October 31, 2013

VOLUME 133, ISSUE 6 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2013

SERVING THE UC DAVIS CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY SINCE 1915

BRIAN NGUYEN / AGGIE

Napolitano to allocate $15M to student programs

UC President Janet Napolitano talks to a student panel as part of her listening and learning tour on Oct. 24. Napolitano was recently appointed to the position by the Board of Regents.

$5M to support undocumented students KRISTEN TAKETA UCLA Daily Bruin

want to attract.”

She also expressed interest in a continuance of these meetings to expand her knowledge of the student issues.

Napolitano urged students to continue working in their capacity as student leaders to organize students and lobby for the issues they are advocating. Her power as president is largely limited to UC-wide policies. She has initiated a top-down and bottom-up efficiency review in the time she has been president.

“You would be surprised by how many people look at a piece of paper

University of California President Janet Napolitano announced Wednesday that she would immediately allocate $15 million to programs for undocumented students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows as one of her first actions in office.

During her first major public speech as president at a San Francisco hotel, Napolitano said she will allocate a total of $5 million to support the approximately 900 undocumented students in the UC. The funds will be used for resources such as financial aid, advisers and student service centers for undocumented students.

“These Dreamers, as they are often called, are students who would have benefited from a federal DREAM Act,” Napolitano said, referring to the federal legislation that would have granted residency to undocumented students who attended U.S. high schools. “They are students who deserve the opportunity to succeed and to thrive at UC.” Seth Ronquillo, a fourth-year film and linguistics student, co-chair of IDEAS, UCLA’s undocumented student group, and a former Daily Bruin columnist, said the initiative shows she is listening to undocumented students, who voiced their concerns to her in multiple meetings this month.

PROTESTS on 12

UNDOCUMENTED on 12

UC president visits Davis campus Students, teaching assistants protest at MU, Welcome Center

JASON PHAM & BRIAN NGUYEN campus@theaggie.org

On Oct. 24, UC Davis student leaders and representatives met with University of California President Janet Napolitano in a closed meeting. Napolitano spent two days at UC Davis to meet with students, faculty and the administration as part of her listening and learning tour of all the UC campuses.

UC Davis students and teaching assistants protested the visit from the newly elected UC president, which began at the Memorial Union and ended at the Welcome Center.

Students raised issues and concerns such as the campus climate, retention rates, support for undocumented AB540 students, and lack of student input in many of UCOP’s policies.

Napolitano opened the discussion by introducing herself and providing her professional background. She was previously the Secretary of Homeland Security and a two-time governor of Arizona.

“I’ve had a lot of experience managing large, complex public institutions,” Napolitano said. “What I can do is the nuts and bolts — how many, how much will it cost, are we attracting students in various fields that we

I N SID E 2/3/4/5 6/7 8/9 10/11 14/15 THIS WEEK'S ISSUE

N E W S I N B R I EF Attempted sexual assault in North Davis apartment complex On Oct. 28, a male suspect attempted to sexually assault a female around 10:30 p.m. in the 600 block of Alvarado Avenue near Anderson Road.

According to a press release by the Davis Police Department (DPD), the female victim had returned to her apartment complex and parked her car when the suspect confronted her and attempted to sexually assault her in the parking lot. The female defended herself so she was able to escape from the attacker. Police arrived on scene shortly after, but were unable to locate the suspect.

Lt. Glen Glasgow from the DPD said the police have a detailed description of the suspect which they are using in this ongoing investigation.

According to a press release by the DPD, the suspect was described as an African American male, 5’11” tall, weighing 220 pounds, with a wide-set nose, bald with a salt-and-pepper beard and about 40- years-old; the suspect was last seen wearing a black jacket and dark-colored pants.

Glasgow said this seems to be an isolated event, and there hasn’t been an incident of this nature for while.

“It’s not part of a series of incidents,” Glasgow said.

Anyone who witnessed the event or has any information that could lead to the suspect’s identity should contact the DPD at (530) 747-5400.

— Paayal Zaveri

Maureen Mai / Aggie

NEWS

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SCIENCE

OPINION

BACKSTOP

Yolo County food programs aim to educate community Local outreach projects serve the region, provide to the needy VALENTINA NAKIC city@theaggie.org

According to Kevin Sanchez, executive director of Yolo Food Bank, a sea of canned goods is typically the first image conjured when the topic of food banks comes up, but that’s entirely wrong. Sanchez is working towards improving access to fresh produce and starting food education early in the school system.

Yolo Food Bank

Woodland-based Yolo Food Bank (YFB) works year-round to provide those in need with food. It serves Yolo County through a variety of programs such as Friday’s Table and the Kids Farmers Market.

Fresh produce comprises a significant portion of the items offered, allowing families to cook at home.

Alongside YFB, the Yolo County Department of Agriculture is also reinforcing the importance of food through community projects.

A line forms at 4 a.m. every Friday outside YFB’s warehouse in Woodland, three hours before distribution begins.

People file through, picking up one type of item at each station, and leave with about 25 pounds of food. This includes three to four loaves of bread, pick-ups from Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s and produce donated by regional farms such as Durst and Food Bank Farmers.

Cordellia “Corkey” Mapalo of YFB

mentioned that on account of there being only three paid warehouse staff, “[YFB] relies heavily on volunteers.”

Sanchez agreed on the importance of volunteers and encourages UC Davis students to reach out.

He then gestured to the cars in the parking lot, which was full of year 2000+ models. Nothing about the composition of this parking lot gave any indication that it was a food bank.

“Look at these cars,” Sanchez said.“There is no category to put these people in.”

There is no “type” of person who goes to food banks, Sanchez explained.

The only thing the people in line have in common is that they’ve reached a point in their life where they’re forced to prioritize and make decisions to keep or let go of things previously taken for granted.

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Experimental College confronts $40,000 deficit Changing market for alternative classes drives profit down

MELISSA DITTRICH campus@theaggie.org

The Experimental College (eCollege), an ASUCD unit, lost $40,000 from its independent reserves due to a struggling market for its classes. The Experimental College, founded in 1966, offers classes based around movement, such as yoga, kung fu and dance that are not otherwise offered in the school system.

“We are currently in a situation where our reserves have run low and may not be able to support us through the end of the year,” Experimental College office coordinator Hannah Moore said in an email interview. “ASUCD does not have the ability at this time to help us financially while we work on new strategies.”

The loss of funds began in 2007, said ASUCD budget controller Eric Evans,

when Campus Rec began to push their classes which were similar to the eCollege.

“The Experimental College hasn’t adapted to the market yet and is now playing in a new field,” Evans said.

The eCollege currently has $15,537 in reserves. It is projected to lose about $23,000 by the end of this school year.

Evans said that ASUCD is working with the eCollege to increase their profits so they will hopefully break even by the end of the year instead of going into a deficit.

In order to prevent the projected loss from happening, cuts and improvements have been made to the eCollege overall.

These include cuts in course printing, staffing positions, pay for instructors and staff and complete cuts of classes at the eCollege that have not been making money.

There has also been a change in the split between funds made from eCollege

classes. In winter 2013, the split changed from 70-30 to instructors and funds to ASUCD respectively, to a 50-50 split.

“The cost of managing the previous split was more than the college could afford,” Evans said.

In an effort to gain funds, the eCollege has been working with ASUCD unit Creative Media and the new marketing department ASUCD funded this year.

“This year we have been working closely with the Creative Media Marketing unit to produce materials that are visually consistent and creating new marketing plans,” Moore said.

Creative Media has helped eCollege come up with a new design for advertisements and they have also redesigned their website. This was the first major project EXPERIMENTAL on 13

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DAILY CALENDAR dailycal@theaggie.org

31 / THURSDAY Not Very Scary Haunted House Noon to 5 p.m. | Davis Food Co-op, Teaching Kitchen, Stop by while trick-or-treating for a scare and a snack! The event is free.

El Dia de los Muertos Celebration 2 to 5 p.m. | E Street Plaza Attend the second annual celebration, sponsored by Davis Downtown, Tres Hermanas and El Burrito.

Halloween Treat Trail 2 to 4:30 p.m. | Downtown Davis Trick-or-Treat at local businesses!

Mend a Broken Heart 4:10 to 5 p.m. | 1005 GBSF Main Floor Auditorium The Biomedical Engineering Departmental Seminar Series continues with a talk given by Dr. Ye ChenIzu, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, pharmacology, medicine/cardiology at UC Davis, as she discusses feedback mechanisms that underlie many heart diseases.

1 / FRIDAY Davis is Burning 7:30 to 9 p.m. | Freeborn Hall Join the brothers of Delta Lambda Phi for a night of gender-bending performances. Come in drag to compete for the 2013 Drag King and Queen! Proceeds benefit the Trevor Project. Presale tickets are $10. Tickets at the door are $12 for adults and $11 for students. Get $1 off of dressed in drag!

2 / SATURDAY Community Planting Day 10 a.m. to noon | California Native Plant GATEway Garden Participants in this community planting day will be responsible for kicking off the transformation of a once-empty lot behind the Davis Commons Shopping Center to vibrant green space in two hours. The event is free.

THE CALIFORNIA AGGIE

DavisFREE grant to create energy efficiency plan City to use funds to develop energy-saving technology SHANNON SMITH

city@theaggie.org The City of Davis has received a $300,000 grant awarded by the California Energy Commission to enact a two-year plan to reduce Davis’ carbon emissions completely by 2050.

The Davis Future Renewable Energy and Efficiency (DavisFREE) grant will be put towards hiring technical experts to plan and execute the city’s climate action goals.

The project will be headed by the Valley Climate Action Center (VCAC), an outgrowth of the Yolo County Energy Efficiency Project (YEEP).

YEEP, a nonprofit organization that cooperates with the City of Davis, was able to show that if people are informed, they will choose efficiently for both money-saving reasons and as a duty to their community.VCAC wants to take that duty to the next level.

According to the VCAC website, their main goal is to provide quick and easy information to residents and businesses for the purpose of sensible investments that will save both their energy bill and the environment. They believe that efficiency investments are dampened mostly by barriers such as high initial cost, lack of attractive financing and lack of information on the best products, technologies,

providers and methods.

For the DavisFREE Grant, the VCAC will work closely with the Cool Davis Coalition, the backbone of the annual Cool Davis Festival held in downtown Davis.

“The VCAC is the nonprofit agency heading up this project. They are a team of energy experts, members of the Cool Davis Coalition and a partner of Cool Davis,” said Chris Granger, executive director of Cool Davis, in an email.

The movement will target the Davis community and urge their collaboration with the project.

“Of course we are having a detrimental effect on the environment,” said John-Francis Caccamo, Davis community member and member of the Endangered Species Club.“Looking at the number of cars on our roads that spew out carbon dioxide, Davis could utilize rural and community areas in much more effective, energy-saving ways.”

The VCAC has broadened its focus to include measures which reduce carbon emissions of energy and water use in buildings and transportation.

This would impact every individual in Davis, changing lifestyles and making community members more conscientious.

“The City received this grant to

do an energy plan for the community. This will map out where all the energy we use in Davis will come from in the future,” Granger said.

“They will be examining our current baseline of energy use starting from where we are now, and then examine how we will get to net-zero carbon by 2050, a goal that the City Council set in 2010.”

According to the VCAC website, another part of the project is to develop a geographical information system — a spatial analysis tool and database that will incorporate aerial imagery and property ownership with energy improvement history.

“While I respect the initiative and its goals, this seems like a lofty endeavor to me,” said Jacob South, a member of Advocates for a Better Environment (ABE). “Although I am hopeful for any environmental advances that could ripple into the industrial world, I have not yet seen anything that comes realistically close, but I would like to be proven wrong.”

The DavisFREE initiative strives to conduct research and develop Zero Net Energy Retrofit Guidelines for existing residential buildings to address the needs of a settled, low-growth community.

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UC Davis Engineering Startup Center opens Center provides opportunities for entrepreneurship, innovation YASH NAGDA / AGGIE Students study in the new UC Davis Engineering Startup Center.

Tattoo-a-Thon 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. | Primary Concepts Tattoo, 219 E Street Suite D Take advantage of this $30 flash tattoo event and support this vehicle benefit series for hit-and-run survivor Melissa Foote of RelyAid Tattoo Supply. 18+ with valid ID.

Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon 1 to 5 p.m. | Shields Library Instruction Lab Come learn how to edit Wikipedia! These workshops will feature a short class for new and beginning editors about how Wikipedia works and how to get started. The class will be followed by a hands-on workshop devoted to improving articles using UC Davis library resources, with a special focus on California food, wine and agriculture.

3 / SUNDAY Storytime through the Seasons: Under the Redwood Tree 1 to 3 p.m. | Wyatt Deck, Arboretum Drive Join this outdoor reading program and explore the cultural and natural world of Native Californians.

Enjoy traditional stories, games and arts. All ages are welcome and the event is free.

4 / MONDAY Pub Quiz 7 to 9 p.m. | DeVere’s Irish Pub, 217 E St. Dr. Andy, Quizmaster, will host his weekly celebration of knowledge, strategy and raucous company.

Teams can have up to six players and is for 21+.

5 / TUESDAY Quickbooks 101 for Small Businesses and Nonprofits 10:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. | Yolo Federal Credit Union, 501 G St. Attend this Chamber of Commerce Lunch and Learn Workshop sponsored by Tandem Properties. Business owners, managers and bookkeepers are invited to learn more about Quickbooks and how to use this tool to manage their businesses.

Salsa Tuesday 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. | The Graduate, 805 Russell Blvd.

Attend dance lessons at the Grad. The event is $6 and is for 18+.

6 / WEDNESDAY Bone Marrow Registration Drive 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. | ASUCD Coffee House, UC Davis Come learn about the bone marrow donation process and have the opportunity to sign up as a bone marrow donor.

ROHIT TIGGA

city@theaggie.org On Oct. 11, the UC Davis Engineering Startup Center opened with a launch event in Ghausi Hall from 3 to 6 p.m. This event was essentially a reception and celebration of the finished Engineering Student Startup Center (ESSC), a center for use by UC Davis students as a platform to launch their entrepreneurial ideas.

Bruce White, the director of the Engineering Transitional Technology Center at UC Davis, hosted this event. Some other speakers featured at this reception were Enrique Lavernia, the dean of the College of Engineering, and Lucas Arzola, the founder and CEO of BetaVersity, the company that made the Startup Center possible.

BetaVersity, started by a group of UC Davis alumni, specializes in creating spaces and tools to turn ideas into reality. The group shares the common belief that entrepreneurship can solve problems and improve lives throughout the world.

“There is simply no substitute for the hands-on experience and studentled initiative that occurs within our beta spaces,” said Blake Marggraff, chief revenue officer for BetaVersity.

However, the crux of this reception was the speech made by keynote speaker Tina Seelig, the executive director of the Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University. She is a professor working with students to develop skills for entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation.

“Contrary to everything you think, I believe that creativity [is a skill] that can actually be taught,” Seelig said.

In her speech, Seelig outlined six components for generating creativity — resources, knowledge, attitude, habitat, imagination and culture. She argued that creativity is a skill.

