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University Creates Joint Anti-Poverty Federation UC President granted $1.32 million towards forming the coalition from pre-existing poverty research centers.

BY LAUREN HOLT

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UCSD HAS A LONG HISTORY OF SOCIAL ACTIVISIM SPANNING FROM THE FIRST STUDENTS TO TODAY. THE GUARDIAN INVESTIGATED WHAT MAKES A GOOD RALLY AND WHAT MOVEMENTS FAIL. FEATURES, PAGE 6

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is not adhering to the concerns brought up by students.

“We feel that in the task force, student voices and input are not currently being effectively included,” Selvidge said.

UCSA President Kevin Sabo told the UCSD Guardian that the UC faculty’s unwillingness to participate in consent training has been more of an obstacle than the Task Force itself.

“It’s not so much the Task Force that has been problematic, at least to the extent that I’m aware,” Sabo said. “I think the biggest concern has been [obtaining] funding for the consent training that is required of faculty; that’s been hugely difficult for us to get. The faculty appears very resistant by the training [because See LETTER, page 3

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Rapper Snoop Dogg performed at last year’s Sun God Festival as the headliner. Photo by Matthias Scheer /UCSD Guardian.

ASCE Talks Sun God Lineup with the Guardian

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ssociate Vice President of A.S. Concerts and Events Christian Walker told the UCSD Guardian that the 2016 Sun God Festival may feature a smaller number of well-known performers as opposed to a greater number of lesser-known artists.

“A survey that was conducted by a member of A.S. Council last quarter about Sun God indicated that students were more interested in seeing a smaller amount of bigger names at the festival,” Walker said. “We’re definitely taking the approach of booking artists that we see a lot of potential in and a lot of value in.”

Walker emphasized that student opinion has been very important and consequential to his office’s direction and decisions.

“Every day, we’re checking the responses to our entertainment survey, which asks students what genres they’re listening to, what specific artists they’re listening to and what types of events they’re interested in seeing,” Walker said. “That’s influencing the process of who we reach out to and who we decide on.”

An aspect that will not factor into ASCE’s lineup decisions is genre. Instead, the event organizers will evaluate

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performers based on the culture surrounding their concerts.

“I don’t know if we’re trying to avoid any genre as much as we’re trying to remain educated on the experience the audience has at those shows,” Walker said. “We do a lot of research before booking an act to see what is the nature of the crowd when this person is playing at another festival.

That affects the decisions that we make more so than their genre.”

Sun God Festival will take place on Saturday, April 30 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., ASCE announced in a Facebook post on Jan. 19. Though some have expressed discontent with the event now taking place solely in the daytime, Walker assured the Guardian that the organizers intend to maintain what students love about the festival while modifying it to fit the new time slot.

“We’re confident that a move to a daytime event can be done creatively and in a fun way so that it just changes the vibe of the event without necessarily feeling like the nighttime element was just thrown in the garbage,” Walker said. “We’re currently working to refresh the Sun God brand and incorporate elements that really cater to that daytime festival aspect.”

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VERBATIM IF YOU DECIDE TO HIT IT OFF WITH ANYONE, TAKE YOUR SHOTS OF VODKA AND DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT – OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THROWING IT ON THE FLOOR, OR DOWN SOMEONE ELSE’S THROAT.”

All 10 Blum Centers from each UC campus will merge to form the Blum Federation, the UC Office of the President announced in a press release Feb. 8. The Blum Centers conduct research on poverty in California.

The purpose behind the merger is to allow campuses to share their specialized research, UCOP Media Specialist Kate Moser told the UCSD Guardian.

“The Blum Federation expands the systemwide impact of and access to each campus Blum Center in the service of fighting poverty globally,” Moser said. “Each Blum Center has a unique specialty, and coordinating on a systemwide level gives UC researchers and students across campuses a chance to benefit from each other’s expertise for new research and education opportunities.”

In order to develop the resources to collaborate across the UC system, the UCOP issued a $1.32 million grant in seed funding to finance the merger.

The money is not to be spent on base funding for each program, UCSD Associate Political Science Professor and co-founder of the UCSD Blum Center Fonna Forman told the Guardian.

“What that money is intended to do is to elevate our capacity to be a contributor to the Federation,” Forman said. “It is not intended to actually infuse support into our local programming.”

Forman also noted that the new federation will have an important impact on the UCSD Blum Center, allowing them to improve their research and interactions with more university students.

“It is going to make our research better because we will have a repository of knowledge that we can all draw from,” Forman stated. “It is going to be this amazing networking opportunity for students to study across the state.”

The UCSD Blum Center has a transnational specialty. Its main project, the “UCSD Cross-Border Initiative,” studies the wealth of San Diego and the extreme poverty across the border in Mexico.

Forman’s counterpart at the UCSD Blum Center, co-founder and Visual Arts Professor Teddy Cruz, told the Guardian that with this new Blum Federation in place, students from other campuses will be able to come and gain hands-on experience with international poverty.

“The asset that we bring to the whole network is that students

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UCSA Criticizes UC Sexual Assault Task Force Students believe the administration provides insufficient services and transparency.

BY MARIO ESPINOZA

Contributing writer The UC Student Association discussed drafting an open letter to the UC Office of the President regarding its Task Force on Preventing and Responding to Sexual Violence and Sexual Assault at its Board of Directors meetings last week. According to The Daily Californian, the letter would address UC student concerns over the Task Force’s lack of communication, inadequate membership and insufficient resources.

The Task Force was formed in July 2014, after months of UCSD student survivors sharing their stories with the UC Board of Regents and President Napolitano. “[Of the] 233,000 students

enrolled in the University of California, roughly 26,830 students will experience sexual violence during their academic career, most of whom will not report or speak of their assault,” according to the UCSA website.

President Napolitano convened the Task Force in order to respond to and prevent acts of sexual violence and assault on UC campuses. The Task Force is made up of important constituents of the UC System, including “UC regents, faculty, police and student survivors.”

However, there have been complaints from UC Berkeley and student groups over the progress made by the Task Force. According to a report compiled by the Daily Californian, UC Santa Barbara junior Jennifer Selvidge said during the meetings that the Task Force

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Gene Splicing Produces Proteins With Different Functions

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Conclusions were drawn from a map of interactions between 10 percent of proteins that exist in the human body.

