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“Fiercely independent” student radio station KSDT has given up on plans to obtain an FM frequency. Station managers are now looking to build a radio tower to pursue an AM frequency instead.

KSDT station co-manager Meredith Wong said that the AM tower would cost approximately $100,000 and that she hoped it could be located in a central area of campus — although she was unsure where that would be.

“We’re really serious about it, but we haven’t started much of the research,” Wong said.

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By Regina IpAssociate News Editor

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger presented his revised 2010-11 state budget last week, a plan that includes a new round of fund-ing increases for public colleges, but that suggests cutting $3.7 bil-

lion from health-care services that impact low-income families who depend on state welfare programs. 

The suggested allocations to the University of California are nearly identical to the ones from Schwarzenegger’s January propos-al, including the restoration of the $305 million cut last year and an additional $51.3 million in finan-cial aid toward the 5,121 eligible students in the system who are not currently being funded. However, the governor’s newest budget would negate his January proposal to cut $111.8 million set aside to

accommodate growing enrollment in the UC and CSU systems.

In order to absorb California’s $19.1 billion budget deficit, other services would suffer major cuts — including a proposed $3.7 billion from in health care, that would cut the Medi-Cal program for the poor, along with state in-home support for the disabled. In addi-tion, the budget takes into account Proposition 98 — which passed in 1988 and guarantees a minimum pool of money for schools. Under

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This year’s Sun God Festival — with acts like B.o.B, Relient K, Michelle Branch and headliner Drake — attracted a packed house on May 14. For the second

time in Sun God history, all 16,500 student wristbands and 3,500 guest tickets sold out. In 2008, the first time this happened, tickets didn’t sell out until the day before. This year, all tickets sold out by 2:30 p.m. on Friday, at which time students were turned away.

According to Associate Vice President of Concerts and Events Alex Bramwell — who organized this year’s Sun God Festival — the sell-out was due to the popularity of the event’s leading acts.

“We get complaints and yelled at when stu-dents can’t bring their guests, but at the same time, we get yelled at and complaints when the

students can’t bring themselves — so finding a good balance between those two is tough,” Bramwell said. “We had the same numbers as last year. It just turned out this year to be more popular of an event; more students wanted to come.”

At the 2008 Sun God Festival — when students wristbands were distributed for the entire week leading up to the event — tickets ran out on Thursday, leading students to pur-chase all the leftover guest tickets for them-selves that Friday.

In 2009, students waited in line for up to four hours on the morning of the festival to receive their wristbands. Despite the crowds, however, over 1,000 of last year’s wristbands went unclaimed.

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By Megha RamStaff Writer

After nearly a year in the lab, UCSD researchers have scientifically proven the obvious: People eat more chocolate when they’re depressed.

In 1999, Natalie Rose — a UCSD undergraduate at the time — worked with researchers on a study that con-cluded that there is no correlation between certain foods and depression — with the exception of chocolate.

Nearly a decade later, Rose, now a gynecology resident at UC Davis, decided to head a joint UCSD-UC Davis study to pinpoint how many serving of chocolate correlated to varying levels of depression.

“We were motivated by the fact

that there is huge amount of lore link-ing chocolate to mood, with virtually no scientific evidence backing that up,” UCSD associate professor of medicine and co-director of the study Beatrice Golomb said.

Just over 1,000 people over the age of 20 living in the San Diego area participated in the new study, which took place over eight months in 2009. They completed surveys on their chocolate intake — with no dis-tinction between types of chocolate — and a questionnaire that included more general questions about food habits and moods.

Participants were also screened to ensure they were free of such afflic-tions as diabetes and heart disease to ensure that they could remain in the study for the full eight months.

Researchers compared the serv-ings of chocolate consumed per month by those with and without signs of depression.

The experiment showed that people with high occurrences of

depression — as determined by their answers to the questionnaire — consumed about 12 servings of chocolate per month, while those who were generally less depressed ate about eight servings of chocolate per month. Those with no signs of depression ate only five servings of chocolate per month. (One serving of chocolate is approximately 1.3 oz, or the size of a regular Hershey’s bar.)

Results also showed that partici-pants who tended toward depression did not demonstrate a higher intake of other traditional comfort foods — those high in fat, carbohydrates, protein or caffeine.

In conclusion, Golomb said, the most recent study showed that only chocolate consumption — not that of any other food — is increased when depression levels are higher. The results did not show whether choco-late actually makes people happier, more depressed or has no effect at all. However, Golomb said that research-ers may soon launch a new study to

determine these specifics.“We have become sufficiently

interested,” Golomb said. “We are considering doing a randomized trial that would elucidate the relationship between chocolate and mood, to see if it is a causal relationship.”

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This year, wristbands were distributed beginning the Thursday before the con-cert, allowing students to pick up their wristbands with little wait.

“The wristband distribution went really well,” Bramwell said. “[Students] were shocked at the whole system and how smoothly it was going — at the fact that they had to wait, at most, 15 minutes. That alone was a huge morale booster for everyone.”

Sixth College senior Willie Liang said he tried to get a wristband at around 4:00 p.m. on Friday, and did not try earlier because he was under the impression that there were enough for all students.

“I was kind of mad, actually,” Liang said. “It was kind of my last year, and I wasn’t able to get in but my friends were. I didn’t think it was going to — I had the perception that it was student fees, so we were guaranteed [a wristband]. I guess that was not the case.”

Though many students complained about not receiving wristbands, Bramwell said he was happy with the event’s organization and turnout.

“We completely solved a lot of the larger issues that happened last year,” Bramwell said. “Overall, I was really happy about it, and we had one of the largest daytime crowds in Sun God history, without a doubt.”

With the 2010 festivities came some new logistical problems, however. At around 9:30 p.m., according to festival co-organizer Cindy Huang, crowding in the Dance Tent became such a security risk that it needed to be shut down for almost an hour. Huang said that the tent reached its 3,000-person capacity during tent headliner DJ Z-Trip’s set. Bramwell estimated that another 1,000 students were outside trying to force their way in.

Counterclockwise, from top: Festivalgoers packed into the Dance Tent to see Designer Drugs, who went on just before dance headliner DJ Z-Trip; Some unlucky students were escorted to on-campus detox after a long day of drinking; The Midway Tent housed performers like the multi-talented acrobats from Cirque Berzerk; The Sun God spirit showed itself in T-shirts, pins and — for the most enthusiastic — elaborate costumes; The Dance Tent was shut down for 45 minutes due to security-guard and student injuries; Rapper B.o.B. hopped into the division between two crowds during his 3 p.m. performance.

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Scantron grading machines — printer-like robots that cost upward of $3,500 — have recently become increasingly hard for profes-sors to come by, especially in departments such as political and cognitive science.

Besides being an inconvenience for all of UCSD’s underpaid and overworked professors, the cutback is especially troubling because students often don’t receive the results to multiple-choice exams until after the Week Four drop deadline. So if we bomb a midterm but don’t know it before the drop deadline, we’ll be trapped in a class knowing our GPA will take a turn for the worse.

Until recently, the math and literature depart-ments were willing to share their machines with other departments, but due to overcrowding shar-ing is no longer an option.

In the absence of access to Scantron machines, political science and cognitive science departments should investigate alternative methods of grad-ing Scantrons, such as hitting up A.S. Council for some spare student fees.

