November 10, 2016

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UC Davis community, students march through campus, downtown Davis to express frustration with election results

BY ALYSSA VANDENBERG campus@theaggie.org At around 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 8, a few hundred students began marching through campus and downtown Davis to protest Donald Trump winning the presidential election.

At press time, Trump, who needed 270 electoral votes to win the presidency, had received 279 votes, while Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton had received 228 votes. Arizona, Michigan and New Hampshire had not yet been called by the Associated Press.

Student chants during the march included “f*ck Donald Trump,” “Trump is an asshole” and “not my president.” At times, protesters blocked Russell Boulevard while police remained on standby.

“I actually think this is a beautiful protest because we’re all coming together as one and protesting against Donald Trump,” said Luisa Gonzalez, a first-year undeclared student.

For many students, the protest provided not only a way to express disappointment in the election results, but also an opportunity to demonstrate their political views in a way other than voting.

“I personally can’t vote because I’m too young, so this is my way of still voicing my thoughts,” said Christal Juarez a first-year English major.

Karen Lopez, a first-year student majoring in human development, said that the protest allowed her to have a voice in the election.

“I’m not a citizen, so this is my way of making my voice heard,” Lopez said.

At around 2:00 a.m., the protesters gathered in front of the Whole Foods in Downtown Davis. At that time, protesters spoke on why the election result mattered to them and stressed the need for the protest to remain peaceful.

Post-election results protests occurred at universities nationwide, including UC Santa Barbara, UC Berkeley and the University of Oregon.

On Oct. 9, UC President Janet Napolitano released a statement on behalf of herself and the University of California chancellors.

“In light of yesterday’s election results, we know there is understandable consternation and uncertainty among members of the University of California community,” read Napolitano’s statement, which was emailed to all UC students, faculty and staff. “The University of California is proud of being a diverse and welcoming place for students, faculty, and staff with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. Diversity is central to our mission. We remain absolutely committed to supporting all members of our community and adhering to UC’s Principles Against Intolerance.

COMMUNITY THROUGH CLOTHING

A RITE OF PASSAGE

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Asterisk Clothing Fair provides free, accessible clothing for transgender, gender-nonconforming individuals

BY CARAJOY KLEINROCK AND ABIGAIL WANG arts@theaggie.org The third annual Asterisk Clothing Fair will be held on Nov. 16 from 3 to 5:30 p.m. in the LGBTQIA Resource Center (LGTBQIARC).

The fair intends to provide free clothing for transgender and gender-nonconforming folks, as it can sometimes be both expensive and dangerous to buy new clothing for these communities.

Additionally, the event aims to create a safe space for those individuals without fear of body shaming or transphobia. Mat Talton, a fifth-year genetics major and community coordinator at the LGBTQIARC, is the primary organizer for this event.

“This is also a great way to come and see a group of people who feel the same way as you and realize that you have a community,” Talton said.

The clothing available depends on donations from the community; the center will be accepting donations until Nov. 11. In an effort to cater to more sizes, the center will only accept clothes from sizes medium to 3XL, although extra-small and small sizes are welcome for masculine and men’s clothing. Unopened makeup and cosmetic tools can also be donated, in addition to accessories and shoes. The clothing must be wearable, with no stains or rips.

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UC Davis bike circles represent campus pride, history

BY MARLY JEANE AND JENNIE CHANG features@theaggie.org On an autumn afternoon, bikes zoom around campus as students rush to-and-from midterms.

Nina Sherwood, a first-year managerial economics major, entered the bike circle at the intersection in front of Rock Hall and the Student Community Center (SCC) on her way to class. However, she didn’t quite make the exit.

“It was so busy that I couldn’t get out,” Sherwood said. “I had to go around twice!”

At one point or another, all students likely hear the statistic that there are more bicycles in Davis than there are people. Inevitably, with so many bikes comes traffic congestion and accidents. Bike

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circles strategically placed around campus help deal with the extensive daily bike traffic.

Tales of embarrassing crashes and injured egos at campus intersections are hot topics the first couple of weeks of Fall Quarter. Rumor has it that hordes of upperclassmen congregate at the busiest bike circles to witness the accidents of new bikers navigating the roundabouts.

“I heard [that] the seniors always put out lawn chairs around the bike circles and stare at you the first week,” said Kimberly Dinh, a first-year managerial economics major. “People [tell me], ‘Don’t bike the first week or you’ll get in an accident.’”

Although notoriously anxiety-inducing to firstyears, these bike circles have served an important

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OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO (ABROAD)!

Students, faculty reflect on study abroad experiences impact on future careers HANNAH LEE / AGGIE

BY ALLYS O N TS UJ I AND HANNAH HOLZER fea tures @th e a ggi e .o r g

When Alissa Alson returned to UC Davis after a year spent on an independent study trip in Ireland, she knew she did not want to continue pursuing her major in biological systems engineering.

“I took about two quarters [for that major] and realized that wasn’t really what I wanted to do,” said Alson, a fourth-year student who now works as an administrative assistant at the Study Abroad Center. “I already knew I was studying abroad […] so I went and I figured ‘I’m going to take whatever classes sound fun.’”

While abroad, Alson took classes on Celtic civilization and Irish folklore. By embracing the opportunities she was presented with abroad, Alson discovered that she “really liked delving into other cultures” and decided to instead pursue a major in international relations. “[Study Abroad tries] to focus on the life experience,” said Pablo Ortiz, professor in the UC Davis Music Department and Study Abroad instructor. “Being able to experience things faceto-face, without the mediation of a camera or social media or anything like that [...] is completely different. It’s [...] great to be able to experience things in a

more direct way.”

UC Davis has over 300 study abroad programs to choose from, making the boundaries limitless both academically and geographically. In addition to approximately 50 UC Davis faculty-led programs, the systemwide UC Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) offers around 350 different plans of study at host universities around the world.

Regardless of the program, studying abroad offers experiences that many students do not get at home. Ortiz, who has taught a variety of music classes abroad, takes his students to opera festivals and street art tours.

“I take students to places that

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The Oct. 27 ASUCD Senate meeting was called to order at 6:09 p.m. Senators Samantha Chiang, Sam Park and Julie Jung were absent at roll call, but Chiang and Jung arrived later in the meeting.

Darin Schleup, the director of the Coffee House (CoHo), gave

a report as the first order of business. He announced that, this school year, the CoHo has hired 120 new student employees and has implemented a new point-ofsale system. Additionally, he said that the CoHo will run a coffee cart at the new Manetti Shrem Museum this year and will also run a trial to see if selling coffee in Shields Library in the evenings

of finals week will be successful.

After Schleup, a student representative for a mobile app called JoyRun approached the Senate asking if ASUCD could share a JoyRun Facebook post on an official ASUCD page. The senate did not make a final decision. Some senators then placed a JoyRun order for Chipotle mid-meeting.

From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., the

are the opposite of Davis –– places where there are [...] experiences you would never have in the context of a small town in California,” Ortiz said. “I believe that that makes people acquire a repertoire of behaviors [and] resources. [These experiences] confront [students] with realities that they’re not confronted with here.”

Along with experiencing the world outside of Davis, students who study outside of the country can also add to their repertoires by making new connections.

Paula Levitt, a programs manager at the Study Abroad Center who has, according to her online biography, “visited, worked or studied in 45 countries and six continents,” has remained in contact with the friends she met from her time studying abroad through a UCEAP program over a decade ago. In addition to forming new friendships, Levitt also emphasized the benefits of studying abroad with UC Davis faculty members and how they can provide letters of recommendation or research opportunities in the future.

“That’s what I like about traveling –– those person to person experiences [can help you] learn more about [yourself ] and also other people and cultures,” Levitt said.

“Staying in hostels and meeting people from all over the world [...] who have similar passions, [allows you] to learn about your field from a different perspective. The reason

that I’m so flexible and adaptable […] is really due to my travel experiences […] and my ability to get along with all sorts of people from different walks of life.”

Like most great accomplishments, studying abroad is often accompanied by challenges of all sorts, from homesickness to culture-shock. These difficulties test a student’s limits and push them to accomplish even more than they thought they would able to do.

“When you go abroad, what happens [there] is not in any way similar to what happens [at Davis],” Ortiz said. “Your food may not be what you’re expecting, or the train may not leave at the time it’s supposed to leave. You have to adapt to the circumstances and make the best of something that initially may look like it’s bad, [until] it turns out to be one of the greatest things that may have happened to you.”

Levitt also said that she encourages students to start thinking about studying abroad as early as possible, since the “experience is so impactful that they find a way to make it happen again.” Though advising sessions beforehand help students plan for their trips abroad by discussing how to pack and what to bring, nothing can prepare students for the impact the trip will have on their lives.

“I think everybody should go abroad,” Ortiz said. “Most of the [students] I’ve had [...] al-

ways refer to their study abroad as a before-and-after, completely life-changing experience.”

Megan Perry, a third-year history major, was recently accepted to the Spring 2017 London quarter abroad program during which she will have an internship and be taking two UK-themed courses. Perry applied in early October and said the reality of the trip is “surreal.”

“I grew up in Sacramento so I didn’t go to college very far away from home,” Perry said. “Getting out of that comfort zone and finding out who [I am] as a person and having these new experiences […] can really help [me] grow. It’s kind of nice that I’ll have that experience of being away. I think it will help in the long-term in [terms of adjusting to] new circumstances.”

Alson, after her experiences in Ireland, is now considering about a professional career overseeing study abroad programs.

She strongly encourages students to step out of their comfort zone through the opportunities available outside of the country.

“Studying abroad is a great way to figure out, ‘What do I really like? What don’t I like?” Alson said.

“Davis is great […], but maybe you’ll find some place that speaks to you even more. Maybe there’s something out there that’s going to speak to you, [and] you haven’t found it yet.”

senate retired to a closed session for Peer Education and Community Empowerment (PEACE) training.

After the training, the senate confirmed Christopher Ortiz as the new Refrigerator Services unit director.

Ortiz described his plan to cycle out old fridges that no longer work and replace them with working ones in order to cut down the fridge waitlist.

During the elections committee chair report, chair Sevan Nahabedian explained that he was still in the process of getting candidate statements online. He reported that one senate candidate had dropped out.

The senate also discussed creating a polling place on campus for students to use in order to vote in ASUCD elections.

CalPIRG spoke next about improving general election voter turnout through voting pledges.

After a 10-minute recess, Senator Shaitaj Dhaliwal nominated Jung to serve on the Marketing Committee,

and Jung accepted.

There was a public comment from a John Li, who, 30 years ago, wrote an article for The California Aggie about coping with stress and what students get out of a college education. He offered to send copies of the article to senators.

Representatives from Aggie Reuse then presented about their operations.

The unit has reached 96 percent of its income goal to make $1,800 during Fall Quarter. The unit plans to earn $2,100 each quarter this school year, for a total of $6,000 each year.

Senator Ricardo Martinez introduced a reimbursement bill for $88.76 for snacks he purchased for Mental Health Fair workshops.

Chiang opposed the bill, asserting that this type of bill set a bad precedent for the senate after Senator Sofia Molodonof’s previous reimbursement bill set the senate up for failure. Additionally, she disapproved the purchasing of name-brand fruit

snacks and dried fruits, which she believed were unnecessarily expensive.

ASUCD controller Joe DeAngelo, when asked by Senator Dalavai how much the senate had spent out of reserves this year, answered that the body had spent $300 to $400 of the $17,000 in reserves.

After Dhaliwal divided the house to see the reimbursement bill support and saw that the bill would pass, he called the motion into question and the reimbursement bill passed. All were in favor except for Chiang and Senator Parteek Singh.

