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ucked away behind the concrete facade of UCSD’s exterior, there runs an extensive series of committees — small, isolated groups of administrators, faculty members and students charged with drafting the intricate policies that dictate how this campus is run. Meal plans, shuttle routes, housing costs and on-campus speech rights are just a few of the areas governed by these committees — all subject to the whims and judgment of the individuals selected to serve therein.  The student component of this arrangement, however, may not be functioning the way it is supposed to, according to various administrators and members of student government. They claim there is a troubling lack of interaction between the students chosen to serve on these committees and the A.S. Council — the body responsible for appointing and overseeing these representatives. â€œUnfortunately — and this has been a recurring problem year after year — we don’t have very good communication with our representatives,â€? A.S. President Utsav Gupta said. “We don’t know if our representatives even go to their committee meetings, and we don’t know if these committees — which are actually mostly advisory in nature — are even meeting. This is really due to the fact that A.S. Council, for the most part, has not performed well in reaching out and communicating with representatives after they have been appointed.â€? The issue of accountability among campuswide committees has been popping up more and more lately.

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Sixth College senior Leena Barakat — who helped draft the original version of the resolution — said it did not specifically target Israel, only human rights violations as a whole.

After emotional public input and a complete rewrite of the divestment resolution, proponents plan to reintroduce original language next week. By Angela Chen News Editor

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undreds of students gathered at the A.S. Forum last night to watch the council debate a controversial resolution calling for the University of California to stop investing in companies providing military technology to Israel. The resolution identified the Palestinian territories as being occupied by a military force guilty of committing human rights violations

weapons and vehicles, such as helicopters, used in war crimes in the Middle East. According to Associate Vice President of Enterprise Operations Rishi Ghosh — who helped draft the document — the resolution is not the first of its kind. However, Ghosh said, if it had passed, it would have been the first recognition of Israel’s war crimes to be approved at a public university. Hampshire College, a private college in

against the Palestinian people. The council ultimately voted 13-10-4 to create a committee to further discuss the resolution. The resolution, which was modeled after a OPINION similar effort at UC Tell it like Berkeley, called for it really is. the UC Board of PAGE 4 Regents to divest endowment funds from corporations such as General Electric and United Technologies. According to the resolution, these companies manufacture technology used in military

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At a meeting of the UCSD Academic Senate on April 27, faculty members defended the university’s admissions policy, denying claims by the UC Board of Regents that the policy fails to create a racially diverse student population. The regents, including UC President Mark G. Yudof, criticized UCSD’s comprehensivereview system during a meeting in March, suggesting that the system works against attempts

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to admit more underrepresented minority students to the campus. The regents’ assessment came shortly after a series of racist incidents at UCSD prompted questions about how to build a more diverse student body. “We got lambasted by all the regents and the president, and the assumption is that by fixing our admissions policy, it will fix campus climate and the number of underrepresented minorities on campus,� Academic Senate Chair William Hodgkiss said. Committee on Admissions Chair John Eggers compared UCSD’s comprehensive review to the holistic review system employed by UC Berkeley and UCLA. Comprehensive review gives specific point allocations to factors such as academic achievements — which constitutes 74 percent of the total

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hough councilmembers are required to serve on at least one campuswide committee, the student body does not have a direct say in the appointment of representatives to most of the committees. Instead, students elect the Vice President of Student Life — a position currently held by Revelle College senior Ricsie Hernandez, and soon to be filled by Warren College sophomore Kristina

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Council. Instead, her constituents are the residence advisors and on-campus undergraduates she works and goes to school with every day. According to Hernandez, committee members that do come from the council are informed of their responsibility to communicate with their constituents before being hired to their new positions. “I use the charge letter as the basis for the committee description and commitments,â€? Hernandez said. “I let them know what the committee does, their role on the committee, how much time they should commit‌ I also let them know that a student voice is important on the committee that they are serving on.â€? Some committees — like the Diversity and Equity Committee — are completely lacking in student representation, based on the fact that no members show up. “The truth is we have only seen our student member, like, once a year,â€? Judy Varner, vice chair of the Diversity and Equality Committee, said. In the two years she has served on the committee, Varner said she has seen an A.S. representative at only two of the committee’s quarterly meetings.

