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Bomb Threat Shuts Down I-15 Vehicles stuck in traffic used the Interstate 15’s road shoulder to turn around and head toward a nearby freeway exit.

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incoming northbound traffic to Sate Route 52 and southbound traffic to Miramar Way. Holiday drivers stuck on the northbound I-15 began using the shoulder to turn their cars around and drive backwards on the freeway in order to reach the nearest exit, or the divide to the southbound I-15. San Diego Bomb Squad officers arrived at the scene around See HOAX, page 3

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Surgeons at the UCSD Health System are now using a revolutionary scanning technique to see the human brain’s nerve connections before performing critical surgery. This non-invasive method is called tractography, or diffusion tensor imaging. First introduced in 1985, it has mainly been used for investigating strokes and other neurological diseases, like Alzheimer’s disease or autism, because it accurately maps out microscopic details in brain tissue. UCSD Health System neurosurgeons are now among the first to use DTI to scan the anatomy of white

tissue affected by cancer, allowing them to perform delicate operations on brain tumors without adversely affecting critical functions like sight and speech. Instead of dyes, chemicals or needles, the technique simply uses water. By tracking the movement of water molecules in the brain, neurosurgeons can find important nerve endings and plan out their surgery accordingly. “There are no margins for error in the brain. Every centimeter of brain tissue contains millions of neural connections, so every millimeter counts,” Dr. Clark Chen, vice-chairman of neurosurgery at the UCSD Health System, said in a Nov. 21 news release. “With tractography, we can visualize the most important of these connections to avoid injury. In doing so, we will preserve the quality of life for our patients with brain cancer.” See BRAIN, page 3

President Barack Obama awarded Molina with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for work in chemistry.

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UCSD professor Mario Molina was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom award — the nation’s most prestigious civilian award — from President Barack Obama in a ceremony held on Wednesday, Nov. 20. The ceremony also honored 15 other recipients of the award, including Oprah Winfrey and the late Sally Ride who was the first American woman in space before becoming a professor emeritus of physics at UCSD. The Presidential Medal of Freedom award was established 50 years ago by the late President John F. Kennedy to honor men and women in their fields of expertise. Before honoring each recipient for their contributions,

President Obama reminded those in attendance of the significance of the award. “The Presidential Medal of Freedom goes to men and women who have dedicated their own lives to enriching ours,” Obama said. “This year’s honorees have been blessed with extraordinary talent, but what sets them apart is their gift for sharing that talent with the world.” Molina was recognized by President Obama for his groundbreaking discovery of chlorofluorocarbons, a common class of chemicals once found in aerosol sprays and refrigerants that deplete the ozone layer in the stratosphere. His work also earned him a Nobel Prize in 1995 that he shares with co-recipiSee AWARD, page 3

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▶ UCSD Professors Become AAAS Fellows Six UCSD professors were recently recognized as part of the 2013 American Association for the Advancement of Science, for “efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished,” according to the association. The fellows — six of 388 scientists and researchers selected to be in the association this year — include Scripps Institution of Oceanography Professor Ronald S. Burton, department of chemistry and biochemistry Professor Seth M. Cohen, Scripps Institution of Oceanography geophysics Professor Jean-Bernard Mister, cellular and molecular medicine Professor Bing Ren, bioengineering Professor Shankar Subramanian and division of physical sciences Dean Mark H. Thiemens. ▶ Man Stabbed on Black Friday A man was stabbed and hospitalized at a Black Friday event at the Westfield Plaza Camino Real Mall in Carlsbad at 12:30 a.m. on Friday morning,

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according to Carlsbad police. Police followed two stabbing suspects, who fled toward a movie theater after the stabbing just after midnight. The police detained one suspect, identified as 18-year-old Javier Covarrubias, who reportedly stabbed another victim in the stomach before attempting to flee the scene. They were unable to locate or detain the second suspect. The second suspect, who escaped the scene, was described as thin, about 5 feet 9 inches and wearing a hooded sweatshirt and dark clothing. According to police, the stabbing victim was transported to the hospital, where he received surgery for his injuries. At press time, police had not located the second suspect and information about the condition of the stab victim was unavailable. ▶ ViaSat Donates $1 Million ViaSat Inc., a San-Diego-based satellite and digital communications producer, donated $1 million to the UCSD Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination Nov. 21.

