VOLUME 50, ISSUE 20 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG CAMPUS UCSD A SAN DIEGAN A.S. Update: HOLIDAY Key Changes Proposed Throughout Fall Quarter The increased budget allows student organizations to ILLUSTRATION BY SAM XU/UCSD ILLUSTRATION GUARDIAN purchase additional items. IN NEED OF A LITTLE HOLIDAY BY Rebecca ChoNg BOOST THIS UPCOMING WEEKEND staff writer BEFORE FINALS ROLL AROUND? CHECK OUT LIFESTYLE’S This Fall Quarter has seen major changes to the Associated Students’ GUIDE TO DIFFERENT EVENTS Te Zone invited students to their weekly Art and Soul event this past Tuesday where they were invited to craf hot cocoa jars. HAPPENING AROUND SAN DIEGO, Photo by Esra Elhendy // UCSD Guardian policy with new innovative projects FEATURING EVERYTHING FROM and increased programs for students. A MAJESTIC DOGGO PARADE A.S. Council’s budget has increased TO A SCUBA DIVING SANTA TO A this school year due to high enrollment ROCKIN’ CHRISTMAS CONCERT SAN DIEGO and increased student fees, giving FIT FOR ALL. them more flexibility to pursue more ambitious projects. lifestyle, PAGE 6 La Jolla Council Urges City Action on Sea Lions A.S. Financial Controller Justin By LAUREN HOLT NEWS EDITOR Pennish outlined a wide range of INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO short-term and long-term goals for this school year. For fall, he aimed TIES TO FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY he La Jolla Town Council Task Force on in the water contaminated by the sea lions’ waste to establish a sustainable budget, OPINION, PAGE 4 California Sea Lions has requested that the and decaying bodies, and several events have been city of San Diego declare La Jolla Cove a public cancelled or relocated due to the poor water quality. guidelines about spending given the Thealth hazard due to the high number of California According to sdnews.com, Jeffrey Chasan, budget expansion and potential for TRITONS BEAT POMONA sea lions that inhabit the area, sdnews.com reported an audience member at a task force meeting, growth; for winter and spring, his on Nov. 25. Ann Kerr Bache, the LJTC president, and reiterated the negative impact the sea lions plans will be to launch new kinds of BASKETBALL several private citizens sent Mayor Kevin Faulconer have on local residents. funding for student organizations that SPORTS, Page 12 a letter on Nov. 3, urging a resolution to the “major “I’ve lived here for almost 25 years and I swim in will allow them to purchase items they health and public safety problem.” the cove and the quality of the water is poor there were not able to previously. Attached to the letter was a document titled “Call because it’s become contaminated,” Chasan stated. Pennish wants to leave A.S. for Action,” which outlines the ongoing concerns “We do need to find a mechanism to push the sea Council with a sustainable framework FORECAST many La Jolla residents have with the sea lions and lions to a different settlement, get them to stop for the expansion and growth that suggests that Faulconer should invoke “his legal right hauling out at the habitat we’ve all created.” A.S. Council and UC San Diego will to move and exclude CSL from specific areas” under However, Thurgood Marshall College sophomore be experiencing over the next few section 109(h) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act Kol Chaiken disagrees with this attitude. An years, including tangible things such to remove the sea lions from certain areas where they environmental systems major, Chaiken believes that as assessment reports for budget pose a threat to humans. Enforced by the National the beachgoers are the true problem. projections, recommendations for THURSDAY FRIDAY Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, the MMPA “They should ban the people instead,” allocation of financial resources and H 62 L 50 H 66 L 48 protects all marine mammals within U.S., but allows Chaiken told the UCSD Guardian. “La Jolla resources for students to be more for their removal under certain circumstances in the Cove is the sea lion’s natural breeding location, equipped with the challenges of college cited section. and there are plenty of other beaches to life. The “Call for Action” states that among other go to just for the next [few] months.” “My long-term, reach goal for incidents involving the sea lions, beach visitors have The “Call to Action” explained that the La Jolla spring is to establish a financial SATURDAY SUNDAY been attacked by the sea lions for approaching them, community would reinforce the City’s actions through lifeguards have contracted infections from swimming two phases: Community pro bono and subcontracted literacy program,” Pennish told the H 63 L 46 H 67 L 52 UCSD Guardian. “As part of A.S.’s See SEA LIONS, page 3 commitment to basic needs security this year, my office wants to be a leader in helping to provide a resource for VERBATIM LA JOLLA students to master financial literacy in ways that positively influence THE FIGHT TO MAKE THE UC Resident Creates Local Crime Prevention Company their knowledge, understanding and SYSTEM’S INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO