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Under President Barack Obama’s proposed 2010-11 budget, the Department of Education would receive $46.7 billion toward fund- ing various student-loan programs, ERIK JEPSEN/GUARDIAN aimed at increasing affordability and accessibility for college students. The Senate and House of Representatives approved two similar versions of the $3.5 trillion federal bud- get last week, which would both sup- port an increase of the maximum Pell Grant award from $5,350 in 2009-10 to ;\]LMV\[/W?Q\P/]X\I $5,500 for the 2010-11 academic year. Congress will work to reach a com- By Reza FarazmandtNews Editor promise on the two versions of the YOUR NEW budget beginning April 21. ears and beer flowed in near-equal COUNCIL The Department of Education quantities at Round Table Pizza was allotted $59.2 billion from the Friday night, when a crowd of anx- T President ious A.S. Council hopefuls gathered to hear 2009-10 budget, and Congress already Utsav Gupta approved an additional $81.1 billion the results of last week’s election. Tension quickly dissolved into drunken Vice President of from the American Recovery and Student Life Reinvestment Act earlier this year. excitement on the crowded restaurant patio Ricsie Hernandez when the candidates and their supporters “While these budget resolutions Vice President of are only guidelines for the final fed- spotted election manager Frank Carroll — Finance and Resources eral spending plan for 2010, early sole bearer of the results — arriving after a Peter Benesch indications that we are pleased to see four-hour elections-grievance hearing. Vice President of include a possible increase in funding Carroll’s eventual arrival was met with External Affairs for higher education — especially for applause and scattered heckling, the most Gracelynne West Pell grants, which are so important to poignant of which came from outgoing A.S. Campuswide Senators our students,” UC spokesman Chris Katie Hall See ELECTIONpage 2 Harrington said. Wafa Ben Hassine Tobias Haglund Lastly, the budget would eliminate JOSEPH HO/GUARDIAN KAREN LING/GUARDIAN Adam Kenworthy the Federal Family Education Loan READON Bryant Pena Program — issued through banks ▶ ▶ Top: Independent candidate Utsav Gupta won the A.S. presidency by a sizeable margin, claiming Carli Thomas and other private lenders — mak- Page 4: An opinion on the election over 2,800 votes. Above left: Adam Teitelbaum, presidential candidate for the newly formed Desiree Prevo ing the Federal Direct Loan Program, Page 4: Guest commentary from Gupta Clean Slate, trailed Gupta by nearly 1,000 votes. Above right: Though Student Voice! presidential Alex Vu which is funded by the Department candidate Erin Brodwin only received 1,198 votes, candidates on her slate swept most other positions. of Education, the single option for students seeking financial support. It would also increase funding for the Federal Perkins Loan Program from $1 billion to $5 billion, while ;MV+IVLQLI\M[;\]LMV\>WQKM )KK][MLWN-TMK\QWV5Q[KWVL]K\ doubling the 1,800 colleges that cur- rently participate in the program. The Review committee storming” practices. launched March 9, well before Ng said Gupta was not look- plan would provide an estimated 2.7 A.S. President-elect Utsav Student Voice! used the same ing to disqualify Student Voice! million additional students with the votes to take no action Gupta filed a violations report term on a Web site launched from the election, but was merely Perkins Loan — a five-fold increase against the slate, asks on April 9, accusing April 1. seeking a public apology and over the existing 500,000 students Student Voice! of pla- Ng and Vakilifathi removal of the Web site. receiving the loan now. senator contenders to giarizing the campaign also argued that A.S. Elections Manager Frank The United States Student apologize. phrase “Uncage Sun Student Voice! plagia- Carroll mediated the discussion. Association — a student-led organi- God” and several other rized the image slide- Rishi Ghosh, creator of the zation whose members include sev- By Yelena Akopian elements of his Web show and pop-up text Student Voice! Web site, defend- eral UC students — is lobbying for Associate News Editor site. featured on Gupta’s ed the slate’s right to use the the House of Representatives’ version Sixth college juniors Web site — as well as images by arguing that they were of the bill, due