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Candidates from all slates were allowed to begin campaiging after the Mandatory Candidates Meeting, which kicked off the 2015–16 UCSD Associated Students General Elections cycle. Photo by Haocheng Tang/ UCSD Guardian.

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.S. and college council election campaigning officially kicked off on Thursday, March 5 at 8 p.m. during the Mandatory Candidates Meeting in the Price Center Forum.

During the meeting, A.S. Elections Manager Ryan Huyler presented election guidelines and announced the names of all the candidates from each college. After the meeting concluded, candidates were officially allowed to begin campaigning.

This year there are three candidates running for president, two of whom are running on the same slate. Dominick Suvonnasupa, one of the two presidential candidates from Tritons United, told the UCSD Guardian about their decision to run simultaneously.

“We wanted to give the opportunity for the students to see both sides of the same coin,” Suvonnasupa said.

According to Suvonnasupa, Tritons United’s platform covers four aspects: spirit, outreach, advocating for students and refinement.

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Regarding his personal campaign strategy, he stated that he wants to be a little less political and a little more hands-on.

“My focus really is getting the students what they need: providing them with real services that will make them proud of their degrees, socially and career-wise,” Suvonnasupa stated.

Joey Giltner is the second candidate from Tritons United running for A.S. Council president. Giltner told the Guardian that the main goal of his campaign is to bring together the student population at UCSD. In addition, Giltner would like to focus on establishing an A.S. Office of Alumni Relations.

“The alumni here at UCSD are not as strong as you would see at other UC [school]s,” Giltner said. “If we can get an office in A.S. [Council] that deals directly with alumni and bringing them back to campus to offer students opportunities, I think that would be ideal for this campus.”

Bryan Dierking, the Tritons United candidate

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Science and technology

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Researchers Illustrate Effects of Climate on Food

PB&JS ARE GOING TO BE YOUR NEW FAVORITE SANDWICH. ON SOME DAYS, THIS MAY EVEN SERVE AS BREAKFAST, LUNCH, AND DINNER. DON’T BOTHER WASTING VALUABLE MONEY ON BROCCOLI, ASPARAGUS OR OVERPRICED ORGANIC VEGETABLES.”

UCSD and UCOP are working to develop sustainable and accessible food practices.

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Senior STAFF Writer Assistant Professor of the UCSD School of International Relations and Pacific Studies Jennifer Burney researches the effects of food production and consumption, as well as the climate’s impact on agriculture.

The goals of her studies coincide with those of the University of California’s Global Food Initiative launched by the UC Office of the President in 2014.

One of Burney’s recent studies has shown that the effects of shortlived climate pollutants can affect agriculture for varying reasons.

The paper, which was cowritten with Scripps climate scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in

November 2014.

The study focuses on the science, technology and policy of SLCPs and the ways in which these can affect agricultural sustainability and food security goals.

The continued emission of pollutants can have both direct and indirect damaging effects, Burney told the UCSD Guardian.

“The interesting thing about some of the SLCPs is that they have direct impacts on crop yields beyond just through changes in temperature and precipitation,” Burney said. “So increasing pollution will not only exacerbate warming trends, which harms crops, but can also directly harm crops itself.”

According to Burney, not only can increasing pollution harm crops themselves, but ozone, which is immediately toxic to plants, and other particulates like black carbon, organic carbon and sulfates change

the quantity and nature of the sunlight that reaches these crops.

Burney is further interested in studying emission inventories, or where emissions are coming from and when they are being emitted, in order to develop a better understanding of how enforced regulation can promote sustainability.

UCOP media specialist Brooke Converse discussed the UC system’s hope to use research throughout the UC campuses and with outside organizations in an attempt to reduce food insecurity overall.

“The goal is to build on existing efforts and create new collaborations among the UC system’s 10 campuses, affiliated national laboratories and Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources,” Converse told the Guardian. “The initiative aims See FOOD, page 2

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SENIOR staff writer University of California President Janet Napolitano announced on March 3 that she will cap the number of out-of-state undergraduate enrollments at specific UC campuses unless the state government provides the UC system an additional $218 million in funding.

This would include capping UC Berkeley and UCLA at their current nonresident enrollment levels of 23 and 20 percent, respectively, while limiting UCSD to a level of 20 percent. The remaining campuses, which have an average out-of-state enrollment level of 6 percent, would not be subject to the enrollment caps.

Media Specialist at the UC Office of the President Shelly Meron informed the UCSD Guardian that the University of California system hopes to increase the enrollment of native Californian residents by 1 percent — approximately 1,000 students — each of the next five years. To do this, however, she said that the UC system needs a guarantee of additional funding, which the governor and legislature are still negotiating.

“We are taking this action regrettably at a time of recordhigh numbers of applications and when our state needs a highly skilled workforce more than ever,” Meron said. “The [UC system] has a significant funding gap, and, without enrolling nonresident students, this gap would widen, diminishing the educational experience of California students and possibly forcing us to admit even fewer Californians.”

State Assembly Speaker Toni G. Atkins said she disapproves of Napolitano’s ultimatum in a March 3 press release.

“I am frustrated over [the University of California’s] latest attempt to use students as bargaining chips by agreeing to admit 2,000 new out-of-state students but threatening to limit the enrollment of new California students,” Atkins said. “[The University of California’s] job is to educate California students, not waitlist them.”

Atkins also expressed doubt that the UC system’s objectives align with students’ interests but indicated that the Assembly’s does.

“I am concerned that UC [system] has lost sight of its mission to provide a high-quality education for the California students whose families built and pay for the University [of California],” Atkins said. “As the budget process moves forward, the Assembly is committed to ensuring See CAP, page 3

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Triton Food Pantry Contributes to Global Initiative by Attempting to Reduce Food Insecurity ▶ FOOD, from page 1

to put the UC system, the state and the world on a pathway to sustainably and nutritiously feeding themselves.”

