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VOLUME 52, ISSUE 5 MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2018 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG CAMPUS PHOTOOLD PROBLEM, TEASE !"#$%&'(')"*$%+,*,-.% NEWGOES SOLUTIONS HERE /012%3-,4$..,-%4,-% 156$-75(%8-$'9:;-,5(; Steffanie Strathdee was recognized as one of the most improtant people in healthcare in 2018 !"#$%&'()#*$ !"#$%&'($&#)*+%&$,% UC San Diego professor of medicine Steffanie Strathdee recently received the 2018 Time Magazine honor for being one of the 50 most CAPTIONTe Guardian PREVIEWING spoke influential people in health care. The AFSCME 3299 members were on strike from Oct. 23 to Oct. 25 // UCSD Guardian THE ARTICLEwith two PAIRED UC San WITH magazine recognized Dr. Strathdee’s THEDiego PHOTO sexual TEASE. assault FOR success in developing a new awarenessEXAMPLE IF organizations THE PHOTO treatment for superbugs – bacteria WEREabout OF their A BABY missions YOU UC SYSTEM which are resistant to antibacterial WOULDand SAYperspectives “BABIES SUCK!on drugs – through the use of phage, or campusTHEY ARE sexual WEAK assault. AND C=10&D%EFGG%1:-"9$%0,*?>5H$.I%/0%B$.6,*H.%J":;%1;-5(. bacterial virus, therapy. This therapy administers phages into patients so 4:>,869E##7$I:##G.(/20'(@E###7$I:##Q !+#,+-('#./0'12###-,./*01&$"% that the phages infect superbugs and eliminate them. >655:I:##>639>854 The American Federation of State, County and As AFSCME Lead Organizer Shaun McCollum Phage therapy is a beneficial 343$55"##6789869##,:$4: Municipal Employees Local 3299 launched a three- pointed out to a crowd of protestors on Tuesday, :%&?%F##2K(##!-1/2 technique because phages are !:!$4##9::<4##,=6##47$>:4 day strike from Oct. 23 to 25 in response to the Oct. 23, private contractors make about $8.50 less 6M?%?1%E##7/F(###N specific to which bacteria they will 4:>,869E##7/F(###G University of California’s continued practice of than UC workers, as confirmed by a state audit. latch onto and attack, meaning that subcontracting labor to private companies. Across Director of Media Relations for the UC Office of they will not harm the body’s natural ,;6":##48J$9 California, 15,000 patient technical care workers, the President Claire Doan condemned the decision homeostasis. When the phage attacks $##I/+##9?FK2##6L##</%H?%F###6.,:9##$##476;,4##,:$4: over 9,000 AFSCME-represented service workers, to strike, saying that it would be “no more effective the superbug cell, the phage will also )02##?@##/##A/@B(2CA/--D and 15,000 University Professional and Technical now than it was in May.” $O:E#7/F(#P replicate itself. This will allow more @(H2?1%E##7/F(##G Employees and Communications Workers of “For a year, AFSCME leaders have refused to phages to kill more superbugs, until America (UPTE-CWA) union workers joined picket budge on their unreasonable demand of a 36-percent there are no more superbugs in the lines and rallies. raise over four years for patient-care workers,” Doan patient’s body. The three-day event marks the second time this said. “That is nearly triple what other university FOREFORECAST- The research into phage therapy calendar year that union workers have come out employees have received and clearly unrealistic for a was initiated when Strathdee’s in opposition to the UC system’s subcontracting taxpayer-funded institution like UC.” husband, UCSD professor of practices, or the hiring out of contractors at According to a UC budgets summary, the largest psychiatry Thomas Patterson, lower wages than UC employees for already-filled source of general funds for the UC system is contracted an unusual type of positions. In this past year’s negotiations, the union nonresident supplemental tuition, and not taxpayer- MONDAYMONDAY TUESDAYTUESDAY bacterium while on vacation. sought a six-percent wage