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ICE: International students must take in-person classes or leave country

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer

they can prove at least some of their instruction will be delivered faceto-face.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued new regulations Monday requiring international students to take in-person classes this fall or leave the United States. Foreign students who are currently abroad will be barred from entering the country unless

The policy was released the same day several prominent universities, including Harvard and Princeton, announced all or nearly all instruction will be online this fall. In June, UC Davis announced a plan to offer remote instruction for all classes and also hold some in-per-

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son classes should public health guidance allow.

Schools like UC Davis, with hybrid instruction models, will need to certify that each individual international student who enters or remains in the U.S. “is not taking an entirely online course load,” the ICE policy states.

While the agency is better known for street-level immigration

arrests, ICE maintains the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an electronic database that tracks visiting students’ academic status to ensure they are in compliance with visa regulations.

In the event that in-person classes are moved online midway through the term — something state or local authorities could

order schools to do — international students would need to transfer to a different university that is holding in-person classes or leave the country. Students whose legal status lapses could face serious consequences, including deportation and lengthy bans from entering the U.S.

Reaching out in crisis Davis church sends aid to Rutilio Grande

BY KATHY ROBERTSON Special to The Enterprise

BY MIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN After a six-month search, the University of California Regents picked Michael V. Drake as the new head of the school system, the first Black president in the system’s history.

Drake, the former president of Ohio State University and former DRAKE chancellor Decades of of UC work at UC Irvine, succeeds Janet Napolitano as the new president of the 10-campus system as the novel coronavirus pandemic upends higher education’s plans and finances.

The governing body of the UC, the Regents, formally picked Drake Tuesday. The 69-year-old Drake, who turns 70 in two days, spent decades working in various roles at the UC, including as vice president for health affairs. He earned his medical degree

Already in shelter mode due to the coronavirus pandemic, Rutilio Grande, El Salvador, is still feeling the effects of heavy rain from tropical storm Amanda in early June.

Food is scarce in Davis’ sister city.

Crops are ruined and will have to be replanted.

The community works hard to take care of its own. Residents are mostly subsistence farmers who till small plots of land to grow corn and beans. A new program run by the directive that governs Rutilio Grande is helping distribute food, laundry soap and other supplies to elderly residents sheltering during the pandemic.

More help is coming.

The Immigration Justice Team at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis is sending $1,200 to Rutilio Grande in honor of Will and Jane Lotter, a much-beloved local couple who helped refugees return to El Salvador after the civil war and provided early support to the new community.

Much of the money is from memorial contributions to the church following Will’s death in 2019. Jane died in 2016. UUCD became a sanctuary church in 2017 and dedicated its 2019-20 social justice work to the couple, who were longtime members.

“This is a continuation of their

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Enterprise staff writer Yolo County will officially land on the state’s monitoring list Wednesday due to the ongoing surge in coronavirus cases, county supervisors were told Tuesday.

Yolo will join 23 other counties on that list, all of which are subject to state orders requiring closure of bars and many indoor activities that Yolo County preemptively closed ahead of the 4th of July weekend.

The county’s director of public health, Brian Vaughn, informed the Board of Supervisors that the state had sent an email Tuesday morning saying

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Meylin Bonilla Rivera, left, president of the directive that governs Rutilio Grande, delivers basic food like rice, beans, oil and salt, as well as laundry soap and other necessities to Blanca Sanchez, 65, right, and other seniors sheltering during COVID-19.

the county would be placed on the list effective Wednesday.

The announcement came as no surprise to county officials, who said last week they expected as much. The county has confirmed 200 new cases in just the last seven days and has reported two COVID19-related deaths since Friday.

Health officials are also keeping a close eye on Yolo County’s two local hospitals — Sutter Davis and Woodland Memorial — which on Tuesday were treating 10 county residents for COVID-19 between them while another six residents

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Businesses and even homeowners in Yolo County who willfully violate health orders on face coverings, social distancing and gatherings face administrative fines under an urgency ordinance unanimously passed by county supervisors on Tuesday.

The ordinance is aimed at what County Counsel Phil Pogledich described as “the tough 10 percent” of the community that persistently violate health orders aimed at limiting the spread of the novel coronavirus.

“Our starting point with businesses and organizations is education,” Pogledich told county supervisors on Tuesday.

“It’s been that way for close to four months now; it will continue to be that way.

“But with any type of POGLEDICH code comCounty pliance counsel issue, whether it’s our zoning code or public health orders … you’ve always got a small number, they call it the tough 10 percent, of businesses and organizations or individuals that simply don’t want to come into compliance,” he said.

“It’s not convenient for them, it’s too expensive for them, there’s another reason or a host of reasons why they’re not coming into compliance. So it’s that tough 10 percent that this ordinance is targeted toward.”

Under the ordinance — enforcement of which will be largely complaint driven — code enforcement officers (including environmental health investigators and police officers) will be able to issue an immediate citation upon discovery of a violation.

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Briefly Blake’s poems to be read Davis Poet Laureate James Lee Jobe continues his online poetry reading series with the poems of William Blake, from his collection “Songs Of Innocence.”

This free reading will be posted online by 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 10, at james-lee-jobe.blogspot. com and at youtube. com/jamesleejobe.

Crime jazz, on ‘Davisville’ If you’ve watched enough TV or old movies, you could probably hum at least a few songs from this genre — think “Dragnet,” “Shaft” or “Mission: Impossible.”

But although crime and spy jazz produced iconic melodies, says Davis writer Derrick Bang, these days the style is largely dormant.

Bang has written two new books, “Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen” (covering 1950-70 and 1971-present), to help bring the music out of the shadows.

On the latest edition of the KDRT program “Davisville,” Bang discusses the music, the way it draws attention, the value of a killer opening theme, and why the style faded.

“Davisville,” hosted

by Bill Buchanan, is broadcast on KDRTLP, 95.7 FM Mondays at 5:30 p.m., Wednesdays at 8:30 a.m., and Saturdays at 8:30 a.m.

The interview with Bang, who’s also The Enterprise’s longtime film critic, began airing Monday, will be broadcast through July 19, and is available anytime at http://kdrt.org/ davisville or on Apple podcasts.

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NY Times, let’s help each other out I L received a personal letter the other day from the publisher of the second-greatest newspaper in America.

I figured it was yet another job offer from someone who doesn’t realize I have a lifetime contract with my current employer, where I have been typing for a living for half-a-century now. It’s good work if you can get it.

Still, it’s nice to see that my efforts have been recognized by a prominent figure in journalism on the other side of the continent.

“Dear Bob,” begins the letter from A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, letting me know right off the bat that we are on a first-name basis.

“Thank you for supporting The New York Times.”

A.G. apparently saw my recent piece slamming the current resident of the Oval Office or calling journalists the “enemy of the American people” and disparagingly making reference to the “failing New York Times.”

Things like that get under my skin, so I’m always happy to defend my journalistic colleagues no matter which publication they work for.

“Our mission,” A.G. goes on, “to seek the truth and help people

“The printed page remains a powerful showcase for this reporting.”

understand the world, has never been more important than it is today.”

Amen to that. While you help people to understand the world, I have the much more difficult task of helping people to understand Davis.

“Our mission means that we go wherever the story is, no matter the danger, hardship or cost.”

Ditto here. That’s why I found myself in freezing Cheney, Wash., in December of 2018, reporting on an important football game so fans of the game could read my story in the warmth of their homes and avoid getting frostbite at the game.

“Last year that meant we put 1,600 journalists on the ground in 160 countries.”

That may be so, but I noticed you didn’t have anyone covering the mess on Mace Boulevard.

et me read that again. The “printed page remains a powerful showcase.” Words that make my journalistic heart swell. I have a great fondness for the printed page, despite the fact that so many publications are taking the word “paper” out of “newspaper” and replacing it with the phrase “online edition.”

There’s nothing like sitting on the front porch, Sunday paper in one hand, steaming coffee in the other, reading the news of the day.

Turning a printed page is much better exercise than scrolling a screen with your forefinger. Burns way more calories, too.

“Even as we’ve embraced other ways to deliver journalism, our editors continue to reimagine what it means to unfold a New York Times newspaper.”

Be still my heart.

