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niversity of California President Janet Napolitano and Gov. Jerry Brown reached an agreement to provide the university with additional revenue and freeze tuition through the next school year. Napolitano announced the agreement last Thursday and will present it to the UC Board of Regents on May 21.

Starting with the 2017–18 school year, the UC system’s tuition will increase annually by at least the rate of inflation. The deal also mandates a 4-percent base budget increase for the next four years and grants $436 million over three years for University of California’s pension obligation, $25 million for deferred maintenance and $25 million to support energy efficiency.

Lastly, the agreement allows the UC Regents to authorize the UC system to increase nonresident supplemental tuition by up to 8 percent annually.

The components of the deal will be included in the governor’s revised state budget proposal, which must be finalized by next month.

UCSD’s A.S. External Vice President Allyson Osorio thinks that the deal lacks any new benefits for the University of California’s graduate and professional students.

“Graduate students and professional students are not taken into consideration when it comes to this announcement, so this affects certain students differently,” Osorio said. “They are the backbone of [the UC system], and I think many seem to recognize that.”

In addition, the UC system will also continue or expand efforts to ensure that at least a third of its student population are transfers, create clear pathways to a three-way undergraduate degree, eliminate course bottlenecks and improve academic advising.

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The revised policies emphasize increased interaction between law enforcement and campuses.

BY Maria Sebas

STAFF Writer California Attorney General Kamala Harris and University of California President Janet Napolitano announced a new framework to improve how California college campuses handle sexual assault cases. On Wednesday, May 13, Harris released a Model Memorandum of Understanding on Campus Sexual Assault.

In a press release, Harris pointed out that the Model MOU will bring law enforcement and university officials together to assist victims of sexual assault.

“The model agreements will help break down silos between campuses and law enforcement agencies to provide sexual assault victims with the help they need and hold more perpetrators accountable,” Harris stated.

Napolitano added that cooperation between campuses and law enforcement will improve investigations into sexual assault cases.

“Working closely with Attorney General Kamala Harris and law enforcement agencies will help us build trust and ensure appropriate outcomes for criminal acts of sexual violence and assault,” Napolitano said.

The Model MOU consists of a howto guide and a template MOU for law enforcement agencies and institutions of higher education to facilitate better coordination in dealing with sexual assault cases. In addition, it highlights student victims’ rights to a Sexual Assault Forensic Exam (rape kit), to choose whether or not to participate with local law enforcement in pursuit of a criminal investigation and to participate anonymously therein.

University of California Student Association President Jefferson KuochSeng told the UCSD Guardian in an email that the MOU is not enforced for California college campuses that already have similar policies and procedures in place.

“It’s available for guidance but not required if a campus already has agreements in place with their local law

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Shelly Meron told the UCSD Guardian that, while the agreement solves the University of California’s tuition issues for the foreseeable future, it does not account for planned increases in resident student enrollment.

“While the framework meets the regents’ goals of providing budget stability and predictability, it does not allocate funds for the UC [system’s] priority of boosting enrollment of California students,” Meron said. “The [UC system] has been working with legislative leadership on ways to enroll more such students, a critical need given the continuing demand and the predicted shortage of highly skilled workers in the state.”

Osorio also called the deal a step in the right direction. However, she believes that the UC system still needs to formulate a comprehensive, long-term solution for its students.

“I know many students are happy and excited, as they should be, yet it is always important to remember that this is a temporary fix,” Osorio told the Guardian.

“The UC [system] and the state of California together need to find long term solutions for its undergraduates, graduate and professional students in the state of California.”

Additionally, according to the Los Angeles Times, California State University system officials are disappointed that the governor’s budget did not include their full request for the 23-campus system. President pro tempore of the California Senate Kevin de Leon agrees that the deal lacks solutions for California State University students.

“We are pleased UC students and their families will avoid paying higher tuition next year,” de Leon told the Los Angeles Times. “But [the CSU system], the workhorse of our higher education system, has been shortchanged.”

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The study analyzed cancer mortality rates and ultraviolet exposure scores from 172 countries across both hemispheres.

BY Josh Lefler

Contributing Writer UCSD researchers recently published a study that found an inverse correlation between sun exposure and higher incidence rates for pancreatic cancer.

The study, performed by Adjunct Professors Cedric Garland and Edward Gorham, concluded that population centers located at higher latitudes had a higher incidence rate for pancreatic cancer than those located closer to the equator.

Garland, the main author of the study, explained that pancreatic cancer rates vary around the world.

“People who live in sunny countries near the equator have only one-sixth of the age-adjusted incidence rate of pancreatic cancer as those who live far from it,” Garland said.

The professors conducted the study by comparing national incidence/ mortality rates of the potent cancer with a latitude-based ultraviolet B exposure score for each country. The

professors obtained and calculated data for 172 countries, located at various latitudes in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. What Garland found was a clear trend: countries with a higher incidence of pancreatic cancer were typically found at higher latitudes, with more cloud cover and therefore less exposure to UVB. “If you’re living at a high latitude or in a place with a lot of heavy cloud cover, you can’t make vitamin D most of the year, which results in a higherthan-normal risk of getting pancreatic cancer,” Garland said.

Though other confounding factors could have had an effect on pancreatic cancer incidence rates, Garland found that the correlation still held when taking these risk factors into account.

“The [correlation] did not go away when we adjusted for many factors, including health expenditures, body mass index, cigarette smoking and alcohol use,” Garland said.

