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TRITONS FORWARD SWEEPS Council May Presidential candidates Kyle Heiskala of Let’s Act! and Robby Boparai of Tritons Forward debated transportation, Sun God and spending at Price Center Plaza.

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FINISHING ON A HIGH NOTE

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The UCSD Men’s Volleyball team ended its 2014 campaign impressively, beating Pacfic and making a strong effort against No. 4 Stanford.

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EQUAL WORK, EQUAL PAY

narrowing the gender pay gap opinion, Page 4

SUSTAINING UCSD alumna for eco-consumerism FEATURES, Page 7

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‘Free’ anything, whether it be pizza, Korean BBQ or tickets to a movie at AMC 12, is usually a pretty effective lure.”

- Kelvin Noronha THINKING CAPS

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A.S. President

V.P Campus Affairs

V.P External Affairs

V.P Finance & Resources

Robby Boparai

Amber Hawthorne

Allyson Osorio

Igor Geyn

BY gabriella fleischmann

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News Editor

he Tritons Forward slate, led by presidential candidate Robby Boparai, won every A.S. Council position on Friday, April 11 after weeks of campaigning for this year’s elections. Additionally, students voted in favor of passing a referendum for bylaw revisions and a non-binding referendum in support of a student graffiti-art space.

“I think our ideas resonate well with a lot of campus,” Boparai said.

“We made sure we were thinking positive the whole time. We wanted to make sure people supporting us knew our ideas.”

A.S. Elections Committee members announced the results on the Triton Steps around 11:30 p.m. and Tritons Forward members erupted in celebration. The winners included newly elected A.S. President Boparai, VP Campus Affairs Amber Hawthorne, VP Finances and Resources Igor Geyn and VP External Allyson Osorio. An anonymous source told the Guardian said that because the paperwork for the Eleanor Roosevelt College Senator was not turned in to A.S., there is no official ERC Senator yet.

Osorio said that she does not know how Tritons Forward was able to secure every spot but speculates that it may have been because the slate was composed of members from many different groups and perspectives on campus.

“It feels unreal; we woke up yesterday still questioning what

COLLEGE SENATORS

ELECTION 2014

23.3%

of students voted.

5201 votes out of 23,805 undergraduates.

969

total number of voters in Muir College — the most among all colleges

51.7%

percentage of electorate that voted for Robby Boparai

75.6%

percentage of voters that supported changes to the A.S. Constitution

92.3%

percentage of voters that supported a Grafitti Art Space in a non-binding vote

ACADEMIC SENATORS

MARSHALL COLLEGE Sulchona Marpadga Jonathan Slowey MUIR COLLEGE Brianne Logasa Taylor Valdivia SIXTH COLLEGE Liza Lukasheva Angie Saavedra WARREN COLLEGE Jesslyn Meyers Akshay Tangutur REVELLE COLLEGE Gino Calavitta Joshua Fachtmann Eleanor Roosevelt College has yet to choose college senators.

ARTS & HUMANITIES DEMI D. MUNDO BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RUSHIL PATEL ENGINEERING SALMAN ALRASHED PHYSICAL SCIENCES ANGIE AGUILAR SOCIAL SCIENCES KIM HONG

happened,” Osorio said. “The slate is beyond excited and motivated and happy, but before anything, they’re just ready to get to work.”

The results were originally supposed to be announced at 5:30 p.m. However, grievances against both slates were also being heard that evening before the announcement.

The Elections Committee addressed nine grievances and the Judicial Board heard three appeals.

The passed bylaws referendum will institute several changes to the structure of A.S. Council, starting in the Spring 2015 elections: replacing the position of VP Finances and Resources with an appointed Financial Controller; replacing the position of AVP Student Organizations with a Director of Student Organizations; the addition of two International Senator positions; the removal of one First Year Senator position; and removing the Academic Senators’ vote from A.S. Council while creating an Academic Representatives Council on which they will have a vote on the condition that Academic Senators do not run on any slates.

The non-binding referendum in support of a graffiti-art space merely intends to keep the issue in conversation and for use as leverage against the administration to show that such a space is important to students.

The new A.S. Council will begin its term and pick new cabinet members in Week 5.

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gfleisch@ucsd.edu

CAMPUSWIDE SENATORS

GARRETT DEMPSEY BRYAN DIERKING JOEY GILTNER PARTHU KALVA BRANDON KIM NADIA LOPEZ ADILENE RODRIGUEZ DOMINICK SUVONNASUPA

Not Fund ’14 Cultural Graduations The yearly alternative ceremonies may be cancelled due to a lack of A.S. funds.

BY MERYL PRESS

Staff Writer Student organization funding requests, including “graduationrelated” events put on by student organizations, may be cut due to an exhaustion of the A.S Council’s programming budget. According to VP Finance and Resources Sean O’Neal, A.S. Council began this year with $436,000 in the Mandate Reserves and currently has $358,000. The funding requests for the next three weeks, including the request for the cultural graduation ceremonies, would deplete about $50,000 from the reserves.

Heated debate sparked between A.S. Council members on Wednesday, April 9 in the Council’s meeting, during which they discussed whether taking money out of the Mandate Reserves is the appropriate action to take. These reserves are a separate account with money that A.S. Council is supposed to use only in dire or extreme situations.

Campus-wide senator Jehoan Espinoza commented on his disappointment regarding the graduation-related events that may be cut.

“I am a first-generation college student,” Espinoza said. “Our graduation ceremony is to celebrate our family, who is a very big supporter of our education. It is very disheartening that there might not be graduation events because of our A.S. vote.”

A.S. Council discussed several options, including the possibility of either denying student organizations the money to finance graduationrelated events or funding the organizations by “dipping into” UCSD’s Mandate Reserves. However, by taking money out of the Mandate Reserves, the current A.S. Council will be setting the next group of council members into debt.

A third option is a compromise: take a certain amount of money out of the Mandate Reserves, fund only specific student organizations whose events are critical to the graduation experience and prepare a plan for next year’s council members to work out of the debt.

Campus-wide senator Austin Peters stated his concern regarding the extent of money A.S. Council might have to withdraw from the reserves.

“I don’t think we quite understand the scale of the problem here,” Peters said. “We’re talking in the scope of potentially $90,000 to $100,000, and I don’t think we’re going to be able to make that up.”

