VOLUME 47, ISSUE 21
MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2014
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CAMPUS
CRAMMING CARS
All 10 UC Campuses Implement Smoking Ban
UC SYSTEM
UC Venture Capital Firm Verdict Overturned A state appellate court ruled the UC system does not have to disclose financial documents. BY Andrew Huang
staff'writer
PHOTO BY ANDREW OH /GUARDIAN FILE
A carpooling program launched by two Rady alumni aims to ease campus parking woes and promote environmental sustainability. FeATURES, PAGE 7
HELD IN HIGH REGARD?
Colorado legalizes pot opinion, Page 4
IN AND OUT
mixed results for basketball sports, Page 12
FORECAST
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San Diego State joins the UC campuses in prohibiting the sale and use of tobacco products beginning Jan. 1.
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BY Gabriella Fleischman
senior'staff'writer'''photo by briaN monroe
ach of the ten UC campuses has gone “smokefree” as of Jan. 1, following UCSD’s implementation of the tobacco ban on Sept. 1., 2013. Additionally, San Diego State University enforced a similar smoking ban starting Jan. 1. The regulations of the SDSU ban are similar to those of the UC system, prohibiting all tobacco use, sale and sponsorship. Unlike the other nine UC campuses, UC Irvine’s ban on smoking will allow the use of e-cigarettes and chewing tobacco. SDSU’s ban comes after a policy designating 12 smoking areas, which was largely unsuccessful. Thus far there have been no formal measurements of the effectiveness of the tobacco ban at UCSD.
However, UCSD Executive Director of Student Health and Well-being Karen Calfas thinks that a decrease in smoking is noticeable on campus. “That isn’t to say there aren’t places where people aren’t occasionally smoking, but this is our transition period and so I think it’s been very effective,” Calfas said. “We are working with other campuses to do a system-wide measurement, but the other campuses just went smoke-free so we’re still working out what that will be.” UCLA became the first smoke-free campus in April, the only UC campus other than UCSD to ban tobacco before Jan. 1. “Our experience has been very similar to that of
See INVESTMENT, page 3
See SMOKE-FREE, page 3
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VERBATIM
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The smell of chocolate chip cookies can easily lure me from any ill-advised fitness goals. ”
- Kelvin Noronha THINKING CAPS
OPINION, PAGE 4
INSIDE Lights and Sirens ............ 3 Quick Takes .................... 4 Technically Speaking ...... 5 Crossword .................... 11 Sports........................... 12
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Women Lead in UC and CSU Graduation Rates A recent report announced a reversal in trends as women outperform men in enrollment and graduation. BY Karen To
staff'writer
Women are now outperforming their male counterparts in preparedness for college and in rates of enrollment and graduation, according to a recent report released by the Campaign for College Opportunity. The report, titled “The State of Higher Education in California: The Gender and Racial Gap Analysis,” announced that the reversal in trend is now true for women from all ethnic groups. Despite the improvement in the rate of women attending college, the dwindling rate of young men’s enrollment in college is worrisome to Solano Community College President Jowel Laguerre, who has been following the reports for almost two decades. “It is a disturbing trend,” Laguerre said in a Dec. 27 article in the Vallejo Times Herald. “We want for as many
women to go to college; but we also need young men to do the same.” In the report, the Campaign for College Opportunity’s data shows that the gender education gap usually begins in high school with a greater number of women taking courses to meet requirements for college enrollment than men. In college, the gap becomes more defined as students approach graduation. For example, the report shows that women graduate from the California State University system at an average of five to eight percent higher than males while in the University of California system, women graduate at an average of six percent higher than their male counterparts. The report also found that education gaps by race persist. Although women in African American and See GENDER, page 3
A state appellate court ruled on Dec. 19 that the University of California was not required to produce financial documents from two venture capital firms detailing information on UC investments. This decision overruled an earlier judgment from February of 2013 wherein the Alameda County Superior Court ordered the university to “make an objectively reasonable effort” to provide the details to the Reuters America news agency, under the California Public Record Act. “We are obviously disappointed by the court’s ruling and continue to believe the records are not only in the public interest but should be disclosed under the California Public Records Act,” Reuters spokesperson Barb Burg said according to the Daily Californian. Court documents report that Reuters editor Mark Boslet originally requested that the University of California reveal confidential fundlevel performance data about Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, two venture capital firms that the university had worked with in the past. The university refused, stating that it no longer had access to such information, following a 2003
THE FUSs ABOUT THE BUS Transportation and Parking Services announced over the weekend that the blue stickers distributed in Fall Quarter will now be valid until the end of this month. Students who use MTS buses are now able to pick up a new sticker at the Parking Services Office that will be valid through March. Source: blink.ucsd.edu
Blue stickers
are valid through
1/31/14
New Stickers
are free and will last until
3/31/14