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Fidelis Udahemuka S.J., is the Special Assistant to President Michael Engh S.J., but by 2014 he hopes to be contributing what he’s learned to help start a new uni-versity in eastern Africa.

Udahemuka, 45, came from the Society of Jesuits Eastern Africa province where a team of over 200 Jesuits has committed to building an institution for higher education. By shadowing Engh, as well as university executives, Fidelis hopes to gain the day-to-day administrative skills necessary in order to help start a university.

Udahemuka holds degrees in philosophy and humanities, business administration,

an MBA from Santa Clara as well as Mas-ters degrees in divinity and Christian social ethics from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. A key part to Udahemuka’s pas-sion for education is a sincere desire to help make a change in people’s lives, in addition to experiences he had while becoming a Jesuit.

From a young age, Udahemuka was drawn towards becoming a priest. Pasto-ral work involved attending to the needs of all people, even those least cared for in society. His understanding of priesthood was one of service; however at the end of his high school education, Udahemuka had plans to study law. To him, the law meant dealing with issues of social justice, which was another strong calling that resonated with him.

While waiting for his first year of col-lege to begin, Udahemuka accompanied a friend to visit local Jesuits. After this visit he was invited for a Come and See, which is a conference where young men learn more about the Jesuit vocation and participate in di!erent activities. The Come and See made

Udahemuka realize that becoming a Jesuit would give him room to develop, serve and actualize his dreams.

“I didn’t know much about the Jesuits. It was, I don’t want to say accidental, but God had his own way of finding me and I am happy,” said Udahemuka.

He found the Jesuit lifestyle made sense to his interests because they were priests who were dealing with spiritual matters but were also involved in issues of social justice and education.

During his period of formation Udahe-muka taught primary school mathematics, Swahili and geography at Kangemi slum in Kenya for six months. A particular experi-ence with resonating impact was when he saw how students whom the school had termed “slow learners” were mocked and marginalized by everyone. He committed to tutoring these “slow learners” and in the final exam, five of these children had the best scores in the entire class.

“As a Jesuit that experience really made

Fidelis Udahemuka S.J., the Special Assistant to President Michael Engh S.J., is here learning how to run a University in hope of starting a Jesuit University in East Africa, modeled after Santa Clara. Udahemuka earned an MBA at Santa Clara, and Masters degrees from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.

Dining services company implements new animal welfare reforms

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At least now when you order the prime rib spe-cial in Benson, you know that Bessie had enough room to stretch out.

Bon Appétit Management Company recently announced a set of reformed welfare policies for farm animals, as well higher standards for ensuring that individual farmers stick to these standards. Santa Clara’s ethics-driven students are especially excited about the new position of the company.

The changes that Bon Appétit is implementing will be rolled out by 2015, but they won’t a!ect the contract between the food service company and the university, according to Jane Barrantes, the assistant vice president of Auxiliary Services. The current contract lasts until 2019, and no amend-ments have been planned for the contract.

Bon Appétit, which operates more than 400 cafés for corporations, universities, museums and specialty venues in 31 states, included four stipu-lations in its reform that the company hopes will represent its dedication to safe and responsible food.

The company is now requiring that all pork it serves — currently 3 million pounds annually — be produced without gestation crate confine-ment systems, instead using higher-welfare group housing systems.

They have also announced that they will be switching all of its pre-cracked (liquid) eggs — currently 11 million eggs annually — from hens confined in barren battery cages to hens living in cage-free farms, as it already does for shell eggs.

The new policies also call to entirely elimi-nate foie gras (livers of force-fed ducks) and veal from calves confined in crates from Bon Appétit’s menus.

Finally, Bon Appétit announced that it will be ramping up e!orts to seek out the most re-sponsible meat, poultry and egg producers by employing farms that have received at least one of the four highest animal-welfare certifications.

Bob Lubecky, the general manager of Dining Services at Santa Clara, doesn’t expect the new policies for humane food treatment to cause any inflation of food prices at Santa Clara, a point of contention for many budget-minded students at Santa Clara.

“Is our pricing more expensive than Safeway? Yes it is, because we’re cooking from scratch. We have product that is raised humanely,” said Lu-

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1. Elderly Wisconsin woman calmly lands plane in emergency: With her husband strick-en in the pilot’s seat of their small plane, an 80-year-old woman assumed the controls and spoke to aviation o1cials with remarkable calm-ness as they guided her to the ground, according to an audio recording released Wednesday.

Helen Collins made national news Monday after her successful landing, in which she suf-fered a cracked rib and a back injury.2. Israeli forces begin evicting settlers in West Bank: Israeli police say security forces have begun evicting settlers who illegally took over an apartment building in a combustible West Bank city.

Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says security forces have surrounded the house in the city of Hebron, which settlers entered last week without the required military approval.3. Authorities continue search for missing girl: Santa Clara County authorities will shift their search a bit as they continue to look for a Morgan Hill girl who disappeared nearly three weeks ago.

Sheri! ’s spokesman Sgt. Jose Cardoza said the department’s search and rescue unit will focus on the neighboring communities of San Martin and Gilroy as they continue to look for 15-year-old Sierra LaMar, or for evidence that could explain her disappearance. 4. As Syrian troops claim pull out, clashes erupt: Loud explosions reverberated across the central Syrian city of Homs and clashes were

reported in several areas across the country Wednesday, just hours after the government said it has started to withdraw troops from some cities in compliance with an international cease-fire plan.

Activists said a 50-year-old man and his younger brother were killed by soldiers who opened fire on their car from a machine gun mounted on a tank in the country’s north.5. Former Mexican president dies: Former President Miguel de la Madrid, who led Mexico from 1982 to 1988 during an economic crisis and a devastating earthquake, died Sunday at age 77, the government said.

De la Madrid was the first in a string of presi-dents who pulled Mexico away from a state-dominated economy and toward free trade by bringing the country into the precursor to the World Trade Organization and by privatizing hundreds of government businesses.6. Religious school shooting: An adminis-trator at a small Christian university in Oak-land where seven people were killed this week said Wednesday she was the alleged gunman’s primary intended target after she rejected his repeated requests for a refund of his tuition.

Ellen Cervellon, director of the nursing program at Oikos University, said she wasn’t on campus Monday when her former student, One Goh, came looking for her then went on his rampage.