to its higher non- During the four hours Brian Ng and Mona two images comple- acquired through free, public- discretionary spending on programs before A.S. election results Vakilifathi, who pre- menting his platforms domain sources. He said that the that the government considers man- were announced last Friday, the sented the case on Frank Carroll to halt tuition increas- code and software used to layout datory, such as Social Security. It also Elections Review Committee Gupta’s behalf, argued A.S. Elections Manager es and protect free the Web site were completely dif- includes “budget reconciliation,” a found the Student Voice! slate that “uncaging” Sun God was an speech. ferent than those used by Gupta. controversial partisan procedural tac- guilty of campaign plagiarism original idea, coined and used by “The similarities on the Web Ghosh also argued that the and found two college senator Gupta throughout his campaign sites are too common,” Vakilifathi See BUDGETpage 2 candidates guilty of illicit “dorm and on his Web site. The site was said. See GRIEVANCESpage 2
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Sensors measured The flight test was one of two hands-on design pressure, temperature, projects assigned last Fall Quarter in MAE 2 — an humidity, wind velocity, introductory course to aerospace engineering — by time, radiation, mag- professors John Kosmatka and Keiko Nomura. netic fi eld and solar-cell Every year, Kosmatka and Nomura include a effi ciency in relation to technical design project on the course syllabus. the balloon’s altitude. Typically, it involves building small airplanes and flying them at campus locations such as RIMAC Field. But this year, Kosmatka and Nomura decided to include an additional project that would cater THE SURVIVORS more to students’ interests. Cockroaches, water bears and pla- “There are about 120 students in this course, naria (small worms) were sent up and a third of them are more interested in space in special environmental cham- than aircraft,” Kosmatka said. bers. All cockroaches survived the P The class, a prerequisite for the aerospace engi- HOTOS minus 40 degree temperature and neering major, is largely composed of freshmen. environmental rigors of space. While a lot of work is required for the new assign- C ment, Kosmatka said the project was designed to OURTESY press students into questioning their commitment to the field. VIEW FROM ABOVE “It’s a hard major, and we really want them to OF Horizontal and become motivated as freshmen,” Kosmatka said. “If D vertical digital cameras, they are inspired, then they are on the right track.” AVID set to continuously Kosmatka and Nomura said they gave students H shoot at 30-second inter- as much freedom as possible to design and study ERNANDEZ vals, captured the balloon’s what they wanted within the project guidelines. journey to space and “I’m sure they were tired of me telling them back. what I thought was going on,” Kosmatka said. “I wanted them to figure out for themselves what was happening.” Teaching assistants Andrew Cavendar and Zach Lovering also helped orchestrate the launch. The faculty applied for sponsorship from the 11:50 a.m. 4 p.m. California Space Grant, which covered the total Launch: Th e 1:09 p.m. Recovery: Aft er cost of the project — approximately $5,000. They latex weather Peak: At 84,077 hiking 2.2 miles also contacted the Federal Aviation Administration balloon is feet, the balloon into the North to make sure the project was within the FAA’s legal released and bursts. Aft er a Algodones Dunes airspace limits. students began brief freefall, Wilderness Area, The 40-foot balloon contraption was composed LAUNCH monitoring the parachute the team recovers of a series of four payloads, or boxes, each with a readings. deploys. the project. different function. The compartment at the lowest DAY level contained two cameras with software rewritten by students to take photographs every 30 seconds, DECEMBER 6, 2008 from both horizontal and vertical perspectives. The boxes were tethered to a large atmospheric weather 10 a.m. 11 a.m. 12 p.m. 