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UCSA Petitions for Open Forum About Tuition Hike

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he UC Student Association initiated a petition demanding that UC President Napolitano and Gov. Jerry Brown publicize their private meetings regarding the university and its budget.

“We call on you to come out of the shadows of the ‘committee of two’ by participating in a public forum regarding UC costs and funding this spring, to be hosted by the Associated Students at UC Davis,” the petition stated.

Since its conception on March 30, the petition has gained nearly 1,000 signatures.

According to the SF Gate, UCSA hopes to collect at least 3,000 signatures and to present it to Napolitano and Brown at the next UC Board of Regents meeting in late May. After the Regents approved a 5-percent annual tuition increase over the next

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five years last November, Napolitano said that the state would need to provide the University of California with an extra $220 million to halt the tuition hikes. Brown responded by offering $120 million with the condition that tuition stay flat.

To resolve the financial disparity, both agreed to hold private meetings to discuss the matter. UCSA President Jefferson Kuoch-Seng argues that the Committee of Two’s lack of transparency is preventing UC students from being cognizant about their own futures.

“With the Committee of Two’s creation, we haven’t heard very much from both parties, and their committee reports were lackluster,” Kuoch-Seng told the UCSD Guardian. “What the Committee of Two discusses is unknown and the fate of what is

See PETITION, page 3

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Scripps Researchers Find Missing WWII Aircraft Sonar equipment helped locate the dive bomber in the Republic of Palau after 70 years.

BY andrew chao

contributing writeR This past week, researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment recovered a missing U.S. Navy aircraft dating back to World War II that has been missing for over 70 years. The find was made possible through their collaboration with the BentProp Project and the Coral Reef Research Foundation.

The U.S. Navy Curtiss SB2C Helldiver was found at a depth of 100 feet in a lagoon on the island country of the Republic of Palau. The

Helldiver played a part in Operation Stalemate II, a codename for the Battle of Peleliu during World War II, in which U.S. Marines and Army forces clashed with the Japanese to capture a strategic airstrip on the tiny island.

Mark Moline, one of the lead researchers conducting the search, explained to the UCSD Guardian the impact such discoveries have for the families of missing servicemen.

“It is important to remember that the remains of over 78,000 service members never made it home from World War II. That represents almost 20 percent of the total U.S.-combat losses,” Moline said.

“The number of family members impacted is even higher and they

were never granted closure on these losses.”

The recent find comes at a time when emerging undersea technologies make such recoveries possible. With technologies such as state-of-the-art unmanned vehicles and sonar equipment, wrecks like the Helldiver can more easily be acquired.

“The development of technology and the methods of applying that technology make locating these wrecks possible. While the technology itself has been around for a decade or so, the particular combinations of technologies, the search methods and application is See AIRCRAFT page 3

OVT Set to Offer Kosher and Halal Options The dining hall will start serving these options in Fall 2016 due to a joint effort by Muslim and Jewish student groups.

BY Maria Sebas

Staff Writer UCSD will soon become the first UC campus to have a kosher and halal dining hall. Over a year ago, the Muslim Student Association and the Union of Jewish Students initiated a joint effort to bring new menu options to the Oceanview Terrace dining hall in the fall of 2016.

Eleanor Roosevelt College junior and member of the MSA Hibah Khan told the UCSD Guardian that the two student organizations decided to work together because they were more likely to achieve their goal through a joint initiative.

“It was recommended that the two clubs combine forces because it would be unusual that we are working together,” Khan said. “We represent a more united effort to achieve one common goal.”

According to Khan, the collaboration came about after the UJS approached the MSA with the idea to renovate OVT. A team of four students representing both clubs is working with university staff on the initiative to renovate the dining hall.

“We have been working with the director of [Housing, Dining and Hospitality], Mark Cunningham, since last year trying to make this happen,” Khan said.

Khan also mentioned that the renovations to OVT could include a prayer space for Muslim and Jewish students.

Zev Hurwitz, executive vice president of the Union of Jewish Students, explained that the idea for a dining hall with kosher and halal menu options came from the results of a universitywide student satisfaction and campus climate survey in 2013.

“The Union of Jewish Students responded en masse to the Strategic Planning Campus Climate Surveys,” Hurwitz told the Guardian. “By saying, ‘Hey, we need more kosher food on campus.’”

According to Hurwitz, the UJS received a call from Vice Chancellor of Student Life Gary Ratcliff asking for input on how to improve on-campus dining options for students who observe dietary guidelines for their faiths. Hurwitz and the UJS began working with Ratcliff ’s office and the MSA to mutually advocate for new dining options.

The renovation of OVT will allow religious students of Jewish and Muslim backgrounds to live on campus and use their meal plans toward hot food, rather than packaged meals from the on-campus markets.

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New Mutation Technique Could Expedite Genetic Manipulation

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Researchers conducted experiments and found that the new techniques could eradicate diseases by fixing infected cells.

