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told the UCSD Guardian. “UCSD has a very innovative student body, but we’re concerned that students may not reach their goals because of studentloan debt.”

Since the Future Forum is designed to focus on issues that concern young adults the Committee appointed the 14 youngest congressmen to the Forum.

Swalwell stated that there should be a focus on our generation’s interests and issues.

“I believe our generation is a very optimistic generation,” Swalwell said during the Forum. “We are a very collaborative and innovative generation, and anything worth changing is worth fighting for.”

Some students in the audience described how they had ideas about

The UC Office of the President announced its proposal to increase enrollment of California residents at UC campuses by a total of 10,000 students over the next three years last week. The plan would begin by enrolling 5,000 additional students for the next school year and 2,500 students for each of the following two years.

UC President Janet Napolitano stated in a Nov. 9 press release that the plan is consistent with the university’s focus on expanding accessibility to education.

“The University of California is meeting the challenge of educating as many students as it possibly can to meet, and solve, the challenges of the future,” Napolitano said. “We are committed to sustaining increased access to our campuses and the world-class education they offer.”

According to UCOP media specialist Kate Moser, the university expects the state to allocate $25 million from its budget to finance the additional 10,000 students, while UCOP will provide an additional $25 million of its own. It also plans on requesting an additional $6 million from the state to enroll 600 more graduate students next year, as well as increased funding and enrollment in the following two years.

Moreover, the university will look to increase fundraising and tuition from out-of-state students to contribute to the enrollment boost. Another aspect of the proposal has the university cutting the scholarships it provides to lowincome students from other states, saving approximately $36 million annually. However, this would not affect students who currently receive that aid.

A.S. Vice President of External Affairs Krystl Fabella, who disagreed with the initial announcement to merely increase in-state enrollment by 5,000, believes that the UC campuses lack the infrastructure necessary to add any more students.

UCOP, she argued, should prioritize fixing this deficiency before increasing enrollment.

“It was already shocking at 5,000,” Fabella told the UCSD Guardian.

“Any student on the ground dealing with these daily struggles will know that our campus is not ready to take on even 1,000 more students by Fall 2016. It’s simply unrealistic. If the Regents and President Napolitano are able to take on the initiative to bring in 10,000 more students, they can very well map out a plan to improve conditions for the 240,000 existing ones.”

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UCSD Students March for Free Education and Fair Pay

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CSD students and alumni rallied against student debt, tuition fees and wage discrimination in the nationwide Million Student March protest on campus this past Thursday, Nov. 12. Over 110 colleges across the country participated in the event, according to the national Million Student March website.

The movement calls for tuition-free public education, cancellation of existing student debt and a normalized $15 minimum wage for campus employees.

UC Office of the President media specialist Kate Moser told the UCSD Guardian that the University of California supports student efforts to make public education more affordable.

“We applaud students who are peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights today across our campuses,” Moser said. “We remain strongly supportive of increased funding for public higher education.”

According to its website, individuals who graduated college this past year are facing over $35,000 in student debt on average. Additionally, over 40 million American college students and graduates now collectively owe $1.2 trillion in

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student debt, which is more than twice as much as in 2009.

A.S. Vice President of External Affairs Krystl Fabella told the Guardian that these numbers sparked a discussion about the current state of affairs regarding education.

“When UC tuition has more than tripled since 2000, when nationwide student loan debt is $1.35 trillion, when excess administrative spending is $1.1 billion, when campus workers receive less than a livable salary, we are forced to ask what is happening to higher education,” Fabella said. “While demands seem extreme, in the grand scheme of things, students are participating in a movement to resist what is happening to higher education today.”

A.S. President Dominick Suvonnasupa also expressed support for the movement and said the burden of student loans needs to be addressed now more than ever.

“I am extremely proud that our students are organizing to shed light on this very serious issue, Suvonnasupa told the Guardian. “It is time for us as students to critically examine what is going on financially in higher education. It is time for us to speak out about our lack of support and it is time for California to realize that university students are the most

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Congressmen Host Student Town Hall Meeting UCSD was the ninth college visited in the Future Forum congressional discussion series.

BY Omkar Mahajan

Staff Writer Congressmen Eric Swalwell (CA15) and Scott Peters (CA-52) visited UCSD and hosted a student town hall discussion at the Qualcomm Institute Auditorium last Tuesday.

The discussion was part of the Future Forum, a branch of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee that focuses on issues of interest to college students and young adults. The DPCC was created last year to ensure that House Democrats would focus on issues party leaders deemed pertinent to the American people.

During the event, the two congressmen presented speeches about student issues. Afterward, they took text message questions from

the audience; questions appeared on a screen behind the congressmen.

Since most of the audience was interested in student loans and debt, the congressmen focused mostly on that issue.

Swalwell, the chair of the Future Forum, had visited eight college campuses across the country in recent weeks to host student town hall meetings prior to visiting UCSD. Peters, who represents the coastal and central portions of San Diego, joined Swalwell in leading the meeting and answering students’ questions on issues ranging from student debt to the environment. Swalwell, who represents Alameda County in the Bay Area, explained his concerns about students not reaching their potentials.

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Study Suggests Older People Experience Envy Less Frequently

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Researchers surveyed over 2,000 individuals from ages 18 to 80 and found that individuals envy those similar to them.

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Staff Writer Researchers at UCSD have recently published a study suggesting that people envy those most similar to them and that the objects of their envy change with age. Their findings were published in the journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology on Nov. 4.

