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Academic Senate Votes to Divest from Fossil Fuels UCSD is now the second campus to call for an end to the UC system’s investment in fossil fuel companies.

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WHILE STATE FUNDING PER STUDENT HAS DROPPED

BY MORE THAN HALF SINCE 2001, STUDENT TUITION HAS MORE THAN DOUBLED. BUT ARE STUDENTS AWARE OF HOW THE UNIVERSITY GETS ITS FUNDING? THE GUARDIAN INVESTIGATES.

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University to Permanently Close Campus Art Gallery

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CSD will permanently close the University Art Gallery this summer and convert it into a classroom, which will make UCSD the only UC campus without an official art gallery. Executive Vice Chancellor Suresh Subramani and Division of Arts and Humanities Dean Cristina Della Coletta made the announcement in a May 20 press release, citing the need for more classroom space as the student body continues to grow.

“Proposals to fund the gallery have been put forward recently, but the university must evaluate these options in the context of other pressing needs,” the release stated. We will add approximately 1,300 students in 2016-17, and UC San Diego has a mandate to further increase enrollments in the two years that follow. Such increases impact our spatial needs on campus — more students need more classroom space. Although new classrooms are planned to come online over the next few years, the immediate need means we must repurpose existing space. The gallery space is among those sites that will serve UC San Diego students as classrooms in the near term.”

The Collective Magpie — comprised of artists and UCSD graduates Tae Hwang and MR Barnadas — are hosting a “shared gesture” at the UAG until June 2nd titled “Dispossessed: A Call to Prayer and Protest” to raise awareness about its closure, which they described as “devaluing the arts and disavowing, disrupting, and obscuring its rich artistic legacy.” The exhibit includes an

news editor “X” spray-painted across the gallery’s front door — “the cautioning mark placed on buildings indicating hazardous interiors,” according to the Facebook event page.

Furthermore, items collected from around campus will be placed inside the gallery after being “processed and marked with red ink with the dates of the gallery’s inception and closure.” Other artists will also be performing and installing their own pieces throughout the duration of the show.

Hwang spoke with the UCSD Guardian about the purpose of the exhibit, which she hopes will raise awareness regarding the closing of the space.

“We wanted this exhibition to serve as a platform,” Hwang said. “We’re using this space as a call to action, to bring attention to the art gallery’s closing. I don’t know if it’s going to change anything … [but] I at least think it is good to have some type of visibility.”

Visual arts professor Ricardo Dominguez lamented the loss of the UAG, saying that it diminishes the importance of studies not related to science and technology on campus.

“It creates an atmosphere in which the university can question the importance of the arts and humanities,” Dominguez said. “This atmosphere then allows the university to start considering the arts and humanities as not part of the conversation.”

Co-director of the UAG Farshid Bazmandegan told the Guardian that the gallery’s impending closure has tarnished

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Elections Committee Extends Referendum Vote The added day compensates for the loss of the first day of voting due to technical difficulties.

BY JOSH LEFLER

UCSD A.S. Elections Committee extended the voting period for the Division-I referendum this week due to technical difficulties. The vote, originally scheduled to end last Friday, will open one last time today starting at 10 a.m. and will close at 11:59 p.m.

According to A.S. Elections Manager Claire Maniti, the reason for the extension was that the server used to track votes had suffered a complication, causing it

to go down last Monday.

“We lost the first day of voting due to a major issue with a campus server, which affected multiple departments on campus including our Financial Aid Office,” Maniti told the UCSD Guardian.

Maniti added that the Elections Committee made the decision to open up the polls once more to ensure that students have five academic days to vote, as was originally planned.

“The fairest way to move forward with extending the deadline is to give the full Monday in order to decide

whether or not the campus should move to increase the ICA Activity Fee to move to Division I,” Maniti said.

The referendum vote will decide if UCSD will implement a quarterly fee increase that in three years will level out at $289.38 — $160 more than it is currently — in order to qualify for Division-I athletics.

Maniti said that the results will be announced on Tuesday morning, following a final grievance hearing starting at 7 a.m. josh Lefler

UCSD’s Academic Senate passed a resolution on May 17 urging the UC Board of Regents to divest from companies “whose primary business concerns the extraction and sale of fossil fuels.” This makes UCSD the second UC campus, following UC Santa Barbara, to pass a resolution of this kind.

UCSD professor of neuroscience and a leader of the Fossil Free UC campaign Eric Halgren told the UCSD Guardian that the primary motivation for passing this resolution is the negative impact that burning fossil fuels has on the environment.

“The carbon we are dumping into the atmosphere will remain there for hundreds of years,” Halgren told the UCSD Guardian. “About 80% of the [carbon-based fuel sources] in the ground will have to stay there, or cities home to hundreds of millions of people will be underwater, literally millions of species will go extinct, and billions of people will be exposed to extreme weather events including faminecreating droughts and devastating hurricanes and flooding.”

