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Gaining (Remote) Control Major Changes for Comm. Students The department lowers its major requirements from 15 classes to 13 and eases prerequisites for elective courses. By Zev HurwITz Associate News Editor

BY REN EBEL | HIATUS EDITOR — Drones are on the mind this month at Calit2. As user-friendly robotics and teleoperated technology have become staples of modern warfronts, films, hospitals and households, the domestication of what was once science fiction is now a point of debate among contemporary artists, engineers and researchers. See DRONES Page 6 Science and technology

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Researchers Make Breakthrough Council Adjusts in Treating Lou Gehrig’s Disease Committee System By Ayan Kusari Staff Writer

Senators pass new fourcommittee system to promote efficiency and accountability within council affairs. By Nicole Chan Associate News Editor A.S. Council will implement a new four-committee system starting Week 7 of Spring Quarter with its newly elected council. The committee system will change from its current structure of finance and campus-wide affairs committees to incorporate a new system composed of rules, finance, See Bylaws, page 3

UCSD scientists announced last week that a metabolism-boosting protein, PCG-1α, may help restore cell function in individuals afflicted by Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Lou Gehrig’s disease, or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a progressive, fatal, adult-onset disease that occurs in roughly 0.0015 percent of the human population, and roughly the same percent of the population in mice — the model organism that was used in the UCSD study. About 5,500 people die from ALS each year. Humans afflicted with ALS generally begin to see symptoms in their late forties and live only three to five years after diagnosis. Most mice begin exhibiting symptoms of ALS at three or four months, and live a few weeks at most. The medication Rilutek is the only extant treatment for ALS aside from pain medication. Rilutek can extend survival times for many late stage ALS

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patients by months. It does not provide any relief from symptoms. A faulty enzyme, copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1) is implicated in both mouse and human ALS. How a faulty copy of SOD1 causes ALS remains unknown, however. The researchers tested the muscle and cardiovascular functioning of the mice to see if there were any significant physiological differences between normal mice that didn’t have ALS and ALS-positive mice that were injected with the gene for PCG-1α. ALS-positive mice of both varieties were also made to run on small treadmills until they fell off and even electrical shocks would not compel them to get back up and keep running. The team used two dyes, hematoxylin and eosin, to determine what fraction muscle cells in a tissue were actively performing mitosis at a given time. ALS-positive mice that had not received any treatment demonstrated slower response times, diminished

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endurance and reduced rate of mitosis, or cell reproduction. ALS-positive mice that had been treated with PCG1α, on the other hand, demonstrated none of these deficiencies. In fact, they performed as well on the fitness tests as normal mice without ALS. However, though they did not exhibit any symptoms of ALS, the mice treated with PCG-1α died just as early as the other ALS-positive mice: there was no significant difference in survival time. Despite this, the researchers said they are optimistic. One of the most heart-wrenching aspects of ALS is the suffering that patients face from diminished muscle function. In their paper, published in the May 2012 issue of Cell Metabolism, the researchers concluded that compounds including PGC-1α “increase muscle function, reduce atrophy and improve daily physical activity, thus resulting in a better quality of life for patients.” Readers can contact Ayan Kusari at akusari@ucsd.edu.

The UCSD communication department unveiled a new curriculum last week that lowers the number of required classes and eases elective restrictions for communication majors. Critical Gender Studies chair Patrick Anderson, along with several communication faculty members, announced the changes, effective Fall 2012, at a town hall on May 2. Students who have already taken communication classes will be able to apply them to the new requirements without needing to make changes retroactively. The communication major is originally 15 classes; the new curriculum lowers the number of required classes to 13 by removing one upperdivision and one lower-division course requirement. Undergraduate communication courses, which had been divided into general (COGN), culture (COCU), social force (COSF), human interaction (COHI) and media methods (COMT), will now run entirely under the four-letter code COMM. Students will now only need to take Introduction to Communication to fulfill lower-division requirements as opposed to the current two. After completing any two introductory upper-division courses, students will be cleared to take electives. Students can take up to three intermediate electives, or courses labeled COMM 101-119, and at least five Advanced Electives, which are listed as COMM 120-189. According to Anderson, the communication curriculum is nearly 30 years old and needs adjustments to reflect changing times. “We’re instituting these changes because the faculty has changed dramatically,” he said. “This curriculum is no longer applicable.” Communication Department Student Services Coordinator Jamie Lloyd said that the new curriculum would also make it easier for students to register for courses.

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Scientists: Alcohol in Moderation Can be Beneficial

Patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease who drink one or two glasses of alcohol a day show lower risks of developing cardiovascular diseases. Moderate drinking also prevents the irreversible liver damage associated with NALFD, according to a national study led by UCSD’s Jeffrey Schwimmer, M.D., Winston Dunn, M.D. and Michael Donohue, Ph.D. NAFLD currently affects 40 million Americans, or approximately one-third of the U.S. population. It is caused by the accumulation of fat

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in liver cells that eventually inflames or scars the liver. Obesity and diabetes increase the risks of being diagnosed with NAFLD. The cross-sectional study, which included 251 lifetime non-drinkers (zero drinks a day) and 331 moderate drinkers (one to two drinks a day), showed that NALFD patients who are non-drinkers are twice as likely as moderate drinkers to develop hepatitis or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, also known as NASH. Moderate drinkers also tended to have less severe liver scarring and were less likely to die from cardiovascular disease than non-drinkers. “The reasons aren’t entirely clear,” Schwimmer said in UCSD News. According to Schwimmer, alcohol can increase “good” cholesterol and improve a patient’s sensitivity to insulin. Since NALFD patients have low levels of “good” cholesterol and are insulin-resistant, Schwimmer thought that alcohol could help

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treat patients. Additionally, alcohol may have anti-inflammatory effects depending on the type of alcohol, Schwimmer said. Schwimmer said that the moderate alcohol treatment may not be beneficial for everyone, and that each patient should be looked at individually. For specific stages of NAFLD, such as cirrhosis (advanced scarring of liver tissue) or NASH (inflammation of the liver), it may not be effective. In UCSD News, Schwimmer said that even small amounts of alcohol can be bad for patients with cirrhosis or NASH. However, he said it “may not be applicable to all forms of liver disease.” “I suspect modest alcohol consumption will be an appropriate recommendation for many [liver] patients, but clearly not all,” Schwimmer said. Since NALFD patients are two times more likely to die from coronary heart disease than from liver

disease — due to the increased cardiovascular risks that come with the disease — the research team is now interested in seeing if the effects of moderate alcohol consumption outweigh the negative effects of alcohol use in other areas. They hope to reach a consensus on how alcohol consumption can be coordinated for NALFD treatment. Readers can contact Emily Pham at e4pham@ucsd.edu.