“The way you ask the question determines the type of answers you get,” Seelig said. She criticized the way problem solving is taught in our schools. “We often teach children how to solve math problems like ‘5+5 =?,’” Seelig said.

With this problem, there is only one answer in the solution set which is 10. However, Seelig suggested that we should be reframing the problem in ways like setting “x+y = 10.” She argued that if you do not ask the question in a thoughtful way, you won’t get interesting answers.

“So many people don’t live up to their creative potential because they are in environments that don’t encourage innovation,” Seelig said.

Seelig claimed that companies like Google and Pixar are innovative because they have colorful and stimulating offices. For example, these companies have fun venues such as bowling alleys, slides and rock climbing walls.

Seelig hopes the ESSC will provide an environment in which students are comfortable which will foster creativity.

The ESSC features a 3D printer/ scanner, a huge computer monitor, whiteboard walls and a Shopbot CNC device for milling and machining plastic, wood and aluminum.

White said that it can benefit all the students of UC Davis as it is trying to draw in students from a variety of majors.

President of the UC Davis Entrepreneurship and Technology Club (ETEC) Natalie Qabazard encourages everyone to join.

“The ESSC is a milestone for students of all disciplines because it’s the first center of its kind on the UC Davis campus,” Qabazard said.

The center provides a design space for all students to work on prototyping their ideas, using the skills they have acquired through academia and applying it to their ventures. Her goal as the president of ETEC is to bring diversity to the center by reaching out to various groups and departments on campus.

“I am looking for an environment in which I could tap my creative potential, freely make mistakes and learn from them; the ESSC is perfect for this,” said Jackie Zhang, a first-year computer science and engineering major.

Similarly, Enrique Lavernia, the dean of the College of Engineering, is eager to see what innovation this center will bring.

“The ESSC will facilitate the development of the entrepreneurial skills of UC Davis students, provide pragmatic hands-on learning opportunities and help speed the delivery of high-impact technology to society,” Lavernia said.

“The ESSC will also facilitate collaboration with our colleagues in industry, colleagues across campus and other centers.” n

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Government shutdown puts UC Davis research on hold Delay jeopardizes fieldwork, puts research mice at risk LUJAIN AL-SALEH

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COURTESY

UC Davis scientific research supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) was severely impacted within the first few days of the recent government shutdown.

Due to the lapse in funding, several faculty members, graduate students and researchers have witnessed the debilitating effect on their research.

About a week before geology professor Dawn Sumner was supposed to embark on her three month trip to Antarctica with the United States Atlantic Program (USAP), it was abruptly cancelled.

Along with the thousands of researchers involved with USAP, which is funded by the NSF, Sumner is still waiting to hear whether the research in Antarctica will persevere.

“I still don’t know whether or not I’ll be able to go [to Antarctica]. It is very uncertain which is very unnerving,” Sumner said.

In order to coordinate fieldwork in Antarctica, the NSF works with Lockheed Martin, an American advanced technology company, for logistical and technical support.

When the shutdown initially occurred, Lockheed Martin had enough money allocated toward USAP for about a week.

As the pool of funding gradually depleted, all Antarctic research stations were transitioned into “caretaker status,” where the majority of stationed staff were required to go back home.

Now that the government has returned from its 16-day shutdown, USAP is currently in the process of recovering all delayed research.

If USAP is unable to reschedule the trip, Professor Sumner is among the lucky ones who will still be able to do her research with the help of the New Zealand Antarctic Program.

While the possibility of researching in Antarctica looks more promising for Professor Sumner, there are still challenging time constraints that must be considered.

Since Professor Sumner was supposed to depart on Oct. 17 and conduct her fieldwork in early November, all of her research has been pushed back into later months.

“We need that time in November, [because] typically it’s too warm by December,” Sumner said. “If you miss one year of monitoring, you can never get that back.This can significantly damage the quality of results.”

Professor Dawn Sumner peers up from inside an ice hole from her trip to Antarctica last year. Due to the government shutdown, the trip was not possible this year.

Tyler Mackey, a geology Ph.D. student researcher involved in Professor Sumner’s project, addressed the same concern.

“If we aren’t able to get there in time during the year, we won’t be able to do our work this year at all,” Mackey said.

Ultimately, the loss of this fieldwork in Antarctica could inhibit Mackey from specifically addressing elements of his work.

“It will affect what my Ph.D. is on and will change the different parts of the research,” Mackey said.

Mackey, however, stated that he was fortunate. If he had not done enough research previously, he may have been in danger of not getting his Ph.D..

The potential decrease in research that this shutdown has caused may also impinge upon scientific efforts and achievements globally.

“The science that the U.S. is doing is not in a vacuum,” Mackey said. “We collaborate extensively with other countries.”

According to Mackey, the lack of research that they will be able to share is an unfortunate byproduct of the shutdown and budget cuts.

Research funding in the U.S. has been cut back dramatically for a while now. Under

the sequestration order that was signed on March 1, 2013 by the federal government, the NSF’s budget was cut by $356 million.

While all research funded by the NSF will receive the allocated grants for this year, the sequestration will limit the future scope of the program, and the sharing of research between nations may be impacted.

In turn, the multitude of scientific projects on campus and the availability of grants for graduate students will be cut down.

Johnathon Anderson, a genetics Ph.D. student who works in an NIH funded lab at the Institute for Regenerative Cures, shared his concerns regarding the future difficulties that students will face.

“I fear that some of the students may have been discouraged from applying for the NSF Fellowship since they could not access the NSF FastLane website and the submission deadline is coming fast upon them,” Anderson said in an email interview.

Like the potential graduate students applying for NSF scholarships, Anderson has experienced similar obstacles when writing grants for his own laboratory.

“The recent government shutdown froze my lab’s Transformative NIH (high

risk, high reward) grant,” Anderson said.

“This has caused my research to grind to a halt as I have not been able to order much needed supplies for my project.”

In addition to the challenges during the grant writing process, Anderson said he believes that scientific resources utilized for groundbreaking research are being jeopardized.

“The shutdown has also put the lives of thousands of valuable research mice at risk that are used in cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s research, and put shipments on hold for fruit flies which are an invaluable research model organism,” Anderson said.

Although all of these issues will be extremely challenging to solve in the upcoming year, Anderson believes that both the recognition of scientific innovations among the general population and the need for federal support will help to advance programs like the NSF and NIH. “I think the scientific community as a whole could do a much better job of elucidating just how crucial government funding is to generating tangible products that our society benefits from, while concurrently sparking much needed wealth creation for our economy,” Anderson said. n

This week in Senate

Watts Legal with DANIEL WATTS

Question I’m scared of one of my neighbors.

Every day, the creeper hangs a sign on my front door. It has his phone number, and he asks me to call him, calling me a “cutie” and saying he wants to be my “special friend.” I haven’t responded. He hasn’t said anything violent. If anything, it seems he likes me too much. Can I get a restraining order to make him stop, or does he have to threaten me first? Should I call the cops?

- Anonymous, Davis, CA Answer You can get a restraining order for all sorts of things.You can use it to stop violence, but also to stop people from harassing you. In other lawsuits, a court might issue a restraining order to stop the police from enforcing an unconstitutional law or to stop an execution of a prisoner. A restraining order is meant to preserve the status quo.

It’s supposed to restrain a person from acting in a way that would substantially alter the relationship between you and the person you’re suing, causing you irreparable harm before a lawsuit even has a chance to get started. For a business dispute, that could mean a restraining order preventing the CEO from spending all the company’s money before the case gets to trial. In a domestic squabble, it could mean

restraining a husband from beating his spouse to death before their divorce is finalized.

Of these several types of restraining orders, two might apply here.

The first type is a “domestic violence” restraining order, which is used to restrain family members, roommates or people you’re dating or used to date. The restrained person doesn’t have to be your spouse; any close relationship with the perpetrator is enough, if the person has committed unlawful violence against you.You can also restrain someone close to you if they’ve issued just a credible threat of violence or knowingly and willfully engaged in a course of conduct directed at you that seriously alarms, annoys or harasses you, as long as those things serve no legitimate purpose. For example, if they repeatedly phone you at 3 a.m. every night, that’s seriously annoying.

But if they’re phoning to warn you because they see a burglar trying to break into your house at 3 a.m., the phone calls serve a legitimate purpose. There’s no master list of things that constitute a “legitimate” purpose. It’ll be up to the judge to decide.

Since you didn’t say whether you dated or are related to the stalker, it sounds like the second type of restraining order would apply. It’s called a civil harassment

restraining order, and it’s used to prevent neighbors, strangers and regular friends or acquaintances from stalking or harassing you.

Once again, “harassment” must consist of unlawful violence, a credible threat of violence or a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at you that seriously alarms, annoys or harasses you, and that serves no legitimate purpose.

A court can issue a civil harassment order if your stalker has engaged in any series of acts over a period of time — even a short period of time — that demonstrate a continuous purpose to harass you. Examples of conduct would include following you, stalking you, making harassing phone calls or sending harassing correspondence to you by any means, including electronic messages. The messages posted on your door would definitely qualify. For that matter, repeated emails, Twitter messages sent “@you” or Facebook messages could also qualify as harassing correspondence.

The messages have to be really annoying, though. They must be so annoying or disturbing that a reasonable person in your situation would feel substantial emotional distress. Not only that, but you yourself must have actually felt emotional distress. If you’re WATTS on 13

ASUCD Vice President Bradley Bottoms presided over the Oct. 24 meeting. The meeting began at 6:20 p.m., with Senator Yee Xiong absent.

Jay Chou, director of ASUCD Specialized Transportation Services and Tipsy Taxi supervisor, announced that cameras will be installed in all Tipsy Taxi vehicles by winter 2014. This will ensure both driver and passenger safety.The cameras can also be used to record any verbal disputes or customer dissatisfaction.

An ASUCD bill to fund the Students of Color Conference (SoCC) was passed by the Senate.

SoCC is an annual conference hosted by the University of California Student Association (UCSA).

The three-day conference promotes dialogue between students and raises awareness of issues that affect those of color. UC Davis is not a member of the UCSA and does not fund its students attending the conference.

Most other UCs are members and cover all conference costs for their students.

The Senate Bill was proposed to cover most of the travel, lodging and registration fees of UC Davis students participating in the conference. The bill was initially sent to Vice President Bottoms and asked for a total of $3,000. After review from the Business and Finance Commission (BNF), the bill dropped its asking price to $2,500. It was then brought before the Senate with a BNF approval and Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission approval.

Those in Senate favoring the bill praised the conference’s merit as an outreach event for UC Davis students. Senators not in favor of the bill noted that it is also receiving funding from the Club Finance Council (CFC).

“The CFC is also funded by ASUCD, so they’re essentially ‘double-dipping,’” Senator Ryan Wonders said.

The bill, however, passed by a close 7-3-2 vote. The money will be taken from the Senate’s $12,800 reserves.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:01 p.m.

— Atrin Toussi

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POLICE BRIEFS city@theaggie.org

24 / THURSDAY Dirty trick Someone on Becerra Way thought his neighbor had placed excess debris on his window to clog the oxygen tank.

That’s what friends are for Someone reported his friend as too drunk to drive but wanted him removed from his apartment on Sycamore Lane.

Bullydog Someone on Shasta Drive reported an ongoing problem with a woman who walks her dog off-leash even though the dog chases the reporter’s children.

Freaky Friday On Inner Circle, somebody reported her son wouldn’t let her have a beer or watch what she wanted on TV.

WEEKLY WEATHER Short Term Weather Hope everyone did well on their midterms so they can enjoy the nice weather for the next few days. The daily highs range from 71 and 73, but it is advisable to wear a light jacket for the chilly mornings and evenings.

Today 10/31: High 73, Low 44, Calm winds (0-5 MPH), Clear Friday 11/1: High 73, Low 46, Calm winds (0-5 MPH), Clear Saturday 11/2: High 71, Low 45, Light winds (5-10 MPH), Partly cloudy

Long Term Weather Happy Halloween! Hope you enjoy your day today, it should be a pretty nice day to be dressed up in whatever you kids dress up in these days. As for the long range, there is going to be a bit of a cool down in store for us, and maybe even some biting winds Sunday.

Sunday 11/3: High 67, Low 43, Cool, Slight breeze (913MPH), Partly cloudy Monday 11/4: High 65, Low 43, Cool, Calm winds, Clouds in the evening Tuesday 11/5: High 63, Low 43, Chilly day, Calm winds, Some clouds filter through in the morning Wednesday 11/6: High 69, Low 45, calm winds, clear

Almanac 10/23: 85/49 10/24: 73/50 10/25: 77/48 10/26: 80/47 10/27: 71/48 10/28: 68/47 10/29: 65/49

Climate and Averages Swift and sudden, the high temperatures dropped during the past week. For the first few days, high temperatures were higher than should be--in the mid to low 70s. By the end of thisweek,daytimetemperaturesdippedtothe60s,marking the transition to fall. A temperature drop like this is normal in Davis for October; on October 1st, the average high is 84F. But by Halloween, the average high is 71F. Say hello to the cooler weather!

Climate Report October means the beginning of snowfall in the Sierras. This year, the first snow day happened in South Lake Tahoe on Sunday with trace amounts. On Monday, more snow fell in the area — a more significant 2.7 inches. With the sudden change in weather going on in much of NorCal, the high temperatures in the area plummeted from 62F to 38F from Sunday to Monday!

Emily Rives, Justin Tang, Raymond Chan, Tyson Tilmont Aggie Forecast Team

From Halloween festivities and themed parties to theater productions and Dickens’ fairs, people from The Enchanted Cellar serve the Davis community and surrounding areas with over 25,000 stock items for rental year-round.

“Some people have a costume idea but think, ‘how in the world am I going to make the costume do that?’” said costume shop director Roxanne Femling. “That’s a challenge, but sometimes that’s the fun part for us too.”

The Enchanted Cellar, located in the basement of Wright Hall, offers a variety of clothing and accessories for rental. With the various events that occur on campus, in town and in Sacramento, Enchanted Cellar staff believe there is a student need for costumes.

“There are a lot of events that people go to or organize that they might need a costume for,” said Anel Zarate, a third-year design major and rentals assistant/stock agent at The Enchanted Cellar. “There are a lot of parties that people want to dress up for, even if it’s not Halloween.”

Originally started in 1999 under the name Halloween Costume Auction, the shop held auctions for three years before officially beginning to sell and rent to the UC Davis Theater and Dance Department in 2004.

The Enchanted Cellar name was coined in 2007, the same year that the shop opened its doors to students who were not affiliated with the theater department and to the public.

To encourage local visitors, the shop offers 50 percent off all sales and rentals to customers affiliated with the university.

Without that 50 percent off rate, one-week rentals through The Enchanted Cellar range from $75 to $150.

Although usually offering rentals only, The Enchanted Cellar held their second Decade Sale this year, with over 1,000 items on sale for the Halloween season.

“There are a lot of really cool things that people would find, like jackets, corsets and fairy wings,” Zarate said.

The Decade Sale, taking place every 10 years, allows the Theater and Dance Department to look through

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their inventory and pull out what they no longer use.

