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UC President Denounces Academic Boycott Vote Napolitano warned that the Anthropology Association’s boycott could pose a threat to academic freedom.

BY Kevin Santos

WOMEN MAKE UP HALF OF STEM MAJORS, BUT ARE NOT AS WELL REPRESENTED IN THE WORKFORCE. MEET UCSD’S FEMALE ROLE MODELS IN STEM, AND SEE THE FUTURE OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.

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Art Gallery Reopens for Undergraduate Show

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CSD’s University Art Gallery reopened for a week-long undergraduate art show on May 5 after administration closed it indefinitely last summer. The show, titled “Meeting at Square One,” is free for anyone to attend and will end this Thursday at 3 p.m.

Audrey Maier, an art history major and the UAG’s co-director with Farshid Bazmandegan, explained to the UCSD Guardian that the gallery’s size and prestige is significant to student artists and their work.

“There is no other space on campus where we could’ve held this,” Maier said. “Being in a place this big with so much history — it opened in 1966, so this is going to be its 50th anniversary — is hugely important for a starting artist.”

According to Maier, the show was organized, curated and installed entirely by undergraduate students from the visual arts department. She stated, however, that it was department chair Professor Jack Greenstein who convinced university officials to reopen the gallery for

MY MOM’S JOURNEY TAUGHT ME TWO THINGS ABOUT LEARNING. ONE, LEARNING IS A CHOICE ... SECOND, LEARNING IS A LIFELONG PROCESS. MY MOM WAS IN HER MID-THIRTIES WHEN SHE EMBARKED ON HER SPIRITUAL QUEST. SHE TAUGHT ME THAT I CAN DECIDE TO CHANGE MY LIFE AT ANY TIME.”

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this specific exhibit.

“For us to get into the UAG, props all go to Professor Greenstein,” Maier told the Guardian. “He was the one who talked to the ‘higher-up people’ and convinced them that we were responsible enough to have this space and that it would be something good for the visual arts department in general.”

Greenstein, who delivered the keynote speech at the show’s opening reception last Thursday in front of dozens of attendees, explained to the Guardian how the show can make a lasting impact on students, both as a memory and a catalyst for their careers.

“It really is the culmination of the student experience,” Greenstein said. “It’s giving them something to remember the campus by and to start the next phase of their lives and also reason for us to come together and celebrate what we work so hard doing.”

According to Greenstein, both division of arts and humanities Dean Cristina Della Coletta and Executive Vice Chancellor Suresh Subramani approved the use

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Board Member Keeps Position Despite Violation UC Regent William De La Pena tried to a broker business deal between his eye clinic and UCLA. BY mario espinoza

staff WRITER The UC Board of Regents allowed William De La Pena of the Committee on Health Services to remain on the board despite violating the board’s conflict of interest rules, according to a May 2nd report released the nonprofit journalism organization Propublica.

The report details a secret March 2015 investigation led by outside investigator Keith Rohman of Public Interest Investigations, Inc., in which De La Pena tried to strike a financially beneficial deal between his Southern California eye clinics and UCLA that lasted from October 2013 through January 2014.

Whistleblower complaints against De La Pena led UC Senior Vice President for External Relations Daniel M. Dooley to oversee an

investigation under the UC system’s Policy on Reporting and Investigating Allegations of Suspected Improper Governmental Activity, known as the Whistleblower Policy. With the help of an outside investigator, Dooley — the chair of the Committee on Health Services at the time — found that De La Pena disregarded UC Regent conflict of interest rules and that his behavior “clearly constitutes an improper governmental activity.”

Dooley then gave the report to UC President Janet Napolitano and then Regents Chairman Bruce D. Varner for possible action against De La Pena.

However, the regents kept the findings from the public.

ProPublica obtained a copy of the report by contacting UC spokeswoman Dianne Klein in order to determine why the regents kept the report confidential. In an email to ProPublica,

Klein replied, “The outcomes of whistleblower investigations are not routinely announced publicly.”

In response to ProPublica’s investigation, De La Pena resigned from the Committee on Health Services in April 2015. Later, De La Pena wrote a resignation letter in which he remarked that he “has serious concerns about the representations contained in the report and the findings,” which he planned to address “at a later time.”

De La Pena wrote to Napolitano and Varner on May 10, 2015, in order to address his concerns. He refuted the investigation’s conclusions, saying that the chief strategy officer for UCLA “personally raised the opportunity of leasing space” to his eye clinics. He also noted that he consulted with UC General Counsel and Vice President See REGENTS, page 3

The UC Office of the President released a statement on April 19 denouncing the American Anthropological Association’s proposed resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. AAA will have until May 31 to vote on the resolution, which many members believe will play a role in discontinuing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

According to the letter, UC President Janet Napolitano and each of the UC chancellors requested that AAA reconsider its proposition since their boycott poses a possible threat to the educational establishment.

“The University of California believes that an academic boycott is an inappropriate response to a foreign policy issue and one that threatens academic freedom and sets a damaging precedent for academia,” the letter stated. “We urge Association members to consider the boycott’s potentially harmful impacts and oppose this resolution.”

AAA’s resolution indicated that Israeli institutions would not be featured in AAA marketing materials, would be banned from participating in events hosted by AAA, and would be prohibited from using AAA resources for their own research.

