February 23, 2012

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volume 131, number 26

thursday, february 23, 2012

Experimental College puts love in the air

City council approves Fifth Street Corridor Project Project planning under way and open to community

By SARA ISLAS Aggie News Writer

In hopes to fix what they consider the “hazardous” state of Fifth Street, Davis Community Development Administrator Katherine Hess and Senior Civil Engineer Roxanne Namazi are coheading the Fifth Street Corridor Project in cooperation with the city of Davis. The city was awarded $836,000 in federal grants to complete the plan.

The Davis City Council approved the project in September 2009. It decreases the amount of lanes in each direction to one, adding bike lanes and incorporating left-turn pockets into the middle section of the street.

For the past two years staff has been gathering community input, finalizing the design and constructing a “road diet” project on Fifth Street between A and L Streets. Now, Hess and Namazi are currently working to put the project through its second phase, which includes community workshops, finalizing the project de-

Dating event to bring together singles ready to mingle

By ALICIA KINDRED Aggie News Writer

Evan Davis / Aggie

The Fifth Street Corridor Project was approved due the complaints of some Davis residents about the dangers of biking on Fifth Street. sign and preparing the specifications for construction.

“This phase is very important because it’s where much of the decision making happens,” Hess said. “We are encouraging the community to get involved in this process.”

The project has its own website with an entire page dedicated to public comments. The site has already received over 100 suggestions, plans and questions from Davis residents, according

See PROJECT, page 9

ASUCD Bike Barn brings bike shopping directly to students Online bike buy program and new MU store gives students more bike options

By MAX GARRITY RUSSER Aggie News Writer

The ASUCD Bike Barn is in the final stages of creating a bike and services online order program while also preparing for the opening of a new accessories-only store in the Memorial Union (MU).

The new program, dubbed the Aggie Bike Buy, will allow students to order a customized bike and service package through a Bike Barn website and pick up the bike at various locations around campus.

“It’s a one stop shop where you go online, pick your bike, add on your accessories and you can also choose a service plan,” said junior

See BIKE, page 2

Nathan Chan / Aggie

The ASUCD Bike Barn is located on campus in the Silo area.

SHAWCing TIP Bacteria are in the air! Winter is here and with it comes the symphony of sniffles, coughs and the sound of general misery. You can avoid joining the sick masses just by going to sleep at a regular time. A recent study found that the immune system is linked to your circadian rhythm — your body’s clock set to a 24 hour cycle. When that rhythm is disrupted, it can make us more susceptible to infection and disease. So as you finish with your midterms and prepare for the final descent of Winter quarter, be sure to make sleep a regular part of your study habits!

For those of us who need to supplement our sleep during the day, be sure to drop by Health, Education, & Promotion (HEP) on the third floor of the Student Health and Wellness Center. They have nap kits to make your afternoon siestas on campus a little more comfortable on campus.

The ASUCD Student Health and Wellness Committee (SHAWC) aims to promote and address important healthrelated issues on campus. We serve as a liaison between ASUCD and campus health organizations, clubs, and resources. If you have SHAWCing suggestions, questions, or tips, please e-mail us at shawcucd@gmail.com and like us on our Facebook page!

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Brew, what better location for a first date?” Lewis said.

The survey will close today.

Those who did not fill out the survey are still invited to attend the event, Lewis said.

The event will include games such as a personality scavenger hunt and some ice breaker games, said Peter Neeley, a sophomore English and human development double major and publicity manager for the Experimental College.

Prizes for the games were donated by Sophia’s Thai Kitchen, the Paint Chip, Yoloberry, Love Lab and the Experimental College, according to the event page.

“I think if you are coming in looking to have a good time, you will meet a lot of different people, you can walk around and talk, play the games we have. It is something for everyone,” Neeley said.

Attendees are asked to be single, but people who are already in a relationship may come to support a friend.

Based on previous events, DavisCupid is expecting around 75 people to attend.

“We’ve been doing a couple of events every quarter; it is a good way to get our name out there, raise a bit of money for more events. Maybe people will ask about what we do [at the Experimental College] while they are here,” Neeley said.

For all those who felt the sting of loneliness on this past Valentine’s Day, UC Davis’ Experimental College is hosting the DavisCupid event on Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m.

The DavisCupid event includes an online personality survey that will match attendees to others with similar interests. The event will have games, food and an overall borderline cheesy romantic environment to set the mood.

“This event is pretty unique for [the Experimental College] because we are d o i n g Irisa Tam / Aggie some specific personality matching,” said Suzanne Lewis, junior international relations major and director of the Experimental College. “In the past we have done speed-dating events and mixers, but this event involves participants filling out a personality survey. Then at the event, they will get a list of their top matches so they can meet each other.”

The event will be held at the Experimental College, located at the South Silo building on the second floor.

Admission for the event is $5 at the door. Proceeds will help fund the Experimental College.

The personality-match survey will include questions that cater specifically to Davis, such as, “What is your favorite Davis eatery?” and “Where is your favorite place to study?”

“If two people are matched ALICIA KINDRED can be reached at campus@ that like to eat at Burgers and theaggie.org.

Campus Rec Youth Programs to hire summer camp counselors Job now includes two-unit spring training course

By LANI CHAN

Aggie Features Writer

What better excuse to spend the summer in Davis than the opportunity to partake in rock climbing, dance, flag football and the best that Campus Recreation has to offer ... and get paid for it at the same time?

Youth Programs, a unit of UC Davis Campus Recreation which offers a diverse range of summer camps for kids under age 18, is currently hiring for this upcoming summer. As counselors, students can gain experience in program development and education by working at specialized camps that feature the familiar Campus Rec facilities, such as the Craft Center, Activities and Recreation Center and Recreation Pool.

Applications are due Feb. 25 via the Aggie Job Link at iccweb.ucdavis.edu/ students/ajl.htm.

“We’re looking for people who have the desire to learn and try something new, inspire others and be a role model for youth,” said Jeff Heiser, assistant director at Youth Programs. “We want people who Forecast

Warm weather and wind is expected this lovely Thursday. Perhaps it’s the perfect opportunity to fly a kite? I feel a song coming on! Oh lets go fly a kite! Up to the highest height!

Matthew Little, atmospheric science major Aggie Forecasting Team

This year, Youth Programs has revved want to come and share their love of an up their program to better benefit stuactivity, lead songs.”

Youth Programs organizes a range of dent employees. Coordinators will be camps that feature plenty of activities that offering a two-unit training course over students may be interested in, from dancing Spring quarter to ensure students are adequately prepared for the summer. and crafts to sports and cookCounselors are interviewed ing. Joseph Carozza, senior and hired before the end of human development maIrisa Tam / Aggie Winter quarjor and one ter so they of the stuknow to dent managleave room ers at Youth for the course Programs, in their says the Spring counselquarter or expeschedrience is ules. valuable be“ T h e cause it gives students training class is for i n t e r n the chance to en- joy things they ship credits through the School of don’t get the opportunity to do every day.

“You can do whatever you’re passion- Education,” Heiser said. “Our biggest ate about that the school year doesn’t goal is student development, not only give you time for,” Carozza said. “Artistic, from the Campus Rec health-oriented dance, theater, crafting. It’s great to have perspective but also to provide trainthe chance to be a kid and take a break ing ground for a lot of our staff, as many from this academic world, really get down to the fun. That’s the point.”

See CAMP, page 9

Friday

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Community will be coming back! ooo that made me so happy I just peed a little.

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TODAY Social Justice in the Public University of California: Reflections and Strategies Noon to 4 p.m.

Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) Main Floor Angela Y. Davis, educator, intellectual and activist for the rights of the imprisoned, poor and disenfranchised, will lead a teach-in on “Social Justice in the Public University of California: Reflections and Strategies,” brought to you by Hart Hall Social Justice Initiative. Her keynote address will be followed by a discussion with UC Davis students and then a UC Davis faculty roundtable.

Shinkoskey Noon Concert 12:05 p.m.

115 Music David Deffner, organ, will play works by Buchner, Gabrieli, Buxtehude, Brahms and Langlais.

Author Event: Michael Saler 1 to 2 p.m.

The Bookstore Special Events Room, Memorial Union UC Davis history professor Michael Saler will discuss his book As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.

Conversations With Writers: Eric Klinenberg 4 p.m.

126 Voorhies Eric Klinenberg, professor of sociology, public policy, and media, culture and communications at New York University, will discuss his book Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone.

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

Science Laboratory 3090 Help the Botany Club plant seeds to give out on Picnic Day! There will be free pizza.

UC Davis Visions Info Night 7 to 8 p.m.

Cross Cultural Conference Room, Student Community Center Visions is a nonprofit that aims to educate and empower disadvantaged youths in South Asia. Learn how to volunteer in South Asia this summer and how you can make a difference. Pizza and drinks will be provided.

Student Investors and Entrepreneurs Club General Meeting 7:10 to 8 p.m.

Wellman 235 A representative from Kaplan is going to come by to talk about the free Kaplan test (this coming Saturday) for anybody interested in going to graduate school.

Film Screening: Only a God Can Save Us 7 to 9 p.m.

100 Hunt Martin Heidegger is considered by many to be the most profound thinker of the 20th century. In 1933, Heidegger joined the Nazi Party and became the first Nazi director of a German university. The film Only a God Can Save Us is a critical view of Heidegger’s flirtation with Nazism and examines the elements of his philosophy, which may have led him to support the National Socialist revolution.

American Red Cross Club General Meeting 7:15 p.m.

230 Wellman For more information, check out the ARCC

website arccdavis.co.cc and Facebook page: American Red Cross Club at UC Davis.

FRIDAY Women’s Water Polo 2 p.m.

Schaal Aquatics Center Cheer on the Aggies as they take on Cal Baptist.

SATURDAY Domes Work Party 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Domes, Orchard Park Dr. Today and Sunday, help residents of the Domes lay paths, garden and more. There will be free food. Contact Sarah at (415) 300-6172 for more information.

Women’s Tennis 11 a.m.

Marya Welch Tennis Center The Aggies face off against Weber State.

DavisCupid 7 p.m.

Experimental College If you filled out the Experimental College’s personality survey, come to the Experimental College to get a list of your top matches. You’ll then have the opportunity to play fun games, mingle, and eat some free food with these people! Everyone is welcome! The event and matching service will cost $5 at the door, which will help fund the UC Davis Experimental College.

Men’s Basketball 7 p.m.

The Pavilion Senior night; come cheer on the seniors against CSU Fullerton in their last career home game. Free UCD basketball T-shirts and cinch backpacks for students will be given out.

SUNDAY BarCraft 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

3rd & U Cafe, 223 Third St. Davis’ first ever BarCraft is hosted by the UCD StarCraft Club at the 3rd & U Cafe. Whether you’re new to StarCraft or are a seasoned pro, this fun-filled day of food and drink is sure to entertain.

So bring a friend, grab lunch and spend a Sunday enjoying MLG’s Winter Arena championship on the big screen!

Vet Aide Club Bowling Night 5 to 8 p.m.

MU Games Area The Vet Aide Club is hosting a free bowling night for all active members! Enjoy free bowling, shoe rentals and pizza with fellow members. This is a great way to meet new people in the club and have a great time.

For more information on the event or how to become a member, visit the Vet Aide Club website at iccweb.ucdavis.edu/aes/ vetaides/index.htm.

Israeli Dance with Davis International Folkdancers 7 to 10 p.m.

Davis Art Center Studio E, 1919 F St. The Davis International Folkdancers will be teaching Kol Nedari, a slow, pretty Israeli dance, as part of their ongoing class. The first class is free to newcomers. Bring grit-free, non-marking shoes.

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Come on, Quiznos. You’re better than that.

