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ResMed, Inc. Donates $5 Million to University The University of California donated $500,000 in additional funding for a new sleep apnea research program.

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THE FIRST QUARTER AT UCSD CAN BE A WAKE-UP CALL. STUDENTS OFTEN STRUGGLE WITH ADAPTING TO COLLEGE. LEARN ABOUT THE FIRST AND TRANSFER YEAR EXPERIENCE PROGRAM YOU WISH YOU HAD. Features, PAGE 6

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Members of the UCSD community showcased a variety of cultures at the annual International Fashion Show and Cultural Festival at the International Center last week. Photo by Geoff Palomino /UCSD Guardian

issues and cultural significance the film touched upon would improve the viewing experience.

“The issues presented in this film are complex, and we want to ensure that we deal with them justly by investing time and energy to bring them to light,” ASCE wrote.

“We believe that investing time and energy into planning this event in an educational format is a tangible way for us to work toward that goal.”

Associate Vice President of Concerts and Events Christian Walker explained to the UCSD Guardian how this decision was partly influenced by students and faculty members.

“The decision was made after receiving feedback from several members of our campus community,

Medical device company ResMed Inc. donated $5 million to the UCSD School of Medicine on Oct. 29. The gift, presented in honor of Peter C. Farrell, Ph.D., DSc., founder of ResMed and chairman of the board, will go toward furthering sleepmedicine research and developing new therapies for sleep apnea.

ResMed Inc. is a global company that specializes in the development of medical devices and treatments that target chronic respiratory diseases.

The company’s $5 million gift will establish both the Peter C. Farrell Sleep Center of Excellence and Peter C. Farrell Presidential Chair in Pulmonary Medicine.

Atul Malhotra, director of the Sleep Medicine Center at UCSD Health and division chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine, told the UCSD Guardian that the $5 million will be allocated to program development.

“There are two components to the $5 million dollar gift: $1.5 million goes toward endowed chairs,” Malhotra said. “The Office of the President of the University of California matched it with $500,000, so it’s a total of $2 million toward an endowed chair, which we’ll use to support current faculty or recruit new faculty with expertise in sleep medicine. The other $3.5 million we’re going to use to develop new programs; we’re still discussing what those might involve.”

The endowed chairs are presented to those individuals who have demonstrated exceptional scholarship through groundbreaking accomplishments in their field.

Funding will be provided for the chairholders’ academic endeavors and contribute to graduate and postdoctoral fellowships. In addition, funding distributed to the endowed chair will also help recruit a world expert in sleep medicine.

The $3.5 million allocated to new programs will support studies associated with sleep apnea, a frequently undiagnosed condition affecting 30 million people in the United States. Increased blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes and depression have all been linked to sleep apnea.

Malhotra explained to the Guardian that new programs may focus on chronic diseases connected to sleep apnea.

“We’ve got some interest in perioperative medicine and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and how they are affected by sleep apnea,” Malhotra said. “We have some global health initiatives here; we’re trying

See ASCE, page 3

See SLEEP, page 2

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

A.S. Council Votes to Cut Funding for Student Media BY julie yip Editorial

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embers of A.S. Council voted to defund all campus media publications receiving money from student fees on Nov. 18.

Assistant Vice President of Equity, Diversion and Inclusion Daniel Juarez proposed to remove Section 2.4 D, E and F from the A.S. constitution regarding financial support to UCSD media publications. A.S. Council’s discussion included arguments that A.S. Council is partially responsible for all publications they fund, whether negative or positive, and that other universities do not fund media. Though a number of A.S. Council members initially opposed this motion, the final standing vote was a 22-3-0 roll call vote in favor of Juarez’s proposal.

The Koala’s editor-in-chief Gabe Cohen disagreed with A.S. Council’s decision and believes it is an overly authoritative decision that stems from differences in opinion.

“The A.S. vote to cut all media funding, which came a day after the administration’s statement denouncing The Koala, is troubling,” Cohen said. “Part of attending a university is learning through considering opinions and voices that differ from your own, which you might not agree with. Cutting funding to print media is a slippery slope in the direction of anti-intellectualism and paternalism that should have no place on this campus.”

Assistant

A.S. President Dominick Suvonnasupa declared that this vote does not infringe on First Amendment rights.

“One thing we talked about [was] how does this work with freedom of speech,” Suvonnasupa stated. “We still encourage all of our students to express their opinions and find outlets, say what they want to say, share their ideas.

However, we just didn’t think it was the best use of our resources to be funding that.”

However, Cohen remarked that he believes A.S. Council’s vote has greater implications and that, overall, their decision silences student voices.

“The decision sends a dangerous message to the campus which is essentially, ‘if we don’t like what you’re saying, we’ll do everything we can to shut you up, even if that means harming innocents in the process,’” Cohen said.

Hours before A.S. Council’s meeting, the UC San Diego administration publicly denounced The Koala, a publication the administration referred to as “profoundly repugnant, repulsive, attacking and cruel.” The public statement asked students, faculty and other members of the community to also censure The Koala.

Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Juan Gonzalez read the statement at the A.S. Council meeting approximately an hour before the vote. In addition, Deliantra Alcauter of

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Film Screening on Hold After Web Controversy A.S. Concerts and Events will no longer be showing “Straight Outta Compton” Monday.

BY andrew chao

Staff Writer UCSD A.S. Concerts and Events announced last Wednesday that they will postpone their Nov. 23 screening of “Straight Outta Compton” until the upcoming Winter Quarter 2016.

ASCE explained that the delay will allow enough time to properly add an educational dimension to the screening.

In their Nov. 18 press release on Facebook, ASCE said that they wanted to create a safe and welcoming place for students who come to their events, and thus felt that the postponement will enable them to do so.

ASCE’s decision to postpone the screening originated from a thread on their Facebook event page on

which a student proposed adding an educational discussion portion to the event. This sparked a heated debate over whether or not ASCE should implement the idea.

Opponents of the proposition think that adding a discussion portion to an event meant originally for entertainment is superfluous and that students should be capable of digesting the cultural significance and impact of the film on their own.