Park abstained because he was absent from the meeting.

Moving to consider new legislation, Senator Adilla Jamaludin sent a bill that would require elected senators to serve for three quarters to the Internal Affairs Commission.

Ex-officio members and senators then gave their reports.

The meeting adjourned at 9:32 p.m.

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INTERIM PROVOST KEN BURTIS ANNOUNCES UPCOMING RENOVATIONS FOR CHEMISTRY COMPLEX Projects will focus on adding new, safer equipment with more modern design

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Oct. 30 “Turkey in the roadway, vehicles stopping causing a traffic hazard.”

Oct. 31 “Open line –– sounds like it’s in a pocket.”

Nov. 1 “Child playing with phone.”

Nov. 3 “Male subjects pants keep falling down, with his genitals exposed.”

Nov. 4 “Male on a motorized bike pulling a trailer, excessive speed.”

Earlier this month, Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ken Burtis announced at a Department of Chemistry meeting that the university is going to begin working on multiple projects to help upgrade many areas within the Chemistry Complex.

Bill Starr, senior project manager at UC Davis Design and Construction Management, said that the university has been considering these renovations for over eight years and decided to finally proceed with the project without state funding.

“For many years the chemistry renovations were on the campus’ plan for state funds, however, the projects were never funded,” Starr said via e-mail. “State funding was eventually provided for seismic corrections, but it became clear to the campus that, absent further state involvement, the campus needed to invest in chemistry for renovation beyond the seismic corrections.”

There will be three active projects funding the renovations: the Chemistry Safety Improvements, Chemistry Addition and Phase 1 Renovation (CAP1R) and the Chemistry Seismic and Life Safety corrections.

The Chemistry Safety Improvements is a $1.5 million campus-funded project that is in-

tended to increase security and safety in both buildings with improvements such as emergency lighting and door access controls.

The $56 million CAP1R project is expected to reshape many aspects of the Chemistry Complex, renovating the first floor to add new research laboratories, office and interdisciplinary collaboration space and improvements to the electrical and exhaust capacities of existing labs.

There will also be a three-story addition on the west face of the Chemistry Building that will provide a new front door and increase the area of the building by 20 percent.

The new lab and office space will be able to accommodate growth and provide a new design for more modern, high-capacity labs as well as interdisciplinary collaboration space for chemistry-based disciplines.

There will be improvements to the Chemistry Building’s exhaust and electrical systems, including an increase in fume hoods, access to standby electrical power and complete renewal of the building’s cooling and heating systems.

The $35 million Chemistry Seismic and Life Safety corrections, which is already in the works, will add fire suppression to improve the seismic performance of the Chemistry Complex. It will allow standby electrical power available for critical equipment in the Chemistry Annex, renovate restrooms and provide landscaped ramps for access to both buildings.

The construction of the Chemistry Safety

Improvements project is underway now and scheduled to be complete in December. The Chemistry Seismic and Life Safety Corrections will start begin this summer and CAP1R will start in the summer of 2018.

The Chemistry Building and the Chemistry Annex were both constructed over 45 years ago, with much of the lab space designed for undergraduate teaching. Over the years, the buildings and systems have aged, and there has been an increase in faculty and student population. There has also been a need for safer and more energy-efficient laboratories, and the buildings now almost exclusively house research laboratories. This all called for an improved and upgraded facility.

Scott Berg, chemistry facilities manager, said that these renovations are long-awaited due to the accumulating issues within the buildings, and that these changes will lead to reallocations in the coming months.

“The chemistry buildings have a long list of problems and deficiencies,” Berg said. “Inadequate space for teaching and research, electrically underpowered, aging utilities and sinking basement floors are just the top of the list. Chemistry has absolutely no physical space left to continue growing at the rate we have seen in recent years.”

Berg says the Chemistry Department can expect to have research projects and labs disrupted and relocated as the buildings are retrofitted for earthquakes. The department hopes to be able to move the researchers and students into renovated and modernized lab space if given proper funding.

Ace Gita Galermo, an analytical chemistry Ph.D candidate who works for the Lebrilla lab within the chemistry complex, believes these renovations would help improve students’ learning and create an even better image for the campus.

“Not only would scientists have access to the proper means for conducting their research, but it would introduce a whole new level of confidence for our students,” Galermo said. “Since UC Davis has been labeled as one of the top research universities in the world, now it is time for us to look the part. Research has become much more advanced over the past several decades, and we are in need of a building that is as technologically advanced as the scientists and instruments which occupy it.”

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The “Love Lab” as a mobile student service ANH-TRAM BUI / AGGIE

Love Lab cart provides safe-sex resources, education for students on campus

BY A MANDA C RUZ featu res@ th e a ggi e .o r g

It’s 6 p.m. on a Thursday evening at the Activity and Recreations Center (ARC). Midterms are over, and academ-

ically-exhausted students are rushing in for their evening workouts. In full view of visitors to the gym is a small cart with a lab-coated volunteer in attendance.

Stocked with free pamphlets, condoms, dental dams and lubricant packets, the

Love Lab is ready for a night on the job.

The Love Lab is a mobile cart housed on the third floor of the Student Health and Wellness Center (SHWC) inside the Health Education and Promotion office (HEP). It has visited the ARC weekly

since its inception in 2007. It is open on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to provide students with safe-sex products. Internal and external condoms, dental dams and informational pamphlets on safe sex are all available for visitors.

“We get a trickle of people coming in [the HEP office] during the week to visit the Love Lab,” said Meera Madra, fourthyear global disease biology major and sexual health student assistant at HEP. “People who know about the cart usually come into the Student Health and Wellness Center.”

The Love Lab is primarily run by HEP volunteers like Madra and Darren Frank, a HEP volunteer, who move the cart down to the ARC from the Student Health and Wellness building on Thursday evenings, weather permitting. Madra and Frank are tasked with manning the cart, answering any questions about safe sex and providing demonstrations on how to use the products offered.

“People are usually going into the ARC to exercise and not [...] to pick up condoms,” Frank said. “The first night [this quarter] we got about 130 people, but [that number] goes up and down depending on how busy that week is and

how many people actually go into the ARC.” According to Frank, the students who are already familiar with the cart will take what they want while people that are seeing for the first time often take a longer time looking at the different products that are available. No matter what, watching the expressions on student’s faces approaching the cart never gets old, and each night looks different for the Love Lab. “You get two reactions,” Frank said.

“One is like ‘oh’ and [the student] will laugh and get this blushed face [...] and leave. Or they’ll be like ‘that’s cool!’ and we will talk about it. Eventually, we will give [a visitor] a bag and they will pick out the condoms or buttons and information that we have.”

Once a student approaches the cart, volunteers offer to show them three different demonstrations, one for each type of condom that the Love Lab has.

These demonstrations are interactive, as volunteers use a wooden dildo named “Woody” and a plastic vagina named “Gigi” to demonstrate how to properly use the condoms.

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UC Davis faces inspections, negligence allegations by USDA

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Investigators find that improper research protocol, veterinary care has injured, killed multiple animals

UC Davis animal testing laboratories and veterinary facilities have been the recent subject of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspections and investigations into animal deaths, injuries and forced euthanizations.

UC Davis animal testing laboratories and facilities currently hold 30 dogs, 419 cats, six guinea pigs, 59 hamsters, 315 rabbits, 125 sheep, 90 pigs, 2,117 other farm animals and 2,719 non-human primates for research purposes. Investigations found that animals have been killed or forcibly euthanized as a result of experiments or inadequate care in 2016 and in past years. Other inspections challenge the cleanliness and quality of animal enclosures.

“The most recent citation is because an animal escaped, was injured and was euthanized because UC Davis staff couldn’t be trusted to close up an enclosure to ensure the animal couldn’t get out,” said

Michael Budkie, co-founder and executive director of watchdog group Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN), referencing a recent non-human primate forced euthanization. “Repeat citations for such basic operations have to call into question the competence of the staff at UC Davis. If they can’t close a cage door correctly, why should we believe they can do science?”

After this incident, Andy Fell, associate director of news and media relations, said the staff member responsible for leaving the enclosure open has been properly retrained.

This is not the first time UC Davis has been under fire due to questionable practices with regards to animal care.

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NEW CELL BIOLOGY AND HUMAN ANATOMY COURSE TO BE OFFERED DURING WINTER QUARTER Microscopic Anatomy provides students magnified perspective of human anatomy

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BRIDGING YOGA AND HEALTH CARE Researchers study effects of yoga as a potential treatment for children with ADHD

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According to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), yoga is the sixth most commonly-used complementary health practice among adults, with about 21 million participants nationwide. The survey also found that 3.1 percent of U.S. children, some 1.7 million, practice yoga.

UC Davis recently sponsored an intervention study researching the effects of yoga to improve attention and impulsive behaviors in children displaying attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. The study followed 23 children exhibiting ADHD symptoms who were 3 to 5 years old from the Triumph Center for Early Childhood Education in Sacramento.

Symptoms of the disorder include making careless mistakes, engaging in risky behavior, trouble concentrating, being squirmish, having a hard time resisting temptation and having difficulty getting along with others, as stated by the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

“Anyone can benefit from practicing yoga, but there may be some added benefits for kids that have difficulty with attention,” said Samantha Cohen, UC Davis Developmental Behavioral Pediatric Fellow and principal investigator of the study.

The primary purpose for the yoga intervention study was treatment for ADHD symptoms. The participants practiced yoga both at home and at school for six weeks every day. School yoga sessions were taught by an instructor who led the participants through breathing exercises and engaging poses such as ocean, outer space or jungle adventure.

ADHD is present in about 5 percent of the child population in the United States, making it one of the most common childhood neurodevelopmental disorders, according the American Psychiatric Association.

Previous studies have looked at yogic interventions in various age groups, but the primary therapeutic strategy on the preschool level has been centered around teaching parents strategies to manage and alleviate their child’s symptoms.

“I decided to focus on that [preschool] age group to see if yoga would be something that would be beneficial as a type of behavioral therapy [...] to help with learning some self-regulation skills,” Cohen said, “Things that they could use from when they’re young and on the way through their life.”

Studying ADHD to find solutions and preventative measures for the symptoms will help millions of children as well as older age groups because symptoms often persist into adulthood.

Biological data collected included recording heart rate variability every three months.

Additional data was collected through surveys completed by parents and teachers, including: rating the participant’s attentional attendance, concentration, pro-social behaviors, impulsive behaviors,

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UC DAVIS VETERINARY SCHOOL HOLDS FREE MONTHLY PET CLINIC

One clinic helps veterinary students, undergraduates and a small community

BY M ERAL BASI T A N D DA R I E N B A R N E T T s ci en ce@ th ea ggi e .o r g

Knights Landing is a small community in Yolo County where 16.9 percent of people fall below the poverty level. As a result, some residents find it hard to pay for their pets’ expensive veterinary bills. Luckily, students from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Sciences provide a monthly free animal clinic in Knights Landing, a project that benefits the veterinary students, undergraduate pre-vet students and the community (and pets) of Knights Landing.

The project started in 2009, when residents of Knights Landing reached out to the UC Davis School of Medicine for regular medical

emotional state and peer problems.

“Some of the kids would do yoga throughout the day. At random times they would do poses or they would teach their friends poses.

Other kids wouldn’t do it on their own, but if you prompted them to do it they could,” Cohen said.

If no yoga session was held at school, a children’s yoga video was provided to the participant’s caregiver to practice at home. Encouragement from the children’s’ parents and teachers to participate in yoga activities was highly reinforced.

