October 19, 2011

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UCTV launches new seminar program New program allows viewing of seminars at anytime, anywhere

By ALICIA KINDRED Aggie News Writer

UCTV formally launched its new seminar program in September, which broadcasts scholarly presentations such as lectures, debates and interviews.

With a variety of academic lectures and seminars presented on all 10 of the University of California campuses, creators of the UCTV seminar program aim to allow more people to see these programs. By providing access to the seminars via the satellite channel and website for a world-wide audience, UCTV is more accessible to more people.

“First, [UCTV seminars] is part of a broader complementary. It can be used in the classroom, every instructor can have this program on their computer and can upload lectures to post online for students,” said James Carey, professor of entomolo-

gy at UC Davis and chairperson for the University Committee on Research Policy (UCORP).

“Second, actual content can be used in teaching, professors can use seminars for lectures and can integrate video more deeply into the instruction.”

Many high-end seminars have to bring in IT people and it can cost up to $500 just to capture one event. Contrary to belief, it does not take money and IT personnel to formally broadcast seminars using UCTV, Carey said.

UCTV Seminars uses software such as Camtasia and a webcam with audio capabilities, which, when combined, captures the screen with slide and picture content in high quality. The webcam costs around $75 and the software costs $150, Carey said.

UC researchers are encouraged to submit their own video

See UCTV, page 4

News iN Brief Farm to College Night: the perks of going to an ag school Farm to College Night is today from 4:45 to 8p.m. in the Segundo, Tercero and Cuarto dining commons.

Farm to College Night is a meal that consists of sustainable and locally-grown food from around Davis.

This event is open to all,

not only to students. Tonight’s meal will include roasted butternut squash and Coco Ranch apple soup, fresh pasta with Russell Ranch roasted tomato sauce, sweet potato wedges and more.

— Hannah Strumwasser

Silo Open House Week This week is the Silo open house week as the Silo shows the campus its new additions.

The Silo recently opened a new Starbucks in place of Brenan’s Coffee. On Tuesday, Star Ginger, a new food truck at the Silo, had its grand opening.

Today, the first 100 custom-

ers at Starbucks will receive free scones and a free brewed coffee between 7 and 10 a.m.

For more information about the rest of the week, visit the Silo Union Opening Week Facebook page.

— Hannah Strumwasser

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ask katehi feet of maintainable space. This proach to growth. The nation’s fortunate circumstance, com- largest planned zero net energy bined with the major invest- community is a model for future ments we have made in physi- communities and the result of an cal infrastructure, will allow us innovative public-private partto maximize our use of nership. our facilities and operUC Davis West Village ations. Thus, over the also will be home to our next five years, we plan first uHub — a cluster to thoughtfully grow of several of the camour university by addpus’s energy research ing 5,000 more qualicenters. This uHub will fied undergraduates — serve as a living and a mix of in-state, outlearning laboratory and of-state and internaenhance interactions tional students — and with the private sector 300 new tenure-track Linda Katehi in the area of energy refaculty. This will allow Chancellor search and efficiency. us to grow our research

As we strive to enterprise, increase our interna- implement the 2020 Initiative, tional diversity, boost regional I encourage the UC Davis comeconomic development and cre- munity to become part of the ate new jobs while stabilizing our process. Comments on the 2020 financial situation.

Initiative can be sent to: future@ As for construction, the re- ucdavis.edu. cently-opened UC Davis West Village is an excellent exam- Have a question for the Chancellor? E-mail campus@ ple of our campus’ smart ap- theaggie.org.

Editor’s Note: Ask Katehi is a weekly column where students get a chance to ask the UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi questions.

What plans do you have to continue UC Davis’ upward trajectory, both programmatically/ administratively as well as in terms of capital (construction) projects?

This is a great question. It goes to the heart of our recently-announced 2020 Initiative, which is our framework to sustain and enhance excellence at UC Davis going forward.

In the past four years, our funding from the state has been reduced by more than 40 percent, and will likely continue to decline. So, it is time for us to take control of our own destiny.

