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not to come here,” Smith said. “We simply tell people to use caution when they do come here. Don’t go into unknown areas. Basically, use the same common sense you would use in any given city in the U.S.”

Although the kidnapping cases mostly involve older persons with citizenship in both the United States and Mexico, people not fitting into the target demographic should also be careful, Smith said.

Revelle College sophomore Alan Chin has gone clubbing in Tijuana a handful of times in the past year. He admits that Tijuana is not the safest of destinations, particularly for females

By Connie ShiehStaff Writer

Those who take frequent trips to Mexico should be aware that crimi-nal activity around the border has increased dramatically over the past year, according to a recent advisory from the U.S. consulate in Tijuana.

The consulate issued a “warden message” last month to warn all American travelers of the increase in the crime rate along the border. There were 22 kidnappings of American cit-izens this past year, twice the number of kidnapping cases in 2006.

Though some of the victims were recovered, others were physi-cally abused and even killed. In sev-eral cases, ransom demands were also made.

There is no apparent pattern to the kidnappings, nor are all kidnap-pings conducted by the same crimi-nal group, according to a statement from the FBI Border Liaison Office in San Diego.

Border Liaison Office Supervisor Eric Drickersen said in the statement that there were few cases in which the target was randomly selected.

Despite Delays, Most of Price Center to Open Next Month

By Vanessa DoSenior Staff Writer

Most of the much-anticipated Price Center expansion will be com-pleted by early next month, if UCSD can secure approval from the fire marshal and construction conditions are favorable during the next two and a half weeks.

According to University Centers Director Paul Terzino, March 10 will mark the opening of the first level, which includes general indoor din-ing seating, lounge seating, computer labs, study rooms and lockers; the third level, which will be comprised of student organization offices; and the fourth level, which will house offices for A.S. councilmembers and meeting rooms.

“A project this large and complex usually finishes in stages,” Terzino said in an e-mail. “The second floor, including the Ballroom, Alumni Association and Cross-Cultural Center will be completed within

weeks after the initial opening.” Because the expansion team had

originally expected to open Price Center’s doors at the beginning of Winter Quarter, events had already been scheduled in the Loft, the night-club performance space and social lounge.

University Events Office Director Martin Wollesen said that ArtPower! had scheduled the Tentacle Sessions and FilmPower! scheduled its Teeny Tiny Film Series in the Loft, which had to be moved to different venues such as Porter’s Pub and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.

However, Wollesen said he knew that the Loft might not be com-pleted by the projected date, and had already made backup plans to house the events.

Terzino said that because the proj-ect is so large, there are numerous reasons why the completion date has been delayed.

“In the case of both the Price Center and Student Center, the origi-nal architectural plans specified util-ity conditions that were incomplete and inaccurate,” he said. “A signifi-cant amount of additional work had to be done to work around these con-ditions, which created delays.”

Grand opening of new campus hub scheduled for end of April, though majority of project should be finished in March.

By Jesse AlmAssociate News Editor

The University of California filed an unfair labor practice charge with the Public Employment Relations Board against the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees last week, citing concerns regarding patient safety at UC medical centers and claiming that the union is not bargaining in good faith.

The charge is a response to a tem-porary restraining order that AFSCME filed against the university earlier this month, after campus security threat-ened to arrest individuals distributing union leaflets at the UC San Francisco Medical Center.

Nicole Savickas, coordinator of Human Resources and Labor for the UC Office of the President, said the union violated Article One of its access agreement with the university, which states, “AFSCME will abide by the reasonable access rules and regulations promulgated at each cam-pus/laboratory.”

She said that the university has received complaints from patients at UCSF and UCLA medical centers who claim they have been harassed.

“Access policies are laid out with respect to patients and their families to provide them unfettered access to the medical centers,” Savickas said. “In order to provide the standard of care we are known for, we have to uphold these policies.”

In addition, she said the union’s decision to go directly to court to prevent university intervention in its activities demonstrated bad faith bargaining, and that it should have taken its complaints to PERB, which is responsible for regulating access issues and bargaining conduct.

Anne Swinburn, a researcher for AFSCME Local 3299, said that Article One simply refers to meetings with union members, not communication with the public. She said the universi-ty’s charge is simply an attempt to limit free speech, and that PERB has noth-ing to do with this issue.

“They’re basically saying that we signed our free speech rights away when we signed up with a union,” Swinburn said. “Our free speech with the public is governed by the California Constitution, not PERB.”

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ERIK JEPSEN/GUARDIANConstruction worker Jermy LaJoie operates a tar machine as part of the ongoing Price Center expansion project. The first phase of the renovation is expected to open on March 10.

WILL PARSON/GUARDIANMany UCSD students travel to Tijuana to visit clubs such as Coko Bongo, despite a recent advisory from the U.S. consulate in Tijuana that kidnappings of American citizens visiting Mexico are on the rise.

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Leukemia CureBy Smruti AravindSenior Staff Writer

UCSD’s Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center is one step closer to finding a cure for chronic lymphocytic leukemia, the most common form of leukemia found in adults.

Earlier this month, a research team led by Thomas J. Kipps, a professor of medicine, published its study on the use of gene therapy to activate the immune system against leukemia cells. During their research, Kipps and his colleagues found that autoantibodies could be produced against leukemia cancer cells and that certain antibodies react with a particular embryonic protein, the exact function of which they were able to isolate.

The protein, ROR1, is active dur-ing an early stage of human develop-ment known as embryo genesis, but is then turned off. Kipps and his team found, however, that leukemia cells use this protein to advance their own survival.

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Charles Smith, a public affairs spokesman for the consulate, said that the victims tend not to be typical tourists, but businesspeople with dual citizenship.

Responding to the rise in violent criminal activity, security around the border has increased since the begin-ning of the year. For example, a new law enacted in January requires that travelers present a birth certificate or passport when crossing the border.

The advisory encourages that people take precautions when travel-ing in unfamiliar territory such as being aware of suspicious persons and activity and letting others know their travel plans ahead of time.

“Our message doesn’t tell people

Kidnappings of American citizens in Mexico have doubled since 2006, prompting an increase in travel safety precautions.

Charge calls to question scope of university access contract in regulating free speech of AFSCME leaflet distributors.

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More than 65,000 students from five foreign countries and around the U.S. will participate in a world-renowned research platform operated by UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Feb. 26 during Ball State University’s award-winning Electronic Field Trip program.

The virtual trip on Scripps’ Floating Instrument Platform, which rotates 90 degrees in the open ocean, is part of a live, one-hour broadcast called “A Whale of a Story: A South Seas Adventure.” The telecast explores the 13,000-mile, roundtrip journey that gray whales make each year from their Bering and Chukchi Seas feeding grounds to Baja California's lagoons where they breed and give birth.

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According to an article pub-lished in the San Diego Business Journal, Evalyn Greb, chief of long-time care integration at Aging and Independence Services, said that the program’s goal is to create a virtual team for each patient, from physicians and nurses to office staff and senior center employees.

The program will facilitate the transition for care providers when patients are moved from hospitals to their homes or nursing homes.

“A new culture will be realized,” Greb said in the article. “There will be a whole constellation of people communicating online or by phone and working with the same patient.”

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what is their function?” Kipps said.ROR1 is located on the surface

of leukemia cells, and analyzing its interactions with other cellular structures could lead to two impor-tant breakthroughs, according to the research team.

First, antibodies that are able to react with ROR1 can mark the cell for destruction. The immune sys-tem relies on antibodies to distin-guish malignant cells from normal ones — a process useless in cancer patients.

“Leukemia cells are like stealth bombers, they avoid detection by the immune system,” Kipps said.

If antibodies could be produced to bind the ROR1 on leukemia cells, the immune system can be acti-vated against them. Using a gene therapy procedure developed at UCSD, Kipps’ team inserted a gene into CLL patients that produced the necessary antibodies, or what he referred to as “turning off the stealth button.”

Team Uses Protein to Target Cancerous Cells▶ LEUKEMIA, from page 1 Secondly, because ROR1 is only

found on leukemia cells, it can be used to precisely and specifically detect its presence even after treat-ment or in patients suffering from an early stage of the disease.

This use of ROR1 marks a depar-

ture from conventional leukemia treatments, in which antibodies bind with antigens on normal cells as well as cancerous ones, caus-ing damaging side effects to already typically immune-suppressed leuke-

mia patients. Kipps, a veteran in the field of

CLL research and UCSD profes-sor since the early 1990s, said he is excited to see leukemia patients, who normally are unable to make antibodies against anything, devel-op antibodies against their own leu-kemia cells.

As deputy director of the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center, he has conducted a number of studies on this particular form of leukemia, and treated patients from all over the country as well as from Europe and Asia.

“This study establishes UCSD as the go-to place for leukemia treat-ment,” he said.

Having published the study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Kipps and his research team are looking forward to the possible development of CLL vaccines.

Readers can contact Smruti Aravind at [email protected].

“This study establishes UCSD as the go-to place for leukemia

treatment.” — Thomas J. Kipps, professor,

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Additionally, some exterior glass for the building did not fit prop-erly and needed to be reordered, and constant rain over the past few weeks has also been an issue, Terzino said.

The Price Center expansion is the third and final stage of the University Centers’ construction project. The first stage, a renova-

Price Center Is Third Wave of Campus Expansion▶ CENTER, from page 1 tion of Student Center, included the

restoration of the General Store Co-op, A.S. Soft Reserves, the UCSD Bike Shop, the Food Co-op, KSDT Radio, Student-Run Television and two unisex bathrooms on the sec-ond floor.

The second stage, which includ-ed the creation of the central plaza and additional indoor seating at the Grove Caffe, has also been com-

pleted.On April 25, there will be a

grand-opening celebration to high-light student ownership of Price Center and recognize the expand-ed facility as a place to enhance the student experience at UCSD, Terzino said.

Readers can contact Vanessa Do [email protected].

LIGHTS & SIRENSFriday, Feb. 155:48 a.m.: Argument disturbance▶ A male in a wheelchair refused to leave the emergency room at Thornton Hospital, saying that he would “stay in the middle of the street.”11:23 p.m.: Group disturbance▶ A group of eight students were reported as attempting to jump in front of a bus and “flash” its passengers. Unable to locate. 11:54 p.m.: Petty theft▶ Two vending machines were stolen from Warren Lecture Hall.

Sunday, Feb. 177:16 p.m.: Argument disturbance▶ An intoxicated patient at Thornton Hospital with “sharp objects” in their pockets refused to leave the emergency room.

Monday, Feb. 189:13 a.m.: Vandalism▶ Clothes were strewn over numerous signs on Gilman Drive. 7:54 p.m.: Suspicious person▶ A 30-year-old white male, wearing a floppy tan hat and carrying a plastic grocery bag, “ducked behind a car” when a police vehicle drove past the Central Mesa Apartments.

Tuesday, Feb. 191:28 a.m.: Domestic disturbance▶ A female was heard screaming and struggling at a La Jolla del Sol resi-dence. 7:17 a.m.: Suspicious person▶ A “disoriented,” possibly intoxicated 45-year-old white male was reported as trespassing at Canyonview Pool, and staying for over 15 minutes despite falling once.10:18 p.m.: Reckless driving▶ The driver of a small white sedan was reported as driving erratically, and was last seen parked on the Stonehenge lawn on Scholars Drive South.

