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FINANCIAL AID federal law changes financial aid eligibility
A.S. Fails to impeach senator for absences
Heavy Costs for Low Grades
A.S. Council’s attempt to impeach Muir College Senator Summer Perez failed in a 17-9-1 vote. By Rebecca Horwitz
Associate News Editor
A.S. Council attempted to impeach Marshall College Senator Summer Perez at its Nov. 2 meeting because she exceeded her unexcused absence limit. Her unexcused absences revealed gaping holes in the attendance policy. The impeachment failed, with councilmembers voting 17-9-1. A.S. Council only allows three unexcused absences, and Perez had five. Three of the meetings Perez missed were all on Oct. 19. Council holds three meetings each Wednesday evening from 4 p.m. - 10 p.m. If councilmembers miss all three meetings held on Wednesdays and do not excuse their absences, they will have used their three unexcused absences in one night. Perez said she has been sick the past few months and she had her appendix removed last Thursday, Oct. 27. Similar issues with the attendance policy arose last year. The previous Arts and Humanities Senator Shunya Wade had 19.5 unexcused absences last year and A.S. Council spent an hour in closed session deciding whether or not Wade should be impeached. Her defense had been that she had class and had emailed someone from council earlier in the quarter, but she later found out she emailed the wrong person. She was not impeached. A.S. Council’s main issue with the attendance policy in the past was being able to hold members accountable for their absences. Perez said the attendance policy was a big issue discussed during the meeting. She said A.S. Council acknowledged that there were problems with the policy. “It’s a little contradictory in my eyes — you would agree that the bylaws are broken — yet we’re still going to operate under them because they’re there,” Perez said. Sixth College Senator Cody Marshall said that one of the biggest problems in the attendance policy is that there is no way to excuse absences retroactively. He used the example of a councilmember fainting due to low blood pressure on a Wednesday afternoon; the
New academic qualifications for federal financial aid students could affect over 70 percent of UCSD students. By Nicole Chan
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tudents who do not take 36 units a year and keep a minimum 2.0 GPA will lose their federally funded financial aid, such as Pell Grants and Federal Loans, due to new federal regulations from the U.S. Department of Education. Program Integrity OPINION Regulations, effective July Check out 1, 2011, are designed to an editorial on this new ensure that only eligible students receive aid, accordlaw in the ing to the U.S. Department next issue. of Education website. The new law eliminates academic probation entirely. Previously, students with a GPA lower than 2.0 but at least 1.5 were placed on academic probation, an academic term in which students could raise their GPA to minimum requirements. Muir College Senator Elizabeth Garcia brought up the new law at the A.S. Council meeting on Nov. 2. Garcia, also a house advisor, was instructed to spread the news about the law by Muir College Assistant
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Dean of Student Affairs Ann Hawthorne. “Before, to be eligible, you had to comUCSD students with plete the 36 units a year and keep a 2.0 federal financial aid. GPA,” Garcia said. “If you did below a 2.0 GPA or didn’t finish the unit requirement, you would be placed on academic probation. Now if you fall below a 2.0 GPA or do not complete 36 units a year, you get Dollar amount in millions of financial no financial aid, period.” In conjunction with the regulations, aid UCSD students starting Nov. 1, all colleges that receive received last year. federal aid are required to put a net price calculator on their websites for prospective students. The calculators are intended to provide a close estimate of what students will owe after need-based aid and Number of units a merit-based aid are given. student must take According to a document from the annually to receive campus financial aid office released on financial aid. June 28, 2011, the U.S. Department of Education requires that students must maintain “satisfactory academic progress” (SAP) standards in order to receive federGPA students must
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CURRENTS UCSD ▶UCSD alum and Google affiliate Ron Gorodetzky is working to integrate YouTube into Google+ by applying social networking aspects to YouTube. Gorodetzky has worked with news-sharing site Digg and co-founded video site Revision3 and Fflick, a site that combines movie comments on Twitter into movie recommendations.
▶Researchers from UCSD, the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in La Jolla and the University of Utah identified two genes that are responsible for congenital heart defects in individuals with Down syndrome. The results of the study were published in the Nov. 3 issue of PLoS Genetics.
▶The Village at Torrey Pines East received a
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SAN DIEGO ▶Local San Diego schools were awarded more
than $300,000 in grants by The Jimmie Johnson Foundation, started by NASCAR champion driver Jimmie Johnson and his wife Chandra. More than 80 schools in California, Oklahoma and North Carolina applied for the grant. ▶Julio Cesar Garcia, 22, from Valley Center was arrested Nov. 3 for taking thousands of pictures and videos revealing up the skirts of unknowing women and girls in local stores. Investigators found 2,100 images of women and girls that were taken by Garcia, many with his cell phone camera pointed up their skirts. According to Lt. Craig of the Escondido Police Department, authorities have identified approximately 100 victims, ranging between 15 and 30 years old, with one in her 60s.
▶A woman found in the Mission Valley area was
raped Nov. 5 when she tried to flag a car at 5050 Texas St. at 7:45 p.m. A Caucasian man in his 30s took a knife to her throat and raped her.
CALIFORNIA ▶A woman crashed her car into a telephone
pole in Silver Lake on the morning of Nov. 5. According to authorities, she died at the hospital shortly after the accident. The collision occurred near Riverside Drive and Gilroy Street at about 3:15 a.m., according to Officer Robert Duke of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Traffic Division. Duke said the woman was traveling at a high rate of speed, but said there was no indication of intoxication.
