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Editorial assistant Doctors from the Union of American Physicians and Dentists stage a strike on Library Walk over negotiations with the UC System.

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Doctors from the University of California Medical Centers held a strike against the UC system on Jan. 27, demanding that its administrators bargain with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists according to standard and legal labor practices. This is the first time that any union of doctors has held a strike against a U.S. employer in 25 years.

The strikes at all 10 campuses commenced at 7:30 a.m. with UCSD’s located on Library Walk in front of the Student Health Services Center. Protesters handed out informational flyers to passersby. Protesters began picketing in the center of Library Walk at 9 a.m. when traffic increased.

Amol Doshi, a physician at UCSD, who is one of four members of the union’s bargaining team, and was present at the protest, told the UCSD Guardian that approximately 150 physicians and dentists across the UC campuses participated in the strike, which over 90 percent of UAPD’s doctors voted to authorize to pressure the university into bargaining fairly.

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from my family — to try to reach an agreement on our first contract as a physician union with the UC Office of the President,” Doshi said. “We haven’t been able to make progress at the bargaining table, and so we organized this strike to draw attention to these unfair labor practice charges that are preventing us from bargaining effectively.”

After nearly a year of negotiating with the UC system, UAPD has filed multiple unfair labor practice reports against the university for allegedly failing to negotiate in good faith.

According to the FAQ for the strike, the UC system illegally increased the pension contribution of physicians and dentists without negotiating.

The UAPD also claims that it has requested information about the chancellor discretionary funds and a breakdown of how student registration fees are spent and other financial information, but UCOP has denied its requests.

Doshi argues that it has a right to the information and needs it to determine how to allocate funding better toward student health.

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Artificial turf will replace grass at Muir Field The project will cost over $2 million and will affect intramural schedules through Fall 2015.

BY Brynna Bolt

Staff writer The UCSD department of recreation made the recent decision to move forward with the installment of an artificial turf on Muir Field, an area located west of Main Gym and commonly used by UCSD sports teams. The installation process is expected to last until the end of Spring Quarter 2015.

The estimated total cost of the project is $2.15 million, which includes the pricing of new sports lighting and safety netting. The renovation also includes plans to remove some of the eucalyptus trees on the north side of the field.

The new, artificial turf will primarily be used by the UCSD men’s lacrosse team, the women’s lacrosse team and the field hockey team. Additional club

sports teams will be able to use the field as needed.

Intramural sports will not have access to the field until Fall Quarter 2015, as the project will not be completed until the end of Spring Quarter 2015, and intramurals do not convene over the summer.

The university has considered replacing the natural grass on Muir Field for the past two years. According to UCSD Director of Recreation Dave Koch, the recreation department supported the change since the idea was first presented as a possibility.

“Recreation has been supportive of this change from the initial conversations regarding the change,” Koch told the UCSD Guardian.

Don Chadwick, director of facilities planning and management at the Office of the Vice Chancellor, explained that the decision to go through with the project was due in large part to the

amount of wear and tear sustained by the field.

“The number of teams and related hours of play have exceeded the amount of wear and tear that the natural fields on campus can accommodate,” Chadwick told the Guardian. “When finished, we will be able to accommodate more hours of practice and competition.”

Koch added that the new field will benefit all teams and players at UCSD by providing a consistent surface to use when others are closed due to maintenance or rain.

“This will also allow us to practice and compete when we normally would have had to cancel due to rain or wet field conditions,” Koch said.

As a part of the project, several trees on the north end of the field will need to be removed, though trees on other parts of the field will remain. According See TURF, page 3

UCSD’s Sexual Assault and Violence Prevention Resource Center has changed its name to Center for Advocacy, Resources and Education as part of the UC Office of the President’s initiative to standardize sexual violence advocacy programs across University of California campuses. The transition was officially announced in an email from Chancellor Pradeep Khosla on Jan. 21 after UCOP issued a press release detailing the milestone goals the task force met this month.

Like SARC, CARE offers confidential counseling and crisis intervention services at no cost to registered UCSD students. However, CARE Director Nancy Wahlig told the UCSD Guardian that the center has expanded its free services to aid staff and faculty who are affected by sexual violence or misconduct as well.

“Until now, we’ve only served students who were victims,” Wahlig said. “We would always do education all across campus for faculty and staff to help students who identified that something had happened to them.

But, now, we provide comprehensive services to faculty, staff and students.

We still think that students will probably be the majority of those individuals who are seeking services, but we’re open now to everybody.”

According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, there are over 293,000 victims of sexual assault every year. RAINN studies show that these victims are statistically more likely to suffer from disorders, such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Wahlig said that CARE is determined to prevent as many cases of sexual violence as possible by raising awareness on campus.

“This is a problem that happens whether you’re on a college campus or whether you’re in the community,” Wahlig said. “It’s really something that we all need to address. The effects of being a victim of a crime, whether it’s sexual assault or relationship violence or stalking, can impact someone for a very long time.”

CARE has been counseling UCSD students and promoting sexual violence awareness for the past 25 years. The advocacy office for sexual, gender-based violence and misconduct received a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice last October, which has been channeled toward working collaboratively with community law enforcement officials and improving the program’s services overall. Wahlig added that the shift from SARC to CARE has been in progress for over See CARE, page 3

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Kinase C had previously been thought to exacerbate cancer growth, but new findings show it suppresses tumors.

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Features editor UCSD researchers made a discovery in cancer research that challenges current dominant principles regarding cancer-causing enzymes. Once widely believed to promote cancer, protein kinase C was found to play a role in suppressing tumor growth.

Originally, the PKC enzyme family was thought to progress cancer because of the enzymes’ relationship to phorbol esters, a type of plant-derived compound that can breed tumors if applied to skin. These tumors grow as a result of PKC being activated when phorbol esters bind to them as receptors, which was what misled the scientific community to believing they were cancer-causing agents that needed to be stopped.

“For three decades, researchers have sought to find new cancer therapies based on the idea that inhibiting or

blocking PKC signals would hinder or halt tumor development,” Alexandra Newton, professor of pharmacology and the study’s principal investigator, told UCSD News Center. “But PKCs have remained an elusive chemotherapeutic target.”

PKCs are involved in multiple cancer-related processes, not only those that encourage the disease.

