman Brandon Gregorich stepped up to the plate with two outs and knocked in the tying run. Tied 4-4, Saul drove in the game-winning run with a hit up the middle. Senior reliever Daniel Simmons also came up huge, shutting the Golden Eagles down for two and one-third innings. He allowed just one hit in relief.

“All weekend, we found ourselves behind late in the games,” Lee said. “Things weren’t going our way for the most part. Usually teams get caught in the fact that they are losing, but we remained calm and didn’t worry about the score during the game. That keeps us focused and able to perform and comeback — that was the key for us this weekend.” With the series win, UCSD improved to 37-6 overall and 27-5 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association. The Tritons will now head into a crucial series with No. 10 Cal State Dominguez Hills — who stand at 34-11 overall and 24-8 in CCAA play — starting April 25. The series will be a battle for No. 1, as the Toros trail the Tritons by three games in the conference. Readers can contact Cameron Tillisch at ctillisc@ucsd.edu.

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M. VOLLEYBALL, MYVT WHNL USC error handed UCSD the set 30-26. However, USC quickly turned things around, raising the intensity by dominating the second set 30-21. They continued their beat down into the third, out-hitting the Tritons .484 to .175 and winning the third set 30-23. In the fourth set, UCSD took an early 11-4 lead, staving off an attempted USC comeback that did end up narrowing UCSD’s lead to a mere two points. However, The Tritons clinched it 30-26 in the end. A decisive fifth set typified the back-andforth nature of the match overall. A small 8-7 Trojan lead was quickly reversed — courtesy of a 3-1 Triton run — giving UCSD the lead. However, tied again at 16-16, a UCSD attacking error gifted USC the set 18-16, along with the match. “We were disappointed in the match,” head coach Kevin Ring said. “We weren’t disappointed in our level of play, but the result. We worked hard and got off to a pretty good start. We played competitively and we played well in the match.” After the close defeat to USC, the Tritons returned to face Pepperdine on Saturday at RIMAC Arena for their season-ending Senior

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Night celebration. For their final match, the Tritons came through to upset No. 3 Pepperdine 28-30, 30-27, 29-30, 30-27 and 15-12. The first set was closely fought between both teams — evidenced by 19 ties in the set. Eventually, though, Pepperdine claimed the set at 30-28. The Tritons started off the second set trailing 11-6, but fought back for a 14-14 tie. After taking a 20-17 lead, UCSD repelled Pepperdine’s attempts to even the set, holding on for a 30-27 win. The contest was tied at one set per team. Quick to respond, the Waves took control of the third set. They claimed it at a sizable 30-19. The fourth set was much far more difficult for both teams, and the lead fluctuated between the two. However, with the score tied at 21 points apiece, UCSD made a strong 9-6 run to take the set at 30-27, forcing a fifth set. Fritsch played a vital role in the Tritons’ eventual victory, sending down five kills in the fifth set. UCSD maintained the lead throughout, and Pepperdine was only ever able to narrow UCSD’s lead to two points. After a kill from Joel Davidson, the Tritons took the set

15-12 for the match win. “Winning Game Two was the key,” Ring said. “It can be the decider sometimes in matches. Through the match, we kept fighting and we sent it to Game Five.” In addition to being a nice going-away present, the victory was also a monumental showcase in terms of individual accomplishments for the Triton seniors. Fritsch ended the night with 25 kills on .455 hitting, making him second on the UCSD career-kills list with 1,403 kills. Spangler added 14 kills in the match and finished with a total of 1,491 careerkills at UCSD — which makes him the school’s all-time career-kills leader. The Tritons finished with a record of 11-19 this season, and 6-16 against Mountain Pacific Sports Federation teams. Although they did not reach the MPSF playoffs, Ring said he was encouraged by the improvement the Tritons showed throughout the season. “The team has improved throughout the season, as well as in my five seasons here,” Ring said. “For next season, our goal is to try to get to MPSF playoffs.” Readers can contact Jessy Jahangir at fjahangi@ ucsd.edu.

