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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Jacobs School Wins Innovation Award

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Popular Science Magazine awards the engineering school for SkyWeeper Robot.

BY justine liang

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Muir College freshman Lily Wang’s award-winning work is on display in a special exhibit at The Loft in Price Center until the end of November.

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IN THE THICK OF IT (From left to right) UCSD students Hannah Flaig, Zhichen Zhang and Dronneil Chandra take part in an Army Reserve Officer Training Corps field training exercise completed at Camp Elliot on Friday, Nov. 22. UCSD cadets who participated learned key survival techniques and tactical combat skills.

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Applications Open for New Transfer Guarantee

Low-income San Diego-area community college students can now gain assured admission to UCSD.

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University of California administrators launched a new program this week that will give low-income students in San Diego a guaranteed transfer to UCSD. The new project, UniversityLink, was launched Nov. 20 and will replace the Transfer Admission Guarantee (TAG) program that was discontinued in 2012.

UniversityLink aims at assisting low-income community college students from the San Diego

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area who cannot attend any UC campus other than UCSD because they cannot afford to live away from home.

To be eligible for the program, a student’s family income cannot exceed $40,000 a year.

Additionally, students must have at least a 3.5 average grade point average, and they must fulfill See TRANSFERS, page 3

The UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering won Popular Science Magazine’s “Best of What’s New� awards for 2013 for its innovative outdoor shaker table and a robot called SkySweeper, designed to move along utility lines.

UCSD boasts the largest highperformance outdoor shake table in the world, which allows structural engineers to test buildings, improve earthquake hazard mitigation and protect structures. “It can subject a 400-ton payload to 1.2 Gs, the high-end of recorded seismic movement,� the report in the Popular Science Magazine said.

The world’s largest shaker table is 25 ft. by 40 ft. and was tested against a fully equipped five-story building.

Structural engineers at UCSD Englekirk Structural Engineering Center in Scripps Ranch created a five-story building — which included an ICU, surgery room, piping and air conditioning, fire barriers and a functional elevator — and tested it against a series of recorded magnitude of real earthquakes.

The building was tested with some of the world’s greatest earthshaking quakes, including the 8.8-magnitude Chilean earthquake of 2010. The $5 million project aims to determine how to keep highvalue buildings such as hospital and data centers operational even through massive earthquakes. “What we are doing is the equivalent of giving a building an EKG to see how it performs after an earthquake and a post-earthquake fire,� principal investigator Tara See AWARD, page 3

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▶ Meningitis A third case of meningitis has been confirmed at UC Santa Barbara, following two other diagnoses this month. The latest patient is female, while the other two are male.

The Los Angeles Times reports that over 300 UCSB students may have come in contact with the infected students.

Meningitis is a highly contagious disease frequently identified by a stiff neck, headaches and a high fever. College students are particularly susceptible to the disease that spreads through close living quarters and shared utensils.

Santa Barbara’s Public Health Department will be conducting tests to determine if anyone else is sick. ▶ Mayor Race San Diego’s special election on Nov. 19 resulted in a runoff, with none of the candidates receiving a majority of the vote.

Republican City Councilmember Kevin Faulconer received 42.73 percent of the vote, while his Democratic rival and fellow Councilmember, David Alvarez, received 26.5 percent of the vote. Former assemblyman

Editorial Assistants Rita Eritsland, Shelby Newallis

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Business Manager Emily Ku

and UCSD political science professor Nathan Fletcher fell behind Alvarez with 24.24 percent and announced his retirement from public life in a concession speech a day after the election.

A map of voter turnout from the San Diego Union-Tribune shows a primarily Republican turnout in northern parts of San Diego, including La Jolla, with a Democratic majority in southern areas.

The runoff is not yet scheduled but will likely be in February of next year. ▶ Trolley The San Diego Association of Governments has approved a plan to build a trolley route from the Old Town station near Fashion Valley up to UTC and La Jolla. The project has been under consideration for six months.

The new light rail will stop by nine stations, including two on the UCSD campus. One planned location is by Pepper Canyon in Sixth College, while the other is on east campus, by Triton Ballpark and Scripps Hospital.

The project will be funded by federal money and tax revenue and is scheduled to open by 2018.

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LIGHTS & SIRENS Friday, Nov. 15 ▶3:10 p.m.: Non-injury Accident A UC shuttle bus collided with another vehicle near Washington Avenue. Report taken. ▶11:58 p.m.: Welfare Check A male was lying on the ground near the Cognitive Sciences Building. Field interview administered.

Saturday, Nov. 16 ▶12:18 a.m.: Reckless Driving A vehicle was driving on the side of the road, heading west between Regents and Lebon. Gone on arrival. ▶9:06 p.m.: Citizen Contact After paying the fare, a passenger vomited in a cab and left the area.

Information only.

Sunday, Nov. 17 ▶2:50 a.m.: Disturbance A male and female were having a verbal argument. Field interview administered. ▶11:19 a.m.: Medical Aid A female passed out and had trouble breathing. Transported to hospital.

3:09 p.m.: Welfare Check An adult female walked onto the I-5 North from Genesee Ave. Information only.

Monday, Nov. 18 ▶10:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.: Citizen Contact The reporting party believes she may have been drugged at a party. Report taken.

9 a.m. to 12 p.m.: Vandalism A vehicle’s back tire was cut, causing $125 in damages. Online report.