UC Davis is unique among the nine other campuses in the UC System. We have the largest physical footprint — more than 6,000 acres and 17 million square

Crepe maker by day, extreme cowboy by night “That French guy” from the Silo is more than your average pastry chef

By KIM CARR

Aggie Sports Writer

If you have ever visited La Crépe in the Silo, you may have noticed a picture taped up by the register, featuring a chestnut horse and the man who is most likely taking your order, Michel Bloch.

It looks like a pretty photo of Bloch out for a ride on a sunny day, but that picture was actually taken somewhere along the 100-mile course of the 2009 Tevis Cup. Yes, the same man asking if you would like whipped cream with your crepe is actually a world-renowned endurance rider.

Endurance riding is one of the most physically challenging horse sports in existence. It requires both horse and rider to have courage, drive and an insane amount of fitness. Endurance rides are essentially races over rugged terrain ranging from 25 to 100 miles long.

Bloch was born in France and he started riding when he was 19 after a man from the Lipizzaner School of Riding moved to his town and opened a riding academy.

Courtesy of Michel Bloch

Michel Bloch racing his horse, Monsieur Joseph, at the Tevis Cup. He started working as a photographer and in 1972 he was sent to the United States with the assignment of photographing American families.

When he returned to France he moved to Paris and he lived there for four years.

“I always wanted to move back to the United States,” Bloch said.

“But I was not sure what I would do there. I started thinking and one day I thought, ‘Crepes — I will make crepes.’”

In 1976 Bloch packed his bags and moved to America. He built a trailer and traveled across the country selling crepes at county fairs. Four years later he decided to settle in somewhere and open a restaurant.

He opened the Crepe Bistro, Davis’ first crepery, in 1980 and ran the restaurant for 18 years.

“I like it much better here [the Silo] because I have my weekends, I don’t have to work evenings, summers are easy and I have my holidays to ride,” Bloch said.

Throughout all the moving around and change, Bloch never lost his love for riding. In 2002, as the school year was coming to an end and business at his crepe stand was slowing down for the summer, Bloch lost his horse to colic.

He wanted another horse, but

See HORSE, page 3

Local students make “PAL”s around the world

Cesar Chavez Plaza celebrates grand opening

Linguistics program provides conversation partners for international students

Many city and county organizations contribute to new co-op

By Christina NovakovRitchey Aggie Features Writer

How would you explain to someone who has not lived in the United States for very long what “to cost an arm and a leg” means? It’s questions like these that come up in meetings arranged by the Partners in Acquired Learning (PAL) Program.

PAL, a program of the linguistics department, works to match up international students with non-international students for a mutually beneficial language-learning experience, where the non-international student acts as a hub of American knowledge and a connoisseur of the English language. The program was started by Gwendolyn Schwabe, senior lecturer in the English department and founder of the English as a Second Language (ESL) program at UC Davis, in

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the early 1970s.

Students participating in PAL meet with their international partner once a week for one hour, during which time they discuss subjects like history and popular culture, learn more about each others’ home countries, go out to eat and even bake muffins. Students even have the ability to earn course credit if they meet with two or more PAL partners a week, keep a brief log of their meetings and complete a onepage write up at the end of the quarter.

The benefits Irisa Tam / Aggie for an international student learning English are numerous: getting to converse with a native speaker, having access to a resource of American culture and meeting a partner with whom one can explore the area.

“If you’re an international student it’s important to get out of your comfort zone,” said senior international relations major Vanessa Orey, who has stud-

ied abroad herself. “I grew up around Americans my whole life, so it’s fun to be with people who are just seeing things for the first time.”

PAL coordinator Julia Menard-Warwick said because the network that the international students come to the United States with generally consists of people from their native country, the PAL program serves as an opportunity to expand that network and generate new contacts.

“Sure, two Chinese students can get together and speak English to each other, but more likely they’ll speak Chinese,” Menard-Warwick said.

Many participants in the program, including Orey, are interested in teaching English abroad or tutoring, for which she said PAL provides a solid foundation.

“Participating in the program made me decide to become an ESL instructor,” said Janet Lane, a linguistics lecturer, coordinator of the PAL program from 1990-2010 and former UC Davis student.

Menard-Warwick’s assistant coordinator and linguistics Ph.D. student Emily Feuerherm

See Language, page 3

Forecast Since the weather is so nice, go study outside and get some fresh air! No need to worry about the weather ruining your plans, all you’ll need to worry about is your midterms. Of course, waking up on time is necessary as well.

