April 11, 2013

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The Bookstore and Memorial Union will be renovated next year. The renovation will cost $19 million.

Hate crime allegations prompt questions, reflection Davis community awaits court hearing

By MEREDITH STURMER Aggie News Writer

Shared impact The impact felt among those with a shared identity after a hate crime might also be understood through a concept UC Davis psychology professor Dr. Gregory Herek described as “felt stigma.”

“There is this phenomenon known as felt stigma, this knowledge that people carry around with them about what the ‘rules’ are — who is stigmatized and who is not, and what is likely to happen in certain situations,” Herek said. “This is an abstract concept, but when a hate crime occurs it is likely to increase the feeling of felt stigma in the community, and the See HATE on 15

Major changes to include new Bookstore entrances, entertainment venue

By SASHA COTTERELL Aggie News Writer

Next year, the Bookstore and the Memorial Union (MU) will undergo a renovation process, altering the existing space but not actually constructing new buildings.

“We are taking the existing footprint of the facility and basically renewing the interior and modernizing it,” said John Campbell, Executive Director for Campus Recreations and Unions, who is overseeing the project.

According to Campbell, the cost of the renovation is around $19

million. However, there will be no additional fees charged to students.

He said all funds are coming from current reserves, and bonds will be used for extra costs.

ASUCD Senator Miles Thomas said he is concerned about the amount of money that will be taken from student government, and therefore student fees. The figure being discussed is $500,000, he said, though student leaders haven’t determined where exactly that money would come from.

The renovation project will consist of two phases. Phase one will begin in January 2014, with the ren-

ovation and renewal of the Bookstore. Phase two is scheduled to begin May 2014 and will include the first two floors in the MU, outdoor spaces on the Quad, South Quad and North Quad.

As part of the first phase, the entrances to the Bookstore will be changed. There will be a new entrance added to the North Quad, next to the Unitrans area, and another added to the East Quad area.

The existing entrance located inside the MU will be closed.

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Students seek Adderall for academic boost Pill increases focus, risk of depression with dependency

Non-medical

Adderall

DISCLAIMER: Names of those

who discussed their Adderall use have been changed to protect their privacy.

By HANNAH KRAMER Aggie Features Writer

With the pressure of financial and social success riding on academic performance, a growing trend has emerged: Students seeking an upper hand are turning to a little orange pill.

Beating the deadlines “I needed to read 250 pages of my political science textbook before a test and I ended up doing it in two hours,” said Matt, a first-year biochemistry major. “It just was such a desire to study. I’ve never read that fast in my life. I took the test the next day, and got an A. There was no way I could have caught up without Adderall.”

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Adderall and other amphetamine salts are stimulants normally prescribed to patients who suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

When taken as directed, the medi-

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A preliminary hearing will take place on April 26 in Yolo Superior Court concerning the alleged March 10 hate crime against Davis resident Lawrence “Mikey” Partida. Suspect Clayton Daniel Garzon is scheduled to appear at the hearing on charges of felony battery and threat with hate crime enhancements.

“I just want to get it over with and move on,” Partida said in regard to the preliminary hearing.

According to The Davis Enterprise, Garzon’s attorney Linda Parisi argued that the anti-gay slurs reportedly used by Garzon during the assault were common slang terms and “not an expression of hate.”

“I just met with my lawyer for the first time,” Partida said. “[Parisi] is working to delay the hearing and we’re working to make sure that doesn’t happen.”

On April 3, a status update was posted on the Mikey’s Justice Fund Facebook page regarding the preliminary hearing, encouraging anyone with additional information regarding the crime to contact the Davis Police Department because “the most difficult thing will be proving this was a hate crime.”

Garzon is facing hate crime enhancements as part of the hate crime laws in California. According to Elizabeth Krause, assistant director of the UC Davis Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center (LGBTRC), these enhancements impose tougher penalties on crimes motivated by what Krause called “identity-based bias.”

“The argument in favor of hate crime ‘penalty enhancement’ statutes is that the criminal acts (violent acts) that are motivated by bias against someone because of an identity that they hold do not only victimize the one (or more) persons in the actual incident, they also victimize entire groups of people who share the identity of the person who was targeted,” Krause said via email. “The extra penalty is for this ‘ripple effect’ — the impact that many folks with that shared identity may experience.”

Memorial Union renewal to begin next year

cations remove symptoms of these conditions and have a calming, focusing effect. Those who do not require the drug for medical purposes experience intense focus, inability to sleep and jitteriness.

“I had to write a big paper Fall Quarter,” said Dave, a first-year evolution ecology and biodiversity major. “I started at 8 p.m. and worked all through the night, wasn’t even tired, finished the paper and went straight to class to turn it in that morning. It’s intense. Adderall

doesn’t make you want to eat, sleep or do anything other than study.”

In recent years, a national trend has emerged: College students such as Dave and Matt have begun buying and consuming Adderall without any medical need for the drug in an attempt to improve test scores, stay up late working or focus on assignments and tests. Although taking Adderall without a prescription is illegal and forbidden by colleges, See ADDERALL on 13

Students protest loan interest hikes

By LAUREN MASCARENHAS and ROHIT RAVIKUMAR Aggie News Writers

On April 10, an event jointly organized by the student interest group CALPIRG (California Public Interest Research Group) and ASUCD was held on the Quad at 11 a.m. to raise awareness about

a proposed doubling of student loan interest rates on July 1.

The increase would be on the Subsidized Stafford Loan, a popular federal student loan that serves 45 percent of the UC Davis community. Currently, the Stafford Loan has an annual interest rate of 3.4 percent; however, if the increase goes through, the interest rate would in-

crease to 6.8 percent.

Last year, the U.S. government made the decision to double the Stafford Loan interest rate in order to reduce the country’s national deficit. Action from CALPIRG and other student organizations convinced the government to put off the doubling of the loan for a year, but the deadline is approaching this summer.

Over 9 million students across the country have taken out Subsidized

Stafford Loans to pay for their education, and three fourths of them have a family income of under $60,000. The average student loan debt is about $27,000 a year.

“These costs would be too much for students and families,” said Edson Perez, chapter chair of UC Davis CALPIRG. “Especially now, with people coming out as an undergrad are finding it pretty hard See OBAMA on 15

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Opinion THE CALIFORNIA AGGIE Janelle Bitker Editor in Chief Hannah StrumwasseR Managing Editor Jonathan Wester Business Manager BEAUGART GERBER Advertising Manager Muna Sadek Campus Editor Claire Tan City Editor BECKY PETERSON Opinion Editor Elizabeth OrpinA Arts Editor ADAM KHAN Features Editor Matthew Yuen Sports Editor Hudson Lofchie Science Editor JOEY CHEN Copy Chief RICHARD TRUONG Asst. Copy Chief Brian Nguyen Photography Editor

EDITORIALS FROM THE BOARD

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

It’s a small world Last week, a group of international students sent a letter that detailed their difficulties with integration and expressed disappointment with the community’s lack of support.

As the number of international students grows on campus, so does the importance of this issue. Currently, we host over 2,000 international students, with the 2020 Initiative intending to bring in thousands more in the coming years. For Fall 2013, UC Davis received 6,747 freshman applications from internationals — a 65 percent increase from the previous year.

Members of the editorial board have studied abroad and are preparing to study abroad in the near future.

We understand the importance and allure of global education. And more

than that, we understand what it’s like to drop everything you know, immerse yourself in a foreign country with bizarre customs and suddenly find that you can’t communicate as well as you thought you could.

It’s what we, as internationallyminded students, sign up for. As sad as it is to read that our foreign comrades feel disconnected, we also know from experience that it’s a shared burden. International students at UC Davis need to put in a lot of effort if they want to learn about the American way of life, improve their English and make local friends. They need to embrace the discomfort and throw themselves into as many new situations as possible. They need to say “yes” to opportunities that might make them cringe and, probably,

experience a fair amount of rejection.

This is not as easy as it sounds.

And we know that American students could be more helpful. It’s a strange “us versus them” mentality, where, stereotypically, groups of international students sit together in class and speak foreign languages while groups of American students dissect the season premiere of “Mad Men.” This separation is alienating and unfortunately self-perpetuating. Students on both sides need to make the conscious effort to cross the room and strike up awkward conversation.

There are a lot of resources on campus and in the City of Davis for international students, as well as for locals looking to mingle. These See SMALL WORLD on 12

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INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES

Go small or go home On March 28, owners of Common Grounds Coffee in South Davis posted a Facebook status announcing that their landlord refused to renew their lease in favor of a Starbucks, closing its doors on March 31 after 13 years of business.

A week later, the owners announced that they will open again in three months, thanks to customer support. The owners made an agreement with their landlord to move to a location adjacent to the shop’s previous location.

This is sadly part of a growing trend, where local businesses are displaced by chain stores.

As a city known for its small-town feel and sustainable transportation practices, it’s disconcerting to see small businesses known for their unique quirks or specializations disappearing.

And it’s not just because we like having things that others can’t have.

Independent businesses are struggling to stay afloat due to increased competition from online retailers, the presence of more big-

box retailers and high rent costs, to name a few. Operating costs can also get quite expensive over time.

Additionally, the term “land oligopoly” is being thrown around as a reference to how so few people own a majority of the commercial real estate in Davis, a big influence over the costs of rent.

Common Grounds is just one example of a small local business facing setbacks. Davis has lost several See BUSINESS on 12

Queers speak out CULTURE FIEND with KATELYN RINGROSE • KNRINGROSE@UCDAVIS.EDU

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omebody tried to run me over because I was wearing ‘girl’ clothes.” “A man in a passing car yelled ‘you’re gay’ to a friend and me.” “I was assaulted by a UC Davis professor.” And “I was raped.”

Over the course of an hour on March 18, a sign lying on the North Quad titled “This happened to me...” was slowly filled by a number of these shocking narratives.

Next to the first sign, a second poster titled “I’ve been called this...” asked UC Davis students attending a rally against queer violence titled “This is not OK” to fill in the sentence. Replies included “tranny,” “bitch,” “bê đê” (gay in Vietnamese), “bull dyke,” “whore” and “cunt.”

March’s rally was organized with the intent of bringing campus attention to several recent events — such as the March 10 bashing of Davis community

member Mikey Partida and the transpho- felt like, once again, I was disappointed bic “outing” of two candidates during that the same people were showing the winter ASUCD up and we are not elections. reaching out the way In support of the ... trans woman Eva I would like to be. I event, straight ally to think of Angeli has a blood- struggle Mayor Joe Krovoza ways that these stored eye and and a shared an experience ries could be heard,” when he was called a fist-sized indent on she said. “fag” when camping “I have been fighther left cheek with a friend. Along ing for years, why isn’t with this show of solithis over? I’m so fuckdarity, students and community members ing tired of this,” declared civil engineering shared stories about how sick they are of major and student activist Adam Horn everyday occurrences — including being when he stood up to the microphone. stared at, being harassed and having to “What else can I do?” explain their sexuality to strangers.

Horn implored witnesses to speak up Rally participant Erica Kenney, a on behalf of victims of discrimination.

21-year-old food science major, was up“Allies are our strongest advocates; when set by the lack of new faces at the rally. “I they stand up for me it speaks volumes.”

Horn spoke of the violence that is still being silenced in dominant campus discourse. “It was a huge deal when Mikey got beat up, but there is still a lot of trans violence that goes unnoticed.”

Now, almost one month after the “This is not OK” rally, third-year physics student and trans woman Eva Angeli has a bloodred eye and and a fist-sized indent on her left cheek. Angeli was walking home from school on April 4 when she “heard a girl screaming and a guy yelling.”

She said that, while trying to deescalate the situation, she was punched — “everything went black for a second.”

Angeli said the unidentified suspect then “called me a faggot and said that he was going to beat me up.”

Angeli says that she filed a police See QUEER on 12

First aid SOME SHAKE with LEO OCAMPO • GOCAMPO@UCDAVIS.EDU

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ad trips suck.

Sometimes they happen because you smoked a little too much, other times because you hadn’t eaten all day; or maybe because you weren’t used to smoking out of a bong and didn’t expect such a potent hit. Sometimes even something as trivial as the temperature or lighting might cause them.

Either way, bad trips ruin your high and put your body in an uncontrollable panic.

While weed usually helps calm your nerves, it can also put you in a state of increased sensitivity and hyper-awareness. This is cute and funny when it happens to the kids on “That ‘70s Show,” but it is actually extremely uncomfort-

able and scary. heart attack or brain aneurysm.

During a bad trip, every single thought In their frantic state, people will catabecomes urgent, and strophize every little the feeling that somesensation or fear. thing terrible is about Either way, bad Their minds become to happen becomes trips ruin your high obsessed with negaimpossible to ignore. tive thoughts that and put your body Sometimes people grow and spread get extremely paranoid in an uncontrollable through their entire and they worry that being. They become panic the cops (or someanxious and fearful body’s parents) are for no logical reason. going to show up out of nowhere and throw It might sound as if someone should everybody in jail. Other times people get ex- be able to escape a bad trip simply by aggeratedly worried about their health, and thinking happy thoughts, but while this they get the feeling that they cannot breathe is half-true, it is not that easy. The mind properly or that they are about to have a is extremely complicated and powerful.

Sometimes it seems to develop a mind of its own and refuses to be tamed.

Trying to get out of a bad trip by telling yourself to think positive thoughts is like trying to fight fire with fire. It usually only makes things worse by adding to the million swarming ideas in your head that already have you incapacitated.

Instead, it is better to concern yourself with mundane, even boring matters. Do things that you can do automatically and that don’t require much thought.

Wash the dishes. Clean your room.

Pick out your outfit for tomorrow. Organize your bookshelf or music library.

Make your roommate a sandwich.

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Secret sex with MARISSA HERRERA • MDHERRERA@UCDAVIS.EDU

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s college students we all seem to experience hookups that end abruptly and unceremoniously. We all get the bragging rights and experience points, but the one-night stand stands alone, with nothing more resulting from it.

But what about the continual secret hookup? And what if this secret continual hookup becomes emotional. And what if it involves a separate relationship?!

Dizzying — I know. That’s why I am here to demystify the very treacherous terms of what I have deemed “secret sex.”

Secret sex — you know, the sex you have behind your friend’s back, the sex that you dare not post a single status about —

not even declaring “it’s complicated.” Now put in place. the actual sex is not so tricky in the land If this carefree and somewhat simple of secret sex, you just sex seems appealing have it. You may enjoy and gives you quite the lack of responsibil- ... the ease of the a little thrill — well ity and emotions with then do it. All you entire relationship secret sex — it is all really have to worry very friends-with-benabout in this simple makes the terminaefits, save the bragging form of secret sex is tion even easier — and familiarity. yourself and your These relationships just don’t text back emotions; other than can be identified with that, pick an attractext messages from midnight to 5 a.m. tive partner you can handle for a couple and constant lies strewn together to your of hours and have the time of your life. friends and roommates. There is no comMost of these purely sexual relationmitment and there is no boundary ever ships are built out of convenience and

ease, as no relationship is really wanted on either end. Most routes don’t end up like Kristen Wigg and Jon Hamm’s did in Bridesmaids, but if they do, the ease of the entire relationship makes the termination even easier — just don’t text back.

Now where things get tricky and completely muddied is when secret sex is a secret to be kept from someone — I’m talking about cheating. Secret sex becomes emotional and ultimately destructive. What drives these complicated secret sex relationships are pretty primal — passion and the rush of it.

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Capitalism and the poor TREE OF LIBERTY with TRISTAN DE LIEGE • TFLENAERTS@UCDAVIS.ED

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or those of you who did not read my column last quarter, I will be writing about capitalism and defending it against various criticisms.

Rather than a technical philosophical defense of capitalism, though, I will be focusing on concrete issues. I should also note that the system we have today in this country does not qualify as capitalism, but instead is a mixed economy with improper government controls and cronyism. I refer you to my first column last quarter for a fuller discussion of what I mean by capitalism.

Often, when I tell people that I support laissez-faire capitalism — the system in which the government does nothing

but protect the life, liberty and property values for the sake of the poor, or less of its citizens, and all property is prifortunate. This is the premise that has to vately owned — it is be challenged if we asked: “What about are to live in a moral the poor?”

