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The event encouraged UC students to get involved in the development of legislation that affects undergraduates. BY Andrew chao
Contributing Writer Students celebrated the LGBT Resource Center’s 15th anniversary at the Graffiti Art Park by painting and spreading awareness. Photo by Emma Zilber/UCSD Guardian.
LGBT Center Celebrates Annual Out and Proud Week By JACKY TO SENIOR
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CSD’s Out and Proud Week 2015, sponsored by the LGBT Resource Center, began on Monday and will continue through the week with festivities and events aimed at promoting community for LGBT-identified students, staff and faculty. Out and Proud Week is also intended to examine and challenge the modern-day narratives of “coming out,” which the event describes as a difficult experience for many individuals. “Coming out is not a single action and is different around sexuality and gender identities and expressions, and for many, coming out and expressions of pride may not be safe,” the event’s website said. “We appreciatively challenge what being Out and Proud means and honor the diversity within our community.” Throughout the week, the LGBT Resource Center is tabling on Library Walk between 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. under a balloon arch, which sports new colors every day. Out and Proud Week kicked off with a brown bag lunch
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on Library Walk, re-enacting the UCSD LGBT community’s response to a preacher’s hateful anti-homosexuality sermon during Out and Proud Week 2004. After the preacher delivered his sermon directly in front of the LGBTQIA tent and balloon arch, the LGBT community gathered in front of the bookstore on Library Walk and ate brown bag lunches to demonstrate solidarity. Following this year’s brown bag lunch, the LGBT Resource Center held a generational dialogue in which two publicly LGBT-identified UCSD professors — ecology, behavior and evolution Chair James Nieh and dance professor Eric Geiger — informed students about their experiences of coming out. “We wanted to open up a dialogue between students and faculty because there is a generation gap,” Sixth College freshman Kelsey Lyons told the UCSD Guardian. “Coming out and being LGBT-identified are different experiences during different generations.” LGBTQIA Living Learning Community RA Matt
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SEDS@UCSD Launches $15,000 Kickstarter Donations will fund the development of an entirely 3-D-printed rocket engine, Vulcan-I. BY Kriti sarin
associate news editor Students for the Exploration and Development of Space at UCSD recently launched a $15,000 Kickstarter campaign to fund the development of a rocket powered by a completely 3-D-printed engine, a project called Vulcan-I. The team publicized the campaign after successfully testfiring a 3-D-printed rocket engine two times at Friends of Amateur Rocketry test facility in the Mojave Desert on April 18. SEDS@UCSD became the first team of undergraduate students in the world to successfully design, print and test a 3-D-printed rocket engine in 2013, but the student organization is still working to make unprecedented developments in the
aerospace engineering industry. Earl Warren College senior and SEDS@ UCSD Vice President Alex Finch told the UCSD Guardian that Vulcan-I is unique because college students are fully responsible for its progress, not professional engineers. “This project is unlike any other simply because it has never been conducted at a university before. We will be the first students to launch a rocket powered by a 3-D-printed engine, and we will be one of the first groups ever to do it,” Finch said. “We are doing things that have not even been done widely in industry, as a completely student-led project, spending 20 to 30 hours a week on it per person.” Finch further explained that the organization’s work is relevant today because of the rise of the NewSpace Movement, which he said promotes
an evolutionary shift to a civilization in outer space and added that their methods were necessary because of the inherently expensive nature of space exploration. “With the recent billion dollar investments into the NewSpace Movement … it is clear that there is a vast opportunity to develop outer space for human use. The biggest inhibitor to this future is the lack of infrastructure currently in space,” Finch said. “It costs too much to get things into space. SEDS@UCSD is helping reduce the cost to access space by taking one of the most expensive and complex parts of a rocket — the engine — and 3-D printing it to significantly reduce the cost, time and weight of engines.” Sixth College freshman Darren Charrier, who is the organization’s See VULCAN, page 3
Students from across the UC campuses attended the 2015 UC Student Association Student Lobby Conference this past weekend to lobby elected officials to improve California Higher Education and UC affordability. This conference comes at a time when President Napolitano proposed a 5-percent annual increase in tuition if the state does not provide additional funding. She stated that almost $217 million in additional funds is needed to cover the rising costs of the UC system. Marshall College junior and incoming A.S. External VP Krystl Fabella told the UCSD Guardian that an increase in tuition hinges upon the decision by the state legislature to give these additional funds. “Basically, the University of California Student Association recognizes now that the fate of our tuition rests in the funding decisions at the hands of the legislation,” Fabella explained. “We have made it our priority to do whatever it takes so that UC students are not hit by the tuition increase this fall, and that meant demanding the extra $217 million from the state.” According to UCSA President Jefferson Kuoch-Seng, the focus for this year’s conference was to ensure a reinvestment into higher education. “This year, the theme of the conference is ‘Reclaim the Future, Rebuild Education,’” Kuoch-Seng told the Guardian. “We hope to achieve a strong supportive reinvestment from the state into higher education while also empowering our students to fight for what they believe in.” To ensure steady reinvestment into higher education, UCSA has been working toward keeping the UCOP and Gov. Brown accountable to their promises. “We’ve been pushing for UCOP to uphold their end in keeping tuition frozen while also trying to make sure that [Brown] will keep his promise of a steady reinvestment in the UC [system],” Kuoch-Seng said. UCSA also demonstrated its support for a variety of legislation that would affect UC students. One such legislative measure is SCA1, a step that Fabella believes could help make the UC Board of Regents more fiscally responsible and accountable. “One of our main legislative tasks was support for SCA1, which would essentially strip away the UC Regents of their constitutional autonomy and allow for legislative oversight of budgeting and spending,” Fabella said. UCSA also lobbied officials to See LOBBY, page 3
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Program Seeks to Dispel Gender Imbalances in STEM Fields Called SISTERS in Science, the joint program teaches science and engineering to girls at Encinitas elementary schools. BY omkar mahajan
