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Zika Virus May Spread to San Diego from Mexico Imperial Beach Mayor Serge Dedina warned that the river valley needs to be cleaned to prevent a local Zika outbreak. BY Josh Lefler
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Armenian Students Protest Genocide at Silent Tree
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tudents from the Armenian Student Association gathered in silent protest last Thursday to remember the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Participants had the word “DENIAL” written on red tape covering their mouths, as they sat around the Silent Tree, holding posters with colors of the Armenian flag. Thurgood Marshall College senior Andranik Kulikyan explained to the UCSD Guardian that the purpose of the protest is to increase awareness of genocide in order to prevent similar acts in the future. Within roughly seven years, over 1.5 million individuals were killed in the genocide, according to the New York Times. “We’re trying to honor people who have died, and at the same time, raise awareness for people who might not know that kind of atrocity happened in history,” Kulikyan said. “If you don’t remember what happened in history, it might repeat again. This is our
action in trying to prevent that kind of thing from happening.” Seda Byurat, Earl Warren College senior and head of ASA’s Armenian Genocide Committee, told the Guardian that the United States refuses to federally recognize the historical event given its strong military relations with the Republic of Turkey. Byurat explained that the University of California currently has over $74 million invested in the region. “It’s still in the works, but we’re going to present a divestment from the Republic of Turkey,” Byurat said. “This resolution passed across many UC campuses—UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, just to name a few. Finally, it’s coming here to UCSD. This is our segue into bringing up divestment. Even Hitler quoted, ‘Who, after all, remembers the Armenians?’ when he was trying to get away with his Holocaust. If we keep these huge historical things under wraps, and we keep supporting governments as students, that’s
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Voter ID Laws Linked to Low Minority Turnout Researchers examined participation rates among states requiring photo identification. BY Lauren Holt
Researchers from the UCSD political science department released a study showing that strict voter-identification laws reduce minority voter turnout in both primary and general elections. The study appeared online on Jan. 26. “Voter Identification Laws and the Suppression of Minority Votes,” the study conducted by UCSD Political Science Professor Zoltan Hajnal, alongside Political Science graduate students Nazita Lajevardi and Lindsey Nielson, compares the rate at which minorities voted before and after the implementation of photo-identification requirements. Lajevardi explained to the
UCSD Guardian that the research demonstrates the negative effect of identification laws on minorities. “It shows us that minorities in states where there are these really restrictive voter ID laws are not voting and participating in democracy as much as their white counterparts, all else equal,” Lajevardi said. Hajnal pointed out that the study used current election data, creating a more accurate picture of the effect of voter-identification laws on minorities. “Strict voter ID laws have only been put in place in the last few rounds of elections, so if you want to assess the impact of the strictest forms of these laws, you have to look at the most recent elections,” Hajnal told the Guardian. “Scholars
just haven’t been able to do that until now.” The study, comparing the voter turnout of minority groups in states with strict identification laws to those without, reveals that in general elections, Latino turnout in states that required photo identification was 10.3 points lower, while multiracial turnout was 12.8 points lower. Similar reductions were also seen in primaries, with Latino and black turnouts 6.3 and 1.6 points lower, respectively. Lajevardi stated that the frequently changing laws are detrimental to minorities because they are difficult to follow. “[ID laws] are confusing; they come and go,” Lajevardi said. See ELECTIONS, page 2
The Tijuana River Valley may become a breeding ground for mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus unless action is taken to clean up the area, according to executive director of the nonprofit WILDCOAST and Imperial Beach Mayor Serge Dedina. If left polluted, the mosquitoes from the area could travel to San Diego and cause an outbreak of the disease. The Tijuana River Valley, an estuary, sits on the U.S.-Mexico border between San Diego and Tijuana. It is also a hotbed for mosquito eggs because of the trash that accumulates in its marshes. The Zika virus is an infection carried by mosquitoes, which causes mild symptoms of fever, vomiting and rashes. While there have been no reported fatalities caused by the infection, it has been linked to an increase in infants born with abnormally small heads, a condition known as microcephaly. Dedina spoke about the potential danger with FOX 5 News on Feb. 2, where he insisted that the thousands of tires abandoned in the estuary hold stagnant water that provides an optimal space for mosquitoes to lay their eggs. “Those breeding grounds are areas with lots of wastewater [and] tires … in addition to the two species of mosquito — yellow fever mosquito and Asian tiger mosquito — that can transmit Zika,” Dedina told FOX 5. WILDCOAST Director of Communications and Policy Fay Crevoshay spoke to the UCSD Guardian about the issue, saying that this has been a problem years in the making. “Every time it rains, more tires are washing in from the canyon across the border,” Crevoshay said. “This is not just a problem in San Diego but all over the U.S.-Mexico border.” According to the WILDCOAST website, the California government exports approximately two million waste tires to Mexico annually, which are used in short-term building projects, such as shanty houses, makeshift stairs or wall retainers. Eventually, through rain or refuse, these tires end up stateside again in the river systems and estuaries, particularly the one situated between Imperial Beach and Tijuana. The accumulation of tires in the valley could exacerbate the spread of Zika virus if, or when, it begins to circulate in the United States. See ZIKA, page 3
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California, 18 Other States Do Not Legally Require Voters to Present Photo Identification â–ś ELECTIONS, from page 1
“Minorities who are not really aware of political changes don’t really know how it works, so when they show up on voting day, they haven’t done the right things [in order to be eligible to vote].� In addition to confusing voters, Lajevardi added that the laws can also be financially burdensome, requiring those without photo IDs to purchase them. Not only do minorities in particular have a harder time affording identification documents, but according to outside research cited in the study, they are also less likely to own forms of identification to begin with. According to Lajevardi, decline in minority turnout has important consequences for the demographics of the voting population.