I should also note that and free society.

I could just as easFirst, it is a ily respond, of course, the system we have misconception that by asking, “What the poor are worse today in this country about them?” The off in a laissez-faire does not qualify as hidden assumption capitalist system — capitalism ... behind the original because everyone can question is the view benefit the most from that no one has a right to exist entirely for productive geniuses in such a system. By her own sake — to produce and enjoy this I do not mean some sort of “trickleher own wealth free from the coercive down economics” (a term best avoided interference of government. No, some because of how politically charged it is) people must be forced to sacrifice their but rather that if productive individuals

are left to their own devices, their value creation creates more opportunities for wealth and improvement in the standard of living: you do not have to be rich to benefit from what producers such as Bill Gates or Sam Walton have accomplished.

Moreover, entitlement schemes and wealth redistribution aimed at reducing poverty can cripple the self-esteem of their recipients. The precondition of true, lasting self-esteem is independence, productiveness and self-reliance. Applied to economic situations, this means working to provide others with values as a way of acquiring wealth. Coercive redistribution See CAPITALISM on 12

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Status of women’s health

Regarding ‘Islamists Rising’ event

For the last five weeks, I have been serving as a clinic escort for the Women’s Health Specialists in Sacramento.

My job is to protect clients entering the clinic from harassment. This experience has truly exposed how far away we are from truly accessible abortion care.

I’m often told that women’s rights or women’s health care has already been achieved, that feminism is a thing of the past, that our current world is free of sexism or gender injustice.

Those claims — claims that argue that our work is done — often run through my head while I stand in front of 25 anti-choice protesters telling me that I am a murderer or “anti-women.”

According to their website, The 40 Days for Life “is a focused pro-life campaign with a vision to access God’s power through prayer, fasting and peaceful vigil to end abortion.”

However, during this “pro-life,” antichoice campaign, my experience has not been peaceful. Yelling at cars, following within a foot of me whispering about my supposed “sin” is not peaceful. Telling me that I “hate” women is not passive prayer. Although we have an ideological difference, I do believe that these people

A letter to Chancellor Katehi: We, as student organizations under the UC Davis Division of Student Affairs and representative of the diverse student body, condemn the event “Islamists Rising in the Middle East: Where Next for America?” where Daniel Pipes, Elan Journo and Larry Greenfield are invited to speak. The event will take place at UC Davis on April 11 at 7 p.m. and is hosted by the UC Davis Ayn Rand Society. Pipes, Journo and Greenfield have past histories of speech that demonstrate racism and Islamophobia that clearly transgress the principles that the University of California and UC Davis are meant to embody. Some of these statements include: — “Muslims today increasingly carry the banner of anti-semitism and constitute a physical threat to Jews.” (Pipes 1997) — Pipes justifying Japanese internment and calling for government authorities today to take “common sense steps” towards Muslims in America “by registering their whereabouts, profiling them, monitoring their mosques, or infiltrating their organizations,” in an article titled “Japanese Internment: Why It Was a Good Idea — And the Lessons It Offers Today.” (HNN 2005) — Journo claiming that “the objective

have a right to protest me, in the same way I have a right to protest them.

But this is not just standing up for their belief or their god. These protesters spread scientifically false medical information, telling clients as they drive by that abortions cause breast cancer or “birth control kills.” This has been proven false — the American Cancer Association has repeatedly stated abortions do not cause breast cancer.

The Women’s Health Specialists, in addition to providing abortions, have an adoptions program. Women’s Health Specialists provide free birth control, pregnancy screenings and pap smears regardless of gender, sexual orientation, documentation or insurance coverage.

These services give women choices — choices to control and predict their pregnancies and reproductive health.

Working as an escort has revealed that achieving reproductive justice is not so near. It has shown me that in a country of “progress” we still have huge barriers to overcome for women to be able to have autonomy and control over their health and their futures.

Rachael Valler Fourth-year gender studies major

Where’s our money?

Didn’t Gov. Jerry Brown just spend six months on the campaign trail at our college campuses telling students over and over again how Proposition 30 was going to save our schools from some terrible cuts?

Well Prop. 30 passed, and the state government is expected to collect as much as $60 billion in new taxes as a result.

A deal is a deal right? We, the students, helped pass the tax increase but out of the $6 billion that Prop. 30 will bring in this year, the UC schools are only getting $125 million. When you add up all the money going to the UCs, Cal State Universities, community colleges and K-12 schools, public education is getting barely half of all the new tax money.

So why isn’t all that new money going to education as promised and more importantly, where is it going?

Well, Gov. Brown and the Democrats who run the state legislature seem to have

forgotten their promise and are spending the money on other pet projects. According to the Governor’s 2013-14 budget: — $502 million in additional spending per year on state employee raises — $1.2 billion additional spending per year for Medi-Cal, CalWorks and InHome Services — $3.1 billion in additional spending for the Governor’s High Speed Rail Program California schools have been hit hard in recent years. Budget cuts, tuition jumps and teacher pink slips have become the norm. Prop. 30 was supposed to fix all that.

It is time that we students begin asking the Governor what happened to that promise? When will education truly be a priority? And when can we expect the rest of that money?

Rosie Dale Fourth-year political science and psychology double major

superiority of Western culture is apparent” to dismiss the presence of multiculturalism in curricula, which he describes as a “concerted effort to portray the most backward, impoverished and murderous cultures as advanced, prosperous and life-enhancing.” (Journo 2004) — “Obama has been in denial about ... the brutality of Sharia governance, the Islamic culture of oppression of women through honor killings and female genital mutilation, and the continuing Muslim assaults on Christians throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa.”

(Greenfield 2013) The principles of the University that are being undermined with such speech: — These statements/speakers threaten the maintenance of “a climate of justice marked by respect for each other” that the University strives for. (Principles of Community) — These statements/speakers sever the University’s ability to “foster mutual understanding” among the diverse groups within the student body as they allow racist ideologies to be spread and legitimized through UC Davis. (Principles of Community) — These statements/speakers do not make UC Davis a campus that is welSee MUSLIMS on 4

Marriage equality protest Once again the Yolo County chapter of Marriage Equality USA will stage a protest on Tax Day, at the Davis Post Office.

Please join us on Monday, April 15, at the main Davis Post Office (Fifth and Pole Line) from noon until 1 p.m. Married same sex couples in California and across the country are still treated by

our federal government as second-class citizens. As we have said since the beginning of these protests: “We pay our bills, we pay our taxes. All we want is marriage access.”

Looking forward to seeing you on Tax Day, Shelly Bailes and Ellen Pontac

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11 / Thursday First Kirtan Night of the Quarter & Langar 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. | Davis Christian Association House Come to join SCA in our first Kirtan Night of the Quarter at the CA House. There will be food so come hungry! It is open to everyone and anyone.

You do not have to be Sikh to attend.

American Red Cross Club General Meeting 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. | 146 Olson The ARCC is an on-campus organization dedicated to emergency preparedness and community service.

Join them for their first general meeting.

12 / Friday Plant Breeding Symposium 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. | ARC A group of graduate students have organized an all-day plant breeding symposium with six presenters from academia, industry and nonprofits to talk about current research in Global Crop Improvement.

For details and registration visit plantmolbreeding. ucdavis.edu.

13 / SATURday Nightingale 8 to 10 p.m. | Pamela Trokanski Dance Workshop & Performing Arts Center Nightingale is an original play inspired by Marie de France’s poem, Laüstic. A physical theater piece, Nightingale weaves its theatrical nest by pulling from a variety of textual fibers. Directed by Gia Battista, with an original score by Richard Chowenhill.

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5 / FRIDAY All in a day’s haze

AggieTV’s office is located in Lower Freeborn. The staff produce and edit videos in their office.

A group of 15 to 20 college-aged subjects — several of them blindfolded — were reported walking in a line toward the playground on Portage Bay East.

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8 / MONDAY Fountain of Youth A man was passed out on the stone fountain while sitting upright with his head between his knees on Fourth and C streets.

9 / TUESDAY Crouching Neighbor, Hidden Camera Somebody’s neighbor was videotaping her in her backyard on K Street.

But it was coming right tortoise!

Somebody’s large male desert tortoise went missing after a party on Creekhollow Lane.

Meet the Parents Someone reported that a man on a bike stopped, grabbed his daughter’s hand and tried to kiss her on the mouth on Russell Boulevard.

Police briefs are compiled from the City of Davis daily crime bulletins. Contact EINAT GILBOA at city@theaggie.org.

MUSLIMS Cont. from page 3

coming to any race, religion, gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation, and have direct implications on the safety of students on campus.

We acknowledge that UC Davis regards free speech as a principle of community. However, we will not support speech that is racist and has no purpose but to further ignorance throughout communities. We do not support speech that will alienate communities and legitimize stereotyping. We do not support speech that builds the very prejudice and discrimination that the University should be working against in order to foster a campus that is rich in understanding and intellectual growth.

Thus, as the University acknowledges “historical and deep-rooted understandings and biases” in our current society, we expect, by extension, it will acknowledge that the ideologies being furthered by the speakers serve to perpetuate the irrational fear and “othering” of Islam and Muslims (Islamophobia) which have material implications on the safety and sense of belonging of our peers.

We expect the University will follow its own protocols and sanctions, which include the confrontation and rejection of such hate speech that is “based on race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religious or political beliefs.” (Principles of Community) The University’s neutral stance against such speech has allowed it to tear at the fabric of our community and is detrimental to the very principles that UC Davis strives to accomplish.

We expect the University to take a stance against such hate speech.

The undersigned include 24 signatures from student organizations, faculty and staff. If you would like a list of these signatures, please contact Mariam Aejaz at maejaz@ucdavis.edu, Eddie Truong at edtruong@ucdavis.edu or Kriti Garg at kgarg@ucdavis.edu.

AggieTV grows student interest, ASUCD segments Unit to release live music session videos, in depth pieces

By JESSICA GRILLI Aggie News Writer

ASUCD unit AggieTV is aiming to keep up with what students are interested in, and is introducing new segments to its lineup.

“Our main audience is students. We've done that in the past with large projects, such as the UC Davis LipDub, or the Harlem Shake video. We're always about the students, and we hope that this message is apparent in the content that we produce,” said AggieTV’s Executive Director Anna Oh. Presided over by ASUCD, AggieTV has a total income of $1,000 annually, as well as an ASUCD subsidy of $14,461 for their total expenses for the 2012-13 academic year.

Income stems from promotional videos, equipment rental fees, business contracts, content licensing, and products and services, according to an ASUCD budget summary.

New shows AggieTV is currently producing several different video series, including "Word On The Street,” or WOTS, in which reporters move around campus and ask students to talk about relevant events coming up or interesting topics.

The unit also began producing "How To" videos in the fall. The videos teach viewers how to do a particular activity or perform a talent while featuring UC Davis student groups and organizations.

WOTS consists of reporters asking students about current events, while the “How To” segments focus more on student groups and clubs on campus. One example is “How To: Pop!” featuring the UC Davis Popping Club.

In addition, AggieTV is developing a news show that will be airing this spring, which will feature information regarding ASUCD and the different ASUCD units. Such information will include upcoming events and announcements from the ASUCD president.

According to Oh, the goal of the news show is for students to become more informed on issues and events concerning the student body as a whole, but because the project is still in development, she is not able to disclose much more.

Oh said there will also be live music sessions, as the unit held auditions for live music talent and have recorded a few but will wait until they record more to release an initial video. This was done in collaboration with KDVS. “We wanted students to show off their talent and reveal what Davis has to offer,” Oh said.

In addition to promotional videos for campus groups, AggieTV staff are motivated to create their own short films to showcase at the UC Davis Film Festival, according to Oh. New equipment According to Alex Park, director of Creative Media, the unit is always on the “cutting edge of media.” A proposal is currently underway for Creative Media to purchase two new plasma screen TVs that would be provided through ASUCD funding. The new TVs would play videos for all ASUCD units, including AggieTV, in public spaces on campus.

“We want to make sure that we can place [them] in multiple places on campus. Why get plasmas where they can’t be seen? We want [them] to be in high-profile areas,” Park said.

According to Oh, purchases are usually approved by drafting a bill to go through ASUCD Senate, as the unit is under ASUCD, not Campus Media Board.

Growing presence “As an excelling ASUCD unit, I strongly believe that there is much potential for AggieTV, as well as larger and more exciting opportunities for future members of AggieTV,” Oh said.

The unit is hiring and searching for new photographers and reporters for spring 2013. Interested students can apply online at aggietv.org by April 15.

Tim Tran, AggieTV’s entertainment director, said many students that are entering the media industry are already expected to have many of the skills that AggieTV teaches to its employees.

“We are entering a workforce comprised of experts, and to get a job, one must have more than one skill. AggieTV strives [toward] developing its staff to build up their strong talents and teaching new skills, ultimately giving them a more competitive advantage in the world,” Tran said. “A reporter who can report, film and edit is much more valuable to an organization than a reporter who can only report.”

JESSICA GRILLI can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

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Senator proposes bill to create online courses for public universities Bill authors aim to provide relief to waitlisted students

Amiel Chanowitz | Aggie

By SYDNEY COHEN Aggie News Writer

On Feb. 21, Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) presented Senate Bill 520, which would create online courses at the state level in hopes of providing relief for California students struggling to get into introductory courses. The bill is set for a hearing on April 24.

These classes would be offered in an online clearinghouse — an online course registrar offered by the state — and students could receive credit at UC, CSU and California Commu-

nity Colleges (CCCs), according to the bill’s summary.

Bob Powell, chair of the University of California Academic Senate and UC Davis professor of chemical engineering, chemical science and food science and technology, co-authored with Bill Jacob, vice chair of the University of California Academic Senate, an open letter opposing Steinberg’s bill.

“We need to do this in a way that creates high-quality courses that are periodically reviewed, can be updated regularly as new material comes into the curriculum and has UC faculty both designing them and teaching

them. That’s really what it’s about for us,” Powell said.

According to Powell, the UC system has a very rigorous method of approving online courses that involves interdisciplinary involvement in both creating online courses and approving them to be sure that the courses fulfill the standard that the UC strives to uphold.

“You signed up for a UC education, and we expect to give you one,” Powell said.

Powell said that the data shows that the time it takes for UC students to complete degrees has been steadily falling while completion of degree rates have gone up, even in the face of budget cuts and lowering the studentto-faculty ratio.

“I know at Davis, in the last four or five years, they’ve gone to great lengths to make sure that there aren’t critical gateway courses that students aren’t able to get,” Powell said.

Powell said that he would like to see an online catalog made for the UC system, in which online courses developed by UC faculty can be accessed

by UC students on any campus. Additionally, he said he hopes that faculty from different UC campuses will collaborate in course creation.

According to Rhys Williams, Steinberg’s press secretary, the bill creates a framework in which faculty could approve up to 50 courses for accreditation online. Faculty would be allowed to make decisions about which online courses to create, taking into consideration the degree to which the course is

CAMPUS JUDICIAL REPORT Just a peek A teaching assistant referred a student to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for copying off another student’s exam in an upper division economics course.

The TA noticed the suspicious behavior and moved the student during the exam. After the exam, the TA reviewed both tests and discovered that they shared a number of identical wrong answers. During the meeting with the SJA officer, the student was apologetic and admitted to copying off the other student’s exam. The student stated that she was under a lot of emotional pressure due to family matters and would not otherwise cheat. Because the student took responsibility for her actions, the SJA officer proposed a lighter sanction. The student accepted disciplinary probation through Winter Quarter of 2014 and agreed to do 10 hours of community service as well. If a student breaks the rules while on disciplinary probation, they will almost definitely be suspended. Even after the probation is over, though, another similar violation (any kind of academic misconduct) would likely result in suspension.

I didn’t even want to be here An upperclassman was referred to SJA for using unauthorized material during a final exam. The TA saw the student referring to the material under his desk and reported him to SJA after the exam. During his meeting at SJA, he told the Judicial Officer that he did not really want to take the course but it was the only one that fit his schedule. He said that he tried to study for the class but he just was not interested in the subject. After doing poorly on both midterms, the student decided to bring unauthorized material to the final exam to make sure he did not fail the class. In the end, he took responsibility for his actions and accepted Deferred Separation status and 12 hours of community service. Deferred Separation means that the student gives up his right to a formal hearing if he is referred to SJA in the future for academic misconduct. However, he retains his right to an informal hearing with a Judicial Officer.