Two of ViaSat’s co-founders, Steven Hart and Mark Miller, are UCSD alumni. Along with Dankberg, they gave the gift in order to support ongoing projects at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination as well as to establish the Arthur C. Clarke Center Endowment to secure the center’s continuation. The main purposes of the center are to research human imagination, apply imagination to teaching and learning, use imagination in addressing larger world problems and develop appreciation for imagination. The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation is named after science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, whose works include “2001: A Space Odyssey.” The foundation encourages innovation through multiple avenues, including science, humanities and art. ▶ UTC brief SWAT teams responded to a suspected homicide in a University City neighborhood located behind the Westfield University Town Center

Mall on Friday, Nov. 29 around 4 p.m. Police responded to a tip that a 29-year-old-man and San Diego resident planned to kill his live-in girlfriend of the same age according to a U-T San Diego article. The San Diego Police Department was able to locate the girlfriend safely in the complex, leading to the peaceful arrest of a man identified as Eric Russell Beardsley. He is a registered owner of several weapons and was arrested under suspicion of an assault with a firearm and making criminal threats. Helicopter, canine units and professional negotiators were brought into the apartment complex on Lombard Place near Nobel Drive in response to the threat. Residents were told to stay inside until further notice. The area was declared safe later that evening. Firearms and ammunition were found in his apartment and vehicle parked near the family-friendly mall. Beardsley was booked at around 11:30 p.m. in the San Diego Central Jail.

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K-9 Unit Dogs Behaved As If a Real Bomb Threat Was Present ▶ HOAX, from page 1

4 p.m. with a K-9 unit. According to officers, the dogs behaved as if there were a real bomb threat present. However, the man who called in

the bomb called his sister back to apologize for the prank. Officials believe the woman genuinely didn’t know it was her brother on the first phone call and elected to arrest the man, 28-year-old Victor Diaz,

on felony charges. The freeways were reopened in both directions by 6:00 p.m.

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ents, Paul J. Crutzen and F. Sherwood Rowland. President Obama continued to praise Molina for his unwavering dedication to teach society of the threat climate change poses. “[Professor Mario Molina] was awarded the Nobel Prize, not only for his pathbreaking research, but also for his insistence that when we ignore dangerous carbon emissions we risk destroying the ozone layer and endangering our planet,” Obama said. “And

thanks to Mario’s work, the world came together to address a common threat. And today, inspired by his work, we are working to leave our planet safer and cleaner for future generations.” When the medal recipients were first announced in May, Molina told UT San Diego he felt the award signified more than just honoring his work. “I was stunned to learn that I’m getting the medal,” Molina said. “I’m also very humbled. The Nobel is given for work that you do in your field. But the Presidential Medal of Freedom is given

for people who are thought to have had an impact on society. This is really an incentive to keep working on the issues that I have been involved with, including climate change.” Having established a Center for Energy and Environment in Mexico City, Molina now divides his time between teaching at UCSD and researching on air quality and other global change issues.

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Scanning Technique Eliminates Potential Damage to Key Senses ▶ BRAIN, from page 1

This is especially important for patients with tumors in parts of the brain that control memory and other key senses. They no longer have to worry about potentially damaging these functions because DTI scans reveal small paths to tumors between neurons and color code them, giving surgeons a clear idea of how to proceed with the operation. The technology allowed Anthony Chetti, a San

Diego teacher, to undergo surgery in his occipital lobe without suffering any vision loss. Current scanning technology, like computed tomography, cannot match the level of detail that DTI offers. “There is no way of predicting where these fibers would lie except with tractography,” Chen said. “By observing the flow of water molecules, we can visually reconstruct the complex symphony of brain connections. The resulting images are not only

accurate but breathtakingly beautiful, giving us a glimpse into the extraordinary human mystery of the brain.” Although applying DTI scanning to brain cancer is a novel concept, UCSD Health System teams are actively developing better ways to utilize this approach. They plan on collaborating with other radiology and imaging experts in their investigations.

