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DAILY NEXUS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2019 www.dailynexus.com UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA U.S. Women’s Soccer Captains Speak on Gender Equality, World Cup Success at Arlington Theater Barbara Soccer Club and American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO). “It’s weird seeing her in person and not on my phone screen,” Reese Termond, a 17-year-old who attended the soccer clinic, said after seeing Rapinoe. “She’s actually human and not a robot that dribbles through people and scores goals.” Both on and off the field, Rapinoe was relaxed, personably cracking jokes as she gave advice and answered questions. Morgan was unable to assist at the clinic due to a knee injury but came later to the event to speak to the younger players, urging them to believe in themselves and their abilities. “Did I think that this would actually happen? I’m not sure. But I had the dream when I was 7, my mom believed in me, my family believed in me and that encouragement helped me become who I am today,” Morgan said after being asked by a player at the clinic if she always believed she would play professional soccer. Morgan and Rapinoe’s personal and professional growth was also discussed in-depth at their evening talk. Moderator Catherine Remak, from the radio station K-LITE, brought up their experiences playing high school and college soccer; Rapinoe played for the University of Portland and Morgan for UC Berkeley. Rapinoe joked about her experiences getting “walloped” as a high school player who was “never on a winning team.” But she admitted that the experience of losing led to growth, stating how “even at this level, we’ve had some really tough losses in our career and you can’t let that define you.” Both captains discussed some of the difficult defeats they’ve endured, referencing their loss to Japan at the 2011 FIFA World Cup on a penalty shootout in overtime as an example. “You don’t go to the finals to lose,” Morgan stated IDA KAZERANI / DAILY NEXUS in response to a question. “We did that in 2011, and about their 2019 World Cup win, the fight for equal Holly Rusch later in the night sporting Rapinoe and Morgan we’re not gonna do it again.” pay and their personal paths to success. Reporter jerseys, excitedly lined up to ask the soccer superstars But the players were also happy to discuss their Earlier in the evening, Rapinoe led a soccer clinic a question during the Q&A portion of the event. victories, explaining the feeling of winning a World Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan, co-captains of for over 200 girls, aged 8 to 18, with the help of the The UC Santa Barbara Arts and Lectures program Cup as almost indescribable. the women’s national soccer team, spoke to a sold-out UC Santa Barbara women’s soccer team. Many of hosted both events in conjunction with the Santa crowd at the Arlington Theatre on Tuesday evening those same young girls could be seen at the theatre Soccer Stars p.4 Where Did He Come From? Where Did How Rent Control He Go? Campus Researcher Weighs in Could Affect I.V. on Mountain Lion Sightings Sean Crommelin animal fleeing on all fours while “Honestly, I got out Google “If it has a good route to go Staff Writer the two were watching the sunset Maps as soon as I heard about up the coast through the beach, below the Campus Point bluffs. this. I was like, ‘How the heck maybe it is going up and then A rash of mountain lion Molly Hardesty-Moore, a would this guy get here?’ We’re feeling pressure to come back sightings has been reported near researcher associated with the surrounded by the 101 and the for whatever reason, but I would both UC Santa Barbara Main McCauley Lab at UCSB who 217. Even going along the coast more expect that it’s stuck here. Campus and West Campus in focuses on urban and carnivore there’s sporadic houses and If it could leave in a good way, recent weeks, raising as many ecology, sat down with the Nexus ranches,” Hardesty-Moore said. it would, and it wouldn’t come questions as it does concerns. to discuss the likely origins of “If it went from Campus Point to back,” Hardesty-Moore said. The first reported sighting was the mountain lion, as well as the Devereux, it wouldn’t go through One possibility is that conflict on Sept. 17 around 6:30 p.m., implications of repeat sightings so Isla Vista without being sighted, from another mountain lion is near Campus Point. This was close to civilization. so it seems like it went along the compelling this one to linger near quickly followed by a second Hardesty-Moore pointed beach during low tide, if that’s the coast. Mountain lions are sighting near Devereux Lagoon to two possible scenarios: the possible. It’s also possible it came territorial predators who need a on West Campus the next day; mountain lion may have come to in along the coast originally.” lot of land, so juvenile males may the following morning, Sept. 19, campus by