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By Javier ArmstrongContributing Writer
Protesters gathered around City Hall last Friday afternoon for the “Occupy San Diego” protest, in solidarity with New York City’s ongoing “Occupy Wall Street” movement.
The ‘Occupations’ — which started in New York City on Sept. 17 — have traveled across the country to cities like Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco. “Occupy San Diego” occurred on Oct. 7, one week after ‘Occupy Los Angeles’ on Oct. 1. Police estimated nearly 1,500 people attended the protest.
These peaceful protests organized via Facebook and Twitter voiced a variety of issues, including corporate greed, unemployment and an uneven distribution of wealth in this country.
These national mobilizations have been a leaderless and loosely organized movement that defines itself as a “people powered movement for democracy.”
Canadian advocacy magazine Adbusters posted a call for action on July 2011 on its blog, which set off the series of protests.
On Sept. 17, a group in New York calling itself “The General Assembly,” — taking inspiration from the recent uprising in Tahrir Square in Egypt and from the Spanish acampadas in Madrid this summer — encouraged activists to flood Lower Manhattan in order to occupy Wall Street.
Authorities later moved the protestors from the financial district to the new base on Zucotti Park, a privately owned park in
By Rebecca HorwitzAssociate News Editor
A sinkhole caused by a broken storm drain opened in the middle of Campus Point Drive on Thursday, Oct. 6. The hole grew to 50 feet in length and 25 feet in width.
The collapse occurred around 7:20 a.m. and was reported to the police at 7:30 a.m. The sinkhole was very close to the intersection of Campus Point Drive and Campus Point Center, north of Scripps Memorial Hospital.
A sinkhole is an erosion of land caused when underground water dissolves minerals in the ground. A buried hole is created and as it gets larger, the land on top caves in.
A broken 30-inch diameter storm drain caused the hole to form 15 feet beneath the surface. The drain ruptured below the street and its runoff eroded the ground beneath the pavement. Dirt fell into the storm pipelines, clogging it and causing water to pool.
Raw sewage ran into the pool after the dirt also cracked a 10-inch sewer pipe.
San Diego storm water department spokesman Bill Harris said the storm pipelines had been installed in 1972 — the most recent pipes installed in the city were installed in 1992.
Harris said that Wednesday’s rain likely added to the erosion of the decaying metal storm drain. The San Diego Water Department shut off the water main of the neighborhood in case of additional cave-ins.
This affected 30 businesses in the area including Qualcomm, SAIC and the Campus Point Technology Center, the University City business park and residents in the area. The Scripps Memorial Hospital was not affected by the shutoff. Water was restored to the businesses Thursday night, but the water main remains shut off. Temporary sewer and
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By Laira MartinNews Editor
U CSD’s annual FallFest is no more. After a 13-year run, budget cuts have threat-ened the festival’s success — thus the
A.S. Concerts & Events office is re-branding the festival into “Hullabaloo,” which is planned to take place Nov. 18 in conjunction with Founders’ Day.
“We knew definitely that we needed a different name to make it feel like we were starting a new tradition,” Associate Vice President of Concerts & Events Oliver Zhang said. “[Keeping] the name FallFest would be misleading because it is such a different event. We wanted to give this event a new life. We thought a lot about the name, and we wanted a name that sounded like a really fun celebration.”
Founders’ Day — which featured the artist Far East Movement last year — will take place on Nov. 18 during the day with Hullabaloo following at 6 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. using the same stage setup. Unlike FallFest, which was held at the Warren Mall, Hullabaloo will held be in the
Town Square and Matthews Quad.“We had to revamp Fall Fest,” Zhang said.
“To go with the Fall Fest we had in previous years would be a disservice to students because of financial reasons. It wouldn’t [have met] students’ expectations from the past and I think it would’ve just been a bad decision for all of us.”
Hullabaloo will feature both UCSD musicians and outside musicians that have yet to be released, as well as carnival rides, food trucks and other attractions.
“I think given the success of events like the “All Campus Dance” or the dance tent at Sun God proves to us that we don’t really need a big headliner to draw students,” Zhang said.
The festival will also allow re-entry, another feature that Zhang felt FallFest lacked.
“The lineup never really felt consistent,” Zhang said. “Attendance dropped the previous year from two years ago so I think there was a fundamental issue with FallFest. It wasn’t as sustainable a tradition as I think Hullabaloo will be.”
