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Volume 4Fall Quarter 2014ihouse.ucsd.edu

From Our Director’s DeskDear friends and residents of I-House,

Welcome to another exciting year at I-House! We’ve been busy all summer preparing to bring you a full and exciting array of fun and engaging programs. The fall quarter has only recently begun and we have already hosted quite a few wonderful events including the UN Day of the Girl Child in partnership with the WorldLink Program at the Joan B. Kroc Institute of Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego, the UCSD School of Med-icine’s Division of Global Public Health and the Center on Gender Equity and Health, PCI Global and Voices of Women. The following week I-House collaborated with Voices of Women to host a program entitled “Empowered Women, Engaged Men.” Our renamed The Global Forum (previously International Affairs Group) has also been busy hosting the Consul General from Azerbaijan, a pro-gram on climate change in collaboration with the student organization PROSPECT Journal, and a program on global refugee mental health with I-House Faculty Fellow Dr. Wael Al-Dalaimy.

Dr. Al Delaimy also led our new Slice of America pro-gram on a site visit to the Islamic Center of San Diego and to the Somali Family Services to learn about the North African refugee community in San Diego.

We have an exciting year programs and activities planned but a couple of upcoming events that are of spe-cial interest are:

- Davis Peace Grants – a competitive grant opportunity offering $10,000 to I-House students to implement a community-development program during summer 2015 anywhere in the world.

- Winter Sunday Supper – one of I-House’s most popular programs, an elegant and fun dinner full of laughter, entertainment and friendship (Sunday, January 25).

The I-House office, located below the Great Hall, is always open for you to visit and to find out more about programs and ways to get more involved.

We hope you have a most wonderful, exciting and suc-cessful year! Welcome to I-House!!

Henri Migala, Ed.D., M.P.H. Director, International House, UCSD

About Our CoverOur photo was taken in

Kanchanaburi Province in Thailand by UCSD’s very own Prospect Journal. Read more about Prospect Journal on p. 17.

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“Who” is I-House?

04 2014 Exit Survey HighlightsThanks for the love, we miss you guys!

05 Meet our I-House StaffNice to meet ya!

06 Programs OverviewRotaract, Model UN, Prospect Journal

07 Residential Life ProgramsLet’s get involved!

08 Global Forum International HouseBy Christopher Moffat

09 Faculty Fellows for 2014-2015By Henri Migala

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International Day of the Girl ChildCelebrating Adolescent Girl Empowerment

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13 Alumni ThoughtsEva and Simon

15 Visiting ScholarsFiorenzo and Conrad

17Sunday Supper: Dia de los MuertosHope you had a lovely time!

It gave me a whole new perspective on myself and the world.

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“I am not as different from others as I thought I was.”

“Not only did I love learning about other people’s cultures but I also came to really feel comfortable in mine.”

““Meeting a wide variety of peo-ple from around the world, and be-ing inspired to pick up a language in order to communicate better as well as making lifelong friendships with people I would otherwise have never had the opportunity to meet.”

Aubrey Kwong worked for the Reu-ben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park as the Special Events Coordinator before joining I-House as its Events Co-ordinator. She assisted with bringing The Fleet to an entirely new level in the Meeting/Event Industry as an all-in-clusive venue space for events such as weddings, corporate receptions, confer-ences and social retreats. As a graduate from the Hospitality and Tourism Man-agement (HTM) Program at San Diego State University, she is hopeful that she will be able to enlighten a new array of clientele from the local community and enhance the reputation of the Interna-tional House facilities as a whole.

Meet Our Staff

Events Coordinator Programs Coordinator

From left to right: Top Row, Aubrey Kwong, Marvin Andrade, Lucien Ballard, Henri Migala, Shitong Li, Christopher Moffat, and Becky Emrick. Bottom Row, Wesley Febrian, Nick Ko, Dorothy Van, Jamie Anderson, Dante Villarinho, Alfredo Arriola, Claire Maniti and Malou Amparo. (Not pictured but not forgotten: Trish Vinnatoka)

Malou Amparo is the Program Coordi-nator at International House, UC San Di-ego. Malou graduated from the University of California, San Diego with degrees in Chinese Studies & International Studies. Her experience working with internation-al students inspired her to teach English in Daegu, South Korea & Los Angeles. Malou is an active member of NAFSA, having presented at regional and annual confer-ences. She is currently pursuing a Masters in International Education at the SIT Grad-uate Institute. In addition to international education, Malou has worked with the International Rescue Committee & oth-er non-profit organizations in San Diego through LISC AmeriCorps.

