September 29, 2016

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SERVING THE UC DAVIS CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY SINCE 1915

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LIVING IN THE DORMS: A HOW-TO GUIDE

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Resident advisors discuss residence hall resources

BY AMANDA CRUZ features@theaggie.org Ice cream socials and movie nights at the rec pool are only a couple of the activities that UC Davis residence halls provide for first-year residents.

But while social events are widely publicized on social media, there are many invaluable resources that students do not take advantage of which could set them ahead in their college career.

“There are a lot of resources here at UC Davis — I think it is challenging for students sometimes to find all the resources and to put themselves out there and ask questions,” said Richard Ronquillo, assistant director of communications and student outreach for Student Housing. “I really encourage students to take the time to get to know what is available to them and to take advantage of them [their] first year.”

In Ronquillo’s opinion, living on campus is beneficial for first-year students to transition into living a college lifestyle. It allows students to build new relationships and gives them access to helpful programs.

One resource that Student Housing provides for residents living in the residence halls are Living Learning Communities (LLCs).

These are shared interest communities for residents to participate in, including interests in culture, music and major.

Programs and classes are offered through these communities in which any resident can participate, even if they do not live in that community. Residents also have the option to transfer into one.

“We do additional programs and events based on that particular

theme,” Ronquillo said. “Some of the LLCs have class components to [them] that take place in the residence halls. It is a really good opportunity for students that have a shared interest to live together and experience college life together.”

Rachel Le, a third-year evolution, ecology and biodiversity major, is taking on her second year as a resident advisor (RA) for the Segundo Residence Hall area.

She said her job is to help incoming students easily transition from living at home to being on their own.

“In the beginning, I would hear [residents] really struggle on how to study for certain classes or pass exams,” Le said. “They were surprised when the way they studied in high school did not transition the same coming into college. However, as time passed they would figure out ways to change that through forming study groups and going to tutoring offered in the services center.”

The academic center in each housing area offers tutoring and advising that residents can access. Another resource is the Residence Hall Advising Team, which visits the dorms to offer advice about academic and professional topics ranging from resume building to class scheduling.

Tanvi Chitre, a third-year neurobiology, physiology and behavior major and Tercero resident advisor, emphasized the importance of utilizing these resources and the convenience of having them near the dorms.

“When I first came here, chemistry was really hard for me, but going [to the Academic Advising Center] really helped […and] improved my grade by a lot,” Chitre said. “The tutors who are there

are really great! Make sure to take advantage of the resources that are there for you as a resident.”

Although first-years are not limited to hanging out with fellow residents, the social events in each resident area serve as a way to bring students together in a “casual and relaxed atmosphere,” according to Le. “We always want residents to feel comfortable with where they are living since it is not the same as living at home,” Le said. “We want to help them find where they fit in on campus.”

For Chitre, the best part about being an RA is getting to meet so many great people within Student Housing and the residence halls.

“Another part of being an RA is doing rounds at night, making sure no one is in trouble […] and just being there for residents,” Chitre said. “Everyone is busy with classes, friends or other things, so even if we do not talk to residents often we want to make sure we see them once in awhile to make sure that everything is fine.”

Other benefits of living on campus include easy access to various areas at UC Davis.

While the Tercero residence hall area is closest to the Arboretum and Cuarto has direct access to the bus lines, Segundo’s centrality is often cited as beneficial for residents, located only a few minutes bike ride away from the ARC, Rite Aid and many main lecture halls.

“When people leave the dorms they tend to miss the easy access to cooked food and tutoring — so really take advantage of it,” Le said.

“Take a look at what your RA has prepared for you — it might be really fun. If you ever need help, our door is usually open, or you can always knock!”

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WEST VILLAGE, UC DAVIS BEGIN PROJECT TO BUILD 50 HOMES FOR FACULTY, STAFF

RECONSTRUCTING OUR CAMPUS

Project to provide energy-saving homes near campus for employees

An update on the construction in the Tercero residence hall area

BY DEMI CACERES campus@theaggie.org

BY FATI MA S IDDIQ U I features@theaggie.org

UC Davis announced over summer an upcoming project to build 50 single-family homes for faculty and staff at West Village by 2018.

The homes, which are all walking or biking distance from campus, will be sold at about 80 percent of the cost of comparable Davis homes.

These homes will meet West Village’s ambitious efficiency and sustainability goals.

Jillian Ramsey, the assistant project manager, believes that this plan helps ease the issue of the expensive cost of living in Davis while continuing the pursuit for zero net energy housing.

“It is solving one of our biggest recruitment challenges,” Ramsey said. “Everyone has a challenge finding affordable homes here in Davis, so we hope this will encourage new faculty and

staff to live close to campus. It will also model our sustainable growth progress, and that is really important to us.”

The problem is not unique to Davis; schools across the nation are struggling to hire and retain faculty members in cities where the cost of living is high.

Currently, the only university housing designed for faculty and staff is at Aggie Village, where there is an approximately 200-person waiting list for a complex that only sees a new vacancy every one or two years, on average.

Andy Fell, associate director of news and media relations at UC Davis, believes that this new project will attract potential professors and faculty employees to the university.

“What’s important is there is a need for housing in our area for faculty and staff,” Fell said.

“Housing in Davis can be really expensive, so

In July 2015, demolition of Leach Hall in Tercero led to “Tercero Phase Four” (TP4), an ongoing effort to create new buildings in Tercero. Phase four will feature three new four-story buildings, one large community space building, a music room, a recreational room, a community kitchen, office spaces and a meeting room for future seminars.

“We broke it up into three phases — first [was] the demolition of the existing buildings, second [was] installing all the underground utilities, so everything you don’t see when the project is completed [that] is in the ground [and third was when] they broke ground and started putting for the buildings themselves [in September 2015],” said Michael Head, project manager of

design and construction management.

Head coordinates with his team, the architects and the contractor each week in order to make sure that the project remains on schedule. The construction of the buildings has been relatively smooth, Head said, so the team has dealt with few challenges along the way. In one area of construction, Head and his team faced the challenge of digging up pea gravel, which is small gravel that runs off the sides like sand.

“That was a challenge,” Head said. “When [problems] arise it is [about] how everyone works together to get them resolved. Communication is key in a project like this.”

The new residence halls are estimated to house around 500 new students, compared to the 175 students Leach Hall previously housed.

“The campus growth plan is continuing to move forward based on the enrollment numbers

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ASUCD SENATORS MAKE PROGRESS ON CAMPAIGN PLATFORMS

Freshman 15? Don’t Sweat It. The ARC provides a variety of fitness tools, activities

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Fall Quarter to bring Student Health and Wellness fair, CoHo nutritional facts, more BECCA RIDGE / AGGIE

BY L INDSAY F LOY D ca mpu s @ th e a ggi e .o r g

Fall Quarter is at UC Davis, bringing with it revamped efforts by ASUCD senators to implement policies left unfinished at the end of last year.

ASUCD Senator Sofia Molodanof, a third-year English and communications double major, ran on a platform that included creating a 24-hour non-urgent wellness hotline, hosting a student mental health fair, getting nutritional facts displayed in the Coffee House (CoHo) and increasing campus amenities.

“I’m happy to say I have made progress on all of [my platforms’ objectives],” Molodanof said.

On Oct. 6, students will have the opportunity to attend a Student Mental Health and Wellness Fair on the east quad, organized by Molodanof with help from the Psychology Department and Student Health and Counseling Services. Various UC Davis clubs and organizations will be in attendance, such as Active Minds, Out of the Darkness and Best Buddies.

“My main focus last quarter was planning the Student Mental Health and Wellness Fair,” Molodanof said in an email interview. “I hope that my work toward mental health and wellness on campus makes a difference on campus and students can take advantage of all the positives that occur when improving your mental and physical health.”

Molodanof has also made progress toward her goal of making nutritional facts available in the CoHo. She has worked in collaboration with the CoHo’s food services director to create a website that will allow students access to nutritional information for food and drink offerings at the CoHo. As part of her effort to increase amenities around campus, Molodanof was able to secure the placement of an additional microwave in the CoHo and a water hydration station on the first floor of Wellman Hall during Fall Quarter.

Irveen Grewal, a third-year political science and psychology double major and ASUCD senator, also made strides in accomplishing her platform objectives

of accommodating students’ mental health needs, creating new napping spots in the library for students, implementing Punjabi as a language class, hosting a cultural fair and installing additional parking in the Tercero parking lots.

To accomplish these initiatives, Grewal joined the library committee and designed new napping spaces within Shields Library, which will be included in the library’s ongoing reconstruction. Parts of her designs are modeled after the stress and mental wellness research of Jing Mai, a fourth-year neurology, physiology and behavior major.

Additionally, Grewal has secured over 300 signatures on a petition to make Punjabi a language class offered at UC Davis.

