May 16, 2013

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ASUCD bill to grant money to community-specific graduations fails Ethnic and Lavender graduations to be further discussed at budget hearings

By PAAYAL ZAVERI Aggie News Writer

Regents evacuated after union workers interrupt meeting The UC Board of Regents meeting at the Sacramento Convention Center was momentarily interrupted on May 15 after union healthcare workers from AFSCME 3299 began chanting loudly during a sit-in.

Thirteen arrests were made and AFSCME 3299 president Kathryn Lybarger was among the group. The protesters, wearing stickers reading “Patients not profits,” chanted phrases such as “What’s this about?

Patient care!” and “Whose university? Our university!”

The building was heavily patrolled by Sacramento police.

The meeting reconvened after approximately 25 minutes.

The demonstration follows a UPTE (University Professional & Technical Employees, CWA 9119) announcement that UC health care workers at all five UC health centers will participate in a strike calling for retirement security and fair wages.

AFSCME 3299 has also scheduled a strike at

the UC medical student health centers on May 21 and 22.

“This strike is about standing up for the students, patients and taxpayers the UC Medical System was intended to serve … We will not rest until UC gets its priorities straight,” Lybarger said in a press release.

Members of the public also addressed the Professional Degree Supplemental Tuition vote in the July Board of Regents meeting and online education.

UC President Racquel Morales spoke at the meeting as well, discussing the UC-wide campus climate survey that was distributed in the winter and what will come about from the data.

The Board continued to discuss the recent May Revise 2013-14, which calls for a fouryear tuition freeze.

The meeting will continue Thursday, beginning at 8:30 a.m.

— Muna Sadek — Photo by Brian Nguyen

A bill to increase funding for community-specific graduation ceremonies did not pass at the ASUCD Senate meeting on May 9. The bill would have increased funding to ethnic graduation ceremonies by $1,300.

Senate Bill 94 was first presented to ASUCD on May 2, asking for $5,100 in grants to fund the graduation ceremonies. It was sent back to the Business and Finance commission for revision and debated again on May 9, after the amount was reduced to $1,300.

The $1,300 would have been added to the $4,000 of support ASUCD already gives to ethnic and Lavender graduation ceremonies. The bill needed a 2/3 majority to pass.

The senators who voted no on the bill were Tal Topf, Felicia Ong, Liam Burke, Ryan Wonders and Amrit Sahota.

Background of the bill According to Alyson Sagala, ASUCD senator and author of Senate Bill 94, bills have been introduced every year for the past three years regarding funding for ethnic and Lavender graduation ceremonies.

Last year’s situation was unique, Sagala said, because an ASUCD unit had been dissolved and so there were unknown re-

serves available for the ethnic graduations. As a result, funding increased from $3,000 to $10,000.

This year’s bill had a similar request in nature and terms of funding. However, the situation was different.

“It’s a sad situation, in that they were only willing to fund these events because that money became available — which is completely unacceptable and they should be funded either way,” Sagala said.

There are eight communityspecific graduation celebrations that were involved with drafting the bill: Black Graduation, Chican@/Latin@ Graduation, Filipin@ Graduation, Lavender Graduation, Middle East/South Asian Graduation, Muslim Student Association Graduation, Native American Graduation and Southeast Asian Graduation.

Sagala said the bill was created because funding was cut off from other avenues, which left a gap in funding that couldn’t be bridged with fundraising and other campus grants. “... when [the bill] failed, the only argument was that there wouldn’t be enough money left in senate reserves for the rest of the year,” Sagala said. “The people who voted no essentially did so because they believe that ASUCD has no responsibility in See ETHNIC on 12

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Sequester impacts California, nation Air travel, social services see cutbacks in funding

By MEREDITH STURMER Aggie News Writer

Although the sequester has already been in effect for over two months, for the most part, it is still too early to determine which services within the City of Davis will be impacted.

“The consensus around here related to the effects of sequestration is primarily uncertainty,” said Kelly Stachowicz, deputy city manager for the City of Davis via email.

On April 30, President Barack Obama held a press conference to address, among other national issues, the budget sequestration, also referred to colloquially as the sequester, which went into effect on March 1.

“It’s damaging our economy. It’s hurting our people. And we need to lift it,” President Obama said during the press conference. “What’s clear is, is that the only way we’re going to lift it is if we do a bigger deal that meets the test of lowering our deficit and growing our economy at the same time.

And that’s going to require some compromises on the part of both Democrats and Republicans.”

Acts of sequestration Sequestration refers to a national fiscal policy of austerity which will implement wide-

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spread budget cuts of approximately $1.2 trillion between 2013 and 2021, which went into effect as a result of the Budget Control Act of 2011(BCA).

The BCA was signed into law in August 2011, according to a report issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) titled the “Report Pursuant to the Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012.”

The report was issued in January as required by the Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012.

The law, signed in August 2012, required the administration to issue a report at the start of the 2013 fiscal year detailing the cuts that would take place if the sequester went into effect.

Under the BCA, the sequester goes into effect if the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, a committee created by the BCA, does not propose a plan to reduce the national deficit by $1.2 trillion and/or Congress does not enact the proposed plan by the end of the fiscal year.

According to the report, “the specter of harmful across-the-board cuts to defense and non-defense programs was intended to drive both sides to compromise. Congress can and should take action to avoid it by passing a comprehensive and balanced deficit reduction package.”

As described in the BCA, if an agreement had not been reached by the end of 2012, Congress would be permitted to increase the debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion. But in turn, the sequester, described in the report as a “blunt and indiscriminate instrument,” would take effect, triggering See SEQUESTER on 12

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The Bike Barn will take over the entire barn space to expand its operations.

MU, Silo renovations bring reorganization of ASUCD units Silo construction to begin spring 2014

By JANELLE BITKER and HANNAH STRUMWASSER Aggie Editor in Chief and Aggie Managing Editor

The ASUCD Unit Relocation and Space Allocation Committee (URSAC) will be making an unprecedented number of decisions in the coming weeks, as imminent renovations to the Memorial Union and Silo spur displacement.

“It’s new territory. Our spaces are completely changing,” said ASUCD President Carly Sandstrom, a voting member of URSAC along with ASUCD Business Manager Anne Myler, Controller Eric Evans, Senator Miles Thomas and Senator Maxwell Kappes. URSAC determines office space allocation for units.

The third floor of the MU, which is where many units are housed, will be completely rearranged. Sandstrom envisions having ASUCD Student Services and its receptionists closer to the elevators — currently they’re

hidden in the back — and creating an open space called the Bullpen, with couches and the ability to house informal unit events. Sandstrom hopes student government officials utilize the space as well.

“I would love to see senators more in the bullpen than in their offices where the doors might be closed,” she said.

Sandstrom also hopes to hold ASUCD Senate meetings in different locations every quarter, as opposed to in the Mee Room, which will likely be converted into office space.

This is all part of the general MU renovation project, which is costing roughly $19.5 million. ASUCD is contributing $500,000 — though Senate still needs to vote on this — of which $250,000 would go toward renovating the Bike Barn space.

Renovations to the Silo will involve two phases, according to Michael Sheehan, the director of Facilities Services for Student Housing.

Phase 1 will include the redesign of the South Silo — where the UC Davis Store Silo, Whole Earth Festival and Experimental See RENOVATIONS on 12

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Opinion THE CALIFORNIA AGGIE

EDITORIAL FROM THE BOARD

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 KENNETH LING Sports Editor Hudson Lofchie Science Editor RICHARD TRUONG Copy Chief Brian Nguyen Photography Editor Janice Pang Design Director James Kim Asst. Design Director Joyce BerthelsEn Night Editor Irisa Tam Art Director David Ou New Media Director

UC Survey

Satisfaction lower than claimed The UC Office of the President (UCOP) sent out a press release on Monday boasting that 82 percent of current UC students are satisfied with their college education, despite the decline in state funding and rise in tuition costs.

The number comes from the 2012 UC Undergraduate Experience Survey. We were surprised, and upon further examination, found the figure to be highly misleading.

About 36 percent, or 63,500 students, of the UC undergraduate population participated in the survey, which asked a variety of questions, including level of overall satisfaction. The 82 percent figure includes students who selected “very satisfied,” “satis-

fied” and “somewhat satisfied.”

In our opinion, “satisfied” is quite different from “somewhat satisfied,” and not that different from “somewhat unsatisfied.” And if we took out the 30 percent of students who marked “somewhat satisfied,” we are left with an actual 52 percent of students who are satisfied with their educations.

This means about half of the UC undergraduate population feel their education is lacking, and this should be distressing to the folks at UCOP. In fact, UCOP should be distressed over many of the study’s findings, particularly related to finances.

Student satisfaction with their education for the price they are

How low, right-wing?

Masturbation ed SEX & SOCIETY with MARISA MASSARA

THE ANARCHIST with BRIAN MOEN

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f we ask people what they think about political rhetoric, they will likely respond that it is baloney and that we shouldn’t buy it. But I think those same people do buy it very frequently. I want to dissect a few recent and pertinent examples.

In dissecting them, I think patterns emerge that can inform us about what drives the dominant political discourse — contempt toward the politically disempowered.

To start right in on a relevant case: Fox News Business columnist Steve Tobak recently published a piece

The politically powerful want to stop any action that would decrease their power which brilliantly displays the moronic and childish misunderstanding of terms that conservative rhetoric thrives upon. His piece “The Real Impact of Political Correctness” attempts to explain why political correctness is a form of collectivism and then provides a straw man version of political correctness, claiming that political correctness necessarily entails praising peoples’ failures.

Why the crusade against political correctness? Well, there’s a great little trick that they can pull. By claiming that political correctness is really just a method of trying to make the society too nice, they can preemptively stop criticisms that would devastate their views. That is, when they demonize women and minorities, our criticisms don’t mean anything because we’re just a bunch of whiney, overprotective wimps who can’t allow anyone to be criticized.

I mean, what else could they do anyway? They can’t admit that women or ethnic minorities are politically disempowered. And they certainly couldn’t admit that their views are filled to the brim with implicit misogyny and racism. Because, as we all know, we simply must accept that everyone has a fair chance in America.

If we started to think something so extremely radical, that people do not have equal access to success, well, then we might want to take the most dangerous step of all — moving from talk to action.

The trick with that piece of rhetoric is that it is stopping the issue as early as possible. That is a successful rhetorical move that the billion-dollar

per year public relations industry has beautifully refined. The politically powerful want to stop any action that would decrease their power, and their best weapon is the public relations machine, which they can use to nip dissent in the bud. If the most obvious criticisms of their institutions can’t be made because the surrounding speech is muddled and confused, then voila, problem solved.

Another right wing favorite is “personal responsibility.” Man, that sure sounds good. So nice. No one in the world is going to say that personal responsibility is bad. So they’re saying nothing. But, just like in the “political correctness” case, there is a dubious implication.

To put it very briefly, when our favorite conservative pundits so frequently tout personal responsibility, they are really saying “poor people are poor because they aren’t taking responsibility for their lives, and we should not implement social programs to help them, because they are responsible for their circumstances.”

Searching conservative websites for “personal responsibility” can lead to a fun and face-palm filled afternoon. The move that they make is actually rather brilliant. By accepting “personal responsibility” as used in their context, one unwittingly adopts a view of the society in which everyone’s circumstance is their fault.

And since you believe in personal responsibility, you believe in what it entails. The trick is that they have a very particular concept of personal responsibility with extra stuff added on, and people just buy the whole package.

“Family values” is a double whammy. It implies that puritanical, Christian morality is the right value set, and if you’re against it, you’re against families. Demonizing everyone else’s values is a clear form of disempowerment.

The second part is that it helps to push the right-wing conception of charity, that people’s families are responsible for them, not the government. But, you know, you’re supposed to forget about cases where the entire family needs help or someone has no family.

We could go on case by case, but it’s clear that the right-wing discourse operates on sneaky tricks in order to blame and vilify the already disempowered. They just don’t have real arguments.

BRIAN MOEN finds Steve Tobak’s argumentation to be so sophomoric that it’s embarrassing. He can be reached at bkmoen@ucdavis.edu.

paying is down to 60 percent from 71 percent in 2006. Moreover, 21 percent of students marked “very dissatisfied” or “dissatisfied” — that’s 11,664 students who don’t feel they are getting the education they are paying for.

Nearly 63 percent of surveyed students said they were “somewhat concerned” to “very concerned” about their accumulated debt.

Seventy-one percent reported concern about how to pay for their education, while only 4 percent said expenses were not a problem.

We hope that UCOP fully understands the magnitude of their findings and will take concrete actions in response to the survey results, despite brushing details aside in the name of good PR.

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ach year, May brings us spring flowers, Whole Earth, Mother’s Day — and lots of self-love.

National Masturbation Month was created by the San Francisco-based sex shop Good Vibrations, but their goal wasn’t merely to boost vibrator sales.

In 1994, U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders attended a United Nations AIDS conference, where she suggested that masturbation “is a part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught [in schools].” President Clinton fired her because of the resulting controversy.

Masturbation teaches us what we like and don’t like, what works and what doesn’t work Not long after, the sex-positive folks at Good Vibrations decided to use the month of May to fight the centuriesold social stigma surrounding masturbation.

And even though this has been going on for nearly two decades, we still have a long way to go. A few weeks ago, for example, high school science teacher Tim McDaniel was under investigation for saying “vagina” in a lesson on the human reproductive system.

Sex education has such great potential — not only for improving students’ future or current sex lives, but also for improving their physical and emotional health. However, this potential can only be realized if educators and parents can agree to get over their embarrassment, challenge their own preconceptions and finally offer truly comprehensive sex education — a lesson plan which would include masturbation.

It always surprises me that the more conservative the adult is, the less they seem to feel that masturbation has a place in the classroom. Even advocates of abstinence-only sex ed should see the benefits of learning about masturbation: it’s one of the few sexual activities that carries no risk of STIs or pregnancy. Mutual masturbation is a far safer way to be intimate for teens who may not have access to condoms or birth control, or for those who are not yet emotionally ready for other types of sex.

Flying solo every once in a while is even good for your health. For women, masturbating can help to prevent cervical infections and relieve UTIs. Men

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who masturbate regularly can reduce their risk of prostate cancer. A little self-love is also a great way to reduce stress or relax before bed, as sexual arousal increases levels of dopamine, the “feel-good” hormone, and orgasm releases the calming hormones oxytocin and dopamine.

What’s more, getting to know one’s own sexuality can vastly improve partnered sex. Masturbation teaches us what we like and don’t like, what works and what doesn’t work. And being able to communicate these needs and desires to a partner is especially important for those whose orgasms are harder to come by.

Including masturbation in sex ed could also help to dispel much of the shame and embarrassment that often goes along with solitary pleasure. For many guys, jerking off is seen as something of a last resort, a sad and lonely alternative to “real” sex. And although 50 to 70 percent of women masturbate, the act is still perceived by many as “unladylike,” and orgasms are often followed by a feeling of shame. Many girls do not even know that female masturbation is a possibility (I didn’t until I was 14, no thanks to seventh grade health class).

Providing information about masturbation could also prevent issues later in students’ sexual lives. For example, guys who masturbate with condoms not only save their tube socks, but also report fewer sensitivity issues when having protected sex with partners. Conditions like “death grip syndrome,” which occurs when guys who have used too tight of a grip have trouble maintaining an erection during partnered sex, could also be addressed and possibly prevented. For both girls and guys, encouraging variety in position and technique could lead to easier orgasms with partners as well.

That being said, this sort of sex education would not ostracize those students who chose not to masturbate.

Just as abstinence from sex is always an option, so is abstinence from masturbation. But in order for us to teach kids that they have a choice, we also need to present both sides. Including masturbation in sex education is a great way to reduce social stigma, encourage sexual self-awareness and improve the physical and mental health of students.

With all these benefits, a little embarrassment seems like a small price to pay.

MARISA MASSARA hopes this column has touched you. If you still don’t know what masturbation is, email her at mvmassara@ucdavis.edu.

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Passion and Pantene

Friends, bro-mans

LAUGHING THROUGH LIFE with MARCI MONTANARI

ANALYZE THIS with BEN BIGELOW

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think the Mondavi Center is one of the most beautiful buildings on campus. I love that it exists specifically as a venue for people to share their passion, whether that is dancing, music, singing or some other art form.

Lately I realized that I have my own mini-Mondavi right in my apartment. I call it my shower.

My shower provides some nice acoustics, so I’ve chosen it as a place to exhibit my singing talents. In that small space I pour out passion and Pantene.

The only issue I have is that I prefer to keep my singing to myself, but have a roommate. I figure that even when I really think I’m having the performance

I’m expecting to see a whole bunch of people singing in laundry rooms late at night now of my life, my roommate probably doesn’t share my artistic vision. There are also those few, very few times when I try to hit a high note and end up cracking my voice like a teenage boy going through puberty.

Well, one afternoon I was relishing in the fact that my roommate was out and I had the entire apartment to myself. I stood in the shower and let water run over me as I belted out my best rendition of Beauty and the Beast’s “Little Town.” The only words that I actually know from that song are “There must be more than this provincial life.” But believe me, I sang those eight words.

I ran through a few of my other favorite tunes before turning off the water. As I emerged from my performing arts center, I saw them. Green post-it notes, covering my door. My roommate, who had arrived instants after I stepped into the bathroom, had heard every song and had done me the favor of quoting the lyrics I sang on post-its.

It was essentially an instant replay of my shower.

She also drew a llama, which was supposed to be me, with musical notes coming out of its mouth. I looked up “llama sounds” on YouTube, and discovered that their noises are a cross between those of a goat and a seagull. This wasn’t exactly the sound I was going for with my rendition of Beauty and the Beast.

After this incident, I decided to find a new place to perform. On a Friday night at 2 a.m., I found that venue. I

carried my laundry down to my apartment complex’s laundry room and discovered that it was a secluded, empty space. For all those readers who have a strong desire to sing, but can’t be heard by roommates, I have found your solution. I’m expecting to see a whole bunch of people singing in laundry rooms late at night now.