“Those institutions would not be able to be listed in AnthroGuide, advertise in AAA venues, or participate in the AAA Developmental Services Program, the Career Center or the Graduate School Fair,” the resolution specified. “In addition, the boycott precludes the granting permission to copy and reprint articles from AAA publications to journals and publications based at Israeli institutions.”

The resolution also describes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, detailing that Israel has continued to deny Palestinians basic privileges, in spite of international disapproval.

As stated by the AAA, “For decades, despite condemnation by the United Nations and other international bodies, the Israeli state has denied Palestinians – including scholars and students – their fundamental rights of freedom, equality, and self-determination through ethnic cleansing, colonization, discrimination, and military occupation.”

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Student Volunteers Organized the Undergraduate Art Show on a Budget of Less than $2,000 ▶ ART, from page 1

of the gallery for this show and one for the graduating Master of Fine Arts students. In his proposal, he included the dates that the gallery would be used, which faculty members would be supervising the projects — in this case, it was visual arts professor Monique Van Genderen — how the show would be organized, and why using the UAG was necessary.

In his speech, Greenstein touched upon this, arguing that the space gives student artists the valuable opportunity to showcase their otherwise-isolated work to a large and public audience.

“Art, as in most scholarly activities and research activities, ends up being a pretty lonely

endeavor; even though it lives on critique and discussion and a kind of interaction, the hard work is done alone,” Greenstein stated.

“It’s occasions like this that allow everyone who has worked hard by themselves to show the work and to show the reason they did the work, which is actually to show it to people, to get reactions and to enter the public discourse. That is done in classes in small when they are critiqued, and in a show like this, it’s done on a larger public scale.”

He also explained to the audience that the holistic philosophy of UCSD’s visual arts department impacted the scope and diversity of the work displayed at the show.

“When our department was founded, it was thought it would not just be an art department or

an art history department but a combination of both,” Greenstein said in his speech. “It was felt that, in the department, there had to be constructive research dialogue among all the different factions of the art world to replicate the kind of greater world in miniature in an academic environment. A show like this really is the culmination of that.”

Maier disclosed to the Guardian that all of the students who worked on the show were unpaid volunteers.

This resulted in the show costing less than $2,000, most of which was spent on the food served at the opening reception and on the exhibit catalogs.

“Overall, it is pretty low-budget, especially for a big space like this,” Maier said. “We’re trying to show that we can do a lot with a little,

which hopefully goes a long way, and we can keep doing shows like this in the future.”

The artists who currently have their works on display are Charity Algarme, Aleesha Anderson, Farshid Bazmandegan, Diana Benavidez, Dorothy Boyd, Yuanbo Du, Atra Givarkes, Alice Hsieh, Zhichun Huang, Neda Kerendian, Bethan Ku, Cathy (Chiao) Lin, Richard Lin, Joseph Maas, Jenna McCloskey, Jessica McPeak, Dmitri Mikhnev, Alice Musher, Ignatius Nguyen, Geoffrey Palomino and Viktor De La Fuente, Hsuan-mei Sang, Paul Sasso, Arpie Shekoyan and Emily Zheng.

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LIGHTS & SIRENS Sunday, May 1 5:18 p.m. Excessive Alcohol Subject requested friend to call paramedics, due to not feeling well from being under the influence of drug and alcohol. Transported to hospital.

10:08 p.m. Information Unknown male subject was looking at reporting party and continued smiling, RP felt uncomfortable and left area. Information only.

11:55 p.m. Medical Aid Adult male fell and hit his head, no medical aid or officer response wanted, transported self to hospital.

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Monday, May 2 4:47 a.m. Disturbance Reporting party’s ex refusing to leave or return RP’s property.

Service provided.

1:06 p.m. Citizen Contact Male student chronically clogging toilet. Field interview.

4:47 p.m. Citizen Contact Biological parent attempting to contact reporting party against their wishes. Service provided.

7:58 p.m. Citizen Contact Report of student not enrolled in class, taking exam. Report taken.

Tuesday, May 3 4/22/2016 to 5/3/2016 Grand Theft Report of stolen research equipment, loss $20,000.00. Report taken.

10:56 p.m. Information Report of motorist driving wrong direction. Information only.

6:44 p.m. Shoplifting Student selected, concealed and

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failed to pay for text book, loss did not exceed $99.99. Referred to student conduct.

1:00 p.m. Alcohol contact Resident Advisors contacted suite during Sun God duty, due to music and talking coming from suite, one resident found passed out on couch with trash bag next to face, shot glasses and bottle of alcohol found in common area. Referred to student conduct.

Wednesday, May 4 1:19 p.m. Invade privacy Report of male suspect photographing victim using bathroom. Closed by citation, adult.

3:39 p.m. Trespass Chronic problem with female transient coming into presentations and taking food. Checks OK.

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The AAA reasoned that because the United States provides so much support to Israel, an academic boycott is necessary to urge Israel into ceasing its exploitation of Palestinian land.

“Israel stands apart from other states that routinely engage in mass human rights abuses due to the level of support it receives from the United States,” the AAA argued. “An academic boycott has an important role to play in pressuring Israel to end these abuses.”

The AAA explained that the organization intends to boycott academic institutions as a whole, and not individual students or anthropologists. The degree of the boycott is at the discretion of the

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simply create a divisive atmosphere on campus.”

Revelle College senior Yahya Hafez argued that the boycott should include academic institutions because their activities can contribute to naturalizing Israel’s occupation.