One of the primary differences Cohen’s study noticed was that the intervention’s efficacy varied depending on the environment.

“When we put the kids out of class to do the yoga it didn’t work as well as when we [...] had the whole class participate together,” Cohen said.

Cohen noted that there is still a ways to go, with the need to perform larger studies with more participants. Although, if the indications of current research scale well, Cohen hopes that more parents and educators recognize the potential mindfulness yoga techniques have to offer both at home and in the classroom.

Cohen also encourages parents interested in getting their children involved in yoga to explore the classes currently offered by many Davis yoga studios.

Recently, the 2015 National Health Statistics Report listed reasons for practicing yoga as reported by yoga users: general wellness and disease 80 percent, improving immune function 30 percent and improving memory and concentration 31.2 percent.

“Yoga truly helps ameliorate pain, rejuvenate and revitalize the body after holding repetitive positions and motions,” said Ellen Street, a fourth-year clinical nutrition major and yoga instructor at the Activities and Recreation Center, in an e-mail interview.

The emphasis on awareness of breath and movement encourages strategies similar to clinical therapies. In doing so, yoga also offers a chance for anyone to gain the skills needed to cope with the demands in their lives, especially students.

“Students need yoga. [...] Biking, walking, sprinting to class and of course, sitting, studying and reading –– [they] take a toll on your body!” Street said via e-mail.

Tonya Keck, yoga instructor at the Student Health and Wellness Center, promotes routine practice among students.

“Mainly the pressure is so strong as a college student, and everyone has so much stress on them that [yoga is] a release,” Keck said. “There are so many different types of yoga and that’s another benefit [...] you can pick from whatever works for you.”

Yoga’s benefits are applicable to a wide range of ages and personalities, and as this practice becomes more popular in Western culture, further benefits are being researched as a valid approach to preventative medical care and treatment.

“There’s a reason this practice is still going strong after it’s origin 5,000 years ago,” Street said. services. When the School of Veterinary Medicine joined, those services were expanded to include animal care. The institutions combined forces to create the One Health Clinic in Knights Landing, which formally opened in 2012 and operates every third Sunday of the month.

Kelly Yu, a second-year graduate student at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, is an intake coordinator for the Knight’s Landing One Health Clinic. Through the clinic, Yu is able to work with veterinarians and gain more experience with the animals. According to Yu, the clinic has grown quickly, and it has recently been able to enact new procedures such as conducting bloodwork.

In addition to the new services being offered, the clinic continues to offer spay and neutering services and preventative care.

“Preventative care is basically just physical exams, and the physical exams are mainly done by the vet students at the school,” Yu said.

“Generally [...] we give them the yearly vaccines that they need, [and] update them as needed. We give them flea medications, which is a monthly thing, and we also give them deworming in case they have any sort of parasite.”

In addition to providing experience for veterinary students and animal care services to an underserved community, One Health also serves undergraduate pre-veterinary students.

Brigitte Clark, a fourth-year animal science major, is president of the Pre-Vet Students Supporting Diversity (PSSD) Club on campus.

Through PSSD, undergraduate students can apply to volunteer at the clinic in Knights Landing and get experience with animals that can set them apart on veterinary school applications later on.

“The undergraduates are [placed] at different stations,” Clark said.

“One station is pharmacy, where you’ll be drawing up the vaccines, and you’ll be pretty much getting the medicinal materials that the vet student needs. [...] The next station is helping with the paperwork in

The UC Davis Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy will offer a new course beginning in Winter Quarter highlighting the microscopic components of human anatomy. The new class, Cell Biology and Human Anatomy 102: Microscopic Anatomy, will aim to complement the popular Cell Biology and Human Anatomy 101: Human Gross Anatomy course and prepare undergraduate students for medical school.

Microscopic Anatomy will be taught by UC Davis School of Medicine professor Paul Fitzgerald.

“This class is taught in every medical school, and it’s [similar to] what I teach to the [UC Davis] medical students,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s a really good course to take so at the very least you’ll be able to get a little more health care consumer savvy. If you go into healthcare, whether it’s physical therapy, or dentistry, or medicine or nursing, this will just give you a nice, broad general understanding of how things work and how things are put together.”

While Human Gross Anatomy focuses on organ systems visible to the naked eye, Microscopic Anatomy will take an even closer look at these systems in order to evaluate how their anatomical structures relate to their functions. Students will learn about how organs are assembled from the four basic tissues, and how those tissues are assembled from various cell types.

“Really, it is anatomy at the microscopic level,” Fitzgerald said.

Microscopic Anatomy will feature a virtual lab which will train students in microscopy and how to read microscopic imagery. In doing so, said Fitzgerald, students will have a more precise visual understanding of the relationship between anatomical structure and function.

The course will also aim to prepare students interested in careers in medicine and research.

“We think this course will be helpful for future students of the allied health professions and students interested in biomedical research because so many new discoveries are based on sophisticated imaging technologies,” said Kenneth Beck, a lab instructor for Microscopic Anatomy.

However, biological sciences students are not the only ones who stand to benefit from the class.

“Liberal arts students interested in the course will also benefit from being able to understand how their bodies work at the microscopic level,” Beck said.

As students are selecting courses for the upcoming quarter, some have taken an interest in what the class has to offer.

“I had no idea that [Microscopic Anatomy] was being offered, but it sounds like the kind of course I would love to take,” said Jessica Larbaoui, a second-year biological sciences major. “I feel like taking this course in addition to anatomy will better prepare me for medical school. It could really give me an edge over other potential med students.”

Although Fitzgerald said that his goals for the course are to provide students with the means to understand their own bodies and prepare prospective medical school students, he hopes the course will extend beyond that.

“Ultimately, I would love the campus, in collaboration with the medical school, to develop a human health major,” Fitzgerald said. “I’m working with folks in the College of Biological Sciences to lean toward that goal, and this would be one of the courses that would be a part of that.”

Microscopic Anatomy will be held in Olson 125 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:40 to 4 p.m. The lab portion will be held before lecture from 12:10 to 2 p.m. in the Sciences Lab Building 2020. Students can concurrently enroll in both Human Gross Anatomy and Microscopic Anatomy. the front, [...] it’s called intake. You help patients get their paperwork done, you call out patients and you interview them. [...] Another position that the undergraduates do is that they [act as] vet-tech assistants at each station.”

Clark volunteered at the clinic monthly until last year and said that the number of procedures that undergraduates have been able to help with has increased.

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UNWANTED SEXUAL ADVANCES DISQUALIFY NORMAN PATTIZ FROM UC REGENT POSITION Lewd remarks reflect history of misbehavior toward women

SCOTT DRESSER Editor in Chief ELLIE DIERKING Managing Editor ALYSSA VANDENBERG Campus News Editor SAMANTHA SOLOMON City News Editor ELI FLESCH Opinion Editor EMILIE DEFAZIO Features Editor AMANDA ONG Arts & Culture Editor BRYAN SYKES Sports Editor ARIEL ROBBINS Science & Tech Editor

How can Univeristy of California (UC) regents claim to care about preventing sexual assault and sexual harassment when a regent engages in this egregious behavior himself while other regents remain silent?

Norman Pattiz, who has served on the Board of Regents since 2001, apologized recently for asking a woman if he could hold her breasts during the filming of a bra commercial at his studio.

The comments were recorded on tape, and since the woman in question came forward with the information, other employees and independent contractors at Pattiz’s studio, PodcastOne, have come out and said that he made numerous inappropriate remarks about their appearances during his tenure. Pattiz founded Westwood One, of the nation’s largest radio conglomerates, in 1976.

Now, while Pattiz can try to apologize and say that “you can teach an old dog new tricks,” he is a 73-yearold man, and there is zero reason to believe that a potential lifetime of subliminal misogyny can be overcome

overnight. The UC goes to great lengths to define sexual harassment to include “unwelcome sexual advances… and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.”

UC regents are not above the policies they create.

If the UC leadership truly wants to send a message to its students and faculty that it prioritizes preventing sexual assault and harassment, the regents must demand Pattiz’s resignation. Pattiz’s term does not expire until 2026, so there are long-term implications if the regents are unable to amend this situation.

University leaders cannot credibly advocate against sexual assault and sexual harassment when they insulate authority figures who commit these acts themselves.

Furthermore, students cannot trust the Board of Regents if it continues to engage in hypocrisy of such massive proportions.

The solution is simple: for the interest of the UC system as a whole, and to show that University leaders practice what they preach, Pattiz must resign from the Board of Regents immediately.

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The loophole of all gun loopholes PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE BY CLOSING LOOPHOLE THAT ALLOWS INDIRECT GUN PURCHASES

BY TAMANNA AHLUWALIA tahluwalia@ucdavis.edu My dad’s a lawyer, so I’ve grown up hating loopholes. Whether it be a sneakily thrown in one-liner about a custody agreement or working at a job that pays less to avoid spousal payments, loopholes have always irked me. So it’s no surprise that straw purchases — when one person poses as a buyer of a gun meant for someone else — drive me up the wall.

A straw purchase happens when a buyer of a firearm uses a secondary source to fill out the paperwork required to purchase from a federally-licensed firearms dealer. A straw purchaser is usually used when the actual buyer is prohibited from pos-

sessing a firearm due to a past criminal record or being underage. Although the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) specifically asks firearm applicants if they’re buying for another individual, a straw purchaser will simply lie and break the law when they answer “no” to this question.

There are a lot of nuances accompanying the motivations of these straw purchasers. Most of them are uneducated about guns and the impact they have on illegal gun trafficking in society. In an ATF article written by Special Agent Mark Kraft, he states that straw purchasers usually know nothing about the weapons they claim to have bought.

Often times, straw purchasers are the victimized girlfriends of traffickers, women who are so do-

mestically abused and manipulated by their significant other that they feel that they have no option but to do what he says and buy the guns, regardless of legality.

Outreach programs such as Family Tree, which provides professional education and training on how to recognize domestic violence and supports those that experience abuse, can help solve one part of the straw purchasing problem. By providing women a safe escape from abusive significant others and traffickers, we as a society can help remove the pawns that criminal traffickers use to obtain guns.

Drugs also play a role in straw purchasers’ motivation to engage in (even more) criminal activity.

In exchange for drugs, these individuals will buy

guns that the trafficker desires: no questions asked.

As long as they get their next high, they don’t care where the guns they purchase go or whose life they could potentially take.

“Where there’s dope, there’s drugs,” said one Florida straw purchaser. His words underscore the need to implement stricter and more inclusive national and statewide drug rehabilitation programs in order to take on the problem of gun violence.

There are so many different factors affecting gun violence and the things we, as a whole society and as individuals, can do about it. However, one of these is spreading awareness to issues such as domestic violence and drug addiction in order to stop the chain reaction that straw purchasers with these backgrounds can set off.

Preserving the Great Barrier Reef STUDENTS AND TOURISTS ALIKE NEED TO RESPECT THEIR HOST COUNTRIES

BY MICHAEL CLOGSTON mlclogston@ucdavis.edu There’s a saying that I heard once that said “beauty is never tarnished.” Well, I hate to break it to whoever said that, but I doubt that they have ever lived in a place that has seen its natural beauty destroyed at an alarming rate.

To be fair, I’m also just as sure that whoever coined that expression was also talking about people, and not travel destinations like the Great Barrier Reef.

Sure, travel is great. Being able to see unique sights unavailable to you in your home country, trying a new cuisine (even if it’s a different McDonald’s menu) and creating memories that last a lifetime are all great reasons to get out of town when it's possible.

