VOLUME 49, ISSUE 3 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2015 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG AROUND CAMPUS CALIFORNIA IT’S LIT AT GYM STANDARD Gov. Brown Expresses Support For Fair Pay Bill Senate Bill 358 will mandate employer transparency and encourage employees to report wage inequality. PHOTO USED W PERMISSION FROM ADAM STUTZ BY Josh LefLer Gym stores, poetry and Contributing Writer Birkenstocks? The UCSD Guardian takes you behind California’s Governor Jerry one of the most unusual Brown recently stated his intent to literary experiences in the Guards Ben Lamore and David Stockton walk alongside center players Kosta Koufos and DeMarcus Cousins. The Kings will sign Senate Bill 358, a gender-based continue holding their NBA training camp at the RIMAC Arena until this Saturday. Photo by Jonathan Gao /UCSD Guardian. heart of North Park. fair-pay bill. Unanimously passed on Aug. 31, Senate Bill 358 expands the criteria for what constitutes gender- CAMPUS based wage disparity and makes it LIFESTYLE, PAGE 6 easier for underpaid female workers to file complaints against employers. The main provision of this bill BLOWING $30 MILLION Full-Service Dining Hall expands the definition of a wage gap UCSD NAMES BLUE LINE STOPS between male and female employees. OPINION, Page 4 Senate Bill 358 redefines a gender-based gap by “[eliminating] to Open in Revelle College the requirement that the wage differential be within the same SACRAMENTO KINGS Staff Writer establishment.” It also defines a TRAINING CAMP AT RIMAC ARENA By Omkar Mahajan gender-based gap as “paying any sPORTS, Page 12 of its employees at wage rates less CSD Housing, Dining and Hospitality of our Chef Ivan’s favorite international cuisine than those paid to employees of will be expanding the Revelle College growing up abroad.” the opposite sex for substantially dining hall 64 Degrees to include a full- HDH had always planned to include a full similar work.” FORECAST Uservice restaurant this quarter. Called 64 North, table service restaurant in 64 North since its A difference in pay between this expansion is expected to open some time conception. However, the process of planning male and female workers belonging this Fall Quarter. and building the dining hall began only 18 to different job titles of similar HDH Associate Director Steve Casad stated months ago. workload, even of separate that the inspiration for the restaurant came Casad explained in a statement that the cost establishments, is now valid from The Bistro, located on the opposite end and quality of the menu items will be similar to grounds for filing a complaint. THURSDAY FRIDAY of campus. that of The Bistro. Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Calif.), the bill’s primary author, H 80 L 66 H 78 L 65 “The concept of a table-service restaurant “The facility will provide a full service- was largely preceded by the overwhelming dining experience similar to that of The Bistro,” claims this provision is necessary success of The Bistro at the Strand on the Casad said. “We feel the food and dining to eliminate the workarounds in north side of campus, and [by] the desire experience will be of great value to patrons. current laws that have allowed wage to have an easily accessible location on the Desserts will be presented on a varied daily disparities to exist. south side of the campus,” Casad said in a rotation at the table. Students, staff and faculty “It means that female SATURDAY SUNDAY statement to the UCSD Guardian. “The cuisine can look forward to a menu that takes a housekeepers who clean rooms H 77 L 65 H 73 L 63 is inspired by California’s regional flavors and different take on typical dishes like salads, could legally challenge higher themes, twisted with the inventive stylization appetizers, desserts and pasta, along with a wages of those males cleaning the lobby,” Sen. Jackson said in a press conference regarding the bill. “We’re DINING, See page 3 closing all the loopholes.” VERBATIM Additionally, the bill bans the employer practice of preventing “ If we’re UCSD LIBRARY employees from inquiring about going to be and discussing the salaries they earn committed as and encourages workers to exercise a wealthy state Geisel Library Acquires Filmmaker’s Archives their rights within these terms. to supporting According to Jennifer Reisch, our students, Paul Espinosa’s award-winning works focused on United States and Mexico border issues. Legal Director for Equal Rights we need to Advocates and co-writer of the bill, rethink how we’re funding higher BY Jacky To backbone of our public intellectual of filmmaking. Espinosa’s archive this practice has kept many cases of education.” Associate News Editor system,” Espinosa said. “As a joins those of other significant wage disparity from coming to light. - Richard Thompson filmmaker whose career has been figures, such as medical researcher “Oftentimes workers don’t dedicated to public broadcasting, the Jonas Salk and author Dr. Seuss. even know that there is pay Guest Columnist University officials announced commitment of public universities Furthermore, Espinosa explained discrimination because employers OPINION, PAGE 4 that Geisel Library acquired the to public inclusiveness and to open that UCSD’s proximity to the border, express or explicitly tell them that archive of Emmy Award-winning public discussion and education are where much of his work takes place, they can’t talk about compensation,” filmmaker Paul Espinosa on Sept. key values for me.” made the university his first choice. Reisch told the UCSD Guardian. 