UCSD graduate student and co-author of the study Nicole Henniger told the UCSD Guardian that people were more likely to envy those who were alike in age and gender than those who were not.

“These studies looked at whom people envy and are envied by,” Henniger said. “We found that people tend to envy same-gender, similar-age [people] and that being close to someone doesn’t necessarily protect against being envied.”

In conducting their study, the researchers looked at over 2,000 participants who could recall instances and experiences of envy.

They found that young people tend to be more frequently envious than their older counterparts.

“We found that more of the younger participants could recall an envy experience — fewer of the older participants could recall recently having experienced envy,” Henniger said. “This suggests that, like other negative emotions, older people are less likely to experience envy.”

Psychology professor and senior author of the study Christine Harris also told the Guardian that what people envied depended on their age.

“One of our findings was that young people were not only more likely to report experiencing envy but that they were also envious of a greater number of things such as scholastic success, social success, looks and romantic success,” Harris said. “Older people’s envy tended to hone in more often on money and occupational success.”

UCSD psychology department chair Victor Ferreira thinks that people’s objects of envy are reflective of what they value.

“I think it’s a nice insight to see that younger folks tend to envy people’s looks and school performance, whereas older folks tend to envy people’s occupations and finances,” Ferreira said. “If you assume that young people tend to value looks and school performance a lot and older people tend to value jobs and finances, then it suggests that our envy is about things we value.”

Ferreira likened envy with competitiveness in sports to demonstrate how envy can be a positive force.

“If you’re a UCSD basketball player, it makes sense for you to envy your teammate — someone who is similar to you — because that may make it more likely that you’ll up your game and become a better basketball player,” Ferreira said. “It doesn’t make sense to envy LeBron James, because you’ll never be as good as LeBron James. It looks like that’s how envy works.”

UCSD’s psychology honor society president Shuying Yu also thinks that envy can be helpful but cautions that it can be a distraction.

“Envying others for what you lack in grades can be somewhat of a good thing if it motivates you to study more,” Yu said. “But I think comparing yourself, your progress and your experiences to other people in the long run can distract you from your personal goals and why you want to strive for those goals in the first place.”

Furthermore, Henniger and her team hopes to continue their studies to figure out causal factors that spark envy. They are looking to expand their research by examining the types of behavior that accompanies envy.

“We would like to use this research to identify factors that make envy more likely and test those factors in lab experiments,” Henniger said. “We are also interested in the different types of behaviors associated with envy, which can include hostility, depression and the motivation to self-improve.”

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businesses and startups they wanted to create. However, they had concerns about how student loans and debt could prevent them from achieving their dreams.

Peters agreedmentioned that some students, like those who spoke, are

unable to pursue their ideas because of debt and that this negatively impacts the economy.

“Students at universities in San Diego and across the country have creative and new ideas that they want to turn into innovative products,” Peters said. “Unfortunately, many students burdened by student loan debt and facing competitive job

markets abandon entrepreneurship, which is harming our economy and our ability to compete in the global marketplace.”

Eleanor Roosevelt College junior William Wylie-Modro described to the Guardian how he felt that the town hall meeting shows that the government is concerned about students.

“The fact that the congressmen

are sitting down and talking to the next generation about the problems we can see in society shows that at least part of the government realizes the major dangers of student debt and the accelerating change of the climate,” Wylie-Modro said.

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3:55 a.m. Citizen Contact Subject removed window screen and was attempting to make entry into occupied residence, when he was stopped by an RSO. Closed by Adult Citation.

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Event Organizers to Host Follow-Up Discussion This Thursday ▶ MARCH, from page 1

important investment and resource that this state has.”

Moser commented that the UC system already strives for college affordability, but the system can still improve upon its methods.

“At the University of California, 57 percent of California students have their tuition fully covered, and 45 percent of UC undergraduates graduate without any student loan debt; those who do graduate with student loans have a lower average debt than the national student loan debt average,” Moser told the Guardian. “That said, there is always progress to be made, and again, we support increased funding for public higher education.”

Last month, UC President Janet

Napolitano implemented the first phase of her three-year Fair Work, Fair Pay plan and raised the University of California minimum wage to $13 per hour, with an eventual increase to $15. However, this wage increase will not affect student employees, who work under 20 hours a week and are therefore ineligible for the plan.

Campuswide Senator Ryan Perez told the Guardian that while more students could have participated in today’s march, it was still an impressive show of solidarity for students who face these issues across the country.

“It was moving to see so many students willing to participate, but also a little disheartening that more students didn’t identify with the struggle,” Perez said. “However, in light of the success of student movements across the nation, I am proud to stand in solidarity with

all students who struggle for access to higher education.”

Students marched from the Silent Tree in front of Geisel Library down to Library Walk, walked through Price Center and circled back to the Silent Tree. They chanted, “If education is your mission, stop raising our tuition” and “We see students, ‘UC’ profits.”

UC Student-Worker Union San Diego, Tritons for Bernie Sanders, 15 Now San Diego, Socialist Alternative at UCSD and Students for Free Tuition sponsored the rally at UCSD. Event organizers will be hosting a discussion at Price Center next Thursday to brainstorm future rallies and steps to raise awareness.

Additional reporting by Jacky To.

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Fabella stated that the university cannot continue to squeeze more students into its limited number of dorms and apartments.

Furthermore, the amount of resources available to each student will naturally suffer with there being more students to accommodate.

“It’s not just new dorm beds and classes that would need to be factored in,” Fabella said. “It’s literally everything that will be aggravated even more with the enrollment: student-to-teacher ratio, overwhelmed TAs, housing, parking, etc. This will prove to be way more costly, with all the elements that would go into it.”