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Lights and Sirens is compiled from the Police Crime Log at police.ucsd.edu. ▶11:22 a.m.: Medical Aid A young adult female had a seizure in Peterson Hall. Transported to hospital.

Tuesday, Nov. 19 ▶2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.: Bicycle Theft A $1000 bicycle was stolen near the Center for Molecular Medicine.

Online report. ▶4:13 p.m.: Found Property A suitcase was found behind a tree near Mayer Hall. Information only.

Wednesday, Nov. 20 ▶3:54 a.m.: Gas Leak There was a strong odor of natural gas from the outside of the Rita Atkinson residences. Referred to other agency: Housing Maintenance. ▶11:09 a.m.: Illegal Camping An unoccupied transient camp was found in Lot 011. Information only.

9:39 p.m.: Fire Alarm An unknown suspect willingly pulled a false fire alarm in RIMAC. Report taken.

Thursday, Nov. 21 ▶12:21 a.m.: Welfare Check The friend of a student was unable to reach him and became concerned.

Checks ok. ▶6:50 a.m.: Medical Aid An adult male experienced chest pains. Transported to hospital. ▶8:20 p.m.: Marijuana Contact There was an odor of marijuana around Stewart Hall. Information only.

— ANDREW HUANG Staff Writer

Around 200 Students will be Eligible for UniversityLink Yearly ▶ TRANSFERS, from page 1

regular transfer requirements.

Students must also go to one of nine local partner community colleges: Cuyamaca, Grossmont, Imperial Valley, MiraCosta, Palomar, San Diego City, San Diego Mesa, San Diego Miramar or Southwestern.

The TAG program is still in effect for the fall of 2014 but will no longer be in effect for UCSD after that year.

However, it is still operating for eight other UC campuses.

Interim Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Alan Houston said that an estimated 200 students will be eligible for the program each year and that there is no ceiling for the number of students that can take advantage of it.

Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs Robby Boparai noted at Wednesday night’s A.S.

Meeting that these students are unique from other commuter students and may require additional support once they attend UCSD. “We don’t yet have a support system to deal with those issues,” Houston said. “Once they get here, the trick would be to figure out what kind of community ties are missing.”

However, Houston guesses that many of the primary issues facing these students are likely to be similar to the issues facing other commuter students.

“If I had to wager a guess,” Houston said, “I’d say the biggest challenge for the commuting student is parking.”

A potential financial problem that this program may cause is that many of these incoming students will require large sums of financial aid. However, according to Houston, Chancellor Pradeep

Khosla’s “primary objective in the capital campaign that will be launched next year is scholarships for undergraduate students.”

Aditionally, UniversityLink established a four-week summer Medical Science Program. The program is free of charge and includes academic activities, room and board. The program is intended for students interested in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, biomedical research or allied health careers.

Student veterans, active-duty service members and former foster youth are also eligible, regardless of their year. International students are not eligible. High school seniors and community college students can apply for UniversityLink starting Nov. 20.

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Some Plastic Parts for Award-Winning Robot were 3-D Printed ▶ AWARD, from page 1

Hutchinson said to UCSD News.

While the shaker table tests the land, the SkySweeper makes its skyhigh rounds across utility cables.

“Developed by engineers at the University of California at San Diego, it will be the most affordable and versatile power-line monitoring tool,” said Popular Science Magazine.

SkySweeper is a V-shaped robot with a motor-driven “elbow” at its center. It is equipped with clamps

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that open and close, allowing the robot to move in an inchwormlike fashion. The clamps that act as its hands can also swing over and release one at a time, allowing the robot to bypass cable support points.

Developed by Thomas Bewley, professor of mechanical engineering at UCSD School of Engineering, and Ph.D. student Nick Morozovsky, the SkySweeper is both low-cost and efficient. Made with just off-theshelf electronics and plastic parts printed from a 3D printer, the

prototype for the SkySweeper is less than $1,000 — far less expensive than the current models used to inspect utility lines.

“The revolutions in low-cost microcontrollers and 3D printers have enabled rapid prototyping of complex robotic systems, such as SkySweeper, that can take novel dynamics and control problems from simulation to reality,” Morozovsky said to UCSD News.

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The U.S. Armed Forces’ plan to integrate women into special operations units is a much-needed shift toward true gender equality in the miltary.

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ixty-five years have passed since the approval of the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, permitting women to seek permanent status in the military. Now, as of Jan. 21, the United States Armed Forces will make moves toward integrating women into elite positions in special forces divisions of the military such as the Navy SEALS, the Army Rangers, or the Green Berets to begin as early as 2015.

Given the rapid advances in women’s rights within the last 50 years, full integration of women into the military will serve as one of the final steps on the path towards much needed occupational equality for women, but also as a first move towards achieving genuine gender equality in the military.

Although there are questions regarding the number of women who will be able to meet the physical demands, such capacity seems to be a minute concern for some military officials. Former SEAL officer Cade Courtley agrees that there are women with the physical and psychological prowess for the job, but questions the wisdom of adding “an element into the most elite special forces that could cause it to be less effective.” Female physical competence, then, seems to fall somewhere at the bottom of a list of concerns, trumped by reluctance toward change. However, skepticism is no cause for refusal of

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equal opportunity.