▶Andrew Cervantes, 15, was sentenced Nov. 4
to 40 years to life in prison for a fatal shooting he committed when he was 14. Cervantes, from Santa Ana, was tried as an adult and will begin his sentence at the California Youth Authority and will be transferred to state prison when he turns 18. Cervantes is being charged with the death of Manuel Cervantes, 17.
▶Jose Velasquez Castillo, 41, died Saturday, Nov. 5
when he fell into a swimming pool while mowing a lawn. Police are not sure how the Anaheim death occurred and the cause of death is unclear.
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LIGHTS & SIRENS Friday, Oct. 28 7:22 p.m.: Welfare Check ▶ A suspicious person appeared disoriented at the Gilman Parking Structure. Checks OK. 9:35 p.m.: Disturbance ▶ There was a barking dog at Central Mesa Apartments. Unable to Contact Owner(s). Saturday, Oct. 29 1:15 a.m.: Welfare Check ▶ A student was arrested for public intoxication at Lot 103. Transported to Detox And Adult Citation Issued. 8:09 p.m.: Disturbance ▶ Loud yelling, thumping and a child crying were heard at Central Mesa Apartments. Checks OK. 10:15 p.m.: Possession of Marijuana ▶ The subject was found in possession of marijuana at the Matthews Apartments Field Interview administered. Sunday, Oct. 30 1:16 a.m.: Traffic Stop ▶ A student who is a minor was arrested for driving on La Jolla Village Dr. with a blood alcohol level of 0.01% to 0.5%. Closed by Citation, Adult. 2:11 a.m.: Citizen Contact ▶ A drugged person was raped at the Village East Building 1. Report Taken. 7:37 a.m.: Medical Aid ▶ A suspicious female was passed out in the Sixth College laundry room and she ran off when the Resident Advisor said medics and Police were en route. Unable to Locate. Monday, Oct. 31 1:54 a.m.: Citizen Contact ▶ Two students who were minors were arrested for consuming alcohol and intoxicated in public at OceanView Terrace. Two
Transported to Detox/Two Adult Citations Issued. 9:40 a.m.: Medical Aid ▶ A young female at Ledden Auditorium was unable to walk. She was conscious and breathing. Transported to Hospital. 7:47 p.m.: Trespass ▶ A possible transient was going through the garbage at the Stein Clinical Research Building. Verbal Warning Issued. Tuesday, Nov. 1 12:09 a.m.: Alcohol Contact ▶ There was alcohol contact at OceanView Terrace. Information only. 7:10 a.m.: Welfare Check
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crying on an MTS bus at the VA Hospital. Transported to UCSD Hillcrest Hospital.
Wednesday, Nov. 2 4:57 p.m.: Tampering with a vehicle ▶ There was a keyhole missing from the driver side door of a car located in Lot 702, nothing taken. Information only. 9:15 p.m.: Fire Alarm ▶ A fire alarm went off due to burnt food at Village East 1. False Alarm. Thursday, Nov. 3 2:10 a.m.: Medical Aid ▶ A young male had a negative reaction to medication. He was conscious and breathing. Transported to Hospital. 8:47 a.m.: Citizen Contact ▶ A victim’s vehicle was moved from its original parking spot at Rady School of Management. The parking permit was stolen. Report Taken. — Compiled by Rebecca Horwitz and Nicole Chan Associate News Editors
▶ Aid, from page 1 ally funded financial aid. Financial aid programs affected include Federal Pell Grants, Federal Perkins Loan, Federal Work Study, Federal Loans (subsidized and unsubsidized), Cal Grant programs and university need-based aid. In addition to GPA and unit requirements, the regulations also specify that students must graduate within a maximum of five years. Garcia said she believes the new law is directly affected by national budget concerns. “I think this reflects on the entire [national] budget as a whole,” Garcia said. “The federal government doesn’t want to be giving money to students who aren’t doing well in school. It shows that the federal government is strained.” In order for full-time students to receive financial aid, they must be enrolled in 36 units during the academic year. The 36-unit requirement is not limited to fall, winter and spring quarters. Students may also use units acquired through summer session.
Full-time status requires students to be enrolled in a minimum of 12 units per quarter. Students must also maintain a 2.0 GPA throughout the academic year. According to the document, although a student’s GPA may have met the standards at the end of the academic year, a drop in GPA below 2.0 during summer session affects the student’s eligibility status for financial aid for the following year. “Most students get some sort of financial aid from UCSD,” Garcia said. “For a majority, it’s how they’re getting through college.” According to UCOP Student Financial Support, 17,135 UCSD undergraduate students received federally funded financial aid in the 2010-11 academic year. This is approximately 70 percent of students. In 2009-10, approximately 57 percent of UC undergraduate students received grants and scholarships from aid programs such as Pell Grant, Cal Grant and university programs, according to the website of the UC Office of the President.
If a student is denied financial aid because he does not meet the GPA or unit requirements, he can submit an appeal. Students must submit documentation of “exceptional” circumstances and complete an Academic Plan. “Exceptional” circumstances are not explicitly defined, but are at the discretion of the appeals committee. Under these conditions, the Financial Aid Satisfactory Progress Appeals Committee may grant a probationary period. Students cannot re-appeal if their appeal has been denied and are limited to one appeal during their time at UCSD. “It’s no surprise that college is difficult and challenging,” Garcia said. “[The new law] puts more pressure on students, now they don’t have that academic probation period. If they have a bad quarter, they have to deal with the results and appealing the decision.” A representative from the Financial Aid Office could not be reached as of press time. Readers can contact Nicole Chan at n3chan@ucsd.edu.
