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THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011

Cal Student Nominated to Become Next Student Regent

Diversity Officer fired, mural unveiled

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By Laira Martin

ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

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Berkeley Law student Jonathan Stein has been nominated by a special selection committee to become the 2012-13 UC Student Regent. If approved at the regents’ meeting in July, Stein will become the Student Regent-designate next year, when he will attend all meetings, but be unable to vote. He will become a full voting member in 2012-13.

The current Student Regent is UC San Francisco student Alfredo Mireles Jr. After serving as Student Regent-designate this year, Mireles was scheduled to become Student Regent in July but began his term early after 2010-11 regent and UC Irvine senior Jesse Cheng resigned after being found guilty of sexual assaulting a 22-yearold UCLA Law School.

Of 56 applicants, the UC Student Association interviewed 10 semifinalists, then recommended three finalists to the special committee who made the nomination. Stein, who received a BA in English from Harvard University, expects to graduate in May 2013.

According to a statement from UCOP, Stein’s goals as student regent include addressing issues of accessibility, affordability, diversity and campus climate in the following year.

By Rebecca Horwitz Associate News Editor

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Students celebrate the unveiling of the Chicano mural — a major win for some after the loss of a faculty member who fought for diversity and campus climate.

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tudents are calling for the reinstatement of the Director of Development for Initiatives Ana Baiz-Torres, after she was fired for undisclosed reasons.

According to the San Diego Union Tribune, university spokesperson Jeff Gattas announced the news before a May 12 Campus Council on Climate, Diversity and Inclusion meeting.

“Ana Baiz-Torres is no

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Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, Student Affirmative Action Committee, Black Student Union and Muslim Student Association — meets approximately once a month to discuss progress on the agreements to increase diversity that stemmed from last year’s “Compton Cookout” incident.

According to an October 2010 campus press release, Baiz-Torres was responsible for fundraising for diversity initiatives such as

longer with the university’s development department, effective immediately,” Gattas said.

Baiz-Torres was appointed in October 2010 in response to last year’s racial incidents, as part of the agreement signed March 4 that called for the creation of a position to fund for diversity initiatives. The Campus Council on Climate, Diversity and Inclusion — composed of faculty, administration and representatives from Movimiento

A.S. Council Appoints 201112 Associate Vice Presidents

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Getting Jiggy With It

Madnick, who sat on the committee, said she chooses applicants based on which prospective members have tangible goals and A.S. Council has appointed the new the strongest understanding of the position.

“A varying amount of senators sit on Associate Vice Presidents for next year.

The AVP applications became available these committees,” Madnick said. “There is a diverse amount of opinions and hopefully council AVP of Local Affairs Academic Affairs will trust those decisions.”

Former Muir Diversity Affairs College Affairs College Senator Lynne Swerhone is the new AVP of Student Student Advocacy Student Services Organizations.

Swerhone said that she wants Concerts & Events Student Organizations to improve the student-org funding process by offering Enterprise & Operations Athletic Relations finance workshops, collaborate with on the A.S. website about a month ago, and candidates were chosen after One Stop and revise council policies on being interviewed by a committee of funding media and food.

“Food is how they survive and we’re not councilmembers. The stipend for AVPs is $3,500 a year.

See avp, page 6 Vice President of Student Life Meredith

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UCSD chemistry and biochemistry professor Clifford Kubiak issued a public apology on Monday, May 23 for a racist slur posted on his webpage.

The webpage contained a set of rules, including “no Disney music,” “don’t be that guy,” “if you can’t turn on the instrument, you shouldn’t use it” and “don’t believe everything Chinaman says.”

The last rule gained prominence and news coverage after it was posted on an Internet forum for Chinese-speaking academics. The word “chinaman” is a historically derogatory term for Chinese people or anyone perceived to be of an East Asian race. UCSD officials then took the page down over the weekend, as soon as the chemistry department became aware of it.

According to Kubiak’s letter of apology, he was unaware of his lab rules.

“Although I was unaware of the existence of this page until it was brought to my attention, I accept full responsibility,” Kubiak said in his letter of apology.

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry issued an apology as well and asked the Office for Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination to look into the matter.

Readers can contact Rebecca Horwitz at rahorwit@ucsd.edu.

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By Sarah Kang Staff Writer

Spam emails could be eradicated once and for all, now that UCSD computer scientists have found the key source behind the unwanted junk. Researchers led by Kirill Levchenko started two years ago and have determined that all spam email is sent out in order for sponsoring organizations to sell the products advertised in the emails, and these organizations handle transactions through only a few banks. Of the 15 authors of the study, 10 are from UCSD. Computer scientists looked at one billion spam emails that they obtained via feeds from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and other companies. Over a span of three months in 2010, the scientists visited the websites the spam emails linked to. They analyzed the infrastructure these sites used, looking at where they were hosted, which server names and name registrars were used. They then grouped the websites

together based on the organization funding the spam-linked websites and purchased $4,000 worth of goods from these organizations. The products purchased included pharmaceutical products, replica luxury goods and counterfeit software — in other words, the products most widely advertised in the spam emails.

According to the 15 researchers, spam systems depend on registrars, website hosting and payment for products bought through spam email links. They discovered that the infrastructure of the spam ecosystem was complex, with server computers, manufacturers and banks spread out in different locations. This wide distribution complicates the problem of how to eradicate spam.

In one case, a spam email sent out by a bot linked those who clicked on the advertised URL to a website with its domain registrar in Russia, its server computer in China, the merchant bank in Azerbaijan and the manufacturer in India.

According to the paper, the most

effective means of preventing spam would be to interfere in the banking component of the spam system.

By analyzing the data gathered from spam purchases, the researchers also found that the payment step made the purchaser vulnerable.

The researchers found that Visa and Mastercard are the only two credit card processors handling the in-between transactions within the spam system.

“In the end, we found that the spam ecosystem depends on a relatively small number of banks to handle their merchant accounts and accept Visa payment from potential customers,” computer science and engineering professor Stefan Savage wrote in an email.

According to the researchers, regulation and enforcement can effectively control the spam system because it relies on a few banks and credit card processors. If the U.S. banks issuing credit cards refused to handle spam-related transactions, then the spam ecosystem would lose its profitability.

