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memorial for murdered grad On Thursday, Jan. 12, the UCSD Athletics Department hosted a memorial service and vigil for former UCSD volleyball player Karen Reis.

The memorial was held at 7 p.m. in RIMAC Arena for Reis, a 2009 Warren College graduate who was murdered in Coronado on Jan. 1.

Friends and family shared words of remembrance of the Bakersfield native.

Remembrances were followed by a video and slideshow dedicated to Reis.

Left: Reis’s parents speak about their daughter.

—RACHEL UDA Senior Staff Writer

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Fox CREATES SAN DIEGO sports channel

By Javier Armstrong Staff Writer The San Diego Padres and Fox Regional Sports Networks are planning to announce a deal for a new sports network — Fox Sports San Diego — that will broadcast the 2012 Padres season. Fox Sports San Diego may also cut deals with UCSD, San Diego State, USD, Cal State San Marcos and Point Loma Nazarene. The deal will also give the Padres partial ownership of the network.

The long-term TV deal with Fox Sports is expected to pay the Padres roughly $17 to $22 million per season. The team

will receive advertising dollars from the network in exchange for allowing Fox Sports San Diego to broadcast its games exclusively.

Fox Sports Network has hired Senior Vice President of Fox Sports Ohio Henry Ford as president and general manager of the new network. It is currently in talks with the COX Communications Channel 4 studios — outside Petco Park — to use the station facilities.

The team’s previous deal with Cox Communications Channel 4 paid the Padres $11 million per season. Channel 4 San Diego, the Padres’ TV home for the past 15 seasons, See fox, page 3

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Archery Team Asks Admin. for Right to Use UCSD Archery Field Captain believes that archery’s perception of “dangerous” is keeping the team from the field.

petes competitively has this issue.”

For example, Chen said, the archery teams of UCLA, UC Berkeley, and UC Irvine are able to practice on campus and have had no safety-related issues.

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Due to unspecified safety liabilities, the UCSD Archery team is not allowed to use the new archery field located next to UCSD Thornton Hospital, which was completed in October 2011.

The archery team was founded in 2009, but has had trouble in gaining members beyond its original three.

Archery club president Stella Chen said she believes that one obstacle to the team’s growth is the lack of an on-campus practice space.

“We’ve had issues with the administrators of the [Recreation] Department saying that we can’t practice because there are liabilities,” Chen said. “We thought this was strange because archery is one of the safest sports and no other university we know of that com-

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Archery has been in the competitive college sports circuit for over 50 years. During this time, there have been no recorded serious injuries during practice, competitions, or events nationally. At UCSD, all Triton Archery officers must be official coaches in the U.S. Collegiate Archery.

Team captain Dakota Sinclair said that the UCSD Sports Recreation Department has not released a statement explaining why archery is considered to be a dangerous sport.

“Archery is not a dangerous sport,” Sinclair said.

“Most insurance companies rate it at the same level as they do football. By percentage of participants to injuries, it is a very low-risk sport.”

Director of Sports and Recreation Clubs Scott Berndes, however, has stated that the archery team See ARCHERY, page 3

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientist Uses Mirror Therapy to “Trick” Phantom Limbs

By SARAH KANG Staff Writer UCSD professor Vilayanur S. Ramachandran has created a system using mirrors to treat the phantom limb syndrome.

Since the 1990s, Ramachandran has been studying mirror neurons, which fire when one person acts and when another person performs the same action, and phantom limbs, which cause patients to feel sensations within amputated limbs. Ninety percent of amputees have this syndrome, and many who have it experience chronic pain.

Ramachandran hypothesized that if mirror neurons fired when an individual saw someone else moving an arm, such a visual perception could create a sensory conflict within the brain that could actually help someone who has a phantom limb. He then discovered that an amputee patient missing his left arm could look at a mirror image of his right arm moving to relieve pain in his phantom limb.

“I tell my medical colleagues that it is the first example in the history of medicine of successful amputation of a phantom limb,” Ramachandran said.

Ramachandran used mirrors to confuse the brain’s sensory perceptions, experimenting with visual perception on phantom limb patients. He had a patient who constantly felt as if his phantom hand

was tightly clenched, move his intact hand right next to a mirror, creating a mirror image of that hand.

Seeing the mirror image made the mirror neurons in the patient fire, and the patient felt like his missing hand was making the same motions as his intact hand.

“One way the brain deals with conflict is to say, ‘To hell with it! There is no arm,’ and the arm disappears,” Ramachandran said in the Dec. 5, 2011 BBC News article “What phantom limbs and mirrors teach us about the brain.”

Ramachandran’s first osteoarthritis patient was a man who lost an arm while crossing the Mexican border to enter the U.S. The man had a constant itch in his missing left hand, and when Ramachandran used a cotton bud to touch his cheek, he claimed to feel it in his missing thumb. The neurons that once detected sensation in the missing hand were instead detecting sensation in the face. From this discovery, Ramachandran created the theory that brain modules are not separate from each other and can adapt to new situations and environments.

Along with mirror therapy, Ramachandran has proved his theory that mirror neurons help us understand not only our own body movements, but also those of others. He discovered that simply observing someone else massaging his or her own hand can provide relief to patients suffering from osteoarthri-

tis. Ramachandran believes that these neurons are at the core of how human beings are able to empathize with one another.

Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at UCSD and has been a Professor Emeritus since 2009. His most recent research focuses on synesthesia and why certain people can have perceptual experiences such as hearing colors and tasting words.

Readers can contact Sarah Kang at sak019@ucsd.edu.

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Team Still Waiting to Hear Back from University Administration

LIGHTS & SIRENS Friday, Jan. 6 12:07 a.m.: Noise disturbance There was loud music coming from 1 Miramar Building 3. Will cooperate.

12:44 p.m.: Suspicious person A suspicious person was inside Oceanview Terrace. Gone on arrival.