“The inventory of all our costumes has accumulated over time from shows we do and donations from the community,” Femling said.

“Sometimes it grows too much, and then we have our decade sale.

We haven’t used these items for ten years in the department, so they’ve had their chance.”

The Enchanted Cellar staff started pulling items together January of this year.

“With our costumes, you feel like you are in a more historical garment,” Femling said.

Femling said that customers vary greatly, from students to dance companies, and suggested that potential customers just come down to browse and have a good time, even if they don’t have a costume in mind.

“I want people to just come to look at what we have and have fun.

Create some ideas, we are here to help with that too,” Femling said.

All of the costumes are made by students, according to Jason Moscato, a second-year dramatic art and linguistics double major and assistant company manager for the Department of Theater and Dance.

“All of the costumes that we make are really high quality, much higher quality than Halloween shops,” Moscato said. “You are supporting the students and getting a great product in return.”

The development of The Enchanted Cellar and its services has been a long process, with the project evolving every year in its presentation.

Last year, the Department of Theater and Dance put on The Haunt, a haunted house for students during the Halloween season, complete with a costume party after. The Enchanted Cellar made costumes for the event and offered costume rentals to party attendees.

“The Haunt was great, however attendance wasn’t as high as we ex-

pected, so the costume rental numbers were a little bit lower,” Moscato said. “Students were mostly focused on The Haunt instead of The Enchanted Cellar.”

This year, the department was able to publicize the shop on its own, without the pressure of scheduling a coordinated event alongside it.

“I think the publicity is a little more successful now because it’s more focused on the shop,” Moscato said. “Having The Enchanted Cellar publicized independently will allow students to see what a great resource it is.”

Increased publicity for this season allowed for greater student involvement. From building costumes and managing the shop to tabling on the Quad and dressing up for publicity photo shoots, The Enchanted Cellar offers students the opportunity to gain experience in several fields.

Depending on how many people are working and how intricate the project is, a costume can take from a week to a month to make. Femling said the most popular costumes for rental are Renaissance and period gowns, along with 1920s attire.

“Compared to other costume places, we have a lot more things that are legitimately from the period. They are actually made the way that they were made back then,” Zarate said. “We also have a lot of weird things that you wouldn’t find at a costume store, like horse heads.”

This year, because of increased demand, The Enchanted Cellar staff has and is working on more costumes from today’s pop culture scene, such as characters from Star Trek and Harry Potter.

Customers are also not limited to The Enchanted Cellar’s current stock.

“We can pull things together to try and make whatever they are envisioning,” Zarate said. “We can definitely help them try to create what they are looking for.” n

Athlete alumni found Davis-based company Davis Roots supports Fuse Athletics SEAN GUERRA

features@theaggie.org Three UC Davis alumni have used their personal experiences as student athletes to contribute to the niche market of college recruitment through social media.

Fuse Athletics started as an idea for a mobile app, and turned into an online social platform for communication and management between high school athletes and college recruiters. They are now supported by local business accelerator Davis Roots which aims to keep local startups in town.

Having respectively played collegiate level football, swimming and basketball at Davis, the founders Ethan Garrett, Hudson Lofchie and Andrew Ritchart knew how difficult recruitment could be.

Garrett, the chief executive officer of the operation, graduated UC Davis in 2012 with a degree in environmental policy analysis and planning. He played high school football but had never heard of UC Davis until he and a classmate tried out during their senior year.

“I would have never been seen [by recruiters] if I had not come to Davis’ football camp,” Garrett said. “What if I went to a different football camp? It’s all about being visible and in this social world you have to have an online presence.”

Garrett said that they knew that a lot of coaches’ email addresses and phone numbers are hidden from potential athletes, so Fuse Athletics partnered with a company that

supplied collegiate information for every division and every league.

“Kids can go and search by sport, state, division, conference, gender or school along with the contact information, which is encrypted like Craigslist,” Garrett said.

Over eight months, they interviewed college coaches and high school athletic directors, built their website and received an initial investment from their co-founder and chief financial officer Doug Coats. In September, they were accepted by Davis Roots, and are now one of four UC Davis alumni startups in the program.

General manager of Davis Roots Alex Rossbach graduated from UC Davis in 2012 with a degree in political science and also swam collegiately. As a former college athlete, he understood the company’s concept.

Garrett mentioned that Davis Roots decided to support the company after calling it a “Linkedin for sports.”

“For me, coming from a swimming background, [the recruitment process] was about who your coaches knew and not about how good you were all the time,” Rossbach said. ”When [Fuse] came to us with their product, team and idea, it really resonated with all of us because it was easy to see there is a problem with this market … and they’re trying to democratize that process.”

Davis Roots, founded in 2012, was created out of a need for economic vitality in the City of Davis.

“One of the big problems we’re tackling right now is that there are no real jobs in Davis for graduates,” Rossbach said. “We see this mass exodus from Davis to the Bay Area because there’s a lot more opportunity there. Our whole mission is to create financially-sustainable companies to

help Davis grow and inspire other students coming out of the university.”

Davis Roots is a mentorship program for startups, to aid them through the steps of business development.

The founders, Andrew Hargadon and Anthony Costello, provide the companies contacts to investors and local entrepreneurs, office space in Davis, workshops in public relations and marketing and act as advisers to each company in the program.

The idea of social media recruitment tools for high school athletes is not new, and Fuse Athletics faces competition from websites like beRecruited.com, which was founded in 2000, boasts a userbase of one million and is based in San Francisco.

Fuse Athletics is currently contacting athletic directors of local high schools to be part of their beta phase of development for private trials. Dixon High School and Davis High School have already committed.

“There are cases where it could fail, ” Garrett said. “But we see [Fuse Athletics] going well during the beta and we see this getting pushed nationwide.”

Due to internet accessibility, Garrett, Lofchie and Ritchart fear that widespread use may be overwhelming, and with some funds raised through the Davis Roots program, they plan to hire UC Davis students for web programming and customer service.They have also worked with the University Writing Program department to offer writing internships for basic web content.

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SHWC resources combat physical, emotional pain Arrest at Barneys New York stirs talk of institutionalized racism

Last week, Trayon Christian, 19, was arrested by undercover police officers and jailed on suspicion of fraud for purchasing a $350 Ferragamo belt at Barneys, New York luxury store. He filed a lawsuit because although Christian showed police his receipt for the purchased item along with his debit card and identification, police still claimed that he wouldn’t be able to afford such an expensive purchase.

Medicare chief apologizes for Medicare website’s shortcomings

On Oct. 29, Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner testified at Capitol Hill at the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Tavenner apologized for dysfunction on the website for new signups. The main problem is that health care plan cancellation notices are affecting small businesses and individuals who are purchasing private insurance. She asserted that insurers are responsible for cancellation letters that have reached 14 million people purchasing individual policies.

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features@theaggie.org Laptops are an ergonomic disaster, according to a display in the physical therapy office of the Student Health and Wellness Center (SHWC).

Midterms and essays can result in problems for students’ health, but emotional stress is the cause, not the effect. According to Jill Nelson, a massage therapist at the SHWC, the downward position in which most students look at their laptops engages back and neck muscles, often for extended periods of time.

Pain and injury in the back and neck are the most common reasons clients visit her.

“There’s the physical pain of actually doing schoolwork,” Nelson said.

On top of unfortunate laptop designs, Nelson pointed out that many students ride bikes in a way that isn’t optimal. They also carry heavy backpacks and have to sit in the mass produced, non-adjustable classroom seats.

“If you have pain it’s not gonna go away until you are proactive in taking those steps to actually relieving [it],” Nelson said.

Nelson’s profession, massages, is oftentimes a treatment for pain caused by these daily habits, and are available at the SHWC at $30 for 30 minutes or $40 for 45 minutes.

On the strictly physical side, massage is known to improve blood circulation, reduce stiffness in muscles — especially after working out — and help tone and stimulate muscles for greater flexibility and mobility.

Ultimately, it benefits physical health, lowering blood pressure and also mental health by reducing the stress hormone, cortisol.

According to Nelson, mental and physical health are not mutually exclusive. If they occur, they can occur in cycles, one triggering the other.

“To get a bad grade and fail a class could cost somebody a whole year of tuition and rent. It’s a lot to internalize. And that’s what most people do. They internalize all the stress that they have and it manifests itself in some type of pain,” Nelson said.

The people who see Nelson are generally already in pain and looking for relief. Whether the pain is physical, mental, emotional or any combination thereof, the SHWC has several resources that can aid in recovery or prevention.

Henriette Bruun, a physical therapist at the SHWC, works primarily with people who are already injured, and stated that she’d like for people to learn skills to protect themselves from preventable injuries.

“If I could get hold of the

freshmen on campus before they hurt their necks and their lower backs and I could show them study positions and that kind of stuff before they already get in pain, that would be beneficial for their wellness and success as a student,” Bruun said.

Emily Hartley, who works as a therapist in Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), provides people with possible prevention methods by combating emotional stress. She also provides counseling and therapy to students, aiding them in dealing with stress.

“If you can find a way to slow down that’s usually really helpful.

Part of our culture and certainly part of us being on this UC campus is to go really really fast, and there’s a lot of pressure and it doesn’t lend itself to self-care,” Hartley said.

Hartley coordinates the Stress and Wellness Clinic and the Mind Spa, both of which are free to UC Davis students. Students can use a biofeedback program to help train their brain to recognize and deal with stress and also enjoy a massage chair.

“I can teach them mindfulness skills. I can teach them how to slow down, how to regulate breathing. I can teach them how to work with their thoughts, so if they start having these thoughts like ‘I’m gonna fail, I’m gonna fail’ there’s something we can do about it,” Hartley said. n

As of Oct. 24, the Rim Fire has been 100 percent contained and the cost to date is $127.350 million — though the cause is still under investigation.

The Rim Fire began Aug. 17 and is the thirdlargest fire in California history. It has burned a total of 257,314 acres of the Stanislaus National Forest. The remnants of the fire continue to be managed by the Groveland and Mi-Wok Ranger Districts on the Stanislaus National Forest with 42 personnel remaining on the scene.

Syrian Polio outbreak; high-risk internally and globally

There have been 10 polio cases confirmed in northeast Syria, according to a U.N. health agency in an interview with the Associated Press. Polio was last reported in Syria in 1999 and has since spread due to lack of vaccinations, access to health care and basic hygiene. The U.N. has implored the Syrian government to allow the U.N. access to immunize the approximately 500,000 children that have never been vaccinated against the highly contagious disease. In partnership with the World Health Organization, they hope to immunize the 2.4 million children of Syria. Due to the collapse of various Syrian medical and governmental organizations, polio immunizations have not been available in the country since before the Syrian civil war began in 2011.

U.S. National Intelligence Director testifies at House Intelligence Committee Hearing

At the House Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday, Oct. 29, National Intelligence director James Clapper asserted that spying on other countries and at home is justified because it is commonplace. His testimony was in response to allegations that the National Security Agency has pushed into unethical boundaries by surveilling some 35 national leaders from allied countries.

The hearing was meant to address the possibility of making changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in so far as that Tuesday, President Barack Obama ordered a review of the various US surveillance programs.

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Cockroach infestation causes Davis citizens to struggle Students adapt to unwanted bug visits DANIELLE BROWN

city@theaggie.org In recent weeks, students have noticed a higher concentration of cockroaches in their homes, restaurants downtown and on campus. The concentration is particularly high near downtown, but they can be seen in almost any deserted area in Davis at night.

Max Moazzam, a fourth-year economics major, sees cockroaches in his apartment every day.

“The worst thing about cockroaches is they can be anywhere. In your bed, in your food, in between the pages of The Aggie; they can really surprise you,” Moazzam said.

Visitors to Davis have also experienced the infestation. Roberta Dousa, a third-year English and anthropology major at UC Berkeley, took the bus to Davis to visit her friend. In the two days that she was in town, she noticed the problem.

“I saw tons of them in my friend’s apartment. I was concerned for her health and

that of her housemates. I believe they had a cockroach problem because her summer housemates made the grave error of killing a mouse behind a stove and not picking up its decaying carcass. Her apartment was located downtown and I saw many cockroaches in the streets next to restaurants downtown as well. This was particularly disgusting and repulsive,” Dousa said.

Students often describe cockroaches as “disgusting and repulsive” but the question remains as to whether or not they actually cause a health issue or if their appearance is simply unappealing.

The U.S. Department of Health website states, “When cockroaches that live outdoors come into contact with human excrement in sewers or with pet droppings, they have the potential to transmit bacteria that cause food poisoning (Salmonella spp. and Shigella spp.) if they enter into structures.”

Cockroaches are of particular concern when considering all of the local restaurants, especially the ones located in

downtown Davis. This area accommodates large masses of people which creates an enormous amount of waste.When the trash sits outside for long periods of time in open containers and is not disposed of properly, it attracts cockroaches. This makes it nearly impossible to keep the pests from entering restaurants.

Therefore restaurants in downtown have to be extremely attentive to health regulations and have to make concerted efforts to keep cockroaches out of their restaurants.

Some restaurants are successful at keeping the pests out of the kitchen and away from customers.

A former employee of Woodstock’s Pizza, Joshua Ross commented on the lack of cockroaches at his workplace.

“I never encountered a cockroach in the restaurant in the several months that I worked there,” Ross said.

While some restaurants are persistent in keeping cockroaches out of their buildings, others have lapses.

“I have never seen them at Bernardo’s but at Bistro 33 I did,” said a former employee of Bistro 33 and Cafe Bernardo.

“However they really tried to control it.

Whenever there was a big problem they would bug out the restaurant. I believe they did that at least once every month.”

The Yolo County website has records of all health inspections for restaurants in the area. Bernardo’s has had at least two health inspections a year and has never had an investigation due to complaints. However, Bistro 33 only has one routine inspection a year. The years in which they had more than one inspection were due to complaints or were follow up inspections.

If some of the restaurants located in the midst of a cockroach haven are somehow able keep their restaurants cockroach free, it must be possible for students in apartments downtown to do the same.

Leah Boodrookas, a third-year design major, has a hard time living with cockroaches.

“Dealing with the stress of college is difficult enough without the stress of having your apartment bombed every other weekend,” Boodrookas said.

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JAMES KIM arts@theaggie.org The smell of menswear is in the air as fashion enthusiast and raw denim junkie, third-year electrical engineering major Jasper Siu, gives MUSE the inside scoop on his personal style and how to do menswear his way.

In this week’s edition of Campus Chic, let’s talk raw denim. If you like your clothes nice and clean, raw den-

im is not for you because these jeans are all about getting down and dirty. Think of them as a blank canvas awaiting to be painted by the colors of your daily experiences or a caterpillar anticipating its metamorphosis into a majestic butterfly after undergoing countless trials and tribulations.

If you’re up for the challenge, you will be wearing these jeans everyday without a single wash for up to six months or even an entire year.

A word from the wise: Febreze is your friend. Hang your

jeans and spray on a reasonable amount of any air freshener you have to temporarily reduce the odor of the garment.

