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Student Organize Demonstration Against Anti-Black Violence Story and photo By Meryl Press

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Democrats Propose to Halt UC Tuition Increase State Senate Bill SB15, if passed, will increase tuition on out-ofstate students and will end the middle class scholarship

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After winning the WWPA Tournament and beating Brown in the play-in game, the Triton water polo squad’s playoff run came to an end with a 15-6 loss to UCLA. The Tritons finished in fourth place. SPORTS, PAGE 12

YEAR IN REVIEW

We take a look back at 2014 features, Page 6

MARCHING ON: Students demonstrate on Friday Dec. 5 as a part of a Black Student Union-led protest anti-black violent incidents in recent weeks.

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This holiday season, I challenge you to be much jollier and kinder than 12-year-old me. Help your grandparents set up a Facebook account, teach them how to take a selfie or even use Skype.

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he Black Student Union held a demonstration in Price Center on Friday, Dec. 5, to raise awareness about the ongoing anti-black violence that police officers, security guards and vigilantes display toward black individuals. Approximately 70 BSU members, who wore allblack with shirts which read “Black Lives Matter,” participated in the demonstration along with members from other student organizations and individual students as well. They surrounded the lower levels of Price Center — half of the members lay on the ground by Tapioca Express, while the other half lay near the entrance to the tunnel, which provides access to the other side of the food court. The remaining members read names off of a handout which was passed out to the students. The handout was from the Malcolm X Grassroots movement, which contained the names of black individuals whose lives were taken by police officers, security guards and vigilantes from the year 2012 to the present. BSU Chair Jazzalyn Livingston explained that because black students make up less than 2 percent of

the UCSD student population, BSU felt responsible to speak out and mobilize on behalf of the members of the UCSD community that the group feels are disproportionately affected by the gross malfeasance of the American justice system. “It is disheartening and demoralizing as black students to witness our people subject to police brutality, unfair execution of the law and a lack of protection under the law,” Livingston said in a statement to the UCSD Guardian. “The Black Student Union held this demonstration to raise awareness [of] the senseless killings of black people all across the country by the hands of police. We are also very well aware that these are not isolated incidents but a representation of the systematic structures of institutional racism, inequality and racial injustice, which is why it was extremely important for us to unmask the reality of our failed justice system while challenging the UCSD community to take a stance against it.” Once each name was read off the handout, the members stood up and formed two lines near the entrance of the tunnel, directing the attention of anyone who

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Undocumented UC Students To Receive Legal Aid UC Office of the President will give over $500,000 to fund the newly developed program BY Andrew Huang

Senior Staff writer Thousands of undocumented students across the UC system may soon receive comprehensive legal services from the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic. UC President Janet Napolitano announced on Nov. 21 that the clinic’s pilot program will be implemented on six campuses which lack formal law schools: UCSD, UC Santa Cruz, UC Merced, UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside and UC San Francisco. The new legal services program was created in response to a recommendation by Napolitano’s Advisory Committee on Undocumented Students, whom she appointed soon after becoming

president of the UC system. Kevin R. Johnson, dean of the UC Davis School of Law, is a member of the committee and made several proposals for Napolitano to consider, with the current pilot program eventually winning out. The UC Office of the President will provide over $500,000 to fund the endeavor, led by multiple UC Davis School of Law staff members. According to Leticia Saucedo, Director of Clinical Legal Education, UC Davis’ deep level of expertise in the field, as well as the high number of faculty involved in immigration law, made it well-suited to implement the project. “The immigration clinic at Davis has been around for 30 years, which is one of the longest immigration

clinics in the country,” Saucedo said to the UCSD Guardian. “The pilot involves UC Davis providing legal services to the campuses that don’t have law schools — the idea being that campuses that do have law schools already have some sort of program going on with their own undocumented students.” The pilot program will begin operations in early 2015 and will offer a multitude of similar services to undocumented and assembly bill 540-eligible UC students, although each of the six campuses will have individualized centers. These include legal counseling clinics and informational sessions, processing of Deferred Action for Childhood See IMMIGRATION, page 2

California State Senate Democrats proposed a bill on Dec. 2 that would end a new scholarship for middle-class students in the state’s public universities and to also enact a tuition hike on outof-state students.. In exchange, the bill would keep in-state tuition rates flat for five years and would accept more California residents into the UC system, adding to financial aid and college counseling. According to a Dec. 3 SF Gate report, the bill, titled SB15, would cost between $342 million to $434 million per year through 2018. The elimination of the middleclass scholarship program, which pays up to 40 percent of tuition for undergraduates whose families earn between $80,000 to $150,000 per year, would contribute about $102 million to $285 million towards tuition costs. This year, only about 73,000 students received the middleclass scholarships, averaging less than $1,000 per student, and it is estimated that about half the money available for the program will not be used this year because many students did not know about it, as stated in the SF Gate Report. In order to maintain current resident tuition rates, SB15 would also increase tuition for out-of-state students by 17 percent, or $4,000 per year, to help pay for the bill. The state would contribute an additional $66 million to $156 million a year to cover the rest. Another component of the bill provides financial incentives for low-income students at the UC and California State University systems to graduate in four years. Each eligible student would receive $1,000 to $2,000 a year for completing enough units to fully advance to the next year, stated the SF Gate Report. SB15 would also increase enrollment by 5,000 in-state residents into the UC system and 10,500 in the CSU system. Furthermore, the CSU system estimates that, due to SB15, at least 70,000 middle-class students will be eligible for other financial aid, while the University of California estimates 23,000 students will be eligible. Though it may be several weeks or months before the UC administration takes a stance on the bill, UC President Janet Napolitano is pleased to see movement on the issue of tuition hikes. “I welcome and applaud the Senate Democrats’ interest in See SB15, page 2

