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Silversun Pickups

he secret is finally out: Alternative rock band Silversun Pickups will headline the main stage of Sun God Festival on Friday, May 18 and German electronic dance music producer Paul van Dyk is set to headline the dance stage, A.S. Concerts & Events revealed to the Guardian on Friday.

Other artists for the annual party’s main stage include Chiddy Bang, Ra Ra Riot, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Dia Frampton, Murs and Battle of the Bands LEISURE winner Alier and the Band, while the Check out dance stage lineup includes Tommy Trash, our feature on Tokimonsta, Clockwork, Oliver, Yarek and the making of DJ battle winner Break North.

Sun God. “I think it’s easy to tell that we have a PAGE 6 greater emphasis on the dance stage this year and that’s just reflective of current trends among students,” Associate Vice President of Concerts & Events Oliver Zhang said.

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According to Zhang, ASCE has been trying to book Silversun Pickups for years, and the booking of Paul van Dyk — who festival coordinator Eric Babajanian referred to as a “trance god” — was the result of the office “seizing an opportunity.”

“In general, we just wanted to provide a pretty diverse range of acts,” Zhang said. “I think this is noticeable on both stages. With the dance stage there are acts like Oliver, who’s more nu-disco and indie dance. Then there’s Tokimonsta, which is more Low End Theory, beat scene-esque. Tommy Trash is electro house. Clockwork is also electro. For [main stage acts] Chiddy Bang, Macklemore and Murs we were just getting different types of hip hop — Chiddy Bang being a more poppy option, Murs being a more legitimate, hip hop fan’s artist and Macklemore bridging those different gaps.”

Zhang said that the lineup selection this year placed a See SUN GOD, page 3

A.S. ELECTIONS

Meggie Le of TIDE Elected A.S. President General election has a final turnout rate of 20 percent, compared to 27 percent in 2011.

By Angela Chen Editor in Chief The moderate, transportationfocused Ride the TIDE slate swept the 2012 A.S. Elections, taking three of the four top seats and four of eight campuswide senatorial positions.

TIDE presidential candidate and Marshall College junior Meggie Le was elected by a margin of 794 votes after two rounds of single-transferable voting, and TIDE candidates Olamide Noah and Bryan Cassella were elected into the Vice President of External Affairs and Vice President of Finance and Resources positions, respectively.

Sixth College senior Cody Marshall, who ran as an independent, took the Vice President of Student Life seat.

All four of the TIDE’s campus-wide senatorial candidates — Irene Chang, Jackie Clavin, Savini Ganhewa and

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President-elect In the singleMeggie Le transferable votwrites an open ing system, voters letter to the are asked to rank students. the candidates. If a PAGE 4 student’s first-place candidate does not receive enough voters, the vote is transferred to his or her second-place

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candidate, and so on.

In the presidential race, independent candidate Ali Athar was defeated in the first round, with 380 votes.

Student Voice candidate Elizabeth Garcia was defeated in the second round, with 1237 votes. Bold candidate Karen Liang was defeated in the third round with 1515 votes, and Le was elected with 2309 votes.

“This was simply an amazing experience,” Le said. “I couldn’t have made it without Jeremy [Akiyama] and

Began performing: 2005 from: L.A.’s Silver Lake, also home of Rilo Kiley and the inspiration for the band’s name Biggest hit: “Lazy Eye” Sounds like: If your favorite dream pop band toned down the reverb and aimed for alt-rock superstardom, brooding like a post-grunge era Smashing Pumpkins

Paul van Dyk

Began performing: 1988 from: Berlin, Germany Biggest hit: “For An Angel” Sounds like: Every movement that’s hit the German electronic dance music scene, from early Berlin techno and house to progressive trance

Chiddy Bang

Began performing: 2010 from: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Biggest hit: “Mind Your Manners” Sounds like: This alt-hip-hop duo, composed of rapper Chidera “Proto” Anamege and Xaphoon Jones on production, meshes unconventional samples (Tom Waits, MGMT) with witty rhymes

Ra Ra Riot

Began performing: 2006 from: Syracuse, New York Biggest hit: “Can You Tell” Sounds like: If you swapped vampire weekend’s globetrotting Paul Simon influences for more earnest and orchestral chamber pop

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Began performing: 2000 from: Seattle, Washington Biggest hit: “Wings” Sounds like: Confessional lyrics via emcee Macklemore (Ben Haggerty) and emotive instrumentation via producer Ryan Lewis make for heartwrenching yet accessible hip-hop

See artists, page 10

See TIDE, page 3

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▶ On Tuesday, UCSD will release preliminary data on the number of students who were admitted this spring. This year marked the most applicants in UCSD history, with over 70,000 total applicants.

▶ A proposed high-speed rail line from San Francisco to southern California will not include Anaheim or San Diego as had previously been considered.

▶ A ruling by the California Supreme Court mandated that while workers are required to take meal and rest breaks, they are not prohibited from working during those breaks.

▶ UCSD’s annual Earth Week celebration will be held this week. This year’s theme, “A Better More Sustainable U,” will accompany tree planting, awards and film screenings.

▶ The Metropolitan Water District of southern California voted to approve an annual 5 percent increase on water usage in San Diego. The annual increase will be in effect for each of the next two years.

▶ 894 students on the waitlist for admission to UCLA were erroneously informed that they were admitted last week. UCLA admission officers were quick to apologize to the misinformed applicants.

▶ UCSD physics professor Sally Ride’s outreach group, Sally Ride Science, launched a mission to take pictures of the moon last month. The project, MoonKAM, has already received requests from students in 52 countries for access to the photos.

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▶ A Seismological Society of America convention will be held on Tuesday to discuss future earthquakes and tsunamis that may affect San Diego.

▶ A Fresno State public heath professor was accused of showing a 20-minute “pornographic” film to students during class. The dean defended the film, entitled “Advanced Sexual Techniques, Volume One,” as “relevant.”

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LIGHTS & SIRENS Tuesday, April 3 9:22 a.m.: Suspicious person ▶ A subject who received a “stay away” order for rubbing up against women was at Price Center East.

Unable to locate.

3:05 p.m.: Battery ▶ A nurse was struck by a patient at Cardiovascular Center. Report taken.

3:58 p.m.: Chemical spill ▶ There was a formaldehyde spill at Sanford Consortium. Referred to other agency - EHS. Wednesday, April 4 12:41 a.m.: Welfare check ▶ The subject at The Village Building 3 wanted to check on her boyfriend who was intoxicated and not answering his phone.

Transported to hospital.

Thursday, April 5 12:57 a.m.: Suspicious person ▶ Two males were “tampering with vehicles” at 1 Miramar Parking Structure. Closed by adult arrest, booked into County Jail.

3:23 a.m.: Suspicious person ▶ A man was sleeping on a desk at Visual Arts. Unable to locate.