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room is full with a majority of students, but the administrator has been there for 20 to 30 years, and the students are first-years — and, I don’t blame them, but they just found out what interest rates were yesterday, and then they’re voting on increasing student fees. I’m not trying to fault these first-years, because they’re trying their best, but there’s an institutional problem there.� Warren College junior Priya Kanayson, on the other hand, said that her experience as the member at large on the HDH Committee was a positive one. “I think this is one of the few committees on campus that is basically student-driven, because all of the programs that we’ve run have come from the committee and what their constituents have told them,� Kanayson said. “Overall, attendance is really good. I think last quarter we had a couple members who were sick or whatever, and they couldn’t come, but they notified us and they did a good job of reading the minutes and knowing what was going on.�

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Pham, as of Week Seven — who is then responsible for interviewing and appointing representatives. If a committee position opens that no councilmember wishes to fill, then the position is made available to the general undergraduate population. Gupta said that, once committee members are appointed, their job descriptions — as well as their rights within the committee — are anything but clear. Eleanor Roosevelt College senior Chris Westling, who spent the last two years sitting on the HDH Committee, the Bookstore Advisory Committee, the Academic Freedom Committee, the University Centers Advisory Board and the Light Rail Transit Committee — as well as attending Transportation Policy Committee meetings, as a part of the Student Sustainability Collective — said that A.S. councilmembers often fail to show up to meetings, or are unprepared when they do. He added that the relative inexperience of these members — combined with a lack of training and institutional memory — can sometimes lead to uninformed decisions. “Nothing [about the position] was really described to me beforehand,� Westling said. “A lot of times, frankly, the

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Students crowded on the balcony outside the A.S. Forum while the council discussed the resolution.

â–ś RESOLUTION, from page 1 nity on an issue that is far removed Massachusetts, has already divested from this campus,â€? she said. “I would entirely from the state of Israel. (The argue that we are already divided. I believe that discussresolution considered ing this resolution is the by the council last night first step in reuniting only advocated a break our community. This from corporations said resolution divests from to profit from Israel’s I would argue American companies alleged war crimes.) whose business solely The bill drew stu- that we are benefits the war efforts dents from campus already divided. of one side in this congroups such as Tritons flict will help restore for Israel and Students I believe that the neutrality that our for Justice in Palestine, discussing this student body so vocally who spoke during the resolution is desires.â€? public input period at the ďŹ rst step in However, Tritons for the beginning of the reuniting our Israel President Dafna meeting. Barzilay argued that the Campuswide Senator- community.â€? legislation was biased elect Elizabeth Elman said ELIZABETH ELMAN and that passing it the resolution encouraged A.S. CAMPUSWIDE would alienate the prothe university to adopt a SENATOR-ELECT Israel community on neutral stance in the campus. She said that Israeli-Palestinian conflict by divesting from companies that sup- the pro-Israel committee had been unfairly excluded from the drafting port Israel’s actions in the conflict. “I’ve heard that passing this resolution will divide our UCSD commuSee ISRAEL page 6

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â–ś CAMPUSWIDE, from page 2 “We definitely would like student input,â€? Varner said. “The trouble right now is that we are trying to deal with all of the issues that have arisen out of the racially motivated conflicts on campus, and it’s a lot of extra work — and certainly, student-faculty interaction is one of the things we’d like to see improved.â€? Trevor Buchanan, chair of the Library Committee, said this is not a new problem: Student attendance at meetings has been historically infrequent. However, he added that representatives do contribute when present. “There’s plenty of opportunity for students to input things in the committee if they show up,â€? Buchanan said. “We have had very good representatives before‌ Part of the problem we have with the A.S. representatives is that they don’t always show to the meetings, and we’re often not assigned representatives in a timely fashion.â€? According to the A.S. charter, dealing with the failure of committee appointees to show up for meetings is the responsibility of the VP Student Affairs. In response, Hernandez said that she feels that, overall, student representatives are communicating well with the council. “I believe that there is enough student oversight, in that college council and A.S. are having representatives and they are reporting back to college coun-

cil and A.S.,� Hernandez said. “I have never fired someone from a committee. If I were to fire someone, it would have to be because they are not showing up to committee meetings.�

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here are 44 committees total, ranging from the Transportation Policy Committee — at the center of a contentious debate this year over whether students should pay into the campus shuttle system — to the somewhat less divisive Tritonlink Advisory Committee. The A.S. website states that committee representatives must “keep open communication and constant updates with the A.S. Vice-President of Student Life,� as well as report information back to the council — something both Hernandez and Gupta acknowledged current representatives don’t always do. According to Hernandez, part of the difficulty in achieving full communication with these committees is their inconsistent meeting times. “Certain committees meet once a week, [but] other committee representatives meet once a quarter, so they only check in with me once a quarter,� Hernandez said. “I’ve been having them e-mail me updates, and I’ve been really asking them to do it — but if they don’t, I don’t know what to say.� Ben Hassine said the only way to avoid instances like the meal-plan