Contributing Writer The Encinitas Union School District and the Global Teams in Engineering Service program from the Jacobs School of Engineering recently created the SISTERS in Science program at elementary schools in Encinitas in order to cultivate interest in science and engineering amongst girls. The SISTERS in Science program, which stands for Sustaining Interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Research in Society, is an outreach program that has been designed to spark interest in science, engineering, math and other STEM-related fields amongst girls. It aims to bring more girls into STEM, short for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The SISTERS in Science program is geared toward girls at four local elementary schools in Encinitas. A recent paper published by the American Society for Engineering Education noted that the number of
female engineering students is currently less than 18 percent, and the number of women in engineering, computer science and mathematical-related jobs is less than 13 percent. Additionally, in K through 12 education, boys are six more times likely than girls to have taken higher-level engineering, math and science courses. However, the SISTERS in Science program could potentially change that. Mandy Bratton, the principal investigator of the SISTERS in Science program and the executive director of the Global TIES-Teams in Engineering Service from the Jacobs School of Engineering, told the UCSD Guardian that the program hopes to generate enthusiasm for science and engineering amongst girls. “We hope the engaging curriculum and the interaction with female scientists, engineers and undergraduates will ignite their interest in careers in science and engineering in which women continue to be underrepresented,” Bratton said. “We want the girls to learn that being
a scientist or an engineer isn’t easy, but it is important and fun and well within their reach.” This program was established from a close partnership with the Encinitas Union School District and Global TIES. Global TIES is an engineering program from the Jacobs School of Engineering that serves a humanitarian purpose of allowing students to apply their engineering skills in a real-world setting by working for not-for-profit organizations in developing countries and San Diego. Jan Kleissl, the co-principal investigator of the SISTERS in Science program and an associate professor of environmental engineering at UCSD, advised a Global TIES team that instructed classes in science and engineering at the elementary schools from 2009 to 2014. The SISTERS program has more than 130 girls from the 5th and 6th grades enrolled in it. More than 20 percent of the students from these schools are below the poverty line. Bratton explained that this program
is expected to be transformational and encouraging for the students. “We want this program to make a profound and lasting difference in these girls’ lives,” Bratton said. Nancy Jones, administrator for support services for Encinitas Union School District, also expressed her support for the program. “We want them to be confident problem solvers who know how to work with others. We want them to love science,” Jones said. “We want them to have a desire to make a difference in their community and in the world.” The SISTERS in Science program at the elementary schools in Encinitas is currently an after-school activity that is part of a girls-only after school program that is led by UCSD students. A three-year grant of $800,000 from the National Science Foundation is funding the program.
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Center Aims to Bridge Generational Gap Within LGBT Community ▶ LGBT, from page 1
Jaconetta, who organized the event with Lyons, thinks that this event is important because there is an unfortunate disconnect in the LGBT community between the elders and the youth. “There’s not a lot of connection between the generations in the LGBT community and I think that’s very counterintuitive to progress,” Jaconetta said. “We should [learn from] the older generation’s failings and triumphs to really understand how we can progress and how we can impact our future in a positive way.”
The professors also provided their perspectives on what it is like to be “out” in the professional world, which Jaconetta finds to be a large concern as he moves forward in his career. “It’s very difficult and tough for me when I think about being out in the professional realm,” Jaconetta said. “I personally have a lot of questions for people who are currently out in the professional realm and what their experiences have been in coming out.” On Tuesday, the LGBT community collectively traveled to and painted over the murals at UCSD’s Graffiti Art
Park. They then hosted a game show at Sixth College Lodge, testing students’ knowledge about LGBTQIA history and current events. The LGBT Resource Center will continue to hold many more events throughout the week, such as an LGBTQIA graduate student game day today, a keynote speech by poet and activist Leah Lakshmi PiepznaSamarasinha on Friday and a drag show finale on Saturday.
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UCSA Hopes Conference Will Encourage Attendees to Pursue Activism
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accelerate the implementation of the Middle Class Scholarship Act. This act is intended to help families hoping to attend a UC or CSU campus by cutting tuition by 40 percent for families making less than $100,000 a year and by 10 percent for those making less than $150,000 a year. Moreover, UCSA sought continued investment and growth of Cal Grant A and B programs as well as asking the state to provide start-up costs of $4.7 million for the DREAM Loan program. Aside from lobbying elected officials, UCSA hoped that this year’s
conference would develop students’ lobbying skills and raise awareness of pertinent issues that affect all UC students. “With the conference over, we definitely hope that the attendees feel empowered enough to become strong student activists for our university,” Kuoch-Seng said. “We hope that students use the knowledge that they have gained from our conference and utilize it in the most productive way possible.” Although Napolitano’s plans for increased tuition have been postponed until after summer session, Fabella encourages students to fight the
possible hike in costs by reaching out to their state representatives and having their voices heard. “UCSD students can also know that they are empowered with ways to combat the tuition hike and any other [University of California]-wide issues, through the external office, through lobbying opportunities, through campuswide organizing and having support and advocacy through their A.S. representatives,” Fabella said.
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business manager, told the Guardian that SEDS@UCSD is also working on two other projects. “We have recently started a new project called MoonShot Alpha which is an interuniversity team to design, build and land a lunar lander on the moon,” Charrier commented. “We are also building a CubeSat [miniaturized
satellite] that will serve as the lander’s communications array in lunar orbit.” He added that students who are interested in joining SEDS@UCSD can apply online by sending an email to seds.ucsd@gmail.com. “We are always looking for those who are driven to take on big challenges and who are willing to learn,” Charrier said. The Kickstarter campaign
generated over $7,000 in contributions during the first day of its launch and will be open to donations for the next month. The team aims to launch the liquid-fueled Vulcan-I rocket at the annual Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition in Utah this June.
