Weekly Issue 18 02.24.20

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A fresh start and new energy

Nicole Van Dyke to build on Washington women’s soccer legacy By Andy Yamashita The Daily Nicole Van Dyke’s new office is practically empty. The off-white room in Conibear Shellhouse has three chairs, a desk with nothing on it, a computer, and a table in the back with several plaques that aren’t hers. Windows look out over Lake Washington, allowing the sun to shine in and illuminate the bare walls. The emptiness makes sense though: she just arrived. On Jan. 4, Van Dyke was announced as the third head coach in Washington women’s soccer history, replacing Lesle Gallimore after the legendary coach’s 26-year tenure on Montlake. Since then, she’s been travelling all across the West Coast talking to recruits and current players about her vision for the program.

Van Dyke spent the past four years at Pennsylvania, but has West Coast roots. Born in Sandpoint, Idaho, she moved to Spokane when she was twoyears-old and lived there eight years before moving down to California. “Pretty much my whole life has been on the West Coast,” she said. Out of high school, Van Dyke played a year for College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California, before transferring to CSU Bakersfield, where she played from 1998-2000. She set several school records and her 17 goals in a season are still a program record. Even then, the Division II school had a reputation for churning out soccer coaches, both for college and higher-level teams. But Van Dyke originally thought she wanted to do something else.

“My undergraduate degree was in liberal studies, so I thought I was going to teach,” Van Dyke said. “I am teaching in a way, it’s just a different curriculum.” It was at Bakersfield though, where she also got her first taste of coaching. Van Dyke, along with many of her fellow studentathletes, helped out with local club teams. Upon graduation, she became an assistant coach for the Roadrunners before moving to Sweden for a year to play with Mallbacken IF. In Europe, she had to adjust to a new system, a new role, and a new culture. But she always knew she wanted to come back to the United States, and when she was offered the head coaching job at Division II CSU Stanislaus, she took it. She was just 23-years-old. In 2006, following a league

championship, her alma mater came calling. Bakersfield was about to transition from Division II to Division I and wanted her to guide the school through it. Van Dyke agreed to return, and also became the school’s first full-time women’s soccer head coach. And though things like scheduling and recruiting were difficult at first for a team trying to raise its profile, she enjoyed helping Bakersfield establish an identity for its new women’s team. “It was really fun,” Van Dyke said. “You had an underdog mentality and we built the culture based on that. And we built the culture based on where we could go, not where we were. Those players were great because they gave a lot and changed the trajectory of the program … You always want to do more, but I think the transition was where I

probably grew a lot as a coach.” Van Dyke made her first appearance in the Pac-12 in 2011, joining the Stanford women’s soccer team as an assistant coach under Paul Ratcliffe. The Cardinal immediately played in and won the College Cup, marking the first of her three appearances. “I had a vacancy with my assistant coaching position,” Ratcliffe said. “I talked with quite a few people, the soccer community is pretty small, and a number of people recommended Nicole as a very good up and coming coach. I got in touch with her, brought her on campus, and got to know her better and so I was really lucky that I got to work with her for four years. She did a great job for me.” SEE SPORTS PG. 7

NEWS

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‘Being left to the dust’ U District Partnership pushes for change at dismay of small businesses

By Timothy Phung The Daily In recent years, the U-District has seen the closure of small business after small business, notably Sureshot Espresso, University Seafood and Poultry, Pho Tran, and as of a week ago, Buerjia Chinese Sauerkraut Fish. On the other hand, there are new developments in the area and more on the way in the form of highrise towers. At the forefront of these changes is the U District Partnership (UDP), a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization that functions as a quasineighborhood association, advocating for rezones in the U-District to bring development. “The UDP ultimately took a stand years ago on whether the rezones are desirable or not,” Mark Crawford, interim executive director of the UDP, said. The rezoning of property does not only mean that taller buildings are allowed to be built on that land but also reevaluates the property value and makes property taxes increase, oftentimes at the expense of the current tenants who have contracts that make them responsible for those taxes. This came to the satisfaction of property owners but to the dismay of many small business

owners on the Ave, including Rick McLaughlin, owner of Big Time Brewery. “The fact that [the UDP] took a stance though they are supposed to represent the entire community shows that they are a group that doesn’t have small business’ best interests at heart,” McLaughlin said. Meanwhile, property owners are able to increase rent prices in accordance with the new property values, even if their values reflect the potential value of the property and not the current building itself. “How can a small business afford to pay for 24 stories of invisible tower?” McLaughlin said. “We’re seeing iconic business after iconic business shut down as a result. Small businesses are being left to the dust.” McLaughlin, along with other small business owners, established the U District Small Business Association to give a voice to small business owners of the area. The group has criticized the UDP and their support of rezoning the Ave. “It’s hard seeing businesses shut down all around you,” McLaughlin said. “In the past few years, I can count ten different places that have closed. There has to be something being done to help small businesses

