December 3, 2012

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Davis, Woodland agree on cost-sharing for surface water project

MONDAY, december 3, 2012

Winter shelters open for homeless Homeless population sees decrease in age

On Nov. 21, Davis and Woodland came to an agreement on the cost-sharing of the Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency project.

According to the Davis Enterprise, both cities agreed to split construction-related, non-consumption costs 50-50. All consumption-based costs will be split 60-40 between Woodland and Davis, respectively.

The agreement reduced the cost for Davis by $10 million. It’s now estimated to cost Davis $103 million.

The new contract is required to be agreed upon by the city councils of both Woodland and Davis.

On Tuesday, the Davis City Council agreed to have a March 5 public vote that will determine the water project’s future.

The project will be paid for by raising the rates charged to water bills. Woodland citizens have approved the rates, while Davis citizens have yet to approve a rate.

Proposition 218, outlining the proposed rate, will be considered in January.

The surface water project will pump water from the Sacramento River, after which the water will be treated and then sent to Woodland and Davis to replace their use of groundwater.

Davis Police begin crackdown on driver texting, handheld cell use On Friday, the Davis Police Department (DPD) began their effort to eliminate the use of handheld cell phones while driving by issuing tickets. This will end on Sunday.

The DPD teamed up with the California Office of Traffic Safety, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the California Highway Patrol and 36 other law enforcement agencies across Sacramento as part of a federally funded pilot program that will test tactics that may be used in the future.

Drivers found using their handhelds will receive a first-time ticket of a minimum of $159. The second offense will cost $279.

The DPD said their goal is not to issue tickets, but to raise more awareness about distracted driving.

Lucas Bolster / Aggie

Davis Community Meals provides winter shelter for 10 individuals — eight men, two women — and meals three times a week. The shelter is located at 512 Fifth St. and will close March 31.

By CLAIRE TAN Aggie City Editor

Shelters for homeless individuals and families in the City of Davis opened for the cold-weather season beginning midNovember.

The Davis Community Meals winter shelter at 512 Fifth St. opened Nov. 12 and will close March 31. The Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter at various host sites opened Sunday and will continue until March 16. Additionally, Fourth and Hope at 207 Fourth St. in Woodland is open year-round.

“Davis Community Meals’ mission is to provide low-income and homeless individuals and families with housing, food and human services to help them rebuild their lives,” according to a Davis Community Meals description document.

Davis Community Meals Executive Director Bill Pride said the shelter began in 1990 when a recession was occurring and there were homeless individuals who

were becoming more noticeable around the city. Pride said people from faith groups and people from non-faith groups wanted to address the issue and started a soup kitchen in February 1991.

“Once that program started, it’s expanded since to providing meals three days a week,” Pride said. “Within a year, they started the first cold weather shelter in town.”

The shelter is funded largely by state and local federal funding, although a good portion of funds are donations from local individuals, businesses, churches and other people.

The Davis Community Meals cold weather shelter can provide shelter to 10 homeless individuals: eight men and two women.

Pride said the reason the shelter accommodates more males is that the homeless population is predominantly male. He said that every couple of years they conduct a homeless count in Davis, which is generally between 110 and 120 people.

The count includes those on the streets,

ASUCD senators bid farewell to table, new senators seated Elections Committee resolves complaints against running slates

Brian Nguyen / Aggie

Senators Armando Figueroa and Alyson Sagala (left-right) react after Vice President Yena Bae reads a letter from the Election Committee that allowed all new senators-elect to be seated.

By Joanna Jaroszewska Aggie News Writer

At Thursday night’s ASUCD Senate meeting six senators ended their terms and six new senators were sworn in.

The farewell speeches of the former senators, Anni Kimball, Justin Goss, Jared Crisologo-Smith, Patrick Sheehan, Erica Padgett and Carly

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Sandstrom, were followed by the swearing-in of newly elected senators Alyson Sagala, Armando Figueroa, Felicia Ong, Tal Topf, Liam Burke and Maxwell Kappes.

The seating of the new senators depended on the Elections Committee’s assessment of the complaints filed against the NOW and SMART slates shortly after the elections. Ultimately, all of the senators-

elect were seated.

Sagala, the only candidate denied a seat initially, said she was concerned that the meeting would not even be able to take place if the table did not meet quorum.

“There was this huge chance that no one was going to get seated because we had filed a complaint against the Elections Committee following my subsequent disqualification; no one was going to get sworn in, we weren’t going to meet quorum, we weren’t even going to have this meeting,” Sagala said. “So none of us knew this entire day … what six o’clock was going to be like.”

After calling the meeting to order, Vice President Yena Bae read a message from the Election Committee that clarified the situation and allowed for all the newly elected members to be seated.

“I think justice was served appropriately,” Sagala said.

The decision could potentially have affected all of the members, including newly elected senator Liam Burke, who ran as an independent.

“I was totally uninvolved in all the complaint allegations and violation points,” Burke said. “I was just trapped by all of that and I was hoping that it wouldn’t cause me to not get sworn in as well, but I’m glad that was all thrown out and I’m glad we

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in shelters and in transitional housing.

According to Pride, there are three forms of housing for the homeless: shelters, in which people stay a night and leave the next day; transitional housing, a middle ground between shelters and having a rental house; and affordable rental housing. “[Transitional housing is] basically a program where you can stay a determined length of time and during that time, you basically receive services to help address the root causes of you being homeless,” Pride said. “We’ve got staff, social workers and some mental health counselors who work with the folks who come in through the programs to help them figure out a way to address those problems, become self-sufficient in some shape or form and find some housing they can afford and move in there.”

According to a 2011 fact sheet, Davis Community Meals was able to provide 6,625 meals to 495 unique low-income

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Standing in Motion dances to first place Third Annual Davis’ Got Talent held Saturday

By MARIA MARCELINA CRYSTAL VEGA Aggie Features Writer

Ribbon fans fluttered through the air, changing from thick, brilliant strokes of color across the stage to thin wisps spiraling around dancing girls’ heads. They jumped, twirled and dazzled the audience with their synchronized moves.

The Applegate Dance Company’s junior-level dance troupe Standing in Motion took home the $200 prize Saturday at the third annual Davis’ Got Talent (DGT) show held at the Veterans Memorial Theater.