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nother year, another A.S. Council budget crisis. It seems like just yesterday that student organizations were up in arms over budgeting shortfalls under the office of the previous VP Finance and Resources Sean O’Neal. The programming budget allocated toward funding campus organizations registered under the Center for Student Involvement had been exhausted by April 2014, placing events like cultural graduation ceremonies in jeopardy through no fault of their own. Needless to say, the public outcry was formidable and Council ultimately voted to transfer $60,000 from its own Mandated Reserves to make up for the shortfall. However, it appears they have failed to learn from past mistakes, as current VP Finance Igor Geyn announced early last week that A.S. Council’s programming allocations had again been exhausted, in effect tabling all further requests for the rest of this academic year. This eerily similar predicament is especially surprising given that A.S. Council had set aside $430,000 specifically for student organization events, which was substantially more than last year. According to Geyn, the Office of Student Organizations received an unprecedented number of requests for over $747,000 in A.S. programming funding, compared to the previous year’s 439 requests for $601,000. Although A.S. Council had been scrutinizing Funding Guide submissions more
closely this year, Geyn attributes the recent spike in requests to outreach events that A.S. Council had been holding to educate student organizations on how to properly request programming funds. While the Editorial Board understands the difficulty of maintaining a balanced budget whilst also supporting as many campus orgs as possible, A.S. Council simply cannot let financial crises become the norm. We commend Geyn, AVP Tristan Britt and their respective office’s efforts to thoroughly document the situation and formulate creative, longer term solutions, but the fact remains that countless student orgs may not have the necessary funds to hold any further events this year without A.S. support. A.S. Council has thus far been unwilling to withdraw money from its Mandated Reserves. Those funds are carefully guarded in case of “rainy days,” but when A.S. Council cannot fulfill one of its major responsibilities — to support UCSD student orgs — it’s hard to think of a more pressing emergency. Last year’s expenditures left the reserves depleted and Geyn understandably wary, although that only leaves AVP offices or college councils, all of which seem unlikely to be able to contribute much in the way of funding. Council members also recently shot down a suggestion to raise student activity fees to help bolster the floundering budget, an idea which would likely be met with pitchforks
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Lack of Institutional Memory Will Continue to Haunt UCSD If you’re a freshman at UCSD, you never saw Graffiti Hall as a student. In three years, no one on campus will know of it, and, except for occasional alumni stories, it will be as if it never existed at all. Although Graffiti Hall held a lot of cultural value for certain campus groups, there are even more important histories that will be or have been forgotten due to the fact that colleges often lack institutional memory. Campus awareness of certain events peaks after the initial incident but quickly fades into a distant afterthought. Students stop advocating for platforms of selfexpression and opportunities for funding when it seems as if such privileges were never granted. For years, students have lamented UC budget cuts, but there is little acknowledgment of the fact that these alleged funding decreases have been going on for decades without any substantial improvements. Every time referendums involving student fees are proposed, this expense is framed as a one-time deal. Students are easily placated by the notion that they’re the only ones responsible for covering such an expense instead of
demanding more state funding. The student protests led against the UC Board of Regents in 2010 over an 8-percent tuition hike eerily reflect the recent tuition hike. If students had more access to this knowledge, they would likely be less complacent when their preferences and needs were ignored this year. In another example, students have continued to deal with transportation referendums since the quarterly increase of approximately $50 in student fees for 2014–15 with a 1.5 percent-annual increase passed smoothly without public outcry. Every day, students sit at the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System bus stops throughout La Jolla, with lines spreading from the bench to intersections down the street. Undergraduates often have to wait 20 to 30 minutes just to catch a ride to class. Little does the general population ever recall that, as recently as 2012, the Nobel/Arriba shuttle actually existed as two separate buses. Instead, students continue to pay more money for fewer buses. As a result of our lack of memory, students are satisfied by buses that are overcrowded, over-
heated and often smell like paint chemicals or bodily fumes. The nicest bus drivers try to cram as many people into each bus as possible because that is the standard of kindness students have come to appreciate. The case seems to be that we, as students, accept the amount of buses we believe that we deserve and the riding conditions which come with that. There are other problems and shortcomings that the university effectively normalizes to pacify student interest, such as converting double rooms into triples all over campus, changing Sun God Festival from an all-campus event to a crammed festival on RIMAC Field and continual efforts from the UC Regents to muffle student protests. Instead, student organizations should prioritize the ability of alumni to pass down valuable information about past events so that history does not always end up repeating itself. Unless student bodies on this campus make an effort to develop a solid collective memory, the power in this academic institution will remain out of our hands.
et’s start this week’s column with a quiz. How many years of schooling, on a global average, have women who are 25 years old had? Hint: When the Swedenbased Gapminder Foundation asked Americans, 24 percent said three years, and 52 percent said five years. The real answer is much longer: seven years. In comparison, the answer for males is eight years. This question came from Gapminder’s Ignorance Project, which strives to teach citizens about their lack of knowledge. As Hans Rosling, the founder of this organization, says, “How can you fix the issue when you don’t even know what the real problem is?” When it comes to education, as the Ignorance Project points out, girls are indeed risking their lives to go to school. Just think of Malala Yousafzai — a Pakistani activist who was shot by a gunman for attending school where the local Taliban banned schooling for girls. No, getting girls to school isn’t the big issue any more. The big issue is what comes after. Many girls fight for their right to a secondary education, only to end up married young or otherwise unable to go to college. Why do we bring this up? Well, last week marked an anniversary for events closely related to education and women’s rights in two different countries where progress in either regard is lacking. In Nigeria, last week marked one year since terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 school girls from the town of Chibok. This atrocity sparked a global digital campaign called “Bring Back Our Girls.” Although some blame the Nigerian government for not bringing back the girls despite the resources made available to them, we say, how could they? The real issue lies not in finding the location of the girls but, rather, dealing with the issues of why Boko Haram exists in the first place. It’s a mix of economic and political instability that allowed such an extremist group to form. There is no safety or security for girls and their education in Nigeria until the unrest that victimizes them is quelled. In the U.S. last week, we were similarly reminded about an issue that educated women in our country face: unequal pay. While many know that the average woman earns 78 cents to a man’s dollar, the reasons as to why are lesser known. Unequal pays does not stem solely from one reason but from how companies treat families, how women are taught to negotiate and from popular culture, in general. Education is the basis for both sociopolitical independence and economic equality — two factors that lead to immeasurable improvement for women throughout the world. Without prioritizing the education of girls, we’re not making the right strides to the latter two goals. The fact of the matter is that when we are dealing with complex issues, it’s always important to uncover our ignorance first. Last week, we were confronted with the aftermath of two issues that not only still exist but that put women’s rights and education at risk. Solving either one is not a matter of putting Band-Aids on any one issue but on creating greater understanding in general first.
