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FISHIN’ FOR THE FUTURE

Yes, McCann Can PHOTO COURTESY OF AQUA DESIGN INNOVATION

With the help of Kickstarter, two UCSD students have designed a desktop aquarium called the EcoQube, which uses plants as a natural water purifier.

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Senior guard James McCann drives to the rim in UCSD’s 93–70 win against Cal State Monterey Bay last Saturday. McCann scored 22 points on eight rebounds.

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ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

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Paul Yu Appointed Revelle Provost

Steve Gamer Appointed Vice Chancellor-Advancement

Yu will assume his position as provost effective Jan. 20.

tance of private support for public universities,” Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla said in a Jan. 6 UCSD announced UCSD News Center press this week that it has release. “Faced with continofficially appointed ued state and federal budget Steve Gamer as the cuts, UC San Diego and our new vice chancellorsister campuses are becomadvancement. Gamer, a ing increasingly reliant on long-time development philanthropy to achieve our director at UCLA, will mission.” be responsible for overGamer comes to UCSD seeing campus fundafter working in the UCLA raisers and maintaining development department relations with UCSD Steve Gamer alumni starting Jan. 13. PHOTO COURTESY OF since 2002. He served as “We are pleased to UCSD NEWS CENTER the director of development and external affairs welcome Steve Gamer as the newest member of our campus for the International Institute until leadership team. Steve will bring experience and insight into the imporSee ADVANCEMENT, page 3

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Policy differences boil down to how an issue is worded and who endorses it, rather than its content. ”

- Nico Hemsley

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FACULTY

Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Initiatives Paul Yu was appointed as the new Revelle Provost last week, following the retirement of Provost Don Wayne last June.

Yu will assume his position as Provost on Jan. 20, acting as the head of academic and administrative responsibility for Revelle College, as well as an overall advisor for college services.

In a Jan. 10 campuswide notice announcing Yu’s appointment, Executive Vice ChancellorAcademic Affairs Suresh Subramani praised Yu’s qualifications and previous leadership experience as a Senate-Administration Task Force member and manager of the Regents Scholars Research Initiative program.

“Professor Paul Yu’s administrative and academic accomplishments and his commitment to Revelle College make him exceptionally well-qualified to provide leadership as Provost of Revelle College,” Subramani said.

Yu’s appointment comes in the midst of multiple university staff changes, including the recent selection of Steve Gamer as Vice ChancellorAdvancement and Carol Padden as Interim Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

The Office of Student Affairs also announced a search for the Vice Chancellor-Student Affairs, an office currently held by Interim Vice Chancellor Alan Houston.

Student Affairs Search Committee members include A.S. Council President Andy Buselt, Earl Warren College Provost Steven Adler and UCSD Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla.

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Gamer will oversee fundraisers and alumni relations.

BY andrew huang

Staff Writer

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Biologists Discover Stem Cell Transplant Protection Researchers at UCSD recently figured out how to prevent the immune system from rejecting cell grafts. justine liang staff writer

UCSD biologists have optimized a way of preventing the human immune system from rejecting human embryonic stem cell grafts, paving the way for protecting transplanted stem cells from immune response attacks.

Principal investigator Yang Xu, UCSD professor of biology, and primary author Zhili Rong ,collaborated

with scientists in China to develop “humanized” laboratory mice with a working immune system that simulates human immune system rejection of foreign human embryonic stem cells.

The traditional approach to stem cell science is to take a xenograft, which is a tissue transplant between See TRANSPLANT, page 3

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▶ Arrests Made in San Diego Sex Trafficking Scandal: Two North Park gangs were charged with sex trafficking, among other crimes, on Jan. 8. The gangs have also been indicted with murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, robbery and drug trafficking charges.

Several agencies, including the FBI, arrested the suspects on the morning of Jan. 8. All were either gang members or associates. Fourteen members were in San Diego, with two others in Arizona and one in New Jersey. Police had already apprehended four other members, while three remain at large.

The suspects allegedly sold sex in hotel rooms across 23 states. Detectives identified 60 possible female victims with 11 minors as young as 15 years old ▶ New Bill Proposes Free Preschool: On Jan. 7, Democratic Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg presented a $1 billion proposal to support free public preschools in California.

The bill would provide free preschooling to all California four-year olds. Steinberg said universal preschool would lower crime rates, increase the number of college students and level the playing field among students from

various socioeconomic statuses.

According to Reuters, California Republicans referred to the proposal as a “jobs program for the teachers’ union.”

Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal includes $452 million for K-12 schools, a $39 million spending increase from last year. However, the governor’s budget does not include a dedicated allocation for universal preschools. ▶ SeaWorld Donates Reusable Bags: SeaWorld officials announced on Jan. 8 that they are donating 25,000 reusable bags to San Diego residents to encourage the use of reusable bags.

The park stopped offering plastic bags in 2011 when its Turtle Reef exhibit opened and has since discontinued the use of plastic cups, plates and utensils.

The announcement comes a week after Los Angeles’s plastic bag ban went into effect on Jan. 1. Other California cities in the Bay Area have already adopted similar bans that prohibit the distribution of plastic bags and charge customers a 10-cent fee per paper bag.

Distribution of the bags will begin in lowincome communities in San Diego through Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank in several weeks.

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LIGHTS & SIRENS Friday, Jan. 3 8:56 a.m.: Missing Person A family reported that it was unable to reach a student at UCSD. Checks OK. 4 p.m. to 10 a.m.: Vandalism A window was cracked in Marshall Res Life, amounting to damages of $2,000. Report taken.

2:30 p.m.: Burglary The Visual Arts 2 building was robbed, amounting to $6,000 dollars in losses. Report taken.

Saturday, Jan. 4 10:18 p.m.: Unknown Trouble The subject was screaming in Village West Building 3. Verbal warning issued.

Sunday, Jan. 5 1:48 a.m.: Drunk In Public The subject was under the influence of excessive alcohol in One Miramar Building 4. Transported to hospital.

10:25 a.m.: Hazardous Materials Incident There was a report of a smell of burnt chemicals throughout the Biomedical Sciences Building.

Referred to other agency.

Monday, Jan. 6 Unknown Time: Vandalism Canyonview Pool was found with chairs and other items thrown over the pool covers. Report taken.

3:21 p.m.: Disturbance, Argument A student created a disturbance at a staff meeting in Pepper Canyon Hall. Report taken.

Tuesday, Jan. 7 12:53 a.m.: Fire A small trash can caught on fire in

Lights and Sirens is compiled from the Police Crime Log at police.ucsd.edu.

Argo Hall. Report taken.

3:34 p.m.: Medical Aid The subject reportedly had a seizure in the Bookstore. Gone on arrival.

8:28 p.m.: Medical Aid The subject was slumped over in a chair in Peterson Hall. Transported to hospital.

3:55 a.m.: Information The reporting party complained of a marijuana odor near Frankfurter Hall. Information only.

Wednesday, Jan. 8 12:05 p.m.: Non-Injury Accident A collision between two UC vehicles occurred near York Hall. Report taken.

1:10 p.m.: Burglary Grand theft at the RIMAC Girls Basketball Locker Room amounted to losses of $2,865. Report taken.

8:31 a.m.: Information The subject was locked inside the stairwell of Applied Physics & Mathematics. Referred to other agency.

Thursday, Jan. 9 11:40 a.m.: Suicide Attempt The subject made suicidal threats at Warren Lecture Hall. Transported to hospital.

11:59 p.m. to 12:41 a.m.: Medical Aid The subject’s knee was possibly dislocated while dancing. Transported to hospital. — Gabriella Fleischman Associate News Editor

Gamer Will Serve As President of the UCSD Foundation â–ś ADVANCEMENT, from page 1

2006. He later became the executive director for campuswide initiatives and individual giving. Gamer was also appointed as executive director of The UCLA Foundation in 2009, spearheading multiple development projects.

Gamer oversaw philanthropic efforts on the UCLA campus itself and on various establishments like the Broad Stem Cell Institute and California NanoSystems Institute.

The news release noted that Gamer gave “special focus on donor relations and stewardship, scholarship fundraising, online giving and cham-

pioning the conversion of a database gift accounting system to a constituent relationship management system.�

Under his leadership, UCLA received over $400 million from donors in the 2011 to 2012 fiscal year, as stated in UCLA Today. Gamer also worked in the highly successful Campaign UCLA, which raised over $3 billion 1995 Along with his position as associate chancellor-advancement, Gamer will also serve as president of the UCSD Foundation. “I am excited to join UC San Diego to partner with the academic leadership, alumni, friends and

staff as we work together to enhance philanthropy at this amazing campus,� Gamer said in the UCSD news release. “I look forward to helping UC San Diego — one of the top 15 research universities in the world — secure the funding needed to continue its excellence in all areas, from the sciences to engineering, international relations to the humanities.�

UCSD was able to raise $150 million from private donors in fiscal year 2012-2013. Gamer says he will strive to increase this economic support in 2014 and beyond.

