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Student newSpaper of the univerSity of Southern California SinCe 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | vol. 180, no. 20 | tuesday september 24, 2013 InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 12 · Sports Who asked you?: McMillan tells stories set in South l.a. PAGE 5 Halted: the men’s water polo team’s streak ends. PAGE 12 SCienCe by kylie morgan daily trojan The USC Jet Propulsion Laboratory failed to achieve its goal to be the first university group to reach space at the BALLS convention when its rocket, named Traveler, exploded after launch on Friday. The group said that although they haven’t yet had a successful launch, they have made extensive progress for an undergraduate team. “We made it further than any student group has ever made it in this process,” said Sarah Cusson, a senior majoring in astronautical engineering who works in launch operations in the rocket lab. The group plans to launch the rocket again the weekend of Oct. 18 to 20. Cusson said the rocket’s launch made the USC Jet Propulsion Laboratory the first student group to be granted the clearance to potentially launch a rocket into space, as well as the first student group to launch a potentially space-bound rocket from the launch pad. The motor of the rocket exploded, ripping the rocket in two when the combustion chamber was over-pressurized. The rocket lab was able to recover almost the entire vehicle, however, and easily determine what needed to be fixed, after the launch. The group said they will remain positive despite the setback. “In a failure, you tend to learn more than you do in a success,” said Head of Operations and Global Design Jordan Noone, a senior majoring in aerospace engineering and biophysics. For example, Noone said they observed interesting things within the motor that are visible when it stops running mid-f light, but generally not visible before or after the f light. Though the premature vehicle separation prevented the group from testing their recovery systems, Jordan Raice, a senior majoring in aerospace engineering, said he is excited to test the “burrito,” a contraption designed to allow the rocket to descend from space quickly without causing it to break to pieces when it hits the ground, in the next launch. Raice is the recovery team lead and said the “burrito” is a device that involves a small parachute that allows the rocket to come down quickly from space and a larger parachute (initially wrapped up like a burrito, hence the nickname) to be released at 5,000 feet, allowing the rocket to safely land. The rocket lab has not designed rockets intended for USC Rocket Lab fails to launch rocket into space Students plan to fix, improve and relaunch the rocket the weekend of Oct. 18 to 20. | see rockEt, page 3 | by gaby vidal daily trojan Members of the USC medical community came together on Monday at Mayer Hall on the Health Sciences Campus to listen to Dr. Fernando Antelo discuss the medical aspects of the artwork of Frida Kahlo as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. The event, hosted by the Latino Medical Student Association, incorporated music and an authentic Mexican lunch into the discussion of Kahlo’s paintings, which allowed attendees to view medicine through a more cultural lens. “Monica [Melgar], our co-chair, really wanted to have an event that wasn’t just about medicine,” said Susana Sandoval, a second year medical student and the secretary of LMSA. “She didn’t want a medical talk. She wanted to incorporate some art, some Latino art.” Antelo, a forensic pathology fellow at the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner, has conducted similar cultural and scientific presentations in several parts of the state, including at UCLA and UC San Diego. Antelo attended Loyola High School in Los Angeles, received his bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley, earned his medical degree at the Olive View University of California Medical Education Program and then completed his residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. Throughout his presentation, Antelo developed a sense of understanding science through artwork by going through the different body parts that Expert discusses Frida Kahlo’s influence in science Forensic pathology fellow Dr. Fernando Antelo spoke of Frida Kahlo’s art as science. | see kAhlo, page 3 | ConverSation ralf cheung | Daily Trojan Scientific art· Dr. Fernando Antelo lectures students and faculty on the incorporation of science and medicine in artist Frida Kahlo’s work. reSearCh by alana victor daily trojan USC scientists in the Keck School of Medicine Department of Preventative Medicine were one of 14 groups that received funding to research smoking in vulnerable populations, according to the Keck School of Medicine. The $20 million grant was given to allow the USC researchers to participate in a first-of-its-kind regulatory science tobacco program that will use the grant over five years to establish one of 14 Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science. The funding is provided by the Food and Drug Administration and through the National Institutes of Health. The leading investigators on the project for USC are Dr. Jonathan Samet, professor and chair of preventive medicine, and Mary Ann Pentz, professor of preventive medicine and director of the Institute for Prevention Research at the Keck School of Medicine. “There are certain things that the FDA needs to deal with under the laws, and they need the scientific basis for doing that,” Samet said. “What we do and what others do might be the basis for regulations. It might be the basis for public health campaigns. It might be the basis for thinking about how to control advertising on the Internet related to tobacco use.” The program will research seven different aspects of smoking, from the marketing of tobacco products to the reduction of toxicity and carcinogenicity. “The grant involves not only the School of Medicine, but USC scientists receive grant to study effects of smoking USC’s Keck School of Medicine was granted $20 million to research the use of tobacco. | see SmokInG, page 2 | photo illustration by nick entin light ’em up · A USC student takes a break to smoke a cigarette across from Waite Phillips Hall on campus. USC researchers received a grant from the Food and Drug Administration to research the effects of smoking.
