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CAMPUS LIFE SAFETY “Occupy” Movement Spreads to SD

By Javier Armstrong Contributing Writer

Protesters gathered around City Hall last Friday afternoon for the “Occupy San Diego” protest, in solidarity with New York City’s ongoing “Occupy Wall Street” movement. The ‘Occupations’ — which started in BUDGETÊCUTSÊBRINGÊCHANGESÊTOÊFALLFEST New York City on Sept. 17 — have traveled across the country to cities like Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco. “Occupy San PHILIP JIA/GUARDIAN Diego” occurred on Oct. 7, one week after ‘Occupy Los Angeles’ on Oct. 1. Police By Laira Martin Town Square and Matthews Quad. 2009 and Big Boi in 2010, did not live up to estimated nearly 1,500 people attended the News Editor “We had to revamp Fall Fest,” Zhang said. Zhang’s expectations. The festival’s budget was protest. “To go with the Fall Fest we had in previous cut by $75,000 from the original $135,000 for These peaceful protests organized via CSD’s annual FallFest is no more. After years would be a disservice to students because Fall Fest 2010 to the Hullabaloo budget of only Facebook and Twitter voiced a variety a 13-year run, budget cuts have threat- of financial reasons. It wouldn’t [have met] $60,000. ASCE took the cut as an opportunity of issues, including corporate greed, ened the festival’s success — thus the students’ expectations from the past and I think to re-brand FallFest from a night concert to a unemployment and an uneven distribution UA.S. Concerts & Events office is re-branding it would’ve just been a bad decision for all of us.” festival that will no longer be focused around of wealth in this country. the festival into “Hullabaloo,” which is planned Hullabaloo will feature both UCSD musicians one headliner artist. Although Hullabaloo is These national mobilizations have to take place Nov. 18 in conjunction with and outside musicians that have yet to be replacing FallFest, Zhang emphasized that this a been a leaderless and loosely organized Founders’ Day. released, as well as carnival rides, food trucks completely new festival. movement that defines itself as a “people “We knew definitely that we needed a different and other attractions. “I thought there was a problem with the powered movement for democracy.” name to make it feel like we were starting a new “I think given the success of events like the format of Fall Fest in general because it was more Canadian advocacy magazine Adbusters tradition,” Associate Vice President of Concerts “All Campus Dance” or the dance tent at Sun of a concert than a festival, which is perfectly posted a call for action on July 2011 on its & Events Oliver Zhang said. “[Keeping] the God proves to us that we don’t really need a big fine but that’s just not what I envisioned,” Zhang blog, which set off the series of protests. name FallFest would be misleading because headliner to draw students,” Zhang said. said. “Regardless of any financial reasons, I On Sept. 17, a group in New York calling it is such a different event. We wanted to give The festival will also allow re-entry, another think I would have [changed] Fall Fest anyway.” itself “The General Assembly,” — taking this event a new life. We thought a lot about the feature that Zhang felt FallFest lacked. Zhang expects a turnout of about 4,000 UCSD inspiration from the recent uprising in name, and we wanted a name that sounded like “The lineup never really felt consistent,” students. The lineup will be released Oct. 31. Tahrir Square in Egypt and from the a really fun celebration.” Zhang said. “Attendance dropped the previous “I think it’s hard to compare Hullabaloo and Spanish acampadas in Madrid this summer Founders’ Day — which featured the artist year from two years ago so I think there was Fall Fest,” Zhang said. “They’re very different. — encouraged activists to flood Lower Far East Movement last year — will take place a fundamental issue with FallFest. It wasn’t as I would have changed the format of Fall Fest Manhattan in order to occupy Wall Street. on Nov. 18 during the day with Hullabaloo sustainable a tradition as I think Hullabaloo regardless of the budget.” Authorities later moved the protestors following at 6 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. using the same will be.” from the financial district to the new base stage setup. Unlike FallFest, which was held at FallFest, which traditionally featured one or Readers can contact Laira Martin at lmm002@ on Zucotti Park, a privately owned park in the Warren Mall, Hullabaloo will held be in the two headliner artists such as The Game in ucsd.edu See OCCUPY, page 3