“We use our pages to illuminate, surprise and explain, whether it’s annotating the Constitution with notes from scholars, taking readers along Apollo 11’s space odyssey from lift-off to landing or creating a kids’ section to entertain our youngest readers.”

Indeed, I love the surprise every time I turn a page, not knowing what’s to come. I’m exposed to hundreds of headlines with every issue, even if I don’t read every story. And the Tuesday Science Times is great reading for those of us who know almost nothing about science.

“I’m writing to let you know that we will be increasing home delivery subscription rates.”

Oh. “These rates will help us sustain and strengthen our coverage at a time when independent journalism is under great pressure.”

Listen, A.G. I’ll make you a deal.

I’ll pay the extra buck-fifty a week if you’ll agree to immediately support tremendous community journalism by subscribing to The Davis Enterprise.

While we don’t have home delivery in New York, I will drop your copy in the priority mail bin as soon as our paper hits the streets.

On the flip side, given the great distance between our two cities, might I interest you in an online subscription?

Deal?

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

STUDENTS: More than 7,000 enrolled just at UC Davis From Page A1 Existing federal regulations state that international students may take at most one class or three credit hours online each term and must make normal progress towards their degree. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, temporarily suspended that restriction in the spring when many schools shifted to remote learning due to the COVID19 pandemic.

In-person classes continue to pose public health risks, according to infectious disease experts, but ICE officials said the agency needs to enforce federal requirements and maintain oversight of international students. “This was the best way of doing so,” ICE spokesperson Carissa Cutrell told BuzzFeed News.

The new regulations will take affect at the end of summer term.

Lives disrupted The consequences of the policy will be enormous.

There are more than a million foreign students enrolled at U.S. universities.

If even half of them are forced to leave the U.S. in the coming months, it would be one the largest expulsions of a population by explicit government order in modern history.

In addition to the health risks posed — to the students and others — by a mass exodus from the U.S., which has more cases of COVID-19 than any other

country, the new regulations jeopardize years of hard work and tens of thousands of dollars international students and their families have invested in their education.

For some students, the interruption caused by the new regulations could be permanent.

“I’m going to have to think about whether I’m going to remain in academia at all,” said a UC Davis Ph.D. student from India. “My world is being turned upsidedown.”

Education aside, being ordered back to their home countries during the pandemic could be a logistical impossibility for some students. Many countries have imposed travel restrictions and international flights are limited. Some routes have been marked up by thousands of dollars.

A UC Davis instructor told The Enterprise a former student of hers traveled home to China by cargo ship this summer because there were no flights.

For many students who are able to leave — or are already abroad — continuing coursework remotely may not be realistic. Dramatic time-zone differences, unreliable electricity and internet service, and health infrastructures ill-equipped to cope with COVID-19 outbreaks are only some of the challenges students mentioned.

In some countries, government policies could prohibit students from accessing learning resources. In China, home to roughly 11 percent

of UC Davis students, the government closely regulates the internet and has gotten Zoom to suspend users who criticize the ruling party.

Students from Iran could be barred from taking classes in their field of study.

“For Iranian students, this heartless move is even more devastating because sanctions prohibit schools from offering online learning to Iranians in many fields, including the sciences, engineering and mathematics,” the National Iranian American Council said in a statement.

It is possible that no UC Davis students would be permitted to enroll in classes from abroad. ICE released conflicting guidance, stating in one document that students can take classes from abroad and in a different document that “only students enrolled at a school that is only offering online coursework can engage in remote learning from their home country,” criteria which would appear to disqualify students whose schools offer a hybrid instruction model.

Consequences The expulsion of international students would have profound consequences for U.S.-born students and higher education in general, especially at a time when many campuses face financial crises. During the 201819 academic year, international students contributed $41 billion to the U.S. economy and supported

OBITUARY Georgia Scribner

March 26, 1924 — July 2, 2020 On Thursday, July 2, 2020, Georgia Scribner, loving mother and grandmother, passed peacefully into her eternal home at the age of 96.

Georgia was born on Wednesday, March 26, 1924 in Alameda, California to Anton (Tony) and Paraskevi (Pearl) Kareofelas.

When she was 3 years of age, her family moved to Knights Landing and later to Woodland in 1929. After her graduation from Woodland High School, she began her working career as a bookkeeper, office manager, administrative assistant, real estate agent, and finally a real estate broker. On June 19, 1966, she married her husband, Pat Scribner, and became the mother to his son, Patrick Scribner.

Georgia was a kind and gentle person, that above all, loved her family. She also loved traveling, hosting dinner parties, family gatherings, especially “Greek Easter”, and spending time with her two beloved grandchildren.

She has now joined her husband, Pat Scribner; parents Tony and Pearl Kareofelas; brothers, Jim (De) and John; sister, Penny (John) Petrakos; and nephews, Tony Kareofelas and Chris Petrakos.

She is survived by her son and

daughter-in-law, Patrick and Louanne Scribner; grandchildren Kristine M. Scribner and Patrick J. Scribner; sister-in-law Necke Kareofelas; nephew Greg Kareofelas; nieces Sue Russell, Jean Kareofelas, Patricia Neary and Helayne Kareofelas; numerous cousins, great-nephews and nieces; and her dear friend Anne Marks.

Due to the current social distancing directive, a private Trisagion and Funeral Service will be held at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, with a private graveside service to follow at the Monticello Cemetery, located on Spanish Flat Loop Road, Lake Berryessa, Napa County.

Donations may be made to the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, “Building Fund”, 616 Alhambra Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95816 or Yolo Hospice, Inc., 1909 Galileo Court, Davis, CA 95618 We will all be able to come together for a celebration of Georgia’s life at a safer time, soon.

The family would like to thank Gloria, her son, Jose, and all of their staff at Gloria’s Comfort Care for their kindness and loving care they gave Georgia during her stay.

“Deep in our hearts a memory is kept, of one we have loved and shall never forget”.

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Many U.S. colleges rely on tuition from international students to subsidize the cost of education for local students. While UC Davis has diverse revenue sources, most are restricted to specific purposes. The campus relies primarily on tuition, of which international students contribute an outsize proportion, to fund teaching and financial aid for U.S.born students.

There are more than 7,000 international students at UC Davis, comprising 17 percent of the undergraduate population and 24 percent of the graduate student population. UC Davis employs international graduate students to do a substantial amount of the teaching and grading for undergraduate classes.

International students also contribute to the campus in intangible ways. “For California residents, the opportunity to meet people from other cultures, to understand that not everybody in the world has the same outlook or values is a really important part of their education,” UC Davis Director of Services for International Students and Scholars Wesley Young told The Enterprise last year.

Students scramble On Monday, students at UC Davis and across the country jumped into action.

An online petition to allow foreign students to stay in the U.S. has been signed by more than 160,000 people.

International students at UC Berkeley drafted a script urging members of Congress to oppose the ICE policy.

Some students called for a faculty strike.

A recent UCLA graduate created an online spreadsheet to facilitate classswaps that help international students get enrolled in inperson classes. Hundreds of students from more than two dozen universities, including UC Davis, have uploaded course information.

“This is a quick, temporary fix,” said the UCLA alumna, who asked not to be named out of concern for her immigration status. “It’s not the best solution, but hopefully it will help some students who are in a dire situation.”

Several UC Davis professors posted online that they would offer in-person independent study courses or internships to any international student who needs it.

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FINE: Going after the tough cases CORONAVIRUS: Hospitals From Page A1 The civil fines will vary based on the type of violation, including whether it is occurring in the course of commercial activity.

The maximum fine amount for a violation is $10,000 per day, but an enforcement officer can also provide a grace period of up to 72 hours for correction of a violation before a fine becomes effective.

An appeal process will allow those cited to make their case before a hearing officer, and, ultimately a superior court judge.

And while the ordinance was drawn up with a focus on businesses like restaurants and bars that have persistently violated health orders by not requiring staff to wear face coverings or placing tables too close together, the ordinance can also be used for private gatherings, such as large house parties.

Several supervisors noted the regular complaints they receive about UC Davis students in particular continuing to gather for large parties.

In those instances, the homeowner could be cited, Pogledich said.

However, he added, “I don’t expect that will be the typical way in which this ordinance is used.”

