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INTERNAL AUDIT REVEALS STEEP DECLINE IN COUNSELORS, $250,000 WORTH OF QUESTIONABLY ALLOCATED FUNDS

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Audit was done two years into $18 million UC effort to expand counseling services

This article is the third in a three-part series examining issues that counseling psychologists in the UC system are currently facing, including under-market wages, understaffing and high demand leading to systemwide recruitment and retention issues.

The California Aggie recently obtained and verified a copy of an internal audit of UC Davis Counseling Services performed in December of 2017 by UC Davis Audit and Management Advisory Services. This audit was performed almost two years after the start of an $18 million UC-wide effort to hire additional clinicians throughout the UC system in order to “increase access to mental health services, reduce wait times for students, and complement outreach and prevention efforts.”

The audit states that the reported numbers of staff on campus have been inflated to misrepresent the actual number, and that $250,000 worth of mental health funds (MHF) was spent by UC Davis in a manner “inconsistent with non-binding guidance” provided by the UC Office of the President.

Additionally, the audit includes a graph (see above) which depicts a steep decline in the total number of counseling psychologists on staff in 2017.

Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Adela de la Torre requested the audit be done and said it provided “good feedback.”

“We don’t necessarily need to hire more counselors,” de la Torre said in response to the audit and its findings.

In UCOP’s announcement of its fouryear initiative to hire “85 clinicians across the system” in 2016, the word “will,” used to explain what the UC will do, is used eight times in the original press release. De la Torre, however, objected to the word “mandate” being used to describe the UC’s plans. She said the fouryear increase in student services fees for the hiring of new clinicians to bring campuses in line with nationally-recognized staff-to-student ratios “was guidance.”

Individual student contribution to the Mental Health fee was addressed in a joint response sent via email from Assistant Vice Chancellor for Divisional Resources of Student Affairs Cory Vu, Principal Budget Analyst Laurie Carney and Campus Life Content Provider for the UC Davis News and Media Relations team Julia Ann Easley.

“For Fiscal Year 2017-18, all students pay $1128 annually, of which $113 are paid by undergraduate and graduate professional students and $100 by graduate academic students towards the Mental Health fee,” the email stated.

When asked whether the hiring of new counselors with these fees as outlined in the UC press release is an obligation of the UC campuses or an aspirational goal, UC spokesperson Stephanie Beechem said the “collaborative effort [...] is ongoing.” Beechem did not respond to requests for comment as to how, specifically, UCOP is implementing the initiative.

“The [UC] has not put the effort into trying to meet their own mental health initiatives

that they put out,” said Jamie McDole, the vice president of the University Professional and Technical Employees, which represents counseling psychologists. “There’s been a lot of turnover to our staffing, they’re not even close to the mental health standards they’re supposed to be achieving — of a therapist available for every 1,000 to 1,200 students. They’re failing.”

The steep decline in counseling psychologists shown on the graph (see above) was due to the termination of contract staffers at UC Davis.

The audit states that ten contract employees were hired “temporarily to satisfy general under-met student need” but “only one of the ten employment contracts was renewed past June 2017.”

UPTE is currently in negotiations with the UC over its healthcare contract.

Since the existing healthcare contract does not include any contract employees, who are at-will and may be terminated without explanation, several of the UC campuses transferred their contract employees to full-time positions during bargaining with UCOP. According to McDole, however, rather than transfer UC Davis’ contract employees to full-time positions, they were terminated — “they just laid them off instead of dealing with it.”

McDole said a charge of “unfair labor practice” has been filed against UC Davis. Nan Senzaki, a senior staff member of UC Davis counseling and psychological services, commented on the hiring of the 10 contract staff members.

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Beyond the Budget holds town hall in response to funding cut ZOË REINHARDT / AGGIE FILE

BY JACQ UE L I N E MO O R E campus@theaggie.org

Members of the UC Davis Cross Cultural Center and other university students gathered on the night of Jan. 22 at the LGBTQIA Resource Center to discuss funding cuts to student centers on campus. The meeting was part of a movement called Beyond the Budget, which began in response to the recent $77,000 budget cut to the CCC’s funding. Beyond the Budget is unaffiliated with the student center. The intention of the discussion was to compose a set of demands regarding funding cuts to all student centers and communities to be presented to the Division of Student Affairs. “[We want] to give students a voice, address community needs, and hold admin accountable by drafting a list of demands including but not limited to #fundtheccc,” reads a graphic for the town hall that was posted in the Beyond the Budget Facebook group.

At the beginning of the meeting, leaders of the event presented a timeline showing the date of the cut and the subsequent student responses to it. They attributed unsubstantial student activism to a lack of transparency on the part of administrators. Additionally, they noted that the timing of the budget cut, in the spring of 2017, might have been intended to take advantage of student burnout that persists as summer approaches.

List of demands to be presented to Division of Student Affairs

In response to the presentation, audience members proposed various ways to combat administrative actions that might prove detrimental to on campus organizations. One student postulated that if student centers operated solely on student fees, it would be more difficult for administrators to control the centers’ autonomy.

Another attendee hypothesized that administrators might be monitoring the students that check in to different organizations. They noted that when students swipe in before entering student centers, their attendance data is collected by the administration, which might be used to correlate quantitative characteristics such as GPA to certain organizations.

Others argued that changing the administration’s relationship with student organizations required more than delivering a set of complaints and requests to the Division of Student Affairs.

Some were hesitant to believe that a compromise between student communities and administrators could ever be reached. There was frustration expressed with the lack of clarity and justification for administrative actions that impact student centers.

One student brought up the short-lived Brown Bag Initiative, a free lunch program that distributed local produce to students in need.

According to the student, administrators shut down the program without citing the specific reasons for the termination.

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ees drafted a list of demands. One demand asked that administrators give “clear qualifications for programs” to avoid unclear termination of student organizations, such as the Brown Bag Initiative. Another demand requested that administrators be more transparent about how the budget is distributed to university programs. Many demands revolve around student autonomy and the ability to make most, if not all, of the decisions relevant to student organizations and centers.

A survey was shared with meeting attendees as a way for students to share stories of how administrative decisions have negatively affected students or student organizations. It also gave students the chance to add to the list of demands to present to the Division of Student Affairs.

“Feel free to use this form to bring forth your demands or narratives regarding how you, as a student, have been affected by decisions made by administrators in higher education,” the survey description reads.

While the survey was only supposed to be live for 24 hours after the end of the town hall meeting, it can still be taken online.

Certain leaders and members of the Beyond the Budget movement planned to attend the ASUCD Senate meeting on Jan. 25.

“We are trying to pass a resolution of support for our demands and movement [and] need as many [folks] there as possible,” read a post in the event group on Facebook by Abigail Wang, a coordinator of the town hall.

Women’s March Sacramento Women stand together in fight for equal rights

BY STELLA TR AN city@theaggie.org

The Women’s March in Sacramento on Jan. 20 was the second march for the city, and the numbers rose to more than 35,000 participants this year. The march started at Southside Park and ended at the Capitol Building, where the event held speakers who advocated for their beliefs on rights and equality.

Angelique Ashby, a city councilmember for the City of Sacramento, described the march as a collective effort.

“The march was the largest that we know of in city history,” Ashby said. “With more than 35,000 participants, the event serves as a collaborative catalyst — bringing people together. It’s not isolated to Sacramento.

Marchers came from all over the six county regions with a unifying message of hope and partnership for a better, more equal future.”

Ashby emphasized that together, women and those in support of women’s rights can bring underlying issues to the surface.

“When elected officials see tens of thousands of women and their allies joined in a message of equality, it helps drive a dialogue through the media and the collective voice of an overwhelmingly large population,” Ashby said.

The march served as an outlet for women to come together to let their voices be heard.

“It’s rare and unique for so many people to gather,” Ashby said. “That matters. It has an undeniable impact on policy discussions.”

Ashby was also a speaker at the end of the march.

As the only female councilmember of Sacramento, she rallied the crowd, addressing them as an army to reach for equality.

“Look around you — this is our army — our weapons are education, law, experience, talent and an unrelenting spirit driving us towards equality,” Ashby said.

Marianna Rivera, a march attendee, stated that she participated to advocate against all oppressions.

“We are here to be recognized and to have our rights recognized,” Rivera said. “We are here to fight against all oppressions, from sexism to racism. As women of color, we still have to fight racism. Part of our reality is dealing with all of those things. We’re marching for unity to show our strength and show our resistance.”

Xico Gonzalez, a political artist, gave out his art prints featuring different activist women, such as Angela Davis and Frida Kahlo, to participants at the march.

“I have been doing political art and graphics for the past 20 years,” Gonzalez said. “The main focus is to empower and to provide a voice for the voiceless through the arts. I feel good. I’m also a high school teacher, and I work right across Southside Park. I saw a very diverse crowd from just walking from there to here. Hopefully this is a really good march and we make a statement.”

Nicola Smith, another one of the women at the march, repeated that she is a fighter for equal rights.

“I’m fighting for equal rights for women, and I’m fighting for people rights,” Smith said. “I’m happy that there are so many women here and young women that are doing this as well.”

Deborah Jory, another participant, noted that she felt ready to continue doing more, even after the march.

“I came to the march today because I’ve been dissatisfied with what’s going on with our government for a long time,” Jory said. “I just want to show my support for all the women here. It’s energizing to know that you’re not alone. I do not think you get to a certain age as a woman and have not experienced some type of bias or abuse or discrimination. I feel more energized to do more.”

The Sacramento march was one of the 673 “sister marches” across the world.

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For Art’s Sake

Arts Education in Davis Elementary Schools

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This is the first of a two-part story about the arts curriculum and funding in the Davis Joint Unified School District.

Gigi Bugsch, a third-grade teacher at Cesar Chavez Elementary, and Marla Cook, a sixthgrade teacher at Robert E. Willet Elementary, couldn’t help but boast about their students’ artwork. When asked about the art they implement in their classrooms, each teacher roamed around their room adorned with student art, showing the various projects students had been working on, sharing comments about what the students made and the creative process behind it. They talked a little faster while sharing the displayed art, their voices a little higher out of excitement about what their students had produced.

“I wanted some deep colors in here. I wanted some contrasting colors,” Bugsch said. “I ask what do they see in pictures. I asked them what comes to mind when they think of fall.”