Scantron scanners are costly, and pose an even larger financial burden in repair when broken. When the Social Science Computing Facility’s

machine broke down, the most basic repair costs were listed at $1,100. As a result, according to asso-ciate professor of Associate Dean of Social Sciences David Lake, the department was forced to fend without a grading machine, making it necessary to rely on other departments’ generosity in some cases. In others, TAs have been forced to grade tests by hand, backlogging scores by two weeks.

In an e-mail to fellow A.S. councilmembers last week, A.S. Enterprises Advisory Intern Tobias Haglund suggested a project for one of the eight new campuswide senators: develop a rental system for the Scantron grading machines and lease them out to individual departments for a nominal fee.

While there are indeed potential foils to Haglund’s proposal — including the fact that A.S. Council has no idea how much it’ll cost to implement the system — it’s at least a step toward addressing the issue at hand. Over the past several years, A.S. Council has been spending more and more on student events, while our quality of edu-cation has declined. If students want the luxury of knowing whether to drop a class before the fourth-week deadline, it’s not out of the question for them to foot this bill — even if it means pay-

ing for something the academic departments have traditionally taken care of.

Though the council has indeed been wary of helping out independent departments — such as Parking and Transportation Services — in the past, in a case where the student is the clear benefactor, there’s little danger of setting a precedent in which student fees fund a needed academic service.

Cognitive-science professor Gedeon Deák, however, is in favor of a universitywide centralized grading service for Scantrons, which would likely be provided through the department of Academic Affairs. But while Deák’s vision may be ideal, with so many other budgetary shortfalls at the universi-ty, it’s also unlikely to be realized in the near future. Though it would certainly be a small accomplish-ment, if the council were to sponsor a service such as Scantron grading, it would be a strong step in the right direction of using student fees to fund desperately needed academic accessories that have begun to disappear with budget cuts.

Additional reporting by Cheryl Hori.

Readers can contact Arik Burakovsky at aburakov@ucsd.edu.

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Dear Editor,I am writing to express my disap-

pointment in the university’s leader-ship for its failure to respond to a recent act of hatred on this campus.

Last Monday night, a UCSD student who identified herself as a member of the Muslim Student Association stood up in a public forum and announced her support for Hamas and Hezbollah, two ter-rorist organizations whose genocidal charters state their goals to destroy the State of Israel and the Jewish people as a whole.

Indeed, it was brought to this student’s attention at the time that the head of Hezbollah has repeatedly said he hopes the Jews will gather in Israel so that he doesn’t have to hunt them down globally. Still, she didn’t hesitate to show her support.

To put this in perspective in light

of recent campus events, it would be the equivalent of a student stand-ing up in support of the KKK and hoping that all blacks would gather in Alabama so they could all be lynched at once.

I am not asking that the uni-versity limit her First Amendment rights; I am only asking that it be recognized that actions promoting hate have no place in our campus environment.

La Jolla has a history of anti-Semitism, where — prior to the establishment of this university — Jews were not allowed to buy homes or establish businesses here. It was upon the insistence of Roger Revelle — who said that a leading university had to include Jews — that Jews were finally allowed into La Jolla.

As a Jewish student, I am deeply hurt and saddened by recent cam-pus events, and I am questioning whether or not I belong to this com-munity anymore. I am calling upon the university to recall the legacy of

Revelle, and to recognize that a seri-ous academic institution can neither be a platform for anti-Semitism nor for racism to flow freely. In the past few months, this university has expe-rienced multiple instances of hatred and racism, yet it seems that we have learned nothing.

When the Black Student Union cried out in pain, our campus com-munity came together — not to dis-cuss the legitimacy of their feelings, but to ask what we could do to help. Why are my cries and the cries of my community going unanswered? Why are we suffering in this pain alone? And, more importantly, why is the rest of this campus standing idly by?

—Myra MeskinMember, Tritons for Israel

Dear Editor,It seems horrifically wrong that

we are not guaranteed tickets to something our student fees paid for. We demand the people in charge of the festival be relieved from their positions.

It also is just that one-third of students who were denied tickets be reimbursed for the amount of their student fees used to finance the Sun God Festival.

—Ian CarlsonSenior, Revelle College

—Lawrence LuSenior, Marshall College

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I see them coming before they see me. They wander aimlessly through my dining hall, unaccus-

tomed to its layout, clueless as to the whereabouts of the deli, noodle, pizza and grill stations. They shuffle slowly until they reach my post, then stop in front of my station. I busy myself with some cheese in hopes that one of my coworkers will confront them. I am too cowardly for the task.

The old folks have arrived.Don’t get me wrong: It’s not that I

hate old people. They have far more life experience and knowledge of the past than I do. Plus, they are usually paternal and nurturing. I just don’t know how to relate to them.

It’s probably because of Southern California’s obsession with youth. We host the airbrushed entertainment industry, throw Botox birthday par-ties and send our grandparents to rot away in sterile facilities without the least bit of guilt.

My relationship with elderly cus-tomers may also be because I only have one living grandparent — and she lives almost 3,000 miles away. My fading memories of her visits consist of endless cribbage games, gelatinous meat loaf and frightening age spots. The elderly have played almost no part in my life, so when I interact with them, I have no idea what to do.

The difference between my old and young customers is of speed and orientation. It’s not Gram and Gramps’ fault: Within a week of moving on campus, all our regular customers have memorized the din-ing hall’s format. They know which station serves which foods; they know the prices and how to pay and how to find the utensils and napkins. So, when dealing with a nonstudent, my job suddenly requires a lot more effort.

Old folks often ask me to recite the nine kinds of cheese they can put on their sandwich. They inquire about the extra 50 cents it costs to add cheese in the first place. And they try to use American Express. We don’t take American Express.

The truth is, I’m so used to think-ing of my place of employment as a surreal institution where everyone knows what a bobcat is, along with the fact that we only carry Pepsi products. It’s easy to forget there’s a whole world of people out there who don’t pay for all their meals with dining dollars, or order hamburgers from bleary-eyed students working to make a buck or two.

However, every Saturday when the weekly bridge game rolls into the dining hall, I am reminded that this is not the case.

They are early birds to the core. We open at 10 a.m. on the weekends. They know we open at 10 a.m. Yet every Saturday, there they are at 9:45 behind the glass doors, staring me down like I am personally respon-sible for their lack of caffeine.

As far as I know, this group of professional card players has no affiliation whatsoever with UCSD, but my manager still reserves a por-tion of the dining-hall seating for them, where we then have to turn off

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the music that apparently distracts them from their games. And what do we — employees of a measly col-lege trough — get in return for such overwhelming hospitality?

Out of all of them, two cups of coffee. Small ones (on a good day).

You would think they’d be happy — what with us clearing out an entire slice of our dining space from of the kindness of our own hearts. But they still have plenty to com-plain about.

They order their small coffees and I say: “That’ll be $1.40.” The reply — whether it’s from a little old woman in a delicate falsetto or the only World War I witness left on

Earth — is always: “Oh my, prices are going up. That much?”

When I can’t avoid being the messenger of the modern world, I switch to intense customer-service mode. For some reason, I believe that if I assemble all the ingredients of Gramps’ quesadilla in perfect order, he will adopt me as a surro-gate grandchild. If this turns out to be the best meal of his life, we can travel back in time and he’ll be at all my tee ball games. He’ll take me to get a Slurpee when I make the honor roll. All my unrealized fantasies of having a grandfather will suddenly come true.