Members of the UCSD community have recently worked toward providing food security on campus, as well, with the opening of the campus’ Triton Food Pantry on Jan. 5.

The goal of the food pantry, which receives goods at a reduced cost by the San Diego Food Bank,

is to provide free snacks or meals to UCSD students experiencing food insecurity.

Manager of the Triton Food Pantry Colin King told the Guardian that nutrition is an issue on a global as well as a local scale.

“Global food insecurity is an issue due to the lack of food availability, access and use worldwide,” King stated. “These basic pillars, as defined by the World Health Organization, also affect students.”

King argues that students should not consider food a flexible expense.

“From the student perspective, food is a flexible expense, and students skip meals to pay for mandatory expenses, such as tuition and housing,” King said. “This, along with the negative stigma for those who are food insecure, makes people, including students on our campus, hesitant to get help.”

According to Burney, UCSD continues to provide her with opportunities to work near other researchers interested in varying dimensions of related study.

“UCSD is a great place to do

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this kind of research because we have people working on all parts of the problem, from the cloud microphysics of how aerosols change cloud formation to the health and economic impacts of pollution to how countries do or do not agree on emissions reductions,” Burney said. “It’s a very vibrant and interdisciplinary group.”

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LIGHTS & SIRENS Monday, Feb. 23 12:25 p.m.: Medical Aid An adult female had a seizure in the Biomedical Sciences Building.

Transported to hospital.

3:58 p.m.: Citizen Contact Disturbing posters were found around Price Center. Posters removed.

Tuesday, Feb. 24 1:52 a.m.: Medical Aid A young adult male accidentally took more than his prescribed dose of medication in the Sixth College Apartments. Transported to hospital.

Wednesday, Feb. 25 1:28 a.m.: Suicide Attempt A female subject made suicidal threats after arguing with her boyfriend. Transported to hospital for evaluation.

8:50 p.m.: Injury A passerby saw an elderly male fall and hit his head near the Pangea Parking Structure, although the male did not want medical aid.

Gone on arrival.

Thursday, Feb. 26 9:39 p.m.: Disturbance Faculty members were reportedly fighting while intoxicated at the Loft. Closed by adult arrest.

Friday, Feb. 27 12:09 a.m.: Medical Aid A young adult female had an anxiety attack in the Revelle Apartments. Transported to hospital.

4:34 p.m.: Injury A young adult male lost consciousness and fell off his skateboard, suf-

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fering facial injuries. Transported to hospital.

Saturday, Feb. 28 1:27 a.m.: Disturbance Eight citations were issued in the Matthews Apartments for underage alcohol consumption. Closed by adult citations.

2:27 p.m.: Fire A Metropolitan Transit System bus caught on fire, though all passengers evacuated safely. Information only.

Sunday, March 1 3:09 a.m.: Alcohol Contact An RSO located a young adult male passed out and unresponsive inside a Village East suite. Transported to hospital.

11:26 a.m.: Escapee San Diego Police brought a young adult male to the Scripps Memorial Hospital for ingesting narcotics, who fled when the officers left.

Unable to locate.

Monday, March 2 8:08 a.m.: Hazard Situation A delivery truck broke down and was blocking Scholars Drive North.

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Tuesday, March 3 4:14 p.m.: Disturbance A student at UNEX B was yelling and being disruptive while demanding to see a dean. Checks OK. — ANDREW E. HUANG Managing Editor

Dierking: A.S. Council Needs to Move Towards More Efficient Model ▶ ELECTIONS, from page 1

for Vice President of Campus Affairs, stated that, if elected, he would try to make A.S. Council more efficient.

“We need to move toward a more efficient model where the AVPs and the representatives are able to do the same things they do in council, but are able to do that in a way that occurs in a separate environment from Council,” Dierking suggested.

Students Determined’s Vice President of Campus Affairs candidate Taylor Valdivia told the Guardian that her party platform consists of four major aspects: mental health, student resource accessibility, access and retention, and

Triton equality and community and empowerment.

“Students Determined believes students have the power to make transformative change on the UC San Diego campus, in the community and in the world,” Valdivia said.

“We fundamentally believe that no student should be excluded from the student movement.”

Their presidential candidate is Travis Miller. He was not available for comment by press time.

Krystl Fabella, Students Determined’s candidate for Vice President of External Affairs, explained the direction of the external office to the Guardian. “[The goals of the Office of

External Affairs are] moving toward affordability, controlling the tuition crises and helping students recognize their voice in UC [system]wide injustices and how they are empowered through the office,” Fabella said. “Too often, I hear that students do not know what ‘external issues’ means, what [the University of California Student Association] does and how the office empowers them.”

The final campuswide slate is Tritons FIGHT. The A.S. General elections will be held Monday, April 6 through Friday, April 10.

readers can contact Maria Sebas msebas@ucsd.edu

California Assembly Member Proposed UC Employee Salary Limit ▶ CAP, from page 1

UC [schools] remains affordable and open for California students.”

Chief Deputy Press Secretary at the Office of the Governor Jim Evans told the Guardian that a proper solution to the spending-funding gap is continuing to develop.

“We continue to work closely with the University of California and the legislature on a budget proposal that reduces the University [of California]’s cost structure, while increasing access and quality,” Evans said.

Relatedly, assembly member Roger Hernandez later introduced AB 837, a bill that would cap the annual salary of all UC employees at $500,000 and, in turn, save the University of California $80 million annually.

Hernandez believes that AB 837 will produce a more equitable allocation of spending.

“Less spending on [University of California’s] bloated executive

ranks means more resources will be available for students,” Hernandez said in a March 3 press release. “This bill is directed toward a very small percentage of UC employees who take up a large portion of the UC budget, student funds and taxpayer dollars.”