AVP Academic Affairs Robby See GRADUATION, page 3

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Vincent Pham Lifestyle Editor Jacqueline Kim A&E Editor Taylor Sanderson Photo Editor Alwin Szeto Associate Photo Editor Dorothy Van Design Editor Zoë McCracken Associate Design Editor Elyse Yang Art Editor Annie Liu Associate Art Editor Andrew Huang Copy Editor Susan Shamoon Associate Copy Editor Madeline Mann Training & Development Dorothy Van Social Media Coordinator Aleksandra Konstantinovic Multimedia Editor

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UCSD Installs Chargers for Electric Cars

Copy Readers Clara Chao, Waverly Tseng Editorial Assistants Emily Bender, Rosina Garcia, Shelby Newallis, Jonah Yonker

Rhine-Westphalia implemented 26 chargers for electric vehicles on campus.

BY karen to

senior staff writer UCSD is taking part in the Intelligent Charging Project initiated by the California Energy Commission to test run electric cars and “smart” chargers over the next three years with a pilot population of 40 faculty, staff and students.

The project was launched on Wednesday, April 9, with an event at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography attended by representatives from UCSD, German multinational automotive corporation Daimler AG, the San Diego Gas and Electric Utility, the California Energy Commission and second largest German utility RWE Effizienz GmbH. The vehicles, designed by Mercedes-Benz, are Smart Fortwo electric-drive models, which can be easily charged by simply plugging into one of the 26 chargers recently installed on campus by RWE.

The intelligent power sources, also known as Level 2 chargers, communicate with the connected vehicle and the electric grid to assess how much energy to deliver based on the grid’s capacity and the vehicle’s need. The Level 2 chargers, which run at approximately 210 to 240 volts, provide vehicles with 10 to 20 miles of range for every hour of charging.

Mercedes-Benz specifically designed the cars to work with this advanced communication system, which the International Standards Organization set as the new global standard known as ISO 15118, to be officially implemented in 2017.

The CEC funded the Level 2 chargers, granting $300,000 for the project. RWE and SDG&E also shared the cost of the chargers.

UCSD Vice Chancellor for Resource Management and Planning Gary C. Matthews spoke highly of the opportunity UCSD has as the demonstrative site of such an endeavor.

“We are truly excited to participate in this project, which represents the future of electric vehicle transportation,” Matthews said in an April 9 UCSD News Center article. “UC San Diego is the ideal place to demonstrate this type of innovative technology as it complements our existing sustainability operations and research efforts while supporting the university and the state’s efforts to promote clean energy transportation.”

In addition to the 26 new Level 2 chargers, UCSD will also boast three DC-circuit fast chargers from RWE that will provide 60 to 80 miles of range with just 20 minutes of charging. Thus, UCSD will become the first university in the world to have such an abundant, diverse range of electric chargers on its campus.

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LIGHTS & SIRENS Friday, April 4 7:17 a.m.: Suspicious Person Several subjects were stealing shrubbery from bushes near Gilman Drive. Field interview administered.

5:43 p.m.: Injury The subject suffered a dislocated hip at Spanos Field. Transported to hospital by medics.

10:24 p.m.: Petty Theft A subject was reportedly cutting a bike lock with a saw near 1 Miramar Building 3. Information only.

Saturday, April 5 12:29 a.m.: Noise Disturbance Subjects were slamming doors and talking loudly at the Rita Atkinson Residences. Information only.

9:01 a.m.: Injury The subject fell and suffered a small forehead laceration in Lot 702.

Transported to hospital.

3:11 p.m.: Citizen Contact There was a report of hazing by a fraternity near the Music Building.

Information only.

Sunday, April 6 12:37 p.m.: Information There was a report of an overturned vehicle on La Jolla Shores Drive, though the driver appeared OK on the sidewalk. Referred to other agency — San Diego Police.

6:45 p.m.: Injury A subject suffered a dislocated shoulder while indoor rock climbing at the Canyonview Pool. Transported to hospital.

Monday, April 7 7:59 a.m.: Medical Aid A subject passed out in a shower in the Main Gym. Transported to hospital.

4:17 p.m.: Information A VA bus broke down and blocked traffic on Villa La Jolla Drive.

Information only.

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Alumni Will Receive Free Career Guidance

Tuesday, April 8 7:20 a.m.: Injury A subject fell off a skateboard at Voigt Dip and suffered multiple injuries.

Transported to hospital.

5:33 p.m.: Citizen Contact A subject was apparently trying to slash the reporting party’s tires near Price Center. Referred to other agency — Resident dean.

Wednesday, April 9 5:30 a.m.: Non-injury Accident An unoccupied UC shuttle bus rolled backwards into another shuttle bus. Report taken.

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12:37 p.m.: Welfare Check A subject at a Preuss School bus stop was defecating and vomiting.

Transported to hospital.

12:46 p.m.: Smoke Check Heavy smoke came from a trashcan near the Sun God statue, apparently from hot BBQ coals. Field interview conducted.

10:07 p.m.: Vandalism A subject peeled paint and defaced a wall with permanent marker at Mandeville Center, causing $100 in damages. Report taken.

Thursday, April 10 7:03 a.m.: Medical Aid A subject experienced stomach pains in the Revelle Apartments.

Transported to hospital.

— ANDREW HUANG

Senior Staff Writer

The Career Services Center will provide access to job postings and resources to alumni through their partnership with the Alumni & Community Engagement.

BY ANDREW HUANG

SENIOR STAFF WRITER Through its partnership with Alumni and Community Engagement, the Career Services Center is now able to offer UCSD alumni free lifetime access to a variety of resources including job postings, recruitment workshops and additional online tools.

In the past, alumni were required to pay a subscription fee for six months of access to these services. However, in accordance with UCSD Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla’s strategic plan, the Career Services Center integrated with Alumni and Community Engagement to remove that fee completely, starting Spring Quarter 2014.

UCSD is the first UC campus in the system to remove its alumni fee requirement.

“It is an exciting expansion of service to alumni that demonstrates our commitment to the lifelong success and mobility of UCSD students and alumni,” Senior Director of Career and Professional Development Craig Schmidt said.