Corina Antal, first author of the study and graduate student in the UCSD biomedical sciences program, explained that, on the contrary, a few of its functions actually fight against cancer by promoting cell proliferation, migration and survival.

“Generally, PKCs have a lot of functions in the cell. They mediate a lot of processes involved in cancer: cell migration, cell proliferation, invasion,” Antal said. “So we think that it’s possible that in different cancers, these enzymes inhibit different processes.”

In order to gain an unbiased understanding of PKCs’ role in cancer, Newton’s group decided to investigate

gene mutations identified in human cancer cases that were believed to affect the normal function of PKCs in cells. For example, one mutated gene could be coded in such a way that instructs cells not to create any PKC at all, and if so, its effect on cancer tumors would be observed.

Eight percent of the 550 PKC mutations involved in human cancer were analyzed in mice. Most were discovered to obstruct or completely eliminate regular PKC function in cells. Furthermore, the loss of PKC function resulted in enhanced tumor growth in the mice.

When Newton’s group corrected for the PKC-preventing mutated gene in a colon cancer cell line of mice, the growth of the tumors was reduced.

This demonstrated that allowing PKCs to pursue their normal function in cells prevents cancer from spreading.

Antal told the UCSD Guardian that cancer treatments should, therefore, focus on restoring PKC function instead of disrupting it or hindering

the proteins that process them.

“I think that the main point that came out of this is that we shouldn’t try and use PKC inhibitors to treat cancer,” Antal said. “In fact we should try and find ways of activating it, but at the least we should not try inhibiting because [inhibiting its function] is detrimental in itself.”

Treatments to activate and restore PKC function would likely not involve drugs or chemotherapy. Because many gene mutations do not code for the protein that activates PKC function, the only way to restore PKC function in cells would be to restore the missing protein with a corrected gene.

“One could envision that gene therapy could be used for [restoring PKC function] if you replaced that mutant copy of the gene with a normal copy,” Antal said. “But that’s sort of down the line; we’re not quite able to do that in humans yet.”

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UCSD Will Receive $233,000 Rebate to Cover Costs of Muir Field Turf Project ▶ TURF, from page 1

to Chadwick, this is necessary for the field renovation’s completion because the trees were blocking sports lighting for the field. Work to cut them started on Jan. 28.

The school will also be receiving a rebate of $233,000 from SoCal WaterSmart Turf Removal Program meant to encourage the use of drought-tolerant options. The rebate

brings the cost of the project down to $1.92 million.

Associated Students Vice President of Environmental Justice Affairs Sierra Donaldson has expressed concerns about the resources going into the installation process, however.

“It is no question that turf fields use less water than grass fields; however, the manufacture and transportation of the plastic and rubber components of turf fields require water, energy and

raw materials that all have negative environmental impacts,” Donaldson told the Guardian. “Hopefully the university will take this and field lifespan into consideration of their net energy and waste calculations.”

Donaldson suggested that another more long-term, sustainable solution would be replacing other natural grass areas on campus.

“There is grass growing on the medical campus and elsewhere that is

much larger in area than Muir Field, so the university could replace that with drought-resistant landscape and retain Muir Field’s grass for less money, less energy, less waste and sacrifice only aesthetics,” Donaldson said. “That is what I would suggest if the university was interested in long-term, sustainable solutions instead of short-term, costcutting solutions.”

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“We have seen a tremendous increase in the number of students with mental health concerns, and this campus at UCSD, we only have two part-time psychiatrists on campus,” Doshi said. “So we are here to try to increase the funding and the staffing for student health systemwide.”

Shelly Meron, who is in charge of media relations at the UCOP, told the Guardian that her office is disappointed that the UAPD chose to strike rather than focus on ongoing negotiations. She says that the UCOP believes they are striking merely to gain leverage in negotiations.

“The union argues this strike is about their unfair labor practice charges, which do not warrant a work stoppage that impacts students,” Meron said. “We believe this hasty strike is simply a negotiation tool.”

Imelda Moya, an organizer for American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees 3299 at UCSD, told the Guardian that her organization fully supports the UAPD’s cause.

“At the end of the day, it’s the UC who takes advantage of the workers here on campus,” Moya said. “So when we see that our fellow union brothers and sisters are getting attacked by the

UC, we stand by them 100 percent.”

Second-year UCSD medical student Arvin Wali told the Guardian that he believes attending the strike helps future doctors understand how their system works and learn how they can make it better.

“It’s important for medical students to come out here because, as physicians, we care about well-being and health,” Wali said. “And we need to learn as much as we can as best as we can if we really want to be in a system and work with a system for the betterment of people.”

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Newly Rebranded Center Will Focus on Prevention, Mutual Consent ▶ CARE, from page 1

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a year and was a combined effort between the 10 UC campuses and UCOP. “We have been working with the Office of the President for about a little over a year,” Wahlig explained.

“It was a process where we were working together, trying to make sure that everybody improved and really bringing up the quality of care on all campuses.”

UCOP media specialist Brooke Converse told the Guardian that preventing sexual harassment is of utmost priority to the UC system.

“UC has no tolerance for sexual violence or harassment.

The University of California must hold itself to the highest standards, and we expect all of our campuses, medical centers and labs to do everything possible to live up to those standards,” Converse said.

“UC [system] needs to be a national leader in curbing sexual violence on campus. We need to lead the way in improving how cases are handled

and how to better educate students.”

Last year, the UC Student Association launched a campaign called UConsent with similar goals of supporting victims and preventing future cases of sexual assault across UC campuses.

UConsent co-director and Muir College freshman Ayesha Sayeed stated that the two-year campaign focuses on the importance of mutual consent while educating students about how to react when witnessing situations of potential sexual violence.

“The ultimate purpose for this project is to create a culture of consent on our college campus and teach individuals the importance of bystander intervention and how to be an effective bystander,” Sayeed told the Guardian. “It is not enough to tell people to take a stand without giving them the proper tools to prevent sexual assault and appropriately support survivors. With so many students on campus, if we all learn to look out for others and learn the proper tactics to intervene it will help make the campus feel safer as a whole.”

Co-director and Thurgood Marshall College junior Krystl Fabella told the Guardian that the campaign aims to eradicate the social construct of victim blaming through its focus on sexual consent.