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contributing WRITER Biology researchers at UCSD recently created a new method, mutagenic chain reaction, for converting heterozygous mutations to homozygous mutations in a chain reaction.

This discovery is a leading breakthrough as it is an improvement in the current technology and contradicts the laws of Mendelian genetics. According to Mendelian genetics, an individual has received one copy of most genes from the mother and the other copy of most genes from the father. In the case that an individual inherits a copy of a mutated gene and a copy of a normal gene, then the individual is phenotypically normal but is a carrier of the condition. However, when an

individual has two copies of a mutated gene, they exhibit the condition.

The researchers, Professor Ethan Bier and Ph.D. student Valentino Gantz, recently published their findings in Science, detailing mutagenic chain reaction.

Bier explained that, in the past few years, there has been a wave in genome manipulation where it is now possible to manipulate and change the genome of an organism.

“It is now routine to generate virtually any change in the genome of an organism of choice at will,” Bier said in a press release.

The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats is an example of this and was used to eliminate HIV from infested cells by the Salk Institute.

However, lead author Gantz said that the mutagenic chain reaction is far more efficient than the Cas9/CRISPR

system since the CRISPR technology has to be executed manually on each sequence, and the mutagenic chain reaction is simply able to duplicate the mutation from the chromosome and quickly spread it.

“MCR is remarkably active in all cells of the body with one result being that such mutations are transmitted to offspring via the germline with 95-percent efficiency,” Gantz said in the press release. “Thus, nearly all gametes of an MCR individual carry the mutation in contrast to a typical mutant carrier in which only half of the reproductive cells are mutant.”

Bier and Gantz performed the experiment on the fruit fly Drosophilia melanogaster where they discovered that a mutation generated on one copy of the chromosome quickly carried over to the other corresponding chromosome resulting in both copies of the gene having the mutation. This

new technology can facilitate further research into genetic engineering and genome manipulation and has the potential to eradicate diseases, such as malaria, and even fix HIV-infected cells or cancer cells.

Scientists, such as George Church, a prominent geneticist from Harvard, criticize the study for being a “step too far.” Church and other prominent geneticists discussed how the technology would allow researchers to edit genes in the human germline and could result in the spread of deleterious mutations to the rest of the population.

This study was funded by two grants, and a patent has been filed by the UCSD Technology Transfer Office to license the new technology.

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“Committee of Two” Declined UC Davis’ Invitation to Open Forum ▶ PETITION, from page 1

in store for the UC [system] is withheld to only President Napolitano and Gov. Brown.”

UC Davis students previously invited the two to meet for a public forum on their campus on April 1.

Napolitano sent a letter on March 17 declining their invitation due to “previous commitments.”

Kuoch-Seng told the Guardian that they hope the petition will urge

Napolitano and Brown into eventually holding a public forum.

“Since they both had prior commitments, they were unable to commit to our request,” Kuoch-Seng said. “We then sought out to make an effort to pressure, by using the petition to show how many individuals support the event, the two to commit to attending the event on a date that would work best.”

When the Guardian asked the UC Office of the President how

Napolitano would respond to the petition, media specialist Shelly Meron stated that she had already declined UC Davis’ invitation.

However, Meron referenced the March 17 letter, which Napolitano sent before the UCSA published their petition.

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Hurwitz: Lack of Options Deterred Students From Living on Campus ▶ OVT, from page 1

Hurwitz described to the Guardian the difficulty he had during his freshman year finding kosher food on campus.

“There were very few things I could find in the dining halls that were kosher,” Hurwitz said. “So I ended up eating a lot of salad during my freshman year.”

Both halal and kosher dietary restrictions involve a specific process in which an animal is slaughtered.

Those who observe halal and kosher dietary restrictions also don’t eat pork.

By the end of Hurwitz’s freshman year, the markets started selling prepackaged kosher food.

“But that isn’t sufficient for someone’s entire diet,” Hurwitz said, adding that the price of food at the markets is more expensive than at the dining halls.

Hurwitz isn’t the only student to be deterred from living on campus due to the lack of kosher and halal

food options.

“I would say that there are a good number of Jewish- and Muslimobservant students on campus who choose not to live on campus simply because they would have to buy into the dining dollars program and don’t have an applicable use for it,” Hurwitz said.

HDH could not be reached for comment by press time.

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Researchers Hope to Locate Other Lost Aircraft of MIA Servicemen ▶ AIRCRAFT from page 1

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only recent,” Moline explained.

Due to the staggering number of servicemen still listed as MIA, Moline’s team hopes to better facilitate future searches.

“The team’s goals are to increase the efficiency in finding these wreck sites and servicemen,” Moline said.

“This will take efforts in technology research and development, adapting and maturing [technological] developments, blending intelligence with search approaches, as well as scaling up the entire process to be

able to address losses not only in the Western Pacific, but [in] Europe, Africa, et cetera.”