Wednesday, Feb. 207:36 a.m.: Unknown injury accident

▶ A motorcyclist crashed 50 yards from the intersection of Gilman Drive and La Jolla Village Drive.12:53 p.m.: Unknown injury accident▶ A subject was reported as refusing medical treatment for a “bloody hand,” received from an unknown accident occurring on Torrey Pines Road.

Thursday, Feb. 2110:03 a.m.: Medical aid▶ A 19-year-old male needed medical attention after taking “several shots.”10:04 a.m.: Assault with deadly weaponThe owner of a gold Mercedes was reported as assaulting another driver in Lot 403, and was last seen headed toward Gilman Drive.12:34 p.m.: Medical aid▶ A 21-year-old female fell down two flights of stairs at Mandeville Hall, pos-sibly spraining her ankle.3:37 p.m.: Injury▶ A 20-year-old female fell off her skateboard at Thurgood Marshall College, possibly breaking her foot.4:17 p.m.: Welfare check▶ A dog was reported as locked in a van with no license plate for two days at Regents Road.4:57 p.m.: Hazard situation▶ Smoke was seen coming from the battery of a cart at Student Center.5:04 p.m.: Suspicious person▶ A 50-year-old white male wearing jeans and brown loafers, formerly accused of stealing female under-wear, was seen at the laundry room on Goldberg Street.6:25 p.m.: Suspicious person▶ A white male in his late 20s wearing a denim jacket was seen “trying to follow people,” and standing by an elevator in Hopkins Parking Structure without boarding it. 10:07 p.m.: Vandalism▶ Three students were reported as van-dalizing the Mandeville Center stair-well.

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the university’s medical centers have received in the past year.

Staff turnover rates, high stress environments and low worker morale have all been items of contention in

recent months, and union members — including Swinburn — believe that poor employee conditions lead to poor patient conditions.

However, Swinburn said that although these issues are controver-sial, it is inappropriate for the uni-

Lakesha Harrison said she agrees that the university’s attempt to link the issue to PERB is baseless. She said that she and other union representa-tives had been distributing materials at all five UC medical centers for three weeks before any complaints arose, and that the distribution oper-ations have all been “peaceful and pleasant,” never consisting of more than two or three people.

“We’re not being confrontation-al,” Harrison said. “We’re not picket-ing. People just take [the leaflet] and keep walking.”

Meanwhile, UC-AFSCME negotiations regarding the uni-versity’s 11,000 patient care tech-nical employees have lasted over five months, and, in a statement last week, the university related AFSCME’s leafleting to the union’s recent concerns about the quality of employee and patient care at UC medical centers.

The statement included a list of rankings and specific honors that

Union: Pamphlet Content Immaterial to UC’s Claim▶ UNION, from page 1

“This is a clear-cut free speech case. The

university doesn’t want us to communicate ...

about these issues.”— Anne Swinburn, researcher,

AFSCME Local 3299

versity to even mention the content of the leaflets when making a case against their distribution.

“This is a clear-cut free speech case,” she said. “The university doesn’t want us to communicate with patients about these issues, and that’s why they are trying to limit our free speech. This is a violation of our fundamental rights.”

Harrison said that over the past few years, AFSCME has conducted extensive research comparing state wages and benefits and their effects on the overall level of hospital care, and union members believe they have a responsibility to publicize this information.

“We are not saying anything that we have not researched to the bone,” she said. “As workers, we’ve always known it is a problem. Now we finally have the research to back up what we’re concerned about, and the public has a right to know.”

Readers can contact Jesse Alm at [email protected].

who travel in the group.“I’m afraid that if I wasn’t around,

that my girlfriend may be raped or something else,” Chin said.

Chin is not the only UCSD stu-dent with reservations about travel-ing across the border since the news of increased violent activity.

“In January, I went to Tijuana for my birthday, even though people told me not to go because there had been shootings recently,” Earl Warren College sophomore Annie Liou said. “But my friends and I went anyway because we had already bought the tickets, and because I went in a group it was more ok.”

Liou said in addition to traveling

in a group, she and her friends take other precautions to ensure their personal safety.

“No one walks to the clubs,” she said. “They take the taxis because people know that it’s dirty and unsafe in Tijuana. We try to stay in the area where students should be going.”

Club owner and promoter “Hollywood Ray” specializes in transportation to and around Tijuana. As the owner of the popu-lar Coko Bongo club, Ray operates a successful business driving students into Mexico. Before the implemen-tation of the new passport law, up to 3,000 students headed down to Tijuana on a given weekend.

Ray said that the safety of his

customers is his primary concern.“Nothing’s going to happen to

them,” he said. “If they stay at the club, they’ll be fine. If they walk around in Tijuana, like anywhere, you’re just asking for trouble.”

Ray said he was not particularly concerned about the increase in kidnappings negatively impacting his clientele.

“The last thing criminals are doing is kidnapping students, because they are worthless to them,” Ray said. “If they’re going to kid-nap anyone, it’s going to be a rich Mexican citizen.”

Readers can contact Connie Shieh at [email protected].

Warning Not Necessarily a Deterrent for Students▶ MEXICO, from page 1

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Parking Services: The Arriba Shuttle is a pretty sweet deal.

While almost everything else about T&PS may be pricey and inefficient, this little gem defies logic and offers an amazing service for students living off campus. The shuttle, which loops around three stops near Vons before circling back to Mandeville Auditorium, can even be tracked online — though it’s so conveniently frequent this isn’t necessary.

The only thing T&PS should do to improve this service is expand — why doesn’t the office set up these efficient shuttles all over La Jolla, instead of just the current Arriba and Nobel buses? (I don’t even live near Arriba, I just started relying on the shuttle when, at the beginning of Winter Quarter, San Diego’s Metropolitan Transit System rerouted to avoid my stop entirely. I know at least a few Arriba passengers are in similar positions.)

Now leave it to UCSD students to ruin a good thing. Because the shuttle is such an awesome resource, it’s pretty popular, which unfortunately means shuttles can get crowded. So each morning, as students from all over La Jolla flock to the godsend on the corner of Arriba, the seats fill quickly, leav-ing only an empty aisle down the shuttle’s center for standing passen-gers. It appears on these occasions, students forget all common cour-tesy, leaving their human decency at the bus’ pressurized doors.

Allow me to introduce: Aisle-Seat Kid. This guy always gets on at the first stop; think of those jerks who come early to lecture, only to grab the first or second seat from the aisle and thus cause every person after them to do the “oh, sorry, excuse me” dance squeezing uncomfortably between the back of the adjacent seat and the kid’s unyielding knees.

These people seem to have no sense of reality. Do they really expect no one else to want those seats? And what is it about the aisle they so stubbornly prefer, that they’d rather have people climb clumsily over them? What’s worse: They’re usually the same tools who leave their backpacks sitting in the middle aisle for people to trip over.

Then, once every bench is filled and you don’t have to deal with peo-ple’s weird seat preferences, along comes Little Girl, Big Backpack. Though she can take many forms, at our school she most commonly appears as an Asian female science major.

This is a student whose only concern is her studies. She gets on the bus just as the seats have

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NATIONAL NEWS — What is more terrifying than a school shooter? Not one, but an entire lecture hall of armed and potentially deadly stu-dents. However, many groups nation-wide have responded to recent school shootings by advocating a stronger presence of concealed weapons on campus.

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus is one such group that advo-cates changing gun laws at the state level.

The number of recent shootings has only added fuel to the guns-at-schools fire, which was reignited after the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University shootings last year. Many states have attempted legislation that legalizes guns at colleges, and in Utah it is now legal to carry concealed weapons on all public campuses. Luckily, California — which doesn’t have any such legislation on the table and has some of the country’s strictest gun safety laws — isn’t about to open this can of worms.

But schools in Utah and Colorado, where students everywhere with the exception of University of Colorado, Boulder, can carry guns, are setting a scary precedent for colleges nation-wide.

And with similar legislation pend-ing in 10 other states, the atmosphere at campuses across the country might be very different this time next year.

Supporters of the movement to legalize concealed weapons on cam-

pus argue that it will make students safer when faced with a shooter. They will be able to defend themselves, say proponents, rather than be sit-ting ducks. But universities are not a place for firearms, and by allowing all students to carry guns, those schools are opening their doors to a greater risk of abuse.

By filling a lecture hall with well-meaning, gun-toting students, schools are increasing the access a student with dangerous intentions has to weapons.

While groups like the SCCC are surely advocating what they feel will best protect students, this seems to be a case of “the best laid plans.” In fact, the best way to protect students is to address the underlying problems that prompt school shootings in the first place.

The argument over measures that allow students to carry concealed weapons is a moot one — no matter what the decision, this debate address-es the symptom, not the disease.

Like sitting in an oatmeal bath to treat chicken pox, even the best-case scenario for a room full of concealed-weapon carrying students is still a sloppy, short-term fix. And what hap-pens after the commotion clears and the hypothetical shooter has been shot by a student carrying a concealed gun? Even with concealed weapons on cam-pus, the potential for school shootings still exists.

The only way to protect against school shootings is to help students who feel that this is even an option. Clearly, anyone who is willing to open fire on his or her peers and teach-ers — often, random bystanders the shooters don’t even know — is in an extreme state of desperation. Instead of channeling energy into forming groups and lobbying state govern-ments, concerned students should call for better mental health help at their own universities.

Students Should Say Farewell, Not Hello, to ArmsIn the wake of several campus shootings, groups nationwide advocate guns on campus. But this fails to address the real problems causing these tragedies.

See GUNS, page 5

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In Primaries Youth Vote Packs a Punch, Finally

By Hadley MendozaSenior Staff Writer

NATIONAL NEWS — Well stu-dents, looks like we finally deserve a hearty round of applause for showing up in droves and perform-ing the civic duty that government leaders, celebrities and our par-ents have been stressing for years. We voted! And it looks like those grown-ups were right after all; the youth vote is actually making a dif-ference in the 2008 primary elec-tions.

Active participation in democ-racy is every citizen’s fundamental responsibility, and students need to take control of their future by casting their vote for president, both in the primary race and in the November election. In the next four years current college students will likely graduate and begin working in a country led by the candidate chosen from these elections. It’s exciting to see students and young adults finally taking government by the reigns.

The young-voter turnout

in this year’s Iowa caucus was up a celebration-worthy 135 percent from the last presidential prima-ry, according to a recent Los Angeles Times a r t i c l e . Not only was Iowa’s y o u t h excited and ready to visit

the polls, young people in states across the country — from New Hampshire and Massachusetts, to South Carolina and Georgia, to Nevada and our very own

California — also turned out to vote in signif-

icantly largeer numbers than in the past.

The ques-tion is, why now? The numbers show that young people are turning out

in masses to vote for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). And if it is Obama that finally convinced young people to drop by the ballot box, forget the presidency, he deserves national and historic recognition for bring-ing out the youth — something not even P. Diddy could do with his Rock the Vote campaign back in 2004.