The jig is up A TA reported a student for changing her answers on a Scantron and then submitting it as proof that the Scantron grading machine must have made a mistake because she should have earned more points. When the student met with the SJA officer, she insisted that she had not changed her answers, and that the error must have been made by the machine. However, the TA then provided a full Scantron report indicating that two answers were clearly left unmarked. The student eventually admitted to her actions. The SJA officer proposed to resolve the matter with deferred separation status and 15 hours of community service. The student accepted, thus giving up her right to a formal hearing in the future.

In terms of grading, the professor has the right to give the student a zero on the exam — and he did.

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UC introduces system to alter allocation of state funds Some campuses already see increase in funding this year

WEEKLY WEATHER tntilmont@ucdavis.edu Short Term Forecast Through the weekend of April 13 expect sunny weather to continue, although it will be cooler.

Thursday expect some breeziness but nothing compared to Monday and Tuesday.

On Saturday and Sunday expect some cloudiness.

Expected highs: 77 on Today Cooling to 72 by Sunday.

Expected Lows: Lower 50's.

Long Term Forecast For next week, we can expect a breezy Monday, followed by a warming trend through the rest of the week. Conditions will be sunny for the most part, with some occasional periods of cloudiness. Besides a slight chance of rain on Monday, the rest of the week should be free of precipitation.

Expected Highs: 70 on Monday, warming to 75 on Tuesday.

Wednesday through Friday should be around 80 degrees.

Expected lows: Overnight lows will range in the mid to upper 40's throughout the week.

Climate/Almanac: Highs and lows for the past week in Davis: Last Thursday we received almost .5 inches of rain, and the highs and lows were about 65 and 50 degrees respectively Last Friday: High of 67, Low of 54 Last Saturday: High of 68, Low of 49 Last Sunday: High of 68, Low of 49 Last Monday: High of 69, Low of 49, Max wind gusts of 44MPH Last Tuesday: High of 74, Low of 58, Max wind gusts of 45MPH Yesterday: High 84, One strong gust of 20MPH, otherwise mostly calm

Weather News

Vancey Le | Aggie

The recently founded European Space agency's weather center has expanded to watch the sun.

They are tasked to watch for potentially damaging solar storms that could affect satellites, and communication.

This organization is part of the Royal Observatory of Belgium and is part of the European Space Agency's program which tracks space junk and other potentially harmful space object like large asteroids.

Tyson Tilmont, Brian Rico, Justin Tang, Megan Simone, Atmospheric Science Majors

By JESSICA GRILLI Aggie News Writer

University of California officials have agreed that the process by which individual campuses get state funding isn’t transparent enough. A newly introduced budget model called rebenching aims to remedy that.

The new system will allocate funds for UC campuses based on enrollment figures, according to a recent rebenching proposal. Extra state funds will not be redistributed among all the campuses, rather, to those schools that typically receive less funding. UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara are currently receiving these rebenching funds.

Setting enrollment goals for UC campuses is the next phase in the rebenching proposal. Upon receiving campus input, UC officials are expected to set the enrollment targets by June, which will eventually determine the rebenching fund amounts for next year.

A numbers game Previously, the state funding structure was based on an

algorithm that took into account graduate student population and when the campus increased enrollment. This favored older campuses, like UCLA, which receives the most state funding at $6,413 per year.

“It was by default, the way the distribution took place, [that] tended to favor campuses who had been established a long time ago,” said Jean-Bernard Minster, Chair of the Committee on Planning and Budget for the Academic Senate.

According to UC spokesperson Dianne Klein, the goal of rebenching is to more equitably allocate state funding to campuses based on the numbers and types of students enrolled.

“Currently, UCLA receives the largest allocation of state funds. Is that fair? Is that equitable? Under rebenching, other campuses will see their allocations of state funds increase,” Klein said.

Klein stated that rebenching is scheduled to take place over the next six years. However, the six year plan may be adjusted, depending on whether or not the UC receives See FUNDS on 14

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ur favorite childhood comedian is officially back in our lives, returning to entertaining us and keeping our attention. This time,

the best of my knowledge. But she demands concern when she dons wigs and weaves that fall off in public, pierces both of her cheeks, paints her lips blue and

... she mentioned wanting the rapper/actor to essentially destroy her genitals it’s not with her. It’s because of her.

Amanda Bynes, former child actress in “The Amanda Show” and star of popular films such as She’s the Man, Hairspray and Easy A, is up to some suspicious behaviors as of late.

Perhaps the most-buzzedabout action was her tweet to Drake on March 21, in which she mentioned wanting the rapper/actor to essentially destroy her genitals. Not even vulgar comedians like Sarah Silverman, Kathy Griffin or Chelsea Handler make comments like that.

Her Twitter is fascinating, boasting random thoughts, bursts of selfies and a whole lot of surprisingly immature comments. Her new look, something she posts a lot about, is something to be discussed.

This ex-teen queen was never really critiqued on her looks, to

looks generally intoxicated or under the influence in her selfposted photos.

When did this happen? Has Hollywood influenced the downfall of already successful stars when they aren’t being talked about on a daily basis? I’ve learned in classes that celebrities are often classified as narcissists, needing and longing for attention, as they often have very low self-esteem.

And with this new generation of celebrities seemingly forgoing public relations agents and embarrassing themselves on the Web, it’s now easier than ever to learn about the real thoughts inside of those beautifully madeup heads.

Celebrities go off their rockers every once in a while, scarring their public appearances with controversial quotes and questionable photos. But this time,

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behaviors cross the line from desperate and attention-seeking to bizarre and erratic.

Not only has Bynes decided to turn into Nicki Minaj 2.0, looks-wise, but she allegedly exhibits mentally insane behavior. Witnesses report that she steals things from beauty salons after blowing up at stylists, mutters to herself at adult gymnastic classes while in fishnets and a wig and smokes an excessive amount of weed.

Bynes has the potential to become some sort of comedic powerhouse, if guided properly and watched over. Someone needs to direct attention this downward spiral of tragic behaviors instead of dissecting the worlds of healthy (just annoying and desperate) celebrities.

More and more it seems like mental illness is appearing in the news, hopefully correctly informing audiences, but also increasing care for those suffering. Even if Bynes isn’t suffering from a mental disorder, I truly hope someone takes the wheel from her. We need more of her raw skill and less of basically 75 percent of Hollywood’s “talent.”

Amanda, please! ELIZABETH ORPINA can be reached at arts@theaggie.org.

Northern California Performance Platform UC Davis to host annual symposium for performance studies

By CRISTINA FRIES Aggie Arts Writer

On Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in Wright Hall, professors, graduate students and arts practitioners from all around Northern California will gather to engage in dialogue and performances relating to urgent conceptual and practical issues at play in performance studies for the annual Northern California Performance Platform.

This year’s platform, involving participants from several university campuses across the San Francisco Bay Area, is centered on the theme “Performance and Crisis.”

The day will consist of a morning keynote panel discussion, afternoon workshops and panels dealing with questions of crisis in performance and methodology, followed by an evening of performances.

Performances and workshops by professors and graduate students will take place in the Main Theater. The first performance will discuss issues relating to apocalypse, the second will be an exploration of the nature of consumption and consumerism via images, narratives and performative moments and the third will be side-by-side performances exploring the formation of identity.

The platform’s success at Stanford last spring prompted the event to be hosted at UC Davis this year.

For more information on the Performance Platform, visit performancestudies.ucdavis.edu.

CRISTINA FRIES can be reached at arts@theaggie.org.

BY TANYA AZARI & CHRISTINA FRIES

POETRY / OPEN MIC SickSpits Open Mic: Poetry Special Tuesday, 7 p.m., free John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. / Delta of Venus, 122 B St. SickSpits, UC Davis’ slam poetry team, is holding their April Open Mic as a Poetry Special, in honor of National Poetry Month. Emceed and featuring performances by members of SickSpits, the open mic will consist of anyone with the initiative to sign up and spit their poems, raps or spoken word pieces. Sign-ups for the open mic start at 6:45 p.m.

AUTHOR EVENTS Carol Drinkwater, “The Olive Route” Thursday, 3 p.m., free Robert Mondavi Institute South Building, Room 1207 Well known for her best-selling fiction and memoir pieces about her olive farm in Provence, Drinkwater gives a lecture, “The Olive Route,” followed by a book signing.

MUSIC Metric Wednesday, April 17, 8 p.m., $29.50 Mondavi Center Brought to you by UC Davis’ Entertainment Council, indie rock band Metric will be performing at the Mondavi Center. Frequent performers at large festivals such as Coachella and Sasquatch, Metric is touring in part to promote their new album, Synthetica Deluxe. Tennessee rock band Mona opens the show.

FILM Feminist Film Festival Thursday and Friday, 6:30 p.m., $710 per night Veterans Memorial Theatre, 203 E. 14th St. The eighth annual Davis Feminist Film Festival will be showing a variety of different films over the span of two nights. Pieces come from artists all over the world, featuring various stories, cultures and languages. All proceeds from this grassroots event go to maintaining the festival and providing student internships. Tickets can be bought at the WRRC, the LGBTRC, the Davis Farmers Market, Armadillo Music or at the box office at an increased price.

YCFS Screening No. 7: Un Prophete Sunday, 7 p.m., $2 recommended donation Yolo Pleasure Dome, 1401 Pole Line Rd.

The Yolo County Film Society is presenting, as their seventh showing, Jacques Audiard’s Un Prophete. Un Prophete is Audiard’s seventh film, which won the Grand Prix at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. A crime story along the same lines as Italian gangbanger films, the film functions both as a story and as social commentary.

DANCE Shantala Shivalingappa Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 8 p.m., tickets starting at $21.50 Vanderhoef Studio, Mondavi Center Critically acclaimed Indian Kuchupudi dancer Shantala Shivalingappa will be performing her solo piece, “Gamaka,” at the Mondavi Center. Accompanied by live music, the performance explores the relationship between movement and sound and the poetic elements that resonate between them.

THEATER / MONDAVI Depression: The Musical Saturday, 7:30 p.m., suggested donation $10-15 DCC Fellowship Hall, 421 D St. The Davis Community Church is hosting the comedic tragedy Depression: The Musical, written by professional speaker and comedian Brian Wetzel. His play has received national exposure not only for its humor and harmonies but also for its awareness of a severe mental issue. Wetzel has been recognized by the National Alliance on Mental Health.

El Coloquio de los Perros Friday, 6 p.m., suggested donations at the door Wyatt Pavillion Theater Grupo de Teatro La Poltrana will be performing José Ortega’s theatrical rendition of a short story written

by Miguel de Cervantes, a satirical comedy in which a man deliriously imagines two talking dogs who speak about the society in which they live. This production kicks off the XXV Cervantes Symposium of California to be held from April 12 to 13.

Nightingale Friday, Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 6:30 p.m., $12 student tickets, $15 regular tickets Pamela Trokanski Dance Workshop & Performing Arts Center, 2720 Del Rio Place Davis Shakespeare Ensemble brings a physical theater piece that incorporates a dynamic series of performance techniques. Inspired by a medieval poem, the performance discusses universal issues still relevant to today’s society and weaves in contemporary texts.

YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF VIDEO GAMES with ANTHONY LABELLA

I don't often comment on rumors, speculation or reports with anonymous sources, but sometimes evidence piles up to insurmountable levels and one must address the inevitable. Such is the case with Microsoft's next-gen console and reports that the system will require a constant internet connection.

We live in a world of rapid technological advances, and yet the internet remains fickle in terms of its reliability. Just last week my connection dropped out for about an hour. The cause? Who knows. It only happens in rare cases on my end, but the annoyance still remains.

I can only imagine the frustration from people with noticeably spotty internet connections and the negative impact that would have on their collective experience with Microsoft's next-gen console. In fact, that entire audience would have to think long and hard about purchasing the system in the first place.

And what if Microsoft's own servers are down for maintenance? Do we have no way of playing games on the new console? As someone who mostly enjoys single-player experiences in which internet plays no role, such a notion makes my brain hurt.

Consoles have never ventured into the world of always-on requirements, but games have. The results have been ... poor, to put it lightly. Just look at the SimCity debacle from last month — owners went days without being able to access the game because of server issues.

The outrage and backlash from the video game community spoke volumes.

The always-on requirement in SimCity displayed a lack of consumer awareness on the part of developer Maxis and pub-

lisher Electronic Arts. The same may hold true of Microsoft with its next console, and recent comments from a prominent member of Microsoft Studios emphasizes the disconnect between the company and its audience.

Adam Orth, creative director at Microsoft Studios, took to Twitter last week to address the possibility of an always-on requirement. He posted quite a few quoteworthy lines, but my favorite tweet involved a picture of Obama on the phone, with the words “deal with it” in bold letters at the bottom. Doesn't Orth realize that such hostile behavior actively alienates the consumer?

I took a quick glance at IGN's comment section for the news article about Orth's tweets, and the highest-rated one stuck out: "I can deal with it ... by purchasing a PS4." Say what you will about console biases and internet comment sections, but the user who posted that expresses a reasonable sentiment regarding next-gen consoles. With reported prices of $500+, many individuals will have to choose between Microsoft's successor to the Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 4. The always-on requirement immediately puts Microsoft at a disadvantage.

Part of me still reserves judgment considering Microsoft has yet to officially unveil its new console. Perhaps the company has a few tricks up its sleeve that will help quell the seemingly negative reports.

In the meantime, the video game community's skepticism continues to grow and persist.

ANTHONY LABELLA can be reached at arts@theaggie.org.

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UCLA students create new social app for local bars, concerts App provides user-generated real-time updates

By JOHN KESLER Aggie Arts Writer

Ever wanted to go out to town and know which bars were busy so you could plan ahead? Ever wanted to know in advance how long a line at a concert would be? SceneShot, a new app for the iPhone designed by two undergraduates at UCLA, allows you to do this and more. Chase Hallerberg, one of SceneShot's designers, talked about the app and its uses.

MUSE: What was the genesis of SceneShot?

Hallerberg: Two summers ago I was working in SF at a tech company that was working in mobile industry. My partner, Alvin Hsia, was working at another tech start-up. At the end of the summer, Alvin came up to me while we were getting drinks with the idea for the app. I liked the idea, and when we went back to school, I went up to him and told him that I would like to do it. We pooled our money together and got incorporated. Initially, we tried to outsource it to a group of developers in Russia, but it didn't work because of the language barrier and because we basically couldn't pay them enough to care about it.

At the end of the the last school year, we got our family and friends to invest in us and we eventually contracted a company from Toronto, the Konrad Group, to develop the app.

SceneShot, developed by UCLA undergraduates allows for people to scope out locations with their iPhones.

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How did you and Alvin come up with the idea for SceneShot?

It was Alvin's initial idea. Whenever we went out at night, our friends would tell us where they were by sending us picture messages. We decided that it would be a good idea to make an app for that, where a whole community sends pictures to each other.

Can you describe SceneShot?

Basically, we're [moving] community and friend-generated photos to in-app profiles. As a user, you can take a photo of a place while you're out and can upload it on your profile. Taking a photo acts as a form of check-in, so you can see where your friends are by looking at their photos. You can also look at locations near you

This week in new releases Watch out for some of the most interesting releases of the week

By ANDREW RUSSELL Aggie Arts Writer

MUSIC 1. Tyler, The Creator — Wolf (April 2): The third solo album from Odd Future’s mastermind represents a stretching-out period for Tyler’s persona and aesthetic; after working hard to establish and defend the most ambitious collective of hiphop’s left field in years, he puts away some of the battle gear to indulge in more reflective lyrics, laid-back production and marijuana-flaked reminiscences of fame, among other serious subjects.

2. James Blake — Overgrown (April 8): The young UK producer whose 2011 debut inhabited a smoke-andmirror world of introspective piano balladry and minimalist dubstep returns with Overgrown, a bolder, more beat-heavy foray into masterful alt-R&B. Blake bridges the gap between his sparser, more ponderous first album and his latest through the inclusion of high-profile guests Brian Eno on the experimental bolero of “Digital Lion” and GZA on the brilliant rap-soul number “Take a Fall For Me.” 3. Bonobo — The North Borders (April 1): The North Borders features Brilliant downtempo electronica from UK musician Simon Green, who is now moving further away from the last strands of ’90s era trip-hop that inflected some of his earlier work towards a highly accessible, warm palette of ambient breakbeat and future garage. One standout song includes inspired vocals from Erykah Badu.