Another way to deodorize your jeans is to secure them in a Ziploc bag and freeze them in order to kill off the bacteria producing the odor. Remember to beware of rain and water as the indigo dye from your jeans can bleed into your white shirt or shoes. Roll the hems of the pant leg to prevent water from reaching your shoes and to show off the selvage detailing of your jeans. After your six months SEE CAM PUS CHI C O N PAGE 1 6

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Birdstrike Theater, UC Davis’ long form improv group, will perform their first show on Nov. 1.

Student-run comedy group brings improv to campus JOHN KESLER arts@theaggie.org Birdstrike Theatre, UC Davis' long-form improvisational group, will perform their

NEWS IN BRIEF LARISSA MURRAY arts@theaggie.org Davis will participate in the MesoAmerican festivity of Dia de los Muertos with three different events that Davis Downtown, the Davis Cemetery and the University will all host.

first show of the school year on Nov. 1 in Kleiber 3.

“This show will be all live, unlike our quarterly ‘big shows,’” said Sarah Lloyd, a Birdstrike member and second-year chemistry major. “It will be 100 percent improv.”

The members of Birdstrike Theatre do longform improv, which Lloyd mentions is different from the improv that is seen on “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” which is short-form improv.

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On Oct. 31, the second annual Dia de los Muertos celebration will occur in the E Street Plaza from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Attendees can enjoy a Dia de los Muertos procession, dance performances and a community altar organized for the El Dia de los Muertos Celebration.

At 4 p.m. the El Dia de los Muertos

procession will begin, starting from Tres Hermanas, located at 805 Second St., and ending at the E Street Plaza. Performers and costume wearers are encouraged to participate.

This year, Pamela Trokanski’s Dance Group will put on a flash mob performance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”

Additionally, Davis will also be celebrate the lives of the dead on Nov. 2 from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Davis Cemetery, located at 820 Pole Line Road.

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TO PERFORM AT MONDAVI CENTER COURTESY Andrew Bird will be performing at the Mondavi Center on Nov. 14.

MUSE speaks with critically acclaimed singer-songwriter CRISTINA FRIES arts@theaggie.org Andrew Bird, critically acclaimed singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who is well-known for his incorporation of violin and fiddle to his indie rock and folk tunes, will be performing at the Mondavi

Center on Nov. 14.

Bird first began recording albums in 1996 with the band Bowl of Fire, and soon broke off to create his solo career in 2003.

In addition to his six full-length albums and multiple EPs, Bird also made the film score for the film Norman (2010) and The Muppets (2011) and has worked in visual arts,

creating installations in the New York Guggenheim and Chicago Museum of Modern Art. Starting in Davis, Bird kicks off his solo tour around California with opening acts by indie-folk band The Handsome Family.

In a phone interview with Bird, MUSE got to talk about his creative process, musical development and the process of creating his two most recent albums Break It Yourself and Hands of Glory. The full interview can be found online at theaggie.org.

musical development over the years, and what have been your musical inspirations?

MUSE: How would you describe your

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NAMELESS MAGAZINE Inside look at the workings of undergraduate literary magazine

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Addressing all types of music E.D.Empty

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Nameless Magazine is UC Davis’ exclusively student-run literary magazine, which publishes one digital issue per quarter and one print issue per year. Each issue features fiction, poetry or mixed media submissions.

Mitchell Winter, editor in chief and fourth-year linguistics and religious studies major, believes it is the emphasis on student participation for which the publication is named. “[The name] can seem kind of eccentric but it also is true. Because there are so many different voices that we’re trying to convey, we don’t want to give one title to any one piece,”Winter said. “It’s this kind of being nameless,

Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is very quickly growing in popularity. From UC Davis students, to middle school students, to aspiring DJs who work at Trader Joes (I met one of those), everyone seems to be getting into one type or another of this blossoming genre.

I am not by any means a huge electro-head.

That title belongs to my friends who literally can listen to nothing else.

I refer to essentially all fast-paced modern electro as EDM because there are so many DJs

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Comedian Ray Molina headlines at new venue AKIRA OLIVIA KUMAMOTO arts@theaggie.org Davis’ local radio station, KDVS 90.3 FM, will be hosting their first house comedy show of the school year on Nov. 7. The show is called

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and remixes and sub-genres that my attempts to tell them apart have always been futile.

It should be noted that I have never been to a rave.You can label me a “noob” if you want, and many of you reading this are sure to be more knowledgeable of electro culture than myself. However, I am going to discuss EDM to the best of my ability anyway.

To me, it all sounds the same. The genre features sounds that are crazy, spacy, clean, dirty and everything in between. The genre may make you want to jump around for hours straight and lose your mind, or bob your head for an entire two-hour car ride.

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It was just something I did everyday since I can remember. I think the most formative thing I did early on was that I learned by ear.The idea was that music is like language.

This idea is the most important thing for the musician I’ve turned into. People say

drama to everyday objects.

“F***in’ Funny” and will be held at the Robot Rocket Residence on M Street.

The event is a showcase of some of the best local standup comedians and is a way for students in Davis to get their comedy fill without trekking to Sacramento or San Francisco.

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As a part of the Visiting Lecture Series, works by Kelly Detweiler, professor of art at Santa Clara University, and Jennifer Pochinski, figure and still-life painter, will be exhibited at the Natsoulas Gallery. The influence of artists like Picasso, Balthus, Bosch, Bocklin and Beckmann can be seen in the works of Detweiler, while Pochinski’s paintings aim to bring

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Professor Lynn Roller will be giving a lecture that explores the function and meaning behind the designs and sculptures that were shaped into the mountainous landscape of southeastern Europe and western Turkey by ancient cultures.

Minneapolis-based photographer Alec Soth will be visiting UC Davis to give a lecture on his works and the field of photography. He has been featured in prominent magazines, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013.

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SCIENCE+TECH SmartSite: How it helps, how it hurts M A I N T E N A N C E A D D R E S S E S D OW N T I M E I S S U E S , F I N D S P OT E N T I A L S O L U T I O N S

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Replacing MyUCDavis in 2005, SmartSite is the current course management system here at UC Davis. Sakai is the underlying, open-source software for Smartsite hosted through the outsourced vendor Asahi Net International.

Andy Jones, academic associate director of Academic Technology Services, said in an email that Sakai is “the community source collaborative learning environment that provides the code and ‘engine’ for our SmartSite.” This means that software developers at other schools from around the country can contribute tools and applications that we can use on SmartSite. UC Davis’ software developers are responsible for the Gradebook2 application.

SmartSite is one of the most heavily-relied upon tools that instructors and students use to keep track of their courses.

“SmartSite is used in the vast majority of all UC Davis classes, and in almost all largeenrollment classes,” Jones said.

As such an important tool in students’ everyday lives, there is a lot of dependency placed on it, and this dependency is a real issue when SmartSite’s routine maintenance goes wrong.

The most recent example of this problem is the incident that occurred during SmartSite’s maintenance on Oct. 18 that caused access issues through most of the weekend.

“There was something that went wrong with that maintenance that wasn’t detected until Saturday. So it was down from about seven in the morning Saturday until mid-afternoon Saturday; and then, although it seemed to be corrected, it occurred again Sunday,” said Steve Faith, the instructional technology coordinator of Academic Technology Services.

Asahi Net International hosts and performs maintenance on Smartsite when something goes wrong.

“They can’t always tell us when it’s going to be fixed because they don’t always know what’s wrong,” Faith said.

UC Davis used to host SmartSite personally,

but it was cheaper to outsource this duty.

The general consensus about the occasional downtime with SmartSite is frustration.

“It’s just a hassle for the student to have to deal with all these problems with SmartSite,” said Dung Nguyen, a fourth-year English major. “The teacher had to push back the deadline (for my homework). It was a hassle for her too … my homework was almost late and I had to talk to my teacher about the problems I was having.”

Though SmartSite may seem unevolved, it receives regular updates to enhance it.

“The SmartSite team updates the system regularly to maintain security and provide patches,” said project manager and developer Constance Fuller in an email interview.

According to Fuller, they are working on the deployment of a new, streamlined user interface that may be available to enhance tablet and phone usage.

“As time has gone on, it has not evolved as well as other products that are in the same category that SmartSite is,” Faith said.

According to Jones, the SmartSite team is “considering future learning management system alternatives to Sakai that might better adapt to the needs of its users.” “[We’re also] looking at a new partial GUI (graphical user interface) change to SmartSite,” Faith said. “It’s going to be called NeoPortal.”

Faith said the new GUI would make it easier to get to your courses than it is now.

Though it might not be called SmartSite, it can be expected in the next couple of years.

SmartSite is a great resource for classes but it can also be useful for clubs as anyone can make their own page. It is also customizable to the needs of the instructor, the class and anyone else who uses it.

Fuller said Faith and his colleague, Fernando Socorro, lead training sessions every week for those who need assistance with Smartsite.

So as Aggies look ahead to see what new course management system awaits, we can still use SmartSite to our best abilities and hope we don’t experience anymore downtime.

Study finds linkage between DNA, marital satisfaction G E N E C A U S E S H I G H E R H I G H S A N D LOW E R LOW S F O R M A R R I E D C O U P L E S

JASBIR KAUR

science@theaggie.org When it comes to marriage, wouldn’t it be nice to know whether it’s for the better or for the worse? Fortunately, for the meticulously-cautious and planning-obsessed people, a recent study published in the journal Emotion begins to tap into this fascinating area of marriage and its relation to DNA. Dr. Robert Levenson, a psychology professor at UC Berkeley and the main investigator of the study, suggests that our genetic make-up contributes to our marital satisfaction.

The study discovered that alleles — different versions of particular genes — set the stage for how individuals process and understand their emotional state, which eventually affects their relationships.

“We are always curious why some couples are happy and thriving whereas others are seemingly unhappy and miserable,” said Claudia Haase, co-author of the study, in an email interview. “Research has shown that the emotions that spouses show when they are together (e.g. affection, joy, sadness or anger) play an important role in how their marital satisfaction develops over time.”

The researchers discovered a linkage between an allele known as 5-HTTLPR which regulates serotonin levels and relationship satisfaction. All of us inherit some variant of this gene from our parents. Since 1989, this longitudinal study tracked 156 married couples over 20 years.

“...one shouldn’t predict their happiness or unhappiness in a marital relationship simply based on their genes.”

Every five years, the participants checked in at UC Berkeley to report their marital satisfaction and interact with one another in a lab setting. The researchers observed and coded their behaviors, such as the participants’ facial expressions, body language, tone of voice and the topic of the participants’ conversations. Half of the participants provided DNA samples, and researchers were able to match up their genotypes with the level of marital satisfaction reported by the participants.

The study found that participants with two short alleles of the 5-HTTLPR gene were found to be most dissatisfied in their marriage when a great surge of negative emotion was experienced. However, they were the most happy when positive emotion was involved. In contrast, participants with one or two long alleles for the gene, were less likely to be bothered or affected by the emotional highs and lows of their marriages.

The researchers caution that one shouldn’t predict their happiness or unhappiness in a marital relationship simply based on their genes. It isn’t advised to assume that just because you have inherited two short alleles for the gene, that you are set up for marital doom.

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HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT DISCOVERS SKELETON OF BABY DINOSAUR

Announced by the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology at The Webb Schools this week, the smallest, youngest and most complete fossil skeleton of Parasaurolophus to date was discovered by a high school student. Three-dimensional scans of almost the entire fossil are available to the public online. Nicknamed “Joe,” the fossil is the most digitally-accessible dinosaur to exist.

Harder, better, faster, stronger L I Q U I D M E TA L I S T H E M AT E R I A L O F T H E F U T U R E

MIND-READING TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

A computer at UC Berkeley was trained to decrypt brain scans using algorithms. The computer was shown patterns of brain activity produced from various images and film clips. As it learns, it can view brain scans and correctly associate them with words describing what the participant is seeing.

SOLAR SYSTEM WITH SEVEN PLANETS DISCOVERED

Found by two independent teams of astronomers, KIC 11442793 sets the record for most planets orbiting around a sun other than our own. The system is located 2,500 light years from Earth. Much like the planets of our own solar system, the seven planets grow larger as the distance from their star increases; however, the system is much more compact than ours. Its furthest planet orbits at the distance Earth circles the Sun. LARGEST ALZHEIMER’S STUDY REVEALS NEW ASSOCIATED GENES

In the largest study of its kind ever conducted on Alzheimer’s disease, the International Genomic Alzheimer’s Project found 11 new regions of the human genome that were shown to be involved in developing the disease.

The unique worldwide effort allowed for collaboration among 15 countries and interpreting the genetic data of 74,076 patients.

MONEY GROWS ON TREES

In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, Australian scientists have discovered gold present in the leaves of some plants, indicating deposits buried many meters below. The researchers believe this will create a new way to find the precious metal in challenging locations.

EMILY SEFEROVICH science@theaggie.org

Allow me to introduce one of the most curious and exciting technological innovations yet: Liquidmetal. Developed by material engineers at the California Institute of Technology, this state-of-the-art metal alloy is marketed by Liquidmetal Technologies and licensed by no other than Apple Computers.

Created through the rapid cooling of molten, multi-component metal, Caltech material engineers were able to evade the metallic tendency to harden into crystalline structures. Liquidmetal, also known as metallic glass, is an amalgamation of drastically different sized metallic and chemical elements, and it is this heterogeneity in part that allows Liquidmetal producers to bypass metallic crystal formation, which relies heavily on the specific order of atoms and a timely cooling process.

Liquidmetal alloy boasts a structural integrity twice that of titanium while match-

ing the processing capacity of plastics, which is pretty much unheard of for metallic substances. These features alone mean that any device composed of Liquidmetal will be able to sustain harsher blows than titaniumswathed devices and be processed in a much more efficient manner.

Just to put the unmatched durability of Liquidmetal in perspective, current iPhones are made of aluminum, which is roughly half as strong as titanium. Do a little math, and this would mean that a Liquidmetal-clad iPhone would possess an exterior that is up to 400 percent stronger than current and past generations. Additionally, Liquidmetal’s excellent resistance to scratches and corrosion indubitably make it the best option for future handheld devices.

The rights to Liquidmetal were originally secured by Apple Computers for “Consumer Electronic Products” in 2010, and an extension on the lease was made within the last year, indicating that Apple will likely be fashioning the impending iPhone 6 housing from this superior material.

Construction on begins on SkyMine

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Recycling plant aims to capture carbon dioxide from industry emissions

CLAIRE SULLIVAN-HALPERN science@theaggie.org

The construction of a carbon dioxide (CO2) recycling plant in San Antonio, Texas will employ new technology to trap CO2 from power stations and industrial manufacturing processes before it is released into the atmosphere.

Using technology from Skyonic, construction began on the SkyMine demonstration plant on Sept. 30.

The technology utilizes heat in waste gases from industrial chimneys, which is then used to generate electricity. Then the carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and heavy metals like mercury are scrubbed from the waste gases and stored.

The CO2 enters absorption chambers where it is treated with sodium hydroxide (aka caustic soda ) made from salt and water. The chemical reaction that occurs is: CO2 + H2O + NaCl —> NaHCO3 + H2 + Cl2

The byproducts of this chemical reaction are baking soda (NaHCO3), hydrogen gas (H2) and chlorine gas (Cl2), all of which have multiple commercial uses. Hydrogen and chlorine gases, for example, can be dissolved in water to make hydrochloric acid, which is frequently used as an indus-

trial solvent.