10:19 a.m.: Citizen contact ▶ The subject at Campus Services Complex Building B was receiving “possible threatening emails from ex-girlfriend.” Checks OK. 12:55 p.m.: Information ▶ Someone reported “graffiti and swastika” on the sea wall near Lot 102. Unable to locate.

2:48 p.m.: Information ▶ There was a large swarm of bees near UCTR 413. Referred to other agency — Pest Management.

▶ The reporting party at Earth Hall South believed someone was “trying to open her back window.” Checks OK. 1:37 p.m.: Information ▶ People at The Village West Building 1 were trying to sell a home stereo and projector from a mini van. Information only.

2:52 p.m.: Indecent exposure ▶ An unknown suspect flashed someone on the San Diego Transit Bus # 30 at the bus stop by Gilman Parking Structure. Report taken.

10:53 p.m.: Drunk in public ▶ The subjects were “urinating in public” at Parking Lot 302. Field interview administered.

Saturday, April 7 4:13 p.m.: Citizen contact ▶ The reporting party wanted to talk to an officer at Telemedicine Building about her ex “who took her phone.” Information only.

Sunday, April 8 3:10 a.m.: Disturbance, domestic violence ▶ A male grabbed his wife’s arm and pulled her into his vehicle at Northview information Booth.

Closed by adult arrest.

1:50 p.m.: Citizen contact ▶ The reporting party at Campus Service Complex Building B wanted to talk about the arrest of her husband. Information only.

Monday, April 9 9:44 a.m.: Hazard situation ▶ A male was trying to change a tire in the middle of the roadway on La Jolla Village Drive. Information only.

7:47 p.m.: Injury ▶ The subject had a “bleeding” arm after falling off a skateboard.

Transported to hospital.

UC Davis Pepper Spray Report Released to Public

By Zev Hurwitz Associate News Editor The deliberate pepper spraying of Occupy movement protesters at UC Davis last November was unnecessary and campus police and UCD administrators are to blame, a report released Sunday said.

The report, compiled by a task force led by former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, concludes that the university could have done more to prevent the incident.

“Our overriding conclusion can be stated briefly and explicitly,” the report stated. “The pepper spraying incident that took place on Nov. 18, 2011 should and could have been prevented.”

The report condemned the actions of several individuals, including UCD Police Chief Annette Spicuzza and more directly, Lt. John Pike — the onduty officer who was filmed spraying the protesters with pepper spray as they blocked a pathway. Videos of Pike went viral last year, and he has widely been considered the face of the pepper spray incident.

The report also found that UCD Chancellor Linda Katehi could have been more proactive in the planning phases of handling of the protests.

The latter portion of the report outlines recommendations for university policy changes that would prevent similar events from occurring. The bulk of the recommendations consist of UCD setting up more structured dialogue with student leaders to work together during future discrepancies.

It is also recommended that UCD administrators set up an “office hours” model for becoming more accessible to concerned students.

The report, which was released in a downloadable format on April 11, had been completed and slated for release in early March. UCD Police had filed for an injunction against the release in early March, fearing that some officers’ privacy would be breached.

On March 28, California Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo ruled that the report could be released as-is immediately, pending appeal. When no appeal was filed, the task force proceeded with the release.

UC President Mark Yudof released a statement on April 11 saying he looked forward to working with UCD and Chancellor Katehi to prevent similar incidents from happening.

Readers can contact Zev Hurwitz at zhurwitz@ucsd.edu.

Marshall College Had Highest Voter Turnout, Followed

By Muir College ▶ TIDE, from page 1

Olamide [Noah] and Bryan [Cassella], and I’m so proud of everyone on my slate. Of course we knew that people from every slate would be elected, but we don’t want it to be a repeat of two years ago.”

This year’s voter turnout was 21.06 percent, according to A.S. Advocate General Courtney Hill. This is a significant decrease from both the 27.5-percent general election turnout in 2011, and the 51-percent D-I referendum turnout last month.

“The voter turnout was a lot lower this year, but it’s on track for a year that had no referendum,” Hill said. “I’m just glad we broke 20 percent.”

Marshall College — where the majority of the TIDE executive candidates are from — had the highest voter turnout at 22 percent, followed

by Muir, Revelle, Warren, ERC, Sixth.

No slates filed grievances this year, a stark contrast to the 2011 elections, in which grievance proceedings delayed the election results for three days.

Readers can contact Angela Chen at shchen@ucsd.edu.

3,000 Guest Tickets to be Sold Online Beginning April 23 ▶ SUN GOD, from page 1

stronger emphasis on the live experience.

“Each and every one of these artists Friday, April 6 will put on a great show and deliver a 12:07 a.m.: Citizen contact great experience for students on the ▶ The subject reported that there day of,” Zhang said. was a raccoon on the sixth floor of ASCE will sell 3,000 guest tickets — COMPILED

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transaction fee) through the UCSD Box Office website (http://ucsdboxoffice.com/) beginning at 10 a.m. on April 23. The Alumni Association has purchased 500 of those tickets to be sold through the alumni website. Guest tickets must be purchased by a UCSD student or employee, with a limit of one ticket per person. Student wristbands will be available for pick-up beginning the Thursday before the event.

The total ASCE allocation in the 2011-12 A.S. Executive Budget is $773,459, with $500,000 allocated toward Sun God Festival — however, Zhang noted that the total Sun God budget is supplemented through other revenue streams, such as guest tickets, vendor fees, festival merchandise and sponsorships.

See LINEUP, page 10

CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

ADDRESSING THE INTERSECTION

BETWEEN LAW AND BUSINESS In addition to the strength of its new business law program, Chapman Law:

DEAN TOM CAMPBELL Dean Tom Campbell is committed to making Chapman a destination for business-minded law students. As former dean of UC Berkeley’s acclaimed Haas School of Business, Dean Campbell’s vision has helped Chapman become one of the fastest growing private law schools in the nation.

Recently, Chapman launched the Business Law Emphasis Program, its sixth legal emphasis and certificate program.

Providing an immersion into critical business law courses, the program also gives unique access to externships, mentoring and networking opportunities via its dedicated advisory group of general counsels from major Southern California companies.

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Berkeley’s student paper, the Daily Californian, proposed a $2-per-semester student fee that would help alleviate the paper’s debt, but partial outside control of the paper would detract from a truly independent press.

By Chris Roteliuk • Staff Writer

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he Associated Students of UC Berkeley voided a ballot initiative this past Wednesday that would have asked students to pay $2 per semester to support the campus newspaper, the Daily Californian. If the council had approved the Vitalizing Online Information and Community Exchange (V.O.I.C.E.) for inclusion on the election ballot, and students voted to pass the referendum, Cal students would have paid the fee for the next five years in order to alleviate roughly half of the Daily Cal’s current $200,000 deficit.