In a nation where gender roles are an implicit and explicit part of the culture, breaking down the metaphysical barrier between male and female seems absurd, but only because we have been branded with gender stereotypes straight from the get-go. American culture has focused more on gender differences than on similarities, nurturing gender stereotypes from the moment a newborn leaves the hospital with either a blue or a pink blanket. Karen Davis, professor of neuroscience at the University of Toronto, asserts that typical views of women in combat have “been strongly influenced by socio-cultural perspectives flowing from an exclusively male-oriented warrior framework or at least the assumptions underlying it.” A link rather than a barrier between genders would allow for less unnecessary divergence. Although such unspoken laws are now being challenged, the idea of gender equality in the military is still fresh with the deepset existence of gender roles in our country, which ultimately serve as a crucial factor to women being viewed as incompetent or unfit for comb standards.

Unfortunately, it took something as serious as sexual assault to ignite the process of change. Chairman of the See NAVY SEALS, page 5

AS HIT SHOWS “HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER” AND “BREAKING BAD” COME TO AN END, TELEVISION NETWORKS CBS AND AMC HAVE ORDERED PILOT EPISODES FOR SPIN-OFFS FOR BOTH SERIES.

Familiar Themes and Characters Successfully Draw Audiences In

Ill-Fated and Unpopular TV Spin-offs Show Executives’ Lack of Creativity

Television Networks Utilize Spin-offs as Easy, Low Risk Investments

Television spinoffs are the epitome of hit-ormiss. Network executives face the question of whether their new show will be a novel crowd pleaser or if it will be a lame attempt at recreating the past. But spinoffs do more than greedily reap profits out of show concepts; reworked episodes move on with the themes and atmosphere fans come to love, rejuvenating them with new characters that will develop in their own way.

Preserving these shows is much more than instilling the character dynamic of Marshall Eriksen or Walter White into new bodies and faces. New characters can appeal to the same audience without being a complete reproduction of their parent personas. The show is able to live on by using the same world and struggles from before, evoking a sort of nostalgia in the fans.

One spinoff series that successfully moved on with themes and settings is Nickelodeon’s “The Legend of Korra.” Stemming off of the world developed in “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” this series develops brand-new characters — complete opposites from the original show. It’s the same world viewed from a different perspective, and that’s what made this series successful. “The Legend of Korra” averaged 3.7 million views for its first season, up from 3.2 million for “The Last Airbender,” prompting the Nickelodeon network to order three more seasons on top of the first one.

Efforts in developing these derivative series aren’t just so companies can wring out the remaining life out of an idea. It’s a combination of optimism and fan support that spurs the need to continue with themes that audiences will surely love.

Continuing every hit show past its prime is ultimately an unsustainable practice that bars new shows from finding new audiences. Series spinoffs tend to cling to old successes and milk them for all they are worth, coasting on viewer nostalgia to prolong characters and storylines until they’re no longer interesting or believable. However, network executives should look for what worked in past hits and translate these aspects into new shows.

Networks have become too hesitant to introduce new premises, and instead rely on worn-out characters from old, stale shows far past their peak. When the CW Network introduced “The Carrie Diaries” as a prequel for the “Sex and the City” franchise that ran for six seasons and two movies, even Sarah Jessica Parker — the series’ lead actress — was unimpressed and believed the series was odd.

A continuation of a show or character only occasionally finds its own voice and earns a loyal following. “Cheers” sequel “Frasier” matched the original show’s longevity with an 11-season run, while 1970s hit “Happy Days,” a spinoff itself from “Love, American Style,” spawned semi-popular spinoffs, “Mork & Mindy” and “Laverne & Shirley.” However, spinoffs that attempt to bask in former glory without offering anything new, end up wrung dry of profits, while audiences become jaded and grow to loathe the characters they once tuned in for.

Networks need to realize that a show does not warrant a spinoff solely on the basis of a successful run. After nine seasons of “How I Met Your Mother,” no one really wants to see “How I Met Your Father.” We’d like to see a story about somebody new.

Networks will always milk a cash cow. Once media moguls spot a show with unrealized moneymaking potential, a spinoff can mean the difference between cult obscurity and blockbuster franchise.

Spinoffs to declining or ended shows serve as easy, low-risk ways to squeeze a bit more money from a once-popular series, or even catapult the series into the great wealth and fame of franchisedom.

Because spin-offs come with a built-in audience, the pre-existing fanbase saves on marketing and takes pressure off writers to develop new characters. Even if a spinoff fails, its large initial viewership makes commercial space an easy sell.

Although “Joey,” the infamous spinoff of “Friends,” suffered cancellation after its second season with a low of 4.1 million viewers, it attracted 18.6 million viewers for its premiere season.

On the other hand, a successful franchise can churn out profits for generations, on and off TV. “Looney Tunes” still makes $1 billion annually off its merchandising empire built from its decades of retooled spinoffs. The original “Star Trek” ended after just three seasons. However, a total of five spinoffs spanning four decades made Star Trek the $4 billion franchise recognizable today, with its most recent films grossing $250 million each. “Law & Order” has spawned ten spinoffs and foreign adaptations; producers found a formula for profitable television and stuck with it.

Love them or hate them, spinoffs make business sense. They not only build off untapped hype from the parent show to keep the cash flowing, but also occasionally create franchise titans that rule the entertainment industry for decades to come.

