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UC LAUNCHES NEW ONLINE COURSES Courses are already available to UC students and will open to the public in Spring 2013. By SARAH MOON • Contributing Writer

niversity of California campuses have launched a new program that will allow students to receive UC credit through online courses. The program, UC Online, is available to all UC students now and to a wider audience this spring. The UC Office of the President hosted a teleconference regarding UC Online last Wednesday, Oct. 31. According to interim Director of UC Online Education and UC Davis faculty member Keith Williams, the first online course, Pre-calculus, was offered at UC Merced in Spring 2012. Five more courses had been made available by the end of spring: three at UCLA, one at UC Santa Cruz and one at UC Davis. Last summer UC Irvine offered another four new courses, prep for general chemistry, classical physics, and preparatory calculus 1A and 1B. Four new courses FEATURES are being offered this fall quarter. UC Berkeley is offering “Beauty and Joy of A closer Computing and Introduction to Information, UCSB is offering Maps and Spatial look at Reasoning” and UCR is offering “Dance: Cultures and Contexts.” the value A total of about 1,700 UC students, not including students from UCSD, have of online taken UC Online classes so far. UC online is currently developing 35 new courses. By the Spring 2013 quarter, UC Online plans to enroll non-matriculated stueducation dents from outside the UC system. UC Online is currently working with the faculty PAGE 6 and departments to provide these students with information regarding offered courses, and determine how many students can enroll in the program. “We hope this will be a way to enhance access to UCs by giving these students a chance to enroll,” Williams said. Williams said the program will offer a diverse selection of courses with an emphasis on lower division high-enrollment courses that are usually impacted and limited on campus. “The hope is that by offering some of these courses online, it will give students an opportunity to take a class that they’d otherwise have to wait a quarter or semester to get into,” Williams said. “That’s one of the founding principles that was based in this.” Each online class will use several learning elements and techniques. Many professors post See UC ONLINE, page 3

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Gov. Brown has vowed that he will uphold cuts to education if Prop. 30 fails in Tuesday’s election.

Black Student Union Will Move to Calif. Republicans Will New Office in Old Student Center Try to Block Trigger Cuts BY ZEV HURWITZ News Editor

BY DANIEL SONG Staff Writer UCSD has designated the space directly above the General Store in the Old Student Center as the location for its new Black Resource Center. University officials have already refurbished the site and will open it to students once they choose a director. The new space is meant to create a comfortable work environment for black students who as of Fall 2011 composed 1.9 percent of UCSD’s population. Additionally, the center will create a system that facilitates black students’ matriculation into higher

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education by providing access and retention programs for high school students and undergraduates. The resource center will have a library, tutoring resources for high school students and workshops for law school, medical school and other graduate programs. The newly appointed

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Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Linda Greene, will be responsible for allocating the proper resources and overseeing these programs. “It’s a resource center for all black See BSU, page 3

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Republicans in California’s State Assembly announced last week that they would try to stop trigger cuts to California’s public universities if Proposition 30 fails on Tuesday. Proposition 30’s failure would automatically cut $250 million to both the UC and CSU systems as well as additional cuts to California’s community colleges. UC tuition is expected to jump $2,400 in January 2013 if failed Proposition 30’s trigger cuts go into effect, and students could expect annual increases —potentially around 15 percent—for the next three years.

Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway told Capital Public Radio Oct. 30 that while no specifics are yet available, Republicans in the legislature would try to find alternative ways to fill a budget hole that Prop. 30’s failure would create. “I’m not saying it’s gonna be easy, but that’s our job,” Conway said during a CPR broadcast. “We need to do some soul-searching and look around and figure out what we can do.” Gov. Jerry Brown has said that he will veto any attempt to block the trigger cuts — in doing so, he hopes to encourage more California voters to support the ballot measure, which raises income taxes on house-

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▶ UC System — UCLA announced it will go tobacco-free beginning April

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skeleton masks attacked and peppersprayed a group of five trick-or-treaters on Halloween night in Mira Mesa. One suffered a knife wound to the arm. The victims, all teenagers, were trick-or-treating on Zapata Avenue shortly after 8 p.m. when the men started to pursue them. One of the group members told the men to stop, and a chase and fight ensued. Police say the incident may be gang-related.

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Department announced that a majority of its men’s basketball games will be broadcast live by ESPN Radio 1700 AM. 18 preseason and regular season games will air, beginning with an exhibition game at San Diego State on Monday, Nov. 5. Craig Elsten, voice of Triton basketball’s online broadcasts for its past three seasons, will serve as the play-by-play announcer, with color commentary — expert analysis and background information — by other individuals, including former UCSD players. In addition, for the second year in a row, UCSD Men’s Basketball Head Coach Chris Carlson will join host John Kentera every Tuesday night for a weekly segment on XX Sports 1090’s “Coach” Kentera Show. “We’re extremely happy to be partnering once again with ESPN Radio,” Carlson said.

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22, which is also Earth Day. UCLA will be the first University of California campus to completely ban all forms of smoking and tobacco, including electronic cigarettes. The move follows UC president Mark G. Yudof ’s request that all 10 campuses be tobacco-free by 2014. UCLA professor Linda Sarna hopes the policy will help students to quit smoking. “We know the combination of both using some medicine and social support is the gold standard,” Sarna told NBC Los Angeles.

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residents called the police after seeing strange lights floating in the sky above their neighborhood. People congregated in parking lots, staring at the non-moving lights thousands of feet in the air. Police later discovered that the lights belonged to a neighbor who had spent $300 on balloons, helium, and lights and had attached them to a fishing line that he launched 4,000 feet into the air. r

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nity Theta Delta Chi has been strongly criticized after hanging a gray-headed fake body from a noose outside its chapter’s house on Durant Avenue. The body was part of the fraternity’s haunted house decorations and was quickly taken down after a picture of the decorations sparked accusations of racism on Facebook. Many critics on campus likened the decoration to racially charged public hangings. The haunted house is one of the fraternity’s biggest charity events, with proceeds

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In the October 18 issue, an article about a sombrero-shaped formation in the earth’s crust incorrectly referred to magmatic diapirs as “magnetic diapirs.” In the October 29 issue, a story about A.S. Council’s new First-year Senators incorrectly identified Meggie Le, Leonard Bobbitt, Brad Segal, Shazzy Gustafson, Linda Le and Guy Elezra as members of a Transfer Senator Selection Committee. They also selected the first-year senators.