Saturday, Jan. 7 3:10 a.m.: Noise disturbance There was loud singing and guitar playing at The Village West Building 1. Will cooperate.

4:07 a.m.: Disturbance There was an “altercation between roommates” at The Village West Building 6. Report taken.

4:53 p.m.: Missing person A “minor child” was found by a family member at The Village West Building 1. Information only.

10:55 p.m.: Information A group of young males was throwing eggs at passing vehicles

by Vons. Referred to other agency — San Diego Police Department.

Sunday, Jan. 8 8:00 p.m. - 11:31 a.m.: Grand theft A burglary resulting in a loss of $850 occurred at North America Hall. Report taken.

2:23 p.m.: Medical aid An adult female was having difficulty breathing at the Blacks Beach Gate. Referred to other agency — lifeguards.

Monday, Jan. 9 12:25 a.m.: Disturbance A male student was involved in a “physical altercation” at The Village Building 6. Closed by adult arrest.

8:30 a.m.: Prisoner The subject was detained for shoplifting at the Bookstore.

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4:55 p.m.: Fire alarm An oven at Brown Hall was left

open and created smoke. False alarm.

8:11 p.m.: Citizen contact The reporting party thought his taxi was stolen. Unfounded.

Tuesday, Jan. 10 12:59 a.m.: Citizen contact An unknown person “threw a pumpkin” inside the reporting party’s bedroom. Information only.

6:30 p.m.: Non-injury accident A UC shuttle bus collided into a vehicle at Peterson Hall. Report taken.

7:39 p.m.: Hit and run There was a hit-and-run accident in Lot 401 with no damage. Information only.

Wednesday, Jan. 11 2:47 a.m.: Person down A person on the intersection of Nobel Drive and Villa La Jolla Drive was “down.” Transported to hospital.

1:35 p.m.: Vandalism There was graffiti in the Pangea parking structure. Report taken.

10:58 p.m.: Bicyclist stop A bicyclist was stopped on the intersection of Health Sciences Drive and Athena Circle. Verbal warning issued.

Thursday, Jan. 12 12:25 a.m.: Citizen contact A person was smoking within 25 feet of Price Center. Verbal warning issued.

2:19 a.m.: Vandalism Spray paint vandalism caused $250 of damage at Center Hall. Report taken.

2:59 p.m.: Armed suspicious person A person was seen with a weapon, “possibly [a] toy weapon,” on Library Walk. Unable to locate.

—Compiled by Sarah Kang Staff Writer

▶ ARCHERY, from page 1

members cannot use the field, and that the only official use is reserved for students enrolled in the recreational class.

“They told us we can’t use the field unless we are out there as a student as one of their [recreational] classes,” team member Chris Cheng said. “When we noticed that the new field was being built, we asked again and Berndes told us the same thing.”

The team has attempted to Berndes multiple times since February 2009 regarding access to the field, but have not been successful. In addition to unspecified safety concerns, the team was told that another reason access is barred is because the recreation department cannot compete with a student organization offering free archery training. The team has also been required to change its status from a recreational club to a social club

due to policies stating that to recreational clubs must use on-campus facilities.

Members had an initial meeting with Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Wellness Karen Calfas in November 2011, but Calfas has not spoken with them since.

“I’ve had one meeting with the Archery student [organization] president,” Calfas said. “We are looking into options now and I hope to be meeting with them soon.”

Chen is still trying to contact Calfas to continue discussing the issue, but until the situation is resolved, the team practices at either the Balboa Park Archery Range or Lake Poway Archery Range to maintain its position as the No. 1 team on the west coast.

Berndes could not be reached for comment.

Readers can contact Michael Chang at mechang@ucsd. edu.

Network to Broadcast L.A. Clippers, Anaheim Mighty Ducks ▶ FOX, from page 1

confirmed April 21, 2011 that it would not retain the rights to broadcast Padres games in 2012.

Fox Sports San Diego will broadcast through all cable, satellite and telecommunication providers so that the games will be available to a wider audience. The Padres are expected to benefit from the broadcasting revenue earned through the larger audience. Prior to this deal, the Padres HAD been broadcasting through Cox Communication’s Channel 4, which was made available to Cox and Time Warner subscribers, leaving DirectTV, AT&T U-verse and Dish Network without Padres coverage for most of the season.

The network will broadcast other Southern California

teams, such as the Los Angeles Clippers and the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, which are normally shown on Fox Sports Prime Ticket. Fox Sports Prime Ticket, a Los Angelesbased Regional Sports Network, can only be viewed in San Diego through AT&T U-verse and Time Warner Cable.

Fox Sports Network is the largest RSN provider in the nation; it broadcasts 66 of the 81 U.S. professional sports teams in MLB, NBA and NHL as well as many college and high school sports teams.

The network is also expected to have interest in the San Diego County Office of Education section sports.

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OPINION Stuck in the Middle UC Berkeley is the first in the UC system to announce a financial aid program to assist middle class students — a promising plan that is too ambitious to implement UC-wide at this time. By Chelsey Davis • Staff Writer

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s college tuition fees continue to climb far beyond what many can afford, more and more middle-income families are forced to make tough decisions about higher education. However, UC Berkeley has a solution.

UC Berkeley recently announced a new financial aid program that would help middle-income families struggling with rising tuition fees. The first of its kind in any public university of UC Berkeley’s stature, the Berkeley Middle Class Access Plan (MCAP) reduces the contribution parents make to the total yearly cost of Cal — including tuition, housing and books — to 15 percent of their total annual income.

Students with a family income between $80,000 and $140,000 are eligible for the program, which will be in effect starting the 2012-13 school year for all domestic undergraduate students, including incoming freshmen. This kind of program is vital in order to offer quality higher education to more people, but there is still a long way to go before it will be possible for other major public universities to offer this kind of assistance — especially in the rest of the UC system.