So I smile as I sprinkle the cheese. I carefully spread the sour

cream so there’s an even amount of dairy goodness in each bite. Even as I move on to younger customers, my mind will remain on his slow-cook-ing quesadilla, knowing that I cannot let it burn — lest my one chance at our beautiful relationship go up in smoke with it.

Finally, when the cheese has melted and the tortilla is a golden- brown, I will serve up my beauti-ful creation to the hunched older man, and he’ll walk out of my life. Without a backward glance of his balding head, he’ll pay for his food (but only after five more minutes of haggling with whoever was unlucky enough to get cashier duty) and leave me feeling used and alone.

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On May 9, President Obama nominated Solicitor General

Elena Kagan to be the 112th U.S. Supreme Court Justice. If the Senate votes Kagan in, she’ll be the youngest justice — at 50 years old — and the third woman to serve on the bench.

As the youngest-ever nominee, it’s not surprising that Kagan’s expe-rience has been questioned. Though her time as the Dean of Harvard Law has given her some legal experience, Kagan has zero experience as a final decision-maker of difficult human issues.

In the past 40 years, no nominee without experience as a judge made it to the Supreme Court. The last attempt was in 2005, when President George W. Bush nominated former White House counsel Harriet Miers — and that nomination was withdrawn 24 days later. Before her nomination, Miers’ career had only peaked when she was hired as the personal attorney to the president’s campaign. Because Miers never served as a judge, she quickly drew criticism for her lack of experience. Similarly, Kagan’s academic — rather than judicial — background may well not translate to much of a service on the court.

Of course, Kagan wasn’t nomi-nated for nothing. President Obama cites her “rich understanding for con-stitutional law” and her ability to be a “trail-blazing leader” as qualifications for his nomination. However, until more concrete evidence of her judicial expertise comes to light, it would be wise for the Senate to hold off on sending Kagan to the court, rather than send a wild card to America’s highest court.

— Cheryl HoriAssociate Opinion Editor

While there’s been a good deal of public apprehension over

Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s lack of experience as a judge, it’s far from the most concerning of her shortcomings as a Supreme Court nominee.

If approved by the majority of the Senate, Kagan will serve the country for life. That’s why it’s so frightening that she has barely shared her personal opinions with the public: She’s straddled the fence on important issues like gay rights and abortion, making it nearly impossible for Senators to deter-mine which way she will rule in the future.

Kagan has authored precious few law review articles, mostly pub-licizing vaguely socialist ideologies. In addition, transcripts of Kagan’s speeches have practically no traces of opinion.

Even friends of hers, such as CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, have said they’ve got no clue what to expect from her on the Supreme Court.

Maybe Obama’s got more inside information than the rest of us, but if the rest of the country doesn’t know where Kagan falls on the political spectrum, that’s due reason for alarm.

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the proposition, the 40 percent, or $1.4 billion, of the general fund that must be given to schools will be taken from subsidized child-care services for 142,000 children. Federal money would still be avail-able for about 78,000 children whose families fall within the low-est income bracket. 

Under Schwarzenegger’s pro-posed budget, state employees would also take a hit: Instead of three furloughs a month, they would receive one unpaid “person-al” day per month, and their salaries would be cut by 5 percent across the board. However, the state contribu-tion to employee pensions would be raised by 5 percent.

An additional $1.2 billion would be cut from prisons, where inmate health-care services would be reduced and nonviolent offenders in state prisons would be moved to less expensive county jails.  

UC spokesperson Lynn Tierney said the university hopes the state Legislature — which is currently negotiating the final budget — will follow the governor’s funding pro-posal, despite the effect it would have on low-income families and state employees.  

“This is a very tough budget year,” Tierney said. “The legislature has almost impossible decisions to make. We’re hoping that the legis-lature will stick with the governor’s recommendation.” 

In another win for financial aid, Schwarzenegger’s plan would restore $45.5 million to the Cal Grant program, which provides an estimated 46,000 low- to middle-income UC students with neces-sary financial aid. The governor originally proposed reducing the program by $79 million by not considering income eligibility and award levels. 

“[The restoration of the Cal Grant program is] going to help out in the short term, and I think that was the main argument: a short-term solution for low- to middle-income students who receive Cal Grants,” Sanchez said. “We needed that program stabilized. I know stu-dents are going to benefit from it, because a lot of those students receive those grants. A lot of those students need those grants.” 

Former A.S. Vice President of External Affairs Gracelynne West lobbied to restore the Cal Grant pro-gram alongside students UC Irvine, UCLA and UC Santa Barbara at the governor’s office in downtown Los Angeles last Wednesday. She applauded the preservation of Cal Grants, but said that the money should not come at the expense of health care low-income families.  

“It’s commendable that they’re really starting [to] prioritize higher education, but we need to prioritize the underserved communities as a whole, because they’re being cut out [to support] higher education,” West said. “That’s not the way I want to see UC, CSU or community colleges funded.”  

Tierney said that, though Schwarzenegger’s budget would not provide the $931 million original-ly requested by the UC system, the $305 million would be a steps toward retaining faculty and offering more courses.  

“It signals a re-prioritization of education [and] the realization that we cannot move forward without funding what is to be our future,” UC Student Association President Victor Sanchez said. “We’re hopeful this is a first step.” 

However, to counter the increased UC funding, Schwarzenegger proposed to elimi-nate campus outreach — specifi-cally, the $31.3 million used for

academic preparation programs such as includes Early Academic Outreach Programs. EAOP aims to prepare middle- and high-school students for college. Similarly, the budget would limit academic prepa-ration in the CSU system to $18.6 million.

The governor also suggested funding an additional $355 million toward construction projects on UC campuses that have already been planned — such as classroom build-ings, dormitories and lab facilities. According to Schwarzenegger, this would create roughly 3,300 private-sector jobs for those working in the construction industry. 

The UC Committee on Finance will hold a budget update presenta-tion at the UC Board of Regents meeting on May 19 to discuss the governor’s latest proposal.  

“It’s really, really much more important than before that students look at the budget and realize what that means, and get involved in advocacy, because these legislators are being asked to choose between health-care programs for homeless people and funding UC,” Tierney said. “These are really tough decisions that people have to make. Students have an opportunity to make their voices heard, now.” 

Committee members also plan on approving the official 2010-11 budget for the Office of the President. 

State legislators are currently negotiating a final interpretation of Schwarzenegger’s proposal, which will require the governor’s signa-ture for approval. The amount of time it will take to pass the budget is uncertain still, as a two-thirds majority is needed to pass any bud-get-related matter through the state Legislature.

Readers can contact Regina Ip at rwip@ucsd.edu.

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By Connie QianSenior Staff Writer

In the past, professors and teach-ing assistants in the cognitive sci-ence-department used other depart-ments’ Scantron machines to grade their exams. This quarter, however, they were unable to find a depart-ment willing to loan them a machine.

“Because cogni-tive science does not have its own machine, historically, we have begged access from other departments that do have machines and were willing to let

us share,” cognitive-science professor Gedeon Deák said.

In response, former A.S. Campuswide Senator Tobias Haglund — a student in the cognitive-science department — called attention to the issue on May 12 when he noticed that his midterms were not being graded and returned as quickly as before. Because many students rely on their first midterm grades to determine whether or not to drop a class, Haglund said this delay now endangers their ability to do so before the Week Four deadline.