and not only the property owners.” The UDP, though their board is made up of some small business owners, have done little to include the members of the U District Small Business Association in decision making, leaving little voice for business owners but a lot of sway for property owners, critics say. “How are they engaging the property owners themselves in your effort?” UDP’s Crawford said about the group. “Their agenda of small business displacement on the lower part of the Ave and development threats. I understand that there are issues, but they are not convening all the stakeholders at the table.” In addition to a few business owners and residents, the UDP board is made up of property owners who not only own land but are also associated with other property-owning organizations, like the University District Parking Association, the board of which includes Don Schulze of Schultzy’s Sausages and Julie Willmes of the University Book Store. “[The U District Small Business Association] members are trying to handcuff property owners of this area and keep them in stasis for an unknown amount of time,” Crawford said,

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Kirsten Wong The Daily A “Save the Ave” sign hands above main entrance of Big Time Brewery, located on the Ave. dismissing the appeals of small businesses who fear that the U-District is being gentrified and redeveloped into an area of high-rise towers with little unique character to it. “Our board members voted in support of rezoning the area, seeing it desirable to the district,” Crawford said. “We see it as valuable for economic development.” Since the UDP is not a publically-run organization, community members do not have the right to elect board members even though they gain much of their funding from tax money. Yet, business owners who are paying into this group see themselves as unable to voice their opinions and had to resort

to creating a somewhat rival organization. Can anyone join the UDP board if they object to its actions? Crawford said no: “They have to support the decision of the board or they should leave.” Rick McLaughlin laments the business closures and lends assistance to places that remain in the U-District while trying to preserve the unique character of the Ave. “It’s hard seeing your friends’ businesses close up,” he said. “We need to let the little guy have the voice every now and then, and the UDP isn’t doing that for us.” Reach reporter Timothy Phung at news@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @TimPhung

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Breaking snooze: How to get your lazy ass out of bed A real-life college student attempts to wake up at 8 a.m. for a week By Ash Shah The Daily I love being awake early in the morning. I love how bright and quiet it is: no crowded streets or loud noises. It’s the “waking up” part of being awake that I’m not such a fan of. While sleeping and waking up might seem like polar opposites, the two are deeply interconnected and healthy sleeping habits typically translate to easier mornings. That being said, there are still things you can do to be a good waker-upper.

Let the light in

It may sound obvious, but bright light in the mornings helps wake your brain up. Opening up the blinds early in the morning, letting in natural, outdoor light, can be very beneficial. “Getting bright light soon after you wake up on a consistent basis moves your [internal] clock back,” Dr. Vishesh Kapur, UW’s director of sleep medicine, said. Melatonin works to reset the circadian rhythm in people with insomnia; bright light functions in a similar way.

Exercise (if you’re a freak like that)

Another great way to wake your brain up in the morning and get energized is — stay with me here — exercise. Understandably, this isn’t the most appealing of life changes to make. But exercise can be whatever you make of it. Whether you’re feeling up to a three-mile jog or just stretching in your room, the sheer act of getting up and moving wakes your brain. Working out in the morning also gets your energy up and can help you stay energized throughout the day.

However, that doesn’t mean you need to cut caffeine out entirely. Usually, drinking it before noon in moderate amounts will not affect your sleep. According to the National Sleep Foundation, 250 milligrams of caffeine per day is a moderate amount. For reference, a single fluid ounce shot of espresso has about 64 milligrams. However, slow metabolizers of caffeine should avoid it in higher quantities and stick to drinking it earlier in the day. While most of these habits involve getting up and doing something, there are also changes you can make in bed.

Don’t hit that snooze button

Let’s talk about snoozing. I have always been a firm believer in getting every last second of sleep you possibly can. Sometimes, you just need those extra seven minutes. Or, if you’re me, you set decoy alarms starting a full hour before you actually need to wake up to prepare your brain for what’s coming. Shockingly, this is not good for you. It turns out that the continuous snoozing of the alarm for short periods of time results in our sleep cycles being constantly interrupted. The short eight-minute naps that you’re getting in

between alarms are too short of a time period to actually be beneficial; all they succeed in doing is interrupting REM sleep.

