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Officials Vote to Amend Discrimination Guidelines The Principles Against Intolerance now include a denunciation of anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism. BY Jacky To
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TODAY’S COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE BEING BOMBARDED WITH MORE APPS AND ONLINE SERVICES THAN EVER BEFORE. THE GUARDIAN INVESTIGATES THE LATEST TRENDS IN SMARTPHONE APPS AT UCSD. FEATURES, PAGE 6
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UC Berkeley Agrees to Hire Subcontracted Workers By JOSH LEFLER
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C Berkeley announced that it would offer employment to nearly 100 workers contracted to work on the campus through private companies on Mar. 18. The decision came after threats of a “speaker’s boycott” from the University of California’s largest labor union — the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 3299 — over the outsourcing of jobs to companies that underpay their workers. The University of California hires at least 45 different private companies to fill staffing positions across the UC campuses in the areas of custodial work, food services, landscaping, security, parking and more, according to an AFSCME 3299 report. The same report concluded that these workers are paid as little as 53 percent less than workers who are employed directly by the University of California and do not receive the same benefits. The nearly 100 subcontracted workers, who were just recently hired by the university, were described as having “more than 440 years of combined experience working at UC Berkeley,” but were paid below the wage
Associate of an official UC employee, according to Stenhouse. AFSCME 3299 called for a guest speaker’s boycott at UC Berkeley in the spring if the administration did not bring these subcontracted workers under UC employment. Leaders, including state senators Carol Liu (D-La Canada Flintridge), Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley), human rights activist Angela Davis and various nonprofit directors cancelled or postponed their speaking arrangements at UC Berkeley to honor the boycott. In addition, the union planned to picket former President Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative Event, which is scheduled to take place at UC Berkeley on April 1. However, AFSCME 3299 called off the boycott and the protest upon UC Berkeley’s announcement that administrators would hire the workers. AFSCME 3299 President Kathryn Lybarger celebrated the UC administration’s decision to hire these workers on a decent wage and with benefits they did not have under their private-contractor companies. “This agreement is an important first step that
See WORKERS, page 3
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Partnership Aims to Increase Transfer Outreach California Community Colleges will spend $2.6 million on programs to support transfer students. BY kriti sarin
senior STAFF WRITER The UC Office of the President announced last Monday that UC campuses will collaborate with California Community Colleges to increase accessibility for students seeking to transfer from their community colleges to a UC campus. CCC allocated a total of $2.6 million to the three-year partnership. According to UCOP’s press release, these funds will be spent on resources ranging from establishing summer bridge programs to hosting training workshops for CCC counselors. UC President Janet Napolitano expressed optimism for the partnership, stating that it would facilitate higher rates of transfer
enrollment in upcoming years. “As the University of California increases enrollment of Californians by 10,000 over the next three years, the outreach made possible by this collaboration, together with Transfer Pathways, will help us expand access for community college students,” Napolitano said in a March 21 press release. CCC Chancellor Brice Harris explained that the program offers support to students who he feels are as prepared for a university education as those who enroll in a university immediately after high school. “This partnership will help diversify and expand the pool of community college students who want to transfer to UC, where we know they will have the same rate of success as students
who enter as freshmen,” Harris said in the press release. UCOP and CCC aim to build upon their Transfer Pathways program, which provides prospective transfer students in the 21 most popular majors with an outline of suggested coursework that would prepare and qualify themselves for a transfer to one of the nine UC campuses. Approximately 30 percent of UC students began their higher education at a community college. The UC system expects this number to increase, since about a third of the 10,000 additional California residents it committed to enroll over the next three years will be transfer students. Kriti Sarin
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The UC Board of Regents voted to amend the University of California’s Statement of Principles Against Intolerance to include a condemnation of anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism at last Wednesday’s Regents meeting. However, the committee declined to condemn antiZionism as a form of discrimination in and of itself. Anti-Zionism — a political ideology that opposes Israel’s right to exist in Palestine — has raised a lot of questions at the UC campuses ever since 521 alumni along with 23 education and Jewish advocacy groups submitted a petition to UC President Janet Napolitano last May. The petition called for the UC system to formally adopt the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism, which denounces statements about Israel that demonize or delegitimize the nation. UCSD Hillel of San Diego Director David Singer expressed his support for the resolution, calling it a step in the right direction for the UC system at which anti-Semitism has had tangible consequences. He said that it was “no coincidence” that UCSD’s Jewish student population declined by more than 60 percent over the last decade. “Jewish students throughout the UC campuses have, for years, lived in the shadow of incidents of anti-Semitic speech, intimidation, vandalism and even violence,” Singer told the UCSD Guardian. “Yesterday’s condemnation by the Regents is an important step in defining the problem and pledging to ensure that the university is hate-free for all students.” Examples of these incidents include one that occurred in February 2015, when vandals defaced a Jewish fraternity house at UC Davis with a Nazi swastika. More recently, members of UCLA’s student government questioned a student’s ability to remain unbiased because she was Jewish, and they planned to reject her nomination to their judicial board until a faculty advisor intervened. Originally, the amendment stated that “anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and other forms of discrimination have no place at the University of California,” implying that anti-Zionism is a form of discrimination. However, some across the UC campuses have raised concerns that this would infringe on See DISCRIMINATION, page 3
