The official list of candidates running in the upcoming A.S. election in April were announced on Tuesday. Winning candidates will serve on the A.S. Council for the 2002-2003 school year.
The presidential candidates are Jenn Brown, David R. Hansen, Phil Palisoul II, Colin Parent and “”Sam I Am”” Shahmardi.
Vice president internal candidates are Scott Destafney, Liz Erwin, Kevin Shawn Hsu and Paul Lin.
Vice president external candidates are Sierra Catcott, Kevin Cruz, Steve Klass and Adam Richards.
Vice president finance candidates are Robert Benson Babcock, Dave Beza, Garo Bournoutian, Tom Chapman and Will Tunick.
Commissioner of academic affairs candidates are Halle Beitollahi, Lance Feller and Jessica K. Oseguera.
Robin Shelton is the unopposed candidate for commissioner of athletics.
Commissioner of communications candidates are Ryan Darby and Navneet Grewal.
Commissioner of diversity affairs candidates are Cristina Casis Conde and David Brown Mitchell.
Commissioner of programming candidates are Jamal Dauda, Gabe Grossman, Eric Hardeman and Rishi Shah.
Commissioner of services and enterprises candidates are Stefanie Barriere, Jeremy Gallagher, David Goodwin and David Tawfik.
Commissioner of student advocacy candidates are Parisa Baharian, Brie Finegold and Chris Taylor.
Elections will start on April 8. Students can vote at http://www.studentlink.ucsd.edu.
Two SIO students each get a $10,000 grant for research
The University of California Marine Council has awarded Scripps Institution of Oceanography graduate students Bonnie Becker and Joel Fodrie with $10,000 each under the Coastal Environmental Quality Initiative to conduct research.
As part of the CEQI, Becker and Fodrie will use a high-tech instrument that combines a laser ablation unit with a magnetic sector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer, which is referred to as LA-ICP MS. The laser allows for high-resolution fine-scale studies of marine life in oceanic research.
Becker will use the LA-ICP MS to study invertebrates in the area of San Diego surrounding the Cabrillo national monument. The research could lead to improved protection for the invertebrate and mussel population.
Fodrie will use the LA-ICP MS to research ear bones of fish and to identify the main nursery areas of halibut off of the California coast. Fodrie’s research could lead to the creation of future marine reserves in California.
Med school researchers say that aging is old hat
Researchers from the UCSD School of Medicine are trying to find out if health problems associated with old age can be reversed with the restoration of the hormone DHEA as part of the DHEA and Wellness Study by the Department of Family and Preventative Medicine.
DHEA may be related to numerous functions such as muscle strength, bone density, the immune system, cardiovascular disease, mood and sexual function. The research seeks to discover if there is in fact a connection.
Nonsmoking men between the ages of 70 and 84, and women between 55 and 84 will be subjects of the study.
Researchers are seeking 100 men and 100 women to participate in the trial. Subjects will be given DHEA or a placebo each day for a year. All participants will receive free medical evaluations, while female participants will get mammograms and males will be tested for Prostate-specific antigen measures. For more information call (858) 534-0950.
UCSD student under police investigation for Web site
A UCSD student has recently become the subject of a San Diego Police Department investigation into the possibility that the student’s Web site contains child pornography.
Bertrand Fan, a 21-year-old junior, hosts a Web site from his San Diego home that contains pictures of hundreds of high-school-age girls and asks users to rate the females on a scale of one to 10, based on whether they think the females are “”jailbait.””
Controversy erupted when administrators at a high school in Castro Valley, Calif., began receiving phone calls from parents of girls posted on the site. The callers expressed concern over the photos on Fan’s site, according to Castro Valley High School Associate Principal Jim Maxwell.
A Castro Valley High School student has recently come forward and admitted to taking some of the photos that appear on Fan’s Web site, Maxwell said.
According to The Daily Review, a Bay Area newspaper, Fan uploaded the images to his Web site from Pbase.com, a file-sharing Web site that allows users to set up folders and share their photos on the Web.
Fan is a senior staff writer for The UCSD Guardian.
[Editor’s note: The UCSD Guardian is not affiliated with Fan’s Web site.]
