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VOLUME 49, ISSUE 5

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2015

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AROUND CAMPUS

UC SYSTEM

BEHIND THE VELVET CURTAIN

Campuses Compete to Cut Carbon Emissions UCOP’s Cool Campus Challenge is part of a UC initiative to achieve carbon neutrality by the year 2025.

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Q&A WITH UCSD ALUMNUS MARK EMERSON, WHO IS STARRING IN THE MODERN RETELLING OF “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA,” REVEALS THE LIFE OF A THESPIAN TO THE UCSD GUARDIAN. WEEKEND, PAGE 6

GRIDLOCKED GUN LAWS

OREGON GUN VIOLENCE OPINION, Page 4

A WEEKEND AWAY soccer splits road games Sports, Page 12

FORECAST

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SATURDAY H 87 L 67

FRIDAY

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SUNDAY

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BY Josh Lefler

Staff Writer

UCSD students watched Finding Nemo and Jurassic World at TritonFest’s Poolside Cinema event on Oct. 3. Photo by Emily Tipton/UCSD Guardian

CAMPUS

New Digital Media Lab Offers Free 3-D Printing

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eisel Library opened its new digital media lab on Wednesday. Located in the Library’s East Learning Commons on the second floor, the lab offers free 3-D printing and other media-editing resources for UCSD students, staff and faculty. Digital Media Lab Manager Scott McAvoy told the UCSD Guardian that the lab is the first of its kind on campus because it makes 3-D printing freely accessible to all students. “There are other places on campus that charge $25 per cubic inch, but we’re doing it all for free,” McAvoy said. “[Several] classes on campus already require people to design a 3-D model and print it out as part of their coursework. This lab is the only place where it all comes together and gives everybody access.” Visitors can reserve a space in the lab for up to three hours on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and there are instructional workshops available for individuals who are interested in learning how to

VERBATIM

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AROUND THE GLOBE OPINION, PAGE 4

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BY KRITI SARIN NEWS

EDITOR

use the lab’s resources. Emerging Technologies Librarian Duffy Tweedy said that the digital media lab is not limited to students in technical majors and offers resources to students in all academic departments. “The idea was to cater to students who weren’t necessarily in media classes,” Tweedy explained to the Guardian. “[These students] wouldn’t, therefore, have a dedicated lab for that department, major and class and would just need to crank out one video or one 3-D print and don’t know where to go. We’re trying to fill in the gaps of the non-media students who have limited needs but still need some expertise.” In addition to receiving funding from the Library’s budget over the past two years, McAvoy said that part of a recent $3 million donation from Audrey Geisel helped make the lab a reality. He added that approximately $2 million in donations are still needed to expand the media lab beyond its current location and incorporate new features, such

See 3-D, page 3

SAN DIEGO

UCSD Campus Hosts International Hackathon Over 1,000 students participated in the 36-hour programming competition last weekend. BY KYLE SOMERS

staff writer UCSD hosted its largest hackathon to date last weekend and attracted students from other California colleges and from out of state. Organized by Triton Engineering Student Council, SD Hacks was able to accommodate over 1000 students from 5000 applicants in a tent at the UCSD Track and Field Stadium. According to the event’s head organizer and Earl Warren College junior Ryan Hill, UCSD is now one of three colleges in California to host a hackathon on the scale of 1000 participants. “We sent buses to 11 locations

around California,” Hill told the UCSD Guardian. “Students attended from most of the UC [colleges], Caltech, Stanford and USC, to name some of the major ones.” Hill offered his opinion on the UCSD hacking community and said it was unlike those at many other campuses. “Having been to a lot of hackathons, a lot of other universities are jealous of UCSD’s computer engineering and hacking community,” Hill said. “Even students from dream tech schools like MIT who come here are amazed with the computer science community, and that’s what allowed this event to come together so well.” During the 36-hour hackathon,

event organizers provided students with resources ranging from mentors to 3-D printers, which students were able to use for a variety of engineering and computer science-based projects. Though several smaller awards were offered, the grand prize went to a team of UCSD students who created a method of uploading a credit card to a phone and then using an electromagnet to scan the card information into an ordinary card reader. Some of the other projects included an machine that mixed drinks based on what music is playing, a website that uses machine See HACKATHON, page 2

The UC system launched the Cool Campus Challenge on Oct. 6, a university-wide competition aimed at motivating students and faculty to reduce the carbon footprints of their respective campuses. UC President Janet Napolitano announced the competition in a video message this September. “We’re on our way to becoming the very first university system to wipe out its carbon footprint for good,” Napolitano said. “It’s a daring goal, one that will take both individual and collective action to make happen.” UC administration encourages students and faculty from all UC campuses to sign up individually or in teams to join the competition. Each school will be holding weekly challenges to award points to those who perform actions that reduce the total emissions on campus. Each week will revolve around a different sustainability theme, including education and awareness, composting food waste, transportation and others. At the end of the competition, the school that amasses the most points will be crowned “Coolest UC Campus.” The competition, which runs from Oct. 6 to Dec. 10, is part of a larger UC initiative to reach carbon neutrality across all campuses. In 2013, President Napolitano established the Carbon Emissions Initiative, which aims to reduce carbon emission levels to zero across all campuses by the year 2025. According to Jane Teranes, Associate Director of UCSD’s Environmental Systems program, the Cool Campus Challenge serves as a means to raise awareness among students and faculty about the 2013 initiative. “The UC President has issued a goal for all of the UC system to be carbon neutral by 2025. That is just 10 years away,” Teranes told the UCSD Guardian. “This challenge is timed with making the goal a reality.” UCSD Campus Sustainability Manager Sara Mckinstry said this competition foreshadows a number of environmentally sound additions on campus in both the short-term and the long-term. “Some of these changes [the current student body] will see, like more electric vehicle charging stations on campus. Some you won’t … like biogas or other renewable energy contracts,” Mckinstry told the Guardian. According to the UCSD website, biogas is already implemented on See COOL, page 3


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