“The call for academic boycott, among other things, insists that it is unacceptable for intellectuals and scholars to be complicit in naturalizing the violence of these institutions in the name of a politically non-neutral greater good,” Hafez told the UCSD Guardian.

“Academic knowledge production should not serve as justification for ongoing colonialism.”

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De La Pena Blames UCLA Hospital Chief For Violating UC Policy ▶ REGENTS, from page 1

Thursday, May 5 1:45 a.m. Suspicious Person Per RSO, possible transient lodging inside laundry building bathroom.

Stay away order issued.

1:43 p.m. Medical Aid Reporting party’s roommate vomiting for over 2 hours.

Transported to hospital.

4:54 p.m. Disturbance Group of bicyclist doing tricks on bikes, smoking and one subject urinated by college admin building.

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anthropologists themselves.

“This boycott pertains to Israeli academic institutions only and not to individual scholars,” the AAA said. “Individual anthropologists are free to determine whether and how they will apply the boycott in their own professional practice.”

President of Tritons for Israel and Eleanor Roosevelt College senior Adina Wollner agreed with the UC administrators’ stance, adding that applying politics to the academic arena would create a contentious environment.

“I am proud that UCSD has always held a strong collaboration with Israeli academic institutes and continues to develop these ties,” Wollner remarked. “I believe that political disputes should be solved in other arenas and academic boycotts

Charles F. Robinson and told him that he “did not want to do anything that was wrong or inappropriate under UC’s policies.”

De La Pena blamed former chief executive of the UCLA hospital system David Feinberg in his letter as the individual responsible for the whistleblower complaint. He also wrote that Feinberg had violated UC policy by negotiating a medical deal in September 2014 without the regents’ consent.

“Dr. Feinberg was found in fact to have violated regent policies by signing the UCLA Anthem transaction without authorization,” De La Pena wrote. “This further establishes that my criticism of Dr. Feinberg was entirely justified and that his complaint

of retaliation was simply a way of ‘getting even’ with me.”

Dooley’s report also shared concerns raised over De La Pena’s repeated requests for Feinberg to find a way to purchase his clinics without infringing on UC policy. Doheny Eye Institute, a research and treatment center, was considered to be a buyer for De La Pena’s clinics. At the time, the institute was negotiating with UCLA in order to become officially affiliated with the university.

In the report, however, Dooley does not explicitly conclude that De La Pena tried to sell his clinics.

“I find that Regent De La Pena continued to engage in discussions regarding the Doheny deal after Regent De La Pena had been recused from participating in the matter,” he

wrote. “I also find that Regent De La Pena continued to pursue alternative scenarios by which Regent De La Pena’s clinics could be turned over to UCLA, up to the time of the January 2014 regents meeting.”

Two weeks ago, the regents released a letter by Varner to Napolitano from June 2015 in which he agreed with De La Pena’s declarations. As of now, De La Pena remains a voting member on the regents board until his term expires in 2018.

The UCSD Guardian contacted both UC Office of the President Media Specialist Kate Moser and Dooley, but neither were able to comment by press time.

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NORWAY'S BARNEVERNET SYSTEM DUE FOR FAIR PROCESS

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In foregoing due process, the removal of the Bodnariu children— whose parents were alleged to be abusive by the Norwegian department for child services — is the most recent in a series of separations targeting immigrant families.

Norway’s Barnevernet, established in 1992 to protect children from abusive families, has come under intense scrutiny in recent years for its severe lack of transparency and due process in how officials determine whether to remove children from their homes. The most recent example of breach in justice is the Bodnariu family case, who had their five children taken away for alleged abuse in November 2015.

Although the youngest of the children was returned to the parents last month, the decisions made throughout the entire process were done with a startling lack of evidence and a lack of proper due process.

This is fundamentally unfair and against the principles of a just and balanced legal system.

According to BBC, a group of 170 psychologists, lawyers and social workers wrote an open letter to Solveig Horne, condemning the Barnevernet as being “dysfunctional” and accusing it of making “farreaching errors of judgment with serious consequences.” While the organization fulfilled its duties by taking a closer look at the Bodnarius’ parenting style — arguably to ensure that children’s rights, which are heavily protected in Norway — it is evident that at least some of their claims are questionable. Indeed, between 2008 and 2013 there was a spike in the number of children being placed in emergency care, going from approximately 1,000 a year to 1,600, with the most commonly cited reason being a “lack of parenting skills.” Another such example of cultural clashes was the Indian Bhattacharya family, who had their children taken away in 2011, according to New Delhi TV. Court documents later revealed that the Barnevernet officials were concerned

for the children’s safety in part because “the arranged marriage between the mother and father which, while common in India, is not largely understood in Norway.” Furthermore, it is important to note that a Norwegian journalist, cited by BBC, found that an immigrant mother is four times as likely to have her children taken away than any other other children. If Barnevernet officials choose to cite cultural differences as being problematic to a child’s upbringing, they must explain how they negatively impact the child, otherwise they should not be in such a powerful position to split families. Given that “lacking parenting skills” is highly subjective, it’s worrying that officials are willing to take such an extreme step on the basis of an ambiguous term that says nothing about the context in which an allegation is made. There also appears to be a disconnect within the Norwegian government itself, as the Barnevernet will act on its own and disregard the findings, or lack thereof, of other agencies, such as its own police force. Over five years ago, the Barnevernet removed two children from a Czech family because one of the kids claimed their father “groped inside their pajamas” according to Vice News. Police forces never pressed charges against the father, but the children still have not been returned to their parents and one of the boys was recently put up for adoption. A comment by a child needs to be addressed, but as the National Child Protection Training Center in the U.S. points out, the context of a child’s statement needs to be examined before any action is taken.