Halgren added that as a result of the growing awareness of the causes and effects of climate change, the value of fossil fuel stocks are decreasing, causing investors to lose money.

“Eventually, these stocks will lose their value, as coal stocks already have, and the University of California’s investments in them will become close to worthless,” Halgren said. “[For example] the other California state retirement investment funds lost around $840 million when they sold their coal stocks, and have lost about $5.1 billion on fossil fuel stocks overall.”

The money from these investments supports the retirement pensions of UC employees as well as the endowments that pay for many scholarships, among other things.

UCSD psychology professor Adam Aron, another leader of the Fossil Free UC campaign, explained that in order to convince the UC Regents to stop investing in fossil fuel companies, more action must be taken by all of the UC schools.

“It’s not a question of UCSD investments, but of UC investments,” Aron explained to the Guardian. “[The UC system] is very unlikely to divest just because faculty at UCSB and UCSD [and UCSC] voted yes on this, but if most or all schools do, then that increases the likelihood.”

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Researchers from UCSD’s department of ophthalmology announced a puzzling discovery in a Winter 2013 issue of the Retinal Cases and Brief Reports journal. At age 11, a girl from Vietnam reported decreased vision in her left eye, a condition she had developed from a severe fever at age four. Doctors examining the interior of her eye found a golden lesion in her fovea, a depression in the retina where vision is clearest. Something had burrowed into her eye. After monitoring the young woman for 13 years, researchers narrowed the diagnosis down to three possible parasitic infestations: ophthalmomyiasis from a botfly, Gnathostoma or Angiostrongylus.

While images of the former two — maggots and worms nestled in the back of the eye, respectively — aren’t entirely pleasant, the latter can have far more devastating consequences.

Angiostrongylus, more commonly known as Rat Lungworm Disease, is caused by a parasitic nematode, or roundworm, carried by certain slugs and snails. While people throughout the world have been infected with the

parasite, the majority of cases occur in Asia and the Pacific Islands. Many known hosts of the nematode are common in the U.S., and scientists have detected the parasite in Louisiana, Florida and Hawaii. While it hasn’t been found in California yet, it could easily be introduced if these hosts are accidentally shipped here from infected areas.

The lifestyle of the parasite consists of three stages and requires two hosts.

In the first stage, nematode larvae infect slugs and snails; once inside these intermediate hosts, the worms enter the second stage and shed their protective shells twice. After both molt, the larvae reach their third developmental stage, at which they become infective. When the slugs and snails are eaten, typically by rats, the infective roundworms then burrow their way to the brain where they mature. They then travel to the pulmonary artery, which carries blood from the heart to the lungs, where the parasites then become sexually active and lay eggs. The eggs eventually hatch, and when these newborn, firststage larvae exit the rat through its feces, the cycle starts over.

Human infection is thus incidental — though they are affected by the parasite, they can’t transmit it. Because the worm’s reproductive cycle isn’t adapted to humans, the worms don’t know where to migrate once they have entered a person’s body. Those that don’t reach the brain end up wandering, causing hemorrhaging as they burrow through tissues. To the misfortune of the young woman from Vietnam, the parasites may have wandered all the way to the eye.

But as gruesome as an eyeresiding worm might sound, the woman may have survived a potentially fatal infection. Many of the nematodes do make it to the brain as they do in rats, but die once they get there because they lack any mechanism of escaping the brain lining. When they try to enter the bloodstream to complete their life cycle, they get caught in this lining and die, causing the tissue to swell and press up against the brain.

The resulting symptoms are those of eosinophilic meningitis, a dangerous and often deadly infection marked by a stiff neck, nausea, vomiting and

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severe headaches.

As drastic as the disease is, however, it’s often difficult to diagnose because there are no available blood tests and treatments are virtually nonexistent.

Consequently, the best way to survive the disease is to avoid contracting the parasite in the first place. This can be done by avoiding the consumption of undercooked mollusks and certain crustaceans in infected areas. Slugs and snails have the habit of leaving trails of shiny slime over greens — whether these slime trails actually transmit the parasite is contended, but washing raw vegetables before consumption is a safe precaution.

In recent years, the disease has become one of particular concern in Hawaii, with 38 of 42 reported U.S. cases occurring in the island state.

This past February, Hawaiian Senate committees cleared a proposed bill that would work to protect citizens from contracting the entirely preventable disease. The bill would contribute $1.4 million to rat lungworm research at the University of Hawaii at Hilo in an effort to develop treatments and prevent the disease from spreading.

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what should have been a celebratory year as the 50th anniversary of the gallery’s opening.

Prior to Subramani and Della Coletta’s announcement, the university had put the gallery on indefinite hold last summer until reopening on May 5 for the undergraduate art show titled “Meeting at Square One.” According to Bazmandegan, over 500 people attended the show.

Chair of the visual arts department Jack Greenstein told the Guardian that he had been coordinating next year’s shows when his superiors began to signal that the UAG was closing.

