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VOLUME 47, ISSUE 21 MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2014 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG
CRAMMING CARS
A carpooling program launched by two Rady alumni aims to ease
campus parking woes and promote environmental
sustainability.
HELD IN HIGH REGARD?
IN AND OUT
Colorado legalizes pot
mixed results for basketball
opinion, Page 4
sports, Page 12
MONDAYH 75 L 37
TUESDAYH 72 L 45
WEDNESDAYH 72 L 43
THURSDAYH 68 L 36
FORECAST
VERBATIMThe smell of chocolate chip cookies can easily lure me from any ill-advised fitness goals. ”
- Kelvin NoronhaTHINKING CAPS
OPINION, PAGE 4
INSIDELights and Sirens ............ 3Quick Takes .................... 4Technically Speaking ...... 5Crossword .................... 11Sports ........................... 12
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CAMPUS
All 10 UC Campuses Implement Smoking Ban
UC Venture Capital FirmVerdict Overturned
UC SYSTEM
San Diego State joins the UC campuses in prohibiting the sale and use of tobacco products beginning Jan. 1.
Each of the ten UC campuses has gone “smoke-free” as of Jan. 1, following UCSD’s implemen-tation of the tobacco ban on Sept. 1., 2013.
Additionally, San Diego State University enforced a similar smoking ban starting Jan. 1.
The regulations of the SDSU ban are similar to those of the UC system, prohibiting all tobacco use, sale and sponsorship. Unlike the other nine UC cam-puses, UC Irvine’s ban on smoking will allow the use of e-cigarettes and chewing tobacco.
SDSU’s ban comes after a policy designating 12 smoking areas, which was largely unsuccessful. Thus far there have been no formal measurements of the effectiveness of the tobacco ban at UCSD.
However, UCSD Executive Director of Student Health and Well-being Karen Calfas thinks that a decrease in smoking is noticeable on campus.
“That isn’t to say there aren’t places where people aren’t occasionally smoking, but this is our transition period and so I think it’s been very effective,” Calfas said. “We are working with other campuses to do a system-wide measurement, but the other campuses just went smoke-free so we’re still working out what that will be.”
UCLA became the first smoke-free campus in April, the only UC campus other than UCSD to ban tobacco before Jan. 1.
“Our experience has been very similar to that of
BY Gabriella Fleischman senior'staff'writer'''photo by briaN monroe
See SMOKE-FREE, page 3
A state appellate court ruled the UC system does not have to disclose financial documents.
A state appellate court ruled on Dec. 19 that the University of California was not required to produce financial documents from two venture capital firms detailing information on UC investments. This decision overruled an earlier judgment from February of 2013 wherein the Alameda County Superior Court ordered the univer-sity to “make an objectively reasonable effort” to provide the details to the Reuters America news agency, under the California Public Record Act.
“We are obviously disappointed by the court’s ruling and continue to believe the records are not only in the public interest but should be disclosed under the California Public Records Act,” Reuters spokesperson Barb Burg said according to the Daily Californian.
Court documents report that Reuters editor Mark Boslet original-ly requested that the University of California reveal confidential fund-level performance data about Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, two venture capital firms that the university had worked with in the past. The university refused, stating that it no longer had access to such information, following a 2003
BY An drew H uang staff'writer
See INVESTMENT, page 3
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Women Lead in UC and CSU Graduation Rates A recent report announced a reversal in trends as women outperform men in enrollment and graduation.
Women are now outperform-ing their male counterparts in pre-paredness for college and in rates of enrollment and graduation, accord-ing to a recent report released by the Campaign for College Opportunity. The report, titled “The State of Higher Education in California: The Gender and Racial Gap Analysis,” announced that the reversal in trend is now true for women from all ethnic groups.
Despite the improvement in the rate of women attending college, the dwindling rate of young men’s enroll-ment in college is worrisome to Solano Community College President Jowel Laguerre, who has been following the reports for almost two decades.
“It is a disturbing trend,” Laguerre said in a Dec. 27 article in the Vallejo Times Herald. “We want for as many
women to go to college; but we also need young men to do the same.”
In the report, the Campaign for College Opportunity’s data shows that the gender education gap usually begins in high school with a greater number of women taking courses to meet requirements for college enroll-ment than men. In college, the gap becomes more defined as students approach graduation.
For example, the report shows that women graduate from the California State University system at an aver-age of five to eight percent higher than males while in the University of California system, women graduate at an average of six percent higher than their male counterparts.
The report also found that educa-tion gaps by race persist. Although women in African American and
BY Karen To staff'writer
See GENDER, page 3
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Transportation and Parking Services announced over the weekend that the blue stickers distributed in Fall Quarter will now be valid until the end of this month. Students who use MTS buses are now able to pick up a new sticker at the Parking Services Office that will be valid through March.
