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Magazine recently valued the San Diego Padres at $890 million.

Last year, the Urban Institute estimated San Diego’s sex trafficking economy at $96.6 million, a little more than a tenth of the current estimate.

The sex trafficking economy is largely run and maintained by street gangs. According to the researchers, at least 110 gangs were identified as being involved in the exploitation process, some of them with ties to organizations across the national border.

Carpenter told CBS San Diego she was surprised by the ethnic diversity expressed in the findings, which showed that the ethnicities of perpetrators as well as survivors were split almost evenly between white, black and hispanic.

Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency regarding the dead tree epidemic affecting California on Oct. 30.

Over 22 million trees have died under bark-beetle infestations. Most normal healthy trees have defense mechanisms that prevent bark beetles native to California from drastically infiltrating them, but the state’s four years of drought have weakened these defenses.

The governor described, in a press release on Oct. 30, the present status of California’s nature as “the worst epidemic of tree mortality in [the state’s] modern history” which “demands action on all fronts.”

A.S. Assistant Vice President of Environmental Justice Affairs Moon Pankam told the UCSD Guardian the severe effects of the death of California’s trees could increase the risk of wildfire.

“The dead tree epidemic is very urgent — all of these dead trees are a serious wildfire hazard, and run the risk of fueling wildfires up and down the state,” Pankam said. “Dead trees can also fall over and hurt people and will cause property damage.”

Brown’s declaration included stipulations such as pinpointing highhazard zones for wildfires and falling trees, as well as removing trees in the indicated areas. He also urged state agencies to help the cause and requested the federal government’s assistance through a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.

Such participation may include “technical assistance for private landowners, matching federal funding and expedited approval for emergency actions on federal land,” according to the press release.

According to The Sacramento Bee, Brown indicated that he has plans to require the California Public Utilities Commission to hasten agreements with bioenergy centers employing resources from regions at high risk for beetle infestation, as well as to require a raise in how many days tree waste may be burned.

However, Brown’s orders also include “an exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act for efforts to remove dead or dying trees, alarming some environmentalists.”

With this exemption, the CPUC will no longer force agencies to publicly disclose information on their actions or environmental impact.

In terms of how Californians should respond to the epidemic, Pankam suggested that homeowners find methods to conserve water as best they can.

“Homeowners with dead or dying

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Congressmen Eric Smalwell (CA-15) and Scott Peters (CA-52) spoke with UCSD students during a Town Hall discussion at the Qualcomm Institute Auditorium this past Tuesday. Photo by Kenji Bennett /UCSD Guardian

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acific Arts Movement, the sponsors of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, held a panel at UCSD recognizing BuzzFeed for promoting Asian-American culture.

BuzzFeed staff, Abe Forman Greenwald, Eugene Lee Yang and Mallory Wang, participated in the discussion last Friday moderated by comedian, director and actress Anna Akana.

Artistic Director for the Pacific Arts Movement Brian Hu told the UCSD Guardian that his organization chose UCSD to hold the event because of its well-informed student body.

“UCSD is a hotbed in thinking about the intersections between creativity and media technology, and its students tend to be on the forefront of many of these intersections,” Hu said. “They don’t need to be introduced to topics of race and the Internet, or to the topics raised by BuzzFeed, and so we are able to have more advanced conversations.”

Akana began the panel by asking about the thought process involved in creating videos. Video Producer Eugene Yang explained that the content is based on the passions of the producers.

“Essentially, everyone can be themselves,” Yang

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answered. “[BuzzFeed has] producers who make what they love and what they want to do, and it’s a reflection of their experiences. Some people love corgis, and some love [to discuss] very serious race issues.”

During the presentation, the panel screened one of BuzzFeed’s most-viewed videos, “If Asians Said the Stuff White People Say.” Yang described the video as the first of its kind to tackle racial issues and set the stage for videos involving similar topics.

“That was arguably the first racially-oriented megaviral video,” Yang said. “It was great because it was setting a new precedent for us to explore these types of issues through comedy but also in a way that was really direct and tantalizing.”

Akana commented on the increase of the more culturally focused videos, believing them to gain popularity as a result of audiences relating to the content.

“I’ve seen a lot of racially-charged videos from BuzzFeed going viral all the time,” Akana said. “I think a lot of people who find themselves underrepresented get to see themselves in these videos and relate to them so much.”

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Local Researchers Analyze Sex Trafficking Data According to the study, there are between 8,830 and 11,773 victims in San Diego per year.

BY Josh Lefler

Staff Writer Researchers from the University of San Diego and Point Loma University released the results of a joint case study on San Diego’s underground sex trafficking economy last week.

The study, funded by the National Institute of Justice, claims to have produced the first “credible” estimate of annual sex trafficking victims in San Diego county.

According to USD assistant professor and study co-author Ami Carpenter, her team put effort into avoiding common pitfalls that tend to affect studies of this nature.

“The study was basically designed to address shortcomings in other human trafficking studies,” Carpenter said in an Oct. 27 press release.

“[Shortcomings include the] inability to produce credible estimates, lack of primary data on sex traffickers, overreliance on qualitative methods and small sample sizes.”

The three-year study reports that the number of San Diego sex trafficking victims sits somewhere between 8,830 and 11,773 victims annually.

Researchers gathered testimonies from 1,205 individuals, including gang members and past victims of the local sex-trafficking economy. This value, the researchers purport, makes this study “the largest, most comprehensive human trafficking case studies in the United States to date.”

The study’s findings indicate that the sex trafficking economy is the second-largest underground economy in San Diego and is valued at $810 million. In comparison, Forbes

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The team created individualized kinetic models for 24 healthy subjects using red blood cells, plasma and genotyping.