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CSD closed out a rollercoaster 2010 season with a string of tough home matches last week against steep competition. The final run began against the nationally top-ranked team Cal Baptist on April 14, then continued versus conference foes University of Southern California and Pepperdine University on April 16 and April 17, respectively. Despite a difficult slate of opponents, the Tritons managed to send their seniors off on a high note. The match against Cal Baptist ended 25-30, 30-14, 30-28 and 30-26 in the Tritons’ favor, marking UCSD’s first win over the Lancers since 2005 and bumping UCSD’s record against Cal Baptist up to 4-11. The first set started in favor of UCSD, until a late rally by the Lancers gave them

the set 30-25. The Tritons made amends for their firstset slip-up by dominating in the second. They took a quick 11-3 lead and allowed one attack error throughout the rest of the set, breezing through to a 30-14 victory. The teams fought equally hard in the third set, tying the score six times and taking multiple turns as leaders. The last tie occurred at 28-28, right before Frank Fritsch and Calvin Ross created a set point for the Tritons. Fritsch’s kill sealed the set 30-28 for UCSD. UCSD grabbed an early lead in the fourth set to finish the match quickly and cleanly. However, Cal Baptist retaliated late in the set by narrowing the score to 28-26, though UCSD still clutched the lead. Fortunately for the Tritons, Ross and Carl Eberts collaborated for a block and a kill,

respectively, to give the team some leverage. Jason Spangler closed out the set 30-26 with a game-winning kill Overall, the Tritons bettered the Lancers in the match, hitting a .304 average to Cal Baptist’s .218. In the second set alone, UCSD hit at a .706 average. After a day of rest, the Tritons were back in action Friday at RIMAC Arena against USC. It was a close match, but the Trojans outlasted the Tritons in the fifth set for a 26-30, 30-21, 30-23, 26-30 18-16 match victory. UCSD took the lead in the first set until USC came back to tie the set 13-13. There were eight more ties in the set — the last at 23-23 — before the Tritons took the lead on a Fritsch kill. A kill from Spangler and a See M. VOLLEYBALL page 11

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TRACK & FIELD — With the UCSD Triton Invitational slated for next weekend — a meet that attracts an elite, international field of teams — the Triton track-and-field team did some fine-tuning at the Soka Peace Invitational on April 17 to prepare for the season’s home stretch. UCSD had a phenomenal week on the track: Seven individual athletes recorded times ranking among the 10 best in UCSD history. The Tritons also broke several stadium records, including a run by junior Kelly Fogarty that bested the mark of current U.S. Olympian Carmelita Jeter. “In the last two or three weeks, I really feel we’ve put all the pieces in place to head into our conference championships,� women’s coach Darcy Ahner said. “On both sides — men and women — we’re really ready, and I think the team feels it too. The momentum is there, and it’ll be a lot of fun.� Earlier in the week, on April 15, senior Linda Rainwater set a new school record in the heptathlon at the Mt. SAC/California Invitational heptathlon. Rainwater, who is the 2008 Division-II national champion in the event, topped her previous record of 5,303 points with a fifth-place finish of 5,333 points. Junior Stephanie LeFever also competed in the event, tallying a personal best of 5,193 points.

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Rainwater posted another school record of 5’ 10.5� in the high jump at the heptathlon. The mark fell just one-fourth of an inch below the personal best of Coach Ahner, who is a former Western Athletic Conference athlete of the year. “I told her she has six inches to go, since she’s six inches taller than me,� Ahner said. “But I’m just joking about that. She’s just a few points short of my best score in the heptathlon, too, and she’s going to bust right through both of those marks and go right past me. It’s really fun to see that.� At the Soka meet, Fogarty and senior Christine Merrill blasted past their competition in the 100meter dash: Fogarty finished first in 11.75 seconds and Merrill took second at 11.94 seconds. Fogarty’s time broke the stadium record set by U.S. Olympian Jeter, the world’s second fastest woman ever in race. The mark made Merrill a NCAA Division-II provisional qualifier — meaning she could be qualified for as many as seven events at the NCAA Division-II Championships, just over a month away. Senior Leah Murphy was another Triton headliner, comfortably winning the long jump with a mark of 19’ 1.25�. The jump was the third farthest in UCSD history, and a NCAA Provisional Qualifier. Sophomore Caitlin Meagher took her first foray into the Triton record books with a time of 14.79 in the

By Cameron Tillisch Senior Staff Writer

BASEBALL — When they dropped the first leg of their four-game series against Cal State Los Angeles at Triton Ballpark on April 15, the No. 3 Tritons found themselves in unfamiliar territory. However, the team bounced back on April 16 with a come-from-behind 10-4 win, and proceeded to take the next two at Reeder Field by scores of 13-6 and 5-4 on April 17. By the end of the road trip, they had improved their away record to 13-1. The series opener showcased a pitcher’s duel: The Tritons starting pitcher junior Tim Shibuya throwing a complete game gem, allowing just two runs on nine hits; however, UCSD offense could not answer two early Golden Eagle runs, and CSULA went E RIK J EPSEN /G UARDIAN F ILE

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