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Scientists Develop First Algae-Based Surfboard Cal-CAB presented San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer with the sustainable surfboard on Earth Day.

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The UCSD men’s and women’s track and field teams finished their regular season this past weekend at San Francisco State’s Cox Stadium, competing in the California Collegiate Athletic Association championships. The men’s first-place finish marked the end of Chico State’s 11-year winning streak, while the women placed third overall behind first-place Chico State and Cal Poly Pomona at the end of the three-day meet.

Senior Nash Howe and junior Haley Libuit kicked things off for the Tritons on Thursday with first-place finishes in the men’s and women’s javelin. Howe won the javelin for the third consecutive year with a throw of 208 feet. Howe, the only automatic NCAA championship qualifier, already solidified his spot earlier in the season at the San Diego Collegiate Challenge with an astounding 222-foot throw. Libuit won her event with a personal best throw of 141-1/2, good for fifth on the UCSD all-time list.

“The trick with javelin is that less is more … so I [had] to relax,” Libuit told the UCSD Athletics Department. “I guess I was more relaxed [on Thursday], which is what helped.”

Sophomore Dan Golubovic also had a solid finish in the javelin, with a throw of 180-2/3, good for third place, while senior Travis Vandegriff took fifth.

On the women’s side, senior Ellexi Snover finished in fourth with a 125-1/4 throw. After the first day of competition, the men were in second while the women were in first.

The second day of events proved to be equally exciting, with several Tritons earning podium finishes and setting personal and school records, starting with the women’s 10k run. For the second year in

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a row, junior Paige Hughes finished in first place, this time with a new personal best of 36:02.64, beating the second-place finisher sophomore Sadie Gastelum from Chico State by nearly two seconds.

“I just had this stress coming in,” Hughes said.

“There was tougher competition going into it this year. … You’re doing it for your team to score as many points as [you] can.”

The team notion was exactly what head coach Tony Salerno tried to emphasize, as well, telling the UCSD Athletics Department, “We put so much focus on the team aspect of track and field. It’s very much a group effort, and it paid off.”

In the men’s 10k, junior Tareq Alwafai and senior Tanner Collins, making their collegiate debuts in this event, finished in second and third, respectively, with impressive times of 31:33.72 and 31:45.24. Both men also hold NCAA provisional qualifying times for the 5k.

On the field, the Triton men swept the competition in the high jump, with freshman Luis Carson (6-6 3/4), junior Sean Cook (6-4 3/4), freshman Raymond Silver (6-4 3/4), freshman Ruthvik Sunilkumar (6-4 3/4) and Golubovic (6-4 3/4), taking the top-five spots, respectively. In the long jump, the men continued to perform well, with freshman Matt Bowen earning a provisional qualifying mark of 23-11 1/2 and a third-place finish. Cook (22-9 3/4), senior Kyle Chiu (22-3/4) and sophomore Derek Van de Streek (21 3/4), finished not far behind in fourth, fifth and eighth, respectively.

In the women’s heptathlon, senior Veronica Bradley finished in third place and improved her provisional qualifying score to 4,550 points, a season best.

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California Center for Algae Biotechnology Scientists of UCSD, along with Arctic Foam, Solazyme, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Biofuels Action Awareness Network, have unveiled algae as an alternative to fossil fuels in the manufacturing of surfboards.

The surfboards were first shown at Copley Symphony Hall on Earth Day to San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer during National Geographic’s “World’s Smart Cities: San Diego” documentary.

The majorative run-of-themill surfboards are produced with polyurethane and, as a product of petroleum, a fossil fuel. However, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, 500,000 polyurethane surfboard cores are made each year, and these can be produced with a half liter of algal oil — a more sustainable resource, as reported

by Stephen Mayfield, the Director of Cal-CAB. Following this innovation comes the possibility to utilize algae’s properties in the conversion to polyols to perhaps increase surfboard performance. However, these algae-based polyols also have the potential to make various foams. Some uses of polyols include sealants and vehicle interiors, even adhesives.

Mayfield, a surfer of 45 years, told the UCSD Guardian how the relationship of the surfer and nature is disjointed.

“As a surfer, I never liked the idea that my connection with the ocean was through a plastic surfboard made from petroleum,” Mayfield said. “That is not sustainable and damages the environment, the exact opposite of what surfing and the oceans are all about.”

In a video by UCSD, Mayfield discussed how the venture was possible through the joint efforts of UCSD, Cal-CAB, Arctic Foam, Solazyme, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Biofuels Action Awareness Network.

“So this is the great thing about this project: Not any one of the groups that participated in it could have done this on their own,” Mayfield said. “As biologists, we can produce the algae oil, but then we need the chemist to convert that into polyols, then we need the surfboard companies to blow that into foam and shape the surfboard, we needed Solazyme — the big commercial algae company to give us enough oil to do this so we can do it at big scale — so that we could make a board that is sustainable and that comes See SURFBOARD, page 3

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Scientists are concerned that prolonged e-cigarette use could deter smokers from quitting and lead to nicotine addiction.

