VOLUME 46, ISSUE 28 THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2013 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG MY FAIR LADY THE ARRIBA SPRING MAKING A SPLASH Pygmalion Shines at Old Globe pay up or fight back Water polo 3-1 at UCSB Weekend , Page 6 Opinion, Page 4 sPORTS, Page 12 OBItuARY TRANSPORTATION Graduate Student Killed in Accident Katie Osterday, a Ph. D. student who also attended UCSD for undergraduate studies, was 26. BY Mekala NeelaKantan ASsociate news editor A UCSD graduate stu- dent was killed in a car acci- dent over break GUARDIAN when her truck / flipped over on OE NR an interstate O highway Dec. AN M KATHRYN OSTERDAY 20. Kathryn I PHOTO COURTESY OF “Katie” Osterday, BR OSTERDAY FAmily UCSD students board a campus-bound Arriba line shuttle at the Palmilla stop Jan 30. Many students have joined a Facebook campaign protesting UCSD Transportation and Parking Services’ decision to a doctoral can- transfer authority over the Arriba and Nobel lines to San Diego MTS as well as an impending increase of parking prices on campus. didate and researcher at UCSD, was 26 years old and had been both an undergraduate and graduate student at UCSD over the past seven years. Protest on the Horizon According to her boyfriend, UCSD Associate Director of Recreation Classes-Aquatics Clayton Claiborn, he and Osterday were driving to Texas Unpopular changes announced last week have sparked student unrest. for the holidays when she swerved Staff writer sharply to avoid a piece of metal in the BY Aleksandra konstantinovic roadway and the truck flipped across the median, crushing the driver’s side CSD students are protesting changes to school-provided trans- lous policies from being passed over our heads by collectively standing up of the vehicle. portation options following a recent Transportation Services for it.” “She died instantly and did not announcement that parking prices will increase and that several A.S. Council Campuswide Senator Caeser Feng also supports Project suffer,” Claiborn said. “We were being Ushuttle lines, including the popular Nobel and Arriba routes, will be discon- Sumo as a unified stand against Transportation Services’ new policies. as safe as we could be—there was no tinued for the 2013–2014 school year. “The goal is to have everyone on board to raise more awareness towards mistake made, yet it still happened. I The changes include higher prices for student parking permits and the the fee increases, the parking policies, and the insufficient student feedback think it shows how fragile life is and elimination of the Free Bus Zone sticker. TPS is also integrating the Arriba/ that was garnered before making these decisions,” Feng said. “Transparency how quickly a freak accident can occur Nobel shuttles into the MTS system, as previously reported in the Jan. 24 and transportation are huge issues on this campus, and this should be a and change lives forever.” issue of the Guardian. priority.” Osterday was born in Placerville, In response to Transportation Services’ referendum, a coalition of Another student-run effort is a new Facebook group, called UCSD Calif., and came to UCSD as an students launched Project Sumo, an initiative that coordinates communica- Students Against Transportation Changes, which has garnered over 5,000 undergraduate after studying at San tion between students through a website—ProjectSumo.com—in order to members. The page includes dozens of posts from students offering their Diego City College and San Diego organize a protest in the near future. solutions, as well as a poll whose results show that students favor eliminat- State University. After completing her A representative of Project Sumo, Devarsh Desnaiger, calls the group a ing additional transportation fees to students completely. undergraduate studies in the phys- decentralized effort that encompasses the interests of both commuters and UCSD shuttle driver Dane Kawika Ferrari-Esias posted his own per- ics department, Osterday continued students who live on campus. her education at UCSD, receiving her “Project Sumo is fairly straightforward,” he said. “Stop these new, ridicu- See PROTEST, page 3 master’s degree and becoming a doc- toral candidate in aeronautical and mechanical engineering. As a doctoral student, Osterday UNIVERSITY CENTERS studied and conducted research in bioengineering and the microrheol- ogy of eukaryotic cytoplasm. She was Salon 101 Holds Grand a Jacobs Fellow, researching under advisor Juan Carlos del Alamo and mentor Juan Lasheras. Earlier this Opening Celebration year, she won the prestigious National GUARDIAN Science Foundation fellowship and around and tour the salon, as well / BY Sarah Moon Staff Writer OE won the “Mechanical and Aerospace as meet Azar and her staff of stylists. NR Engineering Best Poster” at the 2012 UCSD’s first on-campus beau- Salon services were available begin- O Jacobs School of Engineering Research ning the next day, Wednesday, Jan. 30. ty salon had its grand opening on AN M Expo. She was also a volunteer for the In celebration of the grand open- I Tuesday, Jan. 29 on the second floor BR “Expanding Your Horizons” network, of Price Center East next to Zanzibar ing, those visiting the salon had the an annual conference aimed at moti- Cafe and The Loft. The opening for the opportunity to enter a raffle to win a vating women in science and math- new venue, Salon 101, lasted from 11 variety of hair, skin, and nail products. ematics. a.m. to 4 p.m., with about 700 visitors Students and staff who signed up “We lost a valued member of the throughout the day. for an appointment during the open- MAE community. Katie Osterday was “We were very busy and crowded ing were given 20 percent off of ser- an excellent student, and we will miss today,” Salon 101 owner Claude Azar vices as well as two-ounce samples of her,” Department of Mechanical and said. “It was a really good turnout.” hair products. The salon hired models See GRAD, page 3 The opening provided a chance for students, faculty, and staff to walk See SALON, page 3 2 THE UCSD GUARDIAN | THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2013 | WWW.Ucsdguardian.ORG FLEETING THOUGHTS By Irene Chiang Arielle Sallai Editor in Chief Madeline Mann Managing Editors Ren Ebel Zev Hurwitz News Editor Rebecca Horwitz Associate News Editor Mekala Neelakantan Hilary Lee Opinion Editor Rachel Uda Sports Editor Ayan Kusari Features Editor Stacey Chien Associate Features Editor Laira Martin Lifestyle Editor QUITE FRANKLY By Lior Schenk Ashley Kwon Associate Lifestyle Editor Jacey Aldredge Associate A&E Editor Andrew Whitworth Brian Monroe Photo Editor Taylor Sanderson Associate Photo Editor Leo Bui Design Editor Sara Shroyer Associate Design Editor Jeffrey Lau Art Editor Janella Payumo Associate Art Editor Allie Kiekhofer Copy Editor Claire Yee Associate Copy Editor Editorial Assistants Cedric Eicher, Jean Lee, Sebastian Brady Page Layout Leo Bui, Sara Shroyer, Bobee Kim SCIENCE & TECHNologY Zoe McCracken, Rebecca Han Copy Readers Kim Brinckerhoff, Rachel Huang, Beca Truong Digestive Enzymes Cause Organ Failure Business Manager Emily Ku BY Helen Hejran Contributing writer The mucosal barrier in the rate in several experimental forms GUARDIAN Advertising Director / intestine generally prevents the of shock,” Schmid-Schoenbein U Christina Doo UCSD researchers have discovered digestive enzymes from leaving the said. “The temporary blockade of LA Marketing Nicholas Paladino one of the reasons for organ failure. intestine. 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