following the coast, If the mountain lion was find themselves inadvertently NEXUS FILE PHOTO a sighting near West Campus was approaching from the relatively confined to small strips of coast encroaching on urban spaces to While many renter groups across the state have hailed the bill as a welcome reported again. undeveloped north, or it may and navigated these spaces using avoid conflict with other more reprive from landlords, detractors claim the bill will work counterproductively There were then no sightings have come to campus from the beaches to avoid humans, it established adults, she explained. Jackson Guilfoil cause” for evicting a tenant who for almost three weeks until Oct. the foothills of the Santa Ynez would be difficult for it to sustain “It seems probable that the one Staff Writer has lived in the property for more 7, when UCSB students Dulce Mountains by crossing the 101 itself, as its primary food source sighted could be a young male, than a year, and no-fault evictions Simental and Monica Lopez Freeway and crossing a number is deer, which can’t be found in since they tend to be the ones Isla Vistans are no strangers will require the landlord to spotted a large and “very built” of human settlements. the immediate coastal area, she that disperse. I don’t know why to high rents, but they received imburse[[reimburse]] their tenant noted. it would be returning [to campus a supposed victory last Tuesday for at least one month’s rent. “[Lions] do eat raccoons as areas] unless it were being driven when Governor Gavin Newsom “AB 1482 will fight rent gouging a secondary food source, and away by an aggressive older male, signed Assembly Bill 1482 into and unjust evictions to help protect we do have a decent amount of since they’re really territorial,” law — a rent control bill aimed millions of Californians who racoons,” Hardesty-Moore said. Hardesty-Moore said. at preventing landlords from rent the place they call home,” She added, however, that she “Mountain lions are wide- imposing massive rent hikes on Assemblymember Rob Bonta(D- is unsure how easy it would be ranging species, and when they Bobcat Sighting – 10/8, their tenants. Oakland), who helped author 2:21 p.m. for a mountain lion to switch get old enough, they disperse. But while many renter groups the bill, said in a press release. to a prey source it is not used It’s sort of a normal thing for across the state have hailed the bill as Assemblymembers Bonta, Buffy to; as part of her research, she them to start seeking new spaces, a welcome reprieve from landlords Wicks (D-Oakland), Rob Bonta monitors the movement of although it’s not as normal to get jacking up rates on longtime (D-Oakland) and Tim Grayson racoons throughout campus and into human spaces.” tenants, detractors claim the bill (D-Concord) also co-authored the greater urban environment A human stressor may also will work counterproductively and the bill, while Assemblymember with GPS collars and has not be a culprit. Mountain lions will worsen the housing crisis. David Chiu (D-San Francisco) is come across evidence to suggest throughout California are victims The bill, to be implemented on the main author. that a mountain lion is hunting of intense habitat fragmentation Jan. 1, 2020, prohibits landlords However, the Isla Vista Tenants the racoons. and can become cut off from one from raising rents more than 5% Union (IVTU) is more skeptical It is also unlikely that a another. This is especially true ALY WITMER & EVELYN SPENCE / DAILY NEXUS when they renew contracts with because of the high turnover rate mountain lion would willfully in coastal Southern California, ongoing tenants. The law will also of college renters in Isla Vista Twenty minutes after the reported fifth mountain lion sighting, UCSB sent return to campus after hunting where the urban landscape is out an update announcing that the fifth sighting had in fact been a bobcat. increase protections for renters; compared to long-term tenants in elsewhere unless it had to, she They noted that the four previous sightings had been mountain lions Mountain Lion p.4 now, landlords must have “just AB1482 p.7 explained. 2 Thursday, October 17, 2019 News Daily Nexus RELEASE DATE– Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis ACROSS 2 Prefix with 32 Ponders 48 Egg-shaped 1 “SNL”-like show cumulus 33 Male sib 49 Harbor wall filmed in Canada 3 See 16-Across 34 “Egad!” in an IM 50 Eight-time All-Star DAILY NEXUS 5 “Doctor Who” 4 Self-portraitist 35 Opposite of Tony of the ’60s- www.dailynexus.com network with a bandaged paleo- ’70s Minnesota 8 Rafters shoot ear 38 Long in the tooth Twins Editor-in-Chief | Hannah Jackson Science Editor | Jacqueline Wen them 5 Bodybuilder’s 41 Tommy Dorsey 51 Sister of La Toya Managing Editor | Simren Verma Photo Editor | Siavash Ghadiri 14 Pre-Euro Italian “guns” hit tune 52 Warning signs Production Coordinator | Aly Witmer Sports Photo Editor | Leonard Level: 1 2 3 4 coin 6 __-Seltzer 43 Less clumsy 53 Elemental Asst.