Tyson Tilmont, atmospheric science major Aggie Forecasting Team

By RAMON SOLIS Aggie News Writer

After years of program refinements, Cesar Chavez Plaza finally got its warm welcome into the Davis community of housing complexes with a grand opening celebration on Saturday.

The celebration was attended by a star-studded list of local Davis and Yolo County politicians, including former Davis mayors, City Councilmember Dan Wolk, Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor and state Senator Lois

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Community members and local politicians celebrated the grand opening of Cesar Chavez Plaza with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Oct. 15.

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TODAY Student Recruitment & Retention Center Open House 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

16 South Hall This year’s open house will have a monster mash theme! Enjoy Guadalajara’s for the main course along with fruit and veggie platters, cotton candy, fruit punch in a spooky cauldron, horchata and cakes. Meet the staff, take a tour and learn more about the SRRC’s services.

Transfer Reentry Veterans Scholarship Workshop 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

126 Wellman Having a tough time paying for college?

Have no clue of where to look for scholarship opportunities? Go talk to a scholarship specialist! There will be free Google Crazy bands and a chance to win a Google plus Project t-shirt.

Circle K International Meeting 6 p.m.

206 Olson Interested in community service? Want to make new friends? Then join Circle K!

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Davis United Methodist Church, 1620 Anderson Rd. Having trouble controlling the way you eat? Free yourself from excess weight and obsessive thoughts about food and body image. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous is a 12-step fellowship based on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous.

THURSDAY Undergraduate Research Center Info Session 5:10 p.m.

409 Surge IV

Learn about research funding opportunities for undergraduates through the President’s Undergraduate Fellowship. The fellowship provides funds for undergraduates to pursue research projects or other creative activities under faculty supervision.

Botany and Environmental Horticulture Club 6:10 to 7:30 p.m.

2064 Science Laboratory Building Mystery topic, free pizza and a plant raffle are on the agenda.

Marketing & Business Association Workshop 7:10 to 8 p.m.

118 Olson Gerrit Buddingh, financial analyst at Wells Fargo, will speak about the Financial Analyst Program, his career as an analyst, and the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.

Interested in joining MBA? Learn about the organization, what we do and future events. Pizza & refreshments will be provided.

Poetry Night Reading Series: Ruby Ibarra 8 p.m.

John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. Ruby Ibarra is Filipina-American UC Davis alumna, rapper and spoken word artist. Ibarra was a member of SickSpits Poetry Collective as well as the UC Davis Slam Poetry team. She has been featured on publications such as WorldStar Hip Hop and Myx TV, as well as MTV and VH1’s blogs. For the past year, she has been touring and performing across the U.S. To receive placement in the AGGIE DAILY CALENDAR, e-mail dailycal@ theaggie.org or stop by 25 Lower Freeborn by noon the day prior to your event. Due to space constraints, all event descriptions are subject to editing, and priority will be given to events that are free of charge and geared toward the campus community.

are on fixed incomes and they need somewhere to help guide them through, making sure they go to appointments, get treatments, somebody to help them basically to stay housed,” said Bill Pride, executive director of Davis Community Meals.

To that end, Davis Community Meals employee Synda Whitmer coordinates specifically with low-income Cesar Chavez Plaza residents to help them with obtaining food, services, mental health treatment and counseling.

The list of contributors to Cesar Chavez goes on. The Yolo County Food Bank comes by Cesar Chavez once a month to distribute food. Taqueria Davis also donated some food for the occasion.

The opening ceremony also included local Davis artist Susan Shelton to remark on her mural outside the newly-christened Helen Thomson Community Room.

“The feel of the mural is really grounded in the folk art style,” Shelton said.

In the spirit of community Shelton included residents of Cesar Chavez Plaza in painting the mural, which she said represents “hope and optimism for the future.”

Also speaking at the opening was Judge and Presidential Medal of Freedom Honoree Cruz Reynoso, who, during his closing remarks, exclaimed in Spanish, “Que viva el espíritu de Cesar Chavez!”

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Cont. from front page Wolk (D-Yolo).