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Top UCSD News of Winter Quarter 1. University Plans to Relocate Sixth College by 2019 (Jan. 14) With plans moving forward to have a light rail run through the Sixth College area, UCSD officials proposed to relocate the college to the Muir Parking Lots. The proposal includes the construction of a social sciences building, possibly a humanities building and new living facilities that would house over 1,800 undergraduates. If the plan goes through, the university expects the transition to be completed by 2019, two years before the light rail is built. 2. UCSD Students Protest AntiAbortion Advocates (Jan. 19–20) When the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform erected its large anti-abortion display on Library Walk early in the
quarter, members of the panhellenic sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma, the A.S. Women’s Commission and the Women’s Center organized a protest directly across from it. The CBR display had images comparing the Holocaust and the lynching of African Americans to abortion, which some students argued were too extreme and graphic. 3. A.S. Council Authorizes Election for Division-I Vote (Jan. 27) Four years after 64 percent of UCSD voters rejected a move to Division-I sports, A.S. Council voted to hold a special election to let students decide once again. If the referendum passes, student fees will increase by a total of $160 per quarter by 2019 — $60 in 2017, an additional
$55 in 2018 and another $55 in 2019 — so that UCSD sports teams will get to compete in the nation’s top division in college athletics. The election is scheduled to take place between May 16 and May 20. 4. UCSD to Build New Cafe on Library’s Second Floor (Feb. 25) Audrey’s Cafe is set to open midto-late May on the East Wing of Geisel Library’s second floor. The vendor will be open between 7:30 a.m. and 10 p.m. from Monday through Thursday with shorter hours over the weekend and will serve drinks and food from Cafe Virtuoso and Bread & Cie, both of which are local businesses. Named after its primary donor and the wife of Dr. Seuss, Audrey Geisel,
Audrey’s Cafe will be a main feature of the Geisel Library Revitalization Initiative. 5. A.S. Council Approves Resolution to Urge Divestment from Turkey (March 2) Just a month after members of the Armenian Student Association held a silent protest at the Silent Tree with the word “DENIAL� taped to their mouths, A.S. Council unanimously approved the ASA’s resolution to urge the UC Office of the President to withdraw the $74 million it has invested in the Republic of Turkey. The resolution is aimed at raising awareness about the Armenian Genocide and Turkey’s continued denial that the acts should be considered genocide.
the next three years, many wondered how they would all fit. Months later, Napolitano announced the Student Housing Initiative, calling for a total 14,000 beds to be added across the UC campuses by 2020. Following the announcement, UC officials began a tour of each campus to get a better understanding its housing goals. 3. UC Berkeley Officials Reveal Servers Were Attacked (Feb. 26) UC Berkeley informed over 80,000 current and former students, employees and vendors that its financial system, which stores bank account and social security numbers, was breached nearly two months earlier. University officials stated that they could not reveal that the cyber attack happened until they ensured that the threat was expelled. The breach occurred amid an ongoing operation to patch a security flaw in its cybersecurity system that was exploited by another attack that
happened at the campus 15 months earlier. Though officials maintain that there is no evidence that any sensitive information was accessed or used, they offered victims of the attack free enrollment in credit-monitoring services as a precaution. 4. UC Campuses to Establish Gender-Inclusive Restrooms (Mar. 1) UC President Napolitano adopted a measure to convert all single-stall restrooms into genderinclusive, nonbinary spaces to protect transgender and gendernonconforming people from harassment. UC Davis was the first to begin this transition in February by removing gendered signs from 120 restroom doors across its campus. In October, Affordable Colleges Online included UCSD, UC Berkeley and UC Irvine on its list of the top 23 most LGBTQ-friendly universities in the nation.
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Top UC System News of Winter Quarter 1. UC System Divests from Private Prison Industry (Dec. 18) The University of California divested $25 million worth of its shares from the nation’s two largest private prison corporations: Corrections Corporation of America and The Geo Group. The decision followed a report by the Afrikan Black Coalition revealing the university’s private prison investments and a resolution passed by all nine Black Student Unions calling on the university to divest immediately. UC Chief Investment Officer Jagdeep Bachher assured ABC that the university would divest the remaining $2 million in shares. 2. UC President Announces Plan to Add 14,000 Beds by 2020 (Jan. 20) When UC President Janet Napolitano announced last Fall that the University of California would enroll an additional 5,000 students this upcoming school year and 10,000 over
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5. State Legislator Calls for UC Davis Chancellor to Resign (Mar. 4) Assemblymember Kevin McCarty called for UC Davis Chancellor Linda Kathei to resign from her position after he and the public learned that she took positions at both DeVry, a for-profit university and at textbook publisher John Wiley & Sons. Katehi apologized for her actions and announced that she would donate the $200,000 she earned from her Wiley stocks to a UC Davis scholarship fund. Though UC President Janet Napolitano deemed Katehi’s decision a mistake, she accepted the chancellor’s apology and told the Sacramento Bee that she should not resign. During finals week last quarter, approximately 40 UC Davis students, staff and faculty protested in the campus’ Office of the Chancellor, demanding that Napolitano “Fire Katehi.�
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LIGHTS & SIRENS Monday, Mar. 21 8:44 a.m. Welfare Check Employee on leave has shown up several times. Field interview. 11:09 a.m. Medical Aid Adult female fainted. Referred to other agency. 6:03 p.m. Chemical Spill 200 mL of Trichloroacetic Acid, no contamination. Referred to other UCSD department. 7:56 p.m. Drunk Driving Male leaving restaurant with glass, unknown if filled with alcohol. Checks OK. 11:54 p.m. Citizen Flagdown Directions needed. Service provided. 5:00 p.m. to 6:45 a.m. Petty theft Stolen driver side mirror, loss $200.00. Online report. Tuesday, Mar. 22 9:30 a.m. Trespass Report of transient refusing to leave Music Building; subject then got onto bus and was ordered off after touching and harassing other bus riders. Stay-away order issued. 10:01 a.m Fire Alarm Burnt food. Checks OK. 9:13 p.m Information Suspicious vehicle, took off when approached by Residential Security Officer. Information only.
