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“Justice in Palestine” and “Israel Solidarity” week on campus focused on human rights issues.

By aYAN KUSARI Staff Writer Library Walk became a site of protest, discussion and debate as student activists set up displays, staged marches and held speaker series’ in support of each side of the Israel-Palestine conflict last week.

Activists from the Muslim Student Association (MSA) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) grouped their events in what they called “Justice in Palestine Week,” while Tritons for Israel (TFI) called its events “Israel Solidarity Week.”

The largest display on Library Walk was the visual representation of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, built out of large wooden panels by members of SJP and the MSA. The wall was painted with statistics, graphs and images of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

According to MSA member Omar Ahmad, it took three years and cost roughly $7,000 to build.

Ahmad says that this year, the groups were careful to include sources for all the statistics on the wall at the bottom of the panels.

“Many people don’t want to support us,” Ahmad said. “We want them to know that we’re not making this stuff up, out of the blue.”

MSA member Saad Yazdani said that local San Diego media outlets, like ABC and NBC 10, have tried to depoliticize the issue in their coverage of the events last week.

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his year’s Sun God Festival — featuring headliners Silversun Pickups, Paul Van Dyk, Chiddy Bang and Tommy Trash — celebrated its 30th anniversary with a sold out audience on Friday, May 18.

“Overall, this year’s festival was probably the smoothest it’s ever been,” Associate Vice President of Concerts and Events Oliver Zhang said in an email. “Performances were smooth, and fairly close to the schedule. There weren’t any issues like artists missing their set or cutSee festival, page 2

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Kholsa Makes First Official Visit to UCSD The chancellor-designate speaks at a welcome event after confirmation from UC Regents.

By Zev Hurwitz Associate News Editor Pradeep Khosla made his first visit as chancellor-designate to the UCSD campus on Thursday, May 17. Khosla was honored at a welcome ceremony in the Great Hall in front of a crowd of approximately 250 students, administrators and faculty, including outgoingChancellor Marye Anne Fox. Khosla was confirmed as UCSD’s eighth chancellor by the UC Board of Regents at their May 16 meeting in Sacramento. He will take over for Fox, who has been chancellor since 2004.

Executive Vice Chancellor Suresh Subramani, who spoke first at the cer-

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“The road ahead promises to be exciting,” Subramani said. “We do believe that we’re uniquely poised with respect to catapulting ourselves into our continued trajectory in excellence and we look forward to working with you under your able leadership.”

Fox announced last July that she would step down as Chancellor in the summer of 2012 after eight years on the job. She only had positive remarks about the new chancellor, who will officially take office on Aug. 1, 2012.

“You have a natural tendency to bring out the best of people,” Fox said.

“You promote collaboration, innovation and interdisciplinary work and studies which are the building blocks that have established UC San Diego’s tradition of excellence and its reputation.”

Fox expressed her relief that someone would be taking over her job next

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“Chancellor Khosla,” she said. “Boy does that sound good.”

Khosla received a series of gifts that Subramani calls a “Chancellor’s Survival Kit.” He received a pair of rose-colored glasses from Subramani, an oversized parking pass from Chancellor Fox and a UCSD baseball cap and a basket of energy bars from faculty members.

“I don’t need these glasses,” Khosla told the crowd. “Everything here is already rose-colored.”

Outgoing A.S. President Alyssa Wing presented Khosla with a UCSD surfboard to remind him about the university’s reputation as ‘best surf school,’ in addition to our academic achievements.

“I’m sure our surf team will be able to give you some pointers,” Wing said to a chorus of laughter. “On behalf of

interview The Guardian’s Margaret Yau sat down with ChancellorDesignate Pradeep Khosla for an exclusive one-on-one interview on May 17.

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ting their set shorter.”

For the third year in a row, RIMAC field reached full capacity.

Student wristbands ran out right before the festival opened on Friday at 2 p.m. All 3,000 guest tickets sold out on Tuesday, May 15. In 2011, student wristbands ran out on Thursday evening before the event and guest tickets sold out in three days.

Muir College senior Nikki Dinh said she picked up her wristband on

Thursday around 12:30 p.m.

“It took about 45 minutes to get my wristband,” Dinh said. “That was the peak, I think. The line went all the way down to RIMAC.” New additions to this year’s festival include the expanded dance stage to accommodate for the recent popularity of electronic dance music.

“I was at the dance stage most of the time,” Marshall College senior Jessica Zhong said. “The dance stage was better than last year, but last year’s main stage was better than this year. Tommy Trash was my favorite

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“I think that the feedback to the festival has been generally positive,” Zhang said. “I believe that the combination of the look and feel of the festival matched with strong live performances really won students over. I’m not going to pretend to be oblivious to some of the criticism we received regarding the lineup, but ultimately, the reaction after the day of the festival is all that matters to me.”

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Zhang said he expects the new dance stage set-up to return in a similar capacity or be improved upon for next year.

“I also think that this year’s festival was the best it’s ever looked as well,” Zhang said. “We made it clear from the beginning that we wanted to create a true festival environment and experience, and I think we’ve achieved that and more.”

Some students thought that the security presence increased this year, evident by new security measures, such as the separation of male and female festival attendees at the security-staffed entrance to the festival grounds.

“It definitely felt like they were stricter on wristbands [this year],” Dinh said. “They separated us in the beginning, but when we went back around 5 p.m., they didn’t separate the women and the men.”