Barnevernet officials are often given wide authority to determine

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Supplementary Legal Involvement by State Needed to Hold UC Regents Accountable With the recent suspension of UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi — and the questionable administrative actions leading up to it — the University of California’s governing UC Board of Regents has gained an increasingly negative public image. In response, state legislators have also begun fighting for increased control over the UC governing body. In doing so, the state seems to be acting out of the best interest of students; however, there are potential downfalls to what it proposes. In order for greater administrative accountability, there must be oversight and legislation from the state in addition to greater transparency within administration.

In early March, it was revealed by the Sacramento Bee that Katehi spent at least $170,000 to obscure internet results in an attempt to cover up an incident in 2011, when police pepper sprayed student protesters. According to the Los Angeles Times, this incident — along with her concurrently taking a position at a for-profit university and allegedly misusing student funds — has prompted administrative leave for Katehi.

Altogether, her actions have harmed UC Davis’ publicity and

reputation, and it is hard to believe that such violations, given their severity and their volume, were not caught earlier.

But even the single issue of administrators taking on additional roles is not limited to UC Davis.

The San Diego Reader reports that UCSD’s chancellor, Pradeep Khosla, recently took a job at the surveillance company Avigilon

their lack of power over the regents, have recently been trying to address this by gaining more control.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Senator Ricardo Lara has been trying to shorten the term of the regents by limiting both the number of terms that they can serve and requiring Senate approval every four years as opposed to the current unlimited amount of 12-year terms.

To more directly address the problem of corruption within the UC administration, an increased transparency of the regents’ actions is necessary.

Corporation in Vancouver. Holding additional positions is both detrimental to how administrators carry out their job and discouraged by the regents’ code of conduct; members who defy this should indeed be held accountable by the regents themselves. If administrators are to take such actions, they need to do so transparently so that the public can be aware and voice any concerns that arise.

State legislators, frustrated by

Initially it was planned this way so that the term would outlast that of the regents’ appointing governor and therefore keep them free from political pressure.

While there is no evidence that giving lawmakers more power over the regents would foster greater accountability — in the case of the pepper spraying at UC Davis, a single individual rather than the regents was responsible for controversy — this change is

necessary. It’s true that, if given too much control, the state may potentially end up micromanaging education. It’s also true that educators, not politicians, should be making decisions. But as we have seen, administrators in education are not always held accountable.

Legislation like the one proposed to shorten the term of the regents will help to prevent violations like those allegedly committed by Katehi, which took place over her many years of being chancellor.

To more directly address the problem of corruption within the UC administration, an increased transparency of the regents’ actions is necessary. Without relying on state involvement, this could be achieved through adding more student regents to the board.

Although not an ultimate solution, this would create a stronger channel through which other student voices may be communicated and would pressure administrators to make decisions that align with student needs. The state needs to be responsible for monitoring the regents, but it doesn’t mean that it has to take full control.

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When I was 6 years old, my mom embarked on a spiritual quest. This period confused me because she grew up Catholic and I didn’t understand what she was searching for. Thinking back, I shouldn’t have been surprised.

My mom defied her generation by leaving her traditional Italian Catholic home to be with my dad, a black man who had an infectious free spirit. Now, I see that my mom was searching for her identity beyond the influence of her upbringing.

I remember being dragged reluctantly to different churches. One was Afrocentric (an African-centered philosophy) where the members wore beautiful and brightly colored dashikis. Another church was more Christian with neat rows of dark wooden pews lined with Bibles. It was very serene. I also remember a “New Age” church decorated with soft, white flowing linens that served as curtain dividers between small rooms filled with the most delicious smells of incense and candles.

I don’t think my mom found what she was looking for because we didn’t go to church after that period. Yet, this was a profound childhood experience for me. The most important lesson that I learned from my mom during this time was: Sometimes in life the end result is not as significant as the journey one experiences along the way. My mom’s journey taught me two lessons about learning. One, learning is a choice. I can decide to change myself by growing in any way that I choose. My mom decided that she needed to grow spiritually in a way that was different from her upbringing. Second, learning is a lifelong process. My mom was in her mid-thirties when she embarked on her spiritual quest. She taught me that I can decide to change my life at any time.

As an education professor, I encounter many UCSD students who, in my mind, are held hostage by a hyperfocus on grades and figuring out what the professor wants for an A grade. I see a lot of students who are in such a hurry! Their goal is to get to the end of something — the end of a class, a quarter, or college altogether.

Some of this has to do with the system itself; university admissions policies typically privilege grades and SAT scores above anything else. I also understand that college students have not created the system in which they are forced to participate in. However, as my mom taught me, we can control what matters to us and the direction our own journey takes.

I genuinely worry that UCSD students are in such a hurry to “get it over with” that they miss out on opportunities to grow in ways that they can’t imagine are possible for themselves. I worry that college students are letting a flawed system obsessed with grades and test scores rob them of using their time in college to create their own journey.

