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Rutgers announces death of student earlier this week NOA HALFF ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Phillip Jacobelli, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, passed away on Jan. 31, said University Chancellor Richard L. Edwards in an email sent to Rutgers—New Brunswick students. Jacobelli, son of Anna-Marie and Louis Jacobelli and brother of Nick Jacobelli, was a resident of Cedar Knolls, according to The Star-Ledger. Visitation is open for students at the Leonardis Memorial Home, located at 210 Ridgedale Ave. in Cedar Knolls, on Tuesday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.. The funeral will be held on Thursday at 9 a.m. There will be a mass at Notre Dame of Mt. Carmel Church in Cedar Knolls at 10 a.m., according to the website. Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program & Psychiatric Ser vices is of fering their help to all those in the Rutgers community af fected by Jacobelli’s passing. “My sympathies go out to his family and to his friends in the Rutgers community,” Edwards said in the email.
Bivid will provide a real-time feed of events happening in a local area. It will also move past limitations seen with existing apps, like having anonymous posts on Yik Yak or only allowing certain types of posts on Instagram. The app offers a chat room for users to communicate with each other quickly. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHLOE COFFMAN / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
New app plans to exceed popular social media rivals BUSHRA HASAN STAFF WRITER
Many different social media apps allow students to connect, but a new program aims to combine their most attractive features into one central program. Bivid, a mobile application
available on the app store, takes elements from Yik Yak, Snapchat and Instagram, creating a 24-hour video and image stream, said Dean Glas, co-founder and chief executive officer at the company. “Every time you open Bivid, you’re going to see things that you know are happening right now.
These are things that have happened within the last 24 hours,” Glas said. Glas and his fellow co-founder, Mendy Raskin, first met in New York City. Both were dissatisfied at the lack of an application that provided a real-time, feed-based on location.
“We always wanted to be connected to the places that we’re in, New York City especially,” he said. “You’re walking around and there are so many things going on, and you really don’t feel connected to the place.” SEE RIVALS ON PAGE 4
Oysters see new use in river cleanup, puts industry at risk
Oysters were previously part of a thriving industry until over-fishing tanked it. While the industry is making a comeback, a new plan to use them for waterway cleanup may put it at risk, as the oysters used in polluted waters cannot be consumed. JACQELINE DOREY
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One particular delicacy may soon be more difficult to find at Red Lobster. Oysters were recently discovered to have cleansing effects in polluted water, according to a Press of Atlantic City article. One creature
can take in and expel 50 gallons of liquid every day. They are not used to clean large bodies of water yet, but some scientists are considering their use for local rivers, according to the article. The problem with this is they are also a part of a slowly recuperating industry in oyster farming. While farmed oysters or ones from
cleaner waters pose no harm to most consumers, eating oysters from dirty waters would not be good for people. Farming oysters is a time-consuming process as well. In the 1950s oyster-farming as an industry saw severe drops due to overuse of the areas they grow in, among other reasons, according to Rutgers Magazine.
It took five decades and a new type of oyster, called the “triploid” oyster, to start making advances in helping the industry. These new oysters are more environmentally-friendly and are better for consumption, said Ximing Guo, a professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences and with the Haskin Shellfish
Research Laboratory, and the creator of the type. While they are good for the environment and for the industry, they still take a year to mature, according the magazine. If a “dirty” oyster is sold with farmed oysters, it may set the industry back again, according to Press of Atlantic City. In years past oyster farming was also heavily regulated. According to nj.com, a local farmer was arrested and had his equipment disposed of by the Department of Environmental Protection. The charges were eventually dropped but the agency is being sued for damages by the farmer. The organization acknowledged its regulations were outdated, according to nj.com. A law allowing scientists to ignore the agency’s regulations on an “experimental” basis was sent to New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie earlier in January, according to nj.com. It was signed by the governor shortly after, according to Press of Atlantic City. This bill only affects the oysters being used for waterway cleanup. The hope is they will prove successful in cleaning up waterways.
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