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▶ San Diego Chargers Win: The San Diego Chargers will advance to the AFC semifinals after taking down the Cincinnati Bengals 27–10 on the road, Jan. 5. The Bolts capitalized on four Bengal turnovers and outscored Cincinnati 20–0 in the second half. Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers threw for 118 yards and a touchdown while running back Ronnie Brown rushed for a team-high of 77 yards and a touchdown.
The Chargers will play the Broncos in Denver next week with a trip to the AFC championship on the line.
▶ Napolitano to Lead U.S. Olympic Delegation: UC President Janet Napolitano will lead the U.S. dele-gation at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. It will be Napolitano’s second time leading a U.S. delegation at the Olympic games.
“I look forward to being in Sochi to support our Olympic athletes and celebrate their accomplishments,” Napolitano said in a Dec. 17 press
release. “It is an honor to represent our country in the company of individuals who have excelled in life and sport.”
The delegation will be the first since the 2000 Summer Olympic Games that will not include the presi-dent, vice president or first lady.
▶UCSD Cardiologists Perform First Robotic Surgery: UCSD’s interven-tional cardiology team performed California’s first robotically assist-ed coronary procedure this past December. The team, led by Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine and Director of the SCVC-Medicine Dr. Ehtisham Mahmud, conducted the procedure at the UCSD Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center with the new robotic system, which acts as an “extra hand” to hold cardiac devices in place.
“Sitting a few feet away from the patient’s bedside at a computerized work station, I was able to navigate and advance the guidewire, balloon cath-eter and stent through the coronary artery,” Mahmud, said.
“The ability to accurately measure
lesion length with this technology enabled me to identify the exact length of the stents required and precisely place them.”
This technology also ultimately results in a shorter procedure time and less radiation exposure to the operator.
“As the only comprehensive aca-demic health system in the region, we are honored to be the first hospital in the state to deliver this technol-ogy to patients and the community,” Mahmud said.
▶ Colleges Reject Israel Boycott: American colleges and universities will reject an academic boycott of Israeli universities recently approved by the American Studies Association. Some schools said they are now with-drawing from the organization.
“An academic boycott goes against the spirit of the University of California, which has long champi-oned open dialogue and collabora-tion with international scholars,” UC President Janet Napolitano said in a statement on Dec. 30.’’
Of the 1,252 votes submitted by the 5000 member association, 66.05 percent approved the boycott.
“The ASA endorses and will honor the call of Palestinian civil society for a boycott of Israeli academic institu-tions,” the boycott stated. “It is also resolved that the ASA supports the protected rights of students and schol-ars everywhere to engage in research and public speaking about Israel-Palestine and in support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.”
Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla issued a statement that UCSD does not support the boycott.
“We affirm the right of the fac-ulty to advance their scholarship and research through open dialogue with academic colleagues in all countries,” Khosla said. “UC San Diego faculty collaborations draw on richly diverse ideas and views around the globe, including in the Middle East.”
Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Princeton and Boston University objected to the boycott as well.
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Latino ethnic groups outpace their male counterparts, they still trail behind other ethnic groups. For instance, the report cites that 61 per-cent of white females graduate from the CSU system within six years but only 38 percent of African American women and 47 percent of Latino women do.
The performance differences among ethnic groups and gender is recognized as a challenging obstacle facing higher education today. As
the research and policy analyst for Campaign for College Opportunity, Nadia Valliani is in charge of prepar-ing the report and understands the importance of raising public awareness through the report she helped release.
“We produce reports and then we send these reports and infographics to different staffers and legislators so they’re aware of the issue,” Valliani said. “We also promote in the media so people are aware that there is this gap.”
Executive Director of the Campaign for College Opportunity Michele Siqueiros hopes that the
report will spur Californians to action.“The figures make clear that
California must address the growing inequality in college enrollment and degree completion,” Siqueiros told the Vallejo Times Herald. “This is not just a problem for men, or blacks or Latinos; this imbalance affects all Californians. We all benefit when all of our young people have access to a college education and the tools to succeed and graduate.”
court decision ordering it to reveal similar performance reports to the San Jose Mercury News. Since then, the two firms allowed the UC to continue investing only if they did not have to provide such data. The university now relies on other information to gauge the status of its private equity invest-ments.