4. Caveman — Caveman (April 2): Atmospheric Indie rockers from

Brooklyn streamline the eclecticism of their low-profile debut into a unified statement that marries the anthemic guitar soundscapes of late ’80s/early ’90s shoegaze with the bright, heartfelt vocals of contemporaries such as Grizzly Bear and Local Natives.

5. Heavy Hawaii — Goosebumps (April 2): Goosebumps is the debut full-length from San Diego band Heavy Hawaii, whose gritty, warped brand of surf rock brings to mind the melodies of Brian Wilson interbreeding with the pop experiments of Ariel Pink.

Another interesting species in the evolution of the surf genre, which has also been mixed with pop-punk in recent years by fellow San Diegan group Wavves.

FILM 1. Jurassic Park 3D (April 5): An unavoidable 2013 film experience. What more can be said to persuade a legion of fans to relive an experience they grew up with, or introduce it to another fan-to-be? Audience members are encouraged to pay special attention to the newly enhanced visual spectacles of a leg of goat hitting the glass ceiling of a truck, a spoonful of jello quivering as velociraptors enter a dining room and the beads of sweat on John Hammond’s face as he realizes his plan to revive dinosaurs was sort of a bad move.

2. Upstream Color (April 5) The long awaited follow-up to Shane Carruth’s 2004 cult hit Primer moves away from the tech-heavy probabilities of time travel to more organic themes; in as far as it is possible to synopsize Carruth’s work, the plot concerns the interactions between a couple before and after

coming into contact with a strange microscopic organism. Although this may read as the premise for a horror film, Upstream Color is a visually arresting enigma that should be experienced first and unraveled afterward.

3. It’s a Disaster (April 12) It’s a Disaster is an independent comedy about a couple’s brunch interrupted by news of a dirty bomb being detonated in a nearby city center. Despite the grim and possibly apocalyptic implications of the circumstances they now find themselves in, the plot zeroes in on the four characters’ relationships and behavior as hidden personality traits begin to emerge. Starring David Cross and Julia Stiles.

4. Eddie the Sleepwalking Cannibal (April 5) Eddie the Sleepwalking Cannibal is another macabre comedy following Lars, a failed painter in a rural Canadian town, who finds a bizarre source of inspiration in his new roomate Eddie’s penchant for nighttime “snacks.” As Lars’ work improves drastically, he finds himself oddly inclined to let Eddie continue his unconscious rampages and even to get involved himself.

5. Trance (April 5) The latest work by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire) is a British crime thriller with a psychological twist. James McAvoy plays an art auctioneer-turned-art thief who double-crosses a gang by attempting to make away with a painting they aided him in stealing. After sustaining a head injury and subsequent amnesia, the gang attempts to use a hypnotherapist (played by Rosario Dawson) to determine the missing painting’s location. The film will open in Davis on Friday at the Varsity Theatre downtown.

ANDREW RUSSELL can be reached at arts@ theaggie.org.

and see what the community as a whole is doing.

The app sounds primarily like a social app, but how can someone use it in regards to art events, such as a concert for instance?

For a concert, it would be a little bit different, but you can kind of see when the concert starts to get going. For example, if you didn't know what time the artist was going to show up, you can kind of gauge when they'll show up through the photos uploaded at the venue. Besides this, you can use the app to see when the concert will be crowded, or as a way to know how long the line will be. At bars with live music, you can see when the artist who is performing that night shows up and you can hashtag the artist's name so the community will know. With more users, the information becomes more real-time.

So far the app supports six cities, including San Francisco, Chico and Los Angeles. Why did you decide to incorporate Davis?

Davis is a really unique college town, because you have a campus and right next to it is the town of Davis so all the bars are close together. It's harder to do this for a big city like New York, because there are so many places to go that it becomes difficult to implement this. It's easier to see where people go in cities like Davis or Chico, which are smaller and have like 10 bars.

What do you think about the evolution and popularization of smart phones?

Apps such as yours really take advantage of these new advances in technology.

I think it's making it much easier to use your location to find stuff. The GPS and Wi-Fi features in your phone really enable you to see where you are and to pull from different sources to find information. It's relieving the need for you to plan out your night or even your day. Before, you had to call and set up reservations, but now it's easier for you to just go out by yourself and sort of freestyle your plans.

JOHN KESLER can be reached at arts@theaggie.org.

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THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE Health Sorry guys, size does matter (but not a lot). A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that women judge men’s attractiveness based partly on penis size. The best line from the study was, “The penis is not an island.” This means that male physical attractiveness is based on many other factors as well, including body-size, hip-to-shoulder ratio, muscle tone, hair and voice level. I just feel sorry for the 105 women who had to look at slideshows of 343 naked men.

Solar System We might find some form of life on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. Astronomers recently discovered that the surface of Io is rich in hydrogen peroxide.

So, who cares? All life (as we know it) requires water and certain elements like carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur, but it also needs some form of energy, either light or chemical. Io has the liquid water, and it has the elements. The recently found hydrogen peroxide could provide the chemical energy needed to jump-start life. The theory is based on the fact that peroxides were critical to the formation of life on Earth.

Biology If you enjoy cooking with vinegar or drinking kombucha, your tastebuds owe their pleasure to a genus of bacteria called Acetobacter. This same group of bacteria has recently been engineered to produce a material called nanocellulose, which could revolutionize the industry of industrial biofuels. The resilient nature of nanocellulose also has applications in making stronger, lighter body armor, wound dressings and the cellular scaffolds for building new organs for transplantation.

Green Energy Engineers have nearly completed construction of a completely solar-powered airplane. In early May of this year, the plane is set to make the first-ever crossing of the United States without any fuel.

Should the flight prove successful, the team will begin preparations for the first-ever round-theworld flight powered by solar energy.

Technology A new camera system has been developed that can create detailed, 3D images from over 1 km away. The camera bounces photons off of an object and measures how long it takes for the photon to return to the camera. The system can measure the “flight time” of individual photons, and is accurate down to a single millimeter. The new camera system accurately produced a 3D model of an entire mannequin, including the facial features, from almost half a mile away. This new system will be highly useful in autonomous robots, self-driving cars, military drones and other instances of machine vision.

Spacetime A group of physicists have recently proposed a new model of the universe that directly competes with the “accelerating expansion” theory.

Current theories hypothesize that the universe is continuously expanding, and that the expansion is getting faster and faster due to the forces exerted by dark energy or dark matter. This new theory instead states that instead of the expansion speeding up, it is actually time that is slowing down. The astronomical observations such as redshift that we associate with an expanding universe continue to hold true for this new theory, and the slowing-time theory does not rely on an immeasurable “dark energy” for it to be true.

Medicine A group of doctors at Washington University at St. Louis have recently discovered that they can cause individual cells in the body to move towards a tiny beam of light. Human eyes contain opsin, a light-sensitive protein that translates light into vision. The researchers genetically modified human immune cells to contain opsin, which made the immune cells sensitive to light and gave them the ability to be guided by a laser. This holds great potential for being able to reverse immune system diseases such as diabetes, and even some hereditary heart diseases.

HUDSON LOFCHIE can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

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for placement in the Big West Conference Standings.

After the six-match homestand, UC Davis will move on to compete at the Big West Conference Championship tournament in Indian Wells, Calif.

On the men’s side, UC Davis has had its fair share of struggles, having lost three

Beauty in clouds

By ALLEN GUAN Aggie Science Writer

The Scenario: You’re working on a project within a group, but need to distribute the data to everyone. No one has time to meet up, and the documents and PowerPoints are simply too big to email. Distribution via flash drive would involve everyone meeting up at one point or another, a task made difficult when everyone is too busy.

What could you possibly do?

The solution? Cloud storage.

Cloud storage has become prevalent enough that anyone with access to the internet has probably used it one way or another. The possibilities are endless. As long as you have an internet connection, you can access the cloud and all the data within it.

Big-time technology companies such as Google, Apple, Samsung, Amazon and others have all invested in some sort of virtual storage solution for their consumers. The only difficulty for the consumer is figuring out which services are reliable, useful and

Dropbox Dropbox is easily one of the most popular cloud storage services available. It offers both an online and desktop interface, as well as apps for most mobile devices. Dropbox is unique in that it allows you to sync files across all your devices in realtime. If you change a file on one of your devices, that change appears on all of your other connected devices as well. You can also access your storage from any computer that has internet access. Dropbox offers 2 GB of free space, and also offers regular promotions for getting free, extra space. If you have a .edu email account, you get double the free promotional space as well. You also get .5 GB free space for every new member you refer.

You can also purchase additional space from Dropbox for a yearly subscription, increasing your storage to 50 GB, 100 GB, 500 GB or even 1TB (terabyte).

Google Drive Google’s cloud service, Drive, is another one of the top dogs on the market. It offers multiple programs that emulate the Microsoft Office suite, allowing you to create Word documents, spreadsheets, PowerPoints and several other office program equivalents, all in the original office format. Google Drive is especially useful for UC Davis students,

or any organization that uses Google Apps, because all of these services are easily available through our university email accounts. Google also makes it incredibly easy to share files within a group, such as UC Davis.

Drive also has the unique ability to collaboratively edit documents in real-time. Multiple users can work on the same document, with the changes appearing instantly on everyone else’s screen. This gets rid of the problem of trying to stay up-to-date with different files. Because Drive also acts as virtual storage, one can simply upload any file onto Drive and share it with select peers.

Similar to Dropbox, the weakness is the limited free space. Everyone is granted 5 GB of free data, but there are no options for free increases.

Luckily, there is the option to buy more space, with yearly packages up to 16 TB. Mega Formerly known as Megaupload, this cloud storage solution is easily one of the greatest. Kim Dot, the creator and owner of Mega.co.nz, has revolutionized the market for the cloud. The service not only offers the most free space, 50 GB, but also includes encryption and high-speed data transfers.

Once you make an account, you upload a file, which is linked to a unique web address. This address allows you to share the file with See TECH TIPS on 12

Davis wind blowing strong this season Pressure gradients, flat terrain create high wind

By KYLE SCROGGINS Aggie Science Writer

It’s spring in Davis and the student body is abuzz with excitement for the nice weather. Unfortunately, along with the beautiful sunshine comes another, lessloved phenomena: wind.

If you’ve been at UC Davis for more than a year, the odds are that you have some sort of story in which the wind has embarrassed you.

The wind can be blamed for almost anything from a terrible hair day to physical injury. Stories of the wind blowing people off their bikes are not uncommon. The latter is especially true in the normally hazardous bike circles, where wind adds a new level of difficulty for inexperienced riders who don’t account for the increased resistance and end up poorly executing their overly ambitious moves.

According to Kyaw Tha, a professor in the Environmental Science Department at UC Davis, wind is caused when one current of air pushes another out of the way.

“Pressure gradients — the change in pressure over distance — power the wind,” said Tha in an email interview. “The greater the pressure change within a particular distance, the stronger the wind.”

Many factors contribute to the air in some areas being under greater pressure than in other areas. These factors include the heat capacity of surfaces like water, roads and other infrastructure, as well as the area’s altitude. The basic rules of physics dictate that substances will want to move from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure, and air is no exception. When the air moves to the low pressure areas, we call it wind.

According to Climate-Zone.com, average wind speeds for the greater Sacramento area peak in April and May at nearly 10 mph. That does not sound like very much, but just consider that for the rest of the year, the average wind speed is closer to between 3 and 5 mph.

“Davis, within the Central Valley, typically has winds

straight 5-2 matches. The Aggies have enjoyed considerable success from newcomer Brett Bacharach in the recent past.

The freshman from Sacramento, Calif., over this span of three losses, has had three doubles wins and two singles wins. Bacharach’s victories over his respective opponents from UT Arlington and Hawai’i were one of only two singles wins that UC Davis was able to manage.

Senior Toki Sherbakov, who has always

determined by larger scale ‘synoptic’ systems throughout much of the year,” Tha said.

This means that our weather depends primarily on high-altitude winds, called Rossby waves, that end up creating pressure gradients over large distances. The more air that moves, the more wind you get.

“During this time of year between high and low pressure systems, the gradients become very strong, so the winds become high,” Tha said.

Furthermore, Davis is flat. Really flat. This will come as no surprise to anyone who grew up in an area with even moderate elevation changes, but it has some important consequences.

Although it doesn’t fit our colloquial understanding of the term, air is defined as a fluid based on its ability to flow, and the study of a fluid moving is termed fluid dynamics.

“In fluid dynamics, flow rate usually increases as resistance decreases,” said Joseph Ephron, a fourth-year mechanical and aerospace engineering double major at UC Davis.

When something blocks the movement of a fluid, it’s said to increase resistance. Thus things like hills, mountains, valleys and even trees all increase resistance for wind.

Unfortunately, Davis has nearly none of those things, so there is nothing to stop the wind from blowing at full speed.

On a smaller scale, closer to the average size of a person instead of a mountain, the buildings on campus provide resistance, forming a sort of tunnel that channels the wind into one area, making the wind very strong, but diluting it in other areas.

In the end, while the question as to why the wind seems so intense in Davis is pretty complex and depends on many factors, the effects of the wind — and the problems it causes — are readily apparent.

For more information on the Sacramento climate, go to climate-zone.com.

KYLE SCROGGINS can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

been reliable for the Aggies, took down the top player from the Rainbow Warriors in a tightly contested 7-5, 7-5 match. He will have quite a task ahead of him when UC Davis faces Cal Poly, the 73rd-ranked team in the country. The Mustangs boast the 22nd-ranked player in the nation in senior Andre Dome.

Cal Poly is currently in fourth place in the conference at 9-8 and 1-1 in league competition.

UC Davis squares off against Cal Poly on

Friday at 1:30 p.m., then hosts a tough UC Santa Barbara team Saturday at noon.

The Saturday matchup will show the Gauchos, who are currently 8-9 overall and 1-1 in the Big West, facing off with UC Davis, which stands at 6-9 and 0-2 in conference.

The Aggies will attempt to get themselves a win in the Big West competition, never an easy task with tough teams like these.

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

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get into the course. She said that she believes that although offering online alternatives for classes isn’t ideal, it is a viable option.

Puckering researched the effectiveness of distance education courses in graduate school. She said that the research she is familiar with shows that there is no significant difference between online courses and traditional courses as far as performance outcome.

“That’s only looking at one outcome. It’s looking at performance — can you learn the material? I think there is something to be said for that in-class experience where you get to know the professor or you get to work with other students,” Puckering said.

According to Puckering, online education can be very effective, especially at a time when the UC system is so budget-strapped.

Guanghui Wang, a second-year communication and economics double major, has yet to declare her communication major, which prevents her from getting into classes that would fulfill any communication requirements.

Wang was undeclared as a first-year and didn’t decide what she wanted to major in until Spring Quarter of her first year. That spring, Wang began her prerequisites for both communication and economics.

“The prereq[uisite] situation was [such] that [the classes] were just too much to fit into two quarters,” Wang said.

This predicament left Wang with little choice but to take upper-division courses this spring.

But because she has yet to declare, she couldn’t add any upper-division courses until Pass 2.

Wang said she feels that having the option to fulfill courses online would be helpful.

“Part of the reason I was unhappy was because the two classes that I did get into that fulfill something for my major [were with] really bad professors that had terrible ratings, so I was already feeling like I wasn’t going to get a good experience,” Wang said.

oversubscribed and if the institution currently provides an online alternative.

According to the authors, the bill would ensure that students could receive faculty support when needed and that exams would be proctored to uphold academic integrity.

“What is [currently] happening is that these courses are being developed in pockets all over the state, there’s not much interaction between campuses on what they’re doing,” Williams said.

“When you’re talking about a transfer of credit from the community college system to the UC system, that stuff becomes relevant.”

According to Williams, last year, 80 percent of CCCs reported waitlists for their fall classes. That meant on average, 7,000 enrolled students per campus were on waitlists. Additionally, Williams reported that only 16 percent of CSU students graduated in four years.

