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VOLUME 50, ISSUE 27 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG UCAB PHOTOOSCAR TEASE UCAB Grants PREDICTIONSGOES HERE Round Table Pizza One-Year Lease Renewal The advisory board factored the unfinished Porter’s Pub space into their decision. BY MATTHEW ZAMUDIO NEWS EDITOR Last Tuesday, the University THE OSCARS ARE AROUND THE Centers Advisory Board decided to CORNER. THE UCSD GUARDIAN renew Round Table Pizza’s lease for one A&E STAFF HAS YOU COVERED year, reversing a May 2016 decision not to renew the lease. Board members WITH THEIR PICKS FOR BEST Photo by Christian Duarte// UCSD Guardian voted unanimously to keep the pizza DIERECTOR, BEST ANIMATED parlor in Price Center, citing concerns FILM, BEST LEAD ACTRESS that, due to delays in the leasing of AND ACTOR, BEST ADAPTED the Porter’s Pub space, students SCREENPLAY AND BEST UCSD would be without two alcohol-serving PICTURE, AS WELL AS WHO restaurants for a “significant” amount of time, according to UCAB Chair THEY THINK WILL WIN THIS Triton Food Pantry Finishes Construction Luke Wang. YEAR. The renewed lease is set to expire A&E, PAGE 8 By ARMONIE MENDEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER June 30, 2018. The earlier decision to let Round AROUND THE GLOBE he Triton Food Pantry, which is heading is utilized in different ways. The pantry receives Table Pizza’s lease expire in June 2017 into its two-year anniversary, completed money from other sources as well, ranging from was based on the presumption that Immigrants are not the enemy construction last Thursday and is college councils to individual donations. a vendor would be finalized for the OPINION, PAGE 4 Texpanding its services into the former Associated “Almost all campuses put money toward a Porter’s Pub space by the end of the Students Soft Reserves space. pantry of some sort, which we’ve also done with year. PROFESSOR PICKOWICZ Renovations began over winter break and were that funding,” Juarez said. “A.S. [Council] puts “We estimated that the pub would scheduled to be finished by the end of break but some money into [the pantry], we have an in be nearing completion when Round Table’s lease is up,” Wang told the DURING THE REGIME OF were unexpectedly delayed. While the pantry has with the college councils. As of now each college been running during construction, it is expected council gives $1,000 for the food pantry. We UCSD Guardian. When the decision not to renew MAO ZEDONG IN THE 1970s, to use its new space and to be fully operational to received a couple donations as well. We’ve been PAUL PICKOWICZ TRAVELED Round Table Pizza’s lease was made serve as a basic needs center for students by Spring lucky to receive that. Last year, we were able to do last year, UCAB identified lukewarm TO CHINA AS PART OF THE Quarter 2017. our crowdsourcing campaign to get donations, so student reception to the restaurant FIRST STUDENT DELEGATION The pantry, which provides emergency food that is another aspect of how we’re hoping to get and low scores on student satisfaction TO THE THEN CLOSED-OFF relief to students, works on a point-based system, more money. But as for next year, we need to get surveys and secret shopper data. A.S. President Daniel Juarez explained. more money, our service is growing. Students are COMMUNIST NATION. WE In choosing to extend the lease, “We’re an open-service, no questions asked. still growing hungry.” UCAB also considered the unoccupied SPOKE TO PROFESSOR What that means is that students can come in and According to Juarez, the pantry received its restaurant space in Price Center where PAUL PICKOWICZ ABOUT HIS have 10 points, and they can get as many products highest number of visits during the Fall 2016 D’Lush was located before being ADVENTURES IN CHINA AND totalling up to the 10 points that they get a week,” academic quarter, with 3,397 visits. Some of those evicted for failure to pay rent last June, THE KNOWLEDGE HE HAS Juarez said. visits may have consisted of returning students. Wang said. The pantry receives funds from the UC’s “Of those students, around 58 percent were During the one-year extension, BROUGHT TO AMERICA Office of the President through the Global Food women, 41 percent were identified as male, 40 University Centers and UCAB will FEATURES, PAGE 6 Initiative, a program created by UCOP to help percent of the students were seniors, 22 were work together to form a feasibility study increase food security among students. That juniors, 11 were sophomores and 10 were on the Round Table Pizza space, which money given to UCOP through the initiative is freshmen, and 17 percent of the students were will better prepare the organization for choosing a new vendor when the lease M. BASKETBALL then distributed to other UC campuses, where it graduate students,” Juarez said. expires. UCSd clinches CCAA