increase — which passed in the HDH committee before it could be discussed by the council — is by making quarterly updates a mandatory part of serving as a student committee member. “We should change the standing goals to say that representatives from different committees have to report back to council every week; if they don’t meet, then they can say ‘We didn’t meet,’� Ben Hassine said. “Additionally, if any big-ticket changes such as increases in rent or increases in dining dollars are being considered, I think the representatives should be required to make some king of formal report... not just an oral one during council.� Ben Hassine was serving as an A.S. representative on the HDH Committee when it passed the meal-plan increase. Westling said that appointees should not underestimate the effect that policies can have on campus life. “You have UCAB, and HDH and the Transportation Policy Committees, specifically, and a couple others — they have a tremendous amount of power,� Westling said. “That’s probably one of A.S.’ most powerful avenues to protect student rights, is through these committee memberships.� Readers can contact Hayley BiscegliaMartin at hbiscegl@ucsd.edu and Kashi Khorasani at kkhorasa@ucsd.edu.

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s much as we rag on our student leaders for wasting valuable floor time making empty statements — aka resolutions, or press releases proclaiming the student body’s stance on a major issue — we do admit there are certain moments at which they are not entirely worthless. Seeing as the A.S. Council isn’t in the position to do anything concrete about global problems (besides maybe allot $370 to InterVarsity to throw a Haiti fundraiser), its greatest power in affecting change might be turning a few more heads to a cause — a cause greater than fighting the unjust confinement of the Sun God Festival to RIMAC Field. For example, the A.S. movement to divest university money from South Africa in 1986 was a clear statement the students could make to push international injustice into public discourse. In the end, the university did withdraw $3 billion from investments in South Africa — partially due to the will of its student government.

Just a week ago, though, an especially contentious resolution hit the A.S. listserv: the Resolution in Support of Peace and Neutrality Through UC Divestment From U.S. Corporations Profiting From Occupation. In other words: the resolution to withdraw UC funds from two large U.S. companies that sell military technology to Israel. Though the document would have — like another resolution to divest from Sudan in 2005 — taken a daring stance against financial support for oppressive violence, it specifically targeted (yet simultaneously avoided the specific mention of) Israel, which was blatantly implied to be the occupier in question. The UC investment in Israel is especially roundabout; General Electric and United Technology provide hundreds of other services and products within our own country, and the university does invest anywhere that could fund Israeli weaponry in particular (nor in the form of student fees). For that reason, the divestment would be very symbolic

— the symbol being that we condemn Israel for its wartime actions, and anyone who supports those actions. Thing is, many students do not see the issue quite so black-andwhite; that’s where the A.S. Council’s constituents are divided, and have been for years. The council tried to pass a clearer version of this resolution last year; it didn’t pass, because of a similar divide on whether wartime crimes are indeed being committed (or at least whether that fact should be amended by Israel’s reasons for violence). But if the resolution’s only hope to pass is with its clear objective masked in “evil corporation” language, it is divisive. If it had been voted through council last night in its current form, it would not have represented the interests of the student body. When an elected student council (mostly made up of students most invested in controversial issues like these — though their political stances are rarely clear to voters through-

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dining dollars on a two-speed blender from Goody’s Market. But HDH’s half-baked attempt to improve the system skirts the real issue at hand: An overwhelming majority of students on campus have more meal points than they know what do with. In fact, a Winter Quarter HDH survey found that 74 percent of students living on campus have more meal points left than the budget suggests, while only 10 percent have less. And let’s not forget that budget suggests each student’s meal-point excess will only worsen come Fall Quarter 2010, when students living on campus will face mandatory diningdollar increases of up to $98. The program is merely a test run, but in its current form, it’s covered in red tape. Not only must students seek out someone willing to snatch up their

meal points, they also must sign off on the deal at the HDH office in Revelle College — a prospect as tempting as a cold slice of pepperoni-and-hair pizza from Plaza Cafe for the average overscheduled student. Although this new program is being touted under the guise of student empowerment, we recommend that HDH — if the department is, in fact, interested in addressing a problem it obviously knows is there — consider allowing students to choose from a range of dining plans at the beginning of the year. As it stands, every student in a residence hall is required to pay into a $2,795 yearly meal

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t is four o’ clock in the morning and the acrid taste of lukewarm coffee sits heavy on my tongue. Physically, I am very much awake. My right leg shakes uncontrollably and I have developed an acute twitch in my left temple. Mentally, I have been asleep for more than 30 minutes.