“While students aren’t getting into their classes, they’re deferring their graduation time, which means buildup of debt,” Williams said.

Williams said that the bill isn’t seeking to use technology for technology’s sake, but rather to provide some relief to the waitlisting problem.

The governor’s budget proposal allots $37 million for online education and the bill is not envisaged as a way to cut back on publicly funded education in California, Williams said.

“The intention is to maintain the academic quality of California’s postsecondary education system and help students complete their degrees on time and lower the burden of debt,” Williams said.

Williams also said that it is important that faculty be at the forefront of the creation of these courses and that it would be ideal for California to seize on this opportunity in its infancy, rather than take no action at all.

UC Davis communication professor Catherine Puckering didn’t have enough room in her Interpersonal Communication class this Spring Quarter, resulting in many students not being able to SYDNEY COHEN can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

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Aggies will be looking to bounce back from a string of defeats by winning on Friday night.

Preview: The matchup against Long Beach State appears at a good time for UC Davis, as it has really struggled as of late. The Aggies have only managed to win two of their last 10 games. This stretch has included being swept by Cal Poly and Cal State Northridge.

However, the Aggies have hope as they face the Dirtbags, who have also had a subpar season up until this point. Long Beach State has struggled lately, winning only four of their last 10 games. This stretch includes a five-game losing streak.

Lately, the Aggies have been scoring runs at a low but consistent output. Including the Fullerton series last weekend, they have averaged 2.3 runs a game in the past 10 games. The Aggies will really need to find a spark in the batting order as their lack of runs has really hurt the team’s winning chances.

The pitching staff has been somewhat spotty this season but is slowly turning things around.

Junior Harry Stanwyck has helped the Aggies with the amount of runs allowed during the latest series against a fourth-ranked Cal State Northridge team.

In the first game of the series, Stanwyck pitched six innings, giving up only one earned run. The Aggies simply did not produce the run support needed for Stanwyck to win the game.

UC Davis will need to continue pitching at such a level in order to take advantage of the weekend series against Long Beach State. If they manage to pitch at such a level, the Aggies should have no problem winning against the Dirtbags, as history seems to indicate that the runs will come.

The Aggies averaged five runs a game during last year’s season series against the Dirtbags. Junior Nick Lynch definitely had a lot to do with those results, as during the two wins, he batted a solid .375 with two runs scored, one RBI and one walk. UC Davis will be looking for Lynch to continue the trend and provide some clutch hitting to beef up the batting order

Don’t pet the pup The story behind the green-vested puppy dogs

By JOYCE BERTHELSEN Aggie Features Writer

The next time you see a puppy in a green vest, don’t pet it. It might get too excited and lose its job.

Green-vested puppies are part of the Eyes for Others, the only Yolo County guide dog puppy-raisers club currently in existence. At 8 months old, puppies are given to raisers.

These volunteers can be as young as elementary school children, and they raise and train the puppies until the pups are about 14 to 17 months old.

The puppies are then sent off to the larger organization, Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB), for their last and formal training before going out into the world and making life a little easier for the community.

“Our main goal is to get these dogs as comfortable being out in public and around everyday life as possible, so a blind person can feel confident that the dog they get won’t bolt or run them into a car,” said Patricia Wight, one of the Eyes for Others leaders.

The club works with GDB to teach the puppies to socialize and general obedience for commands such as “sit down” or “stay.” GDB then takes the 14- to 17-month-old dogs to their training facility in San Rafael, Calif. or Boring, Ore. to give them formal guide dog training, which includes maneuvering through traffic.

Yolo County is currently home to nine puppies being raised and trained by 11 volunteer raisers. Although these cute little Labradors and golden retrievers may be difficult to resist petting, interacting with them can actually cost them their job and is currently a concern to some guide dog users.

“When you get approached by the general public asking to pet our dogs or when they won’t even ask and just start petting; I think that’s one of the most challenging parts,” Haas said. “Depending on the type of dog, they might be calm and OK with people coming up to them, [but] other dogs get too excited. They are learning that they can be really excited when people come up to them. Understand that when the jacket is on the dog, the dog is working and it’s always best to ask the person. But that’s probably the hardest part, especially when the dogs are very young, because everybody loves a cute little puppy.”

Contreras added that loose dogs have attacked one of her dogs three times, but fortunately, her dog was able to continue to work. Still, it would sometimes get upset and bark at other dogs out of fear, which, according to Contreras, working dogs are not supposed to do.

“I wish the public would understand why it is so important to not let their dogs [attack or harass] a guide dog, because all the money the schools have put in, the puppy raisers’ time and then the time users spend is all gone,” Contreras said.

Guide Dogs for the Blind GDB had an operating budget of $30 million in 2011 with 82.9 percent on the core program and 17.1 percent on administration, according to the Eyes for Others website.

GDB’s responsibilities include breeding, veterinary care, formal training, maintaining training facilities and training a guide dog and a blind person to work together. The cost of a guide dog team may exceed $65,000, according to the Eyes for Others website. The cost to the blind individual’s appli-

cation and receiving a dog is zero.

“GDB is funded totally by donations,” said Ted Curley, GDB volunteer speaker. “We [also] have all kinds of sponsors. Some of them [are] pet food companies, [but] most are individual sponsors. Betty White is one of our biggest supporters, and in fact, she owns one of the guide dogs that came from the Davis club and was career changed. When a dog doesn’t make it through the program, they’re designated a career change dog.”

The price of a puppy While GDB is responsible for most of the costs, puppy raisers buy the dog food and toys as their own personal donations, according to UC Davis alumna and puppy raiser Lindsay Haas.

“The vet care is covered by GDB, but everything else, such as the food, the toys [or] if I want to give the dog a bed, I pay for out of pocket,” Haas said. “It’s about $50 per month for food, and toys are generally $5 to $20 depending on how spoiled you want your dog.”

However, UC Davis has provided some financial relief.

“In [Eyes for Others], we have a special arrangement with somebody at the UC Davis vet clinic that actually gets some of our food at no cost,” Curley said. “So that’s really helpful. She’s actually a vet student and used to be a member of our puppy-raising club.

She’s made an arrangement with the pet clinic to provide Purina food at no cost to our club raisers.”

In addition to cost, raisers invest a tremendous amount of time into their puppies, taking the pups everywhere they go for the 14 or so months they are with them. These include concerts, hikes, vacations and movies, as the puppies have to be trained to be comfortable in any environment a blind person may be in.

Picking a puppy Each guide dog team is also created over the course of several months. For a blind person, the process — closely resembling college applications — begins with the selection of a school from any of the 10 different U.S. schools accredited by the International Guide Dog Federation. After the blind person chooses a school, they go through a series of hoops, including filling out applications and questionnaires, doing interviews, getting three letters of recommendation, a doctor’s note and a physical before waiting for the school’s approval. Once accepted, the blind person becomes a student and lives at the campus for around three weeks, where they learn how to use their new guide dog. The process can take anywhere between two to six months or longer, according to Contreras.

At the end of guide dog team training, the campuses hold graduations.

“The raisers are invited to the ceremony, and the people who are receiving a dog are up on a stage and are introduced one by one to come up,” Wight said. “Then the dog is brought out to them by the raiser, who then officially hands over their dog to the blind person. It’s really emotional. The raisers cry.

Everybody cries.”

There are currently around 10,000 people using guide dogs in the U.S. and Canada, according to GDB, who had 2,176 active guide dog teams and 878 active puppies in 2012.

“The public usually asks me [if] my guide dog gets any free time to be a dog,” Contreras said. “I tell them that as soon as he gets home and gets all his equipment off, he can be a dog and be himself or chew on his toy or take a nap.”

To learn more about Eyes for Others and puppy raising, visit yologuidedogs.com.

JOYCE BERTHELSEN can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

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Feels so good

Average GPA for incoming class expected to be over 4.2

By ALYSSA KUHLMAN Aggie Features Writer

Matt Soeherman walks through the throngs of incoming first-years bustling about the Quad on Decision Day, the largest recruitment event of the year. He is one of many prospective students accompanied by a parent, carrying a map and overwhelmed by the UC Davis campus. By day’s end, he will log in to his computer, pull up a Statement of Intent to Register and take his first step to officially becoming an Aggie.

With rumors floating around that UC Davis has begun to reject applicants with GPAs of 4.3, students are wondering what it takes to become an Aggie these days.

The average admission GPA is slowly creeping up. While the average GPA of a first-year in 2010 was 4.1, the average GPA of a first-year in 2012 was 4.2.

The 2013 average is expected to be even higher, and that statistic will be released in early May. However, GPA is only a small part of the admissions picture.

When it comes to choosing incoming first-years and transfer students, the admissions panel uses 14 criteria, which all UC campuses adhere to, as well as a holistic review. In holistic review, the panel reads every application cover to cover with an eye toward academics as well as personality, said Walter Robinson, executive director of UC Davis Admissions.

“There are some students who don’t have stellar GPAs or stellar test scores, but they have amazing stories — life has dealt them a real difficult hand, like the girl who was 14 [years old] and was raising her daughter while still being the student body president,” Robinson said.

“We admit stories — quite frankly, stories of outstanding students.”

Soeherman, a prospective UC Davis first-year, played four years of varsity tennis, is a frequent blood donor and an active leader in his church, and has a 4.3 GPA. He was accepted into the College of Biological sciences and expects to major in biology, and he hopes to get involved in the tennis club team.

Soeherman considers himself lucky, though, because many of his friends had a similar combination but were not admitted.

“Not too many of my friends that prob-

ably should have gotten into Davis got in,” Soeherman said. “Davis is pretty underrated in high school because we don’t know how competitive it’s getting.”

Robinson cited the lower level of competition as one of the core reasons he took a job at UC Davis after leaving his position as assistant vice chancellor and director of admissions at UC Berkeley.

“Davis became very attractive to me [because] it had — and still continues to have — a higher admit rate. I’m very attracted to greater access because that means you can promote diversity,” Robinson said.

Diversity also extends to transfer students and non-California residents. Robinson denied rumors that the University is admitting more out-of-state students instead of California residents because they pay higher tuition — $36,755 instead of $13,877.

“This year we had an 11 percent increase in applications from California applicants, and we’re really proud of that because we don’t want Californians to feel they’re being neglected,” Robinson said.

The Transfer Admission Guaranteed, or TAG program, accounts for roughly a fourth of all transfer admissions. Robinson stated Davis was preparing to increase their emphasis on TAG admissions.

Other UC campuses, such as UCLA, UC San Diego and UC Berkeley, have recently terminated their promise that transfer students can be guaranteed admission after two years at a community college. The UC system did recently create, however, a policy that allows students to choose only one TAG agreement instead of many.

Students can apply to multiple UCs, but they can only have guaranteed admission to one, choosing which one they want the most. About 25 percent of all transfer admits at UC Davis are from the TAG program.

Students are rated on how well they performed with the resources that were available to them, ensuring that those who performed well in a poorly-financed school, for example, are treated as fairly as those who excelled in a well-funded school.

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An interview with Good Vibration’s Jackie Strano

By SAM WALL When you hear the words “adult store,” does your mind conjure up images of black plastic bags, dimly lit stores on the edges of town and questionable characters in knee-length trench coats?

While this may have been the case in the past, in the last few decades there’s been a growing movement to make sex shops safe and welcoming environments for all. At the forefront of this movement is Good Vibrations, which celebrates its 36th birthday this year. California Aggie writer Sam Wall email interviewed Jackie Strano, the executive vice president of Good Vibrations, to find out what it’s like to run a store with a focus on sexual pleasure.

The Aggie: When and how did Good Vibrations first get its start? Was there a particular niche you were looking to fill?

Strano: Good Vibrations first opened with one store in 1977 in the Mission District of San Francisco. We wanted to provide a safe, comfortable, clean and well-lit place for women to come in and buy a vibrator.

Word quickly spread and not only did it provide a safe alternative to the other adult stores, it became a tourist destination for people from all over the world. This was before the internet, so word of mouth, our 800-number, community events, workshops and our catalog was how we let the world know how to find us.

Now we have six stores and growing, a website, a mobile site, a VOD site, a wholesale private label line and we still do a catalog and have our 800-number where folks can call us and find a trained sex educator/sales associate on the other line.

We believe that pleasure is your birthright and every adult deserves safe access to trusted information, quality products and resources to explore sexual health, because sexual health is an integral part of your overall health.

How did you come to work for Good Vibes?

I first started in 1992 and was part of the original worker-owne[d] cooperative. I worked in the original Valencia Street store. I was living in San Francisco and going to school and touring with my rock band and was struck by the mission of the store — that pleasure is your birthright, and I loved that I found a place to work that felt like home to me … where I belonged with a real feminist and sex-positive community.

I left in 1998 to pursue other interests and came back in 2009. My life came full circle and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.

Has the company changed over the years?

We are not a worker-owne[d] cooperative anymore but we have a management team where women in leadership positions who have been part of the original team are still here. This company has a lot of heart and dedication to the mission while we have learned

the hard way in 36 years how to be fiscally responsible and keep the company healthy so we can continue to provide a special service and our specialty brand continues to thrive.

Our philosophies and guiding principles have not changed. Education is the cornerstone of our brand and everything we do is about what is best for the customer. Our internal business structure may be different out of necessity but our core guiding principles have never changed or wavered.

Good Vibes often labels itself as sex positive. What, for you, does being sex positive entail?

We practically invented the term and it has come to mean so many things to so many people, but in its essence it means we believe in everyone discovering their authentic sexual selves and being able to live the sex life that’s right for them in an affirming and celebratory way.

We are not judgmental and never support anything that leads to sexual shaming and believe in ongoing education in an environment that advances sexual health, pleasure and attitudes.

We believe in modeling that non-judgmental communication at all times. We support our customers’ journey of exploration whether to realize their true sexual selves, expand their repertoire or to pursue better health around sex.

What are some of the challenges to being a company like Good Vibes, and how do you approach them?

Well, there are many challenges around people’s perceptions and stigmas around sex. Zoning laws relegate adultoriented businesses to the outskirts of most towns so when we want to open new stores we have to assuage people’s fears. So far we have been very successful with having our stores located in commercial centers near respected retailers like Trader Joe’s, Peet’s Coffee and Bloomingdale’s.

We have always been active members in our communities and anchor tenants in our neighborhoods. There is also competition from sources that don’t care about overall sexual health and just want to produce knock offs cheaply online even if they are made of toxic materials. That is more competition for the vendors we have worked with for decades but it adversely affects us nonetheless.

We are not afraid of challenge though and have been a committed agent of social change for decades, so we continue to fight the good fight and lately new technology and media has helped us spread our message even further. We approach every challenge with a simple question — how do we make this better for our customers?

What are your goals and hopes for Good Vibes in the future?

Open more stores and create more products that reach more people. To promote sexual pleasure and health and make the world a sexier place!

SAM WALL is a former Aggie columnist. She can be reached at opinion@theaggie.org.

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for digital natives

By JANELLE BITKER and HILLARY KNOUSE | Aggie Editor in Chief and Aggie Food Writer

DISCLAIMER: In the UC Davis undergraduate system, and elsewhere, unacknowledged heteronormativity is especially heinous. Two female heterosexual students wrote this article, altering the names and personal details of those involved in order to protect their identities. These are their stories.

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e’s waiting at the restaurant, looking slightly nervous and fiddling with his phone. He looks up as she opens the door. They hesitate, make eye contact and simultaneously exhale in relief.

Thank goodness — they both actually look like their OkCupid profile pictures.

Online daters aren’t always so lucky. In fact, the UC Davis seniors writing this article weren’t always so lucky.

Overwhelmed with curiosity — and after hearing about fellow undergraduates looking for love on the Web — we made accounts the first week of Winter Quarter. We chose OkCupid because it was free, and therefore, presumably more popular with people our age than paid websites.

In about a month, we collectively went on 36 dates with 14 people.

We wanted to learn a few things. Being in our early 20s and attending a large university should make these years the easiest, and most prolific, for dating in our entire lives.

So why are there so many undergraduate students moving their efforts online? Aren’t websites like OkCupid only for weird, desperate or old people?