Programs Overview

Model United Nations creates an envi-ronment where individuals can improve their knowledge of international relations and negotiation by simulating high level discussions at the forefront of the United Nations. Model UN is competing at UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and Emory. Model UN at UCSD subsidiz-es travel expenses by hosting conferences

for high school students. Herein, individ-uals can work to organize the conference or bring a topic of their choosing to debate and observe global perspectives discussed as a committee chair. Model UN meets on Sundays (1-3 PM) and Thursdays (6-8 PM) at the Asante 123 AD.

— Marvin AndradeSecretary General, MUN

Our organization kicked off the school year with CONNECT, done in collabora-tion with the Global Forum at I-House. This quarter’s panel discussion, “Tackling Cli-mate Change: Past Experiences and Future Insights” brought together climate science experts Professor Richard Somerville, Pro-fessor Ralph Keeling, and PhD candidate Deborah Seligsohn, to speak about what we know of climate change at present, and what this generation can do to mitigate its effects in the future. Over 100 people attended.

During the winter quarter, we will be doing our third annual “Week of Photojournals,” where we will be accepting student submis-sions of photos and stories from their trav-els abroad, to feature on our website and to showcase on-campus.

We are continuing to publish original, un-dergraduate student content. We have wel-

comed nine new staff writers and four new marketing members into our organization; we have a total of 25 members. We’ve had a year-on-year growth in visitation of 40%, and a growth of 20% in overall page views, for the month of October. The summer (being the months June through September) showed even more significant gains this year with 132% more visitors and 77% more views per month on average. We continue to reach a global audience, with largest sections of our readership (in the thousands) from Canada, India, Australia, the Philippines, Germany, Singapore, France, Malaysia, South Africa, and the Netherlands.

If you’re interested in working with us to share your story as a contributing writer, have questions, or ideas for collaboration, please email us at prospectjournal@gmail.com.

— Marianne Zape, Editor in Chief

Rotaract at UCSD is a service club focusing on community and inter-national service projects, as well as professional development for its members. This year we will have a variety of projects including volun-teering at animal shelters, helping out with trail and park maintenance at nature preserves, serving the homeless, and making WAPIs (Water Pasteurization Indicators) for use in impoverished regions of Mexico. We have meetings every odd week of the quarter on Tuesday, hope to see you there!

— Kirk Akimoto, President

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We offer a variety of public programs for all students, staff, community members to get involved in language practice, faculty-led activities, service-learning projects in the local community, and presentations about global issues. Engaging and connect-ing people are what I-House is all about. Whether it’s through resident activities, cam-pus-wide programs or community programs, there are a number of different ways you can get involved. Let’s find the right program for you!

Culture Volunteering

Sunday Supper Once a quarter we in-vite I-House residents and alumni as well as staff, faculty and community members to share a meal together, re-connect, and create new relationships. Contact the I-House Interns Trish & Wesley at ihouseintern@gmail.com to join the planning committee.

I-Cares is a volunteer service organi-zation within the I-House community. Previous I-Cares projects have included on-campus projects, projects based in the San Diego community, and some based in Mexico. Past events include Green Week (environmental sustainability), trips to the U.S. Mexico border to volunteer with a local orphanage, and tutoring high school students.

Culture Nights recognize three major regions of the world where many of our residents come from: Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific region. Join a committee to plan the food, en-tertainment, and format of each cul-ture night.

Language and Culture Cafes highlight a specific culture and/or language from around the world in an effort to cele-brate and share the diversity of languag-es and cultures represented in I-House. I-House residents prepare food, perform music and dances, and share other as-pects of their culture to the rest of the community.

The Davis Projects for Peace is an initia-tive that encourages undergraduate stu-dents to design their own projects around the world that promote peace and ad-dress conflict. Applicants are encouraged to design projects that focus on conflict resolution, reconciliation, building un-derstanding, breaking down barriers that cause conflict, and finding solutions for resolving conflict and maintaining peace. Selected projects are awarded $10,000 each to cover travel, materials and supplies, and other expenses relat-ed to the implementation of the project.