Furthermore, the SkyMine scrubber technology is less costly and more efficient than the current technology being used in industry, which can cost hundreds of millions up front and millions more annually for maintenance.

comments about the project.

“There are a couple of points to note.

They apparently aren't scrubbing the CO2out of ambient air but putting their plant near a source of CO2, like a power plant,” said Casey in an email interview.

“It is preventing CO2 from entering the

“In North America alone, the market for carbonates, soaps [and] limestone products used in making paper, cement or fine chalks is worth $7.5 billion. Even if only about half of that is lucrative, we’ll be able to drive down the price of [the] carbon sequestration process to around $20 per ton.

The market will deliver the most sequestration at the least cost to society,” said Joe Jones, CEO and founder of Skyonic.

However, William Casey, a professor of analytical chemistry, had some important

atmosphere from combustion.This distinction is important because it takes much more energy to scrub the low levels of CO2 out of the atmosphere in the presence of so many other gases.”

Casey continues to explain that this reaction is atypical. Usually the reaction of carbon dioxide and water makes carbonic acid (H2CO3) that then dissociates to form bicarbonate (HCO3(-)).The reaction that Skyonic reports makes hydrogen gas, which is a powerful way to store energy, a

detail that may be due to the reaction occurring at such high temperatures, utilizing the exhaust from industry.

Unfortunately, this technology alone will not curb climate change. The Skyonic plant in Texas is projected to be able to remove 83,000 tons of CO2 per year compared to the estimated 5.5 million tons that the U.S. produces annually.

“This is a good project and innovative in terms of the scale of CO2 mineralization that has not been done before. Industrial CO2 capture is an important part of the CCS story. However, given the scale of the climate change challenge (and the volumes of CO2 emitted from the power sector alone), traditional CO2 storage will be needed alongside projects like Skyonic,” said policy and communications manager at the Carbon Capture and Storage Association Judith Shapiro.

Regulations already exist requiring those in industry to filter sulphur and nitrous dioxides from their smokestacks.

New EPA standards tighten restrictions on allowable emissions from power stations, a change that could drive up the demand for SkyMine, which is a relatively small and easily installed piece of equipment.

Capitol SkyMine is scheduled for completion in 2014, and if everything goes as planned, the plant is projected to capture 300,000 tons of CO2emissions annually.

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Minor Alcohol Preclusion Act

ELIZABETH ORPINA Editor in Chief

DON'T DRINK AND WALK?

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In January 2012, the Minor Alcohol Preclusion Act (MAPA) was introduced to the Davis City Council.The act was proposed in light of community and council members’ concerns over underage drinking and neighborhood disturbances. City Council was scheduled to meet on Oct. 9, but will reconvene in 2014 instead to discuss the act.

The Davis Police can already make arrests for drinking-related conduct, such as public inebriation, possessing an open container and supplying minors with alcohol.There are also other local ordinances that attempt to curb “nuisance parties” and social gatherings that serve alcohol to minors.

If MAPA were enacted, the Davis Police would be able to charge minors with public inebriation if found with a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.02 percent or higher.What’s particularly unique about this act is that minors are allowed to drink in private,

but can be subject to BAC tests and fines with probable reason if drunk in public areas.

Indeed, we do sympathize — and often, empathize — with our neighbors who have to suffer through the drunken rowdiness and eloquent conversations students yell at each other at 2 a.m. However, we do have some concerns with this proposed “solution.”

We know that those under the influence of alcohol are not the most functional group of people. If MAPA were to be passed, students may be more encouraged to drive home intoxicated instead of walk home, for fear of getting stopped and having their BAC tested.

A drinking culture is inevitable in a college town.Yes, the act would reduce the number of public disturbances, but does that encourage underage drinking in private settings rather than in public?

letter to the editor

uc quality pushes workers to strike votes The University of California’s union TAs, readers, custodians, hospital workers, technical employees and more are all holding strike authorization votes this week. Graduate student-workers are voting Nov. 4 to 6, service workers voted Oct. 29 and 30, and professional and technical employees have already voted 92 percent in favor to authorize a strike.

These union workers have been meeting with a series of Unfair Labor Practices from the UC — includ-

ing intimidating striking service workers last spring and withholding information from TAs during their negotiations for a new contract. And all of these unions have emphasized the need to fight to defend the UC’s status as a top education and research university: smaller discussions so they can attend to undergraduate students, more competitive funding for graduate students to keep the UC a top research university, better patient care in UC hospitals, increased hours to

Socially unacceptable THE LEFT NUT with ZACH MOORE

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e’ve got about 30 kids in this county that I’m at that are homosexuals. And it is sickening,” cries 14-year-old radio talk show host Caiden Cowger to thousands of listeners. “I’m going to tell you this, guys: President Obama and Vice President Biden are making kids gay!”

Some of you may find this appalling; others may not think this statement is so far-fetched. Cowger’s rant soon went viral, sparking heated discussion everywhere on the issue of gay

Although Adams himself had no part in this ruling, we can give him credit for vicariously influencing the decision... marriage. Those on the left scathingly criticized him using epithets such as “dick” and “little asshole,” while those on the social right quickly jumped to his defense.

Cowger’s case is not an isolated incident, either. Every four years, presidential elections bring out the worst in people. Otherwise normal citizens begin calling each other names like “baby killer,” “woman hater” and “fag enabler,” not realizing that whomever they elect as the leader of our country has little control over abortion, women’s rights or gay marriage.

Now, a cynic might argue that I singled out Cowger to attack the right

The City of Davis is made up of about 33,000 UC Davis students.

Approximately 25,000 are undergraduates, meaning the majority of those students are under the age of 21.

How will a police officer differentiate between minors and those of legal drinking age? We anticipate awkward moments.

Additionally, minors are not the only ones who create neighborhood disturbances.The act does not formally state what police officers are supposed to do with those of legal drinking age who cause disruptions in the community.

When City Council meets again, we’d like to see more defined criteria and expectations for MAPA, an emphasis on alcohol education in combination with enforcement and better student/community/police relations.

If the police can have our BACs, we’d like to have their backs, too.

wing, but such is not my intention at all. He is entitled to his opinion, and, thanks to the First Amendment, free to broadcast it to the masses. I’m not necessarily criticizing him or anyone else for their views on homosexuality.

I’m criticizing them because they base their condemnation of the President on something over which he has virtually no control. For those of you still convinced that my bias is showing through, let me give you another anecdote.

Last election, my mother asked me who I would vote for, were I eligible to vote, with the addendum that Romney would ruin this country if elected. As a political progressive, even I found this pretty grossly naive, so I asked her how exactly he would do so.

Her instantaneous response went something along the lines of, “Well, he doesn’t like gay people!” I don’t know Mitt Romney personally, but I highly doubt that he hates all homosexuals solely on the premise of their sexual orientation. Even if he did, I have plenty of friends in support of gay rights who would still vote for him because they agree with him on fiscal and foreign policy issues, among many other things.

I told my mom that, while I would vote for Obama, it would be because, at the time of the election, he had cut the federal deficit by $312 billion and increased government spending at a slower rate than any president since World War II, not because of his magical ability to instantly legalize gay MOORE on 11

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clean campus buildings.

The call for a strike vote from UAW 2865, the union of UC readers and TAs, came last week in a meeting here at UC Davis in Wellman Hall, with representatives from every UC campus and dozens of rank-and-file Davis graduate student-workers participating. What does this strike vote mean? It means not that there will be an immediate strike, but that union officers are authorized to call a strike if circumstances merit.

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Spooky tradition

Smiling is golden

COSMIC RELEVANCE with DANIEL HERMAN

STAY TUNED with ELLY OLTERSDORF

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ow many times have you shared a smile with a stranger? Think about it. Just today: when you bought your coffee and she told you to have a nice day, when you bumped into him on the sidewalk and you both mumbled apologies, when you crossed the road quickly because that driver insisted that you cross first. Each exchange contains a brief moment of eye contact and complimentary smile. Is this due to human nature? No.This behavior is cultural.

Whether because of our Hollywoodobsessed psyche or our enormous investment in perfected orthodontics, America is without a doubt, addicted to smiling. Americans will smile when we are happy, when we are

We got out our guitars and began to play, with our inhibitions cast aside... uncomfortable, when we are see something funny or slightly interesting.

I come from a town where people going for their morning power walks will greet you with a big grin and a chipper,“Good morning!”

To me, this level of friendliness wasn’t excessive or grating, it was almost common courtesy.To the rest of the world, this exchange seems to equate to Disney On Crack.You just try to squeeze in a “Bonjour” to a French lady going for her morning power cigarette and you would be lucky to hold some brief, albeit hostile eye contact.

This inevitably has an effect on street performance.

Usually there is a little song-and-dance that goes along with the interaction between performer and audience. Some people are sitting near you and will hear a whole song; many more are passing you, catching only snippets of your songs as they go about their daily tasks. Usually the people passing will throw you a smile as you play.You take this for granted. It seems natural, second nature! Which makes it all the more unnerving when smiling is somehow subtracted from the routine.

When I was in Germany over the summer I took my guitar with me, for company if nothing else.The first few times I saw some interesting results. Like always, I had tried to find a relatively inoffensive place to play — a public park in the middle of the day.

Strangely, the overwhelming reaction I got was uncomfortable.

I had made sure not to leave my case open

or anything resembling a tip jar and yet, when I smiled at anyone, they hurried away as if I had asked for their firstborn child. It wasn’t unpleasant, just bizarre and invigorating. I had the power to make every passing stranger visibly nervous. Sometimes a passerby would breathe strangely loud through their nose as they walked quickly by, which I totally counted as acknowledgement. Not a single smile was seen.

Of course location is everything.When I visited a university town in Germany I got a much warmer response. Maybe too warm in some respects.

Again I had chosen a public park. Most of the populace gave me a wide diameter of space; if they did look at me it was hesitance bordering on suspicion. A young couple, however, approached and set up a blanket a little ways in front of me. I wasn’t acknowledged throughout this process but they could have chosen anywhere to sit so I figured they could be considered my audience.

Then they began to suck face about five feet from me and my bench. It would have been cute had it not been mildly gross, but hey, I’m a good sport so I serenaded their little picnic until they got up to leave and the guy thanked me — presumably for helping him get laid.

A while later an older couple approached as I was playing some Bob Dylan.They handed me a couple euros, which I graciously accepted.

“Danke!” I said, butchering the accent.

“Ah,” said the husband, picking up on my foreignness.“You speak English?”

“Yes!” I replied.“I’m from America!”

We began to talk about Bob Dylan and songwriting and the ’60s.

“You know,” I said after a while,“Street performing is different in Germany. People here seem nervous, they hardly make eye contact.You two are the first to approach me and start up a conversation!”

“Well we are not German,” they declared.

“We are Swiss!”

“Ah!” I said, as if that explained everything.

Maybe it did. After a bit, they left, smiling as they waved goodbye.

Though I don’t consider myself one to get homesick, it was nice to come back to a country where passersby give you a gold-star smile for effort.We are addicted to smiling and we are nowhere near to finding a cure, and just the thought of it leaves me grinning.

For some great makeout music contact ELLY OLTERSDORF at elly.oltersdorf@gmail.com

T

oday is Halloween, and it’s been one of my favorite holidays since I was a child.

And even though I love it so much, I realized that I know almost nothing about its origins.

So I investigated.

Halloween was originally known as Hallowmas, or Saint’s mass — a threeday observance and feast to honor the deceased and pray for Christian souls. As early as the 13th century, all regions of Europe had its own version of All Saint’s Day. Equally important, the indigenous civilizations of North and Central

Yet here I was, a replaceable human, paranoid of androids.

America have been honoring their ancestors and rebirth in celebrations for around 3,000 years. When the Spanish arrived, their Christian influence hybridized the month’s practice into Día de los Muertos, a two-day period to honor the dead and respect the cycle of life.

So how did we get to our modern celebration?

In the colonies, Puritans held strong opposition to the “pagan” traditions of Halloween. However, with the influx of Irish and Scottish immigrants in the 19th century, Halloween slowly assimilated into mainstream culture. Its first mention in an American publication was in 1911, and by the late 1930s people from all socio-economic, religious and racial backgrounds were celebrating the holiday.

And it turns out, these observances hold direct connections to our own festivities.

From Ireland, we get the Jacko-Lantern, hollow turnips lighting the way for lost souls, adapted to the American native pumpkin. From England, we received “souling,” an early version of trick-or-treating.

Children and the impoverished would go door to door, chanting rhymes and asking for “soul cakes,” baked for charity. In addition, from Mexican and Scottish customs, participants

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corre c tion In last week’s issue, the fire department merger editorial mentioned a $1.3 million annual charge to UC Davis as a result of the JPA, but it should have said $7,500 savings. Subsequently, the student firefighter program will not be cut.

Also, the article mentioned a national search for a fire chief, however it should have said that UC Davis fire chief Nathan Trauernicht will head both the UCDFD and the CDFD. The Aggie regrets these errors.

marriage and abortion in all 50 states.

As much as I supported Obama in the 2012 election, I would rather people not vote at all than vote for him without an educated stance on his positions. I have infinitely more respect for someone who votes Republican and has a carefully thought-out position that they can readily defend than for someone who votes Democrat because “Republicans hate women and minorities.”

Making prejudices about our opponents has caused party polarization, which in turn has caused politicians to become overly dogmatic in order to appeal to their constituents. We saw it with Rick Santorum’s shortlived presidential run last year: the bread and butter of his platform was conservative social policy, which made up most of his talking points.

His extremely polarizing persona, which relied heavily on his Christian morals, took

adorn costumes to either mock death, disguise oneself from evil spirits or create masked mischief. Lastly, Mexican tradition strongly encourages the locality to share with one another, everyone contributing to the shindig.

All in all, this period historically has centered around death, life and remembering our ancestors. So have we strayed from the true purpose of this ritual? When I asked some classmates what they associate with celebrating Halloween, the answers strongly suggested that the holiday has strayed.

Popular answers included “candy,” “pure fun” and “trick-or-treating.”

And when asked about their college celebrations, mostly one word was uttered: “partying.”

On one hand, it can be strongly argued that our secular society has lost the spiritual aspect of the holiday.

Elementary schools facilitate dress-up, but omit conversations of ancestry and the universal subject of death.

Luckily, Día de los Muertos celebrations are on the rise, including processions in the Mission District of San Francisco and midtown Sacramento. These Festivals of the Altar are free and open to the public, and everyone is encouraged to bring flowers, candles and tokens for departed loved ones. In our fast-paced technological world, the organizers of the Mission procession encourage us to spend these days strengthening “our connections beyond our immediate concerns.”

Yet, Halloween still seems to unite us all. Far from its religious roots, children from all circumstances can dress up and join the merriment. I say it’s downright American; anyone can be anything.