Cohort studies cited by the paper have suggested that 25-hydroxyvitamin D – a modified form of vitamin D found in the body – is associated with

a lower risk for pancreatic cancer.

Vitamin D is readily synthesized by the body in the presence of ultraviolet radiation, specifically UVB. “Solar UVB is the main source of vitamin D [for the human body] ...

It is estimated that 80 to 90 percent of vitamin D in circulation is from sunlight” Garland said, adding that vitamin D “and its metabolites have been linked to lower incidence and mortality of several cancers.”

UVB rays, while integral to the synthesis of vitamin D in the human body, can also lead to sunburn and potentially cancerous DNA degradation in skin cells. Sunscreen and avoiding excessive UV exposure have proven to decrease this risk.

However, Garland warns that our efforts to protect ourselves from skin cancer are making us vitamin D deficient and potentially higher at risk for pancreatic cancer.

“Nowadays we make very little [vitamin D] because we usually wear clothes that cover 90 percent of our skin and wear sunscreens that totally prevent [UV absorption],” Garland

said.

Garland recommends annual checkups to monitor vitamin D levels in our bloodstream.

“Everyone should have their 25-hydroxyvitamin D tested every February or March, when the concentration is lowest,” Garland advises, recommending a supplement in the event that levels are lower than the accepted 40 ng/ml.

“Adequate vitamin D [with calcium] has been shown in a randomized clinical trial to prevent four out of five cancers in postmenopausal women.”

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest types of cancers, with an average five-year survival rate of 16 percent. Incidence and mortality rates from the study were obtained from the World Health Organization’s GLOBOCAN initiative. An estimated 48,960 patients are expected to be diagnosed with the disease in 2015.

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Research and Information, as of 2014, the undergraduate enrollment rate of African-American students is approximately 2 percent.

Sias expressed that the event carried an important role in preserving African culture at the campus where

the enrollment rate of African Americans is the second lowest, following the lowest enrollment rate of Native Americans.

“Especially for cultures that are not so well understood, I thought this was a very important educational experience for a lot of people who might not be too familiar with African culture,” Sias

said. “I think it’s definitely something to learn more about because I think in the coming years, we are going to see more and more African cultures, people from African cultures [and] different countries coming to UCSD.”

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*See infographic on page 1 Monday, May 4 12:58 a.m.: Under the Influence Report of a young adult male in the Sixth College residence halls acting erratically, possibly under the influence of excessive drugs.

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1:52 a.m.: Suspicious Person Report of male talking to himself and holding himself over a side railing near Lot P406. RSO report taken.

10:02 p.m.: Welfare Check A male subject called the Veterans Affairs hotline and admitted that he wanted to commit suicide. Unable to locate.

Tuesday, May 5 12:11 p.m.: Medical Aid A female was passed out in the women’s restroom in the Student Services Center. Checks ok.

4:40 p.m.: Welfare Check A young adult female in Geisel Library was acting strangely and pacing back and forth. Field interview administered.

7 p.m.: Battery A male attempted to grab the victim’s buttocks at Porter’s Pub. Report taken.

a Village elevator. Gone on arrival.

4:24 p.m.: Medical Aid A patient at the Moores Cancer Center experienced weakness and fatigue. Fire department responded.

7:57 p.m.: Injury A young adult male dislocated his shoulder while wrestling.

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Thursday, May 7 5:33 a.m.: Welfare Check Custodial Services found a studentaged female sleeping on the floor of the women’s restroom in the Applied Mathematics and Physics Building. Field interview conducted.

12:28 p.m.: Citizen Contact A motorist reported that a studentaged male ran into the street, causing her to hit the subject.

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Staff Writer The Celebration of Africa, hosted by the African Student Association, celebrated the cultural diversity of Africa and informed students of African traditions and facts through various activities, such as a general knowledge quiz, spoken word, a martial arts performance, African traditional dance, painting performance, speeches and fashion shows. This event was held on May 14 in the Price Center West Ballroom.

Co-chair of African Students Association Blessing Adeleke told the UCSD Guardian that the main purpose of the event was to inform students of diverse African cultures and promote cultural interactions among students.

“The goal was to bring students from all different types of culture to learn about Africa. Just coming here and celebrating what Africa is about, how there are different types

of African-looking people,” Adeleke said. “There’s different shape. There’s different hue. Tall, short, we are just like everyone else and wanted to share our culture with everyone else.”

The event started off with a trivia activity, asking general knowledge questions about Africa to the audience members. Thurgood Marshall College junior Monica Sias described her experience at the event as being educational. “[From] the trivia they had at the beginning, I learned some new things,” Sias said. “I also learned about new foods. I also learned about [African] dances, different cultures of Africa and attires of Africa.”

The Celebration of Africa also presented a combination of visual and auditory entertainment through a performance of capoeira, a Brazilian martial art that was originally formed

by African slaves, which involves self-defense, combat, dance-like expression, acrobatics and music.

Adeleke stated that unlike the events of previous years, this year’s

Celebration of Africa focused more on exposing diversity of African culture by including symbolic performances from different regions with African roots.

“One thing we wanted to do was [share] our culture to show that there’s diversity in Africa,” Adeleke said. “I think a lot of people don’t realize that Africa is the most diverse continent, so we showed more diversity this year.”

Toward the end of the event Jeremy Prestholdt, a history professor at UCSD, gave a formal speech, describing how appreciation of African cultures and traditions can potentially make better communities in places elsewhere.