I put in my earphones and sang along to my iPod. I told the dryer to “call me maybe,” requested that the washer “quit playing games with my heart,” and told the Tide to “wash that man right out of my hair.” I then realized that I could combine my singing with dance moves. Clearly, things were getting a little crazy on a Friday night alone in the laundry room.

I strutted up and down the tiles, shaking it, sprinkling it and Macarenaing it. It was only then that a movement outside caught my eye. I stared, startled. As I looked up, I saw that the window was open. The lights created a glare on the window that made it difficult for me to see out, but quite easy for someone in the dark to see inside.

A minute later I heard the doorknob rattling. In walked a young man who lives in my complex. He began with, “I heard you singing and I came to see where the noise was coming from. I thought it was a CD!” When I get embarrassed, I blush.

I can guarantee I could have been mistaken for a lobster at this moment in time.

I said, “Thank you!” and tried to figure out why this man was delusional enough to compliment me. He walked over and said, “What were you singing?”

I had actually been singing a song called “Place in this World” that came out in the 90s. To my shock, he replied, “Oh, I know that one! Let’s sing it together!”

I tried to refuse, but he insisted. So I took one earphone and he took the other and together we sang “Place in this World” at 2:15 a.m. alone in the laundry room. At the time, the only place in the world I wanted to be was hiding under a rock in embarrassment.

I half sang, half spoke the words as I blushed continually. He kept saying, “Come on, louder! Louder! Really sing it!” Until my laundry was washed and dried, I remained in that laundry room talking to this man and singing all the 90s songs on my iPod. MARCI MONTANARI sounds like a llama when she sings. Email mcmontanari@ucdavis.edu to arrange a sing-a-long.

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oiling down the college experience to a few words is hard to do. How does one capture the freedom and self-discovery? My “101 Greatest Movie Quotes” poster, as often is the case, has the answer: “Toga!

Toga!”

Movies like Animal House and Old School instill high school graduates with a picture of what college should be. More importantly, they introduce institutions now synonymous with campus life: fraternities and sororities.

Greek organizations serve their communities in many ways. Here at Davis, Delta Delta Delta collected over $30,000 for philanthropy. Tri Delt?

Greeks need to address their growing negative reputation or risk becoming obsolete More like Tri-hard. That’s a lot of cash.

Greeks also perform community service. Last year, they performed 25,000 hours’ worth. The ladies of Delta Xi Phi averaged 113 hours of service per member. Fourteen more and James Franco would cut off his arm in a movie for them.

And then there are organizations like the University of Maryland’s chapter of Delta Gamma that promote proactive leadership. In a recent e-mail, one of their officers encourages her sisters to be more social, calling them “idiots” and threatening to punch them in the face should they not comply. And like a true leader, she offers to assault them herself. She should be Rutgers’ next basketball coach.

For those with cultural interests, Greeks like Duke’s Kappa Sigma and Penn State’s Chi Omega promote diversity. I’m sure KS brothers would “chank you” for coming to their infamous “AsiaPrime” party. The Chi Os chose instead to explore Mexican culture.

They came to the enlightened conclusion that Mexicans “don’t cut grass,” they “smoke it.”

In all fairness, the media often exploits these negative stories. Locally, at UC Davis, things are different.

Well, except for the 2011 lawsuit Ryan Clifford filed against Alpha Epsilon Pi, the Jewish-interest fraternity. Clifford claims he was singled out for hazing as he is non-Jewish. Was he? We don’t know: a judge dismissed the trial, and

the decision is being appealed.

And then there was Sigma Alpha Epsilon last year, charged with theft and serving alcohol to minors, then banned from campus. In defense of the Greek community, our chief of police stated that fraternities do not have a history of underage drinking offenses.

These occasional incidents illustrate the pervasive peer pressure that form the Greeks’ Achilles’ heel. These hazings and lawsuits happen because people submit to the will of the group, no matter how much it clashes with their own morals. Everyone does it, they say. It’s tradition.

When the Greek system works well, it works well. There’s a sense of community, of service, of pride. Students give to charity and to each other. They provide the world with things like the “sorority squat,” a now-indispensable modeling technique.

But at their worst, Greeks are the antithesis of what college should be about. It should be about independence, not groupthink. Tolerance and empathy, not abuse and discrimination.

Sierra Nevada, not Miller Light.

So how do we change this? How do we solve problems present on campuses across the country?

We could suspend all Greeks from campus affiliation, like Chico State president Paul Zingg did in the wake of Mason Sumnicht’s death last year.

He died of alcohol poisoning, drinking 21 shots on his 21st birthday. This might force Greeks to initiate their own improvement. Maybe that’s fairer than forcing university officials to be in a constant state of damage control.

Our own Phi Delta Theta attests to this potential solution. Its charter revoked in 2006, PDT re-established itself on campus in 2010. It has a nohazing policy because, among other reasons, its founders never endured hazing. Phi Delta Theta should serve as an example for our university.

Another solution would be to dispose of the pledge process. We don’t pass a test to make friends in high school (except for Brain Bowl kids), so why do we accept that as a status quo in college? Greeks need to address their growing negative reputation or risk becoming obsolete. Otherwise, “Toga! Toga!” will be how they’re remembered best.

Though fixed as the North Star, BEN BIGELOW is open to feedback and comments at babigelow@ ucdavis.edu.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Response to STI testing opinion We as Student Assistants at Health Education and Promotion (HEP) at Student Health and Counseling Services (SHCS) would like to address some of the concerns presented in the May 2 guest opinion piece regarding Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) testing accessibility and the climate of sex positivity on campus.

Firstly, we would like to say that we are concerned that the student had what they felt to be a negative experience when trying to get tested. From our time working here we know that the professional staff at SHCS strive to create a safe and non-judgemental atmosphere.

We strongly encourage students to utilize the resources available at SHCS. We believe that sexual health is crucial to overall well-being, and we try to make it as easy as possible for students to get tested. In fact, we just ended our “Are You Positive You’re Negative?” campaign that informs students about our chlamydia testing resources. We also support students taking control of their sexual health by having multiple ways to schedule STI-testing appointments (such as over the phone or online via Health-eMessaging), as well as providing free, anonymous HIV testing and low cost screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea.

In addition to the services available in the clinic, the Love Lab, our mobile cart that provides safer sex

products at no charge, has been part of our campus outreach since 2007. It is always stocked with information on low-cost or free community resources related to HIV and STI testing. More recently, we have produced a guide to healthy sexual communication entitled, “How to be Sexcessful”, and have created a campaign to address this issue. Our goal is to empower students to talk openly and without shame about sex so that they can have happier, healthier sex lives. In addition, through our website, we provide a HIV- and STI-testing map for those who prefer online resources. Students with questions about SHCS STI testing services can visit shcs.ucdavis. edu/sti.

As students who value access to quality sexual health care we have confidence that SHCS leadership welcomes input about how to best meet the needs of students. We hope all who are part of the university community will continue the discussion about how we can work together to provide optimal sexual health services on our campus.

Sam Wall and Rosa Gonzalez Sexual Health Student Assistants Health Education and Promotion Merril Lavezzo MPH Candidate Social Media Coordinator Health Education and Promotion

Response to “Students seek Adderall...”

My name is Stephanie Lake and I’m the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug (ATOD) Intervention Services Coordinator at Student Health and Counseling Services (SHCS) here on campus. I am responding to the article in the April 11, Aggie titled “Students seek Adderall for academic boost.”

There were some good points made in this article and some points that I wish to expand upon. First and foremost, Adderall is a drug, and even with intermittent use it can become addictive.

In fact, it is a Schedule II drug, and that means it has a strong addiction liability.

Only individuals who are prescribed this drug by a healthcare provider should use Adderall, because people using the drug when use is not clinically indicated — and usually that means a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) — can and often do experience some serious negative effects that include tolerance, mania and psychosis.

We also want to mention that if a student is not sure if he or she has a diagnosis of ADD or ADHD, SHCS provides assessment and they should make an appointment with their primary care provider at SHCS. Even with occasional use, when a person stops using Adderall, the person can experience the withdrawal effects specific to using and then stopping stimulants.

Katie made mention of this in the article when she noticed that her stomach hurt and how she had headaches. Some of the other withdrawal effects are becoming sluggish, fatigue, apathy, disorientation, depression, and aches and pains. The other phenomenon that happens is that once a person quits using they can start to crave the drug three, six, nine and even 12 months after complete abstinence for no apparent reason. This is because the Adderall has changed the user’s brain chemistry. This is another reason it is important for someone to seek help if they are using non-prescribed (or are abusing) Adderall or other stimulants.

My job is to help students who may be struggling with alcohol, tobacco and other drug issues to get the help they need and overcome these problems. I offer free, confidential individual counseling and my office is located at the Student Health and Wellness Center. If you or a friend would like to set up an appointment, call (530) 752-6334 or use Health-e-Messaging (go to make an appointment and select ATOD Counseling).

We are here to help.

Sincerely, Stephanie Lake Master of Education, Certificated Addiction Treatment Counselor (CATC IV) Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug (ATOD) Intervention Services Coordinator

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16 / Thursday Queer, Feminist and Trans Studies and the Undisciplining of Science 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Student Community Center The Queer, Feminist and Trans studies research cluster will be holding their annual conference entitled “Queer, Feminist and Trans Studies and the Undisciplining of Science.” This year’s conference will feature Wendy Kline and Toby Beauchamp.

Shinkoskey Noon Concert: Left Coast Chamber Ensemble 12:05 to 1 p.m. | Yocha Dehe Grand Lobby, Mondavi Center Enjoy a free noon concert featuring selected works by undergraduate composition students Laura Schwartz, Andrew Hudson and Jonathan Youngs.

UC Davis Energy Institute Seminar Series 4 to 5 pm | 1062 Bainer Hall Join Sangtae Kim, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, as he discusses “Grain-Boundary Engineering for Fuel Cells and Li-Ion Batteries: Fundamentals and Applications.” There is no cost and all are welcome to attend.

Acclaimed Novelist Lynn Freed Reads at Poetry in Davis 8 to 10 p.m. | John Natsoulas Gallery The Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to welcome novelist Lynn Freed.

Lynn Freed is a South African writer and novelist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Ploughshares, Vogue, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, Tin House and The New Yorker.

Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series 4:10 to 5 p.m. | GBSF Auditorium The Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series is pleased to welcome Dr. Andrew Laine, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University, as this week’s distinguished speaker. Refreshments will be served prior to his seminar. Professor Laine will speak on “Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Medical Images: Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, Brain and Vasculature.”

17 / Friday Queer, Feminist and Trans studies and the Undisciplining of Science 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Student Community Center The Queer, Feminist and Trans studies research cluster will be holding their annual conference entitled “Queer, Feminist and Trans studies and the Undisciplining of Science.” This year’s conference will feature Wendy Kline and Toby Beauchamp.

18 / Saturday Volunteer to Plant Native Habitat 9:30 to noon | Union School Slough Please join Putah Creek Council and Audubon Working Waterways to plant sedges and rushes along Union School Slough in a restoration project to help create habitat for wildlife and protect water quality by preventing erosion and filtering runoff. For more information, and to register, go to putahcreekcouncil.org/civicrm/event/info?&id=286.

Good Health Festival Noon to 3 p.m. | Covell Professional Center The Good Health Festival is a gathering of local health care and family service businesses to educate, inspire, and promote health and safety in our community and to raise funds for our public schools. Over 30 vendors will be present representing health, fitness, art and education. Each will have fun and interactive activities for the whole family.

19 / Sunday Davis Friends Meeting 9:45 to noon | 345 L Street The Davis Friends hold a silent worship each Sunday. If you enjoy singing, come early! All are welcome. Contact Vasheck Cervinka at (530) 756-0228 for more information.

The UC Davis Autism Awareness Association Fun Run 10 a.m. to noon | West Quad Participate in the UC Davis Autism Awareness Association Fun Run. All proceeds are being donated to Cornerstone Assisted Riding and Equine Therapy and Danny’s Wish Foundation. Check out the Facebook page at facebook.com/events/512912998751214 for more information on the event and registration.

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Over 22,000 applicants admitted to UC Davis for 2013-14 school year, admit rate drops Class of 2017 boasts higher GPA, SAT scores than any other previous class

By LILIANA NAVA OCHOA Aggie News Writer

Applications to UC Davis increased by 11.4 percent compared to last year. The University received a total of 69,642 applicants for the class of 2017, as opposed to last year’s 62,515.

Of this group, 22,008 applicants received acceptance letters, creating an admit rate of 39.4 percent. Of the applicants admitted, 5,065 are out-of-state residents and 16,943 are California residents, leading to an admit rate just below 50 percent for out-of-state students and 85 percent for California residents, according to Walter Robinson, executive director of Undergraduate Admissions.

“The perception is that UC Davis is displacing Californians with national and international students. We’re not replacing [them], but our goal is global diversity, and if we’re going to have global diversity we definitely need to admit students from around the globe,” Robinson said. “But at the end of the day, we are forever committed to providing access to as many Californians as possible.”

Of the 5,065 non-Californian students that were offered admissions, 1,845 are national students and 3,220 are international students.

“The board on admissions has a policy that says national and international admits must compare favorably to Californians [and] that way we’re not admitting students who are less competitive than Californians,” Robinson said.

More international students were issued letters of acceptance than national students since the University assumes students from the United States may attend their own states’ public universities, according to Robinson.

According to the University of California Office of the President, this year 55,877 freshman applications were received, with 13,765 transfer applicants. Last year, there were 49,389 freshman applicants and 13,126 transfer applicants.

The exact number of students who have submitted their letters of intent to register is still being determined as Undergraduate Admissions continues to receive them. However, the enrollment goal is 5,100 freshmen, according to Robinson.

“Given that we had a freshman applicant pool of 55,850 in which to select and enroll a class of 5,100, it was a highly competitive year, and as a result, our academic qualities increased and the admission rate dropped to 39.4 percent in comparison to 45.7 percent in fall 2012,” said Darlene Hunter, deputy director of Undergraduate Admissions.

The enrollment goal and admissions decisions were not affected by the 2020 Initiative, but were focused on ensuring that there are enough bed spaces in the residence halls and sections for critical courses for incoming freshmen.

“This year, quite honestly, we weren’t as ready as we would [have liked] to be to go out more aggressively, so we went out a little more conservatively than what the 2020 Initiative is calling for. When we do enrollment planning we have to take into consideration how many students [we can] really reasonably support,” Robinson said.

The average GPA and SAT scores of the class of 2017 are higher than last year’s class, which, according to Robinson, were the highest it had ever been. In 2012, the average total SAT score range was 1700 to 2100, and the average GPA range was 3.93 to 4.21.

“UC Davis made it easy to make a decision because they offered the most financial aid. It is a prestigious school, and from what I have heard, a very friendly and welcoming campus,” said incoming first-year student Gisela Abraira from Lawndale, Calif. Abraira plans on studying animal biology, and has a 4.0 GPA. The quality of the class of 2017 in comparison to previous classes is “superior to any year in the history of UC Davis by every academic indicator measured,” Robinson said. However, though academic achievement is a critical factor when reviewing applications, Robinson said an applicant’s story also plays a role.

Robinson said examples include applicants with limited means, such as attending an under-resourced school, but being able to rise above their status, and a more privileged student optimizing their opportunities and excelling beyond their situations.

“I get equally excited about all of those segments of our population because diversity to me is value added to the educational experience. I don’t care if it’s socioeconomic diversity, geographical diversity, sexual orientation diversity — whatever brings the most dynamic mix of students together with our dynamic faculty is an exciting place to come and learn and grow,” he said.

Robinson said he believes that the class of 2017 is the most diverse in comparison to previous graduating classes.

“We are committed to educating Californians first and foremost, but we’re also committed to becoming a global university. Our students deserve it and not everyone gets to go, so I think it’s important that we bring the world to Davis,” Robinson said.

LILIANA NAVA OCHOA can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

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UC Davis to withdraw from UC Student Health Insurance Plan

Linux Users’ Group of Davis: “Smart Static Sites with Hakyll” 7 to 8 p.m. | Davis Public Library

Caps on insurance claims to be eliminated, insurance rates to increase

The Linux Users’ Group of Davis are proud to host a presentation featuring an overview of modern static site generators with a focus on Hakyll, a Haskell-based DSL (domain-specific language) for generating static websites and blogs (no Haskell knowledge required). This talk will look at a new trend in truly open source blogging, different markdown formats, responsive design for mobile/tablet, compiling/compressing static assets and deploying with rsync.

21 / Tuesday Hauschka at the Mondavi Center 8 to 10 p.m. | Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center Hauschka, a Düsseldorf-based pianist/composer, will perform his unique prepared piano compositions at the Mondavi Center, brought to you by the Aggie Arts Internship. Student tickets are $15.

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SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES DO NOT WORK

By LAUREN MASCARENHAS Aggie News Writer

After the recent discovery of a $57 million deficit in the UC Student Health Insurance Plan (UC SHIP), UC Davis has made the decision to withdraw from UC SHIP and move forward with alternate options.

The deficit has been accumulating since 2010; monthly monitoring of the plan was not performed at the same level that it had been previously.

UC Davis’ share of the deficit is $10 million. The UC Office of the President (UCOP) is currently reviewing options for dealing with the deficit.

“UCOP has not made a decision for how the deficit will be paid off. There are a variety of options under consideration that have been presented to President [Mark] Yudof, but no decision has been made,” said Brooke Converse, media specialist at the UCOP. The office is currently working to find funds so students will not have to pay for the deficit.

UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside and UC Irvine have also decided to withdraw from the UC SHIP medical plan.

“We are withdrawing students from the medical portion of the UC SHIP plan but remaining in the UC SHIP dental and vision plans (which are both fully insured),” said Angela Monterrubio, student representative for UC Davis at UC SHIP advisory board meetings, in an email interview. “There will

be a rate increase for the new year plan that is similar to the increase that would have been incurred had we stayed with UC SHIP.” The UC Davis Student Health Insurance Plan committee has reviewed proposals from different health insurance providers and is moving forward with Aetna Student Health, a fully insured plan, according to UC Davis Dateline.