Sleep in (when you can)

Sleeping in on weekends isn’t necessarily bad — for the most part, it’s paying off some of the sleep debt that you’ve built up over the course of the week — but this isn’t the case for everyone. Delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS) is a sleep disorder in which, as the name suggests, a person’s sleep cycle is delayed. They are unable to fall asleep at a conventional bedtime, and this results in difficulty waking up in the morning. For people with DSPS, sleeping in on weekends counteracts previous efforts. In this case, establishing a consistent wake time makes it easier for you to wake up earlier on days you actually need to. The more I read about people’s sleep struggles, the more I realized I related to almost all of them. So, I decided to test everything I had learned, on myself, over the course of two weeks. Because — not to brag or anything — I have a truly horrific sleep schedule. I primarily struggle with falling asleep. I have 9 a.m. classes every day, so waking up in the morning is a necessity,

Watch your caffeine intake

I admit that I’m not willing to put in the work and actually exercise in the morning since getting out of bed is hard enough, so I’ve turned to caffeine. But, as it turns out, it isn’t quite the miracle drug I’d considered it to be. “Caffeine antagonizes the chemicals that help you get to sleep,” Kapur said. “[Ingesting caffeine] later in the day if you have insomnia is not a good idea.”

Reach Science Editor Ash Shah at wellness@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @itsashshah

A crash course: The do’s and don’ts of dozing Sleeping for dummies, from one dummy to another I can do a lot of things: I can finish any quote from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, I can spend four hours in a TJ Maxx and be endlessly entertained, and I can recite all of Hasan Minhaj’s “Homecoming King” from memory. What I can’t do is sleep. More specifically, I can’t fall asleep. Most of the sleep problems that college students have — and by extension, me — can be traced back to a delayed circadian rhythm. A circadian rhythm is our body’s internal clock. It’s what causes us to feel sleepy and energized at roughly the same times every day, regulating our levels of alertness with the time of day. A delayed rhythm is when your internal clock shifts ahead a couple of hours. Dr. Vishesh Kapur, UW’s director of sleep medicine, says this shift results in increased alertness late at night and a subsequent inability to fall asleep. According to the Mayo Clinic, adults require between seven and nine hours of sleep per night. Most college students

SCIENCE

Professors & the balancing act between research & teaching By Hannah Krieg The Daily We all wear a lot of hats: student, friend, intern, minimum-wage worker, and somehow board member of clubs we have attended meetings all of three times. Without the help of Google Calendar and a little caffeine, we might not be able to juggle all these responsibilities, it’s just too many hats. Our professors wear a lot of hats too. They are teachers, researchers, and sources report they might even be people outside the classroom on occasion. Sometimes, as students, we feel a little shorted when these responsibilities come in conflict, feeling as though the UW puts its world-famous research above its undergraduates. According to professor of electrical engineering, Scott Hauck, UW faculty come in three flavors: lecturers who teach, research faculty who research, and professors who do both. “I think a typical professor probably spends a third of their time on teaching, a third of their time on research, and a third of their time combined getting funding to support the research and service for keeping the department going,” Hauck said. Hunter Schafer, a lecturer in the School of Computer Science & Engineering, prioritizes a little differently. “My job is about 80% teaching and 20% service: sitting on boards and shaping broader changes in our

fall short of this requirement and end up building a sleep debt. Sleep debt is exactly what it sounds like: sleep deprivation compounds on a nightly basis, resulting in longer-term sleep problems. A student who only gets five to six hours of sleep per night is already around 10 hours in debt by the end of the week. To make up for this, we tend to sleep in on weekends, but even those extra couple of hours aren’t enough to make up for the week. While hitting this target sleep goal isn’t always easy, there are things you can do to help yourself get close. For one, a consistent sleep schedule is key. A nightly routine is a good way to maintain consistency. Whether it’s watching an episode (or eight) of whatever it is that you’re binging or relaxing with a face mask, doing it every day before sleeping will help you build a positive association between your routine and sleep. Next, disengage. Turn off your phone, turn off your brain. Stop checking those

emails; they’ll be there in the morning. This process of disconnecting lets your brain relax and avoid things that cause anxiety, which can impede sleep. “There is another part of sleep hygiene that is using the bed just for sleep,” Kapur said. This comes down to your brain’s psychological association with your bed. Studying or reading in bed creates a link in your brain between wakefulness and the bed. “If you spend more time in bed than you need, you spend more time awake in bed,” Kapur said. “And so, the association gets worse.” Instead of being tired when you get into bed, your brain might use that as a cue to wake up. Alcohol right before bed can suppress some stages of sleep like REM sleep, which is required for memory consolidation. Alcohol also causes you to wake up in the middle of the night as it metabolizes. While alcohol does not directly cause sleep apnea, research has shown that habitual drinkers are at a higher risk for

