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UAW, UCOP bargaining session

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Bargaining teams for UAW, UCOP meet at Wyatt Pavilion

The UC Student-Workers Union Local 2865, a labor union representing undergraduate tutors and graduate student workers, recently had one of its bargaining sessions with representatives from the UC Office of the President at UC Davis. The 12 demands of UAW, which can be found on its website, were discussed during this session and many graduate students gave testimony as a signal of how important certain demands were to them.

The UCOP bargaining team arrived half an hour later than the scheduled start time. Emily Breuninger, a Ph.D. candidate in the sociology department, said that this behavior has been a trend at multiple bargaining sessions.

“I was just bargaining in San Diego yesterday, and on the first day we were supposed to start at 10 and we didn’t even start until 11:30,” Breuninger said. “I think that this is a reflection of the university’s attitude toward its workers in terms of how they value their own time more than ours and they don’t see any problem with wasting our time. Repeatedly, the university treats us like we’re children, and this is a reflection of that attitude toward graduate students.”

Members of the UAW bargaining team introduced themselves, and the co-chair of the UAW bargaining team, Alli Carlisle, a graduate student from UCLA, asked the UCOP bargaining team to introduce themselves with their gender pronouns.

Most of them refused.

“I think if I were to ask someone what their gender pronoun was, [...] I don’t think that’s appropriate,” said Rick Firtel, the associate dean of Biological Sciences at UCSD. Following introductions, the UCOP bargaining team pushed for the establishment of ground rules, particularly emphasizing the unwelcome presence

of the media.

“We are not interested in the media,” said Nadine Fishel, the chief negotiator for UCOP. “I don’t want to be learning about your proposals in the media. The media is not welcome [at bargaining].”

According to the Brown Act Pamphlet created by the California Attorney General Office in 2003, however, the law “guarantees the public’s right to attend and participate in meetings of local legislative bodies.”

A group of Solano Park residents arrived shortly after the meeting started, chanting for affordable housing in a show of solidarity. Graduate students, particularly Solano Park residents, proceeded to give testimony on how the issue of affordable housing is particularly significant for them. “[My daughter] has been in daycare since she was nine months old,” said Matthew Thompson, a Ph.D. candidate in the sociology department. “[My other daughter] has been in daycare since she’s four months old. Their daycare alone takes up 113 percent of my stipend. That’s unsustainable [and] it’s wrong. We need to prioritize childcare for our grad students.”

Caroline McKusick, a Ph.D. candidate in the anthropology department, explained the issue of high vacancy rates at a housing complex like West Village, one that, according to her, many graduate and undergraduate students at UC Davis would not consider affordable.

“The city of Davis had a 0.4 percent vacancy [rate] in housing in 2014,” McKusick said.

“West Village has a vacancy rate of 17 percent.

Much of the rent money from Solano and Orchard Park went in housing reserves. Where is this money going? UC Davis was willing to commit money to tear down Orchard Park, but not to rebuild it. The UC unquestionably has

the money and the means to support affordable housing.”

After a lunch break, the UCOP bargaining team had a few responses to the initial demands of the UAW. “Demand number one was to improve standards of living,” Fishel said. “University is looking into the costs of living before we give our proposal. We have an extensive process that we go through to develop that proposal.”

Fishel moved on to specifically address the issue of affordable housing.

“Demand number two is to ensure access to affordable housing,” Fishel said. “Priority number one for the university is to provide housing.

Our campuses are in excellent locations and many of those locations are in costly cities. The university is looking at that.”

However, Fishel further claimed that housing is a student issue, not a worker issue, and that it is off the table for bargaining.

“Workers come to the university every day from all over, and they don’t bargain over housing,” Fishel said. “We do want to make it clear, however, that we understand the importance of housing. We see housing as something that your compensation pays for like every worker’s compensation. Therefore, we are not interested in providing housing subsidies or anything like that in the contract.”

In response to this, Ellie White, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, said that she’d “like to ask for a 100 percent raise and then we’ll get affordable housing that way.”

UAW’s sixth demand is to expand access, affordability and comprehensiveness of health care coverage. Fishel said that the university is UAWUCOP on 11

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Janet Napolitano visits UC Davis, addresses UC issues UC President toured School of Veterinary Medicine before sitting down with The Aggie

BY H A N N A H HOL Z E R campus@theaggie.org

A few individuals and their dogs, waiting in the lobby of the UC Davis Small Animal Clinic on a Thursday morning, were visibly surprised to see a group of formally dressed officials walk through the door. UC President Janet Napolitano was at the forefront of the group, full of smiles and laughs as she toured UC Davis’ veterinary medicine buildings, where eager veterinary students and staff members seemed to be positioned around every corner to greet her.

The former secretary of Homeland Security visited the UC Davis campus on April 5, just one day after protesters shut down a busy intersection in Westwood near UCLA and marched at UC Berkeley regarding a recently published study commissioned by AFSCME — a union representing over 24,000 UC employees — which revealed “growing income, racial & gender disparities” throughout the UC. During her visit to UC Davis, Napolitano met with a group of graduate students before her tour through the Veterinary Medicine facilities.

The tour was led by Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine Michael Lairmore, who gave a brief presentation and overview of the school and its current research, technology being used and future construction and fundraising plans.

“We have a very simple mission, which is a one health approach,” Lairmore said. “It’s really that interface of animals, people and the environment. We expect to lead veterinary medicine, which is what we are doing, but the important part that separates us out and definitely makes us unique is we address societal needs.”

Lairmore talked about the current work of recent UC Davis graduates, including an alumnus currently working for the Department of Homeland Security — “which I’m familiar with,” Napolitano replied. He also mentioned the work of former students who were at the frontlines of the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone and who Napolitano briefly met with later in the tour.

Napolitano walked through multiple buildings with a group of faculty, university officials and at least one veterinary student, speaking very briefly with other faculty and staff along the way.

Later in the tour, Napolitano visited the Equine Athletic Performance Laboratory and watched a horse on a treadmill gradually increase its speed from a run to a full-speed gallop over the course of six minutes. Associate Professor of Molecular Biosciences Heather Knych explained that the act is “part of our exercise research.”

The hour-long tour ended for a luncheon attended by UC Davis Chancellor Gary May. Before she ate, Napolitano answered questions from The California Aggie for approximately five min-

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utes, the full transcript of which follows: The California Aggie: First and foremost, I want to address the protests which occurred yesterday in Westwood and on the Berkeley campus following the study commissioned by AFSCME which revealed growing income, racial and gender disparities in the UC. How does the UC plan to address these disparities moving forward?

Napolitano: Obviously, we’re going to make sure our workforce is well paid and it’s inclusive and it’s equitable. We’re in contract negotiations with AFSCME now, so some of these issues will be addressed at the bargaining table.

TCA: In light of the four-year, $18 million UC-wide mental health initiative that began in 2016 and will end in 2020, each UC campus was supposed to hire a specific number of counselors — at UC Davis, it was 12. Since that time, we’ve had a net gain of a half full-time employee. What is your response to student concerns that student fees are not being spent to increase the availability of mental health resources?

Napolitano: Like you said, we distributed the funds to the campuses. We provided that half of

Implications of ARC construction on student organizations Performing groups struggle to find practice space amid inconvenient construction

BY ALYSSA HADA features@theaggie.org

Construction on the ARC began in mid-2017 and will continue through 2019. Avid users of the ARC can testify that construction has been an inconvenience to students; it limits the space of the gym, condensing the weight room on the basketball courts and limiting aspects of the ARC such as volleyball courts, racquetball courts and dance rooms.

Allie Young, a fourth-year clinical nutrition major, is a choreographer and captain of MK Modern, a dance group on campus. Young noted her frustration with the construction on campus and the implications it has in scheduling and planning practices for her dance group.

“One of the things that makes it really difficult [to practice in a studio] is that the ARC closes earlier now and the Pavilion side is closed by 11:30,” Young said.

MK Modern previously practiced in the Pavilion, utilizing the open space and mirrors better structured for dance teams. With the construction making the Pavilion an inconvenient option for dance groups, these organizations are forced to be creative in finding new space to practice. For MK Modern, the Hutchison parking garage makes for an adequate practice space.

“Since our practices usually go from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. and sometimes later, it’s really difficult to start practice in the Pavilion and move outside,” Young said.

“Now we kind of just do the whole practice outside, which is why we practice in the parking structure.”

Young noted that while the parking structure is an option for the dance group to practice at, it isn’t a space intended for performers, which is clear during practices. She notes specifically that the lack of mirrors makes it difficult for MK Modern to learn new routines and reflect on their dances.

“It makes it really hard for us to learn pieces and get an idea of where we really are just because there are no mirrors to watch ourselves and check ourselves,” Young said. “Now it’s really a reliance on the choreographer or the director who are watching the piece to help clean up the choreography.”

Performing groups come to the general consensus that the school doesn’t provide enough support to performance groups, especially highlighted during the construction of the ARC. “It feels like the school doesn’t really care or respect its registered student organizations, even though we all put a lot of time and effort into our sets in order to perform and compete outside of Davis, representing UC Davis,” Young said. “The Pavilion closes earlier, which means a lot of dance teams are forced to practice outside. The problem is that when we do practice in the parking structure, the police will often come by and kick us out. So in the end, it feels like we can’t practice anywhere on campus.”

Annie Altura, a fourth-year food science major, is a member of the Cleftomaniacs, an acapella group on campus. She notes that the hunt to book rooms may be somewhat easier for her group than for other performance art groups like MK Modern, as they aren’t as limited in their search for a practice space of a specific size. However, Altura admits that the UC Davis administration does give them challenges in booking these practice spaces.

“It is a little challenging. I don’t think we’ve ever gotten helped with regard to booking rooms,” Altura said. “We’ve been trying to book rooms for auditions, CONSTRUCTION on 11

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Students discuss on-campus housing concerns

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On March 14, the UC Davis Finance and Capital Strategies Committee approved funding for the new Emerson Hall project in the Cuarto student housing area. This action was followed on March 15 with a unanimous vote by the UC Board of Regents for final approval.

The Emerson Hall replacement project will tear down an older building in order to construct three buildings which will house over 800 students.

Matt Dulcich, the director of Environmental Planning and Local Government Relations at UC Davis, spoke about the housing changes coming to

Cuarto and in general about new housing at UC Davis.

“The key item for Emerson and Webster Hall is to add more supply for UC Davis students and [provide] enough housing capacity for first- and second-year students,” Dulcich said. “The Webster and Emerson Hall projects are part of the most ambitious housing plan ever for UC Davis. They will contribute more supply for UC Davis students.

That is the first real benefit, and the key idea is that these are part of the overall pipeline of new housing projects that we started.”

Dulcich spoke about what the housing project means for the university.

“I think the basic idea is that it rep-

resents UC Davis reinvesting in these properties and contributing to the neighborhood,” Dulcich said. “These buildings will be very attractive, and they will [bring] a high degree of improvement to the appeal of the neighborhood.”

However, construction currently taking place at Cuarto has come at a cost for current students. For Michael Plastino, a first-year undeclared student, and Spencer Towill, a first-year managerial economics major, the construction at Webster Hall has caused serious noise problems.

“I live on the face that is closest to construction and it is very loud,” Plastino said. “It starts at 7 a.m. and they have not gotten a ton done on this building.

It has been going on the whole quarter ,and many mornings I will wake up to the sound of construction and especially when they are doing certain projects with the jackhammer.”

Plastino said that, while the construction has not affected everyone at Cuarto, “everyone who is on the face of the building” next to the construction will “wake up in the morning pretty consistently whenever there is construction.”

Towill and Plastino are teammates on the UC Davis water polo team. Towill agreed with Plastino’s concerns about the construction noise.