As a member of the Guardian, I empathize with the Daily Cal’s deficit situation — the Internet age has made times tough for all newspapers, especially ones run by college students, and the Guardian is currently struggling with its own financial difficulties. In the best of times, and in the spirit of free press, the Daily Cal would be able to maintain its full independence from the university. Although the referendum language states that the funds cannot be tampered with, there is always the concern that

university funding would detract from a truly free press.

Ever since the Daily Cal became independent from UC Berkeley in the 70s, the staff has taken pride in the fact that it is funded entirely by its own advertising. This referendum would have blurred the lines between a public and an independent organization — an organization that receives funding from mandatory student fees can hardly pass as “independent.”

Blurring these lines would unfairly deteriorate the notion of a free and competitive publications market at UC Berkeley, giving the Daily Cal the privilege of being both studentfunded and independent of school oversight. Granted, in drafting the referendum, the Daily Cal seemed ready to accept the consequences of university support, even if it meant the loss of its free status. But if the Daily Cal hopes to maintain its status as an independent newspaper, then it must accept the fact that dealing with tough sustainability reforms on its own is part of being an independent newspaper.

In the end, the V.O.I.C.E.

initiative turned out to be illegal.

On Wednesday, the ASUC at UC Berkeley rejected the referendum for breaking Section 87.00 of the UC system fee regulations, which states that the referendum process “shall not be used to establish a new fee for the purpose of supporting a nonuniversity organization.”

After the rapid expansion of online resources and social media outlets, the entire field of print journalism has been struggling to stay afloat. According to a 2009 article in the magazine Editor and Publisher, the newspaper industry in the United States has lost one-fifth of its journalists since 2001. Many large newspaper chains since December 2008 have filed for bankruptcy, such as the Tribune Company, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Philadelphia Newspapers LLC. The biggest hit to print journalism has been a loss in advertisement revenue, as previous clients became more inclined to promote themselves via social media and other online sources. According to the Newspaper Association for America, Print See Daily Cal, page 5

GUEST COMMENTARIES GUEST COMMENTARY

A.S. Should Take a More Direct Role in Students’ Lives

BY MEGGIE LE A.S. President-Elect

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hese past four months have truly been an amazing and unforgettable experience.

This year, we have seen a truly diverse, not divisive, council be elected into office. I am proud to say that next year’s council will be able to accurately represent our diverse UCSD community. My hope for A.S. Council this year is to take a more direct role in students’ lives as well as a more active role in student movements. I fully believe that A.S. Council should be for the students, by the students and that is something I want to instill in each and every council member this year.

A couple of the initiatives I have for this upcoming year surround transportation and external affairs.

In the midst of a transportation budget deficit, it is the job of the

Associated Students to work in students’ interests and protect the services we hold so dear. When students are late to class because a shuttle — which had been filled to capacity by the time it reached their stop — was unable to stop for them, it is completely unacceptable.

We are students and it is our job to learn. When the quality of services prevents us from doing so, it is neither fair nor acceptable by any stretch of the imagination. My first action as A.S. President will be to initiate conversations with the Transportation Director to see what steps we, as a university, can take to protect the shuttles, ‘S’ spots and MTS passes. Student services like transportation should be kept free — they should never be things we’re required to pay extra for.

Another focus I have for the upcoming year is external affairs.

The other executive officers and I

see the importance of establishing a lasting relationship with local and state government officials. These relationships link with any initiative students want to see pass. Whether it’s Greek housing or the prevention of fee hikes, local and state government officials have influence and can help us achieve our goals.

We only need to show them that students have power as well; we can get them into office and we can just as easily get them out.

With a council filled with members of different slates, I really want to work on inner-council relations so that we can get past slate politics and work together to make a positive impact for students.

I promise that the other executive officers and I will do our best to see this through.

I am excited to start working with the new chancellor and establishing a new dynamic

in students’ relationship with the administration. The other executives and I will make sure this year is an unforgettable year.

We promise to serve you and push A.S. Council into a direction that hasn’t been seen before. Council is going to do big things next year and I have so much faith in this council and our campus to make real change.

I know I wouldn’t be here without the love and support of all my friends and family as well as the students who voted for me. Thank you to all the voters who have put their faith in me. Thank you for this opportunity to lead our university and I promise that this year’s A.S. Council will not let you down.

I hope that you all are as excited to be a part of history in the making as I am. This is the dawn of a new age and we promise to leave a legacy all students can be proud of.

Kill Zombies While Fending Off Type II Diabetes

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n the not-so-distant future, you will have the ability to battle the hordes of zombies plaguing the streets of La Jolla while getting in a good workout. And on top of all that, you will be reducing your chances of developing type 2 diabetes.

By combining cutting-edge augmented reality (AR) technology with the portability of a smartphone, Google has the potential to make the entire planet its playing field. Google has announced its intent to release AR “smart glasses” that will plug into our smartphones by the end of the year.

To those of you unfamiliar with the concept of AR, it combines both the virtual and the physical realities together. It’s like the virtual projection of Princess Leia in Star Wars, except

Hypothesis Now Jonathan Okerblom jjokerbl@ucsd.edu

you would be seeing the projection of her through your glasses. Within this kind of dimension, Angry Bird fans would have the capacity to coordinate a large-scale war against green pigs throughout the entire city.

Personally, I’m more interested in battling zombies. Their plague spreads by devouring people’s souls and eating brains. I would argue that virtual zombies deserve to die much more than virtual green pigs.

Undulating between endurance training and sprinting is similar to high intensity interval training (like basketball or soccer). This is different than just jogging at the same pace for thirty minutes. If you incorporate sprints and calisthenics into your endurance regimen, you’re going to utilize more glucose, especially at high intensities. Not only will this help you stay in shape, it will help to alleviate the repercussions of insulin resistance, the major hallmark of type 2 diabetes.

Science and health industries have been trying to develop virtual reality (VR) based exercise for almost a decade. In March of 2011, the National Institute of Health and the Department of Defense co-sponsored a symposium in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology (v.5(2)) completely dedicated to developing VR technologies for obesity and diabetes. Mark Bolas (UCSD Alumnus) and Skip Rizzo, both at the Institute of Creative Technology at USC, reported that the current VR technologies are insufficient to provide enough daily exercise to meet the recommended need for children, but that the desire for gamers to interact at a larger scale will drive the innovation of newer and cheaper technologies.

Google’s technology could change this forever. The high mobility, ease of incorporation, and relatively low cost ($250-$600) of Google’s new technology gives them the potential to revitalize gaming for health and disease prevention, especially in children.

Once the technology is available, it’s up to the artists, engineers and programmers to design apps directed towards health instead of brain eating.

I hope to see the next great exercise app developed by UCSD students, and expect nothing less.

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Solve for X By Philip Jia

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Prioritize Students, Not Politician Interests

Newspaper Fee Referendums Part of Nationwide Trend ▶ Daily Cal, from page 4

Newspaper Advertising Revenue has dropped from $54 billion in 2000 to $20 billion in 2011.