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Lights and Sirens is compiled from the Police Crime Log at police.ucsd.edu. Wednesday, Mar. 23 11:27 a.m. Gas/Water/Sewer Leak Fumes in air, possibly from product used in lab. Referred to other UCSD department. 2:10 p.m. Disturbance Report of two men shooting pellet guns at log where children are around. Report taken. 2:12 to 2:15 p.m. Petty theft Unknown subject stole victim’s iPad, loss $360.00. Report taken. 4:27 p.m. Vandalism Resident Dean requesting evaluation of possible vandalism in apartment caused by resident. Field interview. 4:30 p.m. Felony Arrest Arrest made on burglary case reported in October of 2015. Closed by adult arrest. 10:45 p.m. Disturbance During check of suite for complaint of rowdiness, Resident Advisors found group of students in possession of several types of alcohol and detected a strong odor of marijuana. Referred to Student Conduct. 11:16 p.m. Disturbance Male on bus refusing to pay bus fare. Field Interview. — JACKY TO News Editor
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Union Promises to Continue Fighting for Subcontracted Workers’ Rights ▶ WORKERS, from page 1
… ends the exploitation of our colleagues at UC Berkeley … and reduces the drain on the California’s taxpayer subsidized social safety net by pulling nearly a hundred families out of poverty,” Lybarger said in a Mar. 21 press release. AFSCME 3299 spokesman Todd Stenhouse told the UCSD Guardian that if the administration can directly hire and provide benefits to these workers, then it can hire others at the remaining UC campuses. “[The University of California’s] settlement acknowledges that its use and abuse of subcontractors had nothing to do with temporary seasonal staffing needs, and that it has the ability to do right by these workers,” Stenhouse said. “We know that there are many more similarly situated workers across the
UC system, and believe that their service to the [UC] warrants direct employment with the university.” The UC administration has yet to make a statement on the decision to hire the subcontracted workers at UC Berkeley. However, this past February, the UC Office of the President told the Guardian that, despite what AFSCME 3299 claimed, there was “no violation of the collective bargaining agreement” and that “the rationale employed by the campus was sound.” Lyaberger promised that AFSCME 3299 would continue to challenge the UC system’s use of subcontracted workers at the remaining UC campuses. “We will continue to fight [the UC system’s] reliance on private contractors for its permanent staffing needs across the UC system,” Lyaberger said. “Nothing
could be more at odds with the public mission of our state’s third largest employer than awarding multi-million dollar contracts to companies that profit from growing the ranks of California’s Medicaidreliant working poor.” Stenhouse noted that a measure was currently being discussed in the California Senate to guarantee equal pay for subcontracted workers. Senate Bill 959 would guarantee “equal pay for equal work” for the UC system’s subcontracted work force. Originally proposed in the California Senate by Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) as Senate BB 376, it was vetoed by Gov. Brown after a “fierce, UC led lobbying campaign against the measure,” according to the press release. JOSH LEFLER
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Regents Revised Original Proposal in Response to Free Speech Complaints ▶ DISCRIMINATION, from page 1
free speech. Among them is the UC Academic Council, which sent its own letter to the Regents stating that the amendment would harm academic freedom. The council argued that it would cause “needless and expensive litigation, embarrassing to the university, to sort out the difference between intolerance on the one hand, and protected debate and study of Zionism and its alternatives on the other.” Moreover, when the Guardian spoke to UCSD’s Students for Justice in Palestine last November, the organization expressed fear that the revision would silence all perspectives that opposed Israel. “Any critique of Israeli policy,
because of the nation’s identity as a Jewish state, would be labeled as anti-Semitic,” SJP said in a statement. “Anti-Zionist activity, such as that of SJP, strives to amplify Palestinian voices calling for their right to self-determination and their right to return to their homeland. This policy seeks to silence and censor these voices.” Following these complaints, Regent Norman Pattiz, who proposed the amendment, revised it to state that “anti-Semitism, anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism and other forms of discrimination have no place at the University of California.” Singer applauded the revision, stating that it ensures that people can use their First Amendment rights by only targeting political beliefs that cross over into hateful speech.
“Freedom of speech is paramount, and we are encouraged that the resolution affirms this fact,” Singer said. “We respect the right of students to speak out for politics that they believe in. Yet, all too often we have seen criticism of Israel elicit deeply anti-Semitic undertones, or, worse, result in attacks on Jewish students.” The University of California stands as the first and only public university system so far that has reaffirmed its opposition to anti-Semitic behavior. The Guardian contacted the UC Office of the President and Students for Justice in Palestine regarding the UC Board of Regents’ recent decision, but neither could not respond by press time. JACKY TO
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DINNER ON DEMAND: THE CORPORATE FUTURE OF FOOD DELIVERY
ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTIA CARLSON
BY QUINN PIEPER // ASSOCIATE EDITOR
If you want a burrito, there’s an app for that. Uber delivery services re-emphasizes the culture of instant gratification and failure to support small businesses.