“My room is situated just right next to where the construction is,” Towill said.

“During our [water polo] season, [...] we will have a super early morning practice just the day before and we will be super tired, and then the next day, when we don’t have practice until 10:00, the construction starts about 6:30 a.m.”

Regarding the construction noise problem at Cuarto, Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and Executive Director of Student Housing Emily Galindo mentioned actions put into place to improve the situation.

“We have a construction mitigation team, [and] their sole responsibility is to ensure that they work with residents, staff and the contractors to deal with any issues that arise,” Galindo said. “Students are told before they come to campus that there is construction occurring. Then we ask the contractors to limit [noise]. They are not supposed to start until 7 a.m. We also have a liberal transfer policy, so if a student truly feels like the noise is something that is impacting their ability to study or are impacting their progress, we do not want to see that happen.”

Dannie Kiel, a second-year applied mathematics and physics double major and former resident of Tercero Hall, explained that construction-related problems and overcrowding have manifested at Tercero. Kiel is also a former resident advisor who resigned recently from her position.

“I lived in Tercero for two years,” Kiel

GENDER AND SEXUALITY COMMISSION CHAIR RESIGNS

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BY AA R O N L I SS campus@theaggie.org

Fourth-year psychology and Spanish double major Becca Nelson has stepped down as chair of the ASUCD Gender and Sexuality Commision. In an email obtained

by The California Aggie, Nelson said part of their reason for quitting is related to the recent Winter Election, as they believe ASUCD workers deserve to “work with people who don’t antagonize and dismiss us for voicing our experiences and pain.”

On Feb. 23, GASC’s Facebook page posted a message in reference to the ASUCD Winter Elections outcome, stating that it doesn’t “support executive elects complicit and active in maintaining white supremacist, trans antagonistic, LGBTQIA antagonistic, and patriarchal institutions.”

Nelson accused newly-elected ASUCD President Michael Gofman of making fun of ASUCD members for their LGBTQIA identity, making light of cultural appropriation and engaging in voter fraud. They also criticized Gofman’s support of controversial Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ visit to campus last year.

Gofman said that he not transphobic and that “there have been many baseless accusations thrown around this election.”

“As a Jew on a historically anti-Semitic campus, and the son of immigrants and refugees that were discriminated against all their lives, I have a particular drive to end and fight discrimination anywhere I see it,” Gofman said. “I do not participate in any discrimination or antagonization of any people, nor do I plan to.”

In their resignation email, Nelson asked the rest of ASUCD — people who they claim to have witnessed Gofman’s problematic behavior — to understand why they may no longer feel comfortable in ASUCD. “I hope that y’all have the courage to question why we’d feel uncomfortable speaking and filing reports about clearly unethical and unprofessional conduct,” Nelson stated in the email. “I hope that y’all have the courage to demand

STUDENTS GATHER IN QUAD FOR DIE-IN Protesters seek to demonstrate solidarity with victims of police violence

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On April 4, the group Students and Workers Ending Racial Violence organized the event #StephonClark Die-In. A group of students gathered in the quad to demonstrate solidarity with people of color who have been killed by police.

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Becca Nelson accuses newly-elected ASUCD president of problematic behavior

respect from our colleagues and expect that they listen to us instead of questioning our worth. I hope that ASUCD really can show the actions to denounce white supremacy, queer & trans-antagonism, settler-colonialism, ableism, sexism, anti-semitism, islamophobia, and other forms of oppression.”

David Heifitz also recently resigned from his position as Business and Finance Commission chair, citing discomfort with alleged transphobia, racism and homophobia on the Senate table.

Nelson joined GASC as a committee member in Oct. 2017.

“I never joined because I wanted to serve the table, I joined because I wanted to serve my community,” Nelson said. “And historically, GASC chair has been treated like shit. We’re responsible for checking people.”

According to Nelson, GASC functions as a “kind of checks and balance for the ASUCD — are y’all being anti-trans, are you being anti-gay?” Nelson said that GASC was enacted because “there wasn’t enough LGBTQ representation” within UC Davis student government.

They say that they have heard Gofman make homophobic comments and sometimes disregard trans and queer folks.

“Tell me why Michael has never shown up to a GASC meeting?” Nelson said. “He’s had a whole year. He’s never [sent] an email of why he can’t make it. Bylawfully, senators have to come to these or send an email explaining time conflict, and other senators send their staff. He’s done none of those things.”

According to Nelson, people in power roles must advocate for those who are marginalized, and promptly dismiss people like Yiannopoulos. Yiannopoulos, after visiting other schools like UC Berkeley, has brought harassment upon trans, Muslim and undocumented students.

Gofman did write and publish an article titled “UC-Davis takes stand against ‘heckler’s veto’” in response to “disruptive student protests” over Yiannopoulos’ visit, but he has since changed his stance. Gofman said he has “on many occasions actively condemned [Milo], and everything he stands for,” now calling Yiannopoulos “dangerous and offensive.” He also cited his work with the organization Log Cabin Republicans, which advocates for LGBT rights.

According to Gofman, his ASUCD decisions were never influenced by his politics and beliefs.

“None of these things have to do with ASUCD and Presidency,” Gofman said. ”You heard my platforms and that’s what I’m focused for. It’s not taking stances on national politics; it’s for all students.”

said. “The first year I was there, it was pretty bad. It was pretty overcrowded and usually long lines at the dining common.

Then they put in three new buildings at Tercero and did not expand the food at all.”

Kiel went on to speak about availability of housing in Davis.

“The big problem is that Davis in general has a high occupancy rate,” Kiel said. “There is not enough housing, so it is good that they are putting in new residence halls. They definitely need more housing, because they are letting more freshmen in — they need to have more freshman housing.”

Galindo, responding to student concerns, said the topic of overcrowding is twofold.

“One has to do with our responsibility to make sure to meet our freshman guarantee based on the enrollment,” Galindo said. “The second issue has to do with the buildings themselves in that we purchased them back in the 1980s.

They have reached the end of their useful life. There are systems that need to be replaced. Things like they are not sprinkled. We do not have internet. There are just a number a things that, when we did facilities assessment, that led us to a place where it was time to redevelop the properties.”

Galindo spoke about the expansion of

Leave the turkeys alone March 29 “Female keeps banging on shared wall stating that reporting party is making too much noise — states this is an ongoing issue with neighbor and apartment management is aware.”

“Unattended white box with Zappos label and oil soaked rag — near entrance of plot right after crossing the first set of tracks.”

“Male standing in the right-hand turn lane near Starbucks at this location waving arms and talking to himself.”

March 30 “Subject used a bat to break a vehicle window, then fled in another vehicle.”

March 31 “Reporting party’s girlfriend at home and heard door open, not sure who it may be. Reporting party says no one is supposed to be home.”

“Unknown subject dumping logs in street in front of his residence — reporting party advised he’s received letter from city trying to fine him, and they told him he needed to file police report in order to avoid the fines.”

April 1 “Dog in backyard. Barking for last few hours.”

“On the bike path behind location, three adults and four juveniles shooting at turkeys with a BB gun.”

April 2 “Reporting party got into minor road rage incident and other driver followed reporting party home, suspect then approached reporting party and punched him through his window. Subject has since left area.”

“Complaint of neighbor taking out garbage cans late at night. Reporting party requested officer speak with neighbor.”

According to sociology graduate student B.B. Buchanan, Black Lives Matter Sacramento put out a call on Monday for solidarity actions both across the United States and internationally.

In response to this call, Buchanan and other protesting students had an emergency meeting and organized a diein to show their solidarity.

“A die-in is a kind of political action which has been [popularized] since Black Lives Matter hit the scene,” Buchanan said. “People lie on the ground […] to provide a visual effect that says the number of people that had been killed has been numerous.”

Around 10 students laid flat on their

backs in front of the CoHo, drawing the attention of many passing students. “[I came out today] for justice for all of the people [...] that had been unjustly hurt by the police,” said fourth-year technocultural studies and English double major Becca Payne.

In addition to the die-in, the students chanted slogans such as “No Justice, No Peace.” They demanded justice for Stephon Clark, a black man who was shot and killed by Sacramento police on March 18.

Protesters also laid out a banner which stated “No Justice, No Peace, Rest in Power, We Fight for You.” “I showed up today because it’s real-

ly injustice what happened to Stephon Clark and the whole system of policing,” said second-year political science major Parker Louis. “A lot of people don’t know about these injustices and events like this raise awareness.”

According to Buchanan, there were protests in Sacramento throughout spring break around Clark’s death, and a number of people present at the die-in knew Clark.

“Part of the reason why we put on the solidarity action was to raise awareness that UC Davis is not so far away from Sacramento,” Buchanan said. “People are affected by the death of black folks in Sacramento as well as elsewhere.”

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Women challenging underrepresentation in politics

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Why women are banding together to say that enough is enough

BY EM I LY N G UYE N features@theaggie.org

In 2018, women hold 19.6 percent of the seats in U.S. Congress, 22.8 percent of the positions in state executive office and 25.3 percent of the seats in the state legislature, according to the Center for American Women and Politics. These statistics show a striking imbalance in the ratio of women’s representation in the political arena compared to that of men.

But exactly what can explain this significant gender disparity?

Delaine Eastin, a current Democratic candidate for governor of California, former regent of the University of California, former trustee of the California State University system, former superintendent of Public Instruction, former state assemblymember and a UC Davis alumna, believes that there are numerous institutional forces in place preventing women from getting elected into positions of leadership.

“In general, the bigger the state or the bigger the city, the harder it is to elect women, and the same can be said about the size of the legislative offices,”

Eastin said. “Genuine discrimination exists against women, but there are other factors that enter into it. One of the challenges in America is that we have a political system that’s very expensive to participate in, and women have a harder time raising money.”

Eastin solidified her arguments by offering a personal anecdote demonstrating how she experienced this prejudice firsthand.

“When I was in the city council, there were seven candidates running for three seats,” Eastin said. “Three incumbents were running with two challenging men and two challenging women. The guy who owned one of the local businesses wrote all the men a $500 check and wrote the other women and I each a $300 check. It’s sexism, and it happens all the time.”

According to Eastin, this sexism breeds societal norms and stigmas that work to undermine a women’s full political potential, thus hindering her chances for professional growth.

“I think there is still a stigma [regarding women in politics],” Eastin said.

“There is an implicit bias in men and

$160,000 from NRA went to UC from 2010-16 KY L A R O UNDS / AGGI E

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In the midst of national gun violence debates following the recent shooting in Parkland, Fla., The Sacramento Bee revealed that the Regents of the University of California in Davis accepted $160,000 from the National Rifle Association during the years of 2010-2016.

The funds were used to create shooting clubs for 4-H youth development programs.

The California 4-H youth development program, a part of the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, includes centers across California dedicated to providing creative, hands-on learning experiences for children. According to the 4-H website, its centers aim to enrich students’ understanding

women about what women can do and ought to be doing. The idea that a women can lead is absurd to some men.”

Maiya De La Rosa, a first-year political science — public service major, member of the Davis College Democrats, IGNITE, and California Women’s List and chair of the Latino Caucus of the California Young Democrats, believes that these stigmas have manifested in our political culture and force women to behave only in ways that are deemed appropriate.

“There’s a stigma of women in politics that you have to be somewhere between motherly and strong,” De La Rosa said.

“You can’t be too aggressive or you’re a man-hater, and you can’t be too soft or you’ll get nothing done. You have to find some in-between, and sometimes it feels like it’s impossible.”

According to De La Rosa, these stigmas are intensified for women of color, making it even more difficult for women of diverse ethnic backgrounds to hold positions of power in politics.

“Women are not a minority group, but politics has always been so male-dominated, and the statistics go down for women of color in politics,” De La Rosa said. “For me, that’s really important, and it’s why I felt like I needed to get involved. I grew up in Orange County, a very male-dominated district, but then I see people like U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, a woman of color in power. That shows me that there are women that can do this.”