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CAMPUS BRIEFS

New Area Code Planned for Santa Clara County

Starting April 21, Santa Clara students are advised to start dialing a few more numbers when they pick up the phone. A March 30 press release from Verizon Inc. states that “the Cali-fornia Public Utilities Commission (has) or-dered an all-services overlay that will add a new 669 area code to the same geographic region as the existing 408 area code.” The new area code will come into e!ect Oct. 20, but callers are encouraged to take advantage of a six month “permissive dialing period” beginning on April 21 to gain familiarity with the changes. Dur-ing this period, callers may make calls to 408 numbers normally, or may dial 1 plus the area code plus the seven-digit phone number. After Oct. 20, all calls within Santa Clara County will require all 11 digits. Calls made without the area code will be directed to a recorded message advising callers to add it to complete their call.

In spite of the CPUC holding five meet-ings open to the public in March of 2011 and creating a website to gather comments from the public, many today are unaware of the im-pending change. Engineering seniors Mitchell Metling and Patrick Scott both shrugged when asked about the new area code. “I didn’t even know they added new area codes in the same county,” said Metling. Even a 411 operator (who declined the opportunity to provide her name) was unaware of the changes taking place, “I haven’t heard anything about that at all,” the operator said.

Essential Career Planning for Arts and Science Majors

Arts and Sciences majors in their junior year are being o!ered a special workshop designed to help with postgraduate job searching next Monday 5:30-6:30p.m. in the Williman Room. The Essential Career Planning workshop host-ed by the Career Center will help students pre-pare for job recruitment in the fall. Event fliers emphasize that most employers complete their recruitment process in the fall season, which makes this workshop an ideal opportunity to begin thinking about postgraduate goals. At-tendees will learn “recruiting strategies used to identify college candidates” as well as gain insight about the skills employers in every field find valuable.

According to the Career Center in the past five years Google has hired more Santa Clara Arts and Sciences majors than engineers and 95 percent of employers find a liberal arts edu-cation supply candidates with important skills for the job world. For more information contact Elizabeth Thompson at ethompson@scu.edu or call (408) 554-4421.

N*W*C* On Campus Play Winner of “Best Play” from the American

Readers Theater Association, “N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk” will be making an appearance next Tuesday in the Mayer theater. N*W*C is a three man act that combines comedy, slam poetry and hip-hop on the topics of racial slurs, stereo-types, cultural identity and the concept of race.

The play, originally written and performed by three former UCLA students, is a co-spon-sored event organized by a committee of stu-dent initiative with sta! support. This perfor-mance is free thanks to the donations from 21 di!erent organizations on campus, including: Associated Student Government, O1ce of Mul-ticultural Learning, Provost’s O1ce, Multicula-tural Center, O1ce of Student Life, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering, The Santa Clara Fund, Activities Programing Board, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Ethnic Studies Department, Performing Arts and the CPA, Campus Ministry, the Ignatian Center, the Communication department, Unity RLC, Santa Clara Community Action Program, the History department, Latin American Studies depart-ment, Sociology department, and MecHa.

Those interested in seeing the play can ob-tain tickets by stopping by the N*W*C table in Benson this week. Doors will open at 7 p.m., and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.

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Alcohol Related Medical Emergency3/23: A non-a1liate minor was re-ported intoxicated and unconscious in a Casa resident’s room, which is occupied by his sibling. CSS, SCPD, SCFD and paramedics responded. He was transported to Kaiser Hos-pital by paramedics. SCPD notified his parents.

Alcohol Violation3/30: Several underage students were found drinking alcoholic bev-erages in a resident’s room. They were admonished and documented.3/22: Several students and non-a1liate guests were reported caus-ing a noise disturbance in Campisi Hall. CSS responded to investigate. Several alcoholic beverages were found in the resident’s room, and were confiscated and disposed of. The students were admonished and documented.

Drug Violation3/25: A student was observed smok-ing marijuana in the patio area of Fine Arts. He was admonished and documented.3/30: Marijuana and a bong were found in a resident’s room during a health and safety room check. Items found were confiscated and disposed of.

Elevator Malfunction3/23: Campisi Hall elevator was reported malfunctioning while transporting a student to another floor. CSS and an elevator technician

responded. 3/24: A Performing Arts building elevator was reported malfunction-ing while transporting a student to another floor. CSS responded.

Fire Alarm4/1: A Swig Hall fire alarm was ac-tivated by burned food in the com-munity kitchen area. CSS and SCFD responded.

Found Property3/20: A check book was found and turned in to CSS o1ce.3/22: A bag containing a laptop, textbooks and keys were found and turned in to the CSS office. The owner was notified.3/22: Two wallets were found and turned in to the CSS o1ce. The own-ers were notified.3/23: An ATM card was found and turned in to the CSS o1ce. The own-er was notified. 3/27: A lunch bag and a sweatshirt were found and turned in to the CSS o1ce. 3/27: A notebook was found and turned in to the CSS o1ce. 3/28: A wallet was found in the Parking Structure. The owner was notified.4/2: A gemstone was found and turned in to CSS o1ce. 4/2: A credit card was found and turned in to CSS o1ce. The owner was notified.4/3: A cell phone was found and turned in to CSS o1ce.

Information Report 3/23: A faculty member reported suspicious activity on his computer, and that it may possibly have been

hacked. 3/24: A student’s parent contacted CSS concerning the welfare of a stu-dent. CSS and Res Life responded to investigate. The student was located. 3/26: A sta! member reported re-ceiving a threatening email message which appeared to be spam from an unknown person. A report was gen-erated and sent to SCPD.4/3: A vehicle was reported dam-aged while parked on the second floor of parking garage.

Medical Emergency3/23: A student was reported pos-sibly having an asthma attack, and asking CSS to escort to her resi-dence Hall to retrieve her inhaler. She refused any further medical assistance. 3/23: A student was reported hav-ing a seizure during a class ses-sion. CSS, SCFD and paramedics responded. The student was trans-ported to O’Connor Hospital by paramedics. Notifications made. 3/29: A non-a1liate homeless male attempted to gain entry into the Campus Safety o1ce from the back door. He appeared to be ill. SCFD was contacted and responded. He was transported to VA Hospital in Palo Alto per his request. 3/29: A faculty member was report-edly lost consciousness at her o1ce desk in Lucas Hall. CSS, SCFD and paramedics responded. She was transported to O’Connor Hospital by paramedics. 4/2: A faculty member accidentally injured his finger on a teaching aid while carrying it. He was given a medical assistance by CSS sta!. 4/2: A student reported feeling ill while working at the Campus Book-store. CSS, SCU EMS, SCFD and

paramedics responded. The student was transported to Kaiser Hospital by paramedics.