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Contributing Writer Researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have found that e-cigarettes may prevent smokers from quitting. On April 16, the team concluded a year-long survey that was published in the American Journal of Public Health.

The study originally started in 1990, and its aims were to gather information on smoking behavior for the California Department of Public Health. The survey from 2014 was expanded to include the e-cigarette after its introduction

and marketing in 2011. This study surveyed 1,000 smokers selected from public databases and examined their smoking behavior at two points that were a year apart. Dr. Wael Al-Delaimy, the lead researcher of the study, made the decision to expand the survey after seeing the publicity surrounding e-cigarettes and their advertised ability to aid a smoker in quitting.

Al-Delaimy discussed how the e-cigarette industry frequently makes false claims.

“Unlike other claims by the e-cigarette industry and advocates of vaping, the smokers in our

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study did worse if they have used e-cigarettes in the past compared to smokers who never used the product,” Al-Delaimy stated. “The e-cigarette user was less likely to quit smoking or cut down on the number of cigarettes they smoke.”

The difference between e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes is that e-cigarettes contain no tobacco; they do, however, contain nicotine. The risk of addiction to nicotine is what has scientists worried, especially as e-cigarettes are not a regulated substance.

The findings concluded that 59 percent of users are less likely

to quit smoking if they have used e-cigarettes when compared to smokers who have never used e-cigarettes. It also found that users of e-cigarettes were 49-percent less likely to decrease smoking.

An article in The Boston Globe reported that two studies have been done in the past regarding the same subject, one in Italy and another in New Zealand. Both studies, however, concluded that e-cigarettes do help smokers quit or decrease their usage.

Michael Siegel, a Boston University professor who has studied tobacco for

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Snoop Dogg Wears SDSU Jacket and Shirt at SGF 2015 Stuart Art Collection Receives $1 Million Endowment Gift UCSD Sun God Festival 2015 headliner Snoop Dogg wore San Diego State attire while performing in front of over 20,000 UCSD students.

According to an article by the San Diego Union-Tribune, Snoop Dogg sported the red and black Aztec colors to honor SDSU football player and college sophomore Malik Smith who benefited from The Snoop Youth Football League. Another beneficiary of the program was SDSU alumnus Ronnie Hillman, who is currently playing for the Denver Broncos as a running back.

According to the League’s website, Snoop Dogg founded the League in order to provide inner-city kids with an opportunity to participate in football and dance. Over 1,300 Los Angeles area kids enrolled during the opening season which began in September 2005.

Snoop Dogg’s son Cordell Broadus committed to UCLA as a running back this past February. Although Snoop is University of Southern California fan, he stated that he supports his son’s goal to play for USC’s rival team.

Mary Looker gifted $1 million to the Stuart Art Collection as part of a long-term endowment fund for its maintenance and future expansion.

Looker, who has been a member of the Friends of the Stuart Art Collection for the past 20 years, committed to initiate the art collection’s permanent fund in memory of her late husband, who was also involved in the organization. The outdoor public art collection currently consists of 18 sculptures located across campus and is entirely funded by monetary donations.

Chancellor Pradeep Khosla expressed his gratitude to Looker and the support of external donors in a UCSD press release.

“We are fortunate to have these contemporary works to enrich and engage the campus and local community, and we are grateful to Mary Looker and all of our generous supporters,” Khosla said.

Looker’s donation will ensure that the collection has sufficient funds for future art projects for several decades.

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Surf Experts Rate Sustainable Board As Flexible, “Perfect 10” ▶ SURFBOARD, from page 1

from algae as a biological source.”

In the interview with the Guardian, Stephen discussed one of the challenges they faced.

“Getting enough algae oil to do all of the research to make polyols and then getting enough to actually make two surfboards,” Mayfield said. “Fortunately we were able to collaborate with Solazyme, a commercial algae company based in San Francisco, and they have lots of algae oil and gave us several gallons.”

The result was a surfboard regarded as a “perfect 10” by early reviewers, with the quality of being slightly more flexible — something valued by more seasoned surfers, as

reported by the U.S. Department of Energy.

In Mayfield’s interview with the Guardian, he had discussed how the result was extremely close to his original goals.

“The organic chemists that worked on this — Skip Pomeroy and Mike Burkart of [the] UCSD chemistry department — did a great job making these polyols,” Mayfield said. “These had to be close, or surfers would not use the boards.”

The production-time expectancy is about the same, with algae oil being a little more expensive, yet being carbon neutral in comparison, with durability believed to last just as long, though needing proof, according to Mayfield.

Discussing what was after the

project, Mayfield weighed in on the variety of algae oils and the resulting polyols.