“We are currently working on getting funds, as it costs up to millions in dollars to have a new class implemented,” Grewal said in an email interview. “I am following the same timeline of how Persian was implemented this year, [as it] takes a couple of years to have it implemented [since] it has to go through many checkpoints. But we are doing our best to spread the word and we have been contacting local colleges for professors, and have been in contact with the local temple that offers Punjabi classes as a part of Sunday school.”

This quarter, students can attend a cultural fair in the Quad organized by Grewal as part of her campaign platform. The fair, which will include several campus cultural clubs, will promote participation in the clubs as well as provide a safe place to recognize featured cultures.

“We are planning an event to have many cultural clubs come together and be able to display and provide information about their individual clubs [...] We felt this was important because many cultural clubs end up retaining very few members and don’t get enough publicity,” Grewal said.

Grewal is also collaborating with the UC Davis Police Department to install additional lighting in parking lots by Tercero and Olson Hall. She hopes to have this completed by the end of her term.

POLICE LOGS

BY SAM SOLOM O N ci ty@ th e a ggi e .o r g

Tue, Sept. 13 “Open line with child saying ‘Ooh’”

Sun, Aug. 28 “Tomato trucks driving in excess of 50 mph all day long”

Tue, Sept 13 “Go Kart in the area” holding up traffic.

Thurs, Sept. 1 Noise complaint for “Loud trumpet.”

Fri, Sept. 2 “RP believes transient X currently OS, was throwing her feces and toilet paper @ LOC’s fence and plot” Tue, Sept. 6 “Abandoned unoccupied minivan in the intersection”.

Fri, Sept. 9 “RP trying to set up a new smartphone.”

Fri, Sept. 9 “Turkey acting aggressive and chasing people”

Fri, Sept. 16 “Voice either stated ‘Hello’ or ‘Spanish’” a few times, then disconnected Sun, Sept. 17 “Family refusing to leave drive thru window” at a fast food restaurant.

Mon, Sept. 18 “Female visitor to hospital is currently attempting to sleep in the bushes of ambulance bay, refusing to leave.”

Thurs, Sept. 22 “East Covell at F St, sofa in the lane closest to median” Thurs, Sept. 22 “Aggressive turkey.”

REDUCE. REUSE. RECYCLE THE AGGIE.

BY YVONNE LEONG ca m pus@t he aggie . org

With the variety of physical activities offered at UC Davis, it’s not difficult to avoid the notorious “freshman 15.”

From club volleyball, to intramural quidditch teams, to establishing a fitness plan with one of the many qualified trainers on campus, there are fitness opportunities for anyone looking to keep in shape.

Campus Recreations and Unions (CRU) is connected to several programs that UC Davis students can take part in, including the Craft Center, Outdoor Adventures, the Rec Pool and the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC).

“There are many services available throughout the department of Campus Recreation and Unions. The ARC is only one of the buildings that will house such activities,” said Tyler Scudero, CRU’s senior recreation coordinator.

The ARC is the best place for any incoming student to take advantage of CRU opportunities, especially during the first week of school, during which students can participate in “try before you buy” — a week of free group exercise and instructional classes.

This way, students can try out all the different classes before buying the pass for the quarter — a great way to get comfortable with using the ARC facilities as well as meet others.

“Group exercise [classes like] zumba, cycle and etcetera [are] all found on a schedule that is available on the ARC website,” said Brian Luu, assistant director of the Fitness & Wellness Center. “Instructional classes are a little bit different from group exercise in that they are not drop-in after the first week, but rather aim to be more progressive. Instructional [classes] include martial arts, small group training and mind [and] body classes like pilates or yoga.”

Students can also seek out a personal trainer with the help of the “initial training package.” This package includes an initial consultation, where students can discuss their fitness

goals, as well as a nutrition consultation with an on-campus nutrition intern.

Information about all trainers can be found on the ARC website, where students can get in contact to start an initial fitness plan for $75.

UC Davis also offers a collection of 39 club sports, in addition to a variety of intramural leagues.

Signing up for these sports can be done at campus events such as The Buzz, through contacting the president of clubs listed on the ARC website or by going directly to the club sports office located upstairs at the ARC. In many club sports programs, there are “A” and “B” teams to ensure newcomers feel welcome. For those looking to play at a competitive level, there are certain programs — such as volleyball and lacrosse — that require tryouts for the team.

“For club sports, some of our highest numbers in terms of participating members is [for] our boxing club – we get about 200 members a year,” said Michael Dominguez, Sport Clubs coordinator. “A majority of them go just because they enjoy the workout, want to hit something and learn how to punch and defend, and a small number compete at the collegiate level. We [also] get a lot of people in our Alpine Ski Club, and our tennis program gets high numbers as well.”

The ARC itself offers a wide variety of ways students can exercise. Racquetball courts are available on reservation, and the rock climbing wall can be accessed for a fee.

The basic fitness center, including weights, machines and a state-of-the-art indoor track, are always accessible during ARC hours.

Also connected to CRU is the Recreation Pool, free for students until its seasonal closing date of Sept. 30.

Whether students plan to make it up to Tahoe for ski season, discover a newfound love for cycling or simply get in a good workout, the ARC is a great place to break a sweat.

The amenities offered by the ARC create a community of active, diverse students and serve as a break from the stress of school.

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Cheers to the start of a hella good year Differences between Southern, Northern California prominent amongst UC Davis students VENOOS MOSHAYEDI / AGGIE

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Due to its location in the Sacramento Valley, Davis shares many characteristics of Northern Californian scenery, slang and weather. While this environment may be familiar to students from nearby regions, other aspects of the small college town often come as a shock to others.

“There [was] still a culture shock of a new environment, especially one with no beach, even though I wasn’t too far from home,” said Michael Hamming, a second-year international relations major and Southern California native. “The unfamiliarity was scary at first [...but] if you end up feeling the same, get out and meet as many people as possible because it’s a good way to get comfortable in a new environment.”

After living somewhere for a long time, it’s easy to take the little things for granted. Josh Januska, a second-year life sciences major and native of Ventura, CA, experienced this firsthand.

“I definitely miss Mexican food from down south the most, which I think is better because I’ve grown up on it,” Januska said.

As with many regions in America, sports rivalries between Northern California and Southern California can be very intense.

“I have noticed that the people up here are split between being 49er fans and Raider Fans for football,” Januska said. “I also noticed that the Giants and Angels rivalry is pretty big in Davis as well, but not quite as intense as the one between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Angels.”

Many people can still find pieces of home in Davis, such as authentic cuisine. For anyone from Southern California having

burrito withdrawals, Januska recommends Taqueria Davis on L Street for the most authentic Mexican food in town.

Another adjustment for non-Northern Californian students is the weather, which can seem a bit extreme at first. The weather patterns and seasons that Davis experience are characteristic of the Sacramento Valley.

“We have a Mediterranean climate, which is the technical term for dry summers and wet winters,” said Travis O’Brien, assistant adjunct professor from the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources.

During summer and the beginning of Fall Quarter, days of over 100 degrees are not uncommon, while persistent rain, cold, crisp days and heavy fog prevail during winter months. O’Brien suggests that students prepare for all types of weather by not only bringing weather appropriate clothing, but also by keeping the California drought in mind.

“Unusually low amounts of winter rain and snow in mountains over a couple of years have been a main cause of this record drought,” O’Brien said. “The second cause is extraordinarily warm summers over the past few years which dry out the soil and lakes.”

Since not all out-of-state students are used to living in such conditions, it is important for them to learn how to stay hydrated in sustainable ways. For example, O’Brien suggests investing in a reusable water bottle to refill at hydration stations around campus.

There are also a few linguistic nuances which differentiate Davis from Central and Southern California. In Northern California, the word “hella” is used as an alternative for “really” or “very,” or also for “a large amount of something” — native southerners of-

ten find themselves boycotting the usage of this word. In general, Californians exhibit various vowel shift which differentiate their speech from those of out-of-staters when saying words such as “dude.”

“Californians believe that they don’t have a distinct accent — however, there are differences in the way we pronounce vowels, which is referred to as vowel shift,” said Robert Bayley, UC Davis professor of linguistics. “The one we experience the most is ‘U fronting’ which we can hear when we say ‘dude’ or ‘goose’ by pronouncing it ‘dewde’ or ‘gewse,’ which is associated with valley girl speech. Just think of Saturday Night Live’s ‘The Californians.’”

While these linguistic nuances are small, they are characteristic of the different regions of California. Bayley recommends respecting other people’s customs as a rule of thumb — whether those customs have to do with language, food or other variances.

“I taught in Texas for a long time and I never adopted “y’all” [...] because it just seemed totally phony when I tried,” Bayley said.

“However, I believe linguistic diversity is a good thing because how you talk is very much who you are. People associate language with family, the place that they grow up in and things that are close to them.”

Despite the unique farmland-feel, cow smells and linguistic diversity, UC Davis students agree that the people are what make the town and the university so unique.

“The people in Davis are so much more friendly and less judgemental, at least compared to what I’m used to in Orange County,” Hamming said. “In Davis I noticed that people tend to be much more genuine and accepting of things — it’s just a more open environment.”