Council to Amend Senator’s Absences This Week ▶ Absences, from page 1 councilmember automatically has three unexcused absences and no way to formally excuse him after the fact. “It’s flawed in the sense that there’s no strict criteria on what constitutes an excused absence and what doesn’t,” Marshall said. It’s just strange that even though on the council floor several members expressed that the attendance policy was broken, they were still willing to go forward and
police people despite that. It’s like [the pot] calling the kettle black.” There are several ways A.S. Council could have retroactively excused the absences. Council could postpone the matter indefinitely, or go back to the minutes and excuse the absences there. Perez said members of A.S. Council were not inclined to do either. There is an item in the order of business for the next A.S. Council
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meeting on Oct. 9 calling for an approval of an amendment to the minutes of Oct. 19, excusing Perez from the Senate meeting, the All Campus Affairs Committee Meeting and the Council meeting. “My only mistake in this whole situation was that I forgot to send an email,” Perez said. Readers can contact Rebecca Horwitz at rawhorwit@ucsd.edu.
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OPINION Merit-Based Raises
Merit-based salary increases for UC faculty may help retain faculty in the coming years, but the evaluations used to identify merit lack a key component — student voice. By Madeline Mann • Associate Opinion Editor
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ver the course of the 2011-12 school year, select University of California faculty members will receive merit-based salary increases. UC President Mark Yudof announced this in his public statement as a way to attract more workers to the UC system and to reward those who have done great work. Those eligible to receive the salary increase include all nonrepresented UC staff and faculty who earn less than $200,000 per year. The recipients have been chosen by peer evaluations, an evaluation policy that fails to acknowledge the input of those who actually sit and observe these educators for hours on end: the students. With $500 million in budget cuts proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown this year, it is encouraging to see that the UC system is prioritizing educators as an important investment. In Yudof ’s official statement regarding these merit increases, he insists that university quality cannot be compromised, a quality that rests on excellent professors and researchers. $140 million has been allotted to fund the program, with more than half set aside to reward non-academic staff. While the cost sounds steep, this amount is only half a percent of the 2011-12 California higher education budget, and because the UC system employs over 150,000 faculty and staff members, merit-based salary increases will be very selective. The budget is comprised of 18 percent state general funds, about 20 percent is coming from student fees and other UC general funds with the remaining two thirds coming from other funds, including medical center rev-
enues and contract and grant funds, according to UC spokesperson Dianne Klein. These pay increases are important because educators are the core of this university system, and if California wants to keep the best professors around, the state must have competitive salaries. Additionally, these raises cannot apply to anyone already earning at least $200,000 annually, which excludes all of senior management, including the advocate of the policy, Yudof. This is important, especially after the uproar over a $100,000 salary increase for San Diego State’s new president earlier this year. According to Yudof, the merit pool will receive a 3-percent increase to their overall pay in order to both reward and retain staff. The selection process began on Oct. 1, and recipients who received the highest peer evaluations now receive fatter checks in the mail. As of now, there is no indication of when the next wave of raises will be rewarded — staffers have no rewards system to work towards if they don’t recieve a pay raise this time around. This year, UCSD lost three top scientists and researchers to Rice University due to competitive salaries. If these merit-based raises do not occur at least once or twice a decade, the UC system is bound to continue losing top educators to competitive wages. The basis of these peer evaluations, as described by Yudof, focuses on a professor’s quality of teaching, research and overall service to the school. These See Evaluations, page 5
bank of america announced a new $5 monthly debit card usage fee last month, But Customer ouTrage caused the company to rescind the charge on Nov. 1.
QUICK TAKES Response Shows Interest in Customers
It is Too Late to Repair the Damage
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ank of America’s decision to retract its $5 monthly fee was a smart move – and the only choice it could have sensibly made under the circumstances. If the corporation had persisted with this charge, it would have lost all credibility with its customers. Prior to the move, hordes of angry customers petitioned the bank and threatened to close their accounts if their demands were not met. Saturday, Nov. 5 was even deemed “Bank Transfer Day” — a day when many customers agreed to transfer their accounts to smaller banks and credit unions that treat their customers better. Bank of America is not alone in caving to customer demands. In September, Netflix announced its intent to separate itself into two companies for DVD and streaming. A few months earlier, the company had announced that it would increase prices by 60 percent – two moves that cost the company 800,000 subscribers. Its once-loyal consumers have lambasted it — furthermore, its stocks have gone into free fall, and its market value has dropped 75 percent in the four months after its misstep. Since then, Netflix has rescinded its motion to create the DVD-by-mail subsidiary, Qwikster. This was a step in the right direction, and will undoubtedly help the company to recover from its rough patch. With competitors ready to nimbly pounce on every lost customer, it is paramount that corporations prioritize customer needs. Once one corporation commits a blunder, competition ups its ante. The ultimate goal is to retain customer trust in this never-ending battle, even if that means submitting to cumbersome consumer demands. Corporations need to show that they are not leviathans and that their ears are receptive to their customer base – so that they can boast of even having one, for that matter. — Hilary LEE
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n Tuesday, Bank of America announced that it will not follow through with its proposed $5 monthly debit card fee after weeks of vehement criticism from its customers. Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase planned to test similar debit fees in various local markets, a tactic they scrapped after witnessing the backlash Bank of America experienced. Though the repeal is a drastic concession to consumers, whether Bank of America’s backpedaling will win back customers remains to be seen. According to executive director of the National Association of Consumer Advocates Ira Rheingold, Bank of America needs to put in a lot of work into winning back customer approval for their actions. Due to recent shady mortgage servicing practices in the past, he states that customers today are more inclined to notice unsavory business tactics. Bank of America has remained mum on how much money it would lose due to the proposed fee, but Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase have been more forthcoming with figures. They claim that they would have lost $250 and $300 million per quarter respectively. Some customers have already switched to other banks or credit unions and will not be returning, and Bank of America is not forthcoming with exactly how many customers have closed their accounts. Customers are willing to look for alternatives to national banks and “Occupy Wall Street” and “Bank Transfer Day” are manifestations of that. Bank of America’s customer trust remains on a precarious perch and while they are backing down from debit fees they are planning to hike up other fees in a more subtle manner via checking account fees. While one act repairs trust, the other razes it. Bank of America has avoided the debit fees but the damage has already been done. It’s uncertain whether Bank of America will recover from this pratfall or if this “too big to fail” bank set in motion its own dethroning.
