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The city’s proposed hous-
ing ordinance is a much-
needed measure to allevi-
ate homelessness, argues
Emily Merz. p. 4
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Trump sues California over sanctuary policies
BY SHARON ZHEN
National and higher educa-
tion editor
President Donald Trump’s
administration sued Califor-
nia on Tuesday over its sanc-
tuary state policies.
The lawsuit, which was
filed in the federal court in
Sacramento, targets three
California laws that protect
undocumented immigrants
from federal agencies. The
lawsuit names Gov. Jerr y
Brown and California Attor-
ney General Xavier Becerra
as defendants.
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Proposed ballot
Gymnast leaps from falls to career-high
to remove state
college tuition
During part of her floor exercise routine, Gracie Kramer makes the motions of making it rain. The sophomore stumbled last season but has scored a career-high 9.95 on the event this year.
BY WINSTON BRIBACH
Daily Bruin reporter
During UCLA gymnastics’
season-opening meet against
Ohio State, sophomore Gracie
Kramer had the opportunity to
prove her competition struggles
were behind her.
She was in the vault and
floor exercise lineups for the
first time since February 2017,
when she registered a fall on
Westwood addresses homelessness in Village
BY JOHN TUDHOPE
Daily Bruin contributor
Westwood community lead-
ers are attempting to address
homelessness loca l ly a m id
countywide efforts to allevi-
ate Los Angeles’ homelessness
crisis.
The Westwood Neighbor-
hood Council’s Homelessness
Task Force held a meeti ng
Serving the University of California, Los Angeles community since 1919
g ra nt Worker P rotection
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and requires employers to
ask for warrants when immi-
gration agents try to access
workers’ information. The
act also requires employers
to alert workers if they are
being investigated and fines
employers who break the law
up to $10,000.
AB 103 created a state
inspection program to review
reports of abuse in federal
immigration detention cen-
ters.
SB 54 prevents law
enforcement officials from
transferring undocumented
both events.
Going second in the rota-
tion against the Buckeyes, she
charged full-steam ahead at the
vault and was unable to control
her landing.
Kramer started the season
where the last one ended – a fall.
“I overthought my vault.
I don’t need to run full-speed
(like I did),” Kramer said. “I
need to get kind of cocky and
say, ‘Gracie, this is a vault you’ve
Thursday to discuss ways to
improve resources currently
available to Westwood’s home-
less population. Council mem-
bers and nonprofit leaders said
they th i n k the com mu n it y
should provide housing and
material assistance to home-
less individuals.
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prisoners into federal cus-
tody and notifying federal
immigration agents about
their release dates. Prison-
ers would face deportation
if convicted of a variety of
crimes, including aggravated
felonies and crimes involv-
ing drugs or controlled sub-
stances.
T he ad m i n i str at ion i s
arguing the laws are uncon-
stitutional and said it may
also sue other states that
have similar laws.
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done a thousand times.’”
Rather than allowing her
feelings about the fall affect her
next event, Kramer focused on
her offseason floor preparation
to perform a confident, assured
routine.
“I had already drilled such a
great foundation for my passes
that pressure didn’t change
anything,” Kramer said. “I think
preparation is everything for
me. It allows me to have fun.
struct a walk-in access center
for homeless individuals that
provides laundry, mailing and
medical services, said council
president Lisa Chapman.
Chapman said the neighbor-
hood council would need to
work with an organization that
has experience creating access
facilities. She added the walk-in
center would likely be funded
by Los Angeles County Mea-
Sports
Following a victory Tuesday,
women’s golfer Lilia Vu
now has more wins than
any other member of the
team in UCLA history. p. 10
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The suit was filed in the Sacramento federal court Tuesday and names Gov. Jerry Brown and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as defendants.
BY ISABELLA GAGO
Daily Bruin contributor
A pr op o se d s t at ew ide
ballot initiative would make
public college tuition-free for
California residents.
The 2018 California Col-
lege for All Act is collecting
signatures to get a proposi-
tion on the November ballot
that would tax individuals
with more than $3.5 million
of inherited property to raise
about $4 billion to pay tuition
for in-state students. The
campaign needs to collect at
least 800,000 petition signa-
tures by April 24 to include
the initiative on the ballot,
according to the campaign’s
website. Volunteers at more
than 40 California campuses,
including UCLA, are gather-
ing signatures.
Gabriela Garcia, the lead
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organizing coordinator for
the campaign in Los Ange-
les, said more than 20 com-
munity-based organizations,
I can trust that everything is including the University of
going to fall into place.” California Students Associa-
After associate coach Chris tion and Teachers 4 Social
Waller shook her out and told her Justice, are endorsing the
to be confident, Kramer stepped initiative.
onto the platform and into char- Garcia said she thinks tax-
acter – a patient attempting to ing inherited wealth would
escape from an asylum. She help reduce income inequal-
worked her way through the ity in California.
halls, trying to figure things out “Generations are passing
and finding time to make it rain. on wealth, which creates dis-
parity,” she said. “So we want
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sure H, which voters passed
in 2016 to provide services for
homeless individuals, as well
as by grants from the United
States Department of Housing
and Urban Development.
Donovan Wilkes, an outreach
specialist for Block by Block, an
organization that provides ser-
vices for Westwood Village, said
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ey, like funding education.”
Garcia added she hopes
that if the initiative gets on
the ballot and passes, other
states will push for similar
legislation.
“We are seeing our cam-
paign spreading out to other
parts of the country,” she said.
Dora Costa, chair of the
UCLA economics department,
said she thinks the initiative
does not take into account
the differences in size and
funding among public uni-
versities in California. Costa
added that larger campuses,
such as UCLA and UC Berke-
ley, may need more funds
than smaller campuses like
UC Riverside.
She added taxing inherited
wealth is an unreliable source
of funding, and could result
in the University cutting staff
and faculty in a low tax year.
“One issue with the tax
itself is that it is likely to
vary a lot from year to year,
which isn’t what you want for
a tax that supports education”
Costa said. “We need some-
thing that’s … more secure to
account for low years.”
Costa said she thinks the
UC needs a reliable source
of funding that will help it
improve its infrastructure
and hire talented faculty.
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USAC allocates surplus funding to student groups following delays