Suspicious Person3/20: A non-a1liate male was found intoxicated and lying in front of a parked vehicle outside of Bellarmine Hall. SCPD, SCFD and paramedics were contacted and responded. He was transported to O’Connor Hos-pital by paramedics.3/26: A student reported an un-

known male attempted to gain entry into her locked room. CSS and Resi-dent Life sta! responded to investi-gate. The male was identified by the sta! member.4/3: A female student reported be-ing verbally threatened by an un-known male while walking in front of the Campus Bookstore. CSS re-sponded to investigate and SCPD was notified.

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Joe Bredar, freshman, eats a hamburger from the Bronco Wednesday night. The new meat policies from Bon Appétit call for more humane treatment of animals prior to cooking.

becky. “We pride ourselves in being socially responsible.”

The move is being hailed by the Humane Society of the United States as revolutionary in the food industry.

“Bon Appétit has turned ‘very good’ into ‘great,’ setting a new high water mark in the food-service sec-tor,” said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, in a press release. “Consumers are deeply concerned about animal welfare, and Bon Ap-pétit is responding.”

Bon Appétit is the first food ser-vice company to make these com-mitments, according to Helene York, Bon Appétit’s director of stra-tegic sourcing and research. “We would love for others to follow our lead. That’s the best way to change the meat industry,” she stated.

The company will also contin-ue to offer and promote vegetar-ian options daily as part of its Low Carbon Diet initiative, which was introduced in 2007.

In addition to other socially re-sponsible practices, the company has used exclusively cage-free whole eggs since 2005 and endorsed leg-islation to outlaw gestation crates. Eight states have now passed such laws.

It has also fought against the rou-tine use of antibiotics in farm ani-mals, both to safeguard their e1cacy in humans and to end the factory-farm conditions they enable.

Contact Matt Rupel at mrupel@scu.edu or call (408) 554-4849.

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a huge di!erence,” he said. “I have never felt so good as I felt that time.”

A major challenge that African countries are facing is that of a high demand for education, ac-cording to Udahemuka. An example from the his own research on 2009 statistics for Kenya found that out of 82,000 students who qualified to at-tend university, only 10,000 received government scholarships. Another 10,000 were able to pay out of pocket, and 5,000 were able to obtain jobs. This left a remaining 70 percent of students who qualified to attend college were stuck without a job or degree. Udahemuka believes this is a large responsibility of Jesuit vocation.

“We need to do something. No matter how small it is or how big it is, we need to respond to the needs of these kids,” said Udahemuka.

At the moment Kenya and Tanzania are the final two countries being considered for the location of this new university. The province pioneer team in-tends to start out small, initially o!ering courses in the colleges of engineering, business and education.

Udahemuka has enjoyed the day-to-day experi-ences of meeting new people, tapping into their passions and asking for suggestions. He values having the opportunity to learn from a first world university with 160 years of experience and picking out what aspects will fit best in the context of the East African province team’s e!orts. Udahemuka is proud of being a part of the Santa Clara community and feels especially connected to the student body from his time as a resident minister in Swig and a Jesuit in residence at Graham. He hopes students will get involved in helping create a movement for the cause.

“I would be proud to have Broncos help reach out to other frontiers,” said Udahemuka.

Contact Elizabeth Ambriz-Mendez at EAmbrizMendez@scu.edu or (408) 554-4849.

Santa Clara’s Medical Brigade assists abroad

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The average college student usually places the words “Panama” and “Spring Break” in the same sen-tence only if the first is immediately followed by “City Beach, Florida, home of the Guinness World Re-cord-breaking 450 woman bikini parade.”

This spring break, however, a group of Santa Clara students foreswore bikinis entirely, choosing instead to travel to the country of Panama on a humanitarian medical mission. Thirty students enrolled in Santa Clara’s Global Medical Bri-gades program stayed in Panama from March 25, to April 1, operating a health care center in a rural region of eastern Panamanian province of Panama.

The Global Medical Brigades program is a chapter of Global Bri-gades, an international organiza-tion. Chapters work in each country as individual non-governmental organizations. Global Brigades op-erates programs relating to many di!erent areas of college study. For instance, in addition to medical pro-grams, the Global Brigades website lists architectural, business, law, microfinance and other options for Panama, as well as Honduras and Ghana.

Mackenzie Zorkin, senior and biology, anthropology and public health triple major, is the president

of Global Medical Brigades. Zorkin believes the experience was a pow-erful one.

“I’ve done it for three years,” said Zorkin. “Something keeps draw-ing me back… You learn something new regardless of what community you’re in… it’s entirely di!erent ev-ery year.” Zorkin, who ran the trip for the first time this year, enjoyed her new responsibilities.

Keele Shaw, vice president, also praised the program’s benefits for local communities in Panama as well as the Santa Clara students on the trip.

“What I love is that (the pro-gram) combines the immediate service of these small communi-ties (with) long-term sustainabil-ity of providing health care,” said Shaw, a junior Spanish major and Physics minor. “Every six months a di!erent college group comes in to replenish the medications and help spread public health.” Shaw believes medical care is among the most important goals for Global Medical Brigades and similar pro-grams to pursue.

The brigade hopes to make sure the people are healthy, before they provide educational and architec-tural services.

Both Zorkin and Shaw agree that access to clean water, in particular, was an area in need of desperate improvement. The water in the area contains dangerous microbes and bacteria. The members of the Global Medical Brigades started teaching locals ways to disinfect water by boiling, chlorinating and using solar power.

The members of Global Medical Brigades were accompanied by Dr. Murray of the Biology department, along with several volunteers.

The group was far removed from the relative comfort of Santa Clara life for their week in Panama.

“We were in the jungle,” said Zorkin.

Compared to previous years, this year’s trip was especially busy. “In past years we were able to see the Panama Canal, but this year we weren’t able to do any excursions like that,” Zorkin continued. Still, there was some free time — Zorkin particularly enjoyed playing soccer with the locals.

Next year, Shaw plans to take over as president of the club. “I have big, big shoes to fill,” said Shaw. “Mackenzie did a wonderful job this year, but I’m already looking forward to things we can do next year as well.” It is currently unclear exactly where Global Medical Bri-gades will visit next year, but Shaw is confident the program will be a success.

“We’re definitely planning to go

back to Panama. Global Brigades is also active in Honduras, so that’s a possibility too,” said Shaw. “It really just depends on what people in the

club want to do.”

Contact Joseph Forte at jforte@scu.edu or (408) 554-4849.

