UCSD Guardian 6/03/19

VOLUME 52, ISSUE 30

MONDAY, JUNE 3, 2019

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POLITICS

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Bill Requiring OnTime UC Employee Payment Passes Senate Senate Bill 698 was drafted following complaints from University of California employees for late and missed payments.

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senior staff writer

Haley Lomax. Harbert explained to the UCSD Guardian that the art piece is intended to serve as a reminder to students of what it means to attend UC San Diego.

“We were motivated to develop this art project because it is important that students, or any staff, faculty, or visitors, are aware that UC San Diego is on Kumeyaay land,” Harbert said. “Many students or potential students do not know

A proposed state bill that would require the University of California to pay employees on time was unanimously passed by the California State Senate on May 23. If ratified by the California State Assembly and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, the UC system would be held to the standard of private sector employers and would need to pay employees no more than five days after the designated payday to avoid legal repercussions.

Senate Bill 698, sponsored

by Senator Connie Levya, was drafted in part to respond to a number of employee complaints against the UC Board of Regents for missing or incorrect paychecks.

UCPath, a new payroll system that aims to bring all campus pay systems into one central process, was first implemented in the summer of 2018 and is still being implemented in waves.

Sarah McBride, the media and communications strategist with the UC Office of the President, told the UCSD Guardian the new system currently serves UC Merced, UC Riverside, UCLA, and UC Santa Barbara.

“Data was difficult to maintain consistently across the system, preventing the university from efficiently utilizing management data,” McBride told the Guardian.

“UCPath enables UC to operate a technologically advanced, unified, and improved platform for payroll processing, human resources, and data access for employees.”

Since the start of UCPath’s rollout, a number of university and student employee complaints have been brought up regarding incorrect, late, or missing paychecks. McBride told the Guardian that the UCOP is aware of the issue and is working to address new problems as they arise.

“No new systemwide upgrade of this magnitude and complexity is without problems, many of which can only be identified and addressed after the system is live and operational,” McBride said.

“During this stabilization period — when issues are most likely to occur — we have proactively planned for additional staff and resources to support the campuses. We continue to apply lessons learned and best practices from previous implementations, and continue to do our best in quickly identifying and resolving problems.”

Thomas Hintze, the legislative outreach coordinator for the UC

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RESEARCH

School of Medicine and Roundup Clash over Study Findings

By Zhuoying Lin COntributing Writer

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esearchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine rebuked the chemical company Bayer’s dispute of a recently published study linking Roundup, a glyphosate-based weed killer made by Bayer, to the development of liver disease in humans. The company initially contended that the findings were hollow and disregarded the possibility that members of the studied group could have metabolic disorders.

In the initial study, the UCSD team examined the urine samples of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or build up of excess fat in the liver that’s not caused by alcohol, and those without it over their year-long study of 93 individuals.

The results showed that glyphosate levels were significantly higher in patients with NAFLD and that this was independent of underlying factors including age, ethnicity, and blood mass index. The team also noticed that the prevalence of NAFLD had increased since Roundup came into significant use beginning in the mid-1990s.

Professor Paul J. Mills, the first author of the paper and leader of the research team, told the UCSD Guardian that 80-90 percent of genetically modified corns and 60 percent of wheat are sprayed with glyphosate across the nation. “[Glyphosate] goes down [into] water and soil … it is taken up by crops, chickens, cows and [goes] into the human body,” Mills said.

According to Mills, liver disease is often related to overconsuming alcohol, yet the increased case of NAFLD over the past decades caught Mills’ attention during a previous talk with his friends who work at hospitals. Mills looked into several animal studies in which animals were fed diets either including or excluding glyphosate.

The results showed that the development of liver disease in animals was associated with the intake of glyphosate, commercially sold as Roundup.

“Animals were fed with [an] ultra low dose, which is lower than human exposure, and they get [liver disease],” Mills told the Guardian. Ultimately, these animal studies, which were cited in Mills’ paper, motivated him to launch a study looking at the effects of human consumption of glyphosate.

Shortly after Mills published his study, the chemical company Bayer rebuked the findings.

“While we are still examining this recently released study, the data indicates that the researchers failed to consider confounding factors including potential existing metabolic disorders in participants,” a spokesperson from Bayer said in a statement to the Times of San Diego Bayer’s counter-argument was based on the possibility that a metabolic disorder may also contribute to NAFLD. To be diagnosed with a metabolic disorder, or a metabolic syndrome, a patient has to have at least three of the five conditions which basically fall under the four categories: obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar.

“I don’t understand their comment,” Mills told the Guardian. “We measured the subcomponents of the metabolic disorder. We did four of the five measures. The only thing we didn’t do is blood pressure.”

The Times of San Diego mentioned in their report that Bayer cited a statement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which claimed that glyphosate posed no health risk if used properly. The company also stated that its pesticides were tested and abided to internationally accepted protocols.

Conversely, a quote on pesticides in general from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website states that: “The FDA is continuously expanding its monitoring capabilities to fulfill its obligation to ensure that pesticide residues on or

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Sculpture to be Unveiled in Muir as Part of New Collection

Adriana Barrios

The new installation, called “When the World Comes to Life,” will celebrate self-identity and sustainability.

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staff Writer Kumeyaay artist Johnny Bear Contreras’ sculpture “When the World Comes to Life” will be unveiled in John Muir College on June 6 at 9:30 a.m. Originally planned as a mural, the art piece includes two large aluminium panels which will be attached to the side of Stewart Commons, facing the Middle of Muir Quad.

The art piece is centered around the themes of self-identity, the Muir motto of celebrating the independent spirit, sexuality, and the body, as well as sustainability.

Planning for the art piece started last year by Muir senior Alexandra Harbert and Muir junior and Muir College Council President Roy Velasquez, along with support from Muir faculty and staff including Provost Wayne Yang and the Coordinator of Student Activities

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Lights & Sirens

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Monday, May 27 1:03 a.m. Burglary - Sixth College Apartments Reporting party heard window break and is now afraid to re-enter apartment.

Check OK. 5:46 a.m. Medical Aid - North Torrey Pines Rd/ La Jolla Shores Dr Bus Stop Female experiencing pain due to recent knee injury.

Transported to hospital.

6:45 a.m. Battery - UC San Diego Health Hillcrest Patient spit at security agent’s face.

Referred to the San Diego Police Department.

6:30 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. Petty Theft/Fraud - Petco Park Victim’s cell phone, credit card, and debit card stolen from purse, and fraudulent charges were made on debit card, loss $2837.

Referred to the San Diego Police Department.

7:50 p.m. Medical Aid - Gilman Dr/Meyers Dr Bus Stop Adult male experiencing chest pains.

Transported to hospital.

Tuesday, May 28 5:46 a.m. Information - Pacific Hall Broken sprinkler in loading area.

Referred to the UCSD Central Plant.

10:51 a.m. Fire Alarm - Tioga Hall Burnt food.

Referred to the San Diego Fire Department.

12:06 p.m. Skateboard Stop Gilman Parking Structure Two young adult males skating down ramps with cameras.

Gone on arrival.

1:52 p.m. Information - Black’s Beach Large fish, possibly a shark, sited in the area.

Information only.

5:53 p.m. Medical Aid - UC San Diego Health Urgent Care Requesting paramedics for adult female having an anxiety attack.

Referred to the San Diego Fire Department.

6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Petty Theft - Brennan Hall Victim’s clothing stolen from dryer, loss $100.

Report taken.

Unable to locate.

10:03 a.m. Welfare Check Gilman Dr Male with head between the legs and not moving.

Check OK. 11:46 a.m. Animal Call Athena Parking Structure Dog inside vehicle, barking, reporting party thinks possible in distress.

Checks OK. 12:00 p.m. Alcohol Contact Tioga Hall Following a request for a welfare check by the UCSD Police Department, Residential Life employees found several bottles of alcohol/liquor inside suite.

Referred to student conduct.

2:39 p.m. Chemical Spill - La Jolla Shores Dr/La Jolla Shores Ln Vehicle dumping chemical in gutter.

Unable to locate.