“If all the countries in the world were like Africa, we would have a much better place to live,” Prestholdt said. “The western countries surely have a lot to learn from African cultures.”

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enforcement agencies that address collaboration and information sharing related to responding to sexual assault and other Part-I violent crimes,” Kuoch-Seng said.

The Model MOU is intended to help campuses comply with Assembly Bill 1433. The law requires institutions of higher education to implement written policies and procedures ensuring any report of sexual assault that campus authorities receive are immediately

forwarded to local law enforcement.

California campuses must do so by July 1, 2015, which is stipulated in the California Education Code.

According to a press release by the Office of the Attorney General, up to 20 percent of undergraduate students are victims of an attempted or completed sexual assault.

Additionally, 80 percent of campus sexual assaults go unreported to law enforcement.

In January 2015, Harris released an information bulletin to California

law enforcement agencies and higher education administrators summarizing AB 1433 as well as Senate Bill 967, commonly referred to as the “Yes Means Yes” law. Gov. Brown signed the law into force on Sept. 28, 2014. The law put in place an affirmative consent standard in determining whether “consent was given by both parties to sexual activity.”

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Unlike the majority of industrialized countries in the world, the U.S. provides little legislative protection to ensure that new parents are granted paid leave after childbirth.

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ust one week ago, the United States celebrated the reason we are all here: mothers giving birth. In other words, Mother’s Day happened as usual with citizens thanking their mothers. However, John Oliver, the host of “Last Week Tonight,” reminded the U.S. in his typical hilarious fashion how we can better thank mothers: paid maternity leave. While that’s true, there’s an even better solution: Offer paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers.

First, let’s get the facts straight. Currently in the U.S., there is no federal government requirement for any type of paid leave, paternal or maternal. The U.S. is one of only four countries with no national paid maternity leave, along with Swaziland, Lesotho and Papua New Guinea, according to the U.K. Guardian. Instead, the New York Times tells us about the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 which requires companies within the U.S. with more than 50 employees to provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave for new parents.

There are two key things to note about this. Although legally mandated, this is still unpaid leave. For new families who are usually strapped for cash, spending three months getting no pay is unrealistic.

More often than not, mothers and fathers will shorten their leave because they cannot afford to spend so much time while not receiving pay. Thus, for maternity and paternity leave to be effective and for it to be used, it’s crucial that parental leave includes pay.

Second, though the act dictates that leave must be offered for fathers as well as mothers, the New York Times points out that 20 percent of companies illegally fail to offer any paternity leave. This will be discussed as an equally crucial detail that cannot be left out of the equation. Despite this, there is a small silver lining. There are three states within the U.S. that require paid family leave: California, New Jersey and Rhode Island, according to Politifact.com. However, three out of 50 states leaves out the vast majority of the country, showing the need for a national solution.

It’s clear that the U.S. does not have paid parental leave, but why is it even important to have? The most obvious reasons are the benefits mothers get from maternity leave. Today, 70 percent of mothers are working, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Paid leave gives working mothers a chance to recover from the difficult task of

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AS COMPUTER PROGRAMS CONTINUE TO REPLACE A GREAT DEAL OF CONTENT IN VARIOUS SECTORS OF THE MEDIA, SUCH AS NEWS AND MUSIC, THE IMPLICATIONS FOR ARTISTIC EXPRESSION REMAIN UNCERTAIN FOR THE FUTURE.

Computer Programs Have Covertly Substituted the Material of Musical Artists With Algorithms

Machine-Generated News Articles Allow Information To Be Filtered By Computers Instead of People

This is an age when one simply does not need emotion or human creativity to craft music. While some technological advancements have improved our standards of living significantly, others have lowered our expectations for originality within the arts. Since the beginning of pop music, it is clear that mainstream artists have been carefully crafted as corporate products. But now they are being far too blunt — and even shameful — by substituting lifeless computers for human creativity in the artistic process.

For instance, look at Japan’s very own Hatsune Miku — a computer program that masquerades as a pop star. For a country to produce both this and someone as real as Ayumi Hamasaki in the same generation is perplexing. The former is an inauthentic, unsatisfying robotic-sounding mess of a creation. She isn’t even a real person, yet she has continued to be eerily marketed as some sort of sensational android.

On the other hand, Hamasaki is everything; Miku is not.

Hamasaki has frequently eschewed her music as a consumerist product, writes her own lyrics and produces her own music. One can feel honesty and integrity in her works. This cannot be said about the so-called music churned out by Miku’s algorithm.

Unfortunately, the increasing presence of computer-generated artistic content is not just a pop-music phenomenon. The rock world has also seen some of its heroes descend into a pit of uninspired mediocrity when human talent is replaced by the cold hand of the machine.

In the early ‘80s, guitar virtuoso Frank Zappa found himself fed up with actual people and began to produce studio albums featuring the Synclavier, a synthesizer with the ability to play computerprogrammed compositions. The most famous album of this soulless era — Jazz from Hell — is without expression, dull and quite frankly a soul-sucking experience.

UCSD students might very well live to see a brave, new musical world dominated by machines in place of the human experience.

Thankfully, history has produced hundreds of years of genuine music to look back on and appreciate.

The Associated Press and Comcast Corp. recently partnered up with Automated Insights, a company that uses “natural language processing” to create news stories out of data reports. In addition, these automated machine journalists produce stories in minutes, allowing people to access information about homicides, earthquakes and other events instantly.