Data and statistics do indicate that women of color are far less likely to be elected into office — 36.2 percent, 11.3 percent and 24 percent of the women who hold seats in U.S. Congress, state JU LI PER EZ / AGG IE

Money used to develop youth shooting programs for students as young as 9 and interest in fields like science, technology, engineering, agriculture and math as well as promote healthy living.

Shooting clubs for students have been established at many of these centers across the state with the help of funds from the NRA. Students as young as 9 years old are able to take part in 4-H shooting clubs.

Stephanie Beechem, a spokesperson for the UC Office of the President, discussed the specifics of the shooting clubs the UC ANR helped create.

“With the guidance, training and supervision from adult mentors, 4-H shooting sports promote the safe and ethical use of firearms and archery equipment,” Beechem said.

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executive offices and state legislatures respectively are women of color, according to the Center for American Women and Politics. Jumoke Maraiyesa, a third-year sociology and political science double major and current ASUCD senator, says that, on top of gender biases, the lack of inclusive representation in politics is also a product of oppressive systemic forces that are inextricably tied to race.

“It’s definitely a systematic issue; there’s no other way to put it,” Maraiyesa said. “We know the history of the United States. It heavily started with just males — and we know which demographic of males — that were eligible to be in elections or just politics in general. You move further down along the line and you have women’s suffrage, but even then it was a bit problematic because you only had a certain demographic of women who were allowed to participate in politics.”

Maraiyesa said that their gender and ethnicity leave them vulnerable to public judgement, because those factors will always play a role in how others perceive their actions as a senator.

“It’s kind of like when I was congratulated for Senate,” Maraiyesa said. “I feel like it’s a lot of pressure and there’s going to be a lot of eyes on me. If I mess up, people will say ‘Oh, it’s because she’s a woman.’ And then if you mix that with race and ethnicity, it’ll be like ‘Well what did you expect from a minority, or black women in general?’”

As an Asian American student, Teresa Lam, a third-year political science major and former candidate for ASUCD senator, understands what it feels like to be a woman of color in politics and, subsequently, to constantly face social and po-

US Department of Education opened two Title IX cases at UC Davis in 2015, records request reveals Cases allege discrimination, failure to respond to complaints of sexual violence

BY TAYLO R LAPO INT campus@theaggie.org

On Dec. 5, 2017, after having filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the documents, The California Aggie received files from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights concerning two Title IX cases opened against UC Davis in the spring of 2015.

The first letter, written to former Chancellor Linda Katehi and dated March 24, 2015, describes three claims that the complainant, whose identity was withheld in compliance with the office’s case processing procedures, leveled against the university.

The claims alleged that UC Davis “failed to provide student with a prompt and equitable resolution of her complaint of sexual assault” and that it “fails to promptly and equitably respond to sexual violence

complaints, reports and/or other incidents of which it has notice.” The complainant also alleged that the university’s failure to respond to this incident of sexual violence “allows students to be subjected to a hostile environment on the basis of sex.”

A second letter, dated Oct. 17, 2017, was sent to current Chancellor Gary May to notify UC Davis of a change in scope in the investigation. It included information about a second case opened on May 20, 2015, which claimed the university discriminated on the basis of sex and again failed to provide a prompt and equitable resolution to a second student’s complaint of sexual assault.

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litical barriers.

“It’s definitely way harder to be a woman in politics, but being a person of color just adds even more to that because there are so many prejudices against us,” Lam said. “If an Asian American were to run, it would be odd because you don’t typically see Asian Americans in that [political] bubble. There’s already a set norm on what a person can do and what a person can be.”

Lam takes pride in her ethnic background, using the struggles of those before her as a source of inspiration to keep her active in the political arena.

“My parents are immigrants, and I’m a first-generation kid,” Lam said. “They gave up so much just to be in America, and that’s what keeps me going. Looking at our democratic system now, it has changed a lot and it’s not as representative as it can be. I do believe that any individual can make a difference, and that really pushes me to be more involved.”

Though the current demographics of women in politics are low, they have risen substantially relative to past decades.

Victoria Harper, a first-year political science major, a member of the Davis College Republicans and the judicial council clerk for ASUCD, firmly believes that despite the numerous setbacks that women have endured in the past, they should in no way feel discouraged from participating in politics in the present or future.

“Men have had a long time in history to build these images up for themselves [and to] pick and choose what kinds of politicians they want to be to get people to vote for them, [but] women haven’t REPRESENTATION on 12

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Spaces in Engineering Library reallocaed to QMAP Students petition loss of open study space

BY JACQUEL I N E MO O R E campus@theaggie.org

The second and third floors of the Physical Sciences and Engineering Library are in the process of being taken over by the UC Davis Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics. Newer and more popular materials from the second and third floors will be relocated to Shields Library, while other resources will be stored at the the UC’s Regional Library Facilities in Richmond, CA and at UCLA. Students are voicing their disapproval of the reallocation by circulating petitions.

QMAP is a research initiative led by theoretical physicists and mathematicians that intends to explain certain aspects of how the universe works.

It was established in 2015 and regularly holds seminars and lectures that are open to the public. According to its website, QMAP’s goal is to create “an environment where there is a seamless exchange of ideas between theoretical physics and mathematics.”

In order to clear the library space for QMAP, the university will vacate the second and third floors of the Engineering Library by September 2018. During this period, all library materials will be moved out of the Engineering Library and into either Shields Library or the university’s storage facility in Richmond. Renovations of the space will begin in October 2018 and are expected to continue until December of 2019.

According to the university, these renovations include “seismic retrofit, accessibility improve-

ments and fire suppression system renovations.”

These improvements will be implemented in all floors of the building, not only the space being redistributed to QMAP. However, some student groups are opposed to the recent renovations. A number of engineering clubs on campus have circulated petitions denouncing the reallocation of space, as it takes away open workspaces from engineering students.

“While I don’t think many people necessarily need the space, the Engineering Library provides a great atmosphere for engineers to meet and study,” said third-year materials science and engineering major Justin Mulvey. “Removing this space might ruin this collaboration.”

An ASUCD-made survey designed to collect student input regarding the reallocation of space has also been circulating. ASUCD intends to send the data from this survey to administration.

In response to the question of where students should study instead of the second and third floors of the Engineering Library, administrators wrote on the UC Davis Library website that “students who routinely use the materials shifted to Shields may also wish to use the study spaces available there.”

Faculty and students were invited to nominate specific works to be kept in Shields Library rather than storage before Feb. 28. Now, materials stored at the Regional Library Facilities may still be temporarily checked out by faculty and students; they will then be delivered to campus. They can also be viewed online upon request.

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Alfred Hitchcock films showing in Davis this spring Davis Odd Fellows hosts another classic film festival

BY ST E LLA TR AN city@theaggie.org

The Davis Odd Fellows is bringing back its classic film festival for the spring, showing Alfred Hitchcock films in Upper Hall at 415 Second St. in downtown Davis. The first showing will be on April 15, and the films are free, with popcorn provided.

Doors open at 6:29 p.m., and showtime is at 7:01 p.m.

Dave Rosenberg, the former grandmaster of all the Odd Fellows in California, elaborated on how the Odd Fellows started incorporating classic films as a committee.

“The Davis Odd Fellows do a lot of things to serve the community,” Rosenberg said. “About five years ago, we installed a large projection system at the lodge, and I’m a fan of classic films, so I thought what a nice combination to start a classic film festival and invite the public. Since that time, we installed an even larger system in the upper hall. The one coming up will be our ninth.”

The organization has a large following with many committees in addition to the classic film festival committee.

“The Odd Fellows started in England over 2,000, close to 3,000 years ago,” Rosenberg said. “We are the oldest organization in Davis. We currently have 293 members, [and] we have the largest Odd Fellows lodge in North America. Right now, our members run around from 19 to 51 [years old]. We have 57 committees, and one of the committees is the classic film festival.”

Since the classic film festival started, it has been held every year in the spring and fall.

“We decided to do it twice a year since it’s incredibly popular,” Rosenberg said. “We always do three films on three Sundays in a row. This one is coming up — April 15, 22, 29. Each time we feature a certain genre. We’ve done classic film noir, classic Jimmy Stewart films, and this time we’re doing classic Alfred Hitchcock films.”

Beth Dovi, a member of the Davis Odd Fellows classic films committee, explained how the films are picked.

“We just had the idea and it evolved — and we vote as a committee and set the dates,” Dovi said.

“It’s usually a different genre, it doesn’t have a format, per se.”

This spring, the Odd Fellows decided on the Alfred Hitchcock films.

“There’s some Alfred Hitchcock films that every-

one knows and has seen,” Rosenberg said. “We are not showing those. We are showing lesser-known films but equally engaging. The first one we’re showing on the 15th is called ‘Saboteur,’ and the next one we’re showing on the 22nd is called ‘Shadow of a Doubt.’ One of the special features of what we do is we have a film critic in Davis who’s outstanding — he knows films like nobody I’ve ever met. His name is Derrick Bang and he is a film critic for Davis Enterprise. Before the showing, he tells everyone about the film and then afterwards he will answer questions. It’s a wonderful feature of this film festival. We have the benefit of someone who knows everything about the film.”

Many students attend the annual film festival.

“I know the public enjoys it, and we always have a lot of college people attend, and we have people who have actually seen the films,” Rosenberg said.

“These films go way back from the ‘30s to the ‘40s, and that’s a long time ago. But, they’re wonderful films, and they have aged well with great entertainment and some great directing and acting.”

Rosenberg also noted how intriguing the Alfred Hitchcock films will be, especially for the public.

“Alfred Hitchcock is known as the master of suspense,” Rosenberg said. “His films will keep you on the edge of your seat. You never know what’s going to happen. Sometimes the protagonist is passive by both the good guys and bad guys. And you never know how it’s going to end.”

Juelie Roggli, another member of the classic films committee, stated that they can make good use of the hall they have for the public to come together.

“It was Dave Rosenberg’s idea as a way to bring the public into our beautiful hall — to show them something different,” Roggli said. “It’s worked out really well. We always get a really good crowd and people get to know the Odd Fellows as well as get the community involved and have a good time.”

Dovi emphasized that the festival welcomes anyone to come see the classical films.

“I think that a lot of times, people haven’t seen many of these older films,” Dovi said. “A lot of people may be interested, and it’s something to do on a Sunday night.”

While the films may not show in theaters anymore, Dovi stressed how important they still are.

“It’s important for a lot of things,” Dovi said.

“These are movies that might be missed. Typically they’re made before 1960 — it’s important to keep these movies in people’s minds as these movies were not in the theaters when they were around.”

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Leave nothing but footprints

BRYAN SYKES Editor-in-Chief EMILY STACK Managing Editor

Tourist litter causes ecological, economic devastation

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The Philippines announced on April 5 that the island of Boracay, a popular tourist destination known for its bright blue water and white sand beaches, would be closed to tourists for six months due to sustained environmental damage.

The closure is in large part due to infrastructure problems and a sewer system that has failed to keep up with an influx of tourists, but the Philippines isn’t the only place suffering the ill effects of travellers. Last year, picturesque Cinque Terre, Italy cited environmental concerns when releasing plans to cap the amount of people allowed to visit. In April 2015, the Seychelles announced that plans were underway to limit the number of annual visitors. Santorini began limiting the amount of cruise ship tourists in 2017. And in October 2016, Thai authorities stated that Koh Tachai would be closed indefinitely to tourists and that travel to three other islands would be heavily restricted, citing severe damage to the fragile coral reef ecosystem.

