April 20, 2017

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UC Davis celebrates its 103rd Picnic Day SERVING THE UC DAVIS CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY SINCE 1915

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ARC vending machine sells morning-after pills, emergency contraceptive, condoms, other birth control

An Aggie tradition for everyone

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One of the most iconic and popular Aggie traditions is finally here: Picnic Day. This year, April 22 is a celebratory day that honors not just this UC Davis classic, but also the City of Davis’ Centennial as well as Earth Day. To encompass the significance of these events and holidays, this year’s Picnic Day theme is “Growing Together.”

“We wanted to honor that it’s on Earth Day and the commitment this university has to sustainability,” said Chelsea Hernandez, a fourthyear design major and chair of the Picnic Day Board of Directors. “We also really wanted to incorporate the City of Davis Centennial — I mean, that’s not going to come around obviously any other time — so that was really important to us, especially because [...] the relationship that the university has with the city is very unique. There’s also [...] all the construction going on around campus, and just seeing the university grow — I feel like that’s something we also reflected on.”

Picnic Day started more than 100 years ago in 1909, only a year after the university was established, when the Student Farm showcased the new dairy barn to the community.

“In 1912 it became student-run and has been student run since,”

Hernandez said. “It’s grown immensely since then, [...] it’s really just to showcase what UC Davis has to offer. We publish it as a UC Davis open house. What I love hearing are the little stories that people use it as a family day as well — we have families coming back and using this day as a family reunion opportunity.”

Only about 2,000 people showed up that first year with their picnic baskets to enjoy the exhibit, coffee and milk provided by the university, but Picnic Day has evolved over the century into one of the largest student run events in the nation — hosting roughly 70,000 people.

“The only year I’d really gone around was my first year. I remember walking and seeing the plant sciences when they were doing the plant giveaway,” Hernandez said. “I think I was just amazed that it was so big. Stepping out your dorm and all of the sudden seeing thousands of people at your school is pretty cool.”

The Picnic Day Board of Directors is made up of 16 students, and Hernandez estimates there are between 200 and 300 volunteers for the event. No matter their major, any student is encouraged to be a part of Picnic Day preparation, an endeavor that begins about a year in advance — new board members are elected after the last Picnic Day ends.

“Just like [Hernandez], I began [volunteering] freshman year,” said

UC Davis joined several universities in the United States in implementing a vending machine that dispenses morning-after pills, condoms, other forms of birth control, tampons and lubricant on March 31. The vending machine, located in an Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) study room across from the Amazon mailboxes, also sells Advil and Tylenol.

Parteek Singh, a former ASUCD senator and a fourth-year managerial economics major, has worked with the Student Health and Wellness Center (SHWC) and Student Health and Counseling Services (SHCS) since the fall of 2015 to advocate for this vending machine.

Singh believes the discrete, readily-available and convenient ability to purchase emergency contraceptives and birth control on campus will bolster reproductive health and promote safe sex.

“Fall of 2015, I ran for ASUCD elections, and the Plan B vending machine was one of my platforms,” Singh said. “My friends proposed this idea, actually. They told me about a Plan B vending machine in Pennsylvania — Shippensburg University. At the time, this seemed like one of the most impossible things to do, like ‘What? You’re running on a Plan B vending machine? That’s never going to happen! That’s going to be so expensive!’ People were excited but it didn’t seem very realistic at that time.”

Lack of easy access to birth control and emergency contraceptives in a college town teeming with thousands of young adults seemed like a

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Student and local musicians hit Picnic Day stages Band-Uh!, Keni and katgrüvs among music showcases

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It’s uncontested that Picnic Day is the largest and most well-attended event on the UC Davis campus. But between morning mimosas and the obligatory afternoon nap, many student picnickers miss out on the day’s abundance of local performers. From the intricate acoustics of fingerstyle guitarist katgrüvs to the folksy melodies of singer-songwriter Keni, Picnic Day is a rare opportunity for student musicians to showcase their talent to a diverse audience.

After watching the Doxie Derby races and grabbing a much-needed solid meal, stop by the Quad, the Pavilion or the lawn in front of Rock Hall and discover some new tunes by Davis musicians.

1. katgrüvs: Quad stage, 12:20 - 12:50 p.m.

Kat Gallardo, a third-year mechanical engineering major, is the brains behind the fingerstyle guitar project katgrüvs. This will be her third performance at a Picnic Day event, and she anticipates hitting the stage one more time — now with more experience and new content.

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With Picnic Day drawing people from outside the Davis community, performers have the opportunity to share their talents with a larger sphere of fans. Fourth-year neurology, physiology and behavioral science major Kendall Frisoli is the acoustic singer and guitarist behind the musical project Keni. She emphasized that it is this diversity

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and ‘Down to the Wire,’ and I’ll probably be introducing a couple new ones that I’ve been performing lately during the quarter,” Gallardo said. “I’m probably gonna pull out a really new one, actually, that I debuted at the Cherry Blossom Festival.”

Gallardo looks forward to performing at an outdoor stage and seeing both familiar and new faces in the crowd. The sheer size of Picnic Day attracts large crowds, and with large crowds comes a high-energy audience.

“You just feel the sense of community. You see people just walking around — families, students, all sorts of variety of people,” Gallardo said. “The environment all around you is just different on Picnic Day. There’s a lot of events happening; it’s not just performances. You can really just feel the energy because the Davis spirit, the Davis community is there.”

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that draws her to the Picnic Day stage.

“These venues are outdoors, so that’s something unique about [Picnic Day], and just the diversity of people from families to little kids to the students — and then my dad surprised me last year,” Frisoli said.

“It’s such a well-known event that you kind of hope you get unfamiliar faces that don’t come to open mic nights.”

In fact, Frisoli experienced a similar situation at last year’s performance. Days after her performance, a nurse from the Student Health and Wellness Center approached her explaining she had attended Frisoli’s show.

“I perform, and I kind of see in the distance a familiar face, and [they] had a camera and I didn’t think anything of it,” Frisoli said. “Then I had a doctor’s appointment at the Student Health Center a couple of weeks later, and it was one of the nurses I had seen so many times, and she brings me printouts of photos she had taken. Like how sweet! So she’s gonna come again this year.”

Similar to Gallardo, she hopes to see a few fellow friends among the sea of unidentifiable picnickers.

“You don’t know who’s going to be there — it’s like seeing people and teachers in a different setting; that is what I find fun about Picnic Day.” 3. Cal Aggie Marching Band-Uh! at Battle of the Bands: Mrak Hall, 2 - 10 p.m.

Among classics like the Doxie Derby and the parade, Battle of the Bands is a Picnic Day staple. In attendance this year are the UC Irvine Anteater Band, the UC San Diego Pepband, the Cal Band and others.

“Picnic Day is a really big deal because it’s a full-day event,” said Rina Haack, a fourth-year comparative literature and biological sciences double major and the PR manager for Band-Uh! “At 6 a.m. we meet to get ready and then do the parade. We rally with the alumni at Wellman Hall, which is always fun because you get to see friends maybe you haven’t seen in awhile.”

The rules are simple: you can’t repeat a song, the last band to play their fight song wins, and the last song played must be the Aggie Fight Song. Simply put, Band-Uh! Is always the winner.

“We do battle for about eight hours,” Haack said. “We get to see the work we put in really come together.”

Make sure to also check out these student musicians performing at Picnic Day: CryWolffs Violin: Quad stage, 2:30 - 3 p.m.

Tempura: Rock Hall Lawn, 3:20 - 4:05 p.m.

Samantha Sipin: ARC stage, 11:20 - 11:50 a.m.

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LGBTQIA Resource Center holds biweekly “Cuppa Tea” program

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Program offers discussion space for issues faced by LGBTQIA community

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Every other Wednesday, the LGBTQIA Resource Center holds a discussion space called “Cuppa Tea,” in which members of the LGBTQIA community and other minority groups come together to discuss current events relevant to their communities.

The program started in the fall of 2015. The idea for the discussion space came from fifth-year Chicana/o studies and sociology double major Bee Curiel, who has been working at the LGBTQIA Center since 2015.

“I wanted to create a space where people can come and just talk about something [...] just have a couple snacks and tea,” Curiel said.

According to Curiel, the title “Cuppa Tea” has its roots in transgender communities and communities of color. The phrase “cuppa tea” meant “what’s going on” or “what’s the 411,” which corresponds to the program’s goal of helping members of the LGBTQIA community

stay informed and up-to-date with the current events.

Topics discussed in past “Cuppa Tea” sessions include cultural appropriation, police brutality, the media’s representation of queer people and other minorities, desirability and sexual assault and awareness.

The program also works with the Middle Eastern and South Asian Week and Sexual Violence Awareness Month programs.

“I think it [Cuppa Tea] is great because it’s a space where things are talked about that are not talked about at all in mainstream media,” said Rosie Romick, a fourth-year plant biology major, who has been to several Cuppa Tea discussions in the past. “It’s a space where people are sharing and marginalized voices are uplifted.”

“I really like talking about current issues about the queer community with my peers [...] just getting different perspectives and staying up to date on what’s going on in the world,” said Dante Williams, a fifth-year mathematics major

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who has also taken part in several Cuppa Tea discussions. “I’m able to express my opinions on what’s happening in the world in a space that is conducive to making tangible changes instead of just theorizing.”

The biweekly Cuppa Tea discussions are just one of the many support programs offered for minority groups by the LGBTQIA Center. In addition to events like Pride Month and queer leadership retreats, the center organizes many awareness events, including awareness for trans, asexual, intersex and bisexual identities. The center also holds “Crafternoons” every Friday where people can make arts and crafts like pride bracelets, which Curiel described as a “de-stressing event.” Recently, a community coordinator at the center also held a clothing exchange closet, because, Curiel explained, “oftentimes trans and nonbinary folks face violence when they shop for clothes.”

The center welcomes diverse members of the Davis community to participate in the Cuppa Tea and other upcoming events.

LEGALIZATION OF OUTDOOR CANNABIS CULTIVATION IN DAVIS What this means for the city and its residents

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The ASUCD Senate gathered on April 6 at the Memorial Union for its first meeting of Spring Quarter. The meeting was called to order at 6:12 p.m.

by ASUCD Vice President Adilla Jamaludin.

The meeting began with a presentation by the External Affairs Commission (EAC). Sara Williams, the chair of the EAC and a fourth-year history and political science double major, and several members of the commission touched on different topics including city government, the UC Davis Long Range Development Plan and Davis housing.

Next on the agenda was the senator committee appointments. In order, the appointments were: Senators Julie Jung and Michael Gofman for the Aggie Public Arts Committee; Senators Jose Menenes and Marcos Rodriguez for the ASUCD Scholarship Committee; Senators Menenes and Simran Grewal for the Champagne Committee; Senators Daniel Nagey and Samantha Chiang for the Council on Student Affairs and Fees; Senator Yajaira Ramirez Sigala for the DREAM Committee; Senator Rahi Suryawanshi for the International Undergraduate Student Committee; Senator Jung for the Internet and Net-

working Committee, Senators Gofman and Chiang for the Marketing Committee; Senator Suryawanshi for the Media Board, Senator Anastasia Ruttkay for the Sexual Assault Awareness and Advocacy Committee; Senators Khadeja Ibrahim and Suryawanshi for the Student Health and Wellness Committee; Senators Nagey and and Rodriguez for the Unit Relocation Space Allocation Committee; Senators Menenes and Gofman for the Underwriting, Sponsorship and Advertising Committee; Senator Nagey for Housing Advising for Undergraduate Students; Senator Chiang for the Disability Rights Advocacy Committee.

After the appointments, Chris Ortiz, the unit director of Refrigerator Services, gave a presentation.

Next, the presentation appointments were made for several ASUCD units including Entertainment Council, the Aggie Reuse Store and Specialized Transportation Services/Tipsy Taxi.

Two pieces of emergency legislation were also introduced. Senate Bill #73, authored and introduced by Menenes, moved to allocate $75 to reserve the Memorial Union Patio for Denim Day 2017. The bill passed unanimously with a vote of 12-0-0.

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Police Logs: Who let the dogs out?

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April 9 “RP hit in the face last night with a bottle of urine causing minor eye injury.”

April 11 “Upset that friend let his dogs out of the house.”

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“Male running in the street and making odd statements.”

“Outside with a bottle of vodka that he is currently drinking heading to Chevron.”

April 13 “Female locked herself in porta potty for past 3 hours, shaking it from the inside and yelling that her boyfriend left her — requesting she be moved along.”

Talk of legalizing outdoor cannabis cultivation has been lingering in the air, and the Davis City Council finally approved it with a unanimous vote of 5-0 at the council’s April 4 meeting. This enables residents to grow up to six plants outdoors, as long as they do not surpass the height of their fence or 6 feet, whichever is lower. Within the next few months, the city will undergo another set of ordinances to discuss the other issues such as if medical or adult retail sales will be allowed. The three phases that will be dealt with include the growing of cannabis, all commercial elements that are not retail, such as product development, and retail outlets.

“I think that I’m in support of the

council’s move here –– the council has been very diligent in its effort of data collection and community outreach, ensuring that it reflects the needs of the community while understanding the complexities of the policies themselves,” said Eric Gudz, the chair on the board of directors for the Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP). “Specifically, I was very very impressed and happy to see the ordinance had utilized marijuana but the new one replaced the word with cannabis, understanding how the term marijuana is a very contentious term and is conceded with racial undertones from the War on Drugs in the ‘30s.”

Gudz works with the SSDP to fight the War on Drugs, in which there are discussions on how to change peoples’ outlook on drug policies and the way in which they frame the discussions per-

taining to it. In many cases, cannabis and other drug policies are seen as statements of criminality, in which criminal sanctions would be imposed on students who overdosed calling for help, rather than being sent through the public health and safety education route to receive the proper care they need.