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STAFF WRITER Researchers at UCSD, McGill University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute concluded that proteins encoded by a single gene can each play distinct roles within the human body. The study, published in “Cell” on Feb. 11, examines how alternative splicing can give rise to specific sequences that code for functionally different proteins.

The discovery provides a potential explanation for the complexity of organisms whose genomes contain relatively few protein-coding genes, an understanding that may allow researchers to link specific protein isoforms to the development of certain diseases.

Protein isoforms are proteins that, despite being produced by the same gene, have structural variations that give rise to distinct functions. Shuli Kang, a researcher at the University of Southern California who completed postdoc work at UCSD, explained to the UCSD Guardian how studying these individual protein isoforms in detail has revealed a connection

between their unique sequences and functions.

“Most human genes encode multiple isoforms via alternative splicing, resulting in 100,000 distinct isoforms that could be produced from approximately 20,000 protein-coding genes,” Kang said. “It remains largely unclear, however, to what extent isoforms encoded by a common gene have divergent functions at the proteome scale. Our results provided the first systematic evidence that the gene functions can be mediated by isoform specific sequences.”

While each gene is capable of producing many proteins with significantly divergent roles, some of these isoforms are more common than others. Previous studies have compared the activity of the most common isoform produced from a single gene to the activities of its protein siblings in order to understand their specific roles.

This recent study, however, examines individual isoforms in terms of their interactions with other, non-sibling human proteins.

David Hill, a researcher at DanaFarber, elaborated on their process of cloning different isoforms in

Merger Will Foster Communication and Collaboration Between Research Centers ▶ BLUM, from page 1

from [UC] Berkeley, [UC] Irvine or UCLA can come to work in very real settings on experiential learning by engaging these neighborhoods that are definitely very poor and disenfranchised,” said Cruz.

“Instead of sending the students to Africa, they can be in some of the poorest areas of Latin America in the morning doing field work, and in the afternoon, they can be back in the lab or the classroom.”

Other Blum centers also examine a variety of interdisciplinary aspects when trying to understand poverty, UC Irvine Blum Foundation Director Richard Matthew explained to the Guardian.

“The campuses take different approaches,” Matthew said. “Some focus on poverty in relation to health, like UCLA, or poverty in relation to engineering and innovation, like UC Berkeley.”

According to Heather Lofthouse, Director of Special Projects at the UC Berkeley Blum Center, prior to the formation of the collaborative Blum Federation, UC Berkeley’s program facilitated most of the centers’ communication.

“Before we had multiple teleconferences each year and in-person meetings,” Lofthouse

explained to the UCSD Guardian. “[The merge] will ensure that we have more of those and that we can incorporate students into more of those meetings.”

Cruz explained that this increase in communication will not be without its challenges. Centers might struggle with needing to both advance their own research and share it with others.

“Before you collaborate, you have to produce the content that you want to share,” Cruz said. “When we are struggling to make this project actually sustainable on the ground, it is difficult to imagine having enough energy to also be administering the kind of communication that we have to have in the network.”

However, according to Matthew, the foundation of the Blum Federation created an unprecedented level of enthusiasm.

“I have been in the UC system for 17 years, and this is the first time that I have seen so much excitement and energy about collaborating and finding the platform to collaborate,” Matthew said. “It makes me feel very much impressed by the potential that the UC system has to solve some of these real world problems.”

order to study these interactions.

“We first attempted to clone as many isoforms as we could from five human tissues for approximately 1,500 human genes for which we already had at least one clone,” Hill told the Guardian. “As a first step toward characterizing the functional diversity among pairs of alternatively spliced isoforms encoded by a common gene, we decided to concentrate on a set of genes representing about 10 percent of all human protein-coding genes, including genes implicated in Mendelian diseases, genes encoding proteins known to be involved in cell-cycle regulation, or encoding proteins that were already known to have one or more interacting protein partners. We took whatever we obtained from the cloning.”

Shiang added that after cloning this large set of protein isoforms, the team of researchers analyzed their interactions with other proteins in order to understand their role in the human body.

Through understanding the roles of individual isoforms, scientists may be able to associate specific protein forms with disease-causing

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mutations, a discovery that may allow them to improve current treatments by targeting these mutations. These mutations, however, do not always result in drastic alterations of a protein’s function: While siblings that differ by as little as a single mutation in their DNA may play vastly different roles, others with greater mutations have been found to have similar functions.

Hill explains how this breakthrough might help fill in some blanks in the map of protein interactions in the human body while also revealing the pathways through which diseases occur.

“Genetic variation leading to diseases such as cancer needs to be understood in terms of which isoforms actually carry the mutation and whether they are actually expressed in the relevant tissue,” Hill said. “I expect that we will continue to discover that different isoforms from genes already known to be associated with a specific disease will be found to play roles in other very distinct diseases or to possibly counteract the activity of another isoforms of that gene.”

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Unknown suspect(s) entered a secured study room and removed victim’s backpack, loss $395.00.

Report taken.

10:03 a.m. Injury.

Male fell getting off shuttle and hurt ankle. Report taken.

2:02 p.m. Fraud.

Report of unknown suspect(s) fraudulently obtaining and using victim’s credit card information, loss $600.00. Report taken.

8:35 p.m. Disturbance.

Group doing photoshoot with muscle cars, vehicles driving fast around parking structure and people smoking. Checks OK. 9:24 p.m. Suspicious person.

Elderly male harassing patrons.

Report taken.

10:10 p.m. Medical Aid. Excessive drug intake, report of adult male passed out inside vehicle.

Transported to hospital.

11:26 p.m. Information.

Resident Assistant’s key card not working. Information only.

Tuesday, February 9 12:07 a.m. Information.

Loud popping sounds.

Information only.

12:28 a.m. Non Injury Collision.

Lights and Sirens is compiled from the Police Crime Log at police.ucsd.edu.

Vehicle parked up right against reporting party’s vehicle, no damage found. Service provided.

2:58 a.m. Assist Other Agency.

San Diego Police arrested petty theft suspect in possession of UCSD affiliates property. Service provided.

6:34 a.m. Fire.

Per garbage truck driver, fire caused by cigarette inside of trash bag, no injuries. Service provided.

10:42 a.m. Disturbance.

Male motorist upset because his vehicle has a boot, yelling and making hand gestures at other people. Gone on arrival.

12:11 a.m. Citizen Flag Down.

Preserve the peace request for boot removal from vehicle.

Service provided.

5:03 p.m. Drunk driving.

Motorist driving erratically. Unable to locate.