Additionally, fines for noncommercial violations are lower, $25 to $500, depending on the severity of the violations, Pogledich said.

As for an individual who flagrantly violates the health order requiring the use of face coverings in public, the ordinance can be used to issue citations, Pogledich said, but if the county decides to go down the road of “significant enforcement of the face covering order or other violations that are typically the result of individual conduct,” he would want to further examine whether the ordinance passed Tuesday would be the best tool.

“We’re starting to see a number of other jurisdictions, including I think four cities,

mostly in Southern California, that have started to enforce face covering orders and if we go down that road, I’ll be taking a close look at how they’re doing it, if there’s an even better tool than an ordinance of this nature,” Pogledich said.

“So it’s unlikely that it would be employed for that specific purpose?” Supervisor Don Saylor of Davis asked.

Replied Pogledich: “I didn’t draft it for that purpose, but I put language in here that allows it to be used to police individual conduct.”

Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis expressed support for that.

“I think it’s important that we have this tool,” he said, “because the lack of the face masks is contributing to the spread of the coronavirus and we are at very high rates.”

But the ordinance was largely drawn up to deal with increasing complaints related to commercial activities and Pogledich laid out how it would be used in hypothetical cases.

One scenario is a popular restaurant within one of Yolo County’s cities, regularly crowded before the pandemic and, to the concern of many, still crowded after restaurants were allowed to reopen with restrictions.

Few signs note the need for face coverings and social distancing. Use of face masks by staff is spotty and customers are at too many tables situated too close together.

Complaints to authorities from passers-by, diners and even staff have brought city code enforcement, city police and county environmental health officials to the site but nothing has changed.

Under the ordinance approved Tuesday, the consequences for that noncompliance will start to become expensive.

The county would issue a citation, imposing a $500 fine for too many tables close together and failure to enforce face coverings. The code enforcement officer might grant a grace

period of 24 hours to fix the violations.

But the restaurant fails to comply the next day and the fine takes effect.

With continued noncompliance, the fine doubles daily so it’s up to $3,500 by day five.

At some point, the restaurant reaches out to settle with the county, perhaps for a lesser fine and a promise of ongoing compliance.

Mission accomplished.

With this sort of scenario in mind, county supervisors voted 5-0 on Tuesday to enact the urgency ordinance, which took effect immediately and affects both incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county.

The ordinance will not be the only tool available to enforce both state and local health orders. Cities and the county retain the ability to seek an immediate court order to shut a business down. Additionally, business licenses issued by the state or local government can be revoked and the matter can be pursued with misdemeanor prosecutions as well.

County officials said Tuesday that “inform and educate” will remain the first and primary strategy that will be used going forward but changing circumstances require additional approaches.

“The recent rapid spike in numbers of individuals testing positive for COVID-19 necessitates an increase in enforcement,” said Supervisor Gary Sandy of Woodland.

“These efforts will primarily focus on those that fail to take appropriate measures to protect the public. It is in everyone’s interest to promote a safe and healthy environment.

“Fortunately, the majority of our Yolo County community has been supportive, aware and engaged. We are grateful for their support and cooperation.”

—Reach Anne TernusBellamy ataternus@davisen terprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at@ATernusBellamy.

still have some capacity From Page A1 were in hospitals outside of the county.

Up until a couple of weeks ago, the county had rarely had more than one or two residents hospitalized for COVID-19 on any given day. The 16 reported on Tuesday is the most the county has ever reported at one time.

But local hospitals still have some additional capacity, according Vaughn.

“They still feel OK right now,” he told supervisors. “But any additional surge, we’ll be working with them.”

With cases and hospitalizations also rising in Sacramento County, “there’s talk of whether the Sleep Train Arena may open up,” Vaughn said.

That arena, former home to the Sacramento Kings, would be used for additional capacity if hospitals in the region do become overwhelmed.

Recent hospitalizations in Yolo County have included at least two related to outbreaks in congregate care facilities, including a staff member from the Alderson Convalescent Hospital in Woodland as well as an individual from the 4th & Hope homeless shelter in Woodland, where 10 people had tested positive as of Sunday.

The outbreak at Alderson continues to grow, with two more cases reported on Tuesday. So far seven residents and five staff members at Alderson have tested positive for COVID-19. The numbers remained steady at Courtyard Healthcare Center in Davis, where four residents and two staff members have tested positive.

Meanwhile, 68 county residents are in isolation after having tested positive for COVID-19 and another 255 are in quarantine after having come into contact with someone who tested positive, according to Jenny Tan, the county’s public information officer.

Testing, testing Testing has ramped up countywide, with 424 people tested at

the Veterans Memorial Center in Davis on Monday, according to Vaughn. The county said Tuesday the site offered testing on a first come, first served basis, which few people knew when they registered online, prompting calls to county supervisors and others Monday afternoon about long lines they were encountering.

Additionally, registration was not required but recommended to speed up the process, so walk-ins were welcome.

Vaughn said due to demand in Davis this week, testing will likely be offered again at the VMC on Thursday, though details were still being worked out.

Additional testing is planned throughout the county, including a possible return to Woodland of the OptumServe testing program currently located in West Sacramento. That testing would continue in Woodland through August, Vaughn said.

However, testing has become a significant issue again.

Sacramento County recently announced the closure of a handful of testing sites due to a lack of testing supplies and the state has asked laboratories to prioritize test results for those from highrisk categories due to a backlog of tests.

“This is a statewide issue, particularly with the commercial labs,” said Vaughn. “It’s a systemic issue. It’s not local. What we’re trying to do is if it’s a priority, or very high risk, we’re sending it to our own public health lab, where we can get a 24- to 48-hour turnaround. But it’s causing havoc, the delays.”

County Administrator Patrick Blacklock said other counties are reporting similar delays, including some of up to 14 days for test results.

“I’m concerned because in the lag between someone testing and then getting a positive result, they come in contact with a lot of people during that time,” said Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis.

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COMMENTARY Did Republicans chortle too soon?

The specter of G race at center of GOP agenda

BY DESMOND JOLLY Special to The Enterprise

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resident Trump congratulated himself for shining a spotlight on Juneteenth — a date long commemorated by African American communities as signaling the end of American chattel slavery. One could justifiably impute a less generous motive for the date chosen for the Tulsa rally.

Recall that Ronald Reagan launched his 1980 Presidential campaign with a visit to Philadelphia, Miss., where he gave his famous “states’ rights” speech at the Neshoba county fairgrounds. Philadelphia, is where James Chaney, Mickey Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, three civil-rights volunteers, were brutally murdered on June 21, 1964, two days after that years’ Juneteenth commemoration.

Courting the southern Democrats, Reagan proclaimed: “I believe in states’ rights … and I believe that we’ve distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended in the Constitution to that federal establishment ...”

What powers might candidate Reagan have had in mind? Could he have been targeting the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution, those that conferred citizenship and voting rights on African Americans? These amendments were legislated by the Republican Congress and ratified by the states between 1865 and 1870.

Are these the laws that Reagan referred to as ill-informed and representative of governmental overreach?

The premature end of Republicandirected Reconstruction, allowed the Southern states to reestablish Black political and civil disenfranchisement through the “Black Codes” a set of laws that encoded anti-black racism from cradle to grave and across every nook and cranny of society, what we now refer to as “systemic racism.”

They encoded racism into the justice system, the education system, religion, housing, and employment. These laws not only took away the civil rights of African Americans, they unleashed a reign of terror that became an integral part of the way of life.

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he Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision and the 1964 Civil Rights Act sent shockwaves throughout the nation. They threatened the post-Reconstruction racial order, and provoked White backlash, including the violence that claimed Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman in Mississippi in 1964.

Of Reagan’s ‘‘states’ rights” speech, David Brooks said in a New York Times column: “You can look back on this history in many ways. It’s callous to use the phrase ‘states’ rights’ in any context in Philadelphia. It’s obviously true that race played a role in the GOP’s ascent.”

If there is any subtext to the Tulsa GOP rally, it is more likely that it was intended to reassure insecure white Americans that the GOP is unwaveringly on their side. Inadvertently, the date and site of the rally, reminded Black Tulsans and African Americans more generally, of a long and extensive history of anti-Black violence, of pogroms and massacres.