What I worry about the most is that in 10 years, UCSD graduates will look back and regret that they didn’t use this time to search for all that matters to them and, instead, they’ll realize that what they found didn’t really matter as much as they thought. If this does happen, I hope students will keep in mind what my mom taught me — it’s never too late to embark on your own quest.

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Given Lack of Due Process in Family Separations, Reforming Barnevernet Is Necessary ▶ DUE PROCESS from page 4

whether suspected abuse qualifies for sanctions, usually with little oversight or right to appeal. For the Bodnariu family, a school principal suspected the parents were spanking their children and subsequently reported the family, according to Vice.

Although the Bodnariu parents admits to spanking their children (which is illegal under Norwegian law), Barnevernet officials did not find any physical evidence, marks or injuries, on the children, suggesting that any form of corporal punishment was not nearly enough to cause any damage.

While corporal punishment is still a matter of debate, a single suspicion by a single school administrator

should not justify such an extreme removal of the children from the family. Furthermore, the medical examinations were done after the children were indefinitely removed from the custody of their parents, not beforehand.This suggests that the officials were willing to split the family and find justification for doing so after the fact, which illustrates a concerning lack of due process. Barnevernet officials should not assume guilty until proven innocent, and the burden of proof for removing children from a family should be transparent and indisputable, which was not the case here.

Removing children from the care of their parents without any prior notice or investigation

demonstrates an absence of due process. Furthemore, the Bodnariu family is unable to determine the exact details (outside of the most basic facts) of why their children were removed since Barnevernet documents and courts are private and not revealed to anyone outside the agency. While Barnevernet claims this is to protect the privacy of the children, this also prevents anyone else from reviewing the details for themselves. Barnevernet’s power, therefore, is unchecked and should be more transparent and fair so that more families do not get unnecessarily torn apart.

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A Laboratory for Empowerment Though women earn 50 percent of degrees in science and engineering, they only represent 27 percent of the workforce in those fields. The UCSD Guardian investigates women’s representation in STEM at UCSD, as well as the steps the university is taking to increase their presence.

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eventy-seven cents to every man’s dollar. It’s a statistic often thrown around when discussing the oppression of women in the United States, but less often understood.

The number does not come from comparing one male engineer’s salary to that of a female engineer’s. Instead, 77 cents to every one male-earned dollar is a statistic that compares the total income generated by men in the U.S. to the total income generated

by American women. It’s a statistic that reveals that, on average, women are employed in lower-paying careers than men are. It’s not that female engineers are being paid 23 percent less than their male counterparts. It’s that there aren’t as many female engineers as male engineers to begin with; considering that, according to Payscale. com, the top 14 paying majors in the U.S. are in science, technology, engineering and math, this is a huge missed opportunity.

This is where STEM comes in. It’s a little acronym that represents a big conversation in today’s society. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, in 2011, women held nearly half the jobs in the U.S. economy, but filled less than a quarter of the country’s STEM-related positions. Although women today have far more opportunities in academia than in the past, there are still far more men occupying STEMrelated jobs than women. According to a 2013 study compiled by the National Girls Collaborative Project, while women are earning 50 percent of bachelor’s degrees in science and engineering, only 27 percent of the science and engineering workforce is made up of women. With nearly half of science and engineering bachelor’s degrees going to women, one would expect women to be equally represented in the workforce, making these statistics surprising.

There are still women who, despite facing a male-dominated workforce, have succeeded and become highly acclaimed in their fields. One such woman is Miriam Kastner, a highly celebrated professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Born in Czechoslovakia, she got her master’s degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before attending Harvard in the early ‘70s, where she obtained her Ph.D. A few years later she was offered a teaching position at Scripps. To this day, she continues to teach and carry out her research in marine geochemistry. Kastner is also 81 years old, and vividly remembers a time when the female presence in the STEM field was virtually nonexistent. Her sense of humor is accompanied by a no-nonsense attitude and a confidence that she believes got her to where she is today. When asked how she flourished in a field dominated by men, her answer was simple.

“I never feared anybody. I don’t see why I have to,” Kastner said.

When asked if she believes there is an issue with women’s representation in the STEM field, she could hardly wait for the end of the question before nodding her head and saying, “Yes, a big problem.” She went on to discuss her perspective on the matter.

“I can go to a meeting and see a young woman discussing something and nobody pays attention to her. Five minutes later a man says the same thing and suddenly it’s an important point,” Kastner recalled.

She believes that discrimination against women is, in a sense, hardwired in the brains of some men and that sexism is a deeply structural issue. Although she’s observed female representation as moving in a positive direction, she maintains that there is a long way to go.

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“Men just do not trust women for some reason,” Kastner explained. “It’s a cultural thing and it’s very difficult to eradicate.” Along with her critique of the male cultural perspective, Kastner also identifies a problem in female culture. The main issue which prevents women from reaching their full potential in STEM is a lack of confidence.

“Women are coming with a lot of baggage. They are not as confident as men ...You see where it comes from when you turn on the TV, and also from their parents and other places.”

Although it’s an uphill battle, Kastner believes that the only way for women to overcome sexism is to be more assertive and less concerned with how people view them; women simply need to “do their job and ignore what people say.”

“I can go to a meeting and see a young woman discussing something and nobody pays attention to her. Five minutes later a man says the same thing and suddenly it’s an important point.”