ast Tuesday, Bank of America announced that it would be dropping the debit card usage fee that it announced in October. The company was responding to an avalanche of criticism from its customers, as well as the announcements from competitors Wells Fargo and Chase that they would not be instituting similar debit usage fees as they had earlier planned. The short-lived fee had been $5 for each month of debit card use. Only $5. Bank of America had good reasons to implement the fee, but unfortunately, the fee’s critics are uninformed. In instituting the flat fee, the Bank of America was trying to do things in a way that banks aren’t particularly well-known for: transparency. The flat fee would have replaced — or at least mitigated — the fees that banks normally charge whenever a debit transaction occurs. Without the $5 fee, Bank of America will have to find other (sneakier) ways of keeping its profit margins intact. Today, in Facebook groups and Internet campaigns, Bank of America customers have tried to convince others to switch to smaller banks. Bank of America has been wise to listen to these warning tremors and back down with the fee. Ultimately though, all this will do is make it harder for the customer to budget appropriately and save money — which was what the customers who signed the twitter petitions and sent the email invites wanted to do in the first place. It’s a shame that a company that was trying to make a difference in the way banking was done was called out and forced into backpedaling.
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But in attempting to reclaim the card at my local Bank of America this week, I thought, why not try to turn lemons into spiked lemonade? The bank’s Sept. 29 announcement that it would begin to charge some customers $5 a month to use their debit card had been a PR nightmare of Netflix proportions; surely I could milk the vulnerable old place for free express shipping on a replacement card (or at least a card with a photo on it). The personal banker I spoke with tried to lighten the mood: must be partying a little too hard, losing your debit card on a Saturday night! All business, I reported that I had merely left it an ATM. I wore a button-down shirt that hopefully emphasized my serious adultness. The most valuable bank in the richest country in the world didn’t stand a chance against my wrinkled forehead. Until, obviously, it did. I’m still waiting on the replacement, and the photo ID has always been free. But others have stronger powers of persuasion. Kristen Christian (her real name) is the 27-year-old mastermind behind Bank Transfer Day, a push to get big bank customers to move their money to local credit unions. As for Christian herself? She’s a 27-year-old art gallery owner from Echo Park in L.A. — a description that, I am convinced, pales only to “graphic designer from Berlin” in hipster cred. But she’s a hipster changing the world, which I personally consider preferable to the chain-smoking, Foucault-quoting variety. Christian chose Nov. 5 to align Bank Transfer Day with Guy Fawkes Day — a little piece of 17th century British history that, both shamefully and fittingly, proved a little too obscure for this history minor at first mention. (Reader’s digest version: the holiday’s about fireworks.) While Christian’s initial intention was just to promote the event among 500 or so Facebook friends, it went viral in a big way: By Nov. 5, the event had attracted 85,000 attendees. I’d ordinarily be inclined to dismiss that as a strong showing of slacktivism, but that’s not the case. According to the Credit Union Association of America, some 650,000 customers have switched to credit unions since Bank of America announced its plan a month ago — a 700-percent increase in growth over the rest of the year. With all my persistence and eyebrow raising, I feel a little tinge of slacktivist guilt for staying with Bank of America for the time being. The fee was called off on Nov. 1, and I’m still waiting on that shiny red card to come in the mail. Plus, with graduation a few months off, I’m reluctant to jump ship to a local credit union. Still, I feel empowered in knowing that a 20something’s Facebook rant has the power to shake things up (or spare us all an extra $5 a month.)