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LIGHTS & SIRENS Friday, October 26 2:38 p.m.: Traffic stop ▶ A male student was stopped at the intersection of Muir College Drive and Scholars Drive North for driving under the influence of alcohol. Closed by adult arrest. 3:17 p.m.: Stalking ▶ The reporting party believed she was being followed by a male subject at Marshall Residence Halls. Information only. 4:28 p.m.: Suspicious person ▶ An adult male at North Point Drive was sitting in grass while yelling to himself and passersby. Field interview administered. Saturday, October 27 12:54 a.m.: Petty theft ▶ A male student at The Village East 2 “removed a fire extinguisher and expelled its contents” though no emergency was present. Closed by adult arrest. 11:54 a.m.: Welfare check ▶ A social worker at South Mesa Apartments was concerned about a client feeling depressed. Checks OK. 11:59 p.m.: Drunk in public ▶ The subject at Price Center Lobby was intoxicated in public. Transported to detox. Sunday, October 28 4:12 a.m.: Disturbance, domestic violence ▶ A female student hit her spouse. Closed by adult arrest. 5:33 a.m.: Annoying/harassing phone call ▶ The subject at The Village Building 1 received “harassing fax messages.” Report taken. 7:59 a.m.: Noise disturbance ▶ A transient at Horizon Way was “screaming out random comments,” not screaming for help. Checks OK. Monday, October 29 3:21 p.m.: Information

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“erratically” on Sun God Lawn. Information only. 5:54 p.m.: Hazard situation ▶ Someone in Marshall Apartments West was shooting a BB gun or airsoft gun and hit one person. Report taken. 12:30 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.: Grand theft ▶ A bicycle worth $1,500 was stolen at Revelle College. Online report submitted. Tuesday, October 30 12:40 a.m.: Citizen contact ▶ The subject at Glider Port was in possession of prescription drugs without a prescription. Closed by adult citation. 11:04 a.m.: Information ▶ The reporting party at Marshall Apartments West attempted to get a restraining order against her exboyfriend. Information only. 7:33 p.m.: Smoke check ▶ There was a dumpster fire at North America Hall. Referred to other agency, San Diego Fire Department. Wednesday, October 31 1:23 a.m.: Citizen flag-down ▶ There was a complaint at the intersection of Villa La Jolla Drive and Nobel Drive of “a publicly intoxicated adult male cussing at passersby and walking into traffic.” Transported to detox. 4:07 p.m.: Injury ▶ An adult female fell and struck her head at Hopkins Parking Structure. Transported to hospital. 4:11 p.m.: Medical aid ▶ An adult female at Student Health was having a seizure. Transported to hospital. 10:15 p.m.: Citizen contact ▶ The subject at Sixth College Apartments was “in possession of metal knuckles.” Report taken. —SARAH KANG Staff Writer

▶ UC ONLINE, from page 1

introductory videos along with the class syllabus and a calendar with assignment due dates. Professors post lectures in various mediums, including videos, podcasts and PowerPoints. Most classes have activities, such as blog posts and interactive data tables, which count toward participation and assignment grades, and some also have the option to participate in online study groups with other students enrolled in the course.

UC Online classes will be covered by class tuition costs for UC students. Students matriculated to one UC campus have the option of enrolling in courses at another UC campuses but may face difficulties regarding financial aid and major credit due to the differing campus systems. UCSD will offer its first UC Online course, Acoustics and Digital Music Creation, in Winter or Spring 2013. According to Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs

Sammy Chang, UCSD faculty and department members have expressed concerns regarding the effects of offering systemwide courses and allowing students outside of the UC system access to UC curricula. “UCSD’s online education plan should focus first on serving UCSD’s own students,” Chang said. “I believe online courses work if it’s within the campus, not the entire UC system.” Readers can contact Sarah Moon at smoon@ ucsd.edu

New Calif. Law will Give More Notice Before Fee Hikes ▶ PROP 30, from page 1

holds earning over $250,000 for seven years and increases sales tax by onequarter-of-one-percent for four years. Proposition 30 is particularly important to Brown, as the enacted 2012 state budget assumes the measure will pass and uses the new funding to close budget holes. “I will veto any bill that attempts to undo the trigger cuts,” Brown said in a recent interview with Capital Public Radio. “We have to balance our budget.”

In September, the governor signed AB 970, a law that requires the California college systems to give students and their families more advance warning before enacting a fee hike. University systems will now have to tell affected parties at least 30 days prior to passing a tuition hike. Despite the new law, UCSD Vice President of External Affairs Olamide Noah sent an email to councilmembers on Nov. 1 clarifying that although, under the new law, UC Regents would need to announce potential increases at least 10 days before a meeting, the

law does not take effect until January. “Today, [UC Student Regent Jonathan Stein] told me that AB 970 goes into effect Jan. 1, and thus, unfortunately, won’t apply to a November tuition increase,” she wrote. Even if Prop. 30 passes, UC students will not be clear from more fee increases. A potential tuition hike of around five percent is likely for 2013-2014 even if Proposition 30 is successful. Readers can contact Zev Hurwitz at zhurwitz@ucsd.edu

New BSU Resource Center Had Been In Works Since 2009 ▶ BSU, from page 1

students regardless of political affiliation or culturally black identity,” BSU Co-Chair Grant White said. According to White and BSU cochair Bijon Robinson, the plan for the center began in the summer of 2009. In 2009, the BSU board wrote a report entitled “Do U C Us?” which compiled testimonies and statistics about the state of diversity at UCSD and emphasized the lack of resources available to black students.