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“This is a bigger issue than just these couple of incidents that are on the TV” ▶ BSU, from page 1

walked through the tunnel to walk past the demonstrators as well. The members chanted different slogans, such as “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!”, “No justice, no peace, no racist police!”, a“Wake up” and “Shame.” They also shouted “We can’t breathe? You can’t breathe,” which was taken from the last words of Eric Garner, a 43-yearold man who was put in a chokehold and strangled to death in Staten Island by a police officer because he was selling unlawful cigarettes. A police officer who watched the demonstration from the second story of Price Center spoke with the Guardian and said that he did not have enough knowledge of the actions that officers have taken toward black individuals to comment on the situations. He said that he could not comment on what occurred 3,000 miles away but that there are people in all lines of professions who act incorrectly and that in police officers’ particular line of work, the effects of their incorrect actions are obviously greater. He explained that mistakes do happen and that there are always two sides to any story and said that what happened to Eric Garner was a tragedy. A.S. Council President Robby Boparai joined in the demonstration and said to the Guardian that he is excited to see UCSD students mobilizing. “I think this is a really strong change for our campus … We’ve been a pretty politically neutral environ-

ment for a long time,” Boparai said. “I wanted to support [the demonstration] because I definitely think this is a worthwhile cause. Our students should be pissed, you know. We should definitely mobilize and get students across the UC [system] to mobilize as well.” Boparai explained that A.S. Council could write up a resolution letter based on the scope of the demonstration, but without the support of the administration, further action couldn’t be taken. “We need a louder voice, so I think that it’s time, especially with a new [Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion] coming in, to have more spaces for students to express their voices about issues that are going on and impact our university to be a part of the issue,” Boparai said. “As students, we can raise the issue and try to make a change, but unless we are getting our university on board, we’re kind of failing in that respect. It’s time for UCSD to do something, not just students at UCSD.” Livingston also commented that she hopes the university will provide support for students when situations like these arise and that the university would hold its faculty and staff to a higher expectation. The demonstration began at Price Center around noon and continued to Library Walk, at which point the members of the demonstration, and many individual students who had joined in, centered in front of Geisel Library. The approximately 100 demonstrators formed a “circle

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of solidarity,” as they called it, and held hands while four-and-a-half minutes of silence was held for the four-and-a-half minutes that Michael Brown’s body was on the ground. After that, an open forum was held for anyone to speak. People spoke of their anger toward the injustice in the legal system, their individual experiences of prejudice from police officers and how African-Americans are still fighting for civil rights: “The white man has never been civil or right,” said one of the individuals in the circle. External Vice Chair of BSU Brilon Cooper explained to the Guardian that black people in particular have been subjected to criminalization and dehumanization, and, due to that, BSU wanted to make the demonstration similar to “Black Lives Matter,” as well as to make a community effort to be united on an important issue such as this one. “This is not just a single incident kind of issue — this is a bigger issue than just these couple of incidents that are on the TV,” Cooper said. “Black lives matter because, clearly, what the media ... is telling us is that black lives don’t matter, but because we’re being dehumanized and we’re being criminalized, we’re not supposed to be a part of that ‘all lives matter’ kind of thing.” BSU Retention Coordinator Andre Thompson spoke in the circle and began calling to the police officers who were standing on the upper levels of Geisel Library watching the protest. “I’m proud of everybody out here

and the fact that the police are up there and watching us and are not up here in solidarity — they fear us,” Thompson said. “Why can’t you stand with us? I challenge you to stand out here with us.” The protest ended around 2:30 p.m. with a “hollaback,” in which every member of the circle put their left hand on the right shoulder of the person standing next to them. Livingston, Cooper and another BSU member then yelled to the group “hollaback!” and the group responded with “I got your back!” Livingston said that the Mike Brown and Eric Garner cases are just some examples of the many injustices the community faces at the hands of police, vigilantes and security forces across the nation. “This system has no regard for black lives when there is evidence that we are being murdered, yet our killers are being set free. But on this day we declared and demand that others understand that ‘Black Lives Matter,’ as we chanted throughout Price Center East,” Livingston said. “Because if we don’t take a stand for change, then who will? And [if] we don’t take it now, then when? Now is the time for the UCSD community to wake up and stand on the side of justice.” Livingston was unable to give further details of what the BSU plans to do next but told the Guardian that the organization will be holding demonstrations in the future.