Health & Fitness Arts

I-Sports works closely with the Recre-ation department and Outback Adven-tures to get the I-House community in-volved in sports and outdoor activities, including intramural sports, kayaking, and surfing. Pass your name over to Jared for more sports and fitness information.

SLAM These programs bring residents together through music, dance, and other live performances hosted in I-House and around the campus. These programs cre-ate a fun and casual environment for res-idents to share their talents and interests.

MyPlate is an initiative created by First Lady Michelle Obama to discuss dietary perspectives and bring a healthy, cre-ative, and sustainable concept to the col-lege student diet.

I-Publish produces the annual I-House calendar, yearbook, and other print me-dia to commemorate residents’ experi-ence in I-House. Check in with Summer to lend your photography and digital media skills.

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The Global Forum at I-House is a student-led organization dedicated to promoting global awareness, understand-ing, and citizenship throughout UCSD and the communities it serves through public lectures, panel discussions, and events.

Until this year, we were formerly called the International Affairs Group. But pre-vious graduate student Fellows, based on opinions expressed by UCSD students who believed that International Affairs “Group” sounded too exclusive, suggested changing the name to something more appropri-ately inclusive and representative of the program. In coordination with the I-House Executive Director and Programs Director and in consultation from program partners from ERC and IR/PS, it was decided to change the name to The Global Forum at I-House. “Global” more accurately reflects the diverse range of topics and issues addressed by our program, instead of just the more politically related theme implied

by the phrase “International Affairs” in our previous name. And “Forum” more accu-rately reflects the inclusive interactiveness of the program, where students of all academic interests and even the public at large could feel that they could come, enjoy our events, and engage in discussions with the speaker(s). And finally, we decided to attach “at I-House” to the end of the name to reflect that we are an I-House program, but not exclusively for I-House residents.

We have an exceptionally full calendar of events scheduled for this fall and have al-ready hosted discussions and speakers on the crisis in Ukraine, global climate change, refugee issues (locally and globally), and the country of Azerbaijan.

For more information about The Global Forum at I-House and our upcoming pro-grams, please visit http://ihouse.ucsd.edu/programs/public/globalforum

— Christopher MoffatGlobal Forum Fellow

Don’t miss out on Global Forum. Our mission statement is to heighten “our

understanding of global issues and increas-ing our awareness of the world in which we live”. We achieve this by bringing experts to

dispel our stereotypical notions and provide us with in-depth factual information.

We host events every week at the Great Hall, typically on Mondays at 7 p.m.

Like us on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/iag.ucsd

The Global Forum is always looking for volunteers and collaborators to help us

achieve success in our program. If you believe you can contribute to the

Global Forum feel free to contact Christopher Moffatt at iag.ucsd@gmail.com

Faculty Fellow & Slice of America

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The I-House Faculty Fellowship is a program which facilitates and promotes academic interaction

and engagement outside of the classroom be-tween UCSD fac-ulty and students. I-House Faculty Fellows share their research and expertise with students in a more casual, engaging and interactive setting than in a class-room.

This year we are fortunate to be able to cou-ple our Faculty Fellowship program with another engaging program, Slice of America. The Slice of America program encour-ages participants to think critically about their roles and interactions with local communities through site visits,

service learning projects with local organizations, and facilitated discus-sions. This program provides domestic

and international students with the opportunity to experience different parts of San Diego and interact with communities beyond the campus area.

By coupling our Faculty Fellow pro-gram with our Slice of America program we’re able to bene-fit from having our Fellow lead our Slice of America visits and activities in the San Diego community. Student partici-

pating in Slice of America are able to enjoy and benefit from learning from and participating in the research and community-based programs and activ-ities of the Faculty Fellow.

— Henri Migala, I-House Director

Health and Refugee Communities in San Diego

The Slice of America program encourages participants to think critically about our roles and interactions with local

communities. This quarter Dr. Wael Al-Delaimy will lead dis-cussions focused on health in refugee communities.

Transportation and lunch provided.