Wednesday, May 29 12:28 a.m. Vandalism to Vehicle - Campus Point Parking Structure Reporting party observed vehicle with passenger window broken out, unknown if old damage.

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5:49 p.m. Missing Person Main Gym Juvenile son got upset with parent and ran off.

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or find out during their career at UCSD. We hope this art piece will spark conversations about what it means for us to be here.”

Harbert and Velasquez found out about Contreras during a meeting with Elena Hood of the Intertribal Resource Center and Stan Rodriguez, who is also part of the Kumeyaay, in May 2018.

Contreras has previously created a sculpture for the Kumeyaay Garden on USD’s campus and has exhibited sculptures at Poway City Hall.

The Guardian wrote an article

last year about the mural when Harbert and Velasquez were in the middle of planning for it.

“We did not find the artist until the project was cleared by the involved parties, which happened a year after the planning process,” Harbert explained. “The first year involved a lot of planning, theme determination, and location scouting. We needed to find funding, work with HDH to clear attaching the sculpture to the side of their building, and began looking for an artist. The second

year was dedicated to developing what the art piece will look like and creating it — which was Johnny’s part.”

The art piece theme planning involved other organizations around campus including the LGBT Resource Center, the Native American Student Association, the LGBTQIA+ Living Learning Community Intern, the CrossCultural Center, and the Student Sustainability Center.

The sculpture will be the first art piece on the UCSD campus

Student-Workers Union, said that employees currently have no legal recourse to address the issue. The proposed bill would give affected employees more agency in addressing the issue.

According to the proposed bill, “The employees of the Regents of the University of California currently have no protection under the labor code to ensure they are paid on time and on a regular payday during the rollout of the new UCPath system. This bill ensures that these employees may file a claim in state court or with the Labor Commissioner if the university fails to issue payment on time and on a regular payday.”

SB 698 is supported by a number of labor organizations, including the California Labor Federation, UAW Local 2865, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, the Teamsters Union, and the UC Student Association. The bill was read in the Assembly on May 24 and is currently being held for review.

by a Native American artist. The piece will join a new collection of public art celebrating culture and influential social justice leaders at UC San Diego. The new collection includes the bronze sculpture of Sojourner Truth and the Chicano Legacy Mural in Thurgood Marshall College, and the Black Legacy Mural and table tops in Price Center.

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The UCSD Study Found a Link between the Glysophate in Roundup and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease ▶ ROUNDUP, from page 1

in domestic and imported foods do not exceed EPA tolerances.”

Mills, however, noted that the FDA has continued to increase the tolerance level in order to accommodate the build-up of glyphosate. “[The] FDA increases what it says to be safe,” Mills said.“Monsanto has a strong presence in FDA … there are lots of bias and dishonesty.” Monsanto is the original Roundup producer and was acquired by Bayer in 2018.

Mills referred to Merchants of

Doubt, a non-fiction book which discussed how government, scientists and merchants collaborated to obscure the truth of tobacco smoke and global warming.

“It’s the same thing here,” Mills said.

Mills plans to do a follow-up study on the condition of the liver when patients are fed with organic food over the course of several months.

“Be mindful of what you eat,” Mills said, stressing the importance

of consumer knowledge.

In a follow-up email, Mills informed the Guardian that UC President Janet Napolitano had suspended the use of glyphosate herbicide across all 10 campuses, effective June 1, 2019.

According to the official statement on the decision released by the UC Office of the President, the temporary ban is to address “concerns about possible human health and ecological hazards, as well as potential legal and reputational risks associated

with this category of herbicides.”

The suspension was the result of advocacy by student group Herbicide-Free UC and Mosanto’s implication in multiple lawsuits.

Napolitano did not indicate when the suspension will be lifted.

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Sisterhood isn't Three Letters Deep...

By Adriana Barrios

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he evergreen machine of assault and social toxicity, otherwise known as the NorthAmerican Interfraternity Conference, has struck again. This time, the UC San Diego chapter of Sigma Chi is under investigation for allegations of sexual violence and harrassment against members of several sororities. Despite the gravity of the accusations at hand, a culture of silence perpetuated by Greek life has kept the whole situation underwraps. From the national organizations down to the individuals on this campus, the moratorium on speaking out against sexual violence within these organizations harms not only the sorority sisters but also the rest of the campus community. By creating open secrets that exclude unaffiliated women, they are increasing the possibility that unaffiliates will find themselves in dangerous situations when attending open parties or even in unaffiliated life. Although the responsibility here is two-fold, fraternities have proven themselves unable to successfully prevent heinous behaviors from their members, so to say that they should step up in protecting the women of the campus seems closer to wishful thinking. Sororities need to reconsider their approach to fraternityperpetrated abuse and act in the spirit of true sisterhood, regardless of the affiliated status of the people involved.

Far from speaking out against these problems in the public forum, sororities asked their members to refrain from speaking to the press. The impression left on many Greek life members was that they just “aren’t supposed to” give out information about the incident with Sigma Chi, and the narrative that echoed across chapters on this campus was that to speak out about this issue would be telling the survivors story for them. To place the burden of speaking out, and to absolve bystanders of any responsibility, only helps to reinforce the secrecy and the stigma surrounding abuse on campus. Whether or not the survivors wish to share their story, creating a public conversation regarding the problems inherent to fraternities, and to Greek life as a whole, is imperative to change the culture. Instead, this incident furthers the notion that speaking out about sexual harassment is in some way a betrayal. Societies that claim to be champions for sisterhood placing the image of Greek life over the security of the women of this campus is hypocritical to say the least, and it is even worse to frame it as betrayal.

The national organizations run with policies that prevent their members from publicly holding the accused accountable. The chapters’ advisors, who offer counsel that trends towards containment, perpetuate the blanket of silence that already exists regarding sexual assault. Members themselves however are also to blame as they follow these guidelines and refuse to speak out and engage with this publicly, instead trusting the

ADRIANA BARRIOS

Opinion Editor

executive board to deal with it privately. This is not a private conversation but a matter of public safety, and by trusting a system that has consistently failed its members in matters of harasment and sexual violence, these sisters are doing a disservice to the missions of their organizations. With this, I am not placing the blame on the survivors. Survivors of sexual assault have a right to their stories and to speak when they want to, if they want to, on their terms and in their time. That being said, the situation is being kept quiet, and in doing so all of the other members of the organization become complicit in protecting the alleged perpetrators of sexual violence crimes and in rape culture as a whole. Despite the fact that these chapters are imposing laws and playing a narrative that paints silence as the moral high road, members should evaluate the impact their silence plays into the larger campus and into the safety of their fellow sisters.

The responsibility for this conversation should not fall on the survivors, and by remaining in silence, by demanding silence, not only do these chapters protect the perpetrators but they place the burden on survivors to speak-out against these problems. Rape culture is systemic and societal, even more so in Greek life which is notorious for their patriarchal social dynamics. This incident is not isolated, the survivors are not alone and the silence these chapters are demanding and these women are complying with creates a false sense of the magnitude of the problems. There is no doubt that a survivor’s story is their own, but this story is one in an ocean of assaults against the peace of mind and bodily autonomy of women across college campuses. By not discussing the larger situation, we force survivors to stand at the forefront of the fight against rape culture and sexual harassment.

This conversation involves the entire Greek-life community, whether or not they want to acknowledge it.

Sorority silence or neutrality in the face of sexual assault, whether imposed or chosen, is a phenomenon that crops up every time a case of fraternity-perpetrated sexual violence occurs on a college campus. Whether it be to “respect survivor stories” or to ensure the pristine reputation of Greek-life organizations, there is a troubling trend across these institutions of open secrets and of which fraternities are “the bad ones.” Unfortunately, “respecting survivor stories” is actually closer to expecting them to do the heavy-lifting in a conversation that is actually about a larger societal problem, and the “pristine reputation” they want to protect went out the window when incidents of sexual violence followed one after another. It is time for Greek-life organizations to step-up and actively work against sexual violence instead of trying to cache problems for the sake of saving face. They owe that much to their members, to the survivors, and to every woman on this campus.