We live in an era of instant gratification and easily accessible resources. Gone, for the most part, are televisions that can’t be accessed with the click of a trackpad, music that can’t immediately be streamed and now — on the large corporate platform of cabhailing network Uber — restaurant food that can’t be delivered with a tap on a smartphone screen. While smaller companies have already been offering food delivery service via apps, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s recent announcement that the company will offer food delivery through UberEATS brings the concept to a national and corporate level, and promises to be one major part of the vulnerable future of workers and customers alike in the era of apps. The announcement by Uber lumps the app together with a host of others Grubhub, Eat24, Seamless, Postmates, DoorDash by combining ride-service with food delivery. With UberEATS, reports Wired, users may call for a driver to pick up food from participating restaurants before delivering it to them.
As stated by Jason Droege, whose title is “Head of Uber Everything,” the app does not offer rides: It merely serves as Uber’s own food-delivery branch, which has existed within Uber on a much smaller and more confined level. In implementing UberEATS, the company makes another enemy — on top of taxi drivers — by pushing out smaller apps of a similar nature. According to the LA Times, SF company Sidecar, a food-delivery app, sold its assets to General Motors at the end of 2015, and SpoonRocket shut down the day after the creation of UberEATS due to an “ever-tightening funding environment.” Despite the company’s prowess, though, even Uber is not immune to such an environment, and its issues thus far make the future of UberEATS simultaneously more promising for the company and concerning for its drivers. It is no secret that Uber has exploited and even trapped workers, beginning with its key element: There are no workers.
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IN RESPONSE TO PUBLIC ACCUSATIONS OF ANIMAL RIGHTS ABUSE AFTER BLACKFISH DOCUMENTARY, SEAWORLD HAS RECENTLY ANNOUNCED ITS DECISION TO END THE THEME PARK’S BREEDING PROGRAM FOR KILLER WHALES.
Decision to Halt Breeding Program Demonstrates the Initiative of SeaWorld to Reform Treatment of Orcas
Public Announcement to End Breeding Efforts is Empty, Without Concrete Plan to Change Business Malpractices
Three years ago, the story of SeaWorld’s captive orca Tilikum was illuminated by “Blackfish,” a documentary that highlighted the mistreatment of killer whales at SeaWorld and fueled the public pressure for the park to change its ways. SeaWorld President and CEO Joel Manby’s recent decisions both to stop the orca breeding program and to phase out orca shows displays a definitive response to the adverse publicity of “Blackfish” and the constant protesting by animal-rights activists. With this announcement, SeaWorld is taking the first steps necessary toward completely curtailing the use of orcas for public enjoyment, demonstrating the power of protest and the urgent need to take further action. Manby’s announcement yielded considerable praise from SeaWorld critics, including the director of “Blackfish,” Gabriela Cowperthwaite, who had noted that this moment “marks truly meaningful change.” It’s no surprise that SeaWorld made distinct modifications to its business model. According to Forbes, with vacationers increasingly bypassing SeaWorld and regulators encircling the shows and investors punishing the enterprise, it is clear that the documentary made a significant impact on the SeaWorld’s future. In the same release, Manby elucidates SeaWorld’s renovation as more of an “educational experience,” emphasizing marine-science study, research and rescue operations. The park’s policy change is highly influential because it may encourage other zoos, circuses and parks to reconsider their policies on animal captivity. As stated by Senior Vice President of PETA Lisa Lange, due to “Blackfish” and its effect on SeaWorld’s popularity, public opinion on exploiting animals for entertainment has dramatically changed. Thus, SeaWorld’s decision signals the impact that voices of dissent can make. While efforts to move away from degrading shows and toward marinelife education are steps in the right direction, they are still only first steps. In fact, according to PETA and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the fact remains that as long as SeaWorld keeps its orcas in captivity, their physical and psychological problems will perpetuate. Schiff recently unveiled the Orca Responsibility and Care Advancement Act, which would outlaw breeding and importing orca whales into the U.S. for the purpose of public exhibition. Such bills prove that much more needs to be done to create safe ocean sanctuaries for these highly intelligent mammals. Nonetheless, SeaWorld’s efforts and encouragement of other parks to follow suit show promise for the future of animal rights advocacy.