And it’s about time. Statistically, old people are diligent voters, while young people fail to make their opinions heard at the polls. This means that politicians govern with those constituencies in mind, forgetting the youth’s collective interests. If students want even the chance to have their concerns — be they education funding, stem-cell research or marijuana legalization — seriously addressed by national leaders, they need contribute to the political process. It looks like that finally may be happening, and if Obama is responsible he should be awarded.

So should Obama be the next president of the United States? That’s for Americans — includ-ing well-represented young people — to decide.

Readers can contact Hadley Mendoza at

[email protected].

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filled, and parks beside the third row. Her crime is much like that of Aisle-Seat Kid — she makes you climb past her and her giant, growth-like bag. How she picks her resting place is still a mystery, the only thing that’s clear is her resolve to block oncoming passen-gers any way she can. Gripping the seat handle beside her, she remains unfazed by the stream of riders, and blatantly ignores the common courtesy, and common sense, back-packs-off rule.

She sets the tone for the pas-sengers immediately after her, and following suit the Personal-Space Hogs are unfortunately often the first standing passengers at the back of the bus. These are rid-ers who, again, seem to stubbornly deny reality.

They stand in a single line — rather than two, which the bus is designed to fit — about a body length away from one another. That means each Personal-Space Hog is costing three valuable spots on the shuttle.

This might not seem like a big deal, but the Arriba service has become so popular that during peak times only a few passengers from the third stop are able to board. As the line to board wraps longer and longer around the cor-ner and bus after bus rolls past only allowing a few students on, these hogs make their peers late to class or work, without a second thought.

Put Your Backpack Between Your Feet, We’re in for a Smelly Ride

▶ SHOES, from page 4 And is it really worth it? You’re still standing on a cramped bus, do those few minutes of slightly more breathing room really make that much of a difference in your day? Probably not, but as bus after bus rolls past, waiting students have to deal with the consequence of uncontrolled tardiness.

There you are, crammed — or maybe not crammed, if you’re near the back — onto the shuttle mak-ing a beeline to campus, and who do you notice standing beside you? Possibly the worst offender of them all: Body-Odor Guy.

Yeah, you know who I’m talking about. All of a sudden the reek is all around you, suffocating you and killing the air, and there he is. Arm lifted and grabbing the support bar he looks at his neighbors suspi-ciously as if to respond to your sus-picious looks with a guilty “wasn’t me.” But you know the truth.

OK, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he just pulled an all-nighter, is on his way to a mid-term and didn’t have the chance to shower — it happens to all of us. But in these situations it’s best to know thyself; if you smell like ass don’t put your armpit in the face of an innocent bystander.

So please, think about your shuttle manners. And next time you’re in the back of the bus with an abundance of extra space, sug-gest your neighbors move back to make room for more passengers — just make sure you’re wearing deodorant first.

A DROP FROM THE INKWELL By Priscilla Lazaro

Suicide is consistently the third leading cause of death in young people and a 1997 study reported that fire-arms are used in about 19,000 suicides annually. Translate this to the universi-ty — where many students experience bouts of depression and undergo huge life changes, such as moving away from home for the first time — and

these tragic shootings come as less of a surprise.

But arming students is not an appropriate solution. And schools like UCSD that aren’t in states dealing with such legislation can still take a valuable lesson from the terrible school shoot-ings. Good mental health services and outreach for troubled students should be a top priority at schools across the

nation.Students should forget extreme

measures, and states should forget dangerous legislation — the only way to stop school shootings and save lives is by making the multitude of healthy options clear to desperate students.

Readers can contact Hadley Mendoza at [email protected].

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Cycling Not ‘Worthy’ of Campus Attention

Dear Editor,

I found the article “Cyclists Should Lose the Attitude, Find the Law” high-ly disturbing. Firstly, the bike lanes throughout La Jolla (I am unaware of bike lane infrastructure in other parts of San Diego) are most unsatisfactory, to be blunt. They are merely thin strips of spare bitumen near the gutter, and I have found they are discontinued on some roads. Satisfactory turning lanes have not been accounted for and there seems to be little etiquette from automobile owners who give inad-equate space to cyclists. Cyclists, in their attempt to do good for the envi-ronment and for their health, run the gauntlet every day, and it is apparent that sometimes it is in their interest to ride in the other lanes for their safety to minimize the risk of being sideswiped and pulled beneath two tons of steel, since car lanes are luxuriously wide.

It seems like the energy and power of the Guardian would be better spent trying to stand up for the real issues. I have only been on campus for five weeks and already I know of two issues that should but unfortunately do not receive adequate coverage.

The first is the struggling organic Food Co-op, which seems to be per-

petually crushed under the weight of the university bureaucracy. It is a remarkable organization that pro-vides cheap and nutritious vegan and vegetarian alternatives compared to the commercial food outlets around campus. UCSD should be encourag-ing such independent enterprises on campus but instead seems to make it as difficult as possible for them to exist, charging excessive fees and cutting off essential utilities such as water without notice.

The other issue is mental health professionals on campus. Both the Women’s Center and the student psy-chology organization Psi Chi have con-ducted awareness programs in the last month for mental health, and at both events, it was made plain and clear that psychology and counseling services on campus are strained and are currently facing budget cuts. There can be waits of up to three weeks to see a counselor, which is an awful long time for some-one who has welled up the courage to seek help for a critical problem in their life. Mental health issues affect everyone in the community, and it is especially potent for young UCSD stu-dents, since suicide is the third leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 10 and 24, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

I don’t mean to deprecate the Guardian holistically — it is a fine pub-lication, but there has been inadequate

focus on important issues. These are the issues the writers and fellow stu-dents who contribute to the Guardian should be getting angry about. If this periodical is going to stand by its motto of “The Student Voice Since 1967,” then it should represent the real problems students face at this institu-tion, however big or small.

— Jehan KangaAustralian EAP Reciprocity,

Revelle College

Columnist Misunderstands Obama’s Political Positions

Dear Editor,

I recently finished reading the article, “Hey Obama, Let’s Hear More Prose, Less Poetry!” by Jake Blanc. After having done so, I feel compelled to respond as there are many errors in regards to Blanc’s interpretation of Sen. Barack Obama’s position.

First, Blanc criticized Obama’s position on the War on Terror as being “more aggressive than that of President Bush.” Specifically, he cited the senator’s position of deploy-ing 65,000 Army troops and 25,000 Marines. He also cited the senator’s position on attacking Iran and Pakistan, writing, “How is threaten-ing Iran and Pakistan with nuclear

carnage a change from the past eight years of Bush’s foreign policy?"

All of these points are a clear misreading of the senator’s position. Obama has called for enlarging the size of the military by 65,000 Army troops and 25,000 Marines, not for their deployment. This enlargement is critical for a military which, many analysts have said, has been stretched too thin by both the War on Terror and the Iraq War. Also, the senator has not called for directly attacking Pakistan, but rather al-Qaida opera-tives who are believed to be operating within the borders of Pakistan only if the Pakistani government contin-ues to refuse to be more aggressive against these terrorist cells. The sena-tor has also said that he would attack Iran only if diplomacy fails to deter the country from pursuing a nuclear weapons program. And when have any Democratic candidates, let alone Obama, called for a nuclear strike against Iran and Pakistan, as Blanc insinuates in his article?

Also, Blanc’s criticism of Obama’s campaign phrase “Yes We Can!” is simply unfounded. Just because it is an English translation of a popular Latino-American group’s does not mean it is plagiarized.

Finally, his criticism of the sena-tor’s letter to the Palestinian ambas-sador is not a callous disregard for the plight of the Palestinians, but

rather a call to the Palestinians to turn away from terrorist tactics in order to achieve political ends. As long as Palestinian terrorists continue to use extremist tactics, Israel will always respond with excessive force to ensure its survival. And as long as Israel remains the one true democrat-ic government in the Middle East, the United States must support the Israeli people’s desire to live free of the fear of terrorism.

Please, before writing an article that criticizes a public official’s posi-tions, be sure to get all of your facts straight and to consider what other things he or she might actually be saying.

— Christopher Moffattjunior, Revelle College

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SITE SEEN Latin Chef

At Pacific Beach’s Latin Chef, there’s a little something for everyone, whether they crave simple Latin

American dishes or a combination of cus-tomary Asian, African and European cui-sine fused with herbs and spices of the ancient Incan dynasty. That’s because the unique Peruvian cuisine of Latin Chef unites food from nearly every continent, blending each culture’s best dishes with the zest and flair of Peru to create exotic yet familiar meals.

Most of the food is imported from Peru, a country that boasts 28 of the world’s 32 different climates, making it possible to grow nearly every type of fruit or veg-etable. And it shows in the menu: black olives, roasted corn, red chili and deep-fried yucca root are just some of the many ingredients in the dozens of dishes offered; even the simple appetizer of roasted and salted corn served in small straw baskets feels adventurous. Influences from Japan, China, the Mediterranean, Italy, France and Russia make each dish chock full of rich flavor. Try the Tallarin Verde con Bistec, Peruvian-style noodles with pesto sauce made with basil and spinach and

served with a small portion of juicy sir-loin steak. For more familiar dishes, the Arroz Cahaufa is a sure-fire favorite with Chinese-style fried rice featuring scram-bled eggs, green onions and soy sauce served with beef, chicken or octopus and calamari. Just beware the small portions, which may be typical of Peru but are not customary nor expected in the lavish land-scape of California.

The atmosphere is somewhat lack-ing, but the earth-toned walls and warm lantern lights make it hospitably genu-ine, with a small stage set up for bongo performers to play on busier nights and holidays. Small, plain wooden tables and golden sun-ray mirrors in assorted shapes, designs and colors create a homey feel, while small international flags rep-resenting each of the countries featured in the cuisine line the window opening into Garnet Street. Traditional Peruvian music — flutes, bongos and men sing-ing romantic Latin love songs — drifts lazily through the room and mingles with the calm hum of talkative patrons and unhurried waiters.

There’s no need to make a reservation,

as this small restaurant appears to be under the radar for both locals and tourists, squashed between several other shops and eateries. Latin Chef does not boast a liquor license, but the owner is more than will-ing to let patrons bring their own alcohol — he’ll even crack open the first bottle for you. For the under-21 crowd, try tast-ing outside the box and go for the Chicha Morada, a dark purple blend of cinnamon and corn that tastes like fresh pomegran-ates and leaves a sultry aftertaste.

The breadth of the menu is impres-sive but the steep prices are not, and it’s a good idea to share plates if you’re run-ning low on cash. Also, make sure you go early: the restaurant closes by 9 p.m. even on weekends, so a lunch outing is probably the best time to discover the ever-evolving cuisine and accommodat-ing services of Peru.

— Katie CorottoAssociate Focus Editor

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earn good grades, some students resort to

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▶By Vanessa Do • Senior Staff Writer

Student academic misconduct, more commonly known as cheating, is not a problem unique to UCSD.

During the 2006-07 academic school year, 342 allegations were made against stu-dents for cheating — a number which Academic Integrity Coordinator Tricia Bertram-Gallant said, “is probably less than 1 percent [of students who actually cheat.]”

Despite cheating’s severity, the annual number of allegations has been consistent for the past few years.

UCSD policy outlines several differ-ent types of academic misconduct that students can commit. In the 2006-07 aca-demic year, 31 percent of cases were plagiarism and 27 percent were the use of unauthorized aids; the remaining percent-age was broken up into three categories: unauthorized collaboration, falsification/fabrication and fraud. More specifically, of the 342 allegations, 30 percent of the cases were linked to general education college writing programs.

