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THE CALIFORNIA AGGIE VOLUME 133, ISSUE 13 | THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014

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An Islamic State of Mind comes to UC Davis Muslim students from West Coast universities celebrate annual conference

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Over 1,000 people from all parts of the West Coast joined the UC Davis Muslim Student Association (MSA) on campus from Jan. 17 to 19 for the 16th annual MSA West Conference.

Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi attended the conference opening ceremonies the evening of Jan. 17, welcoming students with a speech celebrating the University’s diversity.

“First of all, I think this conference provides a very safe environment for students to have a dialogue about important issues,” Katehi said.

“Sometimes the issues are very difficult to discuss, but I believe these are the right ways and right environments where difficult discussions can

take place and where people, through respect for each other, can develop trust for each other and can have safe dialogues that eventually can lead into some important solutions.”

The MSA on campus was founded by students in the 1970s, but was officially recognized by ASUCD in the ’90s.

“Our main goal is to have a safe haven for Muslim students on campus, and for community members to learn about Islam,” said third-year community and regional development major and MSA president Maheen Ahmed.

“We want students to understand our religion, culture and our ethnicities to promote interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding.”

MSA West, an umbrella organization managing 31 individual MSAs

Davis finds knack for novelty Toad tunnel, endangered pot� holes, Ted the Titan preserve historic quirks

from universities across the west coast, helped manage the conference in conjunction with the UC Davis organization.

“With this conference, we are able to have more students learn about the Muslim Student Association and create greater awareness for Muslim students on campus,” Ahmed said. “Even though it is an MSA event, the fact that it is held here makes it open to all UC Davis students.”

Although the conference is held at a different university each year, this is the third year the Davis community has hosted. The University held the event in 2002 and 2009 as well.

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UC receives increased funding, still falls short of needs State’s proposed budget aims to bolster funding to education

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Often associated with bikes, big red buses and cows, Davis was once claimed to be America’s Weirdest City in the satirical Weekly World News.

The town is home to peculiar urban legends, like historic potholes and Ted the Titan, and distinctive sites like the famous toad tunnel and Baggins End. The concept of a toad tunnel first sprang about when the city was in the process of building an overpass by Pole Line Road in 1994.

“Helping the toads to find a happy little habitat was the intention,” said John McNerney, the wildlife resource specialist of the City of Davis. “The main idea is that they would encounter earthen berm.”

Community members such as Julie Partansky, who later became the mayor of Davis, were concerned that toads would be inevitably mashed in the process of their hippity-hopping across the overpass.

After much deliberation, Partanksy convinced

the Davis City Council to build an approximately 220-foot long corridor tunnel with an 18-inch diameter of corrugated steel pipe.

According to McNerney, the core area detention basin was home to at least two different species of amphibians, the Western Toad and the Pacific Tailed Frog.

“Although [the Western Toad] was not threatened or endangered, there was a general concern about the global decline of amphibians,” McNerney said.

Word of the tunnel spread shortly after it was built, and it eventually appeared on “The Daily Show” in 1999. Though “The Daily Show” claimed that the project cost $20,000, McNerney said it was $2,000, and not a substantial amount of taxpayer money.

He also, however, recalled that some people in the community doubted the effectiveness of the tunnel and whether it would actually work.

Over time, McNerney has sampled the local

Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget for the 201415 year includes a 5 percent increase of funding to the University of California (UC) system, a shortfall from what the UC Regents requested from the state during their budget meeting in November.

The proposed budget leaked to the Sacramento Bee on Jan. 8 and Brown confirmed the budget in a press release the next day.

The UC Regents expressed in the November 2013 budget meeting an aim for an additional $120.9 million in addition to the 5 percent, or $142 million increase.

"We're putting $10 billion into the schools of California after years of drought and cutbacks and pink slips for teachers,'' Brown said in a press conference, the day after the budget was leaked.

Of the 5 percent increase, the proposed budget apportions $50 million for Awards for Innovation in Higher Education, a program that sets out to increase the number of people in California that have bachelors degrees, allows for students to complete degrees in four years from the time of enrollment and eases the transfer of community college students to fouryear universities.

In addition to increased funding on schools, Brown’s budget also increased spending on K-12 education, correctional departments and rehabilitation and healthcare. It also includes a rainy day fund of $1.6 billion, to building back the state’s reserves.

The California Teacher’s Association said in a statement, “This budget will allow local school districts to continue to restore critical programs and provide the

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23 / THURSDAY Piano and Viola Concert Noon to 1 p.m. | Grand Lobby, Mondavi Center Come watch Ellen Ruth Rose and Karen Rosenak perform works by Rebecca Clarke and Shostakovich. The event is free.

Quinton Duval Poetry Series 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. | Logos Books, 513 2nd St. Listen to readings by Sacramento poets Constance Carter and Dennis Hock. A reception will follow the readings, and signed books will be for sale. The event is free.

24 / FRIDAY Decoding Your Dog 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. | Avid Reader, 617 2nd St. Dr. Melissa Bain will discuss her contribution to a book which explains common dog behavior and reveals how to prevent or change unwanted behavior.

25 / SATURDAY Planting Event 9:30 a.m. to noon | 23 Russell Blvd.

Join Putah Creek Council and community volunteers and plant native trees and shrubs along the North Davis Ditch, Riparian Greenbelt Project. The event is free and participants can register at www.putahcreekcouncil.org.

24 Hour Art Show Noon to midnight | Third Space, 942 Olive Drive Artists will work for 24 hours on a piece to be exhibited on this event. Admission from noon to 6 p.m. is free, and from 6 p.m. to midnight is $10.

Fiddle Workshop 1 to 3 p.m. | N Street Co-housing, 716 N St. Fiddlers Andy Lentz and Josh Rabie will collaborate to teach a fiddle workshop in Davis. The goals of this two-hour workshop are to introduce students to bluegrass and and old-time fiddling and explore the “chop” method of accompanying other musicians on the fiddle. Students will learn a tune or two, then develop the rhythm and backup and combine the two by the end of the workshop. All ages and availability levels are welcome, and admission is $20.

26 / SUNDAY Davis Flea Market 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. | Third Space, 946 Olive Drive Check out the Flea Market for the best in art, performance and grassroots commerce. The Davis Flea has transformed a mechanics repair shop into a vibrant, pop-up retail and music venue.

Interfaith Celebration of Abraham 2:30 to 5 p.m. | Saint James Fellowship Hall This January’s Celebration of Abraham will deal with Loving Kindness. This year the planners of the Celebration of Abraham are hoping to begin the community discussion prior to the date of the Celebration. They have posted a blog and invite everyone to add their thoughts. For more information contact Helen Roland at hroland2@gmail.com.

International Folk Dancing 7 to 10 p.m. | Davis Art Center, 1919 F St. Check out these easy and intermediate level dances taught and practiced from 7 to 9 p.m. and then followed by requests until 10 p.m. First time attendees get in free, then payment will be by dance card.

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Local Davis Creamery hosts ice cream flavor competition Bracketology at Sugar Daddies pits two flavors against each other every week SHANNON SMITH

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city@theaggie.org Sugar Daddies is having its annual Bracketology competition, pitting two customer-chosen ice cream flavors against each other every week.

“Sugar Daddies is made up of two parts, the ice cream is from The Davis Creamery and the cupcakes are from Cupcake Craving in Arden,” said Bradley Santi, Sugar Daddies employee.“Both owners are dads, hence the name.”

This is the second year that Sugar Daddies has hosted the Bracketology competition, with future goals of making this an annual event.

“In December, customers suggested over 200 ice cream flavors; some of them really random and crazy,” said Stacie Hoyt, a manager at Sugar Daddies.“We picked 16 flavor suggestions and paired them against each other, in a kind of parallel to March Madness.”

Once the ideas have been submitted and chosen, the Sugar Daddies crew makes each flavor a reality, creating their perception of the suggestion and letting customers experience their own ideas.

For anyone unfamiliar with March Madness or the bracket system, this means that each of the 16 flavors will be paired off and compete directly, resulting in eight matches.

The winners of these eight will proceed to the next round, into four matches. These winners will face each other until there are only two left.These two are the finalists.

This means that there will be a total of 15 matches, and so 15 weeks of competition.

The flavors for the week of Jan. 6 to Jan. 12 were apricot rose versus chili mango.

“Even the staff has been participating, and last week’s results were half and half for the staff,” Hoyt said.

The most recent flavors were chocolate sriracha versus red velvet with cream cheese.

“I love chocolate and hate cream cheese, so I would probably go for the chocolate sriracha,” said Zac Chan, a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student and Davis visitor, sitting on the Sugar Daddies porch.

Every week, customers can walk into the shop and ask for free samples of the two flavors. All votes are tallied on a white board behind the counter. This week, red velvet is winning by almost twice the number of votes as chocolate sriracha.

“Personally, I prefer the red velvet with cream cheese,” Santi said. “I’m not so into spicy chocolate.”

The chocolate sriracha has flavorful elements of both components, but is shockingly not spicy, customers said. Its opponent, the red velvet and cream cheese flavor, presents a vibrant red hue but a creamier texture.

“I have heard of Sugar Daddies. I think that I would go in

and sample the new flavors,” said Karen Ma, a first-year mechanical engineering major, and relatively new to the downtown Davis scene. “If I could make up an ice cream flavor, I would say hazelnut milk tea.”

The setting of Sugar Daddies mirrors the inside of a classic ice cream shop.They make all of their ice cream in the store from regional and neighborhood sources, with a variety of flavors that change seasonally.

“What separates us from other ice cream places is that we try to use local products as much as we can,” Hoyt said.“We work closely with the Davis Farmers Market and in our ice cream flavors, we use what is in season.”

They are known for their avocado coconut flavor.Trying this flavor signifies a rite-of-passage into the Sugar Daddies’ family, according to Santi. Other uncommon flavors include strawberry lemonade, s’mores (with real marshmallow), olive oil, peach brown sugar and horchata.

“We have had about 300 flavors,” Santi said. “Recently, someone donated a ton of apples to us and we made an apple pie flavor of ice cream.”

Unlike many commercial ice cream companies that keep giant tubs of prepared and pre-determined ice cream flavors in storage freezers, Sugar Daddies is able to keep customers on their toes with options and localized ingredients.

“Everything is homemade,” Hoyt said. “If someone were to ask for a flavor, come back next week, and we will make it in the shop.”

The Sugar Daddies Bracketology competition will go on until the 16 flavors come to one final winner, which will become a permanent flavor.

“The Bracketology competition is an awesome idea,” said Kelly Lima, a fourth-year biological sciences major.

“My roommates and I will definitely be visiting every week to try the free tastings; probably on Mondays, too!”

Sugar Daddies is located at 113 E St. in downtown Davis, open daily from 11:30 a.m. until 10 p.m., except Sundays, when it closes at 9 p.m. n

27 / MONDAY Pub Quiz 7 to 9 p.m. | DeVere’s Irish Pub, 217 E St. Dr. Andy Quizmaster will host his weekly celebration of knowledge, strategy and raucous company. Teams can have up to six players, and attendees are encouraged to arrive at 6 p.m. to secure a table.

28 / TUESDAY The Theory and Practice of Eclecticism in 18th Century Architecture 4 to 6 p.m. | 157 Everson Check out a talk by Professor Kristoffer Neville of UC Riverside, sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History.