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Wednesday, Nov. 26 9:54 p.m.: Suspicious Person Two men with flashlights were on the roof of Pines. Checks ok. 10:57 p.m.: Vandalism Words were etched into the plexiglass inside a Village East elevator. Report taken. Thursday, Nov. 27 4:22 a.m.: Citizen Contact Two students were cleaning vomit out of a car from an intoxicated friend in Lot P310. Field interview conducted. 9:46 p.m.: Information A possible psych subject called UCSD police, wanting to pull a fire alarm and refused to cooperate with the dispatcher. Information only. Friday, Nov. 28 1:58 p.m.: Animal Call A puppy was left inside a crate in a vehicle at Lot P002. Checks ok. Saturday, Nov. 29 4:06 a.m.: Suspicious Vehicle An officer observed two subjects inside a vehicle with marijuana in plain view at Lot 207. Closed by adult citation. Sunday, Nov. 30 2:44 p.m.: Burglary Two subjects were charged with second degree burglary of the Art of Espresso coffee cart. Closed by adult arrest. Monday, Dec. 1 12:07 p.m.: Injury A young adult female felt dizzy and fell on some bikes at Tenaya Hall. Medical aid refused. Tuesday, Dec. 2 4:54 a.m.: Assist Other Agency A subject went into the VA medical

center and stated he was having homicidal thoughts. Gone on arrival. 9:30 a.m.: Suspicious Person An adult male reportedly recorded a video of a female in a Humanities and Social Sciences building bathroom. Closed by adult arrest. 10:10 a.m.: Petty Theft Loss prevention officers reportedly chased a male subject suspected of stealing two textbooks at Lot P308. Closed by adult arrest. 1:53 p.m.: Found Property A Facilities Management employee turned in found ammunition to the UCSD Police Department. Report taken. Wednesday, Dec. 3 12:08 a.m.: Citizen Contact A Sixth College Apartment resident complained of cigarette smoke odor coming through the window. Unable to locate. 4:55 a.m.: Medical Aid A young adult female in Black Hall experienced lower abdominal pain and difficulty breathing. Transported to hospital. Thursday, Dec. 4 7:39 p.m.: Information Per San Diego Police, a male subject was reportedly urinating in public at the Gilman Parking Structure. Information only. 11 p.m.: Assist Other Agency San Diego police officers were attempting to locate a suspect from an assault with a deadly weapon report at the North Mesa Apartments. Information only.

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UCSA Believes the Plans Illustrate A Lack Of Leadership From the State ▶ SB15, from page 1

maintaining the excellence, access and affordability of California’s system of public higher education,” Napolitano said in a press release on Dec. 2. “The bill introduced today is a promising first step toward making sure that public higher education benefits Californians today and for generations to come.” However, University of California Student Association University Affairs Chair Allyson Osorio and UCSD student believes that SB15 does not address the root of the

problem. “With three plans from elected officials now released to combat the UC’s actions, all of which [calling] for wildly different courses of actions, it is clear that the state is lacking leadership on a truly comprehensive plan to fix the institutional problems,” Osorio told the UCSD Guardian. She emphasized that the UCSA advocates for all UC students, regardless of in- or out-of-state status. Gov. Jerry Brown has been reluctant to give more than a

4-percent funding increase to each of the universities — especially UC’s — because the Board of Regents approved a tuition increase over his objection. In the SF Gate article, Brown also urged the colleges to cut more administrative fat, to rely more on online courses that could potentially save money and to live within their means., as stated in the SF Gate report.

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legal counseling and advice. Should the program prove successful, it could potentially spread to other states seeking to remove barriers to higher education for undocumented youth. “This pilot program is just the beginning,” Napolitano said in her statement. “We want to create a model for

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The American police force is running rampant while being completely underregulated and overarmed.

recent report from the White House has surfaced suggesting that military surplus in weapons and equipment was in unregulated distribution to police forces in the United States. This report comes during a time when police forces across the nation are attending peaceful marches and protests equipped with highly developed military gear. To calm things down, President Barack Obama went on national television and announced a plan that would provide training for police forces, regulation of the surplus in military gear and the purchase of 50,000 cameras policemen would be equipped with. But Obama’s intervention is merely a stopgap in the public’s growing mistrust of the police. Obama first called to raise enough funds to provide 50,000 body cameras to record police interactions with the public. According to the Associated Press, a “[2014] report from the

Justice Department said there’s evidence both police and civilians behave better when they know there are cameras around,” but this resolution is far from being enough. Not every policeman in the nation will have access to the cameras, and it is not going to deeply change the way the police interact with citizens, especially with racial minorities. Policemen will just be more careful when they know they are on camera, but their behavior will probably deteriorate as soon as they are off camera. The effort is laudable, but it is just hiding the bigger part of the problem: access to military surplus for police forces despite a lack of training. The 2014 White House report says that, as the programs to furnish police forces with gear from the military have grown after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, “training has not been institutionalized, specifically with respect to civil rights and civil liberties protections, or the safe use of equipment received through the federal government,” and now a lot of unprepared

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ASSEMBLYWOMAN LORENA GONZALEZ (D-SAN DIEGO) IS GOING TO INTRODUCE A BILL IN THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE TO MANDATE DOUBLE PAY FOR EMPLOYEES ON MAJOR HOLIDAYS.

