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UCSD Protesters Demonstrate Against Janet “NapolitaNO”
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Students protested in front of Geisel Library last Monday in light of former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s start of term as UC president.
UCSD students rallied by “Silent Tree” on Library Walk to protest Janet Napolitano’s appointment as president of the UC system on Monday, Sept. 30.
The protest began with a banner drop on Geisel with a sign that read “No to NapolitaNO” on the new president’s first day in office. Maintenance workers joined the students to speak about their experiences working in the UC system.
A representative of the student coalition known as the Strike Committee, Juan Campos, said that Napolitano was responsible for the recent pay cuts that campus maintenance workers face.
Another common concern with Napolitano’s appointment was her involvement in record-breaking undocumented immi-grant deportations during her term as U.S. State Secretary of Homeland Security; in 2012 alone, the department was respon-sible for the deportation of over 400,000 people.
In 2010, during Napolitano’s term, UCSD graduate student Mark Farrales was forced to undergo a series of deportation trials and hearings for living in the country illegally, following the death of his illegal immigrant father. He was later granted a year’s reprieve to obtain citizenship.
Shutdown Jeopardizes Financial Aid, Grants
San Diego Prepares for 2013 Mayoral Special Election
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The shutdown could also affect UC internships and national research grant opportunities.
The city of San Diego will hold a special mayoral election on Nov. 19, following former Mayor Bob Filner’s resignation in September.
Filner resigned from office nine months into his three-year term as mayor in the midst of charges relating to the sexual harassment of nearly 20 women. In a deal with San Diego City Council, Filner agreed to leave office in exchange for coverage of legal fees and settlement costs.
According to public accusations, the 70-year-old former mayor groped and made inappropriate comments to people including city employees, mili-tary veterans, a nurse, business execu-tives and other officials.
Immediately following Filner’s res-ignation on Sept. 2, Democrat City
Council President Todd Gloria became acting mayor — a position he will hold until a new mayor is elected in 90 days.
As of last week, 11 candidates — including former UCSD Professor Nathan Fletcher — qualified for the
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The federal government shutdown that began Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 12:01 a.m. could affect UCSD students who receive financial aid, as well as campus researchers receiving grants. UCSD students at internships in Washington, D.C. will also be furloughed as nones-sential personnel until Congress agrees on a budget or passes a continuing resolution.
The shutdown is the result of Congress’ failure to establish and pass a budget. Each year, the House and Senate must pass 12 appropriations bills to fund government agencies. This year’s budget was halted due to a fundamental disagreement between House Republicans and Senate Democrats about providing funding for the Affordable Care Act.
The United States government has been operating without a budget since 2009 and has relied on stopgap resolu-tions to keep federal services func-tioning. The last stopgap measure was passed in March, expiring on Sept. 30.
The Department of Education released a contingency plan guarantee-ing funding to Pell Grants and federal student loans for the first week of the shutdown.
“A protracted delay in Department obligations and payments beyond one week would severely curtail the cash flow to school districts, colleges and universities ... that depend on the Department’s funds to support their services,” the plan read. Should the shutdown last longer than a week, the department will see a personnel short-age that will cause delays in processing federal loan paperwork.
According to the plan, other stu-dent financial aid programs are not guaranteed to keep functioning.
“FSA employees working in areas not directly related to Pell Grants or Direct Student Loans, such as the Campus-Based Programs of College Work-Study ... would not be exempt-ed,” the statement read.
The possibility of obtaining research grants will also be affected, with fund-ing, processing and approval for new scientific research heavily delayed.
Students within the University of California Washington Center, inad-vertently lost internship opportunities with the closed government agencies.
“I will enjoy these days of vacation, but I wouldn’t want it to last too long,” UCDC participant and Department of Education intern Adam Jackson said.
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UCSD researchers recently dis-covered mechanisms within the chol-era toxin, sometimes known as CTX, that lead to severe diarrhea, intro-ducing the possibility of new therapy developments to treat cholera.
A research team led by UCSD biology professor Ethan Bier used fruit flies and mice to study the cel-lular mechanisms of CTX that lead to diarrhea and may subsequently cause sudden, intense dehydration.
Bier’s laboratory collaborated closely with the laboratory of UCSD School of Medicine professor of pediatrics Dr. Victor Nizet. On Sept. 11, their findings were published in the “Cell Host & Microbe.”
“Cholera toxin disrupts traffick-ing of proteins to cell junctions that hold cells together or are respon-sible for cells communicating to one another,” Bier said. “We exposed human cells grown in culture as well as cells in the guts of living fruit flies and mice to CTX and examined
its effects on transport of proteins to cell-cell junctions.”
By increasing the level of Rab11, a traffick-ing protein CTX usually attacks, the researchers were able to reverse the effects of CTX.
Bier’s laboratory had focused on anthrax tox-ins and realized that one of the anthrax toxins caused vascular endo-thelial cells — the cells lining blood vessels — to pull apart, resulting in leaky blood vessels. This lead to a discov-ery that a step in the transporting proteins to cell-cell junctions had been disrupted. Seeing similarities in intestines infected by cholera and the blood vessels, the Bier laboratory hypothesized CTX acted in a similar fashion.
“[In the future,] we are interested
in asking whether other pathogens that cause diarrhea — including cer-tain strains of E. coli, viruses, cryp-tosporidia — also decrease transport to cell junctions,” Bier said. “Another interesting question is whether
stresses such as starvation or inflam-mation of the bowel also disrupt this process.”
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special election ballot, out of 40 con-tenders who filed intents to run in September.
“For UCSD students, especially those who got to take one of Nathan Fletcher’s classes last year, I think see-ing him run for mayor makes poli-tics and public service something real, something they feel connected to and something they can aspire to them-selves,” UCSD Professor of political science Thad Kousser said. “Plus, they might enjoy walking into the ballot box and getting to vote for — or against — someone who gave them a grade.”
Fletcher, a Democrat and the curre nt frontrunner, previously ran for mayor in 2012, finishing in third place. He is also a former assemblyman, focused on bettering city government and improving jobs and education.
22 year-old SDSU student Michael Kemmer also qualified for the ballot, under a technology-focused campaign that will push a “city of the future” idea.
“There’s a lot of room for oppor-tunity and a lot of room for change within the city government,” Kemmer said. “We’re focusing on SUSTAIN: San Diegans United for Sustainable Technology and Innovation Now, and we have a whole bunch of fixes focused on that for the city.”
