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UC OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT FAILS TO COMPLETE BUDGET ON TIME

Mental health, criminal justice system discussed at rally

The California State Auditor’s one-year evaluation of the University of California found that the UC did not implement all the recommendations from its 2017 audit and that the UC Office of the President failed to complete its budget on time.

The 2017 audit found questionable financial practices as well as millions of unreported dollars.

The State Auditor made 10 recommendations for the UC to be implemented by 2018, including implementing best practices for budgeting, developing and implementing a method for weighing comparable public and private sector pay data when establishing salaries for all positions and developing a clear definition of systemwide initiatives.

According to the auditor’s evaluation, of the ten recommendations, the UC has only completed six.

The UC’s failure to complete all the recommendations on time may lead to the state government withholding millions of dollars from the UC system.

“It’s discouraging that this happened,” said fourthyear political science and history double major Chelsea Chavez. “It’s up to the UC system to figure out the flaws in their process and hold those involved accountable.”

Despite these findings, UC President Janet Napolitano’s office maintains it is on schedule and UC officials such as board chairman George Kieffer ar-

gued that the unreported money was in “hidden funds” that had been allocated to various university programs.

However, they did acknowledge a need for more transparent reporting.

“We are confident that we have complied with all of the mandates by the California State Auditor and we are doing everything we can to ensure that the auditor is satisfied,” said Dianne Klein, Napolitano’s spokesperson, according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

This statement is supported by an independent consultant report from Sjoberg Evashenk Consulting, commissioned by UCOP, which showed that the UC has met all 10 recommendations.

According to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, “the firm argued Napolitano’s office is on track to meet its own budget deadline next month and that the office shouldn’t be expected to change its own budget schedule to meet the auditor’s April deadline.”

In response to last year’s audit report, the UC Regents scrutinized Napolitano’s proposed 2018-19 budget, which included a reduction on the amount of money requested for systemwide initiatives on issues such as carbon neutrality and food security.

The Regents recently approved what the LA Times says is a “leaner, more transparent budget.”

The budget approved Napolitano’s shift of $30 million to campuses for housing and the redirecting of $8.5 million to enroll more than 1,500 additional California students this fall.

UC DAVIS CUSTODIANS PROTEST MANAGEMENT TREATMENT Human resources grants meeting, continues hashing out concerns

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UC Davis custodians from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees 3299 conducted a work action on May 22 at 4:00 p.m. in the UC Davis Human Resource Administration Building. At issue were work-related actions taken by Finis Jones, the director of Custodial Services at UC Davis.

An interview request was made by The California Aggie to Jones, who declined to comment.

Benny Contreras, a senior custodian at UC Davis and a 37-year employee of the university, participated in the work action. He spoke about the reasons they protested.

“We had an event that is called an action,” Contreras said. “I am a union member of 3299, and we are taking action against our director, Finis Jones, because he is implementing some work actions that we do not have time to [complete]. Our union is bargaining right now, and he is not supposed to be making any kind of changes, but yet he is.”

Contreras said Jones is adding additional work to their schedules, although he and his colleagues

don’t have the time to complete the extraneous workload.

Contreras expressed optimism that an official from UC Davis Human Resources agreed to meet with them.

“We were protesting with our signs and yelling, telling unfair treatment, [...] finally the labor relations director came out,” Contreras said. “They have been avoiding our meetings, so now she says, she will meet with us tomorrow from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Hopefully, that will get done. I am surprised that she came out actually.”

Contreras further commented about the actions taken by Jones as well as the the length of time this has been occurring. Contreras said that temporary workers were not hired to cover for sick or vacationing custodians.

“Jones does not want to hire no more workers, no temporary people,” Contreras said. “We are so stressed out. When a person is out on vacation or call in sick, we [have] to assume that eight hour load plus our eight hour load. Jones does not want to hire temp people, yet he is going to buy phones for every custodian on campus with a GPS, so they can monitor [them]. What is that all about? We need workers.

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We need help. We don’t need no phones for everybody.“ Jones referred The California Aggie to Julia Johnson, the labor relations manager for Employee and Labor Relations at UC Davis and UC Davis Health, who subsequently referred The California Aggie to Kimberly Hale, the interim director of News and Media Relations for UC Davis.

Hale confirmed that after the initial worker protest took place a subsequent meeting was conducted between HR and the custodians.

“What I know of the situation is that a group of about 25 to 30 employees and students [had gone] to HR wanting to be heard about their concerns,” Hale said. “That stemmed from the [strike] earlier in the month [...by] the unions that are currently negotiating with the University of California as a whole on their union labor agreements. As I understand it, this group went to talk to share some concerns and to talk with some folks, so Johnson [...] did go out that afternoon to understand what their situation was and set up a meeting for the next day.”

Hale said that the custodians and HR are continuing their conversation. Hale also said that the workers and HR are continuing to “work through” the issues.

Regarding the complaints about Jones, Hale offered what she understood about the situation.

“I am not sure I can connect those two dots, because I was not there [at the meeting],” Hale said. “I did not know [more] about what their concerns were.

What I do know is that they did voice some concerns about staffing levels and other [matters] that the HR Office of Labor Relations and the Office of Finance [...] are still in discussion with.”

Contreras was asked about what students can learn from their protest.

“First of all, let me say thank you to them,” Contreras said. “Most of all, [...] thanks to the students, because they can help us. The thing is this can affect them too. You know they are raising prices on their tuitions every year and nothing is getting done.”

Blanca Centeno, an executive board member of AFSCME 3299, offered the union’s perspective on the protest.

“We just organized this action to let them know, so they can hear our voice,” Centeno said. “They can hear our concerns, because they are putting a lot of workload increases on the department. And not only that, but people are being mistreated — very disrespectful and they are not being treated with dignity either. We do not want any of our fellow workers to fall into a problem by mistake.”

Martín Giron, a fourth-year community and regional development and Chicano/a studies double major at UC Davis, joined the protest in solidarity.

Giron also participated in the three-day strike held

by AFSCME 3299 from May 7 to May 9 and wanted to lend his support for the custodians.

“While I was in the strike marching alongside those workers, I was able to build kinship with them as well as continue fighting for their struggles,” Giron also said. “We just received word [about] how the university administrators who directly work with the union such as the custodial supervisor is micromanaging and intimidating these workers as they continue to go without a fair contract.”

Giron wants the student population to learn about the reasons behind the labor dispute.

“I think one thing to recognize is specifically how this goes unseen at a lot of different levels,” Giron said. “We have to recognize our own privileges as students, and whose voice gets uplifted in the narratives of struggling at the university. It is oftentimes the university employees such as the lowest-paid workers in AFSCME 3299, [who] do not get their voices uplifted.”

Destiny Padilla, a second-year community and regional development and Chicano/a studies double major, agreed with Giron’s stance. “[Giron and I] are with the group United Students Against Sweatshops [at UC Davis],” Padilla said. “What really brought me out here today is noticing that the struggles the workers and students face are interlinked because the greediness of the [UC]; the increase of the pay [and] the increase of the administration getting higher pay cannot secure a fair contract with these workers is really telling [about] what they think of these workers and what they prioritize on this campus.”

Padilla said that labor protests were common in the past and still occur today.

“Students should learn from these protests that it is not something new,” Padilla said. “I would like to highlight: ASFCME has, every four years, [been] asking for a contract, and they usually have to go on strike like they have before. I think that students need to realize when they are advocating and fighting for issues on campus, these are happening right under their noses. We are the future. We are the next generation to continue in workplaces, and if we do not try to change these conditions now, it is going to continue to happen.”

Contreras explained what the custodians want from their management.

“Just to be treated fair,” Contreras said. “Just to be treated right with, respect. We are humans, we got families, we got goals. Just because we are custodians does not mean we are not people. All we want is to be treated fair, be treated right — no more no less.”

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Turmoil in Senate as Senator Halawi makes allegations of ASUCD corruption, other senator resigns

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Vice President Shaniah Branson called the ASUCD meeting to order on Thursday, May 24 at 6:11 p.m. Senator Danny Halawi and Senator Brandon Clemons were late and Senator Daniella Aloni was absent.

The meeting began with a public announcement made by Senator Ko Ser Lu Htoo about gender-neutral language, which was then followed with the consideration of new legislation.

Senate Resolution #21, authored by Senator Alisha Hacker, was passed as amended. SR #21 intends to show support for a bill in the California legislature that, if passed, would tackle food insecurity by allotting enough money to cover at least 10 meal swipes per week.

Andy Wu, a fourth-year computer science major and chairperson of the Disability Rights and Advocacy Committee, gave a quarterly report. Wu said that DRAC is working on establishing ASL courses at UC Davis and working with the Student Disability Center (SDC) to establish a new satellite location in the Memorial Union, so that students with disabilities don’t have to go out of their way to get the help they need. The current Student Disability Center is located next to the International House.

After announcing his resignation from Senate on May 3, this was Senator Halawi’s last Senate meeting in his official position. During a public announcement, Halawi cited his reasoning for leaving the Senate, saying he was not happy with ASUCD and the Unite! slate. He also argued against a bill in Senate that would not allow resigning senators to have a say in their replacement.

“Even if I wasn’t leaving, I would not be a part of ASUCD because I’m really not happy with the executive team and the Unite slate in general,” Halawi said. “From a holistic point of view, if you take a specific senator out, you’re tak-

ing out the representation of other communities.”

Halawi then made accusations that Senator Atanas Spasov and President Michael Gofman are attempting to force out Senator pro tempore Jake Sedgley. He referenced an attempt by Sedgley to “hold the executive team accountable for not doing their job properly.”

“Atanas said I will revoke my bill if you vote Jake out,” Halawi said.

He ended his speech by saying that he has evidence of collusion, corruption, racism and transphobia demonstrated by the executive branch.

“As an insider on the Unite slate, I have a packet full of evidence, and I will be taking it to the Aggie for everyone to see and you both will lose your jobs,” Halawi said, referring to Branson and Gofman.

After Halawi walked out, Senator Jesse Kullar also announced his resignation, calling ASUCD “toxic” and saying that the job has taken a toll on his mental health.

“We resort to going to Facebook, make comments on chats instead of working together constructively,” Kullar said.

Since this announcement, Kullar has since decided to stay in Senate and not resign.

After these events, the senators took a short break and reconvened to confirm the Experimental Community Gardens Unit director.

Helen Vanbeck, a third-year environmental policy major, was confirmed with no objections as the new unit director and said she plans to make the gardens more accessible to undergraduates and work on better communication between her unit and ASUCD. Senate Resolution #22 was then voted on and passed as amended. The resolution intends to address frustration with the recent misallocation of funds for the hiring of additional counseling psychologists. This resolution is meant to force the university to give ASUCD and the student body an annual copy of an internal audit.

The general manager of KDVS gave the unit’s quarterly report. KDVS hit all of its financial marks and there are plans to split the general manager position into multiple positions with different foci.

The last confirmation was Angela Ruan, a second-year managerial economics major, as the Aggie Reuse unit director. Ruan said that she hopes to foster the community and continue educating people on Zero-Waste policies.

Senate Bill #72, which makes the Elections Committee a part of the Judicial Council, was passed.

There was then lengthy discussion and public comments on Senate Resolution #19, a resolution intended to support student activist groups on campus. SR #19 also denounced Canary Mission which, according to the resolution, “is a campus watch-list with a history of relying on student-given footage and material to target pro-Palestinian student activists: causing direct personal repercussions, including limiting their movement and employment opportunities.” The resolution passed as amended.

Emergency legislation was also introduced to provide the Mental Health Initiative Committee with the funds it needs.

Discussion on Senate Resolution #23 took place. SR #23 is an emergency legislation to help the Mental Health Initiative find additional sources of funding. The MHI was allocated $100 during budget hearings, though $15,000 were requested. The resolution states that the “ASUCD Senate shall continue to offer its support and to stand with MHIC staff and volunteers in what may be a long and hard fight with the UC Davis administration.” SR #23 was passed as amended.

No new legislation was introduced.

Public discussion occurred, during which time Branson made note of the drama in ASUCD and encouraged senators to try to be more socially cohesive.

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May 25 “Male parked in front of business started to exit vehicle with a baseball bat, but then drove away, staring at reporting party standing at the ATM machine.”

“Subject seen on surveillance stealing unknown item and still on site in the store.”

“Food delivery person was at reporting party’s door 1 hour ago. Prior to leaving, subject appeared to be casing reporting party’s residence, asking inappropriate questions about reporting party’s schedule, overly interested in reporting party’s broken doorknob.”

May 26 “Vehicle parked impeding traffic and blocking vendor vehicle — vehicle parked and currently running but unoccupied.”

“20+ subjects. Loud music, loud subjects, whistles.

On-going since this afternoon.”

May 27 “People out playing and screaming at volleyball court.”

May 28 “Female next door was upset after being told her guests were being loud. Currently outside yelling and slamming her front door. Request officer speak with her. Reporting party does not want contact.”

May 30 “2 male juveniles jumping on the portable roofs — both wearing maroon shirts, blue jeans.”

SENATOR DANNY HALAWI ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION FROM SENATE Halawi steps down after expressing frustration with alleged ASUCD corruption, collusion BRIAN LANDRY / AGGIE

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Senator Danny Halawi, a second-year applied mathematics and computer science double major, announced his resignation from the Senate at the May 3 Senate meeting. Halawi ran for Senate on the Unite! slate in the Fall 2018 election.

His platforms focused on increasing STEM representation in ASUCD. Halawi also hoped to bridge the gap between Greek life and ASUCD, increase representation for Middle Eastern communities and work to support mental health initiatives on campus.

Vice President Shaniah Branson commented on his early resignation.

“Danny Halawi’s resignation was anticipated due to his increased absences this quarter,” said Branson.

Halawi, a second-year, will not be returning to UC Davis for the

2018-19 school year.

“I know that Danny has had a difficult time, personally and academically,” said Branson. “I wish him the best in his endeavors and have thanked him for the work he has done during his term.”

During Halawi’s last Senate meeting on May 24, he said his resignation was due to personal reasons and frustration with the current state of the association.

“Even if I wasn’t leaving, I wouldn’t be a part of ASUCD because I am not happy with the misconduct, collusion [and] corruption,” Halawi said at the Senate meeting. “I’m not happy with the Unite! slate. As an insider, I have a packet full of evidence of collusion, corruption, racism, transphobia, and it’s very hard. I will take it to Greg [Ortiz] and The Aggie for everyone to see, and you will lose your jobs.”