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ach year, come spring, the novelty of around-the-clock burrito access has worn off, and most students don’t know what to do with their gobs of excess dining dollars. The Housing, Dining and Hospitality department, however, thinks it has just the answer. As part of a new pilot program beginning May 3, students will be able to swap their meal points with each other through the end of the quarter — the idea being that a student who is out of points will buy some from a friend with a surplus. Whoopdie-fucking-doo. Of course, there’s little harm in giving on-campus residents more control over the meal plans to which they’re already chained. After all, most of us don’t have the appetite — nor the trust fund — to blow our excess

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plan; on-campus apartments dwellers are required to pay $2,145 per year; neither has the option to buy a lesser amount. Most other major universities (including equally cash-strapped ones within the UC system) offer students a variety of meal plans, so it wouldn’t be unheard of for HDH to at least look into doing the same. In the meantime, we’ll have to make do with the department gouging us — with a cherry on top.

This odd separation of body and mind temporarily affords me a unique perspective into the absurdity of my situation. Tasked with completing a six-page essay, I have instead plunged headlong into the grim depths of academic desperation, grasping wildly for answers, swinging blindly at questions, falling rapidly closer to the infinite vacuum of permanent scholarly confusion. My arms are sore. My head is blank. My Word document is significantly blanker. But I cannot move forward. Some distant part of me is so weighted down by the sudden enormity of this task, so crushed and cornered and revolted by the horrifying prospect of forging on, that I retreat, defeated, into this strange comatose state of waking sleep. I am frozen in place, propped upright in my chair like some insane mannequin — eyes wide, mouth open, hair slick with grease. I think, therefore I am awake. If only it were that simple. A break would be good. I should take a break. Outside on my balcony the early morning air is cold and wet. There are no cars, no people — just the distant hum of a now muted Interstate 5 and the always-present glare of the palatial Mormon temple that looms, guard-like, over my sleeping neighborhood. This is the quiet time, the changing hour, the moment just before one day becomes another — before alarms go off and breakfast is made and dogs are walked. This is the time to think. This is the time to realize. In five hours I will turn in this essay. In five hours I will have either succeeded or failed. The feeling that washes over me now is a familiar one. Do or die. It always comes down to this; the final stretch, the last push. Gather your wits about you. Collect your thoughts. Make your fingers move across the keyboard. Five hours. Five hours. Nights like this are never easy. They are a test. They strip you down and beat you to the edge of consciousness. They pull at your weakest parts, push you to confront your limits, make you realize your capacity for pain, for exhaustion, for frustration. Nights like this are primal, raw. Man versus task; student versus midterm. Back inside I am filled with a renewed vigor. Body and mind are reunited as one. Keys click as fingers fly — the rhythmic dance of ideas becoming words, of thoughts becoming permanent. I am the thinker, the conductor — a director of movement, a maker of things. I will pour myself into this task. I will push myself to breaking. I will succeed. It is five o’ clock in the morning and the acrid taste of lukewarm coffee sits heavy on my tongue.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Divestment Resolution Should Verify Claims

Keep Us Talking — The Conversation’s Just Begun ▜ RESOLUTION, MYVT WHNL out the campaign) makes a decision still so contended by its constituents, it’s a false statement, and devalues the resolution as a form of mass speech. It is a room of 20-odd students stating their opinion like it matters more than the rest of ours. We do not so much mean to say that maintaining a pristine campus climate should be the priority; there are always two sides when it comes to war, and the tension is justified. Instead, the A.S. Council should strive for complete honesty in its resolution language and a maximum effort toward education. The best thing we can do for either Israel or the Palestinian people is alert those around us to exactly what is going on in that region.

Whether or not it is in selfdefense, the United Nations and Amnesty International have both recognized that Israel is indeed committing human-rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories. The sentiment that a resolution stating as much would make members of the pro-Israel community feel “unsafe� is overstated. Criticizing a government for committing war crimes is a far cry from criticizing a people, or even a country. The terrorist acts committed by the Palestinian side are widely condemned; however, because the Jewish homeland has always been a fragile topic — and a country we’re tied to in more ways than one — the U.S. is among the last countries in the world to recognize those crimes.

But there are two sides, and both need to be heard. The council should have at least sent out the resolution over the all-campus listserv before considering it in a room with extremists from both sides. So, in a way, as boring and half-assed a decision it was to push the resolution back to be revisited next week, it’ll make us keep considering the facts. Even if the resolution must be re-proposed each quarter, we hope its language can become clear enough to address the true wrongdoings in question — which belong more to a government than a weapons manufacturer — and promote teach-ins, Library Walk info booths and enough open-air hubbub to foster the kind of informed interest this topic deserves.