“It should be everyone’s personal duty to take a stand against sexual assault, and we hope to create a culture of survivor support and free of victim blaming,” Fabella said. “We want to fully educate everyone on the definition of sexual consent as being a positive, clear, revocable ‘yes’ and conscious effort and recognize what constitutes as sexual assault.”

Representatives of the campaign at UCSD often interact directly with CARE staff members since the two programs share common goals.

Fabella added that the organizations work closely together in order to effectively raise awareness on campus and that UConsent will work with CARE to plan activities for Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April.

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Participating Vendors: Art of Espresso Café, Cups Outdoor Café, Fairbanks, Perks, Muir Woods Coffee House

Coffee-with-a-Prof is a program sponsored by the Offices of the College Deans of Student Affairs’ and is funded by The Office of the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs. It allows students to invite a professor, faculty member, or graduate teaching assistant out to coffee or tea at one of the participating coffee vendors. It encourages students to cultivate a student-professor or T.A. relationship outside of the classroom in a more casual setting.

We are very happy with the student/faculty participation and will continue the CWAP program.

Please stop by any college Student Affairs Office to pick up a voucher. All students are welcome to participate. All colleges are included. Please take advantage of this great opportunity to get to know your faculty member by visiting over a free cup of coffee!

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New Year, Same UCEN A recently proposed referendum will increase student fees by $14 per quarter if passed to keep Price Center facilities from entering minimal operations mode.

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nother year, another expensive University Centers referendum.

Here at the UCSD Guardian, we’re getting a little tired of the university closing down the student spaces we like and trying to force on us spaces we only tolerate — namely, Price Center. This most recent iteration of a potential UCEN fee increase, though clearly necessary for the cash-strapped department, comes in a year marked by closures and looming tuition increases.

For those of you who haven’t spent a substantial amount of your college careers trudging through language used in referenda, this particular referendum would raise quarterly UCEN fees to $14 if passed. It’s important to note that the exact language, purpose and price of the referendum will likely be debated as it moves through our administration and before it ends up on the ballot. But the gist of the referendum is simple: Students will vote on paying more money to allow UCEN to perform necessary maintenance and to avoid entering minimal operations conditions.

The first problem with this referendum is that it’s strikingly similar to one that students already shot down two years ago. Back then the price was a slightly smaller $11 increase to reopen

the Crafts Center as well as the general maintenance of Price Center and Original Student Center. Students have made it clear that they won’t pass a fee referendum. Bringing it back, without a better proposal than before, seems to be beating the proverbial dead horse.

We understand that UCEN has been operating on a dangerously tight budget for a while now, and we wouldn’t want to see Price Center’s operations cut down. If the organization would like to raise student fees to support a refurbished study space on campus while simultaneously paying down its deficit, there are dozens of other great ways to do so that would likely earn rousing support from students.

This brings us to the larger issue, which is that the university doesn’t seem to be listening to what students are indicating are important spaces to them on campus. Part of the proposal of the referendum would include latenight hours at the computer lounges and study spaces in Price Center.

Though admittedly a busy daytime hub for commuters and residents alike, Price Center simply does not have the same appeal as a 24-hour study space — especially without the energy boost

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Napolitano Should Focus on Student Athletes, Not Coaches Just when we thought Janet Napolitano was going to try and have a quiet quarter, she decided to try and pull a fast one on the UC Board of Regents at their most recent meeting. In a classic example of our beloved UC president trying to act like she’s actually getting things done, Napolitano approved a measure to tie the financial compensation received by UC coaches to the academic performance of their athletes, and then she put the policy up for a vote by the full board at last Thursday’s meeting.

Great work, right? Wrong. The board members didn’t pass the policy and with good reason.

Their rationale: A similar policy is already in place for all except one of the more than 120 varsity athletic teams within the UC system. Her proposed measure would barely have made a difference and, as such, was tabled by the regents to be worked on over the upcoming months.

As far as raising salaries for UC employees goes, Napolitano seems to have made it a point to do everything in her power to pay high-ranking UC officials more than is financially feasible, just to do their jobs. She made it her mission to do so a couple of months ago with a steep

increase of tuition over the next five years in order to pay top administrators up to 20 percent more than what they already make and is now trying to do the same for coaches.

In an email to the UCSD Guardian, UCSD Director of Athletics Earl Edwards commented that he felt that the policy would really have only changed guidelines at one UC campus — UC Riverside — and that enforcement of the policy could have negative implications.

“Tying bonuses to something that’s somewhat required already by the NCAA and being reached by nearly every institution could be perceived as a reward for doing something you’re already supposed to be doing,” he said.

Even Lt. Gov. and ex-officio board member Gavin Newsom was quoted by the Los Angeles Times as saying, “We are doing almost nothing here under the illusion we are doing something.”

So in lieu of pretending to get things done, what can Janet actually do for us? That’s a fantastic question, for which we’ve come up with a couple of answers. For starters, she can try to implement a policy that will actually, tangibly help the athletes on UC teams. As was men-

tioned in a previous news story published in the UCSD Guardian, the “San Francisco Gate reported that, in 2013, UC Berkeley’s football and basketball teams had the worst graduation rates of the 72 top athletic schools in the country.” Napolitano’s proposal was, in some roundabout way, supposed to help remedy this problem.

Instead of throwing money at coaches to try and make them somehow keep players’ GPAs up, she could start programs to directly help athletes with academic concerns and personal woes and help them succeed as students and not just as athletic poster children for university fundraising. She could also address the ailing recreational and athletic facilities at most of the UC campuses and try to help fund repairs and upgrades for those.

There’s a lot of things that Janet Napolitano and the UC Board of Regents could be doing with our money. Unfortunately, they seem to have lost their way a little bit too often in the past. Hopefully, the rejection of this particular policy by the regents is a sign of better times to come for UC students.

he State of the Union is clear: As usual, this country is divided. This is bad news, people.

Extreme polarization is the new normal. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, we’ve lacked a giant, communistic existential threat to remind us that we’re more alike than different. For almost all UCSD students, polarization is all they’ve ever known.

It’s a phenomenon that gave way to the Nazis in Depression-era Germany.