“Our commitment over the next three years is to transform this university to a place where at least 90 percent of our students have secured employment or admission to a graduate or professional school within their first year after graduation.”

Aside from offering these features free of charge, the Career Services Center is also implementing several other initiatives as a part of its link with Alumni and Community Engagement. This includes the online “Alumni Advisor Network,” which was launched to connect students with

successful professionals in their field of interest, with 2,000 alumni expected to participate by the end of this quarter.

“This is an outstanding resource for our students to develop mentoring relationships with alumni who understand what it’s like to be a UCSD student and who can help advance their career plans,” Schmidt said.

He also said that the Center planned to make internships more readily available for the student body, as well as to establish career-focused programs to prepare students for those internships.

All of these changes coincided with the UCSD Job Fair on April 9, 2014, which also was physically redesigned in order to help students navigate the fair and find the best-fit opportunities.

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Council Debates Using Reserve Funds for Commencements ▶ GRADUATION, from page 1

Boparai commented on the negative effects on student organizations due to their expectations of funding from A.S. Council. “[A.S. Council members] have to realize the precedent has been set that [student organizations] are going to fund these things anyway,” Boparai said. “They don’t know that everything is going to run out and they have to get their funding requests earlier. I think we need to think outside the box and take on the perspective of graduating seniors.”

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Noronha compared UCSD’s Mandate Reserves to Congress’ “rainy-day” funds. He stressed how Congress only reaches for their safety money in times of recession or when stocks fall dramatically, hinting that A.S. Council has reached for its safety money too many times this past year.

“I guess this year A.S. was in a rainy day,” Noronha said.

Transfer Senator Ricky Martorana disapproved of withdrawing money from the reserves, as the reserves will lower substantially if funds are withdrawn.

“This will set a precedent that dipping into Mandate Reserves at a

50-percent level is okay,” Martorana said. “And that’s not okay.”

Former UCSD student and current APSA President Mason Fong spoke of his concerns about the future implications of this problem.

“This is an item that I hope does not end in a polarized answer to either cut funds or not have funds at all,” said Fong. “If you’re pissing off the people who vote, keep it in mind that the amount of voters will go down. This sets a precedent for next year’s council.”

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While Obama’s executive order for the equal pay cause is a noteworthy start, more ambitious action is required to help women achieve parity on pay stubs.

early a century after women were first allowed to vote in the United States, American women are still fighting an uphill battle in the workplace. Although President Obama’s recent executive order prohibiting certain employers from firing women who openly discuss their salary is a step toward exposing gender inequities, greater strides need to be made at the corporate and governmental level to ensure that women are paid what they deserve.

Statistics from the federal government state that on average, full-time working women earn just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns when employed in the same position. According to USA Today, the disparity is even wider with African-American and Latina women who respectively earn, on average, 65 cents and 56 cents for every dollar earned by men.

U.S. Census data reveals that a typical 25-year-old woman working full time all year in 2011 earned $5,000 less than a typical 25-year-old man.

Even women with doctorate degrees earn approximately $500 less per week than their male counterparts.

Perhaps even more unjust is that women are far too often prevented from even disclosing the fact that they are underpaid. A 2011 survey by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research found that “almost half of workers (48.4 percent) responded that they were either prohibited or strongly

discouraged from discussing their earnings.” Such treatment is not only an act of discrimination, which is prohibited in any work setting, but is also, in essence, a violation of First Amendment rights. Even more worrying is that these employers’ policies add to the underlying problems, as they limit even basic public awareness of the gender gap.

So while the President’s executive order targets the specific issue of non-disclosure, it is only a small start and much bolder steps need to be made. Despite Obama’s aim for equality, the efficacy of his plans is limited due to a lack of congressional support. Without approval from Congress, the President is unable to create a noticeable change in wages or legislatively eliminate gender wage disparities. He can only directly impose his policies on federal contractors — a demographic that would include groups such as janitors, construction workers and food servers on military bases who are currently not making minimum wage. Only a few hundred thousand would actually stand to benefit from the order — a figure that seems quite insignificant in the scheme of the 72 million female labor force participants.

Opponents of the executive action claim that women are generally paid less since there is a natural variance in employee ability and performance, thus resulting in a justified salary difference. After all, most

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QUICK TAKES

THE SUDBURY VALLEY SCHOOL AND THE RELATED ‘UNSCHOOLING’ EDUCATION MOVEMENT PROMOTE A FREE-FORM LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THERE ARE NO CLASSES, AND STUDENTS CHOOSE WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR TIME.

Diverse Philosophies of Learning Can Reform Education System

Sudbury System’s Anarchical Nature Prevents Real-World Success

In an education system driven by hard-and-fast curricula and high-stakes testing, students are suffering mentally and psychologically. In an online survey conducted by the American Psychological Association, Millennials rated themselves more stressed and had more cases of anxiety and depression than any other age group. With an internalized need to achieve, children have learned to equate education with compulsion. However, expatriates from mainstream schooling, or “unschoolers,” recognize that learning is inseparable from living.

The unschooling movement (modeled after the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham, Mass.) rightfully rejects the notion that children must be coerced into learning. Rather, the process allows them to engage in “natural learning.” Unschoolers might learn fractions by baking or learn to read by deciphering video game cheat-books. This mode of learning is no less effective than traditional schooling, and it doesn’t require kids to fork over 12 years of their childhood to the rigid 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. classroom scheme.

Furthermore, because unschooled children are trusted to learn at their own pace, they are less likely to emerge from adolescence with the typical anxious or insecure mindset. The Canadian Centre for Home Education’s study, using Huebner’s Student Life Satisfaction Scale, reported that home-educated students scored 4.94 (out of a possible 6), relative to public-schooled students’ average of 4.21. When allowed their freedom, unschooled children are able to pursue their passions in a way that traditional schooling simply does not facilitate.

For those who don’t wish to subject their children to a slow-to-reform education system that demands constant performance and brands individuals as having intelligence between 0-2400 SAT scores, unschooling is a positive alternative.

Mark Twain famously said he never let his schooling interfere with his education. Sadly, many of today’s youth differ in this respect. Though the Pew Research Center suggests Millennials will be the most educated generation in American history, 63 percent believe their schooling left them unprepared for adult life. 90 percent of students attend public schools, yet a majority feel that their education has been inadequate; as a nation, such inefficiency calls for re-evaluation of education standards.