The event is free and open to the public.

Prized Writing Ceremony 6 to 7:30 p.m. | Alpha Gamma Rho Hall, UC Davis Alumni Center The University Writing Program will celebrate this year’s best student writing at their annual Prized Writing Ceremony. Light refreshments will be served at 5:30, followed by an award ceremony from 6 to 7:30.

Trivia 9 to 11 p.m. | Sophia’s Thai Kitchen, 129 E Sr. Gather a team and test yourself in subjects from world geography to 80s music to sports to The Big Lebowski. The event is free and there will be prizes!

Salsa Tuesday 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. | The Graduate, 805 Russell Blvd.

Attend dance lessons at The Grad. The event is $6. 18+

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UC Davis biochemistry alumnus Sher Butt and third-year nutritional science major Karla Cacho sample some of Sugar Daddies’ newest flavors.

IET, Campus Data Center face persistent service outages Email, campus services unavailable for whole day

29 / WEDNESDAY Undergraduate Composers Concert 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. | 115 Music Building Check out the works of undergraduaste composition students, Zack Lauchli, Erin Opray, True Randall, Christine Richers and Mike Yun, with guests Hrabba Atladottir on the violin and Ellen Ruth Rose on the viola.

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city@theaggie.org On Friday, Jan. 10 at noon until Saturday, Jan. 11 around 1 p.m., the Campus Data Center suffered a severe service outage that persisted intermittently.

Most of the service outage was characterized by the Private Cloud Service (PCS) being unavailable. This service comes from the Quest Data Center located on the UC Davis campus. What clients saw was unavailability of all associated servers and services. Almost all Information and Educational Technology (IET) central services were affected by this outage, so SmartSite and related websites were inaccessible.

“The first outage of the PCS was Friday from noon till about 3 p.m. Once the PCS was restored from this outage, it took several more hours to restore all services. Possibly related to the outage, the uConnect firewall stopped working properly,” said Dave Zavatson, a principal engineer at the Campus Data Center. “While the PCS service and most dependent services were restored by 5:30 p.m., uConnect continued to be unavailable until 8 p.m. because of firewall issues.”

At around midnight on Jan. 11, the PCS’ service started exhibiting similar symptoms on a smaller scale.While the earlier

outage eventually affected all hosts, this new outage was only affecting two VMWare hosts (VMWare is cloud software).

Workers at IET and the Campus Data Center began troubleshooting again, but at around 3 a.m. more hosts became affected by this second outage causing critical services to become unavailable.

Administrators continued working on the problem, and PCS service was restored around 7 a.m. At that point the process of restoring dependent services began and all services were restored by around 1 p.m.

“We know that the outage is due to storage area network software code. We have cases open with both VMWare and Netapp to isolate precisely what caused the service to be unable to communicate with the SAN [storage area network],” said Babette Schmitt, chief information officer for IET. Mark Redican, Telecom and Data Center director, sees very little logical relation between the uConnect firewall problems and the PCS’ failure.

“We are still investigating whether the uConnect firewall problems are related to the PCS failure. The timing of the failure is certainly suspect, but there is SERVERS on 3

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know it’s important for our students in the MSA, but also for students who are in similar organizations at the other campuses,” Katehi said. “To have the opportunity to bring students together from across the 10 campuses is a big thing, because the students can learn from each other, they can get engaged in important dialogues, and I think that is a wonderful thing to have on our campus.”

Ahmed and other members of the MSA worked with University officials, like Vice Chancellor Adela de la Torre, for the past few months to prepare the campus for an influx of visitors. De la Torre also provided opening remarks at the start of the conference.

“I want people to know that administration supports us,” said second-year political science major and conference logistics head Azka Fayyaz. “They don’t identify themselves as Muslims, but they are still coming and are very open to learning about the experience of Muslim students and Islam itself.”

With workshops and panels running from the night of Jan. 17 to the afternoon of Jan. 19, the conference featured close to 50 guest speakers from across the country, neighboring areas and local community to discuss topics related to spirituality, current events and Islamic culture.

“At the end of the day, we are all just people. There are so many similarities between us, but we tend to take only a few things and make boundaries within each other,” said fourth-year international relations major and conference chair Aisha Hameed. “The MSA is a place to start breaking those boundaries, show people what being Muslim is about and make them realize that we are all very similar.”

This year’s conference theme was ‘Islamic State of Mind,’ focusing on the American-Muslim identity of many college students.

“Everything we do should tie back into our identity.

Our identity is Islam, our religion,” said fourth-year political science major at UCLA and MSA West president Haidar Anwar. “Students in my generation sometimes tend to forget, so this conference will help them bring everything

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resources that educators need to help students learn.”

The UC’s vice president for budget and capital resources, Patrick Lenz, said in a statement, “The governor’s proposed increase in state general funds and UC’s continuing efforts to achieve savings through administrative efficiencies will preclude any tuition increase in the 201415 academic year.”

He further stated that the University appreciates Brown’s commitment to his multi-year budget plan for the UC system.

“The governor’s budget is good news in comparison to where we’ve been these last many years, but it’s not enough,” said Kelly Ratliff, associate vice chancellor of budget at UC Davis.

Ratliff explained that the increase is insufficient because the University has fixed costs. What the Davis campus is likely to receive if the budget is enacted is about half of what it needs to cover those fixed costs.

UC Davis’ budget estimates that this year it will need $31 million to cover fixed costs which include health benefits, salary raises and retirement funding. It is predicted that after appropriation of the increased funding to the UC system, the Davis campus will receive $16 million, just about half of what it needs.

Ratliff said that as far as changes that are visible to the community go, the proposed budget is “actually adding to our shortfall.”

back and realize that it all comes back to an Islamic state of mind, and in order to move forward, that should always be the state of mind they should be in.”

All student panels, large workshops and smaller sessions were focused on discussing different angles of this universal theme, specifically in what being a Muslim means, and how American Muslims can be discriminated against in a post 9/11 society.

“It’s all about spirituality and balancing your time for religion, making religion a way of life and molding your schedule to fit your religious priorities,” Ahmed said.

“Learning about your identity as a Muslim and other problems like racism in our community at large, so not just within the Muslim community.”

Since most attendees came from around California, Ahmed said most of the discussions were designed to be pertinent to students at large public schools.

“Our main message is legacy. As a human being, what kind of legacy do you want to leave behind, and how are you going to carry yourself on a daily basis and change your own habits to get you there?” Hameed said. “This is something that is beyond religion or nationality. The core message is one of individual human beings, it’s universal.”

In addition to the theme of the conference, the MSA West hopes to extend their influence onto local governments.This year, the conference advocacy campaign was to stop the use of drones in American warfare.

“All of our attendees will be writing personalized letters, and the MSA representatives from each school will be mailing those letters out to their local government officials,” Anwar said. “I feel like it’s definitely going to be moving, since there will be over 1,000 letters.”

By the end, all conference planners hoped the conference bridged differences between cultures within the Muslim community, as well as the surrounding campus population.

“I think all student groups of different religions, culture and ethnicities are very important to the campus because they bring diversity,” Hameed said. “At the end, it’s not ‘one is right and one is wrong.’ It’s just a different way of life. A more accepting community is a more peaceful community.” n

Additionally, the deficit for the 2013-14 school year was brought down to $9 million through the spending of reserves. However, that deficit carries over to the 2014-15 year.That will add to the shortfall the campus is predicted to have because of the insufficient funding from the state.

According to Ratliff, the proposed solution being discussed is either more money from the state, or modest and predictable tuition increases.

As far as answers to the budget that incorporate the frozen tuition, Ratliff said, “I think there will be hard decisions to be made but I hope it doesn’t boil down to suffering, I hope that we can find things to do and do them well.”

Adrian Lopez, the director of State Government Relations for the UC Davis campus, said that there is a potential to get the 10 percent increase in funding that the UC Regents asked for in November, especially if the revenues for the state go up between now and May. Lopez speculates that the increased amount that the UC system will receive will be more than five percent, but less than the requested 10 percent.

“Freezing tuition in a time when the budget is not sufficient to cover our mandatory costs is problematic,” Lopez said.

However, he agrees with UC President Janet Napolitano when she said that the five percent increase is a good starting point. He added that if that ends up being the funding the University receives, it will manage.

“We’ll have a discussion about what else can the university do and what other needs that we have,” Napolitano said in an interview with the Sacramento Bee. n

BROW N ’ S2014– 2 01 2015 4 -1 5State STAT E B U DG E T Brown’s Budget Where the state would get the most money from: K-12 education $45,251

Highway users tax $5,544 Sales and use tax $37,091

Corporation tax $8,682

Corrections and rehabilitation $9,560

Where the most money would go:

Personal income tax $71,351

Insurance tax $2,297

Note: All figures in millions

Higher education $12,377

Governor’s proposed rainy day fund: $1,591

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very little interaction between the two services except that some uConnect guest and external clients that rely on uConnect are hosted in the PCS,” Redican said. “We tried various troubleshooting steps to resolve the issue and ultimately needed to completely power off both firewalls and bring them back up sequentially to restore proper service.”

Due to the widespread nature of this outage, it was difficult for IET to communicate with clients about the conditions of services.

IET does have a Twitter account which did post outage and status notifications; however, the account only has 338 followers, which pales in comparison to the 33,300 students who constantly use these services.

“An outage such as this demonstrates just how critical these campus services are,” Zavatson said. “IET

with DANIEL WATTS

There’s an oft-misquoted saying that applies to a lot of things, including law: A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

This couplet, appearing in poet Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism, cautions the reader to do thorough research before acting upon something.

A case in point comes from a Tumblr post this weekend by Wil Wheaton, the actor who played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek and who somehow became an internet celebrity. Wheaton blogged about a minor controversy stemming from a bunch of tweets, from which all controversies now originate.

Marked with the hashtag #gpsac, the tweets exposed a pickup artist running around a Magic: The Gathering tournament at the Sacramento Convention Center over Jan. 17-29. For those unaware, Magic is a collectible card game whose players are primarily male, and, as this pickup artist apparently assumed, in need of advanced social skills training. And yes, this is the same Sacramento pickup artist who was on the local news a few months ago for teaching his seminars at malls without permission – which, by the way, is totally legal under a Supreme Court case called Pruneyard v. Robins. This guy is a never-ending font of column fodder.

The Pruneyard case, as I’ve mentioned before in this column, interpreted the California Constitution as requiring shopping malls to open their common areas to the public, treating them as a public forum akin to a park or a town square. The common areas, places like food courts, atriums and the like, are free speech zones where people are free to hand out flyers, engage in protest, or talk to strangers. In other words, if it’s okay to say at a park, it’s okay to say at a mall. Importantly, this freedom exists only in the mall’s common areas – not its bathrooms, and not in individual stores.

Back to the Magic tournament. The tweets showed photos of a flyer that the pickup artist taped on bathroom walls and tossed on the gaming tables. The flyer called him “the Jace the Mind Sculptor” of this particular craft and advertised his phone number and website, sacpickup.com. I talked to this guy, whose pseudonym is “Double B.” According to Double B, a tournament organizer pulled down his flyers and hunted him down outside the convention center. There, the organizer tore down another sign posted outside the convention center and told Double B, “You can’t be posting these flyers around here.”