Even destinations closer to home are feeling the effects; residents of San Francisco’s Mission District are regularly incensed by the hundreds of pounds of trash left in Dolores Park after sunny days. When speaking to SFGate, San Francisco Parks and Recreation spokesperson Sarah Madland said, “The issues with trash are not issues of infrastructure, this is about entitled and appalling behavior.”

Every year, careless tourists descend on vacation destinations, trash them for a long weekend and head home, leaving formerly beautiful beaches completely blanketed in crushed beer cans and red cups; in some places, the sand is barely visible under the thick coat of plastic. This means the locals — and the local ecosystem — are forced to deal with the

mess. Litter from tourists, especially in popular destinations and areas that have seen recent rapid growth in the volume of visitors, can destroy animal and plant life, devastating ecosystems and the people who depend on them.

This behavior is particularly repugnant when viewed in the context that many of the tropical paradises popular with travellers, like the Caribbean, Hawaii and Southeast Asia, are still suffering from the lingering effects of European colonialism. Such destinations have remained cheap to visit, in large part because imperial rule and resource extraction over the 19th century rendered tourism the only viable economic base after colonized nations gained independence. Another generation of Europeans and Americans taking advantage of the Global South’s economic precarity doesn’t just add insult to injury. Treating entire nations the way rock stars treat hotel rooms does real, lasting damage to the people who have to live with polluted water and poisoned wildlife after the party’s over.

Memorial Day weekend will be here before long, and hundreds of UC Davis students will flock to Lake Shasta for Houseboats. In past years, the annual debauchery has drawn the ire of the National Forest Service for the mess left behind by houseboaters. Adults — that means you, dear readers — shouldn’t have to be reminded to pick up after themselves, but year after year, public lands are left covered in garbage.

The Editorial Board urges travellers, whether they’re heading across the globe or just to a local park, to treat the places they visit with respect, leave as little trace as possible and remember that the mess doesn’t go away when you go home.

Privacy breaches in the age of “transparency” WHAT DO CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA’S ACTIONS IMPLY FOR TODAY’S FACEBOOK USERS?

BY R EBE CC A BI H N-WAL L AC E rlbihnwallace@ucdavis.edu

Facebook users have become increasingly startled this month as revelations regarding Cambridge Analytica’s involvement in social media privacy breaches have been made public. Cambridge Analytica is a firm that develops voter profiles based on data harvested from social media. In tandem with an app company, it paid Facebook users to participate in a personality test. The app also gathered the information of participants’ friends, purportedly in order to create a fuller psychological profile of each test taker — and thus each potential voter.

The undeniable violation of privacy that this constituted has been condemned by Facebook, but more complicated is the politically inflected nature of the data harvesting. Both President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Brexit movement contracted Cambridge Analytica to develop sociopolitical portraits of potential voters. Whether these particular political movements were aware of the extent of the privacy

invasions remains unclear, but as The Guardian reported on Apr. 4, the original estimated number of targeted Facebook users — 50 million — has increased to 87 million.

Perhaps most troubling is that, early in the campaign process, Facebook became aware that the firm was harvesting user data, including individuals’ political and religious beliefs, but did not tell the public, instead demanding that Cambridge Analytica delete the information. But in March, a whistleblower alerted the multimilliondollar social media company to the fact that the data had not actually been deleted as promised. The company’s failure to honor its oft-expressed commitment to privacy and transparency among users is now being called into question. Facebook has said that it will be more heavily regulating apps that demand private information from its users — but the damage has already been done.

Whether or not this enormous privacy breach was of special help to the Brexit and Trump campaigns is unclear. In any political process, candidates actively seek out voters who seem most likely to support their message. It’s part of the game.

But the moral issue with Cambridge Analytica’s actions is that the firm obtained voter information at tremendous cost, perhaps, to those it targeted. Ordinary individuals who assumed that Facebook’s privacy settings would protect them from this kind of digital espionage must now come to terms with the fact that their personal information was obtained without their knowledge or consent. Moreover, Facebook’s mantra of honesty with its users has been utterly undermined by its failure to notify people of a damaging privacy breach.

This breach could have aided political movements that might not have adequately reflected users’ views.

While the idea that nothing is private is hardly new for today’s social media enthusiasts, it’s difficult to imagine that your personal information could have been used for purposes you didn’t consent to. The implications of this breach leave many Facebook users in a double bind: to leave social media marks a kind of withdrawal from mainstream 21st-century life that is hardly appealing, but to stay means that your private information could be used for reasons beyond your control.

What these labels mean for the Middle East LONG-STANDING RELIGIOUS DIVISIONS COULD KEEP SYRIA AND IRAQ FROM DEMOCRATIZING

BY H A N A D I JO R DA N hajordan@ucdavis.edu

As easy as it may be to reduce the conflicts in the Middle East to “red team versus blue team,” it’s not that simple. The Middle East is a region tangled within its own cold war: the Iran-Saudi Arabia proxy conflict. There are many players in this conflict, all of whom are engaged in this power struggle between Iran and Saudi, whose origins of conflict date back to the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

After the revolution, Iran assumed a theocratic system of government that was poorly received by both conservative Sunni monarchies (i.e., Saudi Arabia) and the United States due to their new government’s anti-American rhetoric and Shia Islamic government.

Given that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have been long-standing allies with a mutually dependent relationship, they both emerge as formidable opponents to the Iranian government. The tension is further complicated presently, after the rise of ISIS in recent years in addition to the Syrian civil war.

After the Arab Spring, a series of protests ensued throughout Syria, to which the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, responded with extreme violence, killing hundreds of demonstrators and imprisoning others. In response, Sunni rebel groups formed with the intent of overthrowing the government. The violence brought international attention, with Iran backing Assad’s regime (as both are Shia) and Saudi Arabia backing the rebels (as both are Sunni).

In Iraq, the Shia-led government faced the dangerous threat of ISIS, a Sunni extremist group. In response to this threat, Iran backed the Iraqi Shiite Militia to fight ISIS. Iraq is one of the few countries that’s allied with both Iran and the United States. And despite the

assistance provided by Iran, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia want to turn Iraq away from Iran, but this is difficult since Iran has powerful allies in Iraqi politics. If not already complicated enough, the complexity of the conflict is only furthered with Lebanon.

Hezbollah is a Shia militia and political group in Lebanon with a significant amount of power. They have backed Assad’s regime (Shia) in Syria by fighting against the rebels (Sunni), much to the displeasure of Saudi Arabia (Sunni). This is not the only aspect of Hezbollah that has angered Saudi Arabia, however, as they are involved intimately with Iran, receiving millions in monetary and weaponry funds. They have assisted in recruiting, training and arming a range of new militant groups with the intent of advancing Iran’s agenda.

To word it in the most facile of ways, one could consider the conflict as Iran, Hezbollah and Assad’s regime versus Saudi Arabia and the United States. However, there are still two key players wedged in the middle in the fight for a stable, democratic government: Iraq and the Syrian Democratic Forces.

After the expulsion and near-eradication of much of ISIS, Iraq now stands at a crucial point after years of war and violence. Will Iraq be able to rise as a stable, functioning democracy united with its Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish populations? The prime minister of Iraq is intent on achieving this, but the odds seem unlikely. As a state allied with both the U.S. and Iran, each side will try to sway them in a particular direction, including Saudi Arabia, due to its very tense relationship with Iran. Iran has assisted Iraq in pushing back ISIS, and now that ISIS is near the brink of total eradication, Iran’s extensive reach of power poses an issue for Iraq. Both Iranian and Saudi influences in Iraq could inhibit this democratic movement, as both have strong affiliations to two different sects of Islam that have a history

deeply rooted in conflict with one another. If Iraq fails to democratize or continues with its current system of government, one could expect to see them embroiled in the proxy war for years to come.

The Syrian Democratic Forces face a similar battle. The SDF is a rebel group primarily composed of Sunni Kurds who have been instrumental in expelling ISIS from the region. Not only are they in the fight against ISIS, but they are also in the fight for democracy. The rebel group, which opposes Assad, advocates for secular democracy in Syria. If successful, this could radically change the course of Syria and the lives of many Syrians who have been suffering for years in what has been labeled the worst refugee crisis since World War II. If Iran and Hezbollah continue to extend their support to Assad’s regime, it would make the fight to democratize onerous, as they would be up against two very powerful groups. Despite much resentment for Assad, there is still a vested interest from Iran to ensure that a Shiite government formulates, as this would allow Iran to further extend its power in the region.

It’s easy to connect the lines between political alliances and Sunni and Shia labels, and as much as these labels dictate these alliances, it’s not about religion; this is about political control. The issue lies in the fact that, historically, these two labels have proven to be a source of much division. Labeling “Sunni” and “Shia,” much like “Red Team” and “Blue Team,” is a swift way to create opposition. Saudi Arabia and Iran, both as major players in the region, are fighting for political supremacy, and the easiest way to do so is to take an already divisive label and draw lines between the various countries’ religious affiliations. This is a power struggle, and these labels presently appear to be the most efficient means to ensure that struggle persists for years to come.

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Yeah, I’m STEM — Spending Time Eating, Mmmm I’LL TAKE FOOD OVER A DEGREE ANY DAY

BY PA RKE R N E V I N phnevin@ucdavis.edu

College is a time for exploration, a time for finding your passion and a time for growth.

I found my passion in exploring the menu at Dumpling House and growing my waistline.

Why do I need a degree when my best credential is on display at the South CoHo in the form of a Polaroid on the wall, which I earned by eating three quad stack chili bowls?

Oh, does UC Davis have something to teach me about technology? Are you sure? Because I’ll have you know I can use the iPads at UOB to find my craft cider faster than anyone else I know. I don’t need to be an engineer to build my own sandwich combo at Ike’s.

Oh, I was supposed to learn economics? I save $1.50 a day by eating the special at Sam’s.

How about statistics? Well, through my extensive field research I have determined that, at the moment you order the tilapia at Dot Island, there is only an 85 percent chance that the next day you’ll wake up with food poisoning.

I’m learning about small business: For instance,

the other day the manager of Shah’s Halal told me that, because I spend so much money there, he named a propane cylinder after me.

I’m also involved in student leadership. I lead a particularly ambitious group of one to Delta of Venus, where we vote on which scramble to buy (the vote is always unanimous).

Can I recite the quadratic formula? No. What I can tell you is that, if you eat at El Burrito, you might as well walk across the street to Chipotle because you don’t know what real Mexican tastes like.

Look, we all waste student loan money. I use mine to eat out, my roommate uses his to eat out with me.

I know what you’re thinking: What happens when the student loan money runs out?

Well, through the power of science I have built a theorem that I have earned enough stamps at Yoloberry to cover me for at least a month while I figure out how to declare bankruptcy.

I would love to spend my time and money getting a fancy degree. But what is college for if not — oh, my pizza just got here.

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How one bacterium could fight mosquito-borne diseases Certain wolbachia strains could spread rapidly through mosquito populations, block transmittance of viruses to humans, UC Davis study shows

BY KIR A BURN ET T science@theaggie.org

Wolbachia, a parasitic microbe found in up to two-thirds of insects, was discovered only a few decades ago and is not fully understood. A new study from UC Davis analyzed the interspecific spread of Wolbachia across different species of fruit flies.

The bacteria’s ability to select for infected offspring and provide immune benefits to its host allows it to spread rapidly throughout populations.

“Wolbachia don’t necessarily spread through increasing relative fitness of their hosts, rather they interfere with reproductive abilities,” said Kevin Kim, an undergraduate biochemistry major and co-author of the study, in an email. “During host reproduction, wolbachia are transmitted via the mother to their offspring, so male-killing Wolbachia increase

the rate of production of infected females, which can go on to produce infected offspring. Similarly, [cytoplasmic incompatibility] prevents uninfected females from producing their ‘maximum’ number of offspring — except in cases where both parents are uninfected — and thus promotes the spread of wolbachia.”