“Taking tests” is not a particularly a marketable or rewarding skill, but public schools seem to emphasize it above all else. Kids spend 13 years motivated by fear and stress to outscore their peers, with unimpressive results. The National Math and Science Initiative reports that only 36 and 44 percent of high school graduates are ready for higher science and math, respectively. 38 percent of students who start college with a science, technology, engineering or math major do not graduate with one, suggesting inadequate time in high school to explore their real interests, strengths and weaknesses.

“Unschools” like Sudbury Valley offer an alternative, freeform “learning by living” approach to education. Though not necessarily the solution for every child, unschools remind us that there is more than one way to educate. Traditional schooling should not monopolize the definition of education.

By exploring new philosophies, like the Sudbury model, America can develop education alternatives and eventually incorporate them into public systems. By conducting studies to determine which methods work and teaching critical thought without indoctrination, we can fix public education. Using different modes of education for different children will ensure that successive generations will be both more educated and better prepared for the world beyond graduation.

Although proponents of the Sudbury system find that the classes of traditional schools do not help students develop self-motivation to learn and explore, Sudbury school methods in turn seem to deprive students of the conventional English, math and science courses that are required to succeed in the real world.

The Sudbury School emphasizes a counterculture where school is about exposing its students to whatever they please. According to Alfie Kohn, the author of several books critical of the current education system, this anarchical model allows far too much freedom. Ultimately, this laissez-faire strategy may lead to unintended results and abuse where students mismanage their time and waste it playing games instead of learning at the level of their peers in conventional schools.

Moreover, since there are no classes and no grades, universities will have a hard time judging the strength of applicants in the Sudbury system.

According to the Seattle Times, only five students, or 20 percent of the class, have graduated from the Clearwater School in Seattle (based on the Sudbury philosophy), which demonstrates the appallingly low matriculation rate.

Kids who do want to move on to universities and ambitious careers will face a difficult time since the performance standard of this school is so different from that of other schools.

Universities predominantly consider GPA and SAT scores to filter the best applicants.

Unfortunately, students of the Sudbury system are not presented with the tools that they need to meet these requirements. While this education system may help a niche few, it simply does not make sense for those seeking a comprehensive education for the real world.

— HAILEY SANDEN Contributing Writer

— THOMAS FINN Staff Writer

—HUGO WONG Contributing Writer

Unschooling Allows Students to Engage in Natural Learning

henever I try to navigate the maze that is Library Walk at lunchtime, I find myself searching for ways to appear disinterested. I stare at a blank screen on my phone, occasionally read the newspaper or try to look just plain angry. The last thing I want to do when trying to make it all the way to York from Warren Lecture Hall is to sign up for meditation classes or assure someone that I will attend their obscure club’s first get-together of the quarter. But when they offer pizza, the whole game changes.

It’s not like there’s much to be gained from a $1.50, greasy, pepperoni slice from Domino’s — on a pure cost-to-benefit level, it’s not really worth trekking across campus to a meeting at night. But the prospect of ‘free’ anything, whether it be pizza, Korean BBQ or tickets to a movie at AMC 12, is usually a pretty effective lure. And so I find myself sitting through another bizarre club event, munching on their free food and coming to the realization that one hour of my time is apparently worth the price of a slice of pizza.

At the root of it is our impulsedriven desire for instant gratification — we jump at the promise of a good deal regardless of whether it will be worth our while in the long run. We’ve been conditioned to love the idea of free stuff, and in my case, the idea of free food.

For example, I have personally been known to venture to Costco just for their snack-sample stands.

Evolutionarily, the ‘take free things and ask questions later’ mentality may seem a little unfavorable (after all, it’s how animal traps work) but more often than not, we end up satisfied. And even if we do end up regretting our decision, we’ve derived enough benefit to make it seem okay.

It’s really just a clever marketing trick based in effect on the notion that a ‘free lunch’ is nonexistent.

When a store offers a complimentary trinket along with a purchase, they’re counting on the fact that people will get excited by the prospect of getting something worthless for free and clamor to buy things that they otherwise wouldn’t want.

This also plays into the idea of sales as a whole. When we see that something is cheaper than the suggested retail price, it immediately seems far more attractive. Whether we need it becomes a whole lot less relevant, and into our cart it goes.

Although I feel mighty pleased with myself for the slick two bucks I save, I gloss over the bigger, unnecessary expenditure, whether it’s clothes, movies or the time spent at a GBM for a religious group I have no actual affiliation with.

Essentially, our desire to beat the system trumps rational decision-making. It’s also not all that difficult to take advantage of this.

So for those looking to gain a few more student org supporters or get some more blood donations for your charity, make sure there’s an enticing treat in the mix. In my case, my Library Walk allegiance will be to whoever’s got the best food; preferably anything with an abundance of chocolate.

OPINION

SOLVE FOR X By Philip Jia

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Satirists’ Poor Taste Will Hurt Their Job Prospects Dear Editor, We understand that there is quite a controversy over the small satire publication, the Koala, which was recently profiled by the New York Times. We at the Syrup Trap don’t care about the Koala, but we do care about the word “satire” and what people do with it.

Satire is writing that makes fun of something in an insightful, witty and at least semi-thoughtful way.

Publications like the Koala offend us, not just because they are openly bigoted and juvenile but also because they are not funny.

They conflate satire with saying random, offensive things and attention-seeking, which is what children do.

The Koala reads like something written by teenagers released from

Alleged Reasons for Pay Gap Stem from Gender Misconceptions ▶ WAGES, from page 4 employees’ wages are apportioned according to their perceived skill and experience level in the industry within which they are working. Moreover, a study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office notes that women leave the labor force for longer periods of time than men, insinuating that this leave may constitute the discrepancy in pay.

However, the Office also notes that this observation cannot possibly be the only factor contributing to the gender wage gap and that discrimination likely plays a role.

Furthermore, there is much evidence to support the fact that women are just as effective and experienced in the workplace.