According to Monterrubio, in an effort to mitigate the rate increase for the new year plan, there have been recommendations for benefit modification to the student plan.

These include raising co-insurance from 10 percent to 20 percent, raising the deductible from $200 to $300 and raising office visit copays from $20 to $25.

“The biggest thing is for us to look at the implications of the decision. We have to think about affordability for students and lifetime caps,” said Bradley Bottoms, ASUCD Vice President.

In an effort to comply with the federal Affordable Care Act, UC Davis will eliminate all caps on claims. Students will still be seeing an increase in insurance rates next year.

“Regardless of whether or not we stayed with UC SHIP, the student insurance rates were going to increase,” Monterrubio said. “But by converting over to a fully insured plan, and making some modifications to the plan, we are ensuring that the overall impact of this increase is minimized not only in the current year, but the next year as well.”

LAUREN MASCARENHAS can be reached at campus@ theaggie.org.

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UC Davis to host 43rd annual Black Family Day Globally renowned hip-hop duo Blackalicious to headline

By JOE STEPTOE Aggie News Writer

The dust has barely settled on the UC Davis Quad after Whole Earth Festival, as attention turns to the celebration of another facet of the Davis community.

On May 18, the Cross Cultural Center (CCC) will host the 43rd annual Black Family Day (BFD) an event which commemorates the “historical, social, artistic and educational achievements of the African diaspora,” according to the CCC’s website.

“Black Family Day is a day to celebrate the presence of the African diaspora on the UC Davis campus,” said Sinclair Wilson, a second-year chemical engineering major and co-coordinator of the event.

“We invite everyone to come out and celebrate. We make it a very inclusive event; we don’t want anyone to feel like they don’t belong.”

Black Family Day will take place between noon and 6 p.m. on the Quad, and will feature a variety of activities, student performances, a children’s fair and food representative of the black community, all provided for by a range of student organizations.

The African and African American Alumni Association (5As) will also host a Jazz and Wine Social between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Student Community Center for attendees over the age of 21.

“BFD is a community event. We have student and campus organizations hosting food booths [and] information booths, and this year we have a lot of activities to make the event more interactive,” Wilson said. “There’s really no other event like it.”

As well as student performances celebrating African culture, this year’s event will feature a headline performance by UC Davis alumni Blackalicious.

“We’re very excited to welcome Blackalicious, a globally renowned hip-hop duo, to headline the event,” said CCC program coordinator Fong Tran, who is responsible for overseeing BFD. While by no means the defining feature of black culture, hip-hop has emerged as a collective expression of the African diaspora, according to Halifu Osumare, associate professor and director of African and American studies.

“Hip-hop is very much a part of the African diaspora. Blackalicious are living proof that hiphop is everywhere, in every enclave and even at UC Davis. As alumni, they really bring hip-hop home to this institution,” Osumare said.

It is hoped that the allure of Blackalicious will pull a substantial crowd, as the turnout at BFD in recent years has dwindled. While the event once attracted in excess of one thousand people, organizers now see between 200 and 300 attendees as a more realistic target.

“We would like to see BFD get back up to that level of capacity, but it takes time to build up that type of legacy,” Tran said.

The wane in numbers is attributed to a number

of factors, most prominent among which are increasing food regulations that restrict the number of participating vendors. Sinclair said that because they can’t get as many food vendors, it limits the number of people that come to the event.

Joe Taylor, president of the 5As, further attributed the fall in turnout due to incidences of violence during the 1990s when attendance was at its peak.

“During the early 90s, there was an incident involving a firearm which considerably downsized the event. Although it’s starting to get back to those numbers, the level of advertising is not as extensive as it used to be in those days,” Taylor said.

BFD is funded through grants from ASUCD and a number of its affiliated organizations, yet organizers do not wield the same level of fiscal resources they once had at their disposal. It is felt that increased university investment would enhance numbers, especially when compared with the significantly higher financial support events such as Picnic Day receive.

“Our budget is much less than it has been in the past, and as a result, BFD definitely doesn’t get the same level of attention as Picnic Day,” Tran said.

“We don’t have the level of capacity or funding to even come close to that level of organization.”

Eric Evans, controller of the ASUCD budget, responded that the disparity in budgetary allocation is justified due to the amount recuperated in terms of income.

“Picnic Day receives a subsidy from ASUCD each year to cover student payroll and operating expenses. While its allocation reflects the income brought in, it also reflects ASUCD’s commitment to that program. We make considerable annual grant allocations to various cultural programs, and ASUCD is proud of our efforts pursuant to that support,” Evans said via email.

Despite working with a limited budget, Tran feels that innovative student participation will make the event successful.

“It’s amazing to see students contributing what they have in times where funding is short. People have been really creative in how they contribute,” Tran said.

This was a view shared by Sinclair.

“We definitely make do with what we have.

We’ve been doing well in terms of publicity, word’s getting out and people are hearing about it. It’s going to be a really successful event,” Sinclair said.

Historically, BFD originated as an alternative to Picnic Day, which the black student community didn’t feel they could identify with. While the Black Student Union had organized similar events on the Quad during the late 1960s, the event first appeared in the form as it is recognized today in See BFD on 13

Cities move toward more efficient parking meter models Davis’ Downtown Parking Task Force deliberate over

CAMPUS JUDICIAL REPORT Four Two Oh No Two Resident Advisors (RA) were doing their rounds in a residence hall when they smelled marijuana wafting through the halls of the floor they were on. They followed their noses to one particular room, and after pinpointing the source of the smell they proceeded to call the police. When the police arrived, the RAs and the police officer went up to the room where the smell was coming from and confronted the resident. The student claimed that she had smoked off campus and that the halls frequently smelled of pot and asserted that her room was not the primary source of the smell. However, the police officer and RAs had little doubt that the smell was coming from her room. Although the student was not charged with being in possession of marijuana, she received a formal warning concerning her marijuana use and accepted a referral to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Intervention Services.

Copy Cat A student was referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for suspected plagiarism in a writing course. In her paper it was found that she had copied directly from an online encyclopedia a number of times. In her meeting with a judicial officer, the student explained that her plagiarism had been unintentional as she had meant to rework the passages in her final edit but had forgotten to do so before handing in her assignment. The plagiarized passages really stood out, indicating that the majority of the assignment had indeed been her work, but the evidence of plagiarism was overwhelming. As a result, she accepted a censure and a referral to the Student Academic Success Center.

Partners in Crime Two students were suspected of collaborating during a lower division exam and were reported to the SJA office. The two students were first noticed when the TA saw them sitting together after most of the classroom had emptied out, as there were very few cases of students sitting next to each other. The TA then stood behind the students and noticed that they were working on the same page of the exam as well. Then, while grading their exams, the TA realized that not only did they have almost identical right and wrong answers to all the sections of the exam, but they had also managed to get the same version of the test even though multiple versions had been made and they were sitting right next to each other. Thus, although the students were not observed cheating during the exam itself, the students’ exams provided strong evidence that cheating had occurred because of the fact that they had extremely similar answers throughout and, most suspiciously, answers that were wrong in exactly the same way. The two students both admitted that they had been cheating, and each accepted disciplinary probation through graduation and five hours of community service.

WEEKLY WEATHER tntilmont@gmail.com Short-Term Forecast It looks like we’re in for cooler, cloudier, and rainier weather (30 percent chance of showers) on Thursday, May 16 with highs in the low to mid 70s and lows in the low 50s. Temperatures should stay the same on Friday but with sunnier conditions. The warm temperatures and cloudless sunshine should return on Saturday with daytime highs in the low to mid 80s and nighttime lows climbing to the mid 50s.

— Justin Tang, atmospheric science major Long-Term Forecast For the week of May 20 we can expect high temperatures on Monday with decreasing temperatures until Friday, so get ready for a beautiful Memorial Day weekend. It will be clear and sunny throughout the week and we will see some clouds toward Friday.

Expected highs: low 80s to 90s Expected lows: mid 50s — Megan Simone, atmospheric science major Climate Average temperatures for this time of year typically hover around 80 degrees. May 16 and 17 will be a few degrees cooler than seasonal, while Sunday and Monday will be nearly ten degrees above normal. As next week progresses, we should see a gradual cooling trend that will bring us back to around 80 by Friday, May 24.

Almanac Last week’s observed temperatures (May 9-15) (Hi/Lo): Thursday:......81/52 Friday:..........87/51 Saturday:......91/53 Sunday:........93/54 Monday:........90/54 Tuesday:.......87/56 Wednesday:..83/54 — Brian Rico, atmospheric science major Weather News Wednesday, May 15 was the beginning of the Eastern Pacific Hurricane season, and coincidentally the first named the first tropical storm of the season, Alvin, was born. It isn’t expected to be much of a danger to land, but it is predicted to be a hurricane by Friday, May 17 and Saturday, May 18. The storm spawned off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico. The official start to the Atlantic Hurricane season is June 1.

— Tyson Tilmont, atmospheric science major

POLICE BRIEFS city@theaggie.org

8 / WEDNESDAY Interrogation not necessary At Oxford Circle, somebody noticed all the seats were missing from a group of bikes and noticed a guy standing around by them. When the person confronted him, the guy pulled out a seat and admitted to taking it.

10 / FRIDAY Why the evil eye A person reported that his neighbor was constantly staring at him and giving him dirty looks on Becerra Way.

12 / SUNDAY Abigail Alcala / Aggie

The City of Davis is looking for new ways to manage traffic like the parking meters, seen here, used on campus.

Silence is golden A guy was talking to himself at the Davis Gold and Silver Exchange on G Street.

Custody battle

By GABRIELLA HAMLETT Aggie News Writer

Parking in downtown Sacramento will soon undergo a change to move toward a more consumeroriented, efficient and green model. This summer, they will see upgrades across the board to move away from older parking meter models by installing an estimated 6,000 solar-powered meters that consumers pay for using cell phone technology.

“It’ll reduce operating expenses and improve the customer experience. These are key for us to make it easier for people that come to our downtown and midtown area,” said Sacramento’s City Parking Services manager Howard Chan. “Parking is a small part of the city’s operations and the goal is to retain current business and attract new ones. The

bigger picture focuses on the fact that parking is just a cog in the wheel because customer parking should be transparent, not a source of anxiety.”

Though currently one-third of the parking meters downtown are run with solar power, the other two-thirds are still using the old, environmentally unfriendly model.

“The single-space meters are all run by nine-volt batteries. There’s about 5,700 meters out there but, as you can imagine, those nine-volt batteries running need to be changed every six months. That happens everywhere you go with single-space meters,” Chan said. “In fact, Midtown Old Sacramento — a higher demand area — could be choked down to have to replace [the batteries] every four months. The customer has no way of paying if they See METER on 13

A woman broke up with her boyfriend, so he stole her dog on Cranbrook Court.

13 / Monday Fighting fire with fire Somebody on Moore Boulevard called to complain that he was implicated in several restraining orders, although he felt he did nothing wrong. He also admitted to speaking about firearms and fury, but said he would never act on his anger.

14 / TUESDAY Born yesterday A guy on First Street gave his current address, date of birth and the state where he was born to an unknown person on the internet, but felt they were trying to get a hold of his birth certificate and wanted to know what he could do.

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

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MUSE tronic music community: “Wolfgang’s Fifth Symphony” was the No. 1 selling song on Beatport. com in 2009, and Gartner received a Grammy nomination for his remix of “Funk Nasty” by Andy Caldwell. DallasK and Jeff Thompson will also make an appearance.

POETRY Lynn Freed at the Poetry Night Reading Series Thursday, May 16, 8 p.m., free John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. This week’s installment of the Poetry Night Reading Series features Lynn Freed, a South African author and professor in the Department of English. She received the first Katherine Anne Porter Award for Fiction in 2002, as well as the PEN/O. Henry Prize in 2011 for her short story “Sunshine.”

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker.

As always, an open mic will follow the main reader.

Attendees interested in reading at the open mic are encouraged to come early in order to sign up.

MUSIC Wolfgang Gartner Thursday, May 16, 7:30 p.m., $41.25 Freeborn Hall Electro house phenom Wolfgang Gartner will perform at Freeborn Hall. His music has received wide acclaim and popularity in the elec-

The Afterglow Presents: A Game of Tones (Localtones 2013) Friday, May 17, 8 p.m., $5 presale, $10 at the door 123 Sciences Lecture Hall A night of performances from UC Davis’ a cappella groups. Expect to see songs from The Spokes, The Afterglow, The Lounge Lizards, GreekBeats, The Liquid Hotplates and Jhankaar.

Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom XIII Saturday, May 18, 1 p.m., $10 Plainfield Station, 23944 County Road 98, Woodland The annual KDVS music festival returns this Saturday, offering 15 performers for just $10. Included performers include VerBs, Rat Columns, Genius, Malditos, Lotion and the UC Davis Gamelan Ensemble. Also featured is SickSpits, the spoken word collective of UC Davis.

Empyrean Ensemble Sunday, May 19, 7 p.m., $20 regular, $8 student Mondavi Center UC Davis’ resident music ensemble performs compositions by Gabriel Bolaños Chamorro, Alex Van Gils, William Cooper and Fang-Wei Luo, among others works. At 6:15 p.m., the guest composers will hold a pre-concert lecture and discussion with the audience.

Tha Dirt Feelin Wednesday, May 22, 12 p.m., free The Quad

Come out to the quad to see a performance from Tha Dirt Feelin, a local group that combines rock, old-school soul and hip hop. This is the second in the Entertainment Council’s series of music performances in the Quad; the series will continue with Jordan’s Beard next week followed by Alicia Murphy the week after.

THEATER Birdstrike Theatre Mini Show Friday, May 17, 8 p.m., free Kleiber 3 90 minutes of improv comedy from Davis’ premier long-form improv group.

OTHER UC Davis Film Festival Wednesday, May 22 and Thursday, May 23, 8:30 p.m., $7 per night, $10 two day pass The Varsity Theatre, 616 Second Street Come view a variety of short films by undergraduate and graduate students. This event is put on by the Department of Theatre and Dance, Cinema and Technocultural Studies, the Department of Design and Art Studio.

‘Pitch Perfect’ Wednesday, May 22, 7:30 p.m., free Rock Hall ASUCD Entertainment Council will host a showing of Pitch Perfect, a movie featuring Rebel Wilson and Anna Kendrick. The film focuses on college a cappella, mixing in popular music and a variety of celebrities.

— John Kesler

Electronic artist to play Freeborn Hall on May 16

Wolfgang Gartner will be playing at Freeborn Hall on May 16. courtesy

By TANYA AZARI Aggie Arts Writer

Imagine a Coachella crowd stretching hundreds of people deep, and high-waisted, shorts-clad bodies bobbing and undulating rapidly to electronic thuds and wubs bursting forth from the speakers. Chances are, Wolfgang Gartner’s on the stage.

Gartner, who really got his foot in the door in 2011, is an electronic artist most well-known for his tracks “Illmerica” and “Forever (feat. will. i. am).” Hailing from San Luis Obispo, the 31-year-old has traveled all across the world to perform in solo concerts and music festivals alike.

MUSE got the chance to talk with Gartner via an email interview in the days before his upcoming show about his musical mind state, contributions to the electronic

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Wolfgang Gartner

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Unfortunately, Microsoft has shifted away from platform exclusives over the course of the 360’s life cycle, so the games with the biggest impact will likely find their way onto the PS4 as well (e.g.

Call of Duty: Ghosts). Perhaps Microsoft saves a surprise or two for the attendees and viewers — a new platform exclusive that does not contain the words “Halo” or “Gears of War” in the title.

By ANTHONY LABELLA Aggie Arts Writer

Xbox Reveal Wish List On May 21, Microsoft will reveal the successor to the Xbox 360. Rumored names for the upcoming console include Xbox Fusion, Xbox 720, and simply Xbox — not to be confused with Microsoft’s first console (but let’s be honest, that’s pretty damn confusing). For the purposes of this article I’ll use the console’s codename: Durango.

Sony impressed a lot of people with its PlayStation 4 reveal event back in February, and though I often find myself critical of Microsoft, I would love for the company to follow suit. Two successful next-gen consoles mean more gaming time for me and millions of other players. At the end of the day, I have no allegiances — I’m simply

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There are some specific things I’d like Microsoft to focus on during next week’s conference though, if it plans to sway me. So here is a short wish list for the big event: Games, Games, and More Games One of the main reasons why Sony’s PS4 press conference played so well with audiences was because it focused on actual video games. I understand that Sony and Microsoft want to rule the multimedia world, but these are called video game consoles for a reason.

Microsoft will probably allude to services such as Netflix and YouTube during its press conference, but the company needs to focus on games just like Sony did. This means trailers, gameplay demos and anything else that will immediately grab the audience’s attention.

Always On … with a Twist One of the biggest sources of controversy among preliminary reports/rumors on the Durango is the fact that it will require a constant internet connection. This raises legitimate concerns about playability when a user’s connection is down or if Microsoft has to shut down servers for maintenance.

The always-on dynamic is all but confirmed at this point, so Microsoft needs to come out and stress how that will not affect gameplay experiences. I think the best solution involves shifting the responsibility to developers. If a developer feels the always-on requirement positively impacts its game, then that company makes the final decision.

This also allows studios the freedom to neglect the feature, namely for singleplayer experiences. I still don’t quite un-

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derstand why any game focused on single-player game modes would ever need an internet connection. It creates needless barriers that only work to frustrate gamers. Microsoft doesn’t have to do a whole lot of research to understand that.

Less Kinect, More Durango Let’s get this out of the way — I hate the Kinect. I think it’s a silly device that adds nothing to gameplay experiences and makes people look stupid on camera (though that makes for some good YouTube videos). So yeah, I admit bias when it comes to the subject.

