VOLUME 48, ISSUE 10
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2014
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CAMPUS
THE 2014 MIDTERM ELECTION
UCSD Ranks Eighteenth in New Global Report The La Jolla Campus is one of five public schools in the top 20, following UC Berkeley, third, and UCLA, eighth. BY Brian Iniguez
staff Writer California Govenror Jerrry Brown is one of several candidates seeking statewide election this year. Read our endorsements of candidates and ballot measures in this year’s voter guide. OpIniON, PAGE 6
A CHALLENGING 52ND
Splat-o-Lantern
A 500-pound, candy-filled pumpken plummeted off the roof of Tioga Hall during the the annual Muir College Pumpkin Drop on Friday, Oct. 31. The splatter left by the pumpkin exceeded the previous record of 100 feet. Photo by Siddarth Atre/Guardian.
UC SYSTEM
Tuition Increase Likely for 2015
Peters, DeMaio keeping close
By meryl Press
Features, Page 4
TRITONS BOW OUT Postseason cut short for Soccer sports, Page 12
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UCSD students should expect tuition to rise between 4 and 5 percent for the next school year, according to a member of the UC Board of Regents. For the past three years, tuition has remained stagnant across the University of California system. However, while tuition was frozen, expenses continued to grow, which led UC Regents Board Member George Kieffer to speculate in an interview with the UCSD Guardian that tuition will likely rise soon. Kieffer said he presumed that the raise would affect both in-state and out-of-state students. “It’s difficult to foresee a healthy future without building tuition in some way,” Kieffer said. “I think we should be prepared to face a sense of reality that tuition cannot be frozen forever, and in the end
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that’s not sustainable [or] a solution.” Kieffer, who has been a Regent since 2009, said he feels tuition increases, when necessary, should not come as a shock to families. “It would be smarter to make these increases smaller and consistent and to provide some planning ability for parents and students, rather than to [make] dramatically larger increases without any advance notice,” he said. The state has slowly withdrawn funding from UC campuses for the past 20 years, which has reduced UCSD’s funding to one-third of the amount it had previously received from the state. Along with this, Gov. Jerry Brown recently vetoed a $50 million funding bill that was aimed at addressing deferred maintenance in UC facilities.
See TUITION, page 3
TRANSPORTATION
Construction Begins on New Parking Structure The garage, planned for east campus, is scheduled to be completed by December 2015. BY Jacky To
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senior staff writer UCSD’s Campus Architect Joel King announced the construction of a new East Campus Parking Structure in an email to university affiliates on Oct. 29. The parking structure will host 1,200 new parking spaces and will be built atop Lot P756. Construction officially began on Nov. 1 and is expected to last until Dec. 1 of next year. Director of Auxiliary Business Services Robert Holden told the UCSD Guardian that UCSD is building the new parking structure to replace the surface lot spaces that are being lost to construction. “All surface lots are designated as building sites,” Holden said. “As buildings are added, the campus loses available parking. This structure is to address the impact of the new buildings that have been built and are being built on East Campus.” Holden told the Guardian that the new structure is being built to
incorporate energy storage and to maximize efficiency. The lighting will be LED, but the design will allow the structure to capture existing light, which will decrease the need for additional light during the day. Though the construction of the new structure will cost $25 million, it was specifically modeled to be selfsufficient. Patient and visitor fees alone will cover the costs, and students fees will not be affected at all. The structure will only replace existing patient, visitor and staff parking. Thus, it will have no impact on student spaces, even during construction. While Lot P756 will be permanently closed for the duration of construction, the university will relocate its “A” and “ADA” parking spaces to Lot P760 and Lot P751, respectively, and Lot P760’s “B” spaces to Lot P783. The construction zone will absorb a row of parking spaces in Lot P703 as well. During construction, UCSD will narrow Health Sciences Drive to two lanes. Flagmen will be present to
keep public traffic from entering the construction staging area and will provide direction to construction vehicles. UCSD is also going to close the sidewalk and stairs on the north side of Health Sciences Drive. Pedestrians, however, will be able to travel on a new staircase located at the intersection of Voigt Drive and Health Sciences Drive which leads to the south side of Health Sciences Drive. Additionally, UCSD will close the sidewalk in front of Lot P756 on the east side of Medical Center Drive, which will require pedestrians to use the west sidewalk along Medical Center Drive. Bicyclists will have to share the road with vehicle traffic as UCSD will remove the dedicated bike lanes. UCSD will relocate the SuperLoop bus stop that is currently on the east side of Medical Center Drive to the north side of Medical Center Drive near the corner of Campus Point Drive.
readers can contact jacky to j6to@ucsd.edu
UCSD has been ranked the 18th best university in the world and the third best University of California school in a new global ranking released by U.S. News & World Report. UCSD was one of only five public US schools ranked in the top 20 schools. UC Berkeley and UCLA were ranked third and eighth, respectively. The report measured a total of 10 weighted factors that contributed to a school’s overall score. Some factors included global and regional research reputation, the number of highly-cited papers, the quality of international collaboration and the number of persons receiving a doctorate from that school. The data collected for the study were based on survey-like responses from participants. According to the U.S. News & World Report website, the main objective was “to create a comprehensive snapshot of academics’ opinions about world universities [and] ha[ve] respondents give their views of the disciplinary programs with which they were familiar.” UCSD scored highly in multiple categories in the national arena and was ranked first in behavioral neuroscience, third in bioengineering, fourth in econometrics, seventh in the biomedical field for schools offering doctorates and eighth for Top Public Universities. This high standing is consistent with other ranked reports as well. The Academic Ranking of World Universities placed UCSD as the 14th best university in the world earlier this year, and the Center for World University Rankings named the university 20th best. “UC San Diego is home to many of the world’s top scholars who are at the forefront of their fields and who are conducting research that is transforming lives,” UCSD Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla said in a statement. “We are very proud of this new ranking that recognizes the strength and talent of our campus members and the impact of our work.” The 2014 release of the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Global Universities Ranking Report is the first for the magazine, and the effect of ranking a school higher in this particular report is difficult to predict. However, new student enrollments have increased 51 percent in the past decade overall. Sixty-six percent of these enrolled students are freshmen, and 34 percent are transfer students.
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