Zhang said that he could not speak about security changes to this year’s festival at the moment, but added that the ASCE staff will be debrief the event this week and discuss security issues then.

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LIGHTS & SIRENS Friday, May 11 11:17 a.m.: Hazard situation There was a “sticky substance” near an elevator at Mandeville Center.

Referred to other agency — EH&S. 9:44 p.m.: Possession of marijuana Marijuana was impounded at Parking Lot 207. Report taken.

11:01 p.m.: Alcohol contact A minor was cited for drinking alcohol at Muir Apartments. Closed, cited and released.

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6:27 p.m.: Hazard situation The subject was in “unauthorized area” in Wells Fargo Hall. Field interview administered.

7:11 p.m.: Drunk in public A middle-aged woman was drunk at Social Sciences Building. Closed by adult arrest.

Thursday, May 17 3:32 a.m.: Welfare check The subject was “unresponsive” due to alcohol at Campus Services Complex Building B. Transported to detox.

8:45 a.m.: Burglary The subject was seen going over a balcony and into a sliding door at Matthews Apartments. Checks OK. 9:33 a.m.: Injury Two bikers collided into each other at Social Sciences Building. Report taken.

6:07 p.m.: Information A 911 call was made to San Diego Police Department regarding a possibly armed subject near North Torrey Pines Road and Muir College. Unable to locate.

11:02 p.m.: Alcohol contact The subject at Muir Apartments was “talking to himself.” Information only.

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“The Palestinian narrative has been misrepresented by the media, and this week, we’re trying to correct that,” he said. “They normalize the conflict; they make it out like it’s okay for it to happen, because it’s complicated, when it’s not. It’s a humanitarian crisis, simply put. Gaza Strip is one of the world’s largest open-air prisons.”

TFI president Daniel Friedman said Israel Solidarity Week was created because Jewish students on campus were feeling targeted by the claims made by SJP and MSA. “There’s an international movement against us,” Friedman said. “Just as with the American government, not everyone agrees with every Israeli policy. But using words like ‘racist’ or ‘apartheid’ to describe an entire nation — what that does is imply that the entire state is racist, that the entire state is bad.”

Friedman said the rhetoric of the pro-Palestinian groups was not accu-

rate, and the TFI displays were constructed to convey that.

“It’s not like everything [on the pro-Palestine groups’ boards] is a lie, but when terms like ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide’ are thrown around, it misrepresents what’s actually happening,” he said. “What’s happening is a conflict.”

Student activists set up between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. every morning, and took down their displays every evening between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.

TFI members handed out pamphlets on human rights and answered questions at “Lunch and Learn” events on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

Pro-Palestine student activists walked up and down Library Walk holding signs for their “Silent Protests,” which occurred during passing periods on all four days of the event.

The two groups held various speaker series’ and solidarity events throughout the week. On Monday, MSA held a speaker series featuring Nasser Barghouty titled “What is Apartheid?”

discussing the nature of inequality in the Middle East. SJP held a spoken word event on Tuesday, featuring poetry, written and read by UCSD students, that advocated Palestinian liberation.

In response, TFI held a panel on Wednesday on the Israel-Palestine conflict featuring two UC professors and a graduate student. On Thursday, TFI arranged for a non-Muslim Iranian refugee to the United States to speak about the problems in the Middle East.

The wall built by MSA and SJP that stretched throughout Library Walk was twice as large as it was when it debuted two years ago.

“It’s impossible to miss now,” Ahmed said. “But even as it stands, it’s not enough to convey all the information. Maybe one day it’ll cover the entire Library Walk. But hopefully not, because that would mean the problem would still be unsolved.”

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New Chancellor Taking a Salary Cut, Will Earn More Than Fox by state legislators including Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom for the compensation the students, we welcome you to our package that the Chancellor-Designate campus because here at UC San Diego will receive over the next few years.

Khosla will receive $411,084 we work hard and we also play hard.”

Khosla, who has served as annually — 4.8 percent more than Engineering Dean at Carnegie Mellon Chancellor Fox received — with a University since 2004, received a relocation allowance of over $100,000 standing ovation when he took the distributed over the next four years.

At a press conference followstage and announced his excitement to ing the ceremony, UC Office of the lead UCSD. “I have never seen a university President Media Relations Director that in 50 years, has accomplished so Steve Montiel defended Khosla’s salmuch,” he said. “I never thought I’d go ary, saying that the increase in salary to a public school, but never say never.” was necessary to attract qualified canThough Khosla garnered much didates for the job.

“Chancellors make a difference,” support during his visit to UCSD, his appointment as chancellor has not Montiel said. “[Salary increases] are gone without criticism. Khosla and crucial to the future of UC campuses.”

Montiel noted that Khosla will the UC Regents have come under fire

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rank 52 out of the 61 members of the American Association of Universities in salary amount. He also said that Khosla’s relocation allowance is typical for all UC chancellors.

“Relocation compensation is set at one-quarter of one year’s salary,” Montiel said. “This will be paid over four years.”

Montiel noted that while Khosla’s salary is more than Fox’s, it is significantly less than the salary he had at Carnegie Mellon. He also noted that Khosla will forfeit other benefits he had at Carnegie Mellon such as free tuition for his son Nathan who attends Carnegie Mellon as an undergraduate.