The 53-unit low-income apartment complex, which is located on 1220 Olive Drive, is helping to mitigate the low-income housing problem in Yolo County, where thousands of individuals are on a waiting list to receive rental assistance.

On a table, along with reading material, lay a picture of Cesar Chavez and his bodyguard standing in the outdoors. The bearded bodyguard also served as bodyguard to the late New York Senator Bobby Kennedy.

That bodyguard is David Thompson, now co-principal of Neighborhood Partners.

Thompson coordinated that day’s events and had many of his reallife neighborhood partners to thank for their cooperative contributions to the new housing development.

“This is one of the most important projects that Luke and I have ever done,” said Thompson, also on behalf of his business associate Luke Watkins.

Davis Community Meals, Neighborhood Partners and the Yolo County Housing Authority are all joint managers of the now fully operational complex.

“This is the first [housing] project in Davis that specifically wanted to deal with the needs of the atrisk homeless population,” Thompson said.

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friendships shrivel and wither away like thirsty plants, I won’t judge you for feeling upset if your own friends have been shirking their duties. I’ve Zenita realized, however, that it’s Singh best not to take things too personally.

It may seem as though every bare rectangle and every crossed-out plan in your life calendar is mocking you, but the truth is that some people have the attention spans and timemanagement skills of third riends are great … grade boys in math class on until they are noa sluggish Friday afternoon. where to be found.

Sure, it’s disappointing If you have buddies who that there are people who are as AWOL as the Hot would waste away days by Wheels, LEGOS, Nerf guns living in computer game and other treasures your simulations, or waste parents auctioned off away brain cells guzzling in your absence, or who alcohol rather than forhave made themselves as tifying friendships. But scarce as water in a swellife, especially college life, tering desert, it’s sadly is a game of trial and ertime you ror; you recognize will need Also, you need not waste time to encounthem for the incondevising a solution for your ter and siderate contend unfulfilling social life flakes they with crapare. py friends The real friend is an en- if you hope to found lastdangered species of friend ing friendships with peothat tends to perish after ple who recognize you’re migrating to college habi- worth more than a forgottats, where acquaintance- ten penny in a dark, dirty, ship is a more valuable desolate alley. commodity. While a few of Ten years from now, your fittest friends survive nobody will care to know the trials of time, most who shot who in a game evaporate off the face of of Battlefield the night of your universe, leaving you Halloween, no matter how as rich in friendship as a exhilarating it might have penniless man with torn been. So make memories pockets. that you can look back Though the absence of upon fondly and make some friends may make them with the people who the heart grow fonder, appreciate all the time it inevitably makes the you have spent on their brain grow pissed that behalf. rather than cultivating Pull your thoughts out your fragile friendship, of nostalgia’s grasp and they plucked it from the stare reality directly in the ground and trampled on eye. If anyone is miserait like a dozen wild sixbly failing to meet your year-olds fighting over standards for friendship, bubble wrap. rather than worrying why, Before you mentally just let them go. Also, you chastise yourself for scar- need not waste time deing off friends as consisvising a solution for your tently as a magnetic pole unfulfilling social life. repels its match, rememSimply get a job or internber that real friends are ship, join some clubs, and not susceptible to the do not hesitate to accost sandpapers of time and curious strangers who conflict. Instead of flakseem to share your intering away, these friends ests. In Davis, potential will stick to you like gum friends are lurking around melted onto cement by every corner. the summer sun.

Alternatively, if for Though your friends some reason you have no may deserve to have a luck meeting new peodozen packages of extraple, I’ve heard the campus thick Bounty toilet paper squirrels (and perhaps glued to their houses by a the horses of the equescouple hundred raw eggs, trian center, as well) bekeep in mind that if colcome quite animated and lege stress has turned you friendly once they’ve been into a hermit who hides fed a few slices of apple. between library book Lastly, if you feel you shelves or behind mounare the one guilty of steptains of textbooks precari- ping on friends’ self-esously piled on dorm-room teems, shredding them to desks, it’s not only their millions of pieces, burnfault your friendship has ing them to ashes and faded. kicking them into the You can only be righstaggering black hole of teously annoyed if you despair … I suggest you have honestly been trying atone for your sins by to make plans with flighty apologizing and explainfriends who’ve decided ing why you’ve been too they’d enjoy partying — busy to maintain contact. or worse, tanning with the Good luck! light of their weakly-lit computer screen — more ZENITA SINGH will generously read any than your company. gossip, melodramatic life revelations or Since I once hated the pleas for help you send to zensingh@ disappointment of seeing ucdavis.edu!