But at the same time, what’s the real cost of these worldly pleasures? I mean beyond the costs

of airfare, food and finding a place to sleep.

I recently traveled to Cairns, Australia and went snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef.

And while I may not have been in the ocean for too long (salt water irks me and I can’t see well without glasses) I did notice something that many people may or may not be aware of currently: the reef is dying.

I’d heard this statement before. It was probably in high school when I was taking AP Biology that I heard the ominous warning that the reef was in danger of not being a sight that my grandchildren would be able to see. Unfortunately, the warning was clearly ignored.

Only six years later, as a fourth-year in college, the reef looked miserable.

The coral was bleached, chipped and the some of the creatures looked about as miserable as the Tank Gang from Finding Nemo looked when Darla tapped menacingly on the glass.

How can such rapid change occur to something which has stood for so long on this planet? People.

People did this with all the travel the area faces.

The ocean is filled with fumes from people flying to Cairns, pollution from around the world and sunscreen from everyone trying not to get skin cancer in this place where the UV index remains at a steady 10 for all daylight hours. And the reef hurts when people get in the water and accidentally chip the coral.

But even if all the ships and cruises go out to the ocean with the best intentions, as many of them do, and do everything in their power to try and give the reef a fighting chance, the sad fact is that the reef is still in danger.

People love traveling. People love being able to say they did something great in a foreign country that they would be unable to do anywhere else.

And what better way to say this than taking physical proof of your presence in somewhere as

great as the Great Barrier Reef?

People take coral from the reef. But is showing off your adventures really worth taking part of a UNESCO heritage site?

Isn’t it a lot of effort to try and get it past security knowing that if it’s found out, you are committing a federal crime? But it happens. It’s as if some crazy impulse exists to destroy the beauty of place you came to visit in the first place. It doesn’t make sense.

How far will people go to prove that they have gone to a world-renowned location? Will the monetary cost of travel really be worth it if there isn’t even anything to see anymore because it’s either been destroyed by climate change and the increasing impact of human presence?

To travel responsibly, especially for students abroad, is to follow a better saying I picked up as a Boy Scout: “Take only pictures, leave only footprints.”

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Fashion meets technology on the runway COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN DESIGNERS, SCIENTISTS ARE IMPORTANT FOR ADVANCEMENTS IN BOTH FIELDS

BY TARYN DEOILERS tldeoilers@ucdavis.edu As someone who stapled the bottoms of her flats everyday for nearly three months before finally buying a new pair, I might not seem like the most credible fashion source. But perhaps it’s my lack of professional expertise that makes fashion all the more awe-inspiring to me — especially since the fashion industry has begun taking significant steps to cross the bridge between science and fashion.

One of the leading collaborative forces between scientists and designers is Descience, a global collective that brought together over 60 scientists from around the world in 2014 to creatively channel scientific research into a runway show at MIT’s Media Lab. Working alongside professional fashion designers, the scientists involved helped devise ways to express and bring to a wider audience their abstract fields of study as tangible, stylish pieces of art.

“I was stunned by the similarities between the worlds of fashion and science,” explained Dr. Yuly Fuentes-Medel, executive director of Descience, in

an interview with The Fashion Globe. “Scientists, as well as designers, work toward the same direction — that is, to create something unknown and to introduce change and innovation to the world.”

Cytocouture, the winning collaboration between designer Carlos Villamil and biomaterial engineer Dr. Laura Indolfi, presented transformable tunics that mimic Dr. Indolfi’s research in endothelial cells.

Because cells adapt to their surroundings, the team created reversible garments that similarly adapt to different body shapes and sizes. The collaborators also challenged standard fashion designs by devising experimental, gender-neutral pieces that defy traditional categorization.

The audience choice winners, designer Candice Wu and bioengineer Christopher Gibson, explored in their dress the joys of finding cures for rare genetic diseases. Besides the dress’ blood vessel-inspired red netting, the look also includes a green cage and black train to symbolize the initial imprisonment of disease and the eventual freedom that treatment brings.

Even beyond Descience, the fashion industry

has been embracing the codevelopment of science and technology by constructing pieces of clothing previously unimaginable.

Nokia worked with design label Fyodor Golan at London Fashion Week in 2014 to devise what has been deemed the world’s first interactive garment: an armor-like skirt gilded with 35 Nokia Lumia smartphones that change colors with movement. The shimmering screens, which are synced to a camera in the model’s headpiece, also reflect the wearer’s line of sight, adding to the interactive “fabric” of the skirt.

Designers and scientists at the fashion company CuteCircuit have further invested in wearable technology. Named one of the Best Inventions of 2006

by Time, CuteCircuit’s Hug Shirt allows wearers to transmit a virtual yet detectable hug to a distant loved one. As the wearer embraces his or her own shirt, the shirt’s sensors and actuators capture the duration and intensity of the hug, as well as the hugger’s heart rate and body warmth, to send to the recipient.

The Hug Shirt utilizes Bluetooth and clothing to simulate human contact despite physical dis-

tance.

Zeiss Smart Glasses blend futuristic technology with the sleek, trendy design of everyday glasses — an important aspect that Google Glass, despite its acclaim, failed to actualize. And while engineers are still fine-tuning the device’s technological elements, Zeiss has perfected its outward design, pioneering smart glasses that aren’t just functionally wearable, but also stylish and modern.

Fashion can therefore act as a vessel for scientific ideas, as in projects like Descience, or as a necessary component in technological innovation, as in “smart” devices like glasses, watches and jewelry.

Science also encourages innovative designs within the fashion industry, providing new ideas for fabrics, structures and narratives behind artistic concepts.

In the increasingly digital age, the fusion of fashion and technology is critical for inciting public enthusiasm about inventions in both science and design.

And who knows — with enough collaboration, students may one day even sport chic lab coats straight from the runway.

Why the United States needs to remain powerful ISOLATIONISM IN THE U.S. HAS BROADER IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POWER STRUGGLE

BY NICK IRVIN ntirvin@ucdavis.edu The most pressing issue in the United States today is not immigration or racism. Rather, the growing tendency of partisan voters to stymie American global dominance should be our greatest concern.

Isolationist movements abound, from the more liberal wing of the Democratic party to the tangible furor manifest in Donald Trump’s populism. The death throes of American power have begun. The most powerful country in the world is slowly becoming weaker.

American military and economic dominance only took off a century ago, and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 ensured the United States stayed relatively safe atop its pedestal of global superiority.

Its superpower status was never really in jeopardy.

But times have changed.

Half of Americans think negatively of American involvement in the global economy, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted earlier this year. Donald Trump’s policy capstone involves dismantling NAFTA and fighting China in a bid to

combat its “rape of our country” through globalization. Bernie Sanders echoed Trump’s message, albeit in a more dignified way, in his surprisingly popular campaign run. These messages resonated with many Americans who feel that their country is slipping away from them.

This global apathy doesn’t bode well for American power –– it will only disintegrate carefullybuilt relationships, make it more difficult for our economy to compete and invite international scorn toward protectionist measures, similar to when European leaders begged for a “remain” vote preceding Brexit. In short, isolationism stems from more than the usual military and interventionist opposition; the American economy faces its wrath as well.

Over two-thirds of Americans either think the United States does too much to solve world problems or are content with the course of American international involvement as it stands.

The debate over whether we should only deal with our own problems or assist other countries with theirs avoids the middle ground. Balance is key.

Meddling in international affairs with dubious

agendas is a bad policy –– the Iraq Wars are costly examples. But withdrawing inward from our current foreign policy standards under Barack Obama (less interventionist than Bush but more global than what hardline leftists want) means leaving a power vacuum begging to be filled.

Russia and China have made their ambitions clear with aggressive maneuvers in Ukraine and the South China Sea. What’s to stop them from cranking up this dangerous behavior following a return to American isolationism?

After all, NATO relies on the United States for much of its high-end weaponry (including aircraft carrier battle groups, missile defense systems and nuclear weapons) and benefits from the support of two million American military personnel. Our absence would be sorely missed and quickly seized upon by crafty leaders like Vladimir Putin.

Demanding NATO “pay up” in exchange for American protection –– as Donald Trump has called for –– has only weakened our standing as a historical protector (think both World Wars) and galvanized Russia to amass troops dangerously close to the Eastern European border. Russia de-

ployed nuclear-capable warheads last month in Kaliningrad, a small Russian territory within ballistic range of Berlin. NATO’s response has led to the “the largest buildup of troops in the region since the Cold War.” Imagine the fate of Europe without American muscle backing it up.

Donald Trump’s ultimatum against vulnerable NATO allies reflects a popular mood ruminating in some circles of the American public that since we are so exceptional, the only way to preserve core American values is isolationism.

The United States should keep defense spending high while also playing smart hands to curb any idea that its head is on the chopping block. This means supporting our steadfast allies in Europe and elsewhere.

Global power is a zero-sum game, and we risk allowing rivals to fill the void left by our abdication.

The United States cannot fall on the losing side of this balance of power; to do so would be to lose all progress made in the last 240 years through blood, sweat and tears.

Take Hollywood whitewashing out of scripts and into the spotlight DIVERSE DIRECTORS WILL INCREASE DIVERSITY IN ROLES, CHARACTERS ON SCREEN

BY JEANETTE YUE jyyue@ucdavis.edu Just how white is the film and television industry?

You don’t have to answer that. It’s become obvious in recent years just how pervasive lack of diversity is in entertainment. It seems to be the only unwavering aspect of Hollywood’s constantly changing trends (fashion, actor popularity, silly controversies, etc.). But controversies, like #OscarsSoWhite, seem to subside as soon as the Academy Awards are over.

Lack of diversity has been an ongoing debate on social media for a while now. It’s where #OscarsSoWhite started and morphed into #HollywoodSoWhite. Despite the fact that both of these movements have left the spotlight since last February, the hashtag lives on through Twitter, and for good reason.

Unequal representation of marginalized groups in film and television is still an issue, and it hasn’t gone away just because it has lost traction in the media.

This year, there have been too many cases of Hollywood whitewashing.

One of the most horrifying examples is Birth of the Dragon, a film about Bruce Lee and the fight against kung fu master Wong Jack Man. That’s the premise, at least.

The person who narrates the film is actually a white man who stumbles into Chinatown one day and discovers kung fu. If you watch the trailer, there are many other disturbing aspects of this movie. And they follow Hollywood Whitewashing 101 to the tee.

This film takes perhaps one of the most stereotyped aspects of Asian culture, martial arts, drops a white guy right in the middle of it and sells it as authentic.

But don’t worry. The fighting choreography — clearly, the most important part of this film — is “from the martial arts team behind X-Men.” It’s legitimate.

Asian films consistently depict Asian Americans as kung fu masters, but that’s not who we are.

That’s not all we do. It’s a stereotype the film industry capitalizes on, but our narratives can’t and shouldn’t be limited to a handful of stereotypes.

This applies to all marginalized groups. To be clear, just because 12 Years a Slave has won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, does

not mean Hollywood is diverse or inclusive. Roles for African American and Chicanx/Latinx actors and actresses should not be limited to slaves or the servants.

Some of these films are amazing works of art.

We are seeing more minority groups get screen time, but it’s not enough if social identity is the sole reason for that character’s existence. Stories exist outside the stereotypes given to various groups.

While the “I don’t see color” argument is ridiculous, minorities can take on lead roles that are unrelated to their race or sexual orientation without that identity becoming a plot point.

But there can be no diverse lead roles if the people behind the cameras are not diverse.

USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism reported that films and television series with female directors had 5.4 percent more women and girls in lead roles compared to films and series with no female directors. Stories with female directors also had 10.7 percent more female writers and 12.6 percent more female creators.