10:40 p.m. Information.

Water detection alert in basement.

Referred to other UCSD department.

11:00 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Vandalism.

Custodian keeps finding burnt paper towels and toilet paper inside toilet and on floor of restroom.

Online report.

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University Discussed Cancelling Sun God Due to Safety Concerns ▶ SUN GOD, from page 1

Furthermore, Walker explained that UCSD administrators considered discontinuing Sun God due to recurring concerns over the health and safety of students at the event. According to a UCSD Police Department report released last May, 66 students were admitted detox, nine were sent to the hospital and five were arrested for drug-related incidents during the weekend of last year’s festival. Additionally, UCSD’s Office of Student Conduct reported in Sept. that 60 percent of student incidents resulted in admission to the campus’ Detox Center, a 13 percent rise from the previous year.

“There was a concern that the health and safety numbers hadn’t improved significantly enough from the previous year in order for administrators and student planners to confidently move forward with the event in the same structure,” Walker said. “It took some negotiating on our part to see if we could create a model of Sun God that we were confident would address some of the health and

safety concerns from this past festival but that also still appealed to students and was still in the best interest of what students wanted the event to be.”

Revelle College sophomore Aaron Cintron told the Guardian that due to the increasing safety measures added to the Sun God Festival, the enthusiasm for the event has weakened.

“I feel like no one’s really excited for [Sun God],” Cintron said. “They’re taking all of the fun out of it and not really allowing us to be responsible … I feel like it would be a lot better if they would relax and let students make their own decisions.”

Walker argues, however, that though the usefulness of the safety measures may not be visible yet, they will have a better chance of having positive ramifications with new generations of students.

“A lot of these large, structural health and safety changes that have taken place at the festival over the past few years haven’t had time to truly affect the culture of the event because culture take a lot longer to change than just an event,” Walker said. “This year, we’ll see a full year of students

who have graduated out with a past understanding of the culture of the event and a new freshman class that will learn what the event is this year.”

Walker even pointed out that student welfare has shown improvement this year, which contributed to the decision to continue the festival. This includes “a significant decrease in alcohol incidents at this year’s [Hullabaloo] compared to previous years,” according to ASCE’s Jan. 19 Sun God announcement on Facebook.

“As far as health and safety numbers go, having such a successful fall quarter in general has boded very well for the festival,” Walker said. “We’ve seen the culture around large-scale events really starting to realign with our goals.”

Students can voice their opinions to ASCE by filling out its entertainment survey at studentvoice.com/ucsd/ asceentertainment1516 or by attending its open meetings, which take place every Monday at 4 p.m. on the fourth floor of Price Center East.

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Sabo: Funding Has Been Difficult to Acquire for Consent Training ▶ LETTER , from page 1

they feel] overwhelmed by it.”

In conjunction with the Task Force, a campaign against sexual violence and sexual assault was initiated, known as UConsent.

According to the UCSA, the campaign “aims to promote a culture of consent through awareness, education and advocacy for improved resources at both the campus and state levels.”

In response to President Napolitano’s Task Force, UConsent made several demands to the UCOP; one of the demands made

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was for it to fund $420,000 per year for in-person consent and bystander intervention training and education.

UConsent has achieved several victories due to its work. According to UCSA, two of its successes have been in the passage of SB 697 DeLeon Affirmative Consent in 2014 and the passage of AB 695 DeLeon Sexual Violence Training Measure in 2015.

Director of UCSD’s Center for Advocacy, Resources, and Education at the Sexual Assault Resources Center Nancy Wahlig spoke with the Guardian over her thoughts on UCSD students’ awareness of sexual

violence.

“We can tell you that our students receive a lot of education about sexual violence, and how to prevent it, through the work of CARE at the Sexual Assault Resource Center,” Wahlig said. “For example, as part of orientation, all new students were introduced to the resources CARE offers. Learning about sexual assault and how to report it is now mandatory for all incoming UC San Diego freshmen and new transfer students.”

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DIVERSITY FOR ALL

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BY EMILY COLLINS // STAFF WRITER

After the annual Greek Life Excel Leadership Conference, it is worth considering whether this requirement should be extended to the entire student body at UCSD. On a bright and early morning on Feb. 7, all students involved in Greek life at UCSD were required to attend a three-hour Greek Life Excel Leadership Conference, covering topics such as diversity, inclusion, accountability and leadership. However, by requiring all Greek life-associated students to attend — whereas in other student organizations, only principal members must attend — the conference implied that the only students responsible for a lack of diversity and inclusion on campus are those affiliated with a fraternity or sorority. Other individuals in the rest of the student body, however, should be educated about these issues as well.

Moreover, these conferences have little impact on the school’s actual problems of inclusivity. While it is important to hold the Greek community accountable, the rest of the student body should also participate in these lessons. The requirement for students in Greek life to attend various diversity conferences throughout the year, then, should also be expected of the rest of the student body, and the method by which diversity is taught must be addressed as well. The only other individuals required to go to a separate Excel meeting are principal members of other organizations, but not the

general student members. If these requirements are beneficial for promoting a better campus climate within the Greek community, then it makes sense to have non-affiliated students also attend diversity workshops.

While it is important to increase diversity and racial sensitivity in the Greek community, there are a substantial amount of requirements already in place that should also apply to the rest of the student population. Greek 101 meetings are required annually in order for students to remain a part of their fraternity or sorority.

The meetings, according to UCSD’s Greek Life Annual Report, typically cover issues such as alcohol awareness, hazing prevention and sexual assault. Excel Leadership covers related topics. For Excel, if 75 percent of a chapter does not attend annually, the chapter can be shut down and unable to participate in any Greek activities.

Nevertheless, the school’s current education conferences and programs, even if they were required for all students, fail to be the most effective way in educating students about topics such as diversity and accountability. Whether at Greek 101, Excel or any other generic “educational” conference, one glance around the room

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AS COLLEGES ARE CONSIDERING DIFFERENT CRITERIA FOR ADMISSIONS, DEBATES HAVE CENTERED AROUND THE MERIT OF COMMUNITY SERVICE AND TEST SCORES. SOME DEEM VOLUNTEER REQUIREMENTS “VOLUNTOURISM.”