I’ll tell you what I told Double B: Pruneyard’s effects apply only to malls, and only to their common areas, which are the only parts of malls that are considered public fora. Pruneyard does not apply to other gatherings, even if they are on city property. It does not apply to city council chambers or the convention center and certainly not to the convention center’s restrooms. If you’re posting flyers in a restroom, you’ll get kicked out, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Double B said he understood this, and he’d also heard of Pruneyard. But he said this audience – Magic card aficionados – really needs his help.

But that doesn’t make any legal difference. Regardless of how much people might want to hear about his business, he has no right to talk about it inside a convention hall reserved for a specific purpose, nor to post flyers about it in a restroom.

Daniel is a Sacramento attorney, former Davis City Council candidate and graduate of UC Davis School of Law. He’ll answer questions sent to him at governorwatts@gmail.com or tweeted to @governorwatts.

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recognizes this and takes these services very seriously. Once the root cause analysis is complete we will make an incident report available to campus.”

The Campus Data Center’s next steps will be to work with campus leadership and Data Center clients to identify priorities and solutions for the business continuity.

“Solutions exist to address these shortcomings, and no doubt we’ll have much campus discussion about implementing them,” Schmitt said. n

2014 Graduation Celebration Program Funding Announcement

The Office of Student Affairs is pleased to announce the availability of funding for student-organized graduation celebrations. Programs must support the University’s goal of encouraging students from historically underrepresented and underserved backgrounds to attend college and achieve leading career aspirations. Funds may be used for partial support of program costs, including facility rental, printing services and light refreshments.

Additional information and application forms can be requested by emailing Beverly Babcock at bababcock@ucdavis.edu

APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2014 Campus Contact: Sheri Atkinson, Executive Director, Community Resource Centers slatkinson@ucdavis.edu or 752-2139

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15 / WEDNESDAY Tempting fate Someone found his old drugs and was afraid he would do them, so he wanted an officer to come take them away on Chiles Road.

Turning over a new leaf Someone reported a person was using a leaf blower in excess of noise limitations and was overly focused on one area of concrete, circling that spot for over an hour.

16 / THURSDAY Smooth recovery A guy tried to steal someone’s bike on G Street, but he fell off of it and walked away instead.

17 / FRIDAY Meals on wheels A group of juniors threw food at someone’s car on West 14th Street.

20/ MONDAY Deadbeat Two women went to someone’s front door stating they were from out of town and wanted to hold a funeral service in the area, then entered the house to use the restroom and proceeded to peer into the other rooms.

High-minded Two guys were hanging around the church on C Street asking guests to buy drugs.

Police briefs are compiled from the City of Davis daily crime bulletins. Contact EINAT GILBOA at city@theaggie.org.

At 6 p.m. on Jan. 16, ASUCD Vice President Bradley Bottoms presided over the Senate meeting at the Student Community Center in Meeting Room D. The meeting focused on a ballot measure to add “Save the Aggie” to the Winter 2014 general election ballot.

The California Aggie editor-in-chief Elizabeth Orpina delivered a presentation on The Aggie and how the ballot will save it from financial crisis.

The Save the Aggie Initiative will allot a quarterly $3.10 addition to UC Davis undergraduate student fees, as well as a $0.78 return to aid fee which will be allocated to those with the most need through financial aid, e.g. the Pell Grant.

Orpina said that, without this measure, The California Aggie will cease to function through the next year, which will also be its 100th year of service to UC Davis.

Debate on the ballot measure focused on the proposed life of fee, which does not stipulate for an expiration date. The measure states, however, that this can be changed through a future referendum.

Senator Amrit Sahota noted that the Senate is merely trying to find the “best bill possible and make it the cheapest and the best option.”

Most of the arguments proposed to institute some form of oversight of the fees and The Aggie.

“We’re talking about The Aggie like it’s a business,” said Senator Miles Thomas.

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WEEKLY WEATHER Short-Term Forecast More warm, dry weather will continue into the week. Winds will remain calm and from the northeast. Expect mostly sunny skies, with some clouds coming in Friday and passing early Saturday.

Thursday(1/24): High: 70, Low: 36, Sunny, cold night, breezy in the afternoon Friday (1/25): High: 69, Low: 35 Partly Cloudy, cold night, calm winds

then probably run nonprofits or something like that. Maybe run for Congress and see how that goes. But I’d definitely want to become a social worker for a couple years, especially in my 20s, and I think that that’s something that I can’t really focus on if I need to make money.

Something very low income but something that can actually change people straight up.

Saturday (1/26): High 71, Low 38 Mostly Sunny, cold night, calm winds

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He said that The Aggie is a nonprofit organization that aims to inform students and should not be treated like a business.

Business and Finance Commission chair Zach Griffiths said that, because students will have to start paying fees for The Aggie, it becomes an investment for students, and that there should be oversight on the fee.

To end debate, a non-binding vote was called on whether a change in the language of the measure to add supervision of the fee would pass, which failed.

A vote to pass the ballot measure was called, passing with 10 senators in favor and senators Jonathan Mitchell and Katie Sherman abstaining.

After a break, the meeting came together once more to discuss Senate Resolution #6 and Senate Bill #25 (SB 25). SR 6 states the Senate’s support of reorganizing and keeping the Experimental College as an ASUCD unit.

The resolution passed with 10 senators voting in favor and two senators abstaining. Discussion of SB 25, a bill that would create the Experimental College Task Force, a group that would oversee the financial reorganization of the Experimental College, followed.

After calling the bill into question, 11 senators voted in favor of SB 25 and one senator abstained from voting.

Committee reports followed the passing of the new bill. The Senate meeting adjourned at 10:29 p.m.

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moment?

There’s been a lot. At The Aggie debate last quarter, Senator Tal Topf came up to me and she spilled hot tea all over my pants, so I couldn’t stand up during the whole debate because my pants were soaked, and it was really embarrassing. So I was sitting there really awkwardly. It was really hot tea, and I had just gotten it, and it was a big cup.

8. What’s the best place in Davis to take a picture?

I like taking pictures. I think the Arb, nothing can top that. Especially the reflective properties of the water. In fall, there’s

that one tree, I’m sure everyone knows it, where the leaves are just a perfect shade of yellow. So I’d say the Arboretum for sure.

9. What’s your favorite work of art?

I was a huge fan of The Great Gatsby, but now I feel like everybody is. I like A Separate Peace by John Knowles. It’s a really good coming-of-age novel that everyone should read in high school. It’s a story about two best friends, and they’re in a military academy on the East Coast during WWII. It’s about how friendship is affected, and how it can be molded at a young age. I think that that’s a very underrated and amazing book to read. n

Long-Term Forecast After the cool-off towards the end of this week, expect more warm temps, and by Tuesday maybe even some mid to lower 70’s! While you might be loving this weather, the state is not, in fact, Sacramento just broke a record of most consecutive days without rain during the rainy season resulting in the driest January on Record, 0.00” so far, with not much hope for rain before the month’s end. But enjoy this nice weather, go outside, hike, bike, trike or ice skate.

Sunday (1/27): High 71, Low 37, Clear, Calm winds Monday (1/28): High 72, Low 37, High clouds in the Afternoon, Calm winds Tuesday (1/29): High 72, Low 38, High clouds, some breeziness Wednesday (1/30): High 71, Low, 37, Mostly clear, Calm winds — Aggie Forecast Team

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to their growing season. Some argue that the sweet tooths of early domesticators led to the nutritionally deficient produce we have today. But that still doesn’t explain the iceberg lettuce.

The fact is that modern plant varieties are developed for the rigors of the industrial food system, not for taste or nutritional value. The tomatoes that Davisites see strewn along the edge of Highway 113 come summer taste

nothing like the heirlooms grown in the plots of community gardens.

Those roadside tomatoes were bred to withstand the beating of machine harvest and trucks that transport them by the ton. The same is true for other fruits and vegetables. The flavors of our grandparents’ era are increasingly shoved aside for produce ripened by ethylene gas and flown across continents.

If we are concerned with the nutritive value of our food, we find that there has been a steady decline in the quality of vegetables starting from the 1940s — a convenient starting point

as chemical fertilizers were developed in the same decade. A study done by a researcher at the University of Texas, Austin confirms that our obsession with increased yields has come at the sacrifice of nutritional substance.

In other words, our grocery carts and stomachs are filling up, but we aren’t getting a better value. Perhaps modern plant breeders should take some advice from my mom by adopting the ethic of “Quality, not quantity.”

To agree or disagree with ELLEN PEARSON’s mom, email erpearson@ ucdavis.edu.

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JANESH GUPTA ASUCD Senator Second-year computer science major 1. What are you best at cooking?

I’m pretty good at making boiled eggs.

I’m really bad in the kitchen overall, but I like boiled eggs a lot, and mac and cheese. I think I’ve perfected mac and cheese.

2. If you could make a magic potion to do anything, what would it do?

A magic potion for me to wake up in the morning at 8 a.m. because I’ve needed that these last couple of quarters. That’s probably it, to find the energy to wake up for 8 a.m.’s on this campus.

3. What movie would you like your life to resemble?

I wish it was like a Finding Forrester type of thing, where I don’t have everything figured out and then some-

one helps me get there, and I become their benefactor, kind of.

not okay, it’s not the end.” And it’s unknown who said it.

4. What’s your favorite quote?

I really like this quote that someone said at senate last week. Dr. Schubert from the Experimental College was presenting on why we should keep the Experimental College around and he said “Education, in its most profound sense, is personal growth.” I like a lot of quotes, I like a lot of things that people say, but I think I appreciate quotes that people come up with, something that you just hear off the top of someone’s head and you know that it’s like “wow.”

It’s pretty amazing. So that’s my temporary quote, for like the week or two.

5. What advice would you give the 13-year-old you?

To enjoy the little things a lot more. Because the little things in life are the most important and often they go unappreciated, but they make a big difference.

5. What advice would you give the 13-year-old you?

Don’t be scared, be vigilant. Embrace Davis your first quarter, because I didn’t really. And convince all your friends and all their parents to get their money out of the stock market because 2008 is going to be horrible for them.

Hindsight’s always 20/20, but the experiences ultimately will mold you into who you are, so I wouldn’t really give any advice, do what you do. I’m pretty satisfied that I’ll figure out what I need to when adversity comes at this point.

6. If money were no object, what would you spend your life doing?

I’d want to be like a social worker, and GUPTA on 4

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DANA SEVER Chairman of the Academic Affairs Commission, ASUCD Second-year political science major 1. What are you best at cooking?

I’m not a good cook at all. I would say I’m a better baker, does that count? I’m really good at making Muddy Buddies, that’s not really making anything but I’m very good at it. And cookies.

2. If you could make a magic potion to do anything, what would it do?

I think make people laugh, because I think a lot of times people are really uptight, so the magic potion would just make them laugh and make their day better.

3. What movie would you like your life to resemble?

I love Disney, preferably a Pixar movie. Ratatouille because in fall, I’m studying abroad, so I hope I can be like the little mouse that runs around Paris and has his adventures. So I guess I would like my life to be like Ratatouille come August this year.

4. What’s your favorite quote?

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s

6. If money were no object, what would you spend your life doing?

Travelling. Travelling and going to school.