“The TA ended up having to do it all by hand,” Haglund said. “It took him two or two-and-a-half weeks. People were frustrated about drop deadlines. The professor sent out an e-mail saying, ‘Sorry — wish we could do something about it.’”

Other departments, such as politi-cal science, have had similar problems. Associate Dean of Social Sciences David Lake said that since the social science Scantron machine has not been replaced from when it broke a year ago, he had to borrow the machine belonging to the mathemat-

ics department, which allowed him one-time access as a favor.

Deák attributed the cognitive-sci-ence department’s grading troubles to UCSD’s across-the-board funding cuts.

“As all departments have their budgets cut, we will probably see a trend toward shutting down or limiting services like Scantron scor-ing,” Deák said. “This is a concern, because budget cuts are projected to continue or even get worse over the next few years.”

In an e-mail to the all A.S. coun-cilmembers last week, Haglund pro-posed that the A.S. Council put some student fees toward a new system in which academic departments — and potentially students — could rent out Scantron machines. Haglund said a Scantron-lending service could take the responsibility of paying for machine repairs off the shoulders of hurting departments.

Though Haglund said he was unsure where the money for the project would come from, the A.S. Enterprise Operations account might be a pos-sible source. He also suggested that a 2010-11 campuswide senator chose the endeavor as one of his or her long-term projects for the year.

Although Deák said that a cen-tralized Scantron system is necessary at UCSD, he argued that the respon-sibility of funding the machines belongs not to the students, but to the office of Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Paul Drake.

“I would argue that it is the uni-versity’s responsibility — through the VCAA’s office — to provide the main campus with resources for a grading facility,” Deák said.

Readers can contact Connie Qian at coqian@ucsd.edu.

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“It was more of a security issue because people were pushing, and there was too much pressure going on, and there was security getting hurt — so we shut it down for a bit so we could let the pressure die down,” Huang said.

Bramwell collaborated with the head of Staff Pro, the production man-ager, the captain of the UCPD, the facil-ity manager for RIMAC and the head of University Events Office on the deci-sion to close the dance tent. Though they were reluctant to cut Z-Trip’s set, several passed-out concertgoers and injuries to security guards made the shutdown necessary.

“People can’t wait outside of a tent when they can still see and hear everything going on inside of the tent, because they want to get in, and they’re causing bodily harm to other people,” Bramwell said. “We didn’t want to just cut off the music and have an angry mob on our hands, but at the same time, we needed to slow it down — needed to stop it.”

Marshall College senior Loryn Kanemaru said she was inside the

dance tent when it closed.“I think they pushed down the

fences — it just happened so fast, I wasn’t really sure what was going on,” Kanemaru said. “I didn’t think it was super crowded [inside]. It wasn’t like at the concert, where people were smushed together.”

In order to encourage dancers to vacate the tent, Kanemaru said orga-nizers shut off the projector after DJ Z-Trip’s last song and turned off the music. The Dance Tent remained shut down for approximately 45 minutes, then reopened with a set from DJ JSharp. It stayed open until the end of Drake’s performance at midnight with no additional problems.

Bramwell said that, though he will not be organizing the event next year and thus cannot speak for whoever takes over his duties, he anticipates the possible elimination of the Dance Tent.

“There’s obviously going to have to be some changes as to how the tent itself is controlled, and I’m sure it will be pushed back in some shape — either removed entirely, or kept the same type of environment without the physical

tent itself,” Bramwell said. “At the end of the day, the tent itself has a capacity, and the popularity of that kind of music and scene on the campus is greater than any tent. I mean, you can’t make a tent larger than that.”

The only main changes to last year’s setup on RIMAC Field was the replace-ment an inflatable jousting course with human foosball and the installa-tion of a giant inflatable A.S. Sun God logo, which Bramwell said cost around $5,000-6,000.

“The idea is that it’s a lot of fun to have a photo-op space at the festival, especially in recent years, with people complaining, ‘Oh, they’ve taken away the heart of Sun God — it’s not on the actual lawn anymore,’” Bramwell said. “The combination of those two things made it obvious that we should, in some way, shape, or form, try to bring the Sun God back, in some way, to the actual festival on the field. And the benefit of this is that it can be used for years to come.”

Readers can contact Hayley Bisceglia-Martin at hbiscegl@ucsd.edu.

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Gonsett said it is highly unlikely KSDT will be able to acquire an FM frequency, due to a high concentra-tion of frequencies in the city of San Diego and across the U.S.-Mexico border. Rosario called UCSD a “black zone,” meaning there are already too many radio stations with high-power FM transmitters in the area for a new station to compete.

Gonsett said the last possibility for KSDT to obtain an FM frequency would be if the UC Board of Regents were to purchase a failing local sta-tion, 107.5, but that the likelihood of that is very low.

“FM is still a really big longshot,” Rosario said.

Alternatively, Rosario is look-ing into possibilities suggested by Gonsett such as HD radio — like Sirius and XM —, AM radio or broadcasting the station’s program-ming over UCSD-TV.

Of these options, Rosario said he believes KSDT’s best bet is to go after an AM frequency.

Wong said that because AM sta-tions broadcast music at a lower fre-quency, and thus lower quality, they are not as commercially profitable as FM stations and are therefore easier to obtain.

In addition, she said that apply-ing for an AM station would be a lot simpler. On FM, KSDT would need to have both a tower and base station approved by the Federal Communications Committee, while an AM frequency would require a license for the tower only.

Wong added that Gonsett told

KSDT managers about a loophole that would allow them to broadcast their material without censorship.

“The tower would have to be licensed, but if we only broadcast within the circumference of the campus, there’s a loophole for col-lege campuses, and we wouldn’t have to get a license,” she said.

Rosario agreed that an AM sta-tion is the most feasible option for KSDT.

“At this point, we are going to pursue AM radio,” he said.

However, Wong said that —  as there are only four weeks left in the 2009-10 academic year — it is unlike-ly KSDT will acquire an AM frequen-cy before next fall. She said the sta-tion will prepare the necessary paper-work over the summer, including fil-ing an application with the Federal Communications Commission.

“We do have to apply with the FCC, but it’s not as heavy as an FM application,” Wong said. “There are a lot of people who are involved, but it’s starting the process of [talking] to the right people.”

Rosario said the project will be expedited by the fact that both he and Wong will be returning to UCSD next year. He said they hope to make their AM debut early next year.

“We want to get the project roll-ing in the beginning of Fall Quarter, so we’ll have more momentum from hype and incoming members,” Rosario said.

Rosario said the station will rely on student fees —  allotted by A.S. Council — to fund the project, which includes hiring more consul-tants to advise AM station manag-ers through the process, a legal rep-resentative to provide details about broadcasting on campus and updat-ing KSDT’s equipment to work with the tower.

A.S. Associate Vice President of Student Services Meredith Madnick,  who works with organiza-

tions such as KSDT and TTV, said she supports KSDT’s endeavors.

“With a bigger amount of money, it would definitely have to be something that we would have to present to council, and see if that’s something that they want to fund for when the time comes,” Madnick said.

KSDT is unsure of how much the process will cost and will make a proposal to the A.S. Council Fall Quarter of next year.

“[The cost] needs to be evaluated , like how much that will be,” Madnick said. “And it will be a huge chunk of money out of our mandate reserves. So, with this new council, I don’t know how they see it in terms of a funding priority.”

Wong said she has plans to talk to councilmembers, UCSD administra-tors and the regents about the tower.