However, supporters of the idea think that adding a discussion will help students examine perspectives they may not have considered before and will bring awareness to the struggles minorities and marginalized communities face today.

After considering the feedback from that thread, ASCE decided that a dialogue discussing the various

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UC SYSTEM

New Systemwide Policy Makes UC Research Accessible to Public The Presidential Open Access Policy allows researchers to independently publish scholarly articles on digital platforms.

BY raahima shoaib

Staff Writer The University of California adopted a new Open Access Policy in October that will allow any scholarly articles published by UC employees to be accessed worldwide for free.

This new policy builds on the existing methods within the UC system to make scholarly research more accessible to the public. The policy does not limit the ability of students and UC employees to publish in academic journals, but rather allows others to access their work in a multitude of ways.

The Academic Personal and Programs Office released a statement on Oct. 23 explaining how the new system will not increase publishing costs for authors.

“This Open Access Policy allows University Authors to maintain legal control over their research articles while making their work freely and

widely available to the public,” the press release states. “The policy does not require University Authors to publish in open access journals, or to pay fees or charges to publish; it commits the University and University Authors to deposit a version of each article in a digital repository.”

Christopher Kelty, professor of information studies and anthropology at UCLA and chair of the Presidential Open Access Policy Task Force, told the UCSD Guardian that this policy is different from previous ones because it opens up publishing rights to a more diverse group of students and employees.

“This policy extends open access to all the people in the UC system who are not members of the Academic Senate, expanding the policy to close to 30,000 additional UC researchers and academics including adjuncts, lecturers, postdocs, clinical researchers, etc., who also write scholarly articles,” Kelty

told the Guardian. “The presidential policy extends the policy that the Academic Senate passed in June of 2013 to all those people, giving them the right to make their work openly and freely available.”

Under this policy, the University of California can publish any and all academic works produced at any of the campuses regardless of whether a publisher or journal decides to publish the articles. This will allow students and faculty to publish a single article on various platforms.

Previously, publishing companies had sole control over distribution of the academic works.

Kelty explained that because UCSD is a campus very involved in research, the OA policy will be very useful to employees and students.

“It will affect UCSD as much as all the other campuses, though because [San Diego] has strong health sciences and a diverse research profile generally, it will be something that

many people at UC San Diego can take advantage of,” Kelty said. “If there are a lot of academic appointees beyond the regular tenure-track faculty, then the presidential policy will have a significant impact for them as well.”

Eleanor Roosevelt College senior and psychology major Humna Gardezi said she foresees that this policy will facilitate the research process for students.

“As someone who is interested in conducting research in the future, I am very happy to see that this policy is making it easier for students to publish their work on such a wide platform,” Gardezi said.

“As a student who has spent hours on research papers, knowing that more information is being made available with fewer restrictions is very gratifying and will help out a countless number of people.”

readers can contact raahima shoaib rshoaib@ucsd.edu

$3.5 Million of Private Donations to Directly Fund New Sleep Apnea Research Studies ▶ SLEEP, from page 1

to develop awareness and do some advocacy in developing countries.”

The Peter C. Farrell Sleep Center of Excellence will investigate the causes and treatments of sleep disorders, an area of research that has been enhanced by recent technological advances in sleep monitoring.

Malhotra explains that the sleep center will pursue studies and clinical

trials that target specific causes and long-term effects of sleep apnea.

“We do some clinical trials and observational studies and we do some more detailed mechanistic research regarding why some people get sleep apnea and others do not,” Malhotra said. “We’re trying to develop new therapies for sleep apnea and understand why sleep apnea patients get cardiovascular disease and other complications.”

The support from private company ResMed will also help establish the UCSD School of Medicine as a leading center for treatment of sleep apnea.

“A large gift from a donor sends a good message that the expertise we’ve developed is being recognized by people who choose what we we have to offer,” Malhotra said. “It also provides us the opportunity to take things to the next level. I’m

reasonably confident that this will help us become a leading center in sleep medicine in the coming years.”

This gift will promote advances in sleep disorder treatments both locally and globally, improving treatment methods for San Diego patients and contributing to a comprehensive understanding of such diseases.

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LIGHTS & SIRENS Monday, Nov. 16 8:05 a.m. Information University flag seen flying upside down.

8:25 a.m. Hazard Situation Wind moved bleachers to the middle of street.

10:42 p.m. Embezzlement Known suspect embezzled approximately 75 UCSD parking permits, loss $17,000.

6:00 p.m. - 10:00 a.m. Burglary Unknown suspect(s) broke into locked storage area and Dean’s Office, stole keys and a desktop computer, damage $300, loss $3,525.

Time Unknown. Identity Theft.

Victim reports being impersonated on social media site.

Tuesday, Nov. 17 4:22 a.m. Citizen Flagdown Truck driver looking for directions.

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Wednesday, Nov.18 8:40 a.m. Lost Property Reporting party found two bottles of unknown pills.

6:00 - 1:15 p.m. Vehicle Tampering Unknown suspect(s) removed front and rear vehicle emblems, as well as blinker lights from victim’s vehicle, loss $80.00.

Thursday, Nov. 19 8:10 a.m. Suspicious Person A suspicious male on bicycle was reported for chasing vehicles and bicycles. Officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop on subject, who fled into canyon area. Suspect was found and arrested, as well as his accomplice who was pointed out by a witness.

11:05 a.m. Hit & Run - No Injuries Reporting party later called in to report no hit-and-run, old damage.

Time Unknown. Citizen Contact Professor reports unknown male came into classroom claiming to be part of Student Services and selling tickets to a comedy show, Professor later received an email from student stating it was a scam.

9:05 p.m. Suspicious Vehicle Unoccupied vehicle with lights left on.

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Suvonnasupa: Council Will Help Find Alternate Funding Resources ▶ MEDIA, from page 1

the Office of DEI gave a speech about how offensive The Koala is and asked members of A.S. Council where they stand on the issue. During discussion over the motion, Thurgood Marshall College sophomore Charlotte Lu declared that defunding The Koala is not about removing the publication.

Rather, Lu believes the decision is about considering how student funds should not go toward publications that make some students feel unsafe.