“If we think about the fact that minorities are increasing in population size, and they’re going to be able to be the majority voting population soon enough, then there are all these laws that disenfranchise them and prohibit them from participating,� Lajevardi explained. “These are institutional measures to sort of stop or slow minorities [from] overtaking the democratic process.� Associate Vice President of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Daniel Juarez told the Guardian that he was not surprised by the study’s conclusion, noting that minorities can be marginalized for the benefit of others. “I think this is a reminder of the greater fabric of our nation that does not aim to protect or include black or brown people, but rather
to exploit and capitalize off of our oppression and exclusion,� Juarez said. Hajnal pointed out that most UCSD students are not subjected to voter-identification laws, as California is one of the 19 states without them. Despite this, Student Organized Voter Access Committee Executive Director Codi Vierra notes that many university students still do not vote, allowing politicians to ignore the needs of college students. “When we don’t vote, that signals to politicians that we don’t care,� Vierra told the Guardian. “If we vote, then politicians will be forced to address the issues that concern us the most.� Given that the study provides proof of the negative consequences of voter-identification laws, Hajnal
is hopeful that the research will affect the national conversation on voter identification legislation. “This study is really one of the first to show an impact,� Hajnal said. “With that new evidence, it becomes more and more difficult to see these laws as constitutional and perhaps more likely that the courts will overturn them.� Although this study is a start, Lajevardi feels there is still more to be done about disenfranchisement. “I think that this is only the beginning,� Lajevardi explained. “It’s really important to think about all the different ways in which there are institutional biases. I don’t think the work is ended here.� LAUREN HOLT
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not the progress we want to see in society and the world.” According to Byurat, ASA has plans to present a divestment resolution to Associated Students, similar to resolutions that have successfully passed at other UC campuses including UCLA; the Daily Bruin reported that the Undergraduate Students Association Council at UCLA passed a resolution to divest over $65 million from the Republic of Turkey in January of last year. Muir college junior Mariam Kutukjianand, an Armenian student, came upon the protest and
appreciated ASA’s efforts to increase recognition of the genocide. She also described to the Guardian how the form of silent protest allows students to approach the topic at hand independently. “You can talk and make a lot of lectures regarding this subject and a lot of people refuse to listen to you and hear what is going on,” Kutukjian stated. “By this visual act, they’re going to open the eyes of people. People are going to walk by, look at the posters and wonder what is going on. It’s going to drive people to actually research the subject instead of listening to people who know a lot about the subject.” A.S. Vice President of Equality,
Inclusion and Diversity Daniel Juarez told the Guardian that campus is not always conducive to organized activism. “Even if students may not engage directly, it’s a space in which students can see other students trying to raise awareness around the issues that they care deeply [about],” Juarez said. “It’s oftentimes hard to organize on a campus that has been strategically built to suppress student protests, but the Silent Tree in front of Geisel provides somewhat of a visible place because it’s a location that many students go to.” JULIE YIP
Preliminary Clean-Up Program Received $100,000 in Funding ▶ ZIKA, from page 1
The World Health Organization listed 26 countries on Feb. 4 with confirmed outbreaks of the virus, including Mexico, where cases have been limited to the southern half of the nation. To preemptively combat the issue, WILDCOAST partnered with the Secretary of the Environment of Baja California as well as several waste companies in Tijuana to orchestrate a concerted cleanup effort on the Mexican side of the border, for which the State
Agency CalRecycle has awarded the nonprofit a grant of $100,000. Dedina praised the cooperative effort as a proactive defense against potential mosquito invasions during the summer in a Feb. 1 press release. “This innovative approach to cleaning up on the Mexican side of the border … builds upon California’s excellent relationship with Baja California and Mexico,” Dedina said. “It illustrates why working together with our neighbor to the south is the only approach to environmental problem solving in our regions, where two countries
share a [watershed].” Crevoshay expects the initiative to serve as a pilot program for a much larger effort to clean up the border. “They gave us $100,000, which is not much,” Crevoshay told the Guardian. “But we want to prove that if we can keep one side clean, the other side will follow, and we won’t have this onslaught of tires.” Crevoshay told the Guardian that the official cleanup starts this Monday.
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As more and more international students have enrolled in the UC system over the past decade, the university’s focus on serving local students has been compromised.
