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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2015
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Students Participate In Annual Hijab Day Challenge Female students received free headscarves and described their experiences at the Islam Awareness Week event that was held in PC later that day.
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UCSD SOFTBALL SWEPT SF STATE THIS WEEKEND, DURING WHICH HEAD COACH PATTI GERCKENS EARNED HER 600th CAREER WIN AS THE LEADER OF ONE OF THE TRITONS’ MOST SUCCESSFUL ATHLETICS PROGRAMS EVER. sports, PAGE 12
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60 micrometers per second. The motors then lodge themselves into the “viscous layer” of the stomach. They are subsequently dissolved by the stomach acid and disappear within a number of days, leaving no trace of toxic chemicals. Researchers believe these motors are promising for gastric drug delivery in particular due to their acid-powered propulsion. The selfpropulsion of these motors has led to an improvement in retention of their “payloads,” the substance that is administered into the lining of each mouse’s stomach by the micromotors. “It’s the motor that can punch into this viscous layer and stay See MICROMOTORS, page 3
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
UC Health Insurance CyberAttack Exposes Client Data Anthem Inc. — the University of California’s health insurance provider — announced that it was the victim of a highly sophisticated cyberattack on Feb. 5. Anthem informed the university that the hackers accessed the information of its 80 million members, including UC faculty, staff, students and retirees. The hackers obtained names, member identification numbers, multiple Social Security numbers, birth dates, street addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and employment information. They were not able to access the Social Security numbers of UC students, however, because Anthem does not collect that information. Director of global security response Katherine Keefe, who works for Beazley Group, which offers insurance for businesses against data breaches,
Staff writer told National Public Radio that even though they are not working with Anthem, this data breach is hugely significant in the healthcare world. “It’s probably the largest healthcare breach that we’ve seen and maybe that the government has seen,” Keefe said. U.S. Open Data is a non-profit organization that works with governments to help companies understand, store and share data. Its director, Waldo Jaquith, told NPR that there needs to be federal legislation that addresses these security issues. “We can no longer pretend that what happens on the Internet isn’t real life,” Jaquith said. “We need requirements in place to ensure that a minimum level of security is in place to protect crucial data about everybody’s lives.” According to a UC press release, Anthem’s
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VERBATIM
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SOCIALISM WITH A BIG, RED “S.” SOCIALISM IS BACK IN EUROPE, MORE THAN 20 YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE USSR.” MARCUS THUILLIER & AYAT AMIN
The Muslim Student Association at UCSD hosted an event titled “Hijab: The Elephant in the Room” as part of Hijab Day on Wednesday, Feb. 11. Hijab Day was part of the organization’s Islam Awareness Week. The event began in the morning on Library Walk. Members of the MSA invited students of all backgrounds to take the Hijab Challenge and wear a hijab for a day. Those who participated were invited to share their experiences at the event on Wednesday night. The night began with a prayer for the three Muslim students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who were murdered on Tuesday, Feb. 10. The talk then transitioned into a discussion about the hijab and the difficulties Muslim women who wear the hijab face, which included speeches from Mamoon Syed and Marwa Abdullah. Abdullah spoke about her experience as a Muslim woman in the U.S. and recited a poem about why she wears the hijab. After the speeches, girls who had participated in the Hijab Challenge shared their experiences of wearing the hijab for a day. Each of the participants described having a positive experience and reported experiencing a difference in the way others perceived them. Revelle College junior Kacia Cameron, who participated in the challenge, told the UCSD Guardian that people treated her differently while she was wearing the hijab. “I did notice a difference,” Cameron said. “[People] were either avoiding eye contact with me or they were staring.” A Q&A session with Ismahan Warfa, an MSA alumna, and Syed followed the Hijab Challenge participants’ testimonials. At the end of the event, Ramsha Shakil, another member of the MSA, told the Guardian that the goal of the event was to raise awareness about what being a Muslim really means. “I know a lot of people have misconceptions based on what the media says,” Shakil said. MSA president Sammay Azhand told the Guardian what outcome he hoped for from Hijab Day. “Just like in the name: to raise awareness because there are a lot of people on campus who really don’t know anything about Islam at all other than what they may have heard in the media,” Azhand said.
Fatima Haghi, vice president of UCSD’s Muslim Student Association, helps Hijab Day Challenge participant Hibah Khan put on a headscarf. Photo by Nadah Feteih / UCSD Guardian.
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Science and technology
Scientists Test Zinc-Based Micromotors In Mice
This marked the first time the micromotor technology was tested on a living organism. BY Maria Sebas
Contributing WRITER On Dec. 30, 2014, researchers at UCSD published a study detailing the first test of stomach acid-powered micromotors in mice. The testing of these tiny zinc-based micromotors has notable implications for the future of medicine, including a more efficient method of drug delivery and biopsies of tumors. Professors Joseph Wang and Liangfang Zhang of the Nanoengineering Department at the Jacobs School of Engineering are the first to show that these motors can be safely used in a living organism. The researchers previously tested similar models of micromotors
and fuel systems that can travel in water, blood and other bodily fluids; however, this is the first time that they tested micromotors in a living organism. “We thought it was the logical extension of the work we have done to see if these motors might be able to swim in stomach acid,” Wang said in the Jacobs School of Engineering press release. To begin the experiment, the mice were orally administered small drops of solution containing hundreds of micromotors. The zincbased motors quickly reacted with the stomach acid of each mouse to propel the motors toward its stomach lining. They can selfpropel within the mouse’s stomach for up to 10 minutes, at a speed of