SKATING ON PROTEST CAMPUS POINT DRIVE CLOSED OFF DUE TO SINKHOLE SUNSHINE By Rebecca Horwitz Raw sewage ran into the pool Associate News Editor after the dirt also cracked a 10-inch sewer pipe. A sinkhole caused by a broken San Diego storm water storm drain opened in the middle of department spokesman Bill Harris Campus Point Drive on Thursday, said the storm pipelines had been Oct. 6. The hole grew to 50 feet in installed in 1972 — the most recent length and 25 feet in width. pipes installed in the city were The collapse occurred around installed in 1992. 7:20 a.m. and was reported to the Harris said that Wednesday’s police at 7:30 a.m. The sinkhole rain likely added to the erosion was very close to the intersection of of the decaying metal storm drain. Campus Point Drive and Campus The San Diego Water Department Point Center, north of Scripps shut off the water main of the Memorial Hospital. neighborhood in case of additional A sinkhole is an erosion of land cave-ins. caused when underground water This affected 30 businesses in the dissolves minerals in the ground. A area including Qualcomm, SAIC buried hole is created and as it gets and the Campus Point Technology larger, the land on top caves in. Center, the University City business A broken 30-inch diameter park and residents in the area. The storm drain caused the hole to form Scripps Memorial Hospital was not 15 feet beneath the surface. The affected by the shutoff. Water was drain ruptured below the street restored to the businesses Thursday and its runoff eroded the ground night, but the water main remains REGGIE BALLESTEROS/GUARDIAN beneath the pavement. Dirt fell into shut off. Temporary sewer and UCSD student skateboards down a steep hill on the way the storm pipelines, clogging it and to Black’s Beach on Friday, Oct. 7. SINKHOLE, causing water to pool. See page 3 ANDREW OH/GUARDIAN

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LIGHTS & SIRENS “Occupy San Diego” Members Continue Protest Indefinitely

Sunday, Oct. 2 Tuesday, Oct. 4 ▶ OCCUPY, from page 1 The demonstration, which is domination of the electoral process 12:03 a.m.: Noise disturbance 1:40 a.m.: Noise disturbance Lower Manhattan that was formerly planned to last indefinitely, has no and the list continues,” Simón said. ▶ A loud party at Kathmandu ▶ A 20-year-old male was drunk in known as Liberty Plaza Park. The official list of demands. The crowds have a variety of issues Hall was causing a disturbance. public and being loud at Village East protestors still remain at Zucotti “There are so to voice, but their primary concerns Information only. 5. Transported to detox/adult citation Park to date. many things to stem from the perception that Wall 1:21 a.m.: Medical aid issued. “The future of the human race protest,” Harry Street and banking institutions ▶ The subject was suffering from 1:31 p.m.: Medical aid requires the cooperation of its Simón Salazar control most of the money. an allergic reaction to nuts at Price ▶ A young female was having a members,” the General Assembly said, a graduate In a news conference last Thursday, Center, but no ambulance was seizure at Preuss School. Transported said in an Oct. 1 statement. There are so student from President Obama said that people needed. Friend will transport to to hospital. The statement further explained “many things the UCSD were angry because Wall Street had hospital if needed. 10:12 p.m.: Citizen contact that it is up to the individuals to to protest. I’m Department of not been following the rules. 1:23 a.m.: Alcohol contact ▶ The subject was asking for money protect their own rights and Communication. The protestors call themselves “the ▶ A 17-year-old female was arrested at Plaza Café. Transported off their neighbor’s rights, and that not out here “I’m not out here 99 percent” of the population who for public intoxication. Juvenile campus. corporations do not see a problem to protest to protest [just] continues to struggle as the economy citation issued, transported to detox. with extracting wealth from the [just] one one thing.” gets worse and unemployment rises, 1:42 a.m.: Welfare check Wednesday, Oct. 5 people and the earth. Simón said he while “the 1 percent” who has the ▶ Two subjects were carrying 2:19 a.m.: Citizen contact Occupy San Diego began at 4:30 thing.” had originally vast majority of the country’s wealth a possibly drunk male around ▶ There was a female sleeper at Blake been downtown continues to prosper. p.m. on Oct. 7. HARRY SALAZAR Discovery Hall. Transported to Hall. Information only. Hundreds of residents marched earlier that day Many protestors carried candles Thornton Hospital. 