Though some may ask why the extra money isn’t being allocated to low-income students, the new

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plan targeting around 85 percent of Californian families will come as an appreciated rescue to a struggling middle class. According to College Board, tuition rates have increased over 130 percent since 1988, but the median income of U.S. households has remained stagnant around $33,000.

Financial aid hasn’t been able to keep up either — since 1992, the largest amount of government-subsidized loans a student can take out has stayed at $23,000, never changing to accommodate students’ increasing needs. With income and financial aid unable to meet the demands of rising tuition costs, middle-income families are forced to make hard decisions when it comes to affording higher education without mountains of debt. The Department of Education shows that numbers of middle-income students enrolled in four-year colleges have dropped as their enrollment in twoyear colleges has risen, demonstrating the sacrifices families are making when it comes to their children’s education.

Financial aid plans for middleincome students, like the Berkeley MCAP, already exist in a few wellfunded private universities across the country in response to the country’s growing economic crisis. Five Ivy League schools are cutting the costs for

middle-income students by drawing from their billion dollar endowments, and Northwestern is eliminating all student loans and replacing them with grants. One generous donor, a 1946 University of Oregon alum named Marry Corrigan Solari, took matters into her own hands and donated $5 million in scholarships for University of Oregon students from middle-income families who are ineligible for federal grants that target low-income students.

And now help for middle-income families is making its way to public universities.

Currently, UC Berkeley is one of the only public institutions that can afford to offer this program without taking away from any other financial aid assistance. Officials at Cal say that the source of the money will be funded by a portion of out-of-state and international students, who pay an extra $22,000 per year, as well as money redirected from other sources.

In the press conference held over break announcing the Berkeley MCAP, Vice Chancellor Frank Yeary commented that they hope the program will attract a considerable amount of philanthropic support to help offset the plan’s costs and possibly expand it in future years.

An online petition calls on the children’s program Sesame street to feature a lesson on breastFeeding to normalize the practice in the public eye.

A Decision for Parents to Make

Episode Can Bring Public Acceptance

he Public Broadcasting Service show Sesame Street is made to educate youngsters on anything from arithmetic to vocabulary. A recent online petition demands that the program teach kids about breastfeeding. While it is important to keep children informed, educating children on topics involving reproductive anatomy should avoid the airwaves and be taught at a parent’s discretion.

Breastfeeding is something all kids eventually learn about, but parents have the right to be the deciders of when, how, and from whom their children learn about it. The Fourteenth Amendment grants parents the fundamental liberty to direct the education and upbringing of their children in whichever way they deem proper, which is especially pressing in matters of sexual education. Mothers can normalize the act of breastfeeding to their children without a TV show’s help, such as by nursing infants at home in the presence of older siblings. Shoving the burden of discussing breastfeeding onto a children’s program is insensitive to parents who wish to wait.

Furthermore, the proponents of the petition compose a loud minority. Parents do not generally call for TV shows to teach their children about other complex issues such as the differences between boys and girls, where babies come from and religion. While these topics may occasionally be discussed on TV, parents trust that Sesame Street will present wholesome educational material to their children. It is the role of parents — and not a TV show — to guide kids through the challenging experience of learning about such controversial topics.

When it comes to educating youngsters, parents ought to let Sesame Street stick to what it knows best — counting and spelling — and leave grown-up topics like breastfeeding to grown-ups.

— ARIK Burakovsky

Senior Staff Writer

petition entitled “Bring Breastfeeding Back to Sesame Street” recently jumped from about 10,000 signatures last week to 28,000 signatures on Sunday. The creators of this petition wish to “normalize breastfeeding in our community,” and complain that Sesame Street has not promoted breastfeeding since the 80s. This is an opportunity for Sesame Street to teach children about a natural, healthy and normal part of life in a tasteful way.

As an educational program, it is Sesame Street’s goal to explain different aspects of life to children.

Breastfeeding is certainly a common, natural part of life. In 2008 the Center for Disease Control conducted a phone survey about breastfeeding, and 74.6 percent of mothers who responded said they had breastfed their child at least once. Sesame Street would be fulfilling its mission by including lessons about breastfeeding in its program.

Breastfeeding might also have real health benefits as well. Various research and studies from the Department of Health and Human Services have concluded that certain nutrients only found in breast milk are crucial to the proper development of a baby’s immune system. By exposing kids to breastfeeding, Sesame Street has an opportunity to promote something that could be a vital health concern for babies.

An aspect of Sesame Street breastfeeding that may concern parents is the perception of bare breasts being shown on a children’s program. Sesame Street kept the scene G-rated in past episodes, it is reasonable to assume they would continue to treat the topic with sensitivity today. Plus, breastfeeding is discreet and natural; there is nothing particularly damaging about witnessing it.

Promoting breastfeeding on Sesame Street could be beneficial to society, but there are other concerns in the world that are probably more worthy of our focus.

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Cause of Unnecessary Controversy

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he same show that has been teaching children how to count for over four decades may be bringing back controversial clips on breastfeeding.

This public television show, Sesame Street, is overstepping its boundaries and unnecessarily creating controversy by considering educating toddlers on this topic.

Breastfeeding has been a contentious topic for years, even in relation to much older audiences. Just this past year, a Michigan judge ruled that a woman could not breastfeed her child during court proceedings. Facebook banned photos of women breastfeeding in 2009, citing that such photos violated their decency code.

This December, a woman who was nursing her infant at a Target store in Texas was asked by employees to finish breastfeeding in a fitting room, as she was making other customers feel uncomfortable.

The program should take a hint from this public outcry and omit any presentation of breastfeeding. If people don’t want women breastfeeding at the local Target, they are hardly likely to support a Sesame Street segment on the act. Sesame Street currently appears on the television screens of millions of children in over 150 countries, meaning that the episodes must be focused on subjects that are widely supported. The issue is too touchy for Sesame Street to tackle at this time.

Breastfeeding has been almost completely removed from the public eye, and there is no reason to spark controversy by highlighting it on one of the nation’s most widely viewed children’s shows.