FallFest, which traditionally featured one or two headliner artists such as The Game in
2009 and Big Boi in 2010, did not live up to Zhang’s expectations. The festival’s budget was cut by $75,000 from the original $135,000 for Fall Fest 2010 to the Hullabaloo budget of only $60,000. ASCE took the cut as an opportunity to re-brand FallFest from a night concert to a festival that will no longer be focused around one headliner artist. Although Hullabaloo is replacing FallFest, Zhang emphasized that this a completely new festival.
“I thought there was a problem with the format of Fall Fest in general because it was more of a concert than a festival, which is perfectly fine but that’s just not what I envisioned,” Zhang said. “Regardless of any financial reasons, I think I would have [changed] Fall Fest anyway.”
Zhang expects a turnout of about 4,000 UCSD students. The lineup will be released Oct. 31.
“I think it’s hard to compare Hullabaloo and Fall Fest,” Zhang said. “They’re very different. I would have changed the format of Fall Fest regardless of the budget.”
Readers can contact Laira Martin at [email protected]
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Campus point Drive CLoseD off Due to sinkHoLe
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UCSD student skateboards down a steep hill on the way to Black’s Beach on Friday, Oct. 7.
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uCSD SaN DIEGo CaLIForNIa▶ Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Renal Translational Medicine Kumar Sharma has received a $5.9-million grant to study kidney complications related to types 1 and 2 diabetes. ▶ Former Major League Baseball player Morgan Ensberg is now the UCSD’S baseball team’s hitting coach.
▶ UCSD surgeons used one donated liver to save the lives of two men. More than 16,170 patients wait for a liver transplant each year. Using this procedure will allow doctors to save more lives.
▶ A body was found in Mission Bay Saturday, Oct. 8. It has not yet been identified. ▶ Nine blue whales were spotted close to shore off La Jolla and Del Mar. They were likely attracted to an unusually large supply of krill.
▶ A woman was rescued in Mission Bay Saturday afternoon. She had been diving near ship wreckage. She was placed in a hyperbaric chamber at the UCSD Medical Center.
▶ Gov. Brown was one of three state governors who skipped the 29th annual Border Governors Conference. The conference is held between New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, California and Mexico. The only American governor who attended the event was Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico. ▶ Federal prosecutors target California pot dispensaries for closure — even if they are operating legally under California law. The stores have 45 days to shut down or they will face criminal charges and their property will be confiscated.
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Sunday, Oct. 212:03 a.m.: Noise disturbance▶ A loud party at Kathmandu Hall was causing a disturbance. Information only.1:21 a.m.: Medical aid▶ The subject was suffering from an allergic reaction to nuts at Price Center, but no ambulance was needed. Friend will transport to hospital if needed.1:23 a.m.: Alcohol contact▶ A 17-year-old female was arrested for public intoxication. Juvenile citation issued, transported to detox. 1:42 a.m.: Welfare check▶ Two subjects were carrying a possibly drunk male around Discovery Hall. Transported to Thornton Hospital.11:16 p.m.: Alcohol contact▶ Three minors were caught drinking alcohol at Cuzco Hall. Two adult citations, one juvenile citation.
Monday, Oct. 32:13 a.m.: Citizen contact▶ The subject asked the UCSD Police Department questions about filing a temporary restraining order. Information only.3:41 a.m.: Traffic stop▶ A vehicle was stopped for having intoxicated underage students, and one was transported to Detox. 4 adult citations issued.5:30 p.m.: Theft of bicycle▶ The subject’s $800 bicycle was stolen at University Center. Online report.6:09 p.m.: Citizen contact▶ Two bikes were locked together by accident at The Village. Information only.8:11 p.m.: Animal call▶ There was a poor injured rabbit at Marshall Provost. Information only.9:20 p.m.: Citizen contact▶ The subject found a bullet at Leichtag Biomedical Building. Information only.
Tuesday, Oct. 41:40 a.m.: Noise disturbance▶ A 20-year-old male was drunk in public and being loud at Village East 5. Transported to detox/adult citation issued.1:31 p.m.: Medical aid▶ A young female was having a seizure at Preuss School. Transported to hospital.10:12 p.m.: Citizen contact▶ The subject was asking for money at Plaza Café. Transported off campus.