“Catching someone who cheats has always been difficult in courses which rely on writing,” Thurgood Marshall College Dimensions of Culture profes-sor Nancy Gilson said. “Before [the Web site Turnitin.com], we had to rely on our own knowledge of both the literature in a field and our sense of what typical writing at a certain stage of university sounded like. We catch a pretty consistent num-ber of students. It surprises me, actually. Turnitin.com makes it very difficult to cheat.”

Depending on the form of miscon-duct, a student’s punishment can consist of attending a workshop about academic dishonesty to suspension or expulsion.

According to Bertram-Gallant, the punishment depends on the severity of the crime. If a student committed an academic misconduct that can be defined as fraud, which includes practices such as using another person to complete an exam, acquiring a solutions manual or exam from a publisher or professor, or submitting entire purchased papers, then the student could face a quarter or year suspension or even expulsion.

Last year, 54 percent of students who admitted that they cheated were

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Abdul, a University of California student studying abroad at the American University in

Cairo, met Amir at a local club. The relationship was friendly and noth-ing more, until Amir called late one night asking if he could come over. The two have now been dating for three weeks, and in that short time Abdul has discovered Amir’s curios-ity about gay life outside of Egypt.

Currently, Amir plays bass for a small local band. His shows often run into the early hours of the morn-ing. Lately, after his shows, he makes a phone call and visits his new love interest. Amir is not his real name because as an Egyptian, his lifestyle was, and continues to be, prosecut-able.

“He’s really shy and curious,” said Abdul, describing how Amir looked through his belongings, books and pornography. “I don’t think he’s looked at porn before,” Abdul said with a smile and a laugh. “He was mesmerized by the vid-eos.”

Amir also questioned Abdul about his straight roommate.

“He thought it was so strange to have straight friends who didn’t judge,” Abdul said.

A b d u l b e l i e v e s that none of Amir’s fam-ily or friends suspect Amir is gay. The risk of being thrown in jail, and o f being ostracized from everything he knows, is a risk Amir will prob-ably never take.

“I haven’t asked if anyone knows,” Abdul said. “I don’t think anyone knows. I don’t think anyone will ever know.”

During one of their first dates, while watching a televised soccer match, they managed to sneak a hug after a goal was scored. Abdul explained that culturally, since men are so close, it is easy to hide such interactions.

“When we walk across the street and he grabs my hand, I don’t know if it’s a boyfriend thing, or just natural,” he said. People in the streets wouldn’t judge such an action as inappropriate. Nevertheless, Adbul said Amir is “very aware of how people notice him.”

On Feb.14, Amnesty International released a statement that four men were arrested in Cairo for being sus-pected of having HIV. This recent arrest, according to the statement, br ings the total

of suspected HIV-positive gay men currently in custody to 12. Of the men previously detained, four have received one-year prison sentences under a vague and broadly inter-preted Egyptian law on morality and sexual conduct.

Cairo has a history of persecut-ing homosexuality. In a 2004 report,

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By Stephanie TsankContributing Writer

To combat the brand-name con-formism so typical of today’s young business world, UCSD graduate student Jeff Horowitz aims to sell men clothing that exudes creativity and uniqueness.

“We’re all monkeys when we dress up anyways, at heart,” Horowitz said.

Horowitz is part founder and front-man of DressMonkey, an online business that caters to young male professionals, allowing the buyer to design and tailor their own blazer, from the color and fab-ric down to the number of pockets and buttons.

Horowitz usually gets up at 8 a.m., takes care of online DressMonkey orders, goes to school, crams in homework during lunch and comes back home to his La Jolla apartment to go over strategy and sales with his business partner, Coley Dale, in Shanghai.

“From the minute I wake up it’s either something school related or business related with a little bit of eating in between,” Horowitz said.

Horowitz began as an undergrad-uate student at Claremont McKenna College. Since high school, when receiving a C prompted Horowitz to switch from Spanish to Chinese lan-guage classes, he had been attracted to Chinese culture. When in college, he always imagined going to China, and a trip abroad there during his junior year altered his future.

Horowitz graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 2003 with a degree in government, and although he was offered a job

as a financial adviser in Orange County fresh out of school he decid-ed, instead, to go back to China. Horowitz saw the move as a unique way to expand his knowledge of the world.

“I fell in love with the country,” Horowitz said. “I’ve always been interested in the culture and the language and the people. It was a great experience for me to go into business there and continue speak-ing the language and negotiate in Chinese.”

Horowitz got a job at a logistics company in Shanghai, where he was the only foreigner in the entire business. Although he was there as a businessman, he could not help but notice the discrepancies in fashion between what he was used to and what was typical for the Chinese.

“I got to witness a lot of interest-ing things,” he said. “I remember going into work and the Chinese would wear suit pants with white socks that were coming up over their pant legs. It opened up my eyes to the differences in style. I wish I took pictures of them.”

These dissimilarities in style, along with the custom of tailored clothing so typical to Chinese fash-ion, prompted Horowitz and his former roommate Dale, who cur-rently lives in Shanghai, to create DressMonkey. Horowitz and Dale, who met while they were abroad in China as juniors, had both gone back to China after their gradu-ation in 2003. While roommates, they were both aspiring to become entrepreneurs.

“We wanted to work for our-selves so we said, ‘Screw it, let’s quit our jobs and do this,’” Horowitz

said. The company began as a cloth-

ing service for friends and fam-ily, and through advertisement and word of mouth, the business grew. People began to gravitate toward the concept of customizing their own clothes as well as the name of the business itself.

The two friends created the com-pany name while sitting on their couch, watching a movie. They zipped through possibilities such as Trendsetter and DressYourself; titles that simply did not satisfy or were already taken. With a slip of the tongue, DressMonkey was born. The philosophy behind the name is meant to encourage the young, conformist, cubicle-inhabiting busi-nessman to find his unique style rather than relying on brand names, a trend that Horowitz had experi-enced while in China — where he had all his suits and blazers tailor-made.

“I felt compelled to address what I thought had become a grow-ing need for young professionals like myself: the creation of a more respected and fashionably-dressed office monkey,” said Horowitz.

Owning a company that custom designs clothing, it comes as no sur-prise that Horowitz has dealt with some strange requests. For example, he had recently received an e-mail from a woman who wanted to rec-reate a specific polyester pattern that her son wore in the ’70s with a specified insignia.

But dealing with out-there orders and customers isn’t Horowitz’s only responsibility; he also has to do his

More Than Just Monkey Businessuncommon folk

Jeff Horowitz, a UCSD graduate student and co-founder of the clothing line DressMonkey, balances schoolwork with entrepreneurial endeavors.

ANDREW RUIZ/GUARDIANIndividual style and custom-tailored designs define DressMonkey — an online clothing business co-founded by UCSD graduate student Jeff Horowitz that caters to the young, fashion-savvy professional.See HOROWITZ, page 12

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assigned to a workshop, 19 percent faced quarter-long suspensions and 3 percent faced longer suspensions or were permanently dismissed from the university.

According to Bertram-Gallant, cheating occurs more often at UCSD than other colleges in the area, mostly because UCSD’s quar-ter system offers more classes and therefore more instances of cheat-ing. However, Gilson attributes increased cheating to higher com-petition at universities.

“My experience in the last few years is that the competition in school, at high school and univer-sity, is so stiff that getting anything less than an A is unacceptable,” Gilson said. “Most students do not set out to cheat; it happens at a moment of panic when they believe that what they have done on their own is not going to measure up. Many of them rationalize that using ideas from someone else or words or sentences from Wikipedia is not cheating. It’s on the Web, that makes it public domain, yes? Well, no. But then the damage is done.”

Another common form of aca-demic misconduct is the use of unauthorized materials such as cheat sheets, or using old lab reports, papers or exams to aid in the com-pletion of a students’ homework — methods that Bertram-Gallant said are commonly perceived as less severe than more blatant types of misconduct.

“If the instructor hasn’t assigned the use of it, then it is considered cheating,” Bertram-Gallant said. “My ethics [are], if a professor is standing over your shoulder, would you still be doing it? If no, then it would be cheating. If a student has access to previous exams, they shouldn’t use it unless they ask the professor.”

However, there tends to be a fine line between authorized and unau-thorized aids. Organizations such as A.S. Lecture Notes must acquire the permission of a professor before providing lecture notes for classes. Art history professor Teri Sowell endorses A.S. Lecture Notes because she feels that students can focus their attention on larger concepts rather than trying to write down her lectures verbatim.

“Students may not understand what is important during the lec-ture, so they try to record every-thing I say,” she said. “It detaches them. If they can rely on good lecture notes, they can spend more time digesting and applying the material. I do not notice a big

attendance drop in classes that have an A.S. note taker. Notes can only record so much and I doubt anyone could get an A in my class with-out understanding the classroom nuances that do not get recorded in published notes.”

Yet not all professors feel this way. Political science professor Keith Poole does not like the use of A.S. lecture notes in his classes.

“I allowed the note taker to do it once in one of my classes and have not done it since,” he said. “I do not think that students can learn any-thing if they can buy notes.”

According to Bertram-Gallant, because many students attend grad-uate school after UCSD, there isn’t a competition between students, but a competition within themselves. Rather than contending against one another, the students are helping each other cheat, she said.

“A lot of kids come into univer-sity with better-than-perfect GPAs,” she said. “So students think that they are better-than-perfect, which has many psychological effects. Think about how devastating that A-minus becomes. It’s a competi-tion against the system, because the system has made grades so impor-tant for future successes.”

Bertram-Gallant said that issues with academic integrity aren’t just threatened by students who cheat, but also by students who keep quiet when they see others cheat-ing, which has a negative long-term effect.

“Professors assign grades in order to assign different levels of competence,” she said. “Students who are peeved that other students are cheating are silent; they just let it happen. Then it becomes nor-mative, then the UCSD diploma becomes worthless.”

Despite concerns associated with the violation of academic integrity, UCSD has not done any anony-mous surveys regarding academic misconduct. Thus, there is no way of knowing how many students are engaging in behaviors that would be considered cheating. Bertram-Gallant said that having this data would be very helpful for UCSD, but in the meantime, the only sta-tistics available are on the cases of academic misconduct that are being reported.

“A cheater doesn’t just hurt themselves, in fact, they benefit themselves,” she said. “But they hurt everyone else — even those who don’t cheat.”

Readers can contact Vanessa Do at [email protected].

Amnesty International claimed to have the names of 179 suspected gay men who were arrested, beaten and tortured under the reach of debauch-ery laws since 2001. The report spec-ulated that Amnesty International’s figures paled in comparison to the actual numbers of harassed individu-als; many harassed, suspected gay men are never brought to trial or even charged.

The most public and internation-ally recognized crackdown in Cairo was in 2001, with the arrest and trial of several men, known now as the Cairo 52. The police raided a Nile River disco, the Queen Boat, and the local papers subsequently listed the names and personal information of all the men alongside labels such as “Satan-worshippers” and “sexual perverts.”