If I could do both at the same time I would.

I would get every degree possible.

7. What is your most embarrassing moment?

I got in a bike accident last year with my roommate. And the guy who saw it happen rode by and laughed at me. So that was pretty embarrassing. And I hit my head really hard and he didn’t even ask if I was okay.

8. What’s the best place in Davis to take a picture?

The Arboretum, easily. I mean, everywhere in Davis is pretty, there’s a lot of good places, but the Arboretum for sure.

Where the big pond-lake is, or the gazebo, because the colors are always changing and it’s so pretty there.

9. What’s your favorite work of art?

I recently went to Paris and Italy, so I saw a lot of art. I love all Degas pieces because I dance and he does artwork of ballerinas. So I would say any Degas dancer piece. n

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A bulk of research can be started by meeting with a librarian, but after that, students may need to work independently using the University’s electronic resources.

To begin, students should log in to the VPN with their kerberos ID at vpn. lib.ucdavis.edu/.

Here, there are several notable options: Harvest UC Davis Catalog, Melvyl UC Catalog, Electronic Databases A-Z and Subject Guides.

Harvest Catalog — The most efficient way to begin is with the smallest resource. Harvest contains all the resources, physical and electronic, acquired by UC Davis. Nearly anything found within this catalog can be

L I B RA R I A N : should immediately begin their research assignments by meeting with a librarian for a “reference interview.”

For best results, a student should have a general idea of where their research is heading before meeting. With this, the librarian can help estimate the amount of time and effort needed to reach the as-

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Melvyl UC Catalog — If Harvest does not contain what a student needs, they should then expand their search. Melvyl contains libraries worldwide and the University of California libraries. From here, students can toggle the search filter to look only within the UC libraries. The materials found in this catalog may need to be requested by UC Davis, so don’t use this the day before your assignment is due!

If a students still cannot find what they are looking for, or simply wish to expand their search radius, they can filter the Melvyl search to include “libraries worldwide.”

UC Davis can also

request materials from many of these other libraries.

Electronic Databases A-Z — To expand further, there are also the Electronic Databases. Searching them can be daunting, as there are over 800 to choose from. One way to navigate and discover databases is by using the Subject Guide.

Subject Guide — Clicking the Subject Guide link, students will be presented with a list of academic subjects.

After selecting one, the page will show the Librarian Subject Specialist and a list of Subject Specific Databases.

If the databases provided fail to help, students are encouraged to contact the specialist.

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This interview does not need to be scheduled--it can be initiated merely by meeting with a librarian at the reference desk of Shields Library’s second floor.

Librarians can also help students find material sufficient for their instructor’s standards.

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For a different approach, plenty of academic articles can be found through savvy Google techniques.

First, execute a simple Google search for your subject. Then click on the gear icon just to the right, and click Advanced Search.

Scroll down to the box labeled “site or domain” and type in .edu. Next click the drop down for ‘file type’ and select .pdf. PDF files are typically the standard for professional papers.

Then initiate your search. If the search results exceed the millions, students should try adding another search term.

Otherwise, results in the ten thousands and below should be narrow enough to start exploring.

At this point, a bit of academic intuition may be needed, but there are some guidelines to help with that.

After selecting a search result, ensure that the document is up to your assignment’s standards — for example, theses and dissertations are the most reliable. The rigorous format of these documents means

information will be found in the same places.

One way to start, then, is by scanning the table of contents; the second chapter of a thesis or dissertation will usually show the main points of the article. If it’s worth investigating further, take note of the paper’s author and his or her institution.

Additional sources can be found by plugging these names into a new Google search. Additionally, combing through the Acknowledgments section can yield names to be used for the same purpose.

Most articles of this nature will also devote a chapter or section near the end entitled something like ‘Future Research’ or ‘Questions Raised.’ This section can fall under many labels and may be tricky to find. Regardless of its name, it will be where the author points out related arguments not covered by his or her article. This section can be useful for formulating an original argument.

While scanning the article, take note of the specialized

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These terms are typically ultra-specific and shared only by researchers of the same field; they’re great for more Google searches.

If there’s trouble with the above methods, the advanced Google search can be modified. For instance, try changing the filetype filter to something other than .pdf. Sometimes Powerpoint presentations, .ppt, can provide relevant information if searched under credible domains.

As for the domains, .gov and .org are also good choices next to .edu. .org’s are sometimes used by bloggers and less-credible writers, but they can lead to useful information if used with caution. In general, .com’s should be avoided.

Finally, databases may sometimes bar access to a document with an access fee. If this happens, try a Google search for the title of the document or authors involved.

In some cases, the very same documents are hosted for free on other websites.

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In this edition of Campus Chic, our muse of the week, fourth-year art studio major, Timayo Williams, is all about finding fashion on a dime while stepping out of her comfort zone and experimenting with bigger, bolder and newer things in her wardrobe.

Tight on cash? No problem! What better way to get your fashion fix while saving a little money than to shop at one of Williams’ favorite stores, Target? Following in the footsteps of NYC-based designer, Phillip Lim, Peter Pilotto has also created a collection for Target for the spring/summer 2014 season.This long-awaited collaboration debuts Feb. 9 in select stores, Target.com and globally at Net-A-Porter.com. Prices range from as little as $14.99 to $79.99.

James’ Notes: After reviewing all the pieces of the collection, I have to say that I see a lot of Pilotto’s design aesthetic being watered down in some way for the consumerist market and I understand why that’s necessary; however, I personally prefer the softer palette and somewhat ethereal and effortless quality of certain pieces of his runway spring/summer 2014 ready-to-wear collection because it feels and reads more “couture” to me. There still exists some bold neons and interesting geometric patterns in the couture, but it’s done in a more impractical and artistic technique than in a way that’s fit for the average American consumer. That said, I still love the Peter Pilotto for Target collection and I thought some pieces like the blue and black crop top, the blue shorts and the black and yellow maxi were done well; but it doesn’t completely meet my expectations, especially when it pales in comparison to its runway opposite.

1. If you could describe your personal style in three words, what would they be?

Comfortable, cute and quirky.

2. Who or what is your style icon?

I definitely ask my brother for his opinion. My mom tells me to dress more feminine all the time so I kind of just mix [the two] together.

3. What are your three must-have items in your wardrobe?

My necklace, fake glasses and headbands/bandanas.

4. What is your favorite accessory and why?

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On Jan. 25, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) will play at the Mondavi Center. Rooted in London, England, the RPO has been touring the world since 1987, earning international critical acclaim. They will be performing popular Beethoven works, including his famous Symphony No. 5.

This leg of the tour is set to display a unique attribute: the chair violinist will conduct the orchestra rather than the head conductor. Pinchas Zukerman, the lead violinist, will be in charge of running the full concert all while performing a large chunk of the repertoire.

This rare happening (dual soloist conductor) has historical meaning behind it, and the RPO plans to honor its origins.

“The role of a conductor wasn’t really cemented until after Beethoven’s time,” said third-year music and political sci-

ence double major Alex Stepans. “Before that if you had a concerto, you’d have a soloist conduct. The concertmaster used to conduct and that would be the violinist.”

The set list includes Beethoven’s Overture to “Prometheus,” Op. 43, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 and Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67.

Each work is considered a well-known classic, familiar and accessible to those without a musical background.

Overture to “Prometheus” is the opening to Beethoven’s full-length ballet, The Creatures of Prometheus. This piece is often selected to be played as the introduction to orchestral concerts and was thus chosen by the RPO as its opening act.

Violin Concerto in D Major will feature Pinchas Zukerman on the violin.

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Folk musician Grammer rose to acclaim through her musical partnership with Dave Carter as their duo project Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer. Together, they released three internationally-celebrated albums from 1998 to 2001. Since 2002, Grammer has continued making music as a solo artist and is praised for her alto voice, crisp violin and storytelling in her lyrics. Her most recent album Little Blue Egg was the number one most-played album on Folk Radio in 2012.

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PA U L S A N C H E Z arts@theaggie.org Within the City of Davis and its many live music and performing arts acts, a distinctly personal form of art embeds itself in the lives of UC Davis students and residents alike.

Tattoo art, a nearly permanent form of body modification, is both rooted in tradition and currently benefiting from advances in the industry’s technology and extravagant media exposure.With several options to choose from, UC Davis students have flocked to tattoo shops in Davis as they begin to add visual representations of their values, passions, interests and life histories to their bodies.

Considering age and average income, many UC Davis students are newcomers to acquiring tattoos and understanding the culture of tattoo

art. Yet, according to first-year managerial economics major Kawaun Wade, this time in a Davis student’s life can be especially suited for getting “inked,” as they experience new, life-altering events and transform their values and beliefs.

“In Davis, I see that there are a lot of new beginners with tattoos … I got the portrait of my grandfather in the summer, and [heaven’s gates] three weeks ago,” Wade said. “We [students] are coming together to show our personal representation of tattoo culture.”

For Wade, tattoos express a permanent representation of his family and his spiritual beliefs, and he urges Davis students considering getting a tattoo to think about whether they wholeheartedly want the tattoo permanently inked on their body.

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Once a member of the award-winning band Old Blind Dogs, Malcolm is now solo singing both traditional Scottish songs and his own, which are artfully crafted. His unique style feels authentic, yet modern and accessible, and has been described as “one of the finest singers in Scotland in any style.”

ART/GA L L E RY ART IST TALK WI TH LESLI E DEP R ATT JAN . 24 , 7 TO 8 P. M. , FREE P E N C E G ALLERY, 212 D ST.

DePratt’s exhibition at the Pence Gallery titled Mad Housewives features narratives of women doing household activities while dressed in various guises. The paintings are rendered in a satirical and humorous fashion, touching upon the details that serve as metaphors for women’s roles in the world. The artist herself will share insights on her large scale paintings at the artist talk.

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This 1966 Broadway hit is set in a nightclub in Berlin after the devastating effects of World War I and the rise of the Third Reich. Davis Musical Theater Company takes this Broadway classic to exciting heights with musical numbers such as “It Couldnt Please Me More,” “Wilkommen,” “Cabaret,” “Don’t Tell Mama” and “Two Ladies.”

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I don't enjoy criticizing Nintendo. Some of my fondest childhood memories include waking up early on weekend mornings so my brother and I could play games on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). In many ways, I love video games because of Nintendo. But that company of 15+ years ago just isn't the same anymore.

The reason I address this topic is because Nintendo recently announced a huge shift in economic projections for the fiscal year. More specifically, it is now expecting a $250 million loss, and sales forecasts for the Wii U have dropped from nine million to 2.8 million.

This news was followed by a revealing quote by Nintendo President Satoru Iwata.

“We are thinking about a new business structure,” Iwata said. “Given the expansion of smart devices, we are naturally studying how smart devices can be used to grow the gameplayer business. It’s not as simple as enabling Mario to move on a smartphone.”

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The Yolo County Film Society will be screening the 1993 classic American comedy Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray as the egocentric TV weather man who finds himself in a timeloop, living the same day over and over again.

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Artists will be working for 24 hours to present their work at midnight.

Guests are invited to watch the artists at work during the day, with musical accompaniment by Miss Lonely Hearts in the evening.