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 3 p.m. 4 p.m. balloon, 10 feet in diameter, with a deflated para- chute dangling just beneath it. As the balloon reached 85,000 feet — considered the edge of space — it expanded and eventually 10 a.m. 12:35 p.m. 1:39 p.m. burst, at which point the parachute opened and Preparation: Mid-fl ight: Th e Landing: Th e gently brought the apparatus back down to the Students begin balloon heads payload lands 65 earth. The entire trip lasted two hours. pre-launch setup east, passing miles east of the The 22 students selected for this project — cho- and fi nal assembly over El Centro launch site in the sen from a class of 113 based on interest and past in Plaster City, as it climbs past Imperial Sand experience in ballooning, electronics fabrication, California — just 50,000 feet. Dunes, and the west of El Centro. team begins recov- See BALLOONpage 8 ery via GPS tracker. 465+(@(7903 ;/,<*:+.<(9+0(5 -6*<: VIRAL VIDEO ADVANCES HIV RESEARCH BY SARAH SMITH STAFF WRITER hough it looks more like a radioactive piece of Flubber UCSD professor of pathology and medicine Douglas slowly forcing itself into some unsuspecting globular struc- Richman — who also serves as director of the Center for ▶ CAUGHT ON FILM T ture, a new 37-second film clip — captured by researchers AIDS Research at UCSD — said the goal of current HIV/AIDS at UC Davis and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine — shows research is to reduce the need for chronic suppressive therapy an HIV-infected T-cell spreading the virus to an uninfected by eliminating the latent reservoir of HIV infection, the pool of SETTING THE STAGE T-cell. infection that remains dormant. However, this would demand Infected and The footage proves that the process occurs through a viro- additional knowledge of possibly undiscovered HIV “reser- uninfected cells are logical synapse: a cell-to-cell adhesion that allows the virus to voirs,” as well as a greater understanding of HIV activities in loaded into a live cell transfer without leaving the safety of cell membranes. the bloodstream. imaging chamber A March 6 article in Science magazine challenged academics, According to Chen the next goal is discovering how to stop (clear tubes), then industry specialists, patient advocates and government officials the virus from spreading by using synapses, as well as develop- transferred onto to cooperate in the search for a vaccine for the global killer; the ment of a method to help the immune system produce signifi- the microscope and video footage’s resulting report ran in the same publication on cant amounts of HIV-blocking antibodies. imaged with rapid, March 27. “We hope that this work will trigger significantly more spinning-disk confo- When screened at an HIV conference this summer, the work on the importance of direct cell-cell transmission for cal microscopy. transfer elicited “audible gasps” from the audience, said Thomas HIV, because we believe that this could be one of the rea- Huser, associate professor and chief scientist at the UC Davis sons why current attempts at developing a vaccine have been Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology. unsuccessful because the virus in essence hides inside cells,” “The filming of live cells was important because it allowed Huser said. us to make very specific physical measurements with regard to But shortages in research funding from the federal govern- METHOD ACTING the rate of transfer of viral proteins in the already infected cell, ment, coupled with a need for a full-time virologist — currently Above: Eleven min- as well as in the newly infected target cells,” Huser said. “This compensated for by Chen’s research group — might slow prog- utes into the experi- ment, an infected cell enables us to make more definitive conclusions about the nature ress. Other problems include the skeptical response of the HIV USER of the virus transfer. It allows others to develop better models of research community and the pharmaceutical industry. H (green) has attached the pathway of cell-cell transmission, and, of course, it created Huser also realizes the problems researchers are faced with in itself to an uninfected cell. some stunning visual imagery, which should be eye opening to attempts to cure the disease. HOMAS scientists and the wider public alike.” “There are still many mysteries surrounding HIV spread,” T Below: At 29 min- OF Highly active antiretroviral therapy — the current go-to Huser said. “We don’t know if spread through direct cell-cell utes, the infection drug cocktail designed to halt HIV replication — still has transfer is really the dominant mode for how the infection has spread to the new significant drawbacks. It