Wednesday, Oct. 52:19 a.m.: Citizen contact▶ There was a female sleeper at Blake Hall. Information only.11:53 a.m.: Smoke check▶ A strong burning odor was coming from the Biomedical Sciences Building but there was no sign of smoke or fire. Referred to other agency.4:30 p.m.: Shoplifting▶ Someone got away with stealing $223 worth of products from the Bookstore. Report taken.
Thursday, Oct. 63:00 a.m.: Noise disturbance▶ Students were singing loudly and stomping at Asia Hall. Quiet on arrival.7:45 p.m.: Information▶ The reporter saw a suspicious person getting into a car while its car alarm was going off at Lot 020. Unable to locate.9:15 p.m.: Disturbance▶ A 22-year-old male was arrested for beating a person while drunk. Closed by adult arrest.10:50 p.m.: Suicide attemptvThere was a suicide attempt at the VA Hospital. Referred to other agency - VA Police.
— Compiled by Sarah Kang Staff Writer
LIGHTS & SIrENS “Occupy San Diego” Members Continue Protest Indefinitely
University City Road Closed While Workers Make Sinkhole Repairs
water lines were put above ground for the businesses that have been affected by the broken drain. They will remain in place until the water main can be turned on again. Large hoses were used to vacuum out the liquid.
A pipeline of reclaimed water and a bundle of telephone and fiber optic lines are running above the pipes.
An electrical line runs adjacent to the hole. Harris said they needed to
stabilize the utilities and find a way to repair the drain without damage. He had no estimate on when the roadway pipes will be repaired.
“We won’t be digging there until we know how much pipe we have to replace, how much we have to dig, then decide if we need an outside contractor and determine a funding source,” Harris said in an Oct. 7 San Diego Union-Tribune article “University City Road Still Closed for
Sinkhole.”Workers in the area were surprised
by sinkhole.“We just kind of looked at each
other and said wow, we were driving over that for weeks,” Qualcomm worker Brian Padgett said in the Oct. 6 article of 10News, “Sinkhole Closes Street in University City.”
Readers can contact Rebecca Horwitz at [email protected]
▶ SINK HoLE, from page 1
Lower Manhattan that was formerly known as Liberty Plaza Park. The protestors still remain at Zucotti Park to date.
“The future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members,” the General Assembly said in an Oct. 1 statement.
The statement further explained that it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights and their neighbor’s rights, and that corporations do not see a problem with extracting wealth from the people and the earth.
Occupy San Diego began at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 7.
Hundreds of residents marched from San Diego’s Children’s Park downtown towards Civic Center Plaza where they planned to stage a sit-in at City Hall.
The group however, agreed to move back to Children’s Park because of a pre-scheduled religious observance at Civic Center Plaza for Yom Kippur.
There were no arrests reported as protestors settled in downtown’s Children’s Park, where many planned to spend the night camping outdoors.
“Everybody’s been good,” Shawn Murphy of the San Diego Police Department said. “Everyone’s been good and getting their point across.”
The demonstration, which is planned to last indefinitely, has no official list of demands.
“There are so many things to protest,” Harry Simón Salazar said, a graduate student from the UCSD Department of Communication. “I’m not out here to protest [just] one thing.”
Simón said he had originally been downtown earlier that day to show support for the California Dream Act,
which was signed by Gov. Brown on Oct. 9.
The Dream Act would give undocumented students of good character access to state-funded financial aid and permanent residency.
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s a Republican or Democrat in government, it’s a continuity of crises ranging from war, bank bailouts, home foreclosures, unemployment, cuts to social services, corporate
domination of the electoral process and the list continues,” Simón said.
The crowds have a variety of issues to voice, but their primary concerns stem from the perception that Wall Street and banking institutions control most of the money.
In a news conference last Thursday, President Obama said that people were angry because Wall Street had not been following the rules.
The protestors call themselves “the 99 percent” of the population who continues to struggle as the economy gets worse and unemployment rises, while “the 1 percent” who has the vast majority of the country’s wealth continues to prosper.
Many protestors carried candles that they hoped to burn through the night.
Food and drinks were donated to protestors and musical instruments resonated throughout the park.
Protestors downtown have vowed to stay as long as they can.