When racially charged events stirred the campus in the winter of 2010, the BSU included the resource center in a list of demands that it believed were necessary to address the poor climate on campus. White and Robinson sat on the hiring committee and worked extensively with university officials to hire a director for the center. BSU’s endeavor gained momentum once former UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox approved the project. The former chancellor brought

in a team of experienced administrators like Kathleen Johnson and Gary Radcliff to form a hiring committee. “Once we convinced administration like the chancellor that this was important, it all just fell into place,” Robinson said. The center will likely open sometime during winter quarter, after the Vice Chair of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion assumes her role on Jan. 2. Readers can contact Daniel Song at d9song@ ucsd.edu

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OPINION Daylight Saving is a Convenient Falsehood

Come at a Price

inding my clock back one hour this past Sunday felt like taking a Sharpie and willfully changing the expiration date on a carton of milk. I have realized that by simply changing a label, I can be deceived into believing anything that better aligns with my interests, whether that be gaining an extra hour

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Florida’s governor recommends that the state create a task force to keep tuition lower for STEM majors in an effort to generate more in-demand workers — a move that ignores the problem of a lack of student interest in those majors. By SAAd AsaD • Senior Staff Writer

n a move to increase the number of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) majors, a task force created by Florida Gov. Rick Scott recommended that tuition be kept lower for certain majors. Despite the benevolent intentions of the governor’s team, this proposal is a poor way to incite interest in the sciences. The task force specifically recommends that tuition be lower for “strategic areas of emphasis.” This term is defined by the legislature and considers STEM and health-related majors as focus areas. Over the next three years, students enrolled in these majors will not face tuition increases. If there is lost revenue from stable tuition rates, the tuition for students in majors like political science, anthropology and psychology will increase. The trend of differential tuitions at universities began in the ‘80s, and the number of institutions doing so has swiftly increased over the past two decades. According to a study from the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, 143 universities charge some form of differential tuition. Of these 143, 29 percent are bachelor’s institutions and 41 percent are doctoral institutions. The University of Maine, for example, charges an additional $75 for each engineering course. Another study by the Advisory Board Company found that roughly one-third of public research universities use some

form of differential pricing to make their business and engineering programs more expensive. This analysis considered the additional program and equipment fees as a de facto higher tuition. On average, business programs have tuition 20-25 percent higher than the base rate, and engineering 25-30 percent higher. Despite this pricing, the number of STEM graduates has remained steady over the past 30 years. Florida, then, would be bucking the trend by making engineering programs cheaper than other majors. This is why this proposal is quite puzzling. Part of the reason universities charge higher tuitions for these majors is because they are in higher demand. Students flock to these majors knowing they will receive a job with a high salary once they graduate. The median starting salary in the U.S. for engineers is $58,581, compared to $42,569 for all graduates. And the unemployment rate for engineers is under 2 percent, compared to 7.9 percent for other occupations. If job prospects for these majors were poor, it might make sense to lower tuition rates. For the most part, though, these students will graduate with well-paying jobs and be able to pay off student loans.

For the most part, these students will graduate with well-paying jobs and be able to pay off student loans.

QUICK TAKES Series Must Listen to its Loyal Fans

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The Walt Disney Company bought Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion on Oct. 30, and plans to continue the Star Wars franchise with three new films, the first of which is set to premiere in 2015.

New Trilogy Is Answering Fan Demand Deal Shows Corporate Conglomeration

Die-hard “Star Wars” fans were aghast when Blu-Ray versions of the six films arrived in 2011 with random modifications, such as a shiny R2-D2 and edited dialogue. Recent history indicates that the upcoming seventh “Star Wars” episode is sure to be another ill-conceived departure from the original trilogy, diluting the appeal of the franchise. After a computer graphics-heavy prequel trilogy, the critically maligned animated television series “The Clone Wars,” and various Blu-Ray re-releases, it is disconcerting that anybody will be taking the reins for yet another spinoff, much less Disney. As online commenters rightly note, the iconic Han Solo will be a crotchety septuagenarian, and Princess Leia will be added to the stable of generic Disney princesses. In comparison to the three original films, everyone from film critic Roger Ebert to Tumblr bloggers panned the three prequel episodes for the poor acting and the irritating presence of the creature Jar-Jar Binks. Following a string of unfavorable receptions, the producers should learn from their mistakes and realize that a seventh addition would only be a step in the wrong direction. Alienating the franchise’s most ardent supporters is certainly not the way to build upon the “Star Wars” legend. The historic success of the films has, in part, depended on avid fans at Comic-Con toting Darth Vader masks and wielding lightsabers — this latest attempt at a cash grab will only please five-year old kids whose allegiances are likely too ephemeral to spawn lifelong Star Wars addictions.

George Lucas is back with three more “Star Wars” episodes, except this time he’s passing the film rights to everyone’s favorite childhood franchise, Disney. While Lucas’ decision to create a prequel to the original series in 1999 has been criticized, these new films will answer fans’ calls for more “Star Wars” and expose a new generation to a groundbreaking series that began in 1977. Many fans on Tumblr have labeled Lucas a sell-out, believing that creating even more movies will ruin the series. But by continuing “Star Wars,” Disney and Lucas will be satisfying many die-hard fans’ need for more. Disney Chief Executive Robert A. Iger stated that the release of the latest film in 2005 had created “pent-up demand.” The “Star Wars” hype appears to be ever- present. Two summers ago, Disneyland revamped Star Tours, a virtual attraction that garnered a two-hour long wait at its opening. The Cartoon Network series “Star Wars: the Clone Wars” aired in 2008, and with three million total viewers, set the record as the network’s most-watched series premiere. It is currently completing its 5th season. Additionally, there are 64,684 “Jawas” who follow the Star Wars subreddit. Star Wars is not a dying fad. By continuing the series, many new fans will be able to “discover the force” and share in Yoda’s wisdom.

Last Tuesday, Disney announced that Lucasfilm Ltd. is joining the Disney family, and that a new Star Wars trilogy is in the works. The $4.05 billion deal gives Disney creative control of both the “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” franchises, as well as the production companies Industrial Light & Magic and Industrial Sound. While the new films show promise, this deal is just another example of corporate conglomeration. A decade ago, Disney was a groundbreaking animation studio, but now it is becoming obsessed with commercialization. With this deal, Lucasfilm joins a long list of acquired Disney properties: Pixar, Marvel, ABC and ESPN, to name a few. The new “Star Wars” venture seems like an attempt to reel in any last profits from an old franchise. Disney traditionally releases a few films a year that are of great quality, but in recent years, it seems like Disney has been sacrificing quality for quantity. In 2011 alone, Disney and its subsidiary Touchstone Pictures released an astounding 14 films, with only three of these being commercial hits. In 1995, Walt Disney Pictures released far fewer films, two of which grossed over $40 million dollars and two more that had high “fresh” ratings on the film critic website Rottentomatoes.com. While fans are hopeful the new “Star Wars” films will show merit, the purchase of Lucasfilm is further evidence that Disney has transformed from a family-friendly animation studio into a faceless $40-billion-a-year empire.