Violence often answered any visible signs of wealth and progress by African Americans. That was behind the destruction of “Black Wall Street” as the Greenwood District in Tulsa was called. It was a thriving community in 1921 when it was bombed from the air, firebombed from the ground, and destroyed.

There had been, and would be other massacres: in Colfax, La., in 1873; in Wilmington, N.C., in 1898; in Atlanta in 1906; in Elaine, Ark., and Chicago in 1919; and in Rosewood, Fla., in 1923.

The GOP rally in Tulsa a day after Juneteenth 2020, raises the specter of race as being once again, at the center of its political agenda — not terrorism, not international economic and technological competition, not trade, not the arms race, not climate change. It is what Gunnar Myrdal called “The American Dilemna”; the ultimate wedge issue.

— Desmond Jolly is a retired economist at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis.

etting rid of San Francisco’s Nancy Pelosi has been a Republican pipe dream for most of the last decade, and just after California’s March 3 primary election, the GOP chortled loudly over what it saw as a real chance to do that.

For if Democrats lose many of the seven California seats they took away from Republicans in 2018, chances are they also lose their majority in the House of Representatives, Pelosi gets tossed out of the speaker’s office by Bakersfield’s Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy and most likely doesn’t even remain the House Democratic leader.

But after the long process of counting millions of California’s late-arriving primary election mail ballots ended, that chance seemed more and more remote and the GOP’s salivating began to look premature.

Republicans based most of their early enthusiasm on preliminary vote counts reported via the California secretary of state’s website, which reflected about 2 million mail ballots sent in days or weeks before Primary Day. Those showed Republican totals topping Democrats in all but one of the districts that ousted GOP congress members two years ago.

Inexplicably, the same totals remained on the state election-results website days after the last vote was cast,

even though they represented less than one-fourth of all the ballots cast.

The scene became reminiscent of 2018, when Republicans in several of the most contested districts led through several weeks of vote-counting, but saw their margins dwindle with each update.

The GOP’s highest hopes now reside in the 25th Congressional District, spanning varied communities from Simi Valley to Lancaster. In a May special election, Republican Mike Garcia won the seat briefly held by Democrat Katie Hill before she resigned in a sexting scandal.

Garcia, a former military pilot, won the May vote by a 55-45 percent margin over Democrat Christy Smith, but turnout was 30,000 votes, or 15 percent, less than in 2018.

It was a classic example of the GOP winning a lightly attended special election, but not necessarily predictive of the November rematch because the presidential election figures to draw even heavier voting than 2018’s.

Republicans also liked the

early returns showing Democrat Josh Harder with a very slim lead in the Modestocentered 10th District, where Harder won narrowly last time after taking the lead only in the final days of votecounting.

It’s much the same in the districts won in 2018 by Democrats Gil Cisneros, Harley Rouda and Katie Porter in Orange County, where local Republicans bragged they would soon “roll back the blue wave.”

About the only district Democrats wrested from the GOP last time where early returns looked good for them was Mike Levin’s 49th, in northern San Diego County and southwest Orange County. He now seems almost a lock for reelection.

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ut the red wave Republicans expect in other districts may not happen, even though it’s highly possible Democrats won’t retain all their gains of two years ago.

There’s a reason why early returns in March looked so good for the GOP congressional candidates and not as good later on when vote counts were complete: Republicans essentially had no presidential primary here, with President Trump dominating their party.

Meanwhile Democrats saw a hot contest whose field shifted dramatically as

Primary Day approached.

This led many Republicans to cast their ballots early, while Democrats held theirs to see what might develop before making their marks.

As a result, the bulk of mail ballots reaching votecounters during the three days after the election were cast by Democrats. None of those ballots were included in the early counts that so heartened Republicans. Final results showed Democratic and Republican votes running about even in all but one of the seven swing districts.

All of which means the fall runoffs for the seven hotly contested seats, and several in the state Legislature, figure to be about as close as they were last time, with several outcomes uncertain until the end of November and little being determined on the actual Nov. 3 Election Night.

In the end, the early Republican optimism may pan out. But probably not as sweepingly as the GOP wishes, as California gradually becomes ever more Democratic-dominated.

— Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, “The Burzynski Breakthrough, The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It” is now available in a softcover fourth edition.

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LETTERS Crisis averted A few days ago, late in the afternoon, we saw a man walking naked down B Street, and in Central Park, acting erratically.

Concerned about his well-being, and that of other park users, we called the Police Department and reported the incident. The department responded quickly. An officer arrived and approached the man, who quickly became belligerent, and she called for backup. Within minutes, other officers arrived and attempted to calm the man.

From our vantage point, the officers handled a difficult situation in a calm and professional manner.

Given this man’s disturbed mental state and confrontational manner, this could have ended badly; the fact that it didn’t reflects well on our police department.

Dave and Kim DeYoung Davis

Do the right thing, reinstate Thank you DJUSD for my employment these past 15 years as fourt-grade physical education teacher at Pioneer Elementary School. Beverly Anderson and other credentialed physical educators held this important position for 50 years at Pioneer (teaching grades 4, 5 and 6 until cutbacks to fourth-grade only in 2005), but no longer.

The decision was made to cut the fourth grade physical education position.

This breaks my heart. Physical education teachers today strive to create quality daily physical education instruction that fosters feelings of competence and confidence. They strive to promote enduring skills to encourage students to lead active lifestyles now, and just as importantly, into the future.

Whatever the reason behind cutting this position, it still does not make it good practice. In fact, I believe it worsens the problem. The message to kids is that the first thing to be squeezed out of your daily schedule is physical activity. Even when our lives grow busy and hectic, should we be sending the message that it is OK to terminate physical fitness and exercise?

As Professor and Researcher of Physical Education Collin A. Webster (University of South Carolina) said, “Physical activity is a behavior and physical fitness

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is a condition. Neither is synonymous with physical education, but a good PE program will help bring about both.”

DJUSD and Pioneer Elementary School, it is time to reinstate physical education. It is time to do the right thing.

So long dear Pioneer students and parents. Keep exercising regularly as a family and enjoy new activities that emphasize fun, fair play, and lifelong personal health!

Best wishes!

Lisa Bell Davis

UC police departments I am puzzled by the call from the UC Academic Council to “substantially defund” police departments on apparently all UC campuses. It suggests moving to “alternative modes of campus safety” — what exactly does this mean?

And why ban campus police from possessing firearms and prohibit cooperation with other law enforcement agencies and not allow them to come on campus?

The realities of our UCD campus are at odds with these ill-conceived recommendations. It is a community like any other where crimes against persons and property occur, including attacks on highvalue properties such as research labs, libraries and vehicles.

Without firearms, campus cops become incapable of protecting people and property. And to prohibit contact with other police agencies forgets that geographic boundaries are not a barrier to unlawful activities. Resources are stretched and law enforcement is more effective when campus police work with

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city or county agencies. In the case of UCD, this means the Davis city police and the Yolo County Sheriff. If the UCD police department were to be eliminated or severely reduced, it would be Sheriff ’s deputies who would need to cover the campus — an unincorporated area — with possible assistance from city police.

Yes, the problem of police interactions with people of color needs to be addressed. The answer involves farreaching reforms in police training and standards, the pattern we are now seeing play out nationwide. It does not lie in the wholesale abandonment of the traditional law enforcement function for campus communities.

Al Sokolow Davis

Missed opportunity Recently, Davis School Board Trustee Cindy Pickett stepped down as a board member to accept a job in Chicago. The opening was posted to fill her position and 15 applicants applied. The current school board reviewed the list and ultimately picked Joy Klineberg to be an interim board member until the next election in December 2022.

I am extremely disappointed in this decision. (I have nothing against Ms. Klineberg as a person). The board had an opportunity to pick a person of color, and instead picked yet another white person.

This is a time in our history where we have to do better than that. Every chance we have to promote diversity must be taken.

Gayna Lamb-Bang Davis

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Here’s a great, cool getaway for a hot day ■ Editor’s note: This column

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very summer for the past six years, usually in the middle of a sweltering Davis heat wave, we load up the kids, coolers, bundles of firewood and sweatshirts and head west to one of our favorite picnic spots on Earth.