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Xu and Research Team Developed Local Immune Protection â–ś TRANSPLANT, from page 1

different species; however, in these cases, xenograft rejection often occurs, as the animal’s own immune system may reject the graft.

Xu’s group of scientists then looked into improving methods of allografting — which is the transplant of tissues between the same species — as an alternative. His team created a “humanized� mouse; they took immune deficient laboratory mice and grafted human fetal thymus tissues and hepatopoietic stem cells from a human fetal liver donor. The mice have an immune system similar to that of a human’s, which effectively simulates allograft rejection. “We have improved a method to protect allografts, which is tra-

ditionally achieved through the use of immunosuppressants,� Rong said. “The advantage of the local immune environment is that it prevents the need for lifelong immunosuppressants.�

He and his team of researchers have developed a local immune environment that provides local protection from the host’s immune responses.

These humanized mouse models allow biologists to narrow potential immune suppressing molecules down to two effective molecules, CTLA4lg and PD-L1, which inhibit T-cells involved in immune rejection. “The ultimate goal of this research is to benefit human health, and this way, we can apply it to humans more easily,� Rong said.

By creating a local immune environment, it safely protects stem cell grafts from the allogeneic immune rejection without needing systemic immune suppression. “However, there is a disadvantage to this local immune environment, which is that it may evade the surveillance of the immune system completely,� Rong said.

Xu said that the disadvantage can be rectified by introducing a gene in the immune expression cells that kills the cells off — a suicide gene. “The humanized mouse system is really a powerful model with which to study human tumor immunity,� Xu said in a UCSD News Center release.

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Unnatural Selection

The Tragic Failure of Democracy: Partisanship

BY yan gao staff writer ILLUSTRATIONs by jeffrey lau

The Food and Drug Administration needs to create stricter food label regulations and prioritize consumers’ rights.

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s a college student, grocery shopping is one of the most crucial yet hardest chores out there. With almost everything in the fruit-juice section labeled as “all-natural” and more in the processed food aisle, it is hard to determine what is actually “natural.”

Despite existing confusion, on Jan. 7 the Grocery Manufacturers Association submitted a letter to the Food and Drug Administration attempting to allow foods that contain genetically modified organisms be labeled as “natural.” This is only one example of many lobbying attempts made by the big-name food manufacturing companies.

Oppositions from consumers have sparked many heated debates due to FDA’s lack of definition of the term “natural.” Whether this request will go through is uncertain; however the FDA has done enough dodging since 1992 when it comes to food labeling regulations. Clear and

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QUICK TAKES

THIS YEAR, THE NCAA IS EXPECTED TO RECONSIDER A WIDELY DEBATED POLICY THAT WOULD ALLOW DIVISION-I SCHOOLS TO OFFER ADDITIONAL STIPENDS TO THEIR STUDENT-ATHLETES.

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College Athletes Deserve Rewards for Balancing Academics and Sports

Division-I athletes choose an active lifestyle oriented towards their sport and are currently provided with ample financial compensation; these individuals receive free room and board, in addition to a cost-free tuition and do not need an additional $2000 stipend. Being exempt from these expenses is a privilege, not a right, and funds should not be abused to accommodate students beyond their needs.

For the last 40 years, D-1 athletes have been at a significant financial advantage, enjoying free apparel, transportation, meal plans, housing accommodations, books, medical attention and tuition all free of charge. National Collegeiate Athletic Association President Mark Emmert’s plan increases the scope of these benefits and also imposes stress on university budgets. In a September 2013 USA Today article, Rutgers athletic director Julie Hermann said, “Tuition is going up already $8,000 a year, and now you’re adding $400,000 [in stipends],” expressing the irony and insensibility of such a decision.

Under Emmert’s proposal, athletes will be endowed with extra funding while the remaining student body will continue to struggle with ever increasing education costs. Boise State University president Robert Kustra urged proposal advocates to compare the supposed lack of support for student athletes to that for non-athletes “who are making minimum wage, collecting tips [and] trying to find their way into their next semester.”

While D-1 players should undoubtedly be rewarded for their efforts, a decision that expands the fiscal gap and reinforces double standards is both unwarranted and illogical. Current benefits are not only adequate, but also generous. Stipend or not, athletes should rejoice in the freedom of getting a full scholarship to do what they love.