But Microsoft supports it and I guess enough people buy it, so expect an appearance during Microsoft’s press conference. That appearance needs to be brief though, if the past is any indication. I recall E3 a year or two ago in which Microsoft went on and on about the Kinect and its family-focused titles, much to the dismay of the audience.

Instead, Microsoft needs to emphasize the whole point of the event: the Durango.

The Kinect may be an important companion piece to the upcoming console, but it’s just that, a companion piece.

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

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Hauschka to perform prepared piano at Mondavi

Aggie Arts Interns present German avant-garde pianist

By CRISTINA FRIES Aggie Arts Writer

Aggie Arts interns at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts invited Hauschka, a Dusseldorfbased pianist and composer, to play the experimental work he is best known for on the prepared piano on May 21 at 8 p.m.

Adding a modern twist to classical music, Hauschka’s avant-garde arrangements embrace the multitudes of sound strains a piano can produce.

Volker Bertelmann, best known as Hauschka, switched to a more experimental music form after being trained as a classical pianist since the age of 9. By placing miscellaneous objects onto the strings, hammers and dampers, the piano’s sound is altered and creates unique sounds that often resemble those made by other instruments or electronic programs.

“His work can be avant-garde, but it never shuts the audience out,” said Bijan

Ghiasi, Aggie Arts intern and a fourth-year English and dramatic arts double major.

“You never know what he’s going to play — it could be something pre-existing that he took and transformed, something he composed or it could be completely improvised.”

Some of the objects he uses include tape, erasers, bottle caps, ping pong balls, Tic Tacs and bolts. It can take up to several hours or just a few minutes for Hauschka to prepare a piano, said Erin Vong, Aggie Arts intern and a fourth-year art history and communication double major.

Hauschka composes his own pieces and often improvises while performing. At the Mondavi Center, Hauschka will perform pieces from his recent album, Salon Des Amateurs.

As a part of the Aggie Arts internship at the Mondavi Center, a group of four interns coordinate an event with a classical music component for the Spring Quarter of their three-quarter internship. By invit-

UC Davis student to screen feature film at Varsity Theatre Part Time Thief: A Film by Stephen Leung

By ANDREW RUSSELL Aggie Arts Writer

On May 18, UC Davis students will have the opportunity to see a feature-length film written, directed and produced by one of their peers. At 10:45 p.m on May 18 at the Varsity Theatre, there will be a screening of Part Time Thief, the new film by fourth-year biochemistry major Stephen Leung.

The plot revolves around Arthur, a prospective medical stu-

dent in Davis who becomes a thief to support his parents and pay his tuition costs. When he crosses paths with a rival thief driven by more sinister motives, events quickly spiral out of control.

This is the most ambitious project to date for Leung, whose credits so far have included a short sitcom entitled Freshman 15, before dabbling in action with last year’s UC Davis Lightsaber Battle, which was filmed on the Quad amidst a lunch-

ing Hauschka to perform, they hope to integrate classical music with the UC Davis campus and connect students with classical music in a unique way.

“Our generation might not have as close of a relationship with classical music as we’d like it to, and in bringing Hauschka we’re hoping we can bolster that relationship between classical music and the students on campus,” Vong said.

The prepared piano has pre-existing roots at UC Davis, as John Cage, a pioneer of the prepared piano and avant-garde music, was an artist in residency here in 1969. By bringing Hauschka to the Mondavi Center, the interns hope to connect the campus community with the unique approach to classical music that continues to thrive.

“A lot of people don’t know what the prepared piano means or who John Cage is, and this performance would hopefully provide a whole wealth of knowledge that people might not have,” said Maizy Enck, Aggie Arts intern and a fourth-year art history major.

The Aggie Arts Internship at the Mondavi Center, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides students who are interested in learning how to run

hour crowd.

Production on Thief first began nearly a year ago in June, and the final DVD copy was completed only earlier this month. In the meantime, Leung has labored long and hard over the project.

“I pretty much lived at the SCC this past Winter and Spring quarter,” Leung said. “It’s been a huge learning experience. We spent a total of $0 on this film, using only what we had to make it.”

Leung also received a good deal of help from his actors, the majority of whom were discovered in Filmmakers’ Ambitions, an on-campus club that serves as a networking resource for aspiring filmmakers, connecting them with actors. Others involved in the project came from AggieTV, Dead Poets’ Society and even from the UC Davis faculty.

Jazmin Sheppard, a fourth-

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a performing arts center the opportunity to participate in its various departments.

With the mission of connecting students and the campus community with the Mondavi Center and the performing arts, the interns also host quarterly study sessions at the Mondavi Center, opening up all floors of the center lobby for students to use during the first Monday of finals week.

“With the Spring Quarter performance and the quarterly study sessions, we hope to build a bridge between the campus community and the Mondavi. It provides the opportunity for students who don’t know much about the classical music or the Mondavi itself to experience it in a unique way,” said Sylvie Truong, Aggie Arts intern and a fourth-year English major.

Hauschka’s performance will begin with an eight-minute video detailing how he prepares the piano, followed by his 90-minute performance, a Q&A session and a complimentary reception in the lobby.

Tickets for Hauschka’s performance are $15 for students, $30 regular, and can be purchased online at tickets.mondaviarts. org or at the Mondavi Center ticket office.

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

year English major and psychology minor, found out about Leung’s film through the Filmmakers’ Ambitions Facebook page.

“I had an amazing experience working on this film. So much so that I was able to convince some of my friends from Elk Grove to come to Davis to be extras in the film too,” Sheppard said.

Clinton Ngan, a music and psychology double major, was approached by Leung to compose the film’s score.

“This is my first time composing music as a background and collaborative element. It has been very rewarding, and I definitely learned a lot about composing for film instead of composing just for listening,” Ngan said. Ngan’s work in instrumental pieces helped contribute to the authentic cinematic flair of the film.

Leung organized about 50

other individuals to pitch in personal time, making the 78-minute film possible. He has plans to submit the film to an international festival and is holding its debut in Davis as a way to give back to the community. Saturday’s showing will be the first chance to see Part Time Thief in public, let alone on the silver screen.

Although Leung plans to head to pharmacy school in August, he still considers film a hobby and has no doubt that he will engage in future projects. After Saturday, his work is sure to reach a wider audience.

The official theatrical trailer for Part Time Thief can now be seen on YouTube, on the UCDFreshmenFifteen channel. The film will be shown at the Varsity Theatre on May 18 at 10:45 p.m.

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

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Oh, French fries. How we covet thy golden deliciousness. Long has your oily crunch satisfied the insatiable lust of the hungover or the hungry. When there are faces to be fed or feelings to be drowned, there’s nothing quite like a handful of fatty, fried, criss-cut or curly tubers to fill the void.

Luckily, downtown Davis offers a wide array of well-seasoned spuds to fill your wildest fried fantasy. Here we present seven of the most swinging spots in town for potato goodness. The statistical analysis employed to derive our judgments is extremely elevated. Twelve Aggie staff members were dispatched for a taste test to each of the seven locations, and cast a vote between one to five for both taste and crispiness. The data was then averaged. Finally, the complex mathematical tool of hashtagging was then utilized to produce two tag-line summaries of our opinion. Hashtags were given with general consensus.

4. DeVere’s Irish Pub — Pub chips ($6.99, $4.00 during Happy Hour) Taste: 3.8 Crispiness: 2.9 If you’re in the mood for something different, DeVere’s offers an Irish twist on the classic dish that will impress many and leave some confused. Their large-bodied tubers come topped with a heaping wad of gravy, sautéed mushrooms and cheese. Be warned — these fries should be eaten fast, lest you be stuck with a giant glob of mushy carbs.

5. Uncle Vito’s — Thai fries ($5.35) Taste: 4.4 Crispiness: 3.8 Spicy. Thin. Light. Delicious. Uncle Vito’s Thai fries are a delicate basket of thinly cut wedges that pack a mean punch. These fries are perfectly fried to a thin, cloud-like crisp and come topped with an exotic Thai sauce.

This sauce comes as double-edged sword, however — the more you want, the better it tastes, the sooner the basket turns into a soggy mess.

1. Sam’s Mediterranean Grill — Regular order of fries ($1.99) Taste: 4.1 Crispiness: 3.9 At first glance, Sam’s Mediterranean doesn’t strike you as a hidden palace for golden, fried gems. But with a delectable, exotic seasoning and affordable price, you’ll have a hard time believing Sam’s isn’t known just for their fries. Sam’s fries are large, in charge and come out piping hot. If you’re looking for a spicy take on a great classic, Sam’s is the place for you.

6. Pluto’s — Order of garlic fries ($2.35) Taste: 3.7 Crispiness: 3.65 There are plenty of places to get garlic fries in Davis, but Pluto’s offers a cheap alternative to pricier options that weighs up to their better-known competitors. Though some were quick to ride their iteration as bland, others were impressed by their tasty simplicity.

2. Burgers & Brew — Order of curly fries ($3.25) Taste: 3.8 Crispiness: 4.7 When you walk into Burgers & Brew, you are guaranteed a good, fried time. After all, they did win Best Fries in Yolo County in 2009. One order of curly fries and you’ll be transported to a world of crunchy delight.

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der of carne asada fries from Taquería El Burrito will leave you filled to the brim and a few pounds heavier. Complete with a motley assortment of toppings including salsa, sour cream and guacamole in the pattern of the Mexican flag, their basket of fried spuds is easier eaten with a fork then with your fingers. In the end, it was the “carne asada” portion that stole our attention, and less so on the “fries.”

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7. Wingstop — Regular order of fries ($2.39) Taste: 3.5 Crispiness: 2.4 Wingstop is the newest addition to the Davis fry family, offering a heartysized basket of large, semi-sweet spud action. Their balance of salty and sweet left many comparing the taste to a bag of regular potato chips. Though the fries are large, their size makes them severely deficient in the crispiness factor, without the excuse of heaping amounts of toppings.

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Every Wednesday evening and Saturday morning, Davis residents flock to downtown Davis for the Davis Farmers Market.

The market is located at Central Park between Fourth and D Streets. It is a beloved tradition for the City of Davis and is known for selling various types of food and drink.

People of all ages attend to try naanwiches from Raja’s Tandoor, hot dogs and lemonade from The Hotdogger, Fat Face popsicles and many other diverse dishes.

Vendors from Davis and the surrounding areas set up stalls to sell their various produce and goods. In addition to the numerous stalls of fresh fruits and veggies, certain vendors sell wine, almonds, honey and breads.

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to advertise for the stand.

“I had just recently received Rodney and was bringing him to campus every Friday for all my co-workers at the CoHo to see him and play,” Copping said in an email interview. “He became such a little socialite that people started asking for him all the time!”

Rodney’s frequent presence led the staff to dub him “The CoHo Dog.” When the new hot dog cart was established outside, the staff joked about dressing Rodney like a hot dog. A few more jokes and one hot dog costume later, Rodney became the new mascot for the fledgling cart.

Taking easily to the crowds of customers hoping to take their picture with this oneof-a-kind pup, Rodney melted the hearts of his fans.

“People would try to pet his stomach because he tried to roll over, but the costumes’ buns got in the way, so he couldn't turn over completely,” Copping said.

The new cart now competes for customers with The Hotdogger, residing in downtown Davis on E Street.

With a starting price of $3.50 for a regular hot dog, the restaurant is both an upgrade in price and in options, boasting six different types of mustard and a myriad of add-ons to accent your chosen weenie.

Ivan Franks, along side his wife Cheryl, owns the Hotdogger and has been running the restaurant since 1984. Franks assures the community that his store is here to stay and there is certainly space for both storefronts to flourish.

“The more the merrier,” Franks said.

The Hotdogger caters to a range of clientele, from the hungry freshman to the hot dog aficionado. Regardless of the competition, the Frankses continue to focus on the important things — the franks.

“Our job is to make the best dog we can,” Franks said.

MARK BURNSIDE can be reached at features@theaggie.org

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By JANELLE BITKER Aggie Editor in Chief Twenty students are completely silent, brows beneath sunglasses furrowed in deep concentration as they scribble notes on a scorecard. They sniff, swirl, sniff, gulp and ponder.

They’re tasting beer.

Earlier in the evening, Brad Titus, an officer of the Food Science Brewing Club (FSBC), proposed a question: Without sight, can we discern different beer styles, and do we actually like what we claim we do? He explained anticipatory bias, citing a 2006 MIT study.

Club members then engaged in an hour-long blind tasting session, cleansing their palates with water and saltines between brews. They attempted to guess eight beers, ranging from Sierra Nevada’s Ruthless Rye to Mammoth Brewing’s Double Nut Brown.

“The first time is really hard,” Titus said, referencing his first blind tasting where he only guessed one beer correctly. “I remember thinking a double IPA [India Pale Ale] was a pilsner.”

Still in its first year, the FSBC is made up of about 30 students dedicated to promoting beer in all its scientific glory. They meet for analytical tastings, go on brewery tours and build connections in the industry. Although an official club under the UC Davis Food Science Department, students of legal age — IDs are checked at the door —

Local wine bar recognizes

‘Indiana Jones of Viticulture’ Display features history of former UC Davis professor

By SYDNEY COHEN Aggie News Writer

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varieties, two infused varieties and two sauces made with honey.

“I love the energy of the people [at the market],” Woody said. “[The food is] visually pleasing and very nutritious.”

Henry’s Bullfrog Bees also sells their products in the Davis Food Co-op and Nugget Markets.

Heringer Estates: Family Vineyards & Winery Heringer Estates is a family-owned winery and vineyard located in Clarksburg.

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Vini Wine Bar has dedicated one of its walls to the achievements of the late Harold Olmo, a highly recognized viticulturist and UC Davis professor for 46 years.

Jeff Day, owner of Vini, said that the culmination of the wall in his wine bar began when he met the late Olmo’s daughter, Jeanne-Marie Olmo. JeanneMarie brought Day items that included diplomas that the late Olmo received in the ’50s from a university in Italy as well as an old, framed California Agriculture Magazine.

“Once I learned more about him, I thought, with his ties to the university, what a neat opportunity for me to do something neat here as somewhat of a tribute wall,” Day said.

According to Day, many people who visit his wine bar are very curious and

are welcome to join regardless of academic field.

The club is just one aspect of the growing beer culture in Davis. Some still view beer chiefly as a vehicle for partying, but with a recent surge in craft beer both locally and nationally, it’s evident that the public perception of beer is changing.

“It’s speaking to beer for what it is — a pleasurable, interesting beverage, rich in flavor and history,” said Charles Bamforth, Anheuser-Busch-endowed professor of brewing science and faculty advisor for the FSBC. Science and artistry At the FSBC meeting, students were tasting for texture, carbonation, mouthfeel and flavor profile. The aroma could give off notes of banana, spice, butter or apples. The malt might taste like biscuits, burnt toast or hay.

The hops can be described as grassy, floral, citrusy or botanical.

“Lots of components go into making beer — more than people think,” said Katy Benson, president of the FBSC and a food science graduate student.

At its simplest, beer is made of water, yeast, malt and hops. But anything can be added, and changing one microbiological aspect during the brewing process can alter the entire taste.

Despite the intellectual imagery associated with wine, beer is the more sophisticated and scientifically demanding beverage, according to Bam-

have shown a lot of interest in his Olmo display.

Other items on the wall include a Carmine vine, which is a grape Olmo bred from his vineyard, his boots and a photo of him working in his living room when he was already in his 90s.

Day has plans to expand the wall by adding some stakes from the late Olmo’s vineyard and a couple more bottles of his wine provided by his daughter.

“A lot of people wouldn’t learn about him if it wasn’t for [Jeff’s] choosing to display it,” Jeanne-Marie said.

According to Jeanne-Marie, her father spent his life trying to improve the grape industry.

“I remember growing up, everybody asked me, ‘What does your father do?’ and I’d say, ‘My father’s a doctor of grapes — he fixes sick grapes,’” Jeanne-Marie said.

The late Olmo dedicated part of his research to the breeding of root stalks that could withstand diseases.

He traveled to Afghanistan, where he sought out the oldest existing vines and took clippings, in hopes of finding disease-resistant genes.

Another focus of Olmo’s research was breeding grape varieties that could grow in all different kinds of climates.

“His goal was to make wine grapes that could grow anywhere in America so that wine could be as prolific [in America] as [it is in] Europe, and hopefully be, one day, $3 a bottle on a table,” Jeanne-Marie said.

Jeanne-Marie said her father was very active into his old age. She described an instance when her father took a group of UC Davis students into the vineyard, and they struggled to keep up with his quick pace.

“His mind was clear till the end,”

forth.

Many would argue that beer has more creative leeway, too. Brewers are doing ballsy things that would be frowned upon in the wine world — Wynkoop Brewing Company recently released Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, brewed with roasted bull testicles, for example. Experimental brews — beers with basil, honey, grapes, habanero peppers, saffron, etc. — are part of what is propelling some younger drinkers toward beer instead of wine.

"Our generation is drawn to trying new things,” Benson said. “We'll seek out the crazy, awesome beers."

This can be seen at the Davis Food Co-op’s wine and beer tastings, organized the first three Fridays of every month ($1 per taste, $5 for all eight samples). Jules Loke, of marketing and education for the Davis Food Co-op, said that while the wine tasters are usually older Davis residents, beer tasters are an eclectic mix. And when the beer theme is more unique or trendy — sours, barrel-aged or ciders — about 80 percent of the tasters are college students.

More and more craft beer Taylor Ramos opened the Beer Shoppe two years ago, upping the ante for other downtown bars with more than 600 bottled beers for sale, rotating taps and daily tasting specials.

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What Jeanne-Marie said that she likes most about the display is that it promotes a professor from Davis, and she believes in promoting things that are local.

“Professors are so easily forgotten, not in the industry but to the people.

People don’t hear about what saved the grapes,” Jeanne-Marie said.

Dr. Andrew Walker, a professor in the viticulture, enology and environmental science department, said that even after Olmo’s retirement in 1977 he was very active in the department.