S P I R I T O F U G A N DA H I G H L I G H TS C U LT U R E , C O N F L I C T Ensemble features young African musicians JOHN KESLER arts@theaggie.org The Spirit of Uganda, a musical production by the nonprofit group Empower African Children, will come to the Mondavi Center on Jan. 26.

The production, which has been touring since 2007, features an ensemble of Ugandan students performing both traditional African songs along with original material inspired by Ugandan culture.

Their aim is to share the culture of East Africa with international audiences.

Peter Kasule, who has been the artistic director as well as a performer for Spirit of Uganda since its inception, said that his

creative process was to relate the culture of Uganda through music and dance.

“I had two main ideas,” Kasule said.“The first idea was, ‘How do we showcase African culture through music and choreography?’ The second idea was, ‘How do we have our students preserve their culture?’”

Joining the ensemble for this tour is Rachel Magoola, who was simultaneously a teacher and a member of the band Afrigo. “[Magoola] has been teaching since 1989,” Kasule said. “She performs every [weekend] while also serving as the director of a school. We wanted to show a leading example of a musician who also U G A N DA O N PAG E 9

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in which Nintendo exists in a vacuum, ignoring the successes of its competitors. Other things Nintendo could focus on: better digital distribution, more third-party support or a stronger emphasis on the 3DS. That last one in particular strikes me as perhaps the best possible solution at this

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point. If someone were to ask me what Nintendo’s premiere platform is at the moment, I would not say the Wii U. My answer would be the 3DS, without hesitation. The key to the handheld’s success: games. I can’t envision myself purchasing a Wii U anytime soon because there aren’t many games that interest me, but I had no reservations about buying a 3DS late last year.

The 3DS does have the benefit of time — it came out in early 2011 while the Wii U was

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ponds for larval surveys, but found no sign of Western Toad larvae.

“Several years after [the tunnel was built], we saw the Western Toad fall below previous levels,” McNerney said.

Though the cause of decline in the species has not been explicitly determined, a vast portion of hibernation habitat has been removed due to land conversion by Second Street.

In spite of the fact that the species population has faltered, McNerney said he believes that the community has kept the “spirit of the toads’” alive.

“The city wanted to cater to toads and there was just a lot of hope that they would find their way,” McNerney said.

On the eastern terminus of the tunnel by the South Davis post office, a little toad village has been set up in honor of the creatures.

Camera footage of the tunnel from “The Daily Show” did not reveal any signs of toads or frogs hopping through.

During the segment, correspondent Stephen Colbert even interviewed Partansky and Davis Enterprise columnist, Bob Dunning, about the significance of the tunnel.

“I called her [Partansky] ‘Julie from Mars’ in my column, but eventually we became friends,” Dunning said.

Along with her love of toads and frogs and her strong proposal for the tunnel, Partansky brought about awareness of the city’s potholes to the general public.

She argued that the plan to pave the alleyways between downtown Davis homes may possibly “disturb or destroy historic artifacts” due to the fact that the alleyways were built with the original neighborhoods.

Initially, her words were misunderstood in an interview, causing Davis to be considered a strange place where potholes are categorized as endangered species. Hence, the “historic potholes” myth that ensued for years to come.

“Julie was not on the council at that point or involved in politics. Few people knew about her,” Dunning said. “But it shot her like a rocket into the public sphere and the next thing you know, she’s running for City Council — and winning.The second time she ran she got the most votes of anyone and became mayor.”

Though many groundbreaking ideas that received national attention were attributed to Partansky and City Council, innovative research and discoveries also occurred on campus.

Through his invention of the “square tomato” in the 1960s, Gordie “Jack” Hanna, professor of agronomy, is thought to have

released in late 2012. But it doesn’t seem like there’s much on the horizon for the Wii U, and one big game probably won’t make a difference. In fact, we have proof — Super Mario 3D World came out last November, but it did not help the Wii U recover.

Meanwhile, the 3DS continues to sell in the U.S. and Japan, making it the key source of income for Nintendo. That doesn’t mean the company should completely abandon the Wii U; it should just put more of its resources into

revolutionized agriculture.

Roger Chetelat, tomato geneticist and director of C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, believes the name “square tomato” is a bit of a misnomer in that it is more blocky than square, though he does agree that the particular tomato was extremely vital at the time.

“Essentially the industry would have disappeared if not for the tomato,” Chetelat said.

As the Bracero Program that contracted laborers from Mexico to the U.S. slowly came to a halt, the drastic decrease in the number of workers severely impacted the tomato industry.

In anticipation of the industry’s eventual collapse, Hanna began to breed firmer tomatoes that could withstand machine harvesting.

Using a 14-inch drop test to rate the firmness of the tomato, Hanna eventually succeeded in breeding the specific tomato that could resist damage. Now, all that was needed was some kind of machine that could both effectively and efficiently harvest them.

So Hanna collaborated with UC Davis agricultural engineer, Coby Lorenzen, who invented a mechanical harvester that could pick rows upon rows of tomatoes.

Nowadays, loads of the “square tomato” are transported to local grading stations and canneries where they are concentrated into pastes, sauces and juices.

Not too far from where Hanna conducted his research lies Baggins End, or The Domes, which is currently home to 26 students.

Established in 1972, the cooperative living community of 14 polyurethane-insulated fiberglass domes continues to promote sustainability, organic agriculture and environmental education.

Evangeline Zhang, a third-year double major in managerial economics and psychology, discovered The Domes on her way to the Student Farm during her first year.

Intrigued by the unique structures, she researched The Domes and eventually made a living contract.

“I started coming to the community dinner and really enjoyed the food-sharing and free-talk culture,” Zhang said.“I felt like people in The Domes were more comfortable with spontaneous interaction and building relationships, compared to other housing or campus environments in which people don’t really hang out with strangers much unless there is a reason.”

In the summer of 2011, Student Housing was in the process of bulldozing The Domes.

In response to the potential threat of removal, a student-led coalition created the Save the Domes campaign.

The campaign formulated a five-year plan that consists of

the 3DS. For example, a new Metroid title on the 3DS would be fantastic. Maybe that’s just wishful thinking ... Super Metroid is my favorite game of all time after all.

But even if the 3DS isn’t the biggest key to success, the fact remains that Nintendo cannot remain in stasis.The company faces an identity crisis, and the next year or two will be huge in determining its fate. Part of me remains skeptical as to whether Nintendo can recover, but I’ll certainly be rooting for them. n

affordable ways to restore The Domes and ensure its availability for future students.

Students like Zhang argued that throughout 40 years, many generations of students participated in the building of a community that has contributed to the rich history of the University.

“The Domes have been an abundant resource of inspiration and warmth for me,” Zhang said.

The campaign was successful in stopping the demolition from occurring and fortunately, students can continue to call Baggins End their home.

Around the same time that The Domes were built, the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory was developed as a vast plant collection which currently holds over 3,000 different species.

One of the most popular plants at the conservatory, the titan arum or corpse flower, can grow to massive heights of nearly 10 feet, and has become another typical Davis landmark.

Known for its strong, rotting odor, the first corpse flower to bloom on campus in 2003 was named Ted the Titan after Chancellor Ted Hullar. According to curator Ernesto Sandoval, the flower received the name because some considered Hullar to be “a stinky chancellor.”

“They are relatively rare in the wild and around the world, but with all the fascination and hype built up about them over the last 20 years, a fair number of botanical collections with tropical conditions in the U.S. have them,” Sandoval said.

After receiving a handful of corpse flower seeds as a donation and discovering the potential of the plant in 1995, the conservatory provided other botanical gardens with the same batch of seeds.

“As tropical plants that develop an underground storage stem known as a corm, these plants pretty much take care of themselves if given tropical temperatures and humidity and sufficient watering,” Sandoval said.“For something so strange, you’d think they take a lot of specialized care but the truth is they are large plants and once they germinate from the thumb-sized seed, you really have to mess up the environmental parameters to hurt them.”

Soon enough the donated corpse flower seeds from the conservatory appeared all over the state of California as they bloomed at Cal State Fullerton, The Huntington Art Galleries and Botanical Gardens, Chico State, UC Berkeley and a high school in Sacramento.

Though it may not seem inherently apparent, Davis is filled with hidden gems that continue to preserve the quirkiness of the city. Looking beyond the rows of bikes, there just may be another uncommon marvel. n

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is the piece in which the audience will get to see Zukerman both perform solo and conduct the orchestra.

Phil Daley, publicity coordinator at the UC Davis Music Department, is most excited to see the concerto performed without their usual conductor.

“The orchestra has of course played the violin concerto multiple times,” Daley said. “I

think that’s one of the cool things about orchestras like this — they’ve played classics like this a thousand times so they don’t really have to worry about playing the right notes since they already know the notes. It’s about making great music and that’s what makes it really special.”

The last piece, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, is perhaps the most famous and influential song in classical music history. The beginning measures of the song have been featured in multiple advertisements, film and musical remixes. Though most people know the begin-

ning measures by heart, few have listened to all four movements of the work all the way through.

“The big draw is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, with its famous ‘da-da-da-DUH’ intro,” said Rob Tocalino, director of marketing at the Mondavi Center. “It’s one of the most enduring and popular pieces of classical music, but surprisingly, this will be the first time it will be performed as part of the Mondavi Center’s Orchestra Series.”

Another reason many people are planning to attend the concert besides the familiarity

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I guess my waist beads. I wear them all the time so I’m comfortable with them. I like that it’s a secret; it’s like a tattoo you hide under your shirt that no one knows about. It’s cute when you’re wearing a bathing suit too. I got them from Ghana, Africa with my mom. She always thought it was a good idea to incorporate little things that remind her of home so I kind of just appropriated that idea and wore them from then on. I’ve worn [waist beads] for about seven years now.

lives as a teacher.”

Brian Odong, who has performed in Spirit of Uganda since its inception, has enjoyed touring with the ensemble as it has exposed him to various cultures.

“I get to do a cultural exchange,” Odong said. “I get to experience different cultures, and the whole thing has been very interactive and educational.”

Kasule said that the experience is not without its challenges.

“Every year you have to be current, as you have new materials and new cast members who may or may not have travelled,” Kasule said. “Still, the students love what they are doing.”

Kasule said that his personal expe-

5. Where do you love to shop and why?

Anywhere cheap is good! I steal clothes from my brother’s closet and mom’s closet.Target’s good … H&M for little things. Actually this shirt [that I’m wearing] is from Black Scale, which is where my brother works.They sell a lot of dark, street and urban clothing.

6.What is your most treasured item in your wardrobe?

My necklace. My mom is one of my best friends and it’s another thing that my mom and I decided to get together.

I’ve worn it for years and even my friends think it’s weird when I switch out my necklace once in a while. It’s a fertility doll symbol and it’s just another thing that symbolizes home and Africa.

7. How has your style changed since high school?

In high school, I just wore jeans and a T-shirt and sometimes a jersey that my friend lent to me. I never liked showing my figure when I was younger and I was very plain. Now, this year, I’m trying to be more feminine and wear things that I want to wear because I know Davis is just about navy UCD shirts and sweats, you know what I mean? I see girls wearing heels and I’m like, “Good for you!” I used to think it was kind of unnecessary to wear heels class-to-class because that’s really uncomfortable, but if you want to look cute that day, go ahead and do it.