Now that researchers have determined how to break up the spam system, the information can be used to deter banks from serving the organizations responsible for spam.

The researchers have informed all the stakeholders involved, such as brand holders, U.S. regulatory bodies and large-scale mail providers.

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Council Cuts $85 K from Fall Students Question University’s Committment to Diversity Fest to Fund Events Manager

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his week’s council meeting began with former Associate Vice President of Concerts and Events Brian Wong formally introducing his replacement and former media liason, Oliver Zhang.

Associate Vice President of Student Alison Gilchrist Organizations argilchr@ucsd.edu Carli Thomas followed by talking about the growth of student organizations on campus and how they are requesting more money.

Associate Vice President of Student Advocacy Arohi Sharma discussed the doubled turnout and participation of “Discover the Law”, also ending on the note that more funding is required. Sharma said she plans to talk to GSA about student advocacy to encourage it on the graduate level.

President Alyssa Wing spoke next about the imminent library closures. “It’s really important that we take urgency in this matter, and I think it’s a twofold plan—one, a stance of resolution, how we feel about it, and a solution, and two, to involve students,” she said.

Vice President of Student Life Meredith Madnick asked Wing how likely the resolution was to cause the administration to rethink the closures, to which she replied that she thought student input on the matter was an important step toward reversing their decision.

Muir College Council Chair Jessie Rosales then gave a special presentation about the CLICS task force, suggesting a temporary student fee to keep the space open with or without computers.

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resolution to reopen CLICS, which passed.

Vice President of External Affairs of Samer Naji introduced President of SOPAC Arshya Sharifian, who gave a 20 minute presentation about SOPAC, a student organization dedicated to expanding the amount of registered voters on campus. Apparently only 9 percent of UCSD students are registered voters. I’m disappointed in us.

Next up were Associate Vice President appointments, which hit a roadblock. Although most were appointed without objection, the AS Council mysteriously closed its doors to the public around 8 p.m. without explaining why. It was only after the doors opened that I learned there was some debate about one of the Associate Vice President positions.

Next up, the most important part of this week’s meeting: the budget.

Debate raged over a decrease in the Fall Festival Budget from $135,000 to $50,000, but it passed. VP Student Affairs assured the council that the Fall Festival would not suffer as a result.

A new category opened to fund 70 percent of the salary for the position of Campus Events Manager, for which $36,750 was allocated.

Debate continued for over 30 minutes involving senator and Associate Vice President stipends, some council members arguing that the stipends should be removed from the budget with others contesting. In the end, there was no change.

▶ fired, from page 1 the Chicano and African-American Studies minors.

Student members of the committee said they believe Torres’ termination, as well as university representatives who decline to comment on the situation, calls into question the university’s commitment to diversity. According to Student Affirmative Action Committee Vice Chair Josue Castellon, Baiz-Torres was reportedly fired for not doing her job.

“It’s invalidating the work she’s done,” Castellon said.“The school is not telling us the reason [she was fired]. We are asking the school for

transparency and accountability.”

The university’s diversity requirement, implemented this year, is a start to improving campus climate but work still needs to be done, Castellon said. The new Chicano Legacy mural was completed in response to these demands, but Castellon said the demands also called for multiple pieces of campus artwork to represent underrepresented students.

Other demands include hiring faculty of color, which so far has been denied, Castellon said.

Castellon added the significance of Baiz-Torres’ role as a Chicana representative on university faculty

and said the demands cannot be implemented without her.

“She was actually changing campus climate at the administrative level,” Castellon said. “Everything she did was for the students.”

Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Penny Rue declined to comment because it is a personnel issue, but said that this action does not change the university’s commitment to improving campus climate.

“This campus’s commitment to this position is unwavering,” Rue said in an email. “Melanie Cruz has been appointed as Interim Director of Development for Diversity See DIVERSITY, page 6

SSC to Focus on Promoting on Fair Trade Policy Next Year ▶ SSC, from page 1 water and 16 gallons of oil just to make the plastic bottle itself,” SSC Director of Food Policy Jared Muscat said.

Former A.S. President Wafa Ben Hassine worked with Housing, Dining and Hospitality to ban on-campus sale of plastic water bottles by the end of Spring Quarter.

The SSC is collaborating with Housing, Dining and Hospitality to create a proposal so that on-campus hydration stations will offer filtered water readily available to students by Fall 2012.

“Instead of having plastic water bottles, the dining halls will have reusable water bottles for sale,” Muscat said. “It’ll help reduce the waste on campus and help what’s now about to become a UC-wide effort of breaking the plastic habit.”

Student organizations are hosting other various campaigns throughout the campus.

“The Public Health group is working on the Born Beautiful

campaign,” SSC Director of Public Health Elizabeth Elman said. “The purpose of that is three-fold. The first is to encourage UCSD students to recognize and appreciate the intrinsic beauty. The second is to challenge the stereotypical portrayal of beauty that media, Photoshopping and advertisements perpetuate. And the third focus is to bring attention to ‘pink washing.’”

“Pink washing” is when companies promote carcinogenproducing products by claiming they support breast cancer research.

According to Elman, companies guilty of pink washing spend more money advertising the fact that they donate to breast cancer research than they actually do donating.

The Corporate Accountability Group is currently promoting Alta Gracia — a apparel brand found at the bookstore that provides its workers and their families with basic educational, health, food, water and shelter needs.

“It comes from a factory that used

to be a sweatshop factory,” Elman said. “But it’s become unionized, and the workers reopened the factory with the union. So now they get paid a living wage, and the clothes aren’t made in sweatshop conditions.”

The SSC will focus on promoting Fair Trade Policy, which got approved during 10th week of Spring Quarter last year, moving forward with Alta Gracia in the bookstore and also promoting sustainable local food and water on campus.

Members of the SSC will also sit in on committees and meetings with Housing and Dining to make sure that the policies that both parties have agreed on are being implemented properly.

“For every year, we want to see through the implementation of these policies because although we pass the policies, usually most of the responsibility on the policies is in Housing and Dining’s hands, and sometimes the implementation can See SSC, page 6

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WEB POLL

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43% Yes, this is a safe campus.

I did until this incident.