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machines.

A seemingly innocent question like, “Why do you want to work for us?” could culminate with an answer that is as far off Michelle from the truth as Santa Nguyen Claus or the Easter Bunny.

Let’s take a look at the options we have for answering that question.

Honest answer: “I need the money.”

Correct answer: “Well, your company has a remarkable reputation for work ethic, and hard work n this world, nothing is is a value that I deeply cherish. Since we share certain but death and that same value, I will not taxes. And now, anonly be a perfect fit for other unwanted fate has the company, but we, as joined the ranks to coma team, can share in the plete a trio of utter disprinciples of hard labor tress: job interviews. and achieve great feats Back in the golden days that will take this compawhen the U.S. was less ny to an even higher level populated and ice cream cost a measly one-cent per of success.” pop, most jobs lent them- And this gives rise to a puzzling selves to inquiry. on-the-job training. All It seems as though honesty is Since emyou needed a character trait that is highly ployers are supwas a hapsought ... posed to py-go-lucky be smartattitude and a willingness to work. er and more experienced, In today’s age, with a ris- shouldn’t they have already developed some ining population of more ternal sensor that allows skilled and more educatthem to detect signs of ined citizens and an econgratiation and brown-nosomy that is in dire straits, ing? Or could it be that you can’t get by with just they are seeking a mema smile and a tucked-in ber for the team that is as shirt. So now, all employers require an interview in phony as the interviews they conduct? order to process desper Aside from all this, ate potentials, similar to nothing quite chaps my how processed meat goes hide like when employers through a grinder. ask for experience — These days, even which is understandable jobs like mowing the if you’re 40. But when lawn or filing papers you’re a freshman in in alphabetical order requires you to dress up all college and you’re looking for a minimum wage stuffy and answer a series job making copies in an of hard and irrelevant office, there’s no need to questions. sit through a half-hour For example, a question that you might get for interrogation of your work history. Maybe asking me a job stocking merchandise onto a shelf could be: to copy a few pages from “How do you keep concen- a book should be enough tration while doing repeti- qualification.

But perhaps the worst tive tasks?” part of an interview is not If you can answer that, then hats off to you. But if the actual interview itself.

It’s the days leading up to it you are like me, then you that make you lose nights most likely saw rejection of sleep and have you linflash before you eyes and gering on the edge of insanin a frantic frenzy blurted out, “Meditation. I con- ity. Rehearsing lines like, “Whatever I lack in expecentrate by meditating.”

It is questions like these rience, I make up for with passion,” as you go about that make you wonder your day pretty much conwhether employers need stitutes being crazy. someone who can do the Now that I’ve pointjob or someone who can ed out how ridiculous job fabricate really articulate interviews are, you can answers. Because when a sleep easy knowing that question like, “List three they aren’t as grave as you adjectives that describe make them to be. In all seyou and why?” comes riousness, employers are up, any well-prepared just looking for someone schmuck could make up who can carry themselves a whole book of flatterwell and keep composure ing adjectives to portray himself and come up with under pressure.

So if you get a question examples to accompany thrown at you from leftthem. field like, “What is the cap So is honesty still a facital of Mongolia?” confitor? It seems as though honesty is a character trait dently utter some gibberish. Then when they corthat is highly sought, but rect you saying, “Actually, employers have us playing the guessing game and the capital is Ulan Bator,” doubting our morals when you will reply with: “Yes. That’s what I said. they ask questions that I’m sorry my Mongolian compel us to either exaggerate or flat out lie. What accent got in the way.” they ask can turn even the most honest of people into MICHELLE NGUYEN can be reached at michellen1990@yahoo.com. conniving, deceitful lying

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What is your biggest fear and why?

“Humanity’s greed will destroy the planet and it will be too late.”

Jeff Malies senior environmental resources major

“Needles, because I had a bad experience when I was five.”

“Dying early in life, because I have too much to live for.”