Love it: Snickers, “You’re Not You When You’re Victor Hungry.” Although I’m Beigelman not one to fill my appetite with a candy bar, I have to give praise where it’s due.

Snickers took different groups of guys just hanging out or working together and inserted a famous actor or actress (Betty White and Richard Louis, for example) in place of one of y the time we die, we them to highlight his whiny and/or unpleasant behavwill have spent an ior. When a friend offered estimated one-andhim a Snickers and he took a-half years just watching one bite, he’d become himTV commercials. self again. Simple, funny Ah, shit. Another thorand effective. oughly unwelcomed and perspective-inducing sta Hate it: SPCA (Society tistic. But according to for the Prevention of Max Sutherland and Alice Cruelty to Animals) Sarah K. Sylvester, authors of Mclachlan “Angel” ad.

Advertising and the Mind “Hey! Let’s compile two of the Consumer, it’s true. straight minutes of footHaving said that, it’s also age featuring the saddest, true that roughly one-sev- most battered cats and enth of our entire lives will dogs ever encountered, be spent on a Monday. and get Sarah Mclachlan to be the spokesperson Okay, hard truths, I’m for our cause! Then we sorry. However, although can play I can’t cure the anxiety What “works” for you in an ad “Angel” in the you might likely speaks directly to at least backhave just developed one aspect of your personality ... ground, a.k.a. the at realizmost deing the nevpressing song known to er-ending circuit your life is mapped around, maybe man! People will love it my wordplay can give you and definitely not change a little peace of mind when the channel less than five seconds in!” — SPCA’s adit comes to the 18 months vertising team. you’ll have spent watching commercials once the Love it: Basically evlights finally go out. ery Apple commercial.

TV commercials are Whether it’s the claspart of our daily entertain- sic dancing silhouettes ment and will be for quite or crisp close-ups of the some time. There’s no way newest gadget, Apple has around it. A 70-billion-dol- consistently marketed lar industry isn’t just goits products in a way that ing to collapse overnight. makes them cool, sexy and So I think there’s value in unique. The recent “if you exploring what works and don’t have an iPhone, well, what doesn’t with respect you don’t have an iPhone” to these ads. If they’re goads spiked my fear of missing to take up a significant ing out (FOMO) to the chunk of our time, we’d highest levels they’ve been better start voicing our since waiting to get picked opinions on which ones for teams in middle school we love and which ones we P.E. hate. I’ll start.

Hate it: Metro PCS “Tech Love it: Dos Equis, “The and Talk with Ranjit and Most Interesting Man Chad.” Racist, Metro PCS. in the World.” Honestly, You’re just being racist. You I don’t like Dos Equis. I can find better humor than think it’s boring and has in Indian American stereono taste. The commercials types. Show a little effort. would have me think oth When it comes to what erwise, though. Crafting works and what doesn’t an effective ad campaign in TV advertising, the anrequires reaching out to swer really depends on the viewers and altering their viewer. Some commercials lives somehow. These will be effective on a cerguys nailed it by showcas- tain demographic while a ing a suave, bearded man downright flop with othwith an accent who teach- ers. What “works” for you es people to “stay thirsty.” in an ad likely speaks diNot only that, but the writ- rectly to at least one asing depicting his alleged pect of your personaliadventures is amazing. My ty — be it humor, sex drive personal favorite line is or a strange fondness for the fact that he can “speak top-hat-wearing rodents.

French … in Russian.”

If the latter represents you though, please don’t be Hate it: Quiznos’ disloud about it. I really don’t gusting singing rats/ want those creatures to gerbils/hairy fetuses. make a comeback.

Remember these weird bastards? One had a top hat and the other had a pi- Contact VICTOR BEIGELMAN at rate hat and guitar. Both vbeigelman@ucdavis.edu to discuss which commercials you love and hate or had terrifying bug eyes to tell him you think he’s having too much and primate mouths and fun with these columns. sang about who knows

period seemed to be that Native Americans were merely collateral damage to the greater story of American history. So if the price America had Chelsea to pay for progress then Mehra was human life, is that not the same cost we face today? And if so, what does this country hope to gain from now neglecting, not just abusing, Native Americans?

When our government gets the finger, it tends to point the finger right back thought this country at some piece of legislawas effectively over be- tion it passed. “See, look!” ing assholes to Native it says, tugging at the acAmericans after we finalcuser’s pant leg. “Congress ly recognized American approved the Trial Law and Indians as actual humans, Order Act in 2010. Surely not just rugged peoples the tribal law enforcement that liked cloth underwear, systems will start working with the 1968 Indian Civil soon enough!”

Rights Act. Neglect, how The same scene ever, continues throughplayed out in 1887 when out the 21st century just as President Cleveland geschronically as increasing tured to the Dawes Act. rates of crime on American His seemingly generous Indian reservations. offer to divide American The amount of violence Indian tribal land into alfound within the counlotments for individual try’s 310 American Indian Native Americans actually reservations are two and a allowed non-Indians and half times railroad dethe navelopers to tional av- You should manage comfortably scoop up with 97.7 percent of this erage, acacres for cording to pennies country’s area data comon the dolpiled by lar. Where the Justice Department.

Native Americans owned American Indian wom138 million acres in 1887, en are 10 times as likely to they claimed 48 million in be murdered than are oth- 1934. er Americans, and they are These blame games will raped or sexually assaultlead, and have led, to a hued at a rate four times the man knot of tied tongues country’s average. and tangled, bloodied These jarring statistics hands. don’t seem to faze our ju Our country has issues dicial system, though. with the War on Terror Where there are high rates lasting seven years. Let’s of reservation crime, there just take a moment to are, by contrast, low rates think about the American of prosecutions for these Indian Wars between offenses by United States 1622-1923. I don’t even attorneys. pay taxes yet, but I cannot The government did imagine helping finance a not pursue 65 percent of 301-year war. rape charges on reserva I do, however, concede tions and rejected 61 perthat if I were an American cent of cases involving living in the 19th centusexual abuse of children. ry, I too would have been Prosecutors’ main reason threatened. But I do not for turning down these in- understand what 21st cenvestigations is a lack of ad- tury Americans, and espemissible evidence. cially our judicial mem Mark Twain once said, bers, are so afraid of to“History doesn’t repeat itday. American Indians’ 2.3 self, but it does rhyme.” percent stake, 55.7 million Well, I can say for a fact acres, of U.S. land? Their that America is presently disgustingly harsh reservausing its thesaurus to write tion laws? a limerick we’ve already If that’s the case, lisheard. ten up, prosecutors. You John Gast’s now-famous should manage compainting “American progfortably with 97.7 perress” pictorially represents cent of this country’s the United States’ westarea. (Otherwise, I hear ward expansion in the we’re working on cololate 19th century. Its forenizing the extraterrestriground is a large, female al world.) And you should angel concealing the horbe able to fall fast asleep rific background that is at night knowing our laws Native Americans and anare much more lenient imals fleeing in terror of than Native Americans’, if settlers. This allegorical only because public offirepresentation of modcials are intimidated by a ernizing the new west is group that once terrified meant to explain that not our ancestors. only was expansion wise Suck it up and please do (the angel holds a school your job. book and strings along a telegraph), but also appar- If you think CHELSEA MEHRA knows a ent (manifest) and inevita- thing or two about history, contact her at cmehra@ucdavis.edu so she can forward ble (destiny). your thoughts to her TA. The theme of the time

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Self-Referral

One Night, Two Offenses

A student was referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for alleged misuse of university property after he sold a professor’s course material to Notehall. However, the material had already been given to the students in the class. As a result, over 30 students in the class purchased course material they had already received for free from their professor. In his meeting with an SJA officer, the student stated that Notehall seemed like an easy way he could earn some money while still studying for his class. The student agreed to a Censure, which is a formal notice acknowledging that the student violated the university’s policy prohibiting the distribution of course material for commercial purposes. Students are not only prohibited from selling the professor’s course materials but they are also prohibited from selling course content in the form of their notes. The student also agreed to complete 25 hours of community service.

A student referred himself to SJA for having another person take a midterm for him. The student felt guilty about his actions, so he sent an e-mail to SJA confessing that he had allowed a visiting friend to take the math exam in his place because he was doing poorly in the class. In his meeting with an SJA Officer, the student stated that he had been academically disqualified from the university in the past and was under pressure to pass the class so he would not be disqualified again.

The student agreed to be suspended for Spring quarter 2012 and both summer sessions in addition to being placed on Deferred Dismissal status when he returns.

This means that if he is referred to SJA again and is found to be in violation, he will likely be dismissed from the university.

A student was referred to SJA for underage drinking after he was found on campus by UC Davis police quite inebriated.

The student stated that he had attended a party off campus, where he became intoxicated. The student was given the choice by police to be arrested or treated in the hospital and chose to be hospitalized. In his meeting with an SJA Officer, the student acknowledged that he had violated laws against public intoxication and underage drinking as well as UC conduct standards. The student agreed to be placed on Disciplinary Probation and was referred to the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Intervention Services Program.

BIKE

in around $115. An unlimited flat replacement package is also available for about $70. All services will last four years with two and three year plans in the development stages.

After ordering, students will get a confirmation e-mail informing them when and where to pick up their personally customized bike.

Employees are also gearing up for the upcoming opening of the purely accessories store, the “Bike Hub.” The new store will cater to students’ needs for such items as bike locks, lights, fenders, sunglasses and numerous other cycle related items.

The Bike Hub was proposed back in the fall of 2009. Implementation began when former ASUCD Senator Andre Lee gave a helping hand to the Bike Barn by bringing the idea before the Unit Relocation and Space Allocation Committee (URSAC). URSAC was able to provide a space for the shop across from the front UC Davis Bookstore entrance in the MU. “It’s something that really helps bridge the gap with what the bike garage offers and what we offer here at

the Bike Barn,” said Shell Sumerel senior and Bike Barn manager, “We wanted to reach out to the MU crowd.”

The Bike Hub will offer everything from a bike basket to cycle attire. It plans on opening its doors the beginning of Spring quarter.

Bike Barn employees are excited about both the new store and the new Aggie Bike Buy program.

“It creates a new opportunity for students to get a better bike and to have a better biking experience while their living here in Davis,” said Bike Barn General Manager Robert St. Cyr about the Aggie Bike Buy program, “We want students to like their bikes so much that when they graduate they take it with them.”

A contest for a new Giant Bike is being offered by the Bike Barn to create a logo for the Aggie Bike Buy website.

Submissions for a design will be taken until March 31.

For more information go to bikebarn.ucdavis.edu.

Cont. from front page Basile Senesi and ASUCD Bike Barn service manager. “It’s going to give you a better bike, it’s going to last longer and it’s not going to cost as much.”

Giant Bicycles will be the sole provider of the bikes sold using the website.

Senesi cited an overflow of business during the first few weeks of fall classes as a major factor for the new service.

“There’s a need not only from a student’s point of view, but we are also working ridiculously overcapacity during that move-in weekend,” Senesi said. “We’re really having hundreds of people come in through the shop. Our store can only accommodate so many people at one time.”

Students will have the option of investing in service plans that span three different levels of accommodation: basic, intermediate and elite. The elite package is estimated to total around $230 while the basic plan will come

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Middle Class plan

Good for now Speaker of the Assembly John Pérez recently introduced a bill that would create a scholarship to help middle class students pay for higher education. This plan would guarantee a two-thirds reduction in fees to those families who made $80,000 to $150,000 a year, and could potentially help 42,000 UC students and 150,000 CSU students.

This bill has the potential to help many UC and CSU students financially. Providing aid to the middle class will help not only those students, but the UC system and California as a whole. The importance of an educated middle class is clear, especially during a time of economic turmoil. Providing cheaper higher education options to the middle class creates a smarter society.