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees 3299 President Kathryn Lybarger thinks that the salary cap is reasonable, given that most highprofile government officials earn less.

“If the President of the United States, every U.S. governor and the staff of the Federal Reserve Bank can all get by on substantially less than $500,000 per year, there is no reason why employees at a publicly funded university cannot do the same,” Lybarger said.

According to the AFSCME, total UC spending increased by 40 percent between 2007 and 2013 while the salaries of [the University of California’s] highest-earning employees more than tripled from $67 million to $270 million. Moreover,

the UC Board of Regents voted to increase tuition by 5 percent for five years in 2014.

Meron told the Guardian that the UC system has not taken a position on the bill yet. However, she noted that the percentage of the UC payroll that the state and student fees fund is declining.

According to Meron, only 3 percent of UC employees earn more than $200,000 per year and non-state funds are used to finance many of their salaries. Furthermore, none of the UC campuses rank above 42nd in terms of chancellor salary out of the nation’s 60 most prominent institutions, except UC San Francisco, which ranks 20th.

“University of California operates in a very competitive, national market,” Meron said. “And we aim to offer all of our employees pay and benefits that are fair and competitive, and that will help us attract and retain highly qualified workers.”

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The recently handed down ruling in the police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice is just another faux pas in a string of questionable judicial decisions.

BY JORDAN UTLEY-THOMSON STAFF WRITER

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t’s both 12-year-old Tamir Rice and his family’s fault that he was shot by questionably sane Officer Timothy Loehmann for waving a pellet gun around, or so the city of Cleveland claims.

The Cleveland Police made so many easily avoidable mistakes here that it’s hard to find where to start. From the get-go, a 911 dispatcher warned that, while Rice was pointing a gun at pedestrians, it was “probably fake.” Tragically, that last part wasn’t relayed to the officers en route.

When Officer Frank Garmback pulled up to the scene, he drove the police cruiser far too close to Rice. Hubert Williams, former president of the Police Foundation and 30-year police veteran, said, “pulling up to a scene where an individual had a gun is somewhat problematic. ... If a guy has a real gun, you’re definitely pulling into the line of fire.”

Had Rice been an actual threat, Garmback would have been putting his partner’s life in considerable peril. However, since Rice was not a danger, the close positioning of the cruiser forced an unpredictable Loehmann into a catastrophic confrontation. A farther distance would have given Loehmann the opportunity to communicate with Rice to drop his toy.

Deputy Chief Edward Tomba mentioned in a press conference that Rice made no verbal threats and no physical confrontation occurred. A video of the situation released to the public confirms the latter.

Even more outrageous is that Rice was well within his constitutional rights to carry any sort of gun, toy or not. Ohio is an

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open-carry state, and Cleveland is not like Chicago, where toy guns are banned in public. There should have been little cause for alarm.

In the end, Rice wasn’t even given a chance. Loehmann fired at him within two seconds of exiting the vehicle. Pulling up to the scene, it’s as if the officer knew he was going to be someone’s judge, jury and executioner, which begs the question: Why is Loehmann on the force to begin with?

In 2012, Loehmann was judged unfit for duty by the Independence Police Department after having an emotional breakdown while handling a firearm.

“His handgun performance was dismal,” Independence Deputy Chief Jim Polak said in a training memo. Loehmann had also been previously rejected from police departments in Parma Heights, Akron and Euclid.

Cops are not bad people. Loehmann, though, is a terrible cop.

Officers like him are the reason a significant proportion of the American people take “to protect and to serve” to mean “to seek and destroy,” and that does a great disservice to the men and women in blue who do their jobs properly.

Someone has to be held accountable, but who? The answer should not have been Rice. The city of Cleveland has utterly failed to properly address the grievances of Rice’s family. With the way the law is set up, there is no way to legally punish Loehmann. Still, if there’s any justice in this world, the Cleveland Police Department should immediately demand his resignation.

IN LIGHT OF THE LATEST LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS BY CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS IN THE STATE ASSEMBLY AND SENATE, THE OPINION SECTION WEIGHS IN ON A COUPLE OF THE BILLS THAT ARE MOST LIKELY TO AFFECT UCSD STUDENTS.

SB 151 and SB 140 Are Well-Intentioned, But Will Backfire on Lawmakers

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s the war wages on against tobacco products and their negative health consequences, California is attempting to pass two new state senate bills regarding cigarette/e-cigarette consumption. One of the bills, SB 140, bans the use of e-cigarettes in public areas. The other, SB 151 makes it illegal to sell cigarettes to anyone below age 21. Although stopping the perpetuation of cigarette use among young people is important, these bills may do more harm than good.

First, let’s consider SB 151. What might be the result of raising the age for buying cigarettes from 18 to 21?

There is no need to look any further than the legal drinking age in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, alcohol is the most commonly abused drug among youth in the U.S., more than tobacco or illicit drugs, and is responsible for more than 4,300 annual deaths among this demographic.

“Although drinking by persons under the age of 21 is illegal,” notes the CDC, “people aged 12 to 20 years drink 11 percent of all alcohol consumed in the United States.” Now, that’s not to say that increasing the age for buying cigarettes will inevitably lead to a massive increase in tobacco use. However, it is wishful thinking to believe that young people won’t still have access to these dangerous products. Policies that target age groups in particular can also contribute to teens picking up smoking as an act of rebellion — the more illicit, the more appealing. Thus, this policy also has the potential to create a larger underground cigarette market. Outright prohibition as a strategy to

prevent substance abuse proved a failure in the 1920s and again from the ‘70s onward in the War On Drugs. During that time, a trillion dollars were spent to overcrowd U.S. prisons with small-time drug offenders. The aim to reduce drug use is noble, but the tactics are ultimately ineffective.