— DEREK UNG Contributing Writer

— ALLIE KIEKHOFER Senior Staff Writer

— THOMAS FINN Contributing Writer

Don’t Let Familiarity Breed Contempt Thinking Caps Kelvin Noronha

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n unusually frigid November morning and my own dubiously graceful antics recently conspired to sideline me for the better part of a week. After my lazy attempt to exit my bed ended up in a painfully strained back, I laid around in a dolorous stupor and promised myself to be grateful for every day my body worked normally. Yet the moment my back returned to its untroubled state, I forgot all about it again.

I can take some comfort in the fact that such apathy is not entirely my fault. My indifference to the comforts I’m used to is an example of a behavioral mechanism called latent inhibition, first discovered in 1959 by R.E. Lubow and A.U. Moore. Our brains take the massive amount of sensory input we receive on a continual basis and automatically filter out all the stuff that we have already processed and deemed irrelevant. We rapidly grow accustomed to various persistent environmental stimuli and tune them out, so that our brains don’t have to struggle with handling multiple sensations at once.

This ability conferred a survival advantage; when our homo erectus ancestors were skulking about in the bushes stalking prey, it was helpful not to have been distracted by the minute perceptions of hovering insects or poky dirt underfoot.

Further down the evolutionary timeline, we also find latent inhibition useful. If we have a particularly smelly roommate, it’s helpful if we’re able to block out the odors after a while. And when we’re taking an exam, we don’t want to constantly feel our sleeves tickling our arms; our body focuses accordingly on the task at hand and desensitizes us to all the other inconsequential ambient sensations.

Unfortunately, this typically helpful ability can be a bit problematic when we start ignoring things wholesale. Latent inhibition is a notorious saboteur of human relationships — when we get used to the presence and kindness of those close to us, we take them for granted, despite their qualities. As most of us have experienced at one point or another, we’re apt to get bored and end up seeking new people.

Similarly, we’re bound to overlook the things in life that we are fortunate to have. I was overjoyed and overcome with gratitude when I got my laptop for my birthday four years ago, but it rarely elicits the faintest thought anymore as to how privileged I am to have it. If it were to get lost, I would be heartbroken. But until then, it usually falls out of my consciousness. The same goes for every comfort and privilege we enjoy that others don’t — it’s only when they’ve disappeared that it might strike us how lucky we are.

It’s rather impossible to be perpetually thankful when our possessions, physical and intangible, number in the hundreds.

We’re hardly going to profess our appreciation of shoelaces or phone chargers. But we can still keep our most valuable possessions close to our hearts. Trust me — I’ve had the same lovably faded grey teddy bear for 19 years.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

UC System Needs Open Discussion on Disability

Women in Elite Military Positions Can Change Gender Roles ▶ NAVY SEALS, from page 4 Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey shed light in January on the reasoning behind the decision, stating that the continuous problem of sexual harassment in the military may be due to an imbalanced position dynamic, declaring: “When you have one part of the population that is designated as warriors and another part that’s designated as something else, [the] disparity begins to establish a psychology that in some cases led to that environment.”

This rationality is valid, but nothing new. The infamous prison experiment conducted at Stanford University in 1971 by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo,

in which 24 men were placed in a simulated prison environment, shows the adverse effects of bestowing power to a select group of individuals that would otherwise be considered equals. The planned two-week experiment was brought to a screeching premature halt due to horrific behavior inflicted by the group of men labeled guards on to those labeled prisoners. Zimbardo concluded that it was the situation — not the individuals themselves — that caused the behavior. Although Gen. Dempsey’s logic of power dynamics is sound, the integration of females into these elite positions should not be as a result of maltreatment. Rather, permitting women to contend for these spots should be a

means to restructuring the gender paradigm toward equality.

The transition to full integration may be slow at first and the step seemingly small, but it is the last step toward women becoming fully included in the military, which is a significant accomplishment for our country. Future daughters will no longer be notified that they do not have the option of becoming a Navy SEAL or an Army Ranger, and as females grow into the field of Special Forces, both men and women will learn to adapt accordingly, taking a step forward toward equality rather than a fall backward to segregation.

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Dear Editor, I have been an employee of UCSD for 12 years. But as a disabled employee, I no longer feel safe at work. I disclosed my disability to my department with the hope of getting the support I need to overcome the difficulties I have at work.

I provided two letters from my doctor identifying the functional limitations that would enable me to continue working.

The University Interactive Process has failed. The doctors’ letters I provided and three meetings held on this issue have failed to ensure that the accommodations I need to function at work are met in a way that is consistent and fair.

Instead the accommodation has been provided only sporadically and begrudgingly — thereby ensuring continued stress, difficulty and ultimately failure to meet the requirements of my job.

During a Disability Interactive Process meeting convened by the department, I was subjected to derogatory comments about my illness. These comments undermined trust going forward, as they indicate a troubling pattern in the

department and perhaps throughout the system.

It is important to note the significance of a functional limitation and its attendant accommodation: A disabled employee cannot function without the accommodation in place. The employer has the power to enable the disabled employee to succeed by providing a minor adjustment — or to ensure their failure by withholding the specified accommodation. In this case it is not only my ability to work, which is at stake, but the success of the course and its students.

I believe an open discussion about disability in the workplace is in order. A culture of discrimination should not be allowed to perpetuate within a public institution. I believe in the UC system and hope to send my son to school here. But by ignoring these troubling signs the very values of the University of California are compromised.

The majority of Americans WILL, at some point in their lives, live with disability. As our society ages, accommodating disability in a way that is consistent and reasonable will help ensure the success of the institution and our society.