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Companies’ increasing use of social media in their hiring processes continues a disconcerting trend of blurred personal and professional spheres.

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owadays, students looking to be competitive in the job market after college must, not only be qualified, but also conscious of the image they present on social media platforms. Companies have been utilizing social media both to recruit and filter out potential candidates — a method that, despite its convenience and originality, has numerous disadvantages and shortcomings. Social media as a form of recruitment further eradicates face-toface communication, invades the boundary between personal and professional life and is overly trusting of the personas that individuals choose to project on Internet profiles. According to the Jobvite Social Recruiting Survey, 92 percent of employers either currently use or plan to use social media as a recruiting tactic. Likeable Media, a New York marketing firm, gives potential hires the option to follow up through both Twitter and Snapchat, claiming that it demonstrates their ability to get a message across no matter what the platform is. While this process may seem innovative and appropriate in a business world of growing speeds, one must reflect on society’s dangerously expanding use of telecommunication. Many businesses are now corresponding primarily through emails, text messages, websites or other technology-enabled media, leading to a decline in physical interactivity. Society has become consumed with online networking and enthralled by its shortcuts in sidestepping, tangible interaction. A UCLA study showed that “forgoing in-person meetings with clients can lead to misdirection and ultimately one or more parties being unsatisfied.” The study also comments that “up to 93 percent of all communication is nonverbal. This includes eye contact, body language and posture,” indicating that when we correspond on social networking sites, meaning is lost in transition. Due to its impersonal nature, recruitment through social media disallows candidates from making a first impression, never mind a lasting one; without intimate correspondence, employers have a difficult time differentiating one person from the next. In-person interviews provide a more genuine representation of the individual and their abilities, whereas telecommunication allows them to construe an intelligent response. Reviewing and assessing candidate profiles creates the potential for bias in the hiring process, not to mention excluding members of the public who do not utilize social media. Recruiters claim that by delving into social channels, they can make more informed hiring decisions; however, a study at Carnegie Mellon University revealed that much of the content being explored by these employers was indicative of religion, race, sexual orientation, family status or other personal information. Asking personally relevant questions during an interview violates federal laws prohibiting job discrimination, and thus companies “who screen their candidates on social media run the risk of discovering information they’re not See HIRING, page 5

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CURRENT FEDERAL LAW PROHIBITS FINANCIAL COMPENSATION FOR LIVING ORGAN DONORS, BUT POLLS INDICATE PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE IDEA, AND RECENT STUDIES SHOW THAT PAYMENT COULD GIVE A NEEDED BOOST TO THE NUMBERS OF POTENTIAL DONORS

Ascribing Monetary Values to Organs Leads to Exploitation and Potential Health Risks Compensation for organ donors might seem like a viable option for medical institutions, but it is simply a short-term solution that would dehumanize one’s body to a market-valued property and fuel-class inequality. In a recent issue of the New Internationalist Magazine, Professor Jeremy Chapman, Director of Renal Services at Westmead Hospital in Australia, warned that the compensation plan could cause the poor and the vulnerable to sell their organs because of financial needs. This will allow the wealthy the luxury of “buying” organs, while the poor are the organs’ source. There are also potential health issues associated with incentivizing donation. Dr. Arthur Caplan of New York University Langone Medical Center suggests that the quality of organs could be threatened since donors tend to lie about their health status when monetary incentives are introduced. The risk of passing on infectious diseases through organ trade is especially unpredictable and perilous. Studies have yet to discover the long-term health impacts on both donors and beneficiaries, and legalizing organ trade could disrupt insurance policies, health regulations and healthcare plans. Compensation for organ donors risks the health of both the donors and the receiving patients. The idea of giving monetary compensation for one’s body parts turns people into commodities, increases health risks and exacerbates class inequality. Although there are natural societal divides in income and property ownership, the human body is off-limits. Wealth should not determine who must donate organs or who is able to receive them. — YAN GAO Contributing Writer