“I had been planning and working with people putting together a series of shows for next year, which we were going to ask for permission to hold, and I was discouraged from asking for

that permission,” Greenstein stated.

University administrators did, however, approve his proposal to extend the duration of the undergraduate show to the end of the quarter. But by the time they did so, the art pieces had already been uninstalled from the gallery.

“While it was open, we were presented with the opportunity to move the MFA show to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego on Kettner St,” Greenstein said. “This seemed like an extremely good opportunity, and after consulting with some of the other faculty, we decided to go ahead and do that.”

The Facebook event page added that the visual arts department will continue to resist the closure of such spaces pertaining to its studies. jacky to

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UC Santa Cruz faculty also passed a resolution on May 18 requesting the Regents to stop investing in fossil fuel companies.

In 2013, Associated Students at all eight UC campuses passed similar resolutions and petitioned the UC Regents to divest from fossil fuels, but the UC Office of the President rejected the petition, calling it too restrictive.

Muir College junior Mukta Kelkar, who serves as the co-director of the UCSD Student Sustainability Collective, argued that students are indirectly supporting the fossil fuel investment because some of the money that is invested into the companies comes from our tuition.

“UCSD students pay tuition and fees that then go into an endowment fund governed by the UC Regents,

who then invest that money,” Kelkar says. “When the University of California divests from fossil fuels, the tuition and fees students pay will no longer be invested in companies that are destroying our planet.”

Senior Erin McMullen, who also serves as co-director of the SSC, added that the money we currently invest in fossil fuel companies can be redirected towards renewable energy companies.

Students who are interested in supporting this initiative can sign the petition at www.fossilfreeucsd. org or like the Fossil Free UCSD Facebook page. They can also attend Student Sustainability Collective meetings at the Sustainability Resource Center next to Price Center Theater.

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SAFETY OVER REVENUE: The Blasphemy in banning raves

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Despite issues of high arrest rates, inadequate security and drug overdoses, the bans on raves proposed within San Bernandino County and passed in Los Angeles County fail to address the urgent and high-priority issue of safety.

Since the 1980s, raves have offered teenagers and young adults an alternative place to expand their minds through electronic dance music, dancing, and recreational drug use. Although many attendees will note that a large majority of those attending these events are sober, many guests, especially young adults, will consume MDMA, methamphetamines, and other psychoactive drugs while at raves.

Over the last three years, four people have died of drug overdoses while attending the Live Nation Events, Beyond Wonderland and Nocturnal Wonderland held at the San Manuel Amphitheater in San Bernardino County. Citizens within San Bernardino have pushed officials since 2013 to restrict the amount of these events taking place within county borders, citing increasing drug use, hospital visits, and deaths. A similar measure to ban raves outright was overturned in Los Angeles County after the deaths of two teenage girls at the Hard Summer event at the Pomona fairgrounds in August 2015. It is the county and event promoter’s responsibility to ensure the safety of attendees, but when safety comes at the expense of losing out on a multi-million dollar contract, things become a bit messier for city officials. The security of those attending these events should be county officials’ main concern, not a loss of revenue.

Nocturnal Wonderland and Beyond Wonderland are two of the largest raves in the country, with Nocturnal Wonderland attracting over 85,000 people (over three times the undergraduate population of UCSD). Boasting artists like Afrojack, David Guetta, and Calvin Harris, attendees will pay upwards of $200 for a single weekend of

fun. Citizens living near the amphitheatre have complained about the presence of the raves since San Bernardino County and Live Nation reached a deal in 2013. Excessive noise that shakes their windows, disturbs their animals and the frequent urination and defecation of their properties by rave goers are frequent complaints.

San Bernardino County Supervisor Janice Rutherford is behind the proposed ban and noted that that the residents are overwhelmed by the amount of noise into late hours of the night, and that it is “impeding their lives.”

Beyond just the noise complaints from neighbors, community members have called for county officials implement tighter security measures at the events. At the Beyond Wonderland two day event in March 2015, over 300 people were arrested for offenses including public intoxication, trespassing, and the possession of Ecstasy for sale. Thirty-two people were taken to nearby hospitals, and a twenty-two year old University of California, Irvine student died of an Ecstasy overdose. Since 2006, there have been at least twenty-three confirmed drug-related deaths nationwide of people attending raves. Within that number, eleven were in Southern California, with seven occuring in LA county properties and four happening on San Bernardino owned property. Obviously, something needs to be changed.

Although security has been amped up among the festival sites, the lack of a standard of safety across all raves happening within county or state borders is a serious problem. A minimum age limit

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Through Whitening Filters, Snapchat Promotes Eurocentric Beauty Standards

BY NUNNAPAT RATANAVANH // CONTRIBUTING WRITER Concerns have been raised about Snapchat’s recent “beautifying” filters.