BY MELISSA MORRIS
Daily Bruin contributor
The undergraduate student govern-
ment allocated its remaining $100,000
in surplus funds to student organiza-
tions last week.
The Undergraduate Students Asso-
ciation Council approved 61 fund-
ing applications at its Feb. 27 coun-
cil meeting. The funding, which was
delayed one week because the council
did not meet quorum during its Feb.
20 meeting, comes from a university
accounting error that failed to allocate
hundreds of thousands of dollars in
student fees to USAC.
The funding allocations ranged
from $48.18 to $7,154.61 per group.
Because the council distributed
funding two weeks after applications
closed Feb. 13, it voted to allow Stu-
dent Government Accounting to depart
from the usual procedure and allocate
funding to student groups for events
they had already held. SGA manages
funding related to USAC, according to
its website.
Roy Champawat, Associated Stu-
dents UCLA’s Student Union director,
said SGA generally does not retroac-
tively fund events, but made an excep-
tion to its policy because the delay
was caused by the council, not student
groups.
Champawat said SGA has ear-
marked funds for each student group
that they will distribute when each
group informs the office of how it
would like to spend its allocation.
“The money is ... just sitting there
waiting for the student group to ask for
The Undergraduate Students Association Council approved to allocate its remaining $100,000 surplus funds to 61 student organizations last week.
access,” he said. “We try to be a sup-
portive guide in helping student groups
to use the money properly, rather than
an enforcer.”
USAC members and staff evaluated
and scored funding applications based
on criteria including the organization’s
financial plan, competence in program
planning and expected student turn-
out for the event, said Johnnie Yaj,
USAC budget director.
Yaj, who helped create the evalua-
tion system, said student organizations
that applied were scored on a scale
of one to 10 for the different criteria,
and the totals were then converted
into percentages. He said the council
used the percentages to determine how
much of the requested funding each
group would receive.
“I n a perfect world, we wou ld
give everyone (funding) according
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to this percentage, but we only had
the $100,000,” Yaj said. “So we pro-
portionally allocated the money (by
the percentages), but unfortunately,
not everyone can get everything they
requested.”
Pratik Malshe, the Finance Commit-
tee chair, said he thinks the allocation
process was conducted in a fair and
neutral way because all student orga-
nizations that applied were given an
opportunity to present their requests
at hearings with USAC members and
staff reviewing the applications.
“Considering that this situation’s
an anomaly, I’m glad with the way the
overall process went,” he said. “We
allocated in the fairest way possible
and I think it’ll have a positive impact
for student (organizations).”
Several student groups that applied
for the funds said they think the funds
will benefit their organization’s opera-
tions.
Christian Hurley, external vice pres-
ident of Bruin Racing, an organization
that designs, builds and races off-road
vehicles, said the group will use the
additional funding to acquire equip-
ment and conduct design research.
“It also gives us the potential to start
researching more complicated designs
that have previously been unattainable
due to budget constraints,” he said.
Kenton Sakurai, a Bruin Dine coor-
dinator, said the extra funds will be
used to provide supplies for future
events, including trays, plates and
hand-washing stations.
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to serve food-insecure students and
reduce food waste on campus, has had
four upcoming events approved after
postponing its events in February due
to health code concerns.
“The fact of the matter is we all
planned to not have (the surplus
funds), so it’s mostly a positive,” Saku-
rai said. “(We’re) glad that it’s available
at all.”
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he thinks it is important to
have a walk-in access center
in Westwood because the
closest service centers are
located in Santa Monica.
“For the west LA area,
pa r ticu la rly West wood,
there are not a lot of access
centers like that,” Wilkes
said. “It would be a great
start … for people in such a
vast area.”
However, com mu n it y
leaders and experts said
they think it is unlikely
Westwood will build hous-
ing to address homeless-
ness.
For example, city Mea-
sure HHH, which passed
in 2016, will help build and
repu r pose bu i ld i n gs to
house homeless individu-
als, but funding from the
program will likely not go
to projects in Westwood
because of its high rent, low
available space and lack of
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lecturer at the UCLA Luskin
School of Public Affairs.
“You need to find sites,
expand to Westwood.
The Shower of Hope cur-
rently provides hygiene ser-
neighborhoods that w ill vices three times a week in
accept these projects,” she Highland Park, South Pasa-
said. dena and Huntington Park.
“Now that we have a little Mazzotta said the organi-
bit of money to work with, zation hopes to provide its
the challenge really is that services to Westwood resi-
nobody wants the hous- dents on a weekly basis, but
ing to be built in their own has yet to finalize a location.
neighborhood.” “The idea is to start … as
Chapman said she thinks soon as we can find a part-
Westwood does not have nership for a location, and
space for any additional as soon as we get support
housing projects. from the (neighborhood)
“I would love that. … I council,” he said.
don’t know where it would Block by Block provides
be,” she said. “We are in homeless individuals with
such a dense area and I food and hygiene products,
just can’t even imagine any in addition to sanitation
property around here that services for Westwood Vil-
would be doing this.” lage, Wilkes said.
Some organizations are Wi l kes sa id Block by
a l ready tak i n g steps to Block also provides home-
address homelessness in less individuals with paper-
Westwood. work to help them obtain
Damián Mazzotta, free government identifi-
founder and chairman of cation cards. ID cards are
The Shower of Hope, which essential for homeless indi-
br i n gs por table shower viduals to access govern-
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support for new housing to homeless individuals, Email Tudhope at Westwood Village, along with other areas in Los Angeles, is working to utilize funds from measures H and HHH to improve the lives of the city’s homeless
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Housing | LA needs to incentivize high-density developments

BY EMILY MERZ

T
here are more
homeless
individuals in
Los Angeles than UCLA
graduate and undergraduate students
combined. 11,000 more.
In the last six years, the number
of homeless individuals in LA has
increased 75 percent, from 32,000 to
55,000, according to the Los Angeles
Times. 41,000 of those individuals are
completely unsheltered, living in cars
or on the streets.
Discussions of affordable housing
in LA are not new. The city passed
propositions last year and the year
before to provide the city with billions
of dollars to build affordable housing
units. But with current site review
laws, more housing for homeless
individuals is a pipe dream.
Since 2008, 55 percent of perma-
nent housing projects have 49 units
or fewer. And that’s no coincidence.
LA city planning laws mandate that
development projects with 50 or more
units must undergo a site plan review
by the City Council, incentivizing
developers to build fewer, larger
and more expensive units. A site
plan review is a lengthy process in
which the city planning commission
determines whether or not to approve
a proposal based on its drawings and
details for development.
The current site plan review policy
has kept developers from building
high-density projects that could
house homeless or low-income indi-
viduals. Developers just don’t have LEXI SANCHEZ/ DA I LY BRUIN