This is in line with the struggles most student newspaper have been facing. Though the Guardian has financial and structural problems are not the same as those of the Daily Cal, the Guardian has experienced similar revenue problems.

As early as 2010, the Guardian staff considered running a referendum through A.S. Council that would have asked students to pay a quarterly fee to help support the paper. While no official language was presented to council, the referendum was a serious consideration that then seemed

like a viable means of funding, especially as other UC papers have been looking into the same.

According to the Daily Cal, student fee referendums proposed to help campus newspapers have passed at UC Santa Barbara and UCLA, though they failed at UC Riverside.

Ultimately, we decided that the financial support, while helpful, did not address underlying organizational problems and committed to focusing on internal reform and a five-year advertising plan before bringing a referendum to council.

Of course, the Daily Cal has taken its own steps to keep the paper sustainable, such as restructuring the sales department, incorporating

recruitment to business positions, embracing an online-first mentality and holding alumni fundraisers.

Campus newspapers turning to university funding is a growing nationwide trend that is unlikely to end any time soon. For that reason, newspapers like the Daily Cal and the Guardian may have to revisit student fee referendums in the future ­— the Editor in Chief of the Daily Cal has already stated his intention to revisit the measure in a fall special election.

Until then, restructuring and alternative forms of revenue provide a tentative barrier away from the red.

Readers can contact Chris Roteliuk at croteliu@ucsd.edu

Dear Editor, Amazing the things you can do if you’re wealthy. If you’re a politician or university administrator, you can help run our country or university into bankruptcy while enriching yourself. You can hire friends to write garbage reports about UC ‘leftism’ because it fits your agenda.

Of course the UCs are leftist,with administration slashing the number of transfer students, raising tuition to unobtainable levels for the poor and working class, and removing affirmative action that leveled the playing field for those struggling to get into the racist UCs. The UCs and the state perpetuate the problems of rich becoming richer and well educated, leaving the masses out of opportunity and forced into shitty jobs to fuel the 1 percent!

The report that the Guardian decided to waste space with fails to even define “Leftist,” i.e. anti-capitalist. Recent polls by conservative agencies have found that our generation, especially folks of color and poor folks, are increasingly becoming critical of, if not anti-capitalist, and our politicians and university administration are doing everything in their power to fight these trends from suppressing free speech and activism through campus stay away orders, barring students unjustly from political activities, to arresting, beating and pepper-spraying them.

As Michael Parenti writes, bias “...moves in more or less consistent directions, favoring management over labor...and conservative commentators and columnists over progressive or radical ones.”

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onsidering that its inhabitants are in charge of organizing the largest, loudest, craziest concerts on campus every year, the tone in the A.S. Concerts and Events (ASCE) office is quiet and subdued.

Efficiency comes first at ASCE. Desks are covered in neat stacks of papers and folders, and conversations are held in hushed tones. The whirring of the Xerox machine is frequently the loudest sound in the room.

There are just 16 members in ASCE. But every year, they book, coordinate and manage the two largest music performances on campus: Hullabaloo and Sun God Festival.

Between these concerts, they are kept busy with countless smaller performances at the Loft, Porter’s Pub and throughout the six colleges.

The office’s head, or Associate Vice President, is Oliver Zhang, senior management science major from Warren College. He and the three festival chairs — senior Jennifer Tsai, junior Eric Babajanian and senior Henry Lu — are in charge of organizing Sun God, beginning as soon as A.S. Council appoints the ASCE staff in the spring.

“The first thing we [did] then is work to secure a date for the festival,” Zhang said.

After that, the staff spent most of the summer organizing Hullaballoo, a more pressing need than Sun God due to its November date. Regardless, Zhang got a head start on the biggest party of the year, holding “visioning” meetings for the festival over the summer. The visioning meetings were a chance for the team to focus on the big picture for Sun God, Lu explained.

“The Sun God process is yearlong,” he said. “We start out with an abstract

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idea, but it grows into something very concrete.”

The abstract idea for 2012 was for Sun God to be a complete festival, not just a concert.

“We’ve been trying to put a greater emphasis on art and decor, on creating atmosphere,” Zhang said.

After Hullabaloo, the office formed committees, and began to kick the plans for the following year’s festival into high gear. This year, ASCE is split into six committees: Production, Battle of the Bands, Midway and Decor, Booths and Sponsorship, Marketing and Merchandise.

Members of the Production team are in charge of all the hands-on aspects of Sun God. Before the concert, they do everything from putting up banners and posters to fixing lights on the stages.

“It’s easy to dismiss the Production committee as a sort of ‘manual-labor’ team,” Zhang said. “But we require highly detail-oriented people to run it.”

There is a day-of focus to the committee, Lu added.

“Production gets performers where they need to be, on time,” he said. “If a performer needs water, Production gets it for them. If a performer needs a different setup, Production changes it for them. And if anything unexpected happens, Production is the team to relay the information to everyone else.”

Battle of the Bands is one of the newest ASCE committees. It’s responsible for the eponymous competition that allows student performers to get involved with Sun God. Its emphasis this year has been on increasing stuSee ASCE, page 10

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2011 Wiz Khalifa, Crystal Castles, Mike Posner, Jimmy Eat World // Introduced The Lounge, a collaboration with beverage retailer D’lush. The Lounge served mixed drinks, including an official Sun God drink, and provided couches and TV screens for students to relax and watch the concert streaming live. // 2010 Drake, Michelle Branch, Relient K, Thrice // For the second time in Sun God history, all 16,500 student wristbands and 3,500 guest tickets sold out. // 2009 N.E.R.D., Iron and Wine, Girl Talk // Introduction of additional dance tent for Girl Talk, other DJs. // 64 festival arrests. // 2008 Sean Kingston,

Coheed and Cambria, Phantom Planet // First Sun God confined to RIMAC fields: Crowds drawn away from Library Walk and Price Center to RIMAC fields as students complain about the ‘“caging” of Sun God. // A.S. defends its choice, insisting that confining festivities to one main arena makes the festival safer for students. // Sean Kingston, then 19, boo’d off stage and fails to make it through his set. // No-reentry policy linked to higher occurrence of binge drinking. // Tickets sold out in advance for the first time in Sun God history. // 2007 T.I., Third Eye Blind, Ben Kweller // A particularly rowdy Sun God Festival, where 176 arrests and citations were made. // Sold out of tickets the night before the show. // 2006 My Chemical Romance, Cypress Hill, and Talib Kweli // Crowd of 12,000. // No one liked MCR. // 2005 Ludacris, Phantom Planet, Damian Marley, The Walkmen // About 15,000. // 2004 Busta Rhymes, Goldfinger // Goldfinger draws the attendance of off-campus observers. // Over 16,000 attend. // Alumni Association and Triton Engineering Student Council host first annual Triton Junkyard Derby at Peterson Hill, a Sun God tradition in which students from different departments and teams use scraps from a junkyard Physical Plant Services and help from alumni to construct boxcars for the race. // 2003 Bad Religion, Mos Def // Bad Religion vocalist Greg Graffin says UCSD “better than overrated Berkeley,”