SeaWorld’s recent announcement that it will end its breeding program for killer whales — meaning the current orca population will be the last captive generation — has been met with public praise. This historic change has come after the violent deaths of two trainers and rising public sentiment against the unnatural practice of capturing and training whales. Despite the promise this decision shows for animal rights, this announcement must be followed up with a comprehensive plan of action for complete reform. Following SeaWorld’s statement, former senior killer whale trainer John Hargrove voiced his optimism about the move on Vox. As a witness of SeaWorld’s profit-driven management of the orca program, Hargrove wrote that many questions are left unanswered by this decision. For this to be a historic moment, he argues that there need to be clear protocols to prevent captive whale pregnancy and that there should be transparency about any side deals that have made this possible. Further, Hargrove points out that at this moment SeaWorld still has one pregnant whale who was artificially inseminated before the public announcement ending the breeding program. This shows how SeaWorld is still intent on maintaining its orca program, and how this announcement was calculated to foster public trust again. SeaWorld has made announcements such as this in the past, without following them up with significant changes. In 2014, following the release of the critical documentary “Blackfish,” SeaWorld announced plans to expand its orca enclosure. However, in an article in The Wire, activists noted the obvious intent to reverse public backlash resulting from “Blackfish” — not to change the park’s basic business model. SeaWorld is primarily a profit-driven themepark, though its previous and current press statements have emphasized its scientific and educational role in promoting conservation. With the release of “Blackfish,” SeaWorld wrote to CNN saying that the film disregarded the park’s renown as a “zoological establishment.” Even currently, CEO Joel Manby wrote in a guest column in the Richmond Times that SeaWorld is a “zoological organization” committed to wildlife conservation, glossing over the entertainment characteristics of the parks. Clearly, SeaWorld is very invested in its public image, and though this announcement presents hope for the future, it remains to be seen whether the theme park will break from its past pattern of talk and no action.
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In this competitive job market, the task of finding a career straight out of college can be a daunting task. With a feeling of trepidation, students at UCSD approach spring quarter knowing that this may be their last chance to find an alternative to moving back in with their parents. Whether you’ve majored in Bioengineering or Pop Cultural Studies, you’re dead-set on finding a job. Either way it’s not going to be easy. Time is rapidly diminishing as students troll Port Triton and the Career Services Center in hopes of finding full-time employment. Take a deep breath, relax and do not despair. The wise, all-knowing How-to Guru is here to assist students in their rigorous quest for employment. The first step is to fake it until you make it. Most importantly, stop trying so hard as this will make you look desperate and needy. Reflect for one moment on your flaws and limitations, and then smoothly transition into carefully suppressing this self-awareness. Take all semblances of humility and then, like Elder McKinley says in the Book of Mormon, just turn it off, like a light switch. Look in the mirror and give yourself a little wink. Go ahead and inflate your ego. Sing self-motivational songs like “Everything is Awesome” from “The Lego Movie.” Perhaps you don’t have a fleshed-out resume or quantifiable achievements, but this hardly represents your true value. Remember that as an inexperienced college student with minimum qualifications willing to work for a low salary, you are God’s gift to the job industry — a gold mine of cheap labor. Don’t forget to grin and bear it. Consider the following tip when writing your resume and cover letter: Include power words that exude confidence and authority — utilize power verbs like “lead,” “manage,” “excel,” “win” and “rise” at the beginning of each sentence. As you head off to your first job interview, make sure to saunter in like you own the place. Cover your eyes with glamorous, opaque sunglasses and flaunt a designer purse, while wearing a disinterested, expression on your face. If the interviewer says “Tell me about yourself,” confidently respond, “I am the ideal candidate for this position.” When pressed for further explanations, bat your eyelashes and say, “My qualifications speak for themselves.” When the HR Director asks why this specific company appeals to you, channel your inner April Ludgate and boredly reply, “It’s okay, I guess.” To prevent any further doubts about your apathy, glance down at your phone and pretend to text your friends while the interviewer continues asking pointless questions. Don’t forget to send the company a congratulatory email after the interview, to let it know how fortunate it was to receive the pleasure of your company. Upon receiving your job offer, abruptly email the employer that you’re no longer interested, as a better opportunity has appeared. This will emphasize what a catch you are. With this helpful career guide, you’ll get a full-time, high-paying job in no less than 10 years. Happy job hunting.
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According to Forbes, Uber hires drivers as independent contractors and is not forced to offer entitlements like minimum wage, overtime, workers’ compensation, unemployment, health insurance or lower taxes. This, in turn, means that Uber drivers are not required to work solely for Uber. However, Ellen Huet from Forbes reported that such freedom is not always available for Uber drivers. Uber’s earlier move to compensate for its fare cuts meant lowering commission for Uber on individual rides and then increasing them again, while offsetting them
with a guarantee of higher rates for drivers. The catch is the rules that Uber drivers must follow in order to receive this improved wage: This includes accepting 90 percent of ride requests, doing one trip per hour and being online 50 out of every 60 minutes of work. This restricts drivers, many of whom work for other rideshare services and are on two or three apps at once, by basically making them have the dedication of an Uber driver without the entitlements and benefits. Given the prior practices of Uber, the idea of cornering the food-delivery industry may hold ominous futures for drivers. But
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through a mutually beneficial partnership. Last week, American Apparel became the first retailer to partner with Postmates, another delivery app for both food and goods, by offering the delivery of clothes for a promotional delivery charge of $1.99, reports the Chicago Tribune. The future of business and app-technology, though unclear, is clearly merging, leaving smaller businesses that previously offered similar services to wither away. Whether major rideshare-delivery corporations invest in their own drivers, however, is less clear. QUINN PIEPER
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Nomophobia: Our Dependency on Smartphone Apps by Allison Kubo // Features Editor Design by Aleya Zenieris
In our interconnected world, putting down your phone is becoming increasingly harder to do. The Guardian investigated the most popular apps occupying UCSD students’ time and some new apps trying to break into the college student market.