11:53 a.m.: Smoke check GRADUATE STUDENT from San Diego’s Children’s Park COMMUNICATIONS to show support that they hoped to burn through the 11:16 p.m.: Alcohol contact ▶ A strong burning odor was coming downtown towards Civic Center for the California night. ▶ Three minors were caught drinking from the Biomedical Sciences Plaza where they planned to stage a Dream Act, Food and drinks were donated to alcohol at Cuzco Hall. Two adult Building but there was no sign of sit-in at City Hall. which was signed by Gov. Brown on protestors and musical instruments citations, one juvenile citation. smoke or fire. Referred to other The group however, agreed to move Oct. 9. resonated throughout the park. agency. back to Children’s Park because of a The Dream Act would give Protestors downtown have vowed Monday, Oct. 3 4:30 p.m.: Shoplifting pre-scheduled religious observance undocumented students of good to stay as long as they can. 2:13 a.m.: Citizen contact ▶ Someone got away with stealing at Civic Center Plaza for Yom Kippur. character access to state-funded As of Sunday afternoon, about 500 ▶ The subject asked the UCSD $223 worth of products from the There were no arrests reported financial aid and permanent protestors were still occupying the Police Department questions about Bookstore. Report taken. as protestors settled in downtown’s residency. Civic Center and made a request filing a temporary restraining order. Children’s Park, where many planned “It doesn’t matter whether it’s through the “Occupy San Diego” Information only. Thursday, Oct. 6 to spend the night camping outdoors. a Republican or Democrat in Facebook page to receive blankets 3:41 a.m.: Traffic stop 3:00 a.m.: Noise disturbance “Everybody’s been good,” Shawn government, it’s a continuity of crises and sleeping bags. ▶ A vehicle was stopped for having ▶ Students were singing loudly and Murphy of the San Diego Police ranging from war, bank bailouts, intoxicated underage students, and stomping at Asia Hall. Quiet on Department said. “Everyone’s been home foreclosures, unemployment, Readers can contact Javier Armstrong at one was transported to Detox. 4 arrival. good and getting their point across.” cuts to social services, corporate [email protected] adult citations issued. 7:45 p.m.: Information 5:30 p.m.: Theft of bicycle ▶ The reporter saw a suspicious ▶ The subject’s $800 bicycle was person getting into a car while its stolen at University Center. Online car alarm was going off at Lot 020. University City Road Closed While Workers Make Sinkhole Repairs report. Unable to locate. ▶ SINK HOLE, from page 1 stabilize the utilities and find a way to Sinkhole.” 6:09 p.m.: Citizen contact 9:15 p.m.: Disturbance water lines were put above ground for repair the drain without damage. He Workers in the area were surprised ▶ Two bikes were locked together by ▶ A 22-year-old male was arrested the businesses that have been affected had no estimate on when the roadway by sinkhole. accident at The Village. Information for beating a person while drunk. by the broken drain. They will remain pipes will be repaired. “We just kind of looked at each only. Closed by adult arrest. in place until the water main can be “We won’t be digging there until other and said wow, we were driving 8:11 p.m.: Animal call 10:50 p.m.: Suicide attempt turned on again. Large hoses were we know how much pipe we have over that for weeks,” Qualcomm ▶ There was a poor injured rabbit at vThere was a suicide attempt at the used to vacuum out the liquid. to replace, how much we have worker Brian Padgett said in the Oct. Marshall Provost. Information only. VA Hospital. Referred to other agency A pipeline of reclaimed water and to dig, then decide if we need an 6 article of 10News, “Sinkhole Closes 9:20 p.m.: Citizen contact - VA Police. a bundle of telephone and fiber optic outside contractor and determine a Street in University City.” ▶ The subject found a bullet at lines are running above the pipes. funding source,” Harris said in an Leichtag Biomedical Building. — Compiled by Sarah Kang An electrical line runs adjacent to Oct. 7 San Diego Union-Tribune article Readers can contact Rebecca Horwitz Information only. S  W  the hole. Harris said they needed to “University City Road Still Closed for at [email protected] Looking for a great pharmacy school?