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Me nst r u at i on is st i l l st i g mat i z e d e ve n on home tu r f, and t he e f fe c t s of not t a l k i ng ab out it are s e e pi ng i nto ou r nat i on’s he a lt h and p ol it i c s .

Many p e opl e l iv i ng i n t he U. S . st i l l l a ck c ons iste nt a c c e ss to s an it ar y pro du c t s su ch as p a ds or t amp ons .

PE R IOD. at U C SD and PE R IOD. work i n c onju nc t i on to i nc re as e a c c e ss to me nst r u at i on pro du c t s a c ro ss t he Un ite d St ate s . For t he nat i ona l org an i z at i on , t h is me ans f i g ht i ng to l i f t t a xe s on s an it ar y pro du c t s t hat st i l l e x ist i n 3 9 st ate s . For U C SD’s chapte r, t h is me ans f i l i ng an i n it i at ive w it h t he s cho ol to d isp e ns e f re e p a ds and t amp ons i n c ampus re st ro oms .

In ord e r to c ar r y out t h is i n it i at ive, PE R IOD. at U C SD’s me mb e rs f i rst ha d to h it L ibr ar y Wa l k to c ol l e c t s i g natu re s , s ai d S e c re t ar y No or A l omar, a T hu rgo o d Marsha l l C ol l e ge fou r t h ye ar. T he n t he y ha d to c ol l e c t d at a on how mu ch it wou l d c o st t he u n ive rs it y i n te r ms of supply and mai nte nanc e. Af te r g ar ne r i ng stu d e nt supp or t , t he y ne e d e d any supp or t t he y c ou l d ge t f rom s cho ol a d m i n ist r at i on b e fore pre s e nt i ng to t he s cho ol b o ard. Now t he y ’re just w ait i ng to he ar t he re su lt s of t he i r work .

P E R I O D. at U C S D’s m i s s i o n s e e m s f a i r l y t y p i c a l : p r ov i d e a n d a dvo c ate for b as i c suppl i e s to c om mu n it i e s t hat l a ck re a dy a c c e ss . But re g ard i ng it as just anot he r s e r v i c e org i g nore s t he nu anc e d h istor y of me nst r u at i on as a s o c i a l ly and p ol it i c a l ly charge d issu e.

Wh i l e it’s f ai r l y d i f f i c u lt t o f i n d s om e on e w h o w i l l arg u e t h at homel e ss and l ow - i nc ome f am i l i e s d on’t d e s e r ve fo o d and shelte r, t he r i g ht to me nst r u a l pro du c t s re st s on more sha ky fou nd at i ons . T h is is l argely du e to a l ot of m is e du c at i on and m is i n for mat i on , w h i ch c re ate s a st i g ma t hat b ars t he topi c f rom b e i ng op e n ly t a l ke d ab out .

T he i mp a c t of me nst r u at i on shame and p e r i o d p ove r t y on e du c at i on has not ye t b e e n stu d i e d t horou g h ly. At worst , it c an b e d i re, forc i ng g i rls to d rop out of s cho ol. At b e st , it’s a m i l d nu is anc e t hat c an d i m i n ish stu d e nt s’ f u l l l e ar n i ng abi l it y.

“L e t’s s ay you r and om ly ge t you r p e r i o d [ at s cho ol ] and you d on’t h ave a p a d. T h at’s af fe c t i ng you r a c a d e m i c s n ow,” s ai d i n c om i ng C o - Pre s i d e nt Bi anc a Ke r man i, a Marsha l l s ophomore. Wi l l t hat stu d e nt have to cho o s e to go home e arly ? B e l ate to cl ass ? Pote nt i a l ly m iss a

qu i z or tu r n i ng i n an i mp or t ant p ap e r ? Many stu d e nt s a l re a dy f a c e e nou g h cha l l e nge s w it h t he i r s cho olwork ; t he l e ast t he y c ou l d e x p e c t is to b e abl e to c ompl e te a b o d i ly f u nc t i on i n p e a c e.

In ot he r c ou nt r i e s , a c c e ss to me nst r u a l pro du c t s on ly s olve s ha l f t he probl e m . Mar n i S om me r, a profe ss or at C olu mbi a Un ive rs it y ’s Mai l man S cho ol of P ubl i c He a lt h , share d s ome of he r Pe a c e C or p s volu nte e r i ng e x p e r i e nc e s i n E r it re a w it h Nat i ona l P ubl i c R a d i o. She not i c e d t hat g i rl s we re d i s app e ar i ng f rom s cho ol arou nd pub e r t y. To S om me r, it s e e me d obv i ous t hat E r it re an s cho ols , w it h no toi l e t s or r u n n i ng w ate r, we re n’t bu i lt to sust ai n me nst r u at i ng stu d e nt s . S o stu d e nt s we re s olv i ng t he probl e m by s el f - s el e c t i ng t he ms elve s out of s cho ol.

Ac c ord i ng to t he N PR i nte r v i e w, S om me r re a l i z e d t hat “ i mprov i ng me nst r u a l hy g i e ne st r a d d l e s t h re e are as of a c t iv is m t hat are of te n s e p ar ate — w ate r and s an it at i on , e du c at i on and g l ob a l he a lt h . And it w as n’t an obv i ous pr i or it y i n any are na .”

D ome st i c a l ly, t h is a ls o p o s e s a probl e m for homel e ss p e opl e w it hout c ons iste nt a c c e ss to toi l e t s or r u n n i ng w ate r. A mu lt i f a c e te d issu e su ch as p e r i o d p ove r t y w i l l t a ke a mu lt i f a c e te d appro a ch to s olve.

T h is is w hy PE R IOD.’s t h re e pi l l ars — s e r v i c e, e du c at i on , a dvo c a c y — are a d opte d by a l l of it s chapte rs .

Ke r m a n i s t re s s e s t h e i mp o r t a n c e o f e d u c at i n g p e o p l e o n w h at c onst itute s a “ne c e ss it y.” “It’s i mp or t ant to fo c us on [ me nst r u a l e du c at i on ] re g u l arly b e c aus e we forge t ab out it , a l ot . E sp e c i a l ly s i nc e it d o e s n’t d i re c t ly af fe c t e ve r yone,” she s ai d.

Eve r yon e , i n c lu d i ng n on - m e ns t r u at or s , shou l d b e abl e to f re ely d is c uss and l e ar n ab out t h e topi c . T h i s i s w hy Ke r m an i’s age nd a for t he ne x t s cho ol ye ar i nclu d e s st ar t i ng a ne w he a lt h e du c at i on pro g r am c a l l e d “ T h e S p o t ,” w h e r e m e m b e r s o f PE R IOD. at U C SD w i l l t abl e and ans we r any and a l l qu e st i ons ab out me nst r u at i on . “ I ’m t a k i n g m o r e o f a h e a l t h e du c at i on p e rsp e c t ive r at he r t han s o c i a l just i c e,” Ke r man i s ai d. “B e c aus e we c an t a l k ab out s o c i a l just i c e a l l we w ant , but i n t he e nd, [ a p e r i o d ] is a b o d i ly f u nc t i on for wome n’s ute r i ne l i n i ng to she d onc e a mont h and t he re’s not h i ng you c an d o ab out it . It’s p ar t of l i fe, s o t he re shou l d n’t e ve n b e a s o c i a l just i c e qu e st i on ab out it , but t he re is .”

Ke r m an i and R o d r i g u e z b ot h e x pre ss e d w ant i ng to t r ans c e nd t he ass o c i at i on of me nst r u at i on b e i ng s ol ely a wome n’s issu e.

“It has b e e n a bit d i f f i c u lt to ge t t ho s e w ho d on’t me nst r u ate [ to j oi n ] ,” R o d r i g u e z a d m itte d. “O ne t h i ng we’ve b e e n d oi ng t h is p ast qu ar te r is chang i ng t he l ang u age t hat we us e, s o we d on’t s ay ‘wome n me nst r u at i ng’ or ‘oh it’s l i ke a wome n’s t h i ng .’ We t a l k ab out it l i ke it happ e ns to a p e rs on .”