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Opinion

Sometimes, It’s Go Free, or Go Home

Contact the Editor: opinion@ucsdguardian.org

www.ucsdguardian.org/OPINION Props to the American Medical Association and the Infectious Diseases Society of America for calling on the FDA to ban feeding antibiotics to healthy animals.

Flops to Allergan Inc. for pushing their lap band procedure — a surgery that fits a silicon ring around the stomach to reduce food intake — to teenagers due to a decrease in sales.

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here’s a golden rule when it comes to getting free stuff — the less people know about it, the more fun it is to get it and, of course, the greater the feeling of accomplishment. (That’s why the free pizza at that little-publicized engineering fair is always more exciting than the college council events offering free soda.) So, the ideal free situation is to find a popular store and be “in the know” about getting free stuff (code words included) before everyone else.

Using this logic, events like Ben

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and Jerry’s “Free Cone Day” on April 12 or IHOP’s “Free Pancake Day” on March 1, are the ultimate antithesis of this golden rule. Broadcast far and wide, publicized with Facebook events that have six-digit numbers of people attending, these free days always bring in hordes of hungry weirdos (myself included), and thus, the best and worst of humanity.

The worst of the worst is always Chipotle’s Free Burrito Day on Halloween. They stopped this tradition in 2010, but a couple of years back, every Chipotle on Oct. 31 had a line curling around the block. Drunk, high and hungry college students waited for hours for a free burrito — the majority of them covered in aluminum foil of varying strips and sizes. The thought of braving hours of standing behind some drunken frat bro dressed like a burrito with a beer belly killed my appetite, and I walked away without even trying. Sometimes, you have to pick your battles.

The best things in life are free, so when I get coerced into spending money, I am irate. IHOP’s Free Pancake Day seemed innocuous enough at first — my friend and I were seated almost immediately. But their free pancake day only involved a short stack, and being the hungry Americans that we were, we didn’t just want three measly pancakes for brunch. We wanted sides — more specifically, bacon. With the extra side orders, our “cheap” meal ended up costing $14 plus tip. Let that be a warning to you: Be vigilant when partaking in these “free days” — your empty stomach might hoodwink you.

But sometimes it’s worth it. On paper, Ben and Jerry’s Free Cone Day sounded like a miserable waiting game — thankfully, I was wrong. I assumed the tiny stand outside the UTC food court could hardly handle the masses of eager ice cream fans demanding their fix of Cherry Garcia and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. But when my friends and I arrived, the line was a pleasantly short five-minute wait. And even though my favorite flavor wasn’t offered (seriously, try Imagine Whirled Peace; it will change your entire perspective on life), their equally sublime Milk & Cookies flavor was, so I was stoked.

The free ice cream was great, but the moment that made my day was when a woman with three kids pulled out her wallet to pay for her family’s ice cream. Clearly, she had missed the enormous “Free Cone Day” sign that dominated the better part of the stand.

When the man behind the counter told her that there was no charge, she looked stunned, smiled and cautiously walked away. Never underestimate the power of free to make someone’s day that much better.

A new task force formed to save CLICS may have the right intentions, but a lack of planning and viable solutions will ultimately do nothing to keep the library open.

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ometimes, wasting your time on a futile goal earns you a pat on the back and a “good try, slugger.”

Other times, it earns you the ambivalence of 20,000 peers Nearly two months after the university announced plans to close several UCSD libraries, Muir College Council Chair Jessie Rosales assembled a task force was assembled to save CLICS. The group’s most feasible option seems to be proposing a referendum that, if passed, would not go into effect until a year after the apparently beloved study space is scheduled to be shut down.

Although the task force means well, the gap between now and when any work would become visible is far too long. Good intentions aside — it is now Week Nine and CLICS is scheduled to close immediately after finals.

And the good news doesn’t stop there; according to university librarian Brian Schottlaender, the current $3-million cut to the library

budget is the best-case scenario (using the word “best” loosely) — this means that, believe it or not, we’re lucky the university is closing a whopping five libraries and not doing worse. In the face of such grim realities, there’s little room for Rosales’s impromptu task force — no matter how earnest — to save the day.

It’s refreshing that someone is taking action beyond yet another “KEEP CLICS OPEN” Facebook group, and Rosales is making a noble effort. He’s narrowed the focus of his task force to one library rather than attempting to save all of them, refocused attention onto the library crisis, a fate most students have already accepted and has even recruited 15 members.

The task force hopes to pres-

ent its proposals — including proposals to turn CLICS into a “student-run space“ (think co-op but with books instead of food and marijuana) and create an $8 quarterly student fee — to the Academic Affairs department by summer.

But this can’t make up for a lack of planning and feasible options, as Rosales’s efforts are ultimately a bad case of “too little, too late.”

As nice as it is to think that students would voluntarily work at CLICS to keep it open, labor-free alternatives like Price Center, Perks Cafe and even the dorm study lounges are — despite being slightly louder — cost-free, accessible alternatives.

Even if there was enough student interest,

Although the task force means well, the gap between now and when any work would become visible is far too long.

volunteers wouldn’t even be qualified to be interim librarians for the year, seeing as UCSD does not offer a Masters in Library Science.

Though student libraries are often essential to study (and for the truly downtrodden, eat and sleep), this can be done at plenty of other spaces on campus. The original point of libraries, lest we forget, is to check out books, and librarians are in charge of this data organization — a skill even the most studious See CLICS, page 5

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Freedom of Speech Can’t Have Conditions Dear Editor, I am responding to “Quick Takes” from Page 4 of the May 23 Guardian issue, where Guardian writers suggest that the ACLU is wrong to fight against censorship at La Jolla High School. The ACLU’s position is in agreement with American law and the principles of free expression, while the positions of these writers are not.

If speech is allowed some place at a school, the administration is not allowed to decide what kind of speech is permitted there. The high school may be allowed, as Hilary Lee writes, to limit the “time, place and manner” in which ideas are expressed, but it cannot make a censorship decision based on the opinion-content of a public statement.

This is the same reason UCSD is not allowed to defund the Koala, nor prevent some hysterical professors from purchasing full-page Guardian advertisements.

It is illegal to stifle expression based on content (unless the content is explicitly threatening to someone).

If La Jolla High School allows any message to be painted on these benches, then it must allow all messages.

They are not allowed to decide which areas of campus are designated “political” and which are for “birthday wishes.” This is not my or the ACLU’s opinion; it is the law.