Moser told the Guardian that her office will address Fabella’s concerns after the UC Regents approve the proposal at their Nov. 19 meeting, stressing that the university has

overcome problems as difficult as these in the past.

“Once the plan is approved, as we hope it will be, we will get down to the job of working out the logistics,” Moser said. “We plan to put in place the needed infrastructure on our campuses to support the increased numbers of undergraduates. Such a quick surge in enrollment is certainly a challenge, but the University of California is accustomed to meeting challenges.”

UCSD Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Barbara Sawrey expressed her support for UCOP’s goal to educate as many students as possible, believing it to be crucial to the future state of the world. “[UCSD] supports the [UC] Office of the President’s plan to enroll 10,000 additional California undergraduates over the next three years,” Sawrey told the Guardian.

“It is [UCSD’s] mission to educate

California’s diverse population, as it is vital not only for the state’s and the nation’s economic growth, but for the intellectual development of future generations who can help solve globe’s most pressing problems.”

Speaker of the California State Assembly Tony Atkins also praised the plan, emphasizing the need of improving access to higher education for California residents.

“When the Assembly conducted our in-depth review of the University of California this year, it was clear that the university can and should do a better job fulfilling its mission to educate California students,” Atkins said in an Oct. 22 press release.

“President Napolitano’s comments suggest [the University of California] has accepted this challenge.”

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The U.S. government is requiring all drones to be registered, in an effort to combat safety and privacy issues posed by UAVs.

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Drones. They may sound like flying lawnmowers, but drones are becoming more prevalent within society, to the degree where they can no longer be ignored. CBS News reported, “According to the Federal Aviation Administration, more than 650 pilots have reported seeing unmanned aircraft as of Aug. 9 this year, compared to a total of 238 such sightings for all of 2014.” While ushering a new aerial perspective to both filmmakers and photographers, drones have also created safety risks, from disturbing the flight of commercial aircraft to obstructing the firefighting efforts of first-responders. This is especially pertinent in California, with the ongoing drought and yearly wildfire season. In an effort to combat these issues, the United States government has issued new laws and restrictions regarding drone use to help limit these accidents. But how is this legislation going to create a safer atmosphere for both drone owners and the community, and how will it affect everyone’s privacy?

The new legislation requires that all drones be registered with the government. Much like car registration, drone registration will help ensure accountability and hopefully discourage illegal and unsafe flying practices.

While drone registration will help to crack down on the infringement of privacy, these laws will require much more fine-tuning and calibration, just as drones do before flight. Situations such as how to hold owners accountable for flying their drones too close to commercial planes will only increase in urgency.

Since the current registration process for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is paper-based, the Department of Transportation is attempting to transition to an electronic registration system, as reported the U.S. Government Publishing Office. Most likely, laws stipulating the maximum altitude drones can fly (around 400 feet) and requirements that drones are kept within the controller’s eyesight will also be established. More details will be released on Nov. 20 when the new UAV registration task force finalizes its recommendations to the Department of Transportation.

Beyond registration, a method of identifying drones and their owners must be established, or else most drone offenses, like hit-and-runs, will never be brought to justice. This is especially true if drone operators simply whisk their drones away from the scene of the crime. In addition, various types of drones should have different license requirements and processes, much like the different licenses available for motor vehicles ranging from motorcycles to trucks.

Furthermore, the widespread popularity of drones raises issues of privacy. Due to the altitude drones are able to reach and their wide field of view, the footage recorded from the drone may include individuals who do not wish to be recorded. As a byproduct of laws regulating where drones can be flown, most drone owners should be flying in desolate fields away from crowded cities, eliminating chances of an infringement of privacy.

But there will always be those who purchase drones to spy on others.

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IN LIGHT OF THE MILLION STUDENT MARCH, WE CONSIDERED THE PLANS OF VARIOUS POLITICIANS REGARDING STUDENT DEBT. IS THE POSSIBILITY OF UNIVERSALLY FREE EDUCATION A FEASIBLE PLAN?

The Privilege of Higher Education is Not an Unequivocal “Right”

Bernie Sanders Will Fight On Behalf of College Education

Students at campuses across the nation have begun to rally against rising college tuition, claiming that higher education is a “right” for everyone. This idea may sound nice in theory, but it cannot be applied practically. When you look at the numbers behind our broken college system right now, reforms for free education are both economically impossible and out of touch with the needs of the American population.

One of the demands of the Million Student March, according to its Facebook page, is a free college education for all, a demand that is echoed in the presidential platform of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. According to the Washington Post, Sanders’ higher education plans claim that raising taxes is the only way to fund this initiative. Yet in a nation polarized over every issue, it is unlikely a measure like that could be agreed upon.

In the U.S. there is a wariness toward paying for other peoples’ services, especially if it doesn’t seem worth it. For example, Tom Lindsay argued to Forbes that low graduation rates and post-grad unemployment stats indicate that some students are better off pursuing career-oriented training instead of a college education. In light of such information that shows college doesn’t always pay off, paying higher taxes for it is a difficult sell.

With the increasing commercialization of higher education and the decline of a traditional liberal education, the benefits of “college for everyone” need to be questioned. At this point, making college free won’t solve all of our problems and will only create more economic and social stress.

In an election full of unconventional contenders rising in the polls, it has become clear that Americans want change. So it comes as no surprise that Bernie Sanders, “an ex-hippie, septuagenarian socialist,” as described in the Washington Post, is one of the frontrunners as the Democratic nominee for the U.S. 2016 Presidential Election. Sanders has defended his democratic socialist perspective by emphasizing the “democratic” part of that phrase, according to the New York Times. Most importantly, his extremely leftist plans for universally free public education offer viable solutions to student debt.