Voluntourism Creates Artificial Sense of Philanthropy in Students

Volunteer Work Allows Students to Make Useful Global Contributions

Colleges Should Value Test Scores Equally to Community Service

Competition for college admission has become incredibly difficult. More and more, students are looking for those little edges that will distinguish them from the crowd of highachieving applicants, and lately, that edge has come in the form of voluntourism: volunteering while travelling abroad. But in recent years, a wide range of organizations have appeared to cater to the commercialized demand of privileged first-world inhabitants for the “life-changing” experience of “saving” third-world inhabitants.

While the altruism and dedication of students to global causes is hard to criticize, voluntourism is not a good method for showcasing a student’s involvement in a community.

One of the biggest problems with voluntourism, besides the assumed economic privilege of participants who can fly off to Somalia for a week to hug orphans, is whether it is even effective aid. The catering of the voluntourism industry to first-world volunteers’ “savior” complex hinders actual efforts to alleviate poverty. As a blogger for the Huffington Post wrote, during her school trip to Africa to build a library for an orphanage, the work of the unskilled volunteers was taken apart each evening and redone by local laborers without their knowledge. Similarly, voluntourism fosters an incomplete understanding of global issues in favor of simplistic imaginings of the suffering of the poor “other,” as was explained in an Al Jazeera America article.

A better gauge of a student’s involvement in the community is local volunteering. In helping at local shelters or building houses for the disadvantaged here, students gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of poverty.

Volunteering in another country is an essential step in opening a person’s mind and a critical way in which people broaden their worldview.

While it is true that certain people will take a touristy vacation and call it a “volunteering” and “learning” experience, this does not diminish the experiences and uniqueness that genuine international volunteering brings. Students who volunteer abroad are far more valuable to possible employers or colleges. According to statistics from UC Merced, 97 percent of college students who studied abroad found employment within 12 months of graduation compared to 49 percent of students who did not. In addition, the vast majority of travelers undergo exceptional personal development when exposed to an entirely different culture, an important aspect of any wellrounded person.

There are concerns that traveling abroad is not immediately accessible to everyone given their socioeconomic status; however, there is a large number of organizations that provide free travel-abroad opportunities. The Peace Corps, established over 50 years ago, has sent over 220,000 volunteers to more than 140 countries with no personal cost to the volunteer, according to the Peace Corps website. Other programs such as Habitat for Humanity and Amigos de Las Americas also offer no-cost international programs for applicants.

There will always be people who cheat the system to their benefit, but we must focus on the important work that international volunteers accomplish and learn to distinguish between social media “voluntourism” and the achievements that genuine volunteering bring to the world.

Recently, the Harvard Graduate School of Education project “Making Caring Common” released reports suggesting that high school students should take fewer Advanced Placement courses, colleges should make the SAT/ACT optional and all students should be required to provide “more meaningful contributions to others.”

Although well-intentioned, colleges that require mandatory volunteering are promoting pseudocompassion and self-service, and de-emphasis of standardized tests would not minimize the role of test scores as a criterion for admission.

Requiring volunteer work turns something essential, like fostering citizenship in young adults, into a resume builder — yet another obligation on top of all the activities that students are expected to squeeze into their tight schedules. Colleges need to prioritize the importance of impact, not a noblesse oblige and a list of hours spent in a developing country.

Furthermore, as long as schools continue offering A.P. classes, and SAT/ACT scores are still accepted by colleges, students will continue to take them and perform well. Therefore, all students must meet the same expectation. Those who fall behind are neither competitive applicants nor prepared for the rigor of college classes. In fact, according to the National Association of College Admission Counseling, one-fifth of colleges use test scores as a “threshold” for admission, and, as stated by The Princeton Review, many more use informal cutoffs. A truly equal emphasis on philanthropy and academics would be ideal, but for now, it seems that students must bear the burden of excelling in everything they do, and, of course, having a boisterous social life and eight hours of sleep.

— SOPHIE OSBORN Senior Staff Writer

— NATE WALKER Staff Writer

— AARTHI VENKAT Staff Writer

How-To Guru: Hold Your Lady Liquor After the Center for Disease Control recently released a new infographic saying that pregnant women shouldn’t drink, it added a bonus section for non-pregnant women. The infographic has been kind enough to inform women that drinking can cause heart disease, cancer, violence, STDs and pregnancy (don’t worry, men, you’re still safe). Apparently, having more than eight drinks a week puts women at risk for any of those, so here’s your guide on how to drink as a woman, from the How-To Guru.

As for any men reading this column, drop this newspaper and step away. This is for women. Can’t you read? Don’t touch anything with your filthy, womanizing hands.

It goes without saying that as soon as men consume one drop of alcohol they have zero inhibitions whatsoever. In fact, dealing with men is a waste of time. They’re a bunch of animals, who only want one thing from a lady.

With that in mind, the ultimate key for the happiness of any woman is marriage and a house full of healthy babies. So at the end of the day, it’s best to not ever drink in this lifetime. That’s why I’d like to present women with some handydandy tips for shielding their wombs from the devilish influences of alcohol and men.

First off, only drink with a bodyguard present at all times. I know, I know, having to go out drinking with a bodyguard holding your hand can be a real drag, but this is for your safety. Don’t take other girls, of course, since they’re just as susceptible to that eightdrink limit as you are. No, what you need is a man. That way, he can drain any drinks over that eight-aweek limit, and the best part is that he won’t get impregnated by them.

In fact, you should probably ask him to drink for you, knowing that alcohol could destroy your delicate body and the flowery pureness of your virginity.

This bodyguard shouldn’t be just any man. He should be a professional bodyguard with a certified black belt in Aikido and an FBI background check verifying his credentials. Secondly, if you happen to get laid at any point in your life, always use protection. In fact, it’s best to use two or three condoms at once in order to prevent any of those pesky alcohol-related pregnancies and STDs. As the CDC thoughtfully reminds us, sexually active women should not drink any alcohol whatsoever. So if you decide to hit it off with anyone, take your shots of vodka and drop it like it’s hot — otherwise known as throwing it on the floor, or down someone else’s throat. Whenever you find yourself with a drink in your weak, womanly hands, simply bat your eyes at a potential suitor and gently ask him, “Will you assist me in drinking this shot, my good sir?” That will solve the problem instantly, and men will soon wield fistfuls of wedding rings and profess their undying love for you.

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reveals a scene of students on their phones, doing homework, talking with each other or sleeping. Since these conferences are mandatory, students typically only attend for this reason rather than to be openminded and learn. Once the speaker leaves the stage, the room empties faster than beer cans at a frat party — which, to say, is very fast. Most of the content is very repetitive and is taught both via online required programs (GreekLifeEdu) and at conferences.