In this study, Michael Turelli, a professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis, and his associates looked at the similarities between Wolbachia strains in eight different types of drosophila, or fruit flies, to determine how the infections spread between species, rather than through them.

“Our results demonstrate that certain Wolbachia strains rapidly spread horizontally between divergent species, suggesting these strains have evolved mechanisms to efficiently establish in new host lineages,” said Brandon Cooper, an assistant

professor of cell, molecular, and microbial biology at the University of Montana, in an email interview.

Wolbachia can spread to a new host three different ways: inheritance by sister species during speciation, hybridization and introgression from a closely related species or horizontal transmission.

The frequency of these methods are unknown, however. According to Turelli et. al, hybridization is common during speciation, and introgression often occurs, but horizontal transmission cannot be determined or excluded. It is possible that vectors such as parasitoids or mites aid intraspecies transfer.

Over a hundred wolbachia infections found in the eight drosophila species studied suggest that many wolbachia infections are young, and may replace each other in hosts. These strains are similar to a strain of Wolbachia called wRi which is called a “super spreader.” They jump between species more easily than other strains, although the method is again indeterminate.

“Of course if you have a strain that jumps species barriers, that means it’s going to be pretty easy to potentially introduce into new species,” said Ary Hoffmann, a professor at the University of Melbourne. “Some wolbachia strains are probably very good at jumping species, some wolbachia strains are probably not. They might just stay with one species for a few million years.”

The ability of a strain to jump to another species is highly relevant to Wolbachia research, as introducing Wolbachia to new hosts will help block the spread of viruses. Currently, various projects such as the World Mosquito Program are introducing Wolbachia into mosquitoes in laboratories and releasing them into the wild. If the bacteria is compatible with its new host, then the host has an advantage over uninfected mosquitoes, and will spread Wolbachia throughout the population.

This will lower the rate of mosquito-borne diseases. Programs like these target diseases such as West Nile virus, yellow fever, and malaria, among many others, which are dangerous to people across the world. The more effective Wolbachia may be in transferring to disease-carrying mosquitoes, the more effective these measures may be.more effective these measures may be.

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The early bird may be too late for the worm Trends show spring starting earlier at higher latitudes

BY R AC HE L PAUL science@theaggie.org

Having spring start early may sound pleasant, especially in cold areas such as the Arctic. However, as spring keeps occuring at earlier dates, places at higher latitudes are more likely to start the season at a faster rate than the rest of the world, affecting animals and plants.

In an interdisciplinary paper published in Nature, researchers looked at historical and current data of phenology and the physical climate system to determine that spring was occuring sooner for most of North America.

Phenology is concerned with the study of timing in the natural world, the interplay of daylight length, plants and animals. The physical climate system describes climate and the role of physics in it.

“So this project — which looks at the relationship between the two, i.e. how physical climate changes are impacting ecosystems, was a perfect collaboration,” said Michael E. Mann, a co-author of the paper and a professor at Pennsylvania State University.

In general, spring is occurring earlier for all parts of North America. But closer to the North Pole, spring occurs much sooner than it did a decade ago.

This means that some places in California could have their spring season start a few days earlier than it did a decade ago. For Arctic regions, the season could start weeks sooner.

“This project in particular was motivated by a long-standing observation based on very few analyses that spring is advancing more rapidly farther north,”

said Eric Post, the lead author of the paper and a fellow at the John Muir Institute. “But one aspect of the results that I didn’t expect is that the rate of advancement of spring with increasing latitude is about 2 to 3 times greater than previously thought.”

An increase in the amount of daylight signals to wildlife that spring has arrived, and many change their behavior in response. Since spring is occuring sooner in some areas than others, animals that migrate will be affected greatly, for they could come from a place that just started spring and go to areas that may or may not have began the season.

“Our results suggest that any long-distance migratory species [...] may find it increasingly challenging to keep up with the onset of spring resource availability on their breeding grounds,” Post said. “Such species start their annual northward migrations on the basis of changes in daylength, while the species they plan to consume on their breeding grounds, whether those are plants or insects, time their spring emergence on the basis of local temperatures. With future warming, the early bird may not be early enough to get the worm.”

Using gravity to see stars further through space and time Distant stars come into focus when light bends around massive galaxies

BY G EORG E UG A RT E ME N DI A science@theaggie.org

Astronomers have imaged the furthest star yet discovered in the universe and documented an unusually quick brightening and dimming of a different star by using gravity as a magnifying lens.

Researchers have given the stars nicknames: the extremely distant star is known as “Icarus” and the star with changing brightness is known as “Spock.”

Both papers, published in Nature Astronomy, use a process called gravitational lensing to see further back in time and space by using gravity of massive bodies to increase magnification of telescopes. Celestial objects which would be invisible can now be studied.

“We use the magnification to study the very first galaxies of the universe,” said Maruša Bradač, an associate professor in the UC Davis Department of Physics involved in both projects. “A team has selected six clusters to study very actively for that particular type of research. We use the galaxy clusters as lenses to study background galaxies.”

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Curious behavior of native wildflowers during California’s most recent drought

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Initially, wildflowers appeared to be mysteriously disappearing from McLaughlin Natural Reserve, which understandably had researchers worried.

“We know from other data that some wildflower species appeared to be disappearing from this grassland site,” said Andrew Latimer, a professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis. “We wondered whether they were truly ‘gone’ or simply dormant, waiting in the seed bank for favorable conditions.”

Researchers soon solved the mystery. California droughts can be strenuous for most plants, but not for wildflowers. Native wildflowers use a strategy called seed banking to handle California’s temperamental climate, where they keep a portion of their seeds dormant, ensuring their long-term survival.

This research done by lead author Marina LaForgia, a graduate student in the Andrew Latimer Lab, is part of a larger aboveground plant community monitoring study. That project had 80 sites, each containing a 40-meter transect along which five onesquare meter plots were placed. Visible plant growth was studied at these sites. This specific study took samples in 2012 and 2014, when California was experiencing major drought conditions.

“In 2012 and again in 2014 we took soil cores from each of these five plots per transect, aggregated them together to get one sample per transect, mixed the sample with sand, and laid out the soil in flats in an outdoor bench space in the UC Davis Orchard Park Greenhouse complex,” LaForgia said. “The flats were watered daily and every seedling that came up was identified and discarded. This continued for a year, then the plots were allowed to dry down for the summer, and watering was re-initiated in the fall for another year. After all germinants were identified and no new germination occurred, we terminated the study.”

Native wildflowers were still germinating and producing seeds, but chose to save most of the produced seeds underground. They ended up saving 201 percent more seeds than normal underground, and their aboveground growth increased by 14 percent.

Exotic grasses, on the other hand, depleted their underground seed bank by 52 percent and decreased their aboveground growth by 39 percent.

However, this study showed the behavior of wildflowers during one period of drought. It’s possible that prolonged drought could lead to the depletion of the seed banks of wildflowers.

“I hope this study helps raise people’s awareness of plant communities, the ways they respond to climate, and the ways they may be changing,” said Susan Harrison, a professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis.

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UC Davis Fashion & Design Society to Davis Arts Center hosts Association of Clay hold annual Picnic Day Fashion Show and Glass Artists of California exhibition

Department of Design undergraduates showcase fashion expertise

The best ceramics California has to offer

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Amidst the endless array of activities to experience on Picnic Day, a student-featured fashion show is one of the best. Put on by the UC Davis Fashion & Design Society, the annual show will be held twice in the ARC Ballroom on April 21, first at 11 a.m. and once more at 1:30 p.m. This year, the theme of the show is “Impression/Expression,” leaving student designers to interpret their own experiences into their collections as they see fit.

“As a textiles major, it’s really nice to see the fashion community being showcased at such a big event like Picnic Day,” said Mandie Simpson, a second-year textiles and clothing major.

Throughout the runway show, garments created and styled by students of the Department of Design’s “Signature Collection” class will in turn be modeled by other fellow students of UC Davis. Among the many student designers involved in the show, Sharon Zhu and Pooja Morari, both fourth-year design majors, are the creators of a bridal collection titled “Ina Fusion.”

“This is my first time participating in the show, however, I have been to the fashion show as an audience [member in the past],” Zhu said via email.

In contrast, this will be Morari’s second time participating in the show. She designed a collec-

tion for the single garment competition in the year prior.

The title of Morari and Zhu’s collection was inspired by the heritage of the two designers, with “Ina” being a combination of the names of India and China. “Ina Fusion” consists of six garments, two that represent each country respectively and four that embrace the fusion of India and China together. In highlighting the traditional aspects of the two countries, Morari and Zhu also hope to include some contemporary style into their designs.

“Our collection serves as an expression of interracial marriages and the growing diversity of our world, in which all our ideas, values and experiences are constantly being reshaped,” Morari and Zhu said via email.

As a bridal collection, the two undergraduate designers hope to express the cultural tradition inherently embodied within the fabrics and silhouettes of each culture’s customary wedding wear.

“We hope to utilize the fashion show as a platform to introduce our future collaboration in developing a fashion line inspired by this fusion collection and later expanding into other garment styles,” Morari and Zhu said.

Tickets are $12 presale and $15 at the door. For more information, visit the design department’s website.

Starting on April 13, the Davis Arts Center will be holding its first reception for the exhibition “ACGA: Ceramics in Focus 2018” from 5 to 7 p.m. This reception will be held as a part of “2nd Friday ArtAbout,” a monthly event hosted by Davis Downtown in an effort to connect the public with both Davis and regional art.

On April 27, the second reception for this exhibit will be held at the same location and time but in association with the California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art. “ACGA: Ceramics in Focus 2018” will be available for viewing between both reception dates and up until the end of the conference on April 29.

According to Jan Schachter, a member of the board of directors for the Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California and an exhibition curator, the DAC show arose to “display a body of work” and out of “an interest in having a significant visual presence during the CCACA Conference.”

“The first ACGA exhibit at Davis Arts Center was in 2006,” Schachter said. “The pleasure of the Davis Arts Center show is that opportunity, as an artist, to select a group of pieces yourself to be show together, rather then just one piece, which is most common in juried shows.

The artists also assist in the installation, which is a great opportunity, too.”

Michael Azevedo, the deputy director of DAC, commented on what makes this exhibition special compared to other shows held at the venue in the past.

“Each year, a different judge selects artists based on the ACGA members that enter the annual competition,” Azevedo said. “The juror brings their own vision

Student Sounds: Lo & The Mix (Part 2)

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There are a few new things I’ve learned about the local band Lo & The Mix since sitting down with them last year. One cannot help but notice a strong new energy within the band, an undeniable chemistry between the members both new and old. Indeed, only three members of the last version of Lo & the Mix remain after some members departed. Witty back-and-forth banter not only produced a conversation that produced quirky revelations about each band member, but is also an example of the intimacy central to the

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Theater is often visualized thick with grandeur, the large lights and long coattails of Broadway. Such an art isn’t restricted to vast stages, though, and can also be performed under humbler roofs. The work of UC Davis’ Studio 301 is a perfect example of said simpler, yet equally moving theater.

“Swimmers,” Studio 301’s upcoming production, exemplifies a more barebones style of theater. It’s an organization looking to create genuine and entertaining shows. Ryan Gerberding, the director of “Swimmers” and a fourth-year theater and dance major, explained Studio 301 as a student club.

“We’re an undergraduate-run theater

club,” Gerberding said. “Every show is directed, acted and teched by all undergraduates. Every quarter we either do a professional show, like a published show, like ‘Swimmers’ [...] or we do some other sort of performance, like last quarter we did a musical revue.”