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$80k of Misplaced Funds Is Just One Example of Financial Mishaps ▶ FINANCES, from page 4
and torches after the other fee increases this year. The finance office cannot tackle the shortfall alone. We will need all members of A.S. Council to work with one another to think of immediate fiscal actions that can be taken. If Council is unwilling or unable to contribute any further allocations this year, it must devise other alternatives to make sure that student orgs are not left to fend for themselves. It’s fair to say that we who pay such high student fees deserve to have a suitable budget for events. Finding out what can be cut will be an unpleasant but necessary reality; may we suggest taking a second look at the
$22,500 quarterly pancake breakfasts? And perhaps college councils should take a more proactive role in funding large events that their respective constituents could stand to benefit from. We also hope that the future finance controller will continue to work more openly with the Student Life Business Services Office to ensure that clerical errors, such as the one that overlooked $80,000 in additional money until recently, will not happen again. Geyn believes there’s not much that sum would have been able to do, but issues like these imply a disconnect between our student leaders and their administrative counterparts. We consider it fortunate that Geyn was able to catch the error.
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Whether the position is elected or appointed, we hope Geyn imparts upon his successor the importance of clear communication and cutting down on unnecessary expenditures. If president-elect Dominick Suvonnasupa follows through with his plans to implement an research and development office, this will also present a valuable opportunity to provide an interdepartmental approach to balancing the future budget. If A.S. Council is to promise increased support of its campus organizations and constituents, a strong and flexible budget is a necessary prerequisite to avoid subsequent disappointment and irritation from students.
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Buyer and Cellar Highly divisive, “Lost River” excels as an exercise in Gosling’s ambition and creativity, not his indulgence. Directed by Ron Lagomarsino Written by Jonathan Tolins Runs April 9 to May 10 Location The Old Globe
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here has never been a play with so much Barbra Streisand, while lacking in actual Barbra Streisand. In fact, she has become such an icon that Jonathan Tolins wrote a play — half daydream, half commentary — about her basement. But admittedly, it is an extraordinary basement. Early in the play, you are warned that it is indeed fiction. This is necessary to understand the absurdity of the premise. The play takes place under Barbra Streisand’s mansion in Malibu, the home of an underground Victorian-style shopping mall. In her cellar, she has built Bee’s Doll Shop, an antique clothing store, a Gift Shoppe and a frozen yogurt machine — all documented and fully photographed in her book “My Passion for Design.” That’s the real part. Playwright Tolins was fascinated by the idea of this underground mall and asked, “What if Babs hired
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someone to work there?” This is where the play becomes fiction. Alex More (David Turner), an actor whose last job was mayor of Disneyland’s ToonTown, is hired to work in the private mall. Alex is insecure and often starstruck as he begins his new and completely unique profession. The play is his recounting of a tentative friendship with the diva and opens discussions on what it means to be a celebrity and themes of obsession. Turner is the star of the show — the only star actually. For 105 minutes, he alone holds the audience’s attention on the circular stage. But without his performance, the bizarre premise would completely collapse. He not only plays Alex, but also acts as Barbra Streisand, Streisand’s house manager Sharon, Alex’s boyfriend Barry and James Brolin, Barbra’s husband. At the beginning, Turner, out of character,
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says he doesn’t do impressions or voices, he just is Barbra. It’s a oneman show, but with the clever script and nuanced acting, it might as well be fully casted. From his posture to the Brooklyn accent, Turner’s Barbra is spot-on and hilarious. His portrayal of Barry, Alex’s extravagant boyfriend, is intense and eccentric while showing off an immense acting range. The transitions from character to character, though fast-paced, are made smooth and obvious by his subtle changes in voice, bearing, tone and expression. To highlight Turner’s flair for the comedic and dramatic, the script is filled with clever lines and aphorisms. Turner accentuates Tolins’ talent for making the absurd seem real and hides any weak parts of the script. It is, in many ways, a gay version of “Waiting for Godot,” in which Godot actually shows up in the form of Barbra Streisand. Although Turner is alone on stage throughout the play, the audience feels the stretches of loneliness when Alex is left in the basement. After Barbra fails to show up for days, Alex begins to question the sheer preposterousness of his job and any chance of a relationship with the infamous diva. Throughout the play, Tolins
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cleverly and respectfully treats his characterization of the real Barbra Streisand. Although she is the butt of some jokes and subject to some criticism, he portrays her simply and compassionately as a woman who does her best to be perfect. However, it is chock-full of allusions and references to actors, actresses, Streisand’s ex-husbands and movies from 50 years ago that will go over many people’s heads. Sometimes, you only know to laugh because the elderly woman, who bought Streisand records before she was famous and mainstream, next to you is chuckling. To fully appreciate the jokes, brush up on your Barbra Streisand history. By the end of the play, it is hard to make a judgement on Streisand for her eccentricity or her divine celebrity. Tolins does his best to make all the dialogue seem completely genuine and succeeds for most of the play. The greatest oddity of the play arises from the fact that, though absurd, the premise is also completely plausible due to the strange nature of celebrities, from whom the peculiar is expected.