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atting your pockets, checking all of the compartments in your backpack, searching the desk around you, frantically, you look for your smartphone. When you don’t find it, say hello to nomophobia: the fear of losing or being without your phone. Coined by the UK Post Office in 2010, no-mobile-phone-phobia is a real source of anxiety that affects around 66 percent of adults, according to a UK YouGov survey. While it seems like the very definition of a first world problem, this anxiety is understandable considering that individual college students spend an average of 30 hours on their cellphones per week, according to a survey run by College Explorer, a marketing company targeting millennials. Considering this data, it isn't surprising that college students are the early adopters of application and web services. As early adopters, students spread, publicize and incorporate apps into their lives before the rest of the population. This has been seen over and over again with sites such as Facebook, which has over 1.55 billion active users, or 21.7 percent of the world’s population. According to research by the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law at Michigan State University, college students represent a critical part of smartphone adoption and smartphone app adoption. However, this proclivity, the choice that can make or break a hopeful young company, is strongly affected by peer usage and financial costs. In other words, we want something free that all our friends are also using. The UCSD Guardian set out to find out what apps are responsible for cell phones eating up over a day out of our week. When it comes to social media, 55.1 percent of those surveyed preferred Facebook to Instagram, Twitter or Snapchat. One third of those who answered noted that they preferred it because “everyone has it.” When it comes to ridesharing, Uber garnered 65 percent preference over Lyft and other services. The reasoning for preferences varied from dependability to the quality of user interface, but price played a large role and influenced 30 percent of those who responded. However, another 20 percent said they favored Uber because it was the first ridesharing service they tried. In light of these facts, up-and-coming apps and and online services need to get a lot of early adopters to ensure long-term success. Currently, three companies and their services are coming to UCSD to try to get Tritons as early adopters. Trebel, a music company that hopes to eclipse Spotify, is set to launch at UCSD early this quarter. The application allows you to download music onto your phone at no cost, other than your attention to some ads. Trebel operates using a coin system where every play is a certain number of coins and you earn more coins by watching an advertisement while your songs are downloading. In addition, the app generates social activity by showing users what music is currently being See NOMOPHOBIA, page 8
Spotify 53% Youtube 15.6% Pandora 12.2% 0ther 12.2% Soundcloud and Google play 6.6%
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▶ NOMOPHOBIA, from page 6 downloaded or listened to on their campuses. Demonstrating the service to the UCSD Guardian, CEO Gary Mekikian emphasized that this application is completely different than Spotify, Pandora or other less legal music-streaming services. “College students need music the most and are least able to pay the subscription fees and download fees,” Mekikian said. “Young people have a wonderful addiction to music, and they need music while socializing, partying, studying, working out or just relaxing. This is the reason why college students listen to more music than any other demographic. College students also are totally mobile, using their smartphones for everything, including listening to music. At the moment, there is no legal, on-demand, mobile music service that allows offline playback and does not use expensive data plans.” Trebel aims to use UCSD and other select universities as trial runs and then expand. Mekikian told the Guardian that they chose UCSD because of its unique student body. “As we prepare to roll out the service to 3,000 colleges and universities nationwide, we are making Trebel Music available at select universities first to work closely with early adopters of our service to perfect the system,” Mekikian noted. “We’re coming to UCSD first because the student body is diverse and actively uses social media. This diversity and social-media savvy perfectly matches what Trebel Music offers.” As early adopters, UCSD student have a singular opportunity to try to spread a new music streaming service, according to Mekikian. However, Spotify currently dominates the field for UCSD students with 53.9 percent preference. Of those who chose Spotify over SoundCloud, Pandora and other competitors, 65.2 percent cited its convenience as the deciding factor. Meanwhile, uCribs, a housing website that aims to serve the next round of house hunters as leases expire and more students leave the safety and expense of on-campus housing. The service connects students to landlords, or to possible subleases, while also calculating driving costs, assigning walkability scores and providing average rent data for the area. uCribs also allows users to share listings with potential roommates as well as their family. Vice President Colin Kish told the Guardian that they chose to focus on students after enduring their own challenges with housing and leasing. “We were all college students and went through the headaches associated with off-campus rentals,” Kish told the Guardian. “We offer technology and features within our platform that cater to the off-campus student housing niche …[which] the larger companies, like Craigslist, do not offer features specifically designed for college students.” The uCribs team also relies on students’ habits with technology use to popularize their service. “The typical demographic of college students, the 18–24 age range, are usually tech savvy, making it a great fit for our service,” Kish said. “Our platform offers students the opportunity to utilize creative and purpose built features to solve the off-campus housing search puzzle that so many students go through each year.