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Not everyone has a choice about whether they work over Christmas and Thanksgiving. Those who care for young families or other relatives are often given special consideration and allowed to take those days off, and rightly so. Shops that open on Christmas and Thanksgiving only do so because they think they will make a profit, and it’s not as if the CEO of Walmart is the one who will have to work over the holiday, so it is only fair that those who do have to work should be properly remunerated. Membership of labor unions in America has declined by almost 50 percent in the last 30 years, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics — a change precipitated by decades of governmental marginalization. Legislation such as that proposed by California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez is the only means by which workers’ rights will be promoted. In 2010, the richest 20 percent of Americans represented 88.9 percent of the net wealth in the country, according to the economist Edward Wolff at New York University, and thus the other 80 percent of the people represent the remaining 11.1 percent of the wealth. It is not socialism to suggest that those in the former category should bestow upon some of those in the latter twice their usual (often quite low) pay for two days of the year. There will be those who say that such a bill is merely another regrettable political encroachment into the private sector, where it has no right to be. Those who espouse such views fundamentally misunderstand the role of government; it is the politician’s job to represent the people who gave them their mandate to lead and to protect that electorate from the will of those they could not otherwise influence — in this case, corporations.

Assemblywoman Gonzalez‘s heart is in the right place by trying to compensate labor for working on Thanksgiving and Christmas, but this assumes that more money is a fulfilling substitute for time lost with family and friends. This will only encourage the grotesque materialism that overshadows the spirit of the holidays. Instead, California should look to the Northeast for advice: Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are the only three states that prohibit businesses from opening on Thanksgiving and Christmas. This practice of limiting commerce on certain holidays is reminiscent of a time when blue laws, restrictions meant to preserve religious observance, could be found on the books of every state. Ironically, according to a 2012 Gallup poll, the above three states have some of the highest rates of irreligion in the nation, showing that blue laws can have a secular basis. But even so, a religious argument is easy to make, at least for Christmas day, especially for a developed country with both a 79-percent Christian population and over 55 percent of Americans citing religion as playing an important role in life, according to figures found from a 2007 Pew Research Center survey and a 2013 Gallup poll respectively. These numbers are far higher than most other wealthy nations that have supposedly lost their faith alongside economic development. Even Scrooge gave Cratchit the day off out of respect for the custom. All in all, it doesn’t hurt to close businesses for two out of the 365 days of the year. The average American worker spends 10.3 years of his or her life working anyway. People need to relax. Material possessions will always be there to purchase later, but family and friends don’t last forever.

Gonzalez’s plan to double employee compensation on holidays might seem like it was formulated with good intentions, but it is bound to have negative connotations for employees that don’t already work on these days. Currently, most workers have the choice to work hours on major holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. There is already appropriate compensation for employees who work on holidays, as most businesses that remain open offer their staff timeand-a-half pay, similar to most industries’ overtime compensation. There is a sufficient incentive for workers who either don’t have familial obligations, don’t celebrate these traditionally WASP-y holidays or are simply choosing to work. Increasing the time-and-a-half pay to double would tip the scales, forcing workers who wanted to take the holidays off to re-consider in the face of a significant financial incentive and being left at a complete disadvantage. Retail aside, self-employed people and other service industries must be taken into account too. For example, what about airline pilots and attendants who work on Thanksgiving and Christmas? If this law mandates doubling their pay on these days, the cost of plane travel will also inevitably increase, not to mention other industries like hospitality, medicine and public safety workers like police and firefighters. The plan is simply not feasible for all these groups. The decision of how to compensate employees should remain in the hands of businesses who choose to remain open. Appropriate perks already exist at most businesses, and to try and force a higher pay grade on holidays would not only be a dangerous intrusion into the free market but is also unnecessary.

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— CHARU MEHRA Opinion Editor

s millennials, we know the problems involving family and technology all too well. Older family members either like to call on us to fix their random gadget’s problem or like to report to our parents about the “weird” photos we were tagged in or our whereabouts. The struggle can be real and it can get tiring. But I read about a statistic that shocked me more than I’d really like to admit: Around 40 percent of adults over the age of 65 do not touch the Internet — at all. And to me, that’s actually pretty appalling. The rest of the Pew Research Center’s report was a lot easier to believe. Affluent seniors tend to use the Internet more often compared to those making less than $30,000 annually. The 59 percent of adults ages 65 and up who do use the Internet love using it daily for email and social media, just like you or me, while the 66 percent of offline seniors answered that they needed help to get on the Internet. That last statistic actually doesn’t surprise me much, once I looked past my college student bubble. Living around the likes of mostly 20-somethings and rich La Jollans, I’ve been accustomed to seeing phablets whipped out of the tiniest purses and a smartphone in everyone’s hand. And alternatively, coming from the Bay Area — home of Silicon Valley, where the Internet is almost as essential to us as the air we breathe — is another source of the blanketed reality I lived in. But if you think about technology, the Internet and how much has changed in the last decade, it’s really not hard to imagine that someone who doesn’t access the Internet as much as we do could have trouble using it. And with new gadgets coming out every year, even our own parents could use the help catching up. As kind and generous as my parents have always been, I’ve been pretty sure that over the years, my mom would intentionally gift me new tech products so I could conveniently teach her how to use them later. I’ve come to terms with this, and now my mom and I have an unspoken agreement on this. A few years ago, not so much. My cousins were green with envy when I received the first generation iPod nano for my 12th birthday when it released in 2006. A few months later, my mom got her own iPod and slyly asked me to import hundreds of ‘80s oldies, Bee Gees and Michael Jackson songs into it. Being the annoying and spoiled 12-year-old that I was, after downloading, importing and dragging each song into iTunes and on her iPod, I complained about how much work it was at every given opportunity. It probably took weeks for my family to hear the end of it. So this holiday season, I challenge you to be much jollier and kinder than 12-year-old me. Help your grandparents set up a Facebook account, teach them how to take a selfie or even use Skype. You can still outsmart them and hide from them the hardly innocent photos on your Timeline, but you’ll be spreading the joy of selfies and social media. If that’s not enough incentive, DoSomething.org’s Grandparents Gone Wired campaign is even awarding a $10,000 scholarship to a lucky millennial that snaps a photo teaching a senior how to get online.