For example, filters such as the flower crown don’t merely apply a flower crown upon the user’s head, but also smooth out and change facial features. In particular, they lighten skin, make eyes larger and noses narrower. With as many as 23 percent of Snapchat’s users being between 13 to 17 years old, there is a risk that this kind of altered image can lead to lowered self-esteem and more body image issues. Much criticism has also been directed toward Snapchat’s Bob Marley filter as a form of “digital blackface.” Its release on April 20 has also been criticised for playing into racial stereotypes; Snapchat has responded that it intended no disrespect by its filter. Snapchat has not, however, responded to any of the criticism about its beautifying filters.

The app service should both remove them and think more carefully about the impact of its filters before designing and releasing new ones in the future.

Apart from reinforcing a singular image of beauty, of unblemished skin and of defined facial features — one already so toxically prevalent in the media — these manipulations have also been criticized for reinforcing the idea of beauty as white and

Eurocentric. On social media platforms like Twitter, many people of color have spoken out about how significantly white they look under Snapchat’s filters — sometimes almost uncannily so. One user tweeted: “very disturbed by the fact that your “beautification” filters make my skin lighter and my nose and jaw smaller.”

Whitewashing is already ingrained in American society in many ways, including Caucasian actors being

even going as far as to elongate legs and body proportions. Many cosmetics, like lotion, makeup and even deodorant, are marketed in Asian countries as “whitening”; this extends to whitening clinics and skin treatments. In all of these examples, a singular image of beauty is very clear. Though some features, like enlarged eyes, may be seen as distinctly Caucasian features, pale and unblemished skin

In an effort to reject or, at least, refrain from promoting white and Eurocentric beauty standards, Snapchat should remove these filters and in the future think more critically about the possible implications of the filters they create and release. cast in Asian roles. Emma Stone was recently cast in a half-Asian role for the movie “Aloha,” which is set in Hawaii. Beyond that, the rest of the supporting cast is entirely Caucasian.

Turning to look at the ideal beauty type in some Asian countries, filters on Korea’s LINE app, like “Baby” and “Healthy,” also whiten and smooth skin. “Purikura” photo booths in Japan are also popular among teenagers and automatically retouch photos so that skin is whiter and eyes are larger,

has always been an ideal in many Asian countries.

Even though the case in Asia is less related to race and whitewashing, it is useful to look at evidence of how these kinds of photo retouching and filtering can reinforce both conscious and subconscious effects on our ideas of “beauty.” The skincare market in China is worth over U.S. $5.5 billion, and in India, the market for skin-whitening cosmetics is worth over $432 million. Most users

may take Purikura and LINE as lighthearted fun, but as evidenced by how much money is made off of cosmetics and treatments that effectively sell this ideal, it is clear that regardless of the intentions of the creators of the photobooths and apps and what the users think, these filters ultimately have a large impact in perpetuating certain ideals and expectations of beauty.

So, whether well-intentioned or not, “beautifying” filters ultimately do perpetuate a certain image of beauty with a very big impact, and in Snapchat’s case, beauty is portrayed as being white.

Snapchat is not unique in being the only digital beautifying app, and this phenomenon is not limited to the United States. No matter what the intentions behind Snapchat’s “beautifying” filters are, the criticism against the company is very valid. And as evidenced by the whitening ideals in many Asian countries, they have very real effects of subconsciously perpetuating a certain idea of beauty. In an effort to reject or, at least, refrain from promoting Eurocentric beauty standards, Snapchat should remove these filters and in the future, think more critically about the possible implications of the filters it creates and releases.

NUNNAPAT RATANAVANH

As a postdoctoral researcher, I’m used to encountering challenges in RNA biology, but I never imagined an administrative issue — short appointments — would create so many challenges for my research.

University of California postdocs make valuable contributions in discovery and dollars — we publish thousands of papers each year, help bring in nearly $6 billion in research grants and contracts, and drive innovation and economic growth within the UC system.

After four years of research, I’m getting close to publishing the paper that represents the culmination of my work as a postdoc — an in-depth study of RNA binding proteins. Having too many or not enough of these proteins can make people sick and cause diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes and cancer.

My research is highly technical and, as is the case for most postdocs, it has taken years to produce. It’s a commitment to say the least and knowing how important the contribution will be is part of what keeps me going. The large data set I’m creating will benefit researchers anywhere who are trying to understand and cure neurodegenerative diseases.

Despite our lengthy research projects, each postdoc’s initial appointment is only required to be a minimum of one year in length. For me, and for the majority of postdocs, that means multiple appointments are required to complete research.

Further complicating that process, the University holds sole discretion over whether or not to re-appoint a postdoc to their research position.

Since I arrived here from Belgium, most of my contract extensions have been for only six months at a time (and I am aware of postdocs who have received even shorter appointments).

These short appointments caused an incredible amount of stress — about whether I could finish my research, maintain my relationships and even whether I could sign a lease for an apartment.