Spring Into Action Over Break in Panama

Above: Global Medical Brigade’s president,Mackenzie Zorkin poses with Panamanian children while spending the break helping the community. Below: Elisa Phillips shows Panamanian children the medical equipment used.

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BRANDI CHASTAIN AND MARY FRANCES CALLAN SPEAK AT INAUGURAL ALUMNI SPEAKER SERIES

COURTESY OF MACKENZIE ZORKIN

The notable Santa Clara Alumna Mary Frances Callan ‘65, and Brandi Chastain ‘91, spoke in the

St. Claire Room April 4 as part of the inaugural Alumni Speaker Series. Callan and Chastain were asked questions by Associated Student Government Presi-dent Courtney Seymour about their time at Santa Clara, and advise for current students and celebrate the 50 year an-niversary of women attending Santa Clara. Callan, a former superintendent of numerous school districts in the bay

area, was part of the group of women first admitted to Santa Clara University. Chastain is most known for her game-winning goal in the 1999 World Cup against China while on the US National Women’s Soccer Team.

Callan and Chastain described their experiences as Broncos. Callan shared her memories of living in the all-girls resi-dence hall, Graham, and blazing the path for all female Broncos. Chastain recalled the spirit at soccer games, and urged cur-rent students to continue the traditions.

After Seymour’s questions, Callan and Chastain were open to questions from the audience.

“It was really great to hear the di!er-ences between the superintendent and Brandi Chastain’s experiences alongside each other and it makes me really thank-ful for the privileges we have as Santa Clara students today,” said junior Na-tasha Gupta, after attending the event.

Contact Samantha Juda at sjuda@scu.edu or (408)554-4849

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Now is when we should feel lucky to be attending a private university. Santa

Clara will go largely una!ected by the proposed $750 million bud-get cut to the California State Uni-versity system. Students at state schools and students trying to get into state schools are worried — and with good reason.

The CSU system has proposed, and most likely will be, freezing ad-missions in 15 out of 23 campuses for spring of 2013. This means that of the estimated 70,000 students who apply to the CSU system for the spring, a good portion of those students will be left out in the cold — or left to attend community col-lege, a private college, a UC or go out of state.

To make matters worse, the CSU trustees recently approved 10 per-cent pay hikes for two campus pres-idents. In drastic times like these, those at the top are still shame-less enough to request and receive money that could be spent on other, much needed, resources.

S o w h a t does this mean for those of us who aren’t col-lege presidents expecting pay raises? Well, for community colleges and the eight state schools that are accepting incoming students, it means an increase in enrollment at their already overcrowded fa-cilities. It means students who are trying to transfer into a CSU this spring will have to either stay at the college they are at or come up with enough money to pay out of state or private school tuition or the 30 grand price sticker on a UC.

Or put their educational goals on hold for a while.

For how much value our west-ern society places on hard work and education, we sure don’t seem to be encouraging that here in California. The state hasn’t increased aid given to the CSU system since 1996 even though there are now 90,000 more students enrolled at state schools than there were at the time.

Sure, it may only be one semes-ter that they are closing down ad-mittance, but if California voters don’t approve a tax initiative that will be on the ballot in November the admission freezes might con-tinue. Things aren’t looking up for the state’s higher education system.

According to the executive Vice Chancellor Benjamin Quil-lian, some campuses are looking at eliminating athletics programs, limiting student loans and library acquisitions and deferring mainte-nance projects in order to quell the

financial situa-tion. They don’t want to raise tuition because t h e y k n o w how unpopu-lar that would be among stu-dents. The way I see it though, if we want things to get better it will have to come out of our pockets at some point, whether that be through tax money or

tuition.This may not seem to have a

very big a!ect on us here at Santa Clara, so we might not feel like we have to care very much. But as col-lege students who have been given the opportunity to succeed via Santa Clara, we should care about our fellow college students at other universities.

And we should care if other people are being denied the oppor-tunities that we were so privileged to receive. And we should care be-cause this only makes education less accessible for a vast amount of California residents. I am afraid to imagine the massive amount of people working in fast food chains and dead end sales jobs 20 years from now because they were in-advertently denied a bachelors degree.

If for no other reason, we should care because some of us — myself included — have younger siblings who are working just as hard as we did with hopes of attending college in a couple of years. Don’t they de-serve the same opportunities that were available to us? A state that does not invest in the education of

its young people is not good for the future of our country, it is not good for our economy and it is not good for our morale.

We should all be concerned with the disarray of the public education system in our state; it a!ects all of us in one way or another.

Feliz Moreno is the editor of the Opinion section.

Sustainable Student: A Green Start to the QuarterWith the start of the

quarter comes long lines at the bookstore

as everyone rushes to get their supplies for the next 10 weeks. As teachers tack on that extra book or demand a separate journal for their class, students are left with heavy backpacks and aching wal-lets.

But the start of the quarter doesn’t have to be so taxing on you and the environment. Rent or buy used books to save some extra money and resources. The aver-age tree used to make paper can only produce about 8,300 sheets of paper, or about 12 textbooks.

Every time you buy or rent a used textbook you prevent even more trees from being used. You might even get lucky and get a book that has been skillfully high-lighted for you. Don’t forget to sell back your books at the end of the quarter — you might even get more than the cost of lunch out of it.

If you have an e-reader, or don’t mind reading on your computer, e-books are another great option to cut down on prices and use less resources. You don’t need a fancy e-reader for this option to work for you either — all you need is a com-puter and an internet connection.

Although books are the main concern at the start of the quarter, other supplies can just as easily be made more sustainable. Use recycled paper for printing and taking notes. You can also take notes on the back of used paper or on your computer to forgo paper entirely.

With all of your supplies, try to stay away from plastic. Even though it is often the cheapest op-tion, plastic breaks easily, does not break down in landfills and leaks harmful chemicals throughout its creation, use and end of life. Look for items, especially bind-ers and notebooks, that are made out of cardboard, wood, soy inks and other eco-friendly materials. Most paper and notebooks come in recycled paper versions.

Most importantly, reuse every-thing you can from last quarter and streamline your materials. If you still have pages left in your notebook or ink in your highlight-er, do you really need a new one? Often school supplies that seem really useful in the store end up shoved in a drawer somewhere.

Before you buy, ask yourself if it is really necessary. Do you really need a pencil case that goes inside of a bag, inside of a bag? How many pens, pencils, markers and every-thing else do you really need?

Use the bare minimum instead of stu"ng your bag and emptying your wallet.

Mandy Ferreira is the managing editor for The Santa Clara.