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he tradeoffs with both the University of California limiting the acceptance of out-of-state students to 15.5 percent and unlimited acceptance of out-of-state students are difficult to accept. Non-California residents pay an estimated $56,073 for tuition and on campus living costs while California residents pay $31,365. An increased acceptance of California residents leaves the issue of compensating for the loss of $24,708 per student who resides on campus. While it would it be ideal if the state provided the UC system with more funding, a more realistic response would likely raise the cost of tuition for both in-state students and out-of-state students. However, the increased acceptance of international students for financial reasons seems to ignore the larger fact that the UC system lacks the necessary funding to keep tuition costs low. This creates a challenge for the UC system to effectively serve the Californian student community it was designed to educate. While the University of California website says, “UC undergraduates come from all over California, and they work hard to make it to college,” this phrase ignores those who also worked hard in Californian high schools but are edged out of various UC schools due to the UC’s interest in accepting outof-state students for financial reasons. Despite this, out-of-state and international students add an element of diversity that helps in-state students broaden their horizons. Having grown up in California among like-minded individuals, it is all too easy to
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forget about other cultures and societies and their perspectives. Diversity brings about a positive impact to the UC and UCSD communities as students learn about other cultures and have the opportunity to interact with students from foreign countries, which is not often present in high school. Undergraduate enrollment statistics released by UCSD are illustrating trends that are a cause for concern. Eighty percent of the undergraduate student population is from California. 5.1 percent come from out of state, whereas 14.9 percent are international students. The number of international students at UCSD has risen a whopping 684 percent over the past 10 years while San Diegan enrollment has dropped 5 percent. Over the past six years, enrollment from students living in places such as San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other California locations have all fluctuated in enrollment percentages, with the the only notable exceptions being out-of-state and international enrollment. Out-ofstate enrollment increased from 3 percent to 5 percent over the period 2010–15 with a 198 percent increase from 2005. Even more staggering is its international enrollment which has risen from 5 percent to 18 percent from 2010–15. This data shows that serving the interests of international students continues to be an important priority for the UC system in order to access higher tuition payments. The UCSD Guardian reported earlier this year that Gov. Jerry Brown’s
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THE LGBT COMMUNITY HAS RECENTLY BEEN DISCUSSING WHETHER OR NOT THE “T” SHOULD REMAIN A PART OF “LGB.” THIS IS PARTLY DUE TO GREATER AWARENESS OF THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY AND ITS UNIQUE GOALS.
The LGBT Community Has a Stronger Voice Through its Solidarity and Unification as an Intersectional Group
“T” and “LGB” May Help to Highlight the Differences Between Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
The LGBT community has more to gain by staying together than by splitting apart. For one, there’s a strong history of support between the gay rights movement and the transgender rights movement. It is no secret that Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots that started the gay rights movement. These individuals were also two gender nonconformists and part of the transgender rights movement. Several years earlier, the gay community had been supporting the transgender community in the same way. On the night of the Compton riots, which was one of the first transgender civil rights riots in U.S. history, members of the gay community were present at the scene, picketing alongside their transgender peers. It’s no coincidence that the histories of these movements intertwine so strongly, and that they are still linked today. Although being gay, lesbian or bisexual is different than being transgender, the issues that these groups confront are similar. All members of the LGBT community face challenges like coming out, harassment in public spaces and discrimination. Since there is so much intersection between the issues that the transgender community and the LGB community face, there’s a lot of support and solidarity flowing between the two communities. This includes encouragement for individuals and supports community backing of social and political reform. As diverse minority groups, it is beneficial for both of them to join forces and combine their strength as a unified community. According to the Williams Institute Study in 2011, 3.5 percent of the United States population identifies as lesbian, gay or bisexual, while 0.3 percent identify as transgender. When facing tough situations, it’s crucial to form a strong, compassionate community. Thus, it would be counterintuitive to cut an already-small LGBT community into two movements. If these arguments aren’t enough, the LGBT community itself has put its voice on this side of the conversation. In response to the Change.org petition called “Drop the T,” the Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal and GLAAD, organizations at the forefront of the LGBT rights movement, have each written responses denouncing the petition. As these responses point out, the root of these issues is hatred and misunderstanding, which is better confronted by a united LGBT movement.
Grouping all LGBT people together creates a certain sense of solidarity, a unification of people all fighting for their own rights alongside others’. But in a population with varying sexual orientations and gender identities, progress can’t exactly be described on the scale of the entire LGBT community, because advances made in terms of sexual orientation and of gender can’t always be grouped together. GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign, according to The Advocate, unanimously rejected a petition to separate the T from LGBT — and for good reason. The petition demonstrates an attempt to erase the transgender community, to invalidate it and to discard it through transphobic assertions, such as the claim that allowing trans people to use bathrooms of the gender identity with which they identify will lead to assaults in the bathroom. But the question of dividing the LGBT community should be discussed for the sake of highlighting the state of visibility — or lack thereof — in the LGBT community of 2016. This past year, prominent public LGBT figures like Caitlyn Jenner, Ellen Page and Laverne Cox have given rise to transgender and gay rights awareness. Shows like “Orange is the New Black” and “Transparent” and movies like “Tangerine” further launch multidimensional LGBT characters into the public sphere, which is revolutionary given the historically weak roles for LGBT characters. But the problem lies with who isn’t seen, which is certainly the more-thantwenty trans people who were murdered in 2015, a higher number than in any other year. Just last week, Kayden Clarke, a transgender man with Asperger’s was killed by police after they came to his house following a suicide call. Even afterward, he was misgendered by media sources, showing that while there have been advancements for gay rights and for transgender rights, there is certainly a greater lack of understanding of the T in LGBT, and this is — at least in part — due to it being overshadowed by the three letters preceding it. Of course, this relates back to a stagnation in the progress of transgender rights; cases like these don’t elicit the same reaction as, say, the lesbian couple kicked out of a Hawaii gas station for showing affection. Both should elicit a sense of anger because of the overwhelming bigotry of the situation, but only one did. Whether LGBT or LGB, there is certainly work to be done by the LGB community and beyond to truly stand in solidarity with members of the transgender community as one and not merely concern themselves with rights that pertain to sexuality.