The team received funding support from the U.S. Office of Naval Research, which seeks to use cutting-edge undersea technology to recover lost aircraft associated with servicemen who have been listed as MIA for decades. In addition, Moline’s work translates well into current problems. Through such pioneering efforts, search-and-rescue missions and finding shipping accidents can be better facilitated. Salvaging these aircrafts may bring closure to the

families of lost loved ones.

“While the generation that fought the war ages, the following generations still feel the emptiness of not knowing what happened to their relatives,” Moline said. “From the wreckages we find, the sacrifices made for us by these young men [over] 70 years ago become crystal clear, and that is something that we as individuals and a nation need to acknowledge and remember.”

In addition to the Helldiver, five other aircrafts are on the expedition’s

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Sun God, Reborn The UCSD Guardian’s Editorial Board weighs in on the many changes being implemented this year, including a smaller lineup and a no-reentry policy.

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ike most students, we on the UCSD Guardian Editorial Board have been abuzz about the announcement of the Sun God Festival lineup, which includes headliner Snoop Dogg, OK Go, Jhene Aiko and STRFKR. A.S. Concerts and Events has delivered on its promise of a household name, and we would like to recognize it for a job well done.

As the Guardian Editorial Board, however, we feel like our job isn’t complete until we find something to nitpick, so as a caveat to our congratulations, we would like to point out just a couple of things, some that were well-done, but some that need a little more work.

First, inviting Aiko, who is not yet a household name but steadily becoming one, is one of the best moves ASCE could have made.

She provides a fresh, female balance to Snoop and rounds out the festival lineup as a mix of

music to appeal to a wide range of students.

Aiko’s appearance, however, brings to light the underrepresentation of solo-female artists who have performed at Sun God Festivals in the past. Last year, DJ Anna Lunoe was the only solo-female artist to perform, compared to the seven solo-male artists. In 2013, the news was even worse, with seven male artists and not one solo-female artist. This is not at all representative of the music industry in today’s times, when the Billboard Top 100 have a fairly equal split between male and female artists. In fact, last fall, five solo-female artists occupied the Billboard top spots for six weeks, for the first time in the institution’s 56-year history.

With that much success from female artists, we would want to see them better represented in the Sun God Festival lineup.

Regardless, we give massive props to ASCE

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Napolitano Should Heed UCSA Petition and Increase Transparency The UC Student Association recently created a petition demanding transparency from California Gov. Brown and UC President Janet Napolitano through publicizing their monetary negotiations for the University of California.

Since forming the exclusive “committee of two” in January, Napolitano and Brown have been meeting privately to discuss the costs of the UC system, among other issues. The decisions being made behind closed doors will affect students the most, which is why UCSA is fighting to make that information public. This petition asserts that all California voters deserve to be aware of Napolitano and Brown’s meeting plans, and already has over 1,000 signatures from students across the UC campuses.

Last month, Napolitano told Bruce Varner, chairman of the Board of Regents, that the protests being held during the first day of the regents’ meeting were “crap” which demonstrates Napolitano’s blatant disregard for

student voices. However, Napolitano may have a chance at repairing the UC Office of the President’s relationship with students if the open forum is created. The idea of the “committee of two” is exclusionary. Napolitano and Brown hold the purse strings, yet their de facto committee removes students from the process.

However, UCSA’s commitment to influencing leaders may inevitably have some effect.

In addition to asking that the meetings’ be publicized, UCSA believes that students deserve to play active roles in the decisionmaking process. If the petition succeeds in convincing Napolitano and Brown to hold an open forum at UC Davis, students would have an opportunity to express their thoughts and be heard for once. Fortunately, students do have advocates in some state legislators.

Following the tuition hike announcement, lawmakers, including Speaker of the Assembly Rep. Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), expressed

began crafting legislation to counteract and prevent the hike. Most recently, Sen. Marty Block (D-San Diego) co-authored Senate Bill 15, which increases the maximum amount of funding allocated to Cal Grants A and B. If UCOP fails to become more transparent, the University of California may lose the very autonomy it utilizes to justify not adhering to state regulatory practices. Last February, several state senators proposed an amendment that would give the state control over the UC system.

Whether or not the state’s control would benefit students is debatable, but decisions will be made and a cost will be paid by all parties involved. Decisions made under pressure and uncertain circumstances will likely harm all parties involved, especially students. Thus, information and clarity is imperative to sustain the future of the UC system and therefore the future of students.

e like to pretend that the United States’ educational system is the best in the world, at least in the domain of higher education, since so many of its institutions are at the top of all kinds of university rankings. However, the Pearson ranking that assesses the global strength of the education system (cognitive skills and educational attainment) places the United States at a surprisingly low rank of 14. Ranked higher than our country’s system are multiple European systems in Finland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Ireland, Poland, Denmark, Germany and Russia.

This is a strange position to be in for the “best educational system in the world.”

A 2014 report by the OECD states that in 2012, only a dismal 39 percent of young Americans were expected to graduate from college.