the interest in developing this kind of

housing, especially if they have to go
through the lengthy site plan review
process.
There’s a solution to the arbitrary
bureaucracy of these zoning laws.
The Permanent Supportive Housing
Ordinance, which the LA City Council
is considering, would increase the
minimum number of units for a hous-
ing project to automatically trigger
a lengthy site plan review from 50 to
120 units, if the development meets
certain criteria. This ordinance
would incentivize developers to maxi-
mize the number of units they build
in addition to mandating that half of
the units be designated for homeless
individuals and pricing all units at
city-defined affordable levels.
You don’t have to look far to see
examples of the current site plan
review’s failures. Few apartment
complexes in Westwood even come
close to the 50-unit threshold.
“Developers could be building 50 to
120 units, but they don’t want to deal
with the review process, so they only
build 49 luxurious units,” said Michael
Skiles, Graduate Students Association
president. “One hundred twenty units
that could be affordable are turned
into 49-unit luxurious apartments
that students can’t afford.”
The Permanent Supportive Hous-
ing Ordinance would increase the
availability of housing in places like
Westwood by allowing developers
to bypass site plan reviews when
building high-density apartment
complexes. This comes at a time
when Los Angeles has more than a
billion dollars in bond money from
Measure HHH, passed in 2016, that it
is using to construct and incentivize
developers to construct housing units
for homeless individuals. In effect, the
proposed ordinance would speed up
the process of developing affordable
housing while the city is working out
how to distribute the funds it has
received from past city measures.
And the city urgently needs more
affordable housing units if it wants to
solve its homelessness crisis.
“People don’t want to think about
homelessness as a zoning problem,”
said Heidi Liu, law clerk for Public
Counsel, a public interest, pro bono
law firm. “But at the end of the day ...
what keeps the housing from being
built is discriminatory laws.”
Some of the greatest pushback
against the proposed ordinance
comes from neighborhood councils
and residents. Residents of Santa
Monica and Westwood have fought
tooth-and-nail to prevent the city
from building homeless shelters or
providing services that would assist
homeless individuals, Skiles said.
Similarly, in Venice, groups like
Venice Vision argue the proposal
would remove local autonomy over
development and concentrate home-
less populations in certain neighbor-
hoods, according to the Los Angeles
Times.
But concerns about high concen-
tration of homeless and low-income
individuals in “quaint” Westside
neighborhoods aren’t legitimate. For
years, these areas have passed the
burden of housing the homeless to
other parts of the city, said Angus
Beverly, a member of Westwood
Neighborhood Council. But the
Westside, especially Venice, still has a
sizable homeless population that isn’t
served when residents are fighting
against development of high-density
housing in those areas.
The proposed ordinance resolves
the site plan review process that has
killed countless projects that would
have otherwise helped homeless and
low-income individuals. Homelessness
has plagued Los Angeles for years on
end, and the city needs to get creative
in how it handles the issue. That
means getting rid of the bureaucracy
surrounding the construction of
much-needed housing, not propagat-
ing it.
Email Merz at emerz@dailybruin.com.

Nurses | UC’s proposed plans put burden on healthcare employees

BY ANI UC’s proposal to change nurses’
GASPARYAN schedules and be able to
require them to work overtime

Y
ou would
expect
the nation’s
top-tier hospitals to not just
be invested in maintaining
quality patient care, but also
in cultivating a healthy work
environment. The University
of California’s treatment of its
nurses suggests otherwise.
The UC and the California
Nurses Association, which
represents registered nurses
at UC medical centers, have
been in negotiations for a new
contract since May. In the past
nine months, since the previ-
ous contract expired in July,
CNA has been negotiating for,
among other things, retirement
security and better working
hours.
The UC’s proposed retire-
ment plan would allow new
nurses to choose between the
traditional pension plan and
a 401(k)-style plan – one that
requires employees, rather
than the UC, to invest their
income to fund their retire-
ment. Current UC nurses
would see no changes to their
pension. The UC has also
proposed giving itself the abil-
ity to change nurses’ schedules
without two weeks’ notice and
make them work overtime to
make up for its nursing short-
age, according to Fong Chuu,
a nurse who has worked at
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical
Center for 34 years and is the
Westwood representative for
CNA’s contract bargaining
team.
The CNA’s bargaining team,
however, wants to maintain the
current pension plan for new
nurses and allow nurses to be
able to control their own sched-
ules. The association argues
the pension plan encourages
nurses to work at UC hospitals
longer because they are
provided with secure futures,
and that overworking nurses
presents a risk to patient safety.
The University of California is in negotiations with the California Nurses Association over working conditions and benefits for nurses. To put it bluntly, the UC’s proposed plans get it wrong.
To maintain UC hospitals’
nurse retention rates and
ensure patient safety, the UC
must meet the CNA’s demands
for retirement and better
working hours. Maintaining
top-tier patient care requires
treating nurses in a top-tier
manner. Slyly changing retire-
ment benefits and overworking
nurses isn’t the way to do that.
The current retirement plan
follows a traditional pension
fund and requires the UC
contribute to nurses’ future
benefits. The risk of invest-
ment of pensions is placed
on the plan provider – in this
case, the UC – and provides a
guaranteed monthly retirement
income.
The UC’s proposed retire-
ment plan would threaten
these benefits, however, by
shifting the burden from the
University to nurses to fund
and manage their retirement
plans. This could decrease the
retention rate of nurses at UC
hospitals.
Chuu said she is concerned
the UC won’t accurately pres-
ent information about the new
retirement plan to incoming
nurses.
She added the new retire-
ment plan would allow nurses
early retirement at age 55,
instead of at age 50. It’s not
uncommon for nurses to retire
in their 50s because the job is
very physically demanding –
Chuu said she knows of several
nurses who are facing back
problems from their taxing
jobs. Tacking on an extra five
years for retirement isn’t just
bad for nurses: It can also put
patients at risk.
Valerie Ewald, who has
been a nurse at UCLA Medical
JENNA NICOLE SMITH/ DA I LY
Center, Santa Monica, for 17
years and represents Santa
Monica’s section of the bargain-
ing team, said the new retire-
ment plan is risky and that the
current pension plan helps
maintain nurse retention.
“There is a two-tier plan
that they want to offer to
new nurses. We don’t think
that’s safe because it’s a risky
401(k),” Ewald said, “For us,
the pension really does help
attract nurses that are willing
to stay with the UC system for a
long time.”
Ewald added she thinks the
doesn’t take their personal
lives and busy schedules into
account. A lot of nurses work
three 12-hour shifts a week,
which is an already physically
straining amount, Ewald said.
And this rejection of the
UC’s contract proposal is valid.
Mandating nurses manage
their retirement at their own
expense, and forcing them to
work extra shifts instead of
hiring additional employees
may save the UC money. But
doing so could also overwork
nurses and discourage them
from staying with UC hospitals.
Of course, the UC’s reten-
tion rate of nurses is 90 to
95 percent, which is higher
than at many other California
hospitals, and the University
receives approximately 16
applicants on average for each
nurse vacancy. However, this
misses the point: The UC has
a nursing shortage, and is
still finding ways to cut costs
despite that.
Chuu said her department
has several unfilled nursing
positions.
“I told the doctors I don’t
care about the applicants, I just
need one to fill our department
– just one experienced nurse,”
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she said.
Moreover, the high retention
rate of nurses at UC hospitals is
largely because of the current
benefits the UC offers, some
of which the union fought
for during their last round of
contract negotiations with the
UC. Taking them away discour-
ages nurses from staying.
World-class patient care
doesn’t just mean treating
patients with the latest and
greatest in medical technology
and practice. It also means
providing a world-class
environment for nurses and
hospital staff to work in.
Email Gasparyan at
agasparyan@dailybruin.com.
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Grad student threads