Organ Donor Compensation Does Not Diminish the Value of a Saved Life

Medical Need for Organ Donations Should Be Prioritized Over Altruistic Concerns

Despite the controversy surrounding it, the ethics of compensating organ donors remains unclear. One side of the argument contends that the spirit of giving is lost when there’s a price tag on it, while others believe that giving organs a monetary value dehumanizes the human body. However, an individual’s decision to receive compensation or not for their organs should be their own choice. Sperm and egg donors currently receive compensation, so there is not any particular reason why individuals should not receive a financial incentive for donating organs. While the problem of organ trafficking will continue to be an issue, the urgency of the donation process is more important. Organ donation will not be the only risk-laden medical procedure to be carried out; gamete donation, for example, remains a profitable business despite the concomitant concerns over health implications. According to Dr. Mark J. Perry of the American Enterprise Institute, as of 2012, fewer than 20 percent of patients awaiting kidney transplants were actually able to receive the operation. Without any sort of financial motive for prospective donors to give an organ, patients seeking new organs are reliant on donors to go under the knife out of the goodness of their hearts. Compensating organ donors could potentially relieve the shortage, because it would do so by creating a real incentive to donate. Health care isn’t just about healing patients. There is a side of the medical sector that relies on moneymaking abilities, so compensating an organ donor wouldn’t necessarily compromise the ethical considerations of a hospital.

Every year, thousands of people sign up for an organ transplant waiting list, and every year, thousands of people die without ever getting the desired organ. Though compensating organ donors has been a controversial issue, giving donors extra benefits for their organs will save many lives. Though compensating donors may appear to lessen the altruistic aspect of the donating process, the thousands of wait-list deaths accentuate the need for organs. According to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, there are more than 98,000 people on the waiting list for kidneys yet only 13,040 people donated kidneys last year. In 2012, more than 4,500 people died last year waiting for a kidney. The current amount of organs donated is not enough; the government needs to recognize this and consider alternatives to increase donations. By offering incentives, such as compensation for health costs, tax relief or a deduction on life and health insurance, the number of donors may increase since donors currently receive no other benefit than personal satisfaction. University of Calgary professor Dr. Braden Manns conducted a study this past October that showed that there would be a 5 percent increase in kidney donations if donors were offered a $10,000 payment. Although receiving compensation for organ donation may seem dehumanizing, the number of deaths will only increase as the waiting list grows. In the end, saving human lives should be made a top priority. Compensation does not lessen the altruistic value of organ donation, but simply gives more people reason to perform a good deed.

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Dedicated Business Networking Platforms Maintain Privacy ▶ HIRING, from page 4 allowed to have.” If such information is off-limits, employers should not be able to seek it underhandedly online; introducing personal information in a professional setting deviates from the non-discriminatory policies that every establishment should practice. Professional recruiters should limit their span of media outreach to professional networking platforms in order to maintain the division between career and private life. Platforms such as Linkedin, Biznik, and Ecademy provide a starting point for recruiters to identify their candidates based on concrete skills and experience and supplement the interview process rather than replace

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it. Websites dedicated to business networking allow users to connect in a professional context with a profile that details their qualifications. Through these websites, users can regulate the information they share with recruiters, rather than openly share their religious views, photos from a weekend in Vegas or political tweets that would be available on other sites. Outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram should be strictly social and have no business being employed as recruitment tools; one should not have to censor their identity on social media to guard against the snooping eye of employers. Such probing is an intrusion of private life and the personal uses for which the profile was created.

Social hiring enables the misuse of personal information, creates potential for inauthenticity and perpetuates the ever increasing dependency on technology as a means of communication. The creation and nourishment of professional relationships becomes difficult without face-to-face-interaction on a frequent basis. Moreover, media sites made for personal use should stay limited to personal use so as to prevent discrimination in the recruitment process. While the emergence of social hiring clearly illustrates an advancing society, interpersonal dealings and quality relations should not be sabotaged for the purpose of expediency.