Though critiqued as idealistic and expensive, Sanders’ platform has gained support from college students around the nation who seek change, as seen by Thursday’s Million Student March, which advocated for tuition-free public college, cancellation of all student debt and a $15-an-hour campuswide minimum wage.

Bernie Sanders incorporates the demands of students into his platform, and the issues he fights for are relevant to the working class.

His taxation plans call for universal action and the growth of the middle class. Sanders once described himself as having the most unusual political history of anybody in the U.S. Congress, and that just might be a defining factor for his popularity. Publicly funded college education is possible, obliteration of student debt is possible and a campuswide minimum wage increase is possible. The support for the movement is clearly pervasive. Education is a right, and the Million Student March and Bernie Sanders’ platform represent just that.

— SOPHIE OSBORN Contributing Writer

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— AARTHI VENKAT Contributing Writer

Hilary Clinton Offers More Realistic Alternative to Sanders When college tuition has steadily risen 200 percent at some schools, according to College Board, it’s quite clear that student debt has become a national problem. USA Today reported that $1.2 trillion in student debt is hamstringing the careers of thousands of millennials, many of whom find themselves stuck with exorbitant interest rates. Is this the American Dream?

According to CNN, Bernie Sanders’ plan promises that, for every dollar each state spends on higher education, the federal government would put in $2 as additional funding. Sanders’ plan largely relies on increased taxes from Wall Street and corporations to generate $300 billion a year; however, this number has repeatedly been shown to be infeasible. Actual estimates from CNN put the income from Sanders’ tax increases around $51 billion, which is tiny compared to the $750 billion Sanders wants to spend. His plan is not realistic, given these numbers.

Hillary Clinton’s plan, on the other hand, is far more realistic in a bipartisan Congress. While Sanders failed to attract even a single cosponsor on his bill for free tuition, according to Congress. gov, Clinton wants to expand accountability through a bipartisan proposal that would require colleges to pay a portion of defaulted student loans, and she’s pushing for more money to be spent on low- and middle-income students who traditionally bear the brunt of student debt.

According to the Washington Post, Clinton’s plan is estimated to cost $350 billion, half of what Sanders has proposed for largely similar results.

When compared side-by-side, it’s clear that Clinton’s plan is far superior for helping students.

— NATE WALKER Contributing Writer

How-To Guru: Defeat the Aliens While looking at the starry sky a fortnight ago, some of us were treated to an extra special streak of lights.

The official story shepherded us into believing this event was the work of a routine missile test scheduled by the so-called Navy. Go ahead and stick with the herd of sheep, if that makes life easier. Or, you could be a thinker, like the How-To Guru, who is able to comprehend alien activity at its most obvious. Enjoy this handy-dandy guide on how to think like a true intellectual and spot all signs of UFOs. Step 1: Don’t trust the government. Even seemingly regular things, like jet planes, often release toxic bursts of radiation to devour our brains with alien mind control.

Always make sure to wear your hat to keep the radiation from controlling your thoughts. Although any kind of metal will work, we do recommend tinfoil for its cheap and easy construction. Plus, it has a stylish, classy look that will make you the envy of everyone.

Got your new, shiny hat nice and snug? Good, then it’s time for Step 2. Start recognizing all the aliens among us in our everyday lives.

UFOs, much like the noble cow, tend to hang around crop fields. Head out to your local farm and plop yourself down in the middle of the field and wait. If, for some odd reason, you don’t see one on your first day, you might have to come back the next day or perhaps each following day for a month.

Step 3: Go ahead and journey back to the city where you can resume your hunt for extraterrestrial life forms. Pay attention to everyday occurrences and question everything. It’s well known that aliens are big baseball fans who love to share and collect memorabilia, as some lucky residents recently found out when 600 Padres bobbleheads were mysteriously abandoned at their doorstep, as reported by NBC 7. While these poor people sheepishly took the bait and distributed these bobbleheads (a.k.a. alien spy-cams) out to their neighbors as party favors, you should know better than that.

Obey these final steps to stop the aliens and, therefore, rescue humanity. Spend time routinely monitoring your neighbors’ activities with binoculars or a telescope to figure out if they’ve been possessed.

Last but not least, take a bat and destroy all the bobbleheads you can — they are pure evil. After a few sleepless nights, the city will be safe, thanks to your relentless mission to defeat the aliens. Just be mindful to keep a low profile (perhaps wearing a mustache disguise in public). Should one of the UFOs turn your way, it might leave a dangerous little gift by your doorstep.

If all this sounds like a little too much work for you, that’s perfectly all right. We get it. Put this guide down and go back to floating along like a mindless sheep for the rest of your pathetic life. Although living like that would be inconceivable for thinkers such as us, not everyone can achieve heroic perfection and brilliance.

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University is Wasteful, Harming the Environment The amount of waste produced by students in dining halls, Price Center and markets on campus is a growing problem. Not only does waste from the paper, plastic and other food trays and plates increase the overall yield of environmental waste from the university but also for the world. Is there more that the university can do to maintain an environmentally friendly and sustainable environment?

Reducing trays and plates that go in the trash after each use around campus and replacing them with reusable ones will decrease

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Despite Safety Concerns, Drones Offer Endless Opportunities for Innovation ▶ DRONES, from page 4

Additionally, they should ideally be flown on private property in which invasion of privacy is no longer an issue, or in public spaces where the expectation of privacy is very low.