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improvements in terms of Israeli compliance of international human rights accords in the past decades. Israel remains the only state in the Middle East that protects and advances women’s and LGBT rights. Measures of democratic development and civil liberties also reflect a high degree of free speech, free press and an open and vibrant multi-party system that includes Arabs and Muslims. Finally, as an Asian-American with parents coming from a country that does repress human rights, I see active discussions on campus concerning human rights in Iran and creative student efforts led by Liberty in North Korea on very real humanrights abuses in North Korea. Maybe the A.S. Council should look into those efforts. But for the time being, A.S. resolutions need to be responsible and should contain verifiable claims that advance honest inquiry. This resolution fails on those counts.  â€”Jeffrey Kwong  PhD student, international relations â–ś 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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▶ ISRAEL, from page 3 of the resolution and that the proIsrael community had only three days to formulate a response before the vote at last night’s A.S. Council meeting. “My community is feeling threatened, and we’re feeling unsafe,” she said. “One thing I would like to urge is that this is not a pro-peace resolution. It is marketed to be one — however, I would like to maintain that peace incorporates talks, negotiations and respects from both sides of any conflicted forces and this kind of movement should not be one that’s done overnight.” According to A.S. Director of Policy Initiatives Mac Zilber, the money invested into G.E. and United Technologies does not come from tuitions or student fees — as the resolution states — but instead is derived from private donations. In addition, he said that the investment money supporters the capital unit of G.E., which is a commercial leasing unit of the company and is not involved in providing military technology overseas. Following public input, councilmembers began to discus whether the resolution was an appropriate topic to discuss. A motion by Campuswide Senator Katie Hall to table the motion indefinitely failed 13-16-2 with 13 members voting in favor of tabling, 16 voting against and 3 abstaining. Vice President of Student Life Ricsie Hernandez proposed that the original version of the resolution be amended and instead be replaced with a version created by Campuswide Senator Tobias Haglund. Haglund’s version removes all mention of Israel or Palestine and instead states that the council does not condone the financial support of companies that invest in military occupation in any country. Ghosh said he would support the amended version of the resolution. “That version was terribly watered down and a lot of people in our community weren’t happy with it, but I would have voted for it,” Ghosh said. The amendment passed, but the issue was eventually voted to be discharged into a committee chaired with Speaker James Lintern, who resigned from the position at the end of the meeting. “I didn’t volunteer for this position and this committee is going to fail in a big way,” he said. “I didn’t have good experiences with the council on this last year, and nothing’s going to happen with it.” Hall, who voted for the issue to be discharged, argued that the debate should be resolved only once both groups have had equal input into the resolution. “My problem is that there are members of Students for Justice in Palestine on this council, but there are hardly any members of Tritons for Israel on this council to have their voices be heard on this resolution,” Hall said. Ghosh said that he was disappointed with the outcome since the original resolution had already been so radically altered. “The last compromise really could have been passed, it was very transparent,” he said. “They knew it was about to pass so they voted it into committee where people can keep bringing up new things.” Ghosh said that he would bring up the resolution again at the 200910 council’s final meeting of the year, which will be held next week. “Next time I won’t bring up the compromised document but instead the original document,” he said. “I’m just going to keep bringing it up again and again and it might take 10 years, but divestment will pass.”

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to the same stuff. Back in high school, I scratched the shit out of my sister’s copy of Meteora by playing it on infinite repeat. I like to stay in my little musical nest, all comfy and familiar. Of course, as associate editor of the Guardian’s Hiatus section, I’m supposed to be a music expert — little bit of a problem there. So, on Saturday, I went to a few album emporiums armed with $40. The initial idea was to experience Record Store Day — which celebrates indie music stores with cookouts, fat sales and limited-edition releases from Jack White — and write a column about it. Or maybe I’d write about the shrinking group of people with a hardon for vinyl records. When I arrived at my first stop, though, I found a couple of folding plastic tables, covered inchfor-inch in cardboard boxes of $1 CDs. So much for that plan. At 10:45 a.m., I snagged a parking spot just outside of Hillcrest, less than a block from M-Theory Music. Even that early, the cheapo CDs were already being picked over while “Evil Woman” played on a portable turntable. I took station between a couple other magpies, in front of what used to be the ‘F’-through-‘I’ section of someone’s CD collection. The first grab was Faster Pussycat’s Whipped — for the simple reason that I recognized the name — followed quickly by Wilco and We Were Promised Jetpacks, for the same reason. Camarosmith goes into the buy pile for merely sounding ridiculous. Final score: six albums for $6.53, and the cashier even knocked the pennies off the price tag. So what am I listening to in the wake of my victory, after making the great leap out of a familiar nest? Oasis’ (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, from which you may have heard a little number called “Wonderwall.” Yikes. Given I know the story of how the Gallaghers chose who would sing the title track by heart — and occasionally use its title as a pickup line — it’s hard to pretend I’m branching out. I’ve got a Da Bears CD still in its cellophane and a hot little LP of indie rock that’s never been spun before, both waiting patiently for me in my the back seat of my Corolla — but here I am, listening to the Gallagher twins. My name is Matthew, and I have a problem. So for you brigands ‘n’ bastards still reading this (all three of you), I’m throwing down the gauntlet. Give me shit on my Twitter (@off_the_rails) if I’m still jabbering about Oasis, or better yet, send me more primo tracks. I guarantee I’ll listen to anything sent to me. Just remember, if you’re the asshole who sends me anything by Muse: No jury will convict me, and no K9 will find the pieces.