After the university’s refusal, Reuters filed a lawsuit in January 2012. The trial court mandated that the university should make a reason-able effort to obtain the documents from the firms, arguing that they had
“constructive possession.” However, the Court of Appeals rejected this because the requested data did not fall under “public records” or “con-structive possession” as defined by the CPRA, according to a UC Newsroom release. The appellate court has now ruled that the University of California was not obligated to retrieve records that were not “prepared, owned, used or retained” by the regents. In the same press release, UC General Counsel Charles Robinson said, “We believe today’s decision by the Court of Appeal is the correct one. It will allow our investment profes-sionals to make and monitor private
equity investments without intrusion from third parties seeking confiden-tial and sensitive information for their own commercial ends.”
The University of California stated that the lower ruling would have put a difficult burden on public agencies if it were not overturned. The univer-sity relies on private equity firms like Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers for high-risk, high-reward investments that have success-fully provided large returns for endow-ment and retirement funds.
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UCLA,” Calfas said. “I anticipate that the other UCs will have the same suc-cess. We’re all looking forward to how that’s going to play out.”
California has many restrictions on smoking in public places compared to other states; other public school campuses other than University
of California campuses have begun adopting similar policies, although not on a system-wide level.
“I suspect that other CSUs are or will soon be smoke-free as well,” Calfas said. “In San Diego, many of the com-munity colleges have been smoke-free for a while now.”
Calfas also noted the recent increase in smoke-free campuses nationwide.
“When we first wrote a proposal to consider this as a system, there were 500 or 700 schools that were smoke free,” Calfas said. “Now there are 1,000 to 1,200. I think we’re going to see many universities throughout the nation take this step.”
Student Health Director Expects CSU Campuses to Ban Smoking
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UC Relies on Private Equity Firms for High-Risk Investments▶ INVESTMENT, from page 1
Researchers Hope Report Will Improve Education Awareness▶ GENDER, from page 1
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LIGHTS & SIRENS Lights and Sirens is compiled from the Police Crime Log at police.ucsd.edu.
Monday, Dec. 231:00 a.m.: InformationA female heard screaming in the can-yon area near Allen Field. Referred to other agency — SDPD.10:40 a.m.: FirePolice found a tree on fire thrown out of a window. Referred to other agency — SDPD & SDFD.
Wednesday, Dec. 252:41 a.m.: Suspicious PersonThe subject was possibly casing for theft near Argo Hall. Information only.Unknown time: Missing PersonFamily members reported that a stu-dent had missed a flight home and was yet to be heard from. Report taken.
Thursday, Dec. 261:17 a.m.: Citizen ContactThe subject locked a key inside of a Rita Atkinson residence. Information only.
Saturday, Dec. 283:35 p.m.: Welfare CheckPolice found a subject yelling for help. Field interview administered.
Sunday, Dec. 291:30 a.m.: Unknown Trouble
A subject heard screaming due to a verbal argument. Information only.11:27 p.m.: Noise DisturbancePolice heard howling in the Village Building 1. Unable to locate.
Monday, Dec. 303:51 p.m.: Hazardous Materials IncidentPolice found a subject with a punc-tured finger due to a sharp object from a shredder. Referred to other agency — EH&S.9:52 p.m.: Drunk in PublicA student was arrested for being drunk in public in the Village. Closed by adult arrest.
Wednesday, Jan. 112:29 a.m.: Assist Other AgencyLifeguards on the Scripps Institute of Oceanography pier reported the ille-gal launch of a jet ski. Field interview administered.8:22 p.m.: Suicide AttemptA subject made suicidal threats to his girlfriend in the Rita Atkinson Residences. Report taken.
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QUICK TAKES COLORADO’S LEGALIZATION OF RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA HAS REOPENED THE DRUG POLICY DEBATE, WITH SOME STATES CONTEMPLATING SIMILAR LEGISLATION.
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Colorado’s new marijuana policy is a progressive move to increase tax revenue and shows a sense of practicality in regards to the state’s recreational consumption of pot.
Colorado voters are wise to realize that the money spent enforcing laws against marijuana is not well spent. In 2012, the United States had 749,825 federal arrests for marijuana law violations, while 658,231 were for possession. These numbers represent significant amounts of time and effort of law enforcement put into punishing people for pos-session, use and cultivation of a drug that has not been proven to be particularly harmful.
The new law finally allows the state to profit from tax-ing all weed sold in Colorado. According to the Colorado Department of Revenue, Colorado was able to gain $9.1 million in tax revenue from the $326 million generated by the sale of medical marijuana in 2013. Researchers at Colorado State University predict that revenue from mari-juana tourism could potentially reach $606 million in tax-able sales in 2014 alone. The large sum of money generated from taxing the drug in a similar fashion to alcohol and cigarettes could, in turn, be used for improving state pro-grams like education and infrastructure.