At this point, some people may be tired of technology experts constantly droning on and on about new rules and regulations, so let’s move on to the real life applications of drones.

Beyond taking cool aerial selfies to get likes on Facebook, drones have a multitude of applications, of which we’ve barely scratched the surface.

Big tech companies, such as Amazon and Google, are discussing a new era

of shipping materials using drone technology like Google’s Project Wing, according to the Wall Street Journal. A researcher at UCSD’s Calit 2, who is a member of Engineers for Exploration, said that drone technology is currently being used to help archaeologists scan for Mayan ruins and is also being used by biologists and conservationists to find harpy eagles. While it has taken around a century to develop autonomous cars, it has only taken a decade to develop drones with autonomous capabilities. Companies such as 3DR are making drones with pre-coded aerial maneuvers designed for users who want high-quality aerial

footage without professional training.

While many people will not go out and purchase drones in the near future, everyone should be mindful of integrating drones safely into our lives, especially as they continue to increase in popularity. Important problems, such as their interference with law enforcement, fire-fighting efforts and their potential invasions of privacy must not be underestimated.

Perhaps in the near future, instead of looking for cars when crossing the road, we might look up at a sky full of drones and hear others complain about the hassle of registering their drones with long wait times and service even worse than at the DMV.

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Regarding your editorial (“The Pros and Cons of Big Business Dominating Price Center, Oct. 29, 2015), if we hope to support local businesses by giving them space on campus, University Centers needs to step up and enforce a minimum level of quality. Although I normally go out of my way to shun the chains, I must admit that their presence at UCSD has meant a step up for students’ mealtimes. I have been on campus long enough to remember the Tia Molly’s that Rubio’s replaced, as well as the Chinese fast food joint she ran (subsequently replaced by Panda Express). Sorry to say, but there was little worth eating at those stands, with the possible exception of its fusion Moo Shu Burrito. Panda’s food may not be truly Chinese, but they do use quality ingredients, leading to the long lines that form daily.

Even today, it’s the locally run places like Shogun, Hi-Thai and

the amount of waste that UCSD produces. It will also reduce costs because these one-time-use trays and plates will not need to be purchased but rather an initial purchase of reusable ones — nor created in the first place — thus reducing the use of non-reusable resources. This transition from one-time-use products to reusable ones will grow UCSD’s sustainable community and encourage protection of the environment to supply a cleaner, longer lasting place for individuals to live.

Yours sincerely, Anna Ward Sixth College, Freshman Bombay Express that take advantage of having a monopoly by foisting subpar ingredients on the student population. The big advantage of the chains is that they won’t adjust their processes and sell students an inferior product just because they could. I love Thai food, but I have given up on Hi-Thai, for example, after biting into too many pieces of bland mystery cartilage, and the pre-formed chicken cubes used by Bombay Express have turned me off from campus Indian food.

Thanks to their monopoly positions, revenues at such places may be meeting University Centers’ goals but leaving them with lessthan-happy customers. By working with these entrepreneurs, perhaps University Centers can increase their revenues and make for a better dining experience at the same time before we have to bring in even more chains.

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The UCSD Guardian sat down with Republican U.S. Senate candidate George “Duf ” Sundheim and got his view and plans for college affordability, immigration reform and Citizens United. By Allison Kubo //Features Editor

G: We would like to focus on issues pertinent to students,

G: You’ve expressed a need to not

so let’s get right into it. How do you feel about student loans, such as the Perkins Loans?

rely on social welfare programs, but to reform the ones we do need. Which ones need reforming and what would you do to reform them?

DUF: In respect to affordability, we are way too dependent

on loans. Loans are particularly harmful to the middle class.

One of the main issues is, we are increasingly finding ways to provide scholarships for people in low [incomes] and people with high [incomes] are able to pay but people in the middle are getting squeezed. We need to provide loans where necessary but we have to focus on affordability. In a society, where we’ve had incredible disruptive technology, the education system has too much in common with the education system of 300 years ago. Whether it’s college affordability or other issues, we need to make room for innovation. We need to drastically upgrade and update our systems. The answer isn’t better loan programs the answer is more affordable colleges.

DUF: Specifically, a number of jobs programs are way too big and we need to retrain that focus. There are a few good ones, but they don’t tie them to jobs. They do a great job of training people for jobs, but jobs that aren’t there. When George Shultz was Secretary of Labor, [government job programs were] run in coordination with the businesses, so it would be like Boeing needs 40 people to do some task, and they would train people to do it.

There is a place for welfare too, but we’ve seen an explosion of the number of people on food stamps and that’s a problem.

G: Would you try to encourage cut back on the bureaucratic side of large universities?

DUF: Administrative cost continues to rise but outside

of academia the administrative cost is going down because of technology. Where is the disconnect? Where is the added value where is the accountability? I think it needs to be going the other way. We need to sit down and look at it. We need to make an effort to put more funds in the classroom, my approach is to make a commitment and get people in the room who are smarter than I am and have the resolve to stay with this until we get the changes we need. We have to start out with our number one priority but too often the number one priority isn’t students. We have an academic industrial complex more concerned on its perpetuation than the students.

G: You mentioned that you’re

going to help with unemployment through encouraging businesses to work with universities and through preparing people to go into the workforce. At UCSD, we have a pretty big engineering department and it seems that we’re generally prepared, through rigorous classes, to go into the workforce. And we work a lot with businesses, for example, Qualcomm. The issue for them isn’t a lack of preparation or familiarity with companies, it’s that there just aren’t enough jobs for students out of college. If elected, how would you intend to help that?