Supporters of this platform argue that automatically generated news articles save time and ensure logistical accuracy, allowing human journalists to devote more time to interviewing and investigating. While computer algorithms can be designed to produce creative, engaging pieces, they cannot, at this point in time, perform multidimensional investigative work. Therefore, the issue of jobs being replaced by technology is not currently a problem.

According to the Automated Insights website, the Wordsmith technology used by the company writes “exactly what each customer or employee wants — and needs — to read.” However, there is a caveat.

Although the company is managed by real people, and articles can be modified by actual reporters, the information being received is ultimately filtered by a computer.

As we all know, algorithms can be easily manipulated, and system glitches do happen. Stories written by people reflect the natural biases of writers and editors, but readers expect that because they are also human.

Articles compiled by a machine, however, are more likely to be perceived as neutral because a robot doesn’t possess human emotion or reason.

Because the content of the article is not written by a person, information people actually “need” might be arbitrarily omitted.

Convenience versus liberty is an issue that has been talked about in recent years with the emergence of increasingly efficient technology.

News and information are necessary for the public to make informed choices and to fully participate in society. Altering news propagates a false understanding of reality which people are too busy and distracted to investigate themselves. Thus, supporting these new media which create more convenient or efficient news stories does not necessarily raise awareness of the critical investigative details in public events. As a result, computer-generated articles defeat the purpose of news articles by hindering the drive for deeper analysis.

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“I’ll tell you who has it the hardest: white men,” Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) of the acclaimed NBC sitcom “30 Rock” said. “We make the unpopular, difficult decisions — the tough choices. We land on the moon and Normandy Beach and yet they resent us.”

It was his response to Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) and Tracy Jordan’s (Tracy Morgan) social experiment — to figure out if women or black men had it hardest in America.

The loveable page-boy Kenneth Parcell (Jack McBrayer) politely chimes in, noting that he is also a white man.

“No, you are not.

Socioeconomically speaking, you are more like an inner-city Latina,” Jack retorted. Thus is the premise for this column: intersectionality. So what is intersectionality in the context of social issues? Kimberle Crenshaw first coined the term intersectionality in 1989 and published a 1991 paper in the Stanford Law Review; her research countered conventional understandings of anti-racist and feminist rhetoric and how it focused on a single identity. What Crenshaw argued is that the social justice camps failed to recognize individuals who have a foot in both territories.

If a woman of color is raped, will her experience be different from a white woman being raped?

Crenshaw’s argument is a substantive “yes” — not exhibiting whiteness will affect outcomes and social stigmas of the individual raped, and the extent of a woman of color’s experience intersects not only with her sex but with her ethnicity, her socioeconomic status, her fluency in the English language and her awareness and level of education on available resources. As for Maroney and Jordan’s argument about whether the pitfalls of being a black man or a black woman are worse, there is no simple solution.

Let’s look at another example of the intersectionality of gender and race, as well as socioeconomic status.

The “Grim Sleeper” is a menacing euphemism for a serial killer who has been convicted for 10 counts of murder in the South Central Los Angeles area from 1985 to 2007. The suspect, formally known as Lonnie David Franklin Jr., got his nickname from a 14-year lapse between the killings. The victims? All black women, many of whom were seen as prostitutes or drug addicts. This isn’t a sweeping generalization to say that the Los Angeles police wholeheartedly disregarded the lives of Franklin’s victims, but this case could not be more representative of intersectionality. If the victims did not belong to the marginalized communities of being women and being black but also the lower social echelons of the U.S., would the investigation have gone differently? The gravity of the question is immense and one that should not be simply overlooked.

Late American poet and selfproclaimed “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” Audre Lorde said in her poem, “Who Said It Was Simple,” that “But I who am bound by my mirror/ as well as my bed/ see causes in colour/ as well as sex.” Because we are not the addition of our several identities but the multiplication of those identities, every experience is intrinsically unique.

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childbirth while not having to worry about income or losing their job. In addition, studies show that when companies offer paid maternity leave, working mothers are significantly less likely to drop out of the workforce, according to Slate Magazine.

However, if we really want to help the situation, paternity leave must be offered as well. This helps fathers, benefits families and supports women in the workforce. The New York Times reported that men who take a hands-on role in their children’s lives, have healthier children, and their wives have a lower risk of getting depression after childbirth. Social scientists have published many studies showing that children are less likely to develop a mental illness later on in life when both parents play an active role in their upbringing. In addition,

a study in the journal Public Health shows that fathers who took paternity leave actually lived longer. In Sweden, a study that offered paid leave for fathers from 1978 to 1979 shows that these men had a 16-percent decreased risk of death. The study also showed that the longer the paid leave, the better the life expectancy.

This also ties into the aspect of equal pay. Harvard Business Review did a study on “off ramps,” also known as breaks from a career, which cause lower wage earnings later on. Women statistically take more “off ramps” than men, and taking leave to give birth is a common example of an “off ramp.”

It should also be noted that the loss of career earnings that women face for taking maternity leave apply to men who take paternity leave as well. However, according to

the New York Times, when men take parental leave, their wives face greater career earnings later on. When both parents take the same time off work, this lessens the gender gap in wages.