BY LISA CHIK

Contributing Writer UCSD researchers recently designed a model that uses red blood cells to predict the side effects individual patients will experience in response to specific drugs. The Systems Biology Research Group published its study on Oct. 28 in the journal Cell Systems.

Galletti Professor of Bioengineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering, Adjunct Professor of Medicine and principal investigator Bernhard Palsson explained how side effects are unique to the individual.

“We’re not just interested in predicting the efficacy of a drug, but its side effects as well,” Palsson said to the Jacobs School of Engineering.

“Side effects are very personalized.

Two different people can take the same drug, but one person might experience side effects while the other doesn’t.”

Lead author of the study Aarash Bordbar stated that the side effects of drugs can have an impact on national death rates and the economy.

“Over 100,000 Americans die each year because of drug side effects,” Bordbar told the UCSD Guardian. “It’s an annual $140 billion healthcare issue in the United States.”

The kinetic model determines how different people will respond to a drug treatment through analysis of over 100 metabolite measurements, including sugars and amino acids.

This data is then integrated with a network model, allowing researchers to simulate different conditions.

Personalized whole-cell kinetic models of red blood cell, or erythrocyte, metabolisms were constructed using 24 healthy individuals based on fasting-state plasma, erythrocyte metabolomics and whole-genome genotyping, according to the article in Cell Systems. The model simulations identified inosine triphosphatase deficiency as a genetic variation that may protect against ribavirininduced anemia. With this information, researchers better understand why approximately 8 to 10 percent of patients taking ribavirin, a drug treatment for

Hepatitis C, experience anemia.

Bordbar explained that using red blood cells was logistically convenient for this research as well as in the clinical field.

“We started with the red blood cell because it’s easy to get blood from people,” Bordbar told the Guardian. “If future diagnostics were made, you would want to do a blood test rather than something like a biopsy for cell tissue.”

In addition to creating personalized kinetic models of erythrocytes using metabolomics data, the research concluded that kinetic parameters, rather than metabolite levels, better represent genotypes, and individual differences in dynamics occur on physiologically relevant timescales, as stated in the Cell Systems article.

Visiting scholar Neema Jamshidi discussed how the kinetic models may impact personalized medicine.

“An application of these models, with which we can screen for potential susceptibility for side effects of drugs, is significant because the cost of side effects is [also] significant,” Jamshidi told the

Guardian. “If you can predict that a patient will experience a side effect, it becomes a risk-benefit question.”

While previous studies used larger sample sizes, this research integrates a greater number of measurements from individual subjects. Jamshidi explained that future studies involving focused samples will provide better information for this type of research.

“Studies where the focus is on a 100,000 or a million people are not as valuable [for our purposes] as identifying a smaller-but-targeted cohort with specific measurements and specific genes of interest and then testing those in an objective manner,” Jamshidi said.

The researchers expect to conduct further experiments on commonly-used drugs that are known to cause hemolytic anemia.

They are also looking to develop predictive models for platelet cells and ultimately a liver-cell model.

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trees on their property can have them removed,” Pankam said. “But homeowners are being encouraged to cut back on watering their plants due to California’s ongoing issues with water, which might

inadvertently be contributing to more dead or dying trees.”

As for students, Pankam recognized conserving water may be difficult but still encouraged them to do so.

“For students who have trees on their properties and are also trying

to conserve water, this could be a difficult issue to work around,” Pankam explained. “I think, if possible, students should research the watering needs of individual trees on their properties, and find a way to water trees more efficiently — water in the evenings or early mornings, for

example, and water perhaps once a week or so, instead of every other day.

Don’t outright stop watering trees.

Wean them off gradually to a lessintensive watering cycle.”

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In terms of the inspiration behind the prevalent Asian-American content on BuzzFeed, Video Producer Abe Forman Greenwald shared that passion and learning are what drive him.

“I think it’s both [a passion choice and learning new things] because I want to learn as much as I can,” Greenwald said. “I’m not AsianAmerican, but it’s a community that means a lot to me … I do like a mix of things that reflect me and explorations of other people trying to tell their stories.”

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Wang explained to the audience that the way BuzzFeed has approached YouTube video comments has changed throughout the years.

“I feel like YouTube is the harshest platform in terms of feedback because people are very opinionated about the content, which is good and hurtful in some ways,” Wang said. “I feel like a lot of them have accepted what we do and try to expose, and I think that’s awesome because I feel like we’ve grown our viewer base, but we’ve also grown with them.”

At the conclusion of the event, Muir College junior Katherine Syhanath shared that she believes BuzzFeed has impacted the Asian-

American community.

“BuzzFeed’s role in how AsianAmericans are perceived in the media is really influential, especially since a lot of [mainstream media] doesn’t have a lot of Asian-Americans in it,” Syhanath told the Guardian.

“Because of BuzzFeed, we now have a large integration of Asian-Americans on YouTube.”

In addition to hosting the forum at UCSD, SDAFF screened Taiwanese cinema and Reunification, a documentary by UCSD alumnus Alvin Tsang.

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Sex Traffickers Frequently Target High Schoolers, Family Members ▶ TRAFFICKING, from page 1

“It is very diverse, very complex,” Carpenter said. “[A] much more ethnically diverse mosaic than I think we realized before. Unfortunately, there is a lot of recruitment happening in [San Diego] high schools.”

In addition to recruiting high schoolers, sex trafficking facilitators will go as far as forcibly recruiting members from their own family.

The researchers concluded that the average age of entry into sex trafficking is approximately 15 years old, as opposed to the commonly reported age of 12. These individuals

tend to be runaway or homeless, LGBTQ-identifying, suffering from mental health issues or be victims of domestic abuse.