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Chancellor-Designate Kholsa Wants More Student Involvement, Representation in Administrative Decisions â–ś khosla, from page 1

any plans for administrative changes during your time at UCSD? PK: I think it would be too premature for me to walk in, in two hours, and tell you how I think about life and the situation. If you look at this place, it has achieved a lot in the last 50 years. And it has achieved that partly because of the entrepreneurial nature of the faculty, partly because of strong leadership and partly because of both. So, going forward, it would be important for us to define what is a good enabling environment that allows a student to succeed the way he or she wants to, that allows a faculty to achieve what they want and for the staff to have good careers. But given all the difficulties we are facing right now, in terms of budgets and whole lot of other issues, we have to define what is a sustainable-enabling environment. And if we can define it and achieve it, this system would be a self-perpetuating system that would, over time, would keep feeding into itself and its successes. And we would become a greater and greater university every day.

G: What do you think are UCSD’s biggest issues?

PK: I could outline many, but I would say budgetary issues. I’m not talking about campus budgetary issues, I’m talking about the UC and the state budget and its impact on the quality of education. I think that issues related to programs for students, what are the right types of programs for students, what are the right levels of programs for students, what is the right investment for this, I think would be an issue.

I think other issues that I alluded to in my brief address upstairs where the three parts of the campus can find their way to be seamlessly integrated, the three parts being Scripps, General Campus and the Medical

School. I think if you take a good look at the future, health care and human wellness are going to dominate this country and society as a whole. And we have such a powerful presence in general campus and medical school that we need to find a way to innovate them.

G: The UC Regents discussed a potential 6 percent increase in tuition for the coming 2012-13 school year during their last meeting. How are you planning on addressing rapidly increasing student tuition?

PK: I wish there was a magic bullet I had, a silver bullet where I could say, “Forget it, UC San Diego is not going to do [tuition increases].� Secondly, I think the way to fix this is over time, to raise more money for student scholarships, for undergraduate scholarships. But that is a process that can take one, two, three decades, to get to a point

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where everybody can go to school for free, it’s nearly impossible. For example, the richest university in the country with the largest endowment, Harvard, still cannot afford to pay 100 percent tuition for everybody, even though technically they can, but given their other expenses, they cannot afford to do that.

Students just have to accept the fact that there is some level of payment required of them. The question is, what is the right level and what is affordable? And this campus, and I don’t know if I’m mistaken, I think more than 55 percent of students on this campus receive some sort of financial aid — and significant financial aid. And so I’m trying to figure out how you, as a writer and an editor of this newspaper asking this question, are you addressing the 45 percent or the 55 percent, who receive a significant amount of

financial aid.

G: In response to that, there have been a number of student-based coalitions on campus, including the Public Education Coalition, who have been fighting for the past year against rising tuition. I think the main issue is the problem of priorities, which actually leads me to my next question. Â There is a potential $50 million cut in state funding in the coming 2012-13 school year.

What would you say are your priorities for budget cuts? For example, a number of libraries on campus, including IR/PS and CLICS were shut down this year.

PK: I can tell you that if we shortchange the quality of education to our students, that we are shortchanging the very purpose as to why this university exists. Now, in this context, we are trying to looking at what a high-quality education

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means, what are the various components that have to be maintained and strengthened, and what are the components that are fine to have, but if they walked away, the impact would not be as much on the quality of education. I really want to focus on the quality of education, the quality of experience for undergraduate and graduate students.

G: Former Chancellor Marye Anne Fox created a number of administrative diversity positions in response to the Compton Cookout.

How are you going to address the issue of diversity and overall campus climate? Â Do you have plans for increasing the enrollment of underrepresented groups?

PK: I clearly have a goal of increasing enrollment, but I have to work with my senior staff, the faculty and students, because I’m sure there are many good ideas floating around that I am unaware of. We need to create an understanding about the right way to achieve this goal.

G: How do you plan on working with the Associated Students in the future?

PK: Last evening, at dinner, I sat next to student named Raquel, and I told her that I am going to count on her to get me connected with the students, because there has to be a way for me to talk to students directly, without anybody being able to filter your access to me and my access to you. I think we just have to work with each other to make sure that there is enough access and enough conversation going on. And it was not just the Associated Students. There was something else, the SAAC [Student Affirmative Action Committee], and I was told that they feel they don’t have enough voice or representation in the chancellor’s office. And to me, every student counts exactly the same, and I want every student to have some form, some voice in the chancellor’s office.

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OPINION Keep it Brief The UC system should follow the example of other schools across the country and provide monetary incentives to students who graduate early, which would benefit both students and the state economy.

By Ayan Kusari • Staff Writer

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s graduation season rolls around, several state governments — Idaho, Indiana, Minnesota and South Dakota most recent among them — are rolling out scholarships for students who graduate in three years or less. The University of California system should promote a similar monetary incentive to graduating early — it proves most beneficial to the student, the college and the whole state economy alike.

A 2002 study conducted by Kathleen Porter for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education found that students who graduate earlier are more likely to earn more money over the course of their careers.

This finding makes sense: students who push themselves to finish early have more time and energy to focus toward landing a good job and moving upwards professionally.

