The Student Movement Volume 108 Issue 11: A Merry Christmas: From the SM Staff to You

HUMANS Meet the Professors: New Humans Series, Grace No Psychology Research, Interviewed by Grace No What\u27s The Deal With Santa Claus?, Reagan Westerman Student Worker Interview: Sam Namkung, Interviewed by Lauren Kim ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT A Flat World for Our Round One, Nate Miller Art & Music in Andrews\u27 History - Introduction, Aiko J. Ayala Rios Why Do I Fell Bad for President Snow?: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Review, Corinna Bevier Have Yourself a Merry Little Hallmark Christmas, Lexie Dunham It\u27s Beginning to Sound a Lot Like Christmas: A Christmas Playlist, Madison Vath NEWS Questions Answered, Questions Avoided: AUSA Town Hall , Andrew Francis The Shift from Emmanuel Missionary College to Andrews University, Katie Davis Deliverance from Same-Sex Attraction? A History of Conversion Therapy in the Adventist Church, Jonathan Clough Introducing Andrews Through the Ages, Melissa Moore The New Diversity Position and Students\u27 Reaction To It, Nate Miller IDEAS Christmas Traditions, Katie Davis Coming Out Ministries: \u27Coming Out\u27 is Coming In, Two perspectives by Lexie Dunham & Bella Hamann How Can We Improve Andrews?, Abby Shim How to Combat Seasonal Depression, Robert Zhang PULSE Christmas or Paganmas: A Question of Celebration, Rodney Bell II Christmas Spirit, Please Don\u27t Go!, Reagan Westerman Civil Rights at Andrews: A Series, Wambui Karanja The Meaning of Christmas, Anna Rybachek LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Desmond Hartwell Murray, I Know Dilution! Shandelle Henson LAST WORD Sonder* in the Train Station, Amelia Stefanescuhttps://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/sm-108/1010/thumbnail.jp

California\u27s Marine Life Protection Act Initiative: Supporting implementation of legislation establishing a statewide network of marine protected areas

California enacted the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) in 1999 to redesign and improve the state\u27s system of marine protected areas (MPAs), which the State Legislature found created the illusion of protection while falling far short of its potential to protect and conserve living marine life and habitat. In 2004, after two unsuccessful attempts to implement the MLPA, California created the MLPA Initiative through a memorandum of understanding among two state agencies and a privately-funded foundation that established objectives for a planning process, set out a timeline for deliverables, and established roles and responsibilities for key bodies.This paper analyzes how recommendations developed through the Initiative supported regulatory decisions by the California Fish and Game Commission to greatly expand the network of marine protected areas. That network includes 124 MPAs, covering 16.0% of state waters outside of San Francisco Bay, including 9.4% of state waters in no-take areas. Such an extensive network of MPAs that consciously incorporates science-based design guidelines is an important achievement worldwide and is a rare example of a sub-national government creating MPAs.Successful implementation of formally adopted public policies is well recognized as a complex process critical to achieving policy goals. The Initiative\u27s Blue Ribbon Task Force played a significant role in guiding the planning process to its successful conclusion in providing the State the information it needed to redesign its system of MPAs. Additional elements of the Initiative\u27s success included: effective statutes, adequate funding and professional capacity, robust stakeholder engagement, strong science guidance, effective decision support tools, transparent decision making, and sustained support from top state officials and private foundations. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd

Enabling conditions to support marine protected area network planning: California\u27s Marine Life Protection Act Initiative as a case study

Without the proper enabling conditions, MPA planning processes can be significantly hindered in their capacity to achieve stated goals. In California, after two unsuccessful attempts, statewide planning of a network of marine protected areas (MPA) was achieved through the California Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative. Six initial enabling conditions contributed to moving the MLPA Initiative forward, ultimately meeting the statutory objective of redesigning the statewide system of MPAs. Those conditions included: (1) a strong legal mandate which provided guidance and flexibility; (2) political support and leadership which enabled the process to overcome political challenges and opposition; (3) adequate funding which ensured sufficient staff support and facilitated innovative approaches to a public MPA network planning process; (4) an aggressive timeline with firm deadlines which propelled the process forward; (5) willingness of civil society to engage which provided for better informed and broadly supported outcomes; and (6) an effective and transparent process design which optimized contributions from stakeholders, scientists, and policy makers. These conditions enabled the MLPA Initiative to avoid shortcomings of similar planning processes, with implications for broader national policy on coastal and marine spatial planning in the United States. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd

Designing a network of marine protected areas in California: Achievements, costs, lessons learned, and challenges ahead

The State of California recently planned and is implementing a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) in state waters as mandated by the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA). A public-private partnership (the MLPA Initiative) completed four regional public MPA planning processes characterized by robust stakeholder contributions and the incorporation of best readily available science. Prior to enactment of the MLPA in 1999, less than 3% of California state waters were in MPAs, and most of those MPAs were small and lacked clear objectives. By 2013, approximately 16% of state waters will be in 124 MPAs that represent and replicate most marine and estuarine habitats and are designed to be ecologically-connected. The redesigned statewide network of MPAs improves marine ecosystem protection in California, advanced the science and practice of designing MPA networks, and increased the awareness and capacity of stakeholders, scientists and decision-makers for marine spatial planning. The public planning effort took almost seven years and significant financial investment (approximately $19.5 million in private charitable foundation funds and$18.5 million in public funds). Not all stakeholders were pleased with the outcomes and the planning processes faced many challenges. While the design of the MPA network aimed to meet science and feasibility guidelines, final decisions on MPAs in each region reflected tradeoffs needed to garner public acceptance and support for implementation. The MLPA Initiative offers some key lessons about implementing policy through a public planning process. While California is developing mechanisms for assessing effectiveness of the MPA network in coming years, including establishing a MPA Monitoring Enterprise and a process for periodic review and adaptive management of MPAs, significant challenges remain for effective implementation. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd

Colony-Stimulating Factor-1 Promotes Kidney Growth and Repair via Alteration of Macrophage Responses

Colony-stimulating factor (CSF)-1 controls the survival, proliferation, and differentiation of macrophages, which are recognized as scavengers and agents of the innate and the acquired immune systems. Because of their plasticity, macrophages are endowed with many other essential roles during development and tissue homeostasis. We present evidence that CSF-1 plays an important trophic role in postnatal organ growth and kidney repair. Notably, the injection of CSF-1 postnatally enhanced kidney weight and volume and was associated with increased numbers of tissue macrophages. Moreover, CSF-1 promotes postnatal renal repair in mice after ischemia-reperfusion injury by recruiting and influencing macrophages toward a reparative state. CSF-1 treatment rapidly accelerated renal repair with tubular epithelial cell replacement, attenuation of interstitial fibrosis, and functional recovery. Analysis of macrophages from CSF-1-treated kidneys showed increased expression of insulin-like growth factor-1 and anti-inflammatory genes that are known CSF-1 targets. Taken together, these data suggest that CSF-1 is important in kidney growth and the promotion of endogenous repair and resolution of inflammatory injury