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CONTACT THE EDITOR MARGARET YAU [email protected] OPINION Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, Stay Vocal ’m pretty sure that this week I’ve come across enough Steve Jobs Trigger Happy tributes — Facebook statuses, Tweets,I photos and very many full- The Parent Empowerment Act, which allows parents to take judicial action length articles — to leave my laptop forever overwhelmed by the rainbow against underperforming schools, may lead to more controversy than improvement. wheel of death. The cybernoise has BY HILARY LEE ­ STAFF WRITER At Wit’s arents of students at chronically underper- “parent trigger” laws foster opportunities for the End forming public schools now have the ability unwitting misuse of power, since parents don’t have TREVOR COX to shut schools down by banding together, the expertise of career educators and are unquali- [email protected] thanksP to the Parent Empowerment Act that fied to make big policy changes. Signing a petition California adopted in January 2010. This “trigger does not automatically solve the problem — pulling been deafening — so deafening that law” gives parents considerable legal power in the the “trigger” in fact, has powerful recoil. happily, no one’s had two words to educational system, sparking a debate over whether As a general trend, California schools are on a say about Sarah Palin’s declaration this power is being placed in the right hands. downturn. At the Los Angeles Academy Middle that she won’t run for president. According to the at, if 51 percent of parents agree School, for example, only 1 in 5 students tested (Except, maybe, “cool story”). that a school’s system is not working, they can “trig- proficient in math last year, and only 1 in 4 were The cynic in me can’t help but ger” change by demanding that one of four options found to be proficient in language arts. Unrelenting think that behind all the public be taken: ousting the principal, replacing the staff, problems like these have caused impatient des- mourning, there’s an editor schem- shutting the school down entirely or allowing a perate parents to turn to the district and school ing to mine the story for all it’s charter operator to take control of the school. administration. Woodcrest Elementary School, also worth — for another slideshow, or California, Texas and Mississippi have all passed in Los Angeles, is in a similar situation; there, frus- interview or firsthand testimony parent trigger laws in the past two years, while 22 trated parents hold small group meetings and draw from someone who saw Jobs at a other states are entertaining the idea of implement- up lists of action items, as only an alarmingly low froyo shop once, and swears his IQ ing similar laws. Though well-intentioned, these 0.2 percent of the school’s students have been iden- rose because of it. A biography is being rushed to print a month early, See TRIGGER, page 5 and on Oct. 8 the New York Times reported that Sony Entertainment will likely buy the film rights.

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▶ TRIGGER, fromÊpageÊ4 Furthermore, charter schools are not an end-all solution to the problem. tified as gifted. It’s understandable Results are far less positive than that parents are trying to seek their studies suggest. Stanford economist own answers to the system’s prob- Margaret Raymond conducted a lems, but giving them power a la the national study, in which she found Parent Empowerment Act may not that 37 percent of charter schools be the most effective tactic. performed worse than their public Parent trigger laws have pro- school counterparts, 46 percent duced failure in the past, as in performed the same and only 17 the case of Compton’s McKinley percent showed superior results. Elementary in February 2011. Another major concern is that The school has an Academic the obstacle of funding school Performance Index score of 684 changes would render the parent (out of a maximum of 800), plac- trigger law ineffective. Many unin- ing itself at the bottom of Compton formed, idealistic parents believe Unified School District. Half of the that they have done their part by students at the school did not meet simply signing a petition, and expect state standards in math and read- the rest to automatically fall into ing, prompting hundreds of parents place. If anything, the trigger law is to sign a petition to transform merely a jumping point for parents McKinley into a charter school. The to organize and rally around their school responded by challenging interests. As of last May, California the petition’s validity — teachers is in a $25-billion state budget are arguing that the signatures