It allowed the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez to seduce his country into giving him 14 consequential years of power. Most importantly, perhaps, the last time we faced extreme polarization, we reached a breaking point that led to a civil war, resulting in hundreds of thousands of casualties.

Today, politicians and the electorate see themselves on teams, working for the good of the parties, not for the good of the country. This is why something as simple as paid sick leave can’t pass in today’s political climate, despite overwhelming majority support among voters of both parties.

It doesn’t help that President Obama used his State of the Union address to confront, not to console.

The man who campaigned to the presidency as a “post-partisan” politician governs as the most partisan president ever. It’s a title he’s inherited masterfully from George “either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists” Bush.

Speaking of Dubya, polarization cuts into social life, too. I’m reminded of the time a good friend of mine introduced me to his cousin.

Sometime during our unfortunate car ride, he mentioned that he “didn’t think Bush was a bad president.”

The very idea threw his cousin into a rage — she wondered how — why anyone would think such a thing. She couldn’t help it — she’d been raised in Fremont, California, her whole life, and this incident caused her Bay Area bubble to burst.

The whole experience left a very poor taste in my mouth. I’m no fan of 43 myself, but it’s not like I have Bush Derangement Syndrome, and I’ve been raised in Los Angeles County most of my life — hardly a beacon of purple politics (hint: We gave Obama a whopping 69.7 percent of the vote in 2012). You’re very likely to run into a similar situation in a more conservative part of the country with Obama as the whipping boy.

Can’t we respectfully disagree?

Nope. We’ve become so ideologically intolerant to each other that 38 percent of Democrats and 43 percent of Republicans now view the opposing party in strongly negative terms, as found in a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center. We’re not even talking to each other since 42 percent of Republicans and 33 percent of Democrats have confirmed that most of their friends share their political views. Both statistics were minimal 20 years ago. This country faces a disturbing trend.

Whether you enter the field of politics, as some Tritons will, or you simply remain an informed voter, remember that polarization runs contrary to the diverse ideals that this university promotes. We must consider the importance of diverse political thought in our daily lives, in the same way we welcome people of different colors, creeds and cultures.

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Dissenting Opinion UCSD Guardian Managing Editor Andrew E. Huang weighs in on the possibility of a new UCEN fee referendum.

Money Would be Better Spent on Expanding Geisel’s Overnight Study Areas ▶ UCEN, from page 4

from Dlush and Tapioca Express and the feta fries from Santorini Greek Island Grill.

Expanding Geisel Library’s overnight operations would be a boon to a much greater majority of the campus. It’s certainly the superior study space. Just the thought of being in Price Center alone after dark sends shivers up our spines. If the cost of that is unfeasible, adding vending machines or a coffee cart to Geisel would appeal to many of the students who frequent it and likely generate a nice, tidy profit.

CLICS, which is now sadly a distant memory for seniors and

completely unknown to the rest of the campus, was closed in 2011 but functioned as a favorite study space for years. The library and computer lab even served as a spot for students to socialize, particularly during Finals Week. Reopening CLICS, or a space similar to CLICS, gives students a dedicated space that’s not shared by staff, vendors and visitors to campus, making it a better environment for studying.

It’s unfortunate that the spaces that keep closing down are the ones that give our campus character. The Che Cafe and the long-lost Crafts Center also faced operational deficits but weren’t given multiple opportunities to recover their deficits from student

fees. In fact, an alternative version of this referendum, which would have provided funds for Che’s renovations, was shot down early on.

Price Center is a staple on our campus, and UCEN clearly needs to find a way to fund the maintenance it so desperately needs. But without an innovative plan that takes into account the other student spaces we’ve lost over the years, the fee increase is hardly palatable to students.

We think there is a way for UCEN to balance its budget and provide a study space for students, and certainly fee increases we would be in support of, but this referendum is certainly not it.

While I concur with my editorial board colleagues in that raising student fees is an unsavory option given the continually rising cost of our education, I view the potential referendum in a more positive light.

With continually deferred maintenance and an increasingly tight budget, Price Center is running on its last legs. We might have no choice but to raise our own fees if we want it to continue to operate in its current fashion. Interior renovations and increased 24-hour access are fine and dandy, but the most important thing is that the increased fee will help prevent PC from running on limited operations — the bare minimum that it can provide without shutting down.

While it’s hard to say exactly what these conditions entail, we can

certainly expect slashed hours and services, at the very least. For those who have grown accustomed to what PC has to offer, this would be a great shame. It not only provides a welcome alternative to dining hall food, but it also houses a variety of student spaces such as the Loft, Commuter Lounge, Ballrooms and the A.S. Council offices. We shot down this referendum before, and now it’s coming back to haunt us.

There are, admittedly, a variety of student spaces and 24-hour lounges — many listed in the previous editorial — that I’d like to see funded, but, for now, let’s focus on UCEN’s biggest egg in the nest. PC provides some arguably great services and maintaining it, at least in the short term, will do wonders for keeping UCEN out of hot water and capable of implementing other changes that we students would like to see. Until we find another viable solution to PC’s budget crisis, I see little choice other than to offer my support for the fee referendum.

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ake a look at this week’s Billboard Hot 100. Admittedly, the public simply cannot get over blond female singers, boy bands and pale English singer-songwriter-musicians. But it takes just one scroll down the Hot 100 to see a radically different picture. While the top 10 are predominantly pop, hip-hop artists occupy the majority of positions in the 10 to 25 range. Over the years, hip-hop has undeniably been inducted under the large umbrella of pop music. In fact, it is almost impossible for these hip-hop artists to stay underground when the speed of the music industry accelerates all talent until it overcomes the force of gravity and goes up into sky, where a “star” belongs — that is, until it falls.

For the last 15 years, hip-hop culture has changed our perception of many things: how a rich person should act, how an attractive woman looks and how to go zero to a hundred real quick. But all these social changes aside, popularization of hip-hop largely gave rise to a wave of nostalgia for some good old underground. One consequence of these reminiscent feelings is the revival of underground rap battles: rap competitions between two or more rappers who aim to put each other down in a rather sophisticated manner. Today, thousands of people are following rap battle leagues based in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Despite having numerous fans and famous partner

brands, rap battles still manage to stay away from the mainstream hip-hop scene and are open to up-and-coming MC’s. Often times, to participate in your first battle, all you have to do is email a league, providing your personal information.