“Land is really hard to obtain on campus, because a lot of people want land, and there are different guidelines for construction,” she said. “We’d have to meet with people to figure that out.”

Vice President of Finance and Resources Andrew Ang said he will need to see a concrete budget propos-al before deciding how much money the A.S. Council is willing to give KSDT for the tower. However, he said the student radio station will be a “top priority” next year.

“When the budget is presented Week Nine, we’ll be able to look at it more,” he said. “The budget for the next fiscal year hasn’t been put out yet [by A.S. President Wafa Ben Hassine], but I understand this has been a priority for the past year. I really want to look at how feasible it is, and how the turnout would be for students.”

Additional reporting by Ayelet Bitton.

Readers can contact Jake Boissonault at jboisson@ucsd.edu.

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BORDERBUSINESS

Just like the epic campuswide Sun God Festival of yesteryear, the weekend exodus of UCSD students over the U.S.-Mexico border is stuff of the past. Party busses crammed with scantily clad underagers — leav-ing all academic anxieties, inhibitions and dignity behind — would shuttle them 30 minutes south of campus every Friday and Saturday night.

Before the U.S. began requiring passports to come back over the border in 2008, and drug-war deaths started to rise around the same time, undergraduate students and members of the U.S. Navy were lured south by the musky myth of Tijuana: dance floors sardined with sweaty, bare-bodied coeds; an endless flow of cheap liquor and greasy street food; illicit substances and wet T-shirt contests; smoke machines, sticky bar counters, tequila shots, stripper poles, tequila shots, foam parties, tequila shots and the rare foray away from Avenida Revolucion to Zona Norte — TJ’s red-light district.

Shuttling students to and fro was infamous club promoter Ray Ramirez — better known as “Hollywood Ray.” His fleet of limobuses departed almost every weekend from college campuses in the San Diego area, delivering busloads of under-21ers to TJ’s main strip of clubs and Rosarito — a popular spring-break destination one half-hour below the border. According to Ramirez, his busses would shuttle upward of 3,000 students to Mexico on any given weekend.

“In Mexico, you can almost do whatever you want, and you’re safe,” Ramirez said. “You can black out, you can dance up on the table, you can do body shots, you can make mistakes — so that by the time you turn 21 and you’re going to bars in America, you already have all this experience, and you’re street-smart. You’re good to go. You’re not throwing up and passing out — you should’ve already done that shit in Mexico.”

Until recently, Ramirez’ limobus business was able to trumpet con-venience and safety as a selling point. His busses went straight to Safari Nightclub (which Ramirez partially owns) in Tijuana or Papas and Beer in Rosarito, where his customers were granted free entry and unlimited

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Due to new passport requirements passed in 2008 anddrug-related violence since 2006, Tijuana’s tourism

industry and tequila sales are on the rocks.

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A t the beginning of last week, the Muslim Student Association erected a wall along Library Walk to mimic the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The staging of the wall coincided with the A.S. Council’s debate over a pro-

posed resolution calling for the University of California to divest from companies that lend military aid to Israel.

The MSA also brought a number of speakers to campus — including author Norman Finkelstein, UC Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian and UCSD alumna and former Black Panther Angela Davis. The tension between pro-Israel students and Palestine sympathizers peaked during a Young Americans for Freedom-commissioned speech on May 10 by pro-Israel commentator David Horowitz.

Scrawled on the wall were depictions of the hostile environment in the Gaza Strip, including a dialogue on unsanitary water conditions and a painting of a woman who had been shot. A “Run for Palestine” treadmill was set up beside the wall — just behind a faux Israeli checkpoint — in hopes of raising money for Palestinian refugees. Of the 400-mile barrier, 250 miles were run by participants, generating $250 to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.

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CLUBHOPPING

L ast week, Dancesport — UCSD’s competitive club dance team — made its national television debut, performing alongside Niecy Nash and Chad Ochocinco on ABC’s

“Dancing with the Stars.” As one of four collegiate teams from across the nation chosen to appear this season, five UCSD couples performed a samba during the College Dance Championship portion of last Tuesday’s show. They were up against Purdue University.

Prior to the show, Revelle College junior and Dancesport co-captain Karen Li said she was excited to represent UCSD.

“I personally embrace our identity as nerds, but we’re about to show America that even nerds can really shake it,” Li said.

After submitting a tryout video to “Dancing with the Stars” earlier this year, the UCSD dancers were informed they had landed a spot on the show. They immediately scrambled to put together a brand-new routine that followed the championship guidelines. The team usually performs medleys — combin-ing Latin dances like the cha-cha, rumba and jive — but ABC producers asked competitors to stick to one style for their two-minute performances.

The day of the competition, the UCSD team flashed wide, 100-watt smiles while whipping their red sequined skirts through the air. Complete with intricate formation changes, the team performed an ambitious dance routine that wowed judges — despite minor critiques.

“As a nationally ranked team, we just want to show people that we are upholding our reputation and are the best,” said var-sity team member and Muir College sophomore Antwon Trinh.

Dancesport were showered in accolades like “Great job,” and “Well done,” from the judges, and earned a score of 24 out of 30 for their samba — two points above Purdue’s mamba. The official winner will be announced on today’s episode, after audience votes are tallied. From there, the favorite will advance to the final College Dance Championship that will take place on the night of the season finale.

According to Dancesport coach Peter Edwards, the team treated the performance like it would any other show.

“We always do it the same kind of way: bringing the same kind of spirit, the same kind of energy,” Edwards said. “It doesn’t matter who you are — we want to give you our best every time,” said Edwards.

Dancesport has been enrolled in the club-sport program on campus for almost 20 years, and is currently ranked third in the nation for collegiate formation teams. At the recent national championships — the Stanford Cardinal Classic — the UCSD varsity team placed first, while junior varsity took second.

Forming the largest club team on campus, the 150 mem-bers of Dancesport are separated into four different skill

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alcohol. To maintain a reliable repu-tation, he said he personally made sure that each student who left San Diego on one of his busses returned safe and sound.

However, according to Ramirez, the new passport law — passed in January 2008, and requiring all those entering the U.S. to show their passports at the border — along with a spike in drug-related violence forced him to halt his weekly trips to Mexico after 2008’s spring-break season.

Since Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared war on the coun-try’s drug cartels in December 2006 and deployed about 50,000 troops, violence in the country has risen dramatically. The University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute estimated that about 22,700 deaths have occurred in Mexico since January 2007.

The U.S. Department of State’s most recent travel warning for Mexico — issued May 6, 2010 — declared that “the security situation poses serious risks for U.S. citizens.” In addition, a January 14, 2010 Warden Message issued by the U.S. Consulate General in Tijuana rec-ommended a list of “actions to take if caught in the middle of a gunfight/gunfire,” implying that travelers might run into one such situation.

However, according to Ramirez’, reports of gruesome drug-related border crimes have been exaggerat-ed by the media, scaring American tourists away for no good reason.

“It’s not a war,” Ramirez said. “There’s no shooting or bombs. It’s all bullshit. I go to Mexico all the time and it’s safe. It’s no more dan-gerous than other major cities in America.”

Joseph Sabet, a graduate student in electrical engineering, said that Mexico’s recent swell of violence — along with the passing of his own

21st birthday — discouraged him from partying south of the border, like he did when he was an under-graduate.