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Dear Editor, UniversityLink at UCSD will replace — next year — the Transfer Admission Guarantee program that was discontinued in 2012. To be eligible for the program, a student’s family income cannot exceed $40,000 a year. Additionally, students must have at least a 3.5 average GPA, and they must fulfill regular transfer requirements. Students must also go to one of nine local partner community colleges: Cuyamaca, Grossmont, Imperial Valley, MiraCosta, Palomar, San Diego City, San Diego Mesa, San Diego Miramar or Southwestern. Interim Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Alan Houston at the most recent UCSD A.S. Council meeting, said that an estimated 200 students will be eligible for the program each year and that there is no ceiling for the number of students that can take advantage of it. A potential financial problem that this program may cause is that these incoming students will require larger amounts of financial aid. However, according to Houston, Chancellor Pradeep Khosla’s “primary objective in the capital campaign that will be launched next year is scholarships for undergraduate students.” In my opinion, the new “guaranteed” transfer policy facilitates racketing up graduate enrollment at UCSD while it potentially creates a big hole in undergraduate enrollment that wasn’t there before (under TAG). This is in keeping with UCSD Chancellor Pradeep Khosla’s longterm goals. Establishing a free standing school is bound to limit its impact on the overall educational system, and such a school is likely to have to provide resources that could be garnered from existing schools or at least could be used in cooperation

with such schools. Even if the school is not connected to other schools, it would make sense to have some sort of regularized internship connections, which would link the students and staff to the realities of computer operations in various government and private organizations in the country, e.g., like the berufsacademie in Germany. California’s master plan for higher education has succeeded in building the greatest system in the world, but it’s under attack. Push has come to shove with the $200 per unit charges for Santa Monica Community College’s most in-demand classes. San Diego Community College District Chancellor Constance Carroll and State Senator Marty Block now want baccalaureate degrees in the fields of nursing, software engineering and public safety administration. San Diego State University might raise tuition independently, and establish Ph.D.s, M.D.s and J.D.s (if the BlockCarroll heresy isn’t snuffed). Dick Blum, the longest-serving member on the UC board, is there to exploit the privatization of the 112-member, 2-year public college system; he owns $700 million in forprofit colleges stock (Blum told me on the sidelines of the regents meeting held in San Diego: “The CCs aren’t doing their jobs”). For-profit colleges are mined by their CEOs overwhelmingly at taxpayer expense. Senator Marty Block is for EVERYTHING. He takes the maximum amount of money from Bridgepoint Education Corporation. He favors the local option for SDSU. Block supports Point Loma Nazarene University and University of San Diego students receiving the same amount of money in Cal Grants as do Stanford University students. — Richard Thompson UCSD Alumnus ’83

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contributing writer The United States of America is a prison nation. According to the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, even though the U.S. holds only 5 percent of the world’s population, it houses 25 percent of the world’s prisoners — the largest percentage in any region. This percentage has quadrupled between 2008 and 2011 alone, a span of a mere three years. The statistics suggest that mass incarceration is an unnoticed reality in the U.S. today, which compelled Revelle College junior Eunice Ho to establish a new organization on campus this quarter called Students Against Mass Incarceration. SAMI is dedicated to spreading awareness at UCSD about the prison system as a form of institutionalized racism. In November, the club seized the opportunity to display the “Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex” art exhibition from the archives of the Center for Study of Political Graphics. The entire collection of posters was created by artists, activists and organizations around the world who aim to speak out against mass incarceration. Currently, 75 posters are on display — 25 in the Cross-Cultural Center and 50 in the West Wing of Geisel Library on the second floor. The pieces will be on display until January. The exhibit features powerful images that may force viewers to reevaluate their perceptions of the prison system. For instance, one poster depicts the U.S. flag with pris-

on bars for stripes and lock holes for stars, emphasizing how prisons have become such an integral yet unnoticed part of the nation. Another poster equates prisons to slavery, juxtaposing a bird’s eye perspective of a prison and that of a slave ship. “The goal [of the exhibit] is to challenge the way people at UCSD think about the prison system and to bring awareness,” Ho said. “A large aspect of this is through the provocatory aspect of those pieces — not because they are exaggerated, but because they bring focus to issues in the dark.”

two previous convictions that the California Penal Code deemed as serious or violent. The Stop and Frisk Law allows officers to stop, question and frisk people at random to check for weapons and illicit substances. The part of the exhibit that personally touches Ho the most is a display in the Cross-Cultural Center with the following quote by American union leader Eugene Debs: “While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison I am not free.”