Graduating early benefits students

by compelling them to take greater advantage of college resources — namely, summer sessions. UCSD’s summer break is 15 weeks long — enough time, thanks to the way our academic schedule is set up, to take over a quarter’s worth of classes. The nature of the course offerings as split between two sessions makes it possible for students to get ahead. Furthermore, students receiving financial aid during the school year are always eligible for aid over the summer. But as it currently stands, less than half of UCSD students take classes over the summer session. Incentivizing graduating early would encourage more students to use their time effectively and get the most out of their undergraduate education.

Students should also graduate early, especially if they are part of the growing trend of pursuing education beyond undergrad studies. Graduate

school, to name one example, has become vastly more popular than before. A 2010 study conducted by Duke University found that student admissions to graduate school have shot up by an incredible 31 percent in the past decade alone. And at schools like UCSD, which have reputations for being even more pre-professional than average, the old notion of one’s undergraduate years being the last schooling before entering the workforce is even less close to reality.

Not only that, but in this economy, it takes longer to get to graduate school. The average entering age for the UCSD School of Medicine is now 25. That is up by a full three years from 22, the average age for entering students in 1970, the earliest year for which data is available. More students need graduates school to get a job, and See Graduating, page 5

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QUICK TAKES

Since March 2012, a New Jersey town began handing out $85 tickets to pedestrians who text while crossing the street in response to three deaths that occurred while walking and texting.

Ban Ensures the Safety of Both Pedestrians and Drivers

Lawmakers Should Focus on More Pressing Safety Concerns

In response to 23 car accidents and three deaths caused by people walking while texting, the police department in Fort Lee, N.J. has begun ticketing people for “careless walking.” Similar safety measures need to be taken by police officers around the country because texting can dangerously reduce awareness for both pedestrians and drivers.

The police only resorted to this policy after stopping and warning 575 individuals who were crossing in a dangerous manner, according to John Chichowski, a columnist for NewJersey.com. Since the incidents still persisted despite the warnings, the police began issuing tickets, resulting in 117 tickets handed out since late March. Pedestrians have a responsibility to be safe on roads, as seen in jaywalking laws spanning across nearly every U.S. state. This policy not only tries to protect pedestrians but also drivers that can only do so much to veer away from distracted texters.

While some might argue that this policy micromanages people and doesn’t treat them like capable adults, one must keep in mind that there is strong evidence that texting is distracting. There have been incidents of people walking into walls, falling into fountains and even almost walking into a bear — all of the incidents were caused by texting while walking, from an ABC report titled “Texting Dangers.” This, coupled with the accidents, deaths and the research that states that pedestrians are 60 percent more likely to swerve into someone while texting — reported by Mobiledia — reinforces the fact that this is something that would benefit the safety of citizens in the long-run.

This policy has only been implemented after accidents, deaths and warnings by the police. It is a policy aimed for the protection of both pedestrians and drivers.

The police of Fort Lee, N.J., have recently begun issuing $85 fines to citizens caught texting while crossing the street. While lawmakers have the right intentions, this new ban unnecessarily micromanages citizens and discounts the notion of personal responsibility. It is more important for lawmakers to invest in other safety efforts, such as a more aggressive campaign to punish distracted drivers.

Laws requiring drivers to put down their cell phones while driving are reasonable, but to expect the same thing of pedestrians is going too far.

When a driver in the United States gets behind the wheel, he accepts huge legal responsibilities such as having normal or corrected-to-normal vision, functioning brake lights and placing children in appropriate safety seats.

Drivers can be expected to obey these laws because they are tested and licensed before driving, while pedestrians have no such contract.

Furthermore, distracted texting only endangers the life of the person texting, while distracted driving poses a threat on a much wider scale. Laws are costly to enforce, and having to police such a petty ban is an inefficient use of officials’ time. It would be more beneficial for lawmakers to prioritize their efforts on more threatening public safety concerns. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that there were 4,280 pedestrian fatalities in 2010, with the majority due to urban arterial roads that are not accommodating to pedestrians. According to David Goldberg, spokesman for the Transportation for America campaign, the creation of more safe crosswalks would be essential to preventing pedestrian deaths.

The bottom line is that it is over the top to impose this ban — the dangers of distracted walking should be left to the discretion of individuals.

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— HILARY LEE Associate Opinion Editor

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hen choosing what meat you are going to BBQ in this wonderful San Diego sunshine, please be informed. Choose your meats wisely, and marinate them in beer to help prevent cancer.

Two months ago, Harvard scientists dropped a bombshell. They claimed that one out of five people that have a single serving a day of

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processed red meat (bacon, hot dogs, sausage, salami) is going to experience an early death, probably from heart disease or cancer. Leading authors in the Harvard study, An Pan, Ph.D. and Frank Hu, M.D. Ph.D., based their conclusions on a 28-year study of 83,644 women and a 22-year study of 37,698 men. But don’t worry. If you’re having a single daily serving of unprocessed red meats like regular beef, pork and lamb, you only have a 13 percent chance of dying early.

Awesome.

Where I’m from, we eat, sleep and breathe steak. On regular occasion, we would get our oak fire going to cook Tri-Tip, T-bone or New York Strip, with corn, homemade garlic bread and slow cooked buttered onion.

In fact, the most famous restaurant in our town — Jocko’s Steak House — still grills their steak on oak. The rest of their food pretty much sucks, especially their salad. The point is, I feel your pain. But the truth is clear: If you’re not going to be a vegetarian or vegan, then chicken, turkey and fish is really where it’s at. BBQ’d vegetables also taste amazing, and you know it.