“What’s next: The physical properties of the final polyurethane is completely determined by the chemistry of the starting oil and the chemistry of the polyols — the monomers used to make polyurethane,” Mayfield said.

“Because different algae have different oils, we have the opportunity to make a variety of polyols, and that means polyurethane with different physical properties,” says Mayfield.

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the past 25 years, was interviewed by The Boston Globe and stated that he does not find the conclusions of the study to be valid.

Al-Delaimy’s response to his critics was to stand by, saying he hopes his

study will help others.

“If e-cigarettes help smokers quit, they would have helped the users regardless of their past history,” Delaimy said.

Al-Delaimy hopes this study will inform users about possible consequences of e-cigarette use.

“I think they will continue to be used,”Delaimy said. “But hopefully the users will be much more informed and nonsmokers will avoid them altogether.”

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he aftermath of the recent earthquake in Nepal exposed an interesting relationship between the role of social media and social media users’ safety. In 2014, Facebook introduced a new feature called “Safety Check” that will allow a user to notify friends about his or her safety if Facebook finds that person in a place where a natural disaster occurred. Furthermore, Facebook and other social media sites have enabled users to easily click on a button to donate relief money to affected areas. While it’s commendable that social media sites are trying to ensure the safety of their users in cases of natural disasters and promote awareness, the role of social media gets sticky in these situations, especially when it comes to privacy.

At first, it’s easy to see how this feature would benefit our social media-crazed society in times of disaster. The role of social media is to connect users to other users, and that’s

exactly what this Facebook feature does within the context of a natural disaster. Regarding the relevance and importance of this feature, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that “when disasters happen, people need to know their loved ones are safe. It’s moments like this that being able to connect really matters.” While it’s impossible for social media to be a cure-all in situations like this, it’s nice that it is eradicating some of the worry associated with catastrophic events.

However, this feature has the potential to extend beyond natural disasters. A business commentator for Fortune magazine argues that this feature can be extended to smallerscale emergencies, such as a fire in a building, and that it will help the first responders know if someone is still in the building and let users know if there is a fire in their vicinity.

Far be it for someone to argue that this would negatively affect users, but this would have interesting implications for first

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OBAMA RECENTLY ISSUED A STATEMENT APOLOGIZING FOR THE DEATHS OF TWO AL-QAIDA HOSTAGES, AN AMERICAN AND AN ITALIAN PERSON, WHICH RESULTED FROM A DRONE STRIKE LEAD BY THE U.S. EARLIER THIS YEAR.

Obama’s Belated Apology Does Not Provide Sufficient Transparency Regarding General Use of Drone Strikes

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Earlier this month, Obama apologized for the death of one American and one Italian killed in a drone strike. Even more alarmingly, Obama admitted that officials from the Central Intelligence Agency weren’t aware the two men were present in the compound attacked, according to The New York Times. The Obama administration has issued more drones strikes with less awareness of each target. Worse still, it launches these drone wars in secret, keeping as much from the public as possible.

This is really just the tip of the iceberg. The deeper one delves into leaked CIA documents and international government reports, the clearer it becomes how little the public knows about Obama’s drone war. The administration is simply not disclosing this information. Even though Obama launched his first drone strike during his third day in office, he did not publicly mention the use of drones until three years into his presidency, according to the Huffington Post. When our government harms lives overseas and keeps it a secret, it is misleading citizens.

Transparency must come from our government itself.

Without transparency, there is no accountability. The facts validate this. According to CNN, the Obama administration has become famous for launching “signature strikes.” These drone attacks choose targets merely based on patterns of suspicious behavior by a group of men, rather than identification of a particular militant. That is our government’s current criteria for sending a drone strike, and it is alarmingly flexible.

There is also a discrepancy in reporting who exactly was killed and why. Although the Obama administration regularly claims that civilians’ deaths are low or even nonexistent for certain years, affected countries produce different numbers. According the Huffington Post, Pakistan reported that, over the past decade, 2,200 people have been killed by drone strikes, with at least 400 reported as citizens. In addition, according to a leaked CIA record, the U.S. often did not know who it was killing, which is reckless. Suddenly the discrepancy makes sense; it is easy to deny a civilian death if you do not know who you killed.

In 2013, Congress tried to pass a bill that would demand a report detailing the total number of combatants killed in drone strikes. Despite representing crucial transparency, the bill failed. It’s disappointing that our government didn’t step up and make a change. Transparency is a necessary change that must come from within.