Other candidates include city council members Kevin Faulconer and David Alvarez, former city attorney Mike Aguirre, attorney Hud Collins, nonprofit organization director Bruce Coons, veteran and adminis-trator Harry Dirks, engineer Simon Moghadam, former contractor Lincoln Pickard and construction superinten-dent Tobia Pettus.
According to the San Diego city
charter, the special election — set to cost $6 million for the city — must be held within 90 days; if no candidate receives over 50 percent of the vote, the city will hold a runoff election.
Student Organized Voter Access Committee Executive Director Kyle Heiskala hopes that UCSD students will get involved in the election.
“Although the special election orig-inated from unfortunate circumstanc-es, it has given UCSD students another opportunity to see our political impact in the San Diego community,” Heiskala said. “The challenge for SOVAC has been getting students excited about participating in the selection of the new mayor while trying to maintain the momentum our organization worked hard for last fall.”
“We’re protesting Janet Napolitano’s appointment but also the cuts to transportation on cam-pus, the pay decrease for workers and the pay increase for executives to show that even though we’re all fighting our individual battles, it’s all interconnected,” Campos said. “We believe Napolitano took a job she was unqualified for having no back-ground in education.”
Campos also stated that the Strike Committee would have dem-onstrations regarding transportation issues and Napolitano’s appointment throughout the quarter while part-nering with other student organiza-tions.
Maintenance workers have been protesting at UCSD for higher wages and better pensions with the most recent demonstration taking place last Tuesday, Sept. 24.
Napolitano, who took over after Mark Yudof ’s resignation on Sept. 30, met with Student Regent Cinthia Flores, Student Regent-designate Sadia Saifuddin, and 10 other desig-nated students on Oct. 1 to discuss their concerns.
A press release from the University of California Office of the President stated that the primary purpose of the meeting was to discuss UC expe-riences for both undocumented stu-dents and students of color.
“The meeting provided an oppor-tunity for the president to listen, gain a first-hand understanding of issues important to these students and lay the groundwork for cooperation and mutual respect going forward,” the statement read.
According to the release, Napolitano will assign staff members to explore the issues the students raised.
The students are not the only group to voice their concerns over
Napolitano’s appointment. State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, who represents California’s 80th dis-trict that encompasses most of south San Diego County, penned an open letter on Sept. 30 to the new president in conjunction with other assembly members and state senators.
The letter focuses on the main-tenance workers that make up the majority of UC’s service department.
“Service workers are the only ones that have been singled out for a wage freeze. These women and men are already the lowest-paid UC employ-ees,” the letter read. “Whatever the reason, whatever the recent history, singling out the University’s largest population of minority workers for the harshest treatment at the bargain-ing table sends a deeply disturbing message.”
Napolitano Succeeds Former President Mark Yudof This Month! NAPOLITANO, from page 1
Ballot Includes UCSD Professor of Practice Nathan Fletcher! ELECTION, from page 1
There’s nothing like ringing in the school year with an A.S. Council meeting. The pangs of hunger as you slowly forego any possibilities of dinner. The but-terflies as you realize that you must pay attention at all times, because somebody on council will probably say something weird that needs to be captured in your notes. And lastly, the feeling of irony as good ol’ council starts up just as the U.S. government shuts down.
Council began with public input, almost entirely surrounding the growing movement to object the appointment of UC President Janet Napolitano. Representatives from organizations including Kaibigang Pilipino, SPACES, APSA and SSC all spoke on the subject, offering personal stories and urging council to support the coalition to reject Napolitano and the changes that she is projected to implement.
“We all have suffered under [Napolitano’s] reign as Secretary of Homeland Security,” Food Co-op Migrant Rights Awareness member Juan Campos said. “Everything she’s done for our community has been hurting us.”
During Special Presentations, the trend continued: Students Bruno Huizar and Edna Degollado spoke about the “No to NapolitaNO” coali-tion across the UC system, urging council to not only pass a “no confi-dence” resolution toward Napolitano but also to join the coalition as a whole.
“I really want to put importance [on] that we are living right now [with] the most anti-immigrant sentiments in history,” Huizar said. “We’re not deporting criminals;
we’re deporting people to make money off of them.”
The meeting wasn’t all som-ber presentations, though. Comic relief came in the form of resident Australian suspender-wearer Johnny Kent, also known as a member of A.S. Info Tech Resources. Kent took about 10 minutes to start up his Prezi — ironic, given that he’s a
member of IT — and proceeded to shout “Whee!” every time he switched to a new presentation slide.
I felt like I was on a rollercoaster down under.
During Reports of Members, council spoke about a variety of dif-ferent events, including A.S. President Andy Buselt’s “Save Graffiti Hall” petition and the announcement of a special transportation conference.
Then, during question time, things took a turn for the worse when the members of the Transportation Task Force got up from their seats and danced around to the song “Wheels on the Bus.”
Yes, you read that correctly.Around 8 p.m., council entered
an executive session while discuss-ing the “Resolution Calling for the Resignation of Vice-President External Affairs Vanessa Garcia for Failure to Perform Duties, Improper and Unethical Use of Authority, and Willful Violation of ASUCSD Rules, Regulations, and Procedures.”
I see you haven’t seen through with being see-through, council.
Nevertheless, following the ses-sion, council passed an amended res-olution as well as one acknowledging misunderstandings between Garcia and A.S. Council, seemingly mending this year’s early-onset tensions.
All’s well that ends well, I guess.
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The Fun Does Not End After College
As a senior, transitioning from a carefree San Diego summer back to the daily
class grind was especially difficult.Three years ago, I eagerly went
to every Welcome Week event, found all the Stuart Collection art pieces, nosed around the spaceship library and checked out a concert at the Loft all within the first week.
This year, I deleted every wel-come-back email I was sent (good-bye, Revelle Infolink), scrolled right past the “Meet the Beach” pictures littering my News Feed and didn’t even bother checking the contents of my backpack before heading off to my first class.
Yet, countless other seniors don’t feel as jaded as I do; instead, they feel a sense of panic. Looking at all the exuberant and bright-eyed freshmen, it’s easy to experience a twinge of jealousy. They have the next four years to make their mark here and do undergraduate life right — seniors have already served most of their time, through all their snoozed alarms and less-than-stellar midterm grades.