G: What are your thoughts on Citizens United and campaign finance reform?

DUF: I think that’s one of the largest threats to our

democracy, that a small group of wealthy people have such a large impact on the political process, and I want to seriously look at what kind of alternatives we can come up with to our [current] system. If you look at the Republican CNBC debate, there are some stations that appear to have bias, and when you look at Tim Russert or Chris Matthews or George Stephanopoulos, you see people who have come from positions working for highlevel Democrats who find work in the media. I’m not sure what the exact solution is, but at the very least we need to admit failure and make sure that whatever money goes into campaigns is immediately disclosed.

G: What would you do to make college more affordable?

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With Barbara Boxer retiring and leaving her senate seat vacant for the first time in years, there is competition for one of the California senate seats. Though California is generally Democratic, candidate Duf Sundheim shows potential as a centrist Republican candidate and former chairman of the California Republican Party.

DUF: I’m deeply concerned about what we are doing to people your age is we keep coming up with great programs that we will be left paying for $20 trillion

in debt. I think we need to fundamentally address the way we provide education. What is the quality and cost? Should we be looking at online classes? What is the role of four-year education? Especially in California, people aren’t getting a college degree in four years, they are taking five or six. Looking at the number who start and the number who graduate, the percentage that have to drop out because of economic reasons is way too high and people are dropping out.

Why not have more classes online and have more accountability? Looking at the UC system, the pension, the retirement system for professors and staff is not sustainable. It’s not just one problem and one thing will solve it, we need to look at [the education system] in a fresh light.

G: What about social security? There’s been a lot of talk about how that’s been mismanaged and is soon going to run out, especially for people who are in college now. In all reality it’s not going to be there when we get older.

DUF: You’re right, it won’t be there. I think there’s been a lot of talk about privatizing social security, and in places where they have been able to do that, such as Chile, they’ve seen success with privatization. Americans want to know that that money will be there. What the government has done has been criminal, and the people who are responsible for the management of social security have done a great disservice to the American people. They actively misled the public as to what is going on with that system, and it’s been going on for way too long. It’s going to require an honest discussion of that problem, and the surest way to prevent a solution from being found is to not involve people. In San Jose, we worked with the people and eventually came up with a pension plan that 70 percent of people supported, and at the end of the day, it will save the people of San Jose one billion dollars.

Check back for more Q & A’s with congressional candidates later in the school year.

DUF: You’re right, that is a big issue, and I want to deal with that in a two-pronged way. First of all, we have been issuing a ton of H-1B visas [Temporary work visa for foreign skilled workers], and there’s an incredible demand to issue more H-1B visas than are available. So, at least in that area, we aren’t training enough Americans for those jobs. With respect to your question, I agree with you, and that’s why yesterday I spent a portion of the day talking with the president of a community bank. [We discussed] how we can revive community banks, because we have seen an implosion in community banks, which means there has been an implosion in the creation of small businesses. Those small businesses become big businesses.

So if you’re looking for the engine of high quality jobs, historically in the United States it has been in the smallbusiness level. If you look at large tech companies like Google, many started in garages as small businesses.

What I’m trying to say is that some companies that start out as small businesses today will be, in five or 10 years, the ones looking to hire students out of college.

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here are few sports that are as wonderfully strange as horseback riding. The average non-rider seems to believe riders are just sitting on their horses — a mirage that fades upon entering a horse show, where a motley of well-dressed riders, brusque trainers and numerous horses gather around arenas (in an English show) filled with jumps of varying heights. The strangeness, however, is not in the appearance: It’s in the core tenor of the sport, which balances itself between grit and tenderness, elegance and athleticism, technique and intuition. After all, you’re sitting on 1000 pounds of fear and minimal depth perception, and you have to convince it to look like a ballerina as it soars over several poles lifted 3.5 feet in the air. But for the English riders of UCSD’s Equestrian Team, that kind of feat is practically second nature.

On Nov. 7 to Nov. 8, the team

partnered with USD to host the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association show at Del Mar Horsepark. A typical rider, dressed sharply in an English riding vest, jodhpurs and meticulously shined black boots, her hair tucked into a net under a helmet, gathered around to draw which horse she would ride for the day. For an IHSA show, the Hollywood sentimentalism around a specific horse-human bond (“Warhorse,” for instance) is quickly punctured: Riders tend to compete on strangers’ horses. “[An IHSA show] is different from a lot of other shows because you don’t have to own your own horse,” Revelle College junior Bahar Salehi, the team’s outreach manager, told the UCSD Guardian. “Every college brings at minimum two horses, and then you draw a horse randomly, and that’s the horse you happen to ride for the day. A lot of people like it, because it tests your

skill as a rider, [and] not necessarily how well you and a horse know each other.”

For many on the UCSD team, coming to UCSD meant being able to continue or take up riding.

Salehi, who rode as a young teenager and then had to quit in high school, noted that people who want to ride often can’t because of difficulties getting to a stable or paying for lessons. But at UCSD, those problems are mitigated. For a relatively small fee, anyone can join the team and start riding — though to be able to show requires clearance by a coach. According to Salehi, the small team prefers this kind of informality and the supportiveness it fosters.

“Anyone who has the passion for [riding] can join, and I feel like that makes our team a lot closer, because it’s people at all different levels, and we’re all helping each other — we don’t really have a varsity, or [junior See HORSEBACK, page 8

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varsity] or anything like that,” Salehi said. “It’s just, you know, you ride at the level you ride at, and everyone in the team pushes you to improve. … The atmosphere [of the team] is very familial.”