This plan is a positive step in the right direction, but obviously it would be best if tuition would just stop ris-

ing. Furthermore, it is admirable to help those families who make less than $150,000 a year, there are families who make more than that who are still struggling to send their children to school. This is a greater structural issue that needs to be addressed. While Pérez’s plan should be applauded, we should also keep in mind that this is yet another temporary fix to a permanent problem.

Some students can definitely benefit from quick financial fixes, and this plan could allow students to continue attending college who previously thought that they would not be able to afford it. Any financial help for students is a good thing. This plan seems like a no-brainer, and it should pass.

However, students and government alike should remember that this is merely a band-aid fix, and that there is still a lot of work to do in making sure that all students can afford a UC education.

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Interracial relationships

By PATRICK SHELTON

Fifth-year, international relations major

Take a moment to reflect on individuals you have regular contact with on a daily basis. Are the majority or all of these individuals of the same race? Did they attend similar high schools, or lived in similar neighborhoods with similar demographics?

Throughout high school the closest relationship I had with a white person were my teachers and the handful of people on my predominantly black and Latino sports teams. One could imagine my level of comfort with white people was very low, and it’s safe to assume the same goes for white people who grew up in predominantly white settings. Although the “whites” and “blacks” form of segregation no longer exist today, its effect has left a permanent impression on America’s distribution

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a “black” name. One could say that those in the upper office favor fellow whites over blacks, something black people would also be guilty of if the roles were switched.

Either way the question of “why” remains. One could also say it is simply out of racism, and although this is sometimes the case it isn’t the sole reason.

In my opinion, a company’s lack of diversity, especially at the corporate level, lies in the lack of ra-cial comfort and overall racial divide, albeit subtle, in American civil society. Most of us do not establish a regular relationship with someone of a different race until we get to college, and even then some us continue to fall short. I completely understand this isn’t an easy task, especially for white people, because, let’s be honest, it’s pretty hard to find the black (and Latino) population on cam-

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of race in geographical, socio-economical and educational form.

I was recently inspired to write about racial diversity and overall racial comfort after watching the documentary Freakonomics.

During the segment “A Roshanda

by Any Other Name,” a study was conducted in which one resume was sent out to various employers.

The only difference in the identical resumes was the name of the applicants –– one named Tyrone and the other Greg. The results of the study showed the “call-back ratio” for Greg to Tyrone was 3:1. It is pretty obvious what came into play when both applicants were considered, but despite this staggering difference I was more focused on the “why”.

It is safe to say the majority of the people doing the hiring are in fact white, and I was very curious as to why an applicant with a presumably “white” name would be selected more often than one with

ly even the chancellor’s handpicked recruitment committee agreed, was that the chancellor’s grand idea was not such a good one. Furthermore, it became painfully obvious that ICA’s leadership has managed to lose its way.

Just before all hell broke loose on the Quad last November, the Academic Senate commissioned a “Special Committee on Athletics.” Why do you suppose they did that? The committee’s findings are expected to be available shortly, and not just to the chancellor. Whatever this committee has to say should be required reading for everyone who cares about the integrity of Athletics at

Last week, Rajiv Narayan wrote to encourage civic education and involvement. Amen! Certainly doing something about the outrageous cost of public education is a top priority. But before there was Occupy and before anyone on campus knew what it felt like to be pepper sprayed, a crisis had brewed up within Intercollegiate Athletics (ICA).

After illegitimately dropping four teams in 2010 on grounds of “fiscal sustainability” (never mind that it’s you who fund Athletics, not the state), in 2011 the chancellor started pushing “excellence” instead — and the notion of going “Big Time” with Aggie sports. If only she could get rid of those pesky Core Principles.

So she hired former NCAA President Cedric Dempsey to tell her how.

Well, what the 2011 UC Davis Athletics Strategic Audit (aka “The Dempsey Report”) made clear, what the vast majority of the speakers at the town hall meetings pointed out, and what ultimateIrisa Tam / Aggie

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eeply repressed Edwardian gentry and their servants suffer through romance and intrigue in a British costume drama on a channel where the median viewing age is 62. It doesn’t sound like a recipe for success, but Masterpiece Theater’s “Downton Abbey” has become a runaway hit for PBS. Celebrities obsessively tweet about the show while memes like “Sh*t the Dowager-Countess Says” flurry around the internet. With such devoted followers, “Downton Abbey” rose to become the number-two-watched show in its slot on Super Bowl Sunday.

But how did such a staid pro-

UC Davis — especially those who pay for it.

So what can you do? For starters, don’t wait for the very same officials who brought about the systemic problems within ICA to fix them. Likewise, don’t

expect a brand new athletic director to come in, wave a “do the right thing” wand and solve everything either. Instead, ASUCD needs to step up and defend its own interests. For instance: Individually learn and institutionally remember why ASUCD provides ICA with over $16 million annually through the SASI, FACE and CEI initiatives.

Publicize the Core Principles of Intercollegiate Athletics and educate fellow students about the Davis Way and the teacher/coach model. They should be viewed as a deep source of Aggie Pride.

Establish meaningful ASUCD oversight of ICA and demand full transparency and accountability by the university. If the administration offers only advisory committees, then send it only advisory dollars. Do not accept the role of silent funding partner any longer.

Demand that the university respects and abides by UC Davis’ own Core Principles of Intercollegiate Athletics. They’re not “more like guidelines,” they’re contractual terms.

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sions are muted compared to the gram like “Downton Abbey” sudwarmth and glamour of the British denly become hip and current? nobility. There’s nothing like the The show has everything you would want in a 1910s-period soap scathing criticism of “Mad Men” here: The old elites appear as funopera: gripping performances, sly damentally decent people. historical references, lavish costumes and beau Part of tiful sets. The stothis is just conry follows the aris- In America, we’ve long become servative nostaltocratic Grantham accustomed to austerity measures gia. As RuPaul family, owners of (of all people) and attacks on the poor ...

Downton Abbey, explained to in their quest the Daily Beast, for an heir. While the Grantham the show has arrived at a modaughters court and lose suitment when our “cultural protocol ors upstairs, the servants search and etiquette” are in peril: “That’s for happiness or vie for positions why it’s so interesting to watch downstairs.

‘Downton Abbey,’ because these people know their place and they Yet it’s remarkable that, in the thrive in their place.”

21st century, American audiences are drawn to an often idyl I would argue, though, that belic picture of rigidly class-bound neath this longing for lost deferlife. Lord Grantham gives heartence and decorum is a deeper anxfelt speeches about his duty to the iety about the present moment. manor while demonstrating pater- “Downton Abbey” premiered in nalistic care to his social inferiors. the UK just as Conservative Prime We are asked to sympathize with Minister David Cameron began a a man who lumps Karl Marx with series of government budget cuts classical liberal J.S. Mill as newfan- that, as he claimed, would change gled radicals.

Britain’s “whole way of life.” In the depths of a recession, Cameron It’s true that the show welslashed welfare programs and comes the advent of women’s sufchild benefits in what the Labour frage and hints at class conflict in the form of the socialist chauffeur, Tom Branson, but these tenSee CARROLL, page 8

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Letter to MUSE Guest Column by Hannah Sharafian on behalf of student theatre organization, Studio 301 Productions Editor’s note: As rumors have been circulating that lack of funding has pushed the Master of Fine Arts program in the theatre and dance department down to what might be its last year, there is the reality that more programs and organizations in the field will be cut. In fact, these are pressing issues that art, film, dramatic arts and design majors are all grappling with at the moment. MUSE received a letter submitted by Hannah Sharafian, a sophomore dramatic arts and English double major, who shed some light on how working on an entirely student and volunteer-run theatre organization has become, more than ever, difficult to manage. — Uyen Cao Rent (the musical by Jonathan Larson) is coming to Davis. That is a solid fact. But a month — maybe even a few weeks — ago, it wasn’t. Studio 301 Productions, the student-run production company I belong to that is putting up Rent, lacked the funds, the rights, the space — anything essential for the show to happen. Forget about fancy lights, microphones, a set; we could not afford the space to put on Rent. While we appreciated the irony of the situation, irony cannot rent you a theater and we risked withdrawing our proposal. We are in a different place now. The show will go on. But in the meantime, all of the students involved in producing this show got a taste of what it is like in the real world when theaters, or any companies, begin to fail.

Before last year, I didn’t understand that the arts were a business. I knew that when the economy suffered, the arts suffered, but that seemed more like a tragedy than anything concrete.

But last year, through my involvement in the theater community on the UC Davis campus, I came to understand exactly how a theater company works and what goes into running it. It wasn’t something I planned; I was purely interested in acting and nothing more, but college has a way of teaching you things you never intended to learn. And when I became involved in Studio 301 this year I finally did learn why exactly the arts fail when the economy fails and public support wanes.

Let me clarify slightly: As theater companies go, 301 is blessed. With the support of our campus and specifically the theater and dance department, we do not run the risk of absolute failure that theater companies across the country face. We can endure poor ticket sales, and to an extent we can even afford to run shows that lose money. But only to an extent. Even a student-run company such as ours that doesn’t pay our actors, designers or directors needs to front money on a show. We do the shows the student members want to see, direct and perform, and often these are not public domain. That costs money. The space itself costs money. Publicizing the show so people know to come costs money. Even selling the tickets costs money. If we don’t have that money, we cannot support either the students in our club or the community both inside and outside our campus that attends our shows.

This is before considering sets, lights and costumes, all of which we have stripped down to almost no-budget or eliminated. Our poor costumers routinely make do with $50 or less and we draw almost exclusively now from our actors’ own closets. So why do it? Why try to do Rent now with no money? We could do Shakespeare for less, and in fact, we have done it before. But we believe in both the timeliness of Rent in this community at this time and in our directors’ vision for the production. Yes, we are all students, but that is why we believe this will work. Mitchell Vanlandingham and Lizzie Tremaine, director and musical director respectively, both believe very strongly that as students we are in a unique place to reach out to the larger Davis community. Rent is not merely popular, Mitchell and Lizzie have said. “We want to use Rent as a forum to address injustices concerning race, sexuality, and HIV. Our hope is that we can start a dialogue with the community and the university about these issues that lasts long after the final curtain has come down.” They feel that they have something to say, and it is our goal to provide the platform for that artistic expression to reach the community.

Although 301 is a student club and a large part of our goal is to provide performance opportunities to our peers, the creation of that art needs to serve the larger community. Theater is a world of give and take, and we are dependent on our audience to appreciate the work we do just as it is our duty to entertain them. So we will do Rent to the best of our ability. We have compromised and saved, but only so far as we can do so without sacrificing the quality of the show. We have set up fundraisers, including a Kickstarter (search “Studio 301 RENT” at kickstarter.com) and will continue to put any money we make back into our production to make it as good as it can be.

HANNAH SHARAFIAN can be reached at hannah.sharafian@gmail.com. UYEN CAO can be reached at arts@theaggie.org. To donate to STUDIO 301 to help them fund for shows like Rent, visit kickstarter.com/projects/1822147039/ studio-301s-rent-at-uc-davis?ref=live or sites. google.com/site/studio301productions.

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Preparing for the annual Davis Film Festival Checking in with the event’s festival coordinator, Judith Plank

By ELIZABETH ORPINA Aggie Arts Writer The Davis Film Festival is back for i t s ninth year. However, the game has changed. This time around, the event becomes competitive. An event that usually showcases talent through short films and features, the Davis Film Festival now boasts an edgy element.

Taking place Apr. 5 to 7, the weekend kicks off with a free showing of Thrive by Foster Gamble and free cake at Opening Night Festival Preview Party on the first day. Friday and Saturday’s festivities take place at the Veterans’ Memorial Theatre.