“It begins to change those conversations and focus in on the core of drug policy –– these are issues of public drug policy, these are issues of addiction –– the roots of the problems are not at the drugs themselves; really understanding the depth of that is what we do,” Gudz said.

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UC DAVIS MEDICAL CENTER RECOGNIZED AS A “LEADER IN LGBTQ HEALTHCARE EQUALITY” Health facility upholds nondiscrimination policies, practices for a seventh year NICKI PADAR / AGGIE

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The UC Davis Medical Center has proven its devotion to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) patients for seven consecutive years, as it was once again designated as a “Leader in LGBTQ Heathcare Equality” by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) on March 29.

Every year, healthcare facilities across the United States participate in a survey by the HRC that allocates leadership status to those who demonstrate equal care toward LGBTQ communities.

The HRC then publishes its combined findings in a Healthcare Equality Index (HEI), honoring the participants and giving LGBTQ patients and their families a tool to find inclusive health care institutions.

“We’re honored to be nationally recognized for our longstanding commitment to a welcoming and inclusive environment for our patients, their families and our employees,” said Ann Madden Rice, the Chief Executive Officer of the Medical Center, in a press release. “Equity and inclusion are among our top pri-

orities, and we are dedicated to leading efforts to eliminate health disparities.”

The purpose of the Healthcare Equality Program is to provide health care facilities with the proper resources for implementing the best policies and practices for LGBTQ patient care. Tari Hanneman, the HRC director of the Health Equality Project, said participants in the survey were evaluated based upon four new criteria in the HEI 2017: nondiscrimination and staff training, patient services and support, employee benefits and policies and patient and community engagement.

Of the 590 applicants surveyed, 303 earned perfect scores out of 100 to receive leadership status and the special HRC logo as a stamp of approval. Six UC-affiliated facilities, housed across UC San Diego, UCLA and UC San Francisco, are also among the 77 California institutions honored.

“The more hospitals that we have participating, the more they’re going to change policies and practices which will help all LGBT patients,” Hanneman said. “Hospitals are competitive, so if you have one hospital in a community doing something, the other hospitals are

more likely to jump on board and also be seen as [...] welcoming and inclusive.”

Edward Callahan, the associate vice chancellor for academic personnel at the Schools of Human Health Sciences, said that the institution engaged in the HEI when it realized that LGBTQ patients needed a hospital to consider as a welcoming and safe space for their health needs.

“Health care provided for LGBT patients was not as good as what it should have been, so we made a commitment to improving that health care,” Callahan said.

Callahan said that the facility got a jumpstart on its goal by encouraging physicians to wear rainbow flags on their badges to make all patients feel immediately welcome no matter their sexual orientation.

Additionally, Hanneman said that the UC Davis Medical Center stood out from the other leaders by having an excellent transgender patient care policy that was used as a model for other health care institutions. The facility also hosted an Improving Outcomes ConferLGBT on 10

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Office of Advocacy and Student Representation participates in federal lobbying trip Four students fly cross-country during week one to lobby on issues affecting UC Davis students

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International applications drop for the first time in 12 years

Four UC Davis students trekked all the way to Washington, D.C. the Sunday before Spring Quarter began, missing the first two days of classes to lobby on issues that will directly affect students at UC Davis.

The trip, which lasted from April 2 to 4, was organized through the ASUCD Office of Advocacy and Student Representation (OASR). Four students attended: ASUCD Senator Samantha Chiang, ASUCD Senator and OASR Legislative Director Daniel Nagey, OASR director Georgia Savage and OASR deputy director Sarah Shemery.

“The trip officially began on Sunday,” Chiang said. “We were able to briefly tour around D.C., look at some monuments, because the Capitol Building isn’t actually open on Sunday so there was no point doing anything [there].”

Work to prepare for the trip began long before leaving for Washington, D.C. “There was a lot of prep work that went into it the week beforehand,” Chiang said. “My entire spring break I spent confirming lobby visits with different legislators. Georgia [Savage] and Sarah [Shemery] worked a lot on the logistical side of things, booking our Airbnb and making sure that we had adequate funding.”

What took the most planning, though, was setting up appointments with legislators to lobby them.

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Drop in international applicants coincides with recent presidential election

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University of California (UC) international applications are falling for the first time in 12 years. International students applications for the fall of 2017 dropped by one percent from the prior year to 32,647, a decline of 353 applicants.

Prior to this year, international applicants were rising by 21 percent a year, or an increase of more than 2,500 applicants annually.

The last time there was a drop in UC international applications was in 2004 and 2005, during the Iraq War. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, this drop in

international interest for the UCs coincides with the election of President Donald Trump.

Applications from Mexico plunged by 30 percent, from 140 last year to 98 applications this year. Countries with large Muslim populations, such as the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the Philippines collectively sent in 10 percent fewer applications, from 1,727 to 1,561.

“The perception is that this administration wants to keep these students out,” said Melanie Gottlieb, the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers deputy director, in the San Francisco Chronicle’s article.

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“Usually what you have to do is call into their office and then they will tell you their scheduler’s email or on their website there may be a link where you request a meeting,” Chiang said.

“Then you have to go find it, you go through the process of talking to this scheduler, and naturally I am sure they are very busy people so it takes over a week or two to schedule these meetings and many, many follow ups. We usually make a spreadsheet and we work together on calling and emailing everyone and tracking who we have and who we don’t.”

UC Davis has never participated in a federal advocacy trip before, even through the UC Student Association (UCSA), Savage said.

“We decided to go this particular weekend because this is UC Davis’ first federal advocacy trip,” Savage said. “The UC Student Association typically goes two or three times a year. They usually have applications in which students from any UC can apply and go with them. The UC Student Association recently changed their legislative director […] so this year was a little different. We all really wanted to go, like every UC, around the same time so we could help each other out and meet up with each other.”

UC Davis is still a particular newcomer to the UCSA in general, not only with regard to this trip.

“Offices like ours at all the other UCs are a lot older than ours,” Savage said. “We are only three years old. We are the youngest unit in ASUCD as well. For us, it kind of is a learning curve on some things. Offices, for example like Santa Bar-

bara, UCLA, other offices like that, have been doing this consistently for like, I want to say, like 20 to 50 years depending on the school. For us, for that, it’s really great to be able to see schools like UCLA, Santa Barbara, who have like a lot bigger budget than we have as well, and see where our office might be able to end up.”

Even though only four Davis students went to Washington, D.C., the four there tried to make it feel as if even more were present by soliciting student testimonies to read to legislators.

“We provide a student testimony,” Savage said. “This is how it would affect me personally or this is a story we have. We did like a call out for undocumented student testimonies. We received two responses that we read in front of these legislative assistants or these representatives about how their experience has changed over the past few months with the Trump presidency.

Obviously for that, that was a way of getting those students in the room even if they are not physically able to be there, not only for cost but also for safety being undocumented students.”

While in Washington, D.C., the students, along with their cohorts from the other UC schools represented, lobbied on issues ranging from immigration to Pell Grants and more.

“In our legislative group [at the monthly UCSA meeting], we talk about [legislation],” Nagey said. “We hand-picked this [legislation to lobby on]. We all voted on it together, so it’s really

students and scholars, believes there are many factors as to why international applications for UC’s are dropping, but that President Trump’s actions do concern many students.

“There are probably a number of factors at play here, but it’s too soon to know for sure about the details,” Young said via email. “However, it’s no secret that many students are concerned about visas, personal safety, and a general sense of unwelcome, as a result of President Trump’s recent executive orders and negative statements about people from various parts of the world.”

Young reassured incoming international applicants to UC Davis that campus leaders are devoted to welcoming and supporting international students.

“A number of campus leaders, including the Acting Chancellor Hexter, and the Vice Provost and Associate Chancellor for Global Affairs, Joanna Regulska, have made public statements reminding the community of the campus’ commitment to welcoming and supporting international students and scholars,” Young said via email.

Lennon Zhang, a current UC Davis international student and a third-year biological sciences major, is worried about the trend because it could also reflect his personal situation.

“[The drop in international applicants] make[s] me anxious,” Zhang said.

He believes there is a decreased desire because of the legal difficulties and economic struggles of being an international student, which is exacerbated by the election of President Trump. Zhang cited anecdotes of difficulty with his visa and frustration of attaining a job after college.

Young also confirmed that UC Davis staff are travelling abroad to reassure families and students that UC Davis is welcoming all students.

“Undergraduate Admissions staff who are travelling abroad are taking this same message to newly admitted students and their families,” Young said. “The Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Adela de la Torre is traveling abroad, also with the purpose of reassuring students and families that UC Davis is committed to welcoming all students.”

Young believes the faculty and staff working directly with international students on the UC Davis campus are welcoming and supportive.

“Staff and faculty are also working daily with current international students in ways that should demonstrate that they are welcomed and supported here,” Young said via email. “We hope this message will make its way to incoming students.”

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Davis soon to be home to four unique breweries

BY MADISON LYZNICK city@theaggie.org

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Beer enthusiasts: Is Davis finally making the map in the brewing industry? Those who think not may soon be proven wrong. In the next couple of months, two new Davis breweries, Dunloe Brewing and Super Owl Brewing, will be ready to open their doors for people to grab a barstool in their taprooms.

While Sudwerk built its roots in Davis in 1989, the brewing industry is just starting to pick up in town, with Three Mile Brewing Co. opening in 2016 and the two new breweries in construction, both with connections back to the City of Davis and UC Davis.

Brennan Dunloe, the owner of Dunloe Brewing, grew up in Davis; he enjoyed and understood the town and wanted to come back. He traces his interest in brewing back to his youth.

“It started in my backyard,” Dunloe said. “I didn’t really know what I wanted to do and figured out I could go to school for brewing, so I moved back to Davis and finished up community college. I actually started working at Sudwerk somewhere in there and got accepted into UCD as a transfer student and UCD’s Master Brewers program on the same day. I started going on campus and withdrew so I could do the Master Brewers program and then went back to finish up food science in 2014.”

His experience at Sudwerk and at the UC Davis program prepared him for what

he may encounter at his own brewery.

While Sudwerk often focuses on its lagers, according to Dunloe, he said he wants to take a different route and have fun more brewing. Much like Three Mile, he hopes to have a rotating style of beers and less of the traditional side of things.

Dunloe has already began production on his first brew and hopes to open the tasting room within a couple months.

The new breweries in town could also help improve UC Davis’ Master Brewers program.

Dunloe remembers the scarce number of internship opportunities available nearby and hopes that the new breweries can increase that type of real-world experience.

“Day-to-day you can get away with not having that kind of education [UC Davis Master Brewers Program] but on a bad day it’s really nice to have it so you can get out of whatever situation you are in,” Dunloe said.

While Joe Vida, the owner of Super Owl Brewing, doesn’t have the same type of formal education in brewing as Dunloe, he is far from an amateur. His wife, Rachel Vida, who helps run the legal and business sides of the operation, remembers him talking about opening his own brewery since they met in college.

Rachel graduated from the UC Davis School of Law, and the two wanted to move back to the area to start the business and raise their family. Joe increased his involvement BREWERIES on 10

With the arrival of new political leaders, California is set to vote on in a new set of legislation meant to protect all of its residents— both immigrants and citizens of all cultural backgrounds. What does the bill truly mean, though, and what changes will this bring to the City of Davis?

SB 54, or the California Sanctuary State Bill, proposed by Kevin de Leon, senate president pro tempore, passed in the Senate with a vote of 27-12 and is now heading to the California State Assembly for final approval. If passed, California will experience changes across the state to any federally funded programs. This includes public schools from kindergarten through twelfth grade, law enforcement, and many other programs. In a basic breakdown, the bill will prohibit state and local law from acting on any pre-existing immigration laws, and put new laws into place for joint task forces between state and local lawmakers and enforcers, as well as require more specific documentation of actions taken by public works.

The major effect of this bill on California will be seen and felt by law enforcement in every county across the state, though some will have to make more changes than others.

According to the bill, law enforcers of all levels, including school police and security guards, cannot “… Investigate, interrogate, detain, detect, or arrest persons for immigration enforcement purposes.”

On top of creating refined law, SB 54 is requiring public schools, public libraries, health facilities of all types and courthouses to implement model policies. The aim of the legislation is to make California self-sufficient by means of public works.

Maria Blanco, a member of the University of California Immigrant Legal Services Center, explained that the bill is meant to reaffirm pre-existing laws for law enforcement agencies. Currently there are already laws in place that prohibit over-holding persons for more than 24 hours “without a probable criminal warrant.”

Essentially, current state laws require that local and state police contact U.S. Immigration and Customs

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Enforcement (ICE) when they have arrested a person under the suspicion of breaking immigration law(s).

After 24 hours, if ICE has not transferred said arrested person or provided a warrant, the arrested person is, by law, supposed to be released. In other words: an arrested person can only be in jail for 24 hours without charges against them.

Under the new bill, “If [the arrested persons] are a violent, convicted felon, they will go to ICE. They [ICE] are picking up those people with violent convictions […] and have deportable arrest. ICE has 7 – 10 databases tracking down people […] so [that] local police don’t need to seek immigrants and can focus on other law offenders.”

Blanco further reassured that the state law would have little to no effect on the City of Davis or UC Davis, as the area has been following the bill’s sanctuary enactments already. In an email interview, Police Chief Darren Pytel similarly stated that this legislation is nothing new for Davis.

“This proposed legislation does not represent a significant change in current law or how California agencies currently handle undocumented immigrants […],” Pytel said. “It does not make California a Sanctuary State as defined by federal law nor does it prohibit communication with federal immigration officials. It does further codify constitutional prohibitions/limitations already in place.”