were deficit. In the past few years, half obtained improperly and therefore of the state’s schools have cut back the petition is void. The struggle on instructional days, two-thirds between the new “parent union” have taken out summer school and and the teacher union has created a three-quarters of high schools have months-long deadlock in court. The enlarged their class sizes. Changing situation at Compton exemplifies public schools into charter schools Jobs’ Apple Products Helped Alleviate Growing Pains how ineffective and counterproduc- and replacing staff would be an ▶ APPLE, fromÊpageÊ4 that was where all the clamoring began. Dad, can I get on tive these judicial battles can be. The expensive, extensive process that Kid Pix now? What about 20 seconds from now? California Federation of Teachers involves paying for legal fees. And still, there’s the truth: that words like “visionary” By middle school, it was the iPod that I wouldn’t shut labeled the law “lynch mob” legisla- Parents do not realize that funding and “revolutionary” are the ones that fit. That there is no up about and then the Macbook and then — let’s just say tion, as it essentially creates parent a transformation of the educational way to know how far the digital revolution might have it’s been an ugly descent from age eight. unions that challenge teachers with system would be impossible in this reached if not for Jobs and his notorious perfectionism. Naysayers like to trot out the same old argument that threats of bringing the legal system financial crisis. That the public outcry in his passing is inescapable, but Apple products are only popular for their status (an argu- into the equation. While the trigger law grants more than that — it’s deserved. ment that isn’t totally weightless, even if my old laptop is Under the “parent trigger law,” parents more of a voice in the My Apple fandom started young. Before we had several coffee spills beyond its beauty pageant days). parents would be allowed to select educational system, with it comes a computer at home, my dad would often bring his But naturally, they’re short on ammo when it comes which charter school operator responsibility and the looming PowerBook home from work. It was years before the to the company’s (i.e., Jobs’) role in revolutionizing the they would like to take over their shadow of unavoidable issues such iPod, and probably before I’d even committed two weeks’ way we interact both with technology and with each children’s schools. The newly hired as financing. The law is a theoreti- allowance to that first Britney Spears CD. other. A thousand songs in your pocket sounds like a administrators of the schools would cal move in the right direction, but The laptop was strictly for company business, but quaint promise in 2011, but it was a radical one just a be given great flexibility in staffing, requires much more than abstract mysteriously, it also possessed the holy grail that was Kid decade ago. I can’t imagine what I’d have filled an iPod budgeting and scheduling. This idealism to actually be put into Pix — you know, the drawing program that let the gifted with then (there weren’t a thousand “….Baby One More poses a problem as most parents practice. children paint late-90s masterpieces, while I made lots Time” remixes). But what’s even more unfathomable is lack the expertise to select a quality and lots of stick figures. 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rom fancy coaches to me because of the programs in expensive Kaplan classes, psych and cog sci and I thought it’d there’s a multi-billion be nice to be so close to the beach.” F dollar industry dedicated It was at UCSD that classes to helping people perform when such as Introduction to Cognitive it really matters. But, says UCSD Science and Cognitive Psychology alumnus Sian Beilock, the key to whetted her interest in the succeeding when the stakes are workings of the mind. Beilock also high isn’t just clocking in as many played on the lacrosse team for hours as possible, but practicing in four years, and here her interest in the right environment. And once athleticism intersected with classes someone is in front of the test to help develop her area of research. booklet — or the podium, or the “In cog sci, I started learning eld — the secret to preventing a about how people got good at what breakdown is captured by one very they do, but there wasn’t a whole lot short, very famous phrase: Just do it. of information about why people Beilock is a cognitive scientist screw up,” Beilock said. “I was known for her research into feeling the pressure in the classroom “choking,” or why even highly and on the lacrosse eld, and so I trained professionals break