“Prison Nation” explores the various facets of the prison system, including the treatment of women prisoners and political prisoners and the controversial laws of the system, such as the Three Strikes Law in California and the Stop and Frisk Law in New York. As defined by Stanford Law School, the Three Strikes Law condemns a life sentence for nearly any crime, regardless of its level of severity, if the defendant has a criminal record of

Ho has felt similar emotions regarding the Prison Industrial Complex. There is a disproportionate percentage of black and Latino prisoners on a national level; according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, 37 percent of federal prison inmates are black, and 34.9 percent are Latino. In addition, numerous companies, including big names like Starbucks and Microsoft, invest in corporations that exploit prison labor at rates as low as 93 cents a day, according to the Prison Policy Initiative.

“I became enraged about this injustice, which is so relevant but not widely covered enough,” Ho said. “And yet we don’t know about it, and we spend our tax money putting people in prison. I couldn’t continue my undergrad years with a clean conscience without doing anything about it.” SAMI is the result of this drive to promote awareness. Ho even plans to issue a divestment bill campaign during winter quarter to be passed by the A.S. Council. Such a bill would work as a filter to prevent council from investing in any companies that use prison labor, thereby fighting against the PIC. UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara have already passed similar bills. Ho hopes that UCSD will be the third UC campus to follow suit. Ho plans to continue to raise awareness about the injustices of the prison system throughout the school year and even after she graduates, as she says that SAMI’s fight is her own personal fight. In fact, her passion for the cause was what led to her shift from a physiology and neuroscience major to an ethnic studies and sociology double major during her sophomore year. “People are supportive of [my cause],” Ho said. “They know that I know the direction I’m going towards and that I’m not doing this haphazardly. My shift [in majors] served as a catalyst among friends to engage in this issue.”

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Junior goalkeeper Cameron Ravanbach contributed 16 saves to the defensive effort, while the Triton offense was led by sophomore utility Chase Cockerill and junior driver David Higginson, who scored two goals apiece. The win comes a year after UCSD was defeated by UC Davis at the WWPA championship. “When we lost last year, it was difficult,� Cockerill recalled. “We all remembered that feeling and we did everything we could to not let that happen again.�

To advance to the championship match, the Tritons beat No. 14 Santa Clara 8–4. The match featured a career-high 21 saves by Ravanbach and tied the school record for saves. Ravanbach — the All-California Collegiate Athletic Association first team selection — was awarded the most valuable player in the tournament for his 37 saves across the two games. Teammates Higginson and junior two-meter defense Tommy Friedrich also earned All-CCAA first team honors, while junior utility Joe Dietrich made the alltournament second team. UCSD can now look forward

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team hit .234. The next night, McCutchan set a season-high mark for kills with 17 and hit .361. “Perfection is just reflective of the number,� McCutchan said. “It wasn’t a ‘perfect’ game. I never know exactly what I’m hitting, but you kind of have an idea, you know, whether I’m hot or not. I was just trying to help the team by playing well.� The Tritons have had a very successful regular season, amassing a 25–5 record that includes a 17–5 conference record. At one point during the year, the UCSD women’s volleyball team went on a nine-game winning streak. “I feel so proud of what we’ve accomplished this season,� McCutchan said. “We’ve just stepped up our game and everyone had to take more responsibility and be more accountable because we’ve had less people, fewer starters.� “Fewer starters� is a reference to the roster shake-up that took place just as the season began, when sophomore starter Amber Hawthorne left the squad. Sophomore Heidi Sierks

was forced to step into the role, and the team grew closer as a whole in the wake of it all. “It says a lot about the girls that I play with, just our resilience, and it says a lot about our coaches and their decision making,� McCutchan said. “I’m happy with the way things have turned out, because it could have been a lot different. For other programs [the loss of a starter] could have been a lot more debilitating.� McCutchan is a senior from Eleanor Roosevelt College pursuing a degree in cognitive science, though the middle blocker has junior standing after redshirting her first year on the team. She has a background in both volleyball and basketball, though she pursued basketball before trying volleyball. McCutchan’s decision to play volleyball was quite the good fortune for Head Coach Ricci Luyties, who took over the program after her first year at UCSD. “Ricci didn’t recruit me, it was the coach before him that left and went to [Loyola Marymount] after that season,� McCutchan said. “It was just a