During this same time period Pocket Points, an app that offers a variety of discounts to students for attending lecture, plans to expand to UCSD in the near future. Founded by former college students Mitch Gardner and Rob Richardson in the fall of 2014, the app works through a unique system that benefits both students and the businesses they patronize. To earn points, a student locks her phone through the app, ensuring that they are not using it during class. Using these points, students can get a variety of discounts from local businesses. At the same time, Pocket Points works with these businesses to determine what type of discount works best for them. After a brief free trial period, businesses pay a small subscription fee to use the app, allowing the app to stay profitable. Since starting at CSU Chico in the fall of 2014, Pocket Points has grown to serve more than 100 university campuses nationwide. “The biggest change I think is we used to only have local shops on the app, like pizza places and yogurt shops, but now we actually have a whole section of online stores, as well as sunglasses shops and clothing boutiques,” Mitch Gardner told the Guardian. “We used to just be an app with local vendors in it but now we have the online businesses too.” Beyond giving students a discount, Gardner sees Pocket Points as a possible cure for our generation’s nomophobia. “Pocket Points is helping people study, and people always write messages to us saying that they stay on campus longer and they only go to class because of Pocket Points,” Gardner said. “So I think it helps so many different people, from students to business owners to even teachers, and that’s kind of how it sticks out from other apps. I don’t think anyone else is really doing that combination.” Still, Gardner acknowledges that Pocket Points has its limits. While it can keep students off their cellphones, there is no guarantee that they will stay off their computers as well, which can be equally addicting. “If they are watching Netflix or looking at Facebook in class that’s not what we want them to do, but I don’t think there’s anything we can do to change that,” Gardner said. “But if we can keep them from texting on their phone or looking at Instagram and Snapchat during class then we are at least mitigating the problem.” The variety of apps available to today’s college students certainly makes some aspects of life easier, but, as Gardner notes, cutting back on phone use in general can have a positive impact on people’s lives as well. “I think it really helps people out getting that little extra incentive to focus in class and get their head out of the screen they’re looking at,” Gardner said. “It’s obviously something that’s been going on for a few years; people are almost addicted to their cellphones and I don’t think they really want to be.”
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How To Write with Cristina Rivera-Garza Perhaps it is Professor Cristina Rivera-Garza’s unconventional philosophy toward writing that makes her one of the most prolific Mexican writers of her generation. The award-winning author of six novels, three short-story collections, five collections of poetry and three nonfiction books doesn’t agree with the widespread notion that the novel is a sociopolitical commodity, an object to be scrutinized, interpreted and siphoned for every drop of topical criticism it may contain. Instead, Rivera-Garza sees it is as a vessel for exploring the limits of our own humanity, a medium with the power to solve the most perplexing paradoxes of our time. She doesn’t acknowledge the standard process of writing, in which an author meticulously maps out a story from point A to point B, filling the space in between with eloquent prose. That would be much too “boring,” she says, and much too easy. For Rivera-Garza, writing is a critical practice that stirs the spirit and connects back to the “ceaseless work of community.” Her work is as much a laborious meditation on the self as it is a fearless outpouring of her innermost thoughts, ideas and emotions. “I write to investigate enduring mysteries, what we might describe as enigmas,” Rivera-Garza told the UCSD Guardian. “The things that are impossible to explain; questions that have tormented or allured philosophers. When I find that my subject can be easily normalized, I lose interest and begin again with something new.” According to Rivera-Garza, the purpose of writing is to create vivid literary realities that will remove her readers from their time and place, revealing to them another angle of the human experience and challenging their preconceptions of what it means to exist. She is not as interested in telling them how to perceive truths and untruths. “We don’t write to represent ourselves,” Rivera-Garza explained. “But to leap — this vertiginous, maddening, at times glorious leap — out of ourselves and into the lives of others: What is it like to be a plant? A rock? A man? A planet?”
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Her experimental writing style of beginning without a predetermined end often leads her down many dead end paths. Sometimes it takes two failed attempts, sometimes 10 and sometimes more, yet as her writing career shows, with diligence and unreserved passion, great literary works are made. “It takes discipline and a deliberate choice to sit down and put your thoughts to paper,” RiveraGarza told the Guardian. “Even if you only write one sentence a day, that’s 375 sentences in a year. That’s the start of something.” As one of Mexico’s best-known writers, Rivera-Garza offers students a unique educational experience in writing creatively using the English language instead of Spanish, her native language that she primarily writes in. Undoubtedly, much of the meaning of foreign literary works are “lost in translation” when converted to English, but, for Rivera-Garza’s students, much is gained as they are taught innovative ways of structuring sentences, crafting stories and selecting subjects as they draw from the poetic nature of their professor’s native tongue. Moreover, Rivera-Garza is highly aware of the ways in which people are reading literature today, noting that while the physical book is on the wane, it will never entirely disappear. Still, she is a supporter of the digital realm as a venue for publishing creative work, actively blogging and breaking ground on Twitter, where she coined the term “tweetnovel” — a timeline of tweets as tweeted by a fictional character. Through her work she focuses on ways in which millennials can broadcast their writing sans the traditional print publisher. With the classic 140-character limit on Twitter, every word is critical. But to Rivera-Garza, online and off, every character is more than just important; the power and influence of the written word is central to Rivera-Garza’s interest in writing. With every letter, word and sentence, she asks herself how her artwork might affect our world and what that might entail. “As writers we must be aware of how our writing will change or influence the world,” Rivera-Garza said. “We must know our aims. Then, and only then, may we create.”
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choice. The third run emerged when Sanders hit an RBI single to bring home Lewis. Despite this early, strong game, the Pioneers were able to tie up the match at 3–3 by the end of the fifth inning. It wasn’t until the end of the seventh and final inning that the Tritons made the decisive play that would give them the victory for the night. Lewis was able to do it again as she hit another walk-off suicide bunt, sacrificing herself so that Maday could come home safely from the third plate. Maday not only scored two runs that game but she also managed to steal three of the six stolen bases for the Tritons, making a league-leading total of 73. “[The wins] were big for us,” Maday told the UCSD Athletics Department. “We have been struggling a little bit but today we played really gritty and just did whatever we could to pull out these wins.” On Saturday, the Tritons failed to meet and enjoy the same success that they experienced in the first two games. Instead, they were handed losses in the third and fourth games, ending at a lowly 1–0 and at a whopping 13–1, respectively. After losing Saturday’s doubleheader, UCSD dropped to 20–12 overall rating and 14–10 in conference ranking. Game Three In the third game of the weekend, Pioneers pitcher
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Drew Dickinson finished 23rd in men’s sabre.