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FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK Food for thought

EDITORIAL BOARD 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

CHIARA ALVES New Media Manager JAY GELVEZON Photo Director HANNAH LEE Design Director EMILY STACK Copy Chief OLIVIA ROCKEMAN Copy Chief VERONICA VARGO Website Manager ELISABETH MCALLISTER Social Media Mangager MADELINE ONG Newsletter Manager DANIELLA TUTINO Advertising Manager

BY EDITORIAL BOARD After having to strip a first-grader of his lunch this week, a cafeteria employee in the Canon McMillan School District has quit her job in protest of the district's new ‘lunch shaming’ system.

The district, located just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has implemented new policies revoking students’ meals if they are over $25 in meal debt. As required by state law, indebted students from kindergarten to sixth grade are given a supplemental meal — a cheese sandwich — while older students receive nothing.

These actions by the Canon McMillan School District have left many young students teary-eyed and humiliated and have opened up a space for a greater dialogue on the matter of food insecurity, which should prompt UC Davis to take further measures to combat the issue..

The United States Department of Agriculture defines food insecurity as “a state in which consistent access to adequate food is limited by a lack of money and other resources at times during the year.”

Results of a survey completed in 2015 showed that of the 9,000 students across the UC system who participated, 19 percent of them suffered from “very low” food security, while another 23 percent reported feeling “low” food security. UC Davis in particular has put great efforts into combating these numbers with initiatives that make food more accessible for its students and alleviate food insecurity.

The University of California Global Food Initiative, launched in 2014 to “sustainably and nutritiously” feed an

ever-growing world population, utilizes the research-powerhouse capabilities of UC schools to “help individuals and communities access safe, affordable and nutritious food.”

UC Davis has received $375,000 in grants thus far through the initiative out of the total $3.3 million that UC President Janet Napolitano has pledged to the issue through 2018.

The initiative will deviate to pre-existing food access resources on campus like the ASUCD Pantry, located in Lower Freeborn, which offers all students free meals and grocery items on weekdays, and Fruit and Veggie Up!, a program that — through the Pantry and at the Student Health and Wellness Center — provides free produce to UC Davis students.

Budget allotment also allows for the revamping and wider publicizing of Aggie Food Connection (AFC), an “online access point for UC Davis information, resources and services pertaining to food security and nutrition.”

The Editorial Board would like to commend UC Davis for prioritizing and pushing for initiatives that combat food insecurity and promote food access for all its students.

While UC Davis does its part in alleviating this problem, students can also take action by donating to the Pantry and participating in the ASUCD Pay It Forward campaign spearheaded by ASUCD senator Adilla Jamaludin.

We hope UC Davis will continue to add to the nutrition resources on campus and diminish the number of students that experience any level of food insecurity. Students should not have to compromise their academic performance because they’re worried about where their next meal is going to come from.

Why it matters that Republicans at elite universities are rejecting Trump GOP ORGANIZATIONS AT HARVARD, YALE / CORNELL ARE PUTTING COUNTRY OVER PARTY

BY ELI FLESCH ekflesch@ucdavis.edu While younger voters tend to be reliably liberal, millennials identify more now with traditional Republican values than baby boomers and Gen X-ers did when they were at their age, according to a new study published this month in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

But it’s not clear that the growing number of students espousing conservatism (up eight percent since 1976) are necessarily doing so in support of Donald Trump, underscoring an ever-widening gap that threatens to tear the GOP apart for years to come.

Interviews with Republican leaders on three prominent and politically active campuses — Harvard, Yale and Cornell — show that some young conservatives have more than just reservations about their party’s nominee.

For the first time in its 128-year history, the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) announced August that it would refuse to endorse the GOP nominee in a statement that blasted Trump as racist, misogynistic and antithetical to the club’s values.

“There was no Trump as the first choice,” said Declan Garvey, a fourth-year student currently serving as president of the HRC. “And as the primary went on, it became clear that Trump was not anybody’s second, third, fourth, fifth — down to sixteenth choice.”

In the weeks following the GOP convention

in Cleveland, a poll sent out to HRC members yielded only about 10 percent support for Trump, according to Garvey, prompting him and his executive board to come out with the announcement before school started.

Their decision was met with national media coverage and general praise, putting pressure on other schools, including Yale and Cornell, to take a position on the Republican nominee.

Neither of these campuses enjoyed a similar harmony in coming out with their own endorsements.

Longtime members of the Yale College Republicans (YCR) broke from the organization after its co-chairs (who declined to comment for this article) decided to back Trump on party grounds.

Leaders of the new group that formed in the shakeup, the Yale New Republicans, say that they’re going to focus on reelecting Republican candidates down-ballot, like Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.

“Today, in general, people are so tied up on party label — Republican, Democrat — that they fail to look deeper into the candidates and really question: Do they really reaffirm my values?” said Ben Rasmussen, co-chair of the Yale New Republicans and the former Vice President of YCR. And the Cornell Republicans were officially unrecognized by their overseeing body, the New York Federation of College Republicans, for endorsing Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate and former Republican governor of New Mexico.

“We’re really trying to show people that what’s

really important in this election is fiscal conservatism,” said Olivia Corn, chairwoman of the of the Cornell Republicans. “And Gary Johnson is the candidate for fiscal conservatism.”

Cornell Republican’s endorsement points to a free-market and free-love direction that many young conservatives seem to be heading, and one that could have significant impact on the future of the Republican Party.

The New York Federation failed to recognize this when it voted to revoke the Cornell organization’s credentials. Corn, who said she was blindsided by these actions, has consulted a lawyer and plans legal recourse.

That’s the strong and proper response required in an election where putting party over country could wind up fatally damaging both.

By affirmatively supporting Johnson — Cornell Republicans plan on helping him attain the 15 percent polling threshold required to make the debate stages — the organization is effectively saying that issues like same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization (Johnson supports both) are not as central to its conservative beliefs as his free-trade and supply-side economic agenda.

This has probably been the inner belief of Republicans in Congress for decades, but it’s not one on which they’ve staked their political fortunes.

Republican constituencies constantly vote against their own economic interest because their leaders overstate the importance of social issues and exploit base fears about the moral decline of society.

We see the consequence now in Trump.

That is why he must be defeated this November.

His loss could further signal to young Republicans that rooting a campaign in identity politics rather than ideology and policy actually doesn’t increase your odds of winning an election (or at least a national one with increasingly diverse demographics).

Harvard should be commended for helping starting the conversation on colleges on whether their Republican organizations should endorse Trump.

The actions of the Yale College Republicans and the New York Federation showed an alarming short-sightedness when they chose to stay the course with a businessman with no relevant political experience.

But if the response from the majority of Republicans at these elite universities is any indication of the GOP’s future, disaster may be stalled out and a better, more tolerant party might emerge.

Of course, the word ‘elite’ should tip you off that these aren’t exactly the voters that have been propelling Trump to the nomination in the first place.

The real-estate billionaire from New York is a champion of the common man — particularly the white common man without a college education.

But that doesn’t mean the actions of these young Republicans doesn’t count for nothing — clearly it does when they receive pushback from those supporting a demagogue.

An Eggcellent Debate CAGE-FREE EGGS MIGHT CAUSE MORE PROBLEMS THAN THEY SOLVE

BY ALICE ROCHA asrocha@ucdavis.edu Eight years ago, California voters were asked to vote in Proposition 2. It asked if consumers would like their egg-laying hens to be able to “stand up, lie down, turn around, and fully extend their wings.” Consumers agreed with the proposition outline and the full effects of the law became apparent by 2015. Since then, various large producers like Foster Farms and Hickson Family Farms have changed to cage-free systems.

Chicken production has frequently been berated with negative images, especially for poultry raised in conventional cages. Pictures of birds missing large chunks of feathers and stuck in small cages have been spread over social media through groups like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), advocating that no animals

should ever be used by humans for consumption or otherwise. Those who see these photos might cast the blame on the cages, but the ragged appearance of the birds cannot be blamed on husbandry alone, but on the animals themselves. Chickens are hierarchical and establish a “pecking order” in their cages, where they fight with other birds to gain dominance. These constant attacks cause the bald spots and injuries the hens suffer in their cages.

Besides the conventional system of raising chickens, there are several different methods of poultry husbandry. The system previously used by such big producers is called conventional cages (CC). Known to be very efficient, CC ensures manure is taken away from the cages and the eggs are removed before they can be exposed to disease from the feces. A second, more expensive method is called enriched cages (EC), in which chickens

are housed in larger cages with nesting boxes and scratching area. Cage-free systems allow birds to roam freely in an enclosure where eggs are laid in manure. This was the system elected to be adopted in 2008 and is still used today.

Despite the overwhelming positive response from the public during this election, cage-free systems are not all positive. According to a study by Dr. Frank M. Mitloehner, UC Davis professor of animal science, the new egg-laying system could pose environmental, food safety, worker safety, animal welfare and affordability consequences.