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The U.S. has been using drones to deal with conflicts abroad since around 1995. This usage has picked up since the September 11 attack and has increased even more dramatically under the Obama administration, particularly circa 2010–11. Since 2004, U.S. military drones have killed approximately 3,213 people in Pakistan alone, only 2 percent of whom were confirmed combatants, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. The administration’s described estimates of civilian casualties are “far lower than media reports, eyewitness accounts and [what] the U.S. government’s own anonymous leaks suggest,” Stanford Law School’s “Living Under Drones” campaign reports. Media narratives skeptical of military drone usage have poured in since 2012. The recent deaths of two Al-Qaeda hostages have sparked both controversy in the media and a formal apology by the president himself. So why do most Americans still approve of drone use?

According to a recent Associated Press poll, six in 10 Americans favor using drones to target and kill members of terrorist groups, such as Al-Qaeda overseas, while only 13 percent is opposed. Even more chillingly, nearly three-fourths of Americans thought it acceptable for the U.S. military to kill an American citizen abroad if that person was part of a terrorist organization, in effect stripping said hypothetical citizen of his/ her right to trial by jury and issuing the death penalty directly. Deaths, combatant and civilian alike, continue to pile up in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

It isn’t as though Americans don’t have practical reasons to oppose ballooning drone use. The Department of Defense’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget proposal includes a plan to increase “Long Range Strike Inventories & Funding” from $4 billion to $10 billion over the next nine years. A large portion of this budget will go toward the MQ-9 Reaper, an armed aircraft used in executing targets, ringing up at about $30.3 million per craft.

It should bother Americans that their tax dollars are going to hightech instruments of destruction that they know very little about (rather than, say, education.) Although drone strikes claim to shelter American civilians from foreign conflict, the public should not close its eyes to military drone use simply because it’s happening in distant lands, across oceans and cultural divides.

— HAILEY SANDEN Staff Writer

ave you ever asked your gingerbread cookie what gender it identifies with before you mercilessly dip a leg into a glass of milk? If you said yes, you might be Lord Farquaad’s doppelganger. If you said no, I welcome Shrek and friends to continue our ongoing conversation on gender norms through a cookie.

Lord Farquaad, too, for inclusiveness.

If you Google “Genderbread Person,” you’ll find a colorful diagram

by Sam Killermann explaining gender and the labels this entails. I’ll be dissecting Killerman’s first iteration of his diagram, but do explore your own sexplorations in his more recent iterations. They include gender identity and expression, biological sex and sexual orientation. It’s these four concepts that shroud gender norms, and are integral in understanding where many gender norms comes from.

Let’s ruminate on our Genderbread Person V.1 and see what it has to offer. Gender identity is how you see yourself, and this ranges from woman to man and everything in between. Gender expression is how you show your gender in accordance to traditional gender roles. This can be through behavior, dress and/or interactions. Expression ranges from feminine to androgynous to masculine. Biological sex is how we are determined by our genitals (vagina and penis) and typical chromosome compositions (XX and XY), although AP Biology has taught me that our sex organs may not always be binary.

Lastly, our sexual orientation is based on who we are attracted to physically or emotionally or in any other way.

Orientation ranges from heterosexual to homosexual on the Genderbread Person V.1 diagram. Newer iterations include asexuality, which is an important addition because hetero and homosexuality tend to imply a binary configuration when that’s not always the case.

Now let’s put our fledgling knowledge of gender in practice. Someone who is biologically a man can identify and express as a woman and also be heterosexual (i.e. attracted to women).

While confusing, this shows the value of comprehensive understanding.

Spectrum is important for understanding how these concepts create a binary. That binary is the force behind checking off “male” or “female” on official documentation — or the force that had Chuquita and Phillian discriminated against. It’s also the force that segregates bathrooms into “men” and “women.” But that didn’t stop my mom when I was a kid (I used the women’s restroom during my younger years). As counterintuitive as it may seem, let’s deconstruct these binaries we see everyday and let the terms become more fluid. It’s difficult, but it’s a step in the right direction.

Taking all of this in, ask yourself how you identify in each of the four categories. Once you figure that out, take it a step further and think of the privilege, or lack of, that you receive because of your identity. More so, how does your identity intersect with other attributes you hold — ethnicity, socioeconomic status, physical ability.

And how does that further privilege or complicate where you stand in our society? You’ll be surprised at what you may unpack.

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responders. Would they have to sync their communication devices to Facebook (or another social media site)? This epitomizes how social media is infiltrating every aspect of our lives, supposedly for the better. But is it, really?

Social media is not the panacea for society’s problems and, frankly, it shouldn’t be.

While features like Facebook’s “Safety Check” prove to be relevant and valuable tools for social media users, the problem with privacy still pervades this feature. Most people already know Facebook tracks and records users’ frequent locations and even inserts ads based on that information. Even though users can adjust their privacy settings, a report done by the Belgian

Data Protection Authority and reported on by the Wall Street Journal argues that Facebook and many other social media sites have privacy settings that are difficult to maneuver, essentially making users jump through hoops to protect their privacy. While it might be helpful to provide some personal information in times of emergencies, users should have the right to easily update their privacy settings to make their profile more secure. In this increasingly digital age that we live in, social media is bound to have a profound effect on society, even when it comes to emergencies. However, such a profound effect commands users to proceed cautiously and wisely with what is shared online.