One perpetrator of sex trafficking, who chose to remain anonymous, explained the ease with which they were able to recruit.

“So many people are doing it; everybody and their mom is doing it, and the money is too good and too easy and too guaranteed,” the individual explained. “It’s really not hard to turn any female out.”

Carpenter hopes that the findings will energize organizations, both domestic and international, to put an end to sex trafficking.

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“The question we are now left with is: what can we do with this information?,” Carpenter said.

“Fortunately, people at all levels and many different professions on both sides of the border are taking up that question right now.”

Officials have been aware of the widespread presence of sex trafficking in San Diego for some time. The FBI ranked San Diego eighth among 13 cities with the highest incidence rate of child prostitution in a 2003 report, a list that included both Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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UC Regents has submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court to support affirmative action. If successful, the UC system will gain the right to consider racial heritage as a factor in its admission processes, increasing racial diversity and support for minority groups.

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hen a ranking service for American colleges named UCSD the “11th most ethnically diverse college in the nation,” we had to laugh a little bit. How can a school with nearly 50 percent of its students identifying as one ethnicity receive such a distinction? Well, this past week, it seems like UC President Janet Napolitano and the 10 UC chancellors woke up on the right side of the bed, as they jointly filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court explaining how the University of California’s “race-blind” admissions policy has not allowed the system to reflect the student diversity in California. Race-blind admissions cause people to overlook the achievement gap in California.

It’s time to increase the amount of minority-student enrollment, and the answer to this is affirmative action.

We are not saying that ethnicity should be a top factor in determining a student’s admission — of course qualified students deserve to be here. But what constitutes being qualified? The average combined SAT math and reading score from the freshmen who started UCSD in 2014 was 1295, with African-Americans averaging 1180, Asians 1340, Mexican Americans 1127, Latinos 1212 and Caucasians 1316. Though UC admissions practice “eligibility in the local context” — they compare applicants only to students in their own school and not the entire applicant pool — it’s obvious that many admitted students come from certain areas

(UCSD’s “feeder schools”), particularly where there are a large numbers of Asians and Caucasians. UC admissions officers need to accept more students from underrepresented areas. One hundred or so points worth of difference in SAT scores or a few hundredths in GPA points should not prevent admissions offers from accepting more minority students. In these cases, ethnicity should be a factor because a minority student coming from an area with minimal resources who performs well and meets the UC-eligibility requirements has overcome a lot more barriers than a white or Asian student with nearly perfect scores in an affluent area.

Furthermore, the few Latinos that do attend UC schools are concentrated in only a few. UC Riverside, UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz and, most recently, UC Santa Barbara have all been recognized as “Hispanic-Serving Institutions,” meaning that at least 25 percent of the student population identifies as Latino. It’s really excellent that some of the UC schools are meeting this number, but Latinos shouldn’t be tossed into the same three or four UC schools. They deserve the education that their Asian and Caucasian counterparts are getting at more competitive schools, like UCLA and UC Berkeley. We’ve heard many high school students worry that attending a school like UCSD, which houses nearly 50 percent Asian students and 22 percent Caucasian students, might make them feel uncomfortable because the campus doesn’t

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How to Reform San Diego, a Hub of Human Sex Trafficking Though sex trafficking is a rarely discussed problem because it seems like a third-world issue, far removed from where we are or anyone we know, it’s actually not as distant as we may think. Here are a couple of statistics that may bring new information to light: The rate of human trafficking in the United States is roughly 25 percent higher than the murder rate, and San Diego is a central hub for these activities, being one of the FBI’s 13 identified hot spots. Human trafficking is a term that refers to people who are moved from place to place for the purposes of forced work and labor, and sex trafficking is the specific instances when that forced work is sexual in nature, like involuntary prostitution.

Much of sex trafficking involves the sexual exploitation of minors.

Unfortunately, there isn’t a proven, straightforward method of stopping sex trafficking, but a combination of legalization of prostitution combined with strict government regulation could be a potential answer.

One reason why sex trafficking has low public visibility is that its victims are often members of poor minority groups. In the U.S., 40 percent of sex trafficking victims are black and almost 25 percent are Latino.

They come from overwhelmingly poor backgrounds, and the average sex trafficking victim enters the sex

trade between the ages of 12 and 14.

Because these victims are already marginalized based on class, age and race, it’s almost no wonder that it has taken a backseat in the media to other forms of crime.

In terms of its relevance to UCSD, San Diego is actually a central location for sex trafficking and human trafficking. San Diego is a major city and often holds conventions, which creates business for sex work and sexual exploitation. In terms of more general human trafficking, nearly half of all non-sexual labor trafficked people are Latino, and San Diego’s proximity to the border facilitates that.

Apart from just educating people about the issue, one proposed solution to sex trafficking is legalizing prostitution. After all, it makes sense that customers of prostitution would prefer a legal alternative when given one and that trafficking may become less profitable for the illegal market. Unfortunately, several studies have found that in places where prostitution is legalized, like in Germany and Denmark, there has been an increase in sex trafficking according to a 2012 paper by European economists Seo-Young Cho, Axel Dreher and Eric Neumayer.

But it’s not as simple as saying that criminalizing prostitution is the best option. Though the legalization of prostitution correlates with increased

trafficking, it also leads to better living conditions for those involved in prostitution, including victims of sex trafficking, according to a 2009 study by public health analyst Alexandra Lutnick and UC San Francisco researcher Deborah Cohan.

Cracking down on sex trafficking looks like another, more obvious solution, but if it were to go anything like the war on drugs, it could mean spending billions of dollars and getting nowhere. Trying to strictly control and eradicate trafficking seems impossible when the demand will always exist, especially since prostitution is already illegal.