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Quite Frankly By Lior Schenk
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Peer Evaluations of Professors Lack Student Insight ▶ Evaluations, from page 4 are undoubtedly important criterion, but students arguably have more insight to a professor’s quality of teaching than a faculty peer. Not only do students constantly interact with the professors, but they are the consumers who are paying for the education — their feedback should hold high attention. Thus, surveys like CAPE should be considered when choosing recipients. To ensure that all students give input about their professors, students should be required to fill out evaluations in class, which is already a strategy implemented by the Making of the Modern World program. A wider spectrum of specific questions are asked in MMW sections to best determine how well their TAs are performing in different areas, and also encourages students to explain their reasoning behind their responses. The UC system is known first and foremost for its impeccable education, with more academic departments ranked in the top 10 nationally than any other public or
private university. The UC system has 57 Nobel laureates on staff, as well as professors who are not only talented in their area of research, but who are also able to effectively transfer that knowledge to hundreds of students. Therefore, great importance should be placed on the way professors conduct themselves in a lecture hall. No matter the reason why a student chooses a professor, students know when they’ve got an impressive professor whose legacy is based on their ability to command a room and love of teaching. Faculty peers, on the other hand, may lack the insight to assess the majority of their peers in a lecture setting. This may lead to favoritism of professors who do great research — a quality that can be judged purely on paper. Meanwhile, great lecturers may go unnoticed due to the unattractive time commitment that goes into observing a professor in action. Without a student component in professor evaluations, a well-rounded perspective is impossible to achieve.
Hospital Costs Took from Student Fees
Sexual Conduct Claims Unfounded
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to your article about the UCSD Parking and Transportation crisis. Neither the front page nor the editorial mentioned the fact that the million-dollar deficits are largely due to the main campus being held responsible for rebuilding a parking structure at the UCSD Hillcrest hospital. I knew this from reading the Guardian last year. I personally think it is disgusting that a financially solvent hospital has found a way to get broke college students to foot the bill for a parking garage that sits 12 miles from campus. Other hospitals are able to afford their own parking garages, and Hillcrest should be responsible for their own structures. If students are going to pay more for parking and in citations to subsidize a garage, it should be for a garage on campus that they will use. I am appalled that the Guardian decided to let that little detail slide and let students think that their highly-exorbitant parking fees left their busing service millions of dollars in debt. Parking and Transportation know it is a lot easier to sell increased fees for student buses than for hospital parking — students, don’t let them get away with it!
Dear Editor, Concerning Re: Revelations of sexual misconduct lodged against Herman Cain: Let’s lay off this man, no pun intended. Who are these women and what exactly is their claim to shame? Sounds like monkey business to me. Where is Senator Gary Hart when we need him? I have heard this song before and it stinks. Why does our culture have this fixation with John Paul The Great when in reality we have little concept of moral issues? I am a liberal Democrat and I call them as I see them. Let’s stop the sexual hypocrisy and tackle important issues like avoiding single motherhood. Remember, it’s supposed to be a choice, folks.
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As if you needed another reason to be attached to your smartphone, engineers at UCSD are working on an application that will provide the right soundtrack to your mood.
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hen it comes to recommending music, there’s one thing that Pandora and Spotify can’t do: read your mind. But Gert Lanckriet, assistant professor at UCSD’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is developing an application that does exactly that. “We want this device here to be zero click,” Lanckriet said about the application he’s been working on since 2009. “It plays the right music we want to hear right now without even asking me any type of questions.” Like the perfect best friend you never had, the app will be able to tell you’re still hurting from that breakup — and find the best tunes to soundtrack your wallowing. But the application’s mind-reading capabilities won’t be so mysterious; it will utilize smartphone components like the camera, the microphone and the GPS system to analyze characteristics like voice inflection, typing speed and location to tag the user’s mood and surroundings and match those tags with music. Lanckriet has already developed the algorithm for one step of the complex process: labeling music without having to actually listen to the songs. “We have algorithms to automatically tag music,” Lanckriet said, describing a program he already designed back in 2005, that can automatically identify what characteristics a particular song has. “Music is a one-dimensional wave form. You feed that in the computer and it says rock, dance, guitar. If someone wants to listen to
romantic jazz with saxophone and male vocals, we can actually find music and we can find those songs with those tags.” He’s tagged over 10,000 songs, and with access to more music catalogues, he could potentially tag the millions of songs available online in places like Spotify and Myspace. He’s even developed a Facebook game to help him speed up the process: “Herdit,” a game in which users describe the music they’re listening to. Over time, “Herdit” will compile the most popular adjectives used to describe songs so Lanckriet can add the tags to his database of music. For the next component of his project — being able to identify what a person is feeling — Lanckriet found an unlikely (but convenient) collaborator: UCSD’s own medical school. Even though the med school was working on its own portable mood detection software, Lanckriet did not actually contact the medical school itself. “It was a coincidence that it happened,” Lanckriet said. “I was introduced to them through somebody. They actually had a grant proposal from NIH to use accelerometers and GPS signals to try to predict the energy expenditures for medical patients.” Lanckriet’s team and the med school have two totally different goals in mind, but both parties want to find a way to detect someone’s mood and activity easily through a phone application, and each of the groups provides skills the other lacks. Through the med school, Lanckriet can find out what detailed characteristics of a person’s behavior can be associated with which
moods, and he can develop algorithms to place a tag on things like voice inflections and typing speed, which would then be matched up with musical tags. It works well for both of them; certain components of the software that Lanckriet’s working on could be utilized by doctors whose patients need to be closely monitored. The music recommendation project has attracted big names like Google, Yahoo, Qualcomm and IBM, all of whom intend to work with Lanckriet and fund his project. He’s also received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Hellman Family Foundation. Lanckriet predicts that a basic app will be well under way by June 2012. Not all of the attention has been positive. Some are concerned with the privacy issues that would arise out of the application, with many disconcerted by the possibility of third parties (like advertisers) knowing someone’s mood and location and exploiting that information. “On one side I completely understand that people have a certain reservation about this in terms of privacy,” Lanckriet said. “It’s certainly not our intent to push anybody somewhere where they’re uncomfortable with it. We’re initially just going to work with that opt-in crowd.” See Music page 7
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Engineer Creating a Mood Reading Application
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Lanckriet insists that his main concern is finishing the development of the software, but he also predicts that people will be less worried about the privacy issues once they see what the app can do for them. “If you look at Facebook there’s constantly a discussion about how they invade our privacy, but over time a lot of people do subscribe to it because they see the value of it,” Lanckriet said.