As of Sunday afternoon, about 500 protestors were still occupying the Civic Center and made a request through the “Occupy San Diego” Facebook page to receive blankets and sleeping bags.
Readers can contact Javier Armstrong at [email protected]
▶ occupy, from page 1
“There are so many things to protest. I’m not out here to protest [just] one thing.”
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I’m pretty sure that this week I’ve come across enough Steve Jobs tributes — Facebook statuses,
Tweets, photos and very many full-length articles — to leave my laptop forever overwhelmed by the rainbow wheel of death. The cybernoise has
been deafening — so deafening that happily, no one’s had two words to say about Sarah Palin’s declaration that she won’t run for president. (Except, maybe, “cool story”).
The cynic in me can’t help but think that behind all the public mourning, there’s an editor schem-ing to mine the story for all it’s worth — for another slideshow, or interview or firsthand testimony from someone who saw Jobs at a froyo shop once, and swears his IQ rose because of it. A biography is being rushed to print a month early, and on Oct. 8 the New York Times reported that Sony Entertainment will likely buy the film rights.
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, Stay Vocal
See Apple, page 5
At Wit’s EndtrevOr COx
Trigger HappyThe Parent Empowerment Act, which allows parents to take judicial action
against underperforming schools, may lead to more controversy than improvement.
bY HIlarY lee • Staff wrIter
Parents of students at chronically underper-forming public schools now have the ability to shut schools down by banding together,
thanks to the Parent Empowerment Act that California adopted in January 2010. This “trigger law” gives parents considerable legal power in the educational system, sparking a debate over whether this power is being placed in the right hands. According to the at, if 51 percent of parents agree that a school’s system is not working, they can “trig-ger” change by demanding that one of four options be taken: ousting the principal, replacing the staff, shutting the school down entirely or allowing a charter operator to take control of the school. California, Texas and Mississippi have all passed parent trigger laws in the past two years, while 22 other states are entertaining the idea of implement-ing similar laws. Though well-intentioned, these
“parent trigger” laws foster opportunities for the unwitting misuse of power, since parents don’t have the expertise of career educators and are unquali-fied to make big policy changes. Signing a petition does not automatically solve the problem — pulling the “trigger” in fact, has powerful recoil.
As a general trend, California schools are on a downturn. At the Los Angeles Academy Middle School, for example, only 1 in 5 students tested proficient in math last year, and only 1 in 4 were found to be proficient in language arts. Unrelenting problems like these have caused impatient des-perate parents to turn to the district and school administration. Woodcrest Elementary School, also in Los Angeles, is in a similar situation; there, frus-trated parents hold small group meetings and draw up lists of action items, as only an alarmingly low 0.2 percent of the school’s students have been iden-
See Trigger, page 5
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tified as gifted. It’s understandable that parents are trying to seek their own answers to the system’s prob-lems, but giving them power a la the Parent Empowerment Act may not be the most effective tactic.
Parent trigger laws have pro-duced failure in the past, as in the case of Compton’s McKinley Elementary in February 2011. The school has an Academic Performance Index score of 684 (out of a maximum of 800), plac-ing itself at the bottom of Compton Unified School District. Half of the students at the school did not meet state standards in math and read-ing, prompting hundreds of parents to sign a petition to transform McKinley into a charter school. The school responded by challenging the petition’s validity — teachers are arguing that the signatures were obtained improperly and therefore the petition is void. The struggle between the new “parent union” and the teacher union has created a months-long deadlock in court. The situation at Compton exemplifies how ineffective and counterproduc-tive these judicial battles can be. The California Federation of Teachers labeled the law “lynch mob” legisla-tion, as it essentially creates parent unions that challenge teachers with threats of bringing the legal system into the equation.
Under the “parent trigger law,” parents would be allowed to select which charter school operator they would like to take over their children’s schools. The newly hired administrators of the schools would be given great flexibility in staffing, budgeting and scheduling. This poses a problem as most parents lack the expertise to select a quality administrator, which could worsen a situation already in decline.
Furthermore, charter schools are not an end-all solution to the problem. Results are far less positive than studies suggest. Stanford economist Margaret Raymond conducted a national study, in which she found that 37 percent of charter schools performed worse than their public school counterparts, 46 percent performed the same and only 17 percent showed superior results.