CorrectionS In the May 7 issue, writer Javier Armstrong’s email address was incorrectly listed. His email is jtarmstr@ucsd.edu.

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Council Marks Final Meeting; Honors President Alyssa Wing

he A.S. council kept their nose to the grindstone for the last council meeting of their

terms. Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Penny Rue congratulated the Council on their hard work and informed them that the Regents will approve Daniel Song new Chancellor d9song@ucsd.edu Pradeep Khosla next week. Rue also recapped events that transpired over the academic year and the actions that university officials have taken in following up, including the phase out of the Transfer Agreement Guarantee program, the end of the DOJ investigation, revisions to the Student Conduct Code and the UCOP tax. “It’s been good to work with you, it was particularly fun to end with you on a good note on Sunday, for those of you who were at the lipdub,” Rue said. Associate Vice President of Enterprise Operations Brian McEuen presented the Vice-Chancellor with a Sun God Fluffy on behalf of the A.S. Council. The Student Workers Collective called the council’s attention to the struggles of campus workers who are understaffed. Presenters from the collective claim that the excessive workload is causing emotional and physical harm to workers. The council immediately reordered business to call a vote on a Resolution in Support of Service Workers and Environmental Services Professionals at UCSD, which passed unanimously. Congratulations to presentation wizard and Councilmember

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of the week Sammy Chang and Councilmember of the year A.S. President Alyssa Wing. Olamide Noah and the External Office gave a presentation entitled “UCSA end of the year progress report” reporting on the great progress that UCSD has had with UCSA in support of the dream act, revamping voter registration at UC campuses, and the Fund the UC campaign, among other efforts. After some discussion, council passed a resolution against the UCOP tax unanimously with one senator abstaining. “The end of the day, this is what we’re here to do is to protect that money and to protect our students” Associate Vice President of College Affairs Leonard Bobitt said. AVP of Enterprise Brian McEuen pointed out to council that if the funds aren’t taken from campus based fees, they would be taken from some other part of the VCSA’s budget. “Money has to come from somewhere, services are going to be cut whether its from campus based fees or other services from VCSA’s office,” McEuen said. At the end of their meeting, the council had some fun with resolutions honoring the members of council that are either graduating or will not be returning. The resolutions declared them lifelong members of ASUCSD. “How do you spell Archuleta?” Council Speaker Courtney Hill asked while amending Michael Jordan to David Archuleta on the list of sponsors for the resolution honoring A.S. President Alyssa Wing.

Communication Dept. to Offer More Seminars in 2012-13 ▶ comm, from page 1

“Students were having a bottleneck because a large group of transfer students were coming in who were competing with freshman for classes,” Lloyd said. “The way that prerequisites were set up made it difficult for students to get classes.” Lloyd also speculated that budget cuts might have had an effect on the reduction of the number of required courses. “This might be a way for the university to generate more revenue, you get the students through faster and you get more revenue because more students come through,” Lloyd said. Associate Vice Chancellor of Undergraduate Education Barbara

Sawrey said that the Academic Affairs Office had asked departments in 2010 to reevaluat e their requirements, but that no change was necessary. “The university requires each major to require 48 upper-division units to complete a major,” Sawrey said. “We asked [departments] to relook at their requirements and communication was one department that came forward and lowered them.” Changes have also affected the administrative side of the department. Around a year ago, the Communication Department became linked with the Cognitive Science Department, mainly for financial purposes. Lloyd said that

any connection between the two departments would have no effect on the academic side of the department. “[Combining administrative and financial managers] will not have any effect on students,” she said. Any previous elective work in the major will be counted toward a student’s Advanced Elective requirement. Communication majors must now complete the seminar requirement during their junior year. “The department will offer more sections of the seminar [in 2012-13] to accommodate the two classes who will need to take it,” Anderson said. Readers can contact Zev Hurwitz at zhurwitz@ucsd.edu.

Several New Committees Created to Delegate Responsiblities composed of the Finance and Campus Affairs committees. According to legislative and campus outreach com- Bradbury, councilmembers are divided between the two committees through mittees. an informal process. “Each [committee Each committee curwill be] smaller in size rently holds around and tailored toward a 20 councilmemcertain project and cerbers and meets on tain end,” Senate Vice Wednesday afterChair Matt Bradbury Right now people said. don’t see committees noons. Under the new According to four-committee Bradbury, the change is as having much structure, an ad hoc intended to maximize importance. We want committee will be the efficiency of the committees by increas- the committees to have created during Weeks 7 and 8 to assign ing specialization and an integral role.” councilmembers to accountability. each committee. Each “Each committee Matt Bradbury committee will have [currently] has too many Senate Vice Chair nine to ten councilpeople,” Bradbury said. Associated Students members. According “Because of that, there’s a to Bradbury, the lack of responsibility and “committee on comaccountability on each mittees” will be comcommittee — only four or five people will know what to do posed of the four newly elected executives: the A.S. president, vice president with each bill and debate.” The current committee system is of finance and resources, vice president ▶ bylaws, from page 1

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of external affairs, vice president of student organizations and the senate chair. Bradbury said he proposed the four-committee system idea earlier this year and spoke with A.S. President Alyssa Wing about progressing the restructure. “Right now people don’t see committees as having much importance,” Bradbury said. “We want the committees to have an integral role.” In addition to this restructuring, A.S. Council passed changes at its May 2 meeting to the process of appointing associate vice presidents. According to Wing, each executive officer chairs the committee for the search for their respective AVPs. The executives create their committees by getting volunteers from council and randomizing the selection. The executives must now do this process with the A.S. Clerk in order to ensure neutrality and accountability, Wing said in an email. Readers can contact Nicole Chan at n3chan@ucsd.edu.