Competitors included singers, musicians and several dance groups.

After a unanimous decision, one of the dancers, 15-year-old Dany Cook, came out to accept the award on the group’s behalf and was then joined by the rest of the dance team.

“I knew we had a chance of winning, but I didn’t think we’d actually win,”

Cook said.

Applegate Dance Company’s director, Lisa Applegate, said she was excited that the dance team won and said that Cook had played an integral part in that achievement.

“I helped with the choreography and coming up with the motions for the fans because I did color guard for two years in middle school,” Cook said.

Cook and Applegate often met up after class at the dance studio and spent a few hours coming up with ideas for this particular dance, Cook said. Once the planning for the dance was done, certain dancers had to be trained separately to get their solos down for the performance.

“We kept having solo practices and I had to do my solo over and over again, but having everyone together just made it feel like a family almost,” Cook said.

When asked how she was

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Why do bicycles fall over?

Because they’re two-tired!

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TODAY

for students and children, $12 for adults.

THURSDAY

Senior Recital 5:30 to 6 p.m.

115 Music Watch Paul Newswanger play trumpet in this free performance.

Honest Ag Fair 6 to 10 p.m.

UC Davis CoHo Join CALPIRG’s first ever Honest Agricultural Fair. There will be guest speakers and student organizations talking about sustainable food practices and agriculture, as well as opportunities to learn about how to get involved on campus relating to the topic. Food, games and prizes will be provided.

TUESDAY Beyond the Hair, a talk by Hong Zhang, MFA 4 to 5 p.m.

Nelson Gallery Hong Zhang will share how her work has developed over the past decade and her life and working experience as a full‐time artist after graduate school. This talk is sponsored by East Asian Studies, Art History, Art Studio and the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.

WEDNESDAY Men’s Basketball 7 to 9 p.m.

ARC Pavilion Watch the men’s basketball team play against San Jose State.

Shakespeare Reading Group 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Pence Art Gallery, D Street Join the Shakespeare Reading Group as they read Hamlet. RSVP by emailing davis. shakespeare@gmail.com.

Jazz Bands 7 to 8 p.m.

Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center Watch this performance of the jazz bands with director Delbert Bump. Tickets are $8

Championing Beckett: Ruby Cohn and Her Legacy with Samuel Beckett 11 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.

Main Theatre, Wright UC Davis ITDP presents “Championing Beckett: Ruby Cohn and Her Legacy with Samuel Beckett,” a panel discussion examining the writing of the late Ruby Cohn, UC Davis professor emerita and renowned theater scholar and Samuel Beckett specialist. For more information go to theatredance.ucdavis.edu.

Shinkoskey Noon Concert 12:05 to 1 p.m.

115 Music Watch this free performance of Gamelan Ensemble with director Henry Spiller.

BME Seminar Alumni Series 4 to 5 p.m.

1005 GBSF, Main Floor Auditorium Join Dr. Scott Hazelwood, Associate Professor of Cal Poly SLO, in his seminar entitled “Career Path to Academia and Bone Research.” For more information, contact bmealumniseminar@ucdavis.edu.

Women’s Basketball 7 to 9 p.m.

ARC Pavilion Watch the women’s basketball team play against Saint Mary’s.

Poetry Night Reading Series 8 to 10 p.m.

John Natsoulas Gallery at 521 First St. The Poetry Night Reading Series welcomes Joshua McKinney. For more information, email Rachel Riley at rgriley@ucdavis.edu or visit the website www.poetryindavis.com.

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talent Cont. from front page feeling during the time leading up to the event, Cook said that she was starting to get nervous.

“I was really stressed out over the week. We’ve performed this dance, but we’ve never competed it, so I was really nervous, but I guess it turned out okay,” Cook said.

Roy Engoron, professor emeritus at UC Davis in the theatre department and one of the three judges for DGT, said he thought the award was well deserved.

“I feel great about the final decision. It was unanimous, but there were other acts that were out of the top spot by only a point or two,” Engoron said.

Performers were judged on categories like their presentation on stage, technical ability, appearance/costume, difficulty and appropriateness, according to DGT’s coordinator, Ajay Raj. “The hardest part of judging the performances is weighing how the performers tweaked their acts since the auditions,” Engoron said. “As a judge, you might have a preconceived notion of what you saw before, and all of a sudden there is a surprise which throws all of your notions out the window. It’s a delightful dilemma to be in.”

First-year judge Kyle Monhollen, who is a staff member at the Richard L. Nelson Gallery at UC Davis and executive board mem-

ber for the Davis School Arts Foundation, said he did have some favorites for the night.

“Brady Corcoran’s original guitar jam was great, and I was really impressed

by Crissman Paine’s song and voice. The winning dance troupe Standing in Motion is a talented, wellrehearsed group of young performers, but they were also obviously having fun too, and that confident, entertaining energy was what really came across and made the difference for me,” Monhollen said.

Along with the cash prize, winners are also typically offered the opportunity to perform at Davis’ community July 4 event.

However, Applegate and Raj both agreed the dance troupe was far too big for the stage. Plans for the $200 grand prize are already in the making, though.

“I’m going to use the money to hire male dancers for our annual showcase that we do,” Applegate said.

The Applegate Dance Company, located in Davis, has classes for individuals anywhere from 3 years old to adult and skill levels from beginning to intermediate. Cook said she has enjoyed her past three years with the company.

“It’s like a big family,” Cook said. “I love it.”

MARIA MARCELINA CRYSTAL VEGA can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

en to great film directors, composers and the occasional da Vinci.

Artists are studied — they are critically considered, written about and read about and put into Nick or vaults to be Frederici museums shown to the world and/ or protected from it. So how can you not take the modern artist seriously?