While the law is written in a fairly intimidating manner to those without law degrees who can fully understand what is being proposed, Blanco noted that the language of the bill is promising for its passage.

“These very bold statements are made to sound like […] this is going to happen,” Blanco said. “[It still] has SANCTUARY on 10

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UC Title IX coordinator Kathleen Salvaty hosted a conference call with University of California (UC) student reporters on April 3 to discuss sexual assault prevention and concerns regarding sexual assault within the UC community.

“What I’m working to achieve is the president’s goal of having a strong and consistent and fair processes in terms of preventing and responding to sexual violence and harassment,” Salvaty said.

“Ultimately, our goal is culture change.”

Salvaty added that the primary objective for the Title IX Office is establishing its processes in order to work with all UC campuses to improve sexual assault prevention education.

These efforts were initiated in 2014, when UC President Janet Napolitano issued a task force to create a new model for handling sexual misconduct acts, which has since been integrated at UC campuses.

Salvaty added that Napolitano has now turned her attention toward cases involving faculty and staff. In doing so, Napolitano has “suggested numerous policies regarding how we investigate [these] sexual assault cases.”

One of these changes includes creating a peer committee to preside over cases that involve a “senior university leader.” This new update to the sexual misconduct policy would require that when a faculty respondent is found responsible for sexual misconduct, “the chancellor or their designee would consult with a peer review committee [regarding] appropriate discipline,” according to Salvaty.

The Quad is always full of students passing through on their way to class and hanging out on the lawn eating lunch. Other students, however, are out tabling to promote student clubs and organizations.

On the first Friday of Spring Quarter, what would normally be a bustling day at the Memorial Union (MU) was quieted by a heavy downpour of rain — but this did not stop students like John Sung, a third-year chemical engineering major, who was promoting Koinonia Christian Fellowship and publicizing an event later that evening. According to Sung, tabling is an effective way to connect personally with other students.

“We get people to think about what we are about,” Sung said. “And we get to learn about other people too, it’s nice.”

Through rain or shine, members of Koinonia tabled throughout the first week of the quarter. Although sitting at a table and talking about an organization may seem simple, there is a lot more planning that goes into tabling.

“You’re supposed to reserve the tables four weeks in advance,” Escareno said. “And [when we tried to], they were all taken. If you want to get on the waitlist you have to go upstairs of the MU and try to [...] get on the waitlist.”

For those who do not sign up for a table right away, there is still hope that an organization that did sign up might not show up to claim its table. According to Escanero, the waitlist can be long, and it may be difficult to get a table that way.

“Usually in the first two weeks it’s [...] really packed,” Escanero said. “But then after that, it’s relatively easier to get a table.”

The Quad is a bustling area, full of students heading off to the next activity on their to-do list. It seems like

With regard to the 124 released cases of sexual assault involving UC employees, Salvaty noted that many of these occurred between 2013 and 2016 and they would be handled a lot differently ”if they were proceeding now” under the new leadership.

In light of April being Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Salvaty stressed the importance of publicizing the resources already available to students on campus.

According to Salvaty, advocates at the UC Davis Center for Advocacy Resources and Education (CARE) work exclusively with UC community members and are the victims’ first line of contact.

Complainants can reach out to a CARE advocate confidentially without triggering any university response or acknowledgement, making CARE “an incredibly valuable resource to the complainant.”

The type of support provided by an advocate includes referrals, counseling, academic support and advising on what it would entail if the victim did want to notify the university. CARE advocates may accompany the complainant through the entire reporting process, which encompasses police reports, university reports and safety planning. CARE advocates are confidential sexual assault counselors, even in a criminal context.

“In the Title IX Office we work very hard to keep those records as private as possible, there’s nothing that would be shared [...] it really depends on what the reporter wants and what type of claim they are making,” Salvaty said.

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the perfect location for an organization to publicize, but many students do not want to stop and listen.

“I’ve had people with headphones [pass by],” said Jasmine Osmany, a third-year environmental policy major. “You know that they hear you and they just walk the opposite direction.”

Even with this obstacle, students like Alena Dinh, a second-year neurobiology, physiology, and behavior major, have picked up some tricks to get the attention of students passing through.

“First thing is a smile,” Dinh said. “If you approach [students] very seriously then it’s going to be intimidating. Some ways I’ve heard it done is like ‘are you interested in a pre-health internship?’ or some people go more outrageous just to catch attention. If you can keep them for the first three seconds then you have a conversation.”

Even when executed well, these strategies for tabling do not work perfectly every time. According to Dinh, some students are more difficult to reach. “[Students] just walk away [from the tables],” Dinh said. “I mean, I’ve been on that side too, so I know what it’s like.”

The tabling process is different for organizations that are not directly a part of UC Davis. For example, Marble Mosaic is a social media application created by UC Davis students for UC Davis students, but it is independent of the university itself. Outside organizations like Marble can table at the MU, but there are more requirements in order to get approved, according to Ted Mumford, a recent UC Davis graduate and a founder of the app “Marble.”

“As an outside organization you can’t necessarily just show up and table,” Mumford said. “But [...for outside groups, ASUCD] can say, ‘okay, we’ll reserve the table for you’.”

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A toast to the 103rd Picnic Day

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PICNIC DAY, PICNIC DAY, PICNIC DAY, PICNIC DAY, PICNIC DAY SCOTT DRESSER Editor in Chief ELLIE DIERKING Managing Editor ALYSSA VANDENBERG Campus News Editor SAMANTHA SOLOMON City News Editor ELI FLESCH Opinion Editor EMILIE DEFAZIO Features Editor AMANDA ONG Arts & Culture Editor BRYAN SYKES Sports Editor ARIEL ROBBINS Science & Tech Editor

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Picnic Day is approaching, and, with it, so are the morning mimosas, afternoon mimosas, evening mimosas and bedtime mimosas. Kidding aside, Picnic Day is Davis’ unique opportunity to showcase exactly what makes the city and community special: the eccentric (and boozed-up) student body, the animals and the innovative ingenuity that underscores campus life and the day itself.

The Picnic Day staff has done its absolute best to put on a day that engages and entertains tens of thousands of people who will make the trek to Davis on Saturday, April 22. Their work is especially impressive this year, considering that ASUCD cut the entirety of its $5,000 subsidy to the Picnic Day unit from last year. Instead, Picnic Day has a negative subsidy this year, as the unit will give an estimated $11,500 in generated revenue back to the student association.

Nonetheless, the day will be chock-full of Picnic Day favorites, such as the Picnic Day Parade, the Doxie Derby and

the Battle of the Bands, among hundreds of other events, performances, open houses and more. The Editorial Board commends the Picnic Day staff for putting in countless hours and setting up a day that is sure to be memorable, exciting and full of interesting events that will showcase our campus and community.

Students, a warning: BE SMART. The City of Davis has enacted a “Safety Enhancement Zone,” in which fines and penalties will be increased for legal violations. The campus and city will be swarming with law enforcement. Plus, you don’t want to be belligerent when you run into your professors or co-workers (looking at you, Aggie staff) on campus. Uphold the Principles of Community, enjoy the sunshine and make sure to experience all that the historic day has to offer. A full list of events can be found online at https://picnicday.ucdavis.edu.

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The Pantry and the Student Farm weigh in on food insecurity on campus COUNTERACTING STIGMAS AGAINST HUNGER AT UC DAVIS

BY C AMI LL E C H A R G O I S cachargois@ucdavis.edu

The discourse around food and its various ties to culture, art and nutrition is highly popular, yet the discourse surrounding its ties to sustainable agriculture, socioeconomics and hunger — despite the extensive research and movements behind these issues — is not. Why is this the case? One would think that with food being something we enjoy and need to survive there would be more concern about, according to a recent study, the 42 percent of students UC systemwide experiencing food insecurity. This led me to question what efforts were being made at Davis to hold conversations around this issue and to provide solutions. And this, in turn, led to the discovery of the Pantry and the Student Farm, as well as an exploration of the interplay between them.

I was curious as to how two noble organizations on campus — that are always very busy with their own respective initiatives — work together to reach common goals such as addressing food insecurity.

Mark Van Horn, the director of the Student Farm, provided a little history on how the Student Farm met and created a partnership with the Pantry.

“About four years ago now, we had something called Farm Dialogues, where students could bring up ideas of things they’d like to pursue or things they like about the farm, things they think maybe could be improved,” Van Horn said. “And a couple of students came

forward and said ‘you know, we seem to have a ton of excess produce and we’d like to get that to people who need it.’ So we talked it through for awhile and then came up with the idea of giving [it] away on campus [since it] is the easiest thing to do and perhaps most meaningful for students.”

Communication is sometimes difficult because what one project addresses does not always align with another. This, along with differing ideologies about what constitutes food, and how to make that food accessible, is why so many different and specific organizations and programs tackle the same issues. Even at intersections between the Pantry and Student Farm, through Fruit and Veggie Up and Fresh Focus, not everything envisioned can be efficiently executed.

Maria Wong, a fourth-year pharmaceutical chemistry major and the director of the Pantry, explained that a significant structural issue is a lack of human capital to make up volunteers and directors who are the foundation of the Pantry, as well as a need for more diversity among these students. Most students who volunteer are friends of friends, meaning that the network does not extend as far as it could to serve an array of students of various backgrounds. It would be highly beneficial to the Pantry if there were either members who have experienced food insecurity or know of various ways to use certain types of produce provided by the Student Farm. The Pantry is currently taking the important step of recruiting a diversified team to reflect both the student body en masse and the particular issue of food insecurity.

Graduate student Marisa Coyne has her own aspirations for the Community Table Project (CTP), of which she is directly affiliated, and its involvement with both the Student Farm and the Pantry.

“What I’d love to see is more interdisciplinary engagement in that space, and CTP has started some of that work,” Coyne said. She also had retrospective views of what’s working and how the utilization of available resources could lead to further positive change. “I think we’re extremely fortunate to have a resource that we can use in some small way to combat food insecurity on campus because we know that food insecurity is — that hunger is produced through discrimination and so that’s a systemic issue and one of the ways to combat that under capitalism is to provide economic resources. At the Student Farm we don’t have economic resources that we can provide to all students that are experiencing food insecurity on campus but what we do have is land and that is a form of capital.”

Charrisha Hillery has some ideas as to how collaborative work can solve these problems.

“As a transfer student, clinical nutrition major and a former member of the Student Nutrition Association, I wanted to work with as many on-campus food entities as possible during my short tenure here at UC Davis. The Pantry is a great resource and I am happy to help,” Hillery said enthusiastically. “The Pantry is run by students, for students, which in turn fuels a greater sense of community here at Davis. The health and well being of each of us is essential to the personal and professional growth of all of us.”

Bernie and the Bird HOW MILLENNIALS FAILED TO SHOW UP TO THE POLLS AND ELECT CLINTON

BY BRODY F ERN A N D E Z bwfernandez@ucdavis.edu

For the first time in history, the Millennial generation surpassed the Baby Boomers in size among the world's population. So nearly two years after they take the world by the reigns, what’s the worst that can happen? Brexit and Donald Trump happened. A message of isolationism and nationalism will be written in the history books as the first string of events Millennials helped put into motion. Future generations will wonder why.

Shortly after Great Britain historically decided to move away from the European Union in an act of defiance and propel itself into an economically independent direction, it was America’s turn to write history. The first important concept to remember regarding Millennials in the 2016 presidential election was the fact that their previous champion, Barack Obama, was leaving office. Now, Obama’s personal choice on who should follow him — Hillary Clinton — was clearly not preferred by a significant amount of Millennials.

Clinton arrived on the scene with a lot of baggage, none of which young people were willing to carry for her during this election. Ultimately, one might point to Benghazi, her email scandal or even the massive amounts of money that Middle Eastern countries poured into the the Clinton Foundation as reasons why Millennials wouldn’t vote for her. But Millennials were concerned about different flaws.

Let’s start with Clinton’s back-and-forth support for the LGBTQ community since the early 1990s. Something a more accepting, progressive and liberal group of people should be able to understand, right? No. She was immediately considered a traditional “Washingtonian” by most young people. Second, her defense of her husband’s three-strikes rule and her use of the term “super predator,” coined by former President Clinton, didn’t alleviate Millennials’ concerns that she didn’t care for the welfare of “all Americans.”

So where would the now “majority” generation find their hero?

On the set of a former number one NBC reality TV show? Or maybe in a 74-year-old man from Vermont who whispers to birds and sings folk songs? Clearly, the result of the election should tell you that in surpassing the Baby Boomer generation and getting ready for their “first day on the job,” so to speak, Millennials ultimately failed, showing up drunk and two hours late.

What people fail to realize is how the message of “Bernie or Bust” may have cost Clinton the election. Senator Bernie Sanders conceded the Democratic nomination to Clinton amid allegations of voter fraud and corruption on part of the Clinton campaign. The former head of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, stepped down after it was revealed the DNC was giving preferential treatment to Clinton. Now what’s important is that no one took the time to examine what “bust” meant when the champion of the Millennial generation in this election finally bowed

out. After Nov. 8, 2016, we learned what those “Bernie Bros” meant when they chanted “Bernie or Bust.” They simply didn’t show up to the polls, and too many that did failed to bubble in or select the name “Hillary Rodham Clinton.”

So why must the world deal with a young generation whose whining, crying and calling for shenanigans has become everyday news?

Because they are stereotypically portrayed as self-entitled, privileged crybabies. It’s not rocket science to figure out that all those young people who currently stain the office of the president could have prevented Trump from being in office if they simply showed up to vote.

A presidential election hadn’t seen a lower voter turnout since the year 1994. So instead of crying over spilled milk, Millennials, only about half of whom turned out to vote, should look in the mirror when looking for someone to blame for a Trump presidency.