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policemen have access to this equipment. Recently, the surplus was on full display in the highly televised protests in response to the Darren Wilson non-indictment ruling. All this equipment makes the United States’ police among the most dangerous in the world. This police force is officially responsible for just over 400 deaths over a calendar year, according to the FBI, and for over 1,000 deaths unofficially — that is, if you count the “unjustifiable police homicides,” a goal of the “Killed by Police” Facebook page. These numbers are far above and beyond those in other developed countries. Over the same time span, the police in the United Kingdom killed two people, while the German police killed six. The United States

numbers are bound to be somewhat inflated by the larger population, but the extreme size mostly highlights the last point in Obama’s announcement: The police needs more training to deal with modern day America. The climate of terror and angst in today’s American society leads police officers, especially unprepared ones, to make rash decisions. Just recently, in Cleveland, a surveillance camera caught a policeman shooting a 12-year-old that was playing with a fake gun. The story has not yet been completely investigated, but the police officer’s quick trigger shows just how unprepared policemen are to deal with these situations. More recently, a video surfaced of a New York policeman holding a black man in a chokehold to handcuff him until he became unconscious. The man who was held

down later died. Officials had video evidence proving the policeman’s guiltiness but failed to take action and indict him. These incidents are just a few examples of reasons people have to mistrust the police, but there is obviously also a lack of culpability within the justice system that is supposed to keep the police accountable. Asking for cameras to equip police forces is a step forward to fight the consequences of having an overly aggressive police force. But there also needs to be closer attention paid in the long term to how the police force is formed, trained and how they use their weapons and position of power against civilians.

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United States Faces Recent Ebola Outbreak The dreaded Ebola virus, which has killed around 6,000 people in West Africa this year, sent waves of fear across the world in its latest outbreak in Africa this year. Researchers claim the Ebola epidemic of 2014 was started with the death of a 2-year-old boy from a village in Guinea in December 2013. The virus then spread to his family members, who experienced similar symptoms and subsequently passed away, creating a cascade of sickness that intensified in March in countries such as Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Symptoms of Ebola Virus Disease include a “sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache, nausea and sore throat, followed by vomiting, diarrhea, impaired kidney and liver function and, in some cases, internal and external bleeding,” as stated by the World Health Organization. EVD eventually spread across West Africa and made its way to America through workers helping patients in Monrovia, Liberia on July 24, 2014. From then on, Ebola infected 10 Americans and caused two deaths. Of the 10 infected Americans, two cases were contracted in the U.S., four cases were first diagnosed in the U.S. and six cases were evacuated to the U.S. from other countries. UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest is one of the hospitals authorized by the California Department of Public Health to treat any potential Ebola cases in the San Diego area.

On Jan. 1, 2014, Colorado became the first state to allow the sale of recreational marijuana to anyone 21 and over. One reason behind permitting the sale of cannabis is that it would generate substantial tax revenue. Consumers hoping to obtain recreational marijuana must be ready to pay the state tax of 25 percent for retail cannabis, plus the state sales tax of 2.9 percent. Both Colorado and Washington legalized the use of recreational marijuana in 2012, with Washington doing so a few months after Colorado did. Currently, only four out of 50 states have legalized recreational cannabis: Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska. California has legalized medical marijuana, but

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Communities Mourn the Loss of 6 Santa Barbara Students On May 27, Elliot Rodger, a student at Santa Barbara City College, stabbed three people to death in his apartment and then shot three more people before killing himself. Seven others were wounded. That night before the rampage, Rodger had posted threats in a YouTube video. He repeatedly expressed frustration that “girls have never been attracted to [him],” a statement that has been used to explain why he opened fire in front of the Alpha Phi sorority house and killed two sorority sisters. Students from all UC campuses expressed solidarity with the victims of the shooting, and around 1,000 students at UCSD took part in a vigil to commemorate the victims of the shooting. The event opened up dialogue about gun control and possession of firearms that has continued to this day.

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Revelle Student Dies After Sun God Festival Fellow Triton Ricardo “Ricky” Ambriz died as a result of a drug overdose on the night of UCSD’s annual Sun God Festival. After returning to his apartment in the Village East Tower, it is reported that he collapsed at 1:30 a.m. Medical personnel quickly transported the computer science student to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, where he was pronounced dead at 2:30 a.m. on May 17, 2014. Medical reports detected low levels of alcohol and the 5-APB drug, also known as “Benzo Fury,” in his system at the time of death. Ricky Ambriz’s death was announced as an accidental overdose. Ambriz was an active member of the Triton family. He was a graduate of the UCSD Summer Bridge Program and a member of the Phi Iota Alpha fraternity as well as MEChA. He was also involved with OASIS and worked in the Climate, Atmospheric Science and Physical Oceanography business office at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

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Students Protest Decision Following Darren Wilson Case On Aug. 9, 2014, African-American 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Despite allegedly having his hands up in surrender and being unarmed, Brown was reportedly shot five times. The circumstances of the shooting roused a nationwide concern regarding the behavior of American law enforcement toward African-Americans. Demonstrators across the United States from cities like New York City and Los Angeles have made their voices heard through protests for an end to police brutality, especially against those of color. In Washington, D.C., demonstrators held silent “die-ins” to empathize with Brown, who lay on the street for four hours after Wilson’s deadly shots. Movements such as #DontShoot and #PrayforSTL on social media allowed the younger generation to make a statement and be heard. Tritons also took part in the Ferguson protests as they used their cars and bodies to block traffic on the busy northbound I-5. On Nov. 24, 2014, the grand jury chose not to indict Officer Wilson, and on Nov. 29, 2014, Wilson resigned from office with no severance.