— Naomi Spellman Department Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Computing Arts

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uir College freshman Lily Wang has been an artist since she could pick up a pencil. Literally. As a child, when learning how to write the alphabet, even her letters would look like pictures.

Eighteen years later, the pen is still at work. The fruits of her labor hang in The Loft until December: 10 vibrant paintings that appear to be so professional that students have even emailed Wang asking if she sells books of her work.

This makes sense considering her work is also featured in Cannon Tunnel in the Capitol Building in Washington D.C., the prize for winning the 26th Congressional District Art Contest.

The 10 pieces on display include a mix of digital and traditional pieces that she made during high school. There is visible diversity in her works, ranging from somber and intense drawings to blindingly fluorescent ones.

Wang’s goal for her art is simple.

“When people see my work, I want them to feel something or get some sort of idea from seeing my work,” Wang said. “I want to communicate feelings between me and the viewer.”

Each painting also holds personal meaning for Wang.

“Each piece, when I look back at [a painting], I remember what I was feeling at the time,” Wang said. “It’s kind of like looking at photos from the past. [I’d think], ‘That’s how I looked then. That’s how I drew then. Oh, I looked so gross back then, or oh, I was having fun.’”

Wang’s personal favorite on display is “Pour Love,” a See ART, page 8

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Gift-giving Made Simple UCSD alumnus speaks about Giftovus, an online platform her and her husband created for gift givers to promote effective collaboration.

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contributing writers It’s no secret that one of the most stressful aspects about the holiday season is figuring out the perfect gift to give to your loved ones, but Giftovus — an online, collaborative gift-giving service — allows gift givers to work together to find the perfect gift. According to www.

Giftovus.com, a person will struggle finding gifts for six out of 10 people that they shop for, and in the end, gifts are still dissatisfactory 20 percent of the time. A simple collaboration between the gift giver and the family and friends of the receiver will make special occasions less hectic and less costly.

Giftovus was launched last month by UCSD alumna Jessica Jessup, who got help from fellow UCSD alumni husband Brian Jessup, Tim Schilling and Andy Sammons. “[My mom is] really hard to shop for, [so my sister and I] were just online, emailing each other back and forth trying to figure out the right gift,” Jessica Jessup said. “That was just taking a really long time, so that’s where we came up with the idea of creating Giftovus — to try to help myself, as well as a lot of other people, [with the process].”

Giftovus is formatted similarly to Facebook, and users connect through Facebook so that family members and friends can “recruit” one another to contribute to the effort. First, a user posts a wish list on his or her Giftovus profile. Then, friends and family collaborate on the user’s pro-

file by posting different ideas on the receiver’s profile and work toward making the gifts more personal. For example, if someone lists “sweater” on his wish list, his loved ones can discuss different styles, colors and brands that he might want, allowing for a more personalized, thoughtout gift. Throughout this whole process, the receiver will not be able to see the activity on his or her profile other than the wish list that he or she has posted.

Giftovus also serves as a money saver since Jessica Jessup says people end up spending more money to overcompensate when they’re unsure about a gift.

“People often think, ‘If I don’t know exactly what to get, then I’d rather overshoot in money than undershoot,’” she said. “People think that spending more equates to caring more, but that is not true.”

According to Giftovus, the average American spends about 18 hours struggling to think of a perfect gift and wastes $102 each holiday season.

“The expression, ‘It’s the thought that counts,’ falls perfectly with what we’re trying to do,” Jessica Jessup said. “[With Giftovus], you’re thinking about someone, putting in the effort to learn more about them and trying to figure out a way to express your relationship in the gift that you’re giving to them. What we don’t agree with is someone saying, ‘It’s the money that counts.’”

Jessica Jessup believes that Giftovus makes gift giving a learning experience.

“In that process of bringing peo-

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ple together [and] throwing around a few ideas, you also learn about [the receiver],” Jessica Jessup said.

When a Giftovus user makes a list of gifts he wants, his or her loved ones can narrow down their search for the perfect present while not completely ruining the surprise.

“He wants a bike, and his loved ones can help him figure out what size he is, what style he likes, what color he’d want,” Jessica Jessup said.

Jessica Jessup explained how college students in particular could benefit from the platform.

“In college, you live on campus, and you have a lot of friends,” she said. “[You can] get everyone involved in [it], and get everyone posting about each other. You know a lot of little things, and college students can help the parents and other friends know what to get.”

Giftovus allows its users to select

gifts that receivers are more likely to appreciate.

“To put it succinctly, the right gift costs less,” Brian Jessup said. “If it’s something they’re really going to love, it could be five dollars, [and] it doesn’t matter — it’s what they love.

The emotional component [of giftgiving] is restored.”

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Up All Night to “Get Data” Neuroscience graduate students from UCSD produced a music video parody that has gone viral on YouTube.

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contributing writers For some, Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” featuring Pharrell Williams, is beyond overplayed — but “Get Data,” a song parody produced by UCSD’s graduate neuroscience program to promote the annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting in San Diego, offers a fresh take.

In order to revamp “Get Lucky,” UCSD’s neurosciences program crowdsourced the lyrics, spent two days filming the music video — which features members of the program — and published “Get Data” online on Nov. 5. Since then, “Get Data” has gone viral on YouTube, garnering over 76,000 views to date. Some of the new parody lyrics include “She’s up all night to pipette/ I’m up all night to collect/ She’s up all night, no regrets/ I’m up all night to get data.”