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Since practically the moment I arrived in Italy, my friends and family have been asking me, “So have you met any cute Italian boys yet?” I guess it’s a natural and fully-warranted inquiry, given that I’m studying abroad in one of the most stereotypically romantic countries on Earth. Don’t worry, folks, there’s no bubble to break here; the stereotype is true — romance is in the air. It’s also on the streets, in the piazzas and loitering in front of my apartment building. Let’s just say that romance comes in many forms, but the most noticeable is in the form of public displays of affection. This handy PDA acronym exists in our Anglo-Saxon culture because kissing in public is less socially acceptable. And while I thought PDA was mainstream all over the world, it turns out that PDA lacks a direct translation in just about any of the Romantic languages because the concept of not outright showing love and affection when you feel it is foreign to people. In countries like France, Italy and Spain, kissing and/or full-on making out is not considered to be crude or not for children’s eyes; it’s totally normal. Coming from an average, modest American family, all of the touchyfeely-ness kind of grossed me out at first. I didn’t really understand why they couldn’t save all that affection for behind closed doors or at least hold off until after they’d made it through the check-out line at the market. It took me a long time to get used to the lack of proximity awareness that Europeans have — something that many Americans so greatly value and expect. Slowly but surely I started letting people come into my “hula hoop” space, as my mom used to call it. The first step was learning the doublecheek kiss and then, eventually, before I knew it, I too was displaying affection publicly. I felt like the girls in the movies, flirting in Italian and being charmed by broken English, like the time when an Italian told me my eyes were beautiful because they’re the color of hazelnuts — “nocciola come Nutella” (hazelnut like Nutella). I think he was trying to say my eyes are beautiful because they’re hazel, but I’ve learned that sometimes there’s no point in trying to find a literal translation for things because some things just don’t translate well. I don’t get offended or creeped out when someone compares me to food or something else that sounds awkward in English; I just smile, say “thank you” and assess whether or not I need to walk away. Traveling and meeting people from all over has made me realize that I love the thrill of meeting a person and not knowing which language they speak. It’s also made me realize how lucky I am to speak English because it’s really the common tongue of travelers. At the same time, speaking only in English has become a bit dull for me, and I’ve learned that I love the challenge of texting and conversing in Italian. It’s really empowering to get out what you want to say in another language — something that I’m definitely going to miss when I get home. I guess what I’ve learned is that, at the end of the day, it’s the human connection that matters. Flirting with a foreigner is fun, but if there’s no connection, it doesn’t matter what language the other speaks. And if it’s nothing more than just a little international curiosity, play the California card. From my experience, it almost always works.
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FILM REVIEW
TRUE STORY Goold’s directorial debut is a poignant moral fable about deception and the insides of journalism. Directed by Rupert Goold Starring James Franco, Jonah Hill, Felicity Jones Rated R Release Date April 17
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n August 2013, Rolling Stone’s cover featured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. There he was, looking straight at us with his piercing, haunting eyes. His untidy hair and somber expression evoked the type of glamour we have come to adore in celebrities, and the image is so captivating that for a moment — an instant, maybe — we forget that he is the son-of-a-bitch responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings. “True Story,” directed by newcomer Rupert Goold, examines the psychological consequences of this
type of glamorization: What price, if any, does the writer pay when portraying a sick criminal as a problematic rock star? And what narrative, if any, can the writer invoke to justify that deed? The film stars James Franco as Christian Longo, a narcissistic and handsome detainee charged with the murder of his wife and children. When captured in a small town in Mexico, the authorities learn he’s been hiding under the name of Michael Finkel. As it turns out, the real Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill), a promising reporter for the New
York Times, has just been fired for manipulating information for a cover story. That is, Finkel’s name is in tatters at the same time Longo decides to adopt it as his own. This connection is what sets the film in motion. Finkel hears that Longo was living under his name, and far from freaking out, he loves it — he absolutely loves it. Soon enough we see them conversing in a prison cell: the nerdy, obsessive reporter and the seductive, profound son-of-a-bitch. The interactions between Longo and Finkel are always a ferocious game of chess, except that Longo is the only one playing. When an excited Finkel reveals his plan of writing a book on Longo’s life, we know full well whose idea it really was. Finkel’s attempts at rationalizing both his friendship and, more importantly, the book he’s writing are the center of “True Story.” “Why do you want to tell the
story of a murderer?” Finkel’s fiance (Felicity Jones) asks him. “Everyone deserves to have their story told,” he answers with self-imposed seriousness. The response is laughable. He needs to save his career. He needs a story he can sell. Although Goold’s script is too explicit about this point, Hill’s subtle acting and Marco Beltrami’s (“The Hurt Locker”) score, render Finkel’s inner apologia an amusing event to witness. This is reflective of the film in general. “True Story” compensates for its flawed script with powerful performances and a potent cinematic tone. The two scenes between Jones’ character and Longo linger in our head way after the credits roll. Franco’s performance is charged with irony and self-consciousness. In a brilliant moment, Longo looks at Finkel and asks, “Did you do it?”
The question is both disturbing and comical, an inversion of roles that is as somber as it is funny. Longo treats his own culpability in the same irreverent way. He knows that everyone knows — everyone except Finkel. Or maybe he does. Maybe he does and decides to ignore it. Maybe Finkel has forgotten, amid Longo’s affective smiles and carefully crafted words, the fact that he is in front of a child-murderer. Or then again, maybe Finkel’s desire to resurrect his career makes him willing to forgive even the most heinous crimes. The film’s continuous rumination of these possibilities is what makes it memorable.