Even if an act of expression makes some people severely uncomfortable and even if it is monstrously offensive, censoring it is still illegal.

Previous high-profile ACLU cases (in defense of the North American Man/Boy Love Association, the Westboro Baptist Church and oth-

ers) were not “questionably appropriate,” as Arik Burakovsky writes. The ACLU was defending the law from people who want to babysit your mind, from people who patronize you by saying that you aren’t mature enough to decide for yourself whether someone else’s view is correct.

These Guardian writers should at least make sure that they understand what the ACLU’s position is before criticizing the organization. If they still find that they disagree with free speech laws, so be it. But they haven’t spent the time to learn the reasoning behind the ACLU’s enormous campaign to protect unpopular viewpoints.

During your next staff meeting, consider educating yourselves on the principles of free expression. Why not encourage your staff writers to read a few books or passages by John Milton and John Stewart Mill?

University newspapers are supposed

to be advocates of the most stringent free speech standards, not piffling apologists for censors.

—Nicolas Sawaya Senior, Warren College

Protests Cause Tense Campus Climate Dear Editor, I am writing to extinguish the complaints made in a previous letter to the editor regarding the Guardian not accepting an advertisement called “The Palestinians’ Case Against Israel is Based on a Genocidal Lie.” Frankly, the writer seems to enjoy tossing around fancy jargon such as “censorship,” “suppressing free speech” and “free press” as an attempt to make a point that is irrelevant to the case in question.

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The Mental fishbowl By Alex Nguyen

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Delay in Referendum Will Just Draw Out the Inevitable ▶ CLICS, from page 4 coed is unlikely to have.

As for a referendum, the time gap between now and 2012 elections is just too big. During the year-long gap between the closing of the libraries and the actual referendum (if it passes), students will have no choice but to find alternative study spaces which they will get used to, ultimately making Team CLICS obsolete. And let’s be honest, students rarely, if ever, support fee increases.

The $8 per-student per-quarter fee is not worth it. Students outwardly oppose additional fees tacked onto their tuitions and, with the year-long gap between now and the far-fetched possibility that

CLICS will reopen, students will find other options. Asking students to care about an abandoned building for a year is ridiculous, seeing as UCSD students have enough trouble staying in a relationship for that long (ahem, Triton Eye).

The Department of Academic Affairs — the university division the task force must answer to — has already informed Rosales that it believes saving CLICS is not feasible.

Rosales has called this reaction a “slap in the face,” but the university, after enduring millions in crippling budget cuts, is simply being realistic.

Although it would be ideal to keep what’s left of our libraries

from becoming overcrowded, the convoluted nature of university bureaucracy has proven itself unresponsive to many student proposals, especially those with bad timing and half-baked ideas.

It’s nice to see fellow students showing some sort of an emotional attachment to our campus and it’s even more exciting that they are trying to prioritize our education, but good thoughts won’t bridge a $3-million budget gap.

Nice try, task force, but it looks like CLICS is gone for good. It’s time to fight at the source by lobbying for more state funding. In the meanwhile, we should probably settle for finding a new location to chug Red Bulls and write papers.

Essentially, the argument made is: “I am paying for this ad; therefore, I should be allowed to run it.

Not accepting my money to let me advance my agenda via the Guardian is censorship and limiting freedom of the press.” The flaws in this logic are extremely obvious, and frankly embarrassing to read, as an academic.

To address them concisely: We are talking about an advertisement; we are not dealing with an op-ed that the Guardian asked to be written, nor with an article written by the staff.

The Guardian has no obligation to this third-party company that is looking to advertise its position.

That being said, the term “censorship” implies that the individual originally had a right to use this medium to speak and was deprived of such a right.

The fact that the Guardian was offered money to run this advertisement clearly shows that there was never an inherent obligation to print the advertisement.

The press expressed its freedom in denying the advertisement to be published. It was purely the paper’s choice to reject the advertisement.

Whether this individual likes it or not, that action is freedom of the press.

The Guardian, I am assuming, rejected this advertisement particularly because of its blatant racial attack of the Palestinian narrative, as opposed to an attack of the arguments presented from the pro-Pales-

tinian and pro-human-rights side of the conflict. I applaud the Guardian for prioritizing cultural sensitivity over allowing an individual to pay his or her way into the media.

I am disappointed at the lack of common sense that was incorporated into the letter in question.

Clearly, as most academics can see, this was not an issue regarding censorship, nor freedom of the press.

Though these words may make an individual sound intelligent, without proper backing the individual’s case holds no merit, and as a result, can be regarded as no more than a flawed argument by a party that is sour because it didn’t get its way.

On a final note, I am a Palestinian and I do exist.

My culture, in all of its uniqueness, is Palestinian and has developed over the years as a Palestinian culture.

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SCC will also continue to work on the water bottle ban proposal, which passed through HDH this Monday, May 23.

“There are many clauses in [the water bottle ban proposal] demanding an educational program that the Student Sustainability Collective will be setting up with Housing and Dining to reach out to residents on campus, and help them understand the need for this proposal and help

them understand the importance of taking back the tap and their right to free, clean water,” Muscat said.

Other initiatives include the Styrofoam ban, an electronics waste effort and the food policy that SCC passed in Spring Quarter of 2009.

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teven Spielberg’s summertime blockbuster “Cowboys and Aliens” may be drawing derisive laughter because of its ridiculous premise, but this is by no means the first — and certainly not the best — of the sci-fi western genre. That honor belongs to Joss Whedon’s cult show, “Firefly.”

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It may now be regarded as one of the most brilliant, misunderstood wonders to emerge from the depths of Whedon’s mind — because honestly, only he would choose to set a space opera-western in 2057 where the characters spoke a mixture of Mandarin Chinese and English — but when the show came out in 2002 nobody really bothered to watch. And I’ll be honest: I didn’t either. In my defense though, I was in the 6th grade and my parents believed television should be restricted to the Food Network — I guess they felt that watching food porn was better than watching actual porn, I mean, MTV. Though it boasted an impressive pedigree — Whedon’s previous two shows, the popular yet cult hit “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and its spin-off “Angel” — only garnered 6.3 million viewers in the pilot, and it was all downhill from there. In the end, only 11 of 14 episodes were even aired on Fox, and “Firefly’s” diehard fans — self-named “Browncoats” — were heartbroken and looking for someone to blame.