The repetition causes the concepts to lose their value. The word “diversity� itself becomes, in the process, “nothing more than an empty slogan,� as stated by the San Diego Free Press. The school needs to produce a more effective way than this general education requirement to combat a lack of diversity.

The first question that then comes up in addressing the school’s diversity problem is identifying the culprits.

One of the school’s prime examples

of a fraternity diversity controversy is the Compton Cookout, a “ghettothemed� party held by Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity (commonly known as Pike) in 2010. According to the Los Angeles Times, the party invitation included many racist stereotypes and recommended that girls use gold teeth, wear cheap clothes and start fights. The menu promised chicken and watermelon. Problems with Greek life party themes in the past have related to cultural sensitivity — a topic now heavily discussed at events such as Greek 101 and Excel. While the Greek community should take responsibility for this event, it’s also reflective of the student body at large.

The Compton Cookout demonstrates that there is an issue with racial awareness in the Greek community, but it is not limited to their exclusive organizations.

This university has a lack of racial diversity in general which needs to be addressed. For example, in 2015, the amount of minority groups admitted was only two percent for

African-Americans and three percent for Latinos. On the other hand, the amount of Asians admitted were 46 percent and the amount of white students admitted were 21 percent.

Instead of promoting diversity with workshops, the admissions team should make feasible changes to the student body.

Students in fraternities and sororities are already required to attend various informational meetings on these topics, yet issues in diversity and inclusion are still strongly present on campus. Not only should other students be required to learn about diversity, but the programs used to teach these concepts must be radically changed in order for any drastic improvements to appear on campus.

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Build the university, and the protesters will come. Since the inception of UCSD in 1960, a “culture of protest” has prevailed on campus as students continue to openly exercise their right to free speech and peaceful assembly.

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n Thursday, Feb. 4, a group of Armenian students staged a sit-in protest in front of the Silent Tree, where they wore red tape across their mouths that read “Denial,” referring to the United States’ negligent attitude toward the Armenian genocide of 1915. The students, who have voiced their opinions on the matter in the past, decided that silence was perhaps louder than sound in their case. They figured that if the dead can’t speak, they shouldn’t either. A few days later, articles began popping up on the Internet and in print detailing the focus of their protest. Awareness grew like a slow-burning wildfire. Their message had not only been heard, it had been shared.

Like many protesters before them, these students used their First Amendment rights to make a public stand for something they strongly support and believe in. After identifying the problem, they organized their assets and formed a plan that would define the way in which they’d go about broadcasting their cause. In this case, their efforts were successful, adding their protest at the Silent Tree to a long list of highly effective protests performed on our campus since its establishment in 1960. Our track record of social movements includes such memorable protests like the recent abortion rights demonstrations, the Black Student Union’s protests across campus and, in 1970, George Winne Jr.’s acts against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, in which he set himself ablaze at Revelle Plaza, resulting in his death. At UCSD, it appears we are well-versed in the art of protest.

But how, exactly, do you make sure that your protest will succeed in achieving its ultimate goal? How does one stage an effective protest?

While it often seems that protests end in blurry resolutions, there is always a winner and a loser when all’s said and done. Stephen Meyers, professor of sociology at University of Washington, Seattle, and former UCSD instructor, has made a living of trying to understand the art of protesting. He believes it is imperative that individuals and organizations be prepared for their anarchic moment in the limelight.

“Protests are most effective when all of the players are on the same page and stick to a single message,” Meyers told the UCSD Guardian.

“This fact, however, means that diversity is sacrificed for unity.

Participants may have very different reasons for protesting, but their specific issues and interests are ignored.”

As the breadth of an issue widens, the amount of neglected sub-issues increases commensurately. The hope is that, in making these bittersweet sacrifices, the prevalent issues will garner enough recognition to address those that have taken a proverbial backseat. By taking these details into account, the organizers of protests can design a social movement that has the greatest potential to invoke change.

The Million Student March, which took place last November on campus, is an example of demonstrators struggling to unite under one compelling cause. With a protester turnout best described as “dismal,” the march consisted of about 100 students carrying homemade signs and chanting inaudibly. The issues at hand were said to be tuition, student debt and minimum wage, but students also advocated for the Black Lives Matter movement and for the Bernie Sanders’ campaign.

Ineffective protesting is the natural result of disorganization and

a lack of consensus, but as Ivan Evans, professor of sociology and Provost of Eleanor Roosevelt College, described to the Guardian, “protest[s] that appear to fall short of [their] mark in the short term may still contribute to a ‘culture of protest’ that might later succeed in advancing the aims of protesters … Still, protest is least effective when protesters misread their audiences or the strategic spaces they operate in.”

Ending apartheid in South Africa, Evans noted, is one historical instance when the protesting body initially got it wrong. The marginalized Africans of the country employed Mahatma Gandhi’s strategy of passive resistance and Martin Luther King Jr.’s strategy of nonviolent civil disobedience, which became famous during the civil rights movement.

“When the Apartheid state responded with bullets and massacres,” Evans said. “Blacks abandoned these tactics, went underground and adopted the language of ‘armed struggle.’”

From ineffective protests, sociologists like Evans and Meyers can gather valuable information on what works and what doesn’t.

Experienced protesters also pay close attention to the climate so they can draw on techniques that could aid their demonstration.

Over time, a sort of registry of effective and ineffective protesting tactics accumulates throughout history, though each must be refined and tweaked to address the unique issue. Still, there exist a few protesting mainstays.

“Silent sit-ins, rowdy demonstrations, occupying the spaces that dominant power control, letter-writing campaigns, etc. have been the hallmarks of protest culture,” Evans said.

March 2015 saw the beginning of yet another protest on campus: supporters of the C.H.E. Cafe demonstrated outside of the Cafe after receiving an eviction notice from the administration. Since 1980, the university has been trying to remove the C.H.E. Cafe, a community center, co-op and music venue, from its place in the densely wooded outskirts of Revelle College. This time, like many times before, members of the C.H.E. Cafe Collective refused to leave their beloved base and banded together in a movement to “Save The C.H.E.!” Their tactic was simple: to occupy the edifice until the administration took notice of their opposition. Lane Barlow, an insider at the C.H.E. Cafe, told the Guardian about their stakeout.