It would be inaccurate and unfair to forget about the amount of young people who chose the current president as their champion: a complete outsider to Washington who runs for the people and against big business deals with neighboring countries. Those are some of the most prevalent qualities that young people look for in a candidate.

Needless to say, I’m not including the majority of young Latino voters and minorities. Although Trump did manage to win with white, college-aged males and females, it seems like it was Bernie and the Bird who flew away with the Millennial vote in the 2016 presidential election.

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Why science fiction is the genre of the 21st century THE GENRE HELPS CONTEXTUALIZE AND REFLECT CURRENT ANXIETIES, PROBLEMS

BY NOAH PF LUE G E R - P E T E R S napfluegerpeters@ucdavis.edu

It’s inarguable that science fiction is one of the most dominant genres of our time. Though it has been popular throughout the last 50 years, it hasn’t had as great of an influence on culture as it has today, and though this can be traced back to the development of special effects technology, it’s in large part due to the current moment we live in. Though sci-fi can be brushed aside as fantastical, I feel it represents the cultural moment of the 21st century better than any other genre, and that its influence will only continue to grow as we live in this ever-complicating world.

The definition of science fiction can be a little slippery, but I’ll define it as a form of fiction involving advanced technology or different worlds that has a more futuristic vibe, as opposed to fantasy, which generally has more elements like dragons and magic and bases itself on the medieval past. This makes Marvel movies science fiction, but not Harry Potter movies. The definition also excludes historical dramas about space like Apollo 13. The three operate in similar realms, but I’d like to focus purely on science fiction.

Science fiction has historically been a beloved genre, but not always an accepted one. It has its origins in pulp fiction from the turn of the century, and even after years of development and proliferation, it still carried that stigma. It was a genre that many thought was mainly for nerds, or one that was largely brushed aside when considering high art of the time period. People still flocked to science

fiction movies and TV shows like Star Wars, the Batman franchise and Star Trek, but at no point did it take over the market in the way it has in the new millennium.

Science fiction has exploded since the year 2000, particularly in the last ten years. According to filmsite.org, 11 of the 20 top domestic grossing movies of the 2010s were science fiction, with a sci-fi movie being the top-grossing film four out of the last five years. And in the past two decades, there have been 21 top-grossing sci-fi movies, compared with 24 from every other decade combined.

This has also been reflected in the Academy Awards. Before 2009, the only two sci-fi movies ever nominated for Best Picture were E.T. and Star Wars, neither of which won. Since then, there have been six, though none of them have won either. Part of this is due to the Oscars expanding the number of Best Picture nominees, but it also reflects the growing impact of science fiction on the film market and a growing acceptance in the art world and popular culture.

One thing is clear, however, and that’s that in the 21st century, science fiction sells and it’s more popular and more accepted than ever.

A lot of this has to do with advances in special effects that allow new worlds and technologies to come to life in ways previously not possible on screen. It also can be linked to the franchising of Star Wars, Marvel and DC because of the loyal fanbases these series have built. At the same time, it’s not an accident that the rise of science fiction has coincided with the developments of the modern world, and it’s more reflective of our time than any other genre.

Science fiction as a genre has a history of representing the unrep-

resentable. It’s no secret that the original Godzilla is a metaphor for the atomic bomb, and that all the alien invasion movies in the 50s and 60s were allegories for a Soviet invasion and nuclear war. Part of what sci-fi does is take modern trends and ask, “what’s next?” The genre tries to contextualize these issues in some fictional future or far-off planet to tell us something about our present.

We live in a world marked by rapid changes in technology, climate and society. Less than 10 years ago, the iPhone was the latest and greatest innovation the world had to offer, and now it’s on its eighth iteration, and everyone has one. Sea ice is melting at rapid rates, and yet the world’s response is stagnant because the change happens too slowly to be seen and felt on an everyday basis. The social and economic conventions that have reigned supreme since the end of World War II are starting to look more and more fragile with the rise of the far right in 2016.

None of these changes are minor, and it’s because of the almost incomprehensible vastness of their impacts that we need a medium to process them through. Science fiction offers this medium and allows us to better process the world around us instead of confronting these heavy, complex issues head-on. And as the world grows more rapid and complicated, sci-fi’s role will only increase.

“I feel like if you’re going to write realism about our time, science fiction is simply the best genre to do it in,” said renowned sci-fi novelist Kim Stanley Robinson in an interview with The Guardian.

“This is because we’re living in a big science fiction novel now that we all co-write together.”

Where we’re at with weed UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS AT GREATEST RISK OF FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT OF MARIJUANA POLICY

BY E LI F LESC H ekflesch@ucdavis.edu

Today marks the first 4/20 Californians of age will celebrate entirely legally. It’s been a long time coming for the state that was first in 1996 to approve the medical use of marijuana — and it’s surely only the start of what will be a national march toward the end of a modern prohibition. But there’s one big roadblock facing tokers everywhere: the Trump-era Department of Justice.

Helmed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a former Alabama senator and early Trump supporter, the Justice Department will likely have an outsized role in determining how the federal laws that still

classify marijuana as a Schedule I Drug as dangerous as cocaine and heroin are enforced.

Even though Sessions has recently indicated to U.S. senators in private that he will not crack down on marijuana, he has ordered a review of Obama-era marijuana enforcement policy and is known for his long-held and staunch opposition to a drug that he has said “good people don’t smoke.”

There are other troubling signs. Sessions appointed Steven H. Cook, a federal prosecutor and hard-line enemy of criminal-justice reform, to help roll back key provisions of the Obama Justice Department. That could include reimplementing the failed tactics of the War on Drugs.

The evidence that the Justice Department is gearing up to clamp down on pot raises an obvious question: Why? A Quinnipiac University poll found in February that 59 percent of Americans are in favor of legalizing marijuana, and 71 percent say the federal government should not interfere in states that have chosen to permit recreational or medicinal use of the drug.

As it happens, enforcing federal marijuana laws may have the added benefit to Sessions’ Justice Department of fulfilling a key Trump promise: cracking down on illegal immigration.

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HUMOR Student who walked up to 3rd floor of Shields thinking of becoming exercise HOW A STUDENT TURNED INTO AN EXERCISE ICON BY BRAVELY GOING WHERE PEOPLE GO ALL THE TIME

BY BRI AN LAND RY bjlandry@ucdavis.edu

Students exercise in all kinds of ways on campus. Some bike.

Some run triathlons. Some go to the ARC (boring). But above all there are those who brave the trek all the way up to the top floor of Shields Library. Those people are the true heroes.

“It’s difficult sometimes to be such an exercise icon in my own mind,” said Trevor Slutt, a regular on the top floor of the library and engineer who allegedly helped design the 360-degree ice wall that keeps the ocean contained on the flat earth. “It’s a lot of responsibility, but I feel as though I have a duty to share my passion for ball-

busting exercise with the rest of the student body. So I’ve decided to become an exercise guru in order to encourage my fellow Aggies to become fit enough to climb the stairs to the top floor of the library while only sweating a medium amount.”

Slutt is turning out to be quite the inspiration on campus by encouraging students to praise themselves for doing simple “fitness” tasks.

“I walked a different path to class today to change up my walking routine,” said Helen Ellen, a fourth-year exercise biology major and human coffee grinder. “It wasn’t actually any longer. In fact, it was half as long. But what I was really doing was exercising my mind by figuring out the shortest way to get to class. And that’s something

really special.”

Ellen is not alone.

“I was really inspired by Mr. Slut,” said Rich Squirt, a first-year computer science major and a star of TLC’s My Strange Addiction for his episode about being addicted to wearing as many jackets as possible. “I decided to stop staying on the first floor of the library all the time. Instead, I’m just going to stay home and exercise my right to do absolutely nothing. And maybe I’ll finally find my son.”

Trevor Slutt has forever changed the UC Davis campus. He should be celebrated for bravely climbing up the two flights of stairs that lead to the library’s third level and inspiring a generation of student-athletes.

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Noeru Sasaki, Hernandez’s assistant and a second-year communication major. “I actually found out through the ASUCD fair, and I really wanted to get involved with the community and the school, and I heard about Picnic Day and how it’s a huge tradition, so I decided to sign up for the assistant director position.”

Together, these students coordinate both Pre-Week, the week of events leading up to the notorious Saturday, and the day itself. Picnic Day is packed with fun events for people of all ages, with some of the most popular ones being the Battle of the Bands, the Fashion Show, the Chemistry Magic Show and the Doxie Derby Race.

“Honestly, my favorite part of Picnic Day is just going from side to side of campus and having there literally be an event at every corner and turn,” said ASUCD president Josh Dalavai, a third-year economics and political science major. “But if I had to pick, it’s the Doxie Derby. I’m a classic man, it’s the Doxie Derby.”

Classic indeed — even first time Picnic Day attendees have heard about the Doxie Derby race and can’t wait to see it, including Shireen Olyaie, a third-year transfer student and clinical nutrition major.

“I’m pretty excited, I heard that there’s fun events going around the campus,” Olyaie said. “I think the Doxie Derby sounds really cute. I am going with a few friends, [we…] might just walk around and explore campus and see what it has to offer. I’ve heard it’s like a giant open house and that always sounds fun.”

One of the highlights of Picnic Day that has grown in its hundred years is none other than the parade. Every year, the Board of Directors selects Parade Marshals who are special members of the community and who embody the spirit of the chosen theme. This year’s marshals are UC Davis professors Bryan Enderle and Isao Fujimoto, who are both active and inspiring members of the Davis community.

One of Enderle and Fujomoto’s responsibilities will be to judge and vote on the best float from the parade. For Rahi Suryawanshi, a third-year international relations major and ASUCD senator, riding on the float of her Japanese drum team Bakuhatsu Taiko Dan will definitely be one of this year’s Picnic Day highlights.

“We perform usually at Picnic Day and we will be performing this Picnic Day too,” Suryawanshi said. “We will be in the parade as well, and I’m very excited to perform, it’s a lot of fun.

This year is the first year we’re doing the parade actually — we built our own float! It’s super exciting.”

Whether on the Board of Directors, participating in the Parade or simply walking around campus as an attendee, there is something new to learn about this vast university for everyone.

“I think my favorite thing changes each year,” Hernandez said. “There’s also so many things that I don’t know are happening because there’s so many events. I learn more about the campus, I think that’s the craziest thing for me. I think I know, but then there’s so many opportunities at this campus that I had no idea of until Picnic Day.”

strange juxtaposition to Singh. He began to explore some of the obstacles UC Davis students faced regarding safe sex and proper reproductive health.

“I talked to more of my friends, and there was some concerns brought up about there being only one 24/7 pharmacy, Safeway in North Davis,” Singh said. “My friends shared some incidents where they went to get some Plan B on a Friday night, and the store was all out. And they weren’t getting a new shipment until Monday. These stories and talking to my friends persuaded me to run on this platform.

Also, with the Plan B vending machine, you don’t have to face another person when you buy this.”

Evelyn Aron, a second-year anthropology major, supported the idea of the Plan B vending machine but is unsure if it was located in the best place.

“It should be somewhere else,” Aron said.

“Maybe the Student Wellness Center or somewhere where students go for those things, not the ARC.” Singh understands student skepticism about the location, but he explained how temperature affects contraceptive drug efficacy and degradation, which limited the location options.

“We looked at a couple options on campus for where to put it,” Singh said. “The original option was to have it 24/7 available, and we were thinking outside the MU [Memorial Union], maybe outside the SCC [Student Community Center]. The machine doesn’t only have emergency contraceptive, it has other medicine too, and with the temperature change — say, over the summer — it gets really hot. It wouldn’t be stable to keep the medicine in the machine. We decided on the ARC. It’s located inside one of the study rooms. People know where the ARC is, people know where the study rooms are, and at the same time, it’s still kind of discrete and private because it’s inside the study room and by the Amazon box. The fact that it has other

medicine and other products in it, it doesn’t necessarily mean the person is buying Plan B.” Emilia Aguirre, a sexual and mental health awareness educator at the SHCS, worked closely with Singh in advocating for the machine, a process that spanned well over a year.

The interim director of SHCS Cory Vu also supported Singh’s project.

“SHCS has been working very closely with Parteek and was instrumental in gathering the research, assessment of student need and data to offer contraceptive vending machines,” Aguirre said. “My role was essentially to get everyone in the same room and get the conversation going. Overall, it was a very positive experience.”

Singh views this vending machine as a step in the right direction amid the current presidential administration’s restrictions on sexual health clinics like Planned Parenthood.

However, in advocating for increased sexual health and availability of medicine, Singh understands conflicting ideologies about reproduction will always be present on a college campus.

“I think this is good news,” Singh said. “[It’s] something finally good to hear after all the moving back on women’s health rights and LGBT rights that’s been happening because of the new administration. I remember someone I was friends with telling me how some girl was sitting next to him. My picture popped up on the girl’s news feed and she was yelling out, ‘I hate this guy — he’s trying to bring an abortion machine on campus!’ or something.

And I was reached out to by a pro-life student organization to introduce a pamphlet in the vending machine avoiding the idea of abortion completely. We had a genuine conversation.”

Singh’s initial proposal was rejected by the school, so he had to reform the venture.

He reintroduced the project as a more all-encompassing student health-oriented machine, with headache and pain medication alongside the morning after pills and condoms. After an

arduous process beginning in the fall of 2015, the vending machine was finally approved this past winter. In December 2016, Singh ordered the vending machine, which is on a two-year lease.