— Revathy Sampath-Kumar Staff Writer

Shit Girls Say: Is the Joke Seriously Over Already?

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t’s always a gloomy day when a beloved Internet meme reaches its peak of overexposure. We know the drill by now: in exchange for roughly five days of reliable entertainment, the almighty web

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promises a million laughless Twitter imitators (“Single Twink Problems,” “White Girl Problems”) and at least as many illiterate YouTube comments, which always seem precisely worded to forecast the fall of mankind.

The apparent passing this week of Shit Girls Say — a satirical Twitter account-cum-YouTube-sensation written by two Canadian dudes — struck me as particularly premature, though. Approximately one-third as annoying as nyan cat and twice as inventive as feminist Ryan Gosling, Shit Girls Say looked like it might have real staying power. The premise is exactly as simple as you’d think: 140 characters or less of too-real musings on friendship, romance and low-cal brownies, most often served with justright helpings of passive aggression and/or whininess. Sample Tweets include: “What if we did a bake sale?”; “Love you like a sister!”; “Dark chocolate is really good for you”; and, out of obvious necessity, “Rude.”

Buzz gradually built for the Twitter account, and so followed a short series of (presumably ongoing) YouTube shorts that catapulted the meme to near-Rebecca Black levels of ubiquity.

Then, faster than you can say “orange mocha frappuccino,” the inevitable happened: everybody else caught on.

In a matter of hours, Shit Girls Say gave way to Shit Asian Girls Say gave way to Shit Armenian Girls Say gave way to Shit Black Girls Say gave way to Shit Black Gays Say — and here, I estimate, we’ve reached the ultimate jumping of the shark: Sh*t Homophobic People Say, which is basically just a depressing string of sound bites from the likes of Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann on the sneaky little devil that is the gay agenda. (Also, note the asterisk — once you’ve been censored, you know the fun is over).

One little nugget of redemption in this deliberately unfunny bastardization of the original? It gives us an excuse to revisit that recent antigay campaign ad of Perry’s — you know, the one where he’s dressed like Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain.

I have to confess that the reason I’m so sad to see the meme’s impending fade into irrelevance is that, frankly, it hit a little too close to home. I’m not a girl, but the Twitter feed reads like a transcript of some of the more asinine questions I’ve asked of friends, or coworkers, or the universe: “I don’t snore, do I?”; “Are you busy tonight?”; “How is mercury not in retrograde right now?”

I can only hope that in its inevitable disappearance — barring a book or sitcom deal, a la Shit My Dad Says — the reminder to switch up my smalltalk will somehow live on, whether through watching those three famed YouTube clips or searching my browser history to relive the glory days. (Just kidding — who does that?)

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Quite Frankly By Lior Schenk

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Make the Most Out of Your College Experience

Middle Class Aid Won’t Take from Other Programs ▶ middle class, from page 4 Even with this new program, UC Berkeley still has enough money to support its low-income students. UC Berkeley and the UC system have multiple financial aid programs funded by different sources that are aimed directly at low-income students. In 1991, UC Berkeley created the Incentive Awards Program to provide educational and financial access to high-achieving students who face socioeconomic barriers from underserved communities, providing up to $32,000 in scholarship funds over the students’ four years at the school. The UC system as a whole has the UC Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan, which provides money to students whose family earns less than $80,000 and is eligible for financial aid to cover all educational and student services fees. The Berkeley MCAP, on the other hand, provides financial aid to families who have just missed the cutoff for aid, but still need the help.

With the obvious benefits of the Berkeley MCAP, it would seem ideal to implement it across the UC system, especially here at UCSD. However, UCSD does not have the same kind of funds that UC Berkeley does. In the 2010-11 school year, 14 percent of UC Berkeley’s undergraduate population included out-of-state and international students, while UCSD had only 7.7 percent.

And, according to the September 2011 edition of the UCSD Operating Budget Handbook, the extra fees paid by these students are already allocated towards supporting the main functions of the campus, including instruction and institutional support.

While Berkeley’s MCAP will be relieving many families of the mounting cost of college for UC Berkeley’s middleincome students, for now it seems it will only be helping UC Berkeley students.

Readers can contact Chelsey Davis at crdavis@ucsd.edu

Dear Editor, I want to tell you why I love college. College is experiencing absolute wind-in-your-face freedom for the first time. College is befriending the most diverse array of interesting people you will ever meet on a daily basis. College is slowly walking away in profound awe from conversations that will fundamentally change who you are. And I’m not going to lie to you, college is unleashing your inner party animal on Friday nights.

UCSD is every one of these things for me. But I didn’t always see that. When I was a freshman, I referred to our school as a complete and utter social black hole. Homesickness and the always impending danger of contracting Triton Eye certainly did not help.

And I did nothing to change my situation. Oh how wrong I was.

One afternoon conversation with a Triton Alumni changed everything for me. I got a chance to have a fleeting conversation with the man who served as the A.S. President and who led the vote to approve the construction of Price Center. His one innocent question was, “How’s it working out for you?”

I don’t know about you, but I can’t imagine a UCSD without the hub that is Price Center. I said as much to him in my answer to his question. I never caught the man’s name and never saw him again, but his words resounded inside of me.

“Every person on this campus has a real voice, and if we want something changed on our own campus, we better embody that change and do something about it.” And that’s exactly what I did, plunging into positions of responsibility

within student government, student organizations, fraternities, everything under the San Diego sun.

That’s when I realized how truly special UCSD is. We attend a worldclass university that is only fifty years old. In that half-century, UCSD has produced more meaningful contributions to society than institutions twice its age. And every man and woman who has passed through has been a part of that.

It will only get better in the next fifty years. I’m sure of it. Imagine a campus connected by a thirty minute tram to downtown and by a ninetyminute bullet train to San Francisco.

Imagine painting your body blue and gold for a Division I football game against a hated rival. Imagine running wild around a magnificent Greek Row. Just imagine.