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Right as UCSD students were starting to feel acclimated to winter weather, the forecast throws us a sudden curveball. Everybody was happily tucked up in bed. We were feeling extra cozy while seeking shelter from the cool winter frost, with our snuggies, stuffed animals and mugs of steaming hot chocolate. Without warning, those Santa Ana winds came soaring into San Diego, filling the skies with warm streams of dry desert air. One moment the rain is thundering down upon us; we’re in the midst of El Nino, barely able to brave the storm. The next moment, intense heat and wind is pounding down on us. Just remember, this situation is only temporary. Santa Ana winds can create a vast array of life-threatening hazards. This includes wind, heat and dryness. Symptoms may include beach fantasies, summer dreams and intense ice cream cravings. Don’t let your body become hopelessly confused by the unexpected onset of perfectly ideal weather. We’ll give you some useful tips to shelter yourself from the Santa Ana winds with this handy dandy guide from the how-to guru. It is crucial that you shield your body from the scalding hot waves of sun. Go to CVS and buy 10 or 20 bottles of spray-on sunscreen. Yes, they are overpriced, underfilled bottles of skin protection that will run out within five minutes of use or become jammed at the opening, rendering the entire bottle useless. That is why it’s imperative that you have a huge stock of these poorly designed products. Of course, you could buy normal sunscreen that requires being rubbed in, but who are we kidding? Nobody has time to sit around, greasing themselves up with such a timeconsuming, arduous task like applying sunscreen. You’re better than that. Invest in a large stock of spray-on sunscreen to survive the ferociously hot Santa Ana winds, because baby, you’re worth it. As you head to your first class, accidentally step onto the shuttle that heads down to La Jolla Shores. As you sit in the bus, gaze absentmindedly out the window, taking in the beautiful blue sky and windy palm trees. You should really study for your calculus test. Oops, you’re at the beach now. It would be a shame to go straight to class from here. The final step is to go ahead and rip off your clothes — revealing your favorite swimsuit (which, of course, you’ve been wearing all day). Now run straight into the gleaming beach waters. Don’t stop to think about nitpicky little details about your work duties or academic responsibilities. Midterms can wait. Essays can wait. The sun will not wait for your return, if you spend this precious week locked in the basement of the Geisel or Biomed Library. Next week will be spent frantically catching up on all your overdue homework assignments. For now, break out the bikinis and pina coladas. There’s only so much we can do in these dangerous desert winds. Lying on the beach is one simple precaution. Life is short, and Santa Ana winds don’t come out every day.
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proposed state budget plans are expected to provide an additional $356 million to the UC system, a 4.7 percent increase from last year. While Brown has made promises to keep in-state tuition constant over the the next two years, out-of-state students may not be so fortunate. In the UC 2016–17 Budget Plan, a $25 million grant from the state to support undergraduate enrollment appears to be a step forward until considering an increased enrollment of 5,000 more Californian undergraduates by 2016–17 Fall quarter. An element lost in this budget plan is the quality of living and
education. While it may be possible to squish more students into UC schools, seeing quadruples replace triples in on-campus housing will not provide the ideal environment for students to learn, much less enjoy their college experience. While focusing on cost is key, paying attention to the space allocated for student living spaces is also important. The UC college system should ask if it should house more students rather than asking if it can. In an ideal world, the UC system would be free to all California students, and hardworking students would be able to reap the benefits of attending a UC campus. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and
each decision, whether to increase enrollment space or limit out-of-state student enrollment, entails tradeoffs. Increasing enrollment space often comes at the price of creating cramped conditions for student living and offers a subpar college experience. Limiting out-of-state enrollment removes a significant source of income for the UCs. With over one-fifth of students at UCSD being out-of-state or international students, perhaps it may be time to curb the growth of out-of-state and international student enrollment from increasing another 684 percent over the next 10 years. ALEXANDER CHEN
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For some students, having a stable job after college isn’t enough. Rather than work for an established company, they prefer to forge their own path toward success. The UCSD Guardian spoke to some of these up and coming innovators in order to understand the entrepreneurial environment at UCSD.