Another more viable solution comes from the combination of legalization and regulation. If prostitution were legal, the research

by Cho, Dreher and Neumayer shows that, yes, we may see more of it initially. By legalizing prostitution, the government would have the power to regulate it strictly and would then be able to create more effective tools for finding and stopping illegal sex trafficking. Even if the U.S. wasn’t able to put a complete halt to sex trafficking — and it probably never will — legalization and regulation could allow the government to establish programs that would be more effective at helping trafficking victims escape.

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ou play like a dude!”

That’s not exactly a commonly heard insult in the video game industry. Buzzfeed’s satirical video, “If Gamer Girls Acted Like Gamer Guys,” parodies the stark contrast in attitudes between men and women playing video games.

In this parody, Allison Rascon humorously comments, “You can see right up Ezio’s cloak.” This is meant to poke fun at the way video games often pander to a male heterosexual audience by positioning cameras in certain angles to eroticize virtual female characters. On various internet role-playing games such as Second Life, women are often accused of being “fake gamer girls.” Other gamers may vocally request nude pictures for proof (or you’re obviously a troll).

At the same time, merely adopting a female character as you play games in an online community can invite immediate jeers of catcalls and ridicule. So what’s a gamer girl to do?

Join the development team, obviously. The game creators have the true power to make feasible changes in gaming culture. According to the International Game Developers Association, the industry remains heavily male-dominated, with men representing 76 percent of the workforce for game development. At the same time, the amount of female game developers has practically doubled from 11.5 percent in 2009 to 22 percent in 2014. These rapid changes may mark the beginning of a gamer revolution. But when it comes to balancing out the gender disparity, we’ve got a long way to go.

For instance, the Video Game Development Club at UCSD has one female principle member out of five positions otherwise filled by male students. “To all the women who want to enter the gaming industry, I will say that there is a chance you will run into obstacles because of your gender, but that’s one of the reasons that you should join,” Activities Coordinator Mahaela Johnson said. “The antiwomen culture in video game development needs to be stomped out, and the only way to do that is to show people who would perpetuate these beliefs that women aren’t going to back down.”

An area that game developers should seek to improve is the tendency to overtly sexualize women.

Anita Sarkeesian is an activist for video game gender equality, known for her YouTube series “Feminist Frequency.” In this series, she provides in-depth analysis of the tendency for women to be portrayed as disposable sex objects or frequently fall into passive positions such as the highly popular “damsel in distress.” This stereotype plays into male power fantasies about being the hero who rescues women.

But it doesn’t seem that effective to rebuke men for having the gall to want to save us females. A better plan is to start asking for what we want.

Email game developers and demand strong, feminine women. Femininity should not be synonymous with weakness, and female characters cannot be limited to passively sitting on the sidelines of the battlefield, content to observe the action unfold from a distance. All I’m asking for is an opportunity to be the female heroine of a video game and get the chance to save a few distressed bachelors of my own.

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Affirmative Action is Strongly Needed to Combat Institutionalized Racism ▶ RACE BLIND, from page 4

reflect or understand their needs.

This is exactly why affirmative action is needed. Accepting more minority students would not deter or hinder the high-quality work the University of California is producing. Rather, increasing the number of minority students would give a more colorful and diverse perspective on these campuses.

When, according to the Pew Hispanic Research Center, 20 percent of the nearly 30 million young adults aged 18 to 24 are Latino but only 13 percent are attending UC schools — as per the

official University of California Statistical Summary of Students and Staff — that’s a problem. Even more disturbing is the number of African-Americans attending UC schools: 3 percent. And if the University of California started admitting more African-Americans, we can already hear the affirmative action naysayers bitterly lamenting its loss of racial supremacy with comments like, “Oh, I didn’t get accepted because I’m white. They only got in because they’re black.”

But that’s a bullshit argument.

Racial privilege is real, and perhaps it’s time we start acknowledging this and stop ignoring the problem

through “race-blind” admissions.

Affirmative action can acknowledge this huge problem and support minorities in their pursuit of higher education.

Perhaps nothing will come out of this amicus brief, but the fact that it has been submitted shows that administrators recognize the need for more diverse campuses. Director of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Antonio Flores said, “The expansion of diversification of educational opportunity is surely a good thing for the state as a whole.”

And besides, a little color never hurt anyone.

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might be alone this Thanksgiving holiday because I can’t go home. What should I do? — Anonymous I’m going to prescribe a dose of the Anti-Thanksgiving model, which celebrates isolation and being thankful for the best person in the world: yourself! That’s right. You are unique. Yes, everybody is unique, but you are the most unique. I’m a huge fan of the anti-consumerist, anti-capitalist model by refusing to engage in the commercialization of Thanksgiving, which has moved from an annual harvest blessing to the administration of steroid substances in turkeys and one huge Black Friday prep-party. Unfortunately, engaging in such a system is practically impossible when we are inextricably chained to fester off pandering to Fortune 500 businesses. If you’re so inclined to hear my thoughts on this half-off holiday, I suggest you wade through the UCSD Guardian archives on an adventure.

The shiniest part about the Anti-Thanksgiving model is that it’s practically uncharted territory just waiting to be explored. Who needs a turkey for 20 when you could have an omelette for one. Maybe you just need a day to catch up on all of your television shows (spoiler alert: Oliver Hampton better be OK because I definitely sense Connor Walsh landing a Black Friday on their Internet stalker’s smug face. #SaveOllie) or indulge in an oversized and over-buttered tub of popcorn over the new Charlie Brown movie. Write a long petition written in avant-garde experimental poetry advocating Apple for a Steve Jobs emoji. Heck, become an avid follower of dadaism and adopt a carrier pigeon that can paint violins with horse legs. This is America!