is an expensive, lifelong prescription spreads in the body. At the current point, we can only hypoth- cell, and has already with long-term side effects in older HIV-positive patients that esize that it is. There is also a big mystery surrounding the actual OURTESY begun to take over C can include certain types of cancer, heart disease, liver disease infection of target cells. We found that the virus in the target cell the cell’s functions. and diabetes. appears to be contained in a cellular compartment, similar to an HOTOS Like Huser, many researchers believe that HIV treatments endosome. We currently have no clue about how HIV is able to P have reached a point where it is necessary to put treatment get out of this compartment.” research on the back burner in favor of discovering a vaccine. Scientists are still not overly optimistic when it comes to “Clearly one of the highest priorities of AIDS research, in the future of HIV/AIDS research and vaccine discovery; they CRITICS WEIGH IN addition to finding a cure, is to find an effective preventive acknowledge several problems that hinder progress. One is An electron vaccine,” said Benjamin Chen, assistant professor at the Mount time. Some, like Richman, believe that given the length of time micrograph shows Sinai School of Medicine. Chen’s laboratory created the green required to complete other treatments, the process will be a the virological synapse fluorescent virus technology, like a food coloring for cells, used tedious and slow-moving one that may not produce results for between infected to illuminate the cell-to-cell transfer in the video. years, if not decades. and uninfected cells, Chen noted that the new evidence may assist researchers in “This virus is different from almost any other virus,” Richman fi lled with newly creating an effective HIV vaccine, by emphasizing the need for said. “There is so much antigenic variation that it will be difficult forming virus particles antibodies that attack both modes of transmission — cell-to- to create a vaccine for this. It’s going to be a long, hard struggle.” (highlighted with cell along with the previously accepted cell-free transmission arrows). through plasma. 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A controversial LMU buzzer beater University on April 17 before traveling STEP 3 “That’s my fondest memory of this cut UCSD’s lead to one at the end of to San Diego State University in hopes GET 25% OFF team,” Gstettenbauer said. “They were the half. of avenging a previous 16-6 loss. YOUR FOOD! so cocky going into that game and then To break out of the second half, we beat them pretty good.” both teams fought hard before LMU Readers can contact Tyler Nelson at Despite the strong performance in netted consecutive goals to take the [email protected]. =+;,5][\+TQVO\W.W]Z\P8TIKMNWZ8TIaWNN*MZ\P ▶ SOFTBALL, MYVTWHNL short in the second game of the dou- don’t fall and you just don’t get the hits.” pitcher Lauren Chastain’s first home bleheader. The Coyotes took a 4-0 The UCSD pitching gave up 11 hits 18+ run of the season — a three-run shot. lead through three-and-a-half innings in the 7-1 Coyote victory. 21 to drink “I think we were just seeing the ball before junior catcher Nicole Saari’s two- In the doubleheader’s back end, the really well,” Habib said. “Obviously it run single helped cut the deficit to one. Tritons mustered only three hits, fail- Hookah Bar & Lounge showed in our hitting.” UCSD rallied in the seventh as ing to score and falling 2-0 to Cal State The Coyotes responded with a senior outfielder Megan Grace smashed San Bernardino. three-run blast of their own in the an RBI triple, making it 7-5. 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However, UCSD continued “We lost from poor defensive play,” Coyotes up 1-0 in the sixth, Chastain $OO'D\ZLWK8&6',' 4/30/09 to hit the long ball, and Habib’s tower- Gerckens said. “Our infield just didn’t stranded two runners with a critical ing home run in the bottom of the fifth get some routine ground balls, didn’t strikeout to escape the inning. 