Altogether, this reflects a bigger trend. No longer do traditional families have one sole breadwinner and one sole caregiver, nor should they. Instead, caregiver and breadwinner roles should be shared by both parents. This leads to healthier families and more diverse companies with more equal pay. As a service that would benefit mothers, fathers, children and the workforce, it’s incredibly disappointing that the U.S. doesn’t have it yet. The point is that when you offer paid parental leave, everybody wins.

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s Week 8 rolls in, some students are quietly studying for their midterms and finals. However, east of the UCSD campus, others are working on something else entirely: building a derby car. The Triton Junkyard Derby is a UCSD tradition in which teams scour the local San Diego area for usable junk to build their own derby car.

Having spent the weekend in a parking lot assembling their cars, these students will compete against other teams in a race down Mandeville Hill today.

This past Saturday’s calm afternoon was taken over by the sounds of machinery and tinkering. Many cars and pedestrians passed by wondering if there was road construction going on. Andreas Borzone, a sophomore working as a test committee member for the Junkyard Derby, believes that the Derby is a good way for engineers to take part in a hands-on activity outside of classes.

“This event was created so that we can create things out of junk and metal. It brings out the engineers’ innovation with pieces of scrap metal,” Borzone said. “Alongside that, we like that this [event] can create teams and [bring] community to the engineers in a competitive way … [It shows them] that engineering is not something that is just coursework.”

As piles and piles of bikes were laid out on the parking lot, the teams disassembled parts, including the wheels and frame, from them. Also spread out across the ground were tools and shopping carts as well as car doors. Team Sanchos, one of the teams participating in the event, plans to use past experience to help them this year.

“Our team members had experience last year. They know the mistakes they performed and they are doing the best that they can do to prevent that this year,” Earl Warren College sophomore Edgar Baez Mozo said.

Darren Anthony, a chemical engineering junior, and his team, the E-lemon-ators, are newcomers to the Derby.

After attending a pre-event workshop last Tuesday, Anthony came to build with a general idea of which junk to grab and how to put it together, but the overall aspect of improvisation added something special to his experience.

“I think [building a Junkyard Derby car] is artistic in a way because it’s a special kind of creation when you have to think on your feet and do it quickly,” Anthony told the UCSD Guardian. “Improvised things are their own kind of art.”

For nanoengineering junior Robert Gilbert, this will be his third year attending this event. His team, Fast Like a NETS Car, is thinking of a new way to build the car.

“We are trying to think about how to put the whole thing together,” Gilbert said. “As far as inspiration goes, we just look at the junk and think, ‘Hey, I’ll make it work.’”

Many of the teams are not from campus and some have been participating in this event year after year. The Triton Engineering Student Council welcomes anyone to apply and join. It would be happier if more people from the local San Diego area participated, but that is not its top priority. Many of the participants in the event are engineering majors, though the event encourages students from all majors to join.

“Although this is a way for engineers to work on [something] other than coursework, a lot of the teams here have never worked with things such as an electric saw. There is an expert team of welders to weld for you and people helping you build your car,” Borzone said.

On race day, Mandeville Hill will be piled with stacks of hay for the event. This year, each derby car must be able to seat two people, with one person navigating the team’s car and the other person collecting hanging rings and stuffed animals. The winning team will be determined by the fastest duo with the most points. Even if not every team can win, Borzone believes the experience pays off.

“I enjoy working with people here. I like getting people to do whatever they want to do and seeing that they can build,” Borzone said.

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or some university students, the sky is hardly the limit. As part of the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association’s Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition, UCSD’s Students for the Exploration and Development of Space are set to launch a liquid-fueled rocket with a 3-D-printed engine between June 24 and 27 in Green River, Utah.

For anyone not already aware, this is a feat that even NASA has yet to accomplish and which will set a world record if the rocket makes it far enough into the air. To Muir College senior and SEDS President Deepak Atyam, a successful 3-D-printed engine could be revolutionary in driving down costs of rocket-launching — something that would drastically help make space travel more feasible.

“We think this has a huge role in reducing the costs to access space,” Atyam said. “By being able to reduce the costs of one of the most complex components of a launch vehicle — the rocket engine — we can immensely reduce the cost to get any type of payload to orbit.”

It’s a vitally important consequence of the project and one which Atyam thinks will serve as an example of how rocket-launching and economical spending are not mutually exclusive. Because the ultimate goal of SEDS and many professional space organizations is to explore space and colonize other planets, it’s important to demonstrate that spaceflight is financially possible.

“We really are moving quickly to being able to colonize the moon or Mars, and it’s only when we get our minds around the notion that we have the technology to do all of it, it isn’t far-fetched anymore,” Atyam said.

SEDS developed the rocket engine, “Ignus,” which is made out of a nickel-chromium alloy called Inconel 718, over roughly a year and half and first tested it on April 18, 2015. Atyam believes the test was successful but said that SEDS is still analyzing its data to verify its results.

He added that the test was a landmark for both academia and industry due to the number of new features used along with the engine, including different methods for weight reduction and optimization. With the continued help of some advisors from UCSD, San Diego State and NASA, SEDS hopes to successfully launch its rocket in June and, in doing so, quell some of the skepticism about the costs of these kinds of projects.

“You just need to put the capital behind it, and that’s where people like us come in. We’re showing people that we can do it as students, [so] why can’t you guys do it as professionals?”

Atyam added. “And we’re pushing them to being able to develop this technology faster and faster — not us specifically or directly, but we have a contributing role in doing that: That’s what’s exciting.”