SB 140, the ban on public e-cigarette use, is perhaps another example of a misdirected remedy to an obvious problem. Although there is an ongoing debate concerning the potential dangers of e-cigarette vapor, there is very little comprehensive scientific evidence in support of either side. There is evidence, however, of the effectiveness of e-cigarettes as tools for reducing traditional cigarette use. A large University College London survey of smokers in England indicated that individuals attempting to quit smoking are about 60 percent more likely to report succeeding if they use e-cigarettes than if they use over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapies such as patches, gum or willpower alone. Regulation and prohibitory laws will likely stagnate the e-cig industry and create an adversarial relationship between the industry and government, rather than encourage a focus on health and transparency, as well as further research.

While SB 140 and SB 151 aim to confront important issues, they use flawed strategies that have unfortunately become familiar in the U.S.’s historic drug policies.

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— HAILEY SANDEN Senior Staff Writer

o you’re finally living off campus after two years of being coddled by Housing, Dining and Hospitality and must come to terms with a new diet that does not include any Dining Dollars. This means no more late-night trips to the Middle of Muir market to stock up on ramen and microwavable meals, no more breakfast burritos and no more Pines cheesecake. Most tragically, this also means no more end-of-thequarter Bistro buffets to use up your remaining Dining Dollars. It’s time to be a real adult and properly feed yourself. Luckily, for you, we’ve created a handy-dandy how-to guide to make your life a little less hungry.

To begin, you must visit your more responsible friends’ apartments. No student should ever go hungry, and that includes you. Make sure your backpack is empty so that you have appropriate storage space.

Express no shame or hesitation while you load up on their seemingly endless supplies of peanut butter and jelly, pasta and as many non-perishables as you can. PB&Js are going to be your new favorite sandwich. On some days, this may even serve as breakfast, lunch and dinner. Don’t bother wasting valuable money on broccoli, asparagus or overpriced organic vegetables. All of your nutrients can be found through enriched vitamin supplements present in rice, pasta, KIND bars and cereal boxes.

Next, get to know which oncampus friends really care about you.

These are the type of people who will happily swipe their ID card on your behalf as you trail after them into cafeterias. Never ever make the mistake of spending actual money on cafeteria food because there will be always be a true friend hiding somewhere on campus who will pay for you. It also helps to pay an appropriate amount of attention to the opposite sex and utilize the art of seduction to gain free meals. Wink at strangers while standing by the door of Pines, and then cut closely in front of them in the food line. When they protest, laugh wildly and flirtatiously admit that you have stepped in just to be closer to them.

At the cash register, tragically confess that your wallet has unexpectedly disappeared. Pout your lips and flutter your eyelashes, perhaps even shedding a few tears, until someone rescues you from starvation. All this hard work can be exhausting, but do not lose hope. The reward is well worth it.

Finally, take advantage of social events on campus. Be a well-fed social butterfly. Attend every open-house party with pizza at International House, finals week brunch at the dining halls and all the miscellaneous receptions and meetings taking place across campus with free food available. Not only will this keep you from starving but you can also network in the process! Having a full belly is always a win-win. Save yourself the trips to the grocery store and follow our guide and you’ll surely be satisfied.

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SB 178 Brings Legal Protection of Privacy Up To Modern Standards

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mong the hundreds of bills that are proposed to the California Senate, SB 178, the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, will prove to be a promising step forward in terms of our privacy.

This bill would require law enforcement and other government entities to issue a search warrant in order to obtain information from an electronic device. The fact that user confidentiality has not been protected until now is unsettling.

This long-overdue legislation will certainly protect individuals from the government’s historic infringement on our privacy.

A January 2014 CNN news

article reported that several people in California who were tried in court were additionally convicted of unrelated crimes after law enforcement officers found evidence on their personal electronic devices linking them to drug and gang-related activity.

CalECPA would prevent this from happening because a search warrant would have to be issued and law enforcement would have to specify the range of dates that they need to look through. Simply looking for evidence does not and should not give law enforcement the freedom to arbitrarily look for a problem not relevant to the one at hand.

The American Civil Liberties

Union of Northern California notes that the transparency that this bill evokes is important when it comes to our personal property.

This will ensure that the authorities need to have reasonable cause and are abiding by the law. With major companies, such as Google and Facebook supporting this bill, hopefully Gov. Jerry Brown will see the importance of protecting our privacy and sign this bill into law. This is the 21st century and it’s about time California laws reflects the digital age we live in.

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What You Need to Know about

Divestment

Last month, the UC Student Association voted to pass two resolutions encouraging UC divestment, a move that’s been stricken by debate for the past two years.

The UCSD Guardian breaks down everything you need to know thus far.

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lmost exactly two years ago today, the atmosphere in Price Center Ballroom East was rapidly devolving from bitterly cold to borderline hostile.

Following weeks of debate between Students for Justice in Palestine and Tritons for Israel, A.S. Council was hosting an evening of student input before voting on a resolution that asked the University of California to pull its considerable investments from companies that, SJP argued, profit from the “illegal siege, blockade and occupation of Palestine.”

In the brief time they each had to speak, students from both sides shared emotionally charged, personal stories that often held parallel themes of war, persecution and on-campus isolation. The audience, composed primarily of members of each community — and thus segmented — was far from shy in expressing alternating support or vitriol for the speaker.

Yet despite these exhaustive eight hours of student input and debate, Council didn’t make it to the vote that night. The decision came instead a week later on March 13, 2013, following a closed executive session: UCSD would vote to divest.

Divestment is based on the same principle as economic sanctions but can be done by non-governmental entities, like companies which often create jobs and stimulate the economy in foreign countries. The idea is that by pulling their business from certain countries, companies can create enough economic hardship for a state to change unjust policies and practices.

UCSD was not the first campus to approve the divestment resolution, nor would it be the last — UCLA passed its own resolution in November of last year, which made it the fifth UC campus out of 10 to do so and signaled the turning tides that would prompt the University of California Student Association to vote on two divestment resolutions last month.