T he s e s ma l l change s ai m to i nc re a s e i nclus iv it y by re mov i ng t he i d e a t hat me nst r u at i on is u n i for m or d e te r m i ne d by ge nd e r i d e nt it y.

Me nst r u at i on is p ar t of t he r i g ht to he a lt h , Ke r man i e mphas i z e d.

By f r am i ng t he issu e t h is w ay, she hop e s to r ais e more supp or t for me nst r u a l he a lt h r i g ht s f rom t he ge ne r a l publ i c — i nclu d i ng me n and non - me nst r u ators .

It shou l d n’t b e t r i cky, but it is . Eve n t hou g h ha l f t he p opu l at i on d o e s n’t me nst r u ate, t he i r a c t i ons c an st i l l i mp a c t t ho s e w ho d o.

R e c e nt ly, Mai ne C ong re ss man R i chard Pi cke tt cl ai me d i n mate s i n Mai ne’s j ai ls d i d not d e s e r ve u n re st r i c te d a c c e ss to me nst r u a l pro du c t s and i nste a d shou l d just ask for t he m f rom c or re c t i ona l of f i c e rs w he n ne e d e d. And l ast su m me r, U. S . R e pre s e nt at ive S e an Ma l one y rel e as e d a v i d e o of h i ms el f s i g n i ng a $ 3 7 p e rs ona l che ck for sto ck i ng t he Hous e of R e pre s e nt at ive s’ of f i c e bu i l d i ng re st ro oms w it h s an it ar y pro du c t s af te r t he C om m itte e on Hous e Ad m i n ist r at i on i ns iste d t hat t he y we re a non ne c e ss it y not c ove re d by t he C ong re ss i ona l Bu d ge t O f f i c e.

PE R IOD. at U C SD has a d au nt i ng t ask a he a d of t he m as t he y ’re up ag ai nst ye ars of m is i n for mat i on and l a ck of d is c ou rs e. But as I s at i n on t he i r f i rst an nu a l b anqu e t , ho ste d by t he i r che e r y and s ome t i me s s arc ast i c P ubl i c it y C hai r An iy a Brow n , a Mu i r s e c ond ye ar, I fou nd my s el f l au g h i ng a l ong w it h a g roup of p e opl e I ha d just me t at Brow n’s one - l i ne rs and t he me me nto s she w as pre s e nt i ng to out goi ng b o ard me mb e rs . T he at mo sphe re w as w ar m and wel c om i ng — just t he pl a c e w he re p e opl e c ou l d t a l k f re ely ab out cha l l e ng i ng topi c s . And i f you’re abl e to s w ip e a f re e t amp on f rom a c ampus re st ro om any t i me i n t he ne x t fe w mont hs , you have PE R IOD. at U C SD to t han k for t hat .

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I joined the Guardian at the end of my freshman year; I was disengaged from the campus and from my academics, and I was disil usioned with the plans I had made for myself. The Guardian turned it all around for me. I found incisive and interesting people, I developed personal and professional skil s, and I got the opportunity to head a historic institution on campus. Though I am not sure what to do with my free time in the coming year, or with the rest of my life for that matter, I wil look back at my time in the Guardian as the most productive and engaging part of my college experience. I send my love to the staffers that made it all possible, with extra love to Lauren, Daisy, Alex and Adriana. I have full faith in next year's staff and I am looking forward to seeing where they take the paper. Good luck!

Eighty five news articles and one opinion piece later, my career as a student journalist at the UCSD Guardian has finally come to an end.

I wrote a whole lotta words, and I enjoyed every single one of them. More than that, I absolutely loved what happened between the words: collecting the facts and the details behind them, striving to inform our gorgeous readers, and doing it all with the absolute best people. I am extremely grateful for my experience here, so thank you for that, the Guardian. Thank you to Maria for quitting so I could take my rightful throne as news editor. Thank you to Matt for being a kick-ass Co-Editor. You were gone too soon (that was very rude of you, Rosina, so no thank you for that). Thank you to Armonie for being a wonderful Associate Editor and friend, and to TFart for stepping up and being a better News Editor successor than I could have asked for, despite your shit quote formatting. Thank you to all my writers for churning out such dope content, for being such pleasures to work with, and for Sending Newds. Thank you to Chris for allowing me to be your partner in crime as your managing editor - nothing but respect for MY twink boss. Thank you to the editorial staffs, past and present, for giving me the sweet nectar of gossip that has kept me going. Thank you to Jack for your crossword help and putting up with my pestering and to Jade for being on the trivia team and for making Alex happy. And thank you, thank you to Alex and Adriana for being such absolutely incredible friends and keeping my stupidity in check and an especial thank you to Alex for not fucking around by giving people yeast infections.

I love you both so much. Thank you to my non-Guardian friends for being so supportive and to my dad for being my most dedicated reader.

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Painfully funny and tender, “The Farewell” is one of the most beautiful films of the year.

The Farewell Directed by Lulu Wang Starring Awkwafina, Shuzhen Zhao, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin Upcoming release July 12, 2019 Rated PG

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For just a brief moment, sitting in the theater, you can hear nothing but the screen’s muted static, until the quiet is broken by you and everyone around you trying to muffle the sound of your collective crying.

This is the power of director Lulu Wang’s sophomore feature — to bring an entire audience to tears both with its hilarious brand of dry humor and its heart-wrenching depiction of family, transnationality, and loss.

A witty play on theh Hollywood cliche, “based on an actual lie” reads at the beginning of the opening credits of Wang’s dramedy. Screened earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival, where it earned a Grand Jury nomination and a distribution deal with A24, “The Farewell” follows an unsuccessful writer now in her thirties named Billi (Awkwafina) who learns that her grandma has been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer and only has three months left to live. The problem is, Grandma (Shuzhen Zhou), referred to as Nai Nai, is the only one who doesn’t know. In Chinese culture, as Billi’s mother (Diana Lin) dryly explains, there’s a saying: “When people get cancer, they die.” And it’s not from the cancer that they die, but from the fear. Knowing this,

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the family, with no intention of letting their matriarch learn of her illness, stages an elaborate fake wedding in China between Billi’s cousin Hao Hao (Han Chen) and his new girlfriend Aiko (Aoi Mizuhara), with the underlying intent of reuniting and seeing Nai Nai one last time as a family.

The lie referred to earlier is, in fact, Wang’s, whose own family kept her grandmother from the knowledge of her illness when she was diagnosed with the same condition a few years back. As a filmmaker, Wang manages to do so much in her exploration of her grandmother’s illness, poignantly capturing the complex politics of migration and belonging — the dislocations that arise from being torn between two spaces and the changes brought about in their disparate geographies through the passage of time.

Having arrived in America as a child, Billi is caught between two radically different spatial contexts, not only in an immediate physical sense, but also in the emotional longing for a home and family thousands of miles away, and the seemingly oppositional ethical systems between cultures in confronting death. After all, doesn’t Nai Nai deserve to know that she’s dying? Or is there a value in withholding the truth from the person to whom it seems most valuable?

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sauntered onto the stage casually and set up her materials. Soloist Polly Mackey manned the mic with a bass guitar, standing on the stage alone with only a MacBook producing her electronic beats.

In “Bending Back,” synth beats maintained a constant pulse while Mackey’s husky vocals filled the Voodoo Room.

Already, I could tell that Art School Girlfriend had a full aesthetic established: slow, gothic melancholy. This was particularly felt in “Come Back to Me,” a song that’s a little sad, yet nearly lusty in its desperation with its haunting refrain, “I feel the rain / Come back to me.”

Slow but not too slow, Art School Girlfriend acted as the perfect opener for The Japanese House. Cool, laid-back,

centered around pathologizing our native cultures as innately backward, “The Farewell” feels more of a recognition of two culturally distinct yet equally valid epistemologies on life and ethics. With most of the film’s dialogue spoken in Mandarin (significant, considering it as American-produced), this is what Asian American cinema has desperately needed to be for a long time — not an indictment of our cultures, played for laughs or made into spectacle (see: “Fresh Off the Boat;” “Crazy Rich Asians”), but a celebration of our different ways of knowing.