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OPINION Taking Initiative A new UC system-wide tax created by the UC Board of Regents will increase transparency, but student fees should not be a source of its funding.

he UC Board of Regents passed a tax in July 2011 that may use student fees to fund the business affairs of the UC Office of the President. The tax, called the Funding Streams Initiative, has already been drawing from student funds at UC Riverside and UC Santa Barbara, but will not go into effect at UCSD until Fall 2012. The initiative aims to increase UCOP’s financial transparency, and while the tax was inevitable, student fees are for the students and should not be used to fund central university operations. Previously, each university’s revenue was funneled to UCOP, which then took a 6-percent slice and redistributed funds back to each campus. Under the old system, student fees were not included in this revenue. UCOP will now be seeking the same funding through an acrossthe-board 1.69-percent flat tax. Each UC campus will be allowed to keep their revenues (with the exception of undergraduate financial aid) and instead pay the flat tax directly to

UCOP. The purpose of the initiative is to “simplify university financial activity, improve transparency and incentivize campuses to maximize revenue,” according to a September 2011 letter by UC President Mark G. Yudof detailing the approval of the Funding Streams Initiative. While the tax has the right goal in mind, it should not be drawn from student fees. Most student-initiated campus fees are meant to service the students, with initiatives such as building RIMAC, providing athletic scholarships and expanding Price Center to create Price Center East. When students place a referendum on a ballot, they aim to collect a predetermined amount of funding for a specific purpose. Students directly pay for the student-initiated referendums, and the taxation of such referendums is a perversion of their stated purposes. Students should reap the benefits of the measures they vote and agree to pay for, and not have to deal with hidden fees to support projects they are unaware of. The A.S. Councils of UC Riverside and UC Merced released a November 2011 joint resolution of solidarity criticizing the inclusion of student-initiated fees in the Funding Streams Initiative. Jonathan Ly, ASUCM External Vice President and Keith Ellis, University of California Students Association Secretary,

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argued that “UC students should have the right to the funds gathered through the referendum to solely be used for its stated purpose.” However, the resolution to exempt campus-based fees from the UCOP tax was vetoed by the ASUCM President Miguel A. Lopez later that month. UC Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland agrees that students should have the ability to choose and not be forced to tax themselves. To this purpose, UC Berkeley has abstained from taking from student fees. UCSD should do so as well. As a result of this new tax measure, the UC Davis A.S. Council will have to cut an estimated $250,000 from its 2012-13 budget. The 42 percent budget cut may cause increased prices in the popular ASUCD Coffee House, Bike Barn and Educational Opportunity Program, or changes in the campus shuttle

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor, Nikolai Smith made many claims against presidential candidate Ron Paul in the May 3 issue of the Guardian. First, no sources were provided. Second, there are many examples that contradict some of the claims. Third, many of the claims have never been made before and are probably made up (the first 6 are lies). If you research Ron Paul and read our national constitution, you will find some of the claims to be false and others are true and constitutionally compliant. Yes, our constitution is still the supreme law. About 85 percent of the federal government is unconstitutional.

—Randy Hartman SDSU School of Medicine, Class of 2015

Winne’s Political Protest Should be Remembered Dear Editor, Today, May 10, marks the 42nd anniversary of George Winne’s selfimmolation to protest the American war in Southeast Asia. Winne, a UCSD undergraduate who was due to begin his graduate studies in the Department of History in Fall, was inspired by Buddhist monks who set themselves on fire to protest corrupt government practices in South Vietnam. The sign next to his body read: “In God’s name, stop this war.”

No plaque or memorial marks the site at Revelle Plaza where Winne took his life. The location of an unofficial memorial is across campus, tucked away in the woods near the Snake Path and in the western shadow of Fallen Star. Unlike these Stuart Collection art pieces, the Winne memorial is not marked on official campus maps. In a similar sense, Winne’s story is not marked in the official history of UCSD. It has been erased by slick videos and brochures that promote a fantasy image of the campus and a de-politicized version of its history. Although Winne was not affiliated with student antiwar activists on campus, he is part of an activist history that goes unaccounted for in official histories of UCSD. Winne’s act of protest came a month after the U.S. invasion of Cambodia

efore joining the working world all of six weeks ago, I teased my mom for her nightly ritual. With few variables, her 6 o’clock routine goes something like this: change into sweatpants and slippers; pop open diet Mountain Dew; after dinner, take unabashed pleasure in “Glee.” On Wednesdays and Fridays, she subs “sweatpants” and “Mountain Dew” for “pajamas” and “wine coolers.” (Sorry, ma — promise there’s a point.)

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A Post-Grad Story: Not All Who Wander Are Losers

in 1970 and a week after the Ohio National Guard shot and killed four students at Kent State University. For many young people, these two moments highlighted the underlying contradictions of U.S. institutions. Given the location of UCSD in the affluent city of La Jolla and in a major military city and border town, these contradictions were all the more stark. Winne was not an aberration — his act is tied to the larger frustrations and hopes of the period. At the time of his death, Chicano students, black students and working class white students were in the midst of a struggle to find Lumumba-Zapata College (eventually Third College and now Thurgood Marshall). These students, Winne and countless others See Letters, page 5