This is what Jose Gonzalez, a student at UCSD, once did.

In the world of hip-hop, he goes by “Gryffin” and is one of the co-founders of the UCSD battle league and club, Shots Fired. Even before coming to the university, he and his school friend Matt (“K Philosophy” a.k.a. “K” a.k.a. “The Christopher Columbus of Battle Rap” a.k.a.

“Your Girl’s Favorite Rapper”) wanted to build a hip-hop community at UCSD. They got started right away during their first quarter in Fall 2013. Soon after their first rap battle, which gathered a crowd of 50 people, they met Johnny, G Code On and Gus, who now form the administrative body of the league — a truly intriguing clique. It is impossible not to notice how passionate they are about what they do. They all started differently — Matt (K Philosophy) wanted to prove to a kid from his high school that the guy couldn’t rap. Gerardo (G Code On) started rapping after doing a school project in hip-hop style. And Johnny started rapping because he wanted to do music, but never quite learned how to play an instrument . Now they are all united by hiphop and a willingness to spread the culture.

When you first meet this group , you won’t believe that that they find joy in “dissing” each other with the most complex and insensitive rhymes. Exceptionally welcoming and easygoing, they make you want to join Shots Fired even if you don’t rap. In fact, that is the league’s main approach. As the crew often proclaims, you do not have to be a rapper to join the movement since it is currently expanding beyond battle rap. What Shots Fired wants is to become a strong community of freestylers, music producers, beatboxers, hip-hop dancers and hip-hop music lovers who are ready to go out there and show their talent and support to others.

“To join the movement is really simple,” emphasized K Philosophy. “All you gotta do is watch.” This sounds about right because watching what these guys do is not only entertaining (see the Youtube link above), but also passionately inspiring. At all battles and GBMs, the energy of this culture hits you like a wave and makes you want to write your own bars or rap to your favorite tracks out loud for your roommates to hears.

Open-minded but fierce, heated and aggressive during the battles but polite and outgoing at any other time, Shots Fired is not just a student org. It is a community that promotes hip-hop culture at its finest.

“Our door’s open to you, just walk in,” says K, and it is in fact that easy. No resume needed.

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The Whole Tomato Rice has taken the internet by storm!

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Difficulty: Super Easy Time: 1 hour Number of servings: 4 Ingredients: 2 cups rice 1 tomato 3/4 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. pepper 2 tsp. olive oil Your choice of toppings (recommendation: bacon, broccoli, corn, carrot, cheese or minced beef/ pork) Directions: 1. Wash rice two times.

2. Place the rice in a pot and add two and a half cups of water in the pot.

3. Remove six tbsp. of water from the pot (to compensate for the tomato), then add salt, pepper and olive oil and mix well.

4. Remove the tomato stem

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5. Place the pot into the rice cooker. It is time to toss in whatever toppings you like! Cover and press the button to start.

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Note: It is a complete meal with the bacon, corn and cheese and tastes a lot like a lighter version of risotto. Of course, this is highly dependable on the quality of your tomato.

Make sure to use organic tomatoes for the best result! Also, make sure you use slightly less water because of the water content in the tomato. You do not want it to turn into mushy porridge.

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UCSD is home to its very own Pokemon League — a group of diverse gamers that take Pokemon to another level. While some play the game casually, more competitive members go to recognized, national tournaments to claim the title of Pokemon Master. With the release of Pokemon: Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, another competition presents itself for veterans and new players alike. With the Pokemon Regionals Video Game Championship coming up in February, the UCSD Guardian held an interview with Roberto Knapp Ramos, a competitive player who aspires to play in the VGC 2015 format.

Guardian: In the VGC 2015 format, what are some current metagame

threats that people are using?

Roberto: One popular strategy that is called “Terracott,” which is the

combination of Terrakion and Whimsicott . Whimsicott uses “Beat Up” on its partner to max its attack [but inflicting] damage. Then there are other Pokemon such as Thundurus , who has an ability called Prankster that gives its non-attacking moves priority, and Therian form Landorus , whose ability Intimidate lowers the attack of the opposing team. Sometimes you want to disrupt the other team, so you might use Fake Out which is commonly used on Pokemon like Mega Kangaskhan to flinch them. These are just a few of the many common threats.

G: Is there anything that currently stands out right now?

R: Contrary Serperior was just released, who is really powerful. He has

an attack called Leaf Storm that would normally lower [the Special Attack stat ], but its ability reverses it to increase your power.

G: Can you discuss some of the play styles that people are using?

R: Rain is definitely popular, as it weakens fire attacks. However, people

have stopped using Drizzle Politoed and instead use manual rain setters such as Sableye or Thundurus, who can set it up themselves. It really helps. People also use Mega Charizard Y over Mega Charizard X because of Drought , which allows you to run powerful moves like Solar Beam and Heat Wave in the sun. Then there is Trick Room which good because you can destroy teams that rely on speed. You want a good yet slow set-

tler who can attack and tank because they have to constantly set up Trick Room throughout the game.

G: What are some common ways to disrupt the opponent’s team?

R: There’s Fake Out, which flinches the target. Priority moves are great, though sometimes the opponent will have moves like Quick Guard to block these moves. They’re not that common, however. Talonflame is a good example, who has Gale Wings to attack with Brave Bird and Acrobatics or assist its team with Tailwind .

G: What is more important: team match-up or skill?

R: Definitely a balance of both. It takes a lot of skill to anticipate and

read your opponent while also executing your own strategy. But having a good team is really important.

G: What is one particular way to have a favorable match-up?

R: It can help to use underrated Pokemon that are out of the norm — the recent champion used a Pachirisu . They won’t expect it, and it’s really fun to use your own creative things. However, it still takes skill. The guy facing the champion used a lot of good Pokemon but he was making a lot of poor moves that could be taken advantage of. So skill definitely comes into play.

G: What advice do you have for new, aspiring Pokemon trainers?

R: Try different teams and test them, then practice, which can take a lot of time. But make sure you have fun and catch them all!

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• Metagame refers to the game universe and its environment.

• Terrakion, the Cavern Pokemon, is a legendary Rock/Fighting type.