“Harold was down working away in his office, he came in every day until he was in his early 90s — it was amazing,” Walker said.

According to Walker, much of Olmo’s research is being used today to create disease resistance in grapes, furthering his research in applying advanced technology.

Walker described him as the “Indiana Jones of Viticulture.”

“It wasn’t artifacts, he was looking for real plants [in Afghanistan],” Walker said.

According to Walker, the department just finished a large series of evaluations on over 500 of his materials from his trip to the Middle East. Through these evaluations, they discovered that some of his clippings were resistant to powdery mildew, the disease that has the greatest financial implications for California’s wine industry.

“He was on the path for breeding for resistance to it [powdery mildew] but he didn’t really know that he had already found it,” Walker said.

According to Walker, many of Olmo’s

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ABOVE: Jed Downhill’s photographs of dancers can be seen decorating the wall of Mishka’s Cafe.

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ART FOR FOOD’S SAKE An inside look at Mishka’s Café and Vini Wine Bar art

By LARISSA MURRAY Aggie Arts Writer Art manifests itself in many forms, as it marvels our every sense through its effect on touch, hearing, smell, sight and taste.

Art especially attests to the beauty of its execution when it can move us by combining its effect on a multiplicity of these senses simultaneously — especially the last two.

As the art of dining has become a more popular form of artistic entertainment than attending museums, it has resulted in a fusion of the two forms of aesthetic and sensory expression. We see this practice trending everywhere, from the ritziest up-scale restaurants to quotidian cafés, as many have started to showcase local artists’ works as rotating exhibits or as works for sale. This form of artistic expression has even been executed in Davis, in local restaurants and cafés such as Vini Wine Bar

and Mishka’s Café.

At Mishka’s Café on Second and E streets in downtown, owner Sinisa Novakovic has made it a routine to have different artists exhibited on his café’s walls monthly.

“Local artists come in and offer their works to be either advertised for sale or simply just to add to the atmosphere,” said Lola Quasebarth, a Mishka’s employee and second-year sustainable agriculture major.

This May’s artist, Jed Downhill, a Mishka’s regular, has offered his photographs of dancers in dance companies, such as the Martha Graham Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, all located in New York City. All the photographs depict dramatic scenes from ballet performances, such as Evental. Black and white stills, his photographs capture the subtle beauty of the human form and the elegance of dance. These photographs mix with the atmosphere inside of Mishka’s, echoing its

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subtle charm through these timeless classic images.

Directly across the street stands the new local wine bar, Vini. The only one of its kind in Davis, it offers an array of wines from around the world, ranging from South Africa to California.

Owner and Davis local Jeff Day opened the wine bar in July of last year, and since then has been meticulously looking for artwork to complement the jazzy atmosphere. So far he’s decorated walls with jazz album covers, featuring classics like Thelonius Monk and others.

Day was also fortunate enough to have been able to ask one of his long-time friends Michael Stevenson to create some of the artwork for the restaurant.

“I asked him if he thought he could create some pieces to go with the jazzy theme of the restaurant, and I’ve been really happy with what he’s come up with. I thought both works turned out to be a perfect fit for what feel I was trying to go for. The pieces complement the room, atmosphere, crowd, everything perfectly,” Day said.

Stevenson graduated from UC Davis with a degree in design and has since pursued his career in the arts, involving himself in the construction of the new Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.

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Restaurants offer variety of meals under $7

By TAYLOR CUNNINGHAM Aggie News Writer While many fellow college students would consider themselves to be broke, this stigma doesn’t mean your dining experience has to suffer. The City of Davis has many authentic, economical places for students to eat off campus that fit a wide range of tastes.

The following restaurants are all located in downtown Davis, locally owned and offer lunch for under $7, while some even offer dinner for less than $7 as well.

For the student looking for more traditional American cuisine, The Hotdogger on E Street is a great choice. The restaurant has been open for 30 years and under the management of its current owners for the past 20 years.

Cheryl Frank, the owner of The Hotdogger, purchased the restaurant 20 years ago from a friend, and now serves a variety of old-fashioned hot dogs that suit many different taste buds.

“Our hot dogs are made with real meat, and we offer vegan hot dogs as well as hot dogs made of chicken sausage. [We] have a huge variety of toppings,” Frank said.

The Hotdogger can also be found at the Davis Farmers Market on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with fresh-cut garlic fries available on Wednesdays. Classic hot dogs start at $4 and can increase up to $6 for the most decorated dogs.

Dot Island Grill, on Second Street, offers fresh fish to patrons daily. They have specials from Sunday to Thursday that feature items such as the Grilled Fish Wrap, Chicken Katsu and the Salmon Bowl.

Dot Island Grill offers a healthy approach to dining out, as most of their dish-

es come with steamed vegetables and rice.

Their weekly specials range between $5 and $6, while their regular priced entrees cost about $9.

If you’re after Chinese-style dumplings, look no further than the Dumpling House on E Street. The Dumpling House has been open for eight years, and approximately 2,000 to 3,000 dumplings are handmade in the restaurant each day.

“We give 12 dumplings per order while other restaurants normally only give six. We also have more than just pork dumplings — we make chicken, seafood, beef, vegetable and kimchi pork as well,” said owner Linda Liu, who can be found at the entrance of the restaurant making dumplings.

An order of dumplings costs $6.99, while the other entrees range from $4 to $9. The Dumpling House also serves London-style fish and chips.

Located next to the Dumpling House is Davis Noodle City, which is also owned by Liu. “I have been all around China, Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan when I realized that we didn’t have a noodle shop in Davis.

Every town needs a noodle shop,” said Liu, who is originally from Taiwan.

Davis Noodle City has been serving Davis residents Chinese noodles for the past 11 years. In addition to noodles in broth, they also offer a wide variety of chow mein and fried rice. Their entrees range from $6 to $8 for lunch.

Also available for Chinese dining in Davis is Open Rice Kitchen on G Street, which has been open for a little over a year. They serve dim sum, soup, noodles and fried rice all for less than $7. Their “over rice” option consists of your choice of sauce and protein over rice.

Open Rice Kitchen is locally owned and offers a variety of milk teas in addition to

their regular menu, as well as slightly more expensive signature entrees. Open Rice Kitchen also accepts Aggie Cash.

If you’re out and about for lunch, consider stopping by Raja’s Tandoor on Third Street for their all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. For $5.95 plus tax, you can eat your fill of Indian food that comes with vegan naan bread. Their food is made peanut-free and with limited amounts of oil.

“We really focus on making healthy food that is fresh for every order,” said owner Taranbir Chowdhury. The restaurant has been open for 10 years and has a variety of vegan and non-vegan entrees priced between $7 and $9 and that are available for purchase with Aggie Cash.

Also on Third Street is Sam’s Mediterranean Cuisine. They have been open since 1995 and serve Mediterranean fare such as shawarma and kabobs, as well as turkey burgers and cheeseburgers.

Sam’s also features a vegetarian menu that has falafel, hummus and a Greek veggie sandwich. They have a daily special available from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Friday, and they serve baklava as well. The restaurant accepts cash only and prices run between $5 and $7.

Near Sam’s is Ali Baba, a Persian restaurant with a diverse menu. They serve gyros and kabobs, as well as hamburgers and cheeseburgers, sandwiches, breakfast omelets and breakfast burritos.

“Our menu is very versatile, so it’s a good place to go with large groups and lots of friends. [We] can customize orders to find something for everyone,” said Ai Phi, a cashier at Ali Baba.

The restaurant has been under its current management for the past five years and has a daily special Monday through

In particular, he produced two of the works inside of Vini that line the left wall.

His first work is a mixed media, crosshatched print done with acrylic, watercolor and pencil, titled “Thelonious Monk.”

“I chose to draw Thelonious Monk for Jeff, because growing up music always held a certain fascination for me. Thelonious Monk had rare talent,” Stevenson said.

Stevenson also created a cross-hatched pencil print, titled “Old Vine,” which perfectly blends the jazz-themed decorations with the subdued ambiance, rooting us back to the reason we’re here: wine.

“Growing up in Tennessee, we didn’t have anything like we have in California.

When I moved out here, I was completely taken with California,” Stevenson said, when asked about the inspiration behind the piece. “You can’t imagine California without the wine. Old music. Old wine.

That’s what put California on the map.”

Many other locations in Davis showcase artistic talent besides Mishka’s and Vini.

Among the various statues and sculptures scattered around outside are unique pieces hidden in local cafés.

LARISSA MURRAY can be reached at arts@ theaggie.org.

Friday for under $6, while regularly priced menu items cost between $5 for a gyro and $11 for a salmon platter that comes with a side of your choice.

If you’re downtown between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., be sure to stop into the pizza place, Woodstock’s, for one of their four lunch specials, which vary from $4 to $7.

Woodstock’s has been open in Davis since 1986, and has seven other locations near college campuses in California.

The initial planning for Woodstock’s was done by Chuck Woodstock and Mike Chew; however, before the restaurant was set to be opened, the two men died in a plane crash. They had already hired a general manager who then opened the restaurant.

“Work hard, play hard is still our motto,” said Woodstock’s assistant general manager Kaitlin Ashley.

The restaurant is known for its campus involvement, something that won’t be changing anytime soon. They also accept Aggie Cash.

For thin crust-style pizza, head over to Uncle Vito’s Slice of N.Y. on Second Street. They offer a lunch combo for $6.95, which includes a side salad, a slice of pizza and fountain drink and is available Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., as well as allyou-can-eat pizza for $6.95 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Sunrise Restaurant on G Street has been a favorite place to go for Vietnamese food in Davis for the past nine years.

They offer Vietnamese sandwiches and entrees for approximately $6, as well as a wide selection of shakes, tea and other beverages. “[We have attracted] people of all nationalities in to try Vietnamese food,” said Sunrise Restaurant owner Hao Au. If you’re interested in locally sourced food, Delta of Venus on B Street is a great fit. They have been open since 1993, and have a relaxed vibe that is popular in Davis.

They offer full and half-sized sandwiches and soup, as well as a variety of salads and bagels at lunch. They are also open for breakfast and offer traditional Caribbean cuisine for dinner on weekdays.

Lunch costs upwards of $6 for a full sandwich, while breakfast costs about $8 and dinner is available for between $10 and $15.

For those with the occasional late night food cravings, many of these restaurants also offer extended hours.

TAYLOR CUNNINGHAM can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

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Science +Tech THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE Forensics A recent study on the brains of patients diagnosed with depression has accidentally uncovered a method of accurately determining someone’s time of death. The study from the University of Michigan found that throughout a 24-hour day, different sets of about 12,000 genes become active and inactive depending on what time of day it is, and where you are in your circadian rhythm. Based on which genes are active or inactive, scientists can determine how long an individual was awake for and determine their time of death.

Physics and Cancer Researchers from CERN have been looking at possible cancer treatments based off an element called astatine (85 on the periodic table) … You’ve probably never heard of it. Astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth, and it is estimated that there are only three to four grams present in the entire Earth’s crust.

For any speakers of ancient Greek out there, astatine is the word for unstable, which is appropriate since its half-life can range from eight hours to mere nanoseconds. Astatine is potentially useful for cancer treatment due to the very high energy alpha-particles it releases. These particles release enormous amounts of energy, and can be directed straight into tumors to initiate cell death.

Solar Flares On the night of May 13, the sun erupted an enormous solar flare. It is the third such flare in the past three days, and is the most powerful of the three. The flare contained an energy equivalent to millions of megaton hydrogen bombs. For reference, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was a mere 16 kilotons, making this flare about seven (with 15 zeros after it) times more powerful. The sun operates on an 11-year cycle, and researchers from NASA claim that this activity is all completely normal.

Weight Loss The human body is teeming with bacteria. Bacteria outnumber our own cells by about 10-to-1.

Given that many of these bacteria live in our stomach, it is safe to assume that the health of the bacteria have a direct effect on our own health. Researchers from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium have recently added extra bacteria into the guts of obese mice. The bacteria, Akkermansia muciniphila, normally comprise about three to five percent of the bacteria in our guts. In obese mice, this percentage was significantly lower. The bacteria were given to one group of mice on a high-fat diet, while another group on a high-fat diet was given none of the extra bacteria. The group that was fed the extra bacteria lost about half of the weight they had gained from the diet, while the control group lost none of the weight. This opens up many lines of study for treating obesity and even type II diabetes.

Geology Earth is constantly spinning beneath our feet. It is why the sun rises and sets every day. However, not all spin is created equal. Geologists from the Australia National University College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences have used precise earthquake measurements to determine that the Earth’s core is actually off-sync with the rest of the planet. Not only is its rotation speed different from Earth’s, but it even changes on a regular basis. This new discovery can lead researchers to new theories on how Earth’s magnetic field is created and maintained, how it affects the penetration of cosmic rays into our atmosphere and how those changes could have affected the evolution of life on the surface of the planet.

Hateful Data Twitter may not seem so useful when all you see are pictures of friends shoving food into their faces. However, all the hidden data associated with those tweets can be extremely enlightening to anthropologists and other researchers.

A group of researchers from Humboldt State University has recently created a map they’ve titled “The Geography of Hate.” The research team searched for thousands of “hateful” words that were present in geo-tagged posts and created a map of where hateful language was most present. The map shows hate levels based on homophobia, racism and even disabilities.

Alzheimer’s A team of doctors at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif. have recently completed mice trials of a drug that has not only stopped the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, but has also reversed it.

The mice trials have been going on for six years, and the drug, called J147, is now ready to be used in human trials. The drug improves memory and other cognitive functions by slowing and reversing cellular damage in the brain, and does so with lower toxicity than other drugs currently being researched.

The Space Blogger ALAN LIN • science@theaggie.org

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n May 12, 2013, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, captivated the internet world with a musical tribute to David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” played

independent of gravity. One of the amazing things is that millions of people are independently electing to learn about science by clicking the links to Hadfield’s videos.

The field of space exploration is still very much in its infancy in commemoration of completing Expedition 35 on the International Space Station (ISS), a journey lasting 144 days and spanning 62 million miles. Throughout the duration of the mission, Hadfield has balanced a rigorous program of scientific inquiry with an active level of involvement in new media and the internet.

Hadfield’s social media presence is both entertaining and educational, with blog posts, tweets and videos chronicling the difficulties of living in space, stunning photography of the planet and even original music describing the feelings of a life at 7,706.6 meters per second.

With over 900,000 Twitter followers and one of the most successful Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) threads ever to appear on Reddit, Hadfield has been called one of the most social media-savvy astronauts on off the planet.

Hadfield’s videos, like those from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, do a great educational service by explaining principles such as chemical cohesion of water molecules behaving in a vacuum

Col. Hadfield’s illustrious career represents something fantastic for future generations of aspiring scientists: human inspiration. A generation is once again reminded that the pursuit of knowledge, be it in space or elsewhere, is an endeavor full of life and passion. Most importantly, his media presence helps demonstrate that a life dedicated to science and knowledge can be vibrant and full of personality.

When man first walked on the moon, a planet was captivated by the marvels that could be achieved through engineering. Since then, while space launches have been publicized, without the participation in internet media, people have grown apathetic toward space exploration. Programs dedicated toward advances in space exploration have been deemed by some in these troubled economic times as trivial or a waste of money. While all industries should inevitably cut some fat out of their budgets, the exploration of possibly beneficial avenues for our species could at least service a passing interest beyond dismissal and cynicism.

With new advances in sustainability and material science, space exploration is even more possible, and with current Earth-centric trends like pollution and resource scarcity, there is a greater importance of looking to the stars for potential answers.

The road to space is constantly being paved on new inventions and understandings. Lightweight and efficient filtration systems are being developed from emerging materials to treat water with molecular precision. Innovations in alternative and sustainable energy are becoming more and more efficient at providing stable, renewable power.

Moreover, a better understanding of emitted radiation from pulsars provides scientists with the framework for a potential universal positioning system.

The field of space exploration is still very much in its infancy. We’re a long ways away from anything, really. The closest planets usually exist about a hundred million kilometers from Earth and the closest star to our own is several light-years away. In all seriousness though, the technologies necessary to bridge these extreme distances are still very much in development, and it is fortunate for the field to have personalities like Hadfield’s captivating young minds and inspiring them to look up to help find answers.

ALAN LIN looks up for inspiration. He can be reached at science@theaggie.org.

Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s metal poisoning A look at the potential health consequences of makeup

Show your moves

By EMILY SEFEROVICH Aggie Science Writer

From what is virtually birth to death, American women have been, and continue to be, bombarded with imagery introduced by multi-billion dollar cosmetic companies. Case in point, flip through any feminine reading material at the grocery check out , and it’s no difficult task to discern that about 75 percent of magazine content is advertising for beauty products. Just as men are made to believe that they need to be the walking embodiment of testosterone, many women are made to feel as if they are somehow lacking without a face improved by the likes of mascara, concealer, blush, and bronzers.

But in the keen words of attractive people everywhere, beauty ain’t cheap.

There’s so much emphasis placed on this social expectation, in fact, that in some cases women, and inevitably some men, may actually be subjecting themselves to unprecedented and dangerous levels of various makeup products. Unknown to many, overexposure to store-bought lip products may present toxic levels of metallic compounds that reside within the cosmetics. In response to this growing trend that emphatically poses various health risks, the UC Berkeley School of Public Health conducted a study that measured potentially ingestible levels of metallic compounds present in various lip makeup samples.

According to the original research paper, “[researchers] analyzed lip products by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry and used previous estimates of lip product usage rates to determine daily oral intakes. [They] derived acceptable daily intakes (ADIs) based on information used to determine public health goals for exposure, and compared ADIs with estimated intakes to assess potential risks.”

Before proceeding, it’s key to note the creative techniques used to determine risk and toxicity data in this particular study.

Most research that has been conducted on the topic of cosmetic hazard has, in the past, only taken note of the presence of various toxic compounds, not the quantity, which is ultimately the most relevant value. Not only did this UC Berkeley study take into consideration the major heavy metals playing a part in cosmetic toxicity, but researchers also measured the prevalence of these compounds in correlation to consumer use. The researchers found metals including lead, cadmium, aluminum and manganese — all of which are toxic upon ingestion.