All it takes to make this a reality is for Tritons to be involved. This letter is a call for Tritons to do exactly that. I challenge every Triton to join the student organizations that are the social lifeblood of our school.

Participate in and even help establish Triton traditions. Be educated on new referendums and student government initiatives. Never be afraid to make new friends every single day. I did these things and I can honestly say I’ve had the time of my life here at UCSD. You can too.

Best of luck Triton Nation.

—Shawn Xu Senior, Muir College ▶ The Guardian welcomes letters from its readers.

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CSD Housing and Dining, happy to shoot for the obvious puns, has planted Roots right below Pines dining hall.

Students may have returned from break to the find the grand opening of Roots — an all-vegan dining hall — last Monday, Jan. 9, however, it’s been roughly five years since the idea for the restaurant was first seeded.

Executive Chef Vaughn Vargus, who supports all of UCSD’s dining facilities through Housing and Dining, headed the way in developing the menu.

“A vegan/vegetarian concept had started back then as an idea, and following the culinary trends, it was always on the table — it was just when and where,” Vargus said. “It was probably through the initiation of redesigning and restructuring Pines that it seemed like a natural fit down here.”

Previously a Mexican restaurant (El Mercado) and prior to that, a burger joint (the Rathskeller), the space has been transformed with crisp tones of orange, green and blue to reflect the clean and modern essence of their menu, which features more than just raw greens and tofu.

“We’ve covered a lot of different bases with options and varieties of the dishes that we serve here at Roots that are vegan,”

Vargus said. “There’s some savory. There’s some light fare. There are comfort-style foods, if you will, and there are some whimsical dishes as well.”

Several items on the menu may seem almost too familiar to non-herbivores.

“There are a couple of items that are reminiscent of what you’d expect of college dining,” Vargus said. “Hamburgers, fries, those types of things. But the quality and the type of ingredients we’re using — it’s different. The vegetable-based protein patty — that’s far superior in my mind than a black bean burger or a grain-based burger. This is good stuff; it’s the real deal.”

The authentic, restaurant-quality food that Vargus spoke of took more than a stroll through a vegetable garden to achieve.

To meet the strict criteria of veganism, a lot of research was conducted to eliminate all animal by-products.

“There’s no refined sugar, honey — anything like that,” Vargus said. “So with doing our homework, educating ourselves and talking to a lot people that we know who have maintained a vegan lifestyle for 10 to 15 years, there was a lot of good information that we harnessed and adapted to what our menu is today.”

After making the decision halfway through last quarter to

go completely vegan, the staff sorted through recipes to concoct a fresh, nutrient-filled menu. Diners can now choose from a selection of healthy options — perhaps a “chicken” burger, a bowl of hot kettle chili and a side of sweet potato fries, complimented with a broccoli and berry smoothie.

The diligent work put into the menu seems to have paid off; Vargus revealed his excitement about the success that they’ve already experienced after only three days.

“The feedback and the response that we’re getting from our guests — the clients, the students — have been positive straight across the board,” Vargus said. “I really am so happy with our staff with what we’ve achieved.”

Following the trends of vegan cuisine, their menu may change from time to time.

“We’ll go into the seasons,” Vargus said. “We’ll obviously add more dishes as the time comes [and] keep the ones that are obviously popular.”

Beaming with pride, Vargus admitted to bragging when he asserted his confidence in Roots.

“I’m very proud of what we’ve done here, and I think the proof is in the pudding — the proof is in the avocado pudding!”

Vargus said.

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ash strapped foodies, rejoice. San Diego Restaurant Week is back — it’s time to dust off that blazer, ditch the dining hall and take full advantage of this twice annual, prix fix extravaganza. With 180 participating restaurants stretching from Chula Vista to Oceanside, from classic steakhouses to well, Nobu, it won’t be too difficult to persuade your persnickety suitemates to finally go on that oft-promised suite dinner.

First, a little history on restaurant week. The first one began in New York City in 1992 when the city hosted the Democratic National Convention. Tim Zagat and friends wanted the attendees of the event to experience New York’s culinary gems, and convinced dozens of restaurants around the city to host a special prix fix menu for the price of $19.92 — the year of the convention. For years after that, the price crept up one cent each year to coincide with the date, and the “restaurant week” concept has reached every major city.

What’s different about San Diego is that for years, its restaurants only offered dinner options, priced $20-40.

After they started offering $10-20 lunch options last year, the eating field opened up considerably.

If you’re stuck within the pricey confines of La Jolla proper, well then, lucky you. La Jolla’s tastiest restaurants are all up for grabs this week, the most notable being George’s at the Cove. Arguably the best restaurant in La Jolla, George’s boasts two differently priced dining rooms — the swankier “California Modern” ($40) and the picture perfect rooftop terrace ($30). With entrees like pacific albacore with pancetta wrapped salsify, this is probably your best chance to out-douche your housemates this quarter.

For those of us who think $40 is too pricey for a single meal — that is, most of us — the $10 lunch menus are the way to go. Admittedly, the restaurants are fewer and instead of three courses, it’s usually only two. But it’s still hard to beat options like seafood ravioli and mango panna cotta ($10, Via Italia Trattoria in Encinitas) in terms of price and quality.

— Margaret Yau Managing Editor

san diego restaurant week When: Jan. 15-20 Where: Over 180 restaurants price: $10-$40 Online: sandiegorestaurantweek.com photos courtesy of george ’ s at the cove

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managed to maintain a standard of presentation, with every roll crafted surprisingly delicately. He also works fast and, most importantly, keeps the rolls neat and tidy to avoid the fall-apart factor — the Achilles’ Heel of many other sushi artists.

The Sake Bomb ($7), one of their specialty rolls, is a standout.

Filled with crab, daikon sprouts, cucumber and avocado and topped with seared salmon, red onion, bonito flakes and a delicate touch of basil mayonnaise, it’s impressively flavorful yet not overpowering, with a unique hint of smokiness to the salmon that adds extra depth to the already inventive bite.