Although social media should

not be the remedy for society’s problems, it can have a positive impact, especially when it comes to raising money for relief after a natural disaster. Time magazine reported that Facebook raised over $10 million in just two days. For most people, the one-stop convenient click of a button makes this tool especially effective for raising money. The fact that it appears at the top of the page when a user logs in to Facebook also helps.

While social media has definitely pervaded many aspects of our lives, in this case, it has done so in a positive way by helping other countries and people in an effective manner, despite previous qualms about social media’s sometimes invasive nature.

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ut of 38.8 million Californians, most of us brush our teeth, drink Earl Grey tea, water our tomato plants, wash our dogs and lounge in tubs with scented bath bombs. We continually do all these things with the snowmelt we were skiing on in February and the precipitation that dampened Northern California in November. Or, at least, that was the plan.

Over the past few years, the water supply expended on the ever-growing, resource-gobbling population of California has exacerbated the worst drought in recent history. What used to be a mild drought has compounded to dangerous levels by the lack of surface water to refill reservoirs. California may not revert back to its pre-settlement desert state filled with rattlesnakes and tumbleweeds, but without a reliable water source, the forecast looks rather dystopian.

Our future is up in the air, quite literally. As part of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes has been studying the drought’s implications for large-scale weather patterns. A particular type of storm called Atmospheric Rivers, which normally drenches Northern California and feeds Southern California, has skipped California for the East Coast. Some climate specialists attribute the lack of storms to an Atmospheric Ridge, an area of high pressure, off the coast. Just a couple of these storms could help alleviate the drought and start recovery.

Dr. Marty Ralph, director of the CW3E, stressed the importance of these Atmospheric Rivers. “[Atmospheric Rivers] end up producing 30 to 50 percent of precipitation. We might get six or eight ARs in Northern California, and they produce 40 percent of the Sierra snowpack,” Ralph told the UCSD Guardian.

The immediate answer to water supply problems is not to do our rain dances and wait for ARs but to conserve. Gov. Jerry Brown enacted the first mandatory water restrictions in recent history, beginning this Wednesday, May 6, in hopes of reducing water use by 25 percent. However, there is much more that we can do. Considering the millions of gallons pumped throughout California, a five-minute shower seems insignificant, but Ralph emphasized the cumulative power of conservation.

“The choices we make everyday can really make a difference,” Ralph said. “Every citizen can do their part to conserve water as a valuable resource.”

As we cut back, it is easy to blame the deficit on the prolific agricultural communities or metropolitan areas. Although agriculture uses nearly 80 percent of the water in the Golden State, water cuts have hurt many farms: 400,000 acres lay fallow up and down the state, and already 17,000 seasonal and part-time jobs have been cut. So far, the ranchers and farmers have avoided more damage by pumping unregulated amounts of groundwater from wells and aquifers to make up the difference. Gov. Brown’s legislation still largely ignores agriculture’s drain on the water system. The justification is simple: Cuts to agriculture can and will wreck agricultural exports, while cuts to the urban areas mean that you can’t have your daily bubblebath. That being said, agriculture cannot continue to use massive quantities of water inefficiently.

However, water efficiency is useless without reforming the “use it or lose it” mentality written into the water right laws.

Currently, California has a complicated system of water rights that is more suited to Gold Rush pioneers than 21st century mega-farms. If water rights are not used, they are assumed to be abandoned, and the farmers lose the right to the water.

This leads many to use all of their allotted water even when it is superfluous. Currently, legislators in Sacramento are curtailing these rights with appropriate weariness.

Meanwhile in our very own San Diego County, the Carlsbad Desalination Project is finally conquering Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s quandary: “Water, water everywhere / nor a drop to drink” from “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” $1 billion is being pumped into a desalination plant powerful enough to produce 7 percent of the water supply needed in San Diego County. The desalination project is energy-intensive, which leads many to ask if some fresh water is worth the environmental costs. However, if operations succeed, it could be a major development in the water crisis, not only for California but also for arid regions, such as Israel and Saudi Arabia.

The plant is scheduled to open next year, but the CW3E has been working on methods to save water closer to the source that can be applied for this year’s wet season. As we approach the rainy season, the reservoirs will be kept low to absorb flood waters from winter storms. Climate scientists of the CW3E have been working to accurately predict ARs that bring winter floods and precipitation.

“We are hopeful, [and] we have a chance to develop the methods and work with civil engineers, water managers and flood control,” Ralph said. “There could be the potential for extra water to be kept in the winter and then released if a storm comes. If a storm doesn’t come, that water is available for summer. ” The scientists and engineers at the CW3E prove that the greatest resource we have in combating the drought are Californians. We are a persistent lot. Persistent enough to build a life in a desert shaken constantly by the earth and call it Golden. We cannot point fingers in this dry heat and blame other Californians for a statewide disregard for our most important natural resource.

