Sixth, Muir Students to Vote on Fee Increases POLICE FIND Inflation Trends, Decreased Funding UNDERAGE from A.S

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www.ucsdguardian.org Thursday, February 26, 2009 The Student Voice Since 1967 Sixth, Muir Students to Vote on Fee Increases POLICE FIND Inflation trends, decreased funding UNDERAGE from A.S. Council lead college councils to tap DRINKING AT students for cash. By Yelena Akopian KOALA OFFICE Associate News Editor By Matthew McArdle The John Muir College and Sixth Senior Staff Writer College councils recently approved proposals to include student activi- Campus police detained several ty-fee increases on the A.S. Council’s members of controversial student general election ballot next quarter. humor newspaper the Koala early The Muir College Council’s ref- Monday morning after discovering erendum would increase the col- underage drinking in the publication’s lege’s quarterly student activity fee Student Center Media Lounge space. — which currently stands at $7 per The violation of university policy could quarter per student — by $3 in lead to the organization’s suspension the 2009-10 academic year, with an from its on-campus location for the additional $2 every five years over second time in two years. the next 10 years. The plan would PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ERIK JEPSEN/GUARDIAN Koala Editor in Chief and Earl cap the student activity fee at $14 The student fee increase proposed by John Muir College Council would provide funding for annual events such as Muirstock and Muir Musical. Warren College senior Kris Gregorian per quarter per person. Muir College Dean of Student ditional events and organizations, “The fee increase will help us do and three other students were held by MCC Chair Keaton Denlay said Affairs Patricia Mahaffey said MCC and for subsidized tickets to events t h at .” officers for individual questioning after that in the past, annual events such decided last year that the college’s like semi-formal and other trips.” If the increase is passed, Sixth loud noises were heard coming from as the Muirstock concert and Muir activity fee must be raised to main- The Sixth College referendum College would have the highest the Media Lounge at approximately Musical received up to $3,500 each tain the quality of future events, proposes to increase the quarterly activity fee of all six colleges, which 2:20 a.m. on Feb. 23. Police discovered in funds from the A.S. Council, but but that the council put the issue student activity fee — currently at the council attributes to the fact trash bins containing empty beer cans that declining support forced MCC off until this year in order to con- $8 per student — to $10, and prom- that Sixth has the fewest number of as well as an underage student holding to propose the referendum. centrate on Muir’s 40th anniversary ises not to propose any further fee enrolled students. a half-empty beer, and issued three “A.S. has been gradually cutting celebration. hikes until at least fall 2012. Both referenda are cur- citations for public intoxication, adding funds that used to go toward Muir “When the A.S. [Council] cut Sixth College Council Vice Chair rently awaiting approval by Vice that they would notify the appropri- programming in the past few years, funding to the [Muir] council, that of Internal Affairs Thach Tran said Chancellor of Student Affairs Penny ate administrative officials about the so [the fee increase] will go toward resulted in the [Muir] council hav- the fee increase was suggested by Rue. If approved, the measures violation. recuperating those funds, and for ing to dip into their reserves and the finance committee last year to will be voted on during the second Gregorian, who was not issued a the expansion and betterment of spend money that they don’t nor- compensate for inflation, to avoid week of Spring Quarter via the A.S. citation, denied responsibility for the Muir organizations and program- mally spend,” Mahaffey said. “This another budget crisis and to allow Council’s general election ballot. In incident. ming,” Denlay said. money has been critical. The coun- Sixth College to create annual events order to pass, both referenda must “The beers were in the trash when I The fee increase would be sub- cil needs to go back to Muir stu- comparable to those put on by other see a turnout of at least 15 percent of found them,” he said. jected to the campus’ return-to- dents and say ‘Can we raise the fees colleges. college-specific students and receive According to UCSD police Sgt. aid policy, under which 29 percent by a couple of dollars to provide the “We need to improve and work a majority of affirmative votes. John Smart, the department has been of funds collected through such flexibility we need?’ I think the fee on our programs and events to com- increasing police visibility at night in increases go to financial-aid schol- increase will provide much-needed pete with other colleges … and cre- Readers can contact Yelena Akopian at arships and incentives. revenue and funding for our big tra- ate our own traditions,” Tran said. [email protected]. See KOALA, page 3 National Security Study to Determine ‘My Vagina Is an Eccentric Tulip’ Future of Prominent UC Nuclear Labs

By Sarah de Crescenzo design programs, the other two being the Los Senior Staff Writer Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. A federal study is under way this week to The Livermore lab was founded at the start of assess the possibility of moving the University the Cold War in 1952 and has been co-managed of California-managed Lawrence Livermore by the university ever since. The Los Alamos and Los Alamos National Laboratories from the location, founded a decade before Livermore, was Department of Energy to the Department of the birthplace of the first atomic bomb. Defense, according to an internal memo from the Management of the Los Alamos lab opened to Federal Office of Management and Budget. bids from other vendors in 2003 for the first time; The labs — currently co-managed by the uni- in response, the university partnered with private versity and the Department of Energy — are two companies and won the seven-year contract that of the nation’s premier nuclear weapons research is currently in place. facilities and are aimed at sustaining and improv- While both laboratories are still heav- ing the safety, reliability and performance of the ily involved in nuclear security activities, such as nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. preventing the proliferation and use of nuclear If the results of the study do advise such a weapons, they have expanded to host such proj- switch, the laboratories would see a shift from ects as climate-change research and modernizing civilian to military control by 2011. the nation’s energy infrastructure through nuclear According to UC spokesman Chris Harrington, fusion projects. it is not yet clear whether a move from the “The University of California has a proud Department of Energy to the Department of tradition of bringing strong science and technol- Defense would affect either UC management or ogy to the important work of the Department of employees currently employed at either lab. Energy national laboratories,” Harrington said. PHOTO COURTESEY OF SARAH DILLON The Livermore site is one in a trifecta of “The Vagina Monologues” played at the Price Center East Ballroom for three nights last week. Performance proceeds will support national laboratories that make up the National Readers can contact Sarah de Crescenzo at License to Freedom, an organization working against domestic violence in the San Diego community, and the International V-Day Nuclear Security Administration’s nuclear- [email protected]. Organization, which will contribute funds to fighting violence against women and children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Monica Bachmeier General Manager CURRENTS Mike Martinez Advertising Manager Alfredo Vilano Advertising Art Director her vehicle, held her down between nated Juneja based on academic its 34,000 square feet — will be D a r a B u Student Advertising/ Police Release Sketch Julia Peterson Promotion Managers two parked cars and raped her. The achievements, which include inten- completed next year. The winery will