The Crispy Albacore Roll ($7), is another hit, stuffed with crab and shrimp tempura, topped with fresh albacore tuna and avocado and then garnished with crispy onion strips and garlic chips under a drizzling of ponzu sauce. The balance of textures is nice, though the flavors (notably, the shrimp) get lost in the mixture, lacking presence in the overall taste of the dish.

The Afro-Ninja Roll ($7) wins the prize for the most heartthrobbing dish of the truck — a spicy concoction of tuna, crab and jalapenos, offset by the creamy avocado and cream cheese, then deepfried and smothered in spicy mayo and eel sauce.

Admittedly, deep-fried rolls from the back of a truck may sound ludicrous to sushi traditionalists, but SD Sushi Ninjas are certainly worth a Twitter follow. Look out for them on the streets; it’s a tasty curbside meal.

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This event encourages positive perceptions of individuals with disabilities by focusing on similarities and abilities rather than differences. Contact Jennifer Gasner: (858) 534-3929, jgasner@ucsd.edu

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Drop into The Zone every Tuesday from 5:00-6:00 pm for a Free Healthy Cooking demonstration! Tasty Tuesday features local, organic, and vegetarian ingredients to keep you running at peak performance levels. Sponsors such as Whole Foods Market, Housing & Dining Services, Student Health Services, and Recreation bring a different dish to the table every week. Come hungry, leave healthy!

Calling all graduate students!! Drop into The Zone every Wednesday at noon for a delicious free lunch catered by Art of Espresso and a wellness-related workshop. Different themes every week, from networking and relationship skills to money management. The workshops run from noon until 1 pm. Please RSVP to Iris Crowe-Lerma at icrowelerma@ucsd.edu Contact: icrowelerma@ucsd.edu. Website: http://zone.ucsd.edu

2pm THE ACCIDENTAL ANARCHIST- GEISEL LIBRARY A ruthless Perugian businessman gets his comeuppance in this delectable romantic comedy. Mattia is a cost-cutting contractor who is being blackmailed by his injured employee, an Egyptian named Kamal. At fault for the mishap, Mattia is forced to attend a chocolate cooking class in Kamal’s name. When he catches the eye of fellow chef Cecilia, he takes advantage of being mistaken for the hardworking immigrant. [Claudio Cupellini, 2007, Italy, 98 min.] menu Falafel Salad with Baby Romaine, Shaved Red Onion and Yogurt-Harissa Dressing; Spaghetti Bolognese; Aged Parmesan Garlic Bread; Truffle Duo. Drinks not included. Contact UC San Diego Box Office: (858) 534-8497, artpower@ucsd.edu.

Regular: $30 (food + movie) / $8 (movie). UCSD Student: $24 (food + movie) / $4 (movie)

3:30pm THE EUROPEAN DEBT CRISIS: CAUSES, REACTIONS, CONSEQUENCESROBINSON AUDITORIUM A panel discussion with UC San Diego faculty experts who will speak on the debt crisis, the position of the various states, and the future prospects of the region.

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FRI1.20 12pm INTERNATIONAL CENTER FRIDAY CAFÉINTERNATIONAL CENTER Please join us for a Mexican meal on the patio of the International Center. Lunch costs $5 and is served from noon until 1:15pm and will include: Ranchero tamale pie, tortilla chips w/ salsa and guacamole, green salad, and cinnamon-spiced caramel cake. The sponsor for this week is the Student Affairs office of Eleanor Roosevelt College.

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By the time he was twenty-five years old, Jacob Marateck had been a Jewish officer in the notoriously anti-Semitic Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War, a revolutionary who sought to overthrow the Czar, and sentenced to death three times. After avoiding the firing squad for the final, unlikely time, he escaped from a Siberian forced labor camp. Contact Marlayna Christensen: (858) 822-3373, mkchristensen@ucsd.edu

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SHANGHAI GLOBAL SEMINAR 2012: CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION HSS 4025 (GALBRAITH ROOM) Are you interested in Shanghai Global Seminar 2012? You are invited to a Chinese New Year celebration on Friday, Jan. 20, 5-7 pm, HSS 4025 (Galbraith Room) to meet returnees from Shanghai Global Seminar 2011. The event will feature a slideshow by 2011 Art and Visual Culture in China participants and includes free Chinese food!

Please send RSVPs by e-mail to tpizer@ucsd.edu

8pm THE GLASS MENAGERIE- MANDELL WEISS FORUM Haunted by the past, the present, and the looming future, the Wingfield family comes to life on the stage once more in Tennessee Williams’ classic play. Contact Aimee Zygmonski: (858) 822-3152, tdpromo@ucsd.edu

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GROUPLOVE is an indie-rock band with quite the track record. After their song “Colours” was featured in Madden NFL and FIFA 12, GROUPLOVE was thrown into the big leagues. With comparisons to Vampire Weekend and Givers, they have toured with major talent including Florence and the Machine and Two Door Cinema Club.

After performing this Winter Quarter at Porter’s Pub they will head on to tour with Young the Giant. Check out GROUPLOVE’s free concert at Porter’s Pub and get a head start on the craze. Contact Sandra Duran: (818) 389-0210, s1duran@ucsd.edu

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Tritons Post Longest Winning Streak in School History ▶ women’s basketball, from page 12 teams that can’t keep up with the breakneck pace of the run and gun style, leading the conference in both total points per game, with an average of 80.8 points.

And against the Otters, quick substitutions and commitment to full-court defense kept the Tritons in the first half.

“Tonight we did try and get a few more people in, even in shorter spurts to maybe get us a little more rest. [Luzar] did a great job coming in tonight. [White and Seto] gave us some very quality minutes,” said Elliot. “We still believe we’re in as good a shape as anybody in the country, and as we kept running, we became more and more successful as the game went on.”

UCSD took the momentum into the second half,

shooting 54 percent from the field, compared to the Otters’ paltry 28 percent, and never conceded the lead.