1 0editerranean 6naFk 3Oate gave the Tritons a 7-5 lead. communicate on some pop flies, did “I was hoping that we could use 1 $Oi )rieV Down by two, the Coyotes scored not take the bunt away from them.” the momentum and take it into the 2 Ior 1 'raIt BeerV a run in the sixth, and threatened to During the first game of the Senior seventh and score a couple of runs to take the lead with two runners on base. Day doubleheader on April 11, the win the game,” Chastain said. Hookah Granath came in from the bullpen to UCSD lineup left nine runners on After the disappointing series, extinguish the fire, by striking out the base. The offensive struggles peaked in UCSD is now fourth in the CCAA next batter and inducing a groundout the fifth inning, with the team down and must hold on to that fourth spot 5 North to Exit 30 Sorrento Valley before pitching a flawless seventh. 5-1. The Tritons loaded the bases, but to make the playoffs. 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VOLLEYBALL — On the verge of playoff elimina- tion, No. 10 UCSD (12-14, 8-13 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) had a rollercoaster weekend at RIMAC Arena against No. 3 Cal State Northridge and No. 13 UC Santa Barbara. The Tritons nearly forced a fifth set on April 10, before falling in four to the Matadors. UCSD then defeated UCSB on April 11 in five sets, keeping playoff hopes alive. “With CSUN we stayed down for a little too long, but we came back against UCSB and finished strong,” senior middle blocker Gerald Houseman said. After Friday’s loss to the Matadors, the Tritons found themselves in a must-win situation on Saturday against UCSB (8-18, 4-17 MPSF) with UCSD’s first-ever postseason berth on the line. Playing most of Saturday’s game from behind, the Tritons eventually overcame the early deficit, taking the five-set victory. UCSD won the first set, hitting at a .423 clip compared to the Gauchos’ .148. Holding on to a slim lead, the Tritons widened their advantage margin to 24-20 on the backs of Fritsch and Houseman, leading to a 30-26 win. After a kill from junior opposite hitter Jason Spangler opened the second set, the Gauchos went on a scoring spree, sending down 10 straight points and ultimately taking the set 30-21. The third set wasn’t much of an improvement ,9021,7:,5GUARDIAN for the Tritons, as they were coming off a set in UCSD currently sits in ninth place in conference play, one-and-a-half games behind eighth-place UCLA. The Tritons will have to win out and hope for some help from the Bruins to advance. which they hit for a negative percentage. After trailing by five early on, UCSD rallied to come back on top. UCSB tied it again at 13, but another to remember on their home court. In the game, closing the door on the set with a 10-4 run. within two points. However, UCSB went on an 8-3 Gaucho attack error and an Ehrman kill ended the Tritons were barely outhit: .276 to .261. In the seesaw grudge match that was the run, putting the set out of reach for the Tritons. the game and match at a 15-13 UCSD advantage. Fritsch sent down 26 kills and Spangler added 22 fourth set, both teams served for the win; it was a UCSD finally showed life in set four, when a “The UCSB game was kind of up and down kills as UCSD nearly forced a fifth set. The fourth never-ending story, going back and forth multiple block from Houseman and sophomore setter Phil for us playing wise, but we were able to turn set featured 21 ties and 10 lead changes. times. Following a UCSD service error, a Matador Bannan combined with two Fritsch kills broke a it around in the fourth and fifth game when it After taking the first set, Cal State Northridge block finally ended the match at 38-36. tie and gave the Tritons a 24-20 lead. UCSD forced counted and came out with the win,” Bannan said. carried an early 10-8 lead in the second. The Tritons will play again on Friday night at a fifth set after redshirt sophomore outside hitter Fritsch led the Tritons with 21 kills, while UCSD then went on an 11-4 tear, making RIMAC against Cal State Long Beach. Will Ehrman sent down the match point. Ehrman added 16 kills and 10 digs. Sophomore the score 19-14. With a tied score at 28, Cal “I think we might have a chance still to make The Tritons took an 8-6 lead in the fifth set middle blocker Calvin Ross and Houseman State Northridge took the lead on a kill. Spangler playoffs depending on how other teams finish after a service error before the Gauchos stormed added nine kills each. Houseman and Ross had answered back with a kill of his own and two Cal up their seasons,” Bannan said. “So we will have back, tying the score at 11. A UCSD attack error eight blocks apiece while Phil Bannan recorded State Northridge errors gave UCSD the win. to wait and see how