Finances are one of the primary factors student athletes consider when choosing which university to attend. Adding a stipend to a full-ride scholarship would cause student athletes to seek out schools that offer the most money in their package. Institutions that devote more money to athletics will be able to offer higher stipend amounts, creating an unfair advantage in attracting their pick of players.

If approved, the policy would have each university create a stipend based on the “full” cost of attendance and would need to determine how much students spend on items like toiletries or gasoline.

National Collegiate Athletic Association President Mark Emmert estimated that the “full cost” amount could range up to $6,000. Without a universal formula to fairly calculate the “full” cost, wealthier schools could manipulating the stipend as an extra incentive to attract athletes.

Finding the money to pay for it also presents challenges. Schools have limited funding set aside from their budget for sports. Sidney A. McPhee, head of the NCAA’s Student-Athlete Well-Being Working Group, noted that the less wealthy Division 1 colleges would not afford the additional costs and major conferences would gain an even greater advantage. USA Today found that of the top 100 of 227 public D-1 schools, only 22 were able to generate revenue, with the remaining not even being able to cover their operating expenses.

Adding an unregulated stipend will cause student athletes to attend wealthier D-1 schools, taking attention away from the less wealthy schools’ athletes hoping to take their sports career further.

Schools without these potential star athletes end up not having the media that pays for their athletic programs, widening the gap between universities that make money and those that are losing it.

Collegiate athletes have an extremely timeconsuming and physically demanding lifestyle.

An additional stipend is well deserved and would reward athletes for the long and strenuous hours they put into school and sports.

According to two separate surveys conducted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 2008 and 2011, student athletes consistently spend just as much time on their sport as students do on their full-time jobs. A large number of Division I athletes across multiple sports invest over 40 hours per week competing, practicing and in the training room. The survey explains that this average does not account for coaches’ unofficial demands, which further increases their time commitment.

Yet unlike individuals who work full time, these athletes also balance schedules as full-time students. Because busy schedules prevent most student athletes from getting jobs, the stipend would be a valuable tool to help students pay for groceries, simple dates and maintain a relatively normal college experience.

Although some D-I athletes leave college debt-free due to scholarships, they generate a lot of revenue for the NCAA and are entitled to a cut. The Pac-12 has made a 12-year, $2.7 billion television deal with ESPN and FOX. According to ESPN, in 2008 alone, some schools made upwards of $123,769,841 from athletics. Yet athletes do not see a dime of this money, and under NCAA policy, are unable to profit even from their own signatures.

The monetary impact of student athletes is not negligible. These athletes spend long hours playing for their schools, and it is about time they received adequate compensation.

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— DEREK UNG Staff Writer

— ALIA BALES Staff Writer

he essential qualm I have about partisanship is that it turns off people’s brains.

Democracy fails when its citizens don’t scrutinize critical issues, and that’s exactly what partisanship does: It skews our thinking process.

It’s hard to stay informed about every policy, so we subscribe to a party and follow its lead. The thing is, parties have a motive beyond public good. Politicians are looking to fundraise, to get reelected and to maximize their power. This is where the problem lies, because accuracy and consistency are sacrificed in favor of constructing a fitting argument. Their followers, however, see them as proponents of important ethical decisions.

Partisanship is an unnecessary construct, and the tribalism associated with it corrupts our decisionmaking. Any particular political agenda can be bent to mobilize both Republicans and Democrats based simply on rhetoric. Geoffrey Cohen, a professor of psychology at Stanford, found that simple endorsement by a party gleaned support from a wide variety of undergraduates claiming affiliation with that party. It’s said that Republicans and Democrats prioritize fundamentally incompatible values, but in truth, each side of a policy can be reconfigured to endorse the interests of politicians in their respective party. Policy differences boil down to how an issue is worded and who endorses it, rather than its content.

When we believe we’re engaged in reasoned policy discussion, we’re really engaged in a convoluted effort to rationalize our tribal affiliations.

Psychologists call this “motivated reasoning.” A quick analysis of political history will show that Republicans and Democrats often hold similar ideas, but they frame them differently depending on the reaction they want to provoke from their supporters. For example, the Affordable Care Act was designed by the Heritage Foundation, an American conservative think tank, and in 1993, Republicans actually supported the individual mandate.

Nineteen Republican senators cosponsored the bill, while only two supported it from the Democratic side. Once the ACA was adopted

by Obama, however, Republicans withdrew support, while Democrats endorsed it.