Now, for the less adventurous and more homey person, I suggest you start studying for final exams.

What a buzzkill, right? Well, here’s the buzzfeed: Right after Thanksgiving starts the week before finals, when Library Walk becomes the Library Walk of Shame and lost Student ID cards rises about 12.87 percent in a study done by Harvard University. Let’s not try and circumvent the larger matter at hand: You have homework due and no amount of Thanksgiving and 5-percent off shopping is going to distract you from the constant thought of that dreadful biology class. Stake your post at Geisel — or, for those who appropriate the life of an aspiring paleopathologist, the Biomedical library — and fend it with your life. Place your coffee orders weeks in advance and beat the rush line. Grab some toilet paper because, in a week, shit’s gonna get real.

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art of a rising group of YouTube-based artists, David Choi captivates audiences with an acoustic sound and heartfelt lyrics. Choi’s collaborations with prominent Asian-American YouTubers, such as Wong Fu Productions and Kina Grannis, feature songs focused on love and relationships. With the help of an acoustic guitar, ukulele and soft, romantic lyrics, David Choi is a favorite of fans of instrumental music alike. Sweet, plaintive vocals have led him to popular tours in California and Asia and have been featured on soundtracks for Korean dramas. As a headliner for Hullabaloo this upcoming Friday, David Choi is sure to make the audience swoon.

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icture an iconic rap artist. What do you see? The G-Funk style of the West Coast Pioneers Dre and Snoop Dogg? The psychological thrillers of Eminem? An upper-middle class Jewish guy who raps about saving money, Lil Dicky is a strange addition to the supposedly tough, gang-like world of hip hop.

Lil Dicky’s style is not about street cred, thug life or anything embodying a stereotypical rap artist. His stuff is relatable. He blends comedy with the style of rap.

Why? He says that he’s tired of the “egotistical” style of hip hop in today’s society. He relies on clever phrases and flow to create songs that audience members will want to continuously rewind. Let’s see what a comedic rapper from the Internet can do for hip-hop and for Hullabaloo.

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he Young Wild is just about as local as bands get. Since all have attended San Diego colleges, the SoCal natives’ presence at Hullabaloo will be a home show of sorts. Consequently, UCSD students can expect the kind of enthusiastic live performance only born from the band’s willingness to experiment in the comfort of their hometown. While in college, The Young Wild started out as a classic rock cover band. However, the bassist and frontman, Gareth Moore and Bryan William, quickly ditched their covers and joined current drummer, Brandon Zedaker, to create a new sound polished by synths and soul influences.

The newly formed three-piece signed with Fairfax Records and has since released the single “Not a One,” a catchy pop tribute that romanticizes themes of escape and restlessness. Their upbeat sound captures the impressions of specific times and places; surely sun-soaked San Diego summers have been imprinted on their evolving sonic landscape and will contribute to a lively Hullabaloo set.

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Lifestyle Co-Editor Midterms stare you in the face.

Unwritten essays pile up. Your mom calls to demand an explanation for early-morning impulse buys on Amazon Prime. And you’ve officially run out of clean underwear.

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with a Peanut Butter cookie to personalize any creamy concoction.

But what makes Lil’ Dipper unique is its dedication to organic ingredients and their embodiment of environmental consciousness.

For instance, Barb offers students a “growler” — a reusable pint jar that gives you luscious, creamy goodness at a discount with each refill. Furthermore, each cup and spoon is biodegradable and compact to suit an environmentally friendly philosophy. And with gluten-free cookie and vegan ice cream options, Lil’ Dipper

is more than accommodating to every ice cream connoisseur.

Both the owner and shop exude a vivacious and bright personality that matches the refreshing and exuberant flavors and colors of the ice cream. It’s easy to see how much passion and dedication goes into each naturally made and organically flavored batch. Although the shop is only bordering its third month here in La Jolla, I’m confident that Lil’ Dipper has an extremely promising appeal that will garner crowds from all over San Diego. If you can’t make it to the shop, let the ice cream come

to you! Delivery (and a future spot in front of Geisel — open until 1 a.m.) of piping hot cookies and rich ice cream is available straight to campus. And at incredibly low prices, the decision has essentially already been made for you.

So when the stress hits you, look no further than the ice cream sandwiches offered at Lil’ Dipper — a constant reminder that ice cream will always be your one and only.

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Spectre An unfortunate retread of the Bond franchise forms another weak link in the age-old, legendary series.

Directed by Sam Mendes Starring Daniel Craig, Lea Seydoux, Christoph Waltz Rated PG-13 Release Date Nov. 6

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pectre” is a poorly written love letter to the series’ 40-year legacy of camp and inconsistency. Coming off the heels of the great “Skyfall” and nowhere near the standard “Casino Royale” set, this is a regressive look for Bond. Instead of dedicating its energy to memorable set pieces and great action, “Spectre” foolishly stretches itself out trying to establish a sense of continuity across the Craig entries. Simultaneously taking itself too seriously and not seriously enough, “Spectre” is a confusing mishmash of old Bond and new. Poorly realized villains, social

commentary inspired by a lower-level sociology course and an overly long running time compound in a trifecta of faults that make for the worst entry since “Quantum of Solace.”