They also found a 17.5 percent higher rate of ethnically underrepresented characters when the director was also ethnically underrepresented.

This data says it all. To increase diversity, there

need to be diverse creators and directors. So far, that has been Hollywood’s greatest shortcoming.

13 percent of directors are not white, and just 15.2 percent of directors in different platforms are female. Only 3.4 percent of film directors are female.

Inclusion of minority groups is absolutely necessary.

This doesn’t mean studios should carelessly cast some people of color or a token gay character to increase diversity. Inclusion needs to be purposeful and thoughtful.

Otherwise, we end up with the inaccurate portrayals and stories we see today, told through the lens of white experience. How is that in any way true to the experiences of people of color or LGBT+ folks?

Just because the film and television in question is fictional doesn’t mean the stories and characters won’t have real-world implications.

Some of these works may be elaborate and complete fantasy, but if monsters, wizards and aliens can make it in, there should be no problem creating more roles for other, real identities. Hollywood is known for being fast-paced, and there’s no reason to slow down now.

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Opinion Novelty protein hits the market NEW REPLACEMENTS FOR MEAT PROTEIN MAKING THEIR MARK

BY ALICE ROCHA asrocha@ucdavis.edu Where does protein come from? One might assume there is only one answer: animals. Whether from cattle, pork, poultry or sheep, most people think of livestock as a main source of protein. But with a quickly growing global population, food producers around the world are racing against the clock to find a more sustainable way of providing animal protein to the masses.

There have already been multiple attempts to synthesize protein out of something other than livestock. Scientists have tried growing meat in Petri dishes, fabricating it from plant protein or utilizing alternative animals that need fewer resources to raise.

One new alternative protein comes from a company called Beyond Meat. They have created a meat substitute that they claim has the same taste and consistency as real animal protein, but is made out of pea protein, yeast extract and coconut oil.

This company is dedicated to reducing its carbon footprint by providing a source of protein that requires fewer resources, decreases pollution and improves human health.

While several major news sources have sung the

praises of Beyond Meat, others are less than enthused. Last spring, the MIT Technology Review claimed that while the idea behind Beyond Meat was noble, it had not accomplished its goal of creating a perfect meat substitute. The Technology Review worried that although alternative sources of meat are growing in popularity, they are not yet close enough to the real thing to have widespread popular appeal.

“Meat is the hardest problem for flavor-chemical companies to solve,” Don Mottram, an emeritus professor of food chemistry at the University of Reading, told MIT. Additionally, a taste test performed by an editor’s board at the Huffington Post found the pea-protein based products, disguised as chicken, to be strange, almost plant-like and distinctly different from true animal protein.

Dr. Mark Post of Maastricht University is changing the way meat is made by growing it in a Petri dish. He has grown cattle muscle stem cells in a lab setting as a means of generating meat. Post managed to fabricate pure muscle lacking blood and fat in 2013, and his research is ongoing.

By harvesting cells from living cattle and nurturing them, Post has created “cultured meat,” muscle tissues that have been layered to create hamburgers. While this might seem like a good

solution, Post’s work remains unfinished and extremely expensive. A single burger currently costs $275,000 to $350,000 to create. The delicate lab techniques and extensive time required to generate one of these “cultured meat” burgers is not economically viable. The cost of production might decrease in the long run, but it will not do for developing countries in desperate need of protein today.

Another phenomenon making its mark in agriculture is using insects as a main source of protein. The UN released a report in 2013 describing the various types of edible insects available to the human populace. While some people might think the idea of eating insects is bizarre and gross, it has been a staple in many diets outside the United States for hundreds of years. In places like Mexico, which is home to 300 known edible insect species, eating insects is commonplace. Ancestral dishes serving chicatanas — giant winged ants — are growing in popularity and were initially developed before industrial farming when livestock protein was scarce.

Today, insect dishes are considered a luxury.

With a growing industry of insect farming across the globe, many people are turning to insects as their solution to the impending food crisis that

will be exacerbated by a population threatening to reach 9 billion by 2050.

While sustainable agriculture strives to improve the environmental, economic and social impacts of livestock, it’s easier to think there might be a better solution than trying to change the system we already have. Maybe it would be better to abandon the entire agricultural industry and replace it with synthetic plant-based protein, or insects or “cultured meat.”

However, these three forms of protein still rely heavily on livestock and agriculture. Without manure from livestock, pea crops would have no natural fertilizer. Insects need to be farmed to prevent the spread of pathogens, and “cultured meat” remains reliant on the stem cells of living cattle in order to be produced.

Animal agriculture is a complex web of intricately intertwined parts, with which novel protein will eventually need to fit. While the niche is not apparent as of yet, it will grow in time alongside agriculture.

My hope is that conventional livestock agriculture and novel protein development will change and thrive off of one another so that we might continue along the path to providing sustainable food for the generations to come.

HUMOR SCHOOL TO BUILD ONE BIG, REALLY TALL BUILDING TO SAVE SPACE FOR FARMLAND

BY ETHAN VICTOR ejvictor@ucdavis.edu The land surrounding UC Davis is precious because of the school’s reputation as a top farming university. Recent attempts by the school have shown a desire to further increase the emphasis that the school has on farming. The goal: create more land.

While the university does not plan on buying any new property, Dave Crock, the head of campus development, announced the school’s plans to save space. In place of where buildings once were, crops will soon stand.

“We have seen the model that schools like NYU and Boston University have set. There is no campus,” said Dave Crock. “We like that; the schools are in the city. Davis is a farm town, so we figured we would bring the farm closer to the students.”

Anything west of the Quad will be torn down and replaced with various crops and livestock, with the exception of any of the athletic

facilities and the health center. Classrooms will be demolished and a corn field will stand where Wellman once overlooked the Quad.

The tallest building on campus, Sproul Hall, will soon become the second-tallest building on campus. The school is aiming to begin construction on Napolitano Hall by March 2017. Napolitano Hall is estimated to cost the school $176 million, but it will be home to nearly 400 classrooms. The building will be 46 stories high and will go right behind the ARC, where Hutchinson Field currently exists. Each classroom will have hardwood floors and each lab will have its own eye wash station, among many of the other stateof-the-art amenities.

“Its architectural scheme is meant to replicate that of the New York Public Library. We want that ‘woah’ factor,” Crock said.

Once Napolitano Hall is completed and classes have begun there, the demolition of the other buildings will begin so as to ensure that no classrooms are lost in the time of construction.

Students are skeptical of the decision, as many are confused as to

why the layout of the school needs to change.

“Davis is flat. Why change that culture? I like the way the campus is set up,” said Tom Vickers, a third-year international agricultural development major. “The school is doing this to benefit my field, but the cost of this makes zero sense. I don’t need corn across the street from the CoHo. It’s not my top priority.”

There is a clear disconnect between what the priorities around campus are. The school isn’t lacking land. UC Davis owns a lot of the surrounding fields that it already uses for farming. Most importantly, the campus needs to be fit for the students and their preferences. A new enormous building is not at the top of this list of priorities, especially given that space is not an issue in the flat city that is Davis.

Questioning the credibility of ETHAN VICTOR? You can reach him at ejvictor@ucdavis.edu. Feel free to help with his followers-to-following ratio on Twitter @thejvictor, because it is pathetic right now.

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BY YINON RAVIV ravivyinon@gmail.com Social media stalking isn’t creepy. Claiming to be above social media stalking when you absolutely do stalk on social media, however, is 100 percent creepy.

It’s human nature. We love information. We want as much as we can possibly get. We’re social animals. Whether it’s keeping up with the Joneses, scoping out a potential flame or keeping tabs on an ex, everybody lurks.

Denying that you pay attention to publicly accessible information is like saying girls don’t poop or that you don’t get secretly happy when “Mr. Brightside” comes on at a party. You’re either delusional or a liar. So with that out of the way, and knowing that we’re in a safe space, I’m ready to divulge some of the best information-gathering (that’s the euphemism I’ll use from here on out to sound less bizarre and not get a restraining order filed against me) techniques I’ve picked up over the years.

Now, this article would be much easier to write if everyone in college stopped withdrawing physical cash and instead only paid using some sort of social platform that takes something as functional yet personal as paying your friends and puts it all out there like some

sort of drunk Snapchat story.

Wait a minute. There’s an app for that? You can pull up a feed and see who’s paid who for what? You can expose to everyone that you’re buying Snowglobe tickets from your on-again, off-again, and that you’re going to spend three days raging in a cabin while freezing your ass off in a sub-zero rave? You can figure out who’s paying utilities to whom, which friend always fronts money and why your goodie-two-shoes next-door neighbor always buys “fun stuff” from the white kid with dreadlocks every other week?

Venmo is a beautiful thing. Forget having a legitimate excuse for the homeless guy asking for money whenever I tell him I’m out of cash (yes, I already know I’m going to hell, you don’t need to remind me). It’s the most effective information gathering tool we have. I’m almost convinced that the founders didn’t even care about the fact that they’ve almost eliminated cash from the college life. They knew PayPal was around. They knew there were other peer-to-peer cashless solutions out there. They also knew that there was no way to see whether Megan’s been missing her monthly rent (house emoji) payment. So Venmo was born.

I’m not saying that every tech company aims to scratch our collective gossip itch. I’m just saying that you can find out who won the break-up by seeing if your ex got fired from their “Sanitorial

Management” job while you share with the world that you just got hired by a Fortune 500 company. LinkedIn is obviously about networking. It’s obviously about figuring out who you know where to help you on your job search. It’s an amazing tool and every student that isn’t on it as they apply for grown-up jobs is shooting themselves in the foot.

But a nice, relaxing LinkedIn lurk is underrated for information gathering. Not only do you get the obvious stuff like employment history, you also get some other juicy details like the “skills” they have and whether other people actually agree with Tim that he’s an accomplished public speaker (only four people endorsed him for it, so probably not). The key is to go on with incognito or private browsing, because if you go from your LinkedIn profile on someone else’s, they get a notification that you lurked. I know because an exgirlfriend of mine’s new boyfriend had a little look at my profile and I got an email about it, so be safe out there.

Safe. Yes, be safe. The internet is amazing. I love social networking sites because they’ve brought me closer to my friends. I believe in putting yourself out there. But, at the same time, be aware of all the privacy settings at your disposal — it’s totally in your control what you do put out there and what people can see it (even on Venmo and LinkedIn).

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role in maintaining efficiency on campus for almost 45 years.

The first bike circle was installed in 1972 at the busiest intersection on campus — the same one Sherwood found herself stuck in last week.

“I was actually a graduate student here back in the early ‘70s when the first roundabout was installed on campus,” said David Takemoto-Weerts, newly retired campus bicycle coordinator for Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS). “[Now], the first time [a student] rides through a roundabout during class break [in] Fall Quarter is sort of a rite of passage.”

At the time, Rock Hall had a different name and the SCC was a congregation of temporary buildings. Takemoto-Weerts still remembers the first roundabout installation as if it were yesterday.

“It was pretty chaotic [before] — you’d have this bike traffic gridlock, essentially,” Takemoto-Weerts said. “So somebody [...] thought about doing a roundabout there. [The campus] went in there with some old firehose from the fire department and laid [it] out [as] the center circle [...] rather than [...] putting [in] any permanent structure. Then they marked [the asphalt] with chalk arrows to tell the people ‘this is the way you go around the [circle].’”

Even though these roundabouts are abundant at UC Davis, traffic circles and roundabouts are far more common on the East Coast and Europe than they are in California. Therefore, it’s not shocking that most students have little to no prior experience using traffic circles before coming to UC Davis.