We want this device here to be zero click. It plays the right music we want to hear right now without even asking me any type of questions.
- Gert Lanckriet
He’s also enlisted the help of undergraduates to start developing simple application interfaces to host the algorithms. “To show you that we’re very serious about this right now I’m working with a group of undergrads where basically every student is designing an app that will do this,” Lanckriet said. Lanckriet himself doesn’t identify as an “audiophile” (“I can barely remember names of songs,” he admitted) but it was the social aspect of music that inspired him to take on creating this application. “At a student barbecue six years ago I met two students over a keg of beer,” Lanckriet said. “They needed a drummer for their band. I played drums, another guy played banjo and we were making music out of the blue. I thought, if you upload this to Myspace nobody’s gonna listen to it.” That’s when he thought of giving people a simple way of finding music other than what usually plays on the radio, without asking listeners to make any sort of extra specifications. While there is some merit to the privacy issues presented by his opponents (it is pretty creepy to think that your iPhone might be able to figure out how you really feel about your ex’s new girlfriend), Lanckriet is sure the streamlined and intuitive nature of the program may override the concerns. Not to mention, when you ask for music recommendations, it’ll be nice to know that at least someone knows you don’t appreciate dubstep. N icole O liver /G uardian
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SAT11.12 2pm & 8pm THE DYBBUK (MAT)- THEODORE & ADELE SHANK THEATRE Khonen falls in love with Leah, but when her father finds a more wealthy suitor, he drops dead of sorrow. At his gravesite, Leah becomes possessed by a Dybbuk, a spirit intent on righting past wrongs. A re-imagined classic from the Yiddish theatre. Box Office: (858) 534-4574, tdpromo@ucsd.edu
1pm UCSD DANCE MARATHON PRESENTED BY THE PANHELLENIC ASSOCIATION - THE LOFT AT UC SAN DIEGO UCSD: got banjo? With two of the hottest nationally touring bluegrass bands to reach UCSD, Hot Buttered Rum and Greensky Bluegrass, there'll be plenty of mandolin, fiddle, banjo and more this Tuesday night at Porter's Pub. Great food and drink specials, bison burgers and vegetarian delights abound. Special UCSD student performance by Brent Wong and Friends. And, UCSD Students with valid ID are FREE. Contact: 858-822-2068
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Triton Water Polo Tops No. 14 Santa Clara 14-7, Falls to No. 1 UCLA 9-4 ▶ M. Water Polo, from page 12 goals in the first quarter. “As a team our defense was solid. The main thing though, I was pretty pleased with how we controlled the match from early on,” head coach Denny Harper said in an interview with UCSD athletics representatives. Senior goalkeeper David Morton — a cornerstone of the Triton defense this season — made 10 saves for UCSD on the night. Ending the quarter with a 3-1 lead after a tremendous save from Morton, the Triton goalkeeper recorded another big block to start the second quarter. But the Mustangs brought the game to within one after Santa Clara’s Matt Kochalko pounded the ball into the net, putting the score at 3-2. UCSD maintained the lead in the second quarter with a long-range goal from David Higginson, followed by goals from sophomore Lukas Skya, freshman Joe Dietrich and senior Chris Barton. Up 7-2 at the end of the first half, the Tritons extended their lead, not letting the Mustangs any closer than four points throughout the remainder of the game. On Sunday, the Tritons faced No. 1 UCLA in their last home game of the regular season. The Tritons also honored their four graduating seniors: Graham Saber, William Brown, Matt Kerchner and Morton.
Morton will leave the school as the record-holder for most career saves, recording 1,021 in his four years playing for UCSD. Unfortunately, the Tritons didn’t have enough to overcome top-ranked UCLA. “I thought we put forward a great effort, much better than the last time we had a top team here,” Harper said. “I thought we really made UCLA work throughout the entire game. They knew they couldn’t really let their guard down and I’m pleased that we competed.” UCLA scored the first three goals with less than 7:30 minutes on the clock. But the Tritons kept the pressure on, and took one back with just over a minute and a half left in the quarter, bringing the score to 3-1. The Bruins continued to outscore the Tritons in the following periods, although Morton did well to deny UCLA on nine attempts. The Tritons will have one more match before their postseason, against UC Irvine on Wednesday, Nov. 9. “We’ll use the Irvine game as a preparation game to catapult us into the WWPA [Championships],” Harper said. UCSD will then prepare for the WWPA Championships, going into the tournament with the second seed on Nov. 17 - 20, to be hosted at Canyonview Pool. Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ ucsd.edu
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The UCSD Men’s Water Polo team split their weekend matches, beating No. 14 Santa Clara on Friday, Nov. 4, before losing to No1 1 UCLA on Sunday, Nov. 6.