San Diego State university students and hopefuls are actively protesting the Spring 2013 freeze of admissions. SDSU is one of 15 California State university campuses that will be temporarily closing their doors to all but a small number of transfer students in a year due to lack of state funding. The near future for state colleges looks bleak.

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A state that does not invest in the education of its

young people is not good for

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Articles in the Opinion section represent the views of the individual authors only and not the views of The Santa Clara or Santa Clara University.

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Veganism grows in popularity on-cam-pus and across U.S.

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Although food boredom plagues many Santa Clara students in Ben-son, the vegan options create an ex-treme case.

“I think it was hard at first figur-ing out what to eat and everything, but once you do it for a little while it becomes really easy,” said sopho-more Dillon McCord, a vegan for six years. “It’s not something I really think about now, its just kind of what I do.”

On campus and across the U.S., an increasing number of people are choosing to go vegan. In the past two

years alone, veganism has doubled and now makes up 2.5 percent of the United States population, according to a Harris Interactive study.

Although cutting out meat, dairy and eggs may seem impossible, the vegans on campus are unfazed.

“In order to do it well you have to have fun with it,” said Justin Eichen-laub, a lecturer in Santa Clara’s En-vironmental Studies Institute. “You have to be up for the challenge, but once you get past that it’s pretty easy.”

Vegans on campus have ditched meat and other animal products for ethical concerns, such as animal rights, better health and environ-mental reasons.

“If it was just for health or just for the environment, I would probably eat butter and cheese every now and

Students explore unfa-miliar parts of the U.S.

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Instead of spending his first spring break as an undergraduate at the beach or on a road trip with his friends, freshman

Anthony Carnesecca traveled to Tuba City, Ariz. with a group of Santa Clara students to help out at a school on a Native American reservation.

“(The Navajo Nation) is not some (place) you could just go visit and say, ‘Oh, I’m going to try to assimilate into the Native American culture,’” said Carnesecca. “I figured this was my one opportunity to see that culture that’s

largely ignored in America.”Carnesecca’s trip to the Navajo Nation was

one of seven spring break immersion trips o!ered through the Kolvenbach Solidarity Program in the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education.

Each year, students have the opportunity to travel to parts of the U.S. unfamiliar to them, such as New Orleans, San Francisco, Tucson and Appalachia, in order to learn about the experiences of these areas’ mar-ginalized communities firsthand.

“The purpose of immersion trips is to learn about a culture we don’t know about,” said Hayley Dickson, a junior and the im-mersion coordinator for this year’s trip to Appalachia.

Contact Sarina Caragan at scaragan@scu.edu or (408) 554-4852.

The Kolvenbach Solidarity Program in the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education offers spring break immer-sion trips in seven U.S. cities: (1) Appalachia; (2) Los Angeles; (3) Tuba City, Ariz.; (4) New Orleans; (5) San Francisco; (6) San Jose, Calif.; and (7) Tucson, Ariz. (bottom right). Each city offers students the opportunity to work with different marginalized communities. This year, two trips allowed students to help with flood relief in Appalachia (top left) and assist at a Native American boarding school in Tuba City, Ariz. (top right).

ALEXANDER MOLLOY — THE SANTA CLARA

COURTESY OF ANTHONY CARNESECCA

COURTESY OF HAYLEY DICKSON

See VEGANISM, Page 9 Sophomore Dillon McCord purchases vegan-friendly products from the Cellar Market. Although there are few vegan options avail-able in Benson’s eateries, vegans on campus say that it is possible to maintain their diet with some creativity and careful planning.

SAMANTHA JUDA — THE SANTA CLARA

Immersion Trips Illuminate New Cultures

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“Hunger Games” craze hits Santa Clara campus

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Senior Jon Rey and about 30 other Santa Clara students donned homemade T-shirts with sayings like, “May the odds be ever in your favor,” and joined the throng of people congregated outside of AMC Mercado 20 on the night of March 22.

Waiting in line for the midnight premiere of “The Hunger Games,” Rey was surrounded by people with braided hair and golden bird pins, reading the book and anxiously awaiting the start of the show.

“The two people in front of us were dressed up as Katniss and E)e (two characters from the series),” Rey said. “They had full-on costumes and makeup on; it was really cool.”

“The Hunger Games,” the record-breaking film based on Suzanne Col-lins’ dystopian young adult novel of the same name, takes place in a dark, future North America and follows Katniss Everdeen, played by Jen-nifer Lawrence, as she participates in a televised death match after volunteering to take her younger sister’s place.

The film and book series have captivated audiences and readers around the world. And here at Santa Clara, “The Hunger Games” craze is bringing people together in creative ways and is being used as a platform to raise awareness about important issues, including world hunger and poverty.

Rey, a community facilitator in the Loyola Residential Learning Community, organized a few events in Sobrato Hall, including a mock “reaping.” Instead of choosing par-ticipants for the eponymous games, Rey distributed information about child soldiers and world hunger and chose students to receive free tickets to the midnight showing.

“We had the reaping and even prepared snack ration packs for ev-

eryone going,” Rey said. “We tried to replicate the food featured in the books, but the closest thing we got was bread like Peeta made in his bakery and hot chocolate like the tributes got on the train.”

Rey started reading “The Hunger Games” last winter break and was immediately hooked on the popular series. Kelly Lamble, a junior, also started reading the series and shared the first book with all of her friends after she completed it.

“It started out as sharing the book with one of my housemates, but it turned into almost a book club where (my friends and I) were passing the books around to each other, even bringing them to class to trade with people,” said Lamble. “We couldn’t wait for each other to get done so we could talk about them and guess what the movie was going to be like.”

Debuting nationwide on March 23, “The Hunger Games” scored the third best opening of all time with $155 million on its opening week-end, according to The New York Times.

The film maintained its No. 1 spot in U.S. box o)ces with $61 million during its second weekend and grossed a total of $251 million in 10 days, according to reports in Entertainment Weekly.

Since the book series was so popular, with more than 24 million copies of the trilogy in print in the U.S., according to Scholastic, the trilogy’s publisher, the anticipation and expectations for the movie were high for fans.

An Nguyen, a junior, also attend-ed the midnight premiere and en-joyed the movie but felt there were things that were lacking in the film.

“There were little details and emotions that I felt were lacking in the movie,” said Nguyen. “For a movie called ‘The Hunger Games’ I never got a sense of the hunger, thirst and desperation for survival that was so explicit in the books.”