In many ways, it was Fox’s fault.

Instead of airing the slower-paced but poignant 90-minute pilot that set the stage for the events to come, Fox decided to start with the second episode, “The Train Job,” a fast paced gold-heist episode that was undoubtedly exciting, but ultimately off-putting for first-time viewers who were just plain confused by Whedon’s ragtag gang of smugglers. Without the background of the first episode, the show lacked the heart that is currently keeping Browncoats attending “Firefly” screenings and conventions. Worst of all, “Firefly” was given a time slot on Friday night, and coupled with the fact that Fox chose to air several episodes out of order, it’s no wonder that the show became a one-season wonder.

“Firefly” finally got a second chance this past March, courtesy of the Science Channel. The hallowed series was aired in Whedon’s intended order, one episode a week, and the series is nearing its close — again. In many ways, rewatching “Firefly” now is a sort of atonement for not caring when it first aired (and mattered). Looking back on it, it’s not difficult to see why there was so much bitterness over its cancellation.

In the end, the show isn’t just about smuggling and robbery in a new space frontier. It’s about the group of outcasts who are doing it — battle-scarred veterans, mercenaries, runaways, a preacher and a respected, official prostitute — facing the grim existence of the universe (dubbed the ‘Verse’ in the show) and doing their best to survive.

In watching the show, you are sucked into their pseudo-family and their strange world of criminal activity and blustering derring-do.

theatre company brings student ideas to life by rebecca limerick

I

t could be a Swiss area code for all you know, but the number 157 holds a special resonance within Galbraith Hall.

The digits refer to room 157, the meeting place and namesake for Company 157, a student organization that serves as a production company and a liaison between students and the theatre department. Their latest project, the Underground New Play Festival, aims to promote this on-campus collaboration on a larger scale, serving as a network for student actors, directors, playwrights and technicians.

But the company’s valuable resources have gone predominantly untapped.

“We are stuck in Revelle, desperately trying to reach north,” the company’s managing director Justin O’Neill said. “Once you pass Mandeville, no one knows we exist.”

Company 157 provides UCSD’s burgeoning artists with the money, venues, props, cos-

tumes and staff to turn their lofty visions into elaborate realities.

“My job is to say ‘no’ as little as possible,” O’Neill said.

Five years ago, undergraduate theatre students Kendra Miller and Matt Barrs founded the organization as an outlet to select their own plays for production — ones that the theatre department wouldn’t put on. And though the original intentions were initially more selfserving, it was this spirit of artistic outreach that laid the foundations of faculty and graduate student cooperation.

One of Company 157’s aims is to bridge UCSD’s undergraduate theatre and dance programs with its top-ranked graduate programs, supplying undergraduates with a wider spectrum of opportunities and focused help.

Company 157 holds workshops open to all students, led by professionals knowledgeable

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he folk-rock troubadours of Fighting With Irons met in a San Diego musical youth production of “Peter Pan” as singing pirates. Two years later, that same swashbuckling sentiment shadows with Sunset Cliffs — the band’s debut EP set for release on May 27.

The album is chock-full of nautical influences, from the band’s name to its breezy acoustic sound and sea-chanty lyricism.

“The man sat down beside her/The man used tools and rope to guide her/Back home on the deep blue sea,” vocalists Paul Gillcrist and Sarah De La Isla croon on standout “And They Sailed.” Tinkling cymbals back ukulele, keyboard, guitar, bass, violin and the winsome dual harmonies, managing lively charm without sounding gimmicky or overwhelming. They’ve even explored the untapped potential of the humble conch.

“We were in a band rehearsal and [bass player] Samuel [Narveson] had to go to the bathroom,” Gillcrist recently told the Guardian. “When he came out of the bathroom, he came out with a conch shell in his hand See fighting, page 9

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in the fields of stage make-up, improvisation and auditioning. The fourteen current board members, selected through an application and interview process, meet twice a week, but dedicate a far larger portion of their lives to procuring personal connections with undergraduate theatre department faculty, graduate students, as well as industry professionals.

This year, Company 157 financed and supported the Shakespeare production “Much Ado About Nothing,” the visual arts and theatre collaborative piece “Radical Acts of Desire” and “Howl,” a Halloween art exhibit featuring acapella, improvisation, performance and visual art — though most UCSD students wouldn’t be able to tell you that.

Last school year, they focused their spring quarter energy and funds on Our New Play See company page 9

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The Hangover II recycles laughs and plot devices in equal measure.

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t’s safe to say that if you liked “The Hangover” you will like “The Hangover Part II;” after all, it is more or less the same exact film.

Director Todd Phillips hasn’t tried very hard to veer from the original’s high-grossing formula: Best friends Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Doug (Justin Bartha), along with bearded outsider Alan (Zach Galifianakis), get together on the eve of a wedding, only to wake up the next morning in a trashed hotel

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room with no recollection of the hijinks of the previous night (though Starring: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms & they are left with plenty of Zach Galifianakis sordid clues, including a 01:42 severed finger, a monkey Rated R and a facial tattoo). The B only difference is that the groom-to-be is straight-laced dentist Stu, and the setting has been moved from Las Vegas to

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Various other plot elements remain: There’s the opening phone call to a distressed bride, followed by a flashback to what led to the drinkthat-started-it-all; there’s a quest to find a missing friend, whose ultimate location isn’t as dire as “The Wolfpack” initially feared; and there are deals-gone-wrong with various crime lords.

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ages plenty of laughs, particularly in the beginning, before the film goes the over-the-top action-comedy route and starts to lose steam.

Problem is, we’ve seen these guys screaming at each other in the midst of car chases before — the second time around, the laughs don’t hit nearly as hard.

Admittedly, Phillips tries to give the movie some spark, filming it more like an action movie than a buddy-comedy. He does well with the foreign location, using slick cinematography to capture the grit of Bangkok. As Kanye West’s “Monster” pounds over aerial shots of the country, it hardly feels like the raunchy comedy the “R” rating promises it will be.