the “scholarly UC campus” but “still can’t compare to UCLA.” Still gets cheered on throughout his set, students enjoy a successful Sun God. // 2002 Cake, No Use for a Name // 12,000 people attend// Two girls agree to make out for a pool of $500. // 2001 Naughty by Nature, XZibit, Face to Face // About 12,000 students attend. // Lenny Kravitz refuses an offer of $100,000; Is replaced by XZibit // XZibit replaces him and people actually enjoy themselves. // People who considered Blink-182 to be sellouts enjoyed Face to Face. // Guardian correspondent wanders around drunkenly in a Lobster costume. // 2000 Dishwalla, Rahzel from the Roots, The Aquabats // Guardian bashes weakest Sun God lineup to date: Dishwalla plays, alumni sober enough to recall it cringe at the memory. // Rahzel from The Roots

– students complain that there is only one Root. // Carmen Electra visits campus to kick off Sun God Week festivities, and many students are impressed by her stage presence. 1999 Cypress Hill, Reel Big Fish, Black Eyed Peas // Nu Alpha Kappa provides award-winning tacos, 90 other campus orgs represent along library walk // 1998 d.f. Rost, The Roots, Social Distortion // 9,000 attendees // 1997 De La Soul, Save Ferris, Clyde’s Ride, Switchfoot, DJ DIEM // The Guardian begins longstanding Sun God Stories tradition in which correspondents tell their best “drunk at Sun God” stories and give first-hand accounts of their wild experiences // 1996 Rocket from the Crypt, Souls of Mischief, Buck-O-Nine, and local, unsigned bands // Police log timeline published in the Guardian // Event moved to Price Center due to noise complaints from residents in the City of La Jolla. Doors closed early at 10 p.m., and police were worried about the safety of students because of the overcrowding. // 1995 The Pharcyde, 311, B-Side Players, Oversoul, DJ Greyboy // Daytime festivities took place on Sun God Lawn,

while the evening concert moved to the Warren Mall because of increased attendance // $47,000 spent, $15,000 more than previous year // Expanded to two-day event with its conjunction with the event PUFF // Students complain about “unknown bands” // Record turnout, over 7,000 students // 1994 They Might Be Giants, No Doubt, Frente!, Brian Dewan // More security, twice the amount from previous year due to injuries, alcohol abuse, arrests and “slam-dancing” // 1993 The Blues Traveler, The Gin Blossoms, Blacksmith Union 1992 Blur, Senseless Things, Food For Fleet, Flatten Manhattan 1991 The Beat Farmers, The Untouchables // KSDT provided music during day, concert at night // Students questioned whether the Sun God was a misogynistic figure // 1990 “Express Yourself” theme // Three injuries from dancing and alcohol poisoning // 1989 “Around The World” theme, with sections of different regions // No big name band, just “background music” // Tickets to be eliminated in following years // 1988 Additional security measures taken due to past misconduct, no alcoholic beverages permitted // Changed the central location of the festival from Sun God Lawn to Mile-High Field, the predecessor to RIMAC fields, so that noise complaints from La Jolla residents would be minimal // Comedian Pauly Shore performed // 1985 Prior to 1985, a few bands would play during the day but the Sun God festival revolved mainly around games, drinking and activities during the day. In 1985, an evening concert featuring Los Lobos was added on top of the daytime festivities, and from then on Sun God would be known as a dedicated music festival // 1984 Sun God Festival made a splash at its re-debut in 1984, with carnival games, booths and more. It is said that the longstanding UCSD tradition of running through the Price Center fountains on Sun God day dates back as far as the first Sun God festival in 1984. // 1983 Constructed in France, the Sun God was shipped over to campus for installation in 1983. And every year since, it has been the star of its very own festival. The Sun God Festival was the brainchild of Henry Chu, ‘83, an A.S. Vice President who came up with the idea for a big spring bash after visiting UCLA’s annual “Mardi Gras” festival. But the inaugural festival was canceled due to unseasonably wet weather.

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CAPS PEER INFORMATION NITE- REVELLE COLLEGE FORMAL LOUNGE Get info from CAPS staff coordinators and current wellness peer educators on applying to be a peer educator for the 2012-2013! Applications are due by Friday, 4/20 by noon. For more info go to caps.ucsd.edu

8pm TARIQ RAMADAN “INTERPRETING ISLAM IN MODERN CONTEXT”- PRICE CENTER Through extensive writings and lectures at both academic and grassroots levels, Tariq Ramadan contributes to the debate on the issues of Muslims in the West and Islamic revival in the Muslim World. He emphazies the differences between religion and culture, which he believes are too often confused, arguing that citizenship and religion are separate concepts. He claims that there is no conflict between being both a Muslim and a European; a Muslim must accept the laws of his country. Co-sponsors: "Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) Middle East Speaker Series." “Program for the Study of Religion”. “Dept of Literature”

THU4.19 3:30pm “UP IN SMOKE: THE LONG-RUN IMPACT OF IMPROVED COOKING STOVES IN THE PRESENCE OF HOUSEHOLD BEHAVIOR”- SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING (SSB), ROOM 107 Using randomized evaluation techniques, we measured the impact of improved cooking stoves on indoor air pollution, health, and fuel expenditures. Even though the stoves reduced indoor air pollution and required less fuel in laboratory tests, we find limited impacts in the field: even when first receiving the stoves, households failed to use them regularly or appropriately, and use declined further over time.

These findings underscore the need to test environmental and health technologies in real-world settings where behavior may temper impacts, and to test them over a long enough horizon to understand how this behavioral effect evolves over time.

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Explore the watery world of the future, where heraldry returns to an exceptionally watery planet. You and a partner will compete for the crown at San Diego’s premier (and only) Kayak Jousting event. One of you will paddle, the other balances upright on a kayak, with pillow padded jousting pole in hand you will attempt to de-kayak your opponent. $5 per team. Website: https://recreation.ucsd.edu/outback-adventures

8pm BILL FRISELL & BILL MORRISON: THE GREAT FLOOD - PRICE CENTER EAST BALLROOM The Mississippi River Flood of 1927 was an epic disaster, wreaking horrible havoc on an entire region of our country and displacing thousands, including scores of Delta blues performers who took their music north to cities like Chicago. Composed by jazz great Bill Frisell, The Great Flood is an evening-long suite accompanied

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This workshop will explore the ways in which men and women communicate through the use of activities and dialogue. PASSPORT/COMMUNICATE!: Men and Women Talking. Men and women use different verbal and non-verbal communication cues. This workshop will explore the different ways in which men and women communicate, through the use of activities and dialogue. 1:00-2:15pm, Roosevelt College Room, Price Center West Level 2. Free and open to all students. This event is part of both the Passport to Leadership & CommunicateUCSD! leadership and communication certificate programs.