Berth See FOOD PANTRY, page 3 The study will also help UCAB sports, Page 16 draft renovations for the space, which it hopes to undertake after Round Table Pizza moves out and before a VERBATIM SCITECH new vendor moves in. “It is a very old space,” Wang said. “One thing that we are discussing is “’M JUST GLAD THAT ARTHUR UCSD to Host UC Health Hack Event in March moving the entrance of the restaurant WAGNER, WHO CREATED, FUNDED to the side that’s facing Warren AND LOVED THE THEATER PROGRAM The hackathon brings students and medical professionals together to address refugee health issues. [College] to allow more direct visibility AND THE MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL when people are coming from Warren RELATIONSHIP WITH LA HOLLA BY rebecca chong medicine or global health, where they website, the goals of the hackathon Mall and the [Price Center] loop.” PLAYHOUSE, WASN’T AROUND TO SEE SENIOR STAFF writer will focus their efforts to address an are to “improve standards of living Construction and leasing has HIS LEGACY RIPPED APART.” issue in that field. Registration for in low-resource communities through taken longer than anticipated for the From March 4 to 5, UC San the health hackathon is open to all low-cost innovations” and to “close renovation and finalization of a vendor - Joe Huppert Diego will host its third annual “UC participants over the age of 18 and will healthcare gaps from the acute care at the Porter’s Pub space as changes OP-ED: THEATER DEPT. Health Hack,” an event dedicated be open until spots are filled. setting to precision medicine at continue to be made to the lease. Each OPINION, PAGE 4 to finding solutions to integrative The focus for the global health home, empowering patients and their time a change is made by either the medicine and global health issues. track is refugee health care and the providers.” university or the vendor, the change must be approved by the other party. UC HH is an interdisciplinary effort daily challenges and struggles faced The partnership with the UCSD UCAB Vice Chair Ashley Awe said brought together by UCSD’s Health by refugees around the world. Local Health System has opened the doors it is impossible to know how long it and Engineering World Health, an nonprofits such as Survivors of Torture, for collaboration and mentorship with will be until the lease for the space undergraduate student organization, which works to provide care and many more healthcare professionals is finalized, but that the vendor will to bring students, physicians and resources for survivors of politically than in past hackathons, said Yajur be announced as soon as the lease is INSIDE industry professionals together to motivated torture, will provide Maker, co-director of UC HH and signed. find solutions for pressing healthcare guidance on cultural appropriateness president of EWH. He highlighted “We cannot predict how many A.S. COLUMN .................. 2 problems. and addressing mental health needs. the range of resources available to times a change will have to be made The hackathon will take place over Physicians and professors from hackathon participants who want to to the lease, causing it to go back and CHECKS AND BALANCES..4 a course of two days, where teams UCSD’s School of Medicine who have continue work on their project ideas forth,” Awe said. LIFESTYLE..................... 10 of up to five people will collaborate, first-hand experience working in low- after the hackathon has ended. Round Table Pizza has served pizza brainstorm, prototype and create resourced health care settings will “I am a huge advocate for and beer in Price Center for 27 years. CROSSWORD ................ 14 projects that address critical healthcare guide teams in finding the needs of translational medicine, not just W. BASKETBALL ............ 16 issues. All teams are registered under refugee health care. medicine,” Maker told the UCSD one of two specific tracks, integrative According to the UC HH matthew zamudio [email protected] See HACKS, page 3 2 THE UCSD GUARDIAN | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017 | WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG NEWS AVERAGE CAT By Christina Carlson Rosina Garcia Editors in Chief Marcus Thuillier Lauren Holt News Editors Matthew Zamudio Quinn Pieper Opinion Editor Nathaniel Walker Associate Opinion Editor Alex Wu Sports Editor Oliver Kelton Features Editor Tia Ikemoto Associate Features Editor Sam Velasquez A&E Editor Naftali Burakovsky Associate A&E Editor Brittney Lu Lifestyle Editor A.S. COUNCIL COLUMN Christian Duarte Photo Editor Joselynn Ordaz Design Editor A.S Council Transitions to New Vice President External Aleya Zenieris Associate Design Editor Nadia Link Multimedia Editor A number of student positions in A.S., including Legislative Director, are open to applicants right now until the February 24 deadline.