I never questioned that my mom worked hard. But it seemed somehow implausible to me that working an eight-hour day in the office — one, I imagined, populated with all the customs I’d learned from “Ally McBeal” power lunches and client meetings and, I don’t know, “workflow”? — was really so grueling. The routine, I figured, was due to my mother’s natural propensities for comfort and flair: nothing says “business casual, my ass” quite like a pair of adult-sized Elmo slippers. And so I poked fun at the pajamas. I shook my head at the empty soda cans. And now, there is one very sore, slipper-cloaked foot in my mouth. A 40-hour work week can be rewarding, yes, but it’s also consuming. If at the end of the day all I want is a pair of basketball shorts, a nice IPA, and a two-hour block of “Keeping Up With Kardashians,” then no, I will not be “sorry,” thank you. After a day’s work, I want a goddamn foot rub, too. That said, not everyone graduates to a full-time job, or a passable excuse for so much bad reality TV. Everybody makes wandering out to be the most contemptible thing in the world. But if you have the luxury, is it really so awful to able around for a while? Is there something fundamentally wrong with biding time behind the counter at your hometown Starbucks? When I imagine the norms for twentysomethings not so long ago — for my mom’s generation, committing to an unwavering career path; and for my grandmother’s, wielding two babies on one arm and a cigarette on the other — working another unpaid internship doesn’t sound so daunting. I’m not saying the current conditions are ideal. Most of us are graduating with mounting debt, and job prospects are notoriously bleak for — ding ding ding! — recent grads in the humanities. But it’s also useless to complain. There’s value in taking a little time to re-evaluate before sinking further into debt for grad school, or committing to a path you haven’t had time to question. There’s value in testing options rather than considering them only in the hypothetical. In what might have been shocking news to the same 12-year-old that judged his mom’s nightwear, watching Sex and the City and Ally McBeal doesn’t actually count as exposure to freelance writing or law. And while I can’t say I know the true mark of adulthood after this past month, something tells me it might involve sore feet and a Bartles and Jaymes.

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in other news By Rebekah Hwang

▶ Letters, from page 4 held on to utopian dreams of a society where freedom was not premised upon inequality at home and war abroad. Forty-two years later, we are located on a much different map than the one those students imagined. We live in a nation locked in its longest war, a state that spends more money on prisons than schools, along a militarized and lethal border with our southern neighbor and in a privatized university that conducts research for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. Now, more than ever, it is important to remember the Lumumba-Zapata activists, George Winne and all those students who imagined a different future for UCSD and the world. Join us this at Revelle Plaza this Thursday, May 10, at 4 p.m. to pay tribute to George Winne, Jr. —Niall Twohig Literature Ph. D Candidate —Jorge Mariscal Professor, Department of Literature

Tax Change Will Make Funding More Transparent ▶ tax, from page 4 Unitrans and number of student jobs. In addition, UCSB Student Affairs currently owes UCOP $700,000, leading it to solicit its student council to contribute anywhere from $99,000 to $180,000 to fund UCOP by May 30. Consequently, the student council has frozen student org funds for an indefinite amount of time. It is clear that drawing from student fees has caused financial strain on the student councils of these UC campuses, and will undoubtedly affect UCSD’s A.S. Council in a similar fashion. A July 2011 report issued by the California state auditor found that while UCOP was not guilty of excessive spending, it failed to be specific in accounting for its expenditures. The state auditor found that UCOP only uses a single

accounting code, “miscellaneous services,” to label over $6 billion of its expenditures for the five years that the audit covered. This means that roughly 25 percent of the university system’s annual public non-compensation expenses are basically unaccounted for. The report also found a significant discrepancy in the amount of funds distributed to each campus. To cite one example, in 2009-10 UCSB was allotted $12,309 per student, while UC Berkeley and UCSF received $17,010 and $55,186, respectively. UC Merced, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz were also found to have received less funding than they would have if each campus received the same amount per student. While differences in funding among the campuses may exist

because UCOP does not distribute all funding to campuses on a perstudent basis, the new funding streams model will allow the university to identify and justify the reasons for any differences. Each UC campus does not have the same revenue sources, so the impact of the tax will be different for each campus. Some UCs have medical centers while others have more professional schools — these sources, many of which are fully privatized, should be taxed first. The tax is a win for transparency, and it is a plus that campuses will be given autonomy in retaining campusgenerated revenue and choosing how to allocate their funds. However, the bottom line is that the tax should not touch student fees. Student fees are for the students.

Education Should be Prioritized in Asia Dear Editor, Police in Gyeongggi Province have booked two Chinese brokers and 18 students for faking documents to enter Korean universities and are widening their investigation to find more such cases. The Chinese students, none of whom are qualified to attend university in Korea, paid 7 million won ($6,192) to 18 million won to each broker for a fake high school diploma and school reports, according to the police. The police informed the universities and local immigration offices of their violations. A broker surnamed Gang received 7 million won from a Chinese surnamed Jang and helped her get admission to a language program at a university in Cheonan. The police

are now extending their investigation to detect further illegal admissions in colleges and graduate schools. A total of 89,537 international students attended Korean universities in 2010 with most from China, with 57,783, followed by Japan, with 3,876 and Mongolia with 3,333. The number of foreign students is expected to hit an all-time high of 100,000 in 2012, according to the ministry. I myself taught foreigners (other than the South Koreans themselves) as part of my duties as an English instructor at Mokpo National University. I was amazed that the number of foreign brides marrying Korean (mostly farmers) is now over 210,000. One privilege that is extended at that university to Chinese nationals, while not in the admissions process, is extra English help at no charge. Meanwhile, the University of California is reporting a big jump in the percentage of out-ofstate and international students who have been admitted for undergraduate studies. University officials said in late April that they’ve admitted a record 80,289 freshmen at one of the public system’s nine undergraduate campuses to start next fall. UCSD admitted the largest number. Sung Kim, the U.S. ambassador to Seoul, and Lucy Koh, a federal judge in the United States, are both from immigrant families. The erstwhile leader of Dartmouth College Jim Yong Kim, Ph.D. and M.D., was recently confirmed as World Bank President. —Richard Thompson Alumnus ‘83 ▶ The Guardian welcomes letters from its readers.

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Art and tech clash in ‘Drones at Home.’

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his weekend, phase 2 of Calit2’s “Drones at Home” project will provide open forum for this discussion, with a series of screenings, panel dialogues and art performances over the course of Friday and Saturday. FRIDAY The conference will begin with a panel discussion entitled “Robotics, Biointerface, Agency” moderated by Sheldon Brown — the director of UCSD’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and creator of the acclaimed immersive digital suburban environment “Scalable City.”