With the known lack of funding in California schools, the question arises: which programs are most affected? The arts are often the first to be impacted in education, and the elementary schools in the Davis Joint Unified School District seem to be no exception.

“There isn’t an arts curriculum, and unfortunately, when schools don’t have a lot of money, art is the first to go,” Cook said.

The California Department of Education decides how much funding each school district receives through the Local Control Funding Formula, which was enacted in 2013. DJUSD received a total of $62,269,963 from the state in the 2016-17 fiscal year, according to the district’s funding snapshot, to be used for the spending of all schools in the district.

“Funding is set based on your student population,” said Matt Duffy, the director of elementary schools for DJUSD. “The new state formula is that schools get a base amount of funding based on their student enrollment and attendance and Local Control Supplemental Funds, which is based off of

unduplicated students who are low income, foster students, or homeless. So districts with a higher percentage of those students get a higher amount of funding. Davis is only about 26 percent unduplicated students, so we get a lower percentage.”

According to Koling Chang, the vice president of the Davis School Arts Fund, a nonprofit which fundraises to provide grant money for art projects in Davis schools, the Board of Trustees for the district ultimately votes upon the allocation of funds and to which programs funding will go.

“The Board decides everything,” Chang said.

“The budget office of the district knows the amount of money they have. A lot of times the Board, even though they have voting power, they don’t always do what other people want.”

The DJUSD’s Board of Trustees declined an interview with The Aggie.

Before the use of the LCFF, the state dictated the amount of money that was allocated to each school subject.

“It used to be tied,” Cook said. “You had pots of money and programs would get a specific amount of money. And then we were going through a hard financial time about 10 to 15 years ago, and people didn’t want to be tied to it anymore, so the state untied it. Certain programs were gotten rid of; we couldn’t afford art. Although art was never required, as it is now, this district allocates really zero money to art.”

The California Department of Education outlines content standards for visual and performing arts into five guiding principles that apply to each discipline and mirror the expectations of each grade level: artistic perception, creative expression, historical and cultural context, aesthetic valuing and connections, relationships and applications. However, with the LCFF in place, there is no allotment of funds made specifically for these standards. Moreover, Common Core, the national education standards used in curriculum implementation, does not include visual and performing arts in its California State Standards.

According to Duffy, elementary schools in the district have a music program starting in fourth

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Administrative panel held on Jan. 22 to discuss community issues Panel featured Chancellor, Provost, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs

BY CLARA ZHAO campus@theaggie.org

On Jan. 22, an administrative panel was held in the Multipurpose Room of the Student Community Center. The panel, titled “Building Bridges,” was an effort to bring about constructive dialogue and speak about campuswide concerns.

Panelists included Chancellor Gary May, Provost Ralph Hexter, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Adela de la Torre, Police Chief Joe Farrow, Interim Lead of Finance, Operations and Administration Kelly Ratliff, Athletics Director Kevin Blue and Chief of Staff Karl Engelbach.

Members of the community were given the chance to ask the panelists questions by raising their hands, passing questions up on index cards or emailing questions to sac@ucdavis.edu.

One of the first questions asked was on the issue of investment in student entrepreneurship and employment. The panelists responded that, in addition to the Student Internship and Career Center, the school has permanent funds of up to $100,000 for students to develop projects. There are also various clubs on campus for entrepreneurship.

The next question, asked to Blue, inquired about the progress on an earlier promise to increase the number of female athletic participation opportunities. Blue responded that there is a campus group working to advance the analysis process.

Next, a concerned audience member brought up that a large percent of students skip meals be-

Jan. 13 “Subjects broke reporting party’s porchlight.”

“Intoxicated male knocking on doors in common area.”

Jan. 14 “Male was trying to get in at the front door, now appears to be passed out.”

“Arriving home to find the front door unlocked, required unit to check interior, unknown if roommate home — not getting a re sponse.”

“Complaint of tent set up in the middle of the bike tunnel.”

Jan. 15 “Female who is being discharged trying to fight staff in the ER.” Jan. 16 “Fenceline next to business, subjects starting a campfire.”

Last week in Senate Discussion over OASR unit director position leads to disagreement

BY E L I Z A BE T H M E R C A DO campus@theaggie.org

On Jan. 18, at 6:12 p.m., Vice President Adilla Jamaludin called the ASUCD Senate meeting to order in the Mee Room of the Memorial Union.

The evening’s first presentation was given by the Office of Student Support and Judicial Affairs. Don Dudley and Jennifer Chow presented on the office’s status after rebranding two years ago from the former Office of Judicial Affairs. The office laid out its mission to help maintain conduct standards and provide due process when called upon.

The Office of Student Support and Judicial Affairs intends to “coordinate between students and the resources they need for counseling.”

Sarah Risher and Lois Kim, the chair and vice chair of the Environmental Policy and Planning Commission, presented on The Green Initiative Fund. The fund sponsors students’ projects for sustainability.

The Spring Grant Cycles have raised enough money to fund student-run projects based in UC Davis or the Davis community ranging from $2,000 to $200,000. Applications to submit

a sustainable project are due on April 9.

The Elections Committee then updated the table on the Winter Elections cycle. Petitions for prospective candidates went out on Monday, Jan. 22. Committee Chair Naeema Kaleem and Vice Chair Rodney Tompkins presented the committee’s ideas to promote the election cycle. Raffles and increased tabling will be implemented to incentivise greater voter turnout. Voting, endorsements and petition signatures will all be digital.

ASUCD President Josh Dalavai presented third-year design major Amber Kumara as a prospective unit director for OASR to the table. Kumara was questioned before her confirmation on her history with advocacy and her goals as a representative for undergraduate students. She spoke about her passions for representing students. She was a returning student from time off from the university and did not have much advocacy experience. While she admitted to not being knowledgeable about every community on campus, she said her desire was to learn more.

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cause of the high cost of housing and education and asked the panelists what the school can do to help.

De la Torre brought up the UC Davis Food Pantry, which has consistently worked to address food insecurity on campus. In addition, the school has been helping students get enrolled in CalFresh, partnering with student housing to provide student meals and involved with the UCOP Global Health Initiative.

Another audience member asked about the housing crisis currently facing Davis. “[There is] a lot of progress currently made in Orchard Park and West Village for affordable houses,” Ratliff said. “We are moving forward with over 5,000 beds in that project.”

The next question was in regard to the “It’s Okay to Be White” posters found on campus last year.

According to Farrow, the university took the issue very seriously and had conducted an in-depth investigation. They learned that these messages had been around since 2001 and were intentionally put up in universities to get a reaction.

“It is important not to give provocateurs what they want,” May said. “Let’s not overreact.”

One of the last questions asked was about how to reduce class size, as the school plans to admit more students. Hexter replied that the school also plans to hire more faculty.

“Growth in students will slowly plateau as we continue to grow faculty,” Hexter said. “The goal is to return to the original student-to-faculty ratio.”

Jan. 17 “Dog in parking lot — large in size and intimidating.”

“Aggressive solicitor — demanded money from the reporting party, stated it was for his family.”

Jan. 18 “East training room — movement and whistling heard in back ground.”

“Reporting party here to turn in bow and arrows.”

Jan. 19 “Male wearing red ski mask driving slowly through the neighborhood.”

“Transient male currently in the laundry room — unknown what he is doing in there — reporting party advised ongoing problem and requested officer advise subject to move along.”

“Large pile of nails in the roadway.”

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INTERFAITH ROTATING WINTER SHELTER TO BE HELD IN DAVIS Community-based charity offers place to warm up in winter months

BY G EN EV I EV E M U R P H Y- S K IL L ING city@theaggie.org

The Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter (IRWS) was held at Davis’ Unitarian Universalist Church from Jan. 25 to 31.

According to the 2017 Yolo County Homeless count, 146 people on a given winter night are in shelters or living on the streets, with as many as 40 percent of those people sleeping outside. Winter nights in Davis can see the temperature drop to 38 degrees in December and January.

From Nov. 30 to Mar. 16, the IRWS offers anywhere from 25 to 50 beds at 16 locations in Woodland and Davis. The project serves individuals and families requiring housing and food from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m., then sends them off with a bagged lunch. Showers and hot beverages are also provided to guests. The IRWS, however, is not a clean and sober program.

During non-winter months, the shelters open some beds for emergency shelter. During the winter months, the shelters focus exclusively on providing transitional housing to encourage upward mobility and care for individuals for up to a week. As many as 83 people reside in shelters in Davis on a given night.

The city also offers 1,800 units of affordable housing.

“These individuals want to be productive members of society,” said Martha Teeter, of Davis Opportunity Village and Davis Community Church, at a planning proposal meeting.

Mayor Robb Davis explained that caring for people living non-traditionally is a long process. Davis elaborated that, since the IRWS has been operating for more than 10 years, relationships between volunteers and members must be established and main-

tained.

“We need people that have the skillset and the ability to connect to the community,” Davis said.

Volunteers are welcomed in November, after which they undergo an orientation that teaches them how to best serve citizens of Davis and Woodland.

Positions are open for drivers, night crew, cooks and input volunteers. IRWS also provides internships for college students as well as high school leadership opportunities.

“We call it homelessness but it’s a syndrome of so many factors,” Davis said. “What you’re seeing is the end result.”

To combat the disparity between the number of people on the street and the number of beds provided, several social service groups have banded together.

H Street housing, a temporary housing shelter, recently introduced Paul’s Place, a proposed construction project that would provide up to 90 beds for those in need.

At a homelessness forum on Jan. 21, Teeter expressed her concerns about how renovations to H Street might impact the lives of individuals living in temporary housing.

“We’re going to need the IRWS and transitional housing,” Teeter said.

Though the homeless count is decreasing in Yolo County as a whole, it is increasing in Davis, prompting IRWS organizers such as Bill Pride, the executive director of Davis Community Meals and Housing, to campaign for affordable housing in the city and county as a preventative measure.

“I cannot emphasize how the lack of affordable housing in Davis and in other communities is a crisis,” Pride said.

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DEVELOPING TOOLS FOR ANALYZING SPOKEN VOCAL PERFORMANCE NEH grant supports UC Davis humanities research

BY B EN JA M I N P O RT E R features@theaggie.org

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded a $75,000

Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to a project co-led by University Writing Program lecturer Marit MacArthur.