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unshades: an everyday product for our cars that most of us don’t think twice about. Yet that’s what inspired ERC senior Justin Sik Cho to develop his own startup. “I was walking through Muir parking lot one day and I saw a row of cars with the traditional manual sunshades that students were using, and I just thought ‘a lot of people aren’t using these sunshades to keep their cars cool,’ and I wondered why,” Cho told the UCSD Guardian. “So I talked to some of these people who weren’t using sunshades, even people who were using them, and asked if they had any issues with them. I found that using a manual, traditional sunshade was a lot of work, with the propping open and closing, and took a lot of time, especially if they [students] were late for class or for work.” Recognizing the opportunity this presented him, Cho went to work creating a solution. The result, which Cho and a team of three engineers are currently working on, is called Shaze, a sunshade meant to overcome the inconvenience of manual sunshades by deploying automatically at the flick of a switch. Cho is not the only UCSD student trying to break out with an innovation; many other students are taking the entrepreneurial path as well, some creating physical products, while others find their calling in software instead. Marshall College junior Phillip Duong, for instance, found his niche in a social media app called Penguin, which he conceived as a result of a profound, personal experience. “I actually suffered from depression last year and it was hard for me to talk to my friends about what I was going through,” Duong told the Guardian. “I needed to vent my problems or talk to someone who could relate to me.” Unlike other social media apps such as Tinder and Snapchat, Penguin focuses specifically on bringing together people who are introverted or have a hard time reaching out to others. One of the aspects of the app that stands out is the lack of emphasis on profile pictures, a mainstay of social
media. What it emphasizes instead is the sharing of ideas and personal experiences. Furthermore, all users remain anonymous unless they choose to reveal their identity to a specific person. “Instead of swiping on people’s pictures, you’re swiping on people’s notes, experiences, posts and stuff like that,” Duong explained. “That way we don’t focus on people’s physical appearance; we’re focusing on what people actually want to talk about.” Duong and Cho, though motivated, needed more resources than they themselves could come up with if they were going to get their ideas off the ground, as do all entrepreneurs. This extra assistance came from The Basement, an on-campus organization dedicated to “incubating” new enterprises, providing them connections and mentorship; Alumni and Community Engagement, an organization that encourages alumni to contribute to the UCSD community, opened The Basement last February with the stated purpose of fostering innovation at UCSD and in accordance with Chancellor Khosla’s emphasis on entrepreneurship. The organization started on a strong note, attracting 200 “Seeker” students and 21 teams in its first quarter of operation. To work with The Basement, prospective entrepreneurs fill out an application with their idea; if the administrators from ACE see potential in it, they approve it. Once approved, students can use The Basement’s working space, the basement of Mandeville Hall, to work on their projects. In addition, the organization offers seminars by mentors and guest speakers from a variety of professional backgrounds and who are experienced in the world of entrepreneurship. “The Basement is pretty cool in that they provide all these opportunities for entrepreneurs like me to learn more about what it’s like to be an entrepreneur and what it takes to succeed,” Cho said. Beyond mentoring and business acumen, entrepreneurs
need financial backing to make their ideas grow. While The Basement provides advice and support to fundraise, students must raise funds on their own. To meet this need, the new generation of entrepreneurs is relying increasingly on online platforms to fund and promote their products. Perhaps the most prominent website for startups is Kickstarter, a crowdfunding website started in 2009. It was there that April Estrada, a Muir College alumna, helped her friend Dennis Caco launch The Undress in 2014. The Undress, a dress which allows women to discreetly change clothes in public, raised more than $615,000 to become the website’s most funded women’s fashion product. “When I came onboard for The Undress it was initially to work on our first Kickstarter,” Estrada told the Guardian. “Through the process of us going through the Kickstarter, and before we launched the campaign, my friend Dennis asked if I would be interested in becoming a business partner. I didn’t know 100 percent what I was getting into but there was something inside of me that said ‘You should take this chance, there’s something in this that you’ll be able to grow from and learn from.’” Though launching a startup entails several challenges, keeping it together after the launch can be equally troublesome. After financing the project, the next biggest hurdle is putting together a team that works well together; the relationship among team members is a critical factor that can make or break a fledgling enterprise. “Before this startup, I tried about two other startups and our team eventually just fell apart because we weren’t compatible with each other,” Duong said. “I feel like your team is like you’re building a family together and your co-founders are pretty much your partners. You have to trust each other and work things out to move forward.” See ENTREPRENEURSHIP,, page 8
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People Watching: Career Fair Edition Using their observational skills, Cognitive Ethnography students got a behind-the-scenes look at the Career Fair.
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CSD can be stressful. As students, we have to balance our time to make sure we are involved in enough extracurriculars yet still get enough sleep to manage our grades. Students fight through each quarter, day by day, with countless thoughts of how to avoid feeling hopeless when they graduate. And with the number of college applicants increasing each year, a college degree will soon become the equivalent of a high school diploma, creating even more competition among students. Here at UCSD, a variety of resources are offered at the Career Center such as job preparation and networking tips; the center aims to support every student through a wide range of services and events to help develop their professional skills. One of the more popular events is the career fair, an event held every quarter where recruiters from different companies come to find and hire the university’s most brilliant students. However, how effective is it really for students looking for a job post-graduation? As students walked into the ballroom, they saw the looks of angst among fellow career fair attendees holding onto their resumes, their eyes darting around for the shortest line at the company booths. Employers experienced a similar feeling, some of whom were fidgety after seeing the long line of students waiting for them, while others sweat profusely. During the second week of winter quarter, students from the Cognitive Ethnography course, the study of human behavior and culture, set off to start their class assignment by attending the fair as observers. Rather than looking for a job, their job was to survey activity at the career fair and evaluate how the fair functions for participants in terms of interactions between students and employers, as