down became interested in the topic early.” under pressure. She’s worked ese dual interests in with novice golfers to discover human performance and the that overthinking leads to failure, brain continued aer Beilock and elementary school teachers graduated in 1997 with a degree to identify why young girls are in cognitive science. She next afraid of math. Her ndings earned two PhDs, in kinesiology stem from an interest that began and psychology, from Michigan when she was an undergrad at State University in 2003. Marshall College, feeling pressure In one study published when in and out of the classroom. Beilock was still a graduate Beilock, now an associate student, she and her colleagues JEFFREY LAU/GUARDIAN professor of psychology at the split 54 novice golfers into three University of Chicago, is well- groups and then trained them in known for her research and has dierent environments A control been featured on NPR, the New group learned under normal York Times and the Wall Street conditions, but the researchers Journal, but the alumnus said she engineered “distracting” and “self- wasn’t always intent on becoming a conscious” environments for the scientist. At one point, the Bay Area two other groups. Members of native was interested in law school, the distraction group were asked A Major League Career and it was only an 11th-hour change to practice while listening to a of heart that led her to La Jolla. tape and repeating a target word “I had already decided that while, most terrifyingly, the nal I was going to go to Amherst,” group trained with a video camera she said. “But at the last second, I decided that UCSD was right for See PRESSURE page 10

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CONTACT THE EDITOR RACHEL UDA [email protected] UPCOMING MEN’S WATERPOLO 10/12 AT CSU Long Beach 10/14 VS UC Santa Barbara MEN’S/WOMEN’S SOCCER 10/14 VS CSU Los Angeles UCSD WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL 10/14 AT San Francisco State SPORTS GAMES 10/15 AT CHICO STATE Ducati’s el Doctor Front of the Pack Returns to Prominence Valentino Rossi looks to capture his eighth championship victory in 2012. he 2011 season of MotoGp was poised to be Ducati’s resurgence after losing Casey Stoner to the Repsol Honda team. TThe swan song was supposed to be writ- Left, Center Tackle NICK HOWE [email protected] ten to the tune of the insatiable el Doctor Valentino Rossi weaving his seven-time World Championship magic with Ducati; the quintessential Italian man riding the quintes- sential Italian mark. But things have not gone exactly to plan. Although Ducati and Rossi, along with American teammate Nicky Hayden, are sit- ting sixth and seventh respectively, they are NOLAN THOMAS/GUARDIAN behind Ducati’s former ace and winner of the 2007 MotoGP, Casey Stoner on the Repsol By Nick Howe The women’s team took to the particularly Kathryn Turner in 15th, freshman Alia Bales Honda RC211v as well as Rossi’s old team- Senior Staff Writer challenging UCSD home course first for its 6k in 18th and freshman Madison Tanner came mate and rival from Yamaha, Jorge Lorenzo, run. Junior Chia Chang and freshman Michelle in 20th. who won in 2010. he Triton cross country teams trounced LeRoux went straight to the head of the pack at The Tritons finished eight top 20 runners in Dragging behind these top dogs may seem the competition this weekend in the the starting gun and successfully fought to hold a race composed of more than 120 athletes, and like a failing on the part of the rider or his annual Triton Cross Country Invite, tak- their positions the entire race, finishing in third the Triton women easily took first place in the bike, but the truth of the matter is, Ducati is Ting both team titles against strong competition at 22:17.5 and fourth at 22:18.9, respectively. team component of the race. well on its way to a championship title next from Division I schools. The Tritons did not record their fastest times This season, the women’s cross country team year. Coach Nate Garcia said he was hopeful going at the meet, but the difficulty of UCSD’s course is ripe with young talent, and runners filled with This is due to the skill of Rossi and his into the meet, knowing his team was in a good — replete with hills, valleys and dusty, muddy the desire to better themselves and beat the girl crew to get bikes and manufacturer teams place mentally and physically to make a strong trails — differs dramatically from the flat grass ahead. And with six freshmen and only four going in the right direction. showing. fields where a lot of their other competitions seniors, the year can only get better as these The difference between a rider that has “It may sound cliche, but