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of daylight or an extra day of eating my Cheerios with milk. Twice a year, Daylight Saving Time makes me question my intelligence. One, because I still mistakenly call it Daylight Savings, with an extra “s” in “savings” — no matter how many times AP style corrects me — and two, it gives me the feeling that I am feeding myself a convenient fiction. The sun now appears to rise and set earlier than it did 24 hours ago. This time change is agreeable with my schedule, as I no longer have to bump into my fridge every morning and solemnly eat breakfast in the dark. But of course this is no coincidence — the measurement of time is largely a manmade construct and has been tailored to accommodate to man himself. During World War I, people realized that they could simply change the time in spring to get an extra hour of sunlight and save energy for wartime production. Between wars and after World War II, Daylight Saving was practiced on a state-bystate basis until it became nationally standardized in 1966. In 2007, the time period between moving the clocks forward in spring and backward in fall was lengthened by four weeks, due to environmentalist cries that 100,000 barrels of oil could be saved per each extended day. It disconcerts me to know that while the national government can regulate mundane issues, such as the sale of defective items at garage sales, it can also change how an entire nation (aside from the rebel states Hawaii and Arizona) perceives time. Moving a clock’s hour hand back does not literally alter the course of time. If Congress suddenly declared this month to be December and not November, I would not be surprised if people unhesitatingly concurred while exalting in Christmas’ quicker arrival. When it comes down to it, Daylight Saving is basically a lie that we tell ourselves to better suit our needs. An extra hour of daylight in the springtime is pleasant, and helps us cut down our electricity bills. No one likes to commute in the darkness every fall morning, and it’s a hassle to stumble over bushes in the dark while walking home in the spring evenings. Since the practice is advantageous and has been as regular an occurrence as the changing of the leaves every autumn, people don’t think twice about it actually being a falsehood. Whether we questioned the validity of turning our clocks back, we all benefited from the extra hour last weekend. Most certainly, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney must be cheering for the extra 60 minutes they get to vie for votes before Election Day tomorrow.

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Solve For X By Philip Jia

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

UCSD Should Not Ignore Violence in Israel

Stigma of STEM Majors Must be Removed ▶ Majors, from page 4 The state is wrong to subsidize tuitions based on job market needs. As economist Alex Tabarrok explains, wages already reflect their needs. Engineer salaries are high because firms highly demand them. Tuition rates are not the reason students do not become STEM majors, but rather it is a lack of desire to study STEM fields. A study by the Business-Higher Education Forum in 2011 showed that only 17 percent of high school seniors were both proficient in math and interested in STEM fields. This corresponds closely with the 16 percent of all college graduates who major in these programs. Making tuition lower will not

motivate students who don’t like math to suddenly become physicists or engineers. Nor should we encourage students who would perform better in other majors to enter the STEM fields unmotivated and unprepared. To resolve the problem of a lack of STEM graduates, the public education system needs to be overhauled to adequately teach students in science and math. For example, students with an interest in these fields should be integrated into the workforce as soon as possible with an apprenticeshiptype program. At UCSD, for example, the Society of Women Engineers hosts an event where high school girls can tour engineering labs and become familiar with the engineering career. This

teaches students to enjoy math and science early and removes any stigma these subjects may have. While the goal of increasing STEM graduates is noble, altering tuition rates are an ineffective means to do so. No dance major will suddenly become interested in computer science because the degree is cheaper. Trying to coordinate tuition rates with the market simply will not compensate for the failure of the public education system. We should be vigilant against any palliatives like this and instead work towards comprehensive school reform in order to actually increase the number of STEM students. Readers can contact Saad Asad at sasad@ucsd.edu

Dear Editor, As I write this letter (Oct. 24) the academic year is in full swing here in the U.S., but half a world away, in southern Israel, classes have been cancelled for the second day and millions of Israeli residents have been instructed to stay near public shelters or the fortified rooms in their houses. Life in southern Israel has been shut down by a hail of rockets coming from nearby Gaza. Hamas, the fundamentalist Islamic terrorist organization that rules Gaza and openly dedicates itself to eradicating Israel, has admitted launching the rockets. Thus far, the barrage has injured six civilians, two of them critically. This is a not a new situation for Israelis; 800 rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza so far this year. An exasperated Israeli woman whose neighborhood has been struck by five rockets lamented to a New York Times reporter, “It is absurd that we live like this.” Yet most UCSD students are not cognizant of these frequent rocket attacks on Israel because awareness of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on campus is primarily driven by MSA and SJP, whose agenda is, I feel, to convince their fellow students that the conflict is a straightforward case of egregious behavior by Israel perpetuated upon blameless and powerless Palestinians. They have no desire, therefore, to raise awareness of events, like the current unfolding spasm, which involve Palestinians inflicting deadly violence upon innocent Israeli citizens and which reveals a much more complex conflict dynamic then the narrative they are

promoting. Instead their preferred modus operandi is to wait until Israel is pushed to respond in some highly dramatic fashion, like building security barriers or launching military operations to root out terrorists. When that happens they go wild with righteous indignation, bemoaning the inevitable impact on Palestinian civilians while assiduously sterilizing the narrative they serve up to the campus community so it contains no hint of the Palestinian provocations. So far the current episode of violence has offered no grist for the Israel-obsession mill because Israel’s military response, as widely reported by the press, has been tempered and precise, using air strikes to eliminate several rocketlaunching squads without inflicting civilian casualties inside Gaza. As long as this remains the case, the Israel demonizing contingent on campus will ignore the situation. However, Israeli leaders are warning that if the rocket fire doesn’t relent, they may be forced to launch a larger military response as they were in 2008 when Israel invaded Gaza. If that happens, there is bound to be Palestinian civilian casualties and then we will witness the Israel demonizing machine vociferously come to life on our campus. Either way, we can be sure this year the same anti-Israel crowd will, once again, launch the usual obscenely disingenuous campaign to cajole A.S. into adopting a resolution calling for UCSD to divest in companies like General Electric because they supply Israel’s Air Force with the very technology that allows it to surgically target terrorists while avoiding Palestinian civilians. — David Feifel, M.D., Ph.D Professor, School of Medicine

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FEATURES Admitting the Facts About Low Admit Rates

ver the past decade, undergraduate admission rates have fallen across the country. And while a report released by the Registrar’s Office on Oct. 23 may suggest that UCSD is bucking the trend with a slightly higher acceptance rate for 2012-13 (37.7 percent), the rankings-obsessed should relax and remember that we are still far more selective than we were in 2000,

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COURSES GO ONLINE

By uploading video podcasts of classes to a newly launched website, UCSD is joining a national movement.