A shared love for horses unites the team members, who vary widely in background, race, major and interests. With a sport like horseback riding, which is practiced by a relatively small number of people, it is perhaps easier for the average person to miss the subtleties involved.

“You and your horse are equally responsible for each other, and it’s definitely really unique in that you’re supposed to communicate with something that can’t actually understand your words, so you have to come up with a different language to speak to them in,” Salehi said. “There’s definitely a major bonding, not only with a horse that you’ve had for years or known for years, but even with one that you get on for the first time ever. There’s a moment where you guys have to get used to each other, you have to learn how the horse rides and he or she has to learn how you ride, among other things.”

According to Eleanor Roosevelt College sophomore and co-captain Aleena Karamally, IHSA judging is set up to reward a rider’s composure and technique,

regardless of how the horse acts. Because of the unpredictable nature of the drawing, and often because of an individual horse’s capriciousness, the ability to adapt is a vital characteristic of a good rider.

“It takes a special kind of patience [to work with the horses], especially because we don’t know the horses that we’re going to ride,” Karamally told the Guardian. “So you really have to be adaptable and flexible — sometimes you get the lesson pony who’s been there and done that and really doesn’t like his job, and sometimes you get a really nice show horse. …

And the judges take that into consideration; they really do judge based on that. If they can tell that you have a horse that’s acting up a lot and you still ride really well, you can still place really well, which is something that I think makes IHSA really special.”

From the acrobatics of Cavalia to the crafted cowboy spirit of Western riding, from dance-like Dressage to poised English riding, the essence of horseback riding is the silent coordination between horse and rider. To ride well requires reaching a partnership based not on anthropomorphization, not on sentimentalism, but upon appreciating the vast differences between humans and horses and communicating despite them.

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junior midfielder Kiera Bocchino sent a left-footed shot just high of the mark to put pressure on the Falcons. Sophomore midfielder Elisa Martinez followed up with two strong efforts of her own, one of which was narrowly deflected by Seattle Pacific sophomore goalkeeper Molly Stinson. UCSD ultimately outshot Seattle Pacific 12–4 on the half.

The Falcons mustered some strength again in the 50th minute when senior midfielder Isabel Farrell hit the target off a cross from junior forward Hannah Huesers, posting the critical insurance point for Seattle Pacific.

The Tritons attempted to battle back late in the match but fell just short of the comeback. Bocchino tapped in a close-range shot off a corner kick from sophomore midfielder Jordyn McNutt in the 84th to narrow the deficit to one, but a last-ditch effort to equalize in the final seconds of the game came up shy of success.

UCSD senior starting goalkeeper Kelcie Brodsky, who has played that position since her freshman year, walked off the field after her last collegiate contest with 28 career shutouts and a school-record 386 saves; she posted 101 stops in her final season as a Triton.

“I want them to reflect on what it took to get to this point,” Jones said.

“They came on really strong at the end of the season and through the CCAA Tournament. Yeah, we can feel sorry for ourselves in the moment, but I want them to remember the taste of this defeat and not want it to happen again.”

The Tritons are now 23–10–3 in their 13 NCAA Championship appearances and 3–3 in NCAA tourney games against Seattle Pacific.

Despite the loss of star goalkeeper Brodsky, the Tritons will have a strong group of returners on the field to vie for the championship crown in their 2016 campaign.

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campaign. Similarly, their previous 14 conference wins were the highest the franchise has had since UCSD joined the CCAA back in the 2000– 01 season.

Of the returning squad, three of the starters — senior forward Drew Dyer, junior guard Adam Klie and senior guard/forward Hunter Walker — were all named to to the All-CCAA Second Team last season.

Walker and Klie led UCSD with their highest average points per game (12.3 and 12.2, respectively). Dyer was close behind with an average of 11.8 points per game and he also ended the season with a 0.857 freethrow percentage. On top of these stats, Walker ended the season with 54 assists, which was the team-high, and Klie ended the season with a team-high 28 steals.

The four other returning squad members are sophomore guards George Buaku and Grant Jackson, junior guard Aleks Lipovic and

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senior forward/center Zach McMillan. Lipovic was also a starter, starting all 27 of the previous season’s games amongst which he averaged 8.1 points. McMillan was the Triton big-man leading the team with an average 5.2 rebounds per game and averaging 12 total blocks.

Buaku and McMillan started last season for nine games, and Jackson started 12 games.

Another impressive stat for the Tritons was that UCSD was second among all CCAA teams in most three-pointers made with a total of 210 last season. Lipovic was the highest contributor to this tally, with a total of 55 treys drained during game time.

The Tritons have high hopes for the upcoming season, which they will be tipping-off against Winona State this Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. in RIMAC Arena.

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fter clinching a California Collegiate Athletic Association tournament berth this past week, UCSD looked to improve on its eight-game winning streak against its last two opponents of the regular season. The Tritons saw their streak broken at Cal State Dominguez Hills in five hard-fought sets but rebounded the night after in a clean sweep of Cal State Los Angeles. UCSD, now 18–10 overall and 14–6 in the CCAA, will play Cal State Los Angeles again on Thursday in the opening round of the CCAA tournament that it is hosting.

Game One On Friday, Cal State Dominguez Hills broke the UCSD women’s volleyball team’s eight-game winning streak in an exhausting five-set match at the Torodome. The scores of the game were 25–16, 18–25, 21–25, 25–19 and 17–15.

