The Davis Enterprise Friday, July 10, 2020

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Lawsuits pile up against feds over international student order BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer On Wednesday, the University of California announced plans to sue the federal government to stop a new policy that could strip international students of their visas and force them to leave the United States. On Thursday,

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the state will file a lawsuit on behalf of California Community Colleges and California State University to block the same rule. The policy, announced Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), requires foreign students to take

in-person classes this fall or leave the country. Students who are currently abroad will be barred from entering the U.S. if they can’t prove at least some of their instruction will be delivered faceto-face. There are roughly a million international students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities,

more than 160,000 of whom study in California. In June, UC Davisannounced a planto offer remote instruction for all classes and also hold some in-person classes should public health guidance allow. The university 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. If in-person classes are moved online midway through the term — something state or local authorities could order schools to do — international students

SEE LAWSUITS, PAGE A4

Unanimous council vote puts DISC on ballot

The line of people seeking a COVID-19 test at the Veterans Memorial Center on Friday stretched back toward Community Pool. More than 400 people were tested on Monday and hundreds more were expected Thursday evening.

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

By Thursday morning, however, the hospitals had been able to add both ICU beds and staff,

Davis voters will have the final say in November on a proposed innovation center and housing development that has been in the making for years. The City Council on Tuesday night voted unanimously to put the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus on the November ballot for a Measure J/R vote. The proposal would bring 2.64 million square feet of business and innovation space as well as up to 850 residential units to the northeast corner of Mace Boulevard and Interstate 80. The vote in November will mark the sixth time Davis residents have exercised their right to vote on a land use development on the city’s periphery. Since Measure J was first enacted 20 years ago and renewed as Measure R 10 years later, three projects have been defeated at the polls (Covell Village in 2005; Wildhorse Ranch in 2009; and Nishi 1.0 in 2016) and two approved (Nishi 2.0 and the West Davis Active Adult Community,

SEE SURGE, PAGE A4

SEE DISC, PAGE A3

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Coronavirus cases surge in Yolo County BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY

serves as the districtwide summer meal distribution site.

Enterprise staff writer The surge in coronavirus cases in Yolo County produced more grim news this week, including more deaths, ICU beds that were temporarily at capacity and the highest oneday total of new cases since the pandemic began. Additional cases were reported at skilled nursing facilities in Davis and Woodland and have shut down a West Sacramento high school that

In the last seven days, the county has reported 189 new cases, 17 hospitalizations and four deaths from COVID-19. Thursday alone brought the highest one-day total yet, with 43 new cases reported. Sixteen county residents suffering from COVID-19 were in hospitals on Thursday. “Behind every number is a family, a person and a community and our thoughts and

prayers go out to them,” county spokeswoman Jenny Tan said Thursday. Said Supervisor Don Saylor of Davis: “These sick, these lost, these people… are our friends, our family, our neighbors, our co-workers, our community. This is not abstract. This is not ideology.” The increase in cases and decrease in available ICU beds in Yolo County’s two hospitals (Sutter Davis and Woodland Memorial) landed the county

on the state’s monitoring list on Wednesday and raised alarm among local residents and officials. “As of today, Yolo County has 0% of staffed ICU beds available,” West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon tweeted on Wednesday. “This is not a drill.”

One of the hottest peppers available to home gardeners, the habanero, has a rich, fruity taste along with extreme heat. They look great, too; a habanero in a planter can make a lovely autumn display.

Don’t you want to be a pepper, too? BY DON SHOR Special to The Enterprise

P

eter Piper was a real person. He was actually Pierre Poivre, a French name which translates to Peter Pepper, and he was notable for establishing a

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botanical garden in Mauritius in the 18th century. The word Piper is the official botanical name of black pepper, Piper nigrum, which we grind onto food as a condiment. Hence, Peter Piper. Appropriate to his name, he smuggled spice

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plants from out of the control of the Dutch in the East Indies and got them established in the Seychelles and Mauritius. This helped break the monopoly the Dutch had on the spice trade. So, the question that he is most famous for, “If

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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked” raises any number of complications. Most important, the peppers referred to in the

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