“Graduate students [in 2011] decided to make a music video parodying Lady Gaga’s ‘Poker Face,’ but it was ‘Poster Face,’” graduate student Ethan McBride, who worked on this year’s music video and lyrics, said.

“And I guess it’s becoming a tradition.”

By the third day “Get Data” was uploaded, it had already passed the 17,000-view count of “Poster Face.”

The neurosciences program presented its poster, a common way of presenting data at a large science conference, at SfN on Monday, Nov. 11. The effort put into the creation of “Get Data” paid off, as the neurosciences program’s social event at SfN was well attended.

“A couple people even came up to Ethan and asked, ‘Are you that guy in the video?’” graduate student Ashley Juavinett said. “I think our social was well attended in part because of the video. In general, it was good publicity for our program.”

The video impressed by showcasing the fun side of a serious graduate program.

“One of the YouTube comments [said], ‘Now I want to go to UCSD for grad school,’” McBride said.

The neurosciences program proved its point with “Get Data”, which put the graduate students’ antics, editing skills and musical talent on display.

“Our program has a good reputa-

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tion for being a very social program where people have interests outside of science, such as making videos or music,” Juavinett said.

Micah Caldwell, husband of neuroscience graduate student Alie Caldwell, who provided the vocals for the video, spent just one day recording the audio and approxi-

mately nine hours editing.

UCSD’s neurosciences program is a family that you can’t find anywhere else. Besides working hard to collect data, they are also experts at having fun.

“I think we really do have a good community at UCSD for neuroscience, and I think this video is a

really good demonstration of that,” Juvanitt said. “There [are] some other [graduate] programs that I can’t see getting together on this video — it was definitely a team effort with many people.”

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digital self-portrait. Rosy, milky love showers from a dark indigo sky onto a purplish Wang, who covers her face in her hands as delicate little wispy hearts fall on her head and shoulders.

“I drew it at a time when I was feeling down — boy troubles,” Wang said. “It turned out nice. Usually, when I feel strong emotions, the pieces turn out better.”

On the other hand, Wang presents a happier and carefree side to life in her paintings as well. Though Wang describes her own work as realist in relation to anime art, aspects of the surreal and a great deal of distortion often come up in her drawings.

One such example is “Fishy Happenings,” a digital piece in which a slim girl walks down a path.

On one side is a bustling metropolis, and on the other is a sky full of clouds with exotic fish flying. Two Pokemon characters are also hidden in the drawing for fun.

Though she is a freshman who has only been on campus for nine weeks, Wang got her paintings to be the only student works featured in The Loft by Googling and reaching out to find opportunities to showcase art at UCSD. After coming in contact with UCSD Art Exhibit Coordinator Shanise Mok, Wang was able to put her art out in public for her first time at UCSD. Though Wang has received highprofile recognition for her work, her inspirations come from a humble source: the Internet. As of now, Wang draws from the styles of deviantart user ProdigyBombay and Tumblr user 70% EtOH. 70% EtOH, a freelancer who also holds a Ph.D in pathology, has espe-

cially inspired Wang to look into the intersection of science and art.

Wang is taking baby steps toward a life of science and art, drawing pictures of muscular and skeletal anatomy off of reference photos for her own practice.

However, with the overwhelming experience of being in college for the first time, art has taken a backseat for Wang as she adjusts to school and mostly consists of doodling to make sure that her drawing skills remain up to par.

“Art is something where I can destress and let my emotions flow through,” Wang said. “Some people use meditation. For me, it’s drawing — just sort of releasing stress and releasing the drawing.”

In terms of finding a community of artists at UCSD, Wang has reached out to another artist at UCSD: Warren College freshman Su Cheong. Together, they do art trades and support each other when they are going through “art bloc,” the bane of an artist’s existence.

Wang hopes to use her art to serve the community at UCSD, along the lines of art therapy and volunteering at a hospital.

Wang also wants to continue to teachdrawing at local homeless women’s shelters.

These are big goals for the busy general biology major who’s always intent on improving her technique.

But Wang considers her exhibition at The Loft as a solid start.

“I feel like, ‘Wow, my work is actually hanging on a wall,’” Wang said. “It’s a bit of a surprise when I walk in, and it’s like, ‘That work is by me.’ I’m pretty happy I’ve gotten an opportunity to display my work, and I think I’m off to a good start.”

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recorded an error and got blocked at the net to end the match 16–18 in Cal State Bernardino’s favor to hand the Coyotes their eight consecutive CCAA title.

Friday, No. 12 ranked UCSD took on Cal State Los Angeles to defend the second spot in the conference.

The Golden Eagles’ good hitting percentage and service pressure caused Triton losses in the first two sets in The Eagles’ nest.

UCSD answered by out-blocking Cal State Los Angeles in the next set.

The final set featured 13 tie scores and seven lead changes. The Tritons had a match point attempt at 27–26, but UCSD ultimately fell in its second

closed out the match with three consecutive points.

Saturday the Tritons were back at RIMAC Arena for their final match of the regular season against Cal State Dominguez Hills. The Tritons, who won last time the two met, had control for most of the match. After dropping the third set 25–19, UCSD took the early lead in the final set with good serving pressure and solid blocking, to hold on to the 25–16 lead.

Saturday marked the final career regular season match for seniors Lizzy Andrews, Rachelle Kinney, Sara McCutchan and Brittany Lombardi.