The incredible Day of the Dead sequence opening the film leaves us on a high that is never achieved again in the film. With precisely choreographed helicopter flips and rooftop escapades, it’s the ultimate encapsulation of Bond’s physicality and suave. It’s worth noting that the spectacle is notably absent of almost all dialogue, allowing the series to operate at its highest level. The chain

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of command for his fallen enemy inspires great intrigue in Bond, who soon discovers that an evil global organization led by mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) is manipulating the world on macro and micro levels. Waltz playfully weaves the character’s barbaric tendencies with a signature European charisma, making up for Bond’s short supply of charm. Blofeld is one of the few avenues where the franchise looks to its past and successfully reworks itself instead of falling victim to its worst tendencies. Blofeld is a reinterpretation, not a rehash.

Focus from the more compelling elements, like Blofeld and the brutal Mr. Hinx (Dave Bautista), is constantly chipped at by the weaker ones. The punch lacking in the script is, in part, made up by Bautista’s steely hitman, whose figure is a sure omen of the nail-biting action that “Spectre” liberally employs. The dedication and

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culminating in this year’s “Spectre.”

After receiving a license to kill, James Bond sets out on a mission to beat Le Chiffre, a terrorist financier, in a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale. Le Chiffre, played by the superb Mads Mikkelsen, is not a billionaire trying to take over the world from a mountain fortress, but rather a desperate, brutal man at the end of his rope. “Casino Royale” takes so many classic Bond elements and turns them on their heads. Yet perhaps the biggest change is that Casino Royale was able to portray the agent in a way no other film did: as a vulnerable human being. As a 007 film, “Casino Royale” is all aces.

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Teens of style by car seat headrest Release Date Oct. 30

Will Toledo’s debut studio album heightens his earlier recordings with increased production, added emotion and unique lo-fi sound.

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ill Toledo may be 23 years old, but musically, he’s no different from any depressed high school teenager. Better known by his stage name, Car Seat Headrest, Toledo started out as a young Seattle teen releasing his self-recorded songs on Bandcamp without signing with a record label. Now, officially signed onto a Matador label, Toledo still manages to keep those initial recordings in his debut studio album, but adds more intricate production and sentiment as a way to tell his story in a fresh way.

“Teens of Style” consistently hangs onto a teen-angst theme that comes off as tiresome, but is overshadowed by a polished sound quality and by individuality.

Toledo is young and experiencing a life changing event: being associated with a new record label.

However, he’s just a bystander compared to his friends, who are “making money” and “getting married.”

“Something Soon” describes his alienation and expresses his consequential frustration with it all. His discontent is felt through his pessimistic outlook and whiny lyric: “We’ve all had better times to die” and “I don’t have any hope left, but the weather is nice.” Just how depressed can a teenager get before it becomes overly dramatic?

Tracks like “Times to Die” and “Maud Gone” together create a divergent atmosphere from his 2013 Bandcamp release “Twin Fantasy.” The new equipped backup band was used to his advantage by incorporating more distorted but amplified guitar sounds. The lo-fi guitar and edgy tone produced are reminiscent of indie rock bands The Memories and BRONCHO. His emotional journey is musically expressed in a way that is entertaining and intriguing to

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almost any age group.

Despite the annoying “depressed teen” vibes portrayed throughout the album, Toledo musically adds his own personal style to capture a great deal of emotion that is moving and empathetic. “Teens of Style” depicts that adolescent representation while successfully sticking to Toledo’s personal and innovative musical identity.

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On a visual level, “Spectre” fails to make a mark. Nobody was expecting cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema to top Roger Deakins’ work, but what could have been warm and enveloping colors instead come off as muddled and stifling. At least there’s a workmanlike rigor to the technical aspects of the film, and this keeps the ball rolling in spite of apparent disinterest in its look. Besides a few beautiful shots that make smart use of the saturated skies or location, the Bond film’s superficiality is left untended. The success of “Skyfall” seems to be part of — if not all — the reason “Spectre” played it so safe.

More villains, more story, more budget, less focus. We’ll see if Bond has yet to live another day.

ALBUM REVIEW

“CASINO ROYALE” (2006)

n 2006, the James Bond franchise finally brought a gritty and smart film to contrast with the jolly mayhem and silly one-liners of previous installments.

“Casino Royale” stars Daniel Craig in his premier role as James Bond, a stern, cold-blooded secret agent rather than a flirty socialite, making Craig perhaps the most effective actor to bear the 007 title. The film opens with an intense parkour action scene as Bond chases an African bomb maker through a construction site. From the getgo, all of the action sequences in “Casino Royale” are riveting, filled with incredible, practical stunts.

Telling the story of Bond’s first mission, “Casino Royale” sets up a complex thread which runs through all four Daniel Craig 007 films,

experience he brings to the screen lends a fleeting authenticity to the film. Lea Seydoux first captured critics’ minds at Cannes with 2013’s “Blue is the Warmest Color” and she’ll be capturing the audience’s eyes with her turn in “Spectre” as Dr. Madeleine Swann, a femme fatale dedicated to truth and justice in her father’s memory. The commitment she shows to the role helps sell lines that would have rattled lesser actors.

A middling Andrew Scott as Max Denbigh parroting the values of global surveillance barely registers as a threat, and anything within his gravitational pull suffers from worse writing than the usual plodding Bond fare. Fortunately for the rest of the cast, an undeserving Ralph Fiennes took the brunt of the damage. What could have been a timely dialogue on global surveillance is made a joke of, which is odd because of how important the thread is to the story.

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“We’ve been working so hard all season to win this game, [so] it just feels so good to have all this hard work pay off,” McNutt told the UCSD Athletics Department.

However, Stanislaus was prepared to make a comeback.

Junior defender Nicole Larson notched one point at 85:50, and junior forward Kirsten Coleman posted one more less than a minute later to put the pressure on UCSD. However, the Tritons remained strong in the final minutes of the game and put away the 3–2 victory to close out the CCAA tournament.