In fact, calling them “bike circles” is a misnomer.

“You sometimes hear them referred to as ‘traffic circles’ and [...] ‘roundabouts,’” Takemoto-Weerts said. “What we have on campus [are] all roundabouts, not traffic circles. The ones on campus have no stop signs or signals [when] you’re about to enter [them]. If you have signals or stop signs at the approach to a roundabout, it becomes a traffic circle.”

Roundabout or circle, these mechanisms of efficient traffic flow help thousands of students safely bike to class every day. According to Takemoto-Weerts, the two basic rules to conquering roundabouts are to enter in a counterclockwise direction and to yield to those already in the roundabout.

Right now there are 27 roundabouts on campus, with more planned for the future.

Takemoto-Weerts pointed out that adding a traffic circle

to an intersection is easier said than done, with multiple factors involved in planning, development and construction.

One location of interest is the three-way junction at the top of East Quad Avenue and North Quad Avenue by Hickey Gym. “That [location has] always been put off because [of ] what we call ‘heritage trees,’” Takemoto-Weerts said. “There’s at least one huge tree [...] that would have to go [in order to put in a circle]. There’s a real reluctance on part of the campus to do that, otherwise it would have been done years ago.”

“Heritage trees” possess important characteristics or values for a community. They contribute to a sense of pride and camaraderie at UC Davis similar to bike circles. Whether looking up at the leaf-crested branches of heritage trees or down at the face of the school mascot painted on a bike circle, each is an important symbol of the UC Davis community.

Logos in the bike circles are familiar to students who attend the school today, but they are relatively recent additions.

In 2007, during an effort to enhance Aggie pride, a team of students and faculty installed UC Davis logos in the most prominent bike circles on campus. The team included Greg Ortiz, now the ASUCD advisor to athletics and administrative advisory committees, Stan Nosek, vice chancellor for administration, Sal Genito of Buildings and Grounds and thenASUCD President Kareem Salem. “[The logos add] color [and] a sense of pride in the grounds on campus, and also in the university,” said Scott Judson, a 2009 graduate in political science and communication and Aggie Pack MC from 2005 to 2009. “The main idea was [...] to get the marks that represent the university [out there] and get Aggie pride spreading across campus.”

When Dinh first researched UC Davis, the images she saw were aerial photos of Aggie-branded bike circles. Not only are bike circles a symbol of the school, but they are also a fundamental aspect of the Davis lifestyle.

UC Davis bike circles maintain safety and promote Aggie pride. Although bike circles may seem intimidating at first, riding through them a few times can start to feel like second nature for most students.

“I’m way more confident [now]. It’s like getting in a car every morning,” Sherwood said. “There’s bikes around you, but once you get the hang of it, it’s not a big deal.”

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“At first [giving demos] was a little weird, and you still get [lubricant] on your hands –– it’s really gross,” Frank said. “[But] it’s nice, because depending on which one you do, it’s informative, and it’s nice to see how much they knew beforehand. You want to know the specifics about what to do.”

Students can win prizes by learning how to do the demonstrations themselves.

“We also have [the program] ‘Watch it, Teach it, Win It’,” said Chloe Tsudama, a fourth-year psychology major and HEP sexual health student assistant. “Volunteers teach students three [demonstrations] and [students] can come back to teach [the same demonstration] back once a week. If they can successfully teach all three back to the volunteers, they can get a free t-shirt.”

There are also videos of each demonstration on the Love Lab’s YouTube channel, for those who may prefer a less public learning experience. Along with these “HowTo” videos, the channel has other informational videos for safe sex practices. All of these resources reinforce the Love Lab’s focus on bringing its resources to students via mobile vehicles rather than relying on visitors knowing where the Love Lab lives the rest of the week.

To increase visibility, the Love Lab also visits other sites on campus at least once a quarter. In previous years, the Love Lab has visited campus events like The Buzz, and soon, the Love Lab has a visit planned for the Student Community Center (SCC).

After two hours at the ARC with students learning, reiterating and practicing, it is time for the volunteers to roll the Love Lab back home. The evening was a success, as the students who often say hello took their usual products, and new visitors inquired on how to have safer sex. The Love Lab did its job and helped conveniently educate students about protecting themselves and others.

“With the Love Lab, we’re making sure that students have the knowledge to help themselves,” Frank said.

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ewe during transportation — the result of an inadequately small cage. That same year, a dog died while playing with another dog, both owned by the School of Veterinary Medicine, likely by accidental strangulation from the other dog biting its collar while unsupervised by staff.

Researchers have also been cited for performing unnecessary surgery on ewes in order to discover pregnancy, due to claims that less invasive methods were too expensive.

According to a 2016 USDA inspection report, a rabbit that was not properly tranquilized before an experiment had to be euthanized.

Michael Budkie said the university should lose its federal funding because of the violations.

“Some of the research they do has nothing to do about human medicine,” Budkie said.

“It’s about bringing in the $40 million a year [in federal grants]. The writing’s on the wall for animal research. Currently, we don’t need animal research. We have cell technology and computer simulation now. Use of animals in science is old science, and UC Davis has no use for it anymore academically.”

However, there are still others, like Fell, who believe that animal testing has scientific value.

“Animal research benefits human health and is strictly regulated by law,” Fell said. “There are unannounced inspections by the USDA that we are not notified about previously.”

Denisse Valencia, second-year clinical nutrition major, was displeased to learn about these allegations of animal mistreatment at the university she attends.

“It breaks my heart,” Valencia said.

In addition to its other animal testing and veterinary centers, UC Davis also houses the California National Primate Center (CNPRC), which wields autism and Zika virus breakthroughs thanks to tests on animals.

According to Fell, every investigation by the USDA has been closed or corrected. However, Budkie holds a different view.

“When the USDA says that they have an open investigation, this doesn’t just mean they are looking for something,” Budkie said. “They are looking for the purpose of prosecuting.”

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ARTS & Culture Student Sounds: katgrüvs Davis guitarist talks fingerpicking, musical technique, midterms

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Third-year mechanical engineering major Kat Gallardo — the brains behind the musical project “katgrüvs” — spent the summer recording music in her parents’ walk-in closet. One can imagine the scene: Gallardo shuffling to move her recording equipment to and from her bedroom, a microphone next to a winter coat, an amplifier beside her father’s dress shoes, guitar picks among her mother’s jewelry collection. “[I had to take] all of my stuff out of my room, and bring it into the closet,” Gallardo said. “It’s a hassle sometimes, but it’s totally worth it. And then my mom would come home and be like, ‘get your stuff out of the closet!’”

But a janky recording setup isn’t exactly reflective of Gallardo’s raw talent. In fact, her summer-in-a-closet was well spent, leading to the finalization of her new EP, Summertime in Suburbia/The DeedleLeedle Song. The two acoustic pieces on the EP incorporate Gallardo’s distinctive style as she layers notes from her guitar.

Especially prevalent in the song “Summertime in Suburbia” is the coexistence of complexity and soft notes, resulting in a sound reminiscent of suburban nostalgia — the “soundtrack of moms headed to Costco,” Gallardo explained.

“There are just some things I love about suburbia, because it’s where I grew up,” Gallardo said. “It’s sort of a shout-out to Antioch, California — to both the city and the suburbs and their influences.”

Gallardo’s dad kickstarted her music career. As a guitarist himself, he was Gallardo’s first introduction to the instrument. Gallardo feels that her style later

branched from his.

“He would always be there, teach me the basic chords, the basic foundations; I just want to thank him for doing that,” Gallardo said. “Of course I’ve had other influences on the way [...] but I can attribute the one main influence to my dad.”

Gallardo was also musically involved at her church, playing in the church choir when she was younger.

“As a strong Catholic, religion really inspires me,” Gallardo said. “God inspires me to do these things. I’m a cradled Catholic [and...] that has played such an essential role in my music. I just admire the beauty of music, and I see God in music.”

Gallardo uses fingerstyle playing, a style characterized by its economic use of the guitar via plucking individual strings or tapping the base of the instrument.

She did not adopt this specific style until she was in high school, after discovering musician Andy McKee on YouTube. Gallardo was inspired by the uniqueness of his sound, and adopted the technique.

“Andy McKee did a lot of the tapping and altered tuning — the one-man band type thing,” Gallardo said. “[Watching his videos] was the turning point for me.

[He was] playing with his fingers over the [guitar] neck and this tapping kind of stuff […] I just thought, ‘Wow, this is a really well-composed song. This is the kind of sound that I’m looking for.’”

Once she began to master her technique, Gallardo focused more on song composition, taking inspiration from non-fingerstyle artists — specifically ’90s alternative-rock bands.

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of alternative rock — Blink-182, Third Eye Blind, The Story So Far,” Gallardo said. “I grab influences from their hooks. Their songs are not as virtuosic in nature, but I do get a lot of the pop hooks from listening to ’90s alternative rock music.”

While in college, Gallardo has immersed herself in other musical projects such as the Newman Catholic Choir and the Davis Jazz Band, both of which have served to offset her solo career. “[I wanted to] do something that will add to the whole instead of cram everything in at once, which is the tendency for a lot of fingerstyle players like me: to overplay,” Gallardo said. “Jazz is a counter-balance to that. [I have to] listen to what other people are doing first — listen to the horns, listen to the piano and the bass and the drums — that way you can get a feel of how you can add to the sound rather than just overshadow other people.”

In the same way college has expanded Gallardo’s musical maturity, UC Davis has served as the inspiration for some

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of her music. Such inspiration is most prominent in her track “Down to the Wire.” That’s part of katgrüvs’ charm and relatability: her music feels personal, it’s not too lofty. “‘Down to the Wire’ tells a story about the quarter system,” Gallardo said. “Like school is starting, everything is chill, and then the song starts ramping up during the ‘midterm season’ because it switches from major to minor keys.

The minor keys represent the quarter system, the tests, the midterms — and the major keys represent relaxation, the party stage and then ending it off with the most dramatic part: finals. And it ends up abruptly like okay, now I can rest.”

College has influenced Gallardo’s musical decisions, and these decisions have likewise shaped her career path.

“I felt like Davis was the perfect fit.

It just feels so balanced between engineering, which is my analytical side, but [also] gives me the freedom to be my creative self,” Gallardo said. “I felt like if I was a music major or if I went to a

music school, I probably wouldn’t have the artistic liberties that I have right now [in Davis].”

Gallardo hopes to intertwine her two passions, possibly using her engineering skills to create more than just music.

“I have a dream of building guitars and combining engineering and music,” Gallardo said. “I felt that mechanical engineering would enable me to use my musical capabilities […] and transmit that to building something that will help others in the music community.”

There is an uncanny relationship between Gallardo’s major studies and the mechanical style of her playing. However, when the subject was presented, Gallardo simply laughed it off, and declared it a mere coincidence. But such an incredible combination of talent and skill is more than mere happenstance; rather, genius seems to be the running motif.

To listen to katgrüvs’ content, please visit her Bandcamp and Youtube, or learn more from her website or Facebook page.

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First-year students take on NaNoWriMo challenge

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Thousands of wordsmiths all over the world, from published authors to aspiring writers, hope to one day realize their dreams of writing a novel. While some achieve this goal, others never find the right time or opportunity to do so. For those determined to see their creative ideas come to life, NaNoWriMo is the perfect place to begin.

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) challenges all of its participants to complete a 50,000-word novel throughout the month of November. To complete the challenge, one must write approximately 1,600 words a day. Last year, the nonprofit organization had nearly 450,000 participants and over 40,000 successful completions.