Festival Director Judith Plank worked with what she calls a “screening committee” to determine the films that make the final cut for the festival. “[The committee] weeds out the films that are clearly not acceptable.

[They] then give me the remaining films. I look at all of those and make the final screening decisions,” Plank said. “Sometimes I look at all of the films, though, depending on how much time we have.”

What makes this year so different, though, is that awards will be handed out, making the event more interesting and aggressive. The categories include “Best Feature,” “Best Short” and “Audience Award.” Each winning film receives a certificate and a prize from one of three local businesses.

“We are going competitive because most film festivals are. It’s nice to win things for work well done,” Plank said. “I believe that it makes the films that win Academy Award potential.”

A three-day event every single year, Davis Film Festival also

brings one more new aspect to the weekend: musical performers.

“We don’t have anyone booked yet, so here’s [someone’s] chance for stardom,” Plank said. “Next year at our 10th Anniversary Gala Film Festival, we want tons of musicians.”

In addition to hosting a variety of comedians, musicians and bands, this festival showcases an assortment of films including documentaries, narratives, features, shorts, experimental and animation.

Each section of the festival has its own theme: Friday is an artsy and edgy night, Saturday afternoon includes the short films and Saturday night is Human Rights Night.

This year the promotion is “Seven dollars, 11 hours, 21 Filmmakers Compete for Three Top Prizes!”

“We’re competitive at last, and we’re only charging seven dollars for everyone as a way to thank the Davis community for its support over the years,” Plank said.

Plank recommends putting the dates of the festival on the calendar and checking the website on Mar. 15 when the films will be listed and the schedule is posted.

She also recommends buying tickets online and showing up without any research of the films or filmmakers.

Plank is also in need of a student intern to go through press kits of the winning films and pick digital photos to distribute to the media.

To get in contact with Judith Plank, to get involved or to find out more information about Davis Film Festival, email davisfilmfest@gmail.com or visit davisfilmfest.org.

ELIZABETH ORPINA can be reached at arts@theaggie.org.

MUSE REVIEW CORNER In review: Chronicle A superhero movie set in the real world

By JAMES O’HARA Aggie Arts Writer

Rating: 3.5 out of 4 In Chronicle, three teenagers are endowed, compliments of a mysterious glowing object housed at the end of one particularly precarious tunnel, with superpowers.

What could go wrong?

This will come as a shock: quite a lot.

First time director Josh Trank set out to make a “found-footage” teenage superhero movie. What could go wrong? Again, and perhaps just as unsurprising, a lot. How much is actually wrong with Chronicle? Surprisingly, very little.

Josh Trank’s teenage superhero flick is, again, the story of three male high school students who stumble, rather literally, into superpowerdom. Their progress, and the genesis of their superhuman ability, is recorded throughout via a digital camera by Andrew Detmer, a sour, socially neglected teen with a grating home life. His partners, the two that largely fall under the gaze of his recordings, are his cousin Matt, a goofy, if not terribly lovable pseudo-philosopher, and Steve,

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the charming, popular, running for class president type.

Together, the three compose a defunct superhuman trio that, with the gift of a lifetime, employ it at first toward practical joking — very good, telekinetically-hinged practical joking, mind you.

It’s all good fun and, somehow, terribly believable given the nature of the average teenage boy.

As the movie progresses the boys bond, plans are made, rules are set, and things get complicated. And it’s all, pretty much from start to finish, a pleasure to watch.

Even when the movie diverges from the boyhood playfulness of the first hour to-

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ward something awfully serious, as most superhero films seem inclined toward a serious last act, it maintains a level of awe.

That is to say, a sense of real movie magic is detectable more or less throughout Chronicle. A cleverness and, despite the movies usage of any number of superhero queues, a freshness that lifts the movie toward excellence.

While the foundfootage stylization of films such as Paranormal Activity, Blair Witch can, has been, and certainly will again, be an exhausting and overly convenient technique, Chronicle manages it. That is, it transcends a potentially fatal gimmick by not binding the cam-

era to a single hand or point of view. Rather, throughout much of the film the camera floats, compliments of the boy’s telekinesis, at whatever angle is appropriate. And when that isn’t the case, other cameras, like security footage, fill in the missing pieces.

What the movie ultimately becomes is a surprising, yet perhaps inevitable addition to the still maturing superhero genre. That is, our genre, easily the most definitive American genre of the last decade, if not longer.

Chronicle stays well within its generic realm, but it asks itself, with an honestly and sense of genuineness that is rare to the

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superhero film, what would really happen if three teens were given superpowers? The film responds truthfully, and the narrative episode of the three superhumans comes across as believable and poignant. The realness of the film likely has a lot to do with its reduced moralizing, a trait that is weightily common, if not a guilty, high-minded characteristic of our more known characters (ahem, Nolan’s Batman).

U l t i m a t e l y, Chronicle is a film that can be called “ours.”

That is, it is a movie that distinctly reflects the sentiments and proclivities of the young. And it does so in a way that is fascinating, and, importantly, inclusive of social media, which is so omnipresent in the modern life of, well, all of us. Beyond camera technique, to what end social media serves in Chronicle is not so clear. But it’s an excusable lacking, because all-in-all Chronicle has a great deal to offer. To viewers, and its genre.

Chronicle is playing at Regal Cinemas Davis Holiday 6 on F street.

JAMES O’HARA can be reached at arts@theaggie.org.

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UC Davis on the runway Week 2: Another week’s work with Funmilayo Alabi

MUSIC Davis Performers Circle: Katie Henry

Mon., 6:45 p.m., free Village Homes Community Center, 2661 Portage Bay East Davis Performers Circle features performers of all levels and styles on the fourth Monday of each month. For the upcoming presentation, Davis Performers Circle welcomes Katie Henry. Paired up with a very rich voice, Henry is known for rhythmic finger-style guitar, mountain banjo and impressionistic songs.

In addition to Henry’s performance, there will be sign-up opportunities for volunteers to participate and share the stage floor.

AT THE MOVIES UC Davis Five-Minute Film Competition

Sun., 3 to 5 p.m., free Freeborn Hall For the past few weeks, the cinema and technocultural studies program and ASUCD Entertainment Council have been collecting submissions for the 5-minute film competition.

Each video will be centered around interpreting or remaking The Three Little Pigs, Cinderella or Humpty Dumpty. And this Sunday afternoon, the community is invited to watch the screenings of these submissions. In addition to the short film screenings, there will be a live performance

by Jordan’s Beard, free Yoloberry for the first 50 people in attendance and ticket giveaways for Steve Aoki and Bon Iver concerts.

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This hand painted and stamped with fiber reactive dyes, discharged, arashi shibori in natural indigo on 100% cotton is by Funmilayo Alabi.

By SASHA SHARMA Aggie Arts Writer

Editor’s Note: For the rest of this quarter, Aggie arts reporter Sasha Sharma will investigate the process of designing a runway collection from beginning to end. Check MUSE bi-weekly to see Funmilayo Alabi’s progress as she continues to work on her collection for the Picnic Day Fashion Show taking place in Spring 2012.

Dressed in a colorful skirt, an olive green scarf and a denim jacket, hair streaming down in long braids, Funmilayo Alabi was hard to miss as she waited at the Memorial Union bus stop for an interview.

Alabi is one of the UC Davis students showcasing her designs at the Picnic Day Student Fashion Show. She was dyeing fabrics two weeks ago in the design lab located in Cruess Hall and is now sewing garments for a “mock-up.”

“It’s basically a rough draft of your garments,” Alabi said.

The garments are then critiqued by other students in the Design 179 class, a fashion design class that is part of the design major.

Alabi has spent the last week laboring over a pair of shredded pants.

“We didn’t learn how to make pants before and this is the first pair of pants I’ve ever made,” she said with a laugh. Her “mock” pair of pants were sewn incorrectly and she said she spent hours frustrated over the garment.

“I started doing them on Sunday and the hardest part is the crotch. I was so discouraged when I saw them on the mannequin, I just had to step away for a bit,” Alabi said.

The class feels like family, she said. Another student, Kim Shao, helped Alabi correct the pants and the students, who stay at the design lab for hours on end often share food, advice and more.

“I was going to wash that and put it away for someone to use,” Alabi said to Faye Lessler, another student-designer, pointing to a used plastic container for ketchup. “We are very sustainable here.”

The adjoining room is the work room. Alabi’s fabrics were laid out on the wooden desk. The fabrics are brightly colored and hand painted with tribal prints — one of the biggest trends this season.

Alabi has branded her collection “Milayo,” and the theme is urban safari.

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Common’s The Dreamer/The Believer is an odd album. Much of it appears as if Common does not want to get left behind in the world of hip-hop.

And his way of doing that is by saying grandstanding lyrics such as “my name is synonymous with prominence.”

In part of the grandstanding of this album, coming strongest in track four titled “Sweet,” Common seeks to pick a fight with Drake. He laments over hiphop becoming soft and addresses the younger up-and-comers of hip-hop with such lines as, “You get in my presence you gon’ feel like a little hoe.” It’s hard to ques-

tion Common’s talent as a lyricist (there are a number of clever and witty lines in his latest album), but his aching need to be relevant is a problem.

I always presumed Common to be the hip-hop artist in the corner doing his own thing, an artist who deliberately didn’t need or want the same type of success or mainstream appeal as Kanye or Jay-Z. Unfortunately, with this album Common wants to prove otherwise. He wants to remind listeners that he’s to “hip-hop what Obama is to politics,” that “some people [are] missing creativity, but it begins and ends with me.” Most of the time the album doesn’t feel humble or introspective, as regularly associated with Common. In fact, it feels petty.

Despite what Common says in the lyrical content, the album is less what he is than what he was. That doesn’t mean that the album is terrible — it isn’t. The Dreamer/The Believer just doesn’t have a whole lot to latch on to. By the time the best song on the album comes in (track 11, titled “The Believer”) with some great help from John Legend, it’s too little, too late.

Give these tracks a listen: “Sweet,” “The Believer” For Fans Of: Lupe Fiasco, Nas, Kid Cudi — Rudy Sanchez

“The technique I used was Arashi Shibori,” Alabi said pointing to one of the swatches. Shibori is a Japanese term for dyeing, while Arashi means “wrapped around a pole.” The technique involves binding the cloth very tightly to a pole which results in the patterns emerging diagonally as a result.

A somewhat finished look stood in the corner of the room, in which Alabi pointed out that the bodice was made of cotton sateen. The skirt was made of silk organza and hair covered both the bodice and the skirt.

“I am infatuated with hair, it represents a woman’s beauty in a way,” Alabi said.

Not everyone can be expected to swallow this infatuation and Alabi understands that it’s not a very commercial idea. However she said, “I learned from one of my professors — Adele Zhang — that this is the time to be crazy.”

According to Alabi, this might be her chance without being judged harshly as in the industry.

At the last critique in class, she was told by professor Susan Avila that she was her own worst critic.

“Whatever that means,” she said laughing before getting serious and adding, “I think I’m just very hard on myself. I’m never happy with any of my prints either.”

One person who is proud of Alabi is her father. “He was not happy about design as my choice of major,” she said. However, as she has made progress with her work and her prints have matured into complex designs, her father has embraced her choice.

The work is stressful, and Alabi repeated this mantra several times, but her displeasure peaked when she talked about immersion dyeing.

“It takes an hour and a half and you’re just stirring for so long, you gain so much muscle,” she said shaking her head.

As the fashion show date nears, Funmilayo was finally meeting with her models, who she said were her close friends. She was also beginning to think about the music, make up, shoes and accessories for the show.

“I’m thinking about doing my own hair shoe,” Alabi said. The “hair shoe” reference is reminiscent of Alexander Wang’s pony hair booties circa 2011.