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Women’s Volleyball Wins Their Ninth Straight Men’s Cross Country Finish Ninth, Women Eighth ▶ W. Volleyball, from page 12
errors. Brunsting collected her 1,000th assist of her career, with 17 in the game as well as 14 points and eight kills, while Freidenberg led the team with 10 kills, hitting .409. On Saturday, the Tritons played unranked Humboldt State (5-15) at RIMAC. The game scores are misleading, with 24-26, 14-25 and 27-29 suggesting a tight match against veteran opposition, but the Tritons looked slightly battered from their game against Sonoma, doing only the absolute minimum to squeak past the Lumberjacks. Coach Luyties fielded a number of freshmen in the campaign, but was forced to replace the underclassmen with his veterans every time a court full of freshmen fell flat. Condon pounded in 12 kills
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and 14 points, while Williamson posted 14 kills and 15 points. The leading assists came once more from Brunsting with 21 and freshman Amber Hawthorne with 22. This week No. 17 UCSD travels
to play the undefeated No. 2 Cal State San Bernardino Coyotes on Saturday, Nov. 9. Readers can contact Nick Howe at nshowe@ucsd.edu
Tritons Fall in the CCAA Semifinals, 2-1 ▶ W. SOCCER, from page 12 “[Cal State Stanislaus] came out giving everything and we just weren’t ready.” The Tritons regrouped in the second half but weren’t able to put one away until the 85th minute. Junior defender Hayley Johnson crossed the ball from the left to find freshman midfielder Cassie Callahan. Knocking the ball around in the 18-yard box, Callahan found McTigue, who headed the ball into score. “[Demery] got around us in the back,” said Armstrong. “And with her speed, once she gets past you, you really can’t catch up to her.” With a lot of momentum, the Tritons looked dangerous at the end of the match, but UCSD was unable to equalize. The loss marks the third consecutive time UCSD has been knocked out of the CCAA Championships in the semifinal round.
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On the other side of the bracket, thirdseeded Chico State took a 1-0 win from second-seeded Cal State Los Angeles. On Sunday, the two bottom seeds, Cal State Stanislaus and Chico State, fought for the conference championship, with the Warriors beating the Wildcats 4-0 for their first conference title in program history. With the win, Stanislaus is also guaranteed a berth in the NCAA National tournament. Fortunately, the loss is only the second for the Tritons this season. Since UCSD is still ranked No. 1 in the West Region, the Tritons have clinched a national tournament berth, along with fellow CCAA opponent Cal State Los Angeles and Cal State Stanislaus. Readers can contact Rachel Uda at ruda@ ucsd.edu
Associate Sports Editor CROSS COUNTRY — The Triton Men’s and Women’s Cross Country teams competed in the rainy NCAA Western Regionals in Spokane, Washington this weekend. Although a week ago the two teams posted third and fourth place finishes, Regionals proved too much for the Tritons as the women came in eighth and the men’s team finished in ninth. With three of the top finishing schools, fellow CCAA opponents, the Tritons were well prepared for high-level competition. The top performer for the Tritons on the women’s side was sophomore Chia Chang, who finished eighth overall with a pace of 5:50.1 per mile, just 15 seconds slower than the champion competing for Anchorage Alaska, Ruth Keino — a native of Kapcheno, Kenya. Alaska Anchorage took the women’s side with four runners finishing in the top eight. Coach Nate “Ronald” Garcia was happy with the women’s performance, which showed significant improvement from last year. “That’s all that you can hope for [going into a meet],” Garcia said. On the men’s side, junior Matt Lenehan led the Triton men with a mile pace of 5:15.6, good for 37th overall in a field of 111 athletes. Lenehan was closely followed by seniors John Svet and Alex Corliss, and junior Kellen Levy — all coming within several seconds of Lenehan. Alaska Anchorage won on the men’s side as well, with team leader Micah Chelimo who ran a quick 30:19. He was closely followed by fellow Kenyans, Alfred and Issac Kangogo, in fourth and 11th.
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The Tritons were happy to have improved their times from last year, overcoming adversity in the rain to compete well and make it to the next level. UCSD will look to improve in the following year with a roster filled with young runners — during the pre-season training many returning athletes were cut in favor of younger freshmen athletes with more talent. The very young team this year will only improve in the years to come. The fact that this young team did so well speaks to the effective coaching of Garcia. Garcia’s gamble in cutting his seniors may have seemed unfair in the beginning of the season, but now seems like it is starting to pay off. With returning All-American Chia Chang only a sophomore and many fast freshmen finishing in the top half of the field at nationals, look for the Triton women to have a exceptional season next year. Readers can contact Nick Howe at nshowe@ucsd.edu
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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
Block Party Senior Roxanne Brunsting picked up her 1000th career assist as the Tritons took two wins against Sonoma and Humboldt this weekend. By NICK HOWE
Associate Sports Editor
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n Friday, the UCSD Women’s Volleyball team took one of its most commanding wins of the season against No. 23 Sonoma State. While the Seawolves are ranked lower nationally than UCSD, they have a better CCAA record (16-2) than the Tritons (13-4), and much of their success has been due to the offensive strength of Seawolf freshman Kelsey Hull, who had 11 kills and 30 spikes even in their loss against UCSD. The Tritons dug themselves into a hole in game one, quickly falling behind by three on a handful of errors. However, they rallied back to tie the game at eight on a kill from senior Roxanne Brunsting, just as the Seawolves started to show the first signs of weakness by committing several errors in a row after two massive Hull kills. Hull rallied her own team and pulled ahead by four, which put the Tritons on their heels and forced head coach Ricci Luyties to call a time out. The Tritons came out guns blazing and fought tooth and nail to tie the game once more at 19 on a Seawolf serving error, taking the lead 20-19 off another Brunsting kill. Brunsting continued to lead her team down the home stretch as she picked up three kills and an excellent serve that was handled poorly by the Seawolves, allowing freshman Sara McCutchan the game-winning kill. Game two also saw the Tritons trailing at the start, as they committed errors to hand the lead to the Seawolves and failed to force an error from their opposition. Again,
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The UCSD Women’s Volleyball team took a come-from-behind win against No. 23 Sonoma State on Friday, Nov. 4, while also sweeping unranked Humboldt State on Saturday, Nov. 5.