Daniel Hollar, a fifth-year political science major and actor in “Swimmers,” mentioned that while Studio 301 may be a theater organization, it brings in a wide swatch of individuals sharing a common hobby.

“It’s a bunch of incredibly talented people from all different majors and walks of life,” Hollar said. “It’s a great club and I enjoy the people.”

Such a small student-run organization faces an issue that parallels many students:

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alteration of the band as a whole.

Fourth-year cinema and digital media major and drummer Sean Johnson and I have the same favorite color. Fourth-year political science major and bassist John Hancock and third-year genetics major and keyboardist Oliver Tucher have the same middle name. Aram Balain, a fourth-year chemical engineering major who does auxiliary percussion for the band, loves progressive rock band King Crimson. Horn players Micah Marmorstein and Caleb Sanders, fourth-year biochemical engineering and biochemistry majors respectively, both have killer laughs. UC Davis alumnus and lead vocalist and rhythm guitar

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and aesthetic in selecting the winning group of artists.”

This year, seven artists — Bill Abright, Joseph Kowalczyk, Françoise LeClerc, Eusebio Ramirez Lozano, Daniel John Stingle and Claudia Tarantino — were chosen to participate by Michelle Gregor, a Bay Area artist and the judge of this year’s exhibit.

Bill Abright, an artist who has worked with ceramics for 50 years, explains what drew him into being involved with the exhibit and the Davis Arts Center.

“I have participated in the CCACA conference for about 30 years,” Abright said. “I have always attended an opening at the Davis Art Center of interesting ceramics during the conference. Now it’s my turn.”

On the evolution of his ceramic style and inspiration over time, he shared a list of varying interests “[f ] rom thrown pottery to sculptural thrown vessels to constructed figures to drawings to hand-built fish to drawings to big masks to crows to ducks to owls to constructed figures to watercolors back to figures.”

A “self-taught potter” who has been working with ceramics for over 40 years, Claudia Tarantino has had less of a sporadic and wide-ranging evolution in terms of her ceramic style and inspiration compared to Abright.

“I started as a production potter,” Tarantino said. “After several years, I transitioned into sculptural work in porcelain. Over time my work became narrative trompe l’oeil still life constructions grounded in memories.”

For students interested in ceramics, she has some advice.

“Take a class,” Tarantino said. “Participate in workshops. Look at art — all kinds of art. Follow artists whose work you respond to.”

On why she thinks students should attend this event, Tarantino noted the opportunity to be exposed to talented ceramic artists from California as well as an opportunity to appreciate their passion.

“This exhibit and the CCACA conference put on by the John Natsoulas Gallery [on April 27 to 29] bring together some of the most accomplished ceramic artists in California,” Tarantino said. “It is an opportunity to be exposed to artists who have pursued ceramics as a career and have dedicated themselves to making, showing and teaching ceramic art.”

For more information on “ACGA: Ceramics in Focus 2018” and the Davis Arts Center, visit its website.

Aside from the Davis Arts Center, you can also catch all six artists’ work at Regency Square during the conference on April 27 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., April 28 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and April 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Benett Hannan likes the color blood orange-red because it makes him go “mmhmm.”

Through various interactions and multiple members unintentionally enrolling together in a jazz music class on campus, the current band came into fruition at the end of 2017.

“How we ended up playing together and whether or not we are [the title] Lo & the Mix is not as important as the people who are here [...] Sean has grown so much; I have learned hella from talking with John,” Sanders said.

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funding. A production is not solely actors and a script, but also a set, props and costumes. Members of “Swimmers” hinted at some of the extra work required to see their play into a production.

Caitlyn Sampley, the show’s stage manager and a second-year cinema and digital media and theater and dance double major, joked about holding parts of the set in her car and elaborated on the difficulties of pulling it all together.

“Setwise, I have a rolling desk in the back of my car, because we have no place to store things,” Sampley said. “Typically we’ll thrift. We bought a bunch of chairs off of the SPCA. We’re renting some tables and things. So, everything is very small, very minimal.”

Hollar shone light on similar lengths in regard to costumes.

“We’re trying to make a fat suit,” Hollar said. “The clothes that I’m wearing are obviously way over my size, and we’re going to have a belt right under my chest and then a shirt underneath that belt. Beneath that shirt we’re going to stuff it with like padding and things to kind of make it look as if I have extra fat and skin in certain areas so it doesn’t just look like I shoved a t-shirt underneath my bigger shirt.”

Rachel Bonds’ “Swimmers” is quite

new, being produced less than a handful of times. Gerberding discussed some benefits of producing a young play.

“I like working with new pieces because there’s not that whole history that you have to build upon,” Gerberding said.

“If you’re working with something classic, if we were doing something like Shakespeare or Arthur Miller, something older, then, you know, you have to take into account that for generations and years and years people have seen these shows and have lots of expectations. But, with something new like [“Swimmers”] people have never heard of it, never seen it before, so you can make it entirely your own.”

Sampley, on the other hand, mentioned some of the downsides.

“It’s kind of a double-edged sword when you do a new play, because typically when you do stuff it is really common to get compared to past productions of things, especially if they’re really well known,” Sampley said. “In a way it’s nice to do a new thing, but at the same time you can learn some things from past productions. You can look at costume designs. You can look at the kind of look people are going for [...] It’s really helpful to look for cast photos and production photos, look at the lighting and what the sets looked like and more of the technical

side of things.

In regard to the play, Sampley explained the boiled-down essence of it. “[The audience] is walking into an office space,” Sampley said. “‘Swimmers’ is a normal day in the life at an office, so a lot of dark humor, a lot of intersecting storylines, very vignette style. So, you meet different characters in every scene that may or may not pop up again. [...] Just people working together and the shenanigans they get into.”

Hollar elaborated, highlighting the value of the show. “[The show] is kind of sad, but overall it is happy, because with every scene it airs a specific kind of dilemma for every character,” Hollar said. “It’s uplifting. At the end you think maybe they’ll turn out okay. So although it’s a little bit on the sad side, I think it comes away with a very realistic optimism.”

Opening April 13, “Swimmers” will be performed by a dedicated group of Aggies who want to see a production grow from start to finish. Studio 301 is designed to gift its own infatuation of theater to the audience from hardwork and dedication.

What “Swimmers” will show isn’t the bang of Hollywood, but instead an exhibition of an ensemble who simply love the craft of theater.

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not in a position to meet this demand.

“The university is not in the position to provide health care remissions to undergraduates,” Fishel said. “We will, however, be making a presentation in a future bargaining session about health care. We are specifically talking about UC SHIP. We again express to you that the remission process for the UC SHIP is part of the contract, not the content of the UC SHIP itself.”

Testifying to the mental health issue, White responded to the claims that the university will not be fulfilling the sixth demand.

“Why do I have to stand here, be anxious, take days to recover from this and have that be okay?”

White said. “I grew up in a family that has and still has mental health problems on both sides. UC Davis’ mental health services are absolutely inadequate.

I have waited a month for an appointment. The providers are not well trained — they tell me they are not well-trained. They’re Ph.D. students in psychology. This is not a blow at them, but at the university who does not hire experts and does not pay them well enough and does not do anything to keep them here. We pay in and we don’t get anything back, and now we’re hearing you don’t want to discuss it.”

The tenth demand of the UAW is the expansion of union rights, including the demilitarization of the police. Fishel said that it was an inappropriate subject for bargaining. Eric Gudz, a former UC Davis graduate student who was pursuing a Masters degree

in transportation, technology and policy and former Army Lieutenant, testified to this issue.

“I can tell you from my personal experience that weapons of war have no business on our colleges campuses,” Gudz said. “I know exactly what these tools are for: they’re for warfare. I am asking you to take the time to consider how these weapons of war need to be and fundamentally [are] an issue of worker safety.”

UC Davis faculty members have drafted a letter of support for the UAW local at UC Davis. Breuninger explained why their support is important.

“It all ties back into the distant power position of academic student workers at the UC,” Breuninger said. “The faculty have more respect and more clout than we do and also have more power within the system to leverage than we do. Our key mechanism for getting things done is banding together, but that’s stronger when we have people with a bit more power and respect within the system backing us up. Also, this contract is about how we work with and relate to faculty, because they are our supervisors. If we have faculty support for the changes in our contract going into this, that will send the image that aspects of the contract are something that both the supervisors and workers agree upon.”

The bargaining session eventually ended with one UAW member chanting “Whose university?” as the rest of the members present responded with “our university.”

swam down and fired a shot. Golding tipped the ball, preserving the tie.

Wright noted one of the keys to victory was making sure the Anteaters couldn’t score easily.

“When you keep a team with that many weapons to eight goals, it’s pretty fantastic,” Wright said.

With 2:41 left to go in regulation, Wright called a timeout to strategize with the women.

When play started again, sophomore goalkeeper Caitlin Golding scanned the pool for openings and possible holes in the defense, and then passed it to Schafle.

Schafle fired left and found a narrow part of the goal near the bottom in what would be the game-winning goal, leaving 2:28 on the clock in the fourth quarter.

This play, according to Wright, was added to the women’s arsenal only two days before the game.

“She’s such a good shooter,” Wright said. “You have got to find ways to get her the ball, and that worked out pretty good.”

From that point on, the Aggies switched to a defensive posture to prevent quick Anteater shots on goal.

The women will travel to southern California to play CSU Northridge on April 14 and UC Santa Barbara on April 15.

“From here, it can only go up,” Koohlmos said. “This win is going to really boost our confidence. We’re going to go in really hard against CSUN and UC Santa Barbara. We’re not going to accept a loss, we’re going to keep pushing through.”

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the increase in student fees would be dedicated to mental health. Unfortunately, a lot of our campuses have good intentions, but the availability of the workforce makes it difficult. We’ll keep at it, we’ll keep trying to improve it.

TCA: I understand part of the funds amassed through the tuition hike — or hikes, if the in-state hike is approved in May — will be allocated toward mental health resources. Is this correct?

Napolitano: The tuition hike is related to the core operations of the campus and primarily the undergraduate educational experience. The increase in the student fee, half of that increase will go toward improvement.

TCA: I wanted to address your announcement recently that public universities should guarantee admission to qualified California community college students. Why do you feel this should be a focus of the UC? Napolitano: I think it’s a function of the master plan of higher ed in California [...] — the idea in the master plan is that students could start at community college, do two years there and transfer. We already accept a large percentage of our transfer

applications. This just puts the period at the end of the sentence and makes sure that qualified community college transfers — these will be students who have done one of the pathways, and they have to get a certain GPA which will be set by the UC faculty — will be guaranteed a seat somewhere in the UC system.

TCA: Recently, Chancellor May announced that the UC Davis police department has made de-escalation a priority. Do you think it should be a commitment of the UC that UC police departments should be focused on de-escalation or at least police reform?

Napolitano: Yes, in fact I have formed a president’s working group on policing practices throughout the UC. It’s chaired by Alex Bustamante, who is our chief audit and compliance officer, but he was former the inspector general of the LAPD, so he’s had a lot of experience in this area.

We have student representation, we have administrative representation [...and] some of the police chiefs are on it as well as some of the police officers themselves. I’ve asked them for recommendations on how university policing is conducted, what are the best practices and I’ll have those recommendations by the end of the calendar year.

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and there’s usually a cap of four hours a week, and a raise in price from $10 to $32 per reservation. We would have to request extra hours in order to book more rooms. It’s tricky to find rooms with good sound because that’s not exactly something administration would know.”

These performing organizations attempt to find creative solutions in order to continue their practices and prepare for upcoming competitions and showcases, but emphasize the difficulty in doing so due to the school administration. Hau-Ping Ting, a third-year biochemical engineering major, recalls difficult experiences finding practice spaces for her dance group due to interference from school representatives.