nuance into costumes
BY ELI COUNTRYMAN
Daily Bruin contributor
Caitlin Kagawa created an
outfit specifically designed to
be soaked with water onstage.
The outfit is part of UCLA
School of Theater, Film and
Television’s mainstage produc-
tion of the musical “Steel Pier.”
The show, which opens Friday
at the Freud Playhouse, takes
place in 1933 during the Great
Depression and tells the story
of lower-class citizens com-
peting in a dance marathon, a
type of broadcast dance com-
petition. Kagawa, a graduate
student in design for theater
and entertainment media and
the costume designer for “Steel
Pier,” said she worked with the
director and actors in order to
craft period-specific costumes
designer is to ... find a way with-
out words to show aspects of
the character,” she said.
“Steel Pier” tells the story
of a woman named Rita Racine
who participates in Atlantic
City dance marathons during
the Great Depression. At one
marathon, she pairs up with
Bill Kelly, a man who inspires
her to escape the exploitative
contests that use the dancers
for profit.
Because most of the musical
is set at a dance marathon, the
outfits must allow for mobil-
ity, Kagawa said. She selected
durable dresses and shoes
that allow free movement for
actors in all scenes of the show,
including a short tap number.
Men’s pants had to be flexible
enough for kicks and splits dur-
ing dance numbers. Kagawa
ment, she said.
The show features a scene
in which Kelly goes for a swim
in his underwear, adding to
Kagawa’s challenge of creat-
ing clothing that combined
functionality with historical
accu racy. Perfor mers hold
pitchers of water to simulate
the appearance of Kelly emerg-
ing from a pool. The actor who
plays Kelly inevitably gets his
underwear wet in the process.
Kagawa said it is important
to make the underwear look
period-accurate while keep-
ing the actor covered. She also
had to make a second pair of
identical undergarments so the
actor could change into a dry
pair after the scene and remain
properly attired, she said.
Kagawa’s costu mes a lso
reflect the show’s social con- LIZ KETCHAM/ DA I LY BRUIN

that would display the socio- also focused on creating clothes text. Jeremy Mann, the direc- Graduate student Patrick Boyd wrote, directed and acted in the film “You, Me, & Him, & Him, & Him,” which focuses on an open relation-
economic statuses of the char- that would allow for flexible tor of “Steel Pier” and director ship among five men in Los Angeles. He said the film aims to convey self-acceptance and communication in gay relationships.
acters and the bleak themes of arm movements, despite the of singing for the Ray Bolger

Film portrays LGBTQ

the play. fact that actual dresses in the
“ My go a l a s a co s t u me 1930s often inhibited move- KAGAWA | Page 6

relationships realistically
BY NINA YOUNG
Daily Bruin contributor
Patrick Boyd opens his film
with a quote from Aristotle:
“Love is composed of a single
soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Boyd’s story divides a single
soul among five people.
Boyd, a graduate student
in directing, explores an open
relationship between five gay
men in his upcoming film, “You
& Me, & Him, & Him, & Him.”
He plays Will, who struggles
to find his place within the
relationship and contemplates
whether to stay with the four
men he loves or to leave them.
Boyd drew on his own expe-
riences nav igating the gay
community and observations
of open relationships to write
and direct the film, which he
said is meant to demonstrate
the importance of self-accep-
tance and communication in
CHENGCHENG ZHANG/ DA I LY BRUIN gay relationships, especially
Graduate student Caitlin Kagawa designed costumes for the School of Theater, Film and Television’s production of “Steel Pier.” Kagawa open relationships.
crafted period-specific costumes to display the socio-economic conditions of the characters in 1933 during the Great Depression. “I want it to be like a micro-
cosm of gay life. ... That’s also
where the open relationship
comes in, because I want all
types of gay men to be rep-
resented in this,” Boyd said.
“In the gay community, open
relationships seem to be popu-
lar, but I’m not sure that many
people are super happy i n
them.”
Boyd said the five partners
are tight-knit, but still closed
off from one another emo-
tionally. They communicate
through playful arguments
and humorous banter, but fail
to truly listen to one another
until the end of the film.
“They start to open up and
that is what makes them come
alive to each other,” Boyd said.
“They are seeing each other
for more than just what they
appear to be.”
Boyd wrote the film’s roles
for actors he knew, letting their
actual personalities organical-
ly create a dynamic on-screen
group, he said. Charles Platt,
a fourth-year theater student
who plays Peter, one of Will’s
four partners, said he appre-
ciated the film’s attempts to
subvert media stereotypes of
gay men, such as the image
of the physically fit gay man.
Boyd sa id he a lso avoided
framing his film in stereotypi-
cal LGBTQ contexts, such as
the gay club scene of West Hol-
lywood, instead placing the
group’s interactions in ordi-
nary settings, such as a Los
Angeles diner.
“I think (Boyd) is really
looking to bring in diversity
into what queer culture is,”
Platt said. “The cast is a group
of people who have different
ethnicities, different bodies
that we’re not always used to
seeing gay men have.”
Platt also said the film’s
costuming reflects the differ-
ent personalities of the five
partners, which helps make
each character distinct. For
example, Peter’s bright teal
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Games can use nostalgia to synthesize new and old innovatively

BY EVAN
CHARFAUROS
Games have
always been a
huge part of the
entertainment industry,
but what makes them enter-
taining? Game makers
expend significant effort
making design decisions
people often don’t think
about when they’re playing
each game. Each week,
columnist Evan Charfauros
will examine the pros and
cons of different game
mechanics as seen in the
modern gaming industry.
riff that opened the course’s
soundtrack on the Wii,
bringing me back to the
world I raced through in
middle school.
Nostalgia is a common
factor in modern game
design – if a new game is an
imitation, sequel or remake
of an older game, it’s bound
to be popular among players
who enjoyed its predecessor.
Gaming journalists have
called the focus on nostalgia
detrimental to the gaming
industry as a whole, arguing
a reliance on the past will
eventually fail to interest the
younger generation that is
growing up playing mobile
a problem. Long-term game
franchises are the biggest
transgressors in the eyes
of nostalgia’s critics as new
games in decades-old series
often ride the coattails of
previous entries. Recent
commercials for franchises
like “Pokemon” and “Call of
Duty” have even explicitly
referenced their intended
nostalgic appeal by depicting
young adults rediscovering
the modern versions of their
childhood pastimes. Howev-
er, bringing back classic ele-
ments of games doesn’t have
to be stale; some franchises
succeed in celebrating both
the old and the new.