It’s not just the high saturated fats in red meats that cause disease.

UCSD’s Ajit Varki, M.D., has shown that humans have an antibody that specifically attacks a sialic acid that is present in vertebrate mammal cells (cows, pigs, lambs, chimps) but not normally present in chicken, turkey, fish or humans. In a weird twist of evolution, eating foods that contain this sialic acid (cow, pig, lamb) causes us humans to incorporate it into our cells and present it on the surface, as if it was our own. Because of this, our own antibodies attack it, which leads to inflammation. Inflammation is linked to many diseases, including cancer. Berkeley’s January 2008 wellness letter, backed by UC Berkeley School of Public Health, discussed the idea that “low grade inflammation may be the cause of all chronic diseases.” It’s no secret that charring your meat also causes cancer.

Leading author Robert Gunier at UC Berkeley showed that “those who reported eating grilled, roasted, or broiled meat” had significantly higher derivatives of carcinogens in their urine. So, slow cook your meat. Don’t burn it. Wrap your meat in aluminum foil to help prevent fat from dripping into the charcoal as this can also cause a higher amount of carcinogens. And in addition to your spices, include a good beer, a tiny bit of lemon juice and some olive oil in your marinade.

These ingredients can substantially decrease the amount of carcinogens that end up in your grilled meat. Stay omnivorous my friends.

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Solve for X By Philip Jia

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Corn Syrup Shouldn’t Be Considered “All Natural”

Graduating Early Mutually Benefits Students and University ▶ Graduating, from page 4

students need work experience to get into graduate school. Students interested in professional school should graduate early because, depending on the work experience a particular grad school requires, it may be the only way for them to land a job before they are 30.

Students who graduate early also benefit the UC system, because it loses roughly $1,000 per quarter on each undergraduate enrolled at one of its campuses. This is because the cost of educating a UC student still exceeds the tuition they pay. And 43 percent of UC students take longer than four years to graduate, according to the 2011 College Portrait, released last December

by the Office of Student Research and Information at UCSD. This 43 percent exacerbates the problem by costing the UC thousands of dollars in extra quarters for their education. The benefit — an employed, tax-paying California citizen — is the same no matter when a UC student graduates.

Conversely, students who graduate early are financial assets to the UC because the university system gets the same benefit at a lower cost.

Students who graduate early get to pay less as well. UC tuition has been increasing at a rate of over 30 percent every five years, according to statistics released by the UC Office of the President, and shows no sign of slowing down. Interest

rates for California students were higher in 2011 than they were in over a decade, and the average debt at graduation was at an all-time high of $18,113. In this economy, saving thousands of dollars on tuition by graduating early is a definite plus for any student.

In this economy, graduating early can offer significant benefits for students seeking to enter the workforce, as well as those seeking to apply to graduate school.

Furthermore, at a public school like UCSD, it offers unquestionable benefits to the university as well.

Readers can contact Ayan Kusari at akusari@ucsd.edu

Dear Editor, There are strict regulations on what can be considered “organic.”

However, there are very few on the word “natural.”

There is high fructose corn syrup (or “corn sugar,” as the new marketing term goes) in many products that claim to be “all natural.”

What’s so bad about high fructose corn syrup? There is a lot of labeling that has started to advertise that it does not contain this chemical, but why?

Well, it only shuts down our body’s ability to say when we are full.

You ever wonder why “Big Gulps” and “Super-Size Me” are modern inventions when we have had soda for decades?

It is not because people have just recently acquired a taste for the sugary beverage.

In fact, it is because no one could stomach that much soda decades ago.

Literally, when you ate too much sugar your body would reject the contents of your stomach.

Not any more, thanks to high

The Workgroup has reached out to the UC San Diego Community through nearly 30

consultations about the new Code, and feedback has been incorporated through a continuous revision process.

In addition to active participation among the students, staff, and faculty serving on the Workgroup, the new Code has been benchmarked with peer institutions and vetted through the UC Office of the President.

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fructose corn syrup, you won’t lose your giant lunch. Still not seeing a problem?

You never get full and never feel satisfied. One liter of soda later and you are still craving sugar.

Princeton University has even started linking high fructose corn syrup to abnormal weight gain when compared to other sweeteners.

And we wonder why America keeps having to loosen its belt with all our diet fads and the French, eating eclairs, stay skinny.

It is time we start pondering the unfamiliar ingredients on the labels of our food. We may then discover the unfortunate truth: our food is toxic.

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UNCOMMON FOLK

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DHARMA UC San Diego Graduate Shivani Singh was lucky to land a successful job after graduating. But it was a while before she found her own secret to fulfillment­— by helping others find theirs.

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ou can go on as many soul-searching trips as you want, but you still won’t find the answers,” Shivani Singh said.

For Singh, Muir ’00, it took a lot more than just a trip to find her higher calling.

At the young age of 29, Singh has made it her life’s goal to spread the knowledge she has gained through-

out her years of wandering.

Her book “Discover Your Dharma,” the winner of the Best New Age Book Award in 2010 from the Next Generation Indie Book Award, and her company Dharma Express both work to give lost souls like Singh a step in the right direction.

It was only after Singh’s own long struggle finding purpose that she

began to help others find theirs.

Despite finding a stable job after graduation, Singh, a bright physics major, was not satisfied with the path her life had taken. Her problem was a common one among recent college graduates: She did not feel that her day job was fulfilling enough to construct an entire life around.