AVP Juarez, who proposed the amendment to the constitution, expressed their concerns that A.S. Council cannot enforce community while simultaneously endorsing anti-blackness and other attacking language visible in The Koala. VP of External Affairs Krystl Fabella also observed that the publication has previously specified locations where it is acceptable to rape a person.

Campuswide senator Ryan Perez

stated that he voted to cut funding in order to focus on making UCSD’s campus more inclusive.

“Being able to address campus climate and make a political statement while being more fiscally responsible and environmentally sustainable is consistent with my vision of a better UCSD,” Perez told the Guardian. “[I want] a more compassionate campus that aims to make a positive impact on this world.”

A.S. Council provided approximately $15,000 per year toward campus publications, funds which will now be reallocated towards A.S. Council’s other areas of interests, including housing projects.

“I believe there are other areas that really needed more attention,” Suvonnasupa said. “The funds most likely will be reallocated to a new office we’re trying to create for health and wellness and another office for

housing. Housing is going to be a big issue for the next year. The [University of California] is sending us 10,000 more students to the system.”

With this vote, Suvonnasupa articulated that A.S. Council is open to helping affected publications funded

by A.S. Council’s decision to seek other monetary sources, such as colleges, if publications are affiliated.

“There are lots of resources on campus. If they’re academic publications, I’m sure the academic divisions are willing to find funding,” Suvonnasupa said. “If any of the publications reach out to us, we’re happy to make sure that we do everything we can.”

Other publications affected by the vote were contacted but did not respond by press time.

readers can contact julie yip jlyip@ucsd.edu

Future Event May Include Featured Speakers, Group Discussions ▶ ASCE, from page 1

including administrators, staff members and student leaders,” Walker said. “Some were worried that placing these educational components in a rushed manner would nullify our efforts to truly create a strong discussion and education element.”

Additionally, Walker emphasized that ASCE’s decision was made independently and took all opposing arguments into account.

“In these conversations, we were never told that we must cancel our event,” Walker said. “It was always left up to us as our decision to make, and in weighing the concerns on both sides, we felt that it was right to invest extra time and energy to improve upon the event.”

Since the event is being postponed, organizers discussed some possible changes to the event including making it indoors, adding guest speakers at the beginning of the film and creating small group discussions at the end.

Although the discussions are not mandatory, Walker encourages students to attend because of the learning opportunities these discussions will provide.

“While we are strongly encouraging students to take part in the discussion, we also do not intend to force anyone to do so,” Walker said. “We would really value a diversity of perspectives and responses to the film.”

In response to criticisms that the postponement was a form of censorship, Walker said that the decision was motivated primarily by

an interest in improving the event.

“I think a lot of this frustration is misguided — people are quick to assume that this is an issue of censorship,” Walker said.

Walker also said that ASCE will explain the reasoning behind their decision to anyone who would like to know more.

“Any students who have reached out to us through email or messaged our Facebook page expressing concerns with the event’s changes can expect to receive a thoughtful response explaining our decision,” Walker said.

UCSD’s Black Student Union and the Black Resource Center did not respond for comments by press time.

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HOW WE MOURN ILLUSTRATION BY ELYSE

YANG

BY QUINN PIEPER Staff

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ILLUSTRATION BY ELYSE YANG

In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, other tragedies around the world have been overshadowed.

Public interest reveals different perspectives on terrorism in the East and the West.

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he Lebanese doctor Elie Fares recently wrote in a blog post: “Their death was but an irrelevant fleck along the international news cycle, something that happens in those parts of the world.” This has been a common response to the lack of international empathy for Beirut in the aftermath of the twin explosions that left 54 dead and 200 wounded in Beirut.

This neglect is not necessarily a result of the lackluster media coverage by American and international journalists but rather the demand of readers who ultimately shape the content of journalism.

It’s all out there — Beirut was covered, as was the attack on a Kenyan university in April which similarly lacked international attention. The New York Times, The Washington Post and BBC covered the event with in-depth investigative pieces and general coverage. Martin Belam, journalist and designer from BBC, recalled that the media coverage of Beirut numbered “over 1,286 articles — lots of which pre-date the attacks in Paris.” But these stories are

not read at the high volumes as those about Paris. And so journalists, too, have a right to feel angry, because claims that the attacks in Beirut went unnoticed by major media are false. It’s readers who drive content and decide what’s shared and discussed.

One of the most retweeted photos in light of Beirut and Paris on the night of the attacks was accompanied by a caption reading “No media has covered this” and was actually a photo taken nine years prior in 2006 during Israel’s war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Above all else, this demonstrates the lack of public interest — no one noticed or even cared to fact-check.

According to Vox, Max Fisher of the Atlantic is a journalist who struggled with what he believes is newsworthy and what actually is, recounting disappointment at his 2010 coverage of the bombings in Baghdad upon being told by an editor that “No one is going to read this.”

At the heart of this disparity is why and how humans empathize.

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FACEBOOK’S INTRODUCTION OF A FRENCH FLAG FILTER TO DEMONSTRATE SOLIDARITY FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE PARIS ATTACKS HAS ELICITED VARIOUS REACTIONS REGARDING MOURNING VIA SOCIAL MEDIA.

Filter Overlay Is Well-Intended but Doesn’t Show Substantial Support

Existence of Only French Overlay Filter Forgets Other World Victims

The French flag filter on Facebook reflects a larger societal issue of wanting to appear as if you are helping others while not actually doing so. As Niccolo Machiavelli wrote in “The Prince,” “Appearing virtuous while not making the sacrifices necessary to be virtuous is the most advantageous.” We’re more focused on the outward appearance of helping instead of working to make a tangible difference.

Facebook should have charged $1 to $5 or required a donation to use the profile filter and then donated the proceeds to victims of the tragedy. In that way, the profile picture is not merely an empty gesture but a real attempt to help. Although expressing sympathy should be accessible to everyone, these empty gestures diminish the value of social media. And peer pressure may push people into changing their profile picture merely to fit in.