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Despite wanting to be Art is broad beyond part of the communicompare and the relationty, the absolute last thing ship between the creator, an artist wants is to fill the work, the audience and someone else’s space in the onlookers is complithat community. They cated. An argument can be want to carve out their made for its importance own niche and create on and effect on society, and their own terms, whether an argument just as comthat be defying convenpelling can be made for its tion or even following it, arbitrariness. Conflicting creating or teaching othviewpoints of what art is ers to express themselves and what an artist does put creatively, putting what is the arguments in a gridunique to them to. lock, and these largely phil- There are plenty of osophical questions repeople that use the word main unanswered. “artist” to describe them But there’s no question selves simply because that art has an impact. they want to seem more Certainly, if you want to interesting and so othbe taken seriously, claimers will think that there ing to be an artist (which is a purpose behind evcomes with all the conerything they do. These tradictory definitions and people want to be comquestions of necessity) is pared, they want to be a bad start. But is this a better than or at least as reflection of the respect great as others. I’d enshown toward the arts or courage those people to just the people who think give up the title so peothemselves the creators? ple who actually make an Art garners a lot of reeffort can fill the gaps in spect, whether that be the the community of artists. display of talent and the I’d also encourage ability to do something those who are serious to that few others have the keep at it, because deep talent or the time and pa- down we all want to be tience to complete, or artists, only so many of us the impact it makes on are afraid to take on such the audience throughout a daunting title and prove history. Sure, some art is ourselves right. more respected than others, but it’s safe to say NICK FREDERICI wants to hear from you. that artists fight for that Send your complaints to nrfred@ucdavis. edu. same level of respect giv-

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a dire emergency in the way that people will drop whatever topic they’re currently discussing to hear about your romantic escapades.

Whether these conversaJASON tional topics are news of lifePHAM long achievements, or tales of family personal problems, it seems that no matter what, a scandalous story about flirting will always be the ultimate trump card that steals your thunder.

In a society built upon the idea that there’s power in numbers, it’s no wonder why single voices are slowly becoming silenced beneath the bellowing of eople say maintaining a happy relationship is relationships. one the hardest things The wedding industry currently stands at approxto do in life. I say maintainimately 40 billion dollars — ing happiness as a single is couples being responsible even harder. for 99 percent of that (the As we go about our lives, other percent belonging to we’re constantly surroundKim Kardashian). Not to ed by twos. A table for one mention the extra expensis secretly a table for two es spent by single friends — you plus the lack of a rein the form of gifts and exlationship staring back at pensive plane tickets to celyou in the form of an empebrate this momentous ty chair. Nowadays, large achievement. meals can’t even be ordered Why is it that we only celalone without a waiter conebrate occasions involving descendingly advising us someone else? that our meal is meant to Engagements. Marriages. be split with another perBabies. Two of which are son. Even condiments are celebrations for the same paired to remind us once again that one doesn’t make achievement, but where’s the Hallmark card to cona whole.

Let’s face it, the world was gratulate us on being single?

After graduation and our built for two. birthdays, As proevents celgressive as our society Apparently, somebody forgot to ebrating claims to tell Noah that what he did was single acbe, there both rude and incredibly singlist ... complishments are remain a scarce. few mileEven the stones muffin baskets of work-rewe’re all supposed to lated achievements pale in reach by the ends of our comparison to the multilifetimes. Marriage, chiltiered cakes of wedding dren, a stable home — ceremonies. but what if we don’t fit The more I think of it, the into this mold? Are we more I have to agree with doomed to a life of conthis newly found single stant scrutiny for choosing to be single? Or are we movement.

With the rapid increase able to break this mold in dating and relationships, and fight for the right to singles are steadily beremain unattached? coming the minority. And The struggle between like any minority, don’t we couples and singles isn’t an all just want to be treated entirely new concept. This equally? idea dates as far back as Maybe single doesn’t the biblical age when Noah have to be this embarrassgave priority to all coupled ing term we shy away from. animals and left singles to We should take pride in befend for themselves. ing single and the active Apparently, somebody choice of being selective, inforgot to tell Noah that what he did was both rude and in- stead of conforming to societal lifestyle expectations. credibly singlist — a term Single no longer transcoined by the members of lates into being pathetthe recently burgeoning single rights movement formed ic and undesirable. It could just mean we’re having fun out of built-up angst in reand taking our time figuring sponse to the criticism reout who we are and what ceived for being single. It’s we want. ironic to think that even I say we raise our glass to back in biblical times your the life of being single. choice was either to form a Who needs to get married couple or die — needless to when you’ve been in a lifesay, painfully and alone. long relationship with your In modern society, howself for a good 20-someever, singlism takes place thing years? This is somein an entirely different mething most of us need to dium. There comes a time concentrate more on. in daters’ lives when they And this is one relationlook forward to the moship that’s truly ‘til death do ment they’re able to utus part. ter the words “I met someone” in casual conversation JASON PHAM would like to thank every with their closest friends. In single person that reads his column. If a world of romance-hunanyone’s wondering, he’s registered at gry individuals, these three words equate to the news of jpham@ucdavis.edu.

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Senate briefs ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the Thursday meeting location, the Memorial Union’s Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend Senate meetings.

Meeting called to order at 6:13 p.m.

Janelle Bitker Editor in Chief

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Rebecca Sterling, ASUCD president, present Yena Bae, ASUCD vice president, present Beatriz Anguiano, ASUCD senator, present Bradley Bottoms, ASUCD senator, present Liam Burke, ASUCD senator, present Armando Figueroa, ASUCD senator, present Don Gilbert, ASUCD senator, present Joyce Han, ASUCD senator, present Maxwell Kappes, ASUCD senator, present Kabir Kapur, ASUCD senator, pro tempore, present Paul Min, ASUCD senator, present Felicia Ong, ASUCD senator, present Alyson Sagala, ASUCD senator, present Tal Topf, ASUCD senator, present

Appointments and confirmations Anni Kimball was confirmed as director of Cal Aggie Camp.

Christopher Porter, Jackeline Santizo, Angelica Ramirez, Cristina Gutierrez,

yuen Cont. from page 6 number of highly ranked teams, including conference champion and FCS Championship contender Eastern Washington,

Mariah Watson, Nicholas Sanchez, Hiba Saeed and Olivia Brown were confirmed as members of the Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission.

Dahyoung Yoon, Francisco Lane and Spencer McManus were confirmed as members of the Internal Affairs Commission.

Consideration of old legislation Senate Bill 25, authored by Patrick Sheehan, which would allocate $322.17 from Unrestricted Reserves for an iPod Touch for the Entertainment Council, was referred back to the Business and Finance Commission.

Senate Bill 26, authored by Justin Goss, would freeze funding for Grants and General Programs after the ASUCD Budget has been enacted. The bill was tabled.