Halawi declined to comment to The California Aggie on the reasons behind his early resignation or progress on his platform goals.

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DAVIS HOSTS JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION Yearly event encouraged participants to ROAR: rise, organize, activate, realize

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The Juneteenth celebration took place on Sunday, June 3 at the Davis Senior Center. The event was organized by the Yolo County Library, the Culture C.O.-O.P., the Friends of the Davis Public Library and the City of Davis.

The annual event, celebrated by many African Americans, recognizes the delayed arrival of the announcement on the end of the American Civil War and abolishment of slavery in Texas. The event aims to promote strength and resilience in the face of hardship.

“Juneteenth derives its history from the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation by the Union army in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865 and is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States,” said Beth Gabor, the public information officer for the City of Davis, in a press release.

Sandy Holman, the founder of the Culture C.O.O.P and organizer for the Juneteenth celebration in Yolo County, stressed the importance of the event on a more symbolic level to stand up for justice.

“It’s an incredible celebration and commemoration of American history,” Holman said. “It’s symbolically huge that it took over two to three years for the news to reach slaves in Texas. [The celebration] is about celebrating the tenacity of the human spirit and not giving up to injustice.”

The theme for this year’s Juneteenth was “R.O.A.R.: Rise, Organize, Activate, Realize” as a rally for the community to engage with each other and collaborate effectively. The message was meant to be practiced and promoted outside of the celebration as well.

“It is a call-to-action ceremony to remind members of our diverse community that we must celebrate each other and work together in order to create positive social change,” said Scott Love, the Yolo

County Library regional manager.

Performers at the Yolo County Juneteenth celebration included violinist Kippy Marks and singer and actor Charlo Crossley. A fashion show based on the outfits featured in the Marvel superhero movie “Black Panther” was performed by JTL Productions. Spoken word performances were also part of the line-up.

The event also featured a community dessert potluck in addition to the performances, educational material and art. Organizers encouraged attendees to mingle and connect with one another in a safe, communal environment around celebration.

Holman gave a few words of inspiration for all attendees who came, and for any community members interested in the thematic topics of the Juneteenth celebration.

“Never give up when it comes to promoting the best that we can be in making the world a better place for people to live triumphantly,” Holman said.

responses. So, we didn’t actually have the responses from every unit, given that we were in communication with every single unit for close to three weeks until the Monday before budget hearings.”

Hearings were extended rather than postponed as unit directors requested to avoid scheduling them on Memorial Day weekend and to secure quorum on the Senate table.

“We were in the position where budget hearings have to happen now, because if they’re going to happen during the weekdays not all senators will be there for every single occasion and then all of a sudden we’re put in the position where someone who cares a lot about a particular issue won’t be able to speak,” Gofman said.

Due to a California-mandated yearly dollar increase to all minimum wage workers and a 12.5 percent pay increase in stipend positions, ASUCD has accumulated a $300,000 increase in labor costs this year. The executive team also entered budget hearings with a $13,852 deficit. Consequently, significantly less money was made available to distribute among units.

OASR’s budget hearing took place on Saturday,

May 19. Its proposed budget was $81,564. This proposed amount was an increase of $30,000 as compared to the $50,474 budget OASR had received for the 2017-2018 school year. The majority of their proposed budget was $59,834 in Special Projects.

These projects include funding for students to attend conferences such as UC Hill Day, Student of Color Conference and Labor Conference. From within OASR’s proposed Special Projects budget was $39,086 in fees owed to the University of California Student Association.

“We have not paid fees for the past four years, but every other UC campus does,” Padilla said.

“We’ve gotten fee waivers but UCSA, won’t let us this year.”

OASR approached budget hearings with a desire to add two paid positions to its membership for a cumulative six. The unit has remained understaffed and underfunded compared to other UC’s OASR, departments preventing students from attending conferences.

“If we don’t pay the fees, our access is shut off,”

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Federal increase in labor costs demands extra $300,000 cost, diminishing money available to units

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From Friday, May 18 to Monday, May 21, the ASUCD executive team and Senate table conducted annual budget hearings in the Mee Room on the third floor of the Memorial Union. Units, committees and commissions each drafted individual proposed budgets for the 2018-19 school year. The executive office offered the president’s proposed budget for every respective ASUCD organization and, with deliberation from Senate, created a final approved budget.

Budget hearings were initially scheduled for the weekend of May 18 — 5 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. At the May 17 Senate meeting, the table voted to extend proceedings to Monday after senate pro tempore, Jake Sedgley, brought forward complaints sent via email by unit directors about lack of preparedness from both sides.

“To my knowledge, budgets are supposed to be in

by Week 5 of Spring Quarter,” said Destiny Padilla, a second-year community and regional development and Chicano studies double major and unit director of the Office of Advocacy and Student Representation.

“Unit directors didn’t get hardly any reminders about budgets being submitted by Week 5.”

Monica Dwight, a fourth-year Spanish and political science public service double major and Whole Earth Festival unit director, said she did not see the president’s proposed budget for WEF until the day before their unit’s hearing on Monday, May 21.

ASUCD Bylaws 1004 and 1005 say it is the job of the controller, a position currently held by Meital Machlusky, a second-year managerial economics and international relations double major, to coordinate preliminary budget meetings with each unit and stay in communication throughout the budget drafting process so as to ensure budgets are in by Week 5.

The president’s proposed budget is to be sent “to the ASUCD Senate and The California Aggie no fewer than five (5) business days in advance of Budget Hearings.

Copies of the ASUCD President’s recommendations for each Unit shall be sent to the appropriate Unit Directors and the ASUCD Business and Finance Commission,” according to Bylaw 1003(B).

The president’s proposed budget was not completed until the morning of the first day of budget hearings. The executive office cites lack of responses from units after emailing them for the prolonged release of their president’s budget.

“We started this process April 26,” said Shellan Saling, a fourth-year international relations major and executive chief of staff. “Some directors received three or four emails, like, ‘You need to come in for budget hearings.’ [With] some units, it got to the point where I was literally messaging the adopted units’ senators on Facebook saying, ‘Okay, where is this? Where are they? Why haven’t they been communicating with me?’”

ASUCD President Michael Gofman said the executive team began reaching out to units right after Machlusky was sworn in on April 19, the third week of Spring Quarter. This is not in line with ASUCD bylaws saying the budgeting process was to start in Winter Quarter.

“This is how it has worked for the past two executive teams,” Gofman said. “People in this association live very busy lives doing their work and one thing that hindered [Meital’s] progress was getting

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CRISIS TEXT LINE: RESOURCE FOR ANYTIME, ANYWHERE MEEN A R U GH / AGGIE

Texting for help, mental health, crisis remediation

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The Crisis Text Line is a free national service provided around the clock by volunteers who are trained to be crisis counselors. Founded in 2013 by Nancy Lublin, this service opens up another medium to help someone in need that doesn’t involve traveling any distance or feeling the pressure of having a spotlight. Instead, someone in need can reach out with a quick text message to 741741 anytime, anywhere.

Emilia Aguirre is a health promotion specialist for the Mental Well-Being team for UC Davis Student Health and Counseling Services. About a year ago, she started working on the keyword “RELATE” for UC

Davis students to text to the hotline. She wanted to bring the Crisis Text Line (CTL) option to the forefront at Davis.

“It’s been something that’s been on my work plan for quite some time,” Aguirre said. “We actually started it back in February of 2017, so it’s been a little over a year in the process. And the whole idea about it has been that since CTL started in 2013, we have known of other college campuses that have implemented the same process, and so we wanted to really be in the proactive, forward movement in being able to support our students. We know that they are experiencing increasing mental health challenges and concerns. So we really wanted to be able to offer another resource to students [ … ] to give another option to students if

there is a barrier for them to seek the help that they need.”

There are many different keywords that have been implemented in different regions for different purposes, but the keyword “RELATE” will help gather more data specific to Davis students, and that information can be used to better the services and raise awareness.

“The significance of the keyword is that we are going to be able to get aggregate data that [can] tell us [things such as] the time of day, the type of crisis, and the age [of students] so that we can further do outreach and prevention to help support students based off of what we are able to get through CTL,” Aguirre said.

The text line option creates a new space for people to seek help that technology is now making possible. Sofia Molodanof, a fourth-year English major, is one of the mental well-being team student coordinators. She expressed that especially in the busy lives of students, CTL can allow for immediate help that would otherwise require much more of time commitment and planning.

“From a student perspective, texting is an option that may be easier for students to do,” Molodanof said. “I think that a lot of times, students may not be super comfortable [with] going to talk to someone right away. Texting is an option for students to seek help that they need in that moment — [they’re] able to kind of feel more comfortable than talking to people like a counselor.

I think that’s definitely a barrier for a lot of people who feel uncomfortable

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UC DAVIS FACULTY PUBLICATIONS ON DISPLAY

Showcasing prestigious academics

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On the first floor of Shields Library, there is a small display of books written by UC Davis faculty. Hailing from disparate disciplines, many campus educators publish books in addition to their journal articles, research and teaching. Professor Julia Simon of the French and Italian Department, Andres Resendez of the History Department and Donald Palmer of the Graduate School of Management have each published more than one book thus far in their careers. They can each speak of the connections and transitions between publications, the challenge and satisfaction that is publishing, not to mention the work at hand.

Professor Simon narrows her research to the 18th century while broadening its scope through interdisciplinary work. One of Simon’s primary lenses is music, to which she has personal ties, having gigged in a jazz band for many years. Si-

mon published a book entitled “Time in the Blues” and is currently working on her fifth book, “Debt and Redemption.”

“I got interested in the idea of teaching blues since I play it all the time,” Simon said. “First, I did a first-year seminar, freshman seminar, and that went really well. Then I developed a big humanities course on it, so I do kind of a cultural history of the blues. I gave a talk at an American Musicological Society conference and it went really well and I was like, ‘I could publish an article on this.’ So I wrote an article, and I published it and then I thought, I have an idea for a book, and I’m just going to do it.”

That creative spark became “Time in the Blues,” a book about the historical realities that gave particular form to the blues music of the era, the way that these realities impacted individuals experiences of time and how that time is expressed and felt in blues music. Simon makes these realities tangible.

kind of just seeking the help they need in person. So this definitely offers a way for students to use their phones to get the access they need.”

Crisis counselors are required to undergo a rigorous 34-hour online training and a final exam that involves various role-play instances before they are allowed access to the online platform where they can directly help those that reach out. They often conduct a 4-step risk assessment to discern the situation, and especially to understand if there is an immediate threat involved, such as a serious physical threat like suicide.

Kevin Trujillo, a third-year mathematics major, has been working as a crisis counselor for the past three years. He found out about the opportunity when he watched Nancy Lublin’s TED talk about her company, and was inspired to get involved.

“I am a volunteer crisis counselor,” Trujillo said. “If you text in, you are connected to one of 4,000 of us, and we help you move from a hot moment to a cool calm through problem solving, through evaluating where you are right now, [and letting] you talk out your issues and giving you the resources to help yourself too.”

During the training, Trujillo was taught about all the different types of issues that someone may be facing, and how to approach them in an appropriate manner.

“That was hard, because you learn about all types of issues that someone might be going through,” Trujillo said.

“And you learn how to approach them, how to make them feel empowered,

“A lot of the argument in time in the blues is about how things like sharecropping, or long prison sentences and even convict lease [...] how that might change your perception of time,” Simon said. “How you might not be connected to your past, how you might not be able to project into the future because things are foreclosed and why the music that you play might be so focused on the present.”

Furthermore, Simon considers how and where music is born in the first place, connected inextricably to the resonance it may have with present and future listeners.

“It really makes you think about how music comes to reflect the world around you,” Simon said. “I think about how blues came about in the 1890s when race relations were really at their worst in the United States.

It’s when lynchings were at their peak, when Jim Crow laws were being put in place. I think one of the things that the book does do is make you think about those things, when you listen to a song, what exactly happened.”

While Simon’s familiarity with playing as well as studying music elevates the book as theory, she believes it can be relevant to the UC Davis community that appreciates music. “Time in the Blues” serves as fertile grounds upon which one can interrogate the kind of music with which they resonate.

“Maybe students would be interested to think more about what they like and why they like it and what gave rise to it,” Simon said. “At the end of the book, I talk about how you can go listen to people play blues and it can kind of sound, we call it phoned-in [...] but those ones that really get you, I say in there, I think it’s because people really understand where it came from.”

Professor Andres Resendez is not new to publishing, much like Simon, and similarly finds that the research from one book project propels him into the next. His book displayed, “The Other Slavery,” informs readers of the history of Native American enslavement both by one another and by colonizing forces.

“Indian slavery, unlike African slavery, was forbidden early on,” Resendez said. “The Spanish crown prohibited the enslavement of Indians under all circum-

how to empathize and how to listen — that’s our main tool. And then [we learn] how to use specific resources and referrals to help them help themselves.

After the training you have a final examination where we go through a series of role plays and once you pass that they let you go on the platform. You have supervisors all the time, and you have a community there, so we’re all on the same platform. If you have a question, you just go to the chat bar and ask if anyone knows how to approach [the issue].”

An important part of empathizing with a person in need is emulating their language to show that you are listening, and can relate to them, as Trujillo expressed. Some people may use abbreviations such as “lol,” others may not.

Some may use emojis or not. It is important for the crisis counselor to use language that shows the person that they are truly listening and empathizing — an endeavor that is not easy on a platform such as text where words are devoid of the human tone of voice.

“It’s really difficult because a lot of people in their first text message will [ask] are you a robot?” Trujillo said.

“And how do you have a conversation through text and not sound robotic? So you have to learn how to listen appropriately and let them know that you’re listening. And there’s a whole training module on that when we’re getting trained. That’s still a difficulty that all the counselors go through continuously. That’s the beautiful thing about it — strangers helping strangers with very intimate issues.”

stances as early as 1542, so very early. But by that point European colonists essentially depended on coerced Indian labor for everything.”

Distinguishable from the enslavement of African Americans in the United States by its illegality, Resendez finds a number of differences that obscure the realities of Native American slavery over the course of history. He believes these factors are at least partially responsible for the ignorance of many to this story.

“I think one of the reasons why we have a hard time coming to terms with this other slavery, as I call it is because A) it goes by very different names, B) it was supposedly was not supposed to exist and there are other reasons. For example, African slavery involved the wholesale transfer of millions of people across the ocean, and therefore we have a lot of these port records.

Indian slaves in contrast were both procured and consumed in locally or regionally and so [...] it’s very hard to come to terms with hard evidence by way of numbers, for example.”