you always go out have taken place. “baby” Tritons mature. won seven championships—Rossi—and a looking to do a little bit better,” Garcia said the This weekend, freshman Dani Brabender The men’s team was led by junior Matt rider that has won one (on his way to two, day before the meet. “And you know, you go for came in 10th, senior Aaryn Kobayashi came in admittedly), Casey Stoner, is in the ability to the win.” 12th, junior Ximena Cruz came in 14th, senior See CROSS COUNTRY, page 11 convey effective changes in a bike’s handling and performance to the pit crew and chief. Without this line of communication, rid- ers and their teams fail to develop a bike that suits a particular rider. Even a fast bike for one individual does not make it a fast bike for another racer. Tritons End Three-Game Skid Rossi started the 2011 season after under- going surgery on his left shoulder, making his contribute 29 digs of her own, while senior testing and set up of the Desmosedici GP11 Roxanne Brunsting would have five kills, sub par as the season got under way. 18 assists and 16 digs. However, after three races, he actually Cal State San Bernardino standouts, meddled at Le Mans in France, coming in Samantha Middleborn and Morgan Carty third. boasted 26 kills collectively. This development, along with further “We haven’t been playing our best these changes in the FIM rules on the displace- past few weeks,” head coach Ricci Luyties ment of the engines, showed glimpses of the said. “In the past few matches we’ve strug- Rossi brilliance that first became apparent gled in a lot of areas of play, against San back in 2003. Bernardino, Monterey Bay, East Bay, we The last year Rossi rode with Repsol just haven’t been at the top of our game.” Honda, 2003, the Yamaha team bike was On Friday, the Tritons were dealt notoriously hard to ride. The bike finished another disappointing loss as they met seventh overall, even in the hands of Carlos un-ranked Cal State Monterey Bay on the Checa, renowned two stroke rider from the road. 500cc era. Monterey Bay started strong, victori- Rossi won the overall championship in ous in the first two sets of the match. 2003 on the infamously fast RC211v, and Monterey Bay’s Rhean Fall racked up a then took his entire pit crew and manage- hitting percentage of .268 and recorded 23 ment to Yamaha. kills to lead the Otters. Without changing the unruly bike much The scores were 19-25, 29-31, 25-21 at all, Rossi changed his riding technique to and 21-25. UCSD and CSUMB would go suit the Yamaha, while other riders continued back and forth throughout the game, with struggling with the bike, such as Checa, who BRIAN YIP/GUARDIAN FILE a total of 17 lead changes. finished seventh again in 2004. The Tritons took the last of their three games against CSU East Bay, before dropping to CSU Monterey Bay and undefeated Sonoma. Outblocking Cal State Monterey Bay By changing his riding style and with 14-8, the Tritons trailed the Otters in kills the effective support of his pit crew’s quick By Tajh Walker all), the Tritons could only muster a win in the (52-62), assists (49-58) and digs (84-93). changes, Rossi won it all in 2004 on the same Contributing Writer second set. Brunsting totaled 18 assists and 25 bike that could barely keep its tail in line in UCSD recorded 42 kills, 5 sets and 79 digs digs. She would also have a .333 hit- 2003. he Tritons went 2-1 last week, suffering in the campaign. ting percentage, tying Monique Sena of The bike did not change dramatically, a loss at home against Cal State San Although they regained momentum by Cal State Monterey Bay for the top spot. it was not majorly redesigned and even the Bernardino and coming up short to Cal outhitting the Coyotes in the second set, Cal Williamson would offer 12 kills and 15 paint scheme remained unchanged. StateT Monterey Bay, before beating Cal State State San Bernardino still managed to rack up digs, with 19 assists from freshman Amber Rossi’s skills did not improve dramatically, East Bay on the road. a better hitting percentage overall: .245 to .107. Hawthorne. but he had such a good working communica- On Wednesday, the Tritons faced No. 3 Cal Despite the loss, senior outside hitter This is the first time since September tion with his engineers that he could request State San Bernardino, falling to the Coyotes in Hillary Williamson finished with a double- 2010 that the Tritons have been dealt three a change that would actually make the bike four sets. double, tallying 16 kills and 12 digs. In addi- consecutive losses. more violent, and thus easier to ride for him. Against the undefeated Coyotes (11-0 over- tion, senior libero Janessa Werhane would See W. VOLLEYBALL, page 11 See HOWE, page 11