By Cynthia Feng / Contributing Writer

ith this year’s launch of UC Online, a program that allows UC students to take courses for academic credit online, the University of California is jumping on a bandwagon with some very prominent riders. Pundits, columnists and techies alike have raved that online course offerings have the potential to transform higher education for students, faculty and casual learners. Because we are following in the footsteps of popular online education websites — MIT’s Open Courseware Suite, Stanford’s Coursera, UC Berkeley’s webcast.berkeley, Academic Earth, and Khan Academy, just to name a few — UCSD is in a unique position to reap the benefits. While the online education programs mentioned above are catered toward their respective universities, UC Online aims to implement a program of courses across all UC campuses. Several UC campuses currently offer courses through the site, all of which are covered by students’ class tuition costs. The program’s focus is on impacted, lower-division courses: the idea is to make it easier for students to enroll in their required general education and major classes, which are normally more difficult to get into. UCSD will be making its debut on UC Online this winter or spring, depending on the instructors’ availability. Its first offering will be a course titled Acoustics and Digital Music Creation. Eventually, UC Online hopes to extend its program to non-UC students. But as of now, UC Online is open to all UC students, who are also allowed to enroll in courses offered by other UCs. However, transferring credits and recieving financial aid for classes offered by other UC campuses will not be a simple process, according to a page on the website for UC Online. It’s a concern that’s been voiced before. In an interview with The Week in August 2012, Jason Wingard, a vice

dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School, expressed the concern that online courses can lower the perceived value of an institution. “You run the risk of potentially diluting your brand,” he wrote. However, some of the most successful online course offerings, such as Open Yale Courses and Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative, have been launched without any significant brand depreciation. Carnegie Mellon received a record high of 26,431 applications last year, and Yale has not faced any significant changes in its admissions numbers. “Our purpose is to create and disseminate knowledge to a broad range of people,” Director of Open Yale Courses Diana Kleiner said. “It is great that we can harness the power of the internet.” Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative offers online courses and collects real-time data about student activity, which allows students to spend more time with difficult concepts via a collection of freely available videos. “OLI courses run in combination with the classroom setting to create the best possible education for our students,” OLI director Candace Thille said. By contrast, UC Online is designed for students who can’t get into popular classes. Although courses offered through UC Online do have instructors, students are not expected to go into a physical classroom to learn. In 2007, researchers at Carnegie Mellon conducted a study that showed that students taking an OLI introductory statistics course with minimal instructor contact performed as well as, or better than, students in traditional classes. This comes as good news for students who find themselves in the position of having to take an in-demand course through See ONLINE page 10

when we had an admission rate of 55.7 percent. More importantly, perhaps, they should remember that a lower admission rate does not translate directly to a better education. There are many other factors at play. For one thing, the world is a more competitive place than it used to be. Whether it’s getting a minimumwage job at McDonald’s for a summer, or an unpaid internship at a research firm for a quarter, the lists of candidates for positions seem to get bigger with every year. According to a long-overdue report published Sept. 22 by job search engine “Simply Hired”, it is no illusion. In 1991, there was an average of four applicants per available job— though this figure varied widely by the industry and level of the position. By January 2012, that number had risen to 23. In the language of admission rates, that’s a drop from 25 percent to 4.3 percent. To put that into perspective, it is now harder to get a salaried job than it is to be accepted to Harvard, which had a 5.9 percent overall acceptance rate this year. It’s counterintuitive. But it makes more sense when you take the mechanisms into account, which is what James Rosenbaum did in his 1996 paper, “Gatekeeping in an Era of More Open Gates.” In a nutshell, he proposed that panic about jobs leads people to apply to more places, which leads to lower admission rates, which leads to more panic, and so on. The cycle only stops when job seekers (or college applicants) grow discouraged or complacent, and cease to apply. Back when UCSD had a 55.7 percent acceptance rate, its admitted students applied to a median of six other colleges, according to statistics released by the UC Office of the registrar. For the 2012-13 batch of freshmen, that median has shot up to 13. It’s a cycle that has very little to do with the quality of education offered by a university. Take Oxford and Cambridge, the top universities in the U.K. Their admissions rates have actually increased over the past decade: They admitted 18.4 percent of their applicants in 2002, but nearly 26 percent last year. The finding is consistent with a trend called “discouragement” observed by the economist Raquel Fernandez in a 1996 paper, “On the Political Economy of Education Subsidies:” As students get discouraged by the prospect of social mobility in poor economic times, the trend See admission page 10

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A Different Type of Evangelist

The Gideons of San Diego come to Library Walk. BY Ayan Kusari Features Editor

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Neil, 34, holds a poster on Library Walk. He described the Gideons’ approach to evangelism as “passive”. The Gideons refused to be photographed for this article.