Furthermore, in a world with school shootings, ever-increasing airport security and child predators, my hope is that this tradition continues to allow children to walk the streets safely in every neighborhood of the United States.That we can put aside discourses on high fructose corn syrup and child obesity, and trust our neighbors to give children candy. For one day the whole community can have fun together.

If you want to contact the dead with DANIEL HERMAN you can email him at dsherman@ucdavis.edu.

almost all of the media attention away from his grossly incomplete fiscal policy proposal, which economists hated with near unanimity.

Yet this man won the Republican primary in three states and finished second in five others, over Romney, Gingrich and Ron Paul, all of whose proposed fiscal policies made up a large chunk of their platform. This is just one example of how some Americans care much more about social issues than economic ones.

My intent here is not to undermine the importance of social issues, but to stress that social policy change usually happens in state legislatures and rarely rests upon the shoulders of the federal government. So please, when voting for the leader of our country, don’t relegate their role to that of a mere social policy advocate. Instead, consider the practical effects this candidate would have on our country before you cast your ballot.

If you want to call ZACH MOORE a “little asshole,” email him at zcmoore@ucdavis.edu.

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MISHA VELASQUEZ / AGGIE Protesters hold up signs as they march from the MU to the Welcome Center.

PROTESTS Cont. from front page the traditional process. According to Katehi, UC Regents created a group led by the chair of the board. This group spoke with UC chancellors and an advisory group from the Senate and together eventually selected the UC president from a long list of nominations. Katehi claims that neither the chancellors nor the Senate voted for the president.

“The chancellors did not vote; the Senate did not vote.This is not a unique process for the UC system. It’s a process that many other universities are following. There is no vote that goes,” Katehi said.

According to Adela de la Torre, UC Davis vice chancellor, the student body president and different campus groups nominated the students who were able to speak with Napolitano. Katehi claims that due to Napolitano’s strict schedule meeting with other university representatives, she had no control over the process for Napolitano’s student conference.

Protesters are also concerned about the safety of undocumented students and workers on campus due to Napolitano’s history as the former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. Protesting students demand Napolitano make campuses across the UC system sanctuaries for undocumented students and

FOOD BANK Cont. from front page

In addition to giving out food at Friday’s Table, YFB runs a Kids Farmers Market at several Yolo County elementary schools. It is an afterschool activity where the school pays for the produce in advance, then students receive play money and “buy” 10 pounds of fresh food to take home. A gap in basic food knowledge sometimes makes itself apparent during these visits.

“Some things will give you goosebumps.

When I would do outreach to schools, some kids didn’t know what a potato was, because they had been eating McDonald’s their whole lives,” Mapalo said.

With 19 percent of people in Yolo County living below the poverty line, fast food presents itself as a cheap way to pack in as many calories as possible. This leads not only to adverse health effects, such as obesity and Type II diabetes, but also contributes to a deficit of agricultural literacy within a community where farming is the principal industry.

Farm-to-School

Another group tackling this issue is helmed

by John Young and Nicole Sturzenberger of the Yolo County Department of Agriculture. They are the administrators of the Farm-to-School Yolo Grant, and serve as mediators between farmers and schools.

“A lot of the difficulty … is mostly logistics, getting the people to connect and getting them to know that there is this market available for them …” Young said. “The farming world and the school food service world are completely separate; you need a relationship in order for that to happen.”

Sturzenberger added that the relationship is key, and that trust has to be built into the system.

Young went on to say that although the parties involved in school food service unanimously agree that fresh local produce needs to be on lunch plates, school food service administrators face a fiscal reality.

workers to protect them against deportation.

“We want our undocumented students to be safe. We want the UC system to be a safe space for them so they won’t be scared to even attend classes,” said Abrahan Tapia, a fifth-year psychology major.

Protesters also demand undocumented TAs receive the same benefits as those who are documented.

“There are some TAs out here who are also undocumented that don’t get the same pay that regular TAs do. They also don’t get the same benefits, like health care, because of them being undocumented,” said Ilse Lopez, a second-year.

For Guadalupe Espinoza, a second-year human development major, Napolitano’s deportation record is disconcerting.

“During her term, there [were] more deportations in history. It wasn’t just the deportations of criminals, it was the deportation of families, it was the separation of families and there was deportation of AB 540 students,” Espinoza said.

According to AB 540, undocumented students are unable to qualify for financial aid, both state and federal, such as FAFSA money or BOG waivers due to not having a legal status in the United States.

“For people who are trying to access the American dream, part of that is education.

And a means of that is a public institution, like the UC system,” said Marissa Cuevas, a fourth-year sociology major.

“When you’re dealing with the school cafeteria, that’s a separate business, they don’t get any money from the budget of the school district,” Young said. “They are on their own to make sure that they’re selfsufficient, so the bottom line becomes important.”

Reconciling local produce and a tight budget is an issue that Farm-to-School faced by starting small.Young and Sturzenberger started “Harvest of the Month,” a project where Yolo County schools feature a seasonal fruit or vegetable every month.

“Basically, farmers sit down with directors and tell them ‘This is what we’ll have in season, this is what we produce very well at the cheapest possible price,’ then the food service director will commit to buying part of the harvest of one fruit or vegetable every month,”Young said.

Community involvement

The ultimate goal is a return to seasonality in Yolo County, coupled with the collaboration of retailers, institutions and families. Local chain Dos Coyotes participated by offering asparagus quesadillas in April earlier this year. Young and Sturzenberger expressed a wish for other businesses to follow this example.

There is no other Farm-to-School grant program in California; it is unique to Yolo County. However, the office of the Agricultural Commissioner is currently in the process of writing a guidebook to help other counties follow suit.

Georgeanne Brennan, an award-winning author and Anne Evans, cofounder of the Davis Food Co-op, are working on the guidebook and contributing seasonal recipes for schools to make on an industrial scale.

“There is a history of being progressive … sometimes [there are] a lot of meetings, a lot of talking about what we should do, but Yolo County puts that into play, we do it,” Young said. “We listen, we enact things.

It’s not just talk.”

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Due to a recent University contract that cut into the wages and pensions of UC workers, members of the UAW Local 2865, the TA union, are fearful of the same cuts happening to them.

“They’ve already sent the message that they don’t care about their AFSCME workers by implementing an unfair contract.

What are UAW workers going to think is going to happen to them?” Hernandez said.

For Duane Wright, a member of the UAW Local 2865, he’d like to see Napolitano implement better working conditions for TAs. According to Wright, TAs are overworked with too many students, which negatively affects the education of undergraduates.

“As a TA, if I’m overworked and have too many students then that’s going to affect my students because then they’re not going to get enough one-on-one time. I can’t give enough good feedback to them.

I can’t provide the mentorship. I can’t be there for emotional support, etc. So our working conditions are their learning conditions,” Wright said.

Along with lower class sizes, protesting TAs also demand higher pay for their work.

“The UC prestige goes down when we have 500-person classes instead of a serious education. And it’s bad for graduate students who are overworked and have to choose between serving their students and getting paid a decent wage,” said Caroline Mckusick, a Ph.D. student in anthropology.

Due to Napolitano’s background, many protesters worry about an increase in surveillance on campus.

“One of the things we’re talking about is any surveillance on students and guaranteeing freedom of expression. Being able to freely protest or do sit-ins are becoming less and less okay on the campus, so we want to make sure we can continue to do that,” said Deirdre Morris, UAW Local 2865 member.

According to Torre, Napolitano is interested in making UC schools sanctuaries and implementing fair contracts for campus workers.

Future plans for protesters include supporting ASFCME 32999, the university labor union, if they vote to strike on Oct. 30.

“During the 2008 election cycle, UC workers spent even more than the university in support of Prop 30.The workers care about our education being funded than the university itself. It’s about students and workers standing together,” said Ian Lee, a third-year environmental science major.

According to Hernandez, Napolitano has seen major protests on almost every UC campus.

“This is not just happening at Davis.This is something that’s happened at Berkeley.

It’s happened at UCLA. It’s happened at Irvine and Riverside. Students, UC-wide are upset. We want to put pressure and we want to make changes. This should be our university,” Hernandez said. n

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“We’ll keep on pushing for undocumented student needs, because there were other demands that still need to be accommodated,” said Ronquillo.

Ronquillo said he still wishes Napolitano would issue a definitive statement saying she will be a champion of immigration reform and undocumented individuals in general – a request he mentioned to her when she came to UCLA earlier this month.

He also said he wants Napolitano to find a way for undocumented teaching assistants to be paid. They currently cannot receive pay since they do not have Social Security numbers.

Napolitano also announced she would dedicate $5 million to graduate student recruitment and $5 million to a UC program that caters to women and minority postdoctoral fellows.

The president’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program provides research fellowships, professional development resources and faculty mentoring to recent Ph.D. graduates who conduct research at the UC. “In two weeks, I’m going to be coming to the UC Board of Regents with some big ideas for consideration,” Napolitano said. “In the meantime, however, I’ve heard enough to know that if we are to remain a premier research university, we must increase our support for postdoctoral fellows and graduate students.”

However, Nicole Robinson, president of the Graduate Students Association, said she doesn’t think the funding will be able to fully make amends for the years of budget cuts the UC has seen to student programs.

“Any amount of money that goes back into the system is a good thing,” Robinson said. “At the same time, so much money was cut over the past several years.”

But Robinson said she appreciates the allocation. Budget cuts have made it harder for UCLA to hire enough teaching assistants and have enough classes to meet growing enrollment, and the $5 million for graduate student recruitment would help do this, Robinson said.

No tuition or state dollars will be used for the initiatives. The money will come from one-time reserves Napolitano can use at her discretion.

In the rest of her speech, Napolitano said supporting UC research, technology and diversity would be among her top priorities.

Napolitano said she is developing more ideas that she will bring to her first UC Board of Regents meeting next month. She recently told UCLA students she will bring her ideas for UC revenue solutions to the board.

Although Napolitano mentioned in her speech she has been studying the UC budget, there are still other questions left unanswered about how she plans to solve the UC’s funding problem, said Daniel Mitchell, professor emeritus at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Luskin School of Public Affairs. Such questions include how Napolitano will resolve the UC’s decreasing amount of available campus space and whether administrative efficiency efforts will be enough to bridge the UC’s funding gap.

“The next regents meeting is in midNovember and, although the agenda isn’t yet posted, there will surely be some real issues on the table,” Mitchell said. “(Napolitano) talked about a learning curve so she will need to be well along that curve in a couple of weeks from now.”

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given to them because it required participation from all aspects of Creative Media; marketing, design and programming.

Creative Media Director Alex Park spoke about the changes the program has made for the Experimental College.

“We made the Experimental College’s identity able to show more through their website,” Park said. “We also made designs based off of their culture.”

A large benefit of the new website is that registration is now easier than before.

“Our biggest asset that is currently being worked on is our website. It will make online registration easier and be on whole an experience tailored to user ease,” Moore said. “We are focusing on discovering what it is that our students want to see and then filling that need.”

The long-term marketing plan for the eCollege is to advertise with their new designs, put up signs in Unitrans buses, table at events and

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bring the company down to Santa Monica, but we want to be here because UC Davis has so many smart kids,” Garrett said. “The ultimate goal of having this is to keep more UC Davis graduates here.We just want people

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Sacramento Mike Cella decided to rekindle the event but kept true to its original house show format.

The event was originally held in a house on Pole Line Road and occasionally at other venues in and around downtown Davis. The house setting was chosen to allow for show-goers to have a comfortable place to laugh and blow off steam.

The new venue, Robot Rocket Residence, traditionally opens its space for musicians and bands to perform.

“We started doing the show at a house on Pole Line in Davis. We had the show in the living room with people backed up to the wall,” Cella said. “It’s very informal. I like having the show in a house because

reach out to faculty and students about their classes.

“We are taking this as an opportunity to reach out to the campus and community to conduct focus groups on what types of learning and courses are of interest and where there are educational gaps on campus,” Moore said.

There is also a new Try Before You Buy option for eCollege classes, which means members can try out a class for free to get a feel for whether they want to buy a pass.

“We are trying a lot of different ways to help the Experimental College advertise and bring in new more members,” said marketing department co-director Nick Dias.

Dias said the eCollege is also going to incorporate cultural literacy classes into the curriculum. This will be done by having a handful of cultural clubs on campus teach classes to raise awareness on different cultures. The eCollege will also teach free classes in dorms to raise awareness of their programs.

One aspect of the college that has continuously raised funds has been the eCollege garden. Here, anyone who wants to garden can rent out

a plot to grow vegetables and plants of their choice.

“Garden spots have almost always been fully sold,” Evans said.

Second-year human development major Jade Lewin and second-year evolution ecology and behavior major Jenna Huxley share a plot in the Experimental College garden.

“I’m thankful to have the opportunity to cultivate a piece of land and make it my own, engaging in the process of transforming a weeded plot into a full-blown garden, as well as a nice place to read or do homework,” Lewin said.

“It’s been a great place for peace of mind because it’s so different in there than the rest of Davis. It’s definitely my safe haven,” Huxley said.

The marketing department and ASUCD will continue to work closely with the eCollege until results from their efforts can be seen in winter 2014.

“As with other projects within ASUCD, this is an incredible opportunity to make huge changes,” Evans said. “There is a very broad horizon here.” n

who are excited to dream big.”

According to Anthony Costello, co-founder of Davis Roots and current adviser of Fuse Athletics, it is important, as a business accelerator, to invest in not only a worthwhile business idea but also the team that is executing that idea.

“Companies have to learn how to get comfortable with making

mistakes, how to hire the right people, how to ask for help and how to raise money,” Costello said. “But what you really can’t teach people to have is passion for their market or passion for their idea. For me it’s feeling passionately about what you’re trying to do as a business that makes the difference between being successful and failing.” n

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The project hopes to utilize PG&E analysis of energy efficiency to find candidates who would be able and willing to make improvements in their energy sources.

“This project seems to follow along the same lines as a project of SMUD (Sacramento Municipal Utility District),” said Ben Cobbold, a UC Davis Medical Center registered nurse. “[The project] allows you to pay four to

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tougher than the average person and these messages didn’t really bother you, you can’t get a restraining order.

In addition, courts like to see that you’ve made a good faith effort to stop the harassment. Try hanging a poster saying, “No trespassing — do not hang posters here or I will call the police.” If he does anything else crazy — like sending you repeated text messages, calling you at 7 a.m. to accuse you of messing with his Facebook or sending you screenshots of disturbing emails he’s sent to your family to terrorize them — you’ll still probably need to show the court you

the vibe is pretty laid back and the of giveaways and musical interludes setting is intimate.” by third-year English major Matt The event usually features seven Stalcup. to ten local comedians and a Cella will be co-hosting the prominent headliner from the Bay event along with comedian and Area. Comedian Ray Molina will Robot Rocket resident Jaclyn Weibe headlining the Nov. 7 show. and. Both hosts will be offering Molina recently finished up short comic sets of their own.