• Whimsicott, the Windveiled Pokemon, is a Grass/Fairy type.

• A move in which the u ser attacks multiple times in succession.

• Thundurus, the Bolt Strike Pokemon, is a legendary Electric/Flying type.

• Landorus, the Abundance Pokemon, is a legendary Ground/ Flying type.

• “Mega” stands for Mega Evolution, which allows a Pokemon to change during battle.

• Kangaskhan, the Parent Pokemon, is a Normal type.

• Flinching is a status condition that renders a Pokemon unable to attack for a turn.

• Serperior, the Regal Pokemon, is a Grass type.

• Pokemon have different stats, such as Special Attack and normal Attack.

• Drizzle is an ability that summons Rain for five turns.

• Politoed, the Frog Pokemon, is a Water type.

• Sableye, the Darkness Pokemon, is a Dark/Ghost type.

• Drought is an ability that summons harsh sunlight for five turns.

• Trick Room is a move where slow Pokemon become fast for five turns.

• Priority refers to moves that always go first.

• Talonflame, the Scorching Pokemon, is a Fire/Flying type.

• Gale Wings is an ability that gives Flying type moves priority.

• Tailwind is a move that doubles the team’s speed for two turns.

• Pachirisu, the EleSquirrel Pokemon, is an Electric type. It is normally considered weak.

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Wanted on Voyage

by George Ezra

Vulnicura

by Bjork

Release Date Jan. 27

Release Date Jan. 20

Icelandic singer navigates new territory flawlessly in beautifully structured album.

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jork has always fractured the diaphragm of pop music.

This time around she enlists musicians Arca and Haxan Cloak for help with her instrumental landscape — harnessing the same iPad apps from her 2008–11 Biophilia Project — to produce “Vulnicura” — “Cure for Wounds” in Latin.

This album is startlingly personal.

The most intimate song, “History of Touches,” archives “every single fuck” in a “wondrous time lapse” as vocals split between hollow chimes.

Evidently, Bjork has traded in her war cries (“Army of Me,” 1995) for a voice that is even more powerful: a conversation that laments the end of her relationship with American artist Matthew Barney.

Now, you can call this a “breakup album” if you want to — and most people want to — but that would be taking the easy way out considering the way in which Vulnicura is structured charts not only the downfall of a relationship but also the triumphant resurrection of self that follows.

In terms of emotions, “Vulnicura” is shaped like an hourglass, beginning wide open with “Stone Milket,” a lighter song that beckons, “show me emotional respect.” It then gradually narrows into the initial stages of self-doubt via dissonant roar with “Lion Song” — “Maybe he will come out of this, loving me / Maybe he won’t” — before closing up almost all the way in the center with “Black

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Lake’s” aggressive drums. “Family,” however, is the real crux of the album. Here, Bjork and her pitchwarping accomplices engage in an electronic erasure of the family unit and return to the ritualistic “where do I go to make an offering,” as she mourns the death of her “miraculous triangle: father, mother, child” with a quick violin reminiscent of fleeting footsteps.

But the songs that follow “Black Lake” and “Family” are by far the most impressive. In line with the hourglass structure, the album surpasses its narrow boundaries and opens back up with “Atom Dance”

(featuring vocals by Antony Hegarty), a celebration of personal strength that rebuilds the self with lyrics, like “Enter the pain and dance with me.” By the end of “Vulnicura,” Bjork is healed, consistent with the album title’s meaning.

Case in point, this is much more than a “breakup” album — as you can imagine any album that dies and resurrects itself within the span of one hour must be. It is a transformation. Listen and learn.

— Nilu Karimi

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The album opens with the upbeat tune “Blame It On Me,” exhibiting Ezra’s youth with playful background instruments and carefree lyrics. He sings of a personal story and repeats each verse with the phrase “What are you waiting for?” to suggest that life is too short to worry about things. In other words, it’s a much more innocent take on the #YOLO culture. The lightheartedness continues with his lead single “Budapest,” which uses steady clapping and the soft strumming of the acoustic guitar to evoke a more subtle sound as he sings about love and sacrifice.

Ezra’s slower tunes also shine, especially the simple yet beautiful tune “Breakaway.” It builds gradually with the initial guitar followed by smooth electronica sounds and a powerful gospel choir that comple-

ments his deep voice perfectly.

He shows off his confidence as he convinces a girl she is in the wrong relationship by singing: “You may think he’s a demolition expert when he’s finished with your self-esteem,” only to encourage her to “find shelter” with Ezra instead.

The folksy “Leaving It Up to You” shows Ezra’s sincerity and vulnerability as he asks a girl for a second chance at love. It is introduced by Ezra casually saying “foot stomps and clicks and claps and shakers and all different things like that” in the three seconds before the actual music begins, alluding to the percussiveness of the song. With the soothing acoustic guitar and his falsetto in the chorus, this song shows massive soul and talent.

The difference between Ezra’s appearance and his sound is surprising, but the contrast between his lyrics and type of music is even greater. Ezra combines morbid lyrics with upbeat tunes and lighthearted lyrics with slower tunes, possibly implying that not everything is as it seems from the outside. “Wanted On Voyage” takes a risk by fusing together a wide array of sounds and messages that may appear scattered, but an artist as impressive as George Ezra can execute them with sophistication and style.

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6–0 record in the mixed epee’s pool play.

The junior went on to win the following three direct elimination matches before qualifying for the final bout. However, Arutjunancs fell shy in the last round to San Diego Fencing Center’s Pablo Calderon in a close match with a final score of 11–9.

In the women’s epee, the Tritons dominated as they placed in four of the top five positions out of a

competitor pool of eight athletes.

Emily Cabral of No Fear Fencing Club was able to win first place over UCSD junior epeeist Nicole Chiang in a close match with a final score of 15–12. Chiang finished second as a result with an excellent 6–1 record in pool play.

Behind Chiang, junior epeeist Laura Hawkins and freshman epeeist Keyue Bao tied for third place, while senior epeeist Natalie Chan placed fifth.

The mixed sabre was the only event in which the Tritons didn’t

place in one of the top ranks. Junior sabrist Drew Dickinson placed the highest in the event at fifth place.