The aim of this project is to develop more advanced tools for analyzing sound

LIBERTY IN NORTH KOREA CLUB HOSTS NORTH KOREAN REFUGEE AT EVENT Club hopes to raise enough money to rescue North Korean refugee

BY ALLY R USSELL campus@theaggie.org

On Jan. 18, Liberty in North Korea hosted Charles Ryu, a 24-year-old North Korean defector, in the Student Community Center.

Soo Kyeom Lee, a UC Davis alumna and the original founder of LINK, hosted the event and discussed the club’s goals for the year.

“Our mission is to educate and raise awareness about the human rights crisis in North Korea,” Kyeom said. “This year our goal is simple, to rescue one refugee. To do so we need to raise $3,000.”

LINK began at Yale University in 2004 and has been at UC Davis for three years. Kyeom thanked those in attendance and their contribution to LINK’s cause, stating that attendees were “part of the rescue mission.”

Kyeom then introduced the event’s speaker, Charles Ryu. Ryu told attendees his story of growing up in North Korea and escaping twice before eventually ending up in America.

Ryu was born in 1994 to a North Korean mother and a Chinese father. When Ryu was 5, in the midst of the famine going on in North Korea, Ryu’s father abandoned him and his mother and sought refuge in China.

Six years later, Ryu’s mother died from starvation. Ryu spent the next few years of his life homeless and begging for food. At 14, Ryu escaped North Korea for the first time with the help of his Chinese half-brother. After bribing

recordings of spoken vocal performance, especially those by poets and the famous radio plays by Orson Welles. This research is occurring at several universities across the globe with the other co-leader, Professor Neil Verma of Northwestern University’s department of radio, television and film, focusing on Welles and MacArthur focusing on poetry readings.

“I returned to UC Davis in the 201415 school year on an [American Council of Learned Societies] digital innovation fellowship, so that started this current research,” MacArthur said. “I was interested in linguistic approaches to analyzing performance styles in poetry recordings so it took off from there, and then I started collaborating with other people here.”

MacArthur explained that while some of the tools have already been developed, this grant will help to make them easier to use and make their use more widespread so that the technology can be used to generate more knowledge and lead to more potential applications.

“Some of these tools I did already develop with the ACLS fellowship but not many people know about them or use

the guards, Ryu was able to swim across the river and meet his estranged father who cared for him for the next year.

Ryu was eventually discovered by the Chinese police and was deported back to North Korea, as China does not currently recognize North Korean refugees.

“I was convinced I would be shot the moment I crossed the border,” Ryu said. “But I realized killing me would have been too nice for the regime. They wanted me to confess to trying to defect.”

Because Ryu had not been trying to defect and instead was only seeking his father and better living conditions, he was transported to a labor camp. At the age of 15, Ryu spent eight months in a labor camp until he was too weak to support his own body weight. He was then released.

For the next year, Ryu regained his strength and worked in a mine. After seeing countless friends lose limbs and die due to working conditions, Ryu decided to try to escape again.

After stealing flashlights and selling them in the black market, stowing away on a train and running to a border town, Ryu was able to cross the river again and escape into China. From there, Ryu’s life beyond the North Korean border began.

In America, Ryu graduated high school and currently works with LINK. Ryu has given talks about his experiences and hopes to eventually go to a university to study computer science.

them widely,” MacArthur said. “So, this grant will develop them further and disseminate them and train more humanities scholars to use them in their research on speech recordings.”

One main tool that MacArthur employs is called Gentle, which picks up on the linear aspects of someone’s speech patterns, meaning how the speed of a speaker’s rhythms and use of silence fall over a period of time. “[Gentle] is a forced aligner that takes a media file and aligns it with a transcript so you get precise timing information, basically how quickly people are talking and how long their pauses are,” MacArthur said. “It uses speech recognition algorithms that were developed at Johns Hopkins. It’s pretty good at guessing what was said, as well, when a transcript isn’t available, and sometimes the few mistakes it makes can be very funny.”

The other main tool, Drift, also takes the horizontal aspects into account — how quickly the voice rises and falls in pitch over time.

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MLB benches Chief Wahoo

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Other teams should follow suit in eliminating offensive mascots

EMILY STACK Managing Editor HANNAH HOLZER Campus News Editor KAELYN TUERMER-LEE City News Editor

Major League Baseball announced on Jan. 29 that, starting in 2019, Chief Wahoo, a buck-toothed caricature of Native Americans that doubles as the mascot for the Cleveland Indians, will cease to appear on the team’s uniforms. In a statement to The New York Times, Rob Manfred, the commissioner of baseball, deemed the symbol “no longer appropriate for on-field use” — a long-overdue but nonetheless welcome divorce from a logo that many have considered disrespectful, shameful and racist.

The Indians are just one of many athletic groups to draw criticism over the past few decades for using Native American representations as team emblems. Hundreds of high schools and colleges have already taken the initiative to shift toward less racially disparaging imagery. Stanford dropped its “Indian” mascot in 1972 and the University of North Dakota became the Fighting Hawks instead of the Fighting Sioux in 2015.

But professional sports — which have the largest platform and most significant amount of influence — have lagged behind at an embarrassing rate. Teams like MLB’s Atlanta Braves, the National Football League’s Kansas City Chiefs and the National Hockey League’s Chicago Blackhawks have all failed to seek more appropriate substitutes despite coming under fire for years.

The Washington Redskins, perhaps the most egregious case, faces ongoing condemnation for stubbornly refusing to consider alternative names. Despite the historical use of “redskin” as a racial slur, Dan Snyder, the owner of the Redskins, has stated with stunning obstinance that he will never change his team's name,

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even claiming that it honors and celebrates Native Americans.

Hopefully, MLB’s decision will increase the pressure on other sports teams to desert their own Native American insignias. As a cornerstone of American culture, MLB possesses the stature to make a strong political statement that reaches and challenges millions of people. The decision could begin transforming public sentiment and create momentum for similar changes in the future.

But the removal of Chief Wahoo isn’t the only step the Indians must take to foster “a culture of diversity and inclusion throughout the game,” as Manfred said. While the Wahoo mascot will be retired from uniforms, the Indians still intend to sell merchandise with the bright red caricature at several of their souvenir shops. They have also released no current plans to scrap the Indians’ team name, instead continuing for the foreseeable future to make a profit off of an ethnic stereotype. The present solution is evidently a compromise for fans, but one that nevertheless must fizzle out to demonstrate true respect for Native American peoples.

Regardless, MLB’s resolution showcases not only that the athletic industry can be a powerful force in enacting political progress, but also that this type of change is both possible and reasonable. Last year, the U.S. witnessed a swarm of Americans who tightened their grips on reprehensible pieces of national history, from schools named after prominent Confederate leaders to cities protecting Confederate statues. The Editorial Board hopes that, as a massive industry in America, MLB will lead the way toward eliminating distasteful tributes to the past.

Time’s up, Woody Allen IN THE ERA OF #METOO, THE DEFENSE OF THE “ARTISTIC GENIUS” NO LONGER SUFFICES

BY TARYN DEOILERS tldeoilers@ucdavis.edu It's been over 20 years since Woody Allen was accused by Dylan Farrow, his then-seven-year-old adopted daughter, of sexual abuse.

Although Allen was never charged and has vehemently rejected the notion that he molested her, Farrow, now 32, has penned several opeds throughout the past few years reaffirming her initial claims.

Allen has made at least one movie almost every year since the allegations came out in 1992 — many of which have either been nominated for or won numerous awards. The Golden Globes, where countless actors denounced the suppression of female voices and mistreatment of women last month, handed him the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.

It’s becoming increasingly apparent, however, that Allen will not emerge from the #MeToo movement unscathed. Over the past few weeks, individuals in Hollywood have begun distancing themselves from the director; actors have expressed regret over working with him and Goodspeed Musicals, a theater in Connecticut, announced that, “in light of the current dialogue on sexual harassment and misconduct,” it’s cutting ties with his musical “Bullets over Broadway.”

Until now, the “Annie Hall” director had spent his career thriving

on the insistence by actors, audiences and critics on “separating the art from the artist” — on letting each work of art stand independent of an artist’s personal life, isolated from the knowledge of his or her actions. To factor in this outside information, would be disrespectful, unfair and obstructive to the impact and value of art.

But art springs from the inner thoughts and questions plaguing a creator’s mind. And in the case of Woody Allen, there’s no question that his personal life leaks into his scripts, regardless of Farrow’s allegations. His work displays a decades-long pattern of misogyny and uncomfortable meditations on male-female relationships, according to writer Richard Morgan, who pored over 56 boxes of Allen’s notes from the past 50 years. Characters pursue romantic interests despite striking age discrepancies — always a much-older man with a muchyounger woman, often a teenager. And most recently, his overwhelmingly panned “Wonder Wheel” includes a love triangle between a stepmother and daughter, to whom the father “has an unnatural attachment.” This closely mimics Allen’s own very public, very controversial marriage with his ex-girlfriend’s adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, who was 19 when the director, 54 at the time, initiated the affair. As film critic A.O. Scott notes, “The principal subject of Woody Allen’s work has always been Woody Allen.”

Yet there’s still an illusion that art belongs to a sacred realm that

dare not be touched by our thoughts on the artist’s real life — an air of transcendence that further gets extended to the creators themselves. After all, they’re artists — geniuses, even. They have an understanding of the world that only a select few can access. There’s an otherworldly quality to their artistry that makes up for, obscures or simply annuls their moral responsibilities.

But art is necessarily, irrevocably human. It’s sculpted, penned and played by human hands, formulated by human minds, directed through human lenses. Works of art might reflect something higher, something intrinsically beautiful, but they’re manmade reflections nonetheless. And though art is extraordinarily important to humanity and culture, it should never become so conflated that we allow its creators to slide by without facing their wrongdoings.

We don’t have to cut Woody Allen out of the history of cinema, just as we don’t have to deny the significance of Bill Cosby to comedy or Richard Wagner to opera. But we shouldn't turn a blind eye to the messy, sometimes heartbreaking connection between art and artists, either.

When a transgressor is actively churning out works, the ethical solution is simple: stop supporting their art to inhibit future abuses.