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5:30pm TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 50TH ANNIVERSARY FILM SCREENING- PC THEATER As a part of the Sexual Assault Awareness Month, University Centers is partnering with SARC and the OPHD to bring you a free screening of one of the most acclaimed movies of all time. Join Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, and Mary Badham in the adaptation of Harper Lee’s famous novel. Atticus Finch (Peck) is a lawyer in the Depression-era South who defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, while teaching his kids about acting against prejudice. This movie is free for students, so come see this classic movie on the big screen!

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The UCSD and Donald Shapiro 2011-2012 Biomedical Ethics Seminar Series is supported by a generous gift from The Institute of Health Law at the California Western School of Law (CWSL), which co-sponsors with UCSD a Master's Degree in Health Law. It meets once monthly for faculty, staff, and students to discuss selected ethics topics. Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are on the third Wednesday of the month, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. at UCSD in the Medical Teaching Facility (MTF), Room 175. For more information please contact Mary Devereaux at mdevereaux@ucsd.edu.

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CHUNKY MOVIE- MANDEVILLE CENTER Back in 2005, Australia’s Chunky Move debuted in San Diego with I Want to Dance Better at Parties and more recently, was seen at the Wonderland Festival of International Contemporary Dance Experience. For the company’s third engagement with ArtPower!, Chunky Move teams up with Californian artist Reuben Margolin to animate body and machine using a web-like, moving sculpture. Beginning with simple movements that evolve into complex structures, athletic and agile dancers’ bodies twist and hurtle through space to construct a vast sculpture in real time.

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This event happens about every two weeks and every excursion is a unique experience. There are a lot of interesting people there, and you'll be having some enlightening conversations with the residents of the streets. Plus, we'll go out for In n' Out afterward!

Sponsored by Love the Homeless, a registered UCSD student organization. All are welcome to come to our final event of the academic year!

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A.S. Council to Partner With 94.9 for “Sun God for a Cause” Initiative ▶ lineup, from page 3

Expenses can continue to fluctuate leading up to the festival and throughout the day of the show, but Zhang estimated that $200,000 will be spent on talent, $63,000 on facility expenses, $355,000 on production expenses, $115,000 on health and safety expenses and $6,500 on marketing expenses.

The D’lush lounge, which debuted last year to serve mixed drinks and provide couches for students to relax and watch the concert streaming live, will return this year, and there will be a greater emphasis on art around the festival grounds.

“In past years, we’ve always had a part of the festival dedicated to art work,” festival coordinator Henry Lu said. “This year we found that it’s kind of a forgotten part of the festival, so we’re taking a new approach to how we handle art…and that ended up becoming an art and décor committee these past two quarters.”

Lu revealed that one of the results of this committee is the inclusion of performance art in the form of giant, light-up jellyfish.

“We call it a music and arts festival, but the art part has been kind of downplayed in past years and this is our first year, our first initial step in that direction,” Zhang said.

As part of the “Sun God For a Cause” initiative, A.S. Council will work with 94.9’s It’s About the Music Foundation to sell a special T-shirt to raise money for music education.

ASCE publicly announced the lineup on their website on Monday.

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▶ artists, from page 1

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dent input in the selection process.

“They put a voting system in place this year for the top acts,” Tsai said.

“Choosing an applicant is tricky.”

In past years, the committee chose Battle of the Bands winners on its own — with mixed success. Turnout for the student performers tended to be low. For Sun God 2012, the Battle of the Bands committee hoped to remedy this by increasing student involvement in the selection process.

“We’re always learning,” Lu said.

“And we think it’s a more appropriate way to make the decision anyway.”

The Midway Stage, also a relatively new addition to Sun God, is managed by the Midway and Decor committee.

It’s in charge of bookings for the stage, which in recent years have included big names like Cirque Bezerk and Axis of Awesome.

“It’s the only non-music space at Sun God,” Babajanian said. “And it’s a pretty intimate space. They have a great opportunity to reach people directly.”

Reaching people during the concert may be the domain of the other committees, but in the weeks preceding Sun God, it’s the Marketing Committee that reaches people most directly. The members are in charge of building hype and a sense of campus spirit through campaigns such as Sun God Babies, paper cut-outs of baby Sun Gods hidden around campus that can be redeemed for prizes.

However, they are also in charge of promoting safety at the concert.

“This year we’re looking at launching a pretty intricate student health campaign just before the festival,” Babajanian said.

Money for all these campaigns, as well as artist bookings, comes partly from the revenue generated by the Booths and Sponsorship committee, as well as the Merchandise commit-

Began performing: Made her solo debut on NBC vocal competition “The Voice” in 2011, after performing with her sister in the band “Meg and Dia” for several years FROM: Draper, Utah Biggest hit: Her cover of Kanye West’s “Heartless,” as featured on “The Voice” Sounds like: The reflective singersongwriter we need to fit the Michelle Branch slot this year

Murs

Began performing: First began as a solo artist in 2003, after nearly a decade of working with various groups in the underground FROM: L.A.’s Mid-City district, as frequently mentioned in many of his songs Biggest hit: “Everything” Sounds like: California-style hip hop to a T, with everyman rhymes about Asian girls and cigarette addiction layered over sun-kissed beats

Tommy Trash

Began performing: 2008 FROM: Sydney, Australia Biggest hit: “Cascade” Sounds like: A fist-pumping frat party

TOKiMONSTA

Began performing: 2008 FROM: South Bay area of Los Angeles Biggest hit: “Sweet Day” Sounds like: Skittering, psychedelic hip hop beats that fit the mold of Flying Lotus’ label/collective Brainfeeder

Clockwork

Began performing: 2010 FROM: Milan, Italy Biggest hit: “Things You Have” Sounds like: Dark disco and funky, throwback techno for the SoundCloud generation

Oliver

Began performing: 2011 FROM: Los Angeles, California Biggest hit: “Dirty Talk” Sounds like: This nu-disco dance duo will be a welcome refresher for those deafened by the trance/house boom of the rest of the day

“Hopkins Avenue is converted to Sun God Street for the festival,” Zhang said. “It gets completely filled with booths.”

Though corporate sponsors generally have a both or two, most booths are run by food vendors or student orgs. As with the other companies, Booths and Sponsorship has a great deal of freedom.

“D’Lush, a drinks company, was one of our big sponsors last year,” Zhang said. “We had been wanting a lounge for some time, and they wanted to get their product out to UCSD students. Booths and Sponsorship worked with them to create a longtype space at Sun God to meet both of our needs.”

The merchandise committee most closely resembles a focus group.

Committee members work with Triton Outfitters and the A.S. Graphic Design Studio to analyze trends and select the best designs for Sun God merchandise.