Environmentally speaking, cage-free causes a higher daily concentration of ammonia and an increased concentration of particulate matter in the air than CC and EC methods. While ammonia is a naturally occurring chemical, it can still be detrimental in high concentrations, with the potential to erode the ozone layer that protects hu-

mans from harmful UV rays. Cage-free eggs also have higher risk of pathogen ingestion. All hens shed salmonella in manure and when eggs come in contact with the feces, this increases the rates of salmonella and decreases the food’s safety.

Prop 2 also had serious consequences for animal welfare. Hens in these systems have lower weekly egg counts, the highest death rates, cannibalism and high rates of pecking between the birds. When hens lose track of the birds they’ve established dominance over, the chickens constantly fight with one another because of the lack of separated flocks. And with single flocks that can range up to 200,000 chickens, this can cause a lot of damage.

Cage-free birds were also seen to have prominent keel bone fractures (the large bone in their chests) due to the chicken’s unsuccessful flight abilities.

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At The Crossroads TRAVELING FORWARD IN TIME WITH H.G. WELLS

BY TARYN DEOILERS tldeoilers@ucdavis.edu Nineteenth-century science-fiction genius H.G. Wells may have revolutionized a literary genre, pioneered critical scientific ideas and been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize four times, but there’s at least one thing we have in common, and that’s our affinity for saying “I told you so.” Wells had an uncanny ability to look forward with his writing, and so many of his predictions about science, technology and humanity have come true, it’s fair to say that his “told you so” is warranted.

I understand it’s hard to immediately believe in the significance of H.G. Wells’ legacy when Steven Spielberg’s remake of The War of the Worlds exists, so let’s take a closer look at his accomplishments and uncanny ability to predict the future.

A student and teacher of science, Wells eventually departed from academia and channeled his scientific knowledge into writing — a decision that ended up leaving a greater impact on the scientific community than his scholarly endeavors. Across several decades, he effortlessly churned out a constant stream of literary classics, establishing cultural and scientific pillars that uphold the science fiction genre to this day.

The War of the Worlds alone left an undeniable and astounding imprint on the science fiction genre. Colossal three-legged walkers have become universally affiliated with alien weaponry in

video games, television series, movies, literature and comic books.

In addition, interplanetary conflict, biological warfare and robots with smooth, human-like motion all made their literary debut in the seminal novel.

But Wells’ influence extends beyond just science fiction. Frequently credited with imagining technological concepts decades before their actual conception, Wells was able to predict fictional and real-life innovations.

In his classic novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, Wells conceptualized the genetic engineering of animals — an idea that is now being explored by scientists to create and modify life forms.

Men Like Gods proposes an elaborate communication system that parallels answering machines and email, while The Shape of Things to Come illustrates a wireless wrist intercom that closely resembles an Apple Watch.

Of course, many of his concepts have yet to be actualized.

Invisibility still isn’t possible, to the dismay of angsty teens everywhere, and time machines aren’t functional, to the dismay of college students desperately wanting to skip finals week.

Regardless of a few miscalculations, Wells’ creativity established him as a vital thinker and one of the greatest science fiction writers in history, especially due to his ability to examine new technology in the context of a whole civilization. In addition to the fantastical elements of his stories, Wells wrestles with substantial, biting questions regarding the ethics of technological advancement and never

loses sight of humanity’s well-being.

Anticipating the creation of tanks in The Land Ironclads and the military’s utilization of aircraft in The War in the Air, Wells utilizes his prescience to caution humanity against the possible dangers of technology in war. Even 30 years before the United States government sanctioned the development of nuclear weapons, Wells predicted the devastation, mushroom-cloud appearance and lasting radiation caused by “atomic bombs,” a term he coined. Wells detected the commencements and horrors of both world wars years before they even began. He knew unchecked scientific progress could lead to grisly repercussions.

In The War of the Worlds, Wells paints the Martians as “mere brains” — ruthless and unsympathetic creatures whose humanity has been ironed out over years of evolution. Their heartlessness enables them to coldly inflict poison gas — also conceived by Wells — upon thousands of Earth's inhabitants, while torching entire landscapes and crowds in the matter of seconds.

The Martians’ methods seem so barbaric and merciless, yet we too have used new technology to invade foreign lands, fight devastating wars and annihilate whole populations.

Ultimately, beneath all his innovative concepts lay Wells’ greatest fear for humanity: that we fully evolve into the Martians, creatures who continually progress without yielding before the moral implications of their actions — one prediction that I hope he’s wrong about.

The Minority Report WITH GREAT PRIVILEGE COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY

BY JEANETTE YUE jyyue@ucdavis.edu It can be very daunting to discuss privilege at an individual level. The fact that we’re all privileged in some way contributes to social inequality today, but it’s a fact rarely considered in conversation.

However, privilege — the advantages a person may have based on race, gender identity or other similar factors — can have real and harmful social implications, which is why we need to continually explore it and its effects.

Privilege is most commonly associated with socioeconomic status. Because we tend to fall back on this definition, those who are not financially well-off may easily take offense to being called privileged without realizing that there are other kinds of privilege.

In fact, there are many other privileges based on social factors, including but not limited to sexual orientation, education level, gender, race, language and disability.

In her seminal 1989 article “White Privilege:

Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” Peggy McIntosh equates privilege to having an “invisible knapsack” that is always with us, full of material as well as more intangible advantages. Beyond that, there are a multitude of combinations of social factors that contribute to privilege. Our knapsacks are of different weights, sizes and content, and it’s not always obvious what any one individual of them carries.

As a society, we tend to blame the individual when others are unable to rise above a hardship or move up in the world. In reality, extrinsic and systemic factors often prohibit them from doing so. Instead of blaming an individual, consider that their privilege or lack thereof doesn’t offer them the opportunity. While your privilege may be allowing you to move forward, others’ lack thereof is holding them back.

Social and class mobility, a post-secondary education, stability, fair treatment by the justice system — the ability to achieve or be afforded any of these is dictated by privilege. Even the tasks we, as college students, engage in — attending lectures, complaining about late nights spent doing work

— are privileges. We are still reaping the benefits of a university education, a privilege denied to many. There’s no denying we worked hard to be here, but there are also more subtle factors dictating who goes to college and who doesn’t.

Ironically, the more privileged you are, the less likely you are to be aware of it. Therefore, an integral part of understanding privilege is acknowledging our own advantages and when they come into play.

Owning up to your privilege means also admitting that others are at a disadvantage, which inevitably allows you to benefit. It doesn’t feel good to realize this, but privilege isn’t something to apologize for — it’s something to understand, to be aware of and to work towards remedying.

When we remain ignorant of our privileges, we only perpetuate injustices against those who are disadvantaged.

Privilege does not always present itself as an individual, material benefit. It is rooted and fostered in complex and often intangible systems and institutions. In “White Privilege,” McIntosh discusses this invisible system and how it has al-

lowed one group to remain dominant, leading to the oppression of minority groups. Privilege and dominance might seem abstract, but the consequences are very real, especially for people of color.

Not everyone’s privilege protects them from racial profiling or persecution. The only alternative for non-dominant groups is to live in fear and vulnerability, and as we’ve seen throughout history, the consequences can be deadly.

We must remain conscious of our privilege and how it bleeds into our everyday lives; doing so will help us recognize how our actions are harmful and see the importance of change on a systemic level.

Although McIntosh’s article was written in 1989, the system of dominance and oppression she describes still exists. It’s just less obvious, now hidden behind the false belief that we are all more equal than we were 30 years ago. Oppression of minority groups is still prevalent, and the progress that has come about isn’t enough to end it. With privilege comes responsibility, and until we come to terms with that, these damaging invisible systems will continue to persist.

The potential consequence of gun control ECONOMY, POLITICAL SYSTEM & SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS MAY NOT BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE CHANGES THAT ACCOMPANY NATIONWIDE GUN CONTROL

BY TAMANNA AHLUWALIA tahluwalia@ucdavis.edu Although it may be easy to assume that imposing gun control will solve our nation’s gun violence problem in a cut-and-dried manner, it would be naïve to believe that there would be no other consequences. According to a study led by Boston University, the implementation of ammunition background checks, universal background checks and ballistic firearm identification would likely reduce gun deaths by up to 80 percent. But the ramifications of this proposed legislation extend far beyond just preventing deaths from gun violence. The execution of meaningful gun control laws would lead to myriad political, economic and social consequences –– some good and some bad –– that our nation may not be prepared for.

Economically speaking, it’s difficult, yet still possible, to quantify the external costs of individual gun ownership on society. Two economists from Duke University and Georgetown University, Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig, set out to do just

that by creating a data set that used the number of suicides by firearm in a county as a proxy for gun ownership. The social cost of owning a gun, based on a formula they found by taking into account homicide rates, household prevalence of guns and number of people per household, comes out to being between $100 to $1,800 a year per household.

While this may not seem daunting at first, it should be when it is coupled with the fact that one in three American households owns a firearm — making the large-scale social cost of owning a firearm significantly larger.