“One of the hurdles we faced was if it was legal in California pharmacy bylaws,” Singh said. “But it is legal, and the director of the SHWC told us that if it was legal, that she was for the idea. The goal was to get their support and then take it to Student Affairs and get them to pay for the machine. I met the vice chancellor and said ‘give me another chance, let me present this idea again.’ During that time, I changed the concept from a Plan B vending machine to a health and wellness vending machine and added more products, so it’s less controversial.”

After this, Aggie Studios helped Singh conduct surveys to gauge student interest in the project.

Singh then reintroduced his idea to the SHWC and presented his project as wholly boosting student health and wellness — not just sexual and reproductive health. He finally got approval from the SHWC around last Spring Quarter, and the vending machine was installed on March 31.

“It’s just amazing to see this on campus,” Singh said. “When I heard the news that we got this on campus over spring break, I went there on Sunday night and we took a picture and I posted it as my profile. People were really excited. It was shared by 1,400 people. I see this as my baby! When you go into these meetings with bigger directors, at least one person in the room is like, ‘Who’s this kid?’

But while I’m here, I wanted to fight for this machine. That was my journey with this vending machine.”

The project has the potential to spread to more schools — three other campuses have reached out about the machine to Singh, who also plans on speaking with students senators from different UC campuses about the venture.

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Psychologists once dropped mice in small mazes and measured the time it took for the rodents to reach the ends of the mazes. In the late 1970s, engineers took on a challenge to mirror this labyrinth experiment and construct the wandering mice as small, autonomous robots.

Today, this challenge is known as Micromouse, a competitive event in which engineers design and program robotic mice to independently solve a 16 cm x 16 cm grid cell maze.

Micromouse competitions are held worldwide and welcome a variety of robot enthusiasts who range from beginner programmers to expert engineers. New to the competition is the UC Davis Robotics Team, a diverse group of engineering students eager to apply their skills and learn more about competitive robotics. The team is currently preparing for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Micromouse competition this May, which will be held at UC San Diego.

“The Micromouse competition consists of an autonomous (i.e. pre-programmed) robot that is tasked with solving a maze,” said Braden Rhoads, a second-year electrical engineering

major and the Robotics Team captain in an email interview. “The robot must find its way through a maze that is completely new to it, spending the first round solving the maze, and spending the second round going through it as fast as possible by mapping out the fastest route from beginning to end.”

To ensure that the UC Davis mouse has optimal support and successfully reaches the end of the maze, the team has split itself into three sub-teams: computer programming, electrical design and mechanical design.

Naveed Oroumchian, a second-year electrical engineering major, works with the electrical design sub-team to construct a solid foundation for the operating mouse.

“For our part of it, we’re responsible for finding a microcontroller and sensors, and making [the mouse] into one system,” Oroumchian said. “Then we tell the mechanical design team to construct [the exterior], and the computer programming team creates a program to work with it.”

Ben Hough, a third-year computer science and engineering major, described his duties as a computer programming sub-team member.

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Ever had a new partner who is reminiscent of a former flame?

A recent UC Davis study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology finds that a glimpse into a person’s dating history can reveal both physical and personality-based similarities between one’s past partners.

For similarities in physical attractiveness, the study revealed that people generally dated those who were about as attractive as themselves, thereby following the model of assortative mating and producing a history of exes with relatively the same level of attractiveness.

Other physical attributes that showed a tendency to match between one’s past partners were masculinity, femininity and dominance.

For qualities such as IQ, educational aspirations and religious preferences that are dependent on the social context (i.e. where one lives), a similar trend became apparent.

However, this similarity was attributed to the reasoning that most people dated those that they went to school with or lived near, not because they actively sought out and selected educated or religious people.

“The evidence was a little stronger for the physical than the personality similarities,” said Dr. Paul Eastwick, an associate professor of psychology at UC Davis and the primary author on the study. “But the main difference was that the personality similarities seemed to originate with the social context, a passive selection process, whereas the physical similarities were more likely to reflect an active selection process.”

The article, which is composed of three individual studies, utilizes data from social media sites such as Facebook, questionnaires and interviews of people in over 1000 past and present heterosexual relation-

ships.

“It’s the first study to examine people’s multiple romantic partner choices over time,” Eastwick said.

“I think it’s important to bear in mind that people’s romantic relationships don’t exist in a vacuum. They are preceded by other relationships and are often followed by other relationships, and what affects our choices in one relationship may have important impacts on the choices we make in other relationships.”

One of the studies showed that people’s romantic partners tend to “cluster” and show consistency around certain attributes that mirrored those of past partners, such as a great sense of humor and high attractiveness.

“My role was to conduct the initial simulation study,” said Dr. Samantha Joel, co-author on the paper and assistant professor of social psychology at the University of Utah. “We wanted to show that our clustering method was a valid way to detect stable mate preferences across time. We found that yes, if you simulate an environment in which people choose partners according to stable mate preferences, those preferences are revealed through clustering across their romantic partners.”

The studies are conducted and examined under the lens of researchers in specific fields of relationships science, sociology and evolutionary psychology.

“The take-home here goes above and beyond the results and implications of the studies,” said Jennifer Ann Shukusky, co-author on the study and graduate research assistant in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Texas. “It’s that there needs to be more communication between fields that take interest in similar topics, like the three blind men trying to identify an elephant, each has a different set of information that shapes his perspective, [and] when you pull it all together — when researchers from different disciplines collaborate —then you can get the full picture.”

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Flashing screens and the soft glow of computers and phones can now help address some of the problems that accompany depression, thanks to research being done in the UC Davis Department of Communication.

Through the partnership of technology and cognitive tests designed for depression, Jorge Peña, an associate professor of communication, and doctoral candidate Subuhi Khan are using a video game to help with depression.

The game takes cognitive tasks that have been previously associated with depression among other mental illness and puts them into a game platform.

The video game focuses on tasks that help with the conflict resolution processing section of the brain.

“We tried to maintain everything about the tasks as pristine as possible,” Kahn said. “We tried to adhere to the neurophysiological aspects of the tasks and made them games, something that is there on the platform for people to play with.”

The games’ tasks involve looking at a screen with five arrows and determining which way the center arrow is pointing, or matching an emotion to a facial expression in a split second as it flashes on the screen. “[The tasks] sound very simple to do but when it is adapted to the game it’s very quick, it’s flashing across the screen and people have very short reaction times to respond to so it becomes exciting,” Kahn said. “Unlike the cognitive tasks themselves which are long, we adapted [the games] to be only one minute.”

Not only does the program have these tasks built in as a game for participants, but it also sends messages to the player that prompt them to be more inclined to play the game.

“What we were trying to do with this particular

study is to get people to being more involved in playing these games,” Peña said.

While reviewing some of the literature surrounding these health video game interventions, Kahn found a problem in that people may not choose to complete them.

“In this kind of study, you are showing the messages in the same medium in which they are seeking treatment,” Kahn said.

According to Kahn, this is different than getting reminded to go to a therapy session because the intervention to help with the depression is right there where the message is popping up.

The study has been over two years in the making and was motivated by the curiosity of Kahn, who wanted to see if this type of engagement of depression with technology was possible.

“Kahn was really interested in the applications of new technologies and how to use new technology to persuade people, to nudge them to be healthier,” Peña said. “[…] We started on this project because I’m interested in the idea of technology and persuasion.”

Kahn and Peña use the Visual Interaction & Communication Technology Lab in the Department of Communication to complete their ongoing research. They are currently testing different interfaces, screen sizes and messages that participants see. Eventually, the team is hoping to get the game to clinical trials and beyond.

Recently, Kahn and Peña have enlisted the help of computer science students on campus to help beautify the interface and make the tasks more game-like in nature. My Nguyen, a third-year computer science major who heard about Kahn and Peña’s work through UC Davis’ Modlab, is helping with this project.

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-thored and introduced by Menenes, moved to allocate $75 to reserve the Memorial Union Patio for Denim Day 2017. The bill passed unanimously with a vote of 12-0-0.

Subsequently, Senate Bill #77, authored by former ASUCD Controller Joseph DeAngelo, was introduced by Senator Grewal. The bill moved to clarify the purpose of the Entrepreneurship Fund Committee.

“The ASUCD Entrepreneurship Fund Committee has long functioned without a coherent structure,” DeAngelo wrote. “This bill clarifies the scope and purview of the committee.”

Senate Bill #77 passed unanimously with a vote of 12-0-0.

Afterward, consideration of old legislation began with Senate Bill #78, which was authored by Nick Flores, the Internal Affairs Commission chair. The bill moved to define “Board” in the ASUCD bylaws.

“The purpose of a Board shall be to serve as a collaborative and advisory body in ASUCD, comprised of no fewer than five (5) undergraduate students created through legislation,” Flores wrote. “The specific structure, purpose, and hiring practices of the Board shall be defined through legislation hereinafter enacted, appropriately addressing these areas.”

The bill passed unanimously with a vote of 12-0-0.

Shortly after, confirmations were made for the Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission.

The meeting adjourned at 9:20 p.m.

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ence centered around enhancing health results for LGBTQ patients by bringing leaders and experts together to share ideas and skills.

Director of Institutional Culture/Climate and Community Engagement Adrienne Lawson-Thompson, Ed.D., said that she is proud to be a part of the LGBTQ-friendly UC Davis Medical Center.

“It really affirmed that we have a commitment with our hospital policies,” Lawson-Thompson said. “[It is important] that they feel safe, [are] treated with respect and dignity and feel welcomed.”

Lawson-Thompson stressed the significance of training and informing the institution’s staff to provide equitable care in the future. She added that the hospital has unisex room assignments and bathroom access.

“I believe that we align ourselves with the best practices in the field and show how we are reducing our biases and insensitivities [by address-

ing] our key issues such as confidentiality,” Lawson-Thompson said.

Though a record number of health care facilities applied for leadership, the HRC is dedicated to the long “battle” ahead for LGBTQ-friendly health care facilities.

“It is crucial that institutions continue to demonstrate that the march toward full equality is not slowing down,” HRC President Chad Griffin said in a press release. “For the past decade, the HEI has been the roadmap to closing the gap in ensuring equal care to LGBTQ patients and their families, and we urge every health care facility to join us in this continuing effort to provide inclusive care to all.”

The HRC website offers support for LGBTQ patients to find health care providers, assistance for coming out to their doctor, resources for transgender patients and more. To find a LGBTQ-inclusive health care facility, please view the HEI 2017.

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with the Davis home brewing club, Greenbelt Brewers’ Association. He began to get to know other beer enthusiasts in the area until he finally decided to make the transition to professional brewing. “[The brewers in Davis are] a very friendly group of people who share information and want to see everyone succeed,” Joe Vida said. “I couldn’t be more grateful for all the help they’ve given. It’s a really good learning community for the brewing industry.”

Super Owl hopes to focus more on American and English-style, like ale-style beers, but also some big IPAs, robust stouts and dark strongs, too. The brewery expects to incorporate local farmers and local fruits for seasonality with its beers.

“We like to incorporate organic produce, and having worked for a recycling lobbyist, sustainability is really important to me,” Rachel said. “We want to give our spent grain to farmers to use for goats or cows and have as little waste as possible.”

Super Owl hopes to take a more community-based approach for its brewery, with a kids area and open patio. It will be picnic-style, in which people can bring in their own food, and local eateries in West Davis, like Lamppost Pizza, may even deliver to the brewery.

Whatever the two breweries have working in their midst, Davis is an up-and-coming locale for those in search of a good brew.

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doesn’t predict many repercussions.

“I expect little to no impact on the residents,” Swanson said. “Typically, neighbors aren’t even aware that other neighbors that are growing. And, for the economy, that is honestly unknown. We of course will be collecting sales tax –– there probably won’t be sales tax on medicinal, but there will be business licenses so there will be licenses. We’ve only regulated a small amount of it. We’re working with people who have a history on this so that we do the very best by our community, that’s really important.”

Since this is the first time the City of Davis will encounter such an allowance of cannabis, it will have to be regulated and accommodated to fit the needs of the city.

“It’s hard to tell [how cannabis will affect the city], what we’ve said is that this is a new era–– no one has been in a situation where scheduled drug prohibited substance has gone past prohibition,” Mayor Robb Davis said. “We’re in the process of having our police go and give us info on a regular basis on complaints and our clients. There doesn’t appear to be an increase

in clients, but we’ll adjust as necessary.”

The allowance of outdoor cannabis cultivation has been disputed and discussed for quite some time, with many making the argument that growing cannabis will enable its misuse or cause problems for the community.

However, rules and regulations have been set forth, and additional meetings and ordinances will take place as well to ensure that safety is maintained.

The city will take the necessary measures in order to make certain the best possible outcomes for its residents.

“Overall, I think it’s going to have a direction that it gives the greater community –– a more upfront introduction to cannabis that frankly is already been existing in the community for a long time,” Gudz said. “This is sort of the next step in that policy that we’re seeing across the state. One of the big things is looking at ensuring that social justice remains a cornerstone of those discussions. We orient these policies around social policies and ideals. The war on drugs has impacted permanently scores of communities across the globe.”

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hard for me to pick [a favorite] because it’s all stuff we communally agreed to put on our top-priority list.”

Savage was most interested in the issue of immigration.

“I would say for me the one that I was probably most interested in is H.R. 913, […] which is the Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act, because I think that education regarding pathways to citizenship and legal orientation and things like to that nature I think is, and other bills related to immigration, are really, really pressing right now,” Savage said. “I think that community is one of the, if not the most vulnerable community right now.”

Nagey, even with his attachment to all of the legislation on which he lobbied, did have one topic that he was most passionate about because it affects him personally.