In a Washington Post column, Ezra Klein quotes NYU political psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s argument that “Thinking is mostly just rationalization, mostly just a search for supporting evidence.” The contention over the individual mandate is a perfect example of this process at work. We engage party loyalties, and our ethical decisions become more dependent on who is endorsing a position rather than its actual content. Politics are reduced to tribal fights and intellectual gymnastics that feel, to participants, like virtuous policy debates. We need to utilize democracy’s potential by discussing and relaying accurate information.

To suggest party system reform as a solution would be overly idealistic, but if we’re at least conscious of our tribalism and more conscious of the rhetoric that’s being thrown at us, we can make and endorse better political choices.

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accurate food labeling is essential in order for consumers to make educated buying decisions. The FDA must take a proactive approach to tighten labeling guidelines and inform the public about what exactly is in their food.

Because the FDA currently lacks a specific definition of the term “natural,� companies have taken advantage of the ambiguity to lead consumers on. PepsiCo, the manufacturer of Naked Juice, settled a lawsuit last August regarding its use of the phrase “all-natural� on its fruit juice labels. The company argued that the phrase was meant to describe the fruits and vegetables rather than the vitamin boost chemically added to the drink.

Completely unaware of the added chemicals, consumers argued that they were led to believe that the entire product was organic. Due to lax regulations, other companies are getting away with telling half the truth by hiding crucial information from consumers, while the FDA continues to do nothing.

A Jan. 8 Chicago Tribune article explained that similar lawsuits against General Mills and Campbell Soups and Gruma have made no progress to the current situation.

The FDA dodged creating new regulations by rejecting action “in the context of litigation between private parties.� After years of neglecting the issue, the FDA needs to take action and conduct research to resolve the problem by setting strict labeling guidelines.

In order to stop wasteful spending on both the part of foodmanufacturing companies and consumer, a set of comprehensive and mandatory guidelines is needed.

In 2011 and 2012, more than a million Americans petitioned for

stricter labeling yet the FDA chose to remain silent. After spending nearly $30 million on a Washington state ballot initiative to mandate food labeling, the initiative was narrowly defeated and all efforts by pro-labeling advocates were wasted.

In California, a similar initiative, Proposition 37 was also defeated by merely 2 percent. Due to the lack of mandate from the FDA, unnecessary money is invested into a problem that can be simply solved with federal support.

The drive against the food label debate is the fear of losing sales when negative information is presented on labels. However, contrary to common beliefs, consumers are more likely to purchase products with additional description about the ingredient, even if it is negative information. Cornell University Professor Harry M. Kaiser points out in a press release that “even seemingly negative information was valued over just the label itself.� This is further proven in a poll conducted by the New York Times shows that 93 percent of consumers favor some kind of useful description of the ingredients used on the label. The FDA should stand by the majority consensus and place consumer rights above private businesses.

Although food-manufacturing companies continue lobbying for a more lenient definition of the term “natural,� the FDA needs to take action to ensure transparency in food labeling and protect consumer rights.

Consumers have every right to know what is in their food and what they are buying, and the FDA should stand by its principles and take a more proactive role to ensure the quality of consumer products.

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A CLEVER CUBE OF CONSERVATION Two UCSD students share the story of how they created the EcoQube, an artistic desktop aquarium that uses plants to purify and recycle water.

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CSD junior Eric Suen and senior Kevin Liang call their creation a frame for nature’s art. A compact, two-tiered desktop aquarium, the EcoQube runs on aquaponics — an agricultural technique that doesn’t use soil — to convert waste from fish into fertilizer for plants grown in water.

Liang believes aquaponics is the future of agriculture and that this concept, on a larger scale, can potentially solve global challenges, such as food and water shortages. According to Liang, one billion people lack clean drinking water, and food shortages are growing each day.

With aquaponics, food can grow 50 percent faster using less space and 90 percent less water.

With an chilhood interest in aquariums, the EcoQube founders, who met in high school, started their venture in 2008 in a small garage in San Francisco.

“I set up two aquariums in the beginning, but it kept going to three, four, five and on,” Liang said. “At one point, I had See ECOQUBE, page 8

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Michro-managing Time

A UCSD Rady student and a Stanford alumnus have invented a portable device, Michron, that makes time-lapse photography efficient.