There’s the notion that you must fit in every learning experience by the end of your last year of college, because afterwards, it will somehow be too late. Many soon-to-be grad-uates feel the sudden urge to get the reckless party animal out of their systems: to dance on tabletops, get kicked out of clubs, kiss beautiful strangers, crash theme parties and embark on cross-country road trips — all in one weekend.
It’s not true, however, that the end of college means the conclusion of fun times. It won’t quite be the same Sun God revelry, but you can still have parties at 30.
When you join the working world, you won’t abruptly need to turn down the music before mid-night, and (gasp!) head to bed at a reasonable hour. Starting your day before 8 a.m. may mean fewer Taco Tuesdays and Thirsty Thursdays, but you can simply compensate by amping up the weekend festivites.
You might also feel wildly unac-complished next to your peers who have spent summers in the Amazon rainforest and are working to find a cure for Type II Diabetes, but that doesn’t mean that you have to win all the prizes during your last year here. We’re young and we have so much time.
Even if you didn’t study abroad like everyone and their mothers did this past summer, the Leaning Tower of Pisa will still be there for you to take a shameless selfie with in the coming decades.
Speaking of pictures, seniors: If you don’t have any photos of your time here, you need to change that. That’s something you can’t go back on — you’re going to want a record of how you looked in your 20s.
I possess terrible documentation of a monumental time. The only images I own from the past few years have been stolen from friends’ Facebook albums and, more often than not, are saturated with awful Instagram filters.
Another note to keep in mind: Please get your Undie Run needs fulfilled before graduating. The general public tends to frown upon that sort of behavior.
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Three days into new UC President Janet Napolitano’s ten-ure, the only real change for UC students is that our afternoons are now filled with essays and our bags with crumpled-up syllabi. Tuition hasn’t shot up, there are no metal detectors blocking the entrance to Center Hall, nor are UCPD officers storming into Hi Thai and round-ing up students for deportation.
This is in contrast to Napolitano’s beginning with the nine-undergrad-uate-campus system, which was met with protests and demand-making on campuses statewide. On our own campus, Geisel Library was dressed in a “No to NapolitaNO” banner on Monday.
It is important to consider, before you paint your next “Napolitano must go” lawn sign, that Napolitano, as the first female head of the UC system, is doing a very different job than the one she had at the beginning of this calendar year. Napolitano’s new digs
will require her to approach her job with a different mindset, as the goal of running the best university system in the country is very different than protecting the citizens of the United States of America.
Predetermined sentiment toward Napolitano as UC president and criticism based on her record at the Department of Homeland Security is unfair, as she hasn’t had a chance to demonstrate her plan for the system at this point.
This is not to say that there are not any marks on her record that are concerning. Her tenure at Homeland Security left some questions on the direction of her leadership. While Napolitano is great at identify-ing her goals (like her support for the DREAM Act and a pathway to citizenship for undocumented work-ers), she hasn’t always been able to translate those goals to a concrete result (as shown by the department’s record-setting 400,000-plus deporta-
tions in 2012).Some marks on her record are
certainly concerning, though as UC chief, Napolitano will need to focus on the major issues that affect UC students, like affordability, acces-sibility and diversity — and not, as some have suggested she will, “how many students can we deport?” In a state that now allows undocumented students to receive state funding for education, it seems that we can safe-ly assume Napolitano will not work to make the UC community more exclusive as far as citizenship goes.
The former Arizona governor has no formal background in education administration, but it is far too soon to launch a vote of no confidence at her. The search committee that selected Napolitano was led by the UC Board of Regents, the same body that, just this summer, nominated UC Berkeley senior Sadia Saifuddin as the new student regent-designate.
Both the choices of Saifuddin
for the student regent job and Napolitano for Queen Bee demon-strate the Board of Regents’ renewed efforts to hear more diverse stu-dent voices at UC headquarters in Oakland and strengthen its internal administration. Many of the regents will be termed out of office in the next year or two, and this will pro-vide the governing board with a new opportunity to reevaluate the system’s priorities. Napolitano at the helm has the potential to help deter-mine the first steps for achieving the UC system’s goals.
Napolitano was never going to fix everything in three days, and with a relatively light agenda for the first few weeks, it will still be a while before we see the real Napolitano Doctrine.
We should give her a chance to be the effective leader she promises to be. But should she take the sys-tem in the wrong direction, we’ll be wearing NapolitaNO shirts as well.
The trials and tribulations of freshman year are many. There’s the risk of gain-ing the dorm food-induced Freshman
15. There’s the new challenge of doing laundry — a first for many students — and finding the contents of the dryer you claimed dumped by an anonymous dorm-mate onto the floor. There’s the all-consuming effort to, as you’re supposed to in college, “find yourself.” Now imagine facing all those challenges with half the personal space.
This fall, 300 UCSD freshmen are doing exactly that. They have been placed in rooms that UCSD’s Housing, Dining, and Hospitality services is dubbing “temporary doubles”: a room for one redesigned to squeeze in two students, outfitted with a set of bunk beds, two wardrobes and two desks to be placed outside of the room in common space. The space allotments, according to a petition on Change.org, are 50 square feet per student, as opposed to the already-cramped 63.33 feet per student in triples.
It’s not like HDH hasn’t tried to fix its mis-take. Following a petition, HDH lowered the price of housing for those in temporary doubles by $1,000, and they’ll be lowering it by another $1,000 for those who are still in temporary doubles next month. They’ve also removed the penalty for canceling housing contracts after the move-in period. But even though HDH has showed a marked effort to make accommoda-
tions for the affected students, the department’s housing SNAFU may hurt them in the long run. UCSD, as an increasingly lucrative school with more applicants every year, will continue to face the challenge of enrolling too many stu-dents without enough housing.
The problem lies primarily in HDH’s eager-ness to provide all students with on-campus living for four years of school. In Fall Quarter 2012, HDH began to offer a four-year on-cam-pus housing guarantee to all incoming full-time freshman and transfer students. The offer was introduced after the completion of a five-year housing construction plan that doubled the amount of available on-campus residences, but the overwhelming demand on the part of stu-dents has showed that what once seemed like plenty of space isn’t cutting it.