— Mario Attie
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FILM REVIEW
EX MACHINA Garland blends sexuality with machine consciousness in his brilliant, complex instant sci-fi classic. Directed by Alex Garland Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander, Sonoya Mizuno Rated R Release Date April 10
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ovelist and screenwriter Alex Garland is not a man of small victories. His works are all-or-nothing meditations of the elemental. From cosmic extinction (“Sunshine”) to human mortality (“Never Let Me Go”), the stakes are always high. It comes as no surprise that Garland, directing for the first time, has only turned up the heat. His debut feature, “Ex Machina”, is an intellectual assault on our sexuality, our consciousness and the consciousness of our sexuality (or as Oscar Isaac’s character
would put it, the “sexuality of our consciousness”). Like all great films, however, its artistry lies in the “how” more than in the “what.” Garland’s delicate but striking visuals soften the heaviness of the film’s ideas, dressing their scientific language in poetic clothes. The film entertains with its seriousness but also with its daring humor. Starting with its clever tagline (“What happens to me if I fail your test?”) all the way to its momentous ending, “Ex Machina” is a total work of art. The film follows Caleb (Domhnall
Gleeson), a young and brilliant programmer as he travels to the mountains to meet Nathan (Oscar Isaac), the creator and owner of a giant Googlelike company of the near future. Caleb gets the golden text to participate in an unknown experiment that the secluded Nathan is secretly preparing (yes, the similarities with “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” are uncanny). Shortly after, Caleb learns that he is the human component of a Turing Test. His role is to decide if Ava (Alicia Vikander), Nathan’s intelligent — and smokin’ hot — android has true human consciousness. Caleb has to test if Ava actually feels, desires, intends … or just behaves as if she does. Of course, we know that such a test is impossible — we can ask the same question about other people with no apparent way of arriving at a conclusive answer. But if we know this, of course Nathan knows
it too. What, then, is he really testing? To reveal more about the plot would be a crime. It is enough to say that Garland plays with our expectations as a happy baby plays with his toys. Films about artificial consciousness and sexualized female robots are many. “Ex Machina” follows “Her” in its attempts to introduce a sexual dimension into the question of consciousness. Is sexuality a precondition for consciousness? Is the latter an emergent property of the former? “Why did you give her sexuality?” Caleb asks confusedly. Nathan theorizes that we have no examples of consciousness — human or animal — without a sexual component. “And to answer your real question,” he retorts with a smile, “Yes, she can fuck … you can screw her, and she’ll enjoy it.” Just like that, we move far from the realm of “Her” and closer to something like “Fatal Attraction.” The film
sheds its skin contentiously, evolving from a sci-fi thriller, to a prison movie, to a romantic drama; like a snake, it grabs your neck and never lets you go. “Ex Machina” forms a highly complex puzzle with few pieces. Garland constructs his ambitious tale with four characters. The result is an interplay of intimacy and claustrophobia that adds an eerie atmosphere to every bit of dialogue. Vikander’s Ava is especially fascinating. She embodies a seductive woman without ever losing her robotic nature. She is not human, but she reflects all that is human in us. And this is the film’s final triumph — it will force you to look at a mirror and ask: Who the fuck are you?
— Mario Attie
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SIRENS by THE WEEPIES
FOIL DEER by SPEEDY ORTIZ
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Bostonian band re-emerges as both lovers and fighters in their romantic, upbeat album.
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t’s official: The Weepies can do anything. Change Mandy Moore’s teeny-bopper image into that of a thoughtful folkie just by writing her a few songs? Juggle an international tour and raise three young kids at the same time? Battle cancer and write their longest album to date? Check, check, check. The full-length in question, of course, is “Sirens,” written while the married duo, Deb Talan and Steve Tannen, struggled through Talan’s breast cancer diagnosis. Much like their previous records, this new LP is full of charming lyrics, addicting acoustic guitar riffs and the couple’s complementary quivery vocals. But every track on “Sirens” is punctuated with some deeper, inexplicable feeling, undoubtedly influenced by Talan’s health battles. In fact, much of the album seems to implicitly chronicle the stresses and recovery the couple has faced in their personal life. Opener “River From the Sky” plays out as a straight-up heartbreaker of a song, with its keenly produced sound and minor chords evoking a sense of melancholic despair worthy of the band’s name. Yet the duo’s lyrics prove that there is more behind this love song: Lines like “Life is like a waterfall/ You have fallen like a doll/ Never think of me at all/ There isn’t time” are hauntingly delivered with Tannen and Talan’s echoing vocals. But the band doesn’t wallow for
long, picking up the tempo with the hopeful “Learning to Fly,” in which Talan’s gentle, soaring vocals optimistically relate her journey toward remission: “Learning to fly/ But I ain’t got wings/ Coming down/ Is the hardest thing.” Yet even a listener completely clueless about the context for “Sirens” would find the album relatable, particularly in the “wild-card” tracks thrown in that don’t seem to have anything to do with their particular trials and tribulations. In these songs, we’re reminded that this is a band that can banish all preconceptions of folk-pop as a staid genre by contributing their brand of flexible eclecticism to the music scene. “Never Let You Down” simply floats as a love song with pop sensibility buoyed by catchy lyrics and riffs — in short, it’s The Weepies just doing their thing. But these musicians aren’t simply churning out same old, same old from their previous works; tunes like “Fancy Things,” with its cinematic, sassier sound replete with memorable drum rhythms, show their willingness to experiment with various sounds. It goes to show that this is an unstoppable band from who we can continue to expect more reassuring, empathetic and just plain fun tunes, because not even cancer can put the breaks on the music genius of The Weepies.
— Jacqueline Kim
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New England indie band rocks out on new album, pulls out the stops instrumentally but falls short of a truly memorable work.
