VOLUME 48, ISSUE 40 THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2015 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG AROUND CAMPUS STUDENT ORGS UCSD WRITER TALKS SCI FI C.H.E. Cafe Collective Addresses VCSA Letter The open forum discussed the letter from University officials that asked the collective to voluntarily vacate PHOTO PERMISSION OF DAVID BRIN the cafe space by March 14. ALUMNUS DAVID BRIN, BY BRUCE B.Y. LEE PHYSICIST AND AWARD- Contributing Writer WINNING WRITER IGNORES The C.H.E. Cafe Collective held UCSD GUARDIAN’S an open forum last Friday, March 6, QUESTIONS IN ENLIGHTENING, to discuss different ways to approach IF CRYPTIC INTERVIEW ABOUT UCSD administration’s letter that COLLEGE LIFE, SCI-FI asked the Collective to leave the facility The UCSD Tritones performed at their Fourth Annual A Cappella Winter Show, held at The Loft this past Monday. The by March 14. / Weekend, PAGE 6 opening act featured the all-male American University group On A Sensual Note. Photo by Matthias Scheer UCSD Guardian. In the letter written by Juan Gonzalez, vice chancellor for student affairs, administrators petitioned the UC SYSTEM collective to accept the A.S. Council UC IRVINE FLAG DECISION and Graduate Student Association THE EDITORIAL BOARD WEIGHS IN resolution to vacate the facility and OPINION, Page 4 reoccupy it in Fall of 2016, under CA Assemblyman Calls for the condition that “financial stability and sustainability has been achieved, student involvement has improved, MECKLING'S RETURN funding has been secured to repair a journey to bout again New Tech-Based UC Campus and renovate the Che facility and sports, Page 12 By Brynna bolt senior staff writer renovations and repairs have been completed.” alifornia Assemblyman Mike Gatto education in the arts. According to Gonzalez, if the announced his proposal for a new In his press release, Gatto claimed that gradu- collective refuses to vacate the facility FORECAST University of California campus in a press ates of this background are in growing demand by March 14, the administration will Crelease on March 2. within the workforce, but that this type of educa- proceed with a formal eviction process. The new school, whose location is not speci- tion is not always readily available in the state. The discussion at the open forum fied in the bill, would focus on science, technol- “Tech and creative jobs are the future, yet too mainly revolved around whether ogy, engineering, arts and mathematics as areas many California students are unable to get the the collective should abide by the of study. education they need here in California,” Gatto said. resolution or find an alternative TOMORROW SATURDAY The legislation, titled AB 1483, is comprised of “It is time for the legislature to prioritize higher that may potentially include H 88 L 58 H 87 L 62 two parts. The first would initiate the process of education with bold moves, ones that will make a physical confrontation. planning and building a new campus by pushing meaningful difference in the educational levels and Monty Kroopkin, a UCSD the UC system to study the feasibility of the project skillsets of Californians for generations to come.” graduate and member of the collective, and potential locations. The Assembly bill further Gatto further argued that the UC system is cur- suggested that the administration’s requests the appropriation of $50 million for land rently overcrowded, and that this has resulted in a reasoning on why the collective needs SUNDAY MONDAY acquisition and initial building costs. drop in recent admissions. to vacate was improper. “It makes no sense for us to be out H 85 L 59 H 86 L 60 Gatto, a Democrat from Glendale, called for a The press release cites acceptance rates for UC UC campus primarily concentrated on the STEM Berkeley, which had over 40,000 applicants and of this place,” Kroopkin said. “It does fields but that also provides an interdisciplinary less than 9,000 acceptances in 2014, to support not make any sense for A.S. [Council] and GSA to buy into there being any See STEAM, page 3 need to be out of this space.” VERBATIM The A.S. Council and GSA resolution focuses on reintegration ALUMNI of the Che Cafe Collective into the DO WE UCSD community. REALLY HAVE However, the collective members TO DROP Obama Selects Alumnus as Chief Data Scientist expressed that the 2016 resolution is “EVERYTHING DJ Patil graduated from UCSD with a degree in mathematics and is a pioneer of data science. impractical since it is very difficult WE DEEM to sustain interests of the members OFFENSIVE during the lapse of evacuation. BY kriti sarin investment in data,” Patil said. Meyer told the UCSD Guardian. “But DOWN THE Muir College junior Ariana Padilla, MEMORY HOLE, AS IF WE WERE associate news editor Patil added that he will focus on the abilities to conceptualize formally developing personalized health care and construct ever deeper, consistent a core member of the collective, ALL BUREAUCRATS HIRED BY described how the resolution was THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH?” and precision medicine through