Kirby Cove, which is managed by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, is a reservation-only campground/day-use area tucked beneath the rugged Marin Headlands on the Pacific Coast. Exactly 80 miles west of Davis, the drive up Interstate 80 to Highway 37 and then south on U.S. 101 is a familiar one that leads so many of us to our adventures in San Francisco.

It will feel wrong, counterintuitive, to get so close to that stunning, worldfamous landmark, only to veer away from it at the very last minute. Don’t worry. As you steer west onto the Alexander exit (No. 442), turn left at the stop sign and right onto Conzelman and then down the dusty, bumpy trail that is Kirby Cove Road, a new and wonderful adventure is about to begin.

The Kirby Cove recreation area includes five campsites and one day-use

area. While these sites are difficult, if not impossible, to reserve, the area and the beach below are public. A reservation at one of the camp spots or the day-use area will get you a parking pass and a code to the lock at the top of the hill so you can drive down. But the beach below is public, open to everyone and well worth the 1-mile hike from the parking lot on Conzelman Road above.

No matter if you are a reservation-holder or a hiker headed to the water, anyone who makes their way down the trail through the mixed forest of pine, cypress and eucalyptus to the bluffs of Kirby Cove will be treated to the most spectacular views of the City by the Bay, the Golden Gate, a beautiful beach and the wild Pacific Ocean.

On the day we were there, we were enthralled by an endless show of humpback whales jumping under the Golden Gate Bridge, and watched with

suspense as a tightrope walker set up his course between two bluffs. The kids jumped ocean waves, dug in the sand and explored a mysterious sea cave.

For the past six years we’ve been fortunate to secure a one-day reservation for the day-use picnic area. For five of those years we have built campfires, roasted hot dogs and toasted marshmallows.

But this year we tried something new. In addition to the customary, kidfriendly hot dogs, we had a classic shrimp boil. What could be an easier and more fitting meal overlooking the Pacific Ocean than a Kirby Cove shrimp boil?

I’d never tackled a shrimp boil before. And I’d never been to a shrimp boil. But being a lover of all things food and fun, I’ve read a lot about shrimp boils. Anytime the name of the meal doubles as the name of the event, you know it’s going to be fun.

I’ll admit, I’ve always thought of a shrimp boil as being a thing of the Deep South, associated with low-country and crawdads and hush puppies. Not wanting to change the recipe I’d found at Oldbay. com (I think it’s bad luck

to mess with cherished regional recipes), I found some fun ways to give our first-ever shrimp boil some West Coast style, replacing traditional Southern accompaniments with California specialties.

Instead of cornbread or hush puppies, we served sourdough baguettes.

Rather than slaw, we had Caprese salad and a basilcucumber salad with goat cheese. We drank California chardonnay and consumed more than a few ice-cold bottles of Pabst Blue Ribbon, just to keep it real.

I can’t think of the last time I prepared such an easy, foolproof and delicious dinner for a crowd.

And over a camp stove, no less.

Kirby Cove is open for reservations until the end of November. There are no campsites available, but the beautiful day-use area has several openings between now and the area’s winter closure.

Go to Recreation.gov and search Kirby Cove to learn more and to make your reservation.

Do it today, because I’m guessing the only thing better than a summer trip to Kirby Cove is a fall trip to Kirby Cove.

— Shelley Dunning is a Davis resident and a

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Words and symbols have weight in world and beer

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his past weekend, I received greetings from many places from friends, family and former students wishing me a “Happy Fourth.” I think people miss being together on this holiday and just wish to reach out.

One e-mail surprised me. It read: “Happy Independence Day for White people, y’all!” This, I thought,smelled of a whitesupremacist message. I then realized the writer was reminding me that the Declaration of Independence was written by white people for white people and un-white people were categorically un-included. They remain un-included to this day.

The second half of the message read: “Hoping for positive changes in the future!”

Though well versed in 1066, the Magna Carta, the Plantagenets and Tudors, I had little knowledge of American history when I arrived in this country. I had no inkling of the social turmoil below the apparently tranquil white surface of 1960.

I learned a lot by reading about the Revolution, the founders and the Civil War. I was especially grateful to long conversations with a young Black woman, a Ph.D. candidate, with whom I shared a lab as a postdoc. My working-class British background, where the landed

gentry made the rules and ruled the roost, made this history easy to understand.

During the first half of my association with the brewing industry, nearly 20 years before the advent of the craft segment, I developed a strong relationship with Anheuser-Busch that I valued highly. I admired their devotion to quality in every aspect of beer-making. They understood and appreciated the young people who graduated from my brewing courses at UCD and employed many of them.

Most had spectacular careers with the company and a few reached the pinnacles of corporate power. I was therefore made welcome when I showed up at AB breweries, many of which were then run by my former students.

I visited an interesting AB brewery in Cartersville Georgia that was a “sacrifice” brewery.

That is, they made many different brands of beer in relatively short runs; this is inherently

inefficient. Breweries work best when they make one, or a few brands, time and time again on a continuing basis. Thus the Georgia plant took the brewing inefficiencies out of most other AB breweries.

The point of this story however is that upon arrival at that brewery I was stunned to see the Confederate battle flag flying in front of the building. This was not the AB I admired. I asked about that and was told that anyone who objected to passing that flag on their way into work could look for employment elsewhere.

I like to think that the company was in those days sailing in the Georgian southern seas under a false flag.

Symbols are remarkably powerful and I am heartily thankful that the Confederate emblem is disappearing from state houses and, at last, the Mississippi state flag and elsewhere. High time!

Symbols, such as this flag, do not merely convey generic messages (history, heritage, pride) but also specific statements (slavery, white power, racism).

This is the same reason breweries do not make generic beer; they make Budweiser, Sierra Nevada or Guinness specifically.

Symbols are also easy targets for mitigation; they are the lowhanging fruit of reform. Surely

the names of traitors on military bases will soon depart along with statues of those who might have expected the hangman’s noose.

On the matter of statues, I want to plagiarize my own column written at the time of the Charlottesville confrontation, which (if you remember) had good people and blame on both sides. That event surrounded an effort to remove an equestrian statue of General Robert E. Lee. I wrote then:

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ublic statuary has long been a means of celebrating victories, expressing aspirations, commemorating loss of life especially in war, and remembering statesmen, the acts of brave men and the lives of great writers and artists.

Not many statues are designed to intimidate or frighten or disenfranchise or deny or even to rewrite history. Except for those hundreds of Jim Crow-era statues that laud the “heroes” of the confederacy. Those statues serve to remind Black folk every day that American Apartheid is alive and well.

Suppose that after the Civil War statues were erected throughout the former slave states lauding the leaders of abolition. Statues of President Lincoln with Generals Grant and Sherman could have been put up as well as other victorious

statues of Northern troops with their Black comrades.

Similarly, the South could have been sewn with allegorical statues of freed Blacks reaching for their new emancipation and taking their rightful place among the general population. Lastly statues of rebel soldiers in distress would send a different message: forlorn, shoeless, in tatters and defeated. Depictions of Robert E. Lee could show the General surrendering his sword at Appomattox, not aboard Traveller.

It’s possible that had the South been decorated with statues such as these the glow of the noble “lost cause” and glorification of the Confederacy and the trappings it sought to defend might have faded. By now, the white population would be screaming for that Northern statuary to be taken down as they no longer need reminding of their defeat

by Northern mores and Northern troops; they might say it’s an insulting and demoralizing presence and, though a part of our culture and history, it might better be removed.

In this way we walk a mile in the other man’s moccasins and test how it feels when the shoe is on the other foot.

— Reach Michael Lewis at lewiswales@me.com. Comment on this column at www.davis enterprise.com.

Davis-area students earn degrees, join honor selective societies Enterprise staff Kennesaw State University recently welcomed its newest class of graduates, including Katrina Kettler of Davis, who graduated with a web MBA . Nearly 3,400 students earned bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degrees during the spring 2020 semester which concluded in May. A leader in innovative teaching and learning, Kennesaw State University offers more than 150 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees to its approximately 38,000 students.

———— Paige Kouba of Davis was initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Kouba was initiated at UC Davis.

NAME DROPPERS Kouba is among approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors are eligible for membership.