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n eyeliner, stilettos, pantyhose and a pungent cloud of hairspray, Semi Precious Weapons frontman Justin Tranter is about to turn Kuncocshun — Sixth College’s annual music fest — into a glam-rock apocalypse. The New York-based rockers are BFFs with Lady Gaga, and opened for her last tour — so yes, they’re a little insane. Who would have thought our very own Warren Field might one day ring in a charming number about getting blueballed by the savior? “She only wants to fuck Jesus!” Tranter will cry in a fabulous rage, no doubt making Jesus Guy break into a fit of blasphemous seizures back on Library Walk. At least there’ll be some segway band: the much tamer Automatic Loveletter — fourchord rockers with a grrrl on the mic, like Paramore gone acoustic — and Violet Sun, who do zoned-out vocals over angst-rock instrumentation. Once the Weapons takes the stage, Tranter will be wailing through ’70s-punk nostrils as the rest of the band jams heavy and fast — a battle in screams between frontman and guitar.

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Five undergraduate choreographers — Yvonne Ackerman, Michelle Anthony, Morgan McGreevey, Arthur Huang and Agiao — are showcasing their original work from April 29 to May 1 at the Molli & Arthur Wagner Dance Building, Studio III. Set to a score that morphs from the calming clinks of broken piano chords to a lively string ensemble, Agiao’s piece depicts a character who finds she needs human support to overcome life’s obstacles. “I watch this person grow up and watch them go through hard times,” Agiao said. “Somewhere See MOVES, page 9

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year. Watching her brainchild come together has been a rewarding experience for the senior, who previously only choreographed for one other major production. “It’s always fun and exciting when things get finished,� Agiao said. “The dancers are excited, too.� Although she said the show is best described as a contemporary dance performance, Agiao said it often transcends the tranquility of the genre. “I have dancers in my piece that can fly off the floor,� she said. Of the five pieces, only Anthony’s and Ackerman’s will feature professional solos — the other three use solely undergraduate dance students. “Expect a show that is short and sweet,� Agiao said. “It will feel like no time has gone by. Expect to see a lot of amazing dances and amazing images. There’s such a range of everything.�

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homer — her second of the season — to put a third Triton run on the board. However, the Coyotes matched the Triton’s scoring quickly, surging ahead with a three-run fifth inning to take a 6-3 advantage that they refused to relinquish. The series split against San Bernardino caused the Tritons to slip down to sixth place in the CCAA; they are now eliminated from conference playoff contention. “We don’t like the feeling of losing,” Lesovsky said. “We’ll remember that for next year so that it won’t happen again, in order to make it all the way.” Despite missing out on a topthree conference finish, the season was still a historic one for the team. The Tritons’ regular-season winning percentage of .600 — thanks to their 30-20 finish — is the highest the school has seen since 2001. With the CCAA regular season behind them, the Tritons now wait for May 9 — the day the NCAA Divison-II Championships field will be announced — to see if they will get a spot in the postseason. To earn one, UCSD will need to retain its No. 8 ranking in the western region.

said. “But we played with our hearts and left it on the field”. On Sunday, the Tritons knew they needed to take Game Three of the series to keep any hopes for the playoffs alive. Lesovsky took the lead, hitting a home run in the first inning. Although San Bernardino evened the score by the end of the first inning, the Tritons continued to tack on runs — one in the third inning, two in the sixth and one in the seventh — and held on for a 5-2 win. Gaito was again a force on the mound, restricting the Coyotes to only two runs in seven innings for her second complete game performance in as many days. She improved her personal season record to 18-10 — the No. 4 best single-season tally in school history — and finished the regular season having pitched 21 complete games in 28 starts. UCSD fell in the back end of the doubleheader for the second straight day, sealing a series loss. In the top of the second inning, De Fazio drove the ball over left field for her first career home run. Lesovsky then followed with one of her own in the third inning — giving her one home run in each of the series’ games. Ousley also produced another solo