Another major concern is that the obstacle of funding school changes would render the parent trigger law ineffective. Many unin-formed, idealistic parents believe that they have done their part by simply signing a petition, and expect the rest to automatically fall into place. If anything, the trigger law is merely a jumping point for parents to organize and rally around their interests. As of last May, California is in a $25-billion state budget deficit. In the past few years, half of the state’s schools have cut back on instructional days, two-thirds have taken out summer school and three-quarters of high schools have enlarged their class sizes. Changing public schools into charter schools and replacing staff would be an expensive, extensive process that involves paying for legal fees. Parents do not realize that funding a transformation of the educational system would be impossible in this financial crisis.
While the trigger law grants parents more of a voice in the educational system, with it comes responsibility and the looming shadow of unavoidable issues such as financing. The law is a theoreti-cal move in the right direction, but requires much more than abstract idealism to actually be put into practice.
Readers can contact Hilary Lee at [email protected].
And still, there’s the truth: that words like “visionary” and “revolutionary” are the ones that fit. That there is no way to know how far the digital revolution might have reached if not for Jobs and his notorious perfectionism. That the public outcry in his passing is inescapable, but more than that — it’s deserved.
My Apple fandom started young. Before we had a computer at home, my dad would often bring his PowerBook home from work. It was years before the iPod, and probably before I’d even committed two weeks’ allowance to that first Britney Spears CD.
The laptop was strictly for company business, but mysteriously, it also possessed the holy grail that was Kid Pix — you know, the drawing program that let the gifted children paint late-90s masterpieces, while I made lots and lots of stick figures. (And in different colors, too!)
In an instance of hilarious/terrifying foreshadowing,
that was where all the clamoring began. Dad, can I get on Kid Pix now? What about 20 seconds from now?
By middle school, it was the iPod that I wouldn’t shut up about and then the Macbook and then — let’s just say it’s been an ugly descent from age eight.
Naysayers like to trot out the same old argument that Apple products are only popular for their status (an argu-ment that isn’t totally weightless, even if my old laptop is several coffee spills beyond its beauty pageant days).
But naturally, they’re short on ammo when it comes to the company’s (i.e., Jobs’) role in revolutionizing the way we interact both with technology and with each other. A thousand songs in your pocket sounds like a quaint promise in 2011, but it was a radical one just a decade ago. I can’t imagine what I’d have filled an iPod with then (there weren’t a thousand “….Baby One More Time” remixes). But what’s even more unfathomable is just how much more Jobs could have done with another decade.
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to helping people perform when it really matters. But, says UCSD alumnus Sian Beilock, the key to succeeding when the stakes are high isn’t just clocking in as many hours as possible, but practicing in the right environment. And once someone is in front of the test booklet — or the podium, or the field — the secret to preventing a breakdown is captured by one very short, very famous phrase: Just do it.
Beilock is a cognitive scientist known for her research into “choking,” or why even highly trained professionals break down under pressure. She’s worked with novice golfers to discover that overthinking leads to failure, and elementary school teachers to identify why young girls are afraid of math. Her findings stem from an interest that began when she was an undergrad at Marshall College, feeling pressure in and out of the classroom.
Beilock, now an associate professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, is well-known for her research and has been featured on NPR, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, but the alumnus said she wasn’t always intent on becoming a scientist. At one point, the Bay Area native was interested in law school, and it was only an 11th-hour change of heart that led her to La Jolla.
“I had already decided that I was going to go to Amherst,” she said. “But at the last second, I decided that UCSD was right for
me because of the programs in psych and cog sci and I thought it’d be nice to be so close to the beach.”
It was at UCSD that classes such as Introduction to Cognitive Science and Cognitive Psychology whetted her interest in the workings of the mind. Beilock also played on the lacrosse team for four years, and here her interest in athleticism intersected with classes to help develop her area of research.
“In cog sci, I started learning about how people got good at what they do, but there wasn’t a whole lot of information about why people screw up,” Beilock said. “I was feeling the pressure in the classroom and on the lacrosse field, and so I became interested in the topic early.”
These dual interests in human performance and the brain continued after Beilock graduated in 1997 with a degree in cognitive science. She next earned two PhDs, in kinesiology and psychology, from Michigan State University in 2003.