Michael Neill Network Administrator of Rape Suspect suspect was described as an Asian sive, 30-hours-a-week research also house a large experimental fer- Shawn Xu Advertising Sales Rep male about six feet tall between the on cancer stem-cell biology at mentation area, controlled tempera- Business Assistants ages of 18 and 22, and was last seen the UCSD School of Medicine ture rooms for large-scale testing, Salvador Gallegos, Charissa Ginn, Tiffany Han, Maggie Leung, Frank Pak running toward North Torrey Pines and studies with the Instrument barrel and bottle cellars, a testing Advertising Design and Layout Road. Development Group at Scripps lab and a special bottle cellar for George Chen, Brandon Chu, Kim Cooper, Jenny Ting Wang Distributors Institution of Oceanography on donated wines. A 12.5 acre teaching Alaric Bermudez, Charissa Ginn, Scott Havrisik, Josh Ottoson UCSD Senior Named Spray, an autonomous underwater and research vineyard, along with Marketing and Promotion Reps glider. educational gardens, will be located Dara Bu, Tracy Hua, Maggie Leung, Kathleen Ngo, Lisa Tat Churchill Scholar The UCSD Guardian is published Mondays and outside the winery. Thursdays during the academic year by UCSD students After being named a Churchill “Our students will be able to and for the UCSD community. Reproduction of this New UC Davis Facility to newspaper in any form, whether in whole or in part, Scholar by the Winston Churchill learn about winemaking using the without permission is strictly prohibited. © 2008, all Research Wine, Beer, Food rights reserved. The UCSD Guardian is not responsible Foundation, Sixth College senior most advanced facility, and learn for the return of unsolicited manuscripts or art. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the opin- Vikram Juneja will be awarded The UC Board of Regents recent- approaches to improve sustainable ions of the UCSD Guardian, the University of California or Associated Students. The UCSD Guardian is funded $50,000 to complete a one-year ly authorized plans to build a state- and precision wine production,” solely by advertising. Where’d you get that Mexican graduate program at Cambridge of-the-art research center in which to Andrew Waterhouse, professor and soda? Hadley’s house. University, where he plans to com- study wine, beer and food. chair of the UC Davis department General Editorial: 858-534-6580 plete a master’s thesis on cancer The facility will include a research of viticulture and enology, said in a [email protected] News: 858-534-5226, [email protected] stem-cell research. and teaching winery and the statement. Focus: 858-534-5226, [email protected] Hiatus: 858-534-6583, [email protected] Junega, a mechanical engineer- August A. Busch III Brewing and Both the winery and the labo- Opinion: 858-534-6582, [email protected] COURTESY OF UCPD ing major who has maintained a near Food Science Laboratory. Working ratory will be modeled to achieve Sports: 858-534-6582, [email protected] Photo: 858-534-6582, [email protected] UCSD police released a compos- 4.0 GPA during his time as a UCSD with the UC Davis Robert Mondavi certification in Leadership in Energy Advertising: 858-534-3467 ite sketch Wednesday of the man undergraduate, is the university’s first Institute for Wine and Food Science, and Environmental Design through [email protected] who sexually assaulted a female stu- Churchill Scholar recipient and one it will host scientific research, student the U.S. Green Building Council. The dent in parking lot 102 near Revelle of 14 scholars selected this year from training and industry collaboration. winery will be the first in the world to College earlier this month. a pool of 99 applicants from 63 col- Construction on the building — include sustainability features such The UCSD Guardian The student reported to campus leges and universities nationwide. which will include a food-processing as onsite solar power generation, 9500 Gilman Drive, 0316 police last week that on the evening Laurie Smith, a biology profes- plant, a dairy-processing facility and rainwater capture and water conser- La Jolla, CA 92093-0316 of Feb. 3 the suspect knocked her sor and UCSD representative for a pilot brewery for the department of vation and carbon dioxide contain- UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG to the ground as she was locking the scholarship program, nomi- food science and technology over ment and removal for sequestration. AUTO INSURANCE DJ Thursday & Dogs FOR MEXICO ������������������������ INSTANT Today on the deck at ������������������������� ����������������� The Grove from 12-2pm MEXICO ������������� AUTO INSURANCE ������������� $2 Hot Dog PRINT ONLINE AT & Soda www.instantmexicoinsurance.com Watch for it every Thursday! THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009 THE UCSD GUARDIAN NEWS 3 Council Affirms Support for Policy Calls for Statewide Tuition-Freeze Legislation Eviction Upon ue to a recent rape at a Revelle A.S. Speaker Jordan Taylor would College parking lot, Nancy not allow the resolution to support all Terms Violation Wahlig of the Sexual Assault affiliates of the Literature Building to ResourceD Center paid a visit at last be added to the new business section ▶ KOALA, from page 1 night’s council meeting to inform of the meeting because the language of response to the recent on-campus sex- councilmembers about resources avail- the resolution was not submitted last ual assault of a female student, which able for victims of sexual crime. Friday as is required by proper proto- occurred in parking lot 102 during the Lumumba-Zapata Coalition mem- col. This incited a debate over whether early evening hours of Feb. 3. ber Sam Huang delivered a passionate or not to overturn the decision. University Centers, the administra- speech on the alleged cancer cluster “This issue [of the alleged cancer tive faction responsible for overseeing in the Literature Building and pushed cluster] has been around for weeks,” on-campus space agreements with stu- the council to approve a resolution she Sixth College Senator John Cressey dent organizations, specifically prohib- drafted demanding that the university said. “I do understand that this is time- its the presence of alcohol or drugs in take immediate action to relocate the ly but I think e-mail traffic would have student offices. staff and faculty in been good on the According to policy guidelines, the building, which listserv. This [doc- rule violations result in the loss of an councilmembers New ument] is timely organization’s space assignment. did not consider. but would have University Centers Director Paul A s s o c i a t e Business been even more so Terzino said in an e-mail that he was Vice President of Connie Shieh last Thursday.” made aware of the incident by cam- External Affairs The speaker’s pus police, but would offer no further [email protected] Lisa Chen, Arts decision was not comment before reviewing the official free show and Humanities Senator Sam Jung and overturned and the council moved on incident report, which he said would Muir College Chair Mabel Tsang gave to announcements from councilmem- be released today. a presentation on the state budget and bers. Because of its provocative content, the toll it has and will continue to take All-Campus Senator Chris Westling the Koala has had historically rocky on higher education, specifically the enthusiastically informed the council relations with the university over its University of California system. that the Web site for the Save the nearly 30 years as a registered stu- Free-Speech committee mem- Wedge campaign is now up and run- dent organization. The newspaper was bers James Baldwin and Associate ning. The site includes a history of kicked out of its office two years ago Vice President of Local Affairs Erin the planning and development of the after a Student Center employee dis- Brodwin then gave the most up-to- four phases of the Wedge, and the covered alcohol and drug parapher- date information on the campus free- Sustainable Concept Design proposal nalia. Following a lengthy dispute dur- speech policy, which should be com- for the final phase of the project. ing which Koala members handcuffed plete in a few more weeks. Revelle College Senator Brian themselves to a couch for nearly a The council then