decision-making power over decisions MORALLY JUSTIFIABLE — AND that affect them directly and daily.” ALIGNED WITH THE UNIVERSITY’S La Jolla Safety, Inc. will hire guards from private security companies to assist city police officers. Besides working on improving VALUES — IS ONE THAT WILL student life and community, A.S. Upper Hermosa neighborhoods. calls for emergency and non- SEE NO SINGLE VICTORY BUT BY Matthew Zamudio Council also functions as a mediator PROGRESS OVER TIME INSTEAD, SO associate news editor As a California nonprofit, La emergency assistance, respond between the student body and Jolla Safety, Incorporated, or LJS, to burglar alarms and help police professors and faculty. One of the LONG AS STUDENTS AND FACULTY Ron Fineman, a realtor and PUT PRESSURE ON THE PEOPLE is seeking monthly fees from and residents with prompt officer current debates in the Academic resident of La Jolla’s Bird Rock INVESTING THE UNIVERSITY’S homeowners and business owners responses to calls.” Senate is whether to change the Week neighborhood, has created an anti- MONEY IN QUESTIONABLE in affected areas that will be used Fineman, who moved to San Nine drop deadline to an earlier time. crime company called “La Jolla LOCATIONS.” to hire private security companies Diego from Los Angeles, has been According to Associate Vice Safety, Incorporated,” citing rising and strengthen pre-existing burglarized twice this year and President of Student Affairs Rushil - Editorial Board crime rates in the region. neighborhood watch programs. pointed to the website spotcrime. Patel, Faculty felt that the number of OPINION, PAGE 4 According to Fineman, due to The cost of participation is com as evidence of La Jolla’s crime students withdrawing so late into the a five-year hiring freeze, the San approximately $60 per month for problem, calling it “astounding.” quarter was unnecessary. Diego Police Department is short- four hours of service during the day “Crime is up all over La Jolla and “Faculty were complaining about staffed and has reduced the amount INSIDE or night. San Diego,” Fineman told the UCSD the number of students withdrawing of officers patrolling the La Jolla, Bay “We are in the process of Guardian. “There are some clusters Week 9 when they felt there was Park, UTC, Torrey Pines, Mission no need to,” Patel told the UCSD SCHIZOPHRENIA ............. 2 Beach and Pacific Beach areas. studying and interviewing private but they vary.” Guardian. “They found this deadline While the anti-crime security companies that will be Owner of La Jolla’s Rusty surf DIVESTMENT .................. 3 to be more convenient for students organization hopes to eventually a good fit for the Bird Rock and shop Angie Preisendorfer has JOHN BERGER: ON ART ... 8 and less beneficial for everyone. They patrol all of La Jolla, once the Upper Hermosa communities,” the experienced regional crime first also found that other UCs have a SUDOKU ....................... 10 vetting process is done, Fineman LJS mission statement reads. “We hand. Her surf shop, located in La MEN’S SOCCER ............ 11 will initiate a pilot phase of the are looking for a regular security safety program in the Bird Rock and presence to conduct patrols, answer See SECURITY , page 3 See A.S. COUNCIL , page 3 2 THE UCSD GUARDIAN | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 | WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG NEWS EVERY NOW AND THEN By David Juarez Tina Butoiu Editor in Chief Marcus Thuillier Managing Editor Lauren Holt News Editor Matthew Zamudio Associate News Editor Quinn Pieper Opinion Editor Rosina Garcia Sports Editor Oliver Kelton Features Editor Sam Velazquez A&E Editor Naftali Burakovsky Associate A&E Editor Brittney Lu Lifestyle Editor SCITECH Christian Duarte Photo Editor Joselynn Ordaz Design Editor Research Group Discovers Genetic Variations Linked with Schizophrenia Aleya Zenieris Associate Design Editor Kenji Bennett Multimedia Editor The study has yet to be finished, but the scientists hope to examine the genome with higher resolution methods in the future. Ayat Amin Data Visualization Editor Christina Carlson Art Editors and protective loci. The findings of to detect CNV in microarrays, a Jonathan Sebat highlighted the Sophia Huang BY MiNg-Ray Liao the study were published online in technology used to recognize CNV importance of collaborations in Sage Schubert Christian Copy Editor senior staff writer Nature Genetics on Nov. 21. in DNA. Due to the standardization research. “In most cases we have two copies and large amount of data, they were “This study represents a The Psychiatric Genomics of a gene, one on each chromosome able to do many statistical analyses. milestone that demonstrates what Consortium analyzed over 41,000 inherited from mom and dad, but The team looked at CNV in large collaborations in psychiatric Page Layout sets of genomes and found Copy in some cases we can have a copy schizophrenia and control cases genetics can accomplish,” Sebat said Joselynn Ordaz, Aleya Zenieris, Quinn Pieper Number Variants to be strongly missing or duplicated,” Marshall to identify genes associated with in a press release.