A nod to the struggles we have faced owed to conditions of migration, and to the ways we choose to make life. The episode of “This American Life” in which Wang introduced the world to her story was titled “In Defense of Ignorance.” Perhaps this is the most beautiful example of the reconciliations we must make for the ones we love.

It’s clear that a film of this kind requires a truly stellar cast, and Wang and Awkwafina together are a force of nature. Taking a dramatic turn from her usual comedic roles, rapper-turned actress Awkwafina’s revelatory performance as Billi tosses away any preconceptions from her previous work about her as an artist. As someone whose own experience lies close to the film’s weighty material, Awkwafina is unforgettable. With

her sharp comedic timing and surprisingly keen sense of drama, her performance as the uncertain and grief-stricken Billi is endearing, funny, and incredibly fierce.

Equally remarkable are Zhou as Nai Nai and Han Chen as Hao Hao, the bumbling other grandchild and “husband” to be. Zhou, a famous soap opera star in China, gives a turn as an oblivious grandmother that is so charming and funny that it feels like you’re watching your own grandmother on screen.

Bolstered by excellent characterization, Wang’s use of juxtaposition as a source of humor to make sense of grief marks the film as something truly genius — in marrying the emotional weight of her story with an unrelenting stream of comedy, she has produced something that feels so incredibly intimate and real.

A promotional message posted on the Facebook page for “The Farewell” urges us to call our grandmas. Seriously. Do it. Call your grandma, and cherish every second spent talking with her. Call her every day until this film comes out this summer, and go watch it in theaters because it’s that good.

and just like her aptly-named moniker suggests, you would want her to be your art school girlfriend.

Nearly half an hour after Art School Girlfriend’s set, The Japanese House came on stage with calmness and composure.

Like Art School Girlfriend, The Japanese House also consists of a solo artist, Amber Bain, who is characterized by interesting vocals. As a singer, Bain utilizes voice modulation in order to achieve an androgynous sound.

As a listener, I was curious to hear how well this would translate live and if Bain would opt for a more strippeddown sound for live performances. To my pleasant surprise, she didn’t. Bain kept the effects, featuring female and male background vocalists to cover the higher and lower ranges, fully rounding out her voice to preserve her distinctive sound.

She sounds just as good live as she does in the studio versions, which is impressive considering all the layering and pitch shifts that must occur during production. Particularly noteworthy was “Still,” a track shifting through different timbres and synth textures. Stacked with harmonies, the song is drenched with feeling, featuring emotional sweeps and swells as Bain tells the tale of trying to work things out with her lover.

Nearly every song in The Japanese House’s discography is as personal and intimate as “Still” — some songs even more so. A diverse range of tracks formed the set list, all the way from her first 2015 EP “Pools to Bathe In” to her most recent debut album “Good At Falling,” which created a cohesive, musical narrative ranging from the past to the present.

The song that garnered the most

excitement was “Maybe You’re the Reason,” a track about depression and feeling that nothing has meaning. But as the title suggests, maybe the reason can be found in a lover. An ultimately somber track, it describes the discography of The Japanese House well: bittersweet, brooding, and bare-bones.

“Saw You In A Dream,” arguably The Japanese House’s most popular song, is about Bain seeing someone close to her, who had passed away, in a dream.

Even without knowing this context, the song epitomizes the feeling of loss and heartbreak. Groups of friends in front of me crowded closer together, swaying to the beat as they mouthed the lyrics.

The Japanese House played 16 tracks nonstop for the next hour with minimal conversation with the audience other than a spare “thank you” here and there. This seemed a bit strange to me; considering the stories behind her music, I assumed Bain would provide some commentary or at least verbally engage with the audience more. However, as the night progressed, I realized that Bain didn’t have to say anything more. Closing her eyes during particularly emotional lyrics, making eye contact with the audience, and throwing soft smiles towards particularly passionate fans was enough. Soft and dreamy, her performance played less like a typical concert and more like a confessional. For The Japanese House, the music says it all.

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uardian: You talked a bit about how difficult it was to create the movie that you wanted after pitching it initially and having it be received so enthusiastically, but how did you come to want to make such a personal film in the first place?

Wang: Well, I think this particular story, I wanted to tell it when it happened to me in real life, not necessarily because I thought we must tell an Asian story right now, and I must be the one to do it. It was more that I felt so emotional, going through the experience, that I needed to turn it into art in order to explore my own emotions. I think the best art comes from things that inspire you and make you feel something and I just knew that I felt a lot of different things, both the comedy as well as the grief, so I wanted to explore a story that was straddling both of those tones.

G: So by the time that the episode for “This American Life” came out, did you already have a plan in mind to make it into a movie?

W: Yeah, I had started. I mean, I’m a filmmaker, so I knew right away once I went through this experience that I wanted to tell it as a film. I saw it as a film, but nobody really wanted to make it the way that I wanted to make it, with the cast that I wanted it to have, in the original language with subtitles, so I set it aside for a while, and wrote it also as a short story.

When “This American Life” approached me, I gave them the short story, and that’s what I used to pitch it, and they picked it up. And then of course, once we did the radio story, then producers started calling in and I was able to set it up with the producers that I wanted to set it up with.

G: So another big part of the film is Billi’s struggle to confront her grandma as someone who has yet to be proud of herself in her accomplishments. To what extent is this based on your own experience, and if so, how has that changed with the success of the film?

W: It’s definitely based on my own experiences, and I think that when I was struggling with my career, it was particularly hard to feel like I was losing my grandmother and she would never get to see me do something, become successful, or do something that would make her proud, or that she would never get to meet my partner in life, and so it just made me feel the loss even more so, of all the things we had lost in the past, and all the things we were going to lose in the future. It’s just been obviously, a miracle, because she was able to come to set and see me working and she’s now met my partner, and so it just feels like such a gift..

G: And is part of you scared that she’ll find footage of it on the internet, somehow?

W: Yes and no. I feel like her family is aware — you know, my great aunt who is in the movie, they live in the same building, so if anything like that were to happen or was at risk of happening, I definitely warned them. We don’t have any Chinese distribution yet, so as we get closer to Chinese distribution and it playing in China, I will definitely keep them posted.

G: So much of Asian American media represents our native cultures as backward or something that needs to be corrected in order to adapt to American culture, but your film doesn’t really do that. We see Awkwafina’s character, Billi, struggle with the conflicting ethics of hiding this fact from her grandma but that gets reconciled when she’s confronted by her uncle. Could you talk about your thought process in reconciling those two differences in cultures?

W: It was a really gradually thing that I was exploring in the movie. It doesn’t happen overnight. Often, I don’t know

that I’ve fully reconciled, I don’t think there’s such a thing as full reconciliation.

I think it’s an ongoing process that we are constantly grappling with — the different sides of, not only our families, but of ourselves. But it was important to me to show a character who is essentially finding grace, which is about letting go as opposed to trying to be right, trying to fight to the death for something.

G: And there’s something about the movie that seems very proudly Chinese without having explicitly say so. How much of your filmmaking is motivated by your heritage and identity?

W: You know, it’s interesting, I don’t think that my filmmaking is motivated by my identity or my culture. I think I approach filmmaking the same way that a filmmaker of any culture or any identity approaches filmmaking, from their own perspective. My perspective is influenced, of course, by the values that I grew up with, the people, my sense of comedy, my sense of drama, but I don’t necessarily think that the culture itself influences the filmmaking. I think the film comes across proud because of that. The culture isn’t an issue necessarily for the film, or the family. The person who struggles with it is Billi because she’s from two different cultures, but even for her, it’s not even always about culture. I think sometimes, you lose the meaning of that [culture?], when you talk about it in a very grand perspective. It’s more specific. It’s more about her individuality versus her family.

It isn’t about thinking East versus West or China versus America. It’s about “this is who she is” and “this is how she was raised to believe” and then her family is suddenly saying, “No, that’s not right.

This is the right way to believe,” and she’s just trying to figure out, “Well, what is right? Are we both right to some level?”