In addition to formulating an estimate of the number of Native Americans impacted by a period of slavery between Columbus and the 1900s, Resendez also wants to step away from an ideology of victims and victimizers, with the hopes of inspiring debate and scholarship among researchers.

“One of the things that I tried to do in my book [...] is to point out that this is not a history about victims and victimizers,” Resendez said. “Everybody who was in a position to do it, did it. There are a few groups that, because of their particular conditions, did not benefit from the enslavement of other Native Americans, but everybody who was in a position to benefit from this did it. This is not a history about pointing fingers at some people or others but it’s more about human nature.”

By human nature, according to Professor Palmer of the Graduate School of Management, we also live within organizations. This is the focus of Palmer’s research: abuse and alternative value systems generated by organizational cultures. Palmer wrote “Normal

Waterway Steward interns’ latest creation

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Floating island added to Davis Arboretum by interns to act as small wetland, promote better water quality

BY LAUREN T ROPI O city@theaggie.org

Internships are a major part of many college students’ lives. At UC Davis, interns are fortunate enough to help improve their very own campus through the Learning by Leading Program at the Arboretum and Public Garden. These Waterway Steward interns tackled a project to better the Arboretum ecosystem by providing a site that stops the growth of excess algae and a place for the California freshwater turtle while cleaning the water for fish residing there. Every part of this creation is native to California, further adding to the benefits of implementing this island.

“The Waterway Stewardship interns and I applied for a $2,000 The Green Initiative Fund grant in November of 2017,” said Nina Suzuki, the leader of Waterway Steward. “We were awarded the grant in December and started designing the project in January. Students did research on other floating islands and

floating treatment wetlands, created their own designs, collaborated with each other to refine their designs, presented their ideas to Arboretum staff and incorporated feedback and ultimately created their final design to meet their goals and the project budget. We ordered materials and assembled the island during Spring Quarter. The island was installed on April 11.”

This small representation of a wetland has been worked on by these students for over a year now, and the current state exhibits promising results for the future of the Arboretum. Not only did this island complete the first phase (of four) of the Arboretum Maintenance and Enhancement Project, it was also a learning experience for everyone who took part in it. And as with any learning process, difficulties were encountered along the way (although the team encountered few problems overall).

“While building the island was successful, the project was not without a few obstacles,” said Kendal Hicks, the Waterway co-coordinator. “One problem that

we ran into was assessing how to clearly show where each plant goes on the island. We managed to use chalk to mark areas for the plants without creating permanent lines on the mat. This allowed everyone to understand the overall design of the island. Even now, we are currently figuring out how to keep the ducks from eating our plants as they begin to grow.

Once the plants are more developed, the ducks will not be as much of an issue.”

Perseverance was a key component to get the results they wanted, and all those involved were content with the finished waterway. The team had many options when it came to what to focus on but they were all united in wanting to bring about positive change for the arboretum.

“Since our internship revolves around the Arboretum waterway, we wanted to focus onsomething that would directly involve the water,” Hicks said. “We have all had heard about floating wetlands, and decided this would be an interesting and valuable learning experience for the intern-

ship. I am so happy that we accomplished this project, and I am excited to see future changes for the waterway.”

The interns will not stop here though — there is a bright future for the arboretum, thanks to the students and their passion for promoting sustainability. The interns hope to bring awareness to water quality as they continue to offer more projects for the lowest spot (in terms of elevation) on campus since this is where rain runoff and recycled water first hit. The students involved are heavily tied to this area and want everyone who enjoys this beautiful spot to feel the same

about the significance of keeping it clean and preventing algae bloom.

“The floating island was great student project opportunity that Kendal and I were extremely interested in undertaking,” said Tiffani To, a third-year environmental science and management major. “Being interns for the waterway, the floating island has the potential to improve water quality and absorb excess nutrients in the water to prevent algae growth.

The project was also a great way to get the public more aware about the changes happening with the waterway and the importance of water quality.”

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Joanne Newens was eating lunch at Blaze Pizza one day when an employee approached her and asked if she was a tutor at UC Davis. Newens was touched at the person’s comments, as they mentioned they recognized her as the person who helped them get through one of their tough finals. It’s moments like these when Newens truly feels like becoming a tutor for the Academic Assistance and Tutoring Center (AATC) was the perfect fit for her.

School board urged to build swimming pool at Davis High School Supporters of aquatics program want pool for practice, safety, learning, exercise

BY R A BI YA O BE RO I city@theaggie.org

In a recent public comment held at the Community Chambers in Davis City Hall, supporters of the aquatics program in Davis spoke up. They urged the Davis School Board to include a swimming pool — to be built specifically at Davis High School — among the top tier of priorities in the school district’s facilities master plan for the next 10-15 years. Davis is one of the largest aquatic communities in Northern California, with nearly 5,000 local households involved in some way with local aquatics.

Peter Motekaitis, the associate head coach of the UC Davis women’s swim team, talked about the importance of aquatic skills.

“According to the CDC, more than 10 Americans drown every day, and 88 percent of those deaths are preventable,” Motekaitis said. “Yolo County’s obesity

“The comment that always warms my heart when tutoring is when they ask what times I tutor, so they can come visit me to ask me questions,” Newens, a second-year neurobiology, physiology and behavior major said in an email. “This comment shows me that I am doing something right in my job. I am considering changing my future plans because of my year as a tutor. I love teaching, and I love being kept on my toes by answering new questions. I am considering graduate school because I now hope to become a professor!”

Newens tutors MAT17 (calculus for biology students), but the AATC offers tutoring services across

rate is around 35 percent for 10th graders. Skill-based aerobic swimming can reach that population for moderate to vigorous aerobic exercise.”

Doug Wright, the water polo coach at Davis High School, also commented on the need for a swimming pool at Davis High.

“Students graduate every year that would drown if they fell in a pool,” Wright said. “Seems ridiculous that one of the primal skills to live on this planet is swimming, yet students get through 12 years of formal education without it being taught.”

According to The Davis Enterprise, a pool at Davis High would cost “somewhere between $8 million and $9 million” dollars.

“Pools are expensive, so ever since I have been involved with aquatics from 1984, no serious discussion took place,” Motekaitis said. “This is the right time to put a pool in. Davis High School is a very large school, and a pool could be used by a large enough segment of the district to fill it.”

Davis High School, which opened in 1961, has never had a swimming pool for swim teams, water polo and other aquatic sports.

“A swimming pool has been on the master facilities plan for 15 years,” Wright said. “It is overdue. Tax payers, voters, parents, athletes, staff members want the pool. We have always needed a pool, but other projects seemed to take priority. It will allow for adaptive PE classes to be taught. Athletes can cross train and rehab and specifically, our aquatics athletes can have a proper place to train.”

the board including other classes, such as math, chemistry, economics, physics, statistics and even writing. The AATC was formerly known as the Student Academic Success Center, or SASC, which is what many upperclassmen might recognize it as today.

According to Inez Anders, the director of tutoring services in the AATC, the number of tutors remains around 250 students at any time of the school year. The AATC also employs a handful of student assistants as well as a tutor specialist.

“The tutors support all of the drop-in tutoring and all of the things that we do,” Anders said. “Then the people who help support the tutoring program [are] our student assistants. They do lots of the scheduling things that happen, they do lots of the reschedules, they respond to a lot of the emails, so they essentially do a lot of the admin work that helps the tutoring program run.”

Although they don’t do the tutoring, the student assistants are integral in the functioning of the AATC. Ilona Salim, a second-year food science major, is one of four student assistants at the AATC, and she is responsible for rescheduling when people miss their appointments. Other student assistants help with scheduling

individual tutoring, the hiring process and promotional outreach.

Nick Cumpian, the tutor specialist at AATC, is in charge of managing the hiring and recruitment of tutors at the center, as well as managing training and working closely with the lead tutor.

“I usually keep tutors in the loop with the big interactive strategies that we use here to improve tutoring and maintain a high level of tutoring,” said Cumpion, who graduated in 2017. “I’m also in charge of actually scheduling all the tutors that work in the drop in rooms, scheduling finals tutoring, reaching out to different organizations who then speak to Inez and then Inez lets me know [what] we need to offer this upcoming quarter. Then I’ll collect all the individual schedules from each one of our tutors, and from each of these I go and I schedule their drop-in and things like that.”

It’s no wonder Cumpian needs some help from the student assistants when it comes to scheduling the tutors’ work schedules and individual tutoring, as Cumpian notes that, on average, 300 students receive TUTORING on 14

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“Swimming is a part of the California State Physical Education Curriculum,” said Koren Motekaitis, the co-director of Davis Aquamonsters. “By not having a pool, this hurts the students who cannot afford to join youth swim teams or pay for expensive swim lessons to learn a critical life skill of learning to swim. This skill set can be taught in our public education with our current curriculum if we had a pool.”

Koren also mentioned additional benefits of a swimming pool at Davis High School.

“High school aquatic athletes could run a low-cost

swim lesson program as part of their real community service,” Motekaitis said. “These fees could help fundraise money for the high school aquatic teams. Since this program could be low-cost, the athletes could volunteer their time and give back to the community that supports [or] funds their facility.”

According to Peter Motekaitis, unequal access to swimming pools is morally unacceptable. “[Swimming is a] lifelong skill that will not be replaced by tech. There is no app to teach you to swim, or no app that will save you from drowning.”

UC Davis fraternity raises $50,000 for cancer research Bringing Davis Greek community together over a common cause

BY S N EHA RA M AC H A N DR AN features@theaggie.org

In recent years, Greek life has gained some negative publicity that has damaged its overall reputation. But many also fail to recognize the great philanthropic efforts facilitated by these organizations.

Each Greek chapter designates a philanthropy to sponsor and, each year, the students affiliated with their respective sorority or fraternity raise awareness for and donate to these causes.

In December of 2012, Sigma Chi at UC Davis designated the Huntsman Cancer Foundation as its primary philanthropic partner. The Huntsman Cancer Foundation was founded by John M. Huntsman, an alumnus of Sigma Chi, who suffered from cancer a total of three times in his life. Since the founding of the foundation, the institute has worked towards finding causes of cancer and creating safer treatment options.

Markus Kako, a brother of Sigma Chi and a fourthyear managerial economics major, was this year’s “Derby Days” coordinator. Kako explained the purpose of the week-long philanthropic event.

“We fundraise throughout the week and all the proceeds go to the Huntsman Cancer Foundation,” Kako said. “[The foundation] is one of the leading cancer research institutes. It’s a week long event with the nine sororities and the main goal is to fundraise, and then we also try to raise awareness by holding fun events.”

In past years, the majority of the fundraising for the event was based on attendance to the events held throughout the week, such as a talent show, a zorb soccer tournament, trivia night, scavenger hunt and a candle-lit vigil. This year, Kako and his brothers took a different approach to fundraising for the organization.

“In the past we’ve done some unorthodox ways of fundraising,” Kako said. “We used to sell tickets for our Derby Darling events [...] this year we switched things up and we created fundraising pages for Sigma Chi as well as all nine sororities so that the brunt of the fundraising would come to from these pages, all of which came together.”

In previous years, the fundraising was successful largely due to the efforts of the women in the nine sororities fundraising and attending events. During the week of Derby Days, the sororities Delta Gamma, Alpha Phi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Alpha Delta Pi, Chi Omega, Alpha Chi Omega, Tri Delta and Kappa Alpha Theta compete in an effort to raise more money and awareness. However, this year Kako

envisioned a plan to push for more involvement from the brothers and raise more money and awareness as a whole.

“In the past most of the fundraising solely relied on the work of the sororities, which didn’t seem fair to me,” Kako said. “So this year we wanted to team up with the sororities as a show of faith that ‘this isn’t going to rely on you this year,’ but that this is going to be a community-based effort.”

Kako explained in further detail his reasoning behind changing the structure of Derby Days for this year.

“Before, the week of events didn’t really fundraise,” Kako said. “It was more of like fun things for people to do. What we realized this year is that we could raise a lot more money just fundraising and we kind of steered the week of events to celebrate the sororities and have fun and spread awareness, but the week itself was primarily focused on the fundraising pages.”

Before the week of Derby Days, the chapter had raised 17,000 dollars in donations from friends and family. By the end of the week Sigma Chi as well as the nine sororities raised over 47,000 dollars. Once the week came to an end, the brothers collectively decided to aim for a grand total of 50,000 dollars. They achieved this new goal within the following week.

Throughout the week, the sororities competed for who could raise the most money and awareness through the donation page. To increase awareness, the sorority women shared a link to the foundation’s donation page on behalf of their respective sorority. Kako explained how the competition was used as a way for the sororities to have fun with the fundraising and catalyze growth in donations and awareness.

“My goal this year was to bring Greek life together,” Kako said. “And have that sense of community that we are all working together to create something. I think moving forward it would be really great to get the rest of the Davis community involved and networking outside of organizations that aren’t just Greek life.”

Kako explained how Derby Days has affected his experience at Davis and the Greek life community as a whole.

“Out of my four years here Derby Days was one of my favorite things to be a part of,” Kako said. “Being able to coordinate it myself and change the things I think that needed changing was a really cool experience and it’s something I’m proud to be apart of. [At the end] I think we all felt a sense of unified accomplishment, it’s a community-based effort. Cancer in some way or another affects everybody and in the

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grand scheme of things there is no competition when it comes to raising money for cancer.”

Although the importance of the cause transcends the competition, this year’s Derby Days champion was Alpha Phi. The chapter president, Harley Hoy, a thirdyear economics major, explained how Derby Days has been an important cause to Alpha Phi. “Our house as a whole is very close to Sigma Chi,” Doy said. “They are some of our closest friends and we get to go out for the entire week and fundraise money for an amazing cause. Even though the week is super competitive at the end of the day we think about why we are doing this and the fact that together we were able to raise $50,000 gives us all a sense of accomplishment because we contributed to an amazing week of fundraising.”

Julian Burns, Sigma Chi’s chapter president and a third-year classical civilizations major and human development minor, explained in further detail the changes that were made to the fraternities flagship philanthropy.

“Headed into the week we had already raised 17,000 dollars,” Burns said. “We wanted to make sure that this year and every year moving forward that we are pulling are weight in our own philanthropy. In past years the event has been criticized because it was primarily female labor that contributed to raising money for a fraternity cause and the guys were sort of passive. This year we wanted to do something different by going into it and saying ‘hey, we have come into this ourselves and we’re really proud of the work we did’.”