On another note, maybe social media users could post to a public forum to express their sympathy and wishes to those in Paris. French citizens could then read these posts and directly access the support and love from the social media community. This would be similar to Humans of New York, a community where a photographer takes portraits and combines them with quotes or stories to provide the community with insight into a person’s life. This way, the community may add comments and sympathies for the photographed individual. This would create a community of people who can support and build each other up in times of need. While expressing support for a certain cause is admirable and appreciated, it is important not to forget that the world doesn’t operate on thoughts but on tangible contributions.

— ALEXANDER CHEN Staff Writer

Mass social networking, as the name implies, allows large groups of people across the entire world to hear opinions and news at an unprecedented scale. However, this swath of information is often difficult to separate from white noise, which in turn leaves many world events unnoticed by the average internet user.

When the Paris attacks hit social media, users flocked to #prayforParis in order to spread news of the devastation. However, these posts were largely topical in nature and only encouraged a singular, mindless response by the vast majority of social media users.

An unfortunate aspect of such a large social media fixation is that users become largely unaware of other important issues. Beirut, another victim of ISIS attacks, only saw its hashtag #Beirut reach 130,000 tweets per day while #Paris reached over 11 million tweets per day according to Topsy, a hashtag analytic service. Instead of discussing anything besides France, users were stuck in an echo box where only a narrow construct of data was heard.

Facebook helped this mindless behavior by only allowing users to apply the French flag to their picture, ignoring Beirut, Syria or other conflicts.

Even more worrying, however, was how little serious discussion existed on social media after the attacks. Rather than discuss how French foreign policy or domestic politics helped fuel internal tensions, social media users simply repeated their messages of support while everyone else agreed. Rather than just continue the status quo, social media users need to think for themselves and learn to be critical about what they read so they can contribute to the conversation, not just parrot it.

— NATE WALKER Contributing Writer

Users Should Be Able to Mourn Freely without Facing Criticism It is ridiculous to become critical of a simple gesture such as the temporary French flag Facebook filter that shows solidarity and support.

Many people have criticized this because it supposedly means that Western lives somehow matter more than those who were affected by the bombings in Beirut or Baghdad and other places around the world. Maybe people do care more about France than Lebanon, and if they do, why does that matter? It is their prerogative, and it doesn’t mean that the threat of ISIS in other places is being dismissed as insignificant.

Let people mourn and show solidarity the way they want to. If people want to #prayforParis or change their Facebook picture, they will.

Sometimes these simple acts speak louder and mean more than the $5 someone can donate.

Although, USA Today columnist Steven Petrow encourages people to do more than just change their profile, that’s really all many social media users can do. Social media isn’t the place to make grand gestures in response to the ISIS attacks, nor is it even possible to do much more. People who changed their profile or wrote #prayforParis or a similar message of support did what they could within the limited sphere of social media.

Perhaps the world does care more about Paris than Beirut or other places suffering from terrorist attacks. But at this point, that shouldn’t matter. As a writer from Quartz said, “This doesn’t make me a hypocrite. It makes me human.” As people are affected by these tragedies, it’s time to show support for each other instead of criticizing each other for minute gestures meant to show solidarity.

— ROSINA GARCIA Managing Editor

It’s been one of those long, weird weeks where the student government suddenly decides to drop all its financial support for print media on campus. To be clear, the allknowing How-To Guru does not take decisions like this personally. There is always a higher reason behind such catastrophic decisions. The Guru has risen far beyond the sentimental provocations of A.S. funding. ‘Tis not wise to get our newspapers all twisted up over a minor setback. Let this well-considered advice enlighten print publications on how to win back the love and support of the A.S. Council and its faithful dollars.

First of all, treat the Koala like a strict moral guidebook on how to infatuate the hearts of your fellow students. When looking for story ideas, remember that offensive words and terms are a gold mine of entertainment. In fact, there is really no such thing as being too racist, sexist or jerk-assy. The best way to be an edgy, cool publication entitled to A.S. Council funding is to aimlessly spew hateful rhetoric. Of course, some students will be offended but whatever. There’s no time to be politically correct. You’re too busy preparing scripts for a reality TV show — uh, article.

The next step is to never admit to bias. Say this with us: I am the voice of all-knowing truth, wisdom and fairness. There is no room for subjectivity or nuance in journalism.

Facts are facts, and it is your responsibility as a print publication to proclaim this moral standard of utter and complete objectivity. It is the golden duty of all writers to denounce their claim on opinions, complaints or criticisms.

However, if you should write articles with just the faintest tinge of a spin to it, keep it positive.

Memorize the following phrases and feel free to disperse these words (as a sort of public database of factual information) throughout your stories.

Remember, the student government is simply delightful. What a lovely group of intelligent students who always makes the finest legislative decisions, especially about print media! Even when they take away their financial support, they can’t take away our profound love.

Here are a few more examples: Janet Napolitano is a sensitive, compassionate woman who makes students proud to be a part of the UC system. Geisel is a spaceship of technology and innovative thinking.

Sun God Festival is a community event full of sunlight and happiness.

We should also publicize how thankful we are for the ever-increasing student tuition rates. Thanks to the power of student debt, UCSD undergraduates receive the finest education. It is a system above reform, immune to improvement. It makes us kind of choked up inside with all these warm, squishy feelings. In fact, that’s the thought the How-To Guru would like to leave its followers with: lukewarm, mushy feelings. Do you feel a little like crying right now? Let it all out. That is the key to winning back funding for print media. Don’t get all butthurt about it; get smart, UCSD. It’s time to get smart.

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By David Juarez

Dear Editors, I am disappointed with the decision made by A.S. Council to remove its financial support from student media organizations because they disagree with what is being stated in one printed forum (read: Koala). A.S. Council appears to be attempting to subvert the possibility of being viewed as discriminating against one news media organization by dismantling support for other/ all previously supported news organizations. In fact, it has been done so hastily that they were not even able to give ample time for input from the news organizations that Council represents.

While the Koala publication is admittedly crude, racist and misogynistic, it is the First Amendment right of those who produce the publication to voice their opinions regardless of whether they conflict with the views of the A.S. Council. Stifling the voices of news media organizations by

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withdrawing financial support is incredibly unconstitutional.