The actors jump into their old roles well, though like he did in the original film, Galifianakis steals the show with his brand of so-awkward-it-hurts humor. Cooper is mostly disposable and Helms certainly tries hard: The actor squeals like a girl with a grimace-inducing commitment, playing the character so unhinged that you don’t even bother to pity him.

The comedy relies a lot more on shock value than straight-up jokes — a questionable choice, considering the least-raunchy scenes ended up being the funniest. Galifianakis’ Alan showing his “three best friends” around his room, ordering his mother to bring him dessert over a P.A. system and explaining his role as a “stayat-home son” — all before the guys even hop on the plane to Asia — is far more hilarious than the chicks-with-dicks (seriously) detour the film ultimately takes.

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ervent garage god and Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore gives us a glimpse of his softer side on Demolished Thoughts — his first solo album in four years.

Produced by alt-rock icon Beck, the album chronicles Moore’s transition into sweeping acoustic instrumentation — delivering just enough attitude for hardcore Sonic Youth fans, with plenty of thoughtful delicacy for the decidedly folk-minded.

But for Moore, “softer” does not mean “smaller.”

Inflated by Beck’s airy production, Demolished Thoughts flows along in an array of layered chords and somber orchestral flourishes reminiscent of Nick Drake circa 1972. And though this is the product of a renowned guitarist striking out on his own, Thurston Moore isn’t out to boast about his guitar chops. As exhibited in his previous work, Moore’s style often relies on building texture rather than meticulous guitar solos.

“Circulation” finds Moore truest to his indiepunk roots. The track’s sharp guitar jabs, booming chorus and angst-ridden lyrics (“she’s not here to stay, she just came by to

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shoot you baby”) sound as if they’ve been plucked from any of Moore’s pre-millennial thrashers. Opening track, “Benediction”, is another instant classic — sweeping string arrangements, spacious guitar strums and a triumphant chorus are built up to reveal Moore’s irresistibly sentimental alter-ego.

Yet Demolished Thoughts is ultimately top-heavy with stand-out tracks, leaving the latter half frustratingly unremarkable in comparison. The hectic, deafening build of the two-and-a-halfminute “Orchard Street” drags aimlessly toward the dreary, hymn-sounding “Mina Loy.” The atmospheric guitar noodling on “Space” and “January” closes out the album pleasantly, but Moore’s insistence on concealing any trace of emotion dampens the lingering momentum of Demolished Thoughts’ first exceptional songs.

But Thurston Moore deserves some credit for stepping out of his comfort zone, and Demolished Thoughts offers enough memorable moments to reaffirm the significance of one of indie rock’s living legends.

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Locals Release Concept Album Theatre Company Curates Festival

▶ FIGHTING from page 7 and he just started blowing.”

With seven members and upwards of 18 instruments, it’s difficult to imagine Fighting With Irons fitting on stage. During their March 9 show at Porter’s Pub, they managed an additional three members for a total of ten performers, oddball instruments in hand. They ended the night with a saxophone jam session, a hand-and-body percussive performance, and (naturally) a conch shell solo. Crowd participation was at a startling high; the entire audience clapped and sang along, and even the pub owner joined in.

But while the space was crowded, the music was hardly overwhelming. Gillcrist’s simple lyrics and the expert, non-intrusive employment of instrumentals keep Fighting With Irons’ sound refreshingly mellow.

Though they each have a long history of musical education — both vocalist/keyboardist De La Isla’s parents are musicians, while bassist Andy Walsh is set to attend music school in the fall — their ages range from a youthful 15 to 20. Not surprisingly, given his evident penchant for swashbuckling theatrics, freshman Gillcrist is a fencer at UCSD and teaches sailing classes at Mission Bay Sports Center during the summer. Though he is in college himself, he has an appreciation for younger crowds, thanks to his band mates.

“I’m open to the idea of playing at coffee shops and trying to get people that are in high school able to go to shows,” Gillcrist said. “Most of the bands in our genre play at bars or places that are over 21.”

“Tell me about it,” De La Isla added. Though she’s only sixteen, De La Isla recently tested out of high school in order to focus on film and music.

Intimate spaces, like Porter’s Pub

and a slew of local coffee shops, seem to create the ideal environment for Fighting With Irons’ brand of indie rock. It’s the direct relationship, and even collaboration, between the audience and the musicians that have gained them an increasing amount of followers.

And despite their many members and cluttered arsenal of instruments, what the group truly strives for is simple: creating a fun experience for the crowd by having fun themselves.

That sentiment remains on the Fighting With Irons’ debut.

“When people back in the day would buy an album, they’d buy it and listen to the entire thing…

The way I’ve written the EP, the five songs, is a storyline,” Gillcrist said.

“It’s a concept album, a concept EP. I would describe it as a journey of finding yourself or of having a second chance. ‘Sunset Cliffs’ is a song about suicide and drowning in the sea, and for whatever reason, the main protagonist has a second chance and is able to find a boat in ‘And They Sailed’ and repair it.”

But despite their ambitious narratives, Fighting With Irons are satisfied with the simple experience of playing their music for a live audience, or reaching someone through their jubilantly recorded material.

“There’s no goal of trying to make it big or get any financial outcome of it,” Gillcrist said. “When we’re going on seven people in our band, there’s no way you’re going to make it financially on the small-time level. It’s not about the money, it’s not about success — it’s about playing the music.”

Their EP release show is Friday, May 27 at the Pacific Beach Women’s Club at 7:30 p.m. Entrance (including a copy of the EP) is $10. Sunset Cliffs will also become available the night of the release show on their website, http://www.fightingwithirons.com.

▶ company from page 7 Spectacular — an entirely student-organized theatrical showcase. Not only were the actors, directors and technicians all undergraduate students of various majors, but the plays were also student-written.

This year, the festival has been renamed the Underground New Play Festival — a change emblematic of a new company tradition: For the first time ever, the spring undergraduate play festival has become an official department show.

“The department believed in the students enough to put their name on it,” co-chair Bianna Hill said.

“We are still doing our jobs, just with more support; we are now being trusted with the infrastructural responsibilities.”

In Winter Quarter, Company 157 called upon budding playwrights to submit their tellable tales. The group received 35 scripts, narrowing them down to the eight plays that will be showcased through June 4 in the Arthur Wagner Theatre. Directors were then interviewed and chosen by the Company board members, and those given the opportunity to lead committed themselves to a quarter’s worth of casting, rehearsing with and inspiring a small group of actors.

