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volume 131, number 65
tuesday, May 15, 2012
Woodstock’s Pizza obtains a full liquor license Trivia Night will now be later, separated by age By ANGELA SWARTZ Aggie City Editor
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Showing up to find seating before 8:30 p.m. for Woodstock’s Pizza in Davis’ Trivia Night may no longer be enough to guarantee a spot. Starting Thursday, Woodstock’s Trivia Night will begin at 10 p.m. Those under 21 can still take part, but will have to answer questions from upstairs while listening to the hosts through a speaker system. Dee Clark, the Davis Woodstock’s general manager, said the changes to Trivia make it easier for alcohol control, as the restaurant just got their full liquor license. The new liquor license became effective yesterday. Up until this week, in Trivia’s threeyear history, all participants could inhabit the half of Woodstock’s that houses the bar and seating area for Trivia starting at 9 p.m. The format of Trivia will remain the same, still around an hour and a half long and free of charge. There are several types of liquor licenses for restaurants, ranging from a type 40 to a type 47, according to Paul Fuentes, the Sacramento
In order to control alcohol consumption, Trivia Night players will be separated by age.
Students, faculty still up in arms over budget cuts er education. CSU Chancellor Charles Reed spoke with the hunger strikers on the topic of their demands on May 4. CSU Media Relations Specialist Erik Fallis said they were deeply concerned about the fasting students. “As the CSU, we have expressed deep concern about the health of the students and the academic welfare of the students participating in the hunger strike because frankly, if you’re not taking in nourishment, and you have to go in and take a test or write a paper, that is not going to be good for you academically,” Fallis said. Fallis said the CSU urges students to express themselves in a way that doesn’t invite harm and risk to their healths and academics. On May 2, the CFA, a faculty union repre-
By CLAIRE TAN
Beginning May 2, a dozen California State University (CSU) students held a hunger strike across six campuses, vowing to continue fasting until their demands for a fiveyear tuition moratorium, cutbacks on executive and administration pay and more freedom of expression on campuses were met. After nine days, the students called it quits after negotiations came to naught. The hunger strike was organized by Students for Quality Education (SQE), taking place at the Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Long Beach, Northridge, Sacramento and San Bernardino campuses. Assisted by the California Faculty Association (CFA), SQE is a student organization built upon upholding educational rights in public high-
senting 23,000 CSU faculty members across all 23 CSU campuses, voted in favor of rolling two-day strikes beginning Fall 2012. These strikes will initiate if the CFA and CSU fail to meet a labor agreement. “In terms of the faculty staff, we’ve been in negotiations for two years now on a contract for CSU faculty,” said CFA spokesperson Brian Ferguson. “The management in the CSUs has demanded some pretty hefty concessions from faculty in terms of class sizes, working conditions and even pay.” Ferguson said the CSU’s demands would negatively impact the faculty’s ability to provide education in the classrooms and provide students the ability to get the kind of education they came to the CSUs to pursue. Fallis said a bargaining meeting with CFA
voking debate and it is clear that not all support it. “With State funding now down to 10 percent of total revenue for the campuses, UC needs to generate funding from other (non-state) sources. Such money has to be generated at the level of individual campuses not at the all-university level,” King said. He said this is the only way to preserve the UC’s public mission. “These other sources include partnerships of various sorts, issuespecific giving, increased compet- James Kim / Aggie itiveness to win grants and contracts, and
With the continuing decrease in state funding to the University of California (UC) schools and subsequent tuition increases, several people have come up with alternative ways of generating revenue and controlling costs. One such example is a proposal from the Center for Studies in Higher Education that states that the UC Regents delegate some responsibilities to the campus boards. The proposal was written by C. Judson King, director at the center, and UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. The publication of this proposal is pro-
By LANI CHAN Aggie Staff Writer
For a vendor who has been at the Davis Farmers Market for more than 20 years, serving a consistently long line of loyal (and addicted) customers every Saturday morning is about more than just coffee. Mark Sedgley, founder and owner of Espresso Road, considers himself a housewife. He lives in West Davis with his wife and two kids, and said he has always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad. But he keeps his off-time productive as the man behind the popular coffee cart in Central Park and a friend, neighbor and uncle to those that make up the Davis Farmers Market community. “I’m the coffee guy. It’s like being out there in the community without being the mayor,” Sedgley said. “It’s an absolute fun, and it preserves a happiness.”