N
othing matches the
rush I first felt while
revving past the start-
ing line in “Mario Kart 8
Deluxe” for Nintendo Switch.
The gorgeously rendered
high-definition version of
Moo Moo Meadows begins
with the same jaunty string
games. But nostalgia in
games shouldn’t be demon-
ized – by bridging old and
new, nostalgia can actually
be a great way to advance
industry innovation.
Admittedly, subpar
sequels that seem like little
more than cash grabs can be
“Super Mario Odyssey”
takes the iconic hero out
of the Mushroom Kingdom
to explore the globe for the
first time. It does away with
series mainstays like Boos
and Bob-ombs for completely
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KAGAWA
from page 5
Musical Theater Program at
UCLA, said he and Kagawa
had regular meetings to dis-
cuss modeling the musical’s
characters on real-life, period-
specific stars like Ginger Rog-
ers, a singer and actress who
inspired “Steel Pier’s” rendi-
tion of Racine.
Mann said actual contes-
tants in 1930s radio-broadcast
marathons were often part of
the lower classes and attempt-
ed to earn money through con-
tests. Performers would use
whatever cheap materials they
had at their disposal to try to
make costumes that looked
like the higher-class clothing
seen in Hollywood films. To
replicate this practice, Kaga-
wa used inexpensive materials
like wool for her own costumes
in “Steel Pier.”
“(Kagawa) has done a good
job of stratifying the world …
where these people are socio-
logically and economically,”
Mann said. “That’s told really
well in the costumes.”
The designs helped some
actors portray their social sta-
tuses as well, said fourth-year
theater student Shelby Talley,
who plays Racine. Racine is
somewhat famous under the
stage name “Lindy’s Lovebird,”
and her character is expect-
ed to exude an elegant and
mature persona.
Talley said Kagawa’s cos-
tuming bolsters her charac-
ter’s semifamous status: At
one point, Racine’s husband
tells her to change from a play-
ful light-blue polka-dot dress
into a sleek, dark-blue one. She
said the change reflects her
competitors’ expectations that
she look as high-class as her
stage identity.
“Her second dress is more
expensive-looking,” said Tal-
ley. “For the couples on stage
who see her as ‘Lindy’s Love-
bird,’ she looks more like a star
or celebrity.”
Kagawa said it is typical for
women’s costumes to express
their characters’ personalities
and statuses in dress-inten-
sive shows, and she wanted
to outfit male characters in
similarly expressive clothing.
She designed the seemingly
Hollywood-style clothing with
more commonplace and cheap
wide-leg pants and woolen
clothing to bring out the men’s
attempts to appear wealthier
than they actually were.
“(The outfits are) a sub-
liminal nod to who they really
are and allowing who they are
inside to come out, so that
even if they are onstage for a
minute or one scene, the audi-
ence won’t wonder who they
were,” said Kagawa. “It’s no
mystery.”
Costu m i n g a lso helped
Mann convey the thematic
messages of “Steel Pier,” he
said. At one point, a few wom-
en wear visible underwear
beneath transparent wedding
dresses in a dance marathon
event. Talley said the exposing
choice of costuming illustrates
the objectification women
often experienced in the early
1900s.
“(The wedding dresses)
show a darker side to the show
because it’s vulnerable for all
the women to be in these out-
fits,” Talley said. “It shows off
the misogynistic view during
that time.”
Kagawa said the outfits and
clothing of the performance
help convey the realities of the
period that the show depicts.
“I think for a story like ‘Steel
Pier,’ the world is framed by a
set, but the story is told in the
costumes,” said Kagawa. “A
story of people in a time where
things are destitute and bleak,
but we get a chance to see who
they are come to life.”
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from page 5
rompers inf luenced Platt’s
per for m a nce of a you n g,
extroverted character seek-
ing attention from the four
other partners through his
outspoken mannerisms. As
Peter is unable to articulate
his need for love, he instead
points out his partners’ inse-
curities and creates tension
in the group. His inability
to communicate strains the
relationship, Platt said.
“I think having the five
characters in the relation-
ship makes the flaws of each
person overly apparent,” Platt
said. “It’s very obvious that
the lack of communication is
hurting each person in a very
specific way.”
Fed up with the group’s
miscommunication and feel-
ing alienated, Will pursues
an external sexual affair.
The group’s jealousy causes
a fight to break out among all
five partners inside a kara-
oke bar. Saturated in vivid
lighting and trapped within
the claustrophobic room, the
scene heightens tensions and
examines each character’s
insecurities, said Derik Iver-
son, who plays another of the
partners, Sammy.
Iverson said each charac-
ter reflects on his identity in
the context of the polyam-
orous relationship. Sammy’s
con nections to the other
characters and his role in the
group forces him to truly con-
front his discomfort about his
own sexuality.
“So often you see other gay
stories in the media where it’s
just two people that pair up
and then ... have a wonderful
adventure with some hard-
ships along the way,” Iverson
said. “It’s really interesting
to see that from a group per-
spective.”
Boyd said though the film
explores open relationships
in the gay community, it is
also intended to illustrate the
importance of communica-
tion in relationships more
generally.
“I th i nk open ness is so
sexy and being who you are
is great,” Boyd said. “There’s
not really a message about
open relationships, whether
they’re good or bad. … I want
anyone to watch it and really
question how open they are
with themselves,” he said.
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new species of characters,
ranging from the ghostly hat
creatures of the Cap Kingdom
to the cute neon talking forks
of the Luncheon Kingdom. I
promise it’s not as weird as it
sounds.
The game redefines the
Mario formula by packing
each kingdom with dozens of
power moons that can only be
found with thorough explora-
tion and puzzle-solving, a level
of detail none of the previous
games have.
Even as “Odyssey” sets a
precedent for future Mario
games, it pays tribute to its
history. The game reintro-
duces Pauline, the original
damsel in distress from the
arcade version of “Donkey
Kong,” Mario’s first game ever.
Pauline is now the mayor of
New Donk City, an urban area
where Mario climbs skyscrap-
ers and jumps between steel
beams suspended by cranes
over a cloudy abyss. I just
about flipped when I noticed
the pink steel beams I was
climbing on were the same
design as the ones Mario tra-
versed in the 8-bit, Donkey
Kong original.
The New Donk City portion
of the game wraps up with a
citywide festival during which
players navigate a redesigned
2-D Donkey Kong level amid
fireworks, shimmering con-
fetti and a live performance
of “Odyssey’s” jazzy theme
song from Pauline herself. The
various deviances from the
tried-and-true Mario formula
might have hurt the game in
longtime players’ eyes, if not
for the multitude of moments
that embrace Mario’s storied
history.
In other words, nostalgia
complements innovation. The
2017 hit “Cuphead” also draws
more explicitly on nostalgia by
reusing the visual style of old
1930s cartoons.
Players control the titular
character or his partner in
crime, Mugman, who each
look like a cross between old-
school Mickey Mouse and,
well, drinkware. While the
gameplay is stellar, the biggest
draw of the game is the seam-
less animation and aesthet-
ics that make it look like the
player is actually controlling
a cartoon character in a 2-D
world. As someone who grew
up watching old “rubber hose
animation” cartoons, being
able to place myself in that
world is an incredible feeling.
But perhaps the best recent
example of nostalgia comple-
menting innovation can be
seen in the 2015 indie hit
“Undertale.” The game draws
players in with its charming
retro graphics and format,
which assumes players are
experienced with role-playing
gaming. The presentation
of what seems to be a clas-
sic RPG allows the game to
subvert player expectations,
building off what players
assume they know about the
game based on games they’ve
known and loved in the past.
While players kill enemies
on sight in most games,
“Undertale” allows players
to talk to or even flirt with
their opponents. Fighting
isn’t always the best option,
which seems obvious to an
outsider, but isn’t intuitive
to a gamer used to killing
everything they see with no
consequences. There are con-
sequences in “Undertale” – if
you kill a character, the game
will remember and other char-
acters may remind you of your
transgression. The game sub-
verts several other assump-
tions as well, such as the idea
that you can shut off a game
without saving to retry a task
you failed.
Without memories of other
games to draw from, new
gamers don’t get the same
thought-provoking experience
out of “Undertale’s” story and
gameplay that experienced
gamers do. The title takes
RPG nostalgia and turns it on
its head to create a visually
dated game that’s years ahead
of many of its HD counter-
parts.
While too much reliance on
what came before can lead to
dull and uninspired games,
many of the best releases take
our fond memories and turn
them into something bold and
new. One day we’ll look back
on today’s games with the
same wistfulness that we do
with those of our childhood,
but new releases will allow
them to live on in ways we can
only guess at.
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M. VBALL Kobrine said.