G: So, a lot of the film revolves around food, from everyday family meals around the table to the grandma’s frustration with the lobster. Is there a certain politics of food and culture that you were trying to capture?

W: Yeah, I think you can’t really make a film in Asia around family without showing food, because that’s so much a part of the day to day life of the family and the culture. But, in this movie, I was using food as a source of tension because it is such a part of regular life and culture in china. And yet when you are sad, and you’re grieving, the first thing you lose is your appetite. So, it was a source of tension because for Billi, she wants to make her grandma happy by eating, but she herself doesn’t want to eat, because she’s carrying the burden of this news. Meanwhile, her grandma’s eating, no problem, because her grandma doesn’t know. That’s how food was integrated into the main theme and the main dilemma of the story.

G: There’s a specific scene involving food where the family is at a restaurant, and they’re discussing one of the aunts sending her kid to America for an education.

You frame the shot from the lazy susan as it’s rotating, from a very low angle that captures the characters in a very unconventional way. Was that just an artistic quirk or were you trying to capture the world in a different perspective?

W: You know, there’s a lot of eating scenes in the movie, so I wanted to make each of them distinctive, and serve a different purpose. That scene is all about community, and it’s not about individuality. You know, they’re all at this round table together, and so Anna, my [Director of Photography], and I intentionally didn’t shoot any singles, so every single shot of the people have three characters in the frame, and the circular nature of the lazy susan also represents the community, and the circular nature

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of the conversation and of the family in general in that there’s no right answer, like a circle. There’s no beginning, there’s no end. These are just the questions that we ask, and this is part of the texture of being in a family.

G: And we also see this in the scene with the drinking game.

W: Exactly, exactly.

G: So we also see this presence of time and the changes that it brings in relation to space, with the development of high-rises and the displacement of old structures.

Could you maybe touch on this in relation to the film’s narrative?

W: I think that time is this weird thing, where if you’re watching something change, you don’t notice it. Sort of like how we don’t see ourselves getting older, necessarily, when it’s slower increments and you’re seeing yourself everyday. But when you go away for a significant period of time, and you come back, you notice all of the differences, and so that’s what Billi feels every time she goes back to China. So many things are different, and she really feels the passage of time, she really feels this sense of loss, all the people that were lost, and all the places that were lost. She has a real sense of nostalgia, because it represents her childhood, and her grandparents, but China as a country is moving forward and progressing, in the same way that people do. So I think time is used as a theme to explore this intangible feeling of loss.

G: So, last summer we got “Crazy Rich Asians,” which was huge, and that was very much about Asian Americans and spectacle, but your film is very much more real and grounded. Could you talk about your film and its place in the larger canon of Asian American cinema?

W: That’s a really tough one. I think that what’s most important is that we embrace films that represent the overall diverse population of America. For me, I don’t feel that I am specifically part of Asian American cinema, whatever that means, because if you have Asian American cinema then you have African American cinema, and then do you have Irish American cinema? Do you have Italian American cinema? At the end of the day, I think that to be American is to be a hyphenate, because we’re all from somewhere else, and so it always makes me ask that question of who gets to be a hyphenate, and who doesn’t? And so at the end of the day, I think what’s really important is that we, as Americans, are telling stories that properly encapsulate what it means to be American, and it isn’t about creating divides between all the types of American that we are, but to ask

questions about all of our cultures and all of our identities and backgrounds as a way to represent the reality of the melting pot that is America.

G: I feel like this interview would be remiss if I didn’t mention Awkwafina.

What did she bring to the role in terms of her being a comedian and actor?

W: I think she brought, first of all, as an Asian American woman, with a Chinese grandmother that she’s very close with, she brought a really personal perspective perspective to the story, a personal connection to the story. As a comedian, she has such natural comedic timing, that we never had to work on her delivery of the comedy. Because the comedy is so subtle, and she’s just so good at comedy, it was just so organic that with one shrug, or with something that she would do with her face, you just got everything, and it was hilarious. She just didn’t have to do a whole lot to get the point across, so I think it was really wonderful because the comedy was so natural for her and the drama was also so natural for her because she worries about losing her own grandmother, who she’s very close with.

So, every scene she just embodied the character of Billi in a way that I could not have even imagined when I wrote the character.

G: I think I represent everyone who watched the movie when I say this, but I think we’re really excited to see your work in the future. Do you know what we could look forward to?

W: Well, right now, I’m working on a grounded sci-fi story, and I don’t know what else I’m going to end up doing.

There’s a lot of things that I’m interested in, but I think I’m always gonna want to tell stories about what it means to be human and explore stories that are not black and white, where I’m not trying to make a judgement or say, “Look at how terrible this is” or “Look at how great this is.” I want to explore the grays, the nuances, and find ways to show how people can navigate our differences and with respect.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

— Justin Nguyen

Senior Staff Writer

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An Ode to Perks

By A nnika Olives and Colleen Conradi

In 2007, Perks Coffee Shop opened in the UC San Diego Bookstore, immediately becoming a popular location for students to grab a cup of coffee and study between classes. However, at the beginning of Winter Quarter 2019, it was announced that Perks would be closing permanently in the summer of 2019.

“I’m sad,” says fifth-year Roger Revelle College student and Perks worker Raphael Lagoc in response to Perks closing. “Even if Perks might not have been the best coffee shop on campus, I still think that having more student-run spaces like this is big.”

Perks is well-liked among the student body for its centrality, decently priced drinks, and friendly staff.

“I think the crew here is super cool; everyone is very nice,” Lagoc said. “It’s been like a sort of avalanche effect where really cool, nice people happen to get promoted and then they hire more people [like them]. It’s a crew that’s been built up, lots of friends and lots of mutual relationships across the board.”

The closing of Perks is part of a larger Bookstore renovation to make way for a small on-campus Target store. “Target kicking us out, Starbucks being the main spot now, it kind of feels like just a lot of corporatization of the campus,” Lagoc stated. “I think it represents a direction that the campus is heading toward that I don’t really like to see.”

The story behind Perky, Perks’ squirrel mascot, is explored in a minute-long video posted by the UCSD Bookstore’s YouTube channel. Perky’s parents died in a forest fire, and Perky, devastated, discovers Perks soon after. There, he drinks so much green tea that he turns green. However, this story also hints at another facet of Perks’ identity: Perks exclusively serves Barefoot-Coffee-Roasters coffee, which is direct trade and small batch. This connection to sustainability is not something that all coffee shops on campus can boast.

Perks will be remembered not only for its lime-colored mascot, corner fireplace, and amiable workers but for its promotion of conscious consumption ahead of its time.

Make sure you stop in one last time before Perks’ doors officially close on June 16.

Lifestyle Editors

The Lifestyle editors would like to offer up their own eulogies in honor of Perks.

Many of my first trips to Perks were admittedly because of its convenient location.

Between classes, I would venture into the back of the Bookstore in the hopes that I could grab a table near a power outlet. Despite the questionable neon walls and spotty lighting, it’s become one of my favorite places to work. The staff are always extremely friendly and the corner fireplace makes everything feel just a little bit cozier. Perks has seen me through frantic article writing, last-minute midterm studying, and catch-ups with friends I haven’t seen in a while, and I’m grateful that it’s given me a place to both study and recharge. I’m definitely going to miss everything about Perks next year — including that lime green aesthetic. - Annika Olives, Lifestyle Editor Thank you, Perks, for being there to caffeinate me before every evening/night class in Center Hall or Warren Lecture Hall. Thank you for your unique Nutella lattes, cozy fireplace, and especially for your pepperoni pizza panini. You were also one of the first spots on campus to have Yerba Mate, always there for me to feed my addiction. I will terribly miss collecting your Drink of the Month pins, featuring the celebrity himself, Perky the squirrel. You and your incredibly spotty service/wi-fi have been there for me for meetings, interviews, and Vampire Diaries binging in between classes. You deserved better, Perky. We salute you!

Lessons from College

By Rebecca Tsang Almost complete with my undergraduate studies, I have learned many valuable lessons through the people and incidents I have encountered in my four years of college. As I reflect on my years, I have noticed several life lessons that I will always remember. Although this article cannot articulate all my thoughts, here are a few things I would’ve told myself when I entered as a freshman.