In 1995, 33 percent was all the U.S. needed to rank first, but now, 39 percent only gets the United States a 19 out of the 28 places. Generally, Americans tend to focus too much on the rankings of their top institutions and the elite who go to the best 100 colleges, which leads them to completely ignore the deeper issues linked to mass education in the U.S. The federal education budget project reports that in 2014, only 6 percent of the $1.1 trillion in total appropriations funding across all federal agencies that year were given to education in the U.S. Another important note from this project is that defense and homeland security took up more than 50 percent of that funding.

In Europe, even though the system is not perfect, different systems have been tried out and have provided conclusive results. Finland suppressed grades and Germany made every higher-education university in the country free from tuition, putting a lot less stress on students’ shoulders. Those two countries are higher ranked than the U.S. in the Pearson rankings.

Also, despite the importance we put on secondary education, many European countries like France value a good high school education as a universal goal, something the U.S. lacks, which produces more well-rounded students coming out of high school.

Even so, everything is not completely bleak for the U.S. In recent years, efforts have been made to make education more affordable and accessible for students. Stanford University recently increased the ceiling for its financial aid, helping more families obtain free tuition to attend the prestigious school. Our own Rep. Scott Peters is trying to pass a bill to better help students repay their student loans with their employers.

Sadly, even with this progress, just the simple name “financial aid” means we have to pay for an education that should be accessible to all. In a developed country like the U.S., it is scary that we are so far behind in giving a valued education to everyone. Education here is a business, and just like many businesses in the U.S., it is leaving a lot of people behind.

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2015 Sun God Festival is Representative of Improved ASCE Approach ▶ SUN GOD, from page 4

for inviting Aiko, as well as female artists in the past. We hope that this is, in the words of a recent Billboard article, a movement, not a moment, for Sun God Festivals in the future.

We would also like to bring up something that has been gently mocked on social media, which is that in the year that the Sun God Task Force emphasized the importance of drug and alcohol safety, they brought in Snoop Dogg, an icon of drug use (mostly marijuana), as the primary headliner for the festival. In our interview, ASCE’s Seraphin Raya told us that the organization

believes that Snoop Dogg doesn’t promote the kind of excessive or dangerous drug use that has sent UCSD students to the hospital.

In fact, much of the festival this year seems to indicate a shift in the administration’s attitude from punishing drug and alcohol use to promoting its responsible use. In addition to the new beer garden for students 21 and older, the video students watch before they can register for tickets emphasizes that students can and should seek help for possible overdoses without fearing repercussions. Even more of a change, the video asks students who do intend to do drugs to use drug-safety kits to test the purity and safety of their drugs. While we can’t predict

what kind of results this approach will create, we applaud ASCE and the UCSD administration for taking a reasonable approach to the issue, as opposed to their usual policy of denying and ignoring that drugs and alcohol are bound to be used at a festival of this size and notoriety.

Despite the initial outcry over the changes to Sun God Festival, students seem to be settling in as the date approaches, and we’re excited to see how the festival evolves. If the idea is to shift the atmosphere of the festival, ASCE has definitely made major strides to that effect. On our wish list for next year is more representation of female artists and perhaps a more feasible re-entrance policy.

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Coffee Shop Crawl As the craft-beer capital of America, San Diego is home to countless breweries. The variety is so impressive that it boggles the minds of even the most experienced beer fans. It’s no surprise that pub-crawling — the age-old tradition of hitting up multiple pubs or bars in a single night as an excuse to gather with friends and get dead drunk — has successfully taken root in the city. However, sometimes excessive drinking comes across as a bad idea the morning after. Have a job interview the next day? Being healthy finally became your thing? Simply underage? If not alcohol, then what?

In San Diego, the rule is if you say no to beer, you say yes to coffee. So how about a coffee-shop crawl? Moving between coffee shops is not only a great way to try many drinks in one day, but it’s also a chance to show off your coffee-connoisseur self by comparing cappuccinos and pour-over coffee left and right. A coffee-shop crawl is a great way to hang out with someone new; it helps spark conversations and avoid awkward silences.

I should confess I have even tested coffee-shop crawling as an idea for a Tinder date, and it turned out to be a very positive experience, not only because being on the move allowed us to maintain a pleasant conversation, but also because coffee crawling is a morning activity, which makes a meeting with a stranger safe. Like pub crawls, coffee-shop crawls turn out best if planned with the right combination of forethought and room for improvisation, so here are some options for your next coffee run.