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Grade-curving: The slippery slope of academic assessment IT’S SELF-DEFEATING AND DISADVANTAGEOUS — BUT WE STILL COUNT ON IT EVERY TIME

BY SAMVARDHINI SRIDHARAN smsridharan@ucdavis.edu

It’s midterms week and grade curving is at the forefront of many students’ minds. It’s common after a difficult exam to hear the sigh of a spent student and their silent (or maybe noisy) plea to the grade gods: “I hope there’s a fat curve on that one.” Since coming to college, I’ve learned that some things aren’t to be questioned — and if one is on the good side of the arbitrary mathematical equation that determines pass and fail, the mouth is best kept shut.

But there’s a certain ridiculousness to grade curving that must be addressed. In our daily lives, we evaluate things at face value. Let’s say we go to Trader Joe’s to buy some strawberries for our morning oatmeal. In most of the cartons, 50 percent of the strawberries are rotten. In some of the cartons, close to 70 percent are moldy and inedible. As hungry students, we don’t decide to buy the strawberries that are half-spoiled; we choose not to buy them at all. But apparently, when this analogy is transferred to academics, it suddenly makes sense that the standard of the average is the standard overall.

Grade-curving is self-defeating at best — and downright disadvantageous at worst.

It’s the students who lose at the end of the day. To future institutions of study as well as employers, it appears that we know much more than we do. Our consolation is that no one appears to know as much as they know. That’s not a really great way to go about life. This dilemma is even more pronounced to students who enter the workforce immediately and must recall skills and concepts from their degrees.

And while most of us are quite thankful to see our grades rise, it’s not without some internal conflict. Students are sincere by nature, and it bothers them when they do poorly — even if their grades are adjusted at the end of the term.

“You begin to feel very conflicted about your accomplishments in the classroom,” said Neha Pullabhotla, a second-year computer science major. “Part of you stops and evaluates if you deserve to pass, while the other part insists that you’ve worked very hard and deserve not to fail.”

Pullabhotla brings up a good point: Students now have the added mental stress of deciding whether they warrant the grades they get. It used to be the numbers that said it all. We aren’t defined by our grades, but they are good indications of mastery and progress.

No one is implying that grade curves be abolished. I for one have benefited many a time from them and would be sad to see them go.

Instead, there needs to be a reevaluation from the two parties who is-

sue grades — students as well as the professors and TAs who instruct them. The teaching staff must write realistic forms of assessment, and students must be willing to be challenged in ways they haven’t been before. If tests aren’t doable, professors lose out on opportunities to reemphasize important concepts. Students lose interest, and as a system we aren’t able to fill the gaps that are created.

I’ll employ another analogy to illustrate this point. If students are just learning their ABCs, the form of assessment shouldn’t be participation at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, but rather spelling out some words that are a level or two higher than what they’ve interacted with before. In exchange, students should be willing to think about information in a different and critical way — maybe even for the first time on an exam. A middle ground exists, but at present neither party seems to want to give in.

My fear is that students are settling for less in this current system.

There isn’t really a chance to raise the bar higher and push the envelope when the prevailing attitude is that one only needs to be better than the peer next to them. That’s a despicably low and overall lazy standard.

The goal of education is to learn and be curious. And students craning their necks to see if their score is better than their neighbor’s isn’t the type of curiosity I’m referring to.

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Is eating Tide Pods the new feminism?

SPOILER: YES

BY L ARA LOPTMAN lrloptman@ucdavis.edu With the new craze of eating Tide Pods storming social media, a lot of people have been wondering what it all means. Is it just a meme? Is it a symbol? The answer to both of those is “no” because, as it turns out, eating Tide Pods is actually a movement for millennials. In fact, eating Tide Pods is eerily similar to one particular movement that women just can’t stop talking about for some reason: feminism.

So The California Aggie was curious and decided to ask the question that so many serious reporting media are afraid to ask: Could eating Tide Pods be the new feminism?

We compiled a comprehensive list of the similarities to find out.

Women don’t do laundry thanks to feminism, and neither do people who eat Tide Pods As it turns out, feminists don’t do laundry because they feel it’s a sign that the patriarchy is oppressing them, and people who eat Tide Pods don’t do laundry because they do not want to waste their snack.

It is for this reason that feminists always have dirty, unwashed clothes and that they will never find a husband. Clearly, eating Tide Pods must be the new feminism.

Eating Tide Pods will cause death, and so will being a feminist Everybody knows that all feminists eventually have to part with this world, and so do people who eat Tide Pods. Both kinds of people

die for equally respectable lifelong pursuits. Eating Tide Pods, however, involves demeaning fewer men.

Eating tide pods is an innocent phase, just like feminism As we all know, feminism is just a phase. Similarly, eating Tide Pods is just a phase, because after trying it once you either die or are bleeding so much internally that you can never try it again. So, they’re basically the same thing.

Through our in-depth research, The Aggie proudly supports the notion that there are no differences between feminism and eating Tide Pods. Both capture mass appeal from millennials for the strong causes they support. So whether you die a Tide Pod eater or a feminist, you’re sure to wow your friends with your martyr status! So go on, eat a Tide Pod and throw feminism to the wind!

“Since when were there so many women?” says man suddenly overwhelmed by women speaking I HAD NO IDEA THERE WERE SO MANY WOMEN

BY AARON LEVINS adlevins@ucdavis.edu Dear Editor-In-Chief of The California Aggie, I have one simple question for the folks who run your paper: Where did all of these women come from all of a sudden? I mean in the most literal sense. I had no idea there were more women than my mom, my sister and Stacy from my feminist studies class.

I’m not totally convinced that all the women speaking out in this latest far-fetched attempt to get “rights” actually have legiti-

mate problems. Women can vote, right? The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964. So what are we worried about? I for one am a bleeding-heart liberal, but I can’t wrap my mind around all these women coming out and making things up about men. What if the stories are wrong? What if there is a single story that may or may not be made up and is total doo-doo? And by doo-doo, I mean poo-poo, and if your story is poo-poo, I’m NOT listening!

My solution for all of this odd hearsay is to instead make every single woman and every single man who may have problems with one another play a game of squash, and we will believe whoever

wins. This is because of the ancient laws of the Squash god, a 500foot tall gender-nonconforming vegetable who happens to have a beloved sport named after them, and who also has a particular affinity for Backwoods and chilling with the boys on Saturday nights.

If the woman really was telling the truth, then I’m sure she’d fight her hardest in a game of squash to prove she was honest and to protect her honor.

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The hardest establishments to give up after you’ve decided you’re anti-establishment YOU’RE GOING TO WANT TO CUT UP YOUR STARBUCKS GOLD MEMBER CARD AFTER THIS ONE

BY ROSIE SCHWARZ rschwarz@ucdavis.edu I’m guessing by now you’ve probably learned about the dangers of capitalism, as I myself learned about briefly when I momentarily stopped online shopping at Urban Outfitters in class to listen to what my professor actually had to say. This recent education probably sent you down a spiral of confusion and conflict in which you

realized you’ve been a conspicuous consumer your entire life. The solution to this? Stop contributing to this pattern of blatant exploitation and give up on your favorite establishments because they gave up on you a long time ago. So without further ado, I bring you the hardest establishments to give up after you’ve decided you’re antiestablishment.

The first establishment that I urge you to veer away from (as hard as it may be) is reusable water bottles. Most common folk might try

to tell you that they are helping the environment with these products, failing to recognize that their Hydroflask or Nalgene is simply another brand that they’ve been coerced into supporting under the false pretenses of “helping the environment.” Please, if they wanted to help the environment they would be drinking out of a bowl that they made from earth clay.

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The 90th Academy Awards Those I think will take home Oscars

BY JOSH M A D RI D arts@theaggie.org

The 90th Academy Awards are around the corner and will take place at the Dolby Theatre in the beautiful city of Hollywood, Los Angeles — as usual, hosted by a male comedian with a talk show.

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BY CA RA JOY KLE INR O C K arts@theaggie.org

February has a lot more to offer than avoiding or celebrating Valentine’s Day. This month is full of culture and creativity waiting for you to take advantage of it.

Davis Craft and Vintage Fair, Feb. 8 Where? Central Park When? 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

What is it? There will be live music, food and local vintage and handmade goods at this recurring Davis event, where you can support local art for free.

Bread Baking at Davis Food Co-op, Feb. 10 Where? Teaching Kitchen at the Davis Food Co-op When? 2 to 5 p.m.

What is it? This is a class to learn how to bake at home. This particular event will be teaching you how to bake bread and everything that it entails.

This year’s lineup of fantastic cinematic projects has worked up the greatest anticipation in Academy Awards history. Here are my winners for…

Best Picture: “The Shape of Water” The big prize has never gone to a science fiction movie before. I feel that 2018 is the time. This film about loving monsters has received more nominations than any other film this Oscar season. It’s been my personal favorite. However, it’s hard to truly tell because of the amazing competition. “Call Me By Your Name” and “Phantom Thread” are also contenders to be on the lookout for across the board.

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis Allegedly, this will be Day-Lewis’ final performance on the big screen. He’s experienced immense success and received awards for his performances in the past, such as his leading role in “Lincoln.” I think it’s safe to say that his performance in “Phantom Thread” is no exception. Day-Lewis put us in awe with his character that portrays love and muse almost flawlessly.

Best Actress: Meryl Streep The most awarded female actress in history might

be adding another trophy to her collection considering her performance in “The Post.” Streep’s brilliant performance underlies the importance of the press and the role that it plays in our country. A strong female character as always, Streep stresses the importance of accountability in the face of criticism and resistance.

Best Director: Guillermo del Toro Writer-director Del Toro put audiences at the edge of their seats in “The Shape of Water.” This is the second film that Del Toro has received nominations for, with “Pan’s Labyrinth” being the first. It is an amazing science fiction film that felt more like a drama. Del Toro’s vision for the film leaves no wonder as to why he’s a major contender this year. More often than not, the film with the most nominations wins best picture, but we will see.

Best Animated Feature Film: “Loving Vincent” I’d like to believe this is the year Disney doesn’t win by default in this category. “Loving Vincent” is the first ever fully painted movie. It is a tribute to one of the most well-known artists of all time:

The event is a 3-hour, hands-on class that is priced as follows: DFC members: $36 Non-members: $40

What is it? “Theater and circus rambunctiously collide in Saloon, the newest acrobatic creation from contemporary circus troupe Cirque Éloize.