Despite any misgivings about the film adaptation, students across campus are enthusiastic about the series, and students’ enthusiasm is exactly what the Justice Starts Here initiative is hoping to use to help their cause.

Justice Starts Here, run by the O)ces of Housing and Residence Life, hosts events and programs aiming to a)rm and celebrate the dignity of all people.

The initiative recently hosted a screening of “Miss Representation,” a documentary exploring images of women in mainstream media, and hopes to use “The Hunger Games” to

illuminate other social justice issues.According to Gayle Catterlin,

resident director of the Communi-tas RLC, the initiative is in the pre-liminary stages of planning “Hunger Games” events, including providing passive educational information in all the residence halls on poverty and hunger and selling discounted tickets to see the movie.

Luckily for fans of the series, Li-onsgate plans to adapt the final two books in the series. “Catching Fire,” the sequel to “The Hunger Games,” is planned to be released in Novem-ber 2013.

Contact Anna Esquibel at aesquibel@scu.edu or (408) 554-4852.

Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence plays Katniss Everdeen, the bow-and-arrow-wielding protagonist of the young adult series, “The Hunger Games.” The film has held the No. 1 spot in U.S. box offices since its record-breaking premiere on March 22.

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What is your favorite thing about week one?

Question of the Week by Sarina

Caragan

Joe Bredar, ’15

“The energy, the new classes (and) seeing everybody again.”

Caitlin Smith, ’15

“It’s definitely hav-ing a clean room and the cherry blossoms outside.”

Estelle Richardson, ’14

“Benson’s revenge because I come back... eat Benson, and get diarrhea!”

Briana Mitchell, ’13

“Having no home-work so all I have to do is hang out with my friends!”

Sachit Egan, ’12

“When I get out of class at 7 o’clock and it’s sunny out-side.”

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Students “Hungry” for Young Adult Franchise

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4/5 | THURSDAY

SCCAP Fair Time: 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.Location: Between Shappell Lounge and the bookstoreWhy Go? Learn about the orga-nization’s different programs and how you can get involved.

Live Music: El Jardin at Santana Row Time: 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.Location: El Jardin, Santana RowWhy Go? Hear some great Te-jano music and enjoy the warm evening weather at this outdoor lounge and bar.

4/6 | FRIDAY

Academic and Administrative Holiday: No ClassTime: All Day Location: Santa Clara UniversityWhy Go? No classes in obser-vance of Good Friday. Enjoy the three-day weekend! Karaoke: Bogart’s Lounge and Tech PubTime: 8 p.m. - 2 a.m. Location: 1209 Wildwood Ave SunnyvaleWhy Go? Enjoy a fun evening with friends and karaoke! Free admission.

4/7 | SATURDAY

Lenten Series: Easter Vigil MassTime: 8:30 p.m. - 11 p.m. Location: Mission ChurchWhy Go? Unwind after the first week of the quarter and spend some time reflecting and explor-ing your spirituatlity.

Karaoke: Creekside Bar and GrillTime: 9:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. Location: 544 W Alma Ave San Jose Why Go? If you weren’t able to go to the karaoke lounge last night, then head to this bar close to campus!

4/8 | SUNDAY

Easter LiturgyTime: 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Location: Mission ChurchWhy Go? As Lent comes to an end, stop by the Mission Church for a liturgical service. All are welcome!

Asha Stanford Holi 2012Time: Ends at 3 p.m.Location: Sandhill Field, StanfordWhy Go? Hop on the CalTrain and celebrate Holi, the traditional Indian festival. Enjoy bhangra music, Indian food and spray your friends with paint and water! $14 admission for students.

4/9 | MONDAY

Essential Career Planning for Arts and Sciences JuniorsTime: 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.Location: Williman Room, Benson Center Why Go? Learn steps to prepare for the fall recruiting season. Hacking Ethics and the Future of Internet Security Time: 7 p.m. Location: Forbes Family Confer-ence Center, Lucas Hall Why Go? Learn from Joseph Menn, a technology projects reporter for Reuters.

4/10 | TUESDAY

Bannan Visitors: James Bennett Time: 4 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.Location: St. Clare Room, Har-rington Learning CommonsWhy Go? Professor Bennett will address the role of religion in poli-tics, particularly how it will impact the 2012 presidential election.

N*W*C*Time: 7 p.m.Location: Mayer TheatreWhy Go? Performed by a traveling troupe from Los Angeles, this plays aims to illuminate issues of race. Free tickets available through the Office of Multicultural Learning.

4/11 | WEDNESDAY

Salsa Lessons and Dancing at Agenda LoungeTime: 8 p.m. - 9 p.m.Location: 399 South 1st St San Jose, Calif. 95113Why Go? Get active and have some fun! $10 for an hour of salsa lessons.

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MICHAEL ERKELENS— THE SANTA CLARA

TOP REASONS TO LEAVE YOUR COUCH THIS WEEK

To suggest events for the calendar please contact Kaveri Gyanendra at: calendar@thesantaclara.com.

SEE SCCAP FAIR, 4/5

Veganism Growsagain,” said Eichenlaub. “What’s keeping me from doing that, what’s making me do it more, pretty much a 100 percent thing is this ethical consideration for animals.”

McCord decided to go vegan six years ago to stand up against how animals used for food and other products are treated. “It was just an ethical choice,” he said. “I was vegetarian before that and it kind of just seemed natural to have that as the next step.”

In the United States alone, 55 billion land animals are killed each year for consumption, according to the Food and Agriculture Orga-nization of the United Nations. In 2007, 275 million tons of meat were produced, and in the U.S. we eat more than 200 pounds per person every year.

McCord is not alone in his re-fusal to eat meat or animal prod-ucts. A total of 7.5 million people in the U.S. have cut out all animal products from their diet entirely, and many more are opting for vegan or vegetarian meals on a more regu-lar basis.

Veganism has caught on as a diet of elite athletes who tout its health benefits, including tennis pro Ve-nus Williams, Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end Tony Gonzalez and even Mike Tyson.

“You can have a really healthy vegan diet, if you put some thought and planning into it,” said Santa Clara’s Registered Dietitian Mary Mahoney. “If you just decide one day to be vegan and cut out all ani-mal products and you don’t really pay attention to what you are eat-ing, ever, then you could be missing out on some important nutrients.”

One of the biggest mistakes many vegans make is not planning

their diets and ensuring they are getting enough iron, zinc, vitamin B-12, protein and calcium, said Mahoney. Without enough B-12 or iron, the body becomes ane-mic and struggles to hold enough oxygen in the blood, which can result in weakness, dizziness and lack of energy.