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Chico State, who dominated the field during the CCAA and West Regionals meets, finished sixth overall with a score of 242. UCSD’s other conference rival, Cal Poly Pomona, finished eighth with a score of 304. Individually, junior Tabor Stevens of Adams State took the national championship, finishing the 10 km race in 29:50.1, 11 seconds ahead of second place finisher Vegard Olstad of Western State. Isaac Chavez of Chico State, finished eighth overall in the final meet of his collegiate cross-country career. Chavez finished with a time of 30:30.1 and was the first CCAA runner to cross the finish line. Chavez’s teammates Johnny Sanchez and Alfonso Cisneros finished 23rd and 45th respectively, putting up competitive times and helping Chico State finish so high. Alwafai finished in 100th place with his UCSD course record setting time of 32:15.2, placing ahead of San Francisco State individual runner Bruk Assefa. “The most important takeaway from today is the experience Tareq gained at the national level,� UCSD head coach Garcia said to the UCSD Athletics Department. “This will be a huge benefit to him moving forward.�

On the women’s side, Grand Valley State won the championship with 54 points followed by Adams State with 91. The Chico State women, like the men, finished in sixth with a score of 242. Jennifer Agnew, an individual runner from the University of Mary, won the six-kilometer race with a time of 20:50.7. Ayla Granados of Chico State crossed the line in 26th place with a time of 21:39.9. The national meet, besides giving Alwafai invaluable experience at the highest level of competition, showed that Tritons, whether on their own or as a group, can compete with the top teams in the nation. “Next year it should be easier to make it to nationals as a team,� Alwafai said. In 2014, the top six teams at the NCAA West Regionals will qualify for nationals, instead of the top five, as with this season. UCSD earned sixth place at this season’s NCAA West Regionals. Despite losing valuable assets on both the men’s and women’s teams — including All-CCAA runners Matt Lenehan and Kellen Levy — all four All-West runners return for the next year, ready for another season.

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he UCSD men’s water polo team claimed its 16th Western Water Polo Association championship at the annual tournament Nov. 23 to Nov. 24. The Tritons began the tournament with a win against the University of Santa Clara to advance to the championship game against hosts No. 1 seeded UC Davis. On Sunday, Nov. 24, UCSD upset the Aggies 6–4 in the championship bout. Defeating the Aggies qualified UCSD (14–12 overall) for the NCAA National Championship hosted by Stanford University Dec. 7 to Dec. 8. “This is really special,” UCSD head coach Denny Harper said. “Coming out on top against a very good Davis team, and to do it here in Davis obviously makes it very special for everybody.” Going into the match, the Tritons were wary of containing the Aggies’ Bernie Rogers — a Del Mar native who has 47 goals and 32 assists this season. But junior two-meter Matt Michalko effectively controlled Rogers while the Triton defense held the Aggies to 4–32 shooting overall. “I think it was a masterful game plan on the defensive end,” Harper said. “The kids swam hard, and I think Matt Michalko did a phenomenal job on Bernie Rogers.”

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Junior utility Joe Dietrich and junior goalkeeper Cameron Ravanbach were named to the All-CCAA first team. Junior Tommy Friedrich was named to the AllCCAA second team, while juniors David Higginson and Matt Michalko earned honorable mention. Andy Moore was put on the All-CCAA freshman team.