23. The Library will celebrate Espinosa is best known for “I felt it was important that my The bill will enforce these new Espinosa’s works by hosting free, his documentaries about issues work remain closer to the border clauses by preventing employers INSIDE public screenings of his films in associated with the U.S.-Mexico and to the region in which so much from acting against or penalizing October and November. border. He created many of these of it was created,” Espinosa said. employees who have reason to Though multiple universities films while he was a member “Being on the U.S.-Mexico border invoke the bill’s provisions. INVISIBILITY CLOAK..........2 were interested in acquiring his of KPBS, San Diego’s public gives San Diego an international Senate Bill 358 is not the first WAGE GAP ...................... 4 archive — including Stanford, his broadcasting station. dynamic, and there has been so piece of legislation to tackle the issue alma mater — Espinosa told the According to the San Diego much potential to work on untold of income inequality. The Equal Pay JOYWAVE INTERVIEW ...... 7 UCSD Guardian that he felt it was Union-Tribune, the archive contains stories.” Act of 1963 also condemned the CLASSIFIEDS ................ 10 important to donate it to a public about 200 boxes of scripts, letters, Mandeville Special Collections gender-wage gap on a federal level. WOMEN’S SOCCER ....... 12 university. photos, interview transcripts and The EPA contains a provision “Public universities are the research materials from his 35 years See LIBRARY, page 3 See BILL, page 3 2 THE UCSD GUARDIAN | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2015 | WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG NEWS AVERAGE CAT By Christina Carlson Vincent Pham Editor in Chief Rosina Garcia Managing Editors Tina Butoiu Kriti Sarin News Editor Jacky To Associate News Editor Cassia Pollock Opinion Editor Marcus Thuillier Sports Editor Allison Kubo Features Editor Kyle Somers Associate Features Editor Karly Nisson A&E Editor Brittney Lu Lifestyle Editors SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Olga Golubkova Jonathan Gao Photo Editor Scientists Improve Upon Existing Designs of Invisibility Cloak Megan Lee Associate Photo Editor Joselynn Ordaz Design Editor Officials from the U.S. Department of Defense recently expressed interest in the electromagnetic wave technology. Sherman Aline Associate Design Editor Elyse Yang Art Editor BY ALLison Kubo interact with electromagnetic waves. the waves of both light and radar a line or point,” Kante said. “Also, Contributing Writer When starting this project, Kante to render the object without cosmetic and design companies are Christina Carlson Associate Art Editor acquired the help of both graduate diminishing the intensity of light interested in using [these] devices Jennifer Grundman Copy Editor and undergraduate students being reflected. To accomplish this, to make objects look different than UCSD researchers released a in the electrical and computer the researchers used a thin sheet they are.” Page Layout design for a working invisibility engineering departments. of teflon and ceramic cylinders of Kante discussed the idea that, Joselynn Ordaz, Allison Kubo, Sherman Aline cloak that has the ability to hide “It’s really important for students differing sizes, which results in these though the idea of invisibility is Copy Reader objects sitting on a flat surface to be involved in research so they cloaks being significantly lighter inconceivable today, technological Heejung Lim this past July. Unlike previous can be exposed to ideas and can and thinner than earlier versions. advances like his team’s could Editorial Assistants designs, UCSD’s development of the [contribute] ideas,” Kante said. “We In the device, the differing heights expedite the process of actualization. Sage Schubert Christian, Katie Potts technology has been called a new have three [undergraduate] students of the cylinders worked to control “Invisibility may seem like magic Business Manager step toward invisibility. Principal who are coming to group meetings the light over a surface and reduce at first, but its underlying concepts Jennifer Mancano and working on the project.” an object’s shadow. Their project are familiar to everyone. All it Investigator and Engineering Advertising Director Professor Boubacar Kante is in the In most previous attempts, was specifically a “carpet cloak,” requires is a clever manipulation Myrah Jaffer process of submitting a proposal to the reflected light from the cloak meaning it was set over an object of our perception,” Kante told Marketing Director the U.S.