“Just finding these metals isn't the issue; it's the levels that matter,” said principal investigator S. Katharine Hammond, a professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at UC Berkeley, in a press release. “Some of the toxic metals are occurring at levels that could possibly have an effect in the long term.”

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By NICOLE NOGA Aggie Science Writer

From exercise fanatics to active everyday businessmen, everyone enjoys a good step counter.

Thanks to modern technology, people can track their progress with programs like FitBit or the Nike+ FuelBand. The drawback to these wonderful exercise tracking programs is their prices. FitBit costs between $49.99 and $99.99, and the Nike+ FuelBand costs around $150. If you’re looking to save some money and still get a quality activity tracker, have no fear: there is an app for that.

The app is called Moves, and it tracks your daily activity. It automatically registers the type of activity you are doing, whether it be walking, running or even biking. You don’t even need to tell it which activity you are doing as it will recognize it automatically based on your movement. There is also no extra equipment to buy; the app uses GPS See TIPS1 on 13

Music for free

By KYLE SCROGGINS Aggie Science Writer

The Problem: Music is expensive. Let’s face it, everything is expensive. But when subsisting on a diet of ramen noodles and free pizza from that club you have no intention of joining, spending money on something like a new album just seems out of the question.

For a while, there seemed to be a myriad of options for getting access to the music we love for free. Unfortunately, almost all of the free sites seem to be following the trend of Hulu+ and now want us to pay for their services — the most disappointing of which is Pandora, which not only has those annoying skip limits and commercials, but now also limits our access to 40 hours of music a month.

Sure, we could all just move to another site, but who else has the ability to mold our playlists to our specific tastes?

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College are currently located — along with new landscaping and redesign to allow for four food trucks. Phase 1 construction is slated to begin in spring 2014.

Phase 2 will be focused on the west side of the Silo, including the food vendors and Gunrock Pub. This phase will focus on dealing with mechanical issues of the building and increased seating.

“The overall goal of the Silo project is to improve and expand the retail food operations in that neighborhood, thus providing better service to the campus community particularly, as the campus plans to grow during the next few years,” Sheehan said.

Changes to the Silo also include a reorganization of the ASUCD units that currently occupy these spaces.

The Bike Barn currently occupies about a third of the barn space, with Outdoor Adventures using the rest.

According to Sheehan, there are plans for Outdoor Adventures, under Campus Recreation as opposed to ASUCD, to move to the Rec Pool Lodge. This would then provide the Bike Barn more space and make room for the Experimental College to move in.

The Bike Barn management is excited at the prospect of expanding.

“We are one of the busiest shops in the country ... expanding our footprint is going to be a huge step,” said Basile Senesi, the Bike Barn’s business manager.

With more space, Senesi said the Bike Barn will be able to hire more students to meet the high demand — 10,000 to 12,000 repair items a year. Currently the unit has eight work stations, and with renovations, Senesi hopes they can have 10 to 14 and hasten turnaround times.

Having more square footage will also allow the Bike Barn to bring over the Bike Garage — the unit’s free, do-it-yourself shop currently buried in the North Parking Structure — and make it easier for students to buy parts to do their own repairs.

Senesi also said the Bike Barn is more than willing to share the barn space with other units — namely the Experimental College and Aggie

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Reuse — and give them both storefronts. Plans are still tentative, but Sandstorm agreed that the Experimental College could greatly benefit from the added foot traffic, as the unit has lost money year after year since at least 2008.

Hannah Moore, office manager of the Experimental College, also hopes the move, which is still tentative, will help increase exposure.

“We’re a little bit hidden, and if you’ve never been here it can be a little bit difficult to find the office,” Moore said. “Moving into either end of the Bike Barn space would afford us tremendous visibility and get more people interested in and knowing about the Experimental College.”

According to Moore, the Experimental College and ASUCD have been discussing ways to increase the unit’s visibility for quite sometime, and the Silo renovation offered them a solution to the problem.

But Sandstrom acknowledged that not all units will be happy with URSAC’s decisions.

“In this case, space is like money.

Everyone wants at least the same space they have now, if not more,” she said.

Of particular concern is the Whole Earth Festival (WEF), which has been occupying the same office in the Silo for 25 years. It’s shared with the Experimental College, with WEF utilizing two staff offices, a library, a meeting room and storage space for 44 years worth of archives. Brett Lemke, co-director of WEF, said that he’s been largely left out of conversations about his unit’s relocation.

“We were all expecting a remodel and were going to go with the status quo, but that’s not what the university had in mind,” he said, referring to being abruptly offered an option between two much smaller spaces of roughly 300 square feet. “We just want to be treated like all the other units.”

Ideally, Lemke wants WEF moved to a space that’s currently being underutilized, that they can convert to be zero-energy and that is a similar size to what the unit is accustomed to.

“We just want to make sure we have the space we need. We’re ready to negotiate,” he said.

JANELLE BITKER and HANNAH STRUMWASSER can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

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$1.2 trillion in cuts until 2021.

An agreement to reduce the deficit was not reached in time, causing the sequester to go into effect. Though sequestration was set to begin on Jan. 2, it did not begin until March 1 due to the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.

“You will recall that even as recently as my campaign, Republicans were saying, ‘sequester is terrible, this is a disaster, it’s going to ruin our military, it’s going to be disastrous for the economy’ — we’ve got to do something about it,” President Obama said. “Then, when it was determined that doing something about it might mean that we close some tax loopholes for the wealthy and the well-connected, suddenly, well, you know what, we’ll take the sequester.”

Projected local impacts Stachowicz said that in the Davis Police Department, there could potentially be cuts in Office of Justice Programs, which would reduce future grant opportunities.

“We are also developing a research partnership with [UC Davis] Criminology, and it sounds like the cuts could affect the ability to continue this partnership, or at least with any funding,” Stachowicz said. “And if [the] shared Homeland Security Grant Program is deleted or reduced, that would resonate for emergency preparedness/response throughout the county.”

According to Stachowicz, the city may also receive less funding in federal grant programs such as the Community Development Block Grant program (CDBG), a

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low reserves available to ASUCD and the timing of the bill.

Senator Felicia Ong said she voted against because she didn’t feel there would be enough money left in the senate reserves.

ASUCD controller Eric Evans said that there is currently $3,339 in the ASUCD budget for the remainder of the school year.

“I personally felt that a huge con to this bill was its timing in relation to how much money we have left in our senate reserve,” Ong said in an email interview. “Passing the bill would have about halved the amount left in our senate reserves, bringing the total to under $2,000. I personally believe that we should always save a little money in our reserves for unforeseen expenses, which is exactly what senate reserves are for.”

Senator Liam Burke echoed Ong’s reasons for denying the bill and said that he feels senate reserves were too low to make make large appropriations that are not vital to the operation of student services. He also said the bill was poorly timed.

“Graduations are fast approaching, and the time crunch is one of the arguments the proponents of the bill made to get the senate to pass it, but it’s a bad argument,” Burke said in an email interview. “If they knew they were going to need money — which they did — they should not have waited so long to come to us, since our reserves have now reached the point where any expenditure has to be heavily scrutinized.”

Community reaction Representatives from the ethnic and Lavender graduation ceremonies said there has been a consistent struggle with ASUCD about funding for these ceremonies in the past.

“There have been problems with funding from ASUCD in the past. We’ve never really had a consistent amount,” said Linda Phan, representative of the Southeast Asian graduation ceremony and a third-year nutrition science and Asian-American studies double major. “The money we receive from ASUCD is never enough, and when we ask for more or ask for adjustments there’s always a lot of conflicts.”

Many of the representatives feel the main issue is that ASUCD does not see the importance of these ceremonies for the student body and therefore do not feel it is their duty to provide more funding. The representatives from the eight graduation ceremonies will attend the ASUCD budget hearings on May 18 and 19 to address this issue.

flexible grant to serve the specific needs of individual communities, and the HOME program, which provides grants for the purpose of establishing affordable housing in communities.

“If sequestration cuts result in acrossthe-board cuts to federal programs, then we could receive less in CDBG/HOME money, giving us less to use for ADA upgrades and social services,” Stachowicz said. “It also sounds like there is a very small portion of transportation funding that might be affected, likely through SACOG [Sacramento Area Council of Governments].”

According to a state-by-state sequester fact sheet issued by the White House detailing projected losses if the sequester were to continue, in 2013, California is projected lose $87.6 million in funding for primary and secondary education and approximately 9,600 fewer low-income students will receive financial aid for college.

The state will lose $12.4 million in environmental funding and 64,000 Department of Defense employees will be furloughed. Public health programs will also be impacted, with the California State Department of Health Services losing approximately $2 million that would normally go toward funding HIV testing.

Cuts in funding, programs According to the OMB, in 2013 alone, funding will be reduced by approximately 13 percent in defense programs and 9 percent in non-defense programs nationwide such as education, research funding, food safety, aviation security and government programs for children and the elderly.

Ten thousand teacher jobs are at risk.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will lose funding and the National Sci-

ence Foundation (NSF) is expected to issue 1,000 fewer research grants, impacting an estimated 12,000 researchers and students.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be forced to conduct 2,100 fewer food safety inspections at both domestic and foreign food production facilities. According to the OMB factsheet, this is a threat not only to public health, but also to the nation’s economy.

“The public could suffer more foodborne illnesses, such as the recent salmonella in peanut butter outbreak and the E. coli illnesses linked to organic spinach, as well as cost the food and agriculture sector millions of dollars in lost volume,” the OMB factsheet stated.

Air travel was noticeably affected in the months immediately following the sequester, with the April furloughs of air traffic controllers nationwide leading to widespread flight delays and the rapid passage of the Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013, signed into law on May 1.

As stated in the act received by the Senate on April 30, the purpose is “to provide the Secretary of Transportation with the flexibility to transfer certain funds to prevent reduced operations and staffing of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and for other purposes.”

The act halted the furloughs of FAA employees and allowed 149 low-activity contract towers, which were scheduled to close in June, to remain open for the rest of the fiscal year, according to a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation on May 10.

Consequences Government programs for low-income children, families and seniors are not exempt from the sequester. According to

“It’s really been a debate about what senators from years past and present, what they feel according to their legislation, is appropriate for them to give funding to,” said Geetanjali Vij, representative for the Middle East/South Asian (MESA) graduation and a fourth-year religious studies and Middle East South Asia studies double major. “Essentially, the hurdle is not necessarily the availability of money or funds, it’s the justification of giving those funds.”

Many of the graduation ceremonies have been a tradition for many years. The Chican@/Latin@ graduation has been in place since 1984, and according to Dylan Stevenson, representative for the Native American graduation and a fourth-year linguistics major, the Native American graduation has been a tradition since the early 1990s.

Phan said they will be presenting a plan to show ASUCD they are fiscally responsible and hope to establish a solid, consistent amount that’s appropriate for the graduation ceremonies so future conflict can be avoided.

“Budget hearings are crucial and any support for ethnic and Lavender graduations will help us out,” Stevenson said. “We need to advocate higher allocations for our graduations so future graduates can focus on their academics instead of becoming involved in campus politics.”

Sadalia King, a representative from the Black graduation ceremony and fourth-year sociology major, said the budget hearing is an opportunity to improve things for future generations.

Ethnic and Lavender graduation representatives said these ceremonies are vital to the ethnic and LGBT communities at UC Davis. They receive a lot of support from those communities in the student body.

“For the senators who denied the bill, I would like to invite them to any one of the ethnic and Lavender grad[uations] we have,” Phan said. “I feel like we can talk and try to convince them of the merit of the graduating ceremonies all we want, but until the senators who said no on the bill actually see the significance of the graduating ceremonies, they are not going to fully understand.”

Sagala said that a “no” vote on this bill would not have a good bearing on UC Davis’ campus climate.

“A lot of the senators who voted no were voted into office by students in that room and we are going to prove that they need to give the appropriate amount of funding to these students so this no longer is a conflict,” Sagala said. “ASUCD’s decision not to fund these events has negatively influenced the campus climate here at UC Davis.”

PAAYAL ZAVERI can be reached at campus@theaggie.org.

the OMB, between March and September, over 600,000 women could be dropped from the USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). WIC provides supplemental foods, nutritional counseling and health screenings and referrals to low-income pregnant and postpartum women and their children under the age of five. According to the WIC website, over half of all infants born in the U.S. receive WIC assistance.

Nutritional assistance programs for the elderly such as Meals on Wheels are expected to serve 4 million fewer meals to seniors in need. Within Yolo County, cuts to Meals on Wheels will definitely occur.

“As of a couple weeks ago, we were aware of a 7 percent reduction to that program,” said Beth Gabor, Yolo County manager of public affairs, via email. “Beyond that, we are generally aware of cuts elsewhere amounting to approximately 5 percent, but nothing as specific as the Meals on Wheels program.”

According to Gabor, it is still too soon to determine the full ramifications the sequester will have on Yolo County and its residents.

“So despite the fact that a lot of members of Congress were suggesting that somehow the sequester was a victory for them and this wouldn’t hurt the economy, what we now know is what I warned earlier, what Jay [Carney, White House Press Secretary] stood up here and warned repeatedly, is happening,” President Obama said. “It’s slowed our growth. It’s resulting in people being thrown out of work. And it’s hurting folks all across the country.”

MEREDITH STURMER can be reached at city@ theaggie.org.

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the spring of 1972. Taylor was the chair of the liaison committee of the Ujima group credited with organizing the first BFD. “Our task was to bring the black community together, and we came up with the idea of in-

viting parents to come on campus,” Taylor said.

Taylor said he is thrilled that the embodiment of the original conception still thrives today.

“It was always our ideal for it to be a community-based activity, so having the students and different organizations participate and having folks coming from the community to enjoy the day is a

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of time can cause what are known as chronic health effects. This means that a slow and gradual deposition of hazardous materials within the body can lead to the development of illness, or in some extreme cases, death.

Overexposure to lead is known as plumbism, a condition involving abdominal pain, confusion, headache and (once again, in extreme cases) death. Cadmium, which made one of its first public debuts in the Erin Brockovich fiasco, is known to

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genre, taste for the uniquely extravagant and more.

MUSE: When you first started making music, what drew you to electronic as opposed to any other genre?

Gartner: The feel of it. It’s not really explainable the way music makes you feel, house music just made me feel a certain way. There’s euphoria and elation and identifiable emotions that go along with that, but the real feeling is something that can’t be described and this music made me feel that way.

What’s your inspiration?

Other music, expensive shit, cars, my cat, iced out watches and rings and other planets I’ve visited in different mind states.

What’s the best crowd you’ve ever played for? (Or the best type of crowd, like college students, rave kids, giant music festivals, etc.)

Eclectic music festivals ... Like Coachella, Sasquatch, rock festivals that happen to have a dance stage. People there get down harder than anywhere else.

Your Twitter says you’re an indoor waterfall collector ... So I really want this to be true. If it is, can you tell us a bit about your indoor waterfalls?

Yup. I have two big ones right now and I’m holding off expanding in case I move, they’re made of stone and they literally weigh like a ton each. But I love waterfalls. And I don’t want to have to go outside to enjoy them. So I put a couple of them in my house. Eventually I’m going to do a river that goes through my house into a koi pond, but I have to be sure I’m gonna live here for a long time and I’m not sure at the moment.

Also from your Twitter: How’s the cat tattoo? Healing nicely? How’s your cat’s reaction been?

It’s peeling really bad right now, as usual on the fifth or sixth day. I’ll probably go

really great feeling,” Taylor said.

Robert Woods, another UC Davis alumnus and active member of the 5As, felt that BFD continues to serve as an invaluable institution in raising awareness of an underrepresented portion of the student populace.

“There’s a lot of stuff about the African diaspora that can broaden your intellectual horizons. People

cause chills, fever and muscle aching (in milder cases). Aluminum poisoning can be responsible for neurodegeneration, and manganese toxicity can result in motorfunction disturbances. Any combination thereof and you’re looking at a cocktail of symptoms even Dr. House would struggle to diagnose.

“I believe that the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) should pay attention to this,” said the study’s lead author, Sa Liu, in a press release. Liu is a UC Berkeley researcher in the department of environmental health sciences. “The lipsticks and lip glosses in our study are common brands available in stores back in and have some touch-ups done, it needs more white and I think the blue iris in his eyes needs to be marbled like his eyes really are. My cat didn’t really have a reaction; he’s a cat. He’s not really on a mental level where he would recognize that I have a portrait tattoo of him on my arm. If he was on that level I wouldn’t be doing this interview. I would be with National Geographic filming a documentary about my cat.

What sets you apart from other electronic artists?

I’ve been making dance music for 20 years, and I’m not ridiculously old. I’m 31; I just started when I was young. So, there’s a certain knowledge of trends and sounds and everything that’s happened over the last 20 years in dance music that a majority of kids out right now don’t have, and they won’t ever have. It gives you perspective on everything. People think Daft Punk created disco house, people think a few of these guys started “dutch house,” people give way too much credit to certain artists for being responsible for starting a unique sound; they haven’t been listening to dance music for 20 years and realized everybody is just copying something that’s already been done, including me. And I take advantage of it— I’ll totally mimic some weird genre that had an 18-month life span in the mid90s and nobody knows because they were like 5 years old. I literally do it in every song. Nobody ever figures it out.

Do you have any projects you’re working on right now? What are your plans for the future?

Yes. Many. My future plans are always FBGM. That’s what I’m doing and that’s what Imma keep doing.

For more information on Wolfgang Gartner, go to wolfganggartner.com. Tickets for the show at Freeborn Hall cost $30 for students, and can be purchased at the Aggie Stadium box office or online at the UC Davis Ticket Office. The show starts at 7:30 p.m.

TANYA AZARI can be reached at arts@theaggie.org.

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aren’t replaced. The benefit of the solar-operated tolls is that they would be good for five years.”