See DHARMA, page 8

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Growing up, she aspired to become a female astronaut and travel to the moon. To no one’s surprise, the ambitious and talented student was able to a score a job with NASA after graduation.

After working with NASA as a researcher for three years, she admitted to losing her passion for her childhood dream job.

“After a while, it was as if I was going day-in, day-out, like a phonetic machine,” Singh said.

Hoping that furthering her education would rekindle the spark, she left her job and attended graduate school, majoring in material science and engineering and working with the Scripps Institute of Oceanography on environmental pollutants. But there was still something missing.

“Everyone would always tell me how brilliant and smart I was, but I didn’t know exactly what to do with that,” Singh said. “And I saw everyone around me, all of my classmates from high school and grad school, and I thought, ‘All of these people are so awesome, but they’re not doing anything about it.’”

She decided to leave her graduate program to travel the world. During a trip to India, she was introduced to the concept of Dharma, the driving force behind Dharma Express.

Dharma is a Sanskrit word and a philosophy that refers to the concept of a higher duty, or purpose in life.

Singh realized that in her own strug-

gle to find fulfillment, it was dharma that she was seeking.

Upon her return, Singh took to her library for more inspiration. She pulled books from many of her personal heroes such as Mother Teresa, Ghandi, Leonardo DaVinci and Pablo Picasso, looking to find how they went about finding their unique contribution to the world. She found one common denominator: journaling. All of these famous figures were avid writers and by getting their thoughts out on paper, they were able to organize their character in a way that helped them to realize the pathway they wanted to take.

Singh’s next step was to work with neuroscientists at UC San Diego. She joined the journaling technique with the research done by UCSD neuroscientists on the effects of music and thinking. This combination, she found, streamlined the process of discovering one’s identity and inner thoughts.

She then began to work on starting up Dharma Express.

“So I tried to make this program that would help all of those people change the world,” Singh said.

“Young people, like you and I, could make a difference if they only knew how.”

Working with the Start-Up Leadership Program, a company designed to link young entrepreneurs to the resources they need to begin their innovative companies, she was able to begin the founding research for her book, and the company that

would spread the ideas in it. She became a teaching assistant for Sixth College’s writing program, Culture, Art and Technology, where she would use the students in her discussion section to test out the journaling and music system she created. This, along with the donated work of many of her peers, allowed her to develop the specific regimen that Dharma Express promotes to followers today.

“Discover Your Dharma,” the book she wrote based on all of her research, outlines the way that her program can help the gifted scholars and minds around her to do exactly what the title suggests. “Discover Your Dharma” has inspired people to clear their minds of clutter and enable them to find their ultimate goals in life.

After writing the book, her company began developing other platforms and forms of technology, such as web applications and blogs, which would spread her coaching sessions to reach larger audiences. Singh still travels, but instead of going to look for answers she is now looking to spread them. She tours universities, hoping to guide college students that she knows are facing the all too common dilemma of asking, “What next?” Because, although it is pretty common knowledge that university graduates have serious brains, sometimes the secret lies in figuring out exactly what to do with them.

— Alex Rocero Staff Writer

IN FOCUS

I llustration by R ebekah D yer

HARRY POTTER’S WORLD F

or over a decade, J.K. Rowling’s fantastic world of magic and adventure has amazed people of all ages. Geisel Library has brought that world into reality by hosting Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine — a traveling exhibit put on by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

The exhibit highlights how many of the marvels and ideas seen within Harry Potter’s stories, such as alchemy and astrology, have real world roots as traditional Renaissance traditions.

The exhibit, running from May 6 to June 16, consists of a number of

displays and events, including guest lectures by Professors Henry Powell of the UCSD School of Medicine, Robert Graham of the Jacobs School of Engineering, Literature Professor Stephen Potts and the Dean of UCSD Arts and Humanities Seth Lerer.

Professor Lerer, a former teacher at Stanford and Princeton and author of Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter, is interested in how the Harry Potter universe has also portrayed books and literature from the past.

“What interests me about Harry Potter is why so many of the scenes in the books and movies take place

in the library, and in my talk I suggested that wizardry is a heightened form of literacy; meaning that to be a great wizard is to be a great reader of a textbook,” Lerer said.

Many of the classes in the books, like potions, are similar to chemistry classes from both the Renaissance and present times. In a school where many aspire to be doctors, Harry Potter’s World then offers students a new perspective on Harry Potter and their own studies.

“In this exhibit it shows us that a lot about medicine and alchemy and reading is about healing, and it’s about the place of early medicine and the human body in all this,”

Lerer said. “There is a lot about Harry Potter that takes us back to a world where doctors and physicians were as much magicians as they were scientists or surgeons.”

Lerer believes that this exhibit is important not just for the comparisons it brings, but also the valuable lessons it can teach to UCSD students, especially new students.

“I think one of the things that’s very difficult for a lot of people is that they feel lost in big, impersonal places,” he said. “If you grew up in a small town, or went to a small high school, and you come to a place like UCSD; it’s large and bureaucratic.

There are these strange traditions;

there are these hierarchies of power.

Harry Potter and this exhibit can teach you how to negotiate your way around a big, bureaucratic, impersonal institution. Where a chancellor can show up as magically as a Minister of Magic.”

For more information and a full list of events, check out http:// ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressreleases/ harry_potters_world_renaissance_ science_magic_and_medicine/.