“We got kicked out [during practice] a few times, especially now that the ARC is under construction,” Ting said. “We tried to practice at the racquetball court once but they made us leave. They told us that it was intended for other sports, even though we reserved the court and there wasn’t any other space we

could use to practice.”

Additionally, amid the large expansion and construction of the ARC, there was little to no renovation planned to foster growth or support for the performing arts.

“If you see the ARC under construction there’s nothing that really gears towards dance,” Ting said.

“The dance studio on the second floor is still open, and it’s just really old. Renovation and expansion is probably needed, but it’s not happening right now.”

Members of these organizations advocate for change and note solutions that UC Davis’ administration can adopt in order to better respect the time and efforts of the performing arts groups on campus.

“I would suggest allowing us to reserve practice spaces more often, more than just two days for two hours,” Young said. “[They could also] allow us to reserve more practice spaces — so not just the Pavilion or dance studio, but also Freeborn Hall or the dance studio in Hickey Gym.”

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the Cuarto Dining Commons to prepare for the additional students coming to Webster Hall.

“The first thing we did in the Cuarto area back in about 2010 was we renovated the dining facility and expanded it, so that it could serve a larger number of students,” Galindo said. “Then we started with Webster Hall, which is currently under construction. It will be complete in the fall of 2019.

And then the next redevelopment is Emerson Hall.

That is the one we just got design and budget approval for at the regent’s meeting last month.”

For the long-term, Galindo also said that providing housing for second-year students is an objective.

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“[A] long-term part of our goal is also to get to a place where we can provide second-year housing for students,” Galindo said. “Right now, we provide it as an option, but it is not a guarantee and we want to get to a place where we can do that.

And we feel like our second-year students will be interested in this accommodation.”

The timeline for the Cuarto projects are for Webster Hall to open in Fall 2019. Students displaced by the demolition and subsequent construction of the new Emerson Hall will be moved to Webster Hall. The expected completion of Emerson Hall is slated for Fall 2022.

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necessarily,” Harper said. “We’re rising in this country. It’s been a tough time, but we’re still rising, and that’s what’s important.”

Harper argues that women need to use the past as a motivational push to collectively work towards a better, more inclusive future.

“As women, if we want representation in politics, we need to focus on us growing,” Harper said. “It’s important to know what struggles we have gone through.

However, I think one of the most important things for us as women is to continue to push through.

Females are still rising. We need to empower ourselves with the numbers that we’ve achieved; we’ve achieved great numbers.”

According to Shaniah Branson, a third-year communication and political science double major and ASUCD executive vice president, it is crucial for women uplift one another and embrace intersectionality, because that will breed the most tangible change.

“Gender equality must be embraced fully, by both men and women, if we are to evolve culture and ourselves,” Branson said. “But more importantly, empower the women around you — whether you agree with their political positions or not and despite personal controversies. When women continuously empower women, imag-

ine how unstoppable we ALL will become.”

Sydney Hack, a second-year political science — public service and international relations double major and member of the Judicial Council of ASUCD, says that in order to bridge the gender gap in politics, women need work to empower the younger generations to use their voices and get involved in the political process.

“I think it’s leading by example,” Hack said. “We’ve never had a women president. I don’t believe we’ve ever had a female vice president. We’ve only ever had four women on the Supreme Court out of at least 70 plus Supreme Court justices. We are not represented, but it’s definitely something we can change if we encourage girls and make [female representation] normal.”

Many would argue that the younger generations are already breaking gender barriers in the political sector. Emily Rose Jones, a second-year political science major, a member of the Davis College Democrats and J Street U and the women’s caucus of the California Young Democrats, believes that society is in fact moving in a progressive direction and will continue to do so in the coming decades.

“I think our generation is really where it’s changing,” Jones said.

“I think it’s part of this process, [a process] that’s been really slow-going, of recognizing the voice that everyone should have in politics.

It’s becoming more acceptable to have a powerful women [in politics]. We’re getting there and the narrative is changing [...] and I think that we’re going to see a lot of progress in the representation that we see from women and from all branches.”

The narrative for women is indeed changing day-by-day, but the demographics show that there is still work left to be done. Eastin wants every woman to know that although the battle for gender equality will be difficult, it is a battle that needs to be fought and won.

“I think that the future of the Republic — ethically, economically, in terms of civility and in terms of justice — requires that more women participate,” Eastin said. “It’s imperative at this point.

Every step forward where there is equality, whether it’s based on gender or race or sexual orientation or whatever it is, is a step in the right direction. We may take two steps forward and one step back, we may stumble. But we have to understand that the battle for truth and justice is never-ending. And yes it’ll be hard [...] but it’s always better to be involved in a just cause.”

Wendi Delmendo, UC Davis’s Title IX officer, said that changes in the University of California’s sexual harassment policy over the past few years have attempted to combat issues like those described in the Title IX cases. As detailed in a letter to students in June 2017, Delmendo noted that there has been an increase in fulltime investigative staff at the Title IX office in response to efforts by the UC to better handle sexual assault claims.

These investigators interview both the victim, the complainant, the accused and the respondent, and then gather evidence and witness testimony from both sides.

After this process is complete, an evidence packet is given to both parties, at which time they may provide additional information and suggest questions for the investigator to ask. At the end of this process, the report is com-

pleted and the investigator makes a suggestion as to resolution. This entire process is supposed to be completed in under 50 days in compliance with UC policy.

“We have to complete the investigation in that time frame unless there is a good reason,” Delmendo said.

Due to confidentiality, Delmendo could not speak to the 2015 cases. Investigators at OCR did not respond to requests for comment.

When asked for comment, Chancellor May linked to a statement given on Dec. 13 of last year titled “Abusive Behavior is Unacceptable,” which is a response to the growing #MeToo movement.

“Our protocols and processes [for investigating abuse] have improved greatly over the years,” May’s statement read. “We’ve made solid strides in how we provide education and training.”

tails that distinguish their music from others. Hannan agrees.

“I think everyone has a different thought, but I always thought of the ‘Lo’ being the little interactions between everything,” Hannan said. “The stuff that you don’t even hear on the track but if it was gone you would notice. I think it’s little things about everything we’re saying — the soul.”

Johnson “vibing on the drums” surfaced as a prime example of said energy and soul. This psyche has cued a songwriting streak for the band. New content has even emerged by accident as the band has been practicing together for their upcoming shows, according to Sanders.

“Right now we are working on our Picnic Day show, and then we are doing Whole Earth Festival,” Sanders said.

Moreover, the band is recording and will be performing their new music, now to even larger audiences.

“What we have online now are our old EPs,” Hannan said. “We have about three new songs recorded right now that will come out on SoundCloud. And on June 2 we will be opening for Riot Makers at Holy Diver in Sacramento. This will be our biggest show yet, upwards of 1,000 people.”

With such tangible growing success, one cannot help but observe a growing maturity within the band. Its strong structural foundation has allowed for more

legitimate goals to arise. Again, they are no longer simply jamming in a living room.

“It is a moving goalpost,” Sanders said. “We want to sell our music and we want to get more music recorded. We want people to listen to our music.”

While the goals of the band have become more solidified, the fluid emotions and geniality that unite the members and their sound have remained.

“I think it is not being afraid,” Hancock said. “It’s not like you have to be a structured thing to meet a structured goal. Us having to hit this deadline or play this certain way — none of us feel that way. We really have this idea and want to produce something good, but we don’t feel like we need to do something particular in the way or that we play our music so that we can put it on an album. I’m going to go play with these guys and have a blast doing it.”

As Hannan put it, “for lack of a smaller term,” Lo & the Mix is pure musical love.

“You can’t control it,” Hannan said. “The moment you try to make it go in a way that it doesn’t want to go, it is no longer love.”

That love for music was evident even in the last 15 minutes of the interview. Each member kept asking if they could play a song or two. At the conclusion of the interview, each lept from their seat to attend to their instrument — and the jamming commenced.

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claim, the second student’s accusation is being looked at as a separate issue.

During an investigation, the OCR acts as a neutral fact-finding body. Its responsibility is not to assess the case of sexual assault itself, but to investigate whether the complainant’s rights were violated by the educational institution. The OCR investigates issues of discrimination for educational bodies that receive federal funding from the U.S. Department of Education. Title IX cases specifically deal with discrimination on the basis of sex.

Because these are ongoing cases, all information about the case has been withheld. The first letter from 2015 includes five and a half pages of blacked-out information due to a possibility that release of the information could impede the investigation or “constitute an unwarranted invasion of privacy.”

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legitimate than before; no longer just a casual jam sesh, but a cohesive group.

Tucher commented on the dynamic between Sanders and Marmorstein, the band’s horn section, in particular.

“They get together and link up. In between their solos is this unified teamwork that is really fun to watch.”

The relationships between members are the key aspect that produces the coherency and sound of Lo & the Mix. “That’s partly why Lo & the Mix is now set,” Hannan said.

“The name is not a particular group, and that’s partly what embodies the ‘Mix’ part of it. We’ve had so many people touch on this one big thing that has grown out of our community of friends, and it’s starting to feel like this is what we are supposed to sound like.”

The sound has evolved from its original ska into a R&B funk melody, according to Marmorstein. The band confirmed the coining of this term on the spot during the interview. Titling their music is not their main objective; rather, their production of masterful music stands on its own.

“It’s funky bass, driving beat, a little more dancy, hot horn hits” Hannan said. “I’ve gone to acoustic […] and having that and the hand percussion adds this islandly feel. We also now have the keys, and that does that jazzy sound.”

For Balain, beyond earworm sound, it’s the hard-to-notice de-

hours of mandatory training of 4-H curriculum and are screened by the state. Specific training of adult mentors overseeing shooting clubs was not disclosed.

UC spokesperson Dianne Klein spoke to The Bee in response to backlash and widespread controversy regarding the UC’s ties to the NRA. Klein said the UC ANR will no longer apply for grants from the NRA. Davis College Democrats member Maryann Mcnamara, a second-year international relations and history double major, offered her opinion

on the university’s involvement in creating youth shooting clubs. Mcnamara discussed the UC’s involvement in funding other recreational clubs and how such clubs differ from shooting clubs.

“I don’t believe that guns and shooting clubs should be considered to be a leisure hobby,” Mcnamara said. “Guns are inherently violent, and the UC system should not be involved.”

When reached out to for comment, the Davis College Republicans responded that it had no comment on the topic.

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gravity. Emitted light from stars, galaxies and other celestial structures further away are magnified and made visible to instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope after bending around the huge clusters.

“They’re among the most massive structures in the universe,” said Austin Hoag, a Ph.D. candidate in the UC Davis Department of Physics and one of the team members of the Spock project. “All that mass makes them excellent tools for looking behind them and using them as natural magnifying glasses.”

Six clusters, called the Frontier Fields, were chosen to be observed for hundreds of hours by Hubble team members due to their exceptional mass and gravitational lensing capabilities.

“Around 2013, there was a new opportunity with Hubble,” said Steven Rodney, an assistant professor in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of South Carolina and one of the leaders of the Spock project. “The director at the time, Matt Mountain, had decided to invest a large amount of Hubble Telescope observing time in to what became the Frontier Fields project.

The idea was that, using these gravitational lensing galaxy clusters, you could amplify Hubble’s capabilities. You could reach farther back in time, deeper into the universe, and see things that would normally be invisible, even to Hubble, by harnessing the power of the dark matter lenses that comprise the galaxy clusters.”

Icarus and Spock were spotted in images taken during the Frontier Fields observation studies, each being found in a respective galaxy cluster: MACS J1149 and MACS 0416.

“In the spring of 2016, I was looking through some of the images we got from Hubble and saw a new source in a special part of the field where the magnification from the cluster should be extreme,” said Patrick Kelly, an assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota and one of the leaders of the Icarus project. “It turned out that it had brightened, because a star orbiting around the cluster moved into the right spot and boosted the magnification by a factor of three, up to a total magnification of 2,000.”