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Phi Kappa Phi was founded in 1897 under the leadership of undergraduate student Marcus L. Urann who had a desire to create a different kind of honor society: one that recognized excellence in all academic disciplines.

Today, the Society has chapters on more than 300 campuses in the United States and the Philippines. Its mission is “To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.”

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RUTILIO: Church honors Lotters From Page A1 legacy and one way we can bring it forward in their home town,” said UUCD Rev. Beth Banks. “They defined our social justice program for decades — and they live on.”

The city of Davis is helping facilitate the money transfer. Rutilio Grande has been a sister city since 1992.

“Our relationship to other communities in the world is more important now than ever,” said Carrie Dyer, the point person at city hall for Davis sister cities.

100 families The local connection with Rutilio Grande began in late 1990 with Davis nurse Ann Souter. As the violent civil war began to wind down, she learned that Salvadoran refugees at a farming cooperative in Nicaragua wanted to return home.

Local fundraising, combined with other support, helped the refugees buy 127 acres of land about 30 miles north of San Salvador — in an area many of them used to live. They named the town in honor of a Jesuit priest and confidant of Archbishop Oscar Romero who was assassinated in 1977. Romero was assassinated three years later.

Will and Jane Lotter were founders of the Davis Religious Community for Sanctuary, which helped refugees from Central America get out of detention and apply for asylum.

The couple also helped fund special projects in Guatemala and El Salvador, including Rutilio Grande.

Will Lotter led the first delegation there in July 1991. Will and Jane went together at least two times; once to deliver duffle bags full of soccer balls, another time to take softball equipment for women. The couple were active members of Davis Friends of Rutilio Grande, and helped raise money to bring potable water and electricity to the community and to fund youth scholarships and other projects.

The small school only serves children through the sixth grade, so to continue their education, kids have to travel to distant communities. The scholarships provide transportation, school supplies and school uniforms — all expenses families cannot afford.

“Rutilio Grande is a special place because of the relationship that has been built with the people there,” said Rick Lotter, one of Will and Jane’s four sons and a member of Mumbo Gumbo, a Davis band that has devoted proceeds from an annual concert at the Davis Art

Center to Rutilio Grande.

“We each have only so much time to make a difference and make relationships happen,” Rick Lotter said. “One of the things my parents loved to say was ‘Pick a place, pick a cause and just do it.’”

A Mumbo Gumbo benefit concert for Rutilio Grande scheduled for June 27 in Davis was canceled due to the pandemic.

Inclusion Success of the community is built on inclusion of all its members, as well as the hard labor of those who are able to work, said Cynthia Kellogg. She and partner Terry Turner visited the refugees in Nicaragua in 1991 and Kellogg continues to be the primary contact between Davis and Rutilio Grande.

Residents built the school, a community center, and a church. They continue to make it possible for families to build their own houses, Kellogg said. The current president and treasurer of the governing directive are 25 years old. Both completed college because of youth scholarships. Now they lead a program for all the young people in the community.

“The philosophy of the directive is that if young people are engaged, they will lead positive lives and they won’t get involved with the gangs,” Kellogg said. “So far, the strategy has worked.”

Eight sister cities The city of Davis does not provide funding to sister cities, but does help foster relationships.

Currently, there are eight sister cities, including Rutilio Grande. Others include: Inuyama, Japan; Los Banos, Philippines; Munoz, Philippines; Qufu, China; Sang-Ju, South Korea; Uman, Ukraine, and Wuxi, China. All sister cities have a community liaison but participation and activity ebbs and flows.

One of the most active is Sang-Ju, according to Dyer. The relationship includes delegations back and forth, high school student exchanges and a Sang-Ju employee at Davis City Hall each year. Unfortunately, the new worker who arrived in February remained only a month due to the coronavirus. A Zoom meeting was scheduled this month to bring together current Davis employees and their SangJu counterparts who have worked in Davis.

Davis Friends of Wuxi, China have been active for some time, Dyer said, and sent a number of masks to their sister city during the early days of the coronavirus.

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STUDENTS: Schedules still in progress UC: New leader faces challenges From Page A2

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It is not clear which of those solutions would satisfy the visa requirements, and some students and immigration attorneys warned that clever workarounds could cause more harm than good. The U.S. issues visas for specific purposes, and people who circumvent them can be charged with visa fraud.

Signing up for an in-person class is less straightforward than it sounds. UC Davis professors told The Enterprise many departments are still determining which courses will be held in-person. One said the course she will teach this fall is incorrectly listed as in-person. Another announced on Twitter that her class will be remote, saying she did not have an easy way to communicate with students.

Whether stay or depart the U.S., students said the ICE policy makes it impossible for vulnerable students to take health precautions. “Students shouldn’t have to choose between protecting their heath and maintaining their status,” the UCLA alumna said. “This is not safe.”

Several students, faculty and immigration attorneys read the policy as an attempt by the Trump administration to extort universities — leveraging international students’ tuition dollars — into holding in-person classes this fall, which, leading up to November’s presidential election, could create the appearance that the COVID-19 situation in the U.S. is not so severe.

The United States’ failure to contain the virus has resulted in more than 130,000 deaths and coincided with a decline in support for President Trump, who trailed Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden by double digits in recent polling of likely voters.

“SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!”

Trump tweeted Monday.

On Tuesday, Acting Deputy DHS Secretary Ken Cuccinelli appeared to confirm the ICE policy was crafted, at least in part, to push schools to hold in-person classes regardless of public health guidance. “This is now setting the rules for one semester, which we’ll finalize later this month that will,

again, encourage schools to reopen,” Cuccinelli said.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, the policy counsel for the American Immigration Council, said Cuccinelli’s comment about reopening schools “gives up the game” of the administration’s motive for the policy. “That (comment) will be cited in every lawsuit (challenging the ICE policy),” Reichlin-Melnick said.

Aidan Arasasingham, Government Relations Chair for the UC Student Association, called the new regulations “absolutely heartless” and urged the university to sue the government “to block this cruel and unjust nightmare.”

In June, UC won a lawsuit against DHS, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, after suing to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, which the administration sought to end.

UC Davis Global Affairs Vice Provost and Dean Joanna Regulska said in a statement that the campus is working with the UC Office of the President “to determine the best way to support international students.”

from UC San Francisco, where he taught for more than two decades.

“As the first person of color to serve as UC president, Dr. Drake arrives at an important point in the university’s journey. 2020 has been a tough year for us. Dr. Drake becoming the president of the University of California is a sign that good things are still possible this year,” said John A.Pérez,Chairof the Board of Regents.

During Drake’s time at OSU, the school sawits graduation and retention rates increase but also witnessed numerous controversies, including how it handled sexual abuse claims, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

His tenure as UC president will begin during a grueling recession, a stark contrast to the conditions Napolitano faced when she took the job in 2013. By then California had begun to mend after several years of declining state support due to the Great Recession, which the UC countered by doubling tuition after numerous price hikes between 2008 and 2011.

UC Student Association President Varsha Sarveshwar congratulated Dr. Drake in a statement, saying that during a meeting with student leaders today, Dr. Drake “affirmed his commitment to equity and inclusion, to accessibility and affordability, to rethinking public safety, and to student consultation.”

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8. A mandatory pre-bid conference and site visit will be held on July 7, NOTICE TO BIDDERS 2020 at 10:00a.m., at 2121 Calaveras Ave., Davis, CA 95616. All participants 1. Notice is hereby given that the are required to meet and sign in front governing board (“Board”) of the Davis of the Admin Building. The site visit Joint Unified School District will receive bids for the following Project, #421-02- is expected to take approximately 30 minutes and all Bidders are required 1920, (“Project”): to stay for the duration of the meeting.

DAVINCI JR HIGH SCHOOL MODULAR Failure to attend or tardiness will render ADMINISTRATION BUILDING bid ineligible.

PUBLIC NOTICE

This Project consists of: Sitework, utilities, low voltage and electrical hookups, miscellaneous carpentry, and work to complete the installation of the new Modular Administration Building.

9. The successful Bidder shall be required to furnish a 100% Performance Bond and a 100% Payment Bond if it is awarded the Contract for the Work.