Two years ago, the fraternity raised 21,000 dollars. In 2017, Sigma Chi raised a total of 12,000 for the foundation. This year, the chapter quadrupled the amount of money they raised. Burns explained why he believed that the event had been tremendously more successful

this year compared to previous years.

“I think this year the fundraising pages got everyone involved,” Burns said. “Having everyone ask and not making it a requirement like, ‘Hey we need money,’ but rather conveying the message, ‘Hey this is important to me, would you mind donating?’ Because any amount helps and just having 600 or 700 people ask goes a long way.”

Earlier this March, the founder of the organization, John M. Huntsman, passed away from cancer. Burns explained how Huntsman has inspired the fraternity on a chapter-based and national level.

“We really wanted to rally behind him and his spirit and do something big as a whole fraternity,” Burns said.

“We have endeavored to make over 1.7 million dollars all together and I think we’re only a few thousand dollars away from that and out of 242 chapters our chapter will be 3rd in the nation and were very proud of that and so are our alumni.”

In the years to come, Burns hopes that the cause will gain more attention and participation from the rest of the Davis community and not just students affiliated with Greek life.

“For the future of fraternities and the future of Greek life we have to sort of get out of that insular of ourselves,” Burns said. “We have this pretty close community that we form, but it’s in some ways isolated and its not really accessible for people who aren’t affiliated and I think by bringing [the cause] to the forefront, and having events that engage all of the student body and not just those in Greek life would one: we could raise so much more money, and, two: I think philanthropy and causes like this is what will save us if anything can.”

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Opinion editorial board

the California Aggie EDITORIAL BOARD

Letter from the Editor

EMILY STACK Editor-in-Chief

From the outgoing editor-in-chief

OLIVIA ROCKEMAN Managing Editor HANNAH HOLZER Campus News Editor KAELYN TUERMER-LEE City News Editor TARYN DEOILERS Opinion Editor OLIVIA LUCHINI Features Editor LIZ JACOBSON Arts & Culture Editor DOMINIC FARIA Sports Editor HARNOOR GILL Science & Tech Editor

SYDNEY ODMAN New Media Manager BRIAN LANDRY Photo Director JONATHAN CHEN Layout Director HANNA BAUBLITZ Copy Chief CECILIA MORALES Copy Chief TREVOR GOODMAN Video Production Manager ZÖE REINHARDT Website Manager HALI ZWEIGORON Social Media Manager GRACE SIMMONS Newsletter Manager SHAELIN GREEN Distribution Manager LAURIE PEDERSON Business Development Manager

I have cherished every moment of the last four years I've spent at The California Aggie. This is likely the last time I will write for this publication. Before I say goodbye, I want to share why this newspaper is so important to me.

So much of my time as editor-in-chief has been a learning process. I have learned from my staff and from community members every single day, growing as an individual and as a leader as a result. It’s been an experience like no other.

I joined this paper when it was at its lowest point and I saw its presence rebuilt step by step by a dedicated staff and a supportive community. The Aggie shows no signs of slowing down, and its now-150-person staff is a testament to that.

We’ve grown. We’ve expanded our operation, our reach and responsibilities with it. We breathed life back into our on-campus presence by collaborating with other units to redesign and upgrade each of our distribution points. We continued working on the newspaper digitization project. The community has engaged with our content, which has affected positive, tangible change.

Journalists choose to hold others accountable. We try to shed light on important issues and make an impact. During a time when most everything has to be questioned, responsible news sources must build a foundation of trust to serve those who seek reliable information. That foundation starts with student journalism. The Aggie has always strived toward this ideal.

This newspaper is fueled by the passion of the students who

work here. We have always done what we can to bring reliable, timely and engaging news to our readers, and I can say with confidence that we’ve been able to do that. We do it for the community. In our case, without the students we serve, we wouldn’t be here. But we also do it for ourselves, because it’s undoubtedly something we love to do.

It’s emotional for me to leave because this paper has been one of the few constants during my time at UC Davis. Some of my proudest memories at this university involve being a member of the staff that brought the student newspaper back from virtual extinction. And beyond that, the people who work here have been my close friends. The stories have become part of my experience. I wouldn’t trade a single moment of my time here for anything. Next year’s staff members — many of which have a year or more of experience under their belts — are a capable bunch, and I have no doubt they will take good care of this newspaper.

It’s been an honor to be the 2017-18 editor-in-chief of The California Aggie. Each year I spent here has been different, but it has always been fun and never boring. Thank you to all those who made this experience so worth it. To the people whom I respect, laugh with and love, thank you.

Bryan Sykes Editor-in-Chief

Behind Backstage: Concert production, women and mops

Private data harvesting unlikely to stop after Cambridge Analytica scandal

A LOOK AT THE OBSTACLES WOMEN FACE WHEN ATTEMPTING TO BREAK INTO CONCERT INDUSTRY

BY E RI N HA M ILTO N elhamilton@ucdavis.edu

There’s something magical in attending a concert; working one, however, brings you back to reality.

Sitting in front of the Activities and Recreation Center at 7:30 a.m. one bright April morning, I had trouble thinking because my mind was still foggy with sleep. The sun had yet to warm the ground, and wearing shorts left me chilled in the early Spring weather.

But, since my boss had yet to appear, I remained in the sunlight on the cold seat hoping my choice of clothing wouldn’t come back to bite me later.

Instead, I bounced my legs and tried to distract myself, watching the early-morning stragglers creep toward the gym.

Gradually, a strange occurrence came to my attention: a slow wave of nearly-silent people — all men, all dressed head-to-toe in black — migrated from the parking lot to The Pavilion. It was odd, since those who frequent the gym so early are usually the workout buffs and athletic types.

In contrast, these men these men appeared to have walked off the Pirates of the Caribbean set only moments before. Some men had beards, some were clean-shaven; some sported longer locks than anyone I’ve ever met or encountered, some were bald. Most were heavily tattooed, pierced, deadeyed with exhaustion, or some mixture of all three.

Of the 40 or so men working, we were the only women helping to unload. There’s a reason most concert tech and sound work remains a male-dominated occupation: setup and takedown of music shows requires enough strength to lift hundreds of pounds of equipment for hours on end. It’s considered “blue-collared” grunt work.

But in the wake of a new wave of modern feminist organization — like the #MeToo movement that has led to the indictment and ousting of several icons in many industries (but especially the American film industry) — it was still shocking to see such a vast gender discrepancy as there was in the set up for the recent alt-J concert in Davis.

Among that swell of men oozing in the direction of The Pavillion, I had yet to see one woman.

A burst of laughter echoed from somewhere out of my sight, breaking the still morning air and rebounding off of the cement walls of the ARC. I’d never been more intimidated — maybe it was their camaraderie, maybe it was purely their choice of dress. Either way, they were a club I was not a part of, and here I sat, waiting to get started with no one in the group saying so much as a “Hello” to me.

Suddenly, I spotted my co-worker arriving with our boss, who gestured for us to follow the group around the building. On the other side, near the loading zone for the ARC Pavilion, two massive tractortrailer trucks were in the process of being unpacked.

This must have been where the laughter came from, as these workers spoke familiarly with one another, laughing and teasing like soldiers on the frontlines.

Their voices mixed cacophonously with the sharp cracks of metal equipment against wooden carts.

The three of us, outsiders, shared a glance.

Yet this doesn’t come as a surprise to women familiar with the industry. It is nearly an unspoken prerequisite for being a Productions Director in the ASUCD Entertainment Council (EC) — a position responsible for helping put on shows for artists like Chance the Rapper, alt-J, BØRNS and Khalid. Kurtie Kellner, a third-year managerial economics major, oversees sound and set up for all EC led events.

And she’s nothing, if not familiar, with the treatment of women backstage in the music industry.

When asked about her experiences, she grinned, understanding immediately.

“A lot of times you just kind of get brushed off and dismissed,” Kellner said. “It’s like, ‘No, this is kind of heavy, we can do it!’”

Kellner was quick to remind me that this doesn’t happen at every concert or with every company. At a recent EDM concert — where she shadowed under the man running the lighting for the show — Kellner made it clear that she was treated respectfully.

She followed this up, however, with a slightly ironic sentiment: “Adam [the man running the show] had made all of the guys sign sexual harassment and sexual assault waivers right before they got to the venue.”

Despite the few silver lining cases like Another Planet Entertainment — which recently made headlines for being the only entertainment company to be headed by women — much of the industry still needs to play catch-up.

As for me, I couldn’t help but agree. Especially thinking back to when, an hour after working ambiance, a man came up to me, took the equipment I held in my arms and left me adrift and jobless without so much as a backward glance: It was early afternoon — approximately six hours until the doors opened — so The Pavillion was fairly empty. Only a few workers milled about, carrying fencing, and discussing placement of the remaining equipment or cleaning up fallen debris during load-in. Confetti leftover from the Chance the Rapper concert in October 2016 sat in heaps on some of the constructed barricades, and the entire floor was covered in a layer of dust; off to one side of The Pavilion stood a mop.

Weighing in at 162 pounds, each barricade required at least two people to maneuver into place in front of the stage — they were then bolted into place with two bolts spanning the length of a hand to prevent collapse mid-concert. Assembling barricades could take anywhere from an hour to three hours, depending on availability of help.

So imagine our surprise when six of us, all EC staff members and all women, arrived to help out only to find barricades already in place.

We stood motionless, momentarily dumbstruck and debating our purpose until Liz O’Neill, EC’s Director and third-year double major in psychology and managerial economics, took the initiative

and approached one of the men presumed to be in charge. In his mid-30s with a few graying hairs and eyes hardened from years on the job, the assumption seemed promising — the majority of other men in The Pavillion looked to be in their late-20s, grinning and messing around with each other when not currently occupied.

If anybody could get the man to take her seriously, it would be O’Neill.

“For the most part, people know I’m in charge and won’t talk to someone else,” O’Neill explained later. And that’s entirely plausible when she walked toward the man unperturbed, clipboard in hand, frown on her face.

The highest of positions in the industry, O’Neill told me later, remain run by men. If she were to reach out to a promoter, for example, she would likely speak with a man. On the other hand, advertisement and marketing remains women-driven fields.

Take it from Kellner, who had already experienced the culture of dismissal time and again over the course of two years in her position.

“As a girl, you have to make a point of putting your foot down, and being like, ‘Yes, hi, how can I help you?’” Kellner said once. “You have to go out and ask for a task. They won’t immediately assume you’re in charge. You have to go out and say, ‘Hi, yes, I’m in charge.’”

Despite O’Neill’s leader expertise and authority, we ultimately expected dismissal until later that evening — our job had been done already, so there was nothing left for us to contribute.

What we got, instead, were a bucket of bolts, the aforementioned mop and a few dismissive glances. So we took what we could get, dragging the bolts and mop to the barricades, and fell upon our duties resignedly. We were disappointed but not surprised by this treatment.

It was, however, a blow to my self-confidence, being in a situation that was so clearly tight-knit and not necessarily unwelcoming, but still exclusive. We’d had experience — UC Davis had hosted countless concerts in the past — and yet time and time again, we’d been sidelined for the sole purpose of us being women. Looking at my coworkers, I could easily read the frustration and indignancy written on their faces.

Unfortunately, it’s one aspect of concerts that few understand until they find themselves working one: the gut-punch and sharp anger when a man — usually a foot taller and a hundred pounds heavier — approaches you, plucking your job right out of your hands with nothing more than a condescending “Thanks for volunteering, ladies.” Or, my personal favorite: delegating you menial tasks like mopping and sweeping, both of which hold the unspoken association with women and femininity.

Katie Lewis, another third-year on the team, a genetics major and the Assistant Director of EC, was just as confused as the rest of the EC staff when she was given charge over mopping up the confetti on the barricades. And while we attached the remain-

ing bolts, over our shoulders stood Lewis stooping over the dirty metal, wiping back and forth until deemed clean enough. Which, apparently, it wasn’t, as another male ARC employee went over the same barricades with the same mop, afterwards.

Looking back, Lewis is still slightly uncomfortable by that job and who was doing it.

“We were assigned barricades — so I got there assuming that I would be doing lifting,” Lewis remembered. “And [the men in charge of barricade set up] were, like, “Ah no … you guys, you are such great volunteers!” and left us with cleaning up after [putting] up the barricades together already.”

In no way was this incident malicious — the backstage workers couldn’t simply take the barricades down for us to put them back up. Regardless, the situation was definitely an uncomfortable one, like we had encroached on a territory we didn’t belong in. For all that was unspoken, the whole event might as well have read “BOYS ONLY. No girls allowed.” As if we were all five years old again, and boys were afraid of girls on account of their cooties.

“They didn’t realize that this is what we do and just assumed that, since it was a group of like five girls, we were just there to just clean up or whatever,” Lewis agreed.

In the first moments after a concert ends — when the lights snap on, the band leaves the stage and the crowd grows quiet — the world pauses, and silence seems to fall over the room. The audience remains standing, as if in shock that the pounding music and flashing lights have cut out, with their jaws on the floor and not a sound to be heard throughout the venue.

Finally, when reality sinks in, the crowd unfreezes and surges toward the exit doors in the back of The Pavillion, an eruption of chatter exploding from the massive group. Soon, all that’s left are some discarded pieces of confetti, forgotten empty water bottles and crumpled tickets.

That’s when the real work begins for us. And by “real work,” I have come to learn that this means sitting and waiting before I could clean up after the artists.

After the Alt-J and BØRNs concert, once the remaining few EC workers gathered, the ambiance manager brought us to a deserted room backstage to wait out the post-concert party most artists enjoy for a few hours before boarding their buses. By this time — after waking up early, setting up and attending the entire two-hour show — I was completely exhausted.

The four other girls from EC and I crammed onto a couch while we awaited the call to action, each of us taking turns to dip our hands into a bag containing nothing but pillow mints — the only food available for us to eat.

An hour later — around midnight — the supervisor arrived, giving us the green light to enter the first room, which happened to be BØRN’s and his band’s. Fame often makes us forget that celebrities ENTERTAINMENT on 14

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BY CO N N E R S H AW cishaw@ucdavis.edu Here at The California Aggie, we’ve covered some intense graduation stories. We thought we’d seen it all — police arresting walking grads for public intoxication, keynote speakers advising students to sell their bodies online, apes from the primatology lab escaping and attempting to take over the school while riding cows and horses, (nearly succeeding if not for a daring flank from the Davis carriage division). This year though, one student proved us wrong.

“My name is Jeff Spacey, graduating fourthyear, and I just woke up from a lecture-induced coma.”