Despite the growing fear among Egyptian gays of the continued threat of violence, Abdul was not worried about coming to study in Egypt. A gay friend of his had studied in Cairo before, and assured Abdul that there was a large community there. Abdul

encounters far more unwanted sexual passes than prejudiced harassment.

“I was surprised how many people grab their crotch and smile at me,” Abdul said. “They have little signals: whistles and kissy lips. One time I did it back and had to run away.”

It was a come-on he wasn’t in the mood for deflecting, he said.

In addition to the presence of gay culture on Cairo’s streets, the online community continues to flourish. Many Web sites, such as Gayegypt.com, are hosted abroad in places like the UK, but nevertheless serve a vital role in sustaining the underground network of gay life in Egypt.

“It’s all online now, and the sites are all in Arabic,” said Abdul.

Even online, Abdul notices differ-ences from American gay culture.

“[Gay men in Egypt] always say they’re tops because the punishment for the top is less than the bottom; they’re less of a man in that sense,” he said.

Abdul said that, because of the aggressive nature of men in Egypt, most gay men in Cairo find it hard to accept the idea of a loving, mutu-

al relationship between two male adults.

Still, Abdul wants to try. Since he finds most men here are inter-ested in only sexual relationships, he is reluctant to enter a sexual relationship with Amir in the hope that they will form a more tangible connection. Up to this point, they have been keeping things as casual as they can under the necessary veil of secrecy.

During a brief phone call with Amir, as he prepared for work, Abdul whispered softly in Arabic. He missed Amir, he said, and wanted to see him later. Certain that Amir looks toward a future where he lives a life of secrecy, married to a woman, raising children and likely express-ing his hidden desires in online chat rooms, Abdul is eager to show him a life where people can be open, even if it’s only with each other — away from oppression, stereotypes and judgment for one’s sexuality.

homework. Horowitz is currently working on

obtaining his masters degree at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD with a regional concentration on China. Balancing demanding schoolwork with small-business ownership, while difficult, has been a positive experience for Horowitz. Although it has taken some adjustment, he finds that his classmates are of the same business oriented mindset, which definitely made the transi-tion from the business world back to school easier.

And, because Horowitz prefers a more direct and practical approach to learning rather than simply studying theory, he believes that IR/PS fits him well. The curriculum includes classes on strategic mar-keting, global economy, managerial economics and offers perspectives on both the micro and macro sides

of the economy. Horowitz and his classmates

work one-on-one with local compa-nies, creating business models with them and working with real-life data sets. To Horowitz, this type of hands-on experience is valuable in anything business-related that he may decide to do after gradu-ation. His regionalized program, in particular, combines the cul-tural and political sides of China to the overall business and man-agement training aspect, which he believes will surely assist him in his DressMonkey endeavors.

Although Horowitz and Dale don’t see DressMonkey expanding into a separate store anytime soon, they are looking into partnering with small boutiques or showcasing their suits in kiosk-type arrange-ments in New York City. They are also in the midst of designing cloth-ing options for women.

Horowitz plans to graduate this

coming June, and although his future isn’t set in stone, he is con-sidering working on DressMonkey full time.

“I’d be selling myself and the company short if I didn’t devote my full time because there’s so much more we could do and there’s defi-nitely room to grow,” he said.

Despite the potential difficulties, Horowitz considers entrepreneur-ship as a viable option for anyone with the drive and patience to make it happen.

“It’s easier than you think to sort of build on [your] idea and per-haps build a business based around [your] idea, based around [your] passion,” Horowitz said. “Don’t feel intimidated or think that this is something that only the smartest people in the world can do. That’s not true at all.”

Readers can contact Stephanie Tsank at [email protected].

Stiff Competition Prompts Academic Dishonesty

▶ CHEATING, from page 8

Grad Student Plans to Expand Business▶ HOROWITZ, from page 11

American Introduces Accepting Ideals▶ CAIRO, from page 9

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UCSD celebrates Black History Month dur-ing February 2008 with a series of programs and activities focusing on the achievements of African Americans. Activities include dis-cussions, poetry, speakers, and soul food. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to participate in this important observance. To learn more about the month long activities, visit: http://blackhistorymonth.ucsd.edu/.

MON FEB 25

B L A C K H I S T O R Y M O N T H

2nd Annual African American Studies Film Series: Black Documentary Films - Come watch two documentary films, directed by contemporary African American Directors. Featured films are “No (The Rape Documentary)” and “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes.” 6-8pm at Student Services Center Multipurpose Room.

A R T S

Undergraduate Performers Forum - The concert’s eclectic program which showcases UCSD under-graduate music students promises anything from jazz combos to the traditional Chinese instrument gugin. 8pm at Mandeville Center, free.

C A R E E R

Hot Business Opportunities in San Diego - Gary Moss, labor market information specialist, delivers the scoop on hot job opportunities in the local busi-ness scene. Learn how to break into the field of busi-ness, encompassing accounting, banking, consult-ing, sales and more with this panel of experienced professionals. Light refreshments provided. 3-5pm in the Rady School of Management, Otterson Hall.

Employer Info Session: Kiewit Pacific - The Career Services Center’s On-Campus Interviewing program invites you to meet reps from Kiewit Pacific, grown from a small masonry contracting firm to a Fortune 500 company with more than 15,000 employees and $3 billion in revenue and recruiting engi-neers. 5-6:30pm at the Student Services Building, Conference Room 554A.

Employer Info Session: Progressive - The Career Services Center’s On-Campus Interviewing program invites you to meet reps from Progressive, named by BusinessWeek as one of the Top 50 Places to Launch a Career, a Fortune 500(r) company, is the third-largest provider of personal auto insurance in the U.S. recruiting all majors. 5-6:30pm at the Student Services Building, Conference Room 554.

R E C R E A T I O N

The Price Center Film Series presents Michael Clayton - An attorney known as the “fixer” in his law firm, comes across the biggest case of his career that could produce disastrous results for those involved. Starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, and Michael O’Keefe. 6pm and 9pm at PC Theatre, $3.

Roma Nights presents Melissa Vaughn, 8-9pm at Price Center, free.

TUES FEB 26A R T S

The Seven - Will Power, award-winning pioneer of contemporary theatre, transforms a DJ, a turntable, urban poetry and modern dance into an explosive retelling of the classic Greek myth, Seven Against Thebes. 7:30pm at the La Jolla Playhouse. Students $25, GA $28, 2 for 1 student discount.

mus.206 - Students of renowned computer music innovator Miller Puckett showcase their original computer/electronic music compositions. 8pm at Mandeville Center, free.

C A R E E R

Getting Your Foot in the Door and onto the Ladder - Our advisors will supply you with street smarts for uncovering internship opportunities from social networking and informational inter-viewing to your 30-second commercial, resume tips, and sifting through online opportunities. 11am at Career Services Center Horizon Room.

Graduate School for Aspiring Psychologists and Counselors - Get the inside scoop on prepar-ing yourself and applying for graduate programs that prepare mental health professionals, including psychology, social work, counseling, marriage and family therapy, and other programs. 2pm at Career Services Center Horizon Room.

Employer Info Session: Golden Eagle - The Career Services Center’s On-Campus Interviewing program invites you to meet reps from Golden Eagle, a regional property and casualty insur-ance carrier with offices in San Diego and Walnut Creek, California. We are part of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, one of the largest multi-line prop-erty and casualty insurers, ranked 102 in the 2006 Fortune 500 list recruiting all majors. 5-6:30pm at the Student Services Building, Multipurpose Room.

C R A F T S

Jewbilee Week: Art Day - Jewelry making, face painting, temporary tattoos. Jewelry and raffle ticket sales for Hillel of San Diego fundraiser. Free. 11am-3pm at PC Theatre.

L E C T U R E

“America, Amerikkka: Elect Nation & Imperial Violence” - An informal talk and discussion with Rosemary Radford Ruether, carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology Emeritus, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. 11am at the Literature Building, Rm. 155.

Party Time, Not Jail Time - We will explain how one addresses alcohol and drug-related citations (e.g., minor in possession, DUI, etc.) and will provide guidance on how to avoid receiving these types of citations. 12pm at Student Legal Services.

R E C R E A T I O N

Gina Rene Performing a “Healthy Within” Benefit Concert - Gina Rene will blend R&B and Pop melodies with the wit and lyricism of a true MC at a Benefit Concert put on by A.S. Women’s Commission to promote Eating Disorder Awareness Week and support the Healthy Within Foundation, a foundation to recognize healthy body images and prevent eating disorders through education, awareness, advocacy and training. Donations are encouraged and will go directly to The Healthy Within Foundation. 7:30pm at Ché Café.

Cinema Lounge: Meet the Filmmaker Andrew Bujalski, Voice---of a Generation - Described as the “Voice---of a Generation” by the New York Times, Andrew Bujalski’s film “Mutual Appreciation” speaks poignantly about the interpersonal relationships of post-collegiate 20-somethings struggling to figure it all out. 1pm in the Geisel Library Seuss Room.

The Price Center Film Series presents Lions for Lambs - Injuries sustained by two Army rang-ers behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist, and professor. Starring: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, and Tom Cruise. 6pm and 9pm at PC Theatre, $3.

WEDS FEB 27B L A C K H I S T O R Y M O N T H

Let it flow... Soulful Night at Sixth - An evening of spoken word, soul food, dance, and art. Free. 7pm at the Lodge, Sixth College.

A R T S

Red Fish Blue Fish - Red Fish Blue Fish, UCSD’s internationally recognized percussion ensemble is back to perform new works! Free for UCSD Students, $5 Students, $10 GA. Tickets sold at the door. 5pm at Mandeville Auditorium.

Artist’s Talk with Monique Prieto - Prieto will give and illustrated talk about her paintings and its development from abstract form to the deploy-ment and use of language in her current work. 6-8:30pm at Mandeville Recital Hall.

C A R E E R

Medical School: What Applicants for Admission in 2009 Need to Know - Get a head start as our pre-med advisors walk you through the nuts and bolts of the admissions process. Pick up strategies for selecting schools as well as the fundamentals of preparing your application. 12pm at the Career Services Center Horizon Room.

Inverse Interviews: Business Experts Take the Hot Seat - Turn the tables on the interview process and find out how our panel of recruiters would answer a variety of interview questions for business posi-tions. The audience will then have the opportunity to interview the panelists and hear examples of strong responses straight from the recruiters them-selves. 3-4:30pm in the Student Services Building, Multipurpose Room.

Employer Info Session: FactSet Research - The Career Services Center’s On-Campus Interviewing program invites you to meet reps from FactSet Research, is a major supplier of online integrated financial and economic information to the invest-ment management and banking industries. We were recently ranked #12 on Forbes Best Small Companies in America list recruiting Engineers, Math, Economics and Management Science. 5-6:30pm at the Student Services Building, Conference Rm. 554.

Employer Info Session: Schlumberger - The Career Services Center’s On-Campus Interviewing program invites you to meet reps from Schlumberger, is the leading oilfield services provider, trusted to deliver superior results and improved E&P performance for oil and gas companies around the world recruit-ing engineers. 5-6:30pm at the Student Services Building, Conference Rm. 554A.

The Art of a Well Written Executive Summary - Last chance to join in the UCSD $50,000 Business Plan Competition. Learn to Cultivate Cutting Edge Technology with San Diego Investors at our catered event. Listen to Catalyst Law Group Outline an Ideal Executive Summary. 5:30pm - 8pm at the Rady School of Management , Otterson Hall (MPR).