Comedy Central’s “Up Next” comCella has hosted the event beedy competition in which he was fore, while Weiand usually performs a semi-finalist. Molina has opened comedy acts. Weiand started dofor big names such as Zach Gali- ing standup in Sacramento a year fianakis, Maria Bamford and Marc ago and has done sets at past house Maron. He prides himself on a feel- comedy events in Davis. good variety of comedy, a charac“[F***in’ Funny is] really a difteristic somewhat unique to the ferent kind of performance. Davis standup community. people don’t know to come out “I am looking forward to seeing to Sacramento to see comedy so a lot of people there,” Molina said. they’re really happy to be at this “When I perform I want people to show and it’s a really fun place to feel good about themselves.” perform,” Weiand said.

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on the premise. The US Department of Public Health states that while spraying apartments can be effective it is also the responsibility of the residents of an apartment to restrain cockroaches.

The US Department of Public Health’s report on cockroach management states, “Although baits are a highly effective method of control, if cockroaches have access to stored food products, if pet

seven dollars more on your energy bill per month to utilize a certain percentage more renewable sources toward your energy usage.”

The DavisFREE initiative will utilize the current city setup of Davis and improve it slowly relative to the potential of each individual establishment. The initial $300,000 in grant money will be used to substitute renewable energy for carbonemission consequence fuel, and in the future, be able to save that amount of money and more. n

took some steps to prevent the harassment. In these examples: Block him on Facebook, send a single text telling him “stop contacting me or I will get a restraining order” and don’t answer his calls. If you’ve done all that, you’ve got a good shot at getting a restraining order, which can last for up to three years.Violating the restraining order will get the stalker arrested and sent straight to jail if you call the police on him.

This should go without saying, but I want to be clear: if this guy ever threatens to hurt you, call the police before doing anything else. People are crazy.

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food is left out or dirty dishes are left in the sink overnight, this method of control will have limited effect.”

“They are everywhere in Davis, I have even seen them on campus in Haring [Hall].

So there is no escaping them,” Boodrookas said when asked how she prevented the cockroaches from once again encroaching on their home.

“But, what helped me and my roommate the most was keeping everything spotless.

Maybe that’s hard in college, but I think it’s most definitely worth it.” n

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“It’s not a type for comedy that allows for one-liners and jokes, but instead allows for situational and characterbased humor,” Lloyd said.

“We get into characters, and then the situations we get the characters into are funny.”

One example Lloyd gave was a scene in which she and another performer acted out a scene in which Lloyd’s character was discovered to be in love with marshmallows. Charlie Norton, a fourth-year evolution and ecology major, said that long-form improv

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allows for some interesting and funny scenes.

“Some of the best scenes are the ones where we all end up reading each other’s minds really well and come up with a cohesive idea,” Norton said. “When we end up on the same page and perform for an extended period of time it can get really good.”

Norton also said that Birdstrike incorporates the audience into their performances.

“Audience input really drives what we do on stage.

We’ll do things where we interview the audience or we’ll use someone’s iPod. We’ll work with the

audience to do whatever we can,” Norton said.

The members of Birdstrike Theatre are from various groups but share an interest in improv.

Birdstrike Theatre President Omri Kruvi, a fourth-year landscape architecture major, joined the group in his first year in order to find a hobby.

“I discovered improv in high school and I enjoyed it a lot,” Kruvi said. “I had a good time and I wanted to meet other people who were interested in it as well.”

Lloyd also did improv in high school and was seeking an improv group at UC Davis.

“I found out about

Birdstrike and saw they were advertising for auditions and workshops,” Lloyd said. “I went to one of the workshops, and ended up on the team.”

Previous improv experience is not required for joining Birdstrike.

“I joined in fall 2012 because I needed a hobby that wasn’t science,” Norton said.“I hadn’t done any improv before this.

I tried it on a whim and managed to be somehow successful at it.”

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and not having a certain voice that’s coming through, trying to have everyone.”

The first digital issue, which will come out at the end of Fall Quarter, will feature works exclusively from undergraduate students.

“While some literary magazines with wider scope tend to be more competitive, Nameless is largely about connecting the undergraduate community with opportunities to publish and share their work,” said editorial board editor and third-year gender studies major Katherine Geni, in an email.

Though Nameless cannot accept all entries, the staff works and meets weekly to incorporate as many pieces as they can into each issue.

“We’re definitely selective, but we select a broad amount of works,” Winter said.

Additionally, the Nameless staff hopes to emphasize diversity in the pieces that it publishes.

“Nameless also accepts submissions from people of all majors,” Genis said. “We’re hoping to receive a good mix of content from varying positions and perspectives on campus.”

The magazine extends beyond simply selecting student submissions. Nameless hosts workshops for the public. At these workshops, students are able to discuss and polish ideas for pieces and submissions.

“We try and give people stable critiques, and stable ways to look at art in Davis,” Winter said.

In the past, submissions were reviewed by members of a board corresponding to each type of media the magazine publishes.

However, facing a decline in staff due to graduating editors, this year Nameless magazine is moving in a slightly new direction.

“This year, we’re merging the three editorial boards (poetry, fiction and mixed media) into one entity. [Merging] will hopefully make communication more efficient and streamline the overall editing process,” Genis said.

Despite the decline in staff, Nameless Magazine plans to extend its focus beyond publication.

“We’re also aiming to do more publicity and hope to connect with other groups on campus,” Genis said.

The staff hopes these efforts will help them to bring the core values of Nameless Magazine to a broader spectrum of students. The literary magazine offers a stage for artistic expression for students who are less comfortable with performance mediums, said poetry editor and third-year linguistics major Syd Salsman.

“Nameless is important because we provide a point of diffusion for students’ creative works that might otherwise go unread, unappreciated or unpublished,” Salsman said.

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and cool sounds? That seems to be it. I crave human emotion, personality, individuality. It seems to me that the music goes no deeper than sounding fun, and for me that’s not enough. Maybe I’m listening to the wrong EDM songs, but they all seem to follow the same formula: crazy synth pattern, kick drum-heavy dance beat, buildup, then tons of bass.

I’ll give EDM this: the rhythm can really can blow your mind. But whenever I listen to EDM, I hear only sounds.

Obviously, EDM is not my cup of tea. Swedish House Mafia makes me mad, Tiësto annoys me, but I’ll admit Avicii is not terrible. I do have a point to this rant though: there can be a compromise.

Human emotion does exist in some electro music, and

It should be noted that I have never been to a rave. You can label me a “noob” if you want... can coexist with the same energy and synth sounds that we all enjoy. Where, you ask? In 80s electro music.

The band I have in mind is New Order. Their prime was the early 80s, they are overflowing with relatable, authentic emotion and they make beautiful electronic music.

Even if you do not know it by name, you have probably heard the song “Bizarre Love Triangle.” It’s got an incredibly poppy drum beat, and I don’t believe it possible for a human being not to be energized by the music as the layers develop. The synth and bass go hard.

Before you know it, you have your eyes closed imagining yourself in a black light roller rink.

The instrumentals are insanely catchy, and a voice comes in and sings about his messed up love life in an abstract way reminiscent of Bob Dylan. It is actually formatted with real lyrics and real verses. Not to mention they’re well written. And the best part? He is singing over well-produced, energetic electronic music.

Each of their albums is filled with fantastic songs. Some are just instrumentals, but the passion is evident in every single one. I don’t understand why people don’t rage their faces off to songs like “Bizarre Love Triangle” or “Blue Monday,” another New Order classic.

I get that you EDM fans out there love the energy of the genre. I am simply saying that you can get a purer, more original form of that energy with meaningful lyrics and quality sound production.

You never know, perhaps giving 80s pop a chance could turn you on to a whole new musical experience.

— Tyler Webb

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best way to describe it is: something falls into a stream, like a branch, and then it starts snagging other things around it over time and damns up a river — that’s when you have a song.

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music is like math, and I cringe when I hear that. It’s not like math, it’s anything but math because it’s not about coming up with the right answer in music.

I was just ravenous for everything but classical music — the more obscure the music was, the more interested I was. From ages 16 to 26 I was jumping from one thing to another. I was influenced by early jazz, country blues and early 20th century music. I was really interested in what happened to music before music was recorded.That’s stuff I still play, the hymns, Carter Family stuff. I was influenced by stuff that existed before World War II. I also sing gospel music — it really opens up your singing.

Can you describe your creative process?

It’s not very premeditated most of the time. For the most part I just pay attention to what’s going on around me. I work in the morning, but I don’t have a strict schedule or a desk where I sit at to get all my work done, unless something comes up and I am asked to do an assignment — then that’s a different process. Mostly, I just wait for things to materialize out of disparate observations.

I’ll observe my surroundings and, for example, I’ll see someone sitting on a plane, and then I connect that to something in a book I was reading, and over the years I’ll connect a bunch of different things. There’ll be a common thread and I’ll pull that together in a song. The

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These questions hopefully will be answered over the next few games. One person who possibly could step up and produce right away is sophomore Molly Greubel.

Greubel was a key player off the bench for the Aggies last season. She averaged 6.3 points per game, which was third on the team, only behind Fipps and French. With French graduated and gone, Greubel is the second-leading scorer of all UC Davis’ returning players.

The Aggies will definitely need her to have a more proactive role in scoring this year if they are to have any success. Her season average of 2.1 rebounds and 1.1 steals per game shows that she is willing

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Committed married couples form an integral part of the UC Davis community — ranging from professors and staff to both graduate and undergraduate students.

Dustin Burns, a third-year Ph.D. graduate student in the physics department, is a member of this subpopulation.

“At least from personal experience, some people are definitely more sensitive to the emotions present in their relationship, while others are more indifferent,” Burns said.

The study simply suggests that individuals with two short alleles are more likely to be sensitive to the emotions they experience in their marriage. For instance, they are more likely to be happy in a healthy

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These questions hopefully will be answered over the next few games. One person who possibly could step up and produce right away is sophomore Molly Greubel.

Greubel was a key player off the bench for the Aggies last season. She averaged 6.3 points per game, which was third on the team, only behind Fipps and French. With French graduated and gone, Greubel is the second-leading scorer of all UC Davis’ returning players.

The Aggies will definitely need her to have a more proactive role in scoring this year if they are to have any success. Her season average of 2.1 rebounds and 1.1 steals per game shows that she is willing

How do you think your musical education and training influenced who you are as an artist?

It’s not that I had a teacher that taught me something that stuck with me in particular. I was largely self-taught, and I was not always a model student in school. I give my musical education credit in the sense that I had four years of college to immerse myself in it and not worry about any other distractions. I got better through sheer exposure and osmosis, not so much through book lessons or a particular syllabus. There’s no other time in your life to have that kind of opportunity to focus, so you have to think of it more as an atmosphere where you’re just soaking up as much as you can. All that preparation for the job market makes me cringe. I don’t think that’s the point of higher education.

Your most recent albums are Hands of Glory (October 2012) and Break It Yourself (March 2012), which you recorded in your barn in Illinois. What was the process like for recording these albums?

We just stood up at the barn and recorded around one microphone. These days, I’m kind of into a certain kind of realism when recording. Most of my records are really carefully produced and layered in the studio the way a lot of other records are made, and I got kind of tired

to work hard on both sides of the floor.

UC Davis’ home and season opener will be against the Humboldt State Lumberjacks. The Lumberjacks went 1018 last season which included an ugly 3-9 away record. This opening matchup will be just as much of a test run for Humboldt State as it will be for UC Davis.

The Lumberjacks only have two of their five leading scorers from last season returning. Seniors Kelly Kime and Elle Anderson averaged 8.7 and 6.9 points a game respectively. They will be asked to do a lot more against the Aggies in order for Humboldt State to succeed.

The Aggies tip off their season on Friday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. The game will be held at the Pavilion.

— Kenneth Ling relationship, and fare the worst in an unhealthy one. Regardless of your genetic make-up, it is important to not exclude environmental factors, which clearly also play a role in one’s emotions and relationship satisfaction.

Dr. Lian Bloch, who earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UC Berkeley and is now a psychologist, played a key role in envisioning the connection between genetics and marriage. She believes that therapy, whether it be done with a professional or at home, can help couples to regulate their emotions and to better process and understand their heightened emotions when they occur.

“Couples therapy supports taking an active look at self-awareness, emotional and communication dynamics within the marriage. [It takes] time to foster awareness as an individual, and as a couple as well,” Bloch said. n to work hard on both sides of the floor.

UC Davis’ home and season opener will be against the Humboldt State Lumberjacks. The Lumberjacks went 1018 last season which included an ugly 3-9 away record. This opening matchup will be just as much of a test run for Humboldt State as it will be for UC Davis.

The Lumberjacks only have two of their five leading scorers from last season returning. Seniors Kelly Kime and Elle Anderson averaged 8.7 and 6.9 points a game respectively. They will be asked to do a lot more against the Aggies in order for Humboldt State to succeed.

The Aggies tip off their season on Friday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. The game will be held at the Pavilion.

— Kenneth Ling

of that process. It felt like that process was somewhat less honest than just the band in a room playing with a single microphone live, which is how we made Break it Yourself and Hands of Glory. Pre-World War II stuff has always been there since the beginning of my musical inspiration and I wanted to capture that with the band.

We started doing this thing on stage where we just played around one microphone, and it just makes you sing and play better, stripping the production down to its basic elements. The audience responded well to that, and so Hands of Glory is the record that captures that.

Is there something particularly different you try to do to your songs in live shows?

I come from a background of always improvising and exploring. I like to do that on stage. If I didn’t, I’d go crazy. I see other bands who are performing to promote their records. For me, to perform live, I think it’s kind of liberating not to do it to promote new records. I ask myself ‘why are you on stage? Are you trying to create something new and exciting, or are you just recreating your records that you worked on for three years in a studio with producers, etc.?’ That’s not how I do it . It’s never been like that for me, not even close — I started doing records so I could justify playing on stage, that’s really the ultimate experience to perform live. I feel duty to myself that if something new didn’t happen on stage, I could have performed every note perfectly and I’d be disappointed. Every night I need to perform differently from the next in order to feel satisfied. n

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The Bobcats pounced on the Aggies early in the game, leading 14-0 in the second period following a 10-play, 68yard drive.

Despite the overwhelmingly large and boisterous crowd, senior quarterback Randy Wright communicated well with the offensive line and set the offense up to score. Wright moved the Aggies 69 yards to set up sophomore Brady Stuart’s 29-yard field goal and get UC Davis on the scoreboard, 14-3.

Junior Gabe Manzanares led the Aggie running game with 113 yards in the first half alone, while demonstrating impressive speed, strength and agility that gave the Bobcat defense difficulty all game.

Despite the strong Aggie defensive front, which forced Bobcat quarterback Darius McGhee to throw short second or third-read passes, MSU inflated their lead with 24 seconds left in the third quarter.

Down 34-10, UC Davis quickly ad-

vanced 75 yards in 13 plays and scored from a two-yard toss from Wright to senior receiver Tom Hemmingson, who became the first Aggie to catch 10 passes in a single game since he achieved this same feat in 2011.

But it wasn’t enough to take home the win.

The Aggies’ defense will have their work cut out for them with Mustang running back Kristaan Ivory, who is averaging 101 rushing yards per game with six rushing touchdowns this season. Cal Poly has a 5.2 yards per carry rushing average.

