The five candidates for A.S. Council President will square off in a debate on April 3, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Price Center Plaza.
Bryan Barton, Jeremy Gallagher, Kevin Shawn Hsu, Kevin Hsu and Brian Uiga are the five presidential candidates running for the 2003-04 term.
C.A.M.P. program coordinator named
Jacqueline Aziz-Brewer has been named coordinator of UCSD’s California Alliance for Minority Participation in Science, Engineering and Mathematics Program.
The C.A.M.P. program is one of several under the university’s Academic Enrichment Program unit in Student Affairs designed to offer research experiences to undergraduates and help motivate them to attend graduate school. The C.A.M.P. program itself works to provide support and advancement opportunities to underrepresented undergraduate students majoring in the sciences.
Aziz-Brewer transferred to UCSD as an undergraduate from Glendale Community College and went on to obtain a doctorate in neurosciences at UCSD after having worked closely with faculty in completing research under AEP programs.
Board of Regents to teleconference on April 3
The University of California Board of Regents will be meeting via teleconference on April 3 from 9 a.m. to noon.
Concerns about traveling induced by the outbreak of war with Iraq led the meeting to be scheduled instead of the regular business meeting which was to be held on March 19 and March 20.
The regular Board of Regents meeting will be held at the UC San Francisco-Laurel Heights campus instead of the originally scheduled location in Los Angeles.
After a public comment section at 9 a.m., the April 3 meeting will continue with a closed session on legal, personnel and investment matters, followed by open sessions, including updates on Los Alamos National Laboratory management and mid-year university budget cuts.
One of the teleconference locations will be at UCSD in 11-A in the University Complex.
Muir students present musical
The Muir College Musical ensemble will present the musical comedy “”How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”” at Mandeville Auditorium on April 10, April 11 and April 12 at 7:30 p.m.
The comedy, which opened on Broadway in 1961, is set in the 1950s and tells the tale of J. Pierrepont Finch’s ascension from a window-washer to a high-powered executive, by the process of satirizing the world of business through numerous subplots.
The ensemble’s yearly productions are UCSD’s only completely student-produced theater event. Revelle College senior Sheida Falahatpisheh directs this year’s production, working with a production team of 20, a cast of 30 and an orchestra of 31, all students.
Tickets are available at the UCSD Box Office, the Muir College Center and at the door, priced at $6 for students, $7 for staff and $8 for general admission.
Researchers link crystal meth to cardiac damage
UCSD researchers have found that hospitalized methamphetamine users show a significantly higher rate of cardiac dysfunction than non-users, according to Ori Ben-Yuhada, assistant professor of medicine and director of UCSD’s Coronary Care Unit at the UCSD Medical Center.
Ben-Yuhada and colleagues Nader Banki,, Neil Siecke, and Thomas Waltman decided to examine the effects of crystal methamphetamine due to the pervasive use of the drug in San Diego County. They reviewed the records of 76 patients and found that 64 percent showed normal heart function, compared with 85 percent in an age-matched control group. Twenty-eight percent of the users exhibited moderate to severe left ventricular dysfunction, compared to 7 percent in the control group.
The study was comprised of patients from the teens to 50 years old, but with an average age of 41 to 43 years old. According to Ben-Yuhada, it is unusual for people to show such levels of ventricular dysfunction at this age.
The study was conducted because there had previously been only anecdotal evidence for a link between crystal methamphetamine use and cardiac damage, and because larger-scale studies needed to be done to further understand the public health implications, according to Ben-Yuhada.