“It’s dirty and sketch, but perfect if you’re under 21,” Sabet said. “I wouldn’t go now, though — it’s too dangerous. My sister’s roommate’s ex-boyfriend went with a group, and one of them got mugged by some gang and beat up by the cops within an hour.”

Revelle College senior David Lee, on the other hand, doesn’t buy the friend-of-a-friend horror stories. He said he still visits Tijuana or Rosarito at least once a quarter.

“You just have to be smart about it,” Lee said. “Go with a group and stay in the well-known tourist areas. Don’t bring any valuables and don’t do anything stupid. It’s just common sense.”

All hearsay aside, Public Affairs Officer for the U.S. Consulate General in Tijuana Joseph Crook said in an e-mail that the consolate advises travelers to be educated when crossing the border. According to Crook, students should phone friends back home regularly, avoid unruly behav-ior and only use official “sitio” taxis.

The U.S. State Department’s website states that U.S. citizens aren’t usually targeted in Mexico’s drug-related crimes, and that a vast majority of the 100,000-odd U.S. students who head south every year for spring break return home safely.

According to a May 7, 2010 article in the Los Angeles Times, ever since the January arrest of Teodoro Garcia Simental — a major drug trafficker and crime boss — the violence tainting Tijuana has waned

significantly.However, an official travel warn-

ing is still in place — especially along the U.S.-Mexico border, home to key drug-trafficking sites like the notorious Cuidad Juarez, where three times as many people have been killed than anywhere else in the country.

Juarez, located across the Rio Grande river from El Paso, Texas,

made national head-lines two months ago when three indi-viduals linked to the U.S. Consulate were gunned down by mem-bers of a drug gang. Incidents like these, coupled with last year’s H1N1 flu outbreak, have weakened many students’ will to party below the border. The sparse dance floors and empty seats of the once-boisterous Avenida Revolucion is a testament to the col-lege population’s new hesitation.

“I have bartenders and waiters who can hardly feed their fami-lies,” Ramirez said. “It

keeps me up at night.”Ramirez said he is one among

many hoping to revive Tijuana’s tourism industry, which has suf-fered in all areas — from his own busses and nightclub to the roving tequila men with damp towels, whistles and bottles of room-temperature Jose Cuervo, poised and eager to force a shot down your throat for a buck or two. Even the street vendors working the border traffic have taken a hit.

Since he halted his weekly TJ party-bus business, Ramirez has started a similar party-bus opera-tion in Hawaii, and continues to

promote clubs and events through-out San Diego. He even provided the limobuses for Phi Gamma Delta’s FIJI Islander event on April 1, 2010 and Mission Beach’s Floatopia on May 8, 2010.

And Ramirez hasn’t put a com-plete hold on his SD-TJ shuttle service. The operation has merely become seasonal, now starting around spring break and even beginning to boom through the summer months. However, instead of American college students — who are largely wary of travel to Mexico — Ramirez said the major-ity of his clients are Irish college students visiting San Diego for the summer.

“I love them and they love me,” Ramirez said. “These guys are just down to do whatever. They’re just so fun and worry-free, and all about having a good time. And damn — if I drank as much as them, I would die. We have to get extra alcohol if we have open bar, because they just want to keep going. They will go until like 10 a.m. They will go to the next day — it’s out of control.”

As summer approaches, Ramirez is gearing up for the arrival of the Irish. He’s planning weekly limobus trips to Tijuana on Wednesdays, and Rosarito on Sundays. He has a team of college reps in Ireland promoting his events, and said he expects this year’s batch of students to top that of the last few years.

In the end, though, Ramirez said his biggest priority is motivating San Diego college students to start visiting Mexico again.

“I’m gonna straighten this whole mess out, and don’t be surprised if I do,” he said. “I’m going to make it easier for everyone to go back to Mexico soon — people are going to get sick of all this shit.”

Readers can contact Aprille Muscara at amuscara@ucsd.edu.

In TJ Tourism Slump, Irish Students Fill Void Left By San Diego Regulars▶ TJ,

These guys are just down to do whatever. They’re just so fun and worry-free, and all about having a good time. And damn — if I drank as much as them,I would die.” RAY RAMIREZ CLUB PROMOTER

brackets. Participants learn all styles of dance — from swing to nightclub — and spend between five to 10 hours per week at practice. The five couples who appeared on “Dancing with the Stars” held rehearsal in Edwards’ pri-vate studio from midnight to 3 a.m. four days a week for the two weeks leading up to the show, so as not to interrupt regular Dancesport prac-tices.

“I would describe the UC San Diego Dancesport team as a bunch of very diverse individuals — there’s bioengineers, neuroscience majors — who all come together because we love to dance,” said Varsity team member and Warren college student Renee Saedi.

Edwards, who was a member of UCSD Dancesport himself when he was a Revelle College student, said it took an incredible amount of dedica-tion and commitment for the team to emerge victorious from eight of nine competitions this year.

“The kids were competing all year long: every single competition, they stayed, engaged and worked as hard as they possibly could, [leaving] it all on the dance floor,” Edwards said.

The Tritons will perform a grand finale on Saturday, May 30 in Price Center Ballroom West, showcasing all the routines with which they have competed this year, including a few hip-hop and tap numbers. Tickets are on sale at the UCSD Box Office. And if all goes according to their team motto — “kick butt, take names and send them home crying, with dignity and respect” — it should be worth the ticket.

Readers can contact Zoe Sophos at zsopho@ucsd.edu.

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“In our conference, the competition gets high between two teams: Cal State Stanislaus and Cal Poly Pomona,” Davis said. “We really don’t have enough competition against teams like [Brigham Young University]-Hawaii and HPU. Those are the teams that we have to beat in playoffs, and unfortunately, we just fall short against teams like them. In our conference, most of the play-ers are American. Outside of the conference, we face girls from Ukraine and China. It’s a different story outside of conference.”

Despite the early postseason exit, the Tritons’ season was by no means disappoint-ing: This marks their 30th straight trip to the NCAA postseason (though they used to fall in Division-III), and their seventh straight confer-ence title with a dramatic victory over Stanislaus

on April 17.As her 31st season as head coach of the

women’s tennis team draws to a close, LaPlante said she is already looking forward to her 32nd.

“It is always sad to see the season end,” LaPlante said. “We have a few end-of-the-year activities, but now it is time to look toward next year. A lot of our girls are returning, and it is time to look to get things going again next fall.”

The Tritons will graduate only two of their players. Davis said she is optimistic about the more prominent role UCSD’s younger players will be able to fill next season.

“Even though were losing three players, I’m really excited for next year,” Davis said. “We have four freshman in the team this year, and they all improved a bunch over the season. I’m excited to see in them in the lineup next year.”

Readers can contact Wesley Cox at wcox@ucsd.edu.

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The Tritons lost 5-1 to Hawaii Pacific University, who would go to the National Semi-Finals and lose to eventual Division-II Champion Armstrong Atlantic University.

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associate photo editor John Hanacek, managing editor Alyssa Bereznak and associate opinion editor Cheryl Hori — revised their shit-talking tac-tics by aiming verbal assaults toward the scantily clad, STD-infested Koala harem. Simultaneously, on offense, Blanc shuffled the batting order to minimize the number of Guardian runners stranded in scoring position.

The lineup responded by knock-ing in five runs in the top half of the seventh inning to grab a momentum-shifting 6-4 lead.

With their backs against the wall, the Koala staffers answered with a rally of their own that culminated in the game’s defining moment: a three-man boat-race drink-off, sparked by a dispute over the number of Koala runs scored in the inning — and whether one particular gray-bearded marsupial had actually worked for the Koala at one time.