The goal of the A.S. Council should not be to deprecate the student media in order to create a safe space simply because the Council disagrees with one organization. A.S. Council should fight for the rights of students to create whatever form of news media they wish, regardless of content, as A.S. Council is not responsible for the content — the organizations producing the content are.

On a more personal note, the ridiculous knee-jerk reaction speed of this defunding proposition seems immature at best. A public renouncement and call for a petition to defund selectively a form of media that directly promotes the use of sexual- or race-based violence could have been more efficacious.

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Recent Terror Attacks in Paris and Beirut Highlight Differences in the Media Coverage of Western and Eastern Countries ▶ MEDIA REACTION from page 4

Why, as Lebanese writer Joey Aryoub asks, do Beirut victims not get the thoughts and prayers of beloved celebrities who have the immense power of the Internet at their fingertips? The answer isn’t that simple, but two realities persist, and both reflect Aryoub’s and Belam’s claims.

What a lack of front-page news stories and Facebook shares regarding Beirut demonstrates on a deeper level is that people living in the Western sphere do not exercise the same degree of empathy about Beirut as they do about Paris. It’s a familiar part of the West. According to the

International Institute of Education, France is the fourth most popular choice for a study abroad destination, while Lebanon does not break the top 20. Clearly, the reports of terror in non-Westernized countries aren’t perceived as attacks on people and are, rather, as Fares mentions on his blog post, merely seen as “something that happens in those parts of the world.”

As elaborated by Justin Peters in a piece for Slate, the articles regarding Beirut lack integral elements of writing that those written about Paris exhibit, from second accounts of the wreckage to narrative storytelling and selection of quotes. This shows increased empathy toward victims of

terrorist attacks in more Westernized nations, reflected in part by how these attacks are described to the public as well as how they are received.

With that said, there are generalizations revealed through selective coverage of Lebanon and Syria that contribute to a hierarchy of empathy, in which victims from more Westernized settings receive the most, whether intentionally or not, and little effort is made to understand regions outside of this familiar model of democratic society. This is evident in the claim that Lebanon is a war zone and that the Beirut attacks were typical. It’s certainly located in the politically volatile Gulf Region, but as Anne Barnard states in her analysis

of the aftermath of Beirut, this year — despite political assassinations in recent years and an Israeli airstrike nine years ago — had been one of “relative calm” for Beirut. Blanket statements regarding the Middle East in reactions to terrorism dismiss issues that we need to acknowledge.

Time after time, it’s consistently Muslim and Jewish populations who face the greatest dangers after terrorist attacks and who are blamed for violence they did not commit.

This week, a San Diego State student was attacked by another student who attempted to push her, rip her hijab from her head and, as reported by Quinn Owen of The Daily Aztec, yelled “hateful comments about her

ethnicity.” This is just one of many similar reactions this week in response to previous terrorist attacks, joining the arson and shooting of French mosques after Charlie Hebdo and the brutal attack of a Muslim woman in Toronto who was picking up her kids from school.

For there to be media coverage outside the Western sphere, American readers must work to understand the complexity of countries and affairs in the Middle East and the Gulf Region.

Readers need to demonstrate that deaths like those in Beirut are not merely “blips on international radar.”

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Throughout the country, colleges are starting First Year and Transfer Year Experiences. The UCSD Guardian delved into the UCSD programs, one for each of the six colleges, and saw how students become the teacher.

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veryone is aware of how difficult the switch from high school, or even community college, to a large university like UCSD can be. We have an intimate knowledge of the pains and joys of this transition, because we’ve done it. A large number of colleges across America, including UCSD, have introduced the First Year Experience and Transfer Year Experience, in an attempt to guide students and give them structure in their first quarter.

The FYE coordinator, Sophia Davidson, claims that a successful transition can enormously help incoming students.

“Our FYE program gives students the tools they need to be successful in their college career,” Davidson told the UCSD Guardian. “Research across the country has shown a significant hike in retention and graduation rate.”

UCSD, unlike many other universities, offers the program for credit. Each of the six colleges tailors their curriculum to their specific values and GE programs while aiding students as they explore the six-college system. Classes are a mix of lectures, guest speakers, discussions and activities.

Another special part of the program is the partnership between FYE, TYE and organizations on campus such as CAPS, Geisel Library and Student Affairs. Presentations by these groups assist students with their questions about college life: time management, personal health, how to get well acquainted with academic integrity, how to interact with professors and how to get involved on campus.

Looking back at their own first few weeks, many students who struggled during their first quarter realize that they could have benefited from this program. Allen Bolar, a teaching assistant for the Eleanor Roosevelt College program, aims to help students who are nervous about the transition to a large university.

“The ideal student is one who feels that this is a huge change in their lives going from high school to college or something before college,” Bolar told the UCSD Guardian. “One way I think about it is we are teaching students ‘how to student,’ which is a funny way to put it since these are UCSD students and they are presumably great students and have been good students their whole life, but

university life is different. There are a lot more opportunities and a lot more challenges [when] you are in a large city-like environment. From my own personal experience, it’s this sink-or-swim moment.”

A crucial element of this program, however, seems to be its Discussion Leaders, who act as TAs and mentors. Chosen from a wide range of majors and backgrounds, the DLs only have one common factor: the desire to mentor students and the experience necessary to do so. After they are accepted, DLs undergo training in the spring and then begin teaching in the fall.

“From the program’s perspective, at least my perspective, DLs are the single most important piece of the program because they are the ones meeting with incoming students every week,” Bolar said. “Ideally they are getting a chance to pass on some of their knowledge and experience. We also want it to be a chance to give back to students.

We want them to have experience and practice in teaching. We work every week on pedagogy and how to make a lesson plan...For advanced See FYE, page 8

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Professor Seth Lerer not only holds two bachelor degrees, a masters degree, and a Ph.D. in English but also a respect for the evolution and change in language.