“Drought is a very natural part of our climate here, and we have an incredible system of very talented and dedicated people in engineering and water supply who figured out to how to provide reliable water in face of that great variability,” Ralph said. “Be confident that the drought will end and the water system will continue to supply water — but be respectful of that water and how important it is to conserve.”

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California Water Crisis by the numbers 80 to 100 gallons per person average throughout U.S. Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins were 34 million acre-feet below normal in 2014 145 to 275 gallons per person range in California in 2010 Reservoirs are 13 percent lower than average capacity 20 percent of average snowpack level this year 11 trillion gallons of rain needed to recover from drought $128 million from governor to assist affected communities.

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VIRTUAL CAMPUS OFF CAMPUS Written by Allison Kubo // Editorial Assistant Teiko Yakobson // Features Editor Photos Used With Permission by Vinit Modi

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nce you grow tired of meals scraped together with a microwave or sharing a room with two other equally messy people, off-campus housing looks heavenly. But when facing a new community, commute and possibly eccentric landlords, the search for the perfect off-campus apartment becomes a daunting task. Looking for the right place can easily amount to days spent scrolling the “UCSD Housing” group on Facebook and being repeatedly disappointed.

That is, until someone had the idea of organizing all of the scattered posts into a searchable spreadsheet, now conveniently pinned at the top of the Facebook group. And that someone was Vinit Modi, a UCSD alumnus who has taken his spreadsheet and the entire UCSD housing search to the next level with his latest website, Campusly. Essentially an online rental database for college students, Campusly offers people with verified ucsd.edu email addresses a convenient place to post the available living space they hope to fill or the ideal living space they hope to find.

Modi had been active in the UCSD housing group on Facebook for some time before launching Campusly.

“The spreadsheet was literally my ‘I don’t have a product; I’m just going to build a spreadsheet and see what happens’ tactic,” he told the UCSD Guardian.

Originally, Modi had plans to build a more general online rental community, similar to Craigslist, in order to help renters. His plans changed after realizing that certain groups of people, whom he calls “infinity groups,” choose their rentals based on proximity to a specific area in mind — a category that includes college students.

“In colleges, students turn over every few years, so what happens is [they] graduate at the end of the year [and then their] apartments become vacant. That may not be the case if you’re living in suburbia with your family; you may rent for 10 years or longer,” Modi explained. “And so we started looking at college students a little bit more.”

Facebook was a major source of insight for Modi, who said that after spending months studying patterns on the UCSD Housing group, he was surprised to see a disproportionately high ratio of students looking for housing to those looking for available spaces.

“If [students] have social media, Twitter, Facebook and they’re going to school actively, what is it that’s preventing them from finding a place right away, so

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much that they’re looking for places for as long as a month?” Modi said. “I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I think that [Campusly] could cut that time down for them. That’s a lot of energy spent worrying about where you’re going to live, and that energy could be better spent on your classes or engaging with university events.”

Campusly creates a secure off-campus housing community by listing empty rooms, roommates and apartments available from UCSD students. Modi developed the idea through hundreds of interviews with students and renters, researching the market while developing his product. His searchable spreadsheet had thousands of views in only a couple months. Now Campusly is a fully functional housing resource.

But Modi wants Campusly to serve students in more ways than in just finding housing; he wants students to use the website to find others who live nearby and to build a social network that’s comfortably close to home. He explained that his own experiences living off campus as a UCSD student motivated this idea: Modi and his roommates often had busy, conflicting schedules, which left him alone for most of the time he spent at home.

“The problem I had was that I didn’t know who else I could connect with,” Modi said. “Thinking, ‘Do I really want to go all the way on campus and sit at the library or at Price Center?’ That awkwardness — it’s like a borderline between loneliness, but not really loneliness because you have friends, but none of them are around, and so you almost feel like you have no one.”

Modi designed his website to be a tool to not only find housing, but to find a reliable community. The website connects users in a specific area to help arrange carpools, study groups, grocery runs and even helps find people to split an Uber with you — all without ever sharing your address with anyone. This network tries to prevent commuters from feeling separated from the campus community.

“Imagine if there were a cluster of 50-plus students in Clairemont Mesa and they could get together, get to know each other, not have to trek over to campus but still feel like they belong in a social group with other students from UCSD,” Modi said. “It tightens the bond back to the university by providing a sort of virtual campus, off campus.”

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Tritons Fall Short of Preseason Expectations A strong group of returning players shows promise for 2016.