Amid intense negotiations over the terms of the drink-off, Gregorian admitted he had never seen the old man before, conceding that he prob-ably graduated sometime during the Great Depression.

The jobless 46-year-old was immediately expelled from the game, and the final terms were settled: a Guardian boat-race victory meant a 7-6 Koala lead, while a Koala win would raise it to an 8-6 advantage.

Edwin “Killer” Gonzalez — who had already won two drink-offs — partnered with senior staff writer and team captain Jake Blanc and associate sports editor Matt Croskey. Together, they demolished the Koala team of Gregorian, black-eyed terrorist Lo and associate editor Wes Field — the latter of whom proceeded to cry like a bitch. The Koala loss left its members in a drunken stupor, realizing their self-proclaimed “superior drinking skills” wouldn’t be enough to sleaze

out a win.Clinging to a narrow 7-6 lead,

the Koala rebounded with a score to regain a two-run advantage. As the keg began to stream thinner — signal-ing the game’s final stages — a Koala victory seemed imminent. However, due to Blanc’s dashing good looks and negotiating skills — capable of resolv-ing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — Gregorian’s heterosexuality wavered, and he was wooed into extending the game by another fifteen cans of beer.

Benefiting from a series of Koala fielding errors in the top of the eighth, the Guardian managed to load the bases with two outs — bring-ing severely inebriated sports editor Vishal Natarajan to the plate. After fouling off two pitches, Natarajan sent a line drive into left field — which bounced off an unsuspecting Koala slut and plated two runs for a 10-8 Guardian lead.

As daylight faded, along with the sobriety of all, the Koala stepped to the plate for the game’s final at-bat, and quickly cut the G lead to 10-9.

With runners on first and second and only one out, a player who Fields believes to be named John, grounded into what appeared to be the game-ending double play.

G third baseman Croskey swiftly fielded the ball to first baseman Jesse Alm for the out. However, in a bitch-ass attempt to advance to third on Croskey’s throw, the Koala’s Dave the Carpenter — also known as Hammer Pants, or the dude who wrote “Compton Lynching” on a piece of cardboard in the Student-Run Television studio — bolted from sec-ond to third, sloppily sliding past the base by five feet. Alm then instinctive-ly fired the ball back to Croskey, who tagged Pants out. Chaos ensued.

In sad desperation, the entire Koala bench charged the field to argue that both “John” and Pants were safe. Guardian players coerced the whiney Koala bitches into accepting the out at

third base, but conceded to a drink-off.

If the Koala won, they would keep “John” at first; if the Guardian won, they would take home the victory and a year’s worth of bragging rights.

Gregorian, accustomed to taking giant loads of foam down his throat on a daily basis, won the challenge, and the game continued with a run-ner at first. Down to their final out, the Koala singled to left field to put the tying run in scoring position. However, the next Koala hitter lined a grounder to shortstop Blanc, who fielded the ball cleanly with a Koala runner bearing down on him.

The entire game had been build-ing up to this one final clash: Both Blanc and the Koala runner braced themselves for a collision that would decide the win. Gripping the ball in his glove for the tag, Blanc lowered his shoulder and absorbed the blow from the charging runner — demonstrating the same strength and resilience the entire Guardian team had exhibited throughout the afternoon — and held the ball firmly for the win.

An all-out, slightly bromantic celebration between Guardian players errupted. They swarmed the third-base line to scream their lungs out in pure, orgasmic jubilation while the Koala losers (literally) picked their asses and licked their fingers on the sideline. Better luck next year, fuckers.

▶ SLOSHBALL, where who don’t realize there are teams in the league other than the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees: Show some respect for the other teams out there, or you will be brutally embarrassed after getting your ass called out.

The Yankees scoffed at Braden’s reaction to A-Rod because he was a no-name pitcher who plays for a small-market team on the West Coast — an asshole reaction that epitomizes the reason why all those outside the Red Sox-Yankees bubble hate those teams.

The fact that they have the resources to buy themselves cham-pionships isn’t nearly as irritating as the fact that their players and fans think that no one else in baseball is worthy of their respect.

So, when Braden continued feeding the press opinions about

the shit-talking incident — damn straight he was trying to get some attention. Is that really so wrong? As a young pitcher with a troubled past who’s had a pretty good year, what’s wrong is that he had to cuss out A-Rod to get noticed in the first place.

In the end, actions speak louder than words: Twenty-seven straight outs fight harder than backhand-ed insults from a guy who makes over $33 million more than you. With A-Rod’s career soiled by per-formance-enhancing substances, it’s not clear whether he’ll ever make it into the Hall of Fame. If he decides to visit, though, he can check out the section where Braden’s perfect game will forever be celebrated.

This year, a game in May meant almost as much as one in October for unheralded fans of America’s favorite pastime.

▶ CRACKERJACKS,

The Tritons sent 10 hitters to the plate in the fifth inning, capped by a two-run homer from junior catcher Lee that brought the score to 7–1.

The right-handed Knudson allowed only four runs in all nine innings, walking two and strik-ing out five. After striking out the final two Hawaii Pacific hitters, the Tritons mobbed Knudson on the mound to celebrate their return to the College World Series.

“The feeling of being on the mound [at the end] was phenom-enal,” Knudson said. “It was like things happened in slow motion. Just that first-person view of Kellen [Lee], who is a brother to me, run-ning full speed at me with his arms out was something I will never for-get.”

The Tritons also saw five players

make the 2010 NCAA West Regional All-Tournament Team, including Most Valuable Player in the tourna-ment Kyle Saul. Gregorich, Albitz, Shibuya and redshirt freshman des-ignated hitter Danny Susdorf also earned a spot on the honorary team.

The eight-team NCAA National Championship will begin May 22 in Cary, N.C. The NCAA Selection Committee will determine the schedule on May 17, but the Tritons are already gearing up to make the trip.

“We are preparing by having solid and quality practices with a great focus and intensity,” Knudson said. “We are going to keep working hard in being fully prepared for that first pitch in Cary.”

Readers can contact Liam Rose at lfrose@ucsd.edu.

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The junior outfielder was named the NCAA West Regional Tournament’s Most Valuable Player for hitting.416 and scoring five runs during the tournament, which was held from May 13 to May 15.

KYLE SAUL | BASEBALL44 Number of days the Orlando Magic went without losing a game, before falling to the Boston Celtics in Game One of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals on Sunday.

NUMBER CRUNCHER

Coming from a gray slab of rotting cement as a home and fulfilling the role of the

redheaded stepchild before an entire nation can be a beautiful thing — especially when you rub your eventual glory in the face of your richer, more popular and significantly douchier older brother.

That’s exactly what happened on Mother’s Day at the McAfee Coliseum

in Oakland, when Dallas Braden, playing for the perpetually poor and overlooked Oakland A’s, pitched the 19th perfect game in Major League Baseball history against the Devil Rays.

Two hours and seven minutes after the first pitch, Braden had not only cemented himself a spot in Cooperstown, but also come out on top of a month-long feud with Alex Rodriguez and the ultra-pretentious New York Yankees.

Prior to this feat, Braden had two distinct reputations. To those on the West Coast, Braden was best known as the bad-ass from area code 209 (Stockton, Calif.) who put Rodriguez in his place during an A’s-Yankees game last month. For those on the East Coast, Braden was the attention whore who tried to extend his “15 minutes of fame” (in Rodriguez’s own words) by feuding with the New York superstar.