For an overview of the exhibit and other locations, check out http:// www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/harrypottersworld/.

— Brendan Orta Contributing Writer

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The UCSD School of Medicine Global Health Group is pleased to host Dr. Amos Otedo for a talk on medicine in rural and urban communities in East Africa. As a trained gastroenterologist with a successful private practice in Kisumu City, Western Kenya, Dr. Otedo has tackled a wide range of healthcare issues facing the developing world. He is a fellow of the Salzburg Seminar, a Rotarian, a treasurer at Chianda Community Hospital, Chairman of the Okella secondary school and board member of the Horizon Initiative, working for the benefit of orphans in Kenya. Dr. Otedo also conducts research for the Kenyan Ministry of Health and is a published author on clinical research involving malaria, HIV, STIs and Hepatitis.

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Baseball Eliminated From West Regional Tournament

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Michaels on a passed ball to bring the score to 6–2. UCSD picked up another run in the bottom of the ninth, but it wasn’t enough to close the gap.

game 2 UCSD recorded five runs in the second inning, as the bottom of the Triton batting order loaded the bases, bringing junior Danny Susdorf up to bat.

The All-West Region selection singled to left field for two RBI and advanced to second on a throwing error.

Batting in the two-hole, junior Richard Siegel was walked, while sophomore Garrett Tuck singled

through the left side to bat in two more runs. Western Oregon’s Kirk Lind gave up his fourth walk in two innings to put the Tritons up 5–0.

Susdorf picked up his third RBI in the third inning to put the Tritons up 6–0.

UCSD used another five run inning in the sixth to secure the win. With two outs Michaels batted in Ringold to score. Susdorf batted in another run, before Siegel struck a double for one RBI. Tuck capped the inning by singling to right center for two RBI. Right-hander Goodbrand went the distance, recording his 11th straight win.

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Neither team got on the board until the fifth inning, when Dixie State’s Joe Andrade homered down the rightfield line for two RBI. The Red Storm put UCSD 3–0 in the hole in the sixth, as the Tritons rotated through three pitchers in the inning — Selarz, junior Richard Kilbury and Tuma.

Dixie State hit up Tuma for three runs in the seventh, with two doubles.

UCSD recovered four runs in the eighth, as Susdorf singled with bases loaded, for two RBI. Siegel followed up with a hit to score one more, while Susdorf was brought in on a Tuck ground out.

Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ucsd.edu

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No. 24 Softball Falls in Title Game to No. 1 Valdosta

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head coach Patti Gerckens said to the UCSD Athletics program. “We lost to the No. 1 team in the country, they were good and they deserved to win this game.”

With a lackluster finish to the regular season — finishing fourth in the conference with a 23-13 record, unranked nationally — the Tritons seemed a long shot to qualify for the national tournament.

Plagued with injuries, UCSD outclassed its CCAA opponents to claim the automatic bid to the West Regionals. The sixth-seeded Tritons fought their way through eight games, going 6-2 to enter the College World Series as the lowest ranked team.

“Our regular season was mediocre, but our postseason was tremendous,” Gerckens said. “We extended it by three weeks, had

more games than ever before and overall it was a great season. Only one team can end with a win and unfortunately this year it wasn’t us.”

Senior centerfielder Kris Lesovsky and Gaito — UCSD’s two All-Americans — both earned All-Tournament team honors.

Lesovsky — a fifth year transfer from Florida Tech — leaves UCSD with a handful of career records.

The centerfielder has the record for all-time leader in batting average, hits, RBI, runs, doubles and walks.

Gaito graduates from UCSD as the all-time leader in wins (98), saves, appearances, innings, strikeouts and complete games. The right-hander (98-31) recorded a 1.10 ERA over the span of her last four seasons with the Tritons.

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Howe in Hunt For Third NCAA DII National Title

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could, always thinking about where I wanted to be.

I wanted to stand on that national podium as champion, and I wanted Western Field Athlete of the Year from the NCAA, and more than anything, I wanted and want to go to London for the 2012 Olympic games.

My hard work paid off, but limited me as I trained like a bodybuilder rather than a javelin thrower, making my muscles and upper body too tight to throw as well as I wanted to in the regular season.

I threw an automatic qualifier, and came into Nationals ranked sixth.

I came into that meet in North Carolina with a simple attitude, ‘I will win. I have decided.’

I did not start out strong and barely made finals, but popped off a big throw in the fifth round to take the competition and become national champion.

And then I was home, and it was over. That’s how fast it was.

Junior year, I won the competition on my first throw. I have made Nationals my house.

This year, I won the CCAA for the fourth consecutive time and got the award Thu got four years ago — Western NCAA Field Athlete of the Year.

Now, I am looking for my third NCAA Championship title, and it will come.

As for my final goal this year — London 2012 — it will come.

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SPORTS Making this NCAA House My Home

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have been to the NCAA Track & Field Championships three times and I’ll be leaving this Tuesday for my fourth. My freshman year, I barely made the grade, getting in by the skin of my teeth and

Left, Center

Tackle

Nick Howe nshowe@ucsd.edu

UCSD had a tough time in the box. The Tritons only managed to record three hits in their first five innings, as the Red Storm took a 6–0 lead off a grand slam in the bottom of the fifth inning.