You heard that right. Jeff Spacey has spent the majority of his college career in a rare form of coma that scientists are calling a “four-year space out.” For the last four years, Spacey has spaced out in every lecture. It started during his first class at UC Davis, Astronomy 10G. “The last thing I remember is the professor saying the word ‘space,’ and from there it’s just a blur,” the “Space Cadet,” as his friends refer to him, said. “Since I woke up, I’ll get flashes every so

often, an interesting concept or a quote, but other than that I hardly remember anything. I’m just glad this disorder didn’t affect my college career too much.”

At this point you’re probably thinking, “What in the damn hell? There’s no way Space Cadet could get through college in a coma! I’m never reading The Aggie again!!1!” However, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

“One of the most common symptoms we find in patients suffering from the ‘four-year spaceout’ is actually unconscious retention,” Dr. Doc Terr told The Aggie. “Usually, if we press patients

enough, we can get them to recall at least some basic facts from their time spacing out. Even more interesting is that non-learning memory seems completely unaffected.”

So, how do you like that, doubters? An actual doctor proved you wrong. Don’t ever hypothetically question me again unless you want another verbal annihilation.

Jeff Spacey may never fully recover from these four years, but he is confident he will eventually move past it.

“I mean, how much of this stuff was I supposed to remember, anyways?”

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Cormorants as Climate Change Model

Brandt’s cormorants are seabirds native to the Pacific coast. They’re black and sleek, with long necks, oval bodies, and bright blue chins. The oldest recorded Brandt’s cormorant was seventeen years of age, a relatively long lifespan for a bird species. A recent study of these birds has provided new information about the effects of climate change on this long-lived marine species and potentially others as well. For decades their population has been monitored in the Farallon Islands just off the shores of San Francisco, providing valuable information about ocean conditions, local fisheries and the community of the island wildlife refuge.

“Since we have that kind of data, we were able to understand that [the cormorants] tend to respond pretty quickly to things like El Niño conditions, which are really broad, large-scale patterns that influence the whole globe,” said Annie Schmidt, the lead author and a former doctoral student at UC Davis currently working for Point Blue Conser-

Where and when animals eat food is dependent on those around them

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in Native American studies, discussed the problems the Yurok tribe is facing due to illegal Northern California marijuana growers polluting crucial Yurok waterways around Humboldt County with pesticides and human waste.

“For indigenous communities, when we’re talking about environmental justice, we have to talk about settler colonialism, what that is, and how its legacy is still produced today,” Reed said. “Unless environmental justice talks about decolonization in its own way, it’s not going to make sense or be effective for indigenous communities.”

Keynote speaker Margaret Gordon described her work with the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, in which citizens were equipped with air monitors to measure how severe the air pollution was in their Oakland neighborhoods. Gordon detailed how an Oakland highway was rerouted outside of residential areas due to the air monitoring data collected by her teams.

vation Science. “And because they respond really sensitively to those conditions, you can tell a lot about how El Niño is affecting the ecosystems here in California.”

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation is a periodic fluctuation in winds and surface temperature that occurs over the eastern Pacific Ocean. The warm phase, El Niño, pushes warm water to the surface along the Pacific coast, and is followed by a cooler phase called La Niña, which pulls up colder waters. Biological activity tends to decrease during El Niño, resulting in less food, less breeding and lower adult survival. Climate change may alter the current fluctuation.

“There are sound papers and more coming out all the time that predict ENSO cycles will likely increase in intensity and frequency, probably too fast for many marine wildlife populations to adapt,” said Daniel Anderson, a professor emeritus of Wildlife Biology at UC Davis, in an email interview. “Each [seabird] species has its particular ecological ‘strengths’ and/or ‘weaknesses’ that contribute to their vulnerability for population decline

The Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice Symposium brought together community members, professionals, students and researchers to discuss methods of improving environmental health in vulnerable populations. The event was organized by Joelle Toney and Alexandria Igwe, the special events coordinator and student director of the GAAAP program, respectively.

“I wanted to create an event that would elevate marginalized voices as well as bring together people who are not normally in the same room to discuss their approaches to addressing environmental degradation and the uneven effects it has on our communities and planet,” said Toney, a fifth-year community and regional development student. “All too often, we are zoomed into just one aspect of an issue — not realizing that we can create alliances and collaborate with people who are trying to solve the same issue but from a different perspective.”

Breakfast was followed by brief welcoming remarks and the first three breakout sessions. One session was the Water Is Life panel, detailing the ways in which Native American and indigenous people consider water sources as entities intimately tied to the health of human populations. Kaitlin Reed, a Ph.D. candidate

Fish keep friends close, anemones closer

Animals are socially influenced by each other, which affects everything from how much individuals eat to the likelihood that certain species will go extinct. For example, a study shows that algae-eating fish in coral reefs will eat food in more dangerous areas if there are other algae-feeding fish already there.

“Social information, while it’s a simple process, as simple as fish copying each other, or whatever it is, a bird copying another bird, a bird copying a squirrel […] If an animal that shares your needs, your resources, or shares your predators, reacts in a way that seems good or bad, then animals often then follow suit,” said Michael Gil, a coauthor of the study.

A more recent study shows that all types of animals rely on social cues to determine their behaviors, such as picking a sleeping site or avoiding predators.

Supporting this theory is the study done on coral reef fish, which found that fish reinforce each other’s feeding behaviors.

In a calm lagoon off French Polynesia, a fixed station with video cameras monitored flat, open areas with lots of algae. Even though there was a lot of food for algae eaters like parrotfish and surgeonfish, the areas not did provide cover from potential predators, like sharks. In these more dangerous areas, the fish still gathered to feed if other algae-eating fish were present.

“Animal use of social information is something that we’ve known about for a very long time, and now more and more ecosystems are showing these same patterns,” Gil said. “Animals copy one another within and across species.”

Andrew Hein co-authored both studies with Gil, and he explained different methods by which the footage of fish was examined. At first, students went through the hours of film looking for fish and how they reacted. Later, a computer program was designed to recognize fish, which reduced the time needed to look at the videos.

According to Hein and Gil, these studies have far-ranging applications. Understanding that different mechanisms drive ecosystems is important for conservationists to know so that they can push for policies to protect the environment.

“When we remove fish from these ecosystems, we’re not just removing these valuable workers […] when you remove the fish, you’re not just removing the important individual and it’s feeding ability, you’re also removing its social influence on the rest of the fish in the ecosystem,” Gil said.

By removing a few fish, the rest of the fish will not have the reinforcing behavior to eat, and may become weaker. Not only would this decrease the fish population, but other species might suffer. The coral reefs that parrotfish and surgeonfish live in can be killed off from excessive algae growth.

“The reason that one would care about this is that the fish I’m talking [parrot fish and surgeonfish] about are responsible for consuming algae,” said Gil.

UC Davis study shows potential responses of long-lived seabirds to changing ENSO frequency

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or increase. But whole marine ecosystems are at risk, of which seabirds are part.”

Schmidt and her colleagues took various predictions for future changes in ENSO frequency and applied them to population models for Brandt’s cormorant. These models looked at population abundance, variation in recruitment and extinction probabilities for several potential ENSO patterns.

“The basic thing that makes populations susceptible to extinction is being held down at a low level for a long period of time,” said Louis Botsford, a co-author and professor emeritus of the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology at UC Davis. “Imagine a species that only lived for one year. If it only lived for one year, then if it appears during one of these low periods, it’ll go extinct. […] The cormorant, on the other hand — its lifetime spreads over seventeen or twenty years or something like that. Its reproduction occurs over a combination of ups and downs. This does cause fluctuations in the number of young, which, when they join the adult populations, do cause some fluctuations in the adult populations, but not as much as a shorter-lived species would.”

Overall, increasing ENSO frequency appeared to benefit the long-lived species in all three categories. It is not certain that the frequency will actually increase as La Niña is still not yet well understood, and climate change predictions are highly variable. However, other long-lived marine populations with similar reproductive patterns — in other words, species with similar life histories or sensitivity to ENSO — may be better understood at a population level by incorporating these models.

“I think the main thing we’re hoping to come out of this is that people think about including the frequency of both good and bad — for lack of a better term — events in their population forecasting,” Schmidt said. “Often if people are trying to predict how a population will respond to future climate change, they might predict how it will respond to changes in the mean conditions. So let’s say your average temperature is warmer or cooler or whatever the case may be. Or they might predict how it would respond to more extreme conditions, but people have not often considered frequencies.

So how often good and bad years are alternating, when they’re trying to predict how a species will persist in the future, it turns out is pretty important.”

California’s Senate Bill 32 has called for a greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction in the state of California. By the year 2030, the state hopes to be 40 percent below 1990 level emissions. This calls all industries into action, including California’s massive and influential dairy industry. In order to meet the pressure of decreasing emissions, UC Davis researchers from the Department of Animal Science have started the world’s first seaweed animal trial. Based off several in vitro trials in Australia, two professors started feeding a dozen Holstein cows seaweed about a month and a half ago in hopes of replicating the potential the past studies have shown.

One of the investigators, animal science professor Ermias Kebreab, held a media event on May 24 to showcase the new and promising research.

8 percent of GHG emissions come from agricul-

ture, Kebreab said. Several estimates from the Air Resources Board show that 60 percent of this is attributed to methane, 30 percent of which comes from enteric fermentation, 25 percent from manure and 3 percent from rice production along with some other sources.

The trial started with in vitro trials, performed by Matthias Hess, another professor in the Department of Animal Science.

“We used an artificial gut system to mimic a rumen,” Hess said. “This allows us to screen for the most efficiency dosages of seaweed and the best means of administering it. The artificial gut acts like a small bioreactor using a sample of rumen fluid from a fistulated cow. How a cow reacts to a treatment will vary because each animal has a unique microbiota within her gut. Because of this, we mixed the samples together to homogenize the microbes present.”

Some studies in the past have struggled to accurately measure the potential of seaweed as a methane suppressant, as they are unable to maintain the microbiota environments for prolonged periods. Hess’ artificial gut system allows the microbes to thrive in the controlled environment without dying off prematurely.

The in vitro trials performed on campus confirmed the potential of the seaweed, Asparagopsis armata, as an anti-methanogen. Although there are

other species of seaweed like Asparagopsis taxiformis that have proven to be better methane suppressors, this seaweed does not grow as well in California as its A. armata counterpart.

The animal trials, taking place at the UC Davis Dairy, are composed of three different treatment groups receiving different amounts of the seaweed.

The control group does not receive any seaweed and eats a normal total mixed ration like the other cows housed at the dairy.

The two treatment groups receive either 0.5 or 1 percent seaweed as a proportion of their daily intake, said Breanna Roques, the graduate student working on this trial. According to Roques, the dosage is determined by how much the cow normally eats. All the cows being used in this trial are Holsteins in the middle of their lactation cycles. In order to ensure that the cow eats the seaweed, it is finely ground by hand and mixed with molasses to improve its palatability.

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Bleachers: A Review

Spring/Summer 2018 Style Inspiration Confused on what to wear? Look no further

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Spring is nearly over, but summer is just around the corner. For some direction on what to wear, the following is a list of common themes I noticed by looking at runway shows from a variety of designers. Although many of us can’t afford expensive and high-fashion clothing, the creative forces behind these shows heavily influence the clothing that become more widely accessible.

A useful tool for determining trends or overall themes for any season before they even arrive (keep in mind the real fashion industry — not fast fashion — has only two seasons: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer) is using the online Vogue show finder under the “catwalk” tab.

There you can search up runway collections from specific designers, seasons or both. I focused on “Spring/ Summer 2018 Ready to Wear” for Acne Studios, Rick Owens, Maison Margiela, Creatures of Comfort, Carolina Herrera and Jacquemus.

Colors: Pastels, Bright Burnt Orange, Neutrals, Metallic: Neutrals (think earthy and burnt colors like browns, black, white, beige, forest green, greys and blood red) will always dominate because they are sophisticated, elegant, easier to work with and go with everything. Although those were very prominent, a couple designers featured a more vibrant orange and some even went for almost neon yellow and pink. Many of them also featured pale and pastel shades. Metallic, shiny, reflective touches on some areas of the material (or the entire material) were pretty common too.

Structure: Fabric Manipulation, Flowy:

There was a good mix of both stiff structures and easy, stereotypically summer flowiness to materials and the way they were placed on bodies. I will refer to the former as fabric manipulation because it seems like a lot of designers were building larger shapes and design through the clothing itself rather than letting the pattern, color or material tell the story. This has probably been done before, but it was just quite pronounced this season, especially with Rick Owens. It makes sense, though, since there is more room to do this without the worry of winter layers and clothing covering up the piece for warmth.

Fabrics: Sheer, Mesh, Fringe, Texture, Shine, Ruching With designers like Jacquemus and Rick Owens, there wasn’t too much of a stray from simpler clothing, as they focused more on fabric manipulation and simple techniques like ruching. However, most of the other designers decided to tie in those reflective, colorful and louder fabrics while, for the most part, not letting it get too extravagant. There was a lot of sheer and meshy material showcased as well, which looked very beautiful.

Belted Layers Hear me out on this. All over the Fall/Winter runways that took place earlier this year, you can spot models in thick, warm winter coats layered with scarves and other clothing but finished off with a belt holding it all together at the waist. This same idea was also used for Spring/ Summer but with thinner materials and often showing off leg. The key for executing this in the summer is thinking about lightweight materials that can be built upon but still keep you cool. Also make sure to keep the silhouette sort of against your body and not have materials bulging out.

Layers in general were pretty popular. Long dresses and flowy pants were often paired with other puffier dresses on top or bulky, oversized but light jackets.

Remember, though, that trends are ephemeral. Take it from Yves Saint Laurent: “Fashions fade, style is eternal.” Find designers that inspire you and be more aware of pieces that might last past their trendy limelight.

Yet this is all to say have fun with your decisions too and above all, be comfortable in your own skin. You might be wearing what others see as strange or different, but as long as you are confident in it, that is really all that matters.

Student Playlist: The songs we listen to every day Favorite music from student body

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On the night of May 7, Ace of Spades was filled with emotion — the rollercoaster kind that makes you want to cry, laugh and cry again. Jack Antonoff, the frontman of Bleachers, wasn’t just performing for hundreds of people; he was getting to know them, one song at a time.

The event opened with New York pop-punk duo Diet Cig. Throughout the show, vocalist Alex Luciano talked about matters pertaining to sexual harassment, queer representation and empowerment, using her platform to discuss relevant social topics. Luciano was filled with effervescence, twirling on stage and kicking her leg up high in true punk fashion.