“It got scary in the last few minutes,” UCSD Head Coach Brian McManus told the UCSD Athletics Department. “This team is capable of anything as long as we manage the games. We’ve got the kind of players who are always going to upset people.”

Six Tritons were awarded CCAA Tournament All-Tournament team honors. Brodsky was selected as the defensive MVP for the tournament, and Bocchino was crowned the offensive MVP. UCSD dominated the selections with redshirt-junior Meghan Berry, McNutt, O’Laughlin and Reilly joining their teammates.

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at 15–5–1 overall. It has taken home the CCAA crown in all nine of their title round appearances thus far. It enters the NCAA Championship as the fourth-seed in the West Region and will start their campaign against fifth-seeded Seattle Pacific University (13–4–2) on Thursday, Nov. 12 in Bellingham, Washington at 7 p.m. The winner of this game will advance to play No. 2 and top seed in the West Region, Western Washington University (18–1–1), who will serve as the host.

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progressed into direct elimination rounds, which were 15-touch bouts.

Hadler emerged victorious from his division of men’s foil, climbing the mountain over 37 other competitors. In the pool play, Hadler went 4–1, scoring 21 touches with 11 against for a +10 indicator.

For the final gold medal bout, Hadler faced off against Maxwell Yee of the Los Angeles International Fencing Club, winning the bout 15–11 to earn the gold. This season, Hadler won a gold medal on Oct. 25 at the San Diego Open and is doing exceptionally well, going two for two in his gold-medal showdowns.

Also in the men’s foil, freshman Andrew Hou earned a bronze for tying at the third position.

Teammates Hou and Hadler faced

off against each other in the semifinals round, from which Hadler advanced with a 15–10 victory.

Junior epee Sean Callaghan was placed in the large pool of 95 participants for the men’s epee, and he eventually emerged in the winning circle as well, performing spectacularly to secure the thirdplace bronze medal. Senior sabre Drew Dickinson competed in the men’s sabre among 69 other competitors until he too eventually emerged in the winning circle with a third-place medal.

Singleton-Comfort won the gold medal in the women’s sabre, which had a competitor’s pool size of 46 fencers. The freshman performed like the gold-medalist she is as she went untouched in the pool play, posting up a 6–0 record with a +20 indicator. She earned her gold medal

after a 15–10 victory against Mikaela Avakian from the AG Fencing Club.

Freshman epee Aditi Soin placed the highest for the UCSD women’s epee, taking home the sixth place title. In women’s foil, senior foil Alina Marshall placed the highest for UCSD, ending the competition at the 12th position.

This was the first times since 2011 that UCSD emerged from the BladeRunner Tournament with a pair of gold-medalist winners.

The UCSD fencing team next looks to compete at the Intercollegiate Fencing Conference of Southern California Duals on Nov. 21, which will be held at UC Irvine.

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putting the Warriors ahead at 12–11.

The Tritons had none of this, and fought a tough slugfest of a set that culminated in a kill by Dahle to win the set 25–23.

While the Tritons went on to win the game in a three-set sweep, the third and final set wound up to be just as competitive as the second.

With 10 tied scores and six lead changes, the set was a close backand-forth affair until a kill by Dahle put the Tritons up 21–20, a lead the team never relinquished.

Wright led UCSD with 11 kills, while senior setter Heidi Sierks led the team in assists, earning 29.

Dahle led the team with 15 digs to go along with her 10 kills. The Tritons’ attack percentage of .252 (41–13–111) helped them gain a leg up on the Warriors, who had a lowly .175 (39–17–126). Cervantes led the Warriors with nine kills on an attack percentage of .139 (9–4–36).

The women’s volleyball team moved up to 16–9 overall, clinching a spot in the CCAA tournament.

Game Two The Tritons didn’t have any

trouble against the Wildcats in the first two sets on Saturday night.

Led by Dahle’s five kills, the Tritons steamrolled the Wildcats in the first set. After a kill by Wildcat sophomore outside hitter Olivia Mediano put the Wildcats up 2–1, the Tritons scored eight straight points, which would help lead the team to a 25–13 set victory.

For the second set, the Tritons continued their streak of dominance.

Holding a 12-point lead at one point, the team won the set handily 25–12. The Tritons’ aggression paid off, as they completely blew away the Wildcats in terms of attack percentage, holding the advantage .615 (17–1–26) to .000 (7–7–35).

“The first two sets were maybe the best the team has played all year.” UCSD Head Coach Ricci Luyties told the UCSD Athletics Department. “Chico [State] is a good team, and a win at their gym is never an easy task.”

But in the third set, the Wildcats made it a game. Despite five kills from Dahle and seven from Wright, the Wildcats never trailed again in the set after going up 10–9 off of a

kill by junior middle hitter Ashton Kershner, with the Wildcats looking like a team fighting for redemption.

But the glimmer of hope would quickly go out for the Wildcats, as UCSD dominated the fourth and final set and eventually closed out the Wildcats 25–20 off of another kill by Dahle.

UCSD outhit Chico State with an attack percentage of .293 (59–11– 164) to .121 (46–25–174), with help from Dahle’s 19 kills and Wright’s 13. Sophomore libero Amanda Colla led the team with a game-high 29 digs, and Sierks led the team in assists with 44.

The UCSD women’s volleyball team rose to 17–9 overall and 13–5 in conference, while Chico State fell to 16–11 overall and 8–9 in conference.

The Tritons hit the road this weekend for their final two conference games. They will head north to play Cal State Dominguez Hills on Friday, Nov. 13 and Cal State Los Angeles the following day.

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Soccer Clinches CCAA Crown Tritons trump Seawolves and Warriors to take ninth CCAA title and automatic NCAA berth.