According to Sixth College freshman and SEDS business manager Darren Charrier, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center provided SEDS with a research grant and funding for the engine. For a group that financed its first rocket solely off of chicken barbecue sales, this shows the greater esteem and international attention SEDS has begun to garner. The group’s Kickstarter for Vulcan-1, the name of the rocket body, also reflects this; it’s raised over $22,000 so far, which is roughly $7,000 more than its original goal.

Additionally, Charrier said that SEDS will set a world record for 3-D-printed engines if Vulcan-1 flies over 30 feet, which is the current world record for a rocket with this type of engine. Its targeted height, though, is 10,000 feet. If that seems like a modest goal compared to space travel, SEDS is aware of it and already working on surpassing it: Charrier’s long-term plan is to help SEDS put a lander on the moon.

“That project is going to start off next year. There’s two parts: We’re building a six-unit cube satellite to go around the moon — it’s going to go in lunar orbit and service our communications array, and that is being worked on currently,” Charrier said. “Once the people are done building on the rocket body, they’re going to transition over to designing and building our lander.”

The lander, which Charrier estimates will take about four to five years to successfully end up on the moon, is what is called a “soft lander,” meaning that it will slowly touch down on the lunar surface. The goal of the project is to send back video imaging — something that scientists in the industry have told Charrier is important, considering the paltry amount of information that we actually have about the moon.

It’s an ambitious project but one that Atyam says has a lot of potential sponsors from large companies. Given the group’s extraordinary trajectory, the project may not be as unrealistic as many might see it. While part of the group works on this project, other sections of the club will continue to develop rockets with 3-D-printed engines.

“We do what we do because we love what we’re doing. We’re all really passionate about space, space exploration, new technologies. We don’t do this just to put something on a resume,” Atyam said. “People stay in the club because they really want to do something that makes a difference.”

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faster than your competitors is certainly more challenging than your average mile jog. Being able to master block starts or correcting your form and technique to shave even just a tenth of a second off your time takes determination and drive.

For anyone that claims it doesn’t require much skill, … try running down a 30-meter runway with a giant 13-foot pole in your hand and propelling yourself over a bar. That certainly takes skill, practice and focus. Every movement from the point you start your approach has to be correct.”

Bowen: “The mental side of track is huge, too. If you’re not confident in yourself when you step up to compete, chances are you’re going to have a bad day. Everyone is guilty of this at one point or another, but we all have to stay upbeat even if things don’t go our way. Mental strength is extremely important to improving, especially on days where you want to drop dead after practice.”

Howe: “In track, athletes truly push their bodies to the limit both mentally and physically. We train year-round, and each of our failures

is a test of mental and physical perseverance that affects future success. Some of the most amazing athletes in the world compete in track and field, there’s no denying it — we have Usain Bolt, one of the single most recognizable athletes around the world.”

The strength of track athletes is undeniable; it just takes a basic knowledge of this strength and skill to appreciate the sport.

Bowen: “I think if people knew the amount of work every one of us puts in, they’d at least respect the sport more. As far as appreciation, I think it’s a hit or miss with people. Some people just enjoy other things, and that’s okay — track isn’t for everyone! Competing in the sport is easily the best way to appreciate it.”

Snover: “Because track is mostly based on marks, too, not having any knowledge of decent marks in each event can make it hard to understand what’s going on in a competition. For some events, like hammer throw, people who have never been involved in track wouldn’t have any idea what that event entails or what a hammer even is. I didn’t even know what

one looked like until I got to college.”

Bowen: “My roommate once said we make it look so easy, but in reality, what we do is really hard.

Anyone can sprint a short distance, jump into sand or throw a metal ball. To do all of these well, though, … that’s a different story.”

Snover: “Many might think track ‘isn’t a real sport’ because of how ‘anyone can do it’ because of the supposed ‘lack of skill’ it requires or because there seems to be no true competition with others. I say that everyone can physically run, yes. However, in track, you must have the mental and physical capacity to run, jump and throw with everything you have, the determination to fight through the pain of a race, the focus to maintain your skills and the drive to not break down when putting your body to those limits so you can fight with your competitors and win. Track is most definitely a sport, and anyone that doubts that can come try to do my practices for a week and tell me what they think afterward!”

Despite Loss of Star Player, Tritons Remain Among D-II Elites ▶ RECAPS, from page 12

with a 9–7 win. The Tritons came out of their hosted event a more uniform team and managed to maintain their No. 12 ranking in the league.

The UC Davis Invitational turned out to be an-eye opening event for the Tritons, as they only won one of the three games that they played there; they beat Azusa Pacific with a score of 15–8 but lost to UC Davis and UC Berkeley. Despite the losses, the Tritons reached a season-peak ranking at No. 11. At the UC Irvine Invitational, the Tritons fared worse, as they won only one of four matches, managing to beat Michigan but losing to UCSB, Loyola Marymount University and University of Hawaii. This tough weekend made the women’s record plummet and brought them down to No. 16.

The Tritons won other matches after the UC Irvine Invitational but remained on the negative spectrum.

As a result, their ranking dropped even further to No. 19. The Tritons then approached the Claremont Convergence with more determination and were able to turn things around, as they won three of their four matches — their

only loss coming on a final heartwrenching score of 8–9 in overtime.

Despite these wins, the Tritons’ record still dropped them down to a No. 20 ranking, where it would stay for the rest of the season.