Alabi has kept the Carnivale theme alive throughout her collection and as the Milayo brand seems to promise the ultimate urban safari.

SASHA SHARMA can be reached at arts@theaggie.org.

The Shadow The Shadow NDN Records

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The Shadow’s album of the same name reverberates “punk” in every note and out every musical pore.

The sound is hard and fast and, more often that not, lyrically cynical. With lines like “there is no cure for culture, there is no hope for us,” The Shadow maintain a punkish vibe leaning toward resignation.

As in: the war is over, punk lost, we lost, corporations won, and the sun now is setting in the west (one of their songs is called “As the Sun Sets in the West”).

Many of the sentiments here feel exhausted. And much of the energy within songs feels misplaced. We’ve heard it all before, to the point where it all

seems rather more like energized doom calling, as opposed to a chant of resistance. Has it come to that? Is it so hopeless?

Another of their songs, “It’s All Gone Wrong,” is about “governments’ systematic arrogance” and “exploiting the innocent,” as the lyrics go. It all just feels obvious and predictable.

The sound of The Shadow is obvious, too. It is head-banging, fast guitar-strumming, go-hard music. And it all is a bit exhausting.

Not for lack of talent, though. The Shadow has potential, and its album is not without merit. But it lacks a finesse that is crucial to politicizing. A sense of poetry is needed here. An articulation of despair that will not slap one in the face like a callous, overly bold preacher.

Subtlety. That’s it.

But, then again, subtlety is rarely a virtue of punk. Punk has mostly rejected it.

Which makes it hard not to wonder, at this point, if it is simply just a rebellion against good taste.

Which would explain, perhaps, why punk is so adored by adolescents.

Give these tracks a listen: “The Shadow,” “Punk Rock Agent,” “Anna Manni” For Fans Of: Escape The Fate, Atom and His Package — James O’Hara

Chancellor’s Colloquium Distinguished Speaker Series Presents Michael Dukakis

Mon., 4 p.m., free Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center The UC Davis Chancellor’s Colloquium Distinguished Speakers series aims on bringing distinguished scholars and government leaders to Davis to speak about a varying list of issues.

In this presentation, Michael Dukakis will be the distinguished guest. Dukakis served three, four-year terms as governor of Massachusetts and was the 1988 Democratic nominee for president. This event is free and open to the public.

Pirates of Penzance

Friday 8 p.m., Sat. 2 and 9 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m., $15 (students), Veteran’s Memorial Theatre, 203 E. 14th St. In this unique production, several UC Davis alumni have put together a play called Pirates of Penzance. The production is full staged with sets, costumes and a live orchestra to bring the dialogue and scenes to life. Be sure to support your local theatre and attend this event!

ART/ GALLERY Basement Gallery Winter Art Show

Today to Friday, noon to 4 p.m., free Basement Gallery, Art Building Today and Friday will be the last day to check out the all-student exhibition located in the basement of the Art Building. MUSE congratulations the following students who won awards for their work: Kristen Sanders (Thiebaud Family Scholarship) Christopher Jones and Andrea Fourchy (The Nettie Weber Scholarship), Thelonious Elliot (The Freemon Gadberry Award in Sculpture), Ray Zarnowitz (Freemon Gadberry Award in Art), James Bovard (Maria Cary Anti-Gravity Award), Janet Pinyoborisut (Support for Summer Study Abroad: Art Studio in Paris and the French Riviera), Christopher Jones and Emmeline Yen (Chautauqua School of Art Nomination), Ray Zarnowitz (New York Studio School Summer Session Scholarship) and Christopher Jones and Emmeline Yen (Yale Norfolk Nomination).

POETRY

Absurd In The Gallery “The Collective” Sat., 7 to 9 p.m., free John Natsoulas Gallery (2nd floor), 521 First St. If you’re yearning to hear some spoken word and poetry from your fellow peers, look no further than 521 First St. on Saturday night. Oak Grove Community Cyphers Rennie Putnam, James Mizoguchi and Laura Harvey will collaborate with Absurd Word Press members Chris Yi, Evan White and Nich Malone to present original prose, work and literature.

Open Mic

Wed., 7 p.m., free Barista Cafe, Fifth and G St. Hidden in the corner of Fifth and G St., Barista Cafe is a charming little coffee shop that shelters its guests from the cold. And on Wednesday, the small and quaint shop welcomes an open mic session where anyone can sign up to share their talents such as poetry and instrumental or vocal talents. Grab a nice cup of hot coffee and let the talent pour in.

UYEN CAO can be reached at arts@ theaggie.org.

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Study shows prevalence of arsenic

By Jennifer Dalecki

The Dartmouth (Dartmouth College)

In the search for healthier food options, many people choose foods labeled “organic,” assuming that such products are both nutritious and free of toxins. However, a study by Dartmouth researchers published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives called attention to high levels of arsenic — linked to cancer, chronic diseases and negative developmental effects — in foods listing organic brown rice syrup, a common substitute for high-fructose corn syrup, as a primary ingredient. The tested foods included 17 infant formulas.

“We noticed products containing organic brown rice syrup often had very high concentrations of arsenic,” study co-author and earth sciences post-doctoral researcher Vivien Taylor said. “This led to a study of foods such as infant formulas, cereal bars and energy foods, which use organic brown rice syrup. These foods tend to be marketed to health-conscious consumers who would unintentionally be exposed to a known carcinogen.”

Concentrations of arsenic in some products were above the Environmental Protection Agency standard of 10 parts per billion for drinking water, according to the

study.

Past studies by Dartmouth researchers and others have identified arsenic consumption through rice, an observation which spurred the rice syrup study by the Dartmouth Superfund Research Program, which included Kathy Cottingham, Margaret Karagas, Tracy Punshon, Taylor and lead author Brian Jackson. The team concluded that foods containing organic brown rice syrup as a primary ingredient can be a significant source of arsenic.

“By publishing these results, we hope that U.S. food standards authorities will set guidelines for arsenic in food,” Punshon, a research assistant, said. “We want to see that manufacturers using products containing processed forms of rice begin to measure the arsenic concentrations of these ingredients routinely.”

Researchers examined 17 infant formulas, 29 cereal bars and three types of energy drinks purchased from Upper Valley stores.

Using plasma mass spectroscopy at the Trace Element Analysis Core facility at the College, the team compared food products containing organic brown rice syrup with similar products that did not use the syrup. The report did not specify which product brands were tested.

Of the 17 toddler formulas tested, two listed organic brown rice syrup as a main

ingredient. These formulas — one dairybased and one soy-based — were found to have arsenic concentrations 20 times greater than the formulas made without organic brown rice syrup. The concentration of inorganic arsenic averaged 8.6 parts per billion for the dairy-based formula and 21.4 parts per billion for the soy-based formula.

High arsenic concentrations in infant formula are greatly concerning, Jackson said. EPA standards for drinking water are set for full-grown adults, so the impact of these arsenic levels might be far greater for infants due to their low body weight and developing brains, he said.

“Ideally, levels for arsenic in infant formula should at least be at the drinking water level, but lower levels would probably be advisable,” Jackson said.

The researchers also examined cereal bars and energy products obtained from local markets. Twenty-two of the cereal bars listed one of four rice products — organic brown rice syrup, rice grain, rice flakes or rice flour — in the first five ingredients.

Like infant formula, cereal bars and high-energy foods containing organic brown rice syrup also had higher arsenic concentrations than those that did not contain the syrup. The cereal bars that had

no rice-based ingredients ranged from 8 to 27 parts per billion of arsenic, while those containing a rice ingredient ranged from 23 to 128 parts per billion.

Compared to the potential problems with infant formula, there is minimal risk associated with eating a cereal bar every few days, according to Jackson.

Nevertheless, the research team and other biologists agree that the arsenic concentrations in foods necessitate more research as well as changes in food standard regulations.

“We need to know more about what we eat and drink,” biology professor Rob McClung said. “Hopefully we will start testing foodstuffs for contaminants — not necessarily all foodstuffs — but where scientific research suggests there are issues.”

Research professor Celia Chen suggested the potential for new research exploring the specific health effects of arsenic exposure through food and a means to limit arsenic uptake by plants.

Since the study’s publication, media and concerned parents have given its findings a great deal of consideration, according to Jackson.

“The attention is flabbergasting,” she said. “I hope that this response will be positive in helping set much needed guidelines and regulations.”

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University asks employees to sign new patent agreement Issue arose from patent lawsuit Stanford v. Roche

By RICHARD CHANG Aggie News Writer

You may soon be asked to sign some more legal papers, that is if you work for the university.

Due to an obscure patent case that Stanford University lost, the University of California is now scrambling to have its employees sign a new amendment.

“Our patent policy hasn’t changed. We have always required all faculty and staff to sign a patent acknowledgment or agreement at the time they are hired,” said UC spokesperson Dianne Klein.

Though the patent policy didn’t change, a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court ruling forced UC to reevaluate the language used in its hiring contracts.

In the patent case, Stanford v. Roche Molecular Systems, Stanford University sued Roche for patent infringement. The con-

troversy arose when Stanford fellow Mark Holodniy signed an agreement saying he would “agree to assign” inventions arising from his employment with Stanford. With the permission of Stanford, Holodniy collaborated with Cetus, a private firm, to develop a new HIV blood test. Cetus also had Holodniy sign an agreement stating, “I will assign and do hereby assign” all rights to Cetus.

The company was later acquired by Roche, which turned the invention into a HIV test kit that is now distributed worldwide. Stanford subsequently sued Roche for patent infringement, asserting Holodniy had no rights to assign, given his prior agreement with Stanford. A lower court ruled that the Stanford agreement had been a promise to assign rights in the future after an invention, while the Cetus agreement assigned rights upon invention.

Stanford appealed the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing the Bayh-Dole Act

of 1980, which grants rights of an invention to universities when there is federal funding involved, as was the case with the HIV blood test.

Chief Justice John Roberts said that based on the language of the two contracts, Roche would win because the language of the Cetus agreement gave rights upon invention while the language of the Stanford agreement gave rights in the future. Therefore, the U.S. Supreme Court only had to contend with the Bayh-Dole Act. “Rights in an invention belong to the inventor. Nowhere in the act are inventors deprived of their interest in federally funded inventions,” Roberts wrote. Thus, the court in a 7-2 decision ruled in favor of Roche, thereby validating the agreement signed with Cetus and making Roche a coowner of the patent with Stanford.

With a vested interest in protecting its current and future patents, the University

of California didn’t want to see a repeat of the Stanford case and thus opted to issue an amendment to clarify the university’s patent policy. According to the Office of the President, since 1980, the university has successfully entered into 5,000 licensing agreements that have generated over $2.1 billion in revenue for the institution.

“The clarification will ensure that the university owns inventions that are made using university resources and facilities, thus meeting its legal obligations to properly manage these assets and meet its responsibilities as a public trust under the state constitution,” Klein said.

A total of 225,000 e-mails went out asking UC employees to sign the amendment.

“All faculty and staff are required to sign the patent acknowledgment, so it is already in effect,” Klein said.

RICHARD CHANG can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

Yolo Energy Watch creates high school intern program Students work with organizations to promote energy efficiency

By CLAIRE TAN Aggie Staff Writer

At the start of the new high school semester in January, Yolo Energy Watch commenced its new internship program, Young Energy Leaders. The six current high school interns are collaborating with various businesses to reduce energy use and increase awareness, and visibility in energy efficiency.

Yolo Energy Watch is a nonprofit partnership with Yolo County, the California Public Utilities Commission and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. The organization’s goals are to achieve energy savings in the county, assist businesses in participating with available energy efficiency programs and create a culture of energy efficiency.