In the afternoon, “Drones at Home” will operate as an open venue for demonstrations, roundtables and brainstorming sessions with the conference’s host of esteemed authors, scientists, software developers and UC professors. A wine bar will be open from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Day 1 highlight “Unmanned” is a performance piece by artist, author, theorist and UCSD professor Jordan Crandall. With a series of character monologues, Crandall creates a “philosophical theatre” to examine the position of masculinity in a military increasingly dependent on autoSee Drones, page 9

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Performance and Film Screening at Calit2’s ‘Drones at Home’ Symposium ▶ Drones, from page 6 mated technology. In the American Southwest, a military drone crash lands in the backyard of a suburban home. The crash initiates a chain of reaction among the narrative’s seven characters (all played by Crandall), including the agency detective who investigates the incident and a trucker/cowboy who searches for similar crashes along the border. In addition to the stage action, Crandall will be supplemented by video and sound, creating a performance that is both intimate and dramatic.

Guest Moderator Jordan Crandall SATURDAY On Saturday, “Drones at Home” will facilitate two panel discussions: “Drone Subjectivities, Mediations and Perspectives,” moderated by Crandall, and “Drone Economies,” moderated by UCSD’s own Ricardo Dominguez. The conference will culminate in a screening of writer/director Alex

Another Day, Another Cop Drama

ince mainstream television has always been crowded by a plethora of police shows, it’s a bit hard to take the tired police procedural genre and turn it into something fresh. It’s utterly astounding

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how many more police shows are churned out every new season and how most of them flop regardless of the actual quality of the show. Maria Bello’s critically lauded portrayal of her gritty, unconventional police detective character in “Prime Suspect,” wasn’t enough to keep the show afloat for more than a season. Even king of the genre, “SouthLAnd”, one of the most unique and realistic cop shows in the history of television, got cancelled by NBC before the second season was even aired. Thankfully, TNT saw what it was worth and picked up the show almost immediately. But why all these television networks keep insisting on creating new, lackluster cop shows in such high volume is beyond me. Perhaps it has something to do with the numerous amounts of interesting “real life” scenarios that the world of law enforcement brings. Or perhaps it’s that these shows appeal to such a wide variety of audiences that television networks just can’t resist. There’s no intrinsic problem with that per se, since you can’t fault producers for wanting to make some extra cash, but, really, if they’re going to do it, the least they could do is try to pretend to care. So, naturally, when I first heard See Telly, page 10

Rivera’s “Sleep Dealer,” winner of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival’s Waldo Screenwriting Award and Alfred P. Sloan Prize. In the vein of “Brazil” and “Blade Runner,” “Sleep Dealer” is a take on the familiar sci-fi summer blockbuster from an entirely new perspective. In the near future, Memo Cruz (Luis Fernando Peña) traverses a dystopian

Mexico, as a conflict broils between the military and local “aqua-terrorists.” After a remotely piloted drone attacks his home and kills his father, Memo travels to Tijuana (“City of the Future”) in search of work at a virtual reality labor factory where workers plug in — à la “The Matrix” — and outsource their work across the border. But as any tech-savvy filmgoer

might’ve guessed, the factory is much more sinister, and its implications much more destructive, than what Memo had imagined. The film was praised by the Los Angeles Times and Wired for it’s sharp script and glimpse of a frighteningly plausible future. A.O. Scott of the New York Times called it, “Exuberantly entertaining — a dysto-

pian fable of globalization disguised as a science-fiction adventure.” The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Rivera, and a closing dinner reception. The conference will take place in the Calit2 Auditorium in UCSD’s Atkinson Hall, Friday and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. The event is free for UCSD students.

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Bummer Summer

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or all the riot grrrl movement accomplished, indie-rock is still mostly a boys club. There may be a seemingly never-ending supply of talented female artists and female-fronted bands — Grimes, Feist, St. Vincent and Tune-Yards, to name a few — but they’re often just

seen as novelties, constantly being heralded as “woman who rock!” and thrown on objectifying lists like “The Hottest Women Of Indie-Rock.” Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast understands this. A major part of the appeal of Best Coast’s debut Crazy For You was its tongue-in-cheek twist on the girl group tradition — combining adolescent, Shangri-Las-like lyrics with a Blink-182 attitude — all while hitting the right balance of sincerity and self-awareness. And though detractors pointed out how much the lyrics were maledependent, there’s a confidence to Cosentino’s belt that makes her anything but a helpless cat lady. Most of that hasn’t changed on

Best Coast’s sophomore effort The Only Place. On tracks like “Why I Cry,” the band matches confessional lyrics that detail the inexplicable whims of depression with a more mid-tempo version of the sunshiney garage rock that made Crazy For You so popular. Meanwhile, opener “The Only Place” is a refreshing start, with the singer crooning about California in lyrics strongly evocative of the lives of this generation’s Golden State kids (“We were born with the sun in our teeth and in our hair / We like to sit around, sit around and stare”). But after that, it’s clear that Cosentino has taken a turn for the serious. Opting for slower, countrytinged arrangements this time

around (with the help of producer Jon Brion), she’s ditched the weed references for the most vulnerable pages of her diary, almost like an indie-rock version of Taylor Swift. The basic Best Coast formula is still there: an indie-rock twist on an old-school, female-driven genre — only this time Cosentino has opted to embrace Loretta Lyn over Ronnie Spector, allowing herself to revel more in the pathos she once covered up with jokes about her cat. It’s a commendable effort, though ultimately, not entirely compelling either. — Arielle Sallai Managing Editor

So Fresh and So Clean

Stepping from the Haze

CFCF deliver short, sweet electronic jams.

Beach House boost confidence and naturalism on their anticipated fourth LP.