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the bean bar HOURS: Monday to Saturday: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

LOCATION: 1068 K St. San Diego, CA 92101

AVERAGE PRICE FOR A DRINK: $3.50 PERKS: Fresh pastries and cute baristas

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his newbie among coffee shops opened just five months ago. That being said, the owners and baristas, Sandra and Jason, have been in the coffee industry for quite a long time. Their wisdom isn’t hard to notice, considering The Bean Bar’s pour-over coffee and espresso are of undeniably high quality. While severe competition among San Diego coffee shops makes it hard for any new coffee place to stand out, you will definitely remember The Bean Bar’s unique ability to combine smooth flavor and rich aroma in all its drinks. The dreamy, light interior of this downtown location is full of sky-blue decorations that complement the pleasant milkiness of its drinks. Light, sunny and friendly, The Bean Bar is a great place to start your coffee-shop crawl.

la marque HOURS: Monday to Thursday: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Friday to Saturday: 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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LOCATION: 3590 5th Ave. San Diego, CA 92103

AVERAGE PRICE FOR A DRINK: $3.75 PERKS: Long opening hours, monthly specials.

a Marque is not just a coffee shop — it is a secret (shhh!) portal to Europe. The coffeehouse features two separate menus: one caffeinated and one non-caffeinated. The former is based on the Italian tradition of espresso drinks, while the latter includes truly European sparkling water — with all flavors of San Pellegrino and Acqua Panna. Another distinctive feature of La Marque is its variety of coffee brands. Here, you can try coffee made from either local or world-famous bean brands such as Intelligentsia, Bird Rock Coffee, Cafe Moto, Lavazza and many others. Like Bean Bar, La Marque is a new addition to San Diego’s coffee family, but La Marque’s ambitions are anything but humble. The owners plan on adding beer and an extensive assortment of food to the menu. Soon, this coffeehouse will turn into a full-blown restaurant, so crawl there before it’s too late.

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Darkhorse coffee roasters HOURS: Monday to Friday: 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Saturday to Sunday: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

LOCATION: 3260 Adams Ave. & 3794 30th St. San Diego 92116

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FILM REVIEW

effie gray The famous triangular love affair in Victorian England comes to life with Thompson’s controversial script.

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onsider a vulnerable woman in the Victorian era of England, living a lonely life with a cold husband, while her own family in Scotland is only reachable through letters. How would she react to such a miserable life?

Oscar-winner Emma Thompson, intrigued by the famous unconsummated marriage between the art critic John Ruskin and his teenaged wife Effie Gray, presents a film that tells this disputable story from

a feminist and subjective standpoint. Gorgeous in the sceneries and costumes, “Effie Gray” provides an alternative explanation for the oddness of the marriage and especially Ruskin himself, who has been considered a mystery for centuries.

Effie (Dakota Fanning), a 19-year-old girl from Scotland, begins to have a suppressed life in her new home in London, as John (Greg Wise) fails to give Effie enough love and attention. The situation is wors-

ened by the fact that John refuses to consummate their marriage. When the Ruskin couple heads to Scotland, along with one of the Pre-Raphaelites, Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge), who is going to paint John’s portrait there, the trip becomes the catalyst of the mutual attachment between Effie and Everett. Back in London, Effie decides to take control of her own life and consults her only trusted companion, Lady Eastlake (Emma Thompson), regarding the possibility of the annulment of her marriage.

“Effie Gray” is visually enjoyable as a well-produced period film.

Its captivation lies in the beautiful countryside sceneries of Scotland and the fabulous costume design.

The exquisite cast easily attracts the audience, and their penetrating acting is no disappointment.

Moreover, Thompson has written the screenplay in an appropriate language that is subtle and implicative, which suits the historical context of the Victorian period.

Yet, the film can be too subjective, as it accentuates the heroine as a pure victim surrounded by manipulative and selfish elders, with the exception of Lady Eastlake, and as a perfect young woman, who could be idealized. Throughout the film, there is no one single fault that can be found on the heroine, though she looks endlessly sorrowful, ill and even confused. Contrarily, the film has made Ruskin an absolute villain who is cold, cruel and contemptible, while in real life he was also a successful social thinker and philanthropist. “Effie Gray” suggests that the essential reason why Ruskin is

behaving in a queer way comes from his intimidating parents’ aggressive education. Nevertheless, reality could be much more complicated than this story that Thompson introduces to us. Instead of discussing the reactions of the society to the event, she simply approaches the matter from Effie’s psychological point of view and underscores the female vulnerability of the time as a whole.

Despite the depressing and emotional atmosphere the film creates, there are jocular moments of comedies from time to time. But if you find slow-paced movies oppressive, you might think these 108 minutes in the theater extremely long and tedious.

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Kintsugi

by Death cab for cutie Release Date March 27

Seattle-based indie rockers revive stale songwriting in their latest bout of melancholy.

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Gold and green are Great Maple’s colors — energetic, sunny, fresh and pleasant. The ambience is so brisk and lively that no customer could walk out of there feeling gloomy. This is definitely a restaurant worth checking out.

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or Death Cab for Cutie, coming up with an album title must’ve been tricky. After all, the title of an LP determines whether it’s destined for platinum sales or that dark, dusty corner in the back of the record shop — right? Shouldn’t it subtly reference an overarching theme through a complex metaphor or, at the very least, convey an ironic mockery of societal flaws?