The U-T San Diego reported that UCSD saw an 8.1-percent increase in admissions com-pared to last year, and the admitted students were more highly qualified than ever before. (Last fall alone, we gained 4,573 freshman and 2,239 transfers.) But judging by the current housing crisis, increasing enrollment while promising students four years in the dorms isn’t a feasible combination — and it’s now become clear that the math just doesn’t add up.
To combat the shortage, HDH emailed students over the summer, offering an opt-out plan that would pay them $2,000 in taxable income and $1,000 in dining dollars if they
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gave up their housing contract. But moving out of the dorms faces a host of its own issues.
While off-campus rent prices are much cheaper than the dorms, stu-dents have no easy way to get to cam-pus. Most nearby affordable housing is located east of the Interstate 5 — slightly more than a hop, skip and a jump from campus. These students must shuttle or drive to campus, but Transportation Services’ budget crisis has caused complications. The UCSD-run Nobel and Arriba shuttles could be canceled, and students may soon have to pay for MTS bus stickers. And the parking shortage (finding an S spot on campus is a small miracle) coupled with the high
cost of a daily parking pass has made driving to campus a hassle, too.
For freshman and transfer stu-dents who prefer on-campus liv-ing, we can only imagine that the transition to dorm life has become even more traumatic. Thurgood Marshall College’s welcome letter to new students urged residents to have a positive outlook on living in closer-than-ever quarters, offering that “sometimes we think we aren’t going to like something until we try it out.” Nearly every single room in Marshall has been changed into a temporary double, and in Muir, storage rooms have been converted into temporary dorms.
Administration seems to hope that enough students will flee the dorms to make room for the
students currently in temporary housing. And although enough may leave to remedy the crowding, the difficult transition to housing may prove to take an emotional toll on students as they adjust to school in an even more turbulent environ-ment than usual.
The simple truth is that UCSD is just congested. With many ser-vices underfunded and overcrowd-ed, it seems like the university just can’t continue to make promises it either fails to keep or keeps in condition-heavy ways. However HDH chooses to meet the housing shortage, it has to do it quickly and find a long-term solution, instead of cutting corners and making stu-dents’ transition to college far more stressful than it needs to be.
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Dear Editor,I have been reading and listening
to arguments about how the gassing of the Syrian people should be equated to American abortion. This argument seems to lead into whether we should attack Syria, leave Syria alone after killing approximately 1,400 of their own people and whether or not this should be the ideal time to look at our own country’s abortion laws.
First, it has been established that Syria has broken international law by gassing their own people in this civil war that has been going on for two years. All of the world’s coun-tries know about this, but only very few will agree to take a stand against this. Our president and Congress seem ready to stand with these few countries in order to “punish” the Syrian government. At this point, our government leaders are like salmon swimming up stream on this. The overwhelming majority of Americans do not want anything to do with Syria. Who said government officials have it
easy? Not this decision.As for equating abortion to this, I
can say many, many people are against abortion! I am a Democrat, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be pro-life. I was recently given an Internet link to a picture of a 10-week-old aborted fetus. If anyone could still believe in abor-tion after seeing this picture, I say God help them! At this point in our legal system, there is very little pro-lifers can do other than use the power of the pen, Internet, phone, snail-mail, voting booth and public forums in order to say, “NO MORE!”
— Timothy Tim Monroe BledsoeNorth Augusta, SC
Syria Rights Crisis Mirrors Abortion Issues At Home
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Setting the Scene
A car. An elevator. A basement. A facilities plant.None of these are typically associated with art to the say the
least: At best, they’re much too mundane and at worst, completely devoid of any opportunities for artistic inspiration. To decide to create and perform art outside of the studio or the auditorium takes quite a bit of bravery — and nothing short of brilliance. But that will be accomplished this weekend through the formidably innovative teamwork of UCSD’s department of theatre and dance, the La Jolla Playhouse and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. In the Without Walls Festival, which is one of the few site-specific art festivals in North America, UCSD’s own professors and students will be performing from Oct. 3 to Oct. 6 in a range of spectacles including dance performances, installations and recreations of classic plays.
“It’s an interesting challenge to perform in these kinds of spaces where the audience is always really close,” Department Chair of Theatre and Dance Jim Carmody said. “This is a very intimate experience for the audience. [In] some cases, they’re standing right next to the performer. There is no divide, there is no proscenium arch, there’s no orchestra pit, there’s no physical barrier. The audience is right there, and that’s exciting. It’s high-risk, but it’s exciting.”
Nonetheless, the WoW Festival performances will be well worth that risk. La Jolla’s artists will (quite literally) stretch the boundaries of art with works spanning a broad spectrum of cre-ativity. The festival will include such standouts as “Cornerstone,” a comedic but philosophical play about a sandwich that gets eaten for lunch at the Central Facilities Plant; “A Willow Grows Aslant,” an exploration of Shakespeare’s Ophelia through the use of plants in the basement of Galbraith Hall; and “Hedda’ing,” a choreo-graphed dance based on Henrik Ibsen’s play “Hebba Gabler” atop Jacobs Hall’s “Fallen Star.”
Carmody also cited UCSD alumnus and lecturer Tom Dugdale’s production of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” which will be performed in the backyard of the Weiss Forum and will star many of UCSD’s recent graduates, as “a kind of special alumni
homecoming event.”“[The WoW festival has] given our students an opportunity
to write and create completely new work just for spaces in and around our building,” said Carmody.
The department of theater and dance is also looking forward to the opportunities the WoW Festival is offering UCSD in fur-thering its half-century-long relationship with the internationally renowned La Jolla Playhouse, founded by Academy Award win-ner Gregory Peck, Mel Ferrer and Dorothy McGuire.
“We’re very closely intertwined with [the La Jolla Playhouse] in all kinds of ways and so doing this together was a natural thing to do,” Carmody said. “This is the first time we’ve actually gotten together and produced a large event together … It’s hard to imag-ine us being more closely combined than we are now. This level of collaboration is pretty unprecedented in the country … San Diego is a pretty ideal place to [hold a festival like this]. It’s a great place to make art. And I think it’s a great place to experience art as well.”
Sam Mitchell, a dancer and choreographer for the piece “Hedda’ing” and a second-year MFA student in theatre and dance, couldn’t agree more about the positive impacts that the UCSD-La Jolla Playhouse relationship has had for the WoW Festival.
“I just found an incredible amount of support through the department [and] people wanting to support ideas,” Mitchell said. “[The La Jolla Playhouse has] been such an integral part of my experience here in San Diego … It’s a big draw for me, coming in and wanting to be involved with people whom I also share [an artistic] vision with.”