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rofessor Seth Lerer sat surrounded by books. It was a fitting backdrop for the Distinguished Professor of Literature, who joined UCSD’s faculty as an accomplished scholar of English language and literature in early 2009. The walls of his office were hidden behind bookshelves spanning from ceiling to floor, and the multi-colored spines of at least a thousand texts painted the room in a kaleidoscopic array of color. It was the space of a man who had dedicated the last 39 years of his life to the study of the written word — who had come to know the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare perhaps better than himself, and who, through literature, had gained a deep understanding of humanity.

His studies have sent him across most of the western hemisphere, obtaining a B.A. in English from Wesleyan University, a second B.A. in Medieval English and an M.A. in Historical Linguistics from the University of Oxford, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago. It wasn’t long after he earned his doctorate that Lerer began teaching at Princeton.

But when he was given the opportunity to teach at Stanford in 1991, the intoxicating allure of fabled California took full effect, and Lerer headed westward.

While his education certainly reinforces his scholarly brilliance, to fully understand Seth Lerer is to look past his prestigious titles, awards and books, revealing the natural intellectual that lies behind his dapper suit and tie. Soon, Seth Lerer the New Yorker comes into focus: the one whose first literary experience came at the age of four years old after receiving his library card from the Brooklyn Public Library. “[The book] was called ‘Adam’s Today and Tomorrow,’” Lerer told the UCSD Guardian. “It was about the future.”

He smiled nostalgically.

“It was like, and this was 1959, we are going to live in a world in which electricity will be too cheap to meter,” Lerer remembered, “In which everything will be clean and safe. In which America’s nuclear power will be a beacon of light to the rest of the world. I mean, I know it’s horseshit now, but that’s what we were taught!”

He was right. It really was horseshit. But in the late 1950s such portrayals of progress didn’t seem too far from the truth, and to four-yearold Lerer these hopeful images of a prosperous future were as feasible as they were wondrous. In the same way “Adam’s Today and Tomorrow” captured the perspective of Americans in 1959, each and every work of literature encapsulates the cultural environment of the time and place that they’re written.

“In that sense, literature is a lens,” Lerer explained. “It’s a way of magnifying. It’s a way of seeing.”

The transitory nature of perspective and language in literature seems a recurrent fixture of Lerer’s scholarly research. As an individual who religiously studies everything from the most archaic literary works to the latest contemporary tomes, he has observed the English language and the people who speak it change dramatically over the course of history. Like a spectator seated in the very last row of a playhouse, Lerer has seen how English literature has shifted and warped as cultural shifts enter and exit the stage.

One of his nine books, “Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language,” delves into these dynamic changes by exploring the different ways in which vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar have transformed commensurate to mankind. This constant evolution of literature and language, Lerer says, can create challenges for readers and speakers who aren’t able to adjust as quickly as language does.

“My view is that we are going to have strata,” Lerer said. “We are going to have [different] Englishes for different purposes, and there will be a real self-consciousness about this. Language of the school, language of the business, language of the home, language of the street. We see this in the history of the English language. We see the way in which people do this.”

Evidence to support Lerer’s idea of stratified Englishes is all around us. The Internet, for one, is in the process of cultivating its own language.

Instead of interpreting these changes as disdainful devolutions of language, as many English scholars might, Lerer embraces them.

“There’s a creativity in the English of the Internet that can aspire to a certain kind of poetry,” Lerer said. “I really believe that.”

Unlike many traditional scholars, who would rather receive 100 lashes before putting the words Internet, English and poetry in the same sentence, Lerer believes that this is the natural evolution of English and to resist that would be foolish.

Still, when traversing the globe giving presentations on Old English, Middle English, classical literary texts and more, Lerer’s audiences frequently single out the “degradation” of the English language. The baby boomers and other members of the senior crowd look to Lerer to help them understand why younger generations don’t speak or write properly, like they learned to.

“People have been saying the English language is decaying for the last 500 years,” Lerer said with a serious countenance. “So, I want to look at the vibrancy and poetry that is going on.”

He may be astoundingly familiar with the eloquent English of the past, but Lerer isn’t one to look back. In fact, his extensive knowledge of history is what allows him to peer so confidently into the foggy future.

“It’s easier to say, ‘Why doesn’t anybody speak English anymore?’

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FYE and TYE Programs Hope to Expand to More Students and Events Next Year, Looking for DLs Now ▶ FYE, from page 6 undergraduates who are thinking about graduate school to put their toe in the water, but actually they do everything that a TA does.”

The DLs of the program lead weekly sections after lecture and learn to put together not only lesson plans but also free-writes, discussions and assignments. While this is just a taste of what it is like to be a TA, the program allows undergraduates to briefly step behind the lectern and glimpse what they might be doing in a few years. This creates a unique relationship as the DLs gain valuable teaching experience and students adapt to college life.

ERC senior Reina Ishii expanded on what it means to be a part of the FYE and TYE programs. For her, every time she is in front of her students represents a chance to mentor fresh-faced freshmen.

“I chose to apply to be a DL because I wanted to help first year students learn to adjust to the academic culture of UCSD,” Ishii told the Guardian. “I am able to share my academic struggles and accomplishments, which eventually leads me to advise and guide students on their own. Also, I wanted to show students that, in a way, they are not alone on campus, and there are resources.”

Not only do the DLs lead class and discuss issues such as diversity and inclusion, but they also teach simple lessons on how to reach out to professors or gain a research position.

“From this program, I can see personal growth in my students, whether it is dedication to their academics or involvement on campus,” Ishii said. “One moment that I felt that my students realized the benefits of this course was when I displayed the answers to ‘what did you want to learn from FYE,’ and my students were able to answer them and provide a list of resources to accomplish that goal.”

This student-to-student mentorship shines when DLs, who are

peers and well aware of the different hardships and exciting opportunities, can console and guide new students.

Moreover, along with the students’ feedback, the DLs and instructors are already working together to create a better and more helpful curriculum.

“I hope to see this program continue to grow and expand to an all-year program, rather than just one quarter,” Ishii said. “Also, I want to see the appreciation and dedication of being a UCSD student from students within this program based on the amount of material and resources FYE provides.”

This year, 490 first years enrolled in the program. Davidson and the

FYE Advisory Board seek to expand the program next year to enroll more student and put on more events.