Nah, if that were the case, there wouldn’t be so many self-titled nondebuts and albums denoted by what must’ve been arbitrary afterthoughts to museum-worthy cover art. Yet, Death Cab for Cutie’s latest release, “Kintsugi,” is no product of negligence; its apt title captures the essence of a record that must recover the clever songwriting of earlier releases and yet make the band’s characteristic sound seem new.

Kintsugi is a Japanese art movement in which shattered ceramics are put back together with gold-dusted lacquer. The album isn’t gold — it’s silver at best — but it does manage to fuse together the shards of the band’s collapsed relationships in a safe transition from the personal accounts of earlier releases to more distant ones. Though you’d expect the opposite from a band whose frontman, Ben Gibbard, just underwent a very public divorce and whose producer and guitarist, Chris Walla, recently left the band, its eighth LP relies on the stories of others to convey the intimate details of recovery.

Unabashed break-up tune “No Room in Frame” is an unfortunately tedious opening to the album; on it, Gibbard sings, “I don’t know where to begin/ There’s too many things that I can’t remember,” in an obviously beatdriven acknowledgement of Kintsugi.

The mood shifts with “Black Sun,” a forgettable single directed at any alternative-pop junkie looking for a dark but catchy hit with Two Door Cinema Club undertones.

Tracks “You’ve Haunted Me All My Life” and “Hold No Guns” recall the simple guitar arrangements and intelligent songwriting of 2005 hit “I Will Follow You into the Dark,” and both boast the most evocative vocals on the album. But the album’s biggest step forward is “Good Help (Is so Hard to Find),” an unexpected ‘80s pop homage with riffs reminiscent of The 1975’s “Girls” and a sustained contrast between smooth vocals and snarky explorations of celebrity life.

Though the album takes few risks and the tracks grow tiring by the end of the album as a result, “Kintsugi” does just what its title suggests. Its songs reclaim the elements that won Death Cab for Cutie its indie rock fame — relatable melancholy, smart writing and reverberating guitars — and show the band regaining its footing after the loss of Walla.

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UCSD Sweeps Conference Games Unbeaten Series Comes to an End

BY Liam Leahy

staff writer The UCSD women’s water polo team had a busy but very successful week, taking three out of its last four games. The blue and gold started the week suffering a narrow 7–8 loss to No. 5 ranked UC Irvine in the final home game of the season before winning all other matches on the road. On Saturday, the Tritons completed a 10–4 win over Sonoma State and a 9–6 win over Cal State Monterey Bay at Seaside, California, finishing the week with a 15–13 overtime win against Cal State East Bay. It was Senior Night at the Canyonview Aquatic Center on Thursday, as senior attackers Andie Nishimi and Jolene Guiliana played their final home games for UCSD. The Tritons took an early lead with a goal from sophomore attacker Lani Tittle. The game continued as a back-and-forth battle, resulting in five ties during the match. Guiliana later grabbed a goal and tied the teams at 5–5 in the third before freshman utility Kayla Fedler tied up the match once again at 6–6 at the end of the quarter.

Although UCSD took the lead at the beginning of the fourth with a goal from junior attacker Laurel Kistler, back-to-back goals for UC Irvine gave them an 8–7 lead which they held to take the match.

“It’s tough when you play this well all year, and we just haven’t been getting the wins,” UCSD head coach Brad Kreutzkamp said after the game. “Andie [Nishimi] is such a leader for this squad from the day she stepped in; she just bleeds Triton blue and gold. Jolene [Guiliana] always does something new and funny in each game that you don’t really expect. Tonight’s goal was a perfect example. I’m going to really be sorry to see them go.”

The Tritons’ luck changed over the remainder of the week as they played perfectly in their Western Water Polo Association away games.

On Saturday, the Tritons started out with a 9–6 win over Cal State Monterey Bay at Seaside, California. They began strong, scoring on their first possession with a goal from Kistler. However, the Otters responded with three back-to-

back goals and led 3–1 at the conclusion of the first quarter. The second quarter saw the teams record one score each, with junior center Lauren Finwall tallying for the Tritons before Cal State Monterey Bay responded. After the half, UCSD dominated the affair with junior goalie Courtney Miller keeping a scoreless third quarter. The Big Blue took a 5–4 lead with three goals from Tittle, sophomore center Lauren Boyer and junior attacker Julia Kirkland. In the final quarter, UCSD secured the win, netting four goals from Fedler, Guiliana and a hat-trick goal from Boyer.

In the second game of the day, against Sonoma State, UCSD dominated from the outset as it took an easy 3–0 lead in the first with goals from Tittle, Finwall and Kirkland.

Yet another goal from Boyer extended the Triton lead to four before Sonoma State got on the score sheet twice in the second. The Tritons displayed even more attacking prowess in the third, with scores from Boyer and junior attacker Emma Sasson and sophomore attacker Rachel Emami, three scores unanswered by Sonoma State. The teams drew the final quarter with two scores each, giving the Tritons an impressive 10–4 win.