entrepreneurial activities of various sorts including online education, all of which are highly specific to the individual campuses,” Birgeneau told The L.A. Times. “What the campuses would gain from creation of campus boards by the Regents is the flexibility, agility, and dedicated and specific knowledge of the campus that will enable generating those other sources in ways that are best for both the campus and the public mission.” Since the campuses will still have to follow the broad UC guidelines, the
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Measure has already started to stir debate about its various implications Aggie News Writer
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Mark Sedgley has owned and operated Espresso Road for more than 20 years.
The product The Espresso Road coffee cart has a full menu of espresso drinks, brewed coffee and tea, all available hot or iced and mostly under $4. “A good cup of coffee won’t taste sour, make you jittery, or be hard on your stomach,” Sedgley said. “There’s a culinary value in the art of making coffee. I won’t pull a bad shot of espresso.” Management had to move Espresso Road because the line of devoted coffee drinkers was so long, it blocked the flow of traffic. Along with the bevy of coffee beverages available, Espresso Road also serves treats for kids. Hot chocolate with Ghiradelli syrup, steamed milk and marshmallows is served every morning, a taste likened to a See’s candy bar that has rubbed off on Sedgley’s 15-yearold son, Jake Sedgley. “Never make chocolate milk with water, only milk,” Jake Sedgley said. Mark Sedgley serves only what he considers the best, and is so in tune with quality control that he can tell when the weather is looking “muggy around the equator” just from the taste of the coffee beans. “Once a year or so, the quality changes and I’ll have to cut in something a little lighter, because it’s so overcaffeinated I call it ‘angry coffee,’” he said. Mark Sedgley uses three-gallon coffee filters, bundled up around the grinds to form “coffee balls,” to steep each batch of coffee-like tea.
Proposal suggests local control for UC campuses By PAAYAL ZAVERI
After 20 years, coffee cart synonymous with Saturday morning
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CSU students end nine-day hunger strike, faculty authorizes strikes Associate City Editor
Farmers Market Vendor of the Week: Espresso Road
ASUCD continues to reject UCSA membership Cost of joining remains significant issue for ASUCD senators By JUSTIN ABRAHAM Aggie News Writer
The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is engaging in a renewed effort to mend its tumultuous relationship with ASUCD in light of impending fee increases and this year’s instance of police brutality on campus. UCSA is a coalition of student organizations providing the “official” undergraduate and graduate stance on university issues.
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Since ASUCD’s cessation of membership in 2006, UC Davis is the only UC campus not represented in UCSA. According to ASUCD Senator Justin Goss, senior political science and philosophy double major, one of the primary reasons for the secession and the current frictional relationship is ASUCD’s unwillingness to pay for UCSA’s membership dues. “There are a number of reasons for leaving UCSA,” Goss said. “Number one, it’s just really expensive.” Forecast
That breeze that all you allergy sufferers out there love will be back! Sadly, it won’t be as powerful as it was last week, but at least you have two days of it to enjoy. It will be slightly cooler throughout the week compared to last week. Tyson Tilmont, atmospheric science major Aggie Forecasting Team
In order to become a member, student organizations would have to pay a minimum fee of $1.30 per student. This means that ASUCD would have to charge an additional 3 percent to students and allocate more than $40,000 from their budget to UCSA annually. Meanwhile, Lobby Corps, the main lobbying arm of ASUCD, received a subsidy of $28,424 from ASUCD for the 2011-2012 academic year. The majority of the revenue from membership dues goes toward UCSA’s support staff,
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directors, and field organizers. The money is also used to organize statewide student conferences and protest activities. A major contention between ASUCD and UCSA is the increase in the minimum contribution from $1.05 to $1.30 between 2004 and 2006. “Considering the tuition hikes we’ve seen, you would think that [UCSA] would want to alleviate some financial burden from the
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Krispy Kreme donuts for $1 at the South Entrance of the Silo today from 9-2. What more is there to say? Amanda Nguyen