Senate Bill 27, authored by Spencer McManus, co-authored by Goss, would require that Long-Range Plans be posted on the ASUCD website. McManus explained that Long-Range Plans are meant to help pass on an institutional memory to new commissioners. Bottoms mentioned that the Long-Range Plans are currently on the website but they are under the Bills section. He argued that this bill allows for more transparency. The bill was passed unanimously.

but were thwarted every time by one play or another. Yet the 34-27 victory over Sacramento State at the end was so satisfying, it can be the only one that matters.

Under the lights in the rain in Bob Biggs’ last game at the helm of the program,

Senate Bill 28, authored by Spencer McManus, co-authored by Basile Senesi, Melanie Maemura, Lance Hackney and Sheehan, implements a new Long-Range Plan for the Bike Barn. The bill focuses on future plans for personnel, finance, environmental sustainability, external relations and internal relations, all with the outlook of the Bike Barn’s significant expansion. Tanzi Jackson, chair of the Environmental Policy and Planning Commission, said that receipt paper could not be recycled because it contains BPA, an industrial chemical, which would in turn show up in paper plates and textbooks made from recycled paper. The bill claimed that the Bike Barn recycles receipts.

External Affairs Commission (EAC) chair Emily Alice Gerhart proposed to re-refer the bill to EAC because she did not think the bill was urgent, and she apologized for not catching it the week before. The bill was referred back to EAC. Senate Bill 29, authored by Maemura, co-authored by Rebecca Sterling, Tessa Artale, Renner Burkle, Henry Chatfield, Lewis Menz, Karan Singh, Basile Senesi, Alexander Tavlian and Erica Padgett, allocates $310 from Senate Reserves to the “Special Projects” line item of the ASUCD President budget for the 2012-13 Unitrans Advertising Contract.

The bill would create a sublease system

the ending made the hardships endured over the duration of the season completely worth it.

It’s sad that I have to explain these so much because that really limits the number of awards I can give out.

Hopefully these awards are,

where space is given to units at a partially subsidized cost. Sterling said that this project was initiated a year ago, and was the startup to market more of the work that ASUCD does.

She said that marketing is an issue in the Association.

Internal Affairs Commission (IAC) Chair Cano said that IAC unanimously failed the bill.

He said that a member thought it was not an effective use of reaching freshmen because they do not use buses. The table discussed whether there was a more accurate way of measuring the effectiveness of advertisements on Unitrans buses.

Former senator Andre Lee said that the bill is meant to set a precedent for a more permanent practice and a commitment to marketing as a principle. The bill failed 6-6-0.

Senate Bill 31, authored by Maemura, coauthored by Eric Evans and Anna Oh, would amend the 2012-13 AggieTV operating budget and adjust pay rates to multiples of seven. The bill passed unanimously.

Meeting adjourned at 11:43 p.m.

Open positions within ASUCD can be found at vacancy.ucdavis.edu. JOANNA JAROSZEWSKA compiled the Senate Briefs.

She can be reached at campus@theaggie. org.

at the very worst, like Harry Potter receiving a toothpick or a tissue from the Dursleys.

I’m sure they put a lot of thought into that, too.

Email MATTHEW YUEN at sports@theaggie. org and he’ll respond with a “Buddy the Elf what’s your favorite color?”

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What did you bring to college?

First-years furnish dorms with unique items

By ALICE LEE

Aggie Features Writer

The Class of 2016 is wrapping up their first quarter as college students, having undergone the difficulties acclimating to an entirely new environment.

From pictures and posters to books and stuffed animals, college first-years have brought all kinds of items from home to make their dorm rooms feel a little more comforting.

“I brought a cute night light to my dorm room because I have been scared of the dark since I was little,” said firstyear biological sciences major Victoria Tran. “I plug it in right before I sleep and make sure it is not too bright so my roommate does not wake up.”

Tran said there’s nothing like a night light to make all the bad monsters under those Segundo dorm beds go away.

“If you want other people to make fun of you then yes, please bring a night light,” Tran said.

Along with night lights, students bring various items that serve different purposes. While students aren’t allowed to bring toasters for fear of the rooms catching on fire, brownie and panini makers have yet to be banned.

“I love to cook but the kitchen in Cuarto is really small and not convenient since I live on the third floor and it’s on the first,” said first-year managerial economics major Tina Pan. “I decided to bring a brownie maker to make brownies for my suitemates.”

Students may bring things that are purely for function, such as a brownie maker, or may keep items around with little use but which simply spark interest in the individual, as is the case with first-year psychology major Mona Nguyen and her empty photo frame.

“I have a picture frame with the stock photo still inside it because I don’t know what to put in it yet. I just like staring at the girl who seems so happy sitting on the swing in the sunlight. A lot of people think it’s weird,” Nguyen said.

Most pets aren’t allowed, for obvious reasons. However, the one pet that is allowed is a fish. First-year chemistry major Kevin Cervantes has adopted the responsibilities that owning a fish in the dorms entails.

“When my RA found out, he told me to fill out fish forms that took a whole day,” he said.

According to Cervantes, the hassle of taking care of a fish outweighs the benefits. As a first-year, it is difficult to take care of another creature when one is just learning to take care of oneself.

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First-year biological sciences major Taryn Peters brought her owl collection with her to the dorms. Owls are her favorite animal and they hold symbolic meaning for her.

“It’s always nice to have a fish swimming happily next to you as you do homework. However, if ever you are offered a fish and you don’t have the means to take care of it, just say no. Initially, what was meant as a friendly heartwarming gift was really just another load of work I had to deal

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Senator Felicia Ong is sworn in by Vice President Yena Bae. Six new senators were sworn in on Thursday’s ASUCD Senate meeting.

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fortable to sit back and observe.”

Former senator Kimball was also happy with her time spent at the table and, following the swearing-in of the new members, was confirmed as the new unit director of Cal Aggie Camp.

“I’m very happy with my work as a senator,” she said. “I worked hard, did my best to represent the student body and I learned a lot.”

According to Figueroa, the farewells can never truly give insight into how the term will be for the new senators.

“I’ve heard that a million times; no one is ever able to articulate how the experience is going to be,” he said. “I just hope that I continue to be myself and hope that it will reflect in the Senate table that I’m a positive person.”