Believe it or not, there’s a sizable dating pool online just among UC Davis students. And some of them aren't weird or desperate.

While we were juggling back-to-back dates, we complained about being socially exhausted, fatigued by small talk. We could have stopped at any time, but we realized at some point that we were actually enjoying ourselves.

There’s a thrill that comes with meeting so many people, so far beyond your social circle, so quickly. And let’s face it, meeting new people is surprisingly difficult. No one actually peruses romantic interests by approaching a stranger at a bar with a wink and a hackneyed complement. That’s creepy. It turns out, however, that this approach is entirely acceptable online.

We are officially people who found romance on OkCupid. And we are here to face judgment, share our war stories and examine the dating culture of a generation both blessed and afflicted by technology.

Weeding out potential creepers Most people are hesitant to try online dating because of the “creepers” associated with that culture. Luckily, OkCupid makes it fairly easy to spot them from afar.

If you’ve never been on OkCupid before, here’s a brief tutorial: you create a profile, similar to Facebook, with photos and listed interests and so on. Unlike Facebook, you answer personal questions — lots of questions — while also ranking how important they are and what your partner would ideally say. The more you answer, the more likely you are to find another OkCupid user with similar views, as users are matched by an algorithm based on these answers.

Once you’re set, you can start browsing other profiles based on proximity, match percent and a slew of other filters. Then you can start messaging people and the real fun begins.

A particularly useful feature is the “unacceptable answers” filter. When visiting someone’s profile, you can see the answers to personal questions you both answered.

Filter those by “unacceptable answers,” and you’ll see what you rank as important but also disagree on. So even though Ricardo seemed like a cute engineer with excellent taste in NPR podcasts, can we really forgive him for answering yes to the question, “Are women obligated to shave their legs?”

Keep your eyes peeled for other questions that raise red flags, like “Is there ever an instance in which someone could be obligated to have sex with you?”

Sometimes OkCupid actually imposes creepiness, particularly with a feature that allows you to see who is looking at your profile in real time. When “XxRicardoXx” checks you out, you’ll get a notice, and then when you click on his page, Ricardo will get a notice. This feature can be toggled on and off, but if you choose to peruse invisibly, you won’t see who is looking at you, either.

Choose wisely.

As heterosexual females, we were averaging about 100 visitors per week. We were getting propositioned within minutes of creating an account; our inboxes overflowed with emoticons and cheesy, impersonal compliments.

While we can’t speak at great length about other experiences, we’ve been told it’s quite different for the heterosexual male.

“It’s like casting a wide net and seeing what you get,” one date said. “You might send 10 messages a night and never get a response.”

The bad date The bad dates were bad in exactly the way you'd expect them to be.

Hillary started talking to a potential match, whom she’d begun calling “James Franco boy” because of what she swore was a striking resemblance to “Freaks and Geeks” heartthrob Daniel Desario. They traded texts for about half an hour before he asked her out.

The first thing she noticed upon meeting him in person was that he bore absolutely no resemblance to James Franco. The next thing she noticed was that this boy was bent on filling every second with speech. As he drove to the movie theater, he asked where she was from. “Ventura,” she responded.

“Aha, ‘Bentura,’” he repeated, using the Spanish V. “Did you know it was supposed to be pronounced that way?”

Being a Spanish major and a native of the city of “San Buenaventura,” she knew that pronouncing the word as if it started with a B makes you sound pretentious as fuck.

But they got along better after the movie ended, as they finally had something semi-substantial to talk about.

When he offered to buy her a drink, she didn’t turn him down.

A four-block walk later, he announced he left his wallet in his car.

Hillary paid for the beer as he got wrapped up in the Lakers game playing across the bar.

He must have gotten strange vibes from the evening too, because when he dropped her off afterwards, he used the word “friend” four times.

So it didn’t really work out ...

Too bad you have to see these people all the time anyway!

Janelle had one date where nothing needed to be discussed — clearly this was never happening again. The awkward part only came when, the next evening, Janelle was at a bar talking about said bad date and said bad date walked in.

There was no acknowledgement. Yet somehow, they ended up at neighboring tables, back-to-back. Conversation shifted quickly. Bad date? Last night? What date?

Davis is too small to avoid these situations. If you were an OkCupid match, you have some things in common, and that includes drinking haunts. Then you catch a glimpse of one another at the farmers market, and then you debate saying hello at a house party the next week ...

What’s even more awkward? Seeing people you recognize from OkCupid that you have never actually met.

That one who sent you the really nice first message about cooking Indian food together, but you never responded to? You suddenly realize you have lecture together. How about that one guy you rated four out of five stars but never heard from? Surprise! He’s sitting at the café you wait tables at.

The 99 percenters Based on the trusty OkCupid algorithm, our highest possible matches were 99 percent. And we found them.

And we met them. And they were actually the closest we came to OkCupid heartbreaks.

For Hillary, it began with his sending the longest OkCupid message she had ever received. “It's a pity you live in Davis, because I think we would get along swimmingly,” it began.

“The 62 mile Davis to SF commute is an inconvenience certainly but I find myself in the bay more often than you might suspect, by which I mean I’ll be there Sunday,” is how Hillary started the longest reply she’s written to date. The two days it took him to respond were grueling, and filled with

previously unprecedented levels of self-doubt.

Luckily, it turns out he was just slow to respond, and the date they found themselves on two days later turned out to be everything OkCupid promised it would be. Coffee and beer were consumed in painfully hip Mission District venues, Dolores Park was thoroughly explored, high schools were broken into and make-outs ensued.

Janelle couldn’t resist immediately messaging her Sacramento 99 percenter who also happens to work in newsrooms and claims his first word to be “baguette.” In real life, he had just as much dry wit as his profile suggested and the ease of banter was stunning. Following their date, the banter continued over text message, and indeed, it seemed like a resoundingly successful six hours. Which is why, two weeks later, it was so shocking that they hadn’t scheduled date number two. He blamed it on transportation — two carless people trapped on opposite sides of the Causeway.

Friends advised giving up on the 99 percenter when two weeks became three, and feelings of utter defeat took over when three weeks became four.

Heartbreak.

But then, two whole months later, a miraculous second date was scheduled. And over the several-hour event, the 99 percenter proved as witty as ever.

The strange thing about the algorithm Hillary talked almost exclusively with people who were above a 90 percent match. Given the fact that her exboyfriends were 96 and 99 percent matches, she trusted OkCupid’s algorithm implicitly.

What she hadn’t counted on was the boy who messaged her “Ficus.”

He was a 59 percent match who listed himself as being “made of cotton candy” — she would have left him alone if it wasn’t for her strange love of word associations.

She replied “Fern,” and within a few days and approximately 40 messages, they were knee-deep in conversation about the next season of “Arrested Development,” Grizzly Bear's latest album and what makes a choice concert venue (intimacy and foosball tables).

He smokes. He’s in a band. He lives in Dixon. He is not, nor has he ever been, enrolled in college. He used to work at Walmart and he has only just turned 21. Not only would Hillary have not expected to like this boy IRL, without the medium of OkCupid, she wouldn’t have met him.

The older men OkCupid also manages to bridge the gap between undergraduates, grad students and young professionals. We took advantage and got a sneak peek into that sort of real-world dating dynamic that we had previously seen only in movies.

A first date that flowed effortlessly from afternoon beer and live music to fancy cocktails and hamachi at the bar of an uber-hip, top-rated San Francisco restaurant? An evening that actually started with, “Want to come upstairs for a drink?” before learning we had reservations for a nice — like, really nice — dinner in an hour?

Conversations about becoming a company partner at the ripe age of 23, living in Peru as a Fulbright scholar, going to Columbia for grad school and it totally not being a big deal — these things happen! They happened to us!

The point: Chivalry may be taboo in college, but it's surprisingly strong elsewhere.

The second dates With all the nervous excitement and guaranteed small talk, it's fairly easy to have a pleasant first date, whether over a $12 cocktail or a $2 cup of coffee. But the second date is much more likely to go horrifyingly wrong.

Normally as college daters, we are way too scared to commit early on. And we don't mean commit to monogamy — we mean commit to fleeting affection or even acknowledging consistent interest. OkCupid eliminates that awkwardness and confusion. Interest is evident in meeting at all, so committing to a second date carries significance.

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LGBT Resource Center staff is willing to help provide support and guidance during a Campus Violence and Prevention ProCont. from page 2 gram or police reporting process.

Join Facebook groups to become aware report because “a lot of times, things get of upcoming events (Queer Student passed over — the perception that Davis Union, UC Davis LGBT Resource Center) is a perfectly safe place allows for the and make new friends during Crafterinvisibility of victims.” noons — 3:30 p.m. Fridays at the LGBT Alfredo Del Cid, LGBT Resource Center Resource Center. office coordinator, believes that victims of If you are queer or an ally, come to violence in Davis “often feel discouraged events and speak out — society won’t [from reporting] because they see similar change itself. issues not being resolved.”

Del Cid believes that one of the ways to make sure that queer voices are being heard KATELYN RINGROSE is tired of campus cruelty. She is to assure community members that the can be reached at knringrose@ucdavis.edu

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This could allow someone to upload a sizeable chunk of their hard drive onto Mega, granting that person access to most, if not all, important files without wasting time emailing files.

Other services include Apple iCloud, Amazon Cloud, Box, SkyDrive and Sugarsync. Each one offers slightly different user interfaces and their own unique features.

whomever you please. The best part is this link can be encrypted with a password so only certain people are granted access.

The blazing fast speeds are also a bonus. In one scenario, I was able to download a 200 MB file in less than 30 seconds (if internet speeds permit). ALLEN GUAN can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

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circumstances, such as a lack of education or simply misfortune — I do not hold the view that people in a free society are necessarily poor because they deserve to be. This does not change the fact that morally each individual is responsible for her own life. Only you can make your life meaningful and successful by choosing goals and achieving them — you cannot properly shift this burden to others.

Ultimately, although it may be moral if one can afford it to support charitable causes, poverty is not an important issue in a technologically advanced and productive laissezfaire society. What matters most is pursuing your values and trading with others to achieve your rational goals: developing a career, cultivating romantic relationships, enjoying art and so on. To act on your values, you need to be free; laissez-faire capitalism is the system that reflects this fact.

negates this by transforming economic relationships into those between victims and parasites. Worse, such policies can incentivize idleness or other kinds of self-destructive behavior, resulting in even more poverty.

Second, although I am optimistic that in a laissez-faire capitalist society private charities could alleviate the worst aspects of poverty, we should reject the notion that poverty is necessarily a social problem, i.e. a problem that society as a whole has a responsibility to solve. In a free society, wealth is distributed according to voluntary choice: People agree to work for a certain wage, pay a certain price, accept the terms of a contract and so on. Thus, it is not the fault of wealthier individuals (or anyone else) that others are poor (in a semi-free society, this may not be the case, but then that is just an argument for true capitalism).

TRISTAN DE LIEGE can be reached at tflenaerts@ ucdavis.edu.

Poverty can arise from many

and of the world around you, and you should try to focus on something healthy and interesting. This way you Cont. from page 2 are not simply carrying around an acute sensitivity that quickly overThese tasks are not at all stressful, exaggerates every single negative but they provide enough mental and thought. physical stimulation to distract you I am not saying you should ignore from your irrational paranoia. Plus, any serious signs that your health they leave you feeling quite producmight be in danger. If you honestly tive and accomplished. feel as if you are suffocating or are Do something artistic or conhaving a heart attack, then you should structive. The same animated definitely see a doctor. state of mind that is causing your But take the time to ask yourself paranoia can be converted into a if there’s a chance it might just be creative, uninhibited point of view in your head. There are a number that can allow you to approach of emergency room visits by firstthe world in a curious, beneficial, time smokers who freak out and almost enlightened manner. think they are dying. But after being Draw, sketch or color in a coloring book. While a lifetime of honesty and examined they are simply told to civility might have left you inclined to go home and rest so they can come down from their high. always color inside the lines, in your If you can still talk in complete altered state you might feel the urge to sentences, and if your face is still avoid this temptation. Go crazy. its natural color, and if you can still You should embrace this newfound feeling of rebellion and ques- walk around on your own, then you’re most likely alright, and you tion everything.

Work on some puzzles, solve some should just enjoy your weed and watch some more episodes of “That mysteries, pop in a song or movie and see if you notice things that you’d ‘70s Show.” never noticed before.

LEO OCAMPO and his bong can be reached at Again, your paranoia stems from gocampo@ucdavis.edu. an increased awareness of yourself

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resources are difficult to find though — they aren’t publicized and there doesn’t appear to be a single web page that lists them. Instead, students are running around in circles looking at websites for Services for International Students and Scholars (SISS), University Outreach and International Programs (UOIP), UC Davis Global Ambassadors, the Partners in Acquiring Language (PAL) program, the International House, Club International and a vague International Students UC Davis student portal.

Even though Club International claims over 500 American and nonAmerican members on Facebook, some complain that it’s really only international students hanging out with one another. Meanwhile, the

university doesn’t facilitate any way for international and local students to live together. Other schools have thriving programs for this, whether it’s merely matching students who then arrange off-campus housing together or it’s an International House with residency options. We can’t think of any good excuse as to why — when there are many ethnic-themed floors — the dorms can’t offer an International Floor.

Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi was an international student at UCLA. She knows the challenges international students face. She should be making sure that the university isn’t merely recruiting more and more international students for their money — $36,780 in student fees next year compared to $13,902 for residents — but is actively working with them to make UC Davis the global campus that administrators claim it is.

tailer is recirculated in the community and 20 cents of every dollar spent at a chain store is recirculated in the community, Cont. from page 2 whereas 60 cents of every dollar spent at an independent retailer is recirculated. other independent businesses in recent “A dollar spent at a locally-owned store years, such as the Wash Mill Laundromat and Rostini Italian Kitchen, with high rent is usually spent six to 15 times before it leaves the community,” the website stated. and high operating costs cited as respecIn addition, small businesses cretive reasons for their closures. ate more local jobs, buy more of their Meanwhile, we’ve had Whole Foods, Panera, Forever 21, Habit Burger and Pink- goods and services locally (which lessens environmental impact), give back to the berry open up, taking precious consumer community more and increase sales tax dollars. And Wingstop is on its way. revenue, according to the DDBA. We’re not saying we never shop at We hope chain stores and small busithese big-box stores — who doesn’t want nesses can coexist. As customers did to stock up on cheap generics? But we also don’t want Davis to lose its character. for Common Grounds, we encourage individuals to show continued support for According to the Davis Downtown Business Association’s (DDBA) website, six local businesses because, really, there’s no cents of every dollar spent at a big-box re- place like home.

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some students see the benefits outweighing the risks.

“It’s not a test-cure all, it’s just a cramming genie,” said Brad, a second-year exercise biology major. “Before I started taking Adderall to help cram for finals, I had a cumulative 1.8 GPA and was on academic probation ...

Since I started taking it, my GPA has been increasing and I was able to get it up to around a 3.0.”

Supply and demand According to The National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 15 percent of college students have admitted to using psychotherapeutic drugs for non-medical use. Of those 15 percent, seven percent claimed to use Adderall to either increase attention span, party or improve grades.

UC Davis students suspect that Adderall abuse on our campus may be even higher than those statistical findings.

“I’ve gotta say that at least 50 percent or more of the people I know use it or have used it. Probably about 30 percent are prescribed; ADD and ADHD are really common,” said Kate, an anonymous second-year who asked not to specify her major. Kate has a prescription for Adderall, and previously obtained it from dealers and friends before being diagnosed with ADHD and receiving her own prescription.

The U.S. has steadily reported increases in ADD and ADHD diagnoses, and the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report determined from a 2010 survey that one in 10 children is diagnosed with ADHD. The condition is on the rise nationally, and due to the nature of self-reported symptoms, prescriptions like Kate’s were filled after only a few conversations with a psychologist and health care provider.

“If you can’t get a prescription for Adderall, you’re the worst actor ever,” Matt said.

The purchase When a patient’s prescriptions don’t match a realistic dosage requirement, a black market opens up for students to buy or sell pills that are not critically needed.

While some deal the pills to strangers, for the most part, friends share and sell their personal prescriptions to those that they trust in order to avoid legal trouble.