Better job security in the form of longer appointments is good for science. Longer appointments enable postdocs to work on their research uninterrupted by having to get a new appointment every few months. Not to mention, it’s hard to focus on abstract or complex material when consumed by basic survival anxieties.

And, the reappointment process doesn’t just create stress for postdocs.

It’s also an administrative nightmare for UC, which processes paperwork for 2,100 reappointments each year.

Studies show postdocs with more job security publish 20 percent more papers, produce twice as many patents and win more academic prizes.

Postdocs with better job security can also take on riskier research endeavors, and as a result, are three times as likely to produce research that significantly impacts public policy.

And we know increased job security is linked with better worker health and well-being, safer workplaces, and better work-life balance.

I sought out the University of California system for the opportunity to work with world-class faculty in world-renowned facilities but UC’s policies on appointments for postdocs are harming research. By guaranteeing longer appointments, UC can improve job security for postdocs, add value to our research potential and invest in better research outcomes for the UC.

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is set on a case by case basis, not a universal requirement. Until 2013 when a fifteen year old died of an overdose at the Electric Daisy Carnival event at the LA Coliseum, sixteen and over was the common age requirement for most raves.

Despite the presence of drug sniffing dogs and safe surrender bins at rave entrances, people are still doing drugs at an alarming rate while at these events.

The question is a matter between

the county’s responsibility to ensure the safety of those attending events on public property and the revenue they receive from hosting the same events. Live Nation, and their subsidiary company, Insomniac Events, are the largest rave promoters in the United States, leading a billion dollar business. Although the exact details of their contracts with LA county and San Bernardino county are unknown, it is estimated that both benefit substantially from their deals to host raves on county property. If Janice Rutherford and

San Bernardino citizens get their way, the county looks to lose out on a considerable amount of money.

Banning raves from San Bernardino county will not solve the drug problem and high arrest rates associated with these events. Banning raves from one county will just ensure that promoters will take their events to other cities and counties across the country, bringing the same problems.

With larger counties proposing ordinances that prohibit raves, promoters will be forced to take their events into smaller and more desolate

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areas. The safety of those attending these events should be of the utmost importance rather than where raves are banned; this should take priority over city revenue or noise complaints.

It is only when safety and security measures are reconsidered and put in place that raves will be beneficial for the county, community, and ravers.

After all, raves were built upon the principles of P.L.U.R. — Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect.

MEGAN MONGES

Your May 11th editorial foolishly called on the university to prevent Greek students from receiving campus-sponsored scholarships because fraternities and sororities discriminate on the basis of sex. Your call to action is unconstitutional at a public university like UC San Diego.

The First Amendment prohibits state actors like UCSD from punishing a student based on the people or groups that a student associates with. Just like the university can’t revoke scholarships from members of the Guardian or the Koala, it can’t withhold scholarships from students who choose to join a fraternity or sorority. Students are allowed to join discriminatory groups, and the university cannot punish them for it in any way, not even by withholding scholarship eligibility. The course of action you recommended is literally against the law — and for good reason. If the university had the power to withhold scholarships from students in blacklisted clubs, fewer students would join ANY clubs, since any club with any membership criteria could eventually end up on the blacklist. By your standards, all Mormon or Catholic students would be barred from scholarship eligibility since they joined groups with sexdiscriminatory policies: Only males can hold the priesthood in either church.

This was the second editorial in a row where the Guardian demonstrates a callous misunderstanding of how free speech works in the United States. The same First Amendment that allows the Guardian to ask the school to do unconstitutional things also prevents UCSD from punishing students who join unpopular groups.

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Out of our wallets: Where the university Gets its Funding Everyone knows UC tuition rates are high, as students pay more and the state pays less. But how aware are students of where the university gets its money? And is the university taking any steps to alleviate this problem? The UCSD Guardian sets out to investigate.

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student expenditures from 2001 to today. Although not all were directly on the mark, about three-quarters of those surveyed were within a close 10-percent range.

In response to increasing student tuition and discontent with the state’s educational policy among members of the UC, UC President Janet Napolitano and Gov. Jerry Brown came to an agreement in May of last year. The agreement reflected Brown’s budget proposal, including an annual 4 percent increase in state funding over the course of four years and a three-year infusion of $436 million into the UC pension system. It also guaranteed a freeze of in-state undergraduate tuition for the next two years.

Source: The Daily Californian, May 14, 2015

Are students aware of how the university gets its funding? The Guardian issued a survey, here are the results: What percentage of UCSD’s budget do you think is being spent on the medical centers?

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Correct Answer: 30%-39%

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hen the 2008 financial crisis hit, many students became at least slightly more frugal than they had been before. The same can be said about the state of California when it comes to funding, but the decline in funding precedes 2008. From 1990–2013, per student expenditures provided by the state dropped by 58.7 percent in total, hitting the UC system hard. By 2013, the UC system relied on the same absolute level of funding it did in 1997–1998, even though it oversaw many additional programs, one additional campus and 73,000 more students.