L E C T U R E

Celia Badillo on the Migration Effects of a Poverty Alleviation Program in Mexico, Progresa - Celia Badillo presenting “Direct and Indirect Effects of a Poverty Alleviation Program on Migration: The Case of Progresa.” An analysis on the program and its impact on migration to the United States and abroad. Free! Visit www.usmex.ucsd.edu for more info. 3:30pm Deutz Conference Room, IOA Complex.

Panel on Development and Democracy in Africa - Interactive Discussion with a Panel of Experts; FREE refreshments and snacks!!! 7-9pm at Liebow Auditorium, School of Medicine.

R E C R E A T I O N

Moadon UCSD: Party Israeli Style - Ever wondered what a club on the “Taleyet” in Tel Aviv is like? Well SDIA is bringing it to you. Come check out our very own “Moadon”. 8-11pm at Porter’s Pub.

S P O R T S

UCSD Women’s Club Lacrosse vs. University of San Diego, 7pm at Warren College West Field.

THURS FEB 28B L A C K H I S T O R Y M O N T H

A Food Tasting: African Gourmet - 7-10pm at Great Hall, free.

Frederick Smith and Fiona Fredde: Author Readings & Discussion on Black & LGBT Literature - Fred and Fiona will read excerpts from their latest novels “Right Side of the Wrong Bed.” And “Every Dark Desire.” Engage in a dialogue on LGBT/Black community issues. Light refreshments will be served. 5-7pm at the Cross Cultural Center.

A R T S

ArtPower! presents ArtTalks! with Armenian Shoghaken Folk Ensemble - Several members of the ensemble will participate in a moderated discussion directly preceding the concert about the musical history of their culture. 6:30-7:30pm at the Mandeville Auditorium, free.

The Seven - 8pm at the La Jolla Playhouse. Students $25, GA $28, 2 for 1 student discount.

C A R E E R

Business School: Preparing and Applying - A business degree can be excellent preparation for a number of different career paths. Learn how to prepare for an MBA program and discover what admissions committees require (and desire) in applicants. 11:30am at the Career Services Center Horizon Room.

The Lightning Round: Speed Interview Practice for Business - Speed daters dress to impress, talk about their best qualities, and leave a strong impression. Mock speed interviewers do the same, but walk away with the confidence and skills needed to ace the real thing! Bring resumes and rotate from recruiter to recruiter, doing your best to answer their questions before the five-minute buzzer sounds and you receive feedback on how you did. Refuel with “fast” foods, “mock”tails, and networking with recruiters after the show’s over. Limited space available, call 858.534.3750 to secure your reserva-tion. 2-4pm in PC SB/LA.

How to Run an Effective Meeting - Attend this interactive workshop, sponsored by the UCSD Express to Success Program, to learn the funda-mentals of running an effective meeting! 12-1pm at PC SB/LA.

R E C R E A T I O N

JEWbilee 2008 presents Cultural Dinner and Comedy Show! - Come enjoy delicious Israeli food, earn great prizes and share a night of laughs with a show performed by the National Comedy Theatre! -- It is a night that you surely don’t want to miss! -- Tickets are available on Library Walk starting Tuesday, February 19. Look out for the JEWbilee table. 6:30pm at the Weaver Center at the Institute of the Americas across from RIMAC.

The Price Center Film Series presents Enchanted - A classic Disney fairytale collides with modern-day New York City in a story about a fairytale princess from the past who is thrust into present-day by an evil queen. Starring: Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, and Amy Adams. 6pm and 9pm at PC Theatre, $3.

Islam Awareness Week: Movie Night - Truth behind Islam. 7-10pm at Center Hall Room 101.

S P O R T S

Baseball vs. Cal Poly Pomona, 2pm at Triton Field.

FRI FEB 29B L A C K H I S T O R Y M O N T H

An Evening of Theatre, Music, Song, and Dance to Celebrate the late Dr. Floyd Gaffney, Professor Emeritus of Theatre - Theatre, Music, Song, and Dance to honor the works and life for Dr. Floyd Gaffney. 7:30pm at Weiss Forum Theatre.

A R T S

Contemporary Improvisation Ensemble - The UCSD Contemporary Improvisation Ensemble embraces music-making-in-the-moment. The group, comprised of 18 seasoned musicians per-forming on various wind, string, percussion and electronic instruments, uses collectively-designed organizing strategies to improvise a music that ranges from extreme tranquility to reckless aban-don. 8pm at Mandeville Recital Hall, free.


L E C T U R E

STOP TRAFFIC! - Learn about the problem of Human Sex Trafficking here and abroad. There will be a panel discussion, screening of clips from docu-mentaries, silent art auction, and raffle of donations from local businesses. Light refreshments will be also served. 7-9 pm Great Hall in ERC.

R E C R E A T I O N

Shabbat Dinner and Services - Students will par-ticipate in services and Friday night dinner as part of the weekly Jewish holiday of Shabbat. 6:30-10pm at International Center, free.

Hong Kong Student Union Karaoke Competition: First Round - The Hong Kong Student Union will be hosting a preliminary Karaoke Competition for students. The winner of the Preliminary competi-tion will be entered into the Final competition. The Overall winner will proceed to a joint university competition with the other UC schools. 7-11pm at PC Theatre.

Crankin’ It 4 the Kids - Variety show put on by Camp Kesem @ UCSD to benefit our week long summer camp for kids whose parents have had can-cer. GA: $7. 7:30-10pm at Center hall Room 101.

S P O R T S

Baseball vs. Cal Poly Pomona, 2pm at Triton Field.

Men’s Volleyball vs. UC Santa Barbara, 7pm at RIMAC.

SAT MAR 1 A R T S


R E C R E A T I O N

The Price Center Film Series presents Enchanted. Starring: Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, and Amy Adams. 6pm and 9pm at PC Theatre, $3.

S P E C I A L E V E N T

APSA 13th Annual Talent Show - Not only is this talent show a display of great entertainment with bands, singers, dancers, and cultural acts, APSA especially seizes this opportunity to inspire students to get more involved in campus wide affirmative action organizations. After all these exciting events, there will be a dance with a DJ! Come and support APSA and have an amazing time! $8 advance, $10 at door. 7pm-12am at PC Ballrooms A&B.

S P O R T S

UCSD Club Sports Dancesport - Dance by the Shores. 9am at the Main Gym.

Women’s Water Polo vs. Cal State Bakersfield, 10am at Canyonview Pool.

UCSD Men’s Club Rugby vs. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 1pm at Warren College West Field.

UCSD Women’s Club Lacrosse vs. Arizona State University, 2pm at Warren College East Field.

Men’s Volleyball vs. Cal State Northridge, 7pm at RIMAC.

SUN MAR 2A R T S


S P O R T S

Men’s Tennis vs. Northern Arizona, 2pm at Northview Tennis Courts.

UPCOMINGB L A C K H I S T O R Y M O N T H

Karole Foreman, Thurgood Marshall College Artist-Residence - Please join Karole Foreman, Thurgood Marshall College Artist-Residence as she will be performing a tribute to Josephine Baker with dramatic text and song. General Admission, no tick-ets required. 6-8pm at the Visual Arts Performance Space, located in the Visual Arts Facility on Russell Lane, next to PCYNH.

S P E C I A L E V E N T

Taking Care of Business - Win an iPod Touch! Take the Bus. Affairs Student Satisfaction Survey from Feb. 11- Mar 10 at http://studentsat.ucsd.edu.

WEEKLYC A R E E R

On-Campus Interviewing program - Industry-leading employers recruit at the Career Services Center throughout the year for full-time career positions and high-level internships outside of our regular listings. Learn how to sign up for an inter-view and submit your resume in Port Triton at http://career.ucsd.edu, or call 858.534.6710 with questions.

C L U B S

Women’s Group - Women’s Group is an opportuni-ty to discuss issues, problems, and life in an informal and comfortable atmosphere. We meet in a respect-ed space, so all information and identities are kept confidential. If you are woman-identified and also identify as bisexual, lesbian, queer, or are question-ing your sexual orientation, stop by Women’s Group to meet other like-minded women and gain sup-port from your peers. Every Wednesday, 8pm at the LGBT Resource Center.

C U L T U R E

Asian-American Community Forum - Looking for some good conversation and food during lunch? Drop by the Asian Community Forum. We will discuss a different Asian/Pacific Islander related topic each week. Every Tuesday 1-2pm at the Cross Cultural Center

H E A L T H

FITstop at RIMAC - Evaluate your relative fitness levels - Set goals & measure your progress. Trained Student Health Advocates test your: body fat composition, grip strength, step test recovery rate, blood pressure, resting heart rate. A free service for all UCSD students. Walk in to RIMAC Wellness Room any Mon or Wed 7-9pm.

Peer Education programs are provided by Student Health Advocates on nutrition, HIV, fitness, stress, sexual health & other topics at your res hall or student org meetings! Call 534-1824 for info on these FREE programs!

Men’s Clinic @ Student Health - Routine male exams, STD checks, etc - available Wednesday morn-ings at 10:00am. NO visit fee, NO appt - just walk in to Student Health Conference Room #142. More info? 858-534-1824.

Student health is open to ALL registered stu-dents, regardless of health insurance status! Appointments can be scheduled online at http://studenthealth.ucsd.edu or call 534-8089. Same-day appointment for urgent needs; walk-in Urgent Care if you need immediate care (some access fees apply). Hours: weekdays 8am-4:30pm (Weds. 9-4:30pm).

Annual exams, STD tests, birth control, ECP, HPV Vaccine, and health education all at Student Health. Appts online at http://studenthealth.ucsd.edu or call 534-8089. As always, completely con-fidential.

Anonymous HIV testing @ Student Health - Sign up online at http://studenthealth.ucsd.edu under “Health Education”. $10.00 charge includes pre- and post-counseling with a peer educator. Questions? Call a Health Educator @ 534-1824.

Nutrition Counseling is available for students at Student Health Service. One-on-one appt. with a registered dietitian includes a three-day computer-ized analysis of your diet. Make your appointment online at http://studenthealth.ucsd.edu or call (858) 534-8089.

Weight Management Clinic - led by a dietitian and a physician. Meets every Thursday at 3pm in the Student Health Conference Room, 1st floor. No appointment - a FREE service for students.

Body Comp Analysis - every Tuesday 10-11am & Wednesday 11am-12pm. Computerized analysis of your BMI, percentage of body fat, calculated basal metabolic rate (BMR), fat mass, and total body water. $10 fee. Sign up online at http://studenthealth.ucsd.edu.

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Jenny Tsai and Jessica Winkler of Cal Poly Pomona. At number three, senior Justine Ang Fonte teamed with fresh-man Dalya Perelman to take out the Broncos duo of Mallory Brady and Kaitlin Woolridge. No. 2 doubles was just as entertaining, with freshmen Kimmi Dao and Valerie Tang holding off Kara Fisher and Fallon Blattner, 8-6.