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▶ BASEBALL, MYVT WHNL The next two games took place on Saturday at Toro Field in Carson, Calif., in a doubleheader. In the first game, UCSD dominated the infield and outfield. Junior starter Guido Knudson kept the Toro hitters at bay by hurling three innings, allowing only one run and striking out five. The offense provided Knudson with ample run support: Senior catcher Kellen Lee went three-for-four with a pair of doubles, sophomore Danny Susdorf drove in four runs and both Gregorich and Bauman scored three runs apiece. UCSD took the first game of the day at a whopping score of 10-1. Knudson said his success on the mound could be attributed to the help of his battery partners — catchers Lee and junior Michael Benton — his own competitive spirit and the work he’s done with assistant coach Ryan Leake. “I am being myself on the mound out there and just having fun competing with each batter,” Knudson said. “I can’t say enough about how much Kellen [Lee] and Mike [Benton] are doing behind the plate in making me a better pitcher. I also think Coach Leake really taught me to know who

I am as a pitcher, and it’s made me much better on the field.” In the second game of the doubleheader, with the CCAA championship in their sights, the unrelenting Tritons battered the Toros and further demonstrated their authority in the league. Junior outfielder Kyle Saul, junior third baseman Evan Kehoe, Gregorich and Albitz combined for 12 RBIs, 11 hits and nine runs in a game where the Triton offense scored 21 runs on 22 hits. Saul hit his sixth home run of the year, while Kehoe hit his seventh. Benefiting from plenty of run support, senior starting pitcher Kirby St. John threw five solid innings, allowing no runs on four hits as the Tritons clinched the CCAA title with a lopsided 21-3 victory. With the league title in the bag, the series resumed at Triton Ballpark on Sunday for Senior Day — the last home game for several graduating players. Seniors Matt Rossman, Albitz and Gregorich all turned in memorable performances. Rossman, the starting pitcher, tossed seven scoreless innings of fourhit ball, earning the win and improv-

ing his personal record to 8-0. Behind him, Gregorich went two-for-three with a home run, two RBIs and two runs scored. Bauman went three-forfour with two runs and two RBIs as well, while Albitz broke the career hits record in the third inning. The Tritons topped off the fourgame series sweep — their eighth of the year — with a 9-1 victory. “That was a special Senior Day to cap off an outstanding weekend,” head coach Dan O’Brien said in an interview with the UCSD Athletic Department. “We are starting to play our best baseball at the right time.” The Tritons will travel up north this weekend to face San Francisco State (22-28, 15-21 CCAA) in their final regular-season series of the year. Knudson said that while taking the league title is satisfying, the Tritons still have more to work for. “First place is nice and is a testament to our work ethic and drive to win,” Knudson said. “But it’s just the start of what we are striving for in our goals as a team.” Readers can contact Cameron Tillisch at ctillisc@ucsd.edu.

5MV¼[ 4IKZW[[M <MIU ?ZIX[ =X I ?QVTM[[ ;MI[WV ▶ M. LACROSSE, MYVT WHNL Kyle Hughes and freshman Austin Hallgren. On defense, senior backup goalkeeper Phil Behm was standing in for first-choice keeper sophomore Vishnu Prathap, who had broken his hand halfway through the season. On April 16, the shorthanded Tritons were no match for the University of San Diego on its home turf. The Toreros grabbed the lead early on, and UCSD struggled to catch up. By the third quarter — playing with few substitutes against a full UCSD roster — the Tritons completely lost their momentum and suffered a heavy 15-4 loss. Two days later, the team traveled to Las Vegas to play against the University of Nevada on April 18. Yet again, Triton stamina did not last long: The Rebels broke away with the lead in the first half, forcing UCSD to scramble to catch up.

Unwilling to concede the game after only the first half, however, the Tritons retaliated with a set of strong performances by the team’s leaders. Captains Tim Riddle, Patrick Cleary and Ari Gordon scored a combined six goals for the Tritons during a furious offensive breakaway that tied the score by the third quarter. Unfortunately, the burst of energy was temporary and wasn’t enough to bring the team home with a victory. Again, with no subs on the bench, UCSD had neither the stamina nor the manpower to make it through the game against a full Nevada roster. They left Las Vegas with a 23-10 loss. With a week of rest before their season finale against cross-town rivals San Diego State on April 24, the Tritons took time to rejuvenate and regroup. However, injuries continued to nag many key players: Offensive stalwart and senior leader Gordon was forced

to face the Aztecs with an injured shoulder, forcing more responsibility on Cleary and Riddle in the attack. UCSD managed to stay neck-andneck with the Aztecs during the first half, however, in the second half SDSU blitzed the Triton defense and sent the Tritons home with a 17-5 seasonending loss. Riddle, reflecting on the season, said the team’s short roster proved to be tremendously detrimental to their success. “We reached the decision about halfway through the season about the negative effects of not having enough guys on the team,” Riddle said. “Next year, we are going to recruit as heavily as possible, and we want to have a full team next season so that we can give everyone a run for their money.” Readers can contact Christina Chopin at cchopin@ucsd.edu.