At UC Davis, a group of ambitious first-year students are taking on the NaNoWriMo challenge in a seminar taught by biological sciences professor Ian Korf. The class focuses on strategic writing techniques and exercises to help achieve the goal of 50,000 words. The students are participating as members of the Yolo County NaNoWriMo community, which is overseen by municipal liaisons Elisabeth Kauffman and Rose Butler. Kauffman, a freelance editor, has participated in NaNoWriMo every year since 2010.

“I think that NaNoWriMo is perfect for aspiring writers. You immerse yourself in your story for 30 days. You live it and you breathe it,” Kauffman said. “If you do not hit your 50,000 word count, then that’s okay. The whole point is to just have written words at all.”

NaNoWriMo began in 1999 in the San Francisco Bay Area when a group of friends decided to take on the daunting challenge of writing a novel in 30 days. Since then, it has grown into

a worldwide phenomenon. Even some best-selling novels, including Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, began as NaNoWriMo novels.

“The community is so supportive. People who participate in NaNoWriMo are not interested in snobby awards or recognition. They are only interested in how creative you are, and helping you find that creativity along the way,” Kauffman said.

On the NaNoWriMo website, participants have the opportunity to connect with other writers in their own communities and across the world. Through this community, writers gain support and inspiration from one another while focusing on their own creative journeys. Fellow writers encourage and push participants to meet their deadlines and complete the challenge.

“I don’t actually think NaNoWriMo is so much about writing as it is about time management and meeting deadlines,” Korf said. “If anyone could come away from their freshman year with any important skill, [that skill] would be time management.”

Korf is a published author and has completed NaNoWriMo himself multiple times in past years. For many of his students, this is their first time taking on the endeavor of writing a full novel.

“For me, the main goal is to hit the word count, but I also want to finish my story,” said Tristan Atkinson, a first-year theatre and dance major.

Atkinson is a member of Professor Korf ’s seminar and is participating in NaNoWriMo for the first time.

“I’ve never written anything this long before, so I think I am going to have the most fun filling the parts in between the major plot points,” Atkinson said.

Those interested in participating in NaNoWriMo can find more information at nanowrimo.org.

folks who identify as genderqueer, bigender or other identities that fall under the umbrella of trans. Eva Angeli, a third-year physics major who works for Gender Group as a facilitator, has been supporting Talton with this event and has volunteered at the fair in the past.

As Angeli pointed out, the fair offers more than free clothing.

“The Asterisk Clothing Fair not only provides a safe space to find outfits which match the way they want to present, but also lets them see that they are supported and celebrated for who they are,” Angeli said.

The event will also feature sewing classes to alter clothing items that may not fit perfectly. The clothing fair originally started as a project for Trans Awareness Day, but this year it will be on a larger scale. The goal is to have the clothing available year-round in the center and not just during a single event.

“We are trying to make half of our storage room a clothing ‘store’, and our director is currently trying to find furniture for us,” Talton said.

In the past, the center used generous staff members’ offices as dressing rooms and placed a full-length mirror in the hallway. This year the center hopes to get more donations to make the fair even more successful and accessible.

Many UC Davis students believe that this event will promote a more inclusive community. Maggie Chew, a third-year biological sciences major, thinks this is an important event in showing solidarity with others’ identities.

“To have a really big UC campus that’s well known and [an event] a lot of people are going to shows a lot of support, so it feels more comforting [knowing] that people are donating clothes for you,” Chew said.

If interested in donating clothes to the fair or for more information, please visit the Facebook event page.

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a wealth of experience over her decade of employment at Stanford, where she began her Cardinal career as a manager of events after graduating from the University of San Francisco in 2007 with a masters in sports management.

“I ran (Stanford’s) soccer, lacrosse, field hockey and gymnastics events,” Fenton said. “But I didn’t have nearly as big of a responsibility as I have now (at Stanford) and didn’t oversee any staff.”

Climbing the ranks After an impressive first 12 months in Palo Alto, Fenton was promoted to the role of associate director of events and eventually took on her current position as assistant AD after about three years.

“I work with a ton of people,” Fenton said. “Basically my job is anything that has to do with behindthe-scenes work.”

The list of all the items that the Stanford associate AD deals with leading up to athletic events is massive.

Her main day-to-day responsibility is to run Stanford’s football and women’s basketball games. She oversees everything from parking to staffing, to security, scoreboard operations, team travel, interacting with visiting teams and officials, public safety, sound systems… the list goes on.

But Fenton is no stranger to being busy. While attending the State University of New York at New Paltz, Fenton competed as a three-sport athlete — playing soccer, tennis and basketball.

Her deep-rooted love of sports is one of the reasons Blue was able to persuade Fenton to leave her job at Stanford to join his Aggie staff this upcoming year.

“I’ll be overseeing a few head coaches in Davis and be a little more involved with actually interacting with the athletes,” Fenton said. “That’s something I’ve really missed.”

Connection to Blue A year after Fenton joined the athletics department, Blue became involved with the Cardinal staff. “[Blue] started working at one of our two ‘fellow’ positions,” Fenton said. “The ‘fellows’ have one-year base jobs and they’re kind of like interns, but they work directly with the athletic director and senior staff.”

The first project that Fenton and Blue worked on together involved parking. Up until that point, parking had been free of charge at Stanford football games. “[Blue] and I had joked about it a couple of times about how silly it was that we weren’t charging for parking and eventually it became a conversation about how we actually needed to do something,” Fenton said.

So the two started a project, with Fenton researching potential revenue and expenses and Blue working on the business side of things — working with donors and the city. Not much later, Blue and Fenton presented their idea and research to the department.

It was implemented the following season.

The Bowl Team As time passed, Blue’s position within the athlet-

ics department evolved. Leading up to the 2009 Sun Bowl, Stanford staffers had a tough time organizing the team’s travel and hotel reservations in preparation for the game.

Not long before the event, it became apparent to the athletics department that the staffer in charge of the Sun Bowl excursion needed some serious help.

Fenton stepped in before the event to save the day, taking control of team chartering and helped make sure things ran smoothly for the Cardinal.

The team fell to the Oklahoma Sooners by the score of 31-27.

“After that event, our athletic director at the time, Bob Bowlsby, appointed Kevin [Blue] as the person to be in charge of our Bowl games from then on,” Fenton said. “Which was a little weird since [Blue] hadn’t even been at the Sun Bowl event.”

To Fenton’s surprise, Blue came to her seeking guidance on future Stanford bowl games, since the associate AD had the logistics down. Fenton agreed to help out and the dynamic duo was born.

Blue and Fenton worked the Orange Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, multiple Rose Bowls and even the Foster Farms (formerly Fight Hunger) Bowl.

“We worked hand-in-hand on all those Bowl events, going to the sites and meeting with representatives,” Fenton said. “[Blue] was more of the external side of things, coordinating tickets, suites and parties, while I was more on the back end dealing with charter and travel and hotels.”

Following the Blue line With Fenton’s facilities and events staff constantly working with Blue’s tickets and marketing team, Fenton got to see Blue on a regular basis. She disclosed that Blue helped transform his branch of the Cardinal athletics department.

“The way he motivated people and just went about his business really transformed the culture, and while I wasn’t directly a part of what he was doing, I was always watching from the outside,” Fenton said. “He was kind of a mentor and I was frequently bouncing ideas off him.”

Since Blue’s departure from Stanford earlier this year to become the UC Davis AD, Fenton said his presence has been deeply missed.

When the opportunity to go back to work with her former Bowl cohort presented itself, Fenton found it hard to pass up.

“It’s been a really tough decision to leave Stanford and my job here,” Fenton said. “But [Blue] is super successful in anything he does, whether it’s personal or business-related.”

Fenton says that working with Blue has helped her career tremendously and sees why a program like UC Davis would bring Blue on to guide the program’s future.

“I think his vision for Davis athletics is really exciting and I get the sense that people are really on board with helping him reach his goals.” Fenton said. “It’s an exciting program to be a part of right now, and to have someone like [Blue], who’s a non-stop worker, who’s going to work as hard as he can to make that program successful is super cool.”

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how the Ags just could not get it done.

“We just didn’t capitalize when we needed to capitalize,” Spencer said. “We just have to bounce back and not let this game dictate our future and just keep going and look forward.”

The Aggies hit the road to face Big Sky Conference opponent Montana State this Saturday and return to Aggie Stadium for the Causeway Classic against Sacramento State on Nov. 19 at 1 p.m. to finish out the season.

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with the Cubs’ logo for our entire family. After a (very) short grieving period, my pair has been laid to rest in the back of my closet near a Reyn Spooner button down (instead of a tropical Tommy Bahama shirt, it has bat-wielding bear cubs and miniature Wrigley Fields all over it). And now that I live in northern California, my dad has taken it upon himself to volley any number of insults toward my adopted allegiance to the Giants.

This year, the year, he bought our family “Try Not To Suck” t-shirts, a reference to the coaching style of manager Joe Maddon and, although no one recognizes the joke up here, I still wear mine in solidarity. My inherited love for the Cubs is a non-recessive genetic disorder. I just can’t seem to get rid of them.

I had been keeping up with the series whenever I could glance at a TV or stream a broadcast, even biking 30 miles on a stationary bike at the gym to watch a nail-biting Game 5. During this season alone, I’ve watched the Cubs at stadiums in Arizona, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. Having watched the boys in blue take the field so many times over so many years made this win all the more wonderful.

Many fans have had similar experiences of quirky familial traditions and outlandish persecution over years of adherence to the lovable losers. And while the Cubs have proven their prowess and grit since April, fans have been proving their faithfulness for over a hundred years.

In a series of heartwarming reactions to the championship win, the bricks outside Wrigley have turned into a makeshift monument to family members and friends who weren’t able to stick around long enough to see their Cubbies bring home the trophy this year.

An entire community has been built around the cursed baseball team from Chicago. Players from the Blackhawks, Chicago’s hockey team, and the Cubs routinely support each other at sporting events. The Cubs have gifted us with irreplaceable personalities like broadcaster Harry Caray, heroes like Ernie Banks and Ron Santo, and talent like Greg Maddux and Ryne Sandberg. We have immortalized the celebrity of Cubs fans such as Steve Bartman, Bill Murray, John Cusack and Eddie Vedder. Over the years, we have loved and lost familiar faces such as Sammy Sosa, Ryan Theriot and Kosuke Fukudome.

But our unrelenting willingness to be made fun of has been rewarded. While the final game of the series was held in Cleveland, 350 miles away, the city of Chicago shut down major streets surrounding Wrigley to allow Chicagoans the freedom to celebrate what is for many a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Joe Maddon, the Cubs manager and the epitome of geniality, stated that winning the series was a team effort. In all likelihood it was the combined efforts of years of assertive management decisions, hopeful fans, renovating Wrigley Field and favor from the baseball gods.

But for the men in blue on the field that night, no statement could have been more true.

First baseman and three time All-Star Anthony Rizzo said the series was a rollercoaster of emotions. And we certainly knew it — we cheered at the television when recovering slugger Schwarber got aboard and when Russell hit his grand slam; we furrowed our brows when Lester threw his wild pitches and when Fowler stole second moments after being hit by a pitch.

But most importantly, this series and this year brought together every Chicago fan who has rooted for the Cubs since 1908; Chicago’s victory parade drew over five million people and became one of the top ten largest gatherings in history.

The celebration is not exclusive to the baseball world. Everyone knows a Cubs fan. That evening, suffering from self-imposed exile for the sake of studying, I received texts and calls from family and friends (including Dodgers fans) celebrating with me. Even those who claim baseball is “boring” begrudgingly offered partially-enthused congratulations because they understood the fulfillment of a dream deferred throughout generations.