BY chanelle wang

staff writer

Time-lapse, a series of photos compiled together to generate a video, is another way in which people can share their experiences. Michron — a programmable timelapse device created by an MBA student from UCSD’s Rady School of Management, Gregory Horvath, and Stanford alumnus Steven Hibbs — makes it easy for users to do just that. All users have to do is connect the portable device — a small black box that fits in the palm of a hand — to a smartphone, program it, and then attach it to a camera.

“People tell their stories on Facebook, Twitter and on Instagram through photos and videos,” Horvath said. “We think that people are going to start telling their stories through time-lapse. It’s just a different way to communicate a story. It can capture time in a way that cannot be captured with just standard photos or videos.”

From humble beginnings — what started out as simple sketches in the backseat of a taxi in China — Michron has become a reality.

With their creation, Horvath and Hibbs hope to increase the accessibility of timelapse at an affordable price, as they feel that other time-lapse devices on the market are too expensive.

“In the past, Steve has worked on these types of devices: intervalometers [mechanisms that take pictures automatically after a set delay time],” Horvath said. “In January 2013, I asked him for a recommendation for a good basic intervalometer, but he couldn’t come up with one that was worth buying.”

With the lack of affordable, high-quality intervalometers on the market, Horvath and Hibbs took it upon themselves to create a product that was both functional and cost effective. Using a 3-D printer, they manufactured the prototype of Michron and priced the final product at $50 apiece.

Michron is designed with no buttons or See MICHRON, page 8

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18 tanks running. If you’ve ever been addicted to anything, whether it’s a game, a sport or a TV show, it was the same. I couldn’t stop.”

When Suen and Liang came to UCSD, they chose to live off campus, so they could bring their aquariums with them, moving their workspace from a San Francisco garage to an apartment closet.

Eventually, the two were able to start their online aquarium store called Aqua Design Innovations Shop in 2010. The store will carry the EcoQube once it’s released to the public, which is estimated to be this July.

Both Suen and Liang picked up various aquarium-related jobs throughout their high school and undergraduate years at places such as the California Academy of Sciences and Aquatic Central (the largest aquarium store in San Francisco). Through the EcoQube, they want to apply their acquired knowledge of aquariums in order to share the concept of aquaponics.

“We need a vehicle to deliver this to people, so they can do great things with the concept,” Liang said. “EcoQube is the vehicle to get other people to build companies using this 3,000-year-old technology that’s a billion times better than Monsanto’s [the world’s largest agricultural company] newest and greatest [agricultural techniques].”

Liang and two other engineering students from UCSD designed various prototypes of the EcoQube and after receiving feedback from others, developed a final product.

The EcoQube consists of five parts: an LED light, an LED UV sterilizer, an aquaponics filter, an aquarium and a base. The aquarium is situated on top of the base.

Attached to that is a filter with a small space to hold a plant, which recycles fish waste in the aquarium into fertilizer. The plant is used to purify water in the tank. At the very top, there’s a UV light that sterilizes the water.

Liang noted the difficulties of raising funds for this startup.

They initially had some revenue from their two prior businesses selling aquarium goods and installing aquatic ecosystems. They also used student loans, and supporters gave them discounts on aquarium supplies.

From their Kickstarter campaign, which ran from Nov. 30, 2013 to Jan. 12, 2014, Suen and Liang raised $79,026, nearly double their original goal.

The EcoQube has already gained recognition in design circles. The team placed third in the Zahn Prize competition and first in the Pitch competition, both entrepreneurship competitions that award cash prizes.

Suen and Liang believe that the EcoQube will succeed because it’s both low maintenance and aesthetically pleasing. They hope that the EcoQube will influence people to live more environmentally conscious lives.

While the EcoQube will be Aqua Design Innovations’ first product, the team has big plans for future projects. One plan they have in mind is a home aquaponics system that would produce enough food for up to two people. It would be the first product of its kind to be mass marketed.

Suen and Liang have shown that hard work, even when starting from the smallest space, can grow into something great.

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screens, which means that its user interface is conducted remotely, through the Michron App on a smartphone (available for Android and iPhone).

Users create their own settings on the Michron App and can program the Michron device itself after connecting the device to their smartphones with a programming cable. Once users upload their settings to the device, they can disconnect the device from their phones and reconnect it to their cameras.

“We wanted to have the usability of having the interface on the phone, but we wanted the complete freedom of the phone,” Horvath said.

The ability to use the phone while taking a time-lapse was something that other available intervalometers couldn’t do. They had a user interface that was accessible by way of smartphone; however, when in use, the intervalometers would take control of the entire smartphone.