Despite UCSD’s recent success, the competition only gets harder as they now look to compete in the Northwestern Duals, which will include a slew of the best schools in the nation. The event will be held on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 in Evanston, Illinois.

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team,” UCSD head coach Brad Kreutzkamp said. “Last year, we could catch up to teams at any time. We went back after that game and decided that we have to buy into playing defense early; otherwise we’re not going to win games.”

Despite the tough opening day, the Tritons seized their redemptive opportunity on Sunday.

UCSD first defeated No. 17 Michigan 9–5, with four goals coming from Wieseler. The Tritons recorded three goals in the first half, while junior goalkeeper Courtney Miller allowed only one in the cage.

Despite the slight 3–1 lead entering the second half, the Wolverines narrowed the deficit down to a 5–4 score at the end of the third quarter.

However, UCSD dispelled any trace of a comeback attempt in the final frame, netting four goals while conceding just one to Michigan.

Outside of Wieseler’s four, Kistler finished strong with a hat trick of her own. Miller also recorded 11 saves.

In their final game, the Tritons recorded an impressive 8–6 comeback win against their higher-ranked opponent No. 11 Cal State Long Beach. Cal State Long Beach came out strong to take a 4–2 edge after the opening period. However, Miller would allow only two more goals for the remaining three quarters as the Tritons fought their way out of the early deficit.

UCSD scored one goal in the second frame but shut out the 49ers to enter the half trailing 4–3. In the third, the Tritons outscored Cal State Long Beach 2–1 to knot the score at five apiece.

In the final frame, UCSD built off momentum to score three goals and allow just one to take the hardearned 8–6 win and complete the four-game weekend split.

Wieseler and junior attacker Julia Kirkland each recorded a hat trick, while Miller stepped up in the cage with an early season-high 16 saves.

“Obviously I felt really happy about getting two top-20 wins the next day,” Kreutzkamp told

CLUB SPORTS COMPILED BY BRITTNEY VIERRA Men’s Ultimate Frisbee: This past weekend, the UCSD men’s ultimate frisbee team, the Air Squids, traveled north to UC Santa Barbara for its first regular season tournament in the Santa Barbara invite. The team started strong with a Saturday morning 13–6 win over Victoria College.

They went on to play a challenging game against Arizona State University but managed to finish with an 11–8 victory. After a long, two-round bye, the Squids faced off against their crosstown rivals: San Diego State.

Though there were several errors on both sides, the Squids were able to squeeze away a 12–11 victory over SDSU’s Federales. The Air Squids were able to finish the day with a perfect 4–0 record after an easy 13–6 win over Northeastern University.

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the UCSD Guardian. “They really listened.”

After losing key players at the end of last season, including UCSD’s all-time scoring leader Sarah Lizotte, the Tritons will have to rely on a younger ensemble cast this season along with a new approach to the game in hopes of returning to nationals.

“We knew that losing a couple [of] offensive powerhouses last year with Lizotte and [Melissa] Bartow that we were going to have to define new roles for the girls coming back this year,” Kreutzkamp said. “We start with our defense. If we can hold our teams to six or seven goals, we can give ourselves a chance to win.”

The Tritons will return to action on Thursday, Feb. 5, against Hartwick College in their first home game of the year starting at 7 p.m.

UCSD will then host the Triton Invitational that weekend.

Roller Hockey: The UCSD club roller hockey team played in Tucson, Arizona this past Saturday for their third tournament of the year at the University of Arizona. The Tritons improved their league leading 9–0 record to 12–1. UCSD lost its first game of the year against UC Irvine before winning over host University of Arizona. The team was then awarded a forfeiture by Cal State Northridge before pulling out a victory against the University of Southern California in the final game. Despite losing their first game of the season over the weekend, the Tritons remain atop the West Coast Roller Hockey League standings.

Women’s Volleyball: The women’s volleyball club hosted the first regional league tournament of the year this weekend, going 2–1 at home.

The Tritons prevailed over UC Irvine in two sets, 25–10 and 25–19, respectively and in doing so, avenged a three-set sweep from the two teams’ last meeting. The Tritons also swept Cal State Fullerton in two sets in the next match, but UCSD was unable to win against crosstown rivals San Diego State in the final match of the day. The Aztecs won the first set before UCSD rebounded 25–15 in the second. However, the blue and gold could not pull out the final set and fell 15–8 to SDSU. The team is now slated at No. 9 in women’s Division-I rankings and will see action again on Feb. 7.

Tennis: UCSD’s club tennis sent three teams to Irvine on this past weekend for the UC Irvine Invitational. There were many positive outcomes for each of the three teams, which should bode well for the upcoming Sectionals Tournament, during which a nationals bid will be at stake. All three of the teams representing UCSD went 2–1 on Saturday, and the C-team qualified for the winner’s bracket, in which the team also found success.

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SPIRIT NIGHT SHOWDOWN

BY GUARDIAN SPORTS STAFF // PHOTO BY ALWIN SZETO DESIGN BY SHERMAN ALINE After recording the second-highest attendance in RIMAC Arena history last year, 2015’s Spirit Night held this Friday will look to be another thrilling and raucous evening of basketball. While both the men and women’s basketball squads have had had a strong year thus far, Friday’s games will mark the beginning of the second half of their seasons and could have serious playoff implications. Take a look at the UCSD Guardian’s previews of both conference matchups (women’s at 5:30 p.m., men’s at 7:30 p.m.) for what should be an entertaining blue and gold night.

Men Aim To Nab CCAA’s Top Spot Women Looking to Bounce Back Entering Friday night just one game back of a three-way tie for first place in the California Collegiate Athletic Association, the Triton men (10–6, 8–4 in conference) are looking to make a big leap in standings as they face 11th-ranked Cal State East Bay (2–10) on Friday night and ninthranked Cal State Monterey Bay (5–7) on Saturday evening.

“It’s a really exciting atmosphere on Spirit Night,” UCSD head coach Eric Olen said. “Having so much energy from the fans is something that our team can really feed off of. It’s exciting.”

While the UCSD men’s basketball is coming off a loss from last Saturday, the Tritons were on a dominant, six-game winning streak immediately before, tying the school record since becoming a Division-II program in the 2000–01 season. The recent, hot streak is indicative of an exceptional season thus far for a team that was pegged to finish ninth early in the season.