Set to live folk and fiddle music, this show combines story with original acrobatic choreography,” says the Facebook event.

Janet Mock, Feb. 5 Where? Mondavi Center When? 8 to 10 p.m.

What is it? “Janet Mock is a transgender rights activist, TV host and New York Times bestselling author of Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More. She takes the Jackson Hall stage to discuss her career in the keystone event of this year’s Campus Community Book Project,” says the Facebook event.

Art Studio Lab, Feb. 3, 10, 17, 24 Where? Manetti Shrem Museum When? 2 to 4 p.m.

What is it? Saturday drop-in Art Studio Labs are designed for those want to get creative. All ages are invited to try out different materials to make new designs, which are prompted by weekly questions.

Cirque Eloize, Feb. 11 Where? Mondavi Center When? 3 to 5 p.m.

Being Portraiture and Poetry, Feb. 8 Where? Basement Gallery When? 6 to 9 p.m.

What is it? The Basement Gallery’s opening show will exhibit pieces from both artists and poets. There will also be karaoke at the show opening.

What is it? There will be live music, food and local vintage and handmade goods at this recurring Davis event, where you can support local art for free.

Bread Baking at Davis Food Co-op, Feb. 10 Where? Teaching Kitchen at the Davis Food Co-op When? 2 to 5 p.m.

What is it? This is a class to learn how to bake at home. This particular event will be teaching you how to bake bread and everything that it entails.

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Vincent van Gogh. I hope the Academy will praise the film for all that it has to offer.

Best Original Music Scores: “Dunkirk” A suspenseful feeling of rising tension that strays from the typical war movie score, “Dunkirk” gives us an unusual mix of manufactured sounds that builds intensity for every scene. “Dunkirk” is set in the midst of WWII, but its modern score works surprisingly well.

Best Original Screenplay: “Lady Bird” A film about coming of age and finding yourself is the perfect opportunity for a good screenplay.

“Lady Bird” is heartfelt, relatable and uplifting — a great choice for the Academy. “Lady Bird” was one of the most unexpected films of the season, and this is a wonderful moment to fly above the radar.

The Academy Awards are no stranger to surprise and watching them in all their glamour and opulence is a surreal experience. The Academy Awards are scheduled to air March 4 on ABC at 5 p.m.

PST — hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

And the Oscar goes to...

DFC members: $36 Non-members: $40 Janet Mock, Feb. 5 Where? Mondavi Center When? 8 to 10 p.m.

What is it? “Janet Mock is a transgender rights activist, TV host and New York Times bestselling author of Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More. She takes the Jackson Hall stage to discuss her career in the keystone event of this year’s Campus Community Book Project,” says the Facebook event.

Art Studio Lab, Feb. 3, 10, 17, 24 Where? Manetti Shrem Museum When? 2 to 4 p.m.

What is it? Saturday drop-in Art Studio Labs are designed for those want to get creative. All ages are invited to try out different materials to make new designs, which are prompted by weekly questions.

Cirque Eloize, Feb. 11 Where? Mondavi Center When? 3 to 5 p.m.

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Applying virtual and augmented reality How 3-D technology is being adopted by researchers in different fields

BY JASON KEL LY science@theaggie.org

The UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain hosted a research symposium this week detailing the functionality of 3-D technology in different fields. 3-D technology has been growing in popularity, power and functionality in the last decade, and, like other forms of computer technology, is expected to keep growing exponentially in the near future. Although it is not a foreign concept in terms of its applicability in video games, there’s a lot more to 3-D technology than entertainment. Finding strong applications in fields such as anthropology, engineering, and sociology, it is continuing to change the way researchers conduct their studies.

Mayowa Adegboyega, a graduate student of paleoanthropology in the UC Davis anthropology department’s evolutionary wing, applies 3-D technology to the virtual reconstruction of hominid fossils such as Neanderthals.

“We need to be able to have that type of visualization, that type of operating tool, when we are trying to do something like a reconstruction or trying to understand Nanderthals,” Adegboyega said.

“At the end of the day, it’s not necessarily that we want to know what the Neanderthals look like, but more of how what they looked like affects us. We try to use virtual reality to find out how the adaptive differences among our closest hominin relatives can help us better

understand ourselves.”

One very important aspect of applying 3-D technology in the study of hominid fossils is that there are only so many fossils that people have found, and, like artwork, many are in private collections or hard to request from university holdings. By using a platform that would allow researchers to get files from private institutions such as Harvard, further research could be done much faster.

“The stuff we are working with is rare,” Adegboyega said. “If you have to beg for access to something, it makes studying it very difficult. But if someone is able to share it in an open source database, anyone can have access to a reconstruction or the original cast file.

Furthermore, it is also easier because the files can be 3-D-printed, which allows for different versions to be made and allows copies to be housed at different research facilities.”

Adegboyega focuses on how 3-D technology makes studying Neanderthal morphology, which is the study of bone structure, easier.

For example, the pelvis directly influences a person’s gait, stance, and childbirth. These are all things that can be studied much easier by using 3-D technology. Consequently, studying bones and their structure allows research to be done about how early humans walked, and modifications can be made easily to measure for how minimal differences would alter stance and stature.

The great thing about having virtual files for research is the amount of times that an experiment can be conducted and altered.

What it takes to land on mars UC Davis alumnus, Chief Engineer for the Mars 2020 mission, speaks to Aggies about what it takes to land on surface of another planet

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BY DAV I D M A D E Y science@theaggie.org

Over 185 undergraduates and professors gathered last week to hear Dr. Adam Stelzter, the chief engineer of the upcoming Mars 2020 mission, describe what it takes to make it to Mars. He spoke at a distinguished alumni seminar hosted by UC Davis’ College of

Engineering. Steltzer was introduced by former astronaut Stephen K. Robinson, who serves as professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Davis.

Stelzter and his team invented a groundbreaking landing system called “the sky crane” that allowed the successful landing of Curiosity, the Mars 2012 rover.

“It was the right kind of crazy,” Steltzer said.

Steltzer is a proud Aggie alumnus. He received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1990 and later his master’s degree in applied mechanics at Caltech, topping it off with a Ph.D. in engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Steltzer was honored with the College of Engineering’s Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal award and is now the chief engineer for the Mars 2020 mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. More specifically, Stelzer leads the Entry, Descent, ROVER on 12

This is where some of the application of 3-D technology can be seen in different fields.

Jorge Peña, an associate professor in the Department of Communication at UC Davis, has applied 3-D technology to his research in virtual human interactions. He looked into whether archetypes about character held true in virtual environments such as the defensive reaction people generally have to people wearing dark clothing or the association with a team felt when seeing other people who look or dress like you.

Peña found that participants who played sports as avatars in virtual reality modified their performance based on the physical appearance of both their avatar and their opponent’s avatar. When both female and male participants played as obese avatars against thin avatars, the physical activity they put forth was recorded to be less than when their avatar was thin and they were playing against a thin avatar. Furthermore, when female participants played as thin avatars against obese avatars, their physical activity was also recorded to be less, whereas male participants in the same situation put in the same effort as if they were playing against a thin avatar.

“If the participant knows that they are roleplaying, then I think that the data becomes less interesting,” Peña said. “It is very important to control for the awareness of the participant. It might not factor in for some in the virtual reality field. My research relies on the hypothesis that avatar appearance affects personal dispositions.”

Weidong Guo, a software engineering researcher at UC Davis and a UC Davis alumnus, applies 3-D technology to his work in virtual and augmented reality. In association with other researchers, Guo is building video games that allow users to see the world from the perspective of a drone. The applications for this type of technology are vast, but Guo said that it will mainly be used by consumers in the video game industry for now.

“There are added virtual elements to the virtual reality that a player experiences,” Guo said. “For example, let’s say a missile is fired from the drone – it is a virtual missile that the player can direct towards a target on the field below them or in the air around them. What most drones use is GPS signals to locate the drone. But our system is different. It does not rely on GPS. We use a confined area which makes GPS not accurate enough, so we use image processing. Image processing is a system that implements the same cameras feeding images to the user to analyze markers at the boundaries of the game area to make sure that the drone knows not to get within a certain predetermined distance of the outer boundary. It is accurate to the order of centimeters.”

The game’s image processing is part of an open source software from a library called OpenCV which allows anyone to use and modify it for free. All users have to do is provide the parameters needed for whatever application they decide to use it for such as map size or how close the user wants the drone to get to an outer boundary.

Initially, Guo and his team were conducting their research academically. But now they have been undergoing the steps to commercialize their product. Although the other presenters at this year’s symposium are not necessarily in the position to commercialize their research, the functionality and interactivity of 3-D technology holds promising futures for fields across the board.

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“Last year (2016), several [...] contract staff were suddenly hired with varying levels and kinds of experience,” Senzaki said via email interview. “Although, I believe this was done with good intentions, it did not feel to me that we were providing exponentially more services commensurate with the addition of staff. I’m not confident we were being as efficient or thoughtful in what seemed a rush to increase staffing. I appreciated the additional staff, but in my experience the distribution of clinical workload was not even.”

According to Margaret Walter, the director of health and wellness at UC Davis, “the decision to end the contracts early was related to budget.”

In discussion about the SHCS budget and the funding of mental health services, Walter, who came to UC Davis in June, said that “in looking at the budget,” she “found that a lot of folks here […] didn’t quite understand how our budget worked.” Asked if there is an issue with transparency regarding the budget, de la Torre said Walter could present informational materials to the staff — Walter replied, “we have been.”

Walter added that she hoped the staff “would trust that [the money from the initiative] was spent appropriately.” The audit, Walter said, “found the money was spent appropriately as it was supposed to be.”

The audit states that $250,000 has been allocated annually to Student Judicial Affairs and the Student Disability Center for case management positions.

“As a result, fewer funds are available for recruitment of Counseling Services counselor [full time employees] FTEs,” the audit states. “Guidance published by UCOP in 2015 indicates that the funds should be used in support of the Counseling Services department. We discussed this with leadership at UCOP, who suggest that though the guidance is not binding, it demonstrates an expectation of the UC students and Regents that the funds be spent in support of undifferentiated care from a central counseling unit to which all students have access.”