Together with Ph.D. student Jason Dorwart and Norwegian dancers Siri Jontvedt and Snelle Hall, Mitchell will be exhibiting a dance based on Henrik Ibsen’s classic “Hedda Gabler” inside and outside the Stuart Collection’s latest — and perhaps most marveled at — addition “Fallen Star.” Mitchell is no stranger to performing site-specific dance in conjunction with the Stuart Collection’s works, as he previously worked with a trio of danc-ers in choreographing and performing a routine around and on Warren College’s “Bear.” With Mitchell’s enthusiasm for and inter-
est in “Fallen Star,” “Hedda’ing” will be UCSD’s strongest presence at the WoW Festival.
“In my very first year as a grad student, I saw the ‘Fallen Star’ sculpture, and I immediately was just stricken by it,” Mitchell said. “I was just inspired, [and I] wanted to do a performance somehow connected to that particular sculpture … It’s so powerful to just be there in the house, and watch and feel a little bit off-kilter … It really feels like it’s so much a part of my body now. I have this connection, and I think that’s really important with site-specific work.”
With his background in both visual arts and dance, Mitchell also hinted that “Hedda’ing” will explore his own heritage as a Yaqui Indian.
“[I’ve talked] about this idea of being connected to something … feeling outside of the periphery … I think we’ve all experienced that. And that’s one of the themes we’re exploring in this piece, because it’s something that we can all relate to — this feeling of wanting to belong and then the feeling of not belonging and also the feeling of setting oneself apart,” Mitchell said.
“[A friend of mine once told me,] ‘You have the unique perspective, so in anything that you make, in some ways you’re already addressing those issues. So make them work … and then people will see the work and it will resonate in a certain way.’”
With the diversity of artistic visions presented this weekend, the Without Walls Festival promises a bright beginning for not only its future developments but also the institutions involved and the individual artists who will showcase their creative genius in unconventional ways.
“This is really an experiential thing,” Carmody said. “You go, you experience it — there’s no right way or wrong way to do it. It doesn’t require prior training. It doesn’t require preparation. You go, you participate, you share, you enjoy and that’s really all you need.”
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Sports like Formula One racing seem in a lot of ways more exciting and hair-raising for their participants than those watching in the stands: The drivers are essentially strapped to bombs racing in circles. The new film “Rush” turns on the fact that racers have to be at least a little bit foolhardy, a little bit full of themselves.
This pulse-pounding film, Ron Howard’s (“Apollo 13,” “A Beautiful Mind”) latest, follows the real-life rivalry between Formula One drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda. These two drivers are destined for conflict from the start; as we find out early in the film, they both have the same dream — to become World Champion of Formula One — but incredibly dif-ferent approaches and styles. Hunt, played exceedingly well by Chris Hemsworth (“Thor,” “The Avengers”), is driven by what seems like a twisted
sense of joi de vivre. He plunges into racing wholeheartedly, his passion fueling his success, fully accepting his nearness to death. He throws himself at life just as readily off the track, be it with women, drink, women, drugs or women. He’s impossible for his team managers to control, both volatile and irrepressible — but when it comes to the race, he doesn’t mess around.
Lauda, played in an equally arrest-ing performance by Daniel Bruhl (“Inglourious Basterds,” “Good Bye Lenin!”) is nearly the opposite. Not as ruggedly handsome or daring as Hunt, he isn’t particularly good with people, but he likes it that way. He focuses on winning, on how to perfect
his car and on simply being the best technical racer that he can be. He buys his way into Formula One, and to the chagrin of someone like Hunt, proves that he’s incredibly talented at the same time.
With such opposing philosophies, it’s inevitable that the two will clash. When they do, it is explosive — their personalities leap off the screen, and their races are pounding affairs of metal, combustion and raw power. “Rush” has succeeded more fully than perhaps any other racing film in recent memory at putting the viewer in the driver’s seat. Howard throws in shots that are stunning in many ways: from inside the helmet, claus-
trophobic and oppressive, all the way to inside the engine itself, peeking at the pumping of the machinery and the flame of the reaction. The action is only exacerbated by the personal stakes of the leading men.
The film operates much like a race car itself — supremely efficient, firing off dramatic scene after scene. Every scene fits into the larger picture per-fectly, and no time is wasted. In fact, if there is any complaint to be levied against the film, it could be that it doesn’t let up once. The film has very little downtime, and when it does it is usually full of character revelations, poignant moments or steamy passion. There is no time to get up and refill on
popcorn, and that could very well be a good thing.
Perhaps most impressively, Howard takes two fairly unlikable characters (it is pointed out many times within the film that they are both, without a doubt, “assholes”) and manages to get the audience to root and sympathize with them by the end. Both characters find intriguing and very different love interests that are the vehicle for this transition. Suzy Miller, played by Olivia Wilde (“Tron Legacy,” “House M.D.”), forces Hunt to struggle with his maturity and com-mitment to his passion. Lauda’s
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" n order to understand Janelle Monae, you have to step foot into the cyber-dystopian era she
has created, first in 2010’s “The ArchAndroid” and now with “The Electric Lady”. The loose narrative that weaves throughout each of the tracks on “Electric” paints a picture of Monae as an android learning to be human and deconstructing the very meaning of humanity at the same time. Her soundtrack is influenced by a wide variety of genres, from soul to funk to electronica, and is always dazzling. Crisp percussion makes the beats hit you with force, and Monae’s choice of guitars and synthesizers pop against her equally vivid vocals.
With “Electric”’s lead single
“Q.U.E.E.N.,” Monae hits us with an unapologetically funky track that impossibly makes you contemplate societal issues of classism and poverty while getting down to the beat. “Will you be electric sheep?” she demands. “Electric ladies, will you sleep/ Or will you preach?” Monae’s rap verse on this track as well is both impressive in terms of flow and authoritative, her voice unwavering and dire.
The album’s bookend, “What an Experience,” is a ballad that evokes ‘80s synth-pop and has one of the most melodically catchy hooks on the album. The track then slows to a head-bobbing, reggae tempo. Janelle’s skilled singing and reflection of a love that will last “until the sky don’t
shine” fill the song with heart. Monae is capable of developing an intimate relationship with her audience, and her genuine, relatable lyrics create even more of an allure.