Contrary to arguments that legalizing marijuana will increase drug use and dependency among minors, other countries have adopted legalization without experienc-ing such problems. In the 20 plus years since marijuana has been legal in the Netherlands, there has been no dra-matic escalation in the use and consumption of the drug. According to the Drug Policy Alliance, the rates of mari-juana use in the Netherlands for different age groups are similar to those in the United States, but for adolescents, rates of marijuana use are actually lower in the Netherlands than in the United States.
While it’s unclear how legalization will play out in the rest of the United States, marijuana’s international track record suggests a likely positive outcome for Colorado.
— CHARU MEHRAStaff Writer
As the first state to legalize both the sale and use of marijuana, Colorado’s new policy is an important gateway to the integration and stabilization of recreational marijuana in American culture. Colorado’s first steps will not only strongly influence future gov-ernment policies regarding legalized medical and recreational marijuana in the United States, but can negatively impact future generations’ use and views of the drug.
On Dec. 30, 2013, The Huffington Post reported that after a positive review on the Marijuana Control, Legalization and Revenue Act from California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a California initiative to legalize the use and sales of weed might come to the 2014 ballot. Similarly, Mason Tvert of the Marijuana Policy Project notes that pro-recreational marijuana state initiatives are expected in 2016 by Alaska, Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada, showing that legalization of the drug in the United States may become a nationwide trend in 2014.
And legalization will only increase adolescents’ accessibility to the drug. Though pot is less harmful than already legal sub-stances like alcohol and tobacco, cannabis is not without its own set of health and safety drawbacks for adolescents. According to the American Medical Association, early use of cannabis by adolescents impairs neurobiological performance, while heavy users display “increased rates of anxiety, mood and psychotic thought disorders.” While Colorado’s regulations limit sales to individuals over the age of 21, it’s naive to believe that marijuana won’t assimilate itself into American culture in a similar fashion to alcohol amongst teens and college students. The AMA also notes that weed is also the most common illicit drug involved in drugged driving, particularly used by those under 21.
Although Colorado is simply a testing ground for regulated marijuana sales, the unprecedented policy has sparked discus-sions to legalize recreational pot in other states. The decisions will ultimately come down to voters in each state, but indi-viduals should consider the cultural implications of legalizing weed before glorifying projected tax revenue and new tourist locations.
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Change
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As expected, New Year’s Day was heralded by brightly optimistic pledges and
resolutions with a flurry of skepti-cism in return. In spite of all the holiday spirit, though, I stray away from the idea of resolutions like a frightened rabbit. It’s not because I particularly lack mental strength, though the smell of chocolate chip cookies can easily lure me from any ill-advised fitness goals. It’s mainly because humans are terrified of change; such monumental undertak-ings may as well be advertising their own peril.
Although changes in our rou-tines or our environments are neurally stimulating, they set off all kinds of natural alarm bells. We’re adept at noticing even the tiniest changes around us; if something substantial changes, we go on red alert. We tend to have a xenophobic sort of suspicion. If there happens to be a different dish in our lunch, and we later feel ill, our bodies implicate the newcomer, and we are conditioned to hate it forever. While this could backfire and give us an aversion to something as innocent as Nutella, these ultimate-ly help us avoid poisoning, preda-tion or a host of other hazards.
This plays into the classic “if it ain’t broke” maxim, which operates under similar circumstances. In the case of New Year resolutions, we may be loath to do away with every-thing we’re used to in favor of some random unquantifiable “improve-ment.” Our resistance to change is the phenomenon of operant condi-tioning acting on a grand scale. If we’re still breathing and still have a pulse, we tend to treat it as a suc-cess that doesn’t need to be fiddled with. Our survival encourages us to retain the behaviors that have worked, as long as nothing cata-strophic happens. Consequently, a resolution to say “thank you” more frequently in 2014 may not work if we’ve gotten away with ingratitude our whole lives.
This is all compounded by a certain amount of natural behav-ioral inertia. There’s no motivation to put effort into something new, especially when it will involve a concerted struggle. The noble yet difficult thought of abandoning sweets for a month is just dandy until you actually try it. It’s particu-larly difficult when you realize that even with your decadence you’re still fit enough to walk to class, or at least to the shuttle stop. And we don’t necessarily feel especially rejuvenated in the new year. Just like our birthday, realization that being 19 feels identical to being 18, merely replacing our wall calendar has no real correlation to changing anything about ourselves.
But this lazy indolence is solv-able. If we really decide that we want to make a difference in our otherwise comfy lives, we can just trick ourselves into action by enacting the change piece by piece. The smaller the magnitude of the change, the more likely we’ll be able to deal with it. Just one less In-n-Out burger per month and voila, we’re practically vegetarians by September. Baby steps do have their merits — you get to congratulate yourself for a whole lot longer.