The three years following the 2008 economic crisis influenced the response of the UC Board of Regents and individual UC campuses alike. Academic and administrative units were assigned cuts ranging from 6 to 35 percent. The eliminated or consolidated programs saved the UC system $155 million. This resulted in a total of 3,618 layoffs and 3,700 positions remaining unfilled or being eliminated altogether. Moreover, over the next four years UC enrollment was reduced by 8,000–10,000 students while student tuition and fees increased.

In 2001, student tuition and fees accounted for only about 18.8 percent of expenditures per student while state general funds accounted for 72 percent. But today, according to the University of California’s 2016–17 Budget for Current Operations and Three-Year Financial Sustainability Plan, this gap has been significantly narrowed over the past 15 years, as student tuition and fees account for 46.3 percent while state general funds account for only 39.26 percent.

For the 2015–2016 school year, how much more do you estimate out of state students are paying annually compared to in-state students?

Correct Answer: $20,000-$29,999

Across the UC System, Student Expenditures are divided between Student Tuition/Fees, UC General Funds and State General Funds. In 2001, Student Tuition/Fees accounted for about 18.8 percent while State General funds accounted for 72 percent. Today, what percentage do you believe students are paying?

Source: University of California 2016-17 Budget for Current Operations and Three-Year Financial Sustainability Plan

In other words, students and their families have to provide for a much larger portion of the costs of their education. An increase in student fees is largely due to the loss in state fees for the past 15 years. The financial burden today lies heavily on students and their families.

In order to see if students were feeling the impact, the UCSD Guardian anonymously surveyed 82 students and asked them to estimate the change in percentage of state versus

Correct Answer: 45%-49%

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The $800 million total from out-of-state tuition, allows the UC to accept top 12.5 percent of CA high school students

The agreement looked promising, but it also had some downsides. After two years of frozen tuition, potential increases, pegged to inflation, would begin in the 2017–2018 school year in order to ensure financial stability throughout the UC system. Although resident tuition would remain constant for two years, nonresident supplemental tuition could increase up by 8 percent per year. But both in-state and out-of-state would see a 5 percent annual increase in student service fees beginning during the 2015–2016 academic year. The fees, approximately $48 per student, would go toward mental health services.

In November 2015, the UC executive and associate vice presidents released a 2016–2017 Budget for Current Operations and Three-Year Financial Sustainability Plan. Among many projections is a key difference that will benefit students; the 4-percent increase in state funding to the UC base budget has been extended to the 2018–2019 school year, amounting to over $500 million over the next four years. The rest of the agreement mentioned between Napolitano and Brown regarding UC Tuition and Fees was almost entirely reiterated by the UC Financial Sustainability

Plan, including an up to 8 percent increase in supplemental nonresident tuition.

In order to fill the gap resulting from one billion dollars in state funding cuts, one third of the UC core educational budget, the UC system has consistently looked to admit more nonresidents.

Undergraduate California residents still make up approximately 85 percent of those admitted, but the remaining 15 percent of nonresidents pay a lot more in tuition and fees and continue to ensure the UC system’s fiscal stability.

At UCSD specifically, out-of-state students paid about $24,708 more in tuition and fees than in-state students for the 2015–2016 academic year. When the Guardian surveyed the same sample of UCSD students, however, only about 47 percent believed that out-of-state students pay an extra $20,000–$30,000 per year, while 31 percent believed out-of-state students were paying between $10,000 to $20,000 per year. Moreover, 7 percent of students surveyed believed nonresidents were only paying between $1,000–$10,000 more per year.

The discrepancy between what students think nonresident tuition costs and what it actually costs is

quite large.

“The lack of student awareness is probably a result of students’ apathy,” Fourth year ERC student Anjleena Sahni told the Guardian.

“The university publishes its budget and tuition prices every year, as it is required to do. It’s unfortunate that a public university has become so expensive, and as a result inaccessible. It’s even more unfortunate that students are unaware of these rising costs.”

To put it in perspective, the amount of money UC generates annually from extra out of state tuition as a whole is $800M, which parallels the cost of educating 80,000 California resident students.

Consequently, this allows the UC to admit the top 12.5 percent of California high school students who apply, and fulfill one of its many obligations.

The state budget cuts have ultimately forced the UC, amongst many public agencies, to make difficult fiscal decisions. In addition to cutting costs and generating savings, the state had the choice to increase in-state tuition by an additional $2,000 per student, reduce California enrollment altogether or add nonresidents. The UC Board of

What percentage do you think the state is paying?

Correct Answer: 35%-39%

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Regents ultimately chose the latter.

“Public universities receive funding from the state, and so state taxes subsidize the tuition fees of in-state students,” Sahni told the Guardian. “Of course, especially from a political standpoint, it would be impossible to justify the use of California state taxes to pay for the education of out of state students. A $25,000 difference seems excessive, especially when our tuition fees comprise only a small part of the university budget.