well as spatial layout and traffic flow. Nan Renner is currently teaching the course. Her enthusiasm for distributed cognition, the theory that cognitive processes extend beyond the brain, comes from her lengthy experience working at the San Diego Natural History Museum. She has guided students toward seeing their world through different perspectives. To do so, she encourages her students to engage in projects such as taking photographs of people doing an activity, conducting interviews with strangers and making audio recordings; she hopes that students can use the skills they learned in the course and apply them to the career fair. “Our project studying people at the career fair required that students slow down and observe, not to inform their own actions, but to discover relationships and patterns in human behavior in a designed environment,” Renner told the the UCSD Guardian. “In addition to developing observational skills, this project provides an experience that contrasts with an upcoming project in which students will study behavior using video recording. By comparing observational methods of activity while it is happening versus recorded on video, students should understand the pros and cons of each of these approaches.” One of the students in the Cognitive Ethnography course is Revelle College sophomore Isaac Fehr, research assistant at The Design Lab. He considers the current career fair to be very inefficient because most of the students’ attention is solely focused on popular companies. “The lines at the popular booths are so long that most people only talk to one or two employers, but then hardly anyone goes to the rest of the booths,” Fehr told the Guardian. “Big companies conduct their booths in one of two very slow ways: one-on-one talks, which take too long for most people to get a chance at the companies they’d like to work for, or group briefing and resume collecting, which is no better than looking at their website and emailing them your resume.” Other students, like Eleanor Roosevelt College junior Nick Dudeck, gained valuable insight on how spatial organization affects an individual’s perception of the job market. He advocates for
changes in future career fairs, as the current setup is inefficient for all involved, from students to staff to employers. “I would recommend that for future fairs, organization of the tables be positioned in such a way that does not cause traffic and long lines,” Dudeck told the Guardian. “I observed that a lot of students left the booths either in high spirits about their real-world capabilities, or discouraged and flummoxed in their own self-image.” Currently, the program coordinators are gathering feedback by conducting surveys to create more successful events in the future. There were around 1,700 students in attendance along with over 70 companies, such as Target and GoFundMe, at the 2016 winter Career Fair. Wil Dyer, the interim director at the Career Services Center, organized the collaboration between the Cognitive Science Department, The Design Lab and Career Center and said he wishes to support the students, alumni and employers of UCSD by improving the overall Career Center experience. “Part of the vision for this is to reimagine the work we do at the Career Center and take a holistic, honest look at what we can enhance to ensure the professional success and mobility of our students,” Dyer told the Guardian. “When students, alumni and companies have positive experiences, they are more likely to stay connected to the university for years to come. Students become grateful alumni, begin working for a company and advocate for their company to recruit from UC San Diego, creating not only grateful students and alumni, but a stronger alumni network and long-lasting, mutually beneficial relationship between UC San Diego and our top employers.” Improving the career fair is no easy task, but Dyer, who attended the fair himself, envisions this partnership as the first step to improving events hosted by the Career Center. “It’s no secret that students, career centers and companies all share the overwhelming sentiment that career fairs need to change,” Dyer added. “Our goal right now is to identify the pain points of all parties and strategically prioritize the things we can improve or change to enhance the entire career fair experience. While we are still identifying the pain points right now, I can say a few obvious ones are lines, student-employer interactions and crowds/congestion in the venues.” Students like Fehr hope to use skills they learn in their courses to eliminate biases in future events by keeping interactions as objective as possible. “In my observation, the male employers paid way more attention to potential employees who are attractive women than those who aren’t,” Fehr said. “At several booths, the representatives would be zoning out while talking to male candidates, then much more alert and in a better mood as soon as a female [student] would walk up.” Renner will end the COGS 102 series by supporting students in a team project for the the Cognitive Design Studio course, which will be either evaluating a prototype application or redesigning an existing system. “Design challenges and opportunities can be found anywhere, on and off campus — dining halls, libraries, classrooms, outdoor spaces and more,” Renner said. “Based on skillful observations, students may discover how to make improvements, for example, to improve learning, enhance enjoyment and/or create places that are more inclusive of diverse perspectives and life experiences.”
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Student Entrepreneurs Have Access to On-Campus Resources including The Basement and the Digital Media Lab use the 3-D printers for free, and they give you all the materials you need. They even have mentors there to tell you whether everything is working right or not.” Furthermore, they noted that hands-on classes at UCSD were instrumental in teaching them the fundamentals of founding a startup. Estrada found that the courses she took during her time at UCSD taught her many skills that would help her manage The Undress. “The great thing about the curriculum is that a lot of our assignments were project-based and particularly [involved] working with teams,” Estrada said. “That was a huge help in learning how to work with people and communicating, especially when it came to having very short deadlines, being able to be flexible and consider everyone around you and what their role can be in achieving your goal.” Cho added that his courses at UCSD were what made him first consider becoming an entrepreneur, recognizing Professor Nathan Delson from the Jacobs School of Engineering as a significant influence. “When I came to UC San Diego I didn’t have any thoughts about being an entrepreneur, but taking a lot of these engineering courses inspired me,” Cho said. “Dr. Delson is one of the professors who really pushed for entrepreneurship, and [after] taking one of his classes I was really inspired to try to go out there and create something myself — not just having to work for a traditional company, but just doing something for myself - what I love to do.” Ultimately, the entrepreneurs stressed that their environment has been crucial to their growth as innovators and business leaders. “The best thing is to surround yourself with successful people,” Estrada said. “That helps encourage you to take more risks and be willing to put yourself out there and really learn what it takes to be successful from people who’ve been there. They can give you advice for how to achieve your goals, what kind of things to avoid and help inspire you to follow your own dreams and your own goals, for yourself and for your business.”