Janelle Monae’s “Archandroid” is evolving with each new album. This newest effort is a testament to her emotional growth as an artist and as a staple of contemporary R&B. The album showcases her confident voice and talent as an experienced song-writer. “The Electric Lady” invites us into her own vivid, eccentric world, and we’re all the funkier for it.
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E resh from his very first Grammy award, Drake offers two different versions of cover
art on his third studio album, “Nothing Was the Same” — one a profile of the Canadian rapper as he appears today, the other a comi-cally afro-ed infant (complete with pick) that we can only assume is supposed to be baby Drake. The album itself follows this past-pres-ent juxtaposition, exploring Drake’s current success and the work behind it all. This kind of duality can be tricky footing, and the result is an album that never quite finds solid ground.
Utilizing at least 15 credited producers, “Nothing Was the Same” has an expansive sonic palette, augmenting the standard hip-hop fare with R&B, funk, pop and blues. The more straightforward offerings (“Own It,” “Worst Behavior”) bring small doses of these styles to the table, giving the album a refreshing musicality while still maintaining Drake’s distinctive energy. Other tracks rework his sound entirely. The soft keening notes of “Furthest Thing” slip in and out of a scratch-ing backbeat, building and warp-ing until they flare out into an old-school, hip-hop strut. Subtle evolution like this lends a forward momentum to “Nothing Was the Same” and allows longer songs to develop thematically.
Regrettably, Drake’s measured wordplay doesn’t keep pace with the intricate production. Each new musical idea is treated with the same laid-back flow, and against a flood of melodic interplay, it’s all he can do to stay afloat. The struggle is apparent from the get-go, as intro “Tuscan Leather” finds Drake treading hard water with cumbersome lines: “Comin’ off the last record, I’m getting 20 million off the record/ Just to off these wreckers, that’s a record.” This overall awkwardness is exac-erbated by Drake’s guest artists, who either disappear too soon or steal the spotlight entirely. Features like these would be better used as a moderate addition to each new track instead of the stylistic crapshoot to which they have been reduced.
With a foot firmly planted in each period of his life, it’s little wonder that “Nothing Was the Same” finds Drake at his most ungainly. The release leans com-fortably forward into more mature musical territory, only to be wrenched back by a rather ado-lescent inability to express itself. In a word, the album seems dispa-rate; in two, it feels more like grow-ing pains.
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wife Marlene (Alexandra Lara, “Downfall”), on the other hand, gives Lauda an incredibly human and vul-nerable side that the audience doesn’t see elsewhere in the film. “Happiness is the enemy,” he confesses on their honeymoon, and we wonder whom he is trying to convince.
“Rush” succeeds precisely because it is not just a sports film. Lauda and Hunt join many other excellent film and book adversaries that are incred-ibly engaging to watch because of the
way they impact each other, from Holmes and Moriarty to Valjean and Javert. It is clear that they are not wholly enemies — their relationship is far from simple. They are defined and motivated by each other; they are rivals, but they understand each other better than anyone else pos-sibly could.
“Rush” is a truly great and engag-ing film and an incredible character study. It brings enormous production quality and immediacy to the world of Lauda and Hunt, from the stun-ning sound design to the Academy-
Award-deserving cinematography. It is dynamic not only in its portrayal of two incredibly interesting and larger-than-life men but in the way it puts the audience in the driver’s seat for some of the most hair-raising racing put on film. Go see “Rush,” even if you’re not partial to racing movies. The film succeeds far beyond expec-tations, and aside from some minor quibbles about pacing, is not to be missed. It’s one heck of a ride.
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Interfraternity Council
F raternities were founded in American universities for the purpose of developing and broadening the academic faculties of their members while at the same time providing a sense of brotherhood and bonding that did not exist inside of the
classroom. Since then, they have developed into so much more.First and foremost, for almost every fraternity, is academics. Fraternities are made
up of students, and students come to college with the intention to study. Many chapters within the IFC thus reward their members for high academic performance and encour-age a certain GPA for all members.
Fraternities proudly work to not only make a lasting positive impact in the lives of their members, but also in their community. Last year, IFC fraternities at UCSD vol-unteered more than 4,100 hours of community service and were also able to raise over $9,000 that was donated to local and national philanthropic causes. It is the leadership that is learned and honed in fraternities that makes these events possible and these skills translate to everyday life.
The Interfraternity Council works to enhance the sense of community between the various fraternities and enables them to work together more readily. This allows for collaboration and innovation that would not be possible if each fraternity was working completely independently. IFC’s goal is enhance the fraternity experience and to ensure that we, as a community, are always getting better. We often work with other Greek organizations on campus to put on collaborative, educational and fun events that can help create and improve the sense of community on campus.
Fraternities are improving in many areas — academics, community service, phil-anthropic giving, creating and enabling leaders and reaching out to new areas of the UCSD community —, and I firmly believe that the best days of fraternities here at UCSD are ahead of us.
- Timothy Sirota, Interfraternity Council President
Panhellenic Council
W ith many varying organizations on campus, the Panhellenic Council can be caught up in the mix. Technically, Panhellenic is the community comprised of the ten sororities that belong to the National Panhellenic Conference. On a deeper level,
Panhellenic is a home away from home to almost a thousand women at UCSD and a life changing, life long experience for every individual member.
Although the media has tainted perceptions of Greeks, those who truly look at UCSD Greek life see that it’s a thing of its own. Negative press covers the worst of sororities with reports of racism, sexism, hazing, etc. At UCSD, the Panhellenic community works to not only dispel overarching negative traits that come with Greek life but eradicate them. We have a no-tolerance, anti-hazing policy, seminars on sexual assault and leadership confer-ences on diversity, and we strive everyday to break stereotypes by simply being the best version of ourselves in letters.
Sororities were founded as support and encouragement for women in a male-dominat-ed college world. Centuries later, they continue to serve as a tenant for scholarship, service and individual growth while giving women common values to bond with one another. Sisterhood is a lot of things, but at the core it is finding people who will be your best friends, empower you and help you grow into whoever you want to be.
Every Panhellenic chapter has a national charity organization they raise money and awareness for all year. Ranging from a carnival to a dance competition, the philanthropy events raise thousands of dollars each. The biggest opportunity you get from being a part of Panhellenic, aside from spending your time in meaningful ways, is the opportunity to learn from others who want to get the most out of college just as much as you do. Part of the largest, most diverse block of females on campus, Panhellenic members meet, integrate with and are inspired by women from all walks of life. We take that collective power and try better our school, the world and one another to the fullest of our capacity.