Former senator Padgett said that her experience of terming out was strange, but that she is grateful to have more time to herself now.

“I’m excited to finally be able to go home on a Thursday night,” she said.

“Other than that, it’s still surreal.

After having sat at that table for [a] year, it’s kind of hard to imagine not sitting at it. I think I’m still in shock.”

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Following the announcement, the meeting proceeded with outgoing senators presenting their farewell speeches in which they thanked family members, friends and supporters and gave advice to the incoming members of the table.

Former senators Goss and Sheehan also entertained those attending the meeting by performing a rap to commemorate their time at the table.

“I’m extremely happy with my time spent as a senator,” Goss said. “It was a true honor serving the student body.

I wasn’t always in a good mood, and I wasn’t always well-liked, but I felt like every day I was doing something that mattered and helped to make this university better. I thought I was good at the job, and I’ll miss it dearly.”

Goss does not plan on continuing to work in the Association.

“Though I will deeply miss it and the friends I made there, the friends will stay with me and it’s time to let a new generation make some mistakes and do some work,” he said.

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The shelter provides free meals, an emergency shelter and a transitional housing program year-round. There is also a resource center at 1111 H St. that provides showers, hygiene products, laundry facilities, telephones, a computer room and other services for the homeless.

Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter (IRWS) Board Co-chair Mary Anne Kirsch said the program was started by a small group in 2007. This will be their sixth season of providing shelters to the homeless.

Kirsch said those who want to take shelter need to go to their intake center, Davis Friends Meetinghouse at 345 L St., between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m.

“We evaluate their behavior and ask simple questions for basic information,” Kirsch said.

“Each time they come to seek shelter for a night, we evaluate them again.”

There are eight host sites — churches and congregations throughout the city — that have volunteered to be shelters. Host sites this year are the Davis Community Church, Davis United Methodist, St. James Catholic Church, Unitarian Universalist Church, Davis Lutheran Church, Davis First Baptist Church, University Covenant Church and Congregation Bet Haverim.

Each site can host either 25 or 50 people.

The first week is at the Davis Community Church. Kirsch said the way the shelters operate is volunteer drivers pick up the guests who seek shelter and then drive them to the respective church or congregation that is hosting.

Upon arrival, each guest is required to sign an agreement form that states he or she will fol-

with,” Cervantes said.

While some students have fish friends to keep them company, others seek comfort in mementos from past experiences. One example is first-year undeclared major Anya Stewart, who brought beads from Uganda.

“My sister went on a mission trip to Uganda earlier this year around June,” she said. “She met many people and traveled around to many different villages with her group.

In one of the villages, there was a wedding going on for two regular mission trippers to that particular village.

There was a huge celebration and my sister got me some beads from women in the tribe who made it for the celebration. They’re made out of banana paper with a special glaze over them.”

Stewart said that she hangs the tribal necklace on her wall because it is of such great significance to her.

Dorm walls are the perfect place to showcase personal items, as seen with Stewart’s beads, but also with the owl collection of Taryn Peters, a first-year biological sciences major.

“I have little pictures of owls on the wall and also a small ceramic owl on my desk. Not only are owls my favorite animal but they also have symbolic meanings. An owl can have the meaning of intelligence, wisdom and mystery, which I think are very unique and interesting,” Peters said.

Another first-year UC Davis student, undeclared major Moris Martinez, also brought his collection to college.

“Being a huge fan of Spiderman, I had to bring a figurine of him along with others that I had been collecting over the last year like Venom, Cyclops and Iron Man,” Martinez said. “I had initially planned to line them all up but on my second week I had made so many new friends at Tercero that I decided to give them away. My Spiderman is still with me, though, standing proud overlooking my desk while the other figurines are overlooking other people’s.”

Martinez said that collecting Marvel Figures is his hobby, yet he finds more pleasure in sharing them with friends on his floor.

“I feel so awesome when I walk in and see Venom on my friend’s desk. It is something that has brought us closer together as friends,” Martinez said. “I really don't know why I wanted to put so many figurines on my desk; now that I think about it it seems ridiculous, but I am glad that I was able to bring them and give them to others.”

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low a set of rules. Each rule has a consequence if broken.

“They’re not allowed to bring alcohol; if they do bring it and we know they brought it, they have to leave and can’t come back for three weeks,” Kirsch said.

In addition, the IRWS made an agreement with Davis Community Meals to maintain consistency within shelters. Both shelters have the same consequences if there are any fights, arguments, swearing, alcohol or drugs. Kirsch said that a guest is banned from all shelters in the city if found breaking any of the rules.

Before dinner, trained UC Davis interns distribute sleeping bags and show the guests cots they can sleep on, Kirsch said.

Every person has a numbered sleeping bag that they’ll use every time. She also said guests are required to sign up for a chore and clean up every morning before they leave.

At 5:30 p.m., volunteers and guests eat dinner together.

Afterward, there is hospitality time in which people can sit and talk, watch a movie, play games, read books and other activities.

“Lights are out at 10 and we wake them up at 5:30 a.m. to get ready to go,” Kirsch said. “They have to do their chores and they have coffee. Sometimes we have bag lunches they can take with them.”

At 6:15 or 6:30 a.m., people from the Mormon church pick up the guests and drop them off at the resource center or at Jack in the Box, since not many places are open that early in the morning, said Kirsch.

“This year, we have a conditional-use permit — we don’t have to pay the city to do it [hold shelters] anymore,” she said.

“The city cooperates with us by having the fire marshal check out the site for safety.”

Once the IRWS is done at one church, a U-Haul is rented to transport the cots, sleeping bags and boxes of supplies to the next site.

Kirsch said the IRWS runs completely on donations.

“Year after year, the different churches and community organizations have really come through for us,” Kirsch said. “We do all of our organization, insurance, U-Haul and buying sleeping bags for about $8,000 a year.”

Pride said he expects to see 1,900 to 2,000 homeless people this year, including those in shelters and transitional housing and those using their resource center. Kirsch said in an email that historically they’ve served about 100 guests over a course of a season.

In the case of volunteers, Pride said on a regular basis, there are about 100 to 125 volunteers. He said overall there are usually about 1,000 volunteers.

“We get a lot of student groups, fraternities, sororities, high school students, local service organizations and church groups,” Pride said.