People love sports because they bring us together in fanatic loyalty to our hometown teams while pitting us against our rivals — all for the love of the game. We love baseball because it celebrates hard work, raw talent and camaraderie.

There is no shortage of the thrills of unknown factors like wild pitches, unintentional walks, injuries and rain delays.

All of these, and more, were on display during Game 7. But they have been on display in Chicago for over one hundred years, sparking friendly rivalries and ridiculous traditions. The Cubs are no longer the lovable losers; they deserve their championship because, in winning, they brought together millions of people in an increasingly divided world.

Whether you hate sports altogether or root for the Giants or Dodgers, we all know what it feels like to be the underdog. The Chicago Cubs, a franchise I’ve seen defeated time and time again, has always maintained its integrity and resolve, no matter the adversity.

So take a moment to acknowledge what I believe is the most incredible feat of sportsmanship and struggle in over 100 years. Go ahead and high-five a Cubs fan; you just can’t make up a comeback story like this one.

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Cal Poly kept a solid lead throughout the fourth set. Despite an energetic comeback, from 9-16 to 21-25, the Aggies could not keep up offensively, leading them into a losing fifth set for the second time this season.

“You can dig balls when you’re not getting good sets. All you can do is put roll shots or easy balls in your court,” said head coach Dan Conners. “Our setters have to be better.”

The Aggies led in blocks throughout the entire night and had more than double the blocks Cal Poly had, with senior middle blocker Aima Eichie getting four blocks during the fourth set, allowing her to match a career high of 10 throughout the game. Despite the impressive defense, offense was the Aggies’ demise in the deciding set, and they managed only three kills.

“We can’t forget how to set,” Conners said. “If

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we want to be good on offense, our setter has to put the ball in the right spot.”

Although the Aggies were defeated, Matias understands her team’s strengths and looks forward to preparing to face UC Riverside next week.

“We can definitely go up from here. We just need to get after it in all aspects,” Matias said. “We don’t have the biggest hitters, so hard defense will be our focus.”

Though the UC Davis women’s volleyball team saw great moments during the game against Cal Poly, they were unable to convert it to a win.

“They played their game and we were in and out of ours,” Conners said.

After traveling to UC Riverside on Nov. 8, the UC Davis women’s volleyball team returns home to face Hawai’i on Saturday, Nov. 12 for a 7 p.m. match at The Pavilion.

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THE CALIFORNIA AGGIE

BACKSTOP CONFESSIONS OF A CUBS FAN FROM CALIFORNIA

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Chicago’s baseball team brings home championship to spellbound world, fulfills 108 years of fans’ playoff dreams

BY LIZ MCALLISTE R sports@theaggie.org

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SEASON PREVIEW

BY G EORG E M CCO N N E L L sports@theaggie.org

UC Davis women’s basketball is back. The same team that shocked the conference with an upset over undefeated UC Riverside in the Big West Tournament semifinals returns to The Pavilion with the addition of a talented freshman class. The 20162017 squad has been on campus since Summer Session Two, taking classes and working together at limited workouts with the coaching staff.

Following two successful exhibition games, Aggie basketball now returns with a 7:00 p.m. tipoff against Portland State on Friday, Nov. 11.

Five freshmen join the team this season, all expecting to see immediate game action with the exception of forward Emma Gibb, who suffered an ACL injury over the summer.

Guard Nina Bessolo is already making a huge impact, scoring 18 points off the bench in a 97-42 exhibition win over Oregon Tech.

Fellow newcomer Sophia Song also saw game action as forward, scoring seven points and collecting eight rebounds in her preseason college debut. Redshirt junior center Marly Anderson also joins the team after sitting out last season due to transfer rules after her transition from Eastern Washington.

In the final exhibition game before preseason play, the Aggies annihilated Stanislaus State, winning 84-47. With a 15-point lead at halftime, UC Davis went on a 15-0 run to start the second half, cruising to their second exhibition victory.

“Obviously the tournament championship has been in our minds since the first day of spring practice and what we need to do to get ourselves back in that position,” said head coach Jennifer Gross. “It’s easy for everyone in the country at this point to say, ‘we want to win a conference championship,’ but for us we’re really just trying to focus on today.”

Other than one senior, the Aggies have a young team that is posed to take a shot at making the NCAA Tournament in March. They will be tested along the way, facing two preseason top-25 ranked teams, Stanford and Oregon State, as well as a rigorous conference schedule.

“I think this team is capable of beating everybody on our schedule. Obviously against teams like Stanford and Oregon State, which are tremendous teams, you have to be at your best,” Gross said. “I’m just excited to compete against every team. I feel like there’s not an easy game on our schedule and there’s not a game we can’t be in.”

The team is led by redshirt senior forward Lauren Beyer as well as a trio of juniors who have taken on unique leadership roles. Redshirt sophomore Morgan Bertsch, who finished top 10 in the nation last season in field goal percentage, is expected to be even better, according to Gross.

“With all these young players, it’s all about moving the program forward,” Gross said. “To have [had] an opportunity to play for a championship last year, even though we fell just short, we know that we are capable of competing at a high level and I think our schedule will give us the opportunity to do that.”

The Windy City has been holding its breath for 108 years. On Nov. 2 at 11:47 p.m., in a storybook ending to a winning season many decades in the making, the city’s aching lungs were relieved; fans, in equal parts disbelief and electrified joy, watched their beloved Chicago Cubs celebrate a hard-won World Series Championship.

In a different time zone during that same evening, I sat — in pathetic enslavement to academia — studying for my last midterm of the quarter. The monotony of memorization was punctured by the sound of a Chicago radio broadcast crackling to life: “They did it! The Cubs have won the two

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thousand and sixteen World Series!”

Reader, I tell you — moments of heaven on earth exist for all of us and that instant was mine.

Since before the world’s first skyscraper was built, my family has lived in the Chicago area, and after the invention of the radio they faithfully tuned into Cubs games. Although we have largely relocated to the West Coast and our white and blue ‘W’ flag now goes up across from Bruins and Lakers pennants, we remain unashamed Cubs fans. Accustomed to short-lived playoff bids, my family would

watch the last regular season games while eating Chicago-style hot dogs and crackerjacks, celebrating yet another failed year.

As my grandfather had been waiting reverently for this moment for over eighty years, my baseball allegiance had been decided decades before I was born. My dad coached Little League baseball for years and, much to my adolescent chagrin, always tried to secure the Cubs jerseys for my team.

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UC DAVIS WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL FALLS 3 SETS TO 2 AGAINST CAL POLY Aggies head into extra set against Mustangs in Big West conference match on Nov. 5, but fail to deliver offensively

BY LIZ JACOBSON sports@theaggie.org

Although UC Davis’ women’s volleyball team held its own against Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in the first and third sets, the Mustangs’ offense proved to be unbeatable,

making 73 kills compared to the Aggies’ 59. The match finished with final score of 25-20, 23-25, 25-21, 21-25 and 8-15.

With a large crowd on hand, the Aggies impressed during the first set. Three Aggies each finished the match with more than one ace, with freshman outside hitter Lauren Matias’ set-winning ace especially lighting up the fans.

Coming off the win of the first set, the team focused on aggressive defense during the second set, but even with sophomore

libero Malia Bolko reading Cal Poly’s attacks perfectly and leading the team with 25 digs, the Aggies fell near the end of the set after allowing two consecutive points to be scored by the opposing team.

The Aggies did not back down during the third set, staying neck-and-neck with Cal Poly, with four tie scores and four lead changes. The Aggies ultimately won the set after coming back from a deficit.

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BY OW E N YANCH E R oyancher@gmail.com

AGGIE ATHLETICS DIRECTOR RECRUITS FORMER STANFORD ATHLETICS COLLEAGUE Maggie Fenton set to become new UC Davis associate athletics director

It’s very possible that Maggie Fenton, assistant athletic director (AD) at Stanford, is running a meeting right now surrounded by 50 or more people who are discussing events, operations and facility management.

Through a recent post on Twitter, UC Davis athletics director Kevin Blue announced that Fenton will be joining the Aggie Athletics Department in a similar capacity, as his associate athletics director, starting in early Jan, 2017.

Fenton will continue to oversee athletics department operations and events but will also spearhead the newly formed UC Davis capital projects group — a team that helps plan and build new facilities.

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CHECK OUT THIS WEEKʼS HOME GAMES Women’s basketball (The ARC Pavilion): Friday, Nov. 11 vs. Portland at 7 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 13 vs. Holy Names at 2 p.m.

Men’s water polo (Schaal Aquatics Center): Saturday, Nov. 12 vs. Pacific at 6 p.m.

Women’s volleyball (The ARC Pavilion): Saturday, Nov. 12 vs. Hawai’i at 7 p.m.

Softball (La Rue Field): Sunday, Nov. 13 vs. Sonoma State at 12 p.m.

AGGIES RUSTY AGAINST VIKINGS IN 51-29 LOSS UC Davis football loses big against Portland State

BY NICOLE TTE SARMIE NTO sports@theaggie.org

Coming off a bye week, the UC Davis football team fell to the Portland State Vikings, 51-29, after a dismal performance at Aggie Stadium on Saturday.

UC Davis struggled in Saturday’s showdown, gaining just over 400 yards on offense while allowing over 600 yards to Portland State. In comparison, the UC Davis defense has only allowed an average of under 300 yards in the last three games. The Aggies have led with the fewest penalties in the conference this season with just 46.8 penalty yards per game, but they received nine penalties for 68 yards against the Vikings.

“They just outplayed us,” head coach Ron Gould said. “[Personal fouls] are very uncharacteristic of our team, it’s just something we don’t do. […] It’s unacceptable, but we’re going to correct it.”

UC Davis received the ball to start the

game but couldn’t get anything going on its first drive. The Vikings then took advantage of their starting drive to get a quick touchdown, putting them up 7-0 early in the first quarter.

The Aggies marched 75 yards downfield and responded with a touchdown pass from senior quarterback Ben Scott to freshman wide receiver Jared Harrell.

However, freshman kicker Matt Blair missed the extra point, making it 7-6.

Portland State then extended its lead to 10-6 with a 22-yard field goal that was followed by another touchdown to further extend its lead to 17-6.

UC Davis then fumbled the ball in Vikings’ territory, leading to a Portland State touchdown that made it 24-6. The Aggies were held to a field goal that cut the Vikings’ lead to 24-9, but Portland State responded with a field goal of its own, which put the Vikings back up by 18.

Though Scott’s pass to sophomore wide receiver Keelan Doss in the endzone cut the Vikings’ lead to 27-16, the Vikings could not be stopped and scored a quick field goal to end the half with a 30-16 lead.

Portland State came out of halftime with two quick touchdowns to extend its lead once more to 44-16. The Ags looked disoriented as they tried to go for it on fourth down in the red zone, but Scott ended up throwing an interception instead. On the Vikings’ ensuing possession, the Ags came up with a big sack from junior linebacker Ryan Bua and a blocked field goal attempt deep in their own territory.

Three penalties — targeting and personal fouls — during three consecutive plays on the UC Davis defense led to a Vikings’ touchdown for a whopping 51-16 lead.

Junior quarterback CJ Spencer came in for the Ags to replace Scott near the middle of the fourth quarter and threw a 14-yard touchdown pass to Harrell, and another extra point miss by Blair made the score 51-22.

UC Davis then recovered its own onside kick but still couldn’t convert on fourth down. In the final minute of the game, Spencer took it to the house to finish off the scoring.

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