Program manager for Young Energy Leaders Bryan Pon said the internship program’s mission is to mainly help people recognize the benefits of sustainable energy. “[The interns] have been going through training on energy efficiency, renewable energy, carbon emissions and general sus-

tainability,” Pon said. “Each intern will work on different projects with community partners.”

Young Energy Leaders has partnered up with Yolo County Housing, UC Davis, Woodland Library and the Cool Davis Initiative.

“We’re working with Yolo County Housing to help them create a youth-based energy corps on the properties,” Pon said. “We’re working with the Woodland Library on energy education and outreach and with UC Davis, helping their utilities group to analyze energy consumption to look for potential optimization.”

Pon said there was an application process with Woodland High School and Da Vinci High School. After holding informational sessions, students were interviewed and selected accordingly.

“For this year, we will keep [the number of interns] at six,” Pon said. “We want to keep this size small for it to be more manageable.”

Two interns are from Woodland High School and four are from Da Vinci High School.

The students work with their local organizations.

Anthony Berardi, a senior at Da Vinci High School, said working with the Young Energy Leaders program has been fun so far.

“I have had a great experience with the Young Energy Leaders, working with Bryan and the other interns to create a presentation for the community where we talked to them about how to use a

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watt meter,” Berardi said in an email. “This, however, is the first project that we worked on with the program and we will continue to work with Yolo Energy Watch and other companies in the future.”

Fellow intern Mariah Freitas, a junior at Woodland High School, is working with Yolo County Housing.

“The project is to help Yolo County Housing create a youth program,” Freitas said in an email. “It will show youth residents hands-on data at [a] variety of properties.”

The program is partnered with the Yolo County Regional Occupational Program. There is an official class the students take to receive high school credit. Pon said they are also exploring whether the students can also receive college units.

As a registered course, the students are required to spend at least five hours a week working on a specific project. The internship will continue until the end of the academic year.

“We’re working on a wide vari-

ety of projects,” Pon said. “Some are more defined and others are of a more exploratory nature.”

According to Pon, some projects may last for a month and others may last up to three months.

He said the students will work on a project until it’s completed.

“The community organizations are our clients and we work with them on specific project engagements,” Pon said. “I think community partners are excited about it because it’s a great way to collaborate and build our network with like-minded organizations working for a common cause.”

Pon said he designed the internship to allow students to have the opportunity to learn and practice meeting with clients, giving presentations and writing reports.

“What’s important to me about this program is they are learning professional skills and about energy and sustainability issues,” Pon said. “It’s all real world stuff that will better prepare them to enter the job market or get into college or university.”

CLAIRE TAN can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

Artists Studios to open downtown this summer Project directors strive to involve public

By CHLOE BREZSNY Aggie News Writer

The Downtown Davis Open Artists Studios project is now underway, intent on bringing more color to the Davis community. The venture will introduce new artists’ studios into the downtown area, and will also deliver more opportunities for the public to learn about art.

The project is spearheaded by the Downtown Davis Business Association (DDBA), in conjunction with local artist groups. Michael Bisch, co-president of the DDBA, said that the idea for the studios was first discussed last fall.

“There was expressed need for affordable artist workspace,” he said. “Another factor was the community desire for an arts and entertainment district.”

The studios are scheduled to take over the Court-N-Cedar building at 231 G Street and will house approximately 20 to 22 artists.

Construction is currently underway to renovate the existing office space into a more suitable zone for artist workshops.

The second floor is set to be open for use mid-summer, with the street level following toward the end of the year.

Although the project remains in the preliminary stages, Bisch said that the structure for the studios has already been final-

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an 8-6 advantage into the final innings.

Utah was down to their final out with a runner on first, and Shaun Cooper connected for a two-run homer to left field, tying the game at eight runs apiece and forcing extra innings.

In the bottom of the tenth inning, Williams drew a walk, then moved to third base on pitcher Tyler Wagner’s botched throw to first. The bases were loaded to create a force-out at any base, but Popkins’ second hit-by-pitch of

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The Downtown Davis Open Artist Studios will replace the Court-N-Cedar building on G Street. ized. The studios are being modeled using a starter kit produced by the Torpedo Factory, an art studio, in Alexandria, Virginia. The goal is to provide a single

space where artwork can be created, displayed, discussed and purchased. The public is welcome to experience the entire artistic process: to watch artists work and

tired San Jose State in the bottom of the 11th inning, but due to impending darkness, the game was postponed until further notice.

The Spartans struck early, scoring two in the bottom of the first inning, at the same time holding UC Davis hitless through five innings.

Morgan’s attempt for a sacrifice bunt with Young on first base in the sixth inning proved to be the Aggies’ first hit and rally starter; Allgrove followed with an RBI single to left. Allgrove scored on Popkins’ base hit, who then stole Tuesday — UC Davis 3, San Jose second and scored UC Davis’ third State 3; 12 innings run of the inning on a single from Freshman Spencer Koopmans re- Nick Lynch.

the game brought home the winning run and earned the Aggies a walk-off series win.

“It bodes well for a long season that we can play four games in four days and pull out a win like this,” said head coach Matt Vaughn. “We had a chance to put the game away in the first four or five innings and we relaxed a little bit. For them to hang in there and come back and put up some runs late and to see the young guys do what they’re doing has been outstanding.”

to talk with them about their pieces.

Artists are required to submit an application along with samples of their work in order to be considered for a space. Nina Gatewood, deputy director of the DDBA, said that like the Torpedo Factory, the selection of artists will be decided by jury panel.

“The artists will not only be judged on quality, but also on their potential to make good use of the space,” she said.

Preference will be given to artists whose work is two-dimensional, such as painters and photographers, as opposed to the three-dimensional styles of sculpture or ceramics. Gatewood said that the artists who are selected will have to commit to a certain number of hours per week and must be willing to talk with visitors.

The cost of a space in the Court-N-Cedar building will be a one-time security deposit of $250. The rent for a 10-foot by 10-foot quadrant is $150 per month.

According to Associate Pastor Bill Habicht at the Davis Community Church, who runs the Facebook page for the studios, the next planning meeting will occur today at 9 a.m. The meeting will be at the Dresbach-Hunt-Boyer House at 604 Second Street next to the Varsity Theatre.

All interested parties are invited to attend.

CHLOE BREZSNY can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

San Jose State equalized in the bottom of the seventh, and the score remained tied at three for the rest of the afternoon.

UC Davis will travel to Southern California to play a three-game series at CSU Bakersfield next weekend, then face another Pac-12 foe in Stanford next Tuesday.

Coach Vaughn stressed the importance of not looking past the Bakersfield series even though playing Stanford will be “fun.”

Although unlikely, there is a possibility the Aggies could face Cardinal pitcher Mark Appel, who will potentially be the No. 1 overall pick in the 2012 MLB Draft. Vaughn isn’t worried about

that, especially with three games to play before the Stanford matchup.

“Our approach is one pitch at a time, one game at a time,” Vaughn said. “Stanford is one of the dates; you look at the schedule at the beginning of the year and mark it down, but Bakersfield, in my opinion, should have been a playoff club last year. They’re very good, especially at home. It’s going to tough.”

The first game versus CSU Bakersfield will be Friday — first pitch at 6:00 p.m.

RUSSELL EISENMAN can be reached at sports@ theaggie.org.

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Who’s That Aggie?

Meet Miguel Espinoza

By KELSEY SMOOT Aggie Features Writer

Editor’s note: In Who’s That Aggie?, The California Aggie finds a student on campus and investigates their background and experiences at UC Davis.

Junior women and gender studies major Miguel Espinoza is, on paper, what some might call the average UC Davis student. Espinoza studies hard in school, works on campus as an ASUCD senator and enjoys dancing and reading. In reality, the college junior is a self-professed gender-non-conformist-army-brat-activist who is currently contemplating their next big move, as they will be finished with their undergraduate degree a year early this summer.

Espinoza identifies as transgender and/ or gender non-conforming, and prefers to be referred to with gender-neutral pronouns, such as “they,” “them” and “their.”

Espinoza said that being queer in high school was a challenge, but they made it through because of close friends.

“It wasn’t the easiest time in my life. I was a queer Latino in a predominately upper middle class school. Depending on who you are, things can get really tough. I kept the people that understood me close, and built community,” Espinoza said.

Being a gender non-conformist also presents challenges in Espinoza’s home life. While their parents know about them being transgendered, they said that it can be difficult to not fight. They also said that while they maintain their gender non-conforming identity when at home, they tend to dress a bit more conservatively, opting for jeans over a skirt.

“We try not to fight. I want to have a good relationship with my parents. I’ve been trying to just call my mom and just joke, because I can make her laugh,” Espinoza said.

Because Espinoza’s father was in the

military, they moved every two to three years when they were younger. Espinoza said that moving so often made the bond between family members strong.

“We were the only ones who knew where each family member was every step of the way. We never kept friends when we moved away, and we visited extended family members, but not too often,” Espinoza said.

Though Espinoza considers North Carolina to be their home after attending middle school and high school there, they have lived in California, Washington, Hawaii, Georgia and Kentucky, in addition to traveling abroad. Espinoza said that they like the feeling of being able to put down roots, but often wishes to move around again.

“I loved being able to finally settle down, but I got really itchy to move after a while,” Espinoza said.

This coming summer could be the revival of Espinoza’s moving pattern, as they are on track to graduate early. After entering high school early and taking advanced classes, Espinoza eventually ran out of high-level classes to take, and began taking classes at a community college. This academic head start left Espinoza with nearly a year’s worth of college credit coming to UC Davis.

Though they say that they would like to stay at UC Davis for another year, the decision to stay would be a costly one.

“If I did stay another year, I’d really like to get into education. Sometimes I think I could eventually be a college professor.

Other times I’m not sure,” they said.

In addition to serving as an ASUCD senator, Espinoza works as a Gender and Sexuality coordinator for the Chican@/ Latin@ community at the Student Recruitment and Retention Center. They said that they love their job because it could hardly be considered work.

Espinoza’s favorite thing about UC Davis is the extent to which the student body is

CARROLL Cont. from page 3 party called a “massive assault on families.” Not long after, the UK saw student uprisings against Parliament’s vote to triple university tuition.

In America, we’ve long become accustomed to austerity measures and attacks on the poor, but class warfare reached a greater pitch with the long recession.

With “Downton Abbey,” however, we see a very different picture of the ruling class. As the series progresses, we see the

active.

“I love the student community. There are so many different things going on. We’re getting educated and doing things to educate ourselves,” Espinoza said.

They also said that part of the diversity and community building stems from Davis being “weird.”

“There’s just something about the space.

No one grew up in a place like Davis. It’s a weird community,” Espinoza said.

Espinoza’s father, Miguel Espinoza Sr., says that his namesake is an asset to the UC Davis Community.

“Ever since he got there, he’s being doing a lot for the school. He’s dedicated to what he does,” Espinoza Sr. said.

In agreement, Espinoza’s former roommate, junior physics major Louis Infante, says that the thing he admires most about

son during his youth will make future “Tyrones” just another applicant rather than “Tyrone the black applicant.” Racial comfort, in my opinion, is an effective solution to racism and establishing overall racial diversity. In order to live in a society in which schools and employers truly judge someone on the content of their character we must first achieve diversity in our respective lives.

Cont. from page 3 Identify ways to reduce excessive ICA administration costs and see that emphasis is placed instead on student-athlete welfare. This was not done as promised in 2010 and will clearly never happen on its own. ICA admin costs remain double those of Cal Poly and Sac State.

Insist that the diverse athletic participation opportunities associated with Women’s Rowing and Men’s Swimming/ Diving and Wrestling be fully restored.

Granthams provide healthcare to sick employees and make accommodations for workers with disabilities. The house gives charity to wounded veterans and even offers child support to a disgraced former servant.