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General Motors and Yahoo! CEO’s Mary Barra and Marissa Mayer are perhaps the most high-profile counterpoints to this misconception, as each has proven to be a dynamic and competent leader. Women are just as capable as men, and their salary should not suffer from the unenlightened assumption that men are more productive in a professional setting. The consequence for women otherwise becomes not only lower weekly earnings but lower lifetime earnings, less money for retirement and fewer resources to provide for their families. According to U.S. Census, by age 65, the average woman will have lost $431,000 over her working lifetime.

While the President’s attempt at equality may not have drastic

macroeconomic effects, the symbolic value of his gesture may carry broader implications for employers outside of the federal system. The striking gender pay gap has often been ignored in legislative and institutional circles, but Obama’s executive order demonstrates a commendable effort to address the disparity and make all employers more conscious of the inequity they may be perpetuating.

Despite its inability to provide immediate solutions, the President’s executive order has the potential to drive change at a broader level that rewards hard-working women with the compensation they deserve.

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the protective womb of parental supervision too early. Like something that might have been conceived in a meeting at the editorin-chief ’s mom’s house (according to the Times piece, this is literally true) during which the editor-inchief ’s mom might have served cookies (also actually true).

It’s easy to get emotional and think serious thoughts about the Koala before you realize that these poor kids don’t really know what they’re doing.

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s a dedicated professor, three-time company founder, respected researcher and mother, it is a wonder that Yuanyuan Zhou had time to attend the first ever Celebration of Women in Computing in Southern California conference which took place April 5 and 6 in Carlsbad. Nevertheless, on Saturday afternoon, she was standing before an audience full of young, aspiring female engineers to share her experiences.

“When I was a grad student, my advisor was very understanding if I said no to him.” Zhou said. “I was hesitant to go into academia because I didn’t want my students to say no to me.”

With a doctorate in computer science from Princeton, three startups and volumes of research to her name, Zhou is intimidating in description but humble and talkative in person. Her relentless energy serves her research, her company, her students and her desire to increase the presence of women in computing.

She has worked in various fields from operating systems to software to system failures to data mining; she has no reservations about learning something new.

This eclectic experience and her enthusiasm for teaching make her an invaluable resource. Zhou enjoys her professor position because of the positive influence she can have on UCSD students.

“I like how in a 30-minute conversation, you can really help them; you can change their career,” Zhou said.

That career-changing moment came when Zhou proposed her latest venture, an event mobile application called Whova, and getting a team together with less than a month to create it.

Whova can be used to help link existing communities of professionals. In See APP, page 8

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staff writer Recent UCSD graduate Katherine Hang, class of 2013, can proudly claim that she has first-hand experience working in a field that deals with sustainability and consumerism. As a double major in economics and environment policy, Hang was enthusiastic about maintaining the integrity of efficiency and sustainability while incorporating her interest in consumer behavior. As a result, she got involved in an internship in the spring of her junior year with UCSD’s Procurement & Contracts, a division of Business and Financial Services that facilitates the purchasing of goods and services for the entire university. Hang’s involvement with Procurement & Contracts gradually landed her a job with the department after graduation. She is currently working as the sustainability project coordinator for the department, a position in which she integrates environmental sustainability into Procurement.

“Procurement & Contracts was actually a good way for me to combine my two interests because I was a double major, and I don’t feel like sustainability is very often associated with consumerism and economics,” Hang said.

“Being able to combine knowledge from both fields and use that knowledge is very helpful for my professional development.”

In 2008, Procurements & Contracts launched a website called Marketplace, which aims to meet the needs of buyers and streamline the purchase order process for UCSD staff and faculty. Through Marketplace, buyers can search for and order their desired goods from hosted catalogues of outside suppliers.

For Hang’s senior environmental policy project, she worked with the Procurement & Contracts Climate Action Plan team to create

and maintain sustainability projects. One project that they spearheaded was encouraging the use of recycled paper.

With this project, Marketplace “hides” virgin paper (paper that is not recycled) and encourages the buyer to purchase recycled paper.

However, if the buyer still wanted to purchase virgin paper, he or she would still be able to go to a “punchout” in Marketplace, which links the buyer to the version of the supplier’s site with UCSD-specific pricing — a process that is only two extra clicks, explains Hang.

The relocation of virgin paper in December 2012 was followed by a 20-percent increase in the distribution of recycled paper through the Marketplace website. The percentage of recycled paper purchases hovered around 60 percent for a consistent three years until this number skyrocketed to about 80 percent in mid-January of 2013.

“My project actually made an impact,” Hang said. “I didn’t really expect that. Doing this project was one of the times when I felt like school and work were really similar; I felt like I was working on the same thing for my studentworker role. For once, it felt like I didn’t have to do homework and then do something else for my job — I was doing one thing, killing two birds with one stone.”

Hang has also started a new project with Procurement & Contracts and is working through TerraCycle, an organization that focuses on upcycling (reusing discarded material and waste into innovative products), to create the Writing Instrument Brigade. In partnership with TerraCycle and OfficeMax, Procurement & Contacts has launched this Brigade which collects writing instruments across the campus, consolidates them through See PAPER, page 8

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UCSD Mail Services and ultimately sends the instruments to TerraCycle, where they are recycled into new products. Additionally, two cents are donated to UCSD’s Sustainability Resource Center for every writing instrument that is sent into TerraCycle.

Students can contribute to the effort by dropping off unwanted writing instruments into the Writing Brigade’s collection bins located in Geisel Library and in the Sustainability Resource Center. Likewise, staff and faculty members can participate by placing writing instruments into an intercampus mail envelope labeled “used pens” and dropping it off at Mail Services, where all writing instruments will be consolidated into one large shipment to TerraCycle.

As a student, Hang learned about economics and the environment and how those two fields can sometimes overlap and soon realized that sustainability is always relevant, no matter what field.

“People need to buy things, people need to do research, people need to make a living somehow,” Hang said.

“Why not help them make the right decisions for the benefit of the environment, and hopefully for themselves?”

Although Hang feels she is in a comfortable place in her career now, she had to really work towards finding her niche. Hang feels that her experience as an intern for Procurement & Contracts was very beneficial for her professional development and wishes that opportunities like hers are made more accessible to students.

“Something I would like to see in the future are programs that would allow students to have internships or real life experience and engage with the staff at UCSD,” Hang said. “Building a bridge between students and staff would be something I’d like to see in the future. I know it’s happening; I’d just like to be a part of it if I can.”

