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A.S. COUNCIL
THIS WEEK
Council Debates Selection Process
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Prof. Published After Two-Year Legal Battle
BY DANIEL SONG Staff Writer Two associate vice president appointments were blocked at A.S. Council’s 10.5-hour meeting last week. Last Wednesday, March 30, A.S. Council approved new appointments to the open AVP positions based on recommendations by AVP selection committees. AVPs are responsible for overseeing various departments that focus on specific services. While they are not voting members of council, they receive a compensation package of around $3,500. The selection committees are made of senators and an ex-officio representative that provide recommendations to the executive in charge of the AVP’s office. At the last council meeting, two candidates for AVP positions received recommendations from their respective committees, but were blocked by the respective vice president. The AVP Local Affairs selection committee unanimously selected 2011-12 Muir Senator Leah Wong for the position. But when her appointment was put to a vote, an objection was raised and council closed its meeting to the public for the next two hours. After doors re-opened, council put the appointment to a second vote that failed. Council will not be able to appoint someone to the position until the beginning of Fall Quarter 2012. Vice President of External Affairs Olamide Noah, who ultimately appoints the AVP Local Affairs position, expressed concerns that Wong was not the most qualified candidate. “I tried my absolute best to highlight the fact that I’m doing everything I’m doing according to the bylaws, and the rules enforced by council,” Noah said. AVP College Affairs Leonard Bobbitt said that council acted inappropriately and that it was crucial for someone to be appointed ASAP. “I don’t doubt the intentions of the VP External, she just doesn’t believe Leah fits her vision but if the office is unfilled, not much can come out of it,” Bobbitt said. “Having these positions during summer is the most important time to have them, because with the students gone there needs to be someone who continues to advocate on their behalf.” See COUnCil, page 3
Administrators had threatened to fire Richard Biernacki over a controversial manuscript. BY AYAN KUSARI Staff Writer
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t’s been a long wait for sociology professor Richard Biernacki. After fighting in court for two years — and taking out a second mortgage to fund the attorney fees — Biernacki’s formerly banned manuscript has finally been published. The work, titled Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry, was released for sale
by Paul Grave Macmillan publishers this Sunday, June 3. It has been over three years since the UCSD Social Sciences department placed a gag order on Biernacki’s manuscript, which is about peer review in the social sciences. The order, written by Dean of Social Sciences Jeff Elman, asked Biernacki to stop “harassing” a colleague within the UCSD Sociology Department whose research methods Biernacki critiqued in his book. The gag order also stated that Biernacki could be fired if he requested data from the National Science Foundation. In response, Biernacki See COURT, page 3
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
UCSD Receives $100K Gates Grant BY JAVIER ARMSTRONG Staff Writer UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering has received a grant funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for its “pregnancy tattoo” device used to monitor premature pregnancies. The Grand Challenges Explorations grant will provide $100,000 to the project’s first phase. The project, called “Epidermal Electronics for Continuous
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release, the scientists will use the device to monitor contractions, fetal heart rate and oxygen. The technology has the potential to allow wireless and continuous pregnancy monitoring of at-risk patients. The device consists of a flexible tattoo-like electronic system that is mounted on the skin. It is a patch made of circuits, sensors and wireless transmitters that can stick to the skin like an electronic tattoo. The monitor can flex and stretch with the skin as
well as overcome problems of sweating and continuous cell turnover of the skin. The tattoo electronics are laminated onto the belly of the mom and will continuously measure uterine contractions, EKG heart signals of the mom and fetus, body temperature and blood oxygenation of the mom. The measured signals will then be transmitted wirelessly on a
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