Four Tritons recorded in double-figures, with Osga leading UCSD with 22 points on eight of 10 shooting.

Carlisle — named the CCAA Player of the Week for the second time this season — chipped in 16 points, while Freidenberg and Feder contributed 18 and 15 points respectively.

Undefeated in the 2012 season, the Tritons have not yet reached the midway point in conference play.

UCSD will host its next six games, facing Sonoma State on Friday, Jan. 20 and Humboldt State on Saturday, Jan. 21.

Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ucsd.edu

UCSD Men’s Basketball Splits Weekend Matches ▶ men’s basketball, from page 12 a zone defense to a man defense. This change forced Cal State East Bay to stop relying on their perimeter and open shots, and work in side.

With the clock winding down, McCann took the out of bounds throw-in for the Tritons, but the Pioneer guarding him turned his back to guard against the alley-oop. McCann threw the ball off his backside and hit the open jumper to put the Tritons ahead with a minute to go.

In the final seconds, Hatch was fouled with the score in UCSD’s favor 69-67. To win the game, he needed to hit both shots. He hit one of two, setting up Cal State East Bay’s junior Jason Smith for the open three-pointer to send the game into overtime.

“You know it comes down to defense,” said Brue after the game, “That’s a win or a loss right there, defending that threepointer. Instead we let him shoot a wide open shot.”

Although the Tritons left to an early five-point lead, they let the Pioneers come back to within a point with 40 seconds remaining. Because both teams were in double bonus, the Pioneers subbed in all guards on offense and all forwards on defense as the two teams traded free throws for the remainder of the game. In the end, the Tritons hit only 18 of 30 freethrows while the Pioneers sank 19 of 22.

With the Tritons up 79-78, Pioneer leading scorer Mark Samuels drove to the bucket with only five seconds remaining to sink the winning bucket for the final score of 79-80.

McCann had a chance to make a final runner from behind the arc, but he wasn’t granted the shooter’s roll as it rattled out to end the game.

McCann finished with a career high of 22 points and seven assists, while Hatch trailed with 16 points and 14 rebounds.

Brue had a 15-point game with six rebounds, five assists, three blocks and two steals.

For the team to have played so well against a Pioneer team that recently beat No. 2 Nationally-ranked Cal Poly Pomona was impressive.

Although the Tritons faired better the next night against 1-7 CCAA opponent Cal State Monterey Bay. The Tritons lost Hatch to a sprained wrist sustained in the loss Friday, so senior center Ryan Wheeler stepped into the center position for the Tritons and handled the pressure quite well, scoring six and nabbing four rebounds. Where he stood out most was on defense, as he stopped anything driving down the middle.

Junior guard Tyler McGrath continued his lackluster offensive streak, hitting only 1-8. Although McGrath sunk a three to put the Tritons ahead 60-54. Again down the stretch he hit two freethrows with only four seconds left to solidify the Triton win 71-67.

McCann had a good night, hitting four of five from behind the arc and scoring 19 points, the same as Brue, who was 7-9 from the free-throw line.

The Tritons have shown improvement in their past two games, displaying the type of hustle needed to turn around their season. At 2-8 in conference play, it will be a long road but they still have a shot at a postseason run or a CCAA championship.

Readers can contact Nick Howe at nshowe@ucsd.edu

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he UCSD Men’s and Women’s Swim Teams — ranked No. 1 in Division II — bested two Division I teams this Saturday, Jan. 14 at the Loyola Marymount University Burns Aquatic Center. The women beat Loyola Marymount with a score of 167-94 and the men won against No. 8 ranked Division I Cal State Bakersfield with a strong showing of 165-97.

The women’s team had a dominant performance, sweeping two events. In the 1000 IM freestyle, sophomore Bethany Dong took first (10:41.41), freshman Jessica Norgaard took second (10:45.82) and freshman Megan Lee placed third (10:52.74). The Tritons collected another clean sweep in the 200 IM, with senior Alex Henley in first (2:09.57), freshman Summer Bennett in second (2:12.20) and freshman Eva Chen in third (2:13.14).

Senior All-American Henley was the big winner on the women’s side, taking first in both the 100 yard backstroke (57.48) and the 200 yard backstroke (2:04.82). Henley was also named Division II Female Swimmer of the Week by CollegeSwimming. com for her recent performances against Division I competition, San Diego State and Grand Canyon.

Other multiple medal winners included UCSD junior Emily Adamczyk in the 100 IM and 200 IM breaststroke with times of 1:05.51 and 2:19.45, respectively, and sophomore Anji Shakya, who won the 200 IM and 500 IM freestyle with respective times of 1:54.10 and 5:08.06.

The men’s team had one of the best meets of their season against Cal State Bakersfield, going 1-2-3 in five different races.

Triton junior Alex Rice topped the field in two events, placing first in the 100 IM butterfly (51.35) followed by junior Adam Yen (51.69) in second and freshman Dane Stassi (52.21) in third.

The Tritons swept in the 200 IM as well, with Rice placing first (1:55.80), sophomore See Han Lee in second (1:59.32) and sophomore Nick Korth in third (1:59.57). UCSD had success in both breaststroke events — in the 100 IM, Korth won with a time of 56.84, Lee took second (58.12) and senior Griffin Bracke placed third (58.86). In the 200 IM butterfly, Stassi took first (1:53.89), Rice took second (1:54.98) and sophomore Ahiram Rodriguez took third (1:55.73).

UCSD’s next meet will be its last one before the PCSC Championships — they will be swimming at Cal Baptist University on Saturday, Jan. 21. The PCSC championships will be held Feb. 8-11.

Readers can contact Margaret Yau at m1yau@ucsd.edu

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SPORTS

Overheard at the game Men’s Basketball

It all comes down to that one shot.”

— justin brue

sweet 16:

UCSD Men’s Basketball

Tritons go 16-0 in league play after two weekend wins for the longest-winning streak in UCSD school history.