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an age where one’s personal and professional profiles can be found online, networking has become an increasingly important tool in one’s career-building belt. Whova centralizes an attendees’ published work, blogs and social media profiles into one Whova profile, eliminating the time cost of Googling said person.

Other attendees at certain events can browse through these profiles in order to get a sense of whom they should talk to and what they should talk about.

“The app is very useful for academic events because students are looking for jobs and industry is looking for people,” Zhou said.

Zhou’s team finished the app three days in advance of its projected completion date. Whova’s utilization has been widespread from ArtPower! in San Diego to a World Wide Web conference in South Korea, as well as in UCSD itself.

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have a big event,” Zhou said. “I went to my team, and they said let’s do it. Then I went to the department chair and told them, ‘It’s not a CS celebration if you do not have an app for it.’”

Zhou says her team will go the “extra mile” to provide event reports to organizer-users. To Zhou, Whova’s potential goes far beyond efficiency.

“The fact that you attend an event must mean you have some shared interest and something in common with this group of people, so why not just build a community?” Zhou said.

Zhou’s participation in CWICSoCal shows her belief in the power of community. She, like many wellestablished women in her field, believes technology and science need more women.

“A really interesting observation I made is that many of the event organizers are women,” she said.

“You need to talk to these organizers. You need to become friends with them. I think women have this advantage, especially in a startup [where] the most important thing

is for you to understand your customer ... You truly need to listen to the user.”

When Zhou speaks about her experience, she admits to feelings of intimidation. This is a common problem for women who want to get into technology but are put-off by their lack of experience. Zhou seems to believe experience is only a part of what makes one successful. “[My team] doesn’t care as much about previous experience as long as you are interested in doing something,” Zhou said. “I care more about passion. If you are passionate then you can always learn … and we are always learning.”

Zhou and her team champion perseverance in the face of a steep learning curve. She considers this perseverance to be essential for female computer scientists in order to achieve great things in research and software development, and serves as an example to aspiring women in these fields.

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error. UCSD continued to drive in runs, plating four more in the second frame. Four separate Tritons recorded RBIs in the second inning haul.

“We felt much better to be able to actually produce those runs,” Grant said. “Everyone was hitting well, and it felt normal. The [previous] two games were quite strange.”

The Tritons batted in one more run in the seventh inning to secure the victory. Edwards recorded the win, pitching for four innings — finishing with two earned runs and five hits allowed — before Manuel relieved the sophomore to close out the game with three scoreless frames.

In the final contest of the series, the Tritons battled with SFSU in an extra-inning battle only to surrender a

The Tritons took an early lead in the top of the first inning as Brown doubled in Grant for a 1–0 start.

Manuel kept SFSU scoreless through five innings before allowing a oneout double to bat in the tying run during the sixth inning. Edwards was called in for relief and would remain in for the rest of the game.

After the 1–1 tie, both squads were shut down for the next 6.5 innings, until the Tritons finally fell via a two-out Gator single to give Edwards her fourth loss of the season. The Gators’ Clark lasted the entirety of the 13 innings to earn her second complete game win of the series.

“I really felt like we made the adjustments on Megan Clark [going

was in command. [At] the end of the day, someone’s got to win, and they did it.”

Grant finished with a team-high three hits on five at bats. Brown ended with a pair of hits and UCSD’s only RBI of the marathon contest.

With the weekend split behind them, the Tritons will hope to reclaim sole possession of the CCAA’s top spot as they travel to Humboldt State for their final road series before conference championships.

The four-game series will be split up into two doubleheaders starting on Friday, April 18 and concluding on Saturday, April 19.

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freshman sprints Jared Senese’s third place time of 1:52.33. Bojorquez now holds the second fastest time in UCSD history while Senese sits at sixth.

“This was a huge improvement for Bojorquez,” UCSD men’s head coach Tony Salerno told the UCSD Guardian. “He ran really well.”

On the field, All-American junior throws Nash Howe placed fourth in the javelin with a throw of 2028. Senior pole vaults Clint Rosser finished in second in the pole vault (15’9.25”) and All-American senior hurdles Lauren Irish earned the third spot in the 400-meter hurdles.

“Arizona was a tune-up for the national level competitors,” Salerno said. “It gave them a chance to travel and see different uniforms.”

The remainder of the Triton team posted a handful of season and personal bests in Claremont. In the

men’s 100-meter run, junior sprints Keith Rose finished seventh (10.89) and freshman sprints Emmanuel Elijah finished in 21st, winning his heat in the process with a time of 11.09 seconds.

Three women’s 1500-meter runners ended the day with season bests. San Diego native freshman distance Ella Verhees finished 12th in her event with a time of 4:40.44 and sophomore distance Marie Diaz crossed the finish line in 16th with a time of 4:42.20. Junior distance Tanner Collins also placed 15th with his time of 3:57.28.

In the women’s 400-meter run, freshman sprinter Jackie Chalmers was the fastest Triton on the day.

Her time of 56.87 seconds gave her a 16th place finish and inked her into the record books with the seventh fastest time in UCSD’s history.

On the field, sophomore pole vaults Chrissi Carr placed second in the pole vault, hitting an NCAA-

provisional mark and improving an entire foot with her 11-11.75 finish.

The feat puts her at sixth on the Triton all-time best list.

Once again, the track team will be split up this week as the Tritons will participate in three separate road contests. The California Invitational will occur on Wednesday, April 16 and Thursday, April 17, the Mt. SAC Relays will span from April 17 to April 19 and the Soka Peace Invitational will take place on Friday, April 18, and conclude on Saturday, April 19.

“Any time you come off with a school record, it really sets you up for the next couple of weeks,” Salerno said. “With nationals coming up in a month, the momentum gained from this weekend can propel the Triton squad to excellence at the national level.”

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of the season. Prior to the match, UCSD honored the five graduating seniors Johl Awerkamp, Mike Brunsting, Nick Iorfino, Scot Metzger and Fred Stahl, each of whom were in the starting lineup on Senior Night.

UCSD came out firing in the opening frame to take an early 6–2 lead over the Cardinals. However, Stanford responded immediately and regained a 7–10 edge. The Tritons struggled to keep the ball in play against Stanford’s precise and hard jump serves, ultimately falling 25–20 in the first set.