moved to approve Youm informed the council that the week, the newspaper’s office space was a resolution supporting the UC Student search for a new Revelle provost is reassigned; however, the publication Association’s College Affordability Act now over, and the new provost will be regained a slot in the Media Lounge at featuring afterschoolspecial of 2009, a measure which calls for a announced next quarter. the beginning of last academic year. five-year freeze on fees for resident Vice President of Finance and Warren College freshman Wes UC and CSU undergraduate students, Resources Naasir Lakhani announced Field, one of the students issued a cita- prevention of future increases from that the Grove Caffe will be working tion, said that if members face eviction, surpassing the inflation index and with the Deejay and Vinylphiles Club they would continue to produce the raises the income tax by 1 percent for for a weekly event called DJ Thursdays, Koala on private computers. The Loft Thursday Feb. 26 millionaires. an initiative to increase student traffic “Those computers we use right Price Center East, Level 2 Doors 7:30pm Show 8pm The council also approved a res- and business in Student Center. now are shitty anyway,” he said. Open to all UC San Diego students with valid student ID and one guest. olution for the Sustainable Concept “Let’s all come out and support [the Arrive early as space is extremely limited! Design of phase four of the Wedge that Old Student Center] as much as pos- Readers can contact Matthew McArdle theloft.ucsd.edu universitycenters.ucsd.edu • 858.822.2068 was introduced last week. sible,” Lakhani said. at [email protected]. Props to Pres. Barack Obama for pledging to provide ample support for 4 every American to graduate college at a national address Tuesday night. CONTACT THE EDITOR Alyssa Bereznak Flops to Tatiana Tye and Jazmine Finley, [email protected] two 16-year-old Arizona students charged with child prostitution and pimping other OPINION girls at their high school. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009 EDITORIAL Expert Council Denies Loft, Ignores Students’ Interests Advice From ast week A.S. councilmem- bers blocked the Loft from adding a fee referendum to Ltheir spring ballot, swiftly denying a Weathered students the ability to fund UCSD’s infant nightclub, should they so choose. The council’s reasoning? Roommate The A.S. general election is for vot- ing on A.S. things only; those Loft s Winter Quarter winds kids can go make their own election down and the roommate on the other side of the sandbox. habits we once found cute You know, people might confuse Agrow increasingly obnoxious, it’s this Loft referendum for another important to stop reminiscing about A.S. referendum (because there are our former lives of solitary splendor certainly no other instances when and start perfecting practical solu- people vote for multiple measures at tions to deal with our tiny dorm once). Oh, and because the council rooms. Living with a complete represents all students — based on stranger reminds us that sleeping that strategically maneuvered unop- naked and toenail chewing aren’t posed election, which only a fifth of very endearing habits. But even the campus voted in last year — it’s BEN HOLM/GUARDIAN more, it forces us to take a step back totally within the group’s jurisdic- and realize we can no longer rely on tion to make decisions regarding the the language of which had been campus issues like Loft funding on future of this well-attended, albeit presented by the student-involved their spring ballot. brand new, venue. (Note that this University Centers Advisory Board Forget students, putting the Loft Ties That meeting took place, appropriately and was open to council adjust- referendum to a vote would even be EDITORIAL BOARD enough, over the bumping beats of a ment. in the council’s best interest. In addi- Matthew McArdle Bind capacity-filled Loft show.) Running a separate election, as tion to boosting turnout — think EDITOR IN CHIEF Gabriella Capisani And it’s a shame — regardless of the council suggested, would be an how many more students visit, and [email protected] whether the Loft ultimately deserves unnecessary waste of funding (the thus care about, the Loft than its Hadley Mendoza student funding, students definitely council is already going to spend upstairs neighbor the A.S. Forum — Simone Wilson Mommy the maid to clean up our MANAGING EDITORS deserve the chance to vote on the a few grand to organize and publi- a reasonable ($3.29 was proposed) messes. Rather, we must work with issues affecting them directly. By not cize its election) and energy, given fee referendum would allow the A.S. Reza Farazmand whom — and what — we’re given. even allowing this issue to go before that the A.S. election occurs annu- programming office to gauge student NEWS EDITOR So here are some tips, from my the student body, councilmembers ally, regardless. In order to provide interest in the space it has largely Alyssa Bereznak own experience as a weathered are completely disregarding the best students the most efficient and rel- utilized for events this year. OPINION EDITOR roommate, on how to deal with interests of their constituents. If the evant voting experience — and to There is absolutely no reason stu- The UCSD Guardian is published twice a week at common issues when you are at the University of California at San Diego. Contents © council is really concerned with stu- help overcome a history of low voter dents shouldn’t be voting on a Loft 2007. Views expressed herein represent the majority your wit’s end. vote of the editorial board and are not necessarily dent oversight, there is no great- turnout — councilmembers should fee referendum come spring, and this those of the UC Board of Regents, the ASUCSD or First off, those stuck with the er oversight than a student vote, be doing everything they can to get council’s egoism is getting old. the members of the Guardian staff. drowsy-eyed roommate who requires 16 hours of sleep each night to func- tion, and who consequently kicks you out of your room at 7:30 p.m., should consider relocation. Find the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR comfiest couch you can — whether istration saw no reason to accept the from our 3-year-old group called features is seen as less threatening it’s in your dorm’s common lounge Admin Response to Cancer results of the 2008 report as conclu- International Robotics, Inc., in a field and more approachable by its human or the nearest Starbucks — and Cluster Still Inadequate sive or authoritative, and immediately we have called “Technology-to-People audiences. Conversely, when such a claim it as your own. Take refuge in requested another study. Bear in mind Behavioral Psychology.” robot mimics human emotions, idio- these public areas, because with great Dear Editor, that the first report was also com- The study involves the inter- syncratic behavior and many of the focus, they can easily be transformed Thank you for your coverage of missioned by the administration, and relationships between humans and unpredictable factors prevalent in a into your own private study room. the outcry raised by many members placed in the hands of an epidemiolo- machines, employing specially human-to-human interaction, it is Pretty soon, uncomfortable passers- of the UCSD literature department gist who the administration praised as designed adult-size interactive pro- also received more positively than by will stop asking you to move your last week. However, I was dismayed a top specialist in his field. grammable and remote-controllable those who behave predictably like a pile of books from the couch, and at the rather flippant and dismissive The details of the report are avail- robotic surrogates, which our group machine. There seems therefore to be if you make a butt imprint in your editorial published along with it. In able online at http://blink.ucsd.edu/go/ began to employ as communications a winning formula prevalent in this favorite chair, no one will dare touch attempting to emphasize “the need EHS-LIT. The questions that fuel the aids for the learning disabled, socially unique science of human-to-machine it. Plus, with an unlimited supply of to make transparent all information exasperation and demoralization