As the concert date approaches, ASCE’s focus shifts to booking. The most important thing in selecting performers is student preference.

“We ask them on our Facebook page, we ask them at the Sun God open forums,” Zhang said. “We make a list of which artists students want to see, and start gathering agent contacts.”

Fortunately, many agents have worked with Sun God in the past.

“That simplifies things,” Babajanian said. “But just because we reach out to an agent doesn’t mean an artist will want to come here at a college show. Even if they do want to come, their price range may not fit out budget.”

Rising stars are better than established hits because they tend to be cheaper. But obscure picks are unlikely to draw big crowds.

“We have to do the best with the

$550,000 we’re allocated by A.S., and what revenue we make from the 3,000 non-student tickets we sell every year.”

Budgets and student input aren’t the only factors ASCE takes into account.

“We want someone who can do good live performances — someone who can hold students’ attention,” Lu said. Selecting artists for Sun God is a delicate art, but Lu has experience, having booked for Warren Live for three years.

“The biggest challenge for me this year was finding a lineup sequence that would flow,” Lu said. “You can’t go from Mastodon to Bon Iver. You have to ask yourself, ‘Is the crowd that came for the last performance going to stick around for this one?’”

One thing the team says it never considers is its members’ personal music preferences.

“It’s our number one rule here: Throw your personal preferences out the window,” Zhang said. “We’re trying to represent 20,000 students here.

Of course it’s impossible to do that.

But at the end of the day, we want to be able to say that we got as close as we could.”

The Sun God lineup would look very different otherwise.

“If it were really up to our preferences, Eric would be booking all metal shows,” Lu said.

The process of booking artists can take anywhere from an hour to a month. It can be easy or exhausting.

Frequently, it doesn’t pan out. But plenty of planning and an early start have ensured that this year’s lineup for Sun God won’t disappoint.

But for all the work they have put in, the committee likes to let the artists take the spotlight.

“We like to stay invisible,” Lu said.

“When the concert comes around, and students are having a good time — that’s enough of a reward for us.”

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Tritons End 2012 Campaign With 9-19 Record

▶ MEN’S VOLLEYBALL, from page 12 The Tritons regrouped in the second set, recording a tremendous 14 of 17 on sideout attempts, while also tallying 11 kills on just two errors. UCSD took the set 15-25.

“In the second game we had fewer errors from the serves, we passed really well, we had good sideout efficiency,” Ring said.

The Lancers took back the lead in the third set, overcoming an early Triton lead to win 25-23.

“We had an early lead, and that evaporated,” Ring said. “It was a disappointing game three, to be up in the driver’s seat and then watch them take over.”

UCSD took the fourth set 21-25 to push for overtime, with the help of sophomore setter Mike Brunsting.

Brunsting, who was the setter of choice for Ring early in the season, has seen his minutes drop over the

course of the past few games. But against the Lancers, Brunsting came off the bench to record five big assists in the fourth game.

The Tritons took control in the fifth set, as UCSD was perfect on its side of the net, recording 12 kills on no errors.

Junior outside hitter Carl Eberts led the Tritons in the attack with 19 kills on five errors, while redshirt freshman Cheyne Hayes chipped in 13 kills to go along with sophomore Sebastian Brady’s 11 kills.

“It’s nice to win again, we had a real nice win streak going in the MPSF,” Ring said. “Then we faced a couple pretty good teams on the road. We lost two at [USC] and [Pepperdine], but it’s good just to get back to winning.”

Without hope of a postseason, the Tritons were swept by No. 2 UC Irvine in their last game of the season.

The Anteaters downed the

Tritons in dominant fashion, with scores of 25-19, 25-16 and 25-20. “[Irvine’s] coming in and they still had something to fight for tonight,” Ring said. “They’re heading into the playoffs next week, and they wanted to end the season on a high note.”

The Anteaters’ Kevin Tillie, a French international, led the field with 13 kills and three blocks.

Eberts had another strong game for the Tritons, but collectively, UCSD seemed flat in the attack, tallying just 27 kills to the Anteaters’ 43.

“I’m definitely proud of the improvements we’ve made throughout the season.

We had an early win against [BYU-Hawaii] on the road, and then kind of went through a tough patch there to be able to kind of keep our heads up, keep working in practice.

I don’t think we ever get down on ourselves. I felt like we had some

competitive matches. You can see signs that we’re getting better, we’re keeping ourselves in it.”

Despite tallying 6-16 MPSF conference record, the Tritons seem poised on improvement in 2013.

Without a senior on their roster, the Tritons will return next season with their entire roster intact, a group including last week’s AVCA National Player of the week sophomore Vaun Lennon, sophomore middle-blocker Sebastian Brady and junior outside hitter Carl Eberts.

“This is a tie for our second most wins in conference, at six,” Ring said.

“So in some ways this could have been a rebuilding year, we lost some key guys, some seniors last year, new guys have stepped in and they’ve showed they can play.”

Coach Elliott’s Departure for LMU: Adding Insult to Injury ▶ UDA, from page 12

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collegiate baseball realm, as O’Brien accepted a head coaching position at Santa Clara University last season. In his first season with the Division-I Broncos, O’Brien has amassed a 18–12 record, with conference series against USF, UOP and BYU remaining, O’Brien already has a better record than his predecessor, who went 16–34 overall and 4–17 in the West Coast Conference.

Preceding O’Brien was Triton volleyball coach Tom Black. Black a former gold-medalist who graduated from UCSD in 1996.

Black currently serves as a consultant coach for the U.S. Olympic men’s volleyball team, before which he accepted a coaching position at Loyola Marymount. Black guided the 2010 Lion roster to a 15–15 record, and a fourth-place finish in the West Coast Conference.

Elliott will follow Black to Loyola, where she will have her work cut out for her.

The bottom of the conference Lions went 8–22 overall last season and 3–13 in the West Coast Conference.

However, Elliott has a proven track record of turning teams around.

Back in 2005, Elliott led Division-I Portland State to its first Big Sky conference tournament in its previous three years.

But until UCSD is acknowledged by the Big West, UCSD will continue to serve as a stepping stone for underappreciated collegiate coaches.

Tennis Falls to Stanislaus Rose Has Another Big Meet

▶ WOMEN’S TENNIS, from page 12 Saturday, April 7 by CSU Los Angeles, winning two out of their nine games.

The No. 3 doubles team of Mulloy and Wilke won their match 8-5.

UCSD’s No. 1 doubles team of Breisacher and Davis were defeated 8–4.

No. 2 doubles team Chu and Vanooteghem played a close game, 9-8.

No. 6 singles, Davis defeated Franco in straight sets, 6–1, 6–0.

Breisacher lost the No. 1 singles match 6–3, 6–4. Chu lost the No. 2 singles match 6–3, 6–4 , while Vanooteghem lost the No. 3 singles match 6–3, 6–4.