WEEDING OUT THE
CONTROVERSY
Last quarter, I took a class at the Rady School of Management that con-
ducted all examinations online. We brought our laptops to class to take an online multiple choice midterm and final through a website. Our professor ensured us that this way, grading would be done easily, and scores would be revealed instantly.
Oh, if only it were that simple. The class had technical difficul-
ties to get both online exams going, delaying each by at least 30 minutes, on our test days. But this wasn’t the only time misspent; using the website started several debates and discussions regarding the option of being able to look back on and change past responses on the website’s exam.
And I’m not bitter or annoyed just because I got a below average grade on the exam, but because as I sat there waiting — and wishing I was taking a basic Scantron and #2 pencil exam — I became more con-vinced that not all problems can be solved through technology.
In response to criticisms of its increasingly crowded classrooms and previous lack of online course options, the UC system now offers cross-campus online classes avail-able to any UC student meeting eli-gibility requirements, starting this quarter. The new $10 million pilot program currently has 11 different classes ranging from computer sci-ence to elementary Spanish taught by professors from four different UC campuses. While these web courses may actually be efficient for students (unlike my class’s online exams), opening up virtual seats is
not the solution for overcrowding and delayed degree completion at the UC campuses.
Courses on home campuses are too often filled to more than capac-ity. As more classes and programs become impacted, students are packed into lecture halls like cattle, and it’s not uncommon to see some sitting on the floor due to the lack of seats. Last quarter, Genetics filled both Peterson Hall 108 and
110, where some watched their professor’s live stream from the other classroom. These are valid
and real problems that students should not have to deal with, but an online course is not the equiva-lent of a traditional one with a live, lecturing professor and physical resources available on campus for students to utilize.
For online courses, students are limited to emails to ask questions and cannot participate in lectures or attend office hours. UC adminis-trators shouldn’t use online courses as a cop out for offering more class-es on actual campuses. As students, we pay for a quality UC education, and we should be given just that; if we wanted to take online classes instead of on-campus classes, we could enroll in private online insti-tutions for a fraction of the price.
Unlike my online exams, these cross-campus online classes may be somewhat more convenient or flexible for students but they come at the expense of quality. The UC system’s new initiative acts as an experiment, but I won’t be sur-prised if, like many new technolo-gy-based systems, the program cre-ates more problems than it solves.
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Facebook’s Open Academy, a program that pairs computer science students with open source projects for academic credit, has expanded to UCSD.
U CSD’s computer science department has been a leader in its field since the late ‘70s and ‘80s, when our university gained worldwide recognition for the UCSD Pascal language program-ming system — a portable, mostly machine-independent operating system that was used by
both universities and high profile companies like Apple and IBM. Thirty years later, UCSD con-tinues to help pave the way in computer science by offering Open Academy, a program that allows computer science students to work on open source projects for course credit this winter quarter.
“Open source” refers to a project or system whose code is made universally available for use, modification and redistribution. The Open Academy program begins with a weekend workshop, where students and mentors come together for a crash course in working with computer code at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. When they return to their home universities, stu-dents apply their learning to actual open source projects, working in virtual teams while receiving support from their mentors.
Open Academy was launched in the spring of 2013 by Facebook in collaboration with Stanford computer science professor Jay Borenstein. Already, universities from around the world have adopted the program, which is currently only operating through participating institutions such as UC Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Tokyo.
With a virtual mentor providing help in place of a teacher’s assistant, much more responsi-bility rests in the students’ hands. A main facet of Open Academy is its encouragement of stu-dents to discover and learn on their own through real-world application, emphasizing student independence.
“These projects have an established code base, which means students have the very real-world experience of having to learn their way around the structure of the code and get to the point where they can contribute,” Borenstein said in an email to the Guardian. “This is something that software engineers do numerous times in their careers, so it’s a great skill to practice in school.”
Stanford graduate student Noam Ben-Avi, who enrolled in Open Academy during his senior year of undergraduate studies at Stanford, shared about his experience with the program and how
it differs from standard computer science classes.“When I took [the class], I truly felt like for the first time at Stanford, I was doing real software
development,” he said in an email to the Guardian. “Working on the cutting edge of technology [at Open Academy] ... is a vast contrast to working on old technologies and rehashed assignments.”
Instead of taking a computer science class in which the errors are planned in advance so stu-dents can catch them and in which the projects are isolated, Ben-Avi said, Open Academy allows students to learn in actual scenarios where there is no preplanned solution and where the projects are interrelated. Furthermore, he noted that the access to ongoing open-source projects means that students are working with the most current problems to produce up-to-date solutions.