increase, but the UC generated revenue. HH 7896 L 7259 H H74 86 L L 56 68 Conventional antibiotics did not system only offered a 3-percent increase over four Doan told the Guardian that AFSCME patient- stymie the bacteria’s growth, which years, which led to the first round of strikes. Around care and service workers are “already compensated led Strathdee to look into alternative 53,000 workers came out in protest statewide. at or above market rates, along with affordable health methods to cure her husband. “We’ve bargained in good faith for over a year insurance and generous retirement benefits.” She WEDNESDAY THURSDAY With the help of UCSD professor WEDNESDAY THURSDAY to address outsourcing at UC because it creates argued that AFSCME leaders’ “combative approach” H 79 L 67 H 79 L 66 of medicine Robert Schooley, she H 83 L 56 H 82 L 59 unequal and insecure circumstances that workers in refusing to reach a consensus with the University developed a procedure to alleviate must struggle with every day,” AFSCME Local has cost service workers their pay increases. Patterson’s ailment. 3299 President Kathryn Lybarger announced in a “I would hope that after two walkouts by VERBATIM “The first thing we had to do press release on the day of the first strike. “Instead university workers, they would understand that VERBATIM was find phages that were active of joining us in an effort to arrest these alarming this is more about job security,” AFSCME 3299’s !"#$%&'&(&%)!*+,,-! against his particular organism, and trends, UC has insisted on deepening them — Communications Director John de los Angeles told the PULL .+/'+-,!0,$%1!A QUOTE FROM the only way to do that is to take leaving workers no option but to strike.” A COLUMN HERE! FOR See TIME,%page 3 the organism and have it grow in EXAMPLE,1/$22&%)!$!/$3,/!4%! ‘I DON’T UNDERSTAND$%!4'5,-6&1,!%4%7 WHY ALLIE a laboratory,” Schooley explained CAN’T438,.'&4%$3/,!1'4-9! ASCRIBE WORDS TO UC SYSTEM to the UCSD Guardian. “What THEIR$%:!0$-;,'&%)!&'!$1! 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S THE UCSD GUARDIAN | MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2018 | WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG 9:=4 !"#$%&'()&*"#*'By Michi Sora Christopher Robertson Editor in Chief Lauren Holt Managing Editor Tyler Faurot News Editor Adriana Barrios Opinion Editor Rivka Gershovich Associate Opinion Editor Richard Lu Sports Editor Susanti Sarkar Features Editor Daisy Scott A&E Editor Chloe Esser Associate A&E Editor Annika Olives Lifestyle Editor CAMPUS Francesca Hummler Photo Editor Tina Chen Design Editor /012%='?$.%/*$K6$?:$H><%+"(;%L"$>H%,4 %CH#"..",*.%4,-%FMNO Hojune Kwak Multimedia Editor The unexpected increase of acceptances led to a housing conundrum for the school Kritin Karkare Data Visualization Editor Anthony Tran Art Editor Lisa Chik !"#T/&(-?%(#-(1% Tis fall, UCSD’s enrollment rate enrolled for Fall 2018, which is and [Turgood] Marshall College.” Copy Editor /$344*.%&$,% was at least 10 percent higher than almost 2,000 more than 28,587 Two more projects will house expected. undergraduate students who were graduate students, opening in 2020. UC San Diego saw an unexpected Page Layout “We thought we’d get about 21 enrolled in Fall 2017. Nuevo West will hold 808 beds, and Tina Chen, Z.Y. Lin increase in admission yield this percent of the students we admitted, With this increasing enrollment Nuevo East will hold 1,356 beds. Copy Readers fall, contrasting the lower expected but the fgure was in the 30s,” trend, UCSD has taken action Marshall Residential Life Alex Rickard, Asiyah Syed, Darren Lam, Rani Snankar yield for the quarter. Te growing Chancellor Pradeep Khosla told the in preparation of an escalating declined to comment on the housing admission yield is consistent with Business Manager San Diego Union-Tribune.