Most mornings, there are only five or six of them, scattered across Library Walk and Warren Mall, standing next to cardboard boxes of pocket Bibles and rubbing their palms together to keep warm. They come early, before the sun rises, and wait patiently for UCSD students to wake. The Gideons of San Diego first came to the UCSD campus Oct. 15, and are here to stay for the rest of the quarter. On many mornings, they share their space with the more vocal evangelists on Library Walk, who hold large neon posters and preach about fire and brimstone. Unlike these other Christian activists, the Gideons declined to be photographed for The Guardian. “We don’t like drawing attention. And we don’t tell people they’re going to hell,” said Aaron, a Gideon who is 63 years old and retired. He refused to provide his last name. “We’re just worried they might not make it to heaven.” This is the group’s first year at UCSD, but they have campaigned at San Diego State in previous years. Wherever they go, their task is simple: hand out Bibles and ask people if they think they’re going to Heaven. “I wasn’t always saved,” Aaron said. “I wasn’t very religious at all, when I was young.” Aaron said his wife had been more religious than he had been, at first: “But things changed when I lost my job. Those were hard times.” Another Gideon named Dan identified himself as a UCSD graduate: class of ‘76 with a degree in

mechanical engineering. “I became a Christian right here. Well not exactly here — it was in Plaza Cafe.” Dan said he was inspired to take religion more seriously after an interaction with the college Christian group, Campus Crusades. They were holding a recruitment event in the dining hall around lunchtime. “I was eating a cheeseburger when

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It’s a very passive approach. All the Gideons do is pass out the book — which is good — but it’s all they do. It allows them to avoid some of confrontation that we have to put up with on a regular basis. When Jesus said to go out to the highways and the hedges, he didn’t mean for it to be that easy.”

one of them, a girl wearing a CC shirt came up to me and asked me, quite simply, if I knew whether I was going to Heaven or not.” Dan said that when he confided that he wasn’t sure, the girl invited him to join CC, beginning what he calls half a lifetime of religious service. Another Gideon named Samuel said he joined the Gideons when he was 33, when he moved to the San

Diego area and faced work problems. “We preach the same thing any other denomination,” Samuel said. “We just take preaching more seriously than most others.” When they are campaigning simultaneously, the Gideons keep their distance from the other, more vocal Christian activists on campus. One such activist, a man who identified himself only as “Neil the Christian”, and who is pictured in the photograph for this article, said that the Gideons are unlike any other evangelical group he has encountered. “It’s a very passive approach,” he said. “All the Gideons do is pass out the book — which is good — but it’s all they do. It allows them to avoid some of the confrontation that we have to put up with on a regular basis. When Jesus said to go out to the highways and the hedges, he didn’t mean for it to be that easy.” However, various members of the Gideons group said they face significant opposition from students, in spite of the relative passivity of their approach. “It’s unusual,” Aaron said about being asked for an interview. He expected harsh criticism, not questions. “Students don’t like us, normally. They shout things at us. Tell us to leave” He said, however, that things had not always been difficult for Christian groups visiting the UCSD campus. “When I was here, everyone was excited to learn about the Good News. But I guess things are different now.” Readers can contact Ayan Kusari at akusari@ucsd.edu

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7pm TAHRIR – ERC GREAT HALL Soon after the first reports came about the occupation of Tahrir Square, filmmaker Stefano Savona headed for Cairo, where he stayed amidst the evergrowing masses for weeks. His film introduces us to young Egyptians who spend all day and night talking, shouting, singing, and finally expressing everything they were forbidden to say until now. As the protests grow in intensity, the regime’s repression becomes more violent, with the terrifying potential for massacre never far away. Tahrir is a film written in the faces and voices of those who experienced this period in the square. It is a day-to-day account of the revolution, capturing the anger, fear, resolve, and finally elation of those who made it happen.

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8pm ASCE PRESENTS: THE GASLAMP KILLER PORTER'S PUB The Gaslamp Killer is a Los Angeles-based DJ whose electric style ranges from psychedelia and world music to dubstep and left-field hip-hop. Associated with Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder Records, he made his production debut in the late 2000s with a series of EPs. Born William Benjamin Bensussen, he originally comes from San Diego, CA, whose downtown Gaslamp District’s bar scene inspired him to name himself the Gaslamp Killer in disgust for much of the patronage. Upon relocating to Los Angeles, he found a niche for himself amid the city’s massive underground party scene and ultimately found a home for himself as a resident DJ at the club Low End Theory, which resulted in a series of club-sponsored podcasts. He has released his latest album 'Breakthrough' in 2012, for which he is currently touring.

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2pm ASK THE RECREATION FITLIFE DIETITIAN! – RIMAC WEIGHT ROOM Have a food or nutrition question that's been puzzling you? Need help reading a food label or understanding the difference between a good fat and a bad fat? Ask Yumi Petrisko, MS, RD, CSSD, Recreation FitLife's Registered Dietitian. Yumi has weekly office hours to answer questions and offer nutrition advice.

3pm PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE COOPERATION – ERC ADMIN BLDG, ROOM 115 IICAS Speaker Series presents Dr. Michael Bechtel, SNSF Professor at the University of St. Gallen, Political Science. Climate change mitigation requires international cooperation and for this cooperation to be sustainable over the long term, formal global agreements to reduce CO2 emissions need broad public support. Using data from a unique experimental conjoint survey, Dr. Bechtel provides estimates of the demand for different types of climate agreements in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

8pm ARGENTINE TANGO CLUB WEEKLY PRACTICA – WEST BALCONY, MAIN GYM The Argentine Tango Club at UCSD presents a weekly practica from 8-11pm on Wednesdays during fall quarter. The first hour (8-9pm) is especially dedicated to beginners and advanced beginners. No partner required; no prior experience necessary. For more information about the club, visit ucsdtango.wordpress.com and friend us on Facebook (facebook.com/UCSDTango) or join the mailing list.

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Selectivity Doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Mean Quality â&#x2013;ś admission, from page 6 of lower admissions rates in difficult economic times begins to reverse. Considering that the UC system admitted a lower fraction of students overall, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highly unlikely that discouragement is to blame for UCSDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slightly increased admission rate this year. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still something to keep an eye out for in the upcoming years. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another factor that can have a strong impact on admissions rates: population. And while itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s often overlooked, it can sometimes play the most significant role of all. In India, which has fewer than 400 universities for its 1.2 billion citizens, admissions rates for the Indian Institute of Technology have hovered around 2 percent in good economic times and bad, for over 30 years. The most significant contributor to the depressed over-

Scope of Online Education Disputed â&#x2013;ś ONLINE, from page 6 UC Online. Advocates of OLI and other experimental online university education programs point to their ability to increase the accessibility to education. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Higher education can raise graduation rates and lower costs to support a greater number of students earning a higher quality education,â&#x20AC;? Thille said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are being asked to educate not just more students, but a much greater diversity [of them]. We need to use all our available tools to extend this reach.â&#x20AC;? Still, Thille does not believe a website can fully replace instructorstudent learning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Though the classroom setting is expensive, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it can