-Miriam Kastner Kastner can sense this confidence, and she’s observed confident women succeed over the years.

“When I see students the first year, I can tell you exactly which women are going to go far … they’re self-confident,” says Kastner.

At UCSD, there are many programs meant to give women in STEM majors the selfconfidence that Kastner stresses is so important to succeed in a male-dominated field.

Organizations such as the Society of Women Engineers, Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (GradWise), and the social sorority for engineering and science majors, Phi Sigma Rho, are some of the groups that offer support for female STEM students. They provide young women with career-development workshops, advice panels led by female professors or simply a social outlet to connect with fellow women in STEM. In addition to various student groups on campus, the university itself has initiated programs to engage more young women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Last year, for example, UCSD partnered up with Sally Ride Science, a program inspired by the first American female astronaut Sally Ride to encourage K-12 girls to embrace higher education in STEM fields. According to UC San Diego News ▶ See WOMEN IN STEM, page 8

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▶ WOMEN IN STEM, from page 7 Center, Sally Ride Science at UCSD will specifically target “professional development for teachers; K-12 STEM + Arts, also known as STEAM, education including courses, lectures and events; and online programming via UCTV.” The program’s aim is to instill the astronaut’s passion for science and learning in young women, raising them to love STEM and embrace its challenges.

Bucking the nationwide trend, many women in STEM are already thriving at UCSD, partly due to its unique status as a research powerhouse. One such student is bioengineering major, Muir College junior Hayley Chong. When asked about her experiences as a woman in STEM, she said that UCSD has been a very supportive environment.

“I went to UC Berkeley to present for my HIV project team, and afterwards, I got to talk to some people who are influential in the field of global health,” she told the UCSD Guardian, “I got a lot of comments like ‘Oh, it’s so wonderful to see a woman leading a project like this!’ It

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took me by surprise because it is so normal in our university to be a woman in STEM, but in the real working world that’s still not the case.” She went on to explain that, though she appreciates being recognized for her work, she doesn’t personally feel disadvantaged by being a woman in the field of bioengineering.

Chong represents the new generation of women in STEM made possible by trailblazers like Kastner, who faced blatant sexism and gender stereotyping when she entered the science field just a few decades ago. Kastner's immense efforts in science academia helped pave the way for women at UCSD, proving that one’s talent and intelligence is not defined by gender. It is because of her resilience in the face of discrimination that young women like Chong do not feel that their gender holds them back from succeeding in STEM today.

Although we still have much room to grow, UCSD’s position as a top STEM school has helped propel women interested in STEM forward. With the help of role models like Ride and our own Kastner, the discourse about women in STEM is slowly changing to reflect a society that judges people on the quality of their skills rather than their gender.

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ombie brain expert. Data evangelist for Uber. And, according to his personal website, an “annoying smartass.”

Bradley Voytek, assistant professor of computational science and neuroscience at UCSD, has spoken in places such as TEDx and Sci Foo. His research has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Forbes and Washington Post.

“Oh wow, I’ve got tons of crap to say about science, data science and whatever else, though I’m not sure it’s worth listening to,” an enthusiastic Voytek told the UCSD Guardian. “I mean, my life is an n of one, so it’s all anecdotal, right? Nothing about me, my experience, or my life is in any realistic way generalizable to anyone else.”

In 2013 Voytek started working as a data scientist for Uber. While working there, one thing that piqued his interest was demand prediction — figuring out how to place cars where people will want them and minimizing pick-up times. However, his most memorable moment occurred when he interviewed for the job.

“When I interviewed for the position I was asked to go up to the whiteboard and do some coding/data/theory challenges,” Voytek said. “I refused. Instead I told them, ‘you’re hiring me to uncover interesting insights using your data; instead of this nonsense why don’t you give me some of your data to play with, and if I haven’t done something cool by the end of the day, we’ll go our separate ways.’”

He got the job, and worked there in 2013. In addition, Voytek studied as a postdoctoral fellow from September 2011 to February 2014. After this, he transitioned to a position as an assistant professor at UCSD , starting in March of that year. Currently he is the director of the Cognitive and Neural Dynamics Laboratory.

In addition to being a researcher, Voytek is teaching Introduction to Data Science this quarter, a course in the cognitive science department that explains ideas such as data mining, machine learning and graph theory. The class has over 200 students, a sharp increase from

22 during Fall Quarter 2014. Voytek believes this is because data science stands out from traditional computer science.

“Data science, as a job, combines all the most fun, creative parts of math, science and computer engineering/programming,” he said. “[In the 1960s and ‘70s], computer science was new and exciting, with a lot of opportunities to blaze new vistas of business, technology and science. Outside of academia and major research-oriented businesses such as Facebook and Google, modern computer science, to many, is ‘programming.’ It’s a strong, well-paying, good job, but it can lack the excitement of exploration, discovery and play that got a lot of people into the field in the first place.

Apart from academia, Voytek loves to do research on zombies. A current advisor for the Zombie Research Society, he says to not worry about the topic of zombies, as places such as CDC use the topic of zombies to get the word out about food storage and planning evacuation routes in case of emergencies.

“OK, let me get this out of the way: No, you should not be worried,” Voytek said. No, zombies cannot be real. That said, thinking about the zombie apocalypse can be helpful.