In one study published when Beilock was still a graduate student, she and her colleagues split 54 novice golfers into three groups and then trained them in different environments A control group learned under normal conditions, but the researchers engineered “distracting” and “self-conscious” environments for the two other groups. Members of the distraction group were asked to practice while listening to a tape and repeating a target word while, most terrifyingly, the final group trained with a video camera
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and the rather grim assertion that pros would be judging the tapes. The groups were then tested in two situations, one with low
pressure and one where the athletes were told that improvement would result in monetary awards. All the golfers performed equally on the low-pressure test, but when the stakes were high, the video camera performed better, while the normal group choked.
Beilock said that this and similar experiments show that practicing in an environment that mimics the actual competition fends off underperformance. She gave the example of test preparation — while a student’s vocab cards and test-taking strategies might predict good scores, the trick to having a satisfying repeat on the real thing is taking timed practices, not reviewing the meaning of “peroration” yet again.
And when test day comes, the key is to stop second-guessing yourself and think about something else. Under high-stress situations, especially athletic competition, the working memory portion of the brain begins overthinking movements that are usually automatic, thus disrupting the mind’s flow. Beilock found that when golfers count backwards by threes or sings a song, the working memory is occupied, unable to overthink, and people do better.
“Sometimes, being conscious of our movements makes us choke,” she said. “It causes anxiety when you’re thinking ‘oh, my knee is contracting like this and my elbow is contracting like that,’ and paying too much attention creates a buildup that wastes valuable space in the brain.”
For those who don’t fancy humming aloud on the LSAT, a separate experiment showed that having students write about test worries for 10 minutes before the exam improved their scores, especially for those who usually suffer from text anxiety.
“Think of the mind like a computer,” she said. “All those worries deplete the working memory of your brain, so instead of focusing on the actual issue at hand, you’re distracted by your worries. So writing it down frees the attention and lets people better focus on the task at hand.”
Now, Beilock has a grant from the Department of Education to study math anxiety. She found that teachers, especially female teachers at the elementary school level, are often anxious about their own mathematical skills, and can pass this along to their students. Namely, the more insecure teacher is about her math abilities, the more her students are likely to believe the stereotype that boys are good at math and girls at reading, even if there was no previous difference.
In addition to her continuing work on performance under pressure, and new research on elementary education, Beilock turned her findings into a book called Choke, published in 2010.
“I really think scientists have a responsibility to share their findings with everyone,” she said. “Especially if it impacts people like this and can have a positive effect on how people work. I use the writing technique now, everyone in my lab does, we all do what we can to improve our lives.”
Readers can contact Angela Chen at [email protected].
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After losing to Sonoma State, UCSD now sits at No. 16 in the national ranking. The Tritons will face the Seawolves again on Friday, Nov. 4 at UCSD.
Continuing their road trip up North, the Tritons managed to pull together a victory, beating Cal State East Bay 3-2.
The Otters took the first two sets, 21-25 and 20-25, leading the match by halftime, and then the Tritons dug themselves out of the deficit and took the next three sets.
“At times we’ve shown that we can bounce back from being down, and I think as long as we keep get-ting better—and we know that we can—I think we’ll be secure for the rest of the season,” Luyties said.
Following the second set the Tritons would have 35 kills to Cal State East Bay’s 26 kills.
UCSD took the third set with a commanding 25-12 score, and also won the fourth set 25-21 and the fifth set 15-13.
Williamson had another strong performance, recording amongst the top scorers, contributing 14 of
UCSD’s 55 kills and 26 digs.Despite having a lower hitting
percentage, UCSD outblocked CSU East Bay 8-7.
Brunsting recorded 26 assists and 16 digs, while freshman Lauren Demos had 12 kills.
Sophomore Lizzy Andrews chipped in with nine kills and seven digs. On the opposing side of the net Katie Allen served up 16 kills and 10 digs of her own. The victory broke the Tritons’ losing streak, putting UCSD at 11-4 overall and 7-4 in the CCAA.
“On Monday we get the video of
each team, and we’ll start scouting players to prepare for the coming matches,” Luyties said. “But for us right now, a lot of it is fixing things on our side. So we’ll start working on some of the things that we’ve been struggling with.”
The Tritons now sit in 4th place in the conference.
UCSD will continue its away series on Friday Oct. 14 when the Tritons face 12-6 San Francisco State.