If I want to be a little gangster today, I’ll just wear my black bandana, black shirt and black pants and, the next day, if I want to be really girly, I’ll wear my lace headband and my long, floral dress.

8. What does fashion mean to you?

Fashion is something that makes you feel confident or comfortable that day, or probably even happy. A friend once told me that, if you’re depressed, you should just wear something really nice and go out by yourself or with a friend. It definitely puts you out of the mood you’re in in some way. I wore a blue wig to school once!

9. What final tips can you give to our fashion-forward readers?

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get this tattoo, make sure this is something you’re ready to live with.

Make sure it’s relevant to your life and who you are as a person. Just basically make sure you’re ready [for it to] represent you for the rest of your life,” Wade said.

From the perspective of tattoo artist Carlo Rossi at Sacred Tiger Tattoo in downtown Davis, tattoo culture in Davis is highlighted by the creativity and novelty of the students and residents who get the tattoos. Rossi said that he has noticed the uniqueness and resoluteness of the tattoo requests in Davis to be unlike anywhere else he has tattooed, which ranges from Santa Cruz to Fort Bragg.

“A lot of people in Davis come up with really good ideas,” Rossi said. “As far as a scene for tattoos, it’s sporadic. There are good ideas — it seems like [they have] more unique requests for art that they want on a specific part of their body more than anywhere else I’ve been.”

According to Rossi, who has been tattooing for 14 years, tradition in tattoo culture can be preserved as long as there are artists who can ex-

of Beethoven is because the RPO is a nonAmerican group. Orchestras from different countries often use different techniques and produce unique sounds to their own area.

Since they are from afar, it’s a once in a lifetime experience to get to hear the RPO play.

“It’s a one-of-a-kind experience to see an orchestra from a different country perform,” Daley said. “The RPO is really meant to be heard and enjoyed live and they’re amazing.”

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rience with the show has been great.

“I’ve also been a performer for about 20 years, which is a journey that has been going on for a while,” Kasule said. “I’m always looking forward to meeting new audiences and showcasing this kind of work.”

The genesis of Spirit of Uganda was in the early 1990s, when Alexis Hefley, who would later start Empower African Children in 2006, met a nun who had taught children how to sing and dance.

“I decided that the children would benefit from an audience that could see them perform,” Hefley said.

This led to a touring group that began in 1994, which stopped in schools and churches. In 1998, Hefley came into contact with a booking agent who got the touring group on to professional stages.

“The theater provides a platform to

raise awareness about AIDS but also about how talented young people can be when provided with the resources,” Hefley said.

In addition, to sponsoring Spirit of Uganda, which Hefley and Odong described as the organization’s public face, Empowering African Children also provides scholarships and education to orphans in Africa.

Odong pointed out the duality of what Spirit of Uganda aims to share with the world.

“Through the dance and music, we raise awareness of HIV, AIDS, orphans and those who have been affected by war in Uganda,” Odong said. “We have experienced this, but we also tell the world that there is another side to us besides what affects us.” n

cel at multiple mediums of art.

“The [tattoo artists] that get major credit, to me, are the ones that have a wide selection of mediums to use from,” Rossi said. “Those are the guys that get respect and truly excel at tattooing. The veterans in the tattoo industry kind of have a duty to keep the tattoo world alive. It’s going towards a positive direction — we veterans definitely can pave the way for others who are worthy to the industry.”

Tattoo artist Chris Yoakum of Urban Body Tattoo and Piercing criticized the exorbitant glamor and intrigue that has been created around the tattoo industry as a result of the addition of tattoo-themed shows to the reality television market.

“Honestly, I feel that tattoo artists get too much respect from the public,” Yoakum said. “The wave of TV shows have glamorized the industry and portray it in a way that is not entirely accurate. They [care] more about the drama that makes an interesting TV show than showcasing good artists and their work,” Yoakum said.

Yoakum, who developed his interest in tattooing through acrylic painting, is excited about tattoo art’s future because of recent developments in ink and cartridge technology.

“The companies that are making ink are constantly getting better and better which makes the ink easier to work with, the colors more vibrant and less susceptible to wear,” Yoakum said.

In addition to his preexisting interest in acrylic painting, Yoakum said traditional Japanese art served as his artistic influence when first becoming a tattoo artist.

“I have a special place in my heart for traditional Japanese work, it always looks good, it’s classic and it’s an art form that they have been working with and perfecting for about as long as modern tattooing has been around. The Japanese really are to thank for where tattooing is today,” Yoakum said.

Tattoo art, although ostensibly different than other mediums of art, relies equally on tradition and creativity for the preservation and development of the medium. Just as Davis students and residents have embraced the thriving arts and music scenes, so they have to the needle and ink.

“Within Davis, [tattoo art] has been accepted,” Rossi said. “Times have changed for tattooing; it’s evolved to a good place and I think Davis is included [in that culture] as well.” n

To learn more, visit empowerafricanchildren.org or spiritofuganda.org.

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In December 2013, representatives from the Experimental College (EC) went to ASUCD in a state of crisis.

The EC has been losing money every year for the past eight years, and by winter 2013, their reserves had been completely depleted.Thus, ASUCD had no choice but to shut it down.

Now, the EC is working with ASUCD in order to fix the problems that led to its downfall. In the Jan. 16 senate meeting, a bill passed creating a task force composed of EC representatives and two ASUCD senators.The goal of this task force will be to fix the marketing and accessibility issues that are widely believed to be at the heart of the problem, along with helping the EC get onto more stable footing for the future.

We are very hopeful about the EC’s return, which may be as early as Spring 2014. However, we have some

suggestions.

First and foremost: live up to your name. Classes like Jiu-Jitsu and line dancing may be cool, but they are far from “experimental.” The EC needs to make drastic changes to its curriculum in order to survive. We want to see more classes about subjects that we can’t take in school or that our parents never thought to teach us.

How about offering some of these: How to Train Your Dragon, Cat or Other Mythical Creature. Extreme Couponing. Bartending. Legalese: Know Your Rights. DIY: From Clothes to Crafts. Zombie Apocalypse and Other Survival Situations.

And what we hope would be the most popular class: How to Bike.

Second, avoid offering classes that we can take elsewhere.The ARC offers a wide variety of martial arts and dance classes, our campus offers classes

in many languages and we can learn yoga from YouTube videos if we really want. Ultimately, having those classes is exhausting the apparently rather limited resources that the EC has to offer.

Finally, make sure your new marketing campaign targets its audience.

We understand that the suspension stopped the ball just as it was about to get rolling, but this is the perfect opportunity to make sure it was rolling in the right direction. Make T-shirts that say, “College is a time to experiment.” Expand your web presence.

Do a demonstration day on the Quad where students can showcase what they have learned.

We fully support the comeback of the EC and we hope it comes back strong. However, we want to caution that if it resumes business as usual when it returns, we foresee the same problems cropping up in the future.

Oi Gringo!

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LATIN AMERICANISMS with JORGE JUAREZ

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ne of the more intriguing encounters I’ve had the pleasure to simultaneously bear witness to and partake in was a tequila-fuelled kerfuffle between a British bartender, a New York tourist and yours truly.The scene was a Mexico City bar in the Condesa neighborhood — a part of town known for its neo-bohemian ritz but yet not entirely devoid of the stabbiness that characterizes after-hours drinking establishments in the city — a few days before the ringing in of the

He first admits to being somewhat pedo (Mexican slang for shitfaced, which oddly enough is also used to describe the act of passing gas)...

New Year.

The bartender — whom I knew from prior visits — was an expat from London who freely and rather frequently expressed his profound love for his newly adopted homeland — a real patriot. On previous occasions we had made the sort of small talk you would expect from two strangers who happen to share the grand burden of the Queen’s English — he was an Arsenal supporter; I gave him grief for their recent run of bad form, real basic shit.

This time around was different. It might have been the fact that he was visibly intoxicated (part of Mexico’s bar-scene charm rests on the fact that the person behind the counter often joins in on the fun), or that he was simply sharing in the general feeling of national malcontent in a country that for all intents and purposes had gone through a really shitty 2012.

Anyhow, fast forward, a few drinks in — I’m standing outside with a friend smoking a cigarette, when we hear a booming voice yell out “I’m an American!” followed by some British niceties and the sound of a chair falling over.

Intrigued, and somewhat worried that our non-smoking friend — who had chosen to stay behind — had fallen victim to the flying chair, we hurried back into the bar whereupon I was immediately called over by the friendly British bartender.“Who, me?”

He pours me a drink (top-rate bartender I tell you) and recounts the events leading up to the fracas. He first admits to being somewhat pedo (Mexican slang for shitfaced, which oddly enough is also used to describe the act of passing gas), blames the throwing of the chair on this fact — but claims that the intended target (the New Yorker) fully deserved it. His sin? “He called himself an American!”

The bastard.

“Doesn’t he know America is a continent? Mexico is America, Argentina is America.The nutter doesn’t understand reason so I threw a chair at him.”

Interesting.

The New Yorker, who had begun to stumble out of the bar — resolved to file a criminal report with the local authorities the next morning, presumably after curing his certain hangover — waved one final goodbye and disappeared amid chants of U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A.! from sarcastic bar patrons. Our hero responded in kind:“Oi Gringo!

Piss off!”

While I continued ‘listening’ to his increasingly erratic story (at this point as a potential criminal witness), did my best to play the part of cultural counsel to a slightly overzealous Brit and secretly wished that bars back in the States could be half as fun as this, I got to thinking about what the term American meant.

Was he wrong to be angry?

Sure the chair throwing was a bit much, and this whole situation might have been avoided were it not for tequila, but Americans — er, United Statesians (it’s got a ring to it, right?) — do have a reputation for arrogance abroad which might certainly account for the furniture violence witnessed that night.

More to the point, America would seem to hold a much more nuanced meaning than we are typically aware of as residents of the U.S. People in the rest of the continent don’t normally envision the Statue of Liberty when a reference to America is made. They may in fact resent the implication that Americans are a people confined to the Northern sector of the continent.

The fact that a British bartender would feel the need to stand up for the use of proper demonyms should give you pause about what you choose to call yourself the next time you find yourself abroad in America.

If you would like to hear more crazy bar stories or recount your personal traumas with furniture violence you can reach JORGE JUAREZ at jnjuarez@ucdavis.edu

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ow that I’ve been at UC Davis for over a year, I’ve noted some of the similarities between the University and my California Community College (CCC). Needless to say, I was fairly surprised to find any resemblances after making — what felt like — such a large-scale change.

I first discovered this feeling of familiarity after I transferred to UC Davis and started registering for classes. After I had completed all my GEs, all I had left to finish were classes for my major and minor.

I had essentially been my own academic counselor and dean all through community college, and nothing has really changed since I’ve transfered to UCD. Flashback to my last few semesters at community college: I was slightly more than compulsive when it came to registration, class requirements and degrees.

I wanted to ensure that I hadn’t missed anything and could make a sweet and simple transition out.

So, I had become all too familiar with the Associate Degree requirements and subsequent class requirements. Navigating through UC Davis’ Majors & Minors page felt like déjà vu.

I had essentially been my own academic counselor and dean all through community college, and nothing has really changed since I’ve transferred to UC Davis.

By the time I’d even made an appointment with my Letters & Science counselor, I already knew what she’d say — because I’d spent hours figuring it out on my own.