Diet Cig’s music was reminiscent of teenage angst and relatable life experiences. Songs like “Sixteen,” which referenced Luciano’s terrible ex-boyfriend from high school, brought me back to my youth. Fast forward to this year, in this moment, I realize that both Luciano and I have overcome those obstacles with age and with music.

Minutes after Diet Cig’s last song, Bleachers appropriately led into its concert with “Good Morning,” a track from their most recent album “Gone Now.” Jack Antonoff is transparent and a perfectionist when it comes to his music. Each beat and note needs to be executed seamlessly. As “Everybody Lost Somebody” began to play,

BY CARO LINE RU TTEN arts@theaggie.org

There is a difference between a person’s all-time favorite song or album and the one they play on repeat every day. A favorite song might hold a specific memory, remind someone of the past embedded in an infectious sound. Yet the songs on daily repeat have an element that makes students come back again and again on a consistent basis. Coming straight from the student body, here are the songs certain Aggies have to listen to every day.

Rosie Schwartz, third-year English major: CR: What are the songs you have to listen to every day?

RS: “An album I listen to almost every day is ‘Is This It’ by the Strokes and ‘Telefone’ by Noname. The song I like to listen to a lot is ‘A Change is Gonna Come’ by Sam Cooke.”

CR: What about them makes you come back over and over?

RS: “I think for albums, when I started listening to them I originally liked them for their sound. But then it’s the comfort of knowing that it’s music I like and that I’m always going to like and won’t be ruined by over-playing. I have really good memories driving and singing to them with friends.

They evoke nostalgia.”

Robin Duka, second-year managerial economics major: CR: What are the songs you have to listen to every day?

RD: “My favorite artist is definitely Daniel Caesar. I like how emotional and heartfelt all is music is and never fails to put me in my feels. I really like the song ‘Best Part’ by him.

BY CARAJOY K LE INRO CK arts@theaggie.org

As an arts writer, movies and television have made a huge impact on my life. While at UC Davis, I expanded my knowledge of the two mediums drastically. For instance, I’m known for watching at least two movies a day. Freshman year, I believed that taking a nap was a waste of time; it could instead be used for watching a show. As a senior, I now love naps — though I still agree with my freshman year mentality.

So for each year of college, here is one television show or movie that defined my experience.

Freshman year: “Criminal Minds” This was the year I learned what my binge-watching endurance was. I discovered this show early on freshman year and it quickly took over my life. I would watch six episodes a day and managed to finish all 10 seasons by the end of the year. It also helped bond the people living in my dorm. We would watch this show together for hours, allowing us to experience something together.

For those who don’t know, the show is about the behavioral analysis unit of the FBI which is dedicated to catching serial killers all around the U.S. I was known as the girl obsessed with “Criminal Minds,” which made getting me a gift for secret Santa very easy. I ended up receiving two Criminal Minds cal-

Antonoff stopped the song abruptly only to start it over. He talked about the musical note that sparked his inspiration for “Rollercoaster,” the second song in his first album, “Strange Desire.” The birth of Bleachers began with a secondhand piano in Antonoff ’s apartment.

Bleachers overflows with talent. Saxophone player Evan Smith masterfully mimicked each guitar riff played by Antonoff, creating a playful, instrumental banter that lasted forever.

Antonoff, a lover of music, is also very much for the people. Comedic and humble, he talked about his band members, his life in New Jersey, and feelings of loneliness that we’ve all felt before. His life was a journey of discovery and building relationships, which is articulated through his lyrics.

“When me and this band set foot on this stage for however many minutes, that’s when the world makes sense,” Antonoff said.

The show consisted of 17 songs, including a cover of “Carry On” by fun., a band co-founded by Antonoff, and “Just Can’t Get Enough”

by Depeche Mode. As expected, it ended with Bleachers’ top hit “Don’t Take the Money.”

Bleachers knows how to perform and engage with an audience. Whenever Antonoff stood close to the edge of the stage, the room shifted forward and sang together, word-for-word.

At the end, I stood feeling completely awed by the performance and in deep reflection of the experience. There are only a few shows that have completely moved me, and this one did exactly that.

It’s one of the most beautiful duets. I also really like ‘Girls Love Beyonce’ by Drake. It’s not really one of his more wellknown songs, but I like how it remixes ‘Say My Name’ by Destiny’s Child and slows it down. It’s more R&B and rap centric, which is more of my forte when it comes to listening to music.”

CR: What about them makes you come back over and over?

RD: “A lot of these songs that I listen to have a lot of nice memories attached to them because of how frequently I listen to them, but also it’s whenever I listen to them they never fail to make me feel the same way I felt the first time I listened to it.”

Ryan Brady, fourth-year statistics major: CR: What are the songs you have to listen to every day?

RB: “‘Queen Bee’ by Taj Mahal and ‘Southern Nights’ by Allen Toussaint. Super Organism is a great indie band that plays with literal water in their music. I always go back to The Roots and A Tribe Called Quest, specifically their albums ‘Things Fall Apart’ and ‘Midnight Marauders.’ If I’m not listening for lyrics, I like Thelonious Monk, who is a jazz pianist. Besides that, I dig the organs by Booker T. Jones; it’s a lot of soul.”

CR: What about them makes you come back over and over?

RB: “It’s definitely the lyrics. Beats are what draw me into a song, but if I can see the painting they are trying to make with the lyrics that’s what really draws me back. A Tribe Called Quest always talks about problems in society.”

endars and a mug which said, “BAU Quantico, Virginia” that Christmas season. The summer going into sophomore year I went to an event in Los Angeles where I met Kirsten Vangsness, who plays Penelope Garcia. I told her that Criminal Minds got me through my freshman year of college, to which she replied, “I don’t know if that’s a good thing.” But it was; I found a lasting group of friends from it.

Sophomore year: “Big Fish” Exhibiting storytelling at its finest, Big Fish made me realize how much truth and fairytale mean to each person. The vibrant colors and stories that are told throughout the movie made me realize the beauty of Davis. The cinematography stood out to me the most, especially the way the scenes came alive. This was achieved through the whimsical characters and the colors on the screen. I looked at the world in a different light. What was once simply a path in the arboretum now represented the future adventures I would be having over my next few years at Davis.

Junior Year: “The Truman Show” Junior year solidified my love for media and journalism. When I watched The Truman Show for the first time, I fell in love with the novelty of having someone’s entire life being filmed. This movie was released before the reality TV craze began, making it ahead of its time. The Truman Show also demon-

strated that someone could live in a false reality, but still have a rewarding life. I related to this because in college it often feels like you are isolated and your life is planned. However, you actually have the ability to make it exactly what you want. Junior year was the year that I finally realized of what I wanted to do with my life. After discovering this, I made it happen, just like Truman did after discovering he wanted his own life.

Senior Year: “The Newsroom” This is my all-time favorite television show and I have watched it too many times to count. Ever since high school I loved the world of journalism and everything behind-the-scenes of making a broadcast show.

When I was a junior in high school, I spent the summer studying journalism at Oxford. I wasn’t sure if I was good enough to even call myself a writer, but by the end of the summer and with the help of my amazing teacher, Paul McClean, I felt more confident.

Cut to sophomore year of college when I joined The California Aggie (or as I like to say, the best decision I ever made in college). I felt as though I found my place in college. Whenever I feel down or have a block in my writing, I put “The Newsroom” on. It reminds me why I love this job. Our role as journalists is to inform the general public. I love being a journalist and I hope to bring that love with me wherever my career goes. from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

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Padilla said at OASR’s hearing. “That’s Davis’ voice in those meetings cut off. [...] We already are largely out of the conversations because we don’t have the capacity.”

Gofman is confident the amount in UCSA fees will be waived again this year as they have been in the past. What cannot be explicitly given from ASUCD’s operating budget for special projects is encouraged to be acquired through the unit’s pursuit of grants.

“Additionally, I’m working with Student Affairs so if that fee isn’t waived, we have funding from it internally to pay for it for this year as we work out a permanent solution for the coming years,” Gofman said.

A point of contention pointed out by OASR at hearings was over the CoHo, the day prior, being issued $3,000 in their final approved budget for optional-to-wear staff t-shirts. According to Padilla, this amount of money would have funded more than one new OASR position.

OASR’s final approved budget allowed for the same number of four paid positions and an overall total of $44,632. Of that amount, $15,507 was allocated for special projects.

The Whole Earth Festival’s budget hearing fell on Monday, May 21. A day prior to budget hearings, the unit noted a line item in the president’s proposed budget for WEF to acquire $10,000 in sponsorships and advertisements.

“We were not happy about that because that had not been mentioned in our meeting with the controller when the president wasn’t present,” Dwight said. “We had explicitly said we did not support sponsorships because we don’t support corporations and it’s not really feasible to get a large amount of money out of small businesses.”

The line item was included as a means of increasing revenue from notably profitable units like WEF and Picnic Day. In response to its addition, WEF made a call to community members or any individuals affiliated with the festival to provide testimonials on behalf of the festival against the line item.

Ultimately, the line item was eliminated in exchange for WEF cutting elsewhere in its budget. Four new stipend positions were reduced to three and a new

staff development position was eliminated.

The Mental Health Initiative, like other committees, was allocated $100 in the president’s proposed budget. MHI proposed $15,000. “[UC Davis’] counseling program is really underfunded,” said Katrina Manrique, a third-year history and English major and co-director of MHI. “There’s not a lot of mental health resources out there. There’s a ton of accessibility issues. This all leads to students needing these resources. A lot of students go to us for support, for navigation, to compensate for the lack of resources that already exist on this campus. As a result, we kind of have to go the extra effort of compensating for what administration fails to do.”

MHI co-director Sam Chiang claimed the assertion by the management team — composed of the president, vice president, controller and ASUCD business manager, Greg Ortiz — that no extra money was available to MHI was false.

“If you wanted to make us a priority, you could,” Chiang said. “The money is there; you just need to find it. It’s a question whether you care about our mental health.”

As committee members are not paid, the unit also advocated for six new paid stipend positions to compensate for the level of labor members put into the initiative. Similar to WEF, individuals were present to provide accounts of MHI’s impact on their personal lives and of its significance to students.

After much discussion, MHI was allocated the same $100 as other committees were given. The table committed to advocating on behalf of MHI to campus administration through the passing of emergency legislation promising “that ASUCD Senate will work with administration (primarily Student Affairs and the Chancellor) to help secure further funding,” according to Manrique.

“There were a lot of senators that were hesitant to give us money, again, out of fairness,” Manrique said.

“But I would continue to argue that our work is way more expansive than I think other committees are.”

Both Padilla and Chiang claimed during their unit’s budget hearings that the reason their respective units were not granted the amount of money they

felt they deserved was due to lack of appreciation.

“As much as they say, ‘If we had more money we could have given it to you,’ I don’t believe that,” Padilla said. “OASR has never been a valued unit, because I think the advocacy that they want is different from the advocacy we do for OASR, because we prioritize marginalized identities on this campus.”

Gofman’s response to claims of preferences between units was: “Our perspective is exclusively to make a balanced budget and making sure that each unit is treated equally but at the end of the day, honestly, very few units had what they needed, let alone what they wanted.”

A packet by the executive office is currently being created that will detail the process of budget hearings for the next administration. It will contain instructions and dates which can be found in the bylaws for readers to follow in order to avoid the rushed process of this year’s hearings.

Units, senators and the executive alike shared sentiments of emotional exhaustion after the events of the weekend.

Gofman acknowledged the inefficiency in which budget hearings were conducted providing that they went, however, as efficiently as they could have gone. In the coming school year, he predicts the executive team will be more closely involved in their relationship with units, saying many promises were made that they intend to act on.

“We had to make a lot painful choices, rather, these weren’t choices, we had to make a lot of painful decisions and we made them,” Gofman said.

“And I, in my role, was more than willing to take the heat of it and basically the brunt of the results of it because it will save a lot of other people from doing so.”

“I think I understand how it can be difficult to be in a bind of a big budget, and I feel like the senators felt a lot of that pressure but I think what I would want from ASUCD as an association is to be better organized and to understand what their priorities are,” Padilla said.

The approved budget will not be revisited until the first week of Fall Quarter to be approved as Senate Bill #1.

common with the, what you might call a societal culture [...] and in other cases they’re really very different. Some of it has to do with the kinds of people who are recruited, some of it has to do with how people are socialized once they enter the organization. There are multiple things going on.”

Palmer applies his research expertise to the case of abuse in Olympic gymnastics.

“In the Olympic sports domain, the assumption is that the children are just small humans,” Palmer said. “One way that’s manifested is they’re referred to as athletes. Once you have a universe where these twelve-year-olds are just considered smaller versions of adults, you can understand why coaches would end up in inappropriate relationships with these kids, because they don’t see them as children.”

Given the commonality of misconduct, Palmer felt that more writing needed to be published on the phenomenon within organizations. As a teacher of management courses, the absence of materials was palpable.

“The book was something like an itch that I wanted to scratch,” Palmer said. “I had taught a course, ethics, social responsibility and misconduct at UC Davis for the graduate school of management, and I just couldn’t find anything which seemed to accord with what I was reading in the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post. I kept on thinking, there’s a really obvious way to approach the subject,

but I haven’t seen anybody who’s done that. So I did write a journal article, and I would give talks, and I kept on expecting somebody somewhere to say, ‘you know somebody’s already done this.’”

According to Palmer, that ‘somebody’ never arrived, and he took up the project. Since “Normal Organizational Wrongdoing” he has also published “Organizational Wrongdoing: Key Perspectives and New Directions” and “Comprehending the Incomprehensible: Child Sexual Abuse in Organizations, An Organization Theory Perspective” alongside Valerie Feldman.

Palmer, Resendez and Simon each seem to relish the experience of crafting a book as a necessary output of their research interests. However, the privilege of spending three or four years with one project may not be accessible to junior, or adjunct, faculty.

Simon noted that the publishing process requires the writer to essentially finish the book without a commitment from the publisher that they will accept it, leading to a prolonged period of crafting and revision.

“Publishing books is a tough thing, it’s a really tough business. You essentially have to finish the book before you even go out and find out if there’s a publisher. Books get rejected and then you start all over again, it’s just crazy. It’s a slow and difficult process, but obviously we love it or else we wouldn’t be doing it.”

emitted from the rear end. The remaining 95 percent is released through a process called eructation, also known as burping.