Aside from providing students with practical experience, Borenstein believes that the program benefits computer science majors in a much more fundamental way. He explained how the pro-gram can help students make the right career choices.
“It’s helpful for students [to evaluate] what they want to do after school,” he said. “Being in this kind of course gives students a true sense of what it means to be a software engineer. I think this helps people make more informed career decisions.”
The importance of Open Academy and programs like it lies in enhancing student contribution as early as possible. Eligibility for the program requires being a full-time computer science student at a participating university. Interested students can email [email protected] to get the name of UCSD’s faculty champion, an on-campus representative who can then give more information to become a part of the program.
“For fun, for your resume, for the world, whatever it is: Contribute,” Ben-Avi said. “Once you get through that very first contribution and all the confusion that goes with it, the floodgates really do open up, and you can become the next generation of programmer, one that isn’t limited by tools presented to him, but rather one that can evolve the tools to his needs as he develops. If we can do that, I think the next generation of computation is going to be limitless.”
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A Drive to CarpoolTwo Rady alumni have launched a campaign called Fill the Car in an effort to encourage UCSD commuters to carpool to campus.
The difficulty of finding a park-ing spot on campus may be UCSD students’ single biggest collective complaint. In hopes of improving the parking shortage — and pro-moting environmental sustainabil-ity — two graduates of UCSD’s Rady School of Management, Drew Beal and Mike Taylor, have launched a car-sharing campaign this quarter called Fill the Car.
Fill the Car aims to encour-age students to carpool to school and decrease the total number of vehicles coming to campus each day. The campaign officially begins today and will run through Mar. 16.
Students can participate in the campaign by taking a photo of their carpool group of two or more indi-viduals going to school and entering
raffles by submitting a maximum of one photo per day to FilltheCar.com. Fill the Car will hold 10 raffles, one every week. Each winner, select-ed at random, will win a free auto detailing from Mossy Toyota, a San Diego-area car dealership, valued at $200. Additionally, at the end, one grand-prize winner will receive an Apple iPad and an auto detailing from Mossy Toyota, valued at $600.
But Fill the Car may provide additional incentives for students to carpool.
“We’re working with some com-panies in the community to pro-vide free stuff, whether it’s free oil changes, discounts at an auto store or free parking on campus,” Beal said. “There will be random times where we will catch people carpool-ing to campus with a group of three or more, and we’ll reward them.”
Fill the Car is modeled after last spring’s Kill the Cup campaign, a social
venture that Beal and Taylor headed to promote the use of reusable cups when purchasing coffee on campus.
While some may think that add-ing more parking spots would solve the parking issue on campus, Beal feels that this may not be the best solution. According to Beal, in addi-tion to the high costs of building parking structures, maintenance for these buildings can cost up to $20,000 per spot.
Beal said that the goal of the cam-paign is to significantly decrease the number of single occupancy vehicles and to increase the average number of people per carpool at UCSD.
This Thursday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fill the Car will be hosting a kickoff event in the courtyard between Peet’s Coffee & Tea and the Rady School of Management.
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Prescription drug overdoses killed more U.S. citizens than car accidents last year, taking the life of one American every 19 minutes, according to the Clinton Health Matters Initiative. College students, in particular, are at greater risk as indicated by a skyrocketing in abuse of drugs among the group — a 343 percent increase in abuse of opioids like Vicodin and a 93 percent increase in abuse of stimulants like Adderall between 1993 and 2005, according to CHMI.
As published in UCSD’s 2013 Annual Security Report, our university has seen an overall rise in drug law arrests and discipline from 2010 to 2012. In 2012, there were 25 reported drug law arrests and 588 reported accounts of drug law discipline, a significant increase from the 16 reports of arrest and 94 reports of discipline two years prior.
“Compared to the other commonly abused illicit drugs, prescription drugs are unique in that they can be obtained through legal channels,” CHMI stated on its website. “These drugs have become attractive to drug seekers and abusers, because they are manufactured legitimately and prescribed by physicians, giving them the illusion of safety. In reality, the addiction and withdrawal associated with the abuse of many prescription drugs can be more harmful than that associated with illegal drugs.”
As a result, the CHMI is partnering with the Jed Foundation, Facebook and MTV to spread awareness and create a prescription drug abuse prevention campaign for college students. The campaign would
provide resources to campuses to jump-start their own prevention programs, counseling and mental health services and student-led efforts against prescription drug abuse.
“Over the next five years, the Clinton Health Matters Initiative plans to save over 10,000 lives by cutting in half the number of young people who misuse prescription drugs for the first time,” CHMI stated in their 2014 “Deadly Dose” infographic.