Meanwhile, the hunt is on for next year’s DLs. “We want [DLs] who are great examples of what students could be.” Bolar said. “The DLs we’ve had have been uniformly exemplary, who not only are great at learning but represent a richness to their university experience. A DL should be a student who is interested in helping people and isn’t afraid of being in front of 20 people each week.”

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Lerer Studies Natural Change in Language ▶ LERER, from page 6

than it is to stand up and say, ‘I’ve spent my whole life being important, and now I’m not important anymore,’ or, ‘My kids have moved out,’ or, ‘I’m on my own,’ or to ask the question, ‘Where am I in the world?’” Lerer said.

“That’s a hard conversation to have.

It’s easier to say, ‘Why is it that when I walk into the bank, these kids don’t know how to make change?’”

Rather than moping about the way English used to be, Lerer dedicates his time and energy to the study of where it is going. He is an educator who believes that to be progressive is to dive into the unknown, shedding conventionalities that have become obsolete before taking the leap. While his views on the future of literature and language may be considered “new wave,” Professor Lerer can still attest to the dastardly effects of time.

Last September, Lerer went back to Brooklyn, the heart of “hipster” NYC.

Back in his hometown, in a restaurant within walking distance of his childhood home, he was confronted with this change face-to-face. His “20-something” server, Courtney, came to take his order. “’Hey great, Courtney, you know I grew up a few blocks from here,’” Lerer said. She looked him up and down, a nicely dressed professor in his 60s, white hair and a suit, mentally rolling her eyes.

“Really? Really?” Lerer thought to himself. “Okay.”

Since leaving Brooklyn and pursuing his studies from England to California, it seems that his city and his language have moved on. But that’s to be expected. Through literature, language and insight, Professor Lerer teaches us all to welcome the ebb and flow of time and, to another extent, see the poetry in change.

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third seeds, but ultimately Cal State San Bernardino did advance further into the tourney. The second seed improved onto a 26–4 record for the regular season while UCSD dropped its record to 19–11 overall for the regular season.

The Cal State San Bernardino Coyotes had an impressive stat sheet for the night and were clear winners in some categories over the Tritons.

The Coyotes had a more effective net play as they were able to outblock the Tritons solidly 16–5. The Tritons had a .149 (52–27–168) hitting percentage while the Coyotes were able to produce a .279 (61–15–165) hitting percentage that night. The Coyotes also had four players who were each able to give their team 10 or more kills, with 12 service errors in the match.

Dahle was able to lead all the players in the match on Friday night with 24.5 points and 21 kills. She also

swung at a .380 (21–2–50) along with two aces, three block assists and 11 digs. This was the second consecutive night the senior outside hitter was able to place herself as the points and kills leader for both teams.

Both Wright and Sierks recorded double-doubles again. This time, Wright was able to earn her doubledouble with 10 kills and 16 digs, and Sierks achieved her own doubledouble after she tallied 37 assists and 19 digs. Colla mimicked her statistical performance from the previous night as she finished off the night with a match-high 19 digs.

“Their hitters did a really good job and put a lot of pressure on us all night,” UCSD Head Coach Ricci Luyties told the UCSD Athletics Department. “We never really got in the flow of our offense. On the defensive end, our blocking was not doing the job that we needed to to slow down their hitters.”

This match was the third meeting of the season between UCSD and

Cal State San Bernardino, with the Tritons having swept the Coyotes on Sept. 15 and the Coyotes winning 3–1 on Sept. 22. This puts San Bernardino at 2–1 against UCSD this season.

Cal State San Bernardino advanced on to the final round to fight for the CCAA Tournament crown against No. 17, first-seed Sonoma State on Saturday. Sonoma State was able to win against Cal State San Bernardino with a nailbiting, 3–2 victory, automatically earning itself a berth in the NCAA postseason. UCSD now waits to see what its future holds as it waits to see if it will receive an at-large spot in the upcoming postseason NCAA tournament. The selections for the NCAA tourney will be announced on Monday, Nov. 23, at 4:30 p.m. PT at NCAA.com.

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for long — a power play by Air Force’s freshman utility George Millard in the final four seconds of the frame leveled the score back out at 7–7 going into the fourth.

Mancuso opened the fourth quarter up with a score from the post position to reclaim the lead.

The Falcons briefly tied the game at eights, but Cockerill smashed two into the cage to re-establish the advantage. The Tritons held strong on defense for the remainder of the quarter to secure a 10–8 victory and a spot in the championship matchup the following day against top-seeded No. 9 UC Davis. With the win, their record improved to 13–13. The Falcons dropped down to 11–16.

Championship Round The Tritons stole a huge upset win over top-seeded No. 9 UC Davis on Sunday to secure yet another conference crown.

Alexander scored on a power play once in the first 47 seconds of the first frame and again in the last 11 seconds to steal an early 2–0 lead over UC Davis. The Tritons held the Aggies scoreless until the first minute of the second quarter when junior two-meter Jacob Ley smashed one into the back of the cage within 50 seconds of the start of the quarter to narrow the margin to one.

The Aggies struck again with two minutes left in the quarter to tie the game at twos. Cockerill

then looked to take back the lead, hitting the target to push his team to a one-point advantage in the last 12 seconds of the frame. However, freshman attacker Ido Goldschmidt came back and fired a hard shot into the goal with a mere two seconds left to end the half at a 3–3 deadlock.

Alexander completed his hat trick in the third as he converted a five-meter penalty shot to take back the lead for his team. Mancuso then scored a critical insurance point for UCSD, boosting its lead back up to two just past the four-minute mark. UC Davis freshman utility Sasa Antunovic fired a shot home on a power play to put the pressure on the Tritons once more but just minutes later was removed on an exclusion, giving Alexander yet another chance to convert a penalty shot and set the score at 6–4.

The fourth frame became a nail-biter after the Aggies’ redshirt freshman Brock Gordon scored in the first minute and a half to narrow his team’s deficit to one. However, goalkeeper Jack Turner held firm in the Triton cage, making two critical saves in the last minutes of play to hang onto the lead and secure a narrow 6–5 upset.