developing the disorder. So, what actually causes you to fall asleep? Melatonin is the hormone that regulates your circadian rhythm. It is produced in response to darkness and helps maintain your sleep cycle. Melatonin supplements are available over-the-counter and can help with sleep disorders or even recovering after jet lag. As the world’s leading sleep struggler, I’ve grappled with the idea of taking melatonin for quite some time. “A lot of people use melatonin as a sleep aid, independent of changing the timing of their sleep,” Kapur said. “The danger there is that people end up on [a] high dose.” Instead of relying on melatonin to fall asleep, Kapur recommends taking it in low doses a couple of hours before you intend on falling asleep to help shift a delayed circadian rhythm and move you to an earlier bedtime. It should be noted that depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders can often cause insomnia. Those conditions should be primarily addressed before adding treatment for insomnia itself. Overall, most healthy sleep habits involve cutting things out as opposed to actively adopting new habits. Even so, sleeping is hard. In an insane world, trying to turn your brain off and relaxing isn’t as simple as putting your phone away, but it’s a step. Reach Science Editor Ash Shah at wellness@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @itsashshah

department,” Schafer said. Obviously, as a lecturer’s attention is a little less divided, this position allows more time to answer those last-minute, night-before-a-deadline emails. A tenure-track comes with the added pressure of research. “Part of the reason people

obligation aside from their true passion. “I think if somebody truly does not want to teach, they will not last long at a university,” Hauck said. “But you do sometimes get folks that are focused very heavily on the research and are willing to do

the same stability as a tenure track position in academia. A research-only position at the UW is even more flexible than a tenure track position, but comes with some major drawbacks. “Within [the College of Engineering], if you are tenure track, you will be paid a fairly

Joy Guo @jazzine_art might focus on research is economic incentive, career incentive; you publish a ton of papers, you get your name out there, and your students get hired,” Schafer said. That’s where we see the complaint, especially common among STEM majors. Professors sometimes feel like they are researchers before they are teachers and that their classroom duties feel like an

the teaching, but their heart’s not in it.” “If there is not a very strong intrinsic motivation for teaching they might let their classes suffer.” Someone without this intrinsic motivation for teaching might seek a job that requires equal effort in both areas for a number of reasons. An industry job, while free of classroom responsibilities, does not offer

good salary and have the ability to do what you want in the university and after six years, assuming you get tenure, you have a job for life,” Hauck said. “A research faculty member gets an office and an ability to apply for grants. There is no tenure, there is no salary unless you actually bring in that money,” Research-only positions do not come with the same security as a tenure track position which

may explain why some opt for a professor role. There is incentive to teach beyond passion. Sometimes, the complaint that professors prioritize their research over students is totally valid. However, in a lot of ways, a professor’s work in the lab makes their work in the classroom stronger. “I am by far a better teacher because I can ground it in real practice,” Hauck said. “My teaching stays relevant because it keeps getting refined by what I find in research.” Professors can also take their in-class connection with students into their research which helps with their projects, but also gives undergraduates the unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in their field. At times, it can feel like a professor would rather put in hours at the lab than dedicate time to undergrads. Sure, they are a multi-hat person, but they have a clear favorite. However, for the most part, professors are trying their best to stay in balance and your email that they carelessly left to rot in their inbox was an unfortunate casualty in that struggle. “I started as an assistant professor and it’s like, ‘Oh I’m gonna get my research and this is what is going to change the world’ and frankly, it’s the students we produce that change the world,” Hauck said. Reach reporter Hannah Krieg at science@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @Hannah_krieg

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but even so, I typically don’t get tired until 3 a.m. And every night, I would stay up just a little later and it would be that much more difficult for me to wake up in the morning. So, I decided to make some changes. I started taking melatonin, in a low dose, at around 9:30 p.m. every night. I switched my desk lamp to warm lights in the evenings. With the IMA so far from civilization, going to the gym has been infrequent, so I switched to at-home workouts later in the day. Three simple changes. I found maintaining a perfectly consistent schedule to be close to impossible. Sometimes you just have to stay awake a little longer to cram for that midterm (or finish the article that you should have turned in hours ago). To top it off, class registration had no respect for my sleep schedule. The fact that my bed is extremely comfortable also did not help. Despite this, I tried to stick to my new schedule as best as I could: working out in the late afternoons, sticking to coffee in the morning hours, and taking melatonin as needed. I began to fall asleep around 1 a.m., which is not great but was still a drastic improvement from my 3:30 a.m. days. I was able to wake up at 8:30 a.m. and actually make coffee in the morning as opposed to waking up 22 minutes before class started and just booking it out the door without a second thought. So, while it wasn’t magic, it worked. Of everything I changed, the most helpful thing for me was to make a mental list of everything I had to do the next day. It helped me formulate my racing thoughts into an achievable set. So, rise and shine. You’ve got work to do.