SundayOctober 2610 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Meet at Pangea Parking Structure

Spaces are limited so register soon: http://goo.gl/forms/QuddRHZYyt

Reserve your spot for $5 by visiting the I-House Office beneath the Great Hall. Contact Malou Amparo at mamparo@ucsd.edu for more information.

International House presents...

Faculty Fellow, Wael K. Al-Delaimy, M.D, PhD, Professor, at a Global Forum Event.

Fall Quarter: Wael K. Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD, is Professor and Chief,

Division of Global Health in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, the University of California, San Diego. His work is focused on environmental epide-miology and exposure assessment and in the US–Mex-ico border area he has worked on pesticide exposure among farm workers. Prior to coming to UCSD he was a scientist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, and Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Harvard School of Public Health.

Winter Quarter: Babak Brahimi, PhD, is Associate Professor of Com-

munication, Culture and Religion at the Department of Literature, and the Director of Third World Studies. He has been a visiting scholar at the Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin, and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Rahimi has also been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Hu-manities and Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute, and was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, Washington DC, 2005-2006. Rahimi’s work is focused on the relationship between culture, politics and religion. His current research project looks at digital technology, and the role of economic and political inequality in the way new media is appropriated in diverse contexts, in particularly the Global South.

Spring Quarter: Keith Pezzoli, PhD, is Director of the Urban Studies

and Planning Program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Pezzoli leads the UCSD Superfund Research Center’s Community Engagement Core with projects focused on socioecological challenges and health along the US–Mexico border. Pezzoli founded The Global Action Research Center (The Global ARC), a not-for-profit organization that connects researchers to communities in pursuit of rooted community and resilient bioregional development.

This year, the I-House Faculty Fellows are:

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A s an educator who loves everything international and involving the water, it was always a life goal to be a staff member with Semester at Sea. Ten years ago that dream was realized when I sailed on the Semester at Sea Fall 2004 voyage as a Resident Director. Even before

I officially disembarked from that journey, I knew it was something I wanted to repeat as many times as possible. Ten years later, and a career move to UCSD (plus a master of advanced studies in international relations), I found myself back on the ship in a different role.

At the NAFSA international educator’s conference held in San Diego in May of 2014, I had sev-eral past voyagers remark to me that the Field Office can be one of the hardest and most time consuming roles on the ship. After the first few days at sea and an average of 12 hours a day, the best analogy was that the Field Office was like a really intense and awesome game of Tetris, but with people and places. And using a really old Gameboy! There was internet on the ship and my office received what is prob-ably the best connection, but by today’s minimum standard, “best” is far from what we have come to expect in our day to day technological fervor. This can be challenging when trying to connect and conduct business with several different countries at the same time.

My job focused on the actual in country experiences – the field labs and the field programs as well as preparing the voyagers for en-try into that country (logistical pre-port presentations for the entire community). Semester at Sea is a multi-country interdisciplinary ex-perience that takes place on a ship, a floating university, with 41 facul-ty members offering 49 class options, of which the students take 3-4. Class days are while we are at sea (even on a Saturday and Sunday based on the schedule) and each class has an in-country eight hour Field Lab developed with the home office (ISE – Institute for Shipboard Education) well in advance. Some of the choices for the summer 2014 students included Politics of Sustainable Consumption, Economic Development & Entrepreneurship, and Hormones & Health. The 465 students on our voyage come from over 212 different universities and represented 41 states and 21 countries. The students, faculty, and staff could choose to travel independently in the 10 different ports/countries in Europe and Scandinavia over our 66 days of travel (4-6 days in each port), but most

Lauren Jane Hartig,  Assistant Resident Dean for ERC & International House, was granted a professional leave of absence this summer to serve as the Director of the Field Office for the Semester at Sea Summer 2014 voyage.

“The Field Office is like a really intense and awesome game of Tetris, but with people and places.”