The first resolution had been introduced by SJP in November and was tabled for months. Entitled “Resolution Calling for UC Regents to Divest from Corporations Violating Palestinian Human Rights,” it called for divestment from certain companies — namely Caterpillar, Boeing and others that do business in Israel.

The second, further-reaching resolution asked the UC system to divest funds from governments that have violated fundamental rights to life and liberty, including Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Russia, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Mexico and even the United States.

UCSA, which is comprised of representatives from 15 out of 19 student governments across the UC system, passed both resolutions.

Supporters of divestment say that, in the past, divestment campaigns have succeeded in pressuring foreign governments to change their policies.

President of SJP at UCSD Amira Abudia told the UCSD Guardian that divestment has had far-reaching effects in the past.

“Divestment is the same tactic that was used for the South African apartheid,” Abudiab said.

In the 1980s, the anti-apartheid movement pressed American companies to stop doing business in South Africa until the statewide segregation of races was ended and conditions for black and Asian citizens improved. The movement was largely supported by the efforts of students at Stanford University, Michigan State University and the UC system, the latter of whom pressured the administration to withdraw nearly $3 billion worth of investments from South Africa to protest apartheid.

It was a move praised by anti-apartheid organizers throughout the state who saw Nelson Mandela’s visit to California, one of the largest economies to disinvest from the country, as validation of their efforts, according to a July 1, 1990 Los Angeles Times article.

One of the key differences in the divestiture campaigns of the 1980s and those on UC campuses today is the U.S. federal government’s stance on the issue. In addition to other economic sanctions on the country, the Comprehensive AntiApartheid Act of 1986 banned new American investment in South Africa and reduced imports from the country by 35 percent. However, a 2010 UC Board of Regents statement cites following the lead of the federal government as part of its reasoning to reject divestment.

“We fully support the [UC] Board of Regents in its policy to divest from a foreign government or companies doing business with a foreign government only when the United States government declares that a foreign regime is committing acts of genocide,” the statement reads. “The U.S. has not made any declaration regarding the state of Israel, and, therefore, we will not bring a recommendation before the [UC] Board [of Regents] to divest from companies doing business with the State of Israel.”

David Makovsky, director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Project on the Middle East Peace Process, told the Guardian that divestment is largely a symbolic move.

“The [UC system] actually doesn’t divest itself — it does all the damage without any of the positive,” Makovsky said. “I see this issue as ripping students apart.

It’s making some students feel that they are not welcome on campus — that [their] campus is a hostile place.”

After the divestment resolution was passed at UCSD in 2013, Chancellor Khosla released a statement reiterating the UC Regents’ decision from May 2010 that “such divestment is not the policy of the University of California [system] and that a divestment resolution will not be brought before the Regents,” effectively negating A.S. Council’s weeks of debate.

A similar statement has not been made following UCSA’s vote. But in a Feb. 20 meeting with the UC Regents Investment Committee, SJP-UCLA and other groups involved in the investment of UC system funds called for the Board of Regents to respect campus divestment votes.

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In celebration of Women’s History Month, UCSD hosted its first Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. A group gathered yesterday at Geisel Library to type away at over 40 pages, striving to bring a fair representation of women and artists to everyone’s favorite online encyclopedia.

Written By Karly Nisson // A&E Editorial Assistant Photos By Thiba Thiagarajan

Hosts: Angela Jennings, Angela Washko, Ash Eliza Smith, Elmira Mohebali, Erika Ostrander, Heidi Kayser, Nichole Speciale, Alexandra de Leon, Lia Friedman, Gayatri Singh

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ollege students know that referencing a Wikipedia article in a paper is a universal taboo — a lazy research tactic guaranteed to diminish the legitimacy of any academic argument. But that doesn’t mean they avoid Wikipedia. No, students regularly turn to “the free encyclopedia” because it offers quick, logical-sounding answers to their desperate, mid-paper uncertainties. But why should a website habitually accessed by so many people remain a source of bias when it is open to editing by such a diverse population?

Looking to narrow a gender gap just as prominent online as in real life, the founders behind the Art+Feminism Wikipedia EditA-Thon are starting with one of the world’s most visited sites.

In a sense, the online presence of Wikipedia is inescapable. Even Google — the most used website in the world — offers a conveniently short, bolded answer to searches at the top of its results that is plucked straight from the pages of Wikipedia. Hence, it makes sense that a campaign looking to tackle a modern issue of inequality would start with a site whose biases and inaccuracies — though ignored in the name of convenience — can be easily fixed.

The Art+Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon started in New York as an event meant to bring together artists, feminists and eager Wikipedia contributors in a common effort to lessen the site’s blatant gender gap. A 2011 survey determined that women make up less than 15 percent of Wikipedia’s active contributors and less than 8 percent of its editors. This drastic difference between male and female involvement doesn’t seem to be improving, and the result is an ongoing bias — an underrepresentation of women and the documentation of their achievements.

Since its debut last year, the event has expanded, with satellite events put on by willing volunteers popping up all over the nation.

Graduate students within the UCSD department of visual arts have brought the event to San Diego in the hopes that it will encourage students to recognize the site’s unequal coverage of male and female artists and, as host Angela Washko puts it, decrease Wikipedia’s bias.

Washko, responsible for helping to bring the campaign to San Diego, saw the Edit-A-Thon as a good fit for UCSD. “I had been familiar with the umbrella event in [New York] that started it all last year,” she told the UCSD Guardian. “As an artist [myself], through a community of internet artists, I became more and more aware of how quickly it changed from one event to more and more events. And the effectiveness of it was well-documented.”