The Mustang defense has held their opponents to a 3.8 yard per carry rushing average this year. However, they have yet to face a top-tier running back like Manzanares.

The Aggies need to bounce back and play consistent football if they wish to emerge victorious this Parents’ Weekend against the Cal Poly Mustangs, who lost 17-13 to Northern Arizona on Oct. 26.

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in a celebration of his life and work through Dia de los Muertos. Jack Forbes was a Native American scholar who was responsible for the establishment of the Native American studies program at UC Davis.

Along with recitation of Forbes’ poetry, burial site blessings and speeches about his life and work, the event will also include elements from previous Dia de los Muertos events. There will be an altar viewing beginning at 11:30 a.m., joined by Mariachi Tramontin, Native Drumming and Flute Music, and Mexican hot chocolate will be

served until 4 p.m.

Lastly, UC Davis will also be holding a Dia de los Muertos event, Nov. 1, from 6 to 8 p.m., on the first floor of Sproul Hall.

The event will be sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Chicana/o Studies. Students will participate in the ritual ceremony with poetry readings and remembrances of the departed.

This Day of the Dead Altar and Celebration is dedicated to the life of poet and artist José Montoya, who passed away earlier this year, and students will recite his poetry at the event. Pan de Muerto, a traditional bread eaten this time of year, horchata and other drinks will be served as as refreshments. n

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5. What is your favorite accessory and why?

My Timex weekender watch. It’s my favorite because it’s also a functional accessory. I’m constantly checking it during the day and especially during testing time, so I can manage my time better.

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(or year) are up, wash your jeans and you will end up with a beautiful pair of pants customized with every fade and flaw created through all the day-to-day happenings of your busy life.

Like Siu says, they truly are your second skin.

James’ Notes: For all the raw denim enthusiasts out there, it might be a better idea to opt for a nice pair of chinos or tailored trousers when going on a date or a job interview. No one needs to smell those dirty jeans of yours, especially not your boss.

Q&A with Jasper Siu 1. If you could describe your personal style in three words, what would they be?

Dark, simple and clean.

2. What are your three must-have items in your wardrobe?

Raw denim, a plain white crewneck T-shirt and a blue Oxford button-up.

3. What do you love about raw denim?

Everything really. First of all, just the fact that it looks better as it ages over time. It’s pretty much like your second skin. As you wear it, you have a small story behind every fade, like a wallet fade or pencil fade. My old pair had my driver’s permit on my left back pocket and even that left an imprint. I like the stiffness behind [raw denim], really. After going back to trying out normal jeans, they kind of felt like sweatpants. They’re just so soft and they didn’t feel like the true jean.

4. How do you maintain your jeans?

I’m more into slim fits so, if I find that it doesn’t fit me on the first wear, I’ll pre-soak it and have my sister tailor it for me. The first soak is to just get the extra shrinkage out and then you just wear it from there. The pair that I’m wearing right now are from United Stock and they fit me fine on my first wear so I’m just going to wear them and wash them in probably another

International Community of Davis and Les Français de Davis Californie (French Club), this Halloween party will be based around the theme of “Cirque.” There will be fire dancers, hula hoopers, DJ Ciel and bands Bomba Fried Rice (Davis) and Skunk Funk (Napa).

6. Where do you love to shop and why?

For my basics, I like Uniqlo because they have reasonablypriced clothing and the quality’s pretty decent. They pretty much have everything you would ever need if you’re looking for something simple.

I also like Supreme a lot because they have really unique clothing and they really held true to what they’ve been doing. They have a lot of designs that don’t follow the norm and they’ve always been very futuristic and ahead of the game.

There were a lot of prints that they’ve been doing a few years ago, like full artwork/graphic tees, and people weren’t quite into that when they were doing it; but right now, a lot of the high fashion brands, like Givenchy, are doing the same thing, but [Supreme] had already done it.

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Violinist Gil Shaham will be performing three solo pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach. He will also be performing a more contemporary piece, which is a lyrical, playful piece with roots in Baroque.

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7. What is your most treasured item in your wardrobe?

It would have to be this Supreme jacket that I’m wearing now.

I remember when I first saw it in the lookbook that came out, I was in the airport on my phone and was like, “What is this?

I have to have it!” No matter how much it cost, I was gonna get it.

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Casual vests. It’s a great piece that’ll keep you warmer that doesn’t cover the rest of your outfit but rather adds on another layer.

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Described by National Public Radio (NPR) as having a “rich, natural sound that’s larger and more complex than the sum of its parts,” this male vocal quartet will perform a program that ranges from medieval melodies to contemporary works.

9. What final tips can you give to our fashion-forward readers?

I know as college students we’re on a tight budget, but sometimes spending a little more money on the essentials can make a big difference. For example, a good leather belt can last you forever, and will look better as it ages if maintained well.

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At the close of the fall season, the UC Davis women’s golf team had its ups and downs, finishing first in the Hoosier Fall Invitational on Oct. 20, before stumbling to a 12th place finish in the Stanford Intercollegiate on Oct. 27.

The No. 38 Aggies have been led by the strong play of Beverly Vatananugulkit, a junior English major out of Cerritos, Calif. Vatananugulkit was named the Big West Freshman of the Year two seasons ago and has earned All-Big West First Team honors twice.

Vatananugulkit found time in her busy schedule recently to sit down with Aggie Sports Writer Ryan Reed to talk about how she got into golf, her greatest accomplishments and what motivates her.

Okay, lets start from the beginning.

How and when did you get into golf?

Vatananugulkit: So I swam as a kid, but my dad wanted me to get into golf. I tried it at age seven and started competing around eight, and that was when I

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won my first tournament so I was really stoked about that. From then on, I have just continued to play golf.

In high school you were a four-time All-Suburban league player and basically dominant. How was the transition to playing at the collegiate level against stiffer competition?

It was a difficult transition because you come from being a top dog to like “Oh wow, there is a lot of good players out there that you aren’t competing against” in my area. So that was kind of different for me. But, I remember my freshman year we won our first tournament, so I thought “Oh, maybe this is the same,” but then we went to other much tougher fields and I was like “there is a lot more work to put into it.”

you were Big West Freshman of the Year and have been All-Big West First Team for two years. What would you say is your biggest accomplishment so far at Davis?

I think I definitely have improved in golf quite a bit. My mental practices during tournaments are so different from how I was as a junior golfer so that is really eye opening for me. I definitely think that is one of my greatest accomplishments, getting one step closer to being a great golfer.

So you guys won last weekend (Oct. 20), how would you describe the season thus far?

I came here mostly for coach Walker, our previous coach — she really convinced me to come here. Also the education. We are like a top-10 public school, right? So I thought that was a really good balance.

Individually, I played really well two weeks ago [Oct. 13] and I wanted to bring that back to last week, but it didn’t really carry over. If I can get myself back to that mental state and practice plan from before Washington, that would be great. The season started off pretty bumpy, but we are getting back into it. All of the players are working really hard and I am really proud of them.

So even though you said it was tough,

What would you say is your best mem-

And why did you choose UC Davis?

When the Aggies go marching-uh Raider Nation

meets the Aggies

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As the California Aggie Marching Band-uh! takes the field to perform this weekend, you could be seeing them in a much bigger venue.

On Nov. 3, as the Oakland Raiders play host to the Philadelphia Eagles, Band-uh! has been given the distinct privilege to perform pre-game and at halftime at the Oakland Coliseum.

“It is a great opportunity for us,” said student manager Audrey Vorametsanti.

“We are going to have thousands of peo-

ple which is a lot more than our usual crowd, and we are also performing in a much bigger stadium.”

Band-uh! will not only be putting on a performance for the thousands of decorated Raider fanatics, but also for the many Bay Area police and firefighters in attendance.

The Oakland Raiders have teamed up with the organization Police and Fire: The Fallen Heroes for another year, in order to pay tribute to first responders from around the Bay Area.

In the Fourth Annual Oakland Raiders Police and Fire Appreciation game, members from multiple Northern California fire and police departments will be recognized in a special on-field ceremony.

“We have incorporated the Fallen Heroes organization into our show,” Vorametsanti said. “We will be playing ‘America the Beautiful’ while they do their salute to

the police and fire personnel, in addition to a couple other songs during pre-game.”

Although Band-Uh! has had to rehearse for numerous events including the upcoming UC Davis vs. Cal Poly football game on Nov. 2, Band-uh! has taken the Raiders’ pregame and halftime show with the utmost importance.

“We have been practicing about 10 hours per week,” Vorametsanti said. “We had to memorize all of our drills and all of our music.”

While many of the band members are anxious for the upcoming game, band director Olin Hannum said this event is much more than just gaining public recognition.

“This event is more about the students being able to play in a stadium [Oakland Coliseum] that size and be in front of that many people,” Hannum said. “It is a bigger stage to perform on.”

ory from your time at UC Davis?

I like to think back to when I won Big West. On the last hole, I hit my shot off of the fairway and I think it lipped out of the hole so I almost got an eagle. I was so nervous walking up to the green, because I was thinking “oh no, now I have to make that putt now.

Why couldn’t it just go in?” That was really exciting for me.

What do you want to do after Davis?

That actually comes a lot with what I get out of golf for the next year or so, to see if I want to turn pro or not.

Any athletic role models?

Well, ever since I was younger it was always Tiger Woods, but now I don’t know about that one. But, Annika Sorenstam is definitely a great player and she retired at her peak, so that would be awesome if I could follow in her footsteps.

Okay, any non-athletic role models then?

I have always had my dad as my role model. Ever since he passed away, I have kind of kept [him] in my mind as my drive, to motivate.

As for the song list Band-uh! will perform on the big day, Director Hannum did not reveal much.

“The show is going to be Raiders-oriented,” Hannum said.

With Band-uh! preparing for a busy weekend, there will be several adjustments that will have to be accounted for as they prepare to play in the Coliseum.

“NFL hash marks are a bit different than college, so when charting the show, we had to account for that,” Hannum said.

“But mostly, the difference is stadium size.

Since the fans and cameras are way more elevated compared to Aggie Stadium, we [Band-uh!] can make a lot more [formations] on the field.”

Even with the field changes, Director Hannum views this as a big moment for the marching band itself.

“I think a lot of people in the Bay Area don’t know that we are the largest marching band in the UC system,” Hannum said. “Hopefully this will turn an eye in that the UC Davis marching band is pretty darn good.”

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Junior Gabe Manzanares eluding defenders in a game earlier this season.

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Who to watch?

UC Davis’ away game winning streak came to a halt on Oct. 26, when the fifth-ranked Montana State Bobcats (MSU) defeated the Aggies 34-17. Hopefully, UC Davis will have better luck on their home turf as they prepare to take on the Cal Poly Mustangs for the UC Davis Parents’ Weekend this Saturday, Nov. 2.

One Aggie who gave an impressive performance against the Bobcats is junior running back Gabe Manzanares. Manzanares finished the game with 179 yards rushing including two touchdowns against MSU. With three games remaining in the season, the San Francisco, Calif. native has already accumulated 890 yards rushing the most since Matt Masari went for 1,274 yards

in 2003. Manzanares, who walked on to the UC Davis football team this year, has been a major contributor to the Aggies’ offensive success all season long.

Preview After their second back-to-back road game victory against the University of Northern Colorado, UC Davis traveled to Bozeman, Mont. on Oct. 26 to take on the ranked Montana State Bobcats in the hopes of continuing their away game success. Unfortunately, the Aggies came up short in a 34-17 loss at Bobcat Stadium in front of an intimidating crowd of 18,627.

Teams UC Davis vs. Humboldt State Records Aggies 0-0 (0-0); Lumberjacks 0-0 (0-0) Where The Pavilion — Davis, Calif.

When Friday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m.

Who to Watch As UC Davis heads into the 201314 season, the bulk of the production load will be placed on junior forward Sydnee Fipps. Fipps — who won first team All-Big West honors last year — will need to continue her growth in order for the Aggies to have continued success this year.

The junior will be expected to provide more than scoring — though her impressive 17.1 points per game average led the team last year — as her rebounding and leadership qualities will prove vital in the quest for a Big West title.

Fipps, as a junior, is one of only four upperclassmen on the team. Her leadership on the court will be necessary especially at the end of close games.

Records Aggies, 3-6 (3-2); Mustangs, 3-5 (2-2) Where Aggie Stadium — Davis, Calif.

When Saturday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m.

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Aggies tip off season against Lumberjacks WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Event UC Davis vs. Cal Poly San Luis Obsipo

Fipps’ rebounding abilities, as evidenced by her team-high 5.1 rebounds per game, is crucial as the Aggies struggled on the boards last season. The Aggies finished last in the Big West in rebound margin, getting outrebounded by an average of 8.4 rebounds a game.

All in all, Sydnee Fipps is going to be the catalyst for any run which UC Davis has this season. Her scoring, rebounding and leadership are all needed for success against Humboldt State as well as the tough Big West conference.

Did you know?

Sydnee Fipps was nominated for preseason all-conference honors. This was due to her outstanding performance in her sophomore campaign.

She scored a total of 512 points on the season, which broke the UC Davis record for sophomore season point totals. Fipps also led the Aggies in scoring 21 out of the 30 games last season.

Preview As the Aggies begin their 2013-14 basketball season, there are many questions which the team needs to answer. Who is going to replace recent graduates Courtney French and Blair Shinoda in the starting lineup?

Who is going to help Sydnee Fipps shoulder the scoring load?

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Men’s tennis to finish fall season at Pacific Event Pacific Tiger Invitational Where Hal Nelson Tennis Courts, Stockton, Calif.

When Friday, Nov. 1; Saturday, Nov. 2; Sunday Nov. 3

Who To Watch: Sophomore Adam Levie and freshman Alec Adamson made a semi-final run in doubles this past weekend at the ITA Northwest Regional held in Moraga, Calif. They took out three seeded teams along the way before losing in the semis 8-6 against the University of Washington's eighthseeded team of Emmett Egger and Jeff Hawke.

This is the second consecutive brilliant tournament for the Levie/Adamson pairing as they won the Flight A doubles bracket the weekend prior at the UCSB classic.

They have turned out to be quite the team and will look for more as they head into the Pacific Invitational.

Did You Know With the semi-final showing of Levie and Adamson in Moraga, the Aggies have now had at least one player make the semi-finals of an event at all three fall tournaments. This is an impressive feat that has come against the top of the line talent that the West Coast has to offer in the NCAA. "I feel like we've competed pretty

well in all three,” said coach Steidlmayer. “We've won several different flights."

Preview The Aggies head to Stockton, Calif. on Nov. 1 to play in the Pacific Tiger Invitational. The field of teams this year will include Pacific, St. Mary's, University of San Francisco, and also Stanford University.

This tournament is the Aggies’ last tournament this fall, so that should inject a little extra incentive and motivation into the team. Everyone wants to finish well and this tournament will provide ample opportunity for UC Davis to go out on a high note this season and come into the spring session feeling very confident in themselves.

"Getting better really is a good season,” coach Steidlmayer said. “The guys' effort level has been good."

This is certainly true of the men's tennis team so far this year and is hopefully only the beginning for a blossoming young team.

— Vic Anderson

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