A Semester at Sea

sign up for overnight or day trips that the Field Office organizes and facilities from on the ship.This voyage was at times glorious, exhausting, and always rewarding. An early experi-

ence was getting to lead a dozen students to a Wild Animal Recovery Shelter in Spain for an IMPACT trip (a service oriented experience) and getting to cuddle several baby animals. Another highlight was getting away from the ship for a few days in Norway and traveling cross-country on my own to attend a music festival where I was the only U.S. citizen present listening to one of my favorite Swedish groups on top of a Viking fortress. The next day I

bought an Oslo City Pass and managed to view, visit, and attend over 10 museums, castles, and parks in a 24 hour period. I sam-pled pintxos in Spain, spicy hot mustard in Estonia, and count-less pirogues in Poland. Whenever I visit a new city, I try to find the highest point possible to get a perspective of the city spread out before me.

Even more so than the countries I visited though, I loved the experience of living on the ship. Much like International House, the MV Explorer is a home away from home, a living-learning community where everyone shares in building and maintaining the experience. This includes the students, the staff, the faculty, the dependent children on board, the life-long learners (adult passengers who pay to go and sometimes take classes), and the officers and crew.

Also similar to a typical University experience there are clubs and organizations that form on board. Shipboard activities included the Sea Olympics, an Alumni Ball, a shipboard talent show, and lots of dances! I am excited to share my experiences

and the knowledge I gained along the way with my colleagues and friends at ERC. I already had the chance to have a lovely conversation with a new I-House EAP student from Stock-holm and talk about my experience there attending the Pride parade and witnessing the incredible sustainability options in the city. If you have any questions about international education, politics, or travel please come find me! For more information about Semester at Sea please visit www.semesteratsea.org

Lauren Jane Hartig,  Assistant Resident Dean for ERC & International House, was granted a professional leave of absence this summer to serve as the Director of the Field Office for the Semester at Sea Summer 2014 voyage.

“The Field Office is like a really intense and awesome game of Tetris, but with people and places.”

A Semester at Sea

Alumni Reflections

Some people might believe I-House is a place where a lot of international stu-dents find a place to live during their time at UCSD. It definitely is - but it is also much more than that. I-House is a melting pot of future entrepreneurs, political leaders, creative artists, visionary engineers, talented scientists and extraordinary personalities. It is a place where students from all around the globe come together to exchange their ideas and unwittingly begin sowing the seeds of creating a better world – a more tolerant and more peaceful world.

Imagine I-House as not just a place to live. Imagine it as a place where you can find amazing students from all around the world to share some of the best mo-ments of your life with. It is a place where people meet to have a bonfire at the beach together. A place where you can expand your culinary horizon and meet friends with whom you can go to Tijuana and build a house for an impoverished Mexican family. It is a place where you will find someone who wants to travel and explore the continent with you. A place where you will be able to build an inter-national network of lifelong friendships. I-House is where you can broaden your mind and share stories and emotions with friends you would not meet elsewhere. Its international atmosphere, its cultural diversity, its passionate and progressive spirit is what makes I-House so special.

I-House is an experience that will turn your view of the world upside down. Once you leave I-House you will realize what an amazing community of inspiring personalities it is. And you will always fondly remember those sunny days at the beach with your friends, those inspiring conversations with other I-Housers and all the fun and laughter during your time at I-House. It is a memory that you will carry with you your whole life.

As for what I am doing after leaving I-House, I travelled around the States for a month and returned to Austria to see my family. During the summer I worked for Siemens as a Quality Assurance Intern and am now finishing my Bachelor’s degree in Berlin where I started working for KPMG in Business Development

Simon Senkl, I-House Office Intern 2013-2014

Retrospective Insights

As can be the case for people accustomed to traveling, you end up quite suspicious in getting new places to surprise you again. I thought I already grasped much of what I believed multiculturalism to mean, and I felt somewhat stuck in a situation where I did not expect much more from what my academic path and past experiences had already given me. After my two-month trip in China, I started believing that no other place could ever entice me, as to making me willing to follow new directions. I was wrong. If China opened my perspectives, my year at UCSD and I-House empowered me to go further, implementing into my very own path those bold ideas that were kept silent in my mind.

I met many inspiring souls at I-House who have in part shaped threads of my personal story, not only because they pushed me to dare developing myself further in what I like to do - especially when supporting me in applying to the School of Oriental and African Studies of London - but also simply because for some of them we ended up reunited into the very same European city afterwards. Small world indeed. These are people who were only at I-House for a quarter yet made me discover the incredible spirit of Silicon Valley. These are hard-working students who not only get the best grades, but are also able to develop their professional objectives at the same time. They made me think in-depth about subjects I had not been assessing that much until meeting them, such as the start-up creation process or feminism.