Likewise, Kirsch said they have about 1,000 volunteers each year, such as Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and high school groups. Currently, they have 23 UC Davis interns and 8 high school interns. The IRWS is still looking for volunteers, who can sign up through www.interfaithshelter.org.

“One thing that has happened in the last few years, which I think is a noticeable change, is the population’s gotten a lot younger,” Pride said. “It’s still mostly male, but the age is going down markedly.”

Pride said they see a fair number of students, both undergraduate and graduate, who go to their resource center.

Occasionally, they see homeless students who can’t pay for rent.

“I think that every person has a dignity and I just don’t think it’s right for people to be out on the sidewalks when it’s rainy and cold,” Kirsch said. “They should have a place to stay when it’s bad outside.”

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HEDONIST Confessions of a Pop-Tart-eating, raw milk-drinking, pseudo-environmentalist

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Thanksgiving at the UC Davis Tri-Cooperatives typically features vegan versions of traditional holiday fare and a few impromptu sing-alongs.

Hillary Knouse

Editor’s Note:

The following are three recent posts from the Aggie Eats food blog. Check out more online at theaggie.org.

Panic! At The Cheese Aisle

Let me begin by introducing myself — my name is Hillary Knouse and I might reasonably be called a pseudo-environmentalist. That is to say, I live in cooperative housing and abide by most of the sustainable practices that come with it.

I compost, I garden, I avoid paper towels like the plague and for nine months out of the year, I cook the vast majority of my meals without meat. On the other hand, I love driving alone in my car, I take 20-30 minute showers every morning and my brief, Lent-motivated foray into veganism last year was one of the most arduous experiences of my life (life without cheese may not be worth living).

Let me be clear though, I don’t think that being a “real environmentalist” necessitates forgoing cheese, just as it shouldn’t necessitate forgoing showers. Like anything else, it simply requires thoughtfulness and moderation — and perhaps a greater modicum of self-control in the face of a Trader Joe’s sale on Gouda.

Over the course of Lent’s 40 days, I was asked at least as many times if this “vegan thing” — as most of my omnivorous friends and family called it — would be a permanent lifestyle change for me. “Oh, God no!” I’d answer emphatically (feeling a little judged).

“But,” I would add, in an effort to assuage the feeling of succumbing to peer

pressure, “I do intend to be more thoughtful about where my food is coming from.”

Well, it’s taken me five months to get around to it but I’m finally putting my money where my mouth is and my mouth around some sustainable food practices.

Join me, dear reader, on my journey toward becoming an actualized-environmentalist, and I promise to share advice on what gets me through my I-just-want-toput-99-cent-half-and-half-in-my-coffeeand-I-don’t-care-where-it-came-frombecause-it’s-7-a.m.-Godammit moments, as well as a seemingly endless number of ways to cook a lentil, how to make milk out of almost anything and my musings on why butter might be better than Earth Balance.

Cooperative Eating

When my friend Alyssa went vegan last fall, her parents had a hard time understanding just what that entailed. While she was at school they were just bewildered from afar, unsure as to why or even how someone would limit their food options like that. How little they understood the concept became abundantly clear, however, when at Thanksgiving her mother asked, “You’re not even going to try the turkey?”

Indeed, for many, the concept of veganism doesn’t mix with the concept of Thanksgiving — as though vegans must simply abstain from the holiday altogether. Though it is true that most of the vegans I know didn’t eat turkey this past Thanksgiving, there are plenty of seasonal dishes that do not require animal products. In fact, co-opers set out to prove as much every year with our allvegetarian/mostly vegan tri-cooperative Thanksgiving.

“What’s a tri-cooperative Thanksgiving?” you may wonder. I don’t know that I could answer that question as well as the photos can, but in short, it’s a magical time in which past and present members of the tri-cooperatives come together to drink,

dance, cuddle and enjoy a delicious, ethically sourced potluck.

My favorite dish this year was easily the mushroom gravy, the recipe for which is listed below. Try making it with your family for an upcoming holiday meal so that your vegan cousin can eat something other than green beans for once.

Recipe: Mushroom Gravy 1 tsp. olive oil ½ cup chopped onion 1 tsp. dried thyme ¼ tsp. salt 8 oz. oyster mushrooms, sliced ¼ cup dried sherry 3 cups mushroom broth 1 ½ tsp. flour 2 Tbsp. water 2 Tbsp. Earth Balance 1/8 tsp. black pepper Directions: 1) Heat oil 2) Sauté onions, thyme, salt and mushrooms for 8 minutes until browned 3) Add sherry and cook until liquid evaporates 4) Stir in broth and bring to a boil 5) Mix water and flower in a separate bowl 6) Add to skillet and return to boil 7) Once boiling, reduce heat to low and simmer until thickened

Ramen: The Other White Noodle

Dropping temperatures and encroaching finals mean ‘tis the season for soup.

And lots of it.

Soup appeals to my cooking sensibilities, as it requires no measuring of ingredients and can be made with virtually whatever you have on hand. What’s more, if you’re willing to break out a 50-cent package of Top Ramen, it can be finished in about the time it takes to boil water.

Livening up a package of ramen noodles into a full-bodied soup can be as simple as throwing in some vegetables and an egg or as fancy as frying up some pork and breaking out the sake.

This soup adventure began as most of my cooking does, by setting water in a pot to boil and throwing a sliced onion into a pan of hot oil — I used red, but yellow or white would work just as well. After caramelizing half an onion in a pan and then deglazing with a splash of sherry — steps explained in any good French onion soup recipe — I added my onions and the prepackaged soup base to the almost boiling water and then set about frying up a small brick of tofu and tomatoes in the remaining sherry and onion juices. From there, it was just a matter of cutting up a couple of extra vegetables until the soup felt full — and generally more nutritious than a package of high-sodium ramen noodles — and adding the dry noodles and seasoning to taste.