- Leah Wong, Panhellenic Council President
Alpha Phi Omega
A lpha Phi Omega is a national co-ed fraternity focused on community service. At UCSD, we are classifed under the Professional Fraternity Council due to our
focus on professionalism and service to the chapter, campus, community and country. This is not to be confused with the fraternities and sororities in the IFC, PHC or MGC.
Our reputation varies from person-to-person, but a general consensus is that APO is a very large fraternity. Some people may not take our fraternity seriously due to the fact that we accept everyone who wants to join, but APO is proud to have such a large member base. Our belief is that we should not refuse anyone who wants to provide service to the community, so every recruitment quarter, we accept around 30 to 100 new members. It is easy for others to doubt the strength of our brotherhood, but with every large group comes a diverse pool of personalities and opportunities. The potential of APO is limitless because of our room to grow. Most people join with little history of extracurricular activities and leadership experi-ence, but leave with countless lifelong friends and knowledge of how to be the type of leader that suits their personality. We welcome everyone to fully utilize APO’s opportunities in our three cardinal principles of Leadership, Friendship and Service.
Not only do we help our campus with activities like Roger’s Community Garden, but we also reach out to the San Diego community by helping out the senior citizens, youth, home-less community and environment. Our largest service project is Operation Santa, in which we provide San Diego families in need with holiday gifts of basic necessities and toys. This proj-ect in particular is open to anyone, affiliated or not, who wants to directly help a family in need by adopting a family’s wish-list, individually or with a group of friends. The bigger picture of Alpha Phi Omega’s mission is not to be an exclusive group of people with a common interest but to benefit and give back to the community, and we encourage everyone to do the same.
- Kelly Wong, Alpha Phi Omega Ro Phi Chapter President
Multi-Cultural Greek Council
T he Multicultural Greek Council is one of three Greek councils at UCSD. It is composed of 15 Greek fraternities and sororities that stand
unified to promote higher education and leadership with the added aspect of a cultural identity. The IFC and PHC are long-standing establishments, while the MGC is a growing, but somewhat under-the-radar force. Over the years, the UCSD MGC has cultivated a small close-knit community with many of its founders remaining local, creating a viable network of connec-tions. The MGC’s role at UCSD is especially important given the great diversity of students on campus. MGC strives to serve the community with an emphasis on distinct cultures and is inclusive of all students, which means that students who may not identify with a par-ticular interest may still join. First and foremost, the MGC embodies the ideal of knowing yourself and liv-ing confidently in who you are.
- Kaylee Miu, Multi-Cultural Greek Council Vice President
Alpha Kappa Psi
F ounded in 1904, Alpha Kappa Psi is the oldest and largest co-ed business fraternity. AKPsi is a group of students who share a common interest in profes-
sional development and proactively pursuing the career of our dreams. The Nu Xi Chapter at UCSD has over 60 members whose diversity in majors is unified with the individual success of each member.
Though it is commonly known that proficiency in resume building, interviews, public speaking and networking are great assets for any college student, a fair portion of the UCSD com-munity is unaware that !"Psi can assist with all of this. As an organization that is open to all majors, we have a huge network of actives and alumni working at companies such as Microsoft, P&G and Disney. By providing our members with work-shops and mentorship programs, as well as a multitude of job opportunities and valuable leadership experience, our chapter encourages each individual’s professional development.
As a fraternity, we hope to be perceived as a professional resource for the student body. We co-host recruiting events with companies, provide seminars and workshops on resumes and interviews and arrange many other events geared towards enabling the professional development of UCSD students. Like social fraternities and sororities, we engage in many social activities, including quarterly retreats, barbeques, day outings, inter-chapter mixers, intramural sports tournaments and much more. What separates us is our unifying desire to develop our-selves professionally. Whether those interests lie within optom-etry, investment banking, public policy or otherwise, all our brothers make an active effort to further our offerings.
- Cathy Kim, Alpha Kappa Psi Nu Xi Chapter Rush Coordinator
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cramped on-campus setting. Not to mention the sauce is creamy and delicious — it tastes far more sophis-ticated than it is.
Start by boiling a pot of water. While that’s heating up, start making the avocado sauce. Cut the avocado in half. Store the half that isn’t already designated for the sauce in the fridge for another time, or add it to make a thicker sauce. Chop about six leaves of basil, mince the garlic cloves, and mix them together vigorously. One to two cloves of garlic will probably be more than adequate, but garlic fiends can add a third. Add half of the total avocado amount, and mix until the ingredients form a paste. You can also
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boiled to your taste, drain it and rinse it with cold water to stop the cooking.
Drain the pasta, spoon it into two bowls and pour the avocado sauce over it. Mix thoroughly. Add any salt or pepper, garnish with basil, and enjoy! This is a dish best served immediately, since the avocado in the sauce will start to brown if it’s left out
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dents may find interest in an event like this if they are studying sciences and want to see an excellent aspect of cancer funding. Marriage may not be in sight for many undergrads — or even graduate students — but current students can get involved with the organization by volunteer-ing their time or attending the event and speaking to those who are directly involved in the lives of people with breast cancer. BABC is currently holding its “Nationwide Tour of Gowns,” a traveling bridal show, at the San Diego Marriott La Jolla from Oct. 5 to Oct. 6.
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With over $2 million raised annu-ally at these events, Brides Against Breast Cancer provides an excellent opportunity for UCSD students to get a new perspective on cancer
programs and research and to make a positive impact.
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Bagheri buried a free kick from 25 yards out, the momentum swung in favor of the Tritons.
UCSD recorded 10 more attempts in the second half, including five from van Zyll, who came in off the bench.
“It was a game between two good teams, and I think the game reflected that,” Pascale said. “They had their spells where they were getting at us, and we had our spells where we were getting at them, and we were fortunate
to get a goal.”The Tritons head back on the road
to face Cal State Stanislaus — last season’s CCAA tournament champion — and Cal State East Bay this weekend.
Despite Stanislaus’ 3-4-1 record, Pascale expects a difficult match from the Warriors.
“Stanislaus is a little bit better than their results, so we’re excited to get out there and get after them,” he said.
them,” UCSD head coach Brian McManus said. “The kids are going to learn. Every week we’re learning, we knew we were gonna be growing every week.”