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ith only a slim two-game margin separating the first-place UCSD baseball team from second place Cal State Dominguez Hills in league standings, a four-game series showdown between the two California Collegiate Athletic Association juggernauts — from April 23 to April 25 — was postured for a tense, closely fought battle for the top spot. A series victory for the nationally ranked No. 10 Toros would see them pull closer in the standings, and undermine the No. 2 Tritons’ regular season title push. However, any doubts as to the pedigree of UCSD were stamped out last weekend, when the Tritons clinched the CCAA regular season championship in style, sweeping Dominguez Hills by scores of 5-2, 10-1, 21-3 and 9-1. They dominated their opponents in every aspect of the game, scoring 45 runs on 71 hits throughout the four-game streak. In total, UCSD starting pitchers allowed just seven runs. On Friday, the Tritons hosted the Toros at Triton Ballpark. Junior starting pitcher Tim Shibuya continued his dominant season by hurling his fourth complete game, allowing just eight hits and one earned run and improving his personal season record to nine wins and two losses. The Toros did put two on the board early, but Shibuya shut them down for the final six frames. At the plate, UCSD senior infielder Brandon Gregorich went three-for-four with two doubles and four runs batted in. Senior shortstop Vance Albitz finished three-for-five with a triple, and junior outfielder Aaron Bauman went three-forfour with two runs scored. The Tritons took the series opener with a score of 5-2. See BASEBALL page 11

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SOFTBALL — Since only the top three teams in the league advance to the California Collegiate Athletic Association playoffs, No. 4 UCSD — tied with Humboldt State University in league standings — needed a four-game sweep in the regular-season series finale against Cal State San Bernardino from April 24 to April 25 in order to retain any hopes of postseason play. Unfortunately, a series split against the Coyotes cost UCSD a spot in the CCAA playoffs, and jeopardized their chances at qualifying for this year’s National Collegiate Athletic Association Division-II Championships. However, the Tritons are still in contention to play at nationals if they end the season ranked in the top eight teams in the Western region of Division-II. In the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, the Tritons intimidated the Coyotes early on by plating two runs by the second inning — thanks to freshman third baseman Katie Belanger’s base-clearing home run to center field. The Tritons maintained momentum by tacking on three more runs by the sixth inning, one of which was junior outfielder Kris Lesovsky’s seventh of the season. With sophomore right-hander Camille Gaito

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at the mound, the Coyotes struggled at the plate. Gaito singlehandedly pitched UCSD to a 5-1 victory, throwing a complete game and allowing the Coyotes only one run in the second inning. The second game on Friday brought the Tritons back down. Gaito was only able to pitch one inning, tired after withstanding seven innings in the game prior. As a result, San Bernardino came to life for six runs against both Triton relief pitchers — junior Brittany Sheats and senior Christine Zankich — who allowed three runs each. UCSD needed a quick rebuttal of runs quickly if they were to mount any rally against Coyote pitching. The team did manage to put a run on the board in the top of the fifth inning — courtesy of a wellstruck home run over the left-field fence by junior transfer Rhiannon Ousley, her first as a Triton — but it was not enough. “We came out excited,� Ousley said. “I did my best to help my team out�. Despite recording three runs in the final inning, the Triton comeback efforts were in vain, and they walked away from the doubleheader with a 7-4 loss. Junior infielder Jennifer DeFazio said the team’s inability to rally in the second game was in no way from lack of effort. “We didn’t get the outcome we wanted,� DeFazio

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MEN’S CLUB LACROSSE — Facing the last three games of the season against the University of San Diego, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and San Diego State, the UCSD men’s lacrosse club team hoped to reverse its prior three-game losing streak. However, the squad’s shortage of players — a problem that has hindered the team’s performance all season — prevented any such renaissance, and the Tritons finished the year on a sour note with a 0-6 overall record. Heading into the season’s closing stages, head coach Will Burson faced a player-selection crisis, thanks to an already undersized, injury-ridden roster. The Triton midfield and attack were without anchor players senior E RIK J EPSEN /G UARDIAN

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