Senior Samantha Yeung lost the No. 4 singles match in straight sets,

6–0, 6–1 to Jill Sangria.

Mizuguchi fought hard against Leung in the No. 5 singles match, losing the first set, but coming back in the second set. She lost in the tiebreaker, 6–0, 6–7, 10–4.

The Tritons drop to 6–12 this season, dropping their last five games.

UCSD will play against the Warriors again on Friday, April 20.

“We had tough match today [April 15] against a really tough team [Abilene Christian] and then we have a match tomorrow [April 16], so we’re hoping that we’ll gain confidence from these matches to get us better prepared for that match,” LaPlante said.

Readers can contact Rebecca Horwitz at rahorwit@ucsd.edu

▶ TRACK & FIELD, from page 12

On the men’s side, freshman Keith Rose salvaged an otherwise lackluster day for the men, recording a 10.86s time in the 100m, good enough to move him up from fifth to fourth all-time.

“I really wanted to win my heat and get an orange t-shirt,” Keith said.

“But I really want that school record [in the 100m dash]. I’ll only be happy when something three-tenths of a second quicker scrolls across that screen.”

Junior Aletha Vassilakis hit a new personal best in the Javelin throw of 124’3”, good enough for No. 10 on the UCSD all-time list.

In the Paralympic component, Jeremy Campbell, who has no lower

left leg and uses a special prosthetic, threw a new American Record at 190’7”.

The mark was good for third overall in not just the Paralympic, but also the overall competition.

The mark would be good enough to make the Olympic Trials in the nonparalympic games.

Blake Leeper, a blind athlete, ran in the 200m dash along with his seeing compatriot time of 22.43s was good enough for 21st overall in a field of over 80 seeing athletes.

The Tritons will head to the Soka Peace Invitational this weekend, April 20-21.

Readers can contact Nick Howe at nshowe@ucsd.edu

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By Rachel Uda Sports Editor

T

he UCSD Men’s Volleyball team ended the 2012 season with a 3-0 loss at home to No. 2 UC Irvine.

The No. 12 Tritons were knocked out of contention for the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation conference playoff last Friday night, April 13, when No. 11 Cal State Northridge defeated No. 6 Pepperdine. Despite the Tritons’ five-set victory over Cal Baptist, UCSD could

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No. 12 UCSD Volleyball edged out of conference tournament after splitting last two matches

not overtake Northridge in the standings to clinch the eighth seed.

On Friday, UCSD got off to a sluggish opening set, falling 20-25 to the Lancers.

The Tritons logged a sloppy 13 kills on nine errors, compared to Cal Baptist’s 11 kills on four errors.

“We really talked about the serve and receive battle, we really wanted to serve better than they served, and we wanted to pass better,” UCSD head coach Kevin Ring said. “And I don’t think we did that in the first game.” ▶ men’s VOLLEYBALL, on page 11

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Last week’s AVCA National Player of the Week, Vaun Lennon recorded 12 kills in the Tritons’ win over Cal Baptist, Thursday, April 12.

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UCSD Tennis Drop Track Nears PostFifth Straight Match Season Competition

By NICK HOWE Associate Sports Editor

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By REBECCA HORWITZ Staff Writer WOMEN’S TENNIS — Women’s tennis get served in season’s end On Wednesday, April 11, the No. 21 Tritons faced No. 33 CSU Stanislaus.

The Tritons only won three games: one doubles match and two singles, falling 6–3 to the Warriors.

“I think we played really well,” head coach Liz LaPlante said. “[CSU Stanislaus] were a tough team and there were strong players in the top of their lineup.”

The No. 3 doubles team of senior Katie Mulloy and sophomore Laura Wilke defeated Stanislaus’ Heather Cotter and McKenzy Harden 8–2.

No. 1 doubles team of junior Melissa Breisacher and junior Jacquelyn Davis

suffered a loss to undefeated doubles team Verena Preikschas and Katie Eng, 8–5.

Freshman Melinda Chu and Sophomore Tara Vanooteghem suffered a disappointing 8-1 loss.

Mulloy won the No. 4 singles match against Chrisco in straight sets, 6–3, 6–0. Davis won her match as well, 6–2, 6–2 in the No. 6 singles.

No. 1 singles Breisacher suffered a thorough loss to Preikschas 6–1, 6–1.

Krystal Mizugushi put up a fight against Harden in the No. 5 singles, losing in a tiebreaker, 7–6, 5–7, 10–8.

Vanooteghem also worked hard against Eng in the No. 3 singles match.

She was defeated 6–4, 7–6.

Chu lost her No. 2 singles match 6–4, 6–2 against Meza.

The Tritons were defeated on

▶ Women’s TENNIS, on page 11

TRACK & FIELD — Saturday, April 14 the Triton Track and Field team traveled to Pomona where it competed in the annual PomonaPitzer Invitational.

The Tritons had several breakout performances that day, with senior Jackie Rose again leading the way as she set a personal best time, 24.52 seconds. The mark is good for an NCAA provisional mark in the 200m dash to go along with her 400m automatic mark, good enough for sixth place. UCSD alumnus Kelly Fogarty won the overall event in the 200m, who recorded a 24.02 seconds to beat out elite athlete Adrienne Power, who ran a 24.03 second time.

UCSD freshman Sabrina Pimentel also had a stellar day on the track,

running a personal best of 2:12.96s in the 800m, half a second faster than her previous best and good enough for first in her heat and second overall.

The freshman went on to run a strong 57-second split in her 400m leg. The anchor leg for the Triton “A” team for the day was senior Deyna Roberson, who split a 56 second lap on her 400m run to give the women second overall in the event.

“It was really great to be able to lead on the 200m, so that I was able to open up my sprint more,” Rose said.

“And it feels good to feel the speed I needed in the 400m while running the 200m.”

Roberson shone with a new season best in the 400m hurdles as well, posting a 1:02.18 that provisionally qualifies her for NCAA Division II Nationals.

▶ TRACK & FIELD, on page 11

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DII UCSD: A Stepping Stone for Coaches

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n the wake of a failed Division-I referendum, UCSD supporters and athletes may find themselves in the limbo that is Division II for years to come.

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Kings

RACHEL UDA ruda@ucsd.edu

Division I and the Big West may be a pipe dream for us, but there is one demographic for which there is no glass ceiling: UCSD coaches. More specifically, successful UCSD coaches.

With the announcement of three-time conference coach of the year Charity Elliot’s departure for Division-I Loyola Marymount, just weeks after putting together the winning season in program history, I couldn’t help but be reminded of 2011 head baseball coach Dan O’Brien.

O’Brien has sat at the helm of Triton baseball for the previous 14 years. In his last two seasons as head coach, O’Brien led the Tritons to two regular season titles, where the Tritons made their program debut at the NCAA Division II World Series.

His success at the national level obviously caught the attention of the

▶ UDA, on page 11