The Tritons made things much less interesting once singles started, winning five of the six matches in straight sets. In the only three-setter, which was the No. 2 singles match, Perelman rode a wave of tremendous shots to blow right by Winkler after a rough first set to win 1-6, 6-1 (10-1). Every other match was routine, with UCSD posting some crooked scores in a thorough beating of the Broncos. Varnay was perfect in the fourth spot, beating Fisher 6-0, 6-0. At number six, junior Tessa Tran was just as dominating in the first set, beating Michelle Stock, 6-0, 7-5. Dao won her match at the top spot over Tsai, 6-2, 6-3, while Fonte defeated Brady at the number three spot by a 6-2, 6-1 score. Senior Molly Sullens won at the No. 5 spot, taking out Woolridge, 6-1, 6-2.

The Tritons’ first conference game of the early season was on Feb. 9 when they hit the road to face Cal State Bernardino. UCSD looked great in the match, dominating in both singles and doubles and winning 8-1. All three doubles matches were won 8-1, and the singles was barely as competitive. Junior Ina Dan and Bains won at the top doubles pot, beating Jennifer Joy and Leslie Horn. At No. 2, Dao and Tang proved to be too much for Xinia Chaves and Ashley Hulett. Fonte and Perelman combined to beat Brittany Choate and Kara Jenkins in the last doubles spot.

Cal State San Bernardino’s only win of the day came at the top singles match, when Joy managed to get by Dan in an exciting three-setter. After the first set, Joy and Dan played neck and neck over the next two sets, but Joy managed to make a few more shots to escape. The 3-6, 6-4, (14-12) win was easily the best match of the day.

There wouldn’t be much else for the

Coyotes to be excited about. Beginning at number two singles, a 6-1, 6-1 vic-tory by Dao over Leslie Horn, CSUSB looked simply overmatched by the Tritons. Perelman won her match 6-0, 6-0, over Hulett at the third spot, and Sullens beat Chaves, 6-3, 6-0 at the fourth spot. Varnay nearly had another double bagel, and cruised to an easy win over Choate, 6-0, 6-1. In the final singles match, Tran was able to make it two double bagels for UCSD on the day, with a 6-0, 6-0 win over Jenkins.

It’s clear from the Tritons’ early results in conference that they should be a force in the national championship hunt, but with nonconference losses to Cal State Northridge on Feb. 13 and Fresno Pacific on Feb. 15, UCSD has much room for improvement.

LaPlante was hesitant to jump to conclusions and said that the road to a

title is still extremely imposing.“BYU Hawaii, the defending nation-

al champion, will be very difficult to beat, but I believe we have a stronger team this year than we did last year,” she said. “By the end of the season, I think our team will finally be a cohe-sive unit, and the newcomers will be integrated with the veterans. We should be in good shape towards being one of the two best teams in the region, and advancing to Nationals in Houston.”

UCSD will be busy this week with three road matches, first facing point Point Loma Nazarene University on Feb. 27. Two days later, UCSD will travel north, where they will play CCAA opponent Sonoma State, fol-lowed by UC Davis on Mar. 1.

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fan, I have no doubt they will be the cellar-dwellers the entire season with a chance to lose 100 games unless young studs Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum can each win 15 one-run games.

The top four spots are a free-for-all, with each team capable of putting together a great season. As we saw last year, two teams could make the playoffs out of the West and chances are the divi-sion title won’t be decided until the final weekend. I’ll take the Diamondbacks, who became the favorites when they acquired Dan Haren to create a for-midable 1-2 punch with sinker-baller Brandon Webb and last year’s All-Star game starter Haren. Arizona also has a ton of prospects that showed promise last year and will only improve as they mature in their peak baseball years.

The defending league champion Rockies should be able to grab the Wild Card again, maybe this time without the heartbreak for Trevor Hoffman and the Padres, thanks to their amazing offense led by Matt Holiday, Todd Helton, Troy Tulowitzki and Garrett Atkins.

As for San Diego’s own Padres, the team continues to do just enough offen-sively to compete but not dominate. With amazing pitching in Jake Peavy and Chris Young, the Padres don’t need much, but outside of Adrian Gonzalez, the Friars are a bunch of streaky hitters. Mike Cameron’s departure rids the team of one inconsistent, strikeout-prone and, now, suspended player, but Khalil Greene does not provide Gonzalez with the lineup protection he needs for the Padres to be a force in the West.

The Dodgers are capable of being relevant in September and have a bright future with youngsters Matt Kemp and James Loney, but old-timers Nomar Garciaparra and Jason Schmidt must go and Andruw Jones isn’t capable of 35+ homers or a .250 average anymore.

The NL Central is nowhere near as competitive as the West and looks to be a two-team race between the big-spending Cubs and the powerful Brew Crew. Milwaukee nearly made the playoffs behind Prince Fielder’s father-hatred-fueled season and new hero to the Jewish people Ryan Braun’s tremen-dous rookie season. That middle-of-the-order combination alone can keep the Brewers within range of the Cubs, who are my pick for the division title.

Lou Piniella may need to kick some dirt and throw a base on Opening Day to keep the Cubs motivated from the get-go but the team will get a lot better with Alfonso Soriano playing a whole season and the arrival of Japanese import Kosuke Fukudome. Besides their talented pitching staff and solid one through eight lineup, the Cubbies also seem like candidates for a 2004 Red Sox-esque curse-ending World Series win. With more than $200 million spent in the past two offseasons, now is the time for the Cubs to back up Ryan Dempster’s bold prediction and be rid of the Steve Bartman aftertaste.

The Cardinals’ lineup looks bad with one of the game’s best hitters in Albert Pujols penciled in. But he looks des-tined for the disabled list when his elbow inevitably blows out, which would put St. Louis’ offense on the Giants’ anemic level. The Astros could put up some nice numbers with Lance Berkman, Carlos Lee and new acquisition Miguel Tejada — the Mitchell Report-exposed and injury-prone shortstop who is in the twilight of his career. But without any proven pitchers beyond Roy Oswalt, Houston will be limited to playing spoil-er in September.

The Reds have more promising tal-ent in their system than any team in the majors, but Joey Votto, Homer Bailey and Jay Bruce all look at least a year away from realizing their potential and,

therefore, Big Red looks destined for another fourth-place finish. Picking up the rear will be the Pirates, who have been rebuilding for a decade now and seem to have made no progress.

No one takes the NL seriously, but there is a real possibility that the 2008 World Series champions come out of the NL East. While the defending division champion Phillies have a talented team and Ryan Howard is one of the most exciting players in the game, the Mets got immeasurably better with the addi-tion of the unanimous choice for best pitcher in the game, Johan Santana. New York hardly gave up anything in the deal to acquire the two-time Cy Young win-ner and with Jose Reyes, David Wright and Carlos Beltran anchoring the lineup, the Mets don’t even need Santana and the rest of their stellar staff to be lights out to win a ton of ballgames. The Mets should win at least 90 games and is capa-ble of the 100-win milestone barring a crippling collapse like the one that cost them a playoff appearance last year.

The Phillies have a lineup, with Howard, Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins, capable of trading runs with the Mets, but have starting pitching prob-lems outside of Cole Hamels. Even if Hamels can outperform Santana in a matchup of aces, the Mets have Pedro Martinez, John Maine and Oliver Perez waiting after Santana to win any series.

The Phillies should compete with the Brewers and Rockies for the NL Wild Card but have no chance of pull-ing off the comeback they did last year to win the division. After the Mets and Phillies, the Braves should be just good enough to take third and finish over .500, but not to contend with the top dogs. Washington and Florida will battle for fourth place with only fantasy players interested in Hanley Ramirez’s produc-tion paying attention to either team’s meaningless seasons.

Santana Makes the Mets Instant Contenders▶ RETORT, from page 16

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2008 THE UCSD GUARDIAN SPORTS 15

CSUSB out of first place,” Osier said.Osier led all scorers with 30 points

and Noud added 27 points. UCSD also held Cal State San Bernardino’s center Vanessa Wilt to only seven points in the game. The win gave the Tritons a season sweep over the Coyotes and dropped Cal State San Bernardino into second place.

“We played a phenomenal defensive game,” Elliott said. “It was only the sec-ond time all year that [Wilt] didn’t have a double-double.”

The Tritons will take to the road for

their last two regular season contests against Cal State Monterey Bay on Feb. 28 and San Francisco State University on Feb. 29. These games are important for UCSD, which needs to be one of the top four seeds in the first round of the CCAA tournament in order to host its first-round contest.

“We’re still in good shape,” Elliott said. “We need to take care of business in our next games and have some momen-tum heading into the tournament.”

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the doubleheader and pulled out a gutsy 6-5 win. The Tritons, who mustered only five hits in the first-game loss, got a four-hit performance from freshman outfielder Katrin Gabriele to secure the nonconference split. The prestige of their opponent’s Division I standing did not intimidate the Tritons, who marched into the game knowing they were the team to beat.

“We knew going in that we were just as good if not better than they were,” sophomore catcher Nicole Saari said. “The fact that they’re D-I wasn’t a big deal; we had beaten them before so we knew we were going to compete with them. It was good to see our bats come alive in the second game and come together for a good win.”

Junior first baseman Jenni Habib agreed that the win’s significance was not that it came against a Division-I team but that it came on the heels of a loss, showing the team’s resilience and determination.

“What was more exciting than just playing a D-I team was seeing the bats come alive in the second game,” Habib said. “We didn’t let the loss in the first game get to us and we answered back.”

The 2008 UCSD squad is stocked full of quality bats, but so far this year has not been able to fully meet their self-imposed standards. The Tritons have a season record of 14-4 (4-2 CCAA), but believe that some of those losses could have been erased with more consistent hitting to back up their stellar pitching and defense.

“Our offense is still not where we think it should but I think that little by little we’re getting there,” head coach Patti Gerckens said. “We’re starting to get more runs so we’re doing okay. I feel that our offense is going to come around so I’m very optimistic. [The second University of San Diego game] was good because instead of just wish-ing and hoping for runs, they went out

and made it happen and that’s what we need to keep doing.”

After the series-opening games on Friday versus Cal State Dominguez Hills were postponed due to the rain, the skies finally cleared up on Saturday just long enough for the Tritons to complete their scheduled doublehead-er. In the first game, UCSD put up three runs over the first four innings but could not extend its lead to put the game out of reach and allowed the Toros to tie in the top of the fifth inning. With the score tied at three, senior outfielder Danielle Bundy dou-bled to left, leading off the bottom of

the sixth. Junior centerfielder Allison May moved Bundy to third with a sacrifice bunt, but Gabriele was unable to repeat her magic from earlier in the week and flied out to shallow cen-ter. With two outs and the go-ahead runner on third base, senior second baseman Danielle Lukk came through with a clutch RBI single up the middle to score Bundy from third and seal the win. Sophomore pitcher Christine Zankich tossed two and two-thirds scoreless innings in relief to pick up her second win of the year.

Game two on Feb. 23 saw more of the same from the Tritons, who put up a four spot in the fourth inning but again allowed the Toros to creep back

into the game. UCSD gave up three runs in the middle innings while cling-ing to a 4-3 lead. Their batters woke up again in the sixth inning as senior third baseman Jenny Maze crushed a solo homerun that easily cleared the center field wall for a crucial insurance run that led to the Tritons’ eventual 5-3 victory. In the game, junior starting pitcher Lauren Chastain improved her record to 6-0 and Zankich notched her second save.