I-House did what I thought to be impossible. On one hand it allowed me to feel again that childish excitement that had disappeared at some point while I was growing up, not only because ten minutes from I-House you are able to share a beach sunset with a bunch of friendly dolphins, but also because each full moon is an excuse to go down the hill to take part in those unrealistic bonfires that a real I-House resident has no excuse to miss since it is the kind of spiritual experiences you will tell your grandchildren about. My time spent as the I-House Programs Intern working closely with the professional staff there, and at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies - literally across the street from I-House - encouraged me to take risks when forecasting my future academic and professional moves and to enjoy doing it. No one there ever made me feel I was too young to be given responsibilities and opportunities to launch and manage my own projects and team. It was exciting to work side by side with colleagues and classmates much older than me. It was fine to give a speech in front of a hundred people from all ages, and to be listened to with respect. As long as you commit you will thrive because the I-House community incites you to trust your own abilities.

My involvement into the everyday life of this international society made me confident in expecting something from future experiences and being once again active in the discovering process. Through its circulation of ideas and its faith in innovation, what I-House perhaps taught me above all is that in order to fulfil your aspirations you need to believe in them so much that people around you believe in them as well. Whatever happens, ups or downs, never stop trying.

Eva Yilmaz, I-House Programs & Marketing Intern 2013-2014 International Management for China, MSC Candidate, SOAS University of London

I-House, the Unforgettable... Why my time at I-House will keep marking my life ever after...

Visiting Scholars’ Spotlight

UC San Diego, I-House, the City of San Diego, & MeI came to UC San Diego in June 2014 from a small hilly town, across Mt.

Dhawalgiri, one of the ten largest mountains in the world, of a beautiful country Nepal, also known as the county of Himalayas. Although I came from a mountainous country, it did not take me to become a close friend of UC San Diego and the city within a short time. In fact, both my work at the center for magnetic recording research (CMRR), UCSD and stay in the I-House apartment, has always been rewarding. The heart feeling warm weather combined with beautiful scenic places near I-house has also made my stay rewarding in many aspects.

San Diego is filled with many restaurants, enjoyable pacific beaches near-by, top-notch educational facilities, and extremely generous people. This has made me feel San Diego as my own hometown. In addition, the generous guidance I receive from my co-workers, collaborators, advisors at CMRR and the director and staff members of I-House has always made my every-day life here extra-ordinarily comfortable and easy going.

In the short period of my stay here, San Diego has already brought many joys and close friendship with the great minds of the world. As Albert Einstein once said, learn from the past, live for today, and hope for the future, and never afraid to ask questions if you have one. People here are extremely generous and willing to help one-step ahead at all times, so please do feel free to ask questions if you have any.

Living in the I-House apartment on campus has been an enriching experi-ence as well. Be it weekdays or weekends, being able to join exciting inter-national events taking place on campus is a great experience. In addition to that, meeting people from all kinds of background and intellectual levels and from many parts of the world in I-House is an added bonus. I will continue to explore this beautiful UCSD campus and the city that I currently live in, in addition to conducting every day research at UC San Diego. I hope everyone will enjoy their time being at I-House, the UCSD campus and the beautiful San Diego city while engaging in study or research.

— Conrad Rizal, crizal@ucsd.edu15

An Italian Cheesecake in I-HouseBy Fiorenzo Artoni

When I was asked to draft a piece for the I-House Newsletter I knew exactly what one of the greatest things I could share would be.

Many of you already know about my cheesecakes, so I would like you to have it even after I’m gone. And not any cheese cake, but just (and I still have to find an opposite opin-ion) THE best cheese cake ever! Therefore I would like to share a recipe that is not only easy to follow (having implemented some shortcuts myself), but also tailored specifically to the ingredients available here to an I-Houser. Ingredients you can find easily at Trader Joe’s and Ralphs. The ingredients I list here (believe me, I tried many combinations) are the closest (without being too expensive) to what I could find in Italy.