8 10 CFCF Exercises EP Paper Bag

FCF’s first album, 2009’s Continent, was essentially a distillation of several fashionable musical trends occurring around that time. Michael Silver, the Quebecois producer behind CFCF, combined Nordic space disco, lovelorn house music and the ethereal drift of ‘70’s German kosmische to stunning effect, surprisingly finding room amidst all those perfectly rendered influences for a voice of his own. The Exercises EP sees Silver delving further into his own creative territory, proving to be the most intriguing record CFCF has released thus far. Upon hearing Exercises, one (somewhat surprising) name immediately comes to mind: Philip Glass. Across the EP’s eight tracks, Silver engages in the kind of gently poly-

rhythmic melodic layering technique originally pioneered by Glass and his minimalist contemporaries. This influence proves most fruitful on “Exercise 5 (September),” the album’s sole vocal track, and likely the best song CFCF has recorded. In part based on a 1980’s composition by David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto, “September” combines a plaintive, repeating piano melody with washes of sparkling synthesizer and clean, spacious percussion. Other highlights include the dramatic, soundtrack-ready piano explorations of “Exercise 6 (December)” and “Exercise 8 (Change),” which finds startling middle-ground between the unpretentious prettiness of The Postal Service and the contemplative atmospherics of turn-of-the-millenium deep house. The most refreshing aspect of Exercises is its concision: the EP never outstays its welcome, making its point in a breezy twenty-six minutes. This sense of restraint is admirable, and results in a set of tracks that demands frequent re-listening. — Andrew Whitworth Associate Hiatus Editor

8 10 Beach House Bloom Sub pop

fter two years of waiting, Beach House’s Bloom has arrived to announce the verdict. Where 2009’s Teen Dream was a noticeable redefinition of the group’s style — the production a little less hazy, the songwriting a little more focused — Bloom acts as yet another graceful refinement of the beloved dream poppers’ brand of spacious soft rock. But this is not to say that the band hasn’t attempted to break new aesthetic ground. First and foremost, Bloom sounds more confident — a mark that can perhaps be attributed to the band’s more comprehensive live performance palette.

At times, the duo swaps their rusty old drum machine for organic drum fills (as on the soaring “Wishes” and “Wild”) and reach for more ambitious, chorus–laden guitar on the record’s epic shoegazey closer “Irene”. They even throw in some sly and synthy alt basslines on “The Hours.” The band has adamantly advised listeners against overindulging in their “vibes” at the expense of their attempt to develop as songwriters, yet this is admittedly difficult considering the immediacy of their wistfully catchy guitar-keyboard dynamic. Although their writing may be turning towards a more apparent sense of directness, it still takes a backseat to Bloom’s ideal role as a compliment to your summer’s breezy sunny afternoon mix-tape collection. — Taylor Hogshead Staff Writer

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‘NYC 22’ Will Be Lost in Cop Show Shuffle ▶ Telly, from page 9

about CBS’s new police procedural, “NYC 22,” I figured it was going to be a flop. Premiering a few weeks ago on April 15 as a midseason replacement for “CSI Miami,” the show follows a group of ethnically diverse rookies adjusting to their new NYPD jobs patrolling the upper Manhattan district. The worst part of all of this is that “Rookie Blue,” a much more developed show about to start its third season, has exactly the same premise, save for the fact that it takes place in Canada. “NYC 22” is reaching its fifth episode this Sunday and things are not looking good. The entire show falls into a trap of mediocrity and predictability, complete with overdone and cliched plots like: “Oh the person who obviously committed

the crime is now confessing to it because you tricked him into doing so.” What genius! Or, “Oh my higher ups are disrespectful and don’t follow the rules so I’m going to get upset because that’s just not fair.” Honestly, the best thing for this show now would be to just fire all of the writers. The acting isn’t bad, but the writers seem to only know how to recycle bland, generic stereotypes, leaving the cast very little to work with. There’s nothing genuine about this show and Robert De Niro’s production credit, combined with the star power of now-grown up child star Leelee Sobieski, do little to redeem it. At least with “Rookie Blue” there’s a “Grey’s Anatomy”-esque soap drama between all of the rookies so you can trick yourself into car-

ing about them. In “NYC 22” there’s no aspect of any character that is dynamic, with the exception of the irritatingly infantile, angry facial expressions of Judy Marte as rookie cop Tanya Sanchez. Even the show’s strategic placement behind the very solid legal drama “The Good Wife” doesn’t help bring in the ratings, which, not surprisingly, have been decreasing by more than half a million viewers every week. Save yourself the trouble and don’t stay up for this one. You’ll get more out of re-watching reruns of “SouthLAnd”’s most recent fourth season. The comedic bickering that goes on between Lucy Liu’s sardonic female cop and Michael Cudlitz’s veteran officer, alone, contains more depth and authenticity than everything in “NYC 22.”

Garbage Not Your Kind Of People Stunvolumn

t’s no longer the 90s, and Garbage has updated their sound accordingly. Lead singer Shirley Manson has been repping the outcasts and misfits of society since the band’s mega-hit “I’m Only Happy When It Rains” became the glorious anthem for angsty goths everywhere. But after a seven year hiatus, Garbage’s fifth studio album

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Clean Garbage Not Your Kind Of People tries to stay true to their original attitude, but with an updated and glossy techno pop sound, resulting in glaring contradiction. The title track “Not Your Kind Of People” is a down-tempo, relatively quiet number, whose lyrics “We are not your kind of people / you seem kind of phony / everything’s a lie” hit listeners over the head with how ‘alternative’ Garbage still is, but, in doing so, seem to constantly emphasize the band’s fall from youthful relevance. Opener “Automatic Systematic”, kicks off with an uncharacteristically catchy techno beat — a sighinducing surrender to mainstream pop aesthetics — spinning into a repetitive pop chorus that finds

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Manson chanting “I don’t want to be your dirty little secret”, borrowing lyrics from, of all places, sugarsweet rockers the All American Rejects. It’s a bit unnerving, not to mention sad, to hear such a sexually confident and respected female rock star sing like a tween-pop princess. “Control” is the only song off the album that seems to hone close to the band’s grungy and earnest alt sound, with louder guitar riffs, grittier vocals and a headbanger chorus. But the effort is ultimately too little too late in an album which leaves us wanting less glitzy pop rehash and more Garbage. — Amanda Martinek Senior Staff Writer

Since the decisive Cryptograms in 2007, Lockett Pundt has served Deerhunter as the melancholy, guitar-wizard shadow of the unhinged and god-like Bradford Cox. But, in addition to delivering some of the most pure and gorgeous vocals and instrumentation on subsequent Deerhunter albums, Pundt has synthesized his own subtle dream-pop sound under the Lotus Plaza alias over the course of two excellent LPs. Wymond Miles and Mirror Mode are set to open. (RE)