All four contributed against Dominguez Hills, but Ricci Luyties took note

On Wednesday, she broke the program’s single season dig record with 560 digs in 2013.

“It has been a really year and I’m going to miss the girls”, Lombardi said after the match Saturday. “But first we are going to continue our winning streak into the playoffs.”

UCSD will now wait until Monday, Nov. 25, when the NCAA Tournament bracket is set to be announced, to learn of its postseason fate. Regionals run from Dec. 5 to Dec. 8 while the NCAA Championships take place Dec. 12 to Dec. 14 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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high school program prepared me really well for going to the next level,” Anderson said. “There are a lot of philosophies of this team that I already shared coming in. As part of this freshman class, I know we not only want to be able to acclimate to the new college game but do all we can to contribute to a championship caliber team.”

She also agreed with teammate White that the team’s support has helped her adapt to the college game.

“I think that the support from teammates to help with the new things has helped me adjust to more obvious differences like speed of the game, both mentally and physically,” Anderson said.

This rookie class will look to follow the winning tradition set forth for them by a program which won the CCAA Tournament last season and which set the school record for the longest winning streak (26 games). Having lost

the talents of guards Daisy Feder and Emily Osga, both first team all-CCAA members in 2012-2013, the team will need to find replacements for the pair’s scoring output. Both Feder and Osga were members of the 1000-point club by the time they graduated last year.

“For the team as a whole, I think we have a mindset to be a postseason team,” Anderson said, “Especially coming off the conference championship last year.”

The road to another championship will be a unique one with this bunch of new personalities.

“I feel like my class will bring a good amount of energy off the bench and all go hard every second we are on the court,” White said. “We will also bring a little bit of fun during practice and games and also a little bit of swag.”

We have already seen some of this with the excitement displayed by the women’s basketball team at Triton Power Hour, including in the performance by White aka Rapper Jacks,

in the event’s rap competition — for which she won an iPad mini.

Fans can expect a long stretch of home games for the Tritons this January. The Tritons will be playing at Rimac three out of four weekends at the start of Winter Quarter 2014.

“I’m really excited to get the chance to witness a new community of fans and see other athletes and students that I have met so far at games,” Anderson said. “Playing in such a large gym, it should be awesome.”

The Tritons started the road to a championship season with a conference win against Cal State San Bernardino in their season opener, and are now 2–1 with the loss to Seattle Pacific last Friday and an overtime win against Western Washington the following day.

The Tritons’ next game is this Friday Nov. 29 at Rimac Arena against Metro State, at the UCSD Thanksgiving Classic tournament.

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“In the first half, we shot poorly and we were totally out of sync,” UCSD head coach Heidi VanDerveer said to the UCSD Athletics Department. “We regrouped at halftime and showed tremendous character the rest of the way.”

Within the first five minutes of the second half, the Tritons overtook the lead on a flurry of three-pointers.

UCSD struggled back and forth with Western Washington leading to a 55–55 tie.

From there UCSD took over, never giving up the lead from the outset of the overtime period.

“In the first half, we weren’t making shots, weren’t playing together and weren’t talking,” Seto said. “In our talk during halftime, we told ourselves that we need to pick it up and come together.”

On Friday, the Tritons faced Seattle Pacific, losing 66–63. Despite getting 18 points out of Perry and 17 points from Seto, UCSD couldn’t stop 6-foot-2-inch Seattle forward Katie Benson, who scored 26 points and nabbed nine rebounds.

“We were down from most of the game and fought our way back,” VanDerveer said to the UCSD Athletics Department. “We out-rebounded them but had too many turnovers. We did have an opportunity to win after coming back and I’m proud of our effort.”

This week, the Tritons will host the UCSD Thanksgiving Classic. On Friday, Nov. 29, UCSD will face Metro State at RIMAC Arena at 7:00 p.m.

The following Saturday, the Tritons take on Azusa Pacific at 6:00 p.m.

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One-One weekend The Tritons fell to Seattle Pacific before taking down No. 13 Western Washington in overtime.

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UCSD Ends CCAA Conference in Third Place Tritons end regular season, falling to San Bernardino and Los Angeles before beating Dominguez Hills.

BY rita eritsland

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After dropping crucial games to Cal State Los Angeles and Cal State Bernardino last weekend, the UCSD women’s volleyball team wrapped up its regular season on Saturday with a four-set victory over Cal State Dominguez Hills at RIMAC Arena.

The Tritons finish the season 25–5 overall and 17–5 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association — dropping from second place last week to their final spot in third place.

“We went through two very emotional and tough losses this week”, UCSD head coach Ricci Luyties said Saturday. “We were close in both but didn’t win. I told them [before the last match] we can start a new win-

ning streak right now. Coming back after those emotional losses is always tough, but I think they came out and played pretty well.”

On Wednesday the conference’s top two teams clashed at RIMAC Arena. The Tritons were hungry for revenge after losing on the road 3–1 to Cal State Bernardino earlier in the season, and with enough wins last week, the Tritons still had a chance to take the conference.

UCSD took the first two sets, but the Coyotes stormed back and won the next two. Down 14–12 a tandem block by Caitlin Brenton and Sara McCutchan, along with an attack error by the Coyotes tied it at 14–14.

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Against Division II powerhouses — No. 21 Seattle Pacific and No. 13 Western Washington — the UCSD women’s basketball team went 1–1 in a preseason tournament that brought forth would could be its new class of marquee players.