UCSD right-hander Trevor Scott was relieved in favor of Justin Burns in the sixth, as the Tritons mounted their comeback. The Tritons took one back, with sophomore Nick La Face — named the CCAA tournament’s most outstanding player — picking up his fifth home run of the season.

Dixie State’s Michael Dedrick tallied his only two walks of the game to load the bases in the seventh.

The Tritons scored sophomore Sam

finishing not much better, but as for the past two years, I have made Nationals my home.

During my freshman year, Nick Morilla, the UCSD throws captain at the time and a boulder of a man, was a big part of why I made it to Nationals in the first place. He was there as I was stepping onto the runway at the CSULA Last Chance meet.

I knew that throw was going to decide whether I was going to nationals with athletes that are now reached Olympic levels, or if I was going to miss out.

I’ll never forget Nick saying, “Come on Pookie, go home, go home!”

Yes he called me Pookie, but that call to go home is what really fired me up and gave me the focus to post a new school record on that throw despite only being a freshman.

When Nick said “home,” he meant Texas, because Nationals that year were being held at Abilene Christian, just a few hours from my old high school in Little Elm, Texas.

Just a few hours away from where I grew up.

Getting on that plane was honestly like hopping into the back of your big sibling’s car with all their friends. You do not feel like you belong, yet you want to fit in so badly. That was me, the little sibling amongst giants. There were NCAA National Champions, Christine Merrill and Leah Blue, and many other All-Americans. I had only been doing this javelin thing for a few months but there I was, way out of my league.

The first night we were there, and every first night, the NCAA hosted a banquet for all the athletes and coaches. Aside from the sometimes questionable food, like a one-table, Italian-style buffet for 500 people, they handed out Regional Athlete of the Year awards at this banquet. That year, Danielle Thu, now an assistant coach for the team, received “Field Athlete of the Year” for the West Region.

As I watched her walk onto that stage, I knew that that was where I wanted to be.

The rest of the meet was a blur, with Danielle winning the hammer throw and Linda Rainwater winning the heptathlon. I threw, but not well enough to make finals, and then we were home.

That’s how fast it felt to me.

There was not much more I could have done, but I swore then to work harder. No matter how much more talented or skilled others were, I would be better. I decided to just get in the weight room and lift.

Picking up the heaviest things I

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The No. 24 Tritons fought their way to the title game of the NCAA Division II College World Series, topping No. 2 Central Oklahoma and No. 3 Kutztown before falling to No. 1 Valdosta State 4-1.

By Rachel Uda Sports Editor

T

he No. 24 UCSD Softball team’s bid for a second straight national title came to a close with a loss to No. 1 Valdosta State in the title game of the NCAA Division II National Championship last Saturday, May 19.

The Tritons opened the tournament with a win over No. 1 nationally ranked Valdosta State. UCSD would meet with the Blazers again in the final match, after falling out of the

winner’s bracket with a 12-inning 1-0 loss to No. 3 Kutztown.

The Tritons then battled their way back from the brink, beating Midwest champions St. Joseph’s 2-1 and then No. 2 Central Oklahoma 2-0 to advance to the title match against Valdosta.

UCSD All-American senior Camille Gaito (33-12) took the mound for the Tritons. Pitching her 17th full game, Gaito gave up a home run to Valdosta’s Courtney Albritton in her first at-bat. The game remained scoreless until the

fourth inning. With bases loaded, sophomore right fielder Caitlin Brown dropped a pop fly to put the Blazers up 2-0.

Gaito retired her next two batters, to sneak the Tritons out of the inning.

UCSD took one run back in their next turn at-bat, as sophomore left fielder Kirsten Willmon scored on an illegal pitch.

In the bottom of the sixth, Valdosta put the game out of reach, as the Blazers put runners on first and second.

The runners were moved over

on a sacrifice bunt. With just one out, Gaito gave up her eighth hit of the game, bringing both runners in to score.

In just their second-ever appearance at the College World Series, the Tritons’ championship run counts as one of the most remarkable midseason turnarounds in program history.

“There were times [this season] where I wouldn’t imagine we’d be here. [Our players] were fighters, and I’m so proud of them,” UCSD See softball, page 15

Tritons Drop Out of West Regionals

By Rachel Uda Sports Editor

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BASEBALL — After notching their fourth consecutive CCAA conference tournament title last week, the UCSD Baseball team’s season came to an end with two losses to Dixie State in the first round of the West Regional tournament.

The third-seeded Tritons opened NCAA tournament play last Thursday, May 17, dropping 7–3 to second-seed Dixie State. UCSD battled to stave off elimination in its second match against first-seed Western Oregon the following day with an 11–1 win, before conceding its second tournament loss to Dixie State 6–4.

The Tritons will end the season with a 33–24 overall record, a regular season conference and CCAA tournament title.

Despite losing for the second straight time in the West Regional round, the Tritons will come into 2013 with only one Triton — Gregg Ringold — missing from their batting order.

The UCSD bullpen, on the other hand, will graduate five of their best arms — Justin Burns, Jeff Rauh, Greg Selarz, Elias Tuma and Tony

York. The Tritons will retain junior right-hander Ryan Goodbrand (11– 0). The junior, who didn’t see much time last year behind Triton ace Tim Shibuya, has grown to become UCSD’s most reliable starter.

Goodbrand went the distance in the Tritons’ 1–1 win over Western Oregon, allowing just five hits in his nine innings.

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