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Che Cafe Served with Imminent Eviction Notice The Che Cafe was ordered to vacate the premises after a San Diego County Superior Court judge ruled against the Che Cafe’s appeal on Oct. 21. A campus facility since 1980, the Che Cafe had its cooperative status repealed by the Graduate Student Association in June in a 24–2–3 vote, was accused of failing to pay its rent, thereby going against the Master Space Agreement contract it signed with UCSD in 2006. In May, the University Centers Advisory Board voted to remove the costs of repairing the Che, which include safety hazards identified by the UCSD fire marshal in 2010, from the budget. The Che Cafe and its supporters responded by protesting the eviction notice during the Save the Che Rally on Oct. 28.

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Board of Regents Passes an Annual 5-Percent Tuition Increase The UC Board of Regents approved an annual 5-percent tuition increase for undergraduates for the next five years. The plan, developed by current UC President Janet Napolitano, intends to keep tuition “as low as possible and … as predictable as possible.” Napolitano believes that the tuition increase is necessary to cover rising costs and open enrollment to more California students. UC students at all campuses have protested against the proposed tuition hike by holding rallies and even blocking the entrance of the building in which the UC Board of Regents holds their meetings. At UCSD, students organized an Occupy Peterson movement in which students orchestrated an overnight sit-in in Peterson Hall. Tritons also marched in protest, beginning at Silent Tree. On Nov. 20, 2014, the UC Board of Regents passed the tuition-increase plan 14–7, despite the angry protests of students.

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lobally, 35 million people are living with HIV/AIDS today, and 1.5 million AIDS-related deaths were recorded in 2013 alone, according to reports published by UNAIDS, the World Health Organization and UNICEF. World AIDS Day, an all-day event, was hosted by UCSD on Dec. 1 to raise awareness and advocate education regarding the prevention and treatment of this widespread disease. Since its emergence in the early 1980s, AIDS, a disease caused by the virus HIV, has been elusive, preventing scientists from discovering a cure. However, HIV medications have become so effective that the number of AIDS diagnoses in the world is much lower than it used to be before such treatments. Medication allows patients with HIV to lead mostly normal lives and enjoy a longer life expectancy, according to Shaun Travers, director of the UCSD LGBT Resource Center and chair of the committee in charge of this year’s World AIDS Day event. World AIDS Day, first started on Dec. 1, 1988, has grown globally as more schools, institutions and individuals worldwide have begun hosting the event. This year, UCSD showcased the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the world’s largest continual community art project, first exhibited in 1887. This year’s theme “Getting to Zero” asks for the effort of the community worldwide to get to zero HIV infections, zero discrimination against those living with HIV and zero HIV/AIDS-related deaths. A free, private testing for HIV/AIDS was available all day. Travers believes that getting to zero in terms of infection and discrimination will be possible with this generation. “With the new potential ways that we can reduce the infection rate, I think that we can absolutely get to zero,” Travers said. “We can certainly get to zero in terms of discrimination, and that’s about education, that’s about people learning about HIV, it’s about learning about not having shame in terms of what it means to live with HIV, what it means to be HIV positive.” Many of the panels at World AIDS Day focused on supporting specific gender and racial groups infected with HIV/AIDS such as women, Hispanics, African Americans and transgender youth. According to the Health and Human Services Agency, youths (13 to 24 years of age) comprised 5.8 percent of the total number of people in the San Diego County diagnosed with AIDS from 2007 to 2011. Of that 5.8 percent, 87.1 percent were male

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and 12.9 percent were female. And from 1981 to 2011 in San Diego County, of the youth diagnosed with HIV, 36.3 percent were Caucasians, 17.7 percent were African Americans, 41 percent were Latino and 5 percent reported “other” races. Although 65 percent of people in need are receiving treatment for HIV/AIDS today, many countries still lack or deny access to treatment, failing to adequately prevent the epidemic from spreading. Travers stated that some studies show a 94 percent chance of preventing HIV/AIDS through treatments and regular condom use. Risks of being infected and passing on the infection can also be high due to the misconceptions and lack of education about the disease. As reported by UNAIDS, 19 million people of the 35 million infected do not know that they are affected by HIV/AIDS. “I think often a misconception is, ‘Oh, that’s really [only] happening on the continent of Africa and in specific African countries,’” Travers said. “It is still certainly impacting people right here in San Diego County. There is no cure for an HIV infection, there is no cure for AIDS. But there are things that people can do to protect themselves. Consistent and regular condom use is ideal.” Dr. Ankita Kadakia, a physician specializing in HIV/AIDS treatment at UCSD’s Owen Clinic, spoke at a panel at World AIDS Day about pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, a pill taken once a day to help reduce the risks of being infected with HIV/ AIDS. With the research facilities at UCSD, many students have taken an interest in the work being done for HIV/AIDS. “It was very exciting to be at Dr. Kadakia’s talk and have students — undergraduate students — be so inspired to continue to go into research, to want to go to graduate school, to want to be the researchers that are making a difference,” Travers said. “It’s so inspiring and empowering to see how our students are engaged, how our students are thinking about how they can educate other students.” Students at UCSD who have been affected with HIV/AIDS are provided with many resources and support centers to turn to. The San Diego LGBT Community Center, UCSD’s LGBT Community Center and our Owen Clinic are a few of the many clinics that students can go to if they seek help with obtaining medication and how to live with the disease.