The joint response from Vu, Carney and Easley states that “Student Affairs and Budget and Institutional Analysis (BIA) will seek clarification from [...] UCOP regarding the funding for the positions at Office of Student Support and Judicial Affairs (OSSJA) and the Student Disability Center (SDC). Student Affairs and BIA believe the current use of funds is appropriate.”

Both positions funded with the money, at the SDC and OSSJA, are clinical psychologist positions.

The audit states that counseling services employed 28 counselors in January of 2016 — “at that time the Provost documented an agreement with the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs to add 11 new FTEs by the end of FY 2017.”

According to Walter, there are currently 28.5 counselors at UC Davis and several open positions. Walter was asked if she agrees with de la Torre’s claim that the university does not “necessarily need to hire more counselors.”

“We do need more mental health providers,” Walter said. “In turn, we will need more counselors as well, people providing more direct clinical service to students, especially as our student body grows.”

In October of 2016, plans were announced to move the Women’s Resource and Research Center out of North Hall so counseling services could expand into the first floor. The additional space would be needed to house the estimated 11 to 12 counselors UC Davis planned to hire through the UC-wide initiative. The WRRC currently remains in North Hall, and counseling services have not drastically expanded elsewhere on campus. Director of Student Health and Counseling Services Sarah Hahn said the university is “not yet in need of additional space for counselors.”

“They needed that space for 12 new counselors,” said Samantha Chiang, a fourth-year English major and the director of the UC Davis Mental Health Initiative. “But now, they haven’t gotten any new space. Where are the 12 counselors? Also, we haven’t had a net increase of 12 counselors. [... We’ve] potentially hired

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more than 12 counselors but because our retention rate is so bad due to poor pay, we haven’t increased by 12. That has really been obscured from the student body. We really need to mobilize in some way to ensure that we get our money’s worth. That was supposed to go to direct counseling services. They can’t say, ‘Oh, this was for [something else].’ No, that money was earmarked for direct counseling services.”

According to UCOP, the $18 million “will support hiring 85 mental health clinicians to include psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners and case managers.” The statement from Vu, Carney and Easley states “UCOP was not prescriptive in how the Mental Health funds were to be used other than for mental health services.”

UC Davis currently employs 3.5 psychiatrists. The UCOP-recognized ratio is one psychiatrist per 6,500 students. There are “postdoctoral psychiatry fellows from the UCD Medical Center that see clients,” Walter said, stating the university is “aware that our ratio for psychiatry needs to be addressed, especially in light of increased enrollment in the future.” Additionally, including the postdoctoral fellows in the ratio would result, Walter said, in a “psychiatry provider-to-student ratio of approximately 1:7,500.”

Another issue addressed in the audit during talks with de la Torre, Vu and Walter — and brought up repeatedly by all three — concerns low levels of productivity. The audit shows that in 2017, clinical counselors had an average of 2.26 clinical sessions per day, data based on self-reported numbers. Walter emphasized this low number of reported sessions taking place in a workday.

“My experience working at other schools has always been to use the benchmarks they put in the audit to argue for more clinicians because staff were seeing seven, eight people a day,” Walter said. “That’s been my experience at some other schools. I’ve not been on the flipside ever before. This is really unusual. Of course, there’s days when a provider will see five or six, but there’s days when they’ll see none or one. It was shocking for me.”

Senzaki commented on the audit’s findings regarding productivity — she commented after being notified that The Aggie had already obtained a copy of the audit.

“I am deeply concerned with the apparent misrepresentation of the [data] despite disclaimers in the audit report,” Senzaki said via email. “I fear it has the potential to be interpreted that we are all grossly underperforming and underutilized in all areas of service. This type of data continues to undermine morale, is misrepresentative and distracts from more meaningful and important conversations with how to provide competent mental health services which meets student/campus community needs. It does not address retention of staff and sustainable measures of performance and productivity. There are many components to this discussion. From my reality and experience, some staff provide way more direct clinical hours than other staff.”

De la Torre talked about a “productivity issue” which can be addressed by a “need to redistribute the workload.” Senzaki, however, who has just begun her 18th year working at UC Davis, said that how productivity is being measured is flawed.

“These low numbers have in the past, resulted in a pattern of management often directing pressure at North Hall clinical staff to pick up the pace (productivity) vs. looking at all the other apparent issues with utilization within various programs, management, the system and data,” Senzaki said via email. “In other words, if we are defining “apples” and more specifically, “MacIntosh apples” as one variety of an apple (representing direct counseling contact or sessions=clinical), you can’t also include all varieties of “apples” along with “oranges,” “pears” and “peaches” (representing all the other functions and duties one might include in mental health services) and then create a hybrid and assume you have a legitimate measure of standard productivity. It begins to minimize our sincere efforts and our diverse roles within supporting and providing various facets of mental health

services.”

The university has plans to hire one additional counselor each year for the next three years. Asked if the university has, during the time of the four-year UC-wide initiative, hired significantly more counselors, de la Torre instead stressed the importance of diversity.

“I think there’s something more important that I have seen in the last few years and that is the diversity of counselors,” de la Torre said.

“I can honestly say, as a faculty member for 15 years, the biggest complaint that was against counseling was quite frankly the lack of diversity of the counseling staff. We can talk about hiring more, it’s like hiring more faculty. But if it’s the same person, meaning the same demographic, that doesn’t address the fact that we need diverse ones. It’s a trade-off. Then the question becomes to the students, ‘Is it important for you to have that diversity?’ And that’s a really good question to ask, ‘Are you willing to give that up?’”

UC Davis does send monthly reports to UCOP concerning the university’s progress with additional hiring and the allocation of the mental health fund. The audit, however, addresses misinformation within UC Davis’ reports.

“Data are currently being reported with the intent to show how the new MHF funds are used, [which] does not take into account whether the funds are used to increase net counselor FTEs, but rather aims to show that the funds are not used elsewhere and are not being accumulated as reserves,” the audit states.

“A conflicting interpretation is that the data are meant to show how many FTEs have been added using the new MHF funds. The most recent reports claim new counselor positions, several of which we found to have been existing positions, but whose funding sources had been shifted to the new MHF. We conclude that these reports do accurately report a new use of MHF funds, but that they do not satisfy the intended purpose of showing net increase in total counselor FTEs. Rather, they tend to suggest an inflated number of new positions added.”

In response to these findings, Walter said UCOP now “knows where people are.” Another issue in the audit addresses the fact that counseling services is currently “operating without a strategic plan.”

“One of the [needs] is a strategic plan — how would we start [one], especially in light [that] the chancellor doesn’t want us to have a strategic plan until his strategic plan is done,” Walter said. “We have to hold off on this as the greater UC Davis strategic plan is unfolding, but we could do some groundwork right now.

It will help us not just preserve the things we’re doing well, but add things that we want and realize that we can lose some things.”

A spokesperson for Chancellor Gary May said that May’s chief of staff indicated that no such directive came from the Chancellor’s office.

Walter later said via email that “current strategic planning efforts of the Chancellor will not delay us, and I’m sure they will all align once complete.”

In January, Dr. Greg Eells, the director of counseling and psychological services at Cornell University, came to UC Davis to perform a needs assessment using the findings of the audit.

Eells last performed a needs assessment for the university in 2013.

The Aggie obtained a copy of Eells’ findings in 2013. The assessment recommended additional hiring of staff to meet nationally-recognized ratios and student demand, the development of guidelines for clinical productivity as well as “relationship building [...] to shift the culture of ‘they’ to one of ‘we’ where staff within CAPS and across the broader SHCS feel committed to the singular mission of providing integrated care to UC Davis students.”

In reference of the recommendations and findings of the 2013 Needs Assessment, Walter said she thinks “it’s interesting that things come up in the audit that were also true four years ago.”

A town hall on mental health is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 13 at the ARC Ballroom at 7 p.m.

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UC Davis did not take its foot off the gas at the end of the half, rolling into the locker room on a 13-4 run.

Senior forward Chima Moneke paced the Aggies with a team-high 21 points on 9-for11 shooting from the field. He brought the home crowd to its feet with a slam dunk at the start of the second half. He also turned heads by emphatically swatting away a Cal Poly shot attempt near the end of the first half.

Saturday night’s victory was truly an allaround team effort in every sense, as all 10 players that checked into the game for the home team scored at least one basket and grabbed at least one rebound. Sitting on a

comfortable lead for the majority of the evening, UC Davis was able to let some of its bench players log a significant number of minutes on the floor.

“Those guys work their tail off every day and we have a lot of confidence in them,” Les said. “We’re going to need our bench down the stretch, if somebody turns an ankle or somebody gets in foul trouble or gets tired.

Those guys coming in and playing with confidence and giving us contributions are huge.”

Junior forward AJ John came off the bench and provided a spark for the Aggies in the first half with eight points, knocking down a pair of three-pointers and scoring on

a tip-in.

“AJ is playing at a high level,” Les said.

“He spends extra time in the weight room and extra time conditioning. What you’re seeing is a by-product of all that extra work he does.”

In addition, sophomore guard Joe Mooney added a trio of three-pointers, two rebounds, and two assists in 26 minutes of playing time.

The Aggies will take a trip to southern California to play their next two games, facing CSU Northridge tonight and Long Beach State on Saturday afternoon. The team will return to action at the Pavilion on Thursday Feb. 8 against UC Santa Barbara.

and Landing team for the Mars rovers.

The sight of the Orion Constellation over San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge captivated Steltzer’s imagination at age 21.

“It took that spark of curiosity in the night sky […] and it turned into a fire of exploration,” Steltzer said.

The Mars 2012 mission was sent to answer the question: Was ancient-wet Mars habitable?

“The answer is yes,” Steltzer said. “Three billion years ago, when life was just starting here on Earth, the conditions to support life were on the surface of Mars.”

Curiosity landed on the surface of Mars on August 5, 2012 at 10:32 p.m. PDT. The entry, descent and landing process lasts a total of seven minutes –– from the top of the atmosphere to the planet’s surface. And it takes 14 minutes for the signal from the spacecraft to reach Earth. This seven-minute difference is known as the “Seven Minutes of Terror.” Steltzer spent eight-and-a-half years of his life on this project, and it all came down to those seven minutes.