UCSD has truly relied on an ensemble cast, as opposed to the efforts of a single superstar for this year’s success. As a team, the Tritons sit just behind Humboldt State for the title of most threepointers in the league thus far in 2015. Additionally, UCSD has turned the ball over fewer times than any other school in the conference, averaging just 10.9 turnovers per game.

The Tritons have also been solid defensively, as they held their opponents to just 54 points per game during their recent winning tear.

At 4–14 overall and 2–10 in the CCAA, Cal State East Bay may present little to no contest for the Tritons who are 9–4 all time in the two squads’ previous matchups. Cal State Monterey Bay and UCSD are tied at 11–11 all time, however, and the Tritons have a great opportunity to tip the scale in their favor at RIMAC after having lost their earlier meeting this season by a narrow 64–62 score.

“I always tell our guys that the most consistent teams are the ones that are going to there at the end,” Olen said. “We have a really competitive conference, so we can’t overlook any team.”

After finishing seventh in the CCAA last year, one spot short of the six-team postseason cutoff, UCSD is looking toward an unlikely year of redemption and will get an opportunity to showcase their skills in front of the season’s most jam-packed crowd on Friday. Both games will commence at 7:30 p.m.

On Spirit Night, the sixth-ranked UCSD women’s basketball team (9–8, 7–5 in California Collegiate Athletic Association) will square off against seventh-ranked Cal State East Bay (11–7 and 6–6 in CCAA) in a game that could have dramatic playoff implications. For now, the Tritons hold the sixth and last qualifying spot in the CCAA, right in front of Friday night’s opponents.

UCSD is led by two-time CCAA player of the week junior forward Farrah Shokoor, who leads the conference in rebounding at 12.2 boards per game and is sixth in scoring, with an average of 13.9 points per game. Senior guard Miranda Seto is the other Triton with double figures in scoring at 12.8 points per game. Senior forward McKennan Bertsch and her unreal 68.6-percent shooting leads the league in field goal percentage.

A dangerous Cal State East Bay team, who defeated UCSD 74–57 earlier this season in Turlock, features senior guard Stephanie Lopez who leads the league in total scoring and whose 18.4 points per game and 4.4 assists per game are good for second in the league.

On Saturday, UCSD will face Cal State Monterey Bay at RIMAC Arena. Cal State Monterey Bay currently holds the 11th spot in the conference (out of 12) with a record of 4–13 and 2–10 in the CCAA. UCSD defeated the Otters earlier this year with a 68–57 victory and will look to reproduce the feat.

“Spirit night is a great environment; the electricity in RIMAC is amazing, and our team feeds off of that,” UCSD head coach Heidi VanDerveer told the UCSD Guardian. “Spirit weekend is definitely something our players are looking forward to. It’s an occasion to show the student body our men’s and women’s basketball teams. We start playing teams for a second time, and it is something that’s good for our team and we want it to be a big show.”

Just one week after two disappointing losses that dropped them in standings, the Tritons will look to regroup. The team is fully healthy for the first time this year, and this set of two games will test the group’s chemistry and sense of urgency in a tight playoff race. Friday and Saturday’s games will both tip off at 5:30 p.m.

FENCING

W. WATER POLO

Strong Results Posted at San Diego Cup Season Opener at UCSB Triton fencers secure numerous podium finishes on Sunday at local invitational.

UCSD splits a four-game weekend at Winter Invite.

BY gurkirat singh

BY brandon yu

staff writer

sports editor

This past Sunday, the UCSD fencing team took home a firstplace win and seven top-three finishes as they competed nearby at the San Diego Cup held at Cathedral Catholic High School.

Rather than competing against fellow universities, the Tritons went up against a host of fencing clubs and academies, including the San Diego Fencing Center and Couer Du Lion Fencing Club, among others. UCSD competed in a total of four events in the mixed epee, mixed foil, mixed sabre and women’s epee.

The Tritons’ very own first-place winner was freshman foilist David Hadler, who took the top spot among a field of 32 competitors in the mixed foil. Hadler was quite dominant that day, going untouched at 6–0 in pool play before cruising through the direct elimina-

Kicking off its 2015 campaign, the No. 13 nationally ranked UCSD women’s water polo team had a busy opening weekend at UC Santa Barbara’s Winter Invite. The Tritons lost a pair of matches to No. 5 Arizona State University and Cal State Bakersfield on Saturday before bouncing back the following day with two victories against No. 17 University of Michigan and No. 11 Cal State Long Beach.

In their first action since the NCAAs last May, the Tritons struggled early on in a 9–5 loss against Arizona State. The Sun Devils jumped to an early 4–0 lead in the first frame, an advantage that would prove too great to overcome for UCSD. Junior two-meter defensive player Alexis Wieseler netted a pair of scores in the second quarter, but Arizona State matched her effort with two goals of its own to maintain a 6–2 edge. In the third quarter, the Tritons

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tion rounds without much of a hitch. In the final round, he faced off against Dillon Cooke of Couer Du Lion Fencing Club and secured first with a final score of 15–8.

Fellow freshman foilist Nicholas Phan followed close behind as he tied for third place in the competition along with two other competitors.

The Tritons were also impressive

in the mixed epee as they were able to place in two of the top four positions. Out of a field of 28 athletes, junior epeeist Art Arutjunancs placed second while freshman epeeist Alex Okamoto pulled through to tie for third place.

Arutjunancs, like Hadler, was able to post an impressive perfect See FENCING, page 11

were outscored 3–1, with their lone goal coming from sophomore attacker Connie Wu. The final period saw a 2–0 shutout for the blue and gold but made little difference in the losing tilt.

Later that day, the Tritons fell to Cal State Bakersfield in a lackluster 11–6 outcome in which they missed 23 shots.

Again, UCSD fell into a hole early on, allowing five goals in the first quarter despite tallying two of their own from Wieseler and junior attacker Laurel Kistler. The Roadrunners would only add to their advantage as Cal State Bakersfield easily handed UCSD its second loss of the season in as many games.

Wieseler, Kistler and senior attacker Jolene Guiliana each scored two, serving as the only goal-scorers in the match.

“We were a team that hadn’t really defined itself yet [on Saturday], not knowing that we are now a defensive See W. WATER POLO, page 11