from page 10
Sophomore middle blocker
Daenan Gyimah said that the
Bruins need to work on hitting
out of system.
“We had a lot of errors that
should have been continues,”
Gyimah said. “If we could just do
that we will prolong the rallies
and not have an automatic loss
of point.”
Redshirt freshman opposite
Sam Kobrine said the Bruins
didn’t understand the ways in
which the Waves were setting
the ball.
“They set and contact the ball
a little higher than most teams,
which made it difficult for us to
block ... (and) recognize when
their big servers are on the line
so we can take advantage of
whatever play we have, and not
UCLA has been working on
out-of-system attacking in prac- Experienced members to propel UCLA rowing
tice to provide the Bruins with
some leverage to face Pepper-
dine.
“Getting by the rhythm when
we are planning to attack and
putting the ball at the net when
we are setting is the main thing
we are working on,” Kobrine
said.
The Bruins will add senior
opposite Christian Hessenauer
back to the roster as he did not
play against the Waves on Feb.
23.
Hessenauer leads the Bruins
with averages of 3.4 kills per set
and 4.21 points per set.
UCLA will face Pepperdine
back home in Pauley Pavilion for
the rematch Wednesday.
“Being in our home gym will
bring it all together,” Gyimah
said.
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BY CORAL SMITH
Daily Bruin contributor
The Bruins will rely on the
experience of their older row-
ers this season.
UCLA rowing opened its
season in the weekend with
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DR. BAHAREH GOLBAHAR (UCLA GRAD) in the nation, the victory was
DR. ANNIE HU-DUVAL an indicator of encouraging
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310-208-3011 WWW.VILLAGEEYES.COM The Bruins will be relying
on the experience of an older
team in 2018, said coach Amy
Fuller Kearney. She has been
“I think a lot of what we’re
tr y i n g to focus on is just
empowerment, and letting
all the girls with experience
use that experience,” Fuller
Kearney said. “I guess the big-
gest thing that I’ve done is I let
both of the boats decide what
their race strategy is. They
know how fast they have to
be, they know what the goals
are for speed, but how they’re
going to get there really comes
from within.”
Fuller Kearney said that
having an older team this year
will benefit this work ethic,
because the experience will
help the team make racing
decisions under pressure.
“ I n r ow i n g , it’s r e a l l y
unique that once they launch
we don’t get to coach them,”
Fuller Kearney said. “They
have to know when it’s going
well, they have to know how
to problem-solve, they have
advantage when you have
more upperclassmen, and this
is the first time in years that
we’ve had that.”
Along with a core of eight
returning seniors, the Bruins
will benefit from contributions
from experienced juniors,
such a s v a r sit y one por t
Saskia Budgett and varsity
one starboard Kyra Edwards,
both of whom rowed for Great
Britain’s national team last
summer in the 2017 World
Rowing Under 23 Champion-
ships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and
helped the team win a gold
medal.
“It was a great experience,
since we’ve both been row-
ing for the national team for a
few years,” Edwards said. “It’s
just really cool to go to a world
stage and have so much talent
everywhere, and be able to
race the best people in the
world.”
taught her about the impor-
tance of a strong connection
in the team.
“For me, I think just the
trust in the boat is what can
make or break it,” Budgett
said. “Just having that trust
and having that connection
between the people in the
boat can just make so much
speed, and I think our squad
is just building that day by
day.”
Last season, the Bruins
finished sixth in the Pac-12
championships and missed
out on one of 22 spots for the
NCA A cha mpion sh ips. I n
order for this season’s team to
improve on last year’s finish,
Budgett said that it will have
to expand on the success of
this opening meet.
“It’s definitely something
that we can build on, and we
have a lot more coming, I’d
say,” Budgett said.