Entry. When the spacecraft enters the atmosphere, the heat shield glows like a plummeting asteroid traveling at 13,327 miles per hour at a temperature of 1,300ºF –– conditions that can melt or even vaporize most materials. In fact, the heat shield is intentionally shed after penetrating the planet’s atmosphere. The atmosphere of Mars is 100 times thinner than Earth’s and actually changes in density as a function of the planet’s seasons. This adds another layer of complexity to entry.

Descent. Using the largest and strongest supersonic parachute known to man, the spacecraft decelerates to approximately 1,000 miles per hour upon initial drop. From 30 million miles away, the descent was carefully guided by Steltzner’s team, ensuring the rover would land safely on a flat terrain.

Landing. Touchdown engineering was one of the hardest challenges Steltzer’s team faced and took many years to develop a proper plan because the 2012 Curiosity rover is about the size of a Mini Cooper.

“Landing a rover like that, is a pain in the butt. She’s just so big,” Steltzer said.

Previous Mars missions used an airbag technique to land the rovers. But the airbag approach would not sustain the Curiosity’s 900 kilograms. A new approach needed to be made. Steltzner and his team developed NASA’s first “soft landing” technique called “the sky crane maneuver.” Once the parachute is detached, steerable thrusters from the spacecraft finalize the descent and direct the vehicle toward flat terrain. It hovers 21 feet above the Martian surface before releasing Curiosity onto suspension ropes like a marionette.

“We considered [the sky crane] the least unacceptable solution,” Stelzer said.

The touchdown speed was less than 1/1,000,000 of 1 percent of the speed the spacecraft entered the atmosphere. Within seven minutes, the landing was a success. Curiosity determined that the conditions to support life on Mars did exist at some time, but there is still more to explore.

In the upcoming 2020 mission, also led by Steltzer, NASA will gather tangible samples from the planet’s surface, place them in orbit, and bring them back to Earth.

“The Mars 2020 mission is a science fiction come true,” Robinson said.

The first portion of this mission will launch in — you guessed it — 2020.

“I’ve found since that, if I can keep my own curiosity alive, and if I can engender it with the people I work with, we can do better things together,” Stelzter said.

UC Davis Aggies walked away from the seminar full of inspiration. Dorian Crutcher, a fifth-year mechanical engineering major said, “I learned that in order to grow as an engineer I have to take risks and continue to aspire to do things that haven’t been done.”

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will donate my millions I’ve made as an actor to the right causes. (Lord knows I’ve donated millions to the only other public woman I’ve ever heard of, Hillary Clinton.) But come on guys, we gotta be careful about the way in which we approach this issue, because more likely these are men in disguise pretending to be women who are trying to get advancement in the world through illicit means. Remember, no poo-poo. We only want the true-true.

Sincerely, George C. Cluene

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“I use these tools to investigate performance styles because there are a lot of highly conventional ways of speaking from film, to broadcast news, to poetry readings, to stand up comedy, and we recognize them when we hear them,” MacArthur said.

“But what exactly are the performers doing with their voices?”

These tools can collect many different types of data about the mathematical elements of a performer’s speech patterns, which can then be analyzed further to learn more about what certain types of speakers tend to do.

“These tools can generate a lot of data about pitch and timing, like pitch range,” MacArthur said.

“A really expressive speaker might use two octaves.

But pitch range alone doesn’t tell you everything.

There’s also pitch speed and pitch acceleration; more expressive speakers seem to change their pitch more rapidly. Then there’s how long people pause.

A really dramatic speaker might have longer pauses. Conversational speech, for instance, is typically characterized by a faster speaking rate.”

Because of how people change pitch, speed and rhythm and employ silence in unique ways while speaking, there are many similarities between how speech patterns and music can be analyzed. However, MacArthur pointed out a key difference that makes it more difficult to analyze speech.

“The tools that exist for studying the voice in music are much better and much more widely used, at least outside of linguistics,” MacArthur said.

“This difference has to do with speech versus singing. When you sing, your vocal cords vibrate really regularly and it’s really easier to pick up the pitch, but in speech they vibrate irregularly and pitches are harder to track, especially in noisy, older recordings that humanists frequently want to study.”

Owen Marshall, a postdoctoral scholar of science and technology studies, is a user-tester for the proj-

ect, meaning he will be testing the tools developed and providing feedback. He commented on his background studying sound and how this project’s approach differs from what he has done before.

“I study the history and sociology of sound technology, particularly technologies of the voice,” Marshall said. “For example, I’ve studied how signal processing tools like Auto-Tune changed recording engineering by making the voice legible in a new way. This project uses similar tools for pitch-time tracking but lets us apply it to archives of recorded voices instead of just analyzing them one at a time.”

Cindy Shen, an associate professor in the Department of Communication at UC Davis, is also a user-tester for this project. She also explained what she sees as a possible application of the tools.

“My academic background is in social media and games research,” Shen said. “I often use digital trace data (or ‘big data’) in my research. The tools developed might help my research on various social aspects of gaming, as we can gain more understanding of the content and context of gamer communications with each other.”

MacArthur explained how she became involved with studying sound recordings and why she finds it so fascinating to take an empirical approach to analyzing something that seems so subjective on the surface.

“I’m originally trained as a poetry scholar, and I’ve been to a ton of poetry readings,” MacArthur said. “I developed opinions about how people were reading, what was engaging and what was boring.

We have a strong response to intonation patterns, apart from content. Like the voice of the Peanuts’ teacher. You can make something boring sound really interesting and make something interesting sound really boring, depending on the intonation, so I wanted to look at how we respond to the voice, musically in a way, but in speech.”

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grade that they “are welcome to participate in during the school day.” The music program is funded through “a local parcel tax that makes up 11 percent of the general operating fund, and this is a parcel tax measure that was voted on by the voters of Davis.”

However, fine art opportunities vary by elementary school. According to Bugsch, there are no after-school programs or art classes required at Cesar Chavez. Rather, teachers can decide how to implement art in their classroom. Cook confirmed the same for Robert E. Willet.

DJUSD did not comment on how a visual and performing arts discipline is decided to be offered within the district.

Most art instruction is then reliant on teachers and how much art they decide or are able to implement in the classroom. However, funds for art instruction and supplies in the classroom are from each teacher’s own budget.

“We get a certain amount of money in our account, so that money can go towards supplies,” Bugsch said.

“You can use the money that is in your account at your discretion. For a teacher who has been here a long time, like me — I’ve been here for 20 years — I have a lot of supplies that I have accumulated over the years, so I don’t need a lot of start up materials. For a new teacher, it would be more difficult to start new.”

Moreover, according to Cook, all other supplies needed for the classroom, like “lined paper and photocopy paper,” must also come out of that budget.

The DSAF was created in 1978 after the passage of Proposition 13, which “forced the school district to make deep cuts in the art education budget” and “was set up as a matching funds organization with the district to keep art education alive in Davis public school,” according to its website. Through the

DSAF, teachers can receive additional funding for art projects they want to hold in their classrooms.

“A classroom teacher wants to do a craft in the classroom, and we can fund the paper and the materials,” Chang said. “In the beginning of every school year, we open grant applications from teachers or parents to file for specific projects, and each grant will be associated with a teacher in the district. Including the matching budget from the district, we can give about 60k from the foundation. We can give $40,000 in a year, and the district can match about $20,000 — these numbers are rough estimates. We fund about 80 projects a year. But this is still not a big enough amount of money.”

However, according to Cook, while the DSAF is beneficial in helping to bring more art into the classroom, it supports “a project but not ongoing art.”

According to Duffy, how much money is allocated to the arts in elementary schools is a matter of balancing resources.

“I’m a big supporter of the arts, so it is by no means not valued by our administration or teachers,” Duffy said. “It’s deciding how to spend a limited amount of resources and knowing the core subjects of English, math, science and social studies are the things we need to make sure students are successful at.”

It must be noted that art is not the only subject impacted by limited funds.

“I don’t think the district puts any money into the high school robotics program, Citrus Circuits, other than the advisor’s salary,” Cook said. “It is not just arts that are being affected [...] I have heard from parents, ‘Well if you have the money then arts are great, but you have to have extra money.’ To me it’s part of the fabric of learning. You can’t just take it out. There’s no subject that it doesn’t fit in and find some connections.”

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The repercussions should be stern and tangible, as with artists like Louis C.K. and Kevin Spacey. But what’s the right way to interact with art from the past that has been deemed irreplaceable yet controversial?

There’s no underlying rule that says we must constantly deify certain artists because their contributions have been pivotal to their fields. Ceasing to impulsively glorify Allen’s movies does not erase their influence; it merely signifies that our appreciation of art also takes into account the highly flawed mind behind the work. When viewed in this light, Allen’s films can be dissected with a conscious eye for the ways in which they’re unethical. And through

this — because none of his films are “sacred” — critics and audiences might find that other filmmakers, those with purer voices and more respectable stories to tell, are more worthy of study and praise.

The era of #MeToo is one of ripping up the floorboards and revealing the sins of those who have frequently shaped our thinking — not to publicly castigate wrongdoers but to rebuild a more equal environment for creative expression. Artists, especially men, have been allowed to operate and maintain their legacies under the defense that they’re artistic geniuses whose art is too important to be marred by their transgressions — a flimsy excuse that no longer suffices.

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It’s recently become a lot easier to forget your attachment to your Apple products being that they’ve already begun to slowly self-destruct. My thoughts? Tim Cook is actually on our side and is so disgusted by Apple that he has decided to sabotage the company from the inside in the name of liberating us from our devices.

Here’s something they don’t tell you (who’s “they?” I don’t know): Flavored coffee drinks were invented for the sole purpose of taking your money. I know, crazy right? And I will let you in on a little secret — it’s even worse at those small independent coffee shops that charge more because

they aren’t owned by a corporation and sometimes even support fair trade (what’s an establishment again?). So honestly just keep doing what you’re doing and blow thousands of dollars a year on Starbucks, because at least your vanilla latte will get you through your day.

It’s hard to be conscious and aware when everything around you is just a different type of product placement ad from some corporation that’s too large for you to even understand how much they own. So the best you can do is say no to the things that are probably the best for you and give into this rampant consumerist culture.

When fielding questions from the audience, Ryu discussed the role foreign movies played in his disillusionment with the North Korean regime.