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Tritons Defeat CSU East Bay, Fall to CSUSB and Monterey Bay▶ W. VOLLEYBALL, from page 12
He developed the bike to suit a rider he was not, instead becoming a rider for whom the violent bike could work.
In 2004, the precision exhibited by Rossi’s Honda days were gone, replaced by the power of Yamaha had taken over.
For the next six years, Rossi won three more championships with Yamaha, refining his machine until once again, many began to attribute his success to his bike.
Moving to Ducati in 2011, the Desmosedici GP11 is notorious-ly hard to ride and bucks around much like the old Yamaha bike back in 2004.
Similar to that year, Rossi has taken his crew and chief with him to Ducati, and although the results have not shown this time around, next year will be an amazing year for Ducati, as this song has been sung before with Rossi.
The GP11, the current Ducati race bike, will be changed next year to conform to the changing FIM rules on displacement.
So this year Rossi has been focusing on the GP12, the changed version,
This has limited his success in 2011 but makes 2012, with a supe-rior set up that none of the other teams can match, almost a sure year for the Ducati.
A win in the coming year would bump Rossi to number one in the number of MotoGP Championships titles, currently held by Giacomo Agostini who holds eight champi-onship victories.
Rossi Shows that the Bike Doesn’t Make the Biker
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Lenehan, who stormed to a second-place finish with a time of 32:44 in the men’s 10k. Lenehan also led most of the race with a just a short stretch of ground between himself and the next pack of racers, which held almost the entire field of Triton competitors. UCSD finished 7th -10th, 12th -14th, 16th, 20th and 24th. Collectively, the Triton men performed very well, with their average time clocking in lower than 20 seconds than the next fastest team.
The men’s team is also in conten-tion for regional dominance. The only question is if it can curb the behemoth that is Chico State, enough to finally knock it off its high horse before the conference championships on Oct. 22 in Santa Rosa.
Readers can contact Nick Howe at [email protected]
UCSD Cross Country Takes Home the Team Titles
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By Tajh WalkerContributing Writer
The Tritons went 2-1 last week, suffering a loss at home against Cal State San Bernardino and coming up short to Cal
State Monterey Bay, before beating Cal State East Bay on the road.
On Wednesday, the Tritons faced No. 3 Cal State San Bernardino, falling to the Coyotes in four sets.
Against the undefeated Coyotes (11-0 over-
all), the Tritons could only muster a win in the second set.
UCSD recorded 42 kills, 5 sets and 79 digs in the campaign.
Although they regained momentum by outhitting the Coyotes in the second set, Cal State San Bernardino still managed to rack up a better hitting percentage overall: .245 to .107.
Despite the loss, senior outside hitter Hillary Williamson finished with a double-double, tallying 16 kills and 12 digs. In addi-tion, senior libero Janessa Werhane would
Front of the Pack
The 2011 season of MotoGp was poised to be Ducati’s resurgence after losing Casey Stoner to the Repsol Honda team.
The swan song was supposed to be writ-
ten to the tune of the insatiable el Doctor Valentino Rossi weaving his seven-time World Championship magic with Ducati; the quintessential Italian man riding the quintes-sential Italian mark.
But things have not gone exactly to plan. Although Ducati and Rossi, along with American teammate Nicky Hayden, are sit-ting sixth and seventh respectively, they are behind Ducati’s former ace and winner of the 2007 MotoGP, Casey Stoner on the Repsol Honda RC211v as well as Rossi’s old team-mate and rival from Yamaha, Jorge Lorenzo, who won in 2010.
Dragging behind these top dogs may seem like a failing on the part of the rider or his bike, but the truth of the matter is, Ducati is well on its way to a championship title next year.
This is due to the skill of Rossi and his crew to get bikes and manufacturer teams going in the right direction.
The difference between a rider that has won seven championships—Rossi—and a rider that has won one (on his way to two, admittedly), Casey Stoner, is in the ability to convey effective changes in a bike’s handling and performance to the pit crew and chief.
Without this line of communication, rid-ers and their teams fail to develop a bike that suits a particular rider.
Even a fast bike for one individual does not make it a fast bike for another racer.
Rossi started the 2011 season after under-going surgery on his left shoulder, making his testing and set up of the Desmosedici GP11 sub par as the season got under way.
