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volume 131, number 88
wednesDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2012
City of Davis and ASUCD to host Davis Neighbors’ Night Out Event fosters student and community relations
By MEE YANG
Aggie News Writer
On Sunday, Davis will be seeing more people than usual on the block. Davis Neighbors’ Night Out (DNNO), an event sponsored by the City of Davis and ASUCD, will be in full swing from noon to 7 p.m. According to Stacey Winton, the community coordinator for the City of Davis, DNNO is a program that was developed in 2006 to better communication between neighborhoods and the students who move into them each year. DNNO is made up of block parties throughout the city. Each neighborhood has a liaison who connects with the sponsors and who is responsible for send-
ing out invitations, coordinating events and connecting with fellow neighbors for other logistics. “I have enlisted neighbors to set up chairs and bring stuff for the children to play with,” said Leah Ross, one of Mace Ranch neighborhood’s liaisons. “Everybody brings a dish and has a good time and we usually have a good turnout.” Other sponsors of DNNO are the Davis Police Department and ASUCD units like Unitrans. “The police department is putting together the party packs that we give them such as balloons, necklaces, nametags and other things based on what the hosts ask for,” Winton said. “Unitrans sends buses to show how they work and Band-uh and cheerleading groups from
UC Davis also come through the es who can help them find jobs or internships,” Ross said. “It’s neighborhoods.” With many students living a great way for students to netin residential homes in Davis, work and to be a member of the DNNO provides an opportunity community.” Besides instilling better commufor students and communinication among both ty members to get to groups, know one DNNO is another also an so that opporany potunity for tential longtime conflicts neighbors t h a t to look out might for one another. arise in the future may “Another goal be resolved peacefully. is to promote “I think it’s imporAmiel Chanowitz / Aggie c o m m u n i t y, tant [for students to come out to DNNO] because h e l p neighbors know each sometimes students don’t realize other, reduce crime and build a that their neighbors are resourc- sense of community feel,” Ross
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said. “In a neighborhood, there is always a lot of change; there are people who have lived here for 15 years and it’s exciting to meet them.” The block parties can range from 25 to 100 people, and each year it gets a little higher, Winton said. In addition, DNNO is good opportunity for students who live in Davis to meet neighbors who know that they are hardworking and want them to succeed during their time at UC Davis. Although the number of students at some block parties is small, Barbara Zadra, North Miller Drive liaison, said students are welcome to attend and neighbors would love to get to know them. MEE YANG can be reached at city@theaggie.org.
A look at ‘Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today’s College Student’ Authors’ findings ring true and false for UC students
Rewriting the textbook on mammary growth
By GHEED SAEED Aggie News Writer
Until now, breasts were thought to grow only in the presence of the hormone estrogen. A combination of other factors before and during the period of breast development, including diet, obesity and metabolic syndrome — characterized by resistance to the
A new book entitled Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today’s College Student, published Sept. 24, narrows in on our “wired-in” college generation, highlighting both facts and commonly accepted truths surrounding today’s college generation. Authors Arthur Levine and Diane Dean, the president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and a professor of education at Illinois State University respectively, compiled research taken from national surveys of students and site visits to 31 campuses across the United States. For California in particular, Dean and Levine’s research stretched to the coast of UC Santa Barbara, the San Diego Community College District, Pepperdine in Malibu and Mount St. Mary in Los Angeles, ranging from private, selective, to broader accessibility. Generation on a Tightrope is the fourth installment to 40 years of prior research done by Levine.
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Associate professor Russ Hovey and graduate student Grace Berryhill found that mammary glands can develop in mice, even when estrogen had been eliminated, through diet. The study’s findings were published in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
By OYANG TENG Aggie Science Writer
In a finding that challenges decades of science orthodoxy, a team of researchers from UC Davis has isolated what appears to be a key part of the process linking early-life diet to breast cancer risk.
Ann Prepare Lavni makes summer trip to Haiti Haitian government donates two acres of land By ANDREW POH Aggie News Writer
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Senior Carolina Tavárez traveled to Haiti with Ann Prepare Lavni (APL) to promote education in Anse-á-Pitres. APL is raising funds to build a library in the town.
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This summer, the student organization Ann Prepare Lavni (APL) embarked on its maiden trip to Anse-á-Pitres, a small border town in Haiti with a population of about 8,000 people. For this first trip, only the president and founder of APL, Carolina Tavárez, was able to go, though a future trip is planned for December in which more members should be able to attend. Tavárez is currently a senior at UC Davis, majoring in Spanish with an emphasis in Latin American and Caribbean studies and minoring in education. Ann Prepare Lavni is a Haitian Creole phrase meaning “Let us prepare the future.” Forecast
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The goal of APL according to its mission statement is “[To provide] an enhanced learning environment and [promote] educational advancement throughout the community of Anse-à-Pitres — while simultaneously offering college students hands-on global service learning experience that allows them to apply their academic knowledge of their prospective disciplines.” During this first trip Tavárez was able to give the children of Anse-à-Pitres the educational supplies that had been donated prior to the trip. She was also able to work closely with a wide range of kids between first to sixth grade. “[The experience was] life-changing,” Tavárez said in an email. “The students love to learn and to go to school. For them going to school is an essential part of their
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lives. They were so happy and grateful for everything we sent them.” Though the other members of APL were unable to make the trip they still felt the same joy that Tavárez felt knowing the impact they made on the children’s lives. “We were really happy to see all the kids’ faces and know that they are learning a lot and they had all the supplies needed to start learning,” said Vice President of APL Jennifer Vergara in an e-mail. Vergara, a fourth-year biochemistry and molecular biology major, didn’t attend this trip, but will be going on the second trip in December. Lidia Tavárez, co-founder and media and publicity administrator, chimed in
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