For example, the CDC uses the zombie apocalypse as a way to get the word out about disaster preparedness, and it was wildly successful. So in that sense, being ‘serious’ about it is worthwhile.”

Voytek wants students to feel confident enough to reach out to their professors and not be scared to ask for help, because he believes that UCSD is a top research university.

“I know that students have this impression that us professors put research first and teaching a distant second, but that’s not absolutely the case for the vast majority of us,” he said. “Reach out to us, come to our office hours, ask us about our research, ask about research opportunities and internships. Put yourself out there and try something new, because once you leave college, you most likely won’t have the same opportunities again.”

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(6’5”) third and both sophomores Ruthvik Sunilkumar and Raymond Silver took fourth (6’3.25”).

In the 4x100 relay race, the Tritons placed in second with a mark of 40.91 by Elijah, Hunter, Dirks and Doan, a new school record. In the 100-meter event, Doan (10.76) took second, Hunter (10.94) fifth, Elijah (10.98) sixth and Dirks (11.00) seventh.

Another Triton runner-up was freshman Nicholas Rack in the 110-meter hurdles with a 14.67 finish. Meanwhile in the 400-meter hurdles junior Markus Woods (55.13) and Rack (59.40) finished fifth and sixth. Freshman Helen Tade rounded out the top three with a personal-best time of 14.73 in the women's 100-meter hurdles.

Both men and women 4x400 relay teams came in second place. Junior Jackie Chalmers (57.25) earned a fourth place finish in the 400 meter, while her teammate, sophomore Meghan Fletcher (1.02.39) finished runner-up in the 400-

meter hurdles. Sophomore Isaiah King (49.43) and junior Jared Senese (49.68) also took part in the 400-meter race and finished fourth and fifth.

The sole Triton competitor in the 3000-meter steeplechase, senior Daniel Franz, finished fourth with a time of 9:16.13. In the 1500-meter race, junior Terrence Luevano placed in fourth with a time of 3.55.62.

The men got a total of 190 points, which was not enough to repeat as CCAA Champions. Chico State reclaimed its crown and has now won 13 of the last 14 titles. The women, like the men, finished second to Chico State, with 137.66 points.

Next up, a few Tritons will head to Santa Barbara for the Westmont All On the Line Open as they attempt to extend their season and earn a qualifying mark to the NCAA national championships.

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UCSD softball concluded its 2016 season this past week in the NCAA West Regionals Tournament.

Prior to regionals, the Tritons had earned the nomination by winning the 2016 California Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament.

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game was delayed due to rain; after the game resumed, the players were able to conclude the game after the last three innings.

The Trailblazers put the first run on the board in the first inning.

However, junior outfielder Shelby Yung, who reached and advanced to second on a throwing error, scored on senior catcher Autumn Woodfall’s double to left.

UCSD scored its first two in the third inning. With two runners on after a single and hit by pitch, Sanders managed to hit a two-out single to left center and brought in two runs.

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overall record, traveled to Azusa Pacific where the team ultimately lost to APU 2–0, beat Dixie State 2–1 and was eliminated from playoffs by Central Washington 6–5.

Game 1 - Azusa Pacific 2, UCSD 0 The Tritons fell to the Cougars in the West Regional opener on Thursday after their offense was unable to garner any runs. Though solid in defense, UCSD only produced three hits throughout the seven innings.

The first half of the game fell into a stalemate as both teams didn’t produce any runs. It wasn’t until the fourth inning when APU scored the only two runs of the day. With runners on first and second, senior catcher Madison Hernandez hit an RBI single to center field. Sophomore first baseman Kayla Jimenez followed with a two-out RBI single to second base.

The Tritons had an opportunity to respond during the fifth inning with the bases loaded and one out.

Unfortunately, freshman third baseman Maddy Lewis struck out and sophomore second baseman Kendall Baker hit into a force-out at third.

Senior pitcher Lexi Edwards got the loss while spanning six innings on six hits and two earned runs. Cougars’ senior pitcher Narissa Garcia, in turn, powered through seven innings and gave up only three hits.

Game 2 - UCSD 2, Dixie State 1 UCSD led Dixie State Friday afternoon and shut their team down Saturday to resist elimination. The

UCSD’s first run came in the top third inning with runners on second and third. With two outs, senior shortstop McKenna Clewett singled up the middle and drove in Baker while senior outfielder Taylor Abeyta, who was at second, was thrown out at home.

The winning run was scored during the fifth inning when sophomore outfielder Kelsi Maday hit a fly ball to deep right field. Baker scored on the sacrifice fly which gave her the second run of the night.

Senior pitcher Hannah Duarte earned her sixth win after she gave up no runs and only two hits. However, senior pitcher Aryn Feickert received the loss after pitching all seven innings and allowing two runs. With the win, the Tritons avoided elimination from the tournament and advanced to play the No. 2-seeded Central Washington.

Game 3 - Central Washington 6, UCSD 5 The Tritons’ late rally proved to be not enough in a heartbreaking loss to the Wildcats Saturday afternoon; they saw their hopes and season come to an end as the last batter sophomore catcher Lauren Sanders popped up in foul territory.

The first three runs of Central Washington were brought on by senior pitcher Brielle Copodonna’s three-run homer in the first inning where the Wildcats scored another run in the second inning on a bases-loaded walk from freshman pitcher Lauren Brown.

the end of the fifth inning, CWU had a comfortable 6–2 lead.