“The occupation was about more than just refusing to leave,” Barlow said. “Through continued programming and media exposure, the collective maintained and increased its visibility. During this time, we made fairly regular press releases and tabled on Library Walk as often as we could. We touched up some of our murals with their original creator, Mario Torero, and we took many other measures to remind people that we were still here and still fighting.”

In the end their efforts paid off, and Chancellor Khosla agreed to negotiate with the Collective over terms for a new Master Space Agreement. Currently, the Collective is working with the Food Co-op, G-store and Groundwork Books to win terms which will preserve campus co-ops like the C.H.E. Cafe for generations of students to come. In the meantime the C.H.E. Cafe continues to facilitate weekly

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Making History More Present

Charge with Solar Chill

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Professor Deborah Hertz is not just a lecturer, she is a teacher who engages her students to appreciate and think critically about history.

Her office is lined with books on German, Jewish and modern European history. The only gap in her office is a space for her desk, which just so happens to be outlined with tomes as well. The UCSD Guardian sat down to speak with Professor Hertz to further explore her passionate and effective teaching style.

“The people who are academics usually love the big themes.

‘What is capitalism? What is colonialism?,’” Hertz told the Guardian. “You go to an academic conference, often that’s what you hear, but that’s not how most students and most people who are not professional academics approach history.”

Hertz believes that focusing on the macrohistory is not necessarily the best way to teach students.

Many history courses are like “a thin gruel of coverage,” flatly moving from one event to the next.

“I find it easier to absorb history usually through novels, biographies [and] movies,” Hertz said. “I think that when you read an academic book, that is an overview book, like a textbook, you immediately become bored because your ignorance is so great that you can’t read for detail. You just feel overwhelmed.”

Hertz takes a different approach than your regular history professor, focusing on the microhistory instead and giving voices to important figures of the past. She argues that students don’t always retain as much information when given an overview of main events, and that this approach lacks the personalization of history.

“It doesn’t have people in it, it doesn’t have the dark side, the inner story,” Hertz said.

Professor Hertz is currently working on a book about radical Jewish women who challenged the status quo during their respective time periods.

“It’s the book I was really, really meant to write,” Hertz stated. “The other books were kind of practice for this one.”

The book begins in the late 19th century with the birth of the firebrand women who worked to instigate change by radical action.

“I always try to have specific individuals; you can tell from my lectures, I’m a big believer in biography and incorporating it into history,” Hertz said.

Professor Hertz’s ability to personalize history combined with her passion for teaching creates a learning environment in which students can engage with, indulge in and most importantly, enjoy history.

Engineers for a Sustainable World aims to install the first student developed structure on campus, a rest area to charge phones. The UCSD Guardian sat down with ESW to understand the envrionmental impetus behind the solar cells.

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tudents often have little other choice than to sit in a dimly lit room with a single window that doesn’t open, doing homework or writing essays, hardly ever seeing the light of day. Slowly, they begin to lose the hard-earned tan they acquired over the summer. Occasionally, they might step outside and just stand in the doorway for a minute or two, taking in as much fresh air as they have time for before having to go back inside. It’s a grim routine, especially irritating due to the fact that many students are missing out on all the sunshine San Diego has to offer. Thankfully, there’s soon to be a solution, and it’s called Solar Chill.

Solar Chill is a student led project that began in 2013 as the brainchild of Engineers for a Sustainable World, a UCSD organization that focuses on sustainability through technology.

The project’s goal is to create spaces around the UCSD campus where students can relax or do homework, while also being able to recharge their electronics using a 1.5 kilowatt off-grid solar panel. Solar Chill sites will also provide two benches comprised of local rocks enclosed in wire mesh, topped with reclaimed Torrey Pinewood. Finally, we can sit and browse Facebook while getting some Vitamin D. Eleanor Roosevelt College

junior Alexander Han, the electrical lead for the project, explained why UCSD is the perfect place to implement solar panels.

“One goal is to be able to utilize the power of the sun, because here in San Diego we get so much sunlight compared to the rest of the country,” Han said.

The first Solar Chill site will be located between ERC and the Village, right next to the bus stop.

“We’re getting very close to implementing it,” Han said. “As of now, we expect the construction to start in early March.”

There is certainly something special about Solar Chill, in both the dedication and drive behind the project as well as the fact that the entire team is comprised of students.

In fact, Solar Chill will be the first student-designed project ever built on campus. The site located in ERC will act as a beta test that the team will present to the Vice Chancellor for Resource Management and Planning, Gary Matthews. Warren College Junior Josh Hill, the project lead aims receive Matthew’s “OK” to carry out the next version of the photovoltaic cells.

Hill hopes that Solar Chill sites will eventually become an integral part of our campus landscape.

“My ultimate fantasy would be

for anywhere you see a bench on campus you could instead put a Solar Chill Site,” Hill said.

Sixth College senior Victoria Santos is the Outreach and Finance lead for Solar Chill, and makes sure that companies, engineers, other universities and media outlets are aware of what Solar Chill is doing for UCSD. Like the other members of the team, her work is also born out of a profound interest in sustainability and a desire to create change.

“My job is more than just broadcasting what Solar Chill is about, but making sure our team is staying passionate about what we are aiming for and how we can express that passion,” Santos said. “Our main idea is that it’s designed by the students rather than just purchased … students are capable of anything that they put their minds to. It’s about making more of a lasting impact rather than just temporary.”

Santos also stresses the harsh reality that our generation faces as we deplete our current resources.

“We need to become sustainable with what we have,” Santos said.

This message becomes increasingly poignant as college students like the ones on the Solar Chill team inherit the responsibility of taking care of the environment.

Nowadays, every effort to increase

efficiency is a vital contribution.

This is why, on a larger scale, projects like Solar Chill are becoming increasingly important in today’s world.

The passion and innovative drive is unmistakable in the members of the Solar Chill team. Many working on the project, such as Hill, were invested in environmental science at an early age.

“I was always that kid who would run back in and turn the lights off,” Hill said.

As long as the passion for innovation remains inherent in the Solar Chill project, it will be a clear success. UCSD students should be on the lookout in the coming months for Solar Chill’s photovoltaic structures around campus. Students should take something from the larger implications of what the Solar Chill team has achieved, its members demonstrate the impact that a group of college students can make almost entirely on their own.

Thanks to student innovation and photovoltaic cells, the sun that San Diego is famous for will soon be powering your iPhone.