Green Feed is only one of the means researchers can use to measure GHG emissions from cattle.

Other forms are head chambers and sulphur hexafluoride tracers.

Many studies have gone into comparing the accuracy of these different systems, Roques said. But all the results show similar accuracy. In addition, the Green Feed system has better flexibility and mobility without having to limit where research can be done.

With the relative newness of the trial and its unique position, there are not many results available, but Kebreab said they have been seeing reductions of upwards of 30 percent in the cows’ emissions.

The work does not end there. The ultimate goal would be to make this method and the seaweed commercially available to all producers, but this remains several years worth of testing away. Further testing in the coming months will determine the safety and product quality of the milk coming from

cows receiving seaweed in their diets. Due to the low dosages, it is not expected that the seaweed will cause a change in milk taste, but research is needed to confirm this.

“We are going to have a milk tasting panel, sampling 150 gallons of pasteurized milk from these cows,” Kebreab said. “We’re going to see if people can notice a difference between the cows eating seaweed and those that are not.”

The research team also plans on performing a similar, but much longer trial using beef steers at the UC Davis feedlot.

To make this work feasible and widespread, there needs to be more work put into the seaweed industry. Kebreab has been working with several marine biologists to make seaweed collection and feeding more cost-effective.

The main objective of this testing is to see if seaweed reduces methane emissions in an efficient manner without negatively impacting the cow’s health and body composition or decreasing milk yield. Early results have provided surprisingly positive outcomes with the future of seaweed research looking bright.

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Organizational Wrongdoing,” which inspired the Royal Commission of Australia to seek him out to conduct a report on abuse within the country’s institutions.

“My book is called ‘Normal Organizational Wrongdoing’ and the most basic argument in the book is that misconduct is common,” Palmer said.

“The other thing about my book is that the reason it’s prevalent is that every structure that makes organizations what they are [...] can both make them efficient and effective but can also, if they’re misaligned, lead to misconduct. Insofar, as we all spend lots of time in organizations in our lives, it’s good to understand [...] how organizations can cause people to engage in misconduct, even if they are ethical, law abiding rule following order obeying people.

We’re all at risk of that. The consequences can be really severe.”

Palmer explained how ‘normal’ people become party to misconduct as part of organizations that require or teach alternative knowledges of them.

“Organizations are many things,” Palmer said.

“They are administrative systems, they have rules and protocols, they are power structures [...] but one of the things they are, in addition to those things, is cultures. They have a set of assumptions about the nature of the world, and values and beliefs, about what’s good and what’s bad and norms about what to do. In some cases those cultures have a lot in SEAWEED CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10

to ferment indigestible substances like cellulose and lignin. All mammals, cattle included, have microbes living within their digestive systems. These microbes are responsible for producing the methane gas a cow breathes out. This is done to remove excess hydrogen from the rumen, which protects the microbes from an overly acidic environment.

The seaweed works to block the microbial enzymes responsible for generating methane gas, Hess said. It depresses the function of the microbes without depleting their natural population.

Using Green Feed, a turn-key system designed to measure gases like methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen, Kebreab and Roques are able to determine how well the seaweed is reducing methane emissions.

A “cow cookie” drops into the Green Feed chamber, attracting the cow’s attention. It’s made up of all the things a cow loves, Kebreab said.

As the cow eats and breathes with its head in the chamber, the gases are measured and sent to a lab in South Dakota.

Some people believe that most methane comes from a cattle’s flatulence. However, research has shown that only about 5 percent of methane is

“Citizen science gives you the ability to have your own evidence,” Gordon said to the audience.

The second set of three breakout sessions included the Sustainable Agriculture Panel. UC Davis alumnus Karishma Sethi detailed her work in Brazil as the founder of Saúde, Educação, Renda, which is Portuguese for “health, education and income.”

“I was able to put together this idea of incorporating hydroponics to grow plants with the concept of food as medicine, bringing that to a population that suffers severely from diabetes,” Sethi said.

Igwe mentioned that studying how plants absorb heavy metals from the soil could be a way to revitalize areas near factories, ports and other pollution sources. Such areas have been contaminated with materials that are harmful to both humans and the environment like lead, nickel and cadmium.

“One way I hope to change that is through the work with plant-microbe interactions — using more plant-based remediation techniques in urban areas where there are a lot of brownfields and contaminated lands,” said Igwe, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the microbiology department.

Other sessions included Fashion’s Contribution to Pollution and a Restorative Justice Workshop with Cal EPA. The event concluded with closing remarks from Lawrence Torry Winn, the co-director of Transformative Justice in Education Center at UC Davis.

Time was available for networking and conversations about what the attendees and panelists learned from each other during the day.

“The idea is that an event like this would allow students to be able to contextualize their work in the broader sense of what’s going on with people who aren’t in academia and what’s happening in the community,” Igwe said. “They could better identify what they want to do with research or identify places where they would like to work, volunteer or connect with.”

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“And these particular algal species that these fish eat, if left unchecked, they can kill coral. And we know that, in some cases, degrade entire coral reef ecosystems, making them far less valuable for humans.”

The study about fish behavior is important to coral reef conservation. However, if the same social behaviors occur in other contexts and species, the impacts would be even greater. Gil thinks that their theory could predict how species will be affected by climate change and which species will be able to avoid extinction. However, it is possible that fish copying each other’s behaviors can have negative effects.

“There might be a social component to making bad decisions as well, like eating plastic,” said Lea Pollack, a Ph.D. student. “If one fish eats plastic, maybe another one will try it too. Sort of like the proverbial, if your friend jumped off a bridge, would you jump too? We tend to think of this social information use as beneficial to these animals, since it tells them more about their environment and more information often means a more informed decision […] this social information might actually be harmful in certain situations.”

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WE BOTH KNEW THAT IT WOULD BE A WHILE BEFORE WE SAW EACH OTHER AGAIN...

BY TERRY HUDSON arts@theaggie.org

Time passed and we continued to see each other.

I think I liked that he wasn’t very emotional, which is what I thought I was until I discovered that I’m actually not at all. I never liked “The Notebook” anyway.

For the first time, I found myself eating watermelon Sour Patch in bed and sleeping in till noon after long movie screenings on my eleven-inch laptop. Spring Quarter finals were approaching and the nice weather was driving me to check out early.

Paul hardly ever slept in his own bed, but he would get close. He’d often pass out drunk with at least one limb reaching for the bed from the ground.

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I picked up a job working at restaurant at the beginning of the quarter, but I quit the week before finals. People born with common sense have to deal with everyone that doesn’t have it, so I ditched the service industry — hopefully, for good. It seemed like I didn’t get into a routine until it was almost time to leave, but that’s usually how it goes. I had mastered my finals technique by then, so they went rather well. I only pulled a Hail Mary for two of my four finals.

The time came to pack up my things and head home to Los Angeles for the summer. He helped me pack the arsenal of clothes I brought from home, though I only ever managed to wear about ten percent of it. It was a silent time because we both knew that it would be a while before we saw each other again, so I made myself look extra focused in my sorting. The time came to say goodbye, which we were both terrible at doing. He gave a kiss on my forehead and held himself back from saying or doing more. I smiled and held a gaze. It was all I needed.

At that moment I understood timing is everything; rushing things before their time is like pulling too hard on a condom — it becomes useless.

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Led by Big West Coach of the Year Jennifer Gross, the Aggies recorded their second most wins ever and smashed numerous program records along the way. The team really hit its stride in the middle of the year and closed the regular season on a blistering 18-4 streak.

Junior forward Morgan Bertsch, an All-Big West first team honoree, started all 35 contests and led the team with an average of 20 points per game Similar to their male counterparts, the team narrowly missed out on a chance to compete in the NCAA tournament. The Aggies were edged

by CSU Northridge in the Big West tournament championship game.

T.J. Shorts’ jaw-dropping run of late-game heroics Junior guard T.J. Shorts was a huge reason why

the UC Davis men’s basketball team delivered a multitude of memorable moments in another wildly successful season this winter. His clutch, late-game heroics kept UC Davis’ conference titles hopes alive late in the season, when he scored 20 points or more in six of the final eight games.

Shorts provided the most highlight-worthy moment of the year with his layup-style, game-winning, three-point shot against Long Beach State, with 1.9 seconds remaining in double overtime.

Just five games later, he did it again with a goahead layup against UC Riverside with 0.9 seconds left on the clock.

With a Big West title hanging in the balance in the regular season finale versus UC Irvine, Shorts was the one who knocked down consecutive free throws to push the contest into double overtime. The Aggies went on to claim the title by a final score of 90-84.

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“Our house as a whole is very close to Sigma Chi,” Doy said. “They are some of our closest friends and we get to go out for the entire week and fundraise money for an amazing cause. Even though the week is super competitive at the end of the day we think about why we are doing this and the fact that together we were able to raise $50,000 gives us all a sense of accomplishment because we contributed to an amazing week of fundraising.”

Julian Burns, Sigma Chi’s chapter president and a third-year classical civilizations major and human development minor, explained in further detail the changes that were made to the fraternities flagship philanthropy.

“Headed into the week we had already raised 17,000 dollars,” Burns said. “We wanted to make sure that this year and every year moving forward that we are pulling are weight in our own philanthropy. In past years the event has been criticized because it was primarily female labor that contributed to raising money for a fraternity cause and the guys were sort of passive. This year we wanted to do something different by going into it and saying ‘hey, we have come into this ourselves and we’re really proud of the work we did’.”

Two years ago, the fraternity raised 21,000 dollars. In 2017, Sigma Chi raised a total of 12,000 for the foundation. This year, the chapter quadrupled the amount of money they raised. Burns explained why he believed that the event had been tremendously more successful this year compared to previous years.

“I think this year the fundraising pages got everyone involved,” Burns said. “Having everyone ask and not making it a requirement like, ‘Hey we need money,’ but rather conveying the message, ‘Hey this is important to me, would you mind donating?’ Because any amount helps and just having 600 or 700 people ask goes a long way.”

Earlier this March, the founder of the organization, John M. Huntsman, passed away from cancer. Burns explained how Huntsman has inspired the fraternity on a chapter-based and national level.

“We really wanted to rally behind him and his spirit and do something big as a whole fraternity,” Burns said. “We have endeavored to make over 1.7 million dollars all together and I think we’re only a few thousand dollars away from that and out of 242 chapters our chapter will be 3rd in the nation and were very proud of that and so are our alumni.”

In the years to come, Burns hopes that the cause will gain more attention and participation from the rest of the Davis community and not just students affiliated with Greek life.

“For the future of fraternities and the future of Greek life we have to sort of get out of that insular of ourselves,” Burns said. “We have this pretty close community that we form, but it’s in some ways isolated and its not really accessible for people who aren’t affiliated and I think by bringing [the cause] to the forefront, and having events that engage all of the student body and not just those in Greek life would one: we could raise so much more money, and, two: I think philanthropy and causes like this is what will save us if anything can.”

Derby Days has been and will remain one of Sigma Chi’s most important and cherished events, Burns explains.

“This is where we show the world and the rest of the country that we’re trying to do something good here,” said Burns. “And that we love each other and we love this chance to be here and to do some good for the world. we can do alot more good if we work together. I don’t think a lot of people see that when they see Greek letters but my hope and my vision is that we can show people why we are here.”

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are human too. I was struck immediately with that realization when, upon entrance to this backstage room, we had to pause to take in the scene. To our left was a table piled with empty pizza boxes and bags of chips; to our right, a cluster of couches sat upon a rug covered by chip fragments, popcorn and discarded drink bottles. Behind, tucked away in a far corner was an empty Converse All-Star shoe box. The ambiance was dim and softened the edges of the room as well as the debris thrown across the floor.

It was an odd sort of humanizing moment, when the glamor of an artists stage performance wears off and all that remains is the knowledge that most artists cannot clean up after themselves.

And who had to sift through the garbage, pick up the used towels, the burnt cigarettes and empty beer bottles? Who helped unload and dismantled

the green rooms and the barricades, the couches and the rugs? It certainly wasn’t mostly the men.

We are not mothers. We do our jobs out of love, not for the artists themselves, but for the music they have created. It was laughable that this translated into us cleaning up their messes.

Yet the entire time, when I stepped on a chip or packed away towel soaked with who-knows-what, I realized that the music industry, like any other, has a ways to go until equality is reached.

And maybe it will never be reached fully — maybe productions won’t ever be a women-dominated field like advertisement or nursing. But the next time you attend a music show or festival, I’ll bet you the women working behind the scenes deserve more work than clean-up duty, and more recognition than “Ladies, thanks for helping!”

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tutoring from the available tutors a quarter.

Sometimes a student comes to the AATC requesting tutoring for an obscure class, in which case the AATC has to seek out a student who fulfills the qualifications of becoming a tutor and is willing to take on the job.

“Like ARE 155, we had a hard time, for example, trying to fill that order specifically because it’s hard to find upper div students that [...] have taken the course and are still going to UC Davis to work as an undergrad tutor,” Cumpian said.

“Typically we send those emails out because we’re looking for somebody who has the grade in that class, has the GPA, all that stuff, hoping somebody will apply and then we can interview them and move on.”

This was how Kimberly Tanaka, a fifth-year biomedical engineering and computer science double major, joined the AATC. She received an email asking if she wanted to tutor, and since spring 2016, has been tutoring thermodynamics and the physics 9 series.

“Of course you need to know the subject a little bit, but sometimes we don’t know the answers so sometimes it’s this fun journey of like, ‘hey, let’s figure out the answer together’ and getting to pass along some of the skills that’s helped you along the way,” Tanaka said. “Often the students know more than they think they do, and sometimes tutoring is giving them that extra boost of confidence of like, ‘hey, you’re on the right track, let’s correct it a little bit, but you’re on the right track’.”

Another aspect of AATC is providing tutors for programs that pay for special student services. For example, the athletics department

pays to have tutors from the AATC hold special tutoring sessions to support the academic success of athletes on campus.

One of these programs is the Biology Undergraduate Scholars Program (BUSP), which serves students with a strong interest in undergraduate research in biology.

After witnessing the passion and knowledge of a BUSP tutor in his freshman year — someone he saw more definitively as a mentor — Matthew Culberson was inspired to become a tutor himself.

“Seeing him [teach], that was something where I was like ‘wow’ and I did well in the class, in chemistry,” said Culberson, who just graduated last quarter with a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology.

“He said, ‘I want you to be a tutor’ and I already wanted to be a tutor, so it matched up, so ever since the end of freshman year, I’ve been tutoring.