The Aztec Invite and the remainder of the season reflected the Tritons’ performance up to this point: Although they were able to win some games, they were never consistent enough to sustain winning streaks. Their biggest loss came toward the end of the season at the Harper Cup, when the Tritons fell to SDSU after only being able to hold onto the cup for a single year.

Things turned around for the Tritons in the WWPA championships, where they were able to win all three of their matches and claim the title.

The title allowed UCSD to play in the NCAA Championship Play-In Game.

After defeating Whittier College in the play-in game, the Tritons once again competed in the NCAA tournament, finishing in eighth place for the second consecutive year to conclude the season.

UCSD was led by standout junior goalkeeper Courtney Miller, who recorded 402 saves, a single-season

school record, along with 29 assists.

The WWPA player of the year also eclipsed the 1000-saves mark this season, becoming the all-time saves leader in UCSD women’s water polo history.

After losing senior attacker Sarah Lizotte and her 92 goals from the 2013–14 season, and with senior attacker Jolene Guiliana’s production declining slightly from 73 to 58 goals, UCSD relied more heavily on both junior attacker Laurel Kistler, who led the team in goals and steals, and junior attacker Julia Kirkland, who was second on the team with 63 goals. Guiliana still led the team in assists, with 56 over the season. Sophomore attacker Lani Tittle, sophomore center Lauren Boyer and junior attacker Emma Sasson all had notable contributions to the team’s success as well.

Despite having a questionable offense at times, UCSD was saved throughout the season by Miller’s incredible performances. With her and several of their leaders coming back, and despite the loss of Guiliana to graduation, the Tritons will look to continue their three-year streak of competing in the NCAA Championships.

Fifteen Freshmen Seek to Improve Poor Record Next Season UCSD men’s volleyball had a disappointing season overall, as they finished with a 2–26 record, going 0–22 in conference in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. The Tritons accumulated a total of 1,718 points in their games, taking 12 sets in the process. Of their 26 losses, 20 came in straight sets, and none were pushed to five sets. However, with 15 of the 20man team being freshmen, this year’s team will be looked upon as a still developing squad who gained valuable experience.

The season began on Jan. 7 in Irvine as the Tritons faced up against Concordia University. Despite losing the match 3–1, the Tritons showed promise as they pushed hard to take the third set 26–24. That promise showed in the following week’s match, as UCSD secured its first win of the season against Grand Canyon University. It took a lot of resilience from the Tritons who had to come from two sets behind to secure a 3–2 win.

After this, however, the Tritons were subjected to a series of eight straight set defeats including a 3–0 loss to No. 5 University of Southern California in UCSD’s first home game

of the season on Jan. 22. UCSD, despite the losses, continued to show promise as the players pulled off some good performances against some renowned opposition. Against 2012 and 2013 back-to-back champions UC Irvine, UCSD rode the heroics of sophomore middle-blocker Shayne Beamer, whose combinations of kills and solo blocks gave UCSD a 25–21 second-set win.

The Tritons eventually fell in four sets to UC Irvine.

During that homestand, the Tritons were also unlucky to fall to Stanford University 3–1, in a match where freshman opposite Tanner Syfestad produced a season-best 16 kills. On Feb. 25, the Tritons produced their second win of the season as they took down Holy Names University in three sets. The Tritons produced a .408 hitting ratio in this game.

After this, however, the team continued to be outplayed by opposition, suffering three back-to-back set losses to UC Santa Barbara, UCLA and USC, respectively. UCSD did bring out some great performances in what was left of the season. Against California Baptist University, the Tritons took the first set but eventually fell in four. Freshman

middle-blocker Alec Flowers produced an impressive 15 kills in that match in his first collegiate start.

Despite falling to No. 1 University of Hawaii in four, the Tritons showed character to take the first set and resilience to push the much-favored team all the way. Even in their last match of the season against the MPSF regular-season champions UC Irvine, the blue and gold managed to out-block their opponents 8.5 to 4.0, showing that there is a solid foundation of talent to be built upon.

The star of the season was Syfestad, as he produced an outstanding 2.71 kills-to-set ratio, over one point higher than any other player on the team. The freshman also produced a team-high 299 points for the Tritons and 0.84 block-to-set ratio. Freshman setter Milosh Stojcic produced a team-high of 417 assists, and freshman libero Tyler Bird displayed the team’s highest dig total with an impressive 140 digs.

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he UCSD women’s water polo team had an impressive season and, despite facing adversity, won the Western Water Polo Association title for the fourth time over the past five years. The team competed at the Division-II National Collegiate Women’s Water Polo Championship, eventually placing eighth.

The season started when the UCSD squad rode out to compete at the UC Santa Barbara Winter Invitational. During the invitational, UCSD managed to maintain its No. 13 preseason rank as the Tritons competed against Arizona State University, Cal State Bakersfield, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and Cal State Long Beach. The women started off the season with a 2–2 weekend after they were able to defeat Michigan 9–5 and Cal State Long Beach 8–6.