You Are Completely Responsible for Yourself Yes, you still have your friends and family to support you. However, they cannot remind you when to pay your bills, assignment deadlines, or how to schedule your classes. Furthermore, you have to allocate time and money for everything — social life, work, internships, and classes. The solution? Get a planner or a calendar on your phone to keep track of your life.

Put Yourself First It may sound cliché, but you need to love yourself before you can love others. College is a very stressful place and at some point, your mental health may take a toll. You have to do activities that help you destress such as hiking, crafting, or even just a simple Netflix session at home; you will eventually find what activities helps you the most. You cannot study for 12 consecutive hours and pull an all-nighter — it will not work. Take a break and sleep even if it’s just an hour. Utilize the school’s resources when you need to! If you are a commuter, take a nap at the Geisel Library, The Zone, or Price Center.

Life can become very hectic and busy, and unfortunately, you cannot get the best of both worlds. Consider dropping a class even if it means you need to take summer classes or stay an extra quarter. It is completely okay to quit an internship if you notice it becoming too stressful and affecting your mental health — it is not the end of the world.

Small Talks As an introvert, I tend to be on the quiet side and dreaded initiating conversations.

However, I have learned that small talks are one of the best ways to meet new people. A simple “What did you do over the weekend?” can break the ice and start a new potential

Lifestyle Staff Writer friendship. I have met countless people through this simple question. Most UC San Diego students I have met are talkative and are very open to meeting new people.

Connections Whether it is a letter of recommendation or homework help, the more professors and classmates you acquaint with, the more likely they will help you succeed. Go to office hours, start a conversation to the person who is sitting next to you in class, and never be afraid to ask for help. I always thought that seeking assistance would trouble others, but you will be shocked to see how others are also struggling like you and there is absolutely no shame in asking for help.

You Will Learn From Others In college, you will meet people with vast backgrounds and cultures instead of the same group you see in high school. You will learn to see situations from various perspectives instead of what is presented to you. People will come and go in your life, and sometimes you do not have control over the situation. However, know that there are thousands of people in college; you will meet more people and eventually find your lifelong friends.

One of the most important lessons I have learned is working in group projects. Each group member has their own strengths and weaknesses, and it is part of your job to understand these differences. Usually, most people do not want to lead a project, but if no one takes charge, nothing will get done. On several occasions, I had to be the introverted leader to delegate tasks and responsibilities. Through these experiences, I truly learned not only how to be a better communicator, but also understand the harsh reality that not everyone gives the same level of attention for their grades.

Cherish the happy memories you have made in college as these were some of the best years of your life that allowed you to grow as an individual. As my limited days at UCSD approach, I cannot express enough gratitude to everyone whom I have met and helped me throughout my undergraduate college years. I will forever be proud to say I am a Triton.

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Practical Tips for Coping with Stress

By Colleen conradi

associate lifestyle editor

Welcome to Week 10, where if you’re not stressed out, then you must not be doing the end of Spring Quarter right!

Kidding … kind of. We all know the build-up to finals week is incredibly busy and stressful, but, in my opinion, Spring Quarter might be the worst of all: it’s moving-out season. What are my plans for summer? Am I going home or staying here? Where can I get a job? How do I make time to study, too? The cycling never seems to end until we reach that glorious moment on June 15, where we’ve made it out in one piece.

In preparation for finals, we are all constantly reminded of preventative actions, such as getting enough sleep, drinking water, watching caffeine intake, and making sure we are eating regularly. However, beyond that, I’ve found that we are not quite given the tools we need to deal with such high anxiousness in the moment when all the stress bubbles up and feels out of control. Because of this, I’d like to take a moment to list some realistic ways we can all cope with this rising anxiousness.

Exercise This is something most of us have heard before, but truly does work. Often times, anxiety can come along with a rapid heart rate and extra nervous energy we don’t know what to do with. According to many therapists and counselors, the best way to combat these physical symptoms is trying to engage in intense exercise for about 15-20 minutes, which just enough time for your body’s actions to catch up to your heart rate.

This way, as you finish your workout, your heart and the rest of your body can come back down together, naturally.

Call a Friend Another common suggestion for times when we are struggling is to reach out to a friend. Often times, I, like many others, find it very difficult to truly open up to my friends or I feel too overwhelmed to dive into the issue. If you can relate to this, make a note in your head to form two categories you’d put each friend under: those you can call to vent, cry, problem-solve with, etc., and those you can call to just listen, laugh, and distract with.

Temperature This tool is one with yet another scientific explanation that my Literature major self cannot express in detail. Additionally, it sounds extremely silly and I refused to believe something so stupid could actually work … until it did. Simply put, get some ice or an ice pack and place it on your forehead. Without going into detail, basically, when your mind is racing and/or beginning to panic, the extreme difference in temperature on

your head forces the brain to only be able to focus on one thing: the ice on your face.

Again, though it sounds odd and ineffective, using ice and some purposeful breathing (which I will cover below!), can be a helpful tool to have. After using it a few times, you might even begin to begrudgingly keep those travel ice packs from CVS in your purse like me.

Breathing Finding ways to control your breathing is a big part of trying to calm anxiety. In the moment, thorough breathing is not the number one thing on our mind. In fact, it is very common for our breath to be very shallow when anxiety is up. To combat this, the number one thing to remember is to make the exhale longer than the inhale.

Additionally, you can try box breathing — inhale - hold - exhale - hold — and repeat for four seconds each. This way, your mind is only occupied with counting and breathing.

Self Soothe Kit This tool is my favorite part! The self soothe kit is something to keep on you at all times: at home, in your backpack, in your purse, etc. Find a paper bag, Ziploc bag, or whatever you’d like to use (mine is a glittery makeup bag). Next, try to find at least one thing for each of the five senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound) to put inside of it. For example, I keep little bottles of lotion, hand sanitizers, a rose water spray, and my favorite chapstick to cover both smell and touch. For sight, you can include pictures of family, friends, vacations, nature, etc. However, personally, I use print outs of some of my favorite memes and pictures of bunnies. Again, whatever works. For sound, I keep earbuds on hand with a list of my favorite playlists and podcasts to listen to.

Finally, for taste, I keep my favorite brand of peppermint gum and a couple of Dove dark chocolates, just in case. The idea of it all is to help calm and soothe yourself with a personalized kit of all your favorite things. And remember, be realistic; only put things in the bag that you know for sure you will go to in a moment of anxiety, panic, and/or distress.

Last, but not least, is my unofficial tool: acknowledge. Allow yourself to identify that you are feeling anxious without trying to fight it by stuffing it down or feeding into the stress. The phrase “name it to tame it” is not lying to you; it will help! Though the skills above seem to only be distractions, remember that in order to use them, you must be able to stop, acknowledge, and then choose to do something different. I’m not saying any of these skills are easy, but if you begin to practice them now, you’ll soon see the long-term benefits of being able to cope with anxiety and to bring the intensity down!

So as we enter Week 10 and finals, prepare those self-soothe kits and throw those ice packs in the freezer! You got this, my fellow Tritons!

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Prioritizing Safe Fan and Player Experiences in Sports

BY Jack Dorfman

sports Editor Injury risk seems baked into sports at all levels, but risk isn’t what makes sports so fun — at least not the physical risk. Spectating sports is fun because it allows one to be emotionally invested, whether one is watching from home or from within the throngs of fans packing stadiums and arenas around the world. Sports are fun because of the sense of community and camaraderie they imbue within our lives.

For those of us not lucky enough to get to play the games we love, all we have is consuming sports via writing, television, radio, and social media. For many of us, sports provide an added layer of meaning to our lives. Globally that may not seem relatable, but sports have bridged racial, gender, and political divides for centuries. Sports is simply a microcosm of society in many ways as well as a powerful thread within the broader social fabric that is becoming more and more frayed by technology.

A lack of safety is not what makes sports what they are

today. The addition of helmets in many major sports came in the 1950s, often in response to injuries. Baseball, football, and hockey all altered or added new protective headgear around this time, and despite the anger of the “purists” within each sport, these innovations have not damaged the integrity of the game. They have made it safer for the players.