“The Pell Grant stuff,” Nagey said. “I rely a lot on Pell Grants to attend school here, and there is talk about cutting Pell Grants or decreasing Pell Grants. The bills we were advocating for actually touched on having a year-round Pell Grant where you can apply for two Pell Grants, kind of one in the beginning [of the school year] and one in the spring. […] We also were advocating for the con-

tinuation of Pell Grants, so kind of a different spectrum — [advocating] for more and to just keep them.”

Moving forward, Nagey has big dreams for the Washington, D.C. trip that some schools send upwards of 40 people to.

“Hopefully, with this year’s budget cycle in ASUCD, we will argue for a lot more money and hopefully have a position in OASR, where people can apply, a position literally just to apply to different grants,” Nagey said. “Hopefully with that money we can start taking more students.”

Funding for this year’s trip came from multiple sources, including support from the ASUCD Senate.

“I was really glad to see that our senate supports advocacy and activism,” Savage said. “[…]

Our office is the lowest funded [advocacy office] by far. Our office, for our budget, not including payroll or anything like that, have about $10,000.

The next lowest budget has like $60,000. […] It has been, a little bit, since we’ve been starting up, an uphill battle for us. Getting that funding from Senate […] was definitely encouraging.”

Shemery did not respond to The Aggie’s request for an interview.

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to be signed by the governor.”

Such bills are still important to pay attention to as they make their way through the political chambers. This is not the first time a state has attempted to seek sanctuary, though.

Arizona and Texas have also sought to enact similar bills.

While Arizona’s sanctuary bill failed to make it past the senate, Texas is currently working its way toward sanctuary status.

When asked how she felt about the pro-

Napolitano is focusing on implementing accessible resources for respondents, students who have been accused of sexual assault.

When asked to comment on the recent sexual assault acts at several UC medical centers, Salvaty could not discern whether this issue is a trend surrounding UC medical centers. She said that the apparent correlation between recurrent investigations and medical centers may be a result of there being a large number of employees at the multiple medical centers. She emphasized that the Title IX Office is working closely with medical centers and “building stronger bridges to work in prevention education.”

Salvaty admitted that these efforts may be challenging, since many medical centers are not located on the actual UC campuses. However, she believes that the many reports of investigations taking place are an indication that employees are aware of where to report and that the university does see their obligation toward them.

With the relatively recent action taken by President Donald Trump to rescind protections for transgender students to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity, Salvaty addressed the concerns of gender protection by explaining that the “policies protect from discrimination based on gender orientation.”

In addition to protecting the LGBTQIA community, Salvaty answered concerns regarding the protection of undocumented students when filing sexual assault reports, especially under the Trump administration.

“It is certainly an issue we’re concerned about,” Salvaty said. “[We are] always concerned that undocumented students are not feeling safe to report.”

Salvaty stressed that the Title IX Office is a safe place for undocumented students and strongly advised undocumented students to communicate with a CARE advocate about what steps to take when reporting sexual assault.

In response to the question of whether the Ti-

tle IX office has ever considered establishing legal clinics for sexual assault victims — similar to UC Davis’s immigration law clinics — Salvaty replied that it is “something I would think about” as some campuses, such as UCLA, have legal interns working on cases concerning domestic violence but not sexual assault cases yet.

Rachelle Fishbin, ASUCD Sexual Assault Awareness and Advocacy Committee (SAAAC) chair, expressed her concerns about the direction of the Title IX Office’s efforts.

“The efforts I have seen have been reactionary,” Fishbin said. “ I would like to see the university be more proactive in stopping sexual assault. That doesn’t mean social media campaigns or putting banners up.”

She hopes the university will implement better preventative education programs, such as requiring students to take a type of educational seminar facilitated by the Title IX Office.

“I love that they did some consent training at freshmen orientation,” said Claire Chevillier, a SAAAC committee member. “It is important to make sure than first-year students know their resources.”

Fishbin was also concerned about the lack of transparency regarding the resources available to complainants. “[Resources] are very targeted in certain communities, such as Greek life,” Fishbin said. “There is a large push for Greek life to know what the resources are [...] obviously sexual assault occurs outside of Greek life, so what is being done for those communities, is there a similar push to make them aware of what their resources are?”

While certain changes have already been implemented, the Title IX Office will continue to expand on its current agenda by increasing the staffing of Title IX Offices across the UC system, planning new programs and expanding on the CARE program, while working with respondent coordinator representatives to establish more resources for accused students.

posed California bill, Blanco expressed her excitement.

“I think it’s good,” Blanco said. “It’s being criticized by some as radical. I think the best thing about it […] is that it creates uniformity throughout the state.”

While it is still too early to fully see the extent of changes this bill would apply to California as a whole, this bill has certainly gained significant momentum as it works its way through the chambers.

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The tables are lined up along the walkway that cuts through the MU and the Quad. This area is a central location on campus that Mumford found to be a perfect area to reach many different students. When at the MU, his organization took a different angle at first — something they call “backward tabling,” that is, approaching students instead of waiting to be approached.

“Today is our first day of tabling,” Mumford said. “[Before today,] we’ve been doing backwards tabling, which we find to be great because we are trying to reach groups who are looking to reach other students.”

According to Dinh, printing handouts with information is another effective way for students to publicize their organizations.

“You’re publicizing your [group],” Dinh said.

“It’s kind of like, ‘please take this [flyer]’ and take the time to listen to us. You’re trying to sell yourself and your cause.”

Like Dinh, Escanero handed out flyers while tabling as well. She found that people were more willing to take a handout rather than stopping to

talk.

“Rarely someone comes up to us,” Escanero said. “I feel like people are usually shy to come up and talk or we will just go up to them and hand them a flyer. ” Unlike Escanero and Dinh, Mumford did not create flyers for his group, which led to difficulties during his first week of tabling.

“We are trying to do this without any flyers, which is a little bit tricky,” Mumford said. “Everyone is just like ‘oh let me take something’ and [...] we don’t want to waste paper.”

While there are difficult aspects of tabling that make it seem like it may not be the most effective way to reach a large quantity of students, some groups find that it is actually useful. According to Dinh, even if it only reaches a small number of students, it may just be the students they need.

“I think for the vast majority of people, [they] pass us by,” Dinh said. “There are people who are interested and do come in and that’s actually how I heard about our clinic so it was successful for me. I still think [tabling] is useful.”

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issue, the possession or use of marijuana by undocumented immigrants can, in some cases, be grounds for deportation. Sessions has responded to sanctuary cities like Davis that have promised not to turn over undocumented immigrants to federal authorities by threatening to withhold critical grant money.

In such an environment, it seems eminently possible that a rehashed War on Drugs could be an excuse for Trump to target unauthorized immigrants, even here in California. At UC Davis, where the number of undocumented students totaled about 200 when the AB540 Undocumented Center opened in 2014, that poses a potential danger to the campus community. As college students increasingly choose to smoke marijuana, they should be informed as to how the use, sale or possession of pot can adversely affect them or their colleagues.

While the harm that Sessions could create by going after pot is huge, there’s still a lot of uncertainty as to how the administration will actually act. In marijuana we see another example of Trump’s lack of leadership creating rifts within his own administration. Contradicting Sessions and Cook last week was Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, who said “Marijuana is not a factor in the drug war.”

So what’s the bottom line? Does all this confusion precede the end of weed? Not quite.

It’s possible that the slow way recreational marijuana has been adopted in the United States has created a situation that makes it more difficult for a knee-jerk reaction from the Justice Department.

This is especially true for medicinal marijuana — which has been rolled out over the United States for over 20 years — and is now being put under serious consideration in deep-red states like West Virginia, where it was approved by a Republican legislature earlier this month.

All this is to say: Don’t panic yet, man. Even though ambiguity over the Trump administration’s position on weed has caused states like Colorado to reevaluate how they regulate the drug, it’s unlikely that pot’s acceptance among a growing share of Americans will suddenly go up in smoke.

Of the eight states that have legalized recreational marijuana, all have done so through ballot referendums rather than through state legislatures. It’s an indication of how perceptions of weed have changed from the ground up, and for the better. That should give some hope to users on this 4/20 that Trump and Sessions may not get their hellish return to draconian drug policy.

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help with depression in your brain,” Nguyen said. “But the researchers realize that technology is valuable, we just need to implement [it] to help make our lives not only get better [but] make it more comfortable, and you can use it to help more people with depression.”

The game is still in the beginning phases of development, but Kahn and Peña are hopeful that further development will help the study of both technology and mental health.

Kahn designed the application and while

she has nothing against the medicines used to treat depression, she thinks exploring other options is also important.

“The hope is that if nothing else it furthers knowledge about depression, the fact that depression doesn’t have to be thought of as an untreatable condition or something that cannot be addressed without taking medicines,” Kahn said. “[…] I definitely want to promote the idea that there are options out there for people to explore and options that can be pretty accessible as well.”

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connect the high-level mini-solving algorithms with the low-level motor control so that the mouse can successfully navigate the maze,” Hough said. “To do that, the mouse has several sensors that can help it gain information as to where it is. The mouse has encoders on its motors which measure how many times its wheels rotate, and from that we can get the distance. It also has infrared sensors, which can measure distance from walls.”

The mechanical design sub-team is working on reducing the weight of the mouse, which will ease rapid turning motions, according to Hough.

The IEEE competition will be the first Micromouse event for some Robotic Team members, including Oroumchian.

He has so far enjoyed contributing to the team and looks forward to furthering his knowledge of electrical engineering through competitive robotics.

“As a second year, I’m still learning about all of the electrical systems,” Oroumchian said. “Hopefully this will help me gain some experience in the field and I can

play a bigger part [on the team] in the future.”

For Hough, the IEEE competition provides an opportunity to improve his programming skills and collaborate with fellow engineers. He entered the competition with his junior college team in the past, but his previous team’s mouse encountered technical difficulties during its maze run.

“We never got it to complete an entire maze, so I’m really hoping that we can get to that stage,” Hough said.

“There’s a lot that goes into finishing one maze, so if we could do that, I’d be really excited.”

As the UC Davis Team begins assembling its first robotic mouse, Rhoads has high hopes for the IEEE competition.

“Coordination is key, and thus along with each of [our] sub-teams working on their particular portion of the robot, we are preparing by making sure everything comes together perfectly,” Rhoads said. “Overall, I am very proud of my team and the work we have been contributing, and I believe we will be strong contenders in the upcoming competition.”

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Lamar tackles subjects of anti-blackness, religion, politics What Jordan Peele has planned next

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BY AB I G A I L WA N G arts@theaggie.org

DAMN. Definitely my first reaction to hearing Kendrick Lamar’s latest album, released on April 14. Lamar gives nothing less than expected in his work. The album follows similar themes as his other works, tackling right-wing politics, antiblackness, religion, mental health and even feminism. And this is what makes Lamar so brilliant.

His album is nuanced and the layers are complex, with jazz interludes and audio bits, all intertwined with his impassioned messages.

Right off the bat, Lamar doesn’t hold back, calling out Fox News for its criticism following his performance of “Alright” at the 2015 BET awards.

He uses an audio sample from Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera, who states that “hip-hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism.” Lamar hits back at the disapproval on his third song “YAH.” as he raps, “Fox News wanna use my name for percentage.”

Throughout the album there is also a focus on the juxtaposition of struggles Lamar faces in addressing his identity as a African American man and how the world views him. In “YAH.” Lamar says “I’m a Israelite, don’t call me Black no mo’ / That word is only a color, it ain’t facts no mo’.”

Through this biblical reference Lamar tackles the theme of anti-blackness and the labels that have been placed as barriers to how he feels he personally identifies. He follows this up in “XXX.” as he references Little Johnny, a character that represents a child who gets caught up in the violence and “street life” surrounding him. Lamar speaks on this by saying Little Johnny “said books aren’t cool no ‘mo / Johnny want to be a rapper like his cousin.”

In “FEAR.” anti-blackness is again touched upon as Lamar delivers the chilling predictions of how he’ll die. Reasons he gives are “because these colors standin’ out” and later “I’ll prolly die from one of these bats and blue badges,” as he references police brutality.

This duality continues with Lamar’s struggle to remain humble in a world of fame. Three tracks — “PRIDE.,” “HUMBLE.” and “LUST.” — accurately capture Lamar’s internal struggle to both acknowledge his success and remain modest. In the second stanza of “PRIDE.,” Lamar asks “hap-

piness or flashiness?” alluding to his grapples with materialistic items over true happiness. In the following song, “HUMBLE.,” Lamar references his “humble” beginnings by saying “I remember syrup sandwiches and crime allowances” and then follows this by saying “now I’m countin’ this parmesean where my accountant lives.” In “LUST.” Kendrick raps about “wak[ing] up in the mornin’ / thinkin’ ‘bout money kick your feet up.” Throughout the song, he creates the image of a stereotypical “rapper lifestyle” full of drugs, money and women.

Yet at the end of the song Lamar speaks on a deeper subject: the recent election of Trump. He urges his listeners to resist, as he says, “parade the streets with your voice proudly,” and after times passes “revertin’ back to our daily programs, stuck in our ways; drones.”

Lamar features a variety of artists, including Rihanna, Zacari and U2. Each brings their unique sound to the album. Rihanna on “LOYALTY.” adds depth to the song as she backs Lamar up and ends the song with a powerful message: “It’s so hard to be humble.” Zacari is an up-and-coming artist, and his feature on “LOVE.” is definitely one of the most notable. The track brings all the feels, and Zacari’s smooth vocals compliment the song perfectly. U2’s contribution to the album was one of the most anticipated, and “XXX.” does not disappoint. Its unique sound is nicely accompanied

by Bono’s voice in the second part of the song, as it slows down.

In the last song, “DUCKWORTH.,” Lamar’s legal last name, Lamar talks about how “Top Dawg,” who signed 15-year-old Lamar, almost robbed his father at a KFC drive-through where Lamar’s father worked many years prior. But Lamar’s father wins him over by giving him free chicken. Through this personal history, Lamar illuminates a greater lesson: one of compassion and forgiveness. “Who would have thought the greatest rapper would be from coincidence?”