of maladjusted, handicapped, autistic and interface, and this formula appears caffeine at your grasp, you might just relative to the situation,” the editorial many students and faculty who work emotionally challenged. This research to be a synthesis of very extroverted be more efficient. With this compro- board neglected the history of the in the building are rather simple: if the began in the early ’70s and has led to behavior in the embodiment of an mise, your narcoleptic roomie can issue, leading it to advance a misguid- administration is concerned with our many unique discoveries in terms of a intentionally nonhuman yet some- sleep in peace, while your couch- ed opinion regarding our frustration immediate health and safety, why are robot’s ability to circumvent the many what anthropomorphic robot. We conquering prowess will earn you and subsequent activism. we waiting around for more reports? constraints of social protocol, includ- have noticed audiences of all sorts some relieving elbow room. The editorial strongly suggests our Why has there been no attempt to ing fears, stress, anxieties, suspicions relish in the opportunity to let down In terms of actual dorm cleanli- protest was unwarranted, given that either follow the recommendations, and defense mechanisms. their defenses, interacting with less ness, OCD companions are tricky. “the university is actually doing more or relocate us? Consider the following These studies have shown that concern for acceptance, judgment, I’ve come home to see my current at this point than at any point up analogy: if you are the manager of a behavior and mannerism are of tan- criticism or even rejection. This bug-fearing roommate crawling on until now.” Considering that mem- movie house and your patrons com- tamount importance; even more so is especially true when the robot’s her hands and knees for a full 20 bers of the literature department first plain that they smell smoke, and that, than an ability to express actual emo- behavior is compassionate, nonjudg- minutes in search of creepy crawl- expressed concerns regarding the moreover, some patrons are actual- tions in the physical sense. IRI’s find- mental, loving and able to offer its ers in our room’s every crevice. health of the faculty, staff and stu- ly suffering from different forms of ings have shown that, in the same human counterpart its unconditional Her reluctance to keep our window dents, and requested an investigation asphyxiation, what do you do? You manner a person will imagine the friendship. open in fear that bugs might slith- into the possible link between this respond to an emergency with the visual contents and emotions gener- In concert with this research, our er through the screen has left our and the plant facility five years ago appropriate concern, responsibility ated by reading a well-written book, group is also working on biosen- room smelling prison-cell rancid. To (in 2002 and again in 2005), to say and leadership. It is this that we are a person interacting with an appro- sor technologies which will someday combat mystery scents of any kind, that the report commissioned by the asking of the UCSD administration. priately designed and behaving robot give intelligent machines the ability ignore your roommate’s complaints administration last year demonstrates The literature department and its aca- will process that robot’s words and to sense humans’ health signs and of security or temperature and bust evidence that it is indeed “doing demic community cannot be made simple behavior more successfully emotions, thus adding considerably open a window. Basking in a fresh more,” is hyperbolic and mislead- responsible for the burden of proof of when the robot does not appear to to their ability to more accurately breeze should be everyone’s indi- ing. Moreover, beyond a superficial detecting and eliminating the health- physically duplicate the human form understand and respond to the com- vidual right, and cannot be sacri- consideration of how much attention risk factors in the building. in its entirety. During the past sev- plex nuances and intricacies inherent ficed. During business hours, invest the administration is now paying to For more information, con- eral decades of experimentation with in human behavior. in some Febreeze or illegally burn the problem, it strikes me as amaz- sider reading our petition at all manners of robotic form, it has — Bill Ewing some incense. But don’t forget to ing that the editorial board did not PetitionOnline.com/litdept/petition. been found that a robot attempting International Robots Inc. throw your roomie a bone every pause to consider what precisely the html. to completely and accurately dupli- once in a while and help her slow her administration has done since the — John D. Blanco cate a human being’s physical appear- breathing when she mistakes a piece ▶ The Guardian welcomes letters from its readers. publication of the 2008 report — at Associate professor, UCSD ance will tend to send out a threat- All letters must be no longer than 500 words, of bed lint for a ravaging, disease- least up to the time of our demonstra- Department of Literature ening or competitive message. By typed, double-spaced and signed with a name ridden fly. and applicable title. Letters must also contain a As for ridding yourself of tion last Tuesday. contrast, robots who display simple phone number. We reserve the right to edit for How did administrators respond to but not entirely human anthropo- length and clarity. Letters may be dropped off unwanted noise — deafening music the results of the 2008 report? Did they Anthropomorphic Robots morphic form tend to be more easily at the Guardian office on the second floor of the and endless phone calls — the best agree to follow the report’s recommen- Are More Intimidating approached and welcomed by people. Student Center or e-mailed. Send all letters to: policy is honesty. The truth hurts, dations? They did not. Rather, they We find that, in more intimate or The UCSD Guardian but peace and quiet will only be a Opinion Editor announced to us in a special meeting Dear Editor, public settings where a fully opera- 9500 Gilman Dr. 0316 distant dream unless you remind that, while the health and safety of the In concert with your article about tional robot communicates, interacts La Jolla, CA 92093-0316 your roommate that not everyone university’s faculty, staff and students, the Robotic Einstein personality, I or performs a variety of tasks, a robot e-mail: were their “top priorities,” the admin- wanted to share a similar research with reduced levels of human-like [email protected] See TIES, page 5

The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the opinions of the UCSD Guardian, the University of California or Associated Students. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009 THE UCSD GUARDIAN OPINION 5

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN By Niven Wilson Student Fee Freeze Act Would Restrict University’s Leg Room By Alyssa Bereznak Ignoring the fact that this act Opinion Editor would throw another financial bur- den onto the back of the same citi- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA zens whose taxes already solely fund — It’s budget season, and this week- our state’s mental health services end 35 UCSD student delegates will program, it’s likely that — consider- travel to the University of California ing each campuses’ current infra- Student Association’s annual Student structure — a mere $6 million per Lobby Conference in Sacramento to year would leave little flexibility to rally for the College Affordability maintain existing programs and Act — a five-year fixed tuition plan confront urgent financial issues. that would be included in the Nov. For the 2007-08 academic year, 2009 general election. UCSD’s resident undergraduate fees It’s no doubt that the University were $8,062 per student — only a of California’s funding has endured fraction of the approximate $23,000 in quite the beating this year, and total cost to attend college. And while the College Affordability Act — a fee increases during our current bud- proposal that would freeze tuition get crunch shouldn’t be taken lightly, for undergraduate students at simply forcing an umbrella freeze on the University of California and each campus and offering a set sum California State University — is for current programs and emergen- a tempting opportunity to stop cies overlooks both the individual increases in student fees for the next needs of each UC campus and limits five years. Not only would students their ability to tailor their budgets finally stop worrying about creep- themselves. That doesn’t necessarily ing increases as scholarships and aid mean that each campus should allow seem to dissolve before their eyes, for over $6 million in fee increases the proposal would also limit fee each year, rather, they should care- increases to no more than the annual fully consider what’s necessary to sus- percentage change in the California tain already-existing programs that Compromise Necessary in Cohabitation Consumer Price Index. It all sounds enrich the college experience. ▶ TIES, from page 4 references to Leona Lewis, you’ll be half-empty packages of turkey on her too simple. And it is. The good news: Because the UC thinks Katy Perry is a lyrical genius. patting yourself on the back. desk, she is bound to take a hint. 