BY Katie potts

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT The UCSD softball team came into the 2015 season with high expectations: a third-place California Collegiate Athletics Association finish and another NCAA DivisionII postseason appearance set the bar high for the Tritons. However, after splitting their final road series against Cal State East Bay, the big blue fell just short of a CCAA Championship berth for the first time since 2010. The Tritons ended their season at 25–25 overall and 15–21 in the CCAA after a 3–1 series loss at home against Cal State San Bernardino.

The Tritons are led by Head Coach Patti Gerckens, who recorded her 600th career win this season in a series sweep against San Francisco State last February. She has coached UCSD to six CCAA championship berths, 10 NCAA postseason appear-

ances, one CCAA title in 2012 and a national championship win in 2012.

Though the season ended on a disappointing note, the Triton team will return to the field next year with a strong group of returners; among these are All-CCAA honorees junior left-handed pitcher Alexis Edwards, freshman outfielder Kendall Baker, junior utility player Bianca Devoto, junior second baseman McKenna Clewett and sophomore first baseman Emma Schneider.

“We improved a lot over the course of the season in our ability to compete and string together as one unit to win,” Devoto told the UCSD Guardian. “We built really high expectations for ourselves and ended up surprising a lot of teams, even though we didn’t go as far as we planned to.”

Edwards led the Triton pitching squad for the third year in a row with a 2.21 ERA and amassed 11 wins, two complete game shutouts

and a career-high 56 strikeouts over the course of the season. This is her second consecutive year as a CCAA all-conference nominee — she earned First-Team All-CCAA honors in the 2014 season and was a Second-Team All-CCAA honoree for the 2015 season.

Baker earned Second Team AllCCAA honors in her first season at UCSD. The Colorado native boasted a .278 batting average, 22 hits, 18 runs, 11 stolen bases and a 16-game on-base streak — the second longest on the team this year.

Devoto obtained her first allconference distinction this season as a designated player for the Tritons.

The junior accumulated 16 RBIs over the course of the season and built up a .316 batting average — the second highest on her team. The Livermore recruit was also named CCAA Softball Player of the Week for the week of March 30 to April 5 after a strong performance on the

road against Chico State University.

Clewett led UCSD at the plate with a team-high .319 batting average, .424 on-base percentage, .493 slugging percentage, 24 runs, 46 hits and 18 walks. This is the Escondido native’s second all-conference distinction; she earned Second Team All-CCAA honors in 2014 and was all-conference Honorable Mention for the 2015 season.

Schneider earned an All-CCAA Honorable Mention this season, her first all-conference honor as a Triton. The Carlsbad native led her team this year with five home runs, 22 RBIs, 14 doubles and 74 total bases run.

Other notable players this season were freshman catcher Lauren Sanders, freshman second baseman Kendall Woken and sophomore first baseman Ashley Chestnut. Sanders was recognized as the CCAA Softball Player of the Week during the week of Feb. 2, and Woken

and Chestnut both hit grand slam homers in games against Cal State Stanislaus and Cal State East Bay, respectively.

The Tritons also recognized senior right-hander Mo Omori and senior utility Lauren Irish at the team’s final home series against Cal State San Bernardino last weekend.

Omori was ranked second in the CCAA this season with four game saves and was named CCAA Pitcher of the Week for the week of February 2. Irish was a competitor both on the softball field and on the track — the Berkeley native played her first season of collegiate softball this year and also competed in track and field for the Tritons for four years.

With a good group of returning players, UCSD will look to build on this season and make a strong run at the CCAA crown next year.

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NCAA Tournament Awaits Tritons took a victory over Whittier and advanced for the third consecutive year.

BY GURKIRAT SINGH SENIOR STAFF WRITER // PHOTO BY ALWIN SZETO This past Saturday, UCSD women’s water polo accomplished their yearly goal of reaching the NCAA Championship by defeating Whittier College 17–11 in the NCAA play-in game at the Canyonview Aquatic Center. This is the third consecutive year that the team has been able to advance to the championship.

With this win, the Tritons improved their record to 19–18 for the season, and they will hope to keep their momentum going into their fourth overall appearance in the NCAA Championship.

The shining star for the Tritons in this game was sophomore attacker Lani Tittle. Tittle, who had previously scored a career-high four goals this past week in the Western Water Polo Association Championship game against Cal State East Bay, was able to recreate her impressive performance against Whittier, once again scoring four goals. Sophomore center Lauren Boyer, junior attacker Julia Kirkland and senior attacker Jolene Guiliana also came up big with exemplary performances, each producing a hat trick to contribute to the victory.

The Whittier Poets grabbed their only lead at the beginning of the game when they were able to score the opening goal. The Tritons snatched the lead away from them not long after off back-to-back goals from freshman utility Kayla Fedler and another goal from Boyer, though the Poets were able to tie up the score at 3–3 at the end of the first quarter.