The aim of the campaign is fairly specific: tackling the Wikipedia biases by focusing primarily on women and the arts. This focus derives from the controversy spurred by the site’s misrep-

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resentation of female artists — the most notable case of which involving artist-philosopher Adrian Piper. Unsatisfied with the inaccuracies in her Wikipedia page, Piper requested that it be deleted. While her request was eventually acknowledged, the page reconstructed in its place offered only a new set of false claims.

Following Piper’s struggle with the site, art activists quickly directed their attention toward Wikipedia, setting out to balance the coverage of male and female artists and diminish the misrepresentation of women.

Washko emphasizes that, to avoid similar misrepresentations in the future and to correct current errors, the participants of the Edit-A-Thon should add to Wikipedia female artists whose notable achievements have been overlooked.

But exactly how will these blossoming editors address who should and should not be added to the free encyclopedia?

“We’re looking at historical notoriety in terms of whether their work has been considered by critics of their field to be important,” Washko said. “Things that have not made their way onto Wikipedia: historically important artists, theorists, critics and writers — either those who have not made it or those who have and what is [on their page] is not representative of their work.”

Washko said that the process has involved a lot of research.

Indeed, with a long list of female artists Wikipedia either misrepresents or briefly mentions, the participants in the campaign have a lot of editing ahead of them.

Yet contributing to the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon does not require any prior editing knowledge. The hosts of the event, Washko and her fellow graduate students, offer tutorials and reference materials for beginners eager to contribute. At the very least, the campaign aims to encourage people to take interest in editing and correcting a site they probably rely on regularly.

“It is open and accessible to people who have never edited Wikipedia before,” Washko said. “There are training sessions every hour. We hope everyone will leave learning how to publish a stub article.”

Washko said that she hopes the San Diego satellite event, which took place at 1 p.m. this past Sunday, will also attract more Southern California-based artists and art to Wikipedia. In bringing the New York-based event to San Diego, Washko and her fellow graduate students will help make the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon a national movement.

Certainly, with the support of determined volunteers and motivated participants, the campaign will succeed in narrowing Wikipedia’s gender gap and contributing missing pages to an incomplete collection.

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Brooke Singer, co-founder of Preemptive Media and professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York, created an online data visualization application, Superfund365, that everyday highlights a different toxic contamination site in the U.S. Dara Greenwald (1971–2012) co-founded Pink Bloque, a “radical feminist dance troupe dedicated to challenging the white supremacist capitalist patriarchal empire one street dance party at a time.”

Mary Reid Kelley produces black and white videos that fuse classical drama, modern literature and contemporary pop culture into observations on gender, class and urban development.

Narcissister is a performance artist whom the Huffington Post called the “topless femimist superhero of New York.”

Jennie C. Jones, a New York-based artist, will have a ten-year survey of her work open at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas at the end of the year.

Laura Owens, in 2004, was the youngest artist ever to receive a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Dawn Clements is a contemporary artist who uses sumi ink and ballpoint pen on small to large scale paper panels, cutting and pasting paper to edit her pieces and achieve the desired scale. Her completed drawings show her process of editing and adding through wrinkles and folds.

Anna Joy Springer is a UCSD associate professor of writing. She is known for her experimental literature and was previously a punk singer in the Bay Area.

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UCSD Looks Ahead to a Road Series at CSU Dominguez Hills ▶ SOFTBALL , from page 12 quently scored on a throwing error to give UCSD a 2–1 advantage.

In the sixth inning, the Seawolves answered back and scored four runs off five base hits and two walked batters. An error by Triton freshman catcher Lauren Sanders put a fifth opposing run on the scoreboard to bring the score to 6–2. Despite a Schneider run in the sixth, the Tritons failed to overcome the deficit, ending Friday’s doubleheader with a disheartening 6–3 loss.

“Sonoma made a very good adjustment today against Mo Omori, our relief pitcher,” UCSD associate head coach Jessica Millsap said.

“Tomorrow, we’re just going to have to be aware of that and come into the game with a different strategy.”

The big blue returned to Triton Softball field on Saturday for the remainder of the series, but fell short in game three despite a strong effort.

The Seawolves snatched the first run of the game yet again — four walked batters in the first inning posted the score at 1–0.

UCSD battled back hard in the bottom of the second. A total of four RBIs from freshman third baseman Rachel Phillips, Maday and Abeyta gave UCSD a 4–1 edge.

However, the lead didn’t hold for long: The Seawolves scored six unearned runs to reclaim their lead in the top of the third. UCSD attempted to close the gap, with Baker scoring one run in the bottom of the third and Schneider claiming another in the bottom of the fifth. Despite the offensive effort, the Tritons couldn’t take the final run and fell 7–6.

Despite the three losses, UCSD avoided the series sweep with a narrow 3–2 victory in the final game on Saturday. Maday and Abeyta scored for the Tritons in the third inning.

The Seawolves made a play to

close the gap in the top of the fifth: sophomore third-baseman Olivia Lucchese scored off a triple by Purdy, posting the first run of the game on the scoreboard for Sonoma State.

UCSD responded with a run by Woken in the bottom of the sixth, which proved just enough for a 3–2 final score.

“I like to think the past is in the past and you can’t change it, so you just have to focus on what you can do and make future games have a better outcome,” Duarte said. “We are a great team, and if we just focus on how we play as a team, we can win.”

UCSD will be on the road again against Cal State Dominguez Hills, who is ranked one spot ahead, on Sunday, March 22 and Monday, March 23, hoping to rebound off the recent defeats.

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Tritons Suffer Second Consecutive First-Round Playoff Exit ▶ W. BASKETBALL , from page 12 mentions) and senior center Dana Webster all had eight points, in what was the last game of their collegiate career.

“We have a very young team and hopefully we’ll learn from it and be ready to come back and compete for a championship,” VanDerveer told the UCSD Athletics Department.

“That’s our goal.”

After clinching its eighth

consecutive playoff berth, UCSD fell disappointingly in the opening round for the second straight year.