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peedy Ortiz is a band that understands that there’s no reason to re-invent the wheel. They can pick up The Pixies’ quirky tones or some of Sleater-Kinney’s vocal ideas without being derivative. In fact, on “Foil Deer,” the Massachusetts band has dug deeper into their own rowdy, colorful niche, not a common approach considering thousands of indie-rock bands are still trying to fit into the same hole that The Smiths carved out 20 years ago. Even from the beginning of “Foil Deer,” the guitar is driving the album, grinding out dissonant melodies more often than holding down power chords in the background. Lead singer Sadie Dupuis actually follows the guitar most of the time, especially on “Raising the Skate” where the fuzz-pedal-powered melody leads Dupuis up and down her vocal range as she declares her own badassery with chest-beating authenticity. And some of the best moments let the vocals go completely, like the brooding intro to the album, “Good Neck,” or the wild solo at the end of “My Dead Girl.” In the same way that the guitar has a way of cutting through the music, the lyrics are consistently razor sharp and defiant. It’s consistent too, ranging from the abstract (“And only in the shape of a bullet/ Am I ever the shape you see when you
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wake up dead”) to the more concrete thoughts (“We were the law school rejects/ So we quarreled at the bar instead”). There’s definitely potential for the music to get one-dimensional in that way, but Speedy Ortiz mostly steers clear of that by reframing their quirky, pissed-off sentiment differently in every song like a mental patient with severe multiple personality disorder. Really the biggest shortcoming of “Foil Deer” is that there isn’t anything else to say about it. “Rebellious, great guitar work and generally creative” completely covers
everything in fewer words. Maybe next time they could go a bit further in any of those aspects and make something truly memorable. And they end up frustratingly close to that. As it is, “Foil Deer” is destined to wind up as an honorable mention on a few end-of-the-year lists and then be forgotten forever. Maybe Speedy Ortiz could write about how much they’ll resent that.
— KYLE SOMERS
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middle blocker Shayne Beamer and redshirt freshman opposite Tanner Syftestad. However, the comeback did not last, and for the rest of the set, the Anteaters dominated. The hosts regained a big lead of 20–12 in a period of play featuring three back-to-back kills from senior outside hitter Travis Woloson. Although the Tritons managed a fourpoint flurry toward the end of the game, which saw two consecutive blocks first from Syftestad and then from Beamer, UC Irvine carried on the attacking dominance to take the first set 25–17. The second set saw a turn in the fortune at the start, as the Tritons managed to take a 3–1 lead thanks to a kill from junior outside hitter Kirill Rudenko and two consecutive blocks from Beamer. The Anteaters managed to level the score at 3–3 and the set continued in an evenly matched fashion as the team tied nine times in the set. The turning point came at 14–14, when UC Irvine managed to build up a
three-point advantage for the first time in the match and lead 17–14. The Tritons did manage to come within a point of their opponents as freshman setter Milosh Stojcic hit a service ace to bring it to 18–19, but the Anteaters simply proved too good in the final stretch of the set and managed to take a 2–0 advantage with a 25–21 set victory. After matching up well with their higher-ranked opponent in the second set, the Tritons looked to continue their strong showing when they took the first point of the set with a Colbert kill. UC Irvine answered and sped away, picking up a 5–1 lead. The Tritons tried to compete, picking up two points to bring the score to 5–3, but seven unanswered opposing points gave the hosts a lead which the Tritons could not recover from at 12–3. The Tritons did show a lot of heart, picking up eight of the next 11 points to bring the score to 15–11 in a period that featured two Syfestad kills. However, UCSD was unable to keep up the momentum, and the Anteaters dominated, took
the set 25–15, and with that the match. Despite the loss, the performance showed huge signs of promise. UCSD out-blocked its opponents 8.5–4.0, the sixth time the men have out-blocked an opponent this season. On top of this, Colbert and Syftestad racked up eight kills each, with Colbert also tallying a team-high six digs. “I felt like we competed with them really well in the first two sets,” UCSD men’s head coach Kevin Ring said. “Offensively, they were stronger — particularly they had a few really strong servers. Apart from that, I think we matched them all over the court and were very happy with our block ratio compared to theirs.” The loss puts UCSD at 2–26 for the season. However, UCSD has a young team that showed some promise down the road and will look forward to improving its record next year.
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UCSD Dancesport Team Places High at Stanford Nine Tritons place in multiple events in Cardinal Classic. On April 18, the UCSD dancesport team attended the Cardinal Classic annual dance competition at Stanford University. Nine members of the team competed, all of whom placed in at least one event. In the American Smooth category, couple Naftali Burakovsky and Paula Anzenberg placed sixth in the silver-level tango and sixth in the silver-level multidance event for waltz and foxtrot. Couple Akshata Rohra and Simon Huang placed third in the Newcomer Viennese waltz, third in the Newcomer Tango, sixth in the bronze-level Viennese waltz and fourth in the bronze-level tango. Couple Andy Helson and Laurel Wilkinson placed fifth in the Bronze level multidance event for waltz and foxtrot, as well as fifth in the bronzelevel Viennese waltz. In the American Rhythm category, Rohra and Huang placed second in the Newcomer bolero. Couple Kaya Ishijima and Simon Huang placed
fifth in the bronze-level multidance event for cha and rumba, fifth in the bronze-level swing, fifth place in the bronze-level bolero and third in the bronze-level Mambo. In the International Latin category, Burakovsky and Katrina Kennedy placed fourth in the bronze-level paso doble, with couple Andy Helson and Laurel Wilkinson coming in third place and Rohra and Huang winning second place. Rohra and Huang also placed third in the bronze-level samba and third in the bronze-level multidance event for cha and rumba. Couple David Fan and Kaya Ishijima placed first in the gold-level multidance event for cha, rumba, samba and jive, an incredible accomplishment. They also placed fifth in the gold-level paso doble and even earned second in the silverlevel multidance for cha, rumba and samba and fourth in the silver-level paso doble.