The Tritons’ first home game turned out to be a success, as they defeated Hartwick College by twice their score, winning by a comfortable 14–7 margin. With this win, the blue and gold were able to raise their rank to No. 12. UCSD found similar success in the Triton Invitational. They were able to win two of the four games they played: beating Marist College with an 11–5 win and San Diego State See RECAPS, page 11

See MIND OF AN ATHLETE, page 11

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Men’s Tennis Will Need to Regain Momentum After Losing Six Seniors

CSD women’s tennis finished the season ranked 25th nationally and seventh in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association West Region in Division-II play. The Tritons had an uneven CSD men’s tennis finished their season with a 12–9 record, good for fourth in the season, despite putting together an impressive six-game region and 21st nationally. The team also had an uneven season, alternating short winning streak early in the season. They alternated twowinning and losing streaks throughout the year before posting a dominant four-game and three-game winning and losing streaks to finish at a win streak at the end of March. Unfortunately, this streak was negated by back-to-back losses to mediocre 12–13 overall on the season. UCSD also played close out the year. UCSD assistant coach Tavi Popaluca was awarded the ITA Division-II West seven NCAA Division-I opponents on the season and Region Assistant Coach of the Year recognition for the Tritons’ good season. went 2–5 in those matchups.

UCSD was led by senior Axel Bouillin, ranked 10th for the West Region. He finished The Tritons were led by Junior Kyra Scott at the numthe year with a 7–10 record at the one spot for the Tritons. He combined in the double with ber one spot. The team leader posted a 13–5 record on the senior Rajeev Herekar at the one spot in double to finish the season as the 10th ranked year while battling an ankle injury and finished ranked fifth doubles pair in Division-II, as well as the third best in the West Region. They combined to in the region and 21st nationally. go 12–6 at the one spot with a nine-game win streak and reached the quarterfinals at the Scott paired with sophomore Britta Moser to lead UCSD’s Pacific Coast Doubles.

No.1 double’s pair. They finished 14–8 on the season, ranked Bouillin was helped in the singles by freshman Eric Tseng, who finished ranked 16th third in the region and 16th nationally. Moser played most of in the West Region and junior Horea Porutiu, ranked 17th. Tseng went 8–11, and Poruthe season at the three spot and had a 16–9 record, making her tiu was 13–6, playing mostly at the two and three spot, respectively. the winningest Triton over the season.

Herekar led the way at the four spot, compiling an 8–6 record. Herekar also earned UCSD’s team was completed by freshman Jasmine Hosseini, Capital One Academic All-District Honors at the end of the season for excellence both ranked 13th in the region and usually playing in the two spot. on and off the court.

She had a 14–10 record on the season, even seeing some action at Senior Mark Meyer (6–8) and sophomore Alexandre Miaule (9–4) shared time the one spot after Scott was injured. at the five spot, while senior Kona Luu (9–4) spent most of the season at the sixth The team was usually completed by sophomore Nava spot. The players were often shuffled around, however, and played at multiple spots Nowamooz (8–17) at the four spot, freshman Nousha Nowamooz throughout the year.

(4–18) at the five spot and sophomore Shannon Theisen (7–17) at In the doubles, Miaule and Porutiu occupied the two spots for most of the the sixth spot. season, posting a 10–6 record. Luu paired with Tseng (8–5) and Meyer (3–3) at In doubles, the pair formed by Nava Nowamooz and Theisen the three spot throughout the year. posted a (9–15) record playing in the two spot, and Hosseini and With six seniors graduating, the men’s tennis squad will look depleted next Nousha Nowamooz had an even 12–12 record at the three spot. year. The top pair in doubles and number-one singles player are leaving, so the With a year more of experience and no seniors graduating, our Tritons will look for Tseng and Porutiu to lead the team into the upcoming women’s tennis will look to improve on this season’s results when they season. take the court next year.

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Mind of an Athlete Katie Potts

For a vast majority of our population, running in circles has little appeal. Thus, track and field tends to get written off as a “lesser” sport — it lacks the constant action and spectacle that the typical American sports fan desires. Is track and field really just running, though? Senior sprinter-thrower Ellexi Snover, freshman jumper Matt Bowen and senior thrower Nash Howe beg to differ. For those who are convinced that track is “boring” or isn’t a true sport, here’s the real deal: Bowen: “I think track tends to be underappreciated because a lot of people just don’t find running in circles interesting. Field events, especially, involve more standing and waiting than actual competition. People like action, but you can’t really understand the action and intensity on the track until you’ve been placed in our shoes.”

Snover: “There’s this preconceived notion that track is just running. There isn’t a giant following for the sport, either due to a lack of major competitions other than the Olympics; competitions also tend to last anywhere from four to 10 hours, and because people’s interests don’t always encompass every event, most wouldn’t stay and watch for that long. People just might not know how exciting different events can be.”

Howe: “Track tends to be superseded by larger, more historical team sports, like football or baseball. It’s one of those sports that most people pick up on in high school. There [are]n’t a significant number of young athletes competing in track as compared to soccer or baseball, for example. I honestly think that track is making a comeback here, though; it’s fairly visible at the Division-II national level now, and the competitiveness is getting more and more intense.”

From an outside perspective, track might seem monotonous, but this isn’t truly the case — it takes a wide range of strengths and talents to make a successful team.

Bowen: “Track athletes have a variety of strengths and weaknesses based on their event. It’s such a versatile sport in that sense. You have to be able to push through crazy amounts of pain, be it from the past 11 laps you ran as fast as you could or the pounding your legs just took from jumping repeatedly.

Distance runners need some insane endurance while sprinters, jumpers and throwers need to be able to go from zero to 100 in a split second.

If pushing your body physically and mentally to its limits every time you compete doesn’t qualify as a ‘real sport,’ I’d really like to see what those people consider a sport.”

Snover: “Sprinting is more than just running. It’s pushing your body to the most extreme limits — pushing your muscles to full capacity to move your body down the track

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