The one real trick to making fancy ramen is adding your ingredients with an eye toward flavor and cooking time. The soup base in your ramen packet is a great place to start as it will add flavor and cannot be overcooked. Thicker and more flavorful vegetables like onions, carrots, celery and mushrooms are great secondary additions as they will also enhance the flavor of your broth and should maintain their structural integrity in boiling water for several minutes. Noodles and greens should come last as they don’t do much for the flavor of the broth and will cook down almost immediately. An egg can be added either just before the boil for a thicker consistency, akin to egg-drop soup, or anytime after your soup begins to boil for bits of soft-boiled egg mingling with your vegetables. Finally, season your soup to taste with spices you have on hand — I tend toward curry, ginger or coriander.

HILLARY KNOUSE drinks locally sourced, raw milk with her S’mores Pop-Tarts every morning. Email your questions, concerns and dinner date offers to hkknouse@ucdavis.edu.

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s fall sports wrap up and winter sports usher in a new season, it is the season of giving useless things that people don’t want. With that spirit in mind, I’ll give my opinion on a couple of things from this past quarter.

Here is another installment of awards that are hopefully more flattering than they sound.

Mr. October Reggie Jackson cemented his place among the immortal legends with the Yankees in 1977.

After home runs in game four and five of the World Series, he proceeded to blast three consecutive home runs on as many swings in game six.

Junior Alex Henry scored two goals this season for the men’s soccer team in back-to-back games in October. The timing of the goals is what makes them special.

The first came late in the game against Cal State Fullerton to give the Aggies their third straight win and to bump their record over .500.

The next, against UC Santa Barbara, could be one of the defining moments of the season.

Henry curled a kick into the upper opposite side of the goal from the right side of the field. This broke the 0-0 tie that seemed so inevitable with just five minutes to play, over a team that UC Davis had beaten only once out of their past 10 meetings.

This was a win that sent the message that the Aggies weren’t simply a team on a hot streak beating good teams, but rather, a team that was legitimately vying for that Big West title.

If these two clutch goals didn’t elicit “HEN-REE” chants like the “REG-GIE” ones that reverberated resoundingly through Yankee Stadium, I’m not sure what else will.

Mike Wazowski award This award goes to the athlete that is small and green and has only one eye.

Thus it’s only fitting that sophomore Trevor Halsted gets this award. Since I get out of breath after walking up the stairs to leave a lecture hall, I know this cross country runner could outlast me, so I’d better justify this strangeness before he comes after me angrily.

Given that Halsted has little physical similarities with Mike Wazowski, this award is for the fact that he’s a surprise performer.

Mike was always just Sulley’s accomplice and didn’t really do much work on his own in supplying energy for Monstropolis.

Yet, once it was discovered that laughter was a new form of energy, Mike took over and thrived.

Halst ed did the same. He did very little for the Aggies last year, placing 49th in the Big West Championship race.

Yet Halsted seems to be figuring out a formula that works for him, like Mike’s swallow-themic-then-burp-it-out routine.

The Davis, Calif. native led the Aggies in every single race he competed in this year, including an impressive sixth place at the Big West meet.

This huge jump shows that the future for UC Davis’ runners is — and has been — bright if Halsted continues to improve at the rate he is now.

Paradise Falls award The UC Davis football team had a team much like Carl Fredricksen’s trip to Paradise Falls. It was a pretty rough ride all the way through, on a trip he’d dreamed about his whole life. And it can’t have been anything like what was expected, unless Mr. Fredrickson expected to have a Boy Scout and a talking dog come along with him on a trip that would consist of a swordfight with canes on top of the blimp of his childhood hero to protect a bird that didn’t exist. The whole trip could have totally sucked, but the one friendship that emerged on the trip made it worth it.

UC Davis ended the year with a disappointing 4-7 record.

But it was so close to being the dream season in head coach

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Men’s basketball drops two games on the road Aggies’ late scoring sprees fail to beat the Wolf Pack or the Vandals

By KIM CARR

Aggie Sports Writer

Two games and two late-game scoring sprees add up to two losses for the Aggies. UC Davis traveled to Reno, Nev. and Moscow, Idaho this weekend with hopes of improving to 3-1 on the season. Instead, they came home 1-4, largely due to deficits that forced them to play catch-up in the second half.

It started in Reno, when the Aggies squared off against the Wolf Pack but fell 84-83. There were several standout statistics from that night, including those from the four players who scored more than 10 points.

Junior Ryan Sypkens led the team in scoring. His 24 points came solely from three-pointers, a total of eight that tied fellow junior Tyler Les’ record for most threes in a game.

Sophomore Corey Hawkins continues to be an offensive staple for UC Davis. Hawkins shot .500 in the field and went

5-6 from the free throw line. He also managed four assists on the night.

Junior Josh Ritchart had a big night for the Aggies. He scored 13 points and tallied three more three-point baskets. Ritchart also pitched in on the defensive side of the paint, grabbing five rebounds and earning a total of six on the night.

The final Aggie to break the double-digit barrier did so shooting a perfect 5-5 from the field. Sophomore forward J.T. Adenrele added two free throws to bring his total to 12 points during the game.

Senior Ryan Howley pulled in another nine rebounds to extend his lead as the Big West Conference’s leading rebounder. He also put in seven points against the Wolf Pack.

All of these points still added up to a late-game deficit that the Aggies nearly erased by going on an 11-4 scoring run. UC Davis even possessed the lead in the final 16 seconds of the

game after Sypkens landed another three to give the Aggies the 83-82 advantage.

Unfortunately, the Wolf Pack got another chance and the Aggies were unable to force the turnover or block the shot as Deonte Butron made a basket from the field, giving Nevada a one-point advantage.

Senior Paolo Mansacola grabbed the final inbound for the Aggies and ran the ball down the court trying to get a shot off, but was blocked by two Wolf Pack defenders.

It was a heartbreaking loss in Nevada and UC Davis failed to buck the trend in Idaho.

Hawkins regained his spot as the Aggies’ leading scorer, landing 20 points during the evening.

Sypkens was the only other Davis player to break the double-digit barrier, going 4-11 from the threepoint zone to end the game with 14 points.

The Aggies trailed by three at the end of the first half and they managed to pull ahead by five

points shortly after the break.

However, the Aggies’ defense failed to shut down the Vandals, allowing Idaho to go on a 19-5 run of their own, giving Idaho a 13-point advantage.

The Aggie offense responded, pulling within six points of the Vandals. The game finished with Sypkens’ three-pointer pulling UC Davis within two of the lead.