Therefore, if gun control were implemented, households could stand to reap the benefits of extra money that could be spent elsewhere in the economy. But another essential factor to consider is the gun and ammunition manufacturing industry, which produces about $13 million in annual revenue and whose potential decline in business could be detrimental to the US economy.

However, it would be worth it to take a temporary dip in the economy if it meant preventing countless lives from being lost everyday.

Through a political lens, any groundbreaking legislation passed by Congress enacting gun control could have catastrophic effects on America’s political system.

Throw in the fact that one of America’s most powerful special interest groups, the National Rifle Association (NRA), spends about $28 million in independent federal campaign spending, $2 million in direct federal campaign spending and $9 million in federal lobbying spending, and it becomes clear that the NRA has a stranglehold on our government’s ability to pass the common sense gun laws the public wants.

With gun control implemented, any and all incentive from the NRA to continue lobbying for lax gun laws could disappear, giving way to a fairer and more democratic system in which one group’s big money does not dominate a campaign, legislation or even an election.

The effects of gun control on the social aspects of society, particularly racism, are a bit harder to speculate. In an article for The New York Times, Gary Cutting asserts that the lack of gun control

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legislation and the success of gun-rights advocates is directly related to the lack of zest and enthusiasm on the part of gun-control proponents, based on a subconscious disregard for what happens to black people. It’s no secret that gun violence hits the African-Americans community hardest.

This means that the threat of gun violence is only imminent among a minority of the American population. As long as the majority of the population remains “safe” from the possibility of gun violence, the lack of motivation to pursue action continues.

If gun control were implemented, this particular social divide existing between blacks and whites, driven by the inherent racism of gun laws, could potentially cease to exist.

Gun violence and the legislation to combat it are multi-faceted issues with no clear-cut solutions. The economy, America’s fragile political system and the underlying racism that fuels our society’s gun laws all stand to be changed or altered in some way. The question remains: is America ready for that change?

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Opinion Comedy during election time WILL COMEDIANS ELECT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?

BY STELLA SAPPINGTON sasappington@ucdavis.edu Satire has been perhaps the most powerful force in this year’s election build-up. With every absurd Donald Trump remark, Hillary Clinton email and Republican candidate’s endorsement (or lack thereof ), every talk show and light-night comedian has reacted with gusto.

Like Tina Fey’s celebrated impersonation on Saturday Night Live of vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin in 2008, Darrell Hammond’s Trump impersonation has reflected the shocking absurdity of the Republican nominee. Talk show hosts Trevor Noah, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, David Letterman and Stephen Colbert have lead the political charge just like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have in the past.

But not all comics use their platform in a responsible or effective way.

Jimmy Fallon’s recent choice to bring Donald Trump onto The Tonight Show was one of the latest examples of a non-confrontational host having an extremely controversial figure on his program. In his interview, Fallon is friendly and unassuming and offers no grilling questions. In fact, he was so friendly that the next week’s guest, Hillary Clinton, handed him a literal bag of softballs that had been left in the dressing room Trump had vacated. Fallon’s response?

“I gave them to [Trump] as a gift.”

The interview prompted Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee (herself a Daily Show alum) to make the unusual move of speaking out against

NBC and Fallon himself. In a recent New York Times article Bee is quoted as saying: “If he thinks that a race-baiting demagogue is O.K., that gives permission to millions of Americans to also think that.” Fallon’s choice to focus on humor in the interview as opposed to confronting serious issues with Trump’s campaign may be a recurring issue in America’s political satire.

Writer Malcolm Gladwell, known for his long career at The New Yorker and best-selling books, discusses satire in a recent podcast entitled “Revisionist History: The Satire Paradox.” He argues that much of the American brand of satire often appeals too much to the side opposite of the one that they intend to court.

Take Stephen Colbert for example. His new show has not diverged from political discourse, but the thick layer of satire that enveloped his right-wing persona has certainly lessened. Although his previous act was so well-loved, Gladwell argued that his new show is actually exceedingly more effective in accomplishing his political goals. The same jokes Colbert would make satirically about his liberal guests would appeal earnestly to conservative watchers.

In doing so, Gladwell says, Colbert created a political program that held both liberal and conservative audiences –– no small feat –– but was ultimately not effective in accomplishing his goals.

Perhaps content that spends less time being satirical and more time being articulate, which has been modeled well by The New Yorker in recent weeks, is better for American politics. In George Saunders’ semi-serious, semi-humorous article for the magazine, “Who are All These Trump Supporters?,” the Trump demographic is explored and deconstructed through genuine but often ironic in-

terviews and interactions with supporters. Saunders notes the real tragedy that occurs when individuals across party lines miscommunicate, indulge hypocrisy and are generally immature. But he still allows humor to play a role in political discourse when he subtitles a section “A Tiny Pissed Voice Rings Out” in reference to Donald Trump’s rally diatribes.

In many ways satire is incredibly necessary to politics. It heightens the general public’s interest during election time, translates political events and mostly doesn’t let politicians get away with uncouth behavior. Comedians may play a large role in the results of the upcoming election because they are the source from which many citizens learn and think about politics.

Fallon’s choice to make his audience laugh with Trump, as opposed to reconsider him, is problematic because of Fallon’s power.

Our democratic system is possible because of satire. If the public can’t criticize those in power, power can be abused. When the public cannot criticize their leaders, citizens of a democracy are unequipped to make informed voting decisions.

I don’t discredit satire for the positive role it plays in politics.

However, while watching Jimmy Fallon’s interview with Donald Trump, even I, a self-proclaimed liberal, found myself smiling along with Trump every few minutes.

Between Fallon’s encouraging laughter, gentle questioning and excessively subtle sarcasm, Trump seemed affable. It’s for this reason that scholars like Malcolm Gladwell and entertainers like Stephen Colbert must exist to both educate and actualize politics for the public, but also to scrutinize its players.

HUMOR Linda Katehi caught pickpocketing students on Quad

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A Journey of Redemption

BY BRI A N L A NDRY bjlandry@ucdavis.edu It’s not easy to lose your job, especially when it means leaving a powerful and highpaying career at a prestigious institution for a different powerful and high-paying career at the exact same institution.

Former Chancellor Linda Katehi found this out the hard way.

Katehi is under fire once again at UC Davis, this time for stealing money directly out of the pockets of UC Davis students. The incident occurred during the first week of Fall Quarter 2016.

Katehi is said to have accumulated a little over $400,000 from almost 27,000 students before someone realized what she was doing and called campus police.

Upon the arrival of the police, Chancellor Katehi told them that she was, in fact, not under arrest, despite their claims. They left shortly after.

One of the victims of Katehi’s actions was Samantha Reynolds, a third-year economics major, who caught Katehi in the act.

“I thought it was just some guy getting grabby, but it was actually Chancellor Katehi trying to steal my wallet! I couldn’t believe my eyes,” Reynolds said. “It brings up some serious concerns about who used to be in charge of this

institution. At least the person in charge now was only pressured to resign from his former position at another college because of embezzlement accusations. At least some administrators still have morals!”

Katehi sent out a lengthy email regarding the scandal after seeing how many students were Yik Yak-ing and chalking the campus about her.

Here is part of the response crafted by her PR team: “It hurts me greatly that I have been caught stealing money from you, the beloved students of this university. I can assure you that I will do everything in my power to make sure it looks like I have learned my lesson from this experience.”

Not satisfied with this response from the chancellor, a group of brave student activists began an occupation of Katehi’s house. Many are actually living in the chancellor’s home fulltime, having food delivered and camping out overnight.

“We don’t plan to leave until she resigns and gives me my wallet back,” said Ryan Paul, occupier and hoverboard owner.

Katehi said she plans to keep the money, but she will use part of it to set up a $30 scholarship fund for five lucky undergraduates to split.

The former chancellor is expected to keep her job at UC Davis despite the incident, and might even get a raise.

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SCIENCE+TECH UC DAVIS TAKES NEW MEASURES AGAINST CALIFORNIA DROUGHT Water Action Committee sets 22 percent water conservation goal

BY T EMPERAN C E T R A N s ci e n c e @ th e a ggi e . o r g

Last year, the UC Davis campus saved 471.5 million gallons of water, according to the UC Davis Water Dashboard.

To improve this number even further, the UC Davis Water Action Committee (WAC) set a goal to reduce water usage 22 percent from March 2015 to October 2016.

According to the Drought Response Action Plan, written by WAC in 2014, below-average snowfall and precipitation caused loss of water at a rate that an average amount of precipitation could not combat.

“While [it] has eased a bit in California compared to last year, we are still in a drought,” said Camille Kirk, assistant director of sustainability and WAC chair.

“We still need everyone to be mindful about their water use.”

Before the state’s call for emergency regulation of water usage in 2015, there were already efforts to save water underway at UC Davis. In order to regulate water use on campus, Kirk and the committee collaborated with many teams from different facilities to discuss

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smarter ways each facility can conserve water.