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“How (Tagaloa) looked today
was fantastic, he’s just like
a natural out there so it was
cool to see him.”
With players already shift-
ing positions, Kelly was asked
whether or not he would con-
tinue to test out more play-
ers in different spots. How-
ever, he remained firm on the
notion that he was not famil-
iar enough with his roster
and that he would let things The Bruins only had one
unfold over the course of the
spring.
new recruit in attendance
Tuesday, wide receiver Kyle
“Spring will play out,” Kelly
said. “We’ll get a chance to
Phillips. Kelly said he expects
two or three more recruits
take a look at some different
spots, but again, we haven’t
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break.
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from page 1
She nai led her tu mbl i n g
passes and executed the moves
choreographed by her former
teammate and current under-
graduate assistant coach Hallie
Mossett.
The judges rewarded her
with a 9.900.
Si nce the open i ng meet,
Kramer has claimed a perma-
nent spot in the floor lineup. All
but one score has been above
9.850, including a career-best
9.950 against Oregon State.
“I did not (expect that). I
knew she had it in her,” said
coach Valorie Kondos Field. “I
didn’t expect her to be that con-
sistent. She’s been extremely
consistent this year.”
Kondos Field’s statement
points to how far Kramer has
come in a year. Her success and
status as an important contribu-
tor in the Bruins’ lineup was far
from an inevitable next step in
her career.
She wasn’t supposed to be at
UCLA in the first place. Up until
her last week of high school,
Kramer was in line for a full-
ride to Arizona State.
Then, the Sun Devils fired
t hei r coach a nd sa id t hey
wouldn’t announce the replace-
ment until the end of the sum-
mer. Kramer, unable to sit and
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the fact that I wasn’t a national
champion, or that I wasn’t an
Olympic champion,” Kramer
said. “I looked at it as pressure
to be more like them, that I
wasn’t enough.”
For the first few meets of
her freshman season, Kram-
er walked a mental tightrope.
When she fell twice in a single
meet, a crisis of confidence
ensued.
For the remainder of the sea-
son, she struggled to be consis-
tent and was shuttled in and out
of the lineup. A fall on the vault
during the Pac-12 champion-
ships harmed UCLA’s chances
at claim ing the conference
crown.
Lee had befriended Kramer
when they roomed together
during road trips. A seasoned
veteran of the team, Lee dis-
cussed her struggles during
her first years at UCLA with the
freshman.
“I think that helped her a
lot to hear that the upperclass-
men also struggled,” Lee said.
“Fresh man year, you th ink
you’re the only one with prob-
lems. In reality, everyone goes
through that.”
The low point of Kramer’s
fresh ma n odyssey ca me at
nationals.
On the day of the 2017 NCAA
semifinals, Kramer prepared to
compete in the vault. She was
penciled into the UCLA lineup.
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wait, decommitted.
She came to UCLA as a walk-
on, never having gone through
the recruitment process. Her
new teammates included Olym-
pic gold medalists Kyla Ross and
Madison Kocian, and Peng-Peng
Lee, who would have been in
the 2012 games had it not been
for a serious knee injury.
Kramer found herself unable
to measure up to their dis-
tinguished, elite gymnastics
careers and medals earned at
the highest international level.
So she piled pressure on her-
self to rise to their level.
“I put so much emphasis on
Kondos Field stepped in. She
replaced Kramer with then-
senior Angi Cipra.
The next day, when the Bru-
ins competed in the Super Six
for the national title, Kramer
handed her credential to then-
junior Rechelle Dennis. While
Dennis joined the team on the
competition floor, Kramer sat
in the stands with her parents.
She was reduced to a spectator.
“That was really hard as an
athlete and as an individual to
confront the issue,” Kramer
said. “I was completely taken
away from my team. Also, my
parents – I felt like I was such a
Gracie Kramer transforms into a patient trying to escape from an asylum in her floor exercise routine. The sophomore has consistently performed high-scoring floor exercise routines.
disappointment. They flew out
there to see me.”
Forced to sit in the stands
and watch her team fight for a
national title, Kramer decided
to do everything in her power
to never be in the same position
again.
“I totally switched my mind-
set,” Kramer said. “It was a
blessing in disguise. It made me
realize I never want to be in that
position ever again.”
Her mission began in the
spring quarter following the
season. She took the workouts
seriously. She started eating
better. She learned to handle
the college environment and the
distractions that come with it.
Kondos F ield sa id she
believes Kramer’s offseason
growth is a natural part of the
process for freshmen.
“I think freshmen grow up
about five years during their
first year,” Kondos Field said.
“College is a totally different
planet for them and they have
to figure it out.”
Lee, a close friend and the
most senior member on the
team, says it has been highly
rewarding to see Kramer make
such huge strides.
“Being an upperclassman, it’s
so nice when you have a team
member who struggled and see
them mature and take owner-
ship of who they are,” Lee said.
“I think, now, she’s not afraid to
be herself inside the gym.”
K r a mer i s now a f i r m ly
entrenched member of the
team. She is no longer the walk-
on who didn’t go through the
recruiting process, nor is she
the gymnast who saw herself as
an outsider who couldn’t mea-
sure up to her accomplished
teammates.
“I think, last year, she didn’t
believe she belonged here,”
Kondos Field said. “I think now
she knows she belongs here.”
Should the Bruins continue
to score in the mid-to-high 197
range and qualify for the Super
Six, don’t expect her to be sit-
ting in the stands.
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a lot of good pars when I hit
the greens and I made all of
the short putts that I’ve been
missing.”
The Bruins also shot their
lowest overall score since
October when they shot 20
under par at the Nanea Pac-12
Preview.
“The course seemed really
scoreable and not that diffi-
cult,” Forsyth said. “Just a lot
of good golf, and when you
have that feeling as a player
that feels like they can score
out here then good things can
really happen.”
For the second-straight
tournament, the Bruins were
without freshman Patty Tav-
atanakit, which allowed other
players to step up. Senior Erin
Choi tied for 20th, her only
top-20 finish of the season.
“I think that this was a
really good opportunity for
(Choi) to get into the lineup
and play and she did really
well,” Forsyth said. “This has
been a great opportunity for
other girls to get some playing
and competitive experience,
and I think it’s really paying
off, particularly for (Choi).”
The top-ran ked Br u i ns
now have three weeks off
competition before return-
ing March 26 to The Farms
Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe,
California.
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ing the momentum of his first
two Tuesday starts in which he
held his opponents to a total of
six hits, three walks and 1 run
through 10 2/3 innings.
“Gosh, he’s been good,” Sav-
age said. “He just commanded
it. He’s a different guy right now.
He’s grown up a little bit, and he
appears to have taken the next
step. We’re 3-0 on Tuesday’s and
that’s a big deal.”
Garcia allowed Loyola Mary-
mount’s only run in the third
inning – a line drive double to
right field that eventually was
batted home by a single. UCLA’s
bullpen pitched three shut-
out innings with just two hits
allowed.
UCLA will head to Dodger
Stadium for a weekend slate fea-
turing No. 8 Texas Christian,
No. 15 Vanderbilt and USC.
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UCLA baseball upsets Loyola Marymount 12-1
BY JACK KEARNS
Daily Bruin contributor
UCLA got on base 21 times
despite zero combined hits from
its two leading hitters.
“We’re getting a lot of con-
tribution from a lot different
areas,” said coach John Savage.
“That’s a sign of a good team.
Stretching that lineup as long
as you can.”
Sophomore first baseman
Michael Toglia and sophomore
second baseman Chase Strumpf
both went 0-for-4 on the day,