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THE UCSD GUARDIAN | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012 | www.Ucsdguardian.org

Tritons Win Eighth CCAA Title, Men’s Basketball Picked to Finish 11th, Women Predicted to Place Third Clain Automatic NCAA Bid By rachel uda Sports Editor

▶WOMEN’S Soccer, from page 16 From there the Tritons hunkered down to protect their narrow 1-0 lead. True freshman goalkeeper Kelcie Brodsky registered an impressive nine saves, protecting the net from a Sonoma attack that recorded 27 shots to UCSD’s 11. The Triton backline, made up of all-CCAA selections Ellen Wilson and Hayley Johnson, did well to shut down one of the most dangerous offenses in the conference for 44 minutes. In the last 45 seconds of the match, Seawolf forward Margi Osmundson found her way into the UCSD goal box, lifting a shot over Brodsky to send the game into overtime. Spent from 90 minutes of play, neither team seemed to seriously consider a golden goal victory, with both UCSD and Sonoma State registering just two shots in the second overtime period. Both teams began the shootout with two solid finishes. Hernandez

finished her penalty to give UCSD a brief 2-1 lead, which held through the next three opportunities, all missed. Wilson and Johnson both finished their chances to lift the Tritons to the win. “This is what UCSD soccer is all about and I’m so happy to finally win the CCAA Tournament,” Johnson said. “We’ve been working hard and starting to play really well and are all honored to join the best teams that have come through the program as league champions.” With the conference title, the Tritons earn the automatic bid to the NCAA Division II National Championship. The NCAA Selection Show, where the NCAA seedings will be announced, is scheduled for today at 4:30 p.m., available to be streamed live at NCAA.com. UCSD will be making its 12th appearance in their 13 years since moving to Division II. Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ucsd.edu.

Balancing School, Work and Sport: The Student-Athelete Struggle ▶ ANDERSON, from page 12 depleted energy, and the near-inconceivable stress, the question remains: If we aren’t going to make money off it someday, why do we do it? Obviously, the answer is different for every athlete. For some, it’s that sense of belonging to a community that “gets” them — a community that knows what excruciating yet selfinflicted physical exhaustion feels like, or that near-familial bond that forms between teammates. For oth-

ers, it’s to stay in peak shape. While still others are addicted to it — the floods of endorphins, the surges of adrenaline, the unbelievable rush that follows a big win or even the soulcrushing despair that comes with a big loss. And, as one of my friends ever-so-eloquently put it, some do it for “the chicks.” But what it all comes down to is actually pretty simple: we do it because we can’t imagine what our lives would be like without it.

MEN’S BASKETBALL — The UCSD Men’s Basketball team has been picked to finish second to last in the annual CCAA preseason coaches’ poll, released last Wednesday, Oct. 31. In 2011, the Tritons were picked to finish 10th in the 12-team conference. UCSD proved to over perform at the beginning of the season, going 5-1 to start, eventually closing the campaign out with a 6-16 CCAA record, good for 11th place. Chico State, the defending CCAA regular season champion, tops the preseason poll for the second season in a row, while Cal Poly Pomona was ranked second, and CSU San Bernardino came in at third. “This season, we should definitely show some improvement,” starting forward Justin Brue said. “[Coach

Carlson’s] made some changes, that will let us play to our strengths and hopefully help us out a bit.” The Tritons have one notable gap in the roster, left by the departures of 6’8” starting center Christian Hatch and his relief 6’10” Ryan Wheeler. Hatch served as UCSD’s leading scorer, averaging 12.5 points per game, while also leading in rebounds with 7.3 per game. This season, UCSD Head Coach Chris Carlson adds five new freshmen to his 14-player roster, although only one of his newcomers is reported to be a center. “I think that [Carlson] recruited some really good players,” Brue said. “I think a few of them are definitely going to be getting some playing time, and I really like the chemistry that the team has now.”

UCSD opens up the 2012-2013 season with an exhibition match, scheduled for today, Monday, Nov. 5, at 7:05 p.m. against No. 20 San Diego State, at Aztec Stadium.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL —Despite going 30-3 in the regular season and 21-1 in conference last season, the UCSD Women’s Basketball team goes into 2012 picked to finish third in the CCAA. In the annual preseason coaches’ poll, the Tritons were ranked behind first place CSU Monterey Bay as well as Cal State Los Angeles. Granted, not much is left of the core of the 2011-2012 team that set the program record for number of wins in a single season. This season’s squad will go without forward Lauren Freidenberg — a three-time All-CCAA selection — as well as UCSD’s all-time assist leader, guard Chelsea Carlisle. Although Carlisle will remain with the program as an assistant coach, the Tritons will certainly miss her impact on the court, as she has been UCSD’s leading scorer for the past three seasons. Rounding out the departures is former head coach Charity Elliott, who left her post at UCSD for a

position at Loyola Marymount. Fortunately, the UCSD Athletics Department has found a more than qualified replacement in Heidi Vanderveer, whose background includes experience at the WNBA and national levels. The Tritons retain guards, fifth-year Daisy Feder and senior Emily Osga, both 2011-

2012 All CCAA-First team selections. The Tritons also return junior forward Erin Dautremont, a CCAA Second team selection. UCSD’s first game is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 9 at the Disney Tip-Off Classic, held in Anaheim, California, where the Tritons will look to protect their title.