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David Hadler placed 20th in men’s foil.
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CSD competed at the Aztec Invitational at SDSU’s Sports Deck this past Friday and Saturday, a meet highlighted by a record-breaking decathlon for redshirt junior Dan Golubovic and a few other meet wins and improvements on provisional qualifiers. Day One The Tritons’ meet opened with a bang on Friday when Golubovic broke a 23-year-old school record en route to 7139 in his first decathlon of the season; the record previously belonged to Matt Inskeep who had 7014 in 1993. This performance was an automatic qualifier for the NCAAs, where Golubovic also grabbed a provisional qualifier in the pole vault when he matched a 19-year-old school record and cleared 16’6.75” for 926 points. He won four events on top of the pole vault alongside the shot put (41’11.5”), the 110 hurdles (14.97), the discus (139’9”) and the javelin (192’6”), and tied for first in the high jump (5’11.25”). Also to be noted, Golubovic’s mark in the the javelin was a personal best as well as the sixth best in UCSD history. UCSD had several other top performances. Sophomore sprinter Paul Doan took first in the open 100 meter race with a time of 10.79. Another winner of the day was junior sprinter Jared Senese, who placed first in the 400, with a time of 49.56. Graduate transfer runner Chloe Gustafson won her heat and finished second overall in the 1500 meter race with a time of 4:39.61. Senior Paige Hughes narrowly missed the podium, finishing third of her heat and fourth overall in a time of 4:40.51. In the men’s race, junior Terrence Luevano finished third with a time of 3:55.09 while sophomore Nick Famolaro (4:00.24) and senior Tareq Alwafai (4:00.70) had top10 finishes, in sixth and eighth, respectively. The men’s 4x400 grabbed another podium finish for the Tritons, when sophomores Isaiah King, Brett Molster, Kenny Jones and freshman Nicholas Rack ran a 3:22.58, which was good for second. Day Two On day two of the Aztec Invitational, a couple of Tritons seized the day and improved on their provisional qualifiers for the NCAA. Junior Savanna Forry was one of them; in the high jump invitational she hit a mark of 5’7.25” and rose to fourth place. Redshirt senior Ellexi Snover was the second Triton to improve her qualifier, as she finished in eighth place of the javelin invitational with a throw of 139’. Meanwhile, senior Haley Libuit finished 10th with a best throw of 133’11”. On the men’s side, redshirt senior Anthony Capitulo continued to build on his excellent start to the season, taking third with a throw of 203’5”. His throw was over the provisional qualifier mark, but cake for Capitulo, who had already hit 209’6” earlier in the season. Senior Travis Vandegriff, however, was just short of the cut for the provisional mark set at 191’5” with a throw of 190’10”, good for ninth. In spite of some tougher competition, the Tritons still managed to score a few other top-10 finishes on the day; junior Markus Woods was sixth in the 400 hurdles invitational with a time of 55.05, while, on the women’s team, sophomore Meghan Fletcher took ninth with a time of 1:03.91. After winning the open 100, Doan finished seventh in the invitational 100, running a 10.65 and tying his personal best while Jones finished tenth overall in the invitational 400, winning his heat in 50.60. UCSD will host the California Collegiate Invitational, formerly known as the Cal-Nevada Championships, next on Saturday, April 2. Marcus Thuillier
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Tritons Split Four Game Home Series Against Cal State East Bay UCSD picks up two wins on Friday, the second one in walk-off fashion, but sees its offense sputter on Saturday and loses both games. BY Gurkirat Singh
This past weekend, UCSD hosted Cal State East Bay for a four-game California Collegiate Athletic Association series which it ended up splitting, taking down Cal State East Bay in both games on Friday, but then losing both games on Saturday. The 25th ranked UCSD won the first game on Friday with a solid score of 2–0 and followed up with a nail biting, walkoff victory of 4–3 in the bottom of the seventh inning during the second game. With the doubleheader win on Friday, UCSD advanced to 20–10 overall and 14–8 in conference ranking. Game One
For the first game, the Tritons were in solid control the entire time until they achieved their 2–0 victory over the Pioneers. Senior left-handed pitcher Lexi Edwards was able to throw a complete game shutout with only six hits by the Pioneers. The first run was achieved when senior outfielder Taylor Abeyta scored on teammate senior outfielder Kristin George off a bunt for a base hit and a point on the scoreboard. The second run for the Tritons occurred during the fifth inning when sophomore outfielder Kelsi Maday was brought home from third plate by sophomore catcher Lauren Sanders, who grounded out. Altogether, the Tritons were able to steal eight bases with Abeyta leading on three swipes. Abeyta also had two hits and one RBI,
with George tallying up two hits and one run. Game Two An hour later, the two teams faced off again, and this time around, the competition was much more thrilling. With a final count of 4–3, both teams were tied up until the seventh inning. The Tritons put their numbers on the board by scoring one run in each of the first three innings. The first run was scored off a sacrifice bunt from freshman infielder Maddy Lewis, who was able to bring home Maday in the first inning. Next, sophomore first-base Sam Glantz snuck the second run in when Pioneer catcher Ali Cerminara literally dropped the ball on a fielder’s See SOFTBALL, page 11