but the No. 11 Bruins (10-2)
were able to defeat the Loyola
Marymount Lions (3-10) 12-1
on Tuesday night at the Jackie
Robinson Stadium.
Loyola Marymount started
southpaw Holden Christian,
who pitched 2 2/3 innings with
67 pitches – 4.79 pitches per bat-
ter faced.
The Bruin bats were able
to tally six runs with a .643
slu g g i n g percent a ge a f ter
three innings, giving them a
comfortable 5-run lead that
would remain for the next 3 2/3
Kelly brings tempo, tests position changes
Redshirt junior safety Adarius Pickett and the rest of UCLA football returned to the field for their first spring practice of the year Tuesday morning, this time with Chip Kelly as head coach.
BY RYAN SMITH
Assistant Sports editor
The Chip Kelly era is offi-
cially underway in Westwood.
UCLA football took the field
Tuesday morning for its first
spring practice of the year. Kel-
ly, who was hired as head coach
in November, said he is entering
spring with zero expectations
and just wants to see what he
has to work with.
“I have no idea what this
team’s all about, so that’s what
the whole spring will be about,”
Kelly said. “I couldn’t tell you a
Women’s golf finishes first, Lilia Vu claims eighth individual win
Top-ranked UCLA women’s golf took home another victory. This time the win came at the Wildcat Invitational on Tuesday. Junior Lilia Vu also
recorded her eighth career individual victory, putting up a record at the invite and making her the winningest golfer in program history.
Baseball
LOYOLA MARYMOUNY
No. 11 UCLA
innings.
After four innings, UCLA
had forced 101 pitches out of
Loyola Marymount’s pitching
staff, good for an average of 4.39
pitches per batter.
“(Our patience) has improved
a lot from last year,” Toglia said.
“We’ve definitely made a bigger
jump in this year’s approach in
staying on pitches and being
disciplined at the same time.”
Outfielder sophomore Jeremy
Ydens earned UCLA’s 4th run by
singling, advancing to second
on a wild pitch, stealing third
and scoring on a sacrifice fly
from Strumpf.
“We’ve really tried to be dis-
ciplined with our strike zone,”
Ydens said. “We’ve worked on
that a lot this year and this past
fall to really swing at strikes and
take balls and be patient at our
at-bats.”
Ydens finished the night
3-for-5 with 2 runs and two
strength or a weakness because
we haven’t had a chance to deal
with them.”
Despite having little infor-
mation on his players’ abili-
ties on the field, Kelly wasted
no time putting the Bruins
through the first phases of his
famous up-tempo offense.
At Oregon, Kelly’s fast-paced
spread offense brought the
Ducks into the upper echelon of
college football. They went 46-7
in his tenure as head coach and
even reached the BCS National
Championship Game in 2011.
Redshirt junior safety Adar-
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
RBIs. He made his mark defen-
sively as well, making an acro-
1 batic catch as he slammed into
12 the right-field wall in the fourth.
Jack Stronach made his first
start of the year as designated
hitter, replacing the usual start-
er junior Jake Pries. The sopho-
more finished the night 2-for-4
with three RBIs and 2 runs.
Junior center fielder Dan-
iel Amaral saw six at-bats and
punched in two RBIs, while
junior third baseman Jake Hira-
bayashi hit 3-for-4 with two
doubles and 3 runs.
“Five doubles on a night
game here is pretty impressive,”
Savage said. ‘We’re just getting a
lot of guys contributing. Amaral
had a pretty good night, Ydens,
Hirabayashi. It’s good to see.”
Righty Ryan Garcia started
on the mou nd for the Br u-
ins. The sophomore threw a
career-high nine strikeouts
over six frames in his third
start for UCLA, dropping his
ERA to .145. He allowed two
hits, one walk and 1 run, rid-
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ius Pickett said he was aware of
Kelly’s style coming in but was
still taken aback.
“They said it was going to be
fast, but it’s one thing between
you hearing it and you actually
doing it,” Pickett said.
Another topic of discussion
Tuesday was position changes.
Redshirt sophomore Andre
James, who is expected to make
the move from right tackle over
to left tackle in 2018, said he is
excited about the switch and
has set out to prove his versa-
tility on the offensive line this
spring.
UCLA ATHLETICS
Sophomore right fielder Jeremy Ydens and UCLA baseball blew out LMU at Jackie Robinson Stadium on Tuesday night. Ydens finished
1-for-3 at the plate and drove home 2 runs on a single in the seventh inning to add to a decisive lead for the Bruins.
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“I want to be a versatile play-
er that can play all positions,
whatever it is,” James said. “I
played some left guard last
spring, and the spring before
that I played left tackle, so it’s
not anything new to me, (it’s)
just another position on the
field.”
Potentially joining James
on the offensive line next sea-
son will be former defensive
lineman Boss Tagaloa. The
sophomore took snaps at the
center position and impressed
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BY HENRY WEINSTOCK
Daily Bruin contributor
Lilia Vu is now the win-
ningest Bruin golfer in pro-
gram history.
A week a f ter t y i n g the
wins record at the Bruin Wave
Invitational, the junior won
the eighth tournament of her
career at the Wildcat Invita-
tional.
However, Vu was not the
only winner.
No. 1 UCLA women’s golf
was able to escape Arizona
with a victory Tuesday, hold-
ing its place as the top team
in the country. The Bruins
shot an 847 as a team and fin-
ished 17 under par, beating
the Wildcats by nine strokes.
Vu also tied the course
Bruins look to
defeat Waves in
second matchup
BY KATIE SERED
Daily Bruin contributor
UCLA men’s volleyball will
be granted a much desired
rematch against Pepperdine
after falling to the Waves –
the lowest-ranked team the
Bruins have lost to – previ-
ously this season.
The last time No. 5 UCLA
(15-5,4-2 MPSF) played No.
7 Pepperdine (10-4, 4-2) was
just 13 days ago when the
Bruins were swept by the
Waves in a three-set match.
The Bruins fell just short of
taking each set by a margin of
5 points or lower – UCLA lost
21-25, 23-25, and 20-25.
Coach John Speraw said
that there are elements of the
offense that need improve-
ment in facing a quality serv-
ing team like Pepperdine.
“How is our offense when
you’re passing a ball 10 to 15
feet? How do we attack that
BRUIN
No. 5 UCLA was swept by No. 7 Pepperdine when the teams faced off just two weeks
ago. The Bruins hit only .203 compared to the Waves’ hitting percentage of .455.
record for lowest tournament
score, finishing at 14-under-
par.
“I’m pretty proud,” Vu said.
“I didn’t expect to break the
other record for lowest tour-
nament total, so it’s pretty
cool.”
C o a c h C a r r i e Fo r s y t h
attributed Vu’s great success
to both her understanding of
the game as well as her natural
skill.
“I think she’s really got a
really good understanding
of course management as it
relates to her game and her
strengths and weaknesses,”
Forsyth said. “She is not at all
afraid of not hitting a driver
off the tee, and just hits the
right club for her to put her-
self in the right position with
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ball and transition?” Speraw
said. “That has been our area
of focus for a while – I have
seen some improvement in
that regard, but I think the
big challenge is this team’s
serve.”
Pepperdine has averaged
1.9 aces per set, while UCLA
averages 1.8. The Waves, how-
ever, barely edge out the Bru-
ins in average serving errors
per set at 0.9 compared to the
Bruins at 0.8.
UCLA had a difficult time
prolonging rallies, and was
unable to commit to earning
enough points to secure a set
victory against Pepperdine.
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the club that she likes.”
Vu said her work ethic and
ability to keep an open mind
are what make her so effective
on the course.
“I think it’s just a lot of hard
work and being able to be
open to new things and always
learning new things,” Vu said.
“It’s being open-minded and
taking what you can get.”
Sophomore Ma r iel Ga l-
diano finished second overall,
finishing the tournament at
11-under-par. She had her best
performance in round three,
tying for the lowest score in
the round with a 67.
“I eliminated a lot of the
mistakes that I made (Mon-
day),” Galdiano said. “I saved
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