Now it’s the players’ turns to push for a safer fan environment.

The players, who as the idols have the easiest time gaining the backing of the fans, need to push for more netting and ensure fans that they will still be able to enjoy the game they love. In the wake of Reinaldo Albert Almora Jr.’s line drive foul ball striking a child — who survived thankfully without major injury — in Houston on Wednesday, May 29, many players and baseball analysts reached out on social media.

Almora Jr. received plenty of love and hate, and a battle emerged on Twitter between the so-called “baseball purists,” who care more about having the game remain the way it has always been, and those more interested in protecting fans

from the players they adore.

I’ll admit, I’ve always wanted to catch a foul ball, but I’ve also felt nervous about a line drive striking a loved one sitting next to me. The tradeoff is simply not worth it. So many of us have fallen in love with the game without having been graced by a looping major league pop-up arcing into our outreached glove. I will still go to baseball games if there is netting from foul pole to foul pole, just like I would still watch football even if their helmets became more protective, or if hits to the head or neck in hockey or football were completely outlawed.

No game is about unnecessary injury risk, and no game is made better by these risks.

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BY Praveen Nair

staff writer Beginning on Friday, May 31, the UC San Diego women’s rowing team headed to the NCAA Division II Women’s Rowing Championships. The Tritons came into the championship ranked No. 3 out of six total teams. The last time UC San Diego qualified for the championship as a full participant was in 2017 (in 2018 only their eight-rower boat participated).

UCSD, however, has never won a national title. The closest the Tritons have gotten was runner-up in 2007 and 2008. This year, the Tritons hope to change that and earn their first title.

For the championship, UCSD fielded two boats, one of eight rowers and one of four rowers.

The rowers on the Varsity 8 team were sophomore coxswain Juni Kim, senior Tonya Khounani, senior Brooke Campbell, junior Audrey Ruttan, junior Caitlan

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Tribelhorn, sophomore Sarah Proctor, sophomore Kyley Jones, junior Morgan Dewing, and senior Alana Zaleski. The Varsity 4 team consisted of senior coxswain Marie Kawahara, senior Madeleine Wagner, senior Evelyn Brady, freshman Sydney Colburn, and senior Isabela Martinez.

On Friday, May 31, the first day of competition, the Tritons Eights and Fours teams both came in last place, finishing third in their respective heats. The Eights team finished in 06:40.80 and the Fours team recorded a time of 07:45.92.

The Fours team was neck and neck with second-place Seattle Pacific University for much of the race, closely tailing Seattle Pacific for the first 1000 meters, but the Tritons eventually fell behind in the final meters to finish in third. The Eights team had a similar race, staying close to the runner-up for most of the race, only falling behind at the end. For the Eights team, the difference between second-place

Florida Institute of Technology and third-place UCSD was 0.34 seconds.

Though head coach Colin Truex was not satisfied with the outcomes of the first day’s races, he remained positive. With regard to the Eights, Truex said in a post-game press conference, “I thought the V8 had a very good race, but definitely left a little speed on the water, as far as some periods of the race where they didn’t have the rhythm they usually had.” He did finish on an optimistic note, saying, “They did a good job of getting their nerves out and getting the experience of racing NCAA again.”

On the next day of the championship, UCSD’s Eights and Fours teams both qualified for the repechage round. Once again, however, the two boats both finished in third place. The Eights boat completed their 2000 meters in 7:10.88; the Fours boat finished in 08:22.98.

The two teams made it into

the Petite Final, competing in that round for 5th or 6th place. The Eights team came up short in their last race, finishing second. The Tritons came out strong in their first 500 meters, leading opponent Jefferson Rams by almost a full second. However, in the next 500 meters, UCSD lost its lead and stayed behind for the rest of the race. The team finished its race with a time of 06:46.04. The Fours team had more success, coming in first in their race. They led opponent Jefferson for the entire race, never giving up their lead, finishing in 07:40.84.

“I am really happy with the way the Fours performed,” Truex said.

“They asserted themselves with a lead and kept walking away and that’s exactly what we talked about last night, making sure we finish really strong and row really hard for the seniors.”

Truex compared the Fours and Eights boats favorably, noting the near success of the Eights boat.

“The Eights seemed like they were well on their way to do the same thing, but they had that overthe-head crab about 500 meters in and it just stopped us dead in our tracks … You lose five or six seconds because of a crab, it’s hard to come back from that,” Truex said.

Had the ‘crab’ (the oar getting stuck in the water) not occurred the team would have had a better chance at a higher finish. “That’s a little bit of a disappointing result, but they fought back and kept going,” Truex said.

With the end of their national title run, UCSD rowing ends their 2018-2019 season. They finished fifth in Fours and sixth in Eights in the NCAA Championship.

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Three Tritons Named All-American First Team in Track & Field

BY Wesley Xiao

staff writer In a hot, humid NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Kingsville, Texas, five UC San Diego athletes were named All-Americans, the most for the program since 2012. Redshirt senior Matt Bowen (triple jump), senior Natalie Caraway (high jump), and senior Nicholas Rack (110-meter hurdles) were named to the FirstTeam All-America, while Bowen (long jump) and junior Claudia Cox (400-meter hurdles) were named to the Second-Team All-America.

Rack is no stranger to the national championships. After missing out on a nationals bid by a hundredth of a second in his sophomore campaign, Rack set himself on a clear path.

“Going into my junior year, I just had that mindset where there was nothing that could stop me from making it,” he said. He has now reached the national finals for two consecutive years, placing fourth last year and sixth this year. Rack earned the honor after squeezing into the final slot in preliminaries by just three hundredths of a second and finished his last race in 14.11 seconds.

Although he dealt with a hip adductor strain during the season, which made workouts and meets difficult, Rack says much of his development happened off the track as well. “I’ve definitely developed senior year at learning how to deal with people,” he said. “It’s been a journey that I will value for the rest of my life, and those experiences will shape who I am in the future — they’ve shaped who I am now.”

Rack leaves UCSD as the record holder in the 110-meter hurdles; he broke an 18-year record with a 14.00 at last season’s California Collegiate Athletic Association championships. As to what having the record means to him, he said, “When I finally hit that last year … it meant a lot. Just seeing, like, the team and all the people I cared about cheering, I knew how much it meant to them.” As for his All-America titles, he said, “It’s sort of validation on how much we’ve worked throughout the year … It’s kind of a feeling of relief and satisfaction where it all pays off.”

Despite the Texas heat, fellow senior Natalie

Caraway, who won CCAA titles this year in both high jump and triple jump, said her competitors made her first national championships a great experience. “As much as it’s competitive in that we’re all capable of doing the same thing, it’s also a really friendly competition. The energy there was really nice,” she said. Caraway finished in a tie for fifth with a 1.69-meter jump, besting her CCAA-winning jump by two centimeters.

Although she was competing in her last meet, Caraway tried to remain focused on the goal ahead. “I didn’t reflect on that before because I feel like that would’ve affected my performance … The whole thing about high jump is that you’re trying to do the same thing every time.”

Like Rack, Caraway believes her experience in track and field helped her develop elsewhere as well. “I think that being a part of this team really helped with my interpersonal skill development, and knowing when to talk to people and when not to talk to people, especially when you’re seeing people after competition,” she said. “Everyone competes differently, and everyone has a different energy.”

But Rack and Caraway don’t remember their results as the best part of their four years in UCSD Track & Field. “What made UCSD Track & Field so incredible was the people and the experiences that I got to have with those people,” Caraway said. “After nationals, I got texts and messages from people who I hadn’t seen in three years …

Just knowing that I still have those connections made the whole experience come together and close really well for me.”

“The people on this team are all about being a family,” Rack said. He especially remembers last season’s conference championships. “There were so many tears because of all the memories and experiences that we all shared together, and it was all just let out after the conference meet.

It was something that really embodied us being a family.”

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Matt Bowen (top) and Nicholas Rack (bottom) compete at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, in Kingsville, Texas.