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VOLUME 49, ISSUE 26 THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2016 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG AROUND CAMPUS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY WONDER ABOUT OH WONDER? Scientists Aim to Harness Nuclear Energy The team used a method of thermonuclear ignition called fast ignition to observe the first step of nuclear fusion. PHOTO BY ANDREW GEORGE BY Ming-Ray Liao The UCSD Guardian sits An international team of down with the London based scientists and engineers led by songwriting pair backstage UCSD and General Atomics before their show at The Photo by Geoff Palomino /UCSD Guardian developed a technique to observe Casbah in San Diego to discuss the flow of energy during the first touring and online success. phase of nuclear fusion reactions. The team, whose findings were published in Nature Physics on WEEKEND, PAGE 6 UCSD Students Protest Jan. 11, approached thermonuclear ignition through a process called fast ignition. Unlike traditional SOARING APPLICATIONS Anti-Abortion Advocates thermonuclear techniques that simultaneously use compression ACCEPTANCES LACK DIVERSITY BY Kriti Sarin News Editor OPINION, Page 4 and ignition phases of fuel capsules, fast ignition separates the two CSD students protested the Center for Bio-Ethical CBR Director of Operations Kevin Olivier told different phases and implements a Reform’s anti-abortion display at Library Walk on the Guardian that the Genocide Awareness Project’s high-intensity ultrashort-pulse laser Tuesday and Wednesday this week. The exhibit uncensored images aim to educate people about the SPIRIT NIGHT PREVIEW to provide the spark for ignition. Ujuxtaposed images of genocide victims with those of unknown consequences of aborting a fetus. BASKETBALL Mingsheng Wei, a researcher at SPORTS, Page 12 dismembered fetuses. “Our message is that abortion is an act of violence Eleanor Roosevelt College junior and A.S. campuswide that decapitates, dismembers and disembowels pre-born General Atomics, told the UCSD senator Lauren Roberts told the UCSD Guardian that the human beings,” Olivier said. “This is a human rights Guardian that the team was not display incited a response from students not because of its issue. We’re here to make people aware of what abortion expecting to see a horseshoe pattern message, but its crude and disruptive tactics. is … Given the facts, we believe the right position is that emission — which revealed that the FORECAST “When you start marginalizing, racializing and fear- abortion is immoral and ought to be illegal. Anyone who energy did not flow directly — as mongering — when you start marginalizing the black doesn’t believe that, we want them to believe that. We don’t the goal was to concentrate emission community, sexual assault, rape victims and LGBT want them to be wrong.” on the tip of the cone. community with your message — that’s when I started Thurgood Marshall College junior and KKG member “Though we could clearly see taking offense,” Roberts said. “If it was just a pro-life Manoli Dawson argued that terminating a pregnancy is a the fluorescent emissions lighting demonstration going on, I probably wouldn’t care. woman’s personal choice, noting that abortion rates could up, we were surprised to see that THURSDAY FRIDAY Everyone has the freedom to their opinion, but when you decrease with increased access to contraception. it wasn’t lighting up in a forward H 69 L 49 H 66 L 51 start marginalizing communities inside the greater UCSD “What we really want to push is that it’s the woman’s direction,” Wei said. “When we sent community, that’s why I stood up to it.” right to choose what she does with her body — whether in the short-pulse laser, we were Members of the panhellenic sorority Kappa Kappa you decide to have an abortion or not, that’s up to hoping to see just the tip of the cone Gamma collaborated with the Associated Students you,” Dawson told the Guardian. “We’re [also] trying lighting up — but we didn’t see that. Women’s Commission and the UCSD Women’s Center to to make abortions safe and legal, so that we can provide Instead, we saw a kind of hollow, SATURDAY SUNDAY organize the protest on Tuesday. Roberts later created a more education on being healthy and having access to horseshoe feature because energy H 62 L 49 H 62 L 47 Facebook event for Wednesday’s demonstration. contraceptives when needed and overall reducing the rate was actually flowing out sideways.” Farhat Beg, director of UCSD’s PROTEST, See page 2 Center for Energy Research, said that the implications of the study include VERBATIM more efficient energy coupling. SAN DIEGO “Before, people were working in WHILE DRIVERLESS CARS the dark in regards to the flow of ARE NOT PRONE TO THE City Votes to Appeal Ruling on Pension Reform energy but here we’ve visualized and SAME HUMAN WEAKNESSES shown where the energy is going — “WHEN DRIVING, SUCH AS San Diego’s