“A couple of years before I came to campus, all the resident halls were replaced with low flow and flush fixtures,” said Jenni Porter, the Student Housing sustainability coordinator.

Porter also listed UC Davis’ dining services’ “best practices” before 2015, like trayless dining and water-efficient dishwashers, as proof of the campus’ conservation efforts.

Other facilities on campus also carried out techniques to conserve water.

Facilities Management had retrofitted about one-third of the campus’ fixtures with the low-flow version as early as April 2014, according to the Drought Response Action Plan.

In 2015, by the state’s official issue, all small water suppliers — including the UC Davis campus — were required to reduce their water usage by 25 percent from the 2013 numbers.

“We achieve[d] a 25.7 percent reduction. We exceeded the goal,” Kirk said.

“This year, the governor and the Water Board said we’re still in a drought.

People did take conservation seriously, so the targets are adjusted a little bit —

they’re adjusted down.”

Regardless of the regulation adjustments, the committee still wanted to set a conservation goal for the campus.

“We need[ed] to set a conservation goal for the campus because we cannot let up on our progress,” Kirk said.

The cooling tower project — which uses treated water from the campus’ sewage treatment plant instead of well water — was a factor used towards achieving this goal, along with fixing old water fixtures like toilets, urinals and sink faucets for more efficient water conservation.

The campus landscape is also gradually adapting to better handle a drought.

“The Arboretum itself was already in good shape and served as a model of water conservation for the campus,” said Andrew Fulks, assistant director of Arboretum and Public Garden.

Fulks’ team worked alongside Grounds and Landscape Services to carefully select which areas of the Arboretum would receive the most water.

“We looked at where turf areas were most used, so places like the Quad, or the Intramural fields, and [...] areas around buildings and some smaller courtyards where you don’t have as much [foot traffic],” Fulks said. “Those areas might get a more dramatic water reduction.”

One of the facilities on the forefront of water conservation at UC Davis is Student Housing, according to Porter.

For Porter and her sustainability team, drought outreach and education starts with the residents. There are also programs geared toward promoting individual efforts to conserve water.

“We found out that [the programs] have worked out pretty well and we’ve seen a reduction in water use,” Porter said. “It’s an ongoing effort to make the residents aware that California is in a severe drought and we need their help in conserving water.”

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Letter from the Science Editor After a two-year hiatus, The California Aggie’s science and technology desk is back

BY ARIEL ROBBINS sc ie nc e @t he aggie . org

As the many of the world’s most powerful volcanoes lay dormant, so too did The California Aggie’s science and technology desk — until now.

My name is Ariel Robbins and I’m the science and technology desk editor helping to rise the science and tech desk up and out of the ashes.

Our university, a forerunning research institution, has had a newspaper devoid of a section that would cater to and publicize all of the scientific and technological feats UC Davis students, faculty and alumni have been accomplishing since March 2014.

Two years without a science and technology desk is two years too long.

As the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, the sci-

ence and technology desk will be the powerhouse of the newspaper this year, and for many years to come.

Last week, you got a teaser of the content the science and tech desk will be churning out on a weekly basis. My team is coming at you laptop keyboards ablazing, and will keep you informed with the most honest, diverse and fair STEM-related news UC Davis has to offer.

I speak for myself and the reporters at my desk when I say that it is a pleasure to be back and providing UC Davis with the science and technological news it had been missing for so long. It’s an honor to write for and about such a dedicated, talented and unique student body.

If you are interested in writing for the science and technology desk — we’re hiring! Fill out an application at vacancy. ucdavis.edu before Oct. 11.

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P I T Z E R C E N T E R TO BENEFIT STUDENTS, DAVIS COMMUNITY NEW RECITAL VENUE PROVIDES MUSIC STUDENTS WITH ENHANCED MUSICAL EXPERIENCE

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The opening of the Ann E. Pitzer Center concert hall, a new performance and teaching space, has been much-anticipated by the UC Davis Music Department. The Pitzer Center will celebrate its grand opening from Sept. 23 to 25 with a variety of performances by the UC Davis Jazz Combos, the UC Davis Symphony, the Anderson-Roe Piano Duo and a film screening of Koyaanisqatsi with world-renowned composer Philip Glass.

The center is named after Davis alumna Ann E. Pitzer, who generously bequeathed $5 million toward the facility’s construction, and was a long-time supporter of UC Davis. The plans for the building have been in progress for years, and it has proved rewarding for the faculty and planning committee to see the completed outcome.

Carol Hess, a professor of music and the chair of the music department at UC Davis, noted that the process has been “a good exercise in persistence, and not letting things go.” She was present for the acoustical tests over the past weekend and raved about the center.

“It was wonderful to see so many people in the music department show up on a Sunday to make sure that this was all going smoothly, and the sound is just amazing!” Hess said. “We knew it would be good, but we didn’t know it would be that good. [The students] can walk out on the stage of a state-of-the-art concert hall where the acoustics can be perfectly calibrated to best compliment whatever instrument they are

performing on. And if you’re a singer, the acoustics can be justified to have a optimal positions for [whatever] you’re performing.”

The center hosts 17,000 square feet of classroom space and a 399seat recital hall.

“In addition to all of the professional benefits, it’s a real show of commitment in the music department, and the fact that we all really care about what we’re doing,” Hess said. “And if you’re a musician, you don’t say ‘Oh, I’m going to be a musician so that I can be rich’ — you do it because you love music, and I think that that has manifested itself in so many ways as we have gone through the years of planning, fundraising and preparation.”

Angela Yam, a fourth-year music major, was also present and participated in testing the Pitzer Center’s acoustics.

“Rehearsing in the recital hall was an absolute dream; the audience felt simultaneously close and far away, which is perfect for performers just starting their careers to feel comfortable enough to emote while minimizing stage fright,” Yam said.

Groups such as the Brazilian drumming ensemble, Cuban drumming ensemble, East Indian ensemble, jazz band and wind ensemble will be able to utilize the music hall. There will also be additional practice rooms that are, according to Hess, “a much better environment.”

“Right now, we’re all crammed into the music building,” Hess said.

“If you are a brass player and you have to be practicing right door to the percussions studio, you won’t hear what you’re doing. And that problem will be solved with the new concert hall.”

The space will not only be available for students of the Music Department, but also for a variety of majors and departments. The entire community of Davis is set to benefit from the enhanced musical experience of the Pitzer Center, as the space will continue to host concerts in a larger and more professional environment. The popular Shinkoskey Noon Concerts, which have been hosted in older classrooms or in the lobby of the Mondavi Center, will now take place in the state-ofthe-art Pitzer Center.

Philip Daley, the events and publicity manager for the Music Department and an alumnus of the music program, believes that the opening of the center will greatly benefit students.

“It’s thrilling to see this building finally happening, because I had performed my senior recital in a one-hundred-person classroom,” Daley said. “I will be looking forward to seeing how this will change for our current students. The center has been in the works for a long time, and we’re elated that it’s going to open!”

Hess also noted the impact that the center will have on the faculty and other performers.

“When the faculty perform, it’s so much nicer when you can really take pride in the surroundings,” Hess said. “It’s a professional environment, and we were feeling very celebratory after this weekend when we heard the detail, the level of attention that has gone into the acoustics, and the things that are possible. It’s truly, really spectacular.”

Visit the UC Davis Department of Music’s website for more information about ticketing for Pitzer Center events.

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BEING A PART OF THE BAND-UH! FAMILY

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UC Davis alumnus Reece Mathiesen still remembers the first time he watched the UC Davis Cal Aggie Marching Band-uh!, clad in blue and gold uniforms, march through campus on the first day of retreat five years ago. As an experienced musician, he instantly felt the welcoming atmosphere brought about by the band’s unique energy.

Being a newcomer to a large university is a daunting prospect. It’s often the first time that students are away from home for an extended period of time. Luckily, Mathiesen found his home away from home in the Band-uh!, a group which fostered his passion for music and helped him form valuable bonds with his fellow students.

Mathiesen graduated from UC

Davis in the spring of 2016, with degrees in chemistry and Japanese. He had been a member of the Cal Aggie Marching Band-uh! since his freshman year. Mathiesen played the mellophone — “the marching version of a French horn, [which] is a little bit bigger than a trumpet,” he explained.

Mellophones are mainly used to play the countermelody and can also be used for rhythmic backup. According to Mathiesen, mellophones are also suitable for playing solos.

“The fun part about mellophone specifically in Band-uh! is that we get a lot of the solos as well,” Mathiesen said.

The mellophone section is a medium-sized group in the band that usually consists of eight or nine players. Mathiesen was the section leader in his junior year. He described the job as being the “parent” of the section: “making sure gigs are covered,

all the food for the mellos gets out for football games, and planning events within the section as well as with other sections.”

Despite the intense practice and performance schedule, playing with the Band-uh! was an indispensable part of Mathiesen’s college experience.