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Come check out the short films that launched the careers of some of modern cinema’s most respected names at the 5th Annual Press Rewind Film Fest. The program includes early shorts by Wes Anderson (“Rushmore,” “The Royal Tenenbaums”), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (“Delicatessen,” “Amelie”), Shane Acker (“9”) and Peter Sollett (“Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist”). Shot with ambition and a shoe-string budget, these films are a testament to the power of raw and inspired filmmaking at its best. (RE)

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UCSD to Host CCAA Tournament First-Seeded Tritons in Hunt for Fourth Straight Title By Rachel Uda Sports Editor BASEBALL — The UCSD baseball team looks to defend the CCAA title this weekend, May 10 to May 12 on its home field. The Tritons have won the past three conference titles, and will go into the 2012 tournament with the first-seed. Their first match-up will be against fourth-seed Sonoma State this Thursday, May 12 at 7 p.m. The match will follow the game pitting

35–5 and in 2011 UCSD went 29–11. The nationally unranked Tritons may not have met the high water mark set in the past few years, but the UCSD roster is still stacked with talent. It was announced yesterday, May 9, that eight Tritons collected AllCCAA honors. Junior Danny Susdorf, sophomore Garrett Tuck, junior pitcher Ryan Goodbrand and senior pitcher Tony York were all named to the CCAA first team. Senior Gregg Ringold was named to the CCAA second team, while junior Spencer

Richard Siegel, sophomore shortstop Garrett Tuck and sophomore utility Nick La Face. The four have proved very effective in the box for the Tritons. The Triton rotation also seems to have hit their stride going into the tournament. Junior starter Ryan Goodbrand (7–0) has notched 44 strikeouts, and allowed only 23 runs in his 65.2 innings pitched. Senior Tony York leads the bullpen with the lowest ERA (1.27). He has appeared in the most games out of any Triton pitcher behind fellow closer

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second-seed Chico State against thirdseed No. 3 CSU San Bernardino, to be played at 3 p.m. Going into the CCAA tournament, UCSD may have the home field advantage, but unlike years past, the Tritons had to settle for sharing the CCAA title. In 2009 — only the second time UCSD captured a conference title — the Tritons went 27–9 in conference to win the regular season title as well as the tournament title. The following year, UCSD improved its record to

Sophomore Shortstop Garrett Tuck

Frazier, sophomore Justin Rahn and junior Richard Siegel all garnered honorable mention. In his first year as head coach, Eric Newman was named the CCAA Coach of the Year. Junior centerfielder Susdorf — a transfer from Division-I University of San Diego — leads the team in slugging percentage (.560) and currently holds the program record for career triples (14). Susdorf bats in the lead-off spot, followed by junior first baseman

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Elias Tuma. On Thursday, the Tritons will face CCAA pitcher of the week, Sonoma ace Thomas Lee. Last week Lee went the distance against CSU Monterey Bay, pitching the first shutout of his career. The last time the two squads met was back in the beginning of April, when the Tritons swept the Seawolves in four games. Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ucsd.edu

Club Baseball Heads to Nationals By Rachel Uda Sports Editor CLUB BASEBALL — Last weekend, May 4 to May 6, the UCSD Club Baseball team took first place in the Southern Pacific Regional Tournament, clinching one of eight spots at the NCBA Division I World Series, to be held in Columbus, Georgia. The regional tournament was held in Henderson, Nevada and featured UCSD, UC Berkeley, CSU Fullerton and the University of Antelope Valley. After losing game one and facing elimination from the tournament, UCSD battled back to win four straight games in two days, earning the title of Southern Pacific Regional Champions. The team will now be one of eight squads in the country

competing for a national championship at the NCBA World Series May 25 to May 31. During the regular season, the team compiled an overall record of 19–4, while going 10–2 in conference play. The Tritons also claimed the conference title in the Southern Pacific East Conference Championship division, beating opponents from the University of Arizona, Arizona State, University of San Diego and Northern Arizona University. The UCSD Club Baseball team has won two conference championships and a regional championship in its two years of existence, and is currently ranked No. 3 in the NCBA National Top 20 Poll. Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ucsd. edu

Track & Field Medals at CCAAs ▶ TRACK & FIELD from page 12 came into the 10k ranked eighth. Chang battled for second place on only her second 10k race ever. The Triton hurdlers were out in full force in the finals in the 400m hurdles as senior Caitlin Meagher took second, junior Lauren Irish fourth, senior Deyna Roberson fifth and junior transfer Raquel Ornsbey took sixth. Meagher also took second in the 100m hurdles while Ornsbey took seventh. For the jumps, senior Erin Langford managed third place despite having a torn quadricep in her takeoff leg. She also managed seventh in the long jump. Freshman Veronica Bradley took third in the long jump and second in the high jump at 5-foot-4. On the men’s side senior Ka Wai Ng won the triple jump with a new school record of 50’5.5”. Ng was the first Triton to ever breach the 50’ mark. Freshman Keith Rose — the younger brother of Jackie Rose — took fourth in the 200m while also breaking the school record with a time of 21.59s. Rose took fifth in the

100m with a 10.78, just .04 seconds off the current school record in that event. Fellow freshman Jake Herbold took fifth in the 400m hurdles, while senior Jeff Head took third in the long jump with a personal record of 23’4.5”. Going into the final event on the men’s side, the Tritons stood in fifth place. But the Tritons bridged the gap on the backs of their javelin athletes. Brothers senior Nick and freshman Nash Howe, along with senior Kylie Libuit, boosted the men into third place. Nick Howe won the competition for the fourth time in a row, while Nash Howe had a massive personal best of 199’1” to take second place. Libuit placed fifth for a total of 22 points out of the javelin. Nick Howe received Field Athlete of the Year for his 219’10” performance. The UCSD Track & Field team now looks to the Last Chance meet to be held at CSU Los Angeles on May 12 before heading to nationals in Pueblo, Colorado on May 22. Readers can contact Nick Howe at nshowe@ ucsd.edu