Regardless, it’s nice to know I don’t have to.

I discovered this feeling of familiarity again as I purchased books for my first quarter of classes here. There’s nothing quite like overpaying for required materials that makes you appreciate the opportunity of education.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover this feeling yet again during office hours.

Naïve I may be, but before I transferred here, I had this grandiose idea of a UC education in my mind. Classes filled to the brim, hundreds of desks com-

pressed in enormous lecture halls, lecture slides popping up from miles away.

I assumed that transferring to a school filled with over 30,000 students meant transferring to a school where I’d get lost.

I was shocked to walk into my first English class to find 40 students sitting comfortably in desks (well, as comfortably as you can sit in the desks in Olson Hall).

More so, I was absolutely ecstatic when I attended my first office hours session.

I utilized office hours a lot during my time at community college. With a 16 week semester, you’re bound to miss a class or two, or need additional help.

With a 10 week quarter, I’ve become a regular during professors’ office hours.

I appreciate the one-on-one time and the chance to ask additional questions without eating up class time.

Additionally, I was slightly taken aback by how many students offered after-class help or invited me to a study group.

Recall my naïve, grandiose picture of UC Davis.

At community college, we often worked together in groups — not necessarily for the sake of supplementing our education, though. CCCs love to assign group projects as a means of teaching students how to “work with others” — and minimize teachers’ workload.

And as you near the end of your general education at a CCC, you’ll start to recognize the same people over and over again in your classes, or meet new people who are repeating a class — and have a heads up on the final.

So, we’d get together to study during our breaks before class, before finals week, or try to squeeze in some time between multiple jobs and internships.

It wasn’t exactly pleasant, but it got the job done.

It’s an incredibly wonderful sight to see UC Davis students practicing the same tactics, but at the benefit of education not convenience of schedule.

Overall, it’s a familiar sight.

Students pursuing education as a means of actualizing and appreciating opportunity while building lifelong relationships and skills. What more could I ask for?

(Special shoutout to Peter J. Shields.

PJS: Pretty Joyful Studybud.)

To add to this list of similarities, email SARAH MARSHALL at smmarshall@ ucdavis.edu.You can also check out Conrad’s Corner on YouTube to hear Sarah’s KDVS interview on the CCCs from last week.

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Pharcyde Intellect

Eat by Color

LITERARY LESSONS with EREN KAVVAS

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE with ELLEN PEARSON

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here was a point in time when I had a crush on someone who listened to Pharcyde. Naturally, this meant that I created a Pharcyde Pandora station and listened to it constantly. Luckily, Pharcyde is truly a great hip-hop group with music that I ended up enjoying, so this acquisition of tastes was not completely pointless. (This was unlike the time I got into marathon running — much, much less enjoyable without the propulsion of a crush.You go runners, but I’ll be waiting at the finish line with some Chinese food).

In any case, this Pharcyde crush

Reading a book is kind of a commitment. Unless you are one of those who can easily tap out of a book without reading the end. turned out in the end to be not that awesome of a person after all. But, as literary clichés go, “all’s well that ends well,” and at least I learned about the song, “Passin’ Me By.” Moreover, as literary clichés should go, “it doesn’t matter why you accomplished something, you still did it.” This is much like attempting to acquiesce the tastes of someone you think is spectacular to (in some sort of strange sci-fi way) absorb their awesomeness.

Reading a book is kind of a commitment. Unless you are one of those who can easily tap out of a book without reading the end (I’m looking at you, people who fall asleep during a movie and don’t worry about the plot twist), classic literature can take a busy person about a month to finish. Even if some guy only read Bronte because he wanted to impress the cute person who he saw reading it on the bus one time, he still read it. That’s what matters. Time and effort was put into the endeavor of reading a book and the work ethic, as superficial in motivation as it may have been, led the reader on a pretty thoughtprovoking intellectual journey.

As I paraphrase the important literary figure Tina Fey, in her novel approach to life as a woman living in patriarchy, “Bossypants,” ‘exist-ith always people more awesome than thou,

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but one must emulate such persons to be a better human oneself.’

Remember that one time you were like, “Yeah. I think that the girl who complimented my shoes likes ___. I’m now going to take a class in ____ to impress her.” If you took that class, you get an award. It may not be an official award, but you can think about it as a metaphysical award for commitment to self-improvement.

People need to be less concerned about why someone is reading something, and just be happy that people are reading anything. Literature teaches humans about things that many of our college brains cannot yet comprehend: true love, destitute existence, religious awakenings, fantastical excess or absolute sorrow. Anyone who reads should be congratulated for their efforts. The same goes for the girl who learned 10 words in German to impress the cute exchange student, or the guy who spent three hours on the internet learning about the history of staplers because an adorable girl working at his favorite coffee shop was wearing an ironic shirt that said, “I love staplers.”

My friends, let us not judge people who only read important classic books of literature to seem cool to others.

Although I have not taken a statistically significant sample, I would bet that the amount of books that these supposedly “fake” intellectuals have read is slightly more than those “real” intellectuals who are giving them flak. The same goes for people who pass judgment on those who only watch Sundance films to discuss them at Mishka’s, or for those people who only are vegan so they can announce it at dinner parties. When people are doing good things, it seems like a lot of meaningless effort to chastise them, and a lot more productive use of time to be all, “Bro… cool.”

Now, I will go and turn on my favorite Pandora station, Pharcyde of course, work on getting through Absalom, Absalom and contemplate life.

When I’m old, I’ll be a scholar on many subjects. Moreover, hopefully I’ll still remember the things I learned even if I don’t remember the people for whom I learned them.

To revel in 90’s hip-hop with EREN KAVVAS, you should email her at ebkavvas@ucdavis.edu.

ot all vegetables are created equally. We are encouraged to eat five servings of fruit and vegetables daily, which seems pretty ambitious. As an overloaded, stressedout college student, feeding myself three meals a day is a feat in itself. What if I told you, though, that eating one serving of certain vegetables would give you the same amount of nutrients of five servings of another?

Such is the case with spinach and iceberg lettuce. It is surprising how popular iceberg lettuce is considering how few redeeming qualities it

I don’t want to embarrass russet potatoes, the most widely used potato in the U.S., but I will. has. Save for crunchiness, iceberg lettuce is neither tasty nor nutritional. One serving of spinach has over five times the plant nutrients, or phytonutrients, that iceberg lettuce has. But what are phytonutrients, and why should we like them?

Phytonutrients are chemicals within plants that have multiple health benefits.

We are unknowingly familiar with them, because phytonutrients often give foods their flavor. Take for example carotenoids, a class of phytonutrients that act as antioxidants. Antioxidants are known to help protect us against cancer. Without a lab coat, though, how can an average person discern the amount of phytonutrients in produce?

By color! Fruits and vegetables with deeper, more vibrant colors indicate more nutritional value. Spinach, a deeply green hue, is obviously more exciting than iceberg lettuce, a halfhearted attempt at yellow green.

Stress Relief THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION with WILLIAM CONNER

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ave you ever felt overwhelmed by all the things you have to do: classes, homework, papers, labs, work, etc.? Has stress made you feel exhausted, frustrated, irritable or angry?

If so, you aren’t alone.

Chronic stress causes mental symptoms such as difficulty sleeping, difficulty concentrating, decreased awareness (which results in many bike accidents) or depression. Ultimately, it affects us physically by weakening our immune systems or causing symptoms like an upset stomach or headaches.

To deal with stress, many of us distract ourselves with activities such as video games, the internet or alcohol. However, the best way to reduce stress is to take a break from constantly doing things.

When we step back from our frantic lives, we can think clearly and see the root of our stress. By distracting ourselves, we temporarily forget our pain, but it will return stronger.

When our minds are still, we can think clearly and realize that most stress is illusory. For example, we may be stressed about a paper. However, with

a clear mind, we realize that if we just wrote the paper, we would finish in a few hours and no longer be stressed about it. Instead, we worry about and distract ourselves from it, lengthening those hours to a miserable day.

Put away the phone, turn off Facebook and try to quiet your mind. Even 10 minutes a day of tranquility helps if it is a habit. We must each find what works for us; each person may use a different method.

For example, some use music; however, they play music and lose themselves in it, not merely listen to it. If you have an instrument, play it, even if you “do not know how.” If you do not have one, you can clap or improvise with objects like spoons.You could also sing, perhaps with your favorite song. When doing so, feel the harmony inside you and let all other thoughts dissolve away.

Others spend time in nature, such as the Arboretum. There, they feel the gentle breeze, observe the gurgling river and see the squirrels’ carefree frolicking.

They focus on the beautiful sights and sounds around them. Just like the musi-

cians, they lose themselves in the present moment. In this state, their worries and thoughts fade away.

Some use silence. Those people go somewhere alone, sit or lie still in a comfortable position, and close their eyes. Some focus on internal rhythms, such as the breath or the heartbeat. Others focus on something dear to them, such as an image, a person or a phrase.

Some focus on background sounds.

They lose themselves in what they focus on. In that tranquil state, awareness comes.

The method is not important as long as it calms your mind. If you find a method that works for you and practice it daily, your life will change.

For example, many inner city San Francisco schools now practice “Quiet Time,” where students close their eyes, sit still, and try to clear their minds twice a day. In the first year, suspensions fell 45 percent. Twice as many students in these schools perform proficiently on standardized tests in English compared to schools without “Quiet Time.” In addition, practicing students report higher

The same rule can be applied to different varieties of the same vegetable.

There are hundreds of potato varieties grown worldwide, and the nutritional content of each varies. For example, purple potatoes can have over 20 times the amount of phytonutrients that yukon gold potatoes have. I don’t want to embarrass russet potatoes, the most widely used potato in the U.S., but I will. If phytonutrients were weapons, a russet potato would be holding a toothpick while battling a purple potato’s sledgehammer. Purple potatoes have over a hundred times the phytonutrients that russet potatoes have.

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By quieting the mind, we gain control of it. With this control, we can focus entirely on a task, greatly improving our performance. For example, we will study for less time yet learn more if we are not distracted by things like Facebook or fear of the test.

Most importantly, we become happier. How can you enjoy partying while worried about homework? If we can control our minds, we can focus on the party when we are there and on the homework when we are doing it.

If you think you do not have time to relax and clear your mind, remember, even 10 minutes a day is enough. However, change does not occur overnight.

Taking this time must become a habit.

One of the best ways to make it a habit is to do it at the same time daily, such as by setting the alarm 15 minutes earlier and putting a reminder note on the alarm clock.

Practicing any meditation technique, such as the three mentioned, will improve your life and increase your happiness, as it has done for millions of people for thousands of years. Anyone can do it without training. It’s never too late to learn how; just start doing it, make it a habit and watch your life change.

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BACKSTOP aggies look to stay hot in hawaii Teams UC Davis at Hawai’i ReCORDS Aggies, 8-9 (3-1); Rainbow Wahine, 8-7 (2-1) WHERE Stan Sheriff Center — Honolulu, Hawai’i When Thursday, Jan. 23 at 9 p.m.

Who to watch Molly Gruebel single-handedly saved the UC Davis women’s basketball team in the overtime thriller against Cal State Fullerton on Jan. 18. The sophomore drew a foul and hit two clutch free throws to send the game to overtime, where the Aggies pulled out the win.