This year UNPF is operating on its largest scale yet, with upwards of 80 undergraduates involved in varying aspects of the creative and production processes.

The eight plays are being split into two showcases (A & B), promising to explore the hallucinations of Goldilocks, utter memory loss and the fateful decisions that accompany drinking tomato juice.

“Butterfly in China,” directed by Sean Estelle and written by Lexi Saunders, is a complex meditation on the echoing repercussions of a single choice. The play follows two separate yet intersecting stories — one of a college professor lecturing on the chaos theory, and another of two strangers who meet at a bus stop.

Karen Li’s “Surprise in Sea Sharp” (directed by Claire Kaplan) is a surreal comedy set 20,000 feet in the air. The passengers of a commercial airliner learn the importance and limitations of human compassion with the help of complimentary beverages, the milehigh club and a few very important camels.

O’Neill challenges the creative souls of UCSD to come forward with even more fresh ideas just waiting to be endorsed.

“We’d like to see found space theatre,” O’Neill said.

“We want daring non-standard thinking.”

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THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011

Fogarty Will Have a Chance for Three Podium Finishes in Final Races This Weekend ▶ Fogarty, from page 12 USA National qualifier (the equivalent to qualifying for the Olympic Trials), she is poised to take three more top eight finishes, going into this weekend’s national meet ranked No. 3 in the 100 meters, No. 4 in the 200 meters and — as a member of the team with juniors Jackie Rose, Deyna Roberson, Caitlin Meagher and freshman Lauren Irish — ranked No. 9 in the 4 x 400 relay.

I cornered her on the seemingly endless bus ride from San Diego to Turlock, where this year’s NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field National Championship Meet is currently being held on the campus of Cal State Stanislaus.

As the trees started to whisk by, I asked what made her get into sports in the first place.

“Well, I really can’t remember a singular moment,” she said. “I’ve been playing sports since I can remember. It was kind of an evolution of just wanting to compete and have fun. I started with soccer when I was young, basically since I can remember with under 6’s and I played everything from softball to basketball to actually being a cheerleader in high school.”

The thought of Fogarty as a cheerleader totally threw me for a loop as I imagined her running down the opposing mascot in a skirt and beating its paper mâché head in.

Snapping back from my reverie, I asked her when it clicked that track was the sport for her.

“I was really good at soccer,” she said. “I started as a defender but moved to forward when I out-ran everyone at practice. From there they would basically just kick it over the defenders so I could chase it and shoot — and mostly miss. But I was pretty much always able to stay onside and beat the defenders to the

through ball. From there I went into choice, UCSD. There was no time to ask why and high school knowing I was fast, but no time to think about it, as her event not quite how fast I really was.”

She stopped there, modestly was called over the loud speaker and unwilling to reveal her time until I she had to get into her blocks. After learning the news, she ran the fastest could coax it out of her.

“A 13.01,” she said. “My coach was 200m time in her high school career really happy, kind of standing there — an astonishing 24.5 seconds.

This was perhaps the start of with his mouth open.”

That’s incredibly fast for a fresh- her college career. Neither of the man in high school. From that Division I schools she failed to get into were pursuing her point on, Fogarty only for track, but UCSD improved, thanks in was interested. Darcy part to her supportive Ahner, head coach of family. the UCSD women’s Her father is retired team, and Mick Geiskes, and “around 70,” she I would love to the sprint coach, wantsaid. “[So he has] nothcome back and ed her on the team. At ing to do but come be an assistant the time, the team was watch meets.” the defending conferHer mother is a coach while I ence champion, and teacher, and is usually work to get into had some of the greatest able to get off work to med school. female athletes to step attend. Throughout her That way I could foot on our track — life her parents have such as nine-time Allbeen there for her. stay in shape American Laiah Blue, When asked if it affectand try for a school record holder in ed her much that they shot at Olympic the 100-high hurdles, were older than many of and National Champion her friends’ parents, she Trials.” and All-American admitted that she could Kelly Fogarty Christine Merrill. never really play sports senior The UCSD women’s with her father — an program was at its peak, aspect of childhood she consequently missed out on. But his with up-and-coming heavy hitters support and close proximity at all (at that time juniors and seniors), three-time CCAA Champs and, with times more than made up for it.

Even though the rest of her family the help of Fogarty, two more titles. isn’t particularly athletic, Fogarty has Additionally, in her junior year she had the drive to set goals and com- helped the women’s team to its highest-ever placing, the No. 3 team in all plete them her whole life.

Going into her senior year in high of Division II. I asked her how she felt as one of school, she had applied to several colleges, with UCLA and Berkeley the pillars that success has been built as her top choices. For Fogarty, the on in the past few years.

“Well, when you compare me admission decisions came in the middle of a track meet. She was get- to a Laiah, who has so many Allting warmed up for a race when her Americans, and Christine — who is phone rang, and her Dad told her she living the dream competing on the had not gotten into either college, international elite level — I would but that she had gotten into her third like to be thought of as their equals,”

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Fogarty said. “It is a bit daunting to think about trying to catch them, but here I am on the bus to where I can make it happen.”

Fogarty is the school record holder in the 100 and 200 meters, and bettered her records in competition this year. Ever humble, she speculated on her future in a subdued, quiet voice.

“I mean, if I don’t run a USA time at NCAA’s, I’m planning to run at a meet on June 4 to get the time and go to Oregon for the USATF,” she said. “Then next year, I would love to come back and be an assistant coach while I work to get into med school.

That way I could stay in shape and try for a shot at the Olympic Trials.

If I don’t make it after that I really can’t see staying competitive; its just such a big time commitment and I’m going to be super busy with med school.”

Planning to go into gynecology or sports medicine, Fogarty has not only achieved athletic prowess, but also scholastic success. As is the modus operandi of UCSD athletes across the board, she feels that sports helps with time management and with providing her a reason not to goof off; after all, there isn’t any time for it.

I asked Fogarty what she thought of the move to Division I. As many athletes are, she is concerned but excited about the move.

“It’s scary because you have to worry about your sport getting cut for funding in the scholarship department, and how successful the team is going to be in the future,” she said.