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“The occupation of the Che [Cafe] was successful because it was both persistent and obstructive,” Barlow explained. “The administration was waiting for the occupation and other modes of protest to peter out, and our efforts would have accomplished nothing if we [had] let that happen” It’s clear that if protest is conducted intelligently and persistently, positive results will follow. Even when a given protest does not succeed in achieving its goal, it still serves to open the door

for future protests which are more likely to emerge victorious. Still, the question of why this is true looms over both the protester and they who are protested against. There’s something special about protesting in the sense that it’s able to produce results only after every other option has been expended. Evans told the Guardian why he believes the social phenomenon is so powerful.

“Protest is effective because it rocks the boat,” Evans said. “Protest makes visible those voices that are usually ignored or dismissed. It projects those voices into the public sphere and

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compels dominant authorities to listen up and respond. Protest therefore transforms private grievances into disruptive public spectacles that cannot be ignored.”

Evans contends that it isn’t in human nature to protest. It is human nature to acquiesce. During our lifetimes we are constantly giving up power and consent with the understanding that we will be respected and taken care of in turn.

But this consent is conditional. When we either calculate that our submission to authority is no longer worthwhile, or that the ruling groups seem to have

lost their moral compass, subordinate groups withdraw their consent. The result is protest, insurrection and rebellion, according to Evans.

Say we attain utopia, though. At that point in time, we can assume that people will no longer have reason or time to protest.

The question then becomes: Will people ever stop protesting? Meyer’s response seems to sum it up nicely.

“No.”

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Men’s Basketball Split Pair of Games to Clinch Home Playoff Berth After falling to Chico State, Tritons bounce back and defeat Stanislaus State, next game will be versus Cal State San Marcos on the road.

BY alex wu

Staff Writer The UCSD men’s basketball team needed only one more win to clinch a home playoff berth in the California Collegiate Athletic Association tournament, and they got just that, going 1–1 in their homestand against Chico State and Cal State Stanislaus. The Triton basketball team is now 19–4 overall and 14–3 in conference and in second place in the CCAA. Game One Heading into the final stretch of the regular season, the Tritons looked to increase their winning streak to six in their home game against conference rival Chico State on Friday night. Unfortunately for the Tritons, the ninth-ranked Wildcats wouldn’t let anything get in the way of continuing their sixgame winning streak.

For much of the first half, the stellar Wildcat defense stymied the usually potent Triton offense, holding the team to a meager 13 of 36 shooting while harassing standout junior guard Adam Klie to just two of 10 shooting. But despite the low percentages, the half was a close affair throughout, containing five tied scores and eight lead changes. This was largely due to the scrappy Triton defense, forcing nine turnovers throughout the half. With the starters struggling on offense, senior forward Zach McMillan stepped up big time by leading the team with seven points and three rebounds in just nine minutes of play.

But the Tritons found their

stroke in the second half, as their shooting improved to 12–25 overall, turning the game into a full-blown shootout and nearly doubling their first half output. Unfortunately for the Tritons, however, it wasn’t enough. At the 4:02 minute mark, the Wildcats broke the final tie of the game and began to pull ahead; they would eventually lead by as many as eight points in the final minutes of the game. While the Tritons pulled back within four with 37 seconds to go, the Wildcats remained in control and close out the game 77–71.

“They’re big and athletic and make it hard to score in close,” UCSD Head Coach Eric Olen told the UCSD Athletics Department. “I thought we had some opportunities we didn’t quite take advantage of.”

Despite the loss, the Tritons had some bright spots in the second half. Sophomore guard Grant Jackson scored all 13 of his points in the second half to tie senior forward Drew Dyer as the leading scorer for the team. Junior guard Aleks Lipovic was money from three-point land, scoring all 12 of his points from beyond the arc. Klie, despite the rough night, was able to grab seven boards on the night.

With the loss, the Tritons fell to 18–4 overall and 13–3 in conference, losing the top spot in the CCAA to Chico State, which climbed to 19–3 overall and 13–2 in conference.

Game Two Needing just one more win to earn a home game during the CCAA Tournament, the Tritons looked to bounce back on Saturday

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night against Stanislaus State.

Out of the gate, the Tritons took control on offense with a flurry of three-pointers to take a 10-point lead in the first seven minutes. This offensive control would continue throughout the half, as the Tritons had their way with the Warriors on offense and defense. The Tritons shot a stellar eight of 17 from three while forcing the Warriors to shoot only seven of 21 overall. The defense also stole the ball seven times and scored nine points off of those turnovers. Despite the Tritons’ mediocre 13 of 33 shooting overall, the team out-rebounded the Warriors 23–14, allowing the Tritons to play at their own pace.

Even though the Tritons would never completely lose control, the

Warriors made the game close at points in the second half. Soon after the Tritons brought the lead up 19, the Warriors’ sophomore guard Christian Bayne caught fire, scoring 11 points in two minutes to cut the Triton lead to seven. But the Tritons wouldn’t have any more of this, as they made a couple of stops and quickly brought the lead back up to 17 thanks to a couple of quick scores by junior guard Koree Cox. The Tritons didn’t have anymore trouble, and closed out the Warriors 70–55.

Not afraid to get close to the basket, the Tritons dominated inside, outscoring the Warriors 18–6 in the paint. They took advantage of every opportunity they got by outscoring the Warriors in points-off turnovers, second-chance

opportunities and fast breaks. The Tritons simply dominated in all phases of the game.

Lipovic led the team with 15 points off of his four three-pointers, with Klie and Dyer close behind with 12 and 11 points respectively.

The team as a whole rebounded well, grabbing 45 total boards with eight players getting at least four rebounds each.

After the loss, the Warriors have lost 11 straight games and are now 5–16 overall and 4–12 in conference.

With three games left in the regular season, the Tritons travel to Cal State San Marcos on Feb. 18 for their final road game of the season. alex wu

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Basketball dominates Chico State then beat Cal State Stanislaus in overtime after Shokoor’s double-double

o. 22 UCSD was back home this weekend as it opened up the weekend with a convincing 68–47 win over Chico State on Friday and escaped with a 88–81 overtime win on Saturday against Cal State Stanislaus. UCSD’s record now stands at 20–3 overall and 15–2 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association.

Game One The Tritons survived a terrible first quarter to pull off a 21-point victory on Friday night.

Chico State came out strong in the first quarter, and their stifling defense limited the Tritons to only six points. Down 15 after the first quarter, UCSD started to mount a comeback behind senior forward Farrah Shokoor and junior guard Beth Mounier. A Mounier three with only three seconds left in the second half brought the deficit down to three for the Tritons.