This marks UCSD’s thirdstraight, 18th all-time WWPA title.

They now sit at 14–13 overall.

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Water polo wins third straight WWPA title and upsets No.9 UC Davis in the final.

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Written by Katie Potts // Editorial Assistant Photo by Megan Lee // UCSD Guardian he UCSD men’s water polo team ended a successful bid for its third-straight Western Water Polo Association crown at Cadet Natatorium at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs this past weekend, securing three straight wins en route to its 18th WWPA title. The Tritons edged out the Santa Clara University Broncos 11–9 in the opening round on Friday, then went on to take a 10–8 victory over host Air Force on Saturday to clinch a spot in the title match. After a tight four frames against top-seeded UC Davis, UCSD came away with a narrow 6–5 victory to its crown.

First Round UCSD made a comeback from a two-goal deficit in the second half to secure the win against Santa Clara and move on to the WWPA semifinal round.

Freshman driver Cole Martinez and junior utility Nassim Hmeidan each scored one in the first minute of the first frame to take a commanding two-goal lead over the Broncos.

However, Santa Clara responded with two goals of its own to tie the score up at 2–2; each team then took one more to end the quarter in a 3–3 deadlock.

The Tritons then outscored the Broncos 3–2 in the second frame to establish the lead once again. The Triton defense held strong and limited the Broncos to just two scores as junior utility Jack Ellinthorpe, junior driver Andy Moore and Martinez each put away one to put UCSD at a one-point advantage going into halftime.

However, the Broncos came back after the half and found the back of the cage three consecutive times to set the score at 8–6, claiming their first major lead of the game. UCSD’s senior utility Daniel Straub was able to cut the deficit to one, and junior driver Nick Alexander converted a five-meter penalty shot to tie the game up once again.

The critical point came as two Broncos drew exclusions late in the quarter, putting the Tritons at a two-player advantage.

Ellinthorpe scored a six-on-four goal to steal the lead back,

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then senior utility Chase Cockerill lobbed one more into the back of the cage with six seconds remaining to put UCSD back at a two-point advantage.

The Tritons scored one more and limited Santa Clara to one in the final frame to end the game with an 11–9 victory and move into the semifinals against tournament host Air Force. UCSD increased its record to 12–13 this season, while Santa Clara dropped to 11–20 overall.

“Any time you’re going to try to beat a team a fourth time in one season, it’s pretty difficult,” UCSD Head Coach Denny Harper told the UCSD Athletics Department. “I’m certainly pleased with the way we closed it out. I do think that playing this game is going to pay dividends in terms of getting into a groove of what to expect playing in this altitude of 7,200 feet.”

Semifinal Round The Tritons put away two last-minute goals to crush tournament host Air Force 10–8 on Saturday and secure a spot in the WWPA championship match.

Alexander found the back of the cage in the first frame to push the Tritons to an early lead. However, the Falcons battled back in the second, scoring twice within minutes of the start of the period to take a one-point lead. Martinez responded soon after with a goal of his own to level the score; Alexander then nabbed his second of the match to reclaim the lead.

The Falcons were not done yet, though — three scores in quick succession put Air Force at a two-goal advantage coming into the last minutes of the quarter. Martinez scored again off a pass from senior utility Chase Cockerill to narrow the deficit to one, but the host closed the quarter at a 6–4 advantage after putting away one last shot in the final 39 seconds of play.

The Tritons returned with a vengeance after the half, outscoring Air Force 3–1 to even the score once again.

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CSUSB Defeats UCSD in Semifinals UCSD defeats Cal State L.A. in the quarterfinals but gets ousted in the next round.

This past week, UCSD hosted the first-ever California Collegiate Athletic Association Women’s Volleyball Tournament at RIMAC Arena. Host school UCSD was able to advance further into the tourney after it defeated Cal State Los Angeles in a quarterfinal match on Thursday before ultimately being bounced out

by Cal State San Bernardino in the semifinal match on Friday.

First Round UCSD defeated Cal State Los Angeles after well-contested sets ended in a 3–1 victory. The scores of the sets were 25–22, 25–21, 20–25 and 25–15. With this win, UCSD improved its overall record to 19–10 for the season and also advanced in the tournament as the third seed to face the second-seed, 19th-ranked

Cal State San Bernardino on Friday.

Entering the tournament as the sixth seed, Cal State Los Angeles was demoted to a 19–11 overall record for the season after its timely defeat

by UCSD. For Thursday’s match, senior outside hitter Danielle Dahle brought the heat as she led all players in the match with 19 points scored on 19 kills. Alongside her, both junior outside hitter Meagan Wright and senior setter Heidi Sierks were able to bring home double-doubles for themselves.

Wright earned her double-double with 17 kills and 15 digs, and Sierks earned her own double-double with 50 assists and 14 digs. To add to her stat sheet, Sierks also recorded four blocks. Joining the elite stat tier with her fellow Tritons, sophomore libero and outside hitter Amanda Colla brought in a match-best 20 digs. Cal State Los Angeles’ senior outside

hitter Iona Lofrano, despite the loss, took home the match-high 22 kills alongside her sizable 13 digs.

Despite a good hitting percentage of .188 (51–21–160) from the Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles, the Tritons were still able to pull through with a win and a .238 (61–21–168) hitting percentage. The Tritons swept the Golden Eagles 3–0 this season, with past wins over them on Nov. 14 and Sept. 25.

“Any chance we have to prolong our season, considering it is my last, is like a dream come true,” Dahle told the UCSD Athletics Department. ”We’re just trying to go as far as we can.”

As the Tritons advanced into Friday for their semifinal match, second-seed Cal State San Bernardino improved to a 25–4 overall record after sweeping seventh-seed Cal State Stanislaus and advancing to meet the Tritons

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Semifinal Round Cal State San Bernardino crushed the Tritons’ dreams for a ticket into the finals of the CCAA Tournament, beating them in four matches 3–1.

The scores of the tense game were 25–17, 18–25, 25–19 and 25– 23. The game was a well-contested matchup between the second and See W. VOLLEYBALL, page 11