1. Cookies Latte Miele2. Butter (it has a red cover, and it does

not contain any funny ingredients: just butter)

3. Some milk (If you can, try the Cream Top Milk or the Vitamin D milk, you know, maximum 2 ingredients)

4. Organic Lemons (4-5)5. Heavy Whipping cream (the cover is

brown and white, it is fresh, no funny ingredients)

6. Trader Giotto’s Traditional fresh Ricotta (You can find it where the cheeses are, it comes in a round shape and green cover)

7. Cream Cheese (the one with a green cover, it is standard, it comes in a rect-angular shape. Avoid the light one, it contains chemicals)

8. 3 eggs (the organic, cage free, brown)9. Sugar (unbleached of course)10. Flour11. Vanilla (it is called pure bourbon va-

nilla extract)12. Some baking powder

Ingredients (Trader Joe’s)Directions1. Crunch 2 boxes (transparent and

inside the main Latte Miele cookies main cover) and distribute them into a circular pyrex dish, this will be the crust (if you don’t have a circular pyrex dish, just buy it at Ralphs for $10 or so)

2. Melt some butter and milk until there is enough to soak the crum-bled cookies and pour it over your cookies inside the pyrex dish

3. In a bowl mix three eggs, 100g sugar, four teaspoons of flour and a teaspoon of baking powder (for experts: use the whites of the eggs with some salt to whip them into a foam that you include later, you can avoid baking soda then)

4. Add the whole pack of cream cheese (roughly 250g), ricotta (roughly 250g) and half the box of cream (roughly 200g) and mix

5. Add the juice of 4-5 lemons accord-ing to your taste (come on, taste it while you make it!)

6. Add some vanilla to your liking and mix

7. Pour the whole thing in the pyrex dish, on top of the soaked crumbled cookies

8. Preheat the oven to 400F° and bake for 40min – 1h (just look at it)

Nice and easy – but you’re not done yet! Remember, you need to wait one day before eating it. But perhaps, at least for a short while longer a quicker and easier solution is just to ask me for some!

Cheers to you all!Fiorenzo

International Day of the Girl Child

International Day of the Girl Child JOIN US IN CELEBRATING

Empowering Adolescent Girls Ending the Cycle of Violence

Saturday, October 11th,2014 International House - Great Hall

All Ages Welcome9 A.M. to 12 P.M.

Register online at:http://gph.ucsd.edu/cgeh/about/international-day-girl-child/

In sponsorship with, the WorldLink Program at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, International House UC San Diego, PCI, Voices of Women, and the Center on Gender Equity and Health, UCSD School of Medicine.

Featuring Bonnie Dumanis, San Diego County District Attorney

We celebrated International Day of the Girl Child, on Saturday, October 11th, 2014 with special speaker Bonnie Dumanis the San Diego County District Attorney and our UC San Diego Chancellor, Pradeep Khosla. The theme of our celebration was Empowering Adoles-cent Girls and ending the cycle of violence that many young women experience world-wide. We hope everyone had a great time and special thanks to Calit2 for the wonderful pictures from this amazing event. Thank you to our sponsors for making this event possible, the WorldLink Program at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, PCI, Voice of Women, and the Center on Gender Equity and Health, UCSD School of Medicine.

International Day of the Girl Child

Sunday Supper: Dia de los Muertos

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Contact Us Supporting International House

Mailing AddressWe love reading letters, send us one! Please note: This is not a physical location, for mail only. For directions, please see below.

9500 Gilman Drive, #0550 La Jolla, CA 92093-0550 United States

Come stop by! Our offices are located under the Great Hall, in Eleanor Roosevelt College.

Email ihouse@ucsd.edu

Phone858-822-1791

Visit Our Websiteihouse.ucsd.edu

Fax858-822-1791

We publish a new issue of the Traveler every quarter. Have any contributions or ideas? Please share them with us! We are always open to your suggestions and input.

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Contact Us Supporting International House

Supporting International House International House awards scholarships to

deserving undergraduates every year that run on donations from generous sponsors. Also, alumni, parents, and members of the community support programs that bridge classroom experiences with the wider world, such as Model United Nations, Language Conversation Tables and Global Forum. You can help sustain our vision of by giving. Give now and help support at ihouse.ucsd.edu/giving.