But with proper planning and nutrition, the medical community agrees that veganism can lead to lower cholesterol, decreased rates of osteoporosis, and reduced risk of cancer, heart disease and obe-sity.

“I try to be pretty healthy in general, but I definitely do just feel a lot better,” said sophomore Lizzie Urie who went vegan seven months ago with her uncle, who adopted the diet to stay as healthy as possible while waiting for a heart transplant. “In general, I have a lot of energy and I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.”

In addition to being healthy, a vegan diet is the most sustainable diet there is, according to Vasile Stanescu, a vegan expert and Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University.

Livestock production contrib-utes 18 percent of green house gas emissions globally, which is more than all of transportation, cars and planes included, combined. Switching from the average Amer-ican diet to a vegan diet prevents more carbon dioxide emissions than switching from an average car to a hybrid.

“The single greatest action that a person can take to help the environment is to shift from a meat, dairy and egg-based diet to a plant-based diet,” said Stanescu.

Contact Mandy Ferreira at mnferreira@scu.edu or (408) 554-4852.

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Senior is one of eight selected to take part in national contest

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As a finale to her record-setting season, Alyssa Shoji stepped onto the national stage to compete in the State Farm College Slam Dunk and 3-Point Championships in New Orleans.

After a dominant final season, Shoji took to the court at Fogelman Arena to test her hot hand last Thursday. Despite needing a score of 15 to advance to the final round, Shoji came up short, posting a score of 10.

When Shoji first received the news two days before the event that she was select-ed to compete in the contest from Head Coach Jennifer Mountain, she struggled to grasp the information due to pure ex-hilaration.

“I couldn’t believe it at first,” said Shoji, adding that the coaches mentioned that it was a possibility a week prior to the o(cial announcement. “It took awhile to hit me and actually realize what I was doing. I

was very excited.”Three-point shootouts are not com-

pletely new to the senior guard from Bel-levue, Wash. While in high school, she received the honor of being a participant in the sharpshooting event. From her ex-perience in the high school contest, Shoji retained the understanding that firing too rapidly would not equate to the best outcome.

But this knowledge failed to stick with her when she stepped into the spotlight in front of thousands of fans — both in Fogel-man Arena and those elsewhere tuned into ESPN.

“As soon as I got up there, it was like ‘game plan out the window,’” said Shoji.

Twenty-five basketballs sat motion-less on the five strategically placed racks around the three-point line. Shoji waited patiently for her name to be announced. Despite a preference to kicko) the contest, Shoji was last in line. The benefit: she knew she needed to knock down at least 15 shots to advance to the semi-final round. The downside: she wanted to set the pace.

When her turn arrived, Shoji felt as though time kicked into full throttle.

“I was pretty nervous so I was letting them fly,” said Shoji. “Everything was go-ing so fast, I was so worried about getting through.”

Shoji recorded 10 points, five points shy

of the number needed to advanced, but managed to connect on at least one shot from every rack. Ashley Corral, out of the University of Southern California, went on to be crowned the champion.

The festive week included a trip to the House of Blues — an experience Shoji rel-ished, having never been to New Orleans prior to the contest. With athletes ranging from USC, Michigan State and Louisville among others, Shoji spent her time social-izing with the new faces.

“It was an amazing experience, some-thing I will definitely always remember,” said Shoji.

The 3-point contest capped o) Shoji’s acclaimed career at Santa Clara. During this past season, she set the West Coast Conference record for 3-pointers made in a season with 99, and added her name to Santa Clara history with the most 3-point-ers made as a Bronco with 286. With an average of 3.9 threes-per game — good for third best in the National Collegiate Athletic Association — Shoji’s skills from beyond the arc go without question.

Her time in New Orleans proved just that.

“I couldn’t have asked to end my season a better way,” said Shoji.

Contact Gabe Taylor at gtaylor@scu.edu or (408) 554-4852.

Senior Alyssa Shoji was one of eight participants selected to take part in the annual State Farm Women’s 3-Point Contest held at Tulane’s Fogelman Arena in New Orleans. Shoji made 10 three-pointers in the event, but her total was not enough to advance past the first round of the competition.

SAMANTHA JUDA — THE SANTA CLARA

Shoji Goes to NCAA ShootoutSTANDINGSBaseball

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Senior Briana Knight hit two homeruns to lead the Broncos to a seven-run comeback victory over Loyola Marymount on Sunday in Los Angeles. Knight’s three-run drive gave Santa Clara a 9-7 victory over the league-favorite Lions.

Santa Clara (7-27; 2-2 Pacific Coast Softball Con-ference) trailed 7-0 in the bottom of the sixth before a single by Breezy Bernard, a two-run homer by Knight and a double from Stephanie Fisher initiated a nine-run inning eventually capped o) by Knight’s second homer. Sophomore Jessica Turner worked five quality innings of relief to earn her second victory of the season. Next up for Santa Clara is a four-game series at league foe Sacramento State this weekend.

Men’s Golf

******Sophomore*Scott*Lowe*shot*one*over*par*in*the*final*round*play*of*the*.,-.*OGIO-UCSB*Invitational*at*Sandpiper*Golf*Club*in*Santa*Barbara5*Calif6*Lowe*came* in*-+th*overall*—*his*career-best*finish*as*a*college*player6*Santa*Clara’s* lone*senior5*Ronnald*Monaco5*posted*rounds*of*03-0,-03*and*came*in*.-st6****The*Broncos*will*participate*in*the*Cowboy*Classic*in*Scottsdale5*Ariz6*on*April*1--,*as*a*final*tune-up*before*the*West*Coast*Conference*championships6

Women’s Tennis

The Santa Clara women’s tennis team fell 4-3 to the Loyola Marymount Lions on Sunday. After capturing the doubles point, the Broncos could not put away the singles matches. The team moved its record to 8-7 overall and 2-2 in the West Coast Conference

In singles, Santa Clara’s No. 38 Katie Le improved her overall record to 13-2 when she downed the Lions’ April Bisharat in straight sets 6-0, 6-4. Le now has an 11-match winning streak and has not lost a match since Feb. 11.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

The senior was named Pacific Coast Softball Conference Coastal Division Player of the Week after batting .417 with four homeruns and eight runs batted in during a series against Loyola Marymount.

Favorite pregame meal?Scrambled eggs, toast with peanut butter and honey, and fruit!

Biggest role model?My coach Lisa Mize. Her partici-pation in the Olympics, ability to remain composed and overall fearlessness are quite admirable.