However, after three races, he actually meddled at Le Mans in France, coming in third.
This development, along with further changes in the FIM rules on the displace-ment of the engines, showed glimpses of the Rossi brilliance that first became apparent back in 2003.
The last year Rossi rode with Repsol Honda, 2003, the Yamaha team bike was notoriously hard to ride. The bike finished seventh overall, even in the hands of Carlos Checa, renowned two stroke rider from the 500cc era.
Rossi won the overall championship in 2003 on the infamously fast RC211v, and then took his entire pit crew and manage-ment to Yamaha.
Without changing the unruly bike much at all, Rossi changed his riding technique to suit the Yamaha, while other riders continued struggling with the bike, such as Checa, who finished seventh again in 2004.
By changing his riding style and with the effective support of his pit crew’s quick changes, Rossi won it all in 2004 on the same bike that could barely keep its tail in line in 2003.
The bike did not change dramatically, it was not majorly redesigned and even the paint scheme remained unchanged.
Rossi’s skills did not improve dramatically, but he had such a good working communica-tion with his engineers that he could request a change that would actually make the bike more violent, and thus easier to ride for him.
Tritons End Three-Game Skid
By Nick HoweSenior Staff Writer
The Triton cross country teams trounced the competition this weekend in the annual Triton Cross Country Invite, tak-
ing both team titles against strong competition from Division I schools.
Coach Nate Garcia said he was hopeful going into the meet, knowing his team was in a good place mentally and physically to make a strong showing.
“It may sound cliche, but you always go out looking to do a little bit better,” Garcia said the day before the meet. “And you know, you go for the win.”
The women’s team took to the particularly challenging UCSD home course first for its 6k run. Junior Chia Chang and freshman Michelle LeRoux went straight to the head of the pack at the starting gun and successfully fought to hold their positions the entire race, finishing in third at 22:17.5 and fourth at 22:18.9, respectively.
The Tritons did not record their fastest times at the meet, but the difficulty of UCSD’s course — replete with hills, valleys and dusty, muddy trails — differs dramatically from the flat grass fields where a lot of their other competitions have taken place.
This weekend, freshman Dani Brabender came in 10th, senior Aaryn Kobayashi came in 12th, junior Ximena Cruz came in 14th, senior
Kathryn Turner in 15th, freshman Alia Bales in 18th and freshman Madison Tanner came in 20th.
The Tritons finished eight top 20 runners in a race composed of more than 120 athletes, and the Triton women easily took first place in the team component of the race.
This season, the women’s cross country team is ripe with young talent, and runners filled with the desire to better themselves and beat the girl ahead. And with six freshmen and only four seniors, the year can only get better as these “baby” Tritons mature.
The men’s team was led by junior Matt
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contribute 29 digs of her own, while senior Roxanne Brunsting would have five kills, 18 assists and 16 digs.
Cal State San Bernardino standouts, Samantha Middleborn and Morgan Carty boasted 26 kills collectively.
“We haven’t been playing our best these past few weeks,” head coach Ricci Luyties said. “In the past few matches we’ve strug-gled in a lot of areas of play, against San Bernardino, Monterey Bay, East Bay, we just haven’t been at the top of our game.”
On Friday, the Tritons were dealt another disappointing loss as they met un-ranked Cal State Monterey Bay on the road.
Monterey Bay started strong, victori-ous in the first two sets of the match. Monterey Bay’s Rhean Fall racked up a hitting percentage of .268 and recorded 23 kills to lead the Otters.
The scores were 19-25, 29-31, 25-21 and 21-25. UCSD and CSUMB would go back and forth throughout the game, with a total of 17 lead changes.
Outblocking Cal State Monterey Bay 14-8, the Tritons trailed the Otters in kills (52-62), assists (49-58) and digs (84-93).
Brunsting totaled 18 assists and 25 digs. She would also have a .333 hit-ting percentage, tying Monique Sena of Cal State Monterey Bay for the top spot. Williamson would offer 12 kills and 15 digs, with 19 assists from freshman Amber Hawthorne.
This is the first time since September 2010 that the Tritons have been dealt three consecutive losses.
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The Tritons took the last of their three games against CSU East Bay, before dropping to CSU Monterey Bay and undefeated Sonoma.
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