Throughout this album, it is clear that Lamar rightfully owns the title of best rapper alive. The layers that are provided both musically and lyrically reveal sentiments that are so important to acknowledge.

Lamar gives us much more than music — he provides audiences with a way to heal and a lens to criticize the institutions that defy us. All hail King Kendrick.

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DAVIS DANCE REVOLUTION 2017 Picnic Day dance competition features Davis’ best dance groups

BY MYA H DA N I E L S arts@theaggie.org

The UC Davis Center for Student Involvement will host Davis Dance Revolution (DDR) in the Pavilion at 7 p.m. on Picnic Day, featuring several Davis dance groups showcasing both traditional and modern dance styles.

One of the teams performing will be SoNE1, UC Davis’ first K-pop dance group.

“The majority of us are actually not Korean,” said Karen Cheng, a third-year communication major and a member of SoNE1. “We are very diverse and have all kinds of people.”

At last year’s DDR, the group was criticized for its lack of original choreography.

“People were giving us slack for not doing our own choreo. The whole purpose of K-pop is that there is a whole dance that goes with a song,” Cheng said. “This year for DDR, we are showing we can do our own choreography.”

Agape, a Christian dance group, will be competing against SoNE1 in the modern dance category.

“I am expecting for everyone to just do their best and to have fun, because that is what is about,” said Tristan Bala, a third-year computer science major and a dancer for Agape.

Members of the crew all have opportunities to choreograph, as well as perform in the dance numbers.

“The highest-voted pieces were the ones we chose for DDR,” Bala said.

The team’s theme for this year’s competition will be “support.”

“Everyone goes through hard times,” said Rianna Chu, a third-year neurobiology, physiology and behavior major and the director of Agape. “We all feel hurt and stress and feel the same thing. We want to show we are all in this together.”

According to multiple members, DDR is one of the only opportunities for all of Davis’ dance community to perform with one another.

“Davis’ dance community is a little segmented,” Chu said. “DDR is the only thing where all the dance teams come together.”

Other groups performing include: Davis Chinese Dance, Davis Wushu, English Country Dancers, Filipinx, Mga Kapatid, Na Keiki ‘O Hawai’i, Sunatya, Davis Ballet Company, Elite Dance Company, MK Modern, MOBility and Unbound Progression Dance Company.

Tickets are $15 presale and $17 at the door for students, $17 presale and $22 at the door for general admission, and $9 for all children 13 and under.

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When writer-director Jordan Peele’s Get Out was first released in February, audiences were not sure what to think, as the storyline was unique and the mixing of horror and racial issues was shocking. After receiving rave reviews from audiences and critics alike, Get Out is now officially the third-highest grossing R-rated horror movie ever, closely following Hannibal and The Exorcist and recently outpacing the infamous The Blair Witch Project. The film has grossed an astounding $165 million since its release, setting a record as the highest-grossing original screenplay debut in movie history.

Shortly before the film’s success, Peele was best known for being one half of the Key & Peele sketch comedy series that aired on Comedy Central from 2011 to 2015. Many of their skits, such as the infamous “Substitute Teacher,” have raked in millions of views on YouTube, and the series became a sort of pop-culture phenomenon from which hilarious catchphrases were often quoted. There was something about Key & Peele that was different than other sketch-based comedy, like SNL, for example — the comedians addressed racial issues, gender roles and stereotypes in a cleverly-written way that was unique, refreshing and occasionally shocking.

Never shying away from potentially controversial topics, the pair tied comedy with social commentary in a fashion that didn’t make the audience feel as though they were subjected to a PSA, but still brought the intended attention to important topics, specifically the African American experience (both Key and Peele are half-African American).

Although it shouldn’t have been a surprise that Peele’s feature film debut is centered around an African American character meeting his white girlfriend’s parents — and that somehow, a horror story would ensue — many people were still taken aback by just how direct the plot was. What exactly was Jordan Peele trying to say? Browsing through the countless YouTube comments for the film’s trailer, there was a divide between people who were excited to see the movie and those who believed it was “racist” against white people. But all that Peele was attempting to convey was the unique set of difficulties and circumstances that Black people face in America, ranging from microaggressions to full-blown, blatant racism.

What was so unique about this film was that it weaved together horror with real, current fears, and it did so beautifully with usage of metaphors and historical context. Peele has certainly raised the bar not only for the horror genre, but original films overall.

“I feel like my responsibility to the world at this point is to keep making original films,” Peele said.

“To try to do some elevated horror, fun horror, that says something. I think that’s what I’m here for.”

In an interview for ScreenJunkies, Peele revealed that he has written four more scripts that he would like to produce in the future, and his Monkeypaw Production Company recently signed a TV deal with Sonar Entertainment studio, in which he will be creating new projects for TV audiences. It is also rumored that he will direct the upcoming film Akira, based on the widely popular 1980’s Japanese graphic novel. Although we may have to wait some time for new Peele material, we can be certain that it will raise the bar once again.

5 must-watch comedy specials on Netflix

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Some favorites when in need of a laugh

BY SYDNEY ODMAN arts@theaggie.org

adulting in general is relatable and exactly what you need to lift your spirits on a bad day.

Netflix and I have a love-hate relationship. Although I am forever indebted to this streaming service for its endless amount of television and movies available at just the click of button, sometimes the amount of content is overwhelming. There’s so much good TV to watch and so little time.

In order to avoid the commitment and heartache that inevitably come along with binge-watching Netflix and emotionally investing myself in a series, I often turn to comedy specials for entertainment. There are so many stand-up specials to watch on Netflix, you’re bound to find some that you like.

Louis CK — Live at the Beacon Theater As one of the more prominent comedians of the modern era, Louis CK never disappoints. I always end up laughing out loud, sometimes even with tears streaming down my face. His comedy is distinct, vibrant and sometimes it can make you a little uncomfortable. Louis CK takes taboo situations and throws them in your face with explicit detail. In this particular special, CK describes his experience as a father and his struggles dealing with his middle age.

Donald Glover — Weirdo Whether you know him as Childish Gambino or as Donald Glover, there is very little that he can’t do. He raps, he sings, he acts and he can make you laugh — hard. His standup routine is one of my all-time favorites. Glover delivers a hilariously animated performance equipped with quirky stories and an unparalleled energy. He truly showcases himself to be the “weirdo” that the title proclaims.

It’s relatable, it’s funny, and it will make you love Childish Gambino’s music even more knowing that this is the guy behind it all.

Aziz Ansari — Buried Alive As a diehard Parks and Recreation lover, I had to make sure Aziz Ansari’s stand-up special made an appearance on this list. I’ve watched all of Ansari’s comedy specials on Netflix multiple times, and after long and hard deliberation, I determined that Buried Alive is my favorite one, with his performance at Madison Square Garden coming in at a close second. Ansari’s style of comedy is unique in that it completely encapsulates his dorky charm.

His commentary on marriage, parenting and

Cristela Alonzo — Lower Classy As a woman of color rising in the comedy industry, Cristela Alonzo breaks all typical molds in her stand-up special. Alonzo covers it all in her set, discussing topics from Donald Trump and immigration to her childhood obsession with New Kids On The Block. Alonzo often laughs at herself throughout her comedy, and you can’t help but laugh along with her and the rest of the audience.

Trevor Noah — Afraid of the Dark When South African-born comedian Trevor Noah stepped up to fill Jon Stewart’s shoes as the host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, many were unsure of how he would perform living up to such high standards. However, Noah has proven himself time and time again with the continued success of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and now again with his newest Netflix comedy special, Afraid of the Dark. Noah addresses his experience adjusting to life in New York City and America in general as well as real-life issues in regard to immigration policies, the current political climate and more. Noah’s comedic commentary on things happening in the world is perfectly stated and unfailingly hilarious.

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THE AGE OF CHANCE

UC Davis Picnic Day fashion show

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More than just the artist with no label, Chance has altered the music scene

BY C A ROL I N E RUT T E N arts@theaggie.org

Back to back tours. Best Rap Performance.

Best Rap Album. Best New Artist. The past year has been a time of achievement and maturity for 24-year-old Chance the Rapper. With his ascent to fame and influence, Chance is no longer just the boy from Chicago who got suspended from school for 10 days. Chance recorded his debut mixtape, and then later recorded Acid Rap while tripping on, well, acid. There is more to him than the fact that he created his success without a label — that’s just a part in his championship of the music game.

Fame to his degree without a record label is of course an accomplishment worth recognition and admiration. Keep in mind, however, this is also the result of a configuration of lucky situations — the classic “right person heard him at the right time.”

The real merit does not solely lie here. I stated in a previous article that Chance’s title as “the most famous record-less artist of our time” would earn “a top place on my list” of the best albums of 2016.

I take back my claim after further consideration.

Chance has differentiated himself in more substantive ways, ways that prove him more masterful and important as an artist. And that earns him the number-one spot on that article’s list.

The praise for Chance’s recordless artist title must be taken with a grain of salt. Indeed, he is not humble about it — Big Fella roars it. “No Problem” off of Coloring Book was entirely about record labels trying to claim him — jokingly threatening “if one more label try to stop me.” He petitioned to make stream-only songs eligible for a Grammy nomination. This could be interpreted as a philanthropic act for music creativity, but it’s no coincidence the success of this petition allowed his songs to be nominated for awards (which he won).

Being an unsigned artist does not take Chance out of the music scene; he is an active member of it, pulling similar high-status stunts other musicians have done. After all, he strategically announced the surprise of a new album a week before it dropped — very Beyoncé-esque. He still has high-production nationwide tours, and he still surrounds himself with a possé of rappers like Future and Kanye. He has in no way exiled himself from

media attention; he is not the lone wolf people often perceive him as. What’s funny is that he doesn’t hide it. He says it himself: “I don’t make songs for free / I make ‘em for freedom.” But that’s also the point — he utilizes his fame now for a purpose.

Chance is obvious in his attachment to and involvement in the music scene with no hidden agenda; I think he wants us to notice it, to see past his “no label” label — he is not exempt from change as an artist. His label now is himself, what he speaks for — he makes songs for “freedom.” To be even a minor character in the music industry, you cannot be a shadow. You must be the light.

Even with his humility, deep roots and compassion, he has to play the game. He knows that. He made his platform of the underdog turned rap star, and he’s currently making the careful steps to shed himself of such a close-minded and superficial label. He’s focusing on the “so what”: what can he represent, what can he say, what he can capitalize on, what impact can he make with his personal label?

His label is altering into a humanitarian rapper. He is a voice of reason beyond his years; he is an optimistic and masterful poet; he is a kick-ass dad on his Instagram stories. Part of his aura is his humility to know his roots, to know himself, to understand the power he holds. He can address the responsibility that he has and his listeners directly — he can call for a better and more hopeful future “so his daughter can have somewhere to play.”

Likewise, something greater can be added to his list of accomplishments: his recent donation of one million dollars to the Chicago Public School (CPS) system. This act has been a concrete step in the solidification of his new label — his platform was strategically made for the purpose to do good, to make immediate and direct change. Indeed, in order to even enter his website, the viewer is presented with the option to donate to CPS — he encourages us to be equal members in the future he plans to experience.

Chance is now setting the precedent of what an artist can do. He not only altered how an artist can distribute music; he not only created unconventional ways an artist can reach fame; he not only set the standard for great music. He set the expectation of good — musically and morally.

Put this show on that Picnic Day to-do list B RIA N A N G O / AGG IE F IL E

BY CARAJ OY KLEI NR OCK arts@theaggie.org

On Picnic Day, the Fashion and Design Society will host the Picnic Day Fashion Show, with this year’s theme being “Aspire.” This annual event showcases the work of the talented students in the Design Department at UC Davis.

Lisa Lo, a fourth-year design major, explained the layout of the fashion show.

“There are four components of the fashion show,” Lo said. “It starts with the red dress, then single garment, then senior thesis and ends with the signature collection.”

The red dress section is designed by members of the Advanced Structural Design for Fashion class in support of Women’s Heart Disease Awareness.

The single garment section is a competition in which judges from the fashion industry will participate, including a designer from Levi’s. Each of the two categories, sustainability and personal expression, which will have one winner, and any UC Davis student is free to submit a design for this section. The senior thesis component will feature the work of one senior design student who has prepared 14 garments. Lastly, the signature collection features 17 designers who will each showcase four to six dresses. These pieces were created during senior collection class in Winter Quarter.

Colleen Smith, a fourth-year design major, helped create the design and layout of the pamphlet for the show. In addition to her work organ-

izing the show, she is also a designer, and her work will be featured in the signature collection section.

“My theme is Nector and it is inspired by California wildflowers, and each dress is a different flower,” Smith said.

Marielle Ednalino, a fourth-year design major, is one of the designers for the show and is taking part in the signature collection.

“I help garner attention for the show, as well as participate in it,” Ednalino said. “I also helped other designers, inspired them and inspired myself along the way.”

Her designs are inspired by the amethyst crystal, which includes hard edges, layering, shades of purples and geometric shapes, giving it a romantic feel.

There will be professional photographers and videographers along with a professional emcee.

The event will be held in the ARC Ballroom with two showings, the first at 11 a.m. and the second at 1:30 p.m., and the doors will be open a half hour prior to the show starting. Each show is an hour long and is a great way to take a break from the heat of Picnic Day. Additionally, there will a video showing how the designs were made during the half hour before the show starts. Tickets are $10 for students and $12 for adults, and are available online at http://arts.ucdavis.edu/event/aspire or at the door.

