VOLUME 52, ISSUE 30
MONDAY, JUNE 3, 2019
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Bill Requiring OnTime UC Employee Payment Passes Senate Senate Bill 698 was drafted following complaints from University of California employees for late and missed payments. BY Tyler faurot
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Haley Lomax. Harbert explained to the UCSD Guardian that the art piece is intended to serve as a reminder to students of what it means to attend UC San Diego. “We were motivated to develop this art project because it is important that students, or any staff, faculty, or visitors, are aware that UC San Diego is on Kumeyaay land,” Harbert said. “Many students or potential students do not know
A proposed state bill that would require the University of California to pay employees on time was unanimously passed by the California State Senate on May 23. If ratified by the California State Assembly and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, the UC system would be held to the standard of private sector employers and would need to pay employees no more than five days after the designated payday to avoid legal repercussions. Senate Bill 698, sponsored by Senator Connie Levya, was drafted in part to respond to a number of employee complaints against the UC Board of Regents for missing or incorrect paychecks. UCPath, a new payroll system that aims to bring all campus pay systems into one central process, was first implemented in the summer of 2018 and is still being implemented in waves. Sarah McBride, the media and communications strategist with the UC Office of the President, told the UCSD Guardian the new system currently serves UC Merced, UC Riverside, UCLA, and UC Santa Barbara. “Data was difficult to maintain consistently across the system, preventing the university from efficiently utilizing management data,” McBride told the Guardian. “UCPath enables UC to operate a technologically advanced, unified, and improved platform for payroll processing, human resources, and data access for employees.” Since the start of UCPath’s rollout, a number of university and student employee complaints have been brought up regarding incorrect, late, or missing paychecks. McBride told the Guardian that the UCOP is aware of the issue and is working to address new problems as they arise. “No new systemwide upgrade of this magnitude and complexity is without problems, many of which can only be identified and addressed after the system is live and operational,” McBride said. “During this stabilization period — when issues are most likely to occur — we have proactively planned for additional staff and resources to support the campuses. We continue to apply lessons learned and best practices from previous implementations, and continue to do our best in quickly identifying and resolving problems.” Thomas Hintze, the legislative outreach coordinator for the UC
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School of Medicine and Roundup Clash over Study Findings By Zhuoying Lin COntributing Writer
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esearchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine rebuked the chemical company Bayer’s dispute of a recently published study linking Roundup, a glyphosate-based weed killer made by Bayer, to the development of liver disease in humans. The company initially contended that the findings were hollow and disregarded the possibility that members of the studied group could have metabolic disorders. In the initial study, the UCSD team examined the urine samples of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or build up of excess fat in the liver that’s not caused by alcohol, and those without it over their year-long study of 93 individuals. The results showed that glyphosate levels were significantly higher in patients with NAFLD and that this was independent of underlying factors including age, ethnicity, and blood mass index. The team also noticed that the prevalence of NAFLD had increased since Roundup came into significant use beginning in the mid-1990s. Professor Paul J. Mills, the first author of the paper and leader of the research team, told the UCSD Guardian that 80-90 percent of genetically modified corns and 60 percent of wheat are sprayed with glyphosate across the nation. “[Glyphosate] goes down [into] water and soil … it is taken up by crops, chickens, cows and [goes] into the human body,” Mills said. According to Mills, liver disease is often related to overconsuming alcohol, yet the increased case of NAFLD over the past decades caught Mills’ attention during a previous talk with his friends who work at hospitals. Mills looked into several animal studies in which animals were fed diets either including or excluding glyphosate. The results showed that the development of liver disease in animals was associated with the intake of glyphosate, commercially sold as Roundup.
“Animals were fed with [an] ultra low dose, which is lower than human exposure, and they get [liver disease],” Mills told the Guardian. Ultimately, these animal studies, which were cited in Mills’ paper, motivated him to launch a study looking at the effects of human consumption of glyphosate. Shortly after Mills published his study, the chemical company Bayer rebuked the findings. “While we are still examining this recently released study, the data indicates that the researchers failed to consider confounding factors including potential existing metabolic disorders in participants,” a spokesperson from Bayer said in a statement to the Times of San Diego Bayer’s counter-argument was based on the possibility that a metabolic disorder may also contribute to NAFLD. To be diagnosed with a metabolic disorder, or a metabolic syndrome, a patient has to have at least three of the five conditions which basically fall under the four categories: obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar. “I don’t understand their comment,” Mills told the Guardian. “We measured the subcomponents of the metabolic disorder. We did four of the five measures. The only thing we didn’t do is blood pressure.” The Times of San Diego mentioned in their report that Bayer cited a statement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which claimed that glyphosate posed no health risk if used properly. The company also stated that its pesticides were tested and abided to internationally accepted protocols. Conversely, a quote on pesticides in general from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website states that: “The FDA is continuously expanding its monitoring capabilities to fulfill its obligation to ensure that pesticide residues on or
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Sculpture to be Unveiled in Muir as Part of New Collection
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The new installation, called “When the World Comes to Life,” will celebrate self-identity and sustainability.
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staff Writer Kumeyaay artist Johnny Bear Contreras’ sculpture “When the World Comes to Life” will be unveiled in John Muir College on June 6 at 9:30 a.m. Originally planned as a mural, the art piece includes two large aluminium panels which will be attached to the side of Stewart Commons, facing the Middle of Muir Quad.
The art piece is centered around the themes of self-identity, the Muir motto of celebrating the independent spirit, sexuality, and the body, as well as sustainability. Planning for the art piece started last year by Muir senior Alexandra Harbert and Muir junior and Muir College Council President Roy Velasquez, along with support from Muir faculty and staff including Provost Wayne Yang and the Coordinator of Student Activities