Plans following college?I want to begin my professional career in marketing and help young athletes with their mental game.

Briana KnightSoftball

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Team already matches win total from last season

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With more than two months left in the season, the Santa Clara Bronco baseball team matched their 17 total wins from last season with a victory over Fresno State on Tuesday afternoon.

While their 17-9 record is im-pressive, the Broncos are only 1-5 in the West Coast Conference af-ter being swept by San Diego and dropping two of three to Portland.

Last season the Broncos went 17–34 and finished last in the WCC with a 4–17 conference record. Prior to this season, Santa Clara brought in Dan O’Brien as head coach to go along with a new coach-ing sta). O’Brien sought to change the culture in the clubhouse and the players have bought into his philosophy.

“We’re just out here having fun,” said junior Pat Stover on opening weekend.

Fellow junior Tommy Nance, a transfer, described the clubhouse as “loose and relaxed.”

This laid back attitude o) the field has led to success on it.

“We’re just having a ball out here and winning ballgames,” said senior Andrew Biancardi.

The result was the team’s first 5–0 start since 2008 — a season when the team nearly made the playo)s.

“We’re not going to get caught up in it,” said O’Brien regarding the hot start. “We’re picked to finish last, nobody expects us to do much, so lets just go out and have fun.”

Positive contributions have come from a variety of sources so far this season for the Broncos.

Junior Matt Ozanne has shown promise as a leadoff hitter and Stover has provided power (six doubles, three home runs) as the team’s starting catcher. It was ex-pected that both players would make an impact this season.

A Scottsdale, Ariz. native, Ozanne was drafted by his home-town Arizona Diamondbacks out of high school. Stover, who calls Rocklin, Calif. home, was drafted by the Oakland Athletics.

Both players could potentially be drafted again following this season and might choose to leave Santa Clara for a chance to play professionally.

Senior outfielder Lucas Herbst has been getting on base (.457 on base percentage) and getting

around them (.573 slugging per-centage with six doubles and four triples).

Nance has emerged as one of the Broncos’ most successful pitchers (3–1, 3.09 ERA) and has proven that he can get out of tough situations.

“What makes him a great pitch-er is his composure during those tough innings,” said O’Brien.

It has also been a breakout season for Biancardi and junior pitcher Mike Couch.

Last season Biancardi batted an unassuming .222 with three doubles and one home run. This season he already has four doubles and four home runs, is batting .269 and is being used in the middle of the lineup.

A converted reliever, Couch has become an integral part of the starting rotation. The pitcher was a benefactor of one of the sea-son’s most spectacular plays when sophomore Kyle DeMerritt, a high school teammate of Couch, made a herculean leap to get the pitcher out of a tough inning against San Jose State earlier in the season.

“Watching him do that was awesome, but it’s not really sur-prising,” said Couch of his second baseman. “Kyle’s capable of that kind of stu). He’s a great baseball player.”

There have been other defen-sive highlights, such as freshman Matt Glomb’s dugout grab.

In the same game against San Jose State, Glomb chased a fly ball into the visitors’ dugout, snagging it as it descended below the fence separating the players from the field.

“I knew I was going to be get-ting to the (dugout) fence,” Glomb

said. “I just kind of went for it. I just wanted to catch the ball and make the out.”

O’Brien is not surprised about the defensive capability that his team has shown throughout the season so far.

“Our guys are making magical plays because we spend a lot of time talking about how we need to expect great things to happen,” said O’Brien. “These guys are play-ing loose and free and they’re hav-ing fun. You make plays like that when you’re playing hard, but also

having a good time.” The Broncos have a tough

schedule ahead of them. The team, which is currently struggling to win conference games, will have to play seven of their next eight games on the road. Santa Clara will not host another series at home until April 20, when conference rival Pepperdine visits Schott Sta-dium for the weekend.

Contact Tom Schreier at tschreier@scu.edu or (408) 554-4852.

Although the Santa Clara baseball team has struggled against West Coast Confer-ence opponents so far, the Broncos’ 17 victories equal their total from last season.

BRIAN KLAHN — THE SANTA CLARA

Must See: Bronco Men’s Lacrosse

2:00 p.m. Saturday, April 7 at Bellomy FieldFor a complete schedule of games, see page 10.

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Broncos Continue Strong SeasonAll is Not Lost for WarriorsThe past month has been a tu-

multuous one for the Golden State Warriors. Although the

loyal fans of the consistently medio-cre team have let their displeasure be known, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

The agonizing rumblings began when star guard Monta Ellis, fan fa-vorite and arguably the team’s best player, was dealt to Milwaukee just before the trade deadline on March 13. In return, the Warriors acquired center Andrew Bogut. However, the rebounding and defensive-minded big man is currently injured and won’t be ready to play again until next season. For many Warriors fans the trade seemed as though they had given away Ellis for virtually noth-ing. Nobody realized that the trade had opened the door for rookie Klay Thompson, who had been receiving minimal playing time as Ellis’ backup.

Instead of being excited about Thompson’s chance to shine, the fans took out their frustration on team owner Joe Lacob. Five days after the much-maligned trade, Lacob ad-dressed the crowd at center court during a halftime ceremony that was held to honor former Warrior great Chris Mullin. Lacob’s nostalgic words about Mullin were drowned out by resounding boos and chants of “We want Monta!” Mullin had to come to Lacob’s rescue by using a microphone to announce to the crowd that “some-times change is inevitable and it’s going to be just fine with your support and patience.”

The Warriors went on to lose the game that night, but Thompson scored 17 points as a member of the starting lineup. The next game he scored a career-high 27 points and two games after that dropped 31. The 11th overall pick in the 2011 draft has averaged over 19 points per game since replacing Ellis. Perhaps Mul-lin was right. Maybe the trade wasn’t such a bad thing for the team.

With Ellis, the Warriors had been a flashy yet average team. Their lack of a true center made it hard for them to defend the basket. Sure, the War-riors might put up 120 points, but that did little good if the other team scored 130. Despite Ellis averaging 19.5 points per game during his seven years with the Warriors, the team made the playo)s only once. Maybe change was indeed inevitable.

The Warriors are not expected to make the playo)s this season, but fans should be looking forward to a bright future. Thompson is a budding star and is quickly making the War-rior faithful forget about losing Ellis. A healthy Bogut next season will give the Warriors a true center for the first time in years. This key addition will lead to better defense and a greater chance at success. Maybe it is going to be just fine, as Mullin assured.

Nick Ostiller is a sophomore communication major and editor of the Sports section.

Nick Ostiller