The CHMI seeks to attack prescription drug abuse by understanding it from the financial, social and health perspectives. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 72 percent of prescription drug abusers get their pills from friends and family. Moreover, college students in a study by Christian J. Teter, et al. titled, “Illicit Use of Specific Prescription Stimulants Among College Students: Prevalence, Motives, and Routes of Administration,” cited the following reasons for their prescription drug abuse: to concentrate better, earn higher grades, minimize stress and get high.
After social and academic pressures get to students, prescription abuse often leads to addiction, which in turn is likely to lead to overdose. This addiction, consequently, is a major factor in the tripling of overdoses in the past 20 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“A person who is abusing prescription painkillers might take larger doses to achieve a euphoric effect and reduce withdrawal symptoms,” CHMI stated in a 2013 prescription drug misuse Q-and-A. “These larger doses can cause breathing to slow down so much that breathing stops, resulting in a fatal overdose.”
Abuse of stimulants also results in addiction in a
similar way to the abuse of painkillers, according to the CDC.
“All stimulants work by increasing dopamine levels in the brain — dopamine is a brain chemical (or neurotransmitter) associated with pleasure, movement and attention,” CHMI stated in their Q-and-A. “However, when taken in doses and routes other than those prescribed, stimulants can increase brain dopamine in a rapid and highly amplified manner — as do most other drugs of abuse — disrupting normal communication between brain cells, producing euphoria and increasing the risk of addiction.”
Most of the reasons for prescription drug abuse that college students reported in the Teter study can be addressed through counseling and raising awareness, which CHMI is trying to achieve at college campuses across the nation. In addition to reaching out to campuses, CHMI plans to work with businesses, the pharmaceutical industry and various medical groups to improve prescription drug monitoring and lower the cost of anti-opiate drugs that could counter the damages of overdosing.
In support of its aims, CHMI will host a Health Matters Conference Jan. 13 to Jan. 15 in La Quinta, Calif. The conference will be broadcasted live online on the Clinton Foundation website.
UCSD is also dedicated to providing support for students and faculty members who suffer from substance abuse. Psychological and Counseling Services provides counseling for those who need help with drug-dependency problems. They can be reached at (858) 534-3755.
The Clinton Health Initiative is embarking on a campaign to prevent a projected 10,000 college students from dying of prescription drug abuse.
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and sophomore Elliott Shaw, while freshmen Bryan Lee and Griffin Galvin will compete for time as libero. Redshirt freshman Ganesh Elie will be tasked to fill in at mid-dle blocker for former Triton cap-tain and All-MPSF Academic team selection Sebastian Brady, who has left the team.
Ring says the squad will be watch-ing film this week to prepare for USC, who has one of the best setters in the conference in Micah Christenson but will focus on improving on their side of the net this week.
didn’t get stops when we needed to and turned the ball over too many times.”
UCSD regrouped the following day against Chico State.
Senior forward Erin Dautremont and junior guard Miranda Seto powered the offense against Chico State. Dautremont, a four-year start-er and 2013 All-CCAA selection, earned a double-double, 18 points on top of 11 rebounds. While Seto, fully recovered from an injury sus-tained early in December, earned 19 points, going 9-of-10 from the free-throw line.
UCSD took an early lead that was
quickly cut down due in large part to the efforts of Chico’s Courtney Hamilton, a shooting guard who has caused trouble for the Tritons in the past. With the Wildcats up by 11 points midway into the first half, Seto and Dautremont went to work. Combining for 14 points in the last five minutes of the match, the pair pushed to take a two-point lead by the end of the first period.
“I thought that the people on the floor decided that when we were down [11 points] that we were bet-ter than that, and they responded,” VanDerveer said to the UCSD Athletics Department after the game.
VanDerveer kept her starters on
the court through the better part of the second half, with Dautremont and senior guard Megan Perry both playing 39 of the 40-minute contest.
“You don’t have possessions to waste in a game like this, and I think the people on the floor really gave us the best chance to win,” VanDerveer said.
The Tritons will wrap up their five-game homestand this week. On Friday, UCSD will face Cal State East Bay — tied for first in the CCAA — and will take on a winless Cal State Monterey Bay on Saturday.
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The UCSD women’s basketball team was busy over the last weekend of winter break, losing to Cal State Stanislaus 78–69 on Friday, Jan. 3, before upsetting No. 21 nationally ranked Chico State 76–65.
Against Cal State Stanislaus — currently tied for first place in the California Collegiate Athletic Association, with a 5–1 record — the Tritons suffered through an ugly loss, conceding 19 turnovers and shooting just 37 percent from the field.
“We had some chances in the first half to hit some shots that we normally hit, and we were playing at a tempo that was a little uncom-fortable for us,” head coach Heidi VanDerveer said. “We just didn’t get it done.”