that turns out.” gave the Gauchos a 12-11 lead, but the Tritons seven blocks, six digs and 56 assists. Cal State Northridge dominated the third set immediately answered on a Fritsch kill to tie it Friday night, the Tritons gave the Cal State early before the Tritons rallied to cut the deficit Readers can contact Cameron Tillisch at ctillisc@ at 12 before a UCSB attack error put the Tritons Northridge Matadors (22-5, 15-5 MPSF) a battle to two. The Matadors quickly fenced off UCSD, ucsd.edu. =+;,+IV¼\:MXMI\=X[M\7^MZ45= ;90;65:-(3305-05(3 By Tyler Nelson Staff Writer /64,:;(5+6-:,(:65 WATER POLO — With the season winding down, the Tritons, who played their final home game and faced their archrival in back-to-back contests last week, would have preferred a hap- pier finish. In an outstanding matchup against No. 11 Loyola Marymount University on April 9, the Tritons fell short of an upset by just four and a half minutes. UCSD then faced No. 13 University of Michigan on Senior Day, aggressively attacking the Wolverines throughout the match before Michigan snagged the victory in the fourth quar- ter. Throughout the season, the Tritons have battled through inexperience at key positions, but on Saturday UCSD’s veteran players were faced with the task of dealing with strong emotions. “It feels weird,” senior captain 16/5/(5(*,2GUARDIAN Sydney Gstettenbauer said of her final Sophomore outfielder Kristyn Lesovsky went 2-for-4 with a home run in UCSD’s only win over CSUSB. home game. “It doesn’t really feel like I’m leaving. We still have some games By John Beck three errors in the first inning. left so it’s not like it’s really over yet.” Contributing Writer “We definitely changed a lot of peo- The Wolverines relentlessly shut ple around in the lineup,” head coach down Gstettenbauer, who has been SOFTBALL — UCSD dropped four Patti Gerckens said. “Our catcher UCSD’s top performer this season. The out of five games last week, in its last [against USD] usually plays first base.” attacker scored her only goal of the homestand of the season. Now, the After sophomore outfielder Kristyn game in its closing seconds — long Tritons must hold on to fourth place Lesovsky hit an RBI single in the fifth, GUARDIAN after the outcome had been decided. 16/5/(5(*,2 in the California Collegiate Athletic USD struck back with a three-run Holding the lead halfway through the fourth quarter, the Tritons fell to LMU in the game’s final minutes. Both teams played a tight game Association to make the playoffs. home run, taking an 8-1 lead. through much of the contest; a per- seconds left in the quarter. someone needs to find that open shot.” Having won eight of their last 11 Down by seven, the Tritons rallied formance lapse in the second quarter Both teams scored back-to-back The Tritons took that advice to games, the Tritons looked more than in the seventh inning, but were only was the Tritons’ undoing. From the get goals to start the second period before heart in the third quarter, netting the ready for their final five home games able to put four runs on the score- go, the game looked to be a defensive Michigan went on a four-goal run, tak- first two goals — by senior two-meter against University of San Diego on board, ultimately falling 8-5. matchup, with neither offense clicking ing a 6-2 halftime lead. defender Rebecca Gearty and junior April 8, and doubleheaders against Cal After the loss, UCSD set its sights in the first quarter. The University of “When they take out our best attacker Audra Bloom — and cutting State San Bernardino April 10 and 11. on its final home series of the season, a Michigan finally scored with 1:51 left scorer, the other players need to find the Michigan lead to 6-4. Michigan UCSD got off to a rough start, with four-game set with the Coyotes. in the first on a shot that just barely opportunities to make shots,” head scored again, but sophomore attacker USD taking a 5-0 lead during the top UCSD struck first, producing four crawled through the posts. Sophomore coach Larry Sanders said. “The open- Hanalei Crowell answered with a goal of the first inning. Freshman start- runs on three hits, including senior utility Nadine Shnayderman returned ings are there because the defense ing pitcher Tess Granath gave up four the favor, scoring a Triton goal with 40 is focusing on [Gstettenbauer] and See WATER POLOpage 11 hits and the Triton defense committed See SOFTBALLpage 11