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If the UC regents want demand to “put a ring on it,” don’t be swallowing your ego and becoming personalities can mesh. Although of California and California State some elbow room to realistically afraid to say something. Suggesting the maid. Do weekly fridge clean- I have not been blessed with the University systems and the remain- maintain the programs that make headphones, or relocation altogeth- ings, vacuum regularly and put the ideal roomie, I have learned to put ing 40 percent would be available the University of California such a er isn’t rude — it’s necessary to your rest of your energy into keeping your away the complaints and bust out the for general state purposes. The $1.2 successful institution and deal with sanity. Remember, you are paying side neat because as tempting as it big guns. Not only has my building billion would then be split evenly unforeseen financial disasters (which for half of that room. 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COMIC BOOK DON’T JUST STAND THERE By RASimone Wilson RAstumble out of the silence.” Then again, if youRIOT did “Help!” concert, Riot avoided household-name- HIJINKS SINK TO S  S W  force that many listens, I can’t say you wouldn’t be dom by sort of just chilling behind the curtain, a little addicted.) finger-painting with the mellowed confidence lanets rarely align as effortlessly as they did Even the band name resembles a Rapture out- of later Beatles, opting out of direct prep-school SINFUL LOWS in 2006, over the haloed curls of preppy take, at best — cute, yes, but slipping through the references and Graceland rip-offs to explore the P private-college rockers Ra Ra Riot, who cracks with all the attention-whoring Go! Teams, vaguer, slower corners of life and love. hen “Sin City” hit theaters four years had hardly put in half their requisite house-party Hot Hot Heats and Yeah Yeah Yeahs of the world. It’s not that they don’t have the potential ago — sending sycophants into hours and self-released a snappy little EP before Thanks to this somewhat nondescript likeability for that instantly desirable, sarcastic cockiness W caps-lock, fan-blogging glee — it being recruited for the CMJ Music Festival and — and despite the manic fandom of paid-off that sets their overshadowing counterband apart was on the lithe heels of “Spider-Man,” rocketing to new-generation stardom — mostly critics — when longtime pals Vampire Weekend — in fact, Vampire Weekend keyboardist/gui- a summer gangbuster that saw studios by cyberword of their killer live show — a clan of dynamited the scene in all their mop-topped tarist/singer/producer Rostam Batmanglij and rushing pell-mell to patent every superhero smart, happy-sad little siblings in the footsteps of fab-fourness, leaving the hipster hordes crap- Riot frontman Wes Miles have ping-ponged they could seize. But while Spidey waxed blog-hype heroes like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. ping their pants like 12-year-old girls at the riffs and brainstormed across genres since their epic with young love, tragedy in the Wait — wasn’t that Vampire Weekend? playground days, and currently record together family and Kirsten Dunst’s ginger tresses, Admittedly, it’s hard to find anything immedi- as Discover — they’re just feeling a little more Robert Rodriguez and creator Frank ately remarkable about the East Coast fivesome melancholy today. Thus, the pair of co-ed hot- Miller conjugated the graphic novel with a that couldn’t be found in the four-car-garage ties — definitely the Ra and Ra of the opera- different accent, focusing less on the action jam sessions of their squeaky-clean indie- tion — commissioned to sex up business-as- hero and more on the antihero’s aura of pop brethren. (Though many would dis- usual on a violin and see-through electric homicidal cool. agree; say, hyperbolic buzz-hound Spin cello, very calculatedly lending the band magazine, which — resorting to scare that churning Arcade Fire drama (so tactics in a jaded new world that crawls much more sincere when classically with far too many so-so bands to care trained females are present). much about any of them — initially Plus, they have a reason to Panoramic hailed Ra Ra Riot “one of the best be sad — debut album The young bands we’ve heard in a really Rhumb Line is dedicated to Sleights long time.” And claimed their “Each late principal member John Year” to be “a song you’ll undoubt- Pike, who tragically drowned EDWIN GONZALEZ edly listen to about 37 times during right before the band’s big break. [email protected] the first 24 hours the EP is in your Those tracks not co-written by possession, chills invariably coursing Pike are equally touched by his up your spine as the first cello swells COURTESYÊOFÊB ARSUK ÊR ECORDS Since then, it seems we’ve been inundated by an endless font of adolescent pulp, streamlining sanguine- JUMP THE HYPE WITH VAMPIRE WEEKEND’S UNSTRUNGSee SUITEMATES RIOT, page 7 chic reproductions (not interpretations, mind you) and storyboarding the same flat “characters” with intolerably faddish appeal. And this year’s lot isn’t looking any more nuanced. POLITICAL FERVOR BREAKS A SWEAT IN TEDIOUS ‘DEATH’ “The Watchmen,” billed as the golden bough of comic fandom and Alan Moore’s wizardly genius (he’s worked on everything By Leila Haghighat Danton (Bowman Wright), a nonconformist from the D.C. pantheon to self-published S W  who heads the committee’s liberal faction and explorations of murder and eroticism), is generally indulges in “what gives him pleasure” one of the year’s most anticipated films, remiering at the Mandell Weiss Theatre (heavy drinking and the carnal pleasures of and understandably so — especially now and set to the head-splicing staccato of whorehouses), resigns support for the guillotine that Fox has settled its bout with Warner P the French Revolution’s guillotine, George after realizing that “the Revolution devours its Bros. However, “Watchmen,” for all the Büchner’s “Danton’s Death” sees undergraduate own children.” purported brilliance it reams as a graphic and graduate actors tackle the operatic scope But despite Danton’s empathetic appeals, his novel, will probably brandish the same of a 200-year-old work — under the direction adversary — Robespierre (Ross Crain), who self-indulgent, hollow amusement as its of Dominique Serrand, Quinn Martin Chair in governs the committee’s opposing faction with predecessors (epitomized by “300” director Drama — halting too often for the fermatas of staunch conservatism — is preoccupied with Zack Snyder’s kitschy filmography). long-winded monologues in attempting to cap- creating a Republic of Virtue. For the adamant After all, slapping comic books onto the ture the despair of political upheaval. Straddling technocrat, “the social revolution isn’t finished. big screen, virtually panel for panel — with eras, the drama ponders 20th century existential- Anybody who goes only halfway with a revolu- added slow-mo effects, bloated aesthetics ism in the metaphoric Elizabethan language of tion digs his own grave.” Robespierre sentences and stretched CGI wallpapers — hardly Shakespeare, befuddled with the mysteries of Danton to death, convinced that the degenerate seems the point of adapting a screenplay. humanity and never quite gripping the terrors of class of political dissenters must be duly pun- Still, it’s been in vogue among a mostly homicidal revolution — offering instead a two- ished. male demographic for quite some time and-a-half-hour-long reign of stupor. Tugging at the traditional yarns of storytell- now. “Death” smacks audiences down in medi- ing, Danton’s wife Julie (Sara Garcia) and that of In the ’80s, when Reaganite nostalgia as res, opening on a quarrel among members his confidant, Lucille (Maren Bush), add roman- for a morally upright small-town hero Danton’s Death of the Committee of Public Safety in the heat- tic confusion to the play’s melange of genres, des-