Top-seed Cal State Dominguez Hills defeated sixth-seed Cal State East Bay in the final, earning its second consecutive CCAA tournament championship.

With six departing seniors and only two returning starters, UCSD is looking ahead to an offseason full of unknowns. Under the leadership of Shokoor and

rising stars Mounier and redshirt freshman guard Taylor Tanita, the Tritons still have reason to expect another playoff-caliber year in 2016. However, building a deep squad capable of coming up in the clutch moments of the postseason still remains a question mark for the next campaign.

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UCSD junior epeeist Nicole Chiang was able to win a podium spot for the women’s epee, as she went 9–3 overall for the day. Stanford took the top two positions with freshman epeeist Rebecca Rose and sophomore epeeist May Peterson, while Chiang placed third.

For the women’s foil, Air Force Academy took home the gold and silver with junior foilists Mary McElwee and Madeleine Girardot, and Stanford took home the bronze with sophomore foilist Eliza Klyce. Freshman foilist Sophia Holmqvist was the top finisher for UCSD, in fifth place.

Women’s saber fared similarly as junior sabrist Megan Gesner finished the highest at fourth, just missing

the podium. Stanford won the gold and silver with sophomore sabrists Stephanie Wang and Alex Rohan, and Air Force Academy’s sabrist Alyssa Hofilena earned the bronze.

The selections for who will be competing in the 2015 NCAA Fencing Championships will be announced on Tuesday, March 10 at 1 p.m., with the three Triton hopefuls Callaghan, Hadler and Chiang in the best position to qualify for a trip to the national stage.

The NCAA Championships will be held on March 19 to 22 at Ohio State University’s French Field House in Columbus.

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Full Squad Will Return in 2015–16 ▶ M. BASKETBALL, from page 12

The Tritons end their successful year with a 16–11 record, the most wins since the 2008–09 campaign.

Despite having no seniors on the roster and being projected to finish ninth in the CCAA, the Tritons finished fifth.

“I love playing with this team; this is one of my favorite teams I’ve

ever had the opportunity to play on,” Dyer said. “To have freshmen come in and just fit in right away and to be part of the group right away, it’s special — we have a special group. We’re not losing anybody. We’ll be back next year.”

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al State San Bernardino brutally snapped UCSD’s seven-game win streak in the first round of the California Collegiate Athletic Association postseason tournament in Stockton, California. The fourth-seeded Tritons ended their season on a devastating 69–58 loss to their fifth-seeded opponent and conclude with an 18–10 record in conference.

“I thought that today’s game was a lot like our first two games with them, which we split,” UCSD head coach Heidi VanDerveer told the UCSD Athletics Department. “I thought it was very physical, very intense.

Every possession counted, and they made more plays than we did. I think they are bigger at every position.”

UCSD got off to a hot start, with sophomore guard Haley Anderson and senior guard Stephanie Yano each sinking a threepointer to take a 6–0 lead. The Tritons took their biggest lead of the game when junior forward Farrah Shokoor made a layup with 11:28 left in the first half to take a 16–9 advantage. However, UCSD subsequently allowed an 8–0 Cal State San Bernardino run in three minutes and relinquished the lead.

The two teams went back and forth for the rest of the half. Sophomore guard Beth Mounier hit a three to put the Tritons ahead 32–30 with 10 seconds left in the half, and Shokoor blocked the Coyotes’ last three-point attempt as UCSD took the two-point lead into halftime.

The tide turned in favor of Cal State San Bernardino in the second half. Helped by a 13–4 run, it grabbed a 54–47 lead with 10:19 left. UCSD did answer with a 9–2 run, tying up the game at 56 when Mounier scored a layup with only 5:48 remaining in the game.

However, the Tritons could not get anything else going in the final minutes of the match, and San Bernardino finished on a 13–2 run to clinch the win and a spot in the conference semifinal against Cal State Dominguez Hills, the CCAA’s top-seeded team.

“I thought we got good shots, [but] we didn’t make enough of them,” VanDerveer said. “Sometimes we got a little rushed from the defensive philosophy that they played, and then we didn’t get enough stops and rebounds on the other end.

While Cal State San Bernardino improved its shooting over the game from 43 percent (13–30) in the first half up to 54 percent (13–24) in the second, the Tritons went the opposite way, going from 50 percent (13–26) down to only 34 percent (11–32) shooting in the second half. Cal State San Bernardino also outrebounded the Tritons 38–29 and netted 14 of its 15 free throws. UCSD was just five for nine from the line.

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match-up for us,” Shokoor said to the UCSD Athletic Department. “We don’t physically match up. We don’t [usually] need to box other people out as much because we’re bigger and can rebound over them, but this team, you really need to get a body in.”

In the last game of her season, all-CCAA first-team Shokoor had 11 points and a gamehigh 14 rebounds, good for her 15th doubledouble of the season. She also had four assists, three steals and two blocks. Mounier was the only other Triton in double-figures, with 11 points. Senior forward McKennan Bertsch, senior guard Miranda Seto (who both received all-CCAA teams honorable

he UCSD men’s basketball team’s season came to an end Thursday night as the fifth-seeded Tritons were defeated 61–46 by fourth-seeded Cal State Stanislaus (14–8) in a first-round matchup of the California Collegiate Athletic Association postseason tournament.

In its first two regular season meetings against Cal State Stanislaus, UCSD struggled to shoot the ball, converting a dismal 36 percent of its shots. Thursday’s game was no different as the Tritons were again cold from the field, making only 33 percent of their shots.

Only one Triton — junior forward Drew Dyer — finished in double-digits scoring. Dyer led the team with 10 points and eight rebounds.

He also had three assists.