As the embodiment of the height of what UCSD is at the Division II level, Fogarty is a key figure in our history as a program. At UCLA, she would not have been given the chance to run, and there is a danger in denying some who would rather

be in a Division II situation.

“It would increase our name as a commodity, make us a big deal,” she said.

Fogarty is sure the department will carry out the move the right way, allowing for the winning equation for her team. Always a fighter, Fogarty loves her team and wants to see it succeed in the future.

“The girls coming in are good,” she said. “There is a good dynamic right now in the team that makes it kind of different than when I came in, but still ripe for success at conference and nationals.”

Times have certainly changed for Fogarty since she first showed up at UCSD: The introverted freshman she once was has become the gregarious, talkative leader she is now.

On the track in every race, she comes alive with a fire that is always burning just below the surface. When the gun goes up and goes off, the line of muscles erupts and pounds its way down the track as 16 legs come alive.

Then there is this click. In an instant Kelly Fogarty turns into something I can only describe as Rambo-like as she mows down her competition.

Fogarty gets that click, that moment of decision in her eyes.

When she strides out in front of the competition with her great Popeye biceps, she makes all of her competition look slow.

Kelly Fogarty is truly the epitome of what it means to be a UCSD athlete, a competitor and a superb friend. She can win while still being beautiful and brilliant. She can intimidate everyone yet make friends with anyone. She is one of the greatest that has ever walked our campus and I have been honored to be her teammate and her friend.

Readers can contact Nicholas Howe at nshowe@ucsd.edu.

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UCSD

TRACK & FIELD 5/26

GAMES

VS C.W. Post at NCAA Divison II National Championships AT NCAA Division II Championship Meet in Turlock, Calif.

The Grand Finale Kelly Fogarty, the fastest woman in UCSD history, is set for her last collegiate race at nationals this weekend.

By Nicholas Howe • Staff Writer Photos By John Hanacek • Guardian

Editor’s note: Nicholas Howe, a javelin thrower on the track team, has been a teammate of Fogarty for three years.

T

he first day of track practice freshman year, I saw an army of perfect female legs loping its way around the track and knew this was where I wanted to spend my free time at UCSD. Walking down the cement stairs, I was honestly intimidated by these women more than I was by the male athletes on the team. Sure, they were strong, but the girls were also beautiful.

Then leading the pack down the front strait, I saw a girl coming towards me that made me feel like a lesser man. Not only were her legs amazing, but her biceps were bigger than every other guy’s on the team, excluding our 350-pound shot putter, Fred Cook. But unlike Fred, Kelly Fogarty is a beautiful blonde girl from Danville, Calif.

I found out during the year that, not only were her biceps huge, but they gave her some magic power to beat other girls in any race she decided to enter.

She has finished in the top eight at NCAA Nationals an amazing four times in her career, making her an All-American four times over.

And she is not finished. Having come near to a See Fogarty, page 11

Tritons Qualified for NCAA Divison II Track & Field CHampionships • KELLY FOGARTY - Qualified 3rd for 100 meters, 4th for 200 meters and 9th as part of the 4x400 team.

• STEPHANIE LEFEVER - Qualified 2nd in haptathlon, 3rd in the long jump and 17th in the triple jump.

• DANIELLE THU - Qualified 2nd in hammer throw (2009 National Champion in the event).

• THERESA RICHARDS - Qualified 7th in javelin throw.

• JESSICA MIKLASKI - Qualified 17th in javelin throw.

• LAUREN IRISH - Qualified 9th as part of the 4x400 team.

• CAITLIN MEAGHER - Qualified 17th in 400 hurdles and 9th as part of the 4x400 team.

• DEYNA ROBERSON - Qualified 9th as part of the 4x400 team.

• JACQUELINE ROSE - Qualified 9th as part of the 4x400 team.

• NICHOLAS HOWE - Qualified 3rd in javelin throw (2010 National Champion in the event).

• JESSE MORRILL - Qualified 13th in 3000 steeplechase.

UCSD Softball Set to Open College World Series Campaign On Thursday NCAA DII CWS Opening Game UC SAN DIEGO MAR. 26

VS.

C.W. POST SALEM, VA

By Rachel Uda Sports Editor

SOFTBALL — No. 16 UCSD Softball is headed to Salem, Va. to face off against No. 25 C.W. Post in the first leg of the Division II College World Series on Thursday, May 26 at 9 a.m.

C.W. Post University, located in Brookville, N.Y., qualified as the winner of the East Region with a 41-14 record. The Pioneers emerged

from regular season play third in the conference standings, but battled their way through the national regionals to claim a spot in the college world series. Although the Pioneers are without a national title, Post certainly has the edge over UCSD in terms of experience in the postseason. The Pioneers have advanced to the NCAA regionals every year since 2002 and were crowned the East Region Champions in both the 2007 and 2008 seasons.

In contrast, the Tritons began their season as dark horse contenders, picked to finish fifth in the CCAA by a survey taken by the conference’s coaches at the start of the season. But the Tritons shook up the conference after finishing as CCAA regular season champions and finalists in the conference tournament. With very

little experience at the national level, the Tritons have only qualified for Regionals four times in the past nine years, making early exits in all occasions. The Tritons will be making their first ever appearance at the college world series.

But this year’s squad promises to give perennial powerhouse Post a run for its money. The Tritons boast arguably the best pitcher in the nation in junior Camille Gaito (31-4). Gaito has a .66 ERA (the second lowest in the nation), holds the school record for most wins in a season and was named to the Division II AllRegion First Team. Gaito has pitched in every inning since the start of the NCAA tournament, and has struck out 32 batters in 39 innings.

But Gaito will have her work cut out for her against the Pioneers’ Nicole Hagenah. The

freshman is batting .465 and has knocked in 60 runs on 72 hits for a slugging percentage of .787.

If there’s one thing the Tritons have going for them, it’s manufacturing seventh inning runs.

UCSD has won four of its past five NCAA tournament games in its final turn at the plate, and it’s likely the trend will continue into the double elimination national tournament.

The winner of the matchup will face the winner of the game between Saginaw Valley and Minnesota State-Mankato, to be played on Friday, May 27 at 1 p.m. The loser will be relegated to the loser’s bracket for a game on Saturday, May 28 at 9 a.m.

Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ucsd. edu.