For those who cannot make it to the show, the 1:30 p.m. showing will be live-streamed on the Fashion and Design Society Facebook page.

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job as well.”

UC Davis came alive offensively in the second inning. After senior first baseman Cameron Olson reached on an error by the Cal Poly third baseman, senior catcher Ignacio Diaz singled to put two Aggies on base with no outs. Next up to bat was junior center fielder Alex Aguiar, who connected on a pitch and lined the ball to right center for a two-run double that put UC Davis ahead. Later in the inning, junior right fielder Ryan Hooper added another run on a sacrifice fly that scored Aguiar.

The Aggies tallied six hits on the evening and stayed ahead 3-0 throughout the rest of the contest. A three-run lead was plenty to work with for Razo, who had a no-hit bid through five innings that was eventually broken up when a ground ball squirted into left field with two outs in the sixth. Even though the chance for a no-hitter was lost, the game certainly was not. Razo remained in the game until the very end,

holding the Mustangs scoreless en route to pitching his first complete game as an Aggie and earning his fourth win of the season. Again, Razo hailed his teammates for having his back defensively in each of his nine innings of work.

“It’s just being able to trust your teammates,” Razo said. “Being able to know that there is a good defense behind you, throwing strikes, and getting ahead [in the count]. It’s really tough to pitch behind in the count, when [the other team is] zeroing in on one pitch, so you keep them guessing the whole time, getting ahead and just being aggressive.”

With the win, the Aggies improved their record to 9-17 on the season. That is still not where the team wants to be, but head coach Matt Vaughn believes the victory is important for starting the Aggies off on the right foot for the second half of the season.

“It feels really really good,” Vaughn said. “Based on the way we lost

a couple games last weekend, we needed something big, and Orlando delivered it for us. For me, he put this team on his back and said ‘come on you guys, I’m gonna get this one.’ And he did. He’s a bulldog, he’s tough and I think our guys feed on it a little bit. We can still do some things better offensively and we have to figure that out as we go, but hopefully we have time and we can build on his effort today. [He’s] just a really really tough kid. He’s a leader.”

The Aggies finished the home series against Cal Poly the following day, when the Aggies lost 9-6.

“There is a lot of season left,” Vaughn said. “I’m hoping that our guys are seeing that we’re competitive all the time and if we can just eliminate a mistake or two here and there, we can get back in this thing.

I know it’s boring and I know it sounds cliché, but it’s a one pitch, one game at a time deal.”

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Graham, while March Madness was something that he often thought and dreamed about, the magnitude of the situation did not hit him right away.

“I didn’t understand how big it was until we got back from Anaheim,” Graham said. “The amount of people that were blowing up my phone, the amount of news people that were trying to contact me and get an interview, just how big it was for both Davis and Sacramento.”

The ambition to experience March Madness didn’t start with that win, however. According to both Nosek and Graham, inklings of March basketball came during the opening moments of the preseason.

“For this team, we scheduled the trip to Costa Rica for a tour this past summer because we knew we had a team that could compete for a conference championship and potentially move on,” Nosek said. “So, a year ago now is when we really had an idea that this team had some special component to it.”

From there, it was a long journey to make those dreams of March Madness a reality. Both Graham and Nosek were there two years ago when the team lost to Hawai’i in the Big West Tournament in what had, at that point, been the most successful season in the Division I era of UC Davis basketball.

It was that heartbreak that guided those who played for and coached the team to drive forward and finish what they had started.

“I told them that I vividly remembered my sophomore season,” Graham said. “Losing to Hawai’i in the Big West tournament, walking off the

court, and just all the things that came about with that. I was very emotional at that time, and I knew that these opportunities don’t come across a lot. So I was happy that we got this opportunity again, a lot of the seniors were happy to get the opportunity again.”

On March 12, “Selection Sunday,” it became official. Over the next five days, the team found itself hopping between Davis, Dayton, Ohio and all the way to Tulsa, Okla.

Between the hectic travel and the newfound national spotlight, it would have been easy for the team to get caught up in the moment, but the players never allowed themselves to lose sight of the final goal.

“Motivating these guys — clearly not an issue,” Nosek said. “They were motivated to give everything and take care of everything they needed to get taken care of.”

Graham echoed this sentiment when he reflected on the hectic week that preceded the tournament. He credited the coaching staff, led by head coach Jim Les, with keeping the team on its toes.

Les already had his own fond memories of the NCAA Tournament, having coached his alma mater Bradley University to the Sweet 16 in 2006. He drew from this as he tried to motivate the Aggies.

“He understood,” Graham said. “Even before we got to playing tournament, Coach Les was telling us ‘You have to be able to block out the noise. Just like when you’re not doing good, and people are talking negative about you, you have to block out that noise, you’ve got to same thing when things are going very good.’”

While the play-in game, a recent addition

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“The best way to get on the wall is probably to play the more obscure sports where there isn’t as much competition,” Dao said. “But for students in general, it is a point of pride to be able to get on that wall.”

The Wall of Fame is a staple of the UC Davis campus that highlights the strength and popularity of the UC Davis intramural sports program.

“It’s really cool,” Finn said. “You can see all the different people that have played and how many different IM leagues there actually are. It’s a great way to connect people.”

to March Madness, is seen by some as a middle-ground between conference tournaments and the NCAA Tournament, for schools like UC Davis, it is a time to make a name for the university before stepping into the round of 64. This was March Madness, and if anyone asked coach Nosek, the entire event started even earlier than that.

“I think the moment you start the Big West Conference, you’re beginning March Madness,” Nosek said. “And the moment you lose a game in the Big West Tournament your March Madness is over.”

The Aggies used this mindset to push through into the round of 64, eliminating any of the doubts about the play-in game when they defeated North Carolina Central 67-63 in front of the entire nation.

From that point, as the 16 seed, the Aggies had no time to relax. In the history of the NCAA Tournament, a 16 seed has never defeated a one seed, but the players and coaches refused to pay attention to that.

“That’s the opportunity you want,” Nosek said.

“In order to move on, those are the types of teams you’re going to have to beat and try to compete with and that was what all of us wanted as competitors.”

For Graham, it was just another game. While they may not have faced schools like this within the tournament, those opponents were the caliber of players whom he and the rest of the Aggies had played throughout their playing careers. They went out and competed against Kansas just as they did every other team.

“We couldn’t go in there giving them the re-

spect that they wanted,” Graham said. “They had to earn that respect from us, and they did at the end of the game.”

While the team was unable to overcome that hurdle, eventually falling 100-62, both Graham and Nosek have nothing but fond memories of their March Madness experience. For Nosek and next season’s returning players, it was a season off which to build off of — and some extra motivation to go even further next year.

For seniors like Graham, it was a fitting end to a time in his life that he will always look back on fondly. While he can no longer help the Aggies on the court, he hopes that his time with the returning players can help them when he is no longer there.

“The crazy thing is when you go back two years ago to that senior class,” Graham said. “There was a lot of things that they did verbally, but there were a lot of things that those guys did that I didn’t even notice until those guys left. So there’s going to be things that those guys notice that we did and that was done without being said. They’re going to appreciate that kind of stuff. Now, they know that they can win, they’re winners. They know what it takes to win, and they can move on from that. I think the future is really bright.”

The memories of March Madness will linger with all who were involved with it. It will be a snapshot of a special time that coach and player alike got to spend with a group who joined together as a family and did what no other team in the history of UC Davis has been able to do.

For that, their legacy will live on well past their time with the school.

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BACKSTOP RAZO DAZZLES AT RALEY UC Davis baseball blanks Cal Poly 3-0 in important conference win

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BY DOM I NI C FARI A sports@theaggie.org

In front of the beautiful sunset backdrop of Sacramento’s Raley Field — home of the San Francisco GiDA N I E L TA K / AGants’ Triple-A affiliate, the Sacramento River Cats — the UC Davis baseball team shut out its conference rival, the Cal Poly Mustangs, in a 3-0 victory on Friday, April 14. The change of scenery proved to be beneficial for the Aggies, as the team ended its five-game losing skid and responded in winning fashion to Thursday’s 4-1 defeat at the hands of the Mustangs.

Junior pitcher Orlando Razo stole the show, tossing a complete game while allowing only two hits and striking out 10 batters. Razo finished the night with six onetwo-three innings and, at one point, retired 15 Mustangs in a row.

“Establishing the fastball early” was the key to the night’s success, according to Razo.

“We made a point to do that since the beginning of

the season, establish fastball in the bottom half of the zone and then work off-speed after,” Razo said. “Today the curveball was working well from the beginning so I was throwing more of those. I’m fortunate to be able to have two off-speed pitches that I can rely on and throw for strikes.”

Razo’s off-speed and curveball pitches were untouchable for most of the night. After walking two batters in the first inning, Razo turned up the heat to pitch four straight three-up, three-down innings, utilizing his drop-off changeup to strike out six batters over that span. Despite this impressive individual performance, Razo gave all the praise to his teammates.

“We were able to establish a good rhythm tonight and Ignacio Diaz did a great job behind the plate,” Razo said. “Just putting [his] fingers down and blocking the ball because we were going out of the zone a lot. He just did a phenomenal job and the defense did a phenomenal BASEBALL RALEY on 14

Experiencing March Madness Men’s basketball team reflects on historic NCAA run UC DAVIS ATHLETICS / COURTESY

BY B RAD LEY G EI S E R sports@theaggie.org

On Saturday, March 11, the UC Davis men’s basketball team defeated UC Irvine 50-47, winning the Big West Tournament for the first time in school history and clinching a spot in the NCAA Tournament. While larger sports programs like Duke or UCLA may see a trip to the tournament as a mere formality, for schools like UC Davis, it is considered to be another step in securing a place in the world of college basketball. Although the six days following the win over UC Irvine proved to be daunting, they were some of the most memorable days in the lives of both coach and player alike.

For alumni, students, faculty and members of the surrounding community, the tournament appearance was a

The famous ARC Wall of Fame

monumental opportunity for the Aggies, and the players and coaches knew this. Assistant Coach Kevin Nosek spent his childhood in Davis, eventually attending, playing basketball for and graduating from the university in 1999. He has been part of the UC Davis family off and on for over 20 years, and, as a result, this experience was extra special.

“It was something not only that have I been working on as a coach, or dreamed about as a child,” Nosek said. “As an alum, I do feel as though I carry the torch for many, and I take a lot of pride in that, and that was a really special moment to be able to share that moment with so many alums across the nation and across the world.”

This civic pride was also felt by outgoing senior guard Darius Graham, who grew up in nearby Sacramento. For NCAA EXPERIENCE on 14

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Wall showcases intramural champions

BY RYAN BUG SC H sports@theaggie.org

Whether you are a regular visitor to the Activities and Recreations Center (ARC) or you have simply been inside only to look around at the amenities the ARC has to offer, there is a pretty good chance you have stumbled upon the Wall of Fame. The famous Wall of Fame: rows upon rows of pictures lining the wall in the first floor of the ARC next to the weight room, showing the pictures of individual and team champions in Intramural (IM) Sport competitions during a given quarter of the school year. Many students hope to be put on this wall one day and crowned a UC Davis champion.

The Wall of Fame was started in the late 1960s by Gary J. Colberg, then the director of IM Sports. Colberg made many strong additions to the IM program during his time at UC Davis, including establishing women’s flag football in 1967 and co-ed flag football in 1969, the first of these IM sports to be created on any American campus and a major step during a time when women’s sports were hardly recognized. Colberg cemented his legacy by establishing new IM programs at UC Davis and creating the wall for past, present and future generations to see.

“Prior to [the ARC] getting built, the wall was all over the Pavilion,” said Ben Dao, the interim assistant director of Intramural Sports. “About ten years ago, we archived and scanned them all to make digital copies. The earliest pictures we have are from 1968.”

Originally, the wall was meant as visual advertising in order to entice more students into playing IM sports on

campus. Some of the first photos developed for the wall took place inside Hickey Gym in the IM darkroom. When the ARC was built, the policy of the wall changed, limiting the time that a student is up there to one year. The photo is then scanned into the archives.

“I think it is definitely one of the biggest incentives,” Dao said. “I hear college students talk about wanting to have their picture on the Wall of Fame as something they want to accomplish. It is very important to students.”

Kelly Finn, a now-third-year Ph.D. student in the Animal Behavior program at UC Davis, won the Women’s Open IM Tennis Singles in the fall of 2016 and had her picture placed on the Wall of Fame as a reward.

“I participated quite a bit in IM sports,” Finn said. “I did a lot of team sports but I played tennis growing up and so it was fun to play a sport in IM that I was familiar with.

When I started going to the gym I thought it would be super cool to have my picture up there. We didn’t have the expectation of winning so when I decided to play a sport I was competitive in, it was a goal to be up there.”

For those students who have the goal of being up on the wall but do not want to experience a high competitive level of play, Dao had some advice.

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Women’s lacrosse (Aggie Stadium)

Friday, April 21 vs. San Diego State at 7 p.m.

Sunday, April 23 vs. University of Southern California at 12 p.m.

Track and field (Woody Wilson Track)

Friday, April 21 vs. Sacramento State in Causeway Classic Dual, All Day

Women’s water polo (Schaal Aquatics Center)

Saturday, April 22 vs. Alumnae at 10 a.m.

Sunday, April 23 vs. Santa Clara at 12 p.m.

Women’s tennis (Marya Welch Tennis Center)

Saturday, April 22 vs. UC Riverside at 11 a.m.

Softball (La Rue Field)

Wednesday, April 26 vs. Cal at 4 p.m.

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Thank you, Aggies!

“We were thrilled to meet so many of you at our warm UC Davis welcome and can’t wait to spend more time with you starting in August!”

— Incoming Chancellor Gary S. May and LeShelle May