VOLUME 47, ISSUE 12 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG FRIDAY NIGHT THE FUSS ABOUT LIGHTS THE BUS UCSD Trans- portation Services began issuing a new Bus Zone sticker last week as part of a pi- lot program for students. The sticker will be valid until Dec. 31, 2013. -31#+3#$$)+,$$!#3"+'0'*H ALWIN SZETO /GUARDIAN Study Shows The UCSD men’s water polo team split last week’s People More WWPA matches, beating Santa Clara Friday before Attractive in dropping to UC Davis on Saturday. Groups Researchers examined !"#$$%&##$$!'$$(#$$)*#+,) the “cheerleader effect,” ,#2)1'$$-!)!#-$$"1-$$3)-# inspired by TV’s “How I 4<68648B$$/:7A$$$C Met Your Mother.” -./#&+)!.&)0$$(#1+*- ,:86A??A$I>?:8@A$!"#$%&'($&#)*+%&$,% 4567689$:8;$$<4<$$=>?@>5A UCSD psychology professor DA:@>5A9B$$/:7A$$$E Edward Vul and graduate student Drew Walker conducted a study indicating that people appear more attractive in groups than they would as individuals. Such a phenomena is FORECAST PHOTO BY GENE HORECKA /GUARDIAN the result of “the cheerleader effect,” made popular by Barney Stinson of the show “How I Met Your Mother.” Inspired by the sitcom, Walker and Vul set out to test whether “the MONDAY TUESDAY 0''F$$'.!$$(#0'G cheerleader effect” occurs in every- day social interactions. During the H 65 L 50 H 72 L 49 The annual Halloween Pumpkin Drop took place at UCSD on Thursday, Oct. 31. Students gathered to see summer of 2012 and spring of 2013, a record-breaking 500-pound pumpkin dropped from the highest story of Tamarack Hall. the researchers gathered 130 UCSD undergraduate students and asked them to rate 100 faces for attrac- tiveness in a series of photographs. WEDNESDAY THURSDAY -)+$$,1#*' Walker and Vul found that subjects H 79 L 52 H 77 L 51 deemed individual faces viewed in a group photo more attractive than when isolated from the group picture. The team’s studies concluded that Early Voting Begins the brain tends to process groups as VERBATIM an ensemble. As a result, the brain automatically takes a group and evens !At UCSD, out the unattractive characteristics every of an individual, an operation that for Special Election makes individual faces look more athlete is average than they would otherwise. treated the They found that female subjects rated men 5.6 percent more attractive same [...] A recent ABC 10 poll shows Republican Kevin Faulconer with a in a group than they do in isolation, as long as they make the while men rated women 5.5 percent sizeable lead over UCSD professor and Democrat Nathan Fletcher. more attractive in a group. grade.” “Average faces are more attractive, - Zev Hurwitz F:5A8$!4$$!"#$%&'($&#)*+%&$,% likely due to the averaging out of WARMING THE BENCH unattractive idiosyncrasies,” Walker PAGE 12 said. “Perhaps it’s like Tolstoy’s fami- an Diego residents began early attorney Mike Aguirre. lies: Beautiful people are all alike, but voting in October for the city’s In a poll released Sunday by every unattractive person is unat- special election that is being held 10News/U-T San Diego, Faulconer is tractive in their own way. INSIDE Son Nov. 19 — more than two months favored to win with 41 percent of the According to this research, being after ex-Mayor Bob Filner pled guilty vote. He is followed closely by Fletcher seen in a group can raise an indi- Briefs .............................. 2 to false imprisonment and two counts — who led the polls by eight points six vidual from the 49th to the 51st per- of misdemeanor battery. Among the weeks ago — with 28 percent, Alvarez centile in perceived attractiveness. Lights and Sirens ............ 3 bevy of candidates, four have emerged with 17 percent and Aguirre with 7 Moreover, the researchers conducted Quick Takes .................... 4 as the top choices, including UCSD percent of the vote. experiments to test whether the size political science professor of practice Professor Fletcher has a history in of the group or the quality of a pic- F.A.M.E. at UCSD ............. 7 Nathan Fletcher, current City Council politics, having served as an assembly- ture affects an individual’s overall Crossword .................... 10 member Kevin Faulconer, his col- man for California’s 75th district. He attractiveness. Sports ........................... 12 league David Alvarez and former city has support from statewide legislative In the first case, Walker and Vul See ELECTION, page 3 See CHEERLEADER, page 3 J T H E UC SD G UARDIAN | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013 | WWW.U C SDG UARDIAN. 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ORG N Lights and Sirens is compiled from the Study Shows That Groups Are Considered More Attractive 01*"!-$O$-1&#+- Police Crime Log at police.ucsd.edu. ▶ CHEERLEADER, from page 1 In the next experiment, students the features of a face, they assume the were asked to rate the attractiveness face to be more attractive than they Friday, Oct. 25 ▶A dead bird was stuck in the grille surrounded individual pictures with of both a blurred individual isolated would find it had they seen it clearly.” ▶11:31 a.m.: Information of a vehicle. Referred to other agency a varying amount of unrelated pho- from their group and a blurred photo The two researchers encourage A transient posted “No trespassing” - EH&S tos. Subjects were asked to rate one’s of the group. This experiment found students to take a tip from Barney signs in a dirt lot and was argumenta- attractive when in isolation and when a substantial increase in attractive- Stinson.