In case you missed it, Braden bitched out A-Rod at the end of the sixth inning, yelling at him to stay off the pitcher’s mound. Rodriguez later laughed off the incident, saying that he’d never had anyone tell him that before —”especially from a guy that only has a handful of wins in his career.” (Damn A-Rod, you really gotta bring that up? Braden should have mentioned the third baseman’s glove-slapping abilities to the press.)

But the main reason Braden’s per-fect Sunday elicited an enormous smile — with just a hint of smug smirk — for the sea of A’s faithfuls (and small-market fans on the west side of the country) is much deep-er than the satisfaction of putting a selfish, roiding slugger in his place. OK, maybe the smirk was because of that, but Braden’s perfect game sent a message to the MLB, along with sports media and baseball fans every-

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As per annual post-Sun God tradition, still-thirsty Guardian staffers clashed with rival “newspaper” the Koala last

Saturday at a local park in a high-stakes slosh-ball game.

Though the Koala was hoping to repeat last year’s 29-4 shellacking of the Guardian, what editor in chief Kris Gregorian and his band of diseased losers did not expect was that the Guardian would unleash the most spectacular team performance in UCSD sloshball history — a 10-9 comeback victory for the ages.

In contrast to previous Guardian-Koala matchups — typically characterized by shame-less Koala cheating — the G unit triumphed due to solid defense, timely hitting, subversive smack-talking and unstoppable chugging skills.

The game opened with what would be one

of the Koala’s few victories: Gregorian won the initial drink-off against otherwise bomb-ass Guardian Editor in Chief Simone Electra Wilson, claiming home-field advantage and making his liver cirrhosis proud. The game started eerily similar to last year’s game, as the Koala took an early 2-0 lead.

However, intent on avenging the Koala’s drunken destruction of the Guardian’s distribu-tion cart, senior staff writer Tyler Nelson halved the deficit: After Nelson hit a double, social chair Shida Haghighat brought him home on an infield single.

The Koala regained the lead with a string of base hits in the fifth inning, building their advantage to 4-1 and necessitating a shift in

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By Wesley CoxStaff Writer

WOMEN’S TENNIS — The Tritons played their final match of the year on May 6, suffering a 5-1 loss to Hawaii Pacific University in the first round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division-II West Regionals.

UCSD came into the matchup ranked No. 15 in the nation, while Hawaii Pacific came in ranked No. 11.

The Tritons captured the No. 3 ranking in the region after taking their seventh consecutive California Collegiate Athletic Association title, but the Sea Warriors’ superior rank-ing earned them the rights to host the first round.

“[Hawaii Pacific] played really well,” UCSD head coach Liz LaPlante said. “It was a windy day, and we got behind in doubles, [so] it was too late. Hawaii is very strong; they were able to go all the way to the final four and lost to the winners, so they have a very tough team.”

The Hawaii Pacific squad made a respectable run all the way to the semifinals of the NCAA Division-II national championships after beating the Tritons last Thursday. However, they soon fell to eventual third-time champion Armstrong Atlantic University, who ended its season ended the season undefeated at 33-0.

May 6 was a familiarly difficult day for the Triton women: Hawaii Pacific knocked UCSD out of the postseason last year as well. UCSD fell behind early when the doubles teams struggled against their opposi-tion. The team of juniors Taskeen Bains and Natalie Varnay lost 8-5, the team of senior Anita Anthavale and freshman Jacquelyn Davis lost 8-3 and the team of freshman Melissa Breisacher and sophomore Samantha Yeung lost 8-5 — putting the Tritons down 3-0 to begin the best-of-nine competition.

The only Triton who ended up scoring points was Varnay, who won her singles match 6-2 and 6-1. Junior Taskeen Bains was defeated 6-3, 6-2, while Davis lost 6-1, 6-2. With the victory over Davis, the Sea Warriors attained the fifth point necessary to snag the victory over UCSD with three singles matches left unfought.

Similar to previous seasons, the Tritons tasted success in conference play before struggling in the playoffs.

“We would love to get to the next round one of these years,” LaPlante said. “But I had a great season with great girls, and we all had a really good season.”

The Tritons dropped a much closer 5-4 decision to Hawaii Pacific on March 25. However, the Sea Warriors’ sweep of the doubles por-tion proved too much for the Tritons to overcome this time around.

Hawaii Pacific fielded a com-pletely Eastern-European lineup — including two players from Bulgaria, two from Sweden, one from Romania and one from the Czech Republic.

After her first season as a Triton, Davis said she has noticed is a dis-tinct contrast in the quality of teams

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REPEAT CHAMPSBy Liam Rose Associate Sports Editor

BASEBALL

UCSD steamrolled through the NCAA West Region this weekend, earning three wins in three days to

take the regional title and secure a trip to the College World Series for the second year in a row.

The top-ranked Tritons crushed Hawaii Pacific University 12–0 on May 13, then fought for a narrow 4–3 victory over confer-ence rival No. 24 Cal State Dominguez Hills on May 14. After Hawaii Pacific defeated Cal State Dominguez Hills in an elimination game to merit a spot in the final, the Tritons beat the Sea Warriors for the second time in three days to clinch their second consecutive NCAA West Regional title.

“We had great energy all tournament and were just having fun being ourselves as a team,” junior pitcher Guido Knudson said. “It was one of the best weekends of baseball I have experienced. You can’t describe playoff baseball and the chemistry we had in the dugout and on the field all weekend.”

Held at the MLB Urban Youth Academy in Compton, Calif., the tournament opened with a resounding win for the Tritons. Junior pitcher Tim Shibuya recorded his school-record 12th win of the year, while junior catcher Kellen Lee had four runs batted in and the Tritons cruised to an easy 12–0 win.

The team’s next game against Cal State Dominguez Hills was a significantly tighter affair. Holding onto a slim 3–2 advan-

tage in the top of the ninth inning, the Tritons looked on as senior starting pitcher Matt Rossman allowed two base runners. Junior pitcher Daniel Simmons came on to try to convert the save opportunity, but gave up a double to center to the Toros’ Derrick Duarte — allowing one run to score. Fortunately for the Tritons, though, the potential winning run was thrown out at the plate, thanks to an excellent relay from senior outfielder Robert Sedin and senior shortstop Vance Albitz.

With the score tied 3–3 in the bottom of the ninth, Sedin drew a walk and advanced to second on a balk by the Toros’ pitcher. Albitz was intentionally walked to set up a potential double-play opportunity, but junior outfielder Kyle Saul laid down a per-fect sacrifice bunt to advance the runners to second and third with just one out.

The Toros intentionally walked junior Aaron Bauman to allow a possible force-out at home plate, but the Tritons next hitter — senior first baseman Brandon Gregorich — was hit by a pitch, and the winning run came in to score.

In the title game on May 15, the Tritons rode a seven-run fifth inning and capital-ized on a complete game performance from Knudson for a 9–4 victory. UCSD had eight extra base hits in the game and 12 in total, while five different players had RBIs.

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Despite a scare from conference foes, the Tritons won theirsecond consecutive NCAA West Regional title to move

on to the College World Series.

See BASEBALL page 15

Hawaii Pacific ends the UCSD season in the first round of regionals for the second year in a row.

PHOTO COURTESY OF CHERYL HORI