City Attorney argued that reversing Proposition B would be unconstitutional. it’s not where it’s supposed to go,” INTOXICATION OR FATIGUE, Beg told the Guardian. “With this understanding we can target the THESE AUTOMATED CARS Goldsmith deemed PERB’s ruling Association Mike Zucchet, whose BY Jacky To parameters and improve them to AREN’T EQUIPPED TO unconstitutional and outside of its labor union was the lead plaintiff in Associate news editor get more energy coupled to the fuel HANDLE ETHICAL AND MORAL jurisdiction. He argued that Prop B the PERB action, defended the ruling. DILEMMAS THAT EVEN WE, AS was in fact an initiative organized by He told the UCSD Guardian that Jerry where fusion is going to happen.” HUMANS, FIND CHALLENGING.” The San Diego City Council private citizens, and therefore, the city Sanders, San Diego’s mayor at the time, Wei said that after the first round - Alexander Chen voted unanimously to appeal the was not obligated to meet with unions. utilized the power and resources of his of improvements the team was able Public Employment Relations Board’s “PERB is trying to create new a law office to get Prop B onto the ballot, to achieve the highest recorded TECH IT OUT energy deposition in the National OPINION, PAGE 4 ruling that orders the city to rescind by declaring that a citizen initiative negating the possibility of it being a Proposition B on Jan. 12. After the – one that was placed on the ballot citizen initiative. Ignition Facility. city files its appeal, the Fourth District by 116,000 citizen signatures and “We demonstrated that Mayor “It’s a lot of development Court of Appeals will review the case approved by 66 percent of citizen Sanders and his office conceived of and iterations, but after further and make a verdict on whether to voters – should be unwound because and drafted Prop B with the use of city improvements to the target and INSIDE uphold or reject PERB’s decision. its terms were not separately negotiated resources, city staff and under the color design by minimizing pre-plasma According to PERB’s Dec. 29 with union leaders,” Goldsmith stated of authority of his office, effectively within the cone, we were able to get IN BRIEF ......................... 2 ruling, the City of San Diego violated in a Jan. 12 press release. “The people’s making Prop B a city initiative,” energy deposition closer to the cone state law in 2012 by placing Prop B right to initiative is guaranteed by the Zucchet said. “After a week-long tip,” Wei said. “From the calculations SEA LION POOP .............. 4 — an initiative that replaced pensions California Constitution. This right hearing that included Mayor Sanders we inferred that up to 7 percent of CHRISTIAN LIFESTYLE ..... 8 for San Diego city employees with cannot be bargained away in a back and members of his staff testifying the short-pulse laser energy were CLASSIFIEDS ................ 10 401(k)-style retirement plans — on the room, or stolen from the people by a under oath, the PERB Administrative deposited into the fusion target — the ballot without meeting or conferring government agency.” Law Judge upheld our complaint. And FENCING ....................... 11 with labor groups. However, General Manager of San Diego’s City Attorney Jan the San Diego Municipal Employees See PENSIONS, page 3 See ENERGY, page 3 2 THE UCSD GUARDIAN | THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2016 | WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG NEWS AVERAGE CAT By Christina Carlson Vincent Pham Editor in Chief Tina Butoiu Managing Editor Kriti Sarin News Editor Jacky To Associate News Editor Cassia Pollock Opinion Editor Marcus Thuillier Sports Editor Allison Kubo Features Editor Karly Nisson A&E Editor Brittney Lu Lifestyle Editors Olga Golubkova Jonathan Gao Photo Editor Teenage Abortion Rates in United States Dropped 40 Percent Between 2003 and 2012 Megan Lee Associate Photo Editor Joselynn Ordaz Design Editor ▶ PROTEST, from page 1 of killing innocent human beings. another way,” Young said. “You throw with their bodies,” Latibashvili told “I think the Holocaust was an a stone into a pack of dogs, and the the Guardian at Tuesday’s protest. Sherman Aline Associate Design Editor of abortion over time.” extreme injustice, I think the dog that gets hit barks the loudest. “We also want the people who are Christina Carlson Art Editors Sophia Huang According to a report published by lynching of black people in this That’s what’s happened over here. All walking by who might have had the National Right to Life Committee country was an extreme injustice these people have gotten hit.” an abortion in the past to not be Jennifer Grundman Copy Editor on Jan. 14, abortion rates in the United and I think abortion is an extreme Sixth College sophomore Mary triggered by this.” Sage Schubert Christian Associate Copy Editor States decreased by 4.2 percent from injustice,” Olivier said.

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