was in demand, Clark Kent sprung into ed aftermath of King Louis XVI’s execution: perately pleading their husbands to forfeit their live action to become one of the first Starring Ross Crain, Sara Garcia and Bowman Wright The committee, which had initially banded to resistance against the bloodthirsty Robespierre. Directed by Dominique Serrand protest aristocratic extravagance, experiences See PANORAMIC, page 7 a sudden civil rift. See DEATH, page 7

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Following the likes of Harmony Korine, Mike distinction of being the first lesbian performer in the history spitting rhymes like an Iron Chef chops onions Mills, Ed Templeton, Shepard Fairey and Cheryl of the event — just another accolade to boast alongside her — with devastating precision that’s earned Dunn — among others — we gain insight into Entertainment Weekly hype as one of the 25 funniest people him legendary status and collabs with Diddy an early ’90s milieu scored with quirk, crafts in America. Catch her sassy social critiques while you can: to Dilla to Dre. Now on tour to promote his and a streetwise brand of politics that collects Wanda’s rates will likely soar after her D.C. act. (AC) eighth studio album Back on My B.S., staged its due homage in this San Diego for a March release, Busta proves he’s still — premiere from directors Aaron Rose without doubt — what it is, right now. (SM) and Joshua Leonard. 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Taking up half the stage, a represent ultimate freedom. makeshift pit prevents close interaction between characters — per- Lost in its own gaucherie, “Death” desperately clings to the puns haps reflecting their escalating emotional and political distance, and tropes of Shakespearean classics. Here, the hamartia of Danton, but more likely a judgment slip by overambitious set designers. Büchner’s tragic hero, lies in his sloth and indecision. The Hamlet Unintentionally, the pit requires characters to march sternly around allusion resurfaces when a newly emo Robespierre, self-alienated its expanses (as if storming the Bastille wasn’t hard enough), failing from the fresh wave of bourgeois, mourns: “Everything is empty to complement the realism of the play’s harsh political context. If and desolate. I am alone.” not for the imitation culottes, nothing on stage would connote a Robespierre then turns into Lady Macbeth, guiltily rebuffing French milieu. Danton’s accusation: “It doesn’t matter how many rags I wrap The play opens with only a projection screen, phrases of around it — the blood seeps through.” Before the words “Out, political turmoil emerging there from a scrambled paragraph. The damned spot!” leak, he harkens “The Tempest,” comparing life to screen then lifts to reveal a trippy and mountainous arrangement reverie: “Are we only sleepwalkers? Isn’t our life like a dream?” of wooden chairs on stage left — the legs of some jutting across, For Büchner, too, all the world’s a stage — characters repeatedly atop and beneath the backs of others. But — like the impetus for iterate the scarcity of free will in their marionette-strung lives, for- Robespierre’s ornery despotism — the play glosses ever so glibly ever at the mercy of some intangible force. over the reasoning behind this surrealist eyesore. But “Death” lacks the Bard’s sophistication. Its frequent squab- Deft lighting casts shadows eerily over the set’s backdrop, creat- bles demand extensive political know-how, leaving us scrambling to ing a stark contrast that momentarily salvages the play’s artistic comprehend the drama’s impossibly antiquated discourse. The play merit. But the transient brilliance soon capitulates to histrionic approaches us with the double intent of demystifying the enigmas sound bites: Opera clips signal the end of emotive scenes, the pious of humanity and recapitulating the Reign of Terror a la SparkNotes. gloom of hymns like “Donna Nobis Pacem” awkwardly jolting a And, in a way, it does — we experience confusion akin to the French heavy-lidded audience. Revolution’s own bewildered peasantry. C’est la guerre! COURTESYÊOFÊMANNYÊROTENBERG Graphic-Novel Knockoffs OD on Big-Budget Steroids Put Your House-Party Pants ▶ PANORAMIC, fromÊpageÊ6 whetting our craving for post-traumatic surrealism. Americana icons. And while it took nearly another decade, Tim “Sin City” and “300” — the collaborative efforts of Frank on for this Reach-School Riot Burton’s nocturnal caped crusader followed suit. For all their Miller and acolytes — were emblematic of comic-book cinema costumed theatrics and cartoonish villainy, both “Superman” at its pits: digitally blown in proportion to their egotism and ▶ RIOT, fromÊpageÊ6 and “Batman” attempted to make some sort of commentary on pieced together with picaresque hijinks. And whether angling passing (“I wouldn’t like death if death were good/ Not even if the escapist worlds their heroes inhabited, all the while scoring for moral ambiguity in hooker heaven or vilifying effeminate death were good”), recorded in pastoral backcountry New Jersey profitable celluloid debuts to boot. Persian emperors, they measured out hyper-macho violence by with nothing but a scene-making filly to kink the flow. Of course, money-hungry studios at their imperial Cold War the ton. But those pretty, skittery dreams of an African beat are always prime managed to ruin a good thing, resurrecting increasingly Anyone remotely chaffed by now is probably thinking that there, keeping the Rioters highly ranked in their genre-circle of campy, zombified sequels to the first films and expunging any films of this sort aren’t meant to be taken so seriously — that such studied youngsters and making it damn near impossible not to socio-significance they once retained. creativity should be a welcomed change in a sea of big-budget hop along. “House parties were so fun because the audience wasn’t All bitterness aside, translating comic-book art into film is blase. That the graphic heavyweights are justified in their kinetic really critical at all. They were purely there to have a good time,” nothing ingeniously fresh-faced to the current millennium — or energy, entertainment value and visual exuberance. But — while violinist Rebecca Zeller said. “For a new audience member, as to American independent cinema, for that matter. Terry Zwigoff’s they certainly master new levels of technical and imaginative opposed to a partygoer, they just seem to kind of stand there and catatonic “Ghost World” (featuring a laconic and relatively green clutch — it all comes at the invaluable cost of an over-the-top watch.” So try not to judge these newcomers too hard, perhaps Scarlett Johansson) and the sublimely crotchety Paul Giamatti in aesthetic that obstructs any life-giving significance. pretending for a moment that the Loft is a dorm-room den at “American Splendor” both pulled it off skillfully, faring well at Though “Watchmen” certainly won’t be the worst of recent your East Coast reach school and keeping an ear out for that dar- the vanity fair of festivals worldwide. Even this year’s Academy attempts (cough, “The Hulk”), it’s in the same sullied vein ing music-box Kate Bush cover — ’cause Vampire Weekend would Awards featured an Israeli foreign-language nomination (“Waltz that’s swiftly retrogressing action-adventure into an immature have never done that. With Bashir”) that hoped to win — as at the Golden Globes — by reinforcement of “cool” — so feel free to leave your brain at home. Ra Ra Riot will perform live at the Loft on March 1 at 8 p.m.