However, the Aggies were forced to foul Idaho multiple times late in the game in attempts to preserve the clock and the Vandals took full advantage, going 5-5 on their late-game free throws. In the end, Idaho finished on top by a score of 73-66.

Defensive meltdowns are forcing the Aggies to play catchup late in the game. UC Davis will have a home-crowd advantage during their next game against the San Jose Spartans.

The Aggies hope to return to the win column at the Pavilion on Wednesday.

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

Stanford women’s basketball too tall of an order for UC Davis Aggies fall to top team in the nation

By MATTHEW YUEN Aggie Sports Editor

Many teams have and will suffer the same fate as the Aggies against Stanford, the best team in the country.

In front of 2,612 fans — the ninth largest home attendance at UC Davis in history — the UC Davis women’s basketball team fell 87-38 to the Cardinal, a team that currently holds the No. 1 ranking in the NCAA. Unfortunately for the Aggies, they were simply outmatched and outsized against the powerhouse Cardinal, which now stands at 7-0 on the season.

“This was a win-win for us, we got to compete against the best and see what it looks like,” said head coach Jennifer Gross.

“They’re no. 1 for a reason, they have weapons at every spot and one of the best players in the country.”

Stanford junior Chiney Ogwumike led the Cardinal with 27 points and 13 rebounds, achieving a double-double 16 minutes into the game by the 3:49 mark.

The Cardinal set the tone early, jumping ahead 8-0 to start the game before senior Cortney French put the Aggies on the board with a three. The Stockton, Calif. native’s next three within the same minute made the score 10-6, but she would not score again for the rest of the game, and the Cardinal began to pull away.

The first half slipped out of UC Davis’ hands, and the Aggies would not score for the final 5:15 before halftime. Stanford would have a comfortable cushion of 46-19 at the break.

At this point, Ogwumike’s 19 points and 11 rebounds were more than the Aggies’ team totals. Stanford crashed the boards and dominated the paint, grabbing 33 rebounds to UC Davis’ nine, and putting in 30 points in the paint.

“We tried to balance the rebounding with

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Sophomore Sydnee Fipps led the Aggies with 14 points against Stanford on Friday. UC Davis lost 87-38. the turnovers, but it was pretty lopsided on the boards,” Gross said. “I thought we really got down to it in the second half.”

Despite the score, the second half was much more competitive for the Aggies. They held Stanford to 12 points in the paint and only six second chance points after permitting 19 in the first half.

The Aggies had eight steals and had several glimmers of encouraging play.

Three minutes into the second half, senior Blair Shinoda drained a three. She then stole the ball on the next play and dished it out to sophomore Sydnee Fipps who stepped up and knocked down a three of her own. Fipps carried the Aggies with 14 points, the fourth time she has led the team in five games.

A couple of the freshmen for UC Davis had some highlights, particularly when Molly Greubal sank a three with 13:23 remaining, and Heidi Johnson hit a jumper on the next possession to make the score 33-62. Johnson ended the day with six points.

“We showed we can battle for stretches, and there were times where I thought we had control and we need to make sure those stretches become consistent throughout the game,” Gross said. “The energy stayed high on the second half and we created some turnovers and took care of the ball really well.”

The Aggie defense improved vastly in the second half, holding the Cardinal scoreless from the 14:48 mark until the 10:54 time. UC Davis got 11 steals and forced 17 turnovers.

“Davis gives you fits with what they do, their defense is very aggressive, and they forced us into the most turnovers out of any team this year,” said Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer.

In the end, UC Davis was unable to score for the final 3:24 minutes of the game, but Gross and the team is taking nothing but positives from the game. UC Davis dropped a game to an undefeated team that has not lost a Pac-12 game since Jan. 18, 2009 for a winning streak of 78 games in their strong conference.

“We were really thrilled for the opportunity to play, and I thank Stanford for coming out and providing a real fun atmosphere,” Gross said. “We were fortunate to get a team like this on our home court and we gave it everything we had and it was a good measuring stick for our program.”

MATTHEW YUEN can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

Aggie Digest This past weekend, the UC Davis swimming and diving team wrapped up their trip to Missouri with impressive results. The Aggies finished third out of nine teams with 575.5 points.

On the first day of competition, junior Samantha Shellem shattered the UC Davis school record in the 500-yard freestyle with a winning time of 4:48.59.

With this time, Shellem bested the nearest competitor, Sonia Perez, by almost two full seconds and surpassed the old record of 4:54.59 that was set at the 2010 Big West Conference Championships.

In addition, freshman Marissa Brown hit a personal-best 4:53:93 in the 500 free final heat. With that time, Brown moves into

fourth in school history and improves on her eighth-best prelim time of 4:57.22.

The 200-yard freestyle relay team placed seventh with a time of 1:34.72, which is the fastest by a UC Davis squad since the 2011 MPSF Championships.

Other highlights from the first day include junior co-captain Sabrina Cochrane finishing eighth in the 200 individual medley at 2:03.47.

On the second day of competition, juniors Liliana Alvarez and Shellem both hit “B” qualifying standards for the NCAA Championships. For Alvarez, this marks the third straight year she has hit such a mark in the 100-yard breaststroke. Shellem finished second in the 200 free at 1:45.73. Shellem held the lead

for the majority of the race before being surpassed by Mizzou’s Anna Patterson with 0.5 seconds left to go.

Sophomore Hilary Hunt also hit a big personal record in the 100 back, first delivering a 55.30 in the prelim and then placing sixth in the final. She improves to the No. 3 rank in school history.

In addition, UC Davis scored fourth-place relay points in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:42.05. The Aggie “B” team placed seventh and the Aggies finished the day with a second-place showing in the 800-free relay.

On the last day and final morning of the Invite, Brown and Hunt broke school records in the 1650-yard freestyle and

200-yard backstroke, respectively. Brown posted a time of 16:44.83 in the 1650 free, shattering teammate Cara Silvas’ record from last year. In her next race, she became just the third Aggie in history to break the two-minute barrier in the 200-backstroke.

Alvarez had the Aggies’ highest individual finish of the day, placing second in the 200 breast at 2:13.23.

Overall, the UC Davis swimmers broke various school records during their three-day stay in Columbia. The Aggies commence their break for winter and will return to action in January in a duel at home against Pacific.

— Veena Bansal