Sacramento is looking at models in cities like San Francisco to promote space availability turnover through demand-based pricing.

“There are an infinite amount of models where you have higher demand to create vacancy,” Chan said. “Demand-based pricing will form part of [our model], but we’re focused on getting the technology upgraded first.”

Cities are attempting to move toward higher parking efficiency due to the increasing demand of being more environmentally friendly, technologically advanced and economically proficient.

Likewise, this issue is being addressed in Davis. In fall of last year, the city created the Downtown Parking Task Force (DPTF) consisting of 11 members.

“There was general agreement that our downtown system wasn’t working. One of the original motivations came from a proposal over 10 years ago to construct a parking structure, and as that moved further along in the process, we started to reconsider if we are maximizing the use of

who don’t understand BFD have never been exposed to it, and they should come out. It’ll really benefit them,” Woods said.

The longevity of the event reflects the important role it plays in acknowledging minority groups on campus, a sentiment espoused by today’s generation of organizers.

“As a campus, we need to un-

everywhere. Based upon our findings, a larger, more thorough survey of lip products — and cosmetics in general — is warranted.”

Scientific verdicts such as these undeniably evoke suspicion and vigilance within consumers — an absolutely appropriate, and as history tells us, necessary response.

Furthermore, these findings may beg the following questions: how are these residues ending up in the lip products, why are these residues allowed to end up in the lip products, and, perhaps most crucial, what is being done to put an end to these contaminations?

Research teams such as those residing

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tracking and data from your phone’s accelerometer to calculate your distance.

It tracks how much you walk, run and cycle throughout the day in the format of a timeline. Above the timeline is a count in miles for the day. You can also choose to view the total in number of steps and minutes spent doing each activity. One of the best features about Moves is that it is always on so there is no need to open the app every time you start moving. An even better feature of the Moves app is that it is free.

The app is optimized for the iPhone 5, but is also compatible with earlier iPhone versions and a few iPad models. Since Moves does periodically turn on GPS to get location data, you will notice a slight

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The Solution: Filtr, a free app that can be installed into Spotify. Filtr allows for a very similar music experience to that which you used to be able to get from Pandora. Once installed, all you need to do is insert the name of your favorite band and it will create a playlist of similar artists. Pretty standard.

The cool part is how you can then add the names of many other artists that you love in order to shape your playlist to fit just you. It even gives you a visual representation of what the common thread between the artists are by displaying four bar gauges, each labeled with the specific tag that best suits all the artists you’ve entered.

Another cool feature allows you to connect your Filtr account to your Facebook account, giving you access to all of the bands you have ever “liked” so that you do not have to enter them all by hand. If you think one of your friends has particularly good taste in music, add them, too, and you will get to hear music suggestions designed around the

on-street parking to its full capacity,” said Davis Transportation Planner Brian Abbanat. “Generally, the [Davis City Council] felt we needed to establish a [DPTF] to more closely see if we can improve the management of public parking supply.”

The DPTF has met six times, most recently on May 1.

At the last meeting, they looked at two different parkingcase scenarios. The first was to tighten the time restriction core of downtown’s First, Third, D and G streets from twohour restricted parking down to 90 minutes. The second case was to expand paid parking essentially in that same area. Currently, the E Street Plaza fee is $1 per hour.

“We would only price it to achieve a performance objective [of] 80 percent occupancy. There could be one fee during peak hours and a different fee at other times,” Abbanat said. “Speculating that fee isn’t advisable right now but I don’t think it would need to be at its current rate.

Peer communities with a similar pricing scheme have rates at 25 to 75 cents an hour, which is enough to accomplish what they’re trying to achieve.”

The city has recently attempted to improve pedestrian safety through the addition of stop signs at the Second and C, Third and C as well as Fourth and D intersections, which were all previously two-way stops. Changes to the configuration of parking won’t have significant effect on

derstand we’re not even close to a post-racial society. Events like BFD help us to acknowledge the incredible diversity in America and the world at large,” Tran said. “When we cross paths into each other’s space, that’s when we learn the most.”

JOE STEPTOE can be reached at city@ theaggie.org.

within UC Berkeley’s Public Health and Environmental Health Science programs are persistently hunting for answers and change. With the various health maladies plaguing the American populace, those introduced by purposefully imbibed foreign contaminants are only hindrances to the consumer and the medical community as a whole. Through conducting studies such as these, perhaps regulatory agencies and consumers may help put a stop to such unnecessary health liabilities present in everyday commodities.

EMILY SEFEROVICH can be reached at science@ theaggie.org.

decrease in battery life, but based on user reviews, this decrease is slight indeed.

What sets Moves apart from the rest of the activity tracking apps out there is that it combines all the features of expensive gadgets like Fitbit and the Nike+ FuelBand, as well as all of the features from paid tracking apps like RunKeeper, Runtastic and Nike+ Running.

Moves turns activity tracking into a competition against yourself. It shows your daily totals and compares them to your totals from other days in the week.

Its clean interface and design make the user want to get their counts higher every day, and users often find themselves parking a little further away than they used to, just to add a few extra steps to their daily count.

NICOLE NOGA can be reached at science@ theaggie.org.

combination of your styles.

Although it requires a little more work on your part than just clicking a “thumbs up” button on a track that fits your taste like you could do on Pandora, the results are surprisingly good. And for the first six months you have your Spotify account, you have unlimited access to a majority of the songs ever made.

Unfortunately, after that six months is up, Spotify ends up being more limited than even Pandora, and you still have to deal with commercials. At that point, you could choose to pay for membership, but instead I would recommend switching to 8tracks.com. It’s much more limited in your ability to customize what you hear, but does not require putting in the effort to create your own playlist. 8tracks is based solely on providing user-created mixtapes based on everything from the time of day to the kind of food you are eating. You sometimes have to deal with playlists made by people who have the musical taste of an orangutan, but hey, the playback time is unlimited, and it’s completely free.

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

pedestrian safety, according to Roxanne Namazi, senior civil engineer for the Davis Public Works Department.

“I don’t think adding parking would necessarily increase safety. We are waiting to see what the task force finds out. We don’t know if we need an additional parking structure — we are looking [to see] how we are doing with [the] existing supply,” Namazi said.

Students from UC Davis who drive to school utilize downtown parking while they are in class because it is so close to campus and provides a cheaper alternative to parking permits.

“I usually find downtown parking to be helpful because you can park for two hours for free. I’ve lived in East Sacramento this year so I’ve had to commute to school. It would be really hard for me to find parking during class if the two-hour limit was any shorter,” said sixth-year managerial economics student Elizabeth Johnson.

With these deliberations in progress, the public can expect to see changes in the near future.

“Eventually it comes down to a council decision,” Namazi said. “[The] council will have to decide if parking is the top priority and they will allocate funds accordingly.”

GABRIELLA HAMLETT can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

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Many beer nerds partially attribute the rise of beer culture in Davis to the Beer Shoppe’s presence.

“It was an unusual concept when we opened — to have a place that just sells beer and nothing else. It was a learning curve for the community,” Ramos said.

“The craft beer world is going through an explosive level of growth right now.

Younger people are starting to care about what they’re drinking.”

Ramos says it’s all part of a general cultural revolution. In just the past five years, consumers started getting educated about beer, which meant moving away from corporate beers and toward microbreweries. About 90 percent of American beer is made from two companies — AnheuserBusch InBev and MillerCoors, who make everything from Keystone to Blue Moon to Corona — with 6.5 percent of domestic sales from small breweries. That number has been rising, though. According to the Brewers Association, the craft beer industry experienced a 15 percent growth in 2012, with its retail dollar up to $10.2 billion from $8.7 billion in 2011.

With all that said, Bamforth emphasizes that corporate beer isn’t bad beer — any beer you like constitutes a good beer. David Phinney, who founded the FSBC back in fall and now studies in Ohio, hates when people call Bud and Coors bad beers.

“They’re some of the highest quality beers in the world,” he said, referring to the consistency in the brewing process.

“Drink a Bud here and drink one in Europe and they taste exactly the same.”

Ramos says that most of his customers are older drinkers and graduate students — folks who don’t mind paying a little more to try unique beers — but there are curious undergrads who frequent the place, too.

“Once you turn 21, a whole world opens up, and it’s exciting,” said David Zuskov, a fourth-year food science major.

Homebrewing takes off Zuskov and Jon Graham, a fourth-year

computer science major, started homebrewing together this year after Graham received a homebrewing kit from his dad for Christmas.

“I was really intimidated at first ... but basic brewing is really easy. It’s basically steeping grains in a pot and letting them ferment,” Graham said.

A basic homebrewing setup will cost roughly $80, but after that, homebrewing can be highly economical. Ingredients may cost $30 for a batch that’ll yield two cases (48 bottles). And with tons of tutorials and videos online, anyone can learn.

Serious homebrewers like John Sanatar, president of the Greenbelt Brewers Association and a technical specialist for the university, may spend a lot more on equipment to increase production and quality.

Sanatar tries to brew twice a month, and he’s able to make 20-gallon batches in his garage equipped with multiple freezers, kegs, a grain mill and more.

The Greenbelt Brewers Association, a club recognized by the American Homebrewers Association, serves Yolo, Solano and Sacramento counties, and its members meet monthly at Sudwerk to discuss brewing techniques. The club has grown exponentially in just the past five years, from three to 105 paid members.

Why? Sanatar says homebrewing is just cool, with the internet allowing such hobbies to be fully fleshed out on a wide scale.

Loke says it matches the local community ethos.

“It stems from the DIY culture of Davis — everyone’s growing gardens, everyone’s brewing beer. It’s what people do for fun,” Loke said.

Sanatar notes that Davis water should not be used for brewing, as the metals will make for a variable end product. Apart from water chemistry, a common pitfall for new homebrewers is sanitation — unwanted bacteria can result in a funky, infected beer. Fermentation temperature is also an important factor to focus on.

“You can make beer just as good as the pros,” Sanatar said. “Why not do it at home?”

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Vini wine bar has an installation on display dedicated to the late UC Davis viticulturist Harold Olmo.

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clippings from around the world were used to create plants that would grow in different kinds of climates, but primarily a hotter and drier one.

“Lo and behold, it’s going to be a hotter, drier California,” Walker said.

With the price of table grapes rising in the ASUCD Coffee House (CoHo) from $1.85 to $2.50, it would seem that the present would be a spectacular time to deploy Olmo’s research.

According to a press release from the CoHo’s food supplier, Trinity Fresh, production from offshore suppliers of table

grapes is winding down, causing the price of grapes to go up.

“We’ve been forced to raise the prices of grapes because our cost has pretty much doubled,” said Darin Schluep, food services director for the CoHo, in an email. “Up to this point, as the prices rose we were able to absorb this cost, but it got to the point where we couldn’t afford to keep the price the same.”

Exports of grapes from Chile and Peru are expanding, and the fluctuation of cost could be attributed to demand shift, Walker said.

“The good prices will be back in June,” he said.

SYDNEY COHEN can be reached at city@theaggie.org.

They have been attending the Saturday Farmers Market for the past three years and just recently started at the Wednesday market.

Cara Manich, Farmers Market coordinator for Heringer Estates, said the winery sells a bottle called Hope’s Thread which benefits breast cancer awareness. Ten percent of the proceeds from each bottle goes to “Lump to Laughter,” a ministry that provides support and raises awareness of breast cancer.

Additionally, they are known for being a sustainable winery and vineyard.

“We have a bottle called the Eco Flask,” Manich said. “It’s a refillable red wine that we produce sustainably, and each time you refill the bottle, you get a discount.”

Sam Cabral & Family Orchard Almonds are a popular commodity at the Davis Farmers Market. Although there are many vendors that sell almonds and almond products, Sam Cabral & Family Orchard are notable because they have been selling their goods at the market for about 20 years.

Owner Sam Cabral said they have eight different varieties, but they only sell three in the market.

While many attend the Davis Farmers Market for the fresh, local goods and produce, they also keep coming back for the wide variety of food served. Local restaurants set up stalls and sell their most popular dishes.

The Hotdogger As a hole in the wall restaurant on E Street, it’s easy to miss The Hotdogger amid all the other restaurants nearby in downtown Davis. However, at the Davis Farmers Market, The Hotdogger often has one of the longest lines.

People can be heard praising their food every week.

In addition to their diverse hotdog menu, which features a veggie dog and corn dogs as well, they are known for their lemonade. In the hot spring and summer months, this is a favorite among Davis residents who attend the market.

Raja’s Tandoor

Another crowd favorite are the naanwiches from Raja’s Tandoor. Raja’s is conveniently located right off the UC Davis campus at 207 Third Street. and is a student favorite.

On both Wednesdays and Saturdays, their naanwiches are among the most popular items at the Farmers Market. They have two vegetarian varieties, chickpea and cauliflower, in addition to the chicken naanwiches.

Sugar Daddies Sugar Daddies, located at 113 E Street, is present at the Wednesday market serving Davis Creamery ice cream. This is their second year at the Farmers Market as Sugar Daddies.

They usually have about four flavors for customers to choose from.

“The people and the music are great,” said Ashley Howatt and Stacie Hoyt, Sugar Daddies employees. “It’s a really fun atmosphere.”

Soroptimist International of Davis Some vendors are from local organizations and sell food and drink to raise money for their cause. One such vendor is Soroptimist International of Davis.

It is a nonprofit organization that provides programs that can improve social and economic conditions for women and girls. They have a stall at the Davis Farmers Market selling wine and beer to raise money for their organization.

They are in collaboration with Sudwerk and serve beer from their brewery.

Crystal O’Hara, a member of Soroptomist International of Davis, said they have been attending the Wednesday Farmers Market for about 15 years and the money they make helps create grants for local organizations relating to women’s social and economic health.

The Saturday market is from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m all year. From March to October, the Wednesday market is called Picnic in the Park and is from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. During the winter months, it is from 2 to 6 p.m. Additionally, the UC Davis Farmers Market is located at the Silo during the Fall and Spring quarters.

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Bulgarian under-20 team in the European Championships.

“The ability to compete with the BulCont. from page 17 this season as a senior. garian national team this summer will be “We love Georgi’s size, ability to shoot a tremendous benefit to Georgi’s developthe ball and his competitive nature,” ment as a player,” coach Les said. “The said UC Davis head coach Jim Les. “His coaching and competition are outstandversatility to play inside and outside is a ing and will help prepare him for Diviperfect fit for our system.” sion I basketball.”

The combination of All-American Funtarov will not be the only new sophomore Corey Hawkins, junior Ryan player who hopes to help the Aggies Sypkens, junior Tyler Les and Funtarov improve on last season’s efforts. UC should be an exciting and very deadly pe- Davis has been able to secure Brynton rimeter-shooting quartet. With Hawkins, Lemar’s letter of intent. Lemar has also Sypkens and Les already combining to received quite a bit of recognition as he shoot an excellent 44 percent beyond the was bestowed the San Diego Player of the arc this season, the numbers should only Year award as well as an All-California get better with the addition of Funtarov. selection this year. The duo are joined by Generally, freshmen take a stretch of junior transfers Avery Johnson and Iggy games to get accustomed to the athNujic, both of whom sat out last season leticism and speed of the college game. due to NCAA transfer regulations.

Funtarov may enter ready to play.

The UC Davis coaching staff has done Funtarov has a lot of experience playa solid job in recruiting various talents to ing in intense international basketball. He replenish the holes left by the graduating was one of the members of the Bulgarian seniors. Hopefully, we can look forward under-16 national team, which won the to Funtarov and the rest of the new play2009 European Championship. ers impacting the game in a positive way He continues this international for UC Davis next season. experience as he once again represents KENNETH LING can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

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mean UC Davis cannot build momentum heading into next season. As the Aggies conclude their seven-game road trip in Hawaii, head coach Matt Vaughn continues to focus on that task at end.

“We have been competitive all year, but have not had the results,” Vaughn said. “We just try to play one game at a time. It sounds simple, but just keep getting better.”

During the current string of road games, the Aggies have outscored their opponents by a total of nine runs in four of the seven games, and have outhit the opposition in these games. The recent run of good baseball has been sparked by the solid pitching as of late.

“It started with a very good outing with Harry Stanwyck against Pacific pitching a shutout,” Vaughn said. “It got us rolling. Even though we lost a close game on Saturday, one big hit and we would have been in position to win the ball game. That momentum has carried us through the week.”

Although the Aggies’ pitching woes continue, posting a season team earned-

Playing point guard for those men had a deep impact on Les’ coaching philosophy.

“As the point guard trying to be the coach on the floor, Cont. from page 17 What Les lacked in raw athleticism he made up for in I had to be a student of the game and I thought those shooting ability. [coaches] were really instrumental in helping me under“I was in a situation where I couldn’t take any shortcuts stand the mental aspect and improving my IQ for the because of the limited size and talents I had. I [needed] game,” Les said. … to be a step ahead of people mentally in order to play Not all of Les’ professional experience comes from his at the same stage as they were,” he said. playing career, though. His first coaching job came just The backup point guard led the league in three-point four years after his NBA retirement, when he signed on percentage during the 1990-91 season, connecting on a as an assistant with the WNBA’s Sacramento Monarchs. A deadly 46 percent of his attempts from behind the arc. few years later, in 2002, Les was hired as the head coach “I spent a majority of my time there just trying to talk to at his alma mater, Bradley University. The coach made guys about how they hone their craft and what do they do quick work of turning around the program, going from to work on their shooting and get better,” Les said. “It was 12 wins in 2003 to 22 wins in 2006. That 2006 season amazing … success leaves clues. Those guys left me a lot of was capped with a Cinderella run in the NCAA tournaclues in my conversations with them about how they dement, when the 13th-seeded Braves knocked off No. 1 veloped into shooters. Those are all things that I carry with Memphis to reach the Sweet 16. me as a coach now to provide to my student athletes.”