By Rachel Uda Sports Editor

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ithout a loss in the 2012 season, the No. 2 UCSD women’s basketball team has strung together the most wins in school history after taking down Cal State East Bay 84-73 last Friday and No. 24 Cal State Monterey Bay 91-63 on Sunday.

On Friday, the nationally ranked Tritons faced Cal State East Bay — 2-7 in conference, 3-10 overall — beating the Pioneers by their third closest margin this season.

“It wasn’t very pretty and East Bay played tremendously,” said head coach Charity Elliott. “I probably played a few people more minutes than I would have hoped but we got the win and that’s what we needed to do.”

The Tritons had won the 14 games prior to their bout against East Bay with an average scoring margin of 20 points. The 84-73 result fell well below this watermark, but seemed to be a consequence of difficulties with rotation and transitioning back on defense.

Within the first ten minutes, the Tritons put together a ten-point lead, which was quickly whittled down to three after Elliott brought on underclassmen guards Megan Perry and Miranda Seto. Elliott was forced to replace senior All-American guard Chelsea Carlisle and starting forward Erin Dautremont back on the court. Junior guard Emily Osga immediately hit a jumper to put UCSD up by five, after which Carlisle picked up one of her three steals on the night to put in a layup. With the starting five back on the court, UCSD manufactured a 14-point run, to end the half with a 17-point lead. “[Carlisle] did an amazing job tonight of settling us down and getting a basket when East Bay went on a run,” said Elliot. “[Carlisle] hit some tough shots, or made the great pass for an easy basket.”

Carlisle finished the game with 20 points on a career high of 12 assists, while senior forward Lauren Freidenberg recorded 20 points and eight rebounds.

But the Tritons would not get much out of their bench for the rest of the night, with Cal State East Bay’s reserves outscoring the Triton bench 33-7.

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The Pioneers staged a comeback late in the game, led by junior forward Marlene MacMillan and sophomore forward Cassie Coble, who cut the Tritons’ 17-point lead down to eight. But UCSD would maintain the advantage to take its fifteenth straight win.

On Saturday, UCSD met with the only other undefeated team in the conference in No. 24 Cal State Monterey Bay, beating the Otters 63-91.

Last season, Cal State Monterey Bay won the CCAA tournament with a 20-2 conference record. In the first meeting between the two

teams, the Otters took an 11-point lead.

“We knew [Cal State Monterey Bay] would come in and attack us hard. And they did,” said Elliot. “I thought our team did great in keeping their composure. We went down by 11 [points], and we just kept chipping away and tried to be consistent.”

Down 11 points, 12 minutes into the game, the Tritons kept in contact with the Otters, steadily breaking down the lead with contributions from all over the UCSD roster. And by the end of the half, UCSD manufactured a 15-point swing, leading by

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four going into the second half.

“We started turning up a bit of our intensity. Defensively, we just had a little sense of urgency, contesting shots, rebounding,” said Elliot. “[CSU Monterey Bay’s] a phenomenal offensive rebounding team. I thought we did a good job of containing and controlling that part of it, and then we just started running.”

On Saturday, the Tritons stuck to their full-court man-to-man defense. UCSD buries See WOmen’s BASKETball, page 11

men’s basketball ends four-game losing streak By nick howe Associate Sports Editor This past weekend, the Triton Men’s Basketball team split its home games against Cal State East Bay on Friday and Cal State Monterey Bay on Saturday. Although they have had a rough run over the past few games — UCSD is 2-8 in the CCAA — this weekend’s performances give hope for the second half of the season.

Friday’s match-up started well for the Tritons as UCSD scored a quick bucket when senior Justin Brue hit sophomore James McCann for the opening bucket. The Tritons then jumpead to an 8-2 lead in the first four minutes of play, but failed to maintain the advantage. East Bay surged back to 11-10 with 14 minutes left in the half.

The Tritons kept their composure in the backcourt, but the offense broke down on several occasions against a stout Cal State East Bay defense, forcing Brue and McCann to create opportunities off the dribble.

With the forced offense, East Bay had several break away chances, pushing the Tritons out of their motion-oriented attack. Forced into a “run and gun” situation, the Tritons started to tire quickly, with senior forward Christian Hatch looking bogged down at the eight-minute mark, further slowing the offense and making it easy for Cal State East Bay to push the tempo even more.

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Whitman hit three three-pointers in the closing minutes of the first half as the Pioneers stretched their lead to 26-37 on a 2-11 run. Brue checked back into the game after two of the threes and single handedly re-ignited the Tritons. Brue made a block to set up a left-handed hook shot back on his end of the court, and then followed with a driving layup to bring the score to within seven, forcing the Pioneers to take a timeout.

Brue continued his streak, catching the ball in the corner and driving to the rim and spinning off the Pioneer defenders for another basket.

Pumped up, Brue fouled East Bay’s Mark Samuels and allowed the Pioneers two points.

Brue then made two more blocks to end the half on a 6-2 UCSD run to make it 32-39.

Coming off halftime, the Tritons tried to settle into a rhythm with their motion offense, but could not find a hole in the Pioneer defense.

Brue had another block to set up a nice pass from McCann to Hatch for an easy bucket that helped spark a 13-6 Triton run, to make it a onepoint game.

Junior Tyler McGrath helped solidify the run with an amazing defensive run in the middle of the half as he drew a charge from Whitfield, then blocked another Pioneer to keep the score 45-46 and the momentum in Triton hands. East Bay

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moved the ball well and took good shots against the Triton man defense, but McGrath then took another charge to really get the crowd on their feet. Brue took advantage and hit a turn around jumper for the lead.

At this point, both teams’ half court offenses started deteriorating. The Tritons had four turnovers in two minutes, but managed to hang on and retake the lead, 52-51. The lead changed hands several times as the time wound down, but things began to swing towards the Tritons, as UCSD head coach Chris Carlson switched from See men’s BASKETBALL, page 11