For a brief time in May 2016, Icarus was bright enough for scientists to deeply investigate properties of the star. Icarus turned out to be the farthest star yet discovered.

“We measured its redshift, which tells you how much the universe has expanded since the light was emitted,” Kelly said. “We know the light was emitted 9.3 billion years ago, so the light has travelled 9.3 billion light years. That’s about three-fourths of the way back to the Big Bang. The next nearest star we can study individually is 100 times closer.”

After finding Icarus, Kelly was able to review

past Hubble images taken in the same area to check if the star, a million times brighter than our sun, had appeared in previous observations.

Hubble had been observing the cluster for a few years, allowing comparisons between exposures over time. Icarus is still available for study, but not at the same extreme magnification of 2,000 times.

“We can see [Icarus] all the time, if you look at it with Hubble,” Kelly said. “It’s always magnified by a factor of 600. That’s a difference with the other paper. With Spock, you can’t see anything there anymore.”

Spock is a star that briefly brightened and dimmed multiple times over a period of only a few weeks in 2014, enough time for researchers to notice interesting properties about the event.

“Spock was very unusual because it was very fast,” Rodney said. “It rose to its peak brightness in just a few days and faded away again, also in just a few days. It was all done in a matter of a couple of weeks. It was also unusual because it was fainter than a supernova but brighter than a nova.”

Mysteries remain about what exactly caused Spock to brighten so quickly. Brightening episodes due to stellar explosions or a planet impacting the star don’t seem to fit the timing pattern, or conflict with some of the information researchers received from Hubble studies.

“Spock is at what we call a redshift of one, which is about half the age of the universe,” Hoag said. “So that’s about seven billion years old.”

Having a telescope like Hubble in space has been a boon for stellar researchers. Terrestrial telescopes have trouble piercing the atmosphere with certain instruments and must also deal with light pollution from human civilizations.

“The Hubble Space Telescope images are what makes this possible,” Hoag said. “That’s because the Hubble Space Telescope has really good resolution, and it’s not affected by the atmosphere, which makes the resolution worse.”

The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is deep in development. By 2020, astronomers and engineers hope to launch and deploy the James Webb Space Telescope, which will orbit the sun about 1.5 million kilometers from earth. The hope is that James Webb will be able to reach deeper into the universe, perhaps up to 13.4 billion years ago, when some of the first stars were forming.

Hubble will continue to be used as a valuable scientific tool.

“We are pushing the envelope all the way to the very beginning of the universe,” Bradač said. “We study some of the first galaxies that formed in the universe, trying to figure out what they look like, what they’re made of. In particular, we’re trying to answer the big question: where did we come from?”

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This study shows that as the planet warms, regions such as the Arctic will be especially vulnerable. The start of warmer seasons shows one of the global effects of climate change that is very difficult to reverse.

“Nature is really noisy, which makes it hard to detect a human signal, but we’re starting to see clear

evidence of human impacts on a large scale,” said Byron A. Steinman, a co-author of the paper and a professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

“The effect of surface temperature increases on ecosystems is one such broad scale change that we can now, with confidence, say is due to human activity.”

THEN I NOTICED THERE WERE TWO OF HIM…

own.

I suddenly remembered that I had run into a friend from orientation earlier that day who was moving into my dorm building also. To my luck, she was planning to go out with her roommate, and everything is better in threes. Three hours later, we were sitting in their room.

Normally, I’m all for coconut-flavored stuff — but maybe not in rum. My stomach turned and my face scrunched up like I had just stubbed my toe in the middle of the night and couldn’t yowl in pain. The walk down Russell Boulevard was crowded, and the people yelling “freshmen” from their cars soon became obnoxious. We coerced our way into a hot frat house serving warm Kirkland beer. I stared off into the sea of sweaty bodies and started to realize I wasn’t doing so well.

Then I noticed there were two of him, two of the same guy in the doorway. I made my way back to my dorm, got into bed and conveniently needed to pee as soon as I lay down. With a spinning head on my shoulders and wearing nothing but boxer briefs, I felt the door slam behind me without my ID card or my phone.

Paul sent me a text earlier: “Staying at my parents’ hotel. Don’t wait up. haha.”

BY T E R RY HUDSON

As I leaned in, Paul was trying to hand me a stick of peppermint gum. I cuffed my hand around my mouth and exhaled to get a good whiff. I quickly reached for the stick of gum.

Turns out, we were both from the same part of the state, so we had a boring, yet sturdy, starting point to build off of. He was studying biology, which was fine; I could carry the conversation (he was very personable).

I told him that I was an international relations major and I wanted to work in the nonprofit sector. After going back and forth between staring at the ceiling and staring at my phone for a considerable amount of time, I decided to look for something to do. Paul had left to have a final dinner with his family, so it was up to me to find entertainment and make bad decisions on my

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SPORTS AGGIES DEFEATED BY GAUCHOS IN WEEKEND SERIES

N ICHOLAS CHA N / AG GIE

Softball team loses 2-1 in weekend series against UC Santa Barbara Gauchos

BY RYAN BUGSCH sports@theaggie.org

On a sunny day with the stands packed at La Rue Field in Davis on April 8, the UC Davis softball team was defeated by the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos 4-0 in the third game of play of the weekend.

Going into the weekend series, the Aggies possessed a 20-12 overall record and a 2-1 conference record.

The Gauchos were 13-23 overall and 0-3 in conference play coming into the series.

A first game 2-0 win the previous day and a second game 2-1 loss for the Aggies tied the weekend series, and with just 30 minutes to prepare for the second game of the day and the final of the series, UC Davis was trying to notch that second win.

In the first game of the series that took place on April 7, the Aggies showed big bats at the plate.

Freshman catcher Riley Siegel and sophomore second baseman Isabella Leon knocked the ball over the fence in the third and the sixth innings, respectively. Sophomore starting pitcher Katie Kibby shut down the Gauchos, pitching a full seven-inning game shutout, earning her eighth win of the season and bringing her earned run average to an impres-

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AGGIES BOUNCE BACK IN CONFERENCE PLAY, COME OUT ON TOP IN CLOSE MATCH Women’s water polo setting tone for conference play

BY B OBBY JO HN sports@theaggie.org

The stands were nearly full at the Schaal Aquatic Center as water polo fans watched the UC Davis women’s water polo team edge out a tough No. 7 UC Irvine, 9-8 on April 7 in a measure-for-measure exchange. Neither team was able to extend its lead by more than 1 in this matchup. The Aggies now have a 17-8 overall record and are 2-1 in Big West Conference play.

The victory over the Anteaters followed a tough road loss to a No 5. ranked Hawai’i exactly one week before, 12-7.

“We had a good week of practice,” said head coach Jamey Wright of the team’s preparation.

“Irvine is always good. Last time we played them, they [beat] us here at conference a year ago.”

Wright noted the required effort of the team because of the exclusions early on in the game.

“The vibe of the team is strong, their work ethic is amazing and everyone is contributing,” Wright said. “In this game there was exclusion, exclusion, exclusion and people had to come in that usually don’t come in right away.”

Senior center Greta Kohlmoos lead the Aggies in scoring with three goals, making this her second straight game with a hat-trick.

Sophomore attacker Kathleen Schafle took nine total shots on goal and scored twice, stole the ball twice and had one assist.

Sophomore goalkeeper Caitlin Golding had a total of 12 saves and three steals.

Junior utility Annie Kutt was the first Aggie to put points on the board in the first quarter at 6:56, but the Anteaters’ Corrida Toledo answered back

sive 2.00 to give UC Davis the 2-0 win.

The second game of the series the next morning showed a different outcome for the Aggies. On RBI singles in the third and the fifth innings, the Gauchos put two runs on the board. Sophomore right fielder Frankie Mendoza earned a groundout RBI to put the Aggies on the board, but the team was not able to string together a hit with a runner on third base in the bottom of the seventh, giving the Aggies the 2-1 loss.

In the first inning of the last game of the weekend, two quick hits for UCSB look troubling for starting pitcher Kibby. However, her ability to paint the corners of the strike zone with the ball is not only difficult for a pitcher to do, but also allowed for the next two batters to be out and end the inning tied at 0-0.

The top of the third inning proved tough for the Aggies, as the Gauchos were able to string together four hits and drive in three runs, having UC Davis trail 3-0 going into the bottom of the inning.

In the top of fourth inning, the Aggies continued to struggle, as UCSB loaded the bases and drove in another run to increase the lead to 4-0. Freshman relief pitcher Brooke Yanez came into the game for

about a minute later.

The teams then both played at a fairly even tempo and exchanged goals at an even rate, ending up tied with three goals apiece at the end of the first period.

It took a while for both teams to find their groove in the second period. The Anteaters scored first at even strength in the second period after over half of the second period elapsed at 3:50, making it 4-3 in favor of the Anteaters.

Kohlmoos answered with an even-strength goal on a breakaway to tie it up at 4-4 with 2:57 to go.

But then the Anteaters managed to get in front of the Aggie defense and take the lead 5-4 with 1:07 left in the second period.

With nearly a minute to go before the first half expired, Wright decided to put Kohlmoos back in.

Wright’s instinct was correct, as Kohlmoos scored an even-strength goal with 39 seconds left to tie it up at 5-5, earning herself a hat trick.

“It felt really good,” Kohlmoos said. “But it would have not been possible if my teammates hadn’t been working their butts off and making sure those opportunities were there. It felt good because the teamwork was just great today.”

It seemed the first half would end in a tie, but the Anteaters’ Toledo fouled an Aggie with 12 seconds to go in the red-zone. This gave Schlafe a penalty shot, which she skipped into the left corner and gave the Aggies the lead going into the second half of play.

The Anteaters set up scoring chances that were broken up by the Aggies’ concerted effort on defense toward the center.

“Today our teamwork was amazing — our communication on defense,” Kohlmoos said. “And not letting their center get shots off, and working hard to foul and drop back”.

Irvine started out the second half quick with a goal on a power-play to tie it up at 6-6, and the Anteaters followed it up at 5:05 with a go-ahead goal, putting the Aggies behind 7-6.

The following Aggie possession had Schlafe nearly losing the ball, which she narrowly recovered as the shot clock ticked. Kutt eventually fired from a distance, only to have her shot blocked before reaching the 5-meter mark.

Junior utility Emily Byrne then put the team’s efforts back on track with her first goal of the game at 4:21. After the teams traded possessions, senior utility Carla Tochinni gave the Aggies the go-ahead goal with 2:58 to go in the third, 8-7. This was the last goal of the third period.

In the fourth period, the Anteaters tied it up, 8-8 with 4:38 to go in regulation. After managing to break up a play at the center, the Anteaters WPOLO on 11

UC Davis with the bases loaded and one out on the board after the Gauchos scored, striking out one batter and making another batter hit a fly ball out to end the inning.

Following the fourth inning, the rest of the game was stagnant for both teams, as the Aggies and the Gauchos both left runners on base throughout the remainder of the game but couldn’t notch the hits for them to cross the plate, giving UC Davis the 4-0 loss.

“It was a rough day,” said Head Coach Erin Thorpe. “It was just one of those days where you keep trying to push through and it doesn’t come through

for you but everyone in conference is so tough and we just weren’t able to push any [runs] across.”

The Aggies are now 3-3 in conference play and 21-14 overall. UC Davis continues conference play away against Cal Poly on April 14.

“I think that we just need to continue to gain confidence in ourselves,” Thorpe said. “We [the team] are so young and still have some pretty inconsistent performances along the way. We have some key players that are injured and some other girls that we are giving opportunities to step up, so it is just them kind of feeling it out and gaining confidence in themselves.”

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