The doubleheader sweep was important, especially amid all the rainouts, but the UCSD hitters still know that they have more to show for themselves. They are determined not to be satisfied simply with winning — they want to dominate.

“We definitely wanted to beat [Cal State Dominguez Hills] by more than just a few runs but they were fighters and they got back into the game,” Saari said. “We got some runs early on but we needed to score even more runs later in the game. A win’s a win and that’s great, but we knew that we could beat them by more.”

Maze’s homerun was her third of the year and the 28th of her career. Even though every homerun she hits extends her own all-time UCSD record, the slugger insists that she steps up to the plate with the same basic mindset of getting quality base hits.

“Right now I’m just trying to hit the ball on the ground and make good contact,” Maze said. “If it clears the fence, that’s cool, but I’m just trying to get on base and help the team. We have our mechanics down and we’re super close to putting it all together. We’re right there so we have confidence that it will come together soon.”

Next the Tritons will travel to play Cal State San Bernardino for a four-game series starting on Feb. 29.

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Softball Earns Split With Division I Toreros▶ SOFTBALL, from page 16

“The fact that they’re D-I wasn’t a big deal; we had beaten them

before so we knew we were going to compete

with them.”— Nicole Saari,

sophomore catcher

have juniors and seniors while we have freshmen. It’s a big step from high school to club to college and we’re still trying to find the right combo of guys.”

The Tritonss battled against Lewis in all four games, but late runs proved UCSD’s demise yet again. Sophomore Jason Spangler pounded 25 kills, but it wasn’t enough as the Flyers took the match 30-27, 27-30, 30-25, 30-27.

Game one witnessed 15 ties and five lead changes as both teams fought for breathing room. The Tritons opened up the first real advantage 22-20 on senior Russ Hardy’s kill. But Lewis responded, taking the lead 23-22 and scoring five of the next eight to cruise to the win.

The Tritons responded in game two, using a late 4-1 run in the tight contest to open up a 25-22 advantage. In a game that had 14 ties and five lead changes, UCSD used a late run to steal game two just like Lewis did in game one.

Knotted up at one game apiece, the Flyers took off in game three, opening a

17-9 lead and soaring to an easy victory. Game four was closer, but Lewis main-tained control throughout, as UCSD wasn’t able to put any run together.

The Tritons couldn’t dwell on the loss for long as the Ramblers downed UCSD 30-25, 30-26, 29-31, 30-22.

Down by three in game one, UCSD pulled within 23-22 before the Ramblers rolled to the win with a four-point run. Game two wasn’t much different as the Tritons were within three late, but a Loyola-Chicago run later, UCSD had dug itself a two-game deficit.

The Tritons stormed out to a 25-21 lead in game three until the Ramblers went on their usual late game run. This time UCSD had a larger cushion and two Spangler kills closed out the game.

In game four, Loyola-Chicago scored 11 of 15 early to lead by seven. The advantage reached as many as 10 before the Ramblers closed out the game.

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Osier Drops 30 Points in Win Over Cal State San Bernardino▶ W. BASKETBALL, from page 16

Break From League Schedule Doesn’t Yield Better Results

▶ VOLLEYBALL, from page 16

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By Janani SridharaSenior Staff Writer

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL — One night after beating a team tied for first place in the California Collegiate Athletic Association, the Tritons suf-fered a loss to a seventh-place team to stay in a tie for third place in conference. UCSD put together a convincing 66-56 win at Cal State San Bernardino on Feb. 23, dropping the Coyotes into second place in the CCAA. The Tritons followed up that game with a 72-55 loss to Cal Poly Pomona University on the road on Feb. 24, in a game where UCSD led by as many as 11 points in the first half but let a win slip away.

The Tritons started out the game well against Cal Poly Pomona, taking a 14-7 lead off senior guard Alexis Mezzetta’s free throws with 13:40 left in the half. Jump shots from senior forward Meaghan Noud and junior forward Michelle Osier as well as free throws from sophomore guard Laura Moore extended UCSD’s lead to 22-11.

The Broncos would not go down easily, as they rallied back before the half. Cal Poly Pomona cut the Triton lead to 33-29 at the half, as UCSD could not head into the break on a good note.

The Broncos’ momentum from the first half continued into the second. Cal Poly Pomona quickly tied the game at 35 less than five minutes into the half and a three-pointer gave the Broncos their first lead of the game at 40-37. UCSD retook the lead on an Osier jumper midway through the second half, but the Broncos quickly recovered and took control of the game.

Cal Poly Pomona took a 10-point lead with 4:18 left, sealing the loss for the Tritons and handing UCSD its sixth conference loss of the year.

“[The Broncos] had 18 offensive rebounds in the game,” head coach Charity Elliott said. “We gave them extra opportunities that we didn’t need to give them.”

Led by Osier and Noud, the Tritons had different results in their game against Cal State San Bernardino. UCSD started out the game in an 8-0 hole before Osier’s layup put the Tritons on the board with 16:20 left. Noud and

Osier took turns hitting shots for the Tritons, and Noud’s three-pointer with 7:22 left in the half gave the Tritons a 18-16 lead — their first of the game.

The teams fought hard in the last several minutes and UCSD ended up taking a 25-24 lead going into the break. Osier and Noud combined to score 20 of the Tritons’ 25 points in the half.

The Tritons and Coyotes played a close beginning of the second half with the Tritons, holding onto a slim lead throughout. Noud’s fourth three-pointer of the game gave the Tritons a little bit of separation from the Coyotes, pushing their lead to nine points with

11:56 left in the contest. With Osier and Noud continuing to

score basket after basket for the Tritons, UCSD’s defense was able to hold off Cal State San Bernardino’s center and best player to give the Tritons a strong chance at winning. With the Tritons still holding onto the lead in the last few minutes of the game, the Coyotes were unable to knock their shots down and UCSD was able to convert on its free throws to give the Tritons a 66-56 win.

“The game was an accomplish-ment especially since we knocked

WILL PARSON/GUARDIANSophomore pitcher Christine Zankich helped the Tritons in both wins, pitching 4.2 scoreless innings in which she allowed only three hits in two games on Feb. 23.

Tritons Take Two From TorosVolleyball’s Trip to Illinois Ends With Two More Losses

By Matt CroskeySenior Staff Writer

VOLLEYBALL — The weekend didn’t go as well as expected for UCSD, as it suffered two losses in Romeoville, Ill. Both Lewis University and Loyola-Chicago University got the better of UCSD, sending the Tritons into a sea-son-long, five-game losing skid.

The losses drop the Tritons’ record to 4-12 overall and keep them search-ing for a swagger they had against UC Irvine over a month ago. Since the vic-tory over the reigning national champi-ons, UCSD has lost nine of 11.

Head coach Kevin Ring said that the team went into the weekend with high hopes of getting back on track.

“We played a couple of tough MPSF matches against Pepperdine and USC last week and we were competitive this week,” he said. “Right now we have oe or two guys having a good night, but not all six. The next night it will be reversed. We’re really working in prac-tice to become more consistent.”

Ring said the blocking game needed improvement, a weakness that was obvi-ous over the weekend. In the matches against Lewis and Loyola-Chicago, the Tritons were out-blocked 37-18.

“It’s not a matter of height but expe-rience,” he said. “Loyola and Lewis

By Jake BlancSenior Staff Writer

SOFTBALL — During a week of inclement San Diego weather, the Tritons managed to play four games while two other games were rescheduled due to rain. UCSD split a doubleheader with the University of San Diego on Feb. 20 before squeezing in a two-game sweep versus Cal State Dominguez Hills on Feb. 23 between a pair of rained-out games on Feb. 22 and Feb. 24.

Fresh off of a second-place finish at the Schutt Sports Leadoff Classic in Phoenix, the Tritons battled against the University of San Diego, their Division I crosstown rivals. After being silenced by the Toreros’ starting pitcher Alyssa Luna to the tune of a 4-1 loss, the Triton bats came alive in the second game of

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UCSD Loses Focus in Loss

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Sophomore forward Erin Noonan only scored seven points in the Tritons’ two games over the weekend, but made her presence in other ways, grabbing fifteen rebounds, blocking a shot and making three steals.

See W. BASKETBALL, page 15

CCAA FOES FALL TO

DOMINANT TRITONS

By Neil JoshiStaff Writer

WOMEN’S TENNIS — The Tritons haven’t lost a game in CCAA play since April 2003 — a remarkable streak of 42 matches — and with a deep and resilient squad this season, UCSD is poised to continue its success and make it five perfect seasons in a row. Early in the spring season, UCSD hasn’t dis-appointed, going 3-2 overall, with a perfect 2-0 mark in league play. Head coach Liz LaPlante’s team has had two of their last three scheduled matches canceled due to rain, but in the middle of the interrupted matches, UCSD took out league rival Cal Poly Pomona 9-0 on the road over the weekend.

Now in her 29th season, LaPlante has been blessed with seven freshman newcomers, a crew that has made things interesting in the Triton lineup.

“I am extremely impressed with the new freshmen,” LaPlante said. “They are definitely the strongest group of players I’ve ever had all come at the same time. I think all of them will impact the top eight in a competitive manner, and make it tough to deter-mine who will be playing match in and match out.”

The Triton’s tremendous depth will make them a tough foe for any team in the CCAA, and they have no intention of relinquishing their impressive streak.

Among its dangerous competi-tors, LaPlante mentioned Cal Poly Pomona as a conference threat during the preseason, but was sure her team’s extraordinary depth would be enough to prevail. Her team had little trouble with the Broncos on Feb. 23, tough-ing out three grueling doubles matches to take a 3-0 lead, then sweeping the singles to get the perfect victory. Both No. 1 and No. 3 doubles nearly went the distance, ending at 9-7. At the top spot, two freshmen, Natalie Varnay and Taskeen Bains, notched their first win as a doubles team when they defeated

Rain turns three-day, four-game series into just a doubleheader on Feb. 23, in which UCSD takes both games.

See TENNIS, page 14

Feb. 24 • 20-8 overall (12-6 CCAA)

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Should Have Tight RacesThe San Diego rains may suppress

the feeling that springtime has come, but in my world, spring

starts as soon as pitchers and catchers report to spring training to signal the start of a new baseball season.

The shadow of steroids will hang over the sport as long as liars and cheat-ers continue to be exposed and until the union gives in to blood testing. But the 2008 season has enough young stars

— power hitters that are juice-free and promising pitchers poised to tame aging sluggers — and storylines to distract us from congressional hearings that pro-vide no closure beyond B-12 excuses.

With that in mind, I’m proud to present predictions for an exciting season even though opening day is more than a month away. Since Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds will not find new homes other than prison cells, most teams’ rosters are pretty set so now’s the time for a fearless forecast. In this issue, the National League will be dissected and the American League and postseason predictions will follow.

Let’s start with the local team’s and my hometown team’s division: the pitch-ing-rich NL West. Though I’m a Giants

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The SportsRetort

See RETORT, page 14

UCSD CrewThe men’s and women’s crew teams hosted the sixth annual Row for the

Cure on Feb. 23, as over 400 athletes raised more than $30,000 for a mobile

mammogram van for un- and underinsured women in San Diego.

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