That meant that if a time-lapse were set for five hours, the user wouldn’t have access to other smartphone functions for those five hours and would have to wait until the time-lapse was complete.

Michron, on the other hand, grants users the freedom to use their smartphones while taking time-lapses. Michron can create time-lapses on its own, either with user-specified settings, or by using a feature called Auto Time-Lapse.

With Auto Time-Lapse, users can choose from a list of pre-made settings and shoot time-lapse in auto — meaning that the camera automatically takes pictures at a certain delay time.

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“Using Auto Time-Lapse, you can do two things: Your camera can create all of its own settings,

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Pioneers scoreless in the final five minutes.

The Tritons took advantage of their defensive stops, aggressively attacking the basket to create free throw opportunities, which gave them the lead. Up by three points with 55 seconds left, senior guard James McCann drained a tough turnaround jumper to seal the win.

He finished just shy of a triple-double, scoring 23 points, a career-high 10 rebounds and seven assists. “They were huge for us,� McCann said when asked about the fan support. “This is our first game back with our students on campus, so we got a nice crowd, and we just fed off their energy.�

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the following day to take on Cal State Monterey Bay. With a career high effort from sophomore guard Hunter Walker — 25 points and six rebounds — the Tritons were able to take a 12-point lead at the first half. McCann also contributed his usual numbers, scoring 22 points and dishing out seven assists. “As a shooter, you need to have that confidence,� Walker said when asked about his performance. “Today, I just felt good. Once you start making shots, you bring more energy to the table.�

The Tritons didn’t look back after the half, continuing to play at their own tempo, which eventually led to the blowout win.

Olen credited the team’s resiliency and persistence for its two victories.

“After coming off of last weekend’s results, we had a really good week of practice,� Olen said. “We didn’t feel sorry for ourselves, we came out, played good basketball, and we got the results we were looking for.�

The Tritons will play their next two games in enemy territory, as they travel to face Sonoma State and San Francisco State. “This weekend was big for us,�

Walker, who made three baskets from beyond the arc, said after the game. “We let a couple [games] go that I think we should have got.

This is going to be good for our confidence moving on to two good teams where we have to take care of business again.�

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dle blocker Mathew Schnitzer led the UCSD offense Friday night with six kills apiece. Schnitzer collected a career high five blocks and made his first six collegiate kills.

Saturday, UCSD headed to Malibu to take on sixth-ranked Pepperdine.

A four-point run gave the Waves the early 6–2 lead in the first set.

The Tritons never threatened Pepperdine’s lead, losing the set 17–25. After falling behind 10–6 in

the second set, the Tritons were tied the score at 19–19 on aggressive play and solid blocking. But the Waves answered by tallying the next six points and won the set 25–19.

From there, the Waves closed out their fifth straight victory over the Tritons dating back to the 2011 season. “Pepperdine sided out very well tonight, so we needed to have better offensive production, especially on our first swing in serve receive, to keep us in the games,� Ring said

to the UCSD Athletics Department. “Each game, we found a way to string together some good plays and close the gap in the score but never found the means to pull ahead.�

UCSD continues conference play next weekend to face California Baptist on the road Thursday, Jan. 16, before returning to RIMAC for their home opener on Saturday, Jan. 18, against BYU.

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the field. “We definitely didn’t play our best. We kind of dug ourselves into a hole,� junior guard Stephanie Yano said. “We kind of shouldn’t have been in that position in the first place.�

In spite of a poor offensive showing, the Tritons salvaged the win thanks to the late game heroics from Yano and junior center Dana Webster.

With barely over a minute left to play, Yano hit a clutch three-pointer to cut a four-point deficit to one and

put the Tritons in a position for a comeback.

Soon after, Webster drove towards the basket and nailed a layup while being fouled with only 14 seconds remaining. She then sunk the free throw to put the Tritons up by two points. “[The play] was designed for me,� Webster said. “Since I hadn’t had a basket that night, it was pretty likely they were going to go off to [Seto].�

On the following and final possession, the Otters’ push to force overtime came down to the wire, as they missed two layups before the

buzzer sounded.

The Tritons are now 8–4 overall and 5–3 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association. “I think we got all of our ugly games out of the way, and we’re just ready to kick some butt through the rest of conference schedule,� Yano said.

The Tritons will hope to do so on Friday, Jan. 17, as they travel to play at Sonoma State and will also face San Francisco State on the road the following day. Both games start at 5:30 p.m.