theories as we begin to learn in high The Obama administration President Obama’s Precision Medicine school geometry and as math majors designed adversely to the collective. -JORDAN UTLEY-THOMSON appointed UCSD graduate DJ Patil Initiative, integrating data from continue to develop in their upper- “The way it’s framed right now to the positions of deputy chief multiple sources to make connected division undergraduate courses.” is [that the Che Cafe Collective] will GUARDIAN WATCH be revisited in 2016 [to see if the OPINION, PAGE 4 technology officer for data policy and data sets and ethically executing data- Dr. Patil graduated from chief data scientist on Feb. 18. science policy. UCSD with a bachelor’s degree in conditions are met],” Padilla said. “So Dr. Patil, who is the first-ever chief According to UCSD mathematics mathematics in 1996 and went on it’s not really guaranteed that we will be data scientist in the White House professor David Meyer, Dr. Patil’s to earn a doctoral degree in applied let back in our space.” Office of Science and Technology achievements are proof that an mathematics from the University Members of the collective also INSIDE Policy, explained the responsibilities education in mathematics offers much of Maryland in 2001. Many people proposed a different approach to of the unprecedented position on the more than moderate proficiency in credit Patil for devising the term follow the administration’s order. AVERAGE CAT...................2 official White House blog. arithmetic, and gives students an edge “data scientist” to define his job on According to a collective member “My role as the U.S. CDS will be by encouraging critical thinking. networking sites earlier in his career. Richard Flahive, preparation on PROPOSED UC CAMPUS .. 4 to responsibly source, process and “DJ Patil’s success demonstrates the The field of data science encompasses potential cooperation is vital SHOREHOUSE KITCHEN ... 8 leverage data in a timely fashion, to advantages that mathematical training several subjects within mathematics, and urgent. SUDOKU ....................... 10 enable transparency, provide security provides. These are not, of course, the Meyer told the Guardian. “If we are going to relocate, and foster innovation for the benefit abilities to calculate using arithmetic, “In the specific area of data then there definitely should be set BASEBALL .................... 11 of the American public, in order to or algebra or even calculus, as we learn maximize the nation’s return on its in elementary mathematics classes,” See PATIL, page 3 See CHE, page 3 2 THE UCSD GUARDIAN | THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2015 | WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG NEWS AVERAGE CAT By Christina Carlson Aleksandra Konstantinovic Editor in Chief Andrew E. Huang Managing Editors Taylor Sanderson Tina Butoiu News Editor Kriti Sarin Associate News Editor Charu Mehra Opinion Editor Cassia Pollock Associate Opinion Editor Brandon Yu Sports Editor John Story Associate Sports Editor Teiko Yakobson Features Editor Science and technology Jacqueline Kim A&E Editor Kyle Somers Associate A&E Editor Nilu Karimi Lifestyle Editor Researchers Find Relationship Between Diabetes and Obesity Siddharth Atre Photo Editor UCSD medical scientists demonstrated how obesity-related inflammation triggered insulin resistance, causing diabetes. Jonathan Gao Associate Photo Editor Joselynn Ordaz Design Editor Sherman Aline Associate Design Editor BY BRUCE B.Y. LEE its receptors using small synthetic Researchers experimented on mice A pharmaceutical company is in Contributing Writer molecules called “LTB4 antagonists.” whose cell receptors were blocked the process of finding human-safe Elyse Yang Art Editor Senior author of the study, Dr. from LTB4. According to Olefsky, molecules. At first, the company Annie Liu Associate Art Editor Jerrold M. Olefsky, discussed how the this new mechanism prevents insulin will experiment on monkeys and Rosina Garcia Copy Editor Researchers at the UCSD School test subjects did not show any signs of resistance, Type 2 diabetes and the eventually on human bodies, Laura Chow Social Media Coordinator of Medicine discovered a link between diabetes. metabolically harmful effects of depending on the experiment’s safety obesity and insulin resistance on Feb. “When we treated animals with that obesity by avoiding inflammation. and efficiency on monkeys. Vincent Pham Training and Development 23. Published in “Nature Medicine compound, we produced everything Pingping Li, who was on the If successful, the medication will Magazine,” their study explains how we were hoping for,” Olefsky told research team, stated that the prevent people from developing Type- Page Layout manipulating the inflammatory the UCSD Guardian. “They didn’t experiment may work on humans. 2 diabetes and provide an effective Allison Kubo. Sidney Gao molecule LTB4 can prevent insulin develop diabetes. They didn’t develop “In the animal work, we find that treatment for people who have already Distribution resistance, which opens up a new insulin resistance.