“Every Monday, I would really look forward to rehearsals because I knew we were all going to the [dining commons] afterward to socialize, tell funny stories and bond,” Mathiesen said. “The support from people in Band-uh! really helped me as a shy freshman who was slightly homesick and didn’t know too many people.”

Looking back, Mathiesen is confident that Band-uh! changed his college life for the better. He is now looking forward to his next great adventure as he takes part in the Cal Aggie Alumni Band-uh!

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AggIE STYLE WATCH

MAKING BASICS UNIQUE

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Emma Gary is a third-year art history and history double major with a passion for fashion. According to Gary, who takes a “back to basics” approach to clothing, wearing “classic pieces” can often be the perfect way to make a good first impression.

ASW: How would you describe your style?

Gary: I would describe my style as very tomboy. I definitely like menswear pieces more than dresses a lot of the time. I go for pretty classic silhouettes and colors.

ASW: What is your go-to outfit?

Gary: My go-to outfit is a pair of boots, jeans and just a great fitting white t-shirt.

the past and I do like a lot of their stuff but some of it is a little too trendy for me.

ASW: Do you have any style inspiration?

Gary: No icon comes to mind, but when I go out to events and I see someone with an outfit that looks great I take parts that I think I can apply to myself and what will look good on me.

ASW: Do you have any advice for someone who wants to be more fashionable?

Gary: Stick to a lot of basics in most of what you wear and if you find one item that you really love just go for that, rather than making it too complicated.

ASW: What’s your favorite store?

Gary: I shop a lot at TopShop because you can get a lot of great basics that are pretty well made. I also worked at Urban Outfitters in

ASW: Where did you buy these clothes?

Gary: My top is from Urban Outfitters, the jeans I actually got in Amsterdam and the shoes I got in Germany but are Italian-made.

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there is a kind of need for affordable housing that is biking or walking distance from campus that can be attractive and help lure in new staff.”

The project has been in the works since 1999, when the contractor who designed and constructed student housing at West Village also planned to incorporate single homes that could potentially be for faculty and staff. However, the project stalled due to various complications, including the housing market crash of 2009.

Last fall, the original contractor left before beginning work on the housing project, and the university terminated its master ground lease with West Village Community Partnership LLC, putting about 60 acres back under the university’s control.

Regenerating the project under its existing Long-Range Development Plan (LRDP), the university

now can build up to 475 homes.

The original project conceived under the LRDP included not only the 475 single-family homes, but capacity for 3,000 students, approximately 42,000 square feet of commercial space and a community college center with about 60,000 square feet of space. The Sacramento City College Davis Center has already been completed and running since 2011, making UC Davis the first UC campus to host a community college on its property.

Siegel & Strain Architects, an Emeryville-based firm which also worked on the Jess Jackson Sustainable Winery Building at UC Davis, has been selected to design the single-family homes. They are now working with the university, faculty and staff to develop initial design concepts. Once design and construction are completed, potential new residents will be chosen by a lottery process.

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In order to receive input, the university is asking faculty and staff to fill out a survey addressing topics such as household composition, home design, energy efficiency and transportation and commute patterns.

BreAnda Northcutt, communications director at the Office of the Vice Chancellor and chief financial officer, says that both the faculty and staff have contributed to the housing design.

Northcutt believes this is the start of a project that will draw in new faculty and staff, and provide them with a welcoming community.

“This is an important project for us to really show our faculty and staff that we are understanding of the challenges within the housing market and we want to reach out to them,” Northcutt said. “There is so much yet to come. This is only the beginning.”

we’re getting from the Office of the President,” said Brendan Pettit, director of the office of student development. “So, with the additional freshmen and transfer students coming to our campus, it will be important that we provide housing [for them and] make sure we’re meeting the demand.”

TP4 is scheduled to be completed and open for incoming freshmen in Fall of 2017.

“It shouldn’t affect [incoming freshmen] too much [since] most of the exterior work is already complete,” Petitt said. “The workers are working during the day when the students are up or at class.

This fall, most of the work will be done on the interior of the buildings, so most of the noise will be mitigated.”

The new residence hall buildings of TP4 will be similar to the existing Tercero dorms and the Alder, Thompson and Miller buildings in Segundo. These buildings all feature cluster-style housing, where a couple of rooms in a hallway form a cluster and share one restroom space.

These clusters then become small communities all connected to each other.

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The team, with help from the Energy Conservation Office, created a competition among all Residence Halls called “The Energy and Water Challenge” last year, which will start again this Fall.

“They developed a leaderboard online that residents can go to during the challenge,” Porter said.

“They can go and they can look and see their energy saved and their water saved.”

According to Porter, outreach programs to develop behavior efforts such as educational tablings, movie events and arts and crafts programs, will continue to take place in the coming years.

“For example, last year they

[had] a program where they make plant terrarium,” Porter said. “We get them to come to the programs to make a terrarium, but the message is overall water saving.”

Around campus, especially in restrooms, there are notification signs that explain how to report broken fixtures and water leaks.

These signs not only promote, but also depend on individual efforts.

“It’s important for people to take action when they can,” Kirk said. “‘Am I using water the best way? Are there better ways for me to achieve what I want to achieve?’

Those are the kinds of questions that we want people asking themselves.”

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it’s probably because you are one of many who believe that baseball is a boring sport. To a large extent, I agree with you.

There are a lot of unwritten rules in this game, and a lot of them target players who are particularly flamboyant and animated. Fernandez wasn’t too fond of these rules.

He celebrated like a boy in a little league dugout. If more guys had as much fun playing the game as he did, the game’s popularity would surge — this is why he was beloved by the younger generation of baseball fans.

Jose Fernandez defected from Cuba at 15, saved his mother in the process and was an MLB superstar by his rookie season five years later. This is who we have been robbed of, and, to be honest, finding a silver lining at this point is all but impossible.

Like existing residence halls in Tercero, Segundo and Cuarto, the new residence halls will also feature Living Learning Communities (LLC). The specific LLCs will not be determined until later this school year.

“The collaboration with all our campus partners will determine what will go in those buildings,” Petitt said. “[LLCs] could be based on major, gender, cultural identity [and] special [interests] like music arts and performance.

There’s a big variety.”

TP4 is also a LEED registered project under the LEED green building certification program. The program promotes a sustainable approach and recognizes performance is five areas: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality. A LEED registered project could receive one of four LEED rating levels: certified, silver, gold and platinum.

“We’re going for gold,” Head said.

In addition to TP4, the dining commons (DC) in Tercero are also under renovation and should be ready to open this fall. The Tercero DC ren-

ovation had been planned for almost two years, but early construction took place in March 2016. Among the renovations was the upgrade in the mechanical system in a separate building immediately to the left of the dining commons. These systems, originally installed in the 1960’s, provide domestic hot water, heating hot water, domestic cold water and steam. The air handling units in the main buildings were also replaced.

Additionally, the student lounge on the first floor of the DC has been converted into new dining seating for the increased amount of students in Tercero. Likewise, a new elevator was installed in the building to make it easier to transport dishes from the first to second floor. “[The renovations] will provide a newer environment in the dining area to provide more capacity for folks to come and get their meals,” said Morgan Meier, project manager of design and construction management.

“Hopefully it just serves more students — that was really the intent.”

The new buildings are estimated to be completed by Fall Quarter 2017.

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they’re landed on. Moreover, workers in these facilities are also exposed to health threats due to the high concentration of inhalable dust, which puts them at greater risk for lung disease.

While conventional cages might provide better food safety and worker safety, they do create a worse environment for the birds. When having to decide between cage-free and CC or EC, there will always be trade-offs. It’s important to be fully educated before voting on a proposition that could make as much of a difference as Prop 2. It’s also important to keep in mind that farmers raising these birds only receive seven cents for every twelve eggs sold, while retailers keep the rest of the average $2.94/dozen. And this cheap price applies only to conventional cage systems.

By forcing producers to redesign their entire

production systems, we are generating more expenses for them and creating a more expensive product most consumers are still reluctant to buy.

Prices for cage-free eggs range from 5 to 9 dollars but few people willingly hash out the extra cash to pay for the eggs.

This is not to say cage-free is a terrible system.

Everything has its pros and cons, and consumers must remain vigilant and educate themselves in order to make important decisions about the food they put on their tables. They must consider not only the impact of a law on the general population, but on the people who grow the food as well.

So what has Prop 2 actually done other than increase egg prices, increase health concerns for workers and decrease food safety in eggs? Only the future can tell.

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BACKSTOP Wildcats stun Aggies in final seconds of Big Sky Conference opener

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UC Davis football falls 38-35 to Weber State JAY G E LV EZO N / AG G I E

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NEW FOCUS FOR ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT BLUE SEEKS TO IMPROVE STUDENT INVOLVEMENT

BY NICOLETTE SARMIENTO sports@theaggie.org

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The UC Davis football team fell in the final seconds to the Weber State Wildcats in the Big Sky Conference opener last Saturday night, after rallying back from a 22-point deficit.