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Tritons Win Two Straight at Home Tritons improve to 3–5 in CCAA, beating Cal State East Bay and Cal State Monterey Bay.

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he UCSD men’s basketball team was victorious in its weekend home stand, defeating Cal State East Bay 80–70 on Friday and blowing out Cal State Monterey Bay 93–70 on Saturday after dropping two in a row the week before.

The Tritons move up three spots in the California Collegiate Athletic Association standings, placing them back in the hunt for the CCAA playoffs.

The student fans were in full support at the Tritons’ first game of the academic quarter against Cal State East Bay. The game was close throughout until freshman guard Adam Klie hit back-to-back three-pointers to give the Tritons an eightpoint lead. The Alaska native ended the game with 11 points and four rebounds. Sophomore center Zach McMillan also provided a solid contribution off the bench, scoring 10 points and eight rebounds.

“Zach’s improving every day,” first year head coach Eric Olen said. “He works hard every day in practice. He does a great job on the defensive end and on the glass. He was able to give us some offense tonight, which was a huge boost for us.”

However, the Tritons only led by three points at halftime, and the game remained tight until the final minute.

The home court advantage proved to be helpful late in the game as the Tritons’ energized defense was able to hold the See MEN’S BASKETBALL , page 9

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Women’s Basketball Splits at Home Tritons lost to East Bay and beat Monterey Bay on a last-minute bucket by Webster.

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Volleyball opened MPSF conference play, losing to USC on Friday and Pepperdine on Saturday.

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EDITORIAL ASSISTANT The UCSD men’s volleyball team suffered two tough losses in its season openers last week. On Friday, the Tritons fell to Mountain Pacific Sports Federation opponent USC in straight sets before losing on the road to Pepperdine the following day.

“We’ve opened the MPSF season with two very good teams in USC and Pepperdine,” UCSD head coach Kevin Ring said to the UCSD Athletics Department. “For us, it is a matter of getting comfortable competing night in and night out and the ability to play good, solid volleyball from start to finish. Each game we’ve played in has had bright spots. As we become more consistent, we’ll begin to win the close games.”

Facing off against sixth-ranked

USC on the road, the Tritons struggled on their side of the net. UCSD tied the opening set at 5–5; a fourpoint run soon extended the Trojan lead to 15–9. The Tritons were unable to get closer than four points over the remainder of the frame.

In the second set, the Trojans took a 13–6 lead before solid Triton blocking gave UCSD its first lead at 23–22.

But three straight points earned USC the set victory.

“USC got off to a great start in game one, and although we hit okay, we didn’t do enough to slow their offense,” Ring told the UCSD Athletics Department after the game.

“Game two, we did a much better job of pressuring USC with our serve and better blocking.”

Redshirt junior outside hitter Scot Metzger and redshirt freshman midSee MEN’S VOLLEYBALL, page 9

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STAFF writer The UCSD women’s basketball team closed out a five-game home stand with a loss on Friday evening to Cal State East Bay, followed by a close victory on Saturday against Cal State Monterey Bay. In their first matchup against the East Bay Pioneers (8–5 overall), junior guard Miranda Seto served as the team’s bright spot in an otherwise uninspired 78–58 loss. Seto led the Tritons on the attack with 19 points and finishing 6-for-8 from the field.

“I thought Miranda played with

a tremendous amount of energy,” UCSD head coach Heidi VanDerveer said. “I thought we played hard all night.”

But the Tritons struggled throughout the second half to keep the contest close in spite of a 39–37 first half score.

While the Tritons shot 50 percent (13–26) from the field in the first half and went an impressive 6-for-9 from the three-point line, they seemed to fall apart after halftime. In the second half, UCSD sank a feeble 30 percent (7-for-23) of their shots from the field and went 1-for-6 from beyond the arc.

Beyond poor shooting, the Tritons also found themselves overwhelmed defensively by the Pioneer squad,

which finished the game at 56 percent (30–53) from the field.

“I think in the second half we missed some shots and then really didn’t get matched up a couple times in transition,” VanDerveer said. “[We] gave up some easy baskets.”

However, the Tritons followed this loss with a close win against Cal State Monterey Bay, barely edging the Otters by a score of 40–38.

The Tritons, who came in as clear favorites to win against the 3–6 overall Otters, finished the game with a disappointing 29 percent shooting percentage (15–51) from See W. BASKETBALL, page 9