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the renovations of the first and second floors, will also bring significant changes.

The Centennial Walkway from the Unitrans buses to the MU is planned to extend all the way through Howard Way and the South Quad entry will be realigned.

The existing units such as Aggie Reuse Store and the post office may be reduced in size during the renewal. However, the current floor plan is tentative and decisions are still being made on how to preserve all of the existing units.

The space between the ASUCD Coffee House and the Bookstore, which includes Griffin Lounge, will be converted into a

the Quad, hand him my money and get my pills. That’s sketchy, though — I wouldn’t do that,” Kate said.

Kate has shared and sold her pills to friends in the past.

While she is currently trying to wean herself off of her reliance on the pill for worries of dependency, and suspects that she may not actually need the pill to function, she has a filled prescription that she will sell for $2 to $5 per pill if she finds herself needing some extra money.

Like any other market, students buying Adderall find that the price fluctuates and is susceptible to supply and demand shifts.

“The price goes up a lot during finals week, but I tend to pay around 20 bucks on three or four pills,” Brad said.

“That’s enough to get me through finals. That’s the most I’ll pay for it. I’ve heard about kids dropping 50 bucks on pills, though, because they need it.”

“I started my dosage with 20 milligrams in the mornings, and I’d almost have feelings of elation which would last until the late afternoon,” Kate said. “When it wore off, I’d start to feel awful. I’d feel really sick to my stomach because you don’t want to eat while you’re on it. I changed my dosage, and it helped. I also get headaches now, which never happened before Adderall.”

Brad also commented on the possible long-term effects of taking Adderall recreationally.

“I’ve been told by a paramedic that if you continuously take it without having ADD or ADHD that the receptors in your brain won’t make the connections normally anymore.

It destroys the synapses in your brain, essentially,” he said.

“It’s always in the back of my head when I do it. I’ll take one or two pills once every four months, though, so I don’t do it enough for it to be a problem. I only use them for finals.”

The price Finances and illegality are not the only drawbacks to abusing Adderall. Like all things too good to be true, Adderall and drugs like it come with a hefty number of side effects and impacts on health, the most significant of which is dependency.

Russell Boulevard Rite Aid Pharmacy Manager Rami Saad fills a number of amphetamine prescriptions per week for college students, and warns of Adderall’s habitforming abilities.

“People become dependent on the amphetamines, and it stops working for them even when they keep taking the same dose. So what happens is the doctor [increases] their dosages so they can begin to see results again. When you take it more [frequently], you build a dependence,” Saad said. “When you build that dependence, you lower your ability to focus the same way you used to before taking it in the first place.”

Dependency has a weighty impact on long-term users.

Adderall tricks the brain into stopping the production of dopamine, a chemical that helps regulate mood.

Studies conducted at UCLA found that long-term users of Adderall, when the natural levels of dopamine are reduced, experience “severe depressions and mood dysregulation,” which subsequently cause high rates of aggression, psychosis and suicide in those who take it.

Those who have taken the drug have their own descriptions of the physical toll it takes.

Need versus want Due to the nature of the condition it is prescribed for, some are not worried about possible long-term effects of taking Adderall.

“It’s so funny because everyone [has] a little ADD, everyone can benefit from increased focus, everyone is a little absent-minded,” Kate said.

ADD and ADHD are relatively new diagnoses in the medical world, only gaining national attention in the 1970s. Healthcare professionals, as well as those who take the drugs themselves, question the legitimacy of being prescribed Adderall to treat symptoms.

“I have the feeling that [increased Adderall prescriptions] are a product of multitasking and our culture, that we have made it so that people are unable to focus more,” Saad said. “Some might actually have these conditions, but there’s no telling; they don’t give themselves a chance to really try and focus. But it all goes back to the doctors and their prescriptions.”

While some have legitimate medical requirements for the drug, others admit that poor study habits along with a cycle of procrastination and panic led to their reliance on the drug.

“Sometimes I wonder, like, am I always going to need to do this, will I ever be able to focus on my own?” Brad said. “I don’t know. I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.”

more open space, similar to the Student Community Center (SCC), where one can study and socialize. The lounges on the second floor of the MU are also expected to be converted into an open study space.

“What I am really excited about is the whole new open area,” said ASUCD President Carly Sandstrom. “Griffin Lounge will kind of be taken down and students can study throughout that space, instead of it being divided up as it is now.”

Sandstrom also said that there is a possibility that The Corral and CoHo To Go could be merged. She also said that the third floor of the MU could be renovated as well.

Plans for how this will be developed have not been advanced.

According to Campbell, the MU will be fully functional during construction.

HANNAH KRAMER can be reached at features@theaggie.org.

One of the most major changes will be a 2,800-square-foot pub located in the east wing where the post office currently resides. Students will be able to eat, study and socialize in the area. Students 21 and over will also be able to purchase alcohol. It is expected that the space will also be able to be converted into an entertainment venue for concerts and late-night events. There will also be an outdoor patio added to this space.

“With the pub, our hope is that students will like the convenience of it being on campus. If you are 21, you do sometimes want a beer in between your classes,” Sandstrom said. “It could be another place for you to study, because not everyone likes a quiet place to study, and it can also be an entertainment venue, which we so need.”

The revamping of the Unitrans bus terminal will also help make way for the 2020 Initiative, which will bring in more students and therefore increase the need for buses, Sandstrom added.

According to Campbell, there will be many services after-hours as well.

“It is really going to embrace the opportunity for students to utilize this as their living space,” Campbell said.

The renovations are expected to reach completion in July 2015.

“While I have my hesitations about the funding, I’m really excited for the Memorial Union to be converted into what it should have been,” Thomas said.

SASHA COTTERELL can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

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Janelle didn’t really take this into consideration with her first second date, which she assumed would be a simple continuation of learning about one another. Immediately, however, he expressed keen optimism about their future as a couple. Oops.

Another second date seemed to falter because of mutually high expectations. The first date was filled with spontaneous energy and, admittedly, booze, and the second was filled with slow, repetitive conversation and sobriety.

Meanwhile, Hillary had some similar second date slumps and miscommunications. The boy who seemed perfect on date number one was out of interesting things to talk about by date number two.

And following up a six-hour date that spanned four different venues requires a level of commitment and ingenuity that, as it turned out, neither party was actually willing to put in.

Then there was the decent first date with questionable levels of chemistry that became the okay second date with questionable levels of chemistry, followed by the third date where he was clearly invested and she suddenly realized she wasn’t.

If OkCupid taught us anything, it’s that straightforward communication is key to avoiding dating blunders.

The aftermath Perhaps OkCupid is simultaneously as esoteric as we all thought it was and the most straightforward way to date anyone these days. OkCupid provides a space for relationship-seekers to be upfront about all of their desires, quirks and hang ups, and to present themselves exactly as they’d like to be seen. Combined with the anonymity of the internet, this creates a space where people actually feel empowered to put themselves out there. Fear of rejection is dramatically decreased when every online interaction feels a little less real.

We don’t view meeting people over the internet as the end to traditional, real-life interactions, but a valuable supplement to them. As it turns out, going on a ton of first dates makes you good at first dates, and interacting with potential love interests online makes it easier to do so in person, too. Over the course of this experiment, Janelle and Hillary each gave their phone numbers to people they met in real life simply because their experience on OkCupid had ingrained in them an ethos of “Why the hell not?”

On a recent Monday night, we found ourselves on a double date — both with guys we found on OkCupid. The strangest part is that it didn’t feel strange at all.

JANELLE BITKER and HILLARY KNOUSE can be reached at editor@ theaggie.org.

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Lanette Bingaman, UC Davis Visitor Services Manager, says that surveys have proven that campus visits heavily influence the ultimate decision for prospective students.

“Something about physically being here, seeing the beauty of our campus, feeling the friendliness of our community and campus environment and factoring in our academic excellence really does it for many of our future applicants,” Bingaman said.

of our socioeconomic bands,” Robinson said.

Soeherman felt immediately attracted to the Davis campus, more so than other sister schools.

“I think the campus and the environment and the whole atmosphere is honestly a lot better than Berkeley, which is not that great physically,” Soeherman said. “At Davis the dorms are really nice, the whole campus is open, ALYSSA KUHLMAN can be reached at features@ the college-town is really cool.” theaggie.org.

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enough additional state funds each year.

Funding for the rebenching plan would require about $36 million annually.

Less confusion means more transparency According to Kelly Ratliff, a representative of UC Davis Budget and Institutional Analysis, the rebenching process aims to create a more consistent and uniform approach for allocating state funds in place of many years of incremental allocations.

“An important goal is to have a simple methodology which will improve transparency,” Ratliff said.

Minster agrees that rebenching is important for transparency. “[Rebenching] truly is a step towards transparency, away from an old system that had become extremely complicated and impossible to explain even by learning from administrators,” he said.

Ratliff explained that rebenching is one of the two major efforts that have been made to simplify allocation of funds. The first was funding streams, which were implemented in the 2011-

12 school year and replaced a series of complex and incremental allocations with a simple tax on all expenditures.

Unlike funding streams, rebenching focuses on how the state funds are allocated. “[Rebenching] is based on increased state funding and is paired with the new model of allowing campuses to keep all the revenue they generate,” Klein said.

Budget shortfall remains According to Klein, state funds to the UC have been reduced by nearly $1 billion in the last five years. While the passage of Proposition 30 prevented an additional $250 million cut in state funding, the UC continues to face challenges to its budget.

“While we are certainly happy that [Proposition] 30 passed, it is not a panacea for higher education and we will continue to pursue efficiencies and cutbacks and revenue-generating measures. We did not raise tuition last year and are not planning to do so for the upcoming academic year. So we still have a budget shortfall that we must close,” Klein said.

JESSICA GRILLI can be reached at campus@ theaggie.org.

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ships are usually destructive.

I find that people who cheat are not satisfied with what they have. It is an old adage as well as a truthful one. So it’s not likely that they’ll be satisfied with another partner. Sexual attraction fizzles, and once anybody participating does get bored it can turn into a bigger mess than you are already in.

How about avoiding them? You can do that — I know it is extremely difficult to resist being a lover, a mistress, a side squeeze — but if the repercussions of a secret relationship are something you never want to go through, there are ways to deter it from happening.

Have limits with people in relationships. The fun of flirting with a married TA or that barista at Starbucks you know is in a relationship — we’ve all been there and we can stay there. Just know that it will never be. And don’t accept advances, unless you want to end up like Myrtle Wilson at the end of The Great Gatsby.

If you’re sneaking behind backs and sleeping with someone who isn’t your significant other, this probably applies to you. Think about it — most television shows, movies and books that deal with any type of cheating are wildly popular.

You introduce a hot and heavy forbidden love romance into a storyline and it adds a whole different level of intrigue, and affirms the desire of many to pursue it.

Cheating is bad and we know that — morally it shouldn’t even exist, but it does and any clandestine relationship is never going to end well. To be in a secret relationship doesn’t ever benefit either party; every person involved is going to be hurt emotionally one way or another.

If you find yourself with the question or the possibility, or if you are already participating in a side relationship, you need to separate the ideal and romance of being the “other” man/woman and Sexual inquiries for MARISSA HERRERA can be the reality of the fact that these relation- sent to mdherrera@ucdavis.edu.

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Obama’s budget. We are concerned that it does not do nearly enough to reduce student interest rates,” said Chris Ah San, CALPIRG campus organizer.

Students affected directly by these government decisions came out to the event to support CALPIRG. “I’m out here to try to stop students’ interest rates from doubling,” said Lexi Farris, a fourth-year science and technology studies major. “I have student loans and it’s hard enough as it is. If interest rates double it may reduce the opportunities available to me.”

CALPIRG plans to organize petition drives and awareness-raising events in the future, increasing in frequency up to July 1. A kickoff event is planned on April 11 at 7 p.m. in Olson 261.

to find a job.”

The event at UC Davis was only one part of a nationwide day of action, meant as a counterpoint to President Barack Obama’s proposed budget released the same day.

“This is actually a national campaign to show students across the country are being affected by this,” said ASUCD president Carly Sandstrom. “ASUCD and CALPIRG decided to collaborate on this because we are both for students.

We need to find a bipartisan solution this year.”

Obama’s budget proposal would keep the Stafford Loan interest rate consistent for this year, but would increase the cost for student borrowers in the future.

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takeaway message from that is that these crimes do have an impact on the broader community.”

Dr. Herek did not comment on the Partida case or any specifics related to it, but referred to research he has conducted.

“In the 1990s, I conducted a study that looked empirically at hate crime victimization in the SacramentoDavis area, with about 2,200 lesbian, gay and bisexual participants,” Herek said. “We asked people about their experiences with different types of criminal victimization and then looked at their scores on a variety of psychological measures.”

Herek also distinguished between a crime directly against a person, such as an act of violence versus a property crime, such as vandalism.

“When we looked at the results of lesbian women and gay men who had experienced a crime against their person which they believed was based on their sexual orientation within the previous five years or so, their levels of psychological symptoms were greater than those of other gay men and lesbian women who had experienced a crime which they believed was not based on their sexual orientation,” Herek said.

These symptoms include anger, anxiety and posttraumatic stress, according to the study, published in the 1999 Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 67, No. 6.

“Typically after a crime, especially a violent crime, victims experience psychological symptoms,” Herek said.

“But generally these impacts hang on longer when the crime was based on sexual orientation than what might be called a ‘routine crime,’ and there is a general pattern that these sort of crime victims do suffer a more severe psychological impact.”

“I think that for some folks it is not optional to hide, for example — folks whose gender identity does not fall in the gender binary (woman/man) and who wish to present their gender in a queer way,” Krause said.

Criminal acts directed toward the LGBTQI community have occurred multiple times on UC Davis campus property in the past.

On Feb. 26, 2010, the UC Davis LGBTRC was vandalized, the door defaced with derogatory slurs. According to an open letter from the LGBTRC staff to the campus community, “this vicious hate crime demonstrate[d] the need for community centers like ours to exist in order to offer a safe space on campus and combat the homophobia, discrimination and hate that is still prevalent within our society.”

Facilities and administration immediately offered to clean up the graffiti, but according to the letter, the LGBTRC opted not to remove the graffiti immediately so as to educate the campus about the struggles their community continues to face.

“We feel it is easier to erase physical representations of violence than to heal from the ongoing impacts of this hatred,” the letter stated. “Erasing it makes it possible to avoid believing these things happen on our campus.”

The LGBTRC offers numerous programs for students as well as educational programming such as peer education and Safe Zone training in the residence halls as well as on campus. Jezzie Zimbardo, the community counselor, works with people who have experienced incidents of hate, too.

Support for Partida Along with support from the campus community, many Davis businesses have shown their support for the Partida family in various ways.

On March 22, G Street WunderBar hosted “Mikey’s Night,” with a portion of the night’s proceeds being donated back to Partida and his family.

The Davis Food Co-op also participated in efforts to support Partida.

“Mikey is a valued employee of the Davis Food Co-op,” said Julie Cross, director of marketing and education for the Davis Food Co-op, via email.

“The Co-op provided a $1,000 match to donations made to Mikey’s Justice Fund. We’re presently working on a 5K to benefit him and show our support, but it’s still very much in the planning stages.”

More instances of hate “I would say that at least once a week a student shares an experience of feeling the impact of oppression in their lives in Davis,” Krause said.

“These experiences range from being stared at to more forceful acts of hate like yelling of bias[ed]/hate language. Speaking from a personal place, I know that I have been impacted by the small and large ways that LGBTQI folks are devalued in daily interactions.”

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By VEENA BANSAL Aggie Sports Writer

The women’s lacrosse team (3-8, 0-4) went 1-2 over spring break, despite facing the toughest back-to-back combination of opponents thus far this season. After demolishing Howard by a final score of 23-6, the Aggies squared off against Navy and Drexel, which are ranked 16th and 12th, respectively.

Senior Elizabeth Datino garnered MPSF Offensive Player of the Week honors, totaling 13 goals with four assists in the three games. In addition, she posted a career-high seven goals at Howard. She then went on to score hat tricks against both the Mids and Dragons. Against Navy, the Aggies rallied to within deficits of 5-3 and 8-5 early on before Navy pulled away in the middlethird of the contest.