However, it’s much easier to justify and raise out of state tuition.”

Even though out-of-state enrollment has increased, there have been plans to increase in-state enrollment as well. One of the key promises of the 2015 Budget Act was an increase of $25 million in state funding beginning in 2015–2016, contingent upon the UC showing that it will enroll 5,000 more California undergraduates by 2016– 2017 (over the 2014–2015 base). It was noted that by May 2016, the UC system would have demonstrated sufficient action to accomplish this goal, and if they did, the Department of Finance would release the $25 million at that time.

The UC Office of the President released information that showed

an increase of 8,488 undergraduate freshman students admitted to the UC system for Fall Quarter 2016. The data also showed a total of 66,123 admissions offers, a 14.7 percent increase from 2015, demonstrating that the UC system is not only on track to enroll an additional 5,000 California undergraduates in 2016, but with continued state funding, 5,000 more undergraduates over the next couple years.

With the $25 million now at their disposal, the UC system has made efforts to enroll many more in-state students, as admissions offers to California high school seniors increased almost 15 percent over the last year for students hoping to enroll in the UC system this fall.

It appears that there has been some progress in funding for the UC system as a whole, but the issue of high tuition remains for both nonresidents and residents.

Students seem to be very aware that tuition is expensive, but less in tune with why and how their money is being spent.

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How much do you think you are paying in student fees quarterly?

Correct Answer: $700-$799

Professor Geoffrey W. Cook: Just Call Me Geoff

n the first day of SIO 50, Introduction to Earth Sciences, professor Geoffrey W. Cook asked the students to call him Geoff. Geoff is one of the few “teaching professors” at UCSD, meaning his research is in both pedagogy and explosive volcanology, but not at the same time. His position as instructor first rather than “rock-star researcher publishing 10 papers a year” lets him focus on his students.

Geoff has been teaching since graduate school. He seems just as relaxed in his office plastered with photos of his wife and daughter as he is in front a class of eager students.

“I used to have some — not extensive — anxiety, but anxiety [about public speaking],” Geoff said. “But when I first started teaching when I was a graduate student it seemed totally natural. There was some apprehension but when you love what you are talking about it is really easy.”

While working on his master’s degree, Geoff met his wife, Heather, who was an undergraduate studying volcanology. The pair represent two ends of the volcanic spectrum; she likes passive eruptions and he enjoys explosive volcanism.

“It’s hard to get jobs together if you are in the same area, so if she had finished her Ph.D in volcanology I don’t know what would have happened,” Geoff said. “She really made a sacrifice for us. To be fair she could have been way better at [research] than me, she is unbelievable at school and an phenomenal researcher, but she didn’t love it.”

While his wife worked on her master’s degree in education, Geoff started his Ph.D at Washington State University, where he studied Valles Caldera, a supervolcano in New Mexico. But it took him a while.

“I spent way more time on my TA work than my research,” Geoff said. “I always had TAs through my masters and Ph.D and I loved it. I felt like I was really good at it so I was more motivated to do that then go in the lab and do research ... My advisor always said ‘you are not a bad researcher, you are just slow.’”

Before even finishing his Ph.D, Geoff left to teach at University of Rhode Island. There,

he shared a office with his wife and together they taught geology. While Geoff was looking for permanent positions, UCSD offered a full-time teaching position that focused on students, not on research. He turned to his wife and said, “Heather, that’s me.” He came for an interview at SIO and witnessed a common practice, the graduate students surfing at lunch. When he called his wife back in the 28-degree weather of Rhode Island, she said, “you need to get this job.” Obviously, he did.

By teaching the introductory earth-science course at UCSD, Geoff aims to instill students with a mindfulness for the environment and a healthy respect for hazardous phenomenons like as volcanoes and earthquakes. Geoff tries to live his life in a way that is least impactful on the environment, but he encourages students to try, in any way possible, to be conscious of energy and sustainability issues.

“I want to empower students,” Geoff said. “Even the smallest changes can have an impact, it may sound trite but it’s true ...Too many of us, myself included, forget that there are major issues and we all have to be great stewards of the environment.”

He does this, not only because he loves the subject matter, but because of his 3-year-old daughter.

“People say ‘save the Earth,’ but the Earth will be OK because of tectonic processes,” Geoff said. “We really are saving ourselves and our families. It is unethical and illogical to pass on a worse situation to the next generation.”

At UCSD, Geoff has the opportunity to reach and empower more students than ever, but it is far from what he imagined.

“I never thought I would end up at an R1 research institution,” Geoff said. “I have a very unique position and there are not a lot of positions like this out there compared with the number of people who want them. I am super lucky because I get to do exactly what I want to do.”

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UCSD’s overall .638 win percentage can be attributed to its high-powered offense. The Tritons were third place in runs scored with 277, 62 of them coming in an eightgame win streak. UCSD also finished second in stolen bases with 132, one away from tying Humboldt State.