“You develop [your coaching philosophy] based on the The following year, he was invited to participate in All- people you’ve been touched by,” Les said. “I feel my greatStar Weekend. est strength now coaching young people is that I picked In addition to the tips he picked up from his peers, up this wisdom and knowledge from some really good Les draws on the knowledge he gained while playing for people.” multiple hall-of-fame coaches. Les played for the legendLes coached the Braves to four consecutive 20-win seaary Jerry Sloan in Utah and later for Lenny Wilkens with sons before the teams started to slip, ultimately leading to the Atlanta Hawks. his arrival at UC Davis just five seasons later.

Those two coaches are ranked No. 4 and No. 2 in allNow, Les is leading the revival — or maybe the birth time wins as an NBA coach, respectively. His coach for — of the Aggies’ basketball program. After a very difficult four years with the Sacramento Kings was Dick Motta, first season under the new regime, the Aggies were on the who is the 10th winningest coach in NBA history. right track in 2013.

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in the sports world, are alive here in Davis as well.

The actions of Robinson and Redmond had the benefit of being on such a visible level.

As the UC Davis athletics program has made strides toward improvement, it has slowly been gaining more national attention.

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A prime example of this was the nationally-televised men’s basketball game against Long Beach State this year. For the first time ever, a UC Davis men’s basketball game was televised on ESPN, and the game did not disappoint.

The Aggies, underdogs in the game, eventually fell to the 49ers. However, the game’s most memorable aspect was the grit and determination with which UC Davis

Northridge, boosting their record to 2-4.

However, as the season progressed, the team needed to capitalize at the plate and the girls struggled to succeed offensively, losing seven games in league play by only one run, giving them 14 one-run losses overall.

“Offense was our downfall,” Yoder said.

“Coming into next season the focus for the players and coaching staff is scoring more runs.”

However, many positives came out of the year. The pitching staff finished first overall, with the lowest ERA in the Big West. To add to that, the Aggies’ solid gloves all year ranked them third in defense in the conference.

Standout sophomore pitcher Justine Vela and freshman shortstop Christa Castello each received All-Big West Conference first and second-team honors recently; further emphasizing that this young team has great potential coming into the next few years.

Although the team did not meet their ultimate goal of winning the Big West in 2013, with only four graduating seniors and a large freshman and sophomore class, Yoder expects big things out of this young squad.

“There are so many freshmen and sophomores; we have tremendous potential for the future,” Yoder said.

La Rue Field may be a bit quieter coming into these last few weeks of Spring Quarter, but the excitement of another spring season will be here soon enough, bringing with it chants, cheers and a whole new bag of fresh seeds.

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Other graduating seniors included Jessica Thweatt, JJ Wagoner and Kelly Schulze, each of whom also contributed to that final win at home. Thweatt threw a full game, allowing only four hits and no runs; giving her her third complete-game shutout in four years. Wagoner finished off her career starting at catcher. Schulze started at first base and then finished the game behind the plate, the position that she started her career at UC Davis in.

“It was nice to end my career the way it started when coach let me finish the game as a catcher,” Schulze said.

With the team’s big wins this past weekend, they finished conference play at 1113, adding to an overall record of 25-27, just below 500.

“This was a great team victory and the best possible way to end Senior Day,” Wagoner said.

The season as a whole was admittedly challenging for UC Davis this year.

“Every series had a given dynamic,” Yoder said. “We were challenged on every opportunity.”

Opening up conference play at the end of March with an away series against Hawai’i, who was 18th-ranked in the nation at that time, especially tested the players’ skill levels.

“It was a good series even though we didn’t win a game. I’m proud of how we played,” Yoder said.

Although the team went down in conference 0-3, they were able to SLOAN BOETTCHER can be reached at sports@ bounce back, taking two of three against theaggie.org.

run average of 5.26, the Aggies’ bats continue to remain on-point, averaging .285 and totaling 52 hits in their last four games. They will definitely need to pitch better against the Rainbows.

This holds true especially against junior Marc Flores. In the recent sevengame road trip, Flores has been hitting .542, which includes four doubles and a home run. The UC Davis pitching will have to be careful when pitching to him.

If not, Flores might have a big series.

The Davis-Hawai’i conference matchup will mark only the fourth time these teams have ever met. This series is going to be interesting as the teams will be able to make a mark on the history of the matchup.

The Aggies have steadily improved over the year. They have been getting positive results in the string of recent games. With hot bats in the lineup, UC Davis has an offense to be feared.

When the pitching becomes more solid, the Aggies will be a force to be reckoned with.

“We are just going to continue to get better,” Vaughn said.

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And Les is ready to continue the growth. Next season’s Aggie roster will return 85 percent of its scoring from this year and will add depth with a formidable combination of up-and-coming talent and impressive freshman recruits.

“I feel fortunate to be here and recruit young men to this unbelievable university and this environment which I think is bar none one of the best in the country,” Les said.

“Now it’s a matter of getting kids in here and working them and developing them and using my past knowledge and experiences to develop basketball program that sheds a really positive light on the university.”

Under coach Les, the Aggies have already seen a rise in national prominence. The defining moment of the 2013 season came in March, when more than 5,000 students and fans packed the UC Davis Pavilion to capacity for a nationally televised game against Long Beach State.

The gym was as loud as it has ever been, and the Aggies battled end-to-end against the reigning Big West Conference champions. The Aggies were down by one with just seconds remaining when the ball found senior Paolo Mancasola in the corner.

The potential game-winning shot bounced off the back rim and out, a heartbreaking loss in the best game of basketball the Pavilion had seen in decades.

Jim Les knows that feeling. It’s happened to him before.

And he knows how to learn from it, to keep working and building, never taking shortcuts. It’s all part of building a basketball program, something he does every day.

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played. The team battled through all the obstacles, including an injury to star sophomore guard Corey Hawkins with only a few minutes left. Despite the injury, the Aggies fought on and had a chance to win the game at the last second.

Never once did the Aggies back down from the bigger 49ers team. Such will is an inspiring sight and sums up what makes sports great. We really do not need to look

far to watch players with determination and the will to succeed, as there are examples here at UC Davis.

Why do sports matter? Sports present an opportunity to highlight the determination and work ethic which inspire many of us to believe that no matter what obstacles come, we can succeed.

KENNETH LING can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

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The california aggie

backstop UC Davis makes a splash on the basketball recruiting trail Bulgarian national team member Georgori Funtarov to play for UC Davis

By KENNETH LING Aggie Sports Editor

There is a saying in basketball: you cannot teach size.

Some people are just born tall. While size is not everything in basketball, it is important.

A tall player with long arms has the ability to contest jump shots, rebound the ball and shoot over defenders easily.

This is the type of player that UC Davis is getting as they add Georgi Funtarov to the roster. Funtarov, who played high school basketball at Vermont Academy, is a

6-foot-8 guard/forward combo.

He has the ability to help the Aggies in so many ways, including stabilizing some of UC Davis’ deficiencies. At 6-foot-8, he has the height and the wingspan to clear the boards, a need for the Aggies due to the loss of graduating senior Ryan Howley. Howley was UC Davis' leading rebounder, averaging 7.5 rebounds a game this year.

Funtarov has shown the ability to rebound during his high school career, highlighted by his seven rebounds per game average in his senior year. Hopefully, he will be able to pick up some of the slack in covering the rebounding gap that Howley leaves behind.

While Funtarov is capable of rebounding the basketball, the biggest weapon in his arsenal is his ability to score consistently. Shooting an outstanding 47 percent from the field on his way to averaging 13 points a game in his senior season, Funtarov has shown the ability to post up with extreme efficiency.

Funtarov’s incredible touch allows him to be able to shoot from beyond the three-point line with precision and his size allows him to post up down low and score some gritty baskets.

“UC Davis is getting a talented and versatile forward who can score the ball from the perimeter, to the block, depending on his matchup,” said Funtarov's former coach, Ashley Battles.

His inside-outside capability on offense fits well with the Aggies’ offense. UC Davis’ proficient three-point shooting, shooting 40.5 percent as a team this year, highlights one of Funtarov's greatest strengths: his threepoint shooting. He shot 40 percent from beyond the arc See B-BALL on 16

UC Davis continues their hot run Men’s baseball brings confidence heading into the Aloha State Teams: UC Davis at Hawai’i Records: UC Davis Aggies, 19-31 (516); Hawai’i Rainbows, 12-33 (7-14) Where: Les Murakami Baseball Stadium — Honolulu, Hawaii When: May 17 at 6:35 p.m.; May 18 at 6:35 p.m.; May 19 at 1:05 p.m.

Who to Watch: As the baseball season comes to a close, the Aggies will hope to pull out conference road victories against Hawai’i. The Aggies started their sevengame road trip with a series victory over Pacific.

The Aggies’ success against Pacific was due much in part to the consistent hitting and base performance by junior Steven Patterson. Named 2012 All-Big

Eight first team in his final season with San Joaquin Delta College after posting a .380 batting average to go with six home runs, eleven doubles and 33 runs batted in, Patterson has proven that his game is no fluke.

Patterson has prospered here at UC Davis. This shows in the results he is producing this year. Currently second on the team with a .351 batting average and a .405 on-base percentage, Patterson has been a consistent offensive threat for the Aggies. He currently has an eight-game hitting streak going, as well as a seasonhigh 21-game on-base streak. Hopefully, Patterson can continue his hot performance into Hawaii.

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Junior Steven Patterson has consistently been a big hitter.

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The Aggies have 460 hits through 46 games, an average of 10 per game, ranking them first in the Big West, 24 more than second-place Cal Poly, who has 436 hits. The Aggies also rank first in doubles with 81, third

Les is More Former Sacramento King leaving his mark in Davis

By CAELUM SHOVE Aggie Sports Writer

An NBA journeyman with a deadly accurate jumper and a throwback hairstyle, Jim Les had one shot at record-book immortality. The shot didn’t come in the NBA Finals, though, or even in an NBA game. Instead, it came in the 1992 Three-Point Shootout at the NBA’s All-Star weekend.

Les, a backup point guard for the Sacramento Kings at the time, was up against two-time defending champion Craig Hodges in the final round of the contest. With the last seconds ticking away, Les was left with a corner-three for the win. Back iron and out. Les toppled over, the grin on his face clear for all to see.

Now, 21 years later, Les is drawing on his years of ex-

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Basketball coach Jim Les speaks to his team during a basketball game. perience as he resurrects a university basketball program that is just a few exits down the interstate from the Sacramento arena where he played most of his NBA career. In his second season as head coach at UC Davis, Les led the Aggies to their most wins as a Division I program, finishing the season with a 14-17 record. “[The most important thing] is building a foundation

in runs scored with 252, third in RBI with 228 and third in on-base percentage with .364.

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of the program [and] we’re in the midst of that right now,” Les said. “We’re building a foundation with really good young men who are working hard, getting better and buying into the goal of making UC Davis basketball relevant not only on this campus, but nationwide.”

Nationwide relevancy is a lofty goal for a program that has never had a .500 record at the Division I level, but Les is used to doing more with less.

As a 5’11” point guard, Les dished out 884 assists in a prolific college career that started at Cleveland State and finished with a perfect conference record in his final season at Bradley University. NBA scouts took notice, and Les was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks in the third round of the 1986 NBA draft.

Despite never becoming a starter in the league, Les absorbed all he could during his seven-year career in the NBA. “I played in a [special] era,” Les said. “It was Jordan, Bird, Magic. I played with John Stockton [and] Karl Malone. I was exposed to a lot of greatness within the sport and tried to take as much as I could.”

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The california aggie

backstop UC Davis softball sees its final pitch of 2013 Aggies finish season strong

By SLOAN BOETTCHER Aggie Sports Writer

The faint echoes of cheering and discarded sunflower seeds are all that remain on the now empty La Rue Field, which hosted its last series of the 2013 season this past weekend against Cal Poly. In the world of UC Davis spring sports, softball has now come to a close. Although the team went through some ups and downs this year, they can be proud of finishing off strong, sweeping the Mustangs in three big wins. Coach Karen Yoder was confident prior to their last games of the year.

“We’re excited to have the opportunity to have three more games this season,” coach Yoder said. “Any time you’re in competition, you want to strive to excel.”

Exceeding her expectations, the team came out firing against Cal Poly in the double-header on Friday and the one game on Saturday. Clutch hitting, strong defense and solid pitching played heavily into the Aggies besting rival Cal Poly. Winning 5-2 in game one and 6-4 in game two on Friday, coupled with a final 4-0 victory Saturday, the entire team can stand a little taller finishing on a high note in conference play.

Especially satisfied were the team’s four graduating seniors, who were honored on May 11 during an emotional Senior Day ceremony.

By KENNETH LING Aggie Sports Editor

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Sophomore Justine Vela was named to the All Big-West first team.

“The entire team played great today, I am excited to end my time at UC Davis with a win and a sweep,” said senior Megan Guzman.

Guzman can be very proud of her final game on La Rue Field, going 3-3 with three stolen bases. The center-fielder finished off her season with 13 stolen bases, adding up to a career-high 51, the second-highest number ever recorded See SOFTBALL on 16

Women’s golf to compete in NCAA Division I National Round Aggies place sixth at Central Regional to gain spot in Athens

By MATTHEW YUEN Aggie Sports Writer

The UC Davis women’s golf team entered the NCAA Central Regional round at the University of Oklahoma as the sixth highest-ranked team in the field.

The Aggies played to their seed, placing sixth at the Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club.

Seeing that the top eight teams advance to the NCAA Finals, UC Davis grabbed a berth to the NCAA Division I Championship round that will be held in Athens, Ga. on May 21 to 24.

The Aggies shot a 16-over 880 total as a team over the three rounds. Duke, the third-ranked team in the nation, dominated the competition with a 13-under 851 team score.

Despite a small hiccup in the second round in which UC Davis shot a 300, the Aggies held tight and came back to fire a one-over 289 in the final round. Still, almost every team posted a higher score on the second round, keeping the Aggies in the top six.

Freshman Betty Chen led the Aggies with her blistering 69 in the final round.

Senior Demi Runas shot an even 72 on the last day and freshman Andrea Wong put up a two-over 74. Sophomore Beverly Vatananugulkit also shot a 74 in the final round to close for the Aggies.

Chen closed in at 11th place overall,

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having put up 73 and 75 scores in the first and second round, respectively.

Runas finished one stroke behind Chen with her 218 total, highlighted by her two-under 70 on the second round when the Aggies needed a low score.

Wong placed in a tie for 35th on her 222 score while Vatananugulkit put up a 223 total, having shot a 69 on the first day and a 74 on the last despite a high 80 in the second round.

The Aggies’ team total was two strokes behind Arizona State, which put up an 878 total, and three strokes under Wisconsin, which shot a 19-over 883.

The other teams from the Central Regional to qualify for the national tournament were fourth-ranked host Oklahoma, Florida, Mississippi State and Michigan State. UC Davis was the only school from California in the Central Regional, but will be joined by UCLA from the East Regional and USC, Stanford and San Jose State from the West Regional at the national round.

UC Davis outplaced tenth-ranked Washington, who placed 10th and will not be advancing to the national round.

Mississippi State came in unseeded but still fired an eight-over to place third, mostly due to a 281 on the final day, the second-lowest round of any team in the competition.

“It was a great team effort, especially

coming down the final holes,” said head coach Anna Temple. “We have worked hard to have an opportunity to compete for an NCAA championship and we are looking forward to our trip to Athens next week.”

Moving forward, UC Davis will appear in its third NCAA Division I Finals in its six years since moving up from Division II. The Aggies will play on the University of Georgia Golf Course and will be joined by 23 other teams. Eight teams from the East and West regional will advance, which Alabama and USC won, respectively.

The Trojans are the top-ranked team in the country and pulled out a victory at the Stanford golf course, while Alabama, the second-ranked team in the country, posted an unbelievable 20-under at Auburn University Golf Club.

Also in the field will be Stanford and Anne Walker, the former women’s golf coach from UC Davis.

The Aggies will play in a practice round on May 19 before jumping into competition on May 21. UC Davis is paired up with Northwestern and Arizona with a tee-time of 8:39 a.m. ET at the University of Georgia Golf Course.

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

Do sports matter? As an avid sports fan, my answer is yes. To me sports hold sentimental value as I remember all of the great events I have watched. However, beyond this, the glimpses of the resiliency and determination to succeed that sports provide are something that I believe is of worth to society.

Societal changes are usually long and slow processes that require many brave people to take stands. Sports has long been one of the important platforms for people to push for social change.

For example, the great Jackie Robinson was a man who pushed for racial equality more than two decades before the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Robinson was the first African American to play in the Major Leagues. Breaking the color barrier and blazing a trail for other African Americans to follow, Robinson represents one of the greatest advocates for social change sports has ever had.

Robinson’s ground-breaking decision to play in the majors was not without resistance from society. Yet the courage and grace with which Robinson endured slurs and taunts while still succeeding was an inspiration to many and a crucial building block for the Civil Rights Movement.

The allure of fame and riches has in some ways dulled the reputation of sports’ positive impact on society. Most of the time, athletes make the news for drug arrests, domestic violence and other indiscretions. However, this does not mean that sports matters less in our society.

One event sticks in my mind as a moment where a sporting event transcended competition. In the 1992 Olympics, 400-meter runner Derek Redmond came into the event desiring a top-three finish.

He was forced to drop out of the 1988 Olympics at the last minute due to an Achilles tendon injury. The stage was set for Redmond to claim the spotlight in 1992. After four long years of waiting, he was in fine form and qualified for the final heat of the 400-meter. He was ready to win a medal.

However, fate had different ideas for Redmond.

After finishing more than half of the sprint, Redmond tore his hamstring. In one of the most devastating moments in Olympic history, Redmond slowly hobbled on one foot and eventually fell to the ground.

His Olympic dreams were dashed. In the midst of this despair, Redmond’s father rushed down from the stands onto the track and helped Redmond up.

Redmond refused to get carted off because he wanted to finish the race. So with his father alongside him, Redmond hobbled his way to finish the race. He turned one of the most heartbreaking scenes in Olympic history into a story See COLUMN on 16