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UCSD runner Tareq Alwafai represented the Tritons at the NCAA national cross-country meet on Nov. 23, breaking the UCSD course record — which Alwafai had set two weeks prior at the NCAA Regionals — and becoming the first Triton to attend the meet in five years. Alwafai, a sophomore, qualified for nationals at the NCAA Division II West Regionals as an individual racer. His teammates were just shy of qualifying as a team. “I was pretty nervous because it

was a bigger meet, and I didn’t have my team,” Alwafai said, “But I just had to look at it like any other race.” The top teams and runners in the country made appearances at the meet, which was composed of 32 Division II schools and 246 Division II runners. There were two California Collegiate Athletic Association conference teams in attendance — Chico State and Cal Poly Pomona — as well as individual runners from San Francisco State. Adams State finished first overall with a score of 54, beating second place Grand Valley State by 50 points. See CROSS COUNTRY, page 11

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Sara McCutchan becomes the seventh player in Division II history to have a perfect hitting game, going 11 for 11 with no errors. UCSD middle blocker Sara McCutchan put herself on a very short list on Friday, Nov. 8, when she became just the seventh woman in NCAA Division II play to hit 1.000 in a game with a minimum of 10 attempts. It was the first time the feat had been reached since October 2011. She not only became the first Triton to accomplish the feat, but

McCutchan also became the first woman in the California Collegiate Athletic Association to have a perfect hitting night. “I didn’t really realize how big of a deal it was,” McCutchan said. “That particular game I wasn’t sure until the last game when my coach was like, ‘Set Sara, she hasn’t missed one yet.’ I really wasn’t sure until the end. Once we got to the very end, he was careful not to have me go in at a weird time to disrupt it.” As a point of reference, on the season the UCSD Women’s Volleyball See VOLLEYBALL, page 11

WEEKEND RESULTS MEN’S BASKETBALL

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arkets, basketball franchises and the next majority party in the House are three things politicos, pundits and investment bankers all agree are subject to the power of “the cycle.” Pundits blame “the cycle” for the Lakers’ last three disappointing seasons since the team won back-to-back rings in 2009 and 2010. But for UCSD soccer, no such “cycle” exists. After a season when the men’s team made its first NCAA appearance in a decade and the women failed to qualify for the tournament for the first time since UCSD moved to Division II, don’t expect this abrupt reversal of fortune to continue. Here’s why. For the men’s team, the recent upswing quite clearly correlates with the addition of UCSD head coach Jon Pascale to the Triton coaching staff. Pascale, a two-time CCAA Coach of the Year, has been at the helm for six seasons, and each year, the Tritons have inched closer to the postseason. To the casual observer, the seasons preceding the team’s historic postseason run would seem unremarkable. But in 2012, the Tritons were snubbed from a playoff appearance due to a technicality imposed at the beginning of the season to make up for a Humboldt State team barred from the playoffs. And the season before, UCSD was just one game shy of a conference tournament berth. So, why were the men so successful this season? Not to be reductive, but senior central midfielder Andisheh Bagheri’s explosive senior season and the addition of hardnosed junior transfer holding forward Alessandro Canale were two major ingredients. Bagheri scored just two goals in his first three seasons, but this year, he provided six game-winning goals. Canale enabled the Tritons to build up the attack and was also a much-needed target in the box, muscling his way around — and often through — defenders. This sudden offensive boom, coupled with a defense that featured top-notch senior goalkeeper Josh Cohen, was a recipe for success. The Tritons will graduate a good deal of this season’s squad, but without major regime changes, UCSD should see continued success. The women’s team, however, did not qualify for the conference tournament, despite being the NCAA national runners-up in 2012, but there’s nothing to suggest that this season will mark the beginning of UCSD’s bear market. UCSD graduated 10 Tritons in 2013 — the core of the midfield and back line — but the coaches found gems in freshmen, forward Jamie Benedetto and outside backs Kylee Southwell and Kristen Sampietro. But the UCSD women are also in good hands, under the leadership of 27-season head coach Brian McManus, who has the seventhhighest career-winning percentage in NCAA history. McManus’s Tritons have never been subject to a multiple-season slump, and it’s unlikely that 2013 will begin a downward trend. And I bet that the coaches from around the CCAA would agree. Ten bucks says in spite of this season’s results, next season, UCSD ranks in the top two of the conference’s annual Preseason Coaches’ Poll.

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