10. The successful Bidder may substitute securities for any monies withheld by the 2. To bid on this Project, the Bidder is District to ensure performance under required to possess one or more of the the Contract, in accordance with the following State of California contractors’ provisions of section 22300 of the Public Contract Code. license(s): B General Building License.

The Bidder’s license(s) must remain active and in good standing throughout the term of the Contract.

3. To bid on this Project, the Bidder is required to be registered as a public works contractor with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to the Labor Code.

4. Contract Documents will be available on or after June 29, 2020, and may be downloaded from the District’s website, using this link: https://djusd. net/departments/facilities/capital_ improvement. In addition, Contract Documents will be emailed to all attendees of the mandatory pre-bid conference. And will be made available for bidders’ review at the following builders’ exchanges: A. Builder’s Exchange of Sacramento County B. Builder’s Exchange of Solano County 5. Sealed bids will be received only on the day of bids, until 10:00 a.m., July 23, 2020, at the District Operations Center, 1919 Fifth Street Davis California 95616 at or after which time the bids will be opened and publicly read aloud. Any bid that is submitted after this time shall be nonresponsive and returned to the bidder. Any claim by a bidder of error in its bid must be made in compliance with section 5100 et seq. of the Public Contract Code.

6. All bids shall be on the form provided by the District. Each bid must conform and be responsive to all pertinent Contract Documents, including, but not limited to, the Instructions to Bidders.

7. A bid bond by an admitted surety insurer on the form provided by the District a cashier’s check or a certified check, drawn to the order of the Davis Joint Unified School District, in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid price, shall accompany the Bid Form and Proposal, as a guarantee that the Bidder will, within seven (7) calendar days after the date of the Notice of Award, enter into a contract with the District for the performance of the services as stipulated in the bid.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: June 1, 2020 FBN Number: F20200411 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) IC-FOODS 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

1731 Evergreen Court Davis, CA 95618 Mailing address: 216 F Street, Suite 239 Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip International Center for Food Ontology Operability Data and Semantics 1731 Evergreen Court Davis, CA 95618 4. Business Classification: Corporation 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

(A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Matthew Lange, President 6/17, 6/24, 7/1, 7/8 875

11. The Contractor and all Subcontractors under the Contractor shall pay all workers on all Work performed pursuant to this Contract not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, State of California, for the type of work performed and the locality in which the work is to be performed within the boundaries of the District, pursuant to section 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code. Prevailing wage rates are ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR also available from the District or on the CHANGE OF NAME Internet at: <http://www.dir.ca.gov>.

Case Number: CVPT-20-751 12. This Project is subject to labor 1. Valentin Bravo Luna filed a petition compliance monitoring and enforcement with this court for a decree changing by the Department of Industrial Relations names as follows: Valentin Bravo Luna pursuant to Labor Code section 1771.4 to and subject to the requirements of Title Valentin Ibarra-Luna 8 of the California Code of Regulations.

The successful Bidder shall comply with 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons all requirements of Division 2, Part 7, interested in this matter shall appear Chapter 1, Articles 1-5 of the Labor Code. before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the 13. The District shall award the Contract, if petition should not be granted. it awards it at all, to the lowest responsive NOTICE OF HEARING responsible bidder based on: Date: August 5, 2020 Time: 9 a.m.

Dept: #9 Room: N/A A. The base bid amount only.

The address of the court is 14. The Board reserves the right to 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 reject any and all bids and/or waive 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause any irregularity in any bid received. If shall be published at least once a week the District awards the Contract, the for four successive weeks prior to the security of unsuccessful bidder(s) shall date set for hearing on the petition in be returned within sixty (60) days from the following newspaper of general the time the award is made. Unless circulation, printed in this county: otherwise required by law, no bidder may The Davis Enterprise withdraw its bid for ninety (90) days after 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Date: June 17, 2020 the date of the bid opening.

Daniel M. Wolk 7/1, 7/8 896 Judge of the Superior Court 6/24, 7/1, 7/8, 7/15 881

She added that she’s “hopeful that Dr. Drake will work in partnership with UCSA to follow through on these principles, and I challenge him to boldly pursue a vision for the University of California that is grounded in economic, social, and racial justice.”

Now, with a looming state budget cut of $300 millionunless the federal government approves more stimulusand an economy rocked by unemployment, the UC system may be eyeing years of fiscal heartache and passing unpopular tuition hikes to make up for lost revenues. Adding to the uncertaintyis a new statewide surveyof current California college students and graduating high school seniors that show some of those students are rethinking their fall plans and attending the UC. “I’m not sure I would envy the incoming president, that’s for sure,” said Debbie Cochrane, executive vice president at The Institute for College Access & Success.

At the May UC Regents meeting, some regents balked at the idea of increasing tuition, but Cochrane worries the temptation to find revenue through tuition hikes will grow if the fiscal doldrums persist. “Resistance to tuition increases in 2020 may not mean much in 2022 if the economy hasn’t recovered significantly,” she said.

— CalMatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: PT-20-791 1. Esteban Daniel Zuniga filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Esteban Daniel Zuniga to Esteban Daniel Corrales 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 3, 2020 Time: 9 a.m.

Dept: #9 Room: N/A The address of the court is 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Date: June 19, 2020 Daniel M. Wolk Judge of the Superior Court 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22 897 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENT TO THE DAVIS JOINT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT GOVERNING BOARD PURSUANT TO EDUCATION CODE SECTION 5092 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT a vacancy occurred on the Board of the Davis Joint Unified School District effective June 30, 2020, as a result of the resignation of Trustee Cindy Pickett.

The Board of Education on July 2, 2020, appointed Joy Klineberg to fill this vacancy.

This appointee shall hold office for the remainder of the term which expires in December of 2022, unless a petition calling for a special election and containing a sufficient number of signatures is filed in the office of the Yolo County Superintendent of Schools, 1280 Santa Anita Court, Suite 100, Woodland, CA 95776-6127, California, not later than August 3, 2020.

John A. Bowes, Ed.D. District Superintendent 7/5, 7/8 898

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Charles Eric Baty CASE NO. PB20-115 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Charles Eric Baty A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: John M. Martin in the Superior Court of California, County of: Yolo THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: John M. Martin be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on August 3, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Department 9 located at 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Signed: Attorney for the petitioner Marissa Sirota Marissa Sirota Law PLC 2062 John Jones Road, Suite 130 Davis, CA 95616 (530)231-5853 7/8, 7/10, 7/15 899

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sports THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE — WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2020

Fall prep season still unsure

It’s a battle for pool time

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DHS teams looking to be ready to go

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor

wo different systems of rationing limited pool time have emerged ...

One is the assignment of a specific day and time, which is how Davis Aquatics Masters is doing it.

The other is by appointment on line, first-come, first-served. This is how Davis Swim and Fitness, Get Fit Davis and UC Davis Recreation Pool are doing it.

■ As of June 15, Davis Aquatics Masters was back. I was supposed to start at the designated time in my assigned lane and end at the other end of the pool so as to avoid contaminating the next swimmer.

Masked from car to water, 6 feet in front and behind, nothing was left to chance. Or so the Kahns thought ...

But the intricate choreography that head coaches Stu and Mary Kahn had devised to comply with COVID-19 social-distancing requirements was spoiled when I had to use the PortaPotty. (Locker-room facilities are closed.)

Everyone else was unmasked and poised for the plunge, but all had to wait while Stu showed me how to safely use the necessary disinfectants.

■ The online approach is used at Get Fit Davis. Enterprise staffer and DHS swimming coach Owen Yancher, who also coaches at the North Davis facility, says: “One hour slots are available by appointment. They go like wildfire as soon as they are offered up and are currently booked through mid-July. The owner, Nick Walejeski, even added some hours.”

Bathrooms are open, but locker rooms are closed.Make an appointment at getfit davis.getomnify.com. Membership costs $55 for “regular” folks, $49 for seniors.

■ The set up is similar for Davis Swim and Fitness in South Davis. A swimming membership is $49 a month. Go to dsf. omnify.com to nab a spot.

They will not usually be available in the short-term, but you can put your name on a waiting list. This has worked for me.

■ Lap swimming is available at the newly refurbished UC Davis Recreation Pool now for members of the UC Davis community. Members of the public may buy memberships later.