The Tritons, who graduated a large senior class, have been scrutinized for youth, but their freshmen seem to be coming into form.
Among the best is freshman for-ward Jamie Benedetto, a prospect who has delivered for UCSD. Last Friday against Humboldt State, Benedetto
scored UCSD’s only goal in the Tritons’ 1–1 tie.
When asked about her recent suc-cess, Benedetto said time on the field has helped.
“Every game is helping with experi-ence,” Benedetto said. “I knew that as a soon as I could get one goal, it might give me confidence for more, and I scored last weekend. My team gives me perfect passes.”
Although it has two losses and three ties and has fallen out of the national rankings, UCSD is still in second place in the CCAA South Division. UCSD
is two games behind South Division leader San Bernardino State and just one point ahead of three CCAA teams, all of which have two conference wins.
This Friday, UCSD faces top-of-the-conference Cal State Stanislaus on the road. The Warriors are currently ranked No. 9 in the national standings and are undefeated in the season thus far (7-0-1).
The following Sunday, the Tritons take on Cal State East Bay (2–6).
Triton Men’s Soccer Jumps 12 Spots to No. 10 in the NCAA National Rankings! M. SOCCER, from page 12
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UCSD Fall to 3-2-3 overall, Tritons to Begin Road Trip ! WOMEN’S SOCCER, from page 12
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For the first time in recent memory, the UCSD men’s soccer team sits atop of the table of the CCAA
South Division.Recording its fourth straight win, the
No. 10 nationally ranked Tritons (6-1-1 overall, 4-1-1 in conference) won both of its weekend matches.
UCSD head coach Jon Pascale seems to have struck upon a formula — one that combines a back line that has only allowed two goals in eight games, the energy of new attackers and a focus on set pieces — that has yielded impressive dividends.
Last Friday, the Tritons defeated Humboldt State 2–0. UCSD’s first goal came late in the first half from senior midfielder Cory Wolfrom, who finished the ball inside the 16-yard box. The sec-ond goal came courtesy of junior transfer Alessandro Canale — recently returned from the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup — who collected on a cross from fresh-man Gerrit van Zyll and slotted the ball
low in the corner.Pascale spoke highly of new attackers
Canale and van Zyll, noting that the two have given the Tritons some edge in the attacking third.
“Having Alessandro Canale back has been great — he brings a different dimension to the team, and van Zyll has really played himself into the mix,” Pascale said.
Senior All-American Josh Cohen was tasked to make five saves in the shutout match.
The following Sunday, Cohen again figured prominently in the Tritons’ 1–0 win over Sonoma State. The goalkeeper was only credited for two saves, but battled in the air to intercept Sonoma crosses throughout the match.
Sonoma, a school with a long history of strong soccer teams, appeared to be the dominant squad from the whistle, but after senior midfielder Andisheh
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Top of
the Table
Conference Overall
cal State L.A.
UC San Diego
cal state dominguez hills
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8
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8
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0.750
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Won 2
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
Former UCSD men’s basket-ball assistant coach Eric Olen will take over as head coach to replace Chris Carlson, it was announced last Tuesday, Oct. 1.
Olen has spent the past nine sea-sons as an assistant coach at UCSD, after playing four years of NAIA basketball at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala.
“I’m really excited about the opportunity and feel really fortunate to inherit a great group of student-athletes,” Olen said. “I’m really look-ing forward to this upcoming season.”
Olen will take over for Carlson, who spent five seasons at UCSD after serving as the director of basketball relations for Ben Howland at UCLA.
Carlson leaves with an overall record of 75–89 (.457) over his six seasons with the Tritons and after taking the team to the NCAA tourna-ment in 2008.
When asked, Carlson had noth-ing but good things to say about former assistant coach Olen.
“He’s very talented and has great insight into the game,” Carlson said. “He’s very thorough and very pas-sionate and has a great love for UCSD.”
A San Diego native, Carlson leaves his post for a job as the associate commissioner for men’s basketball of the West Coast Conference — a NCAA Division-I conference hosting teams including Southern California schools Loyola Marymount University, Pepperdine University and University of San Diego. He will be stationed in San Francisco.
Carlson says he’s excited for the
new job but also finds it hard to leave UCSD.
“There’s so much to love about UCSD, but it was a tough opportu-nity to turn down,” Carlson said.
The UCSD men’s basketball team has limped through its last two seasons. In 2011, the Tritons went 11–17 and last season UCSD fin-ished with an 11–15 record.
The Tritons will begin 2013 with-out their top scorer, Tyler McGrath, as well as starting forward Justin Brue, who both graduated last spring. Needless to say, Olen will
have his work cut out for him in his inaugural season, but the former assistant coach is optimistic.
“We did lose a lot of seniors, but we’re excited with this group’s talent and work ethic,” Olen said. “We’re younger, but I think we have enor-mous potential.”
Olen says he is in the process of looking for another assistant coach to join the staff before practice begins in a couple weeks.
UCSD Names New Head Coach
Former Assistant Coach Eric Olen named new UCSD Men’s Basketball Head Coach, replacing Chris Carlson. Carlson to take position with WCC.
BY RACH EL U DA SPORTS EDITOR
Last Sunday, the UCSD women’s soccer team conceded its first confer-ence loss of the season to Sonoma State.
With four minutes left and the score tied 2–2, Sonoma midfielder Margi Osmundson was fed in front of the mouth of the goal to beat sopho-more goalkeeper Kelcie Brodsky and take the 3–2 win.
UCSD took an early lead against the Seawolves with a goal by fresh-man forward Jamie Benedetto, who finished a cross from redshirt fresh-man Kiera Bocchino. Osmundson
made her first goal of the game to tie the score six minutes later. Sonoma pulled ahead on a penalty kick grant-ed for a UCSD handball before the end of the first half.
Benedetto scored her second goal midway into the second half, and it seemed as if the Tritons would slot a third — outshooting the Seawolves 8–4 in the second period — before Osmundson picked up the go-ahead goal.
“That’s the best Sonoma team they’ve had since we’ve been in Division II, and we can play with
Eric Olen, New head men's basketball coach
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Tritons Fall to Second
Place in CCAA South
WOMEN'S SOCCER
UCSD records its first conference loss against conference play. Tritons to face CSU Stanisluas.
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