I was hired to be a BUSP chemistry tutor, and then from there, I was able to apply to the [general] AATC tutoring program.”

Culberson tutors for general chemistry and organic chemistry.

Since he’s not a student anymore, he finds his weeks filled with tutoring work. He doesn’t mind though and in fact loves the feeling of purpose he gets from the job and the relationships he’s built in his past four years as a tutor.

“The little joke I have all the time is, ‘I’m leaving this quarter, so you have to be the next tutor and replace me,’” Culberson said.

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Aggie Sports sits down with athletics director Kevin Blue, discusses state of the program

BY D OM I N I C FA R IA sports@theaggie.org

As UC Davis wraps up its 2017-2018 academic year, the UC Davis athletics department, likewise, finds its season winding down. With 23 distinct NCAA programs competing over the course of the past 10 months, there are an abundance of performances, accomplishments and storylines to examine before the curtain officially closes on another year in Aggie sports.

For UC Davis director of athletics Kevin Blue, his second year as the head of the program was one of progress. A number of teams and individual student-athletes competed at very high levels this season, making their mark both in conference and at the national level.

Even for the teams that did not win titles or get showered with accolades, Blue felt that several of these programs took an important step in the right direction.

UC Davis football exemplifies a program on the rise. Following a 2016 season that resulted in just three wins, the football program entered the 2017 campaign with a new head coach, Dan Hawkins, and a fresh playing style. Though the team still finished below .500 and missed postseason play, the Aggies managed to improve to a 5-6 record in large part behind a prolific aerial attack led by sophomore quarterback Jake Maier and junior wideout Keelan Doss.

“I think everybody is excited about the continued progress that the football team is making,” Blue said in a recent interview with the Aggie. With a sizeable recruiting class and foundational pieces like Maier and Doss set to return next fall, there is a fair amount of upside surrounding this new era of Aggie football.

Blue added that he is confident in the leadership and direction Hawkins brings to the program, while also acknowledging that no one can rush winning.

The Aggies will be tested early next season with a couple of premier non-conference matchups. UC Davis opens the 2018-2019 season with a game at San Jose State of the Mountain West Conference on Aug. 30. Two weeks later, the Aggies are scheduled to return to the Bay Area to take on Blue’s alma mater and Pac-12 power Stanford on Sept. 15.

“I think it’s a really good opportunity for the student-athletes to see where we measure up,” Blue said. “I expect that we’re going to compete with a lot of passion and a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of positivity. That’s certainly a game that everybody is looking forward to.”

Another UC Davis athletics program

that has bounced back over the course of this past year is lacrosse. In her first year as head coach, Suzanne Isidor led the women’s lacrosse team to an 8-6 record and an appearance in the conference title game, where the Aggies suffered a one goal overtime loss to San Diego State.

Despite falling short of winning the title, the Aggies’ accomplishments this season were enough to award Isidor with MPSF coach of the year honors. Junior midfielder Taylor Cuenin, who netted 37 goals and finished with a league-leading 2.85 points per game, was also praised for her performance this year by being awarded MPSF player of the year. In Blue’s eyes, Isidor’s ability to bring almost immediate success to the team and to get the most out of standouts like Cuenin this season has “really transformed” the program.

Progress was made on the pitch too.

Building upon a promising 2016-2017 season that ended abruptly in the first round of the Big West conference tournament, UC Davis men’s soccer finished this year’s regular season at the top of the table. After racking up 22 points in conference, the Aggies battled their way to the Big West title game this past November, where they ultimately lost in penalty kicks to Cal State Fullerton. For its efforts this season, UC Davis’ coaching staff was recognized by United Soccer Coaches as the coaching staff of year in the far west region, and was one of eight finalists for national coaching staff of the year.

UC Davis also found tremendous success in the water this season. The women’s water polo team had a productive regular season, finishing second in conference and ranking as high as No. 8 nationally. Star seniors Paige Virgil and Greta Kohlmoos each earned all-Big West first team honors in their final season as Aggies.

The men’s water polo team was also ranked as high as No. 8 in a wildly impressive season of its own. The Aggies repeated as Western Water Polo Association champions and earned a second consecutive NCAA national tournament birth, after defeating UC San Diego in the WWPA title game on Nov. 19. Senior utility Cory Laidig was awarded WWPA player of the year and his junior utility teammate, Ido Goldschmidt, was given all-america third team honors.

Additionally, UC Davis’ Child & Meisel Families Director of Men’s Water Polo, Daniel Leyson, was awarded WWPA coach of the year for the second year in a row.

“I think that one of the things that stands out about that team is that they compete and are coached in a way that

they know who they are,” Blue said. “They work hard and they don’t cut corners and the work that they’ve put in, and the work that coach Leyson has put in, over the last few years is showing up in the results and we’re really excited about that continuing.”

The UC Davis sport that exhibited perhaps the most overt level of success this season was basketball. Returning from deep title runs in 2017, both the women’s and men’s basketball teams entered the new season with heightened ambitions that, at least for the most part, were realized.

For the men, the year was marked with early adversity. Senior forward Chima Moneke was suspended indefinitely from the program following a mysterious incident that occurred in southern California in February. The uncertainty surrounding Moneke’s availability down the final stretch of the regular season caused observers to question whether or not the Aggies had a legitimate chance at competing for a conference title.

Moneke never played in another game.

In spite of his absence, however, the Aggies won six of their next eight games, including five straight victories to round out the regular season. A thrilling double-overtime win over UC Irvine on March 3 allowed the Aggies to clinch the Big West regular season title and guarantee the team a berth in the men’s National Invitation Tournament.

The Aggies won the conference in the regular season, but were ultimately unable to defend the Big West tournament title, falling to Cal State Fullerton in the conference semi-final game. Although the disappointing end put somewhat of a damper on an otherwise impressive season, UC Davis walked away from the 2018 campaign with a regular season title, a Big West coach of the year in head coach Jim Les and a Big West player of the year in junior guard TJ Shorts II. “[Men’s basketball] did an extraordinary job,” Blue said. “I felt like they exhibited the type of competitive spirit and team first attitude that is necessary to be at your best, and there’s a lot of credit that is due there to the student-athletes and the coaching staff for achieving highly in less-than ideal circumstances.”

Not to be outdone, the women’s basketball program experienced an enormous amount of success of its own. The Aggies practically flew through the regular season, rattling off eight straight conference victories to begin the year. Finishing with a 14-2 record in Big West play, UC Davis secured the regular season title and cruised into the conference tournament as the Big West’s top seed.

Like the men, the women’s hopes of

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winning the conference tournament and securing a spot in the NCAA tournament were dashed. The Aggies were defeated by Cal State Northridge in the conference final, but because of their successful regular season, the Aggies were still invited to compete in the women’s NIT. On the national stage, UC Davis shined. The Aggies won each of their first three NIT games, beating the likes of Idaho of the Big Sky conference, Wyoming of the Mountain West and finally Kansas State of the Big 12 conference (which is widely regarded as one of the nation’s “power five” conferences). The UC Davis run finally ended with a loss at Indiana in the WNIT quarterfinals.

The women’s basketball team turned finals heartbreak into the one of the program’s deepest national tournament runs –– one Blue believes has served as an important learning experience that will continue to strengthen the program going forward.

“I think that whenever you can have a win like beating a Big 12 team like Kansas State on the road in a postseason environment, it shows the quality of what we are doing here,” Blue said. “And that’s something that everybody associated with the program I think is very proud of, and they should be. I think that the NIT result was an indication of the quality that characterizes that program.”

UC Davis student-athletes, in a wide range of other sports, have accomplished some terrific individual feats as well. Aggie Baseball’s Ryan Anderson, a redshirt junior outfielder from Pleasanton, Calif., received his first all-conference honor by being named to the Big West first team.

Starting in all 53 games this season, Anderson led the team in batting average (.345), at bats (220), hits (76), runs scored (36) and tied for the team lead in RBI (36).

Softball’s Brooke Yanez, a freshman left-hander from Ventura, Calif., was recognized as the Big West’s freshman pitcher of the year, and simultaneously received a spot on the all-Big West first team. In her 26 starts this season, Yanez collected 15 wins and sported an ERA of 1.75.

In track and field, Aggie junior Kyle

Clancy stole the show. Clancy finished first in the Big West in the decathlon with a score of 7,181 points –– the third-highest all-time in UC Davis history.

The state of UC Davis athletics after the 2017-2018 season is stable, yet still growing. Looking ahead, the department will be adding two new women’s sports programs very soon. Blue says that the selection process in picking the new programs –– beach volleyball and equestrian –– was thorough. The ramp-up process of hiring staff, building new facilities and recruiting athletes to get these programs running, he added, will still take a few years.

“The campus working group and the intercollegiate athletics staff left no stone unturned as far as the analysis and the amount of data that was gathered and considering the opportunity from all possible angles,” Blue explained. “I think where the process ended up is exactly the right combination of participation opportunities for the university and everybody is excited about the path forward.”

In addition to getting these programs solidified, Blue says he is committed to improving the UC Davis athletics department every day. This means increasing fundraising and revenue-generating efforts, continuing to improve fan experience at events and creating a product that the Davis community is “proud of.”

“The athletics program –– when it’s at its best –– is an opportunity to enrich the undergraduate and graduate school experience for all UC Davis students,” Blue concluded. “We do place a lot of priority on making that experience available and increasing the quality of it for all the students on the campus.”

As a mid-major program on the rise, UC Davis athletics has taken strides this season toward becoming something bigger.

The changes that Blue and his department are making are tangible, and the continued success of the student-athletes will only reinforce these changes in a positive way by giving Aggie fans a product to cheer for.

The upcoming season will be filled with new opportunities and new expectations of steady improvements to come.

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2017-2018 season provided no shortage of memorable moments for all 23 teams on campus

BY BREN DA N O GB U R N sports@theaggie.org

As the end of the school year approaches, let’s take a look back at five of the most memorable stories, in no particular order, from UC Davis Athletics during the 2017-2018 season. When we look back at this season in another decade down the line, these are the moments that will stand out above all others.

Chima Moneke’s season-ending suspension puts a damper on a great career Nobody will soon forget the mysterious nature of senior forward Chima Moneke’s midseason suspension from the men’s basketball team, which ultimately ended his Aggie career.

On the afternoon of Feb. 3, shortly before the Aggies took on Long Beach State, the UC Davis men’s basketball twitter account announced that “Chima Moneke has been suspended indefinitely for violating team rules that govern conduct at the team’s hotel. He returned to Davis and will not participate in today’s game. A review of this situation by University officials is in process, we will provide updates when available.”

Moneke never stepped foot on the hardwood again and, despite clinching the top seed in the Big West conference tournament, the Aggies stumbled in the semifinals against Cal State Fullerton and missed on a return to March Madness after reaching the tournament for the first

time ever in the winter of 2017.

The University hasn’t announced any updates on the investigation since then and details regarding the incident have been few and far between. The incident reportedly took place in Woodland Hills at the Warner Center Marriott Hotel, according to the Sacramento Bee. Nonetheless, Moneke has no plans to give up his dreams of playing professional basketball anytime soon. In May, he declared for the upcoming NBA Draft, which takes place on June 22.

Moneke also tried out for Melbourne United, an Australian professional team in the National Basketball League. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, he’s been working out with Drew Hanlen, who runs an academy called “Pure Sweat Basketball” that has trained NBA players like Joel Embiid.

Moneke was a star for UC Davis in his short time on campus. He was named the Big West Player of the Year by SB Nation for the 2017 season, and was well on his way to more awards this year before his season was cut short.

Dynamic duo of Keelan Doss and Jake Maier light up the Big Sky and put UC Davis football on the map with record-setting seasons There were no shortage of fireworks both on and off the field for UC Davis football this past season. After the monumental hire of head coach Dan Hawkins in the preceding offseason, the Ag-

gies went out and totaled as many wins as they did in the previous two seasons combined. Led by sophomore quarterback Jake Maier and junior wide receiver Keelan Doss, UC Davis finished as the top offense in the Big Sky for the first time ever, averaging over 33 points and 480 yards per game.

Doss finished with more receiving yards (1,499) than any other player in college football, including both the FBS and FCS, during the regular season.

He garnered numerous first-team All-American honors following the season, in addition to the Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Year award. He was also the school’s first ever finalist for the Walter Payton award, which recognizes the best offensive player of the year in the FCS. Doss was the centerpiece of some memorable nights at Aggie Stadium, as he shattered numerous school records throughout the fall. His best game was a 15-catch, 208yard performance against Eastern Washington in early October, which included a ridiculous one-handed grab that went viral.

Doss decided to forgo an opportunity to declare for the NFL Draft and announced he was returning to UC Davis for his senior season back in late January.

Maier also had an unbelievable season for the Aggies in his first year on campus after transferring from Long Beach City College. He set a dozen new program records, like throwing for over 300 yards on nine different occasions. Some of

his finest showings included a 459-yard game against Cal Poly and a contest versus North Dakota when he completed 86 percent of his throws. Fortunately for the Aggies, Maier will be sticking around for at least another season or two.

Mahalia White shines as a freshman, overcomes obstacles off the court Freshman outside hitter Mahalia White burst onto the scene this year for the women’s volleyball team, putting forth a dominant effort on the court that earned her the Big West Freshman of the Year award. She broke the program’s record for kills (398) as a first-year player and led the Aggies to a winning record, 16-14. In late October, she put up a jaw-dropping display with 27 kills in a 3-1 win over Long Beach State.

Shortly after the conclusion of her sensational freshman season, White revealed on her Instagram account that she had been diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin’s lymphoma and would be starting chemotherapy. She had been playing through back soreness throughout the season before an MRI revealed the cancer.

After lots of treatment over the course

of the winter and spring, White declared on May 18 that she was in remission, with a video posted to her Twitter account. The tweet received over 28,000 retweets and over 150,000 likes, just a small testament to the outpouring of support she’s received throughout the entire process. White’s playing status for next season is up in the air at this point as she continues to recover.

Women’s basketball goes on incredible run, nearly reaches NCAA tournament The women’s basketball team enjoyed one of its best seasons ever, clinching the Big West regular season title with a 28-7 record and making it all the way to the Elite Eight of the WNIT. The Aggies defended their home court marvelously all season long, to the tune of a 14-1 mark at the Pavilion.

Led by Big West Coach of the Year Jennifer Gross, the Aggies recorded their second most wins ever and smashed numerous program records along the way.

The team really hit its stride in the middle of the year and closed the regular season on a blistering 18-4 streak.

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