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It was the first time since 2011 that the Tritons had a pair of winners at BladeRunner, with sophomore David Hadler winning the foil and freshman Leanne Singleton-Comfort winning the saber.

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Six Tritons were awarded All-Tournament Team honors: Meghan Berry, Jordyn McNutt, Katie O’Laughlin, Mary Reilly, defensive MVP Kelcie Brodsky and offensive MVP Kiera Bocchino.

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he UCSD women’s soccer team clinched two huge wins against Sonoma State and Cal State Stanislaus this past weekend en route to its record ninth California Collegiate Athletic Association banner and an automatic NCAA Championship berth. The Tritons bested the No. 10 Seawolves in the semifinal round in a stunning 3–0 upset, then went on to crush the Warriors 3–2 in the title match. UCSD ends the CCAA tourney at an impressive 15–5–1 overall record and will travel up to the Pacific Northwest this week to begin their bid for the ultimate crown.

Semifinal Round UCSD pulled a huge 3–0 upset against No. 10 Sonoma State on Friday afternoon in the CCAA semifinals. Within 13 minutes of play, the Tritons took their first lead of the game as sophomore midfielder Jordyn McNutt sent a cross to a wide-open redshirt junior midfielder Kiera Bocchino at the post.

Bocchino then launched home her third goal of the year to start the scoring.

Just minutes later, sophomore forward Katie O’Laughlin hit the target after a poor defensive clearance by the Seawolves to expand the Tritons’ lead to two.

Sonoma State attempted to battle back in the 19th minute as senior midfielder Margi Osmundson fired a shot off from the top of the penalty area, but senior goalkeeper Kelcie Brodsky reached to make the save to hold the Seawolves at zero.

UCSD struck again a mere 51 seconds into the second half. Freshman forward Mary Reilly sent a cross to the far post, and Bocchino seized another chance to score, heading the ball to the right side of the net. Despite a touch by Sonoma State senior goalkeeper Ashley Luis, the ball bounced straight into the goal to put the Tritons in a dominant 3–0 position with 44 minutes left to play.

“I’m a forward at heart,” Bocchino told the UCSD Athletics Department.

“Playing that outside-mid position kind of gives me a chance to dribble and do all that, and I also get to be in the box for other people’s crosses.”

Brodsky held firm in the goal once again in the 54th as freshman midfielder Alexandra Gonzalez attacked from pointblank range. Despite the effort, Brodsky dove to the right on the attempt to block the shot and hold her team’s advantage. She amassed 10 saves for UCSD on the day, achieving her ninth season shutout.

With the victory, the Tritons jumped to 14–5–1 overall. The win effectively ended the Seawolves’ 15-game win streak and their bid for the CCAA crown. They concluded their season at 13–2–3 overall.

Finals UCSD held firm through a late rally attempt to snag a 3–2 victory over Cal State Stanislaus, nabbing its record ninth CCAA banner and a guaranteed spot in the 2015 NCAA Championship bracket.

After an offside call in the 18th, the Tritons seized their first chance to score. Warrior senior goalkeeper Chelsea Lewandowski took the free kick, but Reilly intercepted. After a quick touch to get her bearings, the freshman phenom took a right-footed shot into an empty net to set the score at 1–0.

UCSD doubled its advantage in the 25th. The Warriors’ senior defender Nichole Donald took down Reilly in an attempt to regain possession, earning herself a red-card ejection and putting the Tritons at a one-player advantage. McNutt stepped up to the spot to take her team’s penalty kick and launched a high shot past Lewandowski’s fingertips for a 2–0 lead.

The Tritons then earned a critical insurance point in the 54th. McNutt fired a corner kick into the penalty area, and after bouncing once off the post and again off a Warrior defender, the ball rolled into the net to put UCSD at a menacing 3–0 lead. The score was ruled an own goal.

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FENCING

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Two Tritons Take Gold at BladeRunner UCSD Post-Season Bound Hadler and Singleton-Comfort take wins against top fencers in home tournament. Tritons on eight-game hot streak as CCAAs approach.

BY Gurkirat Singh

Senior Staff Writer This past Saturday and Sunday, the UCSD fencing team hosted its annual BladeRunner tournament at RIMAC Arena where sophomore foil David Hadler and freshman sabre Leanne Singleton-Comfort were able to win golds in their respective matchups.

During the weekend, RIMAC Arena featured 342 fencers from various collegiate and club levels.

Aside from the Tritons, the fencers that participated in the tournament came from all over the map, from all over California to some of the East

Coast clubs. The tournament was split into men and women’s sections, with athletes competing in the epee, foil and sabre. The tournament

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started off with pool play which consisted of five-touch bouts and See FENCING, page 11

BY alex wu

Staff Writer Coming in hot, the UCSD women’s volleyball team increased its winning streak to eight after going 2–0 against Cal State Stanislaus and Chico State last week and earned a spot in the California Collegiate Athletic Association tournament.

The Tritons move up to 17–9 overall and remain in third in the CCAA with two games left in the regular season. Cal State Stanislaus fell to 13–9 overall, and Chico State fell to 16–11 after its respective matches against UCSD. Game One The Tritons didn’t have much

trouble in the first set in Friday night’s game against Cal State Stanislaus. Two early kills by senior middle blocker Kameron Cooper helped put the Tritons up, and the team would never trail against the Warriors in the set, leading by as many as eight points. With the help of four kills, each from senior outside hitter Danielle Dahle and junior outside hitter Meagan Wright, the Tritons cruised their way to a 25–17 set victory.

After being down for much of the beginning of the second set, a kill by Warrior sophomore outside hitter Jocelyn Cervantes gave the Warriors their first lead of the game, See W. VOLLEYBALL, page 11