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MOWTOWN & BLACK HISTORY R&B SOUNDS MONTH DOMINIQUEwww.porterspub.com5-7pm VALENTINO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009 THE UCSD GUARDIAN SPORTS 11 Tritons Return to RIMAC for Grueling Homestand ▶ VOLLEYBALL, from page 12 points, at 24-22. After a score of 26- Tuttle, who had 12 kills, led BYU. as the Cougars opened up to an early 24, BYU closed the door, scoring the After back-to-back sweeps at the 10-5 lead. After the Tritons closed the last four points and winning 30-24. hands of the Cougars, UCSD must get margin on a junior opposite hitter The Cougars controlled the entire back on track in MPSF play to solidify Jason Spangler kill at 12-11, BYU went second set, eventually taking it by a a playoff spot. After eight straight on a 6-0 run to take an overpowering score of 30-22. games on the road, the Tritons will 18-11 lead. The Cougars would go on BYU once again jumped out to finally return home to RIMAC to host cruise control for a 30-18 win in the an early lead in the third set, but MPSF powerhouses UC Irvine, UCLA, second set. UCSD came back to put up a fight. University of Southern California, The third set was also controlled The Tritons took only their second Pepperdine University and University by BYU after the Cougars jumped lead of the night after consecutive of Hawaii in consecutive matches. out to a 15-8 lead, forcing a Triton block assists from redshirt sophomore “We are very excited to finally timeout. BYU continued its tear and middle back Adrian Guthals and be returning to play in RIMAC,” finished the sweep of UCSD with a Ehrman for a 15-14 lead. However, Leserman said. “Our matches this decisive 30-17 victory. more of the same took place after a week against UC Irvine and UCLA On Friday night, the Tritons were scorching BYU offense went on an 8-1 are both going to be tough, but if we held to a measly .071 hitting as BYU tear after trailing 18-17. The Cougars put together a solid game there is a controlled each set. swept the Tritons and sealed the third great chance for a UCSD victory or BYU set the tone of the night in set with a 30-21 win. t w o.” the first set, surging to an early 20- Fritsch led the Triton attack with 13 lead. UCSD then stormed back 16 kills on .345 hitting, with eight of Readers can contact Cameron Tillisch behind Fritsch to cut the lead by two the kills coming in the first set. Kent at [email protected]. UCSD Sends 25 Swimmers to Division-II Finals

▶ SWIMMING, from page 12 and senior captain Shannon Simonds relay team took second place, with man Shea Kopp, freshman Mercedes also took first place, with a time of a time of 6:45.76 led by freshman O’Brien, sophomore Jessica Ferguson 3:50.98. Brandon Maryatt, Langland, fresh- and senior captain Aubrey Panis, the “Our girls really showed they man Michael Lorch and Lohse. relay team set the Tritons’ tempo for could handle the pressure in a close The 200-yard freestyle relay team the rest of the meet. meet,” McGihon said. “It’s good for of freshman Sam Stromberg, Todd “It was a really close meet and them and it will help prepare us for Langland, freshman Blake Langland we did a great job of pulling it off,” nationals.” and Perdew finished first with a Panis said. “We didn’t know for sure Sophomore backstroke special- time of 1:22.10. The Tritons closed what the result would be until the ist Anju Shimura missed the meet out a terrific meet that was effec- very end of the last heat, so we were because she was battling the flu. tively locked by Thursday night with all very tense.” Despite the star’s absence, the team a second place finish in the 400-yard The top UCSD women’s finish- showcased its depth by prevailing freestyle relay. es belonged to freshman butterfly against the odds. “We really wanted to beat those specialist Alexandra Henley, who On the men’s team, top honors guys,” Perdew said of UCSD’s con- took second place in the 200-yard belonged to senior individual med- ference opponents. “We lost last individual medley with a time of ley specialist Knief Lohse, who took year to them by such a short margin 2:05.91, first place in the 400-yard first place in the 500-yard freestyle so we just wanted to come and blow individual medley with a time of with a time of 4:30.56 and first place them away.” 4:25.87, participated in the 400-yard in the 200-yard freestyle with a time With the women’s team being individual medley relay which took of 1:39.57. Senior captain Daniel the stronger squad during most of first place with a time of 3:50.98 and Perdew also blew away competition the regular season, the results were set a meet record in the 200-yard in the final conference meet of his slightly unexpected. backstroke with a time of 2:01.82. collegiate career, taking second in “I thought our guys would have Senior breaststroke specialist the 100-yard butterfly with a time of a pretty close meet and the girls Kendall Bohn also had a remarkable 50.13, first in the 50-yard freestyle would run away with it, but this just 2008-2009 GUARDIAN GREEN CARD PARTNER meet, placing first in the 100-yard with a time of 20.47 and first in the goes to show how deep of a team we breaststroke with a time of 1:03.54 100-yard freestyle with a time of are and how we can really compete,” and in the 200-yard breaststroke 45.26. The men’s 200-yard medley McGihon said. with a time of 2:16.22. UCSD swept relay team, led by senior captain The Tritons will take some much- the 200-yard race with O’Brien tak- Steve Hardy, junior Juan Carrillo, needed rest after this meet before ing second and junior breaststroke Perdew and junior Todd Langland, traveling to the NCAA Division-II specialist Carianne Cunningham took second place with a time of finals in Houston, Texas, on March placing third. 1:31.17 — another great accom- 11. The 400-yard individual medley plishment for the biggest meet of relay team of Henley, Bohn, junior the year. Readers can contact Tyler Nelson at 2¢ FULL SERVICE butterfly specialist Karla Holman The men’s 800-yard freestyle [email protected]. BLACK & WHITE COPIES

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Receive or get up to $1,000.00 Call: HOURIK 858-729-4946 HOT CORNER 12 Nicole Saari Softball CONTACT THE EDITOR Janani Sridharan The junior catcher and third-year starter drove in the winning run with a walkoff [email protected] SPORTS double in UCSD’s 2-1 victory over University of Hawaii at Hilo on Feb. 22. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009 Chastain Earns Swimmers Take Back Conference Titles By Tyler Nelson UC Santa Cruz. The women’s team Two Victories Staff Writer did not win as definitively, earning 1,403 points; just 20 points over SWIMMING & DIVING — With rival Loyola Marymount University. in Softball’s a spectacular 2008-09 campaign Despite tough competition from the already on the books, the UCSD Lions, the Triton women took first men’s and women’s swimming place in the tournament and will be Weekend Split and diving teams capped off their sending 14 swimmers to nationals respective seasons with victories at — a program record — along with By Janani Sridharan the Pacific Coast Swimming and 11 swimmers from the men’s team. Sports Editor Diving conference championships “We’re pretty excited,” head last week in Long Beach. The event coach Scott McGihon said. “We SOFTBALL — Playing host to non- started on Feb. 18 and ended on didn’t really expect the meet to turn conference opponents last weekend, Feb. 21, and featured teams from out like this.” the Tritons split two-game sets against across the Pacific Coast, ranging The meet began incredibly fast, Grand Canyon University on Feb. 21 from University of Alaska-Fairbanks with the women’s 200-yard medley and University of Hawaii at Hilo on and Seattle University all the way relay team taking first in the open- Feb. 22. Senior starter Lauren Chastain down to UCSD. The men’s team ing race of the day with a school- earned her third and fourth wins of the ERIK JEPSEN/GUARDIAN FILE completely obliterated the compe- record time of 1:45.29. Led by fresh- season in the Tritons’ two victories. Competing without their top backstroker, sophomore Anju Shimura, the UCSD women’s swimming and tition with a total of 1,561 points “When [Chastain’s] on the mound diving team defeated defending champion Loyola Marymount in the league championship meet. — over 400 more than second-place See SWIMMING, page 11 she hits her spots,” senior first baseman Jenni Habib said. “She’s going to lead to a lot of our success this year.” Locked in a pitching duel, the Tritons and the Vulcans entered the Nationally Ranked Squads Sweep Tritons in Irvine seventh inning of the opening game of Sunday’s doubleheader tied at By Tyler Nelson end, the Tritons played a bare- one. Junior catcher Nicole Saari then Staff Writer knuckle, wire-to-wire match against launched a walk-off double to center Cal State Long Beach, which ended field that plated Habib, giving UCSD WATER POLO — It was a bitter, in a 9-8 sudden-death victory for a 2-1 win. unforgiving weekend in Irvine for the 49ers. The Tritons came out The two teams found themselves the No. 18 Tritons. Coming into the exceptionally strong, holding on to a in another 1-1 tie midway through the UC Irvine Invitational last Saturday one-point lead after the first, second second doubleheader before Hawaii- as the No. 15 seed and ranked and third quarters before letting Cal Hilo scored three runs off extra-base 16th nationally in the standings, State Long Beach tie it up to force hits, taking the victory. the women’s water polo team suf- overtime. In the first time out, the Anchored by Chastain’s complete fered four consecutive losses against Tritons came out with an early lead, game, UCSD squeezed out a 5-4 win teams ranked among the top 15. 7-6, before the 49ers fought to tie over Grand Canyon to begin Saturday’s “It was disappointing,” head it up, yet again, and force sudden doubleheader. Senior outfielder Allison coach Larry Sanders said of the death. May’s two-run single in the fifth scored tournament results. “I really felt “We just made some silly mis- the tying and go-ahead runs. there were some games that we lost takes that the other team capitalized A disastrous top of the fourth that we should have won.” on,” Sanders said. “We need to fix inning sealed a 10-2 UCSD loss in the After suffering one-sided defeats those for our season.” second game of the day against Grand in the first day of competition, the The Tritons were thrust into the Canyon — the only game of the week- Tritons showed improvement on second-best team in the nation’s end that was decided by more than two Sunday in losing efforts against No. line of fire right off the bat, facing runs. With the game scoreless through 11 Michigan University and No. 13 off against Stanford University in the first three innings, the Antelopes Cal State Long Beach. the opening game of the tourna- scored seven runs in the fourth, bury- The Tritons and the Wolverines ment. UCSD played tough, but the ing the Tritons in the dust. battled it out defensively in the Cardinal was too much to handle The Tritons have a tough weekend early going, pulling to a 1-1 tie as the Tritons fell by a score of ahead as they open up a four-game set at halftime. Neither team was able 16-6, with junior utility Stephanie with the defending national champi- to hold an advantage in the third Heinrich scoring a team-high five ons Humboldt State on Feb. 27 and quarter and the period ended in a goals. Feb. 28 at home. 3-3 tie. The Tritons led by a margin of “In practice we’re approaching [this Things fell apart for the Tritons 4-3 after the first quarter in their series] as we would any other one,” in the final period as the Wolverines’ effort against Western Water Polo Habib said. “We’re working on funda- endurance proved too much for Association rival No. 9 Loyola mentals and are going to go out and UCSD to handle. Michigan scored Marymount University, but could stick with our game.” four goals in the fourth quarter, not maintain that lead. UCSD was handing the Tritons a tough 7-3 outscored 6-1 in the second quar- DANIEL CADDELL/GUARDIAN FILE Readers can contact Janani Sridharan loss. Seeded 15th in a field of 16 teams, the UCSD women’s water polo team was defeated in all four games of the UC at [email protected]. In their final match of the week- See WATER POLO, page 11 Irvine Invitational last weekend. The Tritons will host UC Irvine and Long Beach State this weekend. Men’s Lacrosse Tires in Loss to Sonoma Volleyball Falls Twice to BYU Over the Weekend By Cameron Tillisch late and took the match. Staff Writer The Tritons broke a 10-10 tie in the opening set, scoring three straight VOLLEYBALL — The UCSD men’s points to go ahead 13-10 after a dual volleyball team (7-6 overall, 5-3 block by Bannan and senior middle Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) back Gerald Houseman. UCSD would got back into action this weekend go on to take a 17-12 lead after taking while taking on the No. 9 Brigham advantage of consecutive BYU errors. Young University Cougars in Provo, When the Cougars cut the lead to 17- Utah. Looking to carry their recent 15, the Tritons surged again to 20-15 success into league play against a team and continued to control the set. With they had never previously beaten, the the score 28-25 in UCSD’s favor, BYU Tritons were swept on back-to-back came back on a block and a Triton nights 30-24, 30-22, 30-21 and 30-28, error to bring the score to 28-27. After 30-18, 30-17. a UCSD timeout, BYU scored three “This weekend at BYU we did straight to take the set by a score of not play up to our potential, and 30-27. unfortunately for us, BYU played UCSD was led by Fritsch, who extremely well,” senior libero Eric had 10 kills on .381 hitting. Redshirt Leserman said. “There were some sophomore outside hitter Will Ehrman positives, however, including [junior did his part with nine kills while opposite hitter] Frank Fritsch having Leserman had seven digs. Sophomore a great weekend for us.” setter Phil Bannan had 36 assists and DANIEL CADDELL/GUARDIAN After suffering a sweep the previous five digs. The men’s club lacrosse team fell 16-5 to Sonoma State University on Feb. 22 at Warren Field. The Tritons found themselves with a 3-0 deficit early in the first night, UCSD had a chance to take the BYU dominated the second set, quarter but were able to keep the game close in the second, trailing the Seawolves 4-2. However, UCSD was unable to match Sonoma State’s pace late in the first set on Saturday, leading by five game, eventually taking the one-sided loss. The Tritons return to action on March 1 against the University of Arizona on Warren Field at noon. points before the Cougars rallied back See VOLLEYBALL, page 11