Above all, though, the estate gives permanent employment to workers without many other prospects, even if it is carrying out pointless and unprofitable tasks like dressing the lords and ladies.

In a time of temp work, ruthless efficiency and the fraying of the social safety net, a television program that depicts the top one percent treating its underlings with loyalty and

abiding respect helps fulfill our frustrated utopian wishes. It provides imaginary compensation, or what Fredric Jameson would call a “fantasy bribe,” for the misery and uncertainty of late capitalism.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the camera dwells upon the sumptuous architecture and comforts of the Grantham manor. When families are being thrown out of their houses for unpaid mortgages, the notion that the home might be a lasting legacy to be passed down to one’s children becomes a pleasant dream of the past.

Thus, as the series continues, we watch with sadness as the Great War deals anoth-

aries and step into someone else’s. I don’t mean take some African American or Cont. from page 3 Chicano Studies courses, pus and we typically tend although it will help by setto stick together due to our ting the stage for small talk. small population. It is a lit- Instead, spark up a contle easier for non-whites versation with someone of because there are a lot of a different race at the bus white people, but our strug- stop or MU. gle lies in reaching out for Think of a CEO who esone reason or another. tablished a regular rela The solution is simple. tionship with a “Tyrone” Reach out! Venture outside while in college. This faof your cultural boundmiliarity with a black per-

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Miguel Espinoza, junior women and gender studies major, identifies as gender non-conformist.

medved

Espinoza is their passion. “[They] are always passionate. You can hear the passion in [their] voice. Whether [they] were for or against something, there was always a strong sense of caring and the ability to bring about change,” Infante said.

In the long term, Espinoza says that they could see themselves being an activist in San Francisco. They said the March 4 rally for education in addition to this year’s occupy protests have been some of the most memorable and exciting events in their time at UC Davis.

“These events come in cycles. I hope that people are attentive enough to recognize this, so we can all remember these moments,” Espinoza said.

KELSEY SMOOT can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

Evaluate different funding models for maximum sustainability for all sports. Consider mandating that all SASI, FACE and CEI funding be distributed to teams on an equal per-student-athlete basis (adjusting for Title IX compliance). Let those sports which cannot remain competitive at this level of secure funding be responsible for reducing costs (through roster management, minimizing travel expenses, changing conference affiliation, etc.) and/ or compete for less secure funding.

Then, when ICA has found its way once again, spread the word far and wide.

Many will be very glad to hear it. er blow to the declining aristocracy — an allegory of our failing hopes for the welfare state.

Of course, we cannot and should not return to the bad old days. But the strict hierarchy involved in “knowing one’s place” is a picture of relief when capitalism destroys all fixed social bonds. Somehow, when offered the stability and human concern of this old world, we forget for a moment the authoritarianism and obscene wealth that the upper class represents.

JORDAN S. CARROLL, who finds e-mail like something out of an H.G. Wells novel, can be reached at jscarroll@ucdavis.edu.

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GYMNASTICS PREVIEW

WOMEN’S LACROSSE PREVIEW

Teams: UC Davis at Seattle Pacific Pavilion. The Aggies hope to continue that Where: Brougham Pavilion — Seattle, Wash. streak this weekend with a sixth consecutive When: Friday at 7 p.m. away-win against the Falcons.

Who to watch: Junior Leah Houseman has be- The squad will look to clean up the falls that come a dominant force on balance beam in her narrowly kept them from a win against Air Force first season with UC Davis after transferring last Saturday. The Aggies held the lead through from Cal State Fullerton. three rotations, but saw first place slip from The Arcadia, Calif. native has scored back- their grasp after a disappointing performance to-back career highs on the event in on beam that involved three falls early the Aggies’ last two meets. The scores on in the line-up. of 9.825 and 9.850 are UC Davis’ top “We need to have a meet without marks for the event this season. counting a fall. Period,” Lavallee said.

Did you know? The last time that “We need to go [at least] 5-for-6 on evUC Davis competed against Seattle ery event. We still haven’t done that.”

Pacific the Aggies outscored the But as UC Davis proved last week Falcons on every event. against Air Force, the squad is not The strong performance came in short on talent. The Aggies captured a home-triangular against Seattle four out of five individual titles and rePacific and California in which UC mained competitive throughout the Davis outscored the Mountain Pacific Leah Houseman course of meet despite losing sophSports Federation rival 191.600 to junior omore Anna Shumaker to an injury 189.275. during warm-ups.

Preview: The Aggies return to conIf the team can bring the same levference action this Friday against rival Seattle el of performance to the meet that they see in Pacific. practice each week, the Aggie will feel good Since Head Coach John Lavallee took the about their chances in Seattle. coaching position five years ago, UC Davis has won each annual road trip to Brougham — Kaitlyn Zufall

Teams: UC Davis at Saint Mary’s game of the season for over a month Records: Aggies 1-0 (1-0); Gaels 0-1 on Thursday.

(0-1) Following their match-up with Where: Saint Mary’s Stadium — Saint Mary’s, UC Davis will play eight Moraga, Calif. non-conference games before it faces When: Today at 7 p.m.

MPSF foe California Apr. 4.

Who to Watch: Sophomore goalkeep- The Aggies know that facing the er Jordan Majka will be looking to pro- Gaels is never an easy task, and to vide a steady presence in the get a result this time, coach goal for the Aggies this season.

Elaine Jones knows the team The Lake Forest, Ill. native will have to keep its head in tallied eight saves in UC Davis’ the game. season opening victory over “We have to stay focused San Diego State last week. and follow the game plan,” Did you know? Thursday’s she said. game against Saint Mary’s And even after a convincwill have a little extra meaning 18-7 win over San Diego ing for UC Davis senior Laura State last week, Jones beSunday, whose sister Rachel is lieves the Aggies still have Jordan Majka a sophomore defender for the things they can work on this sophomore Gaels. week.

Laura Sunday started in the “There are always imAggies’ win over San Diego State last provements we need to make,” Jones week. said. “We’ll continue to improve out Preview: After kicking off confer- defense. I always expect a good game ence play in their season-opener last against Saint Mary’s.” week, the Aggies will play their final

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camp Cont. from front page of them want to work with youth or in education. The training course is an opportunity to align camps with academic success- leadership, program planning, education and recreation.”

Youth Program’s spring training is a unique facet of working for Campus Rec over the summer that gives it an edge over returning to summer jobs at home. Rather than making the abrupt transition from school to a full-time recreation job, the groundwork of being a good counselor has already been established throughout the spring, improving the experience on the sides of both the staff and campers.

“It’s about building relationships before the camp starts — you don’t have that at home,” Carozza said.

Other members of the student

project Cont. from front page to Hess.

Public comments are taken into serious consideration, Hess said. She added that even if a person’s dimensions or exact plans are not feasible to the engineering of the corridor, she will still try to extract the essence of the

staff, which consists of three managers and two student assistants, who work throughout the year on developing programs for the upcoming season, are looking forward to the revamped program as well.

“I’m really excited about our new training program and working with the staff we hire to create another great camp experience for the kids,” said Avery Miller, senior psychology major and student assistant for Youth Programs. “It’s so rewarding to be able to share everything the UC has to offer with local families in this way.”

Throughout the course of the summer, program managers will be doing all they can to keep up the professional development aspect of the job while maintaining the positive sense of community among staff. They are planning to host barbeques, potlucks and weekend trips such as rafting trips.

“We are also planning to put on

person’s idea and incorporate it into the project.

“The design will attempt to include all of the ideas from the public comments page,” Hess said. “We want Davis residents to not only approve of, but love the end result.”

Popular ideas include requests for the corridor to calm traffic in neighborhoods directly off of the

plenty of professional development workshops over the summer,” Carozza said. “Our priority is student development. By working for Youth Programs, you may only earn student wages, but you will gain a lot for your future.”

So is the camp counselor experience at Youth Programs worth withstanding the brutal Davis heat?

“It’s hot in the summer, and exhausting,” Heiser said. “But at the same time we really strive to help our kids make friends at the camps and leave having known that they made a connection with someone else. For the staff, it’s the same thing.

It makes living in the town they go to school in feel completely different.”

A summer job through Campus Rec can indeed maximize the summer experience in Davis.

“No other job will be as fun,” Carozza said. “It will be hot, but you will manage to survive. We do not force you to wear pants.”

LANI CHAN can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

street, increase ease of accessibility from downtown to the UC Davis campus and create more entrances to downtown. Most people requested bike lanes.

Opposition to the project is minor, but according to Namazi there has been some doubtful expression on the public comment page.

People who do not ap-

BASKETBALL Cont. from page 10 after having cut away the Titans’ 13 point second half lead.

Now in the tail end of the season, the Titans have established themselves as one of the premier teams in the conference, while the Aggies have struggled in Big West Conference play.

CSU Fullerton is in second place in the league and averages 77.3 points per game, the most of any team. The Titans also lead the conference in three-point field goal percentage and defensive rebounding.

“They’re a really good team,” Les said. “They shoot the ball very well. [Our success last time] was a combination of us playing good defense and they also missed some shots.

“It’s going to be paramount on Saturday that we’re solid de-

prove of the project are concerned that it will decrease the ability for a vehicle to drive from one side of Davis to the other and/or for shoppers to get from one side to another, Namazi said. She added that other critics think putting one through lane in each direction will slow direction and add new safety concerns. Another

fensively as a unit and we make sure we contest their shooters.

They can really be explosive and put up points in a hurry.”

The Aggies will be lifted by the return of freshman guards Tyrell Corbin and Paolo Mancasola.

Corbin missed the last game due to injury and Mancasola went down after playing only 13 minutes. Without the two guards, UC Davis struggled to find any offensive rhythm.

Injuries have been a consistent problem for the Aggies this season. Ryan Sypkens was lost for the season after just four games and Ryan Howley has not played in the last nine contests. Miller also missed six games due to injury.

The Aggies will look for a scoring lift from Harrison DuPont, who has averaged 17 points and 6.6 rebounds in his last three games.

— Caelem Shove

worry she reported was that some think the addition of bike lanes will cause even heavier traffic in an already-crowded corridor.

UC Davis English major Andy Le said that he feels comfortable riding his bike on Fifth Street the way it is.

“The cars are more scared of you than you are of them,”

Le said.

After conducting community workshops, finalizing the project design and preparing the specifications for construction, the next step of the project is to hire a construction company to complete the job.

Interested companies must go through a bidding process with the city, ac-

FBI seeks to use apps to predict terrorist acts

By Judah Martin

The Crimson White (University of Alabama)

There seems to be a smart phone application for just about everything, be it storm alerts or GPS navigation. Most recently, however, the United States government began to push for its own terrorism app that would not only track terrorist threats, but also predict foreign uprisings.

The idea sprang up in response to the hundreds of intelligence personnel working daily to examine Facebook and Twitter posts in an effort to track foreign occurrences. The apparent intent of this new technology, as outlined in a formal request for information by the FBI, is to mechanize this process.

This would include analyzing every existing form of social media, but its idea goes deeper than simply studying posts by web users. The proposed app would also be able to track web searches, Wikipedia edits and traffic cameras, but would also focus on monitoring information on social media sites that would potentially affect military soldiers.

“Social media has emerged to be the first

instance of communication about a crisis, trumping traditional first responders that included police, firefighters, [emergency medical technicians] and journalists,” the FBI wrote in its request. “Social media is rivaling 911 services in crisis response and reporting.”

Some, like Ginger McCall, director of the open government project at the Washington, D.C. based Electronic Privacy Information Center, are troubled by the thought of being so closely observed under the government’s watchful eye. McCall is concerned also with the effect that this may have on users of social network sites.