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Directed Research Groups (DRGs) offer an incredibly unique hands-on research opportunity for UW students and faculty through the human centered design and engineering (HCDE) program. The structure of a DRG actively welcomes an interdisciplinary approach to research, opening doors to more than just HCDE students. DRGs start from the passions of UW faculty, exploring questions and designing solutions that anticipate human needs. However, instead of students volunteering their time or applying for an internship, DRGs are built into students’ schedules with flexible credit options. “It’s useful if you want to work with master’s and undergraduate students and do research in a more structured way,” Jin Ha Lee, an iSchool associate

professor and co-leader of the Location-Based Gaming and Mental Health DRG this quarter, said. This DRG focuses on questions around how Pokémon Go players’ usage of the game and its features affect mental health. At the beginning stages, three master’s students and an undergraduate played a critical role this quarter, participating in the formation of research through literature reviews and designing the research methods. “The best thing about DRG is that students actually get to experience all these different stages of research,” Lee said. “If you see the whole process, then I believe students will be able to do it themselves eventually, and that’s what we want.” This collaborative structure of DRGs mediates learning not only between students from diverse backgrounds but also the professors and doctoral students

Mo Tilmo The Daily This collaborative structure of DRGs mediates learning not only between students from diverse backgrounds, but also the professors and doctoral students leading them.

leading them. “For me, the DRG was one of the first ways I learned how to mentor students,” Arpita Bhattacharya, a fifth-year HCDE Ph.D. candidate, said. “It’s so much fun to work with all these diverse groups, and they’re bringing different perspectives, different kinds of knowledge.” Elin Björling also values the diversity and exploration allowed in her two DRGs: Project EMAR, where students investigate and prototype the co-design of a social bot in schools to measure and aid with teens’ mental health, and Project RESeT, which employs virtual reality and evidence-based interactions to help reduce teen stress. “I’m always telling them, give up the idea of expertise, because in neither of these spaces are there any experts and there’s nobody to guide us, which is perfect for human-centered design,” Björling said. Unlike other classes at the UW where students study what has already been done, DRGs tend to follow this pattern of complete exploration: the heart of research. “They’re learning about design, they’re learning from each other about representations, and they’re learning about reflection in their own processes and we’re learning how to teach it,” Cindy Atman, an HCDE professor leading the “Dear Design” DRG, said. Atman and Kathryn Shroyer, an HCDE Ph.D. student, were inspired to start “Dear Design” based on the book, Dear Data, which chronicles the work of

two graphic designers, one in London and one in New York, who weekly collected data of anything and sent each other creative representations and models. “My whole research agenda is trying to Mo Tilmo The Daily figure out how Directed Research Groups (DRGs) offer an into help people be aware of credibly unique hands-on research opportunity where they are for UW students and faculty through the human in the design centered design and engineering (HCDE) process so program. they can make informed series in Project EMAR, Hack-adecisions about what to do as a Bot for Evil, where students will next step,” Atman said. design a hackathon for evil. This quarter, “Dear Design” “It’s really a question of: This students research and learn is what the robot is supposed to about different methods of be doing; this is what it’s doing design and representing the in the school; this is what it’s design process. Atman and capabilities are; what’s the worse Shroyer asked students to thing you can think of that a construct their own models student could do if they wanted of their own design processes to cause harm with this tool,” across a breadth of activities, Björling said. from making a birthday cake to DRGs welcome collaborative, creating a short film to building diverse research exploration a bike. to prepare students for “A lot of the students are each their careers, welcome choosing their own process that interdisciplinary learning across they see as design,” Shroyer said. all academic levels and advance “One of the things I find very the role technology currently helpful with the DRG is that plays or can play in our daily there are a variety of formats, lives for the better. and so people use it as a way to explore different kinds of Reach reporter Tatum Lindquist research and different kinds of at science@dailyuw.com. learning opportunities.” Twitter: @TatumLindquist. Some DRG applications for this upcoming spring quarter are already out, including the next