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Full text | Student newSpaper of the univerSity of Southern California SinCe 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | vol. 180, no. 20 | tuesday september 24, 2013 InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 12 · Sports Who asked you?: McMillan tells stories set in South l.a. PAGE 5 Halted: the men’s water polo team’s streak ends. PAGE 12 SCienCe by kylie morgan daily trojan The USC Jet Propulsion Laboratory failed to achieve its goal to be the first university group to reach space at the BALLS convention when its rocket, named Traveler, exploded after launch on Friday. The group said that although they haven’t yet had a successful launch, they have made extensive progress for an undergraduate team. “We made it further than any student group has ever made it in this process,” said Sarah Cusson, a senior majoring in astronautical engineering who works in launch operations in the rocket lab. The group plans to launch the rocket again the weekend of Oct. 18 to 20. Cusson said the rocket’s launch made the USC Jet Propulsion Laboratory the first student group to be granted the clearance to potentially launch a rocket into space, as well as the first student group to launch a potentially space-bound rocket from the launch pad. The motor of the rocket exploded, ripping the rocket in two when the combustion chamber was over-pressurized. The rocket lab was able to recover almost the entire vehicle, however, and easily determine what needed to be fixed, after the launch. The group said they will remain positive despite the setback. “In a failure, you tend to learn more than you do in a success,” said Head of Operations and Global Design Jordan Noone, a senior majoring in aerospace engineering and biophysics. For example, Noone said they observed interesting things within the motor that are visible when it stops running mid-f light, but generally not visible before or after the f light. Though the premature vehicle separation prevented the group from testing their recovery systems, Jordan Raice, a senior majoring in aerospace engineering, said he is excited to test the “burrito,” a contraption designed to allow the rocket to descend from space quickly without causing it to break to pieces when it hits the ground, in the next launch. Raice is the recovery team lead and said the “burrito” is a device that involves a small parachute that allows the rocket to come down quickly from space and a larger parachute (initially wrapped up like a burrito, hence the nickname) to be released at 5,000 feet, allowing the rocket to safely land. The rocket lab has not designed rockets intended for USC Rocket Lab fails to launch rocket into space Students plan to fix, improve and relaunch the rocket the weekend of Oct. 18 to 20. | see rockEt, page 3 | by gaby vidal daily trojan Members of the USC medical community came together on Monday at Mayer Hall on the Health Sciences Campus to listen to Dr. Fernando Antelo discuss the medical aspects of the artwork of Frida Kahlo as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. The event, hosted by the Latino Medical Student Association, incorporated music and an authentic Mexican lunch into the discussion of Kahlo’s paintings, which allowed attendees to view medicine through a more cultural lens. “Monica [Melgar], our co-chair, really wanted to have an event that wasn’t just about medicine,” said Susana Sandoval, a second year medical student and the secretary of LMSA. “She didn’t want a medical talk. She wanted to incorporate some art, some Latino art.” Antelo, a forensic pathology fellow at the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner, has conducted similar cultural and scientific presentations in several parts of the state, including at UCLA and UC San Diego. Antelo attended Loyola High School in Los Angeles, received his bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley, earned his medical degree at the Olive View University of California Medical Education Program and then completed his residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. Throughout his presentation, Antelo developed a sense of understanding science through artwork by going through the different body parts that Expert discusses Frida Kahlo’s influence in science Forensic pathology fellow Dr. Fernando Antelo spoke of Frida Kahlo’s art as science. | see kAhlo, page 3 | ConverSation ralf cheung | Daily Trojan Scientific art· Dr. Fernando Antelo lectures students and faculty on the incorporation of science and medicine in artist Frida Kahlo’s work. reSearCh by alana victor daily trojan USC scientists in the Keck School of Medicine Department of Preventative Medicine were one of 14 groups that received funding to research smoking in vulnerable populations, according to the Keck School of Medicine. The $20 million grant was given to allow the USC researchers to participate in a first-of-its-kind regulatory science tobacco program that will use the grant over five years to establish one of 14 Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science. The funding is provided by the Food and Drug Administration and through the National Institutes of Health. The leading investigators on the project for USC are Dr. Jonathan Samet, professor and chair of preventive medicine, and Mary Ann Pentz, professor of preventive medicine and director of the Institute for Prevention Research at the Keck School of Medicine. “There are certain things that the FDA needs to deal with under the laws, and they need the scientific basis for doing that,” Samet said. “What we do and what others do might be the basis for regulations. It might be the basis for public health campaigns. It might be the basis for thinking about how to control advertising on the Internet related to tobacco use.” The program will research seven different aspects of smoking, from the marketing of tobacco products to the reduction of toxicity and carcinogenicity. “The grant involves not only the School of Medicine, but USC scientists receive grant to study effects of smoking USC’s Keck School of Medicine was granted $20 million to research the use of tobacco. | see SmokInG, page 2 | photo illustration by nick entin light ’em up · A USC student takes a break to smoke a cigarette across from Waite Phillips Hall on campus. USC researchers received a grant from the Food and Drug Administration to research the effects of smoking. |