Star athlete and sophomore outfielder Kelsi Maday led the Tritons in almost every batting category. After being ranked sixth overall in hitting with a .368 batting average, Maday was given All-West Region honors along with rising star freshman infielder Maddy Lewis.

Lewis was ranked 12th overall in the conference and led the Tritons in triples with four. She was also named the CCAA Freshman of the Year and was one of the finalists for the Schutt Sports Freshman of the Year.

Of course, UCSD’s success can’t be credited to offense alone. Throughout the season, the Tritons’ defense only allowed 197 runs. It led the league in fielding percentage at .970 and had the second-fewest errors with 54.

Senior pitcher Lexi Edwards finished fifth overall in pitching. Not only did Edwards go 16–9 during the season, but she also led the conference in saves with eight.

The Tritons and head coach Patti Gerckens will look to improve during the 2017 season. Key players such as Maday and Lewis will return and hope to repeat the CCAA Tournament.

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Tritons Fall To Northwest Missouri State University to End Season UCSD is defeated 5–4 in the NCAA’s, season ends in the Sweet Sixteen.

BY DANIEL HERNANDEZ

SENIOR Fresh off of a comfortable 5–1 win against Azusa Pacific University, the UCSD men’s tennis team traveled to Denver, Colorado on Wednesday to take on No. 12 Northwest Missouri State University in the 16th round of the NCAA Championships. The contest provided a late-night spectacle as Northwest did just enough to edge UCSD to a 5–4 margin to advance to the Elite Eight.

The Tritons finished the season with an overall record of 14–10.

In a back-and-forth day of action, UCSD had the early 2–1 lead after coming out on top in two of the three doubles matches. However, the script flipped when singles play began as Northwest dominated in the first three encounters and took a 4–2 lead going into the final three matches of the day. In a final push, the Tritons found themselves back in contention to win after back-to-back victories to even the score at 4–4. Unfortunately, the comeback was not completed in the final and deciding match as Northwest took a three-set victory to clinch its spot in the next round.

The final match featured a No. 5 singles matchup of Triton senior Horea Porutiu against junior Fin Glowick. With Glowick taking the first set 6–3, Porutiu responded wonderfully with a comfortable 6–2 win to take the second set. In the deciding set, with the season on the line, Glowick narrowly took the victory 7–5.

Sophomore Eric Tseng and junior Alexandre Miaule gave hope for a potential comeback in singles play with their impressive victories. No. 1 Tseng began with a shaky start

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to the match, but after letting down in the first set 6–2, he regained composure. The result would be consecutive 7–6 wins to take down his opponent in an exciting match in which Tseng fell behind 3–0 in the final set but found a way to overcome the deficit.

Similar to Tseng, No. 3 Miaule stared at a 6–2 loss in the opening set against sophomore Mauro Tete. What happened next was noteworthy, as Miaule racked up 10 consecutive games, giving himself a 6–0 win in the second set and a 4–0 lead in the final set. Then in an incredible response, facing a 5–2 deficit, Tete found a way to climb himself back into the match and even it out at 6–6. However, Miaule prevailed in the tiebreaker, 8–6, to earn a much-needed victory for the team.

Northwest’s singles victories came at No. 2, No. 4 and No. 6. The strongest Triton duo was Miaule and Porutiu as they ended the season with a 16–6 record, including a 8–6 victory in the No. 1 doubles match.

Thanks to No. 3 doubles pair junior Edvin Larsson and sophomore Justin Zhang, UCSD got its point of the matchup.

The Round of 16 matchup astonishingly concluded at almost 12:30 a.m. due to delays and long matches early on.

UCSD qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2014, while participating in postseason play in 14 of the last 16 years.

Porutiu will be the only Triton member to say goodbye to the program. Throughout three years of play in his Triton career, he finished with a 45-28 (.616) record in singles play and 40–28 (.588) in doubles play.

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2016 Completes A Historic Season For Softball 37 wins and an NCAA appearance written by Anthony Tzeng // Senior Staff Writer

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CSD 2016 softball campaign ended in great success. The Tritons were able to win a total of 37 games, the highest since 2012. UCSD also managed to win 23 conference games and finished fourth in the California Collegiate Athletic Association standings. In the CCAA Tournament, the Tritons toppled projections by beating topseeded Humboldt State and secondseeded Chico State to claim the CCAA title.

The Tritons’ sweep in the CCAA brought them to compete with the best of the best in Azusa, California.

There, they passionately battled in the NCAA West 2 Regions, beating Dixie State University but ultimately succumbing to Azusa Pacific University and Central Washington University. Interestingly enough, the Tritons had already played both Azusa Pacific and CWU prior to Regionals. In the first two games against Azusa Pacific, UCSD won one and lost one. In the Tournament of Champions, the Tritons went on a four-game winning streak, which included beating Central Washington See SOFTBALL, page 11 PHOTOS BY MEGAN LEE /UCSD GUARDIAN

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