■ DAM’s assistant head coach, Mary Kahn, has been named Pacific Masters Coach of the Year for 2020. Mary has been on-deck with DAM for 11 years.

She is the third DAM coach to receive this prestigious award since its inception in 1992 (Mike Collins — 1993 — and Stu Kahn in 2012).

■ Water polo is opening up a crack with the announcement by Davis Water Polo Club that they are starting a session for boys 18-and-under at Arroyo Pool through Aug. 9 (4 to 4:50 p.m.).

I asked immediately if masters polo would be next, but Christine Taylor, club treasurer, said pool time was not available.

This cannot be allowed to stand.

— Reach Mark Braly’s at mark braly@sbcglobal.net.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage, schools across the nation are wrestling with how — or if — prep sports competition will emerge this fall.

In CIF’s Sac-Joaquin Section, many high schools — like Davis — have followed state and county health department guidelines and have received approval to start socially distanced individual (and mostly outdoor) workouts.

Other schools have not yet resumed activities, while some have started workouts only to suspend them.

Even if Davis High protocols are followed to the letter and its student-athletes remain healthy and ready for competition, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the Blue Devils will find the traditional opponents on their schedules, again, if they find any.

On Tuesday, The Enterprise explored options for sports and clarified the current DHS ath- practices, where teams are letics status with Davis schools together but practicing as indiSuperintendent John Bowes viduals, will continue,” Bowes and Blue Devil Athletic Direc- said. tor Jeff Lorenson.

“But we don’t have any plans Through no fault of their right now for the further openown, the pair ing of facilicouldn’t come ties — student up with defin(and staff ) itive answers health and about the their wellfuture of fall being being sports.

No the primary one — from considerthe Centers ation.” for Disease Many peoControl to the ple are California involved in governor or any decisionDJUSD making, administraBowes contintors — knows John Bowes ued, adding what the DJUSD superintendent that the Yolo future holds.

County Office But Bowes of Education, public health and and Lorenson took their best local schools cabinet-level shots at the newspaper’s ques- administrators are all part of tions: the “regular part of the conver“We have been, and continue sation.” to be, in at least weekly comOn the CIF front, Lorenson munication with … the Yolo was asked when new informaCounty Public Health office. tion might come from the They have been good partners, nation’s largest interscholastic close partners (since) March,” federation.

Bowes explained. “(We’re doing) standard “We have a direct line to them planning for a traditional cal… so if there is any public health endar with the caveat on July and safety issue we need to dis- 20 that (statewide CIF) will cuss, they have been available.” make an announcement if it is That said, Bowes weighed in going to get pushed back,” the on what might be the next step AD explained. for sports at DHS. “I think it’s a day-to-day (con“Given our shelter-in-place sideration): Will it get pushed orders and current circum- back and, if so, how far? stances, the conditioning “Right now, we’re planing to

“We have been, and continue to be, in at least weekly communication with … the Yolo County Public Health office.”

Davis Joint Unified School District Superintendent John Bowes is uncertain if there will be a fall sports program for the CIF, but he is working to ensure the DHS teams are ready when the season starts.

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start football on July 27 and where we will wait to hear everything else on Aug. 1.” more from county health, CIF...

Lorenson didn’t rule out a We have a lot of confidence in hybrid set of conferences in (Lorenson). He’s our guy with which League A might send feet on the ground.”

Bowes noted that the district three schools to League B to make up for those campuses has “great protocols” in place: that choose to not play when “We’ll have to see down the road about what spectators or competition resumes.

But Lorenson said that such competition (between schools) discussion of patchwork con- looks like.

“We’re going to follow the ferences is premature: “It’s all kind of putting the guidance from of our county medical advisers; we’re going to cart before the follow shelterhorse, because in-place orders. we have to We believe that know first what athletics are an our schools are important part going to look of the highlike academischool experically before ence; they do a anything like lot for students’ (league realignphysical health ments) can be and there’s an decided.” important So, does the social and emoschools chief tional part with think sports competition — will be back in whether indiJeff Lorenson time for fall vidual or part competition to Davis High AD of a team. And begin at the we’re going to end of August? encourage that.

“We have to follow the guid“Davis has a long-and-strong ance and the numbers,” Bowes history of quality athletic prostated. “We are comfortable grams,” Bowes said, while and confident with the safety promising that local schools precautions we have in place will always balance that on the for the conditioning and work- side of “student-staff health outs that are going on.” and safety.”

But he had words of caution: — Reach sports editor Bruce “I think it would seem Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@ unlikely, given current circum- gmail.com or call 530-320stances, that we may wind up 4456. Follow Gallaudet on in competition. But this is Twitter: BGsportsinDavis.

“I think it’s a day-to-day (consideration): Will (the CIF calendar) get pushed back and, if so, how far?”

Yes, I’m ready for some football I

don’t know about you, but I’m ready for fall.

Fall, after all, means football. Real football. Not the gimmicky XFL or Arena ball. High school football, college football and professional football will all be played. Or so they say.

Yes indeed, the NFL and the NCAA and other governing bodies of this great sport are forging ahead as if the coronavirus, as our dear president has promised, will magically “disappear” between now and late August.

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see how the refs will enforce social distancing when it’s fourthand-goal at the opponent’s 1-yardline and 22 heavy-breathing warriors are lined up within inches of each other.

For months now, I’ve been counting down the days to the first weekend of college football, which this year is Saturday, Aug. 29.

This is known as Week Zero, given that there will be only a handful of Division I games on the

schedule. Schools that are playing that first weekend had to get special permission from the football gods to start early.

Lucky for us, UC Davis is one of those schools that is being allowed to start Aug. 29 at steadily improving Nevada.

And don’t you dare call them “Nevada-Reno” or “UNR.” Former Wolf Pack quarterback and head coach Chris Ault reacted quickly a number of years ago when upstart Nevada Southern became NevadaLas Vegas and folks starting calling his alma mater “Nevada-Reno.”

Basically, Ault said, the other guys are indeed Nevada-Las Vegas, but his school was, is and will remain the University of Nevada.

No hyphen, no exceptions.

Nevada was 7-5 in the 2019 regular season, beating Purdue of the Big Ten and qualifying for the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise.

It will indeed be a major challenge for an Aggie team that

FBS schools instead of one.

Following Nevada, the Aggies come home against University of San Diego, a team they barely survived in 2019.

They then head to San Jose State for yet another FBS battle, this time with an improved Spartan team that just missed bowl eligibility in 2019. will be breaking in a new quarterback after the loss of all-time great Jake Maier to the Canadian Football League.

Last year’s schedule was a murderer’s row, what with Cal to open the season, plus both Montana schools and Weber State, among others. And, oh yes, perennial national champion North Dakota State in the infamous Fargodome.

The Aggies, in fact, were 0-forNorth Dakota, suffering heartbreaking losses in both Fargo and Grand Forks just two weeks apart.

The travel won’t be as rigorous this fall, but the schedule is loaded once again, this time with two

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wo years ago the Aggies stunned the Spartans, 44-38, in their season opener, but that SJSU outfit went 1-11 and was widely regarded as one of the worst teams in all of FBS football.

Not so this time around. In 2019, the rejuvenated Spartans had wins over Arkansas of the SEC, Army and Fresno State — and very nearly upset Boise State.

Weber State, which handled UC Davis easily at UC Davis Health Stadium last fall, is on the schedule once again, this time in Ogden, where the Wildcats are tough to beat. Actually, the Wildcats are

tough to beat just about anywhere.

If there’s a soft spot on the schedule, it comes with consecutive October dates against Idaho, Idaho State, Northern Colorado and Cal Poly, perennial bottomfeeders who were a combined 13-34 last season.

Halloween brings one of those circle-the-date games against perennial Big Sky power Eastern Washington, which is still seething after going 6-2 in conference play in 2019, yet being denied an FCS playoff bid.

A game at struggling Northern Arizona followed by a showdown with suddenly potent Sacramento State wraps up the 11-game regular-season schedule (down one game from last fall).

The Aggies got a taste of playoff football in 2018, but were left home with a 5-7 mark in 2019.

Make no mistake, a return to the playoffs will be a high priority this time around.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.