CCAA Preseason Coaches Poll

SCHOOL 1.Chico State 2. Cal Poly Pomona 3. Cal State San Bernardino 4. Humboldt State 5. Cal State Dominguez Hills 6. Sonoma State 7. Cal State L.A. 8. San Francisco State 9. Cal State Stanislaus 10. Cal State East Bay 11. UC San Diego 12. Cal State Monterey Bay

Points 112 106 88 87 85 81 62 61 37 33 28 13

CCAA Preseason Coaches Poll

Points SCHOOL 114 1. Cal State Monteray Bay 100 2. Cal State L.A. 94 3. UC San Deiego 89 4. Chico State 82 T-5. Humboldt State 82 T-5. Cal Poly Pomona 56 7. Cal State East Bay 49 8. Cal State San Bernardino 47 9. Sonoma State 35 10. Cal State Cominquez Hills 30 11. San Francisco State 14 12. Cal State Stanislaus

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SPORTS Finally First After three seasons of falling in the CCAA Championships, the UCSD Women’s Soccer team has captured the conference title. By Rachel Uda • Sports Editor CCAA ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM MVP: GABI HERNANDEZ ELLEN WILSON ALEXA ENLOW

istorically, The UCSD Women’s Soccer team has performed poorly in penalty shootouts. In the past two seasons, the Tritons have been eliminated in the semifinal round by penalty kicks. This season, UCSD broke the curse of the semifinal stumbling block, sinking CSU Stanislaus 1-0 in the first round before beating No. 7 nationally ranked Sonoma State 4-2 in penalty kicks. It may have been the maturity of a team that’s been to the CCAA tournament four times in the past four seasons and the NCAA Division II Tournament twice, or the fact that the Tritons needed a conference title to assure a national tournament berth, but either way, No. 13 UCSD took the CCAA title over No. 7 Sonoma State in penalties.

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“It was a great feeling to finally win the CCAA tournament after coming up short for three years,” Wilson said. “Both games were battles, but I think we kept our composure and put in a lot of work and definitely deserved to come out on top.” The Tritons advanced to the title match after taking down CSU Stanislaus, a team that defeated UCSD 1-0 just two weeks prior. Yesterday, Nov. 4, senior forward Gabi Hernandez broke the 0-0 gridlock in the 24th second of the second half. Hernandez — named the CCAA Tournament MVP — sent a high, arching shot into the top corner to put UCSD up 1-0. See WOMEN’S SOCCER, page 11

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UCSD Student Athletes Running Along the Best By MELISSA MARTINYAK Staff Writer CROSS COUNTRY — The UCSD Men’s and Women’s Cross Country teams competed at the 2012 NCAA Division II West Regionals in Kuhuku, Hawaii on Saturday, Nov. 3. The UCSD Men’s team finished their 10k race in 10th place with a team score of 266, while the women finished their 6k race in 12th place with a team score of 384. Junior Kellen Levy led the UCSD men’s team with a time of 34:01 for 39th place. Behind Levy were freshmen Tareq Alwafel, who clocked in at 34:10 to place 46th, Daniel Franz with a time of 34:17 to place 49th, Scott Acton in 68th place with a time of 34:53 and Eddie Carrillo, who placed 79th with a time of 35:12. Chico State, ranked third in the nation, won the title with a team score of 38, placing three runners in the top five slots and all their remaining runners placing in the top 20. Alaska Anchorage, hoping to win a third straight regional title, finished second with a cumulative score of 46. Western Washington, San Francisco State and Humboldt

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State teams placed third, fourth and fifth, respectively, to advance to the NCAA

Championships with Chico State and Alaska Anchorage. In the women’s 6k race, junior

Chia Chang led the Tritons with a time of 22:48 to place 30th. In 68th place, UCSD freshman Marie Diaz came in with a time of 23:37, while freshman Carolina Guzman finished with a time of 24:09 to place 84th. Senior Elena Inouye followed in 95th place with a time of 24:30 and sophomore Michelle Le Roux clocked in at 25:04 to finish in 117th place, allowing the UCSD team to place 12th out of 25 teams. The Chico State women also won their race with a team score of 51 to beat Sonoma State with 56 points as well as preventing Alaska Anchorage from obtaining a fourth consecutive regional title. While UCSD will not be in attendance this year, the 2012 NCAA Championships will take place on Saturday, Nov. 17th at Missouri Southern State in Joplin, Missouri. The Tritons will graduate senior Elena Inouye from the women’s cross country team, while all the runners from the men’s team will be continuing at UCSD, allowing for a strong roster in next year’s competitive season. Readers can contact Melissa Martinyak at mmartiny@ucsd.edu.

Hurdles to Clear: The Student Athlete

’ve gotten this question more than once. It’s always carefully worded, with the asker’s head tilted in curiosity: “So, if you don’t plan on going pro, then why spend so much time and energy doing a sport?” I don’t harbor any fantasy of becoming a professional runner. It

Track

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takes an immense amount of dedication, training, natural talent and luck — and honestly, I’m just not speedy enough to cut it in the pro circuit. But I do college track. The same is true for a large percentage of college athletes: We don’t lay down plans for future Olympic gold, but we dedicate twenty or more hours a week to training, competing, rehabilitating, and preparing for more training, competing and rehabilitating. And sometimes, it’s difficult. Probably the most common issue that athletes run into is the sheer lack of time and energy needed to do much of anything other than classes, studying and competition. For some reason or another, UCSD athletes tend to have a reputation as wild partiers on an otherwise relatively quiet campus. Although parties and other outings certainly do happen, a lot of athletes I know, even at notorious party school UC Santa Barbara, are so wiped out from a long week of classes and training that their ideal Friday night involves some tea, a warm bed and Netflix Instant. The lack of free time can also restrict athletes’ abilities to accept job and internship opportunities. I’m one of the lucky ones, with a job I love and a supervisor who understands and tries her best to work around my schedule. Others are not so lucky. An old friend and competitor of mine, who now runs for the University of Miami, is one of those people whom one envies and kind of wants to hate, but can’t. She is beautiful, extremely talented, has a 3.8 GPA, and is one of the most selfless people I’ve ever met. But despite her intelligence and work ethic, she can’t hold down a job because she just doesn’t have enough time with a sport in her schedule. Now, add onto that the stress that comes with collegiate competition. Athletes train five or six days a week all year, with maybe two weeks to one month for rest during the off-season. But the average college athlete can anticipate a whole year’s worth of pain, sweat, scrapes, bruises, pulled muscles, broken bones, comparisons to better athletes, articles on how to improve performance, sacrificed dates or even sacrificed boyfriends and girlfriends — all of that comes down to a 10-second race. A 40-minute game. A two-hour match. Coaches are watching, families are watching, friends are watching as that athlete tries to apply a year’s worth of all of that crap into one moment. That gets pretty darn stressful. So with the lack of time, the See ANDERSON, page 11