“That really changed my perspective, watching foreign media,” Ryu said. “It was really easy for me to get my hands on foreign media.”

Ryu’s Chinese half-brother was able to smuggle him CDs and movies. “007” and “Bad Boys” were among the notable movies Ryu grew up watching.

From there, Ryu would burn copies and sell them on the black market. Ryu insisted that the majority of the North Korean economy revolves around the black market.

“They found their way to survive,” Ryu said. “[The black market] got really big. It was too big to fail. The government can’t control it.”

Ryu claimed that 99.9 percent of the North Korean economy depends on the black market. He also said that most of what is sold is manufactured in China.

Ryu spoke about the culture of bribery within North Korea.

“It is very easy to bribe guards in North Korea because everyone seeks opportunity to feed their family,” Ryu said. “It’s not that we want to bribe them, they want bribes from us.”

After Ryu’s presentation, Kyeom thanked those who attended the event and encouraged individuals to seek out more information about North Korea and to get involved.

Caitlin Perkey, a third-year international relations major and a public relations officer at LINK, spoke about Ryu’s positive attitude.

“He’s a very humorous and chill person to be around,” Perkey said. “Charles has overcome numerous instances of hardship where the world was very unforgiving.”

Ryu engaged with audience members throughout the event, making jokes and stayed well after the event to meet those in attendance.

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reconvened at 7:40 p.m.

Upon return, Dalavai rescinded his nomination of Kumara.

Becca Nelson, the Gender and Sexuality Commission chair, delivered an LGBTQ allyship training course to the table to accommodate senators who had not yet proactively done so.

SB 22 passed as amended during introduction of new legislation.

SB 23 redefines the office hours of ASUCD senators. They are currently required to reserve four hours for the public. The bill proposes that one hour may be substituted with a visit to a club or a classroom to make a public announcement on ASUCD’s behalf. The table spoke about whether making a short visit to a class or club should be equated to making oneself available for one hour to the public.

The meeting moved out of public discussion on SB 23 and into consideration of ASUCD Constitutional Amendment 1 regarding the position of the OASR unit director. The unit director is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. The amendment would change the position of OASR unit director to an executive one, thereby creating a new elected position.

Senator Michael Gofman spoke about the intentions of the amendment, to make the role of

primary student advocacy a democratic decision.

The new seat is said to increase voter turnout in the upcoming elections.

Representatives from OASR and senators voiced their dissatisfaction with the amendment, commenting on Gofman’s lack of communication with OASR about the proposed changes and the amendment’s hastily-written contents.

OASR members shook their heads in disagreement over the amendment’s defense and expressed their disapproval over not being consulted in the process. Senators rolled their eyes at other senators’ words and Gofman’s frustration at opposition led to his usage of profanity.

A motion was passed to divide the house for a litmus test vote over whether the Senate wanted to put the amendment on a ballot for students to vote on its approval. There was one yes, seven nos and three abstentions. The official vote ended in one yes, nine nos and three abstentions, keeping it off the ballot.

Public discussion moved back to SB 23. The bill will continue to be edited and discussed in the future to address recent complaints about the ineffectiveness of Senate office hours.

Ex officio reports were given followed by elected official reports.

The meeting adjourned at 10:26 p.m.

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KA ILA MAT T ERA / AG GIE

UC Davis women’s basketball defended winning streak against Titans, Gauchos

BY LIZ JACOBSO N sports@theaggie.org

The UC Davis women’s basketball team is now 7-0 in the Big West Conference after a 67-53 victory over Cal State Fullerton on Wednesday Jan 24 and a 6963 win over UC Santa Barbara on Saturday Jan. 27.

These wins also brought the Aggies their 17th consecutive Big West Conference regular season victory.

The Aggies entered the Pavilion coming off a 80-76 win over Cal Poly. Their last matchup against the Cal State Fullerton Titans was almost exactly a year prior, where they won 59-39.

On Wednesday, redshirt junior forward Morgan Bertsch had her 10th 20-point game of the year, finishing with a game-high 23 points. Bertsch’s four blocks also brought her career total to 123, placing her at third on the program’s all-time block list.

“A lot of the teams in the past throughout conference in the first five games have been very lurky, have been doubling, have been making sure that when I put the ball on the ground, they have their hands in

there trying to tip it away,” Bertsch said. “But today, the key was pretty open for me, which was a nice change [...] I had more space and didn’t have to worry about second defenders.”

The competition didn’t let up on the Aggies. At halftime, the Titans only trailed by five, with a score of 33-27, and with 2:33 remaining in the third quarter, were only three points away from breaking even with the Aggies.

“They’re a much-improved team, they are wellcoached, they have really good energy about them,” said Head Coach Jennifer Gross. “They play really hard. We knew that coming in, that we were going to have to beat them, that we were going to have to fight for this one. They showed their resolve, but we showed ours as well.”

Senior forward Pele Gianotti finished the night with 21 points, making the game her first 20-point game of the season. Gianotti scored her 1000th career point last week on the road against UC Santa Barbara on Jan. 18, and this game lifted her total to 1040.

“She’s such a force. She has such good fundamentals,” Bertsch said of her teammate Gianotti. “[She is] pretty unstoppable, even when you’re guarding her in practice. You’re like ‘Oh, gosh,’ because you have to worry about her 3-point shooting and then she’s a real good driver.”

On Saturday, the first game of a double-header at the Pavilion, the Aggies won 69-63 over the UC

Santa Barbara Gauchos. The Gauchos proved to be a tougher opponent than the Titans.

Trailing at the halftime buzzer and only leading only by one point at the end of the third period, the Aggies rallied in the fourth quarter to secure their win.

The Aggies hit the road next week to defend their winning streak against Long Beach State and Cal State Northridge on Feb. 1 and Feb. 3.

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Alexis Brown claims three first-place standings, all-around title

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On Friday, Jan. 27, the UC Davis women’s gymnastics team resumed play after being on the road at the beginning of the month and enjoying a bye-weekend last week. The team entered its home gym with a 2-3 recording coming off of a first-place victory over Seattle Pacific on Jan. 12.

The Aggies finished second with an overall score of 194.200 right behind West Virginia with 195.050. UIC trailed behind UC Davis with 193.025.

Senior gymnast Alexis Brown performed exceptionally well, placing first on the balance beam with 9.850, tying for first on the uneven bars with 9.850, tying for second on the vault with 9.800 and claiming the all-around first place title with an overall score of 39.250 — breaking the 39-point record for the second time this season.

“I really just want to break as many records as I can,” the veteran Aggie from Huntington Beach said of her goals this season. “It’s my senior year, and I really want to make it the most memorable.”

Freshman gymnast Kelley Hebert also earned spotlight moments.

Following a win on the balance beam against Seattle Pacific, she placed second on the balance beam just behind Brown with a score of 9.800 and captured third all-around with a career-high-tying 38.950.

In addition to Hebert, new Aggies make up more than half of the team’s spots.

“They’re really good, really talented,” Head Coach John Lavallee said of the freshmen class. “We know it’s going to take some to get this environment under control because it’s very different from the club environment they’re in when they’re in high school.”

Junior gymnasts Yasmine Yektaparast and Kara Jones were absent from the meet’s lineup.

“Missing [Yetaparast and Jones] in the lineup tonight really made a difference,” Lavallee said. “But it was a great opportunity for the freshmen to get some work in, get some experience, and show what the Aggies have to look forward to.”

Brown shared the same sentiments as Lavallee, using her experience to identify what she expects the team to accomplish this season.

“As a team, our goal has pretty much stayed the same since I’ve

been here, and that’s to make it to regionals and show that we are capable of that,” Brown said. “The amount of talent that the freshmen and sophomore classes have brought just makes it so real […] We’ve only really had three

meets so far, and that just means that we have to fix those little details, and, after that, it’s easy.”

The Aggies will stay in town this week to host San Jose State, Stanford and SPU on Feb. 2 at 7 p.m.

AGGIES WIN 19TH STRAIGHT HOME GAME WITH BLOWOUT OF CAL POLY

N IC HO L AS C H A N / AGGI E

UC Davis men’s basketball explodes in first half, continues to protect home court

BY B RE NDAN O G B U RN sports@theaggie.org

The UC Davis men’s basketball team extended its home winning streak at the Pavilion to 19 games with a 80-56 blowout win over visiting Cal Poly on Saturday night. The Aggies went on a trio of long scoring runs and shot a blistering 62 percent from the field in the first half, including a 6-for-7 mark from beyond the arc, to build up a 24-point halftime lead. The team was able to cruise in the second half and now sits in third place in the Big West standings, behind Long Beach State and UC Santa Barbara.

“We were talking before the game that we’re getting everybody’s best shot,” said Head Coach Jim Les. “It’s about time we gave our best shot, and let the chips fall where they may.”

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on both ends of the hardwood, finishing with a 27-17 advantage in rebounds and creating 18 second-chance points.

The Aggies scored 20 of their first 28 points from inside the paint, setting the tone that they were going to be the most physical, aggressive team on the court throughout the game. As the night progressed, more and more uncontested looks started to open up outside the key for UC Davis.

“One of the things we wanted to influence or emphasize as a staff was going inside,” Les said.

“All of the sudden the paint starts collapsing and now we’re kicking it out and guys are getting wide open looks. The ball movement was really crisp and guys gave up a good shot to give their teammate a great shot.”

The Aggies really clamped down on defense for the second consecutive game by allowing just 56 points, which ties a season low. The team also forced 12 turnovers, which it turned into 18 points on the other end.

“I thought our defensive activity and pressure from the get-go was really disruptive,” Les said. “I think for the game we had 18 deflections, which tells me guys are engaged and getting after it.”

On average, UC Davis has given up the fewest amount of points per game, 66.1, to opponents in the Big West conference. In addition, the Aggies force an average of 16 turnovers per game, which also leads the league.

“When the defense is that active and creating turnovers and missed shots, this group is pretty impactful in the open court making plays,” Les said.

After a back-and-forth battle for the opening six minutes, UC Davis rattled off 10 consecutive points, including five from junior forward Garrison Goode, to jump out to a 19-7 lead. Following a three-pointer by Cal Poly, the Aggies tallied 10 more points in a row to grow the lead to 29-10.

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