Tritons Prepare for Regional Final All West Region First Team Selections

Senior Centerfielder Kris Lesovsky

Sophomore Utility Caitlin Brown

▶ softball from page 12 UCSD also has a lot of momentum coming into the game, winning its bracket in five games by beating thirdseed Dixie State twice last weekend. Named yesterday, May 9, the Tritons come in tow with three All-West Region selections — senior pitcher Camille Gaito, senior centerfielder Kris Lesovsky and sophomore utility Caitilin Brown. In the best of three final, UCSD looks dangerous. The Tritons still have arguably the best pitcher in the CCAA, senior Camille Gaito (27–9). The right-hander pitched five games straight to reach the West Regional

CCAA TOURNAMENT The UCSD Baseball team has won the past three conference tournaments, and will look to defend their record this weekend, May 10-12. The four team double-elimination tournament will feature the top four finishing CCAA squads. 1. 26-14 UCSD 2. 26-14 Chico State 3. 24-16 CSU San Bernardino 4. 23-17 Sonoma State

Senior Pitcher Camille Gaito

final, and has an ERA of 1.21, but the senior has very little in the way of relief. Freshman Michelle Escamilla has logged the second most wins on the Triton roster with a 6–4 record. Conversely, the Toros’ rotation has proven to be just as effective on the mound. Junior Stephanie Jimenez (25–5) has an ERA of 1.58, her relief, Lauren Harper (18–7), has an ERA of 1.59. The winner of the Regional Final will qualify for the 16-team world series, to be held on May 15 to May 19 in Louisville, Kentucky. Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ucsd.edu

GAME 1: No. 2 Chico vs. No. 3 CSUSB Thursday, May 10 3:00 pm GAME 2: No. 1 UCSD vs. No. 4 Sonoma Thursday, May 10 7:00 pm SEMIFINAL MATCHES will be played on Friday, May 11. CHAMPIONSHIP game will be played on Saturday, May 12 at 12:00 pm. (A 6:00 pm game will be played if necessary.)

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SPORTS Women Place Second, Men Third at CCAAs Tritons finish strong behind strong performances in men’s field events, women’s sprints.

By NICK HOWE Associate Sports Editor

ast weekend, May 2 to May 5, the UCSD Track and Field team took part in CCAA conference meet at CSU Los Angeles’ Jesse Owens Stadium. The Triton men took third while the women took second to cap off an exciting regular season. In the first day of competition, Thursday, May 2, senior Nick DeBeaubien took fifth place overall with a score of 6046 in the decathlon.

“I really think I could have done so much better,” DeBeaubien said. “When I cramped up in the hundred on the first day, I just knew it wasn’t gonna be pretty.” On Friday, the men’s field events started strong, as junior Ryan Eckert finished second in the shot put at 15.62m. “It was fun to throw that just wasn’t good enough for nationals,” Eckert said. “On the day though, it was good enough to place well for the team and help with points. It was really just the start of what I need to finish at the [CSU Los Angeles Last Chance Qualifier] meet next

week to get to Nationals.” On the women’s side senior Shana Emile tossed the hammer far enough for second place at 48.84m. Her throw was a personal record. Going into the last day of competition, both the men and women’s squads trailed CSU Los Angeles and Chico State. On Saturday the Tritons came out with all guns firing. Sophomore Aletha Vasilakis and junior Jessica Miklaski started off the day with huge season bests, with throws of 40.06 and 42.35m, respectively. They placed second and

A FAMILY AFFAIR

Senior Jackie Rose Freshman Keith Rose Freshman Nash Howe Senior Nick Howe Siblings Jackie Rose and Keith Rose both posted impressive times in the sprints, while the Howe brothers went 1-2 in the javelin.

fourth to garner twelve points for the Triton women. Senior Jackie Rose led the women in the track events. The senior sprints captain won the 400m with a time of 54.70 but was still disappointed that she could not claim the CCAA record. Rose came back less than five minutes later and ran fast enough for sixth in the 100m, and then again lined up for the 200m. “I’ve only run four 200m races this year so I wasn’t very well prepared for the 200m,” Rose said. “The thing that was on my mind was how last year at Nationals, there was a girl who won the 400m and the 200m even though the events were back to back. I want to be that girl this year, and I put everything out on the line and I won.” Rose’s wins didn’t stop with the 200m as she anchored the winning 4x400m team of junior Deyna Roberson, sophomore Lauren Irish and freshman Sabrina Pimentel. For Rose’s efforts — running and winning more than a mile of sprints events — she was awarded CCAA Track Athlete of the Year. She is the most recent of a string of great UCSD runners to win this award following Sri Lankan Olympian Christine Merrill and professional runner Kelly Fogarty. Pimentel also had a great day, receiving Freshman of the Year honors for her 2:16 800m time while also medaling as part of the 4x400m team. Stemming Chico’s usual dominance in the distances was sophomore Chia Chang who See Track & Field, page 11

TRITONS HEAD TO SUPER REGIONAL AT DOMINGUEZ HILLS

Sixth-seeded Tritons head into West Regional final against first-seeded CSU Dominguez Hills.

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By Rachel Uda Sports Editor SOFTBALL — After taking the CCAA title to claim the sixth-seed in the West Regionals, the No. 24 UCSD Softball team will advance to the Regional Final against firstseed CSU Dominguez Hills this weekend, May 11 to May 12. The Toros tied for the regular season title with CSU Monterey Bay — both teams finished with a 27–7 record in conference. The Tritons have faced the Toros on five occasions this season. UCSD took a 1–0 win against the Toros in its CCAA tourna-

ment opener. UCSD won three of its four games against the Toros back in March in its conference home series. But with the No. 1 seed, the Toros will host the West Region final — and the Toros are undefeated at home. In 2012, CSU Dominguez Hills is currently 27–0 at Toro Stadium. Dominguez Hills went 3–0 in their regional bracket, taking two wins from fourth-seed Grand Canyon University and fifth-seed Sonoma State last weekend, May 5 to May 6. See SOFTBALL, page 11