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Though the entrepreneurs emphasized the importance of campus resources, they did note that there is room for improvement. In particular, they discussed the current, disjoined management of The Basement at UCSD. “I know some people who work at The Basement, and everything at The Basement now is unorganized, and there’s not a lot of good mentorship going on,” Duong said. “I feel like currently, entrepreneurship at UCSD is kind of in limbo, and everyone’s on their own.” “Since it is a new program, there are a lot of things that are lacking about it — one being that it is a working space but there are no computers provided for us or any materials provided for us that a typical entrepreneur might need to work on his or her project,” Cho added. “So basically The Basement provides an empty space for students to work but the lack of resources they have actually in The Basement kind of makes it so that students aren’t willing to actually go and work there.” Nevertheless, the entrepreneurs were quick to note that there are many helpful resources on campus beyond The Basement. For instance, Cho’s team of engineers made use of Geisel Library’s Digital Media Lab to build prototypes. “Before the invention of 3-D printers, we would have to get the raw materials ourselves and make it out of wood or plastic or whatever we needed,” Cho said. “At the Digital Media Lab they allow students to
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After a Strong Start to the Season, UCSD Falls to USC Trojans No. 3 Trojans take early lead in the game and go up by eight goals at halftime to hold off the No. 19 Tritons during the second period. BY Gurkirat Singh
The UCSD women’s water polo team took a loss against University of Southern California in a nonconference matchup this past Friday at Uytengsu Aquatics Center, falling with a considerable score difference of 17–4. The Tritons haven’t played the Trojans since 2011 during the UC Irvine Invitational when they defeated the Trojans handily 14–5. Prior to entering this match, the Trojans’ second following their opener last Friday, the Tritons were 7–10 against the Trojans in all-time games; now their all-time ranking
has fallen to 7–11 in favor of the Trojans. UCSD is ranked nationally at No.19 while USC is ranked at No. 3 by the California Water Polo Association’s national poll. Heading into the game, the Tritons knew that it would not be an easy battle, but they definitely knew that they had the arsenal to compete against the Trojans. Redshirt junior Alexis Wieseler, junior Lauren Boyer, and senior Julia Kirkland have all started off this season strong as they have all combined for a total of five hat tricks already since the start of the season, which they started only five games ago. Senior goalie Courtney Miller had returned this season just as fired up as she had
ended the last season, holding both school records for most saves in her career and in a season. The match started off well for the Trojans as they jumped off to an early 4–0 lead before the Tritons could even respond with a goal. Boyer was able to shut down the Trojans’ hot streak when she managed to bury one home for the Tritons, closing down the deficit. The Trojans wouldn’t have any of it though, and they lashed back by scoring two more goals to make the deficit increase to 6–1 before the end of the quarter. The following quarter was something of a nightmare for the Tritons as they were completely shut out,
unable to score a single goal while the Trojans were able to score three more. Halftime came around with the Trojans leading the Tritons with a comfortable lead of 9–1. Wieseler came out of the halftime able to sink in the first goal of the second half for the Tritons, making it seem like things might actually turn around. Their hopes, however, were shattered as the Trojans scored four more goals before the quarter ended. The Tritons started off the the fourth and final quarter in hopes of a huge comeback, trailing 13–2. Ultimately, it didn’t happen. The Tritons were outscored by the Trojans 2–4 during the final quarter and ended up with sizeable
score difference of 17–4. Both goals scored during the fourth quarter were also by Wieseler, who was able to score a hat trick over the course of the match. The Tritons have a week off to recover from this loss and before they host Cal State East Bay this upcoming Friday, Feb. 12th for a match at 6 p.m. in the RIMAC Arena. Following this, the Tritons are in for a busy weekend as they host the two-day Triton Invitational on Feb. 13–14. The first match for the Tritons during the Invitational will be against Indiana, starting off on Saturday, Feb. 13 at 9:20 a.m. gurkirat singh
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Men’s tennis defeats Point Loma and upsets No. 11 Azusa Pacific on the road.
CSD’s tennis teams both had dates with Point Loma and Azusa Pacific this week. UCSD’s No. 21 men’s tennis team’s ranking escaped unscathed, winning over No. 26 Point Loma and pulling off an upset victory over No. 11 Azusa Pacific, racking up a 3–2 score overall. UCSD’s No. 18 women’s tennis beat crosstown rival No. 33 Point Loma but ended its winning streak when confronted with No. 14 Azusa Pacific.
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Men’s
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3-2 Western Oregon
MEN'S TENNIS UCSD
8-1 Point Loma UCSD
5-4 Azusa Pacific
WOMEN'S TENNIS UCSD
7-2 Point Loma UCSD
4-5 Azusa Pacific
Game One No. 21 UCSD men’s tennis hosted and defeated No. 26 Point Loma on Wednesday with a final score of 8–1. Senior Axel Bouillin, ranked the 15th-best singles player in the nation, took on Point Loma’s senior Andre Staab, ranked directly underneath as the 16th-best singles player, in what became the matchup of the day. Bouillin won the first set 6–1, followed by Staab taking the second set, but Bouillin came back in the tiebreaker with a score of 10–6. Sophomore Eric Tseng, sophomore Justin Zhang, senior Horea Porutiu and junior Alexandre Miaule all had their way in the singles matches as well, winning in straight sets. Freshman Richard Han also won after being pressed into a tiebreaker. In doubles, Miaule and Porutiu beat out their opponents 8–6 for the No. 2 place, while Tseng and Zhang completely dominated 8–0 for No. 3. In the end, UCSD had a magnificent showing, winning all six singles matches and two out of three doubles matches. The only loss was when Bouillin and freshman Rodrigo Amara were defeated by the 25th-ranked Point Loma pair of Staab and senior Daniel Milliken for the No. 1 spot. Game Two UCSD went 5–4 against No. 11 Azusa Pacific this past Saturday in a narrow upset at 5–4, winning three out of six singles matches and grabbing two out of three doubles victories. In singles play, No. 3 Zhang, No. 5 Miaule and No. 2 Tseng won their sets, while Bouillin, on the other side of the courts, took on the top singles player in the nation, Azusa Pacific’s Jan Meyer, and was ultimately defeated 6–2 and 7–5. Miaule and Porutiu got a close win at the No. 2 doubles, 9–8 as Zhang and Amaral won the No. 3 spot with the same score. Both Bouillin and Tseng lost at the No. 1 spot at 8–3.