Stanford notched the first five points in what was the most onesided set of the night. The Cardinal maintained their lead throughout to cruise to a 25–18 victory and put the Tritons into a 2–0 hole.

In the third set, UCSD responded with aggressive and high-energy play to jump out to 8–3 lead. The Tritons never surrendered the advantage throughout the frame, finishing strong with a 25–18 set victory over the Division-I team.

The fourth and final set featured the tightest game of the night with seven total tied scores. UCSD jumped ahead with a 5–3 advantage, but soon after, Stanford appeared to take command of the set, establishing a 16–9 lead over the Tritons. However,

UCSD fired back to tie the score at 19, trailing by only one score at the crucial 24–23 mark.

With the game within reach, the Cardinal cut the comeback short, taking the set and match 25–23 with a kill from Stanford sophomore James Shaw.

“It’s always tough losing a game that’s really close like that, but we had a lot of fun, and we played well even though we lost,” Brunsting told the Guardian.

Outside hitter Iorfino and opposite hitter Awerkamp both reached double figures in kills. Iorfino added six digs, three blocks, one ace and a career-best four assists. Setter/opposite Brunsting added five kills on five attempts to go along with his 41 assists, three blocks and team-high seven digs.

After a tough season, the Tritons still maintained positivity despite ending with such a close-scoring loss to the dominant Cardinal.

“I have always loved playing with the guys,” Brunsting said. “It has meant a lot to me. The road has been long, but I’ve learned a lot along the way. I’ve enjoyed all the friendships I’ve made [and] for that, it’s been worth it.”

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SUN4.20 KAYAK LA JOLLA SHORES – MEET AT THE OUTBACK RENTAL SHOP IN PEPPER CYN Looking for some great kayaking in San Diego?

Contact Outback Adventures and UCSD Recreation.

Questions? Contact Simon Teal. Contact: steal@ucsd.edu. Website: http://recreation.ucsd.edu/outback-adventures/trips -and-classes.html

Do you enjoy pop-culture / games / series / TV shows / movies / fantasy? Do you also feel that these media sometimes further sexist, racist, heterosexist, ableist or other oppressions? Come out to the first ever social justice comic con. Like the real San Diego event, we will be celebrating all things geeky! We will also be examining the way we can enjoy fantasy series while also critiquing their depictions of social identities. There will be food, dialogue, prizes, and of course COSPLAY!

UCSD is excited to announce its first reading of the quarter with visiting authors MAGGIE NELSON and DANIEL TIFFANY! The reading will be held at 4:30 pm in the DECERTEAU ROOM on the first floor of the LITERATURE BUILDING. For more information or directions, visit http://literature.ucsd.edu/news-events/new-writing-seri es/nws-spring2014.html, or contact Maria Flaccavento (mflaccav@ucsd.edu) or Jeff Baker (j9baker@ucsd.edu). This event is FREE and open to the public!

8pm SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR – PRICE CENTER EAST BALLROOM Ever since its smash debut album, Voices from Heaven, the Soweto Gospel Choir has spent years touring the world with its exhilarating brand of vocal fireworks.

Singing in English as well as a number of South African languages, the two-time Grammy Award-winning choir fuses traditional African gospel music with Western songs of celebration. Taken as a whole, the group’s music radiates spirit, not to mention motion–for as beautifully as these 12 voices blend, the rhythms are what really keep the mixture vibrant and alive. http://artpwr.com/experience/2014/04/16/soweto-gospe l-choir#.U0RJdVFdXDE

8pm SMALL POOLS – PORTER’S PUB, ORIGINAL STUDENT CENTER FREE CONCERT FOR UCSD Students!! Smallpools with Ed Ghost Tucker & Fighting with Irons will performing free for UCSD students! Non-UCSD Student Admission:$10.00. Contact: gerardo.soto@porterspub.com

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10am

CATCH A FREE RIDE TO THE 44TH ANNUAL CHICANO PARK DAY CELEBRATION – CHICANO PARK

Come to Anime Conji for pool parties, a karaoke sing-along with the voice actor guests, an Easter egg hunt, and a concert by voice actor/former Power Ranger Johnny Yong Bosch! This event runs from Friday (9:00am-4:00pm) to Sunday (9:00am-2:00pm). For more info, go towww.animeconji.org

Be a part of communities coming together! Catch a free ride to the 44th annual Chicano Park Day celebration.

Experience traditional music and dance plus live bands such as Chocolate Revolution, Los Nativos, Sumatra, Big Quarters, Ruby Clouds, and Trigger Nasty. There'll be a display of classic lowrider cars organized by the Amigos Car Club. Food, arts and craft vendors throughout. Free bus transportation and lunch at the historic Las Cuatro Milpas Restaurant provided courtesy of VC Student Affairs, VC Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Warren, Sixth and Revelle College Dean's Offices. To reserve your spot, email Marcia Strong, mstrong@ucsd.edu and include 'Chicano Park' in the subject line of your email. Call (858)534-0496 for more information. Sponsored by CSI. Contact: mstrong@ucsd.edu. Website: http://chicano-park.org/

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12pm

ANIME CONJI – SHERATON SAN DIEGO HOTEL & MARINA. 1380 HARBOR ISLAND DRIVE

KAYAK JOUSTING COMPETITION – CAYONVIEW POOL Explore the watery world of the future, where heraldry returns to an exceptionally watery planet.

You and a partner will compete for the crown at San Diego's premier Kayak Jousting event. One of you will paddle while the other balances upright on a kayak. With a pillow padded jousting pole in hand you will attempt to de-kayak your opponent.

Traditional knockout competition rules, maybe your team will leave as champions. Signup online, in person at the Rental Shop or Surf Shop, or call 858-534-0684. UCSD students $5. Others $10. This event brought to you by Outback Adventures and UCSD Recreation. Questions? Contact Simon Teal.

Contact: steal@ucsd.edu. Website: http://recreation.ucsd.edu/outback-adventures/tripsand-classes.html

MT. WOODSON HIKE – MT. WOODSON UCSD Mind Body Nutrition is hosting a hike to Potato Chip Rock! Transportation will be provided. ***Meet at Peterson Loop at Noon on Saturday, April 19th*** Attendees MUST fill out form found on the Facebook Event page to guarantee transportation. The Mt. Woodson Hike is not an easy one. However, this challenging 3.5 hour hike (round trip) has a reward at the end: Potato Chip Rock, one of the most famous landmarks in Southern California!