Player Ratings UCSD VS. SONOMA STATE | Nov. 4, 2011
#6 Lizzy Andrews: 5.5 Saw limited playing time, as she was brought on and off the court often, but had two solid digs. #4 Roxanne Brunsting: 9.5 Recorded her 1000th career assist, provided great hustle and eight kills. #14 Katie Condon: 8.5 Led from the back and provided great hustle and determination throughout the game. #10 Lauren Demos: 8 Had a good kill in game three as well as several key serves. Committed a few errors, but came up with big blocks against Hull.
#32 Amber Hawthorne: 8 Provided defense for the Tritons, also recorded a double-double with 14 assists and 10 digs. #22 Sara McCutchan: 7 Did well to record the match-winning serve, as well as a handful of blocks. #2 Janessa werhane: 8.5 Had one of her best serving games of the season, and led the team with 20 digs. #5 Hillary Williamson: 7.5 The hardest hitter for the Tritons, but froze up and failed to record a few saves in the backline. Otherwise, was instrumental in the win.
Top-Seeded UCSD Drops the Ball in the CCAA Semifinals By Rachel Uda
Sports Editor
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On Friday, Nov. 4, the Tritons were eliminated in the semifinals of the CCAA Championships.
WOMEN’S SOCCER — In just its second loss of the 2011 campaign, the UCSD Women’s Soccer team was knocked out of the CCAA Championships in the first round against last-seeded Cal State Stanislaus. On Friday, Nov. 4 the Tritons took a 2-1 loss against the Warriors, a squad that barely qualified over Sonoma State for the last remaining spot. “We came out a little lackadaisical in the first half, and we paid for it,” senior goalkeeper Kristin Armstrong said. Although the Tritons — arguably the most dangerous set-piece finishers in the conference — were awarded five corner kicks
within the first 16 minutes, they were unable to score. In the 17th minute, Cal State Stanislaus took advantage, as the Warriors’ Liz Scherrer floated a cross into the box that got caught in the wind and W. SOCCER angled into Pick up the the goal. “We had Guardian on too many Thursday, 11/10 p e o p l e for a preview of the NCAA National m a r k i n g [Karenee Tournament. Demery], and not enough people on the ball,” Armstrong said. “When she crossed it, the ball got caught in the wind and I just mistimed it.” Up 1-0, UCSD looked for revitalization from the bench, replacing its forwards and wingers in
search of offense. But the Tritons were unable to find the net before Cal State Stanislaus’ two All-team selections, junior Alexia Poon and sophomore Karenee Demery, connected to score. In the 41st minute, Poon cut her way through the Triton midfield to play Demery behind UCSD’s backline. Demery ran onto the ball and chipped it over Armstrong to score her 12th goal of the season, putting the Warriors up 2-0 at the end of the half. “The first half was the worst 45 minutes of soccer we’ve played all season,” head coach Brian McManus said in an interview with CCAA representatives after the match. See W. Soccer, page 11
Luyties called a timeout, with the score at 3-8 in favor of Sonoma State. Senior Hillary Williamson and Brunsting came out of the timeout strong, taking a kill and a block to set the tempo. The Tritons marched back to tie the game at 11, thanks to a service ace by freshman Lauren Demos and a brilliant block on the part of senior Julia Freidenberg that tamed Hall’s attack. Brunsting and senior Katie Condon led a defensive drive to keep the game close until they were faced with several Hull kills, leading to another timeout. Coach Luyties said that this was the most important call of the game. “It was key for the comeback, it would have been a different situation if we let them in, let them get a game,” Luyties said. The timeout got the Tritons back on track, as Condon came out with two kills and a smoking service ace, while Brunsting had several blocks and a handful of kills to take the game 26-24. In game three, Freidenberg put on a clinic, taking the demoralized Seawolves for point after point. Hull and Sonoma senior Keala Peterson, who had nine kills and 40 spikes, kept up a good fight — but the Seawolves couldn’t keep it together and committed 10 errors to give the game and the match to the Tritons. Errors won and lost the match, with the Seawolves besting the Tritons in kills (40-36) and assists (40-31), but faltering and committing 34 errors to the Tritons’ 17. Thankfully for UCSD, the Tritons’ offensive pressure forced the Seawolves into a number of bad See W. Volleyball, page 11
Tritons Split Their Weekend Matches By Rachel Uda
Sports Editor
MEN’S WATER POLO — The Tritons finished their regular season this Friday, with a 14-7 win against Santa Clara before dropping 9-4 to UCLA in a non-conference matchup. On Friday, Nov. 4 against No. 14 Santa Clara, the Tritons played well on both sides of the pool, setting the pace early on by netting three See M. Water Polo, page 10