The game remained close in the first half, but in the second period, Stanislaus forwards Lauren Godde and Riley Holladay got hot. The two recorded 16 points each and combined for 20 points in the sec-ond half.
“We had more shots than they did, outrebounded them, took more free-throws,” VanDerveer said. “But we
Season OpenerMen’s volleyball began its 2014 season with a fourth-place finish at the
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The UCSD men’s volleyball team began its 2014 campaign at the 50th Annual UC Santa Barbara Asics Invitational.
The Tritons finished fourth at the 10-team tournament, going 2–2 in group play last Friday, Jan. 3, before falling to host No. 8 UC Santa Barbara in the third-place game on Saturday.
“The pool play gave us the option to mix the lineups up and to get some guys on the court who may be new or don’t have as much experience,” UCSD head coach Kevin Ring said. “I was pleased with how we played on Friday, and I thought we served well and our passing held up.”
The Tritons played four best-of-three games on Friday, losing their first match 2–1 to Cal State Long Beach, who went undefeated throughout the tournament. UCSD rebounded to sweep Indiana University-Purdue Fort Wayne before losing to UCLA in straight sets. Needing to beat Cal State Northridge in order to advance to the third-place game, the Tritons came from behind in the third set to take the win.
“It was also good to see that we won a couple close games,” Ring said. “Against Cal State Northridge, we knew that if we didn’t win we would have finished in fifth place. We knew the circum-stances, and even though it was just a preseason tournament, we did what we needed to do to advance.”
On Saturday, the Tritons faced off against Mountain Pacific Sports Federation opponent UC Santa Barbara and lost in straight sets. UCSD stayed close in the first set (25–23) but struggled down the stretch, losing the last two sets 25–11 and 25–16.
“In game one, we did really well to come back, but lost 25–23,” Ring said. “After that, they just controlled the match and were clearly the better team on the night. But I think we learned some things about ourselves and will be able to go over the video and improve from there.”
The Tritons will begin MPSF conference play this Friday on the road against USC.
When asked, Ring said he has a fairly defined idea of what his starting lineup will look like this season. Ring said he plans to alternate between setters senior Mike Brunsting and junior Garrett Dempsey, while seniors opposite Johl Awerkamp and middle blocker Fred Stahl will continue to start. Ring will rotate outside hitters senior Nick Iorfino, redshirt junior Scot Metzger
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UCSD Upsets Chico State at HomeWOmEN'S BASKETBAll
The Tritons split weekend matches, beating Cal State Stanislaus and losing to Chico State.
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The team fell to Cal State Stanislaus 70–64 and Chico State 73–50 and will end their homestand this week.
After a promising preseason start, the Tritons have since slipped to 1–5 in conference play, losing to Cal State Stanislaus and Chico State last weekend.
On Friday, the Tritons kept the game close with Cal State Stanislaus before suffering their worst loss this season against No. 21 nationally ranked Chico State.
The Wildcats ran away with the early lead knocking down three con-secutive three-pointers, creating a lead which quickly grew to a 20-point gulf that the Tritons — 8-of-29 in the first half — could not gap.
UCSD still had trouble hitting shots coming out of the break, all the while struggling to match up with Chico’s bench, which contrib-uted 20 points.
“To some degree, [missing easy shots] can become contagious,” first year head coach Eric Olen said to the UCSD Athletics Department.
UCSD veteran point guard James McCann was the only Triton to record double figures against the Wildcats, with 15 points in 34 minutes.
McCann had another big game Friday against Cal State Stanislaus, tallying 19 points and five assists,
in a game where the Tritons had to battle from behind for the majority of the match. By the end of the first half, UCSD found themselves down 35–25, falling victim to Stanislaus’ sharpshooters, who went 7-of-13 from behind the arc.
“We dug ourselves into a little bit of a hole, and we were fight-ing the whole time to get ours elves back into the game,” Olen said. “We went on a run in the beginning of the second half and continued to fight. We gave ourselves a few opportunities, but ultimately we just came up a few plays short.”
Despite the loss, Friday’s match proved to be more of an ensemble performance than the Tritons’ game against Chico. Four players recorded points in double digits: freshman guard Adam Klie, sophomore guard Hunter Walker, senior guard MacKenzie McCullough and McCann.
This weekend, the Tritons will close out their five-game homestand with a Friday game against Cal State East Bay and Cal State Monterey Bay. Both with 2–4 records, the two Northern California squads should prove to be a good match for the Tritons.
By RACH El U DA SPORTS EDITOR
PHOTO BY BEATRIZ BAJUELOS /GUARDIAN FILE
PHOTO BY BEATRIZ BAJUELOS /GUARDIAN FILE
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