Brandi Stafford

Eva Aguayo

junior microbiology major

“Something happening to my mom, because I am close to her.”

senior communication major

“Graduating, because I’ve always had something to work for and I don’t know what to do next.”

Samantha Kearney senior biology major

Text by Priscilla Wong Photos by evan Davis

Rachel Fukaya senior communication major

“Spiders, because some are poisonous, scary and you can’t get to them in the corners.”

Richard Ma, senior civil engineering major

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ing in the PAL program. The majority of the international students are graduate students, and the majority of the non-international students are undergraduate students.

With the majority of the international students coming from China, Korea and now Chile, the PAL program is an opportunity to connect with students from all over the world. PAL is one of a number of programs at UC Davis illustrating its move toward “globalization” and “internationalization,” MenardWarwick said.

“When you’re participating in the PAL program,” MenardWarwick said, “you’re also learning a whole lot more about the larger world.”

Students interested in the program can visit linguistics.ucdavis.edu/programs/esl-instruction/palprogram and follow the instructions for international or non-international students.

Cont. from front page has also been a participant in the PAL program, along with a similar program at the University of Arkansas, where she developed a long-lasting friendship with a Japanese international student.

“You’re building people skills on an international level,” Feuerherm said. “[My conversation partner and I] are still friends after 12 years. He sends me pictures of his kids.

He has celebrated Christmas with my family.”

The “pals” are set up through an online database of international students, which includes their major, interests and hobbies. Non-international students can be invited to the website and then make a selection of a few students he or she is most interested in working with.

There are currently 154 international and 91 non-inter- Christina Novakov-Ritchey can be reached national students participat- at features@theaggie.org.

Horse Cont. from front page he was restricted by his low summer income. However, his need to be frugal was actually a blessing in disguise.

Bloch checked the livestock ads in the Sacramento Bee and found a listing for an Arabian gelding priced at $1000.

“I had my doubts, but I went to look anyways. When I got there I liked him so I said, ‘OK, I’ll buy him.’”

That gelding was a 13-year-old chestnut named Monsieur Joseph, whom Bloch now affectionately refers to as “Jojo.”

Bloch and Jojo have been a team for nine years now and have raced thousands of miles together. They have also made sure that Bloch’s $1000 were well spent, racking up accomplishments all over the world. They have entered the 100-mile Tevis Cup six times and completed on four attempts. In 2004 they won the 50-mile Gold Country Endurance Ride, the

100-mile middleweight National Championship and they took second in the Tevis Cup. The Tevis Cup is a 100-mile, 24-hour race held in Tahoe and it is considered the Kentucky Derby of the endurance world. Just completing the Tevis is a feat within itself and Bloch has managed it four out of six times on a tiny, older horse. “[Jojo] is a bit small. People always joke if he was any smaller my feet would drag on the ground, but he is tough and very smart. I always let him pace himself in races.

He’ll rest when he wants and when he’s ready he will pick up the pace again.”

Jojo is 24 now and he and Bloch entered the 2011 Tevis in Tahoe on Oct. 8. They were six miles from finishing when Bloch had to withdraw due to severe back pain.

While he was disappointed in the result he does not think it is Jojo’s last go-round.

Bloch said Jojo is considered old now, but he was in excellent condition for the whole race. Bloch is tempted to retire him and start working with his next endurance

prospect, Scarlet Ladd, who also happens to be Jojo’s nephew.

“I don’t know. Jojo’s so lively and he’s in such good shape. I never push my horses, but I think he could handle another shot at the Tevis,” Bloch said.

Whether Jojo races again or not remains to be seen, but one thing is for certain — Bloch will never regret checking the classifieds of the Sac Bee that summer.

Bloch hopes to start a club or team for endurance riders at UC Davis. The school has a host of other equestrian teams on campus, including the current West-Coast Champion Dressage Team.

“I think there are plenty of people and students who are interested in endurance and even if someone just wanted to try it out, there are horses we can use,” Bloch said.

Bloch encourages anyone interested in endurance or plain-old horse chat to come talk to him at his crepe stand in the Silo.

“I love talking horses, it is my passion,” Bloch said.

KIM CARR can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

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UCTV Cont. from front page presentations to the UCTV Seminars site through the UCTV online video uploader.