UCSD opened up the third quarter firing and quickly closed the gap, tying up the game 36-all. The Tritons’ defense then completely took over, shutting out the Wildcats for the rest of the quarter. UCSD went on a 18–0 run and headed into the final quarter up 54–36.

The Tritons held on to their double-digit lead throughout the fourth quarter, disposing of Chico State by 21 points, 68–47.

Shokoor lead all scorers with 15 points and also had seven rebounds. Mounier had 14 points, while senior guard Jamie Katuna put up 11 points.

Junior guard Haley Anderson also had seven rebounds for the Tritons.

Game Two On Saturday night, the Tritons needed overtime to defeat Cal State Stanislaus 88–81.

Written by Marcus Thuillier // Sports Editor Cal State Stanislaus took a 7–2 lead early in the game but the Tritons answered. The game Photos by Megan Lee went back and forth in the first quarter, until freshman guard Joleen Yang hit a threepointer to close out the quarter, putting the Tritons up by two, 22–20.

“Our team is a blue-collar team and whoever’s called on to make a play does it,” UCSD Head Coach Heidi VanDerveer told UCSD Athletics.

The game continued to be close in the second quarter, with UCSD grabbing a seven-point advantage twice in the quarter. With the score tied up at 35, all with less than a minute remaining in the half, Mounier scored a basket to put the Tritons up by two at halftime.

“We struggled in the first half,” VanDerveer told UCSD Athletics. “But I think we got better defensively and made plays offensively [in the second half].”

UCSD held another five-point lead in a back-and-forth affair in the third. However, Cal State Stanislaus put up enough pressure on the Tritons, taking a one-point lead into the fourth quarter.

The Warriors held a 60–56 lead before UCSD went on a 11–2 run to open up the fourth quarter, with six points from Katuna and two by Shokoor. UCSD led by three before junior guard Reana Hardin from Stanislaus State hit a three to even things out and send the teams into overtime.

The Tritons dominated overtime, outplaying the Warriors and outgained them 19– 12. First came a 13–4 run to blow the game open, before UCSD secured the win with free throws down the stretch.

“We grinded out the win,” VanDerveer told UCSD Athletics.

“I think Farrah in the second half was really the Farrah we know and love.”

Shokoor had her 13th double-double of the season with 21 points and 17 rebounds. Katuna also had 21 points, while Mounier contributed with 19 points.

The Tritons are back on the road next week, when they face Cal State San Marcos on Thursday, Feb. 18.

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Tritons upset No. 6 UCSB in Sudden Death, fall to No.9 UCI Women’s water polo record now stands at 6–4 overall, team will be off for two weeks before playing in the UCI Invitational on Feb 27–28.

BY dev jain

On Sunday, UC San Diego’s 19th-ranked women’s water polo team ended up sixth at the Triton Invitational at Canyonview Aquatic Center. The sixth-place finish marked their best since 2011 when they also finished sixth.

The Tritons started off with a great win over No. 11 UC Santa Barbara as junior center Lauren Boyer scored the game-winning goal in sudden death for a 12–11 victory. UCSD would then lose in a hard-fought battle against No. 9 UC Irvine, ultimately being defeated 5–3.

UCSD opened up the weekend with a 11–5 win over Cal State East Bay on Friday. The Tritons also won 11–3 against Indiana and lost 8–15 against USC on Saturday. By going 3–2 over the weekend the Tritons are 6–4 overall, while the Gauchos drop to

7–6, and the Anteaters move to 6–4.

Head coach Brad Kreutzkamp was happy with the team and the sixthplace finish: “It was a fantastic finish.

We felt the team this year was special; I felt that we have a lot of talent. I think we’re deep, we’ve got some seniors and we’ve got some freshman and we’ve got everything in between. We’ve got all the holes filled, we just have to go out there and do the job.”

Game One UCSD scored two shots with less than a minute left in regulation to send the game into overtime. Boyer tied her career high with five goals in the game in addition to the game winner. Senior attacker Julia Kirkland and redshirt junior defender Alexis Wieseler pitched in two scores each.

Senior goalkeeper Courtney Miller ended the match with double-digit saves, blocking 11 shots in total.

UCSD’s defense was excellent in the first period as they held UCSB

to just one goal, in addition to two shot-clock turnovers on two straight possessions. After the Gauchos started the match with a score, the Tritons answered when sophomore goalkeeper Emma Sasson buried a skip shot to tie it at one.

UCSD allowed two quick goals to begin the second frame but took the lead with two goals from Boyer and one from Wieseler. The Gauchos almost tied the game before the half with a score from senior utility Samantha Murphy, but Kirkland would convert on a skip shot to put the Tritons up 5–4.

The Tritons had no offense in the third period as the Gauchos shut them out and added four goals, but UCSD was resilient.

After not scoring for more than 12 minutes, Kirkland scored early in the fourth to end UCSD’s drought.

Soon after, Boyer would complete her hat trick with a deep score for UCSD.

With a one-point lead UCSB would add its only goal of the period to put its score up by two.

With only 46 seconds left, Wieseler put the Tritons within one with a goal of her own. Junior attacker Connie Wu would follow that up with a perfectly timed lob shot over the head of UCSB senior goalkeeper Mackenzie Brokaw to tie the game at nine and send the game into overtime.

The Tritons and Gauchos would exchange goal for goal in overtime as each team scored once in each overtime period. Freshman center Chanel Schilling scored on a quick backhand goal in the first period of overtime and Boyer added another in the second frame.

UCSD’s defense was solid despite the UCSB attacks as it forced a turnover in the opening sprint. Boyer would give the Tritons the win by drilling a backhand shot after getting past two defenders.

Game Two In the fifth match against a nationally ranked opponent in the last two days, the Tritons’ defense held strong, giving up only five goals to the ninth-ranked team, but only scoring three of their own.

Senior attacker Laurel Kistler scored two goals in the first period to give the Tritons a 2–1 lead.

UCSD would see its lead slip away after scoreless second and third frames in which UC Irvine would add two goals in each period.

The Tritons kept fighting in the final period, shutting the Anteaters out and adding a goal from Wieseler.

But it would not be enough to regain the lead as UCSD would fall to UC Irvine, 5–3.

UCSD will be off for two weeks before heading to Irvine for the UC Irvine Invitational on Feb. 27–28.

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