Greubel will look to continue her fine play against Hawai’i on Jan. 23. While she averages a shade under six points per game, her ball handling and defense has allowed for her to start 13 of the Aggies’ 17 games.

Look for Gruebel, who leads the team in free-throw percentage (83 percent), to be extra aggressive and get to the line often against the Rainbow Wahine.

Preview Following a most unlikely win against Cal State Fullerton on Jan. 18 to complete an undefeated SoCal roadtrip, the UC Davis women’s basketball team will look to ride that momentum into the tropics this week, taking on Hawai’i in Honolulu, Hawaii on Jan. 23.

Down two points on the road, with 0.5 seconds left in regulation and without the ball, the Aggies pulled off a miracle.

Sophomore Molly Greubel drew a charge on Cal State Fullerton’s inbounds play,

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Junior Sydnee Fipps scores a layup against Long Beach State.

then sank two clutch free throws to force overtime. In the extra period, junior Sydnee Fipps scored the game-winning basket with 25 seconds left, giving the Aggies the 69-67 win, their third in a row.

“We kept going back-and-forth on the play call,” Greubel said. “[Assistant coach] Matt Klemin and the staff drew up an awesome play and, we weren’t depending on getting the call, but the coaches just said ‘Take it. Take the charge.’

That’s what we did, and we got the call.”

Head coach Jennifer Gross was thoroughly impressed with Greubel for the play of the game.

“We knew that the only way that we could really try to win it was to try and draw a foul,” coach Gross said. “We know Molly is pretty sneaky, so she came up behind the defender on the ball and set a screen and was able to get the call. More important, she stepped to the line and knocked them both down.”

Greubel finished with eight points, six rebounds and four assists. The Aggies (8-9, 3-1) were paced with 12 points from junior Kelsey Harris and 10 from sophomore Celia Marfone. Sophomore Alyson Doherty scored 13 of her 15 points in the second half and added a game-high eight rebounds. Fipps, the Aggies’ leading scorer (17.5 points per game), also put up 15 in the winning effort.

The Aggies were monsters on the glass, out rebounding

Fullerton 44-25.

Coach Gross was proud of her team’s resilience against the Titans.

“You always hear about these amazing endings to basketball games and we always tell our teams to just keep fighting, keep clawing, find a way to win, and this was a perfect example,” coach Gross said. “You just never know what can happen and some crazy thing can go your way like it did for us tonight.”

Up next, the Aggies — now tied for first place in the Big West — face an upstart Hawai’i squad coming off consecutive conference wins over UC Riverside and Cal State Northridge by scores of 74-61 and 54-44, respectively.

The Rainbow Wahine (8-7, 2-1) are currently tied for second in the Big West.

UC Davis will have its hands full with Hawaii’s senior forward Kamilah Jackson, a 2012-13 first-team All-Big West performer.

Jackson comes in scoring a team-leading 16.3 points per game and averaging a stellar 10.4 rebounds per game.

Junior guard Ashleigh Karaitiana, an All-Big West Honorable mention a season ago, is also a scoring and rebounding threat, averaging 10.3 points per game and 5.1 rebounds per game for Hawai’i.

The Aggies will hope to expand their lead at the top of the Big West standings with a key victory over the surging Rainbow Wahine.

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spring tennis season in full swing for men, women

Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams travel to Pacific University this weekend to play on Jan 25. The women’s team also plays at Stanford on Jan 24. This will be an excellent test of both teams as they face top-tier competition.

The men are coming off a 3-4 loss to Santa Clara in which sophomore Brett Bacharach, freshmen Alec Adamson and James Wade all won singles matches, but the doubles match proved to be the pivotal point in the matchup.The Aggies lost in doubles and with that, the match as well.

It was a positive showing for the Aggies though, as Santa Clara is ranked 73rd nationally and is a formidable opponent, as are the upcoming opponents, Pacific.

“They are both good tests in preparation for conference,” said head coach Eric Steidlmayer. “We will get back to work, improve and be more than ready for Pacific on Saturday.”

Pacific is a top 75 team nationally on the men’s side, so it will be another difficult day for the men on Jan. 25. They will need to produce their best tennis to pull out a win.

The weekend of games also marks the first action for the women’s team this spring, playing on back to back days against Stanford and Pacific. The team has returned ready to make an impact as well.

“We have a great strength and conditioning coach who ran a great program over the break to [help the players] stay fit,” said head coach Bill Maze.

The prospect of playing on back-toback days didn’t bother coach Maze either.

“Two days in a row is not bad,” coach Maze said. “For the conference tournament you have to play three days in a row, or even four.”

The team’s outlook figures to be quite positive, and in a competitive conference, the goal is to be seeded third or higher for the conference tournament in April.

“We’re strong in singles, but need to get better in doubles,” coach Maze said. “The doubles point is very important.”

The result from the men’s side this past weekend certainly proves coach Maze’s assertion, but Maze remains optimistic about the team and their goals.

“Chemistry [on the team] is pretty darn good,” Maze said. “The team really supports each other, and that helps in tight matches.”

There is certainly a wide array of talent with this Aggie team, starting with star senior Megan Heneghan who will likely play at the No. 1 position in both matchups this weekend. She has been at the No.1 spot for most of all four of her years at UC Davis, and this weekend figures to be no different. Junior Layla Sanders will probably take the No. 2 spot.

“We’ll figure out the lineup this week,” said coach Maze. “Tiffany Pham, our No. 7 [player] last year, is a heck of a player and we’re looking forward to seeing how she does. We like those fall tournaments to help see how we compete, and how to fit the lineup.”

The women’s team played three fall tournaments in preparation for this spring season. The ultimate goal at the end of the season is a spot in the NCAA tournament, whether through a conference championship, or gaining entrance through superior ranking. Both paths are difficult, but this women’s team looks to be up for the challenge.

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When Thursday, Jan. 23 at 7 p.m.

After a hard loss versus UC Riverside on Jan. 16 at home, the UC Davis men’s basketball team was still in search of its first Big West conference win. On Jan. 18, they would have their chance, taking on Cal State Fullerton in their second home matchup of the week.

The Aggies played well on their road trip, even in their loss against the Highlanders. UC Davis dominated most of both games, but only managed to split the homestand.

Against UC Riverside, UC Davis started off hot with four players raking up double figures, including a team-high 18 points from junior guard Corey Hawkins on the night. Although the Aggies and their fans watched the match slip through their fingers within the last 15 minutes of the game, in part due to an eye injury to Hawkins, there was a group of standout players on the night. These players included freshman forward Georgi Funtarov, junior guard Avery Johnson and junior forward Iggy Nujic.

Funtarov, a freshman forward hailing from Bulgaria, collected a career-high 14 points on the night. Another Aggie whose roots stem from outside the U.S. is Nujic. The junior Australian scored 10 points, along with a career-high nine rebounds. Finally, Johnson contributed to UC Davis’ 69 total points, with his own career-best output of 10 points on Jan. 16.

However, to the athletes’ dismay they were unable to hold their lead. With a 41-27 halftime lead, it appeared UC Davis would contin-

HAWAI’I ue to dominate out on the court.Yet, they let the game slip through their fingers as the Highlanders went on a 16-0 run with less than 15 minutes remaining. UC Riverside built their lead to 10 points at one point in the game and the Aggies couldn’t make up the difference, only getting as close as five points of UC Riverside in the final minutes at the Pavilion. The game ended with a final score of 81-69 in favor of the Highlanders.

But the men were not done for the week, as they took on Cal State Fullerton at home on Jan. 18. That game ended with much better results, as the Aggies bounced back from their Thursday night loss, and defeated the Titans, 69-61, marking their first conference win of the season.

Once again Hawkins dominated on the court, with 22 points on the night. He was followed closely by senior guard Ryan Sypkens, who collected his own 15 points against the Titans. With three of those shots coming from behind the arc, Sypkens added to his overall statistics and is now in a three-way tie for fourth place in league history with 283 career threepoint field goals made.

But there’s two sides to every game and it was not simply an offensive outburst which led to the win.

“We won this game on defense,” Hawkins said.

“We held them to 29 points in the first half and limited their quality scoring chances throughout the rest of the game.”

The victory was a nice one for the Aggies and will hopefully kickstart UC Davis into playing winning basketball.

“It’s nice to get our first conference win, especially at home,” Hawkins said. “Now we have to go back to work at practice and make adjustments for our next game.”

With a long flight across the Pacific Ocean, the Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors will visit UC Davis on Jan. 23 for a 7 p.m. game against the Aggies. The Rainbow Warriors currently hold an overall record of 12-5 and are 1-2 in the Big West Conference. Both teams are coming into this match-up with wins on Jan. 18.

Hawai’i defeated UC Riverside, 100-69, and UC Davis won against Fullerton, 69-61.

Both teams will no doubt come out hard, hoping that a second conference win will put them in good standing in the Big West. With plenty of basketball

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Junior Avery Johnson scores around Cal State Fullerton defenders.

ahead, the Aggies will have to play hard on both ends of the court not only against Hawai’i, but against all their opponents, if they expect to get a bid into the Big West Championships in March.

— Sloan Boettcher

Women’s water polo hopes to swim to season’s first win Teams UC Davis at Sonoma State Records Aggies 0-1 (0-0); Seawolves 0-0 (0-0) Where Dr. G. Edward Rudloff Pool — Cotati, Calif.

When Saturday, Jan. 25 at 3 p.m.

After a tough defeat at the hands of the No. 4 ranked Cal Bears on Jan. 18, the No. 18 ranked Aggies hope to bounce back and earn their first victory of the season against Sonoma State.The Aggies will head to Cotati, Calif. where they will play two games, one against the Seawolves and the other against the Olympic Club.

The matchup against the Olympic Club, which starts at noon on Jan. 25, will be an exhibition and will not count on the record for UC Davis. But, the game against Sonoma State will matter in the rankings, and the Aggies must strive for a victory.

UC Davis can take a few positive points from their 14-9 loss to Cal heading into the showdown with the Seawolves. One of the biggest being the excellent form of senior Hannah Curran and sophomore Ariel Ar-

cidiacono. Curran netted herself a hat trick against Cal, which included a penalty conversion. Arcidiacono, a transfer from Colorado State, scored twice in her first game as an Aggie.

Curran, who scored 33 goals last season, will be one of the Aggies’ biggest threats offensively. Arcidiacono, who led Colorado State with a mind-blowing 76 goals last season, figures to be an integral part of UC Davis’ plans.The Aggies will depend on the consistent contribution from both of these players if they hope to win this season.

One of the biggest question marks for the Aggies this season is who will play goalie.With the loss of Riane Woods — an all-conference goalie — due to graduation, UC Davis will be playing a duo of junior Jillian Wilding and sophomore Hailey Cameron until a starter is named.

“We have two good goalies,” said head coach Jamey Wright. “They don’t have the length that Riane had but they are very good and we have confidence in both of them.”

The Aggies faced a bit of a road bump as they conceded 14 goals against Cal. However, they should hopefully be able to right the ship against Sonoma State, who lost to the Aggies 6-8 last season. If UC Davis can manage to limit the goal scoring opportunities of the Seawolves, the Aggies should have enough firepower to pick up a road win to kickstart the season.

— Kenneth Ling