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Strong Triton Performances at Nationals Tanner Collins and the women’s cross country team finish respectably at NCAAs. BY clay kaufman

staff writer For many athletes, the last time to represent their school is a moment of rebirth. When the time comes to hang up that jersey for the last time, the pressure is on to put everything on the line in the final moments of a career. Seniors Michelle Le Roux and Madison Tanner of the women’s cross country team and senior Tanner Collins of the men’s squad can hang their singlets and flats up knowing they did their school proud in their final collegiate performances on the national stage. The senior Tritons, along with the entirety of the women’s cross country squad that qualified for nationals, produced respectable results at the NCAA Championships, held this past Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky. A week earlier, the women qualified as a whole team at the

NCAA West Regionals, utilizing an extremely effective team-based pack running strategy. This Saturday, the Tritons stuck to that same successful approach in a 21st place overall team finish. Junior Marie Diaz was first to finish for the Tritons, coming in at 76th place with a time of 22 minutes and 40.7 seconds. Not far behind was Le Roux who finished in 116th with a time of 23:01.3. Juniors Corrine Hinkle and Paige Hughes finished within one and a half seconds of each other at 23:15.6 and 23:17, respectively. Overall, the Tritons’ 21st place finish was a solid effort out of the 32 competing squads. Grand Valley State swept the top three places and went on to win the team award as well. Collins was the lone representative for the men’s squad. He earned his spot at the NCAA Championships at the West Regionals with a performance that won him All-West

Region Honors. His time of 32:12.2 for the 10-kilometer course this past weekend earned him a 78th place finish out of 245 of the top runners from all over the country. Adams State University won the team title on the men’s side for the sixth time in seven years, led by its repeating individual title winner junior Tabor Stevens. UCSD concludes its season on a remarkable note. Everyone, from top to bottom, performed admirably at Tom Sawyer Park, and the seniors can rest easy knowing all the blood and sweat poured into the program over the years was well-spent. The Tritons will lose crucial members in seniors Le Rou, Tanner and Collins but will still maintain a strong core of experienced runners for next year’s campaign.

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“We try and take what they give us,” Olen said. “They did make an effort to limit our opportunities from three-point range, so that opened up some space for us to attack the basket and make some plays around the rim.” Sophomore guard Adam Klie and Walker had identical stat lines, both scoring 16, three rebounds and two assists. Junior forward Drew Dyer and Van Dyke also scored in double digits, finishing with 10 and 12, respectively. Walker has been averaging 12.6 points, 3.4 rebounds, 2.6 assists and two steals in the last five games. “Hunter is a very versatile guy.

He can play different positions, and he really makes things easier from a matchup standpoint,” Olen said. “Offensively, he has done a better job this year being more efficient. Part of it is shot selection; some of that has been the matchup that he has gotten.” The Tritons will be put to the test in their next slate of games, as they face off against No.17 California Baptist University (5–1) on Friday, Dec. 12, before hosting a five game homestand over a span of three weeks against the California Collegiate Athletic Association’s strongest squads.

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The Cardinal piled on the lead with five more goals in the third quarter, while UCSD could only muster one score from Stiling. The final frame on the Tritons’ year was a high-scoring affair, as both squads scored five apiece to conclude the match at a 20–11 tally. Dietrich and Stiling both found the back of the net four times, while Ravanbach recorded only four saves against the Cardinal’s high-powered offense. Stanford’s junior Bret

Bonanni finished with an amazing, game-high eight goals. Following the third-place match, top-seeded No. 1 UCLA went on to take the national title against thirdseeded No. 3 USC in an intense 9–8 thriller. The UCLA win shattered a six-year streak of Trojan NCAAs titles. After an impressive 2014 season, the Tritons will lose a strong class of eight seniors in Luca De Vivo, Dietrich, David Higginson, Dan Lorch, Matt Michalko, Ravanbach, Stiling and Lukas Syka, each of whom

paved the way to UCSD’s home pool NCAAs Final Four appearance. “We have a great program,” Harper said. “The culture in our program is great. Great players help perpetuate that. It isn’t just the coaching staff. These eight seniors that we’ve had, though, raised the level of accountability and responsibility in this program. They’ve set the table for even greater things.”