Four Returning Starters Will Help Tritons Build on the Year’s Performances in 2016 ▶ GOLF, from page 12 saw it drop to 295 and a seventhplace finish. “Unfortunately, we came up short today despite shooting a season-best round this morning,” UCSD head coach Jim Ragan told the UCSD Athletics Department. “We played well during the second round, also, equaling our secondlowest round of the year.” Yamaguchi got off to a hot start as he hit an amazing 67 in the opening round and tied for first
place. However, he did not find the same success in the second round, shooting a still-good 73 that dropped him to sixth place. He hit the second-most birdies in the competition to finish the competition with a four-under par 140. The rest of the UCSD team saw senior Jay Lim tie for 18th (145), junior Daniel Yang tie for 22nd (146), junior Jeff Roseth tie for 34th (151) and sophomore Rocky Hall finish 39th (156). “The guys did a great job repre-
senting UCSD today,” Ragan said. “They continued to get better as the season progressed and played their best golf over the last two weeks.” Chico State’s junior Alistair Docherty defeated Cal State Stanislaus’ sophomore Connor Day to be named the CCAA individual champion, while Chico State’s junior Justin Wiles shot a 66 in the second round on the day, the lowest round of the day. The CCAA all-tournament team included Docherty, Day, Wiles, Cal
State Monterey Bay’s sophomore Fredrik Jullum and junior Anton Rosen. Cal State East Bay upset fourthranked Chico State (3–2), and Cal State Stanislaus defeated Cal State Monterey Bay (3.5–1.5) to advance to Wednesday’s championship medal-match round.
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UCSD clinches CCAA berth for a second consecutive season.
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210 #1 232 #1 347 #1 .407 #1
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1st in CCAA 88 strikeouts 1st in CCAA 8 wins
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UCSD baseball won a California Collegiate Athletic Association series against Cal State Stanislaus last weekend, with the Tritons dominating the contest by winning three of the four games. Later on Tuesday, the Tritons won their only game of the week to conclude a four-game series against Cal State San Bernardino at home and clinched a second-straight postseason berth in the CCAA. Cal Poly Pomona still leads UCSD in the CCAA standings with the Tritons sitting at 25–11 in league play and Pomona at 23–9 thus far in the 2015 season. This week’s wins bring UCSD’s overall record to 30–15 with four games left before the CCAA Championship in Stockton starting on May 7. Game one in Turlock last Friday saw junior right-hander Justin Donatella (8–1) continue his dominant 2015 season from the mound. Donatella threw eight frames and 102 pitches with only two hits in the 11–0 UCSD stomping. He lowered his CCAA-best ERA to 0.55 and his strikeout count to 88, also the best in the conference. “(Donatella) did a great job,” UCSD head coach Eric Newman told the UCSD Athletics Department. “He wasn’t really that sharp the first two innings, and Stanislaus had some opportunities. They hit a couple of balls hard, but he just kept grinding it out; guys made some great plays behind him and he fell into that rhythm that we’ve all seen. From that point on, it was really, really good.” Last week, Donatella was also awarded the CCAA Baseball Pitcher of the Week and was named as one of 32 semifinalists for the Brett Tomko Award. The Tomko award is given to the pitcher of the year, as recognized by D2 Baseball News, in Division-II competition. Additionally, Donatella’s ERA is on track to break both school and CCAA records by the end of regular season play in 2015.
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UCSD continued its dominance when the team swept the doubleheader last Saturday against Stanislaus, winning 10–0 and 2–0 respectively and adding another 16 shutout innings to the Triton pitching staff ’s growing tally. “Today was obviously a great day for our pitchers to establish that mentality we had early in the year,” Newman said. “I thought our defense today was outstanding and guys competed for each other to make some tough plays.” Stanislaus didn’t even put a runner across base until Sunday’s finale in the bottom of the third inning. They managed another in the fourth and UCSD ended up dropping the last game to the home team 2–1. Tuesday’s game against last-place Cal State San Bernardino quickly turned into an 18–1 offensive onslaught by Triton batters, who racked up a season-high 23 hits on the day. Junior outfielder Gradeigh Sanchez led the order for the 21st time this year and crossed the plate four times off of two hits and an RBI. Senior first baseman Michael Mann led the team in RBIs at three after going 2-for-3 at the plate and crossing home plate three times himself. Junior infielder and pitcher Troy Cruz gave a 3-for-3 performance, crossing home twice while redshirt freshman Tim White, freshman infielder Tyler Plantier, senior infielder Erik Lewis and sophomore outfielder Christian Leung all contributed two RBIs to the effort. As the Tritons take the weekend off and conclude the regular season with a four-game, split location series against fourth-place Cal State Los Angeles on April 30 to May 2, it is clear UCSD is moving into the final stretch of the season while playing some of its best baseball.
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UCSD Fails to Qualify for Semi-Finals Team Falls in Three Sets Yamaguchi starts strong in first round and finishes sixth out of 39 competitors. Tritons drop games against UCI to end 2015 season. By Liam Leahy
By Marcus Thuillier
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UCSD hosted the California Collegiate Athletic Association Men’s Golf Championship in Stockton, California from this past Monday through Wednesday. The Tritons placed seventh overall out of eight participating squads, thus not qualifying for the semifinals. The top UCSD finisher was junior Clayton Yamaguchi, who finished sixth in a tie with two other athletes. Along with UCSD (582, six strokes over par), Sonoma State University (576, even), Cal State San Bernardino (581, five strokes over par) and Cal State Dominguez Hills (586, 10 strokes over par) were the three other teams that did not qualify for the semifinals. After Monday’s competition,
The UCSD men’s volleyball team ended the season with a loss in three sets against No. 4 UC Irvine on Saturday night at Bren Events Center. The Tritons pushed the better-ranked team close but fell to set scores of 25–17, 25–21 and 25–15. The win gave UC Irvine the number one seed for the upcoming Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament. The game began with Irvine taking charge and grabbing a swift 5–2 lead in the first game, with help from three Triton errors. Although this lead extended to 7–2 shortly after, the Tritons edged closer and were only down 11–9 in the middle of the set. The comeback featured two kills from sophomore outside hitter Ian Colbert, as well as a kill apiece from sophomore
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No. 5 Chico State (559, 17 under par) placed first, No. 7 Cal State Monterey Bay (566, 10 under par) second, Cal State Stanislaus (573, three under par) third and Cal State East Bay (574, two under par) fourth to advance to the semifinals
on Tuesday. On Monday, UCSD started the day off strong and shot a 287 as a team to temporarily place fourth. The second round in the afternoon See GOLF, page 11
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See MEN’S VOLLEYBALL, page 11