Submitted presentations can range from a simple narrated PowerPoint presentation to a highly produced video. Programs will appear alongside user-submitted data, including descriptions, related links, lecture notes, and other complementary materials, according to a press release from the UC newsroom.

“This is helpful for students who are looking for primary source information on the subjects of interest, and a way for

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researchers and graduate students to get their research out to the public,” said Alison Gang, director of communications for UCTV. “It is a way to engage in academic conversation even if you cannot be on that specific campus.”

In the essay titled “Towards a Video Strategy at UC Davis: Recording Research Seminars” by Carey, he wrote that the importance of recording and posting research seminars includes links to journal papers, academic outreach and digital technology in the present and the future.

“I was chair of UCORP, a systemwide academic committee, and on the agenda I presented the attempt to find synergy. The idea was that we would like to access any of

the thousands of weekly seminars that are hosted at the universities. It was endorsed by our committee and approved by the University of California Academic Senate,” Carey said.

UC Davis departments such as evolution and ecology and entomology have already utilized the UCTV seminar program, Carey said.

The UCTV program costs the University of California system around $1 million per year to run. This includes costs for satellites, cable and other necessities, Gang said.

“We are looking at other options to be more cost-effective,” Gang said.

UCTV has its own YouTube and iTunes

channel with both audio and visual podcasts.

Since 2001, UCTV has gathered and disseminated general interest programming from the University of California campuses to over 23 million homes nationwide through the satellite and cable networks, according to a press release.

It is free to participate and upload onto the website, Gang said.

“I want UC Davis to take the lead here and to realize the big opportunities available,” Carey said.

For more information, visit seminars. uctv.tv.

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MEN’S SOCCER PREVIEW Teams: UC Davis at UC Irvine; vs. Cal Poly Records: Aggies 5-6-2(3-2-0); Anteaters 12-3-0(4-1-0); Mustangs 6-5-2(3-2-0) Where: Anteater Stadium, Irvine — Calif.; Aggie Soccer Field When: Today at 7 p.m.; Saturday at 3 p.m.

Who to watch: “Our depth has been a weapon for us this year,” said Head Coach Dwayne Shaffer. Junior Dan Reese has only started two games this season, but comes off the bench blazing, ready to wear down opposing defenses.

Of late, Reese has emerged as an offensive force and has earned more playing time. He also has six shots on the year and also tallied the assist to one of freshman Matt Sheldon’s two goals against Cal State Northridge.

Did you know? Just as cows are synonymous with UC Davis, Lance Patterson is with Aggie Dan Reese soccer.

Last year, Patterson filled in at junior forward and led the team in goals, but this year the senior from Colorado completes the solid defense that Shaffer has lauded throughout the season.

Until Patterson was taken out in the 82nd minute of Saturday’s game against the Matadors, he had played every second of every game this season. That totals to 1,248 straight minutes on the field.

As strong as the UC Davis defense is all around, Patterson is essentially irreplaceable. He was put in again in the overtime period against CSU Northridge, for the final three minutes of the game.

Preview: Hold your breath Aggie fans, the

UC Davis men’s soccer team is in a threeway tie for second place in the Big West Conference. In first place stands UC Irvine, who also holds a number seven national ranking.

With the goal of going to battle for the Big West title, the Aggies must finish in the top four of the league to make it to the conference tournament. With five regular season games remaining — all against Big West teams — this is far from an easy task.

This week’s games against UC Irvine and Cal Poly will be the first step to the Aggies’ push to finish the season strong.

This is the only regular season matchup UC Davis has with the Anteaters but it will not be the first time they enter the game as the underdog.

“It’s a good opportunity for us to play a highly-ranked team,” Shaffer said. It’s going to be a big challenge for us to go to their place and get a result.”

On Saturday UC Davis will host Cal Poly, a team the Aggies edged with a 1-0 victory at the Mustang’s home field.

The Anteaters hold a 4-1 league record, with their one loss at the hands (or feet) of Cal Poly on Sept. 28. Shaffer knows his team will not underestimate either opponent, nor will they count themselves out.

“Anything can happen if we go down there and we’re in a mentally and physically good spot,” he said. “On any given day, if we play well we can beat anyone.”

— Matthew Yuen