UCSD started pulling away from Whittier in the second quarter. Boyer and Tittle both contributed to make a total of four goals while Whittier could only produce one. This resulted

in the quarter ending with a 7–3 lead for UCSD. In the third quarter, the Tritons’ offensive firepower was on display and UCSD truly pulled ahead, scoring six goals. Five of the goals were scored unanswered in the beginning of the quarter before the Poets scored their only goal of the quarter. The third quarter ended with the Tritons holding their lead at 13–5.

“The halftime speeches, [Head Coach Brad Kreutzkamp] just telling us that we need to win this quarter …” Tittle told the UCSD Athletics Department. “And to show them that we deserve to go championships really drove our third-quarter performance.”

The fourth quarter was a little choppy for the Tritons as the Poets were finally able to figure out the Triton’s defense. Whittier was able to put up six goals in the quarter to the Tritons’ four goals. Despite the Poets’ effort, the Tritons were never threatened and came out ahead comfortably, winning 17–11.

“We have been tested all year long, and that’s what we’ve talked about year long, is that we will be tested all year long so that we can get to games like this with pressure on us to see how we perform,” Kreutzkamp told the UCSD Athletics Department.

As a result of the win, the Tritons will be advancing to the eight-team field in Stanford University at the Avery Aquatic Center on May 8 to 10. The Tritons are slotted to face-off against No. 2 UCLA (24–2) in the first round on Friday at 3 p.m.

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Triton Men Take Conference Crown from Chico State, Women’s Team Finishes Third ▶ TRACK AND FIELD, from page 1

Golubovic, who was the defending decathlon conference champion, opted not to participate in the decathlon at this meet in order to earn more points for the Tritons by participating in various other events, which proved to be a smart move for the Tritons, as Golubovic earned a whopping 23 of the men’s 216 points.

At the end of day two, the men moved up to first place, while the women remained in the top spot.

On the third day of competition, the Triton triple jumpers dominated the field. Team captain senior Chantia Justice (39-2 1/5) — who had finished in second for two years — and junior Kristin Sato (38-7 1/2), who both hold provisional qualifying marks for this event, finished in first and second, respectively. On the men’s side, Bowen (49 1/4), Van de Streek (46-6 1/4) and Cook (45-5 3/4) finished in first, third and sixth. Bowen and Van de Streek also have provisional qualifying marks in the triple jump, and Bowen’s impressive jump moves him up to second on the all-time list of jumpers.

“It’s really nice to finally win.

I’m hoping that next week at Last Chance, I’ll peak [and qualify for the NCAAs],” Justice told the UCSD Athletics Department.

Back on the track, senior Connor Macky and sophomore Jared Senese

held their own in the 400 and 800meter runs. Macky and Senese took first and second in the 400-meter run with personal best times of 48.51 and 48.61, respectively. Senese, who holds a provisional qualifying time in the 800, finished in 1:54.30, good for fourth place.

“I didn’t try to let [being] the top seed [in the 400] get to my head,” Macky said. “I couldn’t have done any of this without [my teammates].”

Both the Triton men and women performed well in the hurdle events, earning a few podium finishes.

Sophomore Markus Woods became the 400 hurdles conference champion, setting a season record of 53.95. For the women’s 400 hurdles, freshman Meghan Fletcher crossed the line in 63.05 in third place.

Her teammate, junior Michelle Cummins came in third in the 100meter hurdles with a time of 14.55.

The Tritons continued to dominate in the relay events. In the men’s 4x400-meter relay — consisting of Macky, Van de Streek, freshman Isaiah King and Senese — the Triton men finished in second with a season-best time of 3:15.18. The women also did well in the same even, with sophomore Jackie Chalmers, sophomore Marissa Padilla, freshman Michaela King and Snover finishing in third with a time of 3:49.83.

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place finish with a time of 17:24.26.

Hughes, who had run the arduous 10k the previous day, had a decent sixth-place finish, crossing the finish line in 17:32.13.

With one event left, the Triton men trailed Chico State 212–204.

In the men’s pole vault, fifth-year Clint Rosser finished in third, clearing the 15-11 1/4 mark, closing the gap. Golubovic (15-7 1/4) and junior Tim Schmidt (15-1 1/4) came in fifth and seventh, respectively.

Together, they earned 12 points for

the Tritons, which was just enough for UCSD to edge out Chico State for first place in the conference.

Chico State finished in second place with 213 points, shy of first by just three points, while Cal Poly Pomona finished in third with 153 points.

Ultimately, the Triton women fell to third place (138.5 points), behind Chico State (213.5) and Cal Poly Pomona (142). Chico State has now won the conference title six times in a row.

With a historical finish by the

Triton men, Salerno said, “We’ll look at nationals, but no matter what happens this is going to be the highlight.”

The track and field teams will have a last chance to improve upon their times to qualify for nationals next weekend, May 9 at the Cal State Los Angeles Last Chance Qualifier meet.

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