UCSD faced a much tougher test on Sunday when it was forced to overtime versus Cal State East Bay at Pioneer Pool. The Pioneers drew first blood with an early score, but the Tritons responded with three goals — two from Kirkland and one from Kistler. The Tritons developed a 7–3 lead in the second quarter, but their opponents fought back to cut the deficit to one at halftime, 7–8. In the fourth, Cal State East Bay took a 13–12 lead and looked to have secured the win, but with just nine seconds left, Kistler scored a clutch goal for the Tritons to force overtime. Miller shut out the Pioneers in extra time and goals from Guiliana, and Kistler brought UCSD the 15–13 victory. Kistler managed an impressive four goals, while Sasson and Kirkland each recorded hat tricks.

The team will return to action on Saturday, April 18, in the Harper Cup at San Diego State.

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BY John Story

Associate SPORTS EDITOR After a 3–1 series defeat against California Collegiate Athletic Association rival No. 18 Cal Poly Pomona, the UCSD baseball team was able to snap its losing streak in a 19–2 standalone win against No. 20 Azusa Pacific University at home last Tuesday. This latest series dropped the Tritons to 23–12 overall and 19–8 in the CCAA. UCSD also fell to third place in the conference behind Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State Los Angeles, which are tied for first place at 17–7 each.

Game one of the Pomona series saw UCSD win in an epic walk-off one week ago today at Triton Ballpark. Junior outfielder Gradeigh Sanchez was sent home from third after stealing his first base of the year when redshirt freshman Justin Flatt found a seam late in the 11th inning.

Junior right-hander Justin Donatella (6–1) threw the first seven for the Tritons but was ineligible for the decision after the extra innings. Donatella tallied nine more knockouts to bring his 2015 total to 70, and he still holds a conference-best 0.70 ERA. “We’re just in that mode right now of trying to grind-out wins, trying to grind out at-bats,” UCSD head coach Eric Newman told the UCSD Athletics Department. “It’s still early in the season. We’re still only half way, but to the point of this game, this one was a good one to win — the way that game played out.”

The following night, Cal Poly Pomona sent five runners home unanswered to chalk up a 5–1 win against the Tritons. This would mark the turning point in the series and ultimately served to knock the Tritons out of their coveted first-place spot in the CCAA. Sanchez struck again in the fourth with a two-run double to score UCSD’s only runs of the game. Senior lefthanded southpaw Trevor Scott (4–5) caught the losing decision following a fifth-inning offensive onslaught by the Broncos.

The series moved to Pomona on Saturday, where UCSD suffered a doubleheader sweep with the Broncos winning 8–3 and 11–7, respectively, on their turf. Junior right-handed pitcher Alon Leichman (5–1) was credited with five runs, four

of them earned, across 4 1/3 innings pitched in the first game of the doubleheader and was given his first losing decision as a Triton pitcher. Junior right-hander all-purpose player Troy Cruz (5–3) received game two’s losing decision after just over five innings pitched, six hits and four runs.

Senior right-handed pitcher Dan Kolodin (2–1) had four hits and six runs, all of them earned relieving Cruz.

UCSD hosted Azusa Pacific University the following Tuesday, April 7, in what turned out to be a high-scoring standalone game to break the three-game losing streak. The Tritons delivered 19 runners across home plate off a season-best 19 hits to win in a one-sided 19–2 game. The win allowed UCSD to even Azusa’s win back in February for a 1–1 stand against the Cougars this year. With 10 runs already in the eighth, UCSD sent nine more home in that frame alone to mark the highest-scoring inning of Triton baseball thus far in 2015. True freshman right-handed pitcher Jack Rupe (1–0) earned his first decision as a Triton against the Cougars with a perfect two-frame appearance to start the rotation of six pitchers in the win.

“This win is going to be pretty significant, I think,” Newman said. “We really weren’t worried about it; what we needed to do was to get back to playing our kind of baseball — being tougher, being more disciplined and just really buying into all the work that we’ve been putting in.”

The Tritons will host fourth-place Cal State Monterey Bay for a four-game series at Triton Ballpark beginning Friday, April 10, at 6:15 p.m. after the official grand opening of the new Triton Ballpark and dedication of the Marye Anne Fox Clubhouse, which is scheduled for 30 minutes prior to the first pitch.

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Talented Tritons

Compiled by Katie Potts, Staff Writer and Marcus Thuillier, Sports Editor

This past Tuesday was National STUDENT-Athlete Day, and the UCSD Department of Intercollegiate Athletics recognized 12 outstanding Tritons at the event near RIMAC Arena. Created in 1987, National STUDENT-Athlete Day honors college student-athletes who have achieved excellence in both academics and athletics, combined with outstanding contributions to their schools and communities.

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he UCSD Guardian had the chance to interview two of the honorees, and we also congratulate the 10 others who were acknowledged for their achievements.

