Arts & Culture
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UCSF’s best-kept culture secret revealed » PAGE 7
Popular Dogpatch ice cream parlor worth the wait » PAGE 9
The Chancellor’s Concert Series
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
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NEWS
Domestic Violence is a Silent Epidemic
Take it upon yourself to ask the tough question By Sara LaHue Staff Writer
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s a medical student, I have the privilege of asking personal questions. My short white coat somehow transforms previously inappropriate topics of conversation into an investigation for the benefit of a patient’s health. Despite this, inquiring about bowel movements is still often easier than asking the patient if he or she is being abused at home. Both questions can have a profound impact on a patient’s life; the latter is often gravely overlooked. In seventh grade, my best friend came to school with cuts whittled into her arms. She had repeatedly heard her mother abused at home by men she dated. Self-mutilation helped
her manage the guilt and anger she wrestled with every day. During my junior year of high school, another classmate landed in the hospital after her boyfriend pushed her down a flight of stairs. I later learned she had been pregnant at the time. My friends’ experiences are not exceptions. According to the Centers for Disease Control’s 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS), 1 in 4 women, and 1 in 7 men, have been the victims of severe physical violence at the hands of an intimate partner. Those who are raised within a violent home are also affected. The Adverse Childhood Experience Study (ACES) concluded that childhood trauma, experienced either directly, or indirectly by observing a parent’s abuse,
Domestic Violence » PAGE 4
SPORTS
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Onward California Rolls Through UCSF
Photo by Mason Tran
UCSF students and staff line up to receive gelato bars from the Onward California truck on Wednesday, Oct. 24.
Campaign promotes UC goodness before Tuesday’s critical vote on Proposition 30 By Yi Lu Staff Writer
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he Onward California bus arrived on Parnassus Avenue last week, trading gelato bars for email addresses.
outpouring of cheers and yells erupted from all Irving Street bars showing the game. Driving down the street, you could feel the energy pulsing from the doors of bars and restaurants, but soon after they would all be silenced by Delmon Young’s bottom-ofthe-sixth home run. It was that type of game, back and forth — the Giants charging and the Tigers just trying to stretch this series just one more
World Series » PAGE 10
Onward California » PAGE 5
Giants sweep Detroit Tigers in four games NBR 680 was on full blast on my car tuner as I was parked outside a packed Fireside Bar, completely blocking the Muni lane. I was a full six seconds ahead of the telecast. This I know because as Posey hit his home run in the top of the sixth inning, I was yelling and honking my horn six seconds before an
NEWS
“We’re giving out gelato bars, and each flavor represents a different campus,” said Christine Andrews, tour manager with Onward California onsite at UCSF, on Wednesday, October 24. “In exchange for the gelato bar, we ask that you sign up to be contacted to be informed on how to stay connected and how to continue to support the program, because there’s a lot to be done.” The tour stop, featuring 10 flavors of gelato inspired by the ten UC campuses, was part of a statewide campaign aimed at highlighting the contributions of the UC system in nearly every aspect of California life. (UCSF’s designer flavor, by the way, was “Super Strawberry,” inspired by University researchers who found that eating lots of fruits and vegetables is associated with a 50 percent reduction in the risk of developing pancreatic cancer.) “The idea of the tour is just to get back in the face of Californians, UC alumni and UC students, and remind them that UC and higher education still needs support,” said Andrews. The Onward California campaign, also featured in a variety of media ads, plays out against the backdrop of significant cuts to public education in California, with the UC system losing $750 million in state funding in the past year alone. The cuts have had a broad impact across the 10 UC campuses, affecting students, employees, programs and facilities alike, but perhaps the most visible consequence has been seen in student tuition increases. In response to the diminishing support from the state, the Regents of the University of California have steadily increased
Giants Win the World Series
By Hujatullah Bayat Staff Writer
Volume 57, Number 8