Scripps Pier Will Undergo $25 Million Renovation
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VOLUME 47, ISSUE 35 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG FACILITIES UC SYSTEM BEHIND THE SNAPS Scripps Pier will Undergo Calif. Students Applying for $25 Million Renovation Financial Aid Set Record Nearly 74 percent more students across the state applied for federal financial aid this year. BY karen to PHOTO USED WITH PERMISSION FROM UCSD SNAPS staff writer The UCSD senior who According to the U.S. created UCSD Memes and Department of Education, 74 per- Confessions shares the story cent more California students are filing for federal financial aid this behind starting yet another year through the Free Application successful Facebook page, for Federal Student Aid. the new UCSD Snaps. For the 2013–14 school year, around 60 percent of undergradu- FeATURES, PAGE 7 ates at UCSD receive need-based financial aid. Another 45 percent receive Federal Pell Grants for low- WAGE AGAINST MACHINES income families. Many four-year colleges are The minimu M wage debate offering more grants and scholar- opinion, Page 4 PHOTO BY BRUCE APPLEGATE /SCRIPPS ships to students to help offset the costs of rising tuition fees for higher SHIP SHAPE education. A TRITON FAREWELL The UC system announced this week that it will contribute half of the estimated $25 million needed to update the UC Davis established the Aggie Seniors play final home games Nimitz Marine Facility in Point Loma. Above, ships dock at the pier, which is reportedly damaged and deteriorating. Grant Plan that is geared towards helping families with incomes sports, Page 12 staff writer within $80,000 to $120,000. At UC BY andrew huang Berkeley, families with earnings of up to $140,000 are now eligible for CSD and the UC Board of wall is 85 meters long and can service up financial aid. Multiple scholarships Regents have finalized plans to seven vessels at a time. FORECAST are also offered to entering fresh- to replace the Nimitz Marine However, the pier has seriously dete- men and continuing undergraduates UFacility wharf at the Point Loma pen- riorated with age. At the current rate, at UCSD as well, that include the insula, a project set to cost $25 million. heavy machinery and trucks will no lon- William Stout scholarship and the The UCSD Scripps Institution of ger be able to safely operate on the struc- Alumni Leadership scholarship. Oceanography uses the nearly six-acre ture, as it can only support 20 percent of Another initiative known as the compound as the home base for four its original weight capacity. The Nimitz MONDAY TUESDAY Middle Class scholarship was pro- of its research vessels, capable of per- Marine Facility must resort to hiring H 77 L 45 H 77 L 46 posed by Assembly Speaker John A. forming a wide range of administra- shore-based cranes with a longer reach Perez (D-Los Angeles) of California tive, technical and maintenance tasks. to load equipment and supplies onto the and was signed into effect by Gov. The Nimitz Marine Facility also hosts ocean-going vessels. Jerry Brown on July 1, 2013. visiting ships from science institu- “I was on the job for maybe six The program is going to be tions around the country as time and months at the time, and I decided to take phased in over the course of the WEDNESDAY THURSDAY space permits, as well as the U.S. Navy’s a walk underneath the pier [...] and I next four years, beginning with the H 81 L 45 H 75 L 45 Floating Instrument Platform, a manned was shocked,” Scripps Associate Director 2014–15 school year. spar buoy designed for oceanographic Bruce Appelgate said. “The facility was UCSD Financial Aid Director research. According to Scripps, the fin- Ann Klein said she encourages ger pier is 110 meters long while the quay See SCRIPPS, page 3 students to take advantage of the VERBATIM Middle Class Scholarship that is devoting $170 million to help stu- “As a SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY dents with tuition fees. “It’s good news for students and nation, families who can now qualify for this new scholarship to help pay a we’re UCSD Pioneers New Surgery Method portion of their UC system wide completely tuition fees,” Klein said. “We antici- New computer-assisted techniques will make knee operations more accurate. pate this new program will help unprepared about 3,000 UCSD undergraduate for an infectious disease BY Justine liang Staff Writer revision surgery. Current robotic and computer- students, bringing in approximately Dr. Francis Gonzalez, a member assisted systems are far less efficient $3.5 million in financial support disaster.” UCSD Health System became of the Department of Orthopedic and require a large computer monitor next year, and it will continue to - Nico Hemsley the first in the nation to use a device Surgery, believes the new surgery in the operating room. However, this grow while the program is being that improves surgical precision and will benefit patients. new device is only two inches wide phased in.” JUSTICE IS SERVED accuracy. This FDA-approved iAS- “This device enables orthope- and is the only thing needed to aid The Middle Class scholar- OPINION, PAGE 4 SIST device, designed by Zimmer dic surgeons to restore a patient’s surgeons during knee replacement ship was established in the hopes Holdings, Inc., enables the surgeon normal alignment with precision in surgery. of making higher education more to verify each surgical step, reduc- a reproducible fashion, decreasing “The iASSIST system allows us to affordable for families with incomes ing mechanical errors during com- revision surgery and providing a bypass additional imaging and still within $80,000 to $150,000. INSIDE plete knee replacements. more natural feel of the implant for get a patient-specific knee,” Gonzalez The amount of aid that each stu- Approximately 600,000 total the patient,” Gonzalez said to UCSD said. “This technology is quite intui- dent will receive from this program Lights and Sirens ............ 3 knee replacement procedures are News. tive and adds accuracy and precision is determined by the California Quick Takes .................... 4 performed in the United States Total knee replacement surgery to our instruments, giving us the abil- Student Aid Commission. The every year. Knee surgeries require has a higher failure rate when the ity to restore mechanical alignment award will be based on a sliding On My Block ................... 8 precise alignment in the knee, and knee is misaligned, according to with all patients regardless of their scale, covering from 10 to 39 of a Crossword .................... 11 the iASSIST computer navigation Gonzales. The iASSIST program deformity.” student’s tuition fees. It will also system is meant to improve surgical will decrease the failure rate and Diana Mertrude, a retired nurse, consider any other publicly funded Sports ........................... 12 precision and accuracy, which will improve efficiency, as aging popula- also effectively reduce the need for tion may require more surgeries. 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