Contact: ucsdmbn@gmail.com. Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/533356660119114/

7pm BALLROOM 2014: SAN DIEGO'S A CAPPELLA FESTIVAL For more info, see event info at top of page.

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Closing Out Strong Five graduating seniors play their final games as UCSD concludes its 2014 season with a weekend split.

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he UCSD men’s volleyball team returned home for its final regular season matches this weekend, sweeping University of the Pacific before losing to Stanford University in four sets at RIMAC Arena. The Tritons finished their 2014 season at 4–23 overall and 2–22 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.

“I’m really proud of how we finished the year,” UCSD head coach Kevin Ring said. “We’ve had a lot of tough breaks this year and some injuries, [but] we’ve been competitive in every match, and that’s the most important thing.”

On Friday night, UCSD hosted University of the Pacific and defeated the Tigers in three straight sets. The match opened with a back-and-forth first set that featured six lead changes and nine tie scores. The Tritons clung onto a single-point lead in the final moments of the set, and a kill from freshman middle blocker Mathew Schnitzer followed by an ace from senior opposite Johl Awerkamp gave UCSD the 25–22 victory.

After the hard-fought first set, UCSD took control in the second game, never surrendering an advantage in points to UOP. UCSD established its largest lead of 19–12 after two consecutive kills from Awerkamp. At the 24–17 mark, the Tigers scored three straight points in an attempted comeback, but sophomore outside hitter Kirill Rudenko closed out the set with a kill to put the Tritons up 2–0.

In the third stanza, the Tigers started strong with a 10–8 lead. However, UOP earned little more as UCSD took over from then on out. Leading 19–16, the Tritons took six of the following seven scores to take the set and match 25–17. The UCSD victory snapped a seven-match losing streak to the Tigers dating back to 2010. Friday’s triumph against UC Merced also marked the first win streak for the Tritons this season.

“This was one of our better matches this year,” Ring said. “We served really well, we finished with eight or nine aces and got them in a lot of trouble. I was really proud of the performance.”

On Saturday, UCSD played No. 4 volleyball powerhouse Stanford University in the final match See M. VOLLEYBALL, page 11

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SOFTBALL

TRACK & FIELD

Triton Offense Struggles Against SFSU UCSD Posts Season Bests UCSD faces tough pitching on the road in disappointing four-game series split at Arizona and Claremont BY brandon yu

Thirteen Tritons go to Arizona for Sun Angel Classic, remaining athletes compete in Pomona-Pitzer Invite

sports editor Entering the weekend as the No. 15 squad in the nation, the UCSD women’s softball team went a disappointing 2–2 this past Friday and Saturday in its California Collegiate Athletic Association series against conference bottom-dwellers San Francisco State at SFSU Softball Field. After the fourgame split, the Tritons dropped to a tie with Cal State Monterey Bay for first in CCAA standings with a 19–5 record in league action.

“It was a very disappointing weekend,” UCSD head coach Patti Gerckens said. “We definitely had planned and hoped to sweep San Francisco, but you give them credit: They played very, very well.”

In the first matchup of the series, the Tritons fell 1–0 as the Gators served UCSD its first shutout of the season.

The Tritons faced ace pitching as SFSU’s Megan Clark threw a complete game shutout and held UCSD to only a pair of hits in total. Sophomore outfielder Callie Grant recorded the Tritons’ two hits but was stranded in scoring position in both instances.

“It’s a lot of frustration, mostly, when bats can’t be put together and when hits can’t be strung together,” Grant told the Guardian.

Coming off of a 5–0 record in last week’s Tournament of Champions, sophomore left-handed pitcher Alexis Edwards (17–4) took the loss despite only allowing three hits and one earned run through six frames.

Edwards surrendered the game’s lone run off of a single followed by a two-out double in the third inning.

“The offense just didn’t perform as well as we wanted it to and as well as it usually does,” Edwards said. “It’s hard

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to get the loss, but we won the next game, so it made up for it.”

After the hard-luck loss, the Tritons rebounded with a 3–1 victory in the second contest of the Friday doubleheader with SFSU. Senior outfielder Kirsten Willmon opened the scoring in the top of the second inning with a single run batted in, but the Gators responded with a run of their own in the bottom half, erasing the Tritons’ 1–0 advantage.

With the game tied at one each, UCSD turned in two runs off of a bases-loaded sixth inning. A Gator error drove in the first run before sophomore outfielder Alissa Gutierrez

recorded a sacrifice-fly RBI to put the Tritons up 3–1.

The pair of runs in the sixth inning counted as enough to give senior righthanded pitcher Jennifer Manuel (6–4) a complete game win. Manuel allowed six hits and one earned run in her first complete game of the season. Senior first-baseman Caitlin Brown was the only Triton to finish with a multi-hit performance with two hits.

On Saturday, UCSD opened the second half of the series with a 8–2 routing of the Gators. The Tritons opened the game with a three-run first inning off of three hits and one Gator See SOFTBALL, page 11

BY clay kaufman

staff writer After an outstanding performance at the Cal-Nevada Regional Championship a week earlier, the No. 21 UCSD’s men and women’s track and field squads split up this past weekend and turned in solid results at two separate meets. The 13 athletes with NCAA-provisional qualifying times made the long trip to Arizona for the Sun Angel Track Classic, while the remaining athletes traveled to Los Angeles to take part in the PomonaPitzer Invitational.

In Arizona, the Tritons performed

well against the top tier of the nation’s track and field athletes, including several participating Olympians.

All-American junior sprints Sabrina Pimentel broke the school record in the women’s 800-meter run with her time of 2 minutes, 9.07 seconds.

Pimentel’s time was good enough for a fifth-place finish, but it was just .07 seconds too slow to guarantee a spot at the NCAA Championships.

San Diego native junior distance Carlos Bojorquez took first place in the men’s 800-meter run.

Bojorquez’s time of 1:51.10 barely edged out fellow San Diego native See TRACK & FIELD, page 11