UCSD Guardian: As a student athlete, you get a lot of benefits that a regular student doesn’t. What’s the biggest benefit of doing a sport, and how do you take advantage of this?

Drew: [The] biggest benefit is that you have an automatic group of friends that you’re super close with. A lot of

Drew Dickinson

Drew Dickinson is a junior biochemistry/cell biology major with a 3.85 GPA • captain of the Triton saber squad • All-IFCSC honors with UCSD’s 11th-straight conference title in 2015

people refer to it as a family, and it really is. A lot of the time, you go into college not knowing many people, but with a team, there’s automatically, like, 35 people that you click with and share interests with.”

Caitlin: At UCSD, we don’t really get the huge benefits like athletes at bigger schools — we don’t get a lot of scholar-

ship money or cool gear. We’re all here because we love what we do. We’re in it for the experience and the friendships we’ll gain. I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

What is the best advice you have for future student-athletes?

Caitlin Brenton

Caitlin Brenton is a senior majoring in economics with a 3.92 GPA. • two-time All-America honorable mention • two-time All-CCAA First Team performer

Drew: The best advice I have is to come in with an open mind and take advantage of everything you can. When you come to college, it’s time to work as a team and support your fellow athletes. Supporting each other just boosts your friendships.

Caitlin: Plan your schedule out in advance so you’re not surprised at the end when you see how many units you

have left. On another note, though, you have to come in ready to work — you may have been a star in high school, but this is a different level of competition.

What are the best memories you have from your time as a student-athlete at UCSD?

Karinne Caisse

Karinne Caisse is a classical studies/ anthropology junior with a 3.66 GPA. • placed fifth in saber at the NCAA West Regional • Provost Honors recipient and multiple-time member of the Athletics Director’s Honor Roll

Drew: I definitely agree. All the crazy things that happen when traveling make the best memories. We have a tour-

nament every year in Chicago in February, and it’s always so cold — there’s so much snow! That was the most fun, though; we’d be walking back from dinner and end up having an impromptu snowball fight, and, yeah, it’s cold and really wet, but it was so much fun.

Caitlin: Road trips with the team were always fun. I remember our trip to Humboldt: Our bus driver was new and the

bus broke down, so my dad had to drive back and forth between the hotel and Humboldt to get our team to the game on time. Honestly, though, it’s all those crazy things that happen with your team that become memories you’ll never forget.

Nate Ford

Nate Ford is a human biology senior with a 3.72 GPA. • two-year representative with the Triton Athletes’ Council (currently secretary) • two-time California Collegiate Athletic Association All-Academic selection

FINAL COMMENTS Caitlin: You really get the same spectrum of intelligence between athletes and non-athletes. For both athletes and

Nick Roberts

Nick Roberts is a senior management science major with a 3.44 GPA • two-time CCAA All-Academic honoree • Academic All-District 8 First Team selection in 2014

non-athletes, there are people who may struggle to graduate, and then there are others whose biggest complaint is that an A+ won’t boost their GPA. Really, the only difference between us is that, for at least one quarter, if not more, we have 20-plus hours a week that we spend doing athletics that a normal student gets to do whatever they want.

Drew: One thing I want regular students to know about student-athletes: We really aren’t that different. We work

just as hard as everyone else — there is a big misconception that athletes have it easy. Especially here, we really have to work just as hard to stay afloat academically and athletically. We do have to work harder in the sense that we’re on the road a lot. We might have to take midterms on a plane ride or in a hotel room. You learn to manage your time really well. Anyone in any organization knows how that is.

Michaela Kazek

Michaela Kazek is a senior chemical engineering major with a 3.77 GPA. • four-year member of the women’s rowing team • UCSD Athletics All-Academic Team selection in 2013

Clayton Yamaguchi

Nadja Kern

Nadja Kern is a biochemistry/chemistry senior with a 3.68 GPA • member of the women’s basketball team that went 18–10 overall and 16–6 in the CCAA and also qualified for the league tournament • two CCAA All-Academic distinctions

Andie Nishimi

Andie Nishimi is a senior cognitive science/psychology major with a 3.95 GPA • Academic All-District 8 First Team and ACWPC All-Academic accolades in 2014 • selected three times to the UCSD Athletics All-Academic Team

Clayton Yamaguchi is an applied mathematics junior with a 3.43 GPA • two-time All-CCAA selection • won CCAA All-Academic distinction in 2014

Miranda Seto

Miranda Seto is a senior human development major with a 3.57 GPA • 2014 All-CCAA First Team selection • all-conference honorable mention in 2015

Madison Tanner

Madison Tanner is a senior political science/history major with a 3.46 GPA • three-time CCAA AllAcademic • 2014 U.S. Track and Field CCCA All-Academic selection

Luke Mitchell

Luke Mitchell is a junior history major with a 3.75 GPA • helped UCSD earn two Pacific Collegiate Swimming & Diving Conference titles • two College Swimming Coaches Association of America Scholar All-America honorable mention