The Aggies held a 5-3 lead late in the first half before a Drexel goal with only eight seconds left in the half. This ignited what became a 6-2 Dragon finish. Sophomore Kai Murphy accomplished her best game thus far, tallying eight sixes throughout the course of the game.

Senior Hannah Mirza scored a hat trick and had a fantastic all-around game against the No. 18 Mids. Furthermore, freshman midfielder Mary Doyle netted a career-high two goals to go with three draw controls. Currently, she is ranked second on the Aggies in the latter category with 27 behind Mirza’s 38.

“Looking back on the trip, it was a great experience,” said head coach Kate Henwood. “We represented UC Davis lacrosse well. I was proud of the team for their efforts. Playing teams of that caliber and being in those games will prepare us for coming back to face our toughest MPSF opponents. There is something about timing that you have to understand as a coach. I have

been telling the team for two weeks that we are about to turn that corner.

The Drexel game helped prove to our players and helped them understand that they belonged.”

Next, the Aggies faced the Denver Pioneers. Datino scored a hat trick and Landry combined four total points with a game-high nine draw controls. However, UC Davis was unable to hold on its halftime lead, falling 1-11 to their 20thranked opponents.

The Pioneers took a two-goal lead for the first time since early in the first half.

The Aggies managed to battle back to an 11-11 tie, but Pioneer Secora converted a pass from Remenapp for the gamewinner with six minutes left.

The Aggies will continue their MPSF play with a road game at Fresno State on Saturday at 2 p.m. Last season, the Aggies tamed the Bulldogs 21-5. Seniors Gina Hoffmire and Anna Geissbuhler each scored five goals to lead UC Davis to victory at the Aggies Stadium.

The Aggies never trailed during the game, drawing first blood off of senior Corsa’s successful eight-meter attempt

just 71 seconds into the game. Geissbuhler punched in three goals after the break. Overall, the team outshot its opponent by a 45-6 margin and committed 12 fewer turnovers than the Bulldogs.

Fresno State’s record stands at 2-9, 0-4 in conference and 1-5 in away games. They have lost their past three games. Their last loss was against San Diego State 18-8. The Bulldogs will face Oregon before taking on UC Davis.

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Senior Elizabeth Datino (No. 27) passes the ball to freshman Courtney Neff (No. 1) in the game against USC. Datino was named the MPSF Offensive Player of the Week.

Aggies head to Sacramento for Mondo Invitational

UC Davis golf teams optimistic for weekend games

UC Davis hopes to ride momentum from last meet in Arizona

Women’s golf team finishes seventh in Hawaii, men’s team finishes eighth in Arizona

By KENNETH LING Aggie Sports Writer

In a sport where a tenth of a second matters, the UC Davis track team has blown through previous records by leaps and bounds. Just last weekend at the Sun Angel Classic in Tempe, Ariz., the records for the 100-, 200- and 800-meter sprints were completely demolished.

The Aggies did well in a wide array of events in Arizona. One of the standouts of the event was sophomore sprinter Ashley Marshall, as she broke two UC Davis records. She now owns the women’s 100-meter record by posting a blazing time of 11.55 seconds.

Furthermore, she beat the 200-meter record which she previously set, by running a personal and school-best time of 23.54 seconds.

Marshall was not the only one who did well in Arizona, as senior Lauren Wallace’s time of 2:04.89 beat the previous women’s 800-meter record of 2:07.91.

Both Wallace and senior Shanie Landen broke the old record. In fact, Landen broke the record running 2:07.87 in an earlier race last Sunday, only to have her record broken by Wallace later that day.

The men also posted some impressive results, as sophomore Trevor Ehlenbach placed second in the 800-meter with a time of 1:51.37. Sophomore Ben Parodi placed third in shot put and freshman Matthew Bender finished third in discus.

“The core of our travel squad rose to the occasion and created another slate of outstanding performances,” said head coach Drew Wartenburg. “Today represents another good step forward in building toward the type of dynamic we hope

to have late in the season.”

The Aggies hope to ride this wave of record-breaking success into the Mondo Invitational which will be held at Sacramento State’s facilities. The events include the standard sprinting events, such as the 100-, 200- and 400-meter sprints as well as hurdles and distance events. The field events include shot put, discus and the jumping events.

The Mondo Invitational is an invitation-only meet which means that only select schools will be in attendance over the weekend. The list of schools participating in this event include Brigham Young University, Fresno State, Portland State, UC Davis and the host school Sacramento State.

UC Davis has had fairly good success in the Mondo Invitational, as last year, both men’s and women’s teams placed third in overall team rankings.

The highlights of last year’s event include senior Melanise Chapman placing second in the 100-meter and third in the 200-meter with times of 11.79 and 24.51 respectively.

For the men, junior Hosea Tate and sophomore Jason Chandler finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 200-meter dash. Tate ran a 21.85 and Chandler ran a 21.89.

“Those athletes performing at the highest level are feeding off their success and that of those around them,” Wartenburg said. “That makes for an exciting environment in which to coach, train and compete.”

The Aggies have run at an exceptional level in the past few meets. As a result, they head into the Mondo Invitational with a fairly high amount of confidence in their abilities. With a few days to rest up and get ready for the invitational, which starts on Thursday, the UC Davis track team should be ready for another solid performance.

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By VEENA BANSAL Aggie Sports Writer

Last week, the women’s golf team captured seventh place in the Hawai’i Tournament. Sophomore Beverly Vatananugulkit scored an eagle and three birdies to sustain a 1-under 771 lead. She finished the tournament tied for 12th place.

The Aggies shot 13-over 301 on the first day and tied for ninth with No. 24 Denver, No. 39 Oregon and Colorado. Vatananugulkit began with a birdie on the sixth hole and picked up two more birdies the rest of the way, finishing the day with a 71.

At the Spring Break Classic, sophomore Blair Lewis played her final 14 holes on Tuesday three shots under par, shooting a 1-under 71 to keep her in ninth place.

With an impressive round, Lewis was able to jump 29 spots on the leaderboard, leading her into a tie for 33rd place at 5-over 149. Vatananugulkit shot 74 and tied for 11th at the end of the day, while fellow senior Amy Simanton is tied for 49th at 9-over after carding a 77.

On the final day of the Hawai’i Classic, Vatananugulkit’s 1-under 71 during the final round lifted UC Davis to seventh in the final standings. The Aggies scored a 5-over 293 over the final 18 holes and 26over 890 for the 54-hole tournament.

Next Friday, on April 12, the women’s golf team will compete in the PING/ASU Invitational at Arizona State. Last year, the Aggies tied for fifth place after beating two top-10 teams. Senior Demi Runas had a 2-over 74 to claim co-medalist honors with a 1-under total. Senior Amy Simanton had a team-best 73 during Sunday’s final round of the PING/ASU Invitational.

The No. 1-ranked UCLA Bruins captured first place, finishing the day with a 3-under 565.

UC Davis, who shot 19-over 303 during last year’s windy final round, tied No. 3 USC at 29-over 881 while finishing ahead of No. 8 LSU, who finished ninth, and No. 7 Vanderbilt, who finished 12th.

Runas posted her third straight top-10 finish and her fifth of the season. In addition, Simanton had an outstanding effort for UC Davis, carding birdies on two of the course’s three par-5 holes while playing both the front and back just 1-over.

Overall, last year’s tournament was a success for the Aggies, as several teammates shined throughout the course of their stay in Arizona. This year ought to be no different. With a few solid wins under their belt and solid performances from their stars, the Aggies should perform well at the three-day invitational.

Alongside the women’s golf team, the men’s golf team finished eighth at Arizona State’s tournament on Sunday. Senior Tyler Raber’s par-71 led UC Davis in the final round of the ASU Thunderbird Invitational while junior Jonny Baxter finished 11th.

“I thought we did a really good job coming back the last two rounds after putting ourselves in a tough spot after the first round,” said head coach Cy Williams. “We finished ahead of Arizona State, which is ranked 43rd, on their home course so that’s a pretty big win for us.”

UC Davis will return to competition April 19 to 21 when it co-hosts the Winchester Classic with Nevada at Winchester Country Club in Meadow Vista.

Last year, Fresno State won the Winchester Classic with 10-over 874, while the Aggies came in second. Although the Aggies trailed by 10 strokes, they were able to come within two shots of the Bulldogs. However, Fresno State was able to pull away with a 13-stroke victory.

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Sophomore Spencer Koopmans pitches the ball.

Teams: UC Davis at Long Beach State Records: Aggies, 11-19; Dirtbags, 13-18 Where: Blair Field — Long Beach, Calif.

When: Friday at 6 p.m.; Saturday at 2 p.m.; Sunday at 1 p.m.

Who to Watch: Sophomore John Williams has been the sure-handed outfielder that the Aggies have come to rely upon for more than his glove. Williams has played 25 games this year, starting 20 of them.

After last weekend’s series against Fullerton, he is hitting .306 and has a team-high three triples. Williams’ .418 slugging percentage is good enough for third on the team. He is also tied for the lead in RBI as Williams has 19 so far this season.

The UC Davis men’s baseball team has struggled to bring in runs and Williams’ hitting has been a bright spot in an otherwise weak batting order. In the last game of the recent three-game series against Cal State Northridge, he went 2-4, with a double and an RBI. Though the Aggies eventually lost the game 5-2, Williams’ hits helped spark a stagnant UC Davis offense.

Williams has been spotless in fielding the baseball, having a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage. With the lack of offense, the Aggies will have to rely on their pitch-

ing and defense to win games. Williams definitely helps with the defensive part of the equation as he has yet to make an error this season.

As UC Davis heads into the weekend series against a decent Long Beach State team, Williams’ production, both with the bat and the glove, will be immensely critical in the Aggies’ chance for success.

Did you know? In last year’s season series against the Dirtbags, the Aggies came away with wins in two of the three games.

They had impressive 6-5 and 5-0 victories against a Long Beach State team that went 15-9 in conference play during the 201112 season.

The Aggies’ ability to win against the 49ers is evidenced by their head-to-head records over the past few years. UC Davis has simply had Long Beach State’s number in recent games, winning three season series in a row. The last time the Dirtbags beat the Aggies in a season series was during the 2008-09 season.

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Women’s Water Polo Preview Teams: UC Davis vs. Cal State Monterey Bay; Pacific Records: Aggies 12-15, (0-6); Otters 8-19, (2-5), Tigers 16-11, (1-4) Where: The “Otter” Tank — Seaside, Calif.; Schaal Aquatics Center — Davis, Calif.

When: Friday at 2 p.m.; Saturday at noon.

Who to watch: Senior Kathryn Bailey recently returned to the Aggie lineup and she has wasted no time making a splash. During last week’s contest against first-ranked Hawai’i, Bailey tallied three goals for UC Davis.

UC Davis ended up losing the 12-14 shootout against the Wahine, but it was a phenomenal effort from the eighthranked Aggies. Having Bailey back in the pool gives the Aggie offense another necessary threat. With UC Davis standing 0-6 in conference, the Aggies need to find a way to win quickly.

Did you know? Seniors Carmen Eggert and Jessica Dunn have combined to score 32 of the Aggies’ 60 conference goals this year. They both also contributed hat tricks against Hawai’i last week.

Preview: UC Davis seems to be constantly on the verge of winning. Their six losses have come by a total margin of eight goals. However, this week they get a chance to snap their losing streak against Cal State Monterey Bay. The Otters will also be looking to snap their own losing streak and will pose a threat to the Aggie defense. Led by senior Jackie Walters’ 62 goals, the Otter offense has combined for 233 goals this season. UC Davis’ goalkeeper, Riane Woods, is maintaining a .498 save percentage, so this game could be a chance for the Aggies to find a way to earn a close win over an opponent.

Head coach Jamey Wright is looking forward to the opportunity for his team to play a low pressure game. They can use the minutes to work on some areas they have been struggling in. The Otters will also present the team with a few different looks, which will force them to adapt.

“The positives are that we get a game when we need it. This was a late add

to our schedule. We originally had a weekend off between Hawai’i and Pacific, which I didn't like. Monterey Bay isn't too far and it's kind of an interesting place. The negative is that their pool isn't regulation. It is not as long nor as wide as regulation’s,” Wright said.

“Number two, they play that funky two-goalie defense which nobody else does. So we'll practice for something we won't see at conference. At their pool, everything is so close they can get into that defense.”

After Friday’s matchup against the Otters, the Aggies will host conference rival Pacific. The Tigers are ranked seventh in conference, and the Aggies won the previous matchup during February’s Davis Challenge.

In their last game against Pacific, UC Davis earned a 12-5 win over the Tigers.

Sophomore Keelia Houston led the Aggie offense with four goals in the game.

Woods also tallied 10 saves during the match, which allowed the Aggies to pull away with a large advantage.

It seems like UC Davis is playing great water polo in patches. Their offensive effort against Hawai’i was incredible, but their defense was lacking and it cost them the game.

Wright acknowledged the gaps in play, but he is proud of his team’s continued work effort.

“The good news is that we scored 12 against a good team. If we played the defense we had against Irvine and that kind of offense, we could have beaten Hawai'i by two or three goals. Strangely, and it's very refreshing, the team remains optimistic and upbeat. They understand how well they have played in these games to put themselves in a position to win. They know they have to get better, but they are small things we already know,” Wright said. “I felt better after the Long Beach/Irvine weekend because we were right there.

Hawai'i was a step back but I like that we were resilient. We came back. In a lot of ways, it made me optimistic from an offensive standpoint.”

— Kim Carr

Tennis Preview

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Senior Toki Sherbakov defeated the Rainbow Warriors’ top player.

By MATTHEW YUEN Aggie Sports Editor

The Aggies have endured all sorts of tough weather this past week, from rain to shine to torrential winds, and will welcome the warm sun that is forecasted this week.

The UC Davis tennis teams will continue their luxurious streak of home matches this week, both hosting several matches at the Marya Welch Tennis Center.

On Friday, the women’s tennis team will continue its six-match home stand with its fourth straight home match. UC Davis will host Pacific at 1:30 p.m. at the same time as the men start their match against Cal Poly.

On the women’s side of this doubleheader, the Aggies will have quite a matchup against the Tigers, who dominated UC Davis in the past until the past couple years. UC Davis, in 2011, beat Pacific for only the second time in head coach Bill Maze’s career at the helm of the Aggies’ program (16 years at the time).

Another win last year added to this total, and the Aggies certainly don’t show any signs that these two years were anything other than an indication of the rise of UC Davis tennis.

The Tigers are 8-11 and 3-4 in conference, but are always a tough team to beat.

UC Davis stands right ahead of Pacific, in seventh after their tightly contested 4-3 loss to Hawai’i.

The UC Davis women’s tennis team will then play host to UC Santa Barbara on Saturday at noon. The Gauchos are currently 13-6 and 4-2 in the Big West Conference, which puts them in third place.

The Aggies are coming off a very demanding weekend, having played three matches in four days. UC Davis fell to Long Beach State on Friday by a score of 6-1. The 43rdranked 49ers are now 7-1 in the Big West after sweeping the doubles point and grabbing five of six singles matches. The Aggies’ lone win came from senior Ellie Edles, who ground out a 6-4, 6-2 win in the fifth-singles slot.

Still, UC Davis bounced back from the loss with a dominating victory over UC Riverside the very next day. The Aggies swept all three matches to take the doubles point, and never slowed in singles competition.

Junior Megan Heneghan sat out for the singles competition, moving everyone up one slot, but the Aggies adjusted just fine. Freshman Tiffany Pham was the first off the court with a 6-1, 6-0 beating of her Highlander opponent, and sophomore Layla Sanders followed soon after with a 6-1, 6-1 victory at the top slot. The only UC Davis loss came from senior Lauren Curry, who went to a third-set tiebreaker but fell 10-5.

On Monday, the Aggies fell in a heartbreaking loss to Hawai’i. The match was rescheduled from April 4, when it rained, but many of the players would rather have played in the wet conditions compared to the windy gusts that flew around the courts.

After dropping the doubles point, the Aggies stormed back to take three of the first four singles matches to finish at five, four and six, respectively. Yet, it was not to be, as the Rainbow Warriors took the final two matches, including the 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 battle in which junior Melissa Kobayakawa fell in the deciding match.

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