Juniors Miranda Seto and McKennan Bertsch both had big weekends. Seto – who could only be relied upon for a handful of points last season — scored 17 points against Seattle Pacific and 16 against Western Washington, following up on a career-high 21 points in UCSD’s season opener.

Similarly, Bertsch — a 5-foot-11-inch forward who seems to have come into her own at the start of the season -— posted 14 points on top of 13 rebounds last Saturday to power UCSD’s 72–66 overtime win against Western Washington.

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The two, along with four-year starting forward Erin Dautremont and senior guard Megan Perry, will look to fill in the gaps left in the roster by graduated All-CCAA guards Daisy Feder and Emily Osga.

“Last year, we really relied on [Feder] to score points, but since we’ve lost her we’ve just all had to step up,” Seto said. “Last year me and Megan Perry weren’t as aggressive, and we knew that we needed to be more aggressive on offense to fill in for Daisy and Emily.”

Last Saturday, UCSD got off to a slow start against the Vikings, down 32–19 by the end of the first half.

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Soccer Suffers Tragic Women’s Basketball Recruits Six Up Loss In Penalty Shootout and Comers for Upcoming Season BY rachel uda

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UCSD’s historic season came to a close last Friday in the third round of the NCAA Tournament last week against Simon Fraser.

Playing to a 1–1 draw after two overtime periods, the Tritons fell 4–3 in its second penalty kick shootout of the postseason.

“I thought our guys were tremendous in the game, I couldn’t have asked for anything more,” UCSD head coach Jon Pascale said to the UCSD Athletics Department.

The Tritons took the early lead on a goal by junior forward Alessandro Canale. In the 26th minute, senior midfielder Cory Wolfrom sent a cross into the 16-yard box to find Canale, who buried the ball in the back of the net.

“I thought our guys, especially in the middle of the field were fantastic — Bagheri, Bauman, Wolfrom and Canale were able to move the ball really well today, and I think it caught Simon Fraser a little by surprise.”

After five yellow cards, and one red card issued to the Clan’s Lucas Ferritto, the Tritons looked to be the side heading to the Elite Eight, although Simon Fraser outshot UCSD 12–6. But with less than four minutes remaining in regulation time, Simon Fraser’s Jovan Blagojevich got on the end of a Clan throw-in to tie the score and record

his ninth goal of the season.

Through two overtime periods, neither side could break the tie. For the second time in seven days — having beaten Chico State 5–4 in penalty kicks, Nov. 16 — the Tritons would head into a penalty kick shootout.

Last time, UCSD goalkeeper Josh Cohen made an unheard of three stops to lead the Tritons into the next round of the playoffs. This time, Cohen came up big again, stopping Simon Fraser’s third and fourth attempts. But an unlucky miss by UCSD’s go-to free kick specialist Andisheh Bagheri — shooting in the one spot — as well as nearmisses from junior midfielders Brandon Bauman and Will Pleskow would mark the end of the Tritons’ season.

This season was the first time in a decade that the Tritons had advanced to the NCAA Tournament and the first time since 2005 that UCSD went to the conference tournament — narrowly missing a CCAA berth in 2011 and 2012.

“We went through a lot of close seasons, and watching them put it together this season has been a lot of fun,” Pascale said. “I’m excited about the future of this program, but the seniors have elevated it to a whole new level and for that, I will be forever grateful to them.”

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UCSD Basketball welcomes two forwards and four guards to 2013-2014 roster.

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BY Kristen Willmon

STAFF writer At the start of a new season for the UCSD women’s basketball team, fans can expect to see a strong rookie class, who will bring some youth and exuberance to the program.

The reigning California Collegiate Athletic Association tournament champions brought on six incoming freshman: Cassie MacLeod, Hannah Johnson, Taylor Tanita, McKenzie Bolden, Jacquelynne White and Haley Anderson.

UCSD brought on two new incoming forwards this year in MacLeod of Chaminade College Prep in Westlake Village, Calif., and Hannah Johnson of Saratoga High School. The two will battle with stalwart forward Erin Dautremont and junior forward McKennan Bertsch to crack UCSD’s starting

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Three games into the season, the Tritons have not seen much of Johnson, but MacLeod has seen some time on the court — appearing, most notably, for 15 minutes in last Friday’s loss to No. 21 Seattle Pacific and scoring seven points.

In addition, UCSD picked up four guards, including Tanita, White, Anderson and McKenzie “Georgie” Bolden— so-called for her Georgia roots.

Freshman guard White, from Indio High School, is a human biology major from Eleanor Roosevelt College, who said UCSD’s top-notch reputation made her decision to come and play here easy.

“I got into this school academically, and then made contact with the coaches to see if I could come here to play basketball,” White said. “I just thought this was a really good school academi-

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cally and athletically so I thought this would be a great fit for me.”

So far, White said, the best part of the school year has been the basketball program.

“Just being a part of the team and having those 17 other people there for me to hang out with and to go through the pain, struggle and accomplishments together has been great.”

Anderson, another human biology major from Marshall College, came to UCSD from Oak Ridge High School in El Dorado Hills, Calif.

Coming off a very successful senior season at Oak Ridge, the freshman guard recounts her Delta River League Championship, perfect 10–0 season and high-ranking playoff finish as a solid stepping stone into her collegiate career.

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