Heading into the game, UC Davis was 1-2 in non-conference play and had hoped to snap their 0-4 record of Big Sky openers.

Fans, students and families came out in full force to participate in new game day festivities including the Kickoff Street Party, featuring new concessions menus, food trucks, music and family fun. The buzzing atmosphere in the stands added to the excitement of the Aggies’ first football game since the official start of school.

Wildcats won the coin toss and opted to defer the ball until the second half, which gave UC Davis the first possession of the game. After a quick three-and-out, Weber State capitalized on the Aggies’ struggling defense with a touchdown and two-point conversion, giving the Wildcats an 8-0 lead.

The Aggies responded with a completion from senior quarterback Ben Scott to senior tight end Nehemiah Winston for 52 yards into Wildcats territory, and got on the board with a touchdown pass from Scott to sophomore wide receiver Keelan Doss.

UC Davis got their only lead of the game, 10-8, after senior safety Keleen Culberson intercepted the ball, setting up a field

goal by freshman kicker Matt Blair.

After a missed field goal and an interception from senior defensive back Zach Jones, Weber State pounded on the Aggie defense, which allowed the Wildcats a 35-yard gain off a fake punt as well as allowed 17 more points before halftime.

The Wildcats kept the momentum and extended their lead to 32-10 on their opening drive of the second half. The Ags did a quarterback change at the half, putting in junior Brock Dale to replace Scott.

The Aggies finally picked it up and rallied back from a 22-point deficit with big offensive plays from Doss, senior wide receiver Chris Martin and a 92-yard kickoff return for a touchdown from sophomore running back Joshua Kelley. The Aggie defense turned it around and held Weber State to just six points in the fourth quarter, with a forced fumble by redshirt freshman linebacker Quincy Bennett.

However, in the final 16 seconds of the game, sophomore cornerback Isiah Olave fumbled the punt return that was recovered by Weber State at the Aggie 23-yard line. With four seconds left on the clock, the Wildcats put the finishing touches on the game with a chip-in field goal to lift them to a 38-35 victory over the Aggies.

UC Davis is on the road for the next two weeks to face the Eastern Washington Eagles on Oct. 1 and the Southern Utah Thunderbirds on Oct. 8. The football team returns to Aggie Stadium on Oct. 15 to face Northern Colorado at 4 p.m.

With the induction of new athletics director Kevin Blue, UC Davis Athletics can expect big changes to the department’s overall involvement in student life. The Athletics Department hopes to increase the degree to which UC Davis is competitive in Division I, while maintaining its traditional core values as a sports program.

For the 2015-2016 academic year, UC Davis spent over $26.8 million and made back $28.1 million in revenues, according to the latest Equity in Athletics (EADA) report. This gave UC Davis the opportunity to capitalize on building the school’s brand.

“We have an opportunity to professionalize what we’ve been doing and I think one of the aspects of our athletic program is that there’s an opportunity to modernize the business side of it — and that’s revenue generation,” Blue said.

Blue’s primary vision has to do with cultivating relationships with students and alumni in order for the program to take a more active part in the community. With that in mind, Blue hopes to emphasize the program’s commitment to a “positive culture of togetherness,” to scholar athletics and to an ethical conscience that is both proactive and active when it comes to complying with NCAA policies and rules.

Although it is too early to have any "specific, granular goals," Blue said the department is very much focused on increasing the competitive nature of the athletics program.

Blue named Rocko DeLuca as deputy athletics director over the summer.

DeLuca has 14 years of experience,

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having previously worked as athletics administrator for the University of Colorado and the Denver Broncos. He most recently served as senior associate athletic director and executive director of development at University of Massachusetts.

As the deputy athletics director, DeLuca will head external affairs by overseeing program development and sponsorships, making him one of the key players in building the UC Davis name and implementing Blue’s platforms for the coming year.

As far as scholar athleticism goes, 61 of UC Davis’ student-athletes received Big West Conference Academic All-Conference honors last academic year. In order to be considered for the award, student-athletes must maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher, compete in 50 percent or more of their respective team’s competitions, as well as have completed a full academic year at their school.

One of the premier changes in UC Davis sporting events has manifested itself through this year’s football season’s promotional purposes. For instance, the annual Hall of Fame Ceremony that is usually held in the spring is scheduled to be part of the Homecoming Day game in order to give the ceremony more visibility.

Mike Robles, assistant athletic director and communications coordinator, emphasizes the importance of the partnership between athletics and the university.

“Athletics is a part of the university,” Robles said. “[Blue] has been trying to build that partnership up and ASUCD is obviously a big part of that, but even beyond that. We want to be part of the experiences — part of the university.”

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Aggies take the 1-0 loss to Utah Valley in final preseason game

BY RYAN BUG SC H sports@theaggie.org

Last season, the UC Davis men’s soccer team produced an overall record of 8-10-3, with a home record of 5-2-2.

Now, it is a new season for the Aggies and with Big West Conference play beginning this week, the team is already succeeding in their preseason games and holds a 4-3-2 going into the start of conference.

The team finished its preseason play on a beautiful day last Saturday, Sept. 24 against Utah Valley, but fell short, taking the 1-0 loss in an exciting game at Toomey Field and ending a three game winning streak.

“I’m not very excited about our performance — in order to win, you are expected to score a goal at home and unfortunately it just didn’t work for us,” head coach Dwayne Shaffer said. “It doesn’t matter what we do, how well we look, or how pretty it is, the bottom line is that you have to score a goal at home to win a game. Next [game] we are going to have to have way more energy and effort than what

The Tragic Loss of JOSE

FERNANDEZ

BY M IC HAEL W EX L E R sports@theaggie.org

On Sunday morning, the baseball world was robbed of one of its youngest and most exciting stars. Jose Fernandez, the ace of the Miami Marlins, was tragically killed in a boating accident off the coast of Miami after clipping a rocky jet-

we displayed today.”

Even with the tough loss Saturday, the men’s soccer team is looking forward to conference play this Thursday, Sept. 29 at Cal State Northridge at 7 p.m..

“I’m excited about my team, I like my group,” Shaffer said. “It is wide open in the Big West, with everybody beating everybody right now. Anything can happen. Playing at CSU Northridge on a Thursday under the lights is always a great thing.”

Looking into the future of the team and what fans can expect this season, Shaffer commented on what he thinks the team will produce moving forward.

“We need to get our health, minds and spirits back to a high level and compete for a Big West Championship,” Shaffer said. “This year we have a much better record and a very good team. We will give it our best shot and I am excited for our team. There are no secrets in soccer — you have to score goals and that’s the bottom line. We have got to keep getting better and

ty at full speed. Neither drugs nor alcohol are suspected to be a part of the incident, and Fernandez was simply a passenger on the boat.

Jose Fernandez was different. From the various people close to Fernandez who have spoken of his death, the same adjectives are used consistently to describe him: polite, respectful, humble, kind, confident, fearless. The last two adjectives are the ones that resonate the most with me.

I remember back in 2013, my senior year of high school, the Marlins were to add this 20-year-old kid to their opening day roster due to unforeseen injuries to the Marlins rotation. Fernandez had only pitched a miniscule 134 innings

better and hope we start scoring goals.”

Regardless of last Saturday's loss, with the team's confidence, the coaching staff and the way the team

in his minor league career before getting promoted. It’s also not like he rapidly worked his way through the minor leagues, with the natural progression from A ball, to Double A, to Triple A. Fernandez had never pitched above Class A, and there he was, thrown into the fire, named to a Major League roster just days before the season started.

My initial thoughts were that this poor kid is going to get rocked in the Majors. I thought to myself “oh man, this 20-year-old kid’s development is going to be stunted by the stupidity of the Marlins front office; his confidence is going to wither away and he might not recover.” Boy was I wrong.

Fernandez took the baseball world by

has been playing, the UC Davis men’s soccer team is well positioned to produce a Big West Championship this season.

storm. He had one of the most historic rookie seasons in the history of Major League Baseball. The dude was absolutely electric. Fernandez finished the 2013 season with 172.2 innings pitched a 12-6 record, a 2.19 ERA, and 187 Ks. He was named to the National League All Star Team, he won Rookie of the Year and he finished third in the National League Cy Young race behind Clayton Kershaw and Adam Wainwright.

Yeah, I think that “confident” and “fearless” are the kind of adjectives used to describe a 20-year-old who’s capable of pulling that off.

As he garnered more and more publicity, we learned that his charisma was not just an in-game persona. This is

who Fernandez was. It took him four attempts to successfully defect from Cuba, and on the fourth and final attempt, he had noticed that someone had fallen off the boat. Fernandez, at the young age of 15, jumped in without a second thought to save the person who had fallen into the water at night. It was his mother, and he ended up saving her life. Hopefully now you are beginning to understand the essence of this kid.

I’m going to miss the passion and excitement that Fernandez brought to the game. For those of you who had no clue of what I was talking about when I mentioned his rookie year statistics, FERNANDEZ on PAGE 11