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Despite two home losses in their Final Four appearance, the Tritons closed out a spectacular 2014 campaign. BY BRANDON YU SPORTS EDITOR // PHOTO BY MEGAN LEE

espite a strong and valiant effort, the No. 6 UCSD men’s water polo team failed to keep up at Canyonview Pool during this past weekend’s National Collegiate Men’s Water Polo Championships. The Tritons fell 15–6 to first-seeded No. 2 UCLA in the semifinals on Saturday and lost to second-seeded No. 1 Stanford 20–11 on Sunday in the third-place match. UCSD concludes its 2014 campaign with a 16–11 overall record and, in spite of this weekend’s losing effort, caps off a season full of improbable success. “The outcome of these last two games is nothing to take away from the season that we’ve had and the careers that we’ve had at UCSD,” senior utility Josh Stiling said. “Making it this far was the cherry on top to one of the best periods of my life. I’m just glad that I got to share it with some of my best friends and a great coach.” Saturday afternoon’s semifinals matchup opened up as a tight battle. While the Bruins took an early lead on the first possession of the game, the Tritons fired back with a goal from senior 2M Joe Dietrich. UCLA would score one more to take a narrow 2–1 edge by the end of the first quarter. Both squads remained neck-and-neck early on in the second frame, until UCLA finally broke loose halfway through the period. After the Bruins netted an early score in the quarter, Stiling responded for the Tritons with a goal to maintain a reachable 3–2 score. However, after a strong showing from both defenses,

UCLA went on a 5–1 run in the final minutes of the half to stifle any realistic hopes of a Triton victory. “We would make a move to counter [UCLA], and then the very next possession, they would answer right back,” Dietrich said. “Maybe if we got some timely stops after that, it could have been a different game. Ultimately, we went out and executed what we could. They’re just a really good team.” Leading by a 8–3 score entering the final two quarters, the Bruins cruised to the championship final. UCSD would score three goals in the second half to UCLA’s seven. Dietrich would finish as the Tritons’ top scorer with a pair of goals, while senior goalkeeper Cameron Ravanbach recorded eight saves in the losing effort. “I thought that we actually executed a darn good game plan, but at the end of the day, UCLA is too strong and too deep,” UCSD head coach Denny Harper said. “There’s a reason why they went undefeated in [Mountain Pacific Sports Federation] play.” During Sunday’s third-place match against second-seeded No. 1 Stanford, another late first-half push overwhelmed the Tritons. UCSD managed to keep up with the Cardinal in the opening stretch of play as goals from Stiling and Dietrich put the score at 4–2 after one quarter. The Tritons did cut the deficit to a 5–4 score in the early minutes of the second frame, but similar to the Bruins’ efforts, Stanford broke free with a 5–1 run to conclude the half at a 10–5 score.

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Tritons Struggle to Maintain Consistency CSUMB slips past UCSD in the final seconds while Tritons dominate CSUEB. BY Daniel sung

associate sports editor With just three games left on the road before returning to La Jolla for its long-awaited home opener, the UCSD men’s basketball team looked to end its nine-game road stint on a strong note in Northern California. However, the results were somewhat mixed as the Tritons first took a heartbreaking 64–62 loss to Cal State Monterey Bay in the final seconds on Friday before dominating Cal State East Bay 76–65 the following night. UCSD (4–2) was edged by Monterey Bay (4–3) in an intense final three seconds on Friday that ended with a desperate full-court heave from junior guard Hunter Walker. The Tritons struggled out of the gate offensively, hitting only 26 percent of their attempts in the first half to fall into a 30–22 deficit 20 minutes into the game. In the second half, Cal State Monterey Bay appeared to pull away with the game, slowly creating a 13-point lead. UCSD, however, would not go down without a fight, slowly crawling back into the game and cutting the lead down to one with six min-

utes remaining in the game. Much of the Tritons’ offense in the comeback effort was a result of their defensive plays, as the Tritons scored 28 points off of 19 forced turnovers. “We did a much better job getting some stops and creating some turnovers, leading to chances offensively,” UCSD head coach Eric Olen said. “We struggled shooting in the first half, so we had some good opportunities to get it going offensively, got us going a little bit. It gave us a really good chance to win the game, but we came up a bit short. “ In the final minutes, both squads kept each other within reach. Walker’s three-pointer brought the Tritons to a one-point deficit with two minutes remaining. Down one and with the shot clock turned off, the Tritons had to foul with 20 seconds left, ultimately giving the Otters a three-point lead. Off an inbounds play with three seconds left, sophomore guard Jeff Van Dyke used a pump fake to free himself and sank a clutch threepointer to tie the game at 62 apiece. Despite the shot, Otter guard Mateo Jones was able to quickly sneak behind the Triton defensive down to receive a Hail Mary pass and make a routine layup, giving the

Otters the two-point lead with only 1.7 seconds remaining on the clock. One final heave from Walker just barely missed, and the Tritons hope for a comeback victory was quelled. Sophomore guard Aleks Lipovic scored 14 points and added two steals. Walker finished with 11 points, two rebounds and two steals. Van Dyke recorded 14 points, shooting four for five from behind the arc. The Tritons would not make the same mistake of playing from behind against Cal State East Bay. UCSD, who would only led by one at halftime, wasted no time in the second half, quickly creating a comfortable lead. The Pioneers’ heavy defensive pressure forced the Tritons to drive the ball and denied them their offensive forte of shooting the three. However, UCSD made it clear that it could score in ways other than shooting the deep ball. UCSD had 36 points in the paint while attempting a season-low 12 three-pointers. The offensive was clicking on all cylinders, converting on a season-high 52 percent while the defense held Cal State East Bay to only 37-percent shooting. See M. BASKETBALL, page 9

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