Written by Marcus Thuillier// Staff Writer Photos by Duyen Nguyen and Jonathan Gao
Women’s
Game One No. 18 UCSD dominated crosstown rival Point Loma on Thursday for its second-straight win, taking all three doubles and four out of six singles for an overall 7–2 win. In doubles, sophomore Britta Mosser and senior Kyra Scott, the 16th-ranked pair nationally, defeated sophomore Nikki Newell and junior Regina von Koch 9–7 for the No. 1 spot, while freshman Ashley Chao and junior Shannon Theisen teamed up at No. 2 to win 8–6; freshmen Madison Hale and Alexandra Weil breezed through the No. 3 spot for an 8–2 victory. Mosser, Weil, Chao and Hale won in straight sets at No. 3 through No. 6. However, No. 28 Scott lost the No. 1 spot, and sophomore Jasmine Hosseini was defeated at No. 2.
Game Two On Saturday, No. 18 UCSD played No. 14 Azusa Pacific but could not ultimately pull off the upset, losing to the Cougars with a score of 5–4. The Tritons had a lot of breathing room with a 2–1 advantage after the doubles games. However, they could not hold onto their trident’s spike, finishing off with a fourgame loss before conceding defeat. Opening up the day, the No. 16 pair of Mosser and Scott won at the No.1 spot in doubles as Chao and Theisen took another point at the No. 2 spot; the Tritons continued with a 4–1 lead after Mosser at No. 3 and Weil at No. 4 picked up wins in the two first singles matches of the day. After that, however, the Tritons could not clinch the win as Azusa Pacific evened the score up at 4–4. No. 16 junior Natalie Johnson defeated Scott at the 1 spot, and Hale was up at the sixth spot to try to clinch a Triton victory but lost the first set 6–1. She wrestled back to even the set count at one all, 7–6, but the Cougars won in the end after Hale lost the last set 6–1. The Triton women was back in action against NCAA Division-I opponent UC Davis at 11 a.m. this past Sunday.
SOFTBALL
Tritons Continue Their Strong Play in the Early Season at Home UCSD dominates Metro State, escapes Western Oregon with a two-run fifth inning and now looks to play Cal State Stanislaus next week. BY dev jain
The UCSD softball team earned two home victories at Triton Softball field against Metro State and Western Oregon on Saturday. The Tritons easily handled Metro State 5–1 in the first game, then beat Western Oregon 3–2 in a thriller where UCSD came back from behind. UCSD improved to an impressive 5–1 in 2016 while Western Oregon and Metro State both fell to 1–3. Sophomore outfielder Kelsi Maday was on fire with four hits, three runs and two RBIs on Saturday while senior outfielder Taylor Abeyta added two hits and two runs. Freshman right-hand reliever Lauren Brown pitched in
both games for a combined 6.1 innings, only giving up one hit and did not allow a run while picking up two wins. Game One UCSD got two runs in the bottom of the first and third innings after giving up a run in the top of the first. The Tritons wouldn’t give up a run the rest of the game as they cruised to a 5–1 win. Metro State’s junior pitcher outfielder Hayley Fields doubled to start the game and sophomore utility player Kristyn Peters brought her home to give the Roadrunners a 1–0 lead. The Tritons answered by scoring two runs in the bottom of the first. Sophomore catcher Lauren Sanders brought Abeyta from third on a sacrifice fly while freshman shortstop and third base Maddy
Lewis scored Maday with a single to left field. They continued by pouring on three runs in the third inning, with senior catcher Emma Schneider smacking a two-run double to left center to bring Maday and freshman outfielder Erin Lipeit home. Senior shortstop McKenna Clewett scored later in the inning on a fielding error. Brown earned the win after coming in for relief for the starting pitcher, senior Hannah Duarte, and was excellent overall; she did not allow a hit in 3.1 innings. Game Two The Tritons came back after being down by two runs to defeat the Wolves. Western Oregon’s junior catcher and outfielder Hailee Watilo drilled a solo home run in the top of the second for the first run of the game.
However, junior infielder Kelsie Gardner doubled and got to third on a throwing error in the third inning for the Wolves; the next batter, freshman infielder Ryanne Huffman, would bring Gardner home after singling to left field. Abeyta drew a walk to start the bottom on the third inning for the Tritons and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from sophomore second base Kendall Baker, eventually reaching third on an illegal pitch. Maday would then single to center field to bring in Abeyta. UCSD would take the lead in the bottom of the fifth with two runs, as Maday was able to bring Baker home all the way from first base with a double to center; Maday scored following a fielding error from Western Oregon’s Watilo. Finally, Brown (2–0) came in
relief once more, replacing senior left-handed pitcher Lexi Edwards in the last three innings en route to her second win of the day. Head Coach Patti Gerckens was happy with the two wins over teams that made the NCAA playoffs last year. “I think we had a strong weekend, and people just stepped up and came in clutch,”Gerckens told UCSD Athletics. “Our pitchers did a really nice job. I’m excited about it but it’s a long season and we still have to work on a lot of things.” The Tritons will face Cal State Stanislaus at home for a four-game series on Feb. 12 to 13 beginning Friday at 1 p.m. dev jain