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“Probably not our best performance and, unfortunately, the timing of that is not ideal,” UCSD head coach Eric Olen told the UCSD Athletics Department. “[Cal State Stanislaus] deserves a lot of credit for that; they’re a really good team.

Junior guard Hunter Walker had a seasonlow three points on 1–8 shooting. Coming into the game, Walker led the Tritons in scoring, averaging 12.6 points a game. He did, however, grab seven off the board.

Despite the tough shooting night, UCSD had the slight advantage in the first half, largely due to its three-point shooting. The Tritons went 4–9 from beyond the arc in the first half and were able to take their largest lead of the night at six points. Later, UCSD took a one-point 25–24 lead going into intermission.

Cal State Stanislaus wasted no time after the break and took advantage of UCSD’s shooting woes to start the second act with an 8–2 run. The Warriors rolled with the momentum, following up with a 9–0 run to push the lead to as high as 17 points. On the other end, UCSD shot 1–10 from deep.

“It just comes down to [the fact that] they outplayed us,” Dyer said. “They’re a good team. I love my team. I thought [the] guys kept battling, and things didn’t go our way.

It’s just a tough time of year to have a rough game.”

Sophomore guard Adam Klie’s 11-game double-digit scoring streak came to an end Thursday night. He scored eight points and corralled four rebounds.

In addition to the Tritons’ poor offensive shooting, the Warriors were able to dominate the paint, especially in the second half. The Warriors outscored the Tritons 28–16 down low while also holding a 38–29 advantage on the glass, which lead to 15 second-chance points for the Warriors.

“Their front court played great and really caused us some problems,” Olen said. “We weren’t able to quite execute the things we wanted to do on either side of the ball really.

We didn’t shoot it great, and we weren’t able to keep them out of the paint.”

For the Tritons, the loss marked the second lowest point total of the season at 46.

For Cal State Stanislaus, the win marked the third victory over UCSD this season and the Warriors’ 10th win against UCSD in the last 11 meetings.

The Warriors were eliminated the following night by first-seeded Chico State.

Second-seeded Cal Poly Pomona would eventually defeat Chico State in overtime for the 2014–15 CCAA crown.

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FENCING

Tritons Lose at Home to Sonoma State Three Fencers Take Bronze UCSD avoids series sweep by taking game four after losing the three first games. Tritons perform well overall at NCAA West Regionals.

BY GURKIRAT SINGH

BY Katie Potts

Contributing writer

staff writer

The Triton softball team returned home this past weekend to face off against California Collegiate Athletic Association leader and rival Sonoma State, hoping to recover from last week’s losses against Cal State Monterey Bay. However, UCSD dropped three out of four games, losing the conference series to the Seawolves.

The Tritons now hold a 16–8 record overall and are 9–7 in the CCAA, with sole possession of the sixth spot in the conference.

Sonoma State clinched a victory in the series opener, shutting out UCSD 3–0. The Seawolves’ offense got rolling in the fourth inning, when junior right-hander Hannah Duarte allowed three consecutive base hits to bring in the first two runs. A throwing error

by UCSD brought the score to 3–0 for the Seawolves. UCSD then sent in senior right-hander Mo Omori (2–1), who shut down the next 10 batters in the lineup, effectively quieting the Seawolves’ offense for the remainder of the game.

The Tritons attempted to rally back in the seventh inning. Fresh-

The UCSD fencing team played host to the NCAA West Regional, where three of the Triton fencers earned podium finishes this past Saturday at RIMAC Arena. Alongside the Tritons, the top fencers from West Coast schools — Air Force Academy, Caltech and Stanford University — competed, as well, in hopes of gaining a ticket for the upcoming NCAA championships.

This was the second time in the past three seasons that UCSD hosted the regionals competition, last hosting it in 2013.

The 2014 NCAA West Regionals were held at Caltech last year, when now-sophomore Travis Tibbits and now-senior epeeist Adam CampbellKruger were able to win third place in the men’s sabre and epee, respectively.

Tibbits qualified to represent UCSD in the NCAA championships. This year, the Tritons hoped for more podium positions, as they competed in all epee, foil and sabre competitions. They faced grueling competition, including Olympian foilist and national champion Alex Massialas of Stanford and

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man outfielder Kendall Baker singled to shortstop, ending the five-inning no-hit streak. Junior outfielder Taylor Abeyta followed up with another base hit, but the Seawolves caught Baker at second base to notch the first out of the inning. Sonoma State sophomore pitcher Amanda Llerena then sent the next two batters out swinging, ending the Tritons’ rally and the game.

The Seawolves struck first again in game two — junior shortstop Ancia

Purdy scored the first run in the first inning off a ground out by junior second baseman Holli Brown. The Tritons finally found some offense in the second inning. With the bases loaded, freshman second baseman Kendall Woken hit a ground out to shortstop that sent freshman right-fielder Kelsi Maday home, while sophomore first baseman Emma Schneider subseSee SOFTBALL, page 9

Air Force All-American senior foilist Alex Chiang.

For the men’s epee, sophomore epeeist Sean Callaghan placed third, as he compiled an 8–2 record in the pool action and 9–3 overall. Sophomore epeeist Benjamin Riviere of Stanford placed first and junior epeeist James Salem of Air Force Academy placed second overall.

The men’s foil action also had an extremely competitive lineup, resulting in some of the best action. Massialas ended up taking the gold, while Chiang won the silver. UCSD’s very own freshman foilist David Hadler finished with the bronze. Hadler has had a tremendous season and proved worthy of his No. 13 junior world ranking. He went 12–2 in his bouts, only losing to Massialas and Chiang.

In the men’s sabre, Air Force Academy secured the gold and silver positions with junior sabrist Ryan Redhead and senior sabrist Emiliano Kaptain, and the bronze position was claimed by Stanford’s junior sabrist David Beam. Junior sabrist Drew Dickinson was the top placer for the Tritons, finishing in fifth.

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