The seventh inning saw the Tritons come together and maintain composure as they put up a late rally.

UCSD loaded the bases with one out on a couple singles and a reach. Abeyta and Maday followed with singles of their own, bringing in sophomore third baseman Rachel Phillips, Baker and Lewis. The final two outs were recorded on Abeyta’s attempted steal of third and Sander’s pop up. UCSD lost 5–6 and was taken out of the playoffs.

Brown, now 12–7, gave up four runs in her 1.1 inning start and got the loss. CWU’s junior pitcher Kiana Wood earned the win in her four-run complete game.

Maday, who led the team with 64 hits and 40 RBIs on the season, also ties the single-season run record with 54. Edwards finished her senior year with a team-leading 16 wins and an impressive 1.96 ERA. Maddy Lewis was the CCAA’s Freshman of the Year.

Though eliminated, UCSD put up a tough fight the entire season and ended on a good note. The team’s 37–21 record is a 12-win improvement compared to last season, and the late rally signified that Tritons don’t give up until the very last outing. Head coach Patti Gerckens and UCSD will return in 2017 and look to claim the title.

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UCSD takes a back-seat to Chico State at CCAA Championships but still finishes in second.

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CSD was back at the California Collegiate Athletic Association Championship up at Cal State Los Angeles. The men were defending their title acquired the year before and returned many of the same competitors. Both teams could not get over the hump, however, as they both took a step back to Chico State and finished in second place.

Day One Thursday was the first day of competition for the UCSD track and field team, which was hosted by Cal State Los Angeles. Both the men’s and women’s teams competed in their respective events: the decathlon, heptathlon, hammer throw and javelin.

Junior Dan Golubovic was the standout performer as he took the crown in the javelin event, giving him his second CCAA title of his career. The final throw, his most impressive, reached the 197’6” mark. The Tritons have owned the event for the past eight years, as they continue to produce outstanding performances time after time, with Golubovic succeeding the Howe brothers, who won the past seven years. Golubovic’s teammates also performed well: Redshirt senior thrower Anthony Capitulo finished third (194’3”), while senior thrower Travis Vandegriff finished fifth (193’).

In the women's javelin, redshirt senior sprinter and thrower Ellexi Snover and senior thrower Haley Libuit finished fourth and fifth. Junior jumper and thrower Savanna Forry competed in the hammer throw and was able to finish in seventh after a throw of 152’5”.

Freshman Natalie Reichenbach placed in fifth with 2602 points midway through the heptathlon. Reichenbach put up respectable displays in the four events of day one: fifth in the 100 hurdles (15.59/772), tied fourth in the high jump (5’0.25”/655), seventh in shot put (28’9.75”/450) and sixth in the 200-meter (26.76/732).

After day one, the women sat in third place with 11 points. The men also were in third place, but with 31 points, after the javelin win.

Day Two Senior distance runner Paige Hughes took over the 10,000 meter event on Friday as she brought home the victory with a time of 36:03.42 to claim a glorious three peat in the competition. Triton teammate Skylar Thiel finished eighth with a personal best time of 37:44.85.

Sophomore jumper Matt Bowen tasted victory on the second day as he won the men’s long jump competition, jumping for 23’8.25 on his second attempt. Redshirt senior jumper Kyle Chiu placed fourth (22’1”) while senior jumper Sean Cook earned a seventh place (21’2”).

On the women's side, senior Kristen Daugherty (18’1.75”) and junior Casey Buck (18’0.25”) took solid third- and fourth-place performances in the long jump.

The men’s discus provided a hard task for the Triton men as Golubovic (151’9”) finished fifth, sophomore Mason Falahat (145’10”) sixth, and junior Chris Vanliew (140’5”) eighth.

Both Triton competitors for the 10,000 meter event, junior Brendan Gee (31:20.01) and senior Tareq Alwafai (31:21.26) were neck and neck toward the end and finished fifth and sixth.

Four Tritons reached the track finals for the 100-meter event on Saturday and two for the 200-meter event. Paul Doan qualified for both events with a 10.62 in the 100m and 21.88 in the 200 meter.

Freshman Andrew Dirks similarly qualified for both events with times of 10.94 and 22.21. The other two Tritons, sophomore Justin Hunter (10.86) and junior Emmanuel Elijah (10.95) qualified for the 100meter final.

After the second day, the Triton men moved up to second place with 52 points, only behind the 93 points put up by Chico State. The women finished the day in second with 38 points, with Chico State in first with 50 points.

Day Three Golubovic once again was victorious, this time in the pole vault after he cleared a height of 15’7.25” on his third attempt. Sophomore Devin Stetson (11’8.5”) finished fourth. His counterpart, junior Chrissi Carr (12’2.5”) finished second in the women's pole vault.

Bowen made it back to back titles in the triple jump with his best jump of the season on his third attempt, 49’3”. Junior Khalil Flemister (46’4.25”) finished in fourth. Senior Kristin Sato (37’10.75) finished third in the women's triple jump, Ashley Rhorer (37’4”) sixth, Natalie Caraway (37’3”) seventh and Daugherty (36’9.75”) eighth.

Junior Savanna Forry outdid the competition in the high jump as she cleared a height of 5’4.25” to win the title. The men placed well in the event as well as Cook (6’7”) second, sophomore Brett Molster See TRACK & FIELD, page 11

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