The Tritons’ record fell to 17–10 overall and 13–6 in the CCAA. It was their first loss since Oct. 10. This defeat sealed UCSD’s fate to be the third seed at this week’s CCAA tournament in La Jolla.

Cal State Dominguez Hills improved to 10– 17 and 8–11 as it notched its third-straight victory.

UCSD hit just .161 (61–29–199) in the game, its lowest attack percentage since its last loss on Oct. 10 to San Francisco State. Cal State Dominguez Hills hit .207 (70–25–217) and out-blocked the Tritons 13–6. The Toros committed 12 service errors but maintained a 6–1 advantage in service aces.

Four Tritons had at least 10 kills: senior outside hitter Danielle Dahle (14), junior outside hitter Meagan Wright (11), senior opposite Kameron Cooper (10) and sophomore outside blocker Alyssa McNeely (10). Sophomore libero Amanda Colla recorded a career and match high 30 digs, and senior setter Heidi Sierks added 51 assists.

For the Toros, sophomore outside hitter Bridget Heins led all players with 18 kills. Sophomore middle blocker Morelia Castro had eight blocks in addition to two solos.

UCSD defeated Cal State Dominguez Hills at home back on Sept. 26. The Tritons’ impressive eight-match win streak was their longest since the 2013 season.

Game Two The UCSD women’s volleyball team ended its regular season with a fantastic win, sweeping Cal State Los Angeles in three sets on the road. The scores from the Eagles Nest Arena in Los Angeles were 25–14, 25–13 and 25–23. UCSD improved its record to 18–10 overall and 14–6 in the CCAA. UCSD out-blocked Cal State Los Angeles 7–0 and held its opponent to a .055 (24–18–110) hitting percentage. The Tritons hit .210 (41–15–124) and sided-out at 60 percent, while the Golden Eagles sided-out at 40 percent.

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swings transitioning from defense to offense,” UCSD Head Coach Ricci Luyties told the UCSD Athletics Department. “With their attacking, our middles really made our offense run smoothly the entire match.”

Dahle led all players with 12.0 points on nine kills and four blocks, two solo, while adding 12 digs. Wright, also an outside hitter, pitched in 11.0 points. She also had a match-high 10 kills in addition to seven digs.

Sierks was the only player with a double-double, finishing with 28 assists and 10 digs. Colla had a match-best 19 digs, while opposite Cooper and middle Alyssa McNeely each had 8.0 points. Sophomore middle blocker Rebecca Seaberry hit .300 (5–2–10) in the middle.

Cal State Los Angeles got seven kills and 8.0 points from senior outside hitter Iona Lofrano and 11 digs from junior libero Chloe Clancy. The Tritons swept the Golden Eagles once before back on Sept. 25 at home.

UCSD is hosting the first ever CCAA Women’s Volleyball Tournament from Nov. 19 to Nov. 21 at RIMAC Arena. The Tritons ended the season third in the CCAA regular season standings and come into next week’s inaugural tournament as the No. 3 seed. They will play sixth-seeded Cal State Los Angeles again in a quarterfinal match on Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m.

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Just days after winning its record ninth California Collegiate Athletic Association title, the UCSD women’s soccer team fell in a heartbreaking 2–1 decision to Seattle Pacific University in the first round of the NCAA Division-II Championship last Thursday night.

Despite battling through heavy rain and 30- to 40-mile-per-hour winds for the duration of the contest, the Tritons came up just short in several attempts on goal, ultimately ending their strong 2015 campaign. Their record stands at 15–6–1 overall.

“We came in very confident,” UCSD Associate Head Coach Kristin Jones told the UCSD Athletics Department. “Not cocky by any means but very confident and very proud of the way we’d been playing over the last couple of weeks and still riding a bit of a high

from the CCAA championships. It is disappointing, but I know deep down that every kid left everything they had out on that field.”

The Falcons struck first: With the wind at her aid, senior midfielder Laura Moore fired a corner kick straight into the back of the net in the 19th minute to push her team

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to an early advantage. Seattle Pacific then proceeded to out-shoot UCSD by an 11–1 margin on the half.

The tides seemed to turn in the second half. The Tritons now held the wind advantage — within minutes of the start of the half, See W. SOCCER, page 11

Although the season for UCSD’s men’s basketball hasn’t started yet, things are already looking good for them — they were ranked third in the California Collegiate Athletic Association annual preseason rankings, which the CCAA released last Wednesday.

The annual preseason rankings were created from a poll of all the head coaches in the CCAA, and first place was allocated to defending CCAA regular-season champion Chico State, which made it as the top seed with a total of 137 points and eight first-place votes. Second place was given to defending conferencetournament champion Cal Poly Pomona, which received a total of 124 points with one first-place vote.

UCSD, in third place, wasn’t that far behind Cal Poly Pomona, as it received 121 overall, just three less than the second place, but UCSD

also managed to take up two firstplace points. The only other team to garner a pair of first-place points besides UCSD was Cal State San Bernardino with 116 overall points.

The top four seeds were the only teams to receive first-place votes on the list. The CCAA basketball conference has a total of 13 teams.

With its third-place preseason ranking, UCSD placed the highest on the poll than it ever has since the poll was created in 2006–07 season.

All of the starters are returning from the 2014–15 season, which went decently for UCSD. The consistency of the squad will only benefit UCSD, considering they went 16–11 overall and 14–8 in CCAA rankings this past year. With its CCAA record, UCSD ended the previous season with the fifth seed and earned a berth in the conference tournament.

Also, the team’s 16-win season was the franchise’s highest overall number of wins since the 2008–09 See M. BASKETBALL, page 11