“Any time that you have to worry about the federal government following you around peering over your shoulder listening to what you’re saying, it’s going to affect the way you speak and the way that you act,’’ McCall said in a statement to the Associated Press.

Emily Ritter, assistant professor in the U. Alabama Department of Political Science, has a different perspective on the issue.

“Much of what people post on social media or networking sites is publicly available for people to see,” Ritter said. “For the gov-

ernment to monitor those interactions and look for information in them is perfectly legal and [is] not an invasion of privacy. It’s like writing on a billboard and saying people shouldn’t look at it and draw conclusions from it.

“Anyone could use Twitter to gather the kind of information for which the government seems to be looking. The trouble arises if the development of technology that makes it easier to monitor information on public sites also makes it easier to do things that are invasions of rights or privacy.”

Alan Alexander, an Alabama sophomore studying journalism and political science, questions how effective the app would be in identifying terrorist threats.

“I feel that, if a terrorist were planning something, they wouldn’t use [social media],” Alexander said. “I would definitely be more careful with how I used [social media] if they made the app.”

Despite controversies about privacy issues, many government workers, like Ross Stapleton-Gray, a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst turned technology consultant, remain positive about

the possibilities of such an app.

“It really ought to be the golden age of intelligence collection in that you’ve got people falling all over themselves trying to express who they are,” Stapleton-Gray told the Associated Press.

There are a few technological barriers, however, inhibiting the FBI’s app idea from becoming a reality. The most difficult challenge at the moment is figuring out a way to teach computers to decipher between essential and useless information.

William McCants, an analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses and former State Department official who now monitors alQaeda propaganda online, believes that the FBI and other agencies may become too dependent on technology. He fears that automated analysts won’t be able to sort through important information with the same accuracy of a real person.

“The more data you use and the more complicated the software, the more likely it is you will confirm a well-known banality,” McCants told the Associated Press. “You didn’t need to be on Twitter to know that a revolution was happening in Egypt.”

Cell phone use associated with selfish behavior, study finds

By Josephine Woolington

Oregon Daily Emerald (University of Oregon)

New research from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at U. Maryland found that cell phone use may be linked to people being less likely to interact with others.

In a working paper called “The Effect of Mobile Phone Use on Prosocial Behavior,” two marketing professors and a graduate student

conducted three experiments using college students in their early 20s.

They found that students who used a cell phone were less likely to engage in “pro-social behavior,” which the study defined as actions intended to benefit an individual or society. The researchers think this is because cell phone use satisfies people’s need for connecting with others, which reduces their motivation to help others or volunteer.

“We had always been interested in the idea that a technology that should increase social inter-

action may have the opposite effect,” Rosellina Ferraro, co-author of the study, said. “We had seen some anecdotal evidence suggesting that people were using their cell phones as a way to avoid social contact.”

According to numbers from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, about 95 percent of American adults ages 18 to 24 own a cell phone. The researchers worry that the desire to help others may become a problem as the number of Americans who own a

cell phone increases.

In one experiment, 197 undergraduate students were divided into two groups. One group was instructed to use Facebook for three minutes and the other group was instructed to use a cell phone for three minutes. After the time was up, both groups were shown an advertisement for a charity called, “Help the Homeless” and were asked how likely they were to volunteer at the charity. Group members who used a cell phone were less likely to volunteer than

those who used Facebook.

“While social connection may be a benefit of using Facebook, many people may utilize it more for stating their status rather than connecting,” Ferraro said.

“Contacts on Facebook are more diverse and diffused compared to mobile phone contacts.”

Ferraro said they plan to conduct subsequent studies on the topic and will also research whether using other social media, such as Skype and Facebook, show similar effects.

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Exciting finish UC Davis defeats Utah in extras Baseball

By RUSSELL EISENMAN Aggie Sports Writer

The UC Davis baseball team blew a fiverun lead, but pulled out an extra-inning victory on a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch.

The Aggies traveled to San Jose State for a one-game match-up Tuesday afternoon, but after 12 innings and the score tied 3-3, the game was halted due to impending darkness and postponed until further notice.

With the win, UC Davis moved to 3-1 on the season.

Monday — UC Davis 9, Utah 8; 10 innings Utah starting pitcher Tanner Tripp recorded a total of one out, as UC Davis pounded the Utes’ starter with four runs in the first inning.

Shortstop Alex Lipson drew a walk to open the bottom half of the first, then moved to third on a double from Ryan Allgrove. Paul Politi brought Lipson home with a sacrifice fly, a pitch hit David Popkins and Austin

Logan ripped a double to bring two more runners home. Lipson recorded an RBI hit in the second inning to give the Aggies an early 5-0 lead.

Lipson’s heroics were just getting started, when in the top of the third with two Utah runners on and nobody out, Tyson Gonzalez hit a line drive right to Lipson, who then stepped on second base and threw to Logan at first for an unassisted triple play. It was the first triple play at Dobbins Stadium since 2007 when Evan Hudson performed the feat versus Portland.

Utah regrouped, scoring three in the top of the fifth and James Brooks launched a three-run home run over the center field wall in the sixth to give the Utes a 6-5 lead.

The Aggies responded when Brett Morgan led off the bottom half of the sixth with a base hit, moved to second on an Adam Young sacrifice bunt and then scored after pinch hitter John Williams hit a triple to the right field corner. Lipson brought home Williams with a sacrifice fly to put UC Davis back on top, 7-6. The Aggies added another run in the bottom of the seventh to take

UC Davis ruins Santa Clara’s Home Opener Justine Vela dominates with a 15-strikeout complete game softball

By DOUG BONHAM Aggie Sports Writer

Coming off a difficult road trip in San Diego, UC Davis bounced back with a 3-2 win as it traveled to the Bay Area to face Santa Clara University.

After a few tough losses against nationally ranked teams in the first week of play, the Aggies entered the game hungry for a victory. With the win over the Broncos, UC Davis moved to 4-8 in the season.

Freshman pitcher Justine Vela was the story of the game, ripping apart Santa Clara University’s batters with 15 strikeouts in a complete game effort. Vela was relentless from the start, striking out three in the opening inning and setting the tone in the home opener for the struggling Broncos.

“I was really proud of her performance,” said coach Karen Yoder about Vela.”[Especially] the tenacity that she had on the mound.”

Despite the great effort from Vela, however, the Aggies’ offense struggled to capitalize offensively, with Santa Clara starting pitcher Jessica Turner keeping UC Davis off the scoreboard until the fourth inning when Kayla Tyler, who was pinch running for Rachael Miller, scored during a double-play.

Cassandra Ginnis and Alison Smith would add two more runs in the fifth inning for the Aggies off of center-field singles by Tyler and Kelly Schulze.

With a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the fifth, Santa Clara drew within a run after an inside-the-park home run by Bronco speedster Stephanie Fisher. This play seemed to temporarily shift the momentum away from the Aggies as Santa Clara made a great defensive play in the next inning to get out of a bases-loaded situation unscathed.

“It was a tense game,” remarked Yoder, “but we’ve got to make sure we have time-

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See BASEBALL, page 7 Brett Morgan posted UC Davis’ first hit in the extra-innings game against San Jose State.

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Freshman Justine Vela tallied 15 strikeouts in the Aggies’ win over Santa Clara. ly hitting and execute putting runners across when they are in scoring position.”

Vela, however, would put any fears of a Bronco comeback to rest, stepping up again by striking out the side in the bottom of the sixth, as well as putting the Broncos away with two more strikeouts in the final inning to seal the Aggie victory.

“This team just has a large amount of fight and focus” Yoder said, “[And] that’s going to take us places.”

UC Davis will return to Southern California this weekend to play five games in the Cathedral City Classic tournament.

DOUG BONHAM can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PREVIEW Teams: UC Davis at Pacific team at least once this season except UC Records: Aggies 15-10 (7-6); Tigers 14-10 Irvine, and head coach Jennifer Gross is (7-5) confident in the team’s abilities late in the Where: Alex G. Spanos Center — Stockton, season.

Calif.

“We feel good going down the stretch,” When: Saturday at 4 p.m.

Gross said. “We’re fighting for that home Who to Watch: UC Davis had two disap- game and every game is crucial.” pointing games this past week, Gross is trying to get the but senior Samantha Meggison team to focus on themselves had a career weekend. and their performance rather than the standings. The past In the Aggies’ loss to Long week, they had solid grasps on Beach State, Meggison dropped the games and let them slip a career-high 20 points, marking away. only the second time this season a UC Davis player has scored over “You have to bring it for 40 20 points. minutes, the focus and the intensity,” she said. “At this point, it’s Meggison then followed this behind us and we have to keep performance with 19 points on moving forward.”

Saturday, the bulk of which was Samantha Meggison her 11 free throws, also a career senior This upcoming week, the high.

Aggies have some time to regroup Did you know? The UC Davis and refocus for a lone game on women’s basketball program finished last the road against Pacific on Saturday. season at 10-6 in Big West play, good for 4th Last time, UC Davis pulled out a 59-51 in the conference. nailbiter over the Tigers at the Pavilion.

After this past tough week, they hold a The Tigers have a record similar to that 7-6 league record that places them 5th in of the Aggies, at 14-10 overall and 7-5 in the tight race for the title. conference. Pacific is currently 3rd in the With three games remaining, the Aggies Big West Standings, which shows how close will be fighting for one of the top four po- this race is. sitions, and with it, the home-court ad- Depending on how things go in other vantage for the first round of the Big West conference games, a victory over Pacific Conference tournament. could potentially propel UC Davis to 3rd in Preview: The Aggies sustained two losses the Big West. this weekend on the road but are not in a If the Aggies can pull out a victory over position to panic. The worst-case scenar- the Tigers, they will be in good shape comio would have them losing the rest of their ing into the last two games at home. UC three games and still grabbing a seventh Davis holds a stellar 8-2 record when playseed in conference. ing at the Pavilion.

— Matthew Yuen UC Davis has beaten every Big West

MEN’S BASKETBALL PREVIEW Teams: UC Davis vs. Cal State Fullerton Records: Aggies, 4-23 (2-11); Titans, 18-7 (9-3) Where: The Pavilion When: Saturday at 7 p.m.

Who to watch: At this time last year Adam Malik was just another UC Davis student, not a member of the NCAA Division I Aggie Adam Malik men’s basketball senior team.

After playing in 32 games in 2009-10 season — he started in 10 of them, averaging 17.2 minutes and 4.6 points per game — Malik did not compete in the 2010-11 season.

Having rejoined the team at the beginning of this season, the 6’8” senior from La Canada, Calif. is preparing to play in his final game in the Pavilion.

“It’s really good to have Adam in the program,”

first-year Head Coach Jim Les said. “He wanted to come back and we’ve been very fortunate to have him.

He’s an outstanding young man … and he’s done a great job all year in practice working hard and competing and we’re certainly appreciative of him and his efforts.”

In last weekend’s comeback win at Northern Arizona Malik scored a season high six points and recorded four rebounds. His back-to-back threes early in the second half were instrumental in the Aggie comeback.

Malik has averaged 8.1 minutes per game in his final season with the Aggies and has shot 16-40 from the field this season.

Did you know? After losing their first 21 games of the season against Division

I opponents, the Aggies have won three out of their last five contests.

Preview: The final home game of the 2011-12 season will be senior day for Malik and fellow senior Eddie Miller.

Miller transferred to UC Davis after playing for two years at California, and has been a leader for the Aggies since his arrival on campus.

Miller’s game this season was hindered early on by a nagging leg injury, but the second half of the year has him return to his scoring ways. He has posted double digit points